The last time he held a formal question and answer session with reporters was last july. Mr. Trump insists he will get to work right away building a border wall and says he will force mexico to reimburse the u. S. I could wait about a year and a half until we finish our negotiations with mexico, which will start immediately after we get to office, but i dont want to wait. The president elect also said hell announce a nominee to fill a vacant seat on the u. S. Supreme court within two weeks of taking office. Kenneth craig, cbs news new york. Now during that News Conference mr. Trump announced hes picked David Shulkins to lead the department of veteran affairs. Hes now va undersecretary. Russias ties to the Incoming Administration was the focus of Rex Tillerson as he began his confirmation hearing. Retiring exxon mobile ceo has a personal friendship with vladimir putin. That bothers some senators. Im re and many of my colleagues have deep concerns about your relationship with mr. Putin. It was day two in the hearing to decide if alabama senator Jeff Sessions will be confirmed as attorney general. In an unprecedented move, new jersey senator cory booker joined congressman john lewis in testifying against his colleague. Booker says sessions has failed to aggressively pursue the congressional mandate of civil rights, equal rights and justice for all. Three former sessions associates who happen to be black testified sessions is a decent and honest man who will uphold the law. The secret service says there is no specific credible threat against the inauguration of president elect donald trump in just over a week, but agents are dropping a security curtain around a big portion of downtown dc anyway. The assistant special agent in charge of the Washington Field office says the agency has a 360degree security plan. We look at the land, e in particular, cyber space. For the secret service this is a no fail mission. There are likely to be significantly more protesters at mr. Trumps inauguration than in the past. Including thousands at the Navy Memorial along the parade route. The secret service says they will be allowed to have signs but not large, heavy ones or poles or boards to hold them up. For everything you need to know about the inauguration, download our wusa9 app. It is your one stop shop for information about the big day. From the schedule of events to road closures, parking and public transportation. President Barack Obamas tweet following his farewell address to the nation is now the most popular post on the potus twitter account. Last night president obama tweeted thank you for everything. My last ask is the same as my first. Im asking you to believe, not in my ability to create change but in yours. The tweet had been liked more than a million times and retweeted over 500,000 times. President obamas previous top tweet was posted after the supreme courts 2015 decision to overturn state bans on gay marriage. New at 6 00, howd you like to win an ar15 . Cory stewart, republican candidate for Virginia Governor used the campaign stump to draw attention to expand gun rights in the commonwealth. Peggy fox has more from woodbridge. Today is the day cory stewart gave away one of these. An ar15. He also made news with a controversial proposal that a lot of gun rights supporters will like. Navy veteran, nra member and woodbridge resident Rick Thompson was picked the winner in a blind drawing of 3000 participants. Congratulate you on winning the rifle. Stewart Campaign Chair pence differentiate him from his gop opponent. Volunteers and voters dont get mobilized when youre boring. Stewart wants to do away with the 15 state fee for concealed weapon permits in virginia. Then he wants to get rid of the permit altogether so anybody who can legally own a gun could conceal it. This isnt a service the government is providing. This is a restriction the government is placing on Second Amendment rights. I dont think you should have to pay for that. I dont think there should be a permit at all. Anybody who buys a gun from a dealer has to go through a background check, which mr. Thompson did since the gun was shoaled from all shooters tactical. Background checks are not required in virginia on private sales. Gun control advocate says thats a problem. There are people at gun shows that have signs up that say no required. If you know youre not going to pass a background check, there you go. Stewart calls the gun show loophole a fallacy and says it doesnt really exist. In woodbridge, peggy fox, wusa9. Other republicans who have declared their candidacy for Virginia Governors race include state senator frank wagner. Lieutenant governor and former congressman. The virginia General Assembly has begun its 2017 session. Lawmakers will be wrestling with a budget short fall. Governor will lay out his when he makes his annual address to the lawmakers. Maryland lawmakers have started their new legislative session as well. They face a budget gap of 544 million. Some of the proposals theyll be consider regular whether to require paid sick leave dylann roof was formally sentenced to die. Federal law requires