>> and this evening we have new details about the gunman and his girlfriend. they are coming to light because police have now named her definitely a person of interest. this just about an hour ago. they say stephen paddock had wired her $100,000 in the days before the shooting. >> we are also getting our first look inside the hotel. check this out. new video showing one of the semiautomatic weapons with crime tape in front of the gunman's room and debris there. you see all over the hallway. >> we do have team coverage on the attack and the after magts. we are going to start with nbc's sara dalloff. she has the latest on the investigation today. >> reporter: grief grows along the vegas strip. overnight the flashy marquees that defined las vegas lit with condolences for victims of sunday's attack and greatitude for first responders who helped the injured. >> it was unbelievable how many

working. >> reporter: today a first look inside the hotel room where shooter stephen paddock set about his deadly rampage. paddock is described as a heavy gambler who had wagered in excess of $10,000 in casinos 16 times in the past few months. officials say federal investigators are examining his finances. >> the people he loved, he took care of. he didn't have a lot of friends. you know, he was a private person. >> reporter: he transferred $100,000 to an account in the philippines, a country his girlfriend has ties to, in the week before the shooting. and on september 28th, he checked into the mandalay bay hotel using ten suitcases to carry 23 firearms. law enforcement say he also purchased two gun stocks that allow a semiautomatic rifle to fire like an automatic weapon. >> believe me, i sympathize with everybody who is grasping. who on this planet can grasp an understanding more than me? >> reporter: as law enforcement processes the concert venues

behind in the chaos, las vegas gathers to grieve the 59 lost and nearly 500 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern u.s. history. in las vegas, sara dalloff, nbc news. >> the gunman's neighbors say there were no warning signs. stephen paddock used to work for the irs. he was also an accountant with no criminal record. overnight, agents searched his modest home in nevada and found a massive, a massive arsenal. 19 additional weapons, explosives, and thousands of rounds of ammo. paddock also had a documented pass s past in vegas. nbc news obtained this video of him in 2011 slipping and falling in a high stakes gambling area at the cosmopolitan hotel and casino. paddock sued, blaming his fall on a slippery floor. but he lost when the case went to arbitration. >> also tonight, there are new accounts of the chaos tha

occurred on the ground after those first shots were fired. news 4's aaron gilchrist is in las vegas and he talked to someone from our area who witnessed the drama from her hotel room. i can only imagine, aaron, what did she think was happening? >> reporter: she said she felt nothing but fear at one point sunday night. she was imagine, a group of women sitting in a hotel room talking. they hear sirens outside. not all that unusual here in las vegas. but you take a look up at the window above me here at the mandalay bay resort, and that is what she got a text message about from d.c. and when the reality of the night set in, it was almost paralyzing. >> we could see all those lights. they looked like police lights coming from every part of the city. you can see, you have the highway here and the crossroads. >> reporter: sara campbell looks out of her hotel window still in disbelief about what happened just down the vegas strip sunday night. the swarm of police and the chilling transformation of a party city. >> when we first started hearing

bustling. it was still -- everything was moving. and then all of a sudden it just stopped. and all the cars were stopped in both directions. the street was empty. and it was just still. >> reporter: rumors started swirling about more shooters and explosives and incidents at other hotels. fear on the street spread 54 floors up to sara's room. >> what do we do? what's going on? how do we help? we can't help. we need to stay here. >> reporter: nowadays later the maryland florist is trying to do what she came to vegas to do at a wedding vendor's convention. but her presentation on floral arrangements didn't happen on monday. instead from the stage a call to action to create a sacred space for grieving families at the city's reunification center, a mass exodus of flourists, more than 100 set out to design this bid of bright flowers and angel wings made of greenery. >>

