thompson's contributions were made in one purpose, to advance the presidential campaign of thompson's preferred candidate. as political expend suitures th were not tax deductible, but on the d.c. tax system, thompson took a $200,000 deduction for the money he spent to extend the 2008 presidential campaign and so in all, he spent $800,000 to boost his candidate's prospects for the campaign. none of the many knee was elect elect elect elected -- was reported to the federal election commission as required. as our partners with the irs can explain, in order for all of this to work, thompson and the co-conspirators had to hide the political spending on the corporate books, and you cannot deduct political spending on the taxes, and give n that reimbursement is illegal. th thompson's accounting firm had to come up with another way to post illegal contributions in the books. to cover up that wrongdoing, they falsely labeled them bonuses, advances, consulting fees and filed false income tax return, and improperly labeled themexpenses. when thompson faced a audit, he worked with the members of

they called jeff thompson uncle earl. everybody had agreed to that to hide his participation, his identity from adrian fenty at the time. they called him uncle earl, the mayor acknowledged that today. the mayor denied a short time ago in a conversation with me that any of this is true. he says he never asked jeff thompson for anything, but his help and getting contributions to his campaign, he said that jeff thompson is lying. i think we are waiting on tape. if you have questions right now, shoot them to me. jeff thompson could be looking at only six months in prison. he could have been looking at 30, but that's how valuable prosecutors consider his information. >> this is a huge change we have been hearing. in fact, we are starting to get the idea that the prosecutors didn't have much. what do you think broke this thing open? >> i have no idea. except that we reported back in january, the prosecutors are ready to indict jeff thompson. i think the understanding all along had been, they have cases against them. they have p

it reached when mayor gray met with jeff thompson prior to the september primary of 2010. >> jeff thompson arrived at u.s. district courthouse today about an hour before his hearing before the judge, he could face as little as six months in jail. inside the courtroom, prosecutors deliverewhat is probably thompson's most crucial point. he told harris and hawkins in a private meeting, if the mayor wants me to pay more for a shadow campaign, he'll have to come here and personally ask me himself. prosecutors went on to say that harris arranged for the mayor and jeff thompson to meet alone in her apartment in june of 2010. prosecutors say gray gave thompson a budget for getting out the vote. the amount over $425,000. prosecutors allege that thompson agreed to pay and gray thanked him using a name all had agreed on uncle earl. they got more checks, $566,000 in all, say prosecutors. >> did you know that vernon hawkins, jeanie clark harris had been meeting with thompson to form a shadow campaign? >> this is mayor vincent gray a short time ago in his office. >> in that june meeting, 2010, you layed

thompson. >> who pled guilty today to offenses stemming from illegal campaign spending as well as tax violations. you'll be hearing from the officials in this order. the first up will be ronald. he'll be followed by valerie. she's the assistant director in charge of the fbi's washington field office. finally, we'll hear from richard webber. he is the chief of the internal revenue service criminal investigation. they will be joined up here by members of the team who worked on this case from their respective agencies. following the remarks by the officials, we will be able to take a few questions. however, because the investigation is continuing, i wanted offer this cautionary note. they will be limited in what they can say. for example, consistent with the department of justice policy. we won't be able to name the individuals at the press conference today who have not been previously charged. so, we're going to have to work around that by using the titles that you found in the statement of offen

we know what jeff thompson said. >> i won't go into all of the details, but it was jeff thompson who reached out to the mayor. i think i can go so far as to say that thompson said that he wanted to support the mayor, but he was very fearful and he was really playing both sides because he was also making improper campaign contributions to mr. fenty and that he didn't want people knowing it. that's it. that's all the mayor knew. the mayor didn't know the mechanics and there were a half a dozen ways and we'll show this that jeff thompson could have kept his name out of it and legally and properly made contributions to the mayor. the mayor did not know this shadow campaign thing, i don't know where this -- the mayor -- i categorically say to you the mayor did not know there was a shadow campaign if what's meant by that, that the illegal campaign contributions would be made for him. >> attorney robert bennett says he thinks the u.s. attorney should walk away with a plea deal with jeff thompson. the businessman could get as little as six months of home confinement in exchange for that info

