Week, two big stories you saw only on 4 first, a father sharing his coerns about a guardrail found on local roads and c how itld impact your safety. I came out here, i read the documeds, i mea the units, and theyre different from what was test, period. The new accusations against the maker of that controversial guardrail thats being blamed for a number of deaths. We have consumer investigation. And later a new beginning for the Catholic Church in washington. D news4soreen gentzler sits down with archbishop wilton d. Gregory for his local tv interview. Welcome to news4 this week. Hello, everyone. Im leon harris. Were going to begin with a consumer investigation that you saw only on here on news4. Ew accusations against the maker of a controversial guardrail thats being blamed for a number of deaths here i our region and across the country. This particular guardrail is called the xlite. Its been the center of an investigation for nearly two tars. Here arehe new details. Reporter steve, h
Court. He talked with the woman who recorded that video. Path, what did she tell you . Reporter she has a lot to say, jim, but, first, lets talk about the victim here. Hes a howard grad, a finance major. He works in a startup here in our city. Saturday he wanted to see his mom. He decided to take metro. He goes down into the u street station and and lets go to the videotape. The metro cop tased him and then tased him again. They say the man was trying to be a peacemaker when it happened. The 29yearold man cuffed and charged wit assaultn a police officer, charged with obstruction of justice, charged with resisting arrest and jailed for two days. According to his attorney, the charges all dropped today. Hear now from his mom who was at the courthouse. I couldnt believe my lawyer. They dropped all the charges and happy. He is very upset. Highly raumatized, and hes not happy. Hes not happy the way things went. Today i shock with shameer jones who took the pictures. I kept screaming like yo
Week. Were going to begin with a consumer investigation that you saw only here on news 4. New accusations against the maker of a controversial guardrail thats being blamed for a number of deaths here in d our region a across the country. This particular guardrail end piece is called the x light, its been at the center of a news 4 consumer investigarlon anr neay two years. Susan hog has been on it all along. Here are the new details. Steve imers daughter, hanna, died in 2016 afteritting an x light. He believes the product is defective and he is on a mission to get the guard rails removed from our nations highways. So we traveled to his home in tennessee earlier this year to give you a firsthand look inside his ground zero, where he says hes made some surprising here x represents the max we can spend, okay . Reporter its a typical wednesday morning at timers home, melissa pulling double duty for mom and homeschool teacher for seven of h kids. Before leaving for work, steve heads to the b
Scaffolding. The worker was later transported to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. Following that impact with the scaffolding and the worker, the suspect did a series of maneuvers where she reversed the car and then drove forward again striking several parked vehicles. Reporter we did get this video of police at 6th and clara arresting the woman after she finally came to a stop. We do not know her name. We do not know if she was under the influence of drugs, alcohol, or any other intoxicating substance. She is at the hospital with complaints of pain. You look at the kia soul behind me, the front end is completely smashed up. The back window is missing. It had plastic on it. And again, a lot of destruction throughout the city, tenderloin, and south of market. The good news is, no one seems to have been seriously hurt. Live in San Francisco, henry lee. Henry, were you able to tell is she an older woman, a younger woman . Is there any talk about whether she may have had a me
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