Gave me my car back. You know, d. C. Tickets and boots are expensive. It was totally my fault. Nick in town for the inauguration from chicago came running back to his car. Once he saw Parking Enforcement down the block. Nice and kind. Oh, you are next. The spot in green are offlimits later tonight and tomorrow morning. So many signs and many with the different times we found confused commuters who say they plan to keep the car off the road the rest of the week. Uber or something else. This is also a familiar scene. The Parking Enforcement are out issuing tickets and towing the cars. Most of the restrictions will remain in place until 1 00 a. M. On the 23rd. Reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. Alison a few more notes here. Metro wi a. M. Friday to get people to the inauguration. Remember the archives, the federal triangle, mount vernon square, pentagon and the smithsonian stations, they are all going to be closed. Then on saturday, metro says it will open at 5 00 a. M. That is for people attending the womens march on washington. That will include rush plus service on the yellow line from 6 00 a. M. Until 10 00 a. M. 1 00 p. M. Until 5 00 p. M. Sign up for the metro texas alerts from abc7 news metro text alerts from wjla. Com. Larry Vice President elect mike pence says president obamas decision to commute Chelsea Mannings sentence was on the fake. And today he defended it. Before taking questions a message for former president george h. W. Bush and barbara bush both in the hospital. We want to send our prayers and our love to them. Then president obama got down to business. First clear. Chelsea manning has served a tough prison sentence. Calling his decision appropriate responding to republicans slamming him for commuting the 35year sentence of manning. The former Army Intelligence officer convicted of giving the u. S. Secrets to wikileaks. I feel comfortable that justice has been served. The questions then moved on to russia and the growing tensions surrounding the transfer of power with 60 democrats now boycotting the inauguration. I am not going to comment on those issues. All i know is i am going to be there. So is michelle. He is leaving office on a high note. A new abc News Washington post poll shows 60 of americans approve of obamas job performance. On this day he had this parting message to the nation. I think we are going to be okay. We have the fight for it. Work for it. Not ta i know you will help us do that. Thank you very much. Good luck. In what many call not so subtle shot at trump, president obama told reporters to continue to ask tough questions and push those in power to get to the bottom of stories. In new york, im Elizabeth Hur for abc7 news. Larry abc7 chief Political Correspondent scott thuman joins us live at the capitol hill bureau. What stood out to you in president bams final News Conference . Scott it was extraordinary trying to sum up eight years in one hour. Not an easy task. President obama tried to do that and make closing state statements and wrap up his summation on what he thinks should happen moving forward. He hit on the theme of hope. That is nothing new. But there was a not so thinly veiled message to the i administration donald trump. Specific at time referencing things like the fought for two state solution in middle east. He says you have to Pay Attention to those who know what they are talking about on the subjects and you cant be off the cuff in some of the decisions moving forward. While he sounded supportive and the transformation and the transfer of power from one administration to the other he was letting trump know that he has to be very judicious and open minded with the full attention to a lot of the subject matter. Larry thank you. Well talk to you soon. Thank you. Alison it could be rainy as president obama moves out of the white house and trump moves in. Stormwatch7s chief meteorologist doug hill is here with a look at the forecast. Doug hey there. The frustrating thing in the weather business even a couple of days out we cant say the precise minute the rain will begin. But it is looking more likely that the rain midday on the west side of the capitol and downtown on friday. Not there yet. It is beautiful. Partly cloudy skies. Temperatures in the 50s. 56 at Reagan National airport. Partly cloudy tonight. 33 to 40 degrees with a light wind out of the northwest. The future cast keeps the sunshine and a warmup ahead tomorrow. Mid50s and mostly sunny skies. As we get through the evening, the clouds roll in and that will set the stage for rain. It could move in between 11 00 and 1 00 p. M. That time frame. Not an all day event. The rein will move through and clear. And that will bode well for the balls on friday night. We complete the inauguration weather forecast. Include the weekend and the next ten days at no extra charge in ten minutes. Larry thanks. We are monitoring a developing story in the district in the last hour and a half Police Release video of a shooting that left a grandmother dead. Stephen tschida is live at the headquarters with a look at the footage. Me this video and its heartbreaking and demonstrates the carelessness, the lack of concern and the recklessness of those individuals who shoot up d. C. Streets without any thought of those who might get caught in the crossfire. Surveillance video from camera high position in the 2400 block of elvans road southeast. It shows the moments a suspect opens fire. You see people at the top of the screen. One individual takes off running toward the camera. The suspect takes off in another direction. A closeup shows 68yearold viverrian in her wheelchair. The suspect unconcerned with her in the line of fire and shoots anyway. Her wheelchair spins and you see her fall back. She and a man were hit by the spray of bullets. The man survived. After the shooting the su foot. The shooting