Happened here. This may have been an altercation. Maybe something else. We dont know. We are still looking for answers. When we find new information we will come back and let you know. Reporting live, richard reeve, abc7 news. Larry thank you. Sign up for breaking news text alerts at the website wjla. Com. Michelle all right. 7 on storm watch. Just when you might have thought things were about to get a bit warmer around here, another taste of winter is on the way. Stormwatch7s chief meteorologist doug hill is here with the details. Doug it will get warmer. Starting overnight. Between now and then the potential problems there. In advance of the possibility of the freezing rain, the National Weather service issued freezing rain advisory north and west of the area. Western montgomery, fauquier and the area to the valley and the mountains as well. The temperatures above freezing at freezing to the motor and west. And again, thankfully the temperatures will slowly rise later tonight. But maybe not the freezing rain issue in the area. A little precipitation breaks out. We may have to wait tonight and the warm front comes our way to bring a band of rain which may fall freezing rain in the areas where the surface temperature is 32 or below. It will rise above freezing. No issues expected there. The extended look is in ten days. Michelle thank you. Stay connected to the stormwatch7 team all night through wjla. Com or the facebook and the twitter feeds. You can download the storm watch app for the smartphone or tablet. Larry five days after a raid at the prince georges liquor board headquarters a guilty plea on for charges connected to the case. Will campos is a former state delegate and member of the county counsel. Brad bell broke the news this morning and he joins us live with the new developments. Brad this is the plea agreement. The crimes laid out ar understand. A politician demanding bribes in exchange for payout of tax dollars. The evidence in the case shows that will campos treated the taxpayers money as if it were a literal slush fund. Brad tough words about a politician. This time its will campos. He has pleaded guilty to importants brides in exchange for the payout of the taxpayers dollars to businesses and the Fake Charities in the ten years as a councilmember. They were part and parcel of a long standing bribery scheme that reflected corruption on the part of mr. Campos and a number of people who are willing to pay him in return for government benefits. Brad campos resigned from the house of dell resigned from the house of delegates nine months in the term. By then he knew he had been caught doling out more than 340,000 from council and exchange for the kickbacks. He issued a statement that reads in part, i truly apologize to all of you, my friends and supports. To my family, as strange as its sounds im relieved this finally is coming to an end. At a press conference, the u. S. Attorney and the f. B. I. Officials made it clear the Corruption Scandal is not over. The chief of police promising to keep digging. There are no lengths that i and the men and women of the Prince Georges Police department will not go to, to ensure the integrity of the institutions. Brad the crimes laid out in this plea agreement date to when campos was on Prince Georges County counsel. Council. It does not have ties to the time in the legislature but sources tell us in that time he may have been cooperating with the federal authorities of the investigation of the other p. G. Liquor board scandal reported last week. Its all complicated but we are told this continues to grow and there are more competitions that will be charged. Brad bell, abc7 news. Michelle on the hill today, alabama senator Jeff Sessions faced questions from the peers as they consider whether to confirm him as the next attorney general. And Jonathan Elias has a look at the hearing today. Jonathan we know that senator sessions was asked about all kind of things including the views on hacking in the president ial election. Banning the muslims from entering the united states. Closing guantanamo bay. Civil rights and roe v. Wade. But the hearing was interrupted more than a few time by protests. [shouting] made racist comments in the past are not true. Let me address another issue straight on. I was accused in 1968 of failing to protect the voting right of africanamericans in the case. The voter rights case. And harboring k. K. K. These are false charges. Jonathan he was the first sitting senator to endorse donald trump. He was asked if he would let the department of justice or the f. B. I. Continue investigating russian hacking of the u. S. Election. Can you assure us that in any conflict of interest you will follow the interest of justice even if your duties require the investigation and even prosecution of the president , his family and associates . Well, senator, if laws are violated they have to be handled in the appropriate way. Jonathan the senate did delay hearings for picks for department of education and Central Intelligence agency. The Committee Chair says they want to space the hearings out more. At the live desk, Jonathan Elias, abc7 news. Larry thank you for that. Tonight, president barack obama will deliver the Farewell Speech in the hometown of chicago. Kristen holmes is live in the windy city with a preview. President obama will end his political career where it started in chicago. The white house is billing the farewell address as in regard looking. Some of the themes as forward looking. Some of the themes we expect to hear is fairness, justice and diversity. Ten days before he leaves the white house, president obama will return to a saying his final farewell in