we are going to pass that by a couple. >> let's talk about today. we have a warm start, temperatures this morning still in the low 80s here in town. 83 now, 94 by noon. a 5:00 temperature topping out 100 to 101. we still have this code orange air quality unhealthy for sensitive groups. i think it is a good thing the traffic is light and we have had people off. there is a code orange, everybody east of the blue ring, -- the blue ridge. you are going to be plenty lot, as we look at temperatures this morning, low 80s in annapolis. here in dc this afternoon your highs arranged from the mid 90s to 101 here in washington. monika samtani, friday morning sort of a holiday week. tell me good stuff. >> reporter: i am going to tell you good stuff.

generally speaking all your volumes are late. i think a lot of people just decided we are going to the beach let's get out of town from july 4th onward. route 1 at lakeland drive, inside the beltway, there has been police activity all night there. consider the parkway near the university of maryland but not inside the campus. >> no problems to report here at university boulevard on the outer loop. back over to the maps, this time we are going to head to the west side of town. no problems on 66 coming in from manassas. we'll take a live look there where things are very light. back to you. thanks monika. we'll see you then. tonight we'll mark a week we have been talking about power outages. >> this morning fewer than 10,000 are still waiting to get

their electricity back. dominion virginia has moerman 6600 outages. -- more than 6600 outages. 6500 outages for pepco are in prince george's county. 900 in the district. 9news reported now, delia joins us from an unlucky neighborhood in bethesda. good morning delia. >> reporter: good morning andrea and mike. it is muggy outside already. you can certainly imagine, and feel for the folks inside their homes, sleeping without air conditioning this morning. this is the reason why. take a look behind me, here on thorn apple and beachwood right off connecticut avenue. you can see the utility pole snapped in half and leaving a tangled mess of debris and wires and trees. when you were driving around this neighborhood looking to scout out this location, there are just tree limbs everywhere

in this neighborhood and it is pitch black. folks are driving slowly through the neighborhood as they encounter these detours scattered throughout. as we take a look at the video that we shot just yesterday in the daylight hours, you can see crowes were making progress and heading to neighborhoods to restore power. however they were encountering some residents who aren't exactly pleased. they are frustrated at the fact it was taken so long for the power to be restored. we talked to some people sh even though they were sympathetic to the fact that pepco crews are working long hours. they are having a big job ahead of them some said power was restored too quickly because pepco never made the area and the downed wires in their neighborhood safe before turning the power on. >> you are looking at a combination of the main power supply to our house.

be careful because it is live. >> i have been pepco since 10:30 on friday. they have laughed at me, hung up on me, told me they didn't have any reports. >> the people were railroad respectful to and they gave me the information that they had. unfortunately, every day i called, i got information different. >> reporter: despite the communication issues and the destruction you see behind me, pepco is still talking about a rate hike. we'll have more on that at 5:30. andrea and mike. back to you. now for those of us still without air conditioning at this point, the city of fairfax will have cooling centers open this weekend. today you can go to the sherwin community center on old lee highway. tomorrow the old town hall on university drive will operate as a cooling center. the hours are from 10:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. and you are encouraged to bring chargers and

electrical devices. both buildings have free wi-fi. at 6:05 we have other news and a wild night for prince george's county police officers. it started when they got a call for a man way gun. police say there was an exchange of gunfire. a couple of patrol cars struck each other ate second scene, near a mcdonalds. after a second exchange of gunfire, police took the suspect into custody and transported him to a hospital. authorities plan to release more information later this morning. a 12-year-old boy is charged with second degree murder in the beating death of his two-year-old foster sister. anigh abachelor's foster father called for help. he returned to the home on stale lower -- on taylor street and called for 911. the parents say the younger children were left in the care of their 15-year-old son. the 12-year-old suspect is

being held at the youth facility. 100 people need a new place to live this morning after fire ripped through an apartment building in woodbridge, virginia last night. the flames destroyed the fourth floor of a building at the woodbridge apartments. the fire damaged the building next year -- next door. investigators are still looking for the cause of the fire now. it is time for the latest your money report of the morning. >> how about positive numbers? >> reporter: it is a rare occasion lately when wall street focuses on our own economy. except for primarily focusing on something in europe. ahead of the news, stocks were mixed after signs that miles per hour are spending a lit less. the dow stands this morning at 12896, it dropped about 47 points in trading yesterday. the nasdaq was flat on the day