had a place to pray and think. >> reporter: still, sara says knowing what happened in that window at the mandalay bay haunts her. >> it's no longer that beautiful joyous building, beautiful joyous resort you're looking at. it's more like a gravesite. >> reporter: i have covered all three of this country's deadliest mass shootings, virginia tech, orlando, and now las vegas. jim, i can tell you the only bright spot from these incidents is people like sara who try to comfort and help those who are hurting after a shooting like this. >> so many heroic stories. aaron, thank you for sharing those with us tonight. we'll see you later on at 11:00. 59 people, as we've been saying for two days now, were killed, but the death toll could still climb as dozens remain in critical condition at the hospital. thesre

mothers, fathers, friends, teachers, their personal stories. they crisscross the country. news 4's kristin wright has a closer look now at three victims with ties to our area. kristin? >> reporter: well, jim, lots of hometown support for tina frost and her family. she was shot in the head and survived, but she has a long road ahead. tina grew up in ann arundel county. she is on the right next to her mother. the bullet lodged in tina's right eye. doctors had to remove the eye. her family says she'll still have sight in her left eye. tina is in a coma tonight and on a ventilator. her father says she is responding. tina's school family anna run dell high school, is praying for recovery. she was a star soccer player before graduating in 2008. her coach believes that drive on the field that she saw will give her strength. >> with the support of her family and

wild cat family, there is no doubt in my mind that she's going to be okay. >> and we hope so. also sad to pass along, bill wolf was killed in las vegas. wolf was a youth wrestling coach in pennsylvania. he coached elementary school kids. we are also thinking of denise burditus from martinsburg, west virginia. she was also killed. this picture is from denise's memorialized facebook page. that's her husband. it looks like the picture was taken right at the venue out in vegas. the nbc station in martinsburg says her husband wrote on his facebook page that she died in his arms. gofundme pages are set up for tina frost and the family of bill wolf. when you think about the lives that are gone and the hundreds of people wounded, the loss is immeasurable. back to you. >> kristin, thank you. >> as we learn more about the victims and the c

those who loved them, the senseless violence that claimed them, americans are also wondering what can be done about this. >> democrats are calling for new steps to fight gun violence while republicans say it's too soon to talk about it. either way the massacre adds another new political issue to president trump's agenda. this as he addresses a problem that's been two weeks in the making, the crisis in puerto rico. here's blayne alexander. >> reporter: president trump on the ground today in puerto rico, surveying damage and praising his government's response. >> i've never seen people working so hard in my life. >> reporter: among those greeting him, the mayor of san juan who had criticized the federal response as too slow. the president speaking to local officials comparing the low death count to that of hurricane katrina and also addressing the soaring price tag. >> i hate to tell you, puerto rico, but you've thrown our budget a little out of whack because we spent a lot of money on prt

>> reporter: as he left washington this morning, president trump brushing off questions about a topic now gaining steam, gun control. >> we'll be talking about gun laws as time goes by. >> reporter: but in the wake of the mass shooting in las vegas, democrats say this is exactly the time. and taking aim at the apparent ease of converting guns into fully automatic weapons. >> i don't know anybody who goes deer hunting that needs to retrofit a gun to fire hundreds of rounds a minute. and it's to slaughter people. >> reporter: a different approach from republicans, congressman steve scalise himself recovering from a mass shooting calling for prayers. and from speaker paul ryan? >> we cannot let the actions of a single person define us as a country. it's not who we are. >> reporter: rather than jumping into the gun debate, ryan instead stressing the need for mental health reform as a way to possibly stop future tragedies. and back to puerto rico, beforein

a distribution center where he helped handout supplies. he has now left the island and is headed back to washington, wendy, he will arrive back home later tonight. back to you. >> blayne alexander, thank you, blayne. well, down in puerto rico some medical help has arrived. the navy hospital ship usns comfort docked in san juan earlier today, but it could be days before patients can get any care on it. doreen gentzler got exclusive access while on assignment in puerto rico. >> it's been two weeks since hurricane maria plowed its way across this island of puerto rico. and today the navy hospital ship, the usns comfort pulled into port. there are great expectations for how this giant hospital ship can help people in need here. 800 medical personnel on the ship with a capability of treating more than 1,000 people at once with a full-service emergency room and hospital care. but no patients are going to be

