people arrested by the fbi on corruption and drug trafficking charges. the officers worked for the prince george's county police department. the officers are identified as 45-year-old sergeant richard delabrer, 42-year-old corporal chong chin kim, and 25-year-old officer sinisa simic. chris ward joins us live with the latest on this breaking story. chris? >> reporter: three prince george's cnty police officers and six civilians from maryland and virginia were arrested this morning. this afternoon they were brought here to th federal courthouse in green belt, maryland and tonight, they are being held in custody. it all began early at six a.m. with raid conducted by approximately 150 law enforcement officers. they made arrests and executed search warrants. this warn at the hope of prince george's county sergeant richard delabrer. he is charged along with corporal chong kim with taking moy from the owners of the liqu store to transport untaxed tobacco and alcohol. in all, seven people are charged with conspiring to commit extortion by interfering with commerce. a second indictment charges two men including police officer sinisa simic with distribution of cocaine and the use of a gun in drug traffickin this afternoon i asked the maryland u.s. attorney if these cases are connected in any way with friday's arrest of prince george's county executive jack johnson and his wife leslie. >> we have ongoi a series of related corruption charges in prince george's county. we're not going to talk about what if any connections there might be among these connections. as i mentioned, we have a lot of folks talk to now that these investigations have been made public. and we have a fair amount of information and evidence that we've gathered and the folks that we plan to talk to. they don't know what we know and they would like to keep it that way. the u.s. attorney's office says this is an ongoing investigation. he expects more charges and more arrested. we're live at the u.s courthouse in green belt, maryland. back to you. >> thank you, chris. we are specking the police chief to hd a news conference to talk about the arrests of the officers today. we'll take that live as soon as it happens. now to the other scandal in prince george's county. he's wearing an electronic monitoring devi on his ankle and he is back at work. prince george's county executive jack johnson was back in the office after his friday arrest today after sying inside his house all weend, he left early this morning to return to work. his wife avoided questions, but before getting into his car, johnson took aoment to talk with reporters. >> i can't comment on the case, you know tha i just want to say that i'm doing really, really well. my family, we are all up lifted. we've got a long road to hoe. >> johnson and his wife leslie who was recently elected to the council county council are both facing federal kickbk charges. they're accused of taking bribe for favorable treatment. he said he will finish his final three week in office until the new county executive-elect takes the helm. and baker plans a press conference tonight at 9:00 he's been silent since friday's after johnson. we'll have the news conference live as it happens right here at 5:00. it's been another pivotal day in the chandra levy mrder trial in d.c. superior court. two of the four remaining charges have been dropped against the defendant. ingmar guandique. the prosecutors y they dropped the kidnapping and attempted robbery charges. he is still facing first-degree murder charges. guandique is accus of attack levy as she jogged in rock creek park in 2001. today he told the judge he does not want to take stand in his own defense. that means the trial is down to its final witnesses. closing arguments could begin in this case as early as tomorrow. today, jurors also heard the 911 call that was made when levy's body was found. pat collins will have more on that story coming up at 5:00. a whole lot of activity on capitol hill. congress returned for a la duck sxegs the incoming freshmen from the next term were also on the hill for ientation. there were some surprises and an rly victory for tea party activists. steve handelsman has the latest. >> reporter: here come the tea partiers. rand paul of kentucky, marco rubio of florida, and the 11 other new republican senators who take office in januar were on capitol hull toay. >> this is going to be a huge improvement. >> reporter: in a starting move, senate p leader mcconnell caved into a tea party demand. he'll ban republican ear mark to pet projects that can drive up the deficit, a move he opposed until today. >> earlier this month, voters across the country that -- >> the commander of the public affairs of the police department -- >> talking about the arrests of three officers today. >> robbo hilton. accompanying him are our deputy chiefscolonel davis and mcgall and acting colonel preston. chief hilton will speak with the indictments of our three police officers. chief hilton? >> thank you. good afternoon, everybody. i'm outraged at the disgraceful conduct demonstrated by three of our office here's tarnished our badge for their own greed and personal gain. i applaud the u.s. attorney's office, mr.rosenstein, special agent in charge fr the federal bureau of investigation, and miss sparkman from the internal revenue rvice, and all of our federal partnersor their efforts to clean our department from outside as i continue to clean it from inside. since the beginning of my administration, i've terminated officers and employees for misconduct we will continue to work with our federal law enforcement partners to address the problem of miscondu. in fact, an internal affairs starting from our agency is part of the fbi anti-corruption task force that investigated these officers. i was made aware early on of this investigation and i told the members of the fbi that i did not wish to know the names of the targets until the conclusion of the investigatio when we were notified by the fbi of the indictments of our officers, we facilitated their physical arrests this morning. each arrest was made without incident and all the officers involved will be suspended without pay. we also placed uniform officers at all locations where search warrants were being conducted by the county of the federal bure over investigation. we will continue to freeway fbi with any assistance required in the continuance to the point where it will be concluded. the majority of the officers are members and employees of this agency areard working peep. who put their lives on the line every single day to the service ofhis community. we hole our oicers to the highest standards and expectations. and let me say one more thing. to those who are organized and providing information to mislead this communicate, mislead this police department, we're going to serve notice that this is not acceptable to