there was also a worrying moment when umpirejerry layne got hit in the facemask and had to leave the next officiates. the cardinals were back to within two, when another two runs from tyler o'neill pulled them level in the eighth innings. the home side edged ahead again through this home run from colin moran. st louis levelled once more before a fumble from the backstop allowed them to go 6—5 up at the top of the 11th, and that's how it would stay. the 10th edition of the afriquia merzouga rally got under way in the moroccan desert on monday. the competition began with a 208 kilometre race across the sahara. the opening bike stage was won by yamaha racing's adrien van beveren. the side—by—side event had a familiar name at the top with the 2019 dakar rally winner nasser al—attiyah taking first place together with matthieu baumel. david price has told the bbc that kash ali was looking for an easy way out and that he bit him because he "wanted to get thrown out" of their all—british heavyweight bout in liverpool on saturday. ali has had his boxing licence suspended pending a hearing and

. >> layn, are we getting any rain out there today? >> listen, i was thinking sprinkles but i backe o off that through the morning as new information came i and i think the window for any light rain showers has passed us at this point. not to say thereld coun't be a drop or two in maryland. but for the most part we're staying d. and it is pretty interesting, here in d.c. we're up to 65 degrees. we have these northeast winds at about 9 miles per hour. they were out of the south all this morning. so with that northeast wind it is telling me that that front has pushe through the area. and you could actually see that front a little bit here on the current temperatures. winchester up through hagerstown and frederick in the 60s. but lou r down through culpepper and fredericksburg to 60s around 70.ro so the fal system is moving through the area, bisecting our area. north of the front,ud clo areas south of the front a little bit more sunshine but eventually that cloud cover will move from the north to the solh. we willl have an increase in clo

from there, depending on the different scenario, we're growing 161,000 at the base layne up to about 210,000. we're excited about those number. it presents a challenge to us, there's some potential crowding issues we're looking at. as we're moving forward, one of the things we have to think about is not how many people could fight on train but how many people will make the choice and pay to do so. generally what we're using a as a standard going forward is 135% of seating capacity. if the u.s. commuter rails the rule of thumb in the past been one rider one seat. we see today that people are standing on caltrain and paying to do so. we do think standing is part of the future. we think that's a pretty good place for us to land for now. here you can just see, ridership projections with that capacity constrained adjustmented. adjustment -- -- adjustment. just a few key findings. i won't go through these in detail. we do think that when the d.t.x. comets online and our train starts serve, that will be a major ridership increase to caltrain. will strain our capacity as well. just a few spe

thank you, layn. a big heads up if you take the metro. the agency is going to close stations south of the rgan tional airport this weekend for track work. >> thi ois ahead a major summer shutluwn on the b and yellow lines. adam, tell us about this weekend work and what f to expect the summer. this is a big project. >> reporter: a huge project. full clores of the stations south of reagan national airport. you can see the fencing up. the workers are here getting ready. all ofis it because the platforms up there are in bad shape. we're talking about a hand full of these platforms that have to be completely rebuilt and right now riders are bracing. >> good morning. >> reporter: in the morning it's freddie george who greets you at this metro station. about ten years now. >> reporter: ten yes? awesome. you've seen everyone come fixture.a permanent >> reporter: pretty soonre fddie won't be greeting you on the rails. the station andther will bdock clo bsed for thed e summer. >> grin and bear it. >> reporter: right now work wa already undery to ge

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