the latest is coming up. >> more storms roland overnight. will we be seeing more of the same later today? the forecast as we continue. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning. i'm mindy basara. >> and i'm stan stovall. thanks for joining us for 11 news today. >> we heard you. all we finish with the storms? -- are we finished with the storms? >> we should be ok for much of the day. you can see big thunderstorms that are now down across the lower eastern shore counties. there are a few sprinkles left behind in baltimore. rain ending and lingering on the shore.

a mixture of sun and clouds. high temperature of 92. we'll come back and check the forecast for the fourth of july. first we say good morning to kim. >> a busy morning on the road so far. at the fort mchenry, the right tube is blocked because of an accident. we have some downed wires in the city. middle river, pulaski, with a traffic light out at middle river road. howard county, woodbine road remains close between old frederick road and seven the because of a downed a tree. in glen burnie, ordnance road, another traffic light is out. a few things to watch out for. 795 in the area of owings mills boulevard. things are moving fine.

95 at the fort mchenry toll plaza. you can see the right tube is block. the left tube moving well. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> with each passing hour, the efforts by b.g.e. crews to repair the damage continues to progress. >> 241,000 customers remain without power. 402,000 customers have had their power restored. most of the outages are in baltimore county and anne arundel county. some now have a long wait and have them. >> it will be a multi day restoration. we believe the majority of our customers will be restored late into this week.

>> an update on the progress from b.g.e. president. >> area homes continue to do their best. nadia ramdass continues our coverage live in northeast baltimore this morning. we just lost her. some businesses and had problems over the weekend. they had to shut down because they didn't have power. another problem -- residents in north baltimore had a tough time buying groceries because some businesses cannot open because they didn't have power. other businesses have to turn their customers away. they had no power because of friday's storm. employees were busy yesterday trying to salvage whatever food they could by transferring some of it to another store. but they still had to throw a lot of perishable items.

the manager said he cannot begin to estimate how much money they're losing because they had no power. >> it is a killer. we have no registers, we have no power. so, you lose out in that respect, but we will get it back. >> d. g. is hoping to have power restored to all their customers by the end of the week. the governor is pushing utilities to get the power back sooner. the governor said he understood the storms came up unexpectedly but the crews need to do everything they can. hundreds of extra crews are moving in from out of state to help b.g.e. restore the power. >> the storms caused at least two deaths in maryland, both by fallen trees. a woman died in silver spring in her bed.

kevin o'brien was pronounced dead at the scene over the weekend. two passengers were treated to injuries. many neighborhoods are being asked to conserve water. the treatment plant in annapolis has not been operating at full capacity. use water only for the essential purposes. officials are asking residents to use water rising throughout the city system so water tanks can refill. >> it takes a lot of energy, it takes a lot of work with the pumps at the filtration plants to produce massive quantities of water beyond the normal amounts. >> once power is restored calm residents should scale back other water use. a portable generator can create their own set of standards,

particularly if they're not properly ventilated. crews responded to two homes were people were sickened by fumes. generators should be set up outside. a lot of enclosures today. maryland state employees are on liberty leave for federal workers. baltimore county summer school programs will be closed today. to see the full list, go to our website, wbaltv.com. but get some of the incredible pictures that viewers have posted of the damage. >> police are investigating a deadly shootings involving an officer. a man was beating a woman at a gas station on liberty heights avenue on saturday night. the suspect attempted to escape by foot.

a fight ensued leaving the officer to fire his weapon. >> domestic situations are one thing that police prepare for. you're dealing with anger and sometimes rage. >> the suspect has been identified as michael wudtee of baltimore county. he died later that morning. detectors are continuing their investigation of the shooting -- detectives are continuing their investigation of the shooting. lawmakers are back in their districts for the fourth of july holiday. what happens now that the supreme court has upheld the health care reform law? tara mergener explains what the fate might be. >> the supreme court had its say

