Walter its now 5 3 thanks for joining us. Im Walter Allen Jen and im jen epstein. Lots of political stuff to get to, but we start with a serious and developing weather situation. 3 jen tornadoes tore through the upper gulf coast states last night. Including the florida panhandle. In louisiana at least two people were killed when a tornado slammed into a Mobile Home Park in st. James parish. 100 homes were damaged, and dozens of people are hurt. Volunteers were out there, loading the wounded into their own cars and taking them to the hospital. This morning, search and rescue teams are still searching for people that may be trapped in their homes. 3 we still are concerned that there could be that there could be people thats missing unaccounted for. We really dont have a good way of knowing if we have one, two, three people thats unaccounted for. Jen 3 so two fatalities in louisiana. Another in mississippi. And storms also ripped through alabama last night. 3 video from pensacola. The Nat
Right now at 10 00 a the meto shut down. Were sorry this has to happened and it has come to this and were aware ever the inconvenience that was caused crews spent the day looking for emergency sections and what they found. A fastmoving fire tears through a maryland Apartment Building than was a close call for firefighters. And another twist in the tragic shooting death of a Prince George county police de testtive. Fox5 local news at 10 starts now. We begin with the ongoing metro shut down rail service is set to resume in less than 7 hours at 5 a. M. Rights now crews are doing emergency inspections and repair work. Thank you for joining us im tony perkins. Im shawn yancy. They found more than two dozen detect on the tracks. What can you expect . Live the latest, hey, jim. We have new information just in from note row officials id read this off my phone. Red line inspections checked out okay. It will reon tomorrow. Yellow and green line inspections okay normal tomorrow. Heres the caveat,
17th hour of this metro shutdown. It has become abundantly clear today this is not a quick fix, there are 22 teams spread out underground throughout the area going over 100 miles of track so far. As they still have a lot of work ahead of them. Now, this is Mcpherson Square station where monday morning fire led to this safety shutdown. You cant get on any line at all. One rider, well, he summed it up like this. Metro is sick and needs to go to the doctors. Im sure they closed it for very good reason. Inspectors found after mondays fire termed as alarming, the damage to the electrical jumper cables was described as disturbingly similar to what they found after smoke filled the plaza station last year, and a passenger. Jumper lines arent like power strips. Sends electricity into the third rail, which then power the train, but, smoke incidents, fires last year, thats double 2014 number, this shutdown looks to add up how many of those cables are damaged. What else . Riders nerves, for one,
And im alix steel in for stephanie ruhle. We will have video of the ice bucket challenge later. Was a cold . That is what happens. A lot of video this morning. A little twist to buy Family Dollar. Dollar general is offering a larger bid after it already bid froma lower another rival, Family Dollar tree. Joining us is howard from chairman howard, the chairman of divisiveness and associates. What do you think about this . Its crazy, because now they will have to pay a 305 million breakup fee, and its even crazier that walmart is not buying this company. Walmart has been screwing around with small stores for 20 years. They were ground level zero. Everybody wants convenience. Walmart, once again, sleep at the switch. I dont understand that. As is what is going on. But this is what is going on. Will there be a third player entering this bidding war at some point . That is why the shares are trading, because many hope walmart will jump in. Dollar general could have had this asset month ago,
Paid for with health and tax reform. If you picked up that packet but this plan would assume the permanent replacement that we have the text extenders for two years onethird comes with medicare to reward quality of care. And then lets get the payment models and then there is that crazy system within that they all have Wraparound Coverage with a much simpler form of formula of the same deductible because the idea but there also have protection against catastrophic and then for most beneficiaries there is more details in the plan. Unfortunately time is too short. So what we propose we know the pieces of tax reform with the corporate and individual side. But nobody wants to go first. And then that goes with the to your suspenders but this package could never raise any bettys tax rates. But first increasing the support to what people already know. But to miss report the income. That gives time for that comprehensive tax reform. Said making it to the reform tax code. It would mess up the de