We finally tossed my dad’s ashes into the river. I debated admitting this publicly, but after checking the books I understand that we didn’t break any laws, so here we
washington monument s face by a gust of wind. eric stone wasn t hurt in the incident. inspection work was suspended this weekend because of the wet weather. the national landmark is closed indefinitely but the climbers have become a popular tourist attraction high above the nation s capital as they go about their work at the monument. 30 feet. that s scary. up 500. work on the extension to dulles from metro is behind schedule by as much as six months. a progress report obtained by the washington examiner it shows the project s contractor reported being behind 188 days. the delay means the first phase of the silver line won t open until june of 2014 instead of late 2013. no word on how much money the delay would add to the cost of the project. project officials say there s only $83 million in a $300 million emergency fund used to comp the expenses unexpected in that project. customers will have to pay more for a taxi ride. they announced plans to remove a $19 cap on fa
of town. things are looking fine. where you see the yellow cars is where you have some delays. we ll take a look at the franconia springfield parkway. no problems up through springfield and on to 395 and up to the 14th street bridge. back to the maps, this time, let s zoom into the southside of town. you have some traffic forming. remember the new traffic pattern from the inner loop. stay right to get on to 66. otherwise looking fine at the dulles toll road. no problems here as you head southbound on the beltway across the potomac river. you ll be fine. a quick look if you re planning to take trains, everything is still running on time. in my next report, we ll take a look up in maryland at 6:12. let s get to some of the stories happening today. a week of announcing nobel prize winners is underway. three men won the prize moments ago for medicine for their research on disease. the nobel peace prize big prize will be awarded wednesday morning. seafood will be offered. it i
the train. we understand that do have power at this point and they re getting air conditioning. but they ve been on board for about an hour. we understand from emergency officials from montgomery county that they will bring in a train from forest glen and offload the passengers and then bring them back the other way. we spoke to someone just a short time ago, someone who was in an office floor about eight floors up. she watched all this happen, and she describes what the metro train operator did when these power lines came down. what actually really frightened us because we said, well, it didn t stop fast enough to hurt anybody. there is the possibility of electrical issues here, but then we say the metro driver get off and start walking back down the tracks, which of course, you know, we were scared to death that he was going to be injured. and i said to my co-worker, i said, can t you yell out the window and tell him to get back on the train and then we saw that we really