down on the heels of that massive year-long maintenance plan and a week after general manager paul weidefeld held an unprecedented meetings with all managers outlining his vision to improve safety. we still don't know many specs about those fired today. a source is telling fox 5 that what happened today is just the beginning and dozens more pink slips in the future. fox 5 local news. >>> live look outside as we turn to the weather. there's your live picture. understand there's clouds out there. they will bring with them more rain. >>> unfortunately be the bearer of that news. it was a spectacular day today. let's take a look at our map. you can see the clouds rolling in getting thicker now and some of that rain already edging its way across the western zone. let me show you where it's coming from. we have a wide part of it moving in from parts of ohio and across towards the east. we have coastal precipitation to be concerned with. we're going to end up seeing the one moving in from ohio transferred it's entering over to the coastal low and that will set us up for a heavy soaking once we gets

it's on the heels of that massive year-long maintenance plan and a week after general manager paul weidefeld held an unprecedented meeting with all managers outlining his vision. >> we don't know specifics. in just the last half hour, fox 5 got information. that person said the firings today are just the beginning and doze dozens pink slips are anticipated. >>> dc police needs your help to track down the men who kidnapped and sexual assaulted a woman near a busy intersection in southeast. sarah simons is live at 7th district precinct with more. >> reporter: this started bright and early 10:00 a.m. wednesday morning. a woman kidnapped and force a vehicle. older white minivan. police are not saying whether or not this woman knew her suspects or if perhaps in his was random act. right now, we just don't know. let's take a look at the video. here's the area where this happened. this is 4500 block of benning road near a busy intersection and near the benning road metro stop. she was forced into a van with tinted windows. police say she was driven to the 1100 block where they sexual assaulted abus

paul weidefeld outlined a major plan to address system-wide issues and repairs across several lines,s safe tracking accelerates three years of work into one year. it includes week night track works starting at early as 8:00 p.m. and trains would stop run on friday and >> the goal was not to eliminate any service because basically we have customers that do not have an option. we wanted a maintain service at a minimum. there will be either single tracking. if we have to shutdown a station, basically we will have bus around it so people can still make the trip by transit. >> he hopes the plan will be finalized by may 16th. for a complete list just visit the website fox 5 dc.com. meantime. metro's general manager, paul weidefeld will be joining us live in the studio on monday at 7:30, if you have questions you'd like to ask, tweet them to us but use #ask metro gm there you see on the screen and if you can't watch the interview on tv, you can watch it on fox 5 dc ap or website at fox 5 dc.com. >>> heads up for drivers get ready for major delays on i95ero northbound lanes on i95. crews wil

we have paul weidefeld who is the general manager of the washington metropolitan transit. carolyn flowers and tim lovain from the washington counsel of governments. i would ask unanimous consent for the witnesses full statement to be included in the record and without objection so ordered. i would ask you to limit your comments to five minutes and with that, mr. weidefelt we start with you. >> good morning, chairman and ranking member and members of the subcommittee, i am paul weidefeld thank you for allowing me to testimony today. i thought i would summarize quickly what my priorities have been and talk about what we are up against and what i am trying to do about it and wrap up with concluding remarks. in terms of what my priorities are is safety, social reliability and fiscal management. what we are up against. i think it is important to step back and think about the physical nature of what we are up against before we get into the management issues. we have to recognize this is a two-track railroad system which presents a lot of challenges for maintenance because you ca

it's part of the safe track plan we've heard metro talk about the general manager paul weidefeld unveiling there's going to be a lot of work. you see taxis and ubers all around. the thing is everybody knows many problems metro has had and how many issues we have had to deal with. we talked with dc councilman jack evans earlier and he spoke about the need for the cutback time. >> it's a tough one and i recognize that but we need track time. there's no, metro is a flawed system. we were getting 19 hours a week of repair, that just doesn't work. >> reporter: we spoke with metro riders a little bit earlier. it was a little bit busier. we got interesting reactions how they were going to deal with it and whether or not it was going to be big in their lives. >> i'm interested in seeing how that might affect the ubers and all that and seeing the prices with that. >> the weekends aren't really what i'm worried about. it's the week, day drama that's going to transpire. >> a lot of people take metro to get home late at night. we're teenagers. we hang out, and when you don't have metro as a fall-back

transit agency gm stopped by fox 5, paul weidefeld addressed the culture of safety, recent fires, arcing issues, his ambitious plan to get metro back on track. >> some of the base things are different and it's one of the thing i'm talking on is that we're going to have the to be single tracking for long periods of time, weeks at a time. that will have major impacts and we will have to do it during commuter periods. we will have to shut down between stations. five of the areas we have to do that. at midnight seven days a week. we will have to continue to do early outs shutsing down at 8:00. that is to give us the true time goat out and do the work. >> reporter: it plans to finalize the rehab plans by may 16th. construction is set to begin in june. >>> police say a body found in wood bridge is a missing alexandria woman. she disappeared last month. she was last seen on surveillance video walking into a cvs. her body was later discovered near a ditch in lake ridge park. an autopsy was completed last week. investigators have not said how lopez was killed but they are investigating her death