on the health care law, but the fight goes on in both parties for the upper hand. voters will have the final say on president obama's health care plan, say republicans. >> this is the single worst piece of legislation that has been passed. certainly in modern times. it will be a big issue in the fall. >> the supreme court deemed most of the law constitutional. including a mandate requiring all individuals to buy health insurance, calling it a tax. democrats insist it is not a tax. >> it is a penalty for free riders. >> a new survey shows public support jumped 5% since the ruling. republicans are forging ahead with efforts to repeal the law with a vote set for next week. >> the american people don't want the government telling them what kind of insurance policy they have to buy and how much they will pay for it and if you

don't like it, we will tax you. >> democrats say it is time to move on. >> what the american people do not want is to be taken back to the old device of the day. -- the old divisive debate. they want us to be focusing on economic growth and creating jobs. >> the upcoming vote to overturn the law will be mostly symbolic since democrats control the senate. tara mergener, wbal-tv 11 news. >> thank you. 70 degrees on tv hill. stores are gearing up for the next school year. >> homeowners are allowed to return to see what if anything is left of their neighborhoods in colorado. >> the changing of the guard for our neighbor to the south. the new president of mexico. >> outdoor pools are popular

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78 degrees downtown. i think the worst of the heat has finally broken. i'm glad that padonia park club, a popular place to be this past weekend. i'm with cathy and john. i can imagine you that's a pretty busy this weekend. >> we were. we are fortunate that our swim club still have electricity. did not haveools electricity so they could not run the pumps. >> if anyone belongs to the club, business as usual. >> this was such a busy weekend. we want to talk about pool safety. how many people per lifeguard? how many lifeguards did you need to have? >> 50 swimmers to one lifeguard.

we find that to be around 35 swimmers to one guard. >> you probably had plenty of guards working. >> we'll talk about swimming lessons and how that plays a role in children's safety. let's go back to tony in the weather center. we're talking about floating devices. >> i'm sure you'll cover lightning safety as well at the pool. >> yes, we will because we had thunderstorms overnight. >> thank you very much. we had some storms come through last night. you can see left behind a few sprinkles in some neighborhoods

but nothing of any consequence. if it is story in your house, it will taper off. this is the front we have been talking about for several days dividing the oppressive heat in the south and a comfortable air mass in the northeast. we have been morning and drop the humidity a little bit. you can see the dew points in the low 60's in the northern suburbs. it will be better than it has been. 72 at the airport. 66 degrees in westminster. today, a mixture of sun and clouds.

any rain leftover will be ending surely. high temperatures in the low 90's. if you take the boat out, wave heights one to two feet. temperatures drop back into the mid to upper 60's tonight. another hot day tomorrow but comfortable. fourth of july, we have a chance for some thunderstorms. it doesn't look like the kind of situation where we have to cancel the fireworks displays. then we get into the big-time heat again. temperatures will climb back into the upper 90 boss on friday or saturday. 6:16. here is kim. i forgot that sarah is off. i was going back and forth, just like that front. >> a crash on the harrisburg is ramp.ssway perhap

some traffic lights are out in west baltimore. northbound 95 at the fort mchenry, the right tube block for a crash. in howard county, downed trees. woodbine road is closed between old frederick and 70. union chapel.at you in chape we have a crash in the gambrills area. 795 is moving just fine. you concede the left tube -- you can see the left tube does get by. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> firefighters make some progress in colorado springs. most of the 30,000 people

evacuated have now been allowed to return. they are finding utter devastation. the fire is the most destructive while fire in colorado history, burning 26 square miles and destroying 350 homes. mexico has a new president this morning. a new government that will be modern and open to criticism. pena nieto declared a victory late last night. his top challenger leftist candidate is refusing to concede. the only abortion clinic in mississippi will stay open for now after a judge issued a temporary restraining order to keep the clinic from shutting down.

