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we've been trying to restore infrastructure. without that being in place it doesn't make sense to continue along the way into the neighborhoods. but now that we've been able to see your all -- secure all of those facilities, you will see a greater presence from those crews. it's not that they haven't been working. they have been working on other projects to really firm up the infra frack sure. -- infrastructure. so, max? >> thank you very much. i guess one of the things i wanted to point out, when it came to this particular storm we had a large number of substations on president first day or so that was without power. if you take a look at this sketch, i want to use this to highlight how this work. imagine 20 some odd substations, and this is sort of a representation of a substation. we have several of these across the pepco service territory. the sub takeses serve miles of distribution lines down the roads and highway and by ways in the territory and into the neighborhoods serving homes t commercial establishments and residence

it hopes to have 90% of customers restored by 11:00 p.m. on friday. and that prediction caused a lot of uproar. is it deserved? bruce leshan spent the day trying to answer that question. he is live in bethesda with what he found out. somebody is working there, bruce. >> yeah, derek. the funny thing is, we have seen a lot whole more of these guys out working on places like this house. we have seen pepco crews. another surprising thing, which is that a lot of the folks that you would expect to be punching pepco at this point with all this heat and humidity and no power, well they are actually saying hold on, let's give it a little more time before smacking the utility for poor performance. >> can't do anything until pepco comes through? >> even the verison guy was waiting on a pepco crew. people across the region are showing remarkable patience. brad's next door neighbor lost his home to a tree. so he's willing to offer pepco a break. >> they are doing the best they can. i mean, it's a tough situation. there's a tree on a house. >> is it too early for y

now restored service to 75% of those customers. now with regards to the communication, we may be able to bring in a circuit. there's a technical term and so if we bring back the entire circuit. let's stay there are 1100 customers on that circuit, we believe that all those customers are restored at that time. but there could be some damage down the line. it could be a blown transformer. it could be a blown fuse. so in those cases where a customer gets a call saying their service is back, we need them to call in and do that until we get up and running, fully imfrom implemented. >> you are a bit overwelmed and that's understandable, but you keep saying you can't control the weather. that's understandable as well. we had a story of someone in silver spring who called and warned pepco that the down line, you reenergized it anyway, set his car on fire and people could have been badly hurt. that you could have controlled. what went wrong? >> that's a very unfortunate incident. this is the first time i have seen the clip on that. the matte

sunday, but according to press releases only 60% of customers were restored by monday, 80% restored tuesday and 89% restored wednesday. 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

and should be immediately restored. both wilton and graton have been restored. graton was restored in 2000 by an act of congress and wilton in 2009 using the same unavoidable process we're going through now. >> and you've engaged the administration on this? again, i wish that the secretary felt that it was important to be here today to address this issue, but it's my understanding that you did address the b.i.a. and attempted to go that route as well? >> we have a letter here that says although we disagree with him not having administration power to restore us, because it has been done in the past, he recommended congress or courts, and we've seen the results of trying to go through congress to be restored, and i was going to mention some names. we won't do that. >> thank you. >> but we -- there was no other option left for us except the courts which, as i mentioned before, as a neutral party, that will determine what the law says for an illegal termination. >> thank you, and i'm about out of time, but let me just ask y

reporting 42% restored. as crews spread through the region mono, pep coagain ranked last in our analysis. bge reported 68% restored. dominion reporting 73%; pep coreported only 65% of its 456,000 customers had power. tuesday and wednesday our analysis shows pep conot coming in last, but within 1 point of last place, nearly tieing with bge. the numbers angered gosh president roger lynner. >> we expect to look at these numbers and we expect to hold pep coaccountable, since in their judgment they have not measured up. from what i see there's certainly a strong basis to assume they have not measured up. >> reporter: experts say a lot of factors go into evaluating a utility's response to a storm, and you can not use restoration averages alone. critics say it is one more example of pepco not stacking up. i'm investigative reporter russ petasik, 9 news now. >>> pep cotoday donated $25,000 to the american red cross. the red cross and local emergency management agencies have been providing food, water and shelter to

