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