crime and the nation's capital, a man who worked tirelessly with underprivileged children and a man who ascended to the pulpit, pastor of his own church, pleaded guilty to making child born into sexually abusing two underaged girls. >> how are the hamburgers? this is the only meal some of them receive. reporter: we did a story on him over 15 years ago. he eventually took the helm of his own church. he faced charges of sexually abusing two girls ages 16 and 17. both of them said they attended his god of a second chance ministry church in southeast d.c. that, ad investigators 25 year veteran assaulted one of them inside his office and the other in his church. 's child for not the charges stem from new photos they found on his cell phone. prosecutors say he took the photos of the girl inside his

church. reporter: as part of the deal prosecutors agreed not to pursue more charges against him. if he had been convicted on all counts, he would face a maximum of 52.5 years in prison. if they just accept the plea agreement, he will get 18 years behind bars. stephen tschida, abc 7 news. alison: thank you very much. two of the six police officers accused in the rest and death of freddie gray want charges against them thrown out. officer william porter and lieutenant brian rice say the assault charges against them should be dropped. they say their failure to put freddie gray in a seatbelt does not break the law. he died after suffering a spinal injury in that police van. 's death set up a riot that caused millions of dollars in damage. leon: it happened again. for the third time at just 24 hours of pedestrian has been killed in our area. it was 18-year-old college student michelle hoya.

she died around sunrise well walking to the intersection of route 29 and new hampshire avenue the white oak. last night at 95 euros woman diebel crossing river road new bethesda. yesterday morning, a 72-year-old died crossing and avenue in reston. with the first time in nearly four years a u.s. service number was killed in combat in iraq. the pentagon says u.s. forces were hoping kurdish and iraqi forces rescued dozens of hostages in northeastern iraq. leon: they came under fire in that is when the merchant service number was killed. the firefight is the first time a u.s. force has stepped in to congress -- combat against isis in iraq. willn: hillary clinton soon be back on the stand as the attack and benghazi hearing can.-- resumes the attack left four americans did. it launched a massive investigation of many claimed turned into a political witch hunt. scott thuman in that hearing. he has stepped out to help us

understand what is fact and what is rhetoric. reporter: regardless of what is being revealed and sorted out today but the security level fighter to that attack and the death of four americans, it does seem brighter for the most part and it is outweighing every thing else. a very partisan subject. republicans are arguing that pass investigations, seven other committees have fallen short. democrats steadfastly disagree. they say they threaten to boycott today because it is nothing more to do than with -- because it has nothing to do and is politics -- political. >> i don't know with this line of questioning goes to help us get to the bottom of the deaths of four americans. >> healthy happy to help you understand that of secretary. --, madam secretary.

>> good people sometimes give their lives for this country. they don't like it. they mourned for those families and pray for the families that they can live with it. what they can't take, but they can't live with his mother -- is when their government is not square with them. makingaccusations you're is a disservice to the hard work of the people the state department, the intelligence community, the defense department, when the white house did during some very confusing and difficult days. there is no doubt in my mind that we did the best we could with the information we had at the time. reporter: a lot of the arguing also about what exactly prompted the attack. was this a mother spontaneously reacted to inflammatory video or a carefully choreographed attacked by terrorists? we will get into that coming up tonight at 6:00. e-mails become's

the focus yet again today on the hill. what was revealed on that issue in just about an hour. alison: plaxico will look now the hearing. -- let's take a live look now at the hearing. you can hear all of them is uninterrupted on our sister station, news channel 8. leon: at least it was sunny outside. the word is there was a cold front on the way right now. let's see if there are drastic changes for us. steve is standing by in our weather center. how does it look tonight? steve: we will see a cold front moves through tonight. is the first of three over the next seven days. commuters outside the weather center. you can get excited about temperatures like this because it is the end of october and it is 74 greg and national. 77 at reston and manassas. and woodbridge

at 75 degrees. not a whole lot going on with thickening cloud cover north and west of us. into the panhandle of west virginia. a few showers across southern pennsylvania. the winds mainly out of the south at seven or eight miles per hour. we will drop into the 50's in town. a little cooler in suburban areas with upper 40's on -- under amazingly clear skies. here is your day planner for tomorrow. once the front moves through it will be a mix of sun and clouds. highs in the middle to upper 60's. talking about the marine corps marathon and redskins football weather. all that and much more coming up in a few minutes. leon: a warning from annapolis police about an accused rapist on the run. daniel rivera is facing charges of rape after he was caught on video ripping it can numeral girl or the weekend. they say she is not his only victim. brad bell has the latest on the may nt and where rivera

