better. >> we'll only be in the low to mid-90s. not going to set records but not going to be comfortable out there. we are waiting for a transition that will take place as we get into the weekend. let's get to our maps and talk about -- it is hot for 4:00 in the morning. take a look at these numbers. 83 at reagan national. 80 in fredericksburg. 76 in ocean city. our highs will only be in the mid-90s so that is about five to eight degrees better than yesterday. yesterday, records all over the place. i'll have more on that coming up. out to the east, we are getting a weak area of low pressure that has developed. that is push eggcuple of light sprinkles and showers along the eastern shore. our high pressure system is breaking down t will squeeze out to the west. our heat wave will be coming to an end in the big way in the next couple of days. a slight chance for an afternoon shower or storm today. 94degrees. we are still under a code orange air quality. a look at the weekend. we have some rain in the five- day too. that coming up. >> we'll enjoy that. two people are still missing following an accident in philadelphia involving one of those duck boats. the vessel with 37 people on board stalled in the delaware river and caught fire. it was then struck by an oncoming barge. that knocked everybody into the water before the boat capsized. crews were able to rescue 35 people. a man and teenaged girl are still missing. another earthquake has rattled southern california. the 5.4 magnitude quake struck more than 100 miles east of los angeles but was felt as far south as san diego and as far north as santa barbara. no reports of injury or serious damage. mandatory water restrictions are back in place in montgomery county, this time for residents in the town of rockville. this is a broken water main at the intersection of south glen road and deep glen drive. this is the second water main problem in potted -- in potomac in the last week. the boiling temperatures have power companies in d.c., maryland and virginia asking people to condition serve their energy. the non-stop ac and fans are raising concerns about power outages. fox 5's tom fitzgerald takes a closer look. >> reporter: here inside the power grid control room, the larges are nonstop. >> that is another large. >> reporter: priscilla knight has been pleading with customers to cut back on electricity. >> we are asking for everyone to cooperate. >> reporter: cooperation that will be key in avoiding power outages. engineers like larry shaver are fighting hard to avoid. >> our demand is higher than what we've seen probably ever. >> reporter: larry's control screens are now show something areas of the power grid entering emergency or high level ranges. >> it puts us on alert to try to keep an eye on those kinds of stations that are running up in that alarm region. >> reporter: but customers are not powerless in helping prevent outages, limiting air conditioning is one way. >> if they will turn it up to 78 or even warmer that, will help a lot. >> reporter: even replacing inefficient traditional light bulbs with new fleurangesence he's went ones will save energy and money. >> they're 75% more energy efficient i'm traditional bulb only produces 10% light but 90% heat. over the next few criewcialt evening hours, engineers say they plan on poring over their power grid to ensure it stays standing in the face of an over welling demand. -- over the next few crucial evening hours. we have much more still ahead this morning. your weather, your traffic and all your top stories coming up next as fox 5 morning news at 4:30 begins now. now. it is another hot one. good morning, everybody. the temperature, let's see. >> i know what it is. >> what is it? >> 8 # degrees. >> hopefully, we have improvements headed our way. -- 83 degrees. >> slow getting here. >> not a great improvement but at least it is an improvement and not hard to do after 102 yesterday. >> did we beat a record? >> dropped it. nice, gurvir. >> i don't usually do that. >> it's 4:30 in the morning. >> we did set records at all of the airports. our conditions will improve slightly. only low to mid-90s and a few clouds in the forecast and if you are waking up down at the lower eastern shore, you might get in a sprinkle or shower this morning. our high pressure is getting squeezed now and the good news is that the pattern will break done and start to change. increasing chances for showers and thunderstorms over the next couple days in the washington area and slightly cooler air. it will still be hazy, hot and humid. we could sea a lone some thunderstorm or two later -- we could see a lonesome thunderstorm or two later today. >> julie wright is standing by with a look at traffic early on this thursday. >> good news in you are traveling south on 270. all of of the lanes are open. 395 northbound coming across the 14th street bridge moving nice and smoothly. no problems reported as you cross over the potomac. 270 in the clear leaving germantown headed for the lane divide. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. first, we are following developing news from the district. police have an area around 61th street and eastern avenue northeast cordoned off as they investigate a shooting between an officer and a suspect. the exchange of gunfire happened about midnight. we don't have any word on why police were after the suspect. it is also unclear whether they have the person in custody or whether he is still on the loose. police do say they recovered a weapon at the scene. more water restrictions in our area after a massive water main break spewed water in our area. sherry ly has more from potomac. >> reporter: the water gushed like old faithful from a 24- inch pipe with a geisser higher than the tallest tree. >> i have no idea what happened. i thought some explosion took place here. >> >> reporter: it spewed water on a south glen road nonstop to hours, likely some two million gallons. >> i think it is pretty incredible and scary. >> i think it is pretty amazing. >> reporter: the 52-year-old water main belongs to rockville city but the initial calls went to wssc creating more than a two-hour delay. >> this is the main transmission line, one and only transmission main so without this pipe, we can't produce water and deliver it to our system. >> reporter: water flooded one yard and created a river running down a street. a few guys grabbed their boogie board and figured they'd never get a chance like this again. >> we're like let's do it. let's prove you wrong. >> reporter: water users are urged to reduce consumption. >> we'd have to find some water supply somewhere around everyone would have to cut back. >> reporter: for the a short time, the geisser was welcome relief from the searing heat. >> i kind of like it because it's kind of hot outside. thousands of people are waking up in the dark. pepco is reporting more than 3200 power outages in the district down from nearly 6200 just a few minutes ago. most are in northwest and northeast. also more than 1700 in montgomery county and 43 in fridge county. we don't know what caused these outages. a broken air conditioner forced about 150 residents out of a baltimore nursing home. investigators are looking into reports the air conditioner broke down saturday and the problem wasn't reported until a resident called 911 early tuesday morning. officers say temperatures soared to 90 degrees in the building while residents slept on cots in one room that still had air conditioning. company that manages the home did not have an immediate comment. two people are still unaccounted for following a sight seeing boat that capsized. the buck dote stalled and caught fire. moments later, it was knocked over by an oncoming barge spilling 35 tourists and two crew members overboard. the boat then sank. crews are still looking for a missing 16-year-old girl and a 20-year-old man. >> en was floating in their life vests and everybody was kind of drifting as a group. a few people were paddling towards shore. >> this is a very serious situation and we're going to do everything we can to obviously get to the bottom of it. >> divers were able to reach the sunken duck boat but they couldn't tell whether the two missing passengers were inside. they suspended their rescuest after a few hours. residents in southern california were rattled by yet another earthquake. officials say the 5.4 magnitude earthquake was centered in san diego county. it could be felt hundreds of miles away. the quake was followed by several aftershocks most of those measuring smaller than 3.0. no reports of serious damage or injuries. placentia police say they've nabed a serial killer known as the grim sleeper. he has been charged with murdering 10 people over a 25- year span. detectives tracked him down by using dna. it wasn't that that led to the break. they say a dna sample from his son resembled dna found on a victim. this man was called the grim sleeper because he took a 14- year break from his crimes. it was another flow it is back to the cold warrer raffle the united states and russia now in talks to pull off the biggest spy swap in decades. we'll break down the deal that is in the work right now. a search is under way for as many as four guns stolen from the israeli prime minister appear security team right here in the united states. where they were last seen coming up next. 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( crunch ) with the endless possibilities of kellogg's® pop-tarts, it's sure to be a picture perfect summer. pop-tarts®. made for fun™. replacing a legend in the u.s. senate. west virginia governor joe man shin is calling for a special election to fill robert byrd's senate seat and the governor says he is considering running for it himself. he is waiting for an opinion from the state's attorney general on whether the election can be held this year instead of 2012. it is like the cold war all over again i'm possible deal between russia and the united states to swap spies. neither the russian nor u.s. governments are confirming the deal but it could reportedly happen sometime in the next day or so. the united states arrested ten russian spies earlier this month and russia is holding several u.s. spies. fox's david lee miller shows us one of the spies that russia wants to trade. >> reporter: most americans never heard igor sutyagin but now he could play a key role. fox news is told he could be released as part of a prisoner swap involving at excused spies arrested last month in the u.s. the attorney says he could be flown to the uk as soon as tomorrow. all of of the 11 aaccused russian spies were indicted today for acting as foreign agents. the defendants in custody in the u.s. are slated to be arraigned in federal court in new york tomorrow afternoon. as for the proposed swap, neither the u.s. nor russian officials will comment on the number or name of spies that could be involved. an attorney for other a. excused spy juan lazaro confirms to fox that prosecutors have have some sort of plea bargain. if the government makes a deal, prosecutors will not have to disclose sensitive evidence it wants to keep seek raiment quick resolution might help improve u.s.