Hit the 90degree mark once again. Mostly sunny and hot. But fall is coming back in just another day or so. More details later. Back to you. I want that fall to come back. Okay. Thank you. And we begin with that developing story involving metro. A contractor has died and two metro employees are in serious condition after a welding accident overnight. The agency says it happened on the red line shortly after midnight in the tunnel between Union Station and judiciary square. The contractor was pronounced dead at the hospital. Metro employees, though, are expected to survive. Metro says they believe hydraulic fluid ignited in the area where the welding was taking place but investigators are looking at why all this happened. Meanwhile, all red line track work scheduled for this weekend has been suspended. Free shuttle buses will continue between Dupont Circle and gallaudet until tomorrow morning. In a rare saturday session for the house, there were several developments regarding the future
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Its all part of major rebilling work, thlle largest reconstructn effort since metro was built in the 1970s. Over the weekend it shut down red line trains when dupont sickle. It occurred on the outbound track. Both the tristate committee and National Transportation safetyrt board were notified. Otif they are quote, very concerned about the safety of riders, employees and contractors and will beco monitoring metrosg investigation closely. Due to the Government Shutdown, the ntsb cannot be reached. Theyre furloughed due to the lapse in funding. Therefore we are not providing o updates to the media. Edia student the investigation is ongoing, but normal royalut service will be restored for the monday morning commute. Representatives from the employer of the contractor whose was killed haveth arrived in d. Tonight and a spokesman told me irngram lived in the Richmond Virginia area. We are following breaking news right now out of the texas where there has been a serious r crash at the grand p
Week. An investigation is under wayoni into a deadly car crash in in fair fax county. 21yearold devin austin and another person were killed. Police say their car hit a concrete bridge support early sunday morning on van dorn street in franconia. Ranc another person in the car was c taken to the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. Es. Police believe speed may have been a factor in this crash. Now to a scary scene in Prince Georges County where 11 were injured in what witnesses called a drag race. Audrey barnes caught up cau with people who saw the saw accident to find out what happened. There was a drag racing oning the north side of the, of 301 there. Reporter lennard was driving southbound near clymer drive when a vehicle from the northbound sided s slammed into traffic heading southbound. The vehicle beside me hit me, and knocked me into the shoulder. And then from there, the everybody, you know, they hit everybody else. Reporter this mercury marauder which police way wass speedi
Then it changes early next weeke i will have details on that in just a few minutes. Julie. Julie. Were look ago the cameras eastbound on 66. This is where we had reports of crash blocking the right lane at business coming out of manassas. Slow for folks coming eastbound. Once you get past 28, the pace returns continuing eastbound ea toward fair oaks, northbound on i95, that has been the soree spot all morning long, delays are with you out of wood bridge, continuing toward the capital beltway, longstanding crash inan the hov lanes cleared, and headed north forlorn ton, and headed on the beltway, also gone. Southbound 270 out of hyattstown, below speed before and after 1 yo 109, seeing the s stapping the brakes, and at the d. C. Line, traffic is headed out headed toward pennsylvania avenue with all lanes open. Op thats a check of fox 5 on time traffic. Thanks, julie, thanksks tucker. Heads up for metro riders. The Transit Agency will continul the regular weekday schedules during the shut