there was a lot of smoke and sparks. there were a lot of frightened passengers. this is what they had to say. we heard noises and the train was moving strange and then there were sparks. then you see big old flame and the train stops in the tunnel. then all of a sudden we smelled smoke. and the lights went out. reporter: was it scary? of course. i mean, everybody thinks about september 11th. of course we were scared. reporter: some of those passengers i m talking about hundreds of passengers, were on those trains for nearly two hours. some of them had to get led off through the tunnels. they used the glow sticks you see at the beach to light in tunnels so they could see their way past the wires and boxes in the tunnels and then make their way to the street above. now all of the service in the blue and orange line up to speed tonight. the general manager here at metro says metro is safe and he says he plans to take it home tonight. but there is a lot of controver
in store if our tuesday. bring along an umbrella. very muggy conditions out there to start the day. humidity is way up. dew point temperatures are way up. we have a cold front on our doorstep here just out to the west. that will start pressing through during the course of the day today. a little morning sunshine and mostly cloudy skies this afternoon. showers and thunderstorms will be likely by late this afternoon, early this evening. some drier air will move in during the overfight hours. 75 in washington. ocean city, 75 to start the day hagerstown, 74. this is reminiscent of july. becoming mostly cloudy. showers and thunderstorms likely. high temperature about 89 degrees. more details on the forecast coming up in just a couple of minute. thank you. we want to take a look at our top stories. search will continue at 8:00 this morning for a 36-year-old woman and her 14-year-old daughter, both swept away in the potomac river. we re told the woman went in after her daughte
89 in d.c. now, with the dew point so high, this is the lowest they have been all day. dew points were in the 70s most of the day. when you factor that in with the temperatures, it feels like the mid-90s for a lot of places. 90 in ethan. and at one point, felt like 97 degrees. we re getting a few clouds out here at this point. we do have some ups and downs coming up shortly. and wjz 13 is always on. stay with eyewitness news for complete coverage of first warning weather. for updates on the forecast, live doppler radar any time, and updated power outages if they occur, log onto wjz.com. tonight, baltimore city police are swarming several neighborhoods after a string of violence this weekend. seven people have been murdered since shortly after midnight saturday. wjz is live. mike hellgren has new information on these cases from the head of homicide. mike. adam, here s an extraordinary number. since just after midnight on saturday, we re talking one murder every 9 al hour
reporter: and just like the suspects in that hess gas station murder-for-hire, all four of these people are currently being held at the baltimore county detention center, on charges of first- degree murder. and coming up on eyewitness news at 6:00, i ll given you a i ll give you a better idea of how police unraveled this mystery. adam may, wjz eyewitness news. earlier, police said they were looking for two black males. that turned out tock a false report. two people involved nay double shooting in southwest baltimore. it happened just before 4:00. one of the victims was shot in the face. the other shot in the neck. police say they have recovered a gun. and one more than is in custody. the other major developing story that we re following at this hour. right now, mud is pumping into the gushing oil well in the gulf, in hopes of stopping that massive leak. you re looking at pictures provided now by bp. thousands of feet below the sea level. kathrynkathryn brown report
tape. excuses. leaders don t use excuses. again we have a national disaster, and we are being told to wait. we re asking bp to step up to the plate. i m beg the federal government now to do the right thing. reporter: jindal backed by passion al parish leaders has his own plan to begin building sand barriers around precious he is tu airies. blackhawks, grinnooks. reporter: louisiana residents remember all too well the last time they waited for help. hurricane katrina ingrained in their minds. if we wait we ll die. reporter: with wildlife and weigh of life thang ha in the many are building barriers to save the land they love. it is sml that will be irrelevant repable damage to our fishermen. reporter: federal officials say they re pressing bp for a solution. we now have new schedules for what they expect to happen this week. reporter: bp officials hope to try again to patch up the spilling well on tuesday. but many local leaders say they can t wait that