John toss to julie new this morning. The first family is back in washington, after a final farewell to the nation and it was a late night. The obamas landed at joint base andrews around 1 30 this morning. Its expected to be their last flight aboard air force the current commander in chief will be leaving the white house in just nine days. Last night the president traveled to his adopted hometown of chicago for his big goodbye the same place where his journey began eight years ago. The nations first black president spoke of the historic nature of his presidency. And thanked americans for working together to create a greater good. The president also called on americans to participate more in the political process, to embrace the task of improving the nation and to believe in their ability. Not in a leaders ability. To make positive change. To the trump transition now. President elect donald trump will hold a press conference this its his first since july. Trump is expected to talk about the potential conflicts of interest between his business and presidency. Trump is also expected to face questions about obamacare and russian hacking. The News Conference comes as the fbi is looking into new unsubstantiated allegations of secret ties between donald trump, his staff and the russians. According to abc news the fbi is also investigating reports that trump aides were invloved in hacking the democratic party. The president elect issued a flat denial, tweeting fake news a total political witch hunt meanwhile on capitol hill confirmation hearings continue today for Homeland Security nominee marine general john kelly and trumps attorney general pick senator jeff sessions. Sessions is a polarizing pick and has been accused of being racist. On tuesday, there were multiple protests including this one where people dressed in kkk robes that temporarily disrupted the proceedings. But, most political analysts say republicans do have the votes they need to confirm session and two new confirmation hearings, also beginning this morning. The Senate ForeignRelations Committee will consider Rex Tillerson for secretary of state, starting at nine am. Then at 10 15 the transportation commmitte will hear testimony from transportation secretary nominee elaine chao. Still ahead on good morning washington chaos at a Montgomery County mall. A stabbing leaving two people dead this morning. The search for the killer happening right now. I need to promote my new busi can make that happen. Et. Business cards . Business cards, brochures, banners. Pens . Pens, magnets, luggage tags, bumper stickers. How about foam fingers . Like these . Now, get 15 off making your company stand out. Staples. Make more happen. Closed today. School Officials Say its because of a water problem. All other city schools will be open today. At 5 xx time for a check on the forecast. Toss to eileen 50s today, 60s tomorrow rain for this evenings pm rush back to cold this weekend wintry weather likely saturday mix of snow, sleet, freezing rain, rain first look at inauguration weather mid 50s dry today partly sunny. Rain possible after 4pm. Highs 4954 winds s 5 mph tonight showers taper off by 9pm. Mostly cloudy. Patchy, dense fog possible. Lows 4145 winds sw 510 mph thursday am fog, clouds. Partly cloudy. Mild breezy. Highs 6266 winds sw 1015 g 25 a message of hate at a maryland school. Coming up the racist petition circulating among students and how the school is responding. And a deal in the works for volkswagen. The guilty plea that could be coming in the next few days. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. That means incredibly fast 150 meg internet. So in the 3. 7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record fly, gary, fly. His friend can download 13 different versions of the perfect song. His sister can live stream it. 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Overnight the taliban issued a statement saying they did not plant the bomb but that they did carry out other attacks in the day in kabul that killed at 38 people. In the day ahead a judge is expected to formally sentence convicted chareston Church Shooter dylan roof. This after a jury roof killed 9 black people in a 2015 massacre at a church meeting. Before deliberations, roof expressed no apologies or regret for his actions. Roof told the judge he wants to file a motion for new lawyers today but the judge says thats not likely to happen. Roof represented himself during his trial. Developing now, arundel high schools principal will meet with students and parents today, to discuss a petition that celebrated white supremacy. The kool kids klan petition circulated among students friday. Two students signed the petition, which used a racist word to describe blacks. Staff members confiscated the petition and called police. They determined, no crime was committed. The school disciplined the students involved. In a letter to parents, principal Gina Davenport wrote we live in a society where our children even long before they ever reach their High School Years are bombarded by messages of intolerance, disrespect, and hate. Especially in recent years, those messages have grown louder. Prince William CountyBoard ChairmanCorey Stewart will present an ar15 rifle to the winner of his giveaway contest today. Stewart announced the winner last week, but did not give a name. Only identifying them as a navy veteran from woodbridge and a member of the nra. Stewarts rifle raffle was part of his campaign for virginia governor. The giveaway sparked outrage from gun control advocates, who say its insensitive to victims of gun violence. New this morning volkswagen is reportedly working on a deal to plead guilty to criminal charges stemming from its worldwide emissions scandal. According to the New York Times the carmaker will plead guilty to conspiracy charges, and work with federal investigators to identify individual employees responsible for the plot. Volkswagen will also pay more than 4billion dollars in fines. It also faces hundreds of lawsuits after admitting to installing software in its vehicles to help cheat emissions tests. 