Minutes. News 4 midday starts now. A mess on metro, theyre still cleaning up the red line. Right now two track problems, one at medical tr and one at woodley park. Metro says one of the problems involved a power cable, the other one an arcing insulator. The problem started around 6 00 this morning. Crews are working to get it all fixed, but the delays have people running 45 minutes late even now. And as that problem is going on metro being called on the carpet again, this time on capitol hill. Well show you some live pictures from the House Committee hearing happening as we speak. Youre looking at one of mayor. Safety issues, some of the oversight issues that have been happening really over the last few years with the rail system. We are just now getting into the question and answer phase of this. Metros general man t well, hes yet to be asked a question but there to answer whatever these members of congress do ask him. I can tell you this started an hour ago, really the most indicted
Good. Looks weird to see a problem on the inner loop this time of day. River road still shut down at partnership road. All lanes blocked because of that pole being down. That is a crash from overnight, but still going to see some delays through that area. Red line single tracking between grosvenor and Friendship Heights because of a track problem at medical center. Well take a look at travel times coming up. 6 01. Federal lawmakers plan to give metro the funding its been asking for. Today the u. S. House Appropriations Committee will formally propose 150 million for the agency. Last year the same Committee Recommended slashing funding this half. Metros general manager Paul Wiedefeld will have to explain on the hill today how the agency will use that money to fix save i problems. Personal safety on metro also a big question today as we learn that an armed and violent attack on a moving train. This happened about a month ago gee and metro made no public announcement John Prentice hicks.
Drops again. Thick fog now across Northern Maryland, half mile visibility in frederick. So if youre traveling 270 up here authority of montgomery county, watch out for some local areas of thick fog. The heaviest rain though is this Southern Maryland headed down toward stafford, quantico. Current temperatures are in the 50s just about everywhere. The next 24 hours, today is the last day without any sunshine. Cool showers, not cool sunshine, my mistake. 67 this evening. Showers around there. And drying out by early tomorrow morning. Ill fix my writing problems right plow and meanwhile lets go over to melissa. No problems from you, please. Unfortunately, i have a new problem. Inner loop at little river turnpike, a vehicle into the jersey wall. Does not look like its slowing anything right now. Well keep you updated on that one. Northbound indian head highway at 228e get by that crash. Beltway at saint pattern bat. B problems. And 270 rolling along just fine. It is 5 02. Following breaking
Hiroshima. Today 54 geography whiz kids will test their knowledge to win cash for college. The 28th annual National Geographic begets under way here in d. C. Sidwell friends 6th grader max is one of the competitors. Other kids will take the stage in the Scripps National spelling bee on wednesday. Always impressive to see those young minds work. We need work, dont we. Time for weather and traffic on the 1s. Chuck bell in with the 4 things to know. Good morning. Hope you enjoyed your weekend. Even though it was a weekend without sunshine, today, though, will be the last day without sunshine for quite a while. There is even a chance if the warmer air comes in, an outside chance of a rumble or two of thunder, but no Severe Weather of any kind before the sun will come out, you know how the sun goes, tomorrow, n and summertime really starts to arrive on wednesday. For now, though, your monday morning awash in clouds and rain drops. Heavier rain moving down towards southwestern virginia. Temp
Reported. We saw someone come out and then go back in the house. Police are asking if they saw anything around the day. If you saw anything to call the police. Brianne carter, abc7 news. Leon thank you. Only on 7, a neighborhood plagued by the odor of natural gas. The area around the Elementary School reached out to us for help. You Montgomery County reporter kevin lewis is live there. What is going on . They are just out here to fix an issue on the street. You can see the fresh black top on the roadway here. The smell of through her neighborhood. After i started noticing we had problems i kept walking and going am i getting crazy here . But its not just me. She crafted this map. 19 in total marked a spot where someone complained about the natural gas. This is a problem not only because every once in a while something blows up but this is releasing methane in the air which gets involved with Global Warming issue. Washington gas says it is aware of the matter but stresses there is a big