i believe, do we have tom fitzgerald to talk with right now? no, we don't, but he was talking with us earlier, we saw the scene down there, a lot of emergency personnel, people not being allowed back down into the metro station, obviously, at this point. but another chaotic scene involving metro, during a afternoon commute. >> yes, federal center station in souse wet closed right now after an arcing insulator, this morning, the latest in a series of problems, obviously that we've been reporting on, extensively, involving metro. tom fitzgerald is on his way as soon as he gets there, gets set up, we'll bring the live shot to you. >> records, in other news tonight, there are still a lot of questions about the man who drove his hummer into a silver diner in mcclane. >> we still don't know exactly why he did it, or who this man is. fox5's alexandra said investigating this all day, what can you tell us? >> all the damage that remains, the windows and the door of the silver diner, are boarded up, and it is pretty inch yesterday tonight believe that a

fox5's tom fitzgerald start us off live tonight from that station. tom? >> reporter: good evening, tony, still trying to get a handle on exactly what this was all b the initial reports were smoke inside the station, there were report of arcing insulators, now, toll, by metro, in fact, that this was some sort of power problem that single tracking is continuing right now, according to metro police. comes on a day when bombshell was dropped, a letter sent to metro today, saying, that they cannot proceed with this state track rebuilding program until metro first attends to three stations, which fta say needs urgent work before anything can be done. now, those locations are on the red lion, between van ness medical center on the orang falls church. and on the orange, blue and silver line, at potomac avenue. >> this came along with some new details today about actually how bad this problem has been, consider this, says in their letter today in just the last two weeks, from april 23rd, to just yesterday, probably include today, as well, fda officials have invest

tom fitzgerald is life in upperp marlboro with the findings. >>reporter: it is an eye eye opening look at what this task h force called an outdated system in both in the detection and the reporting of child sexual abuse in prince george's county schools. now, the task force that put this together says that they have 61 areas of consideration. what does that mean? well, wel boiled down there were actually five recommendations to princeom george's county schools.meols. this includes things likeike oversight and that will lead too some very big background checks and supervision of school volunteers in prince george's county schools. now, this report says that prince george's county schoolseo training orgn sexual abuse to is own employee never gave specifia information on what to look forl in children that have been abused or how to detect det behaviors that an abuser would use to gain access to those victims. the report goes onto say the training was not only vague it was unclear and it was badly outdated given the current cur modern day understan

tom fitzgerald, fox5 local news. why are you doing this the video you just saw there prepared byy the justice department isnt i sending a message to parents and teenagers about the extreme dangers of section torsion. it is a growing online problem world wild. they are warning students to be on guard after two separate incidents of sex torsions have happened there. matt ackland is life near campus with more on what happened to these two students. matt, it is just disturbing. >>reporter: hi, ladies i had never heard this morning as well. you're right, a lot of studentsf here on p campus are talking about this. this is a time of graduation. a time when the students arere heading home for the summer break and we're hearing thathat they're talking about this not only person, but also on social media. let's get you to video and we're we'll tell you what the suspect said. they enticed them to do sex acts in front of their web cap razz. the suspects recorded it all and then they said they would release the video if they did

fox5's tom fitzgerald isd i live at metro headquartersdquarr with more. tom. >> reporter: hey, tone, intoon o it's been an eventful week. wee remember, on tuesday theueay secretary of transportationnspon said he considers shuttinghuttin metro down an option if metro mt does not go along with the fta recommendations. on wednesday fta sent a letterta to metro saying that they cannot proceed on their safe track rebuilding program untilgr they address three criticalritil areas. ar to what there might mean and thatah work might start a whole lot sooner than we thought. where it stands right now iss ro that metro had planned to workok on a section of the blue, b silver and orange line fromine eastern market to benning roadnd and minnesota avenue. that wasn't supposed to happenpp until august. that would be a 16-day shutdown.utdo turns out fta wants that work done immediately.domm so, it could start, thatha 16-day shutdown, as early asarly june and that's only a coupley u of weeks away.way. so, what happened inside ofns this wmata board hearing heari today? well,

