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good afternoon, i'm jessica cartallia. >> i'm don scott. here's what's people are talking about today. it took only moments for water to buckle one of baltimore's busiest city streets. sky eye chopper 13 is over the water main break downtown where crews are continuing to make repairs this noon. wjz is live with complete coverage. captain jeff long is in sky eye chopper 13. let's check in with michael shu who's on the ground with more on these repairs. good afternoon. >>reporter: good afternoon. this is the close we've been able to get to. there is the hole. it is enormous. an alfe bet soup of agencies and hired help have determined how tightly woven is the underground utilities underneath this asphalt. it turns out the job is going to be lengthy, costly and huge. before dawn a wounded city lay exposed under harsh lights. if at rush hour monday you

looked down at our modern world, you'd see the path and it's haunting us. it's likely, the city says, benjamin harrison was president when the now broken pipe was laid underground. >> this main laid probably 1890. >>reporter: the blanket of asphalt lies creased and folded, deep inside this hole, even bigger holes and voids, a cave formed underground from curb to curb. now businesses without water shut down. this placement agency meets with clients in a closed intersection. >> water was cut off to businesses on both sides of the street, so this side was shut down. they got temporary connections. that's what building managers on the other side of the street are hoping to get. this business manager should have seen dozens of customers by now. today? just one. >> very hard. >>reporter: she has water, but when the roads look like this out front, nobody can walk near. traffic, it was a mess. get used to it. >> there's another main, a

parallel main that's also very old. so while the street is going to be ripped up, we're going to take the whole block, instead of doing a patchwork type of situation, it's much more holistic now, much more proactive to say we're going to take both of these lines up. >>reporter: meaning this won't be fixed the next time you turn on the news. try the first week in august. what caused this? >> age. no doubt. >>reporter: back now live, contractors are in here. what you're seeing is temporary water main being laid down and they're doing that because this repair is going to take so long. they realize they need to get water to these buildings earlier in the morning. they said maybe until tomorrow before they get water. but as far as this whole plok, it's going to be torn up -- block, it's going to be torn up and rebuilt. a lot of traffic headaches to come. reporting live downtown, mike shu, wj displ news. >> pack your patience. now we go to sky eye chopper 13 and captain jeff

long. good afternoon, jeff. >>reporter: good afternoon. this is a completely different scene than what we had yesterday when there was literally a river running from this spot all the way down to the inner harbor. now we're just seeing a lot of big holes in the road, a lot of holes that have even bigger holes underneath them. one of the spots we are looking at, they even wrote void on the road so people know don't stand here, don't walk here. reporting live from chopper 13, jeff long, back to you. >> captain jeff, thank you. stay with wjz for the latest coverage on the water main break. for the latest on the closures and repairs at any time, log onto our website, wj displ.com. another day of sizzling temperatures in baltimore. some were fishing early to beat the heat of day and staying in the shade. in drew id hill park, others were getting their tennis in early, but it was still hot out on the course and they were doing the best they could to stay hydrated. let's take a live look outside

right now. sunshine, blue skies and summertime heat and humidity as we look down from sky chopper 13. we have complete first warning weather korveg for you with marty -- coverage for you and marty bass with what's has to be a steamy one. good afternoon, bernadette. >>reporter: good afternoon everybody out there. temperatures very much on the rise. take a look here, 92 degrees, just jumped to 95 in baltimore already today. 89 in hagerstown, 93 in d.c. now, the dewpoint has dropped, so our heat index is very similar to our temperature, it actually does drop a degree. it feels like 94 degrees outside. regardless, it's hot. as we head through the afternoon, the temperatures are just going to keep on rising. however, we do have the potential for some changes coming our way. for more on how long this is going to last and how long it's going to last, we send it out to marty. >>reporter: good afternoon, bern et. i look around and there's barely a cloud in the sky. it is awfully bright this noon hour and that makes the heat feel that much more

uncomfortable. let's take a look at the numbers, how it's going to play out. today we're forecasting high of 100. in the late '80s we set a record of 101. the heat index, we are going to drop it back to maybe 100 or 101. can you tell the difference? you can imagine 105. i can't. at least on paper, it's in our favor. tomorrow the record is 102 set back in 1887. tomorrow's heat index, though, because of a little more humidity is going to be higher than this day, maybe 102 or 103. but i think the big story for tomorrow is not going to be the heat. it is going to be a cold front coming our way, slamming into this unstable air mass. when was the last time you actually saw a graphic talking about thunderstorms near or in this area with the word vicious on it? we're in the bulls eye tomorrow, folks. it's something we've got to pay particular concern to. and we certainly will. it's going to be some rough weather over the next 48 hours. but what's on the other side of

that valley is just beautiful. meteorologist bernadette woods with those details coming up shortly. now we'll throw it back inside. >> thank you, marty. i don't think we've seen vicious. stay with wjz for the heat waves. for updates anytime, anywhere go to wjz.com. rerl investigators are on the scene today of a deadly plane crash in montgomery county. the plane went down just before reaching the runway at davis airport last night. one person was killed, a second person injured and flown to a hospital in serious condition. so far no one has been identified. and the cause of that crash is still under investigation. in annapolis, there's still talk of expanding gambling to an additional casino and table games. andrea is live in the newsroom with more on the meeting the governor just had with two top legislative leaders. good afternoon, andrea. >>reporter: dpafn, don. house speaker michael bush says a meeting with governor martin

o'malley and senator wilson led to no agreement. lawmakers have had trouble reaching a consensus on allowing table games in putnam county. they have -- in prince georges county. they have until october 20th to decide whether to put gambling on the ballot. >> the governor says the decision needs to be made in the next 10 days. race cars will be zipping around town for another grand prix. organizers say they've landed three new sponsors, dr. pepper, sunoco. last year's event drew in 160,000 spectators. >> a good time was had by all. still to come on wjz's eyewitness news at noon, stepping up the criticism. what presidential candidate mitt romney is accusing the president of now. and: >>reporter: swimming is just one part of the grueling

pentatholon. a baltimore county athlete is going for gold in london in a sport you've probably never heard of. it's shaping up to be a hot and hazy tuesday afternoon. meteorologist bernadette woods will be back with our full weather forecast. please stay with us. ♪

