tracee wilkins is live in arlington for us this morning with a look at the damage. tracee? >> reporter: good morning, aaron. we're happy to report there's lots of clean-up happening here in the northern section of arlington. take a look behind me. you can see the tree crew is doing a lot of work to take care of that road. old dominion drive looked terrible. when we first pulled up, it looked the same way it did yesterday. lots of tree limbs there on the roadway, but as you can see, they're trying to get it cleaned up. this is one of a few roads closed in arlington after sunday's storm damage. we have both arlington crews and dominion crews working to restore power and open some of these roads. here's a closer look at what this crew is doing. we still have a number of dark intersections and roads littered with tree limbs and large debris. this after sunday's storm ripped through the washington area and seemed to cause significant yet isolated damage to just this corner of arlington. we saw lots of heavy, healthy, and large tree limbs torn from trees and landing on homes, car

i'm tracee wilkins live this morning. back to you all in the studio. >> tracee, thank you. >>> later today the casey anthony is expected to go to the jury after the prosecution wraps up its final rebuttal and the judge gives instructions. yesterday was filled with emotion. anthony was seen visibly disagreeing with the prosecution's arguments and then breaking down when shown the bag her daughter caylee was found in. the attacks then got personal with the defense criticizing the prosecution, so much so that the judge stepped in. >> casey anthony maintains her lies until they absolutely cannot be maintained anymore. >> you sigh, the strategy behind that is, if you hate her, if you think she's a lying, no good slut, then you'll start to look at this evidence in a different light. depending on who's asking the questions, whether it's this laughing guy right here or whether it's myself. >> objection. >> sustained. approach the bench. >> this case has gone on now for six weeks, and because the jurors have been sequestered, some

tracee wilkins live in arlington. you all in studio. >> tracee, thank you. >>> 6:55 is our time right now. this morning's top stories, an aspen hill family is out of their home after a woman driving an suv slammed through the home's wall and into the dining and living rooms. three people were in the home. one suffered minor injuries. the driver, a 22-year-old woman, is in custody. alcohol is believed to be a factor. >>> "the new york post" reporting the manhattan district attorney is ready to drop the charges against dominique strauss-kahn. this comes as new allegations come out against him. a french novelist accusing him of sexually assaulting her back in 2002. >>> prince william and kate waking up in yellow knife in canada this morning. it's another busy day in canada for the royal couple. today the duke and duchess will attend a youth parliament session and meet with a ranger patrol group. >>> and michelle obama will throw out the first pitch in tonight's nationals-cubs game. she'll be escorted for the first pitch b

tracee wilkins is live in arlington this morning with a look at the damage there. tracee. >> reporter: it's a good thing the sun is coming up, and this is why. folks were driving up on this tape pretty quickly before they realized, yes, this is closed off here at williamsburg boulevard and old dominion. no lights working at this intersection because of the downed power line we have between the two pieces of yellow tape. i hope you can see this power line. it's one of many we have found in this area. some of them marked, some of them not marked after last night's severe storms. let me show you the damage we found down the street here. a whole tree was leaned on top of a power line. now, numbers of issues here, and i know this is going to be some work for the power crews as they get out here and try to figure out which one of these power lines is causing the issue that has this entire neighborhood dark. we have been seeing the numbers decrease this morning. we started out with like more than 10,000 people without power. now we've got those numbers under 10,000. plenty

i'm tracee wilkins live this morning in arlington. back to you in the studio, joe. >> tracy, thanks very much. >>> montgomery county fire officials released the name of a bicyclist killed in this weekend's storms. 56-year-old neil rich was riding his bike along the c&o canal towpath in poolesville when heavy winds knocked down trees. one of those trees fell on top of him, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. >>> new overnight, one person is at the hospital, and a woman is under arrest after her car slammed into a home in aspen hill. it happened a little after midnight at the intersection of parkland drive and ashman hill road. the car ran right through the wall. three people were in that home at the time. one was taken to the hospital for minor injuries. the driver, a 22-year-old woman, was arrested. police believe alcohol was a factor in that crash. >>> also new from overnight, the person rescued from the potomac river is in critical condition. d.c. fire officials found the person in the water about a half mile south of the memor

i'm tracee wilkins. coming up on news4, the investigation into that crash is continuing. we'll have the latest. >>> coming up in sports, the capitals trade their winter classic hero. plus, nats' manager, davy johnson takes the heat for last night's meltdo >>> project maryland really got clobbered today with all of the rain that fell. severe flooding in the downtown streets. a number of road closures there, including market street, patrick street, parts of u.s. 15, too. officials are asking people in that area to stay off the roads. >>> nasa's final shuttle mission is under way now. "atlantis" lifted off from cape canaveral this morning, expected to spend 12 days in space before returning to earth. >>> the latest unemployment report shows that only 18,000 jobs were added in june. the figure is way lower than what analysts expected. president obama blamed a variety of factors, including government budget cuts that slashed nearly 40,000 jobs. republicans say the report only strengthens their resolve to fight tax hikes as a way to reduce the deficit. >>> we're learning more a