>>> federal prosecutors said that thompson instructed d.c. mayor to refer to thompson as uncle earl to maintain secrecy. this corruption could hit mayor gray very hard just as he relaunched the re-election campaign. mark segraves is following this every step of the way and joining us live from u.s. district court with the latest. mark? >> well, jim, jeffrey thompson has been in a federal courtroom now for nearly three hours entering the guilty plea. he entered this afternoon and arrived by taxi cab, and refused to speak to reporters as he walked insooitd, and he is admitted to illegally funding dozens of campaigns from the d.c. kocouncil to the presidentl primary in 2010. he has plead guilty to two felony counts, and one is a federal campaign violation, and another of d.c. campaign finance violation, and in court, and thompson told the judge that mayor vincent gray knew of the scheme to funnel illegal money into the shadow campaign before gray ever announced that he would run for office. he says that gray agreed to call him uncle earl to keep

delegate norton have all returned thompson's money, governor mcauliffe has not. >> thompson is looking to be one of the most dirty funding issues in politics at least for this election cycle and if i were advising terry mcauliffe, i'd say give the money back now because you're going to have to give it back anyway. >> reporter: mcauliffe is a close friend of the clintons. he was hillary clinton's campaign chair in 2008 and thompson admitted in court to running a $608,000 shadow campaign to help hillary clinton win the democratic nomination. >> reporter: governor, did you know anything about the shadow campaign for hillary clinton when you were chairman? >> but mcauliffe did not want to talk about that either. >> reporter: governor, did you know anything about the shadow campaign? >> prosecutors say there is no evidence that hillary clinton knew anything about thompson's shadow campaign, but that may not end it for mcauliffe. >> he better watch himself because if this issue gets bigger, people will look to terry mcauliffe who is the clinton's fund raising guy and if he didn't know, why d

thompson said in dealing with grey, he was told to call him " uncle earl." he gaveors said when $125,000 to gray, at that meeting, grey called him "thank you, uncle." he says that he did occasionally call jeffrey thompson uncle, but he was the public to believe he does not know what thompson is talking about. >> it is very unfortunate this has occurred. it is very unfortunate. are people who would raise questions about the motivation of someone to have said these things. one could speculate. it is pretty obvious to me what the motivation could be. the campaigns, the shadow campaigns, were set forth in those documents before the court. it was sixnding is months, so it is not much. >> that's right. it is six-month see faces, that jeffrey thompson faces, if he cooperates. he also faces charges on the federal level. he faces 18 months on the federal level. under this field, if he cooperates, the federal time would go away. he would be facing at most six years, plus three probation. reporting live from the u.s. district court, sam ford, abc 7 news. >> thank you f

thompson would do it all legally. asked about allegations that the mayor asked for someone's house to be repaired or the money was sent to gray's son, he said that is not true. none of that is true. he says that he, one of the staffers also said that, look, this is a man who faces time in prison and he is saying all he can say to keep his sentence short, and so the mayor was very clear and direct and i must say unemotional by saying it is all fabrication, and i didn't do any of this as alleged in the court today. >> and tom, what are the immediate political and the legal ramifications for the m mayor now? >> well, we are going to be seeing more documents coming out of the courthouse to give more detail about what jeffrey thompson alleges and says he did that involved mayor gray. voting in the race for mayor and the campaign for mayor and the primary is april 1st. but voting starts this coming monday on march 17th, and people will start voting, and this is another difficult hurdle for the m mayor to have all of the all

businessman jeffrey thompson. >> mr. mayor, your reaction to a potential plea deal for thompson? >> i actually don't know anything about it, gentlemen. i guess we could speculate but i don't know anything about it. >> reporter: thompson is expected of building an illegal shadow campaign to get mayor gray elected in 2010. now that he is in the final stages of plea negotiations with prosecutors, thompson could be the key to clearing the mayor or linking him to the corruption. i don't know what is known other than the fact that he helped elect vincent gray, and we'll let the u.s. attorney sort it out. >> reporter: you think the politicians gunning for gray's job would jump on the news. but it was obvious tonight they don't know what this potential plea deal will say and the extent to which it will or won't implicate the mayor. so as some of them campaign for an endorsement from the city's gay, lesbian and transgendered community, they played it safe. >> the residents at the district of columbia need to know the truth and they need to have the mayor level with them, or we need to hav

thompson. it is untrue ,period. it is lies. >> he admits that the allegations hurt him. >> i was stunned. i've really thought that today it would be over for me. >> it also reveals the financial dispute that d.c. had with one of thompson's companies, which was replete resolved once gray became mayor. thompson faces six months in jail on the d.c. crimes, 18 months for the federal, but the deal is if he cooperates on the the maximum of six months is all he could get. the federal stuff would go away. one of the stranger things today is that thompson said he asked members of the campaign to call him uncle earl. mayor gray said today that he did occasionally call him uncle, but that had nothing to do with illegal activities. right now we are awaiting a news conference from the u.s. attorney who will be talking about all of this on this obviously big day for the mayor's future. reporting live from u.s. district or, sam ford, abc 7 news. you, sam.ht, thank the man who blew the whistle on mayor vincent gray's is supporting

