Right now hes another bus sto stop. Well start with erin and with a look at ride in and big picture, erin. Right now 7 01 we can tell you were seeing crowded conditions and lot of congestion on roads. 395 up bound before the beltway toy past the 14 fridge bridge. South of that point stafford and dale city and bottom of beltway is very flow. A lot of extra drivers on our roads inbound south capital. Key bridge from joj george town to rosalyn. 50 inbound look at the parking lot now. A lot of folks take metro rail. As you make your way 410 to 2 1 this is what the commute is looking like. Prince william being jammed and look at maps. Lets show you how else you can get around if you dont want to particularly drive yourself. Metro bus is Offering Service from pentagon to Franklin Square and ride on bus in maryland and naavre has regular service. Arlington transit and dash special off peak service if you want to take uber theyre ca capping surge pricing at 3. 9 times app i just pull the uber app up it would be 1. 3 times my normal raid. That is something to keep in mind. If youre first time uber or lift raider you can get a promo for money off the first rid ride erin fox d. C. For late ebb on that. And you can share ride today. They will allow a few of you to get in the taxi and get off at different locations. Cardio goer zipcar if you want to renee ride and d. C. Sir annual fees apply for capital bike share. Options fill up. Plan ahead and have patience and grab head phone for a you know good tunes as you head ou out. Were trying to keep you post around the area guys, any questions . Let me ask you something we taikd about this at the top of the six. What are you seeing this hour versus yesterday at this hour. Much different opt roads . This hour always has a ton of cop juston. Maybe maybe a rainy ride to work. Inbound parkway seeing traffic heavier than usually. And buses and carha taxi, uber, teleworking. I know my aunt nancy she works for the government and said hey erin ill be teleworking today. I think a lot of people will be. Thank you. See you in a few minutes. One person on twitter said a 9 minute commute took 30 minute. Let us know what your situation is like on twitter and facebook and well pass that along so other can help. Lets check in with Melanie Alnwick now. Live in bevrz. Mel g. Morning what are you seeing. Good morning, pretty much a ghost town here. Most people are heeding warnings and not going to work today teleworking or finding another option. You can see the parking lot i itself is pretty des late. Just a couple of cars here. And this unprecedented action though listening to general manager paul wheat jp feld yesterday you can tell he was serious when he said safety would be his number one priority. I want to give you insight into the they felt they needed this unpress departmented action. Inspectors will take a hard look at a power cable. 600 specifically that general manager is concerned about and these power cables perhaps have problems. We have that track fire and smoke inincident on mcpherson line monday at that point caused many problems. Inspectors found a cable there and power cable that where the insulation was not as it should be. It was contacting metal. Thats what caused the arch and spoke smock and turns out that insulator was up inspected before and cleared. It was said to be okay. Thats what caused thats the same issue we had less than a year ago at the la fonte plaza station that led to carol glovers death. They felt after this Conference Calltial was the ak that needed to be they had dpon in piece meal i they would have drawn it out over weeks. And they couldnt take that risk each oop if it was small he does have the authority and support of metro board. That metro will have a lot of congestion and be difficult and rel lies people get into work and school and for everyone who relies on metro. But, safety is paramount. And we need to get to the bottle of this. And we did have a Conference Call at 2 00 with paul and a number of Board Members and discussed this thoroughly and we support the general managers decision to close this down for 24 hours and see what were dealing with. So when the inspection process is done we will know if those power connectors or power smriz are good to go or if any need additional repair work. If they do it could mean perhaps closed down or single tracking and theyre going to make sure that all of those power cables are safe before they get everything back up and running again. Live at grovener im Melanie Alnwick. Fox5 local news. Mel, thanks, bob barnard is commuting throughout the district and got an early start as well. He was on the bus with other commuters an now he stopped off on pennsylvania avenue in southeast. Good morning. Good morning were on capitol hill inbound pennsylvania passing Eastern Market area slow and steady and not atroshious. Its kind of rally compacting now. It has not been very thick about now so the going has not been that rough maybe as not as rough as people and it doesnt mean people represent home or arrived in early. If you were to arrive here this is what would you see. Escalators are running at the bottom the gates are closed and locked at Eastern Market station. You mentioned we were on i bus. I wants to show you from earlier we got and i bus 5 15 nailer road and road that to foggy would thele. There was free parking an plenty of parking at the nay lor road station and the gus got crowd as we snaked our way southeast no form east d. C. The people a lot of people on the bus said they would with normally take a train but theyre riding bus this important and they got on early anticipating it would be slow getting work and as it turned out they got to work type. Because the road around us as we came in pennsylvania and independent and all snaking through the city guyshe traffic was lights as we are are on the bus arriving at fo foggy pot bottom. There are alternatives and so far roadways are not bad at least where we are here on capital hill. Thank you appreciate. It our coverage ever the metro shut down continues all morning long. Later this hour well talk about a man behind unsunk d. C. Metro and twitter feeds read then at 8 what message does safety shut down accepted to coming gress. Representative coplay will be us with. You can get the information on our web site fox d. C. Com. What do you think would create a worse commute metro shut down or snowstorm. Current results 250 people so far. 5 a5 saying metro shut down. Feel free to weigh in paing ingt vote. Speaking of warm i know tucker may disagree but its only for one day, tuck. No one is going anywhere during the snowstorm. Im biased. You remember what the know snow did. I hate to be against t either one is good. Either one is good. Exactly. Heres whats is good with transition there 70s back and shoulding a very nice someday for us. Chance for few showers and thunderstorms later. Mild temperatures about to move in. Reagan national 50. 42 dulles, little cool to start the day. One front right here moving through as we speak and north and east well start to feel that warmup around here locally as we should number for a nice, warm day. Thats a cold front. You can see not very impressiv impressive. One or two sprinkles in eastern ken and and when that arrives it will be more enhanced. We may have few showers or thunderstorms and cooler air rushs in behind it. Your forecast for today i mean considering were dealing with traffic nightmare at least the weather is cooperating, mid 70s this afternoon with possibility of a local shower hereby rush hour. Guys, plenty more warm coming up looking at th you. Tucker thank you. President obama will announce his for the Supreme Court. No indication who the nominee is in indication to sun pours the president says i made my decision. Well share horthon as we know Election Results from primaries what comes next and coverage locally todays metro shut down these Northern Virginia next. I do everything on the internet. But its kind of slow. My friends said i should get fios because its the fastest. I just downloaded 600 photos in 60 seconds. Thats seriously better. man were out of 2 . I wonder what else could be better around here . man i heard that. Now get our best offer ever. Super fast 100 meg internet, plus tv phone for just 69. 99 a month online with no annual contract. 100 meg speeds at a price this good . Fios can do that. Cable just cant. Switch to better. Switch to fios is lets get back to story. Met low shut down. Hundred of thoughts ever commuters have to find mode of transportation to get to work or around the dmv. Annie yu is live outside the metro station with now. Hey, annie, good morning. Good morning, allison, stev steve, bus service is running normally. And around this time, you would see jammed lots and people bustle around. Here we have pretty much a ghost town. Its crazy. More than 400,000 take metro every day. Theres hardly anyone out ther there. Weve seep a happened full of people out here all morning long and i guess you know perhaps have other alternatives of getting a round and taking advantage of teleworking. Unler is capping surcharge at 3. Times normal amount. So i ran a little route to give you an idea from our station on wisconsin avenue to here the west false church station and it will cost you anywhere from 23 to so the cost is quickly going up and its probably best to use youreer pool. You can share uber with other people and its cheaper. And if you have to head out today meantime if you look behind me here theres a gate to the walkway here. Were on at 5 a. M. Theyre on at 5. And they close today because the commuter sl cancelled here and they opened us up and folks can get through to walkway and still reload the fare cards and get to one commuter bus to take you to d. C. That cancelled. Loudoun county to here hoping to get to d. C. You will have to find another way because it cancelled. Just buses are running here. Again you can see its pretty much a ghost town out here. But know what its good news. For those who dont have to be around in this. Back to you in the studio. All right. Annie thank you vex. Coming up land escape of the president ial race shifting on both sides this morning and latest from the campaign trail straight ahead. And also well have more on metro shut down and what you ne coming up next 7 15. Look at this sweet face. So sweet. Ok, were going to need a napkin i would kill for something sweet. Wanna split that . No. Soooo much fat. Dont fight your instincts. With 150 calories each, try our new rich creamy cheesecakes. Fiber one. Bunch of buses lined up now. It will be a new mode of transportation for a loft people used to riding rails today will jump on buses and one way or another youll get to work today and good news with the government opting for people work agent home it will save a lot of i guess headaches for a loft have a chance telework and get your work done and maybe work on ncaa bracket so not losing productivity time at work. And maybe we should have closed metro tomorrow st. St. Patricks day and it could be like this all day. You know people. Youre right. We dont want anybody driv driving. Its probably more tournament bracket. Okay. So lets go to the there you go. Maybe at the end of rainbow is. Lets see my guy. Here he is. Hello everybody. I cant do it can anybody do accent for leprechaun. It will be mid 60 st. Patricks day. And we can expect 70 around here this afternoon. As we are having a one day war warmup. One day special with very pleasant temperatures. All right i showed ud that picture yesterday. Sunday me your sunrise forecast. Surprise this morning about minute ago 7 17. Sunset tonight. When is it . The 10. Great guess not close. Steve . I want another chance hes doing something else. 8 15. Ill say. What did you say before. 