anthony weiner's estranged wife, huma abedin had a device, and thousands of e-mails. pierre thomas tonight. >> reporter: hillary clinton investigation? >> reporter: ignoring reporter questions about those newly discovered e-mails. her campaign stunned. abc news has learned it began inside the fbi yesterday morning. the firestorm set in motion during a highly confidential briefing by director james comey with senior agents. those agents came to him with explosive information that new e-mails had been discove even though there is no evidence of wrongdoing by clinton, the director decides he has to tell congress. today, less than 24 hours later, with clinton flying to iowa, director comey drops the bombshell in a letter to congress. writing, in connection with an unrelated case, the fbi has learned of the existence of e-mails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation. he goes on to say they will determine whether they contain classified information. and stresses that the fbi cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant and long it will take to

weiner's third strike for seconding may be his ugliest yet. the first time he was forced to resign from congress. the second time he was running for new york city mayor. >> it's like living a nightmare. >> reporter: cringeworthy moments caught on camera by a >> this is the worst. >> reporter: the third time he was a stay-at-home dad but sexting with a 15-year-old girl, perhaps worst of all weiner allegedly sent out a picture of the couple's son, climbed into bed with him while he was sexting. his electronic devices and his wife's seized as part of the fbi investigation. that is why authorities found the deleted e-mails. of course, the issue here is not weiner's sexting, but the classified e-mails clinton herself sent andec rules. so, she has only herself to blame. but it's ironic that it came out because of this of all things. >> yeah, just when we thought this campaign couldn't get grosser, thank you very much. >> r-rated. maybe nc-17. >> nc-17 at a minimum. joining us to talk about the possible legal problems facing anthony weiner, abc's sun

we know the e-mails were discovered on anthony weiner's laptop. and she, of course, is hillary clinton's long-time aide. the new fbi spotlight comes amid our new tracking poll showing hillary clinton now down to a one-point lead nationally. tonight, the clinton camp furious with the fbi, asking, why it would make this public with so few answers to offer to the american people. and with so few days left before the election. abc's senior justice correspondent pierre thomas with fbi, dozens of cyber experts are pouring over thousands of e-mails belonging to huma abedin, hillary clinton's top aide. the team, which previously investigated clinton's private server, has pulled the hard drive from a laptop used by abedin's estranged husband, anthony weiner, who is under investigation for an alleged sexting scandal with an underage girl. weiner's disgrace captured in this documentary. >> why do you think you deserve this second chance? >> reporter: abedin seen today in this exclus photo, now off the trail as the investigation intensifies. abc news has lear

boy, that was right on the nose. >> reporter: the anthony weiner component has brought this race right into the gut er. at trump's rallies the chance of "lock her up" have a new intensity. dan and paula, remember when the presidential contest was about the 3:00 a.m. phone call at the white house? now it's about 3:00 a.m. messages of a very different sort. >> yeah. i think uyou could argue this race has been in the gutter for a while. david, thank you very much for your reporting from vegas this morning. as promised, abc news george stephanopoulos. he will be hosting "this week" later this morning. good morning, sir. if you combine this news out of the fbi with the dramatically tightened abc news tracking poll, are we now looking at a situation where donald trump who was written off by some people could come back and win this election? >> can't rule it out. there's no question about it. on thursday night before this news broke, hillary clinton was on offense. she was on track to victory. probably more than 300 electoral votes, but everything stopped dead in its tracks when this news cam

weiner was publicly disgraced after a series of scandals. his wife, shocked. sources tell abc news their shared device contained thousands of e-mails, and now the fbi must go through them to see whether the information on them was classified. >> and pierre is with us live. the clinton camp is furious this evening, saying the fbi director should be revealing more and didn't explain enough today. with so few days before this election, will we hear from him before election day? >> reporter: a senior official tells me it's extremely unlikely that the investigation will be finished before election day. but sources say comey had no choice but to release the information to congress, or else be accused of hiding it before the election. david? >> pierre, thank you. >>> and the fbi announcement today catching republicans and democrats by surprise. hillary clinton and her aide, huma abedin, seen together on the plane. there was no wi-fi, so no one knew of the breaking headlines, not even the reporters on the plane. among them, our own cecilia vega. who just moments ago,

supervisor weiner >> thank you very much. just to follow-up on what chief deputy chief tom mentioned, you don't need to come back up-i did attend the last graduation of the police academy and actually, i peered up we go and speak to the academy and it was in my experience progressively every time i walk in there more and more diverse than the last one was the most diverse class that i had ever seen in the 5-6 years that i've been going to the academy going to graduations. i think there needs to be recruit more women. that is definitely a continuing challenge. in terms of lgbt although there is no official data in the-i didn't know a lot of the open the lgbt officers and we definitely have seen in my anecdotal experience an increase in for a long time because of the hiv aids epidemic there was very very few gay men in that apartment. the result generation gay male leadership that was stopped in its tracks. there were lesbians who are able to make it very very senior the command staff but gay men were sent back. that started th

