Them will be in operation, the reason being concerns over as ov cable system. Yste they call them jumper cables. Abl theres about 600 of them acroso the system. This is the same type of cable that led to the smoke situatione and pretty much the same situation that caused the deadly smoke incident at lenfant plazz last year. Earlier today they laid out the plans, metro officials had a press conference at headquarterq to explain what people can see and the question we had, thead question a lot of you have iss why are they doing it in the middle workweek. Or gm paul white feld said it is a safety issue. I cannot rule out a potential life safety issue here and thiss is why we must take this action immediately. When i say safety is our highest priority, i mean it. That sometimes making tough,toug unpopular decisions and this iss one of those for sure. I fully recognize the hardship this caus the community. Those there were about 125 that were replaced in the immediate aftermath of the situation last year, again that deadly smoke incident and the those 125 will be among the 600 that inspectorn will go out and tonight and look at r single one. The concern it looks like thatie the insulation is breaking down and causing moisture to get inside which is causing metal upon metal. The four nettles al conduits were rubbing together andr caution a smoke incident. Cide so when they go out than a inspect these theyre going too look at r single one. The goal is to shut it down by midnight and get it back open by 5 00 a. M. Thursday. The hope is if there were any cables out there, any safetyafet issues to the public, they can replace them, but its notot completely ruled out that every single one of those 91 stationsi will be back open in time for this is an unprecedented step. T. Normally well see metro shutdown for weather situations. This is the first time people inside can think of a time whenn metro had to be shut down to an emergency situation. If you take the bus you should well, you shouldou expect some disruptions because theyre predicting crowding. There are other aspects which well get into later as to who can make it to work, who doesno have to work. All six lines shutdown until 5 00 a. M. Thursday. Im jim lokay, fox5 local news. We should mention briefly were starting to hear reaction from leaders around the young on. Th Chris Van Holland that he believes service should be free, bus service. Bu gut crunch to the community, but opm should grant unscheduled or at the very least tell he work together. Work we have not heard from mayor bowser. We do know she had some kind of event. She has canceled the appearances. Were hoping to hear from her shortly about this. His. Obviously the news of thish shutdown had agencyies scrambling about what to do about the workday. Thats right, matt acklandht has been tracking that. That this is unbelievable. Nbe you said we have heard from opmm and can you tell me that onee more time . Not shutting down the government tomorrow but will allow unscheduled leave. You heard that right thesu. So that sounds like like unscheduled leave is okay for tomorrow. We havent heard from the mayor, nothing yet reacting to this. Unscheduled tell he work. That could relieve a lot of the pressure that could comeome tomorrow. You all were talking about the office several times and basically the only informationth ivee been able to get is that the schools and lot governments theyre going to remain open. Weve been trying to reach out to her office to see if shell do a phone interview or if theres a preference conference scheduled for tonight, but it i havent been getting much backbk from her spokes people. May i ask you a question . Ws sit very close to each other and as soon as this broke you were o calling officials, it sounded liking ons were taken byby surprise. I totally a i degree withwith that. I was calling everybody i knew. I was calling people in other jurisdictions and theyre all saying the same thing. They were kind of caught off guard. Mary said i dont know, i dont know whats going on. N. Were hearing that type off thing. I dont know if jack evans did say that he called the mayoa and talked to her about it. But were not sure of the timeframe. Its 6 00 now. No statement or a little bit something more from her office. Heres what i have been able to find, some of the Council Members are talking about, ibout want to brief you on then schools. The head of the educationduca Committee David grasso said scashools will be open tomorrow, one thing, the concern is getting people around. So many kids as you all knowal ride the metro rail in d. C. To get to school. Cho theyll come from southeast and go to wilson high school, allll over. Theyre going to maybe use somee of the d. C. Circulators buses that are owned by the department of transportation to try to filo the void and get people around. Also special needs kids arere picked up d. C. School buses. David grasso told me, hes kind of warning parents, they may beh late. For the kids that cant make it, theres going to be a liberal absentee policy tomorrow. Tardy or absentee. O before i leave you two, we county. This is probably an hour and a half ago. Ha they were having some kind of big meeting as well. It sounds like a lieutenant of big meetingings are happening. Prince georges county, their te spokesperson told me theyre kind of dealing with this almoss as a snowstorm. They can get their kids to and from usually school buses andand such, but other things are affected. I think youre right, everyonevr was caught by surprise. Reasonably theres a lot ofot scrambling going on and figure n out how do we deal with this. Hi that will probably continue into the evening hours tonight. I have been seeing dre should be running tomorrow as usual inusua d. C. And i know some of the buses in montgomery county, the rideon buses say theyre going to trying to add a few extra services tomorrow. Se im going to