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
Violation of the law. It further says the committee is investigating your recent assertion that initiative 71 in your opinion take effect on february 26th, 2015, is contrary to law and we strongly suggest you reconsider yourself position. Were acting lawfully. So i have a lot of things to do here in the District Of Columbia. Me being in jail wouldnt be a good thing. Reporter chairman of the d. C. Cannabis campaign and proposed initiative 71 that was passed overwhelmingly by voters in november. Im proud of her. I think its amazing shes standing up for democracy and for the will of the voters. I think congress is blowing some hot air and Congress Members probably need to chill out and maybe take advantage of d. C. s new legalization. Good for her but also the mayor of d. C. Represents us. Congress needs to back us. Thats what the people want. Thats why we live in a democratic society. Reporter the her signed by republican members of Congress Chairman and the subcommittee chair mark meado
Dangerous if youre not properly layered and you dont have the right shelter. Mola lenghi joins us from Dupont Circle with how people are coping with the cold. Reporter the thermometer behind me wait for it it still read 26 degrees as it did about an hour ago, but with the sun going down, winds picking up a bit, it certainly feel colder than it did an hour ago. It is only getting colder, windier tonight overnight into tomorrow. Its not quite as windy as it was last night if you were unfortunate enough to be outside like some of us, but you can still feel it beginning to pick up. Last night you remember it was painful as far as the wind goes. Oftentimes it was dangerous, too. Those out here working in these conditions, walking in it say the wind is definitely the worst part, although some are dealing with it better than others. Is that im from chicago, so this isnt that cold. Its cold, but its not that cold. Reporter its not chicago. Yeah. I just got back in the country from Southeast As
Funding. Theres nc o fe on the other side to oppose it. Reportere at jumped the board. I agree that the president overstepped. Im willi to vote to repeal that, but i want those two separated. Epte b some republicans demand that dhs funding st linked to the obama immigration order. The president should not be allowed to rewrite law. Reporter democrats demand that dhs vote first. To make sure that Homeland Security i funded. Isis is funded. You see that every day on tv. And not so send a message to al shabab th were just going to shut down Homeland Security. Reporter the mcconnell plan is to vote on immigration first so democrats charge the crisis continues. There has bn so movement on that. The latest mcconnell plan with four days to go 3 1 2, is actually to vote on Homeland Security first. But democrats in the senate still say they wont make that deal unless House Speaker boehner agrees to split Homeland Security from the immigration issue and hold the Homeland Security vote t the hous
Monday. We are going to have a little bit of snow arriving around the morning to midday hours, and any snow that does fall will stick as soon as it starts because temperatures are going to be cold enough but like i said ice is the bigger concern with this storm system and well see that transition over to freezing rain around the midday and afternoon hours. Thats going to lead to slick roads tomorrow. Especially later in the day. We cant rule out some Power Outages. The weather will be having a high impact on your sunday. You want to avoid travel tomorrow. Especially around the lunch time afternoon, and evening hours. Because of tomorrows weather, we are going to have a weather alert day. Of course chuck will be in tomorrow morning with the latest. 7 00 a. M. , were mainly dry, but right after that we can start to see snow and even freezing rain arrive by 8 00 9 00 a. M. Ill let you know chris, when this comes to an end and also have more on the concern for ice in just over ten minutes.