Week. And a day. The suspect accused in last springs washington, d. C. Mansion murders will be in court today to face murder and other charges. Police say 35yearold daron wipt killed an executive, his wife, son and housekeeper and then set their house on fire. He was lynched to the crime found on dna on pizza crust. The stakes may get higher for the socalled affluenza teen today. A judge will decide whether to move his case to adult court. The transfer would happen when he turns 19 in april. The convicted drunk driver has been in a maximum security adult facility for nearly two weeks. The judge may decide to keep him there till his birthday when the penalties will become more severe. Firefighters near kansas city are battling a huge brush fire. They believe it was sparked by a lawnmower. The high winds fanning it the fire is on prison property but it has closed a highway nearby. It has con souped about 1500 acres and is about 75 contained. No homes are threatened at this time. And that
Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning, everybody. It is friday. Im kendis gibson. Happy friday. Im reena ninan. Do you know there are a couple of things you know of we all know socially you dont discuss, abortion being one of them. The other two, politics and religion. And this morning, its coming together. Yeah, of course, were talking about the new twist in the war of words that erupted between donald trump and pope francis. Weird to just say those names together. Trump is now dialing back just a bit saying the popes remarks were probably a little bit nicer than first reported. But it wasnt he knew what he was doing on this one. It was not an accident. Still the pope is calling trumps plan to build a wall between the u. S. And mexican not christian. It ignited another bomb slel into the president s campaign. Stephanie ramos has details. Reporter donald trump may finally have run into an he actually said that maybe im not a good christian or something. Its unbe
For the socalled affluenza teen today. A judge will decide whether to move his case to adult court. The transfer would happen when he turns 19 in april. The convicted drunk driver has been in a maximum security adult facility for nearly two weeks. The judge may decide to keep him there till his birthday when the penalties will become more severe. Firefighters near kansas city are battling a huge brush fire. They believe it was sparked by a lawnmower. The high winds fanning it created a fire tornado. The fire is on prison property but it has closed a highway nearby. It has con souped about 1500 acres and is about 75 contained. No homes are threatened at this time. And that is not the case in eastern oklahoma where homes are as you can see there, structures are being burned. Numerous homes were lost but they dont know how many. There are more than two dozen grass fires burning. The city of tulsa has been filled with smoke from the fires. Firefighters are using helicopters to dump water o
Messages on twitter and facebook. Fears this morning isis may get its hand on dangerous Radioactive Material stolen in november from a Storage Facility in iraq belonging to an american company. Iraq is still searching for the material. The state Department Says it hasnt seen any signs that any the radioactive fear was used to test for oil field leaks. The u. S. Has hit north korea with more sanctions because of its nuke clearly program. President obama signed the punitive measure overwhelmingly approved by Congress Last week. It comes as the u. S. And china are in delicate negotiations over new u. N. Sanctions. One senate sponsor of the u. S. Measure hopes china will notice the strong support for the sanctions. Federal aviation investigators are getting to work in hawaii trying to figure out why a private Helicopter Crashed into pearl harbor. It came down near the uss arizona visitor center. Slamming down hard into the water you see there were five people on board. Bystander whos au is
A new study from the centers of Disease Control finds that one in three americans dont get enough sleep. The shocking news says that at least seven hours of sleep were not getting could lead to Serious Health issues like heart disease. The study feature a state by state breakdown of sleeping patterns. People in south dakota get the most sleep but folks in hawaii get the least sleep. Tts interesting. Its warmer in hawaii. I would like to be out and not in a bed. And just partying. That makes sense to me. Seven hrs. Shocking were not getting ough sleep. Yeah, thats not so shocking. Not at all. Thanks, cd dr. The Harlem Globetrotters celebrating their 90th anniversaryy and putting on their usual great show. Back in december one of them nailed a long shot outside Madison Square guard. Nailed it indeed. This time it was the Staples Center in l. A. Scooter christenson, take that, from 100 feet away. And well bob the hoop. Oh. Is this real . This is real. This really happened. Its the globetr