to time throughout the day, but the big story is low humidity and pleasant temperatures. if you slept with the windows open, you need a blanket. it's down into the 50s throughout much of the region, including prince george's county, montgomery, arlington, and fairfax. in the district of columbia, now into the mid-60s, it's in the mid-60s right near the bay with the wind in the water and off annapolis. otherwise, a calm wind has allowed temperatures to drop into the 50s in maryland, northern neck, and the eastern shore. as well as the shenandoah valley and the mountains this morning. sunrise will be at 6:36. that's getting later and later. by 9:00 we'll be in the low 70s. a partly cloudy day coming up, near 80 by noontime, and another day with low humidity and a light wind. highs reaching low to mid-80s by midafternoon. a look at the wednesday evening planner at 5:11. danella, how's traffic? >> good morning. we're still looking good in our area. i'm checking local bridges if you're traveling in southeast. i don't see any problems with any of the bridges there, woodrow wilson bridge as well. let's get a live view, starting with the american legion bridge. so far both directions here, no problems at all. no accidents to report. key bridge is peaceful and quiet and all lit up. shooting over to the 14th street bridge, still a good commute thus far. back to you. >> danella, thanks. 5:02 now. several schools are still closed because of hurricane irene. right now bge is working to restore power to four schools in prince george's county. those schools are glenarden roads elementary school. heather hills elementary school, rock ledge elementary school, and vocational hills high school. officials will let us know by 6:00 a.m. if the schools will open today. as soon as we get that information, we'll let you know. meantime, all schools in calvert and st. mary's county will stay closed because of power outages. 15 schools in anne arundel and one school in howard county. as always, a full list of closings are scrolling across the bottom of your screen. >> more than 70,000 power customers in our area remain without electricity. 40,000 are bge customers. 40,000 in anne arundel county. 5,100 in prince george's county. 2,500 in calvert county. dominion is close to full restoration of its power customers this morning with just over 1,000 customers remaining in the dark. smeco has more than 17,000 customers without power in southern maryland. and allegheny power reports 114 outages. pepco, on the other hand, has only about 26,000 outages systemwide this morning. 1,500 in prince george's county. about 960 in the district. and only about 250 in montgomery county. pepco's made a lot of strides during that storm. that number has been consistently falling over the past two days. news 4's tracee wilkins is in northwest washington right now, where pepco is working. tracee? >> reporter: good morning, joe. we do have crews behind us this morning and crews all over our area working for pepco to try to get the power up. let's remember where we were when the storm hit, 220,000 people without power, and now as you just said, we're down to about 2,700 customers without power now. that's coming a long way. just yesterday morning we were looking at 21,000 people without power this time yesterday. clay anderson joining us again. a lot of work was done yesterday, and a lot of work has been done this week. >> what we're doing right now, this is the difficult work. we're going street by street. here we are, one block is out, the next block up. they have their power. so we have our crews out. we're going to go neighborhood by neighborhood today to try to bring the remaining customers back as quickly and safely as possible. >> reporter: and this is what you all have been talking about before. you try to hit the larger grids and get the people who are out the most, for instance, an entire neighborhood versus a block, and then you kind of narrow it down. >> yes. that's why the restoration process, when we started out at the height of the storm, we had to make sure the substations were properly energized because, if you go to a street like this and you try to put the power on, if the power's not there upstream, then these folks are not going to get power. we have to go to our major substations, our major circuit feeders, and then we get down into the neighborhoods. these folks in a few hours will have their power back. >> reporter: let's take a look at what some of the crews are doing down the street. this is some of the difficult work we've been talking about. they've had issues with trees coming down and bringing down entire power lines and snapping poles in two. we've been seeing it all week. that's the situation down here? >> absolutely. what you're looking at in northwest is trees came down, took down a lot of power lines. a lot of wires have been down. they still are. these crews are out in force safely but in the dark, looking to get the lines