i think -- i am blessed, lucky. whever happen is going stop right here. i grab and say stuff i hope it's right here. just like neutral stuff flying. i was like oh, my gosh, no. i it's not stopping. >> reporter: back live now, you can see the tow truck arrived and is removi the 1995 toyota ramry from the building. the structural engineers have been on the seen to determine whether or not the building was safe or not. that is not made. as far as the two workers inside the building at the time, they went to the hospital and were treated and released for minor injuries. >> reporter: roby chavez live. i a local school will be closed tomorrow due to swine flu. the saint vincent polati school in laurel confirms five cases. officials are canceling classes, practices, games and evening activities tomorrow. in the next 30 minutes, the latest on the swine flu vaccine arriving in our area. former d.cmayor for life, marion barry s back in the hospital. the councilman was admitted to howard university hospital for dehydration. he had a kidney transplant, you will remember in february. fox 5s karen gray houston is live with the late. what do you know, karen? >> reporter: we're being told this is nothing serious and he's being treated for dehydration and an infection we're not getting information on. we're hearing this from his spokesperson from the wilson building, not from the doctors but friends, family and supporters are worried. barry is a 73-year-old man who only seven months old received a kidney transplant. it was late when marion barry showed up at howard university hospital's emergency room after a busy day. >> councilman marion barry last night drove himself to howard university after 10:00 after attending an event at george washington university. >> reporter: he checked in here after the event at gw's listener auditorium where secretary of state hillary clinton and defense secretary robert gates discussed international issues. iraq and afghanistan. for barry, the return to howard copjurs up memories from seven months ago when he underwent a kidney transplant anhas since revisited the hospital on a routine basis to keep an eye on the new kidney. this time, his longtime primary care physician, dr. robert williams, met him in the emergency room. >> mr. barry explained to him he had been heavily engaged in activities, meetings over the course of the past two weeks and the physicians there determined that he was dehydrated and really needed to take time to rest. >> reporter: barry's press spokeswoman pooh-poohed speculation that heas trying to take another public stance on same-sex marriage, which was introduced into the council as legislation or avoiding having to take a vote on the parks and recreation department's director whose qualifications he questioned at a round table in a tone, a "washington post" editorial called ugly. williams said barry simply felt sick. >> he felt, you know, weak enough to be concerned about it. >> reporter: back out here live, there is some questions about whether or not dr. williams was in the hospital last night or whether he was there this morning. we're hearing from barry's people that he was weak. dehydrated, has the case of dried mouth and some kind of mild infection. they are not giving us a lot of detail about that infection. barry's press secretary simply saying this is not a very serious hospitalization. she said the councilman is jus very, very busy and he needs to take some time off, slow down and get rest. >> we should add that barry, as we understand, his stay in the hospital is expected to be brief, a few more days, they saying. more over the district's decision to lay off hundreds of teachers, this time angry crowds took their concerns to city hall. claudia coffey is live in the newsroom with the latest on the layoff back lash. >> reporter: the move to bridge a $44 million budget shortfall is drawing a lot of ctics, especially from students who say they disrupted the classes. more than 200 students in northeast made their voices heard. [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: both outside -- [ indiscernible ] >> we say bring it back! >> reporter: and inside city hall. >> and i would say -- the president and [ applause ] [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: the protest drew the attention of several city council members. >> what we're doing with education reform, doesn't help you that -- [ indiscernible ] >> students said the firing of at least 20 teachers from their school has disrupted classes. her ap english teacher was let go and two classes were combined into one. >> we have to pile up into the one class until they find another teacher and it's stopping us from learning. >> reporter: this 10th grader said they were given no warning and many of their first teachers are gone, replaced with substitutes. >> there are more substitutes in our school than regular teachers. >> reporter: nathan saunders with the teacher's union believes the teachers should be brought back so these students can continue to learn. >> these are the types of dramatic changes, if they're going to occur, they should be well-planned and they should happen over a period of time. possibly over the summer so no disruption of services occur. >> the teacher's union is