To actually establish a Safety Culture so that these types of accidents do not occur. Reporter today at metro headquarters the acting chair of the nlt sb chris hart sat in on a safety meeting and spoke about the changes metros making. Were always very pleased to see parties take immediate action when they see problems during the course of the investigation. The parties are up close and personal with the issues and when they see a problem, it needs to be addressed and they need to address them. Reporter metro add theys ear not being directed to take these actions but are doing so on their own. Coming up in my next report at 6 00 still so many questions about what happened that day at Lenphant Plaza. News4 as learned about major facetoface communication problems between d. C. Firefighters and metro transit police. Youll want to hear that. Reporting live at metro headquarters adam tuss news4. And continuing our Team Coverage right now, news4s derrick ward is live outside the king street m
Even 50 with snow and sleet. But i think Road Conditions will be just fine for our evening hours. Big storm system so we have a long way to go several hours that expanhandle to the north and west. Your temperature d. C. 41 to 39 degrees in warrenton. So big thing with this storm system working in our favor is its not a major storm, it will be fast moving and a lack of cold air with it. What can you expect for your weekend . The morning rush and of course with that storm system number two, well have it coming up in a few. Thanks veronica. Our Team Coverage continues with david culvert live in arlington. Crews are preparing for what could be a hazardous situation out there on the roads this weekend. Reporter they sure are, pat, and v. J. Mentioned the snow just starting. In the past ten minutes the small flakes started in arlington. Here in arlington theyll have skeleton crews on standby, 8 to 16 trucks ready to go should they need them. We found them gearing up adding spreaders and inst
Also talked today about signage that is already posted in trains. We have over the last year or so made improvements in the communications we have on the trains for employees and for customers to know what to do in the vent ofevent of an emergency. I just encourage our riders to read this type of information on every railcar we have. Reporter my next report at 5 00, the head of the union that represents metros frontline employees talked to news4 and says more needs to be done than just these safety changes. Adam tuss news4. They lost children and parents in one dramatic tragedy. Today four parents in mourning speak out as work continues to recover those lost in the annapolis mansion fire. News4s Darcy Spencer is looich now live now with this update. Darcy . Reporter that fire scene is right here behind me down this private driveway. This is as close as we can get to the scene right now. Yesterday we reported that cadaver dogs had found two bodies in that debris. What we learned today i
Tuss joins us live with more. Adam . Reporter guy, the back and forth behind the scenes here is starting to get very ugly. And tonight a senior Metro Transit Police officer is revealing it all when it comes down to the communication breakdown that night. Communication issues now widely known to be a problem in the Lenphant Plaza smoke episode, but those issues didnt just have to do with radios and frequencies. Tonight a senior Transit Police officer tells news4 he and his officers were offering their help facetoface with d. C. Fire officials that night but literally had a window rolled up in their face. This officer, who asked to people on the condition of anonymity, delivered these quote quotes to us saying, it was almost as if we were a bother to the fire department. And talk tact lack of communication between Transit Police and the fire department, the officer said had we played this one the way we were tryoned to do the outcome may have been different. Communication and time more s
But still there will be pockets of a mix of snow and sleet in parts of the area, but the roads are fine, temperatures above freezing. Were looking at a little snow still in frederick back toward the border of montgomery and Frederick County and snow toward germantown and sleet. 34 pretty much across the board and 37 downtown. Well come back, talk about when the heavy precipitation rolls in, what that means for saturday and were tracking a monster clipper for the weekend. The snow has been falling in Loudoun County a while now. Road crews wasted no time hitting the highways. Mola lenghi joins us live now from leesburg with a look at conditions there. Reporter its been coming down a couple hours now, nothing really sticking, just at this point creating very wet conditions. Virginia d. O. T. Deployed hundreds of crews there out on the roadways now. You see the silo behind me. Thats where those trucks are coming sort of in waves, coming to not only refuel, but to reload on salt. Right now