Metro workers on friday and today we learned this is not about a contract. Workers are very upset with a new sick policy. Metro workers are now required to request most excused absences including sick leave and get supervisor approval of at least three full schedule workdays in advance so people who will be sick on friday had to request that day yesterday in order to follow policy. Now, the union says they did not ask anyone to call out sick but they did call the policy ridiculous and asinine. Metro put a statement out yesterday saying that due to the threat of a sickout, all the supervisor will be forced to work 12 hour shifts. We are tired of the employees taking it on the chin because ramada is running around like the keystone cops changing policies and not knowing how to implement them. Metro says it received nearly 500 absent requests for friday from both bus and the rail employees and they added that they denied all of full bus and rail service on friday. Question, is a woman all
From washington. Reporter President Trump says he will not immediately pull out of the north American Free trade agreement. He tweeted this morning that he spoke with the leaders of mexico and canada and agreed to renegotiate the deal. He often criticized. But he added if they cant reach an agreement, he nay still terminate it. On wednesday, the president unveiled his tax reform blueprint. Details wont be revealed until the summer. But the plan would slash the Corporate Tax rate from 35 to 15 . Cut rates for individuals andly few the tax code by reducing the number of tax brackets from seven to three. The American Economy has been held back and this is about unleashing economic growth. Reporter but critics including senator minority leader Chuck Schumer called it a giveaway to the wealthy. While emydable class americans and those struggling to get there need help just staying afloat. Reporter a cbs news poll Shows Americans remain sharply divided on their views of the mm a majority of
Police are looking for a green mazda with a redskin sticker in the window in connection with this shooting. Its been a bad week for metro and its not over yet. The agency is trying to block 500 Union Workers from calling in sick tomorrow. It is a protest over metros new policy but leaders there insist that trains and buses will run on time. Well see. Things were a real cluster today. Smoke on the tracks shut down a stretch of the red line right in the morning of the rush. Metros leaders blamed electric problems which are decades old. Reporter i have been down on the track on its really dangerous. The third rail is 11,000 volts. A lot of power. It leaves the train through the two other rails. But, sometimes, that circuit can get broken. Things called insulators ground. Sometimes, those insulators can break down overtime and that current can leak into smaller parts of the track and the ground itself. Thats called a stray current leak. And when train it is are running over the ground ever
Partially shut down on saturday the president s 100th day in office. The government runs out of money at midnight and lawmakers on capitol hill are scrambling to extend a short term spending measure by another week to may 5 giving congress a little more time to debate a deal that will give a trillion dollars to fund through september the end of the fiscal year. Failing to mask the temporary measure a government shut down on the eve of President Trumps 100th day in office. To repeal and replace obamacare. Democrats want to halt new efforts to repeal and replace on bomb care. It would be a disaster if the government shut down and i hope we do our jobs and make sure it stays open. Compromises were made and the demand for funding the border wall was dropped and an agreement to pay healthcare subsidies. The democrats have come in and thrown a lot of monkey wrenches into the ability to get this miserable during a News Conference and criticized his first 100 days in office. After his 100 days
They say that they are continuing to look for this, 28 yearold david watson. They will be keeping us updated and we will be relaying that information to you when we get it. Live in howard county, im ileana diaz, wusa9 news. This is supposed to be the best times in their lives but instead a maryland man and his daughters say it is hard to go on. Their hearts are broken on. Their house is empty. And they are searching for answers after a car crash killed 68yearold wife and mother Sandra Newsom of maryland. Debra alfarone brings us the story you will only see here on 9. And i just screamed. I didnt know what to do. I was just in so much shock, i couldnt believe it. Reporter and like that, netanya newsoms life changed forever. Her mom, 68yearold sandra, was killed in a two car crash on the wilson bridge. That december morning in 2015 netanya re a job she never went back to. Flashing back if i was on that with her, i would have tried to get off and find out how can i get to my mom. Reporter