we're working 16-hour shifts, 24/7 to restore service. i know there are a lot of customers out there still out of service and we're working as hard as we can to restore that for them. >> i think for me the frustration when you didn't see the trucks out there, like we're used to seeing when it's snowing and all that. we came to learn the problem was so huge that you were working around the clock, even though we couldn't see it on our street. could you give us the background about the first hours after all this happened into the next day and saturday? >> sure. >> what were you doing? >> first few hours were a mess. we had a number of sub stations and the sub stations provides power to 11,000 customers or so. we had some of the supply lines that go into the sub station to energize them, they were damaged. we were working behind the scenes trying to restore service. if the sub stations aren't operating, none of the feeders will be operating either. the first 24 hours we're focused on doing damage assessment, restoring service along the lines

restore power to the area.ut crews are being bused in here where they are being fed and briefed on what their task is for the day. b.g.e. tells us 169,000 customers are still without power. we have this tremendous group effort from those out of state and those here who are trying to restore power as soon as possible. live at the airport, the staging area for the crew, nadia ramdass, wbal-tv 11 news. >> thank you. 68 degrees on tv hill. coming up, we'll look at your answers to our water cooler question of the day. coming up, we'll take a last look at weather and traffic bgether before you head out to >> time to get to your answers to our water cooler question of the day. this morning we asked -- do you think it is worth the cost to put all of maryland's power lines underground? and the cost is a lot. we will post more of your answers on the front page of our website, wbaltv.com. a quick check and traffic. >> traffic is looking pretty good. we have some accidents in the city. an accident at pulaski. we have a cra

they are still assessing and restoring as they go. as far as northern virginia, dominion power they are also assessing and restoring. their focus right now is on the critical structures like hospitals and senior homes because they really need to get the power back on in those places they expect to have a full assessment by noon as to whether -- what kind of time table they are working with to get all the power back on and that is why on some of the websites you will see the changes, the power -- you will have one number for power outage and it will go down and may be up and down. they want you to call it is important to call if you see power lines down or don't have your power on at this point because they don't know to come out and fix it if you don't call them. >> wisdom, the biggest source of frustration for people. we will ask people from pepco and dominion about that. >>> the scene will be repeated hundreds of times throughout the day throughout the dc region. not just here but several mid- atlantic states. we want to get the let

i would also say that -- restoring a. we have an app now that customers can report their outages on and track progress. >> uh-huh. give us an idea. you were saying earlier you were hoping for more crews from around the south or further away to come in and help out. the problem ising areas have a problem with the storm as we have. any ideas how much that will pair down the time of seven days that you think the power could be out? >> originally asked for a thousand resures. we received commitments from oklahoma, missouri, from florida and georgia. they on and made the commitments. we look for them toon the system on monday and as soon as they get there, they can expedite the process for us and there is still a lot of work. as we're further along, it will be one customer at a time. there will be service entrance cables, the wire from the pole to the house has to be restored. the work gets tougher. >> all right, clearly a lot of work still ahead. we appreciate you coming in and talking with us. >> sure. >> and giving folks an

the company's next restoration update is expected on wednesday. in northwest washington, andrea mccarren, 9news now. >> we're told that crews from all over the country are pouring into the washington area to help pepco get the power back on. workers from oklahoma, florida, georgia, missouri, canada, and parts of the northeast all in town to help with those efforts. one thing a lot of our viewers want to know tonight, where are the pepco crews. ken molestina live in landover, maryland with some answers. >> reporter: yeah, bruce, many people that you talk to out here, they will tell you that they have yet to see a pepco crew on their streets. we did see a couple of them out there today. i will tell you something, they are slowly but surely starting to make their presence. here is what is making a big presence. take a look at this. the trucks from across the country, crews who have come to help us all arriving. this is the cavalry, the first group that has showed up here to help us out with this problem. they're expected to go to their hotel rooms, g

mike hellgren is covering the task of restoring power. >> reporter: it is a tough task to try to restore power, you see some of the efforts going on right here. this is because of lightning and winds smashed a tree through some of the power lines. there's more than 60,000 people in the city alone without power right now. and they are prioritizing how they restore service based on public safety. the impact of the fast and furious straight line winds is still being felt by hundreds of thousands of the people across maryland. many are without power as temperatures climb dangerously high. >> it's hard coping trying to keep your food cold and even getting dry ice, we had to wait in a line for four hours to get the dry ice. >> reporter: trees smashed into cars and homes. >> i can't tell you the last time i saw a storm that powerful, that quick. the lightning was incredible. the winds were amazing. just hearing the winds whipping around it was quite scary. >> the reality of this situation was that we were hit suddenly with a hurricane punch and a hurricane power outages. but we did not have as

