And we obtained coverage on the crowd from trains to confusion on the platform and the Ripple Effect from the rails to the roads. We begin with adam tuss. He is at the foggy bottom station where metros leaders wrapped up a news conference. Reporter thats right. This is where a lot of people are getting on trains to get back into the virginia where the safetrack surge is taking place right now. By all accounts, this first day of safetrack during the rush hour is being called a success. Safetrack day one in the books and metros leaders are feeling confident about the way the day has gone. So i want to urge everyone whatever you did today do tomorrow, do wednesday, do for the duration of this surge because it worked okay today. Reporter some did report more congestion on the roads as people at the affected stations did find alternatives to get around. Metros general riders theyll only have to deal with maintenance during the time its been slotted, nothing more. We have scheduled this to g
As metro began first monday morning on Safetrack Program. Train malfunction slowed things down during the commute. From now until next thursday trains are single tracking between East Falls Church and ballston for metros Safetrack Program. Orange line trains between vienna and new carroll operating every 18 minutes instead of six minutes. Lets get to molette green how things are going from the boston station. Reporter barbara, good morning. Things have really calmed down, the morning rush is over just this morning though, we heard again from the general manager an urgent call to passengers who can take other means of transportation to do so. In fact, one cabbie drove up to us where we were standing and said basically people are not using their services, theyre not surcharging, so that is an option. But we can tell you as far as on the train we really saw the impact of reduced right hand side of the platform, next train to downtown d. C. Reporter at 7 30 a. M. Crowds build. A mad rush t
Shields screaming murder. The video was shot in june of 2014 but his widow released the video to fox 5 after she obtained it from the county. She alleges her husband was beaten to death by correction officers while he suffered a schizophrenic episode. Earlier that day, shields was arrested for getting on a metrobus without paying the fare. In the video, officers repeatedly speak into the camera contending the detainee was combative and refused to put on his jump suit. What you dont see is what happened inside the room. You hear screams, cries, eventually hes pulled up from the room unresponsive. Nearly 30 minutes officers and e m ts perform cpr but ultimately he died. They just beat him. First they started hitting him to make a move into the room. Theres sounds choking him, stepping on his him they knew he had Health Problems and sprayed him again. Officer acknowledged that he had Health Problems. Something with that spraying him. You hear loud strikes. You hear him hollering murder. C
Have no justice. Take a listen. Murder. Murderer. Murdere murderer. Reporter its a video shot by a corrections officer inside the Prince Georges County jail. What you just heard were the whales of a 49yearold samuel shields screaming murder. The video was shot in june of 2014 but his widow released the video to fox 5 after she obtained it from the county. She alleges her husband was beaten to death by correction officers while he suffered a schizophrenic episode. Earlier that day, shields was arrested for getting on a metrobus without paying the fare. In the video, officers repeatedly speak into the camera contending the detainee was combative and refused to put on his jump suit. What you dont see is what happened inside the room. You hear screams, eventually hes pulled up from the room unresponsive. Nearly 30 minutes officers and e m ts perform cpr but ultimately he died. They just beat him. First they started hitting him to make a move into the room. Theres sounds choking him, steppi
Delays. Many riders had to wait for up to an hour for a train. We look at the confusion from the station. Reporter try to take a look at this. Theres a flood of people about every 18 minutes when a train finely does come through the station. And even though there are plenty of metro workers around, it still makes for a confusing commute. Welcome back. I got there at 7 00 and the train left at 7 01. The. Reporter the early bird caught the online train as the morning progressed, more backups. Stage one of the Program Brings single tracking between boston and East Falls Church on the orange and silver lines. On this day one, well, that means already packed trains arrived every 18 minutes to very crowded platforms and exasperated riders. Too much confusion down there. It really is right now. Maybe theyll get it together in a couple of days. Reporter they even want to go in. We had no choice. I have a couple of workers living nearby. So something different. Well see when we get to work toda