the i - team's vanessa murphy has his story. <<< ((vanessa murphy)) ((sgt. richard strader/metro: very sad and tragic day again on our roadways... )) ((vanessa murphy)) ...has been the voice for metro police... ((strader: frustrating, very frustrating )) ((vanessa murphy)) ...from the scenes of the valley's worst crashes. ((strader: we always hope for the best but prepare for the worst. )) ((vanessa murphy)) he's headed the investigative team called fatal detail.... ((strader: my work phone. this is what they use to call me 24/7.)) ((vanessa murphy)) but soon - he won't be on call anymore. ((strader: it's gonna be a challenge for me, but it's part of me.)) strader is retiring after more than 24 years with the department and six years with fatal detail. ((strader: got a lot of gray hairs from it but i definitely came out sane but i learned a lot and what i learned is that you have a great support system at home who supports you and understands what's going on, you could probably do just about anything.)) ((vanessa murphy)) and that includes keeping a sense of

the i - team's vanessa murphy has his story. <<< ((vanessa murphy)) sergeant richard strader... ((sgt. richard strader/metro: very sad and tragic day again on our roadways... )) ((vanessa murphy)) ...has been the voice for metro police... ((strader: ...from the scenes of the valley's worst crashes. ((strader: we always hope for the best but prepare for the worst. )) ((vanessa murphy)) he's headed the investigative team called fatal detail.... ((strader: my work phone. this is what they use to call me 24/7.)) ((vanessa murphy)) but soon - he won't be on call anymore. ((strader: it's gonna be a challenge for me, but it's part of me.)) ((vanessa murphy)) strader is retiring after more than 24 years with the department and six years with fatal detail. gray hairs from it but i definitely came out sane but i learned a lot and what i learned is that you have a great support system at home who supports you and understands what's going on, you could probably do just about anything.)) ((vanessa murphy)) and that includes keeping a sense of humor even after a rough day.... ((strader: mike

good evening, i'm mark ockerbloom. >> vanessa: and i'm vanessa welch. parents are outraged because they learned of this incident through the facebook post, not from the school. >> mark: investigative reporter kerry kavanaugh is live in hyde park and boston police tell us they were notified about this on november 3rd. november 3rd. >> the reporter: yeah. they were notified november 3rd, but we have confirmed today that boston failed to notify the massachusetts department of secondary and elementary education, that's the state agency that regulates charter schools. they are supposed to do that within two days of the incident being reported. meanwhile, many parents contacted fox 25, very concerned, they had secretary of homeland security questions and not nearly -- they had so many questions and not nearly enough answers. my stomach churned. i was sick to my stomach. how did they let this go on. >> the reporter: this mother of two who didn't want us to show her face as she was first

vanessa? >> vanessa: blair, with both of the candidates so close there tomorrow, what kind of impact is it having on the city? we know that security is stepped up, but what other impacts are you seeing? >> the reporter: yeah, vanessa, both events are very close in any presidential election when you're on a campaign night and election night. trump's events will be taking place four blocks from where i'm reporting from right now and clinton's event will take place another two miles from there. there's a no-fly zone in place over both residences. it's pretty much business as usual on this monday. live in new york city, blair miller, fox 25 news. >> vanessa: blair miller, thank you so much. we'll be checking in with you throughout the night and tomorrow of course as well. the balance of senate is also at stake tomorrow. >> elizabeth: republicans right now hold 54 seats, but 24 of them are up for election. now, democrats need to flip at least four to gain control should clinton win and they'll need

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michaela: >> vanessa: blair, thank you. so far, so good on the mass pike as crews stay on schedule while they transition all-electronic tolling system. more than half of the 155 toll booths have been taken down. massdot tells us more than five million transactions have been processed since the system went live friday night. the first phase of construction should wrap up by thanksgiving. new at 5:00 p.m. tonight, it was the busiest halloween season ever in salem. thames the word tonight from the police department. they say the prehalloween crowds were larger than previous years and about 50,000 people visited the city on october 31. federal law enforcement officers kept the streets safe and fun. >> mark: two cities, two fan bases are on the edge of their seats. the suffering will end in cleveland or chicago tonight, when either the cubs or indians become world champions, at long last. fox 25 sports director tom leyden joins us now and the stakes could not be higher, tom. >> the reporter: put it into perspective this way. the

good evening everyone, i'm mark ockerbloom. >> vanessa: i'm vanessa welch. the race for the white house tighter than ever. the key battleground state is a must-win for both states. we're also focusing on a big senate race in new hampshire. >> mark: let's begin with fox 25's chris flanagan, live in atkinson, new hampshire, where trump just held a rally. chris? >> the reporter: yeah. he certainly did. unlike massachusetts, new hampshire does not have early influential. donald trump again taking his case to the voters today in the granite state. donald trump, back where he started his run for the white house. >> this is where it all began. first victory. this was our first victory and i've never forgot den it. >> the reporter: with the polls tightening in new hampshire, trump has caught up with clinton, a state where sehas never trailed. >> hillary clinton is the candidate of yesterday. we, you, you, we, are common sense. >> the reporter: trump trailed clinton by nearly double digits in new hampshire just last months. but has mounted a comeback. three polls rel

