12th was way out of scale. Metro officials remain vague. Were working on a daily basis to make it even safer. We heard from an array of elected officials all expressing concerns about the findings including maryland senator Barbara Mikulski who described this as shocking and said its an example about how equipment there to protect passengers failed with deadly consequences. Reporting live stephen tschida, abc 7 news. And Stephen Metro had to deal with another smoke incident just this afternoon when an insulator caught fire near the courthouse metro station in arlington. It took about 40 minutes to find and extinguish that fire. The courthouse station briefly closed as trains single track through the area. No one was hurt. D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is making it easier for First Responders to talk with one another in a crisis situation. She eased the districts encrypting rules. First responders can now switch back to encrypted channels in a case if a case involves sensitive information.