again, some of those are severe especially in the mason dixon line area. so the risk for severe weather is in yellow. that does include the entire d.c. metro area. our main threat for any of these storms which could become severe are damaging wind gusts and hail. the heat also is on. the heat advisory is until 8:00 this evening. it is muggy out there. when you factor in the high humidity, it feels like 101 in downtown, 102 manassas, even culpeper 101, annapolis 103, came bridge toward the eastern shore 103. so -- cambridge toward the eastern shore 103, so really uncomfortable. tonight we're expecting partly cloudy conditions, isolated thunderstorms. the lows will fall to the 70s. we are just in day one of our heatwave. i'll let you know how long the heat lasts and our next chance for big storms that could impact your weekend. derek, back to you. we do have a little light

at the end of the tunnel when it comes to the recovery from friday's epic storm. all of the power companies in our area say they've restored more than 95% of customers who have been in the dark, but there are tens of thousands still waiting. pepco still has the most outages, just over 16,000. dominion has 4,500 customers in northern virginia and bge is down to 1,700 homes in the dark in montgomery and prince george's county. for a civil spring family the problem is not that the power is off. it's -- a silver spring family the problem is not that the power is off of it's that the power is on. an energized power line has fallen all over the roof of their home and they say they just can't get pepco's attention. >> reporter: i'm bruce leshan with a family in silver spring that hopes pepco will turn off the wire. >> you're telling me these wires are hot? >> they're hot right now. they're charged. >> reporter: a pepco crew restore power to a silver spring neighborhood sunday.

>> you're looking at a combination of the power, the main power supply to our house. this right there is the main power. be careful because it's live. >> reporter: but the crew did nothing about the electrified wires that a branch ripped down and draped across his metal gutters. >> i have been calling pepco since 10:30 friday and they've laughed at me, hung up on me accident told me that they didn't have -- me, told me they didn't have any report. >> reporter: the family called 911 and firefighters said all they could do was but up caution tape until pepco shut down the power unless, of course, the house caught fire. then the firefighter said they could do something. >> the gutter could sever right through the casing of this and it could spark up again and catch our house on fire. >> as we told you, it's not just folks in maryland still suffering. 4,500 homes in northern virginia still do not have power. that means they're dealing with the problems of no air

conditioning, no refrigeration and for many no cooking for the past six days. a lot of folks are doing the obvious things, stocking coolers, eating out, staying somewhere else, but one woman in arlington we ran into is using 10 to help her survive or should i say -- technology to help her survive the great summer blackout of 2012. >> i had like $9 in cash and i used all of that for gasoline because that was cash only. then i discovered my favorite starbucks over here at virginia square, they were 100% operation. i had the starbucks appear and money on my phone and -- app and money on my phone and they were the lifesaver. they were my hero. >> there is an app for that. there's good news for jennifer johnson and her neighbors. dominion contractors got their power back online shortly after 5 p.m. today. not everybody is quite so lucky tonight and six days of frustration is boiling over for a lot of folks in the commonwealth. >> reporter: i'm surae chinn

in arlington county at 23rd and south ginwoody streets where nobody wants to be the last to get power and as there are fewer out ages the frustration mounts. >> it's more than annoyed. >> reporter: tim scotch is running out of patience even as he watches the crews working in his neighborhood. >> intense anger because it took so long. >> reporter: a large tree that fell on the power line intensified the frustration. >> even yesterday we were trying to get online critical infrastructure. >> that's fully understandable. i figured they'd be doing that 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. >> i'm angry more at the people at the decision mixing level than anyone under v making level than anyone under that. >> reporter: they say they have a system that works and have to stick with it. in arlington county, surae chinn, 9 news now.

>> that same anger is magnified across the potomac where about 14,000 pepco customers in maryland are still in the dark, but they're furor may pale in comparison to next week and that is when maryland's public service commission is set to decide on a $66 million rate hike for pepco. scott broom questioned the chairman of the psc 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 him reminding reporters that the psc has pepco's number, that regulators fined the company $1 million in december for poor performance and now that the psc is considering a rate increase for pep so he, the real punishment may be -- pepco, the real punishment may be yet to cop. that's because this commission has the -- come. that's because this commission has the power to dock pepco's rate request to effectively

claw back tens of millions dollars of profits from previous increases that should have been spent on reliability. >> we would disallow the portion of that spending that we welt was attributable to their historic neglect. >> reporter: even so at least some increase is expected, which is bound to enage customers. the regulator's decision on pepco's demand for more money is due july 13th. mine wheel bazaria -- meanwhile bazarian told me today mother nature is angry noting that this most recent storm with no name did more damage than hurricane irene. in baltimore, scott broom, 9 news now. >> we should note that utilities have to provide after action reports on their storm responses to the maryland regulators within three weeks. so should pepco get that rate increase they're asking for? emotionally i know a lot of you may not want to pay the power company another dime. however, couldn't that money help the company make the chains and upgrades to keep

