Thousands of people without electricity in Central Maryland amid dangerous heat, storms

CBS News Baltimore

BALTIMORE -- Hundreds of reports of power outages began rolling in on Saturday evening after dangerous heat and damaging storms created precarious conditions in the Baltimore area and other parts of Maryland.

By 10:45 p.m., BGE had tracked 1,198 power outages affecting 25,831 people.

Those people who had expected to travel in and out of Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on Saturday were impacted by flight cancellations and delays, according to the FlightAware flight-tracking service.

By 10:45 p.m., there had been 43 flight cancellations going to BWI and departing from the airport. Meanwhile, there were 299 reported delays.

WJZ will continue to update this developing story.

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