fox5's tom fitzgerald is inside arlington national cemetery to show us. fits?reporter: well, good evening, we don't often talk to you from inside arlington national cemetery, but we are tonight, for very special reason. of course, it is memorial day weekends, but this is the reason for memorial day, you see this small flag, right here at the bottom? well, 230 thousand of these have been placed in a 3-hour marathon today, by members of the us army old guard, which are stationed here at fort myers in virginia. now, take a look at the expands here. there are hundreds thousands of acres here at arlington national cemetery, 230 thousand headstones, everyone every them tonight, has one of these flags. now, let's show you video from one this afternoon when this all started. they call this agents, and that's how the army approaches this there is was launched at one this afternoon, and they call that 13 hundred hours military time, as us army calls it now, they marched in, one at a time, these sold remembers stationed right next to this cemetery, and one by one in this

but it is causing some big fox5's tom fitzgerald live tonight in northeast with the latest on that. hey, fits? >> good evening, jim. first up on the rail cars, csx originally said they were 15 cars, involved in that derail: turns out that was wrong. there were actually 16 rail cars that were involved. now, they have been working all through the day. but make no mistake. they are aware of this wet their sue was just talking about, that is on its way in here. they are trying to get as much work as they can right now. but they are racing against the clock to do what they can before this storm hit this area. now there is work has proceed today wrap this afternoon, but there was also a hazardous materials team in place here because whatever was spilled here in this derailment early yesterday morning. take a look at this. you can still see the one rail car, that is lying on it side. csx says the wheels on this car were so damage in the this derailment, they can't put it back up on to the tracks, and it will have to be lifted up on a crane, then put onto trailer, then rolled on out of here

fox5's tom fitzgerald was there. >> reporter: this device is dic a breathalyzer ignition lock.lyl if you're convicted of drunkctek driving in maryland from nowin n on you are going have this on hh your car. c you will also be carrying theryg very legacy now of app of montgomery county policery officer who c lost his life trying to end force thesehe kinds of laws. maryland governor larry hogan g signed the legislation into i law today in a packed room atd r the maryland statehouse.te officer noah leotta was killed l on december 2nd when he wasen h trying to find drunk driversdru on a dui task force. for >>> he was struck and killed by k a man who had been drinking whiskey and beer for four hours and had a blood alcohol content of .22, three timeseim the legal limit.im this new law will requirequ breathalyzer ignition locks onnk the cars of anyone who is convicted of drunk driving.runk. >> when you're drinking and then youyo get out thre afterwards and you're drunk, dnk it's like you've loaded thate gun while you were drinking dri and now you've closed yoursed eyes and who knows what y

fox5's tom fitzgerald reports.hings likengs maintenance and safety and policy, ntsb members used words you don't normally hear in thesn types of warnings. words like reprehensible and disturbing. for six hours they laid out a long list of metro's actions and inactions in responding to that january 2015 smoke incident at the l'enfant plaza station. they found that the probable cause was a short-circuit, a prolonged electrical short-circuit which was made wa worse by ineffective maintenance andct inspections on the part of metro. this was real life consequences that they were talked about 61 year old carol glover died il that incident. also on that train that day dr. lillian pitch.dr she was one of the passengers on train 302. she told us she had to leave this hearing today because she became so emotional. so am people were affected. i can recall it like it was yesterday. it's something that i would not want anyone to experience and i hope that we all of the victims, all of us can pull through this. and continue on w

. >> i'm tom fitzgerald. >> we thank you for joining us this memorial day weekend. so much to get to. there's a lot of people wanting to do things. sunday, may 27 a big weekend ahead of us. a live look outside for you right now in northwest. already, already a steamy start to the day out there. and it's not going to change. >> no, and biggest question on everyone's mind moves in today and you mentioned that yesterday, right? >> probably not until later on this evening, it's g it's a beautiful morning. we should have most of the day intact. and later this evening, i would say probably right around sunset is when the showers and thunderstorms move in. most of day is okay. you're talking again around sunrise before it it's so beautiful outside. >> the sky is really pretty this morning. >> yesterday was fantastic. were either of you guys outside much. >> cutting the lawn yes. >> i took a walk. >> yeah, i went out -- i spent plenty of time outside by the pool. >> sorry tom that doesn't seem fun. at least you're outside. a nice start to the holiday weekend. a few more clo

fox's tom fitzgerald live today and this report, tom, drew real sharp words from the safety board members. >> boy, sure did. you know, for six hours this went on today. they talked about maintenance. they talked about trending. they talked about repairs, they talked about policies. but in this hearing they use words you don't normally hear from a ntsb ford member. words like reprehensible, and disturbing. now, their finding was the probable cause of the lamb fat plazas an electrical short circuit made worse by an ineffective inspection and maintenance program on the part of metro. there were 33 recommendations, and a long list of actions, and inaction cents, that metro took in response to that january 2015 incident, but remember, this was not just a regulatory hearg.in this was life and death. sixty-one year old carol glover lost her life because of that train incident, on board that train she was sitting on 302 was another woman, a woman named doctor lillian pits. now, she was listening to all of this today, and finally had to get up and walk out that far hearing room. she said at one po