took place at 10 00 monday morning. You can see in the video the suspect is young and thin and apparently lefthanded. The search continues. Tonight, reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Larry thank you. Two peak are in custody tonight after a two people in a custody after a shootout in shaw neighborhood. It started before 10 00 this morning when an offduty d. C. Police officer saw a man driving erratically. The man started firing when he saw he was followed. The driver took off and spun out a short time later. The names of the people arrested and the charges have not been released. Alison bars lastminute intervention from the u. S. Supreme court ricky gray will be executed at 9 00 tonight. Gray was convicted of kill ising a family of four on the richmond home on new years day in 2006. His lawyers want the Supreme Court to stop t over questions about virginias lethal injection plan. Supreme court has doubts about a law that bans trademarks. A band was denied because they say it disparages asians. The case is important to the Washington Redskins because they lost the trademark because it was deemed offensive to native americans. A win for the slants could be a win for the redskins. Alison a new amazon store is on the way to cecil county, maryland. The Company Announced a project for 1. 2 million square foot Fulfillment Center. Amazon employees more than 3,000 people at the Fulfillment Center in baltimore. The new facility could create 700 positions and is expected to be built by the end of 2020. Larry coming up at 5 00, heavy rains take a toll. Find out why people are told to stay off the roads. Alison then later, what a in honor of her six children killed in a fire. Q g. O. P. Representative tom price likely expected to be grilled today in the confirmation hearing. That is what happened. Coming up, the latest on his plan to replace obamacare. Larry as we go to break, congratulations to octavia. She has been named the woman of the year. Alison the issue of climb change dominated issues on the hill today. This is as nasa announced the earth recorded the hottest ar on record. Oklahoma attorney general scott pruitt says he does not believe Climate Change is a hoax but the pick to head the Protection Agency faced tough agencies about his record when it comes to things like protecting the oceans and the fisheries. I see nothing in your career to give those fishermen any confidence you will care one bit for their well being and the fossil fuel industry. We must reject the false paradigm if you are pronorm, you are antienvironment or if youre antienvironment you are anti proenvironment you are antienergy. Larry he is just one nominees on the hill. Nikki haley testifieded about being the next u. S. Ambassador to united nations. Wilbur ross spoke about being commerce secretary. But most eyes were on tom price. Is there any insight to what is in store once the Affordable Care act is repealed . Q he didnt say much about the plan. He made one thing certain. Obamacare wont be around for much longer if he has anything to do with it. President elect trump vowed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. Representative tom price has been trying to do this for years. We want to repeal the law and replacement with the positive common sense, patientcentered solutions that put patients and the families and the doctors in charge of healthcare. Not washington, d. C. However, when asked to reveal his replacement plan today he would only say this. We would put together individual health pools to allow every person in the small group and the market challenged with the preexisting illness gain access to coverage they want. The latest stats show 20 million americans take advantage of obamacare right now. Prices message to them . One of the important things we need to convey to the American People is that nobody, nobody is interested in pulling the rug out from under anybody. Q you may remember last week president elect trump told replacement plan once the health and Human Services nominee is confirmed. We will keep you posted on what happens next. That is the latest from the live desk. Back to you. Larry today the Senate Armed Services committee overwhelmingly approved the pick for the defense secretary. That means james mattis appointment can be sent to the full senate for the vote. Alison 7 on storm watch now as the flash flood warnings are in effect in the houston, texas, region. Look at the high water. This prompted 65 calls for rescues. A lot of people there were forced to leave the cars. Some areas were hit with five inches of rain overnight. Rain is expected to fall for the rest of the week. Larry wow alison no break for them at all. Larry its like every year it seems like. Doug down there, yeah. It looks like at least the shorter term the rain is like showers rather hand the continuous rainfall. Maybe a net sum loss in water level. The question here is when will the rain start . Itks like sooner than we thought. Around midday, 11 00, 11 30. Its not torrential and it is not raining all day. But have your rain gear with you. You will need it. Its beautiful but it didnt start that way at the Nationals Park. You wouldnt know it was Nationals Park without the name up top. Plenty of fog this morning. But it lifted and the clouds broke up. Its breezy to bring us in milder air. We have more sunshine tomorrow than today. The temperatures are well above average. Today we are above it again. We think our trend will continue for seven to ten days above normal temperatures. 52 at dulles. Through the evening we are clear to party cloudy. Nice weather. Temperatures drop in 40s. We may have upper 30s by morning. We will get more sunshine today. The winds will be lighter today. 