restrung, deenergizing, making sure everything is safe to work bringing up the wires, making sure the transformers on the poles are secure. when everything is correct safely, then we'll reenergize. >> reporter: one more question for you, clay. it looks like this time around, pepco's been doing a lot of stuff right, a lot of communication. explaining what's going on with the numbers, what's going on with restoration, and getting the power back up more quickly than in the past. would you say that's because maybe you didn't get hit as hard this time around with the storm, or is it that some things have been changed and pepco is working more efficiently? >> i think we realized the path of hurricane irene would make a difference. those in prince george's county for sure will tell you they did see a lot of damage. not as much the further west you go with the storm. that's the dynamics of the hurricane. for us, we were definitely impacted. what we learned is we have to communicate sooner, coordinate better, and work together to make sure our customers know. the robocalls are really some of the things our customers didn't like it when they heard it, but they realized a day and two days in that it made sense. >> reporter: thank you. clay anderson there. if you're a pepco customer and don't have power, they're working very quickly and could soon be on your street. tracee wilkins live in northwest. back to you in the studio. more than 700 people had to be rescued from fast moving waters in new jersey. this is in patterson. mandatory evacuations began, and as many as 40,000 people could be evacuated from patterson today. fema officials will take a tour of new jersey and new york. they'll tour storm damage by helicopter and meet with local officials and first responders. and banks are stepping up to help victims of hurricane irene. chase says it will waive fees for customers in 13 states through sunday. wells fargo says it will do the same through friday. other banks, including the bank of america, capital one, citi, and pnc bank say they will waive fees on a case by case basis whenever customers are facing hardships as a result of a natural disaster. the woman accused of murdering her co-worker inside a bethesda athletic store now says she suffers from mental illness. lawyers for brittany norwood say they are considering multiple concussions from playing soccer in college may have played a part in her mental illness. they say it is one possibility in their insanity plea. norwood is accused of beating jana murray to death inside the lululemon store where they worked. police say she then tried to cover it up by tying herself up and saying two men attacked them. the judge denied a motion to delay the trial. it is scheduled to start october 24th. 64 degrees at 5:08. the chip mix-up that caused a scare at a local school. plus the party prince at it again. what prince harry is caught on tape doing now. a star studded affair in baltimore as the best of the nba teamed up for fans. carmelo anthony hosted an all-star game that included lebron james and d.c. native kevin durant. durant was the star of the show. he scored 59 points from all over the court. he couldn't bring home the win, though, as anthony's team won the exhibition game by eight points. a lot of fun, though. >> what was the final score, like 200-250? >> probably was. >> i wish i could do that. >> not a lot of defense being played. >> time for weather and traffic on the ones. let's check in with tom kierein. looks great again. another fresh and cool morning again. temperatures in the 50s to low and mid-60s right in washington and by the bay. 50s throughout much of the region. quite a cool start this morning under a partly cloudy sky. our sunrise will be at 6:36. by midmorning into the low 70s. and by noontime near 80. ought to hit the low to mid-80s by midafternoon. and, again, another day with low humidity and a light wind. as we get into the evening hours, here's your wednesday evening planner. sunset at 7:40. by 7:00 upper 70s. by midevening high 70s. a look at the labor day weekend at 5:21. danella, how's traffic? we have a minor delay on the marc. penn south train number 401, your delay is seven minutes. metro and vre both look good, reporting no delays at this time. if you're taking the trip onto 70, this is the view at montrose road. you can see we have cars on the road, but there's no significant volume as of yet and no accidents to report. heading down to 95, this is at dumfries road. traveling down 95 heading into dale city, i'm seeing a little volume. no major delays as of yet, and you're clear of accidents on 95. same thing on i-66. both inside and outside of the beltway, no problems. back in ten. 5:13 now. 64 degrees. ahead on "news 4 today," royal revelry on tape. prince harry's wild and wet night. plus talk about a bird's eye view. a man flying for the first time catches a crime in the act. good morning. welcome back. the daring nighttime raid that