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right now on news4 this week, safe track success. metro says its big program has made a difference. some riders say they're still waiting for a better ride. d.c. police get a serious history lesson. the chief says it's an integrity ral pa -- integral part of their training. an issue that's been around since the days of 9/11. now the government finally taking action. >> announcer: welcome to news4 this week. hi, everyone. i'm chris lawrence. we're going to begin with metro in a progress report on safetrack. this week news4 obtained a copy of a report that claims the objectives of the maintenance program have been met. they say it's a smoother ride on the system and delays are

replaced so many wooden rail tiles, you could stack them up as high as the washington monument twice. transportation reporter adam tuss spoke with riders about whether they agree with that report. >> reporter: metro is ready to declare safetrack a success, but do riders believe things have gotten better on the system? >> i will call safetrack a success if we all can get around safer. >> reporter: kristen declair says she can't decide yet whether things are better. >> reporter: it's kind of hard to say yet. >> we've been waiting a long time and certain rides were really hard. >> reporter: thmetro said they were able to get three years' worth of work done in just one year. they replaced so many rail ties that you could stack them as

twice. another state metro track program is preventable as long as more maintenance time is allowed, but that likely means more delays and closures. metro's gm says they had to sell safetrack to a host of one-on-one figures. they wondered about it all. do you think safetrack is work sng. >> i think we don't know enough about it. i think the metrics should be easy to digest. >> reporter: a smoother ride, fewer track fires, delays and disruptions. as riders on the orange and silver line, the place where all the safetrack work started, deal with yet more safetrack-related delays, there are still questions that remain. >> you never know, like, i walk down here and i'm like, is it going to be 10 minutes or is it going to be 2 minutes? there's no real consistency. >> reporter: at the station, adam tuss,

>> this week we also learned metro is retiring its oldest and least reliable cars in service by the end of june. that's months ahead of the original end date, according to metro. every one thousandth rail car is set to be replaced. it results in less service and fewer delays. the national museum of american history and culture. this week d.c. officers toured the museum, but it wasn't part of an investigation. they report it's part of their training. >> the first time that i went, i went with my daughter. the first thing she said to me when we left, she said, how come we've never heard this story before? and i truly believe -- i know when i was growing up, this story wasn't told to me, and i think there is a l o

wasn't told to. >> reporter: chief peter nuchim said that story is important to all americans, but in particular police officers. that's why he had his cadets take the tour. >> this is our recent past. i tell my police officers that, you know, there are people who live in our community and who grew up where police were involved in this type of behavior, where police were enforcing jim crow laws, and, you know, when they have an automatic distrust of the police, it's completely understandable, and that's something we have to overcome. we have to let folks know that although that was in our recent past, that is not us. >> several cadets who have toured the national museum of african-american museum of history and culture share the video. >> we've seen those awful things.

people? >> law enforcement has done some horrific things in the past. we're here for you now. what can we do to get you to trust us and work together. >> reporter: the chief and his staff got on a bus and went across town to ben's chili bowl where they had a chance to have a conversation about their experience. outside the african-american museum of natural history and culture, news4. well before the civil rights movement, even before world war ii, a group of women met in a d.c. kitchen to promote change. that's how the wait robin golf tournament was born. they wanted to play golf like their husbands. the year was 1937. karen maloney has stoert othe s this impressive club. >> reporter: beau

elizabeth mcneal first picked up a golf club in the early 1940s. the 99-year-old joined just a few years after lake rob bbin formed, the oldest minority golf club in the country. the members started the change. >> the kids would come out and steal the balls. >> steal your balls? >> the kids would come out and steal the balls and run back. >> you're laughing about it, though. >> you know. >> what did you do? >> what could you do? >> reporter: it was always in the forefront of our minds. these women sacrificed to bring golf to women of color. >> the founders had it worst because they were protesting not just to play the game of golf, they were protesting injustice in this country. those ar t

on today. >> reporter: today the 80th anniversary celebrating the legacy and the future. >> you were in the tournament 13 times? >> that's my dream. that's my dream. >> i had six holes in one in my career. >> that's amazing. what did that feel like? >> wonderful. >> these women love golf. i've never seen someone so passionate about the sport and it's refreshing to be around someone who just wants to play golf all the time. >> pretty cool. the non-profit club is continuing to promote the game for women and men. they have traveled to clubs around the world and gifrven aw $15,000 in scholarships. when we come back, the epic new theme of a chain of bars.

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pretty soon it's going to cost you a bit more to buy a pack of cigarettes in one part of fairfax county. the town of vienna is raising its tax for the first time in a decade. right now you pay a town tax of 75 cents for a pack of cigarettes. the council voted to increase that by a dime. so starting next month, you'll be paying an extra 85 cents per box, which breaks down to just over 4 cents per cigarette. it has become a hot spot in the district. first known as the miracle on seventh street, and it took on a cherry blossom theme. now a popular stretch of bars in the shaw neighborhood is revealing its summer motif, and its pretty epic. "game of thrones." our news partner said bars will transport their

represent 16th century england. they will even have a new beer. it will run all the way through august. when we come back, in their own words, the new project exploring the positive and negatives of former mayor marion berry for those who work most closely with him. changes promised by the government after news4 exposed a we just got the keys to our new house! we got the keys!