as well. >> vanessa: blair, thank you. new at 5:30 p.m., attorney general loretta lynch is calling the f.b.i.'s annual crimes report sobering. the jurors report for 2015 shows the lgbtq community. there were more than 400 hate creams reported in massachusetts last year. 13 incidents were reported in new,c[f hampshire. attacks against muslims have also increased 67%. one advocate warns, next year's report will be even worse. >> i don't think we've ever seen this level of fear and apprehension, particularly, in the american muslim community, even after 9-11. >> vanessa: advocates are also trump, saying he incited attacks during his campaign. during an interview with 60 minutes last weekend, trump told people to "stop it." >> mark: local hockey player paralyzed during the winter classic has been recognized for her strength and courage. the christopher and dana reeve foundation awarded lang with the dana reeve award. she severely injured her spinal cord nearly a year ago. lang has limited arm movement and no feeling in her leg

((vanessa murphy)) vanessa standup: that's until an undercover metro officer picked her up on the street earlier this year.... she says he honked the horn, stopped for her, and she agreed that's what police needed to take her into custody. ((court video: judge william voy: want to keep one step forward, all right?)) ((vanessa murphy)) she ended up here... there are so many teens like her identified as victims of sex trafficking in clark county.... ((susan rosky/public defender: yesterday was her first day of high school.)) ((vanessa murphy)) every wednesday morning in this courtroom.... ((prosecutor: so we would ask that she remain detained at this time.)) ((vanessa murphy)) appear in front of judge william voy and a team of professionals ready to begin outreach. from a 14 year old caught with a pimp for a second time... s behavior...)) ((vanessa murphy)) to several who continually try to run... ((she cut off her gps...)) ((vanessa murphy)) the goal is to treat them as victims - not as criminals. in some cases - rather than a charge for selling sex - what goes on the record is "minor in

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((vanessa murphy)) hughes. we were told she could not comment on the case and were referred to the presiding judge - charles hoskin. he also said he could not comment on the case, he had not seen this video, and children don't typically come to court for these hearings. ((vanessa murphy/reporter: why did you bring your daughter with you? welthy silva/mother: because i was told by the court, in the court's letter that i needed to bring ----- to the court at 1:30.)) ((vanessa murphy)) welthy silva showed the i-team this document stating if she did not bring her daughter to court - jail for 25 days. authenticity - since again - the case is sealed, a court spokeswoman said she could not confirm or deny authenticity. we also asked judge hoskin why there was no child advocate for the girl...he said that is not the norm for these hearings. ((vanessa: for a divorce, custody hearing, should there be a child advocate there? rebecca: i think that a child advocate or somebody that ((vanessa murphy)) early on - judge hughes

((vanessa murphy)) vanessa murphy, 8 news now.// >>> ((christianne klein)) historic win as kris bryant returns to the valley. when you'll get the chance to shake hands with the las vegas native. "now, live...this is 8 ((katie boer)) a pacific storm system will move across the region sunday through spread into mainly the sierra by sunday afternoon and across the rest of the area sunday night and monday. some showers may linger in eastern portions of lincoln and mohave counties monday night. generally dry conditions and near normal temperatures are expected for the remainder of next week. .................... southwest flow will be over the area tonight as a pacific trough approaches the california coast. some mid and high level moisture will continue to spread across portions of the area as this trough approaches but mainly associated with a weaker disturbance out ahead of the main trough moving north out of ba california. .................... this first disturbance could bring just enough moisture for a slight chance of high elevation showers or sprinkles sunday across eastern san bern

hello everyone, i'm mark ockerbloom. >> vanessa: i'm vanessa welch. sampson is trying to get his death penalty sentence thrown out. fox 25's robert goulston was in court today when sampson detailed his horrific killing spree. robert. >> the reporter: vanessa and mark, yeah, his defense team is trying to connect that killing spree to a childhood brain injury. well, played his 2001 confession, where he clearly explains how calculated he was. >> he tried to show me a picture of his girlfriend, i wouldn't let him. >> the reporter: gary lee sampson gives every detail of what he did to phillip mccloskey, jonathan rizzo and robert eli whitney. in the second murder, he convinces 19-year-old jonathan that he was only going to tie him up for a short time. >> made him go down into the weeds, i sprayed him with off,

nice to see. >> vanessa: eversource making it right. >> mark: absolutely. good for them and now a pleasant thanksgiving can be had in a warm home. >> vanessa: she will be warm. >> mark: a beloved local garden lost what could be a final battle today. >> vanessa: coming up all new at 6:00 p.m., the delays supporters were asking for that has been denied as a hospital moves forward with an expansion plan. >> mark: protecting children still ahead, the seat standards, one of our local senators is calling for to make vehicles safer. >> vanessa: plus, a night of ?? >> vanessa: a former french been named a suspect in the recent terror attacks in paris and brussels. the u.s. government has designated the man who uses the name, solomon suleman as a terrorist. the state department says he created a terror cell in europe with 300 members. he's also reportedly involved in planning of the attacks in paris last november, as well as the bombings in brussels in march. before joining isis, he served in the french foreign legion. >> mark: authorities say the school bus driver

