came up from. we understand fire officials had to go down into the tunnel where this train had derailed and one by one they had to evacuate the folks that were inside there. they walked about 100 feet i'm told underneath the ground and then came up to a waiting fire trucks and ems who were standing by. of course, you can imagine just how difficult this kind of an operation is in this extreme heat that we're having out here and now police and metro officials aren't saying what could have led to this derailment, but they are considering that maybe these extreme temperatures that we're seeing out here may have had something to do with it, but again nobody was hurt in all of this. 50 people evacuated. they've all been taken out of this area. they were taken to cooling stations and sort of sent on their way, but again the tracks will be closed for a long time. investigators are trying to figure out what caused this derailment in the first place.

back to you. >> ken, thank you. our other top story is the heatwave baking us all right now. today the mercury soared near the century mark again. guess what, folks? this is just the beginning. it could be a lot worse tomorrow. in fact, so much worse we're already under an excessive heat warning. so 9 news now weather team issued a severe weather alert for tomorrow and anny hong is here with all the details. >> this weekend is going to be a very hot one for saturday. in fact, i think we could see records fall and temperatures will feel like almost 110 degrees in some locations come tomorrow afternoon. we've declared tomorrow a severe weather alert day. here's why. an excessive heat warning in effect for saturday, 11 a.m. until 10 p.m. what this means is you got to take it easy. really limit your time outdoors. this is the highest heat level heat alert when it comes to the national weather service issuing these types of warnings. the heat index, in downtown it

feels like 99. that is our high for today, manassas 98. fredericksburg and culpeper and leesburg it feels like 105 degrees because the humidity is higher out there. the historic heatwave ninth straight day of at least 95 degrees or more and that's a first time we've had that since keeping records in more than 141 years. we'll probably get to 11 straight days of at least 95 degrees because of tomorrow's forecast being more than 100 also sunday's forecast being very hot once again. am last year this time july -- remember last year this time july was the hottest month we've ever had. tonight clear skies, very warm and muggy. lows will be in the lower 70s in the suburbs and low 80s around town. we'll talk about when we get brake from this heat. we've got the heat -- a break from this heat. we've got the heat tomorrow and big storms coming this way sunday before we see any relief. this week's heatwave has

already claimed more than a dozen lives in our area. in maryland nine people have died from heat-related cause since july 2nd alone. eight of those victims were 65 years of age or older. in virginia 10 heat-related deaths sin june 20th. five happened in -- since june 20th. five happened in northern virginia. the extremely hot weather has summer camps especially concerned. the fairfax county park authority runs over 100 different camps for thousands of kids and the staff has special guidelines to keep the kids safe in the heat, our peggy fox with more from one of the counties. >> reporter: if you've got little kids and want to enjoy the summer without succombing to this oppressive heat, what could be better than fairfax county's new spray park? it is free and fun, but a power outage next-door at the lee district rec center caused a major scramble for campers. this lacrosse camp and three others run by the fairfax county park authority are supposed to be at the lee district rec center, but a worn

out power cable, not the bad storm, sent the facility into darkness and set off a quick change of plans. >> they scrambled, got the school. the school has been amazing helping us out. >> reporter: the kids were bussed to forestdale elementary in springfield where the indoor camps could use classroomed and the gym and the lacrosse camp could use the field, but the high sun and high temperatures this week have posed a danger for anybody outside, especially those not used to it. >> it's really hot out here, especially playing lacrosse. it can be really tiring. >> reporter: coach jason jeffries says he tells the campers to take water breaks whenever they need to and they go inside part of the day. >> you do worry, but we take plenty of water breaks. the kids are very good about telling us when they're tired and need a break. >> reporter: have you ever said coach, i need to get in the shade? >> yeah. like every day. >> just go in the shade, go inside. >> yeah. >> reporter: but then you'll come back out.

>> yeah. >> reporter: if you wonder why the kids aren't wearing shoes, that's how american indians played the sport. >> they liked the land. it was a game survival for the fittest pretty much and they were barefoot. >> reporter: that's why you're barefoot. >> yes. we're replaying it. >> reporter: if you think having those shoes on is cooler on this field, you're wrong. >> definitely makes me run faster and get to the ball just like really eager to get my feet off the hot ground. >> it's hot and it's really brutal weather, but as long as i'm sweating, i'm still alive. >> reporter: the power is back on now at lee district rec center and barring any more storms out there this weekend next week campers should be good to go. i'm peggy fox in franconia, back to you. >> as long as i'm sweating, i'm still alive, got to love that line. if you are trying to beat the heat, we've got a full list of cooling centers at our website www.wusa9.com. there's some good news as the heat rolls in tonight. less than 1% of the folks who

