Claim jurors discussed the trial with each other before they were allowed to. We also learned today one of the jurors was removed because he talked to his personal attorney about the case. He said to his attorney, there are 12 people and they are kind of all over the place and i dont know what to do. Mcdonnells attorneys pushed for a mistrial then and asked judge spencer to interview the jury, but spencer chose to remove that one juror. Legal expert matt kaiser says this file is just to set up motions for an appeal. Cases like this where youve got a lot of press attention, youve got a really powerful high ranking person involved, they have their own gravitational pull. It may be the kind of thing that gets more traction than you wouldnt otherwise see. That motion was filed september 18th, two weeks after a jury convict convicted mcdonnell and his wife for accepting over 165,000 in gifts and lows for Star Scientific ceo johnny loans from Star Scientific ceo jonnie williams. A new poll s
There were young men who had rocks in their hand ready to throw them. They put them down. The good news is the scene has diffused for the most part and traffic is now flowing on north avenue again. Back to you. Leon all right, brad. You got it. We will get back to you in a bit now. Now turn to the weather here. We change gears here. The calendar says spring. It feels more like summer outside, though. Alison it does. Leon a very warm day outside today. Many of us putting the a. C. To good use today. Alison more like june than may. Big changes are coming as always. Chief meteorologist doug hill is here to explain those. Doug every few years we have a chilly early spring. Just like that we jump into a summer pattern. That is what we are experiencing right now. Lets get to the sums to tell you the weather summer and tell you the weather story. 82 degrees at Reagan National. Gusty breeze from the south. Its 83 in washingtondulles. 83 in baltimore. We will have an enjoyable evening here. The
Ladder to get passengers off. What started this dangerous blaze. And star wars secrets. Only on gma. Never before seen footage from behind the scenes of the most anticipated movie of the year revealed this morning. The first look at some brandnew worlds and some old friends. A worldwide celebration as we say may the fourth be with you. And we do say good morning, america. We hope everybody had a fantastic weekend and do we have a busy monday morning for you. We want to start with that news breaking overnight from texas. Theres a look at the scene this morning. Two heavily armed men opened fire rat an event featuring a cartoon contest to draw the Prophet Muhammad. The fbi there as we learn more about the extremists behind that attack. We have Team Coverage starting with abcs ryan owens in garland. Good morning, ryan. Reporter good morning, to you, george. That is the event center behind me. This is an active scene. You might be able to hear the helicopters up above. The bomb squad, all
Albeit under the watchful eye of more than a dozen police, a burned out drugstore is being evaluated by a corporate teen. People are hoping for normalcy. Yes, i think the people in neighborhood need them. I am happy to see things are getting back to normal around here. Brad then it happened. Tensions flare anew. The guy had a gun. Brad police an rehend a man with a gun. The suspect drops the revolver, it fires. Nobody was hit. But a National Cable network wrongly reports the police shot the man. An angry crowd gathers until officers are able to lower the temperature. The gentleman had a gun. The officers were approaching him, decided to arrest him with the gun. He tried to throw the gun away and the gun went off. He was throwing his gun down and the gun went off. No Police Officer shot anybody. Now this all happened about 2. 5 hours ago where you see the group of people in front of the yellow and red awning at the grocery store. You can see that things returned to normal here. The poli
Its inexcusable and theres no place for it on the Police Department. Reporter before throwing in the towel Thomas Lawyer claimed selfdefense saying the officer thought the handcuffed boy was about to spit on him, which the suspect had done in previous encounters. Prosecutors pointed out there was no need for thomas to enter the cell to start with. States attorney Angela Alsobrooks said there is no protecting bad cops in Prince Georges County. This is definitely not ferguson. It is likewise not what were seeing in Baltimore City and one of the critical differences between this case and the cases weve seen across the country is that this conduct was discovered and brought to us by our Police Department which is why the chief of police is standing with me today. Its because of the trust in the community that weve been able to drive down crime the way we have and anyone who violates that trust, i will take appropriate action immediately. Reporter alsobrooks says her prosecutors will ask fo