mexican gulf coast, about 110 miles south of brownsville, texas. alex triggered two tornadoes in brownsville, but no injuries or severe damage is reported. whit johnson is on south padre island just off the coast of south texas. good morning, whit. reporter: emily, good morning. today the rain has died down, but the wind continues. gusts up to 50 miles per hour still batter the coast, and people here are eager for this slow-moving storm to finally move on. the outer edges of alex are leaving south texas, wind-whipped and soaked. this is not too bad. dolly was way worse. reporter: the storm roared ashore wednesday night as a category 2 hurricane, packing winds near 110 miles per hour. it spawned at least two tornadoes in brownsville and pounded the region with heavy rain. we thought it d be sweet to go check everything out with the rain. oh, my god! reporter: alex may have spared texas a direct hit, but mexico s gulf coast wasn t so lucky. the powerful system flooded
the maps. not picking up anything out of the ordinary. as we move to virginia, though and checking out how things are on 395, nice and quiet from duke all the way to the 14th street bridge. marc managers have scheduled a second straight meeting with commuters at union station. they are trying to reassure train riders that steps are being taken after several missteps in the last ten days. kristin fisher is live at union station with more. good morning. there were actually two big marc meetings here in washington yesterday. one was a meet the marc managers event held here at union station for all marc rider and the other was an emergency meeting of the marc riders a advisory council to address the problems that have been taking place on the penn line over the past two weeks weeks. ten days ago, almost 1,000 passengers on a northbound penn line train were stranded on the tracks for over two hours in 90- degree temperatures when the train suffered a power failure. then, exa