killed osama bin laden nearly did not happen. accord to go a new documentary, president obama considered canceling the raid at the last minute. the new documentary "targeting bin laden," reports that president obama received information days prior to the raid that contradicted osama bin laden was actually in the pakistani compound. they did not believe the terror leader would take such a risk. the discovery network's "targeting bin laden" airs next week. specialist douglas green of sterling, virginia, is one of 66 u.s. service members killed in afghanistan this month. his body returned to dover air force base in delaware. yesterday specialist green was just 23 years old. his mother talked with news 4. she said she's proud of her son's patriotism, courage, and selflessness, but it makes the loss no less painful. >> my worst fear came when those two men came into my door sunday night, and i looked down the hallway, and there they were. i knew why they were there. i knew why they were there. i said, you don't want this house. you want somebody else's house, not my son. >> specialist green served a year in iraq and was just months away from his four-year enlistment in the army at the time of his death. his father said he died protecting two members of his unit. this morning they're taking measures to identify and fix mistakes at arlington national cemetery. they're using iphones to snap pictures of 250 grave sites. they're entered into a computer program that compares them with cemetery records. so far no discrepancies have been found. this all started after widespread record keeping problems were discovered at the cemetery. today general david petraeus retires from the army to lead the cia. the 58-year-old petraeus led the u.s. forces in afghanistan and is credited with successes in the iraq war. a retirement ceremony will happen later this morning. then next week he'll be sworn in as the new director of the cia. the obama administration removed or reassigned two top officials involved in a widely criticized u.s. operation to trace the flow of illegal guns into mexico. the acting director of the atf, ken melson was reassigned to a policy office. and dennis burke, the u.s. attorney in arizona, resigned as well. it's over an operation called fast and furious. atf agents were instructed to watch but not to stop illegal gun sales in the hopes of gathering intelligence as to how the smuggling worked. as a result, it wound up in the hands of mexican drug gangs, and two of the weapons were involved in a shooting that killed a u.s. border patrol agent. former utah governor jon huntsman will be at a metal fabrication plant in new hampshire today. he's the first republican candidate to offer a blueprint to forward job creation and will do it just days before the president is set to announce his plan for job creation. an adviser says the plan includes big changes to make the tax system more simple. potential republican candidate sarah palin continues to show up in some very interesting places. the former alaska governor will attend a tea party rally in new hampshire on labor day. palin has not made a decision on whether to run in 2012. she has stated she will make the call before the end of summer. frederick county schools are goi apologizing this morning for serving the wrong kind of chips. they realized the nacho chips they were serving at lunch were made from peanut oil. the chips were quickly removed from the lunch line and contacted parents of children who do have peanut allergies. the school has a policy of buying products that are peanut oil free and are trying to figure out how those chips made it into their system. as the redskins prepared for their final preseason game tomorrow, they made their first round of roster cuts. wide receiver malcolm kelly was let go. a former second round pick was a disappointment mainly because he couldn't stay healthy. in three seasons with the redskins, kelly had 28 catches and zero touchdowns. the 24-year-old told reporters he understands the team's decision. too bad, but we wish him the best. for a team that wins the stanley cup, each player gets to enjoy a day with lord stanley's cup. >> one player's day with it didn't go quite like he had hoped. >> yikes. >> oh is right. ouch. former boston bruin michael ryder took the cup to his hometown in newfoundland, canada. he set the cup on a table only for it to slide right off. it dented part of the bowl. good thing ryder is a -- oh, man. he's a former bruin now. >> it's painful to watch it fall. >> he lives with dallas in the off-season. >> timing is everything. >> the ghost of lord stanley may bother him for quite some time. >> time for weather and traffic on the ones. meteorologist tom kierein is going to give us an update on the forecast. temperatures down in the 50s in many locations to upper 60s in washington right by the potomac. elsewhere, it's a cool morning on the eastern shore, in the 50s as well as southern maryland, northern neck. just about all of virginia and maryland in the 50s, including montgomery, prince george's, arlington, and fairfax counties. farther to our west, shenandoah valley, blue ridge, and out into the mountains in the 50s as well. sunrise 6:36. we'll be in the 70s in the morning. low to mid-80s by midafternoon. and then overnight tonight sunset at 7:40. 