ahead. >> hello i'm denise carter. >> -- i'm denise koch. >> and i'm vic carter. >> hundreds of bge crews and repair crews from around the nation are now in maryland trying to get everyone back online. making matters worse for people without power it is still very hot. looking live from sky high chopper 13 more crews still at work. a state of emergency remains in effect in maryland right now. wjz is live with extensive coverage from across the state. adam may is in one hard hit area of baltimore county. but first mike hellgren in one community that looks like it was blasted by a tornado. >> reporter: it certainly does denise. in just the past hour they've restored power to 5,000 people but that's little consolation to those who don't have it. you can see there's quite a few more trucks coming in here.

they're bringing in the reinforcements trying to get people working again. >> we looked out the window and it was so black. it was really dark. it was hailing, it was the worse i've seen in years i've never seen a thunderstorms this bad in such a short period of time. >> reporter: others are trying to clean up after trees smashed on to cars and homes. >> it sounded like a roaring train. >> how grateful i am, nothing fell on my house. >> we've had at least two fatalities attributable to this unprecedented and very sudden hurricane punch without a hurricane warning. >> reporter: baltimore's mayor says the pace of recovery is frustrating. >> i will continue to make it clear to bge the seriousness of this public health situation. extreme heat with massive power outages is a very dangerous and deadly combination. >> reporter: bge has received more than 760,000 calls and brought in crews from thousands

of miles away to help in restoration. >> we've had a lot of challenges with this particular weather system. it's really historic. >> reporter: many traffic lights are dark causing headaches getting around. in some places generators power them and desperate people have used extension cords to charge their phones to keep in touch with loved ones. >> it's legal for me because i don't have in other choice. >> reporter: the main goal now is trying to get electricity back on and getting back to normal. >> eventually we'll all get straightened out eventually. >> reporter: still a lot of work to be done, there were six deaths because of this storm and the heat in maryland. you can see they're still out here working trying to get power back on in this neighborhood. the staffing levels are equal to what they had after hurricane irene last year after they got all these reinforcements back in. there were also four nursing homes in the state right now that do not have air- conditioning. so some very rough times out

there. reporting live, mike hellgren, wjz eyewitness news. >> that's very tough for them. thank you mike. >> a late check with bge here's the latest power outage numbers. this is just in our area nearly 70,000 people are without power in baltimore county, 58,000 in the dark in baltimore city. anne anne arundel count tip has 38,000. we're across the state with rochelle richie but first up is adam may in townsend baltimore county which was hard hit like many other count tips. >> reporter: let me show you some of the problems we're dealing with. this road here, bologna avenue being shut down. if you look over here, there are more power lines down. they are dangling in this yard. if you come around this way there's a good sight for people

in this neighborhood. tree trimmers showed up about an hour ago. they are cutting down this giant pine tree so they can make repairs to this power pole that snapped down in those high winds. just off court road. >> this was a wild and furious storm. >> reporter: sissorman's tree came down. >> this one took out 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 it's all the same. with branches down, trees down, trees on houses, trees on cars. >> reporter: jason has been working nonstop in the sweltering heat since sunday morning. >> reporter: how would you describe it? >> reporter: this is like a hurricane, this is really bad. >> reporter: trees are down

sitting on top of the power lines. some of those lines broke and they landed on the road actually melting the asphalt. >> they are all closed. >> reporter: the owner of coffee with tea in stevenson village one of the 14 businesses shut down for a third day in a row. >> it's a neighborhood business, when the neighborhood is down, then everybody goes where there's power or a hotel and we're still here. >> reporter: hoping for power and customers very soon. >> reporter: you know there just simply did not seem to be enough road signs for all the closures. this sign was made by some kids who. they actually put some flairs on the street before it was all roped off by emergency crews which are back here again. some people are just so nice on a hot day like this they stuck water in the freezer, they've been passing it out to people in the neighborhood. even brought one to their friendly neighborhood news man so thank you so very much on a hot day like this. i don't have power at home either, so ice, really great on a day like this. back to you guys on tv hill. >> you can stay up here on tv

hill, we have power adam. thanksfully. >> we we do but i'm not staying there that long denise, i'm going home, you know. >> i don't blame you. and our coverage continues with rochelle. >> reporter: behind me is an example of what you will find all throughout anne arundel county. a tree snapped in two. the top half of the tree now lying on the side of the roadblocking homeowners and drivers. the quiet street of anne arundel county are now interrupted by the sounds of generators and blocked by debris. >> i live in the middle of where we can't go. >> reporter: mary andrews home sits on old county road just one of 23 roads blocked in the county by downed wires and a massive 200-foot tree. >> i don't expect power by wednesday, i wouldn't be surprised if it's friday. >> reporter: anne arundel county executives say that crews are working around the clock to clear roads and trees like this one.

