right now at 6:30, the day after ferocious storms roared through last night, trees down, homes destroyed. several people dead. and as we look at live radar, some of us, some of you, could be seeing more storms tonight. good evening, everyone. i'm jim rosenfield. >> i'm erica gonzalez. delaying "nightly news" because of the destruction from last night's severe weather and potential of more storms also in the forecast for tonight. as we speak, more than a million people in our area are still without power. and it could be a week or longer before the lights are back on everywhere. >> storms being blamed for at least four deaths in our area. d.c. and virginia have declared states of emergency. maryland is following suit. >> complicating matters in

virginia, the 9191 -- 911 system is down. bring emergencies to local police and fire stations. >> water restrictions are also in place for many marylanders. wssc is telling customers in montgomery and prince george's county to limit the water he noouds use, because the storm knocked out pouber to filtration plants and other facilities. if the heat weren't unbearable enough, word more storms could roll right through parts of our area tonight. tom kierein is watching things in the weather center for us. tom, bopup thunderstorms, that's the last thing people want to hear right now. >> yeah, but unlike last night, they're not widespread and don't have any reports of any widespread wind damage, but we have some very potent thunderstorms popping up south of washington over the last, oh, about an hour, hour and a half or so. you can see the areas in orange. those are the severe thunderstorm warning areas, and i'll zoom in and show you. these are the zones being

affected right now. the nearest counties are in orange and into spotsylvania county, storms moving east at about 35 miles an hour. these are the towns that are affected. these towns are -- bowling green, arcadia, spotsylvania itself. bells crossroad. granite springs. all of these are in the path of this storm that's moving east at about the 35 miles an hour. you can see these dark colors in here and this pink zone. this is the strongest storm right here. this is north of charlottesville and these are tracking just about due east. fredericksbu fredericksburg. rolling right as would spotsylvania county over the next half hour or so. expect strong, gusty wind and heavy rain briefly as they come through. this is a severe risk zone, and it includes all of virginia, all of maryland, all of west virginia. so we're not done yet. this is a sthooorm we do get sts around until midnight tonight.

i'll be back with another update coming up. back to you. >> thanks, tom. watching tweets from pepco. all hands on deck as they begin to restore power right now to about 3,000 customers, restored in just the past 20 minutes or so but asking for crews throughout the northeast and canada to come in and help. checking the other updated numbers. workers still trying to get power back to about 411,000 people. dominion, virginia, has been 376,000 outages. >> and bge is working on about 189,000 ku69 mers without electricity also reporting, 650 crews total. the outages are in anne arundel county alone. smeco, things looking good from this morning. still, massive numbers of people without electricity. patience is wearing thin for drivers in montgomery county. >> power outages making the scene at gas stations and stores as well and four-way

intersections all a little hecht tick. jackie bensen is live in bethesda with more. jackie? >> reporter: we are at river road and little falls parkway and this is very, very similar to what you're seeing throughout montgomery county right now. we're told fully half of the traffic signals in the southern part of the county are dark right now. this scene is being repeated at hundreds of intersections in montgomery county. people trying to get something from the hardware store, the supermarket or into a nice air conditioned restaurant realize they can't get there as fast as they are used to doing. they get impatient and do stupid and dangerous things that make montgomery county police captain meredith dominick unleash her inner kirnd garten teakindergar teacher. >> we need to realize the neighbors are going through the same thing we are and kind of take a deep breath. relax, and we need to try and get through this together.

>> reporter: tempers flared at gas stations. 42nd street northwest had the longest lines anyone has ever seen there. >> people would normally fill up at the gas stations on river road, which are still without power, headed there. >> waiting about 20 minutes. we're running out of gas. we flew in from detroit to baltimore. they had gas there but the lines were huge, because people coming out from d.c. to get gas, and big traffic jams going out away from the city. >> reporter: and this is what i was talking about in my report. these are the gas stations here on river road. people, the first wurn icy when they come off the beltway. what we've seen, a steady stream of people coming up to the gas stations trying to figure if they're open and becoming very, very disappointed when they learn that they are not. reporting live in bethesda, jackie bensen, news 4. homes in the area suffered massive damp and many are still without power. >> news 4 pat collins in great

fall, virginia with more on one family that escaped the wreckage. pat? >> reporter: hi. i'm with leesburg pike in fairfax county and want to start where jackie left off. the traffic signals here or r are out you're supposed to treat this as as four-way stop. this could guess real dicey as it gets dark tonight. let me take you down the road for some storm stories. this is jack and carrie's oak tree. it fell across their yard and into their son's bedroom up there. he managed to escape unharmed. the whole family then tried to race out the house, but as they tried to go out the door to their garage, the poplar tree in front came crashing down. up through the garage roof, right behind their suv. oh, by the way. there's another car in that garage.

