popular restaurants are closing in bethesda, but it is business.e of developers have other plans. people love the restaurants a to see them go. >> that is terrible. >> after 25 years at this bethesda intersection, the to close uporced shop at the end of the month. .> all of my good customers >> one of four bethesda by theant shutting down for a august to make way 17-story condo apartment building. to property is sold developers. losingrs say it is like a family member. is a wonderful restaurant. see its ago.to people.e great >> i was just shocked. >> they have been longtime --seholder adhered leaseholders here. >> this is one of my favorite restaurants in the area. >> land prices are very expensive in bethesda. the restaurant owners say it is they will bekely relocate. about 100 people are going to lose their jobs. >> for years, apple users have about their immunity to many's spread this week, that times are changing. a driveway paper in the behind bars. now, but to get ready. [ male announcer ] want the most enjoyment from your home entertainment? here's the perfect solution. swi

this was taken from bethesda from the 12th floor balcony on the corner of woodmont and bethesda avenue. this was taken friday night right around 11:00. the storms had wind and some rain and a lot of lightning. they were, again, one in 100 year event. this was taken in bethesda. thank you very much. okay. live look outside. it's pretty nice outside. high was 95. it's not that humid. we are down to 91. they are in the 50s. that's fantastic. winds out of the northwest at 7. pressure steady over the past hour. and when the humidity is at 32%, that's manageable really for us anyway. almost as good as it gets. satellite picture, radar combined. a couple clouds off to the north and west. i think we'll take the chance of a shower out by 11:00. we'll give you an update. 89 in great falls. 84 in vienna. that sounds nice. 85 in fairfax. 90 in old town and still 91 in college park and in laurel. but it is not humid. that said, heat continues, 90s stay with us all week. warm tonight, maybe a storm. tomorrow, another copy, paste day really. and then big storms are possible for the fourth. unfortunat

allave been in bethesda since 5:00 when the station opened. metro is reporting all the moving at their normal schedule. if anything changes, tune in to wjla.com.e, if there are delays, we will let you know on air and online. reporting live in bethesda, abc 7 news. to getkout our web page the latest information. find out the morning commute is shaping up. >> lisa baden. >> it's ok on 95 between richmond and baltimore. if normal travel times on 66 and 270 has typical slowdowns between 8109. rail, vre onarc normal service. here's a picture of traffic in virginia. on 395 complicated between the beltway and on the 14th street bridge. back to you. >> thank you. we are continuing to follow a in great falls, virginia. the cleanup continues after a fell onto a busy road, a car, and killing the inside. john gonzalez is live this morning along georgetown pike of what happened and the cleanup effort. stilletown pike is closed. now for twois trees. downf them came crashing evening, killing a man who was simply sitting in traffic. the second was a tree that

lane in bethesda. most of this neighborhood has its lights back on, but not the two houses here. this is one of two giant poplar trees that fell during the storm friday night. we spoke to a man who will start cleaning these up tomorrow. he says it's a 6 to $8,000 job for the folks who live here. now look at nevis road in another part of bethesda. that's a neighborhood that was still in the dark this afternoon. crews from florida power and light out of ft. lauderdale were there trying to bring electricity back to the neighborhood. there are still trees blocking the street, wires down, a transformer on someone's front lawn. this is the kind of work being done across our region tonight, many pockets of outages still, 10,000 pepco customers here in montgomery county still without power. earlier we spoke to a 91-year- old retired dentist who lives in that neighborhood. he's mighty frustrated that he hasn't had power since last friday night. >> we get all kinds of false reports. it's hard to get straight tal

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that the restaurant owners are going to find any space here in the bethesda area. in the meantime, all together about 100 employees will be out of a job at the end of this summer. cracks thank you very much. -- >> thank you very much. that is abc7 news at 5:00 p.m. >> this toppled tree is just part of a weather nightmare. a live report coming out. >> a federal report on corruption charges. the story is coming out. >> and will show you how it will be deja vu all over again for one big issue on the table in congress. that is right now at 6:00 p.m. >> alive and in hd, this is abc7 news at 6:00 p.m. on your side. >> good evening, everyone. our big story tonight, mother

>> in bethesda, it is day three without electricity. huge trees still live where they fell. >> i have never seen a pepco truck. i have seen nobody. >> this afternoon d.c. mayor joined the chorus blasting pepco. >> the pace at restoring power is unacceptable. >> the crew is working on the damage and they see a differently. they have been on the job since early saturday morning. they are not allowed to speak on camera. >> people do not understand what we go through. >> he is on his third straight 16-hour day. in a space so tight only one truck at a time can squeeze in. >> seeing what you need to put it back up, you cannot do this all in a blast. >> the manpower does seem in short supply. on this job we witnessed a glitch on a replacement put. it turned out to be 10 feet to short. >> they are very tired they are working very hard. >> we will take anybody, it would take a long time for people to restore power to this area. >> you can see the line and working. they have to replace a whole line of poles. the official response to the mayor's c