70s through the evening. near 70 by midnight. should be partly cloudy. tomorrow morning another cool start, near 60. afternoon highs mid-80s. still not very humid. partly cloudy and more of the same on friday. there's a small chance of some storms out of the mountains on friday afternoon. and then saturday getting hot and more humid, up near 90 degrees, as well as on sunday. it's not going to last long. looks like cooler, drier air pushing in sunday afternoon and evening. if that happens, need to get showers and storms around. to labor day itself, with lower humid sxit partly cloudy and remaining that way through tuesday. danella, how's traffic? good news. i don't have any issues to report in our area at this time. in silver spring, this is randolph road at fairland. no problems here. completely clear. shooting down to d.c., 14th and penn. d.c., i'm checking other roadways for you all in your area. so far no accidents to report. and traveling 395, i wanted to show you here because if you're traveling north from edsall making your way past duke, that's where you're going to see volume increase just a bet. you can see there's space in between those cars. that means they're traveling at a goodspeed. so far no major delays. definitely no accidents to report on 395 north or south. joe and eun, back to you. >> danella, thanks very much. 5:24. a man caught quite a sight the first time he went up in an airplane. steven lindh flew over arkansas for the first time with a friend who is a pilot. as he was flying over his house, his friend noticed burglars stealing from his house. he called 911 and than began following the burglars, helping deputies catch the crooks. >> it was wild. probably one of the wildest things i ever experienced seeing somebody rob my house, and the whole chase, i mean, it's like being on "cops." >> sheriff's deputies finally arrested the two men. see how calm he was, though? they pled not guilty, though. >> just like being on "cops." the nationals are playing for pride the rest of the season, but next tuesday night the stadium will certainly be electric. stephen strasburg will make his season debut for the nats, more than a year since he tore his elbow ligament. the 23-year-old flame thrower will take the mound against the los angeles dodgers. no word how long the nats will allow him to pitch as he works his way back from injury. it's going to be fun to watch. >> right. we don't want him to injure himself again. very exciting. a nationals park beer vendor is being hailed as a hero after saving a little boy who was choking. >> in a game against the diamondbacks, the boy began choking on a piece of chicken. marleau spotted the boy and came to the rescue. he had taken a course in cpr and knew exactly what to do. >> the boy was blue and was choking on something. he was panicking and didn't know what to do. i had experience with this, so i went over to give him the heimlich, and a piece of chicken leg this big came out of his throat, and he was able to breathe. he went to first aid, felt a little better. and then i went back to work. >> marleau says he's done this before, saving one of his own family members from choking. he did the heimlich maneuver, not cpr. prince harry spotted on camera having a wild night in croatia before he comes to the u.s. this cell phone video shows prince harry dancing by a pool at the club. he was walking around barefoot snapping photos with fans. the night ended with harry jumping into the pool fully clothed. and the prince will reportedly train to fly apache helicopters in california and arizona. no word on when that training will begin. maybe he just needed to blow off some steam, get some r&r. >> get it out of your system before you get behind the controls of an apache, please. >> that would be a smart move. >> for all of us and yourself. 5:26 is the time. coming up, the future of television unveiled. what it is and when you will be able to buy it. also, just unveiled and already a controversy, the revered poet who is outraged over a paraphrased quote. ♪ ♪ oh, won't you be good to yourself? ♪ ♪ and don't you feel like coming home? ♪ ♪ ♪ it'll be like coming home [ male announcer ] some rooms feel like a fish bowl. but in our roomy suites, you can spread out and live a little. with breakfast, dinner, and drinks included, you'll feel right at home. ♪ la la-la-la-la la la la ♪ irene's wrath several days removed from the storm, creeks and rivers begin to swell, creating dangerous conditions. and the number of people in the dark is dwindling, but for those still waiting, there is no light at the end of the tunnel. welcome