breaking news at 11, another metro meltdown. the tower goes out. 5 to 600 passengers had to be evacuated via tunnel and

thousands more to detour. >> elderly people on the train and people had to carry things through the tunnel. >> it's not going well so far. >> a lot going on. metro is ridiculous right now. >> all this as metro expects crowds to rival an in inauguration in six to seven hours when tens of thousands take metro to see pope francis in his parade outside the white house. we have team coverage for you tonight from the elipse nelisp e white house where pope francis is staying. >> shomari, do they have the trains moving again yet? >> reporter: good morning, right now, metro is suspended from u street to fort todd. they don't know when they will resume normal operations. and here you have pope francis in town and a lot of passengers

tell me they're upset. >> reporter: this video shows hundreds of passengers walking in an underground tunnel with help from metro firefighters and metro police and metropolitan police. >> we had to walk about an hour and half from the train. >> reporter: 3 to 500 were on the train when it lost pow person. >> the lights flickered and it went off. >> reporter: the yellow line at washington d.c. >> i'm disappointed it happened. i understand it does happen. there were children and elderly people on the train. >> reporter: service was cut between the columbia heights and tet worth station. georgia was anxious. >> reporter: it could have been worse. >> what was it like walk through the tunnel? >> i expected rats and stuff but there were none. >> reporter: frustrated passengers lined up and got on

these buses to go home. >> a lot going on. it's ridiculous right now. >> mostly i'm glad everyone was able to get off safely. >> reporter: the good news is no one got hurt during the evacuation and metro is trying to figure out why the train lost power right now. i'm shomari stone, news4. >> all this comes one day after metro shut down service on the orange, blue and silver lines at stadium armory for an electrical fire. now, a change.org petition has nearly 2,000 signatures asking pope francis to bless the metro system. make sure you check in the morning so you're ready for delays or detours around the pope's parade route. >> right now, pope francis is spending his first night in the united states. a live look at the vatican embassy on massachusetts avenue, where the pope will stay while he's in washington.

tonight, the catholic bis p bishops who gathered here to see him say excitement is building in anticipation of the message he'll deliver tomorrow. >> he's inviting us all to rise above what may divide us culturally or politically and to greater service to one another. >> it all starts tomorrow morning at the white house. president and mrs. obama will roll out the red carpet for the holy father and tens of thousands will gather to watch his parade around. >> that's where we find darcy spencer with the story. darcy. >> reporter: tomorrow is this pope's first full day at the nation's capitol and it will be your first chance to glimpse the pope in the popemobile. around 9:15 tomorrow morning he will meet with the president and first lady. they will greet the pope at the white house and then have a

private meeting with him. about 15,000 people are being allowed onto the grounds to welcome the pope in this morning. then, about 11:00 in the morning, that's the big event, the much anticipated papal parade, when the pope rides in that open popemobile. who knows what he might do? might get out and shake hands and kiss some babies. he will go around the ellips. and about 15,000 people get to be around the parade route and your best photo opportunity. we talked to some people and some hoping to see the pope and others not going to try. >> after seeing what the security is going to be at 4:00 in the morning, it will be a mess. >> reporter: you're not going to try? >> no. >> i'm short so it would vary what i would see. if i was 6'5", i might go. >> reporter: you're hoping you might get a glimpse of him tomorrow zblrch.

>> that we are hoping to get pictures for her school. >> reporter: they are from florida and flew up here just to see the pope. take a lack at this pap of the papal route. generally the popemobile rides along 15th street, constitution avenue and 17th street. make sure you bring your cameras out here. that is going to be your best chance to see him riding around in the popemobile. you will have to go through security to be able to be a part of this. the security entry gates open at 4:00 in the morning and close at 10:00 a.m. you have to be in place by then if you want to get in. the best part about it, it is all free if you can just get there in in time. back to you. >> darcy, thanks so much. there is some controversy tonight surrounding the guest list for the pope's visit to the white house in the morning. among those invited, a leader for transgender rights, gay catholic blogger and the first openly gay episcopal!

