that's the company savvas savopoulos owns. w wint fired back in 2005 and arrested five years later armed with a machete and bb gun outside his old charge. weapons charges were later dropped and wint pled guilty to a lesser crime. he's also been chargedith sault and has three separate protective orders against him. ot collins continues his discussion withur panel of experts to take us inside the mind of an accused killer. >> i goack. i look at his history. i look at who he was. did he have the capability ofng stri out against other individuals? i saw a young fellow interviewed on tv tking about how wint slashed and stabbed him and came back two or three days later a did the same thing all over again to this guy. you look at that type of behavior and you say if he's capable of that can we move him forward and niv him a real reason in hisi' mind? angry at my former boss and i'm angry that i didn't get a share of the profits. a friend of mine told me that this would be an easy house to hit. can i make that leap and personality fro

so was savvas' mother who was in the front row of the courtroom. prosecutors tried to lay out the time linesking nellie about a covering she had with vera the night before the family was held hostage. vera was supposed to go with nellieo one of the businesses in chantillyut she decided to go to the savopoulos home instead. nellie testified that vera planned to leave at 3:30 with you she never made it out alive. nellie was at the chantilly location and said savvas' assistant left pearl day around 3:00, a few hours later, nellie said she was wh savvas when amy called telling him to come home. by that time the family was inside held hostage their home on woodland drive. we can that savvas would be taken hostage, too, when he arrived home. >> reporter: now, the judge told jurors they will not have court on friday. so this trial will resume monday mornin >> thank you. >>> we want to go back to hurricane florence as it is creeping closer to land. up at the international space station, an astnaut there calls it chilling even from space. towed use a super

we know that savvas was held hostage, too. an engineer testified that he was contacted by savvas to put a security system. motion cameras were placed on the outside of the home and an alarm on the windows and doors. this man testified that because of scheduling conflict days before the murder, no one was monitoring the system. the footage from the cteras only w to the third floor ich prosecutors s was destroyed. now the the prosecution alsoll employees at bank of america which helped facilitate the ransom. we heard from the owner of an undergroundprinkler mpany. amy savopoulos had an appointment with this man's mpany to day of the murder. he just testified. coming up at 5:00, he is sharing new information that was never heard before. i can tellouhis is testimony you won't want to miss. >> thank >>> you don'tin a lot of drivers, any for that matter, who are fans of the red light and speed cameras. now there i state that isn't a fan either. adam explains a loophole. >>> plusti we are cing our coverage of hurricane florence's tre

savvas savoulos, his wife amy and their sun, philip and their made vera figueroa. daron wint is the lone suspect. he pleaded not guilty. dna evidence is going crucial in the case. but some key evidence may have been left behind at the crime scene. court documents showing a screwdriver holding a within dough open in the basement oth savopoulos home was not recovered. the water bottles and gloves had been discarded from first responders -- by firstde resp and firefighters. as a result, she did not collect the items. you can watch the mansion murders, inside the investigation special. it's a deep dive look into this case. it's in our nbc wasghngton app now. >>> back to you. >>> angie, thank you. it's 5:35. here's a look at other top stories. jury selection continues today in the trial of a man accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend. tylers tessier accused of killing his girlfriend. she disappeared late last september and was found buried in a field in montgomery county. >>> tropicastorm gordon is being blamed for the death of a child in pensacola, florida. the sto

savvas sa vvop poe loss and hise and children was killed. learn wint is the lone suspect. dna evidence will be crucial to the case. you can watchan ouron murders inside the investigation special. it's in our nbc washington app now. >> next at 11:00, a deadly dog attack. a woman mauled to death by an animal she just adopted weeks ago. what her family says about the tragic discovery. >> plus, the kaepernicky controveow swirling around a local mayor. the facebook quote she now claims was just a social experiment. >> doug's back to tell us when >> doug's back to tell us when fie heat will as your home becomes more connected, you need fios to keep up and fios is the 100% fiber-optic network... which means you get phenomenal capacity for your tech. now, get $200 toward a range of google and nest smart home devices plus the fastest internet available, up to 200 tv channels, phone, and a 2-year price guarantee, all for $79.99 per month with a 2-year agreement. plus order online by september 30th, and you'll get a $150 verizon prepaid mastercard. go to getfios.com. 100% fiber-optic

