>> all right, matt gutman in mexico for us tonight. matt, thank you. >>> back here at home, and to an alarming scene unfolding late today at a tv station in washington, d.c. a man smashing his way through glass doors, a security guard then opening fire. abc's david kerley is on the scene tonight. >> breaking news right now out of d.c. a shooting at the studios of fox 5. >> reporter: not just one, but two doors kicked in by that suspect at the fox-owned station in washington, d.c. with police looking at this video tonight as part of the investigation. once getting through that second door and entering the tv station lobby, a security guard confronted the man, firing one shot, hitting him in the chest. >> police are still standing outside the station, figuring out exactly what happened here. >> reporter: the suspect is described tonight as alert and responsive after the shooting. he did not have a weapon. but tonight, the question is, what was his motive, what did he say inside that lobby? >> what kind of conversation did he get into? >>

he's my biggest support. >> and matt gutman with us live tonight from that memorial in las vegas. and matt, you mentioned bump stocks still legal across the country. but today, the president when pressed on this a year later said there's going to be movement on this? >> reporter: he did, david. he said, we're knocking out bump stocks. and if ththat this would happen the next few weeks or so. the jus distpt told us they have proposed a rule to ban bump stocks. that is still under review, and could last 90 days. david? >> matt gutman tonight, thank you. >>> and meantime, the president is celebrating his biggest trade achievement yet, unveiling a new north american trade agreement. among the key components of the deal, it allows american farmers and dru makers to sell more in canada, and provides u.s. tech and finance company stronger intellectual property protections and its top goal is to make sure more car parts are made in north america with higher paid workers. >> this landmark agreement will send cash and jobs pouring into the united states and into north america, good for cana

>> all right, matt gutman leading us off tonight. matt, thank you. >>> robert bowers, as matt mentioned, is now charged with 29 federal crimes. he could face the death penalty, if convicted. and tonight, what we've now learned about his past. here's abc's chief justice correspondent pierre thomas. >> reporter: at that court appearance, a judge decided whether robert bowers could get bail. that was quickly rejected. if ultimately convicted, he will likely face the death penalty. the fbi trying to rule out accomplices and searching for anything specific that triggered the attack, other than a deeply rooted hatred of the jewish community. >> these are -- they tend to be lone actors, and my guess is that's what he is, but you want to make sure. for example, could someone have helped him get an ar-15? what was the triggering mechanism? it's typical -- it's really never very much. >> reporter: on a fringe site embraced by white supremacists, bowers openly discussed his contempt for jews. archived posts from social media also appear to show

>> matt gutman tonight. thanks, matt. >>> when we come back, the air scare. the flight attendant falling from the plane. >>> then, the crash into the water. >>> and the major headline forth of the border tonight. sfx: tsfx: feet shufflingc life can change in an instant. be covered when it does... ...with a health plan through covered california. we offer free expert help choosing the best plan for you. and all of our plans include free preventive care. financial help is available, so check for yourself to see what savings you qualify for. for health insurance starting january 1st, enroll by december 15th. because you never know when life... ...will change. get covered today. >>> to the index of other news tonight. the small plane crashing into the ocean off daytona beach, florida. the plane going down in the water just feet away from the beach. lifeguards then running into the surf, the plane bobbing up and down in the waves there. the pilot was pulled from the plane and carried to shore. he was not seriously hurt. >>> and overseas tonight, the flight attenda

here now, matt gutman. >>> shots fired. shots fired. >> reporter: the peace of the seventh morning shattered. >> something innately told me that's a semiautomatic rifle. >> reporter: rabbi jeffrey meyer was there. >> i announced to my congregation, drop to the floor, be still. >> reporter: he hustled three of them to safety and placed a 911 call all as gunshots rang out. what kind of things were you hearing and what was going on? >> rapid succession of shots. it sounds like roughly five or six at a time and i'm hearing people screaming and it's seared in my brain. i can't erase that tape. >> reporter: another shooting in another house of worship. this time in pittsburgh, 11 people killed and 6 others wounded. the murders underscoring a disturbing national trend. anti-semitic incidents reported in this country have ursurged u 57%. saturday morning members of three congregations gathered inside this 65-year-old temple. a baby naming ceremony about to start when suddenly a gunman burst into the house of worship. >> as soon as

