And her mother is from turkey. As a muslim she is concerned about the trump travel ban. Making sure that we arent discriminated further. We are not excluded further from coming to america, trying to escape war that they didnt necessarily wage. Richard this is a diverse area. Students of race and religion organized the walkout negotiated with school officials. Ewant to allow civil engagement but stress there are consequences. My family is christian and also republican. Richard carly brooks who also came to the rally says this has been an interesting time for her and her family. Half my family is conservative. Half is liberal. I think they support me in what i believe in and i support what they believe in even if its not what i believe in. Richard so about 150 students here. They will face a tardy or a skip mark on their records. About a days a lot of passion on social media about all of this. Some folks saying that they should stay in school. Others supporting the student. A lot of folk
Over your safety on the rail. The federal government just nounced it is yanking millions of dollars from metro. Now, transit systems from maryland are losing money, all because state lawmakers missed a deadline to help metro. Adam, this is the big impact. 9 million in federal help is being repealed. Even metro itself. The feds blame maryland and virginia lawmake areless. Lawmakerless. The deadline was yesterday. They just sent this letter to say it did tails the project details the project for losing money. The metro crash. The fda has been pushing to make this new safety oversight program. The feds have been picking up the slack so far. Then a year ago, then transportation secretary anthony fox set the deadli just spoke to metro chair jack evans. He is angry about this. He called this action foolhardy and irresponsible. He wanted the deadline extended. He said state legislators just dont move fast enough. Maybe 9 months. D. C. Has already done its part. Here, bouncers signed the city
Transportation. Reporter take away parking at metro and put up new buildings. Its a polarizing topic. I think you probably need the parking. Instead of a development . I think we have a lot of developments around here. Reporter others want the development and are willing to pay to live and work near the train. I enjoy the freedom of being able to take mass transit. Works for me. Thats why im here riding the red line. Reporter when you think about metro you might not think about real estate. Make no mistake about it, the Transit Agency has a lot of real estate it owns like here at the grosvenor station and it could be changing. Metro park station, all the land metros making at looking land deals. These are some of the concepts for the two stations, a way for cashstrapped metro to get revenue and for these communities to get a new destination. Casey anderson is member of the Montgomery County planning board. He says even with all the construction in our area right now, there is still pen
Right now on news 4 this week changes at two key metro stations. How the agency could make some money and you could benefit even if you dont live there. Bridge repairs. A status update on the major rehabilitation of an iconic washington crossing. And team building. The new effort to get the redskins to change their name. And it all centers around a new stadium deal. Welcome to news 4 this week. Hi, im chris lawrence. We begin with metro. Specifically the land that surrounds a lot of the metro stations. The Transit Agency is looking to sell off some of that property at two stations in maryland to make some money. Transportation reporter explace how it could change your whole experien transportation. Reporter take away parking at metro and put up new buildings. Its a polarizing topic. I think you probably need the parking. Instead of a development . I think we have a lot of developments around here. Reporter others want the development and are willing to pay to live and work near the tra
The Prince Georges Countyince county at that time was not pursuing the vehicle according to our information, but apparently a helicopter had been following the suspect vehicle which we believe was a cherokee of some sort. Or our units went into the garage along with some Prince Georges County officers. We found the suspect vehicle and with the help of the marylandmay lives security staff and their employees they reviewed video and were able to track theto t individual that was in the carit all the way to a slot machinechn inside the casino. Shortly after getting that information from their security Anne Arrundel county supervision put together a team where they then confronted the suspect and arrested him without incident at the slot machine that he was sitting at. This person was in possession os over washington, d. C. Police, metropolitan police came up andd determined that this person wasn not involved in a car jacking or a shooting and he was subsequently arrested for the possessio