Millions without power as heat wave hits eastern US

The eastern U.S. on Monday was hammered by the fourth consecutive day of stifling heat after a weekend of violent storms that killed 15 people and knocked out power to millions.

More than 2 million people were still without power Monday morning, with the biggest concentration of outages in the Washington, D.C. area.

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"Hot and hotter will continue to be the story from the plains to the Atlantic Coast for the next few days," the National Weather Service said.

Monday morning brought another grim challenge when many embarked on a difficult commute over roads with darkened stoplights.

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To alleviate congestion around Baltimore and Washington, federal and state officials gave many workers the option of staying home Monday. Federal agencies will be open in Washington, but non-emergency employees have the option of taking leave or working from home. Maryland's governor also gave state workers wide leeway for staying out of the office.

There were more than 500 signal outages in Maryland on Sunday afternoon, including more than 400 in hard-hit Montgomery County outside the nation's capital, according to the State Highway Administration. There were 100 signal outages in northern Virginia late Sunday afternoon, and 65 roads were closed, although most were secondary roads.

"If you have to drive or need to drive, leave yourself a lot of extra time," Maryland State Highway Administration spokesman Charlie Gischlar said. "There's going to be delays."

All 86 Metro subway stations in the Washington area were open, but delays were possible Monday because power was being routed through the system to serve some areas where power was not being supplied by commercial utilities, spokesman Dan Stessel said. Some stations in Montgomery County were running on backup power, he said, meaning escalators may not work ? bad news for commuters braving the stifling heat. Metro bus riders were expected to experience significant delays.

'Sultry week'
And it was set to remain unseasonably sweltering, with heat warnings continuing into Monday after hundreds of daily high temperature records were broken throughout the region over the weekend, the National Weather Service said.

Temperatures approached or exceeded 100 degrees in many storm-stricken areas, and utility officials said the power will likely be out for several more days.

The heat was set to linger over the East Coast for a few days at least, Weather.com reported.

"High pressure in the upper atmosphere will shift back to the central states, focusing the core of above-average temperatures over that region of the country eastward into mid-Atlantic,? it reported. "Minneapolis, Minn., St. Louis, Mo., Chicago, Ill. and Washington, D.C. are just a few of the cities that should prepare for a sultry week ahead."

Emergencies were declared in Maryland, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, D.C., on Saturday because of damage from storms that unleashed hurricane-force winds across and a 500-mile stretch of the mid-Atlantic region.

Storm-hit East could face power outages for days

The storms' rampage came as sweltering temperatures topped 100 Fahrenheit in several southern cities, including Atlanta, where the mercury hit an all-time record of 106 degrees on Saturday and reached 105 on Sunday.

Over two dozen cities across 10 states set or tied all-time record high temperatures on Friday and Saturday, including Columbia, South Carolina; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Raleigh, North Carolina.

Severe weather was blamed for 17 deaths since Friday, The Associated Press reported, most from trees falling on homes and cars. Meanwhile, Coast Guard officials say they have suspended the search for a man who disappeared early Saturday while boating during the storm off Maryland.

On Sunday night in North Carolina, a 77-year-old man was killed when strong winds collapsed a Pitt County barn where he was parking an all-terrain vehicle, authorities said. In neighboring Beaufort County, a couple was killed when a tree fell on the golf cart they were driving. Officials said trees fell onto dozens of houses, and two hangars were destroyed at an airport in Beaufort County. The damage was mostly blamed on straight-line winds.

Elsewhere, at least six of the dead were killed in Virginia, including a 90-year-old woman asleep in her bed when a tree slammed into her home. Two young cousins in New Jersey were killed when a tree fell on their tent while camping. Two were killed in Maryland, one in Ohio, one in Kentucky and one in Washington.

For survivors, it was a challenge to stay cool over the weekend.

The temperature hit 99 at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport just outside the nation's capital. With no air conditioning, officials urged residents to check on their elderly relatives and neighbors. It was tough to find a free pump at gas stations that did have power, and lines of cars snaked around fast-food drive-thrus.

"If we don't get power tonight, we'll have to throw everything away," Susan Fritz, a mother of three, said grimly of her refrigerator and freezer. Fritz came to a library in Bethesda, Md., so her son could do school work. She charged her phone and iPad at her local gym.

Power crews from as far away as Florida and Oklahoma were on their way to the mid-Atlantic region to help get the power back on and the air conditioners running again. Even if people have generators, the gas-run devices often don't have enough power to operate an air conditioner.

