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horace holmes now joining us live at the "live desk" with new developments in the case. horace: the man is alex brizzi of baltimore. a young man with no former trouble with police, but a young man his family tells us has been troubled with mental illness. what was in the mind of alex brizzi as he walked up to the front d in baltimore 1:30 wearing a full body hedgehog costume, red vest to his chest and what appeared to be a trigger in his hand? >> did he have suicidal tendencies where he wanted police to shoot him? we don't know. horace: we do know what unfolded there in the next seven hours was terrifying, not only to the people who work at wbff. >> this doesn't look like a joke. horace: but also to brizzi's troubled father who fears the worst for a young man he says battled mental illness. the night before brizzi's mother noticed something odd. >> she went to his room and there is something with a bunch of wires and everything. horace: they say he came with a plan. he parked his car and tried to set it on fire before walking up to the station's front door. computer flash

with the latest how we got to the situation, where we are right now, we will send it to horace holmes back in the studio. what can you tell us? horace: jeff, it started with a bizarre set of vents. a car set on fire. the station's parking lot. and then that man in an animal costume walked in wbff's door. >> when police arrived on the scene the suspect failed to by a orders. >> he had his hands in his pocket. surge call mask on. -- surgical mask on. countersniper shot the suspect. horace: it started when the suspect described as a full body animal costume walked in the entrance of the television station and confronted the security guard saying he was wearing a bomb. saying he had a video he wanted them to air. the meteorologist has more from there. >> the security guard was phenomenal. horace: the suspect remained in closed off area talking to the guard for a half hour. the suspect eventually walked away and police were waiting for him. >> he had a rest vest on. you could see it was a device. some device. he was holding a flash drive and something he could probably set a bomb off. hora

horace holmes in the "7 on your side" help center. we are here for our help center. we have sport and help and clarendon fitness will be here. the rest of the afternoon until 6:30. 703-236-9220. that is the number. if you have any questions about exercise, about nutrition, about getting in shape. give them a call. they will be here until 6:30 to answer any phone call that you have. 703-236-9220. back to you. michelle: all right. thank you. yes, everyone looks so in shape down there. jonathan: buff dudes in the newsroom. michelle: yes. coming up next at 4:00 -- questions about prince's estate. the surprising answer about who is eligible for a piece of his much to leave behind make sure everything is in order. jonathan: former house speaker dennis hastert wheeled in and out of a chicago courthouse makes a disturbing admission in his sentencing in the hush money case. what he said he did. and how long he will announcer: you're watching "abc7 news at 4:00". on your side. jonathan: it has been almost a week since prince died. questions remain about what will happen to his

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horace holmes knows what a rough ride is. let's check in with him now. horace: the pictures tell it all. we are moving but bumper to bumper in outer look of the beltway. this is slow going and heavy traffic. the traffic is moving freely. but on the outer loop at 17 over 18 is very back to alison. alison: we turn to the latest with the developing story and metro. they had to single track trains after a train got stuck in a tunnel. the train lost power at 3:00 this afternoon. it was stuck for an hour. the passengers say it became uncomfortably hot inside the train. >> you could hear the engine shut off. we're going in reverse. kept doing that. for a second i thought it was an earthquake. the engineer came on and said it would be a few minutes. alison: this was one of the new trains the 7000 series cars. everybody got off safely. it's not known why the train lost the metro general manager wants to focus to get the fare gates to work well so he is scrapping a pilot program to let you pay to enter the system with your phone. brianne carter is covering metro to

horace holmes knows what it is like to be in the heavy traffic. horace: we came over the woodrow wilson bridge to this point, at about exit 16. the crash is up to exit 19679 we are in a standstill to see what happens as we get closer to the accident. jamie: thank you. bumper to bumper traffic. you can see on the map behind me. we have more on the clo michelle: a deputy constable in texas is expected to recover after overnight shooting. he was talking to another constable after a traffic stop in houston when someone came up behind him and shot leon: tonight an accident scene and a state trooper in the middle. why they scrapped a modern way to pay. two hours about counting before d.c. rocks the red. red verizon center for game one. five years later a new phase in earthquake repairs at the national cathedral. why the work isn't closed to being finished. announcer: now "abc7 news at 5:00". on your side. leon: we are going to begin with news chopper 7 over the beltway. the area is closed down for three hours now after a crash involving several vehicles

horace holmes monitoring that for us tonight. what did you find? ce: millions and millions of people have been media, including a number of celebrities. president obama saying that the world has lost a creative icon. 4 million people posting on twitter, tweeting, including oprah winfrey, usher, stevie knicks, madonna and demi lovato. in this area prince performed at the warner theater in june. dowd was there and he posted this picture he took outside of the theater. you can see the billboard, "prince: the hit and run tour." this picture from inside, c.c. bloom was there. you can see she says incomparable, irreplaceable, to have witnessed magic at its finest. this hurts. my goodness. of course, a lot of people are quoting prince and posting videos from prince and pictures. this one says, "it's so important to let your gift be guided by something that is clear." that is a quote from prince. here is inside warner theater. that concert and of course the american history museum today made a post with princes iconic guitar right there. so, a lot of people

horace holmes picks up the team coverage with the newsroom from that part of the story. so many performances that he put out there, including the super bowl that was epic. great stuff. horace: one recently in june in washington, d.c. people have been posting about that. social media is abuzz. 4 million tweets on twitter. banjo captured half a million posts. it's one of the top trending items on facebook. look at the responses. "when doves fly." this is a picture of prince and michael jackson. see if we can get it to m here. well, i've got a few more. i will come back. right now is not operating the way i would like for it to. people from all over the world and all over the area. warner theater last june -- here we go. the american history museum put up a post talk about prince and his life. this is from the warner theater. i was talking about last june he was here in concert with stevie wonder and a number of people posted their pictures from that concert. we will be back later on and have more social media posts. there are a lot of them from around the country and around

with the latest how we got to the situation, where we are right now, we will send it to horace holmes back in the studio. what can you tell us? horace: jeff, it started with a bizarre set of vents. a car set on fire. the station's parking lot. and then that man in an animal costume walked in wbff's