-russian relations there was some last-minute drama in the spay case this afternoon. it seems that one of the defendants met the conditions for bail. the u.s. attorney fought her release saying she was a flight risk. a federal judge agreed to keep her behind bars until friday when another bail hearing can take place. in new york, david lee miller, fox news. the search continues this morning for as many as four guns stolen from the israeli prime minister's security team. those handguns were in two suitcases that were lost when the team flew from new york to d.c. sunday on american airlines. the suitcases later turned up in los angeles mine us the guns. the new york port authority is now investigating. it wasn't exactly a proper parking spot. a metrobus sitting in somebody's front lawn. what happened that left the driver turning this bus into an off-road vehicle. lots of heat and humidity still in the forecast. we are not looking at record temperatures. that is good news. all the details on the forecast and a little rain expected as well. julie wright has a look at your on-time traffic coming up in just a couple of minutes. welcome back. it is 15 minutes in front of 5:00 on this thursday morning. it is 83 degrees outside already. we are in for another hot one so hang on. hopefully, things will improve in the next day sore so. it was a close call in montgomery county after an accident sent a metrobus out of control. sky fox was over the scene yesterday on colesville road and university boulevard in silver spring. this metrobus rear ended a truck, kraused the median and hit a wall ending up in somebody's front yard. nobody was on the bus at the same except the driver would wasn't hurt. we don't know what caused the accident. glad everybody is okay. 8 # degrees, hot. >> it is hot and in fact, not much relief today but a little relief and every degree counts when you are talking about temperatures near 100. it will be a little better today. 83degrees, hot. >> the general trend will be to improfit things. i think it will be saturday before we get a noticeable difference in air masses. >> today hopefully will be better than yesterday and onward. >> gurvir, can't be worse. take a look at yesterday's high records. >> did we break records? >> all three area airports broke records. certainly unpleasant yesterday. very hot conditions. unusually hot obviously and let's hope we don't see 100s any time soon. we do not have 100-degree temperatures in the five-day forecast. you probably can't see it under the star here but we have a heat advisory for washington, d.c. and baltimore until 9:00 tonight. that is because any time we talk about a lot of concrete, we can have problems with the afternoon heat here with temperatures still expected to be minister mid-90s. all we' recently had, we'll see things heat up once again. it doesn't mean it won't be hot across the region later today but it should be a little better than yesterday. still a lot of 70s on the map. 75 in leonardtown to start your day. our highs later will only be in the mid-90s. that is about five degrees better than yesterday. area of low pressure here, see it kind of spinning out to the east and what that is doing is it is kind of forcing our high pressure out to the west. the pattern is breaking down. it will be slow. there could be a few isolated thunderstorms later today and a few more clouds out there. that graft is generally an improving one although it won't be perfect around here any time soon. about a 20% chance of an afternoon thunderstorm. the five-day forecast, overnight tonight, we'll get down into the low 70s in d.c. tomorrow's high, only 92 degrees. good chance of some shower activity. we need the rain and thunderstorms. it looks like friday night into saturday. saturday's high temperature only 88. then more typical washington weather here for sunday and monday. that is a look at the forecast. we get to on-time traffic and i can hear the sound now, julie wright. >> i always wonder do you forget or what is going on? >> well, it is early, i got to wait until i see you. >> oh, is that what it is? >> yeah. >> happy to say overnight roadwork has cleared 270 southbound leaving gaithersburg headed out to the lane divide. all land are open in virginia if you are traveling inbound along 66. you will find yourself at speed as you continue to work your way inbound leaving nutley street headed for the capital beltway. you will find traffic volume moving at speed on the beltway itself between annandale an merrifield. top side of the beltway, no problems to report leaving college park. light traffic volume on 95 and 295 out of laurel. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. there are questions this morning about thousands of dollars paid out to a tutoring service with ties to the founder of the church of scientology. federal law requires fa failing public schools provide tutoring to students. but concerned parents talked to us about one of the groups used. melanie alnwick has this story that you will only see on fox. >> reporter: look on the d.c. superintendent's web page and you will find a list of tutoring providers that parents of students an failing schools can choose from. one of the approved groups is called applied school aft after thetic international, i group with ties to scientology. fox 5 discovered the group was paid a total of $12,000 in federal funds on november 16, 2009 and on march 15th. the group's web site says it's nonprofit public benefit organization formed in 1972. its tutoring method is called study technology. it was developed by the church of scientology