Witnessed the initial carjacking. This lady comes running in hysterical, hyperventilating and said help me help me someone is in my car and i was like what happened . Jeff so many questions for Law Enforcement still remain about exactly what happened today. What assaye did and said during the time that he was missing as well as how he ended up in the district of columbia. His next Court Appearance is tentatively scheduled for friday. Live in alexandria, jeff goldberg, abc 7 news. Alison ok jeff. As you know the search for assaye ended just before noon when d. C. Police arrested him near pennsylvania avenue and 25th street in southeast d. C. Stephen tschida was at the scene shortly after the arrest and he is there live now with how assaye got there and who spotted him. Stephen . Stephen alison still some questions, confusion and uncertainties about just what went down but we can tell you we were here on the scene just moments after the arrest was made. It went down right here at this in
Gunman aaron alexis after taking a bullet in his vest. Congressman Elijah Cummings chief of police talked about the bravery, quick thinking and humility of the officer. Talk about people needing your help. Trust me its much more rewarding to help people than to be on the other side of the door. He is, as you can see hes very quiet and humble about everything. He put his life on the line and he saved so many lives. Jeanette the officer is eligible for retirement but tells me hes in no rush to leave just yet because he loves his job that much. Reporting in baltimore, jeanette reyes, abc 7 news. Jummy estigators say a young boy started the fire that displaced dozens of people in a Prince Georges County Apartment Building. Firefighters were called to that Apartment Building in suitland last night. Everybody was able to get out safely. Investigators believe the fire was started by a boy under the age of 10 playing with a lighter. Boy will now be entered into a program for juvenile fire sett
Wossen assaye at this exact moment . We hope to get some answers from the u. S. Justice department. Excuse me the u. S. Marshals service in the next 15 to 20 minutes. Well bring the latest information for you coming up in an hour 59 clock 00. Jeff goldberg abc 7 news. Alison the university of virginia released a new interim policy on Sexual Misconduct and gender based violence and its effective immediately. It was prompted by a federal investigation. The policy includes detailed descriptions of reporting procedures and sexual assaults and misconduct education at the university. And it also requires complaints be examined by the universitys fulltime investigator or an external investigator with relevant experience. Leon well d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has her way, the city wont be putting the brakes on its planned streetcar project. Alison thats right. During last nights state of the district address, she promised to finish that streetcar line all along eighth street and actually to even
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
Her say babe, pretty women wonder where my secret lies. Sam Oprah Winfrey did not miss a beat. Unable to read her script, she started reciting Maya Angelous poetry from memory. First Lady Michelle obama was among those in the audience and she stayed in the dark through the end of the show. At this point, pepco is telling us that there are no other problems in the system. Everything should be back to normal. Reporting live from northwest washington, sam ford, abc 7 news. Alison the show must go on over there, sam. Thank you. Meanwhile, the outage forced the university of maryland to close campus today at 2 00 p. M. Brianne carter continues our Team Coverage live from college park with the latest from there. Brianne, what can you tell us . Brianne within the last five minutes, weve learned that University Officials say most of the power to the north campus has been restored. That includes a number of dorms there on the north campus and in talking to students, many were afraid they wouldn