maintaining its system to the level we expected. >> reporter: that's him reminding reporters that the psc has pepco's number, that regulators fined the company $1 million in december for poor performance and now that the psc is considering a rate increase for pep so he, the real punishment may be -- pepco, the real punishment may be yet to cop. that's because this commission has the -- come. that's because this commission has the power to dock pepco's rate request to effectively claw back tens of millions dollars of profits from previous increases that should have been spent on reliability. >> we would disallow the portion of that spending that we welt was attributable to their historic neglect. >> reporter: even so at least some increase is expected, which is bound to enage customers. the regulator's decision on pepco's demand for more money is due july 13th. mine wheel bazaria -- meanwhile bazarian told me today mother nature is angry noting that this most recent storm with no name did more damage than hurricane irene. in baltimore, scott broom, 9 news now. >> we should note that utilit

mailbag tonight lynn from silver spring says she understand pepco is in this to make money, but the psc's job is to look out for our interests as customers and they haven't. finally a psc fined pepco for poor service this past year, but they'd let years of lack of infrastructure investment and maintenance by pepco build up to the point we have major out ages almost of winter and summer. throw the psc rascals out and start fresh, but pete from maryland still can't get over pepco's performance in this most recent blackout catastrophe. he says he was in the dark for seven days. day four a crew was in the neighborhood. the power was restored to residents on the west side on the main road that divides the community. the east side went without power another three days. after a few days the only thing i wanted to understand was when is the power going to be restored and why is it taking so long? well, those were truly the questions on the minds of millions of people, but my voice is gone, so i can't answer this. luckily meterologist topper shutt can tell us about the weather. >> we're looking at

the psc said no to 50 million. and approved the other 18 million. said it considered what it called the longer history of substandard performance in rejecting the bulk of pepco's rate request saying pepco's application lacked the evidence required to substantiate its request. it approved the $18 million rate increase "which is required to meet the statutory mandate set by law to provide safe and reliable service". translates to $2.02 pentz per month. not news received in this neighborhood that was without power for four days. >> i don't think she should get it at all. i think they owe us money. >> it took them a good 10 days or more to get the lights back on, and i don't think they should charge us more. >> neither does montgomery county councilmen at large hans gruber. >> we need an aggressive clear message to them that they have to change their ways giving them more money is not the right kind of message. >> what should the psc should have done? >> they should say no more money. not a penny more until you have made the changes in your company that

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s psc will do. however, we do know that the psc will be holding some public hearing. they're reviewing this whole process that pepco recently went through in regard to the storm. they'll require pepco to write a report within 21 days and then they'll have their public hearing. we'll see what comes out of those hearings. back to you. >> thanks, delia, delia goncalves live outside the wilson building this morning. >>> well, that was not a tornado which hit the fredricksburg area sunday. the national weather service says it was a microburst. the very powerful one. it's a sudden powerful small down draft and it can be very damaging. several buildings were damaged or destroyed sunday when this line of storms moved through and several people suffered minor injuries from this as well. >>> 2014 could be the next time visitors get inside the washington monument. the national park service says damage from last year's earthquake caused major structural damage to the top of the structure. they have to build massive scaffolding around the monument to reach the damage. they are cur

can change pepco and only the governor can change the psc. he admits this storm was the worse yet, but he points to long outages during storms in past years and right after hurricane isabel in 2003. so far, more than 3100 people have signed on to that petition. so, it is gone from hammering pepco to calling for the heads of the regulators. is it all too much? shouldn't they get a break considering how much damage was caused by that rare and powerful storm a few weeks back? or was this latest outage just a straw that broke the camel's back? weigh in at mcginty's mail bag. the address is mailbag@wusa9.com. i look forward to hearing from you. >>> no decision on whether maryland lawmakers will be coming back to annapolis for a special session on expanding gambling. the governor met with house speaker, michael bush and the senate president, mike miller this morning, trying to see if they could reach a consensus. right after, both bush and miller said they had more work to do. >> we need some elbow grease and hard work and we need some elected offi

that we are experiencing. >> reporter: montgomery county resident and state senator also blamed the psc for being lax in its penalties for pepco's mistakes. >> i think that message that the public service commission sent them with the million dollar fine is not a sufficient message. >> the psc's chair says while the commission may have been slow in its work to effect irvegly oversea pepco, they have the systems in place to do it properly now. >> we have done in the time since 2010, we have built that infrastructure as it were. and we are now at a time and in a position to follow through with that. and that's what we plan to do. >> today the public did not have an opportunity to tell pepco how they felt. but come august 7th, folks will have a chance to do just that during a public hearing. in rockville, i'm tracy wilkins, news 4. >>> let's get the latest from veronica tracking the storms. >> they are getting closer and now we're seeing warnings, severe thunderstorm warning up to the north of us. this is for washington county, maryland and berkeley county in west virginia and goes until 7