abc's matt gutman has more on the massacre. >> reporter: the first 911 calls coming in at 9:54 a.m. people inside the tree of life synagogue frantic. they were under attack. members of three congregations inside. a baby-naming ceremony about to get under way and now a gunman had entered the house of worship. >> as soon as he came into the lobby, he opened fire. >> reporter: according to the fbi, the alleged gunman, 46-year-old robert bowers, hurling words of hate against jews, even as he murdered them. when the first two police officers encountered bowers, they say he was wielding an ar-15 rifle. >> we approached the front of the synagogue, he began firing at us. >> reporter: the officers wounded and the gunman then retreating farther into the synagogue. a s.w.a.t. team enters, discovering a scene of unimaginable horror. 11 people, three women and eight men, dead. as medics rushed to evacuate the wounded, officers climbed to the third floor where bowers has fled. >> contact. contact. shots fired. shots fired. give me additional resources. additional resources third floor. come on, w

and matt gutman is from pittsburgh again. matt, the suspect was wheeled into court today and i know you were right there in the courtroom? >> reporter: that's right, david. he was brought in in a wheelchair. he'd been shot multiple times but the hospital released him for this court date. but what is perhaps most chilling about the man suspected of killing the atrocity in that synagogue behind me is that he seemed to normal in court, chatting with his attorneys, compliant with the bailiffs and undisturbed with the 11 murder charges he faces. david? >> matt, thank you. >>> robert bowers is now charged with 29 federal crimes. he could face the death penalty, if convicted. and tonight, what we've now learned about his past. here's abc's chief justice correspondent pierre thomas. >> reporter: at that court appearance, a judge decided whether robert bowers could get bail. that was quickly rejected. if ultimately convicted, he will likely face the death penalty. the fbi trying to rule out accomplices and searching for anything speci

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matt gutman is with that group in mexico. >> reporter: these migrants are still 1500 miles away from the nearest u.s. border. over the past two days, mexican police have allowed them to proceed unimpeded but overnight the interior ministry here saying it is demanding that these people seek asylum through the proper channels or at some point soon they will be rounded up. these people here say that asylum means deportation back to honduras. matt gutman, nbc news. >>> authorities are investigating an explosive device found at the suburban complex of george soros. an official said the device resembled a pipe bomb. an employee opened the package and discovered the device, then placed it in a wooded area and called authorities. investigators are now reviewing surveillance video to determine how the package arrived in the mailbox. it isn't clear whether it was actually addressed to soros. >>> police in bakersfield is looking for someone who stole items from the home of kevin mccarthy. these men were claimed to have threw a boulder through the window and took office equipment. there's no wor

matt gutman was there when a young girl being doused with water collapsed. everyone he talked to said this journey isn't as bad as the violence in their own country. the president tweeted saying that people will be turned away at the voter if they don't first apply for asylum in mexico. >>> abc7 news was at levi stadium when joe montana stood next to a statue of him moments before he caught the touchdown pass. in is the 82, the cats propelled the 49ers dynasty to its first super bowl win. >> it i don't anyone realized on our team and our teammates, what, how important this play would become in 49er history. >> and you can hear more about the catch from joe montana coming up in sports. >>> more than $2 million is up for grabs between two lotto drawings coming up this week. the jackpot wednesday night's drawing is $1.6 billion. if you're going to get tickets, plan ahead because you can bet those lines will be long. >> both jackpots, zl zlrz. >>> and a burning rv forces customers to plea a san francisco home improvement store. >> plus how a sailor broke royal p

here's matt gutman. >> reporter: this video of the world's most recognizable athlete dancing with a model in las vegas, taken hours before she claims he raped her. cristiano ronaldo, who's racked up nearly every accolade in soccer and a billion dollars in endorsement deals, including nike, is accused by kathyrn mayorga of a rape in 2009. their night started at this club where they danced and canoodled. he later invited her to his hotel suite and where he allegedly attacked her. hours later, she reported an attack to the las vegas police and had a rape kit, but she refused to name him so no charges were filed. they in 2010 for $375,000, but she now claims she was pressured into it. las vegas police reopening the case now that he has been named in a civil suit. ronaldo vehemently denying the allegations. >> what they said today is fake, fake news. >> reporter: the fallout has already begun for ronaldo. he has been left off of the portuguese national team, and nike says they will watch this closely. >> thank you. >>> now to the flash flood al t alerts across the midwest, texas to the great l

