12inch pipe. Officials say that break occurred monday night, as crews did some scheduled work. Some valves were being opened and closed, maneuvered. And that caused a pressure surge. And also sent a pressure surge to a pumping system. The effects caused a widespread water outage monday night. Its now repaired. But the busted pipe showed some problems. Patients who need to be able to wash their hand toss take contact lenses out, need to be able to wash my hands before i touch peoples eyes. It make its a little difficult. Ask the fact that you have no rest rooms for patient our yourself to use. Reporter and regular shampoos are for now, out of the question. Were making the best of it. We could have closed. But some of the clients are willing to come in and deal with it and not be as pampered as they normally are. Theyre being great and we thank them. Not much to do. Check this out. Were back live. And youre looking at some of the damage that this water main break did to the road itself.
Pictures of this winterlike weather. Go to cbsbaltimore. Com, and click on the link at the top of our home page. Denise, thank you. Obviously no snow here, but temperatures are dropping. Take a look at live temperatures now. But is it colder than weve seen in a week . I think it is. Taking a live look outside right now. Sunny skies ask seasonal. But cooler temperatures. Bob turk is in the First Warning Weather Center with more. Bob . Neighboret county, its cold. Thats for sure. 2,000, 3,000 feet. Its a lot colder than it is here east of the mountains. Temperaturewise now, garrett county, 32 in oakland. 46, cumberland. So as soon as you get up into the high elevations, as to the temperatures in the 30s. And thats why theyve seen wet snow today. Were picking up about maybe a half inch, quarter inch on the grass. 49, hagerstown. 50 in ocean city. And 56 over in d. C. 54 up in elkton. The dew point is low. Which means its going to get cold tonight. But we do have, for tomorrow night, more
And surcharging Medicare Coverage for smokers and the obese. You can watch this and other q a interviews all this week at 7 p. M. Eastern here on cing span 3. Cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your its provider by your television provider. Host and this week on the communicators, gordon smith who is president and ceo of the National Association of broadcasters, our guest reporter is paul kirby of telecommunications report. Senator smith, you started at nab nearly four years ago. How have the issues changed in those four years . Guest well, it seems like the issues just keep on coming, and they tend to be very major issues affecting both radio and television. But clearly on the radio side, the whole issue of performance rights, performance tax, whatever you want to tribe it as, is an ongoing challenge. Hopefully, the day will arrive when both the digital and the terrestrial platform can come up with a model that actually gr
Businesses get it and now how important it is for the vitality of america and endorsed by the aflcio, so labor understands it also. We thank both labor and Business Community for supporting the immigration bill. [applause] so, nick, youve been involved in ufcw, packing house workers and stuff, and its been my experience as i toured them, and i didnt work in them like durbin did. He was a meat cutter in packing houses, but as ive traveled around, i see more and more of the Latino Community working in our packing houses and meat cutting places you represent. Tell us about that. Im with local cw222 from northwest iowa. We have a packing house in cherokee, iowa, and dakota city, nebraska. Too together, thats roughly close to 5,000 employee, and 75 of them are latino. 75 . Yes, yes, so 75 of the membership who we represent are latino and imMigrant Workers, so, again, good morning, ladies and gentlemen, of the panel and audience, senators, im honored to be here to talk about an issue that af
The car felt like it broke lose a couple times on the road coming in. So scary. Snow is so much bert than ice. I did not have to scape the windshield we had drizzle out there some of it is freezing drizzle. Especially i think your sidewalks. I can tell you Baltimore County side streets sheets of ice. That will fix itself rather quickly this morning. Nonetheless the first Step Outdoors speegsly before dawn could be a little tricky. Be careful. I wouldnt totally trust the road between black ice and wet pavement it is hard to tell the difference. At the moment all we have happening in the immediate metropolitan area is drizzle. We have a batch of slightly more moisture coming in. It could be slight rain. Some could freeze on contact. Moving quickly what you see on the radar is one hour of movement of this precipitation. So thats going to dash through the area in the next hour, hour and a half or so. Use some caution today. But the main story is rain. Most of that is going to be south and