behind. we have live team coverage from the areas in maryland and virginia that were hardest hit as fox 5 morning news continues right now. here's a live look at some of that damage. the cleanup continues this morning. trees down in yards, on homes, on cars. it is a rough start to this work week. it is monday, july 2nd, 2012. good morning, everybody, i'm tony perkins. >> i'm alison seymour. weather and traffic in just a minute. first, day three of the storm aftermath. local leaders are expecting a difficult morning commute. a state of emergency has been declared in virginia and maryland. the death toll has risen to 14. seven of them in virginia. the power is slowly coming back online. but more than half million people in our area are still in the dark this morning. a progress report coming up in minutes. >> as you can imagine, there

are a slew of closings across the region today. the federal government is open, with an unscheduled leave and unscheduled telework policy in effect. nonemergency federal workers must notify their employees if they plan to take leave or telework. meantime, maryland state workers can use liberal leave. the d.c. government is open. montgomery county government is open. prince george's county government is open with liberal leave for employees. >> let's talk about schools for a minute. the following public school systems and their summer programs are closed today. d.c. public schools, prince george's county, montgomery county, alexander city, falls church city and anne arundel county. check the bottom of your screen for the status of many private schools. you can find the same information on our web site, myfoxdc.com. here's the good news early this morning, if you have to be out and about early in the morning, when i stepped outside, i was pleasantly surprised by how comfortable it

was this morning. >> all i could see was sort of crazy ominous clouds. what's the real deal, tucker? >> i don't know how to answer that one, allison. tony, yeah, if you call 80 degrees comfortable, i guess it's great outside. reagan national 80 degrees. here it is comfortable north and west, to dulles, 73 degrees. winchester 64. much more comfortable to our north and west. ocean city 75, not a terrible start to the day. let's talk about the ominous clouds. did have thunderstorm activity that rolled through overnight. showers with it of course. that pushing off the lower eastern shore, where earlier they had a severe thunderstorm warning until about 5:30 this morning. it's pushing to the east. should be quiet today. could be an isolated storm late this afternoon. and hot with highs in the mid- 90s. but less humidity and temperatures down a few degrees from yesterday when our daytime high was 99 degrees for yet

another day. 95 high in washington. 92 in winchester. another hot one. could be an isolated storm later today. i guess we'll do traffic and julie wright has your latest. julie, back to work. how is it going? >> back to work. and i have to be honest with you, some people are happy to get back to work, because that's where the ac is on. getting to work today will not be easy. the crew in skyfox over georgia avenue at seminary road. this is one of those intersections where i reported elier the signals were dark. they have police helping direct you through. you'll notice a number of cones that have been set out there to hope you with the turn lanes, to define the lanes if you will. it's tricky and the tree debris that is further south, south of 16th tying up the right side of the road. this is just one picture of what we're finding across our viewing area, where we have a number of lanes that have been reduced because of debris

cleanup going on. a number of signal lights, 70 in the district, at least 300 in montgomery county, 80 in fairfax without power. some intersections, georgia avenue and seminary road for example, police directing you through. others you're on your own, treat it as a four-way stop. foxhole road a portion was blocked off. they are in the process of trying to reopen as the debris continues to be cleaned up. canal road blocked off between reservoir and arizona. stick with mcarthur boulevard is what i'm trying to say as your work around. no signals here. wires down enterprise between 450 and 50. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. the big story this morning of course, hundreds of thousands of people in the area still waking up without power.

here are the latest numbers. pepco reporting more than 229,000 customers out. dominion virginia more than 155,000 without power. and bge says in montgomery orge anne arundel and howard county, more than 91,000 outages. >> that's resulted in hundreds of traffic lights being knocked out in maryland as you heard julie say. >> drivers should expect a longer commute for the future. unfortunately that's the latest news. and fox 5's melanie alnwick is live in kensington with more. >> reporter: we want to caution drivers to please be very careful. connecticut avenue right here where we are, it's supposed to be shut down for the southbound lanes. northbound traffic is supposed to be coming along here. we just saw cars coming southbound on connecticut avenue, and shortly after that, some cars coming northbound. they are not supposed to be traveling southbound here, and

i fear that we could have a very bad situation happening here if people don't pay attention to the roads that are blocked off and they are very careful. what we are seeing behind us is pepco crews, they are working now to try to get this situation cleaned up a little bit. we have a tree in the middle of the road, probably three to 4 feet in diameter. they've taken out a downed pole and got to put a new pole in. here's the process they have to go through, first the power crews have to reconnect the sub station. 21 of those were out. all the sub stations are back on. all the high voltage power lines in montgomery county and prince george's county in the pepco region are back on. so they got those. they got the high priority customers back in. water pumping plants back online. then they have to go block by block to do the intricate work

like this. sometimes a bunch of people come back online at once. then you are dealing with individual homes and wires. that is the work that has to be done by hand, piece by piece, that will take the longest. and unfortunately those are the people that may end up going through the weekend without their power. pepco has been under scrutiny. they have been talking a little bit yesterday about their reliablity plans. they feel because of some of the improvements they've made that not as many sub stations went out as could have gone out. but they said when you're dealing with a catastrophic storm like this, something that is a hurricane without the benefit of the advanced warning of a hurricane, those are the sorts of things you can predict and can't prevent. i wanted to show you one of the improvements pepco has made over the past year or so. they added an app, and they are recommending people go to.

here is the app right now. you can see this is where all the power outages are. the important thing about the app they say is well, apart from when it doesn't crash, is that generally this is working better sometimes, their web site did have a couple of situations over the weekend where the web site was going out. the app they said has been very reliable. here you are able to go on. unfortunately, we're still seeing when you click here and see the restoration time it's still saying 11:00 p.m. june 6th. pepco says they hope they get into the neighborhoods and can do more accurate damage assessmentments and some of those estimated times will shorten. back to you. >> thank you very much. maryland's governor says he is pushing utilities to do better than their predictions. >> for more insight into if that will happen, we have pepco

spokesperson myra opal who joins us live by phone with a progress report. are you there? >> i am. >> can you give us any updated information now in terms of numbers, projections, any changes in that at this time? >> yes. we are just about to the bench mark of half of our customers restored down from the 440,000 peak of friday evening. >> i'd like to know basically the larger problem here, because my complaint as a regular person without power was, hey, where are the pepco trucks? but this was deeper than just seeing trucks on the side of the road this time. what exactly -- why were we so affected this time? >> we had a tremendous amount of the devastation to our infrastructure. what we had to start with and the way we restore power after something of this magnitude, if you have to start with the back bone of the system, we go to