7 is on your side with a consumer alert a Health Hazard could be lurking in some twinkies some of its white peppermint twinkies. Its because of possible contamination with salmonella. The good news no one has reported getting sick. If you have those cakes, you can return them for a refund. For the first time this season, the wizards are over. 500. And last night, star guard john wall sealed their 10th straight home win in dramatic fashion against the chicago bulls. Game tied at 99 with just seconds left. Walls gets the screen. Drives to the baseline. Rises up and knocks down the jumper to put the wizards up two. Chicago would get a shot off in the closing seconds but it would not go. Wizards win 10199. John wall finished with 26 points and 14 assists. Starting today these New Washington capitals courage caps go on sale. Procees benefit the Tragedy Assistance Program for survivors. Taps is a non profit that hps families of fallen servicemen and women. Hats and tshirts are both 20 bucks. 50s today, 60s tomorrow rain for this evenings pm rush back to cold this weekend wintry weather likely sleet, freezing rain, rain first look at inauguration weather mid 50s dry today partly sunny. Rain possible after 4pm. Highs 4954 winds s 5 mph tonight showers taper off by 9pm. Mostly cloudy. Patchy, dense fog possible. Lows 4145 winds sw 510 mph thursday am fog, clouds. Partly cloudy. Mild breezy. Highs 6266 winds sw 1015 g 25 julie toss to break my husband wants to stay free from artificial ingredients. Whole family nts to stay free from artificial preservatives. And my debit card wants to stay on a diet. Fill your cart with giants natures promise brand. Great prices on over 800 organic and freefrom items. Eat well for less. My giant. 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. Morning show tablet sales could tumble in 2017. Abcs diane macedo and Kendis Gibson have the details in this mornings tech bytes right now at 5 30. Stunning new claims oh, how waso good en house . Look. 800 square feet, 1 bedroom, hardwood floors, 15 minute ride to work. Dude dude i know your credit score must be amazing. My credit score . How do i check . Credit karma. Its free. Thats great thats super easy. Um hm. Thats a credit score. Just whip bam boom, its done. Check out credit karma today. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. Eyes over there, dude. This apartments hers. Mine. Thank you. Ties to donald trump. The allegations that the president elect is calling a witchhunt. A tearful president ial farewell by president barak obama. This morning the question people are asking why was first daughter sasha missing from the crowd. But first stormwatch7 watching the mercury rise this morning. How warm it will get and when we should expect to see our next round of winter weather. Good morning washington. Toss to eileen 50s today, 60s tomorrow a back to cold this weekend wintry weather likely saturday mix of snow, sleet, freezing rain, rain first look at inauguration weather mid 50s dry today partly sunny. Rain possible after 4pm. Highs 4954 winds s 5 mph tonight showers taper off by 9pm. Mostly cloudy. Patchy, dense fog possible. Lows 4145 winds sw 510 mph thursday am fog, clouds. Partly cloudy. Mild breezy. Highs 6266 winds sw 1015 g 25 in the trump transition. Two new cabinet confirmation hearings today. It comes after a dramatic day on the hill, as lawmakers grilled the president elects controversial pick for attorney general sam sweeney is live on capitol hill. Sam . The hearings come as the fbi is now looking into new allegations of secret ties between donald trump, his staff and the russians. The president elect issued a flat denial, tweeting fake news a total political witch hunt too explosive not to investigate. Well have more on the new claims coming up in about ten minutes. New developments in a deepening Corruption Scandal in prince georges county. Former state delegate and Council Member will campos has pleaded guilty to taking bribes. Campos was on the council for 10 years and resigned in 2015. According to court documents, he was essentially selling county money for bribes and admitted to taking 340thousand dollars. He is not the only person involved in this web of scandals. Multiple elected leaders are now under investigation. Stay with abc7 and wjla. Com for updates. A battle is underway in the Loudoun CountySchool District. Over a principal who was placed on leave. Last night hundreds of students, parents and teachers rallied in support of john brewer. The School District has not publicly said why he was placed on leave but its believed to be related to a letter of recommendation for a former dominion