The number of people who are uninsured would increase by 17 million in 2018. Also, that number would increase to 32 million by 2026.

The analysis says deficits would be decreased by $473 billion between 2017 and 2026.

The CBO also projects that about half of the US population would live in areas with no health insurance option by 2020.

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The medical examiner’s report out Wednesday does not say how many times 31-year-old Terrence Sterling was shot by 27-year-old D.C. police officer Brian Trainer on Sept. 11.

On that morning, Trainer fatally shot Sterling near 3rd and M streets in Northwest after police say he rammed the passenger-side door of a police car while trying to flee a traffic stop. Trainer was the only officer on the scene equipped with a body-worn camera and did not turn it on until after the shooting.

Sterling’s death was ruled a homicide, said DC Office of the Medical Examiner Director of Communications LaShon Beamon. But that does not necessarily mean a crime was committed.

The D.C. Office of the Medical Examiner will not released any additional details about Sterling’s autopsy at this time.

On Tuesday, D.C. officials showing the moments after Sterling was shot. Released a day after protesters called for more transparency in the case, the footage shows the officers providing medical assistance to a Sterling, who was black.

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Metro said that Blue and Orange line trains are now using a single track between the two stations. Metro said to expected crowded trains.

Service was stopped entirely for about 40 minutes on Friday afternoon because of an arcing insulator at Metro Center.

The arcing insulator was on the lower level of the Metro Center station. Red Line service was not affected. Firefighters were called to the station as a precaution.

Pictures posted to Twitter show a fire on the tracks.

Metro first reported the service suspension about 5:12 p.m.

Silver Line trains were running between Wiehle-Reston East and Ballston only.

orange line on fire

— ben (@jollybenjamins)

So hey metro center is sort of on fire

— John Grant (@john_grant)

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Thirty years ago, if you wanted a premium beer at an average bar, you had to buy a European beer. But that all changed when Jim Koch, founder of , started showing up at bars in Georgetown and Adams Morgan with a beer called Samuel Adams.

D.C. was the second market in which Koch tried to sell after founding the company in 1984.

“I started in Boston, and it took a few years to get any kind of breakthrough because nobody knew what good American beer was. Craft beer hadn’t been invented yet, but Sam Adams had started to get a following in Boston and New England,” Koch told ĂŰĚŇĘÓƵapp over a beer — a Sam Adams Boston Lager, of course.

Koch picked the District for his second city in part because it just felt right, and because a small distributor was willing to work with him.

“There was always a good bar scene here,” Koch said about D.C. “There was always a respect for a well-run bar here that served a good glass of beer.”

Koch went bar-to-bar to get more people to try his beer. Some of his first customers were Clyde’s of Georgetown and Sign of the Whale. Adams Morgan bars also started selling his beer early on.

Things are very different now. The Brewers Association says there are more than 4,400 breweries in the United States. More than 70 of them, including the Boston Beer Company and several D.C. area breweries, were at , a craft beer festival at the National Building Museum June 3 and 4.

In the past 10 years, the D.C. area has seen an explosion in craft breweries. In Northern Virginia, there’s Port City in Alexandria, and Mad Fox in Falls Church. DC Brau and Three Stars reside in the District, and Maryland is home to Silver Spring-based Denizens and Jailbreak in Laurel, just to name a few.

Growth within the industry is , with breweries becoming part of what Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe calls the “New Virginia Economy.” Supporting local breweries is just a small part of the governor’s plan. It also means bringing larger, already established craft breweries into Virginia.

Bill Butcher, founder of Port City, says there’s no better salesman for Virginia beer than McAuliffe, and he has no problem with West Coast breweries, like Green Flash or Deschutes, opening East Coast facilities in Virginia.

“I think each brewery has its own identity and each brewery will succeed on its own merits,” Butcher said.

Stone Brewing Company, which opened 20 years ago in San Diego, California, launched a brewery in Richmond earlier this year, not far from Richmond’s own Hardywood Park Craft Brewery.

Hardywood co-founder Patrick Murtaugh is happy to have Stone as a neighbor.

“We haven’t seen any loss in sales, and they’re a great partner in the brewing industry. I think it brings people to the state,” Murtaugh said.

Koch also welcomes the competition, and says there’s still plenty of room to grow.

“I still don’t think we’ve gotten to saturation. My belief is that in the next five years, there will be another 5,000 breweries in the United States.”

But not all brewers think this way. Chris Ray, co-founder of the Ashland, Virginia- based Center of the Universe Brewing Company, says he doesn’t want to see tax dollars go to foreign-owned companies that move into Virginia.

He cites state money going toward Ballast Point Brewing and Spirits, which is owned by Constellation Brands, .

“I believe my tax dollars, and my community’s tax dollars should be spent either on companies that are grown locally or ones that ownership exists within the United States,” Ray said.

Other brewers do see a troubling sign in craft breweries being purchased by conglomerates like Constellation Brands. Earlier this year, Anheuser-Busch InBev, makers of Budweiser and Stella Artois, bought Lexington, Virginia-based brewery Devils Backbone. That was the eighth small brewery bought by the global brand in the past five years.

“The concern with these major mass-production breweries buying small breweries is that the big breweries already have so much market share and it’s just going to consolidate the market more, and it’s just going to limit the access to market to small independent brewers,” Port City’s Butcher said.

He adds that large companies also create the illusion of choice at the bar and in the store.

“I think it would be sad if the American craft brewing movement gets taken over by these big brewing conglomerates,” Koch said.

He’s not looking forward to the day when you go to a bar, see 10 different breweries and have the consumer not realize that all of the beers are owned by the same company, he says.

“Ultimately, it’s something the consumer will have to decide.”

One sign of this is at Nationals Park, where Anheuser-Busch InBev replaced MillerCoors as the beer sponsors and kicked out a Samuel Adams beer stand that had been there since the park opened. Koch says he heard from one person who canceled his season tickets because of it.

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Above Northern Virginia Monday afternoon, many saw a message that read “#Deny NIA,” but the confirms it should have been “#Deny NAI.”

It’s part of the against allowing Norwegian Airlines to operate in the United States.

“[Monday’s] skywriting was part of ALPA’s campaign to demonstrate opposition to Norwegian’s request for a foreign air carrier permit. While the first pass was a bit jumbled, like Norwegian’s business plan, it is easily corrected. Norwegian should consider doing the same,” an ALPA spokesperson said in a statement.

The association — which represents and advocates for more than 52,000 pilots at 30 U.S. and Canadian airlines — realized the initial mistake when it started getting calls. The pilot made another pass around 5 p.m. with the correct message.

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