it may not happen tomorrow or even the day after that. they are still making a plan. right now they are in there having a meeting. we watched as a lot of government officials came walking down to get on the ship for a meeting this afternoon. puerto rican officials, fema officials, we are told that the u.s. surgeon general was in on that meeting. first they have to talk about where the need is the greatest. then they have to talk about where to move the ship and how to get the patients who are in need onto the ship for care. and that plan apparently is just getting started with this meeting this afternoon. did the visit of the president today delay that meeting? we don't know the answer to that. and we don't know the answer to when medical care for people in need here will begin. but we do know that there is tremendous need. i talked to an engineer t

one end to the other and he told me that only the main -- there is now a main road from one end of the island to the other open. but the secondary roads and the roads up into the mountains are still a mess with land slides, people can't get out to get help. so, and he also told me that one-third of the municipalities have not even had a visit from fema yet. so, we know that the need is significant, especially outside of san juan. when will the medical care be available to those people? we can't tell you yet. >> doreen gentzler, we'll see you again at 11:00. next on news 4 and only right here, cell phone video bringing us closer to the scene as gun fire rained down and confusion filled the country music concert. see how it all unfolded in las vegas. >> unlocked and loaded, a local crime ring busted open, but the thieves didn't have

to make off with the guns and ammo. >> reporter: her son is 22 years old. he has autism. his mother says after what happened to him, she's out of here. the mother's story coming up. news 4. >> and as nice as it is here, we do need to see some rain. it may actually come from the tropics. we're tracking a tropical system in the caribbean that may move into the gulf and eventually our way. we'll talk more about that. oull see y back here in about

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so many stories of heroism coming out of the tragedy in vegas. one turned into this emotional reunion live on "the today show" this morning. a shooting victim got to thank the stranger who helped save him. right now investigators are analyzing the gunman's cell phone and computer, looking at casino surveillance footage, too, and working to interview his girlfriend who is still out of the country. all in an effort to answer the big question, why the wealthy retiree gunned down 59 people, killing them from his high rise hotel suite. >> well, back here in our area, evil and deranged are the words a mother is using as she refers to a cruel scheme that targeted her son who has

now police are hoping that surveillance video will help track down two guys. this is one of them who befriended this vulnerable young man and then allegedly stole from him. here's a picture of the other guy. news 4's pat collins is live in rockville to fill you in on this. very sad story, pat. >> reporter: indeed, wendy. ruby pots says she's out of here. she says she can't have this happen to her son again. ruby pots lives in clinton, but not for long. she says after what happened to her son jordan, she's moving. >> we have moved jordan to another state for his safety. we are moving just because we realize that he's vulnerable and it's a larger population here. so, there's even more chances of, you know, something like this happening. >> reporter: jordan potts is

he works at safe way and makes $100 a week. his mother set up a savings account for him at the navy federal credit union. now check out this surveillance video of one of the suspects in this case. you see, police say some young men conned jordan out of his debit card, tricked him into revealing his pin number, and then withdraw about $600 from his account. his mother has this message for the suspects. >> it is wrong. it's evil. it's sinful and you really need to repent and seek to make some sort of recompence if you want to have a life that you're proud of. >> reporter: ms. potts said navy federal told her they're going to hold her son responsible for the missing money. >> they told us that they would follow these rules and he was liable for the money that was taken out. >> reporter: in a statement tonight, navy federal says, in this case, as

fraud, we work closely with the member to resolve the issue. now, of course if the cops catch the suspects, maybe they can make up the missing money, but they are going to need your help for that. if you recognize the guy in the surveillance video, call the police. wendy? >> well, first off, there is a special place in hill for guys like this. secondly, i'm wondering why the bank knowing this was a vulnerable young man, is there some way someone -- the bank would have made sure that there were special procedures to not just hand money to these guys who show up and write a check on this account? or is there a way that they can safeguard, you can say, make sure no one with draws money from this account unless you contact like the mother or something, you know? >> reporter: well, here's sort of the way it went down, wendy. the guy, the suspect goes in with a bogus check and deposited

