Who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the senate with the full support of his party. Note, franken to said he will resign in the coming weeks. It makes you think what else he may say pending the outcome of next weeks senate race. Mark david will pick frankens successor. Barbara comstock calling for protection of accusers. I believe this is a watershed moment and we need to take this opportunity to fundamentally asnge how we address this congress and beyond. Rolemstock will play a big in Sexual Harassment training on the hill which has passed and is fighting for an end to nondisclosure agreements when it comes to settling harassment cases. Can you believe this video . Wildfires roaring. Absolutely outofcontrol in southern california. It is literally exploding. The level of concern is at an all time high this afternoon. Arehree of the fires between 10 and 20 containment. North of your the biggest fire burning is still glowing. Coastm the smoke lined inland the firefight intensifying again today. The thomas fire in Ventura County burns out of control. 96,000 acres burned, one of four wildfires still raging. [crying] the fires inflamed by intense santa ana wind, gusting at hurricane force, and unpredictable threat. A winddriven event, wind is king. Tirelessly maintaining some ground along los angeles that burned up along the busiest freeways in the country. This is frightening. There are a lot of homes here. Officials repeating the warning that the risk is far from over. We still ask that folks stay away from their homes. We are not completely out of the woods yet. At this nursing home and in neighborhoods, thousands of new mandatory evacuations took place. That k the things pictures and things like that that are dear to me. Residents the returning finding other described edit destruction and small signs of finding better destruction and small signs of ring out of the rubble and dropping to his knee and proposing again. A new wildfire in san diego forcing more evacuations. For firefighters there is little relief in sight. The strong wind expected to continue into the weekend. Videowant to show you going viral. What is happening here is this rabbit running on the road that darts toward the flames. Watch what happens next. Ther eyou see that. You can hear the car zipping by, but he sticks his hand next to the fire and grabs the rabbit. An unbelievable display of humanity. Historic. The claims reach 1 billion it will be the 16th such weather event of the year and that will tie a record set in 2011 since the National Atmospheric oceanic surge began in 1980. Droughts, floods, winter storms and freezes. This could be the third billiondollar event in california alone. We will have updates through 7 00 tonight. World news tonight with david muir will go live from southern california. You can stream live websites on the wjla abc 7 news app. Two students are shot to death in northern new mexico. The shooter also killed. Nobody else was hurt. Police have not released the names of the victims or the shooter. The school is in the town of aztec which is three hours north of albuquerque. Vdot isea chance. It has been pretreating roads with brine today. Timing is everything. Josh knight has the forecast. Looking are realistically at the chance for our first flakes of the season. Lets start with futurecast. Going on for us and most of our friday will be quiet. Everything is staying farther to the southeast. It is friday night and going throughout the first part of saturday that some of these weather models want to wiggle this system. The problem is that we will have a lot of dry air around the area. You want to see the snowflakes, the dry air will eat away at what this model is trying to do. There is a lot of disparity one model run to the other. We want to make sure everybody else is ready with the chance that we could see that first taste of wintry weather. That is still on track to be a better chance. Temperatures in the mid 40s and we will be dropping pretty quickly. To passouse is expected a twoweek spending bill to prevent a Government Shutdown keeping the government functioning all the way up to the weekend. Tomorrow is the last day the rnment is funded and if pamela butlers killer pleaded guilty, years after her disappearance but the family is seeking closure because her body was never found. Look for prepare to her daughters body along i95 we would like to get closure. As another christmas approaches and doma butlers living room they are hopeful that search that the search will turn up remains of her loved one who disappeared nine years ago. Said that the terrain has changed. That is jose rodriguezcrews who pleaded guilty to months ago. He was pamela butlers boyfriend and said after an argument that he strangled her in their home buried hert d. C. And body, for years claiming he knew nothing. I didnt do anything to her. New evidence showed his former wife disappeared the same way years earlier. He said in exchange for a 12 year sentence he would lead authorities to butlers body. He wanted to find her and get this over we have been doing this for almost nine years. It is taxing. So what if the search turns up nothing and authorities believe that rodriguez crews truly tried to help find the remains . He promised us a body. If we didnt get what we are promised, i would try to get him some time for that. The exwife who lived in virginia authorities are looking at rodriguez crews as well. Rodriguezcruz as well. There are calls for changes on interstate 66. From a few dollars all the way up to 40. That is only for solo drivers. Carpooling is free outside hov hours. Sam sweeney has calls for change less than a week in. Some strong words this afternoon from t n the democratic delegation calling for an immediate suspension of this program. 