The track at normal speed up there on the train bridge here at ohio drive. We want you to see the video we hot earlier where this was quite a scene. Firefighters worked to vent the smoke that was coming from this Power Substation and prompted metro to slow down the trains on the yellow line. The trains are running again at normal speed now that firefighters have cleared the scene and vented the substation room. Still unclear the cause and exactly what was smoking. We are here in the 1000 block of ohio drive in southwest. Were following this developing story throughout the morning. Im molette green reporting live from the scene. Back to you. Thanks, molette. Our other big metro story, the ntsb is about to issue an urgent recommendation on oversight of metro. The recommendation will encourage the department of transportation to place it under the federal Railroad Administration. That means a different set of inspectors and standards for metro rail. The current Oversight Group will also b
Quickly. Chief cathy lanier talks about a historic synthetic drug bust in the district. How Police Caught on to this massive shipment. In the middle of one of the hottest weeks of the year, why these seniors are staying in an apartment lobby to keep cool. News4 at 11 starts now. It is the biggest synthetic drug bust in d. C. History. And tonight chief cathy lanier says she has no doubt about where all this was headed. 19,000 pacts of bizarro, 265 pounds. New tonight, we can show you where that bust happened. News4s Jackie Bensen live where it went down off blair road in northwest d. C. Jackie . Reporter were told a police dog alerted on this at a shipping facility in Howard County last thursday. But this Storage Facility were police found the drugs. They were in time to keep them off the streets of district. 265 pounds of synthetic drugs labeled bizarro. More than 2 million worth of blueberry favored human misery, destined for the streets of district of columbia. I guarantee that that
Manassas otherwise looking good into town and out of town. Taking a look at Prince Georges County pennsylvania Avenue Branch avenue indian head highway, everything nice and green and moving at the 6 00 amg a. M. Hour. Were seeing sort of warmer temperatures right now. But those are slowly starting to fall, which could mean icy conditions. Tom kierein is tracking the impact our conditions will have on the morning rush hour. Yeah, this is the warmest part of the day. Right now. Temperatures are above freezing. And later this morning well get ice forming maybe mid to late morning. And then afternoon turning colder with a blustery wind. And then the cold pattern back in the deep freeze. That continues throughout much of the week ahead. Right now storm team 4 radar showing a you few scattered flurries here in Washington County over towards martinsburg and just to the south and east of washington a few flurries in Prince Georges County a little arc there into charles,ing a cross ac the potom
Ken molestina. Reporter no doubt about it, the president was on the hot seat todays took questions from reporters in the white house. But there was one reporter in particular, cbs news Major Garrett who continued to grill him for answers. You were informed two weeks before the launch of the website that it was failing the most basic test internally, yet a decision was made to launch. I was not informed directly that the website would not be working the way it was supposed to. Had i been informed i wouldnt be going out saying, oh, this is going to be great. Im accused of a lot of things but i dont think im stupid enough to go around saying this is going to be like shopping on amazon or travelocity a week before the website opens if i thought that it wasnt going to work. The president was also pressed by garrett on comments he previously made about americans being able to keep their current insurance. Reporter you do not believe, sir, that the American People deserve a deeper, more trans
We have another morning of crisp weather and i think i like it. If youre headed out for a run, going to get breakfast, you want to carry the thin sweater with you. We want to go to meteorologist chuck bell with your forecast. Good morning, everyone. If you have an outdoor breakfast nooks where you have fresh air with the coffee, you may need a little wrap this morning. Especially for the people near Shenandoah Valley. Down to southern parts of the Shenandoah Valley at 48. Intown temperatures are milder than that, but still a nice chill in the air. 54 in gaithersburg. But 66 in downtown washington. A couple of showers on the lower part of the eastern shore. But itll be good weather there. Runners impact this morning. Temperatures here in the 60s through at least 8 00 this morning. And on the whole, going to be nice outside today. Back up into the low and mid80s. Plenty of sunrise. Tomorrow will not be as nice when i see you talking about that. Well take it. Thanks, chuck. This morning,