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monument, repair work could keep the landmark closed for years. we'll begin with the clean- up damage in fredericksburg, virginia, following another violent storm. good evening. i'm brian bolter. >> i'm shawn yancy. that storm left several people hurt and badly damaged several buildings and cars. fox 5's laura evans is following the story for us tonight. >> the washington area seems to have had a bull's eye on its back lately. the damage from sunday's storm in spotsylvania county is severe and we now know it was caused by a microburst. that was confirmed by the national weather ser...

mostly roof but the block structure of course collapsed. >> we noticed the hail first so it was big hail, golf bull size hail. the light started to flicker. the kids were on the floor practicing. so we have a spring floor main room and some rooms off to the side of it. we told the kids to sit in the middle of the floor while the powerrous out. then we saw the rain and it was coming side ways. the hail was really bad. then the rain was -- you couldn't even see outside. then it was completely sideways. it was really, really bad. last night's storms had a number of people worried more...

devastating as last week, but it did bring trees and branches into power lines causing some outages. here's how things stand right now. dominion customers got hit the hardest it seems, dominion reporting just under 10,000 outages this hour down from nearly 15,000 about one hour ago. pepco is reporting more than 1,800 outages all from tonight's storm. bg and e is reporting just under 100 outages in the washington area. we are tracking the trouble. let's head right to gwen tolbart in the fox 5 weather center. >> things have taken a lull in some areas, but the problem is our dew points ...

for everything happening coming into our warm, humid air mass across the region, causing things to fire up. we have a severe thunderstorm watch for the entire viewing area, in effect until 10. let's go to sentinel radarrings on max one for you here, you can see we have a little bit of an area to the south, just seems to be now like it is really firing up a lot. a little bit of upper level rotation, that definitely is worth watching and then as we take a closer look towards the northeast, we are talking about areas that definitely have hail alert s with them and a lot of storms have p...

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