And thousands are letting their inner nerd out this weekend. Were talking to you awesome con your news starts right now. Thank you for staying with us tonight im tony perkins. Im shawn yancy we are lesses than an hour away from the metro safe plan. La all the stations will be closing over the next yearov repair work will effect eff thousands of people even those of you who dont take metro. Fox 5 Lauren Demarco is live tonight with more. Reporter tony there areare actually two big things here, first tomorrow, the first safetrack surge begins in virginia. Were going to get to thin just a second. We want to talk about all of the metro rail stations shutting down at mid neither. Nei begins tonight system wide. Wid they will close from now on forb repairs at midnight. Its going to clearly effect anyone that works late night shifts . A. All those out en joyce the areas night its going to put a hamper on where you are able to go to. Maybe you are going to stay local, stay close to home. Im go
The red line you can expect eec delays in both directions. Irecon all this after yet another ano fire on the track. Ck melanie this morning livehisg in northeast with the latest. Es. Another day another issue, iss mel. Good morning. Reporter yeah, thats yght, no surprise here sad to say but you can see that this ti train is still disabled on theln tracks here. Ks now, we are right alonght ang benning road, so this is ins in between the stadiumarmorya station and the benning roadoa station and occasionally youll see the other train, it n looks like one is coming i through here pretty soon. Here p. Youll see the train on the the other track single trackingraing through here. Ug h it was early in the morningheor before Revenue Service began, apparently metro was doing some rail and track a tra maintenance over the weekend. E t then they run test trackses tra through the area to let mel just stand by while these go go by so you can hear me. sirens . Reporter what they do is w after they do