county. and with that, the montgomery county council began laying into pepco and questioning the utilities response to the 238,000 outages after june 29th s storm. the frequency and duration of power outages threatens our help and well fare and economy. tom graham and the maryland public service commission s chair, attended the hearing and responded to concerns. i completely understand the frustration of the customers who have been out of service. what i m hearing from mr. graham, which makes me infuriated is that he s not listening to what everyone is telling him. emily of north bethesda lost power for days after the last storm. that s why she and many other concerned residents attended today s hearing. she said the leadership and president don t get it. he said yes it was a big storm, shouldn t be beating up on us, you can expect outages. everybody understands that. what happens next depends on what we find. the maryland public service commission s chair s
joe: we will give you the burger king smooth plays of the game. and they are put together on the night for johan santana. was good off the mound. was good on the mound. eight innings pitched. he allowed only three hits. struck out three. and walked just a couple. he is on his way to win number six on the year. as we get you a game summary. mets have outscored the dodgers 17-2 in this series. dodgers have not led now in 60 innings. and barring an incredible comeback here in the ninth, it will be 61 at the end of the night. bobby parnell, who struggled as a closer last year, got the save here on thursday in a 3-2 game. 1-1, since taking over forren from cisco. fires in 95-mile-per-hour strike to elian herrera. eric: that is what you are going to get. hard, hard, harder. got a knuckle curve as well. he is a strike-out guy. joe: here is an 0-1. high strike. 95 miles per hour. 0-2. francisco is parnell no save opportunity in the ninth. but terry collins wants him to slam the
jolt of electricity. we re learning more about just how it happened. tropical storm lee crawls across the gulf coast. the slow-moving system is dumping several inches of rain on louisiana. tonight, there s concern about where all the water will go. lee isn t for at least another day. and tonight, a decision on the inscription that has drawn luther king memorial. will it stay or will it go? good evening. thank you very much for joining us. a man is dead this evening after being electrocuted by an overhead powerline. the police have identified that man at 48-year-old orlando hernandez of hyattsville. he was cleaning up storm damage to a tree on jackson avenue in tacoma park this morning when something went terribly wrong. derrick ward has the story. reporter: a two-man team with an independent contractor was cutting tree limbs damaged by last week s storm. the tree they were working on in the home in the 7400 block of jackson avenue has grown around the power ed communica
the nation, including the pacific time zone. i m lynn berry, and today we begin with no more mr. nice guy. yesterday in president obama s first formal news conference since march he delivered a presidential tongue lashing. his target? lawmakers in congress who he said aren t doing enough for americans, mocking them for their procrastination on the debt ceiling deadline. nbc s kristen dahlgren reports. reporter: for most of his press conference a frustrated president obama took congress to task. my expectation is that leaders are going to lead. reporter: accusing republicans of playing a dangerous game as the august 2nd deadline for an agreement to raise the debt ceiling looms. if the united states government for the first time cannot pay its bills, if it defaults, then the consequences for the u.s. economy will be significant. reporter: at one point the president said even his daughters sasha and malia were more disciplined with deadlines than a congress often in re
we begin this morning with no more mr. nice guy. yesterday, in president obama s first formal news conference since march, he delivered a presidential tongue-lashing. his target? lawmakers in congress who he said are not doing enough for americans. mocking them for their procrastination on the debt ceiling deadline. nbc s kristen dahlgren reports. reporter: for most of his press conference, a frustrated president obama took congress to task. my expectation is that leaders are going to lead. accusing republicans of playing a dangerous game, as the august 2nd deadline for an agreement to raise the debt ceiling looms. if the united states government for the first time cannot pay its bills, if it defaults, then the consequences for the u.s. economy will be significant. in one pointed dig,ed president said even daughters sashia and malia were more disciplined with deadlines than a congress in recess. they re in one week, they re out one week and they re saying, obama s