. >> but hutchison was a drug dealer with a sadistic streak. serving a 25 to life sentence for two murders, attempted murder, kidnapping and torture. >> how did those two people die? >> one fell off a bridge and the other one died. >> one fell off a bridge. would that be an accident? >> aye. >> what happened? >> fell off a bridge. >> were you there when he fell off the bridge? >> aye. >> how'd the other one die? >> the other one just died, didn't he? he choked. >> on his food? >> no. >> so basically you threw somebody off a bridge and you choked somebody to death. >> aye. >> chris was very flippant when describing his crimes and he had this odd habit when there was a break in the interview of sort of half singing a song and belching. ♪ >> but as we probed deeper into his crimes, we soon learned that hutchison's murder victims were not the only ones who suffered. those who did not pay up on their drug debts often met especially sadistic consequences. >> how long have you held somebody hostage? >> hours before. >> torturing them? >> on and off. >

, heads up, northbound on the veterans expressway, you're not going anywhere between ehrlich and hutchison. we have overnight construction tying up the northbound lanes and the alternate is dale mabry highway or gunn highway which is also sheldon. that's a look at weather and traffic on -- look at weather and traffic. >>> right t now, several law enforcement agencies are questioning five people accused of purse snatchings. josh, did these people actually get away with the robberies? sounds scary. >> reporter: well, they did. they were able to snatch the purses and quite frankly, investigators are now trying to figure this all out and all night they have been questioning the suspects here department. and now the suspects were accused in a spring of purse snatchings over the past week from manatee here to polk county. the latetest happened why yesterday as a a woman sat in her car in a publix parking lot. a suspect came up to her and asked her a question and the next thing she knew, she was a purse snatching victim after he reached through the window and took her purse. >> you think you're s

northbound on the veterans expresswsway, from ehrlich to hutchison, the northbound lanes blocked. construction. and dale mabry highway or even gunn highway which is also sheldon further to the south, those are your alternates. southbound, not affected. that's a look at weather and traffic. back to gene and adrienne. >> thank you, leslee. >>> let's get back to the breaking news wewe were just showing you. so tampa police shot and killed someone with a gun overnight. now they claim that man fired a shot right at one of their officers. the investigation is happening now. that's on cherokee avenue in south tampa. let's go straight out to news channel 8's ryan hughes live at the scene. ryan, i just checked my email and saw we got an update about two minutes ago. bring us up to speed here. what can you tell us? >> reporter: adrienne, good morning to you. you can see a vast number of police officers here. well. they are still investigating this situation. it was around 3:00 when the shots rang out. we are told it started when police were called here because there was a man involved in a he came to th

vonnie: i want to go back to senator hutchison. according to recent polls, two thirds of americans want a to gotion process through. only a third say they do not. will the republicans listen to the public on this issue? i think they will listen and look at the qualification -- not the qualifications, because he is qualified, but his decisions, to see what kind of judge he has been. i think they will decide if they are going to move forward with hearings. they say they do not want to right now, but you never know. i think they will be looking at the decision to see what kind of judge he has been. curious about be your thoughts on this, senator hutchison. the republicans also have to think about what happens if they don't hold hearings, and perhaps to pick a name, it's hillary clinton becomes president. merrick may be a much more central judge as to who the other one may be. vonnie: you never really know. i am sure some republicans think perhaps john roberts is it not turn out to be the justice they were expecting, but that is the po

senator hutchison. >> yes.ell, i think he certainly has run an incredible campaign that no one would ever have thought, and it's troubling, some of the things he said. i think that's why you are seeing such an effort by people like mitt romney and john mccain and others to say, we need to be thinking of a presidential candidate who is presidential, who can deal in foreign policy. i was in south africa last week with a group of international leaders, people who are up on things, and they were aghast at some of the things that had been said. but having said that, he has played by the rules. he is winning. but he has 395 delegates out of 1200. so the race is not over, and i think people are now speaking out and looking at all of the factors that they want in a president, and there may be a different outcome. >> if he wins the delegates needed to win the nomination, will you support him? >> well, i wanted to see what he does. i think it's a little too early to tell. he is beginning to think that this is a reality a

