Caused by the same condition as the deadly Lenfant Plaza smoke incident. Forced metro to get crews back on the rails immediately. This is the damage from mondays fire. This is the damage after last january smoke incident. Last year, metro Operations Manager who since resigned show problems with the cable also highlight since resigned showed the problems highlighted by the ntsb report and said at the time it would take longterm single tracking to address the issue. We know there were plans in place to replace all 600 of those within the system under ground. Now again, we have learned that we do expect to get an update from metro on todays inspections. That will be live right here on abc7 news at 6 00. Reporting live, brianne carter. Alison thank you. Metro closing prompted the federal government and the d. C. Schools to offer alternatives to employees and all over the city. Sam . Sam well, we are standing over the overpass of Lenfant Plaza. As you can see the traffic coming out of Downt
Right now hes another bus sto stop. Well start with erin and with a look at ride in and big picture, erin. Right now 7 01 we can tell you were seeing crowded conditions and lot of congestion on roads. 395 up bound before the beltway toy past the 14 fridge bridge. South of that point stafford and dale city and bottom of beltway is very flow. A lot of extra drivers on our roads inbound south capital. Key bridge from joj george town to rosalyn. 50 inbound look at the parking lot now. A lot of folks take metro rail. As you make your way 410 to 2 1 this is what the commute is looking like. Prince william being jammed and look at maps. Lets show you how else you can get around if you dont want to particularly drive yourself. Metro bus is Offering Service from pentagon to Franklin Square and ride on bus in maryland and naavre has regular service. Arlington transit and dash special off peak service if you want to take uber theyre ca capping surge pricing at 3. 9 times app i just pull the uber
Strong but not severe. Heavy rain will be the thing that we are most concerned about. That will be likely. There is more rain on the way the next couple of days. Our complete forecast coming up in a minute. Doug talked about what we saw on monday. This round of storms is coming as a lot of you and your neighbors are still cleaning up last nights storm. There is work being done to repair homes and cars hit hard by wind and hail last night. Of course, there was lightning. Megan fitzgerald is live in Prince Georges County where there is restoration work already under way. Meagan . Reporter the Prince Georges County Fire Department tells us at least five homes were damaged after a tree came crashing down. This home in bowie is one of them. The homeowners tell us it was a Lightning Strike and strong winds that uprooted this thing and forced it to come crashing down on the rooff restoration crews. Jose rios says this bowie home was his second stop of the day. He and his partner removed debri
Again and said, ill bet it makes you mad, dont get . [laughter] that was such a good start, i told all over iowa. Scott, you might be the ones turning it around. [inaudible] thats what i did. You probably heard in utah. You are exactly right. Let me see if i can do to i wanted to make four points. Let me see how quickly i can make it. Went i think about my job as United States senator given my background, i think about how can i give bill haslam more tools to be a better governor . Because i know if i give them those tools he will do something with them. And i think of the federal government in the internet age as a place where we ought to invest in things that empower states and people to do things for themselves. Kind of in the way apple created ipad with that telling you what the app is, you can create an app and a lot of people can use it. So here are four tools that we worked on, three in a bipartisan way, one is not one is partisan in washington by dont think it is so much among
Never gotten anything done. We dont need that advice. They dont want to do any better than we do, and really they dont know how to do it at all. Guess we are all pioneering a little bit we would try to find a fairway to reward outstanding teachers, give them 10 months and 11 months contracts, pay them more for being good. Good. So theres a 10th of a penny in washington. Is it partisan difference right now but i dont think the democratic and republican governors would have the same difference of opinion democratic and republican senators have. So i bring this to your attention, and you may want to talk to your senators between now and the end of the year. We need to fix no child left behind. We need to get rid of the way, but we dont need to do it in a way that creates more of a National School board. We have two very distinct points of view right now in washington. So on market place fairness we are bipartisan. On this we are partisan. On changing the workforce act, we got that done in