in west virginia hit hard there, 188,000 potomac edison customers.ian power 17 2,000 without power. >>> downed wires are dangerous because they could be live. >> blocking major inlet sections in kensington and kentucky. downed lines and big problems for this morning's commute. kristen fisher joins us live from kensington where pepco promised to have this cleaned up in time for this drive. what are you seeing? >> reporter: well it is not cleaned up yet. in fact not even close, pepco has made progress in some of the major intersections. this is connecticut southbound south of adams road. look at this (audio difficulty) (audio difficulty) (audio difficulty) >> we lost our audio signal with kristen. but you saw that huge tree that is in the middle of the road, blocking it. and until someone comes, and cuts that out of the roadway, it is cut down to one lane of traffic, which is going to be a mess this morning. >> that picture was connecticut southbound, heading into the district. coming from kensington southbound into the district, going to have to get c

bge has more than 6,000 without power, most in the bath area, potomac edison -- baltimore area, potomac edison has 3,000 outages. >>> we're getting damage report from these storms. flash flooding on rhode island avenue in northeast d.c. is one example. this is a photo tweeted but a justice engineer -- out by a justice engineer. there were flash floods several weeks ago leaving many homes water damaged. >>> breaking news out of reston where five people have been injured after an airport shuttle was involved in an accident on the dulles access road. it happened in the westbound lanes near the reston parkway exit. several viewers e-mailed us pictures of the crash. the fire department tells us four people have minor injuries, one person's injuries, though, life threatening. both lanes of the westbound access road are completely closed, as are two lanes of the westbound toll road. we have a news crew on the scene and will bring a live report as soon as they arrive. >>> today's accident comes nearly a year after a deadly accident involving another supershuttle van along the same stretch of ro

potomac edison 1600. bge707. last night we were told it wasn't the fallen trees that were the problem. >> most of the equipment was struck by lightning. that's where we've seen most of the damage but we also have trees, tree limbs that have come down and broken some poles. the damage is not as widespread obviously or as catastrophic as we experienced last week. but the fredricksburg area, we are seeing some damage there with multiple broken poles. >> the worst damage is in fredricksburg in the four-mile fork area. the national weather service is going to investigate whether or not a tornado hit there. >>> montgomery county is helping its residents clean up their yards. it's planning a county wide pickup this wednesday. crews will visit all of the 217 snowplow routes to pick up debris left over from the storm. other areas like arlington and alexandria stopped special service but regular trash pickup will accept bundles of debris. >>> whenever severe weather strikes our region, wusa9.com has you covered. you can al

potomac edison has 15,000 outages in montgomery, howard and frederick counties. this video just into our newsroom shows a transformer fire. pat collins is in falls church, virginia where people are sitting in hot homes in the dark tonight. >> reporter: transformers exploding, that could be a step backwards in this power restoration effort. take a look behind me, this 7-eleven in the dark, shut down, when is the last time you saw a 7-eleven closed at 11:00. take a trip with me down popular drive. life without electricity. this is popular drive in falls church. it's loaded with popular trees. and in storms, they have a reputation for falling like snowflakes. popular people know this all too well. look at the lane house, no power, no tv, no telephone, no problem. it's family monopoly by flashlight. >> we don't have the internet, any television or anything, no lights. >> it's monopoly? >> it's a little bit of an adventure, yeah. it's like camping. >> i'm about 5'9" this is the base of the tree. the poplar tree that fell into the back of linda's yard, she just moved h

as for our smaller utilities, bge still has 4,700 out in montgomery and possible while smeco, potomac, edison and nova have just a handful of outages. >>> continued outages in maryland turned a 4th of july in cabin john into a protest march against pepco. in other neighborhoods signs are now going up trying to get pepco's attention. scott broom is in cabin john with an explanation. >> reporter: people are complaining again tonight there appears to be a complete communications breakdown with pepco. >> we joust got anne mail saying that the power had -- an e-mail saying that the power had been restored in cabin john. half of cabin john is still out. doesn't make sense, does it? >> when you call the utility, you can speak with a human being, you get very different answers. >> reporter: pepco's website does not inspire confidence here. residents complained their reports do not show up on the map or are grossly inaccurate. >> they don't give us good information, we can't help them. >> reporter: nearby in the green acres section the bethesda resident have taken to posting signs to direct crews to t

pepco was consistently in last place in our analysis of restoration completion when compared to potomac edison, dominion, novk and bge. as crews completed restorations novk reported 62% restored the day after the storm and 99% by the 4th , but it serves only 37,000 customers. of the big three providers in our analysis, dominion was restoring customers faster with 95% restored by the 4th compared to pepco's 89%. the numbers anger montgomery county council president roger berliner. >> i think the numbers demonstrate that pepco is performing the worst in the state and that's just not okay and if you combine that with the fact that they are performing the worst -- >> experts will tell you you can't judge a utility simply on these restoration averages. it's just one way to look at performance, but critics say this is just one more piece of evidence stacking up against them. >> russ ptacek, thank you. >>> thanks, gentlemen. for a silver spring family the problem is not that the power is off. the problem is that the power is on, on an energized power line which has fallen over the roof of a house and

