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now. good morning, everyone. welcome to nude 4 midday. i'm barbara harrison. it is tuesday, july 27th, 2010. utility crews continue to run into problems. this was a scene at old georgetown flowed win gait and bethesda. it was around 6:30. wires in the area began smoking forcing emergency crews to respond. just before eight, downed wires fought to fire at georgia and glen avenues in silver spring. it could take several more days to restore power to people around the washington area. they are reporting 130,000 people without power. bge is reporting just under 3,000 and dominion has...

partner companies will send in crews. they have 350 additional crews to add to the 185 that pepco normally has on hand. they will make their base of operations the gaithersburg fairground. the focus priority was to get the big things done first. the first priority to the get the wssc plant back on-line and take care of four substations that served tens of thousands of people. get those fix first. it is the like the blizzard. the small stuff comes last which is why he is talking hack the majority of people not coming on-line until wednesday, thursday and in some cases on friday. repor...

without power because of the storms. this is 45 westbound near georgia avenue during the storm. you can see the tree blocking all lanes. and then in the district, trees came falling down. we have team coverage of the storm this evening. let's begin with devon lucie in the weather service. >> reporter: you log onto petco.com or go under wusa9.com and go to our pepco power outage. i've got the latest there. watch how quickly these storms just raced towards washington. boom, they were here at 3:45. 70 miles per hour wind gusts is the highest we have seen. we'll have more on our forecast...

we will stay on top of it. now we go to richard lui in atlanta, tracking the day's other big stories, including iraqi day on wall street and severe weather in the gulf of mexico. richard? >> back to you in a little bit. i'm richard lui in for ali velshi. here's what we've got on the rundown for you. first off, war, law and politics, all swirling around an capitol hill today in twin hearings that we have been watching for david we trayous which just ended as well as for elena kagan. he is seeking the top post in afghanistan. talking about general david petraeus. she is seeking the top...

about his time with the agency. we want to get the latest on our weather. >> a beautiful start to the day. we have sunshine, it's burning bright across the area. we will see a nice rebound during the course of the afternoon. we had some light rain showers around here late yesterday. that's all pushed off to the north and east. that storm system really wrapping up as it pushes away. because of that we're still dealing with some winds out of the west and northwest. they continue to blow out there at about 10 to 15 miles per hour this morning. but that's really the worst of this forec...