last year we had a big blowout with metro. it got resolved with them stating that it won't happen again. the issues have to do with jobs. you know the ilw - we are not going to allow anybody to take our jobs on these ships. so moving forward, with the discussion, i think that the teams that picked metro pick the right stevedor company, they were by far the better choice than mtc or marine terminals. the issues with labor unrest have to be resolved. i was assured that will continue to meet going forward. going forth, being the president of local 10, this commission has to go forward and get business done because we are on a timeline but we will be at the meetings with metro to make sure none of these issues that are taking place that have to do with jobs and our jobs, an american good jobs, and to relate to it with metro -- and we are -- we are communicating quite well on forth. i have to say that metro was the better choice of the two; i was surprised that you only had two stevedor companies bidding on this because san francis

we are here to make a decision on whether metro is a qualified bidder. we heard a lot of similar to say they are the qualified bidder; this is not the final contract. with support that the party should sit down and resolve these issues before any final contract is approved. it is the basis of what we are doing today, whether metro is qualified to commence contract negotiations. i think i'm hearing that there is agreement that they're qualified to enter into contract negotiations, and some of the terms raised by our labor partners that we would continue to ask metro, the port on the unions to sit down and resolve this because it is important to have peace and i agree we don't want passengers to feel tension. based on that, i would like to ask the commission to vote to accept metro as a qualified bidder. >> i have a question. >> go ahead. >> the name of today has been jobs. it's important that we continue to create opportunities that will continue to bring people to the waterfront with these jobs. i do have a question regarding lbe goals -- if there are an

mentions additional -- that metro would offer. text reads one full-time -- it's local 10, maintenance mechanic. and -- should be -- maintenance gearman. is your read one full-time iow local 10 maintenance gearman and one full time iow local 10 foreman. the solicitation was a solicitation for professional services pursuant to chapter 21 of the city's administrative code. staff received two proposals. a panel was convened to review and score these proposals; the evaluation panel consisted of current or employee responsible for cruise logistics; and former port employee responsible financial analysis; former event manager for the san francisco giants and marine world. and currently a commissioner for the board of permit appeals. the panel was selected because of their combined experience and cruise operations, maritime finance and special events management. the evaluation scoring process was conducted by the port's contract manager, andres acevedo with the help of a contracting consultant, mr. reyes, who work with the city comptrolle

no rain around the metro now. front royal by 10:30 this morning, could have thundershowers rolling through. in the low 70s in warren county by then. elsewhere throughout the region today, most of the region could have some thundershowers by noontime and during the afternoon, a likelihood of passing showers and thundershowers. only a slight chance of any severe weather. maybe isolated storms may produce hail. highs reaching the low 80s by midafternoon. nice change coming in tomorrow. we'll look at that and a look at your weekend in ten minutes. >>> here's a look at traffic now with dawnella. good morning. a live look at connecticut avenue. good news here. tony drove by the earlier sinkhole. this was affecting southbound lanes as you make your way past west kirke street. crews have put metal plates up so your travel lanes are open. and chevy chase village, no issues right now. i-270 heading southbound. from clarksburg, continuing southbound through the gaithersburg area, no issues there. even through rockville conne

metro and try to walk to work. eventually, the metro system was reopened. then about half an hour later there was another scorched cable found in another tunnel which forced a partial shutdown. so, it's been a mess on moscow's metro today. already 45 people have needed medical attention. seven people are hospitalized. many of them suffering from smoke inhalation. but the largest impact has been the thousands who were evacuated from the metro system and then had to crawl out from underground, go above and try to find another way to get to work this morning. we'll be watching this one at the live desk. >> we'll see you soon. >>> a fredericksburg fisherman could soon hold the new world record for reeling in the biggest northern snakehead fish. caleb newton was fishing in a quiet creek in weekend with his best friend when he felt a strong tug. turns out it was a northern snakehead fish weighing in at 17.6 pounds. yuck. at first newton didn't think the catch was anything special. it almost went on someone's dinner table

