this morning the temperature has dropped to 82. still sticky out there. 94 by noon, sunny skies and 98 by 5:00. your temperatures right now anywhere from low 70s in the shenandoah valley, 81 at frees ricksburg and annapolis. we sit at 89. mid 90s on the bay, near 100 in the metro. >> reporter: generally speaking not only is it friday night light. 898 is running 20 to 30 minutes

late. we'll take a live look outside right now. northbound on 95, no issues on to 35. a quick look earlier accident westbound after route 234 cleared. still looking good heading prefer from fairfax to vienna and the beltway. it has now been one week. slowly but surely, life is getting back to normal. >> one big sign, federal workers and agencies are open, on time this morning. >> at last check 14,000 customers remain without power in our region. >> pepco is urging customers to conserve power today and through the weekend because of the extreme heat moving? >> delia has more on the storm

a aftermath. why now conserving energy? >> reporter: isn't that odd? you know, you are just getting your energy back in some neighborhoods. unfortunately the folks here don't even have power, but pepco is asking to you save energy. let's look at what folks are dealing with here. we are on the corner of thornapple and beachwood drive this. type of debris is literally scattered all throughout the neighborhood. folks are dealing with a huge headache and no air or power. crowes, working around the clock to bring power back to many neighborhoods. and as soon as the electricity comes back on, folks are cranking up the ac, doing their laundry. but pepco now warns to you

conserve the energy, because the system stressed. vees cents say -- residents say so are we. >> this right there is the main power. be careful because it is live. >> i have been calling pep co-since 10:30 friday. they have laughed at me, hung up on me, told me they didn't have a report. >> they were very respectful. unfortunately, every day i called, i got different information. >> reporter: so there are obviously communication issues and then you have this destruction that you see behind me in certain neighborhoods. weapon co-is not saying don't use your ac, they are just saying set it at 78 degrees. guess what pepco is also wanting you to pay nor for the electricity that perhaps you just got back or folks don't

even have that. more on that story coming up at 6:30 it appears dominion will meet its goal of getting just about all the customers back online by tonight. it still has 800 people without power. most of the outages are in arlington and alexandria. right now learn which local utility is the slowest at restoring power outages and yes, pepco makes the top of the list. a police involved shooting last night on lakeland road in college park, maryland. officers say at the time they were speaking to a man when shots rang out. two officers crashed while they were chasing him. more shots were fired and the police took the man into

custody. we don't know his condition so far this morning. firefighters in woodbridge, virginia are trying to figure out what sparked an apartment fire. fire gutted the fourth floor atwood bridge apartments thursday night. two firefighters were treated for heat exhaustion, no residents were injured. the district wants to bring some high-tech taxis to the city. the mayor showed off the new equipment. the tax says will have tv monitors, gps, even panic buttons for both the driver and the passenger. each driver will pay $500 to install the equipment and riders get a 50 kept surcharge to pay for it. jessica doyle is watching your money and the latest unemployment reports. last time they came out we

were a little disappointed. what are we expecting today? >> okay. not great not horrible. there is some reason to believe we could have an upside surprise this morning. recent reports have looked pretty good. layouts hit a 13 month low in june. the downside here, companies may not be firing a lot of people. ad psays companies added 176,000 positions in june, very strong and better than expected. the official expectations for today's big jobs report out of the labor department are tend. -- ten not great.

it is not enough to knock down the unemployment rate, sticking at 8.2%. even if the jobs numbers get better today or worse, you should be prepared for this job market to last for some time to come. 56% of economists say we will not see unemployment drop for at least four more years. that is the level most consider a healthy economy. that is a presidential term, isn't it? >> our new normal. not so fun to get used to. >> thanks jessica. >> you got it. the time is 6:07. in five minutes, the best way to protect your cell phone at the beach and what to do if you accidentally drop it in the water. >> or if you have a child who does it for you. >> it is a good weekend for the beach. howard is talking record heat, we have your weather fires, straight ahead.

but first, do you know what today is? yeah it is international kissing today. so give someone you love a big, wet smooch. >> 52% of americans kiss on the first date. compare that to 32% of the french and 42% of the italians. 95% of americans say kiss not guilty public is just fine. while 6% believe the worst offense is bad breath. you got that right.