crews from the -- restore all that power. crews from the carolinas and more will arrive sometime tomorrow we're told, but montgomery county executive isaac leggette says the date for restoring power is the region is just not acceptable. >> july 6th is not acceptable. i would hope that they would use every available reach sources they could get their hands on to re-- resources they could get their hands on to reduce that number. i'm realistic to know given the fact the governor indicated that those crews were not prearranged here or prepositioned here it, takes a little longer. >> we have made some progress, but it takes a a lot -- a lot more work to do. this storm had all the warning that a hurricane would typically give to us. therefore, the crews now on their way from texas and florida to help our own utility companies respond were not predeployed because we did not have the hurricane warning. >> the state of maryland has joined d.c. and the state of virginia in declaring states of emergency. this will enable each jurisdict

to restore the public's safety. these diagrams, these pictures illustrate the demolition you can see the upper right hand picture, showing the debris on the embarcadero and the public security fence on a curved line. this is just different progress. the contractor had remote- control demolition equipment that he was able to operate from the cherry picker. worker safety was in order to protect the workers. putting up a scaffolding to do more with the electrical equipment. we started to put that in on the 26, tuesday. we started having meetings with the contractor in the insurance company on the 26. last week, last tuesday, there was another one scheduled for tuesday. there is a team meeting every week to get everyone plugged into the progress we're making. the contractors working through that last friday, trying to get that done so that we could get a demolition contractor who worked on the stabilization for him to get that work done. and all of the power that was served came through. this equipment, as you can see i

many primary arteries, the power is being restored slowly. signals that remained affected in fairfax. i am waiting for the list in montgomery county. several remain in the district, major intersections that still remain in the dark. prince george's county, more of the same. getting on to the major roads like yesterday, remains pretty decent. to help facilitate, maryland has relaxed hov on 270 and 66 inside the beltway. no hov for vdot, but everybody else remains the same. 95 in virginia in this picture headlights are northbound. look at all of your neighbors going to work. in the district we have this camera at 14th street in front of the reagan building, looks quiet. back to you. >> thank you. 5:31. on this 31 power crews have been working around the clock since friday to restore electricity. >> many families are learning this is a complicated process which could stretch all the way into the weekend. a spokesperson for dominion is joining us on the phone. we understand crews from as far as canada have come to help with the restoration effort

some now have a long wait and have them. >> it will be a multi day restoration. we believe the majority of our customers will be restored late into this week. >> an update on the progress from b.g.e. president. >> area homes continue to do their best. nadia ramdass continues our coverage live in northeast baltimore this morning. we just lost her. some businesses and had problems over the weekend. they had to shut down because they didn't have power. another problem -- residents in north baltimore had a tough time buying groceries because some businesses cannot open because they didn't have power. other businesses have to turn their customers away. they had no power because of friday's storm. employees were busy yesterday trying to salvage whatever food they could by transferring some of it to another store. but they still had to throw a lot of perishable items. the manager said he cannot begin to estimate how much money they're losing because they had no power. >> it is a killer. we have no registers, we have no power. so, you lose out in that respect, but we wil

our priorities have been to restore the hospitals. restore some of the pumping stations. there's still a bit of work to go with wssc. we're aware of the nursing homes that are out of service and other critical customers. . we are trying to restore it to the largest number of customers first. but before we did anything we had to restore the infrastructure. now that that's done and we have some mutual assistance crews on the way from as far away as oklahoma and we are looking for resources in new england and canada to come in here this week and help us. >> dominion power said that this is the worst storm they have seen -- that's not a hurricane. are you guys finding the same thing, that this damage is some of the most significant you have had to endure? >> you know, in 26 years i have seen a lot of storms. isabelle was the one i experienced at about 535,000 customers. this was at 443. there was a lot of damage. it takes time. there are a lot of trees down a lot of wires down. we just ask our customers to be patient. we know it's an uncomfortable period of time. but i can as

but at this point in time, we simply want the service restored. we'll deal with the aftermath later on. but right now my major task is to hold them their feet to the fire, to ensure that we get the service now, not a few weeks from now or a month from now about what could have happened. i want service restored now and waiting until july 6th is unacceptable. if you are that other 10% waiting until after july 6th, that is unacceptable. we need service restored today. >> montgomery county executive ike leggett, thank you for joining us. we'll be right back. activate your 5% cash back at chase.com/freedom even without power, people are managing to use facebook. our question of the morning, four decades ago a majority of people did this. but today only 20% of us do this, is it drive a stick shift, change their own forecast tire or write a letter. >> the answer is a, drive a stick. >>> >>> steamy highs in the 90s today. late day storms possible. >>> we are going to take a live look on i 66. it has helped so much. hov restrictions are in effect on 95 and