and moat mack edison has more than -- and potomac edison has more than 1,300 outages in northwestern maryland. submit your storm report and pictures and photos on our website www.wusa9.com. >>> we continue to follow breaking news out of reston tonight where the dulles access road has now been reopened after an accident involving an airport shuttle. this one happened late this afternoon in the westbound lanes near the reston parkway exit. the driver and four passengers in that shuttle were hurt. four of them only had minor injuries, but one was flown to the hospital via helicopter with life threatening injuries. once again the toll road and access highway are both open again. police are still investigating what caused that accident. >>> tonight we are learning more about the freak accident that killed a 64-year-old man. albert roeth, iii died last night when a tree fell on his car when he was sitting in traffic in great falls. >> reporter: surae chinn in great falls where the roots of this 40-ton tree is rotted out and when it fell, people felt it. david kinney shaken by what happened

potomac edison 1153 mostly in allegheny county. >> a number of summer school programs are closed sincet week's storms are starting back up and some are still without power and will remain closed. eight schools in fairfax county still have no power. all d.c. public schools except fair view hope elementary and winston education campus will be 0 open. in montgomery county, the regional centers will start up again but other school programs will not restart until monday. ing get a full list of these closings at wusa9.com. >> after hearing howard's forecast, you know today will be another grueling day of work for power company employees. once again, they have to deal with extreme temperatures and humidity as they work to restore power to thousands of increasingly frustrated customers. >> we have a look at how thins are going as crews continue to work out of local neighborhoods. >> well, it's just hot. a lot of

potomac edison has a total of 14318. allegheny county 3685. garrett county 2429. howard county 824, front good morningry county 1964 and washington county 58. >> oh, my goodness. hopefully we won't have to do anything like that until the winter. well it is weather that caused all of these outages, but at least today, weather is not a severe problem. >> reporter: we did have steady storms come through overnight. i heard a little rumble in my neighborhood, but right now we are calming things down on the radar. i think the moisture will be around for most of the morning, it might be an issue for some folks on the roadways. most of this could clear out by the 9:00 hour completely. right now though, 80 degrees at reagan national airport. it is steamy out there, our humidity values are quite high. we are going to steadily rise into the lower 90s for later on this afternoon and as the cloud cover comes back, we'll run the risk of seeing more showers and storms later on this evening and into the overnight. you can see steady rainfall moving toward southern and eastern por

potomac edison has 522 out aims most in allegheny frederick and garrett county.ost in prince george's county. monika samtani will have traffic for us in just a moment. we still have a problem with lights at major intersections, especially in montgomery county. >> she has a look at what we can expect temperature-wise. good morning olga. >> reporter: good morning. yesterday things were nice, air was dry. this morning we are not getting that much of a break. we are looking at very mild temperatures. in the 80s outside in the suburbs. we have nice 70s going around. plenty of sunshine today. brilliant sunshine by noon but we are going to be right back up into the middle range 90s by later on this afternoon. we will begin to have a little bit of a wind shift toward the end of the day. it won't impact us too much but will bring in cover. comfortable at la plate ta at 71 and even 60s toward the south. again with the daytime heating 95 the expected high for reagan national airport. 98 toward manassas. >> if you are planning to head outside right now things are looking goo

potomac edison has about 800 in montgomery and frederick county, and smeco is down to fewer than 250.long, hot days after the storm stretch on, patience is wearing thin for homeowners who feel as if they're big ignored. >> steve handelsman has the latest from one d.c. suburb. >> reporter: it's miserable on margaret drive in toe takoma park, maryland pap tree that tore down wires friday has not been touched. some homes got power back, then lost it. and their pets are sweltering in lynn's home. >> first of all, i'm definitely worried about my cats because, i mean, heat isn't good for any animal and lot of them are suffering right now. i'm more worried about myself. >> maggie sterner blacked out since friday got power from neighbors till theirs went off again. >> i feel outraged and totally beside myself about this. >> reporter: she's furious at the power company. >> i've called pepco every day to report my situation, the tree down around the corner, the downed wires across the street. every time i called them in the last four days they act as if it's the first time they've heard this in

potomac edison had more than 65,000 customers without power at one point. the president of the company's maryland operations spoke with us yesterday about what the company is doing now moving forward. >> there's always lessons we're going to learn from this as we can now start to debrief the event, but, you know, again, i think the employees and the linemen and out of contractors and linemen did a great job under very difficult conditions. >> the washington council of governments is now going to investigate the 911 outage that followed last month's storm. people across northern virginia could not access the emergency line in the hours after the storm hit. the main problem was when a verizon facility in arlington lost power that knocked out the 911 service, the cog will see what needs to be done to make sure that does not happen again. >>> 6:36. jessica doyle is watching your money and your family's safety. >> and your little baby. >> that's right. they're -- there are major safety concerns of baby monitors of all things. they're supposed to keep our beloved