back to "news 4 today." i'm eun yang. >> and i'm joe krebs. welcome to "news 4 today." it is wednesday, the final day of august, 2011. taking a look at 55 gorgeous degrees this morning. and for some of us, august can't end soon enough for those without power of the thankfully, we've had a break from the high heat and humidity we normally get in august. last couple of days that has certainly helped the recovery efforts, repairing the tree damage, and restoring power. there's the view from space. over the last 12 hours, we've had a few clouds coming in. a few showers from indiana and northern michigan. those should stay well to the north. we've had sunshine, just a few clouds in and out. temperatures right now are cool again. we are down into the 50s throughout most of the region, including maryland, virginia, west virginia, the eastern shore, northern neck, southern maryland, right near the bay it's a bit milder as well as right near the tidal potomac where reagan national is located. it's at 67 now. we do have our sunrise at 6:36. that's later and later. temperatures by 9:00 should be into the low 70s. by noontime near 80 degrees. and by midafternoon the mid-80s. again, another day with low humidity, certainly making it a lot more tolerable for the crews that are out restoring power and repairing tree damage. we'll have a partly cloudy afternoon with a light wind. a look at your evening planner in about ten minutes at 5:41. danella, good morning. how's the wednesday commute? >> good morning. starting with the rails, an eight minute delay on the marc, penn south train number 401. first starting on 95, you're heading out of dale city making your way north. you are seeing your volume increase. here's a live look at fairfax county parkway getting busy in this area. 270 in maryland heading south, making your way past 109, you are driving slow and hitting the brake as you head towards the weigh station. heading out of urbanna, just be aware of that. your delays are starting already. i'll be back in ten minutes with another update. joe, back to you. >> thank you very much, danella. several schools remain closed because of hurricane irene. right now bge is working to restore power to four schools in gl montgomery county. glenarden elementary school, rock ledge elementary school, heather hills, and vocational high school. as soon as we find out whether they'll be open, we'll let you know. meantime, schools in calvert and st. mary ps's county will b closed due to outages. as always, a full list of closings are scrolling at the bottom of the screen. those power outages remain a problem this morning for more than 70,000 customers without the area. the numbers are sharply lower from yesterday. pepco has only 26,000 outages in the system this morning. 1,500 in prince george's county, 90 in the district, 200 in montgomery county. dominion virginia is close to full restoration this morning with just over 1,000 customers in the dark. smeco has more than 17,000 customers without power in southern maryland, and allegheny power reports 111 outages. bge customers are by far in the worst shape this morning. about 49,000 are without power systemwide. 39,000 of them in anne arundel county, 5,100 in prince george's county, 1,500 in montgomery county, and 2,500 in calvert county. those numbers have bge customers really frustrated, especially in one laurel community where no one utility company seems to want to take responsibility. news 4's melissa mollet has more on this. fwm, melissa. >> reporter: good morning to you, joe. residents in this laurel neighborhood none too happy. you don't have to look too far behind me here to see why this morning. they have been out of power since 4:30 sunday morning because of this pine tree that took down power, cable and phone lines. when crews showed up yesterday, neighbors were thrilled at first until they were then told those crews really couldn't do much. >> the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. verizon comes, well, we can't do anything. that's public works. public works comes. we can't do anything. there's wires there. bge needs to come and take care of the tree. >> the tree has a lot of strength. so everything on this -- there's hazards everywhere you look on this job. everything has to be done one step at a time, and safety is the main priority with this job. >> reporter: now, bge says they are trying to figure out which utilities have been out here at this point and hope to have power restored here quickly, perhaps as early as sometime this morning. you may hear in the background a little bit of a humming. a couple houses along this street have generators going. melissa mollet live in laurel, news 4, back to you. government officials rushed food and water to a dozen vermont towns cut off from the flooding from hurricane irene. more than 250 roads and 30 state bridges in vermont remain completely or partly closed from the flooding. emergency managers say 13 towns