there is a new law that provides privileges to practice at nearby hospitals . officials at the clinic say the doctors are all ob/gyn practitioners but they travel in from overstates and only one can practice at a local hospital. >> with the independence day holiday approaching, how about layaway to save up for vacations? sears offers layaways. customers have come to expect layaway as a payment option. it can be a smart option. but only if you don't pay any additional fees. that brings us to our water cooler question of the day. if you could put any vacation on layaway, where would you like to go? you can share your response at

wbaltv.com and on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail to watercooler@wbaltv.com. forget christmas creep. back-to-school sales for businesses. jane king has the bloomberg business report. makeovere ready for a for applebee's. the restaurants president said the biggest change will be with their food. look for more contemporary ecor.ns for the day corp waterfront restaurants are holding family from the celebrations at the inner harbor. the hard rock has a free dock party. a huge rally for stocks on

friday. european leaders reached a deal. the bloomberg maryland index finishing the day strong. some retailers already pushing the back-to-school sales. toys "r" us touting their biggest backpacks sale ever. staples has been offered a back- to-school promotion since june 10. many retailers starts filling their shells with back-to- school merchandise after the fourth of july holiday. at the new york stock exchange, i'm jane king, bloomberg news, for wbal-tv 11 news. >> kids don't want to think about going back to school. >> give her a break. she's from new york. >> 6:21. >> the stage is set for michael trip tohistoric

london. >> here is a look at last night's winning maryland lottery numbers.

>> now traffic pulse 11 and insta-weather plus together. >> good morning. kim dacey checking on your morning commute. on the ramp to northbound harrisburg expressway, the report of a crash. pulaski highway, a crash. traffic lights out in a middle river at pulaski.

some wires down in the city. northbound 95 at the fort mchenry, the left tube does get by. 97 remains closed at monticello road for some downed wires. several situations to be aware of. the gamble's area, arabian corporation, a crash. this is a 795 near owings mills boulevard. north and southbound are moving in very well. this is the fort mchenry tunnel. remainst to ube blocked. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> good morning. we had some storms last night.

we have some strong thunderstorms in ocean city but nothing around baltimore. the rest of the morning should be quiet. a mixture of sun and clouds. turning less humidity. high temperature around 92. keith mills came up with a new complaint. he said, why don't have a snowplow going down my street yet? love that. >> thank you for blowing my cover. the london olympics less than a month away. in other local athlete will represent the united states. group in arnold at last when he finished second in the men's 1500 meters -- he grew up in arnold. phelps won his last

race taking down tyler mcgill. michael won four races. he qualified and could go after eight gold medals in london. he said he and his coach will decide how many he swims. three orioles are headed to the all-star game. jason hammel could still be voted in for the final spot. the birds landed in seattle last night after the birds lost to the indians. matusz struggled. downhill from there. home run from shelley duncan. defense was sloppy. little offense. aaron cunningham with a home

run. the orioles are still in second place, six games behind the yankees. >> 70 degrees on tv hill. >> we will get the latest on restoration efforts when the president of b.g.e. sits down with us. >> we have down polls, down the wires, and downed trees -- we wires, and downed trees -- we downedwn the poled polls,

>> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning, everybody. welcome back to 11 news today. i'm stan stovall. >> and i'm mindy basara. thanks for joining us for 11 news today. >> tony pann has a quick look at today's forecast. are we in the clear? >> we had some storms last night. the rest of the day should be fairly quiet. i think the rest of the day will

be dry and turning a little less humid. it will not be great or dry but better than the last couple days. we'll come back and detail the forecast going to the fourth of july. >> the continuing cleanup from friday's late night storm. >> nearly to a terrific thousand customers are still without power -- nearly 21 to 50,000 people -- nearly 250,000 people are still without power. nadia ramdass has more. >> it is an inconvenience that dennis has experienced since losing power after friday's storm. now he is having a tough time buying groceries in north baltimore. >> i went to the store and it is closed because it is out of power. >> the grocery store had to turn people away because they don't have power. >> it is a killer.

