pebbles romney 48% to 44% in the latest poll. it is the sixth con secondty day the president has pulled ahead. the july 4th concert at the national mall will be held tonight as scheduled despite severe weather in the washington, d.c. area. thunderstorms brought practice to a halt yesterday. >>> more than one million people are still without power following last weekends deadly storms. at the height of that outage three million customers from indiana to washington, d.c. were in the dark after hurricane forced winds knocked out power. long lines formed outside stores that sell generators. 24 deaths have been blamed on the storms. >>> we took a look at the roads. there are still people out there. still people stuck going to work today. >> people are going to go to work. just not that many. most people that drive the morning drives we look at are not going today. but we are looking at it here. certain people are out there. for example i was out there a little while ago on my way here. there you go. so was steve. the traffic is moving