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canceled. high water spilling over from louisiana's lake pontchartrain. ropical storm barry putting levees to the test. this road was whed away during monday's flooding. it remains closed. i'll tell you when stranded residents should be able to get back home. >> news4 at1:00 begins with breaking news. >> so we have breaking news tonight. manhattan plunged into darkness after a massive power outage. the outage stretching from hudson river to fifth avenue. people were trapped in underground subway reportedly in elevators as well. traffic gridlock after the street signs went out. movies and broadway shows, they were interrupted. even the j.loconcert at madison square garden had to be

evacuated. >> please leave the building. >> j.lo herself later tweeted that she was devastated that this has happened. in all, more than 73,000 con edison customers lost power. it all started with anuipment malfunction at a power sub station. the company's ceo justroviding an update a couple of minutes ago. >> we are proceeding on a path to restore all customers hopefully by midnight tonight. we'll then look at the root causes of the event. >> ironically, this outage happening 42 years to the day of the major blackout of new york city. emergency officials say there are no deaths, no reported injuries. rightor now still a huge so we're going to continue to follow this break news as it develops. our other big story this evening, tropical storm barry keeping a watchful eye there.

this system flooding roads, sending people through rooftops and swamping the gulf coast. water is really testing the levees and the pumps. we've got team coverage tonight. we want to begin with nbc's jay gray. >> reporter: barry announcing its arrival with gusting winds,n rain, and places like ouisiana, a violent storm surge. >> this is lake pontchartrain. >> reporter: waves pushing over the banks andnto this neighborhood. look at this. that's the area of tropical storm-force wind. it's going to take a few days for this to get out of there. >> reporter: in low-lying parishes, trees and powerlines are down. roads and communities overrun by the water. the coast guard pulling 12 stranded residents and two pets to safety. the system also lashing alabama and mississippi where even this

alligator seemed to be searching for higher ground. >> this is a neighbor downstairs. >> reporter: a dozen families are ignoring evacuation orders in plaquemines parish. >> do you wish you'd >>evacuate? no. >> reporter: because? >> i have comfort. i'm comfortable where i'm at. >> reporter: fecasters warn the storm will continue to push inland bringing with it flooding rains in some areas 20 inches or more. as the water continues to pour in, jay gray, nbc news, new orleans. >> this slow-moving storm is inching north. you heard jay mention it there briefly. but, i mean, think about this. barry could d up to 20 inches of rain across parts of louisiana. we are keeping a close eye on the storm's movement. she continues nowe with t coverage from the weather center. >> reporter: the core of this storm is now pushing into parts of central louisiana. andso me areas like lafayette have been getting hit pretty

hard, and those are areas that wesoould definitely see of the higher total amounts. so take a look right now. area rotation still pretty well defined. lots of those heavy bands are pushing right up along this route here, and this iseahe ar that's been getting hit pretty hard earlier with some of the rain. it's definitely going tonbe a issue for lafayette and baton rouge. 50 mile per hour winds still creeping 8 miles hour, guys. that is so slow and that is why this storm is going to prove to be very dangerous because it's meandering. but it will have an impact on our area, believe it ort. n erika, back to you. >> thank you so very much. and let's pull our focus back here at home. about the talkin floods that we've had since monday, five days after that one major road is still clafed tonight r it collapsed. the road was suppod to be open today.

keyword supposed to be. uo talk to me about a timeline now, what are yo hearing from folks and from crews out there in the field? when is this going to be open again? >> reporter: the county had hoped to have this road reopened by sometime today. but as you can see from this construction activity, that did not happen. from what i understand from county spokesman, there were some utility lines buried under the road that they encountered that they were not expecting. so that delayed things a little bit. but you can see this is very active right here. they are trying to clear the way for dozens of families who are stranded on the other side of this construction zone. heavy equipment. and tons of gravel. const ction crews are working around the clock to clear a path for stranded residents on belfast road in poet omack. >> it must've been really tough to be cut off like that and cut

off unexpected loechl. >> reporter: this is the kind of damage a flash flood can do. a huge sink hole formed on this road during monday's downpour. it's the same storm that turned some of our roads into raging rivers forcing drivers onto the rofs ofir the cars. >> i understand climate change and the excess of rainfall, 4 inches in half an hour. it's an awful lot, much more than normally we think of. it's really outside the range of normal. >> reporter: for residents on belfast road, there is only one way in and one way out. that's why crews are working throughout the weekend. >> it's amazing to me, though, if they are actually ableto rebuild the road by monday morning so people can get out, this is really a huge construction effort that they're doing here. so we'll see. >> reporter: a spokesman for the county says the road is expected to be passable by sometimend morning, nearly a week

after the storm. back out live, you can see they are busy here at work. uscan tell you from j monitoring this situation over the last few hours, they have made a lot of ptogress. bus you can tell, there is still a lot of work to do to get this road reopened in some way by tomorrowmorning, certainly welcomed news for these dozens of families who have been inconvenienced, and let's hope everything i back to normal by the work week on monday. erika, back to you. >> indeed, let's hope so. lircy spencer in potomac tonight. all new tonight, hours before isis plans raids, we're going to slow you ho leaders

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okay. so we go back to our breaking news, our top story this evening. power now back on for most of manhattan. but there was th large swath of manhattan that was plunge neighborhood darkness for hours tonight. over 70,000 power customers lost electricity. you know, a customer could signal an entire building. so think of that. officials say a fire at a substion caused that outage. some of the shelter animals from louisiana are coming to our area. as tropical storm barry moves through the gulf coast. the humane rescue is sharing these pictures of the animals. more than 50 dogs arrived here friday evening. many shelters in the storm zone were already atapacity and bracing for damage to their buildings.

