you see pepco up there work that tree took down the entire pole that was there and pepco just now put up this new pole. less than a mile from here, i want to show you where the wind took out a pretty big tree as well. that tree fell right into a house over on burnett avenue. that tree came right down on the house, bringing down wires with it. pepco has already been out there. somebody was home. she told us she was just watching tv. then she heard something. she describes it as something terrible, a sound she had never quite heard before. scared her. she didn't know what it was. the man next door, same thing. listen to him, that neighbor and the woman in the house talk about that sound when the tree fell. did you know that it was a tree? >> no. i think it happen in other place, not my house. when i go outside, i saw the tree. oh my god. >> then you hear the bomb, you know. and looking if it's in front, if it's in the back. >> reporter: back here live on southwood, you see pepco there working to restore power over here. the damage there on the other street pretty bad. she does have rent

criminals are impersonating pepco trying to scam district and maryland residents. alison: our senior investigative reporter lisa fletcher is here with a strong warning about this one. lisa: sometimes it's obvious when it's a scam. but when the caller i.d. looks legit and in this case it comes up as pepco it's harder to know the truth of who is calling you. recent wave of fraudulent calls of people claing to be pepco billing employees prompted the attorney general to issue a consumer alert today. he says small businesses and retirees are in the sights of the criminals. >> we see enhanced targeting of senior citizens, particularly here when you talk about power and heat in the winter. finding and apprehending the scammers is very difficult. that is why the best protection is to not get scammed in the first place. lisa: the way to know two things. first, pepco does not call and demand payment. they send letters and they work with you. second, anytime you are told to immediately pay with a wire transfer, cashier's check or money order it's probably a scam. if you pate

pepco, 1000 without power. potomac edison repti for more on this let's get over to veronica johnson with the latest. veronica: think about this to offer some perspective to the system, bringing snow to areas of new england and for us some of the worst weather of the winter, coming from the wind and not the snow. once again we are seeing a system impacting areas of new england. quite as all day, not high as what we were feeling last night during the overnight, but today the wind will be upwards of 40 miles per hour there for a time, at least from new to 1:00. keep that in mind for the kids at the bus stop this morning, it is going to be a windy one. garbage day, recycling day, make sure the lid is secure. anything for the afternoon hours, 43 to 45 degrees. at least we have got sunshine on tap for today. all like try conditions tomorrow. valentine's day if you are going out, looking dry into the mid-40's. julie: a couple of problems on the rails and on the roads themselves. yellow line, each direction, a train ma

if you are not sure, call the pepco service number to check. do not give out personal information. if you think you are the victim of a scam, call and reported to the police. jonathan: elementary, is still cleaning up after a bed bug and rodent infestation. starting tomorrow, kids will go middles at ferebee hope school. shuttle buses will take them there. andon: tears, hugs, gratitude at a metro station to celebrate lifesavers. at then collapsed braddock road metro station a week ago. today, his family thanked deborah, a fellow metro rider, and a transit officer for rushing in to help. his wife says the father of two hopes to meet his heroes in person very soon. day we had.a not only did we break a record at reagan national and dulles and bwi-marshall, but we shattered them, into the lower 70's this afternoon. that will bring a big cooldown down to the mid-atlantic as early as tomorrow night. at 11:00, still 60 degrees reagan national, 64 leesburg, 66 warrenton, the same in leesburg. satellite and radar, showers mainly north and west of d.c. around the d.c. metro. hagerstown, md 50

. >> pepco is taking steps tokings make sure ate number of d.c..dents stay safe during theer winter months. >> as we head to bra a live look across the d.c. region. region rihanna singing it keeping uskes moving this friday morning.morn. >> ♪♪ >> ♪♪ >> ♪♪ >> this is fox5 news morning. >> today on fox5 news fox5 morm police complain a group ofplai prince george's county police officers say they are thege's their brothers in blue. blu >> and a live look outside.uts first it was snow and now it's s the subfreezing temperatures.pra winter has returned in a bignedg way. the question is how long willonl it stick around?arond? >>> and we saigon to you.gon to. thank you so much for joining us. i'm erin como.i'm erin >> and i'm wisdom martin i wisda today. is friday february 10th.bruar mike thomas here to talk abouta the cold weather that we're thar having and the warmu that'su on the way. the way. >> please tell me it gets get better tomorrow.tom >> oh, it gets better tomorrowot and then it gets even betterbett on sunday so we went fromt fm spring to winte