. >>> matt gutman is at the border of guatemala and mexico. seeing and hearing right now? you're right in the middle of it. >> you can see this mass of humanity stretched behind me. that goes back two miles. we're told there are many hundreds quite possibly 2,000 migrants all in this procession, all heading north away from the border. everybody you see here, george, crossed illegal likely over that river. they probably jumped or swam across or came across on rafts. you can see they're not carrying much. many people have plastic bags, maybe a backpack. they have flip-flops and other shoes. many say they're not criminals. they're not assassins. they only want a better life. they say they're going to keep going until they reach the u.s. border about 1,700 miles away. >> 1,700 miles away. they're going to keep going. the mexicans have been pulling some aside. do they expect to reach the u.s. border? >> we don't know what they expect. we are being sort of shadowed by the mexican federal police. i'm going to get ahead of these people. we are being s

here is abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: a verdict in a senseless road rage killing, kevin rodriguez, the victim. the 19-year-old who had been a daredevil on instagram leaping off cliffs didn't see the danger coming in the walmart parking lot in southern california. james fortney, convicted of second-degree murder, he nearly hit the car rodriguez and his girlfriend were driving in, both yelling. fortney recording with his phone in his hand. then stabbing rodriguez in the heart with a 6-inch knife, still filming but then joining others in rendering first aid. it's the latest in a series of increasingly disturbing road rage incidents. from this street brawl in new york to this ramming incident in california. >> this was a senseless act and they took my boy away from me. >> reporter: fortney was convicted of second-degree murder, and even though he tried to render first aid, he faces up to life in prison when sentenced next month. matt guttman, abc news, los angeles. >>> a northern california high school is looking into reports that one of its students served up a very ghoulish snack. >>

matt gutman with more. >> what have you seen here tonight? >> hunger, despair. very, very sick people. >> reporter: mexico's president is warning migrants that they won't be able to stay in his country or reach the u.s. if they don't follow the legal process. many migrants believe that's a deploy to deport them back home. >> we hear the president say he was going to, perhaps, cut foreign aid to countries represented in the caravan. does he even have the power to do that? >> reggie, there's already some back and forth about that. the white house wouldn't give exact details about how the president plans to cut that funding to central american countries, but we dow that demo capitol hill are already saying it's illegal for the president to withhold those funds to el salvador, honduras and guatemala because those funds have already been appropriated by congress. expect another looming fight for the president there. >> kenneth, thank you. >>> university of california employees plan to go on strike today. >> the american federation of state, county and municipal the s

matt gutman leads us off tonight with what played out. the 20 minutes of terror inside this synagogue. >> reporter: s.w.a.t. teams descending on the tree-lined streets of squirrel hill. the peace of a sleepy weekend morning, shattered. the first 911 calls coming in at 9:54 a.m. people inside the tree of life synagogue, frantic. they were under attack. >> at least one caller sounded like they may have been shot. >> reporter: members of three congregations inside. a baby naming ceremony, about to get under way. now, a gunman had entered the house of worship. >> as soon as he came into the lobby, he opened fire. >> reporter: >> reporter: according to the fbi, the alleged gunman, 46-year-old robert bowers, hurling words of hate against jews even as he murdered them. when the first two police officers encountered bowers, they say he was wielding an ar-15 rifle. >> as we approached the front of the synagogue he was firing at us and pinned us down with gunfire. >> reporter: the officers, wounded, and the gunman then retreating farther into the s

abc's matt gutman right there when a girl collapsed from a heatstroke. >> no. it's too hot on the floor. >> reporter: the caravan spotting in mexico overnight. >> now they have offered the migrants asylum status here over the past couple of days. they have rejected it. they say they want to keep walking. they are afraid that asylum here means deportation. >> reporter: president trump on the campaign trail in nevada promising to greet migrants at the u.s./mexico border. >> i will seal off the border before they domestic into this country, and i'll bring out our military. >> reporter: without any proof, the president blaming democrats for the caravan. >> openly inviting millions of illegal aliens to break our laws, violate our borders and overwhelm our nation. the democrats want caravans. they like the caravans. >> reporter: the president has praised mexico for its efforts to control the caravan along with sending troops to the border. the president also threatened to cut off aid to several central american countries and we are told that is only if the caravan co

mexican federal police keeping watch as so many hitch rides, hiked in the suffocating heat abc's matt gutman with an official in chiapis. >> what kind of things have you seen here tonight? >> hunger, despair, very, very sick people. >> reporter: mexico's president is warning migrants they won't be able to stay in his country or reach the u.s. if they don't follow the legal process, but many of those migrants believe that's all a ploy to deport them back home. kendis, janai. >> those migrants more than a thousand miles from the u.s. border. kenneth moton for us this morning. >>> breaking overnight, a deadly shooting at the university of utah. police there say they've located the man believed to have gunned down a female student. they say the suspect is a registered sex offender and not a student at the school. they say the two had a previous relationship. >>> we turn now to the weather and the potentially catastrophic hurricane taking aim at mexico. willa is a category 4 storm already bringing strong winds and flooding to mexico's pacific coast. it's expected to make landfall today north of p

