There are always bad seeds. That is what the country is about. Im an immigrant, youre an immigrant. bama brad a few minutes ago i. C. E. Released information that Border Patrol agent encountered mr. Sanchez last august in the Rio Grande Valley in texas and at that time he was issued a document saying he needed to appear before an immigration judge. What we are told is the hearing has not been scheduled. When we come back at 6 00, ewill have strong voices saying immigration status has nothing to do with this crime. Very strong opinions. Different angles on the case. Jonathan im Jonathan Elias. We are covering breaking news the gunstores. Police tell us they have arrested three men that they say helped steal guns from stores in fredericksburg and chantilly. Two of them are 23. The other is 19. We did reach out to the Montgomery County police to ask if they think these guys had any role in a fourth burglary in rockville. Over 30 seconds stolen in 80 seconds in the burglary. The other in fredericksburg they tried to break in to s. S. G. Tactical. They did not break through the fence so they didnt get weapons from that one. But there have been four burglaries and they are trying to figure out if all of them are connected. I will head to the newsroom. I will bring you new information when we get it on this case. Larry . Leaks of classified information are serious, serious federal crimes for a reason. Larry james comey tackling leaks and hacking in the hot seat on capitol hill. Scott thuman joins us live from the Capitol Hill Bureau with more. Scott . Scott the big headlines today. You heard the director of the f. B. I. James comey seemingly shooting down the claims by President Trump, that trump tower was wiretapped in the campaign by president obama. The other big one is he confirmed there is an Investigation Underway whether anyone from trump Team Coordinated with russia in possibly tampering in the election. All of this is answering perhaps some of the question. A lot can argue swirling for months now. The f. B. I. Director said the efforts by the russian were based in part on Vladimir Putins hatred for hillary clinton. There his desire for donald trump to beat her. But here, the moment regarding the wiretapping claims. President s statement that obama had his wires tapped in trump tower a true statement . With respect to the president s tweets about the alleged wiretapping directed at him by the Prior Administration i have no information to support the tweets. We have looked carefully inside the f. B. I. The department of justice asked me to share with you that the answer is the same for the department of justice and all the components. The department has no information that supports the tweets. Scott so was it enough to satiate if hungry members of congress dieing to get some sort of answers and get to the bottom of the big lingering questions. We will hear from what they told us at 6 00. The other thing we bring you is the white house response. The white house says there is no need for the president to back down from his claims. We will explain why they say that in an hour. In the meantime, live on capitol hill tonight. Im scott thuman. Back to you. Larry thanks. President trump sending several tweets in claims democrats made up the story about russian hacking as an execution for running a, terrible campaign. Alison a big day on the hill. Across the capitol, the Senate Judiciary hearing held the first day of hearings for neil gorsuch. The Appeals Court judge promised to be an independent voice on the court in his opening statement. Sitting here, i am acutely aware of my own imperfections but i pledge to each of you and the American People if i am confirmedly do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the constitution and the laws of this great nation. If confirmed he would fill the seat left vacant by last years death of antonin scalia. Following the death, republican refusing to hold hearings on president obamas nominee merrick garland. Larry today, the government took a closer look at what the city. Sam ford is live at the Wilson Building with more. Sam . Sam d. C. Gets roughly 3 billion from the federal government. 2 billion from medicaid and the other billion from everything else. Now that the d. C. Mayors office has seen the initial trump budget, the reaction is they see bad news ahead for d. C. The day after the victory, they were . Stunned silence. Today, the top deputy flanked by the suggest aides used the word bleak describing the trump budget in d. C. That would eliminate the Community Development block grants. The 13 million that we currently receive in the Community Development block grant funds would go away. Sam they went through a list of the City Services supported by the federal government from cops to education. Based on the trump budget proposal, they saw 81 million in the cuts and the elimination of 120 so there are some things that we know we can tally a dollar amount. And a position for. There are other areas we dont have enough information. Down the hall, the counsel was holding a hearing on the bill for the city to help planned parenthood facing the cuts by requiring the insurers who do business in d. C. To have coverage for Birth Control for example. Within d. C. , insurers would have to cover a number of the preventful women services. Sam services coveraged by obamacare. They also talked about potential changes that dont directly affect d. C. If there is a Smaller Government will it mean more unemployment and empty office space . Alison you just mentioned obamacare. Tomorrow trump is planning to go to capitol hill to push for lawmakers to repeal the Affordable Care act. Congressional democrats are planning to hold a rally on the steps of the capitol