planning to fool a lawsuit over the layoffs. back to you. >> claudia, thank you. all together, 388 d.c. school employees lost their jobs, 229 were teachers. >> d.c. budget cuts prompting another protest today, this is over a half million dollars in cuts. to the healthy baby's projects. a large group of women and their babies gathered to protest saying the cuts will directly effect at-risk pregnant women, new mothers and babies in d.c. trouble on the tracks for metro this morning. a piece of electrical equipment fell off the red line train causing several loud booms. people thought they were hearing explosions running in a panic. there was smoke reported. debris on the tracks caught fire when the so-called collector shoe fell off the train. >> collector shoes onll of our rail cars, and they attach to the rail car that provides power that makes a connection to the third rail and receives that power through the collector through the train that allows the train to operate through electricity. >> reporter: the train was taken out of service and no one was hurt. the redline is back to normal at this hour. a woman hit by a metro bus in northeast last night has died. it happened on mount olivette road near montello avenue. stephanie richardson was on the way home in-from-work when he she got off one bus and walked into the path of another as she walked to cross the street. paul wagner has the story. paul? >> reporter: we learned of her passing in the last hour. a family member called us around 4:30 to say that she had a catastrophic brain injury and did not pull through. this is what we know of 61-year- old stephanie richardson. she got off a d-8 bus on mount olivette road last night and trying to cross when he was hit by a bus trying to pass, we understand, the driver of the striking bus has been placed on leave but so far, no charges have been filed. stephanie richardson was on the way home from work, living a few blocks from where she was hit. when witnesses say she stepped off the d-8 metro bus and walked into the path of another d-8 bus attempting to pass. she was not in the crosswalk. >> the lady got off the bus. she was running across the street and by the time she got to the second lane, the bus was right there and hit her. she flew right there where you see the blood. >> reporter: left behind in the street, a pair of red high heeled shoes. that is underneath the bus that hit her. that is her purse and the swig in the street. she was taken to the hospital alive but barley. >> i don't know why she wanted to cross the street stow bad. >> reporter: metro's deputy general manager said there were cameras on the bus but unclear if they were hooked up and recording. gerald francis said there is no set rule on whether one bus can or can't pass another. >> when a bus may have to pass, when they're changing -- lanes, sometimes the rtes have it that way. they have to change lanes and the procedures call for what you should be doing, turn on the rearview mirror, turn the signal on and so forth. >> reporter: francis said safety is the number one priority and this morning, they began emergency meetings to focus on pedestrian safety. it's standard practice to test the driveifer drugs and alcohol. the results are unknown. >> on behalf of all of metro employees, we would like to extend our sympathies to the woman struck with the -- by the metro bus last night and our thoughts and operators are with her and her family. >> reporter: stephanie richardson's family wasup available to comment and spent the day at her bedside until her passing. d.c. police wouldn't discuss any specifics of the investigation. no charges filed in the case. laura? >> all right, wall wagner live outside. the latest accident comes more than a month after another metro bus crash. you will remember on september 3rd, a bus hit amanda monkey while she was jogging near dupont circle. she survived and is still in the hospital, though. metro fired the bus driver involved saying the driver didn't follow proper procedure and d.c. police are still investigating. police have identified two suspects wanted in an attempted abduct. they believe the men tried to take three kids from a park along thomas drive last week. they claimed two men tried to lure them into the pickup truck. investigators talked to one of the suspects. no charges were filed, althoughy that continuing to investigate. the trouble's just beginning for the lab tech accused of murdering a yale graduate student inside. his latest date with the judge coming up. and police finally make a break in this case. a local acupuncturist killed in her home. making the arrest led police to ohio. and the tennessee mother's nightmare might be over. what is next for a kidnapped newborn baby boy. and caught on camera, a beatdown on a busy city street. what launched this brawl between cabbies. more of the video you have to see to believe. coming up. gary. and clouds out there, signaling change and showers on the way. a first look at the forecast coming up. get to lowe's for a large selection of maytag appliances. like the latest performance series washer. the first and only to keep your laundry smelling fresh even after the wash is done. with dynamic venting technology, it continuously circulates air for hours. so you can wash tonight and dry tomorrow. proof that only maytag is built like a maytag hurry in now and get up to $200 off all maytag high efficiency pairs by mail. come to lowe's to see the latest maytag appliances. what kind of person writes a thesis calling working women "detrimental to the family..." then lies about his opponent to cover up his own record? 