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highs around the 90 degree mark. no storms for your saturday to worry about. driving down to the beaches, a little shower at the coastline today. there's your sunday planner as well. a really nice day in and around the metropolitan area. only chance for showers tomorrow come up in the mountains of west virginia. the highs up in the 80s once again. that's the latest on the forecast. let's go back to the news. >> communities across the region are cleaning up from those severe storms this morning. one of the hardest hit is a series of apartment complexes in bladensburg. >> roofs were ri...

thousands in our area are waking up in the dark after strong storms knocked out power. at one point close to 50,000 people were without power. >> pepco reporting that 41,000. bge and dominion power are reporting around 100 outages each. >> we have scorcher of days, then severe storms to top it off. >> it was crazy yesterday. >> i know. >> that was three days in a row 95 or higher. we made 97 yesterday before the storms really started to roar in. not a drop at my place downtown last night and only a trace at national airport. meanwhile, only a couple of minutes away driving time, it w...

building was left standing. no firefighters were injured, and just one nearby home was evacuated. neighbors, students and parents at dawn, as school gathered for hours to watch the fire burn. >> many people like rick kramer have lived in the neighborhood for decades. >> we would sit out here on the back porch and when the wind was right, you could actually smell the whiskey that they were brewing and bottling mayor. -- they were bottling there. >> the dump it over into a big vat and you could smell it all over the neighborhood. >> the seagram's plant was built in the early 1900's and...