lost power in last friday's big storm are still in the dark this evening. here's the latest check on outages. pepco still has 6,800 outages in northern virginia, 538 dominion power customers still don't have power and bge is down to just 560 customers out in montgomery and prince george's counties. of course, that does not mean much for those still in the dark almost a full week after the storm hit. for many the frustration is giving way now to exhaustion over just when the power will be back. >> reporter: i'm andrea mccarren in montgomery county where pepco crews continue to restore power to the remaining 1% of its customers. the tiltons drove around their powerless neighborhood delivering ice and water to those without either. >> being good to people, it feels good. >> reporter: those random acts of kindness have helped sustain the final 1% of pepco customers waiting to have their power

restored. >> we expect that it takes time, but this is ridiculous. you know, this is a week now. this is unforgivable. >> i did laundry at a friend's house all day saturday. today was enough. i just was done today and have been very emotional the whole day. >> last night i went from my bedroom upstairs which is way too hot, to like the couch downstairs to like air mattresses in the basement. >> reporter: even in this quince orchard knolls neighborhood of underground power lines and no visible damage 49 homes remained hot and dark until this afternoon. >> i just wish pepco would be honest with us, tell us the truth. >> reporter: the joy of electricity quickly gave way to dread that another powerful storm may be just around the corner. >> i don't know what we're going to do. it's just overwhelming. >> reporter: for those who still don't have power, pepco's estimated restoration time is sunday night at 11 p.m. in rockville andrea mccarren, 9 news now.

>> if you live in montgomery county and still are cleaning up downed trees and limbs, the county will help take care of the mess. it's holding a special one time debris pickups next wednesday. place any tree debris along one of the county's 217 snowplow routes. make sure they don't block the sidewalks or driveways or roads. so far montgomery county has checked more than 4,800 tons of debris since that storm. still to come the smithsonian folklife festival plans a tribute to the late d.c. go go legend chuck brown. >> but first prince william county takes action against the people holly acres mobile home park. we'll be right back.

back with the 9 news now update, lots of people lost their power recently, but some families in woodbridge, virginia just lost their homes. prince william county county has now evicted eight families living at holly acres mobile home park. the county declared the homes unfit to live in last fall since tropical storm low. ever since then the owner has been fighting over the efforts to rebuild. churches and other groups are working to find shelters for the families who are now on the streets. governor martin o'malley is working to get lawmakers to agree on a plan to expand gambling in maryland, but he's not going to call a special session for the issue next week. back in may governor o'malley set july 9th as a tentative

date to call the lawmakers back, but his spokesperson says that's not going to happen. she said o'malley will continue to look for an agreement that might be passed later this summer. the owners at verizon center may soon get the go ahead to add more animated signs. ward 7 council member yvette alexander plans to introduce emergency legislation for the plan next week to allow the d.c. council to approve the sign before the two-month summer break. if passed, up to nine new signs or displays could be installed at verizon. the heatwave kicking into high gear just in time for the weekend and there could be some more storms coming with it. anny will bring all the details with her next. >> but first. >> reporter: president obama defends his handling of the economy while courting blue collar voters. i'm danielle nottingham at the white house. i'll have this story coming up.

back with some bad news on the jobs front. the latest labor department report shows employers added just 80,000 jobs last month. that's about 20,000 less than folks were hoping. that makes three straight months of weak job growth. the jobs add were not enough to brin down the unemployment rate. so right now -- bring down the unemployment rate. so right now it's hanging around 8.2%, nearly 30 million americans out there looking for work. not surprisingly jobs were

the topic of the day on the campaign trail. president obama continued his bus tour to ohio and pennsylvania. he spent the day trying to convince voters he still has a better plan for turning around the economy than mitt romney, that despite the disturbing jobs report earlier. danielle knot happen with more from the house. -- nottingham with more from the house. >> reporter: president obama wrapped up a two-day bus trip from battle ground state in the hot pittsburgh sun. he was forced to address another disappointing jobs report. the labor department says only 80,000 jobs were added in june leafing unemployment stuck at 8. -- leaving unemployment stuck at 8.2%. >> we've been fighting back, but what we all understand is we've got so much more to do. >> reporter: the president made stops at a diner, bakery and food manufacturing plant near the ohio/pennsylvania border friday. he's trying to reach out to blue collar democrats who helped him win in 2008. >> i've got a different idea.

by building not from the top down, but by the middle class up. >> reporter: the white house says the obama administration has created nearly 4.5 million jobs since the president took office. >> the president's policies have not gotten america working again and the president has to stand up and take responsibility for it. >> reporter: vacationing in new hampshire republican presidential hopeful mitt romney said the jobs numbers are actually worse for many americans. >> if you look at the broader analysis of people who are out of work or have dropped out of the workforce or that are underemployed in part-time jobs needing full-time work, it's almost 15% of the american public. >> reporter: when asked about his vacation time, romney said he hopes more americans will be able to take vacations. danielle nottingham, cbs news, the white house. tomorrow down on the national mall the smithsonian folklife festival will be going on. they'll be hosting a day long

