jonathan harris brother and mother are going on without him after the ordeal of finding his body anduring the killer's trial. >> it's between most painful thing that i have ever experienced in my entire life. >> reporter: deion is due to be sentenced in mid-way, latoya morgan is due in court to be sentenced on friday. derrick ward, news4. >>> a herndon middch student is being honored tonight for saving the lives of his family in january. roberto morales called 911 when everyone in his family began feeling sick. emergency responders discovered carbon dioxide was leaking into their apartment from the basement below. the mayor and herndon town sill will recognize him at tonight's meeting. >>> this is what's left of the blizzard of 2016 at the rfk parking lot. if these near record temperatures don't melt it away d.c.'s department of public works will remove the snow by march 21st. tonight on news411, mark segraves takes a look how the piles of snow here are impacting some events and the anacostia river. >>> that's nasty. >> it is nasty. warm temperatures just getting rid of the signs eve

stephen: barely over 100 pounds, jonathan harris was a small man with a strong will to live. >> jonathan started out with health problems in birth. stephen: harris had heart surgery and two kidney transplants. his brother donated one of his kidneys. >> he was my soul. he was my heart. it was what i was supposed to do. reporter: this is the surveillance man who killed harris shopping shopping with te stolen credit card. they robbed harris and the man beat him violently and asphyxiated him. i put the jury a few hours don he took the stand to blame the killing on the woman who died after the arrest. >> to pin an individual on the individual who we knew could not respond because she died as a result. stephen: aiding in the conviction the testimony of the third woman. she pled to accessory and offered up damning evidence. for the family of harris and agonizing chapter now is closed. >> it's the most painful thing i experienced in my entire life. stephen: he will be back in a courtroom in may for the sentencing. he is looking at life in prison. stephen tschida, abc7 news. jonathan: again, show

he was my heart. >> lloyd harris had a special bond with his younger brother, when jonathan was 12, and in kidney failure, lloyd gave him one of his own. >> he took the person that i loved the most in this entire world, the person that inspires me to live every day like it is my last, because it is how he lived his live. >> prosecutors say jonathan harris was murdered as pay-back from a jilted girlfriends. >> and under the guides e going over to the apartment to pick up her effect, she went over there with some other individuals, and during the course of retrieving her own property, the victim in this case was beaten to death by dion, he was strangled, he was suffocated, and in addition to taking her stuff, they took a number of items that belonged to mr. harris. >> harris' girlfriends, samantha parker, was also charged with first degree murder, but she developed brain cancer, and died in jail before she could be put on trial. a third suspect, latoya morgan, pled guilty to driving the get-away car. this case made headlines last year, when a judge allowed suspect to post bond while await

latoya morgan of silver spring wa others, for her role in the death of 26-year-old jonathan harris. harris had been robbed and then left for dead. morgan is facing five years in jail. >>> the g.o.p. front-runner is picking up an endorsement from a former rival today. and just about everyone is reflecting on the kinder, gentler republican debate from thursday night. craig boswell has more from the white house. >> reporter: dr. ben carson endorsed donald trump during a news conference in florida friday morning. >> it is such an honor to have ben. he is a friend. he has become a friend. and i really appreciate the endorsement, ben, thank you. >> reporter: carson said he was able to get over trump's attacks against him during the campaign because he has gotten to know the other donald trump. >> there are two different donald trumps. there is the one you see on the stage, and there is the one who is very cerebral. >> reporter: perhaps it was the more cerebral trump who showed up last night's debate which focused more on policy and left out the >> last night's debate was fun, it was diffe

jonathan. reporter: harris this is yet another bizarre twist in extraordinary saga of o.j. simpson. let's look at the facts here as we know them. what we essentially boil down to are two facts. the lapd is confirming that it is in possession of a knife that it has been told was found on the grounds of o.j. simpson's old home where he lived at the time of the murders of nicole brown-simpson and ron goldman. fact number two, that the lapd has confirmed it is indeed testing that knife for any dna traces, any evidence that might connect the knife to those murders. that's it as far as facts go. i was very interesting to hear captain andy neiman of the lapd repeatedly say, the story we have been told, the story he kept saying. he said that a construction worker, a man who claimed in fact as he put it to be a construction worker, claimed to have found it on the rockingham estate that once belonged to o.j. simpson and again the story the lapd has been told that construction worker handed it to an off-duty lapd officer. that officer, according to some of the reporting we are hearing simply k