Free ice
And power restoration was spotty: Several people interviewed by The Associated Press said they remained without power even though the lights were on at neighbors' homes across the street. In Maryland, Gov. O'Malley promised he would push utility companies to get electricity restored as quickly as possible.

"No one will have his boot further up Pepco's and BGE's backsides than I will," O'Malley said Sunday afternoon, referring to the two main utilities serving Maryland.

In Waldorf, Md., Charles County emergency officials handed out free 40-pound bags of ice to anyone who needed them. Among the takers was Ann Brown, 47, of Accokeek, Md., who had stayed in a hotel Saturday night because her house was without power.

She went to a cookout in Upper Marlboro, Md., on Saturday after family members decided to cook all the food in the freezer rather than let it go bad.

"Whatever they had, that's what we ate, and it was great," Brown said.

Whether she makes the commute to work Monday will depend entirely on how comfortable the office is.

"If they don't have power, I'm not going. But if they have power, yeah, I'm going in, to be in the air conditioning all day," she said.

The Associated Press, Reuters, NBC News, msnbc.com staff and weather.com contributed to this story.

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Eastern US storms kill 13, cut power to millions

Frances Lukens looks at the tangle of boards and tree limbs piercing her living room ceiling in Lynchburg, Va. on Saturday, June 30, 2012 after a huge oak tree fell directly on the house during a storm the previous night. (AP Photo/The News & Advance, Parker Michels-Boyce)

Frances Lukens looks at the tangle of boards and tree limbs piercing her living room ceiling in Lynchburg, Va. on Saturday, June 30, 2012 after a huge oak tree fell directly on the house during a storm the previous night. (AP Photo/The News & Advance, Parker Michels-Boyce)

Mike Wolfe's pick-up truck lies under a fallen tree in front of his house after a severe storm in Falls Church, Va., Saturday, June 30, 2012. Wolfe's daughter Samanth Wolfe created the for sale sign as a joke. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Lighting flashes Saturday morning, June, 30, 2012 in Hebron Md.. Violent storms swept across the eastern U.S., killing at least nine people and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands on a day that temperatures across the region are expected to reach triple-digits. (AP photo by Salisbury Daily Times, Kristin Roberts)

A fallen tree blocks the sidewalk and damages a park vehicle in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, Saturday, June 30, 2012. Violent evening storms following a day of triple-digit temperatures wiped out power to more than 2 million people across the eastern United States. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

A tree toppled by severe storms sits atop a car in Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood on Saturday, June 30, 2012 in Washington. More than two million people across the eastern U.S. lost power after violent storms and two people died, including a 90-year-old woman asleep in bed when a tree slammed into her home, a police spokeswoman said Saturday. (AP Photo/Jessica Gresko)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Millions across the mid-Atlantic region sweltered Saturday in the aftermath of violent storms that pummeled the eastern U.S. with high winds and downed trees, killing at least 13 people and leaving 3 million without power during a heat wave.

Power officials said the outages wouldn't be repaired for several days to a week, likening the damage to a serious hurricane. Emergencies were declared in Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, the District of Columbia and Virginia, where Gov. Bob McDonnell said the state had its largest non-hurricane outage in history, as more storms threatened. "This is a very dangerous situation," the governor said.

In West Virginia, 232 Amtrak passengers were stranded Friday night on a train that was blocked on both sides by trees that fell on the tracks, spending about 20 hours at a rural station before buses picked them up. And in Illinois, storm damage forced the transfer of dozens of maximum-security, mentally ill prisoners from one prison to another.

In some Virginia suburbs of Washington, emergency 911 call centers were out of service; residents were told to call local police and fire departments. Huge trees fell across streets in Washington, leaving cars crunched up next to them, and onto the fairway at the AT&T National golf tournament in Maryland. Cell phone and Internet service was spotty, gas stations shut down and residents were urged to conserve water until sewage plants returned to power.

The outages were especially dangerous because they left the region without air conditioning in an oppressive heat. Temperatures soared to highs in the mid-90s in Baltimore and Washington, where it had hit 104 on Friday.

"I've called everybody except for the state police to try to get power going," said Karen Fryer, resident services director at two assisted living facilities in Washington. The facilities had generator power, but needed to go out for portable air conditioning units, and Fryer worried about a few of her 100 residents who needed backup power for portable oxygen.