restoring entire sub stations, sub transmission lines, the lines that bring power into sub stations, and sub station supply feeders, the lines that take power in and out of sub stations. so we had to start with those things that people can't see. you can't drill down into neighborhoods until you have that supply coming in. now that we have all of those things pretty much cleared up, we've gotten all of the critical care facilities back online, now we can turn our attention to neighborhoods and start going down in the system and getting neighborhoods restored. >> so i would assume that means people will start seeing more crews on the streets, in their particular areas. can you tell me, are there certain regions that are more affected than others where you're having the bigger problems? >> to my knowledge it's still very widespread. one thing that will help a lot is we are starting to get in

the mutual assistance crews. we don't know how much of that thousand we will get. but we do expect to have over 600 crews out today. we have crews coming from as far away as mississippi, alabama, oklahoma. we have crews coming from new england and canada. we'll have reinforcements on the system today. we have more coming in through tonight and tomorrow. >> we've heard the advice over the weekend through whatever form of communication we could receive about really not approaching the crews that are there is for your safety and for theirs. but the power lines that are down in some areas, what's the word of caution here for people having to walk or sort of navigate around some of these troubled spots trying to get into their streets or walking up and down the street, trying to get fresh air or walking the dog, what have you? >> even if they have no power in their neighborhood, any downed wire should be treated as energized. stay away from it.

call and report it to pepco. stay away from the downed wires, please. >> myra oppel, spokesperson with pepco, the headline that you're at about 50% of your customers restored. thank you for talking to us. >> thank you very much. now to the latest on the situation in northern virginia. >> more than 155,000 customers are without power. the number of storm related deaths in that state has sadly risen to seven, and there is still a boil water advisory in effect for parts of virginia. >> take a look at this map from the falls church web site. the areas in blue need to use boiled or bottled water for drinking and cooking through at least tonight. this applies if you're a falls church utility customer or vienna customer. fairfax customers aren't included in the advisory. >> to get the latest for the

situation in virginia, we head to holly morris. >> reporter: good morning to both of you. it's amazing how literally having no power can make you feel so powerless. and a lot of people are dealing with that this morning as many are entering the third day of not having power. this morning dominion power's spokesperson said the words, catastrophic, so they're asking for your patience. when many people get up this morning and head outside, this is what they'll see. take a look at these pictures we took from one neighborhood not far from where we are. downed debris, dangling lines. and it is a process to get this back up and running. first, you have to clean it out, take the trees off, take the debris out, haul it away. in many situations they have to bring in new poles and rebuild new wires. so they're rebuilding the system from scratch in many

areas. while people understand that it does take time, at the same time everything is feeling the same thing, when am i going to get my power back? i personally want to know what the time and date is when i can turn my lights back on, and unfortunately, dominion virginia power is not releasing individual restoration times at this point, and this is why. >> what we find is that this early in the stage in the restoration process if we put a time out there, it's likely not to be accurate, and that's more frustrating than not having a time, when you get a call that says your lights should be back oned a 4:00, and they don't come back on at 4:00, that's more frustrating. we put the times out, we want them to be as accurate as we can make them. >> reporter: can't fall short of expectations if you don't put expectations out there. having said that, dan did say if he had to guess, he thought

they might could give estimated times starting tomorrow or wednesday. generally speaking he believes 80 to 85% of their customers will be back online by tuesday, and 95% will be back on by friday. however, there are going to be those people in certain areas that are not going to have power until saturday or sunday. here in virginia, it's much like across the greater washington area. lots of traffic signals still out. we're issuing the same warning everyone else is, treat them as four-way stops. please be patient. don't make any assumptions and be very careful as you head out today. and dress coolly. or stay in the car, at least the air conditioning is on there. >> we did a lot of riding around this weekend. >> reporter: absolutely. to d.c. now, where we are getting a look at some of the damage still difficult three days after the storm. this tree smashed into a car near massachusetts avenue in northeast. here's a live look from 42nd

street in northwest, near our station, actually. tucker will be heading out there for a look this hour. d.c. fire and ems has gotten more than 1500 emergency calls since the storm. they are helping ddot with tree removal. it is coming up on 7:16 now. still ahead, what you need to know if your power is out and you have a refrigerator or freezer full of food. >> plus, good news for folks in colorado springs, making progress against the massive wildfire there. we're going to update you on that coming up. >> we have a look at some of the pictures that many of you sent in of friday's storm damage. we appreciate your photos and video. you can find the gallery at myfoxdc.com. i'm told now we don't have the pictures to show you at the moment. we will in a little bit. if you have a picture you'd like to share, send it to my weather photo@ gmail.com. we'll be right back.

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widespread power outages from friday's storm mean many of us are having to throw out a lot of food. if the temperature in your fridge or freezer climbs above 40 degrees, throw out whatever perishable stuff was in there. is that right? okay. that's about two days for a full freezer and one if it's half full. in the fridge that's only about four to six hours. better be safe -- >> yeah. if you're among those who are still without power, unfortunately, you have to get rid of everything. let's find out what's happening outside now with our weather. and also with a look at some of this damage in the d.c. area. tucker barnes is not far from our studios in northwest washington.

hey, tucker. >> reporter: hey, tony. just a couple of blocks away. the weather, feels a little better today. you were right when you mentioned that a few minutes ago. less humidity and lots of sunshine. not terribly hot. feels better than it has. i'm in northwest washington here off 42nd avenue. of course got a big oak tree behind me that fell and devastating the damage around the area. this tree took down all the power lines with it, and of course most of these houses i think right now are not -- i think everybody has moved out here for the next couple of days, as the scene here pretty amazing with the amount of instruction with this tree -- destruction with this tree. let's do weather quick. temperatures in the upper 70s. 78degrees to the east. 79 now in washington. at dulles, 72. conditions again cooling off a little bit overnight with the showers and storms that moved

through. satellite and radar, let me show you, we had a few showers move through overnight. still a few along the lower eastern shore. will clear out. should be a bright and beautiful day and a little cooler than yesterday. of course we'll continue with our heat wave. temperatures in the 90s all week. little cooler than yesterday. highs today about 95 degrees, with an isolated risk of a storm later this afternoon. more details on the weather and we'll take a closer look at the tree and the damage it's done in a couple of minutes. let's do traffic now with julie wright. >> a lot of folks out and about this morning, our waze crew checking in about route 70, a stand still towards the wolf trap area. signals in the dark in loudoun county, near route 70, just to name a few. traffic congested at this point, heavy volume inbound along the clara barton parkway. thank you for the updates. as you travel along a portion of canal road, still blocked off at this time.

there is a portion blocked off headed to reservoir road. they're in the process of reopening foxhole between canal road and nebraska avenue. again, canal between reservoir and arizona was blocked off for cleanup, forcing everybody to mcarthur boulevard as the work- around. cascades parkway, north of route 7 at palisades, nothing to report. 80 signals without power in downtown d.c. 80 signals without power as well, including nay lor road, florida avenue. just to name a few where you're likely to find you're on your own. enterprise road shut down between 450 and 50 due to wires down in the highway. that's a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. thank you, julie. 7:23now. still ahead, mexico appears to have a new leader. >> and a plane goes down while fighting one of several wildfires burning across the

