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busy day for emergency crews. fox 5's wisdom martin is in arlington, virginia, tonight to start us off. >> reporter: we're here at the dmv where the big winds were big problems here in arlington. hook over my shoulder here. you'll see that -- look over my shoulder and you'll see that a thin layer of the roof of the dmv was blown off about 1:00 today. it landed right in the drive- thru area. it was during business hours. there were people here. fortunately no one was hurt. we're also told that the building didn't sustain any other damage. you can see right here that it's lying on the ...

power and prince george's county has 755 outages. in northern virginia dominion power has more than 8400 customers in the dark tonight. bge reporting more than 6900 still in the dark. seems many people have to spend the weekend cleaning up from the storm damage while others are happy to get home after roadblocks showed up during the rush hour tonight. we go live to ken with what it looked like. >> reporter: looked crazy everywhere you looked around the washington area. the winds may be gone for now but not before it left behind a trail of destruction. take a look at this massive tr...

of a flame. and some kind of sulfur smell similar to what you heard about in maryland. at that point we are not sure whether he called 911 immediately or went out and flagged down an officer but chief kathy lennier of the metropolitan police picked up the story. >> the employee indicated they had a package described similar in nature to the packageses that were recovered yesterday in maryland. the package was not opened by the employee. however, the package had been described as popping, smoking, and with a brief blast of fire and then it went out, extinguishing itself. there were no...

and splitting the cost, renting a van and just driving it to their destination. reporting live at reagan national, i'm lindsey mastis. >> and lindsey, you were standing trying to get back here. where were you? >> reporter: i was in st. louis. my family is from that area and my husband's family and they said we couldn't get a flight back here until thursday. that's four days of work that i would miss. so we decided to rent a car, and we got back last night. >> well we are glad to have you back here with our holiday crew for the next few days. thanks, lindsey. and before you leave the ...

closer to 11:00. we're still stuck with big winds later tonight. as we go through the day tomorrow, pausing this at 9:00 in the morning, you can see between 20 and 30 and in some spots still 40-mile-an-hour winds. but it does look like it gets much better tomorrow evening. prepare for another windy day. of course what we have to talk about next is, we missed out on the blizzard. we came this close to it. but why was it such hard forecast to get nailed down? we're going to talk a little bit about that and show you some staggering snow totals coming up in just a few minutes. brian and ...