news 4's tracee wilkins is live with the latest on the new developments. tracee, good morning. >> reporter: lots of developments happening in the case against dominique strauss-kahn. some legal experts saying the case is on the verge of collapse. investigators for the prosecution have uncovered major holes in the credibility of the housekeeper who alleges she was attacked by strauss-kahn. according to "the new york times," a law enforcement official who is familiar with the case is saying that the housekeeper who accused strauss-kahn of sexually assaulting her in his manhattan hotel suite back in may has repeatedly lied. although they found evidence of a sexual encounter between strauss-kahn and the 32-year-old woman, it's now being reported that prosecutors don't believe a lot about what the accuser has told him about what happened in the suite or about herself. there's word that, in light of these new developments surrounding the accuser, strauss-kahn's attorneys will ask the international monetary fund leader will be released from house arrest. it's expe

. >> news4's tracee wilkins joins us live from the scene with the latest. trace see, what can you tell us? is. >> the parkway is open again, lots of commuters happy about that. traffic is moving freely, but for hours, more than three hours, the parkway was shut down while they looked for a suspect. let me show you the vehicle that's at the center of this investigation. it was a white jeep, parked on the side of this construction zone. the purpose of that jeep, it was there to actually catch speeders coming through the work zone. they had a contracted worker sitting inside of that jeep, and that was his job. as he was doing that today, some strange man walked up and banged on the back windshield of his vehicle with a shotgun. then police say the man then approached the front of the jeep, and began banging on the front windshield with a hammer until he broke the windshield, putting at least two holes in the front windshield there. the worker crawled out, got over to the side of the jeep, protected himself as the man began to yellin coherently, and as quickly a

tracee wilkins has a look at the damage in arlington. >> reporter: this tree sliced through someone'soof. no one was injured at the time, but it split the top of this house in two. some roads were closed due to fallen tree limbs that also caused several intersections to go dark. vehicles were damaged, and power lines were down on almost every other street. but the severe damage caused by last night's storm was not widespread, but actually more isolated. >> i was shocked when i got to this intersection and the light was out. because this was the first light that was out my whole way home. >> reporter: you were driving from where? >> i work out on route 50 near seven corners. >> reporter: so you didn't see any damage until you got to your own neighborhood. >> right. >> reporter: whole trees fell over. some blocked streets as entire root systems were exposed. but in most cases, it was the fallen limbs that caused the most damage. and not dead limbs, but healthy, strong limbs ripped from healthy trees. >> we have some damage on the roof, a hole in the roof in the back of the house, we got

tracee wilkins.thank you, tracee. >>> parts of yellowstone park are closed today after a rare grizzly bear attack. a 57-year-old man was mauled to death as he was hiking with his wife yesterday near canyon village. park officials say they won't go after the bear for now, because they believe it was trying to defend its cubs. they are also warning people to keep their distance from animals and to travel in groups. there hasn't been an attack at yellowstone in 25 years. >>> still no arrest after a violent home invasion in manassas. police say the homeowner reported two masked men entering the house through an unlocked rear sliding glass door. both men were armed with knives, they demanded money. one sprayed the victim in the face with pepper spray. they took a jar of coins and a shotgun and fled. >>> there is a cleanup under way at a restaurant in wheat ton, maryland, where a driver crashed into samantha's driver and bakery. it happened overnight, leaving a who hole on the left side of the building. th

tracee wilkins is in the rivercrest neighborhood with a look at the damage there. good morning, tracee. >> good morni >> reporter: good morning, joe. we have damage all across arlington. we have no power. that's how dark it is here. here at 33rd and williamsburg drive, the road is closed off here, and they're blocking folks from going down here because of downed power lines. this is one of the marked downed power lines. let me tell you, there are plenty of power lines in this area that are not marked and are down. folks, this morning you need to

>> i like spending time with family. >> and that was tracee wilkins reporting from the national mall. >>> a 4-year-old maryland boy is recovering this morning after police say a 5-year-old shot him on a playground. it happened in the 4400 block of 23rd parkway in a temple hills apartment complex. around 4:30 yesterday afternoon, police say the two kids were playing with others on the playground. the 5-year-old somehow had a gun and it went off. the 4-year-old was hit in the shoulder with a bullet narrowly missing his heart. a neighbor knows both children and is shocked by this incident. >> he's a nice little boy. i never would have thought anything. he's not a trouble kid or nothing. i used to see him go to school, come back, play. i take him to the swimming pool a lot. it's just crazy. >> in maryland, police can charge an adult who allows an unsecured gun to find its way into a child's hands. >>> one man is dead and four others are injured after a big fight at the university town center in hyattsville in prince george's county. police were called to the 6500 block of amerika boulevar

