Sweeney is covering metro from Federal Center with how the agency is scrambling to get the brands together. Sam all eyes are on metro today. It was supposed to be the final safetrackveal of the program. We were supposed to learn today when tracks would be closing, when stations would close over the next year, but thats on hold after the federal government threw a curveball last week saying, look, our federal inspectors have found area of track that need to be serviced now. Work says, ok, we will with you, we will address those concerns, but give us a couple of days to incorporate those plans into our plans, basically plants together. They say it is like moving moving puzzle pieces around. Those who use metro every day are saying, give us answers. We appreciate the hard work everyone does. Be addressed. Sam that is the sentiment from we the writers riders have spoken to. Metro says it will move forward with its program to shut down the system on weekends at midnight beginning june 3. Ju
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High school recently, dc educators say we must make sure kids get to and from school safely. They are encouraging everyone to join the man the Block Program today, to ensure safe passage and send a strong message. Delia goncalves has more on the story. The man the Block Program started right here, at the Richard Wright public charter school, and it is a very personal one. We look at this group of kids standing behind me, and they should be worth something. Dr. Marco clarks former student 15yearold john evans was stabbed to death at Deanwood Metro in april two weeks after devon tay washington, another 15year old, was gunned down at deanwood. Police arrested suspects in both cases. 90 of our kids across the city are remarkable and we need to start celebrating them. What about those kids that really come to school every day, and do what they are supposed to do . If were asking them to come to school, every day, we should at least make sure they can get home safe. Lark and his students are
Is africanamerican. We have made an important statement as a country. We have to continue to work at this thing. If we dont continue to step forward, we will go backwards. Because the world is moving. To stand still is to go back. We have to keep moving forward. Thats what the movement is about. Moving forward, recognizing those changes we still have to make. Host a commemoration today on the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday. Call American History tv at reverend lafayette, you were in selma, alabama several years right or to the marches, the events that happened in march of 1965. Tell us how you ended up in selma, alabama p we heard the story about the x on the map marking selma off. You went anyway. What is the story there . What happened is those of us from asheville had decided that since we had the sit in movement and we continued the freedom rides, once we started the freedom rides, we decided if we would give a fulltime for a couple of years, it would be like the peace corps, bo