be heading. reporter: police retracing the groom is a runaway child as we can when they asked to see security video in this laundromat. >> detectives were stunned when they some of the fight to them inappropriate touching. possibly sexual assault on video. reporter: they see the video shows this man, 56-year-old dino rivera appearing to sexually assault a 10-year-old girl. and as detectives dove deeper, they claimed they uncovered evidence that he had also rate a 12-year-old -- raped a 12-year-old girl on two occasions. reporter: 26 counts of sexual assault, including secondary rape, perverted practices with a 10-year-old child and a 12-year-old child. reporter: they say rivera slipped away. today at the laundromat detectives with more questions for the store owner. police wonder if there are more possible victims. the laundromat owner tells us

off-camera there was no sign of trouble from rivera, a trusted six-year employee . customers say the same. >> no, no. great guy. i am shocked. i saw his picture on television last night and said i think that is the laundry got. -- guy. reporter: they spake of him by television on tuesday -- they spoke to him by telephone on tuesday night. they believe he is perhaps another virginia are making his way to el salvador. anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to please call police. brad bell, abc 7 news. leon: five armed robberies within 30 minutes of each other. d.c. are trying to determine if they are all connected. all that one of the robbers took place in southeast yesterday evening. the other was in northeast. most of the robbers involved two or three men taking cell phones and purses. the victims were not hurt. if you know anything, give police a call immediately. alison: to the people who know

accused alexandria serial killer areles severance the best disputing a critical piece of evidence. jeff goldberg choices live with what is unfolding in the trial today. reporter: on the witness stand right now a forensic psychologist who is giving his analysis of charles severance's extensive writings, saying they reflect paranoid schizophrenic tendencies and a man that is a great mistrust of the world around him. this cap today in which defense was really trying to hammer home its argument by saying that charles severance's behavior in writing maybe angry and bizarre, they do not mean he is a killer. testified that the family started noticing strange behavior in the early 1980's after charles joined a so-called cult. charles was antagonistic, disjointed, rambling. he would go on tirades. he called his brother

s run for mayor in the 1990's was harebrained. you try to get attention by standing on a mall food court -- standing on a table at a mall food court and howling. testimony from his old friends from cumberland, maryland from 2001-2002. they spoke of his kind demeanor and love of history, games, and science fiction. also saying that while he was upset after losing custody of his son, he never spoke of murder or violence. a defense witnesses have been showing the target surveillance video from the morning that anti-gun was murdered in december, 2003. all ahaz said definitively this man was not troll severance as the prosecution claims. >> i thought it was absurd. eventually they asked if he would threaten or murdered somebody? reporter: we heard testimony

from the woman who was married -- alison: jeff is consummate updating the case throughout the day. follow on twitter. the: coming up at 5:00, confession of a man accused of killing a four-year-old girl in a road rage incident. alison: seven churches catch fire in one community. what investigators have turned up as the tension builds. investigators are

focusing after a damascus fire destroys a family home. to garden show was in a few azalias.

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alison: a family of five this place after a massive fire. the home was fully engulfed. two people were in the home of the fire started. luckily they made it out ok and nobody else was injured. no word on what caused the fire with a believe it started in the garage. people have to find a place to stay tonight after a fire ripped through an apartment building in silver spring. firefighters say the fire --rted in a third 4 billion third floor better. elect more than $350,000 in damage. investigators are looking into the cause. leon: they believe man is facing a big bill after he tried to put a plan in the ground. he cut the rate utility line in the process just a few inches below the surface. of where the line was is raising a big debate. 7 on your side.

chris is lit to explain. -- live to explain. reporter: these did all the damage. the man who lives in this house was trying to plant a few azalea bushes. when he got into the soil, there was a verizon fios line. we are not far from the street, actually we are far from the street. he had no idea this mistake because the newly $1000. >> i was digging a hole -- reporter: he loves the manager's front lawn. reporter: you are digging with these hand shovels? earlier this year will planting, the accident and hit a verizon fios line. the company quickly made a repair. he thought that was it until he received this repair bill for

