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graduation nightmare at a local university. and say good-bye to the sunshine. get ready for some big changes in the weather pattern. good evening, everyone. thanks for staying up with us tonight. i m brian bolter. and i m shawn yancy. a big inconvenience for riders of the two biggest metro stations. the foggy bottom and dupont circle station repairs will take a year. this news comes on the growing concern of escalator safety after an accident that hurt a 4- year-old boy. audrey barnes has our top story. reporter: the metro riders i spoke with tonight said they want two things when it comes to escalator at metro. they want reliability and safety and many say right now they don t have either. a 4-year-old boy is rushed to the hospital after the fire department s technical rescue team frees his foot that was trapped in an escalator at the u street station. it appears as though there s some loose clothing in this case, some shoe, like a tennis shoe type of materia ....
fox 5 s john hanrahan has more. this is a horrible pedestrian versus car accident from last september. one pedestrian was killed, another badly injured. police say the driver, a young woman from mitchellville, maryland was very drunk. questions from both sides prompted the judge to un expectedly recues himself from the case. a group of johns hopkins graduate students was standing on a traffic island in adams morgan when police say then 23- year-old shamika adams car came around a corner, mowed down two of the pedestrians and wound up crashing into an abandoned restaurant. 26-year-old yulia later died. her mother and twin sister remain devastated. i sent her to the u.s. to have a good study and to get the career and to do something in her life and she was killed in the road. prosecutors say breathalyzer tests registered twice the legal limit of alcohol. according to the government s memorandum in support of sentencing, tamyka adams was in a bar called the district ....
she and a classmate at the school of advanced studies were trying to cross 18th street when they were run down. julia died. the other student, though severely injured, managed to survive. chargeded in case, 23-year-old shaunica adams. her blood alcohol level that day was nearly twice the legal limit. adams has pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter. she was to have been sentenced in superior court today, but the judge took himself off the case today. the reasons? he said the oldest daughter of his administrative assistant had a relationship with the defendant adams. the judge says one of his children is involved in the johns hopkins graduate school program, although he said she didn t know julia. after the postponement today miss bachlightner says she was very disappointed in the american justice system. am very disappointed. this would not happen in europe. i am sure. reporter: sentencing guidelines in this case, three to seven years. monday, a new judge, new proc ....
next thing i know the altercation jumps out and the other one stabbed him, over there fighting. the first thing we saw, this was a rush on the 7-eleven. they pretty much pushed the owner out the door and next thing you know, they ran across the street and apparently they re in the zoo. next thing we saw was just a bunch of young people running through the zoo. whole bunch of people running through the zoo. then the police or the security are pretty much chasing these people throughout the zoo. they were knocking over strollers and things like there are babies in the strollers. reporter: police say a teenager had been jumped and stabbed by a group of young people. they say the attack continued after the victim left the zoo. at some point the stabbing victim left the grounds of the zoo and possibly could have encountered the same group where he was possibly stabbed again and then the suspect or suspects fled the zoo. reporter: investigators say the victim ....
these budget debates are not just about the programs of government; they re also about the purpose of government. so i d like to share with you the principles that guide us. they are anchored in the wisdom of the founder, in the spirit of the declaration of independence, and in the words of the american constitution. they have to do with the importance of limited government and with the blessing of self-government. we believe government s role is both vital and limited to defend the nation from attack and provide for the common defense, to secure our borders, to protect innocent life, to uphold our laws and constitutional rights, to ensure domestic tranquility and equal opportunity, and to help provide a safety net for those who cannot provide for themselves. we believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility. we believe, as our founders did, that the pursuit of h ....