fox5's tom fitzgerald live inside arlington national cemetery to tell us all about this.and we don't often talk to you from inside this cemetery. but there is a very special reason for this. we all know that this is memorial day. but we often sometimes forget the reason for memorial day. take a look at this. these small flags have been place in the front of every grave site and tombstone here at arlington national cemetery. they do this every year, and it takes the us army hours. take a look at this. this all started today at about 1 this afternoon when nearly one thousand soldiers from the us army's old guard stationed at for the meyer in north virginia, marched into arlingn now, they were not arm except for the flags they carried on their back, and they took each and everyone of the flags, measured out a boot lent from the headstone, red that name, rendered honors as a salute, then placed that flag in the ground. they did this again and again, over and over, 230 thousand times. this was not an easy job, it took 3 and a half hours, but you talk to the soldiers that did t

live judiciary square tom fitzgerald fox 5 local news. >> sad news to bring you about o that terrible crash in silver diner in tysons corner 74 year old andrew has died from thehe injuries he suffered in that crash. sharon was one of the three t people hit as they were walking into the diner earlier this month. police say samuel repeatedly crashed into silver dineriner powered liquid on himself andlfa set himself on fire. he is still recovering at the hospital. facing several charges in cruising destruction ofestr property. >> noah leotta was working dui task force when he was hit andit killed by a drunk driver. officer leotta died several days later. >> today the man who was behinds the wheel was in court andnd entered a guilty employee. alexandria limon is live at the montgomery county courthouse.y what happened in court today? >> reporter: w dozens of montgomery police officersice packed that courtroom along with officer though yay had what leotta's family and family members of the suspect, 47 year old lewis, he entered a guilty plea in court to day to one count of manslaughter by

fox5's tom fitzgerald start us off live tonight from that station. tom?> reporter: good evening, tony, still trying to get a handle on exactly what this was all b the initial reports were smoke inside the station, there were report of arcing insulators, now, toll, by metro, in fact, that this was some sort of power problem that single tracking is continuing right now, according to metro police. comes on a day when bombshell was dropped, a letter sent to metro today, saying, that they cannot proceed with this state track rebuilding program until metro first attends to three stations, which fta say needs urgent work before anything can be done. now, those locations are on the red lion, between van ness medical center on the orang

tom fitzgerald is life in upperp marlboro with the findings.it is an eye eye opening look at what this task h force called an outdated system in both in the detection and the reporting of child sexual abuse in prince george's county schools. now, the task force that put this together says that they have 61 areas of consideration. what does that mean? well, wel boiled down there were actually five recommendations to princeom george's county schools.meols. this includes things likeike oversight and that will lead too some very big

fox5 tom fitzgerald live on what went down there. hey, tom. >> reporter: good evening, there was some puzzled reaction frost members of congress today, when metro gm, paul, said that the reason metro decided not to publicly disclose alleged sexual assault on the red lion, back on april 12, was that because, quote, the suspect was apprehended literally a hours in that it was solved in hours. now, keep in mind, this alleged incident happened more than 40 days ago, it was only revealed when suspect got court appearance, in fact, after the hearing, defend metro decision not to publicly disclose this information, but fox5 asked him how that fits into repeated promises of transparency. >> was that a major mistake not to tell people that somebody got raped on metro? >> again, we captured the person in hours. >> and you're commended for that. >> that was a good arrest. >> i will take a look. i mean, if we need to report every day, we'll report every day. you know, literally things happen every day. if we want to put out a daily, you know, aga

we are life at the grove station tonight, tom fitzgerald, fox5, local news.ws. > we now turn to prince george's county where threeou brothers arent facing attempted murder charges in that attack on a police station in landover. a grand jury returned the indictments today against aga michael ford and his brothers malik and allege yeah.lik the attack on the district three station in march led to theth death of officer jacai colson. colson responded and was killed by friendly fire. the brothers unprovoked attackru on the station was a horrific crime. this caused tremendous hurt. there are, just from the officers who day t who were outside to their families certainly the family of officer colson, his parents, his mother recently celebrated mother's damon without -- i'm sorry sunday without her son, but this really has caused quit a about it of harm. prince george's county policeoun chief hang lieu within ski release a statement that says is part this decision is anothersin step in the process of ensuring justice is served on behalf of the colson family, this policeh department and this com

