November. Of course in washington, nothing is really all that simple. The reality is that boehner is facing a battle over the looming government shutdown. He is facing a battle for his own job. A group of about three dozen conservative republicans wanted him out of the office. So he says today he feels like this is the right thing to do. Speaker boehner it has become clear to me that the prolonged leadership turmoil would do irreparable harm to the institution. Brad so he says he is going to step aside. He is going to use the remaining five weeks to try to avert the government shutdown. We will come back at 6 00 and have more on this, including reaction from the president and a number of members of congress. Brad bell, abc7 news. Leon thank you, brad. The question of the day is asking what you think of speaker boehners announcement. Join in on the Facebook Page. Alison speaker boehners announcement came as the g. O. P. Leaders gathered in the house to keep about how to keep the government working and defund planned parenthood. Chris papst is live on the hill now with the latest on the shutdown threat today. Chris . Chris it was two years ago that the Central Government last shut down. That was 2013. It has a big impact on the area with the government workers that live and are employed here. Now the congressional leaders only have five days left to take action. The budgetary year ends on september 30. These videos many believe show planned parenthood breaking the law selling body parts of aborted fetuses. If thats true it would be illegal. So some say it shouldnt be funded by the tax dollars it receives. 500 million every year. Most democrats stand behind planned parenthood and most moves to fund the organization have failed. Many g. O. P. Leaders are looking at options which does include a government shutdown. Isnt it amazing the way you have a Single Person with a hidden camera, to topple one of the most powerful person in the country to create what could amount to chaos with the present negotiations . Chris coming up we talk to a political expert and get his take on the chances of a government shut down. We will talk about how John Boehners recent resignation plays a role in that. Live in d. C. , chris papst, abc7 news. Alison a developing story from metro right now. The agency says it is making some temporary service changes. In the wake of the fire that happened near the stadium armory station this week. Metro says in rush hour, orange and the vil ver line trains will run every eight minutes. Instead of every six. Its designed to cut down on delays. Speed restrictions are put in place. We have a look at the changes and what they mean at 5 00. Leon we still have our eyes on pope francis. He is in his way making his way to harlem in new york city. He will visit the students and the staff at the lady queen of angels school. That is the scene we are looking at there. He is making his way through. He still has a big event at central park today. The day started for him at the united nations. It is going to wrap up at Madison Square garden tonight. We have the book ends covered today. Suzanne kennedy is in new york. But lets begin with scott thuman who is also there. He is live at columbus circle. He is right outside of central park. Scott . Scott you mentioned it will be one of the more Memorable Events of the day. 80,000 to 100,000 in the park when he makes hi way through. Quite a procession. Earlier today as you mentioned the united nations, an opportunity for pope francis to greet World Leaders ands essentially press on some issues that are controversial but where he is allowed to bend the ear of not just people in america but worldwide. He talks about that issue, the refugee situation stemming from syria, iraq, afghanistan and other countries. He implored on the nations to embrace the refugees with open arms. This is what he had to say. Translator the most basic understanding of the Human Dignity compelling the International Community to do all it can to stop and prevent further systemic violence against ethnic and religious minorities and to project innocent people. Scott not just that. He tackled the iran nuclear deal. Well tell you what he said about that. And also Global Warming and climb change. In the meantime, another papal event and another big crowd. Leon well check back later on. Once the pope leftup and he joined the representative of the service at the 9 11 memorial and museum. [bell toll] he prayed for peace for all of those who died. He toured the memorial once the service wrapped up. Alison later tonight pope francis will celebrate mass for more than 19,000 people at Madison Square garden. He will make his way from harlem through central mark to get there. People lined up early for a chance to see the motorcade. Suzanne kennedy picks up the Team Coverage from across the street from m. S. G. Hi, suzanne. Suzanne this is the most famous arena and in the next hour and a half the worlds most famous man will come to celebrate mass at 6 30. You mention he has been all over new york city. People have been lining up to catch a glimpse of him. Earlier today, 80,000 lottery wingers received tickets to line the motorcade route that the pope will travel at 5 00. The security checkpoint, at 4 30 this morning. But no one seemed to mind they were waiting for more than ten hours to see the holy father. I was with my mom. We were in the cold but its all worth it. This is an emotional moment and we feel blessed to have a chance to be here to see the pope. This is my third pope i am seeing. I saw pope john paul, Pope Benedict and now pope francis ill be seeing. Its amazing. Suzanne this mass will be celebrated in latin, spanish and english. When the pope wraps up his time here at Madison