in the southeast part of the city, we don't have many homeless facilities. there is one that i know of, providence baptist church. every night, i have seen this line wrapped around the corner. it is cold. this is a men's shelter in particular. they're coming in, they are on a floor of a gymnasium. we are not talking a lavish existence. four seasons here. definitely, i think we are a very compassionate city and just continue to extend the compassion to the homeless community. >> what is happening with crime in your district? how do you think the police department is doing to address the issue of crime in district 10? >> statistically, we have a lot of crime. homicides, there were two in the last week in my district. i am vice-chair of the public safety committee. safety and how we define safety, not just in terms of crime, but over a public safety, is something that is very important and one of my priorities. what i would like to see is more of a community policing approach. maybe engaging more the community. that includes organizations like safe, which is a

this is the southeast plant. if you recall, the southeast plant has a lot of exterior area around the plant that is just landscape at this point in time. there is potential to have a secondary use. parts of the landscaped area outside of what i call the wall and there is a very friends on some of the property were you could do community gardens or things of that nature. it is property that you own that you could put to a secondary use. president vietor: maybe you can let as know how much land each of these has that might be available for use. >> to do literally side by side. it depends on where you put things. i do not have exact numbers for you today, but that is something we can actually produce for you. president vietor: ok. >> the next category is about beneficial natural surroundings. 26 reservoir, we took over the function -- twin peaks reservoir, we took over the function about two years ago. this is an overt -- (r. it came with a lot of land around it, which was surprising to us. now we're sort of like th

i raised concerns about this at the meeting at southeast. i am pleased that there was discussion there and your discussion just now and the staff work that juliet referenced. i think the item before you today is fully vetted and appropriator i am very supportive. i would note from my experience that it is unusual for an entity like the commission, for the puc, to take on an art more in- house, rather than say let's cut a check and let the arts commission deal with it. the city department historically has been inconsistent in dealing with art. is making this a big deal, as you have, is really a significant accomplishment. i wanted to know that. i also agree with president vietor's suggestion of bringing this formally before the southeast facilities commission so we can hear it, not just one- on-one, but in the community. i am very supportive. thank you. president vietor: thank you. if there is a way to formalize that and see if that can be part of their agenda, i think that would be really great. if they want us to come and speak to it, if yo

and towards urbana and manassas, a sprinkle moving north and east. 57 degrees in southeast d.c., damascus at 53. on our way today close to mid 60's today, gusty wind appears to 30 miles an hour. already there are gusts this morning in excess of 30 in southern maryland. low 60's's tomorrow. still pleasant on the weekend partly cloudy. now to lisa baden with breaking traffic. >>> in waldorf maryland, a pedestrian hit by a vehicle. newschopper 7 is looking at an accident investigation. they will have to take pictures and documents this unfortunate accident. northbound near the sherwin- williams paint store on 301 before substation road. an alternate would be old washington road known as 925. you could use mattawoman beantown road. southbound 301 , traffic on the right. no sound will be closed -- northbound is closed. >>> police looking for three suspects after a deadly shooting in southeast d.c. talks were fired near a metrobus on alabama avenue. the suspect was shot in the face and later died. we have a crew on the scene and will have more details as they become available. >>> more breaking

most of the showers southeast. 42. 56 degrees tomorrow.shine and by the afternoon, after some morning clouds. all in all, very nice start to november already. hard to believe it. >> i know. >>> still ahead on eyewitness news at 5:00. good news for debit card controversies. why bank of america may be dropping its $5 debit card fee. >>> how herman cain might be responding to allegations of his over. >> we're going to let you know why things didn't go as planned. ,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> it's 5:30. what a beautiful sunset. 54 degrees and partly cloudy. good evening. thank you for staying with wjz. here are some of the stories people are talking about tonight. hundreds of college students will spend the rest of their semester sleeping on a cruise ship. why? it's because of a huge mold problem. monique griego reports from college. >> reporter: this is said to be home for the students. the students were ready to get on board today. but once again, things department go as planned. >> from dorm room to dock side. >> i kind of thought it was a joke at fir

i live in the southeast sector of san francisco. i remember looking at it back in 2003, when we discussed it. $650 million it is one thing. $1.2 billion is another. i want chinatown to get what it deserves. of what to make sure that folks through san francisco that the -- i want to make sure the folks at 3 san francisco the quality municipal system they are meeting and crying out for. >> final question? >> early every saturday morning, i walk down embarcadero with my 6-year-old daughter and we walk by the same dozen-plus homeless people sleep on the sidewalks, human excrement next to them, broken bottles nearby. you have children. what do you say to them when they ask, mom, how come the city lets these people live on the streets? what do you say not only from the perspective of the people on the streets but the people who are walking by and visitors? what is your answer to that? >> the answer is is not human to allow people -- and as a mother, the thought of having a child live on the street or sleep on the street, not have a home i

