Anytime there is a problem on the metro. Perhaps you want News Headlines or metro. Sign up for all of it. Wjla. Com text. Alison did you see this . Flames lit up the night in lorton after a fire broke out inside a trash and recycling center. Tonight, the flames are under control. But the fire continues to smolder. Sending smoke across the area including right on to i95. Q mccray joins us live near the scene with the response and how those nearby are dealing with this. Q . Q that is the question. How will the people nearby deal with the smoke and the stench . The smoke is moving away from us but when it does move it moves like a fog and it smells like melting plastic. We have been on top of the story since late last night with skytrak7 over the scene. This was the scene around 10 00 last night. Red hot flames glowing in t night sky. First responders doing their best to save the trash and recycling plant in lorton. The threestory fire is under control but the smoke isnt. It continues to
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A single that opened up on the George Washington parkway is getting bigger. It will take a while to be fixed. And spout run123 parkway, closed. Brianne carter has details on those repairs. Good afternoon to you. This is a piece of the rail we have been talking about. The problem you can see it behind me, this massive hole on the southbound lanes of gw parkway. They have extended the closure all the ways from the beltway to spout run. Work is getting ready to begin. A complicated commute for thousands thanks to this growing sinkhole in the southbound lanes of George Washington parkway. [indiscernible] with the southbound lanes from 120 32 stout run shutdown, the backup continues to build. I just want to go home. That is exactly what colleen tried to do, only when she tried median,a uturn in the she got stuck in the mud and had to wait longer for a tow truck. [indiscernible] police discovered the just after 7 00 last night after four cars trying to avoid the rupture in the road collided.
Some progress. You can see what is or what was the whole, and they have worked to fill it in, and now they are waiting for the asphalt to come and cover it over and finish up the work, but it was a huge, huge problem when it opened up this morning for rushhour traffic. Rushhourt what commuters wanted to see this morning. Looking at the pothole, it did not look all of that big, actually, but big enough to do damage. Single, pothole but a and it grew to five feet long and 10 feet wide, and crews shut thatthe southbound, and caused huge backups. And a bad situation got worse for colleen. She got stuck while making a uturn and had to have her car pulled out. Throughout the entire day, access to the southbound lanes was closed down and caused huge confusion. Did you hear about the sinkhole . No. Completely turned around trying to make it. Southbound is blocked. So what to do . Meantime, by midafternoon, workers came in with a dump truck. , digging a hole and making repairs. Said the Nationa
Here, and here is where the hole was. The crews have been able to did into it, and they now basically have a big section that they have cleared out, and they will prettying up this hole soon. Lets go to video from early in the day. This was about five feet long and 10 feet wide, and it opened up early this morning on the southbound lanes of the gw parkway, and it caused quite a backup in traffic, and it has been causing a mess all day long along be gw parkway, as this had to be diverted as Police Closed down the southbound lanes. Earlier this afternoon, those trying to get on the southbound lanes, not knowing that this was closed out, or was confusion, and we talked to one of the motorists earlier today. To get off, and then another exit to get back on east, but it is a sinkhole. Yes. You cannot do it. This piece of machinery which is coming out right now, that is going to lay down the tar and the asphalt inside the lanes in front of me were the whole wise. They are hoping to have all