about 31-hundred pepco customers are affected right now. more than 17-hundred dominion customers in our area are without power. b-g-and-e reports.. 883 customers in our area are without electricity. stay connected to stormwatch7 to find out about the latest wind advisories. we are on wjla dot com... facebook.. and twitter. or download the stormwatch7 weather app with live rardar and hour by hour forecasts no matter where you go. breaking right now - a race against time in california. a major california reservoir heaviy spillway growing in size every time water is released. thousands of people have been asked to evacuate as the oroville dam threatens to flood the area for the first time in its 50 year history. abc's stephanie ramos has more. this morning - the trump team is also promising action on travel ban. the executive order is now caught up in the courts, after the 9th u-s circuit court of appeals refused to lift a restraining order on the policy last week. but - the president says the administration is weighing it's options, and he ma

are getting phone calls from people claiming to work for pepco. they slthreaten to shut off service if they're not paid by wire transfer. it appears this has been happening since july of 2015. >>> beginning this summer the smell of tacos won't be the only thing in the air at a taco bell in las vegas. $600 wedding packages. it i colludes a taco bell garter, a bow tie and also taco branded champagne flutes. i think is genius. if you're in vegas, somebody is looking for something like this. >> you know what's going to follow suit, mcdonald's themes and chick fil a and kfc and you an ihop wedding. >>> new at 5:30, surveillance of a dangerous fight in a school stail stairway. why the teacher involved in this brawl will not face charges. >>> and another check on your forecast. >> and the radar showing quite a bit of rain mostly south of the district now so around fredericksburg, starting to see some rain developing. coming up, chuck and i will show you what's going on for the rain for the rest of the day today and a cooldown before a m >>> emotional reu

. >> reporter: pepco has been at it now for a few hours here on southwood avenue. they have been worki quickly, though. we think they might be finishing up here after replacing an entire light pole. it's clear to us that the wind certainly did a bit of a number here in montgomery county. >> it was a bang. >> reporter: the wind blew through southwood avenue with a force that was mighty. fred peters is 99 years old but he heard the wind howling. all night, all morning, then that bang. >> like the transformer going out. i guess that's what it was probably. >> reporter: the tree took out an entire power pole and wires, knocking out electricity. crews worked to get that tree out of the middle of the street. fred sees a certain irony. >> trees are one of the reasons people like this neighborhood. i've already lost about four since i've been here about 60 years. >> reporter: pepco replaced the broken pole trying to get the neighbors can get back to normal. >> a man came up here and said don't get close to that stuff, stay in the house. that's been a couple of hours ago. i

you could call pepco at 202-833-75 ask suspicious callers to provide their address and phone number and who they represent. if you think you have been victimized by a scam, be sure to report that crime. >>> a new study suggests if you're a woman at higher risk for breast cancer you need to speak up if you want genetic testing. in a survey of more than 2500 breast cancer patients, only half at high risk for the gene mutations were actually tested. and testing can impact cancer treatment plans. most of the women in the survey who were not tested say their doctors didn't suggest it. >>> from the campaign trail to the quiet life, hillary clinton is breaking her silence. >> we need strong women to step up and speak out. we need you to dare gre >> her message to her supporters and to women everywhere. >>> and talk about wild weather, dangerous storms to our south, record-setting weather here and a big plunge on the way. doug is about to join us to tell us how much snow we could get. afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before

pepco keeps improving too. just over 1,000 outages right now.rgy has almost 1,500 out in western maryland and even more in west virginia. if you use bge there are about 575 outages. novec has 461. again mostly in fairfax county and in southern maryland only has about 20 passengers without electricity. >>> fairfax county police say they discovered a woman's remains on saturday. detectives don't think there's any threat to public safety. >>> a missing teen morter and her baby finally home safe after a month long search in fairfax county. she and her son showed up at their springfield home late saturday night. police were worried the pair was in danger. they're still looking for the baby's father though. >>> a towson basketball player is out of the hospital after being shot in a drive by shooting. according to the school, he was shot last night outside of his family's home in philadelphia. davis was in philadelphia for a game. it is unclear when he will return to the court. >> well, did you see it? talk about a wild finish to the virginia/virginia

