Gonzalez. Tens of thousands of customers lost power. News4s Darcy Spencer is live oi u street more on the folks affected and what areas. Darcy . Reporter there is never a good day to lose power, but you defily dont want to lose it on a day like today. It is extremely hot out here. And you cant help but think about the people who are stuck inside without air conditioning. We are here on Georgia Avenue in n wthwest where power just restored to this intersection. There are many intersectionsfe afed by the power outage where there are no lights, and you have to treat that as a fourway stop. We want to show you a photo. This was a moment during the pou r outage. Yocan imagine how frightening it would be to be inside an elevator when the power goes out. D. C. Fire a ems were able to rescue numerous people who got trapped inde elevators when the lights went out earlier this afternoon. The outage is affecting also Washington Hospital center and Howard University hospital. D. C. Fire and ems sa
People to leave. 14 burglaries in four weeks. Almost between 9 00 a. M. And noon. Must wake up in the morning in a normal routine. Police are urging residents to activate alarms, look around as they leave each day. Thats what cracks the cases, someone calls and says i see a car i havent seen before. Another victim shows how the burglars got in. Hopping the fence and making a beeline for a window open slightly. They popped the screen and they were able to put an arm through and get the other latch. The bedry in disarray. They were quick and trapped a billow pillowcase. They filled up the pillowcase. In 15 minutes or less in such a hurry they dropped a pillowcase last week filled with stolen jewelry and other valuables. Maybe they crossed paths. Dropped to get out of the area. It was one of those instances. As word spreads residents are improving the lighting be locks and issue stalling Home Security systems and stepping up patrols. They hope a vigilant neighborhood will provide the tip
Was to have it in woodstock which is 60 miles north east of here. Woodstock, new york was a Bohemian Community and a lot of musicians lived there often on including bob dylan, the band, richie havens, van morrison, the organizers called their Company Woodstock ventures and they started looking for a place for their festival. They could not find a place in woodstock that was large enough. They found a property that might was down thehich road from woodstock but that fell through and out of desperation they found in middletown,ark near new york and it was very flat, kind of an interesting land, but it had Good Transportation access. They started building, they started advertising, the built artistses, they had creating art installations and everything was going smoothly until the locals caught wind of what they were doing and it was not going to be a 50,000 person folk festival after all, what they were promised. Jimi hendrix had been booked and nonfolk bands were hooked were booked very
Its 50 years ago today that Neil Armstrong took the giant leap to become the first man to walk on the moon. And coming up at 10. 30am, the travel show is in florida to meet the people who worked on that epic apollo 11 mission back in 1969. The government has advised uk ships to stay out of the area of the strait of hormuz for an interim period, after iran seized a british flagged tanker. The warning came after a meeting of the governments emergency committee, cobra, late last night. State media in tehran say the tanker, the stena impero, was involved in an accident with an iranian fishing boat before it was seized. The reports also claim the vessel had violated International Maritime rules. But the ships owner, the Swedish Company stena bulkt says the tanker was in full compliance with all navigation and international regulations. The foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, said the seizure was unacceptable and britains response would be considered but robust. Our correspondent simonjones repo
Just about 6 00. It is 6 00. It is 6 00. And the sun is starting to e. Thriank you sfor joining us. No relief from the summer heat d t. Thats right. Lauryn ricketts is tracking some rising temperatures for this sunday morning. Good morning, lauryn. Ood morning, guys. Yeah, we have a beautiful sunrise right now. Sun cing up just in about two minutes from now. Thats the official sunrise here in d. C. Around 6 04. Again looking like a beautiful start once again to your sunday and you can see its going to be a gorgeous start to this sunday morning. Now, temperatures on the mild side. Not too bad out there. 73 degrees. We have got that south wind 5 miles an hour. Midity at ptick in h times throughout the day today, but most of us very similar to yesterday. Temperatures will shoot right to around 90 degrees once again. So lets talk about the rain chances for today because we do have more ra chances for today. I know a few isolated showers popped up yesterday. We also have chances of rain hea