$853. >> that is ridiculous for me. i could understand if i was excavating something. but i'm putting in shrubs. reporter: dora parks says because he was digging on his own property without machinery he was not legally obligated to call 811 to locate utility lines. he can still be charged by the utility for their pairs. is callafe thing to do the utility so they can get out there and identify those lines. >> if residents are being exposed to this kind of liability for digging in their yard, no major excavation, something is wrong. didrter: 7 on your side reach out to be verizon contract of the issue this repair bill. we were told there is a lull in maryland that specifies how deep

the phone and cable lines need to be. $854 haso told that just been canceled by the more information was given. chris papst, abc 7 news. leon: we have some breaking news coming into our newsroom right now. was a dented jonathan elias. jonathan: this is coming to us from charles county register's office just issued a sketch in connection to a shooting. take a good look at this composite sketch they're putting out. this is a person they want to find. they believe this is the guy that shot a 17-year-old back in october 16. that teen was riding his bike on a path at 3:00 in the afternoon when he was confronted by a couple of people. there was a fight to get his bike and one point -- full that a gun and shot him. this is the guy they want to find . if you recognize the man, charles town he police would like to talk to you. that's the latest news desk. back to you. leon: thank you jonathan. alison: let's turn to the

weather. it does not get much better than this. steve: it was awesome today. tomorrow will be a lot cooler but now we have three cold fronts on the way over the next six or seven days. those seasons are changing. leon: a hat trick. steve: i will tell you the timing on each of them coming up. about another hour before the sun sets. daylight continues to trick about one minute 15 seconds per day. leesburg. degrees in manassas at 77. 80 at charlottesville. if you have dinner plans, take advantage of it. outside tonight. it stays dry. a few clouds later on tonight but nothing noble amount to a whole lot in terms of when the cold front moves through. tenders will fall tomorrow -- temperatures will fall tomorrow. 77 in richmond. on the other side of the front we are talking 60's and that is all we have here for the day on

friday and stays that way on saturday. satellite and radar show it is quiet and drive. hero the showers across southern pennsylvania. most will stay well to the north of us. not affecting anything around here for tonight other than the cloud cover. the cool temperatures will funnel and later on. closer in around the capital beltway. no delays in terms of the weather for this evening. the sun glare will continue to be a problem as you move through the next couple of weeks. daylight hours continue to diminish, especially during the rush-hour commute. 50 degrees overnight and partly cloudy. wines will be out -- winds will be out of the southwest. tomorrow will be a cool start for many. temperatures in the 50's and 40 south to the north of us. has to be moving the day tomorrow, this is futurecast, here's the cold front that lives on through. cooler settles by

temperatures tomorrow afternoon. the same for saturday. by sunday we will warm up just a little bit. upper 60's and some may be around 70 degrees. a chance for a few showers is another cold front moves through. take advantage of the fall color change. extra time over the next couple of days. head over to the west virginia and it's nearly perfect run hagerstown. northern montgomery county, into the district a little bit of color right now but more for the next week or so. southern maryland not quite yet but give it another week it was he a beautiful color display. for tomorrow looking at temperatures around 56 degrees early in the morning. 62 for the luncheon hour. hour. added for the 5:00 saturday, the alzheimer's walk, 57 degrees and a big day on sunday. 68 degrees to around 70 for the

daytime high. the marine corps marathon starts early in the morning. 7:00 or so around 53. 10:00, 61. 66 at 1:00. a chance for hq -- for a few showers but i don't think it will amount to a lot. it will be cool and adding clouds on tuesday. another front on wednesday. up and down we go as we transition to their i see it, winter. winter.i say it, leon: we have a good thing going here. alison: still ahead on abc 7 who was behind the new call to action for safety improvements on the metro. 1 seven churches catch fire around st. louis in two weeks. alison: tg i.t..

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leon: coverage he police say a man confessed to killing a little girl in a road rage incident. he admitted to shooting

four-year-old filly garcia when she was writing the back seat of her father's pickup. they say he exchanged words with him after tourists cut him off. res cut him off. people that a gun and hit delete. the family it -- hit lily. >> whoever did this will pay. i am not going away. my family is not going away. her face is not going away. you guys will see me again. torres is being held on a 650,000 cash only bond. alison: investigators poring over a charge church building. each of these churches has something in common. elizabeth hur has the latest on the investigation. reporter: it happened again. another church in the st. louis, missouri area damaged from a fire believed to be arson.

