Story in district investigation into what caused Early Morning fire me northeast d. C. 31 0 block of bladeensburg road. Melanie alnwick sl followinging this for us and brings us the latest now. Melanie. Hey, good morning, once again steve and allison an before earlier in the show showing you the front of building and now we came down to side of building and better look at how many different businesses are in here. And the efforts that firefighters had to go through to try to get in this building were told around 2 30 in morning when alarm started going off firefighters arrived and it was very touv get in here and everything locked up tight and number of businesses here right behind me here you see where they store some postal trucks and things thats why we get postal up suspecttors here and again the damage here coming down to some of these other buildings and it appears that the fire the origin was all the way here at the end back here. This say Company Called Phoenix Historical resto
They dont think it would beuld done by tonight. The federal grant would go a w long way in funding the the quarter billion dollar project. Projt. There have been warnings there e if the bridge does not undergond the much needed repairs, it could close to vehicles asehless soon as 2021. 2 our other big story this stot morning tense moments during a congressional hearing on capitol hill. Tol hi metro officials tellingffic lawmakers that the only way to fix operational issues is withsw more money. On that didnt go over well. L. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick is alncki live at the lenfant metrot met station with more now. Mel, good morning. Reporter good morning. R and so the point that metro met Board Chairman jack evans wasjaa trying to make is that metro m is an century source for the federal government. Therefore, metro board b believes that the feds should fd kick in as much money as d. C. C maryland and virginia do foro f maintenance and repairs to thept system. But some members of the House