we begin with matt gutman, embedded in southwest mexico. >> reporter: a river of humanity is surging northward tonight. by the thousands, footsore central american migrants have crossed into mexico, heading towards the u.s. hand in hand, they struck out from the town of ciudad hidalgo at dawn, where so many illegally crossed this river into the mexican country. twice today, mexican riot police deployed in force. they've got tear gas canisters, batons, full riot gear, and obviously fire extinguishers. they appeared ready for a reprisal of friday's clashes. when thousands crammed the bridge between guatemala and mexico. bursting through the gates. they were met with tear gas. frantic parents shielding children. some migrants leaping into the river and swimming across. an unknown number were injured. today mexican authorities offering asylum to control the flow. the vast majority of migrants turning it down, for now. determined to reach america. but president trump vowing if mexican authorities don't stop them, he will. >> if that doesn't work out, we're calling up the military, not the

our chief national correspondent matt gutman is with the caravan there in mexico. orning, matt. >> reporter: good morning, robin. that fierce political battle you mentioned is likely to intensify as decide what to do with the migrants.ss column of central american migrants. the migrants bursting through the gate at the border separating mexico from guatemala over the weekend. riot police responding with tear gas. some jumping over the bridge to avoid the melee. this migrant caravan, miles long, filled with families clutching children, all of them trudging on foot deeper into mexico. poised to try to cut them off on sunday, hundreds of mexican federal police bearing shields and armor, but just as the migrants approached, the officers pull back, setting up again three miles down the road and again retreating for the second time. mexican immigration officials pleading with them to register for asylum, but most kept walking. this morning, the president holding firm on his threat of sending the military to the border, tweeting, an ub substantiated claim of middle eastern

. >> matt gutman in mexico seeing just how dangerous the trek can be. >> reporter: a river of humanityhward tonight. crossing into mexico heading towards the u.s. hand in hd th town at dawn where so many illegally crossed this river into mexico. twice today mexican riot police deployed in force. they've got tear gas canisters, batons, full reich gear and obviously fire extinguishers. bursting through the gates, they were met with tear gas, frantic parents shielding their children. some migrants leaping into the river and swimming across. an unknown number were injured. today mexican authorities offering asylum to control the flow. the vast majority of migrants turning it down for now. determined to reach america. but president trump vowing if mexican authorities don't stop them, he will. >> if that doesn't work out, we're calling up the mility. not the guard. we're calling up the military. >> reporter: the mood festive at first, desperate. thirsty migrants swarming locals handing out food and tacos. local drivers taking pity and hundreds crushing into cars, pickups and trucks. some han

so back to our chief national correspondent matt gutman there in pittsburgh. , matt. >> reporter: hey, good morning, robin. robert bowers was arraigned yesterday facing dozens of charges including for murder and for hate crimes. he was wheeled into that courtroom in a wheelchair because he had been shot multiple times, but he seemed strangely detached from his alleged involvement in that saturday morning massacre in that synagogue behind me. this morning, we're learning more about those terrifying moments inside the synagogue from the first responders who put their lives on the line to save the victims. dr. keith murray is a trauma surgeon and a member of the s.w.a.t. team rushing to treat the injured officer. >> we already had two officers shot and we were getting reports of dead on scene. >> reporter: as his team moved into the lower sanctuary, they found an elderly woman shot in the arm, clinging quietly to the body of a friend. >> she was just staying with the body? >> uh-huh so we kind of, you know, removed her from her friend. i think my medic put a tourn

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abc's matt gutman has more. >> reporter: with those screaming sirens and the wailing families, it washe jewish community in the history of the united states. to those who monitor hate speech, it wasn't surprising. >> look, this isn't happening in a vacuum. in 2017 we saw a 57% increase in anti-semitic incidents in the united states. >> reporter: the anti-defamation league has been monitoring hate speech for over 40 years. that 57% spike over last year, the biggest on record. >> what is disturbing is when these kinds of phrases somehow move from the margins into the mainstream. >> reporter: pittsburgh comes a year after the unite the right rally in charlottesville. a young woman was killed there. three years after a white supremacist opened fire at a jewish community center in kansas killing three, this is the latest in a recent string of attacks on places of worship in america. it's been a year since a gunman killed 26 people at a church in texas and another at the ame church in charleston by white supremacist dylann roof in 2015 left nine dead which should send chills down the spines

