Winds nw 48 mph a terrifying accident overnight. A metro employee rescued after falling 30 feet down a shaft near the North Bethesda metro station. It happened around 130 this morning on wisconsin avenue near elm street. The maintenance injured his leg. Rescue crews were able to get him out safely after about 45 minutes and transported him to the hospital. Right now the workers condition is unknown. Also breaking right now repars complete afer a water main break put a a dc hospital under a minidisaster alert overnight in takoma park. The break was first reported around nine last night, and teams worked all night trying to finish up repairs. Those repairs completed within the past 10 minutes. The hospital was not accepting any new patients to the emergency room until the break was fixed, but they did continue treating patients. Bottled water was used for drinking and care. A live report is coming up at 5 45. This morning a suspect is in custody after leading police on a nearly 30mile ch
Upper 20s in the surrounding areas. Frederick at 27. For the afternoon, the evening rush, maybe not so great on area roads. Eileen has that coming up in a few minutes. Look at the temperature 35 degrees at 1 00. We are forecasting a high of 36. You can see some of the snow showers here coming right across d. C. , prince william, far cure county. That a better chance after about 10 00 this evening. That is the batch that runs through us, mainly north of the sea that is what mainly north of d. C. With more on what it is going to be like on area roads tonight and tomorrow morning, lets go to eileen whelan. Eileen taking a live look at the capital, it is dry, it is cold, your morning commute is going to be aok. Be a little bit slick. As veronica was showing you, maybe a few flurries around 3 00, but after 7 00 through 11 00 there will be some slick spots as the snow starts to fall and stick. Overnight we will have some snow showers. Totomorrow morning, 5 00 9 00 a. M. , the snow is out of
Gorsuchs nomination to the Supreme Court, a move that could trigger republicans to employ the socalled Nuclear Option . Lowering the votes needed for a Supreme Court nominee from 60 to a simple majority. We want your take on whats happening here in washington. Democratic opposition to the president and republicans, is it too much or not enough . Republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. Join the conversation on cspanwj. Well as President Trump at the white house yesterday meeting with groups on his choice for the Supreme Court, said republicans should be ready to go nuclear. Reporter as you pointed out last night, confirmed by unanimous voice vote in 2006. Now a number of democrats say theyre going to oppose him. What would you say to those democrats, and would you he courage senator mcconnell to invoke the Nuclear Option if he feels he cant get 60 votes . President trump well, i think theres a certain dishonesty if they go against their vote from not ve
For all the work they did ahead of time. Feels like were a small family, and everybody is supporting each other. And thats what Small Business is all about. We are a big family. And everybody works together. Reporter in mount pleasant, nellie closed the taqueria that supports her and her family. Even though she has only owned the place for 15 days. If all immigrants are together, well make it strong. We are strong. Reporter now, plenty of immigrants did show up for work today, despite the protests, even in mount pleasant, which is really a center of latino and immigrant culture. There were plenty of restaurants and stores that were open. And at the mcdonalds on wisconsin avenue, there did not seem to be any longer lines than usual. Live at the penn quarter in northeast d. C. , bruce leshan. One police hit particularly hard by a day without immigrants is the pentagon. Burger king, taco bell, sbarro. Tacoall closed because of too few workers. Head to wusa 9 to vote. Well check back in on
From the 12 pl aviation battalion stationed in da davidson for bellvarious. Witnesses tell us there were three blackhawks flying above the golf course and black hawk that crashed was one that was in the back end of that formation and then it crashed landed down at the breton Bay Golf Club and tonight a team out of alabama will be here tomorrow to conduct the investigation to try to determine why this plaque hawk crash landed there on the golf course and army saying this was a hard lanning and it happened 2 00 today and our Tom Fitzgerald standing by with more reaction from witnesses who heard the crash. Fitz . Good evening, were stationed here bit entrance of the breton bay golf course. You can see st. Mary county Sheriff Deputies have stationed themselves outside course. Reason they are making sure tonight only people who liver down this road are able to pass by that check point. The reason for that, they dont want anyone going on to this golf course and we can tell you why. From end