montgomery fire crews reported communication at the wheaton station. in the last couple of hours, metro says those problems have been identified and fixed. metro technicians shined flashlights and walked the tunnels deep down at the wheaton station. montgomery fire crews were here friday conducting a routine test and found there were communication issues trying to talk on radios directly from the ground to the platform. >> either the equipment in the tunnels or equipment at the surface may not be fully functional to the specs we require. >> reporter: mike is head of montgomery's fire communication technology department. the key question how big a problem is this? >> reporter: does anybody have any reason to worry you guys wouldn't be able to communicate effectively? >> they do not. the montgomery country fire department and regional partners have systems in place to community communicate effectively and do so on a daily basis. >> reporter: they said they could not communicate with each other inside the station. this first reported by the "washington po

station first reported by the "washington post." this latest communication not up and down the red line only at wheaton and no word causing the problem. now, metro says the communication problems were on the platform. you may not know this but the metro station is one of the deepest in the entire metro station. >> thank you. take a look at the live shot of adam's hair and it's kind of windy out there. >> adam uses a lot of product and you can tell he has a lot of product going on. >> i looked outside my yard this afternoon and winds blew over a big barbecue grill. >> you don't have to use a lot of product. you're good. that's why i'm inside. this is outdoors. look towards national harbor seeing winds gusting upwards of 20-30 miles an hour. 32 degrees current temperature at the airport, down from 50 earlier, winds out of the northwest at 21. those gusts, upwards of 30 40 50 miles an hour really helping to drop those temps. 23 degrees only in hagerstown. 26 martins town 28 leesburg 28 huntington. 13 in manassas 5 in haguersdown, 22 in culpeper. you mentioned the wind intensity. it will blow over that barbecue bring down branches. that'

the problem was found to be isolated to parts of the wheaton station. metro says the issue has now been fixed and that riders don't have anything to worry about. >> a teacher in the area was attacked by a student in his classroom. it's a story you see here only on news 4. the picture is graphic. according to prince george's county schools last thursday a student punched the teacher at forestville high school because of what the school district called a misinterpretation of a comment. students and parents with whom we spoke say the teacher said something that the student considered racially insensitive. >> he's the teacher. he's there to teach. okay? and when that comment was made whether it was him or somebody else you know that's no reason for him to be attacked. >> that teacher was treated for minor injuries. the district continues to investigate. that student is said to be facing disciplinary action. >>> new tonight a virginia woman supported isis and then lied to the feds when she was questioned about it. now she could spend up to eight years in pri

they found a small problem at the wheaton station. other stations have also been doing testing and they report the same minimal problems but nothing like what they found in the district over the past two weeks. in the first round of testing right after the deadly acct plaza station, nine different locations in the district failed meaning first responders would be able to have communications in the event of an accident. most of the radio failures were found inside the tunnels including the tunneld foggy bottom, judiciary square and union station and the blue line and capital heights. the radio system in that tunnel failed twice over the past two weeks. the radios are tested outside the stations inside on the platforms and in the tunnels. they are pleased that the district is doing comprehensive testing on the radio systems. the maintenance and reliability of the equipment being tested is the responsibility of metro. during the fatal incident on january 12th that left one woman dead and 80 people hospitalized firefighters reported proble

here's what we know about this particular case at the wheaton station, aspotty coverage was reported and this was reported to metro and the technicians are now out here checking things out. we talked about it with the head of the montgomery fire communication technology department. >> we had some equipment not properly working at the platform level. what that means our radio system did not receive down there when our personnel tested it. >> reporter: coming up on news4 at 5:00 more on this issue, how did montgomery fire come across this problem and was there bigger reason for concern. in wheaton, adam tuss news4. >>> the future of the wheaton school superintendent could be decided tomorrow. dr. joshua starr has not told the school board whether he wants his contract renewed. they meet tomorrow in closed session to talk about its options and what to do next. even if he wants to keep his job, he may not have enough support. right now they seem to be equally split which needs a majority to keep him on. >>> the zoo announced today it will do bag checks among forms of visitor screening du

metro says the latest issues were isolated to parts of the wheaton station and have been resolved. >>> 6:06 now. coming up later today, we could learn if montgomery county school superintendent dr. joshua starr will stay or go. >> starr has led montgomery county schools since 2011 but he hasn't always seen eye to eye with some board members. the board is meeting in a closed door session at 10:30 this morning. >> nikki burdine is live outside the montgomery county school headquarters with more on where this is going today. good morning, nikki? >> reporter: good morning. we'll know one way or another whether or not joshua starr will be staying or going. while we don't know exactly for sure what will be announced, we do know a couple of things. one of those is joshua starr's contract is up in may. the second is he had till sunday to make the boards aware of his intentions and he did not meet that deadline. starr has been with montgomery county schools since 2011 during a time of massive growth and low income and non-english speaking students. this all at a time when state standards were

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