2013, they were promised tolls the most at 17. They have now gone up to 40. It lasted for six minutes. Vdot put a a response in only 39 cars paid that toll, but thousands averaged tolls below that. The delegation says we wanted to go back to normal, back to hybrid vehicles allowed to use it, they want more slug lines, more parkandrides and they want each of those hours to go back to what they were. They said it is not fair for people have to have to change their lives because their constituents cannot do that. They said if the program is suspended will the people who paid the money get it back question requests i dont want to make any commitments, i dont know how much has been collected if it is in escrow or what will happen but we need to take it pays by piece. First we need to suspend the tolls. Vdot did put out a statement calling this political rhetoric saying the program is working exactly as they intended and as of yet there is no response from the secretary of transportation. Next, your Birth Control possibly linked to a Breast Cancer risk. Dont get mad, get even. That is what one mother did to a porch pirate who stole a present for her infant. It was a little bit of a relief. It was fun to see that it was gone. She left some think that porch pirate. We will show you what. A Mgm National Harbor opened year we have done the research. Still ahead, we should either breaking news this time yesterday. Now we know just how much damage there is. It will be a long time before th finds women who take Birth Control could be increasing their risk of Breast Cancer. The risk increases by almost 40 . The longer that you take contraceptives is a big factor. There is no change as to whether the contraceptive is a newer or older generation of drugs. Maryland took a gamble on bringing mgm to prince georges county, but that was when the casino first opened. Is the gamble paying off . Brad bell is at the National Harbor were a lot has changed over the past 12 months. Brad this has really become a fixture here. So many promises were made about this place. Is it a success . The truth is in the numbers. They are telling us they have had 6 million visitors since they opened. The national air and space museum on the mall gets 7. 5 million per year. One year ago tomorrow, Mgm National Harbor opened its doors to much fanfare and a bolt bold promise. To forever change the business and tourism landscape. In what year it has become the highest grossing casino and maryland. Gaming revenue approaching 600 million. It is become prince georges taxpayer. P says george himmler, and he is counting. Oppositionfears and to the casino. Crime was a concern. Neither has proven to be a serious problem. Been little violence and not much theft. Neighbors who were worried now say it is not bad. I havent seen anything bad marilyn says the casino was sold to voters as a cureall. She says it is not. We have one day per week trash pickup. We have leaves everywhere. The roads are horrible. We are not getting any help from that. Its just down there. She is clearly not a gambler. We are going through all of these numbers. At 6 00, we back will talk a little bit more about how much mgm has paid into both state and local governments. Pretty big number. Seen porch pirate videos. One angry mother in oregon didnt get angry, she got even, by leaving a smelly surprise. How many dirty diapers are in their . Diapers. [laughter] how dirty . He has been sick the last week. Oh too much information. [laughter] thats still package was for her fourmonthold son. She taped up that box filled with dirty diapers along with a note and the next day it was gone. A little bit of a relief. It was fun to come home and see that it was gone. We had quite a good laugh thinking of someone opening the box of dirty diapers thinking they would get something good and its not. He wonder if that will deter them next time. [laughter] this time of year it is best to make sure your packages are sent to work or another safe location so they are not stolen. In at brownips are university beginning nextea replaced undergraduate Student Loans with scholarships and Financial Aid packages. Brown says it raised the 30 million to make the change but needs another 90 million to make this permanent. The fight over president trumps decision to drastically shrink two National Monument is starting to heat up. They are fired filed the fourth lawsuit challenging the move. The interior secretary ryan. Inke he called the companys claim and nefarious lie. Called the companys claim a nefarious lie. Josh we have a chance for snowflakes to move in. Wary of what you see. Clear skies across a lot of the area. There. We are looking at this breeze out of the southwest at eight miles per hour. Dry air that will help us to cool off. The combination of clear skies and dry air allow things to cool quickly. There are a few flurries toward elkin and western maryland and pennsylvania. Dont think we will get anything to hit the ground. What you will find is a few more clouds will move in later on. 6 00, working down to the low 40s by 9 00. Coming up shortly, we will check in with bill kelly who will be out doing weather on the go. Look at a chance to see how things are looking this year. 26 to 34 overnight tonight. It will be called. Most of us tomorrow waking up near the freezing mark. It feels like 32 at 9 00 and by lunchtime it feels like we are in the 30s and it will stay that way through friday evening. We are not drastically below average but it is a bit cooler. Han would be normal what a stunning to happen as more and more of these versions are starting to indicated different similar sort of thing. Saturday, watch this shift. Is he the blue color that looks like we will get a bunch of snow come a but this is really going to run into some dry air. It will eat away at those snowflakes. That stops us from getting too much. A lot of areas around the metro may get a few flakes and that is about it. There is a slim chance that this over performs a little bit. What i would expect his get your first flakes of the season and then look forward to the next chance. Throughout the weekend, flurries on saturday, well above freezing. 