leon harris, abc7 news. jonathan: marriott will not get a piece of starwood. they were outbid. starwood calling off $12 billion buy-out agreement at the last minute. instead a group led by chinese insurance company will get starwood upping the offer to more than $14 billion for the purchase. starwood, which owns the sheraton and the westin brands is paying marriott $400 million just to go away. all right. time now for a check of the traffic situation. jamie, it's friday. everybody is in a rush to get home and start the weekend. that looks nice. it is moving. the traffic heading in. you can see volume. we don't have accidents or anything on 66. this stretch i would call a major slowdown. there are no major accidents either. as we move to talk about how slow you are there, 15 miles per hour. short stretch just before that point. then, of course, as you saw you loosen up. the northwest corner of the inner loop is heavy from tysons to 270. continuing through montgomery county. you get a break after silver spring. 95 in maryland heading south from cherry hill road to the capital bel

jonathan: sounds like a taste of "when harry met sally." what is that like? with the singing? >> it' s beautiful. really great, classic musical theater kind of stuff. it' s great. the music fits the show really well. everyone has their moment. jonathan: sounds like it would be counterintuitive to expected duet between the main characters. they don' t know they are writing to. we have a couple of stills here. this is the cast, looks i could set back in the 20' s or 30' s? >> 30' s. jonathan: is this the guy the you end up with? >> no. it' s the other one that had all of us in it. it' s definitely a singer' s show, which i love. jonathan: generally they don' t get a duet until the end. it' s not until the very end at they realize and discover that they are the penpals. all right, you have done a good job wedding are whistle. beginning march 10, going to april 3. you can buy or tickets online or call the box office. 543-241-6550. now, here' s sports. elise: good morning. district finals in high schools -- high school groups, the winners advancing to the sweet 16. hurricanes made

harris, waslp revenge by her for himxd having >> reporter: she died of brain cancer before going trial. the convict ofw3w3 deion helped jonathan's a person i love the most in this entire world, the person that inspires me to live every day like it's my last. >> reporter: for thefá family is been a long hard two years sinc1 jonathan's death. >> thanks to yesterday's verdict, ixd have an opportunit now to find a newxd normal. >> reporter: deion is scheduled to be sentencedt( in mid-may. the remaining person ise1 due t be sentenced on .:jday. coming up in the 6:00 hour a look at some of the evidencet( that ledfá tof"Ñ yesterday's gu verdict. >> derrick ward. thank you. injured responding to that dom woodbridge. prince william county poli%h jesse hempen on twitter. he left the hospital last week and is now at home lprecovering% jesse hempen andi] another offir young officerxd ashley guindon.i jesse hempen's family said he's in good spirits and thankful for the supportu. the family hasc received. >>> now to the race for the white house. vote cigarette under wayÑi righ now in three states with caucuses tonight in hawaii, but bothw3 si

lloyd harris had a special bond with his younger brother when jonathan was 12 and in kidney failure, lloyd gave him one of his own.n. they took the person that i loved the most in this entiree world, the person that inspirese me to live every day like it's my last because that's how he lived his last. prosecutors say jonathan harriss was murdered as pay back from a guilted girlfriend.il under the guys otef going over o the apartment to pick up her effects she went over there with some other individuals and during the course of retrieving her own property, the victim in this case was beaten to death by deon saw becomer. he was strangled and some of kateed. in addition to taking her stufff they took a number of items that belonged to mr. harris. > harris' girlfriend, samanthaa parker was also charged with first degree murder. but she developed brain cancerae and died in jail before she could be put on trial. a third suspect latoya morgan pled guilty to driving the getet away car. this case made headlines last l year when a judge allow suspecte to saw become material to post m bond whil