pancaked. now everybody eventually got out of safely. jen lives next door. >> you heard a crack and a whoosh. >> reporter: they all got out. >> uh-huh. they did. >> reporter: lucky. >> very lucky. >> reporter: the 1100 block of this road. trees down. power lines down. transformers blown. dale was asleep when it happened. but he wasn't asleep for long. >> it was very rough. i mean -- transformer was blowing. that one down on the pole blew twice. this one up here blew. it was a mess. >> reporter: it's amazing how these gigantic trees were thrown around like darts. look at the roof of richard green's garage. not so bad. not so bad until you see the rest of it. until you see where it came from. richard built this garage. he says he's going have to do it again.

>> that shed's a goner. >> we built it and can probably fix it once we cut the trees out of it. right now we're waiting on the insurance company. >> reporter: so is everybody else out here. >> yeah. >> reporter: they say it could be some time before everyone gets their power back. when you see this you'll understand why. some wires just dangling. others, downed for the count. a tangled mess on utter back store road. the only sweet sounds left by this storm, the buzz of chainsaws. and the hum of generators. this one belongs to this man. he bought it eight years ago and it's the first time he's ever cranked it up. >> is it worth it? >> oh, yes, because it is working now. >> reporter: a man and his generator. now, as it gets darker and warmer, there's going to be a lot of generator envy in our area.

live in fairfax county, pat collins, news 4. and chainsaw envy as well, pat. everybody would like to get more of those going, too. thanks. >> thank you, pat. we also want to tell you that governor martin oh mali declared a state of emergency in maryland. follow us on twitt twitter @nbcwashington.com for the latest updates there. in prince george's county they've opened up an emergency shelter to help residents affected by the storm. people who need assistance should go to northwestern high school. that's at 7000 adelphi road in hyattsville. the health is hear county workers on hand and a supply of water. that's good news. the county extended the hours of several library branches today. the library, acting as cooling centers nep do not have county services available. just fyi on that. we've got a whole list of cooling centers on our website. nbcwashington.com and search cooling centers. >> those are just searching for friends or relatives to try and

stay cool. >> check on your friends, relatives and neighbors and make sure everybody has ac. if they don't and you do, invite them over to watch nbc 4. >> a quick break. much more ahead. >> taking a look at the pictures of the damage in your neighborhoods. and, of course, meteorologist time kierein is in storm center 4 monitoring the possibility of more storms, folks. his forecast, coming up next.

last night's storms are only making today's heat more unbearable. lines for ice were out the door today at river road in bethesda. the store itself working from a generator. general manager plans to stay open until midnight or until the generator dies. this is one of those events when you just have to have one of these. your smartphone and capture such devastating pictures and our viewers have been sending them to us to show us what they've been dealing with and what they've been come ago cross. amazing. >> they really span, heartbreaking pictures of people's barns they just constructed, now demolished. funny pictures. people's trampolines blowing into the neighbor's yards.

it unruns the gamut. thanks for sending them in. let's get started. take a look. common to see trees on top of the house. thank you for sending that. how about the hail? not a lot of hail, but we found quarter-sized hail in maryland. phil sent this in and put a quarter in there to reference it. a vendor that decided it need add trampoline in perciville, virginia has that. and south riding, a truck just made it. the tree fell and it didn't scratch. just out of reach. lucky for the folks out there. and barryville, here's the barn. poor don, almost done, putting the roof on and the bottom part of the picture, you see the roof was peeled right back off. goodness. finally, north alexandria, this tree just smashed. so hearts go out to you. weathernbcwashington.com is where you can continue sending pictures. >> thank you so much.

go for traffic and lots of road closures. right? >> that's true. road closure, lots of debris in the road and traffic signals out almost everywhere. you just really have to be careful and, please, be patient. if you approach a traffic signal out, treat it as a stop sign. talk about flooding in many areas. first foxville road and at huntsville road. all lanes blocked there at hunt road. head over to lorton objection road. actually near lorton road. flooding blocking all lanes in that area and delays. if you're traveling along i-95 it's a mess in both directions. really, as you make your way from prince william parkway, it's a slow trip for you. absolutely jammed. like i said earlier, be patient and thinking about heading about out on the roads and just be careful. jim and erica, back to you. >> yeah. patience. the word of the evening. in this heat it's really difficult to be patient. especially when you're deal wig what many people are deal wig. no power. water restrictions.

damage to their homes or their vehicles. and, you know, in some cases -- >> tempers flare easily. >> they can. we'll take a break. continuing extended coverage for you. we'll be back with more on the forecast as we look at some of the damage that people in our area have been dealing with since last night. we'll be right back.