>> we are saying that restoration efforts will extend into this weekend. however not all customers will be out until this weekend. but restoration efforts will continue throughout the week and into the weekend. >> reporter: and one thing you mentioned, as you get closer to getting everyone back on, the projects get smaller. so not a lot of people might notice. >> right now we are working on jobs that put the largest number of customers in service. we might have a tree down on a wire, that we need to remove and restore service that, will put people up to a thousand people or more back in service. once we get into the other smaller jobs, we are doing the same amount of time intensive work taking a tree off a piece of equipment or taking a tree off a wire but it may serve 2 to 3 or 5 people at the most. >> reporter: thanks so much. again bge the hope is to get everyone back online by this weekend. 780 out of state workers are here including from quebec canada. we will keep you posted. linda so, abc2 news. >>> he says power should-- bge says power should be re

at the end of the day, we want to bet everybody restored. we have 4,000 folks in total we brought in in a short period of time 4,000 you are seeing today and similar facility in lockheed martin. we are talking about 1300 contractors out therefrom as far as quebec and texas and florida. >> reporter: you are keeping a close eye on the radar looking at approaching storms. what could storms do to power restoration efforts. >> depends on what it is. if a storm comes through that's similar to the other night where we lost 12,000 customers, it is going to have an effect. and cumulus effect. if you lose several thousand customers at a time, and depending where it is, you could see the restoration process elongate. we will worry about that part. we are making sure we are doing the goal at hard and trying to restore all power by the end of the weekend. >> reporter: we are going on day 6 of people are without power. the frustration levels i am sure are rising. starting today willy gave better eye did he what the -- will you be able to get a-- give a be

we need to get the power restored. hopefully, if you are watching on your iphone, it is going to improve. showers andd radar, beginning to develop across western maryland. they're starting to fizzle out just a bit. or watch has been -- moves towards the east. remains in effect until 2:00 in the morning. we will see the potential for a few severe thunderstorm warnings the south and west of the d.c. metro. washington, the garrett county, the panhandle of west virginia, immediate metro. super doppler radar picking up a of these storms. hagerstown, frederick, a few showers along the frederick montgomery county border. 68-75 degrees tonight. a partlyrees and sky tomorrow. fourth of july holiday weekend -- holiday on wednesday, we will chance for some thunderstorms. nightreworks on wednesday problem.t be a it looks like a lot of fun at this year. next, one major retailer the the hot seat. >> you may have plans to head up sale thisf july weekend. be a lot of them. >> those huge discounts might as big as they seem. seven is on

it does no good to say we're going to restore x percent or individually restore your power by x only to find out that because of the circumstances we can't control, we dash your hopes, we can't meet that deliverable. and that only creates more frustration and more anger with the utility companies and everybody else involved. >> i understand your way of thinking. but if i'm a customer without power, and i'm not going to have power for a week over a holiday weekend, nothing you will say to me will make me feel any better. the only thing you could say to me is, hey, your power is going to be back on in 10 minutes. >> you're right. and we know that. we're certainly not tone deaf to the customers' concerns. many of our own employees and their families are without power as well. the fact is, in this case, we have restored power to more than half a million people within three days. and so not to say that that's any solace because in our case for the 164,000 remaining customers without power, you don't care about that number. you only care about when am i getting my lights back on. >> you've

it. 200,000 customers have been restored, but another 366,000 don't have power. according to the utility, it will be well into next week before everyone has power. >> it actually frightened me and i was never one of those kids that was afraid of storms. >> once things quieted down, she was not surprised to learn that her home was one of the half million power outages reported by pg&e. >> there are huge wires down. >> just a few blocks away, they tried to stay cool during their power outage. >> it has been really hot and we have been irritated. >> these were a typical sign across the area. they contributed to widespread power outages in the region. >> i would say it was not just a thunderstorm, this was a storm of epic proportions. >> pg&e says it will take a while because they are not the only utility in the region with widespread outages. >> pennsylvania, west virginia, go down to virginia, north carolina, the district. all utilities are seeing hunters of thousands of customers out of power. in the meantime, they plan to cope with the heat. >> i will go downstai

