making the call for the first time. he says they re not keeping records of that call. we spoke to one resident who has given up on getting his power back. he has taken matters into his own hand. we ll have his story coming up at 6:00. darcy spencer, news 4. neighbors are roughing it in northwest d.c. on warren and sixth streets here. a giant tree crushed two cars, yanked the power lines down with it. usually the roar from heavy equipment would annoy residents, but not this time. music to our ears. it s wonderful. isn t it great? it is. we were watching yesterday afternoon a lot of people were here planning, taking measurements, taking photos. reporter: neighbors are helping each other as best they can. a man who has power is letting the family next door to him run an extension cord to his home to keep the refrigerator number. here is a look at the latest outage numbers. still more than 75,000 people are without electricity. pepco says it restored power to norm norman
the pittsburgh area and trying to make its way down here. they will not effect everybody. these are not going to be this will not be a severe outbreak. don t worry about that, but keep a watchful eye to the sky. it s way hot outside. 98 degrees. heat index of 102. many areas seeing that heat index over 100 degrees. heat advisory in effect until 9:00 tonight. if you re going to be out and about, have plenty of water. once again, keep that eye to the sky as we talked about. it s been five days and there s still more than 70,000 people without air conditioning in our region. pepco has more than 37,000 customers still in the dark tonight. dominion has more than 18,000 in northern virginia. and bge has just under 18,000 left. the other utility companies in our region each have fewer than 500 outages. the majority of pepco outages remain in montgomery county. one community in rockville is trying to manage without ac and still enjoy the fourth. darcy spencer looks at how they re