in great falls, i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. >>> a close call for an aspen hill family this morning. they are now out of their home after they woke up to find an suv in their dining room. the ford explorer came crashing through the home's wall at the intersection of parkland drive and aspen hill road around midnight. montgomery county police say the driver of the suv, a 22-year-old woman, hit two cars before crashing through a chain link fence and into that home. the homeowner says his wife was actually right in the path of that car. >> i opened the door to the back bedroom and there was an suv in my dining room. and i heard my wife screaming that she was bleeding, but the truck was in front of the doorway, i couldn't get out. so i climbed out the side window, went back around and came in to see all the damage to my house. >> reporter: avery's wife suffered minor injuries, but had been released from the hospital. the driver was under the influence of alcohol and they took her into custody. >>> i want to switch gears now and turn to the weather. a lot of midday sun for us out there to

tracee wilkins reports. >> reporter: cars aren't the only thing residents have been seeing travelingis rural leesburg road lately. >> i was just driving up wood burn road, and i saw what i thought was a deer, and slowed down. and out of the left behind a fence came this black bear that was about my size. it was a baby. so i let it go across the street. >> reporter: that was about two weeks ago when ann chapman saw what she described as a healthy baby bear here at the corner of snyder hill court and wood burn. and then this morning -- >> i got a phone call about ten after 7:00 this morning. and it was my husband who is going into work. and he said, "okay, the sighting is real. i just went past the mother bear and the cub exactly where ann, our next door neighbor had mentioned the previous sighting." >> now people who live in this picturesque and rural setting are a little worried. >> this mother bear and cub have decided to amongst this neighborhood. and there are a lot of pets, there are a lot of children. there's a lot of people who come out here for athletic reasons, a lot of peopl

tracee wilkins has a look at the damage in arlington. >> we have seen some severe damage and it appears most of it is really isolated here to the river crest neighborhood in arlington. take a look at this tree that came crashing down from a tree. you can see the way that the wind killed this limb straight down and right on top of this power line. this is part of the reason so many people woke up this morning without power. and this is not the worst of it. this tree sliced through someone's roof. no one was injured at the time but it split the top of this house in two. some roads were closed due to fallen tree limbs and also caused several intersections to go dark. vehicles were damaged and power lines were down on almost every other street. but the severe damage caused by last night's storm was not widespread but actually more isolated. >> i was shocked when i got to this intersection and the light was out. this was the first light that was out my whole way home. >> reporter: you were driving from where? >> i work near seven corners, route 50. >> reporter: done see any damage until you

i'm tracee wilkins live this morning. back to you all in studio. >> the storm was fatal in one instance. the heavy rains being blamed for the death of a man in montgomery county. the 56-year-old man was riding his bicycle along the c&o canal towpath in the poolesville area when a tree fell on him. he died at the scene. police have not released his name or where he was from. very dangerous to be out in those storms. >> 4:32 right now. tom kierein is here to see what we're going to deal with today. >>> unfortunately, we do have the possibility of afternoon storms, or perhaps the evening we could get storms as well. that would be, unfortunately, during the time of the fireworks display and the concert on the mall. there is that possibility. so if you're going to be heading there, certainly have an umbrella with you. right now around the region we have some showers pulling out of the mountains of west virginia now, just coming into the shenandoah valley. the temperatures are in the low to mid-70s now. danella, how's traffic?

i'm tracee wilkins. back to you in the studio. >> thank you, tracee. >>> accusations of sexual assault and misconduct have marreded the beginning of the d.c. summer jobs program. one man, a district government worker, has been arrested in one of those cases. the other case is still being investigated. tom sherwood here now with more on this story. tom? >> jim, the city worker arrested had no official role with the summer jobs program, but the arrest is having an impact on that program. mayor vincent gray says he's taking the sexual assaults very seriously. he is stepping up reviews of the summer jobs program and safety issues. >> they have a right, obviously, to expect a wholesome and healthy summer youth employment work experience. >> reporter: news4 has learned the man arrested and charged with felony sexual touching at the employment services headquarters, thomas nelson, has a long criminal record dating back to the 1980s. and he served time in prison. but a city background check officially only looks

news 4's tracee wilkins is live in the newsroom with the latest on the case. >> good morning.there are changes happening in that sexual assault case against dominique strauss-kahn. some legal experts say the case is actually on the verge of collapse. investigators for the prosecution have uncovered major holes in the credibility of the housekeeper who alleged she was attacked by strauss-kahn. according to "the new york times," a law enforcement official who is familiar with the case, is saying that the housekeeper who accused strauss-kahn of sexually assaulting her in his hotel room suite back in may has repeatedly lied. although forensics found evidence of a sexual encounter between strauss-kahn and the woman, prosecutors do not believe a lot about what the accuser has told them about what happened in the suite or about herself. there's word, in light of this new information surrounding his accuser, strauss-kahn's attorneys will ask the former international monetary fund leader will be released from house arrest. it's thought that prosecutors may agree to reduced bail conditi