we have restored at the height of the storm 443,000 customers, we restored 48 to 49%. >>> we have shown on tv yesterday that we have had crews coming in from texas from canada. are they helping your crews now or are they getting started this morning? >> we have had crew that his come in really within 12 to 18 hours after the storm moves through the system. i was out throughout the day yesterday. i talked to crews here from ohio, here from south carolina. we have had crew that his have been coming in. the bulk of the crews the large force that we are used to seeing will not be in place until late today, probably into tomorrow. but we do have crews from out of town that are in place and are working now. >>> one final question, clay. we saw the explanation from michael maxwell about the sub stations and the feeder lines before they can get into the neighborhood. i think people would like to see someone in the neighborhood talking about when they are going to at least cut back some of the tree limbs tree branches. any of the pepco workers currently on the job right now working hard. we do u

and a lot of people are angry at the power restoration under way.e a look at some of the video from throughout the area, they have restored 60% of those customers but for those without power it is very frustrating. the mayor said she was concerned in baltimore about the pace of restoration but she urged patience. >> we might be annoyed, frustrated and hot as heck we can get over that. if we lose a vulnerable citizen because of this heat we can't get over that. >> reporter: and back out here live, there were six deaths blamed on the storm and the heat. it has been so hot over the past few days those people living without air-conditioning are just doing anything they can to stay cool. there are some nursing homes without air-conditioning as well. so people are just trying to cope at this point. again we're still talking about hundreds of thousands of people in our area without power. they are working diligently to get things back on. reporting live, mike hellgren, wjz eyewitness news. >> mike, thank you. first warning weather coverage continues now wi

tonight the battle to restore power continues,. the 96-year-old struggles to grbreathe. >> each year is getting worse and worse. >> a slight breeze through an open window is his only relief from the stifling heat. >> it is burning up, but if you go upstairs, that is helenl. >> it could be a few more days until power is restored. >> it will probably be another week. we are living with the devil. >> the d.c. mayor hit some of the hardest-hit neighborhoods. he echoed the outrage. >> they have no request for a rate increase. tracks she is a lovely man tonight. she said they cut a tree in front of her house to restore power lines but she had a power outage in the way. >> the benefit nothing from it. >> this is one of the worst storms they have seen in a long time. it was actually worse than hurricane irene. they are working around the clock, but acknowledged some people may still be in the dark next weekend. >> the situation is just as bad if not worse in montgomery county where we found a neighborhood where neighbors tell us they got p

in all 159,000 crews are waiting for power to be restored. our complete coverage continues with jeff long live in our chopper in baltimore county. how's it look? >> reporter: well, it looks like we have a lot of crews working down here. this is in the idolwood community and just in this neighborhood alone we've seen about five different crews working to repair the damaged lines and a lot of tree damage in this area. this is one of the areas that has one of the larger concentrations of power outages. we'll stick around to see what happens. reporting live, i'm captain jeff long. >> thank you. utility companies are struggling to get the lights and air conditioning back on for hundreds of thousands from the midwest to mid-atlantic. for some it's taking too long. danielle has the latest from hard hit arlington, virginia. >> reporter: there is growing frustration over how quickly utility companies are restoring electricity in washington d.c. and its suburbs. in maryland, power lines are still lying in the street four days after the storm hits. >> w

once we were able to restore all these critical pieces then we begin restoring service in jobs that willtore the largest number of customers at 1 time. there's definitely some jobs out there we still need to assess the damage. we're working as quickly as possible and trying to get our crews out there. once we get out there sometimes we'll come to a job site and we will see more damage than what was reported or what we realized. so that sometimes does extend restoration time for our customers. >> rachel lighty, thanks for being with us tonight. >> thank you. >>> one of the big questions on people's minds, how long will food last in your fridge if you've lost power? here's the rule to keep in mind. if the temperature in your refrigerator or freezer goes above 40 degrees, throw it out. it's usually two days if your free is packed full, one if it's only -- freezer is packed full, one if it's only packed full. for the fridge, you only have four to six hours. if you do have spoiled food, you can get rid of it before your trash collection. the collection runs from 3:00 to 7:00. it did so today

