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WRC News4 At 4 January 12, 2015

North as pennington and come back to the city. For green lines, theres no service on the green or yellow lines between mt. Vernon square and either navy yard or pentagon city. Good alternates for folks, the lower level of Lenphant Plaza, trains are passing through but not stopping at the station. Thats your orange blue and silver line trains will go through Lenphant Plaza without stopping. You can use Federal Center southwest, which is a short walk. If you use any of those three lines and your normal station is Lenphant Plaza, use Federal Center southwest as your alternate. If youre down at the navy yard looking for alternates walk to capitol south, about. 8 miles to the north and that will get you back on metro rail to make other connections. Do we know the source of the smoke . We dont. The Fire Department is on scene now. There are there was one train in a tunnel when all of this was reported. Theyre dealing with the passengers accommodating the pass jers on that train right now. Obviously, that is their priority attending to those passengers. Then well get to the source. We have not yet heard what the source of the smoke is. We have not seen any active fire. I can tell you that. But as to the exact location for where the smoke is coming from, we dont know. One more question dan. We assume the red lines unaffected doesnt get hit by Lenphant Plaza, but theres got to be the potential of delays cascading through the system with so much bypassing and turning around of trains. Exactly. Expect delays not only on green and yellow which are affected by the suspension, but the but baseline in virginia will see residual effects as the yellow line trains turn around. That would be the primary thing to expect blue line coming northbound or inbound toward d. C. From virginia but heading outbound should not be a problem and the red line is not affected. Dan, thanks for your time. Bitz si afternoon. We appreciate that. We re capping, the Lenphant Plaza metro station evacd and closed for now, smoke seen from an upperlevel platform at the station. There will likely be delays because of this. So many trains being turned around. A lot of people opted for metro instead of driving because of the sloppy Road Conditions from the freezing rain this morning. At the live desk im Scott Mcfarland. Talk about the rain we have and the roads during the commute this morning, what a mess. Will we see that again this evening . Veronica what about that . We wont see this evening, the refreeze roads just wet, but we have some fog and that will sink in. Its going to thicken and we could see visibilities trop to around zero. Tower cam where the roads are wet. We still have showers falling, getting a little bit of a break around frederick and herrigerstown and points to the north. But more to come as rain continues to stream from southwest to eastnortheast through the area. I think the rain hold up until maybe 9 00 p. M. To 10 00 p. M. This evening. Temperatures at least cooperatin ther the range from 36 in hagerstown 37 frederick to 41 i95 around fredericksburg around quantico, going out tonight wet roads, showers a big thing for us yes. Well see falling temperatures tomorrow and with those falling temperatures know that were talking about some icy spots on area roads. Ill show you where and take you hour by hour throughout the day tomorrow. Thats coming up in a few. Now to a developing story. The pentagon searching for the hackers who broke into Central Command social media accounts and there appears to be a terror lets go straight to Scott Mcfarland again with more on that. Happened just as president obama was getting ready to talk about new plans to protect us from data breachech breachers. Hackers call themselves the cyber caliphate and appear to support isis. We posted the y on our Facebook Page as it was breaking. Hackers posted a picture taken from a web cam inside a military office as well as Contact Information for a number of generals. One pentagon official telling nbc news today the hack is embarrassing but not a Security Threat and that no classified information was compromised. This is something were obviously looking into and something we take seriously. However, a note of caution to folks as theyre covering the story, pretty significant difference between what is a large data breach and the hacking of a twitter account. Quick reminder stay on top of stories just like this. We push alerts to your smartphone. If you download our new nbc washington app and turn on the breaking news alerts. Pat . Thanks, scott. Thats not the only online issue affecting people here in our area this afternoon. The government says a technical malfunction could affect the private data of federal employees. The office of Personnel Management says a mal function is impacting Online Services for federal retirees. For a short time this morning people logging into their personal accounts could have accessed other retirees information. That page has since been disabled. The government will notify anyone whose information has been compromised. This comes on the same day that the president was already scheduled to talk about hacking and how to make sure youre protected during a breach. Consumer reporter Erika Gonzalez will join was that later this hour. The weather is causing some problems for travelers out there. Nearly 900 flights have been canceled so far across the country and about 5,000 have been delayed. Reagan national had about 60 Flights Canceled dulles more than 30 and at last check flights leaving atlanta and philadelphia were having to wait an average of an hour. While many youngsters in the National Area went to school on the