Crews had to walk far into that tunnel to the middle in fact before they found the sparking that was causing the smoke and then they had to replace the insulators smoking. By that point, the damage was done leaving riders stranded for hours and some said they werent given clear directions on what to do. Communication, what would you rate . Poor . Zero. A negative zero. Like they incompetent. Everything is disorganized. Its just just hectic. Reporter now, coming up at 5 00, can you actually get a refund if you were stuck in that mess . Jim, back to you. All right. Adam thank you. Metro sent an apology to riders this afternoon for, quote, significant delays crowding and inconvenience. It went on to say for your safety both tracks were taken out of service while appropriate Fire Department personnel along with metro response crews investigated and rectified the issue. We established limited Shuttle Bus Service as an alternative. Despite these alternatives we know that many of you experien
Nbcwashington. Com. Search metro. Jim, back to you. Thank you. Check out some pictures from social media we pulled out down. The delays led to massive platform and street closures and made a worldwide trending hash tag on twitter today. Megan fitzgerald is live for us at the foggy bottom station with the inconvenience for riders. Reporter and jim, those comments and pictures on facebook and twitter help to tell the story. People stuck on metro platforms for hours. Some folks so fed up they walk over the key bridge do get to work. Need dsz needless to say, many of the folks said theyre frustrated and angry. Spend too much money on this to be messing up. Reporter taking the metro is supposed to be quick and easy. Its very convenient inexpensive and just great way to get around. Reporter monday mornings commute single tracking. Shuttle bus across the street to rosslyn. Reporter anything but. Supposed to take 15 minutes and took like 45. Ive been on the metro for four hours trying to get h
Mentioned. Very emotional father from maryland said hes angry with amtrak because it cease so low to give him answer its so slow to give him answers about his son. He was in the first car, okay. Its turned inside out. They found his phone. His phone they found. But they cant find him or his belongings. Gildersleeve, jr. Boarded that train in baltimore where he lives with his wife and two teenagers. They plan to pass out missing flyers in philadelphia today because they want a sense of closure. Seven families are making funeral arrangements and i pray to god im not number eight. Hes the Vice President of Corporate Accounts for ecolabs. We are learning more information, they are mothers, executives, Service Members sons and fathers, only five of the seven who died have been identified. Well share more of their stories in a minute, but first, we want to check your weather and traffic on the 1s. Meteorologist tom kierein begins our coverage of that. Good morning. When you step out the door
Still a chill in the air in the low 50s. Then jumping to near 60 by 10 00 this morning. And then by noontime, should be getting into the low to mid 60s with a lighter wind and well have bright sunshine through much of the afternoon. So have the sunglasses handy. Your drive time forecast coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s. Breaking news with melissa. Breaking news right now. Again were talking a then crash, 95 southbound here at dale city. First 4 traffic tracker just drove by this for us. You can see a very big response here in the main lane, shut down here. Main lanes are closed. A onemile backup right now. Youre only getting by here in that access road to the right side of the roadway. So this is going to be closed here for some time. If we can take a look now at a live camera for you, this is a live camera on this situation. 95 southbound at dale city main lanes are okay. 66 into town just fine. 95 otherwise is fine. Northbound is fine. The slowdown is should be. Wide look
Way imaginable. This hour, four accused cop killers and accessories face a jump. George zimmerman remember him . The man acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin isic maing headlines amid gunfire yet again. What happened this time . Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Breaking news in the world lead the pentagon and u. S. Intelligence saying the head of Isis Al Baghdadi severely injured and no longer running nuts and bolts for his terrorist group. Flatout wrong. Citing unnamed diplomatic sources reported the man atop the pyramid gauss clipped in a u. S. Air strike, similar to the one of the 18 bombings over iraq. U. S. Asserting, no evidence to back up these claims and isis is as dangerous as ever even on United States soil. Right to cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr. Pentagon officials and sources in the Intelligence Community outright dismissing these reports, baghdadi was injured in a coalition strike. What makes them so confident hes fine . Reporter y