hutchison's already tested violet's blood and monitored her hormone level so they know the best time for her to get pregnant. now it is time for her to be artificially inseminated. the donation from violet's boyfriend luke. >> i'm going to put the catheter through into the uterus which i'm doing right there. then we're going to take the sample and inject it through our catheter. this is actually the semen sample we collected from the dog earlier. you see it is going through this it will just be filling the uterus. >> reporter: a five-minute minimally invasive procedure called transcervical insemination. no pain, no sedation. the doctor says it is more economical than the surgery route. >> this way we go home without my having to worry about anesthesia, recovery. >> reporter: violet is on her way home and less than a month she will be checked out to see if she will be a new mom. >> it is relatively not that expensive. certainly not as cheap if they were in the backyard doing their thing. >> reporter: the cost for the procedure is about $350. now things going well, violet could have he

. >> senator hutchison has been able to join us. good to see you. in the gop -- i don't need to name names -- have called for a closing down of our borders with respect to allowing muslims to come into this country as a way to protect us and to enhance our safety. how do you feel about that? >> well, i think a blanket rule that no muslim would come into our country is absolutely the wrong thing to do or say. i think, though, that we should be very careful about the vetting process. and i am not comfortable, and neither are the people who are actually doing it comfortable. and they are saying -- they are not openly -- that we really can get the information about refugees from countries whose governments don't keep records and don't even know who is in the country or who has left the country. so i don't think getting good information is as important as it should be in letting refugees in from countries where we know there are terrorist operations. >> i want to get back to govern rendell on that very point. but since you joined us late, let me ask you

republican from texas, one of the second or third elected hutchison reached out on a bill to improve women's retirement security and it was in a very polarized moment as gingrich was taking over the congress and they worked together on disability and they went out together to make this deal happen when nothing was happening in congress because of the partisanship and they realized that they had such a good working relationship and liked each other so much that they created these bipartisan dinners and there were a lot of people who thought like the new girls club and the rule is it is now a tradition that has gone on since about 1993, 1994 and it's out of contrast that they've developed and things like ending the government shutdown came out so what i heard over and over again, republican women into democratic women it's like our life experience leads us to wanting to be pragmatic and get things done and how you break through the barriers to get an adequate compromise for people and that's the way that our government needs to work if we are going to have a functioning government. >>

hutchison takes the semen from living and deceased dogs to continue the gene breeding process and artificially inseminates cats as well. kathy has been a breeder for 20 years. she brought her dogs to the clinic for the procedure and jo recently one of her pets had a litter. thousand she wants her 18-month-old labrador retriever, violet, to be artificially inseminated. >> i am fortunate number to be 40 minutes away from one of the renouned repro guys. >> reporter: they have tested violet's blood and monitored her hormone level so they know the best time for her to get now it is time to be artificially inseminated. the donation is from violet's boyfriend. >> i will put the catheter foo the uterus which we do right there. then we will take the sample and inject it through the catheter. this is the semen sample we collected from the dog earlier. you can see it is going through this catheter. it is filling the uterus. >> reporter: a five-minnesota mallly invasive procedure. no pain, no sedation. it is more economical than the surgery route. >> this time we go home without my having to worry about a

kay bailey hutchison is former senator from texas and is not aligned with anyone at this point. is hoping for an open convention. she thinks it would be good for the party. and front-runner donald trump has been saying. we know the cleveland officials have put out bids for more security, and other law enforcement folks to come. and we also know, interestingly, that major corporate brand names, big corporations, who normally support the republican conventions have always began and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars entertaining being seen and seeing people at these events, have not yet committed to coming because of concerns about some of the things that donald trump has been saying. which could have problems for them elsewhere in the world. and also the possibility of security issues. so the republican national committee has big fund-raising events for them as well and they are seeing a lot of criticism from corporate america. usually republican -- >> andrea mitchell reporting from washington, d.c. thanks very much. still on the set with barry bennett. barry, let me talk abo

