denied the justice department s motion to dismiss an old dominion lawsuit. state attorney general claims that congress exceeded its authority by requiring citizens to buy health insurance or pay a penalty. more than a dozen other state attorneys general have filed similar lawsuits but virginia s challenge is the first to go before a judge. president obama says the iraqi war is nearing an end as promised and on schedule. he made the comments moments ago during an address to veterans in atlanta. the commander in chief cited progress toward meeting his deadline of withdrawalling all u.s. combat troops in iraq by the end of the month. a brief reprieve for metro riders. they were scheduled to pay a little more for transportation today but a fare hike is being delayed for a day in order to improve the signage alerting riders to the changes. paper ticket riders won t have to pay 25 cents until tomorrow. metro wasn t quite ready which isn t too surprising for riders here at dup
reporter: pepco says it will be midnight until power is restored to those who lost electricity from sunday s storm. in this gentleman s case, we had a crew on site. and they were doing work and when that work was finished, they assumed that everything was fine on that particular circuit. so they left. reporter: president tom graham admits there have been hurdles and setbacks but argues against the claim that the company was slow to respond. i m peggy fox in falls church. the young sniper associated with killing ten people in the washington region now says he had accomplices and there were twice as many shootings. 25 lee boyd malvo makes the allegations on the phone from prison to william shatner for a cable tv show. there was supposed to be three to four snipers with silence rifles, and in this way you can do a lot more damage. reporter: but bob hor narks who prosecuted malvo says his only accomplice was mohammad. got a script. mohammad was executed in novembe
i called 911, i waited until the the fire trucks came. i told them what i saw. and i didn t even know that there was a train down there. thank you very much for sharing that experience with us. we ll let you go. thank you very much for helping us out. reporter: the people say that the trains are being held at silver springs. if you re worried about metro, it does run from forest to north and silver springs south during the process of bringing in buses to transition between the two locations. but no metro between forest glen. and we re also told this is affecting am track. this is just breaking the concern right now. that power pole we showed you before, the fear that the worse might not be over. the fear that it could come down and endanger other people. they were on top of it. we ll get back to the latest. hey gary, is this the result of that line of storms that came in? or was this a pole that was simply vulnerable because of the last line of the storms that came down
london. good morning, mark. good morning. soon after a crash, the numbers of dead and for that matter survives are always changing but it appears there were a number of people who lived through this crash. there had been, as you say, 152 people on board. reporter: the plane on a flight from karachi to islamabad crashed as it was apparently trying to land. pakistan is now in the monsoon season. when heavy rains and dense cloud move up from the indian ocean and the weather was terrible. some other flights have reportedly been canceled over the past few days, but it is much too early to conclude what caused this crash. the terrain around the airport is densely forested hills and valleys making access to the crash site extremely difficult. the plane was an airbus 321 and the flight is a regular commuter run between pakistan s largest city and its capital and was operated by the private airblue airline. while there have been safety issues with pakistan s aviation industry airb
this morning. pepco says they have brought in crews working around the clock, to get all of the power on for people without power this morning one thing i want to point out a lot of people had confusion when they were calling pepco to report the outages and they said they were not going to have power until august. that s not the case. that was an error with the pepco voice messaging system. it is not going to be that long but it is going to be at least several days before power is back on. a lot of power outages and signal disruptions due to power outages, downed trees, a lot of debris in this roadway, bottom line, you want extra time as you make your way in to work. back to you, jessica. you are on the roadway and seeing what is going on with the lights out and debris in the roadway. are you seeing any traffic are problems result of that this morning? not yet. it is still early. 4:30 a.m. not a ton of traffic on the roadway yet. there we go. we have some sirens behind us