. >> garrett is on his third week in the program. but he admits he may not be setting the best example. >> i've always been a bad influence. i can't help it. i'm sorry. it's just what i've done, how i am. i'm the bad apple of the bunch. if you're in this dorm, you have to be in the program. you can't just stay in the room and sleep. that's what's gotten me a write-up. i've been like, "f" the dorm, "f" the program. and i'm up there asleep in the bed and they're knocking on the door. come to class, come to class. >> garrett has previous jail and prison sentences for convictions including battery, burglary, theft and first-degree forgery. he has pled not guilty on all charges. while some inmates in the substance abuse program are mandated to be there by a judge, billiter has joined the program voluntarily. he said he's never had a problem with drugs or alcohol and has a different reason for joining the program. >> mainly to help me with my legal issues. as far as the substance abuse program goes, i'm going to use it to my advantage beca

reporting live at mpd headquarters, garrett haake, wusa9. >> garrett, thank you. police have not said whether marcus king is seen on that surveillance video. that means there are still potentially few of or six people yet to be identified and remember -- five or six people yet to be identified and remember there is reward money being offered if you can help find the suspects in this case or any other case. there is $10,000 on the line for information in these shootings and $25,000 for tips that lead to the arrest of a killer. call 202-727-9099 and you can remain anonymous. it's worth repeating again, 202- 727-9099. >>> new tonight how to honor a man who may have been one of d.c.'s most impactful public servants but certainly its most controversial. marion barry died late last year, but his memory is very much alive and now a city appointed commission is working to place memorials of barry throughout the city. mola lenghi is at city hall, the wilson be just one proposed location -- building just one proposed location for a permanent tribute of. >> reporter: as usua

for now reporting live garrett haake, wusa9. >> thank you, garrett. we'll have that full surveillance video posted on our app and also on www.wusa9.com. make sure to check it out and share it with your friends so we can all help find those suspects. >>> we have some new information in a controversial police shooting. former fairfax county police officer adam torres has been indicted in the murder of john geer. geer was shot two years ago as he was standing in his doorway of a springfield townhouse. police had been called to the home because of a domestic dispute. torres was recently fired from the department and we understand this is the first time in the department's 75 year lift that an officer will be -- history that an officer will be facing prosecution for an on duty shooting. >>> thousands of kid, families and caregivers shaken tonight by the death of a familiar character in pediatric ward throughout our region. we came to know him as the route 29 batman after a caught on camera run-in with police in 2012. the man behind the mask? 51-year-old le

that is not something we have done to decision about. >> scott garrett was one of number of people who voted .gainst speaker boehner speaker boehner is considered an ally of the industry. there has been a lot of talk about what to do about the very conservative tea party movement type republicans who are attacking boehner as an example of some of the chaos that has come into the system. i know there has been talk over the last several cycles about trying to primary folks like esther garrett -- mr. ga rrett. i think the industry anticipated a little bit. i'll was wondering if there would be any discussion in the next cycle about what you think about participating in the public primaries going forward? tim: i think the chamber of commerce got involved in those dynamics heavily in the last cycle. our organization has a more modest local presence and footprint. activelyot gotten involved in the primary process like you have described. i know other larger groups have. jumping back to your question about the reputation of the industry, if you think about the black eye the industry has receiv

garrett is live right now in front of the first district police headquarters. garrett? >> reporter: bruce, this really is just the latest sign of how out of control this spike in violence has become in the city. tonight double shooting taking place just a few blocks walking distance really from the first district police headquarters here in southwest. here's what we know right now. police got the call for a shooting around third and k street as you said around 6:45 tonight. they found an adult man with a minor injury in the street. he may have been the original target of this shooting and then they discovered 13-year- old taije chambliss, a 7th grader, shot in the lower body bleeding badly. chambliss' older sister told me she was walking home from the library on her way to a neighbor's house to help another child with homework when she got hit by a bullet that was clearly not meant for her. the girls are two of nine siblings and the oldest mother told me that their mother has long since had it with the violence in their neighborhood. >> around this neighborhood there's

what more have we learned, garrett? >> derek, i was able to get my hands on a personnel file today for vester lee flanagan. it became public as part of a lawsuit he filed against the station after he was dismissed. that lawsuit was dismissed eventually as well, but in that personnel file we see a portrait of a reporter unraveling. virginia state police searched vester lee flanagan's apartment today just blocks away from the station where he once worked decide by side with his victims. wdbj management fired flanagan who went by the name bryce williams on air back in february, 2013, after repeated problems with his on air work and numerous complaints about his behavior from other staffers. flanagan took his dismissal hard shouting at co-workers as police physically removed him from the building and making veiled threats, all of it recorded by photographer adam ward. >> on the way out he handed a wooden cross to the news director who was at that time dan denison and said you'll need. this >> reporter: employees were told t