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this week we learned about a new oral history project that gives us an inside look into marion berry's first race for mayor here 40 years ago. tom sherwood reports insiders from that campaign are not sugar coating their memories. bet >> reporter: betty king sharing photographs a

brash campaign. it upset city politics for barry to first become mayor. marion berry was the insurgent to enter the bid. >> if i can make things different, i'm going where my heart is, which is with marion. >> reporter: gays and lesbians, low income people, and people in community sfrervice. most of them are in this room right now. >> reporter: they are curating the privately funded program on line. one of the first openly gay persons hired byber berry said t campaign was a historic time. >> i want you to feel where we are today and where we have been. it's been a long journey. >> reporter: marion berryi

the reportings don't sugar coat berry's history. >> people were very candid. it isn't all just a whitewash. some of them are tearjerkers and some of them are laugh out loud and fall on the floor. >> reporter: in the district, tom sherwood, news4. congress is promising help for local firefighters because of a news4 i-team investigation. weeks ago the i-team revealed a problem for first responders at the u.s. pentagon. the i-team scott mcfarland is getting results and now those firefighters are a step closer to getting a new station. bill toney remembers running for his life inside the pentagon. >> all these images won't ever leave me. >> reporter: and remembers seeing the firefighters running toward the danger. >> it was greatly inspiring to see how

and risked their own lives. >> reporter: the terror attack at the pentagon killed 184 people and devastated the nation and destroyed the fire station outside the complex.ç toney was troubled, though, when a news4 i-team investigation revealed in may the plans to rebuild that fire station had quietly stalled. for the past 15 years, firefighters who manned that station have worked out of trailers, which don't meet u.s. army standards. that's according to military records obtained by the i-team and the local firefighters union. >> people are worried about it being broken and how we're going to fix it and make it better. >> reporter: we found the timetable and the plans to rebuild vanished after the defense department revealed it was wildly understating the cost. now the report has captured the attention of congress, the top-ranking democrat u.s. subcommittee overseeing projects says she'll

be built. >> 15 years is far too long to wait to make sure our first responders are in facilities that are top of the line, state of the art, and i wouldn't call a trailer either of those things. >> reporter: key virginia legislators representing the pentagon community say they strongly support new funding as soon as the pentagon can hand over a formal plan. >> they're working out of trailers. i heard the doors are falling off and the ceiling tiles are falling down. that's not the way we want to treat first responders. >> this is an area where, you know, you ought to be able to get an appropriation for an important project. >> reporter: but congress can't move until the pentagon sends in that formal plan to rebuild. back in may, defense department administrator sheila med tells us it is a priority. how long until you have a plan for the new station? >> we should have the requirement done in one time frame. >> reporter: the house is expected to debate military construction projects sometime in july. when we come back, a

warrior on the long road to recovery gets a very special visit. why he says he wouldn't trade his scars

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a lot like our old region, north texas is home to hundreds of wounded warriors on the very long road to recovery. recently one of those soldiers had a very special reunion that's nearly a decade in the making. meredith land from our sister station in dallas has that story. >> reporter: on a small north dallas road tucked away in a modest place is a group of warriors at the adaptive training foundation. they call themselves a tribe. >> 30 seconds, come on! >> reporter: carlos cologne is an army veteran. his buddies call him the spartan warrior. an elite athlete in tip-top shape, cologne had to battle back from devastating injuries in afghanistan

feeling that we were going to get hit. >> reporter: you had a hunch? >> yeah, so i got on the gun. >> reporter: he tells the story of the 2012 deployment. he was hit by a grenade. >> ids, and they shot an rpg from the wall to me and i was hit right here on the other side of the glass. >> reporter: this is what was left of his army helmet. cologne says he remembers nothing of the attack. during uncertain days, his family took these pictures while he was in a coma in the hospital. he says he also doesn't remember this. president george w. bush pinning a purple heart on him. he calls it his finest moment as a u.s. soldier. >> when i woke up, my family told me that he pinned me my purple heart, and then when i got the pictures, it was like -- he pinned me and i never met him, you know. i always wanted toee

just see him in person and thank him. >> reporter: cologne got that chance. >> hey, carlos. i remember him, he doesn't remember me. >> reporter: when president george w. bush made a surprise visit to this gym. >> i wasn't sure you were going to wake up. anyway, congratulations. glad you're doing well. >> when i saw him, i was like, awesome. i love him, man. like i said, if i could go again to war under his command, i would do it again. i'm very proud. >> they want to be looked at as somebody who got hurt doing a good job. >> reporter: it's been nearly ten years since their first meeting, one where a president bestowed an honor which would last a lifetime. >> you have the pictures, still? >> i have them in my room. >> you look a lot better now than you did. >> i've been working hard. >> you

you're a good man, i'm really proud of you. >> yes, sir. >> you're a good man. >> thank you. >> reporter: cologne says this is his full circle moment and no regrets. >> i'm proud of every star. if i could do it again, i would do it. >> a true hero. that's going to do it for this week. i'm chris lawrence. we're going to leave you with pictures of the chili bowl taking place. it includes entertainers, even a picture of our own jim vance. thanks for joining us. have a great one. ♪

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