A guy hijacked a metro bus after attacking the driver with pliers. They say he side swiped a van with Senior Citizens on board and ran over a guy outside of the gas station. We have team kofrm coverage e hijackers. Lets start with pat collins. What are you hear sng. Reporter chris, a guy assaults a metro bus driver and then steals the bus. He side swipes the van. It was a strange procession, police cars front and back as they towed away this stolen metro bus from the death scene. Reporter this metro bus, the striking vehicle in a bizarre bus in the parking lot of this crown gas station in northeast. It is a bizarre incident, very uncharacteristic for someone to try and take a bus and attack a bus driver. Reporter it started a few blocks away when a man using long needle nose pliers attacks the bus driver. The driver manages to break away and stumble off the bus. The passengers race out the back door. Reporter a lot of cops . Did they have their guns drawn . Yeah, when they first got n
On our web site fox5d. C. Com. C and dont be surprised if youpri see some candidates on your way in to work this morning. Is i several arnge planninglilyily voting rallies at metro stops. Ro also today the nationale naol park service facing a criticalgc deadline to apply for millionsri of dollars in federal funds to fix the decaying memorial mor bridge. Id but local members of congress who need to sponsors the t application say its just nott Strong Enough right now thent nt dont think it will be done byey tonight. Tonigh the federal grant would go a long way in funding thendi quarter billion dollar project. Project. There have been warnings that be if the bridge does not undergodt the needed repairs it couldould close to vehicles as soon asoon 2021. We need more money fromd mo the federal government. Ral goven thats the message thamet topgeo metro he officials are givingg congress. Co. And during heated testimonytn on capitol hill, house membersom say theyre not so willing too n give t
They dont think it would beuld done by tonight. The federal grant would go a w long way in funding the the quarter billion dollar project. Projt. There have been warnings there e if the bridge does not undergond the much needed repairs, it could close to vehicles asehless soon as 2021. 2 our other big story this stot morning tense moments during a congressional hearing on capitol hill. Tol hi metro officials tellingffic lawmakers that the only way to fix operational issues is withsw more money. On that didnt go over well. L. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick is alncki live at the lenfant metrot met station with more now. Mel, good morning. Reporter good morning. R and so the point that metro met Board Chairman jack evans wasjaa trying to make is that metro m is an century source for the federal government. Therefore, metro board b believes that the feds should fd kick in as much money as d. C. C maryland and virginia do foro f maintenance and repairs to thept system. But some members of the House
Several times over the course of 12 or 15 minutes and the driver kept on telling us that we were going to be moving shortly and then finally he fale said there was a train approaching from the rear andg e of course that was shocking toig me because i could imagine itt coming at 60 miles an hour andou i was on the last car. C it was scary just sitting sii in the tunnel with nothing, no service, cant call nobody or nothing. Nothing. Metro need to get their stuff together. Together. Say no to metro. Ay n met youre not going to ride it anymore. Ymor i havent done it in awhile l and to do it on a brand new n car. Reporter will you ever ride again. Ain i got better ways to go, so, i got 2 feet. I trust those better than i doe metro so. S reporter and those tho passengers stuck for nearly an hour and a half. There were of course suspended s single tracking and eventuallyvt now residual delays as metro m tries to get back on schedule. Ch with me he now is matt ackland. Matt, you were here as t
Im annie yu thank you for waking up with us. Im tom fitzgerald, happy mothers day to you. Thank you. And to your wife. If she was awake i would say that to you. Im pretty sure she is sleeping in. Mike is with us this morning with caityln roth. Everybody has been talking about the rain and the rain and the rain and the rain. What are we at twelve days here. Twelve days in a row, youre right. Ive been counting. And yesterday the clouds. Im not sure what its called. It was coming and going. Today will be more consistent. Good news more mom. Later this afternoon just absolutely gorgeous, good news, mothers day sunshine i can guarantee today bad news i can not guarantee for the rest of the week. Well talk more about that as we get into the 55 your current number in washington. 54 gaithersburg and 54 frederick as well and mannasas 52 and 56 quantico and 54 leonardtown. Lets go to the radar were tracking shower activity this morning in d. C. We had the bulk of our rain go through two hours ag