Been the target of the harassment and the threatsnt a because of these online conspiracy theories. Heor tonight we spoke with the owner of comet as well as several patrons. Heres what they had to say. Weve been completely overwhelmed and incredibleelme touched by the support of ourof community here in washington and around the world and we look forward to serving you for many years to come. Were all appalled. I had run into james i think asked him if theyve seen a lot of the internet furor. I asked him if he was worry abouted about it. We sort of chatted for a little bit. We thought that it was a remote sort of acan that. Nobody really thought that it would come home to the restaurant. You can imagine, you know, we were appalled and shocked that it did. Edgar welch is being held on non bond in the district. Dist hell go before a judge again on thursday. Live tonight in northwest d. C. ,n marinaorth maracco, fox5 local. D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser got a chance to sit down face to face wit
Slack. Pete is live inside one of those buses. Youve got quite a bit of company. Reporter yeah, these buses have been jam packed all day. Train ridership is down 65 for the morning rush. Close to what it needs for this bait and switch to work. This is now the reality at Eastern Market. Metro riders had to get off the train and wait for a bus. Its hot. I dont like the heat. The heat is on metro to fix some of its most traveled tracks leaving d. C. , orange and Silver Line Service ends at Eastern Market. The orange line picks up again at minnesota avenue. The silver line resumes at being road. For now, buses stop at every station in between. They have to fix the tracks. What more can you do . Id rather be inconvenienced for a little bit. Anthony jones is he was lucky to get a seat on this shuttle. A large bus like this is smaller than one rail car. Right now, yeah, theres no other way to get around it. Shuttle buses are the thing. The ride between Eastern Market and minnesota avenue took
Dropped the temperature 15degrees. We will have to much what the potential. Right now were keeping a close eye on the storm in the middle burger and thats the only warn storm we have at the moment but we will certainly pass along any others we g. It continues to be another heat advise try day. We think there could not be another heat advisory tomorrow, but another round of thunderstorms. In the district, police chief cathy lanier announcing her retirement today after 26 years2 on the force and nearly tenarly years as top cop. Lanier is now taking hertaki expertise to the envelope wheree she will be senior vicepresident of security. Fox5s paul wagner life at Police Headquarters tonight with more on what the chief had to say about moving on. Paul, did you expect this todayi reporter to be honest withth you, yes. You, not today, per se, but in speaking with officers over the last several weeks and seeing her and how she was engaged with orallers and seemed to me and others that it looked
Contribute more to the operation side of metro, then the next time something bad happens, hes coming back here and blaming congress. So theres been a lot of bad blood thats already been spilled here on capitol hill this afternoon. Before all of this, there was another meeting with the local congressional delegation. Metro general manager Paul Wiedefeld was there in that meeting. Virginia senator tim kaine was telling him he thinks the metro board is actually too involved in the daytoday operations of whats going on in metro. Take a listen to that. A lot of my concern about leadership has been about the board and the absence of a general manager and, you know, i have just been flummoxed about some board activity. Now, im not asking you to comment on the board, but i just am saying, youve got to be the manager of this system. Reporter so to that the general manager basical replied i run the system. A lot talked about on capitol hill today. What managers plan, what hes going to do specifi
Virginia Police Officer gunned downon tothe south and east. More west of town the National Weather service has dropped for whats the Winter Weather advisories. They are in effect a little while longer. Then the counties in white in the Northern Neck and also st. Marys, most are winter storm warnings. You can see the snow is presenting down to the south here. In western charles and most of prince georges now, were not picking up much in doppler activity here. Outside our been down in maryland checking conditions. Thankfully, wet roads this morning. Reporter wet roadways coming down, and robert is talking about, people are driving at the speed limit or a little bit under. Here in clinton the snow has stopped falling. Two inches total. The only place it has stuck it is the grass, bushes and trees and on top of cars and at the gas station most people are doing the right thing and brushing the snow off the top of their cars. And i was also clearing the snow off my vehicle. You know, the per