dr. kevin maxwell will outline successes and goals. at the beginning of this school year maxwell said funding limitations had forced school leaders to get, quote, relate. >>> in a letter the board of supervisors expressed optimism and concerns. among the concerns is whether adding the lanes will result in more congestion and if it will make it more difficult. the board does assure that an outcome is possible. >>> the alexandria city council will be discussing tonight and they'll discuss the living shore plan designed this year. you'll be able to see that. >>> shearing her grief. a maryland mother talk about the accident that killed her 9-year-old daughter as police search for answers. a section shut down. >>> first we'll following new developments where heavy rain and flooding are causing more problems to major road closure that has the region cut off at this hour. >>> developing in chicago, more calls from mayor rahm emanuel to resign. you take a look. protesters showed up at a police board meeting last night. they also shut down a ma

dr. kevin maxwell prepares for his state of the school's address. he talked to our bureau chief, tracee wilkins about how he plans to fix that problem. >> this is about our children and about the future of prince george's county. dr. kevin maxwell is expected to present a hefty and costly proposed budget to the prince george's county school board tonight. the next year has a big price tag to it. news 4 was first to report the enormous backlog of thousands of students who were not immunized. record keeping and an underfunded nursing staff was partly to blame. maxwell was hoping to change that. >> school nurses over the summer because keeping the records updated and keeping -- sending and making phone calls to parents and families is really important. >> last year's budget request of $1.84 billion prompted the county executive to propose a higher property tax in order to fund it. that request failed and with it a lot of the programs maxwell wanted to see in place. this time he wants better communication. he'd also like to see reduced class sizes for k

dr. kevin maxwell proposed a $2 billion budget to the county school board during his state of the school address tonight. maxwell wants smaller class sizes for kindergarten, first and second grade and expansion of specialized programs and higher teacher salaries. maxwell says he wants to build a stronger district long term. >> we must decide if that chapter is simply about getting through the next school year, or about creating a new prince george's county public schools for the students we have now and for the generations to come. >> last year's school budget requests prompted county executive baker to propose a property tax hike. the county council rejected it. >>> a local county put up road blocks for hot lanes on i-395. now its opposition may be cooling. we'll tell you why. >>> and christmas is little more than two weeks away. two weeks! if you're like a lot of us, the stress of gift giving is ramping up. consumer reporter erica gonzalez shows us some ways you can ease those holiday headaches. >>> still two weeks for me to buy all the gifts. no problem! take a lookout there right now