now, from what i understand, you can deposit money into someone's account without too much i.d. then what he did, before they could justify that check, he comes outside to the atm and starts withdrawing money through the atm machine. and that's how he got the cash money. so, it was a double transaction. put in the bogus check, go to the atm, use the pin and steal the money out of the atm. >> well, we have a good look at their faces. i hope they get caught. thank you, pat. >> when we come right back on news 4 at 6:00 tonight, new revelations about the las vegas gunman, his girlfriend and his gambling habit. plus the mysterious money transfer that was made just days before, again, the deadliest mass shooting in modern u.s. history. >> and we have a consumer alert involving a popular vehicle on our roads. a carbon monoxide leak was detected. it happened after they took it in

all right. hey, if you liked today it is only going to get warmer, folks. just how warm, doug, that's the question. >> average high temperature now is in the low 70s. i think we get into the mid to upper 80s as we make our way into the next couple days. some really warm air over the next few days. high temperatures today so far in the mid 70s. we're going to get warmer nan that. plenty of sunshine. current temperature still very nice, 72 degrees, winds out of the southeast 8 m

starting to see a little bit of color around parts of our area but that color going to start picking up in the next couple of weeks. we normally peak in the d.c. metro area around halloween. 67 in gaithersburg right now. 73 in leesburg, already 68 in winchester. you know we're going to see another cool night tonight. not as cool as the past few nights but still on the chilly side when you wake up. no rain to talk, about you don't need the umbrella. you may need to water the grass when you wake up tomorrow as well. satellite and radar showing high pressure area that is simply dominating. any time we have high pressure like this, you see the clouds go up or over and around our region. that is exactly what they're doing. the high right on top of us. that's why we have seen nothing but abundant sunshine, nothing but the blue skies. where is the rain going to come from? well, it may come from parts of central america. this is south america right here. we're tracking a storm system that may become a tr

or hurricane the next couple days. it has a 60% chance of becoming something tropical in the next five days. that is something we'll be watching ton this track. it is going to sit down here another day or two. and then it slowly is going to make its way up to the north. eventually into the gulf of mexico. now, some of the computer models actually bring it into parts of new orleans over towards the florida gulf coast later this weekend. we're talking about saturday and sunday and then by monday and tuesday they bring this system all the way up into our area by next week. and that would give us a very good chance of rainfall if that occurs. that is something we'll track very closely. anything that develops in the tropics we'll be all over it for you in the next couple days. 79 degrees tomorrow, sunshine, another great day with all the son. high temperature well above average but continuing to get warmer the next few days. high of 85 on your thursday, 85 degrees on friday. saturday high temperature of 84. a little bit on the humid side, at least for this time of year. but not all that bad. 81 on sunday and then we start to get into that area of the tropics making its way

gulf coast on sunday, around our area monday and possibly tuesday, could give us some pretty good amounts of rain. but it is something we're going to continue to watch behind this. it will get a lot cooler, the 60s come back late next week. we have a little bit of everything in the next ten-day forecast. guys, once again you know we'll stay on top of it for you in the storm center. friday night nats game looking good. >> thank you, doug. >> it is an all too familiar tragedy and we are still wondering why. up next aaron gilchrist joins us live from las vegas with the mystery of in master and why police are now focusing on the gunman's girlfriend. >> and new cell phone video here brings you closer to the chaos as those shots rang out. tonight a couple relives those terrifying moments as they ran for cover all the way to the aiort. we'll rpbe

