storms if they surface, but there's a chance we could see a couple in our area pop up. live doppler now, it's quiet in the d.c. metro area, saw more active storms to the south of us, also up to the northwest we're watching another line of storms that could impact our area by later tonight. what can you expect? partly cloudy conditions. it will be warm and muggy again with scattered thunderstorms. some will be strong or severe. lows will fall into the 70s. again not everybody will see these storms. i think they'll be fewer tonight compared to last night, but definitely keep your eyes to the sky and if you hear thunder or see lightning, definitely go inside and seek shelter. we'll talk about how long this heat lasts and when we'll finally get a break a little bit later. back to you guys. for the thousands of people across our area this is day six of dealing with no electricity. >> some are coping better than others. >> we've got team coverage beginning with peggy fox. she is in arlington where a whole cluster of homes maybe just about to get their power

back on or are they? peggy? >> reporter: yeah. they've been coping as best they, can but they were relieved when they saw these guys show up today from hydro1 out of ontario, canada, been called down by the dominion virginia folks and they have been working all day to replace two utility poles back there. you can see it. it's hashed to get back behind these houses. -- hard to get back behind these houses. they had to bring in a little crazy rig-up to get to a gate and get these poled attached. they're finally -- poles attached. they're finally about done and will be getting power back to these houses in about 20 minutes. it's not easy, but neither is living without electricity. when you have to rough it with no power, it helps having been a girl scout. >> this is sort of like camping, exactly. i pulled out my cooler from attache and in the morning i

make a -- the attic and in the morning i make a daily run to 7- eleven to pick up an ice bag. >> reporter: she's cooked on her gas stove and is never in need of a light. >> i have matches. i have my battery operated weather radio that i bought several years ago at one of the outages. >> reporter: you must have some flashlights? >> i have lots of flashlights. >> reporter: every morning she shuts the windows and shades to keep out the hot air and at night she does the reverse. >> this is this has saved me. >> reporter: a neighbor with power let her run a cord for her fan. >> i thanked them profusely. >> reporter: the six-day outage is an isolated cluster of just five homes here plunged into the preelectric time warp by this crashing oak tree which was here long before the power pole it destroyed. >> the very old tree, probably a couple hundred years old, a white oak tree. >> reporter: the hurdles have been going out to eat and sitting on their porch. >> spent last night at someone's house who had air

conditioning and we'll probably do the same thing again tonight. the sleeping without air conditioning is getting kind of offend. >> reporter: two doors down jennifer johnson used new technology to get by when everything else failed. >> i had like $9 in cash and i used all of that for gasoline because that was cash only and then i discovered my favorite starbucks over here at virginia square. they were 100% operation. i had the starbucks app and money on my phone and they were the lifesaver. they were my hero. >> reporter: well, jennifer lives right here and she's going to be so thrilled because these power people are hydro1, just about ready to connect them up and turn the switch on. some of the folks, too here's another mention, something important out there, one mary you met at the beginning of this piece, she has cats and is making sure not to let them outside in this heat. that's something we can all take a lesson from. things are looking up here in

arlington. back to you, derek. >> we thought we had it bad. they have it worse. thank you. dominion power crews are working around the clock like all the others to get all their remaining 8,000 or so outages back online. surae chinn is in arlington where some of the major work is being done. >> reporter: well, this crew has been here since 10:00 this morning. we are in the homestretch, guys, but as we have fewer outages, the frustration mounts. you can see them working right now, but people are getting frustrated. no one wants to be the last and dominion power says someone has to be. everyone can't be a high priority even if you have a medical condition. >> it's more than annoyed. >> reporter: tim scott is running out of patience even as he watches dominion power crews working on his line in his arlington neighborhood. >> intense anger because it took so long because there was no communication between dominion and the county. >> reporter: a large tree that fell on the power lines intensified the frustration in

