>> yes. >> very hot outside. >> continuing on. >> tucker barnes, what is the situation as of now? >> this is the big change. it's still on the and friday. >> there you go. >> there you go. >> and we're celebrating friday, not the heat. >> doing fine. a few thunderstorms out there 24 hours ago. you can see and there we go. quiet conditions, very warm and humid across the region and temperatures in the upper 70s and low 80s, we shouldn't be this warm this time of the year and there is not much to do about it. we have a heat advisory for highs about 100 degrees and at reagan national, 83 degrees. the humidity, 67%. winds out of the north at 8 miles an hour and your pressure is steady. 29.8 inches. very hot today, dangerously well hot and temperatures about 100 degrees at 4:00 p.m. i don't think we'll see a thunderstorm, but there is a risk of an isolated thunderstorm today and there is that cool down on the five-day coming up. back to you guys. a shootout in college park. this is view will exclusively see on fox 5 news. prince georges county police got a call last night for a man armed with a gun on lakeland road. when they arrived at the scene, gun fire was exchanged and the police man was -- a man was shot by police. he jumped into a police cruiser and took off and he was later arrested at a mcdonald's. the university of maryland was temporarily placed on lockdown and reopened around midnight last night. a week after the freak storm and several thousand are still without power in the d.c. area. pepco has 7700 customers offline. dominion virginia reporting over 900 without power in northernga virginia. >> and bge's numbers are hovering around 1100. fox 5s bob barnard gives us a sense of the frustration. >> 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 sunday. >> reporter: the rest of the neighborhood got its power back on monday. ann's is one of those individual outages that may not make pepco's friday 11:00 p.m. deadline. >> all of our wires are underneath all of those limbs there. everything is down on the ground i know that every people are in need. but to have no concept of when it's going to be finish side difficult. >> reporter: in bethesda, the intersection of knee inches road has no traffic signals. he is up from fort lauderdale working to bring the lights back up as well. >> is it hard doing this work in the hot? >> reporter: what is the key drinking water in. >> staying hydrated. >> reporter: you have probably seen a lot of storm damage, how would you rate this? >> not too bad. >> our neighborhood is probably the seventh or 8th job they have done since they have been here. i know they have been working 24/7 non-stop, but everyone still needs to sleep. otherwise, you feel batty and crazy. >> reporter: bob barnard, fox 5 news. a live look outside at the u.s. capitol dome on friday, july 6th. we're closing out the week on a hot note. a lot of people frustrated still because they don't have power. progress is being made and we hope that soon everyone will be happy because the power will be back on. it will be hot outside today. >> and that is in time for the weekend. >> reporter: hope so. i'm sara simons. >> and welcome to fox 5 morning new and tucker barnes has more on the weather situation. tucker, good morning to you. >> let's talk. >> good morning, guys and -- . >> i will do radio action here. >> there you go. >> and very hot, obviously. >> uh-huh. >> and that is getting ole. big storms by sunday and relief next week. >> relief? >> yeah. >> we'll focus on the relief this weekend. they said how can you be excited about 80s? >> we're excited about 80s. >> yes, we are. >> and for two people who like the cold weather, i'm excited about the 80s. there is some 80s. about this time of the day. >> right. >> and that is in the morning. 84, fredericksburg; 80, ocean city and this is a visible start here and no thunder activity this morning. should be just fine. not expecting anything more than isolated storm later today. and just a lot of very, very uncomfortable hot out there. today at 11:00 a.m., an excessive heat watch for tomorrow and that is the grando daddy of all heat warnings. 100 in washington; 102 in fredericksburg. >> 101 in fredericksburg yesterday? >> yup, they're up a degree. >> and keeps on getting hot. >> not a place to be when -- and that is nowhere to be when it's 101. >> not at all. >> and check in with julie wright and the latest on traffic this morning. >> reporter: the place to be is in my pool. >> yes, the julie pool. you're right. >> there is the kitty pool and the julie pool. there is not much difference in the depth, i have to be honest with you. >> the good times, right? >> that's right. >> and beverages are different, i will tell you that. 395 traveling northbound this morning. lanes are open. no problems reported and continuing to seminary road. the trip on 270 was ineventful, no since of road work. the road is repaved in each direction and old georgetown road. the easy drive as you travel, the top stretch of the beltway