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Hillary clintons closest aide huma abedin, seen here leaving a Campaign Fundraiser in the hamptons last night. Just as the breaking the latest scandal about her husband, Anthony Weiner, allegedly caught sexting again. This time with his son right there asleep in the bed with him. For wiener, this was the third strike. Tonight their marriage is over. After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, ive made the decision to separate from my husband, abedin said in a statement. Really . Were talking about anthony the gift that keeps on giving. This is a personal problem for them . Obviously it is. But is it also a political problem for Hillary Clinton . Anything personal that unfolds in a campaign becomes a political problem. Reporter its already been a tough month for abedin and the clinton campaign. Questions are swirling over the campaigns latest email scandal which has to do not with clintons emails but abedins. Shes under scrutiny for allegedly fasttracking access to the clinton state kept foundation. Donald trump has seized on the issue. It is impossible to figure out where the Clinton Foundation ends and the state department begins. Reporter now its not only her emails drawing trumps attention but her marriage as well. Shes married to a guy that is uncontrolled and uncontrollable. Hes a sick person. And, you know, she has access to him out on this . You could probably say, maybe they shouldnt go there, leave it alone, let her handle it. But for donald trump everything seems fair game. Reporter Anthony Weiner spent the last few years as a stay at home dad. But before all this he was a mawker, a colorful new york democrat with a fiery will. The gentleman will sit reporter that is until he accidentally posted a lewd photograph on his public twitter feed. A congrsm pants down. I am not going to permit myself to be distracted by this issue any longer. Reporter at first he claimed the account had been hacked. It was a hoax, someone sending a picture of a wean over wean ares account. Reporter that story didnt hold up for long. Days later wiener finally came clean. I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people i care about the most and i am deeply sorry. Ive exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature laster there years. He said im an open book. Reporter broussard said she and wiener exchanged a series of increasingly risque photos, including this one, this appears to show the former congressman shirtless, and yes, those are family photos in the background. I was like, wow. Because i could see the background. Anybody can zoom into that. Its not that hard. Reporter his house of cards crumbled fast. Today im announcing my resignation from congress. [ cheers ] so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative, and most importantly, that my wife and i can continue to heal from the damage i have caused. Is sexual addiction a real thing . Or is it just an excuse . Its not categorized as a disorder as such. But there are many people who feel that they do have a sexual addiction. Reporter abedin stood by two of them kept a fairly low profile as they worked on their marriage. Then wiener decided the coast was clear to mount a comeback. Every day starts right here. Reporter he announced his candidacy for mayor of new york. He was leading in the polls. Until he got caught in another sexting scandal. The candidate had an alter ego, carlos danger. Not exactly a superhero. The whole sordid mess chronicled in a documentary about his comeback campaign. Today im resignation from congress wiener. Reporter there are cringeworthy moments. Can we have the room for a second . Reporter the scandal eventually cost him the race and his career. But not his marriage. Huma abedin stood by him. I love him. I have forgiven him. I believe in him. And as we have said from the beginning, we are moving forward. Reporter just like her mentor Hillary Clinton did back minutes. Im not sitting here some little woman standing by my man like tammy wynette. Im sitting here because i love him and i respect him and i honor what hes been through and what weve been through together. Reporter patience has its limits for everyone. Hes toxic. They love huma, seems like. Seems like hillary looks at her as shes her daughter. Reporter the latest sexting scandal has the same ingredients of the previous two. According to the New York Post wiener massage parlor always he changed the subject. Somebody just climbed into my bed, he reportedly texted. That photo may set the stage for a bitter custody battle. It puts huma abedin in an incredibly tough spot. The post says after sending the photo of his son in the bed, wiener momentarily started to panic, referring back to his previous scandals in this exchange, the paper published. Oh, i was squared, for half a second i thought id posted whatever, you did it on purpose, she sent back. Could there have been political motivation to this expose . Who knows. The post did not identify her. This can happen to anyone so its almost a cautionary tale. We all have these selfdestructive drives. We just have to work at reining them in so they dont destroy our future possibilities. Reporter there but for the grace of god, and some basic good judgment. What happens to him now . Does he have any future, can he come back from this . No, and it looks like hes lost his column that he had. Hes lost his Television Show that hes had. It looks like any connection he had with power has now been severed by huma separating from him. I dont think he can recover from this. Reporter the bigger question now, given the timing, what the fallout might be for huma abedin and her boss. Im david wright for nightline in new york. Next, the shocking and dwyane wade. On a much lighter note, taylor swift might have gone to the vm as but a judge in nashville says, you belong with me. Im claudine and i quit smoking with chantix. By the time i was 30, i said thats it, im a smoker for life. I wanted to be a nonsmoker and i did it thanks to chantix. Along with support, Chantix Varenicline is proven to help people quit smoking. Chantix reduced my urge to smoke some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. Some had seizures while taking chantix. If you have any of these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away. Tell your doctor about any history of Mental Health problems, which could get worse or of seizures. Reaction to it. 