On all metro lines will be parked at the station. Metro says the closure will be a result of systemwide emergency safety inspections and this after monday ace cable fire near the Mcpherson Metro station. Employees have option for unscheduled leave or telework and d. C. Scars on tardiness and absent teeism will be excused today and heads up metro parking lot will be on an free. So passengers can catch buses or car pool. Lets begin now with the woman of the morning erin aaron i hope you got a lot of rest. I did. Just starting to pick up on roads. Weve been telling everyone all morning get an early start. That time is capped because were seeing really crowded roads 270 inbound and hov restrictions in place in virginia and maryland. How different is it this day than yesterday morning. The commute hit a lot earlier. Usually its 6 were starting and right now its full on congestion. Hov lanes though could get the commute going and car pool and everybody on board. Plan ahead best advice. Figure out how you get to work otherwise you would be paying a lot for uber and sit in traffic and sidebar before we get to traffic find good music this morning whether headphones in the bus or car you need a good jam. Many good jam. Relaxation music. Lets hear from you on twitter how you plan to get to work. This does a look at 50 inbound where traffic is slow. 410 as you make your way towards the beltway. Keep in mind new carlton were seeing typical delays earlier. Well look at cameras and show what you were up against. Mannasas crowded and 95 northbound entire stretch stafford up is eeing a lot of packed up traffic. Southbound traffic towards the spur seeing a lot of heavy conditions. And youre basically parked knowledge of that Point Frederick by the truck now over to maps. If you normally take metro and youre trying to figure out alternate form of transportation from the rail line heres what you can do. Metro bus is offering extra service. However that is from the pentagon out to Franklin Square. Anden mind full youll see crowded conditions picking up. Metro access normal squem and metro parking lots allison said earlier theyre free if you want to car fool or hop on a bus. Ride on in maryland had regular puss and all trains will stop at green belt and stop and operate as usual to and from union station. Several openings for vir commuters vre regular service and you can take arlington connector and dash is offering off peak service as well. Keep if mind uber tapping surming pricing at 3. 9 times still a significant amount they have a promote and lift. Rent a car forever the day. Lose look a lot around as we see additional congested areas around town. Bob barnard has been trying luck on bus. Making his way to foggy bottom. How is the commute going looks like you made friends. We have 1 and i now and you can see now the bus thinned out a bit. We got on nay lor road i will tell you this is around 5 a. M. Plenty of parking free marking nay lor road we hopped on and people loaded on to the pus and theyve slowly gotten off as we head to 36 bus and spoke to brenda earlier she normally takes the train and got on this bus earlier than normal because of anticipated slow commute. It was not bad. Maryland is here. How do you normally get to wor work. Usually subway or bus i have options. You do. Yes. Like brepd ahere did you get on early today. A little early yes, i did. I arrived 5 30 this morning to take the bus. Going all the way to foggy its hopefully for people of the safefy of the people. Even if its inconvenine. Yes, safety first. There you go. Do any of you guys normally take the train to work . No, you do, sir . Did you have to lever earlier today because of the no rail service. I did i think they should have had 2 4 hour notice before they did that. Little more notice. Yeah. 24 hour notice it was not even 24 hour notice. Like 12 hours notice. Yeah i think they should have given a little more time. Given a little more notice. Right. Has the going has not seemed bad. Bus was packed earlier now and roads look fairly on pennsylvania avenue here what do you make of the ease of this commute though . I think its pretty fair ride. Its going smoothly though. Its go smoothly for the metro rail shutting down. Thats the only thing i can say about it. Thank you good luck. Good luck. Not so bad in terms of a lot of cop juston on the roads. This is pennsylvania avenue. As were getting foggy bottom and roads are pretty it empty now. Maybe a lot of people are heeding advice of staying home and working from home and waiting until tomorrow to get to work. But, this bus is thinking out and you might have seen some bump shots along the way southeast to capitol hill it was packed. Were making our way to timeal destination at foggy bottom fewer and fewer people here. The bus is a viable alternative today guys. All right. Bob. Thank you very much. You know theyll fill up quickly as well as everything else. We you have covered. Well check in with erin in a couple minute. As part of the roads well get there tuck. Rather is cooperating we dont have to add list of problems this morning. Be honest you feel jealous erin is the show and its not weather event. Ive had to be honest i had my turn the last couple months and im willing to happened it over. Unfortunately not in a good way. Theres dense fog ated advicery not in d. C. But if youre along 1 looks like frederick and carol county and Washington County in maryland dense fog advisory. Quarter mile or less. Thats the only real problem with morning commute. Weatherwise. And weatherwise. Its cool out there. 