Weekends and in the summer, but limited resources mean we cannot provide a backpack to every kid who needs one. We also looked into mobile summer feeding programs but our Rural Communities are so small and far apart the time requirement of having a kid eat a full meal before going to the next location thats required is cost prohibitive. Waiving it to allow Program Models in hard to reach models will address these barriers and significantly expand the number of children we reach. Finally, the summer ebt demonstration demonstration projects provide another model. This model families of children receiving free or reduced Price School Meals are giving an ebt card to purchase food at Retail Stores in the summer. We would like to see this expanded in communities that have high need and are difficult to reach. I would like to close by saying im convinced that child hunger is a solvable problem. Its going to require collaboration between government, business and nonprofit stakeholders and were
Displaced. Several houses boarded up as a result of this fire. The identity of the victims has not been released and cause of this fire also not released. Back to you. Thanks mark. We just learned that the two People Killed in a beltville crash are just 19 years old. The car they were in crashed into a recycling truck on edmonston road. Prince georges county bureau chief Tracee Wilkins is live now with an update. Tracee . Reporter ive got to tell you, my parents live less than a mile away from where this crash happened. My dad said it shook their house and when they heard it it sounded like an explosion. We talked to someone else who actually rushed to the scene and this is what it was like for them. It was one of the loudest bangs ive ever heard i think in my life. Reporter thats what got ginny and her husband out of bed. They ran from their home to the road to help. It woke you up not just hearing it but you felt it. Reporter a chevy impala carrying five people crashed head on into a
Blocked out by the smoke. Many sent pictures from around the area showing how far the smoke could be seen. We put them up on the website. A roofer in hyattsville took one picture. Even fans at the nats game could see the cloud. Why a teen boy was shot in the southeast washington around k89 on 37th street. He was unconscious and not breathing. He was taken to the hospital. Were working to get an update on his condition. Lets check the forecast. A bit of rain to start the day but mild temperatures 62 degrees. Weather and traffic on the 1s. Tom kierein here. The rain will be coming in waves. Were getting the first wave now coming across Northern Virginia and another wave to the south and southwest and southwestern virginia. That will be passing through a little bit later this morning. Right now everything for the most part most of the pavement is wet around Northern Virginia and maryland and the district and nearby suburbs. Its yet to arrive in far southern maryland. It will be moving thr
Found dead inside an ash burn home. Megan mcgrath live with more information. Good morning. Reporter well aaron, the Sheriffs Department thinks this is a likely murder suicide. At around 9 00 last night they got a 911 call. Saying there was a shooting in the 43,000 block of rockfield court. Deputies responded. They treated it as a barricade situation for awhile. When they went inside the home thats when they found the bodies of a man and woman. They believe this is a domesticrelated murder suicide. All the investigation continues. The names of the people found dead inside the home have not been released. Back to you in the studio. Thank you. We are following a developing story this morning. You couldnt ask for a better father. You couldnt ask for a better man. You know hes been with his kids for three years by himself. Just terribly sad story this morning. A family tragedy on marylands ear eastern shore. A father and his seven children found dead. Were working to find out the official
The threat of the virus for about the first week of april. Today he advocated maskwearing. He warned the American Public its going to get worse before it gets better all appropriate warnings for about the first week of april. And because mainstream media, network, and print were tonight full of straightfaced, unironic and casually normalizing stories about the president s new tone, they called it, and because covering president s and presenting their quotes in the old way went out with those old president s, and because this matters at a time with 140,000 dead, a virus out of control, and now ripping through states like utah, it is fair to presume, as some already have, the president is hoping the electorate forgets that he was an early and consistent coronavirus denier he is hoping the electorate somehow forgets the six months that led up to today and how he has sought to diminish the threat at just about every turn. Were finding very little problem, very little problem now, you treat