right now on "america this morning," abc obtaining logs revealing new details on the houston concert tragedy, which show organizers losing control of the crowd before the concert even started. >> i want my baby back. >> and the death toll climbs in the tragedy as another concertgoer succumbs to her injuries. the defense rests. the final stretch of the kyle rittenhouse trial now under way. what's next as the prosecution asks for lesser charges. covid surge. 22 states reporting a rise in cases in a troubling sign for the winter months ahead. is a fourth wave inevitable? and new overnight, five

injured at an anti-vaccine mandate protest at the golden gate bridge. plus, the olympian who says she was pepper sprayed in an attack just weeks after she took home a gold medal. actor christopher walken destroying a priceless work of art. why he might be off the hook. and could britney spears finally be free? ♪ the big court decision happening today, november 12th. good friday morning, everyone. we begin with breaking news in the music festival tragedy in houston. >> detailed notes from emergency officials are revealing how the chaos unfolded. our station in houston obtained call logs from the fire department. they indicate organizers lost control of the crowd long before travis scott took the stage with authorities requesting riot equipment before 9:00 a.m. as the performance started. more than 12 hours later,

a fire iter writing, this is when it got real. >> it comes as another family is torn apart by the tragedy. a college student is now the ninth person to die from their injury. >> now we're hearing from scott's attorney who condemns what he calls finger pointing but we begin with the new time line of the chaos. overnight logs obtained from our houston station revealing new details on the events leading to that deadly surge at a houston concert a week ago today. the minute-by-minute logs show by 9:23 a.m. crowds had breached the main gates, nearly 40 minutes before the festival was set to open. by 9:48 the first patient had been transported to a hospital and by 10:02 a firefighter noting fences had been damaged and there was no control of participants. >> from the beginning it was not going well. >> reporter: by 1:21 p.m., eight hours before travis scott took the stage, all five ambulances on site will taking patients to hospitals, and just before

5:00 p.m. police reporting dangerous crowd conditions inside the venue and at 9:18, the first report of a crush injury, a chilling sign of things to come. >> i want my baby back, you know? i won't be able to live without her. >> reporter: this morning the mother of 22-year-old bharti shahani breaking down after announcing her daughter's death. shahani went to the music festival in houston one week ago with her sister and cousin but lost each other in the deadly crowd surge. >> i was holding her hand, and once that happened, the next time i saw her, she was in the er unconscious on a ventilator. >> reporter: shahani now the ninth person to die in the tragedy. all of the victims under the age of 30. her cousin saying her death was avoidable. >> if the producers, the venue, the organizers and live nation had done their job, if they had

hired properly vetted security and trained medics, if they hadn't packed us in on all three sides with barricades, they suffocated us. they did this to bharti. >> many are also blaming performer travis scott for not stopping the show sooner. he and the organizers are now facing multiple lawsuits and scott's attorney telling our station in houston city leaders should stop finger-pointing. >> nobody really knows exactly what the breakdown was. it seems to be an institutional breakdown that happened. >> a 9-year-old boy who was also injured at the festival remains in a medically induced coma. witnesses for both sides of the kyle rittenhouse murder trial have testified. now the lawyers are preparing their closing arguments. rittenhouse could get life in prison for gunning down three people, killing two of them. he claims he fired in self-defense. here's abc's morgan norwood. >> reporter: the stage is set for closing arguments to begin on monday in the trial of kyle rittenhouse. the defense resting its case

late thursday, 24 hours after rittenhouse took the stand in his own defense. rittenhouse is charged with killing joseph rosenbaum and anthony huber and injuring gaige grosskreutz with an ar-15. the 18-year-old arguing self-defense. in court jurors shown new images of the moments before the shooting. they were captured by blogger drew hernandez, the defense calling him to the stand. >> did you observe him acting in an aggressive manner to anyone that you observed? >> in no way, shape or form. the first time i saw kyle he actually de-escalated a situation. >> reporter: prosecutors trend pressing hernandez about social media behavior and whether he has an agenda. >> have you ever posted anything on social media -- >> yes. >> -- in support of kyle rittenhouse? >> one could argue, yes. >> reporter: the defense also bringing in an expert who analyzed the video from the protest and testified rittenhouse killed rosenbaum and huber and injured grosskreutz in a matter of 2 minutes and 55 seconds. grosskreutz the only person to survive being shot by

rittenhouse reacting to his tearful testimony. >> people right there. >> reporter: speaking exclusively to our michael strahan on "good morning america." >> to me it seemed like a child who had just gotten caught doing something that he wasn't supposed to. more upset that he was caught and less upset about what he had done. >> reporter: today the judge will meet with both sides to go over jury instructions. now, the state indicated they would ask for lesser included charges to give the jury options should they feel the burden was not met for first degree and attempted first degree intentional homicide. mona. >> morgan, thank you. an appeals court temporarily blocked the release of records from the trump white house to the house committee attacking the attack on the capitol. lawmakers were supposed to receive the first batch of documents today, but the court set a hearing for november 30th on his claim of executive privilege. meanwhile, former white house chief of staff mark meadows is