>> whoever is responsible did some research and scatter the area out and you they can get in and out without possibly being seen. seventh: this is the suspicious fire in two weeks set in the middle of the night and started at the front door. officials have already linked the previous six fires. they were all predominantly black congregations located within three miles of each other. >> i want that person to get help. i want people to find out why. reporter: the latest church targeted is outside the radius and the congregation is mostly white. all seven churches are just miles from ferguson, missouri, still recovering from the riots following last year's shooting death of owner teenager michael brown by a white police officer. for fire investigators, they want to determine a motive. >> because somebody who has a beef against a church or

somebody who might have mental issues. reporter: officials say they don't know if the latest fire is the work of a copycat or if they are still dealing with one serial arsonist. they remain on high alert. elizabeth her, abc 7 news. alison: still the come, technology because beyond what the human eye can see. we will show you an amazing camera that can be available on future smartphones. reporter: a new call to be able to do this. dial 911 when you are in a tunnel on metro.

>> you're watching abc 7 news at 5:00, on your side. for a second straight day concern over passenger safety dominated a meeting involving metro. now more voices are joining in the discussion. react -- brianne carter covering this first tonight. reporter: imagine being stuck in a tunnel on metro on a train and trying to dial 911. and not going through. the officials today say that happens all the time. only about 20% of those calls actually making it through. now a push to get that changed and get it done quick. froml to action for metro first responders and local leaders to get 911 cell service up and running inside metro tunnels. >> it's a problem of public

safety. we need to make sure people of access to 911. reporter: he says right now 80% of metro tunnels you can't get service to call 911. he says under the current plan the probable be fixed in 2020. >> five years to get cell service and permitted in the tunnels is unacceptable. intoter: metro is entering an agreement with cell carriers. the general manager told abc seven the agreement has not been signed. >> we're down to crossing the t's and dotting the i. reporter: he says it will be difficult because metro can't lay a new phone cable all the trains are on the track. >> without further closer to the system, it will be difficult to speed the process of. his considered a top priority. reporter: firefighter communication underground on metro rails were highlighted in the tragic yellow line smoke incident. they say -- officials say since

the incident steps have been taken to improve the interoperability between firefighters across the region. that includes having the same particles for all fire and ems across our region when responding to a metro incident. they say the cell phones, they are working to get that done as soon as possible. this comes after federal agencies reached out to the fta who has oversight over metro. they say the process needs to be set up. brianne carter, abc 7 news. leon: police are searching for a suspect in a deadly overnight stabbing. they are being tightlipped about the incident. it happened around 1:00 a.m. in northeast. investigators spent the morning collecting evidence at the scene. still no word on the victim's identity, but to the stabbing. alison: trouble for a former d.c. police officer turned pastor. just a short time ago daryle

guilty to sexually assaulting two underage girls and making child pornography. if a jets except a plea deal, he faces 18 years in prison. leon: annapolis police and your help finding an accused rapist on the run. daniel rivera is accused of rapin a 12-year-old girl on two occasions. they believe he is still in the d.c. area. >> i would imagine i felt -- thought more about it happened than all of you put together. alison: hillary clinton facing hours a question he about the handling of the deadly attacks on an american compound in benghazi. democrats a special house committee just want to undermine clinton's presidential campaign. republicans tonight's accusations. scott thuman is there. he is following the hearing that is still going on.

you can look for his live report at 6:00. leon: can you imagine working for the same employer for 50 years? a local man is honored today for doing just that. metro's board of directors honored samuel king who was working them for half a century. when he started it was known as d.c. transit. today he reflected on how he was able to stay there for so long. >> you take it one day at a time. don't that today spoil tomorrow. -- don't let that a spoiled tomorrow. tomorrow. into the six they gave him a customer service award for managing a blue line station. alison: don't that your today -- dont let your today spoil your

tomorrow. how the problem was discovered and how 7 on your side got her money back. leon: using a special camera. proof before you can buy it. asking for help in the fight against cancer. details of the major s

steve: one more day until the weekend. looking good on saturday but a bit chilly at times. added clouds on sunday. a weak cold front will move through. highs in the upper 60's to around 70 and maybe a few scattered showers. a lot going on this weekend. we have the marine corps marathon. 56-57 degrees. by 2:00 in the afternoon who

will be in the upper city -- middle 60's and showers should be coming to an end. a look at the 70 outlook. a 30% chance of showers on sunday. lower 60's come monday and tuesday of next week. abc 7 news at 5:00

