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martin o'malley, senator cardin and barbara mikulski. roosevelt leftwich is live at the corner of charles and pratt. have thing's eased up. >> reporter: the streets that were closed are back open. as you can see, this is pratt street right at charles. it's 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 happened was all the trucks had to go around. the cars were backed up. it was difficult for people to...

>> reporter: and again, there's 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 couldn't even see right in front of your face. that's how much smoke was down here in fells point. we'll continue following this developing story. for now, live in fells point. i'm meghan mccorkell, wjz eyewitness...

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. we're live at fells point, i'm meghan mccorkell, wjz eyewitness news remember. >> meghan, thank you. complete coverage continues now with sky eye chopper 13 and capt...

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. that's going to be moving off of hatteras later today. but some areas in the lower part of the eastern shore and at the beaches may get some onshore flow with the winds there, as...

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 brown's 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 rain, but the sky opened up and unloaded last night. yeah, we had torrential downpours with a lot ...