to reassure montgomery county leaders that it is working on its escalator problems at the bethesda metro stationle who go up the two broken escalators watch jealously as riders headed into the station gladed down on the only working escalator. so we took the blood pressure of some people when they finished climbing those stairs. keep in mind that a normal blood pressure reading is about 120/80. reporter: 128/72. >> at 3:00 p.m. today? >> add 3:00 p.m. late see what you're running now. >> no [ bleep ]. quote me. >> do you know what you normally run at? >> 120/70. >> you're at 140/30. >> what's my pulse? >> 110. >> that's a lot. >> well, in case you're wondering, there are more than 200 steps on the bethesda metro escalator. >> wouldn't it make sense if that one escalator was going up and you walk down, it seems to be a lot less work walking down than up. >> well, yeah, but somehow they couldn't get it to work that way. >>> let's get moving on weather. we got a few clouds out there, some sun south and a few showers north. that's made a big difference in temperatures across the region this noon hou

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get its chance to speak out tonight about escalator problems at the bethesda metro station. ntgomery county council panel will hold a special meeting at bethesda-chevy chase services center. on october 14, all three escalators at that station stopped working. avoid a repeatto incidents. >>> new sections of the connector could open .y the end of this year to procession of the highway georgia avenue (in february, officials have not rate.ed the exact you could pay between 25 cents and 35 cents a mile with an e-z .ass >>> new concerns about the nationwide protests that have spread to the district. >> authorities have raised serious questions about health occupy ty at the protesters at mcpherson square. in mcpherson square the don't have sinks, prosperity to anyway. .hey also don't have a toilet >> we have to improvise when it using the restroom. >> someone is going to have to portable toilets. >> and they don't have showers. >> have not had a shower in six days. bathe been taking a bird here and there. some plan to stay through the winter. u.s. park service is about sanitation an

. >>> ask any riders of the bethesda metro station and they'll probably tell you that they have to do a lot of climbing constantly. all three of the escalators went down tonight. it's the same thing that happened recently during rush hour, and tonight, a council member says he may do something about it. will thomas is live in bethesda to tell us about the plan, will. >> reporter: hey, laura, these bethesda escalators are absolutely horrible. don't take my word for it. not just riders, but a metro official told me tonight, these escalators are the epitome of unreliability, and that is a quote. we're not talking about this little one that takes you up to the street. there's three down below from the mezzanine to the platform. right now, two of the three are working but earlier none of them work. they're going to start to replace them starting in 2014 but in the meantime, what do do you? you don't want to walk up all those steps after a long day at work or school, so tonight, members of the montgomery county council met with members of the community to talk about possible relief. the sam

at 6:26 last night, two of the three escalators at the bethesda metro station went down, forcing commuters to climb the more than 450 feet straight up. metro immediately conveneded a meeting in bethesda. they told metro officials they can't wait much longer for a fix. >> we don't care if you said earlier why it's out, it's out. >> we don't want metro to be insane. so doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result is insanity. >> i think that's an albert einstein quote. metro says there are no quick and easy fixes. they estimate it will take three years to get new escalators at the station and six years for a high speed elevator. >>> a man held up a bank wearing a halloween mask. it happened yesterday morning at the main street bank in mclean at the 6300 block of old dominion drive. police say the suspect walked into the bank just after 10:00. he implied he had a gun and took an undisclosed amount of cash from the teller. no one was injured in the robbery. >>> a fairfax county woman was cleared in a trial about dog po poop. that's right. kim's neighbors at the p pende

the county would provide funding for a new southern entrance to the bethesda metro station with six high-speed elevators. construction is years away so there's a push to do that sooner. >> we've already got the money. when the escalators are being fixed, people will have to walk every time there's a breakdown and it's too far to walk so let's get the elevators built first. >> reporter: here's the problem, constructing these high-speed elevators ahead of schedule could cost an additional $25 million. in these tough economic times, i wouldn't count on that. you're probably wondering why not just rehab these escalators. again, this one as we speak isn't even working. metro says they're simply so old it just doesn't make sense and a lot of the manufacturers are no longer in business. they want to replace them and do it right. in bethesda, i'm will thomas. back to you. >>> a mystery surrounding the death of a local woman in new york. laura evans is everywhere at 11:00. >> the virginia woman health care found dead in a creek in upstate new york. 49-year-old linda keplick of falls church was in the a

