28yearold david watson who escaped from a van taking him to a hospital in jessup. Chris gordon has the latest on the search. Reporter well, pat and jim, police tell me they are planning this search hour by hour. Lets go up overhead to chopper 4, as we tell you just recently they expanded the grid, the wider area now overwhich they are looking for the escaped prisoner. And theyre about to have to make the difficult decision of deciding whether to continue the search tonight, once it gets dark. The search team has found articles of clothing that the escapee was wearing when he fled into the woods. So they dont know exactly what he might be wearing right now. They dont believe he has a weapon, but he is considered dangerous. Hes currently serving a sentence of more than 100 years in delaware on attempted murder in addition to the delaware charges for conviction, hes also currently facing charges in another county for attempted murder. Reporter this evening, 28yearold david m. Watson is on
Have some light precipitation popping through the region. Were starting to see the end to this out in lancaster as its pushing toward the east but for now south jersey on the northern suburbs and philadelphia a bit on the damp side as you head in. The wide view though shows some drying. Not too far to the west. And then some clearing down to the southwest and we are expecting the return of some sunshine today. 58 degrees currently in philadelphia, 56 in allentown. Very even numbers beneath the clouds. A lot of us have been on the damp side but we are looking at some quick improvement. 56 degrees by 7 oclock. Rain ending by about 8 oclock this morning in most areas. And then 62 degrees by noon with some sun coming back and the afternoon looks partly sunny and mild with a late day high of 71 degrees around 5 oclock. Word to the wise down the shore. If you live in one of those areas that sometimes gets minor tidal flooding at times of high tide this evening and the next couple of evenings
Year 2015 budget. It closes that 200 million budget gap with different means. Finding efficiencies in agencies across the district and talked about tough choices that her staff made looking at reducing medicaid reimbursement rates in the district, making them closer to the national average. Thats a savings of about 9 million, for example reducing funding for university of the District Of Columbia by 5 . Same with reducing Facility Maintenance funding by 5 . She also discussed the need for new revenue. In all about 26 million would be generated by increasing d. C. Sales tax from 5. 75 to a full 6 . Increasing fees on parking by 4 to incentivize use of mass transit and hiking the tax on e cigarettes in d. C. To the same rate as other Tobacco Products here. She says her staff was innovative and creative but at the same time cost sensitive. Mayor bowser we closed the budget gap with some tough decisions and im going to ask you to weigh those and weigh those heavily. I know that you take yo
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