downed trees all across the state. many homes also suffered damage from hurricane force winds. backyards still covered with trees and branches. just tons of debris tonight. governor o'malley has declared a disaster zone. 900 power crews from across the state are coming here. some have already arrived. wjz is live with extensive coverage. mike hellgren is covering the task of restoring power. >> reporter: it is a tough task to try to restore power, you see some of the efforts going on right here. this is because of lightning and winds smashed a tree through some of the power lines. there's more than 60,000 people in the city alone without power right now. and they are prioritizing how

they restore service based on public safety. the impact of the fast and furious straight line winds is still being felt by hundreds of thousands of the people across maryland. many are without power as temperatures climb dangerously high. >> it's hard coping trying to keep your food cold and even getting dry ice, we had to wait in a line for four hours to get the dry ice. >> reporter: trees smashed into cars and homes. >> i can't tell you the last time i saw a storm that powerful, that quick. the lightning was incredible. the winds were amazing. just hearing the winds whipping around it was quite scary. >> the reality of this situation was that we were hit suddenly with a hurricane punch and a hurricane power outages. but we did not have as a state and as a people the three or four days notice that we usually do of an impending hurricane. >> reporter: baltimore's mayor says the pace of recovery is

affected. bge has received 160 thundershower calls and brought in crews from thousands of miles away to help with restoration. >> the reality is we're going to see this restoration extend into the weekend. this coming weekend. >> reporter: wind áf the winds were so powerful they toppled -- the winds were so powerful they toppled trees and days later they are yet to be cleaned up. people have used extension cords to charge their phones to keep in touch with loved ones. >> we still need some time. but it's legal for me because i don't have any other choice. >> reporter: the main choice now is getting the electricity back on and getting back to normal. there are 33 nurses homes across the state with no power.

many are running on generators but four do not have air- conditioning and it is a very hot day. mike hellgren, wjz eyewitness news. >> mike, thank you. let's take a look at the latest numbers from bge. baltimore county has it the worse with 69,000 customers out. baltimore city and anne arundel county also hit very hard, a total of 213,000 customers are without electricity across maryland. the storm damage reaches far beyond power outages. rochelle richie and adam may are tracking the progress. >> reporter: we're right off of bologna avenue, let me show you the huge mess they're dealing with here. all these power lines dripping down into the road. that has caused crews to shut down the tree for now. there's a large tree blocking the roads. even some of the side roads are having problems. tree trimmers just arrived on the scene. a short time ago there was a

huge branch that was literally hanging from those wires. they just cut it down so these streets should be opening up pretty soon. >> this was a loud and furious storm. >> reporter: maxine's yard looks like a bomb went off losing a few trees that were 150 feet high. >> oh my god, i couldn't believe it. this one took that one and all the way down. >> reporter: across baltimore county the sound of generators and chain saws echo through neighborhoods. >> everywhere we've been is all the same. branches down, there's tree downs, trees on houses, trees on cars. >> reporter: jason davis has been working nonstop in the sweltering heat. how would you describe it to a hurricane? >> this is much worse. >> reporter: the owner of

coffee with tea one of 14 businesses shut down for 14 days in a row. >> it's a neighborhood business, when the neighborhood is down, everybody goes where there's power and we're still here. >> reporter: hoping for power and customers. i'm using this as an example. this is a scene that is being repeated in hundreds of locations across baltimore county right now. right back here, you look at this power pole, it's snapped from these winds and it crashed down on the ground. there's a transformer there. if we pan over to the left just a little bit. there's a feeder line that was connected to it. as you can see it's been snaked down the road right now. they are disconnecting it from this house, they have to clean up that and they have to get these trees out of the way. they're going to have to put a new pole here. and this is just one of the many many problems so this is going to be a long time before

