walking home from a mosque. richard reeve watched this all unfold. he was in courtroom and joins us live with what happened. rich? richard: courtroom chaos. the mother and father of the victim shouting at the defendant and threw a shoe at him as you said. finally the judge cleared the courtroom. >> justice for nabra. richard: emotions running high outside court. >> i love my daughter with all my heart. richard: inside a courtroom drama. venting at the defendant darwin martinez torres. "you killed my daughter" and threw a shoe at him. yelling "he killed my daughter." >> no one can feel what he is feeling. losing your daughter. richard: the 150 people

cursing out loud and the judge cleared the courtroom. >> sad. they raised beautiful children and suffering. you never like to see it happen. i know they meant no disrespect to the judge or the process. >> torres is accused in the beating death of hassanen. prosecutors calling at it road rage case. investigators say he confessed and led police to the body. >> she had good emotion. she think about other people. but today she is not with me. i lose her. >> prosecutors say the case could go to the grand jury as early as monday and they are not ruling out capital charges. in fairfax, richard reeve, abc7 news. jonathan: the man accused of murdering a pregnant teacher will not face charges for killing her unborn child. laura wallen was 14 weeks pregnant when she was killed. maryland's law requires a fetus to be a viable entity at the ti

tessier will face charges only in wallen's death. michelle: new details on the las vegas massacre where the f.b.i. says it has found no connection at all between gunman stephen paddock and any terrorist or ideological group. that means they still have no motive in this. the revelation as police defend the response time. the timeline shows only seconds passed between the gunman wounding a guard and then opening fire in a crowd. initial reports had the gap as long as six minutes. jonathan: stopping short of pulling out of the iran nuclear deal altogether, president trump's decision to decertify iran's compliance puts the future in doubt. congress has 60 days to set or modify this agreement or reimpose sanctions. if congress does not act and the president said he will end the u.s. involvement in this. every other country says iran is complying with the terms and iran says it will continue to

the u.s. does not. michelle: firefighters are finally starting to make containment of the fires. we are told 31 people are dead and 9,000 firefighters are on the ground fighting a fire the size of new york city. despite all of that, 3,500 homes and businesses have been destroyed. even -- >> it's like why us? 700 other homes burned and our remains. >> i have been here 39 years. to find it still standing, i don't know what i did. but i must have done something right somewhere along the lines. michelle: that is incredible. going in the night the firefight continues as does the search for hundreds of people still reported missing. how about this for an eerie

growing inside of this tree. a person escaping the fire shot this video. that ground eventually became part of the 191,000 acres scorched so far. jonathan: what the area desperately needs is rain. something we with are finally starting to see after weeks of dry weather on our part. meteorologist steve rudin is tracking the timing and how it could affect our weekend. steve: showers out there and drizzle. the clouds are really low. that means it will stay cloudy moving through the everything. this is not turning heavy and nothing severe. temperatures drop to the lower 60's. the sunset in less than a of half hour. talking about the weekend, and if you like warmer temperatures and sunshine you will love what is in store. michelle? michelle: thank you. 24 hours after the wharf's grabbed opening in southwest d.c., abc7 is

look inside the command center that works to keep the area safe. sam sweeney spoke to the security director. that's not an easy job. a lot of people flocking to that area. sam: a lot of people. diane has seen it all. she has spent 27 years with m.p.d. and she was an assistant police chief. she did patrol. but this is her biggest assignment yet. she works in the central security command office known as the heartbeat of the operation. in her eyes the southwest water front is more than an entertainment complex. it's her responsibility and pition to keep it safe. >> you can't let your guard down. sam: this is the wharf command center. dozen of tv's, 24 hour monitoring team and feet away command team from the d.c. police, fire, private security and logistics manager. >> we talk about the decisions before we make them. we are not half

we -- haphazard. we don't come off the cuff. sam: the camera system is so sophisticated if a child is missing and they call police, they can go to the camera. this child walks away from the parents, hide under the bench and the group of women there don't know he is missing or where he is. when the 911 call comes in, they will be able to review the footage and save frantic seconds. the cameras can zoom in directly on anyone's face. d.c. police can also monitor the cameras in real-time. around the wharf, you will find 34 emergency call boxes. many along the water. >> if someone should go in the water we have a push button technology right here where you press a button. all the bulk headlights will go on. >> 24 hours in, there is no incident. 60,000 people are expected to be here in the next three days. the mission and central command. >> make sure people can get here safely and leave safely. >> diane says her goal is not to make this a police state