were entirely cut off as a result of road damage. fema and the national guard are helping any way they can, they say. >> told to get out where they're trapped and making sure, quite honestly, that people don't travel on roads that would put them in danger, keep them away from streams and things like that. >> at least four people in vermont lost their lives as a result of the storm. more than 700 people had to be rescued from fast moving waters in new jersey. this is in paterson. mandatory evacuations began in wallington, and as many as 4,000 people could be evacuated from paterson today. fema will take a closer look at the damage in new york and new jersey. they'll tour storm damage by helicopter and meet with local officials and first responders. meanwhile, amtrak service is nearly back to normal this morning. yesterday there was no service between philadelphia and new york city because of flooding on portions of the track on new jersey. today acela service from washington to boston all the way will be operating. the amtrak train from lorton, virginia, to florida will also begin running today. amtrak still has service outages in new england and between newport news and richmond because of power outages, flooding, and debris on the tracks. it is 5:36. the peak of hurricane season is still about two weeks away, but hurricane fatigue is setting in. now the country is keeping an anxious eye on tropical storm katia. the storm is expected to become a hurricane today. it is far too early to tell where katia is headed. tom will have the latest at 5:51. the hollywood actress arrested outside the white house. plus the local charity group being sued for allegedly using tax money to help build a strip club. 5:40 is our time. 69 degrees. still kind of dark but an orangish glow on the horizon telling us where the sun is coming from. >> that's where it usually starts out there, every morning, tom. imagine that. >> it's slapping itself in the face right now saying wake up, wake up. >> it's beautiful out there, that's for sure. this big old planet just keeps on turning. in fact, we're moving at about 900 miles an hour. we're still in the earth's shadow, but we'll be emerging from the earth's shadow at 6:36 this morning. right now around the region, it's another cool autumn-like morning rather than late summer. it's down into the mid-50s in many locations. these are our average lows for early october rather than late august. right now 67 at reagan national. annapolis at 65. those are the two warm spots near the warmer waters of the tidal potomac on the bay. if there's no wind off the bay, it's down into the 50s even near the water. across maryland and west virginia in the 50s right now. sunrise 6:36. we'll have temperatures by 9:00 into the low 70s. a partly cloudy day. low humidity and a light wind, highs reaching low to mid-80s by midafternoon. here's your evening planner for this wednesday evening. the sunset is getting earlier and earlier. it will be at 7:40. by 7:00 we'll be in the upper 70s. by 9:00 mid-70s. by 11:00 near 70, partly cloudy this evening. still not very humid overnight tonight. the latest on tropical storm katia. we'll look at the rest of the week and the labor day weekend forecast at 5:51. still looking good in our area. good news no accidents to report. i am seeing some congestion build, but so far we're not jammed just yet. i want to show you the american legion bridge because it's getting pretty packed in both directions. cars are still moving along. no accidents here. heading over to virginia, this is the beltway at van dorn street. getting a little busy. again, no accidents. that's a very good thing. if you're taking 66, i'm checking it for you both inside and outside of the beltway in both directions on 66. no problems there. joe and eun, back to you. >> thanks, danella. 5:42. it could be the future of movie watching. the odd looking gadget that a lot of people will be clamoring for this christmas. also, bob barker weighs in on a local city's deer dilemma. good morning. welcome back. today is the deadline for aruban prosecutors to prove they have enough evidence to continue holding gary giordano. he's the gaithersburg man detained in the disappearance of robyn gardner. giordano told police that gardner never came back from a snorkeling trip on august the 2nd. giordano has not been charged with a crime. today the judge could decide whether there's enough evidence to hold him for another two months. if not, he could be set free. the woman accused of murdering her co-worker inside a bethesda athletic store now says she suffers from mental illness. lawyers for brittany norwood says her mental illness may have been caused by multiple concussions from playing soccer in college. norwood is accused of beating jana murray to death inside a lululemon store where they worked. she then tried to cover it up by tying them both up and saying two men attacked them. her trial is scheduled to start october 