this from -- changes and upgrades to keep this from happening all over again? the address here is mailbag@wusa9.com. tonight a 12-year-old boy is in custody at a youth detention facility after being charged with murdering a 2-year- old girl in prince george's county. the two lived in the same home in the 1800 block of taylor avenue in ft. washington. police say the 2-year-old girl was a foster child living with the boy and his biological parents. the parents tell police they left the two kids home with their other child, a 15-year- old in charge of them, but when the dad got back, he found that little girl unresponsive and called 911. he started cpr, but she was later pronounced dead at the hospital. the cause, 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. >> the 12-year-old is charged

with second degree murder but not as an adult, at least not yet. his name is not being released because he's a juvenile. so far police will not say if anything about a motive. still to come ever wonder what would happen if four barges fourth of fireworks blue all at once? take you to san diego -- blew up all at once? take you to san diego. >> but first a lifeguard rescues a man in danger of drowning and gets fired for it. his boss tries to explain. ♪ [ ping! ] [ ping! ping! ] that's why i use new tampax radiant. it helps keep my period invisible, combining tampax's best-ever leak protection with a revolutionary resealable wrapper so all they'll see is me. [ ping! ] ♪ hi. totally new, awesomely-invisible tampax radiant. check out the whole radiant collection.

back now with some good news regarding that wildfire burning on neighbor mountain in shenandoah national park. fire crews now have it more than 55% contained and are working on putting out hotspots along the perimeter. so far the wildfire has burned 2,500 acres. luckily no structures are damaged. firefighters hope to have it all out by july 15th. a private company in florida fired a lifeguard who saved a swimmer's life but in doing so broke company rules. tomas lopez was hired to watch a certain section of hallandale beach and spots a man drowning off a nearby stretch of beach not patrolled by lifeguards and he went in after him anyhow. the company that hired him then fired lopez saying it has liability issues that require employees to stay in those certain areas, but lopez is not apologizing. >> if i see someone and i have

the ability to help, i'm going to go help them. i'm not going to worry about jurisdiction or any other nonsense like that. >> makes sense to me. at last chen the man lopez rescued was -- check the man lopez rescued was in good condition. come on, how do you fire a lifeguard for saving somebody? do you real expect somebody trained to save somebody to ignore somebody drowning or is this all just a sense of our sue first mentality and they're worried about that, so they make these rules? weigh in on that at mailbag@wusa9.com. >> the sweltering forecast from anny is coming up. >> but first president obama heads a bus tour through two key swing states, his message to the voters next. ♪

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president obama rolling down the highway on a two-day bus trip through two state critical to his reelection. along the way he's stopping in manufacturing towns that helped hip win in 2008 and defending his -- him win in 200except defending his handling of the -- 2008 and defending his handling of the economy. danielle nottingham has the details. >> reporter: president obama is tackling the battleground 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, 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 full of auto workers and the president says his administration is filing a complaint against china for unfair tariffs on some suvs made in ohio. >> i want goods shipped around the world stamped with made in america. >> reporter: as the president makes the case he's done all he can to help the economy, the white house is bracing for the jobs report due friday. with unemployment stuck above 8%, republican president al 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 lately. >> reporter: the president will be in pennsylvania friday with the romney bus right behind him. a major new modernization plan in the works for d.c.'s taxicab fleet. mayor vincent gray announced a five-year $35 million proposed contract for smart meters. if the d.c. council goes along, you'll be able to pay your fare by credit card. >> we've made another major step forward in bringing our taxicab industry, operation, into the 21st century. >> with those smart meters cabs would then have gps tracking and tv for you to watch if you get bored and there would be new safety features for drivers and the passengers. san diego county's biggest fireworks show was over in just a matter of seconds.

a bit of a glitch last night caused all the july 4th fireworks to blow up at one time. thousands of spectators had gotten together at beaches and parks and scenic lookout spots looking for a view. this is what they saw. it didn't last long. they'd been camping for hours. 15 seconds later it was done. fortunately nobody was hurt, wow. >> that's like going down to the monument and thinking it's going to start and you'll wait all day and suddenly boom. >> i feel bad for all those kids who were probably all worked up. >> what about the people who got there late? you mean it's over? >> that would have probably happened to me because i'm always late. >> we're talking about the chance for storms tonight, derek. nothing too concerned because it's not widespread. we had a couple severe thunderstorm warnings up north in pennsylvania. those have now expired, just a couple north of baltimore. look around baltimore, there's a couple storms not severe.

