worried about their safety. when we are playing outside, you can feel the weed, smell, and lots of beer cans around the property and we don t feel safe here. police tell news 4 this could be a gang related issue. three days to go and it s all about the battleground states this weekend. donald trump is across the country. he ll start in tampa before heading to north carolina and tonight he ll make stops in nevada and colorado. hillary clinton is focusing on florida. she has a stop planned and tonight she will share the stage with katy perry. expect to see long lines in virginia today. commonwealth. they expect a record turnout. derrick, what are you seeing this morning? reporter: seeing some long lines. these are the earliest of the early bird and this line is growing but that shouldn t discourage you from coming down. it s always buzz. in fairfax county you can vote from 9:00 to 5:00 p.m. and arlington county 8:30 to 5:00 p.m. you are with the registrar here. tell me
minutes. news 4 midday starts now. a mess on metro, they re still cleaning up the red line. right now two track problems, one at medical tr and one at woodley park. metro says one of the problems involved a power cable, the other one an arcing insulator. the problem started around 6:00 this morning. crews are working to get it all fixed, but the delays have people running 45 minutes late even now. and as that problem is going on metro being called on the carpet again, this time on capitol hill. we ll show you some live pictures from the house committee hearing happening as we speak. you re looking at one of mayor. safety issues, some of the oversight issues that have been happening really over the last few years with the rail system. we are just now getting into the question and answer phase of this. metro s general man t well, he s yet to be asked a question but there to answer whatever these members of congress do ask him. i can tell you this started an hour ago, real
remington, remains in serious condition after being shot six times. police say odom was able to board a commercial flight from boise to d.c. despite being a suspect in that shooting. this morning secret service conducted a search of the white house grounds. also in court today, an fbi agent expecting odom to be transferred back to idaho. now, odom will appear before d.c. s chief judge of the superior court on april 6th. at that hearing the only issue will be is the idaho warrant valid and is he, in fact, kyle odom? between now and then he is likely to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. in court today no discussion of his motive, of his manifesto, or how he was able to board a commercial airline flight given he was a wanted man. tim remington has regained consciousness and is talking with his family. doing better, but that he still faces a long road to recovery. after odom was arrested last night, the family released a statement saying they were happy that the suspected shoot
county firefighter nicole mittendorf. darcy spencer with the latest. reporter: there was a post on facebook through the search site for her from the family indicating that they were needing some help, some legal help. apparently they re wanting to get access into her cell phone. there could be critical information to help with this investigation. that s the very latest on that end. fairfax county s fire chief also just updated us within the last hour indicating that she did call out sick for her shift one week ago. and now the fairfax county urban search and rescue canine team is helping with the search. at a briefing with reporters officials confirmed missing firefighter nicole mittendorf called in sick for her shift last wednesday. that was the last day family had contact with her before she disappeared. officials did not want to be spec a her disappearance, but they do say normal procedure would be to call in before 5:00 a.m. at the present time there s still no news r
it is getting more humid. short sleeve day. possibility of an isolate the thundershower popping up. there is the cloudy sky over washington now. temperature graph hour by hour today, holding in the low and mid 70s between now and 8:00 a.m.. a little sun breaking out. by noontime, partly cloudy, low 80s. mid-80s by midafternoon. an isolated thundershower mainly west of the metro area. and for the afternoon commute, an isolated thundershower rolling over may provide a low impact for the afternoon commute because i don t think these storms are going to be severe. potential looks very low. coming up, a look at where the store storms may hit first. metro is in the final phase of testing trains on the silver line. you can take a look here. right now the empty silver line trains will run rush hour service along with other trains and that means delays. megan mcgrath live at the franconia springfield station. reporter: with the coming of the silver line, there will be more options