wednesday to try to save it. House is set to vote thursday on what is known as obamacare. Former Vice President joe biden is scheduled to take part in the rally. Steve mostly cloudy skies out there. Showers to the west of us. May make the way to the area tonight. That is if they hold together across West Virginia. Lets talk about the temperatures this hour. If you have to go outside. Its the cool side. We can handle it. Temperatures in the 50 lz. We will see the temperatures later on in the 40s. Tracking showers, a cold front and a big cooldown for the day on looking ahead to the weekend. Larry thank you, steve. We have breaking news from overland park, kansas. Outside of kansas city. Look at the aerial live pictures. Massive fire at Apartment Building under construction. Three homes nearby are also on fire because of this. You can see as we give you a wider look at this. No word on a cause orfy kind of injuries. You can see from the pictures the firefighters have a lot to deal with. This is out in the kansas city area. Alison goodness. Terrible situation there. For months here at abc7, we took you along the heroin highway stretching through part of maryland, West Virginia and virginia. Now 11 people are under arrest after an investigation that stretched to prince georges, fairfax as well as the city of alexandria. Jeff goldberg what details. These are all ocations of heroin overdoses in 2016 that led to the start of what is dubbed operation purple rain. Surprised. Tragedy on every level. Societal level, personal level. Jeff following the string of the overdoses across the city last year, the Alexandria Police and the Virginia State police kicked off the string. Authorities seized ten guns, 400 grams of heroin, 330 grams of cocaine. 19 grams of p. C. P. Seven pounds of marijuana. 18,000 cash. This didnt come from a few drug deals on a street corner. The men and women were organized, part of a complex network. Exactly how it operated the authorities will not say but it is yet another example of the growing heroi Opioid Epidemic that killed 1,000 virginians in the first neighbor months of 2016. First nine months of 2016. We dont have a choice but to attack it with everything we have. This case is complicated enough to put a dent in the city for a short period of time. 11 suspects range in age from 31 to 63 years old. All of them are facing the possibility of decades in prison. In alexandria, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. You dont come to texas. You dont steal when the eyes of the world are upon the state. Coming up at 5 00, case closed. But with the lingering questions. Where the investigators found tom bradys missing super bowl jersey and who could have been involved. Larry airlines are taking precautions against the lithium battery explosions. Find out what e about to ban in the cabin. Im a guy that tried to raise a family and be as good of a father as i could. How the mindset is paying off for a man looking to pave the way for the future. Larry but first, celebrating the first day of spring with an update on the Cherry Blossoms and giveaways to mark the change in sea credit karma . Why are you checking your credit score . You dont want to drive old blue forever, do you . [brakes squeak] credit karma, huh . Give yourself some credit. Prodders, shuckersers, and sniffers, all giant produce is triple checked. Farm, crate, and store. Were focusing on fresh. So you dont have to guess. My giant. Larry first day of spring means Spring Cleaning for the water pipes. The aqueduct will switch to chlorine. This happens every year and it means that the water could smell or taste different in the changeover. Alison and also its return of the blossom bus to help people get around. It follows the national circulators National Mall route in red. Reminder that abc7 is a proud sponsors on the Cherry Blossom festival. Larry the calm around the swarm around the tidal b reports that the tourists and the locals change the first day of spring. Mike many washingtonians ready to wave goodbye to winter. Lining up for a free small cup in change of the season. Dairy queen stores offered free cones today and customers were happy to dig in, even though its fairly cold outside. Im getting acclimated, slowly. Mike on the National Mall, some are making a statement. Bundled up to the eyeballs. It doesnt feel like it right now. Mike but a few stripped down to the running shorts after a roller coaster winter. We have had worse. Mike there is a few more days until peak bloom. Hundreds of visitors are hoping to capture the perfect photo. We have lived here and we have never come down to see the Cherry Blossoms. Many others crowds to the Garden Center on capitol hill. Its the beginning and about to get insane. Green thumbs; take note. Temperatures are expected to plummet to the 20s on wednesday before skyrocketing to the 70s on saturday. Pansies, daffodils are used to the fluctuating temperatures. That is when they bloom. It also means spring break for the students across the region. Several families play tourists visiting the museum and the Cherry Blossoms. Before the real tourists come to town. At the tidal basin, mike carterconneen, abc7 news. Alison happy spring you are wearing the pastels. Larry we were texting this morning. Why not . Steve lets just do it. We couldnt get alison. Busy with the kids. Alison next time. Steve we will warm up for the day tomorrow. If you see the ten day, dont freak out when you see wednesday and thursday morning. That larry you warned us. Steve saturday looks good. The snow disappeared over the weekend. This is Belle Haven Country Club in alexandria. The potomac in the background, looking good out there. It will stay dry through the everything hours. If you have outdoor plans this evening, go for it. If your allergies are both iring you, no problems at all. At least not right now. The trees and the mold in the low category. Nonexistent for the grass and weeds. Its 50 in leesburg. 