this mess is cleaned up in baltimore county. mary back to you. >> adam, thank you. i'm hoping where you are maybe tonight those folks will see their lights on. i will cross my fingers for that. >> reporter: they are too, i can tell you that. anne arundel is also facing a huge clean up. we go to rochelle richie, how does it look back there. >> reporter: behind me is a prime example of what you will see all around anne arundel county. trees snapped in two now the top half of the tree is in the middle of the road, blocking drivers and homeowners. the quiet streets of anne arundel county are now interrupted by the sounds of generators and blocked by debris. >> i live in the middle of the where we can't go. >> reporter: mary's home sits on old county road just one of 23 roads blocked in the county because of downed wires and a

massive 200-foot tree. >> i would not expect power until friday. >> reporter: crews are working around the clock to clear roadways and trees like this one. >> i spoke to the president of baltimore gas and electric to inform me that crews arrived last night and this morning to help them expedite the clean up of these roads. >> thousands of people like newlyweds palermo have been without power. >> we've been staying in a hotel because we have a 3 -month-old baby and we're trying to keep him cool. >> reporter: one person died in edge water. the director of emergencies says ensuring everyone's safety is crucial as clean up continues. >> if anybody is near any live wires they should just stay away. a wire that has been disabled could be alive. >> reporter: many just want to know when the power will be back on, unfortunately. >> we don't know. >> reporter: back out here on

red oak drive you can see how these power lines basically have trees sitting on top of them. that is pretty much what's causing a lot of people to be without power. here in anne arundel county, there was a water restriction in place that has now been lifted. jessica, back to you. >> rochelle thank you. meteorologist bernadette woods has more on this unusual and powerful storms, bern. >> reporter: this is definitely one for the record books. we want to show you, we continue to track the progress behind us. the guys just went down the street. if you can see, take the wire it goes down, back up through those trees and the more you look at it the more damage you see. that's what adam and i have been seeing this entire afternoon. this is repeated as we keep saying block after block, county after county. so this is what produced all of that damage. let's show you the radar right

now. it was an incredibly strong band of storms. it came from chicago, strengthening the -- as it made its way. it was an entire line of storms causing massive winds at 100 winds. a - - at 100 miles per hour. straight line winds not twisting winds like we see in tornado damage. it is sustained by a long period of time. we're talking about this line that made it across several states and the winds must exceed the wind criteria. that's 58-mile-per-hour winds or higher. with this storm from friday night, it was not just us that got the damage. from iowa to new jersey down to carolina over 18, excuse me there were 18 deaths reported. winds over 70 miles per hour as we've been telling you that equates to a category one hurricane and over 1,000 reports of wind damage.

that is from the midwest straight down to the mid- atlantic. the bad news is, we still don't have power with many people dealing with this extensive heat. and along with that the chance of showers on wednesday. >> we everyone had storms last night. chopper13 has been tracking the damage all day. let's check in with captain jeff long for a view of all of it. >> reporter: this is a perfect example of why the power is not restored in a lot of neighborhoods right now. this fallen tree on indian head road in ruxton is completely entangled in these power lines. and we have yet to see any crews arrive to try to take care of this problem. reporting live from sky high chopper 13, i'm captain jeff long, back to you. >> we continue to track the latest progress from bge as

crews work around the clock. denise koch joins us. >> reporter: we're sitting here talking about the amount of people needed to restore power. what is your man force right now. >> we're up to 3,400 folks. that's a good news. compared to irene we had double that. we have about 2,000 folkses that are engaged from all sorts of the utility and from out of the state, from canada to ms. -- to mississippi and texas and florida. we have the forces to restore power. we haven't hit the four day mark if you think about it. we've restored 2/3 but we still have another 200,000 some customers to go. >> if you're one of those customers you don't want to hear about what's been restored

and you're going crazy. how to you decide where you send those crews. >> we look for the feeders, the pieces of equipment that feeds power to the largest amount of customers. then we look at the customers that are downstream if you will, down line whether there are perhaps one house fed by one wire by one pole. that's where it gets really tedious for folks that are without power. >> there's no way to promise people that you're coming out. >> we're trying not to mess with people's minds. we're going to say this is going to go into the weekend and if we get you in service earlier all the better. >> thank you so much rob gold from bge. now back to you. >> all right, denise. thank you. this hot weather is not helping this recovery. and we go to bob turk for the