the six-day blackout which blocked the road for nearly a week. arlington county is in charge of removing the tree, but according to regulations couldn't until the power company deemed the lines safe. >> i don't know why dominion took the time that they needed to get here, but i do know there's been a lot of damage. >> reporter: caroline timmerman with arlington county wrote a letter to residents saying they were at the mercy of dominion power. >> we will not leave until the spa back on in this neighborhood. >> reporter: this is a dominion power storm leader in charge of communicating and coordinating restoration efforts on site such as the one on 23rd and south ginwoody streets. >> as late as yesterday we were trying to get on critical infrastructure. we were hooking up power to assisted living facilities even yesterday. >> that's understandable. i fully figured that they'd be doing that on saturday and sunday. >> reporter: scotch's mother relies on oxygen and says he may not be critical

infrastructure, but their home should be a high priority. >> called on monday, called on tuesday. >> the customer service obviously is challenged when you're trying to deal with a lot of people because everybody wants specific information. >> i'm angry more at the people at the decision making level than anyone under that. >> reporter: hard at work some seven, eight hours later just for 120 people. so the take-away is this. if you or family are on oxygen or have a medical condition, go ahead and make sure on your account that you have a medical note. this does not make you a high priority. instead what you get is a phone call saying that you should prepare that the storm is coming and so make appropriate arrangements. dominion power says this is their systemic approach to the infrastructure with the hospitals and assisted living first, go to the a man lines and they're the residential area -- the main lines and here the residential area. once they get off the a man

course that's when the problem arrives, so unfortunately someone has to be the last to get their lights back on. >> you see those crews coming and think those are some real rock star there. thanks. pepco is now working to restore power to the final 4% of its 443,000 customers that lost it last friday. if you think people are kind of angry now, wait until next week when maryland's public service commission is set to decide on a $66 million rate increase that pepco wants. scott broom questioned the chairman of the pse in baltimore today. >> reporter: maryland's chief regulator douglas bazarian said today pepco may not get all that it wants. >> pepco had not been maintaining its system to the level we expected. >> reporter: that's bazarian reminding reporters that pse has pepco's number, that the company was fined $1 million in december for poor performance and now that the pse is considering a rate increase for pepco, the real punishment may

be yet to come. that's because this commission has the power to dock pepco's rate increase request to effectively claw back tens of millions dollars in profits from previous increases that should have been spent on reliability. >> we would disallow the portion of that spending that we felt aves tribblable to their historic neglect. >> reporter: even though -- felt was attributable to their historic neglect. >> reporter: even so some increase is expected which is bound tone rage customers. the regrew -- to enrage customers. the decision is due july 13th. meanwhile bazarian said mother nature is angry thinking climate change has something to do with all this noting that this recent storm with no name did more damage than hurricane irene. scott broom, 9 news now. >> utilities must provide detailed after action reports on their storm responses to maryland regulators within three weeks' time. it is a debate taking place

all across our area this week. folks who are fed up and steamed with the power companies after several hot days with no electricity against those who are sympathetic to the crews working so long and hard. it's even dividing married couples like art and donna romano. >> this is ridiculous. i wish we could find another electric company. pepco is just no good. i bet the man who owns the place -- >> well, it's not that. pepco is trying the best they can. >> they're not either. we haven't seen one pepco truck all week. >> well, we have now. i mean these are the contractors. >> big deal. >> okay. after five full days without power pepco finally did get the lights back on at the reromanos home in kensington this morning. >> is it summer heatwave on, i'll let you know when we'll finally get a break from this

heat. >> also ahead a horrific story out of prince george's county where a 12 is charged with murder in the death of a family member. >> but up next the neighborhood watch volunteer who killed an unarmed florida teen-ager could soon be back out of jail. we'll be right back.

george zimmerman was granted bail for a second time and it will not be cheap. the judge set the new bail at $1 million. zimmerman's original $150,000 bond was revoked after prosecutors found that he misled the court about his finances. zimmerman is charged with 2nd degree murder in the killing of unarmed teen-ager trayvon martin. we've got some new information coming out about the casey ant any case just a year -- anthony case just a year after she was acquitted in the death of her 2-year-old a daughter caylee. her attorney now says he strongly considered whether anthony should plead guilty to a lesser charge early in the

