in springfield on our camera. if you re planning to head on to 395, it s going to be pretty much the same. looking like this. pockets of congestion. we can deal with that, especially with the rough week we ve had. now let s go to our next live shot, this time to 395 over in the landmark area. in old town alexandria, some of the signal lights are out because of a power outage. you may or may not find police directing traffic so treat them as a four-way stop. we ll end with a live look on the north side of town. no problems to report in college park or 270 coming down from clarksburg. back to you. thanks, monika. tommy branch was convicted of beating thomas maslin severely and leaving him for dead. branch will spend up to 30 years in prison for that crime if jurors have their way. a jury found him guilty of the brutal assault against maslin. maslin was robbed and then beatenned with an aluminum baseball bat near eastern market last summer as he was trying to walk home fro
boarded a cooling bus for evaluation. metro has suspended all weekend track work so they can inspect the rails and there are some other major service changes that people need to know about. green line service is suspended between ft. totten and pg plaza. we are providing shuttle bus service to bridge the gap for our customers and this is also causing delays on all of our lines. we issued a speed restriction on all above ground stations and tracks just to ensure out of an abundance of caution there are no other incidents this evening. reporter: now witnesses say the train cars that derailed actually came in contact with the tunnel walls and that is probably what prevented them from turning over completely and causing even more serious injuries to the passengers. so far no serious injuries were reported. brian? still no word what caused the derailment, but metro workers were seen inspecting the rails late this afternoon. joining us by phone is metro spokesman dan stessel.
horror stories. we haven t used those up yet? reporter: no, we haven t, derek. we are on the rockville silver spring line where pepco crews have come and gone without restoring power. in fact, workers told the residents they might be back later tonight. now for everyone who thought that underground lines that we ve talked so much about, that they might be the silver bullet, you ll want to consider the north potomac neighborhood of convince orchard knolls of quince orchard knolls. there the lines are underground and there is no visible sign of damage, yet their pavers not restored until a couple power was not restored until a couple of hours ago. today was enough. i just was done today and have been very emotional the whole day, crying and happy and we keep hearing a crew has been here but then a crew is not here and then the wrong crew is here. reporter: after seven agonizing days the power returned to this neighborhood, confidence in pepco did not. i explained to
warning in effect for tomorrow, all day saturday until 10 p.m. the heat index for today, yeah, check out these numbers, a lot of us in the upper 90s to 100. when you factor in the high humidity. this is a historic heatwave. this is our ninth straight day of at least getting to 95 degrees or higher. the first time in 141 years of record keeping this has happened. we ll probably get to 11 days because tomorrow we re into the 100-degree mark and sunday we ll be over 95 is our forecast. remember the hottest month was just last year in july around this time. so it s going to be off to a very hot start. what can we expect the rest of this evening? temperatures will be in the low 70s to lower 80s and the winds won t help us out a lot. we ll talk more about the heat tomorrow and the big storms for sunday. the heat is an extra unwelcome burden for nearly 100 people looking for a place to live because of a devastating fire in prince william county. the flames swept through the woodbr
bay as well because this whole line of showers and thunderstorms will be moving through. you can see things have calmed down at least from the perspective of our tower camera in northwest. just a few minutes ago that was blowing in the wind. we could hardly see the cars down on wisconsin because of all the rain, but right now that has moved on through. so we ve gotten dramatically better. nope the lightning in the distance, though. it s almost notice the lightning in the distance, though. it s almost nonstop. even if you were back out to the west. we were just talking to will thomas out in fauquier county in darnton, he s still seeing constant lightning warrenton. he s still seeing constant lightning back out to the east and that will continue probably the next hour or so. this lightning will get on the eastern shore and we ll still be seeing it. we won t be hearing it. look at one of the transformers blowing right now with probably some of the wind and maybe potentially