The stranded train passengers spent more than 20 hours on the train after they stopped around 11 p.m. on Friday at a station near rural Prince, W.Va.

Brooke Richart, a 26-year-old teacher from New York City, said she was among the stuck passengers. To pass the time, she read half a book, talked to the people around her and took walks outside the train.

"We tried to walk up the side of the mountain to see if anyone could get cell service. We didn't have cell service the entire time we were down there," she said.

Amtrak spokesman Steve Kulm said the passengers were picked up by buses, which departed by 8:20 p.m. Saturday. The buses will travel to the stations along the original route, dropping off passengers along the way.

The stranded passengers on the train bound from New York to Chicago had lights, air conditioning and food the entire time, Kulm said. He wasn't aware of any injuries or health problems.

Richart was traveling to her hometown of Cincinnati. She said the ride had mostly been smooth, with a few delays, before they stopped in Prince. The storm had already passed through by the time they stopped.

She said the train attendants and her fellow passengers were extremely nice ? watching each others' children and sharing food.

She said her family had a hard time figuring out where she in conversations with Amtrak customer service representatives. But by the time the buses arrived, her father had also come to pick her up and drive her the rest of the way.

"It gets a little trying," she said. "Thankfully we could go in and out of the train because we were there so long. If you wanted to stretch your legs or take a walk, you could do that."

The storm did damage from Indiana to New Jersey, although the bulk of it was in West Virginia, Washington and suburban Virginia and Maryland. At least six of the dead were killed in Virginia, including a 90-year-old woman asleep in bed when a tree slammed into her home. Two young cousins in New Jersey were killed when a tree fell on their tent while camping. Two were killed in Maryland, one in Ohio, one in Kentucky and one in Washington.

Illinois corrections officials transferred 78 inmates from a prison in Dixon to the Pontiac Correctional Center after storms Friday night caused significant damage, Department of Corrections spokeswoman Stacey Solano said.

No one was injured, Solano said. Generators are providing power to the prison, which is locked down, confining remaining inmates to their cells.

Utility officials said it could take at least several days to restore power to all customers because of the sheer magnitude of the outages and the destruction. Winds and toppled trees brought down entire power lines, and debris has to be cleared from power stations and other structures. All of that takes time and can't be accomplished with the flip of a switch.

"This is very unfortunate timing," said Myra Oppel, a spokeswoman for Pepco, which reported over 400,000 outages in Washington and its suburbs. "We do understand the hardship that this brings, especially with the heat as intense at is. We will be working around the clock until we get the last customer on."

Especially at risk were children, the sick and the elderly. In Charleston, W.Va., firefighters helped several people using walkers and wheelchairs get to emergency shelters. One of them, David Gunnoe, uses a wheelchair and had to spend the night in the community room of his apartment complex because the power ? and his elevator ? went out. Rescuers went up five floors to retrieve his medication.

Gunnoe said he was grateful for the air conditioning, but hoped power would be restored so he could go home.

"It doesn't matter if it's under a rock some place. When you get used to a place, it's home," he said.

More than 20 elderly residents at an apartment home in Indianapolis were displaced when the facility lost power due to a downed tree. Most were bused to a Red Cross facility to spend the night, and others who depend on oxygen assistance were given other accommodations, the fire department said.

Others sought refuge in shopping malls, movie theaters and other places where the air conditioning would be turned to "high."

In Richmond, Va., Tracey Phalen relaxed with her teenage son under the shade of a coffee-house umbrella rather than suffer through the stifling heat of her house, which lost power.

"We'll probably go to a movie theater at the top of the day," she said.

Phalen said Hurricane Irene left her home dark for six days last summer, "and this is reminiscent of that," she said.

Others scheduled impromptu "staycations" or took shelter with friends and relatives.

Robert Clements, 28, said he showered by flashlight on Friday night after power went out at his home in Fairfax, Va. The apartment complex where he lives told his fiancee that power wouldn't be back on for at least two days, and she booked a hotel on Saturday.

Clements' fiancee, 27-year-old Ann Marie Tropiano, said she tried to go to the pool, but it was closed because there was no electricity so the pumps weren't working. She figured the electricity would eventually come back on, but she awoke to find her thermostat reading 81 degrees and slowly climbing. Closing the blinds and curtains didn't help.

"It feels like an oven," she said.

At the AT&T National in Bethesda, Md., trees cracked at their trunks crashed onto the 14th hole and onto ropes that had lined the fairways. The third round of play was suspended for several hours Saturday and was closed to volunteers and spectators. Mark Russell, the PGA Tour's vice president of rules and competition, couldn't remember another time that a tour event was closed to fans.