updated temperatures, a little better today, bob. >> take a look at the current temperature, right now we're at 92, 82 ocean city. the dewpoint is down to 65. so the 92 degrees that we have in the region actually feels like 90. so it's not increasing it's actually decreasing. today was one of the most comfortable cases we've had in the next two days. yes not all that extreme but when they continued risk of more thunderstorms activity at least for the next two to three days through thursday. by then, i think it might dry out a little bit but temperatures still running above normal, 90 to 95 each day this upcoming week, mary. >> wjz has the latest on these powerful storms. friday's storms and the current heat wave are responsible for six deaths right here in maryland. nearly 213,000 people without power. people with outages need to

notify bge by calling. i'm sure most have done so by now. stay with wjz for first warning weather when severe storms hit. to find updates any time log on to our website wjz.com. and we certainly feel your pain. >> yeah. >> many of us do. >> lots of pain out there. still ahead on wjz's eyewitness news at 5:00. firefighters battle the blaze in colorado. what did penn state officials know about jerry sandusky. the new e-mails raising lots of questions tonight. i'm mike schuh in southwest baltimore. the only dry ice plant in maryland it too is without power. what does that mean when wjz news continues. we're all wondering when will this heat wave come to an

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it is sunny and -t -- and 96 degrees in baltimore tonight. as people continue without power, those with medical problems are having a tough time coping with this heat. >> reporter: shirley cook and other residents sit outside to stay cool. >> it's uncomfortable, it's miserable, all my food is gone out of my refrigerator. >> reporter: like many in maryland the assisted living apartment building has been without power since friday night. >> we had people in our building who need oxygen. we have people in our building who have breathing problems. >> reporter: people like james matthew who relies on his oxygen tank to breathe. >> when it's hot and humid then i can't breathe right. >> reporter: seniors aren't the only ones having trouble

breathing, cameron has asthma. >> i carry his inhaler around with me in my pocket because, you know he can have one at any time. >> reporter: shanay thomas has been trying to keep cameron and her 6 -week-old daughter calia as cool as possible. the biggest concern. >> the heat, because this is when his asthma flairs up, in the heat. he has it extremely bad when this weather is around. >> reporter: as thousands wait for bge to restore service to their homes, residents are growing more and more frustrated. >> they say patient is a virtue, but man, this is weighing on my virtue a lot. we do have a lot of trouble especially if you're traveling in baltimore city. we're looking at over 100 traffic lights that are out. so police are urging if you use

those traffic stops as a four way stop sign because it's causing a lot of accidents. as far as other accidents go, a downed tree at bolgna at charles, providence road at green acres, north highland at east baltimore. maryland avenue at west landville and west road at carlin road. northbound 95 slowing there from caytin avenue. and on the west side, slow down on 70. let's now take a live look. things crawling on the north side of the inner loop. this traffic report is brought to you by software. stop in and try the santa fe melt only at your local subway dealer. we have some heat today. lots of folks. >> nothing like the last several days. >> it still though, that heat is here. >> looks like thank goodness

the humidity was low tonight. only 28%. and the temperatures were 90 rather than 100 so that's going to change. a risk of storms headed our way for tomorrow and particularly on wednesday. and the slow clean up continues from friday's storms., ÷

welcome back everybody. you're taking a look at the bge crews getting to the power lines, doing their best to get everybody back with their power. there's still a lot of people without it as we well know. you can even look right behind me here. this is an exciting crowd right behind the camera because they are seeing what's happening right there. that's the tree crew, they are starting to chop up that massive tree behind us. and the thing is, we're going to swing around and show you. this is the crowd right now gathering. they are so excited that they are finally getting the bge crews out here and they're getting the people cutting the tree so that hopefully power is in the near future. one of the biggest problems we continue to stress but we can't stress it enough is the heat.

