Leave or tell work. D. C. Public schools will also operate as usual. We have Team Coverage of the metro shutdown. We begin with jim lokay life at metro headquarters. Reporter this is when the anounment came about 4 30 today. Not a lot of notice. When you saw gm approach the podium, his voice this was a very different man than the one who took over metro. As you mentioned this all started after yesterdays incident at mcphearsons square. No one was hurt when the smoke filled the station, but what the inspectors discovered was roughly the same issue that led to the deadly incident over at Lenfant Plaza last year. Tomorrow is the plan to get the inspectors and engineers out on the tracks inspecting piece by piece the jumper cables. We why are you doing this in the middle of the week, why arent you doing it on the weekend . He said in this case safety trumps convenient. I cannot rule out a potential life safety issue here and this is why we must take this action immediately. We basically have whats called jumper cables. We have third rail and it comes and theres a gap in it occasionally, 600 times. So theres four large cables that basically connect the power from one end to the other. In this case, there was potential metal on metal which is very similar to what we had at the Lenfant Plaza situation. It happened once. Its happened twice in a year. So i cant wait for the third time. Once again, a little less than 60 minutes and counting before we see the tote l al metro shutdown. Back to you. Let me ask you a question, they have 29 hours to work on this, what during that time period they find some do you think the systemwide closure will last longer than that. The thing we should point out is that they discovered 100 issues last time around when they went through when they replaced the pieces, what were understanding from metro if they desecond segments that need to be replaced. They can shutdown power from one side of the track and then single track the stations for the time beer. Meaning were not going to see this extending throughout the entire system, but many stations will be impacted in the long run. Thanks for the update. When todays metro shutdown was announced, d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser canceled her public appearances. We asked her for her reaction during our 6 00 show. Later she decided to address the historic shutdown with reporters. Fox5s Marina Maracco was there. Reporter roar lets just say her face said it all. She was not pleased with this decision. She says s from Council Member jack evans about 3 00, just an hour and a half before metro announced the entire shutdown. That means that this was long in the works before she ever found out about it. She says when she got that call she was completely shocked. She said the direct quote to met re saying, the real consequences when you shutdown an entire system. She says she was not involved at all with that decision. Since metro decided to shutdown the system she will keep business open here in the district. D. C. Government offices as well as schools will remain open. However, she did say that the gm, along with the board, did have the authority to shut it down without consulting her. You werent expecting this . I think i told said from the outset i was shocked. Mayor, are you upset that you seem to have been kept out of the loop from the decision. I dont think i have been kept out of the i think that it is a metro decision and metro made its decision. Now, does it have a Significant Impact on us and will we make sure all of the procedures and principles embedded in the compact are followed, yes. Do we want to understand their Decision Making to get to this point, of course. And we will get the answers to those questions. Ultimately, do you standby their decision or would you have had a different way of approaching the situation . I honestly, i dont have that information to be able to say that. Literally getting a call a few hours ago about the shutdown of the system. Not having all of the access to the information that metro officials do about what the cause of the fire was and how frequently those pieces of equipment that they seem to be concerned about were inspected. Some of the questions i will have will have to do with what options did they look at to do this. Was it the 24 the only option or was there another way to do it . The mayor was also asked if she would be lifting parking restrictions. Ultimately she said, no, she will not be lifting parking restrictions hoping that folks will get on buses and somehow avoid complete and totally grid lock here in the district come tomorrow. Life tonight outside the wilson building, Marina Maracco, fox5 local news. We can only hope. Thank you. More than 700,000 people rely on metro rail to get around the d. C. Region every day and am of you have been sounding off about the systemwide shutdown. Fox5s teisha you look is continues our Team Coverage now i know that you talked to plenty of passengers tonight. What are they saying. Reporter shawn, you know what, drones have people have passed where were standing here in Mcphearson Square, and the reaction has been mixed. What i can tell you that most of them are talking about the shutdown. In fact, people are already planning their travel plans for tomorrow and already anticipating tomorrows nightmare. And its not just were talking about, we spoke with merchants and tourists who says their visit to the Nations Capital will be one to remember for all the wrong reasons. Theres no doubt the emergency 24hour metro rail shutdown will be felt across the dmv and rider rise harris has a message for metros top boss. What he doesnt understand is the confusion and the chaos that he will