the same place he celebrated the 2012 victory. I have never been more hopeful about the future. The message of hope and change resonated with americans and propelled the first africanamerican president through two terms. Tonight he will say thank you to the supporters and to illinois for launching his political career. A Senior Administration official says the president s goal is end the time in office the same way he started it. Optimistic and hopeful. Its the president s last chance to defend his legacy including the Signature Healthcare law the Affordable Care act. President obama i get letters every single day from people who say this has saved my life or it has saved my bank account. At president elect trump and the republican lawmakers move quickly to try to gut obamacare. The first order of business is to repeal and replace obamacare. While the president s goodbye address will briefly focus on the past eight years rallying cry of sorts, offering a roadmap for the Many Democrats and the progressive voters dealt a blow to the morale on election day. In chicago, im Kristen Holmes reporting. Michelle we still dont know what the president will be doing but there is an offer to consider. The spotify is looking for president of the Music Service and looking for someone with at least eight Years Experience regarding a highly regarded nation. Check. Nobel peace prize. Good relationship with wide range of artists and musicians president obama can check boxes. Larry obama, bush, clinton. Short list. Michelle but the timing, he has an opening. Larry take a few weeks and then come back. Michelle call them developing story on the hill where utah congressman Jason Chaffetz says he is planning to block the districts death with dignity bill. Mayor bowser signed it last month to let terminally ill patients ends their lives with the help of a doctor. They must vote on a resolution to block a law and be signed by the president to be overturned. Michelle a 5monthold baby is dead and now his father is charged. Police say this man, 20yearold roger miller jr. Killed Darnell Barnes in october. Miller called 911 claiming that the baby was unresponsive after a nose bleed and vomiting. In the investigation, doctors determine the child died from trauma to the head and say the injuries were not accidental. Larry taliban is claiming responsibility for twin bombings that killed at least 38 people and injured 45 others in kabul. Officials say the bombers were targeting Afghan Parliament workers. The first blast came from a suicide bomber attacking on foot. The second blast came from a vehicle that exploded when Police Arrived to hel the taliban in kabul since last summer. Michelle tonight the world is remembering the woman who broke the news that world war ii had started. Claire holingworth was a british war correspondent. A week in her job she was the first to report that the nazis still invaded poland in august of 1939. Talk about a scoop. She spent much of the career on the front lines in the middle east, north africa and vietnam. She died in hong kong this morning. She was 105. Larry coming up at abc7 news at 5 00 two years after the navy yard shooting, evidence that security may still be lacking. Michelle later, parking plans curbed. Folks thought they had a place to park in the inauguration find themselves making a change. Larry water main break put a crimp in drivers. Sam the Washington Monument lost all power and the officials are not sure why. Im sam ford. Update. 24 hours after the lights went out at the Washington Monument, this was the scene out there. This is the second time it has gone dark in the last week and the latest in a series of mishaps at the memorial. D. C. Bureau chief sam ford is live at the National Mall with a look at what happens. Sam the pepco crews were here an hour or so. They left 15 minutes ago. They are still trying to determine exactly what caused last nights power failure. Total power failure in the monument. Its the latest in a series of problems here. The problems seem to grow and grow. Last week the spotlights stayed off because of a timer and last night there was a fault in the undergoing center that brings the we are working to trace the source of that. Override the ground fault and get the power back on. It was off for two hours. 5 30 until 7 30. We notified the f. A. A. Of the outage and going to let them make any alterations to their operations as necessary. Sam we could see last night when the lights began to come back on. But with the place closed down for elevator problems, now this. Sam one tourist said the last four times he visited d. C. The monument has been closed to visito sam you can see the lights are blinking atop the monument. They issued a gnomem, notice to airmen about the situation here. The flight path is a mile or so away. Flight operations were not affected by the situation. Particularly because the planes are prohibited from flying near the monument. Reporting live from the National Mall, sam ford. Abc7 news. A beloved chef is championed for the organic foods. Retired last year and in may will be honored by the Lifetime Achievement award. Good for her. Michelle today we look at the freezing rain on the larry again. Michelle i know. Doug it looks to be brief. The freezing rain goes in effect in the suburbs. Start with a time lapse, on the Weather Bug Network this morning in middletown. Frederick county. Snow on the ground from weekend. You will see more come down with band that came through early this morning. Now we switch from snow to freezing rain. These are the jurisdictions and the counties and the Incorporated Towns and the cities in the county under the freezing rain advisory. It