rob gould, bg&e: 1.22.12 "for this type of storm, it was absolutely impractical to prepare for that." rob gould with b- g- e tells fox45 they're goiig to let the public service coomission review process run its course. as bad or worse than hurricane - irene-- but with no time to alert out- of- state crews. paul gessler, fox45 news at 5:30. 3 first on fox... nearly 70 passengers on a megabus headed to baltimore find themselves stranded in new jersey after the driver reffses to bring them any further. further. here are some pictures sent to us of the incident. you can see everyone is off the bus. this night of hell started after passengers say one of them asked the driver if the air conditioning was working. passengers say at that point the driver pulled over and slammed on the brakes. that jolt was enough to cause one woman to end up in the 17:52 she was going down 95 and she was like ruur and it's a double decker....butt bite 23:14 eveyone is confused everybody is worried some people are scared scared 3 3 passengers were on their way home from new york city. managers with megabus say

terrible news. >> rob gould from b.g.e.nding by to give us an update on the power restoration efforts. that's coming up next. >> hoarecord-breaking heat is affecting crops across the midwest. >> go into detail about possibility of severe weather and check the seven day forecast in a few minutes. here you go little man. [ humming ] [ babbling ] the cheerios bandit got you again? [ both laugh ] ♪ the one and only, cheerios ...and now... you! [ giggles ] ♪ the one and only, cheerios >> we sure hit the number yesterday. we hit 104 degrees yesterday afternoon and so the temperatures didn't have a chance to drop off much overnight. it's still 84 degrees at b.w.i. and the dew points are running in the upper 60's and low 70's. it has a very tropical feel out there again this morning. we'll get one more day here with the oppressive heat and then after that, things should settle down by the time we get into the beginning of the work week but at the present time, it's still warm. 79 in westminster. 77 in parkin. same thing in rising s

(rob gould) 01106:40 "very imply. do not touch it. call ittinto bge. llt us deal with it."than 150-thousand customers are till powerless.but crews ccock... ((ob gould) 00:05:08 "at thh end of the day it's manual labor... it's very llbor intensive."but help has country....:24 "itttooo us ab 1hos dveow"&th cw mellhe wa country....:24 "itttooo us ab 1hos dveow"&th cw mellhe wa 3plttfate. uhey're pa tnkl. f t& utility crews have come ffom as far utility crews have up and go home."power back, we'll packkyou guys all have yyur á(ccver) 00:43 "when far. from near and in to cleannup - -the crews called and they're coull've ove a-while o arr brave (nats)down the east coast."communities all up and power outaggelike thii, :55 "when you have a massachusettes. the way from this crew came all hours to &pdriveedown.":24 "ii took us about 12 country....from all over the buuthelp has come labor intensive."manual laaor....it's very "attthe end of the day it's roo gould) 01:05:08 the clock... workingg around but crews are still powerless.customers are thoussnd moreethan 110-let s it into bge.

joining us is rob gould with b.g.e. thank you for coming back in. this is hot, dangerous work. >> they also have a lot of gear that they wear. long sleeves, long pants, and rubber gloves. >> not easy work. >> they're operating in off the wall conditions, just walking the ground -- they're operating . >> let's begin with how many were out as of last friday. >> almost 660,000 customers in total. we're approaching the same numbers we had with hurricane irene. we have about 170,000 to go. we will make some good progress over the next couple of days. as we get closer to the end of the restoration, you'll start to see those numbers slowdown because we will be going into individual homes better served by one wire or one poll e. ,> let's talk about priorities you go about doing that. >> we identify the downed wires. we have trees down on local thoroughfares. then we will go off in earnest. the biggest blocks of customers, 5000, 2500 that are served by one piece of electrical equipment. then we'll go into the one to want house engagement -- then we will go i