when you are here, you will see a lot of police officers but there will be a number of undercover police to make sure everything is safe. reporting live at the wharf, i'm sam sweeney, abc7 news. jonathan: all right, sam. thanks. caught on video dramatic end to a high-speed chase. look at that. why the man facing serious prison time is upset about his shoe. >> she hit me, too. michelle: we have the story behind this one as the second drunk driver rams into a police car. what police found in his car beside his 4-year-old so

jonathan: a woman is dead following a crash with a train in glen burnie. the driver was making illegal turn when the train struck her car. she later died at the hospital. the child in her car was seriously injured. michelle: caught on video, a suspected drunk driver with his child riding in the backseat slams into two cars. the second of which was a police car. watch. >> i'm trying to stop this guy. hold on. she just hit me, too. get out of the car, now! show me your hands. michelle: the driver immediately surrendered n

>> i didn't mean to. >> well, you did. >> did it really hit you? >> look at this. michelle: not the right question to ask. the police say the 4-year-old in the backseat was not hurt. they discovered a loaded gun in the car. he faces long time behind bars if convicted. jonathan: unusual scene in texas. going down the highway. this guy is on the move. then things take a strange turn. this is me, la, la, nothing happening. that didn't work. police tackled him in the pasture. that ends the drama. right? not so much. when they arrested the guy, boy was he mad. he says he stepped in manure and he lost one of the louis vuitton shoes. he also lost his freedom because in addition he was armed, driving a stolen car and had warrants out for his arrest and the chances are when we did the math he will be gone for 15 years. maybe they wil

michelle: help with bail money. who knows? why batman spent a dark night on the roof of a high school caught on video. jonathan: woman refuses to be a carjacking victim. her fight and the good samaritan that jumped in to help at "abc7 news a

michelle: a danger to the community is the judge's message as he convicted the gunman who fired in the crowd in august. the man preston claims he was firing in self-defense. >> must-see video, a stranger fighting back against crime. watch, she is filling up the car. this guy is going to come up and get into her car. and tries to drive away. she is quick to react. she will get in her car and the fight is on. she does not want to give up the vehicle. she pulls away, the hose comes flying out. you see the guy running around here? the tanker driver. filling up the station. he saw the whole thing go down and he grabs the guy out of the front of the ca

him. finally the robber decides you know what? i don't need the car that bad. he runs off. police trying to track him down but the good samaritan gave him good blows there. michelle: he handled this. now to this. caught on video. a man suspected of smashing out car windows in logan circle from the video from the condo complex where it happened on vermont avenue. jonathan: d.c., maryland and 16 other state are also suing to stop president trump's executive order to dismantle key part of obamacare. this comes as the president tries to rally support for the move. we look at what is changing. >> president trump explaining the move to strike obamacare provision. >> we are taking a little different route than we had hoped.

reporter: the us who announced an end to federally funded c.s.r.'s. the cost sharing reduction payment to insurance companies. the subsidies to help the 6 million lower income americans pay for healthcare. in a tweet he called on democrats but they criticized the move. >> make no mistake, last night the president single-handedly decided to raise americans' health premiums for no reason except for spite and cruelty. there are concerns about the reality of abrupt ending. >> i'm afraid it will stabilize the insurance market and -- destabilize the insurance market and raise premiums. >> others are backing the president but urging gi

