Viciously hot wi the potential to be very dangerous. I go insidethe house. What happens when going inside isnt much better . Allen cassidy and his wife are in their 70fo years theyve been living at the charter house, which is a 55 d olderpartment community in silver spring. If it was on, you would hear it. And lately, their air conditioning unit hasnt been working. We were inside his apartment for about 15 minutes and we also started to sweat. Thats why a lot of people n downstairs othe second floor. We followed allen downstairs to the mezzanine. This is when we saw, an empty water jug and neighbors fanning a woman who had passed out it felt as though the air wasnt working on this levelf the building, either. She got too hot. D an drink. And were having to Work Together because the water bottle was out. She fated. She fainted. That woman was taken to the hospitaer montgcounty fire and rescue Officials Say the heat likely exacerbated this womans preexisting condition. On daike today thi
Plan to stay out of the extreme heat as much as. We have a heat index already and how indicative how humid it is. Upper 70s from the d. C. Metro area, eastbound to the bay. Not much of a rain chance the first part of the day b heat index is over 100 degrees as early as noon time p. M. High in the 90s. 60 chance of more thunderstorms later today. Possible storms for today and sweltering saturday on the way and deep fried friday here today. Complete check of then teday forecast, which has the cooldow at thed of it, melissa. I like hat. A cooldown somewhere in the future sound pretty good tome northbound 95 before orcentrep parkway road work so a delay there. After you take a look after fredericksburg you can see. The rest of the beltway and op inner los looking okay. Yesterdays storm knocked out power to thousands of people across the d region. This morning, about 5,000 people are still without electricity. Largest group is in fairfax. Dominion energy says 4,200 people are without power.