a judge to follow a decision roofs convicted of killing nine black parishioners at a Church Bible Study in charleston, South Carolina in 2015. In courts today the son of one of the victims told roof i forgive you. Others urged him to abandon his white supremacist views and repent for his actions. In orlando, florida the search for Markeith Loyd in its third day. Police say loyd shot and killed a Police Officer on monday when she approached him near a walmart. Loyd was wanted for allegedly killing his pregnant girlfriend last month. Less arrested a man suspected of helping loyd hide after that womans death. Sheriffs deputies in paris, florida say an 83year old man shot and killed a neighbor who was merely looking for her missing dog. Eugene matthews opened his front door and started shooting wh the pet. One of the bullets hit 64year old rebecca rawson. An update on a deadly double stabbing at Westfield Wheaton mall. Just hours after our story aired about ashes left at a churchs doorstep, the dead mans family comes forward to claim them. Yellow weather alert tonight for showers. About to cross over the river into Montgomery County and up into frederick. Well track some of those for you and track the 60s and some ice all in the next few days. New year, time to get rid of stuff. Simplify, declutter, unplug, purge, or even quit cold turkey. I raise turkeys without growthpromoting antibiotics, hormones, or steroids. If youre looking for little ways to simplify life, feeling good about what your family eats is a Pretty Simple place to start. My name is tammy plumlee, and i raise honest, simple turkey for shady brook farms. That was quick. We were the first to tell you about an unusual item left outside a rockville church. A mans ashes. They belong to donald willard. In september someone dropped off his ashes outside the baptist church. The pastor reached out to us hoping to find the mans family. He was a human being. He had purpose in life and he had purpose to his family. He has a final place to stay. Angela plans to pick up her uncles ashes soon. A huge loss for a virginia community. A fire broke out late last night at a church. The church has seen countless weddings, funerals and other gathering over its 100 year existence. Even the fire marshal got married there. Have a lot of memories here. A lot of family friends. Its tough. Its really tough. About 300 people attend Church Services there. The churchs pastor is promising to rebuild. The cause of that fire is still under investigation tonight. The mayor of pallsboro new jersey is being hailed a hero this evening. He saw a home on fire only a block away. He knew what to do. He rushed inside the Burning House and rescued a woman who was asleep. Before becoming mayor stevenson was the local fire chief. The viral video that got two sub shop employees fired. Big birthday surprise for a young amazon shopping junky. Rex tillerson put exxons interests before americas. Im not here to represent the us governments interest. Instead, tillerson sided with putin. With billions in russian oil deals. He opposed us sanctions on russia. For war crimes forced to pay hundreds of millions for toxic pollution. Putting profits ahead of our kids health. Tell your senators to reject Rex Tillerson. And protect american interests not corporate interests. We now know the name of one of the victims who was stabbed to death at the Westfield Wheaton mall tuesday. Hes 22yearold angel gomez. Police havent released the name of the second victim. Theyre still looking for a suspect. But even though they him in custody they say this was an isolated incident between the three and shoppers at the mall need not worry. The Baltimore Mayors Office has reached an agreement with the Justice Department on a plan to reform the police force. A formal announcement is expected tomorrow. A Justice Department report last year cited Baltimore Police for racial bias and civil rights violations. The police force came under scrutiny following the death of freddie gray. Volkswagen has reached a settlement with the department of justice in the wake of that emissions cheating scandal. The auto maker has agree greed to plead guilty to three criminal charges and pay 4. 3 billion in penalties. The grand jury also indicted six executives and employees for their roles in the scheme. An arizona boy who has been battling Kidney Cancer for years a the a tucson hospital got a rare trip outside of his home. He got a special tour of the amazon fulfillment ce phoenix. And jen wall reports he was also named an honorary a. M. Zonian. Ben has been fighting a kidney tumor for two years. Because his immune system is suppressed, ben has not been able to go outside much. So he took to amazon and became slightly obsessed with it. We were ordering almost every other day, anything p just something so he could get a package home. Knowing bens family orders from amazon quite a bit these days to keep him busy, an exclusive tour of the very place many of his treasures come from is keeping this 8 yearold wide eyed for his special day. The main thing i order is phone cases for my phone. Ben got to see