50 this morning in washington. 40s for just about everybody else look agent frederick 39. Cool spot. Were 43 leonardtown and 47 this morning quantico. Were looking at a warmer day. Mid 7 0s. Good. Except yesterday evening surprisingly it became a beautiful day. Yeah, low 60s. Today ten warmer than that. We could do a around of showers and thunderstorms mid to Late Afternoon with the frontal estimate you can barely seat it ow there. Its not tear bally impressive. It could be a rumble of shower and 74 daytime high. Enjoy. Thank you very much. Tuck. Lets good to erin now and find out what is happening as far as commute. Oh, sorry about that before we get there lets get to melanie. Metro closure forced hundreds of thousands of people to force another way to get around today. Live at bethesda in grovener station. Mel, good morning. Good morning, very, very slow here. I think i expected to see perhaps a few more people coming up maybe not knowing but i guess metro did get the word out or maybe people are sleeping in a little in bethesda. Normally this is pretty busy station here i. I have not seen large crowds at all this morning with this unpress departments the shut down. Now, again as we know, this is the kind of thing that general manager would do if he had to. And he talked about it in his on let to riders about ten days aing gooing and hard truth anticipates sometimes maintenance schedules were dragging out long and safety was going to be number one priority and this is the kind of situation he felt after hearing from inspendtors that needed to be done. And it is a very bold move unpress departmented move and he recognizes it will cause hardship for riders some 70 700,000 riders on metro and we saw those inspections taking place already this morning here on the tracks at the grovener station and up suspecttors came looking at those power cables ntsb last year had identified as problematic systemwide after they did report on la fonte plaza incident that killed carol glover. There were problems with the insulation and especially there is problem in tenle s if theres a fire and smoke it tend to build up in there. Again it was just they said that the fire at Mcpherson Square bore eary similarity to the one at la fonte plaza and thats why he said he needed to take action now. While the risk to public is low, i cannot rule out a potential life safety issue here and this is why we must take this action immediately. And in this case, there was potential metal on metal which is similar to what we had at the la front plaza situation. It happened once okay what happened . But happened twice this a year. I can not wait for the third time. And wheatfeld sed says he believed he had authority to take unprecedented action and he did have support of metro board. We will find out on thursday if there are any additional repairs that need to be made that might cause certain tracks to be shut down or have to single trac do need to be made. Live in grossner im Melanie Alnwick fox local news. Still ahead a lot of other news to get to as well. Police cruiser stole innocent district overnight and crews on the scene of a fire in Prince William county. Hillary clinton and donald trump waking up big winners and fallout already being felt this morning. 6 11 well be right the bigger the burrito, the bigger the fun. Dunkins new grandde burrito a breakfast burrito packed with big southwest flavor. Go grande with veggie or sausage today. America runs on dunkin. Developing overnight a pursuit with u. S. Park place 1 00 this Morning Police were conducting a traffic check who stopped a mans car that meld of mrnl mrj and before they could speak with him he sped off striking two officers with the mirror of his car and officers chase the that man who crashed his vehicle and ran and then stole Unmarked Police cruiser and crashed again and fled on foot again. Police recovered vehicle and the man got away. Also developing this morning the red cross headed to scene of two alarm fire earlier this morning in a row home in woodbridge. Two families displaced by that fire. One firefighter sustained a minor injury and that fire under control. And due in Prince George country courtroom two of plea Police Officers involved in an officer dead from friendly fir fire. Elijah and malik ford have a bond review hearing. They videotaped their older brother as he ambushed fire on officers. A Court Commissioner dropped murder those two brothers but they face conspiracy and attempted murder charges. 