>> i spoke to the president of baltimore gas and electric that informed me that external crews arrived to help expedite the clearing of roads. >> reporter: thousands of people remained without power forcing them out of their home. >> we've been staying at a hotel for the last three days because we've a 3 -month-old baby and we're trying to keep him cool. >> reporter: friday night's storm proved to be deadly. one person died. ensuring everyone's safety is crucial as clean up continues. >> if there is any live wires they should stay away, a wire that has become disabled could be live. >> reporter: many just want to know when the power will come back on, unfortunately. >> we don't know. >> reporter: cooling centers will stay open for people trying to beat the heat until

the power is restored. >> rochelle, thank you. coverage continues with sky high 13. >> we did find this crew here taking a live look at the pemlico area of the city. where we've got a perfect example of what it's going to take to get everything back to normal. multiple crews working together around the clock. and this crew from mount erie north carolina. back to you. >> so many of you are wondering why exactly this storm was so destructive. first warning weather coverage continues as meteorologist bernadette woods is here to explain what happened. >> reporter: as we all know this has done damage across the state. before we get into this storm, we're going to bring in roxanne. she is the one that just

brought ice water to everyone. these are the kinds of conditions that you have to look out for others. because bge cannot be everywhere. so what are you seeing? >> my husband and i both have brought in the berths to sleep in at night since we have air- conditioning and the neighbors across the street don't. we have neighbors that don't have freezers. so we've been bringing in their food, keeping it cold. taking care of our elderly, making sure they have water and making sure that they are cold because that's what neighbors do. >> reporter: that's very, very true. you are having a big old party at your home aren't you? >> yes. >> reporter: making the best of the situation because there are so many people without power. because you are fortunate, and if you are seeing that, try to help. as we all well know these are all very strong winds. this is historic outbreak. the line of damage started in iowa and illinois and it took

down a lot of people in its path. we're going to show you what the actual terminology for in is, it's called a duratio. the actual definition is this, long wind storm that lasts over an extended period of time. not just a thunderstorms that moves through. this one lasted for a few states. winds have to exceed severe levels that's 58-miles-per-hour or higher. unfortunately the death toll continues to go up. 22 deaths with this storm, that covers from the midwest to the mid-atlantic with over 1,000 wind reports and here in maryland alone, our wind gusts were over 70 miles per hour. we've been trying to tell this too that equates to hurricane strength winds. the áf -- we have more coming up, back inside. >> okay bernadette, thank you. mary bubala is in the newsroom.

and she's joining us with the repair efforts under way. >> vic, bob, thank you for coming in. big question we heard from one of our viewers she was out there with adam said, i pay a lot for power. why can't i call in and say, you're 100 on the list or 200 on the list. >> we learned a lot with hurricane irene. look at the storm that rolled through last week, we lost 12,000 customers with that. better to say to customers look, this is what the worse case scenario is. we expect this to go into the weekend. if we get you in sooner all the better but at least you have one set of information and you don't have conflicting information. that's what happened in irene, we said you will be back up on here, that not only makes you

upset, it makes you frustrated and angry. >> and we saw some the -- out of town crews that were in a parking lot and not active. >> we can't say for sure what was happening. but they could have just came in and waiting for instruction, or they might have been taking a break. they have to take a break at some point. >> reporter: we had another person that was upset. they were told to get the county to remove it. the county told them to call bge. who is responsible to getting the trees removed. >> we all are. at the end of the day we are all committed to doing this. there's no finger pointing ever

during this event. sometimes we're good at it and sometimes a little slower but at the end of the day we're all trying to do one thing which is ensure the safety of the public and get the power back. >> i know you've had no sleep because you do this around the clock so thank you for coming in, answering our questions. we should point out a lot of viewers should tell people that they know, with our power, all the information -- those people without power don't see it. and news continues with danielle nottingham. >> reporter: utility crews are fighting to get the power back on. most lost electricity during friday night's storms. >> i was in the shower and the power went on and off around