>>[gavel] >>[adjournment] >> >> >>campos of aye farrell aye kim aye mar aye peskin aye tang aye weiner aye yee aye avalos aye there are 11 aye >> those items are finally passed unanimously. >>[gavel] >> clerk please call item number two >> item to ordinance authorizing the settlement by law food filed by jack a frazier against the city for approximate $5 million filed in october 20 820. 13 in san francisco superior court entitled with personal injury with a fighter truck >> supervisor avalos >> of the voting, no, i guess this. i've had many meetings with mr. fraser who be party to the settlement. i'm not urging anyone else to vote with me on that in any way. but based my conversations with mr. fraser it was expressed differing opinions about whether he should accept the settlement or not. i felt important to weigh in on what my vote of no just what is his attitude run the settlement itself. but i do believe that this is a settlement that is a big one and worth voting for. >> thank you. seeing no other names on the roster item number two speaker please call the please take roll call >>

supervisor weiner matter president. >> good evening. it's been a long day. colleagues, today along with supervisor yee i'm introducing the legislation on a topic that is on the minds of many san franciscans. car break-ins. this legislation requires rental car companies to inform customers of the risks of leaving valuables in their cars and it specifically requires companies to provide written disclosures to their customers advising them not to leave valuables in their cars and to lock the car doors. at a time of the rental as well as the reminder for customers in the card itself. as some of you might know the san francisco civil grand jury issued a report in 2016 regarding auto burglaries and san francisco earlier this year. according to the report the number of auto burglaries in 2015 reached an all-time five year high with 24,826 reported incidents. this is a 34% increase over the previous year was three times more than the report in 2011. based on auto burglary data from the police department at the civil grand jury estimated at least $99 with the propert

it brutalized his partner who happened to be my attorney to protect me against my abuser and scott weiner has his endorsement on his senate website said he was sir, address your members to the board of supervisors >> that is shameful to have the board of supervisors to have an endorsement from a perpetrator of a gay man not only take his endorsement but put it on his website >> sir on pausing your time. your viewpoints are important to us when you start talking about opposition or support of individuals who are on the ballot that's where you cross the line. welcome to continue her remarks but please read out the part about the election and address your marks of the board as a whole. thank you, sir >> they use much for the clarity it so hard for me to know where the line is outside the chamber and inside this chamber but i just want to ask this particular supervisor to remove his endorsement of a known abuser on that website. it is shameful. i got beaten up , brutalized and suited my attorney. it's a shame that you're supporting them. >> next speaker, please. >> tom-some poor vacations las

weiner's disgrace captured in this documentary. >> why do you think you deserve this second chance? investigation intensifies. abc news has learned the fbi has made a copy of the data from the hard drive and begun separating abedin's e-mails from the hundreds of thousands that belonged to weiner. the focus is on abedin's work-related e-mails during clinton's time as secretary of state, especially any that may have been sent to clinton's private server. agents plan to use computer programs to see if they can weed already studied by the fbi. today, the white house trying staying on the sidelines. >> i'll neither defend nor criticize what director comey has decided to communicate. to the public about this investigation. >> reporter: but the fbi director facing a barrage of criticism from the left and right for his decision to notify congress this close to the election. comey has maintained it would have been wrong not to acknowledge the new development. but some democrats on capitol hill are calling on comey to general eric holder, and roughly 100 former senior justice department offic

this is all come from anthony weiner. how weird is that, right? sendingis pictures of himself to women who then reported and so it is just -- it could not be more tabloid. >> you talk about anthony weiner but the e-mail story goes right to hillary clinton's largest vulnerability and that's trust and now we possibly have e-mails as secretary of state on a computer of anthony weiner, the disgraced congressman so how badly does this hurt hillary? >> well, i think -- >> it depends what they are. honestly we have to sit here speculating about it. just appears to be pertinent. he has the federal bureau of investigation at his disposal. maybe pierre thomas is right. he needs to get a separate search warrant. how long does that take? how long does it take to go through and say, whoa, there seems to have been more distribution of classified material than we thought or basically it turns out there is some additional e-mails from huma abedin to hillary clinton or vice versa but there's no big deal. if these incidentally w she was supposed to turn over all th

fbi agents investigating anthony weiner in a sexting scandal. seize devices he's been using and discover he shared those with his wife huma abedin that close clinton aide and find e-mails likely pointing to her communicating with secretary clinton. but they have to stop right there because their warrant only allows them to investigate weiner so no one has looked through them possibly tied to clinton. in fairness it would not be unusual for abedin to be communicating with her boss but about. >> comey is under extreme pressure to release more information. do you see that happening between now and election day, which is just ten days away. >> unlikely but he's under incredible pressure. you've got clinton and democrats demanding that he do so. the pressure is only going to intensify because they're so close to the electric. we've never seen anything like this. >> certainly haven't. when this broke hillary clinton was airborne. her team given no warning learning about it when they landed and abc's cil complptsdz campaign and joins us with the latest

and are the e-mails connected to clinton advisor huma abedin and her estranged husband anthony weiner? tonight, donald trump pouncing. >>> also breaking, the fire engulfing a passenger plane at one of america's busiest airports. chaos in the cabin. passengers racing to escape. and we're on the scene tonight. >>> the near disaster at another airport. and the new reveal late today. what happened in the cockpit of the campaign plane veering off the 911 calls just released. hunting for a killer who took aim at two police officers. >> we got shots fired. >> we have new reporting right here. >>> and the mom, the son, and the victory. who is our person of the week? >>> good evening. we begin tonight with that fbi bombshell. as i mentioned, there are 11 days until the election, and millions of americans are al in the air, flying to iowa, where the race is tied, the news breaks. the fbi director, revealing new e-mails have been discovered and will be investigated. anthony weiner's estranged wife, huma abedin had a device, and pierre thomas tonight. >> reporter: hillary clinton stepping off tha