Normally they have it blocked off. But today they dont. We contacted vdot. So did one of their contract plow crews to let them know about the unsafe conditions here. It wasnt long before the road was closed. Well be watching high water through the day and tonight. As the sun broke through and ice continued to melt, maintenance crews at schools made sure parking lots were ready for the return of schools. And families began to venture out to do errands put off during the storm. These boys had traded in their boots for crocs. Ready for the kids to go back to school. Its warming up and just, its great its all melting and looking forward to spring. This first graders take on our weather lately. His mom, glad to see the snow and ice disappearing. Im not a winter person anyway. Im happy that theres an early spring evening activities scheduled for Loudoun County schools were able to go ahead tonight. Back to you, doreen in the studio. Most school disz triktricts region have used six or eight s
Has left. The one that was damaged they were not able to upright and remove. Meanwhile down the tracks you can see new tracks. We understand they are waiting to be put in place here. Crews continue their work. We understand it will likely be days before everything is back up and running. Throughout the day some of the 16 rail cars that were derailed were uprooted and removed from the site. Ethanol from one car was offloaded. Throughout the afternoon, crews have been removing and replacing soil in this area that was impacted by the hazmat spill. While metro trains are back up and running today there is still an impact for those who use marc and amtrak. Two of the marc camden line trains have been canceled tonight. There will only there three brunswick trains tonight. C. S. X. These tracks generally are inspected visually several times a week. They are inspected between three and 12 times a year by a system that uses ultrasound to examine the internal characteristics of the steel rails t
Crews were working for more than seven hours earlier today. Take a look at video as we showed up here in the last half hour for what metro is calling a track problem that happened that forced single trackk. And tracking and continues to delay the evening rush hour. We know this is a track problem according to metro. Not related to the incident that happened earlier this morning. Now we do also know that there was a train on this same stretch of track what was offloaded earlier today. Riders tell us the lights started to flash and they were asked to get off the train at stadium armory down the way from where we stand. This all comes after the major commuting mess this morning for riders after metro says a disabled train that was a test train before it opens to riders, went out on the tracks. The test did not work properly. Fire that happened as a result of tha riders say that they are fed up. I feel like we are put in danger. We are not even warned about it. Either you are stuck in a tu
Near knife and rhode island at 6 40 a. M. The cleanup is still underway. We have live Team Coverage. Roz plater has the impact on the morning commute, but we begin with Cheryl Oconnor with what happened and how long the cleanup could take. we are right off rhode island avenue and the heavy equipment was brought in hours ago, trying to up right the railcars. They have made some progress. We know that three different chemicals linked following the derailment this morning. Hours have gone by and csx railcars are still off the tracks. I thought it was a bomb or something. Nobody was injured, but all day people are looking up to get a better look. You can see the one crumbled. Eryl csx confirmed the cars derailed this morning. Hazardous material. L this person came to check on his grandmother, who lives in the area. Three cars had fluids leaking from them, a nonhazardous calcium chloride, ethanol, which they are still trying to rese al and a chemical used to make soaps and detergentss. Gall
This blog and social media is out of control. People have no common sense. The operator of fairfax underground will only remove the post if mittendorffs family asks him to do so and only reveal the i. P. Address of people that wrote them if issued a court order. This is trying to get the attention from the Fire Department to the chalk board someone graffitid on, fairfax underground. Jeff chief bowers doesnt know if they contributed to nicole mittendorffs suicide. That is part of the investigation. He says the changes are coming to the Fairfax County Fire Department including Sexual Harassment and bullying assessment and training. Training and prevention for suicide. Maureen we have a developing story from Prince William county where the body of a woman missing for ten days has been found. 36yearold lopezs body was discovered near a Drainage Ditch near cotton mill drive and griffith avenue. She was last seen leaving a c. V. S. On april 17. The police began investigating when her vehicle