las autoridades dicen que es el ultimo cambio antes de la conclusion de las actuales obras que pepcovamente es punto de criticas... ya que apocos dias de que mil oficina de obras publicas de washington carece de reglamentos que penalizen a la compania con fuertes y hablando de apagones, una lla interrupcion de servicio elico en mil donegocios de bethesda... el desperfecto se reporto ayer poco antes de las once y media de la na... las cuadrillas de de pepco encontraron los restos de la ardilla electrocutada en la subestacion de bethesda, lo que provoco la interrupcion.. estos hechos no son raros, pues en prince georges mas se n sin luz el domingo de pascua luego que una serpiente decidio colarse en escententren su vehiculo se encuentra tras las rejas.. jose mejia ulloa de 41 años, residente de herndon, quizo persuadir al menor sobre la cuadra 45mil quinientos de la severn way en sterling... la policia investigo y dio con el sujeto quien enfrenta cargos por contribuir a las autoridades buscan a un homu propia vivienel choque de dos al sistema de transportes metro en el sureste de la ca

a look at the pepco repairs. that's coming up. stay with us. >>> back now on 9 with word that pepco is finally done with the repairs to those three underground cables. as you'll remember, problems with those cables caused several power outages around first streets northeast last week. right in the middle of all that heat. >>> some scary moments today in that very same neighborhood when the fire department had to evacuate to harris teter. the problem, a freon leak. nobody hurt. crews ventilated the store and tonight it's all back open. >>> an inmate serving more than 70 years in prison wants the state of virginia to pay for a sex change. ofilia claims the commonwealth is not providing adequate medical care to treat a gender identity disorder. a federal lawsuit to force virginia to complete her transition. what do you think about this one? gender identity is a disorder or a mental illness in which people believe they were born the wrong gender. should the state have to pay for that surgery? share your thoughts in mcginty's mail bag.

of the old meters and all of pepco's maryland customers will have the new meters. when they do, they will get a letter telling them about the changes. the new advanced digital meters will help build a smart power grid and pepco said that will help customers better manage their energy costs and improve customer service and reliability. >>> developing right now, families forced from their thousands of acres burn tonight. >> we're staying on top of the wildfire raging in arizona. >>> for months, we heard it was too dangerous for workers. tonight, more than 200 people are volunteering to go into japan's damaged nuclear power plant. that story is still ahead. nt of home cooks dothe one. i thinand the competiter) i baker how long? three weeks? >> a big fire in the mountains of eastern arizona. thousands of people are out of their homes and many others are waiting for evacuation orders. this is the third biggest wildfire in arizona history. the fire started more than a week ago as a small camp fire and now it's charred over 230,000 acres and is nowhere near contained at t

. >>> today pepco crews will work to finish repairs on underground cables in northeast d.c. that lost power last week. the cables are on north capital street between l and m and pierce between north capital and 1st street. a section of the curb lane on north capital at the intersection of l will be closed through rush hour. >> four kiddy pools in the district remain closed because of a pool drain recall. kiddy pools at harry thomas, rumsey, upshu are closed. the current drain covers are recalled because there is a risk swimmers could be trapped in the covers. d.c. officials say they don't know exactly when the new covers will arrive. the kiddy pools can't be opened until the drains are installed but the regular pools are open. >>> all right. it is now 6:19. 71 degrees out there. nice, mild morning. a little humid out there. >> yeah. >> but tom is saying this is going to be one of the few last nice days before the real heat moves in. good morning, tom. >> yeah. not quite sweltering humidity yet. that is coming mid week. off to a fairly pleasant start. patchy fog in low-lying

pepco restored power about 20 minutes later.quirrel is still at large but still has a lot of questions. what did i bite into? >> a little thing causing that many problems. who knew? all right. it is now 5:57. coming up next at 6:00 a.m., the new gig for katie couric. >>> and the recall that will prevent some pools in the area from completely opening today. >>> let's take a live look outside right now. 65 degrees. sun in the skies. hazy skies. but a couple more nice days before the humidity sets in. we'll be right back with weather and traffic on the 1s. >>> stay with us.

