Monday Afternoon Car Chase — “@PFPAOfficial & @ArlingtonVaPD had a report of someone breaking into cars in the lot across from Target around p.m. Officers converged on the lot looking for the person, but he had already gotten into a blue Hyundai. Police chased it east on Army Navy Drive. The Hyundai almost collided with a car at S. Hayes. It appears both PFPA & ACPD cut the chase near S. 12th and Army Navy.” [Dave Statter/X]
Fall of Saigon Remembered — “One of those local businessmen Vinh Nguyen, told his own harrowing story of his family’s flight from Vietnam in April 1974 when he was just 15 years old and the long circuitous path that led to their migration to one of four U.S. refugee camps in the U.S. and eventually to the D.C. area where they opened a small grocery business in what was known at the time in Arlington as a Little Saigon neighborhood of near present day Clarendon but soon migrated, with his family’s being one of the first, to the present day Eden Center.” [FCNP]
End of Line for D.C. Streetcar — “After less than a decade of operation, the D.C. Streetcar is set to be phased out and replaced by an electric bus that Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) called a “next generation streetcar” when she announced the change Tuesday… City Administrator Kevin Donahue said at the announcement that the new streetcar would be “essentially buses that utilize” the streetcar system’s existing cables for power.” [Washington Post]
It’s Wednesday — Expect showers during the day and potential thunderstorms after 5pm, with a high near 63 and east winds reaching up to 21 mph. Rainfall amounts could range from three quarters to one inch. For Wednesday night, showers are likely with a possible thunderstorm, a low around 59, and lighter winds after midnight. There’s a 60% chance of nighttime precipitation. [NWS]
