The man who gunned down airport screening officers at Los Angeles International Airport in the 2013 rampage, formally changed his plea Tuesday to guilty to murder and 10 other charges. Paul Ciancia faces multiple, consecutive life terms, but not the death penalty.

The path to the plea agreement had been cleared when US Attorney General Loretta Lynch agreed with the U.S. Attorney's office not to pursue the death penalty. Ciancia signed the agreement last week, but it did not take effect until he entered the plea in the courtroom.

It is expected multiple consecutive life sentences will be imposed when the 26-year-old unemployed motorcycle mechanic returns to court in two months. 

Ciancia admitted to killing TSA agent Gerardo Hernandez, and wounding two of Hernandez's colleagues and a traveler.  

Evidence the prosecution had intended to present at trial included a text message from Ciancia to a family member in which he described himself as a "pissed off patriot trying to water the tree of liberty."

Still not clear is the origin of Ciancia's rage, why he focused it on TSA personnel, and why he chose to stage the attack at LAX. Ciancia had grown up in New Jersey and had moved to Los Angeles barely a year before his rampage.

All three of the surviving victims were present in court.

Afterwards, TSA Agents Tony Grigsby and James Speer said they were satisfied with the plea agreement, but have no sympathy for Ciancia.

"He caused a lot of pain to a lot people," said Grigsby. "I will never get my friend back."

"More than anything, I empathize with the Gerardo Hernandez family," said Speer.

Ciancia's guilty plea means there will be no need for trial or testimony. But in the courthouse courtyard, Grigsby and Speer for the first time publicly shared details of the accounts to which they would have testified.

After the shots rang out, both Grigsby and Speer evacuated travelers away from the TSA screening station in Terminal 3.

"I refuse to be a victim," said Grigsby, who was wounded in the ankle. "During that ordeal I made decision to help people and run back to help people. And I stand by that decision."

Speer described getting travelers down the terminal, and staying behind to help one man.

"Just as I'm down the hallway, just as I thought we're safe, I actually saw Brian Ludmer to the right of me get shot — he didn't go out the gate — and before, a split second before I could say, 'Oh my God," a split second later I felt 'boom, boom' in the back and left upper arm. I was thrown forward from the blast," Speer recalled.

Ludmer, who was at the airport as a traveler, has also recovered from his injuries and was also present in court for Ciancia's plea.

Speer got into a Hudson's bookstore and prepared to confront the gunman, but the gunman did not come in.

Speer later made his way out of the terminal, and with the airport lockdown, had to wait nearly half an hour before he could get medical care.

Both Speer and Grigsby have recovered and returned to work, Speer in an administrative capacity, Grigsby back working a terminal. His mother and sister also work as TSA agents.

From the ordeal, Grigsby has taken a renewed vigilance for his job and protecting air travelers, he said.

About 13,000 off-road vehicles have been recalled by Polaris because their engines may catch fire.

Polaris has received 19 reports of its recreational of-highway vehicles (ROVs) catching fire.

Flaming engines in the ROVs are blamed for injuring nine people, including a child, and causing a 15-acre forest fire, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The 13,000 ROVs that were recalled include 2,230 vehicles that were pulled back in December.

The recall involves all model year 2016 Polaris RZR XP Turbo and RZR XP 4 Turbo recreational off-highway vehicles.

The ROVs were sold in blue, gray, orange and red. They have two or four seats and a rear box with “RZR” printed on it.

The vehicles were sold between August 2015 and July 2016 for $25,000 to $27,500.

More information about the recall is available on the Consumer Product Safety Commission website.

The adorable toddler whose determined first steps on prosthetic legs were captured in a touching video that went viral is striding into a new milestone: his first day of school.

Four-year-old Kayden Kinckle of Englewood, New Jersey walked into school Tuesday, confidently maneuvering his crutches after years of physical therapy.

"Walking in school like WHAT!!!" reads the caption on the Instagram video documenting the proud moment. 

Kinckle was two years old when he took his first steps on prosthetic legs with the help of a walker.

“I got it, I got it, I got it,” Kayden said with each step, determined to walk on his own without any help. 

Since then, the boy has been making remarkable progress in physical therapy, Recent videos on the Instagram account run by his mother show him standing on his own with his prosthetic legs and taking a few steps without his crutches. He also practices taking the stairs "just in case the elevator is broken." 

The sweet moments he spends with his family are also chronicled: he dances with his mother, kisses his baby sister and goofs around on rides, all the time exuding the energy and spirit that endeared him to so many in the "I got it!" video. 

His parents said in 2014 Kayden had always been confident despite doctors' doubts. 

"If he wants something, he will get it and that could be good sometimes and bad sometimes," Kayden's father, Kevin Kinckle, told NBC. "He's always been a warrior." 

