Good morning, Washington. The auto industry bailout looks to have totally fallen apart in the Senate and the market is reacting about as badly as you’d expect, but we know the question you all came here to have answered is actually, what the heck was going on with the Red line this morning? Metro is reporting that the Friendship Heights Metro station was closed for about 30 minutes (from 7:27 to 7:54 a.m.) due to a report of smoke and possible fire beneath a six-car, downtown-bound Red line train. About 100 passengers were taken off the train with no initial reports of injuries and the station has since reopened, but trains are still single-tracking around the incident, leading to delays as long as an hour in both directions on the Red line. The Post has more.

More on the Park View Shooting: The Post has a fuller picture of what happened leading up to a shooting inside a rowhouse in Park View yesterday morning that led to one man being killed and a 5-year-old boy being seriously injured. Police are now saying that two assailants wearing ski masks entered the home, fired several shots, and then fled in a red minivan. The most disturbing detail is that the house sounds like it may have been being used as a babysitting site: there were several other children in the house when the shooting occurred, not all of whom who were related to the victim. The man who died has been identified as Franklin Johnson, 37. Police are withholding the injured child’s identity.

Briefly Noted: Calif. family sues Metro after bus crash kills dad … WaPo confirms our Duke Ellington D.C. quarter scoop … Recession hits lobster market, you can get them at deep discounts at the Southwest fish market … Ferry stranded between Md. and Va.

This Day in DCist: In 2007, a DCPS employee was busted for using city funds to go to strip clubs, and in 2006, we announced our very first DCist Exposed Photography Show.

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