this includes pool circulation systems, pool pumps and dehumid fiction systems and comfort, new pool locker rooms, possible addition of another program room and renovation of the pool itself. a proposal conference was held in mid-october. the pool itself, with over 30 attendees with engineers. a total of 30 proposals were received in the office this year. a diverse panel that includes architects and experts and project managers were assembled to review the proposals. interview short list was conducted for four firms in early december this year. the project was overseen by the group. the cmd also applied the local business enterprise ratings for the four teams interviewed and developed a ranking in which we reelect -- the point. by appointing this request at this meeting, they are scheduled to meeting on the dates established in the 2012 schedule so that community meetings can start in ernest. we came to meetings in february of this year of 2014 and so that full design services and construction documents can proceed we intend to go into construction and meet 2015. the staff is recomme

and then the other pool which is a larger pool of people who will be buying policies and going into the affordable care act as a result of the first of the year. this is a challenge. under the law actual oriole -- actually approaches, it is based on large numbers. you want a large pool so you do not end up with people with simply health commissions or that will skew the rates and make them much higher. that is the challenge. that is the challenge this has created. the problem with trying to do something at the very end or in ends up hour is that it with other challenges and conditions. in this case, the consequences. this is the latest pickup in the implementation of the affordable care act. >> is that the only thing they have made as this tries to lock out. you did both in support of the law and afterward you stuck by your support for the affordable care act. are you having any doubts about of the affordable care act giving the problems we have seen over the last few months? what lenny express it this way. -- >> let me express it this way. i do not discuss the policy. i am not in t

pool. i'm bruce leshan. city council wants to know how a manager and a life guard could get away with it. >> three women, two of them teens, now allege they were sexually assaulted at late night parties at the pool. >> have there been any arrests in this case? >> we're still actively investigating the case. >> what have you done about this incident about who may be involved? who knew or should have known what was going on at the pool. >> council committee chair, mary, is far from satisfied with the answer she is getting from park and rec's acting director. there is no sign of a wave of similar problems at other parks and pools. >> so, what we need is, we need circumstances -- no, this is really troubling to me. >> our performance management is doing what it is intended to do. >> but obviously not. obviously not. >> in d.c., bruce leshan, wusa9. >> elsewhere, police say they are looking at a stolen car ring in the deadly carjacking at an upscale new jersey mall. 30-year-old offered no resistance before he was

that is important to the nature of the pool. the larger the pool, the better chance you have of having perhaps lower rates because you will have the only people with health conditions but you will have healthy people in the pool as well. there is an advantage in doing it. i just do not know what the consequences of changing that particular structure would have on the rates. >> one area they have control over us what to do in response to the position to delay open enrollment for 2015 by a month to presumably give carriers an extra month of claims data. it is decided to move this around. what are your members thinking about doing? what do you think the consensus is there? >> some states do have authorities over rates. others did not have any authority whatsoever. that is a concern. health and human services has some control or authority with respect to rates. i suspect that remains to be seen, how they are going to react to what ever the claims data shows for that extra time frame. everybody understands that when you change the ru

pooled together by the reality of what happened in their community. jay grarks nbc news. >>> authorities say pierson bought the ammo the morning of the shooting. >>> right now at 5:00, women attacked near a high school. even students were targeted. we are learning how police made an arrest in this case. >>> plus, we could see snow showers and rain in the next 24 hours. now we can pinpoint when the storm is moving into your neighborhood. >> the mega millions jackpot is growing. if nobody wins this week, there could be $1 billion up for grabs on christmas eve. >>> first after 5:00, a developing story. an arrest in a high profile attack on women behind a high school in prince george's county. >> in one case, the student was raped. police were able to zero in on the suspect who was allegedly involved in crimes in montgomery county. tracee wilkins joins us. she's in hyattsville to explain how detectives connected those dots. >> reporter: they were thinking they were dealing with the possibility of a serial rapist. you can understand how extreme this was. i