52, 54 for the high. Its delightful weather. Later today the high will make a trip across the chesapeake bay. That will allow the cloudiness to increase. This is a question of timing. The best window for the rain to arrive in the west is between 11 30 and 12 30. This is not a huge area. The front will go through and the rain will clear out. We are looking night. Tomorrow afternoon at 4 00 to 6 00 the weather will be fine. Dry and systemly mild. We will get to the specifics of the inauguration day. We start off with the cloudy skies. The temperatures are climbing in the 40s. The rain will arrive. Several hours and period of rain. It wont rain every minute of the time span but there is a several hour stretch that it will be raining. By the weekend it clears out for one day on saturday. 55 for a high. On sunday the clouds roll back in. 52. Much more substantial system approach the area sunday night through monday. Talking about the possibility of heavy rain at times. Mild. Rain sunday and through the day and monday. We think it will clear out tuesday and wednesday. One thing that is curious about this is we will head through the end of the week. In the new year. Or the new month with the temperatures average. There is some indication, computer models that the western two of third of the country gets mighty cold. Gooey weather. It used to be easy. January and february used to be predictable. Now who knows . Larry nice and steady in the 50s. We will take it. Alison thank you. One of the districts favorite residents is about to leave town. Larry but he doesnt live in the white house or the naval observatory. Find out how tow say byebye to bao bao. As people begin to pour into town for the inauguration we set up the soap box to find out what is on their minds. A look at what is coming up tonight on abc. Larry soon we will say byebye to bao bao. The national zoo is planning a party for the 3yearold panda in february. Sometime after that bao bao will be sent to china as part of a plan to improve Panda Breeding worldwide. For security reasons they will not tell us the exact departure date. There wont be a big celebration and the parade. Alison exactly. Larry like for another departing person. Alison they are doing parties that week. All of the many fans goodbye. Very good. Jonathan is standing by now to join in. You have a beautiful view behind you. Jonathan this is something else. This doesnt stink. You are talking about a famous resident bao bao moving. Another moving in. Trump is sworn in on friday. Today, Madame Tussauds enshrines the likenesses of celebrities in wax. Now they have trump, his figure and likeness in now in the Madame Tussauds wax museum. He will be sworn in on friday. A lot of folks come from around the country to be here for the momentous occasion. Brad bell is out with the soap box. He had it on the campaign trail and now has it here. Curious to see what people thought about what is coming up. Brad we are seeing that people come in. They are coming down here. A lot of them have the tickets. Scouting out the areas to see. They are enjoying the view. We set what people have on the minds to lead up to the inaugust ration. This is what inauguration. This is what they had to tell us. Im excited to witness history with my kids. Traveled here from florida. Excited to be part of the celebration for the next president. Brad not Everybody Loves the idea of trump becoming president but what we are hearing here is people are coming down, seeing the capitol and see it set up. The sense of history is setting in. People are telling us they do appreciate the idea they will be able to be here to see it. Near the capitol, brad bell, abc7 news. Alison thank you, brad. Coming up at abc7 news at 5 00 getting around in the inauguration. 7 on your side to avoid road closures and potential headaches ahead. Sam the d. C. Government has the parried reviewing stand as parade reviewing stand and the president has his. How will the two get along in the next several years . Im sam ford and that is next on abc7 news. Alison the president ial inauguration will usher in the first Republican Administration in eight years. On the hill, members of congress started taking aim at the d. C. Gun laws. And other measures like death with the Trump Administration could mean for the capitol. Sam d. C. Muriel bowser was a loyal Hillary Clintons supporter. But once trump won, bowser was on her way to trump tower where she told us today i think its our job to work with the members of the congress and the next president on the issues that are important to the d. C. Residents. Sam with a Republican Congress there are contentious issue or the d. C. Strict gun laws. Public funding of abortion. Marijuana. Two years ago utah republican Jason Chaffetz threatened mayor bowser with jail if she allowed legal marijuana. She allowed it. I have a lot of things to the in the district of columbia. Me being in jail wouldnt be a good thing. Obama had her back. Would trump . Councilmember white running in one ward received votes, which is more than twice that trump got in the whole city. He said he wanted to be the president for everybody, including the people that didnt vote for him. The mayor says she is optimistic, as dut the longest serving member. He says be careful. We have to pick our battles. I dont like to get in dispute over the social legislation that the republicans hate and the district likes. D. C. Thrived before but it was before the tea party and the sharp turn right by the republicans. Will it be different this time . Reporting from the john Wilson Building im sam ford. Abc7 news. Larry the president ial Inauguration Committee has been planning this for months. Today is a celebration for the p. I. C. That is the columbus band. That is mike pences alma mater. Today, all 150 members of the band gave the p. I. C. Staff surprise performance. It was much needed. Madison is a Regional Press secretary for the p. I. C. She is kind enough to join us now. This is a ton of prepara