mt. rainier, landover hills, glenarden, brentwood, a big area, about 1 # 00,000 people, you're asked to bring your water to a rolling boil for one hint before drinking it or using to cook with. before brushing your teeth. if you're wondering whether you're among those that have to boil your water, go to nbcwashington.com and we have a link, type in your address. i typed in tangle wood drive, this is the area where the water main actually broke, and you can see that it will pop up exactly the location within the zone. that address is within the red zone, so that means that i would have to boil my water. they're sayi about 48 hours is the estimate, although that is not an exact time frame. really you should continue to boil your water in these areas until you hear that it's all clear. they will have to do testing before they allow people to just drink water straight out of the tap. back to you. >> thanks, megan. and during the storm last night, there was also a brief radio outage for montgomery county police. radio service is restored this morning. the outage only lasted about a minute. police

mt. rainier, outside of seattle, washington. you put that in perspective.ular destination, of course, for hiking, has not had an active eruption since the 1800s. this particular one, last major eruption, occurred 35 years ago. so both, again, active volcanoes. this particular one just as quiet as rainier has been across the pacific northwest, but saturday morning, late saturday morning a perspective quite different after what was generally a sunny day. we had cool temperatures, beautiful time of year across this region on the second tallest volcano in japan. and in fact one of our operations managers based out of cnn in hong kong there flying from canada to hong kong on saturday morning. and guess what? looking out the window, this is what he saw as the eruption occurred across this region. but i'll take you here because it is about 200 kilometers west of tokyo. it is about 125 miles or so when you convert that over. so it is quite close. we had major travel disruptions here as far as flights having to be rerouted as they were heading in toward tokyo as the

mt. rainier and all the cascade vol nay knows. we have a great program monitoring those and studying those. there are good maps to the hards that people should make themselves aware of. >> woodruff: if you didn't have a reason to do that before, you do now. thomas wagner with nasa and our own miles o'brien, we thank you. >> woodruff: did you hear the one about the famous violinist who played in a subway station, and no one noticed? well, it was a different story today and jeffrey brown was there. ♪ ♪ >> brown: it was a sight that almost no one watched as it happened, but gained much attention afterwards: a superstar of the classical music world, joshua bell, playing in a metro station in washington d.c in 2007, largely ignored by a few thousand commuters on their way to work. an article by gene weingarten of the washington post about the event, or non-event, won a pulitzer prize. ♪ now 46, bell has been performing in the world's greatest halls since he was a teenager. and he's recorded more than 40 albums, including a brand new on

mt. rainier. and if you go out to redmond, washington, and go to dinner with these microsoft executives, you'll be at a dinner table. and suddenly, words like 'base camp' and 'whiteout' will be floating across the table, and you realize some executive is telling you about his trip to the himalayas and the tough ordeal he had and how spiritually enriching it was to go up there at the top of the mountain, you know, clad--a millionaire clad in magenta with a north face parka on facing the elements. and rei is a store where you can--if you don't climb the himalayas, you can dress like you do. it's this big, massive store, tens of thousands of square feet in seattle, and it's like--first, they've got a museum to the equipment when you first walk in the door which is--to show you that it's edifying, you're not just buying stuff. and then they've got acre upon acre of outdoor gear--ice axes up front, and then water filters. and to buy stuff in this store, you need a chemistry degree from mit. you can't u