better and jelly sandwiches. protein and kashs get you by. reporter: indeed. bg&e officials are telling us that approximately 3,740 people are without power. the crews are working around the clock doing what they can to restore it. live here in laurel, i m shamari stone. back to you in the studio. all right. thanks. dorene? now to the latest power outage numbers. bg&e is currently reporting more than 45,000 outages across our region. in southern maryland, smeco has more than 11,000 customers without power. pepco, just over 800 outages. the company says 99% of its customers have been restored. dominion power in virginia down to 480. maryland s governor martin o malley joined anne arundel county executive john leopold to tour the damage in an appear less. the two, along with representatives from fema visited west lake drive in annapolis. the county executives said it was one of the hardest-hit streets with large trees falling on homes, cars and power lines. at the sto
jefferson heights fairmont. sherry lee is live on the scene with the latest. reporter: good morning alison that car was found just down the street behind me, at the intersection of jefferson heights and balsam tree drive it wasn t until after the fire was out police and firefighters discovered that body, inside. someone called 911 around 4:40 a.m. reporting the car on fire when police and firefighters arrive id it was engulfed in flames firefighters got it out when they inspected the car they discovered the body inside police are not saying where the body was in the car at this point it is impossible to tell whether this is a man or woman or whether the fire or something else killed the person first. right now, the way the body appeared, it was burnt beyond recognition so it will be transported to the medical examiners office to be ided. what about the car itself. it was burned up pretty good any type of label, markings were all burned up. now investigators says the
found inside that trunk early this morning. this is where the vehicle was. down below, you can see all kinds of debris on the ground. we have ash, we have broken glass on the street. and look up high, burned leaves up in the trees. i woke up to the boom sound of i guess the car popping and the gas. reporter: 4:40 wednesday morning, a black sedan parked on the wrong side of the road at jefferson heights avenue, engulfed in flames. the fire completely charring the car and leaves 30 feet above, causing the siding on a nearby shed to droop, flames so hot they burned off a lincoln emblem, shattered glass, and melted almost everything inside the cab. then a badly burned body found in the trunk. when they pried open the trunk, they shouted, and that s when they put the tape up and made it a crime scene. reporter: the car taken away to be processed for evidence. where the tires once sat, now spray painted yellow markings. it was really surprising, because we came in about 1
morning three days after hurricane irene plowed up the east coast, the worst damage sinland. just west of new york city, several new jersey suburb its remain underwater, rescue crews have saved nearly 600 people since the floods hit. yesterday the pasaeic river was 13 feet above flood stage. in vermont dozens of towns are cut off from flooding, there s no power and food is starting to run out. some 250 roads in vermont were closed along with 30 highway bridges. jessica stone is in washington with more. good morning to you. good morning to you, terrell. what s amazing in vermont is that some of those rivers still haven t crested. emergency management officials were there yesterday out of washington. today they travel to new york and new jersey to witness the historic flooding there. the swollen pasaeic river has taken over row after row in houses in parts of missouri. the home we built for our kids is gone. adults can handle it. the kids they don t have anything. repor
new england are digging out and cleaning up. it s a little discouraging we finally got the water pumped out of the basement. reporter: others dealing with the reality of having to rebuild. the waves were just coming right through. you could see them from the road. which was very devastating. reporter: irene swept away the connecticut house of the barn bees, their home for more than 30 years. just all precious things that some friends had given us before they had passed away. and i have no idea where everything is. reporter: gifts and memories gone with the storm, but not that new england determination. the river is receding, so the water level is going down. the sun is out. the birds are going to start chirping again. we ll come back. and we re going to come back stronger and better. reporter: a comeback that began the minute irene left. jay gray, nbc news. in our area, there are still thousands of people without power. bg&e is currently reporting more than