a twohour delay, students in Loudoun County got the whole day off. Loudoun saw some of the worst conditions and there were several accidents along route 9. But to the east some par questioning the decision to close schools today. t really understand especially after last week how we didnt get school off when it snowed like five inches. Im surprised. A few hours i got but after last week i mean like come on. A little gun shy. The School System had 18 people on the roads this morning testing conditions to decide whether or not to close. And were following new developments in a 40yearold cold case out of maryland. A search is under way right now for the remains of the lyons sister who is disappeared in 1957 after visiting wheaton shopping mall. Katherine and sheila were just 10 and 12 years old at the time. Authorities today said based on new information, a Recovery Team is searching a mountain site in Bedford County virginia east of roanoke. Federal, state, and Montgomery County investigators are involved in this effort. The investigative work of this task force regardless of the outcome of todays efforts will be as tenacious as humanly possible with the target of locating these children and providing the parents closure in this nightmare that no parent should be forced to ep d. The search is expected to take a couple of days. Weve just posted a story that looks back at the lyons sisters cold case on our app, nbc washington. During the break, take a moment to catch up on one of our areas most heartbreaking mysteries. The university of virginia has reinstated Phi Kappa Psi after an investigation of Sexual Assault allegations. The fraternity was suspended after the allegations were made in a Rolling Stone Magazine Article last november. The magazine apologized after discovering discrepancies in the story. A Police Investigation found no basis for the allegations. All uva fraternities and sororities can resume their activities but they have to implement new practices to protect sorority and Fraternity Members and others who participate in their activities. Before you or a loved one can figure out whats for dinner find out about the recall for items in your freezer. Also breaking news in paris, new information about the terrorist cell responsible for last weeks shooting and how many members are still on the and caught on camera a holeup that had people wondering whether the suspect. Quite a surprise. A nachb walked into a capitol one branch on old keen mill road in burke and threatened tellers with the car tool grabbed cash and took off. The whole robbery was caught on surveillance camera. Investigators are hoping someone can help them figure out who the man behind the mask is. No one was injured. An ashburn area family is recovering after a scare. Three adults in their home were rescued from Carbon Monoxide poisoning. One of the adults was injured in a fall. All ems units are equipped with a co monitor on their bags to identify potential co exposures. As soon as they walked into the house, the alarm went off indicating that there were high levels of co. So with that in mind the crews quickly took the patients out of the house. Symptoms of Carbon Monoxide poisoning can mimic the flu. For the warning signs, visit nbcwashington. Com and search co rescue. Well theyre here. Well tell you which cars are the ones to watch and why you should think about getting behind the wheel of one of them in 2015. And were not out of the woods yet when it comes to the weather. Storm team 4 is tracking even more rain on this monday afternoon as well as the chance of some snowflakes first at 4. And were continuing to follow breaking news this afternoon, smoke on the upper platform at the lenphant pl thanks for the ride around norfolk and i just wanted to say geico is proud to have served the military for over 75 years roger that. Captains waiting to give you a tour of the wisconsin now. Couldve parked a little bit closer. Its gonna be dark by the time i get there. Geico. Proudly serving the military for over 75 years. Technology has improved our lives, in small ways. But what about this . Couldnt this be better too . At redfin we asked ourselves the same question. Which led us to create new ways to take you inside a home or instantly schedule a tour. But we paired that with our own agents who arent paid on commission but on your happiness. And thats what makes it all work the world has changed and now real estate has too. Back to our breaking news smoke and evacuations at the Lenphant Plaza metro station. Scott mcfarland is following developments. The station has been closed down and evacuated. A large response of Emergency Medical Services to lenphant metro station. Smoke inside the station. According to metros spokesman, it started from an upperlevel platform inside the station just after 3 00 this afternoon. Heres a live picture outside the station. You see just how many emergency vehicles have arrived on scene. The lenphant metro station is closed down green line sentence suspended between mt. Vernon square and roads closed in the immediate area. The terror cells that launched the paris attacks may have six members at large and one has been spotted driving the mini cooper that belongs to the widow of the kosher market attacker. Security officials in washington are expanding their security presence at federal buildings. Steve handelsman is live on capitol hill with details. Reporter hi barbara. Thanks. Good afternoon. The secretary of Homeland Security jeh johnson, confirms today that for what he calls in light of recent world events there will be more security at more federal facilities in more cities. Again, no specifics. Meanwhile, the french feel they have to do a lot more than that. In france, police