out the scope of the damage down there. the earthquake struck late last night. 61 miles off chile's northern coastline. we have team coverage on this. let's start with rafael romo. >> reporter: as many as 900,000 people had to be evacuated for fear of a tsunami last night. now authorities are waiting for daylight to assess the true extent of the damage. sirens blaring, people running into the streets as a powerful 8.2 magnitude earthquake hits off the coast of northern chile causing landslides, power outtajs and triggering warnings. items crashing to the ground. the initial jolt sending shoppers and employees running for the door. the massive quake proving deadly and forcing officials to evacuate the nation's entire coastline according to chile's interior minister. also saying, about 300 prisoners escaped. in a news conference, chile's president warning that officials will not know the full extent of damage until inspectors are able to assess during daylight hours, though initial reports show chile may have dodged a major catastrophe. >> this is not the large earthquake we were expecting. we are actually still expecting potentially an even larger earthquake. >> reporter: and the president has declared three disaster zones. kate, back to you. >> some fears of looting going on right now. we'll continue to check in with you. so the earthquake in chile comes, as we mentioned, just five days after a 5.1 magnitude quake shook the los angeles area. there have been well over 150 aftershocks since then. they has people wondering about a possible connection. indra petersons is taking a look at that. >> the one thing we need to remember, these are two very seismically active regions. we're talking about a 8.2 earthquake across that plate in south america. los angeles is a completely different plate. keep in mind, just in the last month of march in chile, they already had a handful of quakes over 5.0. other than the correlation that they were on the ring of fire, they are not correlated. remember, we don't have much information as far as earthquakes to get information as far as timing and correlation. it was a magnitude 8.2, just 12.5 miles underneath. therefore very close to the shore. very strong impact. so that was the concern. but that was only the first concern as we all know there was a tsunami wave. only took about 20 minutes for 6-foot waves to reach the region. that energy disburses all the way out into the ocean. this threat is not over with just yet. notice as we go forward in time, we still have that concern even this morning. in fact, there's actually an advisory out in the hawaiian islands for the next several hours because that wave is imminent. there's still a threat in their region. >> still have something to watch out for the next few hours. let's turn now back to the search for flight 370. now being classified as a criminal investigation. extensive interviews have been conducted with people who know the pilots well. malaysia airlines also adds tight nd cockpit security on their planes. let's get to jim. what are some of those new measures? >> reporter: they ininvolve the cockpit and who is allowed inside the cockpit. they involve the security procedures that would be in place when a pilot has to take a bathroom break, other things like that. malaysia airlines isn't discussing them specifically, but there was a memo sent out to employees advising them of all of that. meantime, we've got the inspector general of the police today raising the possibility. he said one of the things they've investigated is the possibility of food poisoning. as unlikely as that seems given the fact that the coms failed, he said that's just one of the things they looked at. they've done more than 170 interviews in this, and he called it a criminal investigation. they still have no direct links to know what happened inside the cockpit. they've asked so many questions. they're talked to just about everyone who touched that a aircraft, kate. they believe there's a possibility they may never know. the prime minister is down in australia. until and unless that flight data recorder is found, they're not likely to have the information that they need to conduct a real investigation into what happened on board the plane. chris? >> you certainly put it right there at the end. whether they get the information to properly investigate. thank you for the reporting. it is all about possibilities at this point. let's dig into the latest with mary schiavo. also an attorney who represents victims, a former prosecutor. she deals with families after airplanedy sasters. and mr. david suecy, no sloich himself. author of "why planes crash." thanks to both of you. possibilities. things are possible at this point. right? that's a very low standard of proof and that's part of the frustration for the families certainly. so investigators say this morning, we don't know if we're ever going to be able to find that out. true. incontrovertible, not worth debating, maybe you do never know. the question is, what do you know. even though, david, you believe they could be holding back information. mary, you say you don't know why they say it's criminal based on what they released. what is the information they could have that justifies a criminal investigation when they say they have no connection between the pilots and this event. david? >> the fact that there was a turn at hand, a human hand. however it was actually commanded. the fact is that this airplane had intent. it wasn't an automated thing. it wasn't a free flight that just decided to make that turn. >> do they know that? >> yes. >> they know it couldn't have been a turn on trim, so to speak, because of something that happened on the plane? >> it's not just the turn, it's the recovery from the turn. if it turned and continued to spiral, yeah, possibly no one's at the controls. it spiralled and continued to fly for so many hours. now, remember, it doesn't have to be proven that it's criminal in order to restrict information. i refer to use restrict because that's the technical term for what they're doing. they're not holding anything back. that is -- mary can speak to the legalities. as far as the informations i've known, i've done several that were criminal, and we were restricted from releasing information. >> restricting information is good and promising because it shows some type of trail. what if that's not what it is? what if this is blind conjecture of their trying to figure out why the plane turned and they're just deeming it criminal? but it means something to the families. certainly means something to the families of the pilots. >> well, it also means something to the investigation. look, we