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it is sunny and 95 degrees in central maryland right now. the complete first warning forecast is still coming up. in this week's campaign 2012 report, negative ads are being stepped up in the swing states. mitt romney is in pennsylvania today and expected to defend his business record while hammering the president on the economy. romney is slamming the president for federal grants and loan guarantees he says are given to solar companies run by his backers. texas hasn't gone for a democrat in more than 35 years. british authorities are getting help from the world's largest international police organization to guard against a terror attack on london's olympic games. interpol officials say 33 million passports are currently in their lost or stolen database. authorities are now working to make sure they haven't fallen into the hands of terrorists.

and speaking of the olympics, in just a week, a young baltimore county woman will arrive in london to pursue her own olympic ambitions. she can run, shoot, fence, swim and ride and she's one of the best in the world. wjz's denise coat shows us what drives the athlete to go for the gold. >>reporter: for suzanne, it's not good enough to be good at one sport, swimming, she has to excel at five. maryland makes its mark on the olympics, everyone remembers michael phelps, kimy misner, dominic dawes, suzanne stantineas. she's the best but probably in a sport you've never heard of. it's part riding, part running, part shooting, part swimming and part fencing. the ingredients of the modern pentatholon, a daylong

challenge pitting this woman against the world's best athletes. if i would have talked to you if you were 7 or 8, did you think this was a dream? >> no, i didn't think it was a possibility. >>reporter: suzanne grew up riding horses, in the saddle since she was 4-year-old. >> my dad taught me how to shoot. i got some lessons to work on my stroke a bit. >>reporter: it was at a a national competition during middle school that her skills took shape. >> we learned. we never really knew. oh, that's pretty cool. i already do all these sports. all i have to do is learn how to fence. >>reporter: it didn't take long for suzanne to master that. >> i

has to hit the wall every now and then? >> when i hit the wall, it's, like, it's not just me anymore. my whole community backing me, i have to suck it up. >>reporter: biggest thing of your life? >> right now, i think so. >>reporter: if you win? >> that would be the next thing. >> wow! of course we'll all be watching and wishing her a lot of luck.

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welcome back, everybody. isn't that nice? see if we can join them, a beautiful place to be. we have great shots of everybody out there on the water. it's going to be another hot one if you're not on the water. 95 outside right now, 93 in d.c. the dewpoints have come down as the temperatures are going up. it's still going to be hot outside. when we show you the heat index, notice it actually brings it down a degree. regardless, it's hot out there today and it's going to be hot again tomorrow because of the air mass that is still baking a good portion of the country. yesterday there were 90s in north dakota. they're now down to the 60s. so there's a cold front right in here and it is going to move our way. not quite yet, though. today we are way up there, close to 100 degrees for our high. the record is 101. but notice this cold front. it comes our way tomorrow. and when it does, it can produce maybe strong to severe thunderstorms as we head through the late day hours. here's how it looks right now,

nothing going on for us, a couple of clouds out there, that's about it. there's a slight chance in this kind of an air mass for a thunderstorm to pop up. it's a really small chance. tomorrow better chances with the rain coming through. take a look, it stalls out on top of us as it comes through the next couple of days. so still the chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms around on thursday and maybe lingering into friday around here. today, though, 100 degrees for our high. we're going for it. the record is 101. tonight going down to 76. that's about it. so that's not much relief as the sun goes down. tomorrow when it comes back up, we're going right back up to 98 degrees. the chance for strong afternoon thunderstorms, maybe severe. if any watches or warnings do come out, we'll pass those out to you. a scattered chance for showers and storms thursday into friday. we'll have your five-day coming up. >> thank you. >> remember, wjz is always on for you. here's some of the stories we're following on our website at this hour. for constant updates of our day's news and the first

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welcome back, everybody. this is what you want to do on a day like today. the heat is something you want to be smart about. stay cool if you can for those

who have to work outside, take breaks, stay hydrated. just be smart in this kind of a weather pattern. it's going to continue into tomorrow before we could see some relief. it could come for thunderstorms. for more we send it out to marty. >>reporter: let's take a look at the five-day forecast. what we really want to draw your attention to is thursday, friday, saturday and sunday. look, we start clearing skies out on thursday. we're going to knock it back to 93. hour by hour particularly later in the day, you'll feel the humidity on outta here. beautiful friday, saturday and sunday. temperatures 84, 85 and 87, just a great weekend coming up. >> marty, thank you. don't miss today's prime time cbs lineup, it's the latest of "person of interest" and stay tuned for eyewitness news at 11:00. an indianapolis hor has a tricky way of keeping his grass green of keeping his grass green during the drought. it's a special mixture for the grass so it doesn't do

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