starts at 6 00 and runs through 1 00 a. M. This is still a ways off to the west. The temperatures are cold. Low to mid30s. There are some spots below freezing or at freezing. We will have several hours of rain moving through and warming up overnight. This may be close to 40 by morning in downtown washington. Here is satellite and radar. Main line moving in. The leading edge of the front. That will overspread the mountains and approach the i95 corridor in metro. But it will take a few hours to make the distance. It will give the temperatures time to drop a little bit so there is freezing rain concerns but for a brief period of time. We think in the overnight, once this moves out and you will notice this has the rain moving through around is 00. By then or after then, the temperatures should climb a few degrees. We dont anticipate the issues in the travel wise tomorrow morning. 40 in the city. More rain moving in tomorrow night with another system that is expected but the temperatures above freezing. So there are no icy concerns tomorrow. Just rain. Thursday, nice change. For one day. It will become partly sunny with the highs at 64. Friday is a 50degree high but that is in the morning. The temperatures dropping with the increasingly cloudiness. We get to saturday and we get one day and drop back in 30s. That may coincide with a system to give us mix of rain and snow during the day. Temperatures above freezing. I dont think its a major impact from that. Cloudy day on the day on sunday. Looking ahead to dr. Martin luther king day monday and the parade at 11 00. We have clouds and peek of sunshine. Cant rule out a stray shower. I will be chill by but not bone chilling cold. Upper 40s. Next ten days. Tomorrow a night break. Becoming partly sunny. 52. Rain at night. 64 on thursday. Turn the temperatures fall to 40s in the afternoon and a messy saturday with a chance of wintery mix. 40 on sunday. 47 for Martin Luther king day. Looking to inaugurations day next friday. Temperatures will climb and remain in 50s. There is still a chance of a shower on thursday and friday way down the road from here but at least the temperatures look favorable. There have been inaugurations in the past like 1985 president reagans second inauguration canceled because of the extreme wind and wind chill. It was so bad. This looks mild. Larry i was here in 2009. We stayed in our hotel room and watched it on tv. It was so cold. Michelle search of forever feds in search of a home find one together. We gave it jerky, granola bar. Larry the lengths they went kimberly im 7 on your side consumer reporter kimberly suiters. Burning an artificial Christmas Tree is kind of a bust. But coming up next, burning live Christmas Trees that have been up for over two weeks. You have to wait for that. Michelle but first, look at what is coming up tonight. 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. Larry we are live in arlington with a look at live Christmas Trees. Kimberly suiters . Kimberly that is the amazing thing. The tree did not burn, nor the other one, whether it had fire retar doesnt on it or not. This is after four minutes of having a flare directly on the tree. So an artificial tree is a safe deal if you have a house fire. This may be a different story. Go ahead and light them up. We have the Arlington CountyFire Department helping us demonstrate the difference between the tree on the left was handtreated with the fire retardant by us, two products we bought. The tree on the right not treated at all. Both of them equally watered. Both of them in a stand for about tw so, if we can pan down a little bit jim to see the flares down at the bottom. As you can see, the one on the left that i sprayed with fire retardant, it didnt have much of an impact, did it . On the lefthand side i put one product in the left tree. Wow these went up fast. We are timing it. How quickly did they get fully engulfed . Less than a minute. Kimberly less than a minute. Both trees fully engulfed. It looks to us like the fire retardant product that we put on the left tree had almost no impact. Although, both of them seem to be doing all right on the bottom right. Maybe its just the wind blowing through there. That and the way the fire burns up. Age that in imagine that in a room. Enough inspiration to take down the Christmas Tree. If you are like me and want to keep it up for the ten days of christmas, that ended friday. Arlington county is picking up trees for the end of the week. Christmas tree fires are four time mrs. Deadly than the typical house fire. 40 of them happen in january. How much time before theyre completely burned . One minute and 42 seconds for the two trees to burn just about to the ground. The ones we sprayed had zero impact. Reporting live. Back to you. Larry great demonstration. That was fast. If you still have your tree up find out where and how to recycle yours. Go to wjla. Com. Michelle coming up at abc7 news at 5 00 down twinkies. Larry oh, cmon. Why some people who paid for inauguration parking may not be getting what they paid for. An investigation found security lapses in the same building where a man shot and killed 12 people eo of exxonmobile. 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. Michelle now breaking news in dylann roof case. A jury sentenced to 22yearold to death for killing nine church goers in a bible study in charleston, south carolina. It comes after roof told the jury in the closing statements that he still felt like he had to do it. Had to kill those people. Roof still faces a state trial in which he may face the Death Penalty again. Larry this just in. The Aerospace Defense command is planning exercises over the area so do