pepco is aware of the problem and is doing what it can to remedy it. i will give you a look here from mobiletrak7. so you can see what is happening. the 5900 block of macarthur boulevard is shut down. this is where the traffic is diverted. the police car on the left of the screen is the 5900 block being blocked. traffic cannot get on the portion.

. >>> pepco says you been expect to get your power restored more quickly the next time there's a majortorm. today, the utility announced it is rolling out this mobile command vehicle that will help to dispatch crews and assist you if hurricanes or major storms strike. pepco has invested nearly $815 million in the last two years on reliability efforts to prevent outages caused by wild weather. >>> we get these really high temperatures and humidity coming in. >> do you see any of that on your radar right now, doug? >> i'm just fixing my tie first. amelia and i talking about the chance for storms tomorrow. we're not expecting a lot, but it is something that we're watching. right now, nothing like all. beautiful conditions. 85 degrees. winds out of the southwest at 8 miles an hour. just a beautiful day. many of you are already saying it is too hot out there today. yeah, it is a little bit above average. considering where we were last weekend in the 50s, i'll take the 80s any time. a very warm afternoon. average high temperature 77 degrees today. no rain to talk about today. tomorrow we do

luckily no one was hurt. >> pepco is preparing for future outages by revealing a mobile command center it will support customers during outages and the goal is to give work rz a greater presence and will allow respond others to quickly move incident management team to the scene and provide the community with a central location to go for all their information. >> all right. let's -- yeah really is we have so many issues with power outages during storms and stuff that has not been a huge issue so far, summer or spring. >> i was talking about that sar ar and tony. " got a pass on severe warm in may and that will change as we get into late may here and early jup and things begin top heat up. so comfortable out there and quiet tonight and but we expect maybe one or two thunderstorms over the next 4 up. so, be ready for that and also wanted to share one more picture from the "fox5" weather day alternates park today and these are the second grade student that mr. wilson brought out for the weather presentation today and they're from berville elementary school in the district they were adorabl

pepco can deploy this 29,000- pound truck directly to affected neighborhoods and run operations fromere. >>> now to the weather command center and topper shutt. >> can they like send you power hey, we are here, we know it's bad. >> okay. live look outside from the michael and son weather cam. 86. comfortable. humidity 30%. now, tonight, almost like a june night. mild. temperatures in the 60s downtown. bus stop temps 62 to 78. almost hot thursday and friday with isolated storms. a few storms on sunday. more on memorial day. right now memorial day doesn't look as information bodying as it did yesterday. heading to the beach, a lot of you are, maybe a thunderstorm friday, mid-70s and sunshine saturday for ocean city. up to rewho bath, temperatures in the upper 70s thursday, friday and saturday. it appears no matter what the storm does to us on monday, it will make the beaches on the cloudy and cool side. day planner, 80 by 11:00. 84 1:00 p.m. the next seven days, 88 saturday. dry. a couple of storms on sunday. depending on the area of low pressure off the coast, showers and storms possi

pepco also reports 3300 outages in prince george's county. >>> chuck, a lot of cleanup to be done today. what is the weather going to do for us? >> we will still be looking at a huge chance for rain today, but into threat for severe weather. that is now a thing of the past. your weather headlines then, rain chances of it coming in and out several times today, it's already raining this morning. we'll get a break at lunchtime later on. temperatures on the cool side today, that 80 degree day yesterday is gone and the sunshine gone, as well. several more cloudy days coming. right now just light rain north and west of the city toward leesburg and warrington. they're pressing east into the city. so as a result keep your umbrella handy. here is future weather. showers around here through the remain kerr of the morning hours. by about lunchtime, might get a little break in the action. 11:00 a.m., up to about 2:00, 3:00 before another wave of rain showers comes in, but they will just be rain showers. no threat for severe weather today. temperatures are going nowhere, we'll stay in the low to mid

i am told they are waiting for pepco to give the all clear before they can get inspectors in and they can take a look at what happened here. d.c. fire says this happened as after 2:00 this afternoon. a huge chunk, about two stories high of that brick wall came crashing down, taking out a utility pole and some street signs. this, we are told, is an old tomato packing plant that is being converted. inside, the building is hard -- is hollowed out. we don't know yet what the construction is for. it is in the middle of an area a lot of developments, called ivy city, an area of new york avenue, where a number of where houses are being converted into housing, retail, and restaurants. d.c. fire pretty quickly determined that nobody has been injured. we had out,one including our special ops division and our new tracing dog, who did two or three runs in there just as a precaution. so far, and in the end the end, there was no one inside the building and nobody injured. reporter: we are told that once the all clear is given is windy the cra inspectors can get close enough to inspect the building