leaving college park and working past university boulevard. the lanes are open, the free commute and that is flowing freely between baltimore and d.c. that is a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. and our big story this morning, a shootout in college park. this is exclusive video you see on fox 5. prince georges county police got a call from a man armed with a gun on lakeland road. when they arrived, the gun fire was exchanged and the man was shot by police. we're told that he jumped in a police cruiser and took off and he was later arrested at a mcdonald's on route 1. the university of maryland was temporarily placed on lockdown and opened around midnight. police say a 12-year-old boy is being charged with second-degree murder and they found his two-year-old foster sister beaten to death. the autopsy showed the toddler died of blunt force trauma and they have charged the boy as a juvenile and that may change. >> to virginia now. sky fox over the scene of eisenhower circle in the woodbridge station complex around 8 last night. the temperature was so intense, firefighters brought in the cooling fans and worked on a rotation. two firefighters were taken in for heat exhaustion. the residents were told it started with an electrical problem and is still under investigation. maryland's death toll from this week's heat has gone up to eight. the state's department of health and mental hygiene updated the number yesterday one of the deaths was a montgomery county man. last year, 34 people died in maryland from heat-related causes. it's been one week since the storms rind through the area. thousands don't have point of viewer this morning. right now, pepco has about 7700 customers in the dark. dominion virginia is reporting under 900 offline and that is in northern virginia and bg&es outages in montgomery and prince georges county are around 1100. some local residents have been frustrated to see the least, to see power crews show up and leave because trees are down and then tree trimmers show up and leave because the power lines are down. the president of pepco did us here at 10:00 to explain why that happens. >> there is an extreme payment of -- amount of coordination involve and the customers don't understand the process. the tree trimmers have to come in, line mechanics says have to come in, one group has to come in to de-energize, another group to trim the trees and other group to come in and to actually do that repair work. >> is the communication a problem? can you improve on the communication so this can go smoother? >> we're at the end of this and during the event, we'll look at how to improve and be more effective and efficient. we'll submit a report and do a self-analysis and work on that. >> you and i talked the last time in the snowstorm and you said you would improve the spend. those were your words on the system to improve restoration times. did you improve the spend them. if so, why are we still here with the no storm a week later and still talking power outages. >> two different topics. >> okay. >> day-to-day reliability, over the next 10 years, we made an investment of $910 million to improve service for the customers. during the same time, we worked on process improvement and the process improvements would be implementing in situations like this and, have the of our reliability plan, including tree trimming, cable replacement, distribution automation and several other things, we have been able to see some real improvement with respect to shortening the duration of outages and reducing the frequency and that is working. we're in year two of a five- year plan and we recognize this is a lot of work to go and we're seeing improvement. >> and graham went on to say that pepco will do a performance analysis after restoring power to the customers. they will make it public so customers can say what they think went well and not l. >> a lot of people will be looking forward to that. >> yeah. >> they want the power back on as l. >> uh. >> coming up, bail set for $1 million for george zimmerman. did the judge go overboard. we'll hear from two legal analysts coming up the. compute danger of losing internet service sunday night? what you need to know coming up next. stay with us. with us. . making headlines this morning, george zimmerman granted bond, but it's going to cost him more to get out of jail while waiting for trial. the florida judge set bail at $1 million for the neighborhood watch volunteer and revoked the $150,000 bond that was set in april. and. >> the questioned zimmerman's honesty suggesting legal experts are splitting over. >> i think this order, setting a million dollar bond absent any true evident of flight, reasonable evidence he was trying to flee, this tome this is pipative. he's pushing him for what he did in the criminal and to the criminal justice system j. personally, the judge didn't have a choice. he could not come back and say i'm going grant the original bond. not after all of the lies that came through. >> and zimmerman