Attacking his wife with some type of sharp instrument, observed some type of stabbing motion. In an effort to stop this attack the officer discharged the handgun and shot his son. Reporter the son dead at the scene. Doctors declared denise dead soon after she arrived at the hospital. Police commanders have put sergeant stirkens on routine administrative leave until they figure this all out. Determine whether theres a Mental Health component, a Substance Abuse component. Reporter christopher stirkens was busted for Marijuana Possession and paraphernalia. A neighbor says he was terrified of his friends and says police have been to the house before. I never saw him. Makes you wonder what kind of a person he was. Did something happen to make him snap . Reporter the final post on denise stirkens Facebook Page was for Mental Health awareness week. Depression, anxiety and panic attacks are not a sign of weakness she wrote. They are signs of having tried to remain strong for too long. The stirkens have two other children, daughters. One can only imagine what they are going through tonight. Okay, bruce. Thank you. Now to the mall in columbia where right now mourners are gathering to remember the young victims of saturdays shooting. Scott broom is live as people gather to share their grief and shock. You can see many people came out tonight to try to come together and bring this Community Even closer together, scott. Its a tough day, another tough day. Reporter it is. People just began gathering here about 15 minutes ago outside the flagpole entrance of the mall. Behind me there appears to be a couple hundred people gathered outside the mall this afternoon. Many of them are clearly mall employees and this gives you a feel for the outpouring in the Columbia Community in the wake of this terrible tragedy. Immediately saturday friends of the young viims here took to facebook and twitter to share their pain and this gathering youre witnessing right now is one result. The now familiar faces of the victims, 21yearold single mom Briana Benlolo and 19yearold Tyler Johnson killed by a suicidal, angry, disillusioned 19yearold Darion Aguilar whose journal entries indicated he was hiding Mental Illness from his family and was planning an attack, but was not specific. The expressions young people are making can be seen on the boarded up walls of the zumies skateboard shop inside the mall, appeals to stop the killing and needless death. Outside the mall today visitors are still stunned by the shotgun attack by aguilar here. You cant walk past the memorial without having tears. Its really sad. How do you protect yourself from Something Like this . You dont anticipate that. I just feel so sorry for her. Im still kind of down, but i have faith in our community that well be able to get past this. Reporter tonights memorial gathering was organized on facebook by young people who aim to start a Memorial Fund for Briana Benlolos 2yearold son. Skateboard enthusiasts are planning a ride andersen 10 park in columbia saturday and around Centennial Park in columbia saturday and there was a memorial for brianna today. Outside the mall many have flowers and candles in their hands as they prepare for this memorial moment in a few minutes. As the young people mourn here tonight, i want to update you on the investigation. Investigators confirm they are still trying to piece together a timeline of what happened leading up to this shooting tragedy on saturday. The shooter was seen leaving his home in college park at 5 15 a. M. And got into a cab in burtonsville several hours later to come to the mall. Part of this investigation is trying to figure out exactly what he may have been doing at burtonsville and also who, a companion with him, was that appeared at a gun shop in rockville two times. Investigators are confirming today they are working on both those issues. Scott broom, wusa9. You look at all those people gathered at Columbia Mall with such a centerpiece for the community and not surprising to see how this tight knit community is coming together. The Columbia Mall murders are just the latest deadly incidents tied to Mental Health issues in our area. At 5 30 well look at some of the services maryland provides and the states plans to make even more Mental Health help available. Weve got breaking news. A verdict in the amanda knox murder trial. Minutes ago an Italian Appeals Court upheld the murder conviction against knox and set a 28 1 2 year sentence. Knox was first found guilty in 2009. That verdict was overturned two years ago and she was released from prison. Knox is back here in the United States and did not return to italy for the verdict. A lengthy extradition process is expected. Right now a travel alert, d. C. Police closed massachusetts avenue southeast near 34th street. The Fire Department discovered this sinkhole there this afternoon along with a water main break and a natural gas leak. Utility workers are on the scene and repair crews have to rebuild the hill before they can reopen that road. Might be a good idea