he was the at amtrak station to unveil a new locomotive and took a jab at subsidies saying we shouldrican transportation to compete with the world. >> if i blindfolded someone and took them at 2:00 in the morning into the airport in hong kong and said, where do you think you are, they would say this must be america, it is a modern airport. if i took him blindfolded and took him to laguardia, he must think i must be in some third world country. i'm not joking. >> wow. >> well, jay leno got a warm sendoff from senator john mccain. the arizona republican said he made him laugh every night, even though he was the butt of leno's jokes more than 400 times. the senator also said jimmy fallon has some big shoes to fill. >>> a reporter from bill o'reilly confronted house democratic leader, nancy pelosi, about a promise she made to the fox news host she would do an interview with him in her offer. congresswoman pelosi remembers the conversation a bit differently. >> i didn't make any comment to him. we were having a social conversation. in fact, it was at the white house, the first time i ever

that has been cans e this is union station. amtrak hours. nothing is going south on thursday. the busiest route is the north-east corridor, there'll be a limited service on amtrak going to baltimore, filly. mark and merrylands, new jersey transit. long island railroad and metro north are reviewing the situation by the hour. so many flights were cancelled on wednesday, 3,700 cancelled before the storm hit this part of the world. that will have a knock-on effect now, through the weekend. obviously the airplanes were in the wrong place, it will take the airlines a while to get back on the feet. on the roads people told to stay off them until the snow has gone. >> well, let's take a look at what is happening across the eastern sea board, a lot of that snow is making its way across virginia into parts of pennsylvania as well. snowing has begun in new york city at 2am. you can see it pushing through. we'll watch this carefully. we think in new york specifically, what will happen is it will snow through the morning and about 11:00am it will turn to rain. it will last for 10 hours, an

it happened around 10:00, a short distance from the amtrak fremont station. the driver of a toyota went around the downed arm at the crossing and was hit bit train. two men in the car, both in their 20, were taken to the hospital. one has serious injuries and the other suffered minor injuries. the train sat on the track for two horses last night before it was hoofed. 14 people were on board and no one was hurt. >> police are looking if three men who forced their way into a woman's home and robbed her and her grandson at gunpoint. a neighbor called police. a man knocked on the door and forced his way in at 3:30 in the afternoon. two other men ransacked the place of 9 -- neighbor culled 9-1-1. >> when the concord police department arrived they want through the house and no one was there. that was that. >> the woman suffered minor injuries and taken to the hospital as a precaution. >> the dalai lama will wrap up the bay area visit today at santa clara university at 10:00 a.m. 61 add local heros with compassionate a ceremony at the ritz in san francisco yesterday

back now live outside of union station, and why else should you care about the locomotives? because amtrak says they are energy efficient and they can save hundreds of millions of dollars over the years, and that could of course keep the ticket prices down. reporting live at union station, adam tuss, news4. >>> and back to the breaking news out of alexandria, and this is a picture of ruth ann ladoto, the woman shot and killed after answering the door in her braddock heights neighborhood. the man who is accused of shooting her is described as older with a white beard and white hair. they have no motive. >> a military working dog is in the hands of the taliban and new details on what really happened. >>> and our boy, jim handly is taking a trip to the mountains in sochi, and more on the challenge for olympians that has nothing to do with the competition. >> and a such a pretty picture out there, and here, however, it is a little bit on the cool s e side. in the next seven days temperatures are average at 46 degree, and we will be below that each of the next seven >>> trying to describe the w

this is union station. amtrak say nothing is going south on thursday. the busiest route is a limited service going north to baltim e baltimore, philly, mark and merrylands, metro north, train lines and others are reviewing the situation by the hour. so many flights were cancelled on wednesday, 3,700 already cancelled, before the storm hit this part of the world. it will have a knock-on effect. the airplanes were in the wrong place, it will take the airlines a while to get back. that's the big issue. on the roads, people told to stay off them. >> i'm looking at the roads behind you. it doesn't look like there are many cars out tonight. >> there has been plenty of warnings for the storm, the roads were gritted. they are passable. you're absolutely right. just as it was in new york a couple of weeks ago, you have a major urban center in what is effectively the north-east, here, we are south of the mason dixon, there's hardly anybody around. it's wednesday night after 11. >> no matter where you live, the weather is having a ripple effect on the economy. aft