because he's done d it before having helped rebuild new york city's subwaysy after 9/11.11 fox5's tom fitzgerald a livee at metro headquarters tonight tg with more.ore fitz.fi >> reporter: we're learningr: w the impact of all thishi activity the last 48 hours.ou that big threat from thehreat fr secretary of transportation isni leading now to some big changes in metro's safe track program. consider this. they had only planned to shuthut down the section from easternte market to minnesota avenue in august. after that sta directiveirti yesterday it appears that that is not only going to be moved b up but it will be moved up a lot faster to next month, 16ont6 days that line could be shut down after the fta ordered o emergency urgent repairs onntai that section and two others. now, onto this metro meetingee today. the general manager of metro, paul wiedefeld, today saidday s that he made a mistake by noty being closer in contact with the federal transit administration.ad the reason they had to come out yesterday and rework thehedt smart track rebuilding program o and they want areas focused on three

tom fitzgerald with you another edition of fox any on the hill. look who is it veronica cleary manager editor of the hill and john kusack. good to see both of you this morning. >> looking last night in a lot of tweets and things going on it struck me we've spent so much time, so much time week after week after week whack do we talk about every week and who. >> trump. >> but you know this was the week where donald trump almost took a backseat to what has been going on with democrats. >> that's true. yes. no doubt about it. democrats have a problem with bernie sanders and there's growing tension between bernie sanders supporters and democratic national:00 a.m. committee and this week sanders supported the primary opponents of debbie waserman schultz chairman of becomes president he will not ask washington sthoult stay around. this say problem for democrats. i don't know thousand they solve it. >> dwur look at the weekend policy. >> feeling purpose we have one hour and there are six states remaining and i hope by the end of the nominating process we

. >> too tom fitzgerald went out to talk to passengers about the daily maintenance problems and a the gm as plans to fix the system. tom. >> reporter: well, good evening. you know the trainings are running again here along benning road near the minnesota avenueve station. we can tell you they sh runningy slower as we have scene here h throughout the last couple of hours. want to show you video of whatio happened earlier this this all began with delays the orange, blue and silver line between minnesota and stadium-armory station. a fire occurred with a train that, a test train. that became stuck. now, a test was being done on a portion of that track that had weekend repairs. that fire was quickly extinguished no one was injured. while that was going on theree was a switch problem outside friendship high school. there was single track segment of the blue line, service on the silver line only went over to market. metro was appearing in the fox 5 studio. metro riders told us they arehey not happy with the ongoing problems gave the gm high marks. >> he was the best thing that's happened si

tom fitzgerald with you another edition of fox any on the hill.r editor of the hill and john kusack. good to see both of you this morning. >> looking last night in a lot of tweets and things going on it struck me we've spent so much time, so much time week after week after week whack do we talk about every week and who. >> trump. >> but you know this was the week where donald trump almost took a backseat to what has been going on with democrats. >> that's true. yes. no doubt about it. democrats have a problem with bernie sanders and there's growing tension between bernie sanders supporters and democratic national:00 a.m. committee and this week sanders supported the primary opponents of debbie waserman schultz chairman of

good morning, it's sunday, may 29 i'm veronica cleary along tom fitzgerald and we're taking on the week in politics. >> there he is. >> there's bob. >> somewhere this man is enjoying his memorial day weekend we'll accepted our best out to him. i don't think he's not enjoying weather u2 is right it's a bite full day out there. >> a couple head blinds today certainly a variety of things going on. the one i took first from "washington post" we're looking that right now. it's got a picture of bill clinton and it's looking at donald trump and way he has responded to bill clinton's you know past scandals is that the word you're looking snrat trump has not always considered bill clinton sex scandals to be important. it's one they fact check it and this arthur gives it one upside down pin oaky for clear but unacknowledged flip flop saying in the past donald trump minimized sex allegations against bill and now he is you know using them in these commercials against hillary and usually changing his stance. does it matter if he changes his mind. >> it does matter the things i woptder about donald t

