Letter is it says that he is having Health Difficulties hes had for year, investigation was on the minds of many. Inside both chambers of house and senate, there was no public mention today of the scandal, an investigation that is so far caught in its web, two liquor store owners, can a county liquor board commissioner, the director of the liquor board and a former member of the house of delegates. In the lobby of the statehouse before the session began, we asked larry hogan about the investigation. I said were outraged and discussed by some of these allegations. Obviously, its a 30month investigation. We cooperated with but its been led by us attorney rod rosen stein he did he re did an excellent job. We will not tolerate corruption in the Prince Georges County or in the the governor said he did not know the names of the elected officials still under investigation. Derrick davis who has served Prince Georges County in the house since 1995 had this to say. Its heartbreaking when someone violates the trust. For the rest of us, we keep continuing to work hard to honor that oath, that we made and do good work,. Reporter William Campos used money as a slush fund and took kickbacks for spearing the funds to unknown location, county executive said his office has protocols in place for oversight of grant funds which is different than the county council. We have a committee and we make sure sure these are legitimate and were giving taxpayer dollars to and theyre doing things in the community to help us. I certainly think t beginning of the council looking at that process, i think they will. Reporter prosecutors revealed the fbi had the director of the liquor board under wire tap surveillance for two and a half years. I did reach out to the county council and the spokesperson for the council today to ask if theyre look at the way theyre handling these grants but i did not hear back. By the time we came on the air, a little bit more about Michael Vaughn now, when you read the affidavits in this case, there are a couple of different references that appear to point to mr. Vaughn as being involved. Again, we have not heard from him. He is not said anything about this investigation, he has not been named publicly other than today, he resigned. Live at the statehouse in annapolis Paul Wagner Fox 5 local news. Total fabrication, utter nonsense, a disgrace, the words president elect used to denounce those stories right now that unverified document placed online claims details about russias effort to influence the 2016 election and the Trump Campaign it also campaigns allegations against the president elect. That he described today as sick and phony. Fox 5 Tom Fitzgerald is live in northwest. He didnt waste time addressing this either. Reporter remember, sarah and jim, just 24 hours ago, we were waiting for what was going to be the first trump News Conference in nearly six months. The focus was going to be on how donald trump was going to extricate himself from businesses like the trump hotel in washington. But that focus quickly changed last night, folks, that is when an online news site published a 35 page unconfirmed unverified document chock full of all sorts of scandal accumulations. These aleg russian government was trying to blackmail the president elect. Its phony stuff. The it didnt happen and it was gotten by opponents of ours, as you know because you reported it and so did men other people. It was a group of opponents got together, sick people, and they put that crap together. Reporter now, trump first comments on this came earlier this morning, when he went on twitter and said that these were people that were out to get him and were trying to sully his president ial election. I told many people be you dont want to see yourself on television, not just russia all over. Does anyone believe that story, im also very much of a germ fobe, by the way. Reporter took aim at the media, buzz feed. Com which published this unverified document and cnn. Calling buzz feed. Com a piece of garbage. As for cnn when one of these reporters tried to ask a question in the News Conference, the president elect refused to take his question. Since youre talking our news organization, can you give us a chance your organization youre attacking our news organization. Reporter can you give us a chance to ask a question, sir . Quiet. Reporter can you say categorically, dont be rude. Reporter fireworks up at the press conference today. Now, about the trump hotel and how donald trump is going to run his business from here on in, this is what he said. He is turning the company over to his two he wouldest sons, and eric. His daughter will be leaving the business altogether. Another executive in the Trump Organization is said to make sure now that president elect will have no further ethical violations in connection to being president and his business. Trump says he will have all of this in place by Inauguration Day and as we know, that is a week from friday. Live at the Trump International hotel in dc, Tom Fitzgerald fox 5 local news. Unusual protest on capitol hill today, demonstrators takes to try to streets in dinosaur costumes. Well show it to you. President elect donald trump rex tiller son, you got to admit, its funny to watch the visual but the message, a lot of people may not agree with it. The t rex costumes were a play on words in reference to his name, till to her son on the hill for his confirmation, the former eson faced scrutiny