prepare to answer tough questions. the agency that regulates utilities. but men of pepco customers wish they were on that panel. rosetta who was without power for four days, has this question. what system do they have in place to attack these problems more quickly? her pick-up still bears dents from the power pole that came down on top of it during one of the storm. he would like to quiz pepco, too. why are they taking so long and why don t you have enough people that are there to help? in its order for the pepco investigation they can want to explore three major power outages in the past three week, examining the duration of the outages and the poor communication to customers. local elected official are beginning to take action, too. montgomery county councilmember roger berliner, a utility law and expert is working state delegates on proposed legislation to hole pepco accountable. the current level of service is simply unacceptable, and this can be fixed. we have
up into new york state. western connecticut and western massachusetts. so there s a look at the forecast until 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. perhaps even early thunderstorms, quiet, a little less humid. parts of the area could see some storm in this heavy rain potential before the week is order. thanks. with all the recent storm-related power outages we ve seen, some pepco customers say they ve had enough. about three weeks ago, more than 300,000 people were without powerful another storm on august 5 knocked out power to about 75,000 pepco customers. last thursday, about 98,000 were in the dark on. top of that, pepco had to deal with two trans former fires just days apart. now the company is expected to face some tough questions about reliability and response time. news4 with julie carey join us from silver spring with more. hi, julie. pepco s senior official have been summoned to baltimore for a hearing before the public service commission. and no doubt residents in the silver spri