Live at the scene with the latest on the fire thats left six members of a family unaccounted for even at this hour. Brad . Thats really the most important thing to people who know these folks is what is their fate . A tremendous amount of sadness. Theres an awful lot going on here in the yard of this place. This is the gate. We come over here and we take a look down the lane past the fence, you can see thats the remains of the structure back there and up above it that big crane. We can show you some video of when they rolled this big thing in here earlier today. This house is so big, 16,000 square feet. They say about five times the size of the normal house. They need this heavy equipment to do their investigation. Now, this is being treated, were told now essentially as a crime scene. Not because there is a belief that the crime happened. But because they have no choice because they have no idea why this fire started. When they can say i was standing here to saying we have the fire fi
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 cant survive in an hour if youre 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 youre on that train, its an eternity. But the firefighters do have to make sure theyre 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 responders. As for metro, we called t
The whole system clears out of town by early tomorrow evening. Well have more on the timing and impact coming your way in a few minutes, maureen . Thank you doug. President obamas 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. Were seeing a heavy Police Presence across capitol hill. Access limited to only those with credentials for tonights 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 hell stand before the republican majority in the house and senate. The president of the united states. Despite a republicancontrolled congress, president obama will push ahead with his agend
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 goodbye. I just didnt 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 smokefilled metro train near the Lenfant Plaza station, malbert rich thought his lif
I told my mother that i loved being her son and i told my kid i love being their dad. Reporter 53yearold rich telling a packed ce roo reporters the Text Messages he was sending as the railcar he was riding on fill to the top with smoke. Ill tell you, i just didnt 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 was darkness. Reporte tomorrow morning d. C. Law firm cohen cohen says it will file a suit sloil against metro claiming negligent maintenance, negligent inspecti and a negligent respono an emergency situation. Attorney kim brooks rodney former assistant general counsel for metro, is hand thlg case. Why is it being file sodd so soon without all the facts on the table . Filing it so soon because frankly we need to know what the heck happened in that subway tunne reporter the ntsb still investigating, a preliminary report expected in the coming days. At this point everything points to a massive electrical si