we're talking darnestown road at cattail. right now you can see this one lane getting by and crews are pushing traffic around the one lane that is still shut down this morning. could be sometime before it's cleared out of the way. fairfax, 123 at braddock road. and instead overall, travel times, maryland looking good. in virginia, quantico, the beltway, ten minutes behind. aaron. >>> those storms that slammed into our region left a path of destruction up and down the east coast. take a look actually overnight in rhode island. winds brought down trees and power lines there. and the storm caused big problems in philadelphia. amtrak service from d.c. to philly was shut down a little bit last night. it's since been restored. 8,000 customers from d.c. to new jersey were without power. >> wow, i got it on video. >> this viewerent up a bolt of lightning here appearing to strike the landmark during last night's storms. wow. some serious stuff out there. 12k3w4r >> tough stuff. >> they actually have lightning rods and lightning diffus

storms knocked down a tree in the area of darnestown road and cattail road. the driver of a pickup truck slammed into a tree around 8:30. county police say the 79-year-old driver died at the scene. >>> and lightning strikes hit an apartment complex in greenville causing flames to shoot out of the roof. take a look here. a woman who lives inside this complex recorded this video as the nair tore through nearly two dozen units. this is on lake side

storms knocked down a tree in the area of darnestown road and cattail road. the driver of a pickup truck slammed into a tree around 8:30. county police say the 79-year-old driver died at the scene. >>> and lightning strikes hit an apartment complex in greenville causing flames to shoot out of the roof. take a look here. a woman who lives inside this complex recorded this video as the nair tore through nearly two dozen units. this is on lake side drive. people from 22 apartments had to find somewhere else to stay last night. one woman told us when she saw the flames, she just ran and left everything behind. >>> the drive along the gw parkway should be smoother this morning. the big tree that fell down southbound on gw parkway near route 123 is gone. crews worked overnight to clear trees blocking that area. >>> winds got up to 60 miles an hour creating the perfect conditions all over the area. in fairfax a tree ripped out a chuck of her house where her son would be sleeping. and another tree crushed a car. nobody hurt. in montgomery county, howling winds tore a

this is at darnestown road at cattail road n. is some of the damage -- road. this is some of the damage from yesterday's storm. luckily there's not a lot of it in terms of being a lot of these situations going around but they're pretty intermittent for the most part. i want to take you back to the map and show you how things are shaping up around the metro so we can talk about your commute this morning. if you're going to be heading out and traveling on the inner loop of the betway, no problems from georgetown pike to kenilworth avenue. you're looking at a 20-minute commute and eastbound on 66, considering that delay there and road closure from sully road to north lee highway, a 39- minute commute for you this morning. we'll send it over to you. >>> maryland lieutenant governor boyd rutherford has already begun filling in for governor hogan. he sat in for the governor at yesterday's board of public works meeting. monday governor hogan said ruther fundamental would tack ta on a -- rhetterford would take on a greater workload while he undergoes chemotherapy for

chopper 4 flew over darnestown near cattail road. >>> the storm also knocked out power at the pentagon city mall. this is what it looked like inside the mall tonight. pitch brach. there was shortly before 8:00. since there wasn't any electricity, stores had to close early. >>> right now thousands are still without power. dominion has about 33,000 customers without electricity. a majority of the outages are in fairfax county. pepco reporting 13,000 homes without power with most of that in montgomery county. and remember when your power does go out, watch news 4 on your phonor tablet. go to -- phone or tablet. go to the nbc washington app and click on "watch live tv now." >>> back here at the weather center, we now -- after a couple of really tough days, especially today, this is moving out. there's something lovely heading our way. >> there is. the reason why we had all of those severe weather warnings early, the reason we were on so much early this evening is because of all the damage we saw. we knew the potential the storm had. let's show what's happening now. the storms, you see as t

police say elmer frolik was driving east on darns town road near cattail when he collided with a downed tree in the roadway. frolik died on the scene. his devastated family says he was just minutes away from home. >> he has been like a father to me for 30 years now. and we shared this property together. >> reporter: were i'm meagan fitzgerald. coming up at 5:00, we learn more about the man who family members say was an intricate part of this community. >>> seems like this one behind me scenes all too common in fairfax county up twin brook road, not far from braddock road it is shut down because of, well, the obvious trees falling onto these power lines, the power lines you can see how close they are coming to the road in some parts. power crews tell me this probably has electricity out to a few hundred residents. they are working quickly, you may be able to hear the sound of some of the chainsaws, preremoval crews out here dominion power crews out here. the damage not just done to the power lines. we checked out some of the homes in fairfax county. folks had to take the day off because

silver centerpiece, which is about this big, and it shows the (gitchegoomee) with the -- with all the cattailednd the weeds, and the canoe in the middle of it and hiawatha lounging on a bearskin rug. and that was the new centerpiece for the white house she bought at the fair. it was on exhibit. and it's still in the silver closet at the white house. susan swain: so, (nick stuffit) asks on twitter, did julia grant have any hired assistants who helped her at the white house? how were first ladies staffed at this point in the process? william seale: there was no social secretary then. usually, the ladies got together and filled out the blanks for invitations. and they all used blanks. it was the, you know, the president and mrs. grant in the honor of blank, blank. and their friends would come over for a tea party and they would fill out the blanks, usually. william seale: she had mary (muller) as the housekeeper. she -- isn't that the one who traveled to europe with her? pamela sanfilippo: i think so. william seale: they were very close. she called her a most excellent woman. and i daresay she hel