but this is the restoration timeline folks are looking at. virginia dominion expecting that about 80, 85% of folks will be back online as of tomorrow. that is when the hard work is going to really begin. they have got areas like this. these feeder streets neighborhood streets they have got to get in and chop this stuff up, and put the lines back up. they are thinking probably 90, 95% of folks will be back with the power by thursday. the problem is, if you are deep in a neighborhood and you have a lot of trees down, you are probably not getting your weekend back until the weekend, at the earliest. obviously a lot of folks have been without heat. the food should be thrown out. we are going to continue in arlington all morning long to keep you up on the situation. i will send it back to you in the studio. >>> there is one major question, when is the power coming back on? we'll let you know what they said this time, we'll be right back. mid grade dark roast forest fresh full tank brain freeze cake donettes rolling hot dogs bag of ice anti-freeze

you made a lot of progress. >> we restored about 400,000 customers. 240,000 customers and we just lost 16,000 customers. this is a strange situation. we have the storms that have been stacked up. this is wreaking havoc on the region. >> last august we had a major storm and its ticket logger time. "why couldn't we have been prepared?" this was unforeseeable. >> every single utility that got hammered by the storm had no advance notice. the first time we had an inkling was about 10:00 on friday night. the storms usually dissipate over the mountains. we'll be into the weekend for the restoration. >> give us the phone number and how accurate is the time line. >> we're not going to be putting out individual time frames. we are saying that if you're out of power, you should plan for the potential for being out through the weekend. that is how long it will take us. >> you mean this coming weekend? >> that doesn't mean you'll be out of power. even if we have a 10% left by the time we had friday, we still have about 50,000 customers. >> you have out-of-state cr

we simply need to make ecological restoration easier. this commonsense approach is garnered strong bipartisan support of legislation is 32 cosponsors from 23 different states. additional utah senator mike leigh has introduced legislation in the senate. many supporters represent states and congressional districts with large land and bureau of land management administrative land, not massachusetts. in short, they are people directly in harms way, not safely typed in a concrete jungle. thank you am a german bishop for your leadership on this issue. i look at other proposals that will improve safety and save the taxpayer dollars and put people back to work. i yield back. >> thank you, representative gosar. we will let representative markey speak when he appears. mr. tipton for house bill 6089. >> thank you, chairman bishop for putting my legislation, h.r. 6089, active 2012 and for your support of this bill. i like to thank my fellow members of the colorado delegation. congressman lamb board and congressman gardner as well as congressman greg

at this point in time, i'm focused on the restoration. so there is 95,000 customers out of service. >> reporter: well, again, let me go back to the issue. i know you can't give me an exact number or you say you can't, but the allegation is you have roughly half as many lines people as 15 years ago. understandably you don't know the correct number, but approximately is that correct. >>. >> i don't know that. i'm focused on the restoration of service. >>> i don't mean to talk about the union negotiations, sir. i just mean do you know about the number of line people that the company employs now compared to 15 years ago. >> i don't know that number. i am focused on restoring service to 95,000 customers. and that's all i think about right now. >> reporter: as the president of the company, you don't know if you have half as many linesmen now as you did 15 years ago. >> again, i'm focused on the restoration. i don't have the numbers at my fingertips. >> reporter: but you can't tell me approximately. >> approximately i cannot. it's union employee

we've invested in restoration projects with partners to the collaborative restoration program. these projects have demonstrated collaboration among stakeholders can facilitate large landscape skill restoration. the landscape strategies developed by these collaborative ventures alone exceed 16 million acres in the footprint and the strategic placement of fuel and chemical treatment will help build more resilient landscape. states are featured partners in many of these csrl are projects. under the 2008 farm bill state forest action plans were required and delineate pretty areas through the restoration we've partnered across boundaries for many of the state action plans and in the process of implementing them. we've implemented the beagle strategy focusing priority treatment areas to ensure human health and safety and reduce hazardous tool conditions. we've used tools available to the agencies such as the storch contracts and good neighbor authorities to develop more holistic treatments that have accomplished multiple resource objectives many times working across jurisdictional bo

