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before everybody gets their power back. good evening, i'm jim vance. >> i'm doreen gentzler. the majority of those without power are in montgomery county. and it could be until friday before everybody has their power back on. we have team coverage tonight. jackie bensen is in bethesda where a number of traffic signals are in the dark. craig melvin is in rockville. hi, craig. >> reporter: hey, doreen. trying to get the power back on sooner than friday. and to do that they have amassed a small out of state army. check out the trucks behind me. dozens of trucks in from places like ohio ...

start. right now not so good on the roads. we will talk about the traffic lights that are not working. what we have, this is how the numbers break down. 203 in montgomery county. 50 intersections we will have police out there directing traffic, helping alleviate the congestion and problems and condition fusion. the rest of it is on you. use caution and courtesy and treat them as a four-way stop. on 270, nice and quiet from father hurley to the split. on 66 eastbound traffic is moving well past centreville to inside the beltway. 395, if you are making your way from 495 to crossing the...

trouble commuters will face this morning. good morning to view. >> good morning. what could be commuting chaos for drivers, this is the scene drivers will encounter at five dozen intersections across the county. police are directing traffic. use those as four-way stops. at other intersections, police are advising people to be careful because police will not be at every intersection. they tell us that you should proceed cautiously. there are about 150 intersections that are still in the dark this morning. the good news is we have seen some neighboring lights come back on line this mor...

pretty much everywhere else is he in the 60s. 67 in baltimore, 63 at dulles airport. 63 ocean city and winchester virginia. here's a look at the satellite radar. not a bad picture to show you. it indicates high pressure controlling most of the weather in the mid-atlantic and the northeast. once you travel southward, that's where you'll encounter rain showers and clouds. but that remains to our south, doesn't impact our area for today. we'll have a lot of sunshine. forecast for today looks like this. mostly sunny, another pleasant afternoon, high in the upper 80s to about 90 degrees w...

thousands of lines are still down. they lost four substations. the more damage in the neighborhood the longer it's going to take to get the lights back on. they have to get the trees off the line. >> think it's time the put lines underground? >> you know, when i lived in richmond, the lines were underground. never had a power outage. even under the worst ice conditions. >> europe is like that as well. the lines are underground. but the cost to do that would be astronomical. here this morning, good morning. low humidity still in place. still great weather from recovery efforts. right ...