. >>> a planned independence day parade in the cabin john neighborhood of bethesda turned into a pepco protest today instead. scott broom is standing by live with more. scott? >> reporter: that's because here in cabin john they're among the 39,000 in maryland that pepco hasn't provided power to. here's a typical scene, big old branch still hanging from the power lines and the neighbors complained. there's a huge communication breakdown with pepco. pepco just told me yes, in fact, their robocall script is misleading and here's some of the reactions of the people i talked to today at that protest parade. in cabin john residents marched with patriotically themed protest signs during the annual 4th of july parade down macarthur boulevard, give me liberty or give me pepco? >> we just got an e-mail saying that the power had been restored in cabin john. half of cabin john is still out. doesn't make sense, does it? >> reporter: nearby in the green acres section bethesda residents have taken to posting signs to direct crews into the neighbor. >> we've been told multiple times it actually is bac

you are going out toward bethesda. this storm straddles the river between bethesda and across the river into loudoun and parts of fairfax county. this is a big storm toward silver spring and college park and wheaten. go out to 97, georgia avenue or 185, connecticut, running into heavy rain. this weakened a little bit. but still some moderate rain for the next 10, 15 minutes. where will these storms go? we'll put this into motion over the next hour. they'll slowly sink to the south. they will diminish in intensity, even the ones out route 50. heavy activity at this moment toward annapolis and back into 50. they will diminish a little bit as we go through the next hour. temperatures, well, 81 in bethesda. 82 downtown. and 85 in college park. so temperatures are going to remain manageable. an isolated thunderstorm possible tonight. a bit muggy downtown. dew points come up in the 70s, not a good thing. seasonal wednesday and seasonal thursday. with some storms possible, but that's part of the routine. isolated storm possib

this is also the case for businesses in bethesda off old georgetown road. some have power this morning. others do not. it is the people who live in the neighborhoods who say they are very frustrated. the fact of some of their neighbors have power and they do not is not fair. >> and david told me no one has called -- had called in the power outage. but there was a crew in his neighborhood and now most of his neighbors see the light, but he does not. >> it is frustrating and maybe three houses don't have power. >> i would like to have air- conditioning. >> the story is much the same as for falls church resident nancy who also feels. trapped >> power for everybody in the neighborhood but me. >> tuesday night the power was restored to most of rabat. she says dominion virginia power told her the damage between the power pole and her home is her responsibility to six. she will be without power until that's done. >> this is not right. telling me it's my problem. >> wendell washington is singing the same tune in laurel. >> they have power down the street and up the

we are here in bethesda. this is one of those situations that, as you can understand, is what really causes a lot of frustration among homeowners they see what look like a catastrophic dangerous situation here with major tree down, power lines all across the street. it has been taped off but the residents here say they've been calling and calling and they can't get any response. that is the kind of thing that the maryland public service commission will be looking into as they are monitoring all of these power outages and monitoring the performance of the power companies in the state. statewide, there are still 292,000 people without power. 50,000 in prince george's county and 80,000 in montgomery county where we are right now. there are 320 overhead line contractors and 400 tree trimming personnel. field restoration crews are focusing on restoring tripped feeders which are large power lines that can connect many customers. at this point, the company says it has restored power to 60% of the 443,000 people woul

so good morning to you bethesda. temperatures coming in around 69 degrees. we are dealing with the upper 60s in myersville and northeast right around 68 degrees. the good news for today is the humidity will be low once again. but then we will see change in the forecast. and speak of that change, look at the forecast trend i have for you. it's going up and up and up by wednesday of next week temperatures right around 96 degrees. once you add in the humidity it will feel like the triple

here in bethesda they just restored power after they got it for a little bit. and then it went out again. this huge tree behind me you see is the culprit. that took out power for five days. we have arlene here to talk to us about what happened and also how the power went out this morning. >> this morning, the transformer just started broking and we -- smoking and we happened to be outside with montgomery county and picking up the debris. and everyone panicked. called the fire department. they got here and they called thank goodness they called pepco and not me. so -- >> reporter: arlene, knowing it went out again because of the heat, what did you think at that point? >> truthfully we are really lucky because we sort of fly is rest of -- supply the rest of the neighborhood and their refrigerators were emptied into ours. and we were worried about the neighbors who would have the same condition again. everyone started calling us. >> reporter: luckily you did get power back just about -- within the last hour. i saw them pulling away here. but it really did get hot

