bedroom for me. i'm blaming you. >> we are looking towards, that's your house, off of kent island? >> that's my summer home. >> beautiful shot looking out -- we were talking about the storms. hard to see there was storms that moved through kent idea, we are seeing a good looking skyline, look at maryland's most powerful doppler, a couple of showers, crossing the chesapeake, eastern shore, we had nasty storms moving through ocean city, that is exiting stage right. we are going to allow for temperatures to soar as the sunshine goes to work. easton 73. clouds thinning out as we are seeing everything push offshore. mild through the 8:00 hour. noontime up to 86 degrees for the two degree guarantee of going to 93. spotty showers or storms possible after the 4:00 hour. we will talk about that hot seven-day forecast in a little bit. let's get a check on traffic.

a couple of issues to talk about. we will talk about the west side of the city. numerous reports of lights out. if you come to a flashing dead light, remember, treat it as a 4-way stop. we are watching an accident. this is something we have been watching for the last hour and a half. an accident on 95 northbound, fort mc henry tunnel. right knocked out. alternative route is harbor tunnel. let's look, 695, bel air, smooth sailing. keep in mind we have debris from the friday storms, last night's storms. back out live to megan pringle in towson, one of the hardest hit areas k one of the areas where tens of thousands of people remain without power. trees are down, and the big clean up is underway.

>> reporter: hundreds of thousands of people across the state are without power. this yeah has been hit particular hi hard. i will show you why. if you look behind me, a tree fell over, not only did it fall over but fell over on power lines. ist a dangerous situation here. that's why the road is blocked off. earlier, this is a well traveled road, people who aren't aware that it's closed are having to turn around. i ran in to the painters, they go on a morning walk. >> we have flash flashlights and we are coping. >> reporter: it's monday. >> we have been going to movies and eating out a lot so go to bed as late as we can. get up with the daylight, go to bed with the daylight. >> it's too dark to do anything. we go to the movie, have dipper

and come home. it's just the electricity for us, the house is fine and car is fine. we feel sorry for a lot of people. >> reporter: what makes you say that? have you seen anybody who has it worse? >> yes. particularly after church yesterday, we drove through one of neighborhoods and there are a couple of trees right on the house. >> we have l1no little ones. we just, we don't have anything to complain about. we are optimistic that the power will come on shortly. >> reporter: i love you good attitude and i know you are on your way to get your coffee. what movie did you see? >> we saw the intouchables, it's really a great movie. it's a film. >> reporter: they have a great

attitude. a good movie review. charlie, i guess you have to do what you got to do when you are in a situation like this, you make the best of it. >> sound like what a lot of people are doing, making the best of a bad situation. for one family, this morning, arundel, they are mourning the loss of their son. a result of the fees weekend storms. linda so is here to explain what happened that took this young 25 year old's life. the family believes their son was trying to make it home when a tree crushed his car and killed him instantly. 25 year old kevin o'brian was on the road when winds reached 70 miles per hour. the family knew something was wrong when he didn't respond to calls or text messages and a family friend told the family what happened. two other people were with o'brian in the car. miller miller and hodges were

not seriously hurt. >> we had to come back and go to the county police station to try to find out if our son was alive or not. that's when we were notified he lost his life due to the storm. >> the family says they feel fortunate both their children were not in the car. his younger sister was with him hours before the accident. linda so, abc2 news. news around the nation, chris christie snapped at a reporter during a press conference. the reporters were told the governor would only answer questions about the major problem at a water treatment plant. one reporter asked an un related question involving the state legislator. listen to the governor's response. can i stay on topic? are you stupid? on topic. on topic, next question.

thank you all very much. sorry for the idiot over there. take care. >> the reporter tried following up and the governor interjected in to the press conference, thanked everyone and walked aboy. i don't think chris christie does many things quietly.

