And apple fans, get in line. We are hours away from release, and some of you arent wasting any time. Captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org abc 7 broadcast centers, this is abc seven breaking news. Are asking for prayers for this community, the families involved. We ask for patience from the media and public. We are following breaking news out of north florida where eight people are dead, the result of a murder suicide. This happened this afternoon in the town of bell. Police reported a man shot and killed his daughter and six grandchildren. Tom roussey is on the story for us. What can you tell us . An absolutely awful story. The six grandchildren that the Gilchrist County sheriffs their says were killed by grandfather ranged in age from 10 years old to his young as three months old. This is the man police say killed the seven family members and himself. He is 51yearold don spirit. Besides his six grandchildren, and he also killed his adult daughter, this all c
We have a couple of photos to show you. The first one shows a Police Officer in one of the classrooms. This is from one of the students there. It shows the officer inside one of the classrooms with children at their desks. A second photo tweeted from a student, a similar scene, with a Police Officer near the front door of one of the classrooms and the students looking alarmed. The situation, as we know from the Sheriffs Office is that police and deputies, the sheriffs offduty Office Deputies and k9 units as well as the resource officers at the school are investigating the situation. They are going classroom by classroom at this hour. The school has been on lockdown. The parents of the more than 1600 students there have been alerted. They have received text emails of therts informing them situation that the school was placed on lockdown after getting a phone call and what they are describing as a verbal threats. Police are currently investigating. Air at the same. Parents are being they
Mall. Well tell what you to expect tomorrow. And another arrest. How the nfl is responding to a new case of Domestic Violence. Police have new Surveillance Video of missing student Hannah Graham. Investigators are trying to piece together the final moments before graham disappeared early saturday morning. They released some video earlier today. Reporter our affiliate in charlottesville reports that police have two new Surveillance Videos of Hannah Graham only the. In one there is a man seen walking in front of the uva student. Then behind her. According to our affiliate she is walking with a woman and that man is behind them. The new clues come as the National Center for missing and exploited children put out this missing persons poster this evening. On the left the smiling 18yearold from Fairfax County. On the right, hannah the night she was last seen. The new poster will reach across the country. Hannah graduated from west Potomac High School in Fairfax County just last year. She was
Federal workers like diane wood. Im a federal worker, now ie, got to worry every night. Ev reporter dianeer has worked at the interior department for nearly four decades. She cant afford to be furloughed and feeling both anger and fear in the face of a shutdown. Ive given them 39 years of a my life, but never have i felt despair with what is going to happen to my life. Reporter y the officer personnel manager which oversees the entire federal workforce, has contingency plans on file in case of a shutdown for more than 119 federal agencies but whether oren notci you get furloughed depends on a vague criteria ove who is and who is not essential. The white house has posted the shutdown plans online, generally active duty military, political appointees and those responsible for health and safety are deemed essential. Why would they take all of. F reporter diane doubts she falls into any of those essential categories. Ntl if she did her job the way theye do on capitol hill, she wouldnt have