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making headlines this morning, the party that ruled mexico with an iron grip for most of the last century is back in power. enrique pena nieto is the projected winner. he promises to curb violence and says he won't make deals with organized crime. about 7,000 wildfire victims in colorado have been allowed to return to their homes to survey the damage. the fire is now 45% contained. firefighters say they are confident they'll be able to stop it from spreading. >> over night in nevada, a fire fighting plane crashes. we have an update on the

shenandoah park wildfire. it's been burning for several days. tourist officials say it's not affecting the most visited portions of the park. 7:27 now. coming up on 7:28. the supreme court's ruling on president obama's health care law causes quite a frenzy on sunday morning talk shows. we have a closer look after the break. >> tiger woods takes another stab towards the top now. a recap of his big win at congressional in this morning's sports. >> as we head to the break, here's a live look outside. fair amount of traffic heading into d.c. this morning on the 14th street bridge. we have traffic from julie and weather from tucker in just a moment. stay with us.

it's 7:31 now. >> we don't need to tell you a lot of damage out there. we're still trying to figure out what's going on. tucker barnes is in the elements now, looking at some of the aftermath. tuck? >> reporter: allison, yeah, storms moved through friday night and parts of the area, the damage has yet to be touched, even a little bit here. you can see off my shoulder, this is an oak tree that fell. we figure it's about 50 feet in

size. i'm in northwest washington. and just the scene of total devastation here. pulled out all the power lines with it. of course none of the local residents have power. this road is impassable. got the yellow tape up across the area. but i don't expect -- you know, you can see how much work is ahead of us with trees like this. this will take the better part i think of a day for a crew to get it down, as it's just huge. got to get rid of the tree first, and then work on the power. let's get to weather. i'm outside and it feels a little better this morning. yesterday's daytime highs were in the upper 90s. it was 99 degrees yesterday at reagan national. this morning, with a little less humidity and temperatures in the 70s, it feels a little better. right to the high of yesterday, we had a record at dulles, dulles hitting the upper 90s,

with 96 degrees. 97at bwi. winchester, martinsburg, upper 60s, low 70s. quiet conditions. showers and storms moved through parts of the area overnight. pushing off the lower eastern shore. we'll be left with plenty of sunshine today. it will be a sunny and bright day. could be an isolated storm later today. i think most of the day and much of the area should be dry. not expecting a lot in the form of thunderstorm activity. 90s today. 95, and still going to be hot of course, with an isolated storm. warm and humid tonight. overnight lows in the 70s. temperatures in the 90. fourth of july, we're concerned about thunderstorms developing during the afternoon on fourth of july. stay tuned for that. we'll have to watch that carefully. the heat continues here. by friday, highs in the upper 90s to about 100 degrees. i'll be reporting live all

morning long, and of course same scene over and over again in the d.c. area. let's do traffic now. julie, nobody is getting around in this neighborhood. what's happening? >> you're right, tucker. we have a lot of tree debris, including where you are in northwest and georgia avenue, south of 16th street. debris along connecticut avenue still in the process of being cleared between deersville and university boulevard. they had the southbound lanes blocked and melanie alnwick reporting live from the scene. she's noticing some traffic using the northbound side of the highway, but without police direction, so it's skeptic now for those on connecticut avenue. be careful. avoid this area is the better bet. traveling along canal road, blocked off between reservoir and arizona. use mcarthur. loudoun county, still a number of signal lights that are dark. we got traffic that's stacked

up along route 7 coming in towards wolf trap. at least 70 signals without power downtown. good hope road at 13th street in southeast, first street at florida, and northeast washington, just to name a few. some intersections police out there to help direct you by, others on your own. enterprise shut down with wires across the highway. thank you very much. regular washingtonens deal with the power outages and storm damages, official washington is still reacting to the supreme court's decision upholding president obama's health care law. chief of staff and the senate minority leader faced off on fox news sunday. >> for 99% of the people who buy insurance or get it through the tax cuts that are in this act, they're not going to be affected. you keep your insurance, you don't pay a penalty. for the few people who decide to be free riders and not have insurance, but have their costs

go into the system, there's a penalty. it is not a burden on the middle class. >> the core of the bill is worth reminding people is half a trillion dollars in cuts to medicare, that's hospitals, nursing homes, home health care, and the like. $500billiontax increase. the congressional budget office says it is also a job killer, that it will cost the economy between 800,000 and a million jobs. >> joining us now is page winfield cunningham, political reporter with the washington times to talk about this. i think this is one of the problems with this issue, you're bombarded with all this information from the different sides. some of it true, some of it not true and misleading. for regular americans it's confusing. in the aftermath of the supreme court decision, many congressional republicans were immediately saying, we're going

to repeal this. this is with a we're going to have to do. is that a possibility? can congress get something like that done? >> definitely not until november, for sure. but that's not going to stop them from trying to do this again. the vote they're going to hold next week to repeal the law will be largely symbolic. it will mark the 31st time they have voted to repeal part or all of the health care law. by doing this, they're trying to make sure this is in the forefront, and it will be after the decision. >> i think there was some hope, perhaps naive hope from some of us, once the supreme court decision came down, whatever the decision was, that would be it. okay, here's the law of the land. but that's not going to be the case. >> it was opposite. this decision by justice roberts ensured this is going to be squarely in the middle of the political debate the next four months and probably will get more confusing. this question of is it a tax, is it a penalty? we'll see that over and over

again. democrats are going to keep reminding us that romney supported a similar law. republicans are going to try to talk about the law being a job killer. so there's going to be a lot of talking points on both sides. and this isn't going to go away. >> is the obama administration, some in the administration are saying once we see more and more of the law take effect, then people will understand it better and will come to accept it, and they believe embrace it as well. is there some truth to that? >> i think so. the administration has done sort of a poor job of educating the public. it's really trying to point out the more popular parts of the bill now. the insurance coverage for young adults. the prescription drug benefits. and it will certainly help them if they educate the public more

to combat republicans. >> let's talk a little bit about congress, because you know, we continue to see a divide in congress. we continue to see them on issue after issue, including the student loan, the cost of student loans issue and the doubling of the interest rates and all of that, go down to the 11th hour. sometimes beyond. typically we hear that the american people don't like this. and congress' ratings are very low. they've gone up a little bit, but they're very low. why is this continuing to happen? because just we're in an election cycle? >> i think congress is divided because the country is divided how to move forward. everybody agrees we either need to raise taxes or cut spending but there's no consensus throughout the country and in congress about how to do that. in the past you saw bipartisanship because lawmakers were just able to add to the deficit to pass things with the bush tax cuts and the prescription drug benefits. now they're not able to do that

anymore. and so they're relying on these short-term fixes. like you said, we see a lot of posturing. going up to the 11th hour, because neither side is willing to cave until it becomes clear they have to do something. a lot of six-month, one-year fixes. not something that's going to change in the next couple of months. >> probably more of the same? paige, nice to have you here. >> thank you. >> allison, back to you. it's 7:40 on a monday morning. travel advice if you're headed out the door going to work this morning. >> plus, a medical alert, involving full term babies. turns out more time in the womb may make a difference in how well they perform in the classroom down the road. we'll explain why after the break. >> a reminder for continuing coverage of friday's storm, you can stay in touch with us on facebook and twitter. on facebook, search fox 5