outrage tonight over a series of sexual assaults inside eight ec pool -- a d.c. pool. we're outside the pool with the action that was taken today. >> it was hot seat time. employees not doing their jobs? or the negligent or was this a cover-up? allegations of sexual assault at the wilson aquatic center came down to this. >> i am not satisfied and i will not be until i find what they will do to change this. from thented answers director after at least three victims, two of them juveniles, came forward claiming they had been sexually assaulted at the pool after hours. >> we do not condone and are not tolerant of our staff acting outside of policy. >> at today's emergency hearing, they explained the two employees knew the victims and said one of m had a key to the facility. as a app -- after they snuck in, swimming and drinking turned sinister and ended in sexual assault. the council wanted to know how no one in a position of authority new the activity was going on. it only came to light when a 23- year-old woman stepped forward and reported that she had been raped. >> yo

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that you install a continuous motion pool.ot very common. and it's not every day that a crane lifts it up over the house. >> peter pulls out his phone to catch the process on camera. >> the main reason was just to show my son the clip. i thought that he would get a kick out of it. >> at first, everything goes swimmingly. but as the crane operator is guiding the pool over the garage, peter can't help but call out a warning. >> watch out for the chimney. >> it looked like he was getting really close to the chimney. he couldn't hear me call anything out to him. the machine itself is really loud. i just had an inkling or some kind of feeling that something might happen. >> peter's right. something will happen, but it's not the pool hitting the chimney. the crane operator maneuvers it safely past that obstacle, but as he starts to lower the pool into the yard, look out. >> holy -- i heard a loud pop, then i heard the crane operator scream and i knew to run at that point. there really wasn't much else to do. when the crane operator

can you get the risk pool that you need to make these numbers work?> that's a great question, and i think there were really good questions long these lines. jodie said 70%, and i think that's low. and igor made an try point by changing the definition of success. 80% of people are going through the experience. the prior goal was 99%. if they're only having 80% success rate, they would not go to that. they're used to the amazon experience. they go, see the price, decide if they want it or not, and if they want t they get it delivered to their door. >> if you ask the young people how optimistic they are about the website, they tend to say by the greatest margins by age group they think the website can fixed. eight out of ten think that the website can be fixed. that's a swell that they'll do campaign. they say it's full of problems and they tell pollsters that they will return. >> they said that they were bewildered. they didn't you fully understand the law. they didn't fully understand what would happen when they got to the website. does having the navi

. >> how majorities are become are notes at the pool.haria law is changing everything. >> jon: it's changing everything and probably not for the better. while i don't know what sharia law is i know it's muslim-y. and if fox is talking about it it's going to destroy the nation. >> a ymca in st. paul is starting a swim group for muslim girls but special considerations have to be made to keep with religious beliefs. >> jon: oh, my god! special considerations. everything has changed. [ laughter ] wait, what has changed? >> during the one hour class is pool is shut down, men's locker room is locked and female lifeguards are brought in. >> jon: oh, my god everything has changed. dogs walk babies, dancing makes you sad. tears come out of your ears and snot comes out of your butt which is not how it is now, i can tell that you. [ laughter ] actually though it seems like the only thing that has changed because of sharia law is one ymca pool's schedule white board. it seems like the only thing. i could see how that that could be traumatic. first t

it is the only facility that has an integrated swimming pool and recreation center combined.e have to pools, the city's water slide, for little kids and those of you that are more daring and want to try the rockslide, we have a drop slide. >> exercises for everybody. hi have a great time. the ladies and guys that come, it is for the community and we really make it fun. people think it is only for those that play basketball or swim. >> i have been coming to the pool for a long time now. it is nice, they are sweet. >> in the aquatics center, they are very committed to combining for people in san francisco. and also ensuring that they have public safety. >> there are a lot of different personalities that come through here and it makes it very exciting all the time. they, their family or teach their kids have a swim. >> of the gem is fantastic, there is an incredible program going on there, both of my girls have learned to swim there. it is a fantastic place, check it out. it is an incredible indication of what bonn dollars can do with our hearts and facilities. it is as good as

