People were late, trains singletracking of course slows everything down. They had crowded platform. I talked to one gentleman who said it took him about an hour and a half to get home yesterday. Normally it takes half an hour. I told him unfortunately we are still singletracking and he was not happy. I have to be at work at 6 30 and im tired of this. Reporter so singletracking between grosvenor and the twinbrook station on the red line. I talked to a worker earlier this morning and they hoped to get things back to normal within half an hour and were keeping an eye on the situation. For the moment bake in some extra time in your commute because things are still slow here this morning. Well let you know as soon as they return to normal operations. With more on traffic, we go over to melissa mollet. Hows it looking . Not so bad. Well check back with megan throughout the hour. Were tweeting about this on first 4 traffic as well. Singletracking between twin brook and grosvenor. And train 30
Were filled to the max. Ge we are going to go to megan mcgrath. Tell us how things are out there right now. Getting back to normal yet. Reporter they are. Seeing the trains go by they were not too crowded. Things are returning to normal. For a lot of people riding the red line this morning, it was a tough rushhour. It is an amazing thing. They just cant get it right. They ought to tear it down and rebuild it. Reporter frustration on the red line. It began as the system opened. A foam spill on the tracks that caused big delays yesterday was still a problem early this morning. With single tracking between the grosve stations. Im very upset. I have to be at work at 6 30. Now, im probably going to be late. Later came power issues. Lauren at brownie curls tweeted out this picture of a dark train. James is the trogs lost power too and airconditioning for about ten minutes. There were still lights inside the tunnel itself. That was fine. It was getting very warm on the train. Reporter as rush
Police officer before other officers killed him. Today is a nightmare for the city of chattanooga. It is incomprehensible to see what happened and the way that individuals who employed serve our country were treated. It is a heartbreaking circumstance for these individuals who served our county great valor to be killed in this fashion. The Mar Convenience not been identified but just as soon as police wrap up their investigation, their bodies will be flown to Dover Air Force base in delaware and those bodies could be returned to their families as early as from morning. Doreen . Chris lawrence, thank you. Police say officers up and down the east coast are helping to track down a guy accused of running down an officer with his car. Its the second case in 24 hours where police say someone intentionally struck a Prince Georges County officer with their vehicle. Heres news4s pat collins. Reporter two close calls for two Prince Georges County police officers. To have two incidents like this
Bridge but like i said, you know with the power and also the structural integrity. We have to determine that before we can let anybody come across. Reporter this update. Engineers late this afternoon obviously deciding that that overpass can stand the usage. The weight of those heavy trucks allowing traffic to finally flow across again. And of course, you can see behind me utility trucks still traveling over that overpass. Now were going to break down and go a little bit closer so we can see whats happening on the turnpike at this point. We also got chance too speak to some of the drivers who were stuck out on the turnpike for hours. Their story coming up at 5 00. For now live here in linden, toni yates, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thanks a lot. Well, from the ground with to knee to the sky now. Lets check in with shannon stone. Shes in news copter 7 continuing the coverage with more on the traffic situation. Shannon . Reporter yeah, and it is a nightmare to say the least. We are lookin
Little encouragement maybe to tell the Senior Citizens in your neighborhood to get to a local senior center, the closest in this neighborhood is at 41st and poplar. Im rosemary connors, nbc 10 news. You step outside, you feel it. We are in day eight of a heat wave. Change is in the air. Big changes coming our way. So far it is still hot as the heat and humidity leave us simmering. These people are looking for a sea breeze along the Atlantic City boardwalk today. Nbc 10 first alert chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is tracking some rain. And a break in the heat, we hope, right . Yeah, thats right. They didnt get the break with the sea breeze at the shore today because it was a land breeze and it was every bit as hot right at the beaches. Weve got a lot of sunshine. Weve had that during the day today. That helped push the temperature up. We have gotten into the 90s once again. We started this last tuesday with 93 degrees. We had three Straight Days of 90 plus, thursday, friday