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crime scene tape, a gun on the floor, debris all over the hotel hallway, new video shows the mess outside of the mandalay bay hotel in vegas outside the suite stephen paddock used as a sniper's nest. >> and tonight we are also getting new accounts of the terror on the ground as people tried to escape that concert venue. our team coverage continues now with news 4's aaron gilchrist who talked to one couple who managed to escape. aaron, what did they tell you? >> reporter: well, jim, we're going to share what they had to say with you in just a second. first i want to bring y u

the ground here in las vegas right now. we can tell you that the police department here in a news conference a little while ago said they have now identified all but three of the people who died in the shooting at the concert grounds just a few hundred yards ra away from where we are standing right now. they want to revise the number of injured here. they say fewer people than they originally said were hurt because they doubled on some numbers at different hospitals. a lot of people obviously came into different hospitals hurt here so that may be revised again before it is all said and done. we have also learned the police department plans to reopen the closed section of the las vegas strip very soon here. now, to the investigation that's happening, the most recent bit of information we've gotten about stephen paddock is that the police department wants to question a person of interest, his girlfriend, the woman that they told us about marilou danley early on in their investigation. she is in the philippines we understand right now, but the fbi is working to bring her back to the united states. the police department said that they think they could have a

the next 48 hours. we have to believe that talking to her, getting her to answer some questions, might be what they hope will help them to break the case as far as figuring out why stephen paddock shot into that crowd of 20,000 plus people, killing 59 of them. at the same time, we are also hearing from some of the thousands who escaped the massacre that happened here on sunday night. let me show you some video from a cell phone that was shared with us by alex and sara rasmussen from memphis. they were 50 yards away from the concert stage when stephen paddock started shooting. they decided to run, dodging piles of people, not knowing who was alive or who was dead. they ran four blocks. people on the strip saw them running. they were running. they were really to some degree oblivious about what happened here outside mandalay bay. i talked to alex on face time today. he said they weren't stopping until they were out of las vegas. >> because if we couldn't get out on a flight, i wasn't sitting around. we were going to get in a

that is exactly what we did. >> reporter: they drove to phoenix, got on a plane and made it back to their four children in memphis yesterday morning or yesterday during the day. the last bit of information we learned just a few minutes ago is that the city of las vegas and the county will hold another vigil in about two hours from now. candle light vigil to honor those killed and injured here. jim and wendy? >> aaron gilchrist live for us in las vegas. we'll see you at 11:00 and news 4 today in the morning. thank you, aaron. the las vegas killer has killed 59 people. he injured 527 others. he had at least 23 guns in his hotel room. and he had more than 19 guns at his house. just by sheer numbers, what stephen paddock did has re-ignited the gun safety debate right here in washington. democrats calling for stronger background checks, republican leaders say it's premature to talk about changing gun laws.

people that were involved in the nevada shooting. >> one of the things we've learned from these shootings is that often underneath this is a diagnosis of mental illness. >> and you'll remember house majority whip steve scalise just returned to work last week after being wounded during that mass shooting at a congressional baseball practice in alexandria back in june. a lot of you are looking for ways to help the victims and their families. nevada officials started a gofundme page to make a donation, go to our nbc washington app and all you have to do is search help las vegas. >> we have some breaking news this evening in the wake of that massive equifax security breach. the credit reporting company has just been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by the federal government. the irs will pay equifax more than $7 million to verify taxpayer identities and

prevent fraud. this was a no-bid contract awarded last friday. politico first to report the story just a short time ago. equifax's former ceo grilled on capitol hill today, telling lawmakers the breach impacting more than 145 million people could have been prevented with a software patch. and a news 4 consumer investigation gets immediate action by a major car manufacturer. our investigation discovered a carbon monoxide leak in this maryland couple's car. in days ford sent engineers to test and repair it. >> for right now we don't know exactly what they're doing and we're still not convinced that this vehicle is completely repaired properly. >> so, what has this couple so upset now? >> that's the question. our consumer investigative reporter susan hogan joins us now with details you will only see here on news 4. susan? >> well, that's right. wendy, we have a