we have a mostly-cloudy sky around the metro area. a few passing light sprinkles in southern maryland, the northern neck, where you see light green. southern charles county. southern calvert. and across the potomac into the lower neck. farther north and west, a few breaks in the clouds. the sprinkles are through central charles county. maybe a few sprinkles trying to reach the ground in prince william county. temperatures, 60s. montgomery county points north and west. closer in to washington, and farther east, it's in the low to mid-70s. through the day, a partly-sunny morning. temperatures by 9:00 should be in the mid-70s by noontime, hitting the low 80s. and hometown forecast for today is in stafford county. we'll show you that coming up in a couple of minutes. i'll be back then. back to you. >> tom, thank you. >>> breaking news right now on the roads this morning. we're hearing about an accident on northbound 395 at ed sal road. this is in the h.o.v. lanes. the fire department has responded to this accident. they've shut down the h

that's the topic in our metro report. viewers are asking debra to help them get their money back. >> reporter: thousands of people use their smart trip cards every day and they work fine and you don't get a congratulations when they do. when they don't people end up e-mailing me and tweeting me about them. i heard from kathy. i sent my smart trip card into the metro abyss a year ago. i put it in an envelope and mailed it back. never saw it again. also heard from ken. because i work nights i left work early in the morning and waited in line three times to get them corrected. the lines were too long and metro doesn't have a location open on weekends. i've tried to coordinate on mondays only my timing and their delays seem to keep coming up which makes a trip down to d.c. not feasible. so i reached out to them yesterday. there are fixes in the work. we hope to get ken and kathy answers pretty soon, hopefully by tomorrow. in the meantime, have a problem? tweet me or e-mail me. >> keep those e-mails coming. tropical storm andr

by this point six metro stations on the same line of the metro have been shut down temporarily due to new smoke detected in the same area of the same line where this fire took place earlier the way ssion is currently under way emergency services say there is no panic and all the trains were stopped at a metro station so thankfully no one's stuck in tunnels at this moment and throughout the day since morning in total four and a half thousand people have been evacuated several dozen passengers needed help from doctors including one child all due to smoke inhalation now the first happened at around eight am. two central metro stations this is the time where the metro is believed to be used by hundreds of thousands of people getting to work and get to school. pretty much since then. there have been these significant problems with the movement of trains they have been suspended in the launch of the squall line so you can imagine the sort of problems these people are having getting places where they need to go authorities did deploy additional public transport like buses and trolley buses b

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they may be into the metro by noontime. right now a close-up view showing a skew scfew scattered sprinkles. maybe a few sprinkles in faulkier county. culpepper, hometown forecast there by noontime, likely thundershowers and into the upper 70s. the entire region for the rest of the day. highs reaching low 80s midafternoon. likely showers and thundershowers rolling through between noontime all the way until around sunset. maybe an isolated storm with hail. big changes after that. a look at the rest of the week and weekend in ten minutes. here's a look at traffic with danella. >> good morning. i'm checking on route 50 heading inbound approaching landover road, a bit sluggish. under speed just a bit. even as you pass 295, the split there. let's take a live look at the beltway. outer loop if you're traveling the outer loop of the beltway from clara barton parkway, the ramp partially blocked by an accident here. you are able to get onto the outer loop, but just suspect a brief delay as you do so. and also police blocking the righ

metro says it's testing that system this morning. two men started fighting on a red line tra last night, and it spilled out onto the platform at the woodley park station. one passenger says she saw several people press the emergency call button, but there was no response. >> honestly, i was terrified. there was a woman in front of me and a couple other people that were ducking just in case there was gunfire. and to think that the emergency button wasn't working, i was right next to it. i couldn't hear anybody responding. i was completely paralyzed by my fear. >> metro does think there was some kind of communication between passengers and the operator because the operator was able to oif police. the fight was over, though, by the time police arrived. >>> you might remember that the news 4 i-team raised concerns about metro's emergency call buttons this spring. we obtained records that showed 170 intercom malfunctions in the last two years. metro said in march train cars are sent for inspection after every complaint. the transit agency