tribute to the late chuck brown also known as the godfather of go go music. they'll have live performances, some history lessons and a fitness workout. really? in that heat. it's all about the go go music and a part of the tribute to chuck brown. the festival will go on 11 a.m. through 5:30 p.m. i think that's when the heat advisory is happening, too. it's all part of the free smithsonian folklife festival going through sunday. if you'll remember, chuck brown died in may, 75 years old, beloved by all. a lot of folks will be at the mall and the heat will be blasting. that's why we're under an excessive heat warning and the 9 news now weather team issued a severe weather alert tomorrow. there's good reason. i don't know if this is the time too go down to the mall or not, man. >> it's going to be a tough one to be out there. >> 100 degrees? >> you got to be a huge fan to deal with that kind of heat tomorrow and factor in that high humidity, it will feel like 110 at times and some locations if you absolutely must go, make sure you bring

out the sunscreen, lot of water, pack that cooler with plenty of fluid and pack your patience. you got to take it easy. let's look at our heat alert for tomorrow. this is the highest height alert from the national weather service, the excessive heat warning, which is tomorrow from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m. today we've got the heat advisory which is a couple notches below the warning until 8:00 tonight. tomorrow will be a really ugly day. heat index in culpeper 105, leesburg 103, frederick as well 103. it's very, very hot. in downtown the humidity not as bad, so the heat index is pretty close to the actual temperature where right now it's 97 degrees, mostly sunny skies, winds north, northwest at 10 miles per hour. radar is quiet tonight. it should be that way for the rest of this evening. tomorrow get ready for the even

hotter conditions, then some storms coming this way, big storms possibly for sunday. heat advisory for us tonight until 8:00. saturday is the excessive heat warning. it's elevated status. record highs are likely. sunday is still hot. then some afternoon, evening thunderstorms are in the forecast. some of those could be strong or severe. our 9 futurecast shows we got basically clear skies overnight, sunny and warm start to saturday. we'll heat things up. saturday night also we're not worried about too many storms, maybe a stray storm, but sunday things start to change. some clouds move in. you can see sunday afternoon we'll see scattered showers and thunderstorms and a cold front comes through. it will eventually bring us cooler air for next week, but we may have to deal with some pretty big storms for sunday afternoon and by monday we'll have the cooler air. so tonight clear skies, warm and muggy, lows 72 to 81 degrees, 80 in downtown, mid- 70s for manassas and fredericksburg, gaithersburg around 76 degrees.

tomorrow morning mostly sunny and muggy. air quality is code red which means unhealthy for everyone. so limit your time outside. tomorrow record heat and isolated storm is possible. here's your next three days. red alert for saturday and sunday, sunday some big storms possible, high upper 90s, monday cooler around 85 degrees and some showers and storms. your next seven days, so saturday is the bad day of 104 being the high. after the storms come in for sunday we'll cool down into the 80s by monday and for the rest of next week, which is a little closer to our average high of upper 80s. so tomorrow and sunday we have declared a severe weather alert day. as you check back with us, we'll continue to update you on the heat tomorrow and the storms sunday. let's get to our weird news file because you say you're in the plant for a sophisticated vacation, something classy -- market for a sophisticated vacation, something classy, maybe something five star. well this, ain't for you. it's a place called sweetwater,

tennessee, where they've opened the redneck resort. they don't do facials, spa treatments or pedicures. you can see they do dirt and there's plenty of it and there's plenty of equipment to play in it. they've got the four wheel drivers, atvs, not to mention that 240-foot slip and slide that kind of dives into the mud. this is not your nambi pambi vacation spot. this va-k is down and dirty, 20 bucks for the day, 30 for the weekend. anny hong, you in? >> we'll go together. i will bring my dog. >> there you go. >> 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. [ mosquitoes buzzing ]

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in the mailbag tonight the proposed rate hike for pepco, the power company saying it needs more money at least in part to invest in previously neglected infrastructure. jim says no. they have not been losing money. they have been making a profit. if they did not take part of that profit and invest in the business, then what is there to make people think they will put money into their business if they get more profit instead of just putting that money into their pockets? so no. they do not deserve a rate hike. that is, unless they are going to be fined a lot and that money distributed to their customers, but jane says let's not cut off our nose to spite our face. the utility is certainly not

without its problems, but pepco is burdened with the baggage of the past and being the company people love to hate. pepco demonstrated it's working hard to achieve goals and is making tangible progress despite the recent storm. it would be counterproductive to thwart positive reliability initiatives. then there was this from joel who says whatever money pepco gets ought to actually be spent putting the lines underground. of course, it's expensive to put the lines underground, but it has to be less expensive than fighting mother nature year after year. we manage to put gas lines, water lines, sewer lines, trains and other things underground. why is power so different than all these? the solution can't possibly be to just keep buying more trucks and hiring more guys for storm restoration. well, it sound good except did you see andrea mccarren's story today about the maryland neighborhood that has underground lines but still waited until today to get their lights back on? i'm just saying this sounds like one of those ideas that

sounds great, but may not be a panacea. my mail address is mailbag@wusa9.com. that is our report. i'll be back here at 11:00 with anita and anny and the latest on our heat alert. log on any time you like to www.wusa9.com. you have a great evening. we'll talk to you a bit later. bye bye.

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