five times then black. >> reporter: silver springs maryland resident cocoa diamond 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 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 downed trees blocking roads. >> it's a pretty sizable tree down and has not been cleared

up. crews from as far away as oklahoma are arriving in the suburb to help restore power. in silver spring maryland, danielle nottingham, wjz eyewitness news. now to help traffic, today federal and state officials told that nonessential employees to stay off the roads and take the day off or work from home. the recent extreme heat wave is taking its toll. we learned that at least three maryland have died from complications from the heat. and the heat is expected to continue for a while. first warning weather coverage continues with bob turk in the weather center with more on the heat. bob. >> we got a break today from the high humidity. but still at 90 degrees. temperature wise we're looking at right now 90 degrees. 90degrees right now with the dewpoint very low at 56. that means 90 degrees -- >> okay bob we're going to get

back to you. you're having some technical difficulty right there. at least 200,000 still without power, could be several days to a week for everyone to get back online. crews are now in maryland from out of state to help out. several deaths are blamed on the storm and three deaths are now linked to the heat wave. the áf. our special coverage continues with the latest on the restoration and clean up. she never gave up hope. the latest on the woman stricken with a deadly flesh eating bacteria. and maryland hit hard by a wicked summer storm the latest on the clean up and repair efforts. >> an extensive weather coverage continues in just

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hundreds of thousands of people without power now. coverage continues with jessica kartalija live in rolin park on how people are trying to survive in the heat. >> reporter: we all have our stories, most of us have been affected and we're out driving around covering the stories we got to see this tree falling between two homes not causing any destruction. the tree landed right smack in the middle. we just spoke to one of the homeowners they said it was unbelievable it happened on friday evening. they woke up after they heard it and everybody okay. heard we can't say the same for the elderly who have been struggling in this weather and of course people with asthma. as the sun beats down, shirley cook and other rosemont tower residents sit outside in the shade to stay cool. >> it's uncomfortable, it's

miserable. all my food is gone out of my refrigerator. >> reporter: like many around maryland, the assisted living apartment's power has been out since friday. >> we have people in the building who have oxygen, there's people with breathing problems. >> when it's hot, humid then i can't breathe right. >> reporter: seniors aren't the only ones having trouble breathing. >> i carry his inhaler around with me in my pocket. because he can have one at any time. >> reporter: shanay thomas has been trying to keep cam ro and 6 -week-old daughter calia as cool as possible. her 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 home. residents are growing more and more frustrated. >> that's say patient is a

virtue but my god that's weighing on my virtue a lot. it's really unbelievable looks like a match stick snapped right in happen. unbelievably, the tree fell right in between the two homes, didn't even break a window which is amazing when you see how massive the tree is. if you have children, please check on your children especially if they can't verbalize if they're hot. today we get a break from humidity, and tomorrow we're going to have it for a few days. 90s now, humidity is down to 30%. feels like 88 so we did really got a heat index thank goodness. west-northwest winds at eight.

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we're out here live in townsend where they continue to try and deal with the damage in this area and across the entire state. the biggest problem right now is other than the power outages the intense heat that's just going to continue. so for more on that we send it

to bob. >> it might be at 90 at least until monday. so we have more heat and humidity at least until the next week. the dewpoint maybes a 90 feel like on your skin only 88. yes that's warm but at least it's not feeling like 100 or 110 like it did last week. 82 a breeze off the ocean, ocean city has cooled down this afternoon. locally still in the upper 80s to around the 90-degree mark. now tonight we'll be back in the upper 60s to low 70s. not all that humid until overnight we'll start seeing the humidity increase and the winds start shifting more to the south. that will allow humidity to come up, dewpoint to come up. tomorrow afternoon about the same temperature as today. but the 93 tomorrow will feel more like 96, 97. so it's going to be more uncomfortable day than it was today. south of us, heat and humidity

continues. but with that shower and thunderstorms activity quite a bit in the carolinas there's a front to the west. that front with additional humidity comes into the area on wednesday. that is july 4. looks like we have a chance of activity, severe storms on wednesday. tomorrow afternoon just a chance of scattered thunderstorms. a better chance on wednesday with that front comes through. now behind that front thursday and friday it'll still be hot. at least the low 90s but probably less humid again