9 15. Oh, i was going to go with price is rate 7 48. Remember i said. That took way too long sunsets tonight 7 17. I said 7 15. You took remember i said d. 7 17. 7 17 sunrise and sunset. Exactly twelve hours thats how long the commute will last. You guys get to have few and leprechauns and ill do your party next. First showing you tweets hearing from some friend around Fairfax County shuttles were running 40 minute late so just a head up there dealing with delays because of crowded conditions and monday a says says shes uber right now and theyre in bottle neck traffic and its a heavy traffic day and i typed in uber app to try to get what surge pricing will be its a blanket statement now that says surge pricing will cap at it doesnt specify what we were hearing 3. 9 times the amount of well look into that for you and keep you updated. Several openings to get around virginia, fairfax connector is offering additional emergency shutslees for rest inand franconia. Vre regular service and Arlington Transit and dash offer special off peak prices and crowded conditions on inbound route. Well take a live look next. Thats your task. All right lets goat politics now thats what in washington. Super tuesday part three big wins for Hillary Clinton and donald trump contest in illinois, florida, North Carolina, ohio, and trump won in florida, illinois,. Veronica clearry joins us with more any upsets in your opinion. Definitely big upsets one in particular for marco rubio and definitely Bernie Sanders hoped top do better last night well take you through all of. It they hosted main areay for democrats and republicans. John kasich pulled out a major win in ohio winner take allstate. Kasich says hes in the race for a long haul. Donald trump had victories north car ryan aillinois and florida. And Hillary Clinton had florida, illinois, North Carolina and ohio. So lets lessen to a little of what these three had to say after their victoryes. We have one more trip around ohio, this coming fall we will beat Hillary Clinton and i will become the president of the united states. Thank you all very much. God bless you. Congratulate marco rubio on having run a really tough campaign hes tough, smart and has a great future. Were moving closer to securing the Democratic Party nomination and winning this election in november. You may have noticed i have not mentioned fifth state that hosted primary last night, missouri. For both democrats and republicans the race is still too close to call. Democrats between sanders and clinton and for republicans its a close race between trump and cruz. So there you have. It big night. It never fails to be excite excited. It never did. Thanks veronica. Coming up attempted abduction as popular museum. You have seen this video. Chilling video and who stepped in to help. And new developments in ambush attack that killed a prince korj Country Police officer and the brothers behind the crime. 7 24 we are tracking breaking news this morning. Mni the metro shut down. We want to help you get arounduo the d. C. Area without those major headaches. R headac metro rail shut down extra metrm bus service is available avail offering extra services betweenb pentagon and Franklin Square. F metro access on normal schedulee metro parking lots are free if you want to drive in maybe hopbp on a bus from there or carpool. L if youre heading out inheing virginia Fairfax County cou connector offering emergcy franconia vre, arlington trainss and dash offering special off peak service vre on normalorl service. Rv if you want to head out int todu maryland, ride on or mca and checked in with steve he tried i to catch an uber from friendshii seven times the normal price. Mae well keep you posted on your oy options to get around congestioo is building as well. Thats your traffic. Stelai header our teamdeour m coverage of the metro shut down continues. Continue the latest on rider impact and i how to get around this morning a man behind metro the twit feedss joins us live to talk about thet Transit Agencys problems. Itck with our continuing w coverage metro rail shut down. Eo right now looking live at a slus line location in springfield,ind virginia. In not a lot of people lining uping there at this moment f youre fy not familiar with the slugh t process, thats when people pico up strangers looking for rides r to the same location. Big lotions like the pentagon or downtown d. C. In order to ride o in the hov lanes. Hov lanes are being enforcednfce today. Toda our Photographer Mike rickert ii l he says its not been busy soo far this morning in the slug line. Keep in mine, a lot of federalea workers are staying home today. Lets check in with our bob bob barnard. Rnar bob is back on morning. In kind of crowded this time, bob. B good morning. Morni reporter yeah, were getting a little man handled onn Vernon Johnson number 39 busr us from naylor road to foggy bottob it is packed bus and this lady s is about to get off. Ut tt o you say you normally take the trains. How you finding the going this s morning . In it was okay. Oy yeah. Y umhmm. Reporter able to navigatebl all right . E l everything is good. Very reporter what do you make of the decisiohan that metro ma . I think they could have gavee us two days warning or somethi something. One day notice. Reporter weve been talking to people whdao w actuaa got on buses earlier than normaa today to try to beat the crowdhc and did all right but now anybody were fox5 on life tv. Tv most of you guys or some of youf guys normally take the trains. Can i see a sign of hands or hao shout out. Out. A lot of hands. How is it going. Ow is oing its terrible. E. Its going. I heard horrible guys. Riuy this is the 39 bus from naylor road head to go foggy bottom atm lot of people who normally rided te earlier we were on the buses ats fief 15 00 this morning withs mi people who normally dont go in that early but they wanted totet beat the crowd and here we are heading in along pennsylvaniayla avenue now independence avenuevu and it seems to be okay, guys. Uy steve and allison, well zen itt back to you from the 39 bus b heading to fog bee bottom. To. Good luck on the 39 bus thist morning. Lets move to the rails righto h now. This is the first time in 13 in years ive been in d. C. I can c remember d. C. Metro shutting stt down completely for a day. You group here. P unprecedented if its not adt weather event it doesnt shutoet down like this. It is certainly not the first time its caused problems fors f hundreds of thousands everysande people trying get around theingr city. City the man behind untuck d. C. Metro joins us on the phone to o talk about what is going on. On. My question to you is, what do w you think about all of this . L t good morning. Good morning. Well, i think congressmansman delaney said it best. T. This represents total agencyy failure on the part of metro. Heres the question. Questio if anybody follows untuck d. C. Metro online, interesting take on things. Hi but its keeping it real. It r i mean youre letting peopleeope know what the problems are and p hearing a from a lot of l commuters going right to the to source themselves. Hemselves. What are you hearing from peoplo this time around with the shorto notice of this shut down compared to other metro probleml weve had over the years . I think theres been kind of a mixed reaction. Some people this represent as new direction for the agency that now safety truly is the top priority, and theyre willing to lose the revenue for a day toayo prove that. Tt. Thats one take. Another take is the final year i believe avenue 5 billionion Investment Program in metro, ana what has that gotten us . We u dont have a metro today. Can we look at the bigheig picture, though, here, becauseeu we all know if there is one ion would more person to lose theirt which is what prompted all of of this, isnt it worth it . Absolutely. Yes. No question. Stn. Okay. Just to get perspective of thisf because, yes, it is an inconvenience, and i cant evenn imagine the money that metro is losing, but win all this frustration you have to beto b encouraged by a change at thengt top here to say lets shut ithui down and get it right. Well, i have mixed feelingsli about that, because, this t incident the first smokehe incident that we f know ofw of happened about a year ago, january. That caused someone to die, andd then metro was supposed to inspect these then. T i dont know what happened butow obviously they didnt and theren was a fire monday and here weer are again. Ain. So this a pattern ive seen ovee and over at metro. Rolling dice with safety until u something happens and then a big dramatic shut down o inspection or this or that. O the list goes on and on. On and youve been serving as kind of a quasi watch dog of metroro now for some time keeping an eyn on the situation there. Onr how do you feel now going back obviously that smoke incident id last year put a huge amount ofmo attention on the metro system. S in that year coming up now, n since that happened, how do youu feel metro has done . Are weonew Getting Better . Are we gettingt worse . Promise now with newne leadership that might change tan things for the better, or are we down the same path . P i think its more of the sams frankly. Maybe this decision to close it down will be flex point, i don know, this remains to be seen. S certainly a different. So i think well have to wait ta and see if the new gm reallym r does mean safety first. Fi we really do appreciate youa spending time with us on theitht phone today, and lets hope itt makes it better system. R ste we deserve it in this area. S are absolutely we do. Absely absolutely we do. O. Thank you very much. Nk y thats the man behind d. C. Metro joining us on the phone. Phon a lot of times people laughpl at their tweets out there, because, you know, just dealingi with the reality of getting geti around this town. S tn. Right. On the trains. Othe right. Today were seeing it allre s shut down. The biggest thing for everybodye at home the impact of this. F t not just obviously on the trains which are not running but folksf trying to get around on theunon roads. Is it more crowded because a loc of people are staying homengom today. I am seeing a lot more congestion right now. Ht as soon as we hit that 7 30 half hour, it started to get moret me crowded. Ow i would say todays commute to s comparable to a rainy day orr light snowflakes coming down it right now we have a crash. E cra its involving a disabledisable vehicle as weldl 395 northboundn at edsall road. All all lanes really crowded. Cwd youre jammed from the bottom of the beltway all the way as you y head towards the 14th street bridge. Brid. Southeast southwest freeway westbound we also have ave a motorcycle crash. Ra that is causing some rea reallyg slow downs there blocking partir of the off ram toll potomac parr between six and seven. You can see how crowdedn de conditions are. Co some sun glare out there. Re o grab you dealing with a crash as you druu in from have a have just past jt that overpass there. Here this is right by 28 north. Or so give yourself plenty of extrf time there. He keep in mind hov restrictionstr are in place. Are in pla they have not been lifted. Lifte weather youre making your wayr on 95, 66, 50, 395 or 270. 