Nbcwashington. Com. Search metro. Jim, back to you. Thank you. Check out some pictures from social media we pulled out down. The delays led to massive platform and street closures and made a worldwide trending hash tag on twitter today. Megan fitzgerald is live for us at the foggy bottom station with the inconvenience for riders. Reporter and jim, those comments and pictures on facebook and twitter help to tell the story. People stuck on metro platforms for hours. Some folks so fed up they walk over the key bridge do get to work. Need dsz needless to say, many of the folks said theyre frustrated and angry. Spend too much money on this to be messing up. Reporter taking the metro is supposed to be quick and easy. Its very convenient inexpensive and just great way to get around. Reporter monday mornings commute single tracking. Shuttle bus across the street to rosslyn. Reporter anything but. Supposed to take 15 minutes and took like 45. Ive been on the metro for four hours trying to get h
Back to you at 6 30 with developments on whats happening here. Jim, back to you. All right. Adam tuss thank you. The delays didnt just create an inconvenient commute for tens of thousands of riders. It led to very expensive commutes for some of them. Our new reporter Meagan Fitzgerald has that angle on this coverage. Reporter good evening. For those passengers getting d. C. Quickly this morning, they didnt have many alternatives. Taxi or uber. But because of high demand uber increased the rates to nearly five times the average costs which means some travelers are left with a hefty bill. A significant delay. You can take a shuttle bus. Reporter hearing the announcements and signs of delays isnt how anyone wants to start their monday morning commute. Four hours to get to foggy bottom. Reporter some people didnt have time to wait four hours. But some of the other alternatives werent any better. I tried to take a uber but fare was 4. 8. Reporter thats right. Nearly five times more than wha
5 00 hour. Beltway at colesville everything looking good. Dont have any major issues right now. Keep your fingers crossed for that. 5 01 a lot of you are worried about making it to work on time this morning. If you have to take metro. Yesterday was a long day filled with problems for a lot of you. Late last night, track problems at metro center shut down the station just as the wizards game was letting out. Earlier today there were major issues on the red, blue and silver lines. Were working to get in touch with metro officials to find out how things are going this morning. Megan, how are things looking now . Were waiting for that official update at metro. We still have the gates closed. Im at the g street g and 11 street entrance to metro center. About the last ten minutes or so they actually turned on the escalators but they have not yet opened the gates and this station is supposed to open at 5 00 a. M. So whats going to happen here this morning . Were still waiting to see. D. C. Go
Investigation in a residential neighborhood. Near the university of maryland campus. Not sure about the details of exactly what happened here. Now, earlier there was an alert that went out for suspects in a tan van. Were being told that that is not accurate. There was confusion with information. That they are not looking for a tan Honda Odyssey any longer. But, again, awaiting more information. Awaiting that briefing and of course, well bring you the latest as soon as we get it. Megan mcgrath, news 4. Aaron, eun, back to you. Well wait for those answers. Thank you. Time for weather and traffic on the 1s. Meteorologist tom kierein here now with your forecast. Tom . Good morning. Overnight the winds shifted to the northwest. The sky has mostly cleared out now. We have some mild temperatures for this time of the morning for a february morning, well take it. Right now down into the mid40s in Prince Georges County. Much of montgomery county, arlington, fairfax, also the mid40s. In the Distr
Turned up in virginia were learning that the three people have been arrested in the case and that they will appear in court again on monday. State police do plan to hold a News Conference this afternoon. Well be monitoring that and bring you new information. Well have the latest on our website at nbcwashington. Com. Thats the latest from the live desk. Right now, a manhunt is underway for a man who shot and killed a music teacher on her doorstep. Police have been searching for her killer for almost 4 hours. Were getting brand new reaction to this shocking crime. Megan mcgrath is following this story for us. Reporter you can see police are maintaining control of the house. Its still considered an active crime scene. You can see the people have stopped by this morning and dropped off flowers. Some of ruthannes students have left their music books here. The gunman is still on the loose. Hello, everybody. So glad to see you. Reporter its the song that Ruthanne Lodato used to start all her