"It's too dangerous out here," Russell said. "There's a lot of huge limbs. There's a lot of debris. It's like a tornado came through here. It's just not safe."

The outages disrupted service for many subscribers to Netflix, Instagram and Pinterest when the storm cut power to some of Amazon Inc.'s operations. The video and photo sharing services took to Twitter and Facebook to update subscribers on the outages. Netflix and Pinterest had restored service by Saturday afternoon.

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Associated Press writers Vicki Smith in Morgantown, W.Va.; Larry O'Dell in Richmond, Va.; Pam Ramsey in Charleston, W.Va.; Norman Gomlak and Jonathan Drew in Atlanta; Jeffrey McMurray in Chicago; Doug Ferguson in Bethesda, Md.; and Rebecca Miller in Philadelphia contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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A few weeks ago I blogged about my new Smooth Fitness Treadmill & My Weightloss Journey?and I wanted to give a brief update on how things are coming thus far. I have been doing my best to become the most familiar with my machine and I think I haven?t quite nailed it as of yet. I have tried a few of the programs that are offered on the treadmill, but some of them are very challenging and haven?t worked in my favor. I?m sure I could get a great workout using them properly, but it?s something that I will have to build up to and gradually add over time. I will say that this machine is very quiet even while sprinting or running. I also experienced having to using the emergency feature because I slipped while sprinting on the machine yesterday. This is a great feature because an accident can happen to anyone and if you have the emergency clip on your clothes properly it will stop the machine completely which will prevent you from injuring yourself.

I also have an elliptical and now a treadmill and I will admit that the treadmill is by far my top pick simply because it?s easier on my knees especially being that I suffer pain in my right knee from time to time due to an injury that happened a few years back. I will admit that this week has been a bit rough for me because my family and I will be leaving for Disney World on Sundy, but I have been working out double time to get in more than enough workouts on the treadmill because I?m so determined to get this weight off.?I forgot to mention that I appreciate the fact that this treadmill has a fan especially right now in the summer months here in San Antonio and also the fact that my little home gym is located upstairs which means the heat rises, but the fan definitely is a PLUS!

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Home ? National News ? Comments invited on new tax rules, PM to take final call

New Delhi, June 30? The government Friday issued draft guidelines on the General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR), inviting comments from different stakeholders and clarified that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will take final call on the issue after receiving feedback.

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) issued the draft guidelines inviting comments and suggestions from different stakeholders.

A clarificatory note released by the Prime Minister?s Office said that Manmohan Singh has not seen the draft guidelines and would take a final call on the issue after receiving feedback from the stakeholders.

Distancing itself from the guidelines, the PMO said it was issued from the ?official level of the finance ministry? and it has no approval from the prime minister, who now holds finance portfolio following Pranab Mukherjee?s quitting to contest the July 19 presidential election.

?The GAAR guidelines that have been put up on the government website from the official level of the finance ministry and shared with some stakeholders are only draft guidelines and have been put out for receiving wide-ranging feedback and for discussion purposes only,? the Prime Minister?s Office said.

?These have not been seen by the prime minister and will be finalised with the approval of the prime minister, who holds the finance portfolio, only after considering the feedback received,? it added.

The draft guidelines are put on the finance ministry and income tax department websites. Comments and suggestions on the issue have been invited till July 20, 2012.

The CBDT clarified that the proposed rules, which aims at checking loopholes in the taxation system and trace tax evaders, will be implemented from April 1, 2013.

Pranab Mukherjee had proposed the new rules in the union budget for 2012-13 presented in March.

However, implementation of the rules was deferred by a year following widespread protests from business community, especially overseas investors.

According to the guidelines, the foreign institutional investors (FIIs) would be exempt from the new rules. The controversial tax avoidance rules will not cover participatory notes, through which many foreign investors invest in India.

The guidelines also calls for a monetary threshold for implementation of GAAR.

?The committee feels that in order to avoid the indiscriminate application of the GAAR provisions and to provide relief to small taxpayers, there should be monetary threshold for invoking the GAAR provisions,? it said.

The draft guidelines have been prepared by a committee chaired by Director General of Income Tax (International Taxation).

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The Big Event: San Jose Earthquakes ready for sellout crowd at Stanford, matchup with L.A. Galaxy

The Earthquakes are a hot team and an even hotter ticket.