this is matt gutman he adds that he's also embedded with the caravan migrants and has not seen or heard about a single middle eastern or now this also there's also another video that's been shot as well this is by the republican congressman matt gates alleging to show. who are he says are being paid to join the caravan asked whether the billionaire george soros or u.s. n.g.o.s are being up currently behind this but local media reports say that these migrants were in guatemala and were exchanging their currency before crossing into the mexico border. now a number of images also spreading online this post was shared by thousands of people on facebook and on twitter depicting attacks on mexican police by immigrants but through a verification tools we found that these pictures are actually a few years old the photos of the officer covered in blood is actually from twenty twelve and it was really about a student protest a clash that took place with police in mexico and another image of an officer with a bloody nose was actually used in twenty eleven and it was a report about clashes between

we get more from abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: police and s.w.a.t.sponding when dr. keith murray got the text. active shooter, multiple dead. >> you read that and your veins go cold with ice. >> reporter: while the doctor was racing to the tree of life synagogue, jeffrey was inside hiding from a killer. >> something innately told me that's a semiautomatic weapon. i immediately announced to my congregation drop to the floor, dent utter a sound. be still. >> reporter: the gunman was heading for the sanctuary. >> the people towards the front of the sanctuary i quickly tried to evacuate them up. regretfully there was no way for me to get back to the remaining eight people in the back of the sanctuary. one was wounded. the reng sev were slaughtered in my sanctuary. >> and you know 20/30 seconds to make an entry we find thiz oue the chambers. >> reporter: the doctor searched for survivors. >> one of my medics found another woman and she was very much alive. i think she was in so much shock she didn't realize she was shocked. and didn't want to leave her fr

our chief national correspondent matt gutman has the details. ning, matt. >> reporter: hey, michael, good morning. it didn't take an advanced degree in crime to figure out when stars weren't home. it only took a smartphone. now, the lapd says a gang of teenagers and one of their mothers has been ripping off celebs for nearly the past year. stealing millions of dollars worth of cash and jewelry from the homes when the celebs were at performances or at games. how did the thieves know? the lapd said the thieves just tracked the star's social media accounts. after a year of home robberies targeting a slew celebs like rihanna, as well as athletes like the l.a. dodgers yasiel puig, the lapd thinks it has finally found the culprits. arresting three teenagers and one of their mothers after a robbery gone wrong at the home of los angeles rams receiver robert woods. police say the gang, seen in this security video first obtained by tmz sports, robbing the dodgers' puig's multimillion-dollar estate. >> hey, hey. safe. >> you found the safe? >> yeah. >> repo

our chief national correspondent, matt gutman, is in pittsburgh with those new details. good morning, matt. >> reporter: good morning, robin. robert bowers is being treated with multiple gunshot wounds in that secure ward behind me. there is a line behind me because of the added security measures at this hospital. according to law enforcement officials, robert bowers had no criminal history. it appears he purchased his weapons legally. he had no family, no real friends. a man no one ever seemed to notice. to investigators, robert bowers was an enigma. to his neighbors, he was a ghost. so the 18 months that he lived here, that bowers lived here, you never saw these blinds open? >> not once. not once. >> reporter: chris hall, his neighbor at this apartment house, says bowers waved but never socialized, never had guests over, and never revealed a hint of his alleged anti-semitic obsession. >> he didn't even have a bumper sticker on his car. >> reporter: no sign? anything? >> i wish i knew something. i wish there was some type of warning sign or a red flag, but was just way b

our chief national correspondent matt gutman is with the caravan in mexico. od morning, matt. >> reporter: good morning, michael. we've watched the caravan grow from 3,000 to 7,000. this is what it looks like today. today is likely to be a rest day. these people need it after 50 miles of marching over the past couple days. an increasing concern over their well-being. two people killed according to local officials. the situation here is growing more and more desperate. this morning, mounting concerns of a humanitarian crisis building for this exodus of central americans. this river of humanity stretching over ten miles over southern mexico's roads. after marching 50 miles in two days they finally bedded down. this woman bringing her infant to an ambulance with heat exhaustion. others tending to battered feet and bodies. five miles into their march monday they reached the town of viva mexico. good samaritans ready with food. these kids on top of this fuel tanker are being thrown food and juice and water. moments later this van pulled up. that woman, whose name w