our garrett haake was there and joins us now from the campus. garrett? >> reporter: bruce, students unofficially come back tomorrow and the fall semester begins. but tonight there were dozens and dozens of current and former au students here to remember a young man whose effect here was profound even though he was here only a short time. the memorial service for kevin sutherland was closed to cameras tonight, but even after it was over, the emotional gravity of that service was plain to see. sutherland's father traveled from connecticut to eulogize his son crying several times as he tried to get through his brief speech. kevin had been heavily involved in government here, student government. friends and colleagues from the school also spoke about what they hoped would be a legacy of service that he might leave behind. sutherland was the first of two recent au grads to be killed during d.c.'s violent summer and several people also spoke to the idea of how the community here might cope and what kevin would have wanted going forward. >> it's really been pro

. >> reporter: that was garrett zeldairs in silicon valley. outside the nondescript meting hall, be already snipers on top of preschools, roadblocks, and snipers with weapons out. a kind of activity typically only seen for presidential visits. a recent event in may, car

major garrett, thank you. today hillary clinton weighed in on trump's remarks about megyn kelly she said they're "outrageous." clinton said kelly is a strong woman more than capable of defending herself against trump. clinton also said she is worried about what republican policies would do for the rest of american women. uljudge in wisconsin ruled today that two 13-year-old girls charged with stabbing a classmate in the so-called slender man case will be tried as adults. dean reynolds has the story. >> reporter: the case is as bizarre as the online villain which apparently roused morgan geyser and anisa weier to take action. now 13 years old, they were erarged with attempting to murder their friend payton leutner in may of last year in a plot to impress a fictional character known as slender man. leutner was lured into a park, stabbed 19 times and left for dead, but she recovered. the attackers told police they tre afraid slender man would hurt them unless they killed for him. gieir lawyer said these are young

for now reporting live, garrett haake, wusa9. >> thank you, garrett. >>> a bethesda church and members of that church are wondering who keeps vandalizing their black lives matter sign and why. >> the sign down for good but not because the church took it down. because someone who has an issue with it removed it. surae chinn has reaction. >> reporter: only the wooden frame remains where the banner should be and for the third time in three weeks the sign has either been vandalized or removed altogether. river road uniontarian universalist congregation in bethesda put up this sign black lives matter last month. a few days later someone carefully cut out the word black, leaving the words lives matter. at first the church wrote on facebook that it was saddened by their ruined sign but when it happened a second time, they were angry and so were neighbors. >> i was okay with the sign but not okay with, you know -- it's odd. >> reporter: then a couple of days ago someone took down the sign without the church's permission. >> before going to bed, we checked again and it was there, so in the morn

garrett haake is live at d.c. police headquarters with the latest on the investigation and how we got to this point. garrett. >> reporter: debra, tonight another community is dealing with a murder on their block. this afternoon it was a parking lot in deanwood wrapped in police tape. no neighborhood in the district has been safe. a stabbing during a basketball game turned this middle school parking lot into a murder scene. the 102nd homicide of the year. >> school starts monday. >> reporter: neighbors like david smith stopped to talk about a wave of homicides that started to swell in june and shows no signs of stopping. >> it's a much better problem than the police. they come and put tape up and take pictures. police don't come into your house and teach your child how to read or teach you spiritual values, the importance of human life. >> reporter: a map produced by the washington post shows every corner of the district affected. most of the 102 victims were shot to death. nearly all were men. some have remained a

this is tonight's top story at 7:00. >> reporter: i'm garrett haake at d.c.court where that 17-year-old has already had his first court appearance and learned he will be detained until his trial begins next month. a source familiar with the case says the teen was also charged with three counts

garrett haake joins us live with the new development. garrett, what did you learn?lice do not believe shlonsky was the target of this shooting. instead they think hs

garrett. i think the industry participated a little bit in the primary. any wondering if there is additional discussion about that. what do you think about participating in the public primaries going forward? tim: i think the chamber of commerce got involved in those dynamics heavily in the last cycle. our organization has a more modest political presence and footprint. we have not gotten actively involved in the primary process like you have described. i know other larger groups have. jumping back to your question about the reputation of the industry, if you think about the black eye the industry has received leading up to the crisis, there was a lot of dumb behavior. you have to remind people that almost every american needs a credit card, debit card, checking account, savings account, car insurance, home insurance, life insurance, a small business loan, student loan, and more. it is an incredibly important industry for the economic plumbing and financial well-being of the country, not to mention 401(k)s, iras, disability insurance. it is an important i