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making headlines this morning, some risks are coming to light for early full term babies. a new study found that children who spend extra time in the womb result in more brain development. perhaps better scores on academic tests. kids born at 37 or 38 weeks did poorly compared to kids born even a week or two later. the study raises questions about hastening c-sections strictly for convenience. a 49-year-old grandmother and swimmer has given up her west to be the first woman to swim from cuba to the florida keys. she had to deal with jelly fish

stings, sun burn, hammerhead sharks as well. her doctor says she's dehydrated and this morning she is recovering in the hospital. >> i think on that story i would put the hammerhead sharks in the forefront rather than the jelly fish. that's dangerous. >> bit more dangerous than the jelly fish. >> and sun burn. it was an eventful weekend at congressional and the nats wrap up their series in atlanta with a win. >> dave is here. >> great to see you guys. the crazy thing, at congressional on saturday -- >> man -- >> was all the downed trees and power lines, they said to the spectators stay away. a professional golf tournament was going on with no fans. >> in a way the golfers probably liked it. >> they did, but it was surreal. hit a good shot, and waiting for applause, and well, have to go to the next hole. the way i play golf.

keep on moving. >> good shots when you play? >> not very often. 50,000 people though came out yesterday to see if tiger woods could do what he's done before, that is win his own tournament at the at&t national. that tony and allison, is the trophy they play for. this is on 12, woods wrapped his club around the tree, and somehow pulled this shot off. the club hitting the tree, and yet he gets it on the green. >> hit the tree? >> hit the tree. looks at the club. the putter was just fine. this is on 15. did he hit it? watch. >> yes, yes. >> the fingerer is up. and you know it's going in. 50,000 of his old friends going crazy. >> the old tiger. >> van pelt was there staring down tiger. this also on 15 to match tiger. breaks left and we're tied up going to 17. two-man match. this is van pelt's approach on 17. he's going to talk to it, and

unlike tiger, the ball doesn't listen. it's long. it's really long. that would lead to a bogey. we go to 18. tiger has to get this on the green. when he twirls the club like that, and walks to it -- >> you know it's good. >> i love the way he does that. that was a 9 # iron from 188 yards over the ridge as you see. >> look at that. >> two putt to victory from that point. second all time in the history of the tour with most single titles behind sam sneed. they asked him about the crowd going from zero to 50,000. >> it felt like a lot of pent- up energy out there today, because everyone was so fired up from the very first hole on, and they got louder and louder as we played. it was a fantastic atmosphere to play in front of and thank you for coming out and supporting us in this heat. it was hot as hell out there. >> i love the candid nature there. again, when you have that type

of stifling heat combined with all the trees and everything else, it was a surreal weekend. >> anyone who thinks golf is not exciting, that was exciting. >> very exciting. what else has been exciting -- >> the nats. >> they've been out of time. got down there in hotlanta. >> literally. >> zimmerman is heating up. we talked his shoulder last week. he's been getting the shots. he's been great ever since. had a huge day yesterday. here is bryce harper. he scores. they get four in the first to blow this thing open. far from done. bourn in center, gets away. he and desmond score. ian is an all-star, first time for him. ryan zimmerman has been an all- star before. and this is why. look at what this thing does. >> nice. >> he's from virginia beach, i think it landed in virginia

beach. nats win 8-4, take two out of three. we're going to talk about the all-star coming up next hour. >> very good. >> big weekend in sports. >> yep. thank you, dave. good to see you. >> good to see you guys. let's head outside now, it's where tucker barnes has been checking out some of the damage out there. tucker, good morning. >> reporter: hey, allison, good morning. i want to mention it was 106 degrees. that was air temperature in atlanta saturday afternoon when the nationals were playing. amazing. speaking of amazing, i'm seeing damage in northwest washington on 42nd street. behind me i have a 60-foot oak tree that fell into the street. we estimated it took down at least three power lines with it. it dragged down all the power lines, so there's no power to the immediate houses around here due to this tree. the roots here with the tree, i'm going to give you a sense of how tall that is. i'm estimating it's about 12 feet high. you get a sense of how enormous this tree is, taking down all the power lines with it. no signs of any electricity

anywhere in this neighborhood from this tree falling. more on the tree coming up. i want to get to our local weather real quick. feels a little better this morning. sun nice and bright. temperatures in the upper 70s. better than where we've been for the past couple of mornings. 79 now in washington. 72 in manassas. baltimore was 72 degrees. futurecast and see if we can find anything at all in the way of shower and thunderstorm activity later today. i want to show you late this afternoon, and during the early evening hours we could pop up an isolated storm. but the general pattern is to be drier than yesterday. keep the futurecast going. i want to show you, the heat wave continues for the next several days. highs later this afternoon in the mid-90s. 95degrees and then we're going to heat it up towards the end of the week with highs near 100 by friday and saturday. look out, the heat wave continues for several more days. more from northwest washington coming up in a minute. going to talk traffic and julie wright. good morning. >> hope you're staying cool out there. on the roads now, we have seen

this morning the change in the traffic pattern. some areas we have wires down. melanie alnwick has been reporting live from connecticut avenue and there has been a change there. they are directing some traffic into one of the northbound lanes. starting to see two lane travel along connecticut avenue under police direction. other side of town very much a busy ride and complicated. lot of folks using mcarthur boulevard. canal road blocked off between reservoir and arizona avenue due to debris and clean up. a number of signals dark, at least 80 out in fairfax. cascade parkway north of 7th signals are dark. callers reporting route 7 is jammed trying to get through wolf trap and continuing to the beltway. at least 80 signals dark

downtown, including naylor road, good hope road at 13th to name a few. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. julie, thanks. heads up driving through virginia. you can use any lane no matter how many people are in your car. however, the hov restrictions in place outside the beltway. heads up for metro riders today. we have details of that next. >> first, though, time for our facebook fan of the day. and today we say good morning to donna jean paul. donna says a cup of coffee and fox 5 has been her morning routine for several years now and she wants to know julie's secret for looking young. for your chance to be tomorrow's fan of the day, go to our facebook page and leave a comment under donna's picture. thanks for watching. hope you have a great day.