if people exit the regular obamacare pool into a catastrophic pool, sicker people will be in the obamacareve. they haven't priced them that way. they priced them with the assumption everybody will be in them. they will lose a lot of money. >> good to see you. >>> also developing tonight new fallout from the news that 40 million shoppers may have been targeted by hackers during the shopping season. already people complaining about accounts. trace gallagher has more. >> the 40 million customers are the ones who went into target stores, not the ones who shopped online. what happened is the hackers went after the terminals themselves which is where you go up to the register. that's where you swipe your card. if you shopped and used plastic at target you could be affected. they got customer names, card numbers, expiration dates and that three-digit security number ton back of the card so they can use the information to create a copy of your credit card so this is far from over. will be. >> the fact that the data is out there could lead to something six months, two years from now. they have to b

pool facility, the focus on the multimillion dollar wilson aquatic center last month. three women, two of them teens, say they were assaulted during after hours pool parties. at a hearing today we learned there have been no arrests and council member mary cheh says not enough accountability. >> what have you done about this incident about who may be involved, who knew or should have known what was going on at the pool? >> cheh also pointed to a d.c. inspector general's report suggesting facility workers use drugs and alcohol while on duty. the acting parks and rec director is set to give a full report to cheh by christmas. >>> got a vote tonight that puts the future of options public charter school in the district in question. here is investigative reporter russ ptacek with the board's vote to begin the revocation process. >> reporter: students and parents pleaded with the board not to do it calling options public charter school a school of last resort for students with learning disabilities and behavior problems, students who had been kicked out of so many schools bef

four decades later, this hillside will finally become pool side. the cost of 7-and-a-half million bucks. >> i'm standing probably close to the shallow end of the pool. i probably am coming down the steps right now. >> it can't come soon enough for water polo players and swimmers. >> the practice schedule is very bad. >> it's hectic. it's really really inconvenient. >> they now travel to use pools at other schools. that means a lot of late-night practices. >> every day from 7:30 to 9:30. >> part of the grand plan includes expanding north gate's sports medicine program. >> this would be considered a storage room for the p. e. department. >> now, 180 student trainers work out of a 10 by 10 storage locker. and a snack shack when state and district dollars dried up, parents chose to step up. >> because there's just no money left in the state for facility improvements. >> the north gate community pride foundation. the group is basically parentings getting other parents to pitch in for upgrades. the foundation raised $2 million for the little theater and

>> during the one hour class is pool is shut down, men's locker room is locked and female lifeguards are brought in. >> jon: oh, my god everything has changed. dogs walk babies, dancing makes you sad. tears come out of your ears and snot comes out of your butt which is not how it is now, i can tell that you. [ laughter ] actually though it seems like the only thing that has changed because of sharia law is one ymca pool's schedule white board. it seems like the only thing. i could see how that that could be traumatic. first they came for our tuesday

today is the most to least she became the lake system by senior officer to use that joke pools. that is the root of the law to state office of offices can be appointed and renewed from that ut. hopping trying to serve my country and people of this country with a four coffees. slamming the police sting in private is to go and attack their actions that led to the operation to punish the government. but turkey's main opposition is already questioned the state's role in the dismissals. many observers and touching the ongoing feud as an internal power struggle. will new york city council is opposed to the use of electronic cigarettes in joel's restaurants possible the private establishments have full months before the bill comes into force three states across the us also have seven minutes nation in assists he was already six but he knows some take issue with that but the real centerpiece the quick fix themselves. i don't know why it was the reason behind the bad the miller case they should have a like a solid reason voted to ban it then. then that would make sense at all if it doesn

