tear-stained chokes behind me inside the big hangar here. the 114 members of the fairfax county urban search-and-rescue team and the virginia task force, number one, just returned home and be about here 20, 25 and they re about to go inside to a briefing and they re announcing that now and asked us not to talk to the men and women, some of the canine handlers being women here and asked us not to do introduces with them until after a briefing with the officials and they re called into a room after spending some time with their families and we spoke with a few wives and a daughter. you ll hear from them in a moment. for now, they re one of these tired people away from their families for two weeks to get reunited, stay home and now they re going go in closed-door session and talk about their mission and then that ll come back out and we ll talk to them then and share some of their stories at 10 for you. let s show you the arrival at dulles airport, around 4:20. down at 4:19 this
part of the red group and one group ran up to and over the other group two metro rail workers were apparently run over by a truck-like work vehicle at 1:45 a.m. and inside, a second work crew was driving backwards from shady grove to rockville and they believe the crew was indicating signal beakons. there were two atc or automatic train control technicians working at a location north of the rockville station. that is performing a unique function. there was a second work group on the high-rail vehicles performing a separate function. reporter: killed at the scene, 49-year-old jeff gearard. 68-year-old sung, h was taken to the hospital and he succumbed to his injuries. because it was the scene of another fatal accident, safety investigats swarmed to the site completely shutting down the shady grove and rock will have station. metro pressed into some of the neighborhood buses for bridging service around the closed stations and the wait for most morning rush passengers in thi
right now investigators remain on the scene of a deadly accident that killed two metro workers early this morning. we ll have live team coverage. firefighters are also still on the scene of a deadly house fire in fairfax county that killed two men. and a final good-bye. plans are now set to send tai shan back to china. news 4 midday begins right now. good morning, everyone. and welcome to news 4 midday. i m barbara harrison. i m eun yang in for joe krebs. it is tuesday, january 26th, twern. our top story this morning, a tragic morning for metro. early today, two technicians were killed wile working on the tracks. it happened around 1:45 this morning, just north of the rockville metro station near mankey street and hungerford drive. that s also created major delays for many people who use the red line to get to work in the morning. we have live team coverage on the accident. news 4 s tracee wilkins begins with the latest on the investigation. tracee, good morning
maintenance vehicle. it happened north of the station at 1 a.m. a track crew was deploying safety signal beacons and going backwards on the rails in the work vehicle. a sec one was installing automatic train control devices when the rail truck ran into authority them. dead at the scene? 49-year-old girard, 46-year-old sung oh was taken to the hospital and did not survive. area rush service was completely suspended during the preliminary hearing and that created very long waits for average passengers using metro s bus bridge around the busy shady grove and rockville stations. and there is nothing we can do. can they upgrade it? i don t know. they have to do something. reporter: nearing, the ntsb nor metro is saying how fast the maintenance vehicle was going when it hit the smaller workcrew nor whether they were aware that they were both on that section of the track. that is the point of the investigation to figure out what is it, what can we do differently? we re deter
reporting one of their own was killed in the disaster. a veteran diplomat who spent time belieinger living here. rescuers are racing to get to other victims buried in the rubble. the stench of death. the bodies line buckled roads as the living wander aimlessly looking for help. we lose it, my mother was . now, now, we have some, somebody, somebody here. we can t find them. we don t have a loader to take them out. reporter: the haitian government temporarily halted flights into the city because ramp space was too crowded and there was no fuel. late thursday, 8 flights resumed and civilian flights were on hold. some help has arrived and nothing is distributed. the power come&communications systems are down, roads blocked and waters scarce. there are a lot of people injured and we have not found all of those people buried under their hous and as we continue with the work, we will need a lot of medications and help. reporter: rescue efforts are top priority around