Unfortunately, were out of time. The time necessary to mount a Winning Campaign for the nomination. Alison well, Vice President joe biden says he will not make a third run for the white house. Jonathan biden will remain vocal in trying to influence the Democratic Party. The senior political reporter scott thuman has more on the decision. The timing of the announcement caught a lot of folks offguard. They knew he would announce this week. Its interesting with if benghazi hearings going on with Hillary Clinton. Scott you are right. The last couple of days he had been signaling perhaps a run. He had been talking a lot about the amount of oneonone time he was spending with president obama to clarify his role in the decisionmaking process in the race for usama bin laden. So there were a lot of cards being played that led people on the hill he was going to announce a candidacy. But instead he sought donors and delegates had been lining up behind the people who would have been his competition. Namely Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. He is an emotional politician. He always has been. He spoke about that today. Mentioning, of course, the loss of his son and how that played a part in his decision. Vice President Biden i couldnt do this if the family wasnt ready. The good news is the family has reached that point. But as i said many times my family has suffered a loss. And i hope there would come a time and i said this to many other families that sooner rather than later when you think of your loved ones, it brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eyes. Well, that is where the bidens are today. Thank god. Beau, beau is our inspiration. Scott so Vice President biden choosing to essentially close out a career it sounds like as the Vice President. Not taking what would have been a third run at the white house. And really all of this, jonathan and alison, serving as a virtual gift for Hillary Clinton, whose camp secretly had to be hoping this would be the decision. They didnt want him in the race. They knew he was getting a lot of numbers in polling that would draw away from her numbers and might make the campaign more difficult for her and Bernie Sanders as well. Alison thank you for that. Staying with that idea now, this decision as he said from Vice President biden does make it a clearer picture for the Democratic Party now. Hillary clinton is the frontrunner. Followed closely by senator Bernie Sanders. Former Maryland GovernorMartin Omalley and former senator Lincoln Chafee still in the running but far behind in the polls. Jonathan a d. C. Council committee met today to discuss and hear your concerns over police body cameras. The city is still trying to figure out how to integrate the cameras in patrol and how the video will be used. Stephen tschida is in northwest. Chief lansdowne testified on what has become chief lanier talked abbottabad what has become a difficult issue for her. Stephen they talked about the body cameras and the proposal to use them. Body camera and how the police views them. Who sees the footage and the purpose that it serves at the City Council Hearing room today. Police chief lanier addresses witnesses to crime captured by cameras. We would always protect the identity of a witness. Stephen what would be available to the public and the press . A current proposal called for numerous incidents, such as those involving assault, Sexual Assault or footage from a home. Some believe it would defeat the purpose of outfitting the officers with the cameras. The Police Officers are being lambasted as performing bad acts. We want the police to have about we want the public to have access to what we do so we can counter that. The vast majority of the officers do the right thing. Stephen they namedded a number of questions about the body cameras. Going forward before the counsel take action on this we expect there will be a lot of giveandtake, revision to the mayors proposal. We have to stay tuned to see how it progresses over the next few months. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Alison thank you very much. Someone shot 150 birds near pikeville. Maryland police say it happened late last month so they are circulating a flyer here. They were found outside a building in pikesville. They describe it as unusual because it must have taken quite a long time to target more than 100 robin yous. It turns out robins are protected by state and federal law. Jonathan now to an update on a story you only saw here on abc7 yesterday. Medical waste scattered across maryland 197 in bowie. We know it came from the bowie health center. A part of the Dimensions Healthcare system. The company says it contracted Republic Services to pick up nonhazardous waste. We found dried blood i. V. s, even diapers littering the side of the road. It was all cleared up. It was cleaned but we are working to figure out how exactly the mess got on road to begin with. Metro said its testing on the blue, orange, silver line is going well and normal service is expected to resume by the end of the year. It has been running fewer train across the corridor since the transformer blew a month ago. If there are no issues in this testing phase, then full service will be restored immediately. Alison new stage for the alexandria murder trial. Prosecutor made a case against the defendant Charles Severance and today her legal team will begin the defense. Northern Virginia