they are surrounding the e-mails with anthony weiner. scott thuman has more. this is big. scott: this is. follow along. follow earl congressman anthony weiner -- former congressman anthony weiner has burned investigation with a sexting scandal. hills wife huma abedin is hillary clinton's right-hand woman. so they may have come across correspondence from huma abedin and hillary rodham clinton. we don't know. interest enough they are reinvestigating the case that had been closed. the f.b.i. director dropped this to congress saying they are investigating at a critical time for obvious reasons. is 1 days out. but more so because voting is underway in dozens of states through the early or the absentee votes. the polls are tightening a bit which happens in the way tolight of the election. donald trump held a rally in new hampshire today and he pounced on the riverlations.

shortly after didn't address the news but she talked about the pressure of a narrowing race. >> real change also means getting rid of the corruption in washington. and again, maybe that has happened. wow! a big day. >> very proud that the f.b.i. was willing to do this. really. >> we have got to keep our foot on the gas. donald trump says he can still anything can happen in an election. >> both sides, clinton's campaign chair and trump runningmate mike pence says we are wanting to hear more. what does the f.b.i. know? tell the american public more to clarify because we are at a critical stage as many people are voting. >> this is a big one. >> before the news broke the race appeared to be tightening. the latest abc

with a four-point lead. but clinton had a lead of 12 points five days ago. maureen: now everyone is wondering what impact it will have on the voters, especially now that the early voting has begun in our region. brad bell is out in votetrak 2016 and joins us from wheaton. what have you heard tonight? brad: as you know, votetrak 2016 has been traveling all across the area. today we are in wheaton. the idea is to give people an opportunity to be heard on the election. this afternoon when the news broke about the new f.b.i. investigation the subject changed quickly and people were eager to be heard. >> given the election year we are having, i guess i'm not surprised that it is happening. but it adds an additional

>> if there is anything wrong with the e-mail deletion, then there should be an investigation. >> i'll vote democrat no matter who they put in there. i might not even vote. i don't know. i think it doesn't matter. brad: talking to people this afternoon it's interesting, nobody saying they will change the mind or the news is changing a lot of people believe this is just the noise of the election. brad bell, abc7 news. >> mike pence was back on the campaign trail after the plane skidded off the runway. he boarded a new plane for a

jonathan: we follow breaking news from o'hare airport. an american airlines plane caught fire prompting emergency response and the evacuation of the flight. michelle marsh is in the satellite center with the latest for us. michelle: at last check, eight people are hurt as a result of the fire. that clouds seven passengers and one flight attendant. we are now hearing from some of the passengers. one man describes it as crying as you might expect. he says he saw flames out his window when he turned around and everyone rushed off the plate. some thought the plane was going to blow up. the american airlines flight on the way from chicago to miami. early reports indicate the plane blew a tire and damaged the engine.

>> a big plane. a clunk. then an explosion. then the plane stopped real fast and we started exiting. michigan that man you heard from said he was in -- michelle: that man you heard from was in row 31, one of the last people to get off the plane. there are significant delays as a result of this at o'hare. from police and the fire in chicago that is expected to happen in the hour. maureen: thank you. remember primary and the presidential debates stop at times? some say what happened in last night's benefit in illinois went further. next the fallout from a lawmaker controversial comments. jonathan: also coming up for us here at 6:00, rats, mice, roaches, bed bugs. the horrible living conditions

>> i am standing in the middle of seventh street southeast with hundreds of revelers of what capitol hill calls hill-oween. that is next. doug: weather wise we take the month of october out in style. we look ahead to halloween as well next at "abc7 news at

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announcer: you're watching "abc7 news at 6:00". on your side. maureen: police are investigating what is called the hate-based vandalism at a high school in montgomery county. on october 13, someone drew an image of a swastika on the football field at quints orchard nokia gaithersburg. police are now looking for a dark-colored sedan driven in the school's parking lot before the incident. political talk is about f.b.i. looking into the e-mails with hillary clinton. today republican senator mark kirk apologizing for a controversial comment he made in last night's senate debate. here is what kirk said after democratic challenger, an iraqi war veteran who lost both legs in combat talked about dangers of war. >> families like mine are the ones that need first. but let's make sure americans understand what we are