Square garden he will head to the papal nunciature. Reporting live, Suzanne Kennedy. Alison the real pope is drawing enough of a frenzy of people hoping to draw a handshake so no surprise this drew a crowd last night. This is from madam toussiers wax figure. Leon thats cool. He will leave and celebrate mass at the basilica of st. Peter and paul. Then he will visit Independence Hall before going to the festival of families. Our colleague Suzanne Kennedy and scott thuman will stay in new york with the pope for the duration of the visit. Once we get to it, John Gonzalez will be there for us from the city of brotherly love. Alison the House Speaker wasnt the only one with a bombshell announcement today. Very exciting, huh . Leon ahh. Find out what had the first lady so excited this morning in an unavailabling at the National Unveiling at the national zoo. Alison a push for action about a popular form of Birth Control exposed by the 7 on your side iteam. Horace im horace holmes. The Northern Virginia community up jet after the attack of two joggers on this trail. We will talk about it next on abc7 news. Leon developing out of loudoun county, police are looking for the person who attacked two joggers. Now the incident in leesburg happened last week. Shaking a Community Years after the deadly attack on another couple not too far away. Horace holmes is live in lanesdown and he has the latest in the investigation. Horace it was 5 45 yesterday morning and a woman was jogging here on riverside parkway in landsdown when a man suddenly appeared and wrestled her to the ground. Police say she was able to break free from that man. And then she ran to safety. She was not hurt. But police say that people of this neighborhood are very, very concerned because this kind of attack has happened before. And on top of that, police are now thinking that the suspect may have attacked before. On wednesday another female jogger was attacked on the trail just down the road in leesburg. We believe the time of day, the physical description of the person and the fact that he is attacking these females on running trails. Im being vigilant. Im looking over my shoulder more often than i normally would. Horace as i said this kind of attack happened before in the community. Six years ago a violent attack a little bit away from here. Coming up tonight at 5 00, we will talk to police to let you hear what they say about this attack here and let you hear more about people in the neighborhood about how they feel is what is going on. Reporting live in landsdown, horace holmes. Alison thank you. Trending now a controversial plan to publish the names of welfare recipients online. The mayor of lewison, maine, says the state has a website to show how much money is paid in pension so he wants maine to publish names of the welfare recipients as well. The mayor mcdonald says the public has a right to know how the money is spent. Critics say its hightech shaming. Leon they want to relocate a confederate stature to be moved from outside the downtown courthouse to rockville historical park. The county department of General Services director told the Washington Post that the county will send formal request to do this to the rockville city council. Alison creepy, crawly problem caused a scramble at the Baltimore National international airport. Baggage handlers noticed a tarantula escaped the container. This happened on a flight wednesday night. The captain grounded the plane so it could be searched and the passengers were put on a different flight. Delta air lines says the spider was inside the cargo hold and never made it inside a cabin. Leon have you seen one . Alison baboon tarantula . Leon you want to see how big they get . Alison how big . Leon that big. Alison you do not want to be a on flight and see that crawling around. Leon it has its own ticket. Good grief time for a check of the traffic situation. Jamie sullivan watching. We got lucky, thinking were were going to have all kind of doom for the last couple of days but now weve got it. Jamie that is what i heard from everyone. They really said hey, bring the pope back into town. It was a nice commute. We are seeing slowing. If you live in potomac, bethesda and you have to get on the beltway, get ready. The inner loop and the outer loop. We are seeing volume. We have wet spots out there. Its something to keep in mind especially traveling at a high speed and are not prepared for it. Lets move to the map to talk about how slow we are. You are seeing from the toll road to the inner loop, continuing to bethesda to wrap around toward silver spring, volume on the inner loop. Outer loop we have the same thing but its not as bad once you cross the bridge. The g. W. , maybe you have to catch a flight heading in. We are at 33 Miles Per Hour. We will get better as you get closer to reagan. If you are in the d. C. Area, the slowing for you in the single digits. Crossing the 11 street bridge once you get off the freeway, southbound or northbound on 295. We are in the single digits. As far as crashes, nothing major to worry about. The commute through Prince Georges County we are okay. We see volume. That is the inner and the outer loop getting closer to joint base andrews. But nothing major to worry about as far as crashes on any of the interstates. A few minor problems on the side roads. But thats it. Of course a few wet spots, something to keep in mind especially when you are traveling at a high speed. Back to you. Alison okay, thank you very much. Cleanup is underway after an overnight tornado that hit charleston county, south carolina. The National Weather service arrived this morning to survey the aftermath. The st. Johns Fire District says ten homes were heavily damaged. Roads were blocked with debris from the downed trees and power lines. Hundreds of homes and businesses lost power. Luckily no report of injury. Leon i dont want to jinx us. But something we havent talked about much is hurricanes. Tropical storms coming through here. Brianne yeah. The sunshine is out of here. There are a couple of sprinkles out there now. There are sprinkles but there is nothing super duper heavy. There is not much showing up. Just a nuisance rain. The temperatures outside, 70 in manassas. Leesburg 70. 