hello again. i m jessica kartalija. i m don scott. we begin with breaking news. it s happening again. at this hour stocks are in a nose dive. here a look at the latest numbers from wall street. the dow is falling more than 400 points, back at the eleven,000 mark. the s & p down 46. the nasdaq down the largest percentagewise, down 104 points. the other big story, a guilty verdict for man who killed a johns hopkins researcher. we re live with the latest. reporter: good afternoon. you can see a memorial still remains here along st. paul street right where stephen pitcairn was killed last summer. now the man who murdered him is facing justice. shackled john wagner walks out of the courthouse a guilty man for killing 23-year-old stephen pitcairn. the reaction from stephen pitcairn s family after the verdict, stephen pitcairn a johns hopkins cancer researcher, was stabbed to death last summer as he was walking home in charles village. his mother on the phone with him as he
prince george s county police say this 15-year-old is the suspect in the brutal stabbing death of his 92-year-old neighbor. william fitts is being charged as an adult with first degree murder and police say he has confessed. mr. fitts waived his rights and provided a statement implicating himself as the suspect, sole suspect, in the commission of this homicide of mrs. steele. i don t believe this. none of us just can t believe it. it s just not his nature. reporter: but the suspect s brother says something just doesn t add up. he loved that woman and that woman really loved him. this just doesn t fly. it just doesn t make sense. i really feel like he s covering for something or someone. reporter: forensic investigators were back at the crime scene collecting evidence late into the evening. police say the home was ransacked. they believe the motive was robbery. 92-year-old thelma steele was found stabbed to death there late monday night. police say it s unclear exact
aruba one of her closest friends in the city of frederick, maryland, where she kept an apartment is speaking out. we want to find our friend. we want to bring her home. reporter: leanne gallardo runs a popular italian restaurant where she first met 35-year-old gardner. she says they became fast friends. with news aruban authorities are relaunching a new search for gardner involving police, firefighters and possibly the military there is renewed hope of finding out what happened. it s awesome news. her friends and family couldn t be more ecstatic about that. i mean our main goal right now is trying to find robyn. reporter: one of the many mysteries, what kind of relationship did gardner and gary giordano have and why did she agree to travel with him? gary had earned her trust and was a friend to her. so when things happened, she had lost her job, things weren t going right here. so she just thought the opportunity arose and she went to aruba with a friend. reporter
fox 5 morning news. i m steve chenevey. i m sarah simmons. let s say good morning to tony perkins. news of a warm day out there. very summery day. it is august and it will feel like it it wells in the upper 80s to around will feel like it with temperatures in the upper volunteer to around 90. i want to tell you about some rain shower that we ve seen in northeastern portions of maryland. we ll keep our eyes open because this could change through the morning and through the day. some of this has been heavy rain up around the aberdeen area and pushing into pennsylvania, philadelphia getting some rainfall and maybe even some lightning up there too. currently, it is 74 degrees at reagan national airport. the humidity is at 73 entrepreneur. the winds are the huge is at 73%. the winds are out of the south at nine miles per hour. we cannot rule out some thunderstorms and showers popping up here and there through the day. there are your temperatures. we ll have more on all of
without a place to sleep. broke out in the 11,000 of old columbia pike. jay korff is live on the scene. what have you learned? a pretty significant development within the last 15 minutes. with fire officials on the scene. we will go ahead and punched the camera on top of our truck.on top of officials say the damage done to building due to a boiler room of fire or explosion was so significant that power cannot be restored tonight. that 1500 residents to find another place to stay the night. i heard a boom sound. residents of this high-rise with foursprings apartments heard a from below.und there was grumbling underneath. the floors were shaking. officials confirmed that fire in the building s basement boiler room. flames were coming up. firefighters break the glass. the board of the room had exploded. it did not like take long for smoke to fill the airwaves. the lights were flickering. it was very powerful. it was in your lungs. manyents, many forced toown, w