monday ooks i'd a few weeks ago you may remember. a toxicologist found elevated levels. so, we alerted ford within days the manufacturer sent engineers to maryland to inspect their suv. however, this couple says they are still not satisfied and they want answers. mark and val entina frederick are refusing to drive their ford explorer. >> i'm still not convinced the vehicle is safe for me to drive. >> reporter: days after our news 4 investigation revealed carbon monoxide inside their 2016 explorer, ford sent engineers to inspect their suv. they took it out for what ford tells us was an in-vehicle drive evaluation. they tested for carbon monoxide. the fredericks tell us the engineers detected it, although they refused to put the results in writing. >> and i'm like, what is it going to take for me to get a black and white copy with the elevated levels of the carbon monoxide? >> reporter: when news 4 asked ford why the engineers wouldn't

document the carbon monoxide levels, we were told the ford engineers who investigated the couple's vehicle did not provide a written report. they provided information directly to the customer verbally. this response has one car safety expert questioning ford's motive. and why wouldn't they put it in writing? >> well, no data, no problem. >> reporter: ford serviced the vehicle and took tout for anothr test drive and found readings near zero. that they documented. when we had the vehicle retested, we found the same. their case isn't unique. in fact, the national highway traffic and safety administration is investigating 2700 complaints from ford explorer owners who say fumes or carbon monoxide is leaking into their suvs and making them sick. >> it's been going on for a number of years. >> reporter: ford continued to say it has not found carbon monoxide levels in nonpe

safety. but what exactly is that level? >> there is no federal standard for motor vehicles for interior cabin air quality, particular carbon monoxide. >> reporter: in a letter sent to federal regulators, ford said when it tested several explo explorers, it found levels of carbon monoxide well below its own air internal quality standards. when news 4 asked what those standards are, ford told us, there is no standard specifically for vehicle interiors. they went on to say, ford references a variety of government standards, guidelines and sources to ensure the safety of our vehicles. one of those references, the global vehicle interior air quality standard. but we couldn't find any such standard and several air quality experts we spoke with have never even heard of it. when we asked ford where this standard came from, they declined to give us any information. so, even though their car repair and showing no levels

carbon monoxide, they told us they didn't trust it and just this afternoon they called to let us know that ford has offered to buy their vehicle back. you can watch our original story on the carbon monoxide complaints in the nbc washington app. you just want to search ford explorer. it exists in every gas powered vehicle. tonight at 11:00 we have a story about a group working to get detectors installed in all vehicles. but so far the government is saying no, and we are going to tell you why and what you can do to protect your family in the meantime. >> hard to believe there's no federal standard. >> one of those ones you put in your house maybe. >> no, we're going to talk about tonight at 11:00, no it's not. stay tuned until 11:00 and see what you need to do. >> thanks, susan. interesting. >> coming up, a new twist after that local woman is arrested for throwing her own urine at a metro bus driver. >> and thousands of local cases held upkeeping families in limbo

parts of the country. the news 4 i-team investigates this crisis in the courts. >> we're you can ttalking some weather the next up l of days. what does that mean as the cubs, the world series defending cubs are coming to our nats park. we'll

new information in the las vegas shooting investigation, not only did the gunman come to the mandalay bay hotel prepared with an arsenal, he set up two firearms with two tripods. >> he used weapons of war to unleash hundreds of rounds on people below 32 stories enjoying that concert. and he used a $50 attachment that made it nearly impossible to stay out of his line of fire. >> nbc news justice correspondent pete williams is tracking this investigation. let's talk about this thing

the bump stock. it's either $50 or $200 depending what site you buy if from online. and it can turn this gun into a true weapon of mass destruction. >> right. these things have been around for quite a while. and here's how they work. a semiautomatic weapon like an ar-15 or your basic assault rifle means that it fires every time you put the trigger. one trigger pull, one round is discharged. if you put that thing that you're looking at now on the weapon, it basically takes advantage of the recoil of the gun so that as you fire the gun and the gun kicks back, it moves the gun back inside that stock, the stock stays against your shoulder and the gun moves inside the stock, pushing it against your finger repeatedly. so the gun in essence takes over firing its own trigger. and it allows the gun to fire at the fastest rate possible that the weapon can achieve. so, it's like automatic fire. and it will j

