On the tracks, including the third rail, drain cleaning, replacing insulators and third rail covers. Many of these are part of the system we have seen and talked about with the recent problems including that recent arcing insulator last week at Federal Center southwest. And a series of red line issues that prompted a lot of maintenance called for by general manager paul wiedefeld. The f. T. A. Says between april 23 and may 10 it investigated 15 safety events including nine with fire and smoke along metro. Now this comes at this hour as we are dealing with another problem outside of the stadiumarmory station. We arches that single tracking is impact we understand that single tracking is impacting riders on stretches of the system as a result of that. From a possible arcing insulator we understand crews are now responding to, to investigate. We have a crew sent to that as well. We reached out to metro on both issues. Well have more at reporting live, Brianne Carter, abc7 news. Jonathan t
Buddy. Its not raining now, although as you can see, relatively thick fog across the area early this morning. Visibilities down to only a quarter of a mile now in winchester, three miles in manassas and three miles in washington. So that is the main issue here early this morning. The overall weather impact on your day will be fairly low. Fog and maybe patchy mist or drizzle early this morning. We will see breaks of sunshine today, its not a guaranteed dry day, though. Most of the rain is coming to an end for this morning, but there could be a shower chance coming in after 3 00 or 4 00 this afternoon. So the next 4 hours, foggy and 58 now. By 7 00 this evening, showers if not in the area will be on the way. Temperatures near 70 today. And rain likely to get your friday started. But there will be improving weather as we get towards the second half of the weekend. Weekend forecast at 5 21. So right now inner loop after New Hampshire avenue, tw the only construction still hanging around to
Across the u. S. Today. Senator Bernie Sanders has three events in south dakota. Voters there weigh in on june 7. Hillary clinton is in brooklyn. Bill clinton will campaign on her behalf in kentucky. Voter tls there cast polballots tuesday. We need to focus on the positive. The sun has to come back out, right . Yes, it does. Tomorrow . No, not tomorrow. Well get peeks, peeks of sunshine possible early to midafternoon today. And then just at the tail end of your friday height get a little sunshine behind some thunderstorm chances early tomorrow. Yesterday day 15 in a row with measured rainfall. Today day 16, this one will be close, everybody. Not raining out there now, hasnt raped since midnight at national airport. Well get peeks of sunshine today before more rain chances come pack in on us. Thick fog this a few spots this morning. Keep your low beams on and speeow future weather carries the first chances of rain out, but timing it out, there could be more opportunities for rain coming
Teenagers in and around the schools in the district. This evening, we are getting the inside look of the growing problem. Pat collins is live outside of Mckinley Middle School in the northeast. Pat . Jim, she is just 14 years old. She says that she was beaten up down there. She says she was beaten up over there. Hear now the story of destiny carson. Right there. Reporter this is video of teenaged girls in a fight outside of Mckinley Middle School monday. One of the girls destiny says she was jumped by five others. Destiny is 14 years old, and this morning, she was suspended for ten days because of fighting. This morning she says she hit a girl who had attacked her on monday after the girl threatened her inside of the school. She was said that, i hit her in the face, and we started fighting again. Reporter with the permission of her father, she telling us how she was jum and beaten monday. One of the girls videotape the incident and posted it on instagram. And another one jumped in, and
Over metro safety, and they are looking at everything safety wise, and they say they found certain sections of the rail line that urgent repairs have to be made. They were on the red line, the blue line, and in this particular area here, and a section of the orange line as well. So what that means for metro is that the general managers new safe track plan that he laid out last week, the big plan to fix the system has to be put on hold, because federal inspectors say that the sections of the rail line have to be finished first. And they are delaying the new Safety Upgrade Program before they can start. What are they doing in the meantime, and what kind of safety fixes are they making now . Right now, metro said that they are going to be reporting the porcelain insulators where you stau smoke and fire last week at that station, a replacing all of those insulators that could be a problem, and they are saying that they have to slow downtown now, and it will reduce the draw of the power fro