jummy olabanji is live in bethesda to explain. >> good morning. when we get really high temperatures outside like 100 degrees, is even hotter on the tracks. when they get more than 135 degrees or higher, metro issues as low order. that means the outdoor trains will slowdown to 35 miles an hour. that's because there could be kinking on the tracks, which would cause bigger problems and might cause some sort of systemwide closure. that's why yesterday afternoon we saw the high temperatures and metro implemented the slowdown. the trains were moving about 35 miles an hour. when that happens, that means people wait longer for trains. that is a systemwide problem. that was the issue during yesterday's evening commutes. you are able to bring water on board those trains when it does gets this hot because you may be waiting a little longer for trains and some of the trains don't ever conditioning. -- don't have air conditioning. in bethesda, the trains are running at their normal speed we are told, this morning. as the sun rises and the temperatures begin t

there is no firm timetable yet for the construction of the purple line in bethesda. reporting live, abc7 news. >> it lasts for only a few seconds, but attracts tens of thousands of people. we're talking about the annual pony swim hinchey gatti islands. the ponies are auctioned off to raise money for the fire department. those not sold or given back to the fire department to roam free for just another year. it is a good date for it. >> tomorrow, we will all want to dampen the water. -- job in the water. -- jump in the water. >> sparkly blue skies today. >> vivid colors. >> we had our sky watcher in time lapse. if you look closely, you might be able to see a few lonesome icloud. it is still money find out there. our temperature is still the average temperature, 88 degrees. if only your july -- if only your average july they could be this average. last july was the hottest july. but look at these temperatures still in 80's to redeem weatherbug network. that is the actual measure of how much moisture is in the atmosphere, the dewpoint. in this range is my become feet. ot

but look at the low 80s. 83 in bethesda. 81 in vienna. 79 in reston. off to the east, well 88 in college park. more sun out there. it is 91 out toward crofton. so where the sun come out for a few minutes, you make 90, because it is summer. the heat returns over the weekend. a few showers tonight. almost hot tomorrow with storms. hot on sunday with strong storms possible. and then very hot next week. most of next week. not as crazy hot as it was a couple weeks ago, but we will

it is in bethesda maryland. this is old georgetown. rd. and democracy georgetown you know how busy this intersection usually is. it is dark for miles in each direction. more than 250 dark corners in montgomery county. >> i don't think anyone is accustomed to seeing this unless there has been a tornado. >> hundreds of tracks and signals out and some at major intersections, still in the dark -- hundreds of traffic signals. thousands of pounds of broken trees and utility poles and lines dangling. >> especially that piece of telephone pole hanging over great falls road. >> crews have been working tirelessly to cut and repair. >> it seems like things are getting done. >> things are starting to get back to normal slowly, but not quick enough for some. >> every intersection i am stopping and cops are waving us through. it is tough. while com>> once you get off the major roads, the situation does not improve. the neighborhoods are a disaster. sometimes you can get by and sometimes you cannot. great church road is blocke

sherri ly is live in bethesda with more on that. good morning, sherri. >> reporter: good morning, allison. the wait for pepco crews is finally over here in this neighborhood. we've got power crews that just arrived here within the last half hour. this crew is from delaware, one of the many crews from out of state helping pepco. look at what they're dealing with here. we've got trees that have downed the power lines. they've been cut up here, but still have to be moved away. power lines are down everywhere. they'll have to be replaced. hopefully, with the power crews here, it's a sign that the power will be back on soon. pepco still has almost 20,000 customers without power. dominion virginia, 8900. bge almost 13,000 people still without power. the restoration efforts have been slow to reach some neighborhoods in the area. here in bethesda, trees took out the power lines. pepco has the largest number of outages in the region. crews were trying to clean up the trees so pepco can make repairs. tens of thousands still have no power six

melanie alnwick is live in bethesda with the latest. >> reporter: good morning. as you know, it is not hard to drive around and find scenes just like this behind me. we are in bethesda. the situation just an absolute mess like we've seen in other places. a very, very larn tree coming down, pulling down the power lines. can't tell back there if there is also a utility pole down. you can see the road is blocked, the power is out and people here are probably like those that will be toward the end of the line to get their power restored. the maryland public service commission says it is monitoring all of the power outages and the utility companies' progress. there are still 292,000 people statewide without power. 50,000 in prince george's county and 81,000 in montgomery county where we are right now. pepco says they have mobilized 2700 personnel including 700 out of state power line workers and 320 overheadline contractors. field restoration crews are focusing on restoring what they call tripped feeders and those are large power lines that can supply up to 1100 custo

