state of emergency. more than a million people in the dark. no power, and no ac in near record temperatures. the weather is hot, and so are people's tempers. >> they told me seven days. who can wait seven days with 100 degree heat. it could take a week to get all the power back on. and tonight the line for gas is three hours long. drivers desperate to fuel up for a long road ahead. good evening, everyone, i'm jim rosenfield, 24 hours after the storm. and the death toll has reached four in our area. one of those victims a 90-year-old woman. much of our area remains without power tonight. and utility companies say it could be a week or longer for power to be restored to everyone. making matters worse, there are problems with the 911 call center in fairfax county. it's so bad that residents are being told to go to the nearest police or fire station to report their emergencies.

some people are being told to boil their water before drinking it. and water restrictions are also in place for hundreds of thousands of people across our area. d.c., maryland and virginia are under a state of emergency. and tonight our coverage spans from richmond to poolsville. they found widespread outages, dangerous conditions and a run on gas that we haven't seen in 40 years. we begin with tom kira. are we in the clear for tonight? that's the big question. >> mercifully, yes. a threat of any more severe weather is over. we did have some very strong storms erupt late this afternoon, early this evening. south of washington between culpepper and fredericksburg. you can see on the radar, going back over the last several hours, exploded into a huge complex of severe thunderstorms that rolled into the tidewater region of southwestern virginia. right now it's near norfolk,

right now the locally thankfully the radar is clear. and the situation is settled, and still very humid and the temperatures around the region are still rather steamy. reagan national is now at 86 degrees. the reason you don't see some of those temperatures reporting is because the power is out there where those sensors are located. i'll have your forecast for sunday, we'll take a look at the fourth of july week too. that will be in a few minutes. breaking news for people in fairfax county, the falls church water utility has issued a boil water advisory. for people in tyson's corner and merry field. people are told to boil any water used for drirpging or cooking. water pressure is low, and that can allow contaminants to enter the pipes. failure to boil water could lead to stomach or intestinal problems. martin o'malley says that all pepco and bge crews are deployed and reinforcements are on the way driving from texas

and florida. looking at the updated numbers now, pepco has 377,000 customers still in the dark. dominion has 340,000 outages. bge is working to fix 171,000 power problems. potomac edison has 15,000 outages in montgomery, howard and frederick counties. this video just into our newsroom shows a transformer fire. pat collins is in falls church, virginia where people are sitting in hot homes in the dark tonight. >> reporter: transformers exploding, that could be a step backwards in this power restoration effort. take a look behind me, this 7-eleven in the dark, shut down, when is the last time you saw a 7-eleven closed at 11:00. take a trip with me down popular drive.

life without electricity. this is popular drive in falls church. it's loaded with popular trees. and in storms, they have a reputation for falling like snowflakes. popular people know this all too well. look at the lane house, no power, no tv, no telephone, no problem. it's family monopoly by flashlight. >> we don't have the internet, any television or anything, no lights. >> it's monopoly? >> it's a little bit of an adventure, yeah. it's like camping. >> i'm about 5'9" this is the base of the tree. the poplar tree that fell into the back of linda's yard, she just moved here, she hasn't even unpacked yet. >> no electricity. i have lots of boxes and trying to figure out where -- because we can't see in the house. >> welcome to falls church. >> thank you. >> hear that? it's a generator.

it's john's neighbor. he's not home. but he's got power. john's home and he's living by his cell phone light. how are you survive something. >> we're doing well so far. >> what are you doing? >> we're playing cards? >> by? >> by the lantern. >> reporter: dominion electric says by noon tomorrow they'll have a detailed assessment of their restoration efforts. then they'll be able to tell the people when they'll get their power back. live in falls church, pat collins, news 4. >> back to the human toll of this storm, four people in our area, two of them were in fairfax county, and they died a quarter mile apart. the 90-year-old woman we mentioned earlier, died when a tree crashed through her house in west springfield last night. not far from her, a man was killed when a tree fell on his car as he drove down old keen road. the storm claimed lives in d.c. and montgomery county.

it's more than just the wind that caused widespread power outages. crews battled this transformer fire. they're trying to figure out if lightning caused it. fortunately no one was seriously hurt. the lights remain out for thousands of people in prince georges county tonight. darcie spencer live in hyattsville. >> we've been traveling throughout the county since this afternoon into the evening and there's a major problem trying to get around. take a look down here, it's because so many traffic lights are in the dark. we're along east/west highway at riggs road. you can see the traffic right here is at a standstill that's what we've been seeing throughout the county. also, so much power is out for residents, they're starting to get frustrated with the power compa company. >> i came to rescue my mother, because i see pepco doesn't care about the older people.