you can see behind me pepco remains on the scene, trying to restore power to the remaining few customers that do not have it as a result of this overnight incident. there are a couple of men up there on the building, checking out the damage, trying to figure out what they have to do to get things back to normal. the debris was everywhere in the southeast. the wind was so strong, they tore part of a roof off a three-story apartment building. >> there was a big boom, and i looked outside, and saw that the transformer blew up. suzanne: the red cross was called, but tenants were allowed to return briefly to their apartment. these sisters were woken up by the wind. >> it started like something big was crashing down. we did not know what it was until we look out the front door. look up the window and i was like, oh, my god, look. i called my sister, and it was just devastating. suzanne: act now live. you can see the damage that was caused by the wind, and the damage that blew around this area. this is one of several cars that were damaged. this is what we are coming off the roof. it is foam in

pepco not that many. you can see a little more than 1,000 and over in maryland, first energy a similar number, about 1,500 in the dark. bge 571 outages. now back to you. >>> adding to the danger of the high winds that are knocking down trees on to roads and yards. take a look at this scene here. it is going to take a while to clean up this mess in germantown where part of a tree crashed on to a car. look at the damage. justin finch is staying on top of the issues. we'll check in with him in just about ten minutes. >>> one of the most helpful things to have is the washington app. we'll give you the latest things happening on the roads and the latest forecast so you can stay ahead. >>> we are dealing with wind right now. snow though again is the problem in multiple states. new york is under a winter storm supposed to fall there. and boston, more snow, two feet. they're dealing with blizzard conditions and schools are closed again. emergency officials asked people to clear off fire hydrants in case of a fire

pepco: 1,619 virginia dominion hardest hit with nearly 18-thousand in the dark this morning. bge reporting 3-thousand in the dark. novec and smeco have a handfull without power . breaking right now - a race against time in california. a dam - in danger of spilling over. jummy olabanji is at the live desk. about 188-thousand people living south of the oroville dam have been told to evacuate, in case the dam's damaged spillway fails. the dam, the nation's highest, remains intact. but the emergency spillway is eroding. the spillway helps ensure that the water doesn't run over the top of the dam when levels are high.. and they are. california's national guard now plans to provide eight helicopters to help with emergency spillway construction. the helicopters will also be available for search and rescue. this morning - the trump team is also promising action on it's temporary travel ban. the executive order is now caught up in the courts, after the 9th u-s circuit court of appeals refused to lift a restraining order on the policy last week. but - the president says the administrat

if you're unsure- call pepco's service number and check. do not give out personal information.f you think you're the victim of a scam- call and report it to police. a major milestone for one local school district this morning. the overall graduation rate in prince george's county is now at a record 81-point four percent. that's up more than two percent from last year and the highest level since maryland state officials began collecting data in 20-10. and even more good news - eight high schools in the county had a graduation rate above 90 percent. and one school is leading the way. meteorologist eileen whelan is on her way to gwynn park high school in brandywine- where 94 percent of it's students graduated. she'll have a live report, coming up at 6:45. right now - stormwatch seven tracking what's left of a system responsible for swarm of tornadoes in louisiana. overnight - the heavy wind and rain.. pushing south into florida, leaving behind major damage. yesterday - the same storm spawned at tornadoes in louisiana. new orleans east was particularly hard hit, with hundreds of ho

pepco reporting about 3,000. first energy in maryland, we are looking at about 2,400 as we switch over to the maryland numbers. bge, 443 in our region but even more out in the baltimore area and 338, just a reminder if you do happen to lose power this morning at any point you can always continue to watch us on your mobile devices. >>> in addition to those power outages an jooe wgie was talkin, there are also downed trees. >>> a good day to sign up for alerts on your nbc washington app. we'll send out warnings for any big issues on the the day. >> we are dealing with wind right now, snow is again though a problem in multiple states. new york is under a winter storm warning again. as many as 8 inches are supposed to fall there. in boston it's even more snow, 2 feet. they're dealing with blizzard conditions and schools are closed today, a rarity in boston. emergency officials are asked to clear off fire hydrants in case of an emergency. >> we turn to president trump's first 100 days. today he will welcome another fo

