One of them a 17yearold7yr High School Student. Gh s fox5s annie yu in cliftonn this morning with more on this i story. Annie. Reporter hey, goodte morning, steve and allison. Nd an this is absolutely heartbreaking. Ak as you mentioned, just 17 years old and students here at Centreville High School filechoi back in class today just after 8 oclock, grief counselors,ouor grief and crisis counselorscris will be made available once o again today. Ag but take a look. Ook. This is Alexia Springer, justgej 17 years old a junior here att Centreville High School andscho her body was discovered earlyar Tuesday Morning inside herid her home by a friend who hadho actually spent the night withht her who then called Fairfax County police andicend investigators say that she died from complications off drug use and believe springer sn overdosed on heroin. Erdod on her those who knew her are in in shock by the news and they sayyy that she was beautiful insideuld and out, kind hearted generouseu outgoin
Answered. And good morning, america. Happy friday. Standing room only at midnight. Theaters all across the country last night, 41 of them, of course, for the force awakens. It is finally here. And, dan, youre e eing it tonight. Yes, im eier going to dress up as boba fett orueen amidala. Trust me youll want to see it again and again and again. Cool, i need to clear my schedule. More on that in jusa minute. But we begin with h ose stunnini new details from San Bernardino. Enrique marquez, the childhood friend of syed farook arrested on terror charges revealing to authorities the neighbors had planned other attacks. This all comes as president obama visits the victims in San Bernardino this evening. Abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here with all of those details. Good morning, brian. Reporter good morning, amy. It could have been so much worse, Authorities Say today. If syed farook had followed through on his other terror plot for Southern California with attacks on a
There were no major policy proposals in the Oval Office Address. Reaction has been swift. Paul ryan tweeted the address was disappointing. There is no plan to destroy isil. Theres a plan to hand this mess to the next president. Fbi agents trying to determine a motive for wednesdays shooting. Police raided the home of syed farooks former next door neighbor. They believe he provided the assault rifles. A robbery at a mall in california close to San Bernardino sparked massive panic when shoppers thought it was somebody firing a gun. Grabbed my daughter and i screamed just run, run we need to have comprehensive background checks. Gun control and how to deal with extremists, hot topics for president ial candidates. In california they have no guns. Only the bad guys have the guns. The video shows the moment a London Police officer takes down a man accused of stabbing three people. The attack is being investigated as terrorism. Former president jimmy carter makes a remarkable recovery. When i
Back to you. It doesnt surprise me one bit, alan, thank you for that. Lets look at the fridays forecast. Everybody want to make the preparations for the super bowl parties so lets find out whats on tap for friday and the weekend. Good morning, dave. Reporter good morning, gang. I wish we could all go to San Francisco and santa clara where they have the superbowl. Its going to be 74 degrees at check off. Here, its warmer. Most of our readings are in the 20 s. 25 in louisville and 25 in Highlands Ranch this morning. We did have some snow last night. Just popped through light flurries of snow, further down south in Colorado Springs, they had 2 inches of snow. Not that much in denver. Were socked in with clouds. Well be at 23 by 8 00 a. M. 37 degrees should be the high and we should make it into the 40s tomorrow. A warming trend into the weekend. Joel hillans watching that. The problems on the side streets. Weve got a lot of melting to do, but it sounds like well be able to accomplish that
This week on press pass, sudans lost boys, orphaned by civil war. They traveled hundreds of miles on foot to find safety. They later found a chance for a new life in the United States. Its the subject of a gripping if you movie called the good lie. Hitting theaters on october 3rd. Joining us today, former musician and activist. Margaret nagel, emmy nominated screen writer for this film. Corey stall who is in the movie and known in d. C. These days for his portrayal of peter russo in house of cards. Margaret, give us the synopsis of who the lost boys are and what brought you to them to make a movie about them. Its 3,600 children refugees of war, of the civil war in sudan, were brought out of the refugee camps in kenya and they were brought to the United States in groups, in pods. They had walked thousands of miles through the subsaharan safety looking for safety. I was brought on the project 11 years ago. Its taken 11 years to get to where this film is able to be released. How did you d