2 lets take look at our maps. Oum again arc lot of extraf ext congestion as we take a look atk our maps. Ou tons of red right now top of the beltway outer loop by New Hampshire 270 from frederick tok the spur leave earl physical youre driving. Yo you need extra time to 29595 basically parked in bothot directions inside the districtic suitland parkway by the douglass bridge getting crowded. Heres some options for you. Or u leave early. Leave early. Ride on bus, mta, also f you are taking anything in virginia vgi Public Transportation wise Fairfax County connector conne offering emergency pentagon peno schultz from reston, vienna franconia. Fran dash is offering special offal f Peak Services and free servicese inside the district you moving. U movg. D. C. Circumstance later, d. C. Streetcar and capitol bike shara keep in mind typical usage fees do fly apply for the bike share. Uber 3. 9 times. Imes the latest update 1. 7 times from friendship heights. Hei lyft or taxi or zip car. C neck with tucker if yourefou walking, taking the bicycle, yoy want to head out youre not teleworking or working on that t march madness bracket how are the skies shaping up . Shaping u . Absolutely beautiful. Olut look at that. My job is easy today. Oday lots of sunshine unine you gave me that look. L when are you going to stop talking. That was a big mouthful ofbil traffic. Traf yeah. Beautiful day to walk to work, jog to work, skip to work if yoi if thats what you feel like, steve, Cool Conditions outdi there. 50 now in washington. Hiton 48 gaithersburg. 42 douglas. Ou little cool but big warmup big b 70s today. T this is the warm front coming cm through right here. H light shower activity intoy i central pennsylvania. Ns that will move off to the north and east and warm sector for couple of fr hours today. Hours that allows temperatures again to pump into the mid 70s. Weak cold front kind of see it right there the only reason iy mentioned it could kick up a cok shower or a thunderstorm littlel later today. T. The chances arent great well w get much of anything but want tn give you heads up there could bu oh shower or storm later thisatt afternoon. Rn 74 cooler weather on the way tomorrow. Have all the details on st. He d patricks day weekend forecastos coming up in just a minute. N jum steve, allison son, back to you guys. Coming up and update on an a murder mystery shaking ain virginia community. A College Student learns hiss fate. Wait until you hear that harsh sentence. 7 42 right now. That is an american student itme wasnt every 21yearold university of virginia receivedi his country by the highest court. 21yearold otto beer faces 15 5 years of hard labor after aft allegedly trying to steal ao banner from a hotel. His trial lasted one hour. H he was visiting the country asra tourist over new years arrester back in january while trying too leave north korea. Korea the murder and gun charges c against two of the threehe thr brothers charged in connectionnt with the death of detectiveectie jacai colson have been dropped. But elijah and malik fordor charged with conspiracy aniracy tempted murder. Temp police say their brother michaeo was the gunman led to the friendly fire death of officer colson. Colson was off duty when he wase shot. Authorities are searchingit for two men after it appeared ap one of them may have tried toed abduct a child at thet t smithsonian air and space museus earlier this month. S mon Surveillance Video showed a mana grab a childs hand and walknd l away before chaperone yelled att him. Him the man fled and boarded a shuttle bus anybody with information is asked to call police. Police. Concerned residents packedne into Community Meeting insimu mi Fairfax County last night. Nig they were questioning whether w they are safe following theollo unsolved murder of one of theiro neighbors. Hbors. Unknown gunman shot and killed johan, while the 83 was inside i his lorton home last friday. Da. Police have no leads at this time which leads residents toids wonder and question whether theo are safe in their upscale upsca community perhaps some comfort m to residents is an increasedree Police Presence in the area. Move police say was decided d before the shooting. G a bill named for montgomerym county Police Officer killed bye a suspected now head to the state senate set yesterday noahs law was passeds by marylands house of delegatel that bill would requireould reqi convicted drunk drivers to haveo an ignition enter lock placed oa their vehicle. It is named after officer know what lee yacht at a who decide d back in december while work tagk dui checkpoint. Checkpoin still to come this morning wee m return to our top story that isa the shut down of the city subwaa system. You are looking live at a bug stop at sixth and independencede in southeast southwestst washington. Wa well have much more after the t break. Eak. Stronger is blasting without risking her bones. Its training her good cells. To fight the bad guys. Stronger is less pain. New hope. More fight. Its doing everything in your power. And everything in ours. Stronger, is changing even faster than they do. Because we dont just want your kids to grow up. We want them to grow up stronger. Look, i know youre a cow and all. And you may not know what im talking about, but, uh. The yogurt made from your milk, is delicious. Mmmm, yoplait. How long must we wait for the eaglets. Even the eagle is not happyeh about metro this morning. Mor look at that look. Seriously . Sly . Steve, i think were looking at this thing the wrong way. Way what is that, al . T ishat, i feel like, yes, it is a huge inconvenience but, you know, i just keep thinking b baaing that that woman who losts her life. You know what i mean. Know if they can find something productive out of this its t worth it. H you probably do need more mor time than a small a shut down of one station. Station. I understand its a hugeta inconvenience. More than the timing of thism even the mayor wasnt aware thii was going to happen with noappeh notice. Notice eagle is like i thought weho were talking about me right nown well get back to the eagleae and get back to metro. Ro 7 47 right now. Now. Right now, this doesnt look tol bad out there, tuck. Thats metro station closed down, right, steve . Tuck, your job is the weather weather. Sorry. Did you include him in it. Ncm i tried allison to bridge him into coverage when it came toen the sunshine reflecting. Ing. Right, right. Right over his head. S ead. It does look sunny. K im sorry, steve. Check this out. Chec this is really cool. Daylight hours 12 hours exact ha daal. Al. Sunrise was at 7 17 sets tonight at 7 17. 1 theres your fun weather factear for the day as our days ofay course getting longer and long longer. As we get into spring and summ summer. All right. 50 now in washington. Cool temperatures to sn tart you day. Y. Jacket maybe for an hour or twoo well get real quick warmup andr should be in the mid 70s by early afternoon as thats a warw front coming through. G tough weve got warmer air moving inii as we speak and you shouldouho notice again a quick jump inck that temperatures. Rares cold front out here. H got to really look carefully car right there and well be between the two systems for a good partp of the day. Day. Thats going allow that warmup. When the cool front gets in herh later today maybe a shower or sr thunderstorm and later tonight we will cool highs by tomorrow for st. Rowor patricks day only be in the 60s. S. Still above normal. Ill abov milde conditions, warm conditis today. Theres your cold front. Looks impressive. Im not sure it will be when it arrives but maybe a shower orwer storm then cooler air and well have tonight and today. T real quick look at future cast. 6 00 oclock looks like most ofk the energy will stay to ourill o north but i just want to throwot it out there there could be ald shower or storm afternoon sporto that kind of thing later todayad youre attending. Uttendi well clear it out real quickt i tonight. Theres a quick look a the seven day. E 74 today. Od little cooler tomorrow. W. Pleasant day. D. Sketch. Ch maybe late shower on saint saint patrick. Friday and saturday look good. Yg cool by saturday. Aty. Very chilly rain and cloud covec day for first day of spring witw temperatures in the mid 40s. Es s all right. Thats weather. That erin is back. She is the star of the show. Oh, well, you know, tucker. C its just an exciting day. In d i think the leprechaun in onn your forecast is the star with w st. Patricks day tomorrow. Y tor right now traffic is picking up a lot more congestion than usual down. Down lets show i was wide view. 395 completely parked from theae bottom of the beltway to theo t 14th street bridge. T bre. Earlier accident blocking thelog shoulder by edsall. Really crowded conditions innern loop across the wilson bridge. 