gray says thompson is lying. his attorney said as much again today. >> the mayor didn't know the mechanics of what he was -- and there were a half a dozen ways and we're going to show this that jeff thompson could have kept his name out of it and legally and properly made contributions to the mayor. the mayor did not know this shadow campaign thing, i don't know where this thing -- the mayor, i categorically say to you the mayor did not know there was a shadow campaign if what's meant that, that illegal campaign contributions would be made for him. >> thompson tells prosecutors that that shadow campaign was actually hatched in a private meeting he had with vernon hawkins and jeanne clarke harris, two people who have already pled guilty in the case. here's what the mayor's attorney had to say about those two. >> and you name two people who don't make the assumption that they have a lot of evidence against the mayor because i know pretty much what boat of them will say and -- both of them will say and what they wil

so i knew this jeffrey thompson person. i knew he had city contracts, but i don't think people understood what a behind-the-scenes player he was, starting from years ago, both locally and in the federal government. >> i want to run a 2.5 minute these that we found on the "washington post" website. what is the origin? that is new for the post. >> yes, it is new. the story used a lot of new trying at that we are the washington post. maybe technology is the wrong word, but basically, if you go to our website and you read my story, it is in a different template than what you will see and theyr stories, were like, let's try this video. it is similar to something that frontline has done. i was came and we did it, and i think it turned out very nice. >> is is the first television you have done? >> no. >> how much television have you done in your past? >> oh, just local television. in 2008 why was assigned -- i was assigned to the inauguration of president obama. so at the time president elect obama. i made a few television appeara

, thompson is the one who can give the u.s. attorney the ammunition to pursue charges and seek an indictment. but last night, mayor gray denied knowing anything about the pending plea deal. >> well, i actually don't know about it, gentlemen. i guess we can speculate about it, but i don't know anything about it. >> reporter: thompson is accused of orchestrating the $650,000 scheme that four years ago led to the mayor's election. he is the latest gray associate to negotiate a deal with prosecutors to avoid trial. meanwhile, gray is locked in another campaign now. he is seeking a second term and polls show he is the front-runner in that race. the council members going up against him say the voters should have the whole story before the primary in a few weeks. >> every resident of district of columbia needs to know the truth or have the u.s. attorney move. i'm happy to see that's happening. >> reporter: now, the plea deal again is in the final stages of negotiations. it could be finalized as soon as today. however, it's not unusual

. >> all three up here, my opponents, have taken money from jeffrey thompson. i haven't taken one dime from him or any of his associates. you can see what happens when you have a pay to play system. >> muriel, you have n takea ton of checks from him so you might want to address that. i only took two checks. >> mr. thompson contributed to two of our elonectis. we took no money under the table. we took no money outside of rules. >> he did this with other candidates like muriel bowser. >> no, sir. excuse me. i want to address that because adrienne fenty or jeff thompson never spent money on a shadow campaign for muriel bowser. >> the other candidates in the mayor's race appeared in another debate on the same channel the night before. >>> jury selection is scheduled to begin today in the case of a former u.s. naval academy football player accused of sexually assaulting a classmate. the proceedings against joshua tate are taking place at the u.s. navy yard. prosecutors say tate had sexual contact with a junken female classmate at an off campus party in 20123. the --

there is concerns following jeffrey thompson's allegations that gray participated in a near $700,000 off the books campaign in 2010, but for the most part the mayor's support appears strong. >> he's a person that's actually done a lot for the city and i think that's being overshadow offed by these fear investigations. >> reporter: do you believe -- overshadowed by these investigations. >> reporter: do you believe mayor gray? >> i do. >> reporter: today the northwest current newspaper took away their endorsement. despite his strong record, the heightened possibility that mayor vincent gray knew about the 2010 shadow campaign has regretfully forced us to withdraw our endorsement for his reelection. you are determined to stay in this race? >> yes. i have no thoughts about doing anything different. >> reporter: the gray campaign has more than $700,000 in its coffers for the final two weeks of the primary, but is it enough to settle nerves of potential supporters who fear the u.s. attorney has not yet finished with his probe into the mayor's 2010 campaign which has already produced about

♪ >> fisher's cellmate is 20-year-old dinell thompson. better known here as dooker. thompson was at maricopa appealing two murder convictions that could land him in prison for at least 32 years. >> keep the noise down over there. >> rap has helped the two men bridge their generation gap. >> trying to film [ bleep ]. >> the cellies share one other thing in common. they're both members of the crips street gang. >> but they were at very different stages in their life. cousin ice was no longer in love with the lifestyle. >> i haven't actually went out gang-banging, shooting at people just because they're from across town and all that. i haven't done that in years. but i still hang with my homeboys. and if something happened to one of my close, close ones i'm going to have to help retaliate. you know what i mean? >> duker on the other hand, was still caught up in the game. he was still infatuated with this romantic notion of being a gangster. >> what do you want for your future? >> money, power, respect. top of the food chain. >> everybody's like that when they're young.

