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Firefighters to contain that blaze. a couple of other vehicles caught fire there. one official said the tanker was carrying a petroleum product. no serious injuries were reported. fox 26 in houston where the va clinic is no longer allowing decorated vietnam veteran john sutton to take his ptsd service dog to his therapy sessions. the va says emotional support dogs are not often trained to be in waiting rooms with service dogs and veterans. a clinton spokesperson said it is working to get sutton ...

national security correspondent jennifer griffin is at the pentagon tonight. >> reporter: greeted with celebratory gunfire and offers of coffee, iraqi troops finally made it into tikrit. >> translator: we are now in the city of tikrit. id like to tell the displaced families to come back home as soon as possible. im determined ill never withdraw. >> reporter: iraqi forces accompanied by iranian advisers attempted from the north to the south taking over the hospital in the northern part ...

Susan, in another bedroom, talked on the phone with a close friend. a quiet end to a pleasant evening. quiet, but not for long. >> 911. >> i need police. ive just been assaulted. >> what happened, sir? >> somebody came in and shot me. >> they shot you? >> yes. >> who did it? >> i dont know. i cant see. i need police and i need an ambulance. >> okay. where did he shoot you? >> in my head. >> john sutton, a tough as nails take no prisoners lawyer, was barely conscious as he begged the 911 operator...

Funding we can get, how many scientists we can put behind the problem to solve it. >> so sutton told the doctors he would somehow help make it happen. he wrote checks. he joined the board of directors. >> john sutton. [ applause ] >> he offered himself as a voice of hope for desperate patients. even though it may not never help him, as long as he lives. hes okay with that? >> theres a chance that we may not be able to restore his vision. there is a chance, on the other hand, that we may. but if ...

>> to say gruesome is, you know, if i didnt know his hands and know little intricate pieces of him, you wouldnt have known it was him. >> you faced the shocking prospect of becoming an orphan. >> i dont think that ever crossed my mind, actually. i dont know. he was still alive. >> melissa wondered, why her parents? who could have done this? investigators describing it as a hit. didnt you have any sense at all what may have happened? >> well, teddy told me what had happened, but i didnt know who ...

♪ ♪ one too many... [ male announcer ] its time to reclaim your garage. the all-new passat. the 2012 motor trend car of the year. ♪ seek your way and go susan sutton was dead, shot five times by a killer who invaded her home after her birthday party. her husband, john, an attorney, had been shot in the head twice and was in critical condition at a miami hospital, undergoing multiple surgeries to save his life. but soon after the shooting, detectives had a potential suspect. john suttons ...

Son, and then take him off to jail. so case closed? well, youd think, given what kopp told the detectives in there. but it did not give them what they needed to arrest christopher. theres a feature in florida law which says that the things a person says in a confession about somebody else could be labeled as hearsay. they needed more. so they turned to the person closest to christopher, his fiancee, juliet driscoll. the two were engaged to be married in a few weeks. invitations were in the mail....

Detectives found the blood-stained handset susan dropped when the gunman opened fire. who was she talking to? had that person heard something? detectives got their answer almost right away. john suttons law partner, teddy montoto, had shown up at the house even before the first reports of the shooting hit the news that night. he was also armed. >> he was talking to susan sutton on the telephone when he heard a loud bang or what he said may be gun shots, he didnt know. >> at least thats what he t...

>> on the bed. >> and what did you see mr. sutton do when you shot him? >> slip off the bed. >> after you fired at mr. sutton, what did you do? >> proceeded to shoot in another room. >> and who was the person with whom you were in a plan to shoot john and susan sutton? >> chris sutton. >> and what do you remember the defendant telling you about how much money you might expect to get? >> upwards of $100,000. >> until this moment, john sutton had been a spectator at his sons trial. his thoughts an...

>> they stabilized sutton, rushed him off in an ambulance. an hour north of suttons home, homicide detective larry bellieu was just getting home after a long shift. >> i was pulling into my driveway when i got the phone call. he was critically injured, however, he called 911 and made his way to the door and opened the door. >> he didnt want to go in until they came out, is that it? >> they didnt know if the person or persons involved were still inside. they backed off until the s.w.a.t. team arr...