up to the minute updates on what is going on with restoring power. >> 60% of our customers who have been affected are restored. 405,000 customers are back in power. 235,000 customers that are out. we do have additional 1200 out of state utility workers here or joining us today. 1400bge employees. >> where did they come from? >> all over the country and quebec canada, florida, michigan, tennessee, texas, all over. >> in the coming days, martin o'malley said get this down and get it done quickly.

in those days where someone may not have power, what do k they do? >> if you haven't reported your outage, call us at 877-778- 2222, exercise caution around public safety concerns, such as downed power lines, give us a call. because there is extreme heat, make sure you and your family are staying hydrated and close your blinds and curtains. we have a list of the cooling stations throughout maryland for customers to access. >> thank you for joining us. we will have links at our website as well, abc2news.com. a few minutes before 7:00, we continue with your news to go in a bit. continuing our storm coverage of what going on, meagan is live. linda so is keeping you up to date. sherrie johnson is taking care

of the code red facilities. that's coming up when we continue on good morning maryland.

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we begin your monday with a check of the fork with mike massco. >> starting with a beautiful shot downtown, its hard to believe we had the storms from last night as we are seeing sunshine trying to filter through building. sunshine will go to work. temperatures in to the 90s today. spotty showers south of town, another shower making your way towards the eastern shore. 72 now. we are on our way to 93 this afternoon. temperature from 775 to 86, lunchtime hour and 93. lower humidity today. but the humidity will be rising over the next couple of days. we will talk about that in the seven-day forecast in a little bit. let's get a check on traffic at 6:46 right now. we are talking about fist the west side of the city. section dealing with a lot of

traffic lights out. certainly use caution. treat dead traffic light as a four-way stop as we are watching issues with that this morning. debris in the roadway. take it slow. we have an issue going on on going at 95 northbound, at fort mc henry tunnel. we have the right lane tied up or right tube tied up, your alternate is the harbor tunnel. from 95 northbound in to the fort mc henry tunnel. use harbor tunnel because of an earlier accident. 695, bel air road, so far looking good. smooth sailing on bel air. speeds up to 65 plus miles per hour. again, only issue being 95 northbound at the fort mc henry tunnel.

. the totals stand at 200,000 customers with power outages. megan pringle is live in towson. one of the areas hardest hit. clean sup going slowly. >> reporter: it's going slowly. it's generally a quiet neighborhood. if you talk to frustrated neighbors they will say it's been anything but because cars have been turning around because the road is blocked up. crews are working to clean up the damage. see the tape is up. the reason why, the tree fell over on to power lines. it's not only a driving hazard, it's also dangerous. i want to bring ronnie oliver here, he has been here for 12 hours, telling people you can't drive down the road. people are getting frustrated. >> yes, ma'am. the roads are dangerous. you have seen bge crews.

>> they came out at 2:00 in the morning. by 12:00, they will be back out the fix it. >> reporter: you have no power. have no power yet. >> reporter: that's got to be a hassle. >> yes it is. >> reporter: you are handling it well. >> i feel pretty good so far. >> reporter: i hope you get the power back soon. hope you get a break from working. people are handling the best they can. hundreds of thousands of people are without power, bge says they are doing all they can. that's the situation. a lot of people have clean up to do. anywhere you look, there are downed trees and power lines. a lot of people will be cleaning today and one of the stories is going to be the heat. it is expected to be hot. we will send it over to sherrie johnson. >> we just received updated information from baltimore city mayor, stephanie rawlings blake's office, the heat alert

has been extended through tuesday because of dangers from hot temperatures. today, at 10:00 this morning, ice will be passed out to people at four locations, the community action program will operate five centers around the city, open from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. cool air and free water. the health department's office of aging and care services will operate six additional cooling centers and the health department recommends that you remember to drink water or juice, avoid alcohol and caffeine and wear light colored clothing. 25 people have utilized the five cooling community rooms are open as cooling centers as well. local pet stores like pet smart and animal control centers offered facilities to help pets. call 311 to report downed trees in the roadways and call 911