a very hot day, 90s easily by lunch time we are looking for highs about 101. i'll be back with a full weekend forecast, talking about record heat saturday in just a few minute. we have a single problem at the pentagon, now delays 890, and 872, 8 to 10 minutes late. coming up this friday

morning, a check of some stories making news. a florida young had -- judge had set bond for $1 million for george zimmerman. he is charged in the death of teenager trayvon martin. zimmerman claims it was self-defense. congressman jesse jackson jr. is staying in the hospital now, being treated for what his people describe as serious physical and mental ailments. there is a new tallest building in europe this morning. the london building is 1016 neat tall. >> with the heat this weekend, cool off at the pool.

how to protect your tech items. >> reporter: beachgoers slather on sunscreen. but what about your favorite gadget? >> the bench is not a very friendly place for technology. water is also an enmy of it, but also sunday can get into the ports of your devices and the seems and make them grind. >> reporter: there are a variety of cases on the market for smartphones, eread enters tablets. a simple plastic bag with a zipper or seal can also provide protection. bag that gadget before you leave home. don't remove it until returning home, to avoid contact with sunday and sunscreen. sun and hot temperatures can also damage a device. >> it is a good idea to keep the device out of the sun.

don't leave it in the car. pay attention to that. 95 degrees to 100 degrees is sort of the max you should be looking at. >> if an unprotected device takes a dip in the water, act fast and resist the temptation to dry it with a heat drier. >> one popular way to dry out a cell phone, put it in a bowl of uncooked rice. take out the battery and put the phone in the rice overnight. that could do the trick. >> it soaks up the water. before we get to weather and the hot news about that a special happy birthday to producer dan's mom, cathy. she even told us how old she is. she is turning 29 again this morning. good for you.

>> what would be this in cellsous -- in celsius? >> 85. >> relief comes monday. become in the 80s monday, and we'll stay there for much of the following week, so there is light at the end of the tunnel. this morning though, want to start you out with a look at the day planner. hot, temperatures warming into the 90s. 94 by noon, winds out of the northwest 5 punishment 98 at 4:00 p.m. record today is 103. thunderstorm chances so low, not even punting -- putting them on the board. east of the blue ridge, look at this in philly, they have a

couple of tis because of the concerns of temperatures tomorrow. temperatures way up there, fairfax 7. rockville 78. 72, out to our northwest, dulles, and dulles is still 81 degrees. mostly cloudy skies and humidity still up there. 86. high pressure still in the middle of the country. storms go up and over and around the ridge of high pressure. well into the 100s, 107 st. louis. the heat expanding toward us

tomorrow we could push 103 .10 5 maybe. tomorrow record highs .10 4. a code red tomorrow because of the severe heat. don't be surprised if it is severe weather alert day sunday for the storms. >> reporter: suddenly we have a couple of situations, i'm getting word of a possible accident on the inner loop of the beltway. we'll take you to a live picture on the beltway, it looks like it is not affecting traffic yet. by the way on the outer loop,

unusual delays heading down to the dulles toll road because of late clearing construction. again an unusual delay. 872, eight to ten minutes late. northbound i-95 no issues here thankfully as you come up from dale city to the beltway. right now i have a commuter alert, track work is going to affect all five metro lines this weekend. starring tonight at 10:00, no service from new carrollton to stadium armory. that will go until sunday night. but metro says to add 30 minutes or more to your travel time. no service from benington road, you need to add another 30 minutes to go through that.

red line, no experience this weekend between the silver spring and brooklyn stations. grep line, single tracking this weekend. trains will run every 16 minutes through this. because it is so hot, you are allowed to bring bottled water on the trains. a few bottles. you are going to need it and it is going to be extremely hot, especially tomorrow and set -- and saturday. the question of the morning, 38% of americans regularly sues a, taxi, about the postal service or c, a land line phone. >> our facebook page is not cooperating today. you can post your guesses and

we can breathe them. so go ahead, yell out your guesses at the tv. we heard from somebody they used a land line phone. >> and new silver springs, the answers need to be grated. we'll be right back.

welcome back. a very warm friday morning. another steamy afternoon. temperatures not quite a record but triple-digit heat is possible once again. here's a look at the day planner. expect a few clouds for the next couple of hours, generally a sunny day. by noon 94. north to northwest winds at 5 miles per hour. even hotter tomorrow. i'll tell you about that coming up in the next few minutes. tonight ryan zimmerman is going to get the lou gehrig

award. after that last night it was turn back the clock night. nationals park sell brit the 1924 world series, the washington senators bet the nc giants in seven games. tyler moore scores, that ties the game at five. three batters later, one out for adam laroche. the giants get one, can't turn the double play. the game winning run next topped the giants 6-5. in an online chat bryce harper said he would like to be a firefighter if he weren't playing bought ball. so during the off season he is getting his certification to do

just that. the orioles are out west taking on the angels. baltimore is up 7-3. but los angeles scored five runs in the fourth. the o's lose 5-7. a time is 6:25. state ahead the late father of go go music will be celebrated on the national mall. and more on the story we told you about yesterday, to find out if you are going to lose the internet because of a big virus that is coming our way. >> reporter: on the outer lube of the beltway, southbound beltway i'll have more on traffic, coming up at 6:30. you are watching 9news now, we'll be right back.