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. >> reporter: it was an emotional start to the day for the family of a amy savvas sat in the courtroom. witnessefighters took stand and described how he came upon a charred bed as he was checking the inside of theome while it was in flames. moments later, he would discover the young boy. the prosecution then called a fire investigator who was on the scene that same day. she told jurors that the fire started in or around the bed where the child was found and gasoline was used to fuel it. and an evidence technician with the metropolitan police department also testified. he described the careful process of collectikg evidence a knife that was used to prop open a bathroom basement window. he also collected a piece of n ct tape that was founde driveway. fat's one 28 family was bound. thismer evidence technician told jurors, when he searched the outside of the home, he noticed five telephone been cut.d >> that was meg dhan fitzgerald reporting. last week a person for a dog boarding company said she called th savopoulos them to day before the fire and the phone was disconnected. that isame da

the parent of savvas and amy savopoulos were in court today.re shown bloody pieces of fabric from the chairs the victims were bound to. a firega invesr also testified saying gas was poured around the bed in the room where the couple's 10-year-ol son was discovered. >>> well, thisououtine may familiar. you run into the store. pick up a few things and then rush out. >> tonight a case that may make you think your routine shopping plans, a man t allegedgeted a woman in a grocery store by posing as a customer. david explains how a concealed camera captured intimate ur pict. >> reporter: shoppers going in and out. they needed to checkir off t grocery list not realizing this is where one man posed as a customer to target women. >> a very friendlyst e. i would be surprised by anything like that. >> reporter: the fairfax county detectives detailed the investigation in the search ayrrant. they s back in june a store curity guard notic a man put his cell phone in a shopping basket. placing a few items in the phone without blocking the lens. once the suspe

the apparently of savvas and amy savopoulos sat in the front row as a firefighter discovered the burning a crime scene. >> megan has bhen covering fire cynic day one. she joins with us the emotional stimony. >> and tonight, we're working for you and your money to make sure the next trip to the e.r. does not put you in debt. >> how a family ended one a bill of more than $30,000 despite having good health insurance. and what's being done to solve thatproblem. >> we'll see with you those stories plus a good deal more on yanother very b day in the news. back to you for now. >>> we've got this nice little break, so to speak, from all the rain over the next couple months. we're getting that. yesterday, beautiful, today, more clouds. tomorrow, a day 57 like today. and then saturday is looking pretty good. and then -- yeah we've g some nasty dreary weather as we make our way throughhe first part of fall. fall begins officially on saturday. e first cool day, sunday. a lot more clouds today due to the eflterly . winds now out of the east and that is helping to bring in the clouds. 87 for a high to

savvas savopoulos, his wife amy, their son philip and vera figuerer we killed. daron wintui pleaded nlty. dna evidence will be crucial in this case. you can get caught u before the trial starts by watching our the on murders, inside investigation, special. it's in the nbc washington app right now the. >>> he's had more than 300 opinions. his opinions stand nearly 5,000 pages in length. >> a wild and contentious first day of confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and multiple times, beprotesters had t dragged out of the room. some were arrested. democrats tried to delay the hearing. they say thousands of documents re to kavanaugh's time working for the bush administration should be available for review. president trump has barred those documents from being released. urs into the hearing, kavanaugh was finally able to deliver his own opening statemedt. >> confi to the supreme court, i would be part of a of nine committed to deciding cases according to the constitution and walls of the -- d states.he uni >>> the question and answer session

savvas and amy savopoulos, their son philip and housekeeper vera figueroa all killed in the family'se man, daron wint, goes to trial nhis week. >>s4 meagan fitzgerald's has more on the -- meagan fitzgerald has more evidence on the impact. >> a crime scene means that no one can touch anything under a circumstances. >> reporter: but according to these court documents filed by prosecutors describing the collection of dn evidence, that wasn't the case. and long-time criminal defense attorney bernard grimm says when a crime scene is n flawlessly preserved, that can have major impact on the outcome of a trial. this entire case was centered a und a domino's pizza and piece of crust that had dna on. police linked that to daron wine and he was arras the only suspect, but now there are new questions about how forensic experts colle that dna and how it was processed. this document says when ans fo expert recovered the pizza crust it was in a bag with other pieces of uneaten zza. >> all the pizza is put into one paper bag. so you have what's called crossw contaminatioch is if the pizza is touchi