storms north and west of the cumberland areas and a few more in northern and northwestern virginia. so we'll keep an eye on that line. if it holds together and so far it has shown weakening but if this line were to hold together as it comes through, we could see some pop-up scattered thunderstorm action into the evening. never a good thing. we want those power crews to stay up on the high areas on the poles and wires. we don't want the thunderstorms soon. we may seat chance for storms overnight. this will stay muggy. much more on how things develop coming up. we want to lps point out our storm shield app it's a way to track the weather as it moves into your area. you can get warnings. justen ter your zip code. text 46988. that will bring you to a downloading page.

>> all right, wyatt. it is an accident that can kill you. somehow an edgewater teenager survived. he is back at home after two nights at bay view. abc2's joce sterman has the story. amazing. tell us. >> reporter: it is amazing stuff. we've been talking about the storm damage. you've got to stay away from those power lines pause of the danger. dylan and his friends didn't note power lines existed. saturday night they're cooped up in the house without air-conditioning. they come back to the car. dylan sees it, make as break for it, goes straight into the power lines. the injuries are tough to look at. >> this is completely the part that's killing me. >> reporter: considering what he's been through, 19-year-old dylan louie is a has few complaints. >> many a lucky i'm alive.

>> reporter: the 19-year-old mcdaniela cross play are could have been killed. >> once i gained consciousness, i thought holy crap. what did i just hit. >> reporter: it was a fully active power pole and the wires which he said were strung waist high across the field. he hit them dead on. >> i got hit backward. my hat flew off my head. they said i within the unconscious for 10 to 20 seconds. >> reporter: friends got a picture of the wires, the next morning. >> the -- you could see the two dead deer with my son's hat in the middle. >> reporter: help spent two nights in bay view with burns on his thighs and feet where the

surging electricity left his body. >> hard to think back it it. when i do, i just don't see how this happened to me. it's hard to take in. >> reporter: now he's got to take on restaurant recovery. his new unexpected scrb for the summer. once again, though, this family isn't complaining. >> considering what could have happened, he's pretty lucky. >> reporter: so bge is the one somebody for that power pole and wires. they said repairs have been made but the representatives said they cannot talk specifics. dylan, where does he go from here? his doctors have told him to stay off his feet for the next couple of weeks. he has a life guarding job but that will be on hold. his mom karen is a nurse and she's taking good car of him. >> dylan, you're one lucky man. slowly but surely a lot of you are getting your power back

on. we had 171,000 people still without power. the number has doctored to 146,000 but if you're in that group the majority is in baltimore county, all the baltimore followed by anne arundel county. for those without power, you don't want to hear the numbers. you just want to hear the juice. a lot of people are just fed up, brian? >> reporter: they have been keeling -- dealing with no power and oppressive heat for four days now. many said they rarely see a bge truck in certain parts of parksville, a combination of frustration. sure, there are generators and people trying to make do but are reaching their wits end. many people we spoke with are tired of dealing with all that and just want their power back, but we they call, they say they

get no straight answer from bge. >> i call the line and they say it's anding. is there anybody coming out here? nobody's come to chop down tree limbs. no one has come to look at the -- >> it's starting to get very frustrating. >> it is. >> reporter: some folks are putting that frustration to good use. we'll get into that and explain all that for you coming up tonight at 6:00. for now, we're live in baltimore county, brian kuebler, website -- abc2 our state's top leaders are concerned about not just the cleanup but what we may have in store over the next couple of hours and couple of days. not only are we looking for more storms but the heat is not letting up. that means the coming days could be worse than what we survived so far. >> we are heading into the most dangerous part of this event.

why do i say that? the more prolonged the heat expose shurks the more prolonged the time, especially a lot of elderly citizens have been forced to spend in isolated ways in the heat. the more vulnerable they become. >> we need to do everything we can to reach out to people who are vulnerable. people who are living alone. people who have heart disease and make sure they're in a cool place. >> you heard from both the doctor and the governor. you heard the same message, be a good neighbor. four people have died from heat right here in maryland, two in baltimore and there have been four storm related deaths because of this. all right. tonight we have hundreds of new friends who have up until this morning they are strangers. they're helping so that when the sun sets a few more of us will flip on the switch. >> they started when the sun

came up. they came in the darkness all in an effort to get you out of the dark. hundreds of out of state linemen are here helping to restore our power. >> this is where our assistant crews come to get their safety briefings. they come to get their job assignments and to meet up with a bge crew lead. the crew lead takes them out to each of the job sites, goes over their job assignments and make sure they're getting from place to place. >> they are stocked with ice and water, fed a good breakfast and it's off for a 16-hour shift to make repairs this hour community. some have traveled from quebec to help. mark is from philadelphia and tells us how people from out of town feel. >> each crew has a dispatcher they work w it's all over cell phones and computers. they get the work and head out. >> as for the linemen visiting.