expended. so, that's -- we know that he bought two of those and that he used them on some of the weapons that he had inside the hotel room. we also know that he had high-powered sniper-type rifles with spotting scopes, rather, and bipods on the front to give him extra stability. you're right, he did have a lot of fire power and the sheriffs said today that those bump stocks did allow the gun to fire much more rapidly. >> and that's why we were hearing that rat-a-tat. >> right. >> what have we lerpd about his girlfriend? she is still out of the country and they are still talking to her obviously. they want to get her back here. she is going to be critical in this, right? >> i wouldn't say still talking toer had. they hope to talk to her when she gets back in the next few days. we know she left the u.s. last week before paddock checked into the mandalay bay hotel and she went to the philippines, took a flight from here

and then to the philippines which is where she's from and where she has family. now, we also know that last week before he checked into the hotel, paddock wired to the philippines $100,000. we don't know why. obviously there is a family connection. she was there, but that's one question they want to ask her. but more importantly, they want to know what she knows about him. did he have some sort of grievance, what could the motive be, and more to the point, did she know what he was up to? did she think he was planning something like this, and did she in fact try to help him? so, they are very eager, they know where she is. they are confident they'll be able to talk to her. and they'll do so later this week. >> all right, pete williams, thanks so much. >> thanks so much. >> we've been watching you two days now and you've been keeping us and the rest of the nation on top of this story. thank you. >> thank you. >> more tonight, lester holt still reporting from las vegas. pete will have new angles on that investigation right after

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vehicles in both fairfax and loudoun. >> i think they were after anything particularly they can make money off of and certainly they wanted to go after guns if they could find guns in a car. >> reporter: especially troubling for residents in this south riding neighborhood, the suspects would fire off guns as they fled, a signature of sorts. the crime spree came to an end here in the willows ford neighborhood on september 11 during the middle of the night, a neighbor noticed a suspicious vehicle out here, all the doors flung open. so they called police. loudoun county deputies flooded the area. fairfax county sent its chopper in to help. >> it was a little unnerving to wake up and have cops on all up and down the streets. >> reporter: finally after hours, two young men emerged from the woods and were arrested. a third man and a juvenile now also charged. court documents show their information led detectives to a reston town house. inside they seized dozens of stolen items including guns

how illegal guns are getting onto the streets. >> reporter: the sheriff says these break-ins underscore the need to always lock up your vehicle. don't leave anything of value in sight. and if you do have a gun, bring it inside. if that's not possible, lock it up in a trunk or special safe. in northern virginia, i'm julie carey, news 4. >> well, do you remember this woman who threw her cup of urine on a metro bus driver in august? news 4 has now learned that opal brown tested positive pofor pcp twice since her arrest. adam tuss broke this story. so brown ask now back in jail. she claimed she targeted that d.c. bus driver because she was rude. we have some newly released records obtained by the i-team that shows the severe impact that new immigration policies are having here at home. >> one former judge telling us it's making the huge backlog even

investigative reporter jody fiesher explains how. >> reporter: we heard it was happening, but now we've got the numbers to prove the impact. records shows from january to july of this year, immigration judges from around the country were forced to postpone nearly 25,000 cases because the judges weren't in their courtrooms to hear them. >> i think it's a misuse of resources. >> reporter: retired immigration judge paul wick ham schmidt says he's glad he left the bench last year because it allows him to speak about what he's seeing in the court system today. >> it's a disaster. i think it's moving toward implosion. >> reporter: he doesn't mince words when directed at immigration policy and the shift in which types of cases are now a priority. >> they're trying to detain everybody who arrives so they have assigned more judges to the southern border. and those judges leave behind full dockets. >> reporter: the news

