Friday morning, august 19 and, 2016, were showing you beautiful rosslyn virginia. Thats where we are today for our zip trip, tucker and annie are there right now, erin he going shortly. Were going to join them in a few minutes. Friday morning to you, im Allison Seymour im maureen umeh. Welcome to fox 5. Theyre having breaking developments in that scandal involving four u. S. Swimmers accused of lying of an alleged robbery at the olympics in rio. The last held in brazil james feigen just paid 11,000 in order to leave the country. Two others allowed to return home after testifying about that incident. Wisdom, its a bizarre story as they try to unravel and get the details. We also have breaking news an apology from the Olympic Committee for the athletess controversial behavior. The committee released a stale saying the behavior of these athletes is not acceptable. Nor does it represent the values of team usa or the conduct of the vast majority of its members. Meantime, the Rio Police Depa
Im peter newsham. I hope the community will see me for what i am and that is that im committed to this city. Newsham wants to be considered for the permanent job. Thats in our interview on news4 at 5 00. Chris and susan . He sounds like his own man. Can you tell us a little bit more about the issues hes going to face right off the bat . Well, daily Crime Fighting is the bread and butter of the Police Department. Theres been spikes in Violent Crimes here and there. He says hell be right on top of it. The other thing is theres about 250 officers short in the Police Department, even as the city is growing, even as there is crime and more places that need more officers and the Police Department needs more of them themselves. Tom sherwood, thank you. First at 4 00, a Police Shooting in the district that the police says happened as an attempted shooting in northeast and thats where we find news4s pat collins. Hey, pat. Reporter susan, this is where it came to an end, right across the street
That severely damaged by electr arcing during mondays metro incident. This was in a tunnel south of the lenphant pla station. Now, early information from the nationfed s that when that arc occurred a Circuit Breaker, a safety component, tripped, cutting power to one section of track. But it would be another 46 minutes before the damaged section was completely cut off. When workers at Metro Operations Center tripped another Circuit Breaker by remote control. In the meantime ventilation fans had b turned on inside the tunnel but firefighters report were delayed by uncertaiy or weather the track they needed to get to rescue riders was still electrifie also hamper tharg efforts, just gettine doors open. Sours tell news4 that the type of railcar involved didnt have readily accessible emergency handles to open the doors. Firefigh in the tunnel were trying t get passengers to open them from the inside. Th couldnt. More than 80 people were injured as the tunnel and train filled with smoke. One
Derrick wa joins us live from Lenphant Plaza metro with the latest. Rep as you said indeed, we eo hear from the National Transp very soon about details, at le a preliminary report into what happened o an incident in the extreme, but not completely rare. Smoke in the tunnel happens every day. Metro says its almost a daily occurrence tra the rails resultin smoke. But with mondays incident where one woman died there is now a height and response like the one at the boston metro station this morning. A similar report at ft. Totten and another reported at twinbrook earlier in the afternoon. Injuries minor delays that was the extent of it. Riders are taking it in stride. I feel pretty secure on the metro. Maybe on the yellow line we get stopped the tunnel coming in but ive never felt unsafe. Reporte as the time line emerges, d promising her own inquiry focusing on response by police and fire. Weve captured all of the 911 calls during that period of time. Thi as the ntsb takes the lead in a th
The subway at broad and cecil b. Moore adjacent to the Temple University campus and then board the subway still wearing a ski mask covering all by the eyes and mouth a fur hat and large beat earphones on never looking up to risk being identified by the surveillance cameras. The police need any help they can to find out who this cold blooded predator is. Right after the murder happens, turns we believe puts the gun back in a duffle bag in a very calm fashion just walks away. Reporter moments ago we spoke with kim jones son andre jordan. He says he hopes someone will help by coming forward to tell police and help them identify the killer. A reminder there is a 20,000 reward posted for information leading to the capture of the killer. Live at Police Headquarters in center city, vernon odom, channel6 action news. All right, thanks vernon. As we mentioned, there was a vigil today for kim jones near the north philadelphia intersection where she was killed. Here it is. This is the scene less