6 13 still ahead they continue cover ramming of the metro shut down. Live look at metro bus and folks have a lot more people headed to bus today although that one is pretty temty. Bob barnard is riding buses and erin has road up state. All coming up next 6 14. Test test been suspended. Youre taking a live look now at a bus depot. Bus is the way to go today. Keep in mind while metro shut down you had several openings, 6 17 i can tell you inbound routes to district not looking pretty behind me. This is look 95 northbound where traffic is stacked. Keep in mind hov restrictions in place 95, 66, 270, 50, 35 and as you make your way to ewington you heat a wall of slow moving traffic and that represents a lot of inbound routes. As you try to find an alternate to melt row rail shutting down take a look at maps. Get an early start and have patience and extra Metro Bus Service as you page your way between pentagon and downtown. Metro access is on normal schedule. Metro lots are free if you want to park your car a lobe or take a bus and car pool. Other openings ride on bus normal edge he adding bus service and mta marked camden line all serve green belt and usual to and from un john station and virginia commute it youre not driving vre reg rar service and aim with fairfax connect for and off Peak Services and u uber capping pricing 3. 9 times and thats still high and uber pool may be a good get and they have a proposal owe code for first time riders. Lift doing sam thing and taxi if you want to take a taxi, 57 stops around the area traer allowing ride sharing today. You can share with someone else and annie and tucker are going to another klox. Car to go or zip war. Lift has thats 20 off first ride and Free Services today d. C. Circulator and streetcar you can use capital bike share 24 hours of free service and usual usage fee i would suggest biking or walking best bet. 66 eastbound from fairfax. That green quickly turning yellow. 395 inbound duke street. Very yamd up and buses startsing to get crowded. Ive been telling you to leave early all morning and at this point fwoingt have early start and have patience and tucker its pleasant weather for walk or taking bike out. Or catching bus. What do you think about that one. All right. Not used to coming after you there airport. Pigging up. After school, upper 60s and low 70s. Theres a reason to be happy it pi. Sorry about the trafficment warm weather this afternoon. Heres numbers 50 washington and cool this morning 45 annapolis and fog north and west and theres dense fog advisory off to northen west chilly there in frederick, 49, 45 this morning whip chest erin well wake up to generally clear skis and quiet conditions and warm front right here lifting through and cold front back here. That will arrive late this and this could bring us a few showers as we get into Late Afternoon maybe a rumble of thunder. Warm front punches norm and 70s this afternoon. On the window owes and look out for the possibility. Later today 4 00 widely scattered im not sure well get much of anything as most of energy here dynamics are norm. Forecast, enjoy a nice afternoon. Nice warm conditions. Generally in good shape and sunny and bright on saturday and rain for the first day of spring maybe sunday chilly rain mixing with maybe snowflakes. All right thats the latest from here guys back to you. Tuck, thanks, 6 20 now. Well get you through all this and talk about the fun stuff coming up as well. St. Patricks day false during the week this year and not stopping people from celebrating and spending big time even though its thursday. Well talk about that next. And live from metro station along i 66 false church. A check of the impact there. Back in a moment 6 23 one day aaway from st. Patricks day if you plan to celebrate. Join is us from the Fox Business Network studio its always a part im sure Lauren Simonetti good morning. How are you there. Doing well thank you we saw big political and authorities making news in Business World which is interesting as candidates have gotten a lot of free publicity. Tons of free billions of dollars of free publicity and New York Times out with a look at how much free Media Attention tv attention and and doneald trump big winner here receiving only 2 billion in free coverage since he began the campaign and trailed by hillary clinton. She has 746 Million Dollars ted cruz coming in 313 mill and Bernie Sanders 321 million tlarz and attention that donald trump is getting with the media that was fueling his campaign and helping him to lead in the polls and others will say, well, that attention is not fearly all positive for mr. Trump. Before we let you go lets talk about st. Pattys day. Americans will spend a lot of money partying ourselves. You know what after the busy week and election season i think more people will relax tomorrow and have a beer to celebrate st. Patricks day. All in were talking about spending 4. 