Kayden was diagnosed in utereo with omphalocelea, a birth defect in the abdominal wall that causes an infant’s intestines, liver and some other organs to grow outside the body. Kayden also had a band wrapped around his legs in the womb — causing deformities that required him to have his left leg and right foot amputated in January 2014.

Kayden's mother Nikki Kinckle said previously that doctors had advised her to consider whether to carry her baby to term. She said the suggestion didn't make her angry, because it was a "fact" that her baby would face serious challenges. 

"The nurse asked me if my house was wheelchair-accessible, and that was hard," Nikki said.

The family continues to raise money on GoFundMe.com.

"We were made aware that prosthetics are an ongoing thing for life, physical therapy is once a week. He may need more walkers or crutches as he gets older and his weight changes," Kevin Kinckle said. "We need to adjust as he grows and as technology grows we want the top-of-the-line stuff for him."

"Whatever he wants to do, we are confident he can do it, whether it's a lawyer or doctor or athlete," Kevin Kinckle has said. 

One out of 7,000 children are born with opmhalocelea, and nearly half of all babies born with opmhalocelea also have other birth defects, according to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. 

The numbers of children living without limbs are unclear because of doctor's confidentiality agreements, according to the Amputee Coalition. Nearly 2 million people across the United States have limb loss.

Police are searching for the boat operator who slammed into another boat on a New Jersey lake Monday evening, hurting the two couples on the vessel. 

The victims' 18-foot Bayliner boat was on Greenwood Lake in West Milford Township in Passaic County when another vessel -- possibly a ski boat -- hit the back of it, seriously hurting 72-year-old Edwin Lane of West Milford and 76-year-old Robert Roon of Newfoundland, state police say.

Their wives, 74-year-old Mary Lane and 70-year-old Eileen Roon, were also injured but not as seriously, and were able to help their husbands and navigate back to the dock. 

"My husband's unconscious, head back, blood gurgling out. The other gentleman, he's out, unconscious," Maureen Lane recounted to NBC 4 New York Tuesday. "The cowling from the motor is in the middle of the aisle, I had to try to move that, climb over it." 

The men were flown to St. Joseph's Hospital in Paterson, where they remain in critical condition.

The women were taken by ambulance to the same hospital, where they were treated for their injuries. 

Maureen Lane said the night had been tranquil before it took a bloody turn. 

"It was a beautiful night, calm. Nobody on the lake," she said.

Authorities say the other boat may have gone airborne before speeding off. But no one's certain what hit them or where it went because of the low visibility.  

Police say they believe the boat the couples were in was going the legal limit at 15 mph, with its lights on. Whoever hit them was going much faster than that and never slowed down. 

A $5,000 reward is being offered for information in the hit-and-run, police say. 

Lehigh Valley authorities asked for the public’s help in finding family of a man found dead in the basement of an Allentown home early Labor Day.

Lehigh County Deputy Coroner Richard Kroon declared Angel Luis Burgos, aka Jose Monclova-Burgos, dead in the basement of a home along N 6th Street, near Turner Street, in Allentown around 1:30 a.m. Monday.

The coroner’s office didn’t rule on 48-year-old’s death pending toxicology tests.

As Allentown Police and the coroner investigated the death, the coroner’s office searched for next of kin.

"Anyone with family information is requested to contact the Lehigh County Coroner’s Office at 610-782-3426," they said in a release.

A fuel pump explosion at a South Jersey school bus depot left at least one worker hurt.

The blast shook the Egg Harbor Township School District transportation building along Swift Avenue around 9:30 a.m. The yard is behind E.H. Slaybaugh and H. Russell Swift Elementary schools.

Egg Harbor Township Police described the incident as a construction accident in the fueling area for school buses.

"Construction is currently being done to the underground fuel tanks," police said on Facebook. "An explosion occurred resulting in an injury to a worker who sustained burns to his arms and torso area."

The blast didn't put any students or school staff in danger, said police.

OSHA and police would investigate.

Charges have been filed in an apparent murder-suicide attempt over a woman that took place in two stores at popular Atlantic City outlets last week.

Luis Maisonet, 55, of Somers Point, is charged with murder, aggravated assault, possession of a handgun for an unlawful purpose and other related offenses.

Police say Maisonet entered the Zumiez clothing store at the Tanger Outlets' The Walk at 2010 Christopher Columbus Boulevard in Atlantic City Thursday, September 1. He then allegedly took out a gun and shot store manager Christopher Romero, 26. He then walked across Arkansas Avenue to White House Black Market and turned the gun on himself after being confronted by an off-duty police officer from out of town, law enforcement sources said.

Police arrived at Zumiez at noon after receiving multiple 911 calls. Both Romero and Maisonet were taken to the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center - City Division. Romero was pronounced dead at the hospital while Maisonet was in critical condition.

