The folks who take metro. Todays major delays stem from track problems in Medical Center and woodly park ask it backed up the entire red line and big crowds started forming at the start of the morning rush. All of this is happening as metros top leaders were on their way to face lawmakers on capitol hill. Transportation reporter adam tuss is live at one of todays trouble spots in bethesda. Adam . Reporter thats right, pat. We asked the general manager why this started along the red line and he said basically it was a water issue. Of course, we have documented the water issues here at the Medical Center station and how every time it rains the water just goes into the station. Crews have cleared out of here right now. There are some maintenance personnel still lingering around here, but we are told that the single tracking is now gone. Nevertheless, it was an ugly morning commute for a lot of people frustrated by what they were finding as they were trying to make their ways to work. Dela
Incidents today and feds ordered emergency repair. Thanks for staying with us tonight im shawn yancy. Im tony perkins. Tonight, firefighters were called to investigate smaeking brakes on train at the rockville station. No fire was found. Apparently that was a big deal. This followed spom issue tractortrailer rushed and the feds ordered metro to complete urgent repairs at the locations on your screen. You can see three of them and the work has to be finished before work begins on the massive maintenance program. Live with more on what this means for all of us. Tisha. Shawn and tony what i could see we are starting to see empty metro staitionz like the one were at now. The best care sense airo there might be rolling shut downs. The cost case we got a wide shut down. Once the short answern of solution time, metro no doubt in dire need of tlc. We spoke with engineer what says all of this is due to aiming and lack of maintenance and we asked him the question maybey of you have whats is late
In this case following nearly ne three months of a criminal investigation into Alexia Springers death which wasch w deemed an accidental Drug Overdose and just last week 18 year old david efforts a seniora here at Centerville High School turned himself into police. He is now being charged with manufacturing, possessing, distributing and selling a prohibited controlled substance. 17 year old Alexia Springer wasr found unresponsive at her sen materialville home. Police initially saying the centerville high student died o a heroin overdose, somethingverd that was later retracted by investigators. Her mother, the entire duratione ofnt the investigation has denid those statements from police an the teens autopsy revealed that she had consumed a cocktail of c drugs which included morphine, ethanol and oxycodone which is of course an opioid. Pio tonight we reached out to the ot springer family in hopes of some sort of statement following david efforts arrest. They declined to make a statement
Victim of target add tack. Several other people were hit by pullet. Let get right to it. Good morning, were learning business and pieces as we go. We know the chael came in 4 30 this morning and still at this hour theres Police Activity on the scene districts heights and prince jorming county police here on scene and most investigation is straight ahead where the stooting sew cured 6 600 block of halix street and they closed off the block before that aztec drive and gateway boulevard where im standing currently police are not confirm physical the shooting happened inside or out i can see two evidence borkers on the road there. Theyre this is peers to be a targeted attack. Theyre lettin u they made significant progress and they have a good sense of who theyre looking for. One person died as a result of milt pl shots and theres multiple victims and theyre not confirming how many and what short of condition theyre in. I can tell you residents along gateway boulevard disturbed by news i sp
And she said that she felt comfortable when it came to homicides as we start gathering up for the summer. Her main focus right now are robberies. A southeast family left broken after they say 28 year old Sheldon Robinson was shot dead outside the familys apartment. His mother too distraught to speak. Robinson and three children all under the age of six were just getting off the bus after coming home from school when gunfire broke out. He shielded three children. He pushed them in that building for them to be safe. And they took his life. Two d. C. Police patrol officers heard the shots and were on scene in minutes, but sheldon was already dead. It all happen just a block away from kim balance elementary and the Nationals Youth Baseball Academy as children were coming from home from some things have changed. We have to for example out whats happening at the Community Level to result in the tragic change that weve seen. Former d. C. Mayor vincent gray says the district ward 7 has seen a