said he shot and killed 17-year-old trayvon mart nip self-defense. out west, firefighters battling huge fires in the rocky mountains and hope some rain will give them a hand. the light rains and cooler temperatures are helping them in the waldo canyon fire burning in colorado. now 90% contained and firefighters hope to have it fully under control by sunday. they're also making progress in another fire in wyoming. good news there. if you don't want to get kicked off the internet on monday, check that your computer has not been affected bymalware -- malware. a virus hit thousands of computers worldwide last year. although the fbi put a fix in place, it expires on monday. there is a website to visit to make sure you're not affectioned by this. we posted a link on www.myfoxdc.com. >> we have been talking about the power outages with so many people dealing with all of this these power issue its this week, it raises a question about all of the overhead power wires. coming up next on fox 5 morning news. news. >> would you be willing to pay the $380 more forever for undergrounding the wires everywhere? >> absolutely. you get tired of things going out after couple of weeks. >> straight ahead, hearing from the chairman of maryland's public service commission about that very topic coming up. now, check in with tucker. >> and good morning, everybody. we'll have hot temperatures this afternoon. a heat advisory and i'll show you that. julie wright has the traffic. we'll do that coming up after the break. ♪ ♪ we were skipping stones ♪ and letting go ♪ over the river and down the road ♪ [ female announcer ] at nature valley, we know nature comes together in amazing ways. that's why we bring together natural ingredients, like dark chocolate with toasted oats, or sweet golden honey. perfect combinations of nature's delicious ingredients, from nature valley. ♪ ♪ i was thinking that i hope this never ends ♪ [ female announcer ] nature valley granola bars, nature at its most delicious. . good morning, everyone. we're coming up on 4:45 on this friday. hey, at least it's friday and take a look at that. it's going to be warm today. the good news, people are trying to cool off. d.c. parks and rec are extending outdoor pool hours the remainder of the week. some will stay open as late as 8:30 and 9:30 in the evening. the extension comes as thousands of people are still without power from last weekend's storms. and that is some good news. >> they haveway action like that at local pools now? >> and that did look cool. >> yeah. that looked great. >> and get out of here now. >> and more of the same today, the high temperatures near 100 that is hot, humid. >> uh-huh. >> could there be a storm? yeah, probably not and the good news, we can see the end of the heat wave. >> okay. >> and by the end the weekend. >> and that is where we are right now. >> and 82 in washington. quantico, that is obviously not comfortable. 86 degrees and that is at 4:45 in the morning. 83 in annapolis and 81 in martinsburg. temperatures, when you start your day in the mid-80s, doesn't take a lot to get up to the 100s and that is again this afternoon. all of the counties in orange here, looks like we're skipping the northern toe of maryland at this hour and a heat advise or for much of the area and feeling like 100 to 105 and yesterday, it's overheated and the temperatures got to 106 and we'll be there again today. tomorrow, going to be more uncomfortable and. >> an excessive heat watch for the entire area for the day tomorrow and that is a graduated heat warning. the excess of heat warning to the south and north and we're quiet, did some cloud cover out there and that is holding temperatures up this morning. could be an isolated storm this afternoon and that is sunny, hot and humid, 100 degrees is the daytime high and winds out of the north and west at five and muggy overnight, 79 the overnight low and this is the five-day forecast. this is your relief. look out tomorrow, 102 and that is feeling like 105 to 110 and some storms on sunday. stay tuned for that and on to monday and tuesday, better highs in the 80s. and happy friday, julie. >> did i hear the waterfront? >> i want to and some wades. the wade pool. never done that before. >> where have you lived? >> i don't know. >> and hello, tucker. >> a wade pool? >> i have been there. there is one in alexandrea. >> i have to go. never been before. >> and tucker's never been. out of german town, the lanes are open and i am thinking yesterday, we had lighter than usual travel on the road and some folks said hey, it's in the middle of the week and we're taking the in, two day office and light traffic volume here and no problems to the beltway and it's running smoothly each way and that is a check of the fox 5 on-time traffic. >> and thank you, julie. last week's storm again bringing up the debate between buried and overhead wires in maryland neighborhoods and this is the question: how much would it cost to have pepco, bg&e retrofit their systems and put wires underground