Congress to act swiftly. The bill does make one change to the health care law. Requiring those seeking Insurance Coverage to verify their income. In washington, danielle nottingham, wjz Eyewitness News. The white house doesnt know how quickly Government Agencies will be back up and running after Congress Votes but says the idea will be to get tens of thousands of furloughed federal workers back on the job as soon as possible. Our complete coverage continues right now. Wjz is live in washington. Mary bubala spent the day speaking to maryland lawmakers about a potential deal. Mary. Reporter thats right. Denise, maryland delegation on both sides of the aisle are all relieved that there is a deal. They all acknowledge that this is a temporary solution and there is still a lot of work to be done. Another day of frantic maneuvering on capitol hill and protests outside. Marylands delegation is speaking to wjz, Eyewitness News about the announcements. Finally theres a solid deal to end the shu
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
Good morning, everyone. Im in for marty bass this morning. Another gorgeous day heading into the last weekend of september. Its hard to believe the month is going out this way and its looking very nice but were going to be starting to look more like summer as we head into the end ever the weekend. 59 in elkton. 63 in ocean city. The temperatures reflecting a bit of a very mild pattern right on target for whats average this time of year. 74 degrees is our normal high. Today up around 73 but we do start to warm up heading into the next several days. Well talk about how it plays out coming up in your complete first morning forecast. Sounds good. Thanks, tim. Now lets go to sharon for a check of your commute. A little busier than we usually like it. We have a handful of problems one just coming into us on 95. A medical emergency. Thats on 95 northbound just past the toll plaza. Watch for emergency crews on the scene there. Also an accident 83 southbound the jfx approaching the northern par
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
Nearly a dozen vehicles in a chainreaction crash. What led to the accident. Hello again. Im linh bui. Commuters along interstate 83 north hope for an easier ride home later this afternoon after a massive tencar pileup backed up traffic for miles and left several people injured. Mike schuh has the latest. Reporter good afternoon, everyone. The problem with the roadway like 38 is north of hunt valley, there are very 83 is owe roadway 83 is north of hunt valley, there are very few exits. Its about eight miles into pennsylvania. I had people yelling into the truck at me whether i was all right. Reporter jordan calabrese was driving the flat bed seen here on its side when he was hit from behind. All of a sudden i felt a hard bang and was being pushed forward and the truck flipped over. Reporter he was briefly trapped inside his truck. He managed to crawl out a window. What he saw he says looked like a war zone. It took emergency workers hours to clear the scene shutting down 83 north. Thank