the psc. >> we've asked the maryland governor to respond. he has not. neither has the public service commission. the commissioner will be facing off with reamer tomorrow and other montgomery county council members at a hearing in rockville in the council chambers, starts at 12:30. the energy is back on. the air conditioning is working, but i think it's going to get hot. >> contentious to say the least and i think people are talking about accountability more than anything. more than a few pennies, it's being held accountable. >>> by now we all know things are getting catastrophic in syria and today it got significantly worse than that. randall pinkston is at the united nations where a scheduled vote on the crisis was suddenly called off. >> reporter: syrian college students chanted freedom. anti-assad protesters fired shots and waved the opposition flag celebrating at sass nations of several members of the -- the assassinations of several members of the assad regime the defense minister and deputy defense minister were killed by bombs. rebels

hope the next storm won't be bd or pepco will do their job, fix it, the only person can change the pscnor and the governor is the only one that can change pe" pepco"we contacted the maryland public service commision... they issued this statement saying quote: "the governor may onll remove a commissioner during his or her term for incommetence or misconduct." still the peition is drawing attention.coming up next half hour... how many people have pigned it so far.i'm megan water is expected to be shops near the water main break downtown... and some say it couldd't come soon enough. say business has suffered due restauranns are now even by - offering 'water main specials' to entice customerr.but with only foot traffic allowed on two blocks of light street... business has been reduced. 3(ann pascale-victor paacale custom tailors)"it's effected by the fact people just cannot get down here."((sot # 2)) (kirby)"once the businesses are open we will be back on tra" track"again water is expected to be restored today to the rest of the shops on the block. however the road will not re-open for thr

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they ask the psc to press the companies on several issues. >> because most of the outages were caused he said one of the most important things the psc needs to look at is the idea of bearing power lines in certain neighborhoods. >> we would obviously like better information from bge as to whether outages have taken place so that we can send our resources out there to offer assistance. >> county leaders say while they know bearing lines is an expensive option, it's something that needs e to be looked at -- that needs to be looked at. >> governor o'malley also supports bearing power lines. >>> the republican led house of representatives votes once again to repeal the president's health care law. this is the 33rd time house republicans have tried to repeal or scale back the affordable health care act. it's failed to get past the democratic controlled senate. republican leaders say they're aren't concerned because voters will have the final say in november. >>> congressman jesse jackson is receiving treatment for a mood disorder. his office said he was being treated for exhaustion. his st

not acceptable anymore, to hope the next storm won't be bd or pepco will do their job, fix change the psc is the governor and the governor is the only one that can change pe" pepco" we contacted the maryland public service commision... they issued this statement saying quote: "the governor may only remove a commissioner during his or her term for incompetence or misconduct." still the peition is drawing attention.coming up next half hour... how many people have signed it so far.i'm megan gilliland, fox45 morning news. a firefighter is recovering this morning, after falling through a floor.... while responding to a fire in annapol. annapolis.lightning from dangersou storms... sparked the flames.it happened on coventry place near coachway road.the owner of the home called emergency officials... saying his house was filled with smoke.the firefighter fell throughhthe floor, while trying to put it out.we're told the firefighter is now okay. lightning is also to blame for this house fire on clifton avenue in arnold.it started just after 5:30, last night. after the strike... smoke billowed from

outages were caused by falling trees, kamenetz says one of the most important and costly things the psc can look at is bearing power lines across the neighborhood. >> statewide, there were 19 heat-relatived deaths. the utilities need to disclose more information. >> we would obviously like to have better information from bge as to where outages have taken place, so that we can send our resources out there to offer assistance. >> i think that given the severity of the storms that we're having. and the frequency. that they need to come up with a better plan. >> reporter: and county leaders say while they know this is an expensive option to bury lines, they still think it is something that needs to be looked at. monique griego, wjz eyewitness news. >> governor o'malley also suggests looking into the idea of burying power lines. >>> another mild summer night. hopefully this string of pleasant july days will continue at least for a little while. we deserve it. meteorologist tim williams is in the weather center, tracking a little activity on first warning doppler radar. >> we have had just o