during the end of the week. but temperatures still above average. average high now 87 by the way. south winds five to 10 knots. look for clear to partly cloudy skies. tomorrow sun and some clouds and maybe a thunderstorms in the afternoon. more humid will feel like 96, 97 with a high of 93 once again. that's 6 degrees above average for another day. >> okay, thank you bob. stay with wjz and first warning weather for continued coverage as this massive storm hit maryland. our coverage will continue tonight. we'll have the latest on power restoration efforts and clean up. skin cancer concerns, but something many people drink every day could cut the risk. colorado wildfires the latest on the extensive path of destruction. >> and our coverage continues right after this. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,

it is 6:30, 90 degrees and sunny outside. good evening thanks for staying with wjz. a very long and difficult recovery ahead for people throughout the state. as you can see large trees are down across the area, power is out to more than 200,000 people. and take a look at this scene as repair crews struggle to roll away a massive tree trunk in baltimore. it's a mess and it's going to be a while before thins thins -- things are back to normal. adam may is in one hard hit

area, but first we begin with mike hellgren with efforts to get the lights and air- conditioning back in. >> reporter: that storm was fast and ferocious. and a lot of people are angry at the power restoration under way. if we can take a look at some of the video from throughout the area, they have restored 60% of those customers but for those without power it is very frustrating. the mayor said she was concerned in baltimore about the pace of restoration but she urged patience. >> we might be annoyed, frustrated and hot as heck we can get over that. if we lose a vulnerable citizen because of this heat we can't get over that. >> reporter: and back out here live, there were six deaths blamed on the storm and the heat. it has been so hot over the past few days those people

living without air-conditioning are just doing anything they can to stay cool. there are some nursing homes without air-conditioning as well. so people are just trying to cope at this point. again we're still talking about hundreds of thousands of people in our area without power. they are working diligently to get things back on. reporting live, mike hellgren, wjz eyewitness news. >> mike, thank you. first warning weather coverage continues now with adam may. live in baltimore county with how people are trying to cope with all this chaos. >> on top of the people trying to cope with the aftermath of this storm, so are businesses. in fact, a lot of businesses have been closed since this storm rolled through on friday night. and on the other hand you have some businesses that may be the only thing open in their neighborhood as we're taking a live look right now from sky 13 with these rescue efforts. i went into a starbucks no exaggeration the line went through the store, snaked around and went down a sidewalk. there had to have been at least

60 people in line. so for some businesses this is actually turning out to be a boom but for many businesses they are struggling and ron max has more on that. >> reporter: for three days the lines at the dunkin donuts in hamden have looked like this. >> chaos. >> reporter: many neighborhood convenience stores are closed to 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 in here to get their coffee. the last three mornings long lines but we'll get through it. >> reporter: brown is the owner of this cafe, the storm dealt him a big blow. >> any where from 12 to $15,000 worth of food and that's just a small cafe like me. >> reporter: some deliveries are limited. >> they come to world farms we deliver. >> reporter: you can't do it? >> not today, because all the

power is out. >> reporter: the massive power outage is also affecting all the gas stations in the baltimore area. >> well, i'm trying to pump gas this morning. almost on empty and well i can't. >> reporter: will brown's empty feeling will change soon. >> 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 just luckily stayed on. >> ron max, wjz eyewitness news. >> all right i'm joined now by meteorologist bernadette woods. wouldn't a nice coffee be nice around now. >> i know it would. i know you were talking about starbucks, my husband was really trying to be nice. and it took him a long time but he came home with a cup, it made a world of difference. >> yeah, sometimes you just

need that boost. when you look at the damage here bern, how can you tell the difference? >> a lot of people associate anything of this magnitude with a tornado because you don't always see this much damage unless there's some sort of twisting. but in this case notice there's a little bit of twisting on the bottom of that tree. but i think some of it had to do with the tree itself the way it grew. but you can see it's not quite as much twisting with the tornadoes. >> we had straight line winds with this tornado pole. that's just straight line wind damage. >> it's all straight line wind damage. that's how much damage it can do. it was a strong line all the way up from pennsylvania. you can see down into virginia. all of this started in iowa