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he said his name was phillip thompson. and he was asked if he knew anybody by the name of joshawn ashbrook and if he had picked up anybody or knew this female. >> phillip thompson confirmed he and his daughter had picked up joshawn when she was hitchhiking. took her to her boyfriend's house to leave the note and then they dropped her off at the local walmart. >> that's the last he had seen of her. >> phillip thompson agreed to meet police later that day, but he failed to show up for his appointment. >> investigators looked at that as possibly, you know, a telltale sign of, you know, someone who is running away from something. >> but police received some troubling news. the cell phone wasn't registered to phillip thompson. it was registered to phillip parton, a convicted killer. >> he was convicted of a murder that he committed in 1987 in which he strangled a man with a phone cord or some kind of cord. >> short version was that phillip parton was what they call a hustler, a male prostitute. he had picked up this gay math te

prior to jeff thompson's allegations. bowser trailed gray by 8 points, who is well ahead of other challengers. >> we've been in a race for a year and we have always offered voters a clean, fresh start in the mayor's office. >> tommy wells picked up the police and fire union endorsements and the nod from the national organization for women. >> after tz jeffrey thompson plea deal, that we know something happened with the mayor and so now this election is anybody's guess. >> no one is counting mayor gray out in the april 1 primary. his 25 to 28% appears to have held despite jeff thompson's allegations. that is according to one source with the poll. the same poll shows about 20% of the voters still undecided. as the democratic primary approaches. bruce johnson, wusa9. >> and this week, the early voting in d.c.'s primary is taking place in business hours and next week, there's going to be 13 locations throughout the city open for early voting. the locations are on our website, wusa9.com. >> a health candidate from virginia is

you can believe mr thompson and what has been reported in terms of the court proceedings. dinner was held where he met with up at the time the council member is great and they came to an understanding that anja and thompson will provide of thousands of dollars to two degrees campaign and of four for benefits to be named later and what if you believe of now we are great. then he says that he had no idea that any of this i was going on which in the election on the novel comes though a matter of who you believe it's right in. voters will make that determination in very short. i mean what he thinks he is saying right now that email he had no idea although it seems a little on the unit announced that six hundred and sixty thousand dollars was funneled in any way when you think about that indeed the human mind are new to me the issue is made we need them. i think we need to put it this way. the culture in washington d c politics where you pay to play. not just been with this administration has been with previous administrations so forth and so on. i was just coming to some folks

the washington post reports thompson is close to reaching a plea deal. back in january our own bruce johnson was the first to report prosecutors were prepared to indict thompson. at that time sources told bruce thompson's attorneys were arguing for misdemeanor charges while the u.s. attorney insisted on felonies. the timing of this news is interesting since d.c.'s mayoral primaries are less than a month away. mayor vincent gray is said to be fighting for his political life. >>> the army investigating a top sex crimes prosecutor oval allegations he groped a woman at a conference on -- over allegations he groped a woman at a conference on sexual assault in alexandria. the revelations came on the same day the u.s. senate was considering whether to strip military commanders of their authority over sex assault cases. >> people who do not trust the chain of command are the victims. >> you're indicting the whole chain of command here accident folks. that's why i'm so -- command here, folks. that's why i'm so emotional about this. >> the senate came up five vote

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john thompson took over as chairman of microsoft at the beginning of the month. he replaced company founder bill gates, so he already has big shoes to fill. the real challenge for thompson and satya nadella, the man he picked as ceo, is to keep microsoft competitive in software, mobile, and video. >> the issue for us is about focus. one of the reasons we chose satya nadella as the new ceo is he has a strong technology background. he understands exactly what needs to happen to move microsoft forward. >> that means competing in the cloud. microsoft's website says it currently controls 50% of the market for enterprise class storage. amazon, google, and ibm mostly controlled the rest. thompson says he has the goods. >> microsoft has demonstrated an ability to provide a cloud-based platform on which others can build applications. on top of that, office 365 is a very successful cloud-based application. i think the combination of those things provide the foundation on which microsoft can clearly grow its cloud-based business. the other dimension of microsoft strategy is

his 25 to 28% appears to have held despite jeff thompson's allegations. that is according to one source with the poll. the same poll shows about 20% of the voters still undecided. as the democratic primary approaches. bruce johnson, wusa9. >> and just this week, early voting in the d.c. primary is taking place during the business hours and next week, there will be 13 locations all over town. they are posted on our web page. wusa9.com. >> one of gray's rivals for reelection has some new ideas on special education. >> i'm bruce leshan in d.c. d.c. councilman proposes sweeping reforms to special education in hopes of getting more help to students who need it. >> he's a good kid. >> teresa had to get a lawyer to force d.c. schools to give her great nephew the help he needed. >> he wasn't talking, he wasn't doing anything. >> the achievement gaps are pretty appalling. >> d.c. councilman is introducing three bills coauthored with the children's law center. in hopes of getting thousands of children more help. >> kids get too little, too late, and too limited. >>

