. >> amanda lamb is live at crab tree valley mall and why the crowd reacted before knowing what happened. images on the news on the national news about mass shootings somewhere in the country so you can understand why people would react to a situation the way they did over the weekend. thousands of people streamed out of the mall, thousands of shoppers after someone reported gunshots in the food court. people tell us it was total chaos as they tried to get out. ems tells us they treated 21 to the hospital. a lot of the employees here at crab tree value mall return to work for the first time. they are still processing what happened here saturday. . >> i didn't see anything that seemed threatening. i heard all the chairs in the

amanda lamb shows us how. >> reporter: four-year-old colt has always wanted to be a police officer. tell me about being a police officer. do you want to be a police officer? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: how come? >> because i like them protecting. >> reporter: you like >> he loves police so much. >> reporter: in june his parents got the devastating news that he has leukemia. >> total disbelief. it was just unbelievable. i felt like our world had just crashed down around us. >> last time i came back from the hospital i had that thing on in my throat. that's why i have difficult talking. >> reporter: after the initial shock, colt's parents came up with a facebook page in his honor asking for patches from it happened so quickly. >> it blows us away. it blows just without a doubt the amount of support that we've received. >> reporter: colt's father stopped counting but we believe there are more than 800 unique patches on these walls. and colt even met some of the officers in person. apex police brought their k-9 rocket to visit colt at the hospital and gave him a stuffed animal replica. >> i

amanda lamb joins us from the wake county courthouse with what happened today. amanda? >> reporter: bill, first of all, you probably know colleen janssen's name because her fathered was kidnapped in 2014 by gang leaders in retaliation for another case. the ring leader in that case was convicted in federal court. saying that janssen erred in the robbery case. theysay the action of investigators downplays the drug-dealing history of her main witness in the case, the victim, to make him more credible at trial. today, the superior court judge donald stevens scfed the state -- to investigate her conduct in the >> they have made requests of us for certain considerable information that we have turned over. we will continue to cooperate with the state law and effort to conchoose this matter quickly. >> reporter: now, the north carolina court of appeals turned over the convictions and the two men were released as it was decided not to retry them. this summer after 10 years as assistant district attorney and the state bar will return its findings, its report to this court this, j

amanda lamb is covering the storm on the outer banks. in the newscast. >>> a personal problem makes its way into the political fray. >> how hillary clinton is c1 >>> it's election day. see primaries for several politicians affected by the presidential campaign. tracie potts has more on that and the latest in the race for the white house including a tweet from a trump supporter some might find offensive. >> reporter: debbie washerman schultz and marco marco rubioy on in florida and john mccain in arizona all fighting for re- election. >> people judge me on john mccain. fallout of clinton versus trump. >> build strong borders, build a wall and end illegal immigration. >> reporter: aides say trump will call clinton's plan guaranteed amnesty and going after the black vote. >> reporter: top aide huma abedin announced she is splitting with her husband, former congressman, anthony weaner. >> huma is like a family member. >> reporter: clinton called ties to the couple, bad judgment and wiener could have accessed classified information. >> clinto

amanda lamb will have reports. and this is a good time to remind you of the wral weather app that gives you instant access to the radar, current temperatures, and future play. >>> and elizabeth isn't expecting us to be too bad. >> actually calling this wimpy. [laughter] >> taking it a step further. >>> there is a tropical storm warning for parts of the coast but we're looking at winds just at 35 miles per hour with the storm and thunderstorms around here with winds much stronger than that. so, you know, it's not looking terribly impressive which is a great thing. we love that, and we'll take a closer look in a the wilson skycam, blue skies, looks beautiful and the temperatures, pleasant. 68 in holly springs and 66 in cary and 72 in rocky mount and erwin, and temperatures in the mid-80s and 91 for the high this afternoon. so similar conditions for yesterday and little chance of showers and storms tomorrow, and this tropical system will into tomorrow morning. and we have another one we're tracking as well which is no

this came up after a raleigh man shot and killed someone who amanda lamb has more. amanda? >> reporter: lynda, the law that covers this, what you can and cannot do in your home when it comes to deadly force is called the castle doctrine. it's very specific about what you can and cannot do. 39-year-old chad copley is charged with murder after investigators say he fired his shotgun through a window of the garage at a group of young noise. 22-year-old kourn thomas was killed. on the 911 tape, copley said that they were loud and disorderly and he was locked and loaded and prepared to protect the neighborhood but under the castle law, the person must be in your home or trying to get in and pose an imminent threat of danger. >> if the person was not physically on the shooter's property, then the castle doctrine does not apply and you have to fall back to the old rules where you have to have a reasonable belief that you are in danger of death or serious bodily injury. >> reporter: copley said that he was heading up the neighborhood watch program and we spoke with people in the nei