case, but the attorney said anthony rejected that. he said that's because she insisted she had nothing to do with her daughter's death. baez is out with a new book about the case. president obama is on a two- day bus state to two states critical to his reelection bid. >> he's stopping back in manufacturing towns that helped him win in 2008 defending his handling of the economy. danielle nottingham with more from the white house. >> reporter: while mitt romney is on vacation in new hampshire, president obama is taking his campaign to middle class voters in two key battleground states. president obama is tackling the battle ground state of ohio in a bus. supporters line the streets on his way to maumee, a small town just outside toledo. the crowd braved the heat to hear the president explain why he deserves four more years. >> when the american auto

industry was on the brink of collapse and more than 1 million jobs were on the line, governor romney said we should just let detroit go bankrupt. >> that's what he said. >> i refused to turn my back on communities like this one. >> reporter: this manufacturing town is if you of auto workers and the -- full of auto workers and the president said his administration is filing a complaint against china for unfair tariffs on some suvs made in ohio. >> i want goods shipped around the world staffed with made in america. >> reporter: as the president makes -- stamped with made in america. >> reporter: as the president makes the case he's done all can he to help the economy, the white house is bracing for the jobs report due friday. with unemployment stuck above 8%, republican presidential hopeful mitt romney likes his chances in november. >> as long as i continue to speak about the economy, i'm going to win. >> reporter: romney's campaign put louisiana governor bobby jindal and former minnesota governor tim pawlenty on a bus

to shadow the president. >> when it comes to getting tough with china this is barack come lately. he's been in office four years. >> reporter: the white house says the action against china is not a political move to bolster president obama's campaign. the administration said it had been in the process of filing for several months. at the white house danielle nottingham, derek, back to you. >> thank you. well, let's go back to the heat. the district is making it easier for people to beat the heat in the next few days. outdoor pools in a number of locations will operate on extended hours through sunday. that's because of continued power outages in some neighborhoods along with the extreme temperatures. we are in a heatwave. among the pools offering extended hours, rec center in northwest anacostia pool in southeast and theodore hagans pool in northeast. hundreds of people are

still without power. >> as you noted, hundreds of thousands of folks are still without power across several state and this what is it all looks like from outer space. nasa took these before and after photos with the satellite. you can see the dark spots over virginia, west virginia and d.c., areas that normally would be full of light. i guess those dark spots have been filled in to a great extent now as the power outages are going away. unfortunately the heat is sticking around, anny. >> it is, derek. we're definitely well into the triple digits today as far as the heat index is concerned. tomorrow is looking the same, saturday and after that we'll start to see a little break from the heat. >> hang on. >> here's a look at your radar. radar is pretty quiet tonight. most of the activity is to the west of us and areas south, but we do have a chance for some isolated pop-up thunderstorms. some of those storms could be strong or severe. now the heat alert is on, heat advisory until 8:00 tonight for

most of the d.c. metro area. it's the humidity and heat factoring in giving us these really high heat index ratings. 102 is what is feels like downtown, annapolis 105, fredericksburg 105, manassas 103, leesburg 105. so it's a day where hopefully you were able to stay inside where there's air conditioning or go to the pool. our live weather cam brought to you by michael and son today, we saw lots of sunny skies out there, but the clouds are filtering in. now they're just high level clouds. the surface temperature 99 degrees, dew point in the mid- 60s, winds coming in out of the northwest at 10 miles per hour. it's pretty hot almost everywhere you look, still 90s in new york, lower 90s, boston, go there to cool down. even norfolk is at 98 degrees. it is just really cooking for much of the mid-atlantic and eastern seaboard. scattered storms tonight, some of them strong or severe

possibly. the main threat is damaging winds and hail. it will be very hot through saturday and i'm worried about some big storms impacting us for sunday into monday as a cold front comes through. the futurecast for tonight, we're not going to see widespread showers of rain. it's going to be more pop-up for this evening. after 9:00, 10:00 we'll be fairly quiet and should generally have clear skies. so for tonight partly cloudy and muggy with isolated thunderstorms, some strong or severe. lows will be in the 70s. so overnight lows in downtown close to 80, not a whole lot of cooling off, mid-70s for manassas and our suburbs, hagerstown getting down to 73 degrees. tomorrow morning plenty of sunshine but still a muggy start, temperatures starting out in the 70s and 80s. for the afternoon very hot again, maybe a stray thunderstorm, highs around 100 degrees. then unfortunately that breeze really not going to help us out. so highs in downtown 100, college park 100, arlington