we are here in bethesda just up river road. this is nevis road. here is where it will take some time to get the power back on. we have some major trees down behind me. we also have power lines down and there is a large transformer that is also in this front yard. the power liewps are -- lines are snaking all through these trees on both side of the street. you can see why the caution tape is all across this road. this is an area where resident haven't been able to get out by car to do the things they need to do. wednesday night is when pepco, that is tonight, has been telling everyone they will be updating people on the situation where they're going to have weather, they're going to have power through the weekend or not. but i think the people that live in neighborhoods like this, they probably already know that they are part of the unlucky few and the situation as we know is not unique n rockville's manor neighborhood, utility poles are still down. homes and cars are damaged. in bethesda's green acres, the old lush trees have become a liability. a

that is the latest in bethesda. back to you, sarah. >> okay. lots of people don't want to hear that and that is the word. thank you, sherry. >> a frightening new look at friday night's storms now. this is security camera video coming up here at the birthday party on millwood pike in winchester. you can see the wind pick up fast and ended up taking the party tent with it. there it goes. and people tried to grab it and hold it down. the wind took it with them. the hotel manager rushed everyone into the basement and stairways to keep them safe. no one was seriously hurt out of this, thankfully. >> and this is crazy video. >> it is. >> you talk about -- i remember when that wind came through. when you see that, it reminds you of how strong it was before. >> right, and that is a good thing no one was injured. >> right. >>> and it's called a vertical sound. up next, it's western europe's tallest building with an interesting name called the shard. >> and we're going to explain that name and give you the grand tour coming up next as we check more headl

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now where it rained, it's cooler. 81 in bethesda. 81 in vienna. still 93 in old town and 83 in arlington. so, we're looking at, it's going to get hotter. isolated storm tonight. triple digits possible tomorrow. afternoon storms again tomorrow. and still very hot on wednesday. tonight, early thunderstorm possible. then just partly cloudy, muggy. lows in the 70s. winds will turn north, northwest at 10. partly cloudy, hot by lunchtime. 72 to 94. 94 by lunchtime. by afternoon, partly cloudy, very hot, thunderstorms possible. highs near 100. now the next three days, we'll go code yellow, yellow, yellow because of the heat and storms. not quite as hot on thursday, but also a better chance of thunderstorms. next seven days, the front creeps through here, maybe some left over storms, but temperatures going down. upper 80s on saturday and sunday. maybe a sprinkle on saturday, but not bad. back in the low 90s on monday. so mid 90s today. get ready for upper 90s. >> break out your hat. you know what i mean? it is not every day than an event can claim to have

>> when he woke up, i think it was 12 days later, at bethesda. his parents were there, around the bed. he was in a medically induced coma. his heart had stopped twice in the time between when the helicopter picked him up and when he got to bethesda. the doctors had performed a real hail mary operation, in which they slit open the side of his chest to reach in and clamp off all of the blood vessels carrying blood everywhere except to his brain, because they wanted to keep the brain alive. everything else, they could deal with. it is an operation that usually fails. it saved his life. he eventually came out of his coma. the doctors were trying to say, "wake up." no response. they tried everything. could not get a response. he should have been waived, -- have been awake because he had taken the medication off. his mother said, "say hello to your mamma." he finally came awake. later that day, she said, "do you know what happened to you? you lost both of your legs and one of your arms." and he said, "ok. we will go on from here." >> did you ask him ab

looks good in bethesda and tysons. good on 95 between uma thurman and baltimore. bad and virginia on 66, on 395.d these are the headlights out of newington. now back to news. the >> the man being held in friday's shooting at a movie ,heater in aurora, colorado court. james holmes is expected to appearance as the officials look used hisher he position in a graduate program collect hazardous material. he is not cooperating with investigators. it could take months to learn prompted the attack that killed 12 people and wounded others.n 50 >> police have revealed the did mask inside his they cleared it several of booby trapped explosives. and explosives e told police he was the joker, character from the batman series. yesterday president obama shooting victims in , no. holmes faces at least 71 of the, one for each victims, and possibly more. >> we understand that he will be charged today. is that standard operating procedure? >> absolutely. exactly what is one to happen, as opposed toised arraigned. will be told by a judge that investigated for the degree murders and 5