((vanessa murphy)) vanessa murphy, 8 news now.// >>> ((brian loftus)) >>> southern nevada is getting close to 1-million dollars in added funding to help fight sex trafficking in our state. ((kirsten joyce)) >> those grants are coming from the department of justice's.. and u-s department of health and human services. the "nevada partnership for next three years. the money will help increase the hours of the organization's various facilities -- which you see here as well as add a mentoring program to both boys and girls... who are at risk of falling into sex trafficking./// ((kirsten joyce)) >>> social media is finding comic relief after the election. ((brian loftus)) >> coming up on good day.... we see how the internet is embracing the bromance between the president and joe biden./// >>> welcome back.... sweetie, you know what we're craving right now? crispy chicken and fried egg with bacon-like brunch. brunch? but it's 8pm-and it's tuesday- huh, i wonder if my mother would like to stay with us... here's what i'm thinking-brunch. all day, every day. should we get started? who wants co

good evening, i'm mark ockerbloom. >> vanessa: i'm vanessa welch. we have fox 25 election 2016 team coverage tonight. our team of reporters is in hand new york city, covering the clinton and trump campaigns and other key races like senate and ballot questions. >> mark: first let's begin with fox 25's jason law at a polling station in framingham. some voters tell you, this has been a tough election cycle. >> the reporter: yeah, and a lot of people told us they're happy to see this over. we're live here at keith tech tonight and a poll worker told me turnout has been great today, but there haven't been any lines. that's great newsroom. when polling place opened at 7:00 a.m., here's the front door. there was actually a line out building, but since it opened at 7:00 a.m., there haven't been any lines and one of the reasons poll workers tell me is because of early voting. we know there's 4.5 million registered voters in massachusetts, 22% or a million voters cast their bloat before today even started, but just because it's easier to get in, no lines, doe

. >> vanessa: we are under a weather alert tonight. rain started moving in late this morning, and it has not stopped. you can see here, some people had to pull out their umbrellas in kenmore square. the radar tonight is covered in green and yellow. fox 25 storm tracker chief meteorologist kevin lemanowicz and kevin, the evening commute is really being impacted tonight. >> kevin: no doubt about it. it's bad enough around boston to begin with, but you factor in the rain, we saw it happening early today, an there is some the north here, up through the route 2 area here, this takes you out to the northwest of boston, you see woburn in the picture there, some heavy rain right along some of the local roadways, along 2a, lexington is back here, give you an idea where we are, and then to the south and west of there, out to worcester county, we're finding heavy rain through the city of worcester and northward towards shrewsbury, this takes you awe long 140, and then the mass pike right out through the stretch. there's 290, heavy rain in and aro

hello everyone, i'm mark ockerbloom. >> vanessa: i'm vanessa welch. just within the past half-hour, boston police commissioner william evans said the two menu each other and the public is not the scene in dorchester, gathering new information. john? >> the reporter: well, commissioner actually, we carried live on fox 25, when he first spoke to us. this is still a very active scene. take a look behind me. now, police tell us when they arrived here on wescottage street at number 20, to a report of a shooting, they found one man dead. they tell us another man is now in custody. sky fox was over the scene earlier, as crime scene tape, you can see, stretches across wescottage street. police say this took place at 4:20 p.m. this afternoon. boston police still actively working the scene and emergency crews are also here. the person shot is a man, he was pronounced dead on scene, and we are told, it was all over an argument that took place inside number 20, wescottage. commissioner evans is on scene, he spoke to us just a few minutes ago. >> i don't know if i

come from three decades of studying cases like vanessa. >> vanessa: i'm curious, did she marcotte's killer could be now. >> the reporter: yes, she did. one of the chilling things she said to me, she believes vanessa's killer is familiar with princeton. she doesn't believe this is someone who came from out-of-town and now who has left the area. she thinks it's someone who is familiar with princeton, and may still be in the area right now. i'll have a lot more insight on new england's unsolved. >> vanessa: we're looking forward to your report bob. >> mark: convicted killer is fighting for his life. gary lee sampson's murder spree. sampson killed three men and now is back on trial getting a second chance to prove he shouldn't be sentenced to death. fox 25's robert goulston was in court for opening statements, along with two of his victim's families, and robert, understandably, they're not happy about having to sit through this all again. >> the reporter: mark, yeah. when these families walked out of court, 13 years ago, they thought gary lee sampson was sentenced to death. well, they w

