it has been a roller coaster of extreme weather the past few kays. record setting heat and now last night's deadly thunderstorms that battered the east coast killing at least 12 people and leaving more than 3 million without power. good evening, everyone.

i am deborah weiner. those storms last night packed quite a punch. here in maryland, we are dealing with power, water outages as temperatures soar outside. water gas and preck like experiences widespread power outage due to the storms in excess of 500,000 customers are without power. this is a look at the bge web site where the outages are tracked as you can see. they have called in crews from around the area to help with repairs. 11 news reporter sheldon is live at the operation center in windsor mill with story. sheldon. [audio difficulty] >> well, deb, we are here at the emergency operation. crews have been all hands on deck since about 10:00 last night right as the storm was rolling in. as you can imagine, they got the hands full with outages.

>> we are making progress. the fact we have been able to restore well over 120,000 customers and we are moving forward now. we got 300 and some customers without power tat time. the big challenge for us, frankly, the sheer magnitude of the storm. the crews are out there, but the reality is, there is a lot of folks ahead of us. we are going to be deep into next week before full restoration is complete. okay. a lot of people may be wondering. this is just a thunderstorm. how could this happen? why are they out of power? this is a storm of historic proportions. we have prepared. we actually had our crews ready to go as you would expect based on historic data that would you have to respond to. the storm did not break up on over the mountains. it kept intact. what we have seen basicallies the effect what we would see with the hurricane. the damage we are seeing is akeen to what we saw with hurricane. >> it going to be a longing have here. >> all right. s what the hardest-hit area

in central maryland now? >> i would like to say there is one area. it is everywhere. unfortunately, it is going to be a long haul because there is no one area that really took the brunt of the storm certainly to the south a lot more but going to be a long haul. >> okay. any relief for elderly or customers? well, the best thing is to at least have alternate plan in place. that is where we say to customers well in advance of the season. have alternate plan in place so you know where to go if you have a problem. at this point, we would ask them to reach out tho the county agencies or at least relatives to make plans. again, we cannot emphasize enough. this is going to be going deep into next week. why delay into why is it doing to take so long into well, reality is. we have to get throughout to clear the mess. we have effect of what we saw in hurricane irene. we had 750,000 customers out of services with irene. this one we have 500 thousand customers out within span of two hour. the damage is massive plus the big thing. we didn't have the crews in place, nor did any other utilities throughout the

region to be able to respond. so we are waiting for crews to come in. we got them coming from as far away as the deep south and we'll get them in here but not going to be in the game until monday or us to day. it is going to take awhile. all right. thanks very much. we appreciate that. we have update on the numbers throughout the evening, of course. for a full list of cooling centers the where are, head to our web site. live tonight. all right. sheldon, we appreciate. we were able to get to to you mating. >> officials are asking residents to conserve water until tomorrow in northwest baltimore county, so pumping stations can fill up. because of downed trees, electric feeds to the pumping station were impacted. water is either out or very low pressure in areas in park heights, pikesdale, rans daltown,riser town. right now glendale is coming back to pikes mill. the city of annapolis is

asking res debs to limit their water use. the city treatment plant is running on generator power and not operating at full capacity. residents should only use water for essential purposes. we are told the restrictions in annapolis may be affected until monday. >> well, a falling tree hit a car during the storm last night killing the driver. it happened shortly before 1:13 on harwood and richardson roads in harwood. the driver identified as 25-year-old kevin alan oh royian of edge water was pronounced dead at the scene. passengers hodges and matthew miller were taken to the hospital with minorinries. >> and those violent storms are also being blame for the deaths of six people in va are a, one in washington, d.c., it could be a week before power is restored in the washington region. pepco says the storms left a total of 443,000 customers in the region without power. >> the search is continuing

for one person off the coast of southern maryland after fishing boat capsized during last night's storm. the coast guard rescued two people who had been onboard while the crew of a fishing boat rescued two others near prezzie point. state police maryland natural resources police in calvert county fire and rescue crews are using boats and helicopters to search to the missing slick victims. also a result of the storms. baltimore fire crews are on the scene of several collapsed buildings in the city including one in the 1900 block of east 31st treat. officials say, high winds caused the back facade of the building to collapse, the building is being taken down now. >> it was very powerful. very powerful storm. we have about seven buildings down around the city. we are fortunate with regard to that. this one is probably the most serious of them all. >> the building is the construct zone and one was hurt. well, very busy few days in the weather department. meteorologist john collins. you heard this is like irene

