For six years we traveled to u. S. Cities bringing the book scene to our viewers. Watch more of our visits at c spab. Org slash cities tour. Back in 2008, the brooklyn anniversary th party that the city of new york threw. And mayor bloomberg presided over it and he said that the Brooklyn Bridge was the icon of new york city. And hes absolutely correct because if you look at television, or read magazines, its very hard to watch tv and not see repeated images of the Brooklyn Bridge. It really is the icon of new york city. And it originated here in trenton. John was born in 1806 in prussia which later became part of germany. The town he was born in is about 100 kilometers southwest of berlin. When he came here, he had a first class Engineering Education in germany by some of the best architects and engineers in europe and he arrived here just as america was taking off in terms of the industrial revolution. And there were very few train engineers here. Trained engineers here. So he showed
Tonight, because of our stories, metro is changing how it follows up on crime, but are they calming the fears of riders . Tom it has been a bad few days for safety news for metro. You go down that way, south of year, there was an assault and robbery. You go up that way, there was a rape on the red line. We know that metro will change its policy about how it informs the public about Violent Crimes. Safety is at risk, not knowing that people are doing that. S are upset that metro did not tell them about the red line rate. Raping ais accused of woman 10 a. M. Tuesday, april 12. Metro said nothing at the time in the public only found out monday when abc 7 broke the we have things happen every day. Manager saidral hicks was arrested hours later, so they do not publicize the rape. We caught the person. That is an escalation of anything ive heard. Tom riders say they should have been told. They least let people know have to be aware this is possible. If you are not aware, you dont pay as much
Crowd and there are reports of at least one arrest there. This morning the police in anaheim the chief that is, said his officers would have zero tolerance for violence or any other trouble. Police and protesters clashed outside a trump rally in new mexico last night. Also tonight, a new chapter in the Hillary Clinton email controversy. The state Department Inspector general sent congress a report that sharply criticized clintons use of a private email account during her time as secretary of state. The practice was not against state department rules at the time, nor was it encouraged. The report is just a few hours old and it has already made its way to the campaign trail. Steve handelsman has the fallout. Reporter this is not the fbi investigation into possible criminal violations by the former secretary of state, but its bad enough. The internal state Department Report is a stinging blow as california. It says that secretary of state, her using a private email account broke federal r
Mornings awful commute it has to do with the issues with the Medical Center and water seeping into the tracks creating smoke. Congressional leaders were grilling metro leadis about the disrepair in the system. Illinois congressman dan lipinski says he regularly rides the red lierngs but not today. I said im getting on my bike to ride the 17 miles down to capitol hill because kwloen when im going to get in. I think metro in so many ways is unfortunately an embarrassment to our nations capitol. Maintenance teams havent had a chance to have meaningful repairs and this morning it turned into one brutal commute. At the height of it this morning some delays were reported for over an hour and so far tonight everything looks back to normal. Doreen . Adam tuss reporting. Thank you, adam. The race for the white house takes a surprise turn in virginia. A campaign mcauliffe is now under federal investigation and he calls for a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton and is denying wrongdoing and our T
Good morning. A lot of the earlier construction has cleared out of the way. We still had road work hanging around 95 southbound at falmouth with the right lane blocked by the work zone. Its not slowing things too much this morning in the southbound lanes. Big look at the beltway. Overall, everything is rolling along quite nicely. You can see a little bit of a slowdown outbound for you there near the beltway. No report of anything but ill keep an eye on that one. 66 from Fairfax County parkway to the beltway, that takes you nine minutes. Listen to our friends on 103. 5 f. M. When you hop in your car. Since our last report, we got more information out of afghanistan on that suicide bomb attack. Were hearing that 11 people have now been killed in the capital city of kabul. The Afghan Taliban saying that this was a revenge killing after some taliban prisoners were the attack happened right before the group confirmed that their former leader, mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a u. S. Dron