101, reston, fairfax 99, gaithersburg upper 90s. make sure your ac is going at full speed. your next three days, code yellow because of the heat for friday and saturday. saturday i think the record could fall. sunday some big storms possible, still hot, 97 degrees with scattered showers and storms. check out your next seven days. all right. so once that front goes through sunday, we'll cool down into the 80s for monday, tuesday around 83 degrees. look at wednesday, low 80s and you'll notice a chance for some showers as well for next week and we'll definitely take that cooler air because we definitely need a break from the heat. so we'll have to keep our eye out for sunday's potential for big storms. the long range models still kind of seeing how things are going to play out sunday, but for now it is the heat. that's the big story. drink plenty of fluids. make sure you don't keep your pets out too long in the sun.

i know my dog does not like it. he's just hanging out now at home. back to you. >> smart dog. thanks a lot. >> it's a tea cup or something. >> a tiny little thing. coming up rumors of a smaller less expensive ipad have the tech world abuzz. >> up next taking a major step forward to bring 21st century 10 into d.c.'s taxi fleet. we'll be right back.

welcome back. virginia railway express is expanding. the commuter rail system is finally finalizing plans to go further south. the plan is to open a station? spotsylvania county next -- station in spotsylvania county next year. the county supervisor gary skinner estimates 1,300 riders per day will use the station to get to fredericksburg, woodbridge and the district. a major new modernization plan is in the works for the

district's taxicab fleet. mayor gray announced a five- year $35 million proposed contract for smart readers today. if the city council goes along, you would be able to pay your fare by credit card. cabs would have gps tracking and television. there would be new safety features for both drivers and passengers. safety investigators say a series of pilot errors contributed to the crash of an air france jet over the atlantic. that plane flying from brazil to france crashed in the ocean in 2009. all 228 people on board were killed. investigators say the two pilots at the controls never understood that the plane was in a stall and a new report says the pilots failed to respond effectively to problems with the plane's speed indicators. the report recommends improved training for those pilots, for pilots to come down the line. investigators now say a yeah that cap -- a yacht that capsized off long island was

carrying twice its limit. two were killed and 24 others were rescued. it happened near oyster bay. it's believed the wake from another boat might have played a role. the bodies of the three children were recovered after a long overnight search. the bus headed to london was halted by the cops early this morning. apparently officials received reports of suspicious activity on the bus and pulled it over about 100 miles from the british capitol. after calling in the bomb disposal guys more than 10 fire trucks and emergency vehicles and authorities on the scene discovered the culprit. it was an electric cigarette. passengers were put on another bus and sent on their way. still ahead save a life and lose your job, why a lifeguard was fired after doing his job rescuing a drowning man. >> still ahead a computer virus that could knock tens of thousands of people off the internet, we'll tell you how you can tell if you have been infected.

right now a 12-year-old boy is in police custody charged with murdering a 2-year-old girl in prince george's county. >> the two kids lived in the very same home in the 1800 block of taylor avenue in ft. washington and kristin fisher is live in prince george's county police headquarters where investigators just briefed reporters. it sounds awful. >> reporter: well, the 2-year- old girl ania bachelor was a

foster child. the 12-year-old boy accused of killing her was the biological son of her foster parents. now while he's accused of beating her to death inside their home in ft. washington which they both lived in together and this all happened tuesday afternoon and the parents weren't home at the time. they told police that their 15- year-old daughter, biological daughter, had been left in charge of them. when the father came home, he found the little girl completely unresponsive. he called 911. he gave her cpr, but she was still unresponsive. she was rushed to hospital where she was later pronounced dead due to blunt force trauma. >> through the course of the investigation detectives learned a 12-year-old had beaten the child repeatedly. detectives developed probable cause to charge the boy based on interviews conducted with the family. >> reporter: now the 12-year- old right now is in custody at a youth facility. at this time he is not being charged as an adult, but that

