>> reporter: the mom hopped on to the next train and s reunited at' totten.ion said the mother did nothinsgrong the train operator shouldn't have taken off. >>> she couldn't get the baby off and couldn't get herself on. >> rorter: metro officials say that train operator did handle the situation properly and that the mom has not filed a complaint. in hyattsville, darcy spencer. back to you. >> thank you. >>> gary condit's son says the public will soon get to hear his father's side of the story in the chandra levy case. chad said his father is working a book that will disclose details. gary condit was a prime suspect in the intern's disappearance in 2001. saadoran immigrant ingmar guandique is now on trial for e murder. condit has testified in the trial but refused to reveal whether he had an affair with levy. >>> a national muslim civil rights and advocacy group is speaking out after a convenience store allegedly denied service to a woman who was wearing an islamic head scarf. this happened in vginia. chris gordon is live in our newsroom with the latest. >> go

during the several minutes it took from west hyattsville metro stop to fort totten, metro personnel waited with the baby until the mother took the next train over to be reunited with her infant. metro did not want to go on camera, but wants to remind people, when you see the flashing lights and the announcement the doors would be closing, to use your best judgment. >> now to long month plaza metro station. police on the lookout for two men. they say they were filming inside the metro, and it was suspicious. >> reporter: metro says it has no reason to suspect the two were planning anything, for were they doing anything wrong. >> passengers snapped foe toes of these men, and shared it with authorities. that's what a metro spokesman says. according to the memo, the two videotaped the station's features last week, capturing how the trains operate. >> it's suspicious, makes people nervous. >> some say it makes them worry about worst case set their yotes. >> trying to set up an attack or a bomb or something or some way to about damage a train. >> metro says it could be a misunderstanding. if pos

the baby was turned over to authorities at the fort totten station and eventually reunited with the mothero says there are indications that the woman was trying to force the stroller on to a crowded car. >>> 9 news now spoke with the metro transit board chairman, peter benjamin about the safety of the system's escalators. six people were injured on october 80th while riding an escalator -- on october 30th while riding an escalator at l'enfant station. benjamin says they must strip the escalators down and rebuild each by hand because they are so old and out of production. >> we don't want any passenger ever to be injured, and safety is a key thing that we all have to adopt as our number one priority, and i think we did do that. >> reporter: benjamin admits that metro probably should have placed the escalator brake warnings on the safety sensitive list. that would have given them a high priority. >>> owners of the college park restaurant that has been a problem for police decided to take action before county officials did. we'll explain when we come back. >>> the nightmare is ending for pass

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e next stop was' totten. riders goff off with the baby and went to employees. thchild was watched by the metro police until mom got there. >> not one dime the train operator come back to us via the intercom and that we have metro police waiting for you >> reporter: the mom hopped on to the next train and was reunited with her baby. they said the train did nothing wrong. sh she couldn't get the baby off and she couldn't get herself on. >> reporter: metro officials say the operator did handle the situation correctly and that the mom has not filed a complaint. darcy spencer, news4. >>> passengers on that carnival cruiseship splendor have quite a story to tell. tugboats pull that disable ship into port 98 san diego four days after it lost power. now they're showing their home video of their experiences. this is home video that was just released on the morning of november 8. you can hear the crew trying to assure passenger. il they know it was just the beginning of an unforgettable voyage. >> reporter: passenger '39 decks, cheer and waiting as the disabled ship pull

to can find a link totten tire the entire speech on abc7.com.der see it on tv. >>> we will stay in oakland for another moment. leaders of allen temple baptist church held a news conference to announce their new violence prevention strategy and it came coincidentally less than 24 hours after a man was killed just outside that very church. laura anthony reports now from east oakland. >> we are certainly saddened by the tragedy. >> reporter: one day after a man was gunned down at the door of their church pastors mourned the loss of a life an in a plae that has done so much to stop violence. >> he like someone else in history fell at the foot of the cross outside of the gates. >> reporter: tuesday's shooting came on the eve of an announcement that allen temple baptist church received a $430,000 grant, money that will be used for violence prevention training. >> we want to assure you that we are in no ways discouraged. >> reporter: tuesday's victim, 46-year-old leon wilson was attending a ged class at allen temple, part of a reentry program designed