on your doorstep. clinton get ready. everybody is going to get hit. it's not like a tornado, because not going to miss you. it's coming. this is moving east at 59 miles per hour. this one little cell. some of the areas it's headed for, braddock at 10:59. mt. uda at 10:59. and at 11:00. so you can see that everything is moving pretty much due east and with straight line winds, they don't miss you. they just are widespread. they are not like little tiny tornadoes that we see that can skip and move around. no, these are serious winds that just run essentially now 60, almost 70 miles from north to south. multiple branches down. some 4 inches in diameter. as well as residents gutter torn off the side of a house. this is in fairfax. that's a trained spotter, we'll

take that storm report seriously. you can go to our website and log on and tell us what you see in terms of the storm. we love to have reports. i'm going to go back to the velocity here and give you an idea of some of the winds around clinton. 74 miles an hour forestville. these are probably in the area of the 80-mile per hour winds between forest riel and brandywine. even down toward la plata. you are talking 58-mile per hour winds. down toward welcome, less. 41. but right now, the east side of town and over toward davidsonville, right in this area, around bowie as well. this is the most severe part of the line we can see right now. we'll scoot up to the north a little bit and center in on forestville. big time, hurricane force winds. doesn't take a hurricane to make hurricane forced winds and we got them tonight. orange county, we have limbs down. power out around route 620.

a lot of folks don't have power. power is out in silver spring. the power is out north of bethesda and north of chevy chase and out toward rockville. so these storms are nasty. it is one complete line. oftentimes we track individual storms and we can kind of, you know, be more specific. it's going to hit this area and this neighborhood and hit this town. no, this is hitting everybody. it's not missing. it's hitting absolutely everyone across the board. pardon me? got seven corners pictures now in the bottom right hand portion of your screen. they also have heavy rain and some hail. and we want people to take that seriously as well. we need you to take cover. get away from windows. just got a call from a viewer. he said i never heard winds this strong, he left the family room. 80-mile per hour winds pretty serious stuff, actually. again, bowie, forestville,

you're getting hit with heavy rain. the winds are just about to run into upper marlboro. we'll go back into the velocity scan and show you some of the winds. this is plus 74. bowie. out route 50, wouldn't want to go across the bay bridge. they should close the bay bridge. let's see if we can find out if they'll close the bay bridge. i imagine the airport is shut down. dallas was closed for a while as well with the winds. let's check on the bay bridge. i would not want to drive around the bay bridge with winds of 74 miles per hour. wind sheer know showing up north of bowie. a little more confident now than i was earlier. these are just going to be essentially straight line winds, that's the good news. the bad news is, they aren't going to be forgiving. this is a camera, is that 212? what are we looking at there? i can't quite see that.

okay. that's a maryland camera on the maryland side. you can see the rain flying around. east, west highway. okay. so let's go ahead and see what we have with winds over toward east, west highway. because we can kind of pinpoint this. 41. you are probably seeing 40 to 50-mile per hour winds right now in that area. the strongest winds are moving east. they are over toward bowie, lanam, davidsonville. headed toward shady side. we have seven corners. traffic is moving. we have heavy rain. numerous flashes of lightning. here's the emergency vehicles. looks like a fire truck. the lightning is also very serious. we talked about this at 7:00. these storms had a tremendous amount of lightning. we talked about getting inside. as soon as you hear thunder, get inside. that's not worth it. we'll go back and may see hail right here. we'll pinpoint this right

around bowie. inbetween bowie and beltsville. let's see if we can find hail here. i think we can get hail. this is springfield road, right on springfield road. this is 295 right here. you have hail. you definitely have hail. and we haven't had reports of huge hail. we have had reports of an inch and a half in diameter. we had hail before they crossed 95. they were severe into virginia and also west virginia. we saw a lot of hail around i- 81. we do have reports of hail, they sent me a picture. i haven't had a chance to put it on the air for you. the good news s the storms are moving fast. the bad news is, they aren't going to miss anybody. that storm is moving east, northeast at 29. there are individual cells being picked up. that storm, i don't know if i believe that. moving north, northeast at 83. that might be -- oh great.

