dpw is racing to the scene. we are told they are sending every available emergency personal they have to the scene. they are also responding and we have also been talking to some area residents in that area. in fact we have a gentlemen on the phone. i'm told you have water in your home. todd, what street do you live on? >> i'm on dundalk avenue. >> at what point did you realize you had a problem today? >> it was right around when i came home from work. i barely made it home from work and my wife told me there was water coming. i couldn't imagine it would be this bad. it is in our first level. >> you were able to get home today without any problems on the streets. we have seen aerial pictures from the area and it looked like for blocks things were flooded. how were you able to get in your neighborhood? >> i caught it early.

i had to park my truck down the road. i basically waded in. i thought it would be fine but i can't believe it's gotten this bad. >> we are looking at a live picture. the water is still gushing. it will get worse before things get better. we understand crews are trying to turn the water off. who knows when that's going to happen. give me a sense of what's going on in your house. i understand you have water? >> yeah, but i'm trying to get this jet ski running so i can get around and make sure if i need to help out the community at all. >> have you seen any evidence of people trapped in their home or hurt? no. regular patrols have john boats. there is a row boat moving around. there is presence out there. >> okay. we want to make sure that you are safe. if you have water getting into your home and your electricity is on that could be an issue.

have you still got power at this point? no no power. we made sure everything is off. we are upstairs so we are okay. we are safe. >> what are you telling your kids? how you get through something like this? >> i'm making them feel comforted. making it not seem like a scary or big deal. >> that's todd johnson. what street are you on again? >> dundalk avenue. >> you make it home about an hour or so ago. got in just before the worse of this made its way to his area. he and his family are now literally trapped on the second floor of their home. he and his five kids and wife trying to wait this thing out until the department of public works can get in and bring relief. kelly has just come in with additional information. what can you tell us. >> i just got off the phone can jessica snide . she lives on logan view circle.

are you on the phone? >> yes. >> how deep is the water? >> if you look down at the end of my street, if i walk any further the water -- there is a woman walking across and she's waist-deep. there is a dodge ram and the water support to the front window. >> a lot of folks said around 4:00 it started gushing. >> yeah. i was at box and save at the time after 4:00. >> box and save is in the shopping center. we are told that's almost like ground zero. give us a sense of what the situation looked like at the shopping center? >> cars were flooded. a bunch of water was flooding all the way to the back of the store up to the streets behind it. up to our street which is logan view. >> have they evacuated any of

your neighbors at this point? >> they evacuated pretty much half of our block. we have police officer standing with us right now that won't let us go any further that has cleared the rest of our block out. >> i imagine safety wise your electricity is cut off as well, correct? >> electricity, cable everything is out. >> are you home by yourself? >> i live with my parents. >> and your parents are there? >> yes. >> i'm looking at some of the pictures. this is amazing. i can't imagine what it is like to see the magnitude of this water. >> it is terrible. we are hoping it doesn't come up any further. >> you are watching hoping it doesn't come up in your direction. >> that's correct. >> we are on the phone with a neighborhood on dundalk. he has water in his home. they are literally trapped on the second floor. have you started to have water

come into your home? >> not yet. >> that's jessica snider home with her parents calling from dundalk. police evacuated part of her community. her family is being told to remain put. we are looking at live pictures from the area where the main broke. i'm guessing around that's around dundalk avenue. we are told it started on burning highway and began to spread. >> we have a lot of streets under water. >> we have a lot of folks with amazing stories to tell and amazing stories of survival. we'd love to hear from you. you can call us at 410-377- 8100. we are accepting pictures at pi pixwmar.com. we'll take a quick break and

have more live reports on the breaking news out of dundalk.