4 billion and if you break that down per person 33 each and bulk of that money is going towards yeah drinking. The beer tab. Begin usition 13 million pint of beer will be drank and thats a huge number. Most people 8 and 10 of us will wear green tomorrow. Ill take that 33 and buy Something Green wor. All right. Lawrp, thanks have a super day. You too. Okay. We can do green tomorrow or wait until friday. I might do green accessory. I think well celebrate friday because ever the weekday thing. I know ill try to work it out. Well figure it out. Not a lot of people celebrating as far as getting to work. Erin is helping us as we find ways to cope with this and erin it started out okay and now its catching up on folks getting on highway absolutely during the 4 00, 5 00 hour hit the road early and beat the traffic. Right now you missed the window to do so. Jammed up at nation anded in the beltway 39 5 nobody beltway and parkway inbound capital 295 both directions top of beltway jammed out of loop near New Hampshire and 270 maryland jammed southbound side all the way from frederick to truck scales and again through gamersburg. Turning into a very heavy morning commute and with metro rail shut down we have a lot of morning commuters trying to find different ways to get to work. And that isy think well have crowded roads aside from that extra Metro Bus Service well look at all options next but my best advice to you i know its cliche tucker pack the patienc patience. I pack it big. My whole car is filled with it today. It is. Yesty at love patience ther there. Patience is. Milling and bread too. Something i time. Me too. Do not make fun this day. Im not but well get through the day. Reagan national 43, bwi marshall 42. We dont deal with with. Change. We dont like change. Anything out of the ordinar ordinary. We do not. Okay. Heres great news if you happening to sit in traffic it will be a nice mild day today. Expecting high to mid 7 0s. Might do a shower or thunderstorm later. Mid to Late Afternoon the fron frontal system atrochs and could be a couple showers out from. Again enjoy warmer temperatures yeah that should say 68 at 2 p. M. Its warm okay . Im looking forward to it. Hope family no rained. Lets get through the morning first. 6 27 now well check in with annie yu. Appy is live outside of the West Falls Church metro statio station. Sky fox flying high over the metro station. Parking is free. There are Train Service at a mawlt throughout the day. Continuing coverage next. Stroand restoring aing a newbfathers faith. Its standing tall after one surgery. Not six. Stronger is being a typical kid. Despite a rare disorder. Stronger is finding it earlier. And coming home sooner. Stronger is seeking answers. And not giving up, until you find them. We want them to grow up stronger. Back now with the metro shut down coverage for you. Youre looking live at friendship heights. Welcome back to fox 5 news morning. And of course its our top story this morning its unprecedented and the metro shut down around here is of course because of weather but not today. Theyre theyre doing this today. It is unpress departmentsed move. Hundreds of thousands ever commuters affected this wednesday after metro decide thod shut down the service for 24 hours on an emergency inspection and annie yu is live at the west false church metro station with the latest now. Annie, of course, the big picture here is our stavety. Man in the mean time what a pain. Good morning. Hey, good morning, what a pain. But there are people out near good spirit and i found one man eric whok is taking the bus for the first time today headed to pentagon. How do you feel about closure and your commute sdmrut frustrating taking longer than traditional alley takes. You have a smile on your face or did a minute ago. Are you everybody in us about taking the bution do you know where youre going and that sort of things. Not exactly nervous not Rocket Science im meeting a friend from work and hes done this before. By bit about closure you understand why theyre doing it and need for this to happen . Absolutely. Its a metro say very technical piece of equipment they need to find more time to shut it down to give technicians and mechanics need time to fix. It its running a lot. It needs more down time. Whether late at night, weekend, i dont know they need more time get it repaired. Yeah, and you have obviously ridden metro for many years im assuming so how do you feel about the closure. I moved here this summer. But it is what it s nothing we can do. If theres a fire obviously its a safety issue. They have to fix that. Thats First Priority and long term maintenance sketch these have to figure out how to deep run sgliing dont want you to miss your bus and your colleague thank you eric for shooting us with. Theres local leaderd and riders. And gm saying safety of ride certifies paramount. Quickly opened just ten minutes ago and they since close today and one commuter bus below this terminal here is cancelled now. So folks coming from Loudoun County will no longer be able to catch that bus to get to d. C. And so they have closed this gate here and as far as reloading your cars this gateway was kused to get through the machines. If are you getting bus im told with you reload them. Thank you annie. And 6 3 lets switch gears now and go to politics. For marco rubio will not be hitting the campaign trail today. He dropped out of after a disappointing loss in home state of florida to donald trump snri want to congratulate donald trump a big victor gli florida. Boo. No, no, no. No. No. No, guys, this we live in a republic and our voters make decision and we respect that much. It wa meanwhile a big win for Ohio Governor john kasich in home state. It is his first vick toy of the campaign season. Trump was tonights