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ARLnow Daily Update: September 4, 2026 · ARLnow Daily Update

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  It's Friday, September 4th. This is the ARL Now Daily Update. We start with the weather.
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  Late Thursday night, the National Weather Service put Arlington, Falls Church and Alexandria under a severe thunderstorm warning cautioning that sixty mile an hour gusts could bring down trees and knock out power.
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  What arrived was worse. Gusts hit sixty to seventy miles an hour around midnight including a sixty-four mile an hour reading at Reagan National Airport.
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  Nearly twenty thousand Arlington homes and businesses lost power from Ballston to Fairlington. A flash flood warning ran until three in the morning, and crews reported downed wires and transformer fires.
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  As of three thirty this afternoon almost four thousand Dominion energy customers were still without power, and the utility says some may not be restored until around midnight.
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  County spokesperson Ryan Hudson called it a "Twenty-five year storm." Crews are clearing blocked roads first. Some traffic signals are still dark, and police say treat those as a four way stop. And it is not over.
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  For the second day in a row forecasters issued a severe thunderstorm watch covering Arlington and the wider Washington region in effect until nine tonight. Damaging gusts, hail and possibly a tornado are on the table.
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  Arlington Police are investigating an immigration arrest on Columbia Pike that left a man seriously hurt.
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  Jose Mejia Hernandez says masked federal immigration officers approached him on August eleventh and struck him with a stun gun as he fled.
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  His attorneys say he was later diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury and brain bleeding. Five members of Virginia congressional delegation backed the investigation today.
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  Homeland Security says he is undocumented and that officers used necessary force. Excavation for President Trump's proposed arch at Memorial Circle begins within two weeks.
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  The Interior Department announced the timeline Thursday for the two hundred fifty foot arch between the Lincoln memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.
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  Representative Don Beyer accused the administration of rushing the work before November's election saying concerns about traffic, emergency access and nearby flight paths remain unanswered.
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  A lawsuit from three veterans and an architectural historian argues Congress never authorized it. The Justice Department asked today that it be dismissed.
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  The Virginia League of Conservation voters honored Delegate Alfonso Lopez this week for bipartisan work requiring testing for so-called forever chemicals in the sludge spread on farmland.
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  Lopez chairs the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, and shared the award with Republican Senator Richard Stuart. The Arlington NAACP has set its next leadership election for Monday, November twenty-third.
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  President Delicia Davis has not said whether she will seek another term.
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  The branch also has its seventy-nineth annual Freedom Fund banquet on October seventeenth at George Mason's Arlington Campus, and a virtual candidate forum October fourteenth. Monday is Labor Day.
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  In Arlington all library branches and every community center except Long Bridge Aquatics and Fitness will be closed. Trash pickup runs as scheduled, the recycling center is closed, and meters are not enforced.
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  Metro runs a Sunday schedule, and most Arlington Transit routes are out of service. Something more cheerful at the Fashion Centre AT Pentagon City.
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  On Friday, September eleventh six architecture firms will build giant sculptures from roughly twenty thousand cans of food.
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  They stay up in the food court through September twenty-first, then everything goes to the Capital Area Food Bank.
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  Tomorrow morning about fifteen hundred shoppers are expected at the Interstate Sixty Six garage next to Washington Liberty High School for Arlington monthly flea market.
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  More than one hundred and fifty vendors seven to one, free admission and parking. It is the Arlington Civitan Club's largest fundraiser.
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  And voting is open in the ARLNow Reader's Choice Awards for best new restaurant in Arlington. Write ins welcome, and the poll closes in two weeks. This sponsored update is from Advance Arlington.
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  Arlington form of government is ninety-three years old, and the county will soon begin an internal assessment of whether it still fits.
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  On September ninth, Advanced Arlington hosts a discussion with leaders from Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax on how other forms of local government work. Attend at Lubber Run Community Center or by Zoom.
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  Registration is open. This sponsored update is from Lorraine Barclay Nordslinger. Today's listing of the day is Twenty-six O Four North Nelson Street in Arlington Riverwood neighborhood.
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  It is five bedroom, five bath mid-century modern home built in nineteen fifty-seven with a free form pool and fully fenced yard.
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  It is listed at two million one hundred ninety-five thousand dollars with open houses September twelfth and thirteenth. That's all for today. Thank you for listening