((vanessa murphy)) vanessa standup: that's until an undercover metro officer picked her up on the street earlier this year.... she says he honked the horn, stopped for her, and she agreed to a sex act for money. that's what police needed to take her into custody. ((court video: judge william voy: want to keep one step forward, all right?)) ((vanessa murphy)) she ended up here... there are so many teens like her identified as victims of sex trafficking in clark county.... ((susan rosky/public first day of high school.)) ((vanessa murphy)) every wednesday morning in this courtroom.... ((prosecutor: so we would ask that she remain detained at this time.)) ((vanessa murphy)) appear in front of judge william voy and a team of professionals ready to begin outreach. from a 14 year old caught with a pimp for a second time... ((she's engaging in extremely high risk behavior...)) ((vanessa murphy)) to several who continually try to run... ((she cut off her gps...)) ((vanessa murphy)) the goal is to treat them as victims - not as criminals. in some cases - rather than a charge fo goes on the record

now the storm comes, when an icy mix arrives. >> vanessa: now that voters have >> vanessa: julie here, watching your live drive times. many of our traffic cameras, take a look at this. those white lights are drivers who are heading northbound on the expressway into the o'neill tunnel. the red brake lights, people who are heading out of boston and you can see, nobody is moving quickly anywhere. over to a live look at the zakim, where i see a slight improvement for people heading in to the just is steady and heavy for thanksgiving travelers who are making their way to their holiday destination. >> mark: fox 25 investigates recently learned that the number of drugged driving cases in massachusetts skyrocketed from 2% since 2011. >> vanessa: now that marijuana is about to be legal, local police are concerned, they may not have the tools to crack down on people who were driving while high. >> the reporter: in colorado, where marijuana has been legal since 2014, more people are edibles and getting behind the wheel. >> i've been driving down the road and the guy right next to me is lighting

((vanessa murphy)) apply. and on monday... ((nat from meeting)) ((vanessa murphy)) nahac's board of directors approved a new program to help struggling homeowners who are unemployed. ((verise: these are real people and we recognize there is a huge number of homeowners here in nevada who are still underwater.)) ((vanessa murphy)) but while campbell says nahac is adjusting its who should be held accountable for failing to get that funding to struggling homeowners in a timely manner and for any waste of money? the department of business and industry has called for an investigation by the attorney general's office... a spokeswoman said the office became aware of the treasury audit and will review and evaluate the matter. ((verise: some of the things i didn't expect but it's an organization that was having difficulty functioning and it's just something that the 85 million dollars nahac still has to distribute to struggling homeowners - needs to be used by the end of 2019. she's trying to make sure that happens before that deadline.

. >> vanessa: i'm vanessa welch. it's going to be a very busy night as the results start coming in to our newsroom hand we'll be on the air here with you every single step of the way all night long. >> mark: our crews are covering the big races and the big issues from new hampshire to massachusetts and to new york city. where both donald trump and hillary clinton are holding their campaign parties tonight. fox 25's blair miller is at trump headquarters. blair? >> the reporter: ock, the happens here tonight will happen when donald trump shows up here behind me and takes that stage. for now though, he's at trump tower, about four blocks from where we are, where he lives. today, just like everyone else, donald trump voted here in new york city, joking, it was a tough decision, but for many americans, they weren't joking, with some struggling up until the end with who to vote for. the trump campaign on the outside appears very confident, they will deliver a g.o.p. win, but the polls show otherwise. today while voting, tr

)) ((vanessa murphy)) he often has to make a decision... ((papazian: am i dealing with roy now or what?)) ((vanessa murphy)) jail, medical treatment, or just one on one interaction to help difuse a situation. ((glaude: yes, crime fighting strategies are one of our most important job functions the 21st century, i think from agency to agency across the country, we can't arrest our way out of a problem anymore.)) ((vanessa murphy)) that's why glaude says about 70-percent of metro officers across the valley are certified in crisis intervention... ((papazian: were you guys diagnosed with anything? )) ((vanessa murphy)) a skill papazian uses nearly every day. vanessa murphy, 8 news now.// ((denise valdez)) >> you can check out the on mental health on our website at las vegas now dot com./// ((weather toss)) <<< ((katie boer)) how about our beautiful fall november day here in southern nevada?! certainly not feeling like november... more like september as of late. our sky cameras showing clear skies across the region. .............. some upper 70s

eversource. >> vanessa: an explosive discovery made in a lab at m.i.t. a vegetable that might be in your refrigerator right now can detect dangerous explosives and even terrorism. we're talking about spinach. >> mark: popeye always said it can make you strong, but that little vegetable may have more benefits than we realize. >> vanessa: fox 25's elizabeth hopkins went inside the lab at m.i.t., where researchers told her how far the new tool against terror works. >> the reporter: the future is and then we will infiltrate it. >> the reporter: yes, it sounds a little crazy, but consider this. the whole job of a plant is to pull water and nutrients from the soil, but they can also put pollutants and chemicals. researchers at m.i.t. infused the plant with nanoparticles that can detect chemicals from bombs and ied's. >> the root system brings up the explosive material, up to where the sensor is. >> the reporter: once the chemicals are detected, tey the light is detected by an infrared camera, attached to a system that sends out an email. >> explosive in the gr

. >> vanessa: ted, thank you. also breaking, a frightening home invasion rattling a quiet massachusetts town tonight. right now, police are looking for three masked men, they say tied up a woman and robbed her with a knife. police say the suspects asked about a safe, but the woman said she didn't have one. this happened on stephanie ann lane, just after 10:00 a.m. this scene, where bob, police say there is no reason for the public to be worried here. >> the reporter: yeah, that's right, and police are telling us that the victim is ok, she was not harmed in this incident and they have been talking to her, getting a statement from her. i want to show you some live pictures of the scene. this is where it all happened this morning, right there, in that house. it is a large home here in sterling, and a neighbor told us it's 5600 square feet. now, all afternoon long, police have been combin evidence, but just a short time ago, the police chief told us, he does not think that this was a random crime. 13 stephanie ann lan