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storms. a closer look at the damage, and what you need to know if you're headed out this morning. >> also, best selling author mark lane stopping by to talk about his new book, what a life this man is leading. in it he reveals and relives some of his remarkable days. much more to talk about with citizen lane when we come back next hour.   

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straight ahead at 8:00, mid- summer misery. another day of temperatures pushing triple digits and another day without power for more than half million people. >> plus, the rising death toll, storm damage estimates, and traffic impact from friday's severe weather. fox5 is live across the region with the information you need to know. good morning, i'm tony perkins. >> i'm alison seymour. this morning d.c., maryland and virginia are all under states of emergency as the region continues to clean up after friday's damaging down fall.

the storm is being blamed for at least 17 deaths nationwide and at least seven in our region, while crews continue to get the lights on for hundreds of thousands. transportation crews are bracing for what could be a rough ride to work. hundreds of traffic lights still out, and downed trees have shut down dozens of roadways. metro is rerouting some bus lines and trains could run slower, so the agency can conserve electricity. >> hundreds of thousands of people in the area are still waiting for the power to be turned on. here are the latest numbers. pepco is reporting more than 232,000 customers are still out. dominion virginia is reporting just more than 165,000 without power. and bge says in montgomery county, prince george's, and anne arundel and howard county, more than 91,000 outages. there are changes for kids who go to summer school and

camp programs. the following systems are closed today. d.c. public schools, prince george's county, montgomery county, alexandria city, falls church city, and anne arundel county. check the bottom of your screen this morning for the status of many other private schools and local governments, too. you can also find the same information on our web site, myfoxdc.com. we want to find out what today's weather has in store for us, as we continue to live without power, many of us, and deal with the heat. we have our own tucker barnes, he's outside this morning here in northwest washington with the latest on that and some of the damage as well. >> reporter: an amazing scene here of destruction with an oak tree we estimate was about 60 feet tall. you can see the leftovers here. that's the leftovers of the telephone pole, one of the poles it brought down when it fell. you know, it's been several days now, and this tree is still untouched. gives you an idea of how much work we have in front of us here to not only clean up, but

get power restored to communities across the area. let me talk weather real quick for you. 79degrees now at reagan national. humidity down a little bit. will feel a little better. satellite radar, we had storms move through overnight. right now we're looking at sunshine. most of the day bright and sunny. could be an isolated storm later today. generally speaking, sunshine with more hot temperatures. expecting high temperatures cooler than yesterday. 95degrees. the heat wave continues. but temperatures won't be pushing 100 like yesterday. more details and a closer look at this tree coming up. let's do traffic now with julie wright. >> connecticut avenue between dears mill and university boulevard, police on the top stretch of connecticut avenue helping direct the southbound traffic into the northbound lanes to help get it around. still going to find the hov rules lifted on 270 and 66 inside of the beltway. canal road between reservoir and arizona shut down for

cleanup. mcarthur boulevard, you're the work around at this point. east side of town, enterprise road blocked between 450 and 50 with wires down. at least 80 signals still dark in fairfax, 70 dark downtown. some intersections police out there, others you're on your own, so treat it as a four-way start. inbound on 66, lanes are open, traffic slows leaving centreville to fair oaks and towards 123 before the pace improves. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. thank you. the big story is the storm aftermath. >> fox 5's melanie alnwick is live in kensington. good morning. >> reporter: good morning allison. the crews that were here have left the scene. i think what they were doing was making sure that the power here was out and safe for the

tree crews to get to work, with that southbound lanes that are blocked here on connecticut avenue. i want to take an overhead shot, so you can really see what they are dealing with. we're taking a shot now. you can see that massive tree was probably three to 4 feet across that came down across the southbound lanes of connecticut avenue. the tree crews now are going to have to remove all the chunks of that tree before they can put back the poles and restringing all the power lines. this is the kind of work that is taking so long. it's piece by piece, rebuilding the system. pepco says today is the day the mutual assistance crews are due to arrive. they'll check in and get out to the neighborhoods and get to work right away. everyone says it was hurricane- like damage throughout the region, but without the benefit of that three-day warning. pepco crews first had to restore power to 21 sub stations knocked out during the

storm. now that the power is restored to the sub stations, high voltage transportation lines, water pump plants and hospitals, the focus now is the neighborhoods. 60 additional tree trimming crews from north carolina. utility crews coming in from oklahoma, georgia, and canada. only a couple hundred extra crews able to make it at this point. they are going to find it tough going, so much damage to trees and poles and people trying to make it to work are having trouble, too. >> came out to catch my bus normally, like i do, and finding they have all the streets blocked off with no notification. so people are there waiting on the bus off of connecticut avenue, and had to walk up like eight blocks to get to my stop. yeah, so really heck of a way to start the day. sweating before i get to work. >> reporter: robert was making

his way to the safeway in potomac. he said everything is open there. i asked for the most part are people being good? he said, yeah, the grocery stores have been through outages before and know how to handle it. and most people are polite and happy to see the stores are open and they can find somewhere to go where they can perhaps pick up a cold beverage or food, or if they're careful, plug in a couple of their electronics as well. keep in mind, everybody is hot, everybody is losing their tempers. it's easy to do when you're hot and sweaty. remember the people out there working, sometimes they may not have power at their homes either. say please and thank you. >> right. >> great advice. let's head to virginia now and get a check -- tony said, absolutely right -- and get a check on the situation there.

holly morris is live there in falls church. >> reporter: we've seen a little bit of activity here. if you take a look next to me, this has just showed up. this is a 5,000 at generator. some workers from the city of falls church have hooked it up to this traffic light. this happens to be one of the lights that are still out. there's no power there. and this is a pretty busy intersection. while people are doing their best to treat it as a four-way stop, you can see there's a lot of hesitation. people not sure when to go, because there are multiple lanes. this is one of those that could be dangerous. they're working to get this generator running. if you take a look across the street, there's a gas station as well. it's been pretty busy. there's been lots of people getting gas. if you take a closer look, take a look at this. there is no power over at allen's service station. in fact, he also has a generator hooked up just so heck have the essential -- he

can have the essentials running inside. however, he's only able to take cash at this point. he has an atm machine inside, but it's not working. you need to have the cash with you. and his store shelves aren't that stocked. you can see he's running out. but for him, he said i'm a small business owner and i can't afford not to be open for business, so any business i can get today is good business for me. we had someone from dominion virginia power on our show this morning. dan said even though this is the third day without power, that in essence they are still in really the beginning stages of cleaning up. >> we're still dealing with widespread areas. there is catastrophic damage and pockets of catastrophic damage throughout the region. the goal today is to start to actually get back into the neighborhoods and start to get some of those homes back online. >> reporter: he went on to say they are not issuing, however,

