horror stories. we haven t used those up yet? reporter: no, we haven t, derek. we are on the rockville silver spring line where pepco crews have come and gone without restoring power. in fact, workers told the residents they might be back later tonight. now for everyone who thought that underground lines that we ve talked so much about, that they might be the silver bullet, you ll want to consider the north potomac neighborhood of convince orchard knolls of quince orchard knolls. there the lines are underground and there is no visible sign of damage, yet their pavers not restored until a couple power was not restored until a couple of hours ago. today was enough. i just was done today and have been very emotional the whole day, crying and happy and we keep hearing a crew has been here but then a crew is not here and then the wrong crew is here. reporter: after seven agonizing days the power returned to this neighborhood, confidence in pepco did not. i explained to
warning in effect for tomorrow, all day saturday until 10 p.m. the heat index for today, yeah, check out these numbers, a lot of us in the upper 90s to 100. when you factor in the high humidity. this is a historic heatwave. this is our ninth straight day of at least getting to 95 degrees or higher. the first time in 141 years of record keeping this has happened. we ll probably get to 11 days because tomorrow we re into the 100-degree mark and sunday we ll be over 95 is our forecast. remember the hottest month was just last year in july around this time. so it s going to be off to a very hot start. what can we expect the rest of this evening? temperatures will be in the low 70s to lower 80s and the winds won t help us out a lot. we ll talk more about the heat tomorrow and the big storms for sunday. the heat is an extra unwelcome burden for nearly 100 people looking for a place to live because of a devastating fire in prince william county. the flames swept through the woodbr
bay as well because this whole line of showers and thunderstorms will be moving through. you can see things have calmed down at least from the perspective of our tower camera in northwest. just a few minutes ago that was blowing in the wind. we could hardly see the cars down on wisconsin because of all the rain, but right now that has moved on through. so we ve gotten dramatically better. nope the lightning in the distance, though. it s almost notice the lightning in the distance, though. it s almost nonstop. even if you were back out to the west. we were just talking to will thomas out in fauquier county in darnton, he s still seeing constant lightning warrenton. he s still seeing constant lightning back out to the east and that will continue probably the next hour or so. this lightning will get on the eastern shore and we ll still be seeing it. we won t be hearing it. look at one of the transformers blowing right now with probably some of the wind and maybe potentially
along the mountains. these storms will not move our way overnight, but the bigger picture does have thunderstorms, some could be strong, maybe severe tomorrow. those storms will change everything in the forecast. i ll show you what i m talking about, coming up uchblts airport worker still had to work outdoors. workers on the tarmac say they re staying hydrated, seeking shade when they can. other outdoor activities haven t been easy to accomplish across the area, either. derrick ward continues our coverage. reporter: well, jim, some of those outdoor activities are apparently get easier. we re at founders park. you can see there s a volley ball game that s started up. it s a bit more comfortable today, but for the most part people were trying to stay out of the sun or stay cool while they re out in it. an air-condition well, that depends on your perspective. waiting for the women to come out in the shop. it s cooler in there. man, you know how it is. you in there, they
tonight the threat is far from over. in fact, most of our region remains under a tornado watch tonight. thanks for joining us tonight. i m shawn yancy. i m laura evans. our team coverage starts off with fox 5 s sue palka and gary mcgrady live in the weather center tracking those dangerous storms. hello, laura and shawn. the enis in sight, but we still have the end is in sight, but we still have another line of storms coming through the district. it started early at 2:00 with rotating storms producing tornado warnings. a number of funnels were seen and now we re watching a cold front beginning to sweep through the city. it s been a very busy day. this is the last line right now we see on rare that starts to move on through. it s on radar that starts to move on through. there s still a lot of lightning and thunder, but again with the front just to the west of us now it likes this will be the end of it at least moving through the city. it really lines up now with i- 95