because of his business ties to russian president Vladimir Putin how are you goig recalibrate your priorities as secretary of state . Youre shareholders are the americans people first i have never lobby against sanctionses. To my knowledge, exxon never lobby against sanctions he also so you wanteded off in trade in china and isis, and who major issues if he is confirmed as secretary of state. Have you ever needed to use the bathroom and there simply was nowhere to go, that happens to a lot of people. Youre not alone and it is especially difficult for people who are homeless, one Dc Council Member has an idea to try to change. Matt ackland has more on this story. Matt . Reporter it has happened to us all, youre walking down the street. You got to go, so you got to a local business and you see this, oh, rest room. It happens but one Council Member brianna dough thinks this need to change, she thinks we either pay businesses to allow folks use public rest rooms or out here on the sidewalks well build small rest rooms. I want you to take a look at this. She referred us to this website. It is called portland lu. These are small rest rooms that can be built all over in the core of the city to give people, well, a place to go. She said she heard about this idea from a homeless Advocacy Group that said these are really needed especially for the homeless folks who live in the city. I spoke to one homeless resident today in china town, take a listen. Very essential to use the bathroom. Youre go into places, you have in order to get the code to go to the bathroom its getting bad to the bus drivers, have to back up and they have families as well as everybody else. Were not just speaking of homeless were talking about people that work every day that cant even afford to use the bathroom. Reporter this wont be a regulation on businesses. They wont be forced to open up their public rest rooms. Instead, the Council Member has an idea that will basically pay businesses like this one to let people come in and use the bathroom. Take a listen. This bill actually asked the task force to come up with an Incentive Program similar to what london has where the businesses receive a certain sensitive for opening their doors to the public and they would put a sign up that says, you know, you can go here or something clever like that. Reporter i should point out that the owner of this restaurant says the reason why he does restrict the use of the because theres an issue with Homeless People coming in sometimes and people just off the street. How much will this program cost . Its still not known at this point. Also, theres still a lot of talk of where these could be placed. Brianna dough said she believes probably the core of the city will be the best place where you have the most foot traffic but remember, this isnt the only the beginning stages, theres going to be a lot of talk about this as this legislation moves through the council. Live in adams morgan, matt ackland, fox 5 local news like the other woman said, it is for the homeless yes, but also just people that are out Walking Around that dont want to have to buy a snickers bar we see a lot of restaurants and bars pretty strict on that. Thanks. Straight ahead at 5 00, barack obama returned to his home town to cap off his presidency with a farewell address come chicago said he never did enough plaguing their city changes to the police force, the new way the patrol officers will b having a Faster Response time. Alex . Dc homeowners who lost everything because of tax lien sales get a payout in court. Ill explain can coming up. Up. Im sue palka, the weather center, a little bit of rain shower activity showing up, if youre heading out grab the umbrella, but you certainly wont need the heavy coat because its gotten nice and mild. Were still 56, 57 was the high well let you know whats made. It will not involve a heavy jacket when fox 5 local news at 5 00 comes right back. Theres never been a better time to come to Bass Pro Shops than right now. Bass pro shops is the place for big savings. Like savings of 25 on select under armour fleece and columbia outerwear. And save 30 on this mr. Heater big buddy heater. As ceo 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. Officials are announcing changes to the way the citys parole officers will be deployed. Each parole district will be divided into three different sectors. Captains will then report directly their district commanders. Both mayor Muriel Bowser and interim police chief Peter Newsham this will allow for Faster Response time and improve service we have an experienced but aging command staff and we need to identify the future leaders this police department, this model provides us with an opportunity to better mentor and assess officer performance and helps us to identify the future leaders of reporter mayor Muriel Bowser also discussed crime for 2016, while Violent Crimes was down there were 135 homicides last year making it the second highest of the last decade. The dc government will pay out to homeowners who lost their home because of tax lien sales and foreclosures many were elderly and sick and had owed only a few hundred dollars in taxes, alexandria limon with more. Reporter homeowners like Benny Coleman is a veteran who owned this northeast dc home about 20 years. But one day, he came home, and got evicted by federal marshals. After that, sadly he, lived on his front porch for months and it was all because he owed less than 