it was a toss-up today between the heat and the storms. you almost didn't know which to talk about first, because they're both so severe. tonight we are still talking about storms. let's go storm 4 meteorologist tom kierein. what are we in for tonight, tom? >> thankfully it's turned a little less humid this afternoon, late afternoon. which is diminished chances for severe storms right around the metro area, but go have strong storms that have been popping up over the last hour and a half. they are just south of washington now and as i zoom in radar, you can see the areas in red and orange. thosere all zones that are getting some heavy downpours, and this includes the southern city of fredericksburg in central virginia.

spotsylvania, culpepper, west central king george. southeastern stafford. southern madison county extreme east secentral. rapidly moving to the east and we don't have any around the metro area but later could get some in the yellow zone. the severe risk zone includes all of virginia, maryland, west virginia, the maryland shore into the evening hours. late evening, a possibility of strong storms. the heat, into the mid-90s across most of virginia and maryland right now even after 6:00 in the evening, still mid-90s and it's going to stay hot all wait until late evening. by then, by midnight or so, down to the low 80s and any storms around will rapidly decrease in intensity and dissipate after midnight tonight. then tomorrow, we have a partly cloudy day. still hot and still rather

humid. up near 100. 1yu69 a slight chance of an afternoon storm and maybe a greater chance of afternoon storms on monday. tuesday looking like a nice day only a slight chance of storms and not quite as humid. highs mid-90s both days. fourth of july, unfortunately, may get storms around, after perhaps and evening. may interrupt some of the fireworks displays after that maybe a chance of storms on thursday. settling down friday, saturday. back to you. >> all right, tom. thank you so much. you've seen the pictures. storm damage widespread across our area including at congressional country club. >> so bad the at&t national was delayed after a six-hour delay, play resumed but without fans. more on that coming up in sports.

and you want to talk about disappointment. the storms had a big impact on the at&t national. >> chris miller here with sports. this is weird. right? >> it is. actually, going to a golf tournament, no fans out there. you know the folks still have the country club there. the congressional. they're going to go. >> okay. >> and going to root. due to the major storm damage across maryland and virginia, fans were told to stay home during third round action of at&t national at congressional.

we are told, though, third round tickets will be honored during sunday's final round. most of the early morning, though, filled with sounds of chainsaws removing large trees. in fact, a 75-foot tree was uprooted across the 14th fairway. play was delayed until 1:00 p.m. when tiger went to work. the chip shot on 6 is worth a fist pump and birdie. more tiger on 10. the nice speed here it's going to roll around the hole a few times, and it drops. tiger at that point finds himself one shot off the lead held by this guy. south african brandon dion. check it out. par 3 2nd. using the 3 iron. rolls a few feet from the cup. he would tap in for birdy. golfers are still out on the course as we speak. we'll update you at 11:00 on news 4. hot all over the place. take to you hotlanta. nats and braves. over 100 on the field. the pitcher, top of the second,

nats up 1-0. up the middle for adam laroche, nat up 2-0. strauss' pitching, not so good. score is tied until a double down the field. jason scores. 3-2 braves. just three innings of work. he left the game with heat-related issues. nothing with the arm. his shortest outing since september 11th of last year. the nats currently trail 7-4 in the seventh inning. not playing the weather guy, but it's hot all over the place, people. >> safe to say. >> that's sports. speaking of weather, check back with tom who's watching the storms. moving in through parts of our area tonight. tom? >> a live view of national airport and it's hot there. 95 degrees here as we approach 7:00 in the evening, and as we look at radar, storm 4 radar is showing an area of clustering thunderstorms passing just south of washington. these are moving to the south and east and will continue to

head over our metro area and as we do get into the rest of the night, these will dissipate after midnight and then tomorrow, looking at the four day, we will have our temperatures near 100 tomorrow afternoon. just a small chance of an isolated storm. a greater chance on monday. maybe afternoon strong storms with highs midnight and again on tuesday. for the fourth of july, well, we might get afternoon or evening storms. it does appear. that might interrupt some of the fireworks displays on wednesday night and after that, settling down friday and saturday. erica and jim? >> thanks, tom. before you head out to go get that ice or maybe get that generator and you take to the roads, let's first check in with daniel daniella. >> take a deep breath. what you have to do. driving on the roads, not only seeing debris, tree, traffic lights, just so much in the road today. be careful 4eding out tonight. traveling southbound at boxer road, southbound lanes blocked

because of debris in that area. old georgetown road add battery lane. all lanes blocked. big delays along i-95. south prince william parkway all the way to fredericksburg. back to you. thanks for joining us for an extended ed edition of news 4. "nightly news" is coming up next. >> back for news 4 at 11:00. have a good night, everyone.