Tonight and tomorrows commute. A recall coming from the furniture giant ikea. The danger pose bd by millions d millions of dressers around the world. Katie lodecky swim hers ws to rio. First the pictures you sent us showing the smoke filling one of the metros busiest stations. In the heart of rush hour, yellow and Green Line Service affected for hours, all because of what metro calls a smoldering bolt. It sent riders up to the street, even closed the station for a short time and sent one person to the hospital. News4s shomari stone where things are reporter imagine youre on the metro. Youre trying to get home, its hot, its humid outside. All of a sudden you have to evacuate the station. Youre standing on the shuttle bus. Its absolutely awful. Lets hear what riders had to say about it. Frustrating. Reporter riders describe it as a metro mess after a fire breaks out on the tracks at the gallery place chinatown station. Bianca falconi said it was frustrating. Crews put out the fire and fi
The rain from overnight moving off the lower parts of Southern Maryland and the eastern shore. It is thick. Plenty of humidity around for the next 24 hours. Well deal with the humidity this morning. Chances for thunderstorms into the evening hours. Well be back in the mid 80s by early this evening and slightly cooler and noticeably less humid weather arrives just in time for tomorrow morning. There are pockets of thick fog. Ill show you where the fog is the thickest in your commuter forecast coming up in ten minutes. Lets good to jack taylor. Its quiet right now. Enjoy the greenway while you can, riding the outer loops. 95 toward george avenue, no trouble spots toward the wilson bridge. Decent shape coming inside the beltway through falls church. A little heavy traffic over rail riders, the red line, residual delays from that early work unit malfunction outside of medical center. Back to you zblxt new details just in in the case of walter fontroy. Lawyers reached out to tom sherwood ab
Now on news 4 today, a crash knocks out power to hundreds, flips the car and lands the driver in the hospital. The dangerous situation at a busy intersection. You are going to need your raincoat for the rest of the long weekend. Storm team 4 is tracking when showers will impact your travel plans for fireworks and parades. Dozens dead and hundreds wounded in the baghdad bombings. The latest terror group claiming responsibility. The first. The rain drops, did you hear them, feel them . Its going to be a major holiday factor. Good morning, im adam tuss. And im molette green. Timing is everything as you plan the fourth of july, the cookouts, the fireworks. The person with the answers, Lauryn Ricketts. Yes. You are dealing with rain showers throughout the morning. Its not good on the air situation but hopefully we can improve things because we have a few changes to this everchanging forecast. Letow 70s through the afternoon and you can see, look at our radar, we got some heavy rain and we h
At the live desk right now, continuing to watch quite a mess of people being taken off Southwest Airlines tonight. A computer problem ground all southwest flights across the country. Now, the company is telling us the ground stop applies to any flights that have not left the gat gate. Now at last check, Reagan National airports said southwest flights were landing but not taking off. And right now if you were to go to the southwest website, this is what youre going to see. An image that says were working hard to get you where you want to be. And it tells customers not to refresh their browser. Once again, were being told the faas ground stop has been lifted but still plenty of lingering computer problems for Southwest Airlines. Well check in with him as soon as he arrives. What a mess. Susan hogan. Susan, thank you. Thousands of black Police Officers from all over the country are here in washington for their annual conference. Today they marched to Howard University in memory of those k
Diverted. Back to you. Lets check in with doug with severe thunderstorms. Its daily this time of year. Thats why we are in red mode here. We have Severe Thunderstorm Warnings. This is down to the south. New storm including Rappahannock County and fauquier county. You can see a warning in frederick, Loudoun County, Fairfax County as well as Prince Williams. Now, take a look, these are the storms that were watching. These are the strongest to the north. Very strong winds and we have chopper 4 up over Montgomery County and, wow, look at that picture here. A very ominous picture of the showers and storms moving in. You can see the very dark clouds at the top of your screen. Those are the clouds that do not have rain. The lighter clouds is where the rain is. You can see the very low cloud hanging there. Its a result of the rain cooling the air and then lifting it back up as the warm goes ahead of it. The storms move through the night tonight. Lets zoom in and do a couple of zooms here. Lets