a meeting will be held with the psc, bge and neighbors in ellicott city. kathy feels she is not getting the service she pays for. >> we're paying high prices for deregulated power in maryland. we expect service that's commensurate with the prices. >> reporter: cattily it is taking matters into her own hands and installing a generator system. >> it's an $8,000 project and i can think of lots of things i'd rather spend $8,000 on. >> reporter: bge said it has been concerned about the reliability in the area. they said not only has bge embraced the area in the efforts but has implemented numerous initiatives. >> they've switched a lot of things around. >> reporter: the community association president for the past 10 years. >> they came up with fixes but they're not fixing the problem. >> reporter: with storms so prevalent residents feel the next power outage could be just around the corner. >> is there going to be a storm or winds and are we going to lose power. >> reporter: david rubin has severe sleep apnea and needs power for his machine. >> after one fligh

we know that in maryland the psc there has already fined pepco a million dollars for their reliabilityin regards to the last major storm and the last huge outage that folks went through. so where are folks here in d.c. on that issue? we'll take a look coming up at 6:00. andrea, back to you. >> zeal deal reporting live from -- delia goncalves reporting live from outside the wilson building. >>> today a former campaign aide to d.c. mayor gray is expected to enter a guilty plea. gene clark harris is charged with making illegal contributions to federal and local candidates. harris is a public relations executive. she's -- she also has ties to businessman jeffrey thompson, a prominent fund raiser who is already under federal investigation. >>> a judge has ruled anne arundel county executive john leopold must stand trial. leopold had requested the case be thrown out. he was indicted in march on charges of misusing his police detail for personal and political gain. the accusations include having police look into political rivals. leopold's trial is set to begin september 4. >>> baltimore's pu

now the psc will consider them and make recommendations for change. david rubben almost died when his machine shut off. >> i gasped for air so bad my throat is damaged and infected which is what happened during the eight day power outages after irene. >> look at the reliability of the area t is better -- it is better than other parts of the system. >> reporter: now it will hear another earful when the meetings on the june outages start next month. >> and groupon is a great way to get food and services. but one restaurant owner said he had to close up shot because of that site. and it offered a 2 for 1 deal on groupon. customers flooded in with the owner said he never got his part of the money and could not cover his costs. >> they take half the money and they hold on to your half for months before they send you a check. >> they come here and get the cheap waffles. they will wait and see what sells going on. >> groupon said it paid out 2/3 of the restaurant's share of the revenue and sad to hear about the restaurant's closure. >>> potty mouths beware.

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the psc was expected to announce its decision on the 4% hike by friday, but last week pepco filed a request to push back that decision so it could focus on restoring power to customers. so far we haven't heard if the public service commission will grant that request. >>> d.c. council member mary cheh tells news she will be introducing a bill tomorrow that would force pepco to start installing some of its lines underground. >> we would place an assessment on pepco which inevitably will probably pass onto the rate pair, but still an assessment on pep -- rate payer, but still an assessment on pepco, create a fund out which of we could begin to identify these areas and begin to underground the wires. >> don't expect any quick action on cheh's bill. tomorrow is the council's last legislative session before the summer recess. >>> arlington national cemetery has also been hit hard in the recent storms. today clean-up crews got a helping hand from hundreds of landscapers around the nation. >> reporter: i'm kristin fisher at arlington national cemetery where there are still big trees down after that

the public service commission or psc is made up of five commissioners appointed by governor o'malley. and the june storm caused massive power outages and leaving thousands without electricity for several days. >>> and they known as major gas stations. costco wants to build one next to the westfield-wheaton mall. a proposal would stop making the gas stations from being built near schools, malls, hospitals and fitness centers. they attract long lines and idling cars and opponents say that harms the environment. >> and this is not about costco but about a buffer zone between large gas stations and that is the equivalence of having 10 gas stations in one place and creating a buffer zone between those stations and surrounding activities. >> the full council will consider the proposal to restrict the mega gas stations next week. >>> and maryland state police are raking in overtime pay. an independent odd it found overtime spending is up 10% and they pulled in a 16% increase and college park increased 11%. civilian police employees more than doubled at the rockville station, rising 115 purse

this will be taking place at 11:00 this morning at the psc headquarters. talking about underground utility lines and also talking about the overall cost of the storm. they say they will not discuss the opinions about how each utility responded to those outages and many of you complaining not enough was done in enough time. >>> well, a bit more than ten minutes crews will begin restoring power once again and they're going to the staging area at bwi airport to begin the workday getting that power back on for you and me. crews are working about 12 to 16 hour shifts and how many people remain in the dark this morning? according to bge about 57,000. they are still without power. and much need air-conditioning. most of the people are in baltimore city and in baltimore county. they are the biggest numbers without the power this morning. >>> our outage in d.c. left some riders hiking. take a look at the i video coming in. the green line train lost power monday after waiting in a hot car for another train to come rescue them for about 30 minutes the driver told pas

