proving too much for some power lines and train cars and way too much for some people and pets. even the president warned reporters. stay cool out there. and we re not nearly done with the heat. good evening, i m jim vance. and i m doreen gentzler. the extreme heat broke records in virginia, maryland and every other mid-atlantic state. and though not a record, we hit 102 in washington today. as we ll hear from our reporters, the heat proved too much for some infrastructure in our area. and downright dangerous for people and pets. but we begin with meteorologist veronica johnson. as you said, 102 degrees today. that was just one degree shy of the record. and we hit that at 4:00. we knew this was going to be a long, hot day for us. when at noontime the temperature rose to 100 degrees. but 4:00, again, 102. then we stayed with that high heat right until about 7:00 to 8:00. 97 was the temperature at 8:00 p.m. and even at 10:00 p.m. is when we finally dropped into th
martinsburg, 101 in baltimore were in 99. we had a stretch of 99 which was really bad. similar to this one as far as the triple-digit heat. today 102 is what i m forecasting. 95 by noon. 100 for the drive home. any good news, only code orange instead of code red on the air quality. it is 6:01. hello, angie. hello, howard. thanks for joining us for the 6:00 hour. right now we are looking terrific across the way. as we move outside, we are tracking delays that are starting to set in. showing you the outer loop, we open the door and from colesville road to georgia avenue is where we are watching the volume build. move over to inbound new york. inside northeast dc we have a delay from the times building to the bladensburg road area. overall still okay past florida avenue making your way to the third street tunnel. 395 northbound, below speed from duke to seminary. okay approaching the pentagon. and end with a glance of 66. 50 to nutley, you are below speed but no accidents in
in northeast dc. if you come at an intersection where the lights are out or on flash, treat it as a four-way stop. no accidents to report in virginia, district of columbia and maryland. we want to show you the drivers are moving at speed on 66 from centreville to past 50 to inside the beltway. the next stop the beltway in virginia not too busy this tuesday from 95 up to 66. now in maryland we want to move it back outside and show you the outer loop. no construction to report at this time. pretty much smooth sailing from 95 over to 270. and finally we will call it a wrap inside the district. we give you the suitland parkway where it meets south capitol street. nice an easy commute here. very, very quiet. andrea, back to you. thank you. we can t say howard didn t warn us about the heat an alert and as he said today will be worse than yesterday. some people tried to wrap up their holiday weekend on monday with a trip to the national mall for the final day of the smithsonian
up t will be a major problem. right now, apparently it doesn t appear, we just don t know whether or not this was weather-related, the power issue that they were having. we know crews are telling me just a little while ago that they have been able it replace a cable that somehow able to replace a cable that somehow burned underneath the roadway. it will be a couple of hours before they are able to finish that. what we are hearing is 1326 customers without power. that was last night when it was initially reported. they hope to have it restored by about 10:00 this morning being hopefully sooner t just depends on how the process goes. total though, this is what the problem is. whether or not these are all weather-related is certainly going to be very dangerous. over 2,000 customers for pepco that are without power total. that is about 1900 here in d.c. alone, about 10 in montgomery county and 126 in prince george s county. now, virginia dominion is reporting some outages, 307
today but the next several days. yesterday s daytime high, 99 degrees. we ll do a degree or bet are today with no sign of a cool- off until thursday or friday. 79degrees at reagan national. dulles at 71. setting the stage for what will become a very hot day today. with afternoon temperatures once again soaring into the triple digits or at least potentially the triple digits. there is your satellite-radar. cloud cover not to be seen. this area of high pressure will not move any time soon. as long as it is sticking around being our weather will stay not only hot but very try around here. in addition to the code red air advisory, today we have a heat advisory. that is just a warning that temperature combined with humidity will feel like about 105 later this afternoon. so take warning. it will be very hot around here this afternoon. more details in just a minute. back to you. thank you. we ll talk more about the record heat wave along the east coast. from here in the nation s