I am mark hayes, lisa cooney has the day off. Mark a man accused of pushing a fouryearold girl down stairs and hitting her has someone the child s mother. S dan griffin is live downtown with what she had to say. Good afternoon. The mother of the 4yearold says this has all been blown out of proportion. T believe anthony time. Popplewell was in court this he children. According to an affidavit, last month, stacey eversole s 4yearold daughter, sophie, said popplewell pushed her down the stairs, pulled her hair and slammed her on the ground. Eversole says popplewell said she fell down the stairs. Investigators say popplewell couldn injuries and was quiet when asked about them. Her. Daughter, who was also in the home, hurt sophie s face. S not that s never s me. He doesn t discipline my daughter, let alone his own daughter, he has a very hard time disciplining her. Dan the woman says her daughter is healed and fine today. Last year, popplewell was convicted of child endangering after police
Flagler says he never imagined hancock opening fire at the school. Hes one of the students who called 911. Was running. I was a couple of blocks down. It took me a while. Holy crap, that just happened. On the first day back, after the shooting, there was extra security as well as clergy and counselors. Superintendent says, it was a good day got a lot of hugs, got a lot of thank yous. And it seemed very normal today. That was reassuring. Last walks walk through for parents and students, put everyone at ease. Mary anne morris says it helped with his son. Where they hid, where they were at. They checked on each other, with their cell phone. For madison, today, it was a big step forward. I know we will get through this, no problem. It will take time but, we will. We will get through it. That was a day that none of us will forget. The superintendent curtis says, they actually got some feedback from some other schools that went through similar shootings inside their schools. And one of the i
This is reality and we have to educate our children to be smart and how to deal with life challenges right now superintendent says attendance was at 90percent, today which he says was little low. There will be increased security here at the school for some time. My colleague jay warren talked to the superintendent about how today went. Went. First and foremost the superintendent is asking gun owners in his district to get a safe and lock them uphe said that with 16hundred kids walking through his doors you never know a gun could walk out the door at home in the meantime, philpot said he thought the whole day went wellstudents told me that it was an emotional and somber day but from the districts perspective they had in place what they need tolike extra deputiescounselorstherapy dogsand teachers eating in the cafeteria with the kidsin that it really wasnt until the lunch hour that kids seemed to feel the need to seek out a counselor i thought everything went well i thought the walk thro
Emergency work on metro this morning. A train broke down in between the stadium armor and minnesota avenue stations hours ago. Molette green is live outside the minnesota avenue station where the train is still stopped on the tracks. Molette . Reporter barbara, im actually in the 3300 block of bening road where that disabled train behind me is still disabled. Metro crews are now down below us working on those tracks since this mornings fire. Just after 4 00 a. M. , emergency crews spread across the 3300 block of bening road. Fire trucks, police cars, blocked traffic. Metro says this train on the tracks became disabled and a small fire broke out. This latest fire incident impacted the ride for passengers with single tracking on parts of the blue and orange lines. Making people more crankier in the morning. Reporter and metro passengers i spoke with this singletracking delays make it tougher for them to explain being late to work to their bosses. Yeah, it makes it hard for us to get to w
Against Robert Philpot. 9 on your sides ashley zilka spoke with the victim who says he doesnt understand how this could happen. David amburgey says hes scared for his familys life. He lives right here who police say tried to killed him. Lives right across the street. Now that the case is dismissed, mr. Philpot can come back here at anytime. 10 20 its just about as unfair as i think it can be. David amburgey says the Justice System has failed him. His alleged attacker now a free man. 10 22 you follow the guidelines of the law and you do what you are supposed to do and now i am going to be subjected to the man being able to come home after trying to really kill me. 30its been almost a year since police say this man Robert Philpot threatened amburgey with a hammer, got arrested and posted bond, went back to amburgeys house and stabbed him all in the same day. 15 19 he come at me and caught me in the side. And i had a faucet . On from my hernia and that knife went through the faucet and he