mislead to media regarding any incidents or the performance of this agency. we will not tolerate any mistrust or deterrence of this badge asong as i'm chief of police of this police department. thank you. >> [ inaudible ]. >> police chief roberto hilton in prince george's county responding today to the indictments and arrests by federal authorities of three police officers charged in the scheme involving drugs, guns, alcohol, and cigarettes. he is saying he is outraged at their disgraceful conduct. >> we'll have team coverage comingp at 4:30 and 5:00. we have another news conference coming up from the governor-elect. he said he was outraged but pledged cooperation. let's listen in as the police chief takes more questions. >> i wanted this to be abe board which i've done. well, this isolely a federal investigation. it will be inappropriate for me to comment involving the direction of the case. my hope is that the case will be continued to be investigated until the conclusion is made. that question was asked of the federal investigators and i think it is only appropriate for that groupo make any comments regarding that. the police chief taking questions there in prince george'sounty. he issued a warning to those who might mislead as this investigation unfolds. we'll have much more at 5:00 tonight. if you are plaing to go to the game, should you layer up tonight? >> that's the question. we've had fog, some clouds rolling in. veronica johnson has your monday night football forecast. veronica? >> that's right. you will at least need a jacket for tonight. the temperatures won't dp dramatically. we'll see them ease on down. and your forecast then, 8:30 kickoff time ase tea the eagles. 53 degrees. calling it cool jacket weather. overcast skies and that rain should hold off until we get to about 11:00 p.m. or midnight. you're right. it has been cloudy most of the day toy. and temperatures have been right near average for mid-november. 57 it is right in the district right now. we've got otr locations like foggy bottom also at 57 degrees. great falls and fairfax city at 56. you've dropped one degree. and 55 in warrenton. largo at 56 degrees right now. a north easterly wind. lots. clouds across the area and that lane not be too far away. areas of extreme south western virginia will drop to 51 degrees by 11:00 p.m. so on your fast forecast, a dry cloudy evening. rain and fog, too, developing during the overnight period. then once we get rid of the rain or start, to the wind will pick up. we'll look at the week's forecast in a few minutes. when we come right back, the social in box. facebook founder mark zuckerberg announces a major addition to the site. > wedding was call off at the last minute so the bride's father decided not to let all the planning go to waste. find out what he did, coming up next. when i see people trying to sell and old camry, it makes me want to show 'em a neford fusion. i can't help myself. i'm kinda ready to move up to get to the next level. fusion... yeah, i like it. ...i should probably brag 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sunday. he isn the replacement for mel gibson. he also isn't the only cameo. it look like liam neeson has also signed on. it is being referred to as the g-mail killer in some circle. facebook's founder says it is thnew platform and it will be much more than that. >> our reporter has the late on the major messaging announcement from facebook today. >> reporter: they've already got half a billion users in the fold and now facebook is trying to give those users more reason to stay the. today the company introduced a new messaging platform called project titan that introduces facebook-mail as one part of a larger messaging mix. >> what we expect is that more people will i.m. and more people will message and more people will engage in it because it is simpler and easier. >> reporter: there has been speck playing the new platform with you was a potential g-mail killer. zuckerberg down played that overall. >> we this simpler ki of messaging will be how a lot more people will shift their communication. we'll see how that happens overtime. if we build a good product that people want to use, people will use it. >> privacy issues that have dogged facebook could give users pause about sharing even more personal informing. for others, the ability to pool internet commucation from various sources into one home on facebook could have strong appeal. the average person using facebook is now going to notice that they can just say, e-mail me at user name at facebook.com and then they basically never have to leave facebk ever. >> reporter: and more time spent on facebook means less time spent with its internet competitors. nbc news. a technology mystery tomorrow morning. apple's website has a he's the order its home teenage talking about an announcement at 10:00 a.m. regarding i-tunes. tomorrow is just another day that you'll never forget is how the page ads. techies beeve the announcement may involve an i-tune service that would allow users to stream music from any connected device. there are reports that apple has run into a little trouble with content providers for that service. the sex auction of bernie madoff stuff brought in $2 million. a 10.5 karat ring sole over the weekend for more than half a million bucks. will sold thou, madoff's monogram slippers. and check this out. 11 pairs of madoff's boxers and 200 pairs of his sks. they went for $1700. >> who wants aybody else's socks? >> not to mention his. the family of colorado spring was all set for a huge wedding over the weekend. >> with the only thing that remain was for max shaffer to walk his younger daughter down the aisle. sadly it didn't work out. the marriage was called off at the last minute. the bride was ft with a broken heart the day before the wedding. she turned her thoughts to others. she said she wanted to take care of people who have fewer blessingthan she. less than 24 hours later, the shaffer family hosted dinner for 150 people who were bud in from salvation army shelters. >> a warm meal on a really cold night. and hopefully it makes for a nice november and a kickoff for the holiday season. matt schaefer said his daughter has always been a giving person. and so her decision did not surprise him. but he is naturally very proud of her. >> none of the food or decorations or arranments went to waste. >> exactly. coming up, the world's tallest building. now up for sale. >> and a 13-year-old girl kidnapped a week ago is found alive now. the search is on for her family which is also missing. >> we could have asked sebody. that's just not us, to ask somebody to do such a big favor. ♪ [ female announcer ] keurig has over 200 varieties of gourmetoffee and tea to choose from. ♪ keurig is the way to brew fresh, delicious coffee in under a minute. way to brew. 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