cause. A lot of people rely on the metro to travel. Harris commutes to work from capital heights. How will this impact you. I will definitely be late tomorrow. Ive already called and let them know. Im really surprised to hear about the shutdown, especially that they decided to do it on a wednesday when thousands of people will bec commuting to ad from work, but also, you know, after everything thats happened on metro over the last year and a half, glad to see that theyre prioritizing the safety of customers. Its not just riders readying to bear the brunt of ts metro shutdown. Food truck vendor cafe Walter Marion says hell lose at least 200 in business, likely more. Wednesdays winners will surely include taxis and car riding. Im trying to figure out how were going to get around. Were going to the airport and were trying to get out and we were planning to go to mount vernon tomorrow. I guess im a little shock. And theyre in the alone. Im glad i have a smartphone so i can look up stuff. I mean, not knowing the area is going to be really hard. Good luck to the mccoy family and forever every everyone who is going to be navigating throughout the district. This is all after the smoke incident that happened at Mcphearson Square yesterday. Now, one day later, mcphearson and long with everybody is getting ready for the shutdown. The billboards and barriers are in place every where. Here are some of the alternative ways to get around town while metro is closed. Metro bus will be working, uber, lift and taxis are also available. The d. C. Circulator and the streetcar are operating for free tomorrow and owe is the capital bike share program. And also electro lots and garages will be open to customers taking the bus or car pooling. Residents demanded answers during a Community Meeting tonight as police are still trying to solve a murder mystery in fairfax county. An unknown gunman shot and killed yohan da leet i while the 83 year old was inside his home last friday. Police have no leads and investigators are serving around the home trying to find any evidence that could lead to a possible arrest. Weve had numerous resources in and around the area since then, just an presence because it is such an unusual crime in this area. We just want to reassure the residents, neighbors, everybody in the area that were working very hard on the case to solve it as quickly as possible. Police say they are adding more officers to the area. A move that was planned before that shooting took place. The death of a man in Montgomery County is being ruled a homicide. March 11 Sheldon Williams was found shot to deaths on castle manufactured in silver springs. So far no arrests have been made. Police are asking anyone who has information about the case to contact them. For two of the brothers charged in connection withen a ambush shooting that led to the death of a Prince Georges CountyPolice Officer. However, a Maryland Court commissioner dropped the murder charge against allege yeah and ma league ford. They are still charged in conspiracy and attempted murder in the death of officer jacai colson. Their brother lead to of the officer. Police are looking for your help in. This incident happened back on march 3. This is surveillance video. A person of interest there investigators say he held a childs hand outside, walked with her for several steps before a chaperone noticed, yelled and scared him objection to the form a second man was seen talking to the first person of interest. Police want to talk to them both. The maryland house of delegates has approved a bill designed to help reduce drunken driving. The bill is being called noaas law. It is being named after Montgomery CountyPolice Officer noaa lee oat a. In december he was killed by a suspected drunk driver. The bill would require convicted drunk drivers to have an ignition interlock placed on their vehicle. Drivers will have to below into a device to determine whether theyve had too much to drink. Another super tuesday raise are coming in. Marco rubio unexpectedly suspended his campaign tonight after losing his home state to donald trump. Hillary clinton trumped Bernie Sanders. We have the break down next at 11. Hey there, tony, shawn, we have a weather break down, too. Maybe the low 70s. South of d. C. There is a little bit of a flip side. A quick thunderstorm. Well time that out for it is another super tuesday. Voters from five states went to the polls for elections today and we have all the details from mark ohio rub ohio suspecting his campaign to big victories for Hillary Clinton and underdog john case okay. On the republican side of things, donald trump won ill, florida and North Carolina. John kikich won his home state. Hillary clinton won big in florida, North Carolina and ohio. And she is back on track to defeat Bernie Sanders in illinois. Sanders is leading missouri. The florida senator choked back his emotion tonight as he talked to supportersc in his home sta. While it is not gods plan that i be president in 2016 or maybe ever, and while today my campaign is suspended, the fact that ive even come this far is evidence of how special america truly is. A trumpup have heard right there interrupted rub ohio at the beginning of his speech. The senator quickly responded, dont worry, he wont get beat up. Taking a stab at some of the violence thats erupted at off of the rallies. The director of the secret Service Revealed details of increased efforts to protect president ial candidates. This comes as fights have began to erupt across the country. Joseph clancy made it clear that his agents will not be used to silence protestor. There are people that are disrupting the event. That is not our primary responsibility. Our concern