Agreement with the county. It says mgm must hire minority owned businesses for 30 of the total construction. They have to give the county Council Reports to show if theyre actually living up to that agreement. Just yesterday mgm told the counsel they were. Im happy to tell you that mgm exceeded the goals for local and business participation in two categories. Reporter but the minority Business Owners in this lawsuit continue to say its not true. They believe the contracts mgm gives to minor run businesses are much smaller than what was promised and other firms are getting the high dollar ones. They have comfortable relationships. Some of our contractors dont have those. Reporter 1 contractor working with mgm says that hasnt been his experience and hes working with mgm on three different contracteds. Ronald lipberg runs an architectural firm. He said the worth of the contracts was substantial. It is not a token. I just need a few more tokens like that and i will be good. Reporter mgm sa
Police headquarters tonight where at one point anger at the police escalated to violence. Reporter yeah, jan. In fact, Police Installed these concrete barriers and bike racks today to keep protesters and the Police Separate and tonight the Police Needed them. Aint going to study war no more aint going to study war no more reporter on the streets of baltimore today a show of faith from and for a community strained to the breaking point. A half dozen clergy led a flock of civilians and police through the soggy streets of west baltimore to the western districts headquarters, ground zero for the protest movement that sprung up after the death of freddie gray. The pastor tried to turn the communitys anger into something positive. [ singing ] hate has its place. Lament has its place, but as in scripture, we see it always ends in praise. Reporter three internal investigations are underwhere a to determine how 25yearold freddie gray sustained ultimately fatal injuries while being transmitted i
The rain arrives and the cold front arrives a little bit earlier so you get the northwesterly winds faster. 64 for gaithersburg. Hagerstown only talking 60 today. But if youre down through Southern Maryland, you get to the 70s. Here come our showers. Well track it for you coming up a little bit later. Expect the showers to arrive in the district along 95 between 2 00 and 4 00. Heres a quick look at the planner. Ill have your futurecast but here is larry. Metro riders, want to let you know so far so good the trains running on schedule. The buses running on schedule. So youre looking at an issue free commute this morning. Of course if it changes before you head out the door, ill be sure to let you know. Want to let you know that the eastbound side of 50 at the beltway closed as a result of debris on the roadway. Want to give you a live look right now and show you how things are shaping up right now. Looks like traffic is still moving so not having too much of an impact on traffic just ye
Whole story unfortunately, so its hard to tell from the short clip of video. I know that theyre asking to see if theres any other video out there that anyone else might have to see what happened before the video and, of course, after the video in the van is a question mark as to how this could have possibly happened. Governor hogan says he has spoken with the mayor of baltimore and the states attorney and tried to apply some pressure to complete that gray autopsy as soon as possible. Our Bruce Johnson is live in west baltimore tonight where tensions on both sides are running high. What are you hearing tonight, bruce . Reporter first off we wanted to be in front of the Police Precinct for the Western District of baltimore, but that cant happen. Ill move to show you why. Police have the entire block sealed off with police cars and then a barricade and behind the barricades are dozens of Police Officers for the entire block. Clearly they are set up to keep people from going in front of po
George king who was tased to death at the hospital while he was strapped to a gurney. What we want to happen, we want all those prosecuted for murder. Reporter young people with no jobs and seemingly lots of times are frustrated. Some of the cops on the street also feel they need answers now and want to begin the process of mending fences with the community. This is bruce john reporting from west baltimore for wusa9. A Community Vigil and demonstration to protest freddie grays death are scheduled for tonight and we are there. Baltimore police said five of the six officers suspended with pay for the incident have given their statements to investigators. You can see these officers in the cell phone videos. One shows the officers carrying or perhaps dragging gray into the police van. Another shows them taking them out of the van to shackle his legs a few blocks away. Today marylands governor said it seems no one knows exactly how gray suffered that injury, so hes putting a rush on getting