He was currently out on bond awaiting sentencing in a drug case and had been rearrested in october for leading police on a car chase. Crashing that car and then tossing a handgun in the grass. Prince georges county Police Posted photos on twitter showing the handgun and rifle they found inside of thomas lexus this morning. As for his front seat passenger, he ran away in the shooting. The police later caught and arrested that man in his 30s. So far, he isnt facing any charges. But that could very well change. The vehicle does match a transcription for a vehicle believe to be involved a robbery and shootings in this vicinity. That is not for southern but its one of the investigative leads were actively working on for you. Kevin its worth noting that the two men were camped out in where someone murdered a 23yearold man just last month. There are a lot of moving pieces to this policeinvolved shooting. Investigators still putting them all together this afternoon. Live in Capitol Heights im
The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome everyone to this morning steering and today were going to consider the nomination of seema verma to serve as administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services. Welcome, ms. Verma, to the we are so happy to have you here and your family as well. I appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. I see that your family has joined you here today to lend support. I extend a warm welcome to all of them and to you as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest health insurer, covering over onethird of the u. S. Population through medicare and medicaid alone. It has a budget of over one trillion dollars and it processes over 1. 2 billion claims a year for Services Provided to some of our nations most vulnerable citizens. Ms. Verma, having dealt with cms extensively in your capacity as a consultant to numerous state Medicaid Programs, you know full well the challenges the agency deals with on daily basis. I suspec
Major owe issue. Ncps jack smith apologized to parents and said this is not a conversation about immigration but a horrible event. That gotta applause and so years, parents were handed papers that highlighted Maryland Education clause surprise poured by Supreme Court decision and country policy not taken to choir about immigration status. Heres what they have to say after the meeting. Youre putting them in the same classroom as 14yearold girls anding there nothing we do about that, sorry . The mood was cover our representation. There were long speeches from the principal, super intend end, from others who were on or about vaited with them explaining why this could never have happened when it did. Now, earlier superintendent smith held a News Conference addressing some questions that we in the media ha. One thing he did talk about was the question about appropriate sett setting and he said that this 18yearold suspect was in the right classroom. This student was enrolled in the appropria
By 17 and 18yearold classmates. Melanie alnwick in rockville with the latest on the fallout from this case, mel. Well, steve, allison. There were protesters out here last night before the meeting saying safety over sanctuary inside that meeting of course parents still be willederd as to how all this could happen. Now, that meeting itself was staffed by montgomery Country School representatives as well as montgomery country police. Parents were upset about what they perceived as delayed communication in this issue five days before the meeting actually even took place this pta meeting for them to get information. Also the fact that the 17 and 18yearold suspects were here illegally that was also a major issue. And Montgomery County superintendent jack smith apologized to parents and later said this is not a conversation about immigration but a horrible event that did get appl members of the audience. Parents were handed papers that highlighted Maryland Education laws supported by a Suprem
This happen. The owner of the restaurant talked to our Nikki Burdine about what happened and she joins us now live with that and what we know about the suspect. Reporter well, it was a scary afternoon for anyone who was here at comet ping pong, but now that fear has turned into anger for a community thats dealt with fake news and now real bullets. Comet ping pong has been the target of threats and conspiracy theories recently and up until today thats afternoon 28yearold edgar welch of salisbury, north carolina, walked into a restaurant carrying a long refuel and handgun. He told police he wanted refuel and handgun. He told police he want rifle and handgun. He tomorrow police he wanted to selfinvestigate. The accusation that comet ping pongs basement which they reportedly dont even have is the center of a child sex slave ring organized by hillary and entirely false. What happened today demonstrates that promoting false and reckless conspiracy theories do come with consequences. Reporter