. >> reporter: stacey thompson wanted so badly to be a marine, she enlisted before she was even 18. >> that's the thing i'll never forget. i was excited. i wanted to do this. >> reporter: but not long after she settled into her first overseas deployment in japan, she says the nightmare started. >> within the first few months, it was sexual harassment. >> reporter: the only person she could complain to, the man who was harassing her. >> i had to go to the person who did it because he was my direct chain of command. so, i had to -- >> reporter: the person who sexually harassed you? >> sexually harassed me. >> reporter: is the person that you had to make the complaint to? >> yes. that is the process of the chain of command. >> reporter: it got worse. >> my sergeant who was in my direct chain of command, who was my chain of command, ended up raping me that night. >> reporter: thompson and other survivors have taken their fight to washington. >> it's not whether anyone in this chamber trusts the chain of command. the people who do not trust the chain of command are the victims. >> reporter

our friend mike thompson working with peter king, has a bipartisan bill to do that. and he has said if we take the bill up on the floor it will pass. the votes are there. the american people are more than their, 70% on this piece of gun violence prevention which is what this bill is. i am honored to be here with the chief. we speak baltimore, you are here. so i know when you say it takes courage the courage that it takes, baltimore county is a place where he is a leader and a teacher on this subject. when he was recognized, violence against women and these things come together that you described so well so thank you for your courage and leadership and again, mike thompson, a veteran, a wounded veteran, gun owner, hunter, charlie mccarthy said to me i want to thank you for one thing, that is appointing mike thompson to head the task force. you know it because he is committed to this issue and that is the best possible complement. everything -- i do believe -- i know we have the votes. we want to vote, we want to finish the job and when we do in the house it will pass

. >> nancy thompson, who knew nancy dunning, says they are doing what they can to find him. been on age, but the residents have their eyes and ears open. police arewhat asking for, for people to look at the suspect's sketch and tell them about anybody who looks like that or quit it look like that in years ago. they're looking into the backgrounds of organizations that the group of victims may have belonged to. roz plater, abc 7 news. abc seven news for complete coverage of the alexandria murders. we will update the investigation at wjla.com and on social media as well. now, and amber alert for a missing 11-year-old girl. the police issued the alert for the girl after they discovered her mother dead inside of their home in dundalk. the police believe that caitlyn with her father, who does not have legal custody of the child. and father were arguing over the custody. anybody you as information or if you have seen the father and daughter, you are urged to contact the baltimore city police. >> the crisis in the ukraine escalates as president obama imposes the first sanctions on

monday, jeffrey thompson pled guilty to fraud and campaign related charges. askedon said that gray him to finance a shadow campaign. gray defended his actions. >> we asked him to raise money for us. he did that. i explained many times how that money came into our campaign. >> you have a situation where this is what you get. these are the consequences. quohere is no quid pro associate at this as mr. wells suggests. jeffrey thompson never asked me for anything. >> the primary election day for democrats in the district is april 1. just days after a fire devastated an apartment complex -- >> new trouble for the families impacted. why they were targeted by criminals. a local firefighter whose job it is to put out fires has been accused by authorities of setting one himself to cash in. >> yes, it has happened again. a new scandal for the d.c. fire department. investigators tell us in the event or an admitted to setting his own car on fire. >> marcus jackson said he did it to collect insurance money. jay korff is in northwest washington with this i-team investigatio

and he proceeded to touch my food. >> narrator: thompson rises from his seat. seconds later, the other inmate, keith reeves, appears to put a hand in his face, and thompson strikes back. >> i punched him in the mouth like four times, and then he tried to take another tray and pour it overtop of my head. and then i got him in a headlock, and i just choked him out. >> narrator: other inmates step in to break up the fight when an off-camera officer arrives and threatens to use pepper spray. after initial interviews with both inmates, staff identified reeves as the aggressor and temporarily assigned him to a single-person segregation cell. >> damn. >> narrator: they allowed thompson to return to his dormitory. >> it was really a bully situation, like what you would see on a commercial, you know, about kids bullying. >> [ sighs ] >> look at him, cool, laid-back type person. you know what i'm saying? till people start getting on my nerve. i can get an attitude problem. and you know what i'm saying? he hit me first. but they didn't see it that way. i put my finger in

