. fox 5 all over two developing stories a. nearly 24- hour standoff comes to a dramatic end. but first, a routine traffic stop steps from capitol hill turns into anything but. police end up chasing the suspect and killing him after they say he pulled a gun. thanks for joining us tonight. i m shawn yancy. i m brian bolter. the entire scene unfolding right at the height of rush hour. take a walk with me. i ll show you how it all went down. right in the heart of d.c., steps away from the capitol. it staed with a routine stop near union station. however, the suspect took off leading police on a chase that end add couple of streets away on c street in northwest. roby chavez is live there tonight with new details. reporter: the investigation continues some five hours after u.s. capital police shot and killed a man as you mentioned just a block from the u.s. capitol. it all went down aroun5:00 this afternoon at the peak of rush hour and the height of tourist season here in
ahead, two big chiewmenter alerts if you drive or take metro. there are jobs out there right now. we have details on not one but two pleas where it is one-stop shopping for thousands of job openings. crime tape surround the tourist hot spot at the height of rush hour. why police shot and killed a man near the capitol. a senate committee is out with its plan for health care reform. the big difference between this one and the trillion dollar fix proposed by house democrats? we ll share it coming up. fox 5 morning news continues right now. it is thursday morning, july 16th. temperature already in the mid- 70s. so dress for warm weather today. good morning. thank you for waking one fox 5 morning news. i m steve chenevey. good morning. i m gurvir dhindsa. we want to tell you about a situation that may affect your commute. this is a water main break and sinkhole causing some problems for northern virnia. you can see the water flooding the road in this video. it is impacting
horn, i think it s pretty damn good. reporter: he hopes his book sells. meanwhile, he will continue to scurry from courthouse to courthouse to show the world what american justice looks like. john henrehan, fox 5 news. it is good indeed. the news tonight is far from over. brian is up now with the news edge at 11:00. a quiet community rocked by a brazen assault. the woman on the jg oinggtrail today in broad daylight targeted and taunted and that s just the beginning. the whole thing went down around the washington old dominion park trail in vienna. tonight the guy cops say behind it all could be out there roaming the streets right now. wisdom martin live in the newsroom with the news edge. reporter: brian, this is disturbing to a lot of people because it happened in broad daylight and for some it s a warning to be extra careful, even in what they consider a normally safe community. the washington old dominion park trail in vienna is a popular place where a constant f
metro s general manager moving ahead quickly on that backup system for metro s rails troubled circuit system. this is fox 5 midday news, i m holly morris. and i m allison seymour. several companies have contacted john tocae syi ng they can build a backup system. and this as metro closed the takoma park station to investigate the crash last month. sarah simmons has more. reporter: it is relatively quiet here at takoma station. it is closed due to the ntsb still investigating from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. today and from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on saturday. the ntsb is continuing to test the circuits on the track that have been in question since the crash. shuttle buses will continue to move from fort totten to the takoma station. the ntsb has been testing the track since the june 22nd crash that killed 9 people on the red line. the ntsb has said the system that was metropolitan to detect the train on the tracks failed the day of the crash and during following tests. now the n