streets will stay closed as pepco crews repaired underground cables blamed for last week's massive power outage. parts of first street and-- parts of north capitol street will be shut down until rush hour. >>> eastern arizona residents have been forced to evacuate their homes because of this huge wildfire. this is the third largest in state history. there's no containment. it expanded by several thousand acres yesterday. it is 20787 square miles. another one in the past cover 156 square miles. >>> stubbornly high oil prices continue to cripple the airline industry. a big apple events today as a technology company tries to stay on top. >> no more from bloomberg headquarters in new york. >> good morning. apple ceo steve jobs is going to address developers at an annual conference today, unveiling the new on-line storage service where consumers have a new way to access digital music and information from smartphone and computers. it will also produce software updates for the iphone, ipad, and macintosh computers. elsewhere, dominick strauss-kahn will formally denied charges that a sexual assa

. >>> another outage for pepco customers over the weekend. with you blame this one on a bushy-tailed beast. >>> also ahead, we'll check in with tony for your forecast. find out if we are in for another week of record-setting heat.  >>> wildfires continue to rage out of control in arizona. the wallow fire is stow n.o.w. the state's third largest wildfire -- is now the state's third largest wildfire. >>> the missouri river threatening community in a large area. recent rains combined with a massive snow melt have caused the river levels to rise. 600 people have already been evacuated. >>> more than 1,000 pepco customers got hit by another power outage over the weekend. no storms, no downed industries, no air conditioners running on overtime. partedly, it -- apparently, it was a squarely to blame. the power was back on in a little less than an hour. >> a squirrel. >> it happened. >> i would imagine the squirrel didn't make it. >> he did not. >> anyway. it's monday. >> it is warm. >> it is warm. >> and it is muggy outside

as pepco finishes repairs on cables that lost power last tuesday. hundreds of customers were without power for several days. the power has since been turned on but permanent repairs are needed. street closures will affect first street between l. and m. street and pierce street between north capital and first street. >>> anyone who has had their identity stolen knows how painful it can be. sometimes you might not find out your personal information is stolen until you receive bills for credit card accounts that you never opened. there are ways to prevent all of this from happening in the first place. joining us with tips is mike resinski from life lock. good to have you. what have you brought with you today and i don't want to miss a thing when it comes to protecting our identity so i want to ask you what you have. >> i brought basic tools criminals use. at life lock we show how criminals are getting information. so by simple devices as skimming machines. you have a hand held device and one is blew tooth because we love technology, these two will capt

businesses along this greater court or, and it is impacting these businesses, like jane pet stores like pepco, -- ptetco, -- petco, and there are those along lombard street and also california street, and the board of supervisors allowed with a divided vote the conditional use permit for a pet food express last year. i know that that was a contentious issue that divided a number of communities and especially the small-business owners, the pet store owners. this is narrowly tailored to impact supply stores in that area. on january 20, petco had a meeting that i attended, and for my reid, we were near unanimously opposed to date -- the petco on geary. there are vacant storefronts, and the small merchants are really hurting, and i hope that the small business really considers this and doesn't support of the smaller pet stores and small businesses. as you can see from the letters you have received and probably emails and causing a receipt from the richmond district and other pet owners come we need your support. we hope you will stand up with the richmond district in support of item number nine.

there are street closers this morning as pepco crews work to are repair three underground cables thatost power last night. 1st street between l and m and pierce between north capital and 1st street. a section of the curb lane on north capital at the intersection of l will be closed through the rush hour. >>> and don't let cuteness fool you. a squirrel knocked out power yesterday morning in bethesda. at 11:20, a squirrel found its way into a substation and knocked a feeder off line. the squirrel is still on the loose and still trying the get the ringing out of its ears. >>> four kiddy pools remain closed because of a pool drain recall. kiddy pools at harry thomas, upshire, theodore is closed because there's a risk swimmers could possibly get trapped in the drain covers. they don't know exactly when the drains will arrive. they can't open until the drains are installed but the regular pools are still open. it looks like it's going to be pool weather very soon in the d.c. area again. >> a good week for pools. >> plan accordingly. by mid week, the heat and humidity will be returning. this