for thhs week's take action thursday, rob gould with bge joinn us.us. 3 3&p--burying wires underground. 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 a soutt african man will represent his country in track duringgthe upcoming london olympicc.how he will accomplish this feet... without legs. 3 --adblib weather tz-- notes are flying high in worrd's best harmonnzing groups are competing for the title of "world's best barbershop quartet." quartet."quartet nats naas wednesddy... to hear the harmonies that the singers pave been working hard all yyar to perfect.to them... it's like preparing for a competitive sport. code red weather warnings, huuid and hot temperatures... when will e see a cool down?chief meteorologist vyta reid... when nees breaks.. you can access the your cell phone. download the fox45 mobile nnws app for our droid or i-phone. it includes headlines.. traffic.. and weatter conditions.. all at your fingeetips. go to foxbaltimore dot com and look for "mobile" at top righthand corner of the screen. 3 he has no legs and hh's running in the olympics.his up. after takinn 2

rob gould, bg&e: 1.20.24 "we're going to let the publicc service ommission review process take its coursethat'ssthe appropriate venue to judge how the utilities efo" peformed."jaffe says he ill donate any money rewarded to him to he needy. 3 the heat has gone from uncomfortable... tt dangerous. 5 more deaths in maryland are being attributed to this latest heattave, which means seeking relief is a must. must. joel d. smith is live aa one of the cooling centers in baltimore with some ways to cope a little better in this awful heat. good morning joel d. how hot is it ? already? here we areein mount vernon, this cooling center like all the ress in the city open at 9:00am but frankly, it could open right now aad help ome peoole out. 23 people have died in the state from heat related causes. with this latest count...the since he last heattwave. s - even in hot places like dry cleaners... even with the digits. 11 cooling centers in the city are open todayy 3 a disturbing incident out of virginia... where a man was hit by a car and ignored by people nearbb. the entiie thing was caught on camera..

is b-g-e spokesman, rob gould. 3 3 3 as we've been seeing and hearing...the storm created a maryland...and across huge mess all storm creeted a hearing...the seeing and as we've been 3 hearing...the storm cceated a hugg mess all across maryland...and there's still photojournalist dave larson caught up with some residents of north baltimore who are anxious for action. action. 3 p3for action. action. we have been getting hundreds of pictures from our fox45 viewers ... when news happens.....see it, shoot itt baltimore ddttcom. here are just a few ff them. this one was sent to us from melanie. wo reesshave fallen one on too of a house... even the roots of the tree haae been lifted.. 3 from sarah. this poor carrdidn't stand a chance against those massive trees anddbranches. the damage... and parts of the side of the car is smashed in. 33 sarah.... its a m - close up here of this car that pooks pretty much totaled. you can see the branches from the trees lifted the sun roof open. &p&p and our very o melinda roeder sent this pic in of bge trying to restore power. you can still see parts of d

bbg-e spokesman, rob gould. - 3 p3 3 checking on the elderly becomes even more important &pduring powwr outages ann hot . weather.the bbltimore city health department was making today. and mayor stephaniee 3awling blaae was helping ut..- 3 3 health offfcials says the elderly are more aa risk hen ninnties. baltimore city olice say hiss and a no toleranceepolicy for the fourtt.last year's celebration at the inner harbor ended with a touriit being fatally stabbed...ann pour year old shot. shot.janice park is live downtown baltimore tonight, to doiig this year. janice? jennifer,pplice say they have a no tolerance pplicy thissyear...where they will be arrrssing trouble makers. and in order to connrollthe least 200 thousand people tommorow...you will be seeing phese waist high bike rackks all around the harbor. you'll remember last year things got out of hand.an alabama man was fatally stabbed...and a 4 yearrold was hit by a celebratory bullet shot intt the aarrtomorrow, you will see baltimore city police...maryland state police...and officers from the authority.they will all be -wo they have

generrl mcdonough says setting uu this audit performance commission will help answer joining us now is rob gould . spokesman foo b-g-e. how would you respond to the call for an independent commission to investigate your response? where are the remaining trouble spptsare you till confident that everyone will the weekend?ine for the end oo - 3 & the hunt is on for a thief in anne arundel county...taking advantage of the power outages. joan sames lost power at her home in edggwater friday... and didn't have it for several days.the temperature in her home soared to he 90'sswednessay night, she left the doors anddwindows open and unlocked... waiting for a breeze. she was asleep on her couch n the living room... when suddenly, at about 2 o'clock in the morningg.. a noise woke hee upp and she saw a man standing nearby. (sames) "and i just screamed, get out!" as loud as i could, p grabbee my blackkerry from the table there nd rrn out the front ddor as ffst assi cou" could." sames says the man grabbed her purse and everythinggin it, inccuding her credit ards, debit card and driver's license.her power is

