pepco sent out a crew to assess the damage and right now crews are still working to restore power to folks in that area. then they'll be pulling the tree out of the roadway. now, back out here live, pepco crews as i said are heading to jonquel street where we are right now to repair the power poles and pow line and restore power to the few homes out here who have lost power. they do want mae to remind you, if you see downed power lines, stay away. don't touch them. use the mobile app or call their hotline to report the damage. kimberly: good advice there. storms rolling through the area are remnants of powerful storms that smacked the midwest. torrential rain and gusty winds created a lot of trouble in iowa, illinois, and wisconsin. the storms split tree trunks, downed trees, flooded roads. the water is so high it turned a baseball field into a lake and stay connected with our team of meteorologists. when the weather gets bad get the forecast online at wjla.com or down load the storm watch 7 and look for instant updates on our facebook and twitter feeds. bad weather is not blamed for

pepco customers will have an opportunity to save money on their electric bills today.is peak savings day. >> pepco's maryland customers will receive a bill credit of $1.25 hour of energy they save today between 2 o'clock and 6 o'clock. customers will be notified by e-mail or text about the exact hours they can reduce their energy use. energy levels are expected to be high today as it will be another hot one in the dmv as we have been talking about all morning long. >> exactly. how hot is it going to get at 4:35 this morning, we've got 80 degrees. i can only imagine what it will be at 4:35 this evening. >> too hot is the answer to your question. that's what it's going to be. i know up where i live in howard county, pge sent out on the same e-mail, please save as much energy as you can during those afternoon hours. compared to the last couple of days, looks like we're certainly going to get off to a sunnier start here and that will mean temperatures quick to rise as we head through the morning hours o bwi 77. it is very humid out there and the unfortunately that humidity

pepco and bte are offering you a credit if you useless than normal on your power. >>> trash trucks are getting an early start today and tomorrow. they just wept out at 6:00 a.m. several area cooling centers will be open along with schools and rec centers. >>> we posted the top ten places you can get cool today on our facebook page. you can keep your eye on the at washington app. >>> breaking news that you have been hearing all this morning and also i'm sure on your social media feeds, investigators made a grim discovery overnight. the bucks county district attorney's office confirms the discovery of multiple human remains in a deep common grave. that property owned by the family of this man, a man called a person of interest. cosmo dinardo. the discovery includes the body of one of four young men. 19-year-old dean fin char owe. all of the men have been missing since last week. another one attended loyola university in maryland. eun and aaron, back to you. >> erika, thank you. as erika reported, one of the men attended loyola university in maryland. the school held a prayer and candleli

that's why pepco and bge are offering a credit if you useless than normal energy through peak hours.ing centers will be open today along with pool and rec centers. coming up, justin finch will be live with team coverage on the scorching temps today. you can keep an eye on the weather with your nbc washington app. >>> we're following breaking news at the live desk. >> live details on a grim discovery outside philadelphia. >> aaron, eun, good morning to you. the bucks county district attorney's office held a press conference overnight. they confirmed the discovery of multiple human remains in a grate. that property owned by a man called a person of interest on the screen. officials say the discovery includes the body of at least one of four young men. 19-year-old dino owe all of the others have been missing since last week. the d.a. says this is, in fact, a homicide investigation. >> there are additional remains inside that grate. so this same process will go on. we're not done yet. this is a homicide, make no mistake about it. we just don't know how many homicides we are yet to know t

today in our area but that's actually going to put a big strain on energy companies because of demand, pepco and bge are offering a credit on normal. we've posted the top ten places you can get cool on our facebook page. keep the nbc washington app open today as we update the forecast and any conditions, changes in conditions all day long. >>> right now, cory stewart is in wood bridge announcing his intention to run for u.s. senate. stewart chairs the prince william county board of supervisors. he's also a staunch supporter of president trump. remember stewart nearly pulled off an upset victory last month in the virginia primary for governor. our northern virginia bureau chief, julie, is there. you can follow her on twitter for updates. >>> also right now, president trump is in paris where he's meeting with president emmanuel macron in about an hour from now, both leaders will hold a news conference. that is where we expect the president trump to face questions about the russia investigation. news4's tracie potts has t latest. >> reporter: ahead of today's news conference, president trump is

they're working with pepco to get them turned off. in this crash. we have an ambulance big police presence as well waiting to get more information from mark brady but white house road should be closed for quite sometime this morning. pretty big scene out there. avoid that if you're headed through upper marlboro this morning. let's switch it over to our maps. 270 also slow father hurley to the basically, from frederick down to the spur. it's going to take you an extra hour and ten minutes. very heavy photographic throw in. outer loop in college park 15 minute slow down. earlier crash from this morning cleared but we've been seeing heavy extra traffic on the outer loop over the legion bridge. as well as gw parkway dealing with slow traffic. and southbound bw parkway earlier crash has cleared. we do have some really big southbound delays. we have another crash that cleared on 295 out by pennsylvania avenue. look at northbound side of bw parkway. so slow from riverdale park all the way through powder mill r road. 95 southbound earlier cra