refusing to testify before the committee. more indoor gatherings as the weather turns colder. elizabeth schulze is in washington with more. elizabeth, good morning. >> reporter: covid hot spots around the country could be a troubling sign for the winter months ahead. for the first time in months new covid cases nationwide are on the rise with 22 states reporting a surge in infections. >> our hospitals and icus are filling up with patients who are going on ventilators. >> reporter: hospitalizations up in 14 states from colorado to michigan to vermont. low on icu beds, some hospitals are rationing care. >> the patients of new mexico that need the care most will receive the care during this

time of unprecedented volume. >> reporter: health experts say this latest surge is fueled by unvaccinated americans, waning immunity from the vaccine and colder weather as more people gather indoors. >> with people starting to make together, i think it's an get - important time just to let everyone know that we've got to stay vigilant. >> reporter: officials in colorado and california are now encouraging every adult to get a covid booster. though u.s. health officials haven't given it the okay. many are still resisting the shots altogether. overnight during an anti-vaccine mandate protest at the golden gate bridge, at least five people were injured in a car crash. more than 107 million americans remain unvaccinated. maddie was among them when she got covid. she's now on a ventilator struggling to breathe. >> it's horrible. sorry.

it's -- i just see my wife as this really strong woman, and seeing her so weak and struggling is something i wouldn't ever wish upon anybody. >> reporter: the cdc reports the daily death toll from covid in the u.s. is hovering around 1,000 deaths per day. mona. >> elizabeth, thank you. olympic gymnast suni lee says she was the victim of a racist attack. the 18-year-old gold medalist told the website pop sure that she was out with a group of friends in los angeles where people in a car yelled anti-asian slurs at them. lee says they also pepper sprayed her on her arm. time now for a look at your friday morning weather. good morning. a taste of winter in the upper midwest into friday morning. a big storm over minnesota bringing snow and wind and very dangerous driving conditions to the eastern dakotas and western minnesota. here's how much snow we're expecting to fall.

the worst of it will be north and west of minneapolis/st. paul. northern minnesota could see up to a foot of snow with this one. in the meantime, this large storm causing thunderstorms up and down the i-95 into friday. some could be strong to severe with isolated tornadoes. i'm accuweather meteorologist kevin coskren. coming up, the pastor giving a sermon outside his burning home. also ahead, dramatic new evidence revealed in the ahmaud arbery death trial and a defense attorney in the case under fire for objecting to, quote, black pastors in the courtroom. and a 1-year-old boy found safe after being kidnapped in a stolen video.

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>> that man you see there is pastor sammy smith, live streaming, as the second floor of his house burned. smith telling his followers that everyone was safe, no one was inside the home. he said he planned to preach that same morning at church. now to the trial of three white men charged with killing ahmaud arbery in georgia. jurors saw surveillance video of arbery visiting a construction site. a moment that rocked the courtroom, a defense lawyer complaining about the presence of reverend al sharpton. >> obviously, there's only so many pastors that they can have. and if their pastor is al sharpton, that's fine. which don't want any more black pastors coming in here, jesse jackson or whoever was in here earlier this week, sitting with the victim's family, trying to influence the jury in this case. >> the judge quickly shot down the lawyer and it turned out al sharpton was invited by the

arbery family. a georgia baby who went missing in thefami's sit his family left him asleep for just moments while they unloaded groceries. when they came back, the suv was gone with the baby inside. this morning, a mother breathing a sigh of relief after her 1-year-old son was found safe, 36 hours after being abducted. >> i'm speechless. i'm ecstatic. >> reporter: she says he was in hur suv as she unloaded groceries around 1:00 a.m. she says someone jumped into the vehicle and drove off with the baby still in the car seat. the suv was found late they are day. >> i've never been away from him like this, where it's like i don't know where he's at. >> reporter: but on thursday afternoon, he was found, cameras capturing the moment authorities removed him from this home. a woman at the home says she

found the child inside a car in her driveway and called 911. authorities say they don't know how long the baby was inside the car or who put him there. >> we've been looking and praying that this baby was all right. thank god. >> reporter: a short time later, he was reunited with his mother, and family members cheered them on. >> let's go celebrate. >> and the baby is in good condition. coming up, the pivotal moment for britney spears, will she finally be free today? an exclusive interview with the american caught in the cross fire of a gang shootout in cancun.

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britney shirts hours before a judge is set to decide whether to terminate her conservatorship. >> reporter: this morning, the free britney movement may come to fruition, as a los angeles judge could officially end her conservatorship that's been in mace for nearly 14 years. britney's father, jamie spears, had been in control of her estimated $60 million estate until september when the judge suspended him as her conservator and appointed a temporary one. and today's hearing could end the conservatorship all together. britney writing earlier in the week, this week is going to be very interesting for me. ♪ ♪ last summer, the nearly 40-year-old singer told the court for the first time that she was in an abusive conservatorship, claiming i was scared of my dad. in late october, her lawyer filed a motion to end the conservatorship that she has

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