reporting live from skype team 11 -- sky team 11. >> are using pockets of just a mess and then everything ok and then more pockets? >> pretty much. but one thing we noticed as the trees that have been knocked down have been massive. not like small saplings. they are huge trees that have crushed homes. they have just done tremendous amount of damage. hit and miss between the neighborhoods. pretty much like a rolling pin, as you might say. like a rolling pin came through and pretty much wiped out a neighborhood and then picks up and then comes down again. b g e has its hands full trying to get power restored to the citizens -- bge has its hands full. >> now to the big story. crews are working around the clock to restore power to hundreds of thousands left without power by friday's deadly thunderstorms. nadia ramdass tells us some of the residents are banding together. >> lisa, it is really cool story. but first, let's check out this extraordinary scene behind me. crews have been out here all day trying to remove this 70-foot tree that not only crashed on this residential road but on luxury

team. we will be teaching twitter, facebook, skype so the seniors in our community will not be isolated. >> there is no dumb question. we tried to make this an easygoing environment for everyone to learn here. >> they understand what you're talking about. i want to get on the internet and, like, if i need to, call the social security office or any other business. that i would know how to get in touch with them. >> people like us who are in wheelchairs in rehabilitation situations, in hospitals -- it opens the windows of the world to us. to be able to put your eyes anywhere in the world that you want to at a moment's notice. i paid acrylics. sometimes i search the internet or put images on the internet through cameras, through different pictures that i take of the subject matter. -- i paint acrylics. >> all my life, i did not use this, but i had to learn how to tight and everything, so i tied to find, and moved the mouse fine on my computer, so it was not a real problem -- i typed fine. everything is on the computer, and easy to find. it is like a road map. all these blogs, etc., and so on,

skype says it's working on a fix. >> wouldn't you love to read that and see what is being said. >> it's terrifying. >> s.w.a.t. teamscases. these $14,000 giz mos are called recon counts, but s.w.a.t. team members called them throw bots. >> you pull the scout through a window. hands up, walk to the door. gives us audio capability and video capability and allows us to clear hard areas that we would be exposed to. >> and hopefully keeps them safe. it can climb stairs and has infrared sensors and just $14,000 a piece, a lot of law enforcement agencies are adding them to their crime fighting arsenal. >> i see your throw bot and raise you one incredibly cool sound using fire extinguisher device. this uses sound to extinguish flames. it comes from darpa and they created this state of the art fire extinguishering, electromagnetic radiation and acoustic waves. it's about putting out fires in enclosed places such as cockpits and blow deck on ships. >>> the most severe drought in decades is spreading now. more than half of the continental united states is some some stage of drought and most of the rest of the country is close