and the s & p 500 was down six points. economists expect the report will show a slight pick up in hiring last month. 90,000 jobs created, not enough to knock down the unemployment rate seen. a privately compiled report was a bit stronger than expected. so who knows? fingers cross snood and checking on the music business we are still buying less cds. album sales dropped but digital album sales are up more than 13% over a year ago. of course adele's grammy-winning 21 is the top winning cd, digitally and physically, it claimed 730,000 copies sold in the week following her grammy sweep. >> that is good. she is pregnant. she is going to take five years

off. she'll have plenty of money to relax. >> when she is depressed she is really good. >> baby music. what about the next half hour? >> reporter: a call you should definitely make today. >> okay. >> reporter: you have to wait 30 minutes to find out what it is. it is 5:08. the suspect in the trayvon martin shooting could get out of jail later today. that story, coming up. plus the president is on a bus tour, trying to put key swing states in his corn sneer and ahead in sports, nats rookie bryce harper is at the center of a rally in the ninth inning. we'll show you how it ended, we'll be right back. i'll go east coast for the philly cheesesteak omelette.

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another scorcher of a day. look for sunny skies ask -k -- skies, a quick warm up and each hotter tomorrow. dangerously hot. right now over to monika with timesaver affect. >> if you are heading on to 66 in manassas, everything is fine. westbound two right lanes are

blocked with an accident. i'll give you more details on that and other virginia roads coming up at 5:18. making news now at 5:11 this morning, george zimmerman could be getting out of jail as soon as today. a florida judge has set a $1 million bond for the neighborhood watch volunteer. zimmerman is charged with second degree murder in the shooting of trayvon martin. his earlier bond was revoked after zimmerman and his wife misled the court about campaign finances. >> president obama will complete his two day bus tour. the tour, called betting on america, has the president campaigning in towns with auto plants. he is also making the case he has done all he can to help the economy. mitt romney is now mixing campaign stops and some family time in new hampshire, he has a home there, which is expected to be a key swing state in november. romney is expected to hammer on

the administration's healthcare reform law. it may be their off season but the caps are making sure they keep part of their roster intact. details coming up that 5:23. we'll run down what is in theaters this weekend. >> up next. howard actually does have a cool down in the 7-day forecast. you'll want to hear about that.

good morning. howard bernstein is here. how about the good news first and then backtrack to the heat? >> reporter: temperatures next week are going to be fantastic. >> there is hope. >> reporter: even as early as monday we'll be in the 80s. >> howard, our personal rainbow. >> reporter: the bad news is we have to get through today, tomorrow and sunday. and we have record setting heat tomorrow and maybe strong storms on sunday. so there it is from a nutshell. today we have a a heat advisory -- a heat advisory. noon temp 94. this afternoon we are going into the upper 90s, 100, 101. winds north to north west, only about 5 miles per hour. we are not going to get a lot of relief from the breeze, as we head toward 8:00 tonight we are looking at mid 90s with a west

wind at about 5 miles per hour. we have a quiet, warm morning. it is 78 in upper moral bro. -- marlboro. looking out sunrise is coming up in 25, 30 minutes. we have 83 degrees. few points near 70. humidity 63%. temperatures shooting into the 105 range in spots near st. louis yesterday. see the storms up and over and around the ridge. 107 in st. louis. hundreds setting into the ohio and tennessee valley. we dip into the mid-80s,

minneapolis on saturday. near us i think tomorrow we could be 103, 104, 105. 106 in st. louis. the high heat from northern missouri. sunday more 70s and 80s in the northeast. front is coming sunday, a better chance of storms, a very hot day sunday. well up in the upper 90s. just hang in there, we have relief on the way. the forecast today the yellow alert from the heat. with the heat advisory, pace yourself and be smart. we should blow past that. with a chance for afternoon thunderstorms, raise the alert level to red tomorrow. sunday yellow now, depending on the strength of the storms, it may be a severe weather alert day sunday.

there is your relief monday, 85 with a chance of showers and storms. nid 80s much of next week. >> reporter: our kevin king has been on the scene of police activity for us in prince george's county and college park. he tells us the road has just been reopened. first let me start off with the west side of town, i just got word of an accident on westbound i 66 just after route 234 business. two right lanes are blocked on the westbound side. inbound it may affect your rides a bit. here you are fine heading for the beltway. we have been telling you about this place activity on route one at lakeland drive. you should be good to go in the college park area. a live look outside right now and here's what it looks like

on the beltway at college park. we'll be back with more at 5:24. the nationals took the giants in the first two games of the series. >> highlights coming up in sports. let's look at the question of the day once again. some of you are probably wondering why our question isn't on our facebook page this morning. there is a reason. >> we are having technical difficulties post thing morning's question. but we do have a -- posting this morning's question. but we do have a question. 38% of americans say they relevantly use a taxi, the postal service, or a land line phone? >> log onto the facebook fan page and leave your response. make sure to put question of the morning as the title to your post. we'd look to read your response.