in terms of the massive damage a. right. we didn't have several days lead time. sure. >> right. >> this all happened unone afternan as far as the torm developing and coming or way. i wanted to explain what happen. the main storm is called a ratio or a system, all right? you can see more of this stuff in the plain states. let's take a look at what i am talking about. hot, humid air over us. sets up. these storms travel across the top of edge of that bubble and they develop in these ratios and have a tend city to last a long type. they don't necessarily produce tornado most of the time straight line winds. this one developed in iowa. it started the morning in iowa, moved across chicago, ohio, then hit us. what the radar looked with the storm coming in. impressive radar echoes. s with a strong storm in chicago and it stayeded that

way all the way into the mid atlantic region. along with high winds and in some cases, some heavy rains over an inch. >> i was thinking, the first time i heard you use that term. yeah. again, they are more common out west than they are here. yeah. thank you. thank so you much. still to come. more coverage of that devastating torm and the damage it left behind and could we be in for another round of storms tonight we'll get the 11 insta-weather forecast and all those detailsth

>> welcome back to "11 news at 6:00". in our continuing coverage of last night's deadly thunderstorms, this as you can see a very common sight across maryland. trees in front of a yard and downed trees and lost power and water outages in many

areas of the state. in howard county, 40,000 people are still without power. air-conditioning in the sweltering heat. official say there are dozens of emergency cooling centers around the county for people without electricity. those centers are county library and the mall. there is also an emergency operation center foe priding food and other necessitities. county official has been at the center throughout the day. >> about a third of customer of power. it is a big deal with this heat and the fact we are expecting another storm to come through this evening so we are asking people to take all precautions necessary but we are focused on deep! keeping people safe and keeping people alive. >> ohlman says to avoid driving if you can because there are dozens of stoplights pout with you we're and downed trees in the road. with many people without power at home. we're hearing of an increase of traffic on the road as people tray to find cooler

shelter andy version from the heat. with downed trees across many roads. drivers need to take heed of the rules of the road. the howard county health department says traving pooling after severe weather is one of the biggest traffic safety issues that. the bottom line is when stop lines are not working, you treat the stop light as four-way stop sign. just because you are on the main road doesn't mean you can keep racing through and to avoid accidents people into need to be careful about that and drive more slowly than usual because there are a ton of trees down. >> don't forget to turn on the wipers whenever you have the car's headlights on. john is joining us back again, so mu the question is: what is really going to happen tonight? >> the at os officer is not as bad as it was yesterday. little more comfortable today. >> it is. >> a bit of a breeze. that storm passing through stabilized thing as little bit. it is a little bit more unstable than it was this morning. we'll talk about the instability and what that could do to thus evening. coming up with the

insta-weather plus forecast. all right. we are looking live at the operation center. they are working very hard to restore power. it could be days before that is complete. >> stay with us. [ male announcer ] millions of dollars for new schools and teachers...

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that just didn't quite take off. it developed around chicago early this morning. it has moved across the area, but it has not taken off the previous storm the one that went through last night kind of stabilize the atmosphere. it took the steam out of the atmosphere so to speak. this thing only row duesed a few of the showers and sprinkle in the northeast corner of maryland. we are developing a few thunderstorms in the mountains out west. and if you kind of draw a line here, there is as boundary, at least the storms are forming along the bondry and that is that hot air. there is a stalled front out there. so we might see more action this evening, especially from this stuff coming out of indiana into ohio, all hoge, it is not nearly as well organizeds that storm that came in yesterday. so again, that big one, it was big, it took the steam out of the atmosphere. we were not as warm today. the high at the airport was only 94 degreeses did. it is now down toed 1. 96 at the science center downtown. 91 and down to 86.

