kind of jurisdiction because it is up against so many metropolitan downdities that it would likely get the kind of support from pg county or montgomery county in it s an area that has grown. right. but it is not a sizable location. having worked with them in the past on a number of cases, the howard county police department, they have very, very capable. they have negotiators. they everybody in that department is trained in dealing with active shooters. very good police department. i m sure if they do need help, they could call in help from other jurisdictions and also from the fbi and baltimore office. right now, looks like howard county police, they are the ones who are going to be hand this from the initial stables. are your stories telling you
earlier this morning predawn and it was pretty icy. what s it like right now? reporter: it s beginning to loosen up a little bit. temperatures have climbed to 33 at nearby dulles so doing this is a whole lot easier. this morning you needed an ice pick o pir pick ax. by the way, philadelphia, 8.6 inches yesterday. that s more snow than they had the entire season last year. that was 8.3. everything under your feet is ice. now, we had 4 inches of snow and then the ice on top. it s a layer, like a big ole thick pancake. you can see that s all ice. about half an inch of ice on the trees that stressed them out. right now power outages have been increasing through northern virginia down through the shenandoah valley. about 75,000 customers without power. if you count d.c. and pg county and montgomery county in maryland, those three areas are running at 13,000 customers. a better day at the airport. yesterday 240 outbound flights
the president has just been introduced to this crowd in suburban maryland right outside washington, prince georges community college. the governor of maryland just introduced the president. he s going to be speaking a bit longer than we originally thought, probably 30 or 35 minutes, maybe 45 minutes. he s got a lot to explain as far as obama care is concerned, what it means, what it doesn t mean. there s a lot of noise out there. the president s going to try from his perspective to clarify. hello, pgcc! it s good to be back in pg county. give it up for one of the hardest working, most effective governors in the country, governor martin o malley.
we make guns more and more accessible, make it easier and easier for young people to get their hands-on guns. it s terrible. when martin luther king and bobby kennedy were murdered, more than a million and a quarter americans have been killed by guns. more than a million and a quarter. that s homicide, suicides, accidental deaths. that s just going to continue to rise. the vast majority of gun deaths are not we ll talk a little bit about the ways in which many women do die. for the most part, they re not the aurora, colorado, shootings. right? you represent in part, pg county, i live in new orleans, lived in chicago many years. the gun violence that most of what we see is happening with young african-american men. just feels like maybe part of why we don t talk much about it is because the people who are mostly dying of it aren t very valuable to us as a country. i think because in the
of heavy rain many the afternoon. in the tristate area big storms along harrisburg and south along 83. philly s going to be in for some rough stuff most likely towards rush hour. storms popping up in the d.c. area. northeast side of town there in pg county around college park. northwest side around potomac and maryland. more of that severe weather through this afternoon in the northeast and in the northern plains. con tesz ya, back to you. carl, thanks. in a few minutes president obama will tackle some tough issues with the largest annual gathering of latinos in this country. it s the annual council of la razza and provides an opportunity for politicians to reach out to the all important hispanic voting block. we have jose. good to see you. first, let s talk about president obama. the burning issue on his plate right now is the debt ceiling,