Tuesday into wednesday. Who says politicians dont 11 . Fierce opposition convinced metros listen . Fierce opposition convinced metros finance committee today. Reporter metro had been looking for 46 million in fare increases and service cuts, but after a whole bunch of witnesses slammed that plan the Metro Finance Committee skipped even voting on it. Now we are hoping that maryland, d. C. And virginia will bail them out financially. Metro is already struggling with the steep falloff in passengers and critics say raising fares would only cut ridership more and raise fears of a downward spiral. Just going down that road is a terrible decision. Reporter one after the other witnesses told the metro boards finance committee that Cutting Service would hurt them. They have got to be kidding. Theyve got to be kidding. The service that weve had. Thats the only bus that would leave naylor road metro station and take you straight to the brandnew walmart they plan to put up there. Reporter some of
This is what 40 to 50 mileper hour winds look like. This Montgomery County house was the only thing that broke the fall of this massive tree uprooted by tonights heavy winds. Its crazy. Reporter crazy winds also impacted power throughout d. C. , maryland and northern virginia. Power outages left thousands in the dark. This Prince Georges County Shopping Center could not operate without electricity. Yes. Theyre closing up. Reporter Stores Closed their doors earlier than expected. It seems the weather was bad for business. We had like more than nine or 10 customers and we lost all of them. Reporter losing customers, losing power, losing a part of home. Tonights winds definitely made their mark. In this particular case the house behind me, the homeowners are out of it tonight. Fortunately there were no injuries. It just looks a lot worse than it was. In Montgomery County im mola lenghi for wusa9. Prince georges county firefighters Prince Georges County firefighters had to battle the wind,
Actually collapsed there is a tremendous amount of debris inside the hotel, which means a lot of smoldering. We have firefighters standing by just in case there are hotspots. All of the damage also means some families lost a great deal. Black smoke pouring out of the motel across from us. Jay a massive blaze early sunday morning ripped through the quality inn on richmond avenue in alexandria, some 200 guests forced to evacuate. I think it was the third room over. Jay this family said at 2 a. M. They were awoken by an explosion. I grabbed the keys to the room and we left. Jay by the time they escaped they were not allowed back in. A lost everything they had with them. Our money identification, licenses, everything, credit cards. Jay they cannot even drive home because their car keys are somewhere amid the smoldering debris. It went from the third floor all the way down to the first floor. And we were on the second floor. So there is nothing there. Jay the red cross stepped in to help th
Bureau census bureau, led police on chase. Reporter it started as an alleged Domestic Violence crime, but before it ended here on h street it took a while. It impacted dozens of more people and changed dozens more lives who seemingly had nothing to do with that crime. It began between 48yearold Ronald Anderson and his 20year old girl friend. She was being stalked and ultimately was abducted by her abuser. Reporter anderson, the alleged abuser, convicted of manslaughter in 1991 and currently under restraining order filed by his girl friend was facing an assault charge when he allegedly kidnapped her, took her to the u. S. Census bureau in suitland, shot a Security Guard who tried to help her, took d. C. Police on a high speed chase, shot and wound an officer on h street before being shot himself. Again it began between anderson and his girl friend but didnt end that way. We have for so long thought of it as a private issue, something between two people we need to keep in our families, b
Well come back and talk more about the prospect for snow sunday night and monday. New tonight cops have released a sketch of the man who knocked on an alexandria womans door and then shot and killed the beloved piano teacher inside. Mola lenghi is live from the 2400 block of ridge road drive. Reporter its still an active crime screen. Police are investigating still, but detectives hope and this entire Community Hopes the clear picture they now have of the suspect will ultimately help them solve this case. This could be the face of a rap dom killer. Thats a random killer. Thats according to Alexandria Police who released this sketch of the man they say knocked on ruthanne lodatos door and who could now be the key witness and while that caretaker remains hospitalized she has spoken to detectives giving a description of the man. Police say he may not seem like a usual system, but when it comes to killers suspect, but when it comes to killers, nothing is usual. You dont ever want to stereo