Right now on capitol hill a look at the worst government jobs. Do you or someone you know have one of these jobs . Find out, news 4 midday starts right now. Im molette green at the live desk. New video just in shows us the tough ride on metros green and yellow lines. Metro just tweeted moments ago this message no longer single tracking. But passengers there are still caught up in the delays that have lasted throughout the morning. This video we want to show you shows the emergency vehicles in the area. We told you about a track problem at the fort totten station that prompted metro to initially suspend service were keep an eye on this from the live desk. The green belt metro station is back open. A pedestrian bridge collapse shut the station down until 5 45 this morn ging. Yesterday a crane hit the bridge causing it to collapse. It came down on the top of the tracks between the green belt and college park stations. Mark service was also suspended but has been restored now. Crews worked
Staff mark short from the west wing. Mark short might be on this list of resignations were seeing. A former white house official tells cnn the president is out of his mind. This morning four people are dead from this event yesterday including one woman who was shot inside the capitol. Obviously these images simply shocking to see. The armed standoff on the house floor. Lawmakers obviously in fear, reasonable fear. One told us she thought she was about to be a victim of a mass shooting incident. You can see the rioters sitting in the chair in the u. S. Senate, thats the president pro tems or the Vice President s seat inside the senate chamber. Throughout the morning we will speak to more lawmakers who were there, also going to try to figure out how this huge Security Breach could happen in the middle of it all was our senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju who joins us live now from capitol hill. Manu, i cant tell you how glad i am to see you this morning safely doing your job rep
Be back here with everyone because we have a busy news saturday. I dont know if you had plans, but if you did, you better spend a few minutes with us to get the latest. And for the latest we have Mark Meredith tracking it all. Good morning, the president relies on the twitter account to dictate policy, fire people and say whats on his mind. Theyve suspended his account. When you go on to twitter and try to find his handle, account suspended. His photo is gone, past messages no longer visible and until yesterday he had some 80 million plus followers. Twitter releasing a statement friday night writing after close review of tweets from the president , the account and context around them and specifically how theyre received and interpreted on and off twitter weve permanently suspended the account due to further incitement of violence. And theyve not only blocked the president and his followers, and twitter spokesperson says those accounts are not going to be banned, but there will be limit
Make donald trump the first president in the United States history to be impeached twice. Andrea, unlike last time, todays expected Impeachment Vote will be bipartisan. Thats because a growing number of republicans have already defected, including the number three republican in the house, liz cheney, also the most powerful republican in the senate, Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell reportedly pleased about the impeachment. Privately, backing kasie hunt said sending up white smoke, if you will. Thats right. We have our team of reporters and analysts standing by, including our panel for the next 60 minutes. Claire mccaskill, michael steele, both msnbc political analysts, chuck rosenberg, senior fbi official joins us as well. We want to start on capitol hill with Leigh Ann Caldwell who can take us through what we are seeing. We are in the middle of a procedural vote on this motion by republicans to set up a commission effectively to look at what they describe as the failures of the election
House and capitol and canceling most events as a precaution but two permits were granted to allow protests nearby. Authorities are bracing for possible unrest at all 50 state capitols, there have been the warnings but we should emphasize so far Officials Say there are no real exact credible threats. We have live fox News Coverage for you, casey steigel in austin texas, lets begin with Steve Harrigan with the latest in the nations capitol, steve. Steve eric, we heard quite a bit about the security zone or green zone being set by the secret services around the white house. You can see the security zone growing as we speak. Its getting longer and longer. This is about an 8foot high steel fence all the way down this block. The white house is actually several blocks over say the security zone is growing, its being reinforced at some of the intersections theres dump trucks the steel fence to make sure no one can smash through. When you talk to experts they say the overwhelming use of force s