The papers do not identify who received the money. He allegedly gave 20,000 to a ward 4 candidate. 2008, one hundred thousand dollars to an atlarge candidate, 100 thousand dollars to another atlarge candidate, contribution to another candidate. Thompson said in dealing with grey, he was told to call him uncle earl. He gaveors said when 125,000 to gray, at that meeting, grey called him thank you, uncle. He says that he did occasionally call Jeffrey Thompson uncle, but he was the public to believe he does not know what thompson is talking about. It is very unfortunate this has occurred. It is very unfortunate. Are people who would raise questions about the motivation of someone to have said these things. One could speculate. It is pretty obvious to me what the motivation could be. The campaigns, the Shadow Campaigns, were set forth in those documents before the court. It was sixnding is months, so it is not much. Thats right. It is sixmonth see faces, that Jeffrey Thompson faces, if he cooperates. He also faces charges on the federal level. He faces 18 months on the federal level. Under this field, if he cooperates, the federal time would go away. He would be facing at most six years, plus three probation. Reporting live from the u. S. District court, sam ford, abc 7 news. Thank you for the latest. This leveling of corruption allegations reverberated through the city today. While mayor gray maintains he was not involved, Stephen Tschida talked with voters today. He is in the district today. Front ofn, we are in the u. S. Attorneys office where we are anxiously awaiting a News Conference. We expect to hear more about what prosecutors maintain about Jeffrey Thompson and possibly what they believe the mayors involvement was in this case. We can sell you what they said in court today sent shockwaves through the city. District of Columbia Campaign put hundreds of thousands of dollars into vincent grays run for office he knew. We all knew. Thatday, prosecutors said Jeffrey Thompson the legally intol funneled money political campaigns, including that of mayor vincent gray. You know, certain people take the fall. The allegations come weeks before the democratic primary he was either willfully ignorant or not a good manager. Vincent gray is running for election and the democratic primary essentially determines the next mayor. Maybe it will become clear to me. Despite the mayors continued denial of culpability, some district democrats say these allegations affect how they will vote. The picture becomes a little darker, and for me, it was already a factor that wouldve eliminated the mayor for my consideration as a candidate. The jeffreyrs say thompson case is an example of something they believe is rampant, in bc politics anyway. Dc politics anyway. We did talk with voters who say until something is someone is convicted of a crime, it will not affect how they vote in the upcoming primary. Reporting live, Stephen Tschida, abc 7 news. Thompson is also accused of putting more than 600,000 dollars into Hillary Clintons 2008 president ial bid. There are no indications that she knew about the Illegal Campaign money. As stephen mentioned, the u. S. Attorneys office will be having a News Conference. We will have more for you coming up. Time to talk about the weather. Nice weekend. Really nice, especially when the sun came out. How long will it last . We have our first check of the forecast. Hi, steve. That is the Million Dollar question. It took a while to get the clouds out of here. Now that the sunshine is back, our temperatures are rebounding. 61 degrees at Reagan National airport. The same at manassas and winchester. Looking at satellite and radar, the clouds moving to the south and east. Our skies are clear for the time being and we will not see partly cloudy skies. Storm system is on the way, and that is going to drop our temperatures dramatically by the end of the week. Lets take a look at our hourly forecast through the weekend. Temperatures will fall through the 50s and eventually into the 40s. Coming up, we will look at the next seven days and how about a 30degree temperature change . Ill tell you how in just a few minutes. Ok, we will get back to you. Airplanesia airlines disappeared into thin art. Who were traveling with stolen passports. Our Jennifer Donnelly has a look at this developing story for us this evening. Boeing 777,a considered one of the safest jets in the skies. How did it vanish without a trace . Asked his people to look for an explosion of high altitude. The search for any trace of the plane continues. To u. S. Naval vessels and more than 30 aircraft passed over and again from above. Not a single piece of debris was found. His brother, philip ward, one of three americans aboard flight 370 is among the missing. [indiscernible] it is overwhelming. Search crews have 30 days before the planes black boxes run out of power and go silent. Intotigators are looking two men who made it onto the using installing stolen passports. It is very important to give full cooperation to interpol and the investigation. Material in the water turned out not to be jet fuel and other object spotted turned up empty as well. [indiscernible] how many people are found . Thelmost two thirds of passengers are chinese. Chinas Intelligence Agency playing a major role in the investigation. The search area widened to a 100 nautical mile radius as authorities prepared for the news they feared most. Was it a catastrophic mechanical failure . Quite possibly. Looking back at the stolen passports, this is what we know. Only a handful of countries withchecked passports inner pole. Of those that do, the United States leads the way. Reporting live, jennifer donelan, abc 7 news. Thank you, jennifer. Charged with Insurance Fraud prosecutors say he scheme she was involved in again in july when she filed an Insurance Claim for a water leak at her home. Prosecutors say that there was no damage. And the letter was sent in the supervisor did not exist. Some people want the train for the purple line to pay up before i can do business in t he state. It wants to pay up to Holocaust Survivors. Or as homes is in annapolis to say why. Horace . Holocaustarold survivor was scheduled to testify today, but he died over the weekend. His family asked that the hearings go on and his stalled his story be told. He was bound for the nazi death camp into auschwitz and jumped from the railcar to freedom. He died this weekend, but the 93yearold was scheduled to testify today before the maryland house committee, a committee considering legislation that would require the French Rail Company that reportedly transported 70,000 jews to the camps from doing business in maryland unless they first pay reparations to Holocaust Survivors and their families. The company is bidding on a contract to provide rail cars to run on metros proposed purple line. But they have to do what is right first. The Company President says his company has no plans to pay reparations. And that during the war the Company Operated under the orders of germans in france. We are extremely we deeply regret what happened then. Friend read his testimony today. ,he says that her father captured in 1945, wrote to his death on one of those trains. I want justice. I want justice for him, as i said before. I want justice testimony was to be heard tomorrow in the senate, but that will be rescheduled and respect s funeral, which will be held tomorrow. Abc 7 news. Ok, thank you. Major up, what could be a breakthrough in the fight against alzheimers. To detect early this heartbreaking disease. Campaignstudded underway to ban the word bossy. Tonight a local community is fighting for josh tardy. He is a sevenyearold boy who contracted a known this during his treatment for cancer. Now his family wants him to have access for a drug not yet approved. However the drug company refuses to give it up. Suzanne kennedy joins us in the newsroom tonight with the familys emotional plea. Josh hardy has been a fighter all of his life. He was diagnosed with Kidney Disease at only nine months old. Since then he has been in and out of remission. Sevenyearold josh tardy is in a fight for his life. This fredericksburg first grader has beaten cancer four times since he was nine months old. Now he faces a new challenge, a virus he contracted after of february bone marrow transplant. He is working his butt off. His mother at the hospital where doctors told them of an experiment will drug that could save him. It is not yet on the market. I feel like there is a will to do this. Where there is a will, there is a way. We will not sit back. There is a drug available to make all the difference in the world for our son. A social Media Campaign has been launched to put pressure on the manufacturer to give the medicine to joshs doctors. In a statement, the company said this is one of hundreds of rix hass that chime received for the compassionate use of friends and family are rallying about this little boy, hoping the drug company well given. To think that there is any drug that could heal this young man and it is being withheld. [indiscernible] this drug could be could make him better. And he could be home with us. The family has started online petitions, including one to the white house to pressure the drug company. This drug would be widely available by 2015, but that would be too late for josh hardy. Suzanne kennedy, abc 7 news. You, suzanne. Disposable wipes, wreaking havoc on sewer lines. While many manufacturers will label their wives as flushable or disposable, as you can see in this video, they are not. Clogging sewer pipes and that led to a recent sewer spill in rockville. This is a report you will see only on 7. Kevin . That is the number of gallons of raw sewage that flowed into this great. Why . The pipe was jampacked with sanitary wipes. They say it is a systemwide problem plaguing pipes from damascus all the way down to district heights. Is all it took to fill this dumpster at a pumping station with two tons of sanitary wipes. Each bit of fabric was flushed down the toilet. It keeps us busy all day long. Alternately into steve thomass hands. Ventures 20omas feet into stagnant wells plugged with sewage. Lynn, and Education Specialist says the toilet is not a trashcan. [indiscernible] the problem is, Many National manufacturers market their wipes is safe, disposable, even flushable items. This is not flushable. This is probably a good couple of miles it traveled and it is still intact. C recently spent more than 1 million on an industrial wipes. Disposal to grind shocked bymers are the news. Oh, my goodness. All the while these two were story continues, all at a cost residents cannot flush away. Ews have sprayed this rockville creek with lime, hoping to disinfect the area. Again 16,000 times of sewage spilled, all because people keep flushing these disposable wipes down the toilet. Kevin lewis, abc 7 news. Thank you, kevin. Only on 7, folks. [laughter] switch