. >> good evening, john from washington, d.c, the famous union station, amtrak hub. amtrak says none of its trains will head southeast, and the northeast corridor which is the businessest part of the service, they are running restricted. new jersey transit, long island metro? are following by the hour. the number of flights that have already been cancelled. according to flightaware.com, 3700 flights have already been cancelled and that will have a massive knock-on effect thursday, friday and into the weekend with delays at airports as they get the planes back into place and the airlines struggle to get back onto schedule. in washington, d.c, as emergency has been declared, anyone who is parked in an entrance or exit point, will have their vehicle towed overnight. there is a 75% chance the federal government will be closed tomorrow. >> for now john it looks like the cars are moving behind you right? >> at the moment the cars are moving. the snow began about 60 minutes ago here but the feeling is that this is going to be very big in washington, d.c. they rolled back th

early this morning a csx train started leaking fuel on the tracks near the marc station in riverdale. marc and amtrakcks when the leak happened. not clear how much fuel leaked or why. >>> a muddy road may have stopped copper thieves from getting away in anne arundel county. police responded to report of a theft and found a tow truck pulling a pickup out of a wooded area. three men cut their way into a storage area in hanover and stole copper cables from generators. their truck got caught in the mud so they called for a tow. police arrested two men who are now charged with burglary theft and other offenses. a third man got away. >>> a jail scandal with guards smuggling contraband to prisoners in baltimore now the maryland senate wants to crack down on correction overseas. they approved a bill to suspend officers without pay when they are charged with taking contraband into jails. last year 27 corrections officers faced charges for taking banned items, drugs, cell phones into the baltimore city detention center. >>> still ahead why cherry blossom season may be better than over this year. >> bald eagles

four hours to get there, on the northeast corridor amtrak's busiest rout, very very limited service today, thursday, with people scrambling at union stationo get onboard every train that released going north. >> kevin has been looking at what is next. >> at least through friday morning with he deeming with a storm. what you can see here is the latest satellite radar. on the eastern mart, that is the warm wither. on the back side . >> to hotels for the evening you can see the warnings are still in effect. 20/20/04 h four to 28-inches, john. >> continues to track this one, the snow is melting in the south, but power outages still a big problem for the southeast. ice left hundreds of thousands without leng trystty, and heat, in georgia and south carolina, hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses still without power, a day after the storm hit, in north carolina and virginia, tens of thousands of people are in the dark. in maryland, new jersey, new york, and massachusets electricity already out for several hundred customers. look for those numbers to go up tonight, as the storm moves through the northeast. this releaptless winter has been

amtrak. none were hurt. >> bart police said an equipment problem, not human error caused a train accident friday night the train derailed into concord station. trains started running again yesterday. crews removed damaged cars a broken axel might have caused a derailment by damaging part of a track switch called a frog. >> a bill to modify housing law protecting renters in san francisco met with demonstrators today. the protestors represented property owners that want to keep the ellis act unchanged they chanted while mark leno held a news conference. he was presenting a state bill prohibiting new property owners from evicting tenants for five years after buying a property. ellis act he vicks are a sore topic now, they've tripled during the last year. >> california children are the only known victims of a miss serious polio-like virus that has doctors working to find a source. first known victim in 2012 was a 2-year-old in berkeley the children suffered from weakness or paralysis after having respiratory problems scans of the spinal cords show similar to those in polio victims researchers are working to track that i willness and say despite

. >> from fremont, amtrak will roll this morning after an accident closed tracks all night around 10:00 last night a short distance from the fremont station. we got off the phone with fremont police and they said that the driver of a toyota car went an the downed arm at the crossing and was hit by the train. two men in the car was taken to the hospital. one is serious and one has minor injuries. 14 people on the train but no one was hurt. >> lights are back on for homes and businesses that lost power in san francisco's richmond district. pg&e says 6,600 customs lost electricity last night because of a downed power lynn. crews worked to restore power and and the utility says 500 people are still in the dark but they should have the power back by 8:00 this morning. the outage caused problems at the intersection of fulton street and 6th with some cars not stopping at all as they should and police say when st. lights are out they should be treated as a four way stop. police arrested a driver on suspicion of d.u.i. >> concord police are trying to track down three men who forced their way into a woman's home and robbed her and her grandson at g

