the national championship on the line. the tide and tigers have met in college football playoffs in three of the last four years and split their previous two match-ups. those are some of our top stories on this monday, january 7th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. let s begin this half hour with the latest in the death of a young girl in houston. jazmine barnes died a week ago when a gunman opened fire on the vehicle she was riding in with her mother and sisters. a man named eric black has been arrested and charged in connection with her murder and police say he has admitted to driving the suv from which a passenger opened fire. abc s marcus moore reports from houston. reporter: police making an arrest in the tragic death of jazmine barnes. a death her family initially feared was racially motivated. the 20-year-old black arrested and charged with the shooting death one week ago, and the authorities say this all may have been the case of mistaken ident
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for the actual registrations. but, again, a lot of it is communication and there s so many people utilizing our services that we don t know about. and we can t capture the number of people just dropping in at the park because we don t have people sign a waiver to enter the park. so we re trying to capture as much as we can in formal registrations. once we master that we re hoping to take a bigger picture look at really who our the numbers of the people that we re serving within the whole department but right now we focus on registration. that s fantastic. so does most of your funding come from rec and park? or does it come from other areas? emily and i work within the department. so our programs are ultimately funded with whatever the budget of rec and park gets from wherever we get the budget. do you know, emily? in regards to the budget just to add on, jim, we re currently so we primarily serve kids with disabilities but we also have opportunities for adults and s
but, again, a lot of it is communication and there s so many people utilizing our services that we don t know about. and we can t capture the number of people just dropping in at the park because we don t have people sign a waiver to enter the park. so we re trying to capture as much as we can in formal registrations. once we master that we re hoping to take a bigger picture look at really who our the numbers of the people that we re serving within the whole department but right now we focus on registration. that s fantastic. so does most of your funding come from rec and park? or does it come from other areas? emily and i work within the department. so our programs are ultimately funded with whatever the budget of rec and park gets from wherever we get the budget. do you know, emily? in regards to the budget just to add on, jim, we re currently so we primarily serve kids with disabilities but we also have opportunities for adults and seniors. we re currently in tra
specific families. and the whole takeaway from that project was really the quantitative data that would allow us to talk to our department to show them the importance of it. and so that we could have our families really with the testimonies and the requests captured and that was the big baseline and takeaway from that intern project. it is easier to talk within our department when we have an intern work on something sometimes. so sometimes we like to try to steer our accessible goals towards intern projects so that the department can notice it more. and we also know that there s a great after-school program at promoy after-school program and so if we have another after-school program on the other side of town to where if palmroy has a list for after-school programs we can kind of connect and partner with each other in regards to that. but, again, as jen mentioned some families are okay with inclusion after-school programs. so, again, we don t want to have them rule out that