tisha thompson reports whose side you are on determines where you eat. >> reporter: long before lunch lines begin. >> they are the best, we love them. >> reporter: food trucks get premium parking spots around d.c. location is critical but comes at a price. >> no matter how much you feed the meter, they are always eager to give tickets. >> reporter: he runs basil thyme. he thinks he's targeted by parking enforcement. >> they are tickets from the same officer. >> reporter: he's not the only one. every food venn tor says they are getting tickets almost daily, mainly for parking at meters for more than two hours. >> being a small business is a struggle on its own. the last thing we need is, you know, $1,000 a month. it's a lot of money. >> reporter: they enforce parking in d.c. and declined to go on camera. they did start a two-person unit in october to address the increased presence of food trucks. >> there's been cars parked in front of me with the meter expired. they ignore that and specifically ticket us. >> reporter: captured on his cell phone an officer writing a ticket as he got re

at metro center, tisha thompson, news4. >> whose side are you on? go to the news4 i-team facebook page and tell us what you think. >>> look at this guy. this is not the publicity that fedex wants to get. a youtube video posted on monday shows a delivery guy tossing a computer monitor over the gate. the worker is being punished. the company reached a satisfactory resolution with the customer. in two days more than 3 million people have watched that video and they hope that guy is not delivering to their house. >> too bad fedex cannot get rid of that video. >> it is marked fragile. >> don't know what that says from "a christmas story". >> i think that says fragile. >> and the fedex guy was wearing shorts. >> might as well. no doubt. unbelievably mild weather out there. not quite a record but still mild weather by december standards and we get to keep it around for 24 hours or so but we know it can't last forever in december. cloudy skies for the most part but a few breaks in the clouds and we might see a sliver or two of sunshine before more rain come

tisha thompson has the story. >> they run two animal shelters in d.c. it's the only animal welfare agency in the country. tonight, one employee is no longer working there after a mistake that left a family heart broken. when pets go missing in d.c., they usually end up here at the new york avenue shelter run by the washington humane society. more than 8500 pets impounded here in just the last year. including zzoe. she ran off one day with the dollar and leash still attached. >> we put an ad on craigslist. we got a call, i found your dog and took her to the shelter. days later her boyfriend stopped by to make sure and there she was in the holding area. >> i stuck my hand through the fence and told her it was going to be okay. you know, she was coming home soon. >> reporter: she didn't come home. the shelter worker said only brandy could claim zoe since she purchased the dog. they were going to put an rto on her. it was fine if they paid the $7 a day for boarding. >> brandy couldn't pick her up until four days later. the supervisor said i have horrible ne

. >>> we continue our coverage now with the i-team's tisha thompson who has reaction on all of this. have we heard from the mayor? >> we have. he has started it to put statements out. he's been in new york all day today. we've been in touch with his spokesperson, who gave us this statement. he says, i continue to support the investigation into these allegations so that justice can run its course for the sake of the district. i hope the investigation is concluded quickly. meanwhile, word spread quickly through the wilson building today, where thomas and his fellow councilmembers work. some councilmembers didn't want to talk, but those who did say we need to wait and see what comes out of today's events before making any decisions. >> clearly, it's a serious situation. i think there's been a lot of angst in this building that the u.s. attorney proceeded with the investigation. i'm hopeful we'll get to a closure very quickly. >> the presumption of innocence is something very, very precious. even in this situation where he's paying back an amount of money. even in this situation, that pr

tisha thompson joins us now. >> reporter: when it comes to medical marijuana, the d.c. government is handing out two different kinds of licenses. we've already shown you the proposed sites to grow medical marijuana. they're called cultivation centers. now we have a list of dispensary applications or where people will be able to go to buy medical marijuana. if you want medical marijuana in washington, d.c., you will need to get a prescription from a doctor and buy it from a licensed dispensary. the news 4 i-team has mapped out where 17 different dispensaries want to locate. neighborhoods like the pallasades and tacoma park. >> it's a facility to provide medication to patients. this isn't for some people to run out and get high. >> reporter: former talk show host montel williams wants to set up a dispensary. he's applied for two cultivation center licenses in this building on queens chapel road in northeast, which he says will create jobs and improve the neighborhood. >> we're looking at a facility that, number one, is a blighted building. it's a building that was burned