here is the futurecast. not much going on in our area. tonight, talking about tomorrow night into saturday, at the bottom of your screen, this low pressure cell will be riding up the eastern seaboard. as we get into the night tomorrow and early tomorrow morning, it is offshore. but the blue on the map is where the radar is picking up the possibility of snow. is the wintry mix and green's reign. we will be close to the line. if the low pressure cell decides to bring itself in by even as little as 40 or 50 miles, which is a very minute amount, it will make a big difference to what we see at the surface. most models keep it offshore. now,e seeing a taste right and the further sum of these do our, the better -- the further southeast you are, the better chance of seeing

are wellemperatures above freezing, still pretty early in the year so we are not too concerned, but it is something that there's watching into friday night and saturday. beautiful evening. temperatures in the 40's. a good crowd out. how is everybody doing? good stuff. everybody is bundled up. that is what we will be watching as we get into friday night and saturday. we will look ahead at the weekend and temperatures beyond this coming up. news, a: breaking two-week spending bill passes through the house and is on its way to the senate. it will keep the government funded until the friday before christmas while long-term negotiations continue. the vote went mostly along party lines. moments before the vote at the white house, it was kumbaya. >> we are here is a friendly, unified group. >> we are here to make progress.

share with you. >> we are here to reach an agreement and finish out the year. jonathan: sounds great, doesn't it? a lot of negotiating on the table for long-term ending. funding a children's health care program is one issue. also, hurricane relief for puerto rico and immigration reform to replace daca. senator al franken will be stepping down. of democraticens senators called on him to resign. franken says he remembers some of the encounters differently, and other accusations he says aren't true. ansays he can't undergo ethics investigation and successfully serve as a senator. >> i am not giving up my voice. i will continue to stand up for the things i believe in as a citizen, and as an activist. jonathan: there is no word yet when his last day will be. in the

governor says he hasn't decided who will replace franken. that person will fill the seat until a special election next november. backlash over i-66 tolls. morning tolls topped out at $40, sparking outrage among drivers and lawmakers. sam sweeney is live in arlington, where a few hours ago, a group was demanding change. : a lot of people across virginia are talking about this. this afternoon, more than 50 state senators and delegates caused for a -- called for a suspension of the tolls. the toll rates now to the beltway is at $9.50. that changes every six minutes. the delegates and senators say they were misled during the planning stages. they want the tolls gone and the original hov hours brought back to where they were

week and they want hybrid vehicles back on the roads during rush hour. they say you can't start charging for a road you haven't improved yet. >> you can't start charging people for lanes that were previously free. what we are calling for is to a neck the new lanes, make them happen. times.e the hov create new capacity inside and outside the beltway with new parking lots, and to what we can to go back to the original promise, which is to say we will only charge people for using eye-66 when i-66 is improved, not before. vdot calls this political rhetoric. they say the program is working as they planned. over the next couple days, they say prices will iron out and they will decrease. they promised the tolls would cap at $17. right now, the average is $14, but the averag f

we will see what happens. so far, no word from aubrey laid -- aubrey, the secretary of transportation. metro's union members are protesting a plan to privatize some metro bus lines. they demonstrated outside the facility where the buses would be based. they prevented some of officials from entering the facility. the union says privatization would pose threats to jobs and safety, and they haven't worked at -- rolled out a work stoppage. metro hasn't spotted to requests for comments. jonathan: tomorrow marks one year since mgm national harbor opened. what kind of economic impact has it had on the community? rad was there for the opening and he is back there live tonight to break down the numbers. rad: it has had a big impact. last year, i stood in this spo

the big concern was that there would be traffic gridlock. tonight, you can see the cars are flowing smoothly and so is the cash. mgm national harbor has been open for one year and it has become the most important economic engine in prince .eorge's county >> they are our largest taxpayer and the county. we are excited they are here. they are hiring for thousand jobs. brad: the county budget director says he expects $32 million in county revenue from mgm. mgm has contributed nearly $160 million to the state education trust fund in 2017. there are those who remain skeptical about how the money is spent. >> i have not seen, not one iota, the schools. we get no services down here. ial

me four weeks. the cash isas helping. >> 50% of the money goes to education at the local level. school systems, community colleges, the library. neighbors say fears of crime in traffic have been unfounded. >> it is definitely going to bring us revenue. it is a positive. brad: tomorrow, mgm is going to mark their one year anniversary by basically holding a press conference to tell us how they have fulfilled the promise is with regard to local hiring, jobs, minority hiring. just to give you an idea of some of the numbers, we have been told that about 6 million people have already visited mgm national harbor. compare that to the air and space museum, that gets about 7.5 million visitors per year. this place ha

wildfires continue to explode out of control. firefighters on the ground and in the air, working overtime to save entire neighborhoods in southern california. jonathan: an atm skimmer warming -- warning. there is a way for you to know whether it is being installed. it is undetectable,

jonathan: new video from california shows the wildfires. this is the one burning along the 405 right near drivers. this is in the and her a county. nty.his is an ventura cou you are looking at live pictures from our sister station in los angeles and you can see, that is a mountain range between ventura and santa clarita valley. this has been consuming a football field in 10 seconds. the winds are up to 100 miles per hour. 100,000 people forced from their homes. the forecast, not promising because there is no rain inside and the winds are expected to pick up even more. to death at ahot new mexico high school. the shooter, also a student, is dead. the school went into lockdown.

