Strategic environment requires us to prioritize and making difficult choices. The mandated cuts and readiness, today he laid out a budget plan that proposes cutting the army to its smallest size since world war ii. Cut, baseenefits closures, retiring something to get weapons and aircraft, and even saving on subsidies from monetary commissaries. Can buyes and veterans anything from groceries to electronics at a discount. The pressure will be back on progress as those veterans march on congressill as those veterans march on capitol hill. Reporting live from the pentagon, abc 7 news. Those cuts were proposed by secretary hagel and would reduce army size to 400 and 9000 449,000. Metros longawaited silver line delayed again. Theres no timetable on when it will be ready. The veteran television Metropolitan Airport authority says the criteria has not been met for them to take control of the new tracks. Theyre not received occupancy certificates, leading groups, troubles with the automatic tra
I have to get ready to bury my firstborn child. He was not a bad kid. 20yearold kahron lee was a sophomore at Virginia Union university. Late sunday night he was walking home from a study group when he was shot and killed just feet from his front door. The police have not yet said what the motive might be, but his family believes it may have been a robbery. His cell phone was taken. If you kill him for a phone, you really need to be off the streets. Lee was a wellliked track and field star at tc williams high school. Everything he touched, track, football. Union one to virginia an academic scholarship and was majoring in technology, hoping to work for google. Know, alls like, you of our hard work only for some thugs to take them out. Thats not fair. Hoping somebody has information that may lead the police to his killer or killers. You took the wrong person. Turn yourself in. You will get caught. His mother says the police are getting tips, and they also hope to get information from his
He was a slow walker. Montgomery county Police Say Investigators are looking at this traffic signal and the timing. It is important to notice this time that no charges have been filed in the accident. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc 7 news. New fallout tonight from last weeks massive Healthcare Fraud bust in the district. One agency is crying foul and saying they are being unfairly punished. They are employees and clients who are now going to be the real victims. Sam ford is live in northwest washington with what he is uncovered. Sam, this could affect thousands of people . Allyson. , according to d. C. Officials, a lot of fraud went unchecked for years because the fbi was conducting an investigation. Now that that is over, federal law kicks in, meaning a number of these companies will be forced out of business, affecting thousands of patients and employees. Companies threatened launched a counterattack. This person came to the News Conference at the press conference today. Denoun
We are talking about temperatures in the single digits. Spots. Wind chill and here we go in terms of temperatures. 10 in gaithersburg. 12 at dulles. 17 degrees at washington, d. C. This is the coldest day of the week. I think we will be just shy of the freezing mark. Calm throughout our saturday. Into sunday night and monday, a powerful storm in california will be heading our way. A wintry mix could be expected. All kinds of things will be heading our way for the monday morning commute. We will detail that in just a few minutes. Right now we hit the roads with amanda. Just focus on friday. We do have an accident on 395 northbound that is blocking the right lane. It is not quite focused. You can see activity in the right lane and the cars staying over to the left. Heads up and stay to the left northbound and you should be just fine. We are not seeing the same volume because it is early. 66 eastbound moving along nicely into centreville. The usual hotspots are good to go. We have reports
Up first, and alert over a possible outbreak of virus at a local elementary school. Hundreds of students, dozens of staff sent home sick. That forced School Officials in alexandria to cancel class tomorrow. Johney will disinfect Adams Elementary School while School Officials tried to figure out what happened. Tom roussey is live outside of the school. What are you learning tonight . The parents are very concerned about how hard and fast this virus hit the school. In the hallway to my left, they are starting the disinfecting process tomorrow. It is expected to last all weekend. Students will not be back until monday. This is video from earlier in the evening. Alexandria School District says 200 students in todays came down with the stomach illness, Staff Members came down with it, sending a bunch of students home. Who wasith one mother walking with her daughter to the drugstore. Her daughter was fine, but her eightyearold son is one of the students who got sick. She said when one studen