we know 200 people were evacuated and 84 people including carol glover, the one fatality, were transported to the hospital. more than an hour elapsed between the first call coming from l enfant plaza to the victim being transported, but cpr was administered to carol glover, a passenger at that time. it just takes a while. i m more concerned about i just heard this morning on the media that radios are not working down in the tunnels. there has been a lot of discussion about if the firefighters could hear amongst themselves and get upstairs and what was the state of the equipment. reporter: in washington, surae chinn, wusa9. as of now half a dozen people plan to sue metro tomorrow over the tragedy of that trapped and smoke filled train. they allege negligence and complain metro s evacuation plans, if it had any, were abject failures. bruce leshan is live at l enfant plaza with the latest on that. reporter: smoke is actually fairly common in the metro tunnels and t
smoke fairly common in metro tunnels. the agency is supposed to have a plan to get people out, but a d.c. lawyer filing a lawsuit tomorrow says instead of a plan the passenger here were left figh for air in the midst of chaos. malbert rich is still wearing his georgetown hospital wristband. i understand there s smoke on the train. he said that the train won t move until the train that s already in the plaza gets out. reporter: rich says several metro transit police were in his car yelling into their radios. this is the transit officer on the train. ask them to move that train off the platform. just constantly screaming to command trying to turn to the fifth channel or this channel and nobody could even get that train out. what a crock. reporter: rich said he sent what he thought was a final text. i told my mother that i loved being her son and i told my kids i loved being their dad. reporter: a half dozen plaintiffs have now signed onto that lawsuit. at l en
i have to agree with the deputy general, i don t know what i don t know which 106 out of how many? someone over 300. the third, i would hope that it is true that not every swiss bank engaged in this kind of conduct. so i think about one-third was a remarkable response to the program. yours in the department of justice has made no explanation whatsoever? we really don t measure? .. were at the atc been finalized i believe that narrative glosses over the years of widespread misconduct across the bank. they asserted that they would have turned over the name of account holders but they were prevented from doing so by swiss bank. secrecy laws. however it appears that fa tc loopholes in the 2009 protocol won t permit u.s. authorities to give names for accounts close before 2009. this means it s highly unlikely the united states will be able to collect much of the loss tax revenues from aliens hidden overseas. i don t buy their narrative. the american people shouldn t darsha t
people that were paying attention. how many of you read the paper these days? [laughter] does i think they were ribbon around the papers trying to decide riveted around the papers trying to decide? i just don t know. i think the bigger impact really was the grassroots efforts that took lays within the plant, where people had to, within shifts, and in brakes had to inform people the fact that most of the employees got it that all they wanted for at the was dollarhe u v w signs. reported right after that by the ap that they have had to sell $300 million in assets over the past several years just to survive. they are selling talks, they re selling bongo they re selling investments to survive cutting k to bed and sleep survived. cutting back tremendously. should officials be able to say and think what they think to be true? absolutely. we have nine people who want question, but we are out of time. thank you so much for coming. we hope you come back. thank you. i apprecia
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