56 in warrenton. 57 in fredericksburg. If you are looking for cooler air head to frederick. Upper 40s at this time. The stormwatch7 satellite and the radar. Lacking for glimmer of the sun, you wont find it. Mostly cloudy skies out there. The clouds continue to chicken moving through the overnight hours. We may see a cluster or two. It will depend if this will make it across the mountains. If this holds together it wont be until after midnight tonight. Its out of here by the rush hour commute early tomorrow morning. Most of you wont see anything at all. Waking up tomorrow morning the sunglasses, you wont need it. Not early on. 42 in bethesda. 41 in fairfax. 42 in woodbridge. Moving through the midday hours well see our skies clear. This is a Computer Generated model. The skies clear and there is sunshine in time for the rush hour the temperatures are mild but then we will crash down. We have a drought in the area. Its severe for arlington and alexandria. Further north and west, not as big of a problem. The day problem tomorrow shows the highs to make it in the middle 60s. Good amount of sunshine later in the day. Colder air on wednesday. 45 degrees with highs in the wind chill factors in the 30s. Upper 40s and 50s on friday. Look at saturday. 70 to 75 degrees. Cool him down for sunday. Muchneeded rain across the atlantic. And the temperatures are above average moving to the middle of next week. Alison thank you. We have breaking news from europe. Go to Jonathan Elias at the live desk. Jonathan we are gettin authorities there found and neutralized eight package bombs. They were ready to go to put in mail and sent to finance officials and businesses in european countries. They found the bombs. Not hearing of arrests at this point. This may be an Anarchist Group they have familiarity with. In is a week after two letter bombs sent to the i. M. F. In those attacks one worker was injured after opening the letter. It was a fire cracker compared to the package bombs all set to go. Authorities found him and neutralized the bombs. They have more information to figure out what is going on with the situation in athens. At the live desk, john jonathn elias. Alison keep us posted. Still to come an auction house says it could fetch 60 still to come. Sunny skies alison but first, helping a new friend get to sesame street that is a first of her kind. Larry but a look at what is coming up tonight on abc7 including return of dancing with the stars. Alison now Jummy Olabanji has a look at what is coming up on good morning washington. Jummy thank you. Tomorrow on good morning washington, filing your taxes can be expensive and complicated. Now the new way you may get your tax done for free. From baby lotion to baby wipes. Super easy nontoxic Baby Products you can make in your kitchen. Stay wi her sesame street debut next month. They posted this yesterday. The clip from the first show has julia in a situation where she might not answer a new friend right away but someone who knows her explains the situation to the others. They welcome her with open arms. Her puppeteer has a son with autism so it means so much with her family. Larry probably sees it and gets emotional. So neat. Thank you. Alison love it. Show is on at my house daily. Looking forward to that. Thank you. Its determination. Practice but if i can do it anyone can. Still ahead, what the marine veteran is doing to offer the hope to thousands of others like him. Alison plus, you can buy your own version but find out why the man they think wanted bradys super bowl jersey as his own. Happening now. The plaza in front of the white house sealed off as the debate over a higher white house fence continues. Well explain in a live report coming up. In two weeks questions about the security near the white house. Richard reeve is live with new information after speaking with the secret service and the National Park service today. Rich . Richard the debate is becoming more immediate today. The entire plaza behind me sealed off. Pennsylvania avenue is shut down in front of the white house. Because of the highlevel guests there today. The discussion is going on now but now they are debating 13foot high fence. They are saying a man drove up to a checkpoint saturday night. He said he had a bomb in the trunk of his car. I was a test. Then confronted by the officers he said what was in a canvas bag, was an asteroid given to him from his father who got it from a worm hol communicating with the telepacifickicly with President Trump and the white house staffers. He is now in custody and undergoing psychiatric investigation. Its igniting a debate where a higher fence could work. Lets listen. What do row put . Barbed wire on it . This is our white house. There has to be other ways to stop people from jumping over. Id like to see it and view it. But it does present safety. Maybe trump needs more protection. I guess its possible but i think its fine. Most people say look we want the white house to be safe but we dont want it to be a fortress. We are hearing the higher fence is expected next year. From the white kind. 7 on your side making sense of air reign policy not making sense now. Royal Jordanian Airlines sent this tweet this afternoon saying tomorrow all Electronic Devices will be banned in cabins on flights to and from the united states. Including laptops, cameras, tablets, dvd and electronic games. You will be able to check them. Cell phone and medical devices are excluded. The tweet has been deleted but cnn says it will apply to a Dozen Airlines