Rig riders. Lets start with mark segraves, live with more on the unprecedented move. Mark . Yeah, barbara, this is unprecedented. Only when they close for weather has Something Like this been done. And you know this is going to cause a lot of problems for a lot of people tomorrow. But metros new gm says any threat to Public Safety is too much to risk. While the risk to the public is very low, i cannot rule out a potential life and safety issue here and this is why we must take this action immediately. Sudden closure of the entire metro system comes one day after a fire at Mcpherson Square station. Metros gm says early reports indicate the fire was caused by a faulty jumper cable like the one seen here. The smoke incident last year at Lenfante Plaza was also caused by a faulty jumper cable. So wiedefeld has ordered an inspection of every jumper cable in the system. He knows short notice will take its toll on the region. When i say safety is our highest priority, i mean it that sometimes
To last for many months. Theyre reviewing maintenance records, previous events Emergency Response and evacuation plans and conducting interviews with personnel involved. The d. C. Governmentreport, an internal report with First Responders is expected to be released as soon as tomorrow. The funeral for carol glover is set for monday. Roaring live in southwest washington, mike conneen, abc 7 news. Thank you. Count on abc 7 and the 7 on your side Investigative Team to keep pushing for answers on that tragic day on the metro. We will continue pouring through this just released report and bring you new details as soon as we learn them. Leon . No doubt theres lessons to learn there. Commuters in the district will have to wait a bit longer for the citys Streetcar Service to begin. Former mayor vincent gray had said before leaving office that the service would begin next week. All right. Now, however, the acting director says pump the brak. No official launch date yet. Coming up at 6 00 tonigh
Unfortunately, one person was injured in this fire. Well take another look at it now from our helicopter thats overhead here. Youll see another viewpoint of this. One man was inside with burn injuries. We dont know the extent of those injuries at this time. Theyre still evaluating it is what im told. As you can imagine, these are tough conditions for a firefighter to be fighting a fire on. They threw a lot of water on this. Water as it hit the ground almost instantly froze. As we come down here to ground level and look off to the right here, youll seal a vehicle thats been used to spread salt in this apartment complex behind the town homes here. Theyve been putting sand and salt down. The reason is its so dangerous with all the water freezing, not only dangerous for the residents but firefighters as well are moving around hoses and trying to do it on frozen ground. Theyve been trying to get salt down as quickly as possible but the Fire Department Fairfax County Fire Department tells me
Stephen tschida is live in alexandria where a ruptured water main left 20 homes without water. Stephen . Maureen, you can see behind me, weve got a crew dealing with one of the problems with this bitter cold. Theyre trying to get this water main repaired and restore the water to this neighborhood. But this cold weather also is creating some big problems inside homes all across the metro area. Like crazy. So maybe like water fountain. Like going crazy. The biting cold made water mains brittle forcing some to burst. That had water running in the street but not in homes in this alexandria neighborhood. My grandma thought that the water was going to stop because of it so she stored up water just in case. Smart grandma. Her family at least had water in bowls. Across the region the cold weather iced up pipes outside and inside homes. Anwar caan raced from house to house preparing or thawing those pipes. Water line is frozen which makes a huge inconvenience. Just ask matthew campbell. When he
Were just overcome with the smoke as they were coming out of the station. Were here at the Main Command Center here at seventh and d just 1 2 block from the Lenfant Plaza metro station. Command center and also the Triage Center where they were bringing those passengers up out of the station out of the tunnel to get that help. Weve got some video that we shot as they were coming out and everybody that we were seeing as they were coming out had the black soot around their mouth and on their faces. They spent a long time some people were telling me as much as almost an hour in those trains that filled up with smoke especially the first two cars of the train that got stuck in the tunnel. We talked to several people and they had quite very harrowing stories that they were telling. Very scary stories about what it was like being stuck on that train. We decided to go out one of the side doors. And then we just started walking on the rails. Like firemen started coming with the gas mask and we