could change. a judge in maryland could order him to be tried as an adult if his crime ultimately warrants that. so that is a possibility. as for a motive, police just won't say. they're not releasing any information about the 12-year- old boy's identity because he is a juvenile. keep in mind this is a relatively rare crime to happen in prince george's county in the sense that the last time a preteen was charged with murder in this county was six years ago. we'll have more coming up at 11:00. back to you. >> kristin fisher, thank you. two people are dead, four others injured after two separate shootings on the 4th of july. the first one happened on galveston street in the ft. totten neighborhood last night. a 19-year-old was shot and killed. three other males were wounded while they were just watching fireworks around 8 p.m. several hours later police responded to reports of another shooting in the 600 block of morton street. two men were shot. one of them was shot in the

face and he died. the other is getting better. police are searching for suspects in both of those shootings. a woman is telling a terrifying story about being sexually assaulted in broad daylight in the ballston mall it. happened in a public parking lot yesterday. the 23-year-old said she was walking to her car around 2:30 when suddenly a man grabbed her buttocks from behind and sexually assaulted her. when she started screaming, that man took off. she left the garage and called police. police also now say a string of four late night burglaries in silver spring might be linked. the burglaries took place in the woodside and woodside park neighborhoods on bennington lane, fairview road and mcneil roads. all four burglaries happened in the last three weeks between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. in most cases the doors were left unlocked. police are using that as an issue for warnings to advice for neighbors. >> make sure all doors and windows are locked, especially

when you leave and when you're home in the evening. two, you have exterior lighting, leave it on. if you see anything suspicious in the neighborhood, don't create an alibi for it in your mind. call us. >> good advance deed. here's another thing. all of these houses people were home at the time, but none of the victims encountered the burglar. late last year the fbi took down a group of international cyber bandits that planted a vicious software virus on the web. back then the law enforcement agency opted to keep those 600,000pc users infected by the scam online temporarily, but now those same people could lose their internet connection early next week. personal assistant jake lewis is on the internet more than 15 hours day. he was alarmed to hear about the computer virus that could knock thousands of people offline. >> i have all my documents. my database is all stored online. there's contacts, scheduling, references.

>> reporter: the fbi agents busted a ring of computer hackers in astonia last year. the scam affected hundreds of thousands of computers around the world and controlled them through rogue servers. the hackers would redirect people to different websites and rack up millions in illegal fees. the fbi temporarily set up alternative systems to keep 66,000 computers online, but that shuts down monday and they will all be cut off. the fbi is directing users to a special website to see if they're infected. it's www.dcwg.org. the site checks for the virus and tells you how to fix it. lewis is in the clear. >> i'm very relieved knowing that i will not lose my internet on monday, thank god. >> reporter: but the fbi thinks many others including 50 major corporations are infected and at risk as well. >> so this is a big deal. the virus is what's called malware or malicious software

and it can affect both macs and pcs. there could be a mini ipad in your future. according to reports two companies that supply parts for the ipad have been told by apple to gear up for the mass production of a smaller version of its tablet. it will cost less and you won't have that high resolution retina display as the current 9.7-inch ipad. those fold up paper maps you used to have, the 40 million people who hit the road for the july 4th holiday arrived there with help from a gps. it seems more people are turning to them for directions and several state report they are printing far fewer free maps now than they did 10 years ago. still ahead on 9news a hi- tech tool that can spot skin cancer before its visible to the naked eye. that's inside health alert. >> our heatwave is in full force. i'll let you know when we get brake from this heat, also the chance for some big storms

coming up. i'll have your full forecast a little later. >> but first the july 4th bust that's getting national attention. up next the fireworks show that fizzled out before it was even supposed to start. >> don't forget we are always on at wusa9.com which never ever fizzles out. stay with us.

caught on tape tonight a 4th of july which took a terrible turn. we have to warn you about this. the video is kind of freakish and disturbing. home video captured the frightening moments when the flag bearer in the parade was run over, yes. the car was riding right behind the poor fellow and look what happened.