here's a live look at national airport. already 82 degrees. however, if you feel like cooling off, jump on a plane, 7:15 it takes off, take you to miami, it will be 10 degrees cooler in south florida than here today. i can't wow, i'm andrea roane. howard bernstein live. >> reporter: you can go to

houston, as well. it is soupy, low 80s, thick, steamy and the air is not moving much. we are not going to see a lot of wind at all today. sun is out, clouds in the distance. code orange air quality. fredericksburg, with the heat up to 105. 82 in town, 75 manassas. in the 80s in annapolis and fred ricks -- fredericksburg. i'll be back and we'll talk about the 7-day forecast and we'll have relief on the way.

>> it was a friday very light. red on the outer loop to the gw parkway. the construction was further south in the tyson's area and juan cleared up until 6:00. we are going to look over on the south side of town. no worries northbound on i-95. let's take a live look outside, planning to head over to river road. i'm sorry. back over to the maps, this time up to the bw parkway and route 50. no issues, heading out toward annapolis and the bay bridge. we'll be back in a few minutes with more traffic at 6:42. andrea and mike? president obama and gop candidate mitt romney are both

on the campaign trail today and are both talking jobs and the economy. >> no doubt one of the biggest issues, erica hill joins us live now with a preview. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you guys, and happy friday, by the way. >> you too. >> reporter: thank you. the obama and romney campaigns, as you mentioned, gearing up this morning for the big jobs report. we'll look the at what is expected and ask david axle rod about it. and how the obama campaign plans to counter the $100 million fundraising of romney in june. and andrea, i know you are a fan of the good wife, as am i. >> yes. >> eli golds will be with us today. >> very good. >> he is here with us. that is his character, eli golds. because he also does the intro

to pbs mystery, as well. >> i don't watch that. >> right now he is in macbeth. stay cool, erica. thanks guys. now to the latest on the aftermath of our violent storm. today the deadlines the power company set to get back online. >> how are they doing? let's go live to delia in chef have i chase, maryland with a check on that. lots of downed things behind here. delia? >> reporter: yeah this is quite a mess here in this little bit of the neighborhood off connecticut avenue in chef have i chevy chase. look at this mess, downed power lines and the utility pole, it is a tangled mess and debris. kind of repeats throughout several blocks of this neighborhood here. we are told about 70 people in this area of thornapple and beachwood drive are still waiting for power.

in fact, as we travel throughout the onety yesterday, crews restored power to compass straight -- exasperated residents. and next week the public utilities commission considers a 66 rate increase pepco has requested. the commission says hey pepco, not so fast. >> pepco had not been maintaining its system to the level we expected. we would disallow the portion of that spending that we thought was attributable to their historic neglect. >> reporter: pepco is also asking, folks, this weekend who have their power to conserve some of the energy, because they are saying the system is stressed. as we are heading into the heat wave we are asking -- they are asking folks to keep their ac at 78 degrees. folks here this chevy chase are

hoping they can turn their acs on this weekend. mike, back to you. fingers cross today them. thanks delia. gailgt theres burglary -- gadget thergzburg, -- gaithersburg, ready to celebrate there weekend. food and live music and fireworks that didn't happen, will happen this went. the gates open at 5:00 next friday.

cut and paste links into your browser and that will give you an extra layer of security. the easiest way for you to know if your computer has a problem. head to this website dns-okay dot u.s. the site will tell you if you are infected and there is a link there to the fbi's page about the problem. literally you click on that link and you get a green flash if your computer is okay. thank you. our time right now 6:38. in nine minutes, meet the local author of a new children's book, he is taking on bullies and saving the district, all at the same time. and nothing is going to save from you scorching temperatures this weekend.

howard says we could hit 101 today and even hotter tomorrow. the forecast here on 9news now.