>> reporter: a complex of 100 apartments for seniors, the building has no power. you can see older folks outside fanning themselves. >> what's it like inside the senior house. >> 100 degrees. my apartment is like an oven. >> the fire department was called out after seniors began getting sick from the heat. ann says pepco should get the lights and air conditioning back on right away. >> they told me seven days. who can wait seven days with 100 degrees. >> but the seniors and many of their fellow prince georges county residents could be waiting for some time for power to come back on. >> probably looking at at least seven days. i'm taking pleasure in saying that, but i want to be candid in terms of what it's going to take to get all of our customers back on. >> tonight getting anywhere in the county took time and patience. even for emergency personnel. traffic lights are out all over prince georges. many spent the day cleaning up

from friday night's powerful storms. high winds ripped roofs off apartment buildings in hyattsville and river dale. troy crawford says he'll have to move to another unit. >> i was just running. i heard the roof fall, i looked out, i saw it coming back. i just -- instinctively ran. >> reporter: in the piece you heard from the pepco ceo himself, saying it's going to take at least seven days to get power restored. a lot of folks here in prince georges county, their restoration efforts are going to extend deep into next week. reporting live from hyattsville, darcie spencer, news 4. >> thank you, darcie. in addition to the boil water advisory for part of fairfax county. water restrictions are in place for people living in montgomery and prince georges counties. the washington suburban sanitary commission is telling customers to stop all outdoor water use.

they're asking people to take short showers, limit toilet flushing and postpone using washing machines and dishwash dishwashers. all water is safe to drink. fairfax county is working a big serious problem with its 911 call center. the county says right now, some calls are finally getting through. fairfax county board of supervisors say her 911 call center has what she calls a total failure. despite some progress on repairs. problems like this are just not acceptable. >> this is the first time in my memory that we've had a total failure of communications -- emergency communications in fairfax county. and i've been on the board for a long time. this is absolutely not okay. and we need to make sure that we have a permanent fix, and that this does not happen again. >> county leaders are still urging people to call its dispatch number or go to a local fire or police station in case

of an emergency. and that dispatch number is 703-791-7561. we're going to take a break now. still ahead, the storms bring a problem we haven't seen in a generation. jackie? >> what was up with all those long gas lines today? i'll have that story coming up. and a $500 room at a motel 6? the exorbitant cost of air conditioning after this storm. our coverage continues right after the break.

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patience wearing thin very quickly for a lot of drivers in bethesda today. traffic signals were out at hundreds of intersections like this one at wilson lane and st.

elmo avenue. many homes were damaged by fallen trees. this huge old oak tore the porch off the house and crashed into the roof, right into the bedroom. another night of concern over the weather in richmond. the national weather service issued a tornado warning for the area after someone spotted a funnel cloud about seven miles outside the city. coming up next, news 4 at 11:00 continues with more on the widespread damage throughout our area. more than a million without power right now. meteorologist tom curine joins us with how many days they'll have to endure dangerously hot temperatures.

gas lines, people waiting in them, tweeting about them. and people are still talking about them tonight. jackie benson joins us with the latest from rockville, where some people waited three hours to get gas today. that's desperation. >> it is. and i can tell you people are still waiting tonight. we're at twin brook parkway and rockville pike. we have one gas station here. we have the no gas, out of service on the pump. across the street, people are still waiting in line. these images are what people will remember from today. >> no one said ladies and gentlemen, start your everythingens. but they should have. these people waited three hours to fill up their cars at a shell station on rockville pike. much of it was spent waiting for a tanker truck after the station's trucks ran dry from the demand. >> we're behind the yellow line here, it's a club for us now. it's gone beyond just getting gas.

actually, it's been this way all day. lines, lines, lines. >> reporter: amazingly, they bonded. >> it was good, everybody had great spirits here, it was good energy. ironically i met somebody i would have never met and we know all the same people. it was great. >> reporter: it's not clear what caused the demand pattern that was clearly different from previous weather disasters. many people grew frustrated. >> i've been driving around, trying to find a gas station, i probably have travelled at least 15 miles. and this is the first gas station i've come across that is open. >> at this station on wisconsin avenue in northwest washington, tempers occasionally flaired. >> i hate it, i'm hot. we're running out of gas. >> reporter: we saw that twitter was an amazing tool. which gas stations were open, which ones had the shortest lines, i think it was helpful to a lot of people. we thanked that little blue bird that helped us out today.