is over acts or threats to our protect . If someone, for example, comes into the buffer zone or secure zone were going to respond to that as we saw in dayton, ohio. Clancy added his agents assigned to the campaign trail have been working closely with event organizers intelligence and ensuring the safety of the the candidates. All right. It is time to talk about the forecast. A lot of people will probably be out and about tomorrow. Since metro is closed maybe theyll be riding bikes, catching cabs, catching buses. If they had to do it one day this week, tomorrow is the best. Its diminishing the chance of showers on wednesday now. But a little upping the anti by thursday. By then we should be up and running again. Thats st. Patricks day so we do need restaurants. Everybody wants to be able to get around on st. Patricks day. Exactly. No doubt about it. Tonight its rather quiet out there. We had the clouds break up late in the day. We helped get the temperature shoot up to 65degrees. Some of you may be ten degrees warmer than that. Tomorrow. Friendly reminder, spring begins in four days. That would be sunday. Ive got snow in the forecast on sunday, just a little bit mixed but were going to continue to watch it. It looks like its going to be on the cool side and an area of low pressure off the earth will bear some watching. Our temperature is 55degrees, winds out of the south at 7. Thats why were going to warm up so nicely tomorrow. Clear skies, a little bit of fog possible later. Temperatures will be slow to fall. Well probably end up close to 50degrees by the sun comes up tomorrow morning. There can be a big spread of temperatures this time of year, the district is 55, frederick 43, culpeper 43 and manassas 46. Thats cooler than we have been. Tomorrow we get a lot of warm air. We might have some gusty winds with it. Maybe a quick shower or a rumble of thunder. Fairly isolated the way things look right now. It will bring in somewhat cooler air for us on thursday and certainly into the weekend and it looks like there will be another fast moving storm in the upper atmosphere that passes us by on thursday which is why its more showers for saint pats day. The frontal boundary will cross us in the afternoon. It will be dry to start tomorrow morning, aic in of sun and clouds. You can see that our futurecast is greatly diminishing the chance of any showers earlier. This may bounce around just a little bit. But again watch between 3 and a 5 for the possibility of a quick thunderstorm. As we role into saint the patricks day, a little more active, prime time for folks going out and partying, 5 00. A couple showers here and there. Not a lot. Maybe a rumble of thunder and that passes on through pretty quickly so its out of ten by 10 or 11 00. Overnight we drop to near degrees, low 40s in the suburbs. We wrap it up with your fox5 seven day forecast. Up and down we go. Didnt get to t talk too much about the weekend. I wanted you to let you know that this is an area of low pressure off the coast. The first day of spring only 45degrees. Much it like tuesday, mostly cloudy and 52degrees. Well watch the sunday storm carefully and enjoy wednesday. Time for sports now. Right down to the wire before they can clench a spot in the playoffs. Thats right, tonights, the caps had a chance to punch their ticket for the season. The Carolina Hurricanes paying a visit to the verizon center. The capitols made their flaw allowing opponents to score. Not tonight, Justin Williams deflecting his 21st goal of the season. The game would go into over time tied 1 to 1. Alex ovechkin has always had the flare of the dramatic and he delivered again when it mattered most, scoring the game winner whwhen it mattered most. They clinch a 50, 14 and 5. And yes lose tonight. Maryland began the season with pretty high expectations. They were ranked the top team in the country, but the interpret are limping into the caa tournament friday. They loves five of their last eight games. Although the last one went down to the wire against michigan state. Theyll get one last chance to show everyone what theyre made of. Were not even in the top ten anymore. I think, me personally. It just shows that no one has goals. Going into the tournament we just want to prove to everyone that were a really good team. Tonight they added department to their secondary signing david route 1 jr. , 28 year old route 1 has played his entire nfl with the denver bronc owes. Last season he posted career highs with 43 tackles and two interceptions before suffering a season ending injury apparently the ap just said, a source says they also signed guy let to 4 million and a oneyear deal. First she met the first and the first lady. Today 107 d. C. Resident met the harlem globetrotters. Well show you what happened during todays vis you guys remember this, they first introduced you to 107 year old virginia mcclueren several weeks as l. She met the president and the first lady several weeks ago. Today she got another special treat. They met the harris commutes lamb globetrotters when they visited elementary school. Virginia volunteered there. And its hard to tell who was more entertained by the visit, virginia or the globetrotte personality. I love it. Shes 107 years old. Fantastic. You know what, its so infectious is herry. She loves her life. volunteers at the School Three Times a week. 107 years old. You are awesome, clara. Stay tuned, tmz is up next. Thanks for joining us. Were going on early tomorrow morning at 4 00 a. M. To keep you announcer the following is a paid presentation for the nuwave oven pro, brought to you by the makers of the nuwave precision induction cooktop. Stay tuned. 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