pirates pitcher, garrett coal, this guy's engaged to garrett crawford's sister amy. he thinks he's taking his future brother-in-law deep, no, sterling marte brings it back. eight k's, no earned runs. gregor blanco steals second. he would score on the next pitch. the giants six innings, one hit allowed, and here it is. solo shot by kahn to tie it at 1, he's all over that hunter strickland fastball, way out. giants get a gift in the eighth, soria breaking ball in the dirt. we're tied at two, george follows strickland. marte with two outs, that's a walkoff, pirates four hits in the game, three of them. 3-2 the final. fourth sellout of the year for the a's. star wars fireworks night. similar theme as the giants, sonny gray gave up three runs, all were home runs tonight as john jaso gives tampa bay a 2-1 lead in the third. mark cannon in the sixth, dead center. you have to respect the effort. almost a miraculous game tied. josh factually, is that raliegh fingers? raliegh, look up, you're about to get hit. two run shot, billy burns made some great catches this year, this m

garrett? >> reporter: a source close to this case says that teen has already had his first appearance here at superior court where he heard the charges against him, two counts of child cruelty and three charges related to illegal possession of a weapon and ammunition. the accidental shooting death of 3-year-old dalis cox last month horrified the people who loved her. >> all of our children were standing there watching, her friends, parents. it's something that we shouldn't have to see. >> reporter: and drew condemnation from the mayor and police chief. >> that gun should have never been in a place where it could have been accidentally or otherwise used to put a little girl in danger. >> reporter: on monday police arrested a 17-year-old connected to the case and charged him as a juvenile with child cruelty. a former mpd detective explains. >> as long as he did something that created a situation that caused a child to come to harm, that is first degree child abuse. >> reporter: the teen was also

garrett haake, wusa 9. >> very emotional out there. perhaps there is some small comfort in the fact that d.c. is far from allen and struggling with a spike in violence. today, as a matter of fact, baltimore recorded its 211th murder of the year. >>> breaking news in the wildfires out west. tonight three firefighters have been killed and three to four others hurt battling the flames in the north central part of the state. they lost their lives when winds shifted unexpectedly. some 1,000 people were ordered out of their homes. unfortunately the situation there could get worse before it gets better. there's no break expected in the hot, dry weather. >>> breaking news now involving two serious crashes tonight. two people were killed in this wynn clinton, maryland. this is the scene where investigators are working away at the scene. there's a lot of activity so you are asked to please stay away from that area overnight. >>> four people were hurt in a crash that shut down suitland parkway. it happened near the d.c. border with maryland. one

major garrett shows us how western music is right at home in africa.s time to show you some of this morning's headlines. "the news & observer" reports on a rd ecording of martin luther king jr.'s voice. listen to the first-ever speech he gave using his most familiar phrase. >> i have a dream tonight. one day my little daughter and my two sons will grow up in a world not conscious of the color of their skin but only conscious of the fact that they are members of the human race. >> that's part of a recording from 1962, nine months before king's landmark address on the national mall. king spoke at a high school in rocky mountain, north carolina. north carolina state university professor jason miller released the audio tuesday. he found it in a rocky mount library. >> me, too. goose bumps. >> what a discovery to find that audio recording, you know? these buried treasures that are just, you know, in the archives in libraries and stuff. >> rocky mount, north carolina. >> yeah. >> north carolina. >> indeed. but they did know that he'd use that phrased before.

. >> reporter: i'm garrett haake at d.c. superior court where that 17-year-old has already had his first court appearance and learned he will be detained until his trial begins next month. a source familiar with the case says the teen was also charged with three counts related to possessing a gun and ammo unlawfully. former mpd detective jim trainer. >> this is one of those things where somebody didn't intend for this to happen, but they were sloppy. first off they shouldn't have had the gun to begin with. second, they stored the gun improperly and in an unsafe manner. >> reporter: dalis cox's father told me today he knows the teen but declined to say how. >> i miss my daughter and i just think what's going on here as far as, you know, arrests and things, that's not helping anything. i don't agree with this. about. >> reporter: cox said for had he -- with this. >> reporter: cox said for he and his family a trial will only slow down the process of healing and trying to move forward. >> my daughter has been laid to rest. i wan

