Are now trying to get out. Everything everything is gone. Our houses. Everything. Theres nothing to eat, nothing to drink. Reporter the typhoon damaged or destroyed an estimated 23,000 homes, displacing more than 600,000 people. Many of the dead remain unburied. This woman says rescuers have not come back in days and asks, why havent they returned to recover the bodies . Severe food and water shortages are adding to the crisis. Aid organizations like the red cross and Team Rubiconare beginning to arrive. Local doctors say theyre returning low on medicine. And more u. S. Military help is coming. Were going to go as fast as we possibly can and get there as soon we can to help people in need. Reporter the George Washington strike group is on its way from hong kong. And at taclobans airport, c130 cargo planes are flying in tons of food, water and other supplies. But with tacloban in ruins, many are still waiting for help. Tina kraus, wjz Eyewitness News. And you can help the victims. Catho
Residents living on rutland avenue wake up to the commotion. One of the intended targets is found inside the home. He is quickly handcuffed and taken to jail. Just one of the six taken into custody. This is part of our continued effort to dismantle the black guerrilla family. Using drug conspiracy and related charges. Reporter the numerous raids across the city are all in response to the blood bath on city streets. Police say is at the hands of bgf gang members. And the last five days, the states attorneys office, has indicted 68 alleged members on federal charges. Police say they will search every crevice of the city, arresting and prosecuting the black guerrilla family. Until they are all behind bars. We will not stop these efortsdzs. Reporter during these raids, police did find heroin and cocaine. Im rochelle ritchie, wjz Eyewitness News. Suspected gang members were arrested as part of todays raids. But what happens when they go to prison . Tonight, at 11 00, a wjz exclusive. I spea
Mergener, wjz Eyewitness News. And federal workers will get backpay for the days they were out. Wjz live complete coverage of the impact of the Government Shutdown continues. Linh bui talks to local federal workers who are relieved to get their jobs back. Linh . Kai, relieved is absolutely the right word. Many of them just so happy to be back. Today, around baltimore, it was business as usual for federal employees. Reporter the gates are open at fort mchenry, and its busier than usual. Were just delighted that we can finally come to fort mchenry. Reporter like other national monuments, the fort closed down during the Government Shutdown, affecting about 50 employees. Overwhelmingly. Happy to be back open. Tina capetta says theyre busy catching up, as workers deal with the stress from the furlough. Everyone should be relieved to be back to work. But i think that theres still some of those emotions run high. Reporter at the Social Security Administration Building in woodlawn, federal wor
Answers about how this happened. I want justice. Yes, i want to see what happened. Police are not commenting about whether the officers were told to end the pursuit, reporting live, wjz, Eyewitness News. Thank you, wjz has requested the radio transmissions from that night, we have been told they are not being released because they are part of this active investigation we are updating more breaking news. A frightening accident, over the dam, sky eye 13, captain jeff with more on the crash an the impact on traffic this friday. Captain jeff . This is where route 1 crosses the river between Howard County an cecil county. It has got traffic shut down in both directions. Not so bad southbound, because they are diverting everybody onto 222 to go down to 95 to continue their journey, but, here you can see the traffic northbound on route 1 completely stopped, backed up at least a mile working from howard into cecil, reporting live from sky eye chopper 13. Captain jeff long. Back to you. All rig
And let consumers know what other options are available in the federal exchanges. Now, this fix wont solve every problem for every person. But its going to help a lot of people. Reporter president obama spoke and took questions for nearly an hour. And took blame for the problem. We fumbled the rollout on this healthcare rollout. The white house policy change comes as House Republicans move to provide their own fix. The only way to fully protect the American People is to scrap this law once and for all. Reporter Speaker John Boehner will introduce legislation on friday, allowing consumers to keep their current insurance plans, permanently, not just for one year. Danielle nottingham, wjz Eyewitness News. And as for the staterun exchanges, the white house left the decision up to the individual state Insurance Commissioners to make the call on whether people can keep their old policies. A worker for the state Highway Administration is dead. Another coworker in the hospital, after theyre hi