they have ramps that you were able to get on the metro bus system. there is a long way to bring harmony on the streets between mexico city and cars and bikes. there is a major route set up for buses and cars in the city. bike are hard pressed to the safe. we were riding a lot and we felt we were putting our life's in our hands. there is a long way to go. cars and buses have the right away and everyone else has to look out for their lives. >> thank you very much. >> okay. going on to our next item. >> the clerk: item no. 4. directors report. >> i will be very brief. you have the executive director report at your desk. it will also be posted on the website by this afternoon. just a few highlights at the state level. governor brown released his may revision to the budget. not a lot regarding transportation. there is a general budget comment. the government was conservative in relation to budget. there is a $2.8 billion more in revenue available. they will decide how much they want to use versus set aside for another year. there is no noteworthy change.

heavy rains as it tracks quickly south and east of our metro area. it is going to be near the mouth of the chesapeake bay. heavy rain we have a big area under a flash flood watch. one to three inches of rain possible. good morning how is traffic. >> good morning. update on that excellent on the inner loop of the beltway. >> it is being used to transport the tractor trailer back up. outer loop of the beltway. we are looking at the inner loop at land over avenue. the right shoulder is blocked there. accident in dc 11th treat. flooding in annondale. back to you. >> thank you. a developing story in kentucky. medical helicopter crash in kentucky. we got a scene. the crash happened at 11:30 last night. three people died in that crash the cause still under investigation. >> another former dc council member is facing legal trouble. federal prosecutors will charge michael brown with bribery. prosecutors say he accepted a loan from two undercover fbi agents a year and a half ago. >> new at this hour we are getting details about what president obama will speak

historic table may have caught fire due to technical issues and updates on the fire in the moscow metro right now a dot dot com. or in the meantime though ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital of the lower house of the u.s. congress has voted against closing guantanamo bay blocking the use of taxpayer money to house any detainees transferred from the prison hunger strike at the facility now into its fourth month and some long suffering relatives of the inmates from yemen as skeptical the lever see their loved ones again despite obama's promises to send them home. he met one such. now some might argue there's not all that much difference between the physical torture that many prisoners undergo in one town a moat and the emotional toll meant that relatives are forced to deal with at home like the family of abdurahman ash batty a yemeni terrorist suspects held at the controversial detention center since two thousand and two after his arrest the whole family was accused of links to terrorists only man now we have them america's support for human rights is merely a show it on

all this comes together in cities and metros. and frankly, that's why china is rising or india is rising because they're urbanize og. when you urbanize. >> china just announced a huge new program, incredible program. 250 million people into their cities. >> why was the recession that we just went through so important? >> i think the recession was a wake-up call for cities in metropolitan areas. after the stimulus happened people realized that there was no second bite of the apple. that after this they were on their own. it was to the going to be help from the federal government. and so they said it's on us. so, for example, in new york the bloomberg administration and the city's economic development administration knew that they had to diversify the economy. and so they launched an initiative to bring a lot more tech talent to redirect new york's economy and reshape it for the next generation. >> can you make the argument that unlike washington where there's gridlock, there is less partisanship. >> absolutely. when bruce and i go

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there are five metro buss stranded due to flood waters.elopments, no passengers luckily on those buses. numerous, numerous accidents. so flooding clearly a major issue in the oklahoma city area, in the city itself, as well as in the suburbs. let's bring back samantha moore from the cnn weather center. what about the storm now, where is it concentrated? we know it moved from oklahoma, kansas to missouri. now it's moving what, into indiana, illinois? >> yes, the whole frontal system is shifting to the east very slowly. so we're going to have to watch a wide area as we head into the overnight and the weekend, as well. but right now, oklahoma city, you can see how that line was sagging to the south, lifting to the north with storms training one right after the other, dropping heavy rain as they go. that's why we're seeing the flooding situation, because they're going across the same terrain that's already saturated. we do still have a tornado warning, just south of the interstate here, north of canadian. that tornado warning is -- that cell is