alison: we may be on the cusp of technology that could revel lies not only had he received medical care but how you shop. leon: hazmat reports tonight it's all thanks to a camera that science is believed could be coming to the next generation of smartphone. nice if: wouldn't it be he did not need to cap a melon to see if it is ripe. optimizing.a is rotten fruitecting is just one idea that the universities of washington researchers had been they were creating the hyper cam. a slimmed down version to go inside a smartphone and people of the surface of an avocado and find the unwanted bruise. >> it has a bruise here. on the screen you can see that part of the avocado is much darker. reporter: video does not do it justice compared to still photos

taken in time lapse. the spoil areas are clearly visible. the typical camera on the left sees three wavelengths of light. the hyper cam sees 17. >> we are able to look at the food on the inside. reporter: taken to below the surface of the skin. the veins might be the next biometric identifier. cameras like this are not new, but what is captured the interest is the cost. >> the commercial camera would cost about $6,000. on a cell phone they could be $50. reporter: making banana buying a vespers in business in the future. leon: one remaining challenge left over for the technology is it does not work well in bright light. we will wait and see what happens. hands-freet 5:00,

does not mean distraction-free. the dangers of electronic devices and distracted driving. >> i pay for 30 years. how about reimbursement? alison: a woman learns she has been giving away money for decades because she is not received any utility service in return. she had problems getting a refund. 7 on your side how7 on your side steps in to help

leon: a dirty little secret buried in a backyard beads to tens of thousands of dollars of trouble for a woman. alison: she received a bill for three decades for a service she knows she never received. when he try to get her money back, things got clogged up. that is when she called 7 on your side troubleshooter horace holmes. reporter: it started as a little leak in the basement. it ended up unearthing a pile of problems and buried secrets for gina. >> the first thing he said they have to refund me for 30 years for the sewer.

reporter: she bought this home 30 years ago. for 30 years she's been fatally paying wssc for water and sewer service. a few years ago they rented out her maryland home with no issues until she received the call from a renter telling her about the leak. the management company does care for her property called in a plumber. >> the plumber dug into the super line. reporter: he began trying to trace pipes in the house to the county sewer line. they don't end up all around the house in search of that sewer line. they did not find it. they came back to the backyard and doug several feet below where i'm standing to find a septic tank. it turns out was from her home was going into a septic tank all this time. it should not -- it is not been cleaned out and 30 years. the house and never been hooked up to the county sewer line even though by law it should've been

and wssc records indicate it was. she had no idea this machine bought a home in 1985. >> i paid for 30 years. how about reimbursement? reporter: she was required to a private plumber $20,000 to connect the home to a sewer line. when she asked for help when -- with what to solve their error, >> it's a check for the knot of $414. reporter: reimbursement for three years of that sewer bills. 7 on your side got in touch with wssc and we got a statement saying "we incorrectly billed the customer for sewer service." they recognizes the error and is in the process of calculating a refund." a few days later she received this letter from wssc offering her and $18,000 settlement.

horace holmes, abc seven news. alison: how about that? they admit that she paid $8,900 over the 30 years for sewer service she never received. thanks to 7 on your side they are paying her back for that and part of the cost as well to connecting to the county sewer line. wssc says in general that is the cost that the homeowner is responsible for they recognize she is a unique situation. leon: way to go. alison: let's check on the roads. joy: the beltway is still the place to be. let's look at the camera. the beltway at the american legion bridge, old georgetown now and the eisenhower connector towards woodrow wilson bridge. still trying to recover on the inner loop. you're looking live at the beltway. that is north of 50.

trying to recover from an earlier incident endocyte incidentd 95 movie -- and it looks like southbound 95 -- you looking live at 66. still trying to recover southbound 395 towards duke street. things improving on northbound to 70 where readers seeing delays near montrose avenue. back to you. leon: thank you. alison: let's get a check on the weather. things are progressing with three cold fronts heading our way? -- thethe person i first one tonight, then this weekend, then next week. 75 degrees at chevy chase in the same in falls church. 74 at centreville. satellite and radar have a few at a clouds moving in inside the beltway. let's widen out the view in the cold front just off to the north of us is triggering a few

showers north of the maryland-pennsylvania border. they will stay there with no impact on our area as you move through the overnight. skies turn partly cloudy and temperatures inside the district, inside the beltway around 50 degrees. winds out of the southwest at five miles per hour. here is the cold front that slides on through. cooler air will spread across the mid-atlantic tomorrow with highs only in the middle to upper 50's. a huge change compared what we had today. the cold air will not stick around terribly long. we are looking at a bump in temperatures on sunday. lower 60's tomorrow for the lunch on our. grab lunch at maybe you will want to eat it outside the grab a jacket. 56 for a daytime high in this he -- 66 for a daytime i can in the marine corps marathon early on in a will start with temperatures in the 50's. good football weather for the redskins. by monday and tuesday of next week another shot of cooler air.

