spend how much you spend on electricity or natural gas? the new smart grid initiative will give consumers more control over how they use their utilities. they have have the information to reduce their load and their bills. reporter: if approved by the public services commission early next year bge will begin installing more than 200 smart electric and gas meters in homes and businesses. they will allow for two-way communications between consumers and bge. the company will let consumers know when peak demand is expected and give them a choice on when to cut back on power. when you cut back and put more power back into the grid bge can sell that surplus on the open market and give rebates back to consumers. the pilot program saves consume saved consumers cash during peak days last year. we sent mail to customers letting them know the following day they would have the opportunity to earn credits on their bill. customers took advantage of it and loved it. the average saving
it s tuesday morning. not the prettiest morning but thank you for joining us. i m linda so. i m in for jamie, back tomorrow. we have a lot to talk about. we do. one hot topic, prescriptions. we re going to talk about, kind of controlling the cost. dr. john o brien is going to be here, tell us what we need to know about that. speaking of medicines, we re going to be talking about what is in your medicine cabinet. i m a bad offender, mine isn t all that great but the doctor will be here. we re going to talk about what you really need to put in there, have ready. so you can be ready if someone in the family gets sick. good to know. another health issue, probably not a lot of us think about, but age spots. dermatologists say they are seeing them on women and men younger and younger than ever before. if you are somebody who has them. what you need to do, if not, how to prevent them. and lastly, we re going to be talking about alzheimer s. next month is alzheimer s
proficient at using flight instruments for approaches at night or in bad weather and that lack of training by the maryland state police contributed to the crash. not only was the safety board disappointed but i think that the taxpayers of maryland should be disappointed as well as those people requesting service. that they are not getting. the service they thought they were getting. i hope this accident will serve as a wakeup call. reporter: there were other factors. the board said bunker made a poor assessment of the weather that night. he may have been fatigued and that air traffic control by area towers was questionable. but the ntsb s report also focused on the two-hour search and rescue, despite having a gps technology it was determined troopers at the state helicopter dispatch were not trained properly to understand it and only added to the confusion and the delay. one of the more unfortunate things about the accident is that they had a very accurate position with
because his name is all over the truck, for some reason felt the need to drive his pickup full of - you don t really see people on the train tracks. he had to lose his mind. that s all i can say. reporter: it s not easy to get up on the tracks here but he figured out a way. according to witnesses he gunned his truck, went into the gully, popped up on the tracks. he blew a tire and well, his truck got stuck. that s when the amtrak train left his truck in pieces. with his truck smashed police say enser decided to try to steal a car. the 32-year-old victim advised she heard a loud noise, came out of her residence at which time she saw a male suspect subject in her vehicle. reporter: the loud is no by the way was the 5:20 train from the airport slamming into the truck. the truck smashed, woman screaming at him, he ran into a nearby trucking company. then things got bad. looking to gain access to a vehicle, threatened an individual at a nearby business with a knife and
warmer wind and some of that sun sneaking through. waiting for our 2-degree guaranteed high of 75 this afternoon. 5:29. first check of the roads with kim brown. thank you. good morning. as we take a peek at the harrisburg expressway, just a little north of 695 you see traffic looks great in both directions. a little bit of building volume between middletown road and 695 but traffic is moving about at a nice pace. still have a disabled vehicle off to the shoulder, that is northbound 95 between pulaski highway and the 895 merge. that is not impacting your compute. you just may see it to the side. and we have emergency road work, southbound route 170 at 195, that left lane is taken away. jfx at northern parkway, traffic looks great at this time in both directions. back to you. 5:30. walter brooks got the most out of his life. he always had that smile, had that laugh. but the young man who entertained north county high on the stage and off the stage has died due to compli