. -- karen wood. >> good morning. i'm the vice president of the maryland park improvement club speaking on behalf of the clubs were than 600 members about the serious community safety challenges posed by the police department staffing deficit. park emperor club safety committee spends many hours each week working with officers on a community safety challenges. we have learned that active collaboration between community members is essential to safe and thriving communities. all of our city agencies face great funding constraints. but staffing constraints will erode community policing and quality of life through the city and all aspects of our lives. the police permit staffing has dropped below charter mandated levels. with the approaching retirement of hundreds of experienced officers and no academy class is scheduled for the upcoming fiscal year, officers will be unable to provide protective services and only be able to respond to emergency calls and community policing will suffer. the reduction of san francisco's sil

karen brown, wjz news. >> and staff sergeant jeff c. childress was also laid to rest in colorado. for the latest, log onto wjz.com. >>> we have some severe thunderstorms threatening beyond tonight. let's go to bernadette woods. they've been lingering for a couple of hours, haven't they, bern? they have, putting down a lot of rain in a couple of counties. that first batch is making its way to the beaches where they are definitely getting some thunderstorms righteous now. no more warnings in effect for those. what we're watching is this next round of thunderstorms starting to develop. we don't have any warnings with those at this current full-time the tomorrow to the northwest of westminster is moving in your direction. switching over to show you quickly, this is how it's progressing through the night. an toirchg two inches of rain underneath some of these, especially in part of the eastern shore and came bridge. >> remember, wjz13 is always on for instant updays of the noarks and live doppler radar at any time, log onto wjz.com. >>> the coast guard got call -- got a call that a boat was taking on water about 1,000 miles away from ocean city. luckily, everybody on word was rescued, but some did suffer minor j

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