the insurance pools work state by state. they have their own pool and in oregon, they had 44 people signed up. there is no way that insurance pool is going to work in a state like. that there could be states that can make a go of it like new york and california, but there could be a lot of states where obama care can be still born. >> we are seeing a focus on the media in the fact that the website is working better and humming along. you still have the back end problems and obviously down the road, increased premiums and high deductibles and et cetera. this whole issue of the website a distraction? >> no, it was a real problem and if they hadn't fixed the front end it would have collapsed in the beginning. it is good that the administration got it working better than it was before. this will continue to be a huge political issue. because of the higher premiums, and higher deductibles and tighter networks and people may not be able to go to see the doctors they are accustomed to seeing. and this is a major political problem f

his toy is in the pool. >> rocco's a lab.t seven months at a camp re learning how to hunt ducks. rocco doesn't like to jump in the pool to get the toy. trained to hunt ducks but doesn't like getting into the family pool. this time he's like i'll just -- >> well, he's half swimming. >> if i just disturb the water enough, it will eventually float toward me. >> it does. watch. >> that is one smart dog. >> he did get it. >> well done, rocco. >> these boys are stuck at the airport. >> and they break into "the little drummer boy" and they're doing a great job. >> they are. >> the impromptu holiday performance that will make your day. >> and it the stuff moms don't say. >> we wish. >> see the funny way these moms behave next. >>> lots of people getting delayed at the airport because of the weather. if you were at the dallas fort worth airport this weekend, you got a pretty fun treat. ♪ >> this group of men just break into "the little drummer boy" in the middle of the terminal and they're doing an amazing job. >> yeah, they are. >> i

allowing investors to pool funds to rest -- invest in real estate.lus it is the new "words with pp is at theiza top of the apps category. first up, we're were to put the focus on private equity. we're good to start with a firm getting eager. since the five it -- financial quadrupledkstone has in size. ceo steve schwarzman wanted to get even bigger. he joined erik schatzker earlier. where does he see growth? >> wherever it all where it he is -- already is. it also isn't really slowing down. yes a couple of years ago blackstone was growing at a pace of 29% a year, this year is on track to grow at about 25% a year. not a really big slowdown if you'd consider the fact that the firm getting much, much bigger. the shorts would have told me the past that they can see like stone being twice its current trillion with half a dollars of assets under management. the question is how it gets there. is blackstone going to run into a warren buffett wobble board is going to have to start hunting elephants in order to move the needle? this is what he said when he aske

he takes more and more healthy people out of the risk pool. most people don't really care about insurance companies and how much money they will make. but they need to care here. why? >> if you don't have a pool that works it doesn't matter if it is an insurance company or a single-payer system. it won't work for you. the cost wills skyrocket. >> premiums will skyrocket. >> exactly right. you don't have to like the insurance company or not. we all have to get in the pool together. he's exempting people. this is about political expediency over good business judgment. they've got a political problem. so they say, okay, you don't have to be in the pool anymore. if they keep doing this, there will be no one left in the pool anymore. >> it's like a line item veto where you take out pieces of the law that have already passed. congress agreed on. this is supposed to be the plan. the president is cherry picking things out and changing them. >> it's really bad short-term thinking. they are trying to survive. you wille s see headlines that obamacare is

one of the men in the pool. it's very important for us to be able to patrol the ideas that we keep friends and the goals we have it on to these rules. people can see our work as they walked by. it gives them a better understanding of the situation life in the horror the beach. yet as the god of love. by its very nature graffiti off as a form of resistance has been some folded in egypt they were documented on the walls of the city. recent real thorpe's whitewashed a mural that have become an international shrine to anti establishment streetcars the memorial to hatred of the army in the peace and to the rebellious spirit on the east by the uprising the painting paid tribute to the mountains of the revolution. the day off to the clean up graffiti artists got the to restore it now in chips and three contests could face fines or even prison sentence is keeping you dry off toward banning so called peace if the bt its costs. don't act on that. of these impressive paintings described the recent events taking place in eg