thompson was allegedly hit with a flower pot and treated for a head gash. no word on if any charges were filed. here are a few stories that are trending online this morning ... a blessing by pope francis got lost in translation, and turned into the italian equivalent of an "f-bomb." it happened sunday. since the pope is not a native italian, he mispronounced an italian word in a way that made it sound like profanity. many in the pope's mostly italian audience looked around, as if to say, "did he just say that?" but no one believes the mistake was intentional. it's safe to say that lebron james can play with that face mask protecting his broken nose. he scored 61 points against the charlotte bobcats last night. that's a career high for him and a franchise record for the miami heat. james hit his first eight three-pointers on the way to his record. the heat won the game too. >> didn't jordan have more against boston in the one game? >>remember that massive sinkhole in the national corvette museum in kentucky? well, those 'vettes were swallowed up, but won't b

last week businessman jeffrey thompson not only admitted funding a shadow campaign for gray in 2010 but claimed gray knew about it. gray's attorney noted washington lawyer robert bennett says if his client is charged, he'll push for an immediate trial. >> in the event and i hope it doesn't come to this that he's charged, i'm going to ask the judge for an immediate trial so we can clear his name before the november election. >> bennett added that thompson also gave illegal campaign donations to then incumbent adrienne fenty. u.s. attorney ron machin is urging others who took illegal money from compson to come forward. >>> -- thompson to come forward. >>> our post-snow yellow alert has been dropped. however, howard is here to tell us more precipitation looming for tomorrow. hopefully not snow. >> no, this looks like it's going to be mainly wet. could be a little frozen precip early. we had moisture this morning. had a trace of freezing drizzle down across areas in the northern neck and southern maryland. lots of rain off shore but look back here. see how the stuff is working its way back

for one thing and that is making thompson to head the task force. you know her commitment to that and that i think it is best compliment. i know we have the votes. we want to vote! we want to finish the job. when we do, in the house, it will pass in the senate. one of the excuses people use is it isn't going anywhere in the house so why vote in the senate. all we have to do is act. ask, seek, knock and that persistance will pay off. we are not going away. anybody who thinks we are celebrating an anniversary and tomorrow we go on to something else. we are not going on to something else. i asked my staff to bring this over. i had a visit from the boy scouts and they bring their annual report. there was a little boy who gave he his patch. his boy scout patch that says never forgotten sandy hook pack 170. he was a student at sandy hook. that little boy now integrating this into his boy scout life. that is wonderful but too bad it has to that. how can we possible face ourselv ourselves? we have taken oaths at the beginning of every congress. most people

gray says he's shocked by the allegations and accuses thompson of lying. prosecutors say thompson funneled more than $2 million to various candidates including hillary clinton's presidential campaign in 2008. officials say there is no evidence that clinton was aware of these illegal donations. >>> it's a race being hailed as a test case for democrats and republicans alike in 2014. today a special election in set in clearwater area to replace long time republican congressman bill young who served 43 years before passing away in october. with polls opening at 7:00 a.m., it's still considered a toss-up. slate calls it obamacare's ground zero. the president's controversial health plan is one of the main focuses of the debate in the race. outside money has poured in. $9 million has been spent on tv ads and tv spots that have aired 200 times daily in the market. jolly has been targeted for his days as a washington lobbyist and former aide to congressman young. sink ran unsuccessfully against rick scott the in 2010. her record as former state cpo has come under q

thompson said the comments don't mean to him that she and ted didn't get to do it calmly. this committee finally dying is was saturday to give the new judge each tuesday. he concluded that for just one day he just wants prince news agency. his wife and two if the student up the phone for forty minutes. you don't and if he did not gain any country for the attack of the nissan has and the pasta to spot this time of saying minute and told them what to do plenty of tax avoidance the statement also points to the present the foot box i need it to max who was seen sitting outside of the ten on thursday i was before the attack. and if the predicted that people could not be fond of getting out the attack. it said that on a bun on the conflict was not even a band it felt like it and look to unleashing a way to disrupt the president is going to want to do it the board has known the queue started one minute in st inbox condescending and he's off the email dated attacks in the country focused on was one of the few countries that supported the tiny twenty minutes on the stunt which was

. >> we said yesterday that jeffrey thompson could strike a deal, but that is not going to happen. we were told that a dely in filing the court papers is possible, but as of this afternoon, no court papers are filed. thompson is suspected to be the mastermind of the shadow campaign that funneled money to mayor gray's campaign. so far, others have pleaded guilty of taking money off of the books or lying about it. our sources confirm what the washington post first reported yesterday that the pros ecutors are in the final stages of the plea deal, but what is not clear is ift will reveal the extent of mayor gray's involvement if there was any. the mayor has denied any wrongdoing. i'm chris lawrence at the live desk. >>> you can stay on top of this story and other breaking news by going to the nbcwashington.com app by downloading it in the apple store and on google play to receive updates. >>> and julie carey is live outside of the police headquarters, and we will go to her right now to find out what is going on. julie? >> well, i checked in with police a short while ago and they tell m