some curved are blasting the president trying to put pressure on the pope for social issues. representatives from the vatican and white house say they're not concerned and the guest list controversy will not sour tomorrow's events. >> after his time at the white house, his holiness heads to st. matthew's cathedral. bishops all around will be there beginning at 11:30 but it is not open to the public. when the pope arrives at st. matthew's, it will be hard to miss this sign across the street from the human rights commission and hope the pope gets the message from lbgt catholics asking the pope to welcome them back into the church. pope francis said before it's not his job to judge people based on their sexual orientation. >> after st. matthews, the pope

travels to the basilica shrine and perform the first canonization of a saint on u.s. soil. 25,000 people with tickets will get to watch that ceremony. the mass is scheduled about 4:00 p.m. we have more on the road closure and controversy surrounding the road closure. just search "basilica" on the washington app. dozens of children greeted the pope when he arrived. it lines with people trying to get their pictures of the pontiff as he drove with the windows down. jackie is live at the embassy with more on the excitement surrounding the pope's arrival. jackie. >> reporter: well, it's quiet here right now. that was certainly not the case earlier today. [ applause ] >> reporter: the voices of the catholic school children assembled to greet pope francis rose to a roar as the motorcade

with the humble fiat came on massachusetts avenue. the children came from catholic schools in d.c., maryland and virginia. there were also a group of young f steres from the embassy of argentina all wearing light blue scarves. pope francis smiled and waved at them before going inside the residence that will be his temporary home. for the harrell family in d.c. even walking down the security perimeter was exciting. >> there's a lot of hostility in the world and we want to show him we love him and appreciate his coming and happy he's here and we're praying for him. >> reporter: there will likely be more crowds tomorrow as the pope begins his first full day in the nation's capitol. jackie bensen, back to you. >> the pope's motorcade turned heads for more than one reason

today. the car he waved from had some of us turning our head. he went with the modest 20,0$20 fiat instead of the suv. he had the license plate scv 1, the initials for vatican city state. people on social media loved it including fiat, as you might imagine. the italian automaker tweet tweeted #blessed. he rides around rome in a blue ford focus. also interesting to note, the first ever popemobile, a 1929 fiat. coming up in a couple minutes on news4 at 11:00 tonight, meet the girl from maryland who had one heck of a day this afternoon. not only did she get to dance with the president, she got to shake hands with the pope. let's talk about our weather now. a fall chill is definitely in

the air. what's it like in the morning? >> it will be chilly. the fist full day of fall is tomorr tomorrow. take a look outside. a nice night tonight and current temperature at the airport, 67 degrees, winds at the airport around 9 miles an hour. as we continue to cool, look at the temperatures, 56 in fredericksburg. if you're getting up early to come to town, you are in for a little cooler air. you might want to bring the jackets. it will be on the cool side early. by 7:00, once the sun starts to make its way up, we will warm up nicely. going to a high of 81 degrees. in a minute we'll talk about the weekend forecast. >> thank you, doug. breaking news now. metro just tweeted out the power is now back on and the columbia heights and georgia avenue stations are now re-opening. >> service is fully restored now. a power failure caused a train to get stranded in an

underground tunnel just outside georgia avenue station this evening. as many as 600 passengers had to be evacuated. next at 11:00. >> will you change the price? >> no. >> outrage over price gouging. the ceo now changing his tune. the largest automaker in this world, volkswagen admits to cheating on emissions test. new tonight, drivers starting a class action lawsuit. >> front row seat. >> it was a blessing. it was nice to meet the most important person in the world. >> the maryland girl who got to shake the pope's hand because o

the vatican flag hanging out side tonight, his home away from home. in hours he will become the third pope to visit the white house including john paul ii and pope benedict in '08. we will show you more from the pope's arrival today in just a couple minutes. new at 11:00, a 2-year-old child has been seriously hurt after falling off a balcony in montgomery county and falling 40 feet in aspen hill. this picture was shot before a helicopter took the boy to the hospital. adults were in the apartment

before he took the fall. volkswagen crowe under pressure to step down after he admits they equipped millions of cars equipped to cheat epa tests and the software gave them more pow owner the road while emit mortgage than 40 times the pollution legal limit. they have set aside more than $7 billion to fix the cars in the u.s. and may be forced to pay out even more money. a number of class action laws t lawsuits have already been filed against volkswagen. he raised the price from a life savie ing drug from 1$13 a tablet to 750 as tablet. now the ceo of the company that makes the drug is changing his tune. >> at this point, it is still in the low end of what orphan drugs cost. we're certainly not the first company to raise drug prices. >> that was martin after negative attention from doctors

in the media saying he will lower the price of the drug daraprim to make a smaller profit. it helps people with aides and weakened immune systems. he said the cheaper price was not profitable and wanted to raise the price to develop better treatments. the new cost of the drug expe expected to be released in the next few weeks. these four young people have a story to tell that will keep their friends jealous for years to come. the first, third, fifth and seventh graders from area catholic schools got to greet pope francis with flowers. among them, jocelyn aquino from silver spring saying today was a ble blessing. >> it was nice to meet the most important person in the world. i got to meet the person who teaches us jesus love and message. >> she also got to meet