are out in force, especially at jewish neighborhoods. In fridays supermarket attack all four of the murdered hostages were jewish the latest in a series of antisemitic attacks in europe by expected islamic extremeistextremists. Turns out the supermarket terrorist, before he was killed by police made a video. Koul koul Amedy Coulibaly pledging allegiance to isis. The search for Hayat Boumeddiene is called off. She was spotted on security cameras onin white on the right routed through turkey, a nato nation critics charge also led isis fighters out of syria. Here is the real soft underbelly of terrorism and the underground jihadi express that is going to affect us as well as europe. Reporter european leaders joined the paris solidarity march yesterday. Leaders of israel and pal sign too, but not president obama, just the u. S. Ambassador. Critics are slamming that decision and the president s spokesman today admits a mistake. We agree that we should have sent someone with a higher profile. Reporter but the white house says the french know america is with them. And the french ambassador to the United States today is praising the support of president obama. Im Steve Handelsman news4. Turning now to the weather, well its cleared up a little but are we done with all this stuff . Not quite yet. As a matter of fact it could be even some other issues thrown into the mix beside just the wet roads and the rain thats fall across the area. That is fog, and then there could be a little bit of icy conditions around early tomorrow morning, not like we saw this morning, but there could be a few, so as we start out, were going to talk road impacts for early part of the day tomorrow and that is again watching out for ice in some area roads and also of course on sidewalks, too, because temperatures in some locations will be down to around freezing. Were at 39 degrees right now. Its even hard to see on our tower cam, and that is the issue right now that until the wind starts picking up, which is not going to cur until late around 11 00 p. M. To midnight until that happens, with the rain thats falling and with all the moisture were talking about fog that will only thicken and visibilities will continue to diminish throughout the area. So 39 38 degrees, temperatures pretty much hold steady. Heres a look at your future weather. We start with today the green showing where the rain is any snow well off to the north and west western maryland areas of northern West Virginia where you see purple and white, morgantown but watch this this rain continues throughout our area so keep the umbrella handy until about 9 00 p. M. To 11 00 p. M. Before it starts making its way out of here. But it is around midnight when i think there could be some spots, some neighborhoods dropping to around the freezing mark Montgomery County Howard County if theres any moisture whatsoever left hanging on even if its just drizzle, that may make for a little bit of freezing rain especially to some of the more isolated areas down through anne arundel, even st. Marys where Calvert County well be watching that close hi in the next couple hours. A slight possibility, a low chance of that happening but nonetheless there. Tomorrow afternoon, some sunshine partly sunny to mostly cloudy. It will be breezy too, throughout the area and that is the catch word for tomorrow that while today at least weve seen temperatures into the upper thirty tomorrow its another cold one, breezy too, and you know what that happens. That makes the windchills come down throughout the area. Windchills in the teens first part of the day, 28 there, po30 degrees at 9 00 a. M. Ad 32 33 but around 1 00 its back down again, so for the most part well be locked solidly in the upper 20s to low 30s with windchills feeling like were around 15 to 20 degrees tomorrow. Later in the newscast ill take you through all the day parts tomorrow and show you what it will feel like around your area. For the most part temperatures fall tomorrow. There are some cold days coming up wednesday, a little better by thursday and this is what i like this warming trend that starts on friday later in the newscast. Also well show you how long that could be sticking around. Back to you. Thank you. A major recall today of a popular frozen meal. Morningstar farms is recalling two of their black bean burgers. The items may inadvertently contain peanut, an ingredient that was not declared on the label. As a precaution, the items are being removed from shelves. One of the most controversial laws to ever affect the classroom. But now some changes are on the way that could affect your childrens success in school. Plus first at 4 00 Beating Cancer may not be enough. What weve learned about some Severe Health problems that could affect people who have already been through enough. And we are following developments at the Lenphant Plaza metro station where smoke has wreaked havoc for rush hour commuters this afternoon, especially those on the green and the yellow line. Back to our breaking news right now. News4s Jackie Bensen has arrived on the scene at Lenphant Plaza metro station. Whats the latest . Reporter i can tell you what youre seeing behind me this is one of the entrances to the station, you can see that is the epicenter of the firefighting operations that are going on right now, trying to figure out what is causing the smoke in the tunnel in the lenphant metro station. This operation is taking up multiple square blocks in downtown d. C. And southwest, even going into other can kwauld rants of the city. This is unbelievable about how many blocks are closed off with fire and rescue equipment and people walking through trying to figure out

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