Child, that would be the best thing that could happen for our country. To me, its absolutely the marriage rate. Brad wilcoxs article in the index makes it screamingly clear. Theres been a 10point reduction in the marriage rate in the last decade. What astonished me looking at the numbers again is that its been 50 since the era of the 19 physician. We all talk about out of wedlock childbearing. The childberg is not the problem. We are below replacement rate birth rate in the united states. Only two years of the last 42 have we been above replacement, even with the influence of immigrants to the country. Its the out of wedlock thing. And ill add one last point to that out of personal experience. I imagine theres some in the audience too. When young people come out of college, and theyre doing what we consider pursuing the American Dream in the right way, and their initial experience is a debt thats larger than the mortgage of their parents, we have a problem. It is its not the only reaso
She went to the hotel to attempt to rob the victim. A second woman, Dominique Johnson is charged with conspiracy to commit robbery. Police say he was robbed of 40 and his metro card. It is now 4 31. Time for weather and traffic on the 1s. Lets start with storm team 4 meteorologist amelia segal. More hot weather, amelia . Oh this summer like pattern continues today and on into the weekend. Storm team 4 radar right now though is dry. And for a good part of today, youll be experiencing dry weather, but its hot and its humid. Im going to be tracking some scattered storms and downpours during the afternoon and evening hours. Heres what you can expect. Starting off with future weather. You can see hazy sunshine getting into the midday hours. A little bit more cloud cover. Then as we head into the afternoon hours, 2 00 3 00 well start to see areas of storms develop. No Severe Weather in the forecast for today, but there could be some heavy, slow moving rain out there. Notice 6 00 the yellows,
Degrees. Hot and humid once again today. You can see how we warm up during the morning hours. 9 00 a. M. We are near 80 degrees. Mid 80s and near 90 by noon. With that, well be tracking popup storms and downpours during the afternoon and evening hours. That hit or miss activity where not everybody will see rain. You can see right now storm team 4 radar, not tracking any activity out there. In ten minutes future weather, the timing what you can expect in your neighborhood. But for now we send it over to Alexis Davies. Any issues on the roads . We have a couple of issues. Right now we have a road closure in d. C. Naylor road southeast at good hope road is closed in both directions due to police activity. Avoid that area for a little bit this morning. Heres a look at Prince Georges County county, darcy road, all roads are open. After 66 after the Fairfax County parkway, some volume building out of manassas. No reports of incidents there. Looks like were having some trouble with our 270 ca
Storm team 4 radar is dry but with the heat and the humidity well be tracking the scattered afternoon showers, thunderstorms, maybe a few downpours. Eun, in ten minutes ill be showing you future weather, tracking the rain in your neighborhood hour by hour. Security breaches at the white house are leading to security changes. That includes one that starts today. News4s Megan Mcgrath is along pennsylvania avenue where crews are starting to work on the white house fence. Megan . Reporter well eun, we have been told that the crews can show up as early as 6 00 this morning, but so far we havent seen any sign of them. But theyre expected to come later on this morning. Theyre going to be actually doing some of the prep work for the installation of the anticlimb fence. Fence jumping incidents have focused the attention on the White House Security and there are some changes as a result. Theyre going to be putting steel spikes on the top of the fence to make it more difficult to climb. Now, crew
Offer and new accusations. Abc7 News Reporter matt keller has coverage. Matt . Both sides left at and 2 30. The union is upset that bart management put down the final offer yesterday. They are threatening taoistic tomorrow if no deal is done by today. Here are the latest numbers. Barts last, best, and final offer is 7 million more than the offer on friday, a 3 percent wage increase a year over four years but workers have to pay more no the pension and 9. 5 percent more for medical. Leaders have said the give backs in benefits swallow most if not all of the wage increases. Union leaders say at 2 30, what it will take to avoid a strike on tuesday. Terrible mistake on the part of district. We are coming back tomorrow. We hope any will rescind their last, best and final offer so they we can achieve an agreement. Trying to bring this to a close. The bay area is tired of going to bed at night and not knowing if bart is going to be open. Bart general management will give the unions two weeks