Ild wind and rain hitt g our region hard yesterday. This video from a parking lot in leesburg. Homeowners from around the region haveleaning up to do today. News4 justin finch joins us live from yuma street where the storm caused serious damage. What are you seeing . Reporter thats right. H first ting you notice here at 4 30 is how dark it is at yuma northwest. Hey are working restore power to several customers in this area. Take a loi beh me here. Working under way is right now on what was a l veryrge tree that came down in yesterdays storms. Crews having to frst get the tree down to work on the wires that came down with it during thest storm yeday. Take you to owdeo right from late in the afternoon. Close to 6 00 p. M. , neighbors tell us the storm was really being down on this area and eventually they heard the snap, crackle, and collapse of those big branches to that tree there. That also took down some wires. Also, too, setting off small fires, until the yard of that home where th
Bottom of the beltway through Prince Georges County into town and out of town just fine. 95 in maryland. Bw parkway and all of those routes looking god in and out of town as well. Wild wind and rain hitting our area yesterday. Leesburg has cleaning up to do today. So many people are without power this morning. The largest number are in Fairfax County. 3600 people there are waking up without electricity. News4 today justin finch joins us live now from northwest d. C. On yuma w streetre the storm caused some bad damage. Justin . Seeing some progress since we saw youlast. A tree behind us here is sufficiently broken down and left of those large limbs gone so the pepco crewson can ctinue their work. The limbs attached to that large tree not only took down wires p but twer around here too. Neighbors tell us close to 6 00 or 7 00 yesterday afternoon when the storm was bearing down, they heard the branches of that tree bin to break and collapse into the wires taking them down with them. That
Celebration for the u. S. Womens soccer team, honored in los angeles. And just one more reason to slow down on the roads who knew a cactus could do so much damage . Early today starts right nmo good thursday ing. Breaking news the state of emergency has been issued for louisiana new orleans has been hit hard by heavy rain flash flooding turning the streets into canals. And more Severe Weather is on the way. While many homes and vehicles are under water, the area is bracing for a possible hurricane to make landfall within the next few days, as Tropical Storm barry grows stronger reporter louisiana under a state of emergency aftea fastmoving storm whoa. Reporter threw waterspouts and flooding that brought new orleans to a soggy stand still in some areas, nearly 10 iaihes n in just two hours. Disabled cars all over the road its like a hurricane. C reporter anal street living up to its name im stuck, im stranded out here i dont know what to do. Reporter when it comes to keeping the city dr
Next day or two as average weather, how nice is it going to be to feel average . Not too hot, notoo humid and no chance of rain and im optimistic about the weekend. Radar wise, i know a lot of people are rain traumatized from yesterday. Not a drop in the washington, d. C. Area and we will be drip a dry today. 61 in columbia, maryland, this morning. There is your planner for today. There are area of fog around this morning and be on lookout for that from the read wall moisture from yesterday and cool start has the fogginess out there. Plenty of sunshine wh High Temperatures in the mid and upper 80s. Melissa mollet, a far easier day for first 4 traffic. And for you too. Quite the afternoon and morning yesterday. In the northwest, canal road is shut down. Lanes blocked because of the flooding. No word when that is reopened. We had one of our production assistants drive by lastaight said mud and debris all over the road way. No word on when that will be repaired or good enough for traffic.