Law enforcement sources told NBC10 Jersey Shore Bureau reporter Ted Greenberg it appears Romero was dating Maisonet's ex-girlfriend.

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Romero's co-workers expressed shock over the deadly shooting.

"I immediately started crying," Anthony Acosta, a Zumiez employee said. "We're all a family here so basically one goes down, we all go down. It's very upsetting."

Stores in the area were locked down, leaving shoppers sheltered inside for at least 20 minutes, as police determined the scope of the shooting.

The shooting happened a few hours before the Zac Brown Band performed a concert on the beach a few blocks away.

Maisonet was arrested at the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center Wednesday where he remains guarded by law enforcement officers. His bail is set at $1,000,000 cash, no 10%.

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Sergey Tsipenyuk peered at the graying, frail man lying on a stretcher in front of him, bleeding from his face.

"What month are we in?" Tsipenyuk asked, his hands deftly working to prepare an IV in the man's arm as Tsipenyuk's partner, Chris Santillo, hooked him up to a heart monitor.

The man, in his 80s, hurt and confused after apparently losing consciousness and crashing his car in Abington Township, stared for a long moment, then answered. "September," he said slowly.

"Who's the president?" Tsipenyuk pressed.

"Obama," the man responded, quicker this time.

They're questions that Tsipenyuk, a paramedic and pre-hospital nurse, and Santillo, an EMT, ask over and over again throughout their 12-hour shifts working for the Second Alarmer's of Montgomery County. They're two questions among a myriad of inquiries the men calmly pose to patients as they stabilize them in the sterile bed of an orange and white ambulance, where they work to save patients' lives as they determine their level of alertness, figure out what happened to them, and decide how to fix whatever's wrong.

As the primary emergency medical service for Abington and its many communities, the Second Alarmer's platoons based out of the Edge Hill station in Glenside's North Hills section, where Santillo and Tsipenyuk work, tend to stay busy. Edge Hill is one of the Second Alarmer's seven stations across the lower portion of Montgomery County, where the nonprofit EMS organization serves as the primary ambulance service for Abington, Upper Dublin, Upper Moreland, Whitpain, Hatboro, Jenkintown, Rockledge and other surrounding communities.

For Tsipenyuk, each patient presents a new mystery to solve.

"It's always a puzzle," Tsipenyuk, 34, said as he and Santillo, 35, took their third patient of the day, a man a few years shy of 100 whose heart rate dropped unusually low for a not-so-apparent reason.

The man's condition stumped Santillo and Tsipenyuk, both of whom have more than a decade of experience working in EMS. Senior-citizen patients, who make up a high volume of the people Tsipenyuk and Santillo treat, tend to be trickier to handle than their younger counterparts, Tsipenyuk explained. A lot can be going on, and there's almost always more than meets the eye.

"They're the ones who need us most," Tsipenyuk said.

With each call, he and Santillo work seamlessly together to solve a new case, putting together the puzzle pieces of information to give as full a picture as possible to the nurses, doctors and specialists waiting when they arrive at Abington Memorial Hospital. The hospital, set on Old York Road in the heart of Abington, receives the lion's share of Second Alarmer's patients in that area.

For the duo and their fellow EMTs and paramedics, the job comes with ups and downs. The shifts are long -- usually 12 hours, three days on, seven days off. Breaks are elusive on some days, nonexistent on others.  

"It's a double-edged sword," Tsipenyuk said after treating a woman in her 90s after she passed out during a shopping trip. The last thing the woman wanted to do was wind up at the hospital -- but Tsipenyuk and Santillo knew they had to convince her to go, for her own safety and for their peace of mind as the people tasked with saving lives.

"I would feel horrible if she goes home and something happens to her," Tsipenyuk explained. "But I will also feel horrible if now she's in the hospital for three weeks."

That's just one of the struggles Tsipenyuk and Santillo face in a day's work. But both, like most other EMTs and paramedics who work for Second Alarmer's, love the job so much that they pick up other EMS-related jobs. For Tsipenyuk, that means working on transport teams for city hospitals. For Santillo, it's working at another ambulance company and as a 9-1-1 operator.

"At the end of the day, this place is like family," Tsipenyuk said.

Montgomery County's Second Alarmer's came a long way since the squad first formed in Willow Grove in 1938. The organization first developed to support firefighters, police and other rescue workers at major incidents quickly placed itself at the cutting edge of first-responder companies, morphing into its own rescue team. In the 1970s, the Montgomery County Second Alarmer's became one of the first EMS companies in the country to use the infamous "Jaws of Life."