>> the president said he is no longer going to engage in making the payments. so let's move forward to do what we should have done. michelle: "7 on your side" with health matters and issue of the crumb riber fields. this -- crumb rubber fields. now the counselcil hearing from -- council is hearing from students. they tested if crumb rubber field and found a third too hard and need to be repaired or replaced. >> what do you want to happen? >> we don't want it. we want natural grass. that is why we are mad about it. it's bad. we have all our reasons. michelle: there you go. >> they promise to make it softer at the end of the month. jonathan: look at the tv. batman. that is not really him. but it's a sc

hanging out on the roof of tennessee. the deal is the principal made a deal with the kids. he promised students if they met $50,000 fundraising goal he would spend a night on roof dressed as the dark knight. steve: all right. looking outside now. not in store for a sunset past 6:30. skies are soupy, fog needs to settle in. the wilson bridge overlooking national harbor now. the visibility is down to two and a half miles at this hour at the reagan national airport. we look for the dense fog to develop tonight along the i-81 corridor. so if you live out that way, leave extra time later tonight and in to tomorrow morning. temperatures have not moved a lot in the afternoon. now early everything hours. still 63 degrees at reagan national. same at dulles. cooler at winchester at 59. andrews at 61. mid-60's in fredericksburg. if you are looking for the warmer air, it's out there. it's not terribly far away. charleston right now at 81 degrees. roanoke at 63.

the clouds will stick around with us with scattered showers and drizzle moving through the everything and the overnight hours. nothing to become terribly heavy. with the temperatures fairly steady. lower 60's. of course, the cloudy skies. for tonight, areas of fog. to the west of us. low temperatures range from the mid-50's to the location and lower 60's downtown d.c. the winds are light. two to five miles per hour. forecast for morning drizzle and scattered showers. other than that, the temperatures will be on the cool side. upper 50's, lower 60's. at least early on. but by 10:00 to 11:00, as you begin to move about in your day it will improve. skies will clear on out. we will get showers north and east of us. and sunshine. moving through the late afternoon hours and into early everything. a look at the forecast for the day tomorrow. looks nice out there. daytime highs around 75 to 77

late afternoon hours. this is nice out there. talk about the fall color change. the fall color change creeping closer and closer to the d.c. area. a little bit of a wait around the capital beltway and southern maryland. head west, garrett county, a lot of color. head to west virginia, they are looking at fantastic color at this time. fedex field this sunday, football game. 80 to 85 degrees. a lot of sunshine. we have a cold front late sunday night. that will trigger a chance of showers. cooler on monday. 64 degrees. 65 on tuesday. we will rebound to the lower to the middle 70's by next week. following weekend around 75 degrees. for howard's homecoming. michelle: the tough loss doesn't even begin to tell the story. they were on the verge. no close. jonathan: it's friday. so exciting. everybody loves the ends of e

was dragging. really? did it happen? michelle: friday the 13th curse. >> i love you, you are inventing to me. i can't get a word in. jonathan: we need a black couch. little help here. scott: relax. a tough day for d.c. sports fans after yet another playoff heartbreak. max scherzer and the nats falling short in game five. how it all went wrong in that fifth inning. you wil

scott: baseball, especially playoff baseball can be cruel. for the fourth time in six years the washington nationals could not advance to the lead championship series. last night another game five nightmare at nats park. things are looking pretty good until the fifty inning when max scherzer came out of the bullpen to take over. he got two outs quickly. then it went all downhill. the cubs turn 4-3 deficit in a 7-4 lead off the reigning cy young award winner. >> everybody laid it on the line. i don't think anybody has regrets. just one of those, just a game that sometimes doesn't go your way. i don't know why. we lost a ballgame and won 98 games. scott: it was tough in the clubhouse. you could almost hear a pin drop there. the latest game five

ellsworth airforce base -- jayson werth's contract is up and the future unknown. he struggled to find the right words after last night's game. >> a group of guys, these are like brothers. this is family. home. give it everything you got. you know, to the organization and franchise. to the teammates. tough. scott: really tough for the washington nationals. the redskins getting ready for sunday's game with the niners. josh norman officially out for the game while left tackle trent williams is questionable and williams not practice all week.

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i would like to see i would like to see i would like to see that ed gillespie never becomes governor. tonight several breaking headlines. the las vegas massacre. the sheriff late today and the new timeline now revealed tonight. when did the hero security guard did shot? when did the massacre begin and how long did it take for police to arrive as we also learn who else, the gunman, was aiming for. also the health care bombshell. president trump's midnight move. his effort to disassemble obamacare killing billions in subsidies that help cover the costs of care. your will hear from american families affected. the iran nuclear deal tonight. the president revealing he will not certify it calling it unacceptable. worldwide reaction coming in. the new