Hospital employees, or medical providers. Potential travel restrictions will not apply to uniformed personnel, emergency vehicles, hospital employees, and medical providers. We will reach the point of this storm this evening where people will need to stay off the roads completely, hunkered down at home, and ride out the storm. Do not under any circumstance. Turnaround, do not drowned. The port of baltimore is closed and waterway traffic is restricted in and around the chesapeake bay. It is extremely likely that tens of thousands of citizens will lose power this evening. You should know that 911 and 311 are fully operational. The 911, again, is for emergencies only. Fire and Police Assets have been deployed throughout the city. Again, our fire and Police Assets are deployed to route the city. We are ready and able to respond to any incident. More than 2000 officers are working overnight, with the majority in uniform and on patrol. Police special ops are deployed, with Tactical Units on
Responders may not be able to i think we are more likely to get out. Is there talk about bringing out be indoors. I think that is good. The National Guard . We heard there are large trucks we cannot go out to repair anything whether the power is able to get through this weather. Any talk about the plane these knocked out at night or in the middle of the day. The key factor that determines trucks . If we can send utility crews is the National Guard has been deployed. The wind. They have 500 members statewide this is a night to hunker down and around the state. Where they are needed, they are and be mindful of the dangerous going to those counties. It is up to the counties to tell conditions we are under. Them what they need. Governor, do we have all the assisting with the rescue assets in place we need. Efforts and personnel, police, do we still need additional help . Do we not know yet . Fire, an ambulance, first we brought in assets anticipating we would receive a responders assistanc
Coming up, we have Live Team Coverage of Hurricane Sandy keeping millions of people home on this monday. Good morning washington at 5 00 a. M. Starts now. Live and in hd, this is good morning washington, on your side. Good morning, washington. 5 01 is the time on this october 29. I am cynne simpson. I am steve chenevey. We have a full list of closures at the top of your screen, so keep an eye on that. We will have you coverage throughout the morning. Jacqui jeras as an update on the storm. From the National Hurricane center sandy has intensified a little, still a category one but the maximum winds are 85 miles an hour. The wind is huge. The Tropical Storm force winds between 39 and 73 miles an hour, extend out more and 500 miles from the center of the storm. So they are feeling that along the coastal areas already. The storm is 400 miles away from d. C. It will impact us all day. We will be going downhill. Anything you still have to do to prepare for the storm, that needs to be done no
Now. Raining here,is equally snowing at the same rate. In the mountains of West Virginia, those are the areas that are under a blizzard warning. The the centeree of sandy coming near oceant now city, new jersey. The track will take it across delaware bay. , the reinss around new york city, even into island, have not been as as they had been up through our area. Can see these winds continue from the northwest. That is tending to drive the water out. We have had wind gusts up to 52 in the last hour. Iran to Atlantic City, the is bottoming. Around advantage city, the is bottoming and will to our north. Ve perhaps another two or 3 inches of rain. The total rainfall around the will be 56rea inches. 8 00 to midnight or 1 00 in the morning will be the time were we have to watch for more damage, more Power Outages. Even though sandy is in short, not out of the woods by a long shot. The beaches are seeing the far. Damage so part of the pier in oakland was wiped out today. A boardwalk and some s
Shut down and jimmy graham and the gang will go back home and take on the Philadelphia Eagles a week from tomorrow. Cris watching Willis Mcgahee tonight and his performance made me think of a young man from south carolina, this marcus lattimoo d lattimore who had a devastating injury yesterday. Mcgahee was drafted and had to sit out a year. Look at him now. 31 years old and still going. Marcus, a lot of football fans around the country are thinking about you and hoping it all turns out just like it did for Willis Mcgahee. Al i was watching that on television yesterday. The guys were talking about that exact same thing. You hope the result is the same. So colquitt comes in to punt on fourth down. The saints will head back to louisiana with a mark of two wins and five losses to take on philly. And denver, next week, will go to cincinnati. Fair catch called for. Made by sproles at the 13 yard line. Cris id be hardpressed to point out what i thought the flaw was in the broncos right now. T