That severely damaged by electr arcing during mondays metro incident. This was in a tunnel south of the lenphant pla station. Now, early information from the nationfed s that when that arc occurred a Circuit Breaker, a safety component, tripped, cutting power to one section of track. But it would be another 46 minutes before the damaged section was completely cut off. When workers at Metro Operations Center tripped another Circuit Breaker by remote control. In the meantime ventilation fans had b turned on inside the tunnel but firefighters report were delayed by uncertaiy or weather the track they needed to get to rescue riders was still electrifie also hamper tharg efforts, just gettine doors open. Sours tell news4 that the type of railcar involved didnt have readily accessible emergency handles to open the doors. Firefigh in the tunnel were trying t get passengers to open them from the inside. Th couldnt. More than 80 people were injured as the tunnel and train filled with smoke. One
Towards atlanta. Big flakes falling around the atlanta area there. That same storm system bringing all of that moisture up t. E an advisory in effect across the area i95 from the pennsy border down towards fredericks winter storm warning for parts of the norther neck where we are expecting more snow in towards that area. Lets talk about it. What are we expecting from this storm . We think the snow will move in by 3 00 a. M. In most locations. Sooner to the south around frederic. S c very very quickly. We anticipatin major rush delays early tomorrow morning. Youll need to give yourself extra time. Really, t to plan on that right now. There could also be closures or delays as far as schools and activiti are concerned too. Well have it all for you and update you from the storm center. We ha breaking news. The arrest of a high ranking state depar employee. A d. C. Judge has just denied bond for daniel rosen. He was arrested on a warrant out of Fairfax County that accused him of soliciting
areas, north and west of the district. dc is about 35. temperatures will be important tonight. let s start with the fog advisory. i want you to see it s mainly right now for northern virginia, but the national weather service is considering expanding this if the fog is continuing to be a problem. this will go to 7:00 in the morning. let s take the map full so you can see it. it s possible that your visibility could drop sharply, down to a quarter mile or below. dulles is already there. this may expand to maryland and dc as we go into the overnight hours. it s already bad as we were looking into northwest dc. we also have a little bit of light rain we have to keep an eye on. i want you to see what s going on with that. luckily for us, this is not the same scenario as last night. this is not a storm coming up the coast. this is a weak disturbance in the atmosphere coming up the mountains. there are a few spots where temperatures are really close to 32 degrees. check out hagerst