National airport, almost 2 inches above average for the month of may. Slight chance of an afternoon storm today and turning warmer than average again this afternoon and we do have Storm Chances coming in later in the week. Patchy morning fog, so use your low beams. Were starting off in the mid60s there, upper 60s, near 670, still steamy with the humidity hanging in the air. The bus stop forecast coming up in ten minutes. Jack has a look at traffic. From the bay bridge, youll find 50 west from the bay bridge through annapolis everything open, nothing in your way so far. Big beltway map, youre looking good. No construction overnight. They will begin probably about noon today if they will be doing any kind of mid way work and then back to normal. Back into you. Just into the newsroom,d wa then back to normal. Back into you. Just into the newsroom,way then back to normal. Back into you. Jus back to normal. Back into you. Just into the newsroom, we found out the death toll has gone up in te
Its about 73 weekday tripsei is what 33 say metro the kind of impact its going to to have. Ha its going to run 13 days, day until june 16th, continuousth, single tracking between the East Falls Church and ballston stations. Expect extreme crowding inroin each direction. Irection. What are crews going to be crews doing . During that time they are going to be replacingla parts of the third rail, the insulators and cover boards boa and cleaning up the trackleanint beds. The federal Transit Administration says urgentay repairs are required to reduce the risk of smoke and fire events. This section initially wasas planned for november but the feds said, nope, you got to do this one first. Ne first. Ballston and new carrolton interestingly enough metroh m says its going to be puttingut on some Additional Trains, as, a mix of six and eight carig trains during the morning and afternoon rush. Rush. Some folks told us theyre planning as l an hour early this morning tonit try to navigate metro to
Good morning to you, imni allison seymour. N seour. And im steve chenevey. m ste welcome to fox5 news morning. Mg get ready for a little bit offo a challenge this morning. It is the first week day rushk h since metros safetrackaf project began. Began it affects the orange and orangd silver lines. This week metro riders beingei encouraged to find another wayot to get to work. O w reporter we have liveter we Team Coverage this morning. Ornig erin como standing by with a a look at todays travel times. Jennifer davis is talking with riders on the silver line. First lets heck back in with Melanie Alnwick live on the orange line at the ballston station this mnwe orning. Morni. Good morning. You just talked to the generaldn manager i hear. I hea reporter yes, we d he has been here for the majorityat of this morning and i can tell t you that now that it is 7 oclock, he is headed over o to the controls, the rail operations center. He wants to be there in personrn watching as everything is sort
Learned as to how the h t safetrack plan is going. Soing so, let me let you hear from f him himself and then wellhe w tell you about how everythingutw else is going today. T more reliable and obviously safety issues will bes wi minimized. Thats what were getting out of this. rof but weary building basic stuffis here. Re. Unfortunately its not shrine se knee and new its the balance bn lasts, its the ties, just new rail, things that are sortgs t which the customer isnt goingsg to see but theyll experience it just in more reliability. Re. You can see some of the issuesss that need to be taken care of. Ce look at all the water the w intrusion there along theng the tracks. What is happening here this morning, there is a little bitha ofre confusion because you havev one line where theyre going t to be single tracking going downtown but then over here oner this other side, this is where w theyre doing what theyreng whe calling like a short track. Ck. So, it isnt going to go t through the tunn
Morning it is going to affect tf your commute. Yo if youre riding thue orangea or silver lines youll need lots of patience. Melanie alnwick is live withickv what you need to know beforenowe you walk out the door this morning. Mel. Reporter hey, guys, yeah, so, you know, this section of track from ther orange line from ballston tollst East Falls Church initiallynialy this work was planned to benn done in november but then theute federal Transit Administration you may remember came back and a told metro, uhuh, you got toott do this line first basicallyasly because theyre very concerned n about trying reduce what they saw as very dangerous smokeke and fire incidents telling telli them there were three sectionstn of track that had to be numberur one, right at the top of their priority list and so that is i why were beginning today withow the orange line. Here at ballston were kind of waiting to see how exactly it is going to impact riders and people. This is where people are gpeoing to be