The chair the gentleman will suspend. Pursuant to House Resolution 504, the gentleman from new york, the gentleman from new york, mr. Serrano, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. Mr. Serrano sorry for interrupting you, mr. Chairman. My amendment is very straightforward and prohibit funds allocated in the bill being used for the construction and operation of private forprofit prisons. The use of private the use of private prisons in our country is in a crises. People are being locked up in a facility that doesnt respect basic human rights. One in four people behind bars worldwide is in a United States jail. Thats right. The country with less than 5 of the worlds population accounts for a quarter of all the worlds prisoners. In fact, our prison population has continued to increase over the past few decades even as statistics have shown a decrease in crime. According to the f. B. I. , violent and Major Property crimes are at a historic low. Nevertheless, more and more ame
Gave me my car back. You know, d. C. Tickets and boots are expensive. It was totally my fault. Nick in town for the inauguration from chicago came running back to his car. Once he saw Parking Enforcement down the block. Nice and kind. Oh, you are next. The spot in green are offlimits later tonight and tomorrow morning. So many signs and many with the different times we found confused commuters who say they plan to keep the car off the road the rest of the week. Uber or something else. This is also a familiar scene. The Parking Enforcement are out issuing tickets and towing the cars. Most of the restrictions will remain in place until 1 00 a. M. On the 23rd. Reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. Alison a few more notes here. Metro wi a. M. Friday to get people to the inauguration. Remember the archives, the federal triangle, mount vernon square, pentagon and the smithsonian stations, they are all going to be closed. Then on saturday, metro says it will open at 5 00 a. M. That is fo
Details fromr the france come as soon as we get them, we will pass them along. Back over to you. Larry good morning once again at 6 00. Im larry smith. Autria and i am autria godfrey. Lets get to Veronica Smith for your forecast. Veronica very low temperatures around the area. You can check out lower potomac here at 35 degrees. We are 32, around freezing, in brandywine, at William Schmidt school in waldorf running right around freezing. Higher at 35slayer degrees. I want to show you this across the nation today, waking up to 40, but looking cold down south through the carolinas and georgia. Much of the nation all the way through the nations midsection now seeing some lower temperatures. We go down for the weekend b next week. Backup for next weekend. This weekend colder the next weekend, julie. The coats you need to have on in 10 minutes coming up. We will talk about the next rainmaker, yes, rain, not snow, coming down the pike. Julie we are checking a few things on the roads, the rail
Half of the day. Cooler temperatures. Well be in the mid 70s later this afternoon but in the next couple days featuring nice spring weather. Erin. Starting to see a lot of congestion on our majors. Little bit of light rain. Use caution. If youre taking metro skipping the roads rails dealing with problems because safe track surge 141st week day impacted with no Train Service between prince Georges Plaza and greenbelt. Shuttle service replacs that. Yellow rush plus also impacted. A closer look as we continue. Thanks erin. Well go ahead and begin with that breaking news out of Fairfax County. A man is hold up inside of his house in the fort hunt area in Fairfax County. Negotiator at the house right now. This standoff situation has been going on for almost 12 hours now. Melanie alnwick live this morning with the details for us. Mel. Reporter hey, good morning, guys and things are still pretty much tap standstill here but i suppose that in a way you could say no news is good news. Police fi
Half of the day. Cooler temperatures. Well be in the mid 70s later this afternoon but in the next couple days featuring nice spring weather. Erin. Starting to see a lot of congestion on our majors. Little bit of light rain. Use caution. If youre taking metro skipping the roads rails dealing with problems because safe track surge 141st week day impacted with no Train Service between prince Georges Plaza and greenbelt. Shuttle service replacs that. Yellow rush plus also impacted. A closer look as we continue. Thanks erin. Well go ahead and begin with that breaking news out of Fairfax County. A man is hold up inside of his house in the fort hunt area in Fairfax County. Negotiator at the house right now. This standoff situation has been going on for almost 12 hours now. Melanie alnwick live this morning with the details for us. Mel. Reporter hey, good morning, guys and things are still pretty much tap standstill here but i suppose that in a way you could say no news is good news. Police fi