pepco reporting about 1400o people in the dark and bg&ebg&e customers with 3,000 outages.ut. >>> powerages aren't theoute only issue the high winds areine causing. we're hearing about buildings bg damaged. >> that includes the roof of an apartment building in d.c. d. that's where we find melaniefidi alnwick with the latest on this story. sto >> reporter: good morning,morn guys the damage pretty crazy. c this is all roof material inooft the middle of bruce placebruce p southeast here. it all cameutheas from thisis three-story garden apartmentapam building all across the road r and you can see the kind of of damage it's caused.au. we can't tell exactly w came from on the roof but ifbut you look up, look at thesee cars here with obviously thehe building material that came cme and smashed windows, some pretty heavy pieces ofof building material and brick and also up there, you can see e it also took down some power por lines and a transformer asmer as well. so, we know that housing police came and relocated allcal the residents here. fortunately nobody injured so they are all out safely an

powe >> pepco reporting about 1600ab0 people in the dark and bg&e bg&e customers also without power withithingp more than 3,000 outages.ou >> erin como just reported onord some of the roads closed inclsed the area because of the treeseae and the power lines down. down. we're also hearing ofaringo buildings damaged in thatam washington, d.c. fox5's melanie alnwick isie alns going to check all of this outho and we're going to get an get an update from her.m >> man was shot and killedkilled outside of ferebee hopebee p elementary school in southeastrs just before 10:30 last night.:3. no word on the identity a suspect oar motive. ferebee hope is that housing students from the closed closed elementary schoo >>> go fund me pachge set up for a montgomery county deacon seriously injured that are asl crash that may have beeny inh te caused beny a street race. he was trying to turn left onefn connecticut avenue in kensington when he was hithn schrat evening. hr the man who hit him may havehm been raising another car butaisi so far no charges have beenharg described d.c. policedesc searching for th

search warm w >>> to the district now where the fire department is partnering with pepco to donate smokeetectors. >>> when was the last time you did something kind without expeble expecting anything in return? >> monday marks the start of random acts of kindness week here in the u.s. and around the world. the idea is to affect our neighborhoods, workplaces, communities and schools by doing nice things for people who don't necessarily expect it. i talk to two groups who tell us how people can get funding for organizing acts of kindness and how to help spread kindness as part of your children's lesson plans. >> we're going to be doing a random act of kindness challenge with our student where is they are chaled day. quotes about what kindness is and how it affects others. >> they can go on our website and find our act proposals and find out details on the act they want to carry out and how much they would need for it. we fund up to $500. after that the amount rises. >> now all of next week nbc 4 will be celebrating random acts of kindness using the twitter hashtag pay it forward. if you do

pepco crews spending hours trying to get the power back on. close call. >> reporter: a local church deacon was critically injured in a crash here over the weekend. coming up, what safety improvements neighbors say they want to see whhappen here. >> reporter: it happened to more than 30 cars on this block alone. coming up, we'll tell you why this isn't the oy partnl >>> at 6:30 now local church members are praying for a miracle after their deacon was seriously injured in a car accident in kensington maryland. carlos hernandez was headed to mass on saturday when the crash happened. police say the person who hit him may have been racing. darcy spencer has been talking to the congregation. >> reporter: that deacon remains in critical condition at an area hospital. this is connecticut avenue here behind us. what we've learned through our reporting is that many residents have been complaining about the dangers of this intersection. maryland highway administration is investigating. this crash had connecticut and denfeld avenue left a church deacon in

pepco has more this morning, 9,423 outages, mostly in d.c. an a significant rise from what we saw earlier. it's a little better for bg&e customers. 837 outages there, and there are more than 1,500 people without electricity out in western maryland, even more in west virginia. >>> we continue to follow some on two separate death investigations. take look at the map both are in prince george's county. less than an hour ago a man was found shot in a car on st. mary's road in akakee. in a separate investigation in upper marlboro, another man was killed after being hit by a car. the driver of the car on brown station road and old marlboro park. tracee wilkins has the latest. good morning, tracee. >> reporter: good morning. this investigation is just beginning so there's a lot of information we're still pulling together. if you look over me, you can see that red vehicle there, that range rover, according to police, that is the striking vehicle, and we are told that this is a pedestrian struck. that is how the police are labelling this at this time.