white marsh, 98. the humidity is not nearly as high. the dewpoint temperatures are way down. yesterday the dew point temperatures were in the low 70s. today, they are only the low 60s. that has made the dy a little bit more comfortable. a little less volatile as far as developing any storms. the feels like temperatures are pretty much in the 9os although do you do see 8os up here. that's the combination of the humidity and the air temperatures so the dewpoint or the feels like is just the same. close to it. only a few degrees warmer than the actual air temperature. hottest readings in the lower river right now. all right. here is our satellite radar combination. this one storm that never really took off. this is another one coming from the west that is riding along the boundary that is sitting there kind of a stallednt that is dividing the hottest and the humidest, most humid air, to the south. it is slightly less humid and hot air to the north. that pounddry will be there all night tonight and something along that, heres the bubble of hot, hazy

humid air that is going to be around for the rest of the weekend into early next week, but it looks look the core of it, the worst of it is going to be off to the southwest. as long as it is sitting there. we have this action. we could see some activity. so we still have a chance for thunderstorms tonight. warm and maggie. 69 to 76 the overnight low. southwest wins will be light. 97 to 101 tomorrow. will be hue hid. maybe a few scattered storms pop up once again. the odds of developing what we had lastnating are pretty slim but something could happen. the slight risk. the highest risk for any severe weather tomorrow is down to the south. just down to the south. down in virginia, then back up to the midwest. so things shifting around a little bit. and we are still a target for thunderstorms but just not severity. here you see the insta-weather futurecast showing the storms popping up. more of the isolated variety or widely-ska scattered variety. so rain chances for saturday and sunday, oh, this never updated. i haven't changed all of that much. we'll be in the upper 9os on sunday. and then on monday, mid

90s. rain chances continue. we have a thunderstorm chance for a few isolated storms on independence day. >> all right. yon, thank. we are looking to the past and the future. >> news of a possible trade coming up next in sports.

>> early baltimore took center stage saturday. earl weaver the hall of fame manager joined the others. five times weaver changed at least 100 games and managed in four world series taking home the title in 197.

the 7-foot statute unveiled today. but a classic pose of thought works just fine. weaver also threw out the first pitch at age 81 and made sure it was strike. his tow cuss afterwards centered on the people of baltimore. >> the fans have been great throughout the years. they couldn't have been better. this naturally is as dream come true. now, come back and watch buck manage in layoff games in the world series. chawtion chaws. [cheering and applauding] >> great moment! after the ceremonies and the thanks, we actually have a game. the first inning evened, get this, a find series. but xavier here last height with the homer. great diving grab! a run. maybe two. however, one batter later, hosea lopez in the third.

it hit these base. really? seriously. cleveland with the 1-0 lead. he was not done scoring. off to left, gone. good-bye. ind yips take a 2-0. now the and two-thirds. gave up five. bottom four after a walk. a walk. >> make the catch. >> oh, we'll ahead and robertson with the rbi. we put that in. also, 3-1 home are the 6th. the yind indians 9-4 how the orioles may have wrapped up a deal to bring fop the plate. jim thome and the 600 home runs. it is possible. no specifics on what they give tin return. >> well, the best very you as all season and the biggest show in golf. these tournament host but today no fans found a way to congressional country club

or the third round of the at&t nationals they were not allowed in. friday night's storm hit the fence as hard as anywhere crushing century's old trees and leaving the course unsafe to the expected 20,000 spectators. it is good sunday. looks like tiger will be in the hunt. woods and a third. putter rolls. wow. just the minus for you. now hunter mayhem began the lead at 7 under par. just few saturday. bogey there falls to minus six. how about tiger at the sixth hole. well, stop. then in the shade. right now. six under. ing toker is tied for second place. baltimore native williams recently told the the time between the end of the minicamp and the beginning of training camp was torture. to the for the weight and the body. he worked outweighs day to be physically ready for camp. a little break this afternoon. williams hosting a charity basketball game for his foundation. represented by smith. 82 not surprisingly.

second here. he can rise up and fly, too. defense at a premium. this is not a bad thing. don't want to get each body hurt but how toes of dollars raised today. stay with us. little check of the forecastyon coming up right after this. gñ'

>> all right. the thunderstorm chances tonight. yes. few scattered ones. don't look like a the outbreak like last night. the chances will continue on and off again through the coming weekend. we stay weather warm and hud mid. even on pens opinions day we could see a few of nature's firework. >> all right. yon, thanks. we'll update the numbers tonight at 11:00 thanks for joining us. see you back here tonight at 11:00. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] gy

trials are underway and the excitement has just begin the midst of the war 1812, independence day this weekend, the upcoming 12012 olympic we can truly say we are roud to be americans. the olympics are still the world stage like no other with the best athletes compete and rep accepting the countries. you can see the trials and owl the games here on wbal-tv 11 as world records are broken. join us 7:30 night lay for the ozone to keep up with the action. certainly all eyes on michael phelps who is register in 11 events. this is the fourth and the final olympic, but he holds the records to the most olympic gold medals and most

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