is the duration of the heat. this has been going on for a week it's going to continue right into next week. so were many on that here's bob -- so with more on that here's bob. >> it looks like we will not see anything in the way of cool until six days from now. today we got a break from the humidity, 92. the 92 actually only feels like 90 which is better than 100 that's for sure. 82 out in elkton right now. locally temperatures some upper 80s showing up in some areas. generally still around the 90 mark. but it is a lot drier today than it was last week. in fact, last week when it was mid- and upper 90s, we had dewpoints in the low 70s which made it feel like 105, 106, 110 in some points in the afternoon. at least this afternoon it was quite a bit drier and reasonably comfortable. there was a bruise in the shade but our humidity is going to start coming back. the winds tomorrow go back to

the south. there's a lot of heat and humidity already down to the south. southern virginia a little bit. most of it in the carolinas. however that is going to start moving back in our direction tomorrow as a warm front. so we'll get back into the risk of more scattered thunderstorms. in addition there's a front coming in from the northwest. that front with the cool front slightly drier air behind it will be coming into that warm humid air mass on wednesday afternoon. so there's a chance of some scattered storms tomorrow afternoon. particularly here on wednesday which is the fourth of july. it looks like, the timing on this is a little tough. but hopefully we'll get the storms done by maybe dinner time and by 9:00 or 10:00 when we see the fireworks it'll be done. it's going to be a hot, humid several days however. late wednesday when the front comes through with the storms. behind it there is some what drier air, still hot but a little drier. south winds in the bay at five to 10 knots.

the bay temps stuck there nice and warm at 78 degrees and yes it's a risk of a thunderstorms tomorrow. tonight, clear to partly cloudy. not that bad. 71, tomorrow nice heat and humidity in the low 90s. there could be a thunderstorms some where in the afternoon or evening on your tuesday. so watch out for that. >> all right, bob. thank you. still ahead on eyewitness news at 5:00, caffeine fighting cancer. researchers find another benefit for drinking tea and coffee. details on health watch. when will the power come back on? i'm mike hellgren, i have the latest on restoration efforts after the storm. >> and a look a,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

good evening everybody, thank you for staying with wjz. here are some of the stories people are talking about tonight. another day of clean up, trees came crashing down on power lines. right now more than 200,000bge customers are without electricity. many neighborhoods across the state dealing with the inconvenience of downed trees blocking roads. governor martin o'malley has declared a state of emergency. wjz is live with extensive

warning coverage. adam may has details on the recovery. but first, derek valcourt has the latest. >> reporter: this has been especially dangerous because of the continued high temperatures that we see. bge says they are prioritizing their repairs based on public safety and based on the needs of their infrastructure. we talked to rob goulde about how they are restorying power just a short time ago. >> there's a frustrationing that continues to grow day by day with our customers. but i would tell you that, most of our customers underthat our employees are working as hard as they can to restore power. >> now more than 60% of customers have their power back on but that's little consolation to those who are living without air-conditioning

in these dangerous conditions. as you can see there's quite a few more crews here that have just arrived trying to restore power at north rogers avenue and groveland avenue. they have been here for some time. they are trying to sort their way through a tangled mess of wires and limbs. we're going to continue to stay with bge as they work to restore power in maryland. >> first warning weather coverage continues now live in townsend. adam may has the latest on recovery in that area. >> reporter: there's a few things you smell after big storms like this. one thing the smell of broken trees and all the sea dust. the other thing you smell are grills. people firing up the grills, they are emptying their freezers, cooking up everything they have. because a lot of people just simply don't have ice. they don't have refrigerators. they can't keep their foods cold. mike schuh found out that dry ice is a real hard commodity

during times like these and it's real hard to find in maryland. hours before opening. >> big lines. >> reporter: hot and sweaty. >> we're going to take as much as we can. >> reporter: people without power. >> since friday. >> reporter: who have one thing on their mind. >> trying to get some ice to go in my refrigerator. >> reporter: not just any ice. dry ice. >> i think we have about $300,000 of food in our fridge. >> for the holiday. spent over $750. >> reporter: they wait as they know that just one of these will keep their food safe but there's a problem here at maryland's only dry ice factory. >> we have no power. >> reporter: that's right, the place which helps those without power is without power. and now they can't make any more ice here. >> i guess 30 or 40 years our power grid here, we were at the hospital up the street and we had no issues. over the last several years i don't know if we switched grid but we've been without power