personal restoration times, or estimates at this time, and he says they believe they are not doing that because they believe that it is better to give no time than it is to give an inaccurate time and that's actually more frustrating to people. they are saying in general they are hoping to have 80 to 85% of their customers online tomorrow. there is a boil water advisory in effect at least through tonight. allison and tony, back to you. >> thank you very much, holly. to d.c. now, where we are getting a look at some of the damage, quite visible this morning, three days after that storm. this tree smashed into several cars along 11th street near mass avenue in northeast. d.c. fire and ems say they have got more than 1500 emergency calls since the storm on friday. the on going blackout is taking a toll on food and water supplies. experts say throw away anything from the fridge or freezer if

the temperature inside gets above 40 degrees. as holly mentioned, a boil water advisory is in effect for parts of northern virginia until at least tonight. this applies to customers of falls church utility and vienna water only. don't forget to stay with fox 5 onair and online for complete storm coverage. you can find details about cooling center locations and hours, the full list of closings and delays and a photo gallery submitted by viewers. we're not the only ones picking up after deadly weather. coming up later we're going to show you the storm's impact up and down the east coast. >> plus, heading home in colorado. or what's left of those homes. thousands of people forced out by wildfires finally see the damage left behind. >> and coming up after the break, author mark lane joins us live to look at his life on the front lines of history. it is 8:11. we'll be right back.

making headlines, a military aircraft has crashed while trying to provide support for the crews battling a wildfire in south dakota. the air force c-130 went down around 6:00 last night. no word about the people on board. in colorado springs, mandatory evacuation orders are lifted. 32,000 people were evacuated at one point. we're told two-thirds of them will be allowed back into their homes or have been allowed to return. a wildfire has burned more than 17,000 acres and destroyed more than 300 homes. it's been wild weather. >> for the last week -- really not just the last week. much of the summer with the dry conditions to the west and parts of the south, and the midwest through here, been a strange summer. >> unbelievable. tucker barnes you've been telling us about it all along. this is damage you can put your

hands on what you are standing next to now this morning. >> reporter: yeah, it's sad, but it's a miracle, because the tree that fell fell between the houses into the middle of the street. it could have done more damage. even with that, you can see that's an impressive sight. 60-foot oak tree that fell. i'm here in northwest washington and took down several power lines with it. some have been asking me why the trees are so vulnerable. in the summertime with their canopies with all their leaves out, works almost like a sail. friday night the wind were 80 miles per hour in some cases with the thunderstorms. these trees, many of them don't stand a chance. if they're weakened by disease, with dry conditions, it doesn't take a lot of wind to knock them over. here's a perfect example of that. just so far no one has been able to get to this tree. there's no power to this neighborhood. here in washington, not a

terrible start to the day. feels a little better with less humidity. reagan national, 79. dulles, 72. bwi marshall, 72. did have storms move through overnight. one of those turned severe on the lower eastern shore. we have since quieted down. another hot one today. five-day forecast, isolated storm late this afternoon. highs about 95. little better than yesterday. we'll take what we can get. the heat wave continues with 90s all week. it will get hotter by the end of the week, near 100 again by friday and saturday. more details on the weather and we'll continue to report here all morning long. let's do traffic with julie. anybody getting to work? >> not easily. i think they are eventually arriving. latest update along connecticut yeah, where the storm damage is continuing, a pole down. folks telling me southbound connecticut avenue diverted off at deers mill road and headed to university boulevard, which

means university boulevard is stacked up over towards connecticut avenue. that's a big nasty area to avoid. southbound connecticut avenue, forced off at deers mill. 66, no incidents reported on the interstate. getting here a tough ride. number of lights out on route seven. signal lights dark along route 50. remember, some of these intersections police are directing you through. others treat as a four-way stop. slow to georgia avenue, incident stopped in the second lane from the right. it's since cleared. that's a check of our fox 5 on time traffic. driven by his passion, mark lane is sharing his remarkable stories in his new book. it's called "citizen lane, defending our rights in the courts, the capitol and the streets." he discusses everything from his friendship with eleanor

roosevelt to his days as a freedom writer. joining us is the man himself, author mark lane. good morning. pleasure to meet you. >> good to meet you. thank you for inviting me. >> i'm calling you mr. lane, and you said call me mark. and i said upfront, it will be hard for me to do that. >> do the best you can. >> i'm going to try. >> can i say something offsubject? >> yes. >> two of my neighbors were killed. >> my goodness. >> didn't hurt us. but a lot of our friends and neighbors are without power. by thoughts and my heart is with them. >> so are ours. that's devastating news. this is even off subject, but we wanted to start with something near and dear to your heart, and we're talking about basically the pine ridge reservation murders that

happened back in the '70s. can you tell me what i have here? >> what you have is -- background first. during the wounded knee siege where they said the indians invaded wounded knee. it was a siege by the united states marshalls, fbi agents killed them, some of whom i knew. brought food to the babies there. but during that time i investigated what was taking place on the reservation. and i called it the reign of terror and i wrote a motion, talking about murders on the reservation by people associated with the federal government on indian affairs. eventually the case was dismissed because of that motion when it was updated,

because i said, got to change the venue. we moved it from south dakota to st. paul, where we got a fair jury. but the people who testified had to go back to the reservation, where 40, 50 people already been killed because they told the truth about what had been taking place on the reservation. sort of forgotten, in 1974. now, for the first time, the u.s. attorney in south dakota is now investigating those 50 murders and other acts of brutality. three assistant attorneys out there conducting the investigation and much of that -- so i sent a letter to the u.s. attorney involved, and sent him my 28 7-page motion, which is the the basis asking for the investigation, saying i was a witness to one of the murders, in essence, and that i would be happy to cooperate. now we're working together on

trying to get some justice for the indian people about the events that took place in 1974. >> 1974. but this truly has been the way that your life has been. you're a sitting member in the new york legislature. >> yes. >> you decide you're going to leave and join the freedom riders. >> yes. >> what makes an individual step so outside of their comfort zone and say, that i'm going to help be an agent of change? i need to know the motivation you had and still have. >> probably lack of judgment. >> thank goodness. >> what happened was, a minister, a dear friend of mine, who later became head of the urban league and many other positions as well, in his church, and i'm -- i don't attend church, but i did his church because he's a dear

friend, percy sutton, later became a powerful force in politics in manhattan. three of us decided to go down to jackson, mississippi, as freedom riders. it was amazing trip. we went through alabama. there were people as we stopped in these little towns -- i worked with bobby kennedy and john kennedy's campaign, and i called him and said, we expect protection. we said, we'll see what we can do. we'll have to see which side the law comes down on. i said, a black and a white person can travel together in the united states or go out and kill them. why don't you call the department of justice or injustice, not sure about that yet. we did have an fbi agent with us on occasion. never did anything. we were in alabama, and a group of people came charging on,

yelling there's the n, and there's the n lover, let's get them and came charging on the bus. percy and i were each a little over 6 feet tall and in pretty good shape then, and had a heavy case. i said, do you believe in nonconvince? he said, i believe in self- defense. he said, we're going to get as many as we can. they saw us standing there and knew the first couple of guys would get clobber. they yelled more and then got off the bus and left. we were lucky about that. >> that was back in the early 60s. so many interesting cases i would love to talk about. you say the case near and dear to you is that of father james joseph richardson and how you worked to get him off death row and eventually free. can we talk about that? >> sure.