a friend in missoula where i'm from who's an historian and archaeologist, sally thompson, has studied a lot about lewis and clark and pointed out to me as i was researching this story that sacajawea and marie dorian probably met, almost surely met, and that got me interested in doing the research to see if they did, and they certainly did. they were in the same camp. this was when sacajawea was going back up the river, and marie dorian was going up the river for the first time with hunt's party. so sally said, well, i've always wondered what sacajawea said to marie dorian, and wouldn't that be an interesting conversation to overhear? so i've tried to speck hate a little bit -- speculate a little bit what it might be. [laughter] and i say this is -- i'm speculating. this, of course, is a nonfiction book. whatever happened here happened, but i say that this is -- one likes to think what they might have said to each other. it's likely marie dorian and sacajawea knew even other, two indian women in the small settlement of st. louis, both wives and interpreters in the fur trade. what would

tonight kenan thompson, johnny weir and tara lapinski, author sarah lewis -- featuring the 8g band with fred armisen. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ and now, here he is, seth meyers. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> seth: good evening. welcome. welcome. i'm seth meyers, this is "late night." how's everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] in that case, let's get to the news. [ laughter ] i don't know if you guys have heard, but today, today is employee appreciation day. so personally i'm going to wait and see how the monologue goes. [ laughter ] some international news. the pentagon has confirmed that russia has begun large-scale air defense drills. just in case they're attacked by you ukraine's helicopter. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] this weekend -- this weekend we turn our clocks forward for an hour. so remember, if you have any clocks, why? [ laughter ] why do you have a clock? [ laughter ] no surprise here but a news study has named los angeles the worst american city for gridlock. [ light laughter ] while portland remains the best american city for dreadlock. [ laughter

scott thompson reporting. >> the search continues along the northern corridor with little success. seven countries have reported no radar sightings. >>> six injured today in a massive landslide in washington, destroying homes and scattering debris across state road 530, north of seattle. two people were taken from the hospital after being pulled from the mud. >>> the florida police department is mourning the police of a 31-year-old officer. he called for backup, but by the time they arrived, he had been shot. they're still gathering information on the case. >> i've asked the sheriff and the homicide unit to conduct that investigation, and all the facts are still coming in, and we're still not quite sure. >> authorities say two suspects are believed to have committed suicide. >>> an explosion destroyed a home in north carolina early this morning. the blast was so powerful that people miles away called 911. one neighbor said it was the loud evidence thing he heard in his life, the blast lifting him right out of bed. nobody was injured and investigators are looking into the cause. >>>

he is followed by mark thompson who owns the backyard where it touched down. >> super windy. >> that's pretty close. it hits pretty close. it was just so loud and we were watching the news the whole time. this is it. it is coming. >> this was over in a matter of 10 seconds. really scary. i shouldn't have been out there filming it. i didn't heed the warning. i was thinking this is california and we don't have tornadoes here. >> it wasn't the only tornado that touched down. this was one spotted near willow's and glen county about a hundred miles north of us. the person who shot this says it was moving about 5 to 10 miles per hour just west of interstate 5. they also had huge amounts of hail out there. a very scary few minutes here in roseville. no one was injured. as for mark thompson who thought california didn't have tornadoes, well he now knows that we have tornadoes in california. reporting live in roseville, alan wang, abc7 news. >> not too often, but boy when we do, alan, thanks very much. sandhya patel has been tracking the extreme weather and she is here live with live doppler 7h

so the way the defense team worked, there was a team up in scotland, which george thompson was part of, and they were trying to pick holes in the prosecution case, and there were plenty of holes, while jessica, down in london, mounted an investigation into who really did it. >> what did she find that is new. >> well, what she found, i have to be very careful because it's very confidential. but she was able to trace two sources who live in a mediterranean country, one of whom went to a meeting, which took place in malt a. and the meeting was a coordinating meeting between various radical groups. hezbollah was one of them. and the popular front for the liberation of palestine, syria and iran, and there may have been one or two others too. now, this person described the meeting, which is essentially these groups trying to -- they wanted to coordinate better and share resources better. >> this was a group that got together terrorist groups, and some of these were strange bed fellows, and you have people working together that wouldn't seem to normally be people that work together. >> they w

so the way the defense team worked, there was a team up in scotland, which george thompson was part of, and they were trying to pick holes in the prosecution case, and there were plenty of holes, while jessica, down in london, mounted an investigation into who really did it. >> what did she find that is new. >> well, what she found, i have to be very careful because it's very confidential. but she was able to trace two sources who live in a mediterranean country, one of whom went to a meeting, which took place in malt a. and the meeting was a coordinating meeting between various radical groups. hezbollah was one of them. and the popular front for the liberation of palestine, syria and iran, and there may have been one or two others too. now, this person described the meeting, which is essentially these groups trying to -- they wanted to coordinate better and share resources better. >> this was a group that got together terrorist groups, and some of these were strange bed fellows, and you have people working together that wouldn't seem to normally be people that work together. >> they w