to avoid the area until crews are able to clean it up. A crew of ice breakers was back on the Chesapeake Bay this morning. The boat called the av sandusky is breaking up the ice so channels are clear in case of emergencies. The captain says breaking up the ice is a slow grinding task and steering through that ice can be difficult. The bay is frozen up harder than its been in five years. First alert meteorologist topper shutt joins us now from the weather center. Are we warming up yet . We are. I do want to show you the low temperatures this morning. We knew it would be in the Single Digits around town, 5 leesburg, 4 at dulles, but check this out, 6 below in salisbury and 9 below 0 in ocean city. Thats right of that was because of the clear skies and fresh snow cover, but thats still impressive. Right now 32 downtown. Most of us did not make it above freezing today, 28 in gaseburg now, 30 in Manassas Gaithersburg now, 30 in manassas, lows tonight much better. 20 inside the beltway, 18 in fairfax, 22 in woodbridge, 24 in waldorf. Well come back, talk about turning the corner and whether or not any 50s are in our future over the weekend. There is fallout tonight in the case of a d. C. Firehouse accused of not responding to a dying man across the street. Two firefighters including the lieutenant in charge at the time of the incident have now been placed on paid administrative leave. This comes after outrage from the family hearing that that high ranking firefighter went back to work yesterday and was on desk duty today. Surae chinn brings us more. Reporter lieutenant Colleen Davis shown here on her Facebook Page was the ranking firefighter at the time of the incident. The victims family was stunned to find she returned to workdays after 77yearold cecil mills was left to die across the street from the firehouse on rhode island avenue northeast. Some people went across that street three times. One lady said i went over there two times and stayed on the phone with dispatch. She said i got placed on hold. What we had was a failure of a few people to do what they get paid to do and its outrageous. Its absolutely unacceptable. Why is she at work . Because we have to go through the administrative process. She came in. She provided her statement. Now that we have the statement and the statement of others, the process will work itself out and so appropriate action will be coming. Reporter an ambulance responded roughly 15 minutes after mills collapsed, only after a Good Samaritan flagged it down. The 77yearold who spent nearly five decades with d. C. s parks and Rec Department died on that sidewalk. Left my dad across the street laying on the cold ground. I begged the person to come up. I stood on that curb and i cried out to him please come and help my dad. I said please dont led my dad die. We want to season justice done. Justice for mr. Mills, justice for his family, but at the same time we want to respect the rights of employees. This will get done. It will be done shortly. Reporter that shortly came about 15 minutes ago when we learned from the office of the deputy mayor of Public Safety that two ranking firefighters including lieutenant davis are now on paid administrative leave. They have not said for how long or if further action will be taken. We do know the deputy mayor launched a full scale investigation interviewing at least 15 people and by the way, the lieutenant has been with d. C. Fire for nearly 30 years. Well continue to follow this. Thank you. Nine people including a number of children are dead after an Early Morning house fire. 11 people lived in this home in rural greenville, kentucky. The father, an 11yearold girl were the only ones to escape. There is no word on the cause of the fire, but investigators do not suspect anything suspicious. One firefighter is hurt and nine other people are out of their laurel, maryland townhome tonight. Its all because of a fire. It started last night on compton avenue. This was a tough one to tackle. Firefighters from three counties took about an hour to get it under control. The cause of this fire remains under investigation. House Speaker John Boehner is presenting a new outline for Immigration Reform to his fellow republicans at their annual retreat. After months of stalled legislation gop leaders are trying to lay out proposals they can get passed. Danielle nottingham reports. Reporter house Speaker John Boehner is trying to make headway on Immigration Reform despite opposition from conservatives in his own party. Its been turned into a political football. I think its unfair. So i think its time to deal with it. How we deal with it is going to be critically important. Reporter Speaker Boehner is still looking at a piecemeal approach focusing on stronger border security, but his proposals include a path to legal status for 11 Million People who entered the country illegally. Of, something that will be a hard sell illegally, something that will be a hard sell. The Senate Passed a comprehensive Immigration Reform bill last year that went nowhere