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martin omalley, senator cardin and barbara mikulski. roosevelt leftwich is live at the corner of charles and pratt. have things eased up. >> reporter: the streets that were closed are back open. as you can see, this is pratt street right at charles. its very, very heavy traffic. most of it is rush hour. there were so many ways people had to get around that it cause lad lot of slow and heavy traffic. take a look at some of the pictures we shot earlier. these is lombard street. what happ...

>> reporter: and again, theres more than 130 firefighters on this scene right now. we are told they are making some head way, fighting that fire. but there is still some black smoke, coming out of that building. i gotta tell you, hundreds of people were lining the street, watching this fire. and if you were on the opposite side of where the wind was blowing that smoke, you couldnt even see right in front of your face. thats how much smoke was down here in fells point. well continue fol...

she was surveying the damage with the fire. the fire chief, however, would not comment toed -- to the media. i want to show you live here on fleet street. you can take a look and see traffic is still very backed up throughout this area. roads closed all over this area. we have been watching lines of traffic and people, turning around, trying to avoid this scene. if you can avoid this area, you will want to do it tonight. were live at fells point, im meghan mccorkell, wjz eyewitness new...

following hours. that line came right through washington, right into southern maryland, across the bay. after it crossed the bay, it did break up a lot. now this morning, just a few lingering showers. you see speckles of green, some lingering light showers in northern virginia, much of maryland. but some heavier showers now south and east of richmond. these are the first effects of tropical depression beryl. thats going to be moving off of hatteras later today. but some areas in the lo...

and they say, due to safety, they had to stop it because it was lightning. and if somebody was holding on to the rails and the lightning hit, so they cut it off. >> the public is invited to chuck browns public amendments. a -- public memorial service. a service begins at noon tomorrow at the washington convention center. ♪ 4:31. we turn to tom kierein. we heard the thunder, saw the lightning yesterday evening. but it broke the heat, boy. it feels nice this morning. >> it was needed...

you will see some patches of green. there are some areas of light rain this morning. we are expecting a few pockets of showers later today. predominately becoming dry air. bright sunshine for the high temperature. we could be talking mid and upper-50s by the weekend. this afternoon is 8082. >> everything is off to a good run. most of the showers that rolled through it knocked out of the construction zones. were off to a very good start. the beltway in maryland is good across the wilson...

russell, who recorded the call, was also fined $10,000, in addition to the penalties against henson. >> a judgment for $1 million. what do you make of that? >> wow. basically, that is unprecedented in this country. >> reporter: henson maintains the law he is charged with violates free speech. and says the judges ruling in his civil case is unfair. >> no trial, no evidence, nothing. and you come with this sa -- salacious amount of money? a million dollars for a phone call? on the face o...

package. >> it includes tax increases and a shift of pensions to local jurisdictions. >> the house is still in the process of debating that package. the democratic majority has the gop in a political headlock. one senator said the deal has been cut and were here to confirm it. one delegate tweeted we are going through an exercise in futility by offering these amendments. senate passage of the budget bill and its tax companion measure and shifting the cost of teacher pension plans came ...

thanks for joining us. im richard jordon. >> and im angie goff. you might notice something behind us joining us earlier than usual. beautiful sunrise to start off our saturday. and chuck bell can explain. >> youve got to love the warm season where we can get the sun up early. guaranteeing 14 hours of sunlight. we love this. >> helps us get up. >> absolutely right. its never going to get up early enough to get us awake at dark-thirty. a beautiful looking day today. mirror calm finish ...

all. mid-60s for the rest of the morning. up to the mid and upper 70s. no complaints at all. all the little pictures on the refrigerator and everything, everybody loves mom. its going to be a good day. plenty of sunshine. clouds will roll in later on in the day. a nice mothers day. tomorrow ice high around 78, 79. there will be a chance for extra clouds tomorrow afternoon, maybe a few drops late in the day. probably not until after sundown. >> nothing too bad. >> well keep you posted t...