the happiest moment of my professional life. i saw him on one of the networks. his seven children have been murdered in florida. it was clear he wasn't educated and he was black. the sheriff was white. and a racist. talking about the '60s and florida, which was like mississippi, that part of florida. in terms of the civil rights. he said, the sheriff had better find out who killed my children. they arrested him and charged him with murder. they framed him and there he is, that's a picture i took. i smuggled a camera in death row. he's on death row there. there he is the day we walked out. his not his lawyer in the trial -- i was not his lawyer in the trial. i just heard about it. years later i was lecturing in the area and i said, whatever

happened to james richardson. first day walked in on the beach -- [inaudible] -- i went and found he was in prison. i talked to his lawyer and i started a public campaign, jesse jackson going to be in the governor's office, dick gregory will be in front of the jail fasting. we had a huge campaign, and there was the governor. the governor was a republican, but got a lot of black votes there, and started a tidal wave of activity. and i demanded a special prosecutor and they did, unknown local prosecutor named janet reno, later became attorney general. she investigated, and i went before the judge and said -- made the speech for an hour about how innocent he was and how outrageous this was. i said, you know, if you do the right thing after 21 years in

prison people walk out, the american people -- [inaudible] -- then janet reno got up and said, you've said the most terrible things about the administration. now i speak for the government. the governor has asked me to speak for the saturday. all the charges -- state. all the charges, perjury, all those charges are absolutely true, and i join with mr. lane. walked out of prison. >> you're also the author of rush to judgment. you talk about that, some of the theories around the jfk assassination. so much in here. i'm so sorry we have to end this interview now. i will say to you at home, you can come out and get your book

signed. 7:00? >> 7:00 tonight. come out and talk to living history right here. if that's okay for me to say at that to you. we'll be right back.

it's 8:30 this morning, a massive cleanup amid another day of miserable temperatures. crews are working around the clock to get the lights and ac on for hundreds of thousands of people. the power grid has been crippled since the storms hit friday night. states of emergency for d.c., maryland and virginia and transit officials warning drivers to get ready for delays. as we mentioned, hundreds of thousands of people in the area still waiting for the power to turn back on. pepco is reporting more than 229,000 customers out. dominion virginia reporting more than 160,000 without power in northern virginia. and bge says in montgomery county, prince george's and howard and anne arundel counties, more than 85,000 without power. there's damage in other

states from kentucky to north carolina. a total of 17 deaths are now reported. and 3 million people across the region still don't have power. >> unbelievable. let's head out to tucker barnes. he is out in the elements checking out the latest right now. it's so eerie, tucker, after these events how calm it seems, right? >> reporter: yeah. it's a sunny, bright beautiful day out here. but next to me is an amazing sight. i think we estimated this tree at about 80 feet tall. you get a sense of the size of this particular tree. everybody that's been driving by here, i'm in northwest washington, by the way, has been slowing down to look at this. just an amazing sight. of course, tearing down several power lines with it when it fell friday night. so far, untouched. this road closed down and we

saw tree crews working on other trees. they haven't gotten to this particular tree yet. i'm sure when they do so, it will be a big project. it is a massive tree that's currently draped across the roadway here in northwest washington. that's the good news, it didn't hit houses. it fell between several houses. let's do local weather. i mentioned blue sky and the sunshine. it is hot. there is a bit of a breeze. and a little less humidity than yesterday. it feels just a little bit better. 82 now in washington. 82 this morning in quantico. baltimore 76 degrees. if you're lucky enough to be watching us in the mountains to the west, temperatures overnight the upper 60s and low 70s. a little bit better. future cast, and i'll give you a heads up, bright and beautiful day today. hot again with highs in the mid- 90s. late this afternoon we could pop a thunderstorm or two. i think the chance is a little less today than the past couple of days. most of the day nice and dry. the trend here of course is to

keep the heat in place, intact for the week. high temperatures all week long, the five-day forecast, will be in the 90s. want to give you early warning here. eye out for wednesday afternoon for fourth of july. possibility of thunderstorms wednesday afternoon, as we'll have a cold front that will be trying to get through. watch out for wednesday. then believe it or not, temperatures warm back up, hot again by the end of the week, with highs by friday, upper 90s. we'll get close to 100 next saturday as well. heat unfortunately, the big story here for the week. all right, that's a look out here from northwest washington. i'll be back in a couple of minutes, allison and tony, back to you guys indoors. amazing how beautiful the tree is and how sad to see it down in the street. >> absolutely right. tucker, thank you much. the severe storms didn't stop tiger woods from winning another title. coming up, dave ross has highlights from the at&t national.

>> a live look at some of the pictures of storm damage sent in by you. if you want to share your photos, it's easy to do that. send them to myweatherphoto@gmail.com. we'll be right back.

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kind of a weird weekend at congressional. the whole thing was in jeopardy saturday, right? >> it really was. i got an e-mail about 7:30 from some of the officials over there, congressional saying they had not determined whether they'd play the third round. they had already determined no fans would be allowed because of the downed trees and power lines. by 9:00, they went through, removed as much debris as they could, and decided to play it with the sound of silence, no spectators. got this done this weekend, which is incredible, considering what we're dealing with here. but in the end, it was that guy, tiger woods just up the street here, congressional

country club, doing what he does best, and that's win with a dramatic putt on 15. tied up when he hit this putt from 21 feet away. perfect break. goes right in. puts the hand up, so you know it's going in. van pelt could match it here on 15. he does so. little fist pump. it was game on. two-man show between these two in the final round yesterday. here on 17, van pelt, bo knows this is long. goes way long. led to a bogey. tiger, when he twirls the club and walk to it, he loves it. that was a 9 iron from 188 yards on 18. two putt victory from there. once again doing with a he's done so often before, third win this year. people want to know, is he back? nobody else on tour has won three times this year. congrats, winning his own

tournament here at congressional. >> also big news for the nats. bryce harper is not yet an all- star. that can change. three others are in. desmond first-time all-star. congrats. >> yea. >> gonzalez a second time all- star. played for oakland last year and went with the american leaguers as a member of the as. and steven strasburg, this will be the first of many as long as his arm holds up. he is a gem. back to bryce, the fans can vote him in. they have five candidates and bryce harper is one of those. if they vote him in, he will be an all-star. we talked about it -- >> leave it up to them. >> leave it it up to the fans. >> dave, thank you. see you later on. >> sure. 8:40. coming up, putting local kids to work. we're going to take a closer look at a d.c. summer program

that provides crucial job training to thousands of students and we have an update on what's happening to those students today. >> another side effect of friday's storms that could make the commute even tougher. we'll be right back. ♪

