it's miserable. >> reporter: weather fit for neither manor beast, at least not without air conditioning so says northern virginia resident barry who hopes for his' sake and the sake of his two horses that the power comes back soon. >> i hope they get it fixed today is all i can say. >> reporter: he isn't the only hot d.c. resident. five days after a powerful storm left a trail of dark houses in its wake, tens of thousands of people are still without power in virginia, maryland, and the nation's capital. >> it's aggravating. >> today as power companies bring more and more customers back online, those still without power are making their voices heard about the lack of service. in cabin john, maryland, some who marched in the july 4th parade said there wasn't much to celebrate this holiday. >> at some point, public utility's got to be able to walk and chew gum at the same

time. >> reporter: and this man staged a one-man cyst-in vowing not to leave until pepco gets the message and he gets his power back. >> that is correct. i will stay here until we get results. >> reporter: in fairness to pepco, residents say about a half dozen crews have been out there over the past few days to assess the damage but so far nothing has been fixd. the fourth of july holiday in the d.c. region was marred by multiple shootings. the latest happened last night in the 100 block of gallatin street. two teenaged boys and two men were shot near an apartment complex behind a shopping center. the shooting began when an unknown group of people walked by and opened fire. all four victims were taken to the hospital. the motive for the shooting is still unknown. earlier in the day a fatal shooting happened in montgomery county in a popular restaurant in sandy springs. police say a man came to the

urban restaurant and pulled out a gun and showed it to customers. the man was on the patio and refused to follow their commands. the situation escalated. two officers opened fire killing the suspect. the shooting is under investigation. police in arlington, virginia are searching for a rapist this morning. a woman was attacked tuesday night while jogging on the four-mile run bike trail. the victim told police a man armed with a knife dragged her off the trail and sexually assaulted her around 8:00 p.m. she then ran home and drove herself to the hospital. the suspect is described as hispanic about 140 pounds between 5' 5'' and 6' tall. the victim also says her attacker has a small head, short black hair, brown eyes, high pitched voice and spoke limited english. the fourth of july break is over so now it's back to the campaign trail for the president. he'll be kicking off a two-day bus in ohio and pennsylvania today. his challenger, republican mitt romney will continue his

vacation up in new hampshire. yesterday, he called the president's affordable care act a tax which is a direct contribution to statements made by his campaign advisors earlier in the week. they've been serving our country for years in the armed forces, and until yesterday, about two dozen service members were not american citizens. so president obama celebrated the nation's birthday with a naturalization ceremony to change that. janet napolitano administered the oath of allegiance at the white house, and they then the troops and families were treated to a concert and barbecue on the south lawn. last night across the country, the focus of thousands of americans was on fireworks. right here in our own backyard, there was a chance for a small but enthusiastic crowd to celebrate the country's birthday. >> because it was hot. gary nurenberg spoke with several people who endured that day of extreme heat and a chance to get good seats in the show. >> reporter: long to be here like the family of pakistan

native john who became a citizen in 1982. >> we came to see the fireworks. we are loyal to this country we love so much. that's why we decided we need to go all the way to washington and see the fireworks. >> reporter: it was hot, in the 90s, and if you think those little fans made a difference -- >> not really. i barely used it. i've just been sweating a lot. >> reporter: eric parker brought his daughters here from southeast, a family tradition. >> i've been here when i was a kid. i wanted them to experience what i experienced as a kid seeing the fireworks from here. >> reporter: if you have been to d.c., you want to remember this moment. >> it is a great day, july 4th. we're excited to be here. it's just a lot of fun. >> reporter: especially a finale like this.

to quote the crowd, "wow." come on, the fourth in d.c., america's birthday, where else do you want to be? gary nurenberg, 9news now. at 4:35, here is a look at other things making news now. fire crews battling the waldon fire just outside colorado springs. colorado hopes to have it fully contained by sunday thanks to rain and cooler temperatures. right now it's 80% contained. a new fire has begun in wyoming inside the national forest. fire crews are battling a huge fire in custer national forest. so far that blaze has burned 15 homes. 31 cars of a freight train jumped the tracks near chicago yesterday. this morning, investigators are still trying to find out why. the train was carrying coal from a mine in eastern wyoming when it went off the track near northbrook, illinois.