. >> reporter: it is hard to miss the purple row house on busy minnesota avenue in southeast. >> good morning. hi. how can i help you today. >> reporter: even harder to resist the sweet treats baking up inside olivia's cupcakes. >> this will be a great dessert. >> reporter: they opened the business about a month ago. >> my wife and i both grew up in anacostia, we saw you know, the ups and downs,. >> i thought why not why can't we have the same quality and class of business in our ward 8 that other washingtonians are offered and privileged with. >> reporter: so the couple along with their two college aged daughters, christina olivia, and alexis royale brought it to anacostia, investing in the often neglected community. >> i am glad it is in southeast, glad it is in southeast. >> reporter: cupcakes are cindy's own recipe she learned to cook and bake from her mother, perfecting her treats in years as a home maker she starts baking 2:00 a.m. every morning. >> strawberry short cake, vanilla. >> reporter: turning out 14 flavours every day, at $2 a treat it has been a welcome hit but that is

this is out of the edge of the southeast radars. there is going to be a lot of rainfall and it's going be knocking on our door tomorrow. the clouds ahead of the storm system. they will dim the sun late in the day. aiming for 85. we will talk about the rain in a moment. >>> route 2, 665, some debris in the roads near 50. be careful. we have light traffic, no major incidents to report. light traffic, few cars than a few minutes. most running southbound. this is the view from the overpass. south, towards the north avenue, we have the lights out on the jfx. no incidents on your way downtown towards fayette street. >>> children are four times as likely to be hit by a car on halloween night than any other time of the year. the cdc says eye trauma and burns from flammable costumes are also common on halloween. we are working with you and for you to give you the tips you need to know to keep your kids safe. local community centers, shopping malls and schools should organize festivities and allow kids to trick or treat inside. if a kid goes

that gives me to the next point i want to make, just the folks from the southeast that have come up and said -- i have done some work on environmental issues at the southeast part of this community that was ground zero. i know that as a white greeney from the western side of the city, i had listened to them and let them die the process. please take what they are saying as gold, because if that community doesn't run the process, it is not going to be a sustainable community. the people there need to be foundational to the process. the other thing i wanted to bring up is that i noticed in the general manager's report that there is no on clean power -- no note on clean power sf. the local power in the grassroots organizers about the test order for the part of the work. grassroots organizers, you can just cut a little bit on where that is at, because there is a commitment very much for that. the task order will give us the full scope of work. and i want to reiterate the full scope of work. we don't need a little of the work for the task order. we need to make sure that local power -- of the

southeast of town and around the beltway, mid 60's. the winds will be dying down tomorrow temperatures in the four depots in the morning, low 60's tomorrow afternoon. ahmet-like weather -- fall-like weather through the weekend with partly cloudy skies. >> that's great weather for football. >>> two stafford families are getting help from the county one month after losing their home to a landslide. look at the video. it houses were condemned after the landslide in september. the county board of supervisors is approving $62,000 to help cover site stabilization and repairs. the community is also helping raise funds for the family. repairs will likely caused hundreds of thousands of dollars. >>> still ahead for the holidays a dramatic difference you can expect to see this year for holiday bookings. >>> on the next "anderson," pageant moms. >> i am living with every day the joy of my daughter loving what she is doing. >> there's a loss of innocence; there's no childhood. >> i think you can push it too far. >> it costs a lot with all the make

what are you going to say to the people in the southeast of the city? quite frankly, people in the southeast of the city are going to be worse off. they will lose the direct connection that the t made to market street and bart and muni. there will have to go to union square and then walk back through a tunnel three football fields long to get to the station. i would say to the people of the southeast of the city that they are really going to lose with the central subway. the truth is that the mta's own statistics on how many people in chinatown are going to actually use the subway and get on at the washington street stop is a very low. it is 20% of the ridership. many of the people in chinatown are not going to be using this subject, even according to mta's own statistics. >> this is the highest-rated new start project in the country. there has been some criticism by the candidates saying there's not enough new ridership. guess what, the transit administration has changed their criteria. what they say is that you want to reward city's federal building t