295 inbound both directions isen basically a parking lot. L inner loop through annandaleughn really slow. Real slow conditions in tysons through vienna 66 inbound all of your inbound routes please have patience. Lots of updates from you fromouf twitter checked in with metro bus, several bus routes due tott an accident on east capital and forty ninth Street Southeast arh lot of those buses areuses experiencing a 20 minute delayme in both directions. H directi so keep that in mind if youre u taking metro bus today. Ay metro bus also added service s from pentagon to franklinn square. Sq if you are in fact taking uber theyve expanded uber poolber during the metro shut down totn make the most of their mostir m avenue forrable ride. Bleid Kevin Mccarthy checked in withen him on twitter. He called up uber and the fairar is creeping up closer to aboutoa three times the normal amountora right now. Mo w. So make sure you check that. Ck t fair estimate before you c budget. Budg lyft as well offering a lot off rides. Ride a code as well uber and lyft also offering some codes ifomde youre a firsttime rider. Ider all of that information has been retweeted at erin fox5 d. C. C. Free services in the district. D. C. Circumstance later and d. C. Streetcar operating for freeorre today. Day. And capital bike share. City mom just tweeted me to says even though usage fees appliedei despite the fact theyre freeye they kick in after 30 minutes ie you can get to your destinationn win 30 minutes which a lot ofcho places in d. C. You can, youre,r good for that free ride withouto the usage fee for the bikehe b kicking in. Great day to be driving aroundro and a bike as well tucker said. Ride on bus from mta options vre on normal schedule but leave lea early v patience. Patnc its turning into little bitng more of lia headache than we saw earlier of a ride. R steve and allison . Metro closed lot of folks o f across the dmv are gettingetti creative how they get aroundet a today. To our Melanie Alnwick continuen our Team Coverage of the metroro shut today now. Mel, whats going on. L, whagoin . Reporter not whole lot here except looks like workersor who are are taking theghe opportunity to get some othereth maintenance done as well. L. Earlier today, i know we talke l about this we saw the inspectort out on the tracks looking atng some of those power cables. Ab those are the source of the of e problem here and the source ofhe the headache really for so many metro riders. Iders but i have never seen anything y like this before. Like look at it. It is almost 8 00 oclock in the morning, during the middle ofurn the week, and not a soul here se right now at the grosvenor groen strathmore station. Stion. We did see i counseled fouref people so far that came up to t those signs and kind of look tht at it open mouthed and said,d, what is going on . But most people i think knew that thisnea was going to be a problem today. Even the buses surprisingly we w thought wed see more peoplee catching these buses. Us but we have not so far. So perhaps theyre all takingakn advantage of saying that they can telework or take unscheduled leave today. Ld i dont know what other officee of communication has been withoh other people working downtown. But so far here i think peoplepe are just kind of taking the day off. Hadont know what else to say but eighths good thing. Hing. We know its absolutelyely necessary. Ceary. General manager Paul Wiedefeld said they would not take this t unless he felt they absolutelybl needed to do it and he along alo with Board Chairman jack evans said they couldnt in good in g conscience with the informationi they had about the insulationat and the problems with thoseith t power cables and perhaps metalpl on metal contact leading to smoke and fires could not in good conscience runs trainsrunss through the system today knowiny there could be a problem no ngtn matter how small the risk mighti be. Be back to you guys. Mel, lets be real about it. T certainly a huge inconvenienceon to be in trying to get to workro or home from work today. Ork tay but you yourself have certainlya covered multiple incidentse involving metro. Invoing including the big smoke bigmo incident. Cide so it seems lik indeed doing this in the name oe safety as they say, its not a a bad thing. Reporter no, certainly no not. And you know, people did askidsk yesterday, well, couldnt you have done this over time or whyy not wait until the weekend . Ke they talked about why not. They didnt want to wait. Ai wiedefeld said if they did thisd over the course of, you know, piecemeal here and there itl would take several weekshe and t would be several weeks of disruptions, several weeks of o delays and that is not good forr anyone either. Eit so really felt like it was timet to just kind of rip that t bandaid off and take care of it. Thats a good way to put it. If its going hurt in the shorts period but hopefully it will w heal over time. He mel, thanks. Well check back in with youk bt shortly on fox5 news morning wer appreciate it. Ecia time now for facebook fan oo the day. Ay today it is dana smith. Ami she says shes a loyal fox5 fann and today is also her 20th wedding anniversary. Yay happy anniversary. She started watching fox5 whenhe she met her husband. Congratulations to you both. If you would like to beld li tomorrows fan leave a commentot or congratulations or well or wl wishes to dana and her husbandud or anything you like below herwr photo on our Facebook Page and we will honor somebody elselse tomorrow. Hope you and your husband have e great anniversary. Sary. Aww lets give her a good a d day. Well deliver, right, 75 degre 75 degrees. Well deliver a great day. Era happy anniversary. Anniar fantastic. Fantasti yeah, a little cool right now. T 49 in washington. Wasngto 44 dulles. And up in baltimore 43 degrees. S but again were expecting 70stis around here. Today will be the warm one this week. Little cooler tomorrow andomorra should be plenty of sunshinef s over the next couple of hoursex much thats a warm frontt thena cold front this afternoon realln not a very impressive cold fro front. It will change the air mass and might kick up a shower or scatter thunderstorm late thissl afternoon a heads up on that but generally speaking very pleasans wednesday. Tomorrow doesnt look bad for la st. Patricks day, 67. Cooler weather arrives in t for the weekend. I got hob in that nest first dai of spring does not look great, cloudy with a few showers andhoe temps in the mid 40s. Make sure your sheider still working for the first day of daf spring. Spring lets enjoy today. S enod 74. My job is done. Job is d how are roads. How are roads. Still in the midst of af commute headache, tucker. Tke right now taking a look you canc see traffic really heavy as youy make your way out 270 southbouno seeing some delays as you makee your way past shady grove. Dyro first this is a look inner loopl out by bradley. Dl theres a lot of slowmoving traffic on the inner and outer o loop. Heavy beltway traffic as usual. U nothing out of the ordinaryy there. This is 270 where you can see a ton of volume coming from shadyh grove. Youre backed up north at thatup point in frederick 270 by the truck scales on down. You need to leave about an hourn early to battle that congestion as you pass through gaithersburr and rockville. 66 inbound look at this out by gallows. Huge delays as you make your wam from manassas throughthug centreville into fairfax. We got you coveredax. Ou coved. Well talk about alternativeltei forms of transportation duringrt this metro next look at traffic. Lk at t back to you. We look forward it to. It to. Thanks. Still a head challenginghead arlington. Ar why the family of female wardwa war two pilots fighting to have her buried there. Iedhere. We continue our coverage ofur this unprecedented metro shuthut down. Down more on the rider impact comingg up after 8 00. Er0. Stay with us. St wit i do everything on the internet. But its kind of slow. My friends said i should get fios because its the fastest. I just downloaded 600 photos in 60 seconds. Thats seriously better. man were out of 2 . I wonder what else could be better around here . man i heard that. Now get our best offer ever. Super fast 100 meg internet, plus tv phone for just 69. 99 a month online with no annual contract. Switch to better. Switch to fios right now at 8 00 oclock,cl two breaking news stories. Ewsto fox5 is on top of. T first this mornings tough ride to work made worse by metro reels complete system shut downd our team today right there withw you. We are actually riding on the interstates on the buses with you all to make sure that youe can get around today. Tay the other breaking news, president Barack Obama Says iba have made my decision. Decisio the president set to announce ie a few hours this nominee to filt the vacancy on the suprememe court. That despite threats fromts fro republicans that they will block anyone that the president picks. Good morning to you. Morng. Today is wednesday, march 16t march 16th, 2016. Rc16th im allison seymour. Smo im steve henry. m s welcome to fox5 news morning. Mg well have more on the breaking news from the white house fro including the possible nomineese one who has ties to our area bua first lets get up to date onat the metro rail shut down. D all Metro Rail Service until at least tomorrow morningm there will be no trains on any line today. Tay the closure a result of a system wide emergency safety inspectiot following mondays cable fire f near the Mcpherson Square metro station. Io federal government is open todad but employees have the optionhen for unscheduled leave oruled lee telework. Work. D. C. Schools are also open butut tardiness and absentees will be excused. Excused. Metro parking lots will bee open. Op they are free today. If your plan is to bike to workt keep in mine the capital bikeitl Share Program is offering a free oneday membership at all of its stations. Just a couple of tips hopefullyf will make your commute a littlel bit easier. The kiss and rides are openn today. You can park for free if you get a bus there. Here lets get a look at the ride re right now from erin como. Good morning. Good morning. 80 11. 80 you can see on the map a lot oft beautiful green we were showingr you during the early hours hasas turned red a lot of gridlock onn our secondaries and majoran m routes are in place. E in pla they have not been lifted across knife, 66, 50, 395, 270. 2 you can see 295 basically parkee in both directions. Ec. The inner loop across the wilson bridge jams and then 395 is basically parked from the bottom of the beltway through theough 14th street bridge. Bri south capital street jammedeet m across the douglas bridge. Ridg all of our ribbed bridges areris dealing with a ton ofalwith congestion. Ngestion. Lets forward our maps and showa you what else youre up againstp as you try to get to work durin the metro shut down today. D. C. Circumstance later isater i alerting riders to expect delayy up to 20 minutes due to that Traffic Congestion that is starting to really kick in righg now. No metro bus info due to trafficic congestion and old dominion roaa at beverly and birch buses are s experiencing about a 15 minute m delay there as well. L. Congestion also causing problems on pennsylvania and second southeast buses experiencingxpec about a 30 minute delay there se as you can see that congestionge were telling you about is affecting those skipping the t rails because its shut down ant taking the bus today. Tod free seri want to head out d. C. Circumstance later and d. C. C. Streetcar theyre operating fai free and capital bike share 24ha hour Free Membership today. 