. >>> a fight spills out on a metro platform in the heat of the evening rush. tonight, riders question whether emergency call buttons did their job. >>> the video that shows dangerous moves before a crash which led to a backlash against local bikers. >>> good evening. i'm jim hand >> court documents paint a disturbing picture. a woman caught shoplifting and told she'll go to jail unless she performs sexual behaviors for a store security guard. >> david? >> reporter: because of this search warrant that we pulled from court, we now know what happened inside this kmart behind me according to police. because of these court documents, we can tell you that inside that kmart according to police the threats against a victim from a security guard continued even after police got involved. we wanted to talk to tabbasum gilani out of jail on a $20,000 bond. we went to his home this weekend but no one answered. he was working as a loss prevention officer. during his shift on june 8th, a shoplifting. the suspect a 23-year-old woman. police say that gilani escorted her to the

now we have a large tornado on the ground going into a metro area. that's what the word emergency means. we used to have watch, warning and that's it. now we have watch, warning and emergency. >> it's also in the images that we're showing from earlier near el reno from our affiliate kfor, it is remarkable just how black the sky is, the size of this storm. >> reporter: that's a great analogy or great observation, because all day today we were saying how humid it was, 74 degrees. you couldn't step outside the car without breaking into a sweat. that's the moisture that was part of the storm that was thrown up 50,000 feet. it's dark because it's thick, because it's big, because you can't see through it. it is a tremendously large super cell thunderstorm that you don't want going through a major metropolitan area but now it is. >> i'm told the image on the left side of the screen is a live image, i'm told, from kfor. the image on the right was from earlier, from el reno, where a tornado touched down around 6:37 local time. i want to check in with george h

metro transit, on time right now. moderate delays on vre. >>> new this morning, two people are in the hospital after a shooting in southeast d.c. this happened along g street. one victim was shot in the face. the other victim, a 17-year-old girl, was shot in the leg and chest. we're told both victims taken to the hospital. they do have life-threatening injuries. police are not releasing details about a suspect or a motive in this case. >>> new this morning, a fire damaged a row house in the district. the fire broke out just after 11:00 last night an 14th place and c street in northeast. no one was home when the fire started. and no one was hurt. the fire displaced one family, though. >>> right now, president obama is in northern ireland for the g-8 summit. he and the first lady spoke to college students in belfast less than 30 minutes ago. the president and other world leaders will discuss trade, security and their economies in the two-day meeting. they will discuss the crisis in syria. that will be one of the topics

so this is have resumed on moscow's metro after a short circuit on the blaze paralyzed traffic in the capital for hours and left at least sixty one people injured. and saying before you tweet especially if you're in person where police are throwing people behind bars for crossing the line without social media post. international news and comment live from moscow this is all here with me you know. thanks for joining us. turkish protesters are ramping up calls for the resignation of prime minister at a one over a brutal police crackdown on demonstrations that left thousands injured at the ones deputy has said sorry for the initial excessive use of force but people want a personal apology from the prime minister a police unleashed more tear gas and water cannons on demonstrators in istanbul overnight and amber homes were reportedly raided by offices dozens of new york arrests have been made and some acts were even taken in for inciting protest some tweets either one is out of the country or what could visit. the demonstrators as extremists and dogs while the local media also rouse public

metro rail will run from 7:00 a.m. to midnight with no scheduled track work. also with 500,000 people expected to ride the rails on independence day smithsonian station will be entry only at the end of the fireworks. brian that's tonight's fox 5 top five. >> tonight investigators getting closer to pinpointing where tomorrow -- colorado most destructive wildfire started. the fire is now 75% contained. yesterday the rain helped. the fire has burned 22 square miles destroyed 500 homes. residents could be allowed to return to their homes temporarily as early as tomorrow. >> it looks like we got showers on the radar. >> we do. >> a couple little new ones popping up too so we'll show you that coming up here in just a second. gorgeous evening for us. i mean we've said dry in the city not everybody has stayed dry but the showers, the storms that we have had have been very very isolated. it will be more widespread tomorrow. we're dry here. a couple thundershowers. i don't think these are thundershowers. i'm not seeing lightening perhaps they may grow up to five find an