>> during the one hour class is pool is shut down, men's locker room is locked and female lifeguards are brought in. >> jon: oh, my god everything has changed. dogs walk babies, dancing makes you sad. tears come out of your ears and snot comes out of your butt which is not how it is now, i can tell that you. [ laughter ] actually though it seems like the only thing that has changed because of sharia law is one ymca pool's schedule white board. it seems like the only thing. i could see how that that could be traumatic. first they came for our tuesday synchronized aqua dance andy not speak out. [ laughter ] -- aqua dance, and i did not speak out -- [laughter] because i prefer water exercise with a pool noodle. what is it like to live in that world of pure fear and despair where every inconsequential change in what was becomes a harbinger of a apoke lips where only muslims can swim and the sidewalk game where decent law abiding white folk are randomly knocked out has replaced baseball as the favorite pasttime. >> a new battle in the war on christmas. >> the war on christmas. >> the is s

pool. children came forward with claims they were assaulted at the wilson pool in northwest d.c.ast week, a woman told police she was raped for hours at that same pool. police not said if the cases are connected. if you have any information, you're asked to call d.c. supplies and 4:46. investigators are asking if a d.c. officer was running a sex ring with underage girls. they found other girls who were used as prostitutes. >> a teacher accused of dui is currently out on administration leave. he tells us he drank tuesday night, forgot he had alcohol in a bag when he drove to work wednesday. a coworker suspected he was drunk. that led a school research officer to give a field sobriety test. >> i feel completely ashamed and i would like to apologize to all the cedar family members and also apologize to public schools. >> he is charged with dui, driving without a license and possession of alcohol on school property. >> a d.c. man faces merely a dozen charges this what the washington humane society is calling one of the worst cases of animal cruelty it has ever seen. police believes c

the pool is right next door to wilson high school. this was unsettling for residents. >> i hope it is not something that is happening around here. what if it is, that they get to the bottom of it quickly. >> residents say the pool, run by the city's department of parks and recreation, needs to be safe for all. >> it is very important for the government to do everything it can to protect young women from predators. >> law enforcement sources were not ready to say if the two men suspected in the earlier case involving the 20 three rd woman asked the 23-year-old woman are the same suspects being looked for these allegations. the case is ongoing. if you have any information or feel that your child has been victimized, call the district police. jennifer donelan, abc 7 news. fairfax county police are investigating whether racing played a role in a deadly crash in springfield. witnesses told officers a convertible driven by a 30-year- old seem to be racing and infiniti late last night when blaine lost control of his car on the franconia spri

but along the way they stop at a pool on campus, set down their books and pull off their sneakers. >>very sweaty and it is hot and we go for a swim, we take a few dives and i hit my head on the bottom of the pool. >> a freak accident, says krauthammer. >> the amazing thing is there was no -- not even a cut on my head. just hit at precisely the angle where all of the force was transmitted to one spot and that is the cervical verb bray which severed the spinal cord. >> when did you realize that the accident was life-altering. >> the second it happened. >> you knew? >> i knew exactly what happened, i knew why i wasn't able to move and i knew what that meant. >> at the bottom of the pool -- >> i wasn't getting out. i knew, yes. >> he was paralyzed, unable to move his arms or legs. his friend thought he was clowning around and hesitated before diving down to save him. >> was there ever a moment that you thought this is the end? >> well, when i knew what happened and i knew i was at the bottom of the pool and i knew i won't be able to swim, i was sure that was the end. >> do you think back