370 stations so if you want toot bike to work tucker says itr s should be a good forecast forort that. Lets see if we can forward oura maps aside from those freehose options, you also have somee other options to get around ind maryland ride on bus or mta. In virginia, you have vre operating op normal schedule. Chd Arlington Transit as well. Dash special off Peak Services i and additional buses running from the pentagon to downtown aw well on metro bus. Ro b keep that in mind towardsar Franklin Square. If youre taking the Fairfax County connector emergencyor e shuttles to pentagon from rest reston, vienna, fran cone y livl look at some of that cop jets j next. Next for now well toss it back totob the studio. E stud. Erin, thank you very much. U. Three minutes past the houru virginia congressman jerryes j connelly upset about todays t decision to close metro. Etro not mincing words. W congressman connelly says tht station wide shut down long term safety and reliabilityeliabi imp he joins to us talk morejo about this. In good morning. Good always good to see you morniways co goongressman. Ssn good morning. Your correct phrase was a gua punch to commuters across thecrs region. Regi you know, so little notice nc and such a dramatic and decisiod that affects of the lives of o hundreds of thousand ofhousan commuters in our region pretty t significant step. Ant ste the livelihood as well. W and livelihood as well, well, thats right. That rig so how could they have done h this better . Well, im not going to second guess on the sight decision byio the new general manager this isn a safety issue and its got to t be dealt with. What it reveals is the long neglect of the safety issue. Iss theres no excuse for shutting n down the system on the issue off potential arcing of cables thatt have not been maintained for year. Theyve known about this ass problem certainly since the lefant plaza tragedy and ntsb n report that highlighted this. So whats been a sudden do we have to actually shut the whole system down to dt deal with this what ought to beb routine maintenance issue. Ece as member of congress you aro aware of accountability as mucha as anybody in this country. If it comes to that, is this a a good thing for this new generale manager to at least say, look, o were going to do safety at all costs right now if thats waits takes . Is that message lost on commuters . Maybe just there wae more time given ahead of time. E im not quite sure how it workor now moving forward as to get this confidence back fork f ridership when it comes to met metro. You know what, i like the net general manager and clearly thii sends a signal that savory teear is number one and no foolingfool around but you get to do thiso s only once. Onc how often we cant be in a a position where every time you discover a systemic problemem throughout the network wellworw shut it down. N. I mean that is not going to wo work. So, okay, but youve got our attention. Attent hopefuy force attention. But this cant be the answer. As were looking at this from ts people who rely on this systemhm right here in the dmv. You sit with a body that body represents the entire nation. N what message does this send to the nation about what wereboutt doing here in d. C. . Its very mixed message. Ge its not a very positive one. O i think most of my colleaguesy u look at it with disgust. Disgu a number of my colleagues usellu metro every day to work. To i certainly use it on occasion. S and, you know, theyre justyre shaking their heads. Heads embarrassing. Its embarrassing. It highlights dysfunction. Ncti and it doesnt put our best casc forward when were trying to t persuade congress to be mores te supportive of metro because its the National Capital transitit system. I think that gets lost withhh lot of people because of thispl partnership with the federalrshd government when it comes tomentw metro right now is we mighte m understand here in washingtonhi what effects we already saw you saw tweett from new yorks transit systemym yesterday. Other places mocking usng us yesterday because of this. Dabeca that to me seems to be what w congress as a whole sees as wela in trying to decide how muchideu money to give to us here in d. C. Pre versely some of my versey colleagues will use this as an excuse to justify not fundingng metro. And gosh, we have battled so hard to get to where we are anda to try to make the case for an investment in the system. When people step back, i hope, my colleagues in congressnongr theyll appreciate, look, l cutting funding isnt thesnt answer. Its not going to make any ofmao this better. While this isnt only abouty abt resources, it is about resourc resources. And so we have to do both. We have to improve the management and the operations os metro desperately while also als frankly taking a serious look at trying to up the resourcere investment so that metro can inn want them to make g weo make g appreciate you being here wither us today. Migrate pleasure. Thank you for having me. Dont take so long the neckoe time to come back and see. Tucker barnes is stand buyinn with another look whats goingel on out there. Onut the it will be an absolutely beautiful day. L. A little cool at the moment. Mom 49 in washington. I low to mid 40s. Ng. Had fog near north and west. Thats burning off. Dense fog advisory earlier offer to the north and west but werew burning that off it should be ah very pleasant day here withith temperatures topping out getates ready for this in the mid 70s. S so this will be the pick of thef week as far as temperatures. S fa thats a warm front and that tht allows warmer air in here temporarily. Arily we have cold front later todaylf that could kick up a shower orro thunderstorm. Rs so just keep, you know, an eyew, to the sky mid to late afternooo for the possibility of a few aew scattered showers andtere thunderstorms. Thun i think theyll be wided scatt scattered. There you go. 74 your daytime highs. Hig well look at st. Patricks days and of course your all importanp weekend forecast coming up ininp just a minute, guys. Inut back to you. Back thanks very much. Uch. Listen stillest come well talk coming from the white house thih morning. Morning. President obama made hisdent decision on Supreme Courton on m nominee. Mi details just ahead. S just ahead. We have breaking news coming out of the white house this whi morning. The president has made a decision on a Supreme Courtourt nominee. Mi well find out real soon whon that is. At i the he plans to introduce hisce pick later this morning at aroso garden ceremony. Cem now the nomination comes justess under a month after the death o in the wake of strong messagesos to the president fromresi republicans who say they willhel block any nomination in this election year. Yea fox5s political reporterolil ronica cleary joins us now withw the latest. Est. Ronica. Reporter thanks forking isfi me back. Me it has been reported b thathat president obama sent email outt to supporters saying that heingt will announce his nominee toee fill the Supreme Court vacancyry at 11 a. M. Now in that email reportedlyor said in part as president , itd is both my constitutional dutyl to nominate a justice and one of the most important decisions that i or any president will make. Last week the president p narrowed down the field to three federal appeals judges. Judge lets take look at them. T 15s have sun sits on the us sun court of appeals for the t District Of Columbia circuit. Now merrick garland. Garland also sits on the usso s court of appeals for the f the District Of Columbia circuit. Cu and finally, paul what theat t forward. Forwar what the for sits on the ninthos Circuit Court of appeals. N selects theres one significanti problem. Obm Senate Republican leaders theyrs have said they will not meetl nm with or allow a vote to couldnt philadelphia internationalia airport the nomination. Republicans are pushing to delal the process until after the election. Justice scalia was a conservative leaning justice so the hope if a republican winscaw the nomination, conservative justice will replace scalia. President obama alreadyma a successfully placed two justices on the Supreme Court. Sonya sotomayor and elena keegan. Ke back to you guys. Back tu a lot of anticipation building up to this announcemenm in a few hours. Ou thanks ronica. Ica. And what happens after it. T ha absolutely. A lot to see. You know it. A still to come this morning org much more coverage of todays metro shut down. Ow bob barnard has been ridingid metro buses and he is going to g join us live after the break ane it is not green outside. Osi i can promise you that. You what is going on in here . H we dont need any more me changes out there. He please. If youre stuck in trafficres look out the windshield. T see nice sunrise out there thist morning. Play your one direction and sing. Blue skies. Bskie free style tuck. Tuc walk to work. K to w. Good day to walk. Or ride your bike. Ik what about the walk home. K maybe rain this afternoon. Skateboard. Board has been long retired. You were a skateboarder. You skateboard. Not well. It wasnt my thing either. E i tried. Tried. I had one, o. Umhmm i had a moped. Mo did you have a moped . Ed . No. I was the cool kid on the blocko witness moped. S really . Yeah. That is pretty cool. Is p got to be honest. It was yellow honda. We got cuteness. E got ut lets do it. Awww. Www. Fox5 first five. Fox5 t gabrielle, everybody. He looks like ready for his board moating. Well dressed young man. Es yes. Gabrielle. Eight months old. Eight months older. Ht ms old looking super cute. E so cute. So cute. Heres what were going towht do. Were solve this metro problem. Sit home in our high chairs andh figure it all out. All ut whats he like on the show . . Favorite part of the show. Hes weather and traffic. Got both to talk about todayd a lot of traffic. Look at his little smile. Lti what was the occasion . Looksn . O like hes out to dinner with hit family maybe. Be looking clean. Le well maintained. Id like to sit down to lunch to with him today. With him tod all the baby talks he wants to s do. To stepped us your childspey fox5 first five and zen it on in i promise do very best to get ut the next couple of week. Fee lets do weather. O we certain young man lookingyo forward to it. Rwar here it is. For gabriel today. Or gab 49 in washington. 