Website, and were emailing some of my contacts, calling them right now. We understand we are on time, but as you said Megan Mcgrath is going to be there in a little while at grosvenor. As far as traffic goes, 95 at newington, we are slow here due to lateclearing road work. 95 here, again, taking a look at 95, no problems there. Until you get a little bit north of dale city. Georgia avenue at randolph road, one left lane is getting by. Prince georges county overall looking good. Tom, dare i say, it was a little cool this morning when i stepped outside. I slept with the windows open. It was rather cool this morning. In fact, down near 60 degrees in some of the suburbs. Storm team 4 radar scanning the sky, no rain around. But its down to near 60 in montgomery and Fairfax County and parts of northern virginia. Upper 50s, shenandoah valley. In the low to mid 50s out of the mountains. Upper 60s, near 70 by the chesapeake bay. And walking to work and walking to the metro this morning waiting
People were late, trains singletracking of course slows everything down. They had crowded platform. I talked to one gentleman who said it took him about an hour and a half to get home yesterday. Normally it takes half an hour. I told him unfortunately we are still singletracking and he was not happy. I have to be at work at 6 30 and im tired of this. Reporter so singletracking between grosvenor and the twinbrook station on the red line. I talked to a worker earlier this morning and they hoped to get things back to normal within half an hour and were keeping an eye on the situation. For the moment bake in some extra time in your commute because things are still slow here this morning. Well let you know as soon as they return to normal operations. With more on traffic, we go over to melissa mollet. Hows it looking . Not so bad. Well check back with megan throughout the hour. Were tweeting about this on first 4 traffic as well. Singletracking between twin brook and grosvenor. And train 30
Kimberly are you ready for this Early Morning run . Eileen im prepping for it. Going to be a little chilly tomorrow. Temperatures right around 40 but going to be breezy. So layer up if youre out and about early tomorrow morning. Highs tomorrow afternoon not as mild as today in the lower 50s. But check out thursday. 67. And were going to talk more about that in our next halfhour. Kimberly right. Yes. Dont go to bed yet. 30 more minutes of news and weather ahead. Stay with us. Now abc 7s saturday news extra. On your side. Kimberly a malfunctioning chair lift injured seven people at a ski resort in maine this morning. More than 200 skiers and snowboarders were on the slopes of sugarloaf when it went backward. What happened next. A day on the slopes went downhill in all the wrong ways when this chair lift suddenly went haywire. Hurtling backward out of control. We knew in our gut something was not right. And we were panicking. It was definitely panic. We heard people screaming. Everyone wh
And caught fire. The handrails line the steps at stations. Underunderneath the handrails lights are built in to light the steps in the dark. A couple of those handrail lights overheated and caught fire. No one was hurt. The root cause of the fires has still not been identified. So now all of the lights in these handrails are off and riders are left shaking their heads. I mean it does surprise me its starting on fire but this being a new station you kind of surprised when stuff is breaking already. But a handrail starting on fire was not really in the things you thought would occur. Reporter now, this is an important point to remember here. Metro didnt build the silver line. The metropolitan Washington Airports Authority did. Metro says its going to hold them and their contractors responsible for this work. Coming up at 6 00 why metro is now calling this problem with the handrails a systemic problem. Back to you, jim. Firefighters are still searching for the cause of an Early Morning fi
Along 270. Most impactful time is between now and about noontime today. Storm team 4 radar, all rain south along i95 toward fredericksburg and along 295 down into part of Prince Georges County. But there is the changeover right there. Here is the top part of the capital beltway. Raindrops and snowflakes mixing now into far northwest washington. Also across much of Fairfax County now. Still rain in fairfax, but snowflakes mixing in as you get out toward reston town center. Snow quickly changing over across the blue ridge, as well. So highest impact here Northern Maryland today. How much snow . Generally an inch or less in and around town. But 1 to 3 as close in as really gaithersburg and germantown out toward leesburg and 3 to 5 inch across Northern Maryland into the panhandle of West Virginia. Breaking news first 4 traffic. Breaking news again, bw parkway northbound here completely shut down at route 50. All northbound traffic being pushed on to eastbound route 50 a, some southbound la