Highs today into the upper 80s. Above average. Lots of sunshine. The key here is low humidity. Metro riders, everything is running on schedule this morning. We had an earlier issue last night with single tracking on the redline. Thats been resolved so youre good to go there. Around the capital beltway still fairly quiet. Its been that way all day. I dont think we can complain about it. On the inner and outer loop no issues. 295 and 395 free and clear of any problems. Traveling north and southbound on the bw parkway as well as 95, everything is free and clear. From frederick toward the capital beltway, youre looking at a smooth and uneventful commute. Another update in ten minutes. Over you to. Over to you. Chinas main market plunged for a fourth straight day one day after stocks suffered the biggest tumble in eight years. The massive selloff was triggered by fears of an economic slowdown in the country. The turbulence in asia has sent Financial Markets around the world into a tailspin.
Why this woman says the man who pointed a gun at her also cost her thousands of dollars. A local mothers battle with addiction and homelessness, what she achieved just this week and how she says her children inspired her. Failure was not an option. News 4 at 11 starts now. Did you see it . What a light show. We begin with the weather and a quick round of storms that came blasting through our region. We had reports of heavy rain and hail tlmpt was pretty good lightning show that had a lot of you sharing pictures and video. Check out what news 4 cruise captured along the river. This was around 9 00 near the key bridge. Flashes as planes were coming in to land. Clouds lit up behind capitol dome. Here is a look at some lightning flashes. One more from our tower camera he really impressive shot as we slow this one down for you. Lets go to doug kammerer. We were showing that cloud to cloud lightning, the finger lightning that we like to see out there. Beautiful night tonight for it. The stor
Modified. The maintenance and the repairs that the f. T. A. Is calling for focuses on the track. Insulators and the third rail that powers the train. And cleaning up, including clearing out debris. The f. T. A. Says between april 23 and may 10 it investigated 15 safety events including nine with fire and smoke. I have always looked at concern and i will be safe, neat. Every day you hear we apologize for the inconvenience, thank you for riding metro. Which is translating to if you enjoy inconvenience in your daily life thank you for choosing us. Its awful. Brianne metro tonight stressing that the general manager is already taking action. There had been work in progress. Some of it is expected to be completed later this month prior to the safe track time or the letter from the f. T. A. We also will be involved in this work. How this will reshape the plan outlined by the general manager and expected to take place starting june 4 . Those details are still needing to be worked out. This pla
On the tracks, including the third rail, drain cleaning, replacing insulators and third rail covers. Many of these are part of the system we have seen and talked about with the recent problems including that recent arcing insulator last week at Federal Center southwest. And a series of red line issues that prompted a lot of maintenance called for by general manager paul wiedefeld. The f. T. A. Says between april 23 and may 10 it investigated 15 safety events including nine with fire and smoke along metro. Now this comes at this hour as we are dealing with another problem outside of the stadiumarmory station. We arches that single tracking is impact we understand that single tracking is impacting riders on stretches of the system as a result of that. From a possible arcing insulator we understand crews are now responding to, to investigate. We have a crew sent to that as well. We reached out to metro on both issues. Well have more at reporting live, Brianne Carter, abc7 news. Jonathan t
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