>>vanessa: sounds wonderful. 567891. we'll take a look at today's top stories and new this morning, congress rejected legislation that would require women to register for the military draft. house and senate leaders reached the agreement as part of a new defense policy bill. the bill, which authorizes spending for military programs also struck down a measure that would have undercut protections against workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation. and services honoring fidel castro continue today in cuba. original leaders and tens of thousands of havana's plaza revolution last night. it's the same place the controversial leader delivered fiery speeches to the mammoth crowds in the years after he sees power. and game on. universal studios confirmed it will add nintendo themed areas to the parks, including the one here in orlando. it's expected to be a fully immersive experience. there will be rides, character meet and greats and food announced yet or characters. >>russell: oil prices on the way up. we'll talk with

((vanessa murphy)) vanessa murphy, 8 news now./// >>> ((dave courvoisier)) >>> you can check out several i-team reports on cyber security on our website at las vegas now dot com./// ((denise valdez)) ((tedd florend behind a cold front that passed through last night. these are temps we haven't seen since february as we finally dropped below normal. temps today near 60 and unseasonably cooler than the mid 60's we're supposed to be at. winds still remain breezy at times as well but will decrease even more tomorrow and into our well but become milder by the weekend. ....................... ............ ................................ .. neighborhood by neighborhood temps in the mid 60's and milder on the east side of town where we're lower in elevation and obviously cooler for the westside near the mountain where wind barreling through. regional temps also stayed chilly this morning and not too much of a warm up as well today as most of the state stayed below average. ................................ ... .................. satellite and radar composite shows clear skies after the clouds we

that was fantastic. >> vanessa: and the dad is so animated. delivered by dad. >> mark: passion there, boy. incredible. >> kevin: mark was just asking me about the baseball games. >> mark: tonight and tomorrow. >> well tonight is not a problem. i was looking at the data for >> mark: excellent. >> kevin: i say let's play too. as ernie banks would say. >> mark: extra game seven would be awesome. >> kevin: slow down. 68 for first pitch in cleveland. going to be a great one, game six of the world series, 49 boston, right now, 47 bedford, temperatures are falling through the 40's, i said the suburbs earlier, it was that way, but now in the city too, boston and worcester, lawrence is 49, lowell area in the upper 40's and that's the evening, going down through the mid and even low 40's before they start to jog back up. back up at night, they will. that's because these clear skies will get replaced by these clouds that are moving toward us. these clouds don't have any rain for our area. the rain goes to the north you see it in the adirondacks and the n

new information coming in. >> vanessa: kevin, thank you. also coming up, a little girl she's battling cancer for the second time and could really use a reason to smile and today she got one. the way dozens of police officers from all ?? dylan: anybody can do parkour. and want to have people understand that you own a body. we can do some crazy things with it. having blue cross blue shield, i've always felt comfortable being able to try something that i might not know if i'm going to land, because i've always had this security behind me. my name is dylan. i own hub parkour training center >> mark: in middleton, a remarkable site police have across the state lining the center of town as a procession of police motorcycles makes its way to the police station. a head of state but for a very special v.i.p. bob ward shows us how a community is helping a family in crisis. >> the reporter: lola rose anderson is almost four years old, but she and her family have already endured so much. two bouts with a rare form of cancer mean life is precious, but d

. >> vanessa: and i'm vanessa welch. parents are outraged because they learned of this incident through the facebook post, not from the school. >> mark: investigative reporter kerry kavanaugh is live in hyde park and boston police tell us they were notified about this on november 3rd. november 3rd. >> the reporter: yeah. they were notified november 3rd, but we have confirmed today that boston failed to notify the massachusetts department of secondary and elementary education, that's the state agency that regulates charter schools. they are supposed to do that within two days of the incident being reported. meanwhile, many parents contacted fox 25, very concerned, they had secretary of homeland security questions and not nearly -- they had so many questions and not nearly enough answers. my stomach churned. i was sick to my stomach. how did they let this go on. >> the reporter: this mother of two who didn't want us to show her face as she was first the middle of the night. the post said i have a close friend whose son is

. >> vanessa: donald trump lumped in the granite state with two others, implicating the results aren't serious. voter fraud in virginia, new hampshire -- crystal haynes live tonight in new hampshire, and crystal, this comes as green party candidate, jill stein is calling for recounts in three states. >> the reporter: the lexington candidate tells me, green party tells me, that she understands this is going to be a massive undertaking to get all of these deadline. green party candidate, jill stein, tells me, all it took was a news release and a westbound page to raise over $6 million in less than a week to pay for ballots to be recounted. in pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin. >> the hack ridden election with voting machines that are very friendly hand wide opening to tampering, so you put those two things together and it makes for a lot of insecurity for voters who are feeling and not happy with our election system. >> the reporter: over the weekend, hillary clinton's campaign came out in support of stein's recount efforts, prompting president-elect donald trump to take to wit en, c