200 in taxes its basically the constitutional principle is outrageous. In and do something legitimate, collect a tax and collect some things about above there and take everything. Bill 56 son calls the settlement a happy ending for homeowners who lost their houses through the dc tax lien Sales Program but the journey to get here was anything but what the law was imposing on them was when you fail to pay your tax, as part of the tack collection system, they were collecting the tax, they were collecting fees, they were collecting interest, but they were also taking and keeping all the home equity a 2013 Washington Post investigation found about 500 homes were lost through these tax lien sales and foreclosures since 2005 and about a third of the people who lost the homes owed less than 1,000. The Legal Council for the elderly also said many were older and sick. Helping them avoid tax sale foreclosure, we came to see that the system was unfair, so we started talking about trying to fix the system. Reporter in 2014, the dc law was changed to now limits when liens can be sold to investors and more gives equity back to homeowners after taxes and fees are paid. The mayor still has to sign off on this settlement. There are 21 people who took part in this suit and they could also get up to 65 of the value of their homes reimbursed through the settlement. Reporting live in northeast dc, Alexandra Limon fox 5 local news. I got to tell you, today this made my day. Temperaturewise i dont have a long walk to work but i walked today. The last couple days i was driving. It was so darn cold. 11 30 lets see if sue palka, if you can keep this weather around because this is not too bad. How about if we improve on it tomorrow . Even better. We got up believe, today. I want to doublecheck, 57 unbelievable change from yesterday. We can do maybe ten degrees warmer tomorrow. Whoa feel a lot more like mid october as we head for the mid 60s. Tonight were dealing with a little bit of rain, you can see it behind me, not a lot. The good news is this will not require any kind of freezing rain advisory like we had last night when as little bit of light rain coming through we had a few places below 32 degrees, nobody is below 32 now and ill put this in motion and you can see the heaviest rain definitely tracking a little bit farther west where you see those yellows and darker greens, but were going to keep these showers around for the next few hours, tight end look like they will last much beyond midnight. Its kind of a quick hit and you can see them moving on. A light drink washes away some of that salt all over the place, and here are the high temperatures today, 57 for reagan and dulles well above average, which is 43. Bwi 56, a re and kind of nice to get you running wind wasnt out of control. Temperatures right now, have dropped a little bit as theyre like to do when it rains, 50 is where we are rig now, of course, the sun is down. Winchester 46, culpeper 48 and cumberland at 43. In a few of these spots there was a tiny bit of light icing last night. Even a twohour delay for Frederick County public schools, that will not be the case tonight. Were quite a bit warmer than 24 hours ago, from some seven to 16, even 18 degrees warmer than yesterday at this time and your evening planner, mostly temperatures in the 40s, and upper 40s at that. We will have those showers light showers off and on between now and 11 00 and just, a little winter coming for your thursday, well look at the sevenday forecast as well as the weekend, a threeday weekend many of you. Well talk about that a little bit later. Jim and sarah . 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Two Armed Robbers, not sure exactly at this point what was stolen but were told that it happened right here in this area, as Police Continue to investigate, i can tell you that we also know friday evening, around 8 00 situation, just up the steps here on m street, were told that there was a similar thing there was somebody targeted by Armed Robbers in that case, three men who got away. People stem the street was blocked off. There were helicopters searching. We were talking with people walking through the area they say this is alarming not something they typically hear about right here. This is definitely some new for georgetown. I never heard about that coming down here. Like i said, during the summers, especially were up here all the time. Nice lip cliff up here you can see the water, i never heard too much about Armed Robbers or any type of violence, this the first time seeing police when i came down here and saw the police, i was like, this is something new over here. Reporter u. S. Park police are handling this investigation, same with the one on friday. They tell me theyre into whether theyre connected. Again, still just a few officers out here at the scene, investigating right now. Al, about two miles down canal road in this direction, one week ago, last wednesday, you may recall a story where there were several weapons found, weapons in a violin case and others in bag around fletchers about the house, Police Investigating that. They tell me at this point they dont believe theres any connection but it certainly has people here in the area talking with news just some unsettling news for neighbors living here at this time. Thats the latest in georgetown, back to you in the studio. If you seen the movie 12 years a slave. Usual familiar with the story. A free blackmon was abduct