And dafmp and chilly. Mid50s this evening. About 50 to get your weekend started. More about the weekend coming up. Here is melissa. Good morning. So right now still have this problem in the district with those downed wires southbound south capitol street is shut down there in southwest right at chesapeake street southeast. Northbound lanes are open, but we will be quite slow through the area if it sticks around too much longer. 66 inbound from Fairfax County parkway to the beltway. Were time. Dont have any big worries there. Well talk about travel times coming up in the next couple of minutes. And taking a look at 270 south at the spur, that looking better as well passing democracy boulevard. Metro is using its off peak hours to catch up on some safety work which will affect your commute and your weekend. The red line is the major focus of that work following a number of arcing insulator incidents over the last week. The trains will single track between center today through sunday. Mol
Developing right now a mess in northeast washington. Some of the cars from that csx train that derailed are still lying under the rhode island avenue metro. The crash spilled chemicals all over the track. The metro station is back open, but mark trains are restricted. Crews have a lot of work to do today to get the rails back to normal again. News 4 is live in northeast washington now with how theyre making progress on the repairs. Derek joins us now live with the latest. Derrick. Reporter good morning. Well, they are doing a pretty good job and doing a fast job. You see that area over there where that yellow piece of equipment is . There was a tanker there just a few minutes ago, one of the last ones to be removed from the scene. But if you look in the foreground, this parking lot where we are, most of these cars that you see in fact all of those cars belong to the responders now. All of this heavy response was out of an abundance of caution because if the problem, if the threat had b
Springtime warmth. Its a quickhitting storm. We will talk more about the impacts when it moves in. Im take you hour by hour in just a bit. Thank you, doug. Five people are in custody after raids in belgium today including europes most wanted isis fugitive Salah Abdeslam. Hes been on the run since the paris terror attacks four months ago. Nbcs Richard Engel has the details of the raid. Reporter belgian officials announce a commando raid in brussels captured europes most wanted isis fugitive. His name, Salah Abdeslam, wanted for his role in the paris attacks that killed 130 people. The 26yearold abdbe a dells s has always been the most enigmatic. Hes believed to have carried out an attack but either had a change of heart or out. Left his suicide vest behind and then crossed out of france, went back to belgium, and he was found today not far from his own home back in the molenbeek neighborhood, a suburb of brussels. Police and commandos gathered at the building where they believed he was,
Kind of monitors in the hallin t maybe who would see who goes ino and out of bathrooms. If thats happening thats whatt they need to do. Reporter a spokesperson fors the school said in a statement s it is a wrong standing policy of Sidwell Friends School to sch cooperate fully with any Law Enforcement investigation. You it is also our policy not to comment on such investigations and today staff and students are not here at the school as they are closed for spring break. Ak. But again this is an ongoing investigation. Reporting live in northwest dcns alexandria limon fox 5 local news. It is now been a week since an yes, sir year old retiree war shot to death inside his Million Dollar home on the Potomac River. Ri a case so far baffled detective. There are no solid leads in thei case and tonight the fairfaxrf county chief of police is askina for help. Fox 5 paul wagner joins you live tonight. T. Reporter law ran murder is a crime that is truly frightened the resident in fair fox county. T
And im eun yang. We want to check our weather, as well. Chuck bell with a closer look at your forecast. What about this rain, chuck. Just light rain here early this morning. Most of us are only going to have a few hundredths of an inch today at the most. But all drizzle all the time this morning with the fog and the nastiness out there. Drizzled to death today. No sun on saturday and sunday has washout potentials. Well talk more about that in about 20 minutes. For now, though, get you out the door on a friday morning, the best thing about the forecast is that its friday. Light rain and drizzle moving right into the metro area. Current temperatures are only in the mid to upper fourth and we wont s 40s. 46 this morning, 56 this evening. And off to a cool and cloudy start thop with temperatures ner 50 on your saturday. Update on a crash on the beltway. Thats right, update here top of the beltway outer loop after connecticut, all lanes now open. So no worries there. Taking a look at 66 fro