for police, fire and medical emergencies and log on to abc2news.com for a list of those cooling centers we have all the information and telephone numbers on our home page. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. number of streets and avenues continue to be blocked from the tree branches, the traps it administration is asking you to consider public transportation today. crews worked all weekend and been able to meet the requirements of those getting somewhere or needing to get somewhere today. bus service will run but commuters could face diversions as a result of the fallen trees and the downed power lines. it is the first day on the job for the school superintendent. he will take over the position held for more than a decade by dr. joe harrisston. dr. dan held a number of

leadership positions in virginia. new program teaming up with maryland inmates with a guide dog group to have inmates trained service togs for veterans. the dogs would go to wounded and disabled vets. the leaders are going to be announcing the program today. they will do it in hagerstown. family and friends of chris brown will rally in his honor. he had a run in with a off duty police officer. his mother is organizing a rally in front of the state's attorneys office and calling for an external investigation. the officer was arrested last week and released afterwards. getting new reaction from the governor, martin o'malley over the health care ruling, o'malley says the tax increase would effect a few number of us all together. >> the massive tax increase they are talking about is the free loader penalty, affecting

1-2% of people that could afford health care and want to be free loaders off of us. >> romney, baner and other republicans vowed to repeal the health care law after this year's election. residents who have been evacuated are coming face to face with a harsh welcome home all going on in colorado. families were ahow do allowed to return home to see if their houses were standingment it destroyed 350 homes and killed two people and burped 27 square miles and began june 23rd. evacuees returned home to find they were burglarized or looted. the wild fire is half contained. five things you need to know, the woman who has been fighting a phleb eating bacteria will be released from the hospital today. she spent weeks in a georgia hospital and left her left leg, right foot and both hands.

a viewing for a fallen marine will be held tonight, he was killed this afghanistan in june. it will be held at the gary coughman funeral home in elk ridge. beginning tonight, fly to germany nonstop from bwi. a reception is held tonight including a water cannon salute over the first flight arriving from frank fort. box office topped by teddy bears and strippers, bear movie ted, starring mark wallberg and ted, raked in $54 million. and magic mike came in second at $39 million. michael phelps olympic program is set, he is going for another 8 gold medals in

london. he rallied to win the 100-meter butterfly and took his spot in five individual races and going to be in three relays adding up to 8. michael phelps going for a big number of gold medals going on in london. summer games in a few days. this is outside, a beautiful shot for downtown. we will be talking about the sunshine. isolated storm crossing the chesapeake. otherwise, we are looking good. 72 in town. temperatures pretty uniformly in to to the 70s. notice the clouds starting to push towards the south and east. sunshine will break out. big storms down towards the south and to the east. charlston, charlotte, richmond storms, maybe storms firing as we head in to this afternoon. more storms upstream, we will see if they drop in to the

mountains. 93 today. isolated chance of shower or storm during the afternoon hours. tonight, around 70. moving along in to the seven- day forecast. dry heat for today and tomorrow. 92 on tuesday. 92 feeling like 95 degrees. we will hit 95 thursday, chance of gusty shower or thunderstorm. hazy, hot and humid, fridays, saturday and sunday. temperature in the mid to upper 90s. issues we have been following, we are working on this accident 95 northbound, this is at the fort mc henry tunnel. use harbor tunnel. that's the alternative route. 695, a look, doing good. 695 smooth sailing. bel air road. that's a gorgeous shot. debris on the roadways.

exercise caution. you never know who is going to show up or what. a homeowner says he was doing yard work when a black bear rang his doorbell. he snapped photos and video of the animal as he was exploring the yard. that's a big bear. i'm thinking he ate the person who rang the doorbell or he is the one that rang it. . >> he ate the person that rang the bell. that's a big black bear. last week we had the quite ambidextrous and creative black bear stuck in the garage, now they are ringing doorbells. the animal revolution is real.

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