Tschida, abc7 news. Leon thank you. Staying in Northern Virginia now. Two armed robberies in a matter of minutes in alexandria. Police are trying to determine if they are connected in any way. The first one happen around 11 00 at a phone store in alexandria. The second was a gas station on patrick street. In both instances two men, one armed with a handgun held up a store clerk. No one was hurt. The police have not released surveillance video. Alison jurors got a dark look in the mind and the history of accused serial killer Charles Severance. Today the mother of severances son testified about the moment that she feared for her life. New at 5 00, abc7 Northern Virginia chief Jeff Goldberg revealed the new details that came out in court. Jeff the prosecution shifting to focus in the investigation of the murder of ron kirby. In the last 30 minutes or so we heard from the medical examiner who performed the autopsy saying that she discovered three bullets and that ron kirby died of two gun
Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. Out what it is before ito something mysterious is paralyzing bay area kids. Tonight doctors are scrambling to figure out what it is before its too late. Betty yu standing by at Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital at stanford, ground zero for this investigation. Betty . Reporter thats right. Doctors here are tracking these poliolike illnesses that leave kids with sudden weakness in their limbs. Theyre looking at the most severe cases, those kids that develop these symptoms within 48 hours. They say whats going on is not an epidemic, but they want to stress that once these kids are diagnosed these diseases are very difficult, if not impossible, to treat. Little sophia loves to dance and it shows. You can hardly tell that her moves are limited until you notice her left arm. Lefty is my favorite arm. Reporter she calls it lefty and its the result of a mysterious poliolike illness. Its affecting as many as 25 children in california. In so
Notice her left arm. Lefty is my favorite arm. Reporter she calls it lefty and its the result of a mysterious poliolike illness. Its affecting as many as 25 children in california. In some cases kids first showed symptoms of a common cold. We were not exactly clear what is the agent. We suspect its a virus explaining these cases. It can affect one or more limbs and the prognosis weve seen so far is not good. Most of the children weve seen have not recovered use of their arm or leg. Reporter sophia first developed what doctors thought was asthma two years ago. Aerophore days in the hospital it turned into Something Else after four days in the hospital it turned into Something Else. Sophia went to grab the toy after seeing her doctor and i saw her left hand mid grasp stop. Reporter the family later turned to Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital at stanford where doctors are now taking a hard look at five bay area cases. All the kids had been vaccinated against polio. We had a very healthy b
Happening and the white house made it rounds on the sunday morning talk shows to back him up. Take a look. Rex says its not true. I think the president tweeted last night it was fake news. Youre running the story but youre the only ones doing it. So it was between you and the folks who are involved i believe the folks i believe the folks who are involved. What would another nfl sunday be without some type of kerfuffle coming from the white house against nfl players . This time its not completely the players versus the president. The Vice President has inserted himself with the veep leaving the game between the colts and the 49ers early after some players took a knee during the National Anthem. Joining me now to discuss whats happening in the world of politics before we kick off a new workweek, New York Times correspondent, amy shaw cinder and greg wilson, as well as democratic strategist steve shale. Let me begin you. This back and forth with corker and the president. Why in the world
He promised to quote, tackle the difficult issue of Mental Health. And he said we must help secure our schools. Late last night he tweeted very sad that the fbi missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida School shooter. This is not acceptable. They are spending too much time trying to prove russian collusion with the Trump Campaign. There is no collusion. Get back to the basics and make us all proud. But notice anything substantive missing, like any mention of the word guns . Well, while this president might be hopelessly cooped by the gun lobby, let me tell you what i think about the socalled gun debate. Yes, there is a Mental Health issue. Yes, anyone whether it is in las vegas or newtown or what happened this week in florida that kills many, many people or any people has a Mental Health problem. That is not the problem alone. It is part of the problem. The other part is that they have access to legally get automatic military style weapons. The fact that all over the worl