50 up in new york city. Y and look off to the south ando h west. Weve got 60s now in beckly anda down into kentucky temperaturesa in the upper 50s. 65 there somewhere i cant read. In knoxville. Xville. Thank you. Y those warmer temperatures headp in our direct bottom line low tt mid 70s today. Warm front coming through as weg speak. We have to deal with a cold cold front this afternoon that couldc fire up a shower or a lonesomeee thunderstorm it will be widelyle scattered but keep that in mindn there could be few showers or or thunderstorms later today. Od but enjoy those warmsear temperatures. Mp 74 today. Today sketch most of tomorrow looks great for st. Patricks day. Ri y we do have cooler weather thiseh weekend. Saturday and sunday coolnd sundl temperatures look at sundayures first day of spring. Ing. Mid they push back the cherryy blossoms. Ms yesterday i dont think theyre ready good can i ask you ask something this whole sundayholea thing, yes or no is it going too happen or not . Ha you mean rain. You mean ra. I mean snow. Ow. Probably just rain here but there there could be it c could be cold enough to mix witt snow out to the west. Est where did you hear that. T one of the colleagues at night was tweeting about snow os sunday good i saw that as well. W it lab close call. Close it looks like a chilly rain. A ly how does that make you feel, erin. Er. You keep that s word tod t yourself. Yourlf. Thats ridiculous. S riculo chris norton tweeted me andor says hes opting forto jimmy j buffet on the ride in today forr the slow traffic. E sl tra that helps. Cheeseburger in paradise. Pas id like a cheeseburger rightgeh now. If youre sitting in traffic on 270 and gets frustrated there t are no accidents to report. Passing shady grove a sea of slowmoving congestion. N. 50 inbound 202 look at that. It is crawling and its beennd like that for hours. Rs a lot of New Carrollton driversi l no crashes just congestion asios you head inside the beltway new york avenue very backed up asacp well by florida. This is inbound south capital aa you head to the douglas bridgeri just bumper to bumper traffic. Rc same story from rosslyn across the key bridge in georgetown. Georgetown secondary crowded ono m street and wisconsin. Iscoin as you can see were very crowdc as you make your way out on thee westbound side of the freeway heading towards between six andd seventh. Tons of traffic. To you need to givens yourself a ll of extra time. 395 inbound basically parkedalld from the beltway as you head to the 14th street bridge. Youre crawling there grab yourr sunglasses. Put on a good play list and jusj try to relax this morning it will be a slow roll into work. On quick look at our maps right no because of the metro shut down, mixed in with normal congestiono we are also dealing with a lotai of crashes including one clara barton approaching cabin john. J as we continue on twitter at err inn fox5 dc. Were in the heart of rushe s hour 8 19. Our a lot of folks switching up tha routine to get to work today bob barnard is live on a bus in the district. Dtr hes talking to people about their morning without metro rails. Rails. Good morning or metro rail. L what are you doing . You got a seat. Reporter yeah, i actually aa found a seat. A st. Yeah, guys, its been a roughn u morning for a lot of people. Peo robert just left youll hearoua from him on tape in a minute. That was dwayne rather dwayneer smith but right now its phyllil is heading to work. To you normally take the train youe told me. Yes, i do. I had to take, um, the b2 and actually had to wait for anotheh one because they were sohere s crowded. High to wait an hour for anotheh b2 and then i got to catch this bus to naylor road and catch anh another bus to work. Reporter this is 34 to to naylor road from d. C. Om yeah. Reporter you dont seemon too happy. Too hap im not happy at all it aall usually takes me about 20 2 minutes and now its taking mein about two hours. H reporter my goodness. Goodn. What do you make of the decisioo to do what they did shut downn the system . I believe they should have waited until saturday like they usually do, not the the week. I just think thats ridiculous. U we pay too much money for that. T its not fair. Reporter all right. Ig thanks very much. Yh. I mentioned dwayne smith whomi w just left the bus minute ago. We recorded an interview withewt him. He said that basically he gave v up. He was heading home. H hes on the bus heading home. Hm not heading to work. Here he is. Im out. Im o i didnt make it to work today t because normally i catch a bus to a subway station to pentagona and then from that i catch theat only bus to goes to my job. J traffic was so couldnt jeffedld today i was unable to make the bus. Bu im giving up and call 8day. A lot of frustration out herh today, guys. G as people some are giving up. Some like phyllis taking forevev to get to work. Et tork. Weve been on packed buses. Us we started off at about 5 15 who normally would take a trainn to work who said they were goine to get on bus early and there t was no problem then if you got to the station and parked ford free, plenty of parking earlyngr but now in the heat of in thn thick of things its pretty t its been pretty bad. Y bad these are folk heading out away from the city the buses headingi in are still pretty rough, guysy and some people like mr. Smith h there dwayne smith giving upingu others taking two hours. O h we met a lady who goes to t shes a nanny and she says shes going to be an hour and a half late to getting to her family so just a rough kind of morning,f i guys, as metro did what they hay to do. O. Bob, real quick. Q youve been on this route ahis a couple of times. Of t as far as we see a lot of emptye seats right now. S t no i realize people are getting on and off. Is it as crowded as it would beu on normal day or not . Reporter on this bus ride bd out, yes, this is about how youh would see it. Woul we were on earlier about an houu or so ago on 39 bus heading into the city along independencendepe avenue and it wa so the rides in are a lot more crowded than they would normalla be. Be. This one is heading back outg ba into the suburbs and this is about as as it would normally by on a weekday morning in the he what are we, in the 8 00 oclocl hour. Hour. Im guessing well see youssn heading back into the city agai in the future very soon. S thanks, bob g to see you. See y reporter yes. Still ahead this morning female world war ii pilots being denied burial at Arlington Arlit national cemetery. C one womans family iems try toso change that. Ch well talk with her about the at fight coming up. G u lifes morning multitasking for a growing family, and drawers with many layers, to show exactly what you need. Lifes sharing a meal. And a kitchen with room for everyone. Spend 4000 or more on a new kitchen and get 15 back at the ikea kitchen event. For crash survival, subaru has developed ours a car that can see trouble and stop itself to avoid it. When the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety tested front crash prevention nobody beat subaru models with eyesight. Not toyota. Not ford or any other brand. Subaru eyesight. An extra set of eyes, every time you drive. All right. R there you go. The yo little jump me buffet if yourer driving to work. Dr i guess its kind of summery of feel to it, right . Were on an island right nown were not in traffic. Traff on an island kicking back. B you saw the blue sky. L s beautiful day. Low to mid 70s expected a littll cool at the moment. Men 49 in washington. Asngto 51 in quantico. 46 up in 46 to our south inn fredericksburg. Warm front early this morning mi moving through. Ou the energy is there to our nortn and cloud cover but youll notice the warmer temperatureses sweeping on in here on angn in h southerly and southwest breezesb and then later this afternoon its just not impressive at alla a cold front will slide in thisi afternoon it will bring us bng cooler weathert tomorrow. Tomo its possible we can fire up apa shower or a thunderstorm ander little later this afternoon. S an just keep that in mind. D. Few showers in the forecast jusj in case by 5 00 p. M. With itemsi in the mid 70s. 0 quick look at the seven day as a well. Just want to give you heads up e for st. Patricks day. s we should in pretty good shape. E temperatures in the mid to uppei 60s. Should be nice this year. Be more weather in a minute. N ain lets see how the roads are. Oh, they are slow and theyv gotten slower at 8 00 dredge. 0 e were all we are also dealing with crash activity clara barton parkway a crash approachinghi cabiapproaching cabslowing thinn inbound suitland parkway very v slow roll. R crash at the wilson bridgeson be caution there. Caut and then 50 eastbound a crash ca after same fellow road. D. Several incidents to watch outci for this morning. Ning and as for your morning commute during the metro shut down,n, folks try to find alternate aer forms of transportation ton off red and the volume and the am of congestion has really increasedc throughout the morning. 395 is basically parked in botht directions. 295 in top of the beltway dealing witht tons of stop and go traffic. Outer loop jams closer look atr the 270 southbound delays keeple it to fox5 news morning. Mor we are going to keep you in then know during this metro shut down news day. Welcome back. This is our top story of theto day, of course, the unprecedented system wide shut down of the o rails today. Lots of folks are opting for the buses, ride services, uber and lyft if you can do that. F yo folks getting in those slug thos lines trying to share the roadar to get to where they needing toe this morning. Well of course get you up toout date. Erin will be along on the 5s t5 let you know whats going on ono the roads out there because thii shut down. Welcome to fox5 news morni morning. Second lieutenant elaine dan forth harmon served in world waw ii. She served her country as membem of the Women Air Force servicece pilots also known as the wasps these women risked their lives testing aircraft, togetheretr targets, and instructing pilots when when she passed away hery r family was not allowed to bury her at arlington nationalat cemetery. Now theyre trying to changee tr that. Joining us this morning is harmon mosses granddaughter erie miller. Good morning, thanks for being with us. With us. Let me ask you. L when you see a picture of your u grandmother in her uniform, how, proud are you . What do yout think . Im very proud of her servi service, and growing up she wass a role model for me. M she did lots of adventurousdveno things when she was a kid andid very proud to serve her countryu and very patriotic. Atriic did she tell you about it . Ii know we have pictures to show to while were talking with you. Did you know about how importani her role was . W when i was a little kid to mm she was just my grandmother. Yeah. And it was normal to me thatt she would dress up in herress uh uniform gone to the white househ like that was normal. L. I thought everyone knew about it. I thought it was normal for norf everybody to know and she would go to schools and museums andmsd give talks and lectures all thee time about her service. Svice so, yeah, i knew it was very wav important but i didnt quite understand how important until a was, you know, probably a kno po teenager. Ener did we describe it correctlyc the service that shes women did in world war ii as wasp. In what sense . What did they do exact. Ect my grandmothers mission was instrument training specifically the men would be in the airplani without being able to see to s outside the airplane and they at had to learn to fly the plane without just looking at thete instrument panel. Me but they also towed targets anda men would practice anti aircrafr fire from the ground against tht targets they showed. They also ferried planes froms the factories at the departure r points. They were test pilots. Wer they did all kinds of missions and 38 of them actually perishes during the service. We know that members of thist team or the wasps have been allowed burial at arlingtonrlinn seminary as late as 2002. Yes. Yes its very confusing. So they were allowed in 1997n 1 when they were granted veteranet status