to something more pleasant. Once the sun came out today, it was so nice. All the way down to Grand Prairie in Southern Maryland out to the west, it warmed up into the 60s. Well in the 60s. It was a nice change. Hardly a cloud out there. This is looking towards clarendon and the district way off and the horizon. Our temperature is now 51 to 61 degrees at Reagan National. The winds are picking up out of. At 60tsouthwest degrees at George Washington university. A chilly start in the low 40s. Of 63. After a high 56 in rockville. Temperatures a lot warmer to the south and west of us are it to extend for culpeper, 62 in fredericksburg. The further north you go, the temperatures are warmer. To thed air well, well north of us. When just changed out of the southwest. That will keep us mild for the next couple of days. Wayorm maker will make its and bring a chance for thunderstorms. Cool and detroit. 47. 43 in michigan. The 24hour temperature change we are 10 degrees warmer than we were yesterday at this time. A good indication for the coming days. Satellite and radar, a light funnel system is what kept us cloudy through the morning hours. Now these guys are clearing. A mild night ahead. Temperatures dropping to the mid 40s. Futurecast paints a nice picture during the day tomorrow. I would not be surprised the further south you go, you see temperatures exceed 8, 70 degrees. By wednesday, that weather maker that will bring us on settled conditions, that is going to move on through, giving us a better chance for thunderstorms. Depending on the time of this final passage, that will determine if we see these storms. If we have enough cold air funnel then behind, we could end up with a few snowflakes, but nothing, nothing that is going to cause travel delays early thursday morning. The temperature change for thursday, about 40 degrees. , uppercloudy and cool 30s to mid 40s. Tomorrow, looks wonderful. 64 to 70. Maybe a little warmer than that the further south and west you go. High temperature on wednesday at around 67 degrees. Yay yay at least this time around, the polar vortex is not what it is. Weather,tch of colder one day. We can handle that. We can handle that. [laughter] all right, steve. Now, filing for bankruptcy why Veronica Mars says tv fans thankful she is making it onto the big screen. Arch campbell is here. She is talking about her cell phone and charges that she did not rack up. She called 7 on your side to see what happened. A test researchers at Georgetown UniversityMedical Center have developed a blood test that they say can detect alzheimers. It could be a breakthrough in the fight against the countrys third most deadly disease. About 5 million americans may have alzheimers disease. If you could, would you want to know if you were at risk or it . Knowing could help you prepare your family, but then again, theres nothing you could do to stop it. I would work with my family to attend to the issues. Researchers developed a blood test that they say cant predict if a healthy person will develop alzheimers disease within three years. Significant most observation we have been able to report in my entire scientific career. This is how the blood test works. It searches for fatty molecules called lipids. Those lipids show if a person is more likely to develop alzheimers or the memory problems that proceed alzheimers. The change from healthy to six can take just two years. They found that the test was more than 90 accurate. The study could also design more treatments for the disease. It is a sign of hope. It is a breakthrough. We hope more studies are done. Say moresearchers tests need to be done to make sure it this test really works. If so, it would be a couple of years before it is in your doctors office. From georgetown, natasha barrett, abc 7 news. Thank you very much for that. Coming up why highprofile women all over the country are joining for us is to ban the word bossy. Plus, we you are watching abc 7 news at 5 00 on your side. Lets get to the story of the day, the Corruption Scandal rocking the district and putting d. C. Mayor vincent gray and more hot water than before. Pleadedey thompson guilty to conspiring to violate laws. Gn finance Stephen Tschida is in front of the u. S. Attorneys office where News Conference is about to get underway. What is the word . Any second we expect this News Conference to get underway here, leon. We expect prosecutors will talk more about Jeffrey Thompson and what they maintain was his plan to funnel money illegally to political campaigns. In court today, we did hear about what the prosecution believes is the involvement of gray, basically that this was his brainchild, that he was involved from the getgo. The mayor responded to what was said in court earlier. I am still stunned from hearing this. I really thought this was the day this would be over for me. Isnt, because he has alleged certain things about operated. E campaign and they are not true. Now the mayor was saying what was spoken about him, these allegations coming from this proceeding today were not true, as we just heard him say. In court, prosecutorss were saying the mayor actually went to Jeffrey Thompson. They believe he is the one who instigated this Shadow Campaign which funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars into mayor grays 2010 run for mayor. Keep in mind, we are weeks from the democratic primary, which usually, in fact always, has determined the mayor of the general election. This