richard: it left pepco power crews and teams scrambling. >> it was just off. so we have been freezing all night long. richard: miles away in silver spring, morissa is camping in her car. >> i heard something terrible. ricrd when this happened. she escaped for the two cats and not much else. >> i can't believe it. i think it's a dream. a bad dream. richard: she is not sure what she will do. the sticker says the home is now unsafe. good news, though, we are hearing from d.c. that the neighborhood does have the power back on. the latest in northern virginia from bureau chief jeff goldberg. jeff? jeff: well, richard in north arlington, this section of north 31st street, trees and limbs and branches everywhere, as dominion virginia looks to clean up the road. a huge tree knocked over by the wind fell in the street last night. all across the region, the clean-up continues. one after the other, piece of a fallen tree get tossed in the woodchiper. a familiar scene across northern virginia following powerful overnight winds. >> dolly madison lane was closed in one dire

. >> pepco reporting about 1,000b1 people in the dark thisrk ts morning. rning.e customers also withoutithot power with the companyr wi reporting more than 2200 outages. >> let's get to tucker rightker now get a check on the wickedhe winds. wi tuck, good morning.tuck, go >> steve, getting a bitod of m a break from the wicked winds.ck they'll be back later today.toda high wind warning in effect until 6 o'clock tonight.ght. look at your current winds.ind winds gusting last evening cannn you believe 66 miles per hour at reagan national, over 70's down at joint base andrews.ndres very gusty winds herery g winds overnight. 31 the current wind gust inrents washington. frederick.frederick. 29 now in annapolis.nap we're expecting these winds to once again increase to 40, 50, , maybe even wind gusts 60 miles per hour as we watch wh a storm system off to our north and east push away fromwa the area. area. there's your high wind warningnr in effect until 6 o'clock6 o'lo tonight. otherwise a sunny bright day tha more details on the forecastoret but be forewarned.warned. not

. >> pepco reporting about 1100ou0 people in the dark, bg&ebg&e customers also without powero with thepany reportingep more than 2200 outages.ut >> let's get to tucker withcker more on the winds.n the wi. the big question will they w inue tod today. >> yes, they'll pick up againeyi a little bit as we getck the sue up here we start to mix up theth atmosphere again but hard had hitting last night. reminiscent of the derechoed.ere >> were fecw years ago.. 26 the currents wind gust in washington, 29 in29 in gaithersburg. 44 in annapolis.apoli we're still really blowing outw there. once we get the sun up gp in an hour the winds are goingrg to pick up again and gust atustt times to up to about 50 milesut per hour later today.oda quick look at your high wind wd warning just a reminder a highah wind warning locally until until 6 o'clock tonight.o'clock we'll have plenty ofto sunshinee today. it will be otherwise a quiet que day but winds expected to blowe throughout the afternoon.ut theo erin is back with a loo traffic real quick thisfic realt morning.hi hi erin. >> i do and i'm walhik eingri

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pepco is reporting about 1,000u0 people in the dark. customers the company reporting 1700 outages. >>> now we'll check in with bobb barnard he's also tracking windw damage over in germantown. bob, sorry for the miscue backec then but let us know what'sha happening in your neck of thein woods with the wind dama >> reporter: yeah, we're on hot tin ger sir quell inue i germantown maryland.aryland. a big old tree that has fallenn here in this townhouse communiti and it may not look like much. this thing is really, reallyll heavy. you can see it's falling on a oa car and a pickup truck much thic happened just before bor 11:00 o'clock last night n according to the people who livh here. and take look at this. fire department came out last ot night and cut it back a littleat bit. nobody else has been out here to do anything about this tree. t the only one neighborhood allbo these trees are very similaril lining this big subdivisiondisin here. e that fell ttly on last night. nht someone who has been living here for 25 years tells us despite past