the county would provide funding for a new southern entrance to the bethesda metro station with six high-speeduction is years away. so there is a push to do that sooner. >> we've already got the money. when the he is clattors are being fixed, people will be having to walk all the time every time there is a breakdown and it is too far to walk so let's get the elevators built first. >>> constructing these high- speed elevators ahead of schedule, we learned at the meeting, could coast an additional $25 million. in these tough economic times, wouldn't count on that. you are probably wondering why not rehab these escalators. as we speak, this one isn't even working. metro says they are simply so m a lot of the manufacturers are no longer in business. they want to replace them and do it right. i'm will thomas. back to you. >>> you can help us monitor metro. if you spot a problem, e-mail us your story, your pictures or your video. send them to fox 5 metro at g mail.com. >>> be careful when you hit the pump. we are not talking about the gas prices. gas pump handles are the filthiest surfaces americans

they will play again tonight >>> concerns are growing about escalator outages at the bethesda metro stationy council meeting was held last night about the broken escalator all three escalators stopped working and they were out of service for a longer period on october 14. >> people can handle was going down because it is walking the going up it is a struggle. >> there is not a single person in this metro system that would not like the escalator toward better. >> metro plans to replace the escalators at the bethesda station and build a new station on elm street. >>> a federal judge in north carolina will rule on motions aimed at dismissing the case against former democratic vice- presidential -- former democratic presidential john edwards. he is accused of using campaign funds to cover up an affair. he is expected to go on trial in january. >>> a former goldman sachs board member is expected to turn himself in on an insider-trading case. it is not clear what the charges against raja gupta are. >>> the forecast says winter for parts of colorado. wintry weather is already piling up in denver b

bruce leshan is live at the bethesda metro station. any good news for us? >> reporter: there is. all three of the escalators here at bethesda are working right now. and there is more. metro is now promising to work harder to get the word out to people when there is trouble on the line. >> reporter: metro admitting now it could have done a better job earlier this month when passengers were ordered off at rosslyn onto a platform so jammed with riders trying to escape up stopped escalators some feared they would be pushed back into a moving train. >> you were almost pushed up against the moving train when it was going to leave. >> we could have left it on the platform with the doors closed. >> reporter: but the general manager says metro was trying to rescue a man up the tracks who had jumped in front of a train. >> this was indicative of a two-hour shut down of the railroad. >> reporter: a two-week review concludes metro really needs to do more to get the word out. >> we should be telling more people stay off the system. it is going to be a two-hour delay. you're not going to get ho

at 6:25 last night, two of the three escalators at bethesda metro station went down, forcing commutersclimb the more than 250 feet up. metro quickly convened a meeting in bethesda. frustrated customers and business leaders told the panel they can't wait much longer for a fix. >> we don't care if you said earlier why it's out. it's out. >> we don't want metro to be insa insane, so doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result is insanity. >> met owe says there are no quick and easy fixes. they estimate it will take three years to get new escalators at the station and possibly six years for a new high speed elevator. >>> this morning former north carolina senator john edwards will be in court trying to get the federal charges against him dropped. edwards is charged with using $1 million of under the table campaign money from his supporters to hide his mistress in order to further his 2008 presidential run. he's also charged with attempting to falsify campaign finance reports. sources say it was not campaign money and the charges are based on incoherent legal theor

metro riders. after a big outage in the middle of rush hour, commuters at one station are fed up. at 6:25 last night, two of the three escalators at the bethesda metro station went down, forcing commuters to climb up more than 250 feet to street level. metro quickly conveneded a meeting in bethesda. frustrated commuters and business leaders packed the room and told metro officials they cannot wait much longer for a fix. >> we don't care you said earlier why it's out, it's out. >> it's off. >> we don't want metro to be insa insane. so doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result, is insanity. >> met owe says there are no quick fixes and no easy fixes. they estimate it will take three years to get new escalators at that station and possibly six years for a new high speed elevator there. >> 5:55 now. >>> a fairfax county woman is cleared in a trial about dog poop. that's right. kim's neighbors at the penderbrook condo complex in fairfax claim she did not clean up after the dog she walks. the dog's name is baxter. there he is, cute little white dog. neighbors took pictures of what they claim was unscooped poop. they gave

metro system specifically with escalators. the escalators went out again this morning at the bethesda station. this is metro's second-largest escalator. writers are getting their chance to speak out tonight about frustrations with it. >> all three escalators went down here in bethesda. that is the second time this has happened in just the last 11 days. tonight the county is one to hold a meeting to try to make sure this does not happen again. >> there is not a single person in the whole system that would not like the escalators to work better. >> for some writers, the broken escalators have become an old story. for others, they have become a joke. >> that is the plan, to get bethesda more fit. to get at the half of a mile of standing still steps. >> all three went down again. while mr. had got up relatively quickly. this also happened on october 14. 8 county council member described them as some of these large -- august escalators in the western hemisphere. >> going up is really a struggle. >> tonight the committee will hold a special meeting to figure out what can be done about them. >> they n