okay. we'll talk to pepco and see how much power is out. >> it's been a severe weather night and we are talking about significant outages throughout maryland and northern virginia. >> right now, we are joined by courtney. she is a spokesperson for pepco. >> how are you doing? that's the question. 166,000 power outages for pepco tonight? can you confirm that? >> that's correct. around 11:00 tonight, we were at 166,000 customers without power. 135,000 in montgomery county. 18,000 in the district. and 13,000 in prince georges county. >> the biggest concentration being in montgomery county, courtney? >> yes, that's what we are seeing right now. >> any sense of what is causing this? is this trees down from power lines? what is going on? >> i don't have that information as we are still

assessing what is going on. at this point, we have crews out working on outages. for the safety of our crews, they will seek shelter until the storm passes. and then we'll go out and assess the damage. >> you actually had some outages related to the heat and usage and you were dealing with those when these storms hit. >> that's correct, we did. >> will the storms, when the storms get through in an hour or so, however long it will be, can people work on pepco working through the night? we will be working around the clock to get everyone restored as quickly and safely as possible. >> all right, courtney, thank you. again, 166,000pepco customers out. we are understanding in northern virginia, it could be double that. >> 135,000 outages are in montgomery county. 18,000 in d.c., and 16,000 in prince georges. prince georges is just being hit by those storms.

so they may have a lot more people out before the night is done. >> earlier, topper, you were showing us photos from manassas. gary joins us now live from manassas with some of the damage there. >> reporter: hi, anita. we are in manassas off route 234. storm came roaring through here about 35 minutes ago. winds so strong that as you try to walk across the parking lot, you had to do one of those things where you are leaning forward to lean into it like that. we saw fast food restaurants racing to get away from the restaurant and away from the storm carrying their bags of fast food as winds lifted them up and the patrons were trying to keep their food from blowing away. lightning was severe and remains here in manassas, lighting up the sky where it looks like noon in the middle of a weekday rather than 11:00 at night. some of that lightning remains. signs in the area, for example, part of the sign from the plaza that we are in front of blew

off with the aluminum in the parking lot. porter potty flat on its back as the rain whipped through here. one of the good things is, the storm, although it was incredibly intense, you know the live trucks, they are vans and microwave towers and things. we are in a live truck in the middle of the storm. i have been on less exciting rides on disney world and paid more as that truck was rocking back and forth. the storm moves quickly. the lightning, heavy rains and wind ripped through in the course of 10 or 12 minutes. we are on the other side. still some rain and lightning and some things blowing around the parking lots. traffic slowed to a crawl, but people continued to make progress and no backups. i think probably people are relatively smart trying to stay home and stay out of this. you can see, we have lightning here. people are on the roads and it appears that the worst is

behind us. but i guess topper, listen. >> topper was telling us about straight line winds going through very quickly. did you see any hail at any point? >> we didn't. although talked about walking across the parking lot. i held a mike up because i hear the thunder. walking across the parking lot, it was like you were faced with sandblasts, lifting up dirt and grit and sandblasting your whole body as you leaned over and tried to fight your way through it. lightning remained in manassas, but mostly moved toward you. >> gary, thank you. >> let's get back to you, topper. he is talking about how strong those winds are. been quoting numbers that sounded like hurricane force winds. does it have anything to do with the 105-degree temperatures today? >> it does. looking at some of the guides, i have never seen it so unstable, yet there was no trigger. a tiny trigger developed and went through and when you have

temperatures around 104, for a record high downtown and 102 at dulles. you get any kind of a trigger, instability, and you have severe weather. we talked about this all week. any storm can be hefty and some can be severe. that's why we declared today a code red day. gary reporting from manassas. he's in good shape. still some light rain. but this is the line that is bowing out and producing tremendous winds. it's going through anne arundel county and calvert county at this hour. we'll show you some of the velocities. they are pretty impressive. over 74 miles per hour. hurricane-forced winds hitting annapolis out route 50 and to the north of la plata and down route 4. hopefully folks are taking this seriously and we are with you all night saying treat this as if it were a tornado warning because we've had tornadoes with far less wind speeds than this. you get 80-mile per hour winds,

