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without power for the last 30 hours? >> it was -- it's terrible. [ laughing ] >> it's terrible. >> reporter: the birds may have been singing in dc where a pole snapped and lines came down. neighbors were singing too. >> i think it's outrageous. it's pretty barbaric. it doesn't seem right we're without electricity. >> reporter: pepco is working on that . gaithersburg monday evening a convoy of workers from the northeast to midwest, 350 of them with miles behind and work ahead. >> now we're down here. >> reporter: what are you going to be able to do for us? >> get lights on. that's wha...

>> breaking news in the case. the buried secrets in arlington. the details on how many graves are lost. and a consumer investigation of macdonald. get ready for d.c's real housewives. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- live and in hd, this is abc 7 news at 11:00. the most extensive power problems since hurricane isabelle. tens of thousands remain without power tonight. numerous traffic light outages have led to a nightmare. it turned it dangerous in montgomery county as two people were rushed to the hospital. jennifer donelan is live in the distri...

hammered. at last word, the utility had 251,000 customers without power. most of them are in montgomery county. dominion is dealing with about 10 thundershower outages in the northern virginia. bge has just under 30,000 outages. a majority are in anne arundel county. and so we will talk live to pepco executives in just a few minutes. well, the violent storm is being blamed for a crane collapse in montgomery county. it toppled at the waste transfer station located at 16101 frederick road in rockville. the crane is used to put boxcars on the rails and police say the equipment is comp...

responsible for knocking out power to a lot of homeowners. the barker family is left in the dark without air conditioning. a refrigerator or water pressure. >> we're in unusual circumstances, as when power goes out here. we have nothing because we're on septic so we need electric power. we can't flush our toilets, we have no water. >> reporter: most of the businesses at potomac place shopping center in potomac have no electric power at lunch time, including star buck. safeway used generator power to get some of its lights on. >> a little like shopping by candlelight. >> reporter: hom...

ridiculous. >> rigby said pepco will not distribute ice this time around an he suggested that people, uncomfortable with multiple days of power should consider staying with friends, family or in a motel. the storm damage is widespread. wigby compared it to tropical storm isabelle and this winter's blizzard in terms of the scale of response. all of pepco's 185 crews are on 12-hour shifts. 350 more crews are heading in from as far as ohio to help. they will set up camp at the montgomery county fairgrounds. downed trees are the biggest challenge so far. pepco says the washington area am...