the bees swarming outside the roiled i doubt right in the that is when lowell hutchison came out to remove the bees. kevin: the rain has arrived and it looks like it will be a soggy 36 hours. some of the rain occasionally will be heavy at times. right now, down to rain cool. here is a live look at radar. it is enough for a wet evening commute. anticipate more in the way of what weather across the area. some of that rain will be a the day on thursday. here' s a look at the current weather set up. a cold front stretching from chicago. we are on the warm side of that. funneling out of the gulf of mexico. all the way back towards the gulf coast. through tomorrow night. we may see that band of rain shrink a little bit. expect what weather across the area. so. rain is pretty much going to be nonstop between tomorrow night. we begin to get some sunshine back for friday. rain, rain, and more rain. your forecast for tonight , look for a low of about 58. in maybe an hour or two where the rain lets up. most areas will pick up an inch or two of rainfall between now and midnight tomorrow night. the wet

that warrant allows officers to search mikaela hutchison's facebook page. they building the 14-year-old was communicating with an unidentified person on facebook before she disappeared. she was last seen february 29th in west charlotte. >>> today president obama's mcto fill the vacant supreme court pick is expected to visit capitol hill and speak to democratic senators. yesterday the president nominated merrick garland to fill antonin scalia's seat. the senate may hold up the nomination. senate republican leaders vowed to block any nomination that president obama makes. >> i have fulfilled by constitutional duty. it's time for the senate to do theirs. >> it's the senate's constitutional right to act on a check with a president and withhold its consent. >> senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says garland won't senate republicans said they will speak with garland. >>> after much anticipation, unc and duke will play the first round games today in ncaa men's basketball tournament. the blue devils are the number 4 seed in the west region and face wilmington a

then there's this miniature schnauzer named sadie lee, lynn parent hutchison of weeky watch says the family adores this dog but would prefer if she stopped stealing all the chips. >>> and finally a vacation picture from bev jacobs of hollywood, florida. she took this scenic shot and shared it with us. this while she was in belize, an island just offshore there. very serene. you can send it to stacie by tweeting your pictures with the #sendittostacie. you can also share them with me on my wfla facebook page. every insurance policy has a number. understands the life behind it. for those who've served and the families that have supported them, we offer our best service in return. usaa. we know what it means to serve. get an insurance quote and see why 92% of our members ba da ba ba ba >>> now the trick that hackers are using to get into your computer, invading your privacy and putting your personal information at risk. >> when you're online, you probably get pop-up ads all the time trying to sell you something or get you to click here to win but now there's an official looking warning p

police say michaela hutchison was last seen odor carver road in west charlotte a week ago. brown hair. >>> employees in a kansas factory will return after a deadly shooting spree there two weeks ago. on february 26th, police say an employee shot and killed three people and injured 14 others. police shot and killed forbes that day. family will be able to work through their emotions today before operations resume tomorrow. >>> new developments this morning, military service members could get a refund check from the department of education. we told you last week a federal report found the department conducted a flawed review of whether student loan servicers capped rates on loans to military personnel. of thousands of servicemen and women between 2009 and 2014 on student loan payments. some are being charged than the locked in 6 percent rate while they were on active duty. >> we've told them that they're going to take care of them when they're deployed. this shouldn't have happened. >> the department of education did not say when the refunds will be issued. >>> happening today

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it's that tractor-trailer that just wandered on to the hutchison river parkway. tractor-trailers not allowed on parkways. the northbound side of the hutch near weaver street, we still have that misplaced tractor-trailer. this accident cleared away. southern state parkway westbound side exit 15, which is corona avenue. that's good news. new jersey transit looks fine so, does long island rail road, metro north. this afternoon, long island rail road is offering extra trains for those who want to head out of the city a little earlier. if you take a train in today, you will have an extra train to get you out this afternoon from penn station. that's good news. we have alternate side of the street parking rules suspended but you have to feed the meters. >>> a new development in the brussels terror attack. six people have been detained overnight. we also have an update, a sad catch a flight to new york. sasha and alex are believed to be among the dead this morning. abc's molly hunter joins us now live from brussels. molly? >> reporter: good morning, lori. secretary of st