you cannot do business. we have no registers, we have no power. so, you lose out in that respect, but we will get it back. >> they are trying to salvage whatever food they can. transferring some to other stores. they had to throw out perishable items. they cannot estimate how much money they are losing. for many residents, 10:00 sunday morning could not come soon enough. that is when the city was distributing ice. >> it is a blessing. far.'t care if i had to go thank you so much. thank you so much. >> people were allowed four bags. some came to get ice for elderly neighbors. >> a lot of people will lose a lot of food. some people will not have the means. everybody is not going to be in that situation. i think it is very nice. >> joining us live is b.g.e.

president. you've been with the company for a long time. >> i never seen a summer storm like this. the impact of the storm was like a hurricane. effected over 4 million customers in the mid-atlantic region and hit b.g.e. pretty hard. there was no warning. we had days to prepare for irene. we have to start by process on saturday morning. we had to pull crews from quite a distance away. a lot of them came in last night. there will be on the scene working today. use it will have a hurricane it is in the fall. the weather after the hurricane is mild. we have an intense heat wave and it is difficult for customers

and for the workers. imagine the workers. i'm proud of our employees. they worked incredibly hard in difficult conditions. >> at the height of this, we had about 600,000 customers lose power and restore about two- thirds of that. >> we have made a lot of progress. we start working into the smaller never hurts. there's more work you have to accomplish. >> how do determine who gets power first? >> the first party is public safety, responded to wires that are down and responding to 911 calls. than to restore the backbone of your system. you have to get the major arteries back first. now we're out working the neighborhoods and do the smaller jobs. we tried to get the most

customers back as quickly as we can. >> people talk about it depends on who you are the gets your powers first. >> a hospital or critical facility gets priority. we try to look across the service territory and recognize that we want to have a balanced restoration. we try to work the biggest jobs first. that way we get the most restoration is the fastest. >> always be prepared. >> we do a lot during the summer to prepare for this. this was a difficult situation because the it is a long restoration time and because of the weather conditions. >> we're hearing as long as this weekend for everybody to get their power back on. >> i think will make most of

that by the end of the way. i do expect to release some scattered outages into the weekend. >> thank you for coming in this morning and best of luck to your crews. >> now traffic pulse 11 and insta-weather plus together. >> good morning. kim dacey checking on your morning commute. a busy morning. we have they crashed on the inner loop to the beltway to the northbound harrisburg expressway. another 1 at northern parkway. we have some wires down in the city. northbound on 95 at the fort mchenry toll plaza, we have the right tube blocked. in harford county, pulaski highway a crash. another one in middle river. in howard county, we have a bunch of stuff. 97 is closed at monticello for some downed wires.

a downed tree at jennings chapel and florence. a crash at arabian court in the gambrills area. will check the major areas. harrisburg expressway at shawan road is picking up in volume but no delays to report. this is the fort mchenry. blocked. tube is that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. now we go back out to ava who is live at the pool. hi, ava. >> we alive that the padonia park club where they do have power and their open for business. we have some great volunteers that are swimming this morning. i have to ask about lightning safety. roars, a big war

issue. >> we tried to promote safety. if we hear thunder, use the 30 minutes everybody gets out and clears the pullback. -- clears the pool deck. >> i can imagine. once they see lightning, 30 minutes out of the pool. that is fair enough. if you hear thunder, your clothes and out to be near a lightning -- you are close enough to be near lighting. thunder travels about 5 miles -- 1 mile per five seconds. that tells why you should be out of the pool. could safety tip -- good safety

tip. there is a good time to go to the pool to cool off because we will be in the 90's during the seven-day. >> 6:39. some say the reason behind the time crews-katie holmes -- tom cruise-katie holmes split. >> we are still taking your answers to our water cooler question of the day. es

>> some celebrity couples. dwin is married again. the guests included his daughter and his brother stephen and his co-star, tina few. they began dating last year. >> the news has not been as happy for tom cruise. katie holmes filed for divorce. wanted to raise her daughter

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>> welcome back to 11 news today. 6:44. the average to repair damage from the storm progress. 235,000 customers remain without power. 406,000 customers have had their power restored. the bad news is that some still in the dark may still have to wait several more days before their power comes back on. police are investigating a deadly shooting involving one of their own officers. a man was beating a woman saturday night. the suspect attempted to escape by foot. a fight ensued, leaving the officer to fire his weapon and shooting michael wudtee.