and we've been unable to manufacturer it. >> reporter: they used to sell dry ice to the public. >> i guess we wait in line just like everybody else does. >> reporter: further down the line everybody is looking for a solution. >> i'm going to buy a generator. >> reporter: when these 10,000 pounds are gone, they hope to get another truck in from their other plant in delaware. >> reporter: and i'm talking to some residents here, and you say you're frustrated finding ice. >> yeah, it is frustrating. we wish we could get on a list saying, we're going to take care of you on thursday or

whatever it is. >> reporter: patience getting a little thin? >> yeah, i have not seen a bge crew. >> there's a little bge car that's over here right now. meteorologist bernadette woods she's over here as well. we've been watching them trying to tackle the situation right off of balogna. they had a huge tree that fell on these power lines and the tree trimmers showed up a little bit ago. >> reporter: a little earlier, regina just missed it but there was a bge truck here. >> i want to go to my neighborhood next. >> it's not just them. that's the problem. there's just so many people still without power. because this storm was a story. it's such a big one. this is one that we'll be doing case studies on for a long time

because everything came together in the meteorology world for a long time. this is what it looked like coming through because this was just such a big one. this was from top to bottom across the state that originated in iowa and illinois. so it he'll together over the mountains and strengthened at some point over maryland. as it moved out to sea it finally started to weaken but the damage was left behind. what this storm is called is a duratio. we don't get them a lot around here. a lot more often people are talking about tornado damage but this is straight line wind damage over a large span. this is a large spread damaging wind storm with sustained long periods of time. and by long periods of time we mean from iowa straight across to the atlantic ocean. winds must exceed that severe weather criteria and that is 58 miles per hour. since we last spoke, the death toll unfortunately has gone up to 22. the áf -- it is 22 deaths from

the mid-atlantic to the midwest. over 1,000 reports of wind damage in that same swath. so this is one, unfortunately people are getting frustrated but this is a really big storm and fortunately we get some power on soon. there they go. >> that is good, good news to see that progress. thanks guys. incredible pictures being sent in. let's go to mary koch. >> reporter: take a look at toppled trees. the man who sent us this photo her son is standing next to an up rooted trees, the roots bigger than he is. westbrook says this tree

crashed on her husband as he drove home friday night. neighbors called 911, he was rescued. but we don't have an update on his condition right now. we would like to thank everyone who sent us those pictures and it helps us get a feel for how widespread the damage is across the state. if you would like to send us a photo we would appreciate it. come here and click on the link at the top of the home page, jessica. >> hi, denise. thank you. the effect of these storms is being felt all along the east coast. the severe weather claimed 22 lives and cut power to millions in the state. >> reporter: utility crews are racing to get the power back on to more than 2 million customers from the east coast to illinois. most lost electricity during friday night's fast proving storm and have gone without for three days of sweltering heat. >> i was in the shower and the power went on and off about five times then black. >> reporter: silver spring

maryland resident cocoa simon also lost her phone service. malls and restaurants have people charging cell phones and laptops. and trying to stay cool. some went to church on monday. it could be several more days before many get their lights turned on. >> frankly i think most would agree friday is not just good enough to be able to restore power. >> reporter: work crews started the massive clean up in triple digit heat and there isn't much relief in the forecast. temperatures are expected to stay in the 90s for most of the week. commuting is also a nightmare with darkened traffic lights and trees blocking roads. >> there's a pretty sizable tree that's fallen and not been removed. >> reporter: cocoa simon has an oak tree cutting off her cul-de- sac. >> these people in the street here are over 80 years old. if anything happens to them, then what? >> reporter: crews from as far away as oklahoma are arriving in the dc suburbs to help

