The folks who take metro. Todays major delays stem from track problems in Medical Center and woodly park ask it backed up the entire red line and big crowds started forming at the start of the morning rush. All of this is happening as metros top leaders were on their way to face lawmakers on capitol hill. Transportation reporter adam tuss is live at one of todays trouble spots in bethesda. Adam . Reporter thats right, pat. We asked the general manager why this started along the red line and he said basically it was a water issue. Of course, we have documented the water issues here at the Medical Center station and how every time it rains the water just goes into the station. Crews have cleared out of here right now. There are some maintenance personnel still lingering around here, but we are told that the single tracking is now gone. Nevertheless, it was an ugly morning commute for a lot of people frustrated by what they were finding as they were trying to make their ways to work. Dela
Get better. So lets start with those changes, shall we . When you wake up tomorrow storm team 4, and it will be new ask fresh for the first day of school. Yes, erica. Just in time and a reason to look forward to monday and we have a lot of kids going back to school and anne arundel and frederick counties here in the district and heres what you can expect tomorrow morning and 69 degrees around 6, by 8 00 a. M. And the sunglasses and gorgeous by 9 00 a. M. And a temperature around 74 and a fabulous start and heres a look at temperatures right now and 77 in washington, but i am still tracking some mugginess across the area and ill let you know when it will be falling in your neighborhood and also more storms can be ravabling the midwest, and tornadoes are in indiana and michigan this weekend. In another part of the country, flash floods claimed homes and businesses. More on that still ahead. It is the end of summer break for thousands of kids in our area and, maryland and the district and
Campus. We could get a couple more inches. Storm team 4 says over the past few days some parts have seen 2 feet of rainfall and its created dangerous flooding. Rescue workers say they ive saved so many people, theyve lost count. Houses submerged, cars pushed up against buildings. We have lost everything. Pretty much what i have on is what i have. Weve lot everything, vehicles, clothes, everything. Devastating scene. Theyre calling this storm a once in a thousand year event. A group of special First Responders from our area and well get back to that story in just a moment. Heres the latest on coastal flooding in our area. Light green continues to be an advisory. Dark green under a coastal flood warning. The advisories and warnings are going to run through early tomorrow morning. Youll be impacted mainly around the high tide like old town. You can download the app. If youre under the advisory or warning and get the latest information on when youll most likely be impacted as tides come in
Theyve left a large train of munitions in the Eastern Central portion of atlanta that obviously cant get out. And so they set it on fire. This is 18 boxcars full of explosives. And you can imagine the sound that was heard 15, 20 miles away. This is the scene incidentally thats depicted in gone with the wind when red is in the wagon trying to get scarlet and the baby out, and theres all the sets burning in the background. I told my kids some of those sets were from the wizard of oz, which was true. They dont care anything about gone with the wind, but they were upset that the sets from the wizard of oz burned in this movie. Its worth pointing out here that the destruction of atlanta cannot be attributed solely to uncle billy sherman, that hoods army in fact began the process with the evacuation and the destruction of the firing of this train. And sherman took it a good bit further just before the march to the sea. On september second, the mayor of atlanta surrendered the city. Sherman a
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