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About a week ago we had a double murder here on the portland commuter train system that reached international headlines where a man shouted alleged hate speech at the pair of teenagers and allegedly stabbed three people who tried to intervene killing them. as a result of that the mayor of portland said -- they said absolutely not and now we have this situation, richard. >> any arrests, any reportable conflict that we know details of or still early in terms of what we can confirm? >> reporter: we witnessed a couple of arrests so far. we can't monitor all of the perimeter so we don't know what's...

Him. so there is repair work to do in terms of the perception of the people. >> i think also the frustration is this is -- it doesn't happen very often. but this happened three years ago, there was a big snow event. everyone is saying why have we not learned lessons. do you think they're going to learn lessons now or is third time not even close to a charm? >> surely they're going to learn lessons. this is bigger than do we have enough trucks. we need a transportation plan in georgia. we need an entire restructuring of dealing with the people, the amount of people living in atlanta, the amount...

Quickly, the entire event from beginning to end lasted about three minutes. thomas. >> nbc's joe fryer reporting for us. joe, thanks so much. here's a look at some other stories topping the news now. the main commuter train system in the san francisco bay area is running limited service this morning after b.a.r.t. and union officials reached a tentative deal. that ends a four-day strike but still has to be ratified. high winds and hot weather could cause more trouble for more than 2,000 firefighters working fast and furiously to contain massive fires in australia. one person has died, more...

Before this shutdown took place. we understand that both the commuter train system and the subway system has stopped running for now. >> now most people would associate tokyo teaming with people packed wall-to-wall with businessmen and women. at this moment, as we look at the time there in tokyo, what do the streets look like? >> caller: you know, i have a pretty panoramic view of the city here. granted it's dark, but it looks normal. if you go to the train stations, some of the very -- equivalent of times square -- >> it's about 6:15 right? 6:15 p.m. >> caller: right. you can see people stuck...