Categorically president elect trump you are fake news. Go ahead. Can you say president elect that is not appropriate. Q those are some of the highlights. If you missed any of it we have you covered. Head to the facebook page, abc7. We facebook lived the whole thing for you so you can catch it there when you have a chance. Back to you. Maureen thank you. World news tonight will have Team Coverage analyzing all the issues raised in todays News Conference with donald trump. That is coming up on world news tonight at 6 30 after our broadcast. Jonathan president elect now is one step closer to filling his cabinet. Today he named David Shelkin to lead department of veteran affairs. Mr. Trump sid he interviewed a hundred people for this position. He is the v. A. Undersecretary for health. With that information the only vacant cabinet position is for department of agriculture. As the president elect works to fill the cabinet, three nominees fac hearings including fierce opposition to senator J
Electric space heater in the home might be to blame. Its hard to say anything other than to pray for the family. And ask baltimore to pray for the family. Brad so again, back live, you can see what is going on at the house, a little bit of it anyway. The entire front of the structure was wiped out. I collapsed. That is one of the real problems here and why the fire was so bad. So the investigation as we said is underway. But the early focus is on that space heater. We are told that there were smoke detectors in the house. At least one and that the batteries in that were fresh. In northeast baltimore, brad bell, abc7 news. Alison so heartbreaking. Thank you. You can sign up for breaking news alerts from abc7 news. Just go to wjla. Com. You can get those sent right to your phone. Larry . Larry new developments tonight in the case against eulalio tordil. You may recall he is the man accused of killing several started at Montgomery Mall last may. This morning in a preliminary hearing prose
Approach. He wants to go on a listening tour. I want to see what works and what does not work. I want to analyze why it works and why it doesnt work. General james mattis no, maam 1990 for secretary of state take nominee for secretary of defense takes question about russia. The important thing is to recognize the reality of what we deal with, with mr. Putin and that he is trying to break the north atlantic alliance. Amy he also spoke about the Intelligence Community and women in the military congressman and Central Intelligence Agency Director no, maam 1990 mike pompeo appear nominee mike pompeo appeared thursday. Im going to make sure we have a Clear Authority and the analytic product is true and clear and real. Amy seven more nominees will have confirmation hearings next week. Amy aubert, abc7 news. Maureen the fate of Donald Trumps pick for secretary of the campaign rivals. Marco rubio does not appear to support Rex Tillerson after fierce questioning yesterday. Rubio is the deciding
Security. Outside a pizza place here at third and massachusetts. Wise guy pizza there are embracing for the good and the bad of all of this. They are expecting 1,500 customers each day on friday, and saturday. That is twice their normal lunch and dinner. Besides the fact they have the business situation, they have employees trying to get to work because of all the road closures. They also have food deliveries. They have to have the food delivered in the areas around this neighborhood by wednesday. They dont have thousands of workers downtown because many offices are closed but they will have thousands of people at the festivities for the inaugural and the protest the next day. We have street closures and were trapped. We cant drive in the parking lot. Deliveries asked to get deliveries on wednesday. Richard so with all of those headaches how are the businesses going to cope . We will help answer that coming up at 6 00. Reporting live at richard reeve, abc7 news. Alison thank you. The p
Details for you when that happens. Reporting live in fairfax county, herndon, tom roussey, abc7 news. Jonathan first tonight, a woman in a wheelchair, beloved member of the community shot to death on the way to the grocery store. The shots rang out after 10 00 this morning on elvan street in southeast washington. A second person also shot. That person survived. Kevin lewis is joining us from the scene. What happened here . What are the circumstances surrounding the shooting . Kevin well, d. C. Police are only saying they believe there were multiple gunmen. 68yearold murder victim described to us as the mother hen of the neighborhood. The best eyewitness just may be that d. C. Police camera attached to the wooden lightbulb located directly across the roadway. Its very, very, very unacceptable. On a day when the communities across d. C. Were celebrating peace i dont think it is okay. I think the police and once again the community and also the Property Managers need to come together and