17th hour of this metro shutdown. It has become abundantly clear today this is not a quick fix, there are 22 teams spread out underground throughout the area going over 100 miles of track so far. As they still have a lot of work ahead of them. Now, this is Mcpherson Square station where monday morning fire led to this safety shutdown. You cant get on any line at all. One rider, well, he summed it up like this. Metro is sick and needs to go to the doctors. Im sure they closed it for very good reason. Inspectors found after mondays fire termed as alarming, the damage to the electrical jumper cables was described as disturbingly similar to what they found after smoke filled the plaza station last year, and a passenger. Jumper lines arent like power strips. Sends electricity into the third rail, which then power the train, but, smoke incidents, fires last year, thats double 2014 number, this shutdown looks to add up how many of those cables are damaged. What else . Riders nerves, for one,
To bring the fight to the west. So is the Islamic State really dead . Join me as i look at the rise and fall of isis. Ive covered isis from the beginning as the militant army rolled through much of a rock in syria conquering a vast territory and establishing its caliphate. But by the spring of 2019, the tables had turned. Isis was losing. I came back to witness the end. Only a few thousand of the most hard core militants were left. They were surrounded in a little syrian town. This is as far as we can go. Its very dangerous. A field commander in a force made up predominantly of ethnic curds. He took me to the front lines. They dont look like theyre ready to surrender. Hes saying the ones in here they are prepared to die. The United States and the curds had a joint war plan, a partnership. The u. S. Military dropped bombs from above while these curdish fighters did the grunt work. They backed isis into this final holdout. A section no bigger than a few football fields. There are battles