Their first appearance before a judge sometime tomorrow morning. Now again police are still looking for the weapon in this case. As far as we know they tell us they have not recovered that gun. Wendy, back to you. Mark segraves, thanks. Todays shooting just adds to metros troubles. Its the latest highprofile violent attack in the Transit Agency in recent weeks. Our transportation reporter adam tuss spoke with the Metro Transit Police chief today about safety concerns. Adam, what did you learn . Well jim, Transit Police say they hear riders concerns about safety and they are going to respond. One of the changes that will be coming, the police chief tells me there will be a greater focused effort on the trains themselves. No one, not one of metro staff can remember the last time a shooting happened on a train. But there have been a number of attacks on trains recently. And Transit Police say they will be adjusting. Any exra physically on trains . We already look at our process, better to
Here we go, 6 00 a. M. Temperatures upper 30s, low 40s with light rain and showers across the board. Not a pretty start tomorrow, and then by 8 00, 39 frederick, 42 downtown, 48 and hagerstown, 41 in frederick with more rain on the way. Reminder, track all of this on your smart phone. Download our app, go to the app store, search wusa9, you get radar, 3 degree guarantee and extended forecasts. Then we come back we will say when the line of storms also the area. To Prince Georges County where there are new developments in the case of a School Volunteer accused of committing horrific crimes against kids. A grand jury indicted Deonte Carraway on charges related to sexual abuse. The federal government announced their own plans to charge him with eight counts of producing child pornography. Ellison barber brings you the latest. Reporter the federal charges are staggering because if convicted it means that carraway could face a victim of 129 years behind the documents are also helpful becaus
Directors new and old business. No hands waving, next item. Item 5 is Public Comment which is an opportunity for member s of the public to address the board on matters that are not on todays calendar and we have mr. Robert, followed by mr. Finebaum mr. Robert . Good morning, my name is Steve Roberts and im a member of the Rail Passenger association of california, a Public Transportation advocacy group. I thank you for the opportunity to address you this morning. Because of the benefits of reduced automobile usage, fully leveraging caltrains electrification project which thereby will increase caltrain ridership and its revenue performance and financial performance, also reducing Green House Gas misses, facilitating transitoriented development, the extension of Caltrain Service to transbay terminal is one of our associations key priorities. Any actions that delay this vital project and snarl it in endless planning reduce its Operational Flexibility or capacity are of a concern to our ass
Alqaida or any other known terrorist groups. Theres a lot of evidence in this case that doesnt quite make sense so were trying to be very thohohtful to understand it and make sense of it so we understand the full extent of what we have here. Here. The fbi also says there is no indication the couple wasart of a larger terror cell. Ocal Authorities Say there is no longer any threat to the public. Fox 28 news, along with our sister stations, conducted a National Survey on twitter. We wanted to know if you thought the government could keep you safe from acts of terrorism. Terrorism. After more than 12 thousand votes were cast, 78 percent told us, no. Just 22 percent said they f ft the government could protect them,. Thanks to everyone who took part in our online survey. Despite the actions of just a few radicalized people, the vast majority of muslimsmsboth here a a around the world are to prevent people from using their religion to justify violent acts . Acts . In a story youll only see o
Well be looking at. Good, thank you, i think we can move on. Alright, madam chair, with the completion of Public Comment, you are into your consent cal abasing these items are considered to be routine unless a member of the public or the board wishes to have an item severed or considered separately. There are members of the public who wish to have several items receiverbacker severed so i think we have 10. 2e, 10. 2i and 10. 7. Okay, so the consent calendar with those items 10. 2e, 10. 2i and 10. 7 and that is the one i believe that you would want to recuse yourself on would be 10. 2e so that ones off the the commuter shuttle is 10. 3. Can i get that one too. We need to sever 10. 3 as well. Alright t consent calendar with those items severed, do i have a motion to approve . Frjts moved. Do i have a second . Second. And a second . Great, and all in favor aye. Aye. Thank you, so moved. Do you want to call those two together . 10. 2e has to do with establishing oversized vehicle restricti