Good morning at the top of the hour, this day is starting off nicely unless youre a federal worker on furlough i guess. Sharon is watching traffic. Its meteorologist tim williams in for marty bass over at first warning weather. Were starting off with temperatures around 60 degrees en route to a high of 84. Warm with sun and some clouds. The over night lows staying around 60 degrees. Well go into your first friday of october at 87. Our first chance of any rain or thunderstorms that weve had in a while. That will be tomorrow. 87 degrees though. Some parts of the area south of the metro could see temperatures close to 90. Your complete first warning Weather Forecast coming up. How about the roadways this thursday morning . Here is Sharon Gibala at wjz traffic control. Were mostly seeing 50s and 60s on the roads this morning. Theres a look at your Speed Sensors around the area. Lots of mid 50s. A couple of lower 60s out there. The average speed on the beltway still 55 as it should be. Same
Budget hot potato back in the hands of the house. Theyre spinning their wheels. We are not going to change obamacare. Reporter but that is exactly what House Speaker john boehner intends to do. Were gonna move here in the next several hours to take the senate bill, add to it a one year delay of the individual mandate on the American People, and get rid of the exemption for members of congress. Reporter some congressional staffers here on capitol hill have already received furlough notices, saying if the deal isnt reached by midnight, they wont get paid. If there is a partial Government Shutdown, passports will be delayed. Gun permits wont be processed. And about 800,000 federal workers would be forced off the job without pay. In washington, danielle nottingham, wjz Eyewitness News. Now the budget isnt the only battle being waged in the halls of congress. Lawmakers also have to vote on raising the nations debt limit by midoctober or the federal government will default on its loans. Tens
Wild weather. It all happened so fast. Heavy rain and strong winds cause major damages to parts of maryland. The scary moments for some homeowners. Hello, everybody. Im denise koch. Heres what people are talking tonight. Trees snapped like twigs in parts ever maryland in cecil county. Some say it sounded like a tornado. Wjz is live with first warning coverage. Bob turk has been tracking these storms all day. First heres Meghan Mccorkell with the damage left behind. Reporter those storms tore through cecil county this afternoon, leaving nearly 1,500 people in the dark. Trees uprooted, branches everywhere. Once a wellmanicured front lawn this now looks like a war zone. All the trees were flailing back and forth. It was scary at the time. Reporter the powerful storm pushed through this cecil county neighborhood snapping trees and bringing down power lines. I heard what sounded like a Freight Train and a helicopter together. Reporter sarah porter was in her bedroom and tried to run for the
Evening as we have all day. Complete coverage beginning with Meghan Mccorkell who has the growing impact of maryland. Lets go to the latest from washington dc. Danielle notingham has been there all day. Reporter the first day of the shutdown is ending as it began, with a stalemate in congress, a new play by republicans and no sign of how all of this will be resolved. And the joint resolution is not agreed to. Reporter the republican controlled houses latest attempt to approve an emergency spending bill was a nonstarter in the senate. The Affordable Care act was known as obama care, and all were rejected. The house wants to restore funding to portions of the government, including Veterans Affairs and the National Parks service. The senates democratic leadership said no. Just another whacky idea from the tea party driven republicans. Reporter president obama criticized republicans about the Government Shutdown again tuesday, which was also the first day of open enrollment for obama care.
Pumping station caused a widespread water outage monday night. Its now repaired. But the busted pipe remains a problem for some businesses. Like optometrist mary ellen paducey. Patients who need to be able to wash their hands, need to be able to wash hands before touching eyes. Make its a little difficult. Reporter and regular shampoos are for now out of the question. Were making the best of it. We could have closed. Theyre being great. And we thank them. Theres not much we can do. Back out live, with live look from sky eye chopper 13. Crews are hoping they can have this water main repaired, sometime overnight, with a goal of being completed, certainly by the morning. Ask then after that, the goal would be to come in and have the county department of public works crews, getting ready to make repairs to some of the damage this water main created to the road here. Were live in perry hall, derek valcourt, wjz Eyewitness News. Derek, thank you the. For now, traffic is being rerouted around