that's the pool hall there on the bottom. some wine, some beer and a few bottles of coca-cola were gone. the witnesses saw gideon that night with pockets full of change. gideon found himself facing serious time in prison. >> i have no council >> why do you not have council? >> i would like someone to represent me. >> i would have to deny you request to a point you council in this case. >> gideon,000 this was unfair. >> by asking the court to appoint a lawyer, gideon thought he had the right to counsel. >> this right is a basic right to in in in the constitution because the threat that is presented by imprisonment and even execution is a threat that the government should allow to have. >> gideon had to represent himself because the state of florida denied a lawyer. the entire trial lasted a day before he was found guilty and sentenced to the maximum to 5 years. >> the last days end here walking into prison and doing his time. but this time he went to prison convinced he didn't belong there and the state of florida didn't give

but that government could pay for needed to behave with namaste and they can feed into the pool and on the net to hold his own country. more than a hundred thousand people continued to come the government has seen the distribution and the cooling of the connection with little to none. it is to be this that there could be encouraging he said no but the people's health and a two week it was because good people to face the tough and the eunuch has dismissed the idea is unconstitutional and undemocratic a higher than fifteen k but this post i will stick it on the hopefuls have thought that i'd seen in a two in two thousand and six. like not to burn coal to rejoin the un correspondent martin denmark and is told about the latest gesture from you to know what this friday he told parliament say that there will be a snap election in saying that she will bond in that connection bought katie that perth is continuing the day in bangkok and we will warm to that of me and that he approaches me this attack was getting to fly the big one for monday that his reading batting the crowd to come back up to

one woman says, it was not part of her pool. >> screaming up and down. the woman who purchased the ticket. she bought it for $4. i know. i'm happy to the person who did win. >> because of georgia lottery rules, clerk hsu le will not receive any bonus prize. she will get the typical 6 percent for ticket sales. >>> renewed concerns on the air quality in the bay area. this is a live look in san jose. you could see the hazy conditions right there right now. tara spoke to officials with the bay area quality board and joins us live from the oakland hills. tara, any sign of relief? >> reporter: actually they say they are expecting wind in the next 24 hours. that could help ease the problem. meantime, you may see a lot of asthmatics using inhalers like these to help them breath. this is the site you don't normally see. san francisco completely envelled in smog. and let's take a look at the skyline in the south bay. gilroy and morgan hill, in particular, the brunt of the pollution. they held pe classes inside. we attended the board meeting today. officials say th

an emergency meeting to address concerns about disturbing assault allegations at adc pool. >> lottery fever heating up. how much the mega millions jackpot has climbed. >> a cool start to our week. changes once upon a time, an insurance clerk stumbled upon a cottage. [knock] no one w a at home, but on the kitchen table sat three insurance policies. the first had lots of coverage. the second, only a little. but the third was... just right! bear: hi! yeah, we love visitors. that's why we moved to a secluded house in the middle of the wilderness. just the right coverage at just the right price. coverage checker from progressive. hd, this is abc 7 breaking news. >> some breaking news -- a bomb threat at harvard university has forced the evacuation of for campus buildings. the harvard police department received unconfirmed reports of explosives. the evacuation is interacting final exams. we will continue to monitor the situation and update you iraq today on wjla.com and on abc 7 news. youmergency -- update throughout the day. alleged sexually assaults at the wilson aquatic center in northwe

if we had a choice to pool what kind of pool to join in to, a different scenario. >> it's not that way -- right. ring, it's not that way with a government issue plan. it's never been that way with the -- >> what about the regulation -- >> hang on. 80-year-olds have to get maternity coverage. really? >> how about the state -- >> there were more choices! there are not more choices. >> no, you had to have standardized medicine. >> who get assay there, who don't want to sign on to it? state or fed. >> i didn't understand the question. >> a lot of state insurance companies don't want to go along with obamacare. >> offer something. there are non-exchange plannous buy. they have to meet the minimum requirement as they did many state. >> bottom line this thing is one hell of a mess. that is how you sum it up. some congressman patting themselves on back for approving the budget deal, in light of the bad rap for passing the fewest bill on record. some at forbes say we should be cheering a do-nothing congress. that is the flip side up next. you don't want to miss it. >>> live from america's news