To you all. Thank you for spending time with us. We have a number of breaking stories that were going on while you were sleeping. We tart now with a scare for the secret service. A substance sent to the white house tested positive for cyanide. And more tests are being done. It was found at a screening facility where white house mail is monitored. It was not found inside the white house itself. No one who handled that envelope at the facility was hurt. Sources say the sender is known to the secret service and criminal charges depend on whether the material is confirmed to actually be hazardous. Another breaking story overnight, a victory in israel for the hardliners and a defeat for the peace process. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be able to form a government after yesterdays parliamentary elections. Despite preelection polls his conservative party picked up the most votes. The day before netanyahu declared there would be no palestinian state while he was prime minister. We are also getting late word that Japanese Police are investigating Death Threats against ambassador caroline kennedy. They say an englishspeaking man called the u. S. Embassy in tokyo several times in recent weeks threatening to kill kennedy. Those threats may be part of a scheme to blackmail the ambassador or the embassy. Similar threats were made against the u. S. Consul general based in okinawa. The newest american to face terrorism charges scheduled to appear in court today here in new york. 47yearold tairod pugh is a u. S. Air force vet in court today. Hes expected to plead not guilty to allegations he wanted to fight alongside isis. Hes already been in custody for months after spending years overseas mostly in egypt. Pugh was arrested in january and he flew from egypt to turkey in an effort to cross the border into siree to join isis and fight a violent jihad. The fbi says they discovered nearly 200 jihadi videos on his computer including one depicting isis executing prisoners spent most of his time overseas. His last known address in this new jersey boarding house. A former roommate said none of this sounds like the man he knew. He seemed like a nice guy. Reporter while the conversion from patriotic military veteran to terrorist seems like an unlikely one federal prosecutors say over the years pugh had one goal, becoming an enemy of the state. There were signs as far back as 2001. A former coworker at American Airlines told the fbi that pugh appeared sympathetic to osama bin laden. He was investigated but never charged. It does appear that isis reach is pretty broad and thats a real challenge for the fbi and other Law Enforcement officials because theres no one community that they can focus on. Reporter in a letter to his wife, pugh allegedly wrote, i am mujahid. I am sword against the oppressor. I will use the talents and skills give to me by allah to establish and defend the islamic state. There is he wrote only two possible outcomes for me, victory or martyr. Now pugh is 1 of 30 people inside the u. S. Accused of supporting terrorists overseas in the last 18 months. According to court papers, pugh has already told authorizes overseas that he went to turkey for vacation and he wanted to look for a job. He said he had no desire at all to go to syria. Syria is claiming it shot down a u. S. Drone. Video from syrian tv purports to show pieces of a u. S. Unmanned aircraft which went down along syrias coast. U. S. Officials are trying to determine why the drones operators lost control of it. If confirmed, this would be the first u. S. Aircraft to go down over syria since the u. S. Expanded its air campaign against isis in september. Republican leaders are in huddle mode trying to come up with a list of possible replacements for illinois congressman aaron schock. The scandalplagued lawmaker has rocked the party with his sudden resignation. Abcs Jonathan Karl has details. Reporter Aaron Schocks troubles began with that Downton Abbey office decor. At first he defended it. You know as taylor swift said haters are going to hate. Reporter but then he repaid the government the 40,000 decorating tab. Schocks instagram tells the story. He enjoyed life as a congressman but he was under fire for allegedly excessive expenses including 5,000 for a replica of the president ial podium. And politico reported schock billed the government for 170,000 miles of work travel on a car that only had 80,000 miles on it. Its quite a downfall. At 27, schock was one of the youngest ever elected to congress. Now 33, he is one of the youngest ever to resign. Jonathan karl, abc news, washington. And more breaking news overnight. This is from california where at least seven people were shot in a driveby shooting. Police in stockton say they found one woman dead on the sidewalk in front of a Small Grocery store. Two other victims died at the hospital. They say its one of the worst Mass Shootings in the citys history and likely gang related. Also overnight, groups of young people were running wild through the streets of downtown minneapolis. The police arent quite sure what started all this. Theyre calling this chaos and disorder. Those are their words. About half a dozen people were arrested. Two were treated for minor injuries. Now to houston where the apartment of millionaire murder suspect robert durst has been searched. Authorities spent hours at the upscale condo yesterday eventually removing two boxes of potential evidence. Durst remains in louisiana where hes been moved to a facility for the severely mentally ill. He was arrested in new orleans and now faces a murder charge for the death of his friend. In addition to weapons and drug charges, dursts next Court Appearance is on monday. In boston a close friend of accused marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told the jury that tsarnaev borrowed a gun from him two months before the attack. Prosecutors have identified the handgun as the weapon used to kill mit Police Officer sean collier. The friend also testified that dzhokhar seemed to be heavily influenced by his older brother tamerlan. A major announcement today could shake up the republican president ial race. Donald trump. Yep. Hes expected to announce that hes going to launch an Exploratory Committee as a signal that hes serious this time around, trump is not going to be renewing his contract for his show the apprentice. Tomorrow trump is scheduled to visit new hampshire, of course, home to the first primary. The new head of the secret service is asking for an 8 million mockup of the white house in