Hundreds of Law Enforcement officers feds state, local. Heavily armed on foot in trucks, in the air. In Fairfax County for hours searching for Wossen Assaye only to find him miles away in d. C. Picked up by police there after he got off a bus at 25th and pennsylvania avenue southeast. They dragged him. They got him in the back of the car, started taking his boots and stuff off and everything making sure he didnt have a weapon. It was unbelievable. It was like it wasnt real. Reporter it began around 3 00 this morning at the Inova Fairfax hospital. Assaye was on suicide watch. He had tried to take his life last week in jail. He was guarded by the u. S. Marshal service, a man and a woman. When the man went to the bathroom assay exjumped edassaye jumped the woman, escaped wearing only a hospital gown. He walked down the hallway from our understanding with the female contract guard. Sort of as a shield. At some point he re leased her. Reporter police moved in and sealed off the hospital. Th
At the live desk, im erika gonzalez. For now, all the districts 33,000 government workers will stay on the job tomorrow even with a shutdown. Mayor gray decided to tap into the emergency funds. The 134 million fund is made up of local dollars already approved to keep the city running two to three weeks. Last week, the mayor declared all city workers are essential. The white house has the final say on that. So far, they have not commented on that. Dont plan to visit monuments or memorials if the government shutsdown. They will barricade them. They will shut off dozens of fountains including the world war ii memorial. The boating community is going to be hit hard. The boathouses along the anacostia and potomac rivers are located on federal land. They will have to close even though they dont employ federal workers. Local high schools and colleges that keep their boats at the boathouses are going feel it, too. We have put a lot of work in. If they shut down the boathouse, we are out of luc
For the may holidays. So they decided to start from the ideal picture on the fence is in the capital of ukraine. Maybe for a column starts this was supposed to reach the parliament of ukraine still the self defense by just stayed until late the block to devote to find out in front of the decades according to witnesses they still explosives and file expected just into the crowds some of the activists brain come across that nutcase mosques on an almost obvious in their hands up to go see since the disappearance and its brutality much as i opened it he says and will be laid from pentagon. The event was a nice shade its just a memory of the heavenly hundreds by that fact of ukraine and the ruling organizations to my guns self defense leaders and the rights act a sad day when not involved in these events the risk is taken by separatists in particular they captured the days of the Regional State administration percentages office at the court of appeal the militants up really wanting to see y
Option much we begin in iraq, where rebel fighters declared the creation of a new islamic country. Sunni fighters in Islamic State of iraq and levant are calling the new county the Islamic State. This comes as the governments counteroffense of appears to have stalled outside of tikrit. Reporter iraqs army on state tv has reinforcements in the battle for tikrit. The military insists that the road from samarra to the town is secure, and the villages along the way are tape and iraqi sold taken and iraqi soldiers are on the outskirts. Independent sources that they are 25km from the town. Translation up to the moment more than 70 terrorists were killed and dozens of vehicles used near tikrit are at the governments office, have been destroyed. All the vast majority of the group belong to a rebel group, the Islamic State of iraq and levant are in control of the media campaign, and they dispute what the government says. His claims are dismissed bli i. S. I. L. Through the social media. They sa
Pat collins, news4. They are there to protect you if you get into an accident. But thousands of guard rails across virginia may hold a h hidden that could make a crash worse, even deadly. Transportation reporter, adam tuss, joins us live from fairfax tonight with more on the danger and what vdot plans to do about it. Adam . Reporter hey, jim. Virginia is now the first state in the entire country to say that it will replace detective guard rails. Take a look here on route 50 in fairfax. Of course, we drive past these kinds of guard rails on a daily basis. Dont think twice about them. But there could be a real danger with the design. When you hit a guardrail, the head of the rail is supposed to absorb the impact and push all the metal away from the vehicle. But Transportation Leaders say a company that manufacturers rail heads, as theyre known, made a costcutting Design Change in 2005, without telling federal officials. And that Design Change could turn rail heads into weapons. In essenc