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watch for it if you are traveling on route 7, that s philadelphia road. that s going to be at allander road. no record of any lanes blocked. speeds still looking good on the major roadways, including the beltway, top and west side. that s a look at your speed sensors all around the area. mostly mid 50s and above. that s a live look outside at 95 in and out of the fort mchenry tunnel, looking like there might be a sunrise today. pleasant surprise versus the rain. there s a look at 95 in and out of the harbor tunnel. no issues there. p now wjz has now wjz has the stories people are talking about this morning. here s don. thank you. the governor is pledging zero tolerance when it comes to the baltimore city detention center involving smuggling and sex with correctional officers. this morning wjz stays on the story. here is mike hellgren. in his first public comments the governor called the federal indictment detailing how a vie rent gang corrupted officers at the b ....
impregnated four officers, as he ran a criminal empire with their help. smuggling drugs and using illegal cell phones to connect to the outside world. the indictment slams security, noting minimal screening, with checks on officers, completely inadequate. and no effective punishment for breaking regulation. yet the governor stands behind his leadership, including the director of public safety. gary may nard. i told him to cooperate fully and make sure you give the u.s. attorney anything and everything they need from us. reporter: correctional officers hit back, claiming their union staff cut to the bone. they tell everything. they tell it. so someone had to know about this. i believe the buck doesn t just stop with these 13 that has been indicted. others have gone on unanswered. including how this could affect those. there will always be a certain number of individuals that will be turned and corrupted by the allure of the easy and quick money. we re all respo ....
facility, ugly and shocking. i share the public s revulsion at these allegations. and we have a zero tolerance policy towards corruption of any kind. the feds say tavon white, a leader of the black gorilla gang, impregnated four officers. smuggling drugs and using illegal cell phones to connect to the outside world. the indictment slammed security, noting minimal screenings, completely inadequate. yet, the governor stands behind his leadership, including the secretary of public safety, gary mainard. i told him, you make sure you cooperate fully, and give the u.s. attorney anything and everything they need from us. reporter: correctional officers back, with their union, claiming staff was cut to the bone ask lacked proper training. there needs to be a thorough examination at every level. if there aren t enough officers overseeing the activities. i don t know how it reached the level of the incident that happened. reporter: other questions have gone unansw ....
these 13 corrections officers being charged are small, small, small percentage of bad apples. reporter: union leaders say they believe the corruption goes high are up. i don t believe the buck stops with the 13. reporter: the root, thy say, lies in understaffed prisons. and allow has street gang to take over. every institution, staffing level is low and on top of that right now they re collapsing posts inside the institutions to save on overtime. reporter: this week the department of corrections began issuing polygraph tests to administrators to see what anyone knew about the scandal. it would expand to other corrections officers starting tomorrow. now because of all this, critics are calling for a change in leadership. at a news conference, governor o malley home called public safety secretary gary maynard one of the best in the nation. there will be more corrections officers as well as citizens because they can see we can be effective in coordinating t ....
some of them are living paycheck to paycheck. with children in the household, they are at the poverty level. they are at the poverty level. cost-of-n monday, living increase at a flat rate for cash of 1.2% for retirees. nothing is a done deal yet. that is what we always do. we had here both sides and whatever is best for the city as a whole, that is what we do. the city also has a bill for a for a weight a 401(k)-style retirement plan for city employees. president obama is now 100 days into his second term, but how much progress has he made? the president is in answering tough questions about the battles in congress over money, guns, and immigration, as well as the boston terrorism investigation and the conflict in syria. an early evaluation this afternoon on the second term jampacked with conflict. on the syria, where president obama says chemical weapon use would be a game changer, the president is still warning of u.s. action. we don t know how they ....