good evening, everyone, i'm roosevelt leftwich. wyatt is here with your forecast. >> we have big changes this evening. we have showers and storms developing out in western maryland. some of this activity severe. let's take you into it and show you what it looks like. you can see the line pushing in out of the west, and that's going to kind of continue to be something we have to watch into the evening. right now the baltimore area looking fine for probably another hour or so at least. but you can see here this particular cell will be moving toward carroll county very shortly here and also toward the frederick area. this is a severe thunderstorm cell packing winds up to 50 miles an hour. concerned with wind damage with this particular storm cell. we'll keeping our eye on that for you here over the next couple of hours. again tracking that along i-70 now moving east into the frederick area. now, windy out ahead of this line of storms. we're feeling that now. temperatures have been cooler. we've been into the mid-80s today. we're going

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roosevelt leftwich joins us with the latest. >> reporter: it could raise pr premiums by as much as $300 a year. opponents say it will help lawyers. the bill would raise coverage levels from $20,000 per person to $40,000 per crash to 30,000 per person and $60,000 per crash. in many cases, the maximum isn't enough to pay a victim's medical bills and hospitals get stuck with unpaid bills. opponents say this is nothing but an attempt by trial lawyers to get more money. they say the higher premium costs would force many to drop insurance altogether. >> i think it's a very good a lot more people would be insured completely. there's -- uninsured completely. >> minimal coverage that was passed in 1972 is not enough. if you get in a car accident and someone is injured, shock trauma bill alone is $7,000 plus, okay? this is a bill about protecting victims. >> now, opponents, which include republicans and some democrats, are asking the governor not to sign the bill. >>> the proposed bill while using cell phones while driving is moving ahead for a vote. they believe it will win approval in the gener

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abc2 news roosevelt leftwich has been working like a one- armed paper hanger all day long. he joins us from the heart of the problem. rosy, what's it like out there? >> reporter: kelly, it's been a lot of stuff going on now. we've been following the massive outage since early this morning, and the crews are still out here, both the city crews and bge crews. let's get an update to find out what is going on. start off with linda foy with bge. where are they right now? >> reporter: they've been working since very early this morning >>> located and so damage was done to both of them. respect and you said there are two different disciplines, the people that work high and the people that work low. >> yes. we have crews that specialize in overhead power lines as well as crews that specialize in underground power lines. we had a combination of both we had to address. so we had our overhead guys and our underground crews working as early as this morning. >> we'll check back in later. now move over to curt coker with the baltimore city department of public works, and your guys are --