high band teacher. Brian damron left dominion for florida in 2015,after he was to a student at a different high school. He is also accused of making sexual advances toward a student in florida. Brewers supporters dont think he knowingly did anything wrong. It is unclear when a final decision will be made about brewers future. President obama giving his farewell address last night in front of thousands of supporters. But therre was one face missing from the crowd. Why the first daughter skipped her dads big speech, still ahead. But first heres whats coming up tonight on abc seven. Saturday mix of snow, sleet, freezing rain, rain first look at inauguration weather mid 50s dry today partly sunny. Rain possible after 4pm. Highs 4954 winds s 5 mph tonight showers taper off by 9pm. Mostly cloudy. Patchy, dense fog possible. Lows 4145 winds sw 510 mph thursday am fog, clouds. Partly cloudy. Mild breezy. Highs 62 suzanne live tease reunion after a deadly tragedy. Coming up how a young girl in Fort Lauderdale during last weeks shooting, was reunited with her lost bear. Suzanne live tease stabbed to death inside the Westfield Wheaton mall. Suzanne kennedy is live in wheaton. Suzanne . Greenbelt police are investigating two suspicious deaths. Were found dead in a home in the 6thousand block of springhill drive. The identities and cause of death havent been revealed at this time. Well bring you new information as soon as we get it. A crime alert in fredericksburg. Right now police are trying to find the man who assaulted a Woman Working at 711. This is surveillence video from the store on amaret street. Police say the clerk went to the back office to get something, when the suspect followed her. He threatenerd her with a weapon and then sexually assaulted her. The attack happened around this time yesterday morning. But police say this isnt the first time the suspect has been in the store. The cler came in the morning of december 2nd and exposed himself to her. Anyone with information should contact police. An update on a story we reported on yesterday. A canadian girl lost her teddy bear, while evacuating from the Fort Lauderdale airport after fridays deadly shooting there. But she finally has her beloved bear back, thanks to some help from sheriffs deputies. The teddy bear is named rufus. He was found in the airports hangar, where all of the leftbehind items are being held. Rufus gets around. Hes been to the caribbean, to disney twice, and to all the waterparks in michigan, ohio, and ontario. The virginia gener kick off its 2017 session at noon today. Governor Terry Mcaullife will give his annual state of the state address to lawmakers tonight, where hes expected to explain his priorities for his last year in office. The 45day legislative session will see lawmakers battling over the state budget problems and a variety of policy proposals aimed at improving the States Mental Health care. Marylands General Assembly also returns today for its 90day session. Lawmakers will consider an array of issues including a revenue gap, Prescription Drug costs, limits on student testing and paid sick leave for workers. Democrats hold a commanding majority in the legislature, but face a popular republican governor larry hogan. With nine days until the transition of power president obama is wrapping up his time as commanderinchief with a final message to the american people. It comes as the fbi opens a new investigation involving the man who will take over the oval Office President elect donald trump abcs Karen Travers has more. When president barack obama gave speech. Someone was noticeably abs daughter, sasha. That sent twitter on a frenzy searching for answers, using the hashtag where is sasha. Among the theories she was on an elite antiterrorism mission or looking for president elect trumps tax returns. The truth . Sasha missed the speech because she has an exam this morning. Coming up at six a roller coaster breaking down in the middle of a ride. The terrifying rescue 65 feet off the ground. Plus a lawmaker left behind. The outburst that got one former senator kicked off a flight. And a monster jam ticket giveaway. Watch to call in and win, still ahead at six oclock. The second winter storm in less than a week is pounding Northern California and parts of nevada. Blizzard warnings are in effect for the sierras. With some areas inches. Thats right. 100 inches of snow by tomorrow lower elevations are experiencing the worst flooding in a decade. And here at home the rain overnight, now clear. Temperatures are above freezing, but still some slick spots. John gonzalez is in mobiletrak seven. Its 5 and time for a check on weather. Rain for this evenings pm rush back to cold this weekend wintry weather likely saturday mix of snow, sleet, freezing rain, rain first look at inauguration weather mid 50s dry today partly sunny. Rain possible after 4pm. Highs 4954 winds s 5 mph tonight showers taper off by 9pm. Mostly cloudy. Patchy, dense fog possible. Lows 4145 winds sw 510 mph thursday am fog, clouds. Partly cloudy. Mild breezy. Highs 6266 winds sw 1015 g 25 another day of confirmation hearings on the hill and already a showdown shaping up. Sam . Sam live tease and already a showdown shaping up. Sam . Sam live tease park police prepare for i need to promote my new busi can make that happen. Et. Business cards . 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