Harford and Baltimore schools have reacted to the heavy rain and weather conditions in the area closures and delays. Public Schools announced that Harford County Havre de Grace Elementary School closed early at 9:40 am "due to deteriorating weather conditions".
Now we know that all schools will close at 11 am, noon middle schools and primary schools at 1pm.
The closure of schools after the announcement of the closure of roads by the Harford County Sheriff's Office.
Bad weather, which brought together 2 to 4 inches of rain during the night was caused by Tropical Storm Nicole, and more rain is expected today.
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A doctor was shot in the abdomen of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore Thursday morning by a gunman who then locked in one of the buildings of the hospital, authorities said.
The gunman was reported that on the eighth floor of a building in the center of the sprawling campus of 52 hectares, this hospital in Baltimore. Baltimore police said they were "in the process of a tactical operation" intended to capture the gunman.
"There is no risk to the general public, there is no risk to patients, the situation is contained," said Detective Anthony Guglielmi, spokesman for Baltimore police, at a conference outside the hospital in the early afternoon.
Audrey Huang, a hospital spokesman confirmed that at 11:15 am, a man shot at a medical college in an area of the patient at the center chest in the building of Nelson, and that all hospital buildings principal had been blocked in the response.
Detective Kevin Brown of the Baltimore police, said shortly after noon that the gunman was "limited" but not yet in custody. Detective Brown said the doctor's injury did not appear life threatening, which had been taken for surgery, and it was not known yet whether he knew or had any relationship with the gunman.
Johns Hopkins Hospital, the largest private employer in Baltimore, is one of the main institutions of the nation's medical research and teaching hospitals, and draws patients from around the country and other countries in need of specialized treatment or experimental. The hospital complex has more than 1,000 beds and 1,700 medical assistants, and is about half a million patients a year, according to the website of the Hospital.
The hospital was to restrict access to the main buildings and evacuate patients in the building of Nelson to other areas of the hospital, according to a statement issued by Johns Hopkins University. The police had blocked some streets in the area as employees of unresolved incidents that had spilled on the street.
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Many schools have no air conditioning in the county. Only about 125 of the 173 schools. Herndon says: "We have a number of our schools without air conditioning, particularly in the classroom. The combination of both heat and humidity made once distractingly uncomfortable conditions in some of the classrooms."
Shortening the school day is a logistical nightmare. The Baltimore County Public Schools has about 70,000 students who travel by an estimated 800 buses home. However, parents were alerted this morning on the reduced hours. Temperatures are expected to be in the future too hot, and finally cool down in the area on Friday.Listen
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