union pacific says it will take at least two days to open the rail line. a blue lobster captured off the coast of atlantic city is quickly becoming a huge spectacle. toby, the rare blue american lobster was lowered into the tank tuesday at the national aquarium in northwest d.c. visitors are already clawing, get it, for a chance to catch a glimpse of the 1 in a million catch. >> toby? >> toby. it's hot and sticky, sound familiar? we're in for another day of extreme heat when howard returns at 4:39 and he'll tell us when high temperatures are expected to climb. driving to your holiday destination has become easier thanks to a certain mobile device. our region's recent stormy weather has raised several security concerns about the nation's infrastructure. >> keep it right here. we're back with weather first in two minutes.

it's 4:39 on this thursday morning. it's kind of muggy out there with the 70s and even low 80s now. it will be a hot day. already by noon, highs around 100. could be a storm late this afternoon but even this evening, we'll have a few storms around. i'll be back talking about record heat possibly for saturday. right now, let's go to monika with a look at time-saver traffic. >> reporter: if you are headed to college park, near route 1 in silver spring, volumes are light. there are 30 signal lights with police directing only at major intersections. i'll be back with more coming up at 4:47. time for the first "your

money" segment. >> here's jessica doyle. welcome back. >> reporter: i know. what is this place? it's been a while. good to see new person. everybody's got power, bright, shiny faces. we're happy. as for wall street it's back to business as well after shutting down for the fourth of july. investors are preparing for the jobs report. analysts are predicting that the unemployment rate will stay the same. now, here's where we start today. the last trading session we actually gained 72 points. that's not so bad. the nasdaq was higher by 25 and s&p500 was up by 8 1/2 points. people who use netflix watch more than 1 billion hours of online video just in june alone. >> what? >> yeah. they have been moving its customers from dvd to streaming video. the company says the average user watched 38 hours of video last month. that's like an extra workweek. >> take a walk, people.

>> i know, spend some time with the family. stop watching tv except if it's 9news now. roughly 40 million americans hit the highways and are not relying open maps. with more and more drivers using gps devices, fold up paper maps are becoming a thing of the past. states are printing far fewer free maps. in pennsylvania, production is down by more than two-thirds. aaa says sales of its maps have dropped as well. i think it's still a good skill to have, though. >> i think so. >> i still have my rand mcnally atlas because that gps has gotten me lost in the middle of the city more than once. >> and with the storms, people were relying on videos to keep them company, i guess. >> especially on mobile phones. how many people went to their car this week to plug in and get some air conditioning? >> wow. >> that is a good thing because they were in dire straits when they started splitting the

streaming and video. >> reporter: absolutely. they are definitely in the mode of trying to recover their business. still ahead, brain injuries are a growing problem for the military war veterans. >> coming up, how the government is helping the men and women who served our country. >> keep it right here. we're back with the hot forecast in two minutes.

welcome back to 9news now on this thursday. is it thursday? >> thursday. >> how about that. it's 4:44 this morning. we he have a heat advisory already in effect at this time of the morning. 81 degrees. >> 81 at 4:44 in the morning. that's one of the reasons we have the strong thunderstorms to our south overnight. had a few warnings. >> it's the lightning flashing in the sky. >> that was over toward fredericksburg and charles county. down to quantico they got hit with that.

this evening, they see a few storms as well as temperatures once again toward the 100 degree mark. yesterday didn't quite make it, 99. we missed the record by one. today's record 102 is probably okay. saturday, i think we'll smash the records as we head maybe to 104, 105. that'll be the worst of it. let's get you going this morning. we start with a heat advisory where we have everybody east of the blue ridge in the heat advisory at noon until 8:00 p.m. talking heat index values at 105 and maybe 107. up in philly, they have the excessive heat warnings. if we get a heat warning, i think that will happen on saturday. likely another heat advisory tomorrow. next week, things are looking much better. 88 by 9:00. by noon, we could be in the mid if not upper 90s here. winds out of the west-northwest and 5:00 isolated storms until 98, 99, 100 somewhere in that