Bureau chief Jeff Goldberg stepped out of the Fairfax County house. What seems to be the strategy after days of emotional testimony . Jeff really trying to poke a lot of holes in what the prosecution has said. We are hearing from virginia severance, the mother of Charles Severance. Late this afternoon we heard from stan severance, Charles Severances father. Both of them talking about Charles Severances struggle with Mental Illness over the years and often times he would speak from sentence to sentence, not changing the suspect, showing signs of behavior that had them concerned. Especially during times of stress. This is video of stan severance following Charles Severances arrest in 2014. Mr. Severance said his son became angry after losing the child custody battle in alexandria. He was very distrustful of the Mental Health system. While family members encouraged Charles Severance to seek Mental Health counseling. He was shown this Surveillance Video of the alexandria target in december of 2003, taken before the murder of Nancy Dunning saying the man in the video was not Charles Severance. That contradicts the claims argued by the prosecution last week. The First Defense witness was darren strange, psychologist and expert on memory. While not specifically discussing the shooting at the home of Ruthanne Lodato in questioning, defense cast a lot of dut on the testimony from the family caretaker from earlier in the trial. Franco who was also shot in the incident. She identified severance as the shooter. People recall the detail of the color of the gun, what it looks like, not necessarily about anything else. Because their attention was on the thing that could hurt them. Jeff the defense really trying to poke a lot of holes in the claims that the prosecution made by displaying their case. That taking place this morning in regard to the writings of Charles Severance. We will have more on that at 5 00. As well as some new Surveillance Video that was just released in the last hour. More on that and an update on what is going on inside the courthouse coming up at 5 00. Live in fairfax. Jeff goldberg, abc7 news. Alison on the hill today, representative paul ryan said he is willing to take the speakers ga vel from john boehner as the next speaker of the house if his conditions are met. The republicans will vote on the nominee a week from today. The house will vote the following day. Ryan wants to make sure he has the backing of his party and will not face challenges if he becomes the speaker. Jonathan virginia county now has voted to ban the Confederate Flag in schools. Last month, two dozen Christianburg High School students were suspended for wearing clothing displaying the flag. The mont gom i can County School board voted unanimously to come one a clothing policy to been a all Confederate Flag displays from the school property. Christiansburg high School Banned the flag in 2002. Honoring a hero. D. M. V. s own batman killed in a crash in august. Today he is remembered in a big way, and a meaningful one. Kevin lewis shows us how at the d. C. National childrens hospital. Hi, how are you . Kevin 15 superheroes spent the day bringing joys to kids with cancer. At Childrens National health, they set to honor the life of lenny robinson. He is remembered for visiting children at hospitals across the country. Night wing. Cat woman. Reporter these defenders knew lenny batman well and considered him the superhero godfather. He would come in. The rest of us were invisible. It was awesome. Amazing. He told them how strong they were and how brave they were. It gave me so much strength it made me want to do it more. You will be strong and we will get better. Kevin while lenny batman wont be seen in the rooms or the halls again, his legacy is awfully visible. In northwest, im kevin lewis. Abc7 news. Jonathan so sweet. Alison nice that other people are picking up where he left off. Jonathan just to see one of the kids smile, its the best. Coming up for us at abc7 news at 4 00 a new outlet mall is under construction. Alison patron of the pizza place fighting back against crime. The shop in southeast has been robbed several times this year. How the customers are standing up for the shop. Thats next. Jonathan its right out of an 1980s movie. Not talking about back to the future. Hacking to change class records. Student accused of doing that. Like in war crimes or ferris buehlers day off. Remember that . Parents help their children animals, seen those before but sometimes they do it on their own mmm foot wow food for giants oooo no wonder no one has eaten this sandwich kids discover the world with their mouths detergent is harmful if swallowed, so keep laundry pacs up and away from children brought to you by tide jonathan fighting back against crime. Update we brought you last week about a pizza shop that had been robbed several times this year. Five to be exact. If community has come together and they bought cameras for the shop. They are up so dont mess with mamas business pizza or they will find you. They love her. These are stories about how communities are fighting back against crime. Log on to wjla. Com and click on the 7 on your side tab. Alison a transformation beginning today in Montgomery County. Ground breaking on a new outlet mall got underway. Sam sweeney shows us the new site. And has details on when you can shop for the discounts. Sam good afternoon. This is an exciting moment for the folks in the Montgomery County but the d. M. V. I hope you have a Shopping List prepared, because this is a massive sight. 