use my bike to gett around. Can you imagine the traffic tomorrow. Once again reiterate the news that broke at the top of yourf report there, at Personnel Management has decided the federal government will be open, but with what unscheduled tell he work for tomorrow. Thanks. We appreciate it. Keep it right here on fox5 forfr the very latest on the metro rail shutdown. Well have more tonight. Toni you can also look for websites on our website, fox5 d. C. Com. C and the fox5 morning team willwl be an extra early tomorrow at 4 00 a. M. For the updates on the and work. A Maryland Court commissioner has dropped the murder and gunan charges against two of the three brothers charged in connectionoe with the death of officer jacai colon. He ridge yeah and malik forward are charged with conspiracy and convicted murder. Their brother michael was the gunman that led to the friendly paul wagner joins us with the story. Reporter angela came out tot speak to say that she cannotann challenge what the Court Commissioner did. However, she could repursue those charges in the grand juryy now, in the court charging documents, we learned newew details about this case today. We now know that the threehre brothers arrived here sundayhere afternoon outside the district three station and michaelich forward with his handgun actually went in the wrong direction and his two brothers said, no, no, you need to come over here. He then pulled a 40 caliber handgun and opened fire. Two offerings who had seen the cellphone video shot by he ridge yeah and malik forward saf there were excited cries of thats my brother and thats my dog as the shooting commenced outside the district 3 station i sunday afternoon. And them as michael forward fell wounded, the tone of the brothers comments changed as tc what officials descri sadness. Today outside the courthouse states attorneys angela box told reporters the second degren murder charges and firearms charges filed against the brothers are justified. We will be aggressive here. Officer column sons was a wonderful officer. From all accounts he showed up. He was brave. He was correspond rage just. Was he a defender. De late this Morning Police chief hang that within ski went backin to the crime scene and talked to investigators about whatator happened looking closely at the bullet holes and the police van as well as the damage done to the police station. Stat the department is not yet prepared say how officer colson was hit by the friendly fire. While this was occurring here, interviews are ongoing and this which you see happening right hp now has to be compared to theirr statements, to witnessts statements, to video collected from our facility, the recreational center. According to court documentsr file first fired two shots in the district three station hoping to draw fire from police in return. He then fired to two cars and ad ambulance passing by. Were all devastated. Theres no way to parse that out among people. Our obligation is to respond to the public. Allow them to understand this un just as quickly as were able to understand. And then to help them grieve and cope. Michael ford has not been charged. He is still in the hospital. His brothers will be at a bond review hearing tomorrow afternoon in upper marlboro. Rlbo life in palmer park, paul wagner, fox5 local news. Developing tonight, police are looking for two persons ofof interest after an attempted abduction did at the smithsonian air and space murder charges see up. Take a close look. A c the men were caught on surveillance video. One man took a childs hand and walked with her before severalse steps before a chaperone yellede and scared him off. The incident happened back on march 3. Anyone with information shouldio contact us park police. That is scary. Ary. Still ahead 569, making it easier for americans to catch aa flight to cuba. Well explain the newly loosened rules that make it least expensive for you to travel to that nation. The tidal basin is not the only spot with Cherry Blossoms. In fact, theres a new app that will help you find Cherry Blossoms all around d. C. Well be right back. The white house is making travel to cuba hesier for americans. Today the Obama Administration loosened the rules meaning americans can now take trips to cuba on their own instead of through those expensive group tours. Any am cuba as long as you fill out aot slip that says your trip was for education purposes. Urpo google is revealing how muchh of the traffic on its Search Engine is being protected from hackers. Statistics release by theby Company Shows 77 percent of requests sent to Google Data Centers are encrypted much muc thats up from 52 percent at the end of 2013. Google is highlighting its progress on digital securityigit while the fbi and apple areare locked in a court battle over access to an encrypted iphoneipo used by one of the san bernadine owe shooters. Goggles goal is toen represent all of its online activity. C still ahead at 6, there is a new peak bloom date for the Cherry Blossoms. Ch there is a new app on help you go behind the tidal basin to help find blooms beyond thend b district. This is so exciting to me. Were still on eagle watch tonight. A life look right now at the national usherette eagle cam. The eagles dubbed first lady and mr. President are awaiting foyer eggs to hatch any time now. Ow. Were going to keep an eye on them. It can happen any time now. We will keep you posted. I want to give you an update right now. Ri breaking news, parking will bee free wednesday at all metroowned lots and garages. Metro Just Announced free parking. So park. Well be right back, everybody. Z all you workaholics, listen up. Putting up a little l over time at your office may increase heart disease. Among fulltime employees thattt risk rose 1 percent for each additional hour worked per weekk the risk rose even more when workers hit 40 hours. The study tracked people for 10 years. The