the people he perceived to be the political enemies. as gun control advocates call for action for congress in the aftermath of las vegas. today, mark kelly, husband of former congresswoman gabrielle giffords joined others pushing for tighter gun regulation. the thoughts and players won t stop the shooting. now a bipartisan movement is growing demand bump stocks. a tool used to allow semi-automatic weapons to work like automatic weapons. this might be a small but a very important step to moving to a more rational conversation about sensible gun policy in this country. the report determines they were justified shooting at the gunman that resulted in the death. the commonwealth attorney believes the heroic actio the officers likely saved lives. live in alexandria, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. thank you. now to the las vegas massacre where evidence indicates the gunman may not have acted alone because someone other than the gunman stephen paddock bought some of the ammo us
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will spend the night in a shelter after they were advised to evacuate from their homes. abc 7 news reporter katie utehs is live in healdsburg with more on that. katie? this shelter is housing a lot of people from santa rosa and the surrounding areas. but tonight they ve seen an influx of locals from healdsburg as the city itself has some evacuation advisories under way. cardinal newman is gone. cloverleaf ranch is gone. bells healdsburg ambulance drivers took this video as they evacuated patients sunday night and monday morning from santa rosa. some of those emts have lost their homes, but continue to work for days, since the north bay fire started. now the company s offices are threatened in healdsburg as part of the city here is under an evacuation warning. meaning be ready to go at a moment s notice. fitch mountain, and the bill of fitch mountain, which is us. we ll wait until we can t. it s hard to leave your job when this is what you re supposed to do. peop
into a dryer afternoon. most areas back in the low 70s for afternoon temperatures. so considerably milder than we ve been the last few days. way warmer weather comes our way for tomorrow and friday. the weekend, well, a little chance of a shower on the weekend. we ll be detailing that a little later. again, first thing this morning just a couple rain drops as sheena said pretty much running along the bay. and those showers are going southbound. and eventually, they ll be moving out of here. good riddance to the clouds as well. let s go to melissa to check on track. how s the outer loop? not so hot, chuck. a problem here on the right side of the roadway and one on the left side. really slowing things down as you head through the outer loop. a two or three-mile backup this morning. innerlooper, 270 at georgetown. that has cleared out of the way. 395 north north of penalty gone, that crash. and ramp. county parkway between 123 and burks centre parkway. and a new crash reported
republicans are pushing back on. what do you think? log on to wusa 9.com/vote or use are apt to let us know what you think. coming up, talking about who might replace him. hundreds of people upset over the firing of director comey protesting in front of the white house. demonstrators say they are suspicious of the timing. i think it is very questionable that he was fired in the middle of this investigation. same with the acting attorney general. seems to be kind of convenient. i m here to ask congress to appoint a special prosecutor to look into the connections with russia and the trump administration. i am also here to protect the freedom of the press and to protect democracy for my kids many people here found out about this on other social media pages. we want to hear what you think about the presidents firing the fbi director. it s our city and your voice. we sent bruce a shan to frederick county where the vote in the presidential election was pretty close, but o