it is sunday, may 8, tom fitzgerald alongside with you. good to see all of you. >> i'm vernon odom. vernon odom on ka cleary. >> happy mother's day. >> thank you. >> how was your evening. >> it's been a wild week. >> it's been a wild night. did you read last night what happened as far as donald trump taking on the rest of these republicans. .> >> dave, aren't they taking him on a little bit. it's been caezy and it's been very interesting. >> you're supposed to to be done with this by now. reps would all fall together and they will be happy and go to cleveland. it's not happening. >> this say part of it that always gets in line. it's so rare you have the chairman of r & c fighting with trump now and that is gone. >> yes. >> listen to this. listen to hillary clinton's husband abused women more than any man that we know of in the history of politics. hillary was enableer, some of those women were destroyed not by him, but by the way that hillary clinton treated them after everything went down. >> that was donald trump in spoke cane, washington. and you know, it's uncomfortable conversa

tom fitzgerald, fox5 local news. tonight stunning allegations against virginia governor terry mcauliffe. the feds are investigating $120,000 in campaign cam contributions that he received from a chinese businessman. fox5 political reporter ronica cleary is here. you had an exclusive sit down interview with the governor. i'm just curious. we know the investigation has been going for a year today,r what did he say. >>reporter: it was fascinating. he did not shy away.away a lot of people told me you might cancel this interview whei this broke. he kept to it.to he was very confident. he said i'm on my duty as governor and he's not nothing to hide. he said that he has not accepted illegal contributions. he says the donor in question, he says that he ' not even suren that he's met him. so governor mcauliffe says thatt is simply price of being in politics. he has been going around as governor since the news broke every contribution was fully vetted by his legal team. le i asked him if he feels he's been targeted because of

. >> i'm tom fitzgerald, happy mother's day to you. >> thank you. >> and to your wife. >> if she was awake i would say that to you. i'm pretty sure she is sleeping in. mike is with us this morning with caityln roth. everybody has been talking about the rain and the rain and the rain and the rain. >> what are we at twelve days here. >> twelve days in a row, you're right. >> i've been counting. >> and yesterday the clouds --. >> i'm not sure what it's called. it was coming and going. >> today will be more consistent. good news more mom. >> later this afternoon just absolutely gorgeous, good news, mother's day sunshine i can guarantee today bad news i can not guarantee for the rest of the week. we'll talk more about that as we get into the >> 55 your current number in washington. 54 gaithersburg and 54 frederick as well and mannasas 52 and 56 quantico and 54 leonardtown. let's go to the radar we're tracking shower activity this morning in d.c.. we had the bulk of our rain go through two hours ago. there's a cold front across the region now and we have a couple showers along the i 66 cor

fox5's tom fitzgerald live in northeast now, with the very latest. hey, tom. >> reporter: good evening, first up about the number of these cars, csx said originally this 15 cars had derailed in this accident, it turns out, it was 16 cars, not 15. see the firetruck behind us, this is hazardous materials truck, they still have a very large effort under here right now, trying to clear up the hazardous still in this derailment yesterday. they have made a lot of progress in removing those cars, but, csx updated us earlier today, and they say they still have a lot of work together. >> soil impacted by the league of sodium hydroxide from the one tank car that leak on them during the derailment. >> lying on its side, csx says its wheels were so damage in the this, they can't roll it over and put it back on the track, so going to have to be lifted up by crane, going to have to be put on flatbed trailer, and then removed. they'll have to rebuild the tracks as well, to the rail bed. >> this leak of sodium hydroxide is re sparking a very old debate here, about mo

. >> aim tom fitzgerald. thanks for joining thus sunday morning. we're looking live. cooler start this sunday. and a little clearing as we bring mike in here this morning and we cannot complain. it's not raining out there. >> there is that live look. >> chillier than usual mike. >> it's been weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks since we've seen the sky that blue. except you're right it's chilly out there. it's give and take in the weather department. we won't have rain we'll have lots of sun. it won't feel like midway weather you would expect this time of year. temperatures around the region let's play what season is it. we have 30s and 40s and popping up to 50 reagan national 58. 48 pittsburgh and 37 binghamton new york. new york city at 50. boston at 5 1. chilly start to the day. even locally around the region. temperatures in the 40s and 50 50s. 45 gameersburg and 49 annapolis this morning and leonardtown 5 50. 49 quantico and 48 mannasas this morning and believe it or not temperatures tomorrow morning colder and we'll touch on that in a bit. winds right now not too