welcome back. it is 6:42 and 82 degrees. if you look at the beltway here, overall, everything is cool except for right here on the west side of town, outer loop, slowing down from river road past the american legion bridge. 270 looks fine, no issues to report as you head down from frederick, down to the point where the lanes divide. it is running really smoothly right now. look at the american legion bridge -t looks much better here than it did about ten minutes ago. if you are headed to the beach, route 50 looks great. no problems heading in to annapolis. this is a great time to head out to the beach. it is going to be so hot this weekend. back over to the maps, delays

on 890 continue. i'll be back in a few minutes with the big picture. thank you monika. a yet time to -- a great time to head out to the beach. >> 80 degrees. >> maybe a little too hot to get into the water? >> bite your tongue. feeling good out there right now. and you get the breeze off the ocean. evenber. another scorcher today, very hot tomorrow. then we get relief, especially come monday. get ready for a sunny day. sunshine and heat, 94 by noon. upper 90s .10 1 for the high today. northwest wind. 77 degrees in culpepper. 75 in easton.

low 80s here in washington, hazy out there, sunshine now, got a temperature on our michael and son weather camera. 82. feeling like 85. boy that is a lot of humidity 65%. still have the ridge in the middle of the country. temperatures, look at these forecast highs in the middle of the country. highs 100 st. louis. also a 73 in bismarck. i point that out because cooler air will come our way as we get into early next week. for today the futurecast very quiet, not seeing much of anything pop up. tomorrow an isolated storm and then sunday, temperatures at bismarck in the 70s. that is going to get here ahead of that. a yellow alert today for the

heat, 101. the record is 102 tomorrow. going a red alert tomorrow just for the heat. thursday highs in the 80s. mike over to you. >> reporter: thanks howard. are you trying to prevent the summer slide. there is a book that is out that should be on your kids' summer reading list. it is a super hero story, mark we woulden is the author of mighty mack. we want to say hello. tell us about it. we have the graphic up there. >> mighty mack, 13-year-old mckinley arthur cool i think, a

aka mighty mack, discovers he has super powers. and stumbles across a potential terror attack and it is up to mack to save the day. >> bullying and things of this nature, does this help with self he is seem? and absolutely. things happen to -- esteem? >> absolutely. he wants to be a hero, he doesn't want to be a zero. somebody mysterious comes into his life and tells mack you are capable of more than you think of. mack eventually ends up taking on the bull and again he has to save washington, d.c. >> that is a big job. is mack an eighth grader? >> he is 13 years old in the eighth grade atwood middle school in rockville, where,

coincidentally, i went to school. >> why write this book? >> i love to write. i have always dreamed of walk into the a bookstore and seeing my name on the shelf. i enjoy making people try to laugh and i have always wanted to do it. >> can your eighth grade students grab a lesson from this book? >> absolutely. the message is stick up for yourself. you have got to believe in yourself. and good things hopefully happen. >> if you would like to find out more book signings are coming up? >> book signing tomorrow at

books a million, barnes & noble on sunday and next saturday at barnes & noble at the rio. >> congratulations on the book. jess over to you. deal time. >> reporter: thank you mike. time to check out today's daily deals. how bay four night stay in aruba? $450. a suite, full kitchen, daily breakfast for two. thrill zone in warrington, groupon giving you up to 50% off. $57 -- $157, and that includes a video of your jump. how timely is this one?

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6:53. steamy out there this morning. 82 right now, 94 by noon. look for highs around 100, 101 with 98 at 5:00 p.m. andrea? seven days after our epic

storm, fewer than 15,000 customers remain without power. montgomery county has the highest concentration of outages. pepco crews are working around the clock to restore fire. prince william fire crews investigator will go back to a burned building in woodbridge, virginia this morning. 100 people are out of their homes. the nats overcame a four run deficit to the giants last night. the nats beat the giants 6-5. to reveal the answer of the question of the morning, 38% of americans say they regularly use which 2001 of these things, taxis, postal service, or land line phone. >> it is about the postal service. >> i walk by it every day

a story about lifeguard that lost his job. >> he tried to save a life. he tried to go out of his jurisdiction on the beach he got fired because he left his beach. now the company, after getting all this from people around the nation, offered him his job back. >> and he said thank you about no thanks. >> the really big bosses of this argo group, they are coming down to take a look at the situation directly. and maybe they need to rethink their policy. >> he did the right thing. >> and he said when i about tow bed at night, i know i did the right thing. >> weatherwise, the beach

sounds good. records tomorrow 104, 102. potential through strong storms -- potentially strong storms. >> reporter: nothing across the bridge into tyson. nothing to the 14th street bridge. >> oh that would be wonderful. as for wall street everybody is looking ahead for the unemployment report. >> the latest from the campaign trail, learn the five travel websites that will make your trip the best ever. see you monday, starting at 4:25. have a great weekend, everybody.