here it is just 11:00 in the morning. and we have hit 90. and it s in the upper 80s in prince george s county, montgomery, arlington, fairfax county upper 80s to near 90 degrees. not much relief by the bay or even at the beaches there. it s in the upper 80s to near 90 degrees. we don t have much wind, as well. we have calm winds around the region. as a result, we will have air stagnation this afternoon and the pollution will be building and we will have unhealthy air quality by mid-afternoon. certainly anyone with a heart or respiratory ailment needs to stay inside. a deep area of high pressure is pushing over the region and giving us a hot afternoon. we ll have our temperatures reaching near 100 degrees by mid-afternoon with hazy sunshine and it will feel like 100 to 105. we ll take a look at relief on the way as we head towards the weekend. that will be in just a couple minutes, barbara. come on in here, tom, thanks a lot. with the temperatures rising towards the triple
photo. some question now if the congressman can keep his job. the picture was of me and i sent it. i m deeply sorry for the pain this has caused my wife, huma, and our family. new york congressman anthony weiner admits no one hacked his twitter account. he sent a lewd photo of himself to a college student. then panicked and lied when he realized he accidentally posted it publicly. turns out, it wasn t his first time sexting. for the past few years i have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over facebook, twitter and occasionally on the phone with women i have met online. reporter: andrew brightbart has broke the story and has more photos he claims are weiner. nbc have not verified them. only after a sitting congressman had claimed that his computer system was invaded by a hack. reporter: how damaging is this to democrats? an embarrassment level that is hard for him to maintain public trust. are yif you are a donor, are jumping to write him
reporter: this happened around 5:30 this morning, very early in the morn when neighbors who live inside the apartment building heard someone screaming and banging on doors, crying for help. make its called 911. when police arrived on the scene, that s when they found three people suffering from stab woundser two women, one man. now one of the women and the man were taken to the hospital by ambulance. they are considered to have serious injuries at this point. so they were all suffering, we re told, by what appears to be stab wounds or suffering from stab wounds. a second woman pronounced dead on the scene inside that third floor apartment. in terms of what happened, police are still trying to piece all of that together. what they do say, though, they don t believe this is a random ability of violence. they believe all three people knew each other, that they were connected in some way, although they re not saying exactly how. and they re also saying that they are not looking
for a couple days now, but they are making progress. the replacement cable that they re putting underground is over a block long, but they are about ready to start to reinn reenergize that cable. their hope here is that they will have the majority of customers back online with electricity by noon. and, again, as i, let me step out of the way here and i ll show you the scene behind me here. that s basically where this cable went wrong. there were six feeder cables. one of them went bad on tuesday evening. that created a snowball effect. before it was all over, they lost three feeders and things just kept getting worse. this is some of the duck that the cable was in. you can smell that this was burned. reporter: extreme heat and extreme demand for power due to the heat wave. proved to be too much for these pepco feeder cables. crews have been working around the clock to restore electricity and got it back on briefly wednesday night, but then it went out again. it came bac