months around this year judges spent weeks away from their home court. records show more than 200 reassignments and more are scheduled this year. here in arlington we counted 15 reassignments and while they were gone those judges had to postpone more than 2,500 local case s. only l.a., new york and miami had more. >> since most judges are back up for years, it's not like they move them to next week. they move them to slots three, four years down the road. >> reporter: the arlington court is already scheduling cases for december of 2021. that's the second longest delay in the nation. in may alone, five of the seven arlington judges had weeks of reassignment to the border. records show 946 cases delayed as a result. >> when you can't give people hearing dates which they can count on, as a judge i feel you lose credibility. >> reporter: he says to make matters worse, while the judges are reassigned, they can't even work on cases back here at home remotely because the case

electronic. and he says at the border many of those folks have just arrived in the u.s. and haven't even had a chance to get an attorney yet so those cases ultimately have to be delayed as well. jody fleischer, news 4 eye team. >> this is like san diego weather out here. >> i was thinking about that earlier when he was showing all the temperatures and it was all 74s. >> low humidity and abundant sunshine. >> we can get used to it. >> all three things, i can never do the weather. i think i told you that. >> boring. >> no san diego weather early. too boring for me. i think we all like a little change of the seasons. moment of us do. we're getting that out there. we've seen cooler weather the last couple days. today some beautiful weather. 72 right now. the sun going down even as we speak. temperatures will be dropping into the 60s and we are already there, some of the suburbs. look at potomac 68 degrees now. 70 riverdale, leesburg 71 degrees. no rain to talk about. we are not going to see real chances of rain until the weekend. what do i mean by the weekend? 79 by wednesday, pair ever

thursday and friday. playoff is looking great for that game. 7:31 start, no problem there. but i am tracking the tropics. what do i mean? well, we are tracking a storm system right now in the southern portions of the caribbean. storm is developing now that could hit the gulf this weekend. we need the rain. we could get some of it, too. much more i'll be back tonight at now's the right time to make stylish upgrades at havertys furniture. through october 9th, save up to $1000 in bonus discounts. and take advantage of no interest for 36 months.

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some people are saying the moral victory of the redskins lose to the chiefs monday night football 29-20. two and two at the quarter point of the season. >> a tough game. they played so well to start the quarter. the defense picked up where they lost off against oakland. i was expecting them to have a tougher start. they get out to a 10-0 lead. everything is going in their favor. then suddenly the whole tide turned. everything changed. >> the second and third quarters, the chiefs really held onto the ball. the redskins offense couldn't get back on the field. you could feel the momentum shifting at arrow head. you know what, two and two heading into the buy, they have the raiders and the chiefs out of the way, i think two and two is a decent start the first four games. >> you take two and two, the bi, the they'll beat the niners, take 3 and 2 after five games. last night really fun game to watch. i thought, but it started to get sideways there in the second half. they were outscored 22-10. had

the end zone, he catches the ball in the end zone, that game was over. you have to learn how to finish games. >> oh, so close. they got the rest of the story now. i'm talking about the hurry up and wait business that is the national postseason to continue with real action. game one division series with the cubs at home. not today, the nationals held the first work out. it was a chance for the nats to take advantage of a glorious fall day and begin their fall classic quest. still no game one starter announced. he'll pitch in national league division series, but coming off an injury. it might be steven strasberg in game one. that first game is coming up friday 7:30 in nats paurrk. >> we can't wait. >> we're going to be anchoring from there. >> you're always there. we thought about asking you. [ laughter ] >> and that's going to do it for us. we thank you for having us in for news. nightly news is coming your way

>> have a lovely evening and we will see you back here at 11:00.

tonight, a deepening mystery after the massacre here in las vegas. why did he do it? as we see inside the killer's hotel room, chilling new details on his arsenal, the device used to modify the guns, hidden cameras he set up and big money he sent overseas shortly before committing mass murder. tonight police say the girlfriend is a person of interest. what did she know? also, the heroes in the crowd. >> she was crying and just keep talking to her so we knew she was conscious. i'll never forget her face, ever. >> emotional stories emerge. plus president trump in puerto rico after a public war