researchers say those longog hours dont cause heart disease, but there is an association. Some people think a little white lie here and there is harmless. The new survey breaks down thete most common white lies. At the top of the list 92 people have told someone im fine whene they werent. Other popular lies, i love this present. Sorry, im sick. This meal you made is delicious. Metro will be open tomorrow. And no, you dont need to losele weight. The survey also asked people who theyre lying to the most, coworkers topped that listrs t followed by family, friends and significant others. Ant i didnt think about when peoplp ask you how you are doing and you say fine. There is somebody asked how i ho was and when i told him, he said i didnt need to know all that. I wont name that person,erso though. It wasnt me, was it . Somebody related to you. The tidal basin may be the most crowded, but it is not the only place you can check out thehe Cherry Blossoms. Cher there is a new website that will help you find blooming Cherry Blossoms around d. C. C. It uses ddot street data to help you find Cherry Blossoms aroundu the district. The park service pushed back the peak bloom until next week. I am glad they did because this weekend doesnt looklook particularly nice. Pa and they were supposed to starto coming out friday. Co they looked at the forecast. Its going to get a little bit chillier after a brief warmup and it looks like thats a really perfect need to keepo your no, i dont have to say it. T. What if i even told you youou might have a little bit of snoww just a little bit of snow inn the forecast. You know what, we will soften that by showing you tomorrow. By the way, it is supposed to be gorgeous. We had to ditch the clouds fromm early this morning. Is there were a couple of showers around, but as soon as we did we popped the temperature right up to 64degrees. That is above average and that is a good evening. You still have an hour or so before the sunc goes down, so enjoy it. We know metro is not going to be running, but its a nice day too walk. The 70s are going to briefly return. A front is going to come througu tomorrow afternoon between 3 ane 5 and itn could promote a few showers or a rumble of thunder and think thunder storms may have some gusty winds with it. St. Patricks day is thursday. It looks like it is breezy andre there could be a couple passing showers after 5 00 or so. Not a washout at all. Ll. A couple of fun days ahead inad the wash to be, d. C. Area. The temperature in d. C. Is 64, as you know. 59 at hagerstown where the clouds hung on a little bitg on longer. 66 in fredericksburg annual pepper 65degrees. Ee weve got our winds out of the northwest at about 8 miles an hour. Our current temperaturetemp 64degrees with some clouds. As we go through the next several hours we will drop downn into the low 50s. But it doesnt look like itsts going to be really cold tonight, but again looking at a nice forecast. Everybody was ready to see a little bit of sunshine, me included. Well have more sunshine to. Were clearing out oure temperature to 50degrees and as you watch the sky behind youll see the rest of the clouds departing. Tomorrow its a mix of sun and clouds. Well definitely have moreave sunshine than we had today and well have the warm windarm direction out of the southwest that pumps us up to 74degrees. We were surrounded by a lot ofot heat today, it looks like a little bitter lt chance today than it didt yesterday of a thunderstorm crossing our area tomorrow. Not anything to worry about inau the morning, but a little bit ot a cool start at 52degrees. By noon we warm up quickly 2066degrees. A nice afternoon. Ce keep an eye on the sky. Keep your fox5 weather app handd and well keep you updated if we see any storms coming that you need to get away out of. Ut its going to be a nice warm day, but the frontal boundary iu that coming through tomorrowro night is going to cool us down s and well be back down to thethe 50s and 60s. At 8 in the morning, some clouds around. The clouds break up a little bia as we go into the afternoon. They are scattered showers and storms. But they get a little bit moreme substantial as we get closerclos especially timing out with the heat. He around 5 or 6 00 may be a littlm bit towards our north and east. Were going to p where it up and down to 60 friday, saturday, 64, a mix of rain that could end with some wet snow on sunday, the first day of spring. A couple of showers on monday. We will be right back. We want to remind you once more of the major breaking newsw were following tonight, metroeo rail service will shutdown atat midnight tonight and remain closed until 5 00 a. M. On thursday. Crews will be checking cables ih the wakeec of yesterdays cablet fire that impacted the orange, blue and silver lines. Ine well have the latest tonight at 10. 10 well also be on early tomorrowo covering the commute starting at 4 00 a. M. On fox5 news morning. N again, just to let you know, briefly, again, the federaleral govern tomorrow. Federal employees have thee t option for unscheduled tele work. D. C. Schools will allow peopleel to be tardy or absent withoutabe any penalty. There ill be extra buses running. Miss Muriel Bowser if youre watching right now, give us a call. It will be nice to walk. And bike,. With the exception of 3 00. See you tonight at 10. At wegmans we believe the best way to help you is to provide choices that offer you the best prices, quality and selection choose wegmans family pack 1,2,3 you can save 30 or more. From the freshest Fruits Veggies to the juiciest chicken meats. Let us help you find that perfet balance of size savings. How can you save 30 or more . Sfx finger snap wegmans family pack. We do it because were family too. Today on tmz harvey somebody was actually more incendiary than donald trump. Linmanuel miranda, the guy who does hamilton. 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