Witness says that evans punched vante in the chin and vante returned the punch. Witness says that evans eventually fell to the ground, grasping his neck as he bled. A month ago miss wells says she took her son to richmond, virginia, to get away from the violence in the streets of washington. She brought him back yesterday for a court date. He was taking the metro home when it happened. He was the reason why we tried to move away from the area. Because ive seen, i just seen it. Seen it coming. I just seen it. Murder suspect javante hall is no stranger to the law, ill have more coming up on that at 6 00. Live at superior court, pat collins, im adam tuss at the deanwood station where both d. C. Police and Metro Transit Police have promised to increase their presence here after the two deadly incidents here in the last couple of weeks. So did it really happen today . Were there more transit officers . What are riders saying all about these episodes at this one particular station . That par
And ponding on the roadways and heavier stuff east of chadds ford pushing off to the east at are 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour. If your son or daughter has a softball or tballgame later this morning, chances are it will be wet out there. Day planner for the philadelphia area, 65 degrees with the showers and downpours around. 11 00 a. M. , cloudy with showers, 1 00 p. M. , same thing 69. Probably by 2 or 3 we see the skies brighten up a little bit, temperatures warm to the low 70s west of philadelphia get into places like reading and allentown its full sun. You get the idea the clouds will be slow to go. So slow the jersey shore probably stays socked in from start to finish. Morning showers, 73. Jersey shore, showers and cloudy throughout the day, 64. Brighter weather is ahead in the sevenday forecast. Temperatures in the 80s return in just a bit. Thank you. Time 9 01. New information to tell you about this morning several people escaped serious injury when an suv crashed into a house in sout
Contribute more to the operation side of metro, then the next time something bad happens, hes coming back here and blaming congress. So theres been a lot of bad blood thats already been spilled here on capitol hill this afternoon. Before all of this, there was another meeting with the local congressional delegation. Metro general manager Paul Wiedefeld was there in that meeting. Virginia senator tim kaine was telling him he thinks the metro board is actually too involved in the daytoday operations of whats going on in metro. Take a listen to that. A lot of my concern about leadership has been about the board and the absence of a general manager and, you know, i have just been flummoxed about some board activity. Now, im not asking you to comment on the board, but i just am saying, youve got to be the manager of this system. Reporter so to that the general manager basical replied i run the system. A lot talked about on capitol hill today. What managers plan, what hes going to do specifi
Ward who is live for us in foggy bottom. Reporter good afternoon, jim. We first reported in the 11 00 a. M. Newscast. The gentleman at the center, well, he just got out of the hospital at gw but he told us about his account and weve also spoken to metro and they say theyve got some more investigating to do. Derrick powell feels lucky. Despite the scars on his head and the injury to his back. Im thinking did i really just have to jump off of a train . To save my life . Reporter it was just before 10 00 a. M. Powell says he was rushing to catch the blue line train at Lenfant Plaza station. As he reached the platform, the doors are closing. I stuck my arm in the door to get the door to stay open. So the doors shut on me. Reporter if you ride the train, you have seen train operators do a visual check to see things are clear. Metro said the train operator got an indication the doors were not all closed so the gee give me a quick boom boom, open the door and shut it. The whole time my arm is
At your commuter forecast at 5 11. We have that problem still hanging around in frederick countthy this morning. Thurston road south of 80, all lanes blocked box of those wires down. That is an earlier crash that caused that problem. 95 at Prince William parkway, northbound, southbound, dont have any big problems there. Taking a look at 66, Fairfax County to the beltway going to take you eight minutes like it should. Remember to listen to our friends at wtop 105 fm when you hop in your car. Its 5 01, were following the latest developments in belgium. Right now, belgium is working to identify the victims but says its very difficult especially with some people in artificial comas or others with serious injuries. 34 people were killed and hundreds hurt, including several americans. At least one american couple is still missing right open. Trains and buses are all running. Although the subway station, some of them still closed. The airport also closed today. And its not clear when they wil