did that in tws 800. so it's just a way for them to procedure. there were a few includes in what they said yesterday. they now say that it may not be either the pilot or the co-pilot. that's the first we've heard that. it's pretty easy to tell. you just get someone to listen to the voice. that's a clue they're looking elsewhere. a funny thing in their statement. they said, we would be looking at prosecution down the road. well, you can't prosecute two dead pilots. can't send them to jail. obviously they started looking to persons outside the cockpit and probably because the fbi said they found nothing when they went through their computerers and the flight similar later. so we have a couple leads that they're looking to anyone outside the cockpit as well as inside. i haven't seen any etd, facts, data, but they have to do it. >> so it's important. you went over a couple things there we should pull out and emphasize. the fbi, no red flags on the pilots. looking at the passenger manife manifest, nobody pops out. that's important to know because just like the search with the grid on the ocean, every time you find out that the plane isn't somewhere, that's relevant. now we hear another bit of information. they're looking into the food, david. why? we all know that airplane food is not great. why might it be suggestive of something more here? >> this shows how dedicated they are. they're looking at every aspect they can. food is a vulnerability on an airplane. i know it is for me. it's possible for any fair just intent. not everybody eats. to me, it doesn't seem like a common thing if -- >> i hear you on the restricted information. and i'm putting a lot of hope on that. it's one thing to have tv people in certain places speculating. but for investigators taking shots out there would be concerning because the families they hinge on hope so much. i guess they have to look at everything. but when investigators say they're looking at something, it takes on weight. you would hope they look at the food. and if they find something, then put out they were looking at the food as opposed to reverse. >> they can't say with conviction it's not that. that's the danger with putting out these speculative reaches. you put it out without thinking of the end in mind. then you go to the families and say, we didn't find anything. >> that keeps seeming to happen here. mary, one of your 15 credentials is former prosecutor. it's hard to prove the nonexistence of a fact, right? >> right. and you always want to say sometimes no evidence is that. you have to look elsewhere. i think that was what was in their release yesterday. that they increased the cockpit security measures. the measures they put in place including having the flight attendant go in the cockpit, that's been the rule in the united states. also practicality. if there's only one pilot in the cockpit and he or she passes out or dies, that's happened, then the flight attendant can let the other pilot back in the cockpit. we've had those rules for a long time. it's pretty common sense. >> if they haven't had those rules, i really commend them for continuing to make changes. a lot of times in these investigations, they will sit and do nothing. two years later sometimes they'll wait. what they're doing here is very proactive. they're saying we have this piece of information, it's not conclusive, but nonetheless, we're going to do the safest thing which is to move processes forward now. >> as mary pointed out, arguably they were behind any way. as you pointed out from one of your sources, they were also behind in terms of storing and maintaining batteries for black boxes. >> which again they've taken action on that already i've found. so that's good. >> another development this morning. it's worth noting is that submarines are now involved in the search. they obviously have capablecapa. it gets a little cloudy. but it is a step in terms of more intensity for the search. thank you for the perspective. always a pleasure. let's take a look at more of your headlines now. the white house now says 7.1 million merps have signed up for health coverage under obamacare surpassing the orange target of 7 million. president obama says the affordable care act is here to say, but a republican says the fight is not over to kill it. mideast peace talks are on life support. secretary of state john kerry cancelling a trip today. this follows reports of an e meshlging deal involving u.s. release of an american accused of spying for israel. the deadline is not over yet. the house has given final approval to a bill that sanctions russia and provides aid to ukraine. it heading to president obama's desk for his signature. in the meantime, russia is accusing nato of using cold war language. the organization says it has seen no sign that moscow was withdrawing troops from the ukrainian border. >> the search continues this morning for the 20 people still missing after that devastatie i mudslide in washington state. workers saying they have to move very slowly because the mud and muck is like quick sand. another concern and it is a big concern for the search crews, a huge amount of contaminants have leeched into the debris. we're talking raw sigh waj, propane, gas and oil. they are trying to get to those victims. it's important work and it's -- that it's far from over. >> started learning how thick the mud is -- >> three stories. >> you can't imagine the work they have ahead of them. let's take a break. we're going to continue our coverage of flight 370. family members are desperately looking for answers about the fate of their loved ones. they've just been briefedly malaysian authorities. we're going to talk to one man whose mother was on board. the gm recall we are all over it. the ceo is under fire for the handling of faulty ignition switches. she is new there. she's looking into it. congress is not convinced. we'll show you why. disturbing the pantry. ortho crime files. a house, under siege. say helto home defense max. kills bugs inside and prevents new ones for up to a year. ortho home defense max. get order. get ortho®. ...and let in the dog that woke the man who drove to the control room [ woman ] driverless mode engaged. find parking space. 