all of that, plus a treasure map in hand. He took a tour of the center on the hunt for birthday presents with family and friends. Dad another doctor. Hes had dozens of surgeries and rounds of chemo. Hes got his three month scan coming up at the end of this month so its pretty nerve racking. Were trying to stay positive. While they wait for the latest update, today is about making sure ben has the best eighth birthday, touring a place hes always wondered about. Today ben helped to deliver 50 amazon tablets and 2500 in gift cards for pediatric patients at the hospital where the honorary amazonian receives his treatment. Great to see that. Caught on tape, well aside from their last paycheck this will probably be the last two jimmy john employees that will get their hands on this much dough in a while. They were fired from one of their shops in jacksonville after someone posted this social media video. You see the bread dough hit the floor repeatedly and one of them used it as a jump rope was not used for any sandwiches and it was all thrown away and theyre done too. I guess we have to take their word for it. Lets hope. Okay. The plight of the rusty patch bumblebee is creating a lot of buzz on our social media pages. Reporting the bee is on the verge of extinction. They say diseases, pesticide exposure, habitat loss and Climate Change are reasons. Bumblebees provide a service for billions of dollars a year by pollinating wild flowers. Many fruit and vegetable crops. Jon stewart and his wife are one step closer to opening their animal sanctuary. The Planning Board has approved preliminary plans for a farm that will be home to animals saved from slaughter houses and live markets. Plans also include after School Programs for local students. This wayward harbor seal in delaware could be the perfect candidate for stewarts new animal sanctuary. This viral video of the seal along route 15 on his way to work over the weekend. First he thought a car had hit someone. Bunch of cars just kind of went off to the side of the road and there was this big black body in the middle of the road. They all kind of went around it. Im just like, what is this doing here. How did it get here. Animal control authorities checked out the seal before releasing her into the wild. What does that have to do with being a seal . Ice is melting fast around here. In a hurry. Lets start with the 3degree guarantee. Im in a pickle here. I went 52. I thought the southerly wind would ride along the ma and keep it cool. Well see how we did tonight at 11 00. Live look outside to our michael and son weather cam. Dew points are still high. Temps cant go below the dew point. Winds out of the south at 8. Winds will be out of the south or southwest next 36 hours. That means warmer air. Radar. Nothing crazy heavy. You see yellow right there everything pushing off to the north and east. Well zoom in a little bit. Culpeper. Just some light rain. Just enough to slow you down. Nothing is heavy. Most of this gets out of here by about 10 00 tonight. Well hang on to the yellow weather alert for more showers. Bus stop temperatures, great. 54 tomorrow morning and dry. Windy, even warmer on thursday. Still mild friday. Lilder late friday. Temperatures strag toll get above freezing northwest of town. By 10 00, heres future cast. Most of the activity is north of town. Maybe leftover shower north of gaithersburg. Thats about it. Clouds linger tonight. Tomorrow morning, a mix of sun and clouds. Low 50s to start. Check this out. By lunchtime, you can take lunch outside tomorrow. Were 60 by lunchtime. On the day planner, were 54 at 9 00. Were 63 at 1 00. New on friday, maybe a shower. 55. Cooler late. Theres your wintery mix. Only 33 finish a high downtown. No ice problems. We go back to the 50s on tuesday. If youre we go right back to the 60s on wednesday. Caps looking good . Big game tonight. Love this rivalry game. Its easy to get excited about caps and deliver the excitement. Theres another level of anticipation. A look at the great did you know slow internet , slow everything. 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The burgundy and gold interviewed another defensive coordinator candidate today. This time gus bradley. He knew hed be interviewed. s being considered a front runner. The job. Finally, the notorious mascot bully ke there is such a king. Robin lopez kidnapped g whiz last night. Wrapping him up. The two made up, signing a little bit of a friendship agreement. Lopez is a repeat offender. He just had this deep hatred for the opposing mascots. Jokes on him though. The wiz beat the bulls. Always have a little fun every city he goes to lopez likes to have fun. Whats going on with his hair . [ unintelligible ] like an upgrade. Hey. My main has grown a little bit. 67 tomorrow. Can you believe it . Mid50s on friday. Turning colder late. We are tracking a wintery mix on saturday. Thats news at 6 00. Cbs is next. Dont call in sick tomorrow. My husband wants to stay free from artificial ingredients. My whole family wants to stay free from artificial preservatives. 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