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They wouldnt make it out alive. Everybody just got as low as they possibly could. Now federal investigators are on the scene trying to figure out what went wrong. News 4 at 11 00 starts now. An awful situation on the metro train today. It filled up with smoke. And tonight a woman is dead. Dozens of people are in hospitals. Good evening. Im jim vance. Im wendy reerg sitting in for doreen gentzler. The tunnel filled with thick smoke. Riders frantically tried to escape just to get a breath of air. ...

Scene of a threealarm blaze at penn station. When the call went out before 2 30 this morning, more than 100 firefighters responded. No injuries reported. Fdny, though, says the fire is under control. The fire is not expected to impact Amtrak Service along northeast corridor. There is word that the impact will be limited to local subway lines in new york. The National Transportation safety board is working to figure out why smoke filled the metro tunnel killing one person and sending dozens of ot...

Here, not terribly windy but enough that you notice it and certainly enough that it will make it feel a little colder than the thermometer officially reads. Little after 7 00 this morning, outside on 95, between the walt whitman bridge and broad street. The southbound lanes here, where you can see disable vehicle, push over into the right hand shoulder, not much in the way of volume here. Get it cleaned up and out of the way over the schuylkill expressway, problems here involving an accident, up...

Fire ladder. One of many such rescues being carried out by firefighters. John rawlins live in norristown. You talked to people that managed to get out of building safely. Hi guys, yes we are at the shelter where many of the survivors were brought, here at the high school in norristown, set up by the red close they had 30 people originally and two people said it was a distressing disoriented experience. They spoke not of the flames which they would see later but the thick smoke that confronted th...

Breathing. The investigation into the cause, and what metro is saying tonight, next. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] please stay calm. Terrifying moments as people were coughing and gasping for breath after smoke filled a metro train. This video posted to youtube shows what dozens had to fight through. Feet away at the Lenfant Plaza station, smoke filled the station. We have what happened, i...

Anything in the report that surprises you . Kimberly, when you look through this report, there are some surprises. It gives a fairly good timeline from the firefighter point of view. There are also 911 accounts in here. The big issue in the report, as i see it is communications. For hundreds of metro passengers, it was a smoky hellish day at lenfant plaza. It made me nervous. At the end of the day i thought i would take out the windows of the train if i had to. 200 passengers stuck for 40 minute...

On metro after smoke filled a tunnel. Were learning new details about what may have caused all the smoke. We want to start with the impact its going to have on your commute this morning. Lets o melis is work around here. Good morning. Line by line here. The hope right now is the green line will be single tracking. Single tracking between green belt and branch avenue every t minutes. Yellow line replaced with blue lines between huntington and largo. Running every 12 minutes. Talking about the blu...

Inside the metro train. This transcript shows that people were frightened and calling 911 and coughing and saying that people were suffocating in the train and begging for dispatchers to rescue them. Very fearful. When you read through the transcripts, you see how frightening it was for people stuck inside the train cars in that smoking tunnel and as we see from the video, the smoke was filling up in the train cars. Many were fearful they were not going to make it out alive. The 911 tribute tran...

Multimillion dar home. The flames started around 3 30 this morning. News 4 richard jord sn following the developments at the live desk. Richard, good morning. Reporter hi barbara. Good morning. It is still smold erg more than seven hours after that fire broke out, it looks like the home will be a total loss. To live pictures above the fire scene. You can see the white smoke still billowing in the, abut when the fire was hot it was a fouralarm fire and anne arundelfighters leading thee hydrants i...

Already hitting the midwest. Here is a live look from milwaukee. Just as chuck mentioned, this is part of a wintery mix that will bring rain and sleet into our region. Its already causing a mess for airline travelers. More than 1200 flights have been canceled ahead of the storm. Several airlines are waving rebooking fees to cities in the storms path. We just checked flightaware. Com. Here is a look at our region, Reagan National, 17 flights canceled, bwi marshall nine cancellation, dulles ten fl...