lower 60's and then another front moving with showers on wednesday and thursday. leon: hopefully by the time the skins will still be seeing red. robert: got the buccaneers. the crab keying. -- king. jordan reed practice for the second time this week. he is still going through concussion protocol. 2-3 buccaneers are playing the skins on sunday. tampa bay quarterback is a rookie but what does that mean for the redskins? don't think they can afford to overlook anybody right now. to the skins, everyone is good including rookies. >> you look at him sometime in say he can throw and make it plays. he still learning how to become an nfl quarterback. >> you can see flashes of what he is the number one pick or you will see flashes of he is a

rookie. he could end of torching assessed -- torching us on the field. he has the weapons. robert: you thinking ohio state, florida, maybe alabama. the sec or the big ten maybe. on saturday, game day, we will ask james madison. yes, you never see game day at an ses school. fifth-ranked james madison will post 13th-ranked richmond for the homecoming. the show's producer is a 1992 graduate of jmu. if your not familiar with college game day, it's a pretty big deal. >> our president has talked a lot about athletics being the front porch of the university. our front porch better be nice and clean and tidy for saturday. a lot of people get a chance to see it. talk about being a national brand. here you go. you are welcome. here you go.

robert: if you can't get up for "college game day" -- leon: our producer will be unbearable. thanks. alison: still ahead at 5:00, hands-free devices are supposed to help reduce distractions while driving. new research found that is not the case. the surprising find coming up next. here is a look for mobile track seven. this is from bethesda heading towards 270. we will be back after this.

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leon: more teenagers are dying in virginia roads and many are preventable. statistics show 25 people died this year in crashes and that number is nearly 20% higher than

last year. two thirds of those killed for not wearing seatbelts. the biggest causes were running off the road and speed. have to crashes involve both. alison: one of the biggest causes of crashes is distracted driving here it tonight aaa is wanting that technology and it cutting back on distractions is not enough. tom roussey is live with the best and the worst technology and keeping you focused on the road. reporter: high. -- it does not seem that long -- it was sos dangerous if you talked in a cell phone. the aaa survey says not exactly. we are here on the beltway approaching 270. we are just about stopped right now. it looks bad in front and frankly looks back in back as well. a lot of these drivers you see are distracted right now. check out the most distracting

technology. not all created equal. they did voice activation technology and they found out if you use google now and talk to it while driving, that's the safest of the ones they tested. number two was apple siri. the least safe was microsoft corp.,. -- cortana. they also tested cars. a lot you can talk to right now. the safest kidnapping the chevy equinox and the buick lacrosse. the least safe one was the mazda six. they also found that in the survey, they did a special survey of d.c. drivers and they found a lot of us think other drivers are distracted but i can handle the distraction. a lot of is guilty as charged. a lot of us overrate ourselves when it comes to how will we handle the distractions.

they found voice-activated technology still very distracting for drivers. abc 7 news tom rousseyabc 7 news ,. -- tom roussey, abc 7 news. at 6:00,ight now hillary clinton testifies before a house committee on benghazi. how she confronted her critics. also, a crime-fighting father king things into his own hand. is search for who hurt his son in a hit and run. good aspirin help in the fight against cancer? the detail of the major study looking to answer that question. abc 7 news at 6:00 starts right now. >> you're watching abc 7 news at 6:00, on your side. i take responsibly for what happened in benghazi. after months of anticipation, today hillary clinton was squarely on the hot seat. congressional republicans pushed her to answer tough questions

about what happened in benghazi libya the lifted -- that led to the death of four americans. leon: scott thuman was there at the hearing as more now on this 10th day of testimony. -- tense they of testimony. reporter: they are in their third question of -- session of question and answer. one staffer telling me republican committee members were hoping that 15 to 18 hours of questions. that is clearly unlikely to happen but the point is there is no shortage of questions for hillary clinton. >> there are people in both parties who have suggested this sick -- investigation is about you. let me assure you it is not. reporter: her testimony, the most anticipated and perhaps years specifically over white ambassador chris stephens request for added security was ignored. >> i did not see them. i did not approve them. i did not deny them. reporter: her e-m