also issued a statement, praising the fire chief. and touting his accomplishments. reporter: the mayor s office points to a record low of 17 fire fatalities last year. and only three so far this year. in a statement, they say the mayor believes that extending clack s contract will alow him to continue to implement meaningful changes to the department and the company. but the pay increase also outrages firefighters and their union representative. if there s no money, there s no money. we should all feel the pain. it s my opinion, you should just turn to raise him. again, it s a slap in the face to people. you don t give yourself a raise. you don t accept a raise. when your men are doing more with less. that s just a disgusting, disgusting proposal. union representatives say they will personally be on hand at tomorrow s board of estimates meeting. tell the mayor and board members what they think about this propose alt. and why they think the fire chief doesn t deserve t
central booking. he faces a number of state charges before the federal charges. and those in themselves include human trafficking, gun charges and of course those prostitution charges. live at city police headquarters, i m jessica kartalija, wjz eyewitness news. all right, jessica, thank you. and those federal charges jessica talked about are still pending. tonight, the city fire department is also dealing with a controversy over a proposed pay raise for chief james clack. wjz is live at city hall. derek valcourt has concerns over the possible salary increase. derek? reporter: we re not talking about a large increase. we re talking about a 4.1% increase if approved but it comes after the closure of two fire companies and it has some folks crying foul. it s infuriating. really is. ianthea darling is not happy that the firefighters who run near her are slated to close. which is why they are considering giving fire chief james clack a $3200 raise next year has her so u
humidity was relatively low. dew point relatively low. take a look. last hour let s take a look at the computer. not the radar. 97. the dew point, however, is only at 60 degrees. it had been as high as the low 70s. so 97 degrees here. 98 in washington, with a dew point of 60. feels like, guess what, 97. hasn t gone up. now, cumberland is up to 104. i expect that that s what we ll see tomorrow or even worse. and because of that, tomorrow for most of the region, during the afternoon and early evening hours, we have an excessive heat warning. not a watch. this is a warning that will go into effect in the morning, late morning through the afternoon, early evening hours on saturday. looks like heat indexes tomorrow will be up around 108 to maybe 110 degrees. a lot worse than it was this afternoon. tim, down at the inner harbor there. some water maybe. a look at these temperatures. reporter: well, definitely folks who are near the water and able to get in it are able to take ad
during the storm. reporter: day 5 and tens of thousands remain without power. some are angry the trees of severely damage lines weren t trimmed before the storm. people are tired of this. our lights go out. because of these big old trees that need to be cut down, trimmed down. this one coming down next. reporter: bge is sending out crews in what they call pods, with experts in various skill sets. the utilities still estimates it could be the weekend before everyone s electricity is restored. well, we re all here. we haven t left. we ve got guys everywhere. reporter: and if you doubt it, the power of those straight line winds, look at this root ball, it s more than 20 feet across. reporter: the trees smashed into several cars. poosm are calling people are calling it a miracle, no one was injured or killed. we have have been very thankful and thank god my daughter got in the house safe. sounds like the whole house was coming down. shook the house. i ran in and
system still down. just a mangled mess of lines and limbs. more than 75,000 people are still without power. reporter: getting the power back on after this deadly storm is the priority, with thousands still out, bge says it is shifting many of the utility s 3,000 workers to restoring smaller pockets of customers, where complex issues have left the electric off for five days. in woodlawn, patience is wearing thin. i do all i can do. i try to do the right thing. but i am tired of these trees. reporter: in this hard-hit part of middle river, power was just restored. it was great. it was nice. it was finally like ac. we have been going off a generator with fans. and it was like a touch of god. reporter: and people are counting their blessings and recounting their survival stories. first of all, i didn t even think it hit my car. i was just thinking of my parents car. if i were to stop like i normally do, i could have been either killed or seriously injured or pulled