Arrive coming up. Erin. Problems on the roads and the rails. A crawl on the outer loop by New Hampshire boulevard New Hampshire avenue because of the stall by university boulevard. Blue line delays by king street. Well help steer you clear of the rail and road slowdowns with your next look at traffic. Erin thanks. More details on both coming. First lets talk politics. President trump on the verge of a legislative victory this morning but democrats say they won too. Congress close to passing a bipartisa agreement to avoid a Government Shutdown but there is a price for compromise. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick is live on capitol hill with more now. Good morning. Reporter well, steve and allison the price tag a trillion dollars with money in this spending compromise for many of the various priorities of the president and lawmakers and not very many cuts. Washington may be able to keep the Government Shutdown signs under wraps for a few months now with congress on the verge of inking a deal to kee
Arrive coming up. Erin. Problems on the roads and the rails. A crawl on the outer loop by New Hampshire boulevard New Hampshire avenue because of the stall by university boulevard. Blue line delays by king street. Well help steer you clear of the rail and road slowdowns with your next look at traffic. Erin thanks. More details on both coming. First lets talk politics. President trump on the verge of a legislative victory this morning but democrats say they won too. Congress close to passing a bipartisa agreement to avoid a Government Shutdown but there is a price for compromise. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick is live on capitol hill with more now. Good morning. Reporter well, steve and allison the price tag a trillion dollars with money in this spending compromise for many of the various priorities of the president and lawmakers and not very many cuts. Washington may be able to keep the Government Shutdown signs under wraps for a few months now with congress on the verge of inking a deal to kee
Director. This morning the department of justice denying reports that comey requested more resources for the investigation into russian meddling just days before his firing. Meantime there are mixed reactions to calls to some lawmakers asking for a special prosecutor take over the investigation. Melanie alnwick live on capitol hill now with more. Good morning. Reporter well, steve and allison its pretty clear that repulican leaders here on capitol hill do not support those calls for a special prosecutor. But the Senate Intelligence committee does vow to continue its own investigation into the matter even as some members do say comeys firing, the timing of it, is questionable. Now former fbi director james comey says hes not going to dwell on president trumps decision to fire him. Very simply he was not doing good job. Reporter in an fbi farewell letter comey says hell be fine but will miss the fbi. The ap reports the firing came after the president felt comey wasnt doing leaks about th
Part of last nights onetwo punch. So are dc sports cursed . Well have a live report. And later, daytime diva . Wait until you hear Steve Harveys staff demands leaked in recent memo. Good day at 9a starts now. Well today was supposed to be day of celebration but unfortunately our smiles have turned to frowns because i mean we can still be happy. You can be. Sports is just a bummer. It feels like the same old same old, right. Its a bummer. I was ready to go on the band ago. Oh, stop. Had my Running Shoes on and everything. Good day d. C. It didnt end well. Well talk much more about it. Today is thursday may 11th im maureen alongside holly, morris and the wisdom martin. I think this one is hard. I really believed. Owe really believed shellacking on monday in pittsburgh that this was going to be it. Your enthusiasm was getting couldnt stages. I believed it. Its not such a good day for dc sports fans. Two of the three of the ones playing last night loft. The ones in the playoffs. Thats why
Coastline. Elizabeth. The reports of big bowling ball size rocks and blocking at least one lane in the southbound direction. Let you know as soon as it clears and the commute. It could cause slowdowns. Also, no problem this morning and everything moving right along. The roadwork into treasure island. This morning, all trains on time. In fact, theyve got 36 right now all on schedule with more on our potential bart. Lets go to michelle. Elizabeth, thank you. Bart trains running this morning. Negotiators continue to keep talking for at least 24 hours. Team talks continue. We start with kate in oakland. Kate . Pretty much sounding like a broken record at this point. No strike, no contract, theres no compromise and really, bart is calling latest offer take it or leave it. The union decided to leave it or better yet said fix it to. Bart management burned the midnight oil working late into the night trying to finalize what feels like the never ending saga. After the marathon negotiations, get