amtrak train hit a car near peralta. that was a short distance from the fremont station. officials say people have been injured, but there is no word on how many people have been hurt or how badly they have been hurt. >>> bart service is back on track, but it hasn't been completely fixed and there is no word on what caused the train to derail. bart trains from concord and beyond were back on track and running on their usual schedule. one passenger said her train made a slow run through the newly repaired section of track. >> it will be slower and we apologize. it was an easy feeling going on the train for sure. >> pry day night around -- friday night an empty train jumped the tracks beyond the concord station. >> how do you know you derailed? >> how -- i don't know if it is a a derail -- well, i am almost looking over the edge. >> reporter: part of the car jutted over the track. you can see how that car and a few others skewed across the rails. a massive crane was brought in on saturday to remove the cars so crews could begin fixing the track. >> some of the things we did

amtrak train hit a car near peralta. that was a short distance from the fremont station.icials say people have been injured, but there is no word on how many people have been hurt or how badly they have been hurt. >>> bart service is back on track, but it hasn't been completely fixed and there is no word on what caused the train to derail. bart trains from concord and beyond were back on track and running on their usual schedule. one passenger said her train made a slow run through the newly repaired section of track. >> it will be slower and we apologize. it was an easy feeling going on the train for sure. >> pry day night around -- friday night an empty train jumped the tracks beyond the concord station. >> how do you know you derailed? >> how -- i don't know if it is a a derail -- well, i am almost looking over the edge. >> reporter: part of the car jutted over the track. you can see how that car and a few others skewed across the rails. a massive crane was brought in on saturday to remove the cars so crews could begin fixing the track. >> some of the things we did was

station. but there are lots of train cancellations, i'm afraid because this is an amtrak hub. amtrak has some beautiful names for their trains. but they're all canceled like the crescent from new york to new orleans. i would love to do that one day. the silver meteor and the sill cher star. the palmetto between new york and savannah, georgia. we have pictures of how bad it is down there. and the piedmont, which poodles along charlotte, north carolina, andral laand raleigh, north car. schools in this area are being canceled left, right, and center and all administrations are waiting to see how bad it turns out. >> john, the national weather service said this is ncaa, big bag storm, right? what has the government done to prepare for it? >> reporter: well, this is, of course, the center of government action in the united states. what they're say something this is the worst storm to hit the dc area for four years. i was here four years ago, and i remember well what it was like. a big storm came through and basically no one came into the central district, and it was here for six da

the new trains won't be faster, but amtrak says they will be more efficient and reliable, and news4 transportation reporter adam tuss was at union station to see what the d.c. riders think. he will have that report at 5:00. >>> and tonight marks a milestone in late night television. tonight, jay leno will turn over the lanes to jimmy fallon. he will premier after the olympics. we have stephanie in downtown burbank. >> well, after a brief departure in 2009, jay leno is stepping down from the "tonight show" for good. while jay has said publicly, it is not his deis igs to leave, he is doing it with dignity and grace and a few laughs. >> reporter: tonight not only marks leno's final show, but also the last one in the city that the show has called home since 1972 when johnny carson moved it here from new york. >> it was part of the, sort of the burbank landscape. >> reporter: and leno's first guest from the show in 1992 -- billy crystal. and returning for tonight's finale. >> i did it for 22 years, and it was great and a lot of fun, but you get older. >> reporter: what are you doing? >> bringing it back to new york, man. >> reporter: and jim

news from fremont, amtrak trains will roll again this morning after an citizen closed the tracks all night. it happened around 10:00 last night a short distance from the fremont stationt got off the phone with fremont police and they say the driver of a toyota went around the downed arm at the crossing and was hit bit train. two men both if their 20's were taken to the hospital. one has serious injuries and the other suffered minor injuries. the train sat on the track for two hours before being moved. 14 people were on board. no one was hurt. >> the lights are on for homes and businesses that lost power in richmond district. pg&e says 6,600 customers lost electricity around 10:00 last night because of a downed power line. crews worked through the night to restore power and say the remaining 500 customs should have it back by 8:00 this morning. >>> concord police are looking for throw men who forked their way into a woman's home and robbed her and the grass. one of the men knocked on the woman's door and forced its way spot home around 3:30 yesterday afternoon. two other men with guns ransacked the place and the woman's grandson managed to get free and ran for help to