DETAILS COMING UP IN JUST A I CAN USE THE RAIN WORD IN IT.
DETAILS COMING UP IN JUST A COUPLE OF MINUTES STUFF. MARK. MIKE, THANK YOU VERY
MUCH. IT’S A FIRST OF MANY
SIGNIFICANT CRIMINAL CASES HERE
IN SAN ANTONIO. JURORS.
>> SEEING MORE EVIDENCE AGAINST
AN AIR FORCE MAJOR ACCUSED OF
KILLING HIS WIFE.
>> THIS AS THE TRIAL OF ANDRE
MCDONALD CONTINUES TODAY.
OUR SARAH ACOSTA JOINS US LIVE
IN THE STUDIO WITH WHAT TO
EXPECT TODAY IN THE COURTROOM.
GOOD MORNING, SARAH. GOOD
MORNING, STEPH. GOOD MORNING.
MICHAEL. JURORS IN THE TRIAL OF
THE U.S. AIR FORCE MAJOR
CHARGED WITH KILLING HIS WIFE.
WE’RE SHOWN EVIDENCE OF BLOOD
AND A BURN PILE FOUND AT THE
COUPLE’S HOME. ANDRE MCDONALD
IS ON TRIAL FOR THE 2019
KILLING OF HIS WIFE AND DREAM.
MCDONALD PROSECUTORS SHOWED
THE INSIDE A MCDONALD’S HOME
THE DAY HIS WIFE WAS REPORTED
MISSING IN 2019, A BEXAR COUNTY
SHERIFF’S DEPUTY WAS SENT TO
THE HOME TO TAKE PICTURES AND
COLLECT EVIDENCE. SHE TESTIFIED
THAT SHE TOOK MORE THAN 600
PICTURES AT THE HOME AND
COLLECTED. 22 ITEMS.
>> IT ISN’T LIKE BURNT PLASTIC
ON THE GROUND AND ROOKIE AREA.
AND THERE WAS LIKE A ZIPPER.
>> PROSECUTORS ALSO SPOKE ABOUT
TEXT MESSAGES FROM ANDRE
MCDONALD CELLPHONE THE MESSAGES
FROM THE DAY SHE WAS ALLEGEDLY
MURDERED SHOW. THE COUPLE WAS
ARGUING ABOUT A BUSINESS AND
DREAM WAS TRYING TO START IN
HER NAME. THE TECHS ALSO
REFERENCE AN AFFAIR INJURY WAS
ALLEGEDLY HAVING AND A
POTENTIAL DIVORCE AND DREAMS
BURNED REMAINS WERE EVENTUALLY
FOUND MONTHS AFTER HER
DISAPPEARANCE. PROSECUTORS
SHOWED THE JURY THE JURY A
VIDEO OF MCDONALD AT THE
HARDWARE STORE WHERE THEY SAY
HE BOUGHT GAS CANS AND
HATCHETT. DEFENSE LAWYERS
ARGUED THIS CASE SHOULD BE A
MANSLAUGHTER INSTEAD OF A
MURDER CASE. IF HE IS FOUND
GUILTY. ANDRE MCDONALD COULD
FACE UP TO LIFE IN PRISON.
KAYE SAID, OF COURSE, WE’LL BE
LIVE STREAMING THIS TRIAL FROM
GAVEL TO GAVEL ON KSAT DOT COM
KSAT PLUS IN ON KSAT’S YOUTUBE
CHANNEL MARK AND STEPH.
>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
TORNADOES HITTING THE SOUTH.
HEAVY SNOW HITTING THE NORTH
HERE IN TEXAS ABOUT 45,000
PEOPLE ARE STILL WITHOUT POWER
THIS MORNING AS ABC’S ANDREA
FUJII REPORTS ON THE NORTHERN
SIDE OF THE STORM UP TO 8
INCHES OF SNOW CAN THE SCENE IN
PARTS OF THE MIDWEST THIS
MORNING?
>> THE RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER
SHIFTED INTO SOUTHERN LOUISIANA
OVERNIGHT. THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE REPORTED A LIKELY WATER
SPOUT FORMING OVER LAKE
PONTCHARTRAIN THAT MOVING
ONSHORE AROUND MIDNIGHT.
MOTHER NATURE SOMETIMES NOT
HAPPENED. THE SAME STORM SYSTEM
CAUSING EXTENSIVE DAMAGE IN
TEXAS, TEARING APART HOMES AND
BUSINESSES IN THE HOUSTON
SUBURB OF PASADENA. WE HAVE
4 OF US IN THIS BUILDING WHEN
THE TORNADO HIT A LOCAL CROSS
FIT OWNER AND HIS CUSTOMERS
WERE FORCED TO SEEK COVER IN
THE BATHROOM OF HIS GYM.
THE SCARIEST THING I’VE EVER
SEEN LIKE WE WERE SITTING THERE
TRYING TO SHOULD WE HAD
OVERHEAD DOOR RIGHT HERE THAT
BLEW OFF.
>> AND AS TRYING TO SHOULD NOT
COULDN’T SHUT IT AND ALL THE
SUDDEN IT JUST BLEW OUT NEXT
WHEN WE RAN THE RESTROOMS AND
WE JUST WATCHED BUILDING JUST
CAME APART. NEW FALL DOWN.
YOU HAD TO FIND OUT BECAUSE THE
BUILDING FELL ON TOP OF US.
>> BUT I MEAN IT, YOU KNOW,
WELL, LOWS WERE ALIVE WERE
GOOD. AND A DANCE INSTRUCTOR
ESCAPING A TORNADO AS IT TORE
APART HER STUDIO. I WAS JUST
PRAYING. THEN ALL I KNOW IS
THEY WERE WE WERE ALL HUNKERED
DOWN TOGETHER. BUT GLASS WAS
FLYING.
>> THE POWERFUL WINDS ALSO
CAUSING DAMAGE IN HOUSTON
ITSELF. THE MAYOR TWEETING A
WASTEWATER FACILITY SUFFERED
SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE BUT IS STILL
FUNCTIONING. MEANWHILE, THE
NORTHERN SIDE OF THE STORM
SYSTEM IS MAKING THE MORNING
COMMUTE A MESS IN THE MIDWEST
WITH SNOW FROM INDIANAPOLIS
TO CLEVELAND UP TO 8 INCHES IN
SOME AREAS.
>> THE SNOW SPREADING INTO
PENNSYLVANIA, UPSTATE NEW YORK
AND INTERIOR NEW ENGLAND LATER
TODAY.
>> AS FOR THOSE SEVERE STORMS
IN THE SOUTH WILL BE SPREADING
FROM NORTHERN FLORIDA TO THE
CAROLINAS TODAY, ANDREA FUJII
ABC NEWS, NEW YORK.
>> MORGAN BOUNCE AND US U.S.
THIS TIME IN YAKIMA,
WASHINGTON. AUTHORITIES SAY
3 PEOPLE WERE SHOT TO DEATH
MINUTES APART AT A CONVENIENCE
STORE EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING.
A MANHUNT WAS LAUNCHED FOR THE
21 YEAR-OLD SUSPECT. HOWEVER,
POLICE SAY HE LATER SHOT AND
KILLED HIMSELF. MEANWHILE, IN
HALF MOON BAY, CALIFORNIA, A
SUSPECTED GUNMAN IS DUE IN
COURT TODAY ON 7 COUNTS OF
MURDER. AND ONE COUNT OF
ATTEMPTED MURDER. INVESTIGATORS
SAY THE FARM WORKER KILLED 7
PEOPLE IN BACK-TO-BACK