good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc head quarters in new york city. if you re watching this from an airplane gate, you already know the headline. more than 8500 flights delayed or cancelled after a key system went down. your flight was supposed to leave at 9:30 this morning? yeah. what time are you going to get to leave? 5:00 p.m. wow. so what are you going to do? just wait. how much more do passengers have to take before something is done to fix the airline system? plus house republicans are staing the first battles of what looks to be an all out political war over the next two years. votes on abortion rights, immigration and the irs are expect anded soon. is it just for show? and somehow the catastrophic situation in continueses to get even worse. relentless rainstorms have led to the deaths of 17 people. hundreds of homes have been damaged. some ripped right off their foundations. i ll speak live to the local sheriff about how they are coping, even
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Columbia Pike was blocked between S. Quincy and Quebec streets due to a gas leak. Initial reports suggest that a construction crew struck a one-inch gas line, resulting in an active leak sizable enough to prompt a road closure. As of 1:30 p.m., firefighters were on scene, waiting for Washington Gas to stop the leak.
Firefighters from Arlington County and surrounding communities are on scene of a fire in a Crystal City apartment building. The fire broke out shortly before 1 p.m. on the 6th floor of the Crystal Flats building at 505 18th Street S. Initial reports suggest that a kitchen appliance somehow caught on fire inside one of