. >> reporter: and while the psc is not ready to criticize, the company with the name on the envelope is. >> i think the response is bad no one tells you anything or can give you concrete answers. and you are suffering. >> reporter: the idea of burying power lines underground here in maryland doesn't seem to be going away. areas that have them buried faired better during the storm. state legislators called on the pse to studity issue and the chairman said that in the news conference there was a study back in 2003 and that study determined that it would cost customers anywhere from 300 -- 340 to $415 a year for 15 years until such a project could be completed. live in baltimore county christian schaffer abc2 news. >> how about being pregnant. what big day for sheris church hill. the 19-year-old found out she is going to have a girl and she gother power back on. but it's been 6 days of struggle and it was so bad she went on facebook with hilarious postings every day. day one camping. day 4 the shining and day 5 was oprah and the color purple. what was it today? >> today's picture was th

chris van holland has called on the psc to reject the rate hike. >> 72 degrees on this friday. still ahead on good morning washington, a tragic scene in colorado. >> more than 50 injured and 14 people dead. a gunman opened fire during the bid night premiere of "the dark knight rises." we continue to get >> we have been following this breaking news all morning from aurora colorado, just a few miles east of denver, colorado. 15 minutes into "batman: the dark knight rises," police say an adult male stood up and started firing into the crowd of theatergoers. reports are that 14 people have been killed. 10 people died at the theater and four more died after being transferred to local hospitals. 50 people have been injured from a combination of gunshots and some type of explosive device. police believe it was some type of canister. it may have been tear-gas or some kind of smoke grenade. >> there is a lot of panic at three area hospitals where the victims are being treated at this hour. family members are arriving trying to find loved ones who they know when into that screening of th

officials say they still need to see what went right and what went wrong which will come out with psc reviews the storm. trees will become a top priority. >> will be looking at the network and looking at where are winning in a trees. bad position and was limbs that are broken. >> the worst may not be over. bge is warning customers to prepare for severe weather bureau the summer and ways -- as we head into hurricane season. >> all the defendants of the downtown beating of a tourist on st. patrick's day have pleaded guilty to their role in the attack. the person seen in the video throwing a punch that knocked out the victim will head to prison for less than a year. his sentence stems from a guilty plea of robbery to other charges. the fourth suspect will be sentenced this coming december. officials in anne arundel county will begin an investigation. one fire crews arrived at the scene around 10:00 a.m., they found a body of a woman in sight. they do not know the name or the age. we have learned that she lost her husband a few weeks ago. reports say the flames may have ignited in the kit

. >> we're going to let the psc decide whether the performance was good, bad or needs improvement. but apart from that the instructure is the infrastructure. >> and the infrastructure is what the increase is about. in a regular bill 70 pays for energy, 29 for taxes and about 100 go to shareholders. >> people have the misconception that we have a lot of money sitting on that we can just take to ourselves. >> find the funds from within your company. >> reporter: and from their perspective, do a better chance to earn your part. jacobs says csc should make bge -- but there are customers who understand bge's need to pay for upgrades. >> if they upgrade it and we get the delivery the way we need it i'm happy. all i want is my service. >> reporter: bge points out this is the only the second time 20 years it's asked for an increase in infrastructure. >> a lot is money we've already spent that we're not going to the commission to ask for the recovery. >> reporter: if the increase is approved you will see it on your bill in february. >> the increases are $12 a month. >> that's a lot. let's h

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in it, they asked the psc to press the companies on several issues, including how to prevent such widespread outages. and whether their staffing and equipment are adequate. >> reporter: because most of the outages were caused by falling trees, kamenetz said one of the most important and costly things the ps dr. needs to look at is the impairment of power lines. >> reporter: statewide, there were 19 heat-related deaths. the letters said the utilities need to disclose more information on where outages are. >> we would obviously like to have better information from bge as to where outages have taken place, so that we can send our resources out there to offer assistance. >> i think that given the severity of the storms that we're having, and the frequency, that they need to come up with a better plan. >> reporter: and county leaders say while they know burying lines is probably going to be expensive, they still think it's an option that needs to be looked at. reporting live from north baltimore, monique griego, wjz eyewitness news. >> governor martin o'malley also supports looking into the idea

