Good afternoon. Two insulators on the red line forced trains to bypass and caused a lot of others to single track. Commuters saw delays 45 minutes during rush hour. Theres still some residual delays. Right now the general manager facing tough questions on capitol hill before a house sub economy. Lawmakers want to make sure manage is done to remedy the security, safety, reliability problems. Despite concerns, metro is safe. In terms of the criminal activity, its an extremely safe system from that perspective numerically. Its very safe. Theres millionsf riders. Just last week, they fired 20 managers that directly reported to him. Many were from the regency division. Were embarking on a very ambitious project at wusa 9. We call it mission metro. Were seeking positive solutions. Today our colleague is riding metro from open to close. Adam is joining us live now. Where are you at this hour . Good afternoon. Were at the plaza. We have made it to 38 out of 91 metro stations. You talk about th
Fox 29 news in hd brought to you by x finity the future of awesome. Right now on fox 29 news at 10, a local Police Officer is thrown from his motorcycle, hit by a driver who investigators say tried to beat a traffic light. Tonight the officer is in the hospital and that driver is on the run. G evening, im chris oconnell. Im dawn timmeney. That accident happened this afternoon in chester, delaware county, and fox 29s Shawnette Wilson was there just as it happened. Shes at the Chester Police department tonight. Shawnette . Reporter well, dawn n officer is at Chester Crozer in stable condition. Im told hes being held overnight for observation. We also just checked with police and they tell me the search for the driver who hit that officer is still underway. Skyfox over the scene of a hitandrun involving a chester city Police Officer. Police on scene identify him as officer dan hoffman. Officer hoffman was on his motorcycle headed westbound on highway 291. Three cars were in the eastbound
Nbc 10s lu ann cahn live at Philadelphia Police headquarters. Did the family know they were in danger . Reporter the family says that they knew Jasmine Williams boyfriend was talking about turning himself in to police yesterday. They believe if he had just done that, she might still be alive. They just took an innocent life. She had nothing to do with whatever was going on. Reporter Monique Williams moore says she saw her pregnant daughter jasmine and her boyfriend together last night. It was hours before jasmine was shot in the head, killed in this car in West Oak Lane. Razir was shot multiple times but survived. Did you worry her life might be in danger with him . All the time. Yes, all the time. He had such a hold on her. Reporter she says razir is the father of her 6yearold grandchild and jasmines unborn child that died. Police sources confirmed they were looking for razir in connection with a murder robbery on north broad street yesterday. He has not been charged. There were a who
Along the south lawn fence line because he had a hatchet in his waist band. They asked to search his vehicle. He said sure. They found two dogs, nothing else alarming. He was let go, not arrested. Then of course friday nights incident when he hopped the fence. He gave consent to search his vehicle and they found more than 800 rounds of ammunition, some in magazines, some in boxes. They also discovered two hatchets and a machete. The president asked today about his confidence in the secret service. Heres what he had to say. The secret service does a great job. Im grateful for the sacrifices they make on my behalf and my familys behalf. All right. Thank you very much. The president as you heard expressing confidence. We expect to hear much more from the white house and will have that later tonight. In the meantime Omar Gonzalez is going to be held until at least his next hearing in District Court october 1. Reporting live, abc 7 news. Thank you, scott. We ask now, is anything new being d
Storm moving in right now. Just look at the mess the same system already dumped in florida. Cars up that their windshields in water. Live radar showing some parts of our area already started to get hit. Good evening and thanks for joining us. Im iain page. Lime sues noland. Lets get right to chief meteorologist Scott Williams. Where is the rain right now, scott. Good evening. Right now the rain is moving into south jersey as well as delaware as we watch this coastal storm moving in overnight to impact your thursday morning commute. As we focus in on ultimate doppler, you can see that rainfall albeit light right now moving into wildwood, cape may, rehoboth beach, dover, all the way into new castle county. So its approaching the i95 corridor as we speak, and it will continue to move northward during the overnight. So now through midnight were logging at it in south jersey sections of delaware, but moving north and west after midnight and overtaking the entire area with rain. In addition