so we have been looking at other choices that we plan on bringing back to the southeast commission anday that these things look like choices also. do they work? because of that, interestingly enough, the other genes have decided that since it is now a vibrant place, they want back then in a building they were planning on the abandoning in many ways. we're figuring out how to share the space. there have been afternoons were you seeing no one. it sits empty and having no one uses it is not to anyone's benefit. we're trying to figure out how to program the building to make sense, but nothing will be done without you folks to make sure that everyone is aware of what is going on. city college has flipped on that building so many times from abandoning it to meeting all of it. they're not very good partners, frankly. >> can i make a correction? we have had several deans. they didn't do their job. we could not do anything about it until some of us learned what was going on. we had them removed and we demanded that we have a young man to become the dean of that school. he is not the dna. in ord

of this day, i want you to have your staff cease and desist, make a decision for what goes on at southeast community college. it is the responsibility of that commission, it was a mandate that we have a commission, and that the community with the desire what goes on in that college, and education and training facility. it is not for what ever you think you might want to have. once my commission says this is what the community wants, then they can come to you. but at this day, i want you have your staff to cease and desist because i went to a meeting last friday at the chancellor's dated to may, what you're talking about we can't do because they said that we can only have the fourth floor. your staff doesn't make decisions on what happens to that college. when you were set up, i did not know you were being set up and because you weren't even established at that time. it was the public works and the water department. and there are a lot of other things that we were not informed of until 1996. i want you all just to stop because i am getting too old to be stressed. and have my community come

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this stuff is rotating down through the south-southeast. we'll see it a little bit later.the temperatures, oakland, quarter mile visibility with some fog and snow mixing in at 34. low 40s hagerstown to winchester at 45. 50 in ned ricksburg. we sit at 48. not going to be very warm today. look at the seven-day. temperatures coming up into the 70s by wednesday. >> my inlaws came in from london. i told them they brought this weather. everything looks great on the roads. green light for early monday morning. at route 198, no problems from laurel to calverton. there has been overnight construction in the right lane and they've pretty much cleared that up for the morning. let's go to the next camera. in tysons corner on the inner loop pass through 50 up in tysons corner, there had been construction at route 7. by the time you get there, you should be good to go as well. over to 395, nice and light from duke street to the 14th street bridge. the beltway at route 5, branch avenue, no problems here down to andrews air force base into alexandria. coming up in my next report, we'll ta

southeast asia, parts of india and china. the cargo deals exclusively in freight. a shareholder in tigard. >> and you have a stake in virgin? >> yes. >> it is a big stake? >> we own 49%. >> as you fly around the world yourself, as a passenger, what are the things you look for? >> i think you want to first of all make sure you travel and arrive comfortably, safely on time, which means all of the basics much more -- all of the basics must be there, punctuality, safety, comfort. not only on the plane, but before and after you fly. we want to make sure an entire flying experience is a good one. >> a broadway production of "the lion king" and a major appearance by lady gaga shows that singapore tracks the biggest and brightest in arts and entertainment. however, the real story may be what is happening locally in arts are affecting people. >> the art scene here in singapore -- paint a picture for us. >> extremely vibrant. compared to my colleagues in many developed economies, probably one of the few cities where funding for the arts and supports for the arts has actually

and this cold is going to be moving east/southeast so once we get rid of the storm system that's going to get us tomorrow, it will allow the cold air to come in. in fact here's some of the storm system part one of it in the mississippi valley with some showers and thunderstorms. part two is down in florida with all the tropical moisture. it's going to start lifting north in response to the western system coming in so for us, we're going see it arriving here as we head into tomorrow. today, not bad at all. a few clouds early. then here comes the moisture tonight into the day on wednesday. winds are going to kick up tomorrow northeast and then when the storm passes on thursday the westerly wind really kick in and we clear out but colder air moves in for the remainder of the week. for today we'll be in the low 70s. a nice day. tomorrow breezy and wet with highs in the 60s after being in the 50s to around 60 tonight. then friday through sunday, sunny and cool highs in the upper 50s and lows in the 40s in town with 30s in the suburbs. monika? >>> all right planning to head out this morning