standing by me as rather -- is rob gould. pretty soon this parking lot will be a ghost town. >> it will be empty in short order. that is good. when customers are saying i am not seeing a truck anywhere, all you have to do is look at these trucks and think about the fact this is mirrored at the eastern part, lockheed martin and other facilities, a lot of trucks and people. 1300 out of state contractors in addition to bge crews, which brings the total to 4000 people. we had about 6300 for hurricane irene and we had a week's heads up to bring all of them in. >> these guys are coming from all over the area and they will do everything from assessment to tree removal and working on the lines. >> these guys are the ones to be very active -- cutting away the trees and clearing them. they literally will fix the of poles and reset them and strength low wire and reenergize. it sounds simple but there are some jobs that literally take all day and they will work 12, 14, 16-hour days. >> you have been very clear and not telling people when

and rob gould. >> thank you, rob, for coming in. let's talk about the possibility of the storms tonight. what does that mean for the bge tomorrow. >> we're certainly worried about it. there's no doubt. we said this restoration would extend through the weekend. if we find that we have storms that roll through, just like we did the other night, we lost 12,000 customers just in a matter of a few minutes. if we have that happen, that can definitely impact the restoration. that's something we are keeping a close eye on, not just tonight but tomorrow as well. >> we continue to report on the large number of trees that are on power lines. people are very worried about live lines. power lines just being on the ground. what should -- what are you telling people? just stay away from the area completely? >> gotta stay away, call us. there's no way we can man every single wire. we have thousands of downed wires. but the best thing is, don't go near it. because it may look like it's dead. people may be frustrated, tired. and made me want to go ov

rob gould, from bge, thanks forrjoining us tonight. 3 3 p3 even though school's out... tte weather s still cauuing schhols.422baltimore county y ppbliccschool buildings are withhut power and will be closed on monday.many schools, offices, pprkinggaad alking &pfallen tteee and other debris prom friday'' storm.staff memmers should get principals about where to report for workktomorrowwanne activities..or a complete list of school closings, you can go to fox baltimore dot com slash newslinkss maryland have been lamed on friday night's stoom.innanne arunddllcounty.... drivvng along harwood road near richardson road... when a tree fell on top oo hhs s-u-v ....killing him. two f o'briens frienns who were also in the car with hii only suffered minor injuriess " it's sad to say that i'm just thankful that i don't &pthink he uffered and the onl outcome out of it there was only have to prepaae one we funeral, the other two id surv" survive." oo'riensspareets say he speet his spare timeehelping and mentoring otherr....and that a reminder o others to stay the eccnd deathhin aryland

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rob gould, bg&e: 1.20.24 "we're going to let the public service commission review process take its coursethat's the appropriate venue utilities peformedd" peforred."jaffe says he will donate any money rewarded to him to the needy. in a virtual world popularity contest... google-plus ii beating facebook. facebook.the one-year-old social netwwrk tops a list from the american customer satisfaction index.google-plus tied with wikipedia as the most-liked social media sites. bottom of the list... even though it dwarfs its competition in terms of users. facebook has 900-million active users compared to 150-million using google-plus. toss to ancs a city police officer responns chasing children... and eeds up addpting the dog. dog.baltimore officer dan waskiewiczsays when he got to the scenn.. he follooed the dog into an ally to evalute its bbhavior.the dog then came over to him with his tail between his legs... and started licking him.the officer says while waiting for the pound to show up.. he &pdecided to keep the dog and began the adoption process.the dog is now named "bo" and lives with the o

rob gould is joining us again from b.g.e. with an update. oh, i'm looking at these trees in my yard and they're covering power lines. once this is all over, can people call b.g.e. and get you out there to trim the trees off the line? >> they can. we'll be welcoming that. we'll be patrolling spending the next two, three, four weeks really going over our lines and seeing what -- what has damaged our lines. where there are danger trees that could be at risk for falling. you know, it depends on how they're leaning and all sorts of things but, you know, we're all for trimming trees and we're all for taking out danger trees so yes, if they give us a call, we'll work with them. >> you said anyone who does not have power, they're not going to be charged for the days that they were in the dark. >> that's right. the meter is not turning so as long as the meter is not turning, you will not be charged any charge for electricity. and that's a good thing. i mean, if there was a silver lining in this, there are some customers that obviously have been out f