5:22. a very warm morning we are starting in the 70s and low 80s right now. as we head toward 9:00 we may have high clouds and temperatures generally already in the 80s. lunch time sunny and 94 in town. frederick 95. this afternoon we are going to make a run toward the 100- degree mark once again.

andrea and mike, back to you. the nationals keep their fans on the edge of their seats from the bottom of the ninth inning. kristen has the lie lights -- highlights in your morning sports. >> reporter: the washington nationals have been the better number one team, pounding the san francisco giants. the giants, like the nats, are known for their pitching staff. last night with matt cain on the mound the giants had their best chance for the w. celebrating the 1924 washington sent stores. going back to the new york giants days, here comes the comeback. danny espinoza, back to back homers off matt cain. he was done for the ninth. nats down one, bryce harper, base hit to right field.

tyler moore comes in. we are all tied-up. a big boy at back for harper. three days later adam laroche, looks like the giants will get their double play. the first baseman drops the ball, harper scores, nats win this 6-5. despite having an all-star kind of night, there will be no appearance for bryce harper. the rookie finished third in the fan voting. caps have been fairly quiet during free agency. yesterday though they inked a couple of their own players. they resigned center matthew frequent, they also signed jay beagle to a three-year extension.

i want vessel stores are waiting for new figures being released from the jobs report. coming up. >> a check on one neighborhood still waiting to get their lights back on. monika? >> reporter: we don't have any worries on 27 this morning. down to the point where the lanes divide and onto the beltway. you are watching 9news now, we'll be right back. çk

good morning. welcome back to 9news now. i'm andrea roane. mike haiduk is here. monday has traffic and we'll tell you more about that this morning and the investigation that is creating that traffic jam. but let's star with howard, and

weather first. >> reporter: another run toward 100 degrees. record is 103 today. tomorrow's 109 is in serious jeopardy. rhettee -- let's talk about today though. temperatures in the 70s and 80s with high clouds out there. code orange air quality, again unhealthy, high near 100 with a 98-degree reading still at 5:00. there is the heat advisory for the immediate metro areas inmont domry and fairfax county. up in the philly area that heat warning looks like it is going to be going through at least saturday evening up there. temperatures this morning, way up there. 83 in town, 77 winchester, gaithersburg, 74 if you will. a steamy, sticky mourn. cool spot annapolis at 95.

99 leesburg. take it easy once again. monika samtani, 52:00, relatively quiet? >> reporter: except for the one issue. kevin king on the scene in college park tells us things are beginning to clear up. we are talking about overnight police activity and investigation inside the beltway at college park. apparently you can get through there, but i would be just careful through the area. at least the lanes are reopening. we'll take a live look at the beltway. no problems with report. inner loop or outer loop for the beltway as we head around the bend. let's look over to 66 and good news here as well on the westbound side of 66 in manassas. this accident was moved to the shoulder. i'll be back with more traffic

at 5:39. in about three hours the government will release the june jobs report. on his bus tour yesterday in ohio the president said the job market is slowly recovering. >> we have seen the unemployment rate dropped. >> the president predicted we'd be at 5.6% unemployment. >> now presumptive republican presidential candidate mitt romney says jobs could be the big issue.

dominion, virginia has more than 6600 outages. pepco reports 7200 customers still out. more than 6500 are in montgomery county with less than 200 in prince george's county and almost 500 in the district. delia has more. >> reporter: we are here on thornapple and beachwood drive. a downed utility pole snapped in half that. tanged the mess -- tangled the mess of wire and debris. this is one of the biggest outages so far that we have noticed. 70 people still in the dark.