24th. this morning poet and author maya angelou is criticizing a major part of the new martin luther king jr. memorial. according to "the washington post," the problem is with wup of dr. king's supposed quotes n a sermon two months before he was assassinated, dr. king delivered a sermon about what his eulogy might be like. he said, "yes, if you want to say that i was a drum major, say that i was a drum major for justice, say that i was a drum major for righteousness, and all of the other shallow things will not matter." the quote was shortened and carved into the north face of the 32 foot tall granite statue and reads, as a paraphrase, "i was a drum major for justice, peace, and righteousness." angelou told the post the quote makes dr. martin luther king look like an arrogant twit. he was anything but that. he was far too profound a man for that four-letter word to imply. angelou says the shortened inscription is misleading and should be changed. two earthquakes just reported in japan. elaine reyes is in the newsroom with the very latest. elaine, good morning. >> good morning, eun. the latest earthquake happened within the last half hour or so, 222 miles northeast of tokyo. it was a 4.7 quake. the one earlier was a 4.6 reported around 1:00 eastern standard time. the closest city to these quakes is sendai, japan. the depth of the earthquake, 33.8 miles. there are some reports of rat e rattling windows in tokyo. we'll keep a close eye on this. you may remember, of course, the major earthquake that happened near that area in japan, 9.0 earlier this year. eun, back to you. >> elaine reyes. elaine, thanks so much. we'll check back with you in just a bit for an update. a texas congressman is on high alert this morning after finding a window at his office shot out. a spokesman for congressman gene green says windows were fired out at his houston office, breaking a window. police say the shots may have come from a pellet or bb gun and do not believe that green is a target. d.c. officials say that money meant for an hiv/aids program was used to open a strip club. the stadium club opened on queens chapel road last year, after a nonprofit group called miracle hands incorporated got nearly $330,000 in district funds. the money was to convert that space into a job training facility for hiv/aids patients. instead, the district alleges in a new civil suit that miracle hands and its director cornell jones used that money on the strip club. the owner of the stadium club told news 4 it has no affiliation with miracle hands, and nobody at miracle hands could be reached for comment. a controversial coal plant in alexandria is officially powering down. the gen-on plant on the 1400 block of north royal street in alexandria will shut down by next october. neighbors say they're happy the plant is finally closing for good. they complained the plant caused health and environmental problems. alexandria's mayor says he wants to see a mix the commercial and residential development take its place on 25 acres of very valuable waterfront property. 120 people at the plant will lose their jobs. it's as close to a washington landmark as a barred could could be, and now it's closing down. after 40 years the iconic hawk and dove is closing. the bar and saloon has been closed. the owner is turning the bar into a locally sourced seasonal bistro with a 50 5 4-foot exhibition bar. it will have 24 beers on tap and 16 wines by the glass. october 2nd will be last call at the hawk and dove. >> it's a shame to lose such a historic place in washington. imagine if they had tapes of all the conversation that's went on in there. >> i heard somebody -- one of the bartenders zaysay yesterday some of the first customers at that time were just 21 and just able to drink. now they are baby boomers, senior citizens, and they're collecting medicare. i mean, really. >> that place is going to be packed on last call day. that's for sure. this morning animal lovers are going online to pressure an airline to find a missing cat. >> the woman from san francisco says american airlines lost her cat at jfk airport during the chaos of hurricane irene. karen pasco says the airline lost her cat named jack last thursday. she said the airline quickly admitted to losing the cat, but then american airlines wouldn't return her calls about just how they were going to try to find it. so she then set up a facebook page. so far 5,400 people have liked her page. american airlines say it is looking for the cat, but as of this morning, jack the cat still has not been found. >> maybe with a little pressure jack will show up. tom, it's a very nice, refreshing, cool morning. >> it really is. we've got again another morning with a low humidity, and it's a mostly clear sky. just a few wispy high clouds are cruising over the predawn glow that's now showing up on the eastern horizon. in the foreground is the potomac river. the middle l distance is southwest washington. way off there on the horizon