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tonight. they re all across the country, people heading out to 4th of july celebrations much like the one about to start at the white house, president obama and the first lady hosting 1,200 service members and families for a bash cue, concert and fireworks. about barbecue, concert and fireworks. about 100,000 families in our area are spending their holiday in dark homes dealing with downed trees, but there is some good news tonight regarding recovery efforts from last friday s storm. both dominion virginia and pepco, the companies with the largest number of outages, have restored power to more than 90% of those who lost it. here are the latest numbers. pepco is down to just 36,800 customers without power, but more than 33,000 of those are in montgomery county alone. over in northern virginia dominion has just over 15,000 outages. as for our smaller utilities, bge still has 4,700 out in montgomery and possible while smeco, potomac, edison and nova have just a handful of ou