we are following breaking news out of dundalk southeast baltimore county where around 4:00 this afternoon we had a

massive watermain break. it is a 72-inch main gushing water near the dundalk marine terminal. we have a live reporter on the scene. rose is standing by. >> reporter: it is an incredible amount of water. as you can see that's where the water is coming from. it is coming from burning highway. i'm in the middle of dundalk avenue and burning road and bell claire road. that's where the water is coming out past burning road. it is coming from the burning highway side. all you need to understand at this point is all the water coming down. it is you expensed it is a 72-inch main. we talked briefly with city of baltimore public works that 72-inch main, when it broke it also messed up other mains underneath. by doing that it just caused a wall of water to just come straight across the street. i mean from what we are understanding from some of the folks, it is at least knee-deep in some spots. across the street from where

the water flowing is the box and save. if you go to your left, there is a box and save. it is like the logan village shopping center that has been completely flooded out with water. all the water has come across the street into that shopping center. behind the shopping center is a neighborhood. water has gone into the neighborhood there. it is about a foot deep in some spots. as you can see a lot of people in the neighborhood are standing out what's going on. a lot had to leave their homes because the water was getting in their yards. in some cases we have been told by some people that the water is knee-deep. if you look at a pickup truck it has gone inside the trucks. once again the shopper center has just been completely flooded out. there are cars there. it looks like the water has no sign of stopping. city of baltimore crews have been out here trying to find

the switch that cuts the massive main off to at least alleviate the water coming here. once again the neighborhood that's downhill is getting a lot of water. a lot of folks are coming up and they are afraid their homes will be flooded. >> we have been able to talk by phone with some of the people in the community. we just got off the phone with one gentlemen. he and his five children and wife were trapped on the second floor of their home because water has started gushing in. we have been doing this a long time. have you ever seen a water main break this big? >> reporter: not one of this size. i have seen a 54-inch main that, as you may recall, that eerupted around knot avenue four or five years ago where water was gushing out. that was a puddle compared to what i'm seeing coming out here. 72-inches probably helps feed the industry down here. remember a lot of other things

buckling down here. that was probably to help feedwater to this neck of the woods for the heavy industry to function here. it is justincredible. you can see city crews over to your right. there is city crews under that tree. the problem they have in trying to figure out a way to shut the water off is that the actual main that could shut it off could be a mile from here. that's the problem with finding what will shut it off. crews are prospecting trying to figure out where the main is. what the proper main is to control where they can shut it off. you randomly can't start shutting mains off because it will cause problems in other parts of the city. city crews are here. we have heard swift water rescue teams are also coming down here just in case, as you mentioned a man with five kids in the house, they want to be

able have people on scene and stand by to get anybody. >> that's part of the challenge for officials here. this is a heavily residential area. stand by for a minute. we have some additional video that's come in from a viewer. we are encouraging viewers to send us video and call in. they have pictures that look like it is close to same location where you are roosevelt. it shows the water gushing. correct me if i'm wrong, i'm told this started around 4:00 this afternoon. this has now been going on two hours. >> reporter: it started around 4:00. the volume of water is unbelievable. i'll find out later from city officials the volume of water that's been coming out. it is incredible the fact that it flooded everything so quickly. we talked with somebody that said around the time it started it didn't look like much. you saw the water coming out.

everybody was amazed. all of a sudden it kept growing and growing. once again it crosses the road into the shopping center and into the neighborhood that's behind it. which is causing all those problems for a lot of people. >> of course, we have had major road collapses there and who knows the structural damage this has all caused. we have to take a quick break. we'll come back to you. if you have on opportunity grab a resident and bring them over for a live interview. stay with us. explain.

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pounds a minute. -- sorry 11,000 gallons a minute. we have two crews on the scene we have been talking live to people in the community. a number of businesses in the logan village shopping center have been shut down. we have had a number of homes evacuated. we have seen people in row boats and canoes trying to get out of the community. police have gone in and moved people out. we have folks sending in cell phone video and still pictures. we are encouraging you, if you are in a safe position and able to send us some video or give us a call we'd love to hear from you. we'll put you on the air live. we have roosevelt on the scene feet away from the massive watermain break. we covered the big watermain break in downtown baltimore a few months back. give me a sense of how this compares. >> reporter: this is bigger. if you think we got closer, as you can take a look, it is really, really coming down. look like it is coming down

under browning highway running across dundalk avenue. we are closer here. coming from under burning highway across dundalk avenue into the neighborhood behind us. the shopping center is over there. you can see a little bit of it. there is just a lot of water in there. you can look at the cars that are also in there, as well. it is an absolute mess. if you look behind the shopping center there is a neighborhood back over there. we'll show you better from the ground. if you look behind us that's the neighborhood that's behind the shopping center back there. those folks, from what we understand, have a lot of water in their basements and houses. there was a man that called in earlier with his five kids and said they were up on the second floor because the water was coming in their house so fast. this has come down for two hours straight. city crews have been out here. they are busy trying to figure out how to shut this down and how to begin.