neighborhood. we got fortunate gnat with the storms because we were concerned about the strong thunderstorms but think stay add way from us. overnight, the -- but they stayed away from us. overnight, went into charles county as a severe storm, but it approached areas of st. maries and have fallen apart. that's it this morning, a couple of sprinkles down there. temps, we were talking about that. low 80s in town and east. locally, we got 169 at haymarket, virginia. as you get towards the metro, look at this college park, national, 81. bwi still holding onto 81 degrees this morning with 74 in rockville so a very steamy morning. good visibility, mostly cloudy skies. 81 degrees with a southwest wind at 8 and humidity at 54%.

it is a little deceiving. we have dew points in the 60s. nationally, we have a big ridge of high pressure right here. this is responsible for serious heat and humidity. we've got temperatures today expected maybe 106 in st. louis and chicago 103. tomorrow's temperatures are even hotter in this part of the world extending east. i think we'll be again near 100 tomorrow but as we head towards saturday, that's going to be the worst of the day as the heat starts to build east. i think we could be 104, 105 even here on saturday before we get to summer relief. today, lots of is up shine and isolated storms popping later this afternoon and evening and see what comes through tonight. here we go, the forecast the next thee days, 100 today, tomorrow 99 isolated storms and saturday, i'm going red saturday with temperatures approaching 105 and that's

dangerous heat. as we get towards sunday 96. look at the temps dropping with a better chance for a few storms into the mid-80s early next weekend. we can't wait to get there. 4:47 coming right now. you can't wait for her any longer, monika? >> police are directing traffic at only the major intersections, and you may find stop signs set up temporarily as well. treat those as a four-way stop as we've been saying all week long. the beltway looks great including i hitch 95, route 29 and i-270. we'll take a live look at the beltway at university boulevard and volumes are still light as you head through silver spring leaving the 95 interchange going to the mdot camera. no problems as i said through this area. let's go back to our maps and this time head to the other side of town.

we're not having any complaints from 210 to oxon hill. another live like at 95 and virginia in springfield coming from the south and dumb frees no problems to -- dumfries no problems to report. some federal agencies are using the fallout from friday's storm as a test of what could happen in a surprise terror attack. according to the officials, things aren't good. as a test run, so far we've failed. >> it's completely unacceptable to not have basic needs met for an extended period of time. widespread, sustained power outages are among the top concerns of homeland security officials. and i know for a fact this type of scenario keeps them awake at night. >> experts say the fact that power companies are still struggling to bring residents back online has exposed weaknesses in this country's existing infrastructure. 4:49 now.

hundreds of thousands of men and women in the military have suffered brain injuries just in the past did-esque okayed. >> even though many are considered mild, the injuries can have an impact on the person's everyday life. susan mcginnis introduces us to an army specialist who is getting treatment. >> reporter: army specialist donna jarb has cleared roadside bombs in iraq and afghanistan. he was on patrol in february when a bomb exploded under his vehicle. >> causing the vehicle to roll onto the side, the driver's side, which was my side. i sustained a right knee injury at that time. >> reporter: what he didn't know until about a month later, he had also sufficiented a mild traumatic brain injury or tbi. >> when i got to germany, i noticed memory problems. >> reporter: it can include headaches, sleep disturbances and problem with balance, concentration and attention. nearly 245,000 men and women who served in u.s. forces have

been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries since 2000. the majority of the cases were mild. >> sometimes it's difficult to diagnose unless you see a specialist. once it's diagnosed properly, you can recover 100%. >> reporter: specialist jarvis still struggles with headaches, sensitivity to light and has trouble sleeping. thanks to his treatment at for the belvoir community hospital in virginia, his memory is getting better. >> as far as speech therapy goes, i'm working to improve my memory with like associations and things of that nature. >> reporter: he hopes his intensive treatment will make it easier to adjust to life when he returns home to massachusetts in a few months. susan mcginnis, cbs news, washington. >> experts say they are seeing more traumatic brain injuries because of the type of warfare the u.s. has been engaged in. doctors say they are also better at detecting these injuries now than in the past. vitamin d supplements can