71 in andrews. 72 in annapolis. Across the area we didnt go up that much. The average is 77 so were well below average. Its just a gray drizzle day. Live doppler out there. You can see a drop of moisture around the beltway. Very, very light if nature, pushing westward. The mullk of the showers to virginia. Throughout the weekend that is the best chance for showers. It will be the areas to the south tomorrow. Southern virginia and portions of the carolinas. Here is a setup. You can see the moisture. High pressure to the north. I generally brings us nice weather. For tomorrow, we will be gray and drizzly. You should be fine for the soccer practice tomorrow morning. We will stay cooler. Because of the setup here. That rain eventually, eventually should move in here. I am thinking sunday. More likelihood of showers. Overnight, drizzly, damp and cool. Tomorrow cool. Spotty shower. Especially to the south. Think of the sevenday forecast. It shows the best chance is sunday. Back to 80 by the middle of next week. Not perfect. We could use the rain. But at least its cool. You can watch football and not feel so guilty. Alison we knew it couldnt last forever. I was a great week. Thank you. Leon even though the sun and the pope are both gone, coming g at abc7 news at 4 00, the rock stars are not. A preview of the big festival to preserve the national ma alison more than 40 musical acts will be on five stages down around the National Mall this weekend. Its a twoday landmark festival. Its a fundraiser for the trust for the National Mall. Organizers are hoping big names act like drake, the strokes will help raise money to give constitution garden a facelift. If you plan to head downtown or anywhere else this weekend give yourself extra time on metro. The orange, silver, blue, yellow lines are all running every 24 minutes. On the Red Line Service runs every 20 minutes. No delays planned for this weekend. Leon a bit of a surprise at the national zoo today. Instead of waiting the typical 100 days to name a panda at the zoo. Michelle obama joined chinas first lady today to unveil the name. Jeanette reyes was there for the big reveal. Jeanette one thing china and the u. S. Agree with, the pandas are absolutely adorable. Today the first lady broke tradition naming the youngest cub bei bei. The First Lady Michelle Obama and peng liyuan stopped by the panda house to recognize 40 years of Scientific Collaboration between the United States and china around giant panda conservation. Mei xiang was brought from china over 50 years ago. They were accompanied from the first school in washington, d. C. To teach chinese using immersion model. Mrs. Obama briefly had a visit to china last year. The students were present in the announcement. The first ladies chose baby i bei. It was chosen because it means precious treasure. Jeanette jeanette reyes, abc7 news. Alison very cute. It took a real prank to make it happen but russian president Vladimir Putin and Sir Elton John are talking about gay rights. Earlier this month john said he wanted to meet with putin to talk about civil rights abuses targeted at the gay and the lesbian abuse in russia. That led to a prank where after the personality called john pretending to be putin. But the real putin has called and apologized for the prank and there are reports he will meet with him face to face. Leon all right. Coming up at 4 00, just ahead ahh, the crowds rejoice. Look at the happy folk lining up around the world today. They pushed on facebook, they lobbied congress, all talking about problems with a popular Birth Control device. Im item investigator joce sterman. Coming up, what women who have used the d across america, people like Basketball Hall of Famer Dominique wilkins. Are taking charge of their type 2 diabetes. With noninsulin victoza®. For a while, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar. But it didnt get me to my goal. So i asked my doctor about victoza®. He said victoza® works differently than pills. And comes in a pen. Victoza® is proven to lower blood sugar and a1c. Its taken once a day, any time. Victoza® is not for weight loss, but it may help you lose some weight. Victoza® is an injectable prescription medicine that may improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. It is not recoended as the first medication to treat diabetes. And should not be used in people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. Victoza® has not been studied with mealtime insulin. Victoza® is not insulin. Do not take victoza® if you have a personal or Family History of m medullary thyroid cancer. Multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if you are allergic to. Victoza® or any of its ingredients. Symptoms of a serious allergic reaction. May include itching, rash, or difficulty breathing. Tell your doctor. If you get a lump or swelling in your neck. Serious side effects may happen in people who take victoza®. Including inflammation of the pancreas pancreatitis . Stop taking victoza®. And call your doctor right away if you have signs of pancreatitis such as severe pain that will not go away in your abdomen announcer youre watching abc7 news at 4 00. On your side. Leon after complaints about a popular Birth Control device, the food and Drug Admin