in. >> and john henrehan talks with the chairman of maryland's public service commission and has this report. >> reporter: as customers and power companies learn once again this summer overhead power lines are very vulnerable when the weather gets particularly nasty as it did last friday night. >> we're not satisfied, we're not slowing or doing anything differently around here and that is until everyone is back on. >> reporter: the chairman of maryland's public utility's commission refused to immediately offer a grade for the utility company's response to the storm, at least until the companies have finished restoring a and had that chance to submit a major storm report to the puc. how much would it cost to bury all overhead power lines? the puc chairman cited a study down done in 2003. >> they expressed it to say it would cost between 340 and $415 per customer per year and take 15 to 20 years to retroactively underground the electric system in the state. >> reporter: would marylanders be willing to pay $30 more a month electricity forever in ifs service was more reliable. >> i would do it to keep the inconveniences to a minimum. >> would you be willing to pay the $380 more forever for undergrounding the wires everywhere? >> absolutely. you get tired of things going out every couple of weeks. and being out for weeks, days at a time. >> reporter: you would pay more? >> yes. >> reporter: only one pepco customer we found offered a nuanced answer. >> probably not. that doesn't mean you shouldn't put some wires underground and not others, i think. >> reporter: pepco is doing, that identifying neighborhoods with overhead power lines where outages are fairly common and if we trimmers and other measures don't work, they're selectively covering up power lines. next week, they will decide whether the utility gets a requested $68 million rate hike. john henrehan, fox 5 news. >> and wonder if the storm has an effect on the decision or not. >> that is a lot of money. >> yes, it is. president obama is back at work and off the campaign trail. coming up next, details where his bus tour is headed. >> and which two men are hot on his trail. stay with us. . jobs numbers, the big topic on the campaign trail. president obama's due to speak this morning after the monthly unemployment numbers come out. >> he's campaigning in ohio this morning and will be in pennsylvania this afternoon. fox 5s craig bosswell has the latest from the campaign trail. >> reporter: president obama begins a two-day bus tour in familiar territory. >> it's good to be back in ohio. >> reporter: he's visited the buckeye state more than a half dozen times this year. >> the stakes could not be bigger. >> reporter: the president reminded supporters of the auto bailout and slammed his republican rival for his bailout opposition and did not stop there. >> unlike my opponents, i want to stop giving tax breaks to shipping overseas. >> reporter: while? found it friendly, some analysts believe that blue collar workers may not be so kind in november . >> he has to try to minimize what is a clear republican resurgence in the more rural part. >> reporter: a pair of mitt romney representatives make sure the president doesn't win ohio again this time around. >> we should all recall the promises he made last time and the promises left unfulfilled and unbroken. >> jinxal and christie are shadowing the president's bus path. >> we want results. >> reporter: a day before the monthly unemployment report is due, the labor department said weekly claims dropped the lowest level since mid-may to 374,000. friday's overall unemployment rate coincides with the final day of the president's bus tour wrapping up in pennsylvania, a state he won in 2008 and will need again. mitt romney toured the same region three weeks ago. craig bosswell, fox news, washington. coming up, they went back in time last night to the 1920s. >> and suniforms. >> cool. >>. and i some classic uniforms, a classic finish for the nets. highlights are next. blam blam to sports now, bryce harper won't goodbying to the all-star game. he finished third in the voting for the final spot on the national league roster behind david friese and michael board. >> that doesn't matter. maybe he'll be in the play-offs this season. >> there you go. >> the nats again last night won and honoring the washington senators and the champions, they completed a sweep of the san francisco giants, winning 6- 5 and when a.m. laroche's winning-ending inning double grounder and the rookie, bryce learn, scored a winning run and this is the major league-leading seven walkoff victories. >> reporter: don't know at what point in the year it was when it was the first or second month when we realized it was a good team and that is some confidence through the roof. >> and they blow a lead to the angels and mark reynolds and flaherty each homered for the os and the loss. >> and to 10 us now. serena won yesterday, 6-3, 7-6 to advance to saturday's ladies finals. williams inleashed a tournament record, 24