. >>> smart meters are coming to pepco customers by 2012. the new advanced meters will help build a smart power grid and will help you better manage your energy cost and help service and reliability. that's tonight's fox 5 top 5. >>> get ready to crank up the air because we're going to need it the next couple of days. >> i'm not ready for this again. it's going to be a little early. hopefully we can break it by the weekend. >> at least you can wear a sleeveless dress. >> if you think it's hot outside you should be in the weather center. it's very steamy, no doubt about it. wear the light, loose fitting clothing tomorrow. i can't wait to see what you do with your wardrobe tomorrow. at least it's not too unbearable tonight. we have temperatures that will drop into the 60s but i'm afraid they'll climb very quickly during the day tomorrow, so check out the weather map, because we want you to see what the record highs are for tomorrow. the record at dc is 98, for bwi and dulles it's 97. we're going to come close to some of these, if not tie them

some northeast streets are sat down today while pepco crews finish repairing the underground cables that have been blamed for last week's power outage. first street will be closed between land m. pierce street will be closed from the capital to first street. the curb lane of north capitol street is closed at l street. they are in effect today, but should be lifted later today. >>> the field of republicans wanting to take on president obama just keeps growing. former pennsylvania senator rick santorum is expected to enter the race today. he will make the official announcement during an event in western pennsylvania. he is scheduled to make campaign stops in iowa and new hampshire later this week. >>> 5:07, 66 degrees. >> still ahead another nail biter, game three came down to the wire in dallas. we will tell you if the mavs were able to mount an epic comeback. >> first the heat is coming back. >>> 5:10 on this monday morning. adam caskey in the belfort furniture weather center. we will start this work we like we finished the weekend. you noticed an increase in the humidity on sunday with

other streets in the area that were closed while pepco made repairs are now open. >>> 66 degrees>6:08. >> out on the town. president entertains a key test before tonight's big party at the white house. >> and snow in june. this was a surprise for some california drivers. >> snow in california. and we have another heatwave saddling in. we will talk >>> welcome to the animal welfare league of arlington where there is a pet waiting for everyone. to make a friend today. >> good morning, washington. >>> good morning to all of the pets over there. >>> 6:11 is the time. \ time for a check on traffic and weather every 10 minutes. >> i guess we will have to crank up the a/c today. >> the heat and humidity increasing. record-breaking temperatures likely over the next couple days not necessarily at every reporting stations, records will be falling tomorrow afternoon and thursday. a beautiful morning on the day. look at the water. a beautiful picture of the day early this morning with sunshine. if temperatures are in the 60's. 59 degrees in martinsburg and cumberland. 68 in quantico, 66 in lexing

. >>> pepco says they will start installing smart meters in maryland. they will help users better manage their energy. radiation might be released from these meters and it means a higher bill. the installation process will last until december of next year. >>> graduation day for one high- school and this was quite unique. six sets of twins were among those graduating at the comcast center this morning. some of the twins are identical some fraternal. they look enough like that sometimes they had their teachers bove. >> they used to when we were younger. >> the teachers did not know how to tell us apart "mr. johnson/" >> all of these sets of twins said they had a lot of fun going to school together. some of them are now suffering as they go to college. they will attend the same school in the fall, students and university. we are told they will both study nursing -- stevenson university. congratulations to all of them. >> the fact that one was a boy and one was a girl made it easier in that case. >>> are you ready for heat and humidity? >> it will be very

some northeast streets are closed while pepco crews finish fixing underground cables blamed for last week's power outage. first street is closed between l and m. pearce disclosed from north capitol street 2 first street. uecker lane of north capitol street disclosed at l street. those closers asia and later today. -- booker blainthe curb lane of north capitol street is closed at l. >>> rick santorum will announce his candidacy for president in western pennsylvania. he is expected to make campaign stops in iowa and new hampshire later this weekend. >>> 66 degrees outside. , >> living longer. --still to come living longer. two breakthroughs in the fight against cancer. >> and another heatwave is o >>> i am here at marriott global headquarters with hundreds of our associates. we are on our way of to serve our community today. we would like to say to you -- >> good morning, washington. >>> we have some areas of patchy fog. with the sun that should burn off rather quickly. let's look at numbers right now this monday morning. upper 50's northwest of town. 59 in hagerstown, 57 in frederick,

other streets that were shut down while pepco made repairs are now back open. >>> metro may be putting up a help wanted sign. it wants to add tenorist its escalator and elevators in its division in the coming year. metro would need another 55 workers to really put a longstanding problems to rest with the escalators. >>> 66 degrees outside. >> still to come, back in the headlines. republicans most famous non- candidate makes a splash on the silver screen. >> mother nature puts on a show in chile. a volcano is causing an amazing light show in the sky. nother che [ male announcer ] washington, d.c. a landmark of liberty and opportunity. at bank of america, we live and work here with thousands of employees and hundreds of branches and atms. every day, we're working to help set opportunity in motion... from supporting the arts and howard university to helping revitalize anacostia and downtown d.c. because when you're giving lending, and investing in more communities across the country, more opportunities happen. ♪ ♪ >>> look at this. an incredible show by mother nature. this is a volcano er