the psc does have some bite to their bark. they fined pepco, the d.c. area utility, a million dollars for a lackluster response a short time ago. reporting live, mike hellgren, wjz eyewitness news. >> okay, mike. thank you. >>> a late check with bge and just over 40,000 customers remain without power right now. the majority are still in baltimore county with 19,000. just under 10,000 in baltimore city. 4100 in howard county. and 3600 in ann anne arundel county. >>> first warning weather coverage continues with rochelle ritchie in the cedar cross community, with more on people sweating it out, waiting for hour. -- power. rochelle? >> we're here on giddings avenue. and this is pretty much what you'll see across the area. trees in the middle of the road. and utility workers from bge, trying to restore power. still, some are having to sweat it out in their homes. >> it's been brutal. >> reporter: lena gaightser is hot, frustrated and wanting answers. >> they told us tuesday it was going to come on at 8:00. >> reporter: 8:00 came and went. now it's day 6. an

pepco is not saying whether it will appeal the psc decision.ller rate hike, customer also pay about $2 more every month for electricity. >>> a wounded warrior from fairfax county received an awesome thank you president. a new two-story arm. army captain patrick herran was shot in the head in 2007. he spent the past five years at walter reed medical center rehabilitating. yesterday captain herran and his wife were given the keys to a new home in virginia. the heroes at home program funded by sears helped equip the home with an elevator, an enlarged handicap accessible bathroom and larger doorways. >> i thought i wanted to stay in bethesda for walter reed, when i decided i kind of like being with my family in virginia. >> in the next year, the homes for heroes program plans to renovate 150 homes for wounded veterans across the country. what a great program. >> absolutely. you preeappreciate all the workt our military members do. >> 5:51. time for traffic and weather on the 1s. beautiful morning out there. it is refreshing. >> the air is fresh and

and the psc will hold hearings over whether it was appropriate. many won't soon forget those stifling temperatures. >> i'm really glad that there's air conditioning. >> a lot of people are sick of it. >> it is for now. but summer is only just beginning. >> reporter: construction work continues on route 50 nprince george's county. that's where a 50-by-40 foot section road, buckled in the heat. mike hellgren, wjz eyewitness news. >> we'll have much more on the rising death toll from the recent heat wave, coming up at 5:00 and 6:00. >>> we broke records over the weekend. but things are beginning to cool down in our region, thankfully. let's take a live look outside right now. it's mostly cloudy, which is somewhat refreshing after the days of sizzling sun beating down on us. meteorologist bernadette woods is here with the updated numbers from first warning weather. >> it really did feel good out there today, compared to where we have been. we'll show you first doppler radar. it's because of that front that moved through yesterday. it is just moved off

and he is asking the psc for 4% rate hike. so if you thought things weren't bad enough, you may have to pay more if you live in maryland. we'll have more on that part of the story coming up a 5:30. back to you. >> absolutely amazing. delia goncalves live from rhode island avenue on last night's storms. >> they were loud. thanks, delia. >>> while the storm dropped rain here in the d.c. region, it caused even worse flooding to our north in and around baltimore. several parts of the city were left under water and plenty of it. down trees and power lines reported in baltimore city and the county as well as part of anne arundel county. baltimore city police were forced to block off a number of intersections because of flooding. >>> the parents of an 8-year- old prince william county boy are charged with felony child abuse. amy and matthew sweeney of net hollow court in bristow were arrested after the child turned up at a house on glen meadow lane and appeared to be lost. the boy had severe bruising all over his body. they believe t

after everyone's electricity is back on, bge has three weeks weeks to give the psc a detailed report on how it handled power restoration for more than 600,000 customers. >> nobody is happy. all of the power is back on. but we don't, at this point, have the data to grade fairly the performance one way or the other. >> we try to do a balanced restoration. >> reporter: bge says it won't yet release any of the thousands of crews working on the downed lines. >> we've restored almost 660,000 customers. so we're well above the 90%. but the number that means more to the customers is what is left. >> britney is fed up. she's home after gifting birth and says six days is unacceptable. >> definitely not this long. maybe a couple of days. but almost a week now? and they're saying it might not be on until sunday? it's extremely unsatisfactory. >> reporter: -- the taken so long to get power back on. one lawmaker is calling for marylanders to -- maryland to bury power lines underground. >> what are the costs to citizens if you lose 200 of food in your refrigerator? if you have to take your mother t

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