Also anxiety in the thick of the Government Shutdown. I was caught off guard. Coupons in hand, claire was not ready for what happened during her trip to the Grocery Store saturday. [captioning made possible by Constellation Energy group] captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org and announcer said they would not accept any food stamps today. Disability income was expecting. She relies on food stamps once a month to get groceries. I was devastated by the thought of, where will i get my food now and how long will this last gecko it turns out last . In maryland, low income people, disabled, homeless, and seniors all use food stamps. This is all due to not being able to process transactions. At the supermarket, the glitch had countless customers. A store manager says it sparked confusion. They are upset. I have been told i have customers calling on the phone. In some places, they are not going through. The problem happened during a routine test of their system, leavin
Genitals. When officers arrested washington, they found his camera, but the pictures were deleted. Police were able to recover 12 pictures of the girls and 23 others of naked women including two other juveniles. Cathy lanier issued this statement, to learn of an allegation of this kind is shocking and disturbing. We are fortunate someone came forward to alert us of this behavior. Hold washington until a hearing. Hes facing a minimum of 15 years if convicted. Washington did not enter a plea today. That will come at a hearing on thursday. Now police do say they think there are more victims and asking anyone who knows anything to come forward. They wont release a picture of washington. Coming up at 6 00, why officer washington had time to delete the photos before he was arrested. Reporting live, mark segraves, news 4. Now to a developing story. The d. C. Council has approved a bill to change the lives of many people who work in the district. They voted to raise the minimum wage from 8. 25
Pumping station caused a widespread water outage monday night. Its now repaired. But the busted pipe remains a problem for some businesses. Like optometrist mary ellen paducey. Patients who need to be able to wash their hands, need to be able to wash hands before touching eyes. Make its a little difficult. Reporter and regular shampoos are for now out of the question. Were making the best of it. We could have closed. Theyre being great. And we thank them. Theres not much we can do. Back out live, with live look from sky eye chopper 13. Crews are hoping they can have this water main repaired, sometime overnight, with a goal of being completed, certainly by the morning. Ask then after that, the goal would be to come in and have the county department of public works crews, getting ready to make repairs to some of the damage this water main created to the road here. Were live in perry hall, derek valcourt, wjz Eyewitness News. Derek, thank you the. For now, traffic is being rerouted around
And washington state. Today the d. C. Council will hold a hearing on a bill introduced by tommy wells calling for the decriminalization of marijuana. Kristin fisher is live outside the Wilson Building with a preview of the hearing. Good morning, kristin. Reporter good morning. Just to be clear, were talking about decriminalization here, not full legalization, two very different things. What this bill would do is it would decriminalize possession of small amounts of Recreational Marijuana in d. C. By small ams were talking about by small amounts, were talking about less than an ounce of pot. Right now what would happen . If youre caught with that amount of pot in d. C. Its a miss demeanor offense. First time offender faces up to ix months in prison and a six months in prison and a 1,000 fine. But if this were passed, the final would only be 100. Supporters say its vital for the citys youth, especially those who live in ward 8 where the hearing will be held later tonight. The thinking is