jonathan: beaking news in the newsroom about metro. get it out to leon harrisith the newsroom about this. leon: this in a word is stunning. in all the years we covered metro and the issues that surrounded it and plagued them over the years we have never seen what we just heard in the literally in a matter of minutes we have gotten word that metro is planning to shut down the entire metro rail system as of midnight tonight. the word we are getting is the system will be shut down for 29 hours at least because they are looking at cables. there is an issue with the faulty cables somewhere in the system. we don't know where. we don't know exactly what may have been seen or what may have been discovered that would indicate that the risk was so high that metro has to make this extraordinary move. but the word we are getting is that metro is going to be shutting the entire system down for 29 hours. you are looking at the headquarters at metro. we expect metro director paul wiedefeld tom come out any minute now. excuse me, coming out at 4:30. briefing us on what is the

harris, abc7 news new york. michelle: tom to d.c. spend the money. jonathan: 20 years old and billion dollar wedding.ope it lasts forever. coming up for us at "abc7 news at 4:00" -- leveling the playing field. what some member of the u.s. women national team says has to happen in the game of soccer. six-figure work at a number of local schools is being taken to court. up next i will tell you what it's accused of doing. he was flicking matches on me... for my life. my ex-husband's intentions were to murder me. glenn: i made sure yvette's abuser went away for good, and put in place tougher sentences, because domestic violence can never be tolerated. yvette: mr. ivey showed compassion. i felt like i could trust him. narrator: glenn ivey. as state's attorney, a proven leader. in congress, he'll combat domestic violence, and protect president obama's legacy. glenn: i'm glenn ivey and i approve this message, because i'm on your side. jonathan: a big moment today for u.s. women's soccer. five of the top players have now file ald federal complaint claiming that there is a huge pay disparity between the men's

harry potter ride, they'll yack on you. be careful of that. >> well, i'm thinking of little jonathan seeing casper right now. >> i had a blast. my poor cousin, i think it's still a bad memory for him. >> awesome. >> that's funny. >>> well, i hope you guys have a good weekend. >> you, too. >> speaking of the weekend, there are some great ways to >> one of them means you might want to visit a denver restaurant, one that actually >>> if you don't have weekend plans just yet, we have ideas in our list of nine things to do in colorado this weekend. we love that number. it's under the feature section on 9news.com. >> the boulder international film festival is happening this weekend. >> it's four days of films from local, national and international film makers. the ticket packages are available. you can buy single tickets as well and there are several locations to see the films around downtown boulder. be a nice weekend to head out. >>> the longest running snow boarding competition in the world is at vail mountain this weekend. the championships features the world best completing in slope style and half pipe. the event is completel

harry? >> reporter: hi. i am outside the federal right now. that is where 35-year-old jonathan smead was taken today and according to the five page arrest warrant issued by the secret service at about 11:16 sunday night jonathan called the states civil service, secret going to be recorded and before the agent had a chance to answer he said "i want to kill president obama." smead asked if it was a federal offense and mentioned a couple of past assassinations including lincoln and kennedy and said he then wanted to kill hillary clinton. he identified himself by name jonathan smead and as we say, he is 35-years-old. we talked to his attorney charles fleming and here is what he has to say about his client. >> it is a serious state of affairs to the extend someone is charged with threatening the president of the united states. that makes it all the more serious. >> reporter: and he will be back here in court on wednesday march the 9th at 11:30 in the morning, president obama, the most threatened president in u.s. history and most are done on-line and this was done by telephone. the

deon sabitter robed and killed justin harris in the basement of his family's apartment home. they already pleaded guilty after the fact. jonathan's ex-girlfriend was also charged with first-degree murder but died in jail, last summer, awaiting trial. wusa 9 anchor jan jeffcoat live with the story. >> lesli, what makes this story even jonathan's family is he was a two-time kidney transplant kidney survivor. when the first failed, his mom participated in a kidney exchange, donating to a complete stranger so her son could have a second chance at life. >> i just said, thank god. >> it has been an agonizing 15 months for patricia and her family. >> i feel a sigh of relief. i feel that i got justice for my son. >> job than was just 26 years old, when he was robbed and killed in his family's basement apartment. >> he was strangled and suffocated in this case. [ no audio, please stand by ] >> reporter: ex-girlfriend who died while in jail was the mastermind. surveillance video showed his killers using his credit card at a fast food drive-through after the murder. >> i don't think closure is something that you can get from these rt it is