and then in 2002, their eligibility to have their ashesa was confirmed by a memo in 2,012 a few weeks before my grant my t mother passed away the armyse reversed their policy in yet another memo g why would they do that . That i dont know. We have no idea. I wevein that their motivation was basedb on lack of space but this is not for in ground burial only for placing ashes in the columnhe cm burial its not a space issue ss much. Ch. Right. We dont really know. I normally want to use thehe word exception as we see in all these pictures your grandmothera wore the uniform and wore it proudly. Im not sure why the distinctioi would be there, but to that t point there have been exceptions made for burials at arlington at national cemetery. Emeter absolutely. We are perfectly able to file aa exception but we dont feel thal she should have to have an exception because i feel thatn the entire group should bere gro recognized as eligible for an a inept as arlington as veteranssv isnt we saw one of picturestu earlier. Earlie your grandmother was a fighter. She continue add advocate for veterans rights. Rht absolutely. In 1970s 30 years after the war ended they decided to lobby forr veteran status they were notthey granted during world war ii andd my grandmother was the core group of women that lobbied l congress and i have a photo of her testifying. I believe we saw in 1975 1 before i was born. Or right. She was lobbying for theseby rights. Gh now she has passed away and im still lobbying for her behalf if all the wasps to get their full veteran status. Statu youre going to the hilda. Absolutely. Ely tell us what youre going to go. We have a press conference at 1 30 with representative sallyrv who introduced hr33463346 legislation that would amend tht original law to include interment rights for all thesell women and 37 other groups thatrt were granted limited veteranet status under public law 95 dash 202. Senator earns the has been ae ha leader on this in the senate side as well as senator mikulski introduced s23 for seven in the state as companion bill. B i can tell from the picturesp you were very close to yourcle o grandmother trying to fine the right words to saist. T words st in the meantime, what are youhay doing with her remains . Are yo waiting hopeful that she willt i have a place at arlington. Absolutely. I plan on winning,an are current until our familyss closet. Closet waiting for their proper home. Thats right. All right. Erin until her, good luck too you. Please keep us posted. Posted thank you. Absolutely. Tucker, over to you. Ucke allison looking forward to l very mild day. Ve. Nice warm day. W look at that. Ok 70s going to make a quick return. Rn this afternoon and were alreadr starting to see temperaturestem warm up here. Rm u Reagan National 49 degrees. Dulles 44. Bwi marshall 44 and yeah, coolhc start overnight but with warmhar front moving through in the past couple of hours, we should seesd those temperatures surge prettyt quick and plenty of sunshine toe start the day. Art little later this afternoon well get a few clouds and theat possibility of a shower or thunderstorm, believe it or notn thunderstorm later thisrsrm l afternoon with the passage of ao cold front. 74 today. Little cooler tomorrow, 67 but 7 most al pleasant day for st. Patricks day. Patricks d cool as we get not weekend. 52 saturday could be showers, so cold chilly rain mixed withixedt snowflakes north and west byth sunday. All right. Thats a weather update. Erin is back with tho codes roads and whatever else e she has. Deep breath right noweath r Photographer Mike is drivingphe along on 395 inbound and you cau see traffic is slow averagew ara speeds look to be under about a 20 miles an hour there. N its a lot of stop and goopnd traffic from the bottom of thett beltway through the 14thy thro street bridge. Stre looks like hes doing the righth thing keeping to the left. Into e a lot of exit lanes towards thee right are kind of slowing down s little bit more. Le mor well check in with our camerasm now. 295 really slow. Slo youre basically parked rightlye now this is a look at the botto of the beltway as you make youry way on up. On up. Give yourself plenty of extray t time. Ti 14th street bridge gets veryy crowded 11th Street Bridge third street tunnel from the tur freeway crowded as well. Wl lets city we can show as city a different camera right now. Ra rw looks like 50 is start to gotar ease. It had been completely parked out by 414 up to 201 and right r now it look like things arehis dissipating a little. Good news there. Go news t not the case inbound southnd capitol as you make your way mau across the douglas bridge. Bridg gw parkway to the key bridge,e, really jams up. S up. Key bridge is super slow. Ge is e lets take look at our maps. O p all of your inbou now are basically parked. Pke metro bus is dealing with a lot of delays and because the metroo shut down in so many extra folkt are taking those buses haveav patience, crowded conditions asn you wait for those buses andhoss crowded conditions on the roadse once you hit the roads thisoadsi morning. You can see red all over the toe outer loop of the beltway. 270 really slow and keep in minm hov restrictions are in place this morning across 95, 66, 270, 395. 39 there is a crash 13th andnd taylor northeast. Northeast. Well take a closer look at somo of your other transportationpoat options next. Steve and allison. Still come this morning, morm coverage on the metro shut down, of course yes. Thats what were talkingat about ba today. Well check in with annie yue in Northern Virginia. Thats coming up next. N its about taking a stand. For too long, wall street banks had their way. They crashed our economy. But democrat Donna Edwards wont take their money because she stands up for us. As a single mom, she knows the challenges our families face. Shell be our voice. Tightening regulations on the big banks and fighting to keep dark money out of politics. Democrat Donna Edwards, marylands next senator. Going virginia right now. Metro parent pretty empty, of p course. Of course. Thousands of commuters have find serious part in reallyre frustrating part other modes oft transportation to get to work ok just around the dmv. Fox5s annie yu live in downtoww rosland with more. M anybody smiling out there,re annie . Good morning. Mning reporter im certainly c smiling now. N we see a lot of people in goodoo spirits this morning. Mni you know its interesting notti too many people affected by metro and we decided to come oue to rosland, virginia for ani f little change of scenery, talkrl to some more people. P i got to tell you we did see one guy getting around on it was funny to see him sippingp along this traffic here on a segue. I mean, it was quite a site. A s then we ran into steve. Te hes from morgan hes in town iw for conference hes staying at i the best western nearby, and the conference guys get this is in a building on 18th and l streets and hes going walk there. He according to google maps itss going take him 55 minutes toutet walk there. T take listen. Im just going to like tlik pretend im on night golfingfing round through downtown d. C. So, um, see the sights, you y know. Know reporter what time do you wa have to be there by. By. Supposed to be there by 9 00 they know this is messed ud the Conference Im going to. Everyone shows up. Reporter all right. Right i was like, owing, steve havenv you heard of uber . It will getg you there faster. Faster. But he actually was in really r good spirits. Pi a cup of coffee and said im adi going to walk there its a veryr nice day. Day and speaking of uber, they say that theyll be cappingepi surcharge at 3. 9 times its it normal amount and one ie actually hit me up on facebook and said he took uber fromro largo, maryland, to d. C. And itt cost him 24. Im24 so its not too bad. O b but im sure thats going to beo increasing throughout the day. T. Back to you in the studio. U the all right, annie, thanks verk much. Mu you can see the stopped traffic behind her right now. Nd hht a lot of those streets gettingti into d. C. Little more crowdeded now that were getting closer tr when a lot of folks would beld e expected to be at work. T huge news in the districthec today. It has to do with arena football. A couple of hours away from h the announcement there and inntt todays fox beat a real lifeli inspiration for the new movie miracles from heaven. Eaven kevin will join us live from los angeles where they never haveeyr any traffic trouble. Tub well talk with him next. Ex you can never get enough of. Now its time. To bring that strength to your tooth enamel. New Colgate Enamel Health mineral repair toothpaste. It strengthens weakened enamel 4x better by replenishing it with vital minerals. So smile. With strength. With new Colgate Enamel Health mineral repair toothpaste. Smile with strength. I was so hoping wed seewe s some eaglet action during thisit mornings show. S sw. Hopefully during good day. Ringo im going to say its goingtg happen today. Ppenoday kay. Kay. Really . I think so. Thi so maybe that was indeed at waid little crack in the egg t egg yesterday it should happen at so some point today. So wouldnt that make this dayt kes were all worried about getting to work and getting home littlel bit brighter . Of course. Of c an exciting not to mentiont toei exciting. Tucker barnes is standing by. Tucker, lost in all this too ito will be mid 70s. M going to really be beautifulutil day. Warm day. Not only that check this out. Ch i love this. I lo thi 12 hours of daylight today. So i know a lot of peoplepl looking forward to longer andonr longer days. Loer day we got it doing that transitionn sunrise this morning was at 7 17. 7 17. To night seven sol well be in for a gorgeous dayou the first part of the day. T rt o might get showers this afternooo ill show you here in just aust second. 49 now in washington. 50 gators burg. Ur 50 leonardtown. 47 down in frederick. 46 in culpeper. A little coor for another hourou or two our warm front is is punching through with plenty of irnshine the first half of the f day. Da well warm the temperatures upht really quick. Ly quick we have a cold front. Ro it hasnt have a lot of oomph tt it. When it arrives this afternoontn theres at least the possibiliti we could kick up a few showers o then get cooler air filtering ig behind that front later tonightg and tomorrow. D toorro not significantly cooler but you know by tomorrow highomw temperatures only be in the 60s theres your warm front werero between frontal systems for amsr time today and that will allow l things to warm up cooler airrir arrives tonight. Tig again there could be in that transition a few showers or o thunderstorms. Future cast there we are att the 8 00 oclock. Fast forward that to three,ohr 4 00 oclock this afternooncker trying to fire up a line of lin showers and storms. S at least the possibility as we w get into mid to late after keep that in mine. Thain m i know the commute thisomte afternoon is not one to lookk forward to it may not be additionally fun with showershoe moving that was pretty quick. T y well clear it out and wake upeu st. Patricks day with sunshineh and temps in the 60s. 6 74 today. Enjoy the warm temperatures. 