east of there just some clouds around the metro area. and temperatures are right around the balmy 70-degree mark in montgomery county, fairfax, prince george's county, low to mid-70s now in the district of columbia near the chesapeake bay. here's how we're looking. temperatures near 70 through 8:00. maybe a little sunshine in and out. a lot of cloudiness as well. in fact, there is a chance of some showers moving in around late morning. mainly to our west. and then maybe into the metro area by noon time. perhaps even a little thunder and lightning. don't anticipate any severe storms. by then temperatures should be near 80. sunrise this morning at 5:43. a look at the rest of this tuesday and our chances for storms this afternoon. that's coming up in about ten minutes. and donella is back with first 4 traffic. >> good morning. if you're traveling the beltway in virginia, still seeing the work zone near van dorn street blocking the left lane. you can see the cones are up. just stick to the right to get by. still light volume but a brief dela

russian media reports a power cable got fire on a central metro line, connects the kremlin to the lenin library. 45 xhirtz were hurt. most suffer from smoke inhalation and 75 went to the hospital. it is considered one of the most reliable subway systems in the world. >>> today family, friends and colleagues will attend the funeral for new jersey senator frank lautenberg. bill clinton and hillary clinton will deliver eulogies. after the funeral, his casket will head to u.s. capitol where it will lie in repose until tomorrow. he'll be buried at arlington national cemetery friday. he died monday from pneumonia. >>> chris christie announced a special election will be held in october to fill lautenberg's senate seat.the primary will be august. christie had the option of appointing someone, but he said that wouldn't be fair to the voters. >> i believe the people have the right to make that decision. they need to have a voice and a choice. i'm giving to them. >> the special election will happen three weeks before the general election. christie is up for re-election. he says the timing had noth

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the metro bus has been able to get a number of people out of their cars and onto transit to provide an alternative that moves quickly and reliably. there was an excitement in pride in mechanic -- mexico city. i think we can see what the solution is when these cost are implemented. i'm glad to see this design in front of us today. we should provide whatever support to implement this in the city. i'm also in couraging the bike lane and bike sharing system has been increased by 60 percent by many people who did not ride bicycles at all in mexico city. it's a way to introduce people to cycling and providing an alternative to transit and helping reduce over crowding in the downtown areas. my aid, road the transportation system. i was blown away to see many people riding their bikes in the city. once a month it expands to 20 miles of cyclone of bikes. today this committee will prove additional bike sharing pilots that will be taking place in san francisco along the peninsula corridor. i would like to see this expanding so people can take advantage of it's many benefits. i would like to thank

storms moving into the metro east area and they have live coverage there.eather center. it soufju like st. louis is getting it. >> there are. i have been looking at numerous reports from spotters saying there was a large tornado on the ground as it move is latitude. all appears it crossed the northern side, are the northern suburbs which is where lambert field is, the airport there. that airport was hit two years ago and did significant damage to that airpozt. looks like there are a number of areas there that sten sustained some -- sustained ome significant damage. seeing different reports on it, i won't go into too much until we can verify more. a number of areas with damage and all of the cell now pulling off toward the east. all cutting into illinois. there are five different tornado warnings western illinois just to the eastern side of the mississippi river right there kind of across from st. louis and just to the south and just to the north of the st. louis area. >> shepard: two completely different events. earlier the storms first, the tornadoes fir

especially west metro.k into oklahoma city, southwest city, also down into dell city and northern moore, a lot of water going. it's a pretty flat place. >> yeah, and some of you are watching very closely right now and are going to be watching all evening long. i want to bring in the chief of staff for the mayor of st. louis. what's the situation in st. louis now? what's -- what have you seen over the last hour or so? >> it was a whopper of a storm. we have not had any major damage. nothing like what you saw in oklahoma, recently. and we had no significant injuries, the biggest damage, the fwraetest disruption we've had is out at our airport. lambert is currently closed. it was kind of the center part of the storm. in addition, the security fence may have suffered some damage. we have no injuries there. the folks inside the terminal, there was no major damage or injuries there. however, there is debris on the field and there may be damage to the security fence. so, right now, we're going around and trying to