big winner with victorys in illinois, florida and too close to call in illinois and the losing candidate can request a recounseled. To the democratic side we go now same situation in missouri. Hillary clinton locked up wins in other four super tuesdays senator Bernie Sanders relooseed a statement congratulating her on victorie victories. Senator clip ton has now two third of delegate needed to clinch her partys nomination. Steve. Well get a quick sports on morning line. 6 34. With metro closure may be challenging to get to the game at the Verizon Center. Tipoff 7 00 against the bulls and washington two app a behind the phoneal playoff spot in the east. He has signed Alexander Ovechkin had not had a ghol five games. He made up for it in ot got the win. 50 whips on season best record. Nhl and first to klepch a playoff. Also today other sport news in the District Washington as you may know now will be home to Arena Football League and play next year. Theres a press conference later this morning. The team does not currently have a nam. We hope to find out later toda today. Theyll play Verizon Center 2 2017 joining eight other teams in league. Some afl will be on hand he own the la kiss arena the la kiss arena football team. Afl has been around nearly 30 years with 20 million fans nition wide. Nfl redskins join the linebacker for over 4 million. Skins sign him last year to one year deal and he got hurt and was out for the season. Hell be back. Team now with two pash rushers and Ryan Kerrigan on the other. Lets goat erin cuomo. And another was joined by. I was advice sinning in the car and keeping it calm. 50 inbound to 02, 201 rather you see heavy flow through new carlton a lot of extra drivers hitting rail because metro is shut down. Well show what you else are you up against this morning. Lets look at maps. You have options if you dont upper loop jammed 29 r5. As you make your way past Eastern Avenue and 50ed in the bement way slow there as well. Top 5 outer loop near new ham hire and hov restrictions are in place they have got been lift the and they are offering extra service pentagon to fravrp ling ware. Hetro ak Social Security is free and maybe here is a ride and car pool today. Maryland openings ride on pus on nta and in virginia vre operating on normal schedule. Fairfax connector. Arlington transit. Dash has off peak service and uber tapping sure charges 3. 9 times and they have a promo code up uber and lift for first time riders you can take a tax taxi. And share rides today. They are allowingha to reduce it there for folks trying to find their way to around up to. Rent acar or zipcar openings for and i Free Services saved the best for last. D. C. Circulator and treat car you can take the capital bike share but normal fees apply there. Let us know what youre looking like at erin at fox 35 d. C. Tucker has good news for you that beautiful forecast roll down the windows right guy . It may be more of a play less. Highway toy hell by a cdc. Good one. I can hear you all laughing. They liked that. Amazing. Tucker get the fold star for humor. Hey rngts weve got fog norm and west. Yes. Quarter mile visibility or les less. Thats the worst of your morning information. Otherwise well have a beautiful day. Could be a few showers later today. Somebody tweeted me and said, can i go luning later today i think youll be fine. A few scattered showers and thunderstorms later this afternoon. 50 washington. 45 gaithersburg and 43 ben hard town and theres a live look lots of shine shine sun doesnt get up until after 7 15 now and well be in again for a warm day. 70s the daytime eyes and mid to Late Afternoon and few showers and thunderstorms and probably 4, 5, 6 00 tonight. I was running it in because we were supposed to have a bro night at the a cdc concert. It was supposed to be cancelled. And st. Pattys day please. You have options folks. Dont worry about it. Big party weekend. Coming up speaking of big event in d. C. Another big event coming up Cherry Blossom trees around the corner. Former metro board member jim graham and Council Member jim graham joins us live for in down. Coming up the bigger the burrito, the bigger the fun. Dunkins new grandde burrito a breakfast burrito packed with big southwest flavor. Go grande with veggie or sausage today. America runs on dunkin. They call it a safety, helm and equality issue. It is pros versus gi joes the redskins players will go awhat he had veterans and active duty members. The event will include raffle prizes and food and each participant gets a free copy of madden nfl 16. Winner of the tournament get free xbox one courtesy microsoft. You know the redskins love to interact with our service members. Still ahead. Metro shut down coverage continues. Former Council Member d. C. And board member jim graham will joins us life well get his take. If you have a ws us with 2028953000 or email toyp fox5 tips at wttg. Com. Were back in a moment folks down there and metro rail not an option for you and you can see a bus there waiting to pick up commuters. Well keep you posted on what the bus ride is looking like this morning. Sky fox has been up all morning as well checking out a slow commute on 66. 