spokesman rob gould. the states that drink the most beer.stion. we'll look at some facts that you can eat -- we will look at some fats you can eat. >> no delays just yet on the major roadways. a lot of traffic lights are out >> utility workers are making

for more details on the power restoration progress, vic carter is live with bge spokesman rob gould. >> rob, thanks again for joining us. you said you have the bulk of the people back online. but it's still going to take a while. >> yes. we have 80% or more restored. but it's really that 147,000 figure that we're ficked on now. and of course, -- fixed on now. and of course, if you're without power, you don't care how many are restored. you want to be restored. for all of these images we're showing you, it's just going to take sometime. >> what is the biggest challenge facing you at this time? >> trees, trees and more trees. this storm is as bad if not worse than a hurricane. and hurricane irene, what we saw there is pretty bad. this is real bad. we have trees all over the place, in places you wouldn't expect to see them having come down. and that's really posing a challenge. we have to get in there, cut away the trees. put poles in place and put the wires back up. >> bob and bernadette have been talking about the possibility of more storms coming through. possibly not as severe. but h

bge's spokesperron rob gould joins - the question everyone wants answered is when will everyone be backng? running? question 1: what probllms have you 3 queetion 1: what problems have you faced in getting everyone's deaaly storms?question 2: has storms?frrday'' deadly resttred after everyone's power faccd in getting problems have you uestion 1: what problems have you faced in getting everyone's power friday's deadly storms? question 2: haa the pod system, sending out a tree the pod system, question 2:: has the pod system, sending out a tree crew paiied with a line crew proven to be an effective use of resourccs? question 3: &p how many of your own question 3:: how question 3: how many of your own power, are they calling you constantly too? too??- &p a little bit of relief since tte sun has gone down. but it's still a scorcher. emily gracey has a look at t now. crees are set to begin year's race went right through downtown...the new rganizers plan to begin working on the track july 0tt. the 12-turn, two-mile circuit will be buiil in 33 days, with crews working thrrughhthe nighttthe grand

they are working as fast as they can and i'm standing hear with rob gould. you told me how many power lines are down. >> 67,500. with hurricane irene we had upwards of 10,000. so we're fast approaching that number. if you look at every metric related to hurricane irene. we're pretty close, give or take some reasonable numbers. we're approaching that storm in terms of damage and whether it's wires down or people we're bringing in, it's significant. >> one thing that frustrates people is the not knowing. you're starting to be able to give some people a timeframe. how are you doing that? >> on a very limited basis, we're going to endeavor to give customers feedback on when we're able to have them expect restoration. but we can only do that when we have people on the scene and have eyes on the problem and have a high degree of confidence that we're going to meet the timeframe we tell them. each site and job will be looked at individually. but the big concern we've had from the git-go is we do not want to give out false expectations. that will only anger customer

we talked to rob goulde about how they are restorying power just a short time ago. >> there's a frustrationinghat continues to grow day by day with our customers. but i would tell you that, most of our customers underthat our employees are working as hard as they can to restore power. >> now more than 60% of customers have their power back on but that's little consolation to those who are living without air-conditioning in these dangerous conditions. as you can see there's quite a few more crews here that have just arrived trying to restore power at north rogers avenue and groveland avenue. they have been here for some time. they are trying to sort their way through a tangled mess of wires and limbs. we're going to continue to stay with bge as they work to restore power in maryland. >> first warning weather coverage continues now live in townsend. adam may has the latest on recovery in that area. >> reporter: there's a few things you smell after big storms like this. one thing the smell of broken trees and all the sea dust. the other thing you smell are grills. people firing up the grills, the

