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respond. officials have released a timeline of the emergency calls and the dispatch times and brianne carter has this new information. right now, we re getting a first look at the timeline of events that unfolded monday after smoke filled the metro station and train killing one woman and injuring dozens. the information shows the first call came in at 3:14 on monday when there was a report of a debris fire on the tracks at the gallery place station. four minutes later at 3:18 a construction worker reports smoke is coming out of the metro tunnel at ninth and water street. according to the timeline there were initially 13 emergency calls. at 3:24 a metro transit official called asking medics and fire units at l enfant plaza for smoke in the station and reports citizens in the station could barely breathe. firefighters arrived at l enfant plaza metro station at 3:31. however, according to the timeline it was 13 minutes before emergency responders were able to get into ....
chris pabst spoke to the man filing that suit. chris is live at the metro headquarters in northwest washington. chris, as you reported yesterday, these claims could cost metro millions of dollars. well absolutely. these lawsuits are soon to start piling up. today, we learned that the first lawsuit will officially be filed tomorrow. and then just a minutes ago, abc 7 learned that six more of those passengers have already signed on with that same law firm with the man who is filing tomorrow. now, speaking of that man he said today that he thought that he was going to die on that train when it started filling with smoke. so much in fact that he wrote a text to his mother and to his two kids saying good-bye. i just didn t see any way that we were going to get out of there because the smoke was encapsulating and all you could see out the window is darkness. at about 3:30 monday afternoon, while stuck inside a smoke-filled metro train near the l enfant plaza station, ma ....
c.p.r. on carol glover who died that day. he says he was on the train an hour before being evacuated. it was way too long for the people on our car to get the help that they needed. so you know an hour can t survive in an hour if you re really in trouble. today, the mayor said an initial report on the incident will be released in the next 48 hours. from our point of view we have to make sure that the response time for our department responded in every every fast and safe way possible. fire service consultant dave statter questions the timing of many aspects of the response. certainly if you re on that train, it s an eternity. but the firefighters do have to make sure they re safe. in the end carol glover was taken to the hospital at 4:25 p.m. more than an hour after eyewitnesses reported first seeing smoke. as for that report that it was released within 48 hours, it will also include hours of radio traffic information as well as interviews from first respo ....
the whole system clears out of town by early tomorrow evening. we ll have more on the timing and impact coming your way in a few minutes, maureen? thank you doug. president obama s state of the union address tonight is expected to focus on economic proposals meant to help the middle class but the president is already facing resistance from the republican controlled congress. mike conneen joins us live from capitol hill where just minutes ago, police began shutting down roads around the capitol. mike? maureen, those road closures are in effect. we re seeing a heavy police presence across capitol hill. access limited to only those with credentials for tonight s event. the speech scheduled to start at 9:00 p.m. the president s sixth time for delivering the state of the union address. but the first time he ll stand before the republican majority in the house and senate. the president of the united states. despite a republican-controlled congress, president obama wil ....