Smoke, he saw what he believes to be flames. But when he asked the operator of the train what to do, youll hear in chucks own words, the operator would not answer his questions. I and some other passengers directly asked him why, whats going on and he wouldnt answer. In fact he wouldnt even make eye contact. He seemed very nervous. Reporter in fact, another passenger who was on that very train shot this video youre looking at right now. You can see passengers moving to the backs of these cars through the doors at the ends of the train. While this was going on, passengers tell us another announcement was going on telling passengers not to open doors. Now, that meant the side doors of the trains, not the ones inbetween the cars. Passengers say that was all really confusing. Very scary because they didnt know what to do. Some witness essay they saw other passengers trying to selfevacuate by opening t side doors. A dc counsel heefrg today, jack evans at councilman and wmata board member as
Montgomery county police department. Coming up at 6 00, well tell you what neighbors say they will be doing to try to make their communities safer. Were also keeping our eye on a High School Student in d. C. Who is recovering after he got stabbed on his way to class. Police think this may have started as some kind of a robbery. The victim was attacked outside of Wilson High School in northwest d. C. , and we have learned that this is not the first time Something Like this has happened in recent days. News 4s Mark Segraves is live outside of the school this evening. Reporter good evening. It was just about 9 00 this morning. Most of the students were already inside Wilson High School when the teenager came through these doors bleeding from a stab wound. It appears at this time he was just attempting to rob him of his phone and wallet. Reporter the student parked his car across the street from Wilson High School as he had many times before, but this morning he told police a man with a kn
Meetings on the proposal that would turn i66 inside the beltway into hov lanes during the morning and afternoon rush and commuters arent happy with the price tag. Tolls could add up to 17 a day round trip. To put that in perspective, it would add up to 85 a week, 4400 a year or about what you would need to pay off an 18,000 car on a fiveyear loan. Now this wouldnt start until the summer of 2017 and that is a peak toll for drivers who do not meet the hov requirements. Nine month old baby girl has a lot to look forward to in her life. Shes alive thanks to a Montgomery County Police Officer and a good samaritan. We now know who the second life saver was and as Darcy Spencer shows us, he is no ordinary good samaritan. Reporter this is baby kenzie may in her hospital gown doing just fine. Her mom and dad breathing a huge sigh of relief and thanking the police and firefighters who saved the 9monthold baby girls life. She was riding in the car with her grand patients on i270 on sunday when sh
Pennsylvania avenue between the white house and the capitol. We will develop a vision for this iconic street which is home to so Many National treasures, including this building. I want to send a thanks to the National Parks service and recognize peter may. He is a fellow ncpc commissioner but his day job is associate director for lands, resources, and planning. Fort totten, fort reno, fort dupont. Locals may recognize these names as parks, neighborhoods, even metro stations but many are surprised to learn about their civil war history. The civil war was a milestone in the nations history. The role of famous battlefields like gettysburg and antietam are wellknown to all of us. Today we are going to learn about another important albeit less wellknown battle that took place not far from where we are today. Were it not for the defenses built to protect washington, d. C. The battle of fort stevens, the city of washington, d. C. Could be in a different place today. Today we will learn about
You can read faster than i can talk so i wont read the slides. I want you to see beautiful places i love. They are history and parks and recreation and National Resources and frankly the lungs of the city are largely these forts and the parks. So there we start. As frank said the city was unprotected down below. This is Fort Washington. If you havent been there, you should go. Its quite different from the forts that were built during the civil war. After bull run, lincoln knew the city was vulnerable. Thats when he ordered director Major General john g. Barnard to design forts around the city to protect it. Here they are. These are the ones available there. It was quite an amazing feat to build all those. It was just tremendous. Here they are there. Ive circled them here on this old map, the ones that are under government ownership today. The park service owns all the ones in washington, d. C. And one in maryland and one in virginia. The ones in virginia are owned by local governments.