Officials with the Second Alarmer's of Montgomery County say the nonprofit rescue squad continues to push ahead when it comes to lifesaving equipment and technology. Second Alarmer's recently became the first EMS company in the state to pilot new, streamlined breathing tubes called "i-gels" that simplify and speed up lifesaving intubation, Assistant Chief of Operations Kenneth Davidson said. The new tubes will likely be approved soon for use statewide, Davidson said, and the Second Alarmer's, who were instrumental in bringing them to Pennsylvania, will help design the training program for other EMS agencies.

Montco's Second Alarmer's also started using LUCAS automatic CPR devices over the last few years, Davidson said, making CPR -- a physically exhausting task -- easier to administer consistently via a machine.

"We've seen our cardiac arrest survival rate go up," Davidson said. The use of the LUCAS automatic CPR machines and now the i-gel breathing tubes contributed, he added.

But better equipment comes with a price -- and for the Second Alarmer's, who run 12 ambulances, it can be a hefty one. Davidson said the new breathing tubes cost about $25 apiece, compared to $3.50 for the current standard breathing tube. Each LUCAS automatic CPR unit comes with a price tag of about $16,000, Davidson said, so to outfit the whole Second Alarmer's fleet, the costs is nearly $200,000.

The squad is also working on getting tactical gear for use in case of active-shooter situations -- including body armor, roll-up stretchers and trauma "go bags" -- for each ambulance. Those are expensive, too, Davidson said.

The Second Alarmer's is nonprofit and relies heavily on donations and grants to pay for equipment.

"It's a double-edged sword for a department like ours," Davidson, who's been with Second Alarmer's since 1992, said. "Obviously, we want to do what's best for the patient."

In the field, paramedics and EMTs said they've seen the results of the new technology.

Now, Battalion Chief John Townsend said, with use of the LUCAS machine, people more often than not regain consciousness from automatic CPR. Before, Townsend said, with manual CPR, it could be a toss-up of whether or not they would.

"People have a better chance now than they ever did," Townsend said.

Back on the rig, Tsipenyuk and Santillo worked hard to solve the puzzle of the man who lost consciousness driving. Systematically, the men ruled out diabetes and other probable causes before they made their way again to Abington Hospital, where this time, a team of nearly a dozen people waited in a trauma bay for them to arrive.

As a whirlwind of what Tsipenyuk calls "organized chaos" converged on the man, joining forces to make him better, the paramedic and his EMT counterpart headed back out the EMS door of the hospital, their black, laced boots clopping down the same antiseptic hospital hallway they've seen a thousand times.

On the other side of the sliding glass door, in a rare moment of downtime, the pair joked with Townsend and other fellow EMS workers, ears trained on their radios for the inevitable moment they would hiss back to life with the next call for help -- and for the puzzle to start again.

A woman is in the hospital after she was shot during a robbery in West Philadelphia Wednesday night.

Police say an armed robber grabbed a 31-year-old woman's purse on 52nd and Filbert streets shortly before 9 p.m. The man and woman fought briefly. The man then pulled out his gun and opened fire, striking the woman in the left breast and left wrist.

The woman was taken to Presbyterian Hospital where she is currently in stable condition.

A Philadelphia Police sergeant told NBC10 the shooting appears to be the result of a drug deal gone wrong. No arrests have been made and a weapon has not been recovered. Police also say they found a hooded sweatshirt that likely belongs to the suspect.

"This entire incident was captured on private surveillance cameras in the immediate area," said Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small. "It shows the male struggling with the female, taking her purse and shooting her."

Police continue to investigate.

A Hillary Clinton supporter is speaking out after he says he unknowingly appeared in a Donald Trump campaign ad.

Calvin Anderson, a Philadelphia construction worker, told NBC10 he had just finished a long day of work at a site last July when he was approached by a photographer who asked him if he wanted to be on television.

“We thought it had something to do with the building,” Anderson said. “Before you know it he said, ‘Sign these waivers.’ I’m like, ‘Waivers for what?’ And it had nothing on there about Trump.”

Anderson said he naively signed his name. Several weeks later Anderson’s family saw him in a Donald Trump commercial wearing a hard hat. Anderson said he then received a call from his 94-year-old grandmother telling him she saw his twin on a Trump ad.

“I said, ‘Boy, everybody do got a twin out there,’” Anderson said. “I said, ‘Granny, that’s me.’ She said, ‘I’m gonna shoot you.’”

The same commercial features John’s Friendly Market in Haddon Heights, New Jersey. The owner of the grocery store told NBC10 they don’t support Trump and did not want to be featured in the ad. The owner also claimed they’re losing business because of the commercial and want the ad to be pulled down.

“That’s what Trump do,” Anderson said. “I mean that’s what he do. It’s all part of the slandering part but I don’t know why he chose me.”

The Pennsylvania communications director for the Donald Trump campaign told NBC10 they have a signed consent form from Anderson. As for the grocery store, the director told NBC10, “the production company hired to film the stock images received permission from the store manager to film at the location.”