>> we're out here now. >> here's hoping that at the end of their long day our long four days of being in the dark are over. >> you have to thank the men and women. from north carolina to new jersey, nearly 1.8 million people are still without power, meaning no air conditioning in this heat wave. a good portion of the land is stuck in record breaking temperatures. we have more on how others are struggling just like we are. >> reporter: utility companies say they are doing what they can. for those who do not have power, that's in the good enough. >> reporter: utility crew crews are -- crews are working around the clock but they're facing an uphill battle. >> just too many problems.

just too many situations like this. >> reporter: but that's not going to ease the frustration of so many customers who feel powers. >> almost had the same scented spiel. we're going to get to you when we get to you. >> reporter: temperatures are in the 90s across most of the area. >> it's got to be above 90 in here and it's hot. there's not much air moving around. >> reporter: and no refrigerators. >> we've been bringing stuff home, using the grill, used up everything we could in the first 48 hours. >> reporter: thousands are without power in west virginia. she has a well but no electricity to run it. that means no water. >> it's 104 in the shade at our house right now. >> reporter: for those without power, this heat wave is,

unfortunately, going to last a couple more days. that means it will be a scorcher 4th of july tomorrow. i'm karen travers for abc2 news. >> make sure your phone is all charged up, your tv, your phone, on your computer. we're all over the place. everything cleanup related, you can find it right now. remember to download or weather apps just text wmar to 46988. what wyatt will tell us could be another dangerous night. after several days the heat is taking its toll. the steps one county is taking to make sure its residents are making it through without power. >> there's a new dledline for a towson neighborhood that's -- deadline for a towson

neighborhood that has still in the heat. >> we'll take a look at how busy the roads will be for the rest of the week. before copd...

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the howard county executive has been busy getting his message out by twitter. traffic signals are working. abc2's don harrison said firefighters are going down your street, not waiting to get calls for problems. >> reporter: these firefighters are not responding to a call. they're checking on people who are more susceptible to problems than high temperatures and high conditions bring. they're going to neighborhoods with no electric and visiting residents with senior citizens in them to make sure there's no problem. seniors can't handle the heat as

well as most of us. >> if they can't breathe, then they have a hard time and we might have to take them to 911. for us we could drink something cool and get over it but not so easy for them. >> reporter: along with checking on seniors, howard county firefighters are out, checking on carbon monoxide problems for people using generators. >> making sure that the residences using generators have them in the proper location, well away from the structure, absolutely not inside the structure. making sure they have smoke -- smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors. when the power comes back on and the generator is still running, you could have problems, especially with the hvac system. it could be odorless, tasteless, like carbon monoxide is and

you're not aware you're being affected by it. >> reporter: in howard county, abc2 news. >> way to go howard county. also, the cooling centers are offering up running water. let's start off with a check of maryland's radar. we clear around baltimore, the eastern shore and west to ago heaping. further west there are storms lining up from southwestern pennsylvania right down the i-81 corridor toward charlottesville and harrisburg. the more significant storms west of lower gan town. the line that could hold together, this cluster to bedford if this line were to maintain its strength, potentially it could bring thunderstorm action into

maryland. scattered storms. this is not an unbroken or intense heavy line like we had on provide day night. this is not another duration despite what you may have seen. we average one duratio every four years. we're seeing scattered storms to the north. that could disrupt crews. that's why we hope they stay at bay to the north or potentially lose their strength. we'll keep an eye on it. 94 at bwi. winds are northwest at six. the weather was relatively quiet for the most part in baltimore. did not see much other than hot sunshine. mt. airy today clouds building up into the afternoon but, again, for the most part relatively quiet. right now temperatures running in the mid-90s, very hot indeed. as hot as it will be by the end

of the week, no i made references yesterday. it will get hotter. this is hot, but it has the potential to get hotter. unfortunately, we think that's where things head this week. a little bit of less air. the bottom line is it's hot and humid. the dew points pushing to 70. that will make what it feels like even hot are. the air temp and the heat index value pretty close, both in the mid-90s. so, again, right now hot, uncomfortable, somewhat humid. it could get worse. it may likely get worse. there are those storms to the west now. you can see them blowing up on the visible satellite. had healthy storms in northern ohio. the line has diminished some. hotter air continuing to sphun-- funnel in. probably in the mid to upper 90s and this big heat bubble

continues ad edges in more -- the storms in pa could get clipped and then still some storm chances toward fireworks time. thrs looks like most of the storm action will be to the south. right now they're mainly to the north. down to 73, partly cloudy, muggy. your 4th of july forecast upper 90s. tomorrow night into the mid-70s. that humidity climbs overnight. as we look to the weekend, still expecting mid to upper 90s, so the timing could not be worse for people still getting by without that power. >> so he'll be watching it close tomorrow night.

>> the key window overnight into at least the day tomorrow. >> all right. go mer shut down the shop. floyd will not be cutting air and opie is in his room. andy griffith died. after cher -- sheriff andy taylor became a lawyer. well, for the first time in years the 4th of july falls on a wednesday. lower gas prices are making you go somewhere for vacation. >> reporter: despite a heat wave gripping much of the country, aaa is predicting more than 42 million americans will travel this 4th of july. that's a 5% increase over last

year. >> air fares are going up, so this may be the summer that people get back to taking road trips. >> reporter: the current national average is down from a year ago. that's encouraging more americans to drive rather than fly. 4% -- 84% of all american travelers will be hitting the road but spending less, 7%, from last year. >> people want to take vacations, get away from their families, but they don't want to break the bank. >> reporter: if you decide to stay in the office, chances are you won't get much done. workplace productivity falls by 20% in the summer. reporting for abc2 news, new york. >> all right.

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147,000. the numbers go down and back up. baltimore city, you're seeing better. 40,000 without power. at the height