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For by abc, inc. from abc news this is "world news now" with t.j. holmes and reena ninan. >> good morning, everyone on this thursday. do you like flying? >> its something that you cant avoid. >> we have to do it. but this is the kind of story that i just -- i dread this happening on a flight. >> you think about it every time you sit down, right? how many times if you were to track an average passenger thinks about this type of stuff, right? >> this is a midair scare. this actually happened ove...

Penalty but we think its too good for him." ultimately the decision will be made by the 12 jurors. if the defense can convince one of them to spare tsarnaev, he will spend the rest of his life behind bars. ron claiborne, abc news, boston. critics of a deal that settles thousands of lawsuits against the deal says it lets -- against the nfl says it lets them off deal. it could cost the nfl billions of dollars but it also means the league may never have to disclose what it knew about head injurie...

Methods could your officers have taken as opposed to using a patrol car. and two, has anything happened to this officer? >> first of all, to clarify, the officer thats speaking there is not speaking to the officers behind him. he doesnt even know the officer is behind him. hes speaking to an officer whos at the end of the street telling him not to come any closer because the subject has a .30-.30 rifle, so hes not talking to that officer. so yeah he was surprised, absolutely the officer was shoc...

Without being spiked. >> sergeant manning, seen here on the right, waits for the fugitive to arrive, but not for long. >> i move toward the back of my police car, as i see the suspect vehicle has crossed the center line now, aiming right for my car. i didnt want to run out to the left or to the right and get run over, so i just waited till the suspect vehicle was committed in one direction. >> the van is barreling toward the officer at a tremendous speed, showing no signs of slowing down. with t...

Confirmed that that wasnt true. in fact, he was shot -- michael brown was shot as he was approaching the officer. the officer said he felt threatened, and that there had been a struggle for his gun. now lets look in south carolina. what we know now, and we dont know everything, but we know from that videotape that weve seen that this man was shot in the back, five times im hearing. we havent seen an autopsy report. hes a good distance from the officer, doesnt seem to be posing a physical threat ...

Get word on the innocence or conviction of dzhokhar tsarnaev for the boston bombing massacre 21-year-old tsarnaev. he was 19 years old at the time of the boston marathon bombing. it was an awful, awful situation as all of us, of course, remember. give us a sense of whats happening right now, deb. >> reporter: i can tell you a couple of respected colleagues inside the courtroom saying that there are survivors who are inside waiting to hear the verdict. they include the mom and dad of 8-year-old m...

White. the devil when you come to arms agreements is in the details. even if we get the shadow outline of an agreement we wont know if thats an agreement worth having until we look at each and every word. bill: karl rove live in austin today. 21 past the hour. patti ann: a police officer putting his life on the line in a split-second decision. tense moments on a tennessee highway. why this head-on collision may have saved lives. bill: the california governor jerry brown does something that has n...

Man flied into the water as a massive wave hits a fishing boat. mark mark heely is a pro surfer and saw the wave coming. he said he jumped because he feared the boat would capside never expected to be catapulted into the air. he was pulled from the water with no injuries. >> thats a split-second decision. and headlines, what you need to know this morning. >> would you do that? jump off of it? >> jump out or -- >> did you see the guy on the other side of the boat hanging on? you have to ask him...

>> well, youre trying to do it, the bad part about what theyre talking about in a similar situation, say staten island, is that its going to make cops in future incidents think, is this going to happen again? am i going to be in trouble for this? what am i going to do? the hesitation is like you said, the seven -- the short period of time to make a split-second decision. it can happen again like that. they could hesitate. >> is it fair that were seeing this backlash against police officers acros...

That led to the deaths of two black men in ferguson missouri, and staten island last summer and the subsequent grand jury decisions not to indict the officers involved have put a big spotlight on police making life-and-death decisions in the blink of an eye. as a governor i had more death penalty cases and execution decisions come across my desk in 10 1/2 years than any governor in arkansas history. but i had weeks, even months, to carefully review every page of the case file before i had to mak...