founder l. ron hubbard. according to the site, the job of applied scholastics is to place the study technology developed by hubbard into the hands of the world, students and educators. the office of the school superintendent wouldn't answer questions on camera but a spokes person told us it has a strict and intensive application process for tutoring services. federal guidelines do allow faith-based organizes to provide supplemental tutoring services. bottom line, a spokesperson for the superintendent's office says they are not as concerned with a tutor's affiliation as they are that the program is actually raising test scores. they do monitor the approved programs to make sure that grades are increasing and to make sure that the program is following dcps approved curriculum. we did reach out it asupplied scholastics but did not hear back from them. the local church of scientology told us it is aware of the program. they said they don't teach scientology. they just teach students how to learn. >> thank you. a new security review is in the work for the entrance to the pentagon. pentagon planned to add checkpoints farther from the entrance but the northern virginia transportation commission asked them to reconsider. the commission warned the changes would push security lines against the flow of commuters and also block the elevator n march, john bedell wounded two pentagon police officers. they returned fire and killed him. the amount of oil being collected from the gushing well could soon increase dramatically t all steps on when bp and the coast guard can get a third containment vessel up and running. meantime, crude continues to gush. phil keating has the latest now from louisiana. >> reporter: a struggling crab fights i way through a gooey blob of oil along the lieu shore. >> picked him out of the water and sat him there. i didn't know what it was and sure enough, that is what it is. >> reporter: another look at the soiled coastline for governor bobby jindal after spotting oil in louisiana's lake ponchartrain. he is as angry as ever as washington bureaucrats. they turned down his request to use rocks to build oil barriers. >> we can't afford several years of studies. we can't afford the traditional red tape and bureaucracy. we need what needs to be done to restore our coast. >> reporter: as bp's broken well continues to shoot brown oil into the gulf, officials say they are waiting on the weather so they can hook up another containment shipset to double the amount of oil bp will be able to capture. >> the procedures required to be tested will take approximately three days. >> reporter: bp says relief wells or the only hope of stopping the oil flow permanently. crews digging under the seabed are now within a few hundred feet of where they need to be. they are doing it showily to make sure they get the exact line of what they need before penetrating the well bore. >> the drilling of the relief well is one. very few aspects of the operation not being impacted by the foul weather. all of the surface skimming and laying of containment boom is being sidelined until this weather calms down -- in grand isle, phil keating. a chance to catch a concert. here is you what you have to to it see sting. you have to answer the trave y question. what was the title of sting's first solo album? you have to answer the trivia question. find that on our web page and correctly answer the question. you have to be 18 and a legal resident. the prize arc pair of tickets provided by live nation entertainment. we'll take a break and come right back. welcome back. world cup news and a good night for the nats. here is dave ross with this morning's sports breakfast. >> a good thursday morning to you. it is sports breakfast time and the world cup is now down to just two. in a true heavy weight soccer match-up, it was spain and germany squaring off for the chance to plate netherlands aned a chance to advance the play for the world cup championship and this match-up certainly lived up to the hype, that is depending on which country you were rooting for but i digress, as i tend to do. all the hype and build-up for spain and germany. scoreless in the 73rd minute. off the corner. look at that header. that is your lone goal of the game. they're going crazy in madrid. i'm sure they're still partying right now as we speak. spain will try to win their first ever world cup when they take on the netherlands on sunday. back in d.c., the nats brought their big bats against the padres and adam dunn has got a very big bat. that a home run, a three-run shot in the first and his 18th of the just getting started. back to him in a moment. how about desmond, second home run in as men nights. he is a little guy but he is bulking up. adam dunn, already homered and this is in the eighth. one, two, three home runs in all for adam dunn on the night. five rbis. now, 0 home runs for the year and everybody wanted the ball but he got a curtain call and the nats get another win 7-6. at archbishop spalding high school in maryland, it is trevor booking on your left, john wall in the middle and hamadi enjai, all of the rookies taking part. they gave instruction and guidance in the game that he now call a profession. venus williams making her lone d.c. appearance taking on the new york buzz and martina hingis. she used to be number one in the world. she was in the far court taking on venus. rallying back and forth. everything looking good. marina would have been out the position. no, the swift miss gets it back. that is going to be good enough. is it or is it in it is long and venus wins sand so do the