protect your bones but not as well as first thought according to a study in the new england journal of medicine. seniors who took the pills had a 10% lower risk of hip fracture. those who had a high dosep 30%. sleep apnea appears to be worse during the winter. patients stopped breathing in their sleep an average of 18 times per hour in the winter compared to 15 times per hour during the summer. doctors are not sure why but they think it's more likely that you catch a cold in the winter, which can aggravate sleep apnea. two people are better than one when it comes to performing cpr. japanese researchers looked at 5,000 case where's people had a heart attack in public and the odds of surviving were twice as good when more than one bystander tried to help. 380,000 americans go into

cardiac arrest in public every year. it is 4:52, approaching 4:53. it's time for the question of the morning. >> 75% of families on vacation do one of these things. is it, a, turn around because they forgot something? b, drive to their destination or c, get even less sleep than during a normal week. >> log onto the wusa9.com facebook fab page. we'll reveal the answer during the 6:00 hour.

thering back. your weather first at 4:55. it is warm out there. 70s and low 80s right now. it will be another very hot day with partly to mostly sunny skies. 95 by 11:00. we'll look for highs around 100 degrees, noon is when a heat

advisory goes into effect. there could be an isolated storm this afternoon in one or two spots. we've got more heat along the way coming up at 5:00. right now, here's monika with time-saver traffic. >> here's what it looks lick on 66 coming in from aeneasis through somerville. all lanes are rom open but no delays right now. coming up in my next report, we'll go to the other side at 5:01. back to you guys. the world war ii battleship "the uss iowa" is now a floating museum. it played a role in nearly every war or naval exercise until it was retired in the 1990s. yesterday, hundreds of veterans celebrated the fourth of july in san pedro, california walking around the deck and sharing their memories. >> i used to slip out through the anchor chain and get on the anchor, and i'd hide out if i didn't have any work do.

>> because the state of iowa contributed $3 million to help repushish that ship, anyone with a valid i.d. from iowa could tour the ship for free. it's a fourth of july tradition, which began in 1916 in the coney island boardwalk in brooklyn, new york. ever since then, competitive eaters squared after in nathan's hot dog eating contest. >> every year i do this when the video comes out. when it was all said and done, there was a new world record set. >> are you ready, brooklyn! >> reporter: two of the sport's biggest stars were crowned champions of faith an's hot dog eating contest. monday the men's side, joey chestnut showed why his nickname was jaws. he blew away the competition inhaling 68 hot dogs, about 8 pounds worth in just ten minutes. it's chestnut's sixth consecutive nathans title tying him for the most wins ever.

on the women's side, 102 pound sonia thomas won for the second time in a row. known as the black widow, she wriggled while devouring 85 hot dogs, breaking her own record. this may be america's most famous competitive eating contest. it is about a lot more than the number of hot dogs ingested. it's also about the money. the winners walk away with $10,000. that kind of cash attracts all kinds of characters and a big crowd. many spectators are glad they are not in it. do you want to be in this contest? >> no. >> reporter: why not? >> they eat too many hot dogs. >> reporter: some question whether this is a sport. chestnut works out four days a week and trains for it. it seems to be working. randall pinkston, cbs news, brooklyn, new york.

>> from brooklyn to our studios here in washington d.c., good morning. thank you for watching 9news now at 5:00 a.m. captions by: caption colorado, llc (800) 775-7838 comments@captioncolorado.com i'm andrea roane. >> did you know she is the champion hamburger eater? >> with a knife and fork. >> we have the photos to prove it. >> that's it. [ laughter ] >> doesn't he look nice wearing new orleans saints colors? >> just for youp. >> unknowingly. >> unwittingly. >> happy accident. >> my job is to make her happy. >> you might want to take that off when you are outside because it is awfully hot. >> can you believe randall at the coney island with the suit and tie on? >> he's a professional. >> we're going up to about 100 for the high. average high is 89. looks like saturday will be the super hot day before we get relief by next week. right now, we fall into