Right now on news 4 this week, a big week on metro. Hundreds of positions eliminated at the transit agency. Why the general manager says the cuts are necessary. Plus metros safe track program rolls on. Why your plane trip could be effected by the next safety surge. Also a news 4 exclusive. A pregnant woman denied access to the bathroom at a metro station. So she calls transportation reporter adam tuss. Welcome to news 4 this week. Hello, everyone. We are focussing on metro this week and we begin with the general managers big announcement to eliminate hundreds of jobs. This comes in the midst of metros big safe track safet be made. The announcement came in a memo to metro employees. 500 positions deemed redundant or noncritical will be cut from the agency. Theyre expected over the next several months. D. C. City Council Member jack evans is on the metro board and says its sad when jobs are cut but that the decision is necessary. Its important to down size. We have 13,000 employees and i
Heavier rain for tomorrow. Well time it all out coming up. Now to a developing story weve been following overseas. The number of People Killed in two bomb attacks in baghdad has gone up to 167 people. 185 were injured. Official tell us nbc news that a mini bus filled with explosives was driven by a suicide attacker and it atargeted a Shopping Mall and a restaurant. Isis has claimed responsibility for one of those two attacks. Meanwhile, investigators in blurb looking for bangladesh looking for clues at an attack restaurant. 20 People Killed. Three students tied to american colleges were also killed. Two attended Emory University and another at berkley. A u. S. Citizen was killed in the attack and did not identify the person. Isis has also claimed responsibility. Turning no t power should be restored in gaithersburg after a car crashed into a power pole. Happened around 2 20 this morning. One person was taken to the hospital with lifethreatening injuries in that crash. If you are lookin
Over again has been by the police. Reporter officer goodson stood trial on seven charges, including seconddegree depraved heart murder, manslaughter, and reckless endangerment. Judge Barry Williams found goodsons failure to seat belt gray was not a criminal act. Goodson didnt seek medical treatment for gray, but prosecutors failed to prove that goodson knew gray was in distress. There was insufficient evidence that goodson gave gray a rough ride. He couldnt determine if the wagon ran a stop sign by this video presented by prosecutors. We have a Police Department with a long, tortured history of distrust with the community, so the fact that you didnt secure a conviction, this is not an exoneration of the Police Department. Reporter legal experts disagree. If they could not get a conviction on anything in this case, yes, there needs to be reassessment whether to go forward on others since theyre weaker cases. Reporter you can read the entire verdict by going to our nbc washington app and
Now on news 4 today, a crash knocks out power to hundreds, flips the car and lands the driver in the hospital. The dangerous situation at a busy intersection. You are going to need your raincoat for the rest of the long weekend. Storm team 4 is tracking when showers will impact your travel plans for fireworks and parades. Dozens dead and hundreds wounded in the baghdad bombings. The latest terror group claiming responsibility. The first. The rain drops, did you hear them, feel them . Its going to be a major holiday factor. Good morning, im adam tuss. And im molette green. Timing is everything as you plan the fourth of july, the cookouts, the fireworks. The person with the answers, Lauryn Ricketts. Yes. You are dealing with rain showers throughout the morning. Its not good on the air situation but hopefully we can improve things because we have a few changes to this everchanging forecast. Letow 70s through the afternoon and you can see, look at our radar, we got some heavy rain and we h
Ndezvous with eagles he describes the soldiers daytoday activity during wartime. The george bush residential library hosted this event are it it is about an hour. 1991, general. Told troops as they went into battle, they must be aware of desert storm. Among those this ploy deployed was gday rendezvous. Ith eagle Stephen Wiehe he was placed on the front lines. His memoir gday rendezvous with eagles, describes the day to day activities of a desert storm soldier. It has been called one of the best firstperson narratives of the gulf war. Awards earned many including for Army Accommodation metals medals. Wherees in austin, texas he is active in veterans affairs. He is joined tonight by his wife sue and his two children, kristin and cody. He has a deep love for country and family is an proud and is proud to serve. We are going to show a video to begin the program, and then stephen will come up to the podium. They will be a reception after willrogram and stephen leave enough time at the end f