67 tomorrow. Tomro hey well have cool weekend nold doubt about it. 52 on saturday. 52 o could be some showers and mid a 40s around here sunday. Sday. Might be a cloudy day sunday but either way, it is not going to g be a warm start to spring with temperatures good 10 degrees ore so blow normal. All right, guys, im you knok where im going. Im oing steve, where am i going. I g. You are going to go skydiving today. Not really deceiving. Ecvi it will be indoor skydiving. Im going to do one of thesee indoor skydiving things in ashburn. Al is laughing because youinu never really know where youreou going because but well getut wg through. I dont know the name of k place. Its part of your charm. I cant wait. No o wt. In our family. Ill be reporting in nine and 10. Will there be any screaming. Probably so. Bebabl we look forward to that. Tucker has gone real hell try the indoor skydiving i new place opened up out in loudoun county. Nt ill be able to compare the experiences. Lets check in with holly an wisdom fine out whats coming uu later besides cover your ears yr for tucker screaming as he fallf from what 30 feet in the air. Ta i was laughing because comeau on we really enjoy telling tli tucker where to go, right . I mean, when he doesnt know. Okay. Lets move on. Lets talk about this day. S d. A day without metro rail. Unprecedented shut down and our fox5 crews have all anglesng covered for you. Y fox5 continues to lead theine way on this still developinging story. Story. Our live report its are allepor over the dmv bringing you the impact from this monumental move. Move we are also following morel breaking news. The president will announce hish pick for the Supreme Court in ct just a couple of hours. So who will it be . And more twists and turns ins the race for the white house. Ti donald trumpte and hillary cliny big winners in super tuesdayueay two. So whats next. Well break it down for you. Yo. Plus were live with tmz and their live sheen and his child supportldup payment. Then on good day at 10a, the were tweeted by beyonce after t their formation dance and a theyll perform it right here live 10 15 the time. Tim they are off the hook. H an American Idol favorite frenchie shes going to be livet in the loft. The shes going to perform. Per lot going on today. Otoing o a lot going on. O spent the next two hours with hw us. Us good day d. C. Ay d. C just a few minutes away. Utes see you then. Looking forward it to. T thank you very much, guys seeves you soon. Yo happening today, some big se sports news in the district. Tit washington will soon be home toe a new Arena Football League te team. Ted is expected to make thept official announce many latere ma this morning sometime betweenomt 11 30 and 12. 11 30 and 1 the team does not current volurv name. Na we hope to find out what thatt name is when the announcement in made. The team will play at very Center Starting in 2017 and will join eight other team thats teh league. By the way, kiss band member rocker gene simmons will helps l make the announcement he ownswns team out in los angeles. Angel that is super cool. Speaking of los angeles,osng guess where Kevin Mccarthy is here. Here i know youd rather be here witw gene simmons rocking out in thet diss trek but la is not a badota place to be. Pl i am in la my commute wasteas decent this morning. Ning four or 5 30 in the morning. He i it wasnt that bad. T i guarantee you the la trafficaa will be just as bad as d. C. S. C traffic at some point today. Poid the traffic here is absolutelyol awful as you know, steve. Steve youve been here million times. M you know its absolutely terrible here. H what took you out there . Ihi understand theres a big moviehg coming up tonight youll bell watching. Hing yeah, im really excited. Eit 12 hours away from seeing batmat versus super man. Man ive been waiting all forevev to see this i love Zach Schneider he did man of thef te steal, dead im seeing the. Ing t im sitting down the castas tomorrow. Moow. Especially Zach Schneider ashnde well. Im excited about this ming im talking to melissa mccarthy, melissa joan heart and kristin bell for the boss and god is not dead two. Dead two. Ill have those inter views on n fox5. Batman versus super man next net week. Movie opens up friday well havv all the big stars interviewservi right here on fox5 news morning. All right. We look forward it to. To. Ive actually been waiting for the real people behind miraclesc from heaven the movie and youll introduce us to them as well, right . Yeah. This is an incredible story. Dibt this is based on true story forr people who dont know this is aa faith based film starringm sta Jennifer Gardner the story linee deals with a young girl named annie bell beam who was w diagnosed with two diagnose tif disorders that were incurable. Eb she was essentially dying andyi one day she was playing on treee with her sister, she fell fel 30 feet, hit her head and shend claims to have gone to heavenn and spoken to jesus, came backab and was completely cured of this these disorders and nowd shes living a healthy life. Lt l i spoke to her and her motherert the real life people gar plays the mother in the film fil about this experience and whatna she claims to have spoken tokent jesus about when she went tot heaven. Check this out. Chis o i remember that it was very v bright and peaceful and therende was no pain so thats of courses why i wanted to stay. Do you remember the d conversation, what you spokeo oe about . In the movie itsov it fascinating to me you say we didnt really need to speak spek words. No, thats not we actualll like spoke words in between each other. I dont know where they hey do you remember what wasu re talked about . Lked abo . Yes. I remember that whenever i washr there i was like i said, i wanted to stay and he said no, n annie bell, i have plans for you on earth you cannot complete ini heaven. Heav but i will send a guardian angeg with you to light the tree. Re how did you respond . Rpo i was just like, okay. O i didnt really say anything, and then next thing i knew i was back in the tree. He told you when theen t firefighters fightes nothing wrong with you. G and then wrnd t what was your reaction whene you first heard this from yourou daughter. When she very first told mevt we were driving down the road it the truck. The tr she turned to me and she said, you know, mommy, i went to heaven when i was in that tree. And, um, i talk about it in myut book miracles from heaven i lool at her and i said, really . And . I remember thinking in my head, how hard did you hit your head, baby . I mean like really as a a mom are you hurt . Did they miss something . But then she beganne to tell me these things and shee began to share with me theseehe words and descriptions and i was like, she lifted no doubt in myy mind she lifted. Lif through all of this, though,o very serious, very hard for youy what did you do to make yoursels laugh during this time period . . Sometimes i would just like i would just make ae a funny face in front of the of mirror tell myself a joke oroke Something Like that. And my mom thinks its so funny because ill tell myself ill be laughing and ill be like dying and be like because i e was laughing so hard that it i couldnt breathe. But i dont know. tno i just think i just think myk jokes are funnier. Er laughter . So miracles from heaven opene up today in theaters incrediblei story based on true story ande those are the real people that the film is based on andnd Jennifer Gardner plays thelays t mother in the film that movieham opens up today and then openingo up friday ill have my reviewsye of the new movie a lee just aeea minute the new divergent film. Il batman and super man tonight. Tg ill have all the interviews next week. You know im excited aboutteo batman versus super man. Er m im jealous it. Will be great. Im jealous. W im je i cannoalt wait. T im havent really slept lastep night i know its coming tots t. Ght. Ill not be sleeping at all. A im very distracted i cannotant wait to sit in that theater. Ill text you midnight your time if youre cool with it. Oue co ill make sure to put the p phone on silent tonight. T text me. Ill probably be up. Bly ill text you. Exou tuck ran off to go skydiving sdi diving. Gary mcgrady gets the honors ofo telling us how nice it ise i outside. No sleep for kevin. Kevin. He can actually get a nap. Alg hes got 12 hours. 2 h he can catch a little nap. E n who am i to say. S my goodness. Well you get you hook up y o here. He look, the one bright side ofi today, weve been talking so t much about erin had the the responsibility about talkingbi a about the downside metro shut mo down all the congestion outi there. Gary you get to deliver the good news today. Let me put my microphone on. Wow. Wow i didnt turn it. Ur i didnt put it on. Ut it o you could have cepit off for all that snow business you werew bu talking about. What are you talking about . Metro unlike metro youreour ready to roll now. L n zero about that. Z heres where we are. s whe we 64 today at 11 00 oclock. Warm sunshine. E some clouds. Los. Some showers. And thunderstorm possible later on this afternoon. Erno just so you get an idea whatsa happening over the neck seven sv days, enjoy the 70 todays. Tay look tomorrow looks pretty goodg too. Late in the day for st. Pattysy day it wont be disruptive. Ptiv mostly sunny on friday, cool, 60 degrees. Drees mostly sunny on saturday, 52. 2. And then some showers springrs n showers chilly spring showersy g coming up on sunday. Sun erin como, save me. Save me, erin como. Om gary, im just going to tellt you traffic is still really badb look at this. At thi this is the outer loop by richic marlboro and theres a big crasa blocking the Left Shoulder andue every single lane is completelyy jammed. Ja. Those delays extend all the way back to five. Five. Sun glare, its crowded crowd conditions. Itions. Metro shut down and we are juste dealing with a later commuteom than usual and a lot of folks f still on the roads. Lets go ahead and oops l yol go south capital jammed. Alam keep it to fox5. 5 we have plenty more coming up. N we got you covered on this metrt rail shut down day. N good day at 9a starts at 9 00. Now awhere you can create itthe perfect home. E event, from now until march twentyfirst. 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C from where i sit, um, you u y know, the safety of the public and my employees is paramount. At to risk that i just cannot dot d that. Th rail Service Suspended untill 5am tomorrow. Tomor so the Transit Agency can perform emergency inspections. Gc this will be very difficult. U we recognize frameable to get in to work, for children to get tot school. For everyone who row lies on lin metro. Metro. This morning hundreds ofrn thousands of would bein
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