The Quakes' showdown with the rival Los Angeles Galaxy on Saturday night at Stanford Stadium has attracted a sellout crowd of 50,000 -- the largest turnout in club history for a nondoubleheader home game.

The pivotal MLS Western Conference contest has become one of the biggest Bay Area sporting events of the summer. Club president David Kaval beamed after practice this week.

"I think it's kind of tipping here in the Bay Area, the interest in soccer," said Kaval, whose team leads MLS with 33 points. "You've seen that in other places, like Seattle and in Portland and Philadelphia, and I think we're right on that wave."

It seems more like a tidal wave for this match, which will pit the defending MLS Cup champion Galaxy (6-8-2), with international aces David Beckham, Robbie Keane and Landon Donovan, against the Quakes (10-3-3), led by homegrown star Chris Wondolowski.

"It's the perfect storm," said Alexi Lalas, now an ESPN soccer analyst, of Saturday's matchup. The former national team player served as president and general manager for both clubs.

"Big rivalry, big stars, you have a home team that is doing very well and the recognition of that," Lalas added. "It's the summer. All those different things combined go into making an event like this a big success.

"It's an event. It's the place to be, if you will."

Kaval said he is still being inundated with

ticket requests, even though the match sold out a week ago.

"We could have sold 70,000 tickets if we had 70,000 seats," he said.

Wondolowski, who leads MLS with 13 goals, thinks the match could inspire people to come back for more.

"It's going to keep growing the sport," Wondolowski said. "Just to get that many people out there, I do believe (if) you get to one, you get hooked."

Soccer aficionados across the country are raving about the sellout crowd, which will be about five times the size of a typical turnout at the much smaller Buck Shaw Stadium, the Quakes' customary home.

"I think that for two MLS teams playing in Northern California to draw 50,000, and I know David Beckham is a part of it, it's fantastic," said Houston Dynamo coach Dominic Kinnear, a Fremont native and a former Quakes player and assistant. "I also think the season that the Quakes are having adds more to the game, but 50,000 in any country is a great crowd."

Last July 41,028 people watched the Quakes tie the New York Red Bulls in a thriller at Stanford Stadium. It whet the fans' appetite for another big event, boosting season ticket sales, Kaval said.

"They know that this is a great event." Kaval said. "We have the fireworks, a huge halftime show, a pregame event, the Epicenter (Fan Zone), the gourmet food trucks, all the different things that just create a huge event.

"Stanford is a good place to host a huge event."

The Galaxy, winners of three straight matches after a poor start, has played in front of sellout crowds in all of its MLS road games this season, including 60,860 at Montreal's Olympic Stadium.

MLS president Mark Abbott believes the league's rivalries are fueling growth and prosperity for the league.

"We see it in the Pacific Northwest. We see it out here in the East, and clearly one of the longtime rivalries that we've had in the league is between San Jose and the Galaxy that dates back to the inception of the league," he said. "As that rivalry has continued to grow, I think that we've been able to do things like what's happening on Saturday. It's a big, big game for both teams."

Of course the Quakes know that the Galaxy would be thrilled to crash the party.

"I said to our guys that the Galaxy is hot," coach Frank Yallop said. "They're going to come here and expect to win, and so we better be ready. If not, we're going to get beat."

The Quakes, who have a penchant for dramatic comebacks, overcame a 2-0 deficit to stun the host Galaxy 3-2 on May 23. Yallop wants a faster start this time.

"Like I mentioned to the guys today, 'Let's get the crowd right behind us with whatever we do, with energy and fight and scrap and obviously playing well," Yallop said.

Lalas disagrees with the skeptics who claim that pro soccer, unlike the World Cup or the Olympics, will always be a tough sell in this country.

"The constant comparing and contrasting, I understand it, but the fact is this league and this sport is here to stay," Lalas said. "There are dinosaurs out there who are going to die off like dinosaurs do.

"Soccer will continue to grow and to be a part of the landscape, both in terms of a sport and a business, and these events will be much more common than people realize. If people want to poo-poo it, that's fine. It's nothing new. We're soccer folks. We have very, very thick skins. We've been through the wars and we continue to fight the good fight."

Quakes forward Steven Lenhart grinned as he discussed the team's mindset in advance of the big match.

"It's the same as any other game," he said. "Love the support. Definitely feel that, but we're going to treat the game the same. But yeah, it's amazing that we sell it out, and it's an honor to play."

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