police believe the 87-year-old driver suffered heatstroke, passed out behind the wheel of that convertible and you see the result. the car actually just missed hitting spectators who were sitting along the curb. >> but this was a little too close for comfort for you? >> yes, yes. it was really close. scary with all the kids and stuff. >> yes. i was scared because the car came so close. we were sitting in our clairs and my wife freaked out and i grabbed -- chairs and my wife freaked out and i grabbed her and we ran for the house. >> i think anybody would freak out when you see something like this happen. miraculously the flag bearer is expected to survive and both he and the driver are members of veterans of foreign wars. in san diego the big bay boom was a big old bust. >> the fireworks show went off early and all at once last night. home video shows the display misfiring five minutes ahead of schedule and then all going dark. the company that puts on the

show said the technical issue put on a 20 minute fireworks display to go off in 15 seconds. >> it was pretty intense. it was just like a teaser. so we were just waiting for it and it never happened. >> we saw three different like really big bright boom goes off and we have thought it was going to -- and we thought it was going to start. >> but it was actually over. the fireworks company is now trying to figure out what went wrong. >> the first time i've ever heard of something like that happen. you'd think it would happen more often. at least three florida lifeguards are looking for new jobs after a drowning man was rescued at hallandale beach, but one of those lifeguards left his designated zone on monday to save the man. he was struggling in an area the lifeguards are not contracted to present and he was fired on the spot. at least one other lifeguard was let go. they say saving lives regardless of where it is what they do.

>> not going to put my job over going to help someone again. i'm going to do what i thought was right and did i. >> regardless of where they are -- and i did. >> regardless of where they are i'm going to save them if i see they need help. i'm a lifeguard. >> the lifeguard company says the lifeguards broke the rules and could have put beachgoers in their section in jeopardy. one of the lifeguards was offered his job back and said no thanks. two other lifeguards have quit in protest. that is crazy. >> i think their name is lifeguard. >> that's right. >> i think that's the explanation for it all. it is july and that means we are now just a few weeks away from rg3's first redskins training camp. we can't wait. in the meantime we'll look at the upcoming preseason. >> up next a new study finds vitamin d can help lower the risk of bone fractures, put there's a catch. we'll talk about that. >> isn't there always.

vitamin d tops tonight's health alert. there's been conflicting news lately about the power of this vitamin, but there's word tonight it can reduce the risk of bone fractures. however, it takes a lot of d to

make a difference. people over age 70 should consume 800 units of vitamin d per day for bone strength that. would lower their risk of hip fractures by 1/3 and of other bone fractures by 14%. taking less than 800 units doesn't seem to have much effect on bone fractures. vitamin d is found in supplements, various foods and sunlight. of course, too much sun especially without a sunscreen of sbf 30 or higher can be downright dangerous. doctors are welcoming a new hi- tech tool to help them search for skin cancer at its most treatable stage. sun safety is key all year- round but especially in these hot summer months. it's a fact, not enough sunscreen and too much exposure to ultraviolent rays raises the risk of all skin cancers including the deadliest form, melanoma. camping these cancers early is key for survival. >> camping it early is tricky even -- catching these cancers

early is key for survival. >> melafind, this technology is based on the same imaging technology used in guided missile navigation systems miniaturized into this machine. >> when melanoma starts it, can be very small and subtle. so we're looking for really small changes in the skin that might not be obvious to the naked eye. >> melafind scans below the skin's surface to take photographs deeper than the eye can see and detects patterns that signals the very beginning stages of cancerous lesions. >> pattern recognition to compare what it sees to 9,000 known melanoma in the database. so it gives us this information whether there's high risk versus a low risk for melanoma. >> with this information the dermatologist determines whether or not a biopsy of the suspicious spot is needed. >> i consider the melafind a groundbreaking step in our detection of early melanoma. before this device there was nothing available noninvasively

to give us this information. >> so important especially somebody who is already at high risk for melanoma having had previous lesions. melafind is not covered by insurance right now and how much it will cost out of pocket varies greatly, anywhere from 50 to $250. >> just telling you something that will save your life it, might be worth it. >> of course, we're talking about the power of the sun and if is strutting its stuff. -- and it is strutting its stuff. >> it really is, not only just today but the next couple days before we see any break from this heat. it's hot out there. we've got the heat advisory in effect still. take it easy tonight, really limit your time outside and keep a check on the elderly and our pets, of course. here's a look at our almanac for today. the official high, we got up to 100, not enough to challenge our record high of 102 set in 1999. the heat alert is on, heat advisory until 8 p.m.

