At the top of the hour thats a live look at Spaghetti Junction downtown. No problems there. South of there on the baltimore washington parkway lots of problems. Sharon will details those after martys first warning weather. 56 degrees right now. Thats going to be 8 degrees above normal. That 56 is going to also be 6 warmer than this time yesterday. Theres a fall feel to the morning. Theres first warning doppler weather radar. Theres a slow moving low thats spreading clouds into the area now. Clouds in the forecast until early sunday morning. Not a ton of rain but showers around. 65 at lunch will be your daytime high with showers beginning in the afternoon. Call it state route 295 or the bw parkway, here is Sharon Gibala at wjz traffic control. Good morning. 295 definitely the big issue at the moment. 295 southbound just after 175 an accident there still blocking all lanes. Traffic is being diverted off onto 175. An accident in aberdeen on route 40 at carroll avenue. That water main brea
Just like the house has listened to the American People. Reporter if there is a partial government shut down, passports will be delayed. Federally backed mortgages and gun permits wont be processed. And about 800,000 federal workers would be forced off the job without pay. Danielle nottingham, wjz Eyewitness News. And very soon were going to hear from president obama on News Conference about his comments on everything that has happened today in this budget battle. Remember, government shut down would have far reaching implications for the state of maryland. Local jobs, we have so many federal workers here, and it would have minimal impact on others. It would affect our National Parks as we heard, things like the smithsonian museum. Over all the responsibilities the constitution endows to congress, two should be fairly simple, pass a budget and pay americas bills. But if the United States congress does not fulfill its responsibility to pass a budget today, much of the United States gove
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
Morning starts now. This is wjz tv, baltimore. From the city to the counties to your neighborhood, now its complete coverage. Its wjz, marylands news station. Good morning and welcome to Eyewitness News this saturday. Im gigi barnett. And im tim williams. A comfortable morning out there, nowhere near steamy. Thats why we have averages, sometimes theyre up. Sometimes theyre down. Today at least the temperature is down a little bit, so is the dew point and the humidity. Its not as steamy as it was yesterday. If you were out at all yesterday it was very very humid outside. Today is less humidity, low dew points and the haze we have seen over the last few days is for now gone. The scan on first warning live doppler radar. The only shower we have is down near front royal virginia. We could see a shower or two pop up, but the chance for today is slim. 61 in oakland, 74 in elkland, 75 in ocean city. High pressure is pushing in that less humid air, and the conditions are drying out nicely. Bec
Scott. Im jessica kartalija. Heres what people are talking about today, a resort hotel near orlando, florida starting to collapse over night. Evan lambert reports from clairmont, florida. A giant sinkhole swallowed a three story hotel at the summer bay resort. We heard shaking and people are yelling get out of the building. One vacationer caught the collapse on his cell phone. We just started running out and throwing our stuff over the balcony to get what little bit we had. About half of the structure was reduced to a pile of rubble while another part of the building is still sinking. The whole corner is falling. Authorities started evacuatt guests after they started hearing popping and cracking sounds. One person had to break out after a window to escape. The developer said the ground was tested 15 years before the resort was built. The sinkhole is about 50 feet wide and 15 feet deep. Several nearly villas evacuated as a precaution. Florida has a long and ongoing problem with sink hol