When they get to the station. Ato well explain. We and speaking of metro, a busy metro stop shutdown for the second night in a row because of falling debris inside. Nsid whats being done to keep riders safe . And hurricane hermine already creating dangerous conditions in florida. In and shes head hed north. T the impact the storm could havee on your holiday weekend. Week fox5 news at 11 starts right now the boss can keep metro open later. Thank you for joining us tonight, im tony perkins and im shawn yancy. Fans at tonights Bruce Bru Springsteen concert at nats park have about 20 minutes left to catch that last redline train. Metros safetrack work could leave some people strand aftertn the show. Sarah simmons is life at the ballpark. Reporter it is still goingog on. I want you to listen behind me. I want to test you to see if you yes, he is still going on. A lot of folks think he is in the on core but look at all thea people that are leaving early if they want to take metro. It is clos
Weapon. And when he did, they opened fire on him. You can see out here, there are several metrobuses, Georgia Avenue remains blocked off here at randolph road and at quincy street on other side. The metrobuses are still there because they were in the street at the time and there were several passengers on them so the passengers, the drivers had to get off, police are interviewing witnesses at this time to try to figure out exactly what led to all of this, why this man was opening fire. They have not said exactly what type of gun he had but they said they did recover that weapon. Were waiting to learn more. Right now, we do know the gunman is in the hospital, came out of surgery. The officer is fine and nobody else injured here. Thats the latest along Georgia Avenue. Back to you. A woman in the district who was shot while pregnant with twins sadly lost those two babies after the accident going into early labor at a hospital. Tonight, police tell fox 5 the woman is an innocent bystander
Aftermath of another explosion at the station, that is on the metro underground network. I heard an explosion, and all the ceilings were going down, and i then i just go under the sink. And then the second explosion went, and everything is black. The belgium Prime Minister is asking for calm and solidarity, and that there will be three days of mourning. Well, these are the scenes behind me of what has taken place in the last 12 hours in belgiums catch toll. The Islamic State saying that it was behind the separate attacks in brussells that have brought 36 people dead, what do we with know . Well, there were with deaths in two locations. And one at and airport one downtown. The first attack was at breast sells main airport. Two explosions there killing 14 people an hour later an explosion on a commuter train at least 20 people were killed more than 100 people have been hurt in this. Thes is attacks well we believe the explosions at the airport were Suicide Attacks. The first target 8 15
They need to be replaced. We dont know what shape they are in overtime. Brianne a number of questions remain. What is leading up to this . Did it have to do with the inspections or does it have to do with procedures happening or is it deterioration . Still questions we are waiting to get answers to. Waiting to hear later this evening from the metro general manager from Paul Wiedefeld regarding service tomorrow morning. Reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. Jonathan thank you. The trickledown on this is huge. Its everywhere. Think about it. Metrorail system funnels from Northern Virginia, prince georges and Montgomery County to d. C. Michelle the heart of the subway beneath d. C. Streets is above where we are seeing the significant impact. D. C. Bureau chief sam ford continues the Team Coverage from southwest washington. Sam . Sam Something Else that numbers in here is traffic. We are at the southwest freeway where there is a lot of traffic in every moving slowly out of the city. F
Unfortunately, so is the radar. You will have to work the wind shield wipers this morning. Southbound 270, a little slow near 109. Normal for this time of day. Metro is getting back to normal today, but new incidents are putting the focus on rider safety. Into fiery situations shut down the Federal Center station yesterday. P first fire and sparks lit up the platform. Smoke and fire on the third rail. Megan mcgrath is talking to commuters at the Federal Center station in southwest washington. Reporter well, things back to normal here at the Federal Center station. You can see some of the riders buying passes, weve seen people coming in and out. And they say everything is going well so far this morning. Now, here is a little video shot right after 5 00 this morning at the front gate opening. Metro had said that they would open on time and that service would be back to normal and that is indeed the case here morning. However, yesterday with two separate incidents here at this station. On