new tonight, a gathering to end gun violence in the district. d.c. police repo 85 homicides so far this year. that's why today's gun violence block party is so important here on this street in the southeast. musicians turning out here at this event. three of them in fact released a song and a music video called "peace and positivity" to raise awareness about gun iolence. >> well, we're here right now today kicking off a violence-free d.c. for the summer. we're launching "peace and positivity." it's a music video but it's also an effort in the city help inspire healthy communities. >>ne common unity organized today's event. the group brings together musicians and community leaders to help end violence and okay. so if you've lived in the v for just about any length of time, really, you probably are familiar with the name maddie.

his poetry and act advisism inspire peopleround the world before he lost his battle with a rare diseas in 2014. people gathered to carry on his legacy. his mother jenny taking partin an annual mattie world peace day this afternoon. mattie would've turned 29 years old today. this year marks 155 years since confederate armies tried to capture our nation's capitol. the battle of fort stevens. the battle reenactment taking place on the fort historic grounds on what is now georgia avenue in upper northwest. president lincoln was at the fort observing the confederate army's approach when snipers took aim at him. the only time a sitting american president has come under direct enemy fire.

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if you tch us oncable, satellite or digital, you don't need to rescan. pretty cool stuff out there. what a beautiful saturday it was, and we needed to dry out h after tis soggy week we just had l it seemske everybody was out doing something outside today. >> heabsolutely, as t should be. tomorrow i think we can get another repeaterformance. absolutely gorgeous weather ine storfor your sunday. a little bit -- it's like little slight tweaks you will notice. the humidity does nudge up a biin. low 80s washington. d.c. right now though down to 74. gaithersburg. 77 degrees leesburg. so it's going to be a rather mild night with temperatures only expected to falinto the 70s. maybe some of our outer suburbs could hit the upper 60s. now here's a look at your sunday

morning run by the hour. hopefully nobody is waking up at 5:00 a.m. on sunday to go running. you are, you're dedicated, more power to you. it's going to be pretty comfortable. temperatures will be in the 70s. >> and then they will be rising to the 80s by 9:00 a.m. we'll already be around 84 degrees now for those of you who are just going to sleep in and go to brunch, temperatures will be in the80s as you wakenaup and head u brunch. not too humidil we hit the afternoon. i think we are going to be seeing a good pool day tomorrow. tomorrow's pool cast we are going to be in the low 90s much like today with plenty of sunshine. so let's run tough future weather. i have this on because there is a bit of a disturbance that could bring some rain chances to the regioot but a l of us actually stay dry for your sunday. but a few of us, so around 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., that's probably the window we're talking, we may see one or two stray showers pop, one or two

storms pop. that will primarily be south, well south of the beltway. you well may get a stray shower tomorrow evening r buteally nothing widespread let's talk about our rain chanc, though, looking beyond your sunday.e monday we'r completely d. maybe a few isolated showers or storms but nothing to get up in arms about. wednesday this is actually when we could srt to see remnants of barry moving in late wednesday night and then by thursday that's when we could really see those remnants a little bit more widespread. some showers and storms expected on your thursday. your ten-day outlook, just spending a few moment with this. 90s, upper 80s, back to the 90s tuesday and wednesday. so really just a hot start to the week. t finish. it is summer after all. lotsof sunshine here. we do have that rain chance.

i'll probably change this icon tomorrow to a storm because i do think the chances onain evening are around 30%. thursday a greater chance of some showers and storms. and temperatures kind of just in the 90s. i know technically three days in the 90s is a heat wave. but i j guess it'st summer now at this point. make sure everyone is staying hydrated and able to get outside and get some stuff done tomorrow. but at least we are staying in the low 90s. we haven't hit that 97, 98. we will be right back after this. we're the slowskys.

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has been one of the big reasons for the turnaround the last month. they've been healthy andetting great contributions, especially fm max who has an e.r.a. under 1 in his last nine starts. night ed the start last and less than a day he said he felt good enough to start soon. scerzer has been placed on the ten-day injured list with a baci strn. the earliest he could return is july 20th and expected to start tuesday against the orioles but now will kely come back during a four-set day with the braves for tuesday's game at baltimore. as far as theteam visiting the phillies hoping to extend their advantage over the wildcard standings, nationals fans have enjoyed bryce harper's struggles at the plate. plays likethis, watch this from the warning track on a rope, a missile to get victor trying to get to third. what a throw what harper.

all right, top of the 9th inning. last down, onesoto unconcerned there. first pitch swinging 2 out, 2-n homer, puts theon top. 30-11 their last 41 games, the best stretch in club history.ve traling south down 95 orioles and their allstar is looking to sweep a doubleheader against the rays. serves up a 2-1 homer in the second. fast forward to the 6th. now 4-2. posite field to deposit a souvenir. dropped game to 12-4 the final. back at our nation's capitol. as they've done so well this season, the mystics starting

hot. -7 d.c. in the 1st. forcing the turnover here. nip and tuck the rest of the way. late 4th mystics down 2. aces win at 85-81. all right.c george wale, thank you so very much. that about doesit for us. we thank you for joining uo. you'vet "saturday night live" coming up next. have a great one and we'll see u again tomorrow.yo

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