they restore service based on public safety. the impact of the fast and furious straight line winds is still being felt by hundreds of thousands of the people across maryland. many are without power as temperatures climb dangerously high. it s hard coping trying to keep your food cold and even getting dry ice, we had to wait in a line for four hours to get the dry ice. reporter: trees smashed into cars and homes. i can t tell you the last time i saw a storm that powerful, that quick. the lightning was incredible. the winds were amazing. just hearing the winds whipping around it was quite scary. the reality of this situation was that we were hit suddenly with a hurricane punch and a hurricane power outages. but we did not have as a state and as a people the three or four days notice that we usually do of an impending hurricane. reporter: baltimore s mayor says the pace of recovery is affected. bge has received 160 thundershower calls and brought in crews from thousan
defense for him. trying to persuade someone that it was right doesn t take you very far. reporter: sandusky is charged with 61 counts of sexually abusing 10 boys on penn state s campus and his home he met most of his accusers through his charity for at risk children. the judge told jurors looks like defense and prosecution will have everything wrapped up for wednesday with closing argumentjury deliberation, thursday. defense may call his wife and members of joe paterno s family and one of the last to testify could be sandusky himself. his lawyer has to see where things stand as things progress. reporter: the prosecution wrapped up its case with one final witness the mother of a boy he is accused of raping she testified her son has behaviour problems after spending time with sandusky she also said her son s underwear would free wently be missing when she did laundry. in bellefonte pennsylvania wjz eyewitness news. the state dropped one of the 52 counts this morning b
the defense questioned mcnamey and his wife contradicted the testimony several times. mcnamey told jurors the star pitcher was present. the verdict came in the government s second attempt to convict clemens, a mistrial was declared last july after prosecutors showed jurors evidence the judge declared unadmissible. clemens could have gotten as much as 30 years in prison instead he is headed home with his family. in washington, danielle nottingham, wjz eyewitness news. clemens won 354 games and a record seven cy young awards during his 10 year career. another developing story to tell you about right now. just moments ago the city council passes a controversial plan to hike the bottle tax in baltimore. the tax would repair baltimore s crumbling schools. wjz is live, mike hellgren has more on how much the people will pay. reporter: these bottles will cost you about $1.20 for a case of water. about $1.20 more. it passed without discussion, the majority said yes. baltimore s
people and this is the story we will tell together. reporter: at fort mchenry, maryland s top brass marked two centuries of friendship between the u.s., britain and canada. for the first time ever, the ambassador of canada and the ambassador of the united kingdom came here to attest to peace, to reaffirm the close bonds that reaffirm our country together. you can fight battles, you can win wars, you can become allies but democracy is our greatest tribute. reporter: the morgan state choir performing the star spangled banner. it s cool that we get to participate in such a big part of maryland, because the war of 1812 happened here in baltimore and we go to morgan which is a state university. i m very patriotic, i love fort mchenry, i love the history of this area. reporter: this also marks the last full day visitors can tour the tall ship before tuesday s departure. today and celebration was like having the fourth of july, your birthday, new year s day and flag
good afternoon. here s what people are still talking about this today. the city woman stabbing her own daughter in front of a social worker at the department of social service office in east baltimore, and the new details that police are releasing about just what did happen. wjz is live with the latest about the attack with a kitchen knife. good afternoon, derrick. reporter: hi, doug. we re getting a better picture of the bizarre and scary happening inside that social service office yesterday, and we also now know the name of that young baby girl, her name is pretty diamond, and it s a miracle she s still alive after what she s been through. the question everyone is asking, why would can neara thomas pull out a knife and attack her young baby girl? new information from police might give us some clue into her thinking. according to police reports, thomas did not have custody of her 8-month-old daughter pretty diamond and during a tuesday morning supervised visit in the prese