amanda lamb joins us live from the food court and what she has learned today. amanda? >> reporter: gerald, it's monday afternoon and we have seen a steady stream of shoppers. it's quiet i and it was packed at lunchtime. this is the very spot where people started running on saturday, became panicked after they heard what they thought was a gunshot but police found no evidence of gunshots fired here. we spoke with people who described the scene as pandemonium and makes sense people reacted the way they did given the mass shootings we've returned to the mall for the first time since saturday and are still processing what happened and why. >> there was a woman who fell in front of me, and i had to hurdle eyewitness news over heard -- myself over her. there were so many people behind me and around me. it was just chaos. >> reporter: she said she didn't hear anything. she believes the sound may have been something other than else, panicked and tried to get out of the mall like anyone would have done. coming up at 5:00, we'll talk to a psychologist who talks about why we reac

wral's amanda lamb is live in wilmington where there was a hearing for the case to be ov >> that's right. johnny small has been in p for about two thirds of his life.d? it was back in july 1988 in wilmington. we have a picture from the courtroom we swpcan show you. he's been testifying today as the first witness on the stand. the reason this case is back in court 5-f?5n?is because the key witness at the time gave -- trial and small is not guilty. on the stand today i swear on my life i didn't do km? it. he apologized to the victimsjnv family who was in the courtroom. he said he was sorry for the loss but said he was not guilty of this crime. this is called a motion for appropriate release. it is very unusual to get it back in a courtroom in front of a judge. that windows who recanted, david bollinger, he is today and expected to be the next witness on the stand. he said he lied because he felt he was coerced by the police and he was facing possibly the death penalty. he did call chris num1q on actual innocence three years ago and confessed to this. thenx? he started investigating this. w

amanda lamb joins us with what security experts think happened this weekend. amanda? >> reporter: gerald and lynda, this is a conversation that will only become more intense as we see more situations like this happening across the country. we spoke with security experts today. and they tell us unfortunate in a free and open society there's little we can do to prevent in public spaces. they recommend that facility that is cater to the public have an emergency plan to handle the what if in the worst case scenarios. >> if we're gonna stay open or have freedom of movement, the possibilities exist that these things will happen. an event happens, what's the quickest way that we can de- escalate the situation? >> reporter: jerry is the ceo of a company that advises other companies on security and he said crabtree valley mall, from what they know, handled it well, getting people out safely and they are not a current client but have worked with the mall in the past. back to the current investigation, police are look at a lot of things including the surveillance tape from need

amanda lamb joins us fr newsroom with what they've learned so far. >> reporter: they say they still have not found evidence that a gunshot was fired at the mall saturday as some people reported. but they aren't ready to completely rule out that possibility either. now, sounds that shoppers identified as possible gunshots sent thousands fleeing from the mall on saturday, as many as 10,000 people. people also hid inside the mall. the building was eventually evacuated and searched. police say two holes found in tested and found not to be bullet holes. they have reached out to witness those 300-plus 911 calls. they have examined the surveillance video and they have found no sightings of a person way gun related to that sound. no one has been arrested in this case. now, the next step, raleigh police have asked the fbi to come in and examine a recording of that sound heard to determine for sure where it came from. no timetable on when that this afternoon, police will release the 911 tapes to us. we'll go through them and we rhode island report on those in our afternoon and evening shows. back

wral's amanda lamb shows us how they're doing it. 4-year-old colt rever has always wanted to be a police officer... amanda: so tell me about being a police officer, do you want to amanda: how come? colt: because i like protecting. you like protecting? dolly: he loves police so much. in june, his parents got the devastating news that he has leukemia... dolly rever/mother: total disbelief. it was just unbelievable. i felt like our world had just crashed down around us. colt: last time i came back from the hopsital i had that thing in my throat, that's why i had difficult talking. after the initial shock, colt's parents came up with a facebook page in his honor asking for patches from first responders around the country. dolly: totally overwhelmed. it matt: it blows us away, without a doubt, the amount of support that we have received. amanda: colt's father stopped counting, but we believe there are more than 800 unique patches on these walls, and he's even met some of the officers in person. apex police brought their k-9 rocky to visit colt at the hospital and gave him a stuffed colt at th

amanda lamb joins us from the newsroom with what she has learned. >> reporter: we got the calls into our newsroom a little more than an hour ago. there are 273679 27 -- there are 273. going through them. in many ways, it was less about the actual sound and more about people in the crowd yelling to one another that someone with a gun was in the mall. now, witnesses say it was chaos as thousands of people ran for their lives and tried to get out of the building at the same time. others hid in the back of stores and storage rooms and bathrooms until police let them know it was safe to come out. >> we're in the crabtree valley there was lots of bangs and shootings somewhere downstairs. >> did you see anybody? >> no, didn't see anybody but everybody is running. >> has somebody been shot? >> i don't know. >> reporter: because raleigh police still do not know the origin of that sound that a lot of shoppers identified as a gunshot, they have asked the fbi lab to analyze video with the sound in the background to see if they can figure it out. we have a team of people continuing to pore over t

amanda lamb has more. amanda? >> reporter: gerald, this is an usual case. at, is the conduct of the prosecutor, the assistant district attorney at the time, colleen janssen. thsurior court of wake see if there was misconduct. judgedonaldstevens asked the state bar to investigate the situation and report back to the court within 120 days. the appeals court ruling alleges that janssen intentionally withheld information of a key witness's drug dealing to make him more credible to the jury. >> this contact directly affecting the superior court of wake county. therefore, i think it's im the call. >> reporter: both men involved in the robbery case at issue were released after their convictions were overturned. janssen stepped down earlier this year after 10 years on the job because of the situation. her attorneys said in court that they welcomed the inquiry because it allows her to tell were cooperating fully. gerald? >> amanda, thank you. >>> new information on a deadly crash on i-540 in raleigh. a woman didn't stop and pushed another vehicle into a van stopped

