Worked near the Lenfant Plaza station. The allegation that the fans werent working was dead wrong. But now, after now almost a month after you first heard the claims about the fans hear on abc 7 news metro is being urged to make sure it has a plan to use those massive fans correctly. Stephen tschida live at the Lenfant Plaza station with more on the recommendations for transit systems around the country now. Stephen . Alison this sharp criticism of metro from the ntsb, word is spreading among passengers. A lot of concern here. A lot of concern at the council of governments today where those recommendations were delivered. Now, the ntsb investigated the fatal event here near the station back on january 12th and today, it released some of the preliminary findings of its investigation and i can go over a few of those for you. It stated basically that the procedures for ventilation of smoke in some systems are inadequate. Metro should immediately address these issues to prevent the occurre
The police captain, Hilton Burton who sued her claiming that she retaliated against him for testifying truthfully before the d. C. City council. The trial revolved around the Council Inquiry into Police Escorts of celebrities like Actor Charlie Sheen and whether police did such escorts routinely as burton claimed or rarely as the chief claimed. Lanier portrayed burton as a disgruntled employee whose ins competence caused her to demote him and remove as head of special operations. She noted she removed him once again for sening sexting to female employees. He did not show up today. I believe the chief had lied to you and i still believe that. My attorney and i will testify before god he has put on the best case possible and presented evidence that in our eyes was concrete. Jury didnt agree with that. I have to respect that. There were eight members of this civil jury. One woman and seven men. In addition to chief lanier being cleared, assistant chief lamar green who was also a defendant
What would that do to investor euphoria . Well talk about that, coming up in a moment. Theres another entrance into the fast food space today. Bojangles. Take a look at that huge first day move soaring on this first day of trading. Up. Weve seen that menu before. Ha, ha, ha. Were here for two hours, folks. Uber may be looking to ditch google maps and, get this pay 3 billion with a b dollars for another service. What are they going to get for 3 billion . People gave it to them, apparently. All these crazy ams of money another story we talk about all the time. In the markets, the Dow Jones Industrial average close to the highs of the session, higher by 271 points a gain of 1. 5 . S p is also higher by more than 1 . So is the nasdaq. Nasdaq is up 53, almost 54 points. Were still talking about whether or not it could regain this 5,000 level. Its recovering at 4,999. Gosh. Good chunk of the session. All right. Lets get to our Closing Bell Exchange today. A lot to get to with our guests. We
The new lawsuit tonight. Good evening. And we begin tonight with an abc news investigation. Isis is now claiming its first victory here on american soil claiming responsibility for that terror in texas. The gunmen who opened fire the traffic cop shooting them both dead. We all saw the chaos that followed. Isis now taking credit for what those men did. But offering no proof tonight. Also this evening, word of another person from the United States involved before this horrific scene played out. Abc news has learned about secret conversations and messages that allegedly led up to the deadly encounter in texas. The burnedout car when it was all over. Tonight, the hunt for the third person, an american fugitive. And abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross with those messages, right here tonight. Reporter isis today claimed responsibility for these scenes of america under attack bullets flying and police scrambling. The terror group said the two heavily armed men killed in the atta
Broadcast debate before the primary. Well get to that in a moment but lets see whats going on with accuweather and dave murphy and karen rogers has traffic. A fair amount of clouds this morning and there have been overnight sprinkles. Right now the closest we have is in the poconos. The ing tiff rain from overnight has gone off to the east. Wide view on satellite shows you its kind of a clouds and sun mix with more clouds off to the north and clear skies down to the south. Thats as we get past sunrise and then well be watching these showers which will try and pop through in the morning hours. 66 degrees in philadelphia starting out mild. In fact were all the way up to 67 in both trenton and in allentown, 63 in wilmington and reading, 62 in millville and mid 60s down on the boardwalks. Heading out the door to catch the school bus over the next couple hours were looking at comfortable conditions. 63 by 6 oclock, 66 by 8 oclock. Im going to call it partly cloudy although in some neighborh