And rail employees. Metro says they have denied all of those requests, so they expect to offer normal schedule today so thats the good news for the riders. But it was a bit of a mess here yesterday on metro center. Old equipment was sort of the issue to blame for the delays and the issues here but things are back to normal. I want to show you some video from yesterday as things got tense right after this incident at metro center there was a board meeting. Metro and its Largest Workers Union theyre currently locked in a very contentious contract dispute then protested yesterday according to this board meeting. Workers wants their voices heard. They are upset about the hard line approach by management. Theyre criticizing this new absenteeism policy which requires workers to file absence requests three days in advance and metro says, look, this is necessary. We need to crack down on excessive absenteeism going on and increase the productivity but during the protest workers dropped protest
Constand y agrees is a, you came back. Constand, yes. I did. Constand civil attorney was unimpressed. Obviously if bill cosby makes pass at you as a woman you have one choice in life. You should quit your job and become a nun. Youre being sarcastic for point. For a point. Reporter defense used phone records to show constand miscalculated by two months the date on which the alleged s wal assault occurred. Said couldnt stand quote i was mistaken. Those records also show con stand made reported phone calls to cosby in the days and weeks following the actual incident. Fellow cosby accusers were on hand to watch the dramatic back and forth. Im so standing behind her because i hear her authenticity. I hear her truth, and we stand together in solidarity. Cosbys wife camille has been conspicuously absent from these proceeding but handful of friends and supporters have made the trip to norristown. He of course is innocent until hes proven guilty. Thats true of everybody in our system i think. A
They say theyve been targeted in a series of attacks and they want to know why. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. Tonight theyre scared and they have been talking with our jennifer joyce. Reporter keep your eyes on the blue pickup truck. It passes by this home in the durnley section of roxborough, slows down then, boom, hits reverse and slams into a parked white suv before slowly driving away. The victim whose identity we are concealing says her brand new car is nearly totaled and she feels like this was no accident. The Police Officer says to me and my husband, did you know this man . This look deliberate. Because he never stopped when he hit your car. He was going full speed. Reporter woman says she and her husband feel like theyre being targeted. I dont know if its connected to race. I dont know if its because me and my husband are young. I have no idea. Reporter they moved on to the block just last march. The day after they say their house was egged their front steps stil
Stepping up security, including our own. Pete williams has confirmed the suspects name. Its Esteban Santiago. The shooter was a passenger on a canadian flight and checked the gun in his bag. When he arrived in florida, he retrieved the gun from his bag, loaded the gun and opened fire. We want to show you some video we got from inside the terminal at that baggage claim. You can hear the alarms going off. And then that second situation in terminal one. We saw people running out of the terminal and onto the runway. Others huddled behind cars with Police Officers staged right behind them. Police all over the place there. You see them in some cases with their weapons drawn. Officials told us situation appears to be unfounded. There was no second shooting. Right now the airport is closed. We will keep you updates on any new developments as we learn more from Fort Lauderdale. Our other big story of the afternoon is right outside our door. Its snow thats coming this weekend. Round one came ove
Banner and they got arrested. No violence. Just mischief. This is the first sign we have seen but as you can see the protesters are outnumbered by police 31. They have a ring around the arena. We will continue to follow what is happening outside the arena. Go live to the chief Political Correspondent scott thuman. We will have him in a few minutes. He is inside the r. N. C. For day two. Meantime, back to you. Leon thanks, jonathan. We are going back out to breaking news coming in from prince georges county. Drivers are urged to avoid b. W. Parkway. There is a crash there. Landscaper critically hurt in a crash on the northbound side. The traffic is diverted off the parkway to route 410. The southbound lanes are slowing down for several miles as the people slow down to make their way around the site and rubber neck. We will keep you posted on what happens there. Another challenge for the metro riders to deal maureen abc7 reported extensively on the Transit Agency safety issues for severa