thompson, a 67% shooter. from chicago. a couple of state titles in high school at whitney young. 61-53, indiana leading ohio state in bloomington. ian eagle, jim spanarkel, the rest of our cbs crew. down to 2:56 remaining in our second half. >> jim: watch the little changeup here with ohio stated, ian. maybe a little traffic. a little full-court. >> ian: indiana trying to put together a run here late in the season to get on the bubble for the ncaa tournament. 6-9 in the conference. 16-12 overall. [whistle] foul called against scott, as yogi ferrell took it off the dribble. and that's number two on shannon scott. >> jim: if indiana wins this one, they have back-to-back games with iowa and ohio stated, beating two of the top five teams in the conference. two marks on their resume coming down the stretch. >> ian: yogi ferrell. 81% free-throw shooter. the sophomore out of park tutor high school in indianapolis. two state titles there. 2-2 for ferrell. >> jim: ohio state has about a minute and 15 seconds to get themselves into

rough night for klay thompson who got whacked in the nose. battling from behind the warriors pulled even. curry measure as 3. 81 all, 3:42 left t.knicks scoreed the next 4 points. carmelo anthony with the jumper. warriors still with time, thompson's 3 make it a 1 point game. the knicks back on top by 3. warriors have one possession, seth tries to pass the ball, i's stolen by shannon brown t.warriors lose another one at home, 89-84. golden state is in the 6th possession in the west. game and a half in front of dallas and phoenix who are tied for 7. >>> stanford women are going to the ncaa final four. they're a motivated group against penn state today. >> we work harder than anybody else and we're so much stronger. don't be fooled by their size. be fooled by the size of our hearts. >>> sha ney setting tone for her team that trailed in the first half. lilly thompson passes to sampson. stanford goes on a 25-7 run. easy hoop after the long pass. half time stanford build as lead. sha ney with a steal, finished with 29 points, 15 rebounds. 83rd doub

. >> shortly after edwards' arrest, police got a call from a man named cd thompson. he'd been walking his dog 50 miles from the kidnap site. >> immediately, i felt a lump coming to my throat thinking that we have two deceased victims. >> thought it may be a baby doll because i was near an area where people have dumped trash over the years. i saw flies around it, and the way my dog was reacting i knew it wasn't a baby doll. it was a human being. >> there police found ginger hayes dead from multiple blows to the head. 30 feet away was her infant son nicolas lying face down in the dirt. >> i was very shocked. the emotion was already set. i'm going to have to deal with the demise of a child, which was one of my greatst fears. >> but as the sergeant got closer, the baby started to move. >> he started to crawl. you went from fear to this is great. >> the baby, wearing only a diaper was severely sunburned, but otherwise unharmed. he was airlifted to a regional burn center for treatment. >> the hospital medical doctors at the burn center in chapel hill estimated that the bab

. ♪ thompson ... is he going toy tonight? the phoenix suns are one of biggest surprises in the n-a this season... >>> dennis, what is the word tonight? >> reporter: tonight, thompson is going to play tonight. interesting that you brought that up, curry has an injury and he is expected to start. he is a big one against phoenix, 16 assists. the last time the two teams met he had a big game. now, tonight they will take the season for mayoff position. >> i think early on you look and say phoenix is surprising people, not going to sustain it, they are good. then you look at them and say they are well coached, having a year like an all-star. it will be a tough task. they are a team that will have to be dealt with closing out this season as far as the western conference is concerned. >> another surprise team in the nba. not a good one. the lakers, allowed over 400 points during their losing streak. you can see why russell takes it the length of the court. okc down by 3 points at that point. so, the game gets on the line, right, kobe

i'm scott thompson reporting. >> they have asked the u.s. for advance equipment to help. >>> deputies say a man rammed their car at morgan hill. michael matagulay came at them without warning. they say matagulay crashed into another car trying to get away and he was found hiding in the woods nearby. >>> another man is richmond's second victim this year. at wall avenue and 35th street. he was shot from a passing car. >>> the search is on for the pilot who crashed dropping a load of marijuana in the lagunas east of san diego. they spotted the wreckage of the aircraft yesterday during a routine air patrol and found 250 pounds of pot on board. they also found a set of footprints leading away from the crash site. >>> well a colony of burring owls is putting a wrinkle in the plans for a dublin housing department. the city has approved the project. the plan calls for 2,000 home to be built north of that bart station. but environmental activists have sued the city to stop it. they say there isn't a plan to deal with the burrowing owls that already b