that's pretty darn serious. now as gary mentioned, and it's true, they are moving through pretty fast. we'll widen back out and we'll go to the regular rain fall and we'll put this into motion. you can see essentially now, everything is east of i-95. the line itself moving at 40, 45 miles per hour. individual cells are moving 50 miles per hour. the line itself is moving off to the east. so that's good news. if you are west of 95, you're okay. the only exception would be up toward baltimore and howard county. a little bit of lingering showers and rain on i-70 toward frederick. for the most part, it is now in prince georges county, into charles county, headed to aneury anne arundel county. we aren't going to list all the warnings because the entire metro area is under a severe thunderstorm warning. they are beginning to trim them. we'll see them trimmed back to 95. everyone east of 95 is under a severe thunderstorm warning.

everybody is under a watch until 1:00 a.m. notice the watch has been extended. it stopped earlier just before the bay. now it goes across the bay into the ocean resorts. look at the lightning. that is just tons of lightning. remember, lightning can be cloud to ground. it can be cloud to cloud and also ground to cloud. you don't think about lightning going back up, but it does. we'll zoom in and you can see a tremendous amount of lightning through downtown, up toward baltimore and spilling into prince georges county. we have winds. we have the heavy rains. we have frequent lightning and small hail. hail is not as much of a problem now as it was earlier when we had reports of hail out toward i-81 corridor back into virginia. but this is a pretty solid line. we talked about this earlier tonight. it's not like a tornado that might be 100 feet wide or 300 yards wide. everybody is going to get with this from baltimore down toward fredericksburg and again, the

good news, it's moving eastward at a good clip. the other good news, it's all straight lined winds, the bad news is, it is covering such a wide area. we have a tremendous amount of folks without power. let me zoom in one more time into prince georges county, out route 0, north of la plata and we'll give you the velocity, which is pretty crazy. over 74-mile per hour winds in upper marlboro. this is pretty intense. shady side now, annapolis, 58- mile per hour winds. again, they got to close the bay bridge. it would make zero sense to keep the bay bridge open. fortunately, it's late. hopefully not many folks are going across. i have to believe they would close it. november they closed it once, we had 70-mile per hour winds. they should close it down for an hour or so. clinton, 50-mile per hour winds. you get back towards vienna, you are down to 23.

so, it's a relatively narrow wind field. but also long wind field. again, extending all the way up to baltimore and back into fredericksburg. so, it's pretty serious stuff. the good news is, it's moving fast. the bad news is, it is not dediscriminating. it is hitting everybody in its path. all right, we have more damage here. very quickly in montgomery county. a few miles south, southwest of damascus. estimated winds of 70 miles per hour. reston and fairfax, reston wind gust and fairfax, virginia, 79- mile per hour wind gusts. so we said at 7:00 these had winds up to 80 in ohio and they held together. they said there was no reason they were going to collapse, and they did not collapse. we have prince georges county near pleasant, 76-mile per hour winds. those numbers i have been showing you on doppler have been dead on in terms of wind speed. back to you guys.

>> topper, you know quite often big stories will collide. they will be together on one day and one place where they are watching this weather go down would be the site of last night's roof collapse. one employee still missing. it's day two of the rescue effort and goes on. >> they are not giving up. ken joins us live. what's happening out there? i know you will be joining us on the phone. >> can you hear me okay? >> we can. >> okay, we will get ready to go live and bring you live images because it is spectacular. we had to go with a backup plan and put away the gear. right now, we are sitting under what i would describe as a very spectacular lightning shower. we have thunder all over. there are high winds out here as well as rain. the reason why that is so dangerous is because this warehouse that we're talking about here, the majority of it has already collapsed. it collapsed yesterday. nothing about this structure out here is safe. when these winds started

blowing a couple of minutes ago, maybe some 20 minutes ago, we saw crews running for cover and running for shelter. you could see pieces of debris of the rubble that remained inside of this building. it took flight with the wind. so we had mangled metal. there were bricks, all kind of debris from inside this warehouse started flying through the air as crews were rushing to take cover. we took our cue and did the same. i'll tell you something also, the walls are not safe. they are not stable. during the winds, i witnessed a minor collapse myself. the east side of the building had portions of it, came crumbling down. pieces of, i guess what's left of this roof, also came flying off. you could see the walls whipping back and forth and at some point we thought the remainder of the building was going to collapse. but again, we did see a small portion of the east side of the building further come down. and i'll remind you guys, these

