christian schaffer picks up our team coverage. >> reporter: the governor has a meeting at the maryland emergency management ajobcy. the focus is on public safety. they want it get the power back on. the message, without a hurricane warning, had repeated that message. no few are than five times during his remarks here this afternoon. some00 expected here within the next several hours. that will bring us to the level that we saw in the aftermath of hurricane irene just to give you a sense of what they're dealing with. the governor said power restoration is moving forward, but think of this, sunday morning 50 substations around the state of maryland were out. the substations can power hundreds of customers at one team. now they're back on. now the work is going street by street, block by blorks focusing on those downed power lines. >> this becomes more tedious as time goes on because we're talking about restoring one or two or three or four houses. it become has block to block effort. up until this point it's been more of an entire neighborhood being restored. >> they're still talking abo

i'm christian schaffer with details coming up. a proposal by police union how to cut taxes and keep you safe. the police department who offers say is modeling the way. >> a community mourn as young man whose life they say was cut far too short. i'm roosevelt leftwich, that story is coming up. >>> what a beautiful day, we hit the 80s. the humidity is coming back. we have a full look at the forecast coming up. >>> top story this evening, baltimore city's fire chief will get a waive and contract extension. this has drawn sharp criticism from firefighters and union leaders. christian schaffer is in downtown baltimore where the reaction was less than receptive. >> reporter: chief james clack of the fire department makes $161,000 already, today the board of estimates extended the contract through the year 2018 with raises of $3000 each year at the end of the contract, for the making, $190,000 a year. this is drawn fire of course because of all the talk of the past several weeks and months over the closure of three fire companies in balt

christian schaffer, abc2 news. >> was she concerned about the lack of resources or the response time? >> reporter: i think she was pleased with the level of resources put in here based on her comments. it's the people here in baltimore city without power in the heat that were in trouble and needed to be rescued. she feels it's possible bge might be able to help the city find those people quickly. >>> we got a beautiful evening out there. look at the 87 degrees. look at downtown temperature, bwi today. went to 89 degrees, one shy of 90, easton, 84. ocean city, sea breeze cranked in. 80 degrees for the day. in terms of now, we are looking at temperatures mostly in to the 80s. holding on to 90 frederick. rain cooled 79 towards hagerstown, scattered showers all afternoon long. clear along the stretch towards dc. you find showers and storms working over central pa. there is one storm trying to get cranking here over haguers town, that's pushing off towards the east. a chance of a shower or storm in the folk as we go in to the evening hours towards the northern communities. el 85 for the re

live in baltimore county christian schaffer abc2 news. >> how about being pregnant.t big day for sheris church hill. the 19-year-old found out she is going to have a girl and she gother power back on. but it's been 6 days of struggle and it was so bad she went on facebook with hilarious postings every day. day one camping. day 4 the shining and day 5 was oprah and the color purple. what was it today? >> today's picture was the picture from airplane when the comby was sweating profusely and -- when the guy was sweating profusely and my postings came to a end because my electricity came back on. >> they ran to the grocery store to pick up ice and frozen treats but she says she was craving electricity. mary was driving home last friday night from a business trip in new york. couldn't mack it home because of a tree blocking her street. so she end up stayed at hotel asher neighborhood felt trapped they made call after call and thought what would happen if they need an ambulance and with that line thinking, the anne arundel fire chief found out and came out and moved the t