jackie benson, news 4. >> people without power looking to escape the heat in hotels tonight. they were in for a big surprise. those hotels are full, and those who found rooms may have paid a premium. when we logged on to hotels.com tonight. the motel 6 in northwest was listed at 5$500 for one night. motel 6 told us they were going for a little better than $400 per night. we're going to have extreme heat again tomorrow, we have so many people without ac. we lost so many historic trees as well. we love our trees, when they have winds like this, the wind load is very high. we lost the champion white o oak. it's one of the historic trees

in virginia, it was around when george washington was president. it toppled from last night's storm. they've been trying to clean that up here. around our region as we are just passed 11:00 at night, there's the kennedy center. it's a steamy 86. not much relief temperaturewise as we even get into the evening hours. sun's been down for three or four hours. and there's the wide view of the radar. thankfully, a lot of those storms passed south of the metro area, boy, some big storms really did blow up. right now, close to washington. we don't have any storms around, might have an isolated shower later tonight. temperatures right now, all these areas in yellow are in the 70s, in the orange here, right around the bay. parts of the eastern shore, southern maryland, in the low to mid-80s, further to our west, it's cooling down a bit, it's in the mid-70s in the mountains, there were thunderstorms that erupted to our south, roared through culpepper into responsible ilvein ya county,

and intensified as they moved into southeastern virginia. all of this came along, the stalled front, it's going to be with us here tomorrow. it's going to be slowly drifting further south as a result. any storms that develop tomorrow will be south of the metro area. that's great news. for your sunday, here's how it's looking. by 9:00, we'll be into the mid-80s, another day with extreme heat by noontime. it will be into the low 90s it will peak near 100 degrees. by midafternoon, by late afternoon, there's a slight chance of an isolated storm popping up. it appears that any of those that do get going will likely mostly be south of the 34metro area tomorrow afternoon. a possibility of isolated storms, mainly in the afternoon, and highs reaching the mid-90s, it's going to stay highs in the mid-90s on tuesday, as well as again on the fourth of july, may get some storms on wednesday

evening. might interrupt some of the fireworks displays, then settling down into the weekend next weekend. >> a lot of mid-90s there. thanks. still ahead at 11:00, as congressional cleans up the

the top story in sports? >> professional athletes that you think can go out there and do anything, they're not only dealing with the heat and humidity, but down in atlanta, steven strasbourg left after three innings. how hot was it, about 110 degrees. strasbourg a little hot under the clo, here come the braves

with a man on. dave uggla flows a double down the left field line. imagine his shortest outing of his career. chen may wong didn't fair any better, in fact he stunk. nats come up short, 7-5 the final. o's playing host to cleveland before the game baltimore honoring earl weaver, former skipper with a seven-foot statue behind centerfield wall. that's a lot taller than he is. three rbi, o's fall 11-5. after the game, the team traded two prospects to philly for first baseman jim tomorrow may. those are the sounds of crews cleaning up the damage left from friday's massive storm that left thousands of residents without power in the northern

maryland/virginia area. fans were told to stay home, but to purchase tickets they had for saturday's round will hold up and be honored for sunday's round. here are some of the trees down on the course at congressional. not a huge gallery to route on tiger. he entertained himself with a nice birdie chip on six. woods shot the lead. brandon deion carted a 2 under 69 saturday. 7 under for the tournament. d.c. united a winner tonight, guys, 3-0 was the final count. and that's a look at sports. >> tiger doesn't need a big crowd. >> never. >> just fist pump and go. last look at the weather. >> unfortunately we're going to have high heat each afternoon. tomorrow, monday, tuesday, here's your seven-day outlook. all the way after the fourth of july. highs are going to be in the low to mid-90s. not a lot in the way of storms or anything. just a small chance tomorrow and

again on the fourth of july, and again perhaps on thursday. and then it looks like it will settle down and probably no storms around for friday and saturday. that is the way it looks. we'll be back here tomorrow morning bright and early. >> when you think about those 2e78 to temperatures with no air conditioning. >> it's brutal. that's our news for tonight. "saturday night live" is coming up next.

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