Angst. With possible fare hikes and service cuts coming up at 5 00, well give you the ups and downs and tell you what riders think about all this. Meanwhile, four Baltimore Area residents have filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the maryland transit administration. The residents claim transportation officials are illegally limiting services for people with disabilities. The group is not seeking money. They are instead asking the administration to take immediate steps to broaden access to its service and ensure reliability. We seem to be in a pattern of some wintry weather about every other day. Pretty accurate there that would put us back in the bulls eye tomorrow night or so. Chief meteorologist doug hill in the storm watch weather 7 center with more on our latest Winter Weather alert. Doug . Hello there. Right now, nothing but blue skies and sunshine. 45 degrees. This time tomorrow, it will look a little different. Lets get into it and tell you the weather story. Live look
To actually establish a Safety Culture so that these types of accidents do not occur. Reporter today at metro headquarters the acting chair of the nlt sb chris hart sat in on a safety meeting and spoke about the changes metros making. Were always very pleased to see parties take immediate action when they see problems during the course of the investigation. The parties are up close and personal with the issues and when they see a problem, it needs to be addressed and they need to address them. Reporter metro add theys ear not being directed to take these actions but are doing so on their own. Coming up in my next report at 6 00 still so many questions about what happened that day at Lenphant Plaza. News4 as learned about major facetoface communication problems between d. C. Firefighters and metro transit police. Youll want to hear that. Reporting live at metro headquarters adam tuss news4. And continuing our Team Coverage right now, news4s derrick ward is live outside the king street m
Again, four bodies found here. Tomorrow, the search for evidence and more bodies will resume. Reporting live, Stephen Tschida abc 7 news. All right. Thank you, heartbreaking story. So sad. All right. Moving on now today metro is promising some changes aimed at improving safety after last weeks deadly incident on the yellow line. And that revelation comes even before an official cause is determined for what failed filled the tunnel near Lenfant Plaza with smoke killing one and injuring dozens of others. Joce sterman is live outside of metro headquarters with what eats been changed and the big back tracking of by metro. Joce . They are back tracking on something that we heard from leaders earlier this week thats important in this investigation. Fans that are supposed to clear smoke out of those trains and tunnels, were now hearing something new about that as metro releases this new list of the 10 things theyre working to change. As the ntsb moves forward with its investigation, were hitt
This rather. This is maryland 450 and annapolis road at church road closed down for the repair here. Mike andrea . Thank you tranice. Today d. C. Lawmakers will probably get an earful from members of the public Advocacy Group public citizens. Theyre calling on the d. C. Council to quote pull the plug on a exelon pepco merger. Todays hearing coming a day after the report from the ohio based think tank which says the merger would have a negative impact on the city and its residents. Reporter Delia Goncalves is live outside the buildson building the site of todays hearing. Good morning. Reporter good morning and that study is what they needed. Thats the fuel behind the argument that a lot of folks will make today at city council. They will talk to City Council Members and urge them to ditch this deal because it will be bad for the two million customers of pepco in this region. Because it all boils down to more money that you may have to pay for your energy. Thats what they are arguing. An
Also talked today about signage that is already posted in trains. We have over the last year or so made improvements in the communications we have on the trains for employees and for customers to know what to do in the vent ofevent of an emergency. I just encourage our riders to read this type of information on every railcar we have. Reporter my next report at 5 00, the head of the union that represents metros frontline employees talked to news4 and says more needs to be done than just these safety changes. Adam tuss news4. They lost children and parents in one dramatic tragedy. Today four parents in mourning speak out as work continues to recover those lost in the annapolis mansion fire. News4s Darcy Spencer is looich now live now with this update. Darcy . Reporter that fire scene is right here behind me down this private driveway. This is as close as we can get to the scene right now. Yesterday we reported that cadaver dogs had found two bodies in that debris. What we learned today i