. >> she lost her son in a murder on the metro. why this woman says her family's going through another round of tragedy. >> why this woman was forced to resign from her job after shaving her head in support of her sister as cancer. labor department of employee who attacked a fellow attorney. >> could sibling rivalries be bad for your health down the road? >> there is a new study looking at sibley and bullying. >> a new study looks at kids 17 and under each with at least one sibling. baleen can happen in the home and be damaging to a child's mental health. >> they're the ones we love to grow up with and in some cases, the ones we love to hate. but now there's a new study looking at the impact of sibling rivalry. sibling bullying can be just as damaging as being picked on by peers and can lead to .epression, anxiety, and anger >> if you do not have parents who can rely on, bullying can be just as harmful. mindful ofneed to be when sibling rivalry crosses the line. teach the kids to relate to one another and be kind to one another. >>

otherwise we leave that to metro-north. we will pull a full -- not pull a few samples. >> do you know whether this routine practice is in accord with what other states due? >> i am sure it is because it is a routine track inspection and maintenance program. it's a guideline from fra and that is what all railroads are following at this point. >> thank you. i want to thank the entire panel. if this has been an excellent morning and oath panels but articulately your panel for the excellent hands-on views that you have provided and the respective you have given us and we appreciate you taking time and being with us today. >> mr. chairman? if i might come it's been a long morning and mr. stem and i don't always agree on every detail that today is his birthday so please join me in saying happy birthday. >> congratulations on your 35th birthday. [laughter] we will take all of your statements for the record along with the exhibits and keep the record open for a week in case you want to submit anything further. thank you very much.

metro north is a part of our team. fra is a part of our team. we know, i met with metro north last week, they are working to address over 200 of those joints on their property during the summer to put them in a better state of safety. and so that's the kind of thing that needs to take place immediately, and we work to make sure that that happens. >> i'm going to turn to senator be blunt. >> thank you, senator blumenthal. mr. szabo, ms. fleming said that on positive train control, if i heard her comments correctly -- i guess i could have checked the testimony, but i didn't. i think as i made notes here that ptc components were not available at this point, that field testing hadn't been done yet in an adequate way, that you had limited capacity to review what was happening, and the frequency to communicate hadn't been obtained yet. i guess i have a couple questions. one is what have i left out of that list? and, two is, do you think based on those factors it's workable to get their industry wide by 2015? >> if you go back and take a look at the re

all this south of the metro area. you might see it in southern faulkier county, stafford and charles county and this is all light, you probably don't need your windshield wipers for this kind of activity but it's something out there, want you to know about it and not caught off guard. it's warm, muggy start to our workweek. 66 in d.c., 70 in dulles, 70 in winchester. our express forecast, our chance of showers are minimal today. 20-30% chance you'll get one in your backyard. we'll see that possibility at 9:00 and later on today. our high temperatures will make it into the mid to upper 80s. we've got sunshine later on this week, more abundant anyway and more details in your seven-day forecast in another few minutes but right now it's a monday, what's happening. >> very much, jacqui, it's very light on major interstates, starting the week off on a good note. we have one accident on pennsylvania avenue. we're going to start off 95 in virginia, here you can see the bright green on our mapping system. going to be coming up

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>> the metropolitan revolution is certainly led by metros. it doesn't let the federal government off the hook. in our book we talk about how los angeles pressed for a change in federal funding for transit systems. that's an example of ow metropolitan areas are leading the way. they're not waiting for the federal government to come up with a new plan or program. they're going to the feds with a coalition of other metro leaders and saying this is what we need from you to move our economies forward. >> woodruff: and how are they avoiding getting caught up in the kind of partisanship that you write about and we are very familiar with here in washington because it seems to swallow up everything we doo. as you note, it's taking place in a lot of states too. >> absolutely. when jennifer and i visit cities across the country, i have to tell you, it's hard to know who a democrat is and who is a republican. who is a liberal and who is a conservative. these are people who are passionate about their place. they want their place to be as competitive as it