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sarah simmons. >> and i'm melanie alnwick. a break in the murder case in the district and the redskins head back to the practice field. a broken transformer is being blamed for another underground fire in the district. several explosions could be heard near the intersection of 14th and f. around 7:45 last night. that's a few blocks from the white house and it forced the evacuation from the w. hotel and the willard hotel and guests had to get out quickly. >> i saw police men running up the street and getting everybody off the street and the fire engine came and they started pulling ...

have pretty much returned to normal. just a couple cones that marked the site of this fire. you know, with all the storms we've been having and the downed power lines, people are asking why not have more underground infrastructure. we have a lot of it downtown. but underground infrastructure has its issues as well. yesterday evening a fire broke out on f street, outside the w and willard hotels. a flum of smoke shot high into the air. it did not prevent folks who were in the general area from getting quite a scare. >> we heard a series of five or six loud explosions that you could ki...

showers last night across west virginia fell apart. there's lots of little boundaries. we could fire up a few again moving into the shenandoah, as far east as frederick, maryland. this afternoon, warrenton, takes a crack at 83, mostly cloudy. dry and mostly cloudy st. mary's city, 85. we'll reach a high of 84 by afternoon. and i have the seven-day forecast coming up. >> all right. looks good. thank you, kim. investigators say they don't know what caused a transformer to explode in downtown d.c. last night. it forced emergency crews to evacuate nearby blocks, including two hotels. t...

>> reporter: in fact, only one aftershock may have just happened. maybe just a few minutes after the main quake. it went largely unnoticed. wjz complete coverage continues with meteorologist tim williams in the weather center. >> let's get more specific with the exact location of the epicenter of the quake. we're talking about an area that is right up the 270 corridor, where 119 meets. folks are very comfortable and familiar with the germantown area, just around gaithersburg. that area, of course, is the center. it was felt, as we have been told, as far south as virginia, as far we...

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