>> we're in that final phase of restoration at this point.u're restoring smaller groups of people, we want to make sure that individual home that may have damage specifically to their house gets captured. you don't want to restore, say, 25 people and have one house that basically is still remaining out. if you've noticed that your neighbors have been restored and your house literally is the only one that, you know has not had power restored, give us a call back. >> you all gave a seven-day time frame, is that realistic? is heat making it tougher? >> we're still using tomorrow as our timeline to really have just about everything complete. there may be a few individual homes, individual businesses that may cream into the weekend, but we're doing everything we can to get the last few restored. >>> speaking of the heat, how long is it going to be before we start scaling back on usage? is that something people need to be keeping in mind already now? we want to quickly and -- >> marcus beal, thanks for trying to she had some light. >>> and all for

the fire is under control and crews are working to restore basic services.>> thanks, brian and a little cooler today, it felt like that and the relative humidity levels were down. unfortunately, this is not a trend and this is just a temporary blip in the weather radar because the front moved through and that is going to come back from south to north and bring humidity. 95 the high temperature for reagan today, dulles is 92 and bwi marshal up to 94 degrees. we have from last hour, last hour we were 91 and back up to 92 and, again, no heat. 92 degrees is the actual temperature. culpeper, 88; winchester, 86; martinsburg in the upper 80s as well and i wanted to show you the dew point and this is important. dew point, upperishability -- upper 60s and 70s, the dew point is not bad for july around here. 89 degrees at 7:00 and 83 at 9:00. the trend is cooling off and going down to 80 degrees and that will feel comfortable this evening and hope the moisture levels will stay down tonight. how about the holiday forecast for you, july 4th. thunderstorms will be possibl

restoration act, which has helped expedite forest restoration act. however, there is much more that can be done. as can be seen from the fire that destroyed 100 dirty three homes across 43 million and suppression costs in 2002 and many like it, the cost of fire is vastly exceeds the cost to treat forests. over 80% of which national forest land from 146,000 acres that dead trees near communities need to be thin. the challenge in finding resources for projects and existing regulatory systems. we have treated 3800 acres in the urban interface currently under have for a traditional 13,200 acres have been approved for future work. however, we attempted thousands of acres that need urgent treatment within the urban interface. as a result, some have additional resources here to do decimate some voters passed a measure which authorized the tax levy for wildfire protection, which could generate up to 500,000 per year. in 2012, the county was able to apply $300,000 from the spanish words for 12 projects on 140 acres on private land within the wild urban interf

young, wrote a letter objecting our restoration. in conclusion, i'm not here today to explain the laws of the position. we will fight to have our rights restored, and that includes litigation. although, i do feel it would be in the best interest of the united states to admit the errors and settle with my tribe. therefore, i truly hope this committee takes what i say here close to heart and take action, setting policies. not only for my tribe and the newly recognized tribes but for the unlawfully terminated tribes. we have suffered enough injustice from this nation long enough. thank you. >> next witness will be -- i don't know how to pronounce that name. will you introduce the next witness, please? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. ranking member, congratulations. members of the subcommittee, i'm pleased to join you today to introduce ann denson tucker of florida. the florida tribe of eastern creek indian. chairwoman tucker has served her tribe for over 30 years. she has in-depth knowledge of the history, the genealogy and feder

pepco's time line to restore power is not good enough. something that the county executive in montgomery county said as well. >> we can't say it enough. if you come to an intersection and there's no power, treat it as a four-way stop. let's get to monica in the traffic center. she has more on the roads. >> i'm glad i'm not the only one telling people that. that's exactly what you need to do. if you are planning into montgomery county, you'll have between 200, 240, 250 signal lights. fairfax, ant 80. and the district about 55. so, patience again. you're going to need that. i know it's still hot outside and tempers are flairing. so try and be nice when you approach an intersection, give way to the right. now we'll take you over to a couple of problems around town. first of all, if you have planning to head into virginia, you have the gw parkway. i'll get to that in a second. first, let me tell you that hov restrictions are lifted through tuesday on 66 only. you do have hov restrictions on 95. 395, and 66 outside the beltway. also now, the g

restored. >> that's nothing anyone wants to hear when they don't have electricity and we want to remind folks to be willing to accept help as well. if you're hanging out at your place and had offers from relatives, take advantage of that offer and get a neighbor to tell you once that power is restored. we have rob gold from b.g.e. joining us on the phone. i know you guys are making progress. i've seen it myself. the routes are back on on route 140 yesterday, what is the situation this morning? >> we have making progress. we have over 600 out-of-state utility workers that are coming en route to us and they'll be augmenting the fight. the problem really was as was the case with irene or any other storm that is the nature of this damage, it's taking manpower to get out there, cut away the trees, understand what you have and get the lights and power back on by restoring all of the pieces of equipment that keep our service on on a regular basis. >> you guys know it's hot so you're working as fast as