We know 200 people were evacuated and 84 people including carol glover, the one fatality, were transported to the hospital. More than an hour elapsed between the first call coming from Lenfant Plaza to the victim being transported, but cpr was administered to carol glover, a passenger at that time. It just takes a while. Im more concerned about i just heard this morning on the media that radios are not working down in the tunnels. There has been a lot of discussion about if the firefighters could hear amongst themselves and get upstairs and what was the state of the equipment. Reporter in washington, surae chinn, wusa9. As of now half a dozen people plan to sue metro tomorrow over the tragedy of that trapped and smoke filled train. They allege negligence and complain metros evacuation plans, if it had any, were abject failures. Bruce leshan is live at Lenfant Plaza with the latest on that. Reporter smoke is actually fairly common in the metro tunnels and the agency is supposed to have
Showers and what that means for monday. A 44 minute delay led to the death of a metro passenger. Thanks for joining us. Im jan jeffcoat. Im lesli foster. The ntsb is just out with a plum report on that trapped smoke preliminary report on that trapped smoke filled train for monday. It says ventilation fans came on in minutes, but details, a 44 minute long wait to shut off that third rail. There was a crisis years ago this should have perhaps put metro on notice it was unprepared for this type of emergency. Reporter this preliminary report helps us make some more sense of the timeline of this tragedy that killed 1 woman and sent 86 people thats a new number 86 people to hospitals. We also got our first look at the damage the arcing that caused all the smoke. These are pictures of the electrical arcing damage on the third rail. The ntsb says a breaker at one end of the third rail tripped at 3 06 p. M. Monday, but the breaker at the other end stayed on until it was shut off by Metro Contro
The 40s with by nightfall temperatures in the 40s with rain across the entire metro area. Well come back and take you through sunday and see if we can salvage part of the last half of sunday and have your 3 degree guarantee. A ride on the metro turns violent and the worst of it was caught on camera. The man youre about to see knocked out another at the top of a metro escalator is still on the run tonight. Mola lenghi is at the Eastern Market station where the attack happened. Reporter it started as an argument here in this metro tunnel and quickly escalated leaving a 69yearold man knocked out right here and a much younger man on the run. Are you kidding me . Reporter pretty rough. Holy cow. Reporter thats one mans first reaction to seeing what you might consider graphic surveillance video. According to metro, a 69year old man says as he was getting off a train at the Eastern Market station today he was shoved by a young plan. The two continued arguing on this escalator. Before the youn
Happy friday, everybody. Good evening. Im jan jeffcoat. Im derek mcginty. The United States conducted airstrikes today against islamic militants in Northern Iraq hours after president obama authorized it the attacks targeted artillery installation near the city of erbil where u. S. Personnel are assisting the iraqi government. American f18 fighter jets dropped several 500pound laser guided bombs near the iraqi city of erbil. The strike took out an artillery launcher and separate strikes later in the day also targeted islamic terrorists from isis. President obama said thursday night the strikes are meant to protect u. S. Military and diplomats working in erbil. Is that when the lives of american citizens are at risk, we will take action. Thats my responsibility as commander in chief. U. S. Air power was used to drop food and water to iraqis trapped in the mountains of Northern Iraq. An estimated 15,000 religious minorities were driven there by isis whose forces surround the mountain and
Not in biohazard suits had to sit around all day and their symptoms were monitored to see if they might have been exposed. She doesnt have ebola, so its kind of a happy ending and it gave people here some experience on what it might be like to do it for real. The bus was in a pentagon parking lot when the woman got sick. That parking lot was quickly closed to traffic. The hazmat teams moved in, but the bus left heading into d. C. And finally stopped at seventh and i streets. That is where bruce leshan is tonight and we know those passengers have to be breathing a whole lot easier tonight. Reporter the funny thing is the passengers we talked to were not all that worried in the first place, but the Public Health officials did tell them they needed to monitor themselves and see if they came up with a fee. Now they can quit worrying even about that. A fever. A fever. Now they can quit worrying even about that. Reporter alerted by the pentagon Emergency Operations center, dozens of police a