be taken on this part if this billi were ever signed int we're life at the pentagon tonight, tom fitzgerald, local news. > new tonight we're learning more about last year's amtrak derailment that killed ate kil people in philadelphia. the amtrak engineer involved made a standard humanerror. the 12-month informationnfor revealed the engineer may have been distracted about radio chatter about an emergency em situation involving another train. the train was traveling from d.c. from new york at twice thei speed limit.sp it would have been prevented byy positive train con role which is technology that would havelogy stopped the train. t all upon recognizing the train's dangerous speed.da new tonight, 31 the lease could be banned from this year's olympic games after they were caught dope. they opened disciplinary proceedings against the athletes, but is not identifying them yet. ten years to allow for retesting with improved techniques. the 2008 samples were recently retested under this policy and o the national olympic committees of the athletes who tested positive are expected to be notified in

>>fox 5 tom fitzgerald you saw y joining holly morris in thehe questioning then he hits theit streets to talk to metro riders. he joins us live from northeasto at them scene of this mornings track fire. get us up to speed on that fire. what happened today? >> reporter: and i know how much of a broken record this soundshs like but we are going to ky it t up for you once again. onc take a look. l we're on benningoo road in betwn minnesota avenue and stadium s arbor restages this all started this morning when we were told a fire occurred with a train involving a track, now the train was doing some test work on a portion of the track herere weekend repairs that fire was quickly extinguished fortunately nobody was injured we are still waiting for official cause ofaue all this. while all that was going on here, there's a switch problem outside of the heights station. that caused delays. that caused more problems this morning. there was also single tracking on large segments of the blue line and service on the silver line only went to market. as all of this was taking place live this morning

the hill's editor in chief bob cue san will join political reporters ronica cleary and tom fitzgerald bring you the very latest, as we get closer to election day, fox5 news on the hill, this sunday, right before fox news sunday with chris wallace. we'll be right back. ack. >> we'll ask senior trump advisor. then, a showdown between the feds and north carolina over the legality of it trans gender bathroom law we'll ask whether he'll defy tomorrow's deadline. fire fight with isis in iraq. we'll ask our sunday panel about our deepening role there. all this week on fox news sunday. >> it has been more than a year and a half since foley was executed by isis. since then his mother has been issues. >> she was in washington this week for the first annual james foley freedom award, if you museum. sat down with fox5 exclusively to tell us about her work, the advancements and policies and why it means so much, not just for her family, but for all of us. >> got oust, told us the forces were close. >> syria, james foley was committed to uncovering the truth. he spent several months reporting on th

figure out if they havef ey h their arms around thiss problem.ob we are live tonight in northeast, tom fitzgeraldgal fox5 local news.s. >> thanks. boy is it ugly outside.ug outsie i tell you what i'm tired ofred this weather.th >> i know. so is my hair.r. >> really. i mean, it's just anothert a gloomy day but we need thed t rain. we need the, you know,no moisture and it's very green,re, that's the upside.ps >> yeah, that's true. all right, sue palka, i will wil stop talking about the hairheair test.test >> oh, no, i'm right there right with you, sarah. >> brutal. >> i haven't been outside in b days. [laughter] >> that's sad. s >> c >> i know. >> we don't have as much rain out there now but it certainlyv is very gray and damp feeling. most places reporting cloudynglo skies but there are a fewew showers around and, hey, weey can't even completelypl eliminate the possibility of apo rumble of thunder and youssder y certainly need your jacket ifac you head out temperatures in the 50's to near 60 degrees.0 ge let's show you where thingsheret are right now on radar becauseau most places again dry butut

tom fitzgerald is live at metro headquarters tonight. tigt fitz this starts in a fews sttsi weeks. >> reporter: june 4th.epor that means you own av two weeks to get ready for what will be a year's worth of disruptions and interruptionsrut of metro service throughout thru this system and there's no n other way to put this. t everyone is going to take a taka hit. virginia, d.c., maryland.d. tonight metro was warningar about this years' worth off service interruptions butns b riders are already reacting rea and they will tell you this. they know what safe track israci going to bring as far ass fa disruptions but they are also ao fed up which is what hastas become a -- with what has what become a seemingly endlessndless stream of fire smoke safetyafety problems and bad service. serce >> having to deal with it with i because it's all about safety.bf i mean like if they don't do don it, then more problems cansan come. come. >> it's going to be a problemro but we have to get around it.e . >> that's definitely going to impact me. i'm not happy a