reporting live in bethesda, jummy olabanji, abc 7 news. >> thank you so much. storm cleanup efforts will not deter many towns and cities across the d.c. region from holding their annual celebrations in honor of america's 236th birthday. >> hundreds of thousands of people expected constitution avenue for the national independence day parade. blades will be held in palisades in northwest and in arlington great falls, and takoma park. thunderstorms stopped last night's dress rehearsal for their annual "capital fourth" concert. people watching on the west lawn had to leave. "dancing with the stars" host tom bergeron will host the event starting at 8:00 p.m., ending in fireworks at the national mall. fireworks displays in kensington germantown rockville, and gaithersburg were canceled because of storm damage. >> metro rail is providing extra rail service to help customers attending the capitol for a celebration and those attending the washington nationals day game. metro will operate from 7:00 a.m. until midnight with rush- hour service from 6:00 a.m. until midnight

bethesda, d.c., bowie, and so much of anne arundel county. here's the cell packing a lot of lightning with it. not just cloud-to-cloud but even some cloud-to-ground lightning. these storms headed east affecting southgate, riviera beach and arnold in the next couple of minutes, approaching annapolis in the next 62 minutes. so finally some rain coming to annapolis. then there's another cell we're watching headed toward fairfax county. chuck bell is in stormcenter 4 taking a look at our damage reports. >> thanks, veronica. we have a report of three-quarter inch hail coming down just outside of rockville, maryland. merkd measured by a trained spotter. that storm is headed over into portions of prince george's county. so you need to expect not only the wind but the potential for hail and frequent lightning, so we have to watch these things very, very carefully. temperatures around the area have been soaring, up to near 100 degrees. that is going to be coming down as these showers continue to move on through. as you were seeing, this is the worst o

no problems on 270 in from gaithersburg, rockville, bethesda. a tiny bit of slow traffic here trying to exit off the beltway but no issues as you travel heading southbound to the american legion bridge and a quick look live outside once again in silver spring where there are no issues here. route 29 at university boulevard. i'll be back with more in a few minutes. >>> should d.c. mayor vincent gray step down? a majority of voters in the district say it is time to go. >> there's a new poll in "the washington post" that found most city residents believe he should resign. the results of the poll were divided, though, on both economic and ethnic lines. delia goncalves joins us live outside the wilson building with more this morning. good morning, delia. >> reporter: good morning, mike. the poll breaks down sex, too, indicating more and more women here in the district of columbia are now turning their backs on the mayor. among white women, his support is down to just 6% from 37% and among black women his approval rating has dropped a dramatic 18 poin

bethesda's temperature around 72 degrees, more in shady side. we are looking at temperature at 75 degrees shady side, reisterstown 72. the measure of the dew points in the 70s. that's miserable. i will break that down coming up. now over charlie. >>> consumer news, speaking of the gas prices and the gas cards, prices continue dropping across the u.s., national average for a gallon of regular dropped a nickel during the past three weeks. now it stands at $3.41 a gallon. analysts say don't expect it to go lower. oil prices are trending up, meaning an end to the falling gas prices. you can win a free gas card by liking loren cook. >>> marriage between microsoft and nbc continues. first the 2013 models take a look at your screen. they've been on the showroom floors for a short time and ford is having to recall more than 8000 redesigned escape crossovers. carpet padding on the floor could get in the way of braking, dealers will be removing the padding and replacing a trim panel at no charge. notices will go out in the mail next monday. >>> microsoft

. >> 69 degrees this morning in bethesda. still ahead a man leaves police on a wild chase. >> this was crazy. >> we want to get to the latest on a breaking story we are following. these are pictures you are looking at from columbus, ohio. all around 2:00 a.m. near interstate 71 south east of the ohio state university campus, a freight train derailed and exploded. authorities have evacuated a mile wide area, trying to contain the blaze and determine what all is burning here. 11 cars of the train derailed. at this point, authorities are not sure how the cars caught fire and what they might contain. two people were injured. we will continue to fall this out of columbus, ohio and bring you the latest. >> dramatic scene. another one in los angeles yesterday. i teacher under investigation lead cups on a wild chase that ended in that dramatic fashion. i just moved from california. i watched this yesterday. this was the most dramatic i have seen. he went flying off crenshaw boulevard. that is in the middle of l.a. that took officials

group out in montgomery county where the rain was coming down in buckets in parts of rockville and bethesda. the entire region is getting drenched once again. >> metro just send a message out by twitter saying the power outage at the bethesda metro station docked out service to escalators and elevators but the station remains open. >> at -- pepco reports about 15,000 outages and another area hard hit. neighborhoods in rhode island ave. that is where tom rouse the is live with the breaking details. >> folks out here are getting real frustrated for the third time in nine days -- a lot of their basements are flooding. if you look at rhode island avenue now, it does not look too bad but check out this video we shot within the last half hour. it was awful out here. it flooded within about 10 or 15 minutes. after the storm came in, cars were having trouble getting by. we have to move our livestock or it was going to get flooded. -- our live truck or it was going to get flooded. third time in nine days in this one section of rhode island avenue nw it also happened last night during the storms as w

