Comes into the cleveland newsroom. I declare this assembly to be unlawful and order you to disperse. Brian protests hours ago in milwaukee. People there demonstrate and rioting for two Straight Days after a Deadly Police shooting. I want to stress the fact that this is still a significant flood event. Tia the flood hes talking about is a frightening situation. Several of them happening right now in south thousands of people are homeless this morning after more than 2 feet of rain has fallen over the last four days. Just crazy when you look at that video. Brian were going to continue to update you on that stilldeveloping story all morning long. Of course, nothing that severe for us. We did have severe weather. We had some storms that rocked and rolled in and then quickly out. More rain today. Tia we had a flood watch warning, and turned out to not meteorologist sam roberts is tracking the weather that we have for you on a monday. Hey, sam. Samantha good morning. Nobody loves monday, but
Discourage the use of the hand brakes because of the challenge in the use. Another finding showing the operator training manual arent up to date to include the 7,000 rail cars, the newest on the system. They issued new safety directives to make sure the vehicles are properly stored. We reachedded out to metro who said metro has been working with the f. D. A. To identify the issue in the safety directtive and undertake the necessary corrective actions within f. T. A. Deadline. This is coming a day ahead of a special Board Meeting called by the board of directors. That will meet tomorrow. The key topic they will be discussing safety on the system. Back inside to you. Leon thank you. Indiana. We learned a tornado touched down there. You are looking at video coming in the newsroom. We are getting reports of widespread damage including a starbucks being leveled. Indiana governor is leahing the campaign trail to head home. We havent heard reports of injuries but the information is changing q
Almost outdated and approaching the end of a 25year life span and soon they have to open bids for a contractor and spend 23 million to fix the elevator. I dont have a finite time at this time. But the point we get to construction is probably an eight or ninemonth period of work on the system. Sam for tourists well, we were hoping to get there. But its broken down at the moment. It doesnt help. Im claustrophobic. I knew it was closed. I was happy. Sam a park service, a veteran says there have always been elevator stoppages. He said back when he operated the elevator here in the 1980s there would be stoppages but the difference was there were no computers operating it. Also, the people stuck inside the elevator did not have social media to tweet out to the world so everybody knew about it. And were asking questions. National mall, im sam ford, abc7 news. Leon thank you, sam. Bad news for the tourists. We have good news about tourism. The news out of the washington monuments closure comes
Widespread, and some aerial footage taken from a drone is giving us a much better look at the devastation there. At least 73 people are dead. That number is expected to rise, and right now, the searches on to find survivors who may be trapped under the rubble. Abcs ray road monday have the latest. Ay it lasted just seconds, but the emotional impact will be felt for a lifetime. The shock seen on the faces of those who have lived through it. Right now, the desperate race against the clock to find people trapped underneath debris. Calm thistries to woman, asking if she can breathe before pleading with her to remain calm. This person, pulled out alive on stretcher by rescuers. Those who experienced the violent tremors now sharing the horrifying moments. There is a terrible frustration of the ground below your feet moving and having no clue what to do. Ray the 6. 2magnitude quake struck just before 4 00 in the morning. The tremors felt across a vast area of the country. We are alive because
Because the cold front has not yet moved in, but its just heading our direction now. As we move into the afternoon we are not going to see a ton of warming like we have been seeing. Instead of 90s we are capping those temperatures in the 80s today. We are at 82 currently in philadelphia, mt. Holly 80, wilmington 82. Still in the 70s for allentown an coatesville at 11. Looks like any showers will be off to the north of us, not affecting. Right now the cold front is just starting to track in. Some cloud coverage as we move through your morning, early afternoon, but later in the day just sunny to mostly sunny conditions. Aepn nice forecast for us with winds that will start shifting directions. With that cold front passage winds will pick up to 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour, breeze yeens today but otherwise those winds coming in from the northnorthwest will allow for us to push out the moisture meaning lower humidity. We will talk about the forecast temperature this afternoon and more on the day