it will now slowly diminish and into an old fashioned a low pressure and if it is accurate, could be a system that bring rain. but that is on the horizon for us to examine. meantime, we are the circulation and pressure keeping the skies clear. thank you. from hundreds of thousands power to homes that have almost totally swallowed floodwaters, the damage is significant. obvious risk, crews have been on the move today. isaac has been downgraded to storm but not before havoc on the gulf coast. it has been a day of water rescues and worry. the beauty of living so close the water on countless residents along the gulf coast. hurricane is that blasted calling region, damage from the panhandle to texas. the levees built after katrina appear to be as a shed. but residents just to the south of new orleans suffered the worst. were pulledhers by water rescue teams. this is a god damn shame. lived here 53 years and is the first time to see something like this. this is a shame. even
p, like yesterday. it is 69 in the district, 63 in gaithersburg, 62 in winchester, 63 in 73 in lexington park. have clouds with a few here and there. t rain, nuisance showers today. temperatures well below average this time of year. highs near 80 degrees. a few degrees warmer tomorrow, cloudy, if a few isolated storms through wednesday,. now to lisa baden. not muster knockabout. overnight construction has been cleared away. travel times in our favor along interstate 95. anybody heading northbound on fromooks good fredericksburg into dale city, minutes from dale city to the beltway. 95 traffic approaching springfield in this picture. and a pretty good run in prince county, along 495, and 270. the american legion bridge tysons and bethesda, no the greenway or the toll roads either. back to you. thank you. famed movie director tony scott is dead. jumped to his death sunday afternoon off a los angeles bridge. u.s. coast guard said that a was found inside the director scar. he d
we want to start talking about power number this morning. absolutely. almost 50,000 in the d.c. area still don t have electricity. right now pepco reports 21,000 customers are without power and 14,000 are without air conditioning this morning. bge reporting 11,000 people in our area that do not have electricity. novec reporting 32 outages and smeco down to about 600. the heat is not over yet. no, no, we have couple of days to go. and heat-related illnesses is what we re going to focus on today, doing anything to stay cool, stay hydrated. we have a heat advisory. it starts at noon and goes until 8:00 p.m. the heat index will be from 100 to 105 degrees. sweltering heat yet again. we re not ramping done, we re gearing up. the wind out of the southwest pretty light right now. about 5 miles per hour. some areas by 9 a.m. could be close to 90, 84 to 89 degree, partly sunny, warm and muggy conditions. by the time we get to noontime, 93 to 97 degrees the temperature. it s g
starting to wind down here. you can see they are down in southwestern portions of fairfax county in prince william county and they will continue to move to the south and east at 25 miles an hour. there are no longer any severe thunderstorm warnings. we had those for the last couple hours. but as they continue to die down we will cool off in the temperatures. but i just updated my numbers for the next couple days and we are going up. i ll have the updated numbers for you and let you know when the next chance for storms are coming up. now to breaking news in northwest washington. four people shot tonight. the bullets aimed at a courtyard full of people watching a small fireworks show. jackie bensen has our report. reporter: police say the four victims were part of a group standing together near shopping center on first street northwest when someone opened fire on them. two victims ran to the unit block of gallatin street northwest. it happened as fireworks many of them larg
other numbers have that at 35 and smeco is down to just over 200 customers. virginia dominion power is thanking canadian crews. the president of hydro one will be in virginia to meet with virginia dominion power. the meeting is set for 6:30. in all, virginia power has restored service to 95% of the 1 million customers whose service was disrupted by friday s storm. federal government offices are open, but employees can opt out for unscheduled leave or unscheduled telework. only two d.c. public schools are closed today. they are ferebee hope and winston. montgomery college is closed. montgomery county public schools will release a full list of closures at 6:00 this morning. in fairfax county, eight schools still closed. they are annandale terrace element raeyt school, beech tree elementary, spring hill, mantua elementary school, and as well, stuart high school, wakefield forest elementary school, westlawn elementary and dunmory center. we ll have a full scroll at the bottom o