traffic smooth over to bethesda. back with more traffic at 4:39. >>> dc police are searching for answers after a second shooting along u street, which left several people injured. >> one of the victims is a producer with nbc news here in washington. the other works for the washington post. both women. matt jablow has more on the shootings and the victims. >> reporter: having witnessed the rebirth of the historic u street corridor, dc native john sheffield is extremely troubled to hear two women were shot last night near 12th and u. both completely innocent victims. >> they are unrelated females, they weren't together, they are not friends, they didn't know each other. so it looks as though the target was somewhere else and this was pretty random. >> last night's shooting was the second shooting in the past week alone here on u street. right around 2:30 last saturday morning. after two groups of men opened fire during an argument. police have arrested three men in connection with that shooting. all of this is very tro

temperatures are nice. 83 in bethesda and vienna and fairfax. this is actually below average for this time of the year. 87 in college park. 86 in old town. and even 83 over towards andrews. so the temperatures, it is kind of nice not to see, you know, any 90s. that will change for you real quickly over the weekend. so here is the deal. the heat returns over the weekend. no storms tonight. and a nice finish for the week tomorrow. essentially, like today. just an isolated thunderstorm that will be possible tomorrow. and then, well, the 90s will roll in on saturday and sunday it will be with us for a while. partly cloudy, comfortable. maybe you'll open up werein -- open up your windows. so if you are inside the beltway, we're talking about the lower 70s. maybe not open the windows. but west to north you can. 68 in gaithersburg is very comfortable. 69 in sterling tonight and even 66 out towards leesburg. and down here into southern maryland and down to leonardtown, probably about 70. partly cloudy, warm in the 70s. and the winds are light. the air q

and temperatures are in the 80s. 85 in arlington. 81 bethesda. reston, you have cooled down to 79 degrees. so, tonight what can you expect? get out if you can. partly cloudy and pleasant. really enjoy it. have dinner on the patio or the terrace. lows will be around mid 60s to lower 70s. when i come back, we'll talk about tomorrow's heat, also the chance for strong storms a little bit later. derek, back to you. >> proposals to expand gambling in the free state may have hit a new hurdle. the raceway. its owner is now threatening to fight any plan that does not include the raceway. obtained a letter from penn national ceo to the governor, martin o'malley and it says, the company would fight furiously to add a casino at national harbor. rose croft will be in the mix. now he is expected to announce in the next few days if he will call a special session to consider the whole gaming idea. >>> still to come, maryland governor joins the fight to keep extended power outages from ever happening again. what does he have in mind? but first, mayor gray detaili

in bethesda and half an inch in rock hill. temperatures a little bit cooler. 70 in cumberland. 82 in quantico. in terms of satellite and radar things have really settle down, but last night we had that line of storms that moved on through. severe thunderstorm warning. all of that bond. now we are watching showers and storms to the west of us. loudon county into western montgomery county looking at light showers. we do have a flash flood watch now up for pretty much the entire metro area, all of southern maryland all the way out to the west. this extends until later this evening. we could see one-2 inches of rain in some areas. here is the future cast as we move through the afternoon and overnight. tomorrow morning most of the heavy rain should be out of here with a few lingering showers for the afternoon hours. by sunday, our skies will begin to clear. the second half of the weekend looking a lot better than the start. here is the forecast for today showers and thunderstorms, some with the potential to bring heavy downpours an

katie ledecky. 15 years old from bethesda maryland is taking the pool by storm. her winning time in the trials in the 800-meter freestyle. 2.09 seconds faster. so she has two seconds in eight years on another local, kate zigler. zigler from great fall, virginia, ledecky in the blue. ledecky in lane 5 was aggressive at the start. she led the race almost the entire way. final stretch we'll see right here. ledecky and zigler way out in front of the pack. she finishes the first with the fifth fastest time in the event in u.s. history. she qualifies for her first olympics, while zigler is making her second consecutive trip. she told me by phone a few minutes ago that she never took her victory for granted. >> i never told myself i had it locked up. i just kept trying to push it throughout the swim. i felt really good. i was hitting pace faster than i had all week, so my confidence was at its highest for the whole week, and, um, i felt like i could swim well. whether it was good enough to make the team or not. >> reporter: has it set in yet? that you're going to london

