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
Detectives are gathering details. They are reviewing notes. Let me move right out of the way. You can see them right there across the street. We are here at walters lane and chavez lane at the bp gas station in forestville. Lets roll some video. This happened around 7 15 tonight. Police are telling me that a man walked into the gas station and opened fire on another man. They tell me this was a targeted attack. There was a clerk inside, along with the victim who was a customer. And police are investigating to see if there were more customers inside the gas station. There is surveillance cameras, or excuse me, there are surveillance cameras here at the gas station. Police will review the surveillance video. And again, they are trying to see if there are more customers inside this place. And they dont know if the man drove away or if he ran away from the scene. Theyre obviously trying to figure that out. And they will review the video. Also, theyre trying to determine a motive. Now the m
Blocked. Darnestown road between whites ferry and black rock and Melissa Mollet in first 4 traffic has been following the work around for all of this. Hey, melissa. Good morning, molette. Going to be shut down probably for the next couple of hours. Darnestown road closed between black rock road and whites ferry. Alternate would be clopper road. Inner loop at 3 55 wisconsin avenue still has the right lane blocked. Traffic not having any problem now as they got that one lane. Southbound just before powder mill road, we are slow here. A crash happened a short time ago. Southbound at bw parkway. Prince gorges county, overall no major problems there. Angie and eun . Thank you, melissa. 6 02. You may be waking up to the impact from last nights storms Montgomery County. A tree landed on a house causing significant damage. This is in bethesda. Montgomery county fire crews say the family inside the house was displaced. The district is soggy after heavy rainfall all evening long. Chuck bell says
It did. It left us very, very drenched. Lets give you a look. We found one woman walking through high water to safety in Fairfax County. Her car getting stuck on woodburn road in Fairfax County. It came down in the district. Our region has been abnormally dry for the last several weeks. This rain will help us make it up. He has more on who and what kind of rain were going to see later today. The good news is we did pick up needed rainfall. The bad news, it came down fast and furious. Theres still high and standing water. Flood warnings until 8 00 in the morning for portions of central and northern loudoun county. Weather headlines, a cloudy and wet start. Watch out for the high water. Theres a chance we may be dealing with more heavy rain from Tropical Storm potentially Hurricane Joaquin by the weekend. More in a couple minutes. Heres the next batch of light rain coming out of central virginia. That will impact the second part of the morning commute and leave us with off and on rain ch
Possible. But the overall trend is for drier weather to move on in. Thanks for waking up with us. Best place for sunday Morning Television. Wusa 9. I am mike hydeck. She is erika grove. First breaking news. We start on the u. S. Park Police Responding to a serious accident on the gw parkway. The southbound lanes are closed right now. They expect it to be this way for a while. We will bring you updates as soon as they come in. What a beautiful start. Yeah, you can see those clouds out there. I have to amend that just a little bit. Not beautiful for everybody. We have a few lightning sprinkles and showers showing up. It looks gorgeous on the michael son weather cam. A few clouds moving through right now producing a couple light sprinkles. We could see another passing shower heading into the early afternoon hours. 72 degrees at 1 00. 73 at four. If you have been looking forward to cooler and less humid air, it will be in place the next several days. The comfortable weather has finally arr