is prince george's county. it's offer to a clear start. just down river it's up to 67 on the warm waters of the potomac. and the dewpoint is a comfortably dry 58. we'll have yet another excellent day for restoring power and repairing tree damage. we've got another tropical storm. thankfully, this one does not appear. right now this is tropical storm katia. it is getting organized quite rapidly. it will likely become a hurricane later today. and the latest track is going to keep it westerly for the next couple of days and then shift it northwesterly by the weekend and likely become a major hurricane, category 3 hurricane with winds of 125 miles an hour by the time it's way north of puerto rico, though. the latest extended track, the extended outlook is going to keep it out to sea. looks like it's going to keep curving and then head to the north and then maybe a bit northeast and perhaps go way up into far eastern canada, maybe up around labrador. there's bermuda. it's going to be coming close to bermuda first part of next week. thankfully, looks like it will stay off the atlantic coastline as it does intensify over the next number of days. over the last several hours, we've had high clouds coming in from the west. that's from a cluster of showers and a little bit of thunder and lightning now going on in indiana up into southern michigan. that will not be affecting us. for today, temperatures right now in the 50s throughout most of the region. we're in the low to mid-60s in washington and right by the bay where there's a bit of wind off the water. away from the waters in eastern shore and southern maryland and northern neck, low to mid-50s there. elsewhere, mid-50s across maryland and virginia and west virginia, including shenandoah valley. there's that gorgeous sunrise under way. sun will be up at 6:36. by 9:00 the low 70s. a partly cloudy day, into the low and mid-80s by midafternoon. low humidity with a light wind. overnight tonight, your evening planner will be in the 70s throughout the evening. sunset at 7:40. by midnight perhaps down into the upper 60s. by dawn tomorrow near 60. partly cloudy. humidity again on thursday and friday. getting hotter and more humid over the weekend. saturday and sunday both days into the labor day weekend near 90. pleasant weather with lower humidity returning on tuesday. traffic starting to pick up steam. i see volume increasing. traveling from 95 getting busy at fairfax county parkway as you head north at dale city. that's where your volume starts and continues as you make your way toward 395. 395 heading from edsall and making your way past duke, you can see here the lanes are packed as we continue towards the 14th street bridge. and 270 very slow. a slow crawl heading out of urbanna, making your way towards the weigh station. back in ten with another update. joe and eun, back to you. >> thank you very much a celebrity weighing in on the deer overcrowding problem in rockville. according to the washington examiner, city officials have asked for public input about what to do about the growing population of white tail deer. two options include allowing residents to build higher fences or killing off the deer. that proposal caught the taep attention of former "price is right" host bob barker encouraging people to treat the deer humanely. deer shot by arrows often linger for days in agony. not fair for the deer who were hit, not fair for the other deer who were witness to this, and not fair for the youngster who might encounter the deer walking to school. actress daryl hannah arrested in front of the white house. she was arrested with a group of environmental activists who held a sit-in protesting a pipeline going from canada to the gulf coast. when park police asked them to move and they refused, they were all taken into custody. this morning a jgymnastics group needs your votes to move on. this happened after a mishap on "america's got talent." the university of maryland's gymkata troupe performed last night when a performer got snagged in a ring of fire. officials with fire extinguishers began to rush in, but the student said he was not hurt. you must rush and vote online now. you have three minutes. cast your votes online at nbc.com. that's the university of maryland troupe. as our producer said, you play with fire -- >> you might get burned. >> you know the quote. >> there you go. 3d movies are, of course, popular. the really big thing in theaters now. >> now sony has a new product that will bring the 3d experience into your home. it is a head mounted visor-like display that is kind of like wearing goggles and an earphone in one of the the machine connects to blu-ray disk players and video game units. it's targeted to people who want to enjoy movies or video games alone. sony is calling the device hmd, that stands for head mounted display. it goes on sale in japan november 11th. sales in the u.s. and europe are planned perhaps in time for christmas. the people who buy