66 inbound. That bus empty. Thats good if youre trying to catch a bus as you make your way to eastern market. All hov restrictions are in place today on 66, 95, 270, 35 and 50 and you are recallin crawls as you make your way to mannasas or inside the beltway. Get app early start. We want to hear from you. D. C. Police letting us know they have their chopper this up morning and theyre seeing lots of high volumes of traffic on 295 northbound at blue mraipz and southbound 295 Eastern Avenue. Extending ought away back to 410. Lets take a look at cameras now. 50 inbound complete 50 inbound completely parked 410 to 20124 morning. Steady flow traffic from new carlton. With metro rail being shut down buses are an option. Li lets look at map. We have a lot of options for you going around and all congestion on the roads today. Extra Metro Bus Service pentagon top metro square. Metro parking lots are free. If you want to park there and car pool. Aside from this tweet we were they willing you about lets look in maryland. Ride on bus or mta and in virginia fax fax connector letting us know theyre operating plea taditional lines of emergency shuttles pentagon shuttle from rest tin, vienna and franconia to get to the pentagon. And you can hop on metro access bus or metro bus and head into the district. Vre normal service and Arlington Transit dash is offering special off peak and uber or lift an option and plan ahead for your budget. Taxi offering Ride Share Service today and Free Services d. C. Circulator and d. C. Streetcar and capital bike share and tuck he says its nice weather if you want to maybe go out for a psych toll make your way to work or walk if you walk to the bus stop. So we got you covered. I can tell you the roads are really crowded and puss will be starting to get really crowded. Listen to me im getting marble inside my mouth. Its time for second cup of coffee and bring good news for the day. Mostly good news. 30s in the forecast today and it will be one of our in fact i think warmer day of the week. Maybe you get get a chance to get out and enjoy. 50 in washington. 45 in list. Cool here early and were expecting a nice warmup here quickly as our warm front ill will push through the ream dont. Theres the warm front briping us cloud cover. And again so warm front, cold front later today and in between our temperatures will get a chance to warm up. And again well into the 7 0s. I think low to daytime eyes. Heres the setup. This cold front could king off a shower or thunderstorm. Mid to Late Afternoon. And then well get cooler air rushing in behind. It so just ahead up here. Kind of four, five, 6 00 tonight may be scattered showers or possible of quick moving thunderstorm. Future cast doesnt love the idea of. It and few showers and clear it out overnight. Cooler tomorrow. Still relatively pleasant for st. Patricks day. Maybe a shower late in the dae tomorrow. First day of spring could be chilly temps in mid 40s. Thats the latest weather. 74 today. Nice walking warm, back to you. Thanks very much lets get back to metro. Its safe to say more are hitting the roads this morning. Was it a good move for metro to shut down service right in the middle of the week on a weekda weekday. Board and jim graham good to see you what do you think about this. Its massive destruction d. Disruption of the entire region no doubt about it if theres cause for you i must assume there is serious cause for it own though i dont think the general manager wanted to say people were at risk of life and limb then im glad were doing. It its very un usual after something serious as what happened monday shut down the entire system in a few hours notice what did we have six hours extraordinary. So i have to assume theres something serious happening here. Do you think its something more serious or political going on now with the new chairman and new board now trying to make a statement saying look were going it take matters perhaps more seriously than in the past. I dont think that would lead them this is extraordinary and unpress departmentsed and never happened. Even when we had horrendous crash in 2009 we cant shut down the system to see what other problems might exist and no, i think this may be sending a message and i think its entirely secondary to whats really at stake. And what is really at stake safety then. Life and limb. And thats whats happening now and you know when you have repeated inspections that dont uncover a problem, you know, it races questions about what kichd up inspections youre doing and we are to get to figure out how many problems are there. Take us inside the mind of hoy metro works you find so many years at the head this board and i know its a very complicated effort with jurisdictionwise and governmentwise and getting everybody on the same page. And when you left did you feel that it was in good shape . Did you feel that we were down the path of a good system for metro or could things have been done differently. I think poor shape when i left very poor shape indeed no question about. It since then theres been progress. Government has very much definitely increased and theres been a lot of improvements but still major issues and i think they relate