crews worked hard to restore the power. the frustration will probably only mount in next week when the public service commission considers a 66% rate increase. the commission says not so fast. >> pepco had not been maintaining its system to the level we expected. we would disallow the portion of that spending we thought was attributable to this historic neglect. >> one last look here. residents are hoping they get relief from pepco soon and crews will come to the area especially to restore power. thank you, dellia.

in the district elementary schools are closed and the following schools in fairfax are closed, beach tree, wake forest and westlawn elementary and stewart high school. in montgomery county chef have i chase elementary, north wood high, rocking horse, stone gate elementary, washington grove, julius west middle, west land mid and whet stone elementary stone school. >> four burglaries may be linked. montgomery county says the burglaries took place on noise lane, benington lane, fairview lane and mcneil road. road. all of the houses were occupied but none of the victims encountered the burglars. there could abe showdown in

woodbridge, virginia. police could enforce eviction notices a lawyer for residents said they are moving out mobile homes, and setting up a tent city nearby instead. >> jessica doyle is back with a call you may want to make today. >> you may want to call your mortgage broker. in fact call several and see the information you can get. the reason why mortgage rates have smashed previous record lows yet again. the rank rate for a 30 year fixed loan dropped to 3.62% this week. wow. that is down four ticks from the

week before. get this .10 out of the past 11 weeks you could save some serious money for the reidentify. and there is more heat. remember countrywide financial with all the sub prime loans, it turns out the company made hundreds of discount loans to buy influence with members of congress, congressional staff, top government officials and executives of troubled mortgage giant fannie mae. country wood turns out it was taken over by bank of america back in 2008. so you have a small plot of land and you want a really big house what do you do? you could steal this idea. build a round home. technically this house is not round, it is 20, 8-foot panels. the homeowner said it saved on

construction costs and this has 4000 square feet of space. it is pretty. i kind of like it there is an idea for you. >> i wonder what of the challenge is most furniture is square and straight and flat. >> if this is a big enough house. 4000 square feet, you have pretty long walls. >> our producer said she had to shop around. area pools because of all the heat are going to stay open late, so you can cope with the triple-digit temperatures. >> details on that, coming up. plus plans if a musical tribute this weekend.

5:39. a very warm 83 here this town this morning. 70s in the suburbs. heat advisories in effect until 8:00 tonight. by 11:00 we'll be in the 90s, 99 by noon. a higher on 100, 101. code air -- orange air quality. since about 10:30 last night, police activity and investigation has been ongoing in the college park area. this shot from our kevin king shows they have moved over to the side of the road. good news for you folks just outside maryland university, route one at lakeland road has

been resoaped. other area roads coming up at 54:00. back to you jess. >> reporter: thank you monika. we have been combing through the retailer websites to find you deep discounts. here are some of our favorites for friday. a four night stay at the dutch village beach resort in aruba. $450 for a one bedroom suite. full kitchen and daily breakfast for two. if you want to, you can extend your stay to 6 nights and $675. this deal is available right now on living social. thrill zone in warrington gives you a chance to cross skydiving off your bucket list. 157 bucks that is going to pay for your tandem sky dive package. are you thinking about buying a generator?

e-bay has 43% off a portable gas powered generator. the generator for $7.99. you are saving $600 and free shipping. i would send it over it mike. the district is making it easier for people to beat the heat this weekend and we could all use some help right? several city pools have extended their hours through sunday. also the extreme temperatures as well. the pools are offering extended power. the theodore hagan's pool in northeast. organizers are designating

tomorrow as chuck brown tribute day. the musical acts paid tribute on the festival's opening night. musical performances and hour long fitness workouts to storytelling on the brown's music career. the festival along the national mall wraps up sunday, make sure you bring plenty of what you are. wear light, loose-fitting clothing, and a hat. this is one of those stories where you go health insurance is very important. coming up after the break. this woman let a tumor grow to 51 pounds before she got medical treatment. plus we'll hear from a boater who rescued an ailing bald eagle he found floating in the ocean. nancy reagan is 91.