>> i had forgotten that you came from thailand to serve george washington. jonathan: duckworth american born family served in the military since the revolution. duckworth is ahead in a critical race to help the democrats try to take back the senate. maureen: new at 6:00, the large-scale credit card scam busted in arlington county. two people have been charged with money laundering and credit card fraud. authorities credit card and use them to buy prepayable gift cards. hundreds of thousands of gift cards were redeemed at a coffee shop owned by one of the suspects. coming up on "abc7 news at 6:00" -- the health of lobal families is put at risk because of a fell thy conditions in the apartment. the ugly findings from health inspectors. jonathan: we are getting ready for the weekend. weather looks good for marine corps marathon on sunday.

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and bed bugs are some of the violation found at an apartment complex in silver springs that has county leaders demanding changes. ryan hughes has the story. ryan: he and his young family are sleeping in an apartment with mold on the walls. he did not want to appear on come ra but he showed up the health issue only feet from his son's dead. on the other side of the building at the northwest park apartments in silver spring, anna i and mice. in spanish she says living in these conditions is affecting the health of her two kids suffering with allergies. with pressure from the tenant and the county council they did a full inspection of every unit in the complex and came back with 2200 violations. >> you find 2200 violations. that means that this has been going on for a long time. >> the inspection was done last month. according to the report the

bed bugs, rodents in many units. >> nobody should be forced to live with mold and mildew, rats and mice, roaches and bed bugs. these are health and safety issues. >> this is now home to many survivors of the deadly explosion in august at the flower branch apartments owned by the same company. this is cases like this that has the montgomery county counsel members pushing for a bill to inspect all apartment >> depend on how much rent you pay. >> we reached out the community. the property management company for community but the call had not been returned. jonathan: breaking news to the newsroom. fedex plane with a lot of problems now. the landing gear is stripped off this thing. the left wing is severely damaged. there was a fire. the first responders as you

it looks like it's relatively intact. this is fort lauderdale, florida. we don't know what caused it to have the gear collapse and skid off the runway. we don't know if it's coming or going. it's coming in the newsroom now. when we get word we will let you know. this is the same day that a chicago o'hare american airlines flight with a fire on the wing with 161 people on board. we will let you know when we maureen: a big weekend in our area. 30,000 people will take part in the marine corps marathon on sunday. of course, the temperatures are expected to be in the 70's. so organizers will plenty of water on hand for the runners. unlike recent years metro will not be open on summed. there are several closures along the district. many road closures. we vehicle a full list of them

one of the most exciting events on capitol hill. jonathan: sam ford joins us from halloween fun comes early. you wore a perfect costume. that looks great. sam: right! [laughter] i do have glasses on today. maybe i can say that. you have heard of halloween. this is hill-o-ween! we are in front of the historic eastern market on capitol hill. where every year they come out bigger and bigger every year. the thing that is interesting to me they brought the parents, the kids, the strongs. dogs and the strollers and the costumes together for capitol

direction. there is another group of people in other direction. that want to do this today. in the weekend they will come back to have the regular market. monday is halloween. one of the persons i that saw out here is the city council woman who lives. >> sam, happy halloween! >> you have a different hairdo. >> i have been working on my hair. this is fabulous. i'm a hill resident. hill-o-ween is such an event. i want to thank the colleague, ward six councilmember charles allen who instrumental in making this happen today. >> okay. they have to get back to the news there. we are having a lot of fun. we will continue the conversation later. i'm sam ford reporting from southeast washington. back to you. >> you need her hairdo. that would look good on you. maureen: the new trend she is starting. beautiful weekend ahead of us.

