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one spokesperson says manning faces up to 52 years in prison on charges filed so far. as far how he got his hands on this information, stories coming out of the pentagon are that he had quite an elaborate ruse. he would go into work with blank cd's. they would be labeled with musicians. he would put on his headphones and pretend to listen to music. he was downloading the top- secret files and walking away with the disks. outside the pentagon, scott thuman, abc 7 news. july has become the deadliest month for u.s. troops in afghanistan. sixth troops died in roadside bomb attacks this...

power lines fell on train tracks, passengers stuck in one train for hours. others forced to wait for hours. >> the power line fell between the silver spring and glen forest stations. and the domino effect from uniyogs station to montgomery county. john, what is going on now? >> reporter: well, right now, crews are on the scene here, trying to repair the power lines that was tossed all over the place earlier today. it was a frightening scene as passengers were struck on a train for 2 1/2 hours. we know that metro has had their share of problems in the past. but today's incident was no...

it was day five without power. day five awaiting on the court in the white oak area of montgomery county. utility crews from pennsylvania and northern maryland worked around the many downed trees to repair the broken line. work on the street was delayed because someone stole some of the fallen power line that would have been used in the repair. but neighbor george wordsington who had his power restored wednesday night said they are used to being at the end of the line with pepco. >> a common occurrence. we're on a small feeder line. they're primary concern is to get the cash register...

downtown washington. the event takes teams of homeless men, women and at-risk youth. opening ceremony and parade will be held tonight at 5:00. local members of congress will meet with the national transportation safety board today to go over the week's findings with last year's deadly metro crash. a panel found long-running safety issues as one of the reasons for the collision. metro's red line is back to normal this morning. part of it was closed for hours yesterday after power lines fell on the tracks. lindsey mastis live in silver spring with the story. is it so far 0 good. >>...

from montgomery county were trapped on board for more than three hours huddled on board the rear car all alone poach that time while pepco made sure -- most of the time while pepco make sure the 13,000-volt wire under that train was not hot. >> we had to make sure all the power was killed to the tracks before we could send people down there. >> reporter: pepco insists there was never danger of electrocution as long as they stayed inside. >> they were grounded inside the car. so pepco had to make sure everything was grounded on both sides of our two poles that were damaged to make sur...