Metro workers on friday and today we learned this is not about a contract. Workers are very upset with a new sick policy. Metro workers are now required to request most excused absences including sick leave and get supervisor approval of at least three full schedule workdays in advance so people who will be sick on friday had to request that day yesterday in order to follow policy. Now, the union says they did not ask anyone to call out sick but they did call the policy ridiculous and asinine. Metro put a statement out yesterday saying that due to the threat of a sickout, all the supervisor will be forced to work 12 hour shifts. We are tired of the employees taking it on the chin because ramada is running around like the keystone cops changing policies and not knowing how to implement them. Metro says it received nearly 500 absent requests for friday from both bus and the rail employees and they added that they denied all of full bus and rail service on friday. Question, is a woman all
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A couple of light showers there. Little bit of a storm, not severe, heavy downpours south of luray, head toward culpeper probably reaching that about 7 34 and dissipate moving further to the east. Thats the only storm we are tracking right now. As we mentioned earlier, big time wind damage, i mean, it was not a hail. That was not the signature. It was winds with these storms. Trees down and limbs down and branches snapped across parts of the area around old georgetown pike and also around river road in badly and we got bradley and we got this in at the airport, at national, gusts to 45 miles per hour. Thats fairly impressive. That was the signature with these storms as opposed to the hail we have had the last few weeks. Reminder, you can track these and also get warnings, you just download our app for free, its easy, go to the app store, search for wusa9, download it. Topper, thank you. The power is starting to come back on for those folks who lost it during 7500 customers are without
I mean, we met a guy here who works here and hes very accommodating in explaining the situation so it wasnt only impacting here at in d. C. But it was in all of their terminals, so i guess that made it a little bit more relaxing that it wasnt just us affected here. Thats the kind of passenger you like right there, right . Yeah. Thats a nice one right there. Last october an outage caused 800 flights to be delayed and forced employees to issue tickets and boarding passes by hand. The airline blamed a Software Application and recovered in a day. A car has hit and killed a Pedestrian Crossing Central Avenue near topper lane. Police have been interviewing the driver who did stay on the scene. Our pictures are from sky 9. They do not show any crosswalk in that immediate area. Day 3 of the Republican National convention in cleveland, ohio, indiana governor mike pence will formally accept the g. O. P. s tonight he will be joined by republican president ial nominee donald trump who made a drama
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