officials will let us know by 6:00 a.m. whether those schools will open. as soon as we find out, we ll certainly let you know. meantime, all schools in calvert and st. mary s counties will remain closed today because of power outages there. 15 schools in anne arundel county are closed today. as always, a full list of the closings is scrolling across the bottom of our screen. government officials rush food and water to dozens of vermont towns cut off from flooding by hurricane irene. more than 250 roads and 30 state bridges in vermont remain fully or partially closed from the flooding. emergency managers say 13 towns were entirely cut off as a result of road damage. fema and the national guard are helping any way they can. meanwhile, amtrak service is nearly back to normal this morning. yesterday there was no service between philadelphia and new york because of flooding on portions of track in new jersey. today acela express between washington and boston and the northeast re
just when you re over irene, a new storm is moving into the picture. the fox 5 storm force is tracking this one. and request denied. why the judge in the lululemon murder trial refused to delay the case. we re going to start tonight with hurricane irene s aftermath. thanks for joining us at 10:00. i m laura evans in for brian. and i m shawn yancy. more school closures, calfert and saint mary s counties closed for a third day. four schools in prince georges county are without power and a decision will be made in the morning. many people out there are still in the dark tonight. right now, pepco has just over 6,000 customers off line. bge, nearly 9,000. sadly though, the push to keep the lights on turned deadly for one family. fox 5 s will thomas has more from the aftermath of irene in the newsroom. our region was spared from major flooding and catastrophic damage but power outages are significant. in fact, irene caused nearly three times as many power outages than
we want to start with rene s aftermath which has forced some schools to close now for a third day. alvert and st. mary s counties schools are closed today. anne arundel reopen but there are 21 schools without power that will remain shut. > we also want to check your traffic and weather every 10 minutes. we want to check in with lisa meteorologist is adam caskey. good morning. good morning. i call it another refreshing morning. forecast update. let s get to the temperatures now. r the most part in the outlying areas, it is like yesterday. 50 s and 60 s. hagerstown, at 64. oodbridge at 58. it will feel a lot like yesterday. look a little different in terms of the cloud cover. clouds e high, thin moving overhead. omorrow partly cloudy. the latest is clearing vernight construction. from v ents to report dot. ood. etro rails starting off. at t of all wanted to look green bay road. glebe road. xt we ll take you to the proach to 70 southbound to montgomery out of frederick. th
led her to kill. plus dealing with people with aids. find out how your tax dollars were averted. this is 9news now. but first, right now montgomery county police are working a barricade situation. this is all happening in the 7900-block of coach street. that is in potomac. you re looking at a live picture from the staging area. police have shut down coach street and river falls drive and they say that there is a man inside the home. he claims to have weapons and he may be a danger to himself. we ll bring you an update as soon as we know more. also tonight the dc attorney general says money that is supposed to be used to help aid patients instead went into building a strip club. and we re talking about a lot of money. more than a quarter million dollars. matt jablow with the details. reporter: there is no question about what goes on here in northeast washington. it s a strip club. a high end strip club, perhaps. but a strip club nonetheless. the problem with that
it out of the line of the roadway. reporter: days later, residents are still waiting for power. bg & e has staged personnel 24 hours a day where downed wires are live. they re sitting in their air conditioned truck working on their laptop. reporter: across laurel there are downed trees and power lines. i guess they re doing the best they can do. i wish they d be more responsive, but we ll take it one day at a time. reporter: at what point do people stop being understanding about this and start making some demands? they re there now. we have residents calling us, demanding attention. reporter: workers have restored power to over 500,000 customers. we are saying restoration is late friday into saturday. but the vast majority of our customers should see their power return in the next day or two. reporter: residents are saying that some of these personnel have been sitting in their vehicles 24 hours a day. they say they didn t get out of their vehicles and stand