totten. there's fire activity.e in georgia avenue, petworth, and columbia heights ostation. me passagers are tweet being this now. we have crews on the nty. it's imporo know the severe problem for a metro system already dealing with closures on the red line in the area. thereen and yellow from gallery place to ft. totten is disrupted. it will have a major impact on the commute. crews are the way. on >>> a lifesaving drug now available on thecheap. the fda has ok'd the generic version of the epipen. >> the skyrocketing price and emand for a cheaper version sparked the change. nbc's dr. john torres looks at ldhow much you c save. >> reporter: today's announcement, long awaited relief for millions. like robino' brian, mother of four kids with severe allergies, who always carries epipens. lifesaving injectionshat can reverse the effects of allergic reactions. and she's watched epipeepipen'se soar. >> this being jacked up over and over is taking such an incredible toll american families. >> reporter: with t approving th

totten. metro says a stuck brake on one train overheated, a that's what led to the smoke in the georgia avenue petworth station and the columbia heights station. the station is up and running now. it was more packed than usual because of a closure on the redline. in place through labor day. and taking green and yellow lines from downtown to ft.to en is supposed to be the main workaround. a lot of commuugrs will be up in the mess. you can expect delays if you're using the tro system a all any time. that's through the entire weekend. >> thank you. >>> a war a blame game is playing out on twitter between the president and the mayor of washington. president trump accused local d.c. politicians of inflating the price of his pposed military parade. news4's mark seagraves spoke to mayor bowser this afternoon. >> reporter: this early morningi tweet from pnt donald trump did not sit well with d.c. mayor muriel bowser.er >>inly i was offended by the notionhat we would goose the incomes -- the mbers, th

totten and noma through labor day. >> all righty. tell us about the weather out there right now and what's happening. >> i'm going to say this a million times on television. this is not a washout of a weekend. do not cancel your plans b we eel see rain. it's a matter of who gets what andso where. locations could see heavy rainll, and as i mentioned don't cancel your plans, not talkingbout a washout. >> that's twice so i've got a million left to go. we're dealing wity h conditions and temperatures around 89 degrees. warm and humid se with winds out of the west at so miles per hour. 82 winchester and 88 in frederick and 90 towards easton and huntingtown, and we did hit 90 a little earlier today. temperatures won't be a big evening. is evening is perfect if you're going out to dinner or out and about in the city, have some friends coming p over. afect evening no. rain right now. we've seen a couple of showerst towards sn maryland and up around hagerstown. i told you yesterday just an isolated shower. most of us staying on the dry side.

when it comes totten daingd species act the status quo is not good enough. we need to do more than just put species on the list and leave them in the intensive care unit without a plan for recovery. we need to see them actually recover. that's the whole point. the endangered species act has not been substantially amended or updated in 30 years. that's a long time for a law to stay on the books without actually trying to improve it, and improvement is necessary. americans across the country are telling us it's time. the endangered species act needs to be modernized and as a former governor of wyoming dave freeden that will who came back to -- frieden that will who came back to testify before the environment and public works committee said there is just too much sand in the ears. maybe the problem with the endangered species act doesn't seem so clear to bureaucrats in washington d.c., but when you go out west to places like my home state of wyoming the problems are obvious. so we see how the law is failing to help species. we see it every day in wyoming. it co