currently, temperatures are in the 80s. 86 in arlington. 83 in bethesda. reston, you're in the lower 80s and in bowie, you're at 87 degrees. all right, so we are going to expect some changes coming this way. heat and humidity returning. pleasant for tonight. you have to enjoy that. thursday, triple digit heat. heat advisory from noon until 8:00. friday, it will be hot once again, with a better chance for storms. want to show you this risk for severe weather. the north of us into parts of pennsylvania and new york, they are looking at a moderate risk for organized storms, maybe some high winds. for us, we are under a slight risk, including the district and points north toward the mason dixon line. the main threat being damaging winds tomorrow. any storms that do pop up tomorrow do have the potential to become strong or severe. very small potential. our future cast showing us lots of sunshine today. it was a gorgeous day today. a lot of people really liking it. here's a look at your future cast where temperatures are really going to rise tomorrow and we have

are few signs of any weather related damage here in bethesda's green acres. there's also no electricity. >> where are we living? we aren't in a third world country, we are here in america. and this county is -- >> irene and ed say they are beyond keeping their cool. >> it has been on for two days now. what's the problem? we are only 100 feet away. >> this is wrong, people are suffering. >> some who live here are angered by the lack of attention to their neighborhood, they put up signs sharing their frustration with pepco with cars passing by on river road. >> i saw the signs out on the corner and i thought they were so funny. it's so true. it's so hot. it's like 100 degrees plus with the heat index and it just, it's time for our air- conditioning and power to come back. it's really time. >> autumn says she and her family spent the weekend in the hotel and are now camping out in their sweltering home. >> it's too hot for this. it really is. >> every time we call on the phone, every time, they say we are sending somebody out. they had 800 people helping. where

medical center and bethesda. free shuttle buses will take passengers between the friendship heights and the grovener stations. on the blue line, buses will replace trains between van dorin street >>> they had to leave their homes after a tanker truck flipped over along solomon's island road. that tanker was carrying 9,000 gallons of propane. fortunately, nothing leaked. crews were able to tow that truck away safely after just a few hours. >> a memorial was dedicated today to the 29 miners killed at west virginia's upper big branch mine. organizers said what happened back on april 5, 2010, will not be forgotten, especially now that it is written out in blocks of granite. the memorial is in whitesville on land where a gazebo. >> traffic can be bad enough in a big city like london. without the olympics coming to town. how taxi drivers are fighting some of the restrictions coming up. >> a new report shows that economic growth has slowed to a crawl. could the u.s. be sliding back into a recession? we'll look at that t

kind of a nice shot looking towards bethesda. the temperatures, 87. dew points is at 58. humidity at 37%. just fantastic. the pressure is steady over the past era at 37.1 inches of mercury with a few clouds on out there. but not really enough to spoil the fact that we have a very nice thursday evening. all right, radar, i want to point this out. we talked about it just a minute ago. some showers, up from kentucky, pushing on in to southern west virginia and up towards charleston. i think that they will stay to the south of us, certainly to the west of us. they might get into the mountains. we'll keep you posted on that. but as far as we are concerned, a dry commute home and a dry night, no storms on radar. but the temperature wise, look at this, low 80s in bethesda. 85 in great falls. 84 in vienna. it's a good deal. 83 in fairfax and out in leesburg and manassas. 85 in laurel and college park and 87 in old town. a very nice evening. sot heat returns over the weekend. no storms tonight. it is a very nice finish for the weekend tomorrow. and just an isolated thunderstorm po

in bethesda, surae chinn, 9 news now. >> pepco says some of the last repairs and restorations will be single customer outages despite the fact that most people now have power again, pepco plans on keeping the out of state crews brought in at least through tomorrow. >>> well, speaking of hot, the nats have had a fantastic first half of the season and it just got better. dave owens is here to tell us about the team's latest bit of good news. >> you almost couldn't script this thing any better. geo gonzalez has been brilliant and bryce harper has been as good as advertised. wait, men, there's more. harper learning immediately after today's game that he's going to the all-star game in kansas city. you remember, he was on the outside looking in. didn't get enough fan votes. he was graceful and humble about that, even saying others should be picked ahead of him. but the youngster gets in because miami's carlos stinten has a knee injury. he becomes the youngest position player ever to make the team. here's what he had to say after the game. quote, i don't have words to explain it right now.