garrett haake was first reporter on the scene at the bradbury recreation center in suitland where hejust moments after that shooting. >> reporter: tonight police tell me they are hopeful that the men they picked up in the chaotic aftermath of this shooting, those persons of interest, can tell them who pulled the trigger out here tonight and why. children continued playing at the bradbury recreation center tonight on the edge of a bloody crime scene. investigators scoured the rec center parking lot with k-9 units and forensic teams looking to piece together a shooting scene that left one man dead riddled with bullets. >> it's right there right from me to you. >> reporter: this man saw it all and asked us not to use his name. >> everybody is in the park. you got football going on here and two guys, they know each other casually, you know, and then they had an altercation and a guy pulled out a gun and shot him. >> reporter: how many shots? >> eight. >> reporter: the witness said the killing might have been revenge for a previous fight, something police can't yet confirm. >> we have a f

charlie it read in part, "don't use the term 'anchor babi'." >> rose: major garrett in washington. this program note from washington. john dickerson will interview donald trump this sunday on "face the nation." as congress studies ways to save money, u.s. embassies around the world are getting a closer look. nancy cordes tells us about plans for a new embassy in mexico that are now delayed and the estimated cost to taxpayers close to $900 million. >> reporter: everyone agrees that the 55-year-old u.s. embassy in downtown mexico city is cramped, outdated, and needs to be replaced. but finding new property in the world's fifth most populated city can be difficult. in 2011, the state department settled on this 15-acre plot that kim with strings attached. it was the site of a colgaet palmolive factory and needed a full environmental cleanup before building could begin. four years later construction is still in limbo. >> it's a bit of a fiasco. >> reporter: utah republican jason chaffetz chairs the house committee on government reform. he says the estimated construction costs have ballo

here's major garrett. >> reporter: the debate opened with donald trump refusing to rule out a third party candidacy if he does not win the republican nomination. >> i will not make pledge at this time. >> okay. >> reporter: the tone toughened from there. fox's megyn kelly pressed trump to explain his previous comments about women. >> you've called women you don't like "fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals." your twitter account-- >> only rosie o'donnell. ( cheers and applause ) i don't frankly have time for total political correctness, and to be honest with you this country doesn't have time, either. what i say is what i say. and, honestly, megyn if you don't like it, i'm sorry. i've been very nice to you although i could probably maybe not be based on the way you have treated me. but i wouldn't do that. >> reporter: yes actually, he would. trump later posted on twitter: ask he retweeted a follower who brandted kelly a bimbo. trump spoke for more than 11 minute, the most of any candidate. and others, including former florida governor jeb bush were also asked about him. >> a story

more on that now from major garrett. major? >> reporter: norah, jeb bush was in texas, and while campaigning there, he toured the boarder with mexico. he bristled at accusations he's been insensitive to latino voters by using the term "anchor babies," a reference to children born in america to undocumented parents. bush said instead he was referring to the well-documented trend of maternity tourism, where parents, in many cases from china, fly to america and have children in order to derive the benefits of u.s. citizenship. >> what i was talking about was the specific case of fraud being committed where there are organized efforts and frankly it's more related to asian people, coming into our country, having children, in that organized effort, taking advantage of a noble concept, which is first right citizenship. >> reporter: bush rejected democratic criticism that he was echoing donald trump's inflammatory language on tissue. >> i think we need the take a step become and chill out as it relates to the political correctness tha

here's major garrett. >> reporter: kayla mueller's parents learned of the grim details in june from the f.b.i. u.s. officials said the self-proclaimed isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi repeatedly raped mueller, an american humanitarian worker, while she was held captive by isis with at least two other sex slaves in a syrian compound. al-baghdadi daddy visited the compound frequently and assaulted mueller during those visits according to senior officials. isis claims a coalition air strike on this compound killed mueller in february. the u.s. government said it was unlikely mueller was held there at the time. the government based its conclusioning about the sexual assaults on interviews with two teenaged girls who escaped isis captivity and heard directly from mueller about the abuse. corroboration also came, scott, from interrogations of the wife of a top isis figure. >> pelley: major garrett reporting from the white house tonight. major, thank you. in havana today, a symbolic milestone in relations between the united states and cuba. secretary of state john kerry presided over the raisi

garrett? >> reporter: debra, that murder here in shaw saturday was actually the second major shooting in shaw last week and now people who live here say they think the two might be related by the type of illegal activity that was going on beforehand. mpd officers formed a visible unmistakable presence on the streets of shaw tonight reinforcing a neighborhood still rattled by the broad daylight murder of matthew shlonsky on saturday. >> it's ridiculous. it's got to stop. we're killing each other for no reason at all and it doesn't make any sense of. >> reporter: at an afternoon news conference mpd released surveillance video of six persons of interest. three are linked to a stolen car seen fleeing the metro stop and recovered with bullet holes in it and three more seen ducking and dodging on the streets of shaw during the shooting. shaw's neighborhood commissioner told wusa9 bruce leshan the shooting erupted after an illegal craps game nearby. >> the incident on saturday start over at eighth an

