A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. So an engineer has stabilized the dam for now. You heard them state their plan. Claire stagers with us from the university of lynchburg. Good to take to you, claire. Good to talk to you. How are you doing today . Shepard good. Might have been frightening when they said 125 houses could be under 17 feet of water. Yes, sir. Im not part of that but im close to it. It would turn my tenminute commute to 30 minutes if i had to reroute. Shepard i guess three inches of rain in an hour, thats a lot for anybody, even your part of the world. Yes, sir, a lot of water. Came into our basement as well last night. Shepard thanks, claire. I know theyve been trying to shore it up. They have taken a 3 x 3 foot area, a spillway, to relieve the pressure. The problem is theres rain on the way. Lets get to Rick Reichmuth live
in the extreme weather center. How are they looking in lynchburg . We have one bad batch of storms but things g
doctor indicated signs of a troubled mind. but no troubling behavior that would trigger a call to law enforcement. without a manifesto or notes, we can only make an educated guess to the motives of stephen paddock. shepard: no certainty. case closed. 58 people died in october when the gunman opened fire from a hotel room above the festival. police say they lawyer found him dead in the room. the report marks the end of a ten-month investigation in what happened. the man suspected of killing the former president george w. bush s former doctor is now also dead. that s according to the police chief in houston. this comes after a two-week man hunt. back on july 20, investigators say joseph pappas shot dr. mark hausknecht three times while he
pappas. he rode past the doctor, shot him in the head and torso. dr. hausknecht was described by friends as a how many bell and generous man. adored by his patients. among them, george h.w. bush. in a statement after the murder called the doctor a fantastic cardiologist and a good man. shepard: this was all and revenge. yeah, indeed. revenge that was more than 20 years in the making. in april 1997, pappas mother died on dr. hausknecht s operating table. over time, pappas had put together what the houston police chief called a detailed intelligence file on the doctor. he knew everything that you can possibly find on this man. i m not going further in the details just to say it was extensive. while they don t describe it
as a hit list, pappas had information open around two dozen other doctors and employees of texas medical center. those employees will be relieved to know the threat is over even as they continue top mourn the loss of their colleague, dr. hausknecht. shep? shepard: thanks, jonathan. lawyers for harvey weinstein are asking the judge to drop the sexual assault charges against him. they say the grand jury that indicted him didn t get to see relevant e-mails from one of the accusers. they say the evidence includes messages from a woman who says weinstein raped her. less than a month after the alleged attack, she wrote to him to tell him that she appreciated all he did for her, a few days later, he said it would be great to see you again. no comment from weinstein s lawyers. weinstein pleaded guilty to all