This march for life concert is going off at this moment. You can see tens of thousands of people as we mentioned here at the national mall. It wrapped up an hour ago at the Verizon Center and thousands of young adults are also arriving for that event as well. This rally falls on the 42nd anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision roe vs. Wade. It also comes as the g. O. P. Leadership in the house just yesterday abruptly dropped plans to drop to not vote on the bill bill that bans both abortions after 20 weeks. That vote was scheduled to coincide with todays event. Demonstrators were undeterred by the unexpected news. Take a listen to why they made their way out here. To hear all these young people year after year saying im glad to be alive. And i want to speak up for life. I want to tell everybody how wonderful life is. Really because were all of god. Its porn for a female to be empowered to understand its not just about them but god has given them the gift which is the ability to
Maintenance, money spent or anything. Again, were standing by for all those details in the preliminary report from the ntsb. Could get that into the newsroom any minute. Well bring you the latest details as soon as we get them. Reporting live in southwest washington, mike conneen, abc 7 news. Thank you. The mind set of some metro passengers seems to be changing these days after mondays incident. This morning, abc 7 saw several people tweeting about smoke in the rosalynn station just down the street as a matter of fact from our studio here and we sent a crew out and they found an odd smell there in the station but things running just fine. But richard wolf tweeted this picture noting the orange line train emptied at rosalynn and smoke fills cars. And then steve cuff tweeted this. Orange line car at rosalynn starts getting something burning smell before metro even says anything. People get the hell off new reality. That could be the case. Abc 7 did call metro and we found out there was a
Thomas jackson was stepping down. One officer was shot in the face while another was struck in his shoulder with a bullet exiting his back. By gods grace, we didnt lose two officers last night. Both officers have been released from the hospital. What happened last night was a pure ambush. This was want someone trying to bring healing to ferguson. This was this was the punk. Witnesses say the shots were fired at a hill a distance away from the protesters. Bullets were whizzing right past my head. It was kind of traumatic. Im still kind of s the parents of officer Brennan Rabain arrive at their sons funeral. His little daughter looks on from his mothers arms as his fathers casket is taken into the victory christian church. The sanctuary is packed with family and friends and men and women in uniform. They hear of rabains passion for policing from the rookie cops squad sergeant. Thats what he did. He was living his dream. From his father, they hear how proud rabain was of his uniform earne
Fraternity has now surfaced. It shouldnt be happening at a Big University like this. The way it was handled isnt appropriate. In the email sent 14 months ago, an undergraduate member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity uses racial slurs to refer to black, indian and asian women and alludes to raping women during rush week. To be honest i cant stand that we have group life. In a statement, the University President says the university became aware of the email on tuesday and calls it vulgar and says it expresses views that are reprehensible to the campus community. After even like the u. V. A. Thing, i think its tragic. He added the investigation led by the University Office of public misconduct is under way and part of the probe will include trying to see if that email was written and sent from inside the frat house here. Today, students inside prefer not to comment. The fraternitys National Chapter did take swift action sending a statement saying upon learning of the email the individual was
Computer, which wasnt functioning, and that led to us having no service at all this morning. Things getting back to normal now, but weve been speaking with commuters, and they say between the strike, contract issues, and things like this, theyve had enough. The fwats to bart station across the bay area have been shut for hours into the morning commute. There we are. Gates are closed. No option. A 4 00 a. M. Start rolled to 5 00, then 6 00, and still no service. In walnut creek commuters worked the phones. I already called into work. I told them that ill be in when i can. All because of a computer failure according to bart that affected the Operations Control Center and communications with trains and their track switches. And without the computers we werent actually able to see on that big board that we have, the big map where the trains were. We did have a constant radio communication, but without that visual confirmation, its very difficult to run trains. He says he is not sure if its