jonathan: maryland pepco cust pers are paying more for electricity but not as much as pepco wanted. they signed off on a rate increase that will mean $4 more per month for average customer. pepco wanted close to double that. the in rate took effect today. you will see it on the next bill. michelle: touted as the next giant leap than it takes to get a pizza delivered. brad bell has already given the green light for construction on elon musk's hyper loop. brad: governor hogan made the surprise announcement yesterday. maryland granted permits to begin digging the first ten miles of the super fast, underground hyper loop dreamed up by tesla founder elon musk. the underground vacuum tube and pod system promises to take people from d.c. to new york in 29 minutes. >> it's real. brad: maryland transportation secretary was with the governor in the tour of the initial boring site in jessup yesterday. still short on detail, the planned initial d.c. to baltimore link is a game changer and won't involve tax dollars. >> the idea that one can travel unimpeded at very high speeds, i think will offe

nancy: pepco customers are paying more for electricity, just not as much more as the company hoped. the maryland public service commission approved a rate increase that adds up to about four dollars per month for the average customer for stop pepco had asked for --. the new rate took effect today. jonathan: maryland is giving the green light for permit so digging can begin on the first 10 miles of the hyperloop. the system is the brainchild of tesla founder elon musk and would use underground pods and a vacuum tube to transport between d.c. and new york in just 29 minutes. >> it stri we will be on that every weekend. we take the bus or the amtrak train come and this will change the way everyone travels. >> the idea that one could travel pretty much unimpeded at very high speeds i think will offer a lot of benefit to a lot of people. jonathan: that means that you could go to new york for dinner. nancy: and then come back for drinks. jonathan: the maryland department of treasury says right now does not involve any tax dollars. akecy: it did not t long for the nationals to make a change of the top.

pepco, 2300 outages. takea: live look at a traffic camera in western maryland, and that is snow on the ground.are tracking the forecast we are tracking the forecast around-the-clock, be sure to grab the free stormwatch weather app for the latest information. larry: the first arrested the russia investigation. autria: president trump responding with a firestorm of tweets. ryan hughes is following it live for us in alexandria. isn: autria, mueller monday trending and speculation is swirling. so many people closely watching to see who the first person that will be charged in this ongoing investigation is to read all weekend long, media crews have been stationed here outside the home of paul manafort. his former campaign chairman has just one ofcrutiny, several high-profile names to be tossed around, but it is not known who the target is of this indictment just a grand jury approved the charges in this investigation mueller.bert the charges are still sealed under orders from a federal judge tear he we don't have too many details, but mueller was appointed in may to oversee the details and last yea

bg and e has more than 4,000 outages throughout maryland about 400 in montgomery and prince george's counties. pepcored outages. further north at least 300,000 customers throughout new england have no power. hardest hit there connecticut, massachusetts and rhode island. and about an hour west of us, they are dealing with snow and a winter weather advisory. we want to show you a live look at snow in garrett county, it's in the bottom right of your screen right there. you can see it on the sides of the road. a few inches fell overnight. >> 5:32 right now and we are just hours away from possibly learning the first charges revealed in the robert mueller investigation. >> reports have circulated for dadays now in a federal indictment will be unsealed today. fox5's melanie alnwick live outside the u.s. district court with more. mel. >> reporter: good morning, guys. yeah, the special prosecutor apparently has something that is going to come forward today. president trump's reaction so far has been to call this a witch hunt and evil politics in a series of twitter tirades yesterday ending finally with a swe

pepco up to 2400 most reported just northeast of dupont circle. bg&e about 3500 outages throughout maryland. check in with tucker for a closeup look at the system. >> yeah, getting very windy. all of a sudden the wind just fired up last night. >> right. >> and gusting up to about 50 miles an hour at times overnight and still dealing with wind early this morning. good news is the wind is going to slowly fall off here and we're going to be left with a cloudy and cool start but you can see winds at this hour still quite strong there. look at dulles, 41 miles per hour wind gusts, 28 here in the city, 39 in annapolis. so, yeah, winds for a few more hours, then as that system starts to get a little further away from us the wind should lighten up this afternoon. cooler temperatures have moved in. 48 in washington. we've got wind chills in the 30's. i'll have all the details on the forecast, let you know when the wind is out of here and the rest of the rain and the temperatures coming up in just a minute. all right, i'm going to toss it over to erin. she has the latest on the roads. >> good morning

pepco has improved a lot and 200 people don't have power in the district and some 600 don't have electricity in western maryland. bge are each reporting only a handful of power outages. >> conditions are getting quite a bit better and the rain has moved out and the winds are coming down. >> the question is are we out of the woods why the? >> let's ask meteorologist sheena parveen who is in the storm team 4 weather center with a look at what we can expect for the rest of our monday. good morning. >> good morning. >> the wind is going to stick around for a while, but as we go through the afternoon we'll keep seeing conditions improving and more sunshine across the area and it's 50 degrees right now so you might want the warm jacket and winds at 15 miles an hour and the storm system is moving away and it's continuing to still hit new england with high winds and still raining yes, we're dry and it is windy and wind gusts was 37 miles an hour and annapolis at 40 miles an hour and average wind gusts from 25 to 35 miles an hour currently. look at these temperatures, they're not really going to be climbing much today a

pepco has about 1600 outages right now, dominion with about 3,000 in northern virginia and bg&e fewer than 3,000 outages in maryland. >> to our north at least 300,000 throughout new england have no power. hardest hit connecticut massachusetts and rhode island. >> to the west they're dealing with snow and a winter weather advisory. garrett county maryland out of the skre overnight. let's get to tucker for the wet headlines this morning. >> action packed sunday. that was a major storm that got going yesterday. football up in new york, it was like pouring rain. >> miserable. >> around here the winds fired up last night winds gusting close to 50 miles an hour causing downed tree limbs and power lines and issues we've had overnight. winds still with us. the good news is they're starting to let up and things will get better during the course of our monday but you can see winds still gusting there 25, 30 miles an hour in some cases 23 here in washington. 25 up in gaithersburg. i think last hour we had a wind gust to 41 so we're not quite done with very breezy, very blustery conditions around here. i'll have all the detail

pepco report reported about 1600 to us as much as. dominion had about 3,000 outages in northern virginia. bw and e is down to fewer than 2,000 outages in maryland to the north at least 300,000 customers throughout new england have no power. hardest hit connecticut, massachusetts and rhode island. out to the west dealing with some snow even a winter weather advisory and we're talking about in parts of maryland. a few inches fell overnight in garrett county, maryland. in ski country. so for more on what mother nature has in store for us which sounds like she's throwing everything out there, tucker, some landing out to the west somebody landed up to the normal. how about here? >> yeah, i mean a quiet couple of months. so that storm hit hard last night. winds gusting last evening to about 50 miles an hour. d gusts this morning in the range of about 30 to 35. so things are gradually getting better, and it will be actually a pleasant afternoon. we're done witness rain. the breezes will stick around they won't blowing at 30 to 40. more like 20 to 30. breezy day an cool day. daytime highs don't get out of the mid to upper 50s for us today. so take jack