today for drivers in parts of northeast dc and that is because several roadways were closed while pepco crews prepared underground cables. first street northeast and the repairs come after last week's outages north of union station. they left cnn's washington bureau along with the eeoc headquarters. >> the catholic diesis is taking arlington county to court. the county board's denial of a request by o'connel. the same opportunities as public school students in the region. but board members argue that each case is considered individually and in the words of one member, quote, not every location in the county is equal. >>> let's check out the evening rush with monica and your time saver traffic. good evening, monica. >> i would have given @ red light earlier this afternoon because of an accident on 270. we'll take you over there live right now on the northbound side. on the southbound side of 270, over at father hurlly boulevard at 2:30, was an overturned cement truck, two vehicles, and a maryland state highway contractor. a helicopter was called and canceled because they found the two pe

. >>> we have pepco repair crews working that power outage from last week, trying to get the lights going watch for them on first street between o and m and on pierce between north capital and first. an accident in maryland, that's at 6:18 back to you. >>> do you get out of bed early for the church, a message or songs, or maybe a sense of obligation? >> a local group ministers to the homeless, they found mundane motivation. here's the hero central for this week. >> on average we have 50 to 60 people who receive lunch. prior to that we have worship. ♪[ music ] they call this street church. reverend randolph charles, reverend at the church of the epiphany, they run it at 1:00 o'clock in downtown d.c., parishioners mostly the home zest when they started the street church six years ago, the building housed a 300 bed men's shelter, back then dozens of men would leave the building, walk across the street to the park for lunch and a sermon. >> the idea is that you give them incentive to come to the worship by providing lunch. >> it works like that, yes it does. >> reverend charles acknowledges i

. >>> pepco crews -- they lost power shutting off power to hundreds of homes and businesses and opinionco said the power is back on and they're working on a permanent fix so the outage doesn't happen again. >>> it's no secret, metro's escalators have a lousy track record and the report shows they're taking longer to fix. metro has a new plan to keep the escalators up and running. sherri ly has all the details. >> reporter: shape, it's all about -- shawn, it's about manpower, putting mechanics and supervisors on the job. to address the maintenance issues that have been neglected for years. that lack of preventative maintenance led to a downward spiral in reliability. today, 119 of the system's escalators were out at one point this afternoon because of repairs, inspections or maintenance and service calls. in a new report to the customer service and operations committee, the transit agency unveiled a resource fan that said the agency needs another 55 new positions to do the necessary preventive maintenance and last week, this is a problem that won't be fixed overnight. >> metro system has 5

. >>> the pepco out age is not over. from made permanent repairs on two out of the three underground cables on north capital street. those malfunctioned last tuesday leaving thousands without power for days. temporary above ground cables were used to restore the service. crews will work nonstop to fix that last underground cable. >>> 5:34. jessica is back with a drug industry break through, when it comes to fighting cancer. >> for years the drug industry has pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the develop of fighting cancer at the jet nettic level. there are 800 new cancer drugs in development. there are new success stories. two new drugs have produced unprecedented survival rates in people with melanoma. one drug targets a genetic mutation in half of all mel know mass. the second is from bristol myers. it doubled the number that survived at least three years. >>> guess what happened to a public sbi group whose mission was to share information about threats to the internet's infrastructure? the group was hacked, of

i'm used to blackouts at home because our local power company, pepco, is notoriously unreliable whenost power for three frustrating days along with 1,500 people and offices on capitol hill. but somehow the troops here pulled off three hours a day of live programming with john king going to the capitol and wolf blitzer standing outside in 90-degree heat while producers got by with backup generators. when the power first went off an hour before air time, staffers scrambled down the emergency fire exit with tubs filled with cameras and computers and water for the anchors. a long week for my staff, as well. and "roll call" managed to publish with its editors and reporters holed up in a hot