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afternoon there could be a stray storm in the mountains but i think storm chances today are really on the low side. look at these temperatures. upper 70s, 82 in fredericksburg, martinsburg was 80. reidville 81, so our weather watches, of course everybody way up there with the temperatures. still kind of dark with the clouds, sun vice happened just a couple of minutes ago. 83, feels like 86 already when you factor in the humidity and the humidity is sitting at 63 percent. not much has changed in the last couple of days. right over the middle of the country with record heat here and that is going to expand toward us tomorrow. tomorrow is going to be a difficult day with the heat.

notice the storms also by the way, going up and around the area of high pressure. underneath the high, temperatures today kansas city to chicago 103. st. louis 107. even lexington to 100. tomorrow the hundreds expand east but look what is coming from the northern plains. 80s driving south and east. today a few clouds this morning, otherwise the sunny and hot day. isolated storms, very isolated storms here this afternoon with highs near 100. tomorrow isolated storms in the afternoon, by a lot one. by sunday here comes a front, dropping south. by sunday afternoon strong to severe storms on sunday. so a yellow alert today for the heat, 101. tonight 80 in dc, low 80s to 70s in the bur bes. tomorrow the record is 102.

this heat will be excessive tomorrow. yellow alert sunday. 99. monday cooling down in the 80s. let's go to monika for an update on traffic. >> reporter: we have a couple of issues on metro's yellow line may be a little slower than normal because of earlier technical problems. also brunswick line is running late. looking great here on route 109, down to the point where the lanes divide, no issues now. across the american legion bridge, same story. coming up at 6:00 more traffic. back to you. coming up on 5:51.

investigators are blaming pilot error in a crash killing all 222 people on board. the pilot didn't properly respond to problems with speed indicators. hundreds of people in libya are preparing to protect voters tomorrow. the first election will be held. voters will choose a 200 member assembly and representatives will pick a cabinet. it was a touch and go surgery but a new jersey woman should be released from the hospital in a few days, weeks after doctors removed a 51- pound tumor from her stomach. the patient first noticed the fast growing tumor in late april. but because she didn't have insurance she waited to see a doctor until her of 5th -- her 65th birthday last month when

medicare kicked in. a stranded bald eagle is undergoing rehab thanks to a boater. >> reporter: mitch kramer of oyster bay, and dog jessie, have never made a save like this before. responding to a stranded sailor. they were ten miles from shore. >> as i got closer, i could tell it was a bird. >> reporter: i couldn't leave it there. so i decided to go ahead and give it a shot and see if i can grab it. >> reporter: the exhausted, frightened bird, turned out to be a one-year-old bald eagle. sick and stranded in long island sound. >> the bald eagle is just a lot bigger than i originally thought it was. >> reporter: he placed the baby bald eagle into the cabin.

he immediately called his wife, an animal rehabilitate tore. >> we first thought it was blind. eyes were crusted over, very thin, it was crawling with lice. >> reporter: transported from the colorful harbor to donna's vet center. regained her eyesight and on to a new jersey raptor center. >> we knew finding a bald eagle at this time was actually quite unique and ironic. coming up, we'll have the latest on who still doesn't have power one week after the devastating storms. we'll look at this weekend's new movies. including a fresh take on the spiderman comic book hero. over to you. >> reporter: thanks mike.

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let's look at some of the new movies for this weekend. the spiderman franchise has been recast. the amazing spiderman opened tuesday and the new leads are

andrew garfield and emma stone. on screen and off, by the way. peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, it sets him on a collision course and to becoming a hero. and savages, a new crime thriller, has a cast including blake lively, john travolta. and selma high he can. lively's character, it is up to her pot farmer boyfriends to rescue her with the help of a corrupt cia agent. >> katy perry part of me, gives fans a close-up look at the stinger's life on and off stage. -- the singer's life on and off

stage. teresa garcia has more. >> reporter: pop singer katy perry makes the leap in part of me. the 27-year-old grammy winner says she wanted to give her fans a front row view. >> what was the point in doing this movie? >> reporter: you are seeing with what is behind a curtain. fans get a raw look at santa barbara, california native who grew up singing gospel in her parents' ministry. >> reporter: when i was five, i was the, the guy preaching at the revival came up to me out of a few thousand people and said you are going to see. >> reporter: in the movie kati gives credit to a former record label publicist who helped launch her career. >> she believed in me so much that she, for her job on the

line, put it on the line and stole files and took them to a different record label and made sure i got that opportunity. >> she doesn't mind opening up in the film. >> we have been felt we had to tell the russell story. >> reporter: teary says she wants the move toy inspire fans to work hard and go for their dreams. teresa garcia, cbs news, los angeles. and thank you for watching 9news now at 6:00 a.m. i'm andrea roane. a long fourth of july weekend for some people. the forecast from howard bernstein. >> reporter: tomorrow is going to be the worst of the heat. next week temperatures in the 80s, starting