It is a very busy wednesday morning. Im kendis gibson. And im reena ninan. Of course, well start with all of the excitement of last night that has bled into this morning. The voters really have spoken in five key states, ending the campaign of marco rubio with his loss in florida as trump and clinton get closer to being their partys nominees. They each won carolina and florida. But take a look at the numbers. John kasich stopping trump in ohio win winning by a wide marge. Clinton also getting a big win in ohio despite that surprise lost last week in neighboring michigan. In her native state in, illinois, it was a close one between the democrats. Sanders winning the rural area but clinton doing well in chicago. Across the Mississippi River in missouri, razor thin margins in both races. The gop race separated by less than 2,000 votes. Also extremely close among the two democrats. Some of the details following last nights races. Well start with the democrats. Yes, Hillary Clintons victori
Problem of its own. If it allows it to fall down. And if we allow this application period to go by because two jurisdictions couldnt figure it out, shame on us. The park service says if repairs dont begin by 2019 it will need to close the entire bridge by 2021. Rerouting 68,000 vehicles each day on to other area bridges. There is no doubt a number of congressional staffers and the National Park Service Employees will be having an allnighter to get the application in order. Even so, critics say the park service dug itself too deep of a hole to now dig out of. Live in arlington, im kevin lewis. Abc7 news. Leon thanks, kevin. Covering metro tonight, g. M. Paul wiedefeld and chairman jack evans faced hours of tough questioning on capitol hill. The pair met with senators from virginia and m overnight hearing. The Lawmakers Said while much more needs to be done, metro is slowly making progress improving safety. They praise the hiring of the new york veteran Patrick Lavin as the chief safety
It will be busy. If you can get on the road earlier to get to your destination, we suggest you do. Lets talk about the issues right now. We have Road Construction going on on the outer loop of the beltway between richie marb on rof road. Because of the metro being shut down today, hov restrictions along i270 are being waived today which means commuters travelling southbound will be able to hop on hov to work your way into town. That is going to be for the morning as well as for the afternoon rush. A lot going on on marcus lyle where theyll add additional train cars to deal with all of this increased volume theyll see on the trains this morning. Theyll be operating extra trains on train l 870 and 977 for the brunswick line. Brunswick line train will see additional train cars as well. Note, that will help friends from prince county working their way into the station. Bre is running on schedule and we will check in with them to see if they have any additional train cars as well. Lets chec
Its neighbors shut their borders. The rain doesnt stop, she says. Its disgusting. The children are suffering badly from the cold. The way forward blocked by razor wire and macedonian police. Behind back to the aegean sea is not an option. About 3,000 refugees attempted to go around the fence crossing a rushing river tuesday. It was chaotic and several people drowned and the macedonians detained and deported about 700. The others we found walking back the three miles to camp earlier today. Ambitions moving on to mad doania crushed. We want a solution, she says. We cannot take it anymore. We want to kill ourselves. This is a disaster. And back to the greek camp they went. This man has been here for three weeks. This man says. We are from the ton of hasaka. We have doctors and engineers. We are only searching for security and peace. As refugees continue to flood into greece eu countries will meet later thursday to discuss the crisis and refugees here hope that means opening the borders. R
Left a Shopping Mall inal greenbelt. The two parted ways but thenpart police say the suspect s approached her again when she ws walked across breeze wood drive to an apartment complex. C he pulled out a knife out a k threatened her took her intok ho the woods and then sexuallyuall assaulted her, that is, that is according to police. E. Our other big story this morning, tense moments during ms a congressional hearing onring capitol hill. Fox5s felon joining us5 live. S morning, mel. Ng, m reporter . Reporter good morning. Metros new leadership isrshi serious about the work it has wh to do. They went to congress onces again asking for dedicated funding to deal withl wit maintenance and repairs but House Republicans did little shutdown of that own sayingf thn metro was not going get any g more money from them. He at the subcommittee hearingring the ntsb testified concerning informationnformati following its investigation ofto the Lenfant Plaza smoke s incident that killed a womanledm last