. >> vanessa: i'm vanessa welch. sampson is trying to get his death penalty sentence thrown out. fox 25's robert goulston was in court today when sampson detailed his horrific killing spree. robert. >> the reporter: vanessa and mark, yeah, his defense team is trying to connect that killing spree to a childhood brain injury. well, played his 2001 confession, where he clearly explains how calculated he was. >> he tried to show me a picture of his girlfriend, i wouldn't let him. >> the reporter: gary lee sampson gives every detail of what he did to phillip mccloskey, jonathan rizzo and robert eli whitney. in the second murder, he convinces 19-year-old jonathan that he was only going to tie him up for a short time. >> made him go down into the weeds, i sprayed him with off, it was premeditated, i planned on killing him. >> this is hard. it's hard for all of us. we've been through it already. >> the reporter: sampson's case is back in federal court 13 years later, after his death sentence was thrown out on a technicality. the families of his three victims now have to sit through the t

vanessa murphy/reporter: did you fire anyone? verise: there was some attrition but we don't typically discuss you know what happs ((vanessa: was there any indication before you had taken this job that there were some problems? verise: i knew that the organization systematically had difficulty in getting funds to homeowners because of processes, because of lack of program knowledge.)) ((vanessa murphy)) the u-s treasury reports in 2011 - it 24-thousand homeowners.... but this year, that estimate was reduced to just more than 8-thousand. by last march - just more than 5-thousand received help - only 37-percent who applied were approved. many who started the process gave up because they waited so long for an answer. ((nat from bourque )) ((vanessa murphy)) mark bourque is attending a workshop to learn how to stop foreclosure on his home.... from nahac - but hit a dead end. ((mark bourque/attending foreclosure workshop: with anything, you want to the money to go where it's intended for. because people that need help, they need it now

vanessa? >>vanessa: looks good, dave. thank you. 6:18 and we want to touch on something that's now brewing in the sarasota county area to be more specific, north port. a new crash that's reported a little bit south of river road. hearing a possible lane blockage, mostly due to debris in the roadway so please be careful as you pass on by. of course, you don't want to drive over any of that debris and you want to be careful for any emergency crews out there. good news here on i-4, polk county, we have a crash in the last report. westbound direction near the westbound rest area, looks like that's completely cleared and we're not seeing any slowdowns in the area. powerful earthquake off the coast of japan. skwak struck near the fukushima power plant. geologists say what happened yesterday was actually an offshock from that quake. >>russell: dramatic dash cam video from utah shows a state trooper speeding toward a wrong way driver. he does just what he's trained to do. he puts himself in harm's way to the car, causing it to sp

((vanessa murphy)) down: money. according to carrison, a temporary mental health task force for the state he served on helped make changes to how hospitals could be reimbursed for mental health treatment. that resulted in more specialized and longer term care at hospitals because they'd be compensated better for it. ((carrison: it's such a complex issue a lot of it has to do with finances.)) ((vanessa murphy)) the division of public and behavioral health tells the i-team statewide there are nearly 43-hundred beds for term..... mroe than 1500 are hospital beds... and 70 are for short term visits. taking a look at nevada's population of more than 2.8 million... that means there's one bed for every 676 people... but it's estimated one in five adults in the u-s experience mental illness in a given year. ((carrison: it can happen to any family.)) ((vanessa murphy)) carrison and li - two strangers with two very different backgrounds share a commo needs to do a better job of treating the mentally ill. vanessa murphy, 8 new

hey, butch. >> kevin: hi ock and vanessa. you're absolutely right, some great rivalries all around the state and this is one of them. st. john's against xavarian, 26th year of this game, charlie stevenson taking the xavarian hawks to the super bowl already, but this game is for the catholic conference title and brian at st. john's prep, and here's what he has to say about the history of this game. >> i want to say out of the 24 or 25 years we've been meeting on thanksgiving, over 20 of them have been for the league title, so there's always high stakes coming into this game, but the new playoff format is a little different, plays out a little differently. this is the end of our season. they're going to go on to the super bowl, but we can still win the catholic conference title overhead in westwood, xavarian field, st. john's prep and xavarian for turkey night football. hawks get on the board first. senior quarterback madison cronene takes it in himself and it is 7-0 xavarian. going into score again, number 33, pinchin, fumbles

((vanessa murphy)) vanessa murphy, 8 news now.// >>> ((dave courvoisier)) >>> the fate of the shuttered badlands golf course remains in limbo... after the las vegas city council spent hours discussing the issue with attorneys of the homeowners who live at the course.. and developers who are eyeing the 250 acres near rampart and goodman//city of las vegas "you can work together as the responsible twosome that understands we're trying to make this work. we want to see it work. we want to homeowners satisfied, we want to developers satisfied." )) ((dave courvoisier)) >> tonight.. the city voted 4-3 to approve the developers request to move forward with their application.. "without prejudice"... which would make it easier for developers to come back with a different proposal... if they decide not to turn the the city council wants both parties to work towards an agreement.. one of which could involve preserving part of the course. they'll check back in with the city in about 6 months./// ((dave courvoisier)) >>> earlier in the day... the city council unanimously passed the "toys for tickets