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back now with another side effect of friday's storm. >> the lingering blackouts mean finding a functioning gas station might be harder than you think. wisdom martin joins us live from bethesda. no relief, right? >> reporter: no relief in sight, allison. that is a problem that people have been running into since friday, since this storm hit. for example, this particular gas station here, you can see there are workers here, but they have no power, so they have nothing to do. they've been without power since friday. normally where the high gas prices are, nothing there, again, because they don't have power. they can't sell gas. they have blocked off the pumps. people are still driving in here. there's a customer driving in now, looking for a place to get gas. they'll be disappointed when they see they can't get gas or anything else, because they don't have any power. meanwhile, down the street, we can't see, because it's a ways

away down the street, there are a couple of gas stations open. what we've seen in the area is gas stations that are fortunate enough to have power, created sort of a demand. there are lines there, people are lining up. kind of a hard time you have to wait a little while to fill up your car. hopefully you have gas in your car already. it will take a while to get to the pump. it's what we saw saturday, and sunday, and in some cases today. a lot of people are back to work. this side of the street, you'll have a gas station with no power, and the other side of the street, they have power. bad for the side clearly without power. good for the other businesses that do have power. i'm told mcdonald's is kind of a separate entity, because they have their own generator. that's not necessarily an issue for mcdonald's. and they always have a line anyway. that's the situation out here.

gas stations that are open, so this power outage has driven business to them. gas stations like this one that don't have power, obviously they can't make any money, because they can't get customers to come here. back to you. >> wisdom, i can confirm for you having stopped by there this morning, that mcdonald's is opened. >> reporter: yes. definitely open, and they are definitely selling big macs and hot cakes, or whatever it is they serve at mcdonald's. >> whatever, like he doesn't know. >> reporter: i'm a healthy guy. >> yeah, right. you seem to know they call them hot cakes. >> reporter: that's a staple of all places. i'm just saying, tony. >> thanks, wisdom. keeping thousands of kids busy while out of school and preparing them for the future. >> coming up, we're going to get a closer look at the d.c. summer jobs program. we'll be right back.     k

more than 14,000 district youth are working for d.c. and federal government agencies, private companies and nonprofits across the city. this is thanks to the summer youth employment program.

for more on this, we're being joined by lisa mallory, the director of the department. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> we have news today, because of the power outages and the like going on. there are changes to portions of the program for today. >> because the d.c. public schools are closed today, we have had to make other arrangements. and so what is going to actually happen is any individual that's participating in the program that normally presents to a school will not be presenting for work today. they will get paid, so they don't have to worry about that. but they should not go to the school. there are some community based organizations that operate out of the schools, and so those individuals will not report as well. this impacts about 1500 kids or so. >> if you're involved in the summer youth program, you're taking part in it and you report to work at a business or some other agency, you should

still go to work today? >> still go to work. the other challenge is, because we have a lot of these youth in private organizations, we don't know who has power or doesn't have power. we're asking the youth to let us know. if they present to the work site and nobody is in place, we're asking them to call their supervisors and let them know. they have a supervisor. and they can leave a voice mail message. they can e-mail us, summerjobs@dc gov. they need to make contact and let us know. >> i imagine they can call the employer. >> they can call the employer. >> want to give a phone number to find out what's happening today and tomorrow. decisions haven't been made yet

about tomorrow. 202-698-3492 for information about today and see what's happening tomorrow. because wednesday, fourth of july, no one is working anyway. >> that's right. >> there's the latest. thanks for coming in. one of the things, we were talking in our editorial meeting the other day and we said, what's going on with the summer youth program? it's flown kind of under the radar this summer. i would imagine in a way that's a good thing, right? >> absolutely. no news is good news. so we're having a great time. we started, we're in week two now. we have the youth actually go through a similar process as last year. we really strengthened the program. but we have matched them up with based on their career interests, they've interviewed, went to orientations and getting all kinds of enhancements like financial literacy training and other opportunities for them with development. this is a real work experience. we need to show up on time, and conduct themselves as if they are in a work place, and some

these individuals get hired. they need to view this as a job interview. there's potential to impress the boss and get a full-time job. if some instances, we'd like to do that. >> how many kid involved this year? >> 14,000 kids that are involved in the program this year. about the same as last year. >> so the program is going well. you've got 14,000 involved. i understand this year you were able to engage some new employers to take part? >> we have a lot of new employers participating this year. we also have expanded into the federal government, which is something that we always like to do, and we actually have -- have been working with the white house as well. we have wonderful opportunities for the youth. we also have the public sector opportunities in the district government as well. there are a lot of different opportunities for our youth that they wouldn't normally know about, or get exposure to. >> funding this year,

everything going according to plan? >> it is going according to plan. we are right on budget, probably below budget a little bit. so that's what we're always aiming to do. historically we've had challenges in that regard. so we are enhancing the program and really tightening up and making sure that we are offering as much as possible without a lot of cost. >> pretty much every summer i have the opportunity to meet some of these young people and talk to them, and some of them are very, very sharp. they really are and take full advantage of the opportunity to network and meet people of influence and all that kind of thing. it's very good. we're glad you came to update us. that's wonderful. again, if you want more information, the web site is summerjobs-- >> @dcgov. >> we'll link that to our site as well. >> my first paid job in television was through the d.c. summer youth program.

thank you very much. our team coverage of friday's historic storm coverage continues in our next hour. we'll have an update on the effort to restore power across the region, as temperatures continue to climb. >> plus, a fourth of july twist on a barbecue classic. we'll be right back.

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>> reporter: it is another day of generating patience as work crews work to produce electricity and get it back up and running again. i'm holly morris live in falls church this morning, with a look at with a you may be facing as you head out on this hot monday. >> thank you, holly. melanie alnwick is live with damage this morning, so is tucker barnes. >> plus, a gas shortage in the washington area. how long it will last and what you can do to avoid problems.

we're checking in live with aaa. >> fireworks and the 4th, you may enjoy them, but chances are your pets are scared. tips for a stress-free pet at your party. >> speaking of parties, if you want to wow your guests, we've got a chef here. she will be cooking lobster burgers in studio b. lobster! >> little relief with the food. >> ready for that. the entire d.c. region feeling the impact of friday's severe storms of course. >> we have live team coverage. tucker barnes is covering weather from northwest d.c. julie wright has the latest on the roads. and holly morris and melanie alnwick are checking the damage in virginia and maryland. let's begin now with tucker in d.c. good morning, tucker. >> reporter: i can tell you standing in the hot sun, i think they're warming up. couple of hours ago