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it ends up with a tense stand off with police and a school bus. a local teenager seriously hurt in a terror attack overseas. tonight a family friend is speaking out about what happened. we begin tonight at 10:00 with the commuter chaos at a metro station. i m will thomas in for brian. i m shawn yancy. smoke in the cu responsibility circle station sent the crowd scrambling up broken escalators. matt, you watched this all unfold. reporter: yeah, shawn. it all happened during our 5:00 and 6:00 newscasts this evening. what we are being told by officials now is that it was an escalator that began smoking on the northern side of the dupont circle metro station. when that began to smoke, it filled up the stays according to witness the station according to witnesses and they did their best trying to get out. many of them said they were very panicked. one thing we ve been trying to find out tonight is why did metro allow the red line to continue to drop people off here at dupo