makes its way to the atlantic and the ratios we were just talking about. here's the definition of it. because a lot of people are having a lot of question with these terms. widespread business, we're showing you county after county and state after state. this is sustained for a period of time meaning over a couple of states. wind gusts over several counties. stretched from iowa over to new jersey down to the carolinas. there were unfortunately 22 deaths that so far had been reported and that has been going up. for us here in maryland over 70 miles per hour. from the midwest to the mid- atlantic over 1,000 reports of wind damage. this was a huge one. fortunately this was gone. >> i heard someone refer to this as a hurricane on land. are there real similarities to the wind here. >> the wind are similar to a

hurricane. 70--mile-per-hour winds would make it hurricane winds. the winds were the same. >> bernadette, thank you. let's send it back to vic and denise. wjz has been flooded with pictures and e-mails and video of the storm. coverage continues with mary bubala. she has more of these incredible images sent in by you. >> reporter: the pictures from our viewers help us tell the story of how widespread the damage is. from skyline road in townsend, the we -- western area a huge tree. he tells me it's still like this today as they continue to call bge. and a tree down on a cabin used during the revolutionary road. a huge tree toppled over a house, so much damage there. you can still submit the

pictures for us right now on wj z.com to find out how. stay with wjz first warning weather, for complete coverage of this massive storm that struck maryland. our coverage continues tonight with the latest on power restoration efforts and clean up. moving on to other news, disturbing new information about what penn state officials knew about jerry sandusky's abuse of children. the former football coach was convicted of dozens of counts of sex abuse last month. new e-mails uncovered by cnn show graham spanier agreed not to take allegations of abuse to police and worried the university would be vulnerable for failing to report it. westminster police are looking for the suspects who assaulted a young woman near mcdaniel college. police say the man approached the victim friday afternoon asked her for a cigarette and slammed her into a stone column.

she ran to her home, the suspect is in his late 20s or early 30s and as you can see has a buzz haircut. still to come on wjz's eyewitness news. trouble for michael jordan's youngest son. why marcus jordan was arrested. and cooler air headed our way, i'll have the exclusive warning five day weather forecast. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

crews out in maryland and along the atlantic coast tonight with hundreds of thousands of people remain without power. the recovery is going to take days if not weeks. the weather is the story out west as well where crews are gaining more ground on those massive colorado wildfires. thousands of evacuees were allowed to return to their homes today for the first time in over a week to survey the damage. the canyon fire has killed at least one person in colorado springs. a georgia grad student is

released from the hospital. amy copeland will enter a rehab facility for an unamount of time before returning home. surgeons had to amputate most of copeland's hands, one of her legs and remaining foot to stay ahead of the infection. a tough break for the son of legend michael jordan. marcus jordan was apparently drunk. it took several hours to get him into handcuffs. jordan was booked for disorderly conduct and released a short time later. scott pelley has a preview of what's coming ahead. the supreme court upheld the president's health care law because one justice changed his mind. a rare look inside the deliberations tonight on the cbs evening news. >> and here's the closing numbers from wall street, we'll be right back. ,,

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remain without power right now in our area it's another steamy summer evening. a live look outside. some relief from this heat would certainly be welcomed. wjz is live with coverage, bernadette woods and bob turk will update the forecast this has we just don't have relief coming in this forecast. it's probably noting in next week that we're going to break this string of 90 degrees. so here's the forecast for tomorrow. once again we go right back into the 90s starting out in the 60s a little better than the last couple of mornings but 93 degrees for the high. a chance for showers and thunderstorms but better chances as we go into wednesday. for the rest of the five day here's bob. >> looks like we stay in the 90s, maybe a break by next week. slightly lower humidity thursday

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>> pelley: tonight, the destructive power of nature. a freak storm in the east leaves

more than a dozen dead, while in the west, a firestorm rages. reports from chip reid, sharyl attkisson, and anna werner. the supreme court upheld the health care law because one justice changed his mind. jan crawford has a rare look inside the deliberations. and in a city at war with street violence, this was too much to bear. dean reynolds in chicago on the killing of a seven-year-old named heaven. >> she took her last breath in my arms. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. in the east, millions are without power tonight. in the west, thousands are fled their homes. rarely do we see the power of wind and fire over so much of the nation at once. the wind came in hurricane force announced friday night across the mid-atlantic by lightning