for most of the d.c. metro area, the exception being up towards the mason dixon line and points west of interstate 81. the heat index, annapolis is cooking at 105, 102 in downtown, winchester also at 100 degrees. fredericksburg is 105, hagerstown feels like 98 degrees. so yeah, it is really uncomfortable outside. right now our live weather cam brought to you by michael and son is showing clear blue sky out there. we have a chance for pop-up storms this evening. the temperature is 99. that's the air temperature, but when you factor in the humidity, yeah, it feels like we're over 100 degrees. now the radar in the immediate d.c. metro area is quiet, but we've got storms to the south of us and also up to the north that we're watching. so i think tonight we'll just see some pop-up storms. the atmosphere is unstable. it's been so warm and human that if those storms materialize, they could end up being strong or severe, but you can see now we are quiet for

the hour. now the severe outlook for severe weather for today does include the d.c. metro area. these areas you see are highlighted in yellow, the main threat being damaging wind gusts and hail today. now temperatures elsewhere, you want a break from the heat, you got to go far up north to boston in the mid-70s, but new york, philly feeling the heat, even norfolk in the upper 90s, raleigh 87. look out to the midwest, chicago in the upper 80s, but indianapolis is at 102. so it's cooking in much of the mid atlantic and east coast. so some storms are possible tonight. you can't say. where they'll just pop up. some of those storms could be strong or severe. watch for the damaging wind gusts and hail. it will be very hot not through only tomorrow but also saturday and some big storms are possible on sunday. we've got a cold front coming

through and could have big weather sunday into monday. we'll have to keep our eye on how those models trend. our futurecast for tonight, you can see we don't see widespread rain or showers here, just a couple pop-up storms for this evening. they'll be much more isolated tonight compared to last night and after that things are fairly quiet by midnight and we'll see just a few clouds out there. overnight should be clear skies. tonight, though, partly cloudy and muggy with isolated storms, again some strong or severe, lows getting down to the 70s northeast winds at 5 to 10 miles per hour. in downtown getting to almost 80 degrees, 74 in gaithersburg, leesburg, lower 70s in winchester, but culpeper, fredericksburg will bottom out to the mid-70s by early tomorrow morning. friday starts out sunny, muggy, temperatures in the 70s and 80s. in the afternoon we're going to heat back up, isolated thunderstorm possible and highs

around 100 degrees. in western maryland cumberland 93, winchester, martinsburg, 93, culpeper 101, downtown 100 degrees, even annapolis close to 100. your next three days code yellow alert days because of the heat and a chance for some storms, sunday maybe big storms, high around 97 degrees. check out the next seven days. the relief will come monday and tuesday. once that front comes through on sunday, which again could trigger some big storms, but the cooler air then settles in for tuesday and wednesday. we're talking lower 80s by wednesday. we could see some showers also. we need it. it's dry out there. so we will get that relief, but just not till early next week. hang in there. >> to see the light we know. thanks. now 9 sports with kristen berset, the best sports in town.

>> summer break for the washington redskins winding down. we are now three weeks away from the start of training camp. the rookies come back to town july 16th with everyone else reporting on the 25th. joining me now in studio with a look ahead frank henrahan. thanks so much for coming in. three weeks from when these position battles will start. we know who starting quarterback is, of course, but there will be a lot of competition around here. danny, which position battle are you looking forward to? >> to me it's the wide receiver. it's morgan, garcon and santana moss hanging on. somebody will be the odd man out and i'm curious to see who emerges into the top three. >> i'll go with the second most important maybe wide receiver but running back situation. what do you do? who is carrying that football. basically a three-way race. you got hightower who may be the starter even though last