where do you begin? you have so much water coming out. they have to check the roads. they have to check the roads and there are flooded cars and things they have to deal with here. you can see some are in the corner a department of public works truck. they have been blocking traffic off there. a lot of truck traffic comes through here on its way back and forth to the port. this is something else we'll have to see to see how bad this water has caused problems and whether it has eroded roads or caused multiple problems here because of the watermain break. >> how much water was coming out? >> as much as 11,000 gallons a minute. you had to drive over to the area at the height of rush hour. how tough was it to get in over there? >> reporter: dundalk, if you don't need to be in this area you might as well stay out. they are stopping folks at

around bell claire. they are stopping folks and taking them through the neighborhood. if you have to drive threw good luck. it is difficult to get around. neighborhood streets are packed with cars trying to get around. people trying to get home. a lot of folks trying to see if their home is okay. it is a big traffic mess. if you don't need to be in this area the best thing to do is stay out of it. >> roosevelt, have you had and opportunity, i know you are busy but the dpw guys. have they been able to give you a sense. you showed us pictured earlier of buys working trying to figure out where they might be able to shut this thing down. have they been able to give you a sense of progress they are making.

>> reporter: not at all. as i mentioned the main controls for this could be anything. the main main could be somewhere far away. that's one of the issues they have to deal w. they have to fine out exactly where this is. as you may recall, too, this is an old system. things change. roads move. roads change names. the mains could move. they could be sealed up by asphalt or something in the road. it is a difficult thing to try to find stuff to do. right now we have a lot of crews. matter of fact, from what we understand, they called pretty much every available crew and a lot of people that were off today to come in and handle this thing because of the volume of water coming down through here. this is something they have to take care of. they are not sure how it will affect water pressure for some of the neighborhoods, too. i would imagine a lot of the neighborhoods around here, water pressure will be minimal for a lot of folks because of the water coming through the streets.

you have to assess the roads. how much has the water degraded the roads. this will be several days of work out here. >> we'll let you catch your breathe and get a quick check on the weather. outside bwi marshall 72 degrees. morning clouds gave way to the afternoon shine as this area of high pressure wins out. the area of high pressure will stay with us through the overnight. nothing showing up on radar. 74 westminster. over in dundalk and edge mere area they are sharing 75 degrees with water. here's your forecast for the overnight period. mostly clear skies tonight. during the day tomorrow lots of sunshine. all shower activity stays to the west for the weekend. forecast for overnight mostly clear. seasonably cool. 59 degrees for the overnight low. during the day tomorrow mostly sunny and cool high of 72

degrees. looking ahead to the rest of the weekend cooler than normal temperatures. 75 degrees. scattered showers on monday and tuesday as well as wednesday and thursday.

we have been on the air since 5:00 with breaking news of dundalk. you can see a crew on the scene. that's roosevelt. he's feet away from a 72-inch water main. you are look at it live. it has been gushing water two hours. we are told it was gushing

about 16,000 gallons a minute. mary beth coined the phrase, disaster in dundalk. that's what this is tonight. entire communities in that area underwater. families have been evacuated from their home. we are encouraging you, if you are in that area to take every precaution you can. if you are in a position to do so we'd love to hear from you on the phone. massive watermain break. 72-inches along browning highway. it has filled the surrounding community with water. if you are familiar with that area it is off the logan village shopping cente . we have reporters on the scene. it is all coming up at 6:00.

we are following that breaking news tonight from southeastern baltimore county as terry said it is a disaster in dundalk. i'm mary beth. there is a massive watermain break at browning highway. you are look at live pictures. the water is still gushing out of the 72-inch main. it is a catastrophe for the dundalk area. neighborhoods are completely flooded. the streets look like raging rivers. the water is waist high in some place. cars are completely lost. there are rescue teams on the scene with boats looking for people to rescue. we have been told that 2.5 million-gallons of water has come out of this main so far. the break is near dunhaven and dundalk avenue. we have live team coverage. we'll begin with roosevelt with a bird's eye view. >> reporter: it is incredible