. >> rob gould with bge power company in prince george's county. for the latest on the power outages and the storm cleanup, we invite you to visit nbcwashington.com. >>> on top of all of this, we still have the possible of another storm coming our way? >> not going to help at all. >> it's not. we have some storms moving in now that have to potential for 60-mile-an-hour winds. anytime those storms move in, crews that are up in the bucket trucks, they know they have to come down, take a break, wait for the storms to move through, then things have to dry out before they deal with the power lines again. it's going to be very problematic over the next couple days when we do have these thunderstorms that are going to be moving through. then you add in the heat here. we're telling people and obviously these workers to take a little bit of a break here when you have 100 death grooe heat. we're close to that today. we hit a high temperature of 98 degrees out there during the day today, so yes this heat continues. unfortunately after one of the strongest sto

and of course, we'll be talking live with rob gould of bge, coming up on wjz at 5:00 and 6:00. >>> bgeof its out-of-state crews are now in place. first warning weather coverage continues with mike schuh, who spent the morning at one of their two massive staging centers. >> reporter: good afternoon. this is a massive, military- like operation. one-third, more than a third of the people who are helping to restore power to marylanders are not from maryland. >> reporter: maryland has been invaded. modeled on military planning, massive amounts of equipment are rolling out of this staging area, near bwi. >> this is the best place to make sure they have everything they need to go out on site. >> reporter: with a laundry and a mess hall. 1,000 crews are here. as big as this is, it's duplicate is out in middle river. >> today is one of our big of the days, where we have every single crew here in place. >> reporter: bge uses no larger distribution cable than this. 32,000 volts. 11 snapped poles are tackled by an 11-man work crew. >> back home, we call today overhead twisted cable. it's on the gr

possible -how do you respood to leaders who say you all shouud havv a better plan 3 aftte the break, rob gould be back to take pour calls about recovery havv question our phone lines are open now at 410- 481-45455 you can facebook page. you'ree ((bump in)) we're back he is taking our calls about recoveryefforts ...foo our take action thursday. thursday.if you have a are open now t 10-481-4545. you can send us a tweet at fox balttmmre... or gg hrough our facebook ppge. kyesha- bmore ann mariee-finksburg fadra- bmore bmore " how long does ii randallstown and fix power for roaa is up and running and has been since sunday." pominggup later oo good day baltimore... the reason learningg o swim.. justt bcame illegal in one &ptown. you''e çç 3 thousands still without power ttis morning....but b-g-e is making progress.the latest eetimate on when all customer will get their power baak. the scientific community is buzzing this morning... about sciennists just discoveredd that oold prove how the world started. nd.. what this man is going wiil not ooly mmke history... &pbut also caused months ff controve

rob gould, bg&e: 1.20.24 "we'rr going to let the public service commission review process take its course's he appropriate venue to judge how the utilities pefo" peformed."jaffe says he will donate any money rewarded to him to the needy. more county buildings arr going green....with help from a federal grant. &pgrant.on tuesday... baltimore couuty executive kevin kamenetz unveiled the "cool trees" program at north-point library in dundalk.as part of thh program... more than 9-hundred trees will be planted at 74 county buildings... to help reduce pollution and provide hade... phat will in turn reduce energy costs. "in todayys economy, youll often hear talk of effective, efficient government getting the mmst ut of taxpayer dollars, well nnthing gives us more bang for ouu buck as trees like these." these." over the next 30 years... the 500-thousand dollars invested will provide more than -million dollars in with at least 2 seats open at the "american idol" judges' table... rumors are swirling over who could be offered a cha. chair.one person who could be in the running?... mariah carey. care

rob goull) "its financial impracttcal...." bge estimates nddrground power would costs a million dollars a mile.....and wouldn't guarantee problems would be solved any fasterr (12:11:000 (gould"when restoring power to an overhead line system where you look up and see the problem far more faster." (12:11:20) &p(gould) ""e woulddhave to spend an awful long time 2-3-4 times looger looking for that problem sooits simply not practical...." wwenn outages occur in tiionium....neighbors say the prrblems are typically at the transformers down the rrad. after 25-years....the underground wiring, they believe, has kept the lights on....a lot longerr (1:42:21) "it may cost a lot of money but in the long run its gonna save a lot of people." this week, statee enatorr jim rosapepe called on the public service commission to study the possiblity and feasibility of undergroundd power lines. live in nortt baltimore, jeff abell, fox 45 news at ten. thattbrings us to our quession of the day.ww are asking you again if you are satiified withhthe emergency responne to the severe storms. storms. a lot of you had something to say again tonight...just a few offyou say you are satisffed......but a lot o