>>vanessa: not that wee. >>charley: thomas edison announced the invention of a fonograph, a scene to record sound and play it back. the phonograph which is really the beginning of -- it was the first time man could record something, save it and play it back later which basically led to our industry which will pave the way for radio and then radio paved the way for tv and here we are 139 years later, these things can do everything. it just kind of blows when you think, i mean, 139 years and a long time, sure, if you're waiting at a doctor's office, that's a long time. but in the grand scheme of things, 139 years -- >>vanessa: it's not that long. >>charley: so now you think, imagine 139 years from now. >>vanessa: i don't want to think about it. i don't want to think about it. >>charley: those are the things that keep me up at night. i sit up out of bed and go -- wow. 139 years. so anyway, thank you, in fort myers, his summer home. >>vanessa: they probably have it decorated with christmas lights by now. >>charle

join leading newspapers and governor baker >> vanessa: panic in manchester. two officers shot while on duty, prompting a massive manhunt, that eventually ended in an arrest. tonight, the officers injured back in may were honored for their braver river superior and sacrifice. >> mark: fox 25's crystal haynes was in manchester for the special ceremony for ryan hardy and matthew o'connor and says there is a story you likely haven't heard before. >> that's what we do. >> the reporter: goffstown new hampshire in taking down ian mcpherson last may. after the 32-year-old shot manchester police officer ryan hardy in the face, and shoulder, during a traffic stop. [inaudible] >>> after shooting hardy, mcpherson fled with more than a dozen officers in pursuit, officers matt o'connor was shot in the leg, in the confrontation. >> i think, you know, path and they went out, did their job, did it for one another. >> the reporter: at today's medal of valor honor, friends and family were told the parts of the story they didn't know. he says responding officers found clarity in

. >> vanessa: a big house fire in one other person to the hospital. at least 20 people are out of their homes tonight, because of the triple decker that went up in flames. >> mark: fox 25's malini basu has been at the scene of this breaking news all afternoon. streets are still blocked off tonight, malini. >> the reporter: they are, mark and vanessa, streets are still blocked off. here we are, five hours later. we also know that one woman told officers, she had no idea there was a fire until her neighbor started banging on the door, there's a fire, get out, get out. let me thank you back to the scene, all of this is that righted just so here's what we can del you. once again, the triple decker went up in flames around 1:00 p.m. on east lawrence and prospect street. fire officials on the scene they will fox 25 that a firefighter and a woman were taken to the hospital. now, residents and people in the immediate area were told to evacuate, we're also being told that at least 20 people are now without a home. now hat one point, the roof collapsed, and fir

good afternoon. >> vanessa: our crew on scene shortly after this happened. ted daniels live, ted you are still working to learn of charges will be filed. >> reporter: vanessa, mark, people who live on the streets and the driver stopped she got out of her car and got back in and took off. someone followed her and got her license plate number and police pulled her over on broadway. that is about two miles from where we are right now on marshall avenue where the neighborhood and it is a popular spot for trick-or-treaters. there were dozens of them out here earlier. the street was closed up until 9:30 tonight. video of the accident reconstruction scene working. fox 2564-year-old boy was trick-or-treating with his parents when he was hit and knocked down onto the pavement. we saw pieces of halloween candy in the road for this kid

((vanessa murphy/reporter: why did you bring your daughter with you? welthy silva/mother: because i was told by the court, in the court's letter that i needed to bring ----- to the court at 1:30.)) ((vanessa murphy)) welthy silva showed the i-team this document stating if she did - jail for 25 days. we tried to confirm its authenticity - since again - the case is sealed, a court spokeswoman said she could not confirm or deny authenticity. we also asked judge hoskin why there was no child advocate for the girl...he said that is not the norm for these hearings. ((vanessa: for a divorce, custody hearing, should there be a child advocate there? rebecca: i think that a the child knows.)) ((vanessa murphy)) early on - judge hughes had asked the parents to leave... and later - said the mother would be escorted off the property. ((welthy silva/mother: i didn't want to leave her there alone.)) ((welthy: i had no choice, ya know, whether i wanted to or not.)) ((vanessa murphy)) the child's father and his attorney declined on camera interviews. silva says she's a

reporting live from south boston, bob ward, fox 25 news. >> vanessa: the fight is over. disgraced house speaker sal dimasi will finally be free next week, one. most powerful politicians in massachusetts was convicted of extortion an other crimes in june of 2011. he began serving his eight year dimasi was diagnosed with cancer. he was supposed to be locked up until 2018. but next tuesday, he'll walk out of prison two years early. fox 25's crystal haynes joins us live now and crystal, today, the judge gave a very stern warning with his ruling. >> the reporter: while judge mark wolf said that dimasi's sentence was always supposed to be a long sentence, but not a life sentence, and in his decision though, he pointed out that he was the third house, being convicted of a federal crime and he had a stern warning to politicians. praise from local lawmakers at the state house for a federal judge's decision to release former house speaker, sal dimasi from prison roughly two years early because of his deteriorating health. senate president stan rosenberg wished dimasi a joyous home