restore power. in silver spring maryland, daniel nottingham, wjz eyewitness news. to help traffic today, federal and state officials told their nonessential government employees to stay off the road and take the day off or stay home or work from home. stay with wjz for first warning weather. when severe storms hit find the latest weather forecast any time log on to wjz.com. today there is some good news from colorado where fire crews have been battling the most destructive fire in state's history. vic is in the newsroom with the progress they've been making, vic. >> reporter: the 28 square mile blaze near colorado spring is 55% contained. it started more than a week ago in the waldo canyon area. thousands of evacuees have finally been allowed back into the neighborhood. many of them returned to find only the charred remains of their homes. more than 350 homes were destroyed. >> it was hard. >> yeah, i mean you think about

it and then it just kind of takes your breath away, wow. it looks as bad as it did in the picture, even worse. >> there are no words that can describe it other than, it gets you. it really does. >> reporter: fire fishes say they are confident the fire lines will keep the flames from spreading any farther. >> more than a dozen wildfires continue to burn in colorado and several other western states. e-mails from penn state may reveal that joe paterno was aware of the child abuse by sandusky. the decision came after a conservation with paterno. time now for a quick look at some of the stories you will

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an enormous clean up continues. sky chopper 13 is live in pemlico. more than 200 customers are still without power right in the middle of this heat wave. the massive storm also dealt a big blow to hundreds of local businesses. for the businesses that haven't lost power it's money in the bank. >> reporter: for the last three days the lines at the dunkin donuts has looked like this. >> chaos, very busy constantly no breaking. >> reporter: many neighborhood convenience stores are closed so coffee lovers are getting their fix here. >> got my coffee, got her a

blueberry donut so we'll be off to camp. >> i think half of baltimore has been coming here to get their coffee. it's been crazy the last few days but we'll get through it. >> reporter: drew brown is the owner of this cafe. the storm dealt him a great flow. >> we deliver. >> reporter: you can't do it. >> not today because all the power is out. >> reporter: the massive power outage is also affecting many gas stations in the baltimore area. >> i'm trying to get gas this morning, almost on empty and i can't. >> reporter: brown's empty feeling will change soon. >> so, then hopefully we'll be open tomorrow, no problems. back to normal. >> reporter: not normal here, a hamden business boom summed up in six words. >> the power has luckily stayed

on. >> ron max, wjz eyewitness news. the hamden dunkin donuts has added workers to keep up with business. there's not much relief in our forecast as we watch more power crews. those are some out of state. to get some of those lines back up to residents across maryland. meteorologist bernadette woods is live in town -- townsend with what we can expect in the area. >> this crew came down from massachusetts. they're trying to get the work done. but some people are interfering with us. so if you get a crew in your area, let them continue so they can get to the next area. tomorrow temperatures will go back up probably 90 degrees for the high. by degrees we're talking lower

humidity that's it. because this is an extended spell. because this is going to continue right into the weekend, bob. >> reporter: doesn't look like any relief as far as temperatures go. but there may be some thunderstorms again tomorrow. i think a better chance on the fourth of july. particularly in the afternoon and early evening. 93, 95, 93 a little drier on thursday and friday. but once again, back up in the mid-90s. partly cloudy skies to start the weekend. not a lot of relief there. mary. >> in today's energy saver, your porch lamp and light post is one of the most used in your home. you can install energy saving

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coming up right now on wjz news. summer storm slams maryland hundreds of thousands of people without power, growing frustrations with the situation. clean up from friday's storms could take weeks. i'm adam may, we're assessing the damage from the storm, we're talking to frustrated

homeowners still dealing with power outages, that's coming up. >> 23 roads are blocked and thousands of people remain without power in anne arundel county. is there any relief in sight? i'm rochelle richie, that story coming up. crews frantically working to get everybody back online. wjz is live with extensive coverage. check in for all the latest news, wjz news starts right now. after the storm -- >> maryland hit hard, massive power outages, thousands of trees down. >> tonight the long