watching and waiting to hear from their children. it is unclear whether the shooter killed himself or was shot by police. we don't know a motive. nearly nine years after pamela butler was murdered, a break in the case and it come -- it could come as early as tomorrow. michelle: police will search an area of stafford county in an effort to find her remains based on the word of the man who killed her. >> we would like to get closure. >> we want to find her, and get this over with. michelle: butler's boyfriend pleaded guilty to her murder. he agreed to help locate dollars remains in exchange for a 12 year sentence. area hasin in the changed over the years, which could make it difficult to find any remains. jonathan: still to come, a terrifying wake-up call for a

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michelle: a tennessee family got a fiery surprise overnight when their christmas lights went up in flames. security cameras rolled as the fires spread to the house. the flames set off a smoke detector and everyone inside made it out safely. the lights are new, which would seem to rule out faulty wiring. the family kept the lights on around-the-clock, which could have caused them to overheat. always turn off your lights inside and out when you go to bed. a warning tonight for anyone who uses an atm. criminals are using an undetectable skimmer. you can't tell. richard explains how it works and how you can ot

yourself. >> this one was inside a gas pump. >> inside the evidence lab, a new generation of skimming devices, under the microscope. >> this is a skimmer on steroids. >> yes. they come up with different types of devices. scientiststs of what call deep insert skimmers. police are collecting dozens, even hundreds. >> they are placed inside the reader of an atm, so you can't detect if there is a skimming device. >> while your card is in the reader, a micro sd card mounted on the side or connected remotely collected video data, and it is not just atm's. >> this device was implanted into a gas pump. the bad guys simply drive up, download the information, and they don't have to touch a thing . parts for the skimmers are easily found on the internet.

, the skimming device will read the credit card and the camera will record european number. recommend you cover your pin number with your hand, use a credit card, and be choosy about atm's. in at't use a random atm random area, or at a hotel. try to be cautious of what types of systems you are using. >> keep your plastic and your money safe. richard reeve, abc 7 news. jonathan: a sad to pass along about a bald eagle. the bald eagle has died after becoming sick with lead poisoning. officials believe the eagle may have had other issues. no issues at -- no reports on how the eagle got led in the system, but if an animal is shot --h a lead to let, the lead a lead bullet, they could be

pirate videos before. one angry mom in oregon is fighting back. you know that was for somebody special. this woman gets angry, then she gets even by leaving a smelly surprise. ace: package -- a stolen package was for her four-month-old son, so she left a note on a box filled with his dirty diapers and she was happy to see the porch pirate struck again. of a was a little bit relief, and it was fun to come home and see it was gone. we had a good laugh, thinking about someone opening the box of dirty diapers. thinking they would get something good, and it is not. jonathan: it was a weeks worth of dirty diapers. she said her baby was sick. there you go. the lesson, don't steal. your packages sent to a safer place, perhaps your place of business. michelle:

now to the weather. bill kelly is live at -- kelly is live at the zoo. you have so many new friends behind you. bill: we do. pretty much what we did is, we want around the zoo and we said if you are a kid, you need to be here. this is what we got. how is everybody doing? [cheering] bill: this is the real deal. they are excited, and we are excited. we may just have some of them hop in front of the wall and deliver a forecast. let's talk about what's going on. this could be interesting. temperature-wise, sitting in the 40's right now around the area. it is a cool evening out there, and we will continue to see temperatures on the decrease as we go into the overnight hours. 45 degrees right now, light

we are talking about big changes coming up in our overall forecast. here is what we are looking at. clouds around the area, a few breaks, a nice evening but as we trackings out, we are an area of low pressure. this will potentially make big differences in our forecast. this one over here is way out of our area, and the aerials -- the arrows are the tracking will take. a huge majority of the energy should stay offshore out of our area, but we will watch overnight on friday into saturday, some of that working into our region. we will keep track of that late friday. that is the big question lots of people asked me. are we getting snow friday night into saturday? that is absolutely possible. i don't see it is a big snow maker, but it is enough that we get the first taste of winter overall.

if you have plans tomorrow during the day, i think you will be fine. a little him a cool side, temperatures in the 40's, wind chill's not out of the 30's throughout the day tomorrow. it will be dry, and overcast day, more clouds and sunshine. as we get into the evening, tomorrow night into saturday morning, that is what we will be tracking in terms of when this was possible -- the snow is possible. into the weekend, temperatures will be cooler. by sunday, temperatures down there, temperatures in the 30's on sunday. a will wrap this up in just second. come on in. bring it on in. what is your name? >> lorraine. bill: ready? >> back to you!

>> now, the toyota sports desk brought to you by your local toyota dealer. will be theousins biggest name on the looming nfl free-agent market, assuming he gets there. we have been here before. for the third year in a row, cousins will enter the final month of the season without a contract for the year to come. for the third year in a row, his team has the ability to keep him from hitting the market, but there are more ques

answers. you can't help but wonder, how much does he think about his future? >> it is human nature to want to look ahead and noble plan and know what is coming next, but every time those thoughts show ,p, let's focus on the present let's be right here, right now and understand that is the best way to prepare for the future. i have had to remind myself of my mind doeses, as drift. as you practice the discipline, you get better. erin: lavar ball has said his lamelo haveo and both signed with lonzo ball's agent and will play overseas. played at ucla, but his father removed him from the school. the youngest son, 16-year-old lamelo, was removed from his high school in october. tonight.wing i thought we were done. michelle:

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tonight, breaking news from the fire zone here in southern california. multiple wildfires burning out of control at this hour. a new fire breaking out just today. hundreds of thousands forced to evacuate. drivers escaping. the major highway closed because of the flames. tonight, we fly you right over the fires, and what the ventura county fire chief told me just moments ago. also tonight, stepping down. senator al franken resigning amid allegations of sexual misconduct, but not going without some blistering words. what he calls ironic. president trump and senate candidate roy moore facing their own serious saku sagss, but with support from the republican party. the deadly school shooting