order to better train agents. Joseph clancy told lawmakers on capitol hill that the agency currently trains in a parking lot. He says even the secret service dogs are not properly trained because they walk on hard surfaces rather than grass. Critics did not appear responsive to the idea. Well, if your gps is acting up, you can blame the sun. Were being hit with several geomagnetic storms, which also disrupt power grids and communications, satellites, however, theres no radiation storm along with this. Among the other effects, the Northern Lights can be seen further south and the aurora on st. Patricks day was actually green so some good and bad. The solar system is not affecting the weather here on earth. Most of the south will see rain today from the gulf coast up to the ohio valley. There will also be showers in denver, the dakotas and southwest. Morning fog in southern california. Boston is back down below freezing again. Colder in alaska actually. Todays highest temp will be in miami. 87 degrees. Well, still ahead, a Popular Health insurer gets hacked exposing millions of customers information. 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Kraft is recalling millions of boxes of its hugely popular macaroni and cheese because they might contain tiny fragments of stainless steel. Kraft says the takenless steel may have wedged against a piece of metal during the packing process creating tiny shavings. The affected boxes have the code c2 and used by dates of september 18th through october 11th of this year. Facebook is dipping a toe into the online payments ocean that allows you to send money to its friend using messenger app. Tap the dollar sign and the amount. Facebook will roll out the future over the next few months and wont have any fees. Analysts wonder if purchases will be next. White castle is keeping its veggie sliders on the menu. Its limited run test was a success. The patty is a veggie patty made from carrots, zucchini and peas and comes with a choose of three sauces, ranch, Honey Mustard and sweet thai. It has more calories than the regular version with those two sauces. Right up your alley. 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A wildfire raging in northern oklahoma claimed its first home and all the blaze has destroyed six structures and 37 square miles of grassland. While 70 of the fire now contained although about a hundred homes are still threatened. Evacuated residents are tree to return to their home. Roads there in Woodward County should be fine today but just to the east and all the way down to the Florida Panhandle they will be wet. Puddles will be found around denver, phoenix and the Northern Plains watch out for slippery roads in the northern and central rockies. If youre flying airport delays most likely in dallas and houston. Well we have another fraternity in some trouble and this one on the campus of penn state. Kappa delta rho is now suspended following allegations that members used secret Facebook Accounts to post naked pictures of women. Some as they slept or appeared to be passed out. A member of the fraternity has given police printouts from those accounts. The university of the fraternitys National Headquarters are also investigating. Police in los angeles say thieves broke into the Hollywood Hills home of a grammy winning songwriter and producer. Toby gad and took off with 50,000 worth of gold coins he was collects since 12 along with cash. Its currently undergoing a renovation. He cowrote all of me. A couple of California Police chases caught on camera seeing one in l. A. Going after a suspected stolen car. Youre going to see sparks start flying. It lost a wheel and kept trying to get away. Ended with the passenger bailing out trying to escape on foot. Lets try that way. You probably know how this works out and ran into a news station van and there you go. Didnt end well for him. This one is a lot more dangerous, a wild chase stretching for more than a hundred miles. The driver of the suv reached speeds of 100 miles an hour after losing a tire riding on the rim, the vehicle suddenly overturned, flipped several times. That driver climbed out and was quickly arrested. Turn to a South Carolina water taxi pilot being hailed a hero. He came to the rescue of a boater who had a seize sure and fell into the water. This is in Charleston Harbor after hearing the mayday call he rushed his taxi and eight passengers to the scene. They pulled the unconscious man into the taxi then raced for shore. Well take a look at this here. This is just going to be a shame if this has to happen. Officials worried they may have to torch a mansion in north texas. Another one just like they did last summer. A huge crack if you can make it out in a lakeside cliff. One mansion youre seeing the video from last summer was burned to the ground rather than wait for it to tumble into lake whitney. Army corps of engineers say its worried about Public Safety including that of boaters. Well new restrictions in california. Want a glass of water . You will have to ask for it in the restaurant. 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We will look at the san mateo bridge with road work in the lanes in the when direction at foster city boulevard down to one lane halfway through the section and eastbound road work until 11 oclock this morning and Golden Gate Bridge has four lanes southbound when they move the barrier. San Francisco Police are investigating the frightening scene that played out on the busiest streets last night shooting and killing a woman. Witnesses say she was driving erratically on van ness avenue. Ales, the car was just towed from the scene 30 minutes ago. The moments of chaos during the chase and shooting were captured on dispatch recording. Here is part of it. [ inaudible ] she is crashing into every car. We will have to take lethal force. This started dug an investigation into a stolen vehicle. Police attempted to pull over the driver of the volkswagen at the corner of van ness and pine at 7 00 last night. When they presented their badges the woman took off. Police say she started driving erratically to lose them and was driving on the sidewalk and hitting other cars and turned toward the officers. They opened fire. She was crazy. She was driving through the gas station at 30 miles per hour. Vehicle made it to the sidewalk, off the sidewalk several times drove at them and they they they needed to force they did. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. She hit several other
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