. >>> a lot of angry metro passengers tonight perhaps exhausted at was. the escalators at the bethesda station broke down in the evening rush hour. tonight they let metro have it. jackie bensen now with more on this. >> caller: jim, 275 feet straight up. that's the stair climb at this station when the escalators are broken. 6:25 p.m. moments after one of three escalators stopped working, another one came to a halt. >> need to get off the escalator, please. >> really? >> not much to tell. we stepped on the escalator and it stopped. >> reporter: metro engineers went to work but the fixes on the escalators at this station and others are not holding. it's not a pretty climb at the end of the workday. >> this is my workout for the week. >> it's tough. >> we don't care that you said why it's out. it's out. it's off. >> reporter: frustrated riders and business leaders packed a meeting in bethesda. they told the officials they can't wait three years for new escalators and six years for new elevators. >> we don't want metro to be insane. doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different re

metro can escalate your blood pressure. >> reporter: it was back on october 14th all of the three escalators here at the bethesda station werecreated a huge mess. that mess prompted an emergency meeting tonight between montgomery county leaders and metro officials. but before that meeting, we went down there to take a look and see how stressful all of this is. take a look. >> this is what it's going to take me right now so i don't have to go to the emergency room because i was forced to take the escalator -- i mean the steps up. metro, you should be a shamed of yourself. >> reporter: here at the bethesda station , there are three escalators. two of them are broken. ironically the only one working is the one going down. so this is easy. however, for other folks having to come up, not so much. we were interested in finding out just how stressful it is for all of these commuters to walk up the steps, to we decided to take their blood pressure just so you know an ideal almost perfect blood pressure is a reading of 120 over 80. >> 128 over 72. >> at 3:00 p.m. today. >> reporter: let's see what you're running now. >> yes, no [ ble

. >>> well, melt row is trying -- metro is trying to reassure montgomery county leaders it's working on the escalator problem at the bethesda station. people watched jealously as riders headed into the station just glided down smoothly on the only working escalator. we took a blood pressure of some people when they finished. keep in mind the normal pressure reading is about 130 over 80. >> 128 over 72. >> at 3:00 p.m. today. >> at 3:00 p.m. >> let's see what you're running now. >> yeah, no [ bleep ]. quote me. >> you know what you normally run at? >> 120 over 70. >> okay, you're at 141 over 103. >> right. >> for coming up -- >> what's my pulse? >> 110. >> yeah. that's a lot. >> take that. in case you're wondering, there are more than 200 steps on those bethesda metro escalators. >> oh boy. >>> at 5:36. time for another your money report. >> and jessica doyle is checking out high-tech stuff for the pets, she talked to steve greenberg the author of "gadget nation." >> we have a wonderful marriage today to have things we love, tech and pets. >> this is pretty cool. we all know about the ipad. what's cool about it is the new case from

montgomery county meeting up to address metro escalator's panel held an emergency meeting last night and they voiced their concerns about escalator problems at the bethesda station earlier in the day. had a public meeting d.c. leaders will be an area what to do with by world war i missions. at least one home could be torn down. let's check in with lisa baden traffic.k at there's an accident that has on theking care of county parkway. virginia is loaded up this morning and across the roosevelt bridge has heavy traffic to constitution avenue. north of reagan national airport virginia, it is getting better up to the pentagon and the beltway as normal delays. 95 to georgia avenue, at least we don't have rain. >>> pretty morning and around 70es will be later and clouds will thicken from north to south and fallratures will start to as a cold front moves through. degrees tonight and tomorrow we will have periods of 62-67, cooler and drier on friday and a chance for showers saturday and drive for the marine corps marathon sunday >> thanks for watching and we will be back at noon. "live with regis and kelly" is next. state farm. this is jessica. hey, jessica, jerry neuma