year he was injured most of the time. evan royster and roy helu jr. so that's the position i'm looking at. >> we'll keep our eye on that and hopefully we won't have as hot of days as we've had recently, but as we recall training camp the last few years, it's coming. they've got that bubble now do. they use it? but what about the fans? >> you have to use it. if it's anything like today. >> sure. we would appreciate it. >> i'm guessing late july in ashburn it's going to be hot. i think the fans will understand. remember what, 10 years ago the guy in minnesota passed because of the heat? it's just a risk. i don't want to take that risk. >> keep it inside the bubble. the fans will trade a little inconvenience for a couple more wins, get your work in. the fact they have the bubble, it needs to be utilized. >> you don't see an uproar the fans can't go in the bubble and can't watch training camp. >> the uproar will be secondary to hopefully a better product. people will get over it for a w. >> the caps signed adam oates

last week. what do you think reaching into the past to help the future. >> what's the style? is it a cross between dale hunter and bruce boudreau? how are they going to play, get up and down and maximize talent? no. 2, how does he handle alex ovechkin. i don't think george mcphee would say this. part of the reason he was hired was how he related to kovalchuk in new jersey to make him an offensive player and decent enough defender. what do you get out of ovie? >> we've already heard about them conversing. what do you think about oates, bringing more offensive style to the caps? >> they have to. we struggled through the playoffs. i know they got to the 2nd round, but every game was by one goal. they've got to find a way to get ovechkin to be more involved and be more of a sniper. right now it was too close to call last year and that's why

they got bounced in the 2nd round. >> we'll see if oates can finally push them over that hump next season. thanks so much for coming in. back over to you all. coming up on 9 news now. >> reporter: for a lot of people still the concern is the power is down, but in this silver spring home the concern is that the power is on and there are hotlines all up and down the roof despite repeated calls, pepco doing nothing to solve this issue. i'm bruce leshan, this story coming up. >> but first a stranded bald eagle and the dramatic rescue that may well have saved the life of our national symbol. those stories and more at 6:00.

preparations in the works to release a young rescued bald eagle back into the wild. the stranded bird is undergoing rehab thanks to the dramatic actions of a boater in long island. jennifer blowing an has that -- logan has that story. >> reporter: mitch kramer and dodge jesse have never made a rescue like this before. responding to a towboat call they saw something struggling in the distance. they were 10 miles from shore. mitch said his heart was racing. >> as i got closer, i saw a bird. i couldn't leave it there. so i decided to give it a shot and see if i could grab it.

>> reporter: the exhausted frightened bird turned out to be a 1-year-old bald eagle, the venerable symbol of our nation sick and stranded in long island sound. >> it had about a 6-foot wingspan. it was very intimidating. >> the bald eagle was a lot bigger when i pulled it out of the water than i originally thought it was. >> reporter: he placed the thin bald eagle into the ship's cabin and immediately called his wife, an animal rehabilitator who was busy with swans and crows. >> we at first thought that the eagle was brown. it had eyes crusted over, very thin, was crawling with lice. >> reporter: transported from the colorful harbor to donna's vet center for fluid and antibiotics, regained her eyesight and onto a new jersey raptor center. >> we did call her indy for independence day and we knew finding a bald eagle at this time was actually quite unique and ironic. >> reporter: indy is a threatened species. the rehab experts tell us as soon as indy is healthy which could be in mere weeks, the

young bald eagle will be freed on long island. from huntington jennifer mclogan, wbs2 news. >> sightings of bald eagles in the new york area are actually on the upswing. their status has been downgraded from endangered to threatened. this is 9 news now. >> well, if it's not hot enough for you, it's about to be. we've got another meet alert again today and anny hong, we are rolling into record breaking territory, but are we going to get there? >> not quite today. we were close. the official high of 100 at reagan national. the record high was 102. so not today, but i think by saturday we've got a better chance to challenge some rods. so the heat advisory is on -- records. so the heat advisory is on until 8:00 this evening for most of the d.c. metro area you see highlighted in orange. the heat index, factor in the temperature and humidity, it feels like 104 downtown, 103 in frederick and baltimore,