37 on sunday and another windy and cold day, even colder for tomorrow. That is a strong cold front bringing us a high of 35 next wednesday. Can relet another mix for the middle part of next week. You cant avoid the car commercials this time of year. These devices found in d. C. And one we have never seen before. At 4 30 we will show you why this one is different and tis the season for car shopping. If you are in the market you will want to hear this. The safest vehicle list for 2017 has been released. Lisa, the stakes were higher than ever. Iihf included iihs included tougher criteria like a passengerside crash test. Honor5 got the highest which includes acceptable passengerside protection and headlights. What they have been a good job of improving overall safety sufficient headlight illumination has been lacking. And subaru had the largest hour of vehicles in the top picks list. That across manufacturers, the vast majority of winners qualify only one actually equipped. Automatic emergency braking systems and good headlights are not part of base packages. We have the complete list of picks on our website or download the abc 7 app. 4 30, there next at is a chance we could see some wintry weather friday new guidance ahead. A major detour for drivers that could potentially last into the new year. How long a bridge is expected to be closed, coming up. When we return, caught on v ideo. Brandnew Christmas Lights set a home on fire. The important alert youre watching abc seven news at 4 00 on your side. Yesterday a truck at the side of this bridge in frederick. Jonathan you knew it would be bad. It is going to be offlimits for weeks. Brianne carter has the timeline. We knew that it would be bad, but we did not expect this. Brianne we are hearing potentially into the new year where all of this could still be in place. Detours. Losures and it is just beyond this sign with a decadesold bridge was struck and now the popular commuter route will be closed for up to two months. Because it is because of the age of the bridge. Installedto be made, and inspected before the bridge can safely reopened to traffic. Traffic is being detoured to 27 0. Some drivers tell us that could add 20 minutes to their trip each way. I dont even know how to go this way. Im going back to urbana to get on the highway. I didnt even know it would be closed. That is a Big Inconvenience for a lot of people. A lot of people that live in the green valley and new market use this way as the back way. We have had a number of people who live in this area and frequently use this route. It does lead back to 270 to get folks around the closure. Meanwhile, we have other folks who say that this will be a larger concern as we head into the Holiday Season. With josh knight. You can feel the chill when you step outside. Josh it is not even that breezy today but that little bit goes a long way. It feels about 43 as you get into the shenandoah valley. Let me show you what happens here the rest of the night. We will watch those temperatures drop pretty quickly thanks to the clear skies that will be around the next few hours and we have a cold air mass that has stuck with us. Even the 20s in a few areas. 42 for tomorrow, back to 43 on saturday. An Even Stronger cold front for sunday and temperature stuck in the 30s. Next week we briefly bounce but not much, just in the mid30s before an Even Stronger cold front comes through. Model. The is probably one of least exciting for the snow lovers but i wanted to paint the picture of the Different Things we get to look at. You can see that system starting to set up tomorrow night. Youll notice that with this one d. C. Stays dry. What is most likely to happen . It is often a blend in the middle of the two. A few flakes for the weekend but not looking for anything blockbuster. Where we could have some issues would be farther south and off to the southeast especially toward the beaches. Low is a big player for us and that will determine what you see over the course of the weekend. The big story will be the cold front in 10 minutes. Dont let the winter catch you by surprise. He will get updates based on your location a matter where you go. Now with the holidays coming up a lot of us are using cash machines and atms. Police are uncovering dozens of skimming devices that are virtually undetectable to the naked eye. This is troubling, rich. It sure is. Behind me is the d. C. Digital evidence lab. Scientists take these devices apart, they have dozens of them and say that they are more and more undetectable. This is a rare look inside the digital lab. These new devices are called deep insert skimmers that can be inserted inside the reader of an atm where you insert your cred sd card can be mounted on the side of the machine or connected remotely like on a key filed. Bad guys dont even need to touch the machine to get information. Sometimes they are paired with cameras which the skimming device will read Credit Information and the camera will record your pin number at the same time and then it will transmit the data. That is why experts say it is very important to cover your keypad so the fact is to know what your number is. Atms andppening at gas stations. At 6 00 we will explain how you can keep your money safe. President trump says that the fbis reputation is in tatters. This was a tweet a couple days ago. Today the fbi director Christopher Wray presented a different picture of the bureau. What i can tell you is that is tens oft i see thousands of agents, analysts, and staff working their tails off to keep america safe from the next terrorist attack, gang violence, child predators, spies from russia, china, north korea, and iran. Was sworn in as a director 2. 5 months ago. Protest in the west bank over president trumps decision to recognize jerusalem as the cap at her of israel. World leaders advised against it other Jewish Community seems to be split. Committed to peace in that region. Laser pointed, a right at a Police Helicopter blinding the pilot. Wait until you see what the pilot did when officers on the ground were too busy to confront the guy. There is a promotion for free food next week but there is a catch. Now here is a first look at how you can start friday with good morning washington right here on abc seven. Tomorrow on good morning washington, we are tracking cold temperatures and when we could even see flurries in the area. We reveal seven steps to surviving the Holiday Season