tom to fitzgerald fox 5 local news.ews. >> one the biggest check points will be on the red line in novembermetro plans to add buses. you can see the smart track plaa yourself we pit on our web night fox5dc.com. >>> coming up anti semitic flyers passed out in one montgomery neighborhood its noth the first time. what police are saying about the hurtful handouts. >> ahead fire devastated a group home that indicaters to adults. what you can do to help out when we come back. (man) hmm. what do you think? ♪ (stranger) good mornin'! ♪ (store p.a.) attention shoppers, there's a lost couple in the men's department. (vo) there's a great big un-khaki world out there. explore it in a subaru crosstrek. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. organization that runs a group home for peoplen with disabilities need your help tonight. they are asking for donations dn after their home went up in flames on monday no one was inside fire officials are stillo trying to determine what sparked the fire investigator say the house suffered damage. three residents were displaced. if you would like to make a donation

federalederal southwest threatening to shut down a system.te general manager paul we'd fieldd tom fitzgeraldmetro.et melanie alnwick is reporting ror numerous times from metro metro incidents and metro headquarte headquarters. she is at one incident this morning. we'll have more from melanie in just a minomoment. momt. welcome thanks you for joining j us this morning.rning. >> sure. >> you sat clips l you know thes history as well as anyone as to the issues here and why riderswd are so concerned in fact one f o rider wrote to us when we asked for questions for you and y twitter questions and kimberly l wrote in her question to you, y, what's causing these numerous nu arcing insulator that is cause u the smoke and the fire in thehe tunnels she goes on to say i i carry a scarf, water and wer a flashlight as a survival kitsurt with me now on metro. mro and the question a lot ofs havee is, why should riders feel like they have to carry a survivalryr kit just to get to work in the morning. morning. >> and they shouldn't. t i mean, as you know there's beee decades of issues we're tryingrn to addre

tom fitzgerald had her on the 5:00 news yesterday.was a lady lillian pits who said she was on the train with caro she has permanent damage to vocal cords she says because of smoke inhalation and couldn't believe what she was hearing and said that she's never, 16 months later, lost raw emotion of horror of that day. and then hearing that it could happen any time again was outraged and leftest hearing. >> and that they might have known about it outrageous is the word, bob, thank you. >> crazy. >> we'll check in with bob who will be riding rails later on. let's find out how the roads and rail wales and everything transportation related are. >> metro is on time and other problems on the road. 295 northbound dealing with crash let's get out of the way. out by eastern avenue big slow slow downs there. you can see the police officer blocking traffic. those right lane there's you'll keep it left and and big slow slow downs on bottom of beltway through eastern avenue this morning and aside from that southbound delays as well from 50 past easte

. ♪ ♪ sc johnson >>> the sun rose on a cold midwestern morning and tom and mai fitzgerald were facingt moment of their lives. >> what in the world happened? how could this be? it just seemed like a complete name. >> they were at an early morning basketball game with their yo g youngest child when they got a terrifying phone call from a fellow parent at their home. she said their 17-year-old daughter, tara, was lying unresponsive in the basement. tom told the other call 911. >> her lips are blue. and -- and i don't -- i don't feel a pulse. i don't feel a pulse. >> you don't feel a pulse? >> correct. >> okay. try to shake her and shout, are you ork? does she respond? >> are you all right, tara? are u >> nothing. nothing. >> tom and mai raced home to find their house surrounded. >> they called an ambulance. i was praying. >> the paramedics were working on her trying to get her to breathe. i talked to her, saying, please, tara, you know. come back. i tried to encourage her. >> they put her in the ambulance, took her to the hospital. >> then i went, mai was inconsolable. i had to leave. i

of fitzgerald fox 5 local news. >>> thank you, tom.ow more on metro and the possible suspension of funding from the governor of virginia. >> political reporter veronica cleary is here with that sry in our area cringe when it comes to metro. suspending funds. that's what it could come to. to speaking on wtop, asked the governor this morning, he was clear about what's going to happen and the consequences has to follow if action isn't taken. >> i'm instructing my secretary of transportation and the drpt, to immediately sit with them and come up with safety protocols and if they do not meet our safety protocols that i am comfortable with personally as governor, we're going to withhold funding. we are very serious about this, i'm sick and tired of it. >> the governor went on to say that safety has to be the top issue. >>> the "washington post" headline this morning, state department inspector general reports sharp criticizes clintons's e-mail it obtained a copy of the inspector general's review. according to the post, the report said clinto