. >>> many people in bethesda are running out of patience. pepco said the crews are out in full force but some residents have not seen anyone an on thei melanie alnwick has the latest on that part of the story. >> reporter: this is part of what is causing so much frustration among power customers here in the area. we're in bethesda and this tree has been down since friday night, along with all of the wires on top of the car, along with the urk tellity poles that are down and residents here say four days into this, they haven't seen any power or tree cruise out here to see what may need to be done to repair it and this morning, the pepco region president thomas graham explain idea it was taking so long. >> the first few hours are a mess. we had a number of substations and they provide power to 11,000 customers or so. we have the supply lines that go into the substations to energize them. they were damaged. >> okay. >> we were working behind the scenes trying to restore service. if those substations are not operating, none of the distribution f

currently in the beltway, 68 for bethesda. 67 in rockville. fairfax at 66. alexandria, good morning to you. you're at 70 degrees. here's a look at what we're expecting for today. a dry morning commute. you will need the sunglasses as we're expecting lots of sunshine. still seasonably warm for the afternoon. only a chance for a shower or thunderstorm. generally west of interstate 81. so not really worried about it here in the beltway. here's why. the satellite radar picture showing us high pressure is in control so plenty of sunshine with a couple of clouds filtering in. most of the activity weather in the form of showers and storms are south of us. so here's a look at your zone forecast. we start in western maryland. cumberland close to 80. pretty nice day for you in oakland. cumberland you're at 85 degrees. winchester 86. martinsburg 85. leesburg, warrenton, manassas upper 80s. culpeper, you'll get close to 90 degrees. in downtown temperatures around near 90 as well. average high for this time of year is in the upper 80s. gaithersburg 88. frederick also 88.

bethesda and wheaton libraries also open today. the germantown aquatic center. not only are people dealing with power out ans but there are a lot of people in montgomery county now coming into n. to work on their holiday to provide services for those people who do not have power. the situation similar all throughout the county. in rockville's manor neighborhood, there are still utility poles down. dark traffic signals adding to the swags. a big tree canopy in the neighbors is becoming a liability. some people who spent a four day in the dark decided to take their frustrations out by making signs and putting them out on river road. maryland governor martin o'malley is asking resident without power to please contact the power company again. >> now that 75% of people would suffered outages have been restored by pepco and bge, we now need for citizens to call the utility companies and let them know that your house is still out. we are now getting down to that point where it is that granular and the more sort of crowd sourcing, crowd feedback that bge and pepco recei

we are here in bethesda just off of the river road. this is in one of the intersections that still does not have any power to the traffic signals right now. this is river road and nevis road and you can see back here in the neighborhood off of the street, yellow tape all over. there are power lines snaking from the street here all the way through this tree line all the way down. you've got yellow tape taped off through the trees. utility poles down. transformers down. just a mess all over the place and a lot of these people in these neighborhoods and others throughout the count will spend spend another holiday working or dealing without the power. utility pole are still down. the tree canopy in many of these old neighborhoods is now become a liability. some homeowners who spent a fourth day in the dark made signs and posted them on the still darkened river road, a major thoroughfare into the district and for many, their patience is just worn out. >> i saw those way down there last night or the night before but they haven't made it this

. >> reporter: six days and the calvary has appeared along nieves road in bethesda. the linemen working to get the electricity back on for an entire neighborhood. >> what has it been like for you, sir? >> terrible. i have a generator dubut doesn't cool the house. >> reporter: he's a retired dentist, 91 years old and more than a bit frustrated. >> it's hard to get straight talk from pepco, really. >> reporter: when your power is going to get back? >> yeah, yeah. >> i what are they telling you? >> they don't know. oh, sunday. >> saturday morning i woke up and saw the calamity down the street, trees down across the street and the transform or the ground and that is dangerous. wires hanging everywhere. >> reporter: it's still the same way nearly a week later. edgar chen hoping fp&l gets the job done. >> it's been very, very hot o. top level of the house, it's about 93 degrees and still sweltering hot and it's hard to sleep. >> reporter: she is feeling his pain. >> they never gave us a definite date. my son called today and it was an indefinite date, maybe saturday, maybe

bethesda shows the clouds as the sunrises this morning. we will get a few peeks of sunshine in here as we go throughout the day and more inurbana. temperatures that we are looking at coming in at 70 in eldersburg and sykesville. and upper 60s in edgewater and rock hall and elkton. goldboro around 66 degrees this morning. temperatures have been held up a bit because of the cloud. we look at the weather pattern and high pressure clockwise flow around that ushering in that cloud flow or that moist flow. we have the stationary boundary to the south there. that's the lifting mechanism providing for showers this morning. and looking ahead this weekend, that stationer'sy front will move through as a warm front pro-- stationary front will move through as a warm prong providing humidity. -- providing us with humidity. -- warm front providing us with humidity. not everybody will get wet. 88 degrees for today. let's check the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook how are the roads? >> reporter: so -- how are the roads? >> reporter: so far soor tunn