can't wait to get started. let me tell you the weather story here. 60 degrees. sun has been down for a few minutes. northwesterly winds down to ten. we had a wind gust this morning at 11:00 or so at reag national. 44 miles per hour. it's a steady diminishing of the winds all day. number wise tonight through the everything we will drop in the 50's. if you are headed out, the winds will continue to diminish. a jacket and a sweater is good heading across the metro through the evening hours. we look at the numbers tomorrow morning it will be but no frost. we won't be to that level. 40 in germantown. 42 in aspen hill. 40 in largo. 41 in ashburn. through the day tomorrow plenty of sunshine. the winds turn southwest. 5 to 10 miles per hour. that will boost the temperatures up to 73. so that is a good, nearly ten degrees above average for day. we are not finish with the warming trend. it will continue. get you into sunday morning for marine corps marathon. starts at 7:55.

they will climb through the morning with sunshine. and southwest and eventually westerly winds to bring in warmer air and it will be 74 by 1:00 p.m. may hit the mid-70's by the midafternoon. the forecast is simple. this is the last time i get to see the dancing mummy until next year. temperatures are dropping to we have a warming trend coming next week. maureen: tonight "7 on your side" is tracking the tax dollars. not a secret that it's expensive to drive in d.c.

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robert: so, a couple of battling for the skins in london. first, jetlag. then the bengals on sundays. matt jones has been ruled out for sunday with a knee injury. josh norman and jordan reed is questionable for sunday going through the coen concussion protocol. skins alived with no time to sleep. it's been a rough turn-around but they say they will recover. we will regroup and be ready to go. >> it's tough to get them out here and get them going. get the blood flowing but they fought through and did a good job today. i took a knee and i almost took a nap. it was tough. robert: our favorite part of friday high school football this week. a battle in montgomery county. scott abraham joins us live from the site with the scoop on this one.

at damascus high school one of the toughest places to play in maryland. the swarming hornets won 22 straight games. the game of the week is damascus taking on seneca valley. i mentioned this a tough place to play. you want to know why? look at this swarm! this is the student section of damascus. [cheers & applause] they are ready to go. we will have highlights of the game on high school sports final highlights of the game. kickoff at 6:30. it's going to be a good one. get ready, robert. see you later. >> all right. always gets them going. >> one final note. 22nd ranked navy plays south florida at 7:00. that should be a good game. scott gets them going on friday. jonathan: want to see something fun? let's go to chicago for a second and look at wrigley field. the cubby fans. they haven't had a world series park itself there since

cleveland hasn't won in a million years. chicago hasn't won in a million years and they are tied 1-1. so now they come back to chi town. cubbies are going to fight to go 2-1 over the tribe tonight. maureen: a lot of celebrating if there is a win in chicago. i have friends out there watching. jonathan: a lot of people go out with no ticket hoping to buy tickets. good luck with that. maureen: see what is going on here. doug: the weekend looks good. 73 with sunshine tomorrow. 50's to start the marine corps marathon. warm in the 70's in the course of the race. on halloween on monday it looks good. partly cloudy and 62. good weather for the trick-or-treat. the big warm sup the headline at 11:00. and any update on the trick-or-treat weather for monday. maureen: "world news tonight" with david muir is coming up next. jonathan: we will see you at 11:00. have a great night.

tonight, breaking news. the fbi bombshell for hillary clinton. revealing they will now investigate newly discovered e-mails. why now, 11 days before the election? and are the e-mails connected to clinton advisor huma abedin and her estranged husband anthony weiner? tonight, donald trump pouncing. also breaking, the fire engulfing a passenger plane at one of america's busiest airports. chaos in the cabin. passengers racing to escape. and we're on the scene tonight. the near disaster at another airport. and the new reveal late today. what happened in the cockpit of the campaign plane veering off the runway in new york? and, the urgent manhunt. the 911 calls just released. hunting for a killer who took aim at two police officers.