. >> amanda lamb thank you. >>> a lion is in confinement after it attacked a 20-year-old woman hospitalized with back and lower body injuries. another zoo keeper was able to keep the female lion away from the victim. she was bitten in the before another employee could help. the second worker drove it away with a high pressure water hose. the woman's injuries are serious but not threatening. >>> an account manager for google was in prince ton visiting her mom and went jogging alone on a wooded road yesterday afternoon. her family reported her missing. later last night a police canine found her body about a half mile from her mother's the homicide was random and asking for people to report suspicious activity in the area. >>> gay marriage was the hearing this morning. a judge heard a motion to refuse to officiate same sex marriages. three couples claim tax dollars are being spent on a discriminatory law allowing the magistrates to opt out. today they said they must follow the law but attorneys plaintiffs must suffered direct harm. the judge didn't make a final ruling today. >>> taking a medic

. >> wral's amanda lamb joins us in the newsroom with what this is all about. >> reporter: this is very unusual for a sitting ta to testify. lorrin freeman immediately ordered an investigation on this situation came to our attention. it involved two of her court clerks. one has pleaded guilty and the other is cooperating with the state and will testify. on trial. he was charged in the case accused of conspiring with a clerk at the courthouse to falsify computer records. this allowed him to get out of paying forfeited bond money owed to the courts according to investigators. the money was intended for the wake county school system. an employee noticed problems with the cases and told freeman. freeman investigated and when right to the d.a. at the time. --we at the time. >> i went to see the d.a. at the time and to tell him that i had concerns and that i have some sort of the bond forfeiture irregularities that maybe criminal going on within my office that had been brought to my attention. >> reporter: smith is the last of the suspects in this scheme to be tried. on other bondsman pleaded

amanda lamb joining us live from outside the home where a press conference just wrapped up. >> reporter: it was very emotional. bamberg joined the family outside their town home here in north raleigh and they are calling for justice. now, his mother, simone butler thomas, says her sons with a good boy. he dp dress like a hoodlum. he didn't own a gun. he had a high school degree and a job. sunday morning, she says he was wi walking down the street. a man would lived -- who lived in the neighbor according to investigators called 911 to complain about the commotion and fired his shotgun through a garage door window that. shotgun blast hit and killed thomas. the home owner in that situation, chad copley, is in jail and charged with murder. >> he was a good kid. i don't have him no more. there is nothing i can do. i got to bury my child. i haven't even seen him yet. >> reporter: his mother said he had been at the party less than 0 minutes when this incident happened. she says she moved her three sons here from new york city to north carolina because she felt like it was a safe are place. now

wral's amanda lamb has been in the courtroom following this story and he joins us wayne county justice center to explain what is going on. >> reporter: bill, it is a little complicated, but i am going to break it down for you. smith is accused of paying a wake county court here are the wake county justice center to falsify information in the computer. that information that allowed him to get out of paying tens of thousands of dollars that was owed to the court system. by law, this money goes to the so the prosecutor in this case says they are the real victims. in an old -- on orthodox move the district attorney who is the former clerk of superior court, lauren freeman, took the stand. she talked about irregularities that have been brought to her attention by an employee which triggered an internal investigation by the fbi. >> i had an assistant clerk in my criminal division and tell me that she had received information that there were a number -- some irregularities. it was basically a tip that we had some irregularities in our bond process. >> reporter: two other bill bondsmen or char

lamb board there the pi dress. twenty-three year-old miss delaware amanda seebus of middletown. and 22-year old miss new jersey, brenda white of mantua. mayor don guardian says despite the cities financial struggles miss america is just what the city need right now putting their best foot forward and bringing people into have fun. by the way you can watch it live on sunday september 11th to see who takes home the crown, chris harrison and faith steel host this years miss america pageant live on six abc. >>> meanwhile it was celebration for miss black america tonight, in wilmington as she arrived in style. delaware's own nicole hibbard won the title. this evening friend and family held a party to congratulate her at twisted soul restaurant and war. hibard is 29, and singer/song writer, and alumni of delaware state university. her platform is stop domestic violence. >>> adam is here now you with a closer look at the forecast. turbulent weather we are seeing out on the coast. >> on the coast, opened waters of the atlantic churning up. it is height of typically tropical season this