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chaos. and a simple call about a strange find in georgetown brings out a military bomb squad. the left hand didn t know what the right hand was doing. good evening. i m doreen gentzler. tonight, the national transportation safety board said it s looking into communication problems between metro and d.c. fire. it s also looking at the ventilation systems in both metro tunnels and the trains themselves. news4 transportation reporter adam tuss is live at the plaza station. adam? reporter: that s right. doreen. a whole lot of new information coming out of the back-to-back meetings tonight and, yes, safety changes coming tomorrow with the metro system. so we wanted to know what were they doing now, the fierce urgency of now to correct the problem. reporter: fiery from our region s congressional leaders who are demanding answers so that riders can trust metro. when they get on metro tomorrow how confident are they going to be that they will be safe? reporter ....
metro stations. so firefighters were dispatched to those locations including at l enfant plaza, but the mayor s office is still trying to find out the exact time when that metro train was disabled. there are a lot of questions that remain and from our point of view we have to make sure that the response in our fire department responded in every fast and safe way possible. reporter: the mayor has ordered a full review of the metro smoke incident in conjunction with the ntsb. we know that 200 people were evacuated and 804 people including carol glover, the one fatality, were transported to the hospital. more than an harry latched from the first call coming an hour elapsed from the first call coming from l enfant plaza. it took 21 minutes before metro cut off power to the rail. i just heard this morning that radios are not working in the tunnels and i think that also contributed to response times. reporter: that s what mayor muriel bowser is concerned about, too. ....
in clashes. in fact, that look at what spock, the unrest from the us nuclear watchdog arrives in key from the 1st back of emission aimed at avoiding the nuclear disaster at the believe. good for re shift power. ah, i m still gale. welcome to the program. pakistan s prime minister is described devastating floods as the worst in the country s history. united nations has issued an emergency appeal for funding to help pakistan recover. a 3rd of the country is underwater, as map shows the vast areas hit by the flooding, stretching the entire length of the country. and many of pakistan s breadbasket provinces in the south have been submerged. according to the world food program, some 33000000 people have been affected. around 3000 kilometers of road have been damaged and the country s national disaster management authority. as around 2000000 acres of land have been affected, raising concerns about food security, a village underwater, in pakistan, sind province, one of several ....
days, minus called for justice for the dozens of workers who were striking for a fair wage when they were gunned down by police as explosions, rock of russian military facility in crimea. moscow says it was sabotaged. ah, ah, i m fil gail. welcome to the program. the runner up in kenny s presidential election has confirmed that he will contest the result. mother of danger describe the outcome as a travesty. that shows blatant disregard for the constitution. he also accused the chair of the electoral commission of acting unilaterally and illegally and declaring william router a kenya s next president. but after a largely peaceful election process, he also called on kenyans to remain calm for avoided or don t want to repeat that it totally. and he loves visuals, reject the presidential results announce yesterday, been i won t go mendoza, buttons with many gun and keeping the peace the i d them to continue to do so. today, i do not want to fully address was told is going, ....
Newport News authorities have charged a man in the death of Quandrell Williams, who died 10 days after he was found shot in October. But the criminal case isn't the only pending legal matter stemming from the homicide. The city's fire and police departments may face legal action over their response and treatment of Williams. ....