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wor >> pepco says it's ready for s we'll find out how they plan thp to stay ahead of the weathereea this thek s d.c. region.d.io time now 5:43. we're just getting started s really on this thursdayn this tu morning. can come, let's get up, let's ul get going.t go fox news morning back rightk after this. >> ♪ >> ♪ heyadded more nonstop airline straight-shot flights than any other out of reagan national last year? here's a hint. did ya catch it? no? here's another: their colors are yellow, red, and blue, and they save you tons of green. still nothing? that's okay. just go to southwest.com for the answer. on this airline, everybody wins. ♪ [clap, clap, ding] >> ♪ >> live look outside right now on a spectacular looking startks to the day.tohe you know, yesterday wasesterdays fabulous. >> oh, my gosh. you know what, it just made me happy.pp it is amazing the effect,ff gary, that weather really does d have on you. o y >> i know. >> right. >> you can even wake up atan like 2:15

according to pepco 36 customers are experiencing power outages as a result of the crash.injured. breaking overnight. a man is shot multiple times in northeast. gun fire erupted just after 11 last night in the 16-hundred block of isherwood street. d-c police say the victim was tkane to an area hospital suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. right now, no word on his condition. the shooter remains on the loose. developing this morning. a woman is sexually assaulted on metro train in broad day light. investigators say last month a woman in her 30's was alseep on a red line train and this man...39-year-old john hicks. hicks is accused of raping her at knife point. police were able to track him down hours after the incident. brown who was denied bail is charged with first degree rape and second degree assault. police are investigating a robbery on a metro train. it happened last night on a green line train near the suitland station. the train was off-loaded, and police boarded to investigate. the victim suffered only minor injuries. so far, no arrests have been made. it's xx

. >> pepco has a new mobileew mob with any future outages. can customers duringpp outages.utags officials say the goal is toso give their workers a greaterrs t presence. this will provide the communehem with a central location to gono to for their information. >> a seven-year-old montgomery-y county boy is getting praieasega from his parents for hisor bravery during an armedn med robbery in silver spring lastg friday. police say two armed men men walked into a game stop store ss and surveillance video fromll the store shows thestshow seven-year-old fighting offing one of the robbery suspects spe who tried to grab him.b h the boy's father says and hisd wife had no idea their son hadhr tried to fight back. >> fear is expected and normal r in that situation.hat situati i think he's old enough thatugha he understands that there wast w a danger by a certain situation, so, you know, our attention will be on makingakg sure that he can process that >> now police say the gunmane su got away with some items and an undisclosed amount of cash.e if you ha

pepco bills. even a check. >> it looks like a $10,000 check to somebody for work and services rendered. sam: the postmaster didn't say who was responsible. we learned that the regular mailman had been off. back just today. >> somebody is in deep trouble. sam: now just so you realize that catch basin still has a whole lot of u.s. mail in it. the postal service is trying to work something out with d.c. water so they can open this up and retrieve the mail. in fact the postal service issued a statement this afternoon saying that the postal inspector is investigating. and that the postal service will make every effort to retrieve and deliver the mail. alison: thank you. before we let you go. it's great to see you. you look really good be the shades but i know there is more behind this than just a sunny day. can you fill us in? sam: well, alison, two weeks ago today i discovered that i had a detached retina. i went through that operation and i have been recovering ever since. finally i am back at work t

field, but instead of their voices, a recording of a woman sinking the anthem was broadcast on the p pepcoystem of the singers were forced to stay on the field while the recording played. > a couple of the people from the pad dress were escorted of off the field and we left. it was as we were leaving we had to walk pretty close to some of the seats in the stadium and a couple people yelled a couple years at us. one person yelled you sound ache like a girl p. the games chorus is calling on the padres and major league base all to see whether anyone engaged in a hate crime. the padres posted a statement on twitter apologizing to anyone in the ballpark who may have been offended saying a mistake happened in the control room. it was a special weekend in florida for the daughter of a fallen police officer. > her dad's brothers in blew escorted her to the senior prom and made it a night to remember. fox's evan lambert has the story. >>reporter: sad because we have to be here. honored because we can be here. it's a duty no officer wants, but one they are proud to accept. these men and women are he

pepco is aware of the problem and is doing what it can to remedy it. i will give you a look here from mobiletrak7. so you can see what is happening. the 5900 block of macarthur boulevard is shut down. this is where the traffic is diverted. the police car on the left of the screen is the 5900 block being blocked. traffic cannot get on the portion. we will stay on this and bring you the latest coming up. reporting live from mobiletrak7. i'm kellye lynn. jonathan: thanks. coming up for us at "abc7 news at 4:00" -- >> millions expected to fly this memorial day weekend. answering tough questions about how to deal with the long lines. that is coming up. the face of lung cancer is changing. michelle: the reason for hope in the fight against lung cancer. ahead. >> the obamas already said they will stay in d.c. after they leave the white house. in a moment we will show you what they will be calling their new house. nowwhich means it's the perfect time to create the perfect home. now through may 30th, take an extra hundred dollars