there was a house fire on valley road just before 6:00 p.m. last night. the fire department gave us these pictures. nobody was injured. the fire did about $100,000 worth of damage. >> you pay taxes but some state injuries -- agencies may be wasting your money. david collins has more. >> maryland state agencies have wasted as much as $63 million over the past three years, and in most cases, money that cannot be recovered. the state health department issues 2.5 million tax dollars to medicaid recipients who are deceased. the maryland transit administration paratransit program shelled out $744,000 in gasoline taxes it's exempt from paying. the maryland office of legislative audits uncovered these issues during the routine examinations it performs on each state agency every three

years, and it's costing taxpayers a bundle. >> $63 million. >> the soft estimate is $63 million? shouldn't alarms be going off? >> yeah, i would like more people to be concerned. >> tonight at 11:00, why state agencies often ignore audit findings. and why the general assembly chooses to let them fly. i'm david collins. >> now traffic pulse 11 and insta-weather plus together. >> good morning. kim dacey checking on your morning commute. we have a crash reported on the inner loop topside of the beltway on the ramp to the northbound harrisburg expressway. another one north and the j.f.x. at northern parkway. we have some wires down related to this storm. the right tube is blocked at the fort mchenry. stay to the left to get by.

a crash with police on the scene. we have a lot of stuff in howard county. 97 is close at monticello avenue because of some live wires. a downed tree is closed at florence. arabian corporation, a crash -- arabian court, a crash. everything is moving just fine in both directions here. you can see on the far left, the right tub remaine disclosed. southbound looks good. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. we go back out to ava. >> good morning. we're kicking it poolside as we talked about pool safety. this was a very popular place

this weekend and they still have power. i'm with john, the head guard. you can only do so much as far as safety. the first that is to get kids involved with swim lessons. >> we offer some lessons beginning at age 3. >> what kind of things do you learn in swim lessons? >> basic freestyle, to stay above the water. >> where can people find more information? >> through the park website. >> you are 10 years old and you have your brothers behind you. what is your favorite part about swimming ? >> learning about your friends

and how they became swimmers. >> you can meet people during your swim lessons. what is your favorite move? >> probably the butterfly. >> how is the will water this morning -- how is the water this morning? >> warm. >> i think my favorite movies is to sit on an inner tube. >> with a margarita and then just float. lightning safety. you should get out of the water. it is no exception. golfers are the worst. >> you have a metal rod.

>> thank you, ava. >> if you hear the thunder, you are close enough to get struck. >> we had some thunderstorms last night. some big storms around ocean city and by the beaches. there could be a few sprinkles left behind. here is the front would have been talking about. 105, 106 degrees. we have been going back and forth on either side of the front. the dew points are going to go down. dew point of 63 in york, pennsylvania. it will feel a lot little bit better. 70 in westminster.

a mixture of sun and clouds. any showers left this morning will be ending shortly. the seven-day forecast -- it should be a decent day tomorrow. scattered thunderstorms are possible tomorrow. it does not look like a situation where we will cancel the fireworks. the big time heat at the end of the week. upper 90's by friday or saturday. typical baltimore forecast for the fourth of july. >> 6:53. 70 degrees on tv hill.

>> time to get to your answers to our water cooler question of the day. >> this morning we asked -- if you could put any vacation on layaway, where would you like to go? [laughter] ] >> we will post more of your answers on the front page of our website, wbaltv.com. >> trees are down? >> we still have some problems left over from the storms. the inner loop of the beltway,

we have a crash debit harrisburg expressway. another 1 at northern parkway. northbound 95 at the fort mchenry, the right tube maine's block. harford county, pulaski h ighway, a crash. 97 remains closed at monticello avenue a downed t. this is 95 near the fort mchenry tunnel. >> a much needed reprieve from some of the heat. >> it will feel better. 92 for high temperature today. >> thanks for joining us for 11 news today. >> we will be back with a live update at 7:25. >> have a good