president obama who she says danced with the students before meeting the pope. >> it was an historic day and the beginning of an incredible journey for the pope in the u.s. we look back at the amazing sights and sounds that marked his arrival. history about to unfold before your eyes. francis the rock star pope arriving in the united states. >> this is this moment we've been waiting for. pope francis' plane touching down. >> you can see sasha and malia. >> and the first grandmother there. president obama there to meet pope francis and welcome him to the united states. >> you could just tell, people are so so excited to be here. they are likely go to a small lounge at joint base andrews and have a very brief but private moment between the president and his family and pope francis. >> they just look like two friends, don't they?

>> what a face. >> this is a fiat 5004-door sedan. you don't see those everyday. >> the pope arrives in washington and he is whisked away from andrews in style. >> a lot of excitement here today on the first of three days with our visit from the pope. the weather cooperated nicely. >> cooperated in a very big way. we had rain yesterday. today was okay. as soon as it came, the sun came out like that, it was really quite amazing. as we go to the next couple of days, he leaves on thursday and goes downhill again. nice timing, pope. if you are getting up tomorrow morning, this is what you can expect drinking a cup of coffee or cappuccino, temperatures 55-61 degrees. it will be on the school side tomorrow morning, know that whether getting your kids to the bus stop or heading to greet the pope at the national mall. much cooler towards the shenandoah valley.

57 in winchester and 67 in d.c. nothing on the radar right now. all of this is dry air return. we're not seeing any rain across the region. one thing we could see is potential for a little bit of light fog in some areas. heads-up for that early tomorrow. we have clouds in southern maryland and you can see the white on the picture showing the area of cloudiness to the south and where we have clearing skies and parts of maryland and fairfax and loudoun county, that where i think we could be dealing with fog and the sun will burn it off quickly. the temperature will rise up to 78 in culpeper and 81 downtown. with sunshine tomorrow i think we will see abundant sunshine. speaking of that, if you're h d heading to the ellipse tomorrow, the weather is great. the basilica, 12:00, 75 degrees. 3:00, 81 degrees.

making it perfect for mass starting at the 4:00 hour and ending just after 6:00. the weather looking great for the pope and high temperatures and the sun continues to shine. we get into an uncertain weekend. 73 on saturday and 74 on continued all because of this area of high pressure to give us northerly flow and will allow for rain as the low pressure moves up. how low will the low pressure get and this forecast is something we will be watching the next couple of days. chuck will have a little more for you during the day tomorrow. starting off with our "news4 today" -- what time, guys? >> 4:26. >> i knew i'd get two different answers. 81 degrees. >> i rounded it off. >> up next, in the battle of the beltw

the bright spot, the mets lost at least. >> the nationals should have tried to get this game postponed. where was the bad weather tonight? the battle of the beltway started later than we first expected. the orioles put out the first punch and they have the three-game series with the mets. there is a small chance the nats

could win this division, a pitcher night literally. gonzalez facing jimenez with men on the corner and two outs. >> to the pitcher! >> that brings in a run and joseph scores and rbi single, his teammates loving it. pretty good on the mound tonight, jayson werth goes down swi swinging. six innings, five strikeouts and one unearned run by jimenez. and machado hustling around from first. he's being sent home. relay not in time and he will be safe. 100% rbi this season for countries "crush" davis. and looking to rally renon. >> ren done.

>> good job, doug. orioles go on to post-season hopes. the last 10 meetings with the giants, skins have lost seven and in those 10 meetings they turned the ball over 30 times. to make things worse, redskins haven't won in new york since 2011. with all that being said, lot of people still jumping on the skins bandwagon. trent williams is a not buying into the hype. >> we've been talked about dogs the last couple of years. having people say we're actually doing something okay or doing something good doesn't add any pressure at all. it's a little gratifying in a sense but we still haven't done anything. are we improving? yes. is the job complete? not at all. >> to the courts, spike lee choosing to watch the good professional basketball team from new york tonight. mystics taking on liberty. to the fourth quarter. knocking down the jump shot.

she had 17 points and mystics up by three. in the quarter, liberty taking control now. sugar rodgers. nice little drive there. 20 points off the bench for her. liberty up three late. final seconds, ivory, the game tying three! liberty win this one 79-74 and they take the series ending mystics season still nonetheless mystics season still nonetheless a good

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