case may have an impact on voters. We spoke with some and they say this is just the icing on the cake and will definitely affect how they vote in this upcoming primary. This News Conference should get going very shortly. Reporting live, Stephen Tschida, abc 7 news. We just learned that this News Conference has been pushed now. 15 sam ford will be back with the latest on this highprofile case. Plus we will have more from mayor grays side of the story as well. County girl who disappeared and set off an amber alert is back with her twin. Wasfather Timothy Virts accused of kidnapping caitlyn and killing her mother. He will face of firstdegree murder charge when he returns to maryland. His son committed one of the worst Mass Shootings in history and now adam lanza is speaking out about how he feels about his son. We have more about what hed are a toldof peter lanz the new yorker. Right. s he said he had not seen his son in two years before that day, and he wishes he had never been born. Za says he is speaking out now because i want people to be afraid of the fact that this could happen to them. Why adam lanza went on a shooting rampage in Sandy Hook Elementary School is still unknown. Unimaginable horror grips the nation. The shooter was identified as adam lanza. D his son as a cheerful child. But adam changed in middle school. Increasingly isolated, adam was diagnosed with as burgers syndrome. Otherand adam from separated in 2001 and adam kept going downhill. Mother was not afraid, her exhusband says, keeping her bedroom door unlocked and keeping guns in the house, pretending things were ok. Adam killed nancy lanza before driving to the school. You cant get any more evil how much do i beat up on myself about the fact that he is my son . A lot. With hindsight, i know adam wouldve killed me in a heartbreak a heartbeat if he had a chance. I dont doubt that for a minute. Peter lanza also said he had met families of two of the victims and one of them said that they had forgiven adam. Peter said it was gut wrenching and he did not know how to respond. Abc 7 news. Ok, greta. Thank you. Traffic lanes slowly moving again after an earlymorning morning crash in montgomery county. Police say that one passenger didejected from a jeep but not provide details on the victims condition. The cause of the crash remains under investigation. Lets look at how traffic looks now. How does it look tonight . We have an extra hour of sunlight today. That means an extra hour of 266 headed west. Later in the week that will be more of a factor, provided of course we have that sunshine. In prince georges county, exit 20, and new crash on the right side of the roadway and on i95 in woodbridge, we had a crash on the left side of route one. 270 doing all right. Outbound 95, a crash on the right side of the roadway. No incidents on the way. This is a live look in woodbridge, route one. There is an accident locking the left lane. It had been blocking the right lane as well. Looks like they have that right lane reopened. Thats the way it looks. Thank you, bob. Coming up a 14,000 phone bill and how 7 on your side got action for the phones owner. Veronica mars sands speak and create a new way of funding movies. Im arch campbell. A new popular tv show brought to the big screen thanks to dedicated fans out there. Arch campbell joins us with more on how Veronica Mars and change the way movies are made and marketed. Fans are paying for the movies they want to see. What next . I dont know. They have spoken. They contributed to kickstart her to revive Veronica Mars on the big screen. We had to bring you back. Veronica mars returns in a new fulllength movie to solve a murder involving her exboyfriend. After the cw canceled these series about the teenage private eye. The comeback is attributed to fans to contributed to kickstart her. Opens friday on 270 screens and simultaneously on demand. The mix of fan money, social media, theatrical, and on demand could create a new wave to get mall movies produced. 300 e movies this weekend, rise of an empire to pen an impressive 45 million. 10 ofeens, thats about the number of screens a blockbuster opens on and do not expected to win the Box Office Area do expect this to change, possibly, the way movies are made. If you contribute the money, shouldnt you be able to see it for free . No, no. I think you got a tshirt, maybe a couple of background shots. Would think you would get Something Better than a tshirt. She is sort of like nancy drew. Think of it that way. All right. Pizza up a Large Company filing for bankruptcy. A new campaign being launched there is a new campaign being driven by some of the most influential women in america. They are joining forces to ban the word bossy. They say it has a negative connotation and is holding back girls from being leaders. She is now a successful and wealthy executive. Upryl sandberg is teaming with the National Girl scouts on a campaign to teach others to ban that word from their vocabulary, particularly when it comes to guns. Washingtonit the area can be a bit of a mecca for women who once wore the bossy girl label. The campaign is divided. Some say the idea of a ban is to too, well, bossy. This is too much intervention. I think it is good. It has a harsh sound to it. Never meant in a complementary way, it seems like. Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg told nightlines Cynthia Mcfadden that she was teaming up with the girl scouts and leaders that she was often labeled a bossy girl by peers, even a teacher who told her best friend avoid that bossy sandberg girl. You ask why they dont want to do that, they do not want to be called bossy. It is not the word that is the problem, but the concept of how girls should behave. Your friends will get mad at be and they will not want to your friend anymore. This virginia dad has advice for all girls and boys being called bossy or anything else. Dont be bothered by names. I think it is worrying about things too much. Well, i was someone who might have been called bossy. Whate asked me on twitter they should be called. I say, why not just call them awesome . Rebecca cooper, abc 7 news. You would say that. See you in a bit. Sbarro filing for bankruptcy again. This is the companys second time filing chapter 11 in the last three years. Sbarro blames declining traffic and mall food courts were does much of its business. Prime time only nikki and claire remain, but something happens that has one of the women questioning everything. We had a rare moment together. No cameras. And whispered something to me. He chose to tell me something that no woman wants to hear. It was insulting. It was offensive. . What did what . What did he say . Bossy . We will see. See who wins. ,nd then after the final rose and abc 7 news at 11 00. It is safe to say he is the most hated bachelor. He is going that. For the most popular guy. I liked that idea. We are looking at sunny skies. Daylight hours have extended. Take a look at the forecast for the rest of this evening. If you have outdoor plants, go for it. Temperatures if you have outdoor plans, go for it. Temperatures in the 60s, the 50s. 61 in manassas. To 15 mile per hour. Clouds will start to increase just a bit, but temperatures well above average for this time of year. Its not going to last very long. A strong cold front and area of low pressure moves through on wednesday and we are likely to iods of rain, even thunderstorms. The seven day outlook looks pretty good. If you dont mind thursday though we will cross that one out. 37 for the hive. But back to around 60 for the start of the weekend. Thank you. We have hockey coming up and it is going to be hard. Because of the olympics, the nhl has adjusted its schedule. Consequently the caps play the penguins backtoback. These games are big. Lost 4 of for o 5. The caps are only one point behind the two teams in front of them. Tonight they unveil a new superstore superstar. Face off in the phone booth. For basketball fans playing against the miami heat. The heat have lost three in a row. If the wizards get them, it will be there longest losing streak, and you know they do not want that. The wizards are really playing well. The acc basketball tournament starts wednesday. A lot of folks are still talking about the marylandvirginia game at the comcast center. They beat the cavaliers and overtime. Fans rushed the court. They hope that some of that momentum carries them thursday and to florida state. If maryland beats florida state, then they played virginia again on friday. While im talking about college basketball, let me take you to lincoln, nebraska where the cornhuskers knocked off 11 ranks to wisconsin. The play of the night [indiscernible] [applause] but i want to make an exception. To his longtime girlfriend shelby and front of the fans. Her answer, of course although you cant hear it here above the roar of the crowd she did they yes. You have to hand it to lincoln. They are going to get married. Oh, my. Thing t you know that feeling you get when you open it a cell phone bill to find out you went a little bit over your plan . I montgomerys woman bill skyrocketed after her daughters phone was stolen. Out. Told her to pay kris van cleave got involved. That tmobilet tried to put on francesca for a onlet got the attention of 7 your side. It was a shock. Her daughter is an American Teacher in bangladesh. Her cell phone turned off, talked in a drawer in case of emergency. Or so she thought. It was stolen. Racked up charges. Thefirst sign of trouble on other side of the globe a five digit phone bill. 14 thousand 400 by the time she knew. Tmobile offered to reduce the bill by 1300 bucks, but said she still had to pay. On yourshe called 7 side. Im getting nowhere. This is bumpy. We did not save any puppies, but we did save more than 14 grant. Tmobile wiped out the stomach churning charges saying that there is no tmobile customer and my life that is not completely shocked and not being notified. Do think this would have been done without 7 on your side . What else toknow do. Beat that, mr. Tivo. All right. That is it for abc 7 news at 5 00, but abc 7 news at 6 00 starts right now. Abc sevenom the broadcast centers, this is abc 7 news at 6 00 on your side. Campaign funding scandal surrounding d. C. Mayor vincent gray. It all started when Jeffrey Thompson pleaded guilty to into g illegal money campaigns. Now we have the mayors defensive response. Sam, tell us about it. Leon, the mayor admits the timing of these allegations have hurt him, even though he denies they are true. Jeffrey Thompson Says he gave around 2 million to various Shadow Campaigns on the d. C. And federal level. He has now made a deal in which he goes after mayor gray. Mayor vincentd. C. Gray as a possible coconspirator. Thompson pled guilty to and court papers argue that one of the Shadow Campaigns was for then candidate mayor vincent gray. He says that he and gray met at harrison jeanne clarke