We are making progress, but the cleanup still continues. Take a look. You can see they are continuing jummy all right, weve got problems with the live shot there, and well try to get him up. In the meantime, our other top stories the metro station are reopening, but thousands are still dealing with the brunswick line. Suzanne kennedy continues our coverage in Silver Spring. Suzanne this is the first marc train to come in off the brunswick line here to the Silver Spring station. All of the trains from that brunswick line are going to have to stop near Silver Spring. The passengers that were on this train got off and went and got on metro or found other transportation to downtown washington. Three lines were hopefully they are thinking that by tomorrow morning they will have serviced back to normal, but heres what folks had to say who had the commute in this unusual way toad. I didnt know what to xplain, so it is very to do it is not very good. Going home may be a different story. Might
Series of overnight raids across the country in Counter Terrorism operations as a paris prosecutor identifies two more terrorists this morning. President obama says the u. S. Will work with more allies to hunt down those responsible. France has bombs dropped on isis strong holds in syria. Air france, ackor trades sharply lower. We are still waiting for the French Interior minister bernard casanov set to hold a press conference. Hes going to talk about the raids carried out in france. Well monitor that and bring you any headlines as and when he does speak. French Prime Minister manuel valls says that more attacks can happen. Speaking in the past hour he said fridays attacks were planned from within syria and that the government has foiled five other plots since summer. Translator faced with this war against terrorism, we cant disregard any piece of information or any tools to help protect the french people. We will act on all fronts in order to destroy isis without respite. French polic
Thank you for joining us tonight im tim seaman jenna and d Jenna Rehnstrom america represents roughly 5 percent of the worlds population and 25 percent of its prisoners. Tim covercrowded state and federal prisons are costing taxpayers around 6. 4 billion dollars. Tim many of those prisoners serve drug related sentences and are on what are called mandatory minimums. Its a conceptdeveloped in the70s. During the so called war o o drugs. With crack and cocain sweeping across the nation. Putting away offenders. Even on small drug charges. Was a priority. Jenna these minimums are still used today. But as overcrowding continues. There is a call for change. And it originates in iowa. Abc9s lukas voss has the story. Lukas s tim and jenna. There is indeed a to adjust minimum sentences. The goal. Relieving overcrowded prisons and helping offenders reintegrate into society. Representing that change is iowa senator Chuck Grassley. He is one of many who say there are a lot of reasons why that change
Released. Jessica rae and. A special report on the mandatory minimum laws here in iowa. And why some believe there should be a change in sentencing guidelines. Jessica rae plus. Its the dress everybody is talking about. Meterologists around the country are wearing the same dress. These stories and more. On abc9 news this morning. Jessica rae a newly released dash cam video shows a Chicago Police officer opening fire on a black teenager. And continuing to fire even as the teenager lay dying on the ground. Now that video is sparking outrage across chicago. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has the latest. The windy city on edge. As hundreds of protestors walk the streets of chicago overnight. Nats. Yelling chanting. Whole world is watching protests after the which Officials Say shows 17yearold laquan mcdonald. Walking away from officers before being shot 16 times. By Police Officer jason van dyke. Anita alvarez states attorney, cook county it is graphic, it is vient, it is chilling. The video tearing
Trespassing sign, but crews say that did not stop people from trespassing. Two died early this morning when a fire break out at the fourplex after 1 00 this morning. The victims, a man and woman, have not been identified. Their bodies were discovered in the bottom unit where it was believed to have started. What is last of the building was boarded up in hopes to keep others away from the now hazardous site where there is a last damage and debris from this mornings fire and two previous fires this year. We are sad. I am in a situation where i am sad to see people trying to stay warm and they are hurt. Neighbors say they have seen up to six squatters at a time mostly on cold nights like the night we have been having. Crews, again, remind people that this property is now considered structurally unsafe so no one is allowed to enter. Fire investigators will be here later to determine what caused the latest fire. Right now some people in Discovery Bay are getting hot about being cold. Pg e i