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Power restored to more than 2,000 in McLean

The failure of two breakers led to a power outage in McLean, Virginia, on Tuesday.

At the height of the outage, more than 2,600 Dominion Energy customers were without power.

Dominion said at 10 a.m. that two breakers were down near Old Dominion Drive and Kirby Road.

Power crews restored power to all but a handful of customers shortly before noon.

Danger of letting kids spend too much time online

When the virtual school day is over, some kids might stay on digital devices for fun. But a Virginia child psychiatrist warns it's not good to let them surf the web or play video games for hours on end. "What's happening is that after time, they're not getting as much pleasure, and they have to spend longer and longer time seeming to get that pleasure," said Dr. Asha Patton-Smith, a child and adolescent psychiatrist with Kaiser Permanente who practices in Burke and Falls Church.
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