Langley High School Community about the case in an letter last night an hour before the news4 iteam revealed the details and the district told the community they had already notified the parents of the kids who traveled on that trip. John said his son was on that trip and the school never told him. Did anybody from the School District notify you this had happened . No, absolutely nothing from the school. There was only what we heard via the grapevine. Reporter so we asked again today and Fairfax County schools issued a new statement saying it notified the parents of the alleged victims and the School District said the Chris Rademacher Germany Exchange program trip and friendship connection were not officially sanctioned by the School District, but documents that Company Provided to the news4 iteam indicate Fairfax County School Administrators did sign paperwork approving german students to visit langley parents said they were led to believe the trip was school sanctioned because the re
Bring a rain coat. Tom kierein is tracking some showers moving our way. Good morning. Good to have you with us. Were starting off very early on this Easter Sunday morning with increasing clouds. Looking at the radar, dont have any rain in the vicinity. So you wont need a rain coat yet. But looking there at the far southeastern part of virginia, just south of williamsburg over to norfolk, there are some showers there, but the track on these showers is moving off to the north and east. So it will stay well south of the metro area as it does track across the lower part of the bay and southern part of the Eastern Shore. So well stay dry here in the metro area for the morning hours. Its later this afternoon that we might get a few sprinkles coming through. And not as cold this morning. Were in the upper 30s under a mostly clear sky to our west. Send valle shenandoah valley. To the south temperatures in the mid and upper 40s. And forward through the day on this Easter Sunday, still might hav
Tuss broke this story today. Hes in Silver Spring with metros response to this. Adam . Reporter thats right, wendy. You know, this is the second time in a month that metro has been dealing with a red signal violation. You may remember that other incident at smithsonian where two trains actually came facetoface, but take a look. Here at the Silver Spring station, the issue was a mixture of human error and a problem with metros automatic train operation. A metro train is never, ever supposed to go past a red signal unless it has explicit permission. This train did not have that permission. When it got to the red light it overshot it by three feet. Reporter as the train was entering whats known as a pocket track or a middle track, it went past the red signal. Here is where it gets a little bit technical. Longer eightcar metro trains are only supposed to enter that pocket trackin controlled manual mode. This train was in a computer controlled automatic mode, and the automatic mode told the
He was never criminally charged. Police say the alleged incident happened overseas, outside their jurisdiction. But rademacher resigned before he could deb part on 2015 back to germany with about a dozen other langley students. The thing is parents say rademacher kept the money hed already collected from 235e7fam including 1,000 from richard desalvo. He says parents could never track him down. The parents have been on their own and although people have listened to us, they havent taken any action. Reporter this man says his 1,000 disappeared, too. Its been a long, long process. Lots of emails going out, very few emails coming in. Reporter you cant find this guy. Cannot find him at all. Reporter friendship connection, the group that helps administer the trips for langley says theyve been trying to track down rademacher too to retrieve the money. The company, which has worked with hundreds of rademacher wanted unique control of the student money. He was the only teacher who requested dep
Own time. Reporter christa leo helped sponsor the trips. He insisted on unique control in choosing the students. He would just kind of zigzag around and visit just his participants. Reporter she says she was never notified about the investigation until we told her. Even though he oversaw about 20 german students in the u. S. And 20 langley students in germany each other. She tells the iteam shes been trying to find rademacher ever since trying to recover money he collected for a future trip. Some former students tell us they too were unfamiliar with the accusations. Fairfax county police were alerted, but they told the state and news4 they couldnt investigate because the incident in question allegedly occurred overseas in germany, that there was no local criminal case against rademacher in t county Public Schools sent a letter to Langley High School family notifying parents of our story. They said this was not a School Sponsored trip. It was organized by the teacher on his own time. On