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 tomorrow worse than today. considerably worse than today. an excessive heat warning will go into effect tomorrow afternoon into tomorrow night. you can see, about three- quarters of the region. otherwise, we have heat advisories. and yes, excessive heat watches in effect for tomorrow. most everywhere tomorrow is going to be at least 10, maybe 12 to 15 degrees above average this time of year. we re talking upper 90s to the low 100s. tim has a look at these temperatures. well, by simple definition, you know, a heat wave is a significant amount of time, over our temperatures, over our normal temperatures. and of course, through july, we re 6 days in, and we have been well above for the entire time. sunny start to these 90-degree temperatures. 97. sunday. 94. we got to 96 tuesday. 97 wednesday. 99 on thursday. and already, as you ve heard, we ve hit 99 today, with the temperature tomorrow, expected to be up around 101 to 103. as far as what this means for saturday, wel
have those gessive heat excessive heat watches and warnings in effect. and throughout much of the weekend, we have these heat advisories in effect. basically, it s a way to advise you to take it easy this weekend, when the afternoon temperatures are in the upper 90s to low 100 100s. and it feels even hotter than that. tim has a look at the numbers. bob just talked about the heat index, right now at 111. and the 5:00 numbers have not come in yet. we are going to be watching that very closely, to see what that will be. we talked about 101 today so far. and we could still go up a degree or two. the average is 87. the record is 85. we won t quite get to 105. but definitely expect we ll be somewhere just below that. as for the next few days, we re looking at temperatures going up to around 98 tomorrow. and with the hot temperatures moving in from the southwest, the comfortable air is being held back, up around the north and the northeast. so we re not going to tap into too muc
sunday night. it came through like a freight train and flying glass and lifted a concrete table at 15, 20 feet. reporter: debby is creating dangerous conditions throughout florida, and water surrounded this vacation home on sunday. the coast guard used a helicopter to rescue 9 and a dog. an estimated four million people are expected to feel the everybody elses of debby. the governor declared a state of emergency. everyone needs to be very, very cautious. don t take anything for granted, and take care of your family. reporter: debby isn t expected to make landfall until thursday. the national hurricane center reports tropical storm debby weakened slightly today and has sustained winds of 45 miles per hour. first warning weather coverage continues with with bernadette woods tracking where debby is right now. we will start out with the doppler radar. it s pounding florida. any time you have a connection of land and a tropical storm system, it can spin a tornado eas
station. setting sail. baltimore celebration comes to an end, but organizers are planning next. sad that afternoon. here s what people are talking about. the star-spangled salebration wrapping up in the inner harbor. dozens of ships setting sail after spending the last six the last week celebrating. we got a live picture from chopper 13 as 1 of the big ships is being escorted out of the harbor. it s been a spectacular site all morning. and wjz is live with complete coverage. we will check in with captain jeff long inside chopper 13 in a moment. first, jessica cartel you with more on a very successful salebration week. good afternoon to everyone. as we speak, the brazilian tall ship is making its way out of baltimore passing by harbor east , now passing through fells. . we are on the broadway pair where people have gathered all around the harbor to take pictures as the ship set sail. i should mention, the navy warship started leaving bright and early this morning at 6:00