392,000 square feet of retail space. Look at it now. Wide open construction site. But over the next year it will transform. Take a look at the screen. You will see a rendering of what the site will look like once the 92 retailers move in. We will see burberry, j. Crew and banana republic. Upscale shopping and upscale dining and it is going to transform the area. It will create 500 construction jobs over the next year and 800 fulltime and parttime jobs once the facility is open. We spoke with the developers about why they chose Montgomery County. Lets listen. First of all, Montgomery County is one of the welcoming counties in the area. Not only do we draw from the montgomery population base, we draw from baltimore and from washington, d. C. And tourist population as well. This will be a great Tourist Destination as well. Sam with the construction underway if it goes according to plan you could be shopping here by next october. Im sam sweeney, abc7 news. Alison well, a new shot is promising to help fight something that nearly 70 of all americans have. That is a double chin. Recently approved f. D. A. Injection using a naturally occurring substance in the body to digest the fat we eat to destroy fat cells. Double chin is a universally dreaded and hard to fix sign of weight gain or aging. Its the only product to melt or dissolve fat under the chin. We inject it into an area right underneath the chin. Fat cells rupture. The body flushes the dead fat cells out of the body over the next few months. Alison doctors say for the best results patients should get two to four treatments. Each shot can be between 1,000 and 1,500. Jonathan there are three High School Students out there that are in trouble. They are accused of hacking the schools Computer System and they were in court today. The 17yearolds altered the schedules of 300 students. While they were at it, they altered grades for two opportunities at the long island high school. Officials say daniel sores is the mastermind of this. Some are calling him a modern day ferris buehler. Officials say this is no laughing matter. Consider him to be the ring leader. He is the student that access the School Computers on each of the events that they are charged with. Whole investigation is done. Jonathan buehler . Buehler . They used a device known as a key lager to steal passwords and access the center. He is charged with burglary, computer tampering and identity theft. Alison get a check on the traffic situation. Joy pons in the traffic center. Joy i wish i had better news. We have beltway accidents. Get in and look live at the beltway. We had one on the camera. We are seeing a backup as you make your way on the outer loop. That is causing delays as well. We are still wrapping up an accident landover on the left lane. Inner loop we have an accident approaching 295 in left lane. We are looking live at college park. Making way from the 270 spur to college park. Sun glare is a factor. Looking live at eastbound 66 and westbound 66. Early slowing as you make your way to the Fairfax County parkway and centreville. Live at nutley street. Delays southbound 95 now raz you make your way to the Prince William parkway. Get an early start. Washington boulevard, and now back to you. Jonathan joy, thanks. Keep this in mind. October 21st today, 2015. Hop in the delorean and punch it to 88 miles per hour. Boom, back to the future you go. Today is the day that doc brown and marty mcfry. Coming up we have more featuring the trilogy. Today going by ill valley. Back to the future home. Still need a hover board. Alison amazing. Jonathan we are getting close. I see guys standing on the things and segway without a helmet. Alison in the movie you remember thinking 2015 was just so far away. Its crazy. Brian here we are. Only in our 30s. Alison yeah give me 20s. Brian exactly. We have a really nice afternoon on the way. Nice evening ahead. Outdoor dining plans. Maybe watching the kids practice this everything. It will be beautiful out there. Getting ready for the Marine Corps Marathon atop the cameras in rosslyn. 73 degrees. Reagan national airport. Winds out of the south at 8. Dew point, the humidity is in check. Beautiful out there. 77 in leesburg. 75 in manassas. Culpeper coming in at 75. Hard pressed to find anything at all on the radar. Scattered clouds well west of us. Not going to amount to a lot. High pressure to the south. It stays in control overnight. Most of the day tomorrow. Cold front is going to drop our temperatures. Well fall in the 50s. Moving in the overnight hours to wake up tomorrow morning. North and the western southern likely. See the temperatures in the 40s. Inside the beltway. Tomorrow 50 to 51. Cooler to the north and west. Highs, 76 degrees. Mostly sunny skies. Winds stay out at the southwest 5 to 10. We have a look at the sevenday outlook in the middle 60s on saturday. Dont forget the Marine Corps Marathon on sunday. Well see a chance for passing showers. Dont think it will amount to a lot. Nothing to delay it. Temperatures rebounding by the afternoon to the upper 60s. By the afternoon, the race will be done. Jonathan you know what made me last. I was in ocean city in the huge storm, i turn around and a guy with a marine shirt and he is running. Nothing will delay them from running. A sight to see. Alison well see y