. >>> today, pepco crews will continue to work to finish repairs on underground cables that lost powerlast week, cables on north capital, first street between l and m will be closed as well as pierce street. a section of the curb lane on north capital at intersection of l will be closed through rush hour. >>> we'll check in with tanya hutchins to see how things are moving on the roads around here. things looking pretty good? >> they are moving much better, so i do have good news. top side of the beltway, improvements in maryland. 95 at springfield interchange, we have steady traffic in both directions as they get ready to turn around the hov lanes. a few minutes ago northbound. no problems to report here. let's take a look at 395 at the 14th street bridge which has light traffic now but starting tomorrow, we're going to have a new traffic pattern and make sure that you look at all of the signs because the right center lane is going to be blocked. 495 at the north of the american legion bridge, traffic moving smoothly in both directions. we still have in the district construction on new

unlike the frequent outages experienced by pepco's customers every time the washington, d.c., area experiences a serious storm, a coordinated attack on the grid could literally shut down the u.s. economy. putting lives at risk. damages could take months or years to recover from. recovery may not just be a matter of rebuilding. three nuclear reactors in japan suffered near complete core meltdowns after the earthquake caused a loss of electricity needed to cool them down. the meltdown likely began a few short hours after the earthquake, tsunami and blackout. the hot, radioactive fuel is believed to have burned holes as much as ten centimeters wide through the pressure vessels. it is expected to take months to stabilize the reactors and decades to clean up the damage that the meltdown caused. mr. stockton mentioned that the power outage risk associated with earthquakes near the new madrid fault line is notable because there are extra nuclear reactors located near it. those several reactors could be vulnerable. let me ask you this. there have been 69 reports of emergency diesel generators failing

unlike the frequent outages experienced by pepco's customers every time the washington, d.c., area experiences a serious storm, a coordinated attack on the grid could literally shut down the u.s. economy. putting lives at risk. damages could take months or years to recover from. recovery may not just be a matter of rebuilding. three nuclear reactors in japan suffered near complete core meltdowns after the earthquake caused a loss of electricity needed to cool them down. the meltdown likely began a few short hours after the earthquake, tsunami and blackout. the hot, radioactive fuel is believed to have burned holes as much as ten centimeters wide through the pressure vessels. it is expected to take months to stabilize the reactors and decades to clean up the damage that the meltdown caused. mr. stockton mentioned that the power outage risk associated with earthquakes near the new madrid fault line is notable because there are extra nuclear reactors located near it. those several reactors could be vulnerable. let me ask you this. there have been 69 reports of emergency diesel generators failing

unlike the frequent outages experienced by pepco's customer every time the washington, d.c., area experiences a serious storm, a coordinated attack on the grid could literally shut do the u.s. economy. putting lives at risk. damages could take months or years to recover from. recovery may not just be a matter of rebuilding. three nuclear reactors in japan suffered near complete core meltdowns after the earthquake caused a loss of electricity needed to cool them down. the meltdown likely began a few short hours after the earthquake, tsunami and blackout. the hot, radioactive fuel is believed to have burned holes as much as ten centimeters wide through the pressure vessels. it is expected to take months to stabilize the reactors and decades to clean up the damage that the meltdown caused. mr. stockton mentioned that the power outage risk associated with ethquakes near the new madrid fault line is notable because tre are extra nuclear reactors located near it. those several reactors could be vulnerable. let me ask you this. there have been 69 reports of emergency diesel generators failing at 48

a pepco crew is on the way to work at that problem. >>> the ramp from westbound 198 to i-95 south inefighters are investigating a body found inside a burning car. we do not know how that fire began or anything about the victim in the car. >>> we'll take a break and come >>> temperatures beginning to climb into the 70s. later today the low 90s. more humid and heat wednesday and thursday. friday into the weekend, chance of showers and storms with cooler weather. >>> traffic loaded up in many locations, 395 is just volume, a ton of it from the beltway to the 14th street bridge. over on 270, delays germantown all the way down. again, ac >>> 8:00 now on this tuesday morning, the 7th of june 2011. check it out. we have a huge crowd here in rockefeller plaza. i'm meredith vieira along with matt lauer and al roker. what's with the hat? >> it's sunny out. in rome i got burned. >> are you still feeling your head's burned? >> yes. i'm being careful now. >> you should have been careful before. looks good. >> thank you. >> coming up, what was she thinking -- anthony weiner's wife? a top aid to hi