witnessed the initial carjacking. this lady comes running in hysterical, hyperventilating and said help me! help me! someone is in my car and i was like what happened? jeff: so many questions for law enforcement still remain about exactly what happened today. what assaye did and said during the time that he was missing as well as how he ended up in the district of columbia. his next court appearance is tentatively scheduled for friday. live in alexandria, jeff goldberg, abc 7 news. alison: ok jeff. as you know the search for assaye ended just before noon when d.c. police arrested him near pennsylvania avenue and 25th street in southeast d.c. stephen tschida was at the scene shortly after the arrest and he is there live now with how assaye got there and who spotted him. stephen? stephen: alison still some questions, confusion and uncertainties about just what went down but we can tell you we were here on the scene just moments after the arrest was made. it went down right he
gunman aaron alexis after taking a bullet in his vest. congressman elijah cummings chief of police talked about the bravery, quick thinking and humility of the officer. talk about people needing your help. trust me it s much more rewarding to help people than to be on the other side of the door. he is, as you can see he s very quiet and humble about everything. he put his life on the line and he saved so many lives. jeanette: the officer is eligible for retirement but tells me he s in no rush to leave just yet because he loves his job that much. reporting in baltimore, jeanette reyes, abc 7 news. jummy:estigators say a young boy started the fire that displaced dozens of people in a prince george s county apartment building. firefighters were called to that apartment building in suitland last night. everybody was able to get out safely. investigators believe the fire was started by a boy under the age of 10 playing with a lighter. boy will now be entered into a program f
wossen assaye at this exact moment? we hope to get some answers from the u.s. justice department. excuse me the u.s. marshals service in the next 15 to 20 minutes. we ll bring the latest information for you coming up in an hour 59 clock:00. jeff goldberg abc 7 news. alison: the university of virginia released a new interim policy on sexual misconduct and gender based violence and it s effective immediately. it was prompted by a federal investigation. the policy includes detailed descriptions of reporting procedures and sexual assaults and misconduct education at the university. and it also requires complaints be examined by the university s full-time investigator or an external investigator with relevant experience. leon: well d.c. mayor muriel bowser has her way, the city won t be putting the brakes on its planned streetcar project. alison: that s right. during last night s state of the district address, she promised to finish that streetcar line all along eighth street and
year 2015 budget. it closes that $200 million budget gap with different means. finding efficiencies in agencies across the district and talked about tough choices that her staff made looking at reducing medicaid reimbursement rates in the district, making them closer to the national average. that s a savings of about $9 million, for example reducing funding for university of the district of columbia by 5%. same with reducing facility maintenance funding by 5%. she also discussed the need for new revenue. in all about $26 million would be generated by increasing d.c. sales tax from 5.75% to a full 6%. increasing fees on parking by 4% to incentivize use of mass transit and hiking the tax on e cigarettes in d.c. to the same rate as other tobacco products here. she says her staff was innovative and creative but at the same time cost sensitive. mayor bowser: we closed the budget gap with some tough decisions and i m going to ask you to weigh those and weigh those heavily. i know t
leon: horace holmes is live in southeast washington where fans are streaming into the park. rather slowly if you want to call that line a stream horace. horace: absolutely. it s a little slower because of the security that you have to go through, metal detectors. you know, they ve already sung the national anthem and a young man threw out the ceremonial first pitch and guess what, it was a perfect strike. so the crowd went crazy. you can see the line here. it s a big crowd still filing into the stadium right now. and they ve been here all morning and all afternoon long waiting for this trying to get the taste of last year s bitter defeat in the national league championship game in san francisco. out of their mouths. everybody is very hyped for this season right now. we ran into the first people very first people in line. they got there around 8:00 this morning and the gentleman who was number one in line that we talked to didn t want his face to be seen. didn t want us to tel