robert. >> the reporter: mark and vanessa, f.b.i. here in boston and state police are not any credible or specific threats to our area, but they are watching this very closely, as we get closer to election day. >> i always feel safe. especially in neighborhoods like this one. >> the reporter: the line was long on the last day of early voting at brighton's veronica smith senior center. we talked to voters who started hearing the election might be targeted in a terrorist attack in other parts of the country. >> i'm here. that kind of stuff could happen this morning while we stand in front of veronica smith. with former c.i.a. directions operations joe whipple. professor whipple worked if intelligence for 35 years. he says agencies like the f.b.i., dedicate countless resources now towards monitoring threats. >> it's not perfect, it's never going to be perfect, but it sure is a lot better than it ever was. >> the reporter: f.b.i. boston telling us, it will continue to work closely with law enforcement, and intelligent community partners

>>vanessa: very nice. update here to the crash we mentioned in the last hour that's on hillsborough was blocking some lanes in the eastbound direction at veterans expressway. that's now on the shoulder so no delays whatsoever or concerns expected here, but you do want to be careful in case there are tow truck drivers or what not on that shoulder. have triple for you. between bruce b downs and i-4, plan for eight as well. heading further into eastern hillsborough county to that branch forbes exit. >>russell: well, betting sites in the uk saw record wagers on the u.s. election. >>laura: one bookie lost a fortune. fox takes a break. in hot ic news room as we take on the we traveled the world sampling the best cheese for two reasons one, to bring them all back for you to enjoy and two, we got to each a bunch of really good cheese along the way. publix deli specialty cheese. it's time to see what's clicking on the web. jen is here >> time to see what's clicking on the web. >>laura: jennifer epstein has a look a

vanessa? >>vanessa: you want to start the report with the roads checking on the really the area west of the gandy bridge. of course, that's going to be the pinellas side. we have reports from fhp there might be some debris of some sort in the roadway here so please keep your eyes pealed. otherwise, no delays in the area. for those folks travelling in the suncoast parkway in hernando county. possible smoke in the roadway so they have a travel advisory for those folks there so in the area south of u.s. 98 along suncoast, make sure if you have any issues with visibility that you're lights. in the meantime , if you have any problems, report it. >>laura: a wandering 3-year-old led to the arrest of whitney shoemaker. the child was alone in the street for half an hour and the neighbor said this was the third day in a row that the child was in the street without an adult. deputies tracked down the woman in charge of the child who was abuse hotline was notified due to conditions inside the home. >>russ

: and i'm vanessa welch. this story broke around 10:00 a.m. this morning, when a man broke a car this to a crowd of students and then started attacking them with a large knife, fox 25's chris flanagan has been following developments for us all evening. >> the reporter: during a news conference that we aired live on fox 25 at 4:00 p.m., ohio state confirmed a student identified as abdulartan was behind the attack the he's an 18-year-old somali refugee who came here to the united states and was granted status as campus police say he drove a car into a crowd of people on a street corner, then jumped out and started stabbing people with a butcher knife. this hall happening just before 10:00 a.m. this morning. the 11 people hurt are expected to recover. ohio state's police chief shared this surveillance picture of a rtan's car, he was in the car by himself, but investigators are looking into whether anyones was involved and if this was a terrorist attack. within a minute of getting to the scene, campus police offi

the i-team's vanessa murphy tells us it's an expensive -- dark secret that few want to ((vanessa murphy)) data breaches reported twice at the hard rock hotel and casino and affinity gaming...over the past few years... and a major cyber attack on las vegas sands in 2014... ((jonathan narveson//accenture managing director: they don't want to be on the news about losing customer data because that affects the trust in their brand.)) ((vanessa murphy)) the i-team reached out to the affected businesses to find out more about their responses to the attacks and other casino to find out how they're trying to protect customer information... none would agree to any interviews and no official comments. ((jonathan: nobody wants to show where they're weak. and i think that's one of the problems that we have in terms of responding to cyber security threats.)) ((vanessa murphy)) jonathan narveson is a managing director at accenture - a global company which helps businesses with technology. banking, in insurance, in casinos, across the board, cyber crime is a very existential threat to the livelihood of

but quite a chilly start, van vanessa. >>vanessa: i like it, though. thanks, dave. we want to get over here to the gandy bridge where we have police activity. we told you we don't have any official crashes reported and now we're getting reports from people in the area they might look for something or searching in the area near the water so this piet be unrelated as far as traffic but as far as eastbound drivers are concerned, right lane closer to the saint pete side. where we're looking at right now construction has been reported here along 275 southbound at the exit to howard armenia. that right lane is going to be blocked on the exit. >>laura: an alert for students and staff at u.s.f. >>russell: campus police are looking for two men who robbed a female student late last night and shayla reaves is live to tell us more. >>reporter: good morning to you, russell and laura. authorities are trying down any leads they can after two robbers are accused of trying to steal a student's jewelry on campus. in fact, they succeeded at that effort and authorities are hoping someo