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America really sat and up took notice when a relative of the nba superstar dwyane wade in chicago. She was pushing a baby stroller at the time. The case brought renewed attention to the grinding war on chicagos streets. And tonight abcs Pierre Thomas has the latest on the case and on this epidemic of violence. Reporter when dwyane wade, nba superstar, made an appearance on espns town hall on gun view lens last week, he didnt know just how personal gun violence was about to become for him. Its important for all of us to help and say, where did this start, how did this start, lets see how we can change there. Reporter little did wade know a day later his own family would become front and center. We got a female shot in the head reporter his cousin, kiya aldridge, gunned down in chicago, a victim of gunfire, while pushing a baby stroller. The family overwhelmed in grief. I was crying, why my baby . Tweeting, my cousin was killed today in chicago. Another act of senseless gun violence. Four kids lost their mom for no reason. Unreal. Enough is enough. The head of Chicago Police held a hastily arranged press conference to express his anger about the carnage. All chicagoans should be frustrated. Reporter 22yearold darren surrels and 26yearold darren surrels jr. Being attempted murder without bond. Both convicted felons, one with a past gun offense. So far this year in chicago 429 people have been shot and killed. These two offenders are the prime example of the challenge we face here in chicago with repeat gun offenders that dont care who they shoot, dont care whose life they take. Reporter we were recently in chicago and got to see firsthand the violence unfold. Theyre saying a couple of people shot, two different locations. Reporter were on chicagos pauley lapointe. Which shooting is worst, do you know . Hes what some call a nightcrawler, a video journalist who spends his evenings covering shooting after shooting. Im going to bishop first, its a hot block. Reporter in this neighborhood, seems like every block is hot. Its definitely a homicide. Theres a body. Covered up. How many times have you shot a dead victim . At least 200hi yeah. Those are human lives. Gone. She thinks she knows who may have been shot. Shes calling somebody and theyre not answering their phone and shes worried its someone she knows. The cries of chicago at every shooting. Reporter even before the cries subside and the body can be removed, another call comes in. A lot of people standing around there. Oh, yeah. Somebodys dead on the street. Doesnt look like there are a lot of witnesses. Its probably that those witnesses dont want to talk. Got to be 2,000 people standing on the other side of the police tape, somebodys not talking. Meanwhile the music plays on as if nothing happens. . Theres something just not right about the die on the street like this. Theres lead flying all over america, killing people, and its something that should be addressed as a major health issue. Reporter in fact, the American Medical Association has recognized this as a Public Health crisis. Theyre seeking to overturn 20yearold legislation preventing the cdc from researching gun violence. We finally stopped filming at 3 00 a. M. Saturday morning. But by 11 00 a. M. , more gun violence in chicago. Face, fearing for her safety. Beating on the back door, open the door. He just falls in and i see all the blood. Reporter then her brothers pregnant sister and friend also stumble in, also having been shot. Im leaving chicago the first chance i get. You feel like you need to get out of here . Its not safe. Reporter Community ActivistAndrew Holmes is here at the scene to help victims. Hopefully they survive these injuries. Reporter but for him its person. Sword, mother of five, was shot dead in indianapolis, caught in the crossfire. I worked very hard for many years as an activist to reduce gun violence. And it hits my home deep. My own daughter. When you got the word about her, i mean how did you even process that . It took me through pure hell. Pure hell. I just wanted to give up. I didnt want to give a damn when im talking to a family to identify their loved ones, its like im unzipping that bag, looking at her. Reporter at chicago pd theyre fighting crime with 27,000 security cameras and sophisticated microphones deployed by shot spotter, a California Company supplying audio sensors in 90 u. S. Cities. We met the superintendent in late june. Frustration was building. Chicagos a city of 2. 6 million people. So out of that 2. 6 million, are really driving most of our gun violence in the city. Essentially since january 1st, Chicago Police department has recovered one illegal gun per hour this year. That is hundreds . 4,000. 4,000 . Roughly 4,000. Reporter less than two months later, according to the chicago pd, the number is now a staggering 6,000 guns. We recover more guns than l. A. And new york combined. Reporter Chicago Police are trying a new approach. By focusing their efforts on offenses and gang relations. Their names compiled on a list. Chicagos strategic subject list. We say, hey, you want to change your lifestyle, were willing to help you. But if they dont choose to change their lifestyle, well come after them with everything. The sad tragedy of it is a lot of them become victims of gun violence. Reporter the men arrested for wades death were on that list. The death of wades cousin ironic. Hes now returning to his hometown to play for the chicago bulls. Wanting to use his celebrity to bring chan enormous challenge that he and chicago now face. This reprehensible act of violence is the example of why we need to change the way we treat habitual offenders in the city of chicago. When will enough be enough . Reporter enough . This is a city where a 9yearold boy was shot to death by gang baners as retribution. Put the guns down, please. This is my only baby. Her Morning Coffee at starbucks. A stray bullet piercing nelsons chest reporter and now a mother registering her children for school fatally wounded, bullets whizzing by her baby in the stroller. For nightline, im Pierre Thomas in washington. We want to thank Pierre Thomas for that extraordinary reporting. Up next, we switch gears and turn to lighter fare. The vmas. Most musicians wouldnt miss the event in their wilde to speak. So where was taylor swift . Im claudine and i quit smoking with chantix. Smokings a monkey on my back. It was, it was always controlling your time, your actions, your money. It had me. It had me. I would not be a nonsmoker today if it wasnt for chantix. Along with support, Chantix Varenicline is proven to help people quit smoking. Chantix reduced my urge to smoke some people had changes in behavior, ity, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. Some had seizures while taking chantix. If you have any of these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away. Tell your doctor about any history of Mental Health problems, which could get worse or of seizures. Dont take chantix if youve had a serious allergic or skin reaction to it. If you have these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away as some can be lifethreatening. Tell your doctor if you have heart or blood vessel problems, or develop new or worse symptoms. Get medical help right away if you have symptoms of a heart attack or stroke. Use caution when driving or operating machinery. Most common side effect is nausea. Its me in control now. Ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. . With this level of engineering. Its a performance machine. With this degree of intelligence. Its a supercomputer. 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