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>> no. i think the fact they may be considering compensation before and after the bankruptcy -- >> they're protected so they wouldn't have to pay. >> they wouldn't have to do that. this makes me think that they're thinking about that. >> they would have to pay if it is considered a criminal activity, you know, a fraud. then there's going to be civil penalties attached. that they would have to pay. so they have to worry about that. i think the confusing part about this is the congressman used the word "gobbledeguke." i tell you, it applies to the hearing. they don't know what they're talking about. >> absolutely. >> i believe this is just the beginning. gm is not alone. car makers do this and they've been allowed to do it by government. they've been allowed to do it by the agency that oversees them. that guy was unimpressive when he gave his testimony. he didn't make any sense either. i think that federal prosecutors looking at it is a good sign. i think that's someone's going to crack down and it ain't going to come from congress. >> there's been a culture of cost cutting at a lot of auto makers over the years. >> she herself criticized that, right? >> that's right. there's entire books written about it. >> someone says it's okay when we find out that you put on a table what chris' life is worth in terms of your 90 cent change. this is an ignition switch. it's not one of the ones involved, but they're all about the same. but you make a financial decision. period. >> but can she -- it's still a business. can she change that culture really? >> i think she can. decisions like this are made from the top. and gm had a culture of letting the bean counters make the decisions. the engineers were in the backseat, so to speak. she can change that. she's an engineer and i do think that she's committed to making that change, but she's going to have a big mess to clean up before she can. >> another hearing starting in the next few hours. >> it's like a warmup, the hearing. imagine, it's kind of like cigarettes. if you make something that you know is dangerous to somebody and you allow it to go to market anyway, why isn't that a crime? >> make a distinction, though between cigarettes and cars. >> cigarettes are much worse. no question about it. cars are not inherently dangerous. if you know as a car manufacturer this may happen and i know enough to do an analysis, why isn't it a crime? 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joining me now to discuss is retired fbi agent steve moore joining me from los angeles. thank you for waking up early. >> sure. >> we have such little direct evidence that at least has been released by malaysian officials leading the investigation. what do you see here that points to a criminal investigation? >> i see nothing that would lead anybody to make it anymore of a criminal investigation than just a speculative investigation. as chris said earlier, they're checking everything from food to cargo that's responsible. checking to make sure it isn't a criminal act is part of the process, but you can't just label it as such. >> one of the things you pointed out is one of the things we're learning about this morning that they're also looking into the cargo and food on the plane for a possibility of a poisoning or to eliminate it. you say that's just responsible. you don't think that indicates that they're leading the investigation one way or the other. >> absolutely not. what you have to do is just cover every base. there can't be any questions when this is over. if somebody says, but did you see that. yeah, we did. we looked at everything. right now, it is no more responsible to say it's a criminal act than it is to say, by the way, we've decided it's food poisoning. there's no evidence. >> they're also pointing out the four possibilities which they point out would be hijacking, sabotage, personal problems and psychological issue. does this tell you they're ruling some other possibilities out or just running the gamut? i think just running the gamut. i would add a few to that. until you find the wreckage and until you examine the wreckage, we probably aren't going to know anything definitively. >> what's your assessment of how the investigation has gone so far? >> i think the investigation by the malaysian authorities has been kind of embarrassing. i think the australians and the rest of the western world's investigation and the eastern world has been much more credible. the problem is, when you lose credibility with the passenger families, you get them doing things like -- like peculiar kepting your officers or having sit-ins or things like that. they've lost people's confidence. now it's going to be somebody else who's going to have to give the definitive word on the investigation. >> they're still leading the investigation, though. is there a way to make up for the embarrassment? they have acknowledged that things were slow to pick up in the beginning, but are they gaining ground at all now? i was talking to david about this earlier. he said that also assists them in being able to restrict the information flow if they say it's a criminal act. they also aren't going to be releasing maybe the amount of information they would if they classified it as something else. do you see that? >> yes, i can see that. and i can see political reasons why they might want to call it a criminal act. but right now, i don't think it's retrievable. if your family god forbid was on that airplane, you would certainly not consider the malaysian authorities word the last word on this. you would want to hear it from somebody else. i think they've lost the confidence of the word essentially in this investigation and the world is going to take somebody else's evidence on this. >> we do know that many nations are assisting as much as possible, as much as they're allowed to. they say they've gotten 170 statements at this point, and it's clear that this investigation is to far from other. always great to see you. thanks so much. >> thanks. >> and kate, the point that you and steve are making there obviously counts the most with the families. we're going to speak with a man whose mother was on board the missing jetliner and he is desperate for answers. we're going to find out what they disclosed to families overnight. stay with us. no! we're good! this is your first time missing a payment. and you've got the it card, so we won't hike up your apr for paying late. that's great! it is great! thank you. at discover, we treat you like you'd treat you. get the it card with late payment forgiveness. reckless seeding. a backyard invasion. enter homeowner, and ortho weed b gon max. kills weeds without harming innocent lawns. guaranteed. ortho weed b gon max. get order. get ortho®. ortho weed b gon max. ...return on investment wall isn't a street... isn't the only return i'm looking forward to... for some, every dollar is earned with sweat, sacrifice, courage. which is why usaa is honored to help our members with everything from investing for retirement to saving for college. our commitment to current and former military members