it was legal for creepy looking people to hang out at albert lake but when the uniformed officers people are were no longer intimidated and able to use the park etc. we had to come up with a tactic when there was no illegal activity but people were still intimidated. we moved that to the panhandle so we're moving that detail around a little bit and it's been effective. our beat officers when i got to the park station we had two beat officers. now we have 8 and they walk or ride bicycles. they're required everyday to pushing pick out one business and talk about to whoever is working at the business. donates not practical to having them go into every business on the beat they wouldn't be able to deal with the bad guys on the street but i get tired of hearing people never see the beat people so they would go in and talk to the merchants everyday. again twice a month in buena vista park our homeless support officers they spend all day clearing out encampments entreshd at buena vista park they take three or four truck loads of folks out. that's been hey with the cooperation of rec and park de

those meetings we've seen an improvement in the panhandle and that parole officer there at the albert lakeorary fix. so i'm here to the commission to talk about the resources that the park station has. this is a sorrow problem that's escalated in the last year and we are as the commission look at the resources and the chief look at the resources there's clearly a need in this district to change the model so we can have leasing sxhanl throughout the year we want the resources in place to continue that year-round >> thank you very much. >> basically, i live in the on handle the block and a half from buena vista and panhandle most of the time, i can't visit that because people are shooting up theirs pounds and pounds of dirt and the poor park workers they say please appeal on our behave and thanks sir, we haven't seen an impact but as the tenants said it's temporary. the resources that this predict has compared to other cities that have parks of a similar size it's quite small and one hundred and 50 officers are assigned to that park our park is twice the size. on the other hand, we need more

at least 98 people died after a boat capsized on lake albert between uganda and the democratic republics many as 250 people may have been on board, the boat transporting refugees back home from the refugee camp in uganda and we have malcolm webb on the line and anything more you now? >> they set off saturday morning from the other side of the lake and u.n. said it may have as many as 250 people on it at the time. police and survivors said it was chronically overloaded, refugees were all carrying possessions, mattresses and so on and about one kilometer from the lakeshore it capsized and talking to people from in land areas and as many of the refugees were and one of the reasons the casualty rate is so high. the police say the boat was overloaded and said they have since arrested the captain and one of the survivors and also they say at the time he was under the influence of alcohol and had been drinking and what some of the survivors said as well. >> reporter: the latest on the boat capsize and thank you. there is hope for a missing malaysia jet and they have confirmation from china it

our mark albert is live in prince george's county tonight with what you need to know for tomorrow. >> reporter: this is old bridge road in lake ridge. there are some slick spots on this stretch of road. i talked with a contract plow driver for vdot who thinks the roads would need a massive amount of salt right now to get ready for the morning commute. vdot says its goal is to make one pass on northern virginia's 16,000 neighborhood streets by sometime tomorrow. until then you'll want to be careful. add a few inches of wet snow and falling temperatures and this is what you get, sheets of ice glistening in some places, a hazardous mix. >> there's completely ice everywhere. >> reporter: fabian guerrero plans to leave extra early for work tuesday morning. >> see how it goes tomorrow morning if i can make it or not. >> reporter: the virginia department of transportation says its 4,000 trucks are staffed by crews on 12 hour shifts as they try to make all state roads passable within 48 hours, but as the snow stopped falling midafternoon, it wasn't so much the snow buildup that worried drivers. it was the plummeting temperatures free