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>> what am i going to personally be doing? >> what are you doing for the schools, the students, staff, teachers, the parents. >> what we're trying to do is be proactive and we wanted to get ahead of the game. i thought by having the students out of the building tomorrow, we could have the cleaning crew come in and do a thorough cleaning of the services to make sure we minimize the spread of any germs, the regular flu or swine flu and we have only had five reported cases of the swine fluence is the beginning of school and did have a number of students out today. we wanted to make sure we were ahead of the game and have the cleaning crew be more ploact identify a daily basis. i thought it was a way to get ahead of the game rather than wait until we have the student body out or something and like i said, we had five cases reported. >> sounds like there is a lot being left up to judgement here. are there not federal goodlines on how long you should be closed or doing to your school? >> i think there are photo guidelines. i think if you have 30% of the student population out, that is a consideration to closing. but, we had probably 20% or less today as the 500 students out and so, that still, when you have close to 100, the students have, i wanted to be proactive to make sure that we, the professional cleaning crew we have on a regular basis would come in and do a thorough cleaning to make sure we try to minimize the situation where we have had half the faculty out or the students out and i didn't realize i was going to create a stir in the community, but, it's really just a preventative measure. mr. steven edmonds, the principal in laurel. has five cases of swine flu in his school and taking proactive steps to clean it up and kids go back to class on thursday. best of luck, keep in touch. >> thank you. the common wealth is rolling out the first doses of the swine flu vaccine. more than 83,000 doses were donated to hospitals, health clinics and local health departments. they will be given to healthcare workers. the shots are expected to be here later this week and could be given to high-risk patients including pregnant women and people sick with the swine flu. if you have questions g to www.myfoxdc.com and click on the health section o the home page. we have facts, questions on the vaccine, latest on the local cases and 10 tips to keep your family safe. a lot of people talking about the great weather out there, the fall weather, although the clouds are coming in. >> we hear this is a one-day special, gary. hopefully this gets out of here by tomorrow morning, showers, too, and the clouds are beginning to chicken up. the clouds in advance of the system. speak of clouds, max hd true view. no rain out there, looks like most of the rain is well on off back to the west-northwest and southwest, too. gets closer to us. we will introduce the chance of showers overnight tonight and this is the forecast this evening. mostly cloudy at 7 and 9 and 11, still dry. looks like the showers hold off until after midnight. we'll have the forecast and this is going to be a quick pass of showers and rainy weather. lee laura. >> see you in a bit. a new vaccine might be the key to winning the war on drugs. how the new shot could help curb a cocainaddiction next. and letterman's opening up the extortion plot against him, usingthe air waves to issue another apology. what he's sorry for now. remember the fox five job shop is open for business. the open position is as leading systems technologies. the fairfax company is looking for an executive manager assistance. -- assistant. tune in for tips on how to land the next gig. all happening here from 7-10 a.m. . >> curbing a cocaine addiction can be asism eel -- simple as taking a vaccine. an experimental shot is helping addicts cut their dependency in half. the medicine developed high level of antibodies keeping adited -- addicts from experiencing highs. i researchers hope it can fight other drug a contradictions. more lawsuits on the way against a virginia-based company. a houston lawyer said he's about to fool 55 claims for compensation against the peanut corporation of america. at least 9 people died and more than 700 people were sickened by a salmonella outbreak linked to plants in georgia and texas. about 120 other claims have already been filed. the fbi is keeping tabs on terrorists. nothing new. tonight, a local commuter bus is playing a big role. and caught on camera, a cab driver thrown down in the big apple. what sparked the melee in the middle of broadway. first, you get to tell us where to follow the action. voting is open for fox 5 high school football game of the week. this is a look at the schools battling it out for the top spot. keep it here. fox 5 news at 5 is coming back. more and more, the quality of our lives depends on our connections. access to high-speed internet, at home a