tonight if we see anything materialize, it will be pop up hit or miss in nature. heat advisory in effect until 8:00 this evening and yeah, it is really hot out there and it's just sticky, 101 the heat index. this is the temperature what it feels like now, manassas 100 works fredericksburg 100 annapolis is at 103, leesburg 100 degrees. so it is very uncomfortable outside. a live look at the beautiful white house on our live weather cam brought to you by michael and son and temperature is 96. the clouds have moved in. the winds are north, northwest at around 14 miles per hour. so expecting some isolated storms tonight. some of them could be strong or severe. damaging wind gusts and hail are the main threats, very hot through saturday. then some big storms are possible for sunday. our futurecast shows us those storms tonight really will be isolated, a few clouds out there for this evening, otherwise a muggy night. so watch the chance for some

pop-up storms tonight, lows in the 70s, overnight lows in downtown close to 80 degrees, not a whole lot of cooling off, 75 for manassas, 74 in fredericksburg. tomorrow morning for your friday starts out mostly sunny and muggy, temperatures in the 70s and 80s and then we really heat things up i have quickly once again. we'll top out -- very quickly once again. we'll top around 100 degrees for your friday afternoon. a pop-up storm is also possible tomorrow. highs around downtown will be 100 degrees. so it's going to be cooking once again. 100 in college park, bowie 99, annapolis 99, arlington 101, reston and fairfax around 99 degrees. drink lots of water tomorrow and limit your time outdoors. your next three days code yellow alert for friday, saturday and sunday. check out saturday, 103, yeah. i think some records will fall on saturday. sunday 97, again chance for some big storms sunday afternoon and sunday evening.

all right. once those storms come through on sunday cooler air will come in for monday and tuesday. check out the temperatures, mid- 80s for monday, tuesday, wednesday, even low 80s? yeah, we really need some relief from the heat. so it looks like we could see cooler air by early next week and also next week thursday looking like it could be pretty decent, temperatures in the mid- 80s, but that heatwave, look at saturday. that's going to be a day to plan to be inside if you can with the ac, cooling centers or go to the pool. >> i'm thinking when it gets to be 83, people will be breaking out sweaters. let's get to our weird news because it's a story for everybody who just happens to have 5 million bucks laying around they can't figure out what to do with. why not buy an island? i'm not talking about some abandoned pile of dirt in the south pacific, no. this is a luxury floating manmade joint with six bedrooms, a bar, jacuzzi.

the idea comes from a company in austria which says this is way better than an island because you can move it anywhere you want, but it's better than a yacht because it's not always moving. it provides its own drinking water and power, but before you start to whip out the checkbook, this is a prototype generated by computer. the real deal hits the waves next year. maybe you want to put one on lay-away, 20 bucks a month and it's yours by the year 3500. we'll be back. >> we want to hear what you think. send your e-mails to mcginty's mailbag, the address, mailbag@wusa9.com. 9 news now will be right back.

in the mailbag tonight something i almost never share with you. that is an anonymous e-mail, but i make an exception for a woman who claps to be the wife of one of those -- claims to be the wife of one of those linesmen working like crazy to get those lights back on. i, too must wait to get the power back on. linemen work hard hours with hardly enough sleep in this hot weather. we must learn to be patient. i know this is hard, but look at how many outages there are. it takes time to put lines, let alone poles back up. just remember next time the linemen work hard and are doing the best they curran these

circumstances. ma'am, thank -- they can under these circumstances. ma'am, thank you for that and this situation reminds me of an unpopular war where we forget to thank the troops who are fighting it the best they can. if we've got an issue, it's certainly not with the people on the front line. then there was this from john in virginia. i've lived in the same neighborhood almost 25 years in a 100-year-old oak forest, huge 100-foot eye oak trees as far as the eye can see and from time to time they do fall down. i can count the power outages on one hand. we have underground utilities. perhaps pepco should stop spending time cutting trees and learn about what it costs to put the wires underground. >> john, of time this comes up pepco and a few others say -- every time this comes up pepco and a few others say it would

be terribly expensive and create problems of it's own, but after what we've been going through, i'm almost to the point of saying let's pay the money and take our chances, certainly can't be much worse than what we've got now. maybe you've got your own answers. share them with me at mailbag@wusa9.com. that is it for our report. i'll be back here at 11:00 with anita brikman and anny hong. have a great evening. bye bye.

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