this is bge, anne arundel county, 101,000 in anne arundel, 22,000 in prince george's and 683 bge customers there. pepco reporting in total 189,000 of its customers without power. bg & e has 379,000. dominion, virginia has 116,184. lots of electricity outages. it's likely as the winds start to shift in their direction, in my spernls aexperience, adam, w more of those. a lot of trees will be toppled. they lean in one direction, they start to lean in another and that's when the trees go down. >> you're working on something at home, you nudge it and yank out. >> then you call the expert, right? >> the persistent winds have been out there for four hours, constantly pushing against the trees. then it shifts in a slightly different direction and it can cause the tree to topple. plus more rainfall. our ground is so saturated. whenever you have saturated ground it's easier for the trees to fall. there's a look at our storm scan. some areas of rain letting up in southeastern virginia. locally we have one heavy band moving on through. we go to graphics system live doppler 7. that's a heavy band movin

i know of a business who had -- sales expanded from charity, but it was from bge, a for-profit business, that i worked for. host: let us go back to the poll on our facebook page. we are asking all of you if you are willing to pay more in taxes. yes and no -- 119 saying yes, and those saying no, 80 people. more in favor of raising their taxes than last. if you want to post your comments or take part in the poll, go to facebook.com/c-span. john, and republican in fort collins, colorado. good morning, john. caller: i think there should be no federal income tax at all and everyone should decide for themselves how much they are willing to pay. i would say a national sales tax -- an example of buying a car. if you are poor and you buy a $500 car, it would cost you $10. if you are rich and by $30,000 car, it would cost you $600. if you also look at that -- the number of poor people ride around and 30,000 cars -- i doubt if a rich person would want to buy a $500 car, but if that happens, they decide where they want to pay 60 times the amount of the other person. host: independent from jackson,