crews are working to save a man they believe is still alive somewhere inside this building. the entire day what they have been working to do is remove enough rubble so they can get rescue crews and search dogs in there. of course, that operation has had to pause now until these storms clear. but again, we are underneath the thick of it right now. still plenty of lightning. still plenty of thunder, winds, and rain and we are seeing rescue and emergency crews rushing towards this area with their lights and sirens on. we can only expect the worst out here right now. >> i know we had scott broom out there earlier and images of major cranes brought in. they were going to use to take pieces of that debris off in the search for this individual. are those cranes still out there? >> they are. but the booms on the cranes would have to be lowered. once the lightning began, they began to lower the booms on the crane and the crew members with these construction crews and rescue crews, they began to

take cover. it all happened very quickly and right now, these cranes are sitting out here, but they are not extended into the air because for whatever reason, that gets hit by lightning, you can even have an explosion on the ground. >> let me get this straight, a 24 hour a day effort trying to find this one last, hopefully surviving victim of this collapse. do they believe, or have you seen any sign that as the storm begins to ease that they'll try to start it back up or perhaps it's not going to be safe? >> well, i tell you what, the structure is not safe. this is a big risky operation. i can tell you from what i have seen, from what the crews are saying, they are hoping they can get off once the storm passes. even they said, they can't really go back in there. they can't go back in there while this storm is above. they are hoping this man is

somewhere trapped in some sort of a void. sometimes the fire department has categorized this as a pancake collapse. we saw similar types of collapses in haiti and in japan. when that happens, sometimes there are voids that are created inside the structures and they are hoping this man is trapped somewhere inside there where he has some room to breathe and hopefully that he is still alive. >> and this is just to clarify for folks. is this a storage facility and there were many more employees that were evacuated. >> that's correct. this is a storage facility. i'm being told it was, inside it was packed with very tall rows of shelfing. where a will the of storage materials were kept, mainly papers and that sort of thing. and everyone was accounted for except for the one man. some of the crew, some of the crew out here and his workers reported that they last saw him sitting inside of a caged forklift. they thought he was inside of

some sort of, i guess a forklift that had a steel cage surrounding him. they are hoping that steel cage was able to keep him out of harm's way. >> all right, ken joining us via the telephone from that roof collapse where there is still hope as that final victim may be found alive. the efforts had to be suspended because the weather is too risky. we thank you for that. >> we have been talking about power outages. northern virginia has been very hard hit. joining us on the phone, good evening. >> are you there? all right, we lost that phone. the number we had earlier and of course those change. northern virginia as they had in maryland and that was 300,000. in that range. >> again, things moving eastward, as you were saying. the hardest hit in the pepco

area. the storms just moving into prince georges and ken reporting being under a lightning storm of sorts where they are in landover. topper. >> yeah, the lightning is frequent, unbelievable lightning. we just showed you the lightning a minute ago on the map. here's the deal. the storms are moving very quickly, that's good. the highest winds are well to the east of i-95. so they are making their moves toward annapolis and points south. we are seeing rotation, a little sheer. i'm not that concerned about that with winds over 75 miles per hour right now. south of annapolis and down toward leanardtown. down route 4. rotation really is kind of mute because the winds are strong enough to cause major damage anyway. especially around north beach, upper marlboro. these are the folks that are getting the highest winds right now. we are seeing winds. again, hurricane force. you don't think of that. but hurricane force winds. don't think a tornado would

make strong winds all the time either. brandywine, 41 miles per hour. so, certainly the highest winds are now well east of 95 and essentially headed for our friends by the bay, from annapolis southward down toward plum point. they are going to keep going across the bay. you folks in st. michaels and easten, you'll get hit very, very hard in the next 15 to 45 minutes with these storms and this whole line of thunderstorms. we are looking at the ocean resorts as well. excellent, i just forwarded that. this came in. the loudoun county courthouse. this is kind of common. we had a lot of reports of 4 to 6-inch branches down. and that looks like a 4-inch branch to me. that's a hefty limb. that's enough to knock out power and we had reports of a