major garrett talked to bush today as he campaigned in south south carolina. major. >> reporter: governor bush has been reluctant to harshly criticize donald trump. thaended when we asked bush about trump's immigration policy, specifically, the billionaire's push to abolish the 14th amendment guarantee of citizenship for any child born in america, even if that child's parents are undocumented. >> that's a constitutional right, and mr. trump can say that he's for this because people are frustrated that it's abused and we ought to fix the problem rather than take away rights that are constitutionally endowed. >> reporter: bush also dismissed trump's proposals for a trade embargo with mexico. a fence along the entire southern border, and his call to confiscate earnings sent from undocumented workers to their families back home. >> to withhold remittances for people living here that are sending money back to their families, it's just not realistic. >> reporter: what would you have to do? >> i have no idea. the implementation of that is just not-- not practical. cr

reporting live in northwest garrett haake, wusa9. >> thank you. arlington police are also investigating a sexual assault following northerly attack on a woman this past friday. this latest one took place after 8 p.m. friday at the lover run park and police say a man grabbed and groped a woman as she was holding onto her 3-year-old daughter. that woman screamed and the attacker ran off. this is the sixth such attack in arlington park. others have happened at highland street in north arlington and 15 street near the courthouse. in each case the victim screamed and scared the attacker away. >>> the violent summer that's been plaguing d.c. did not take a break over the weekend. four more people were killed including a man stabbed to death in a basketball game in northeast yesterday. that brings the total homicides in d.c. this year to 43 up 41% since last year. >>> now to prince george's county where a lanham woman was charged with first degree murder after police say an argumenter when husband turned deadly. she chased her husband down and ran him ov

major garrett spoke to the front-runner last night in michigan. >> reporter: is this an endeavor you're going to carry all the way through the convention in november? >> absolutely, absolutely. >> reporter: no hesitation? >> no hesitation whatsoever. >> reporter: what could drive you out of the race. >> the only they think could really drive me out if my numbers drop down. i'm a realist. but i don't see that happening. >> reporter: he suggested he lost some support after thursday's debate. >> excuse me, diwin? >> reporter: that's for you to decide. >> skews me, if you don't say yes you're not an honest reporter. good-bye. >> reporter: at an earlier process conference trump said his decision to run as an independent would depend on whether he was treated fairly by the republicans in the primary caucus. what do you mean by fairly? >> fairly is an instinct. i know what fair is. you know what fair is. >> reporter: trump again dodged questions about details of his economic platform. >> we're going to be announcing over the next two weeks numbers and specifics knowing what i just said is righ

tonight garrett haake is in frederick with the politics of this big decision and the community reaction. >> reporter: people on both sides of this issue largely agree since this ordinance making english frederick's official language passed back in 2012, very little practically has changed here, but it's what this law has meant as a symbol that has driven so much heated debate. >> we make this place any more welcome there won't be enough room to build another house. >> reporter: in a public hearing last month frederick county residents wrestled with the law that split this community making english the county's official language at a time when immigration and the changing face of america are issues under the national spotlight. >> we have to build a wall. the wall. >> reporter: tonight in frederick only council members were allowed to speak. the mood was more subdued, but the arguments still cutting. >> there's a reason i guess the frederick news post doesn't print their newspaper in 6,500 different languages. it costs money. >> when you look at this whole ordinance, there's no their ther

trump hit the campaign trail in the midwest, and major garrett is with him. >> reporter: the sign said it all. a crowd of nearly 2500 lined up in saginaw, michigan for donald trump's first campaign appearance since last week's debate. earlier, the g.o.p. front-runner told cnn that true lerds whine. >> i am the most fabulous whiner, and i'm a whiner and i keep whining and whining until i win. >> reporter: trump continues to be pressed about his positions on women's issues and was asked about pay equity. he called the topic complicated. >> the concept of it i love. i just don't want it to be a negative where everybody ends up making the same pay because that's not our system. >> reporter: despite leading in the polls, trump received mixed reviews for his debate performance. 55% of iowa republicans said they were less comfortable with trump after watching the debate. in new hampshire, 41% of republicans said they supported trump's ideas but did not think he had the temperament to be president. >> thank you, guys. >> reporter: former florida governor jeb bush argues he does have that tempe

our garrett haake was there and joins us now from the campus. garrett? reporter: bruce, students unofficially come back tomorrow and the fall semester begins. but tonight there were dozens and dozens of current and former au students here to remember a young man whose