in the house. President obama prodded lawmakers in his state of the union address. Lets get Immigration Reform done this year. Reporter Immigration Reform supporters say because of the countrys growing latino population, this could be a breakthrough year. These are the people obviously you have to court and you represent. These are the people now in your jurisdiction. I think its the responsibility of the Republican Party to act on behalf of their constituency. Reporter in 2012 hispanic voters went big for president obama and the democrats. Republican leaders want to win back some of those votes this november. Danielle nottingham, cbs news, washington. Meantime president obama on day two of his post state of the Union Economic tour, he stopped at a ge plant in wisconsin to promote his proposals for more jobs and skilled training. The president is putting vp joe biden in charge of an across the board review of americas job training program. After 40 years on capitol hill congressman henry waxman of california says he will retire at the end of his term. The 74yearold democrat was elected in 1974 and waxman has had a hand in shaping legislation dealing with the environment, energy, healthcare and consumer protection. Waxman says hes learned that progress isnt easy, but it is worth fighting for. They are the people in charge of maintaining and launching our new nuclear missiles, but now a scandal calls into question how much these officers really know about their job. Well bring that story to you at 5 30. 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Georgia officials set up staging areas to take people out to the highway and reunite them with cars they ditched during the epic gridlock. Some needed a jump start. Others needed gas. Many vehicles on the road have yellow tags like this on the door. It means theyre abandoned. Georgia officials want these abandoned cars off the road in time for the morning rush hour. Jaki shockley said she was stuck in her car six hours during the storm before she decided to hike home. Never again. Everybody is staying home. It wont happen. I dont care if they even say its a dusting. Reporter Albert Sinclair spent 36 hours, a full day and a half, stranded on a highway going nowhere. Ive never been stranded like that before. Reporter georgia governor nathan diehl apologized again to everyone stuck in their cars or schools because of the storm. I think we did not respond fast enough. Reporter hundreds of flights in and out of atlanta were canceled thursday and city schools will remain closed friday. Technically its not another snow day but a recovery day. I get the feeling everybody there just needs to take a deep breath. Its been a long week for them. I talked to a reporter today and i said we feel your pain. We are thinking about you guys. Notice all the snow is almost gone. I like how you get fired up when they try to blame the weather people. I looked back again and looked at my tweets today i sent out. Really the warnings were there. They werent heeded, plain and simple. They acknowledged that today. 24 hours in advance from houston to norfolk. We showed it to you on the air. Its crazy. Ive never seen warnings from houston to norfolk today. Some folks made it above freezing today, but tomorrow everybody makes it above freezing and one of the weekend days i think will make it to 50. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, 32 now, high was 33 at national, dew points in the Single Digits, better than the below 0 readings last night and relative humidity 34 , winds now out of the south at 9. Satellite picture radar combined, heres our next little weather system producing a little snow on the great lakes. This is not a power packed system. Some of the clouds will come in tonight. Theyre already into ohio and West Virginia and a slight chance of a sprinkle, but tomorrow and saturday most of the energy and precipitation stays well north and west of us. The good news is the clouds will come in later tonight and keep temperatures up a bit. Temps right now 29 college park, really cold today. The chunk of the center of cold air was east of us, 26 in baltimore, 25 in annapolis, 30 in arlington, 28 in reston and fairfax. Clouds late tonight, not as cold, bus stop temperatures 16 to 34 depending on what time you go. Everybody makes it to at least 40 tomorrow. Most folks will make it into the mid40s, mild early over the weekend, yes, a few possible showers, but i think well trade temperatures for the chance of a few showers. Clear early. Clouds come in late, not as cold, 16 to 26, winds out of the southwest at 10. Well break it down. These are city temps. 20s to start. There will be some teens in the burbs initially, 30 by 9 00, 36 by 11 00 and by 1 p. M. We should be in the low 40s again. Next three days not quite 50 saturday, back that down a bit because of a southeast wind and maybe a shower, but then sunday mild, maybe a shower, back into the low 50s by sunday. Next seven days monday still kind of up in the air. Well keep a light mix in. The system c