lot of power outages. i just got this in from lisa. she lives in centerville, virginia. this is scary. when the winds came through our area, it lifted and cracked down the center of our attic door in the ceiling. she better check the trusses at the break of dawn and make sure there's no structural damage. sounds like the draft got in the vents and did pressure thing. but that's very, very intense. we do see a little rotation there. just south of annapolis in northern calvert county. again, i'm not that concerned because the winds are so strong, straight line right now down route 4. north beach, indicate it's aboveground. it's about 1,000 feet or so. that's not going to cause any problems. but i'll tell you what will cause problems are the straight line winds here. 74 miles per hour plus north beach. huntingtown, plum point, so the winds are hammering now the west side of the bay. they are about to cross over the bay.

and eventually go toward trap and easten. they will continue all the way across to the beaches. bethany and ocean city will also get hammered. you'll see back to the west, the winds are not as strong. and notice it's a minus sign, so the winds are toward the radar side. so that's good news. they are intense, last about a half an hour or so. there's our flag on the weather terrace. that was just unbelievable. the pole was bending. we thought we might lose the pole 45 minutes ago. it's still breezy behind this line, but we want to concentrate on the line of storms that are now approaching the bay and approaching really the west side of the bay, moving to anne arundel county and also st. mary's county. that's where the highest winds are right now. right in this area from north to south. from baltimore all the way down

through annapolis. all the way through leanardtown and toward the bay. so, fredericksburg, you're okay. if you're on the west side, your damage is over. may be breezy, but your damaging winds are over. if you are in anne arundel county, up in baltimore, and also down into southern maryland, down toward southern st. mary's county, you're going to get hit really hard and again, these winds will cross over to the delmarva and bethany and ocean city. the winds are about, i would say an hour and a half away from you. they do have heavy rain. i'm not seeing much hail with the storms anymore, which is good. but we are still seeing straight line winds. there's a little bit of wind sheer just north of baltimore, but again, straight line winds, i'm not as concerned with that. the only thing i was concerned about with these storms, they linger and held back a little bit. have you noticed that? we've had pretty good straight line of storms and then this one little area at the top of the line, kind of slowing down

a little bit. boeing a little bit. right now, it's straight line wind from baltimore through annapolis down route 4 into calvert county, st. mary's county. >> i want to note for our viewers who may have been counting on our at&t wrap up this evening. washington post reported luga who was supposed to be here. he tried to get around. so many trees down that he just couldn't get here. so our special has been canceled for tonight and it is probably for the best because we have more things to talk about. in the meantime, i have to have you this. it crossed my mind. that is, what kind of damage could be done to congressional golf course on a night like this and how much might that affect the tournament for the rest of the weekend? >> that's a good question. these kinds of winds remind me of the 1989 flag day storm, where we had a down burst of 80- mile per hour winds in

northwest d.c. we've had the entire metro area has had winds from 40 to 80. so you're going to see a lot of pine trees at congressional. they are weak. i'm sure there will be limbs down. perhaps bigger trees on the course. good news is, the soil isn't wet, which it was in '89. so yeah, they will be doing cleanup on the course. there's no doubt about that. >> topper, we also have greg joining us who has been surveying the situation in falls church. greg. >> not a whole lot, power is out almost everywhere. the picture you are seeing. in falls church, we'll zoom in, you can see officers dealing with some of the folks. what you have right at this location is route 7, broad street is closed. wires down as well as a tree just around the corner and just out of camera view. firefighters, police have been responds minute after minute

after minute to one problem after another. a number of reports of houses collapsed, which in most cases, are trees that crashed through roofs. and what you have right here is you can see is a number of motorists come up to the area that is corded off, have to get back. there were wires sparking here about 15, 20 minutes ago. amazingly, a few still were hot. there's no power at all in this area now and as far as i can see, from seven corners into the central part of falls church, i see no signs of power at all with the exception of a few traffic lights, which apparently are in some sort of battery or emergency backup. >> when were you there at the time when the heavy winds moved through this particular area? >> i was at the top of seven corners, which is an area relatively