woman attacked, the brutal broad daylight assault at a local parking lot that has commuters on alert. president obama gathers with congressional leaders to discuss u.s. efforts in afghanistan. first in line, how soon you can get your swineluhot now that vaccines are beginning to roll in. good morning. welcome back tos now 4 today. i m barbara harrison. i m joe krebs. it is tuesday, 6th day of october, 2009. live look outside, still some we have 53 degrees out there. . weopen, inner loop of the beltway looks okay, just ahey re getting closer to finish that project. seems like it s been going on for years. eventually they will be done with it and that will be a good thing. he out to the rails this morning and see how we re doing so far. metro rail, vre and mark rail, reporting no delays as the trai head out for the day. barbara and joe, back to you. thank you very much. a warning to women this morning in northern virginia after the report of a woman raped at a p
open house outrage. i feel violated that they had gone through my personal belongings. it woman s valuables stolen, and she is not the only victim. d.c. students are fired up. one of the best known politicians in the city is getting involved. in awist in battleground virginia. a prominent democrat, her stumbling speech, and her apology. captioned by the natial captioning institute www.ncicap.org we begin with a developing story out of northeast washington, where a woman is fighting for her life after she was struck by a metrobus. kris van cleave joins us with the latest. we are hearing that the woman got off the bus at this bus stop up the road, then crossed in front of the metro bus. as she cleared the first boss, a second bus came and hit her. tragedy in northeast. i cannot believe it happened. a woman getting off one metrobuses is hit by another metro bus. projected marks the spot where she felt. all of this happened white in front of dwayne brown and his bro
right now on news4 midday, the d.c. council takes issue on same-sex marriage in the district. and a swiss court decides weather to release the award-winning director. and the swine flu fight begins. vaccines expected to arrive today. news4 midday begins right now. good morning, everybody. welcome to news4 midday. i am barbara harrison? good morning to you. i am joe krebs. this tuesday is the sixth day of october, 2009. there was an explosion followed by smoke and fire and now metro is trying to figure out exactly what happened. this is where kimberly suitors joins us live. good morning. reporter: good morning, joe and barbara. metro is describing this as an equipment failure preliminary. there is a collection shoe, it carries power, and it powers the train forward and it fell off. passengers on the train say they heard an explosion and saw smoke and fire. all of a sudden, there was aloud thump underneath my train car. at first people were annoyed and it was an
reporter: jim and dorines, thanks, good evfrengt white house. robert gibbs denied that u.s. commanding general afghanistan, stan mcchrystal is making it tougher now on president obama. but down at the pentagon, the word today to the general from the higher-ups is to cut it out. reporter: president obama this week is making what some see as one of the biggest decisions of his presidency. whether to send 40,000 more u.s. troops to afghanistan. his defense secretary today sent a message to the u.s. commander in afghanistan, general stan mcchrystal, to pipe down. provide our best advice to the president candidly but privately. reporter: mcchrystal s been going public in an unusual campaign for a general, to get a lot more troops. the situation is serious. reporter: this was thursday in london. a strategy that does not leave afghanistan in a stabile position is probably a short sighted strategy. reporter: just hours later, mcchrystal was called aboard air force one
fire. it was a rough day, a rough start to the day for a man in lanham, maryland. he d just awakened when a minivan smashed through his bedroom wall. michael flynn is here with that story. michael? reporter: pat, it appears all a driving lesson that went horribly wrong. the man inside the apartment had just woken up for a doctor s appointment when a minivan crashed through a wall and landed just a few feet from him. i say it was like an explosion when itame through the window. reporter: robert schreiber had just gotten out of bed this morning a minivan came crashing into his bedroom. the front of it landed right on top of his bed where he d been sleeping only about ten minutes earlier. when it happened he was sitting in this chair, now surrounded by debris. when he came through, it was a big bang. and hit the floor and when i looked up there was a vehicle sitting there. reporter: a photo of the minivan sticking out of his lanham apartment. police say the driver di