quite frankly to the fact we were not keeping up with maintenance the way we should have been in the early part of 2000 to 20 10 and if you give me one brief selfserving moment budget after budget and budget why are we not spending capital dollars and why arent we spending capital dollars and if fell on deaf ears. I think it was inept of the group at that time. Theres tens of millions of dollars not spent. Can d. C. Have the money back if you have not spent it to make the point it. Was not working. When you look at that and look at today when hundreds of mill xwronz of dollars are spent happened over fist theres a contrast. We cant go unchanged in the past. Youre not calling the shot any more and n at least through this morning and whats the best way to get metro back on track. Up spetions that dont uncover problems is a problem. And this particular problem has been inspected. There have been annual inspecs and after last years indent there was very intense attention paid to this. Thats puzzling to me. And i think that the midweek shut down raises questions. Im very concerned about the mayor of District Of Columbia not being informed until Late Afternoonand theres something wrong with that and im sure they can solve with some people but i think it could have been done more systematically and again i have owe to believe that something serious is underlying all this that caused search a precipitous action by the party of metro leadership. Wow leave the viewers with big picture than at the end of this very frustrating day. One of the things that will be interesting in the past when metro shut down its been first thing to go in weather receipted problem are buses. But buses are running and it will be interesting to see and i know this is nobodys mind but mine anxious to see how the bus system responds to de mapped. I saw empty bus go by earlier. That will not be going on long. Well have full buses and theres been a lot of imprvment in the buses and well see how they carry the population today. I think that will be very, very close interesting to watch closely. It will be a big test of entire area and entire commute and patience of a lot of people this morning. All good to see you council. And i like the beard. Thank you very much. And lets go to erin cuomo now. Erin former councilman said he had extra traffic on rock creek parkway coming here hoy are things looking. Rapidly increasing the amount of traffic opt roads. Rite now outbound side 66 westbound picking up and 66 inbound commute at the belt is crawl ago long from view from sky fox. Lets look at cameras. Thats the case all over the place. In inbound south capital as you get to douglass bridge picking up and slow moving traffic trying to rekick in now the that we head to the 7 00 hour. Metro rail is shut down today and we do and seeing crowded conditions on buses and they have to battle congestion. It will be a long are ride. You need good music. Extra bus service pentagon to Franklin Square and metro access on normal excel schedule and metro parking lots free if you want to park and maybe walk to work or hop on metro bus. Several opening from virginia or maryland as far as Public Transportation is concerned. We will take a look at those with your next look at traffic. Keep it to fox5 news morning more to come on the metro shut down during the 7 00 hour when you build one of the biggest Retail Businesses in america, you spend a lot of time working closely with elected officials. From secretaries to president s you learn what works in government and what doesnt. And if youre david trone you take those lessons all the way to congress. You pledge to take nothing from pacs or corporations because the only special interest a congressman should have is you and hell promise to work with anyone if itll get things done. After all hes spent 30 years working both sides of the aisle. Im david trone and i approve this message. Rights off the top 7 00 were talking about breaking situation this morning and thats unpress departmented shut down of met pro rail. Its in full effect right now and what would normally be the height of the morning commute. 7 a. M. Right now. Theres the reason y live picture of up suspecttors out on the tracks and theyve been out all night long and theyre ought all morning and will be out all day looking for potential fire danger on the metro station gates were thop morning and no rail riders scrambling through. Changing your normal routine. They should have had more than 24 hours notice before they did that. Frustrated commuters sound off at fox5. Were riding with you today to see what is expected. Theres cost saving tips you need to know about if you try out uber and lift well share that for you this morning. Live pictures often a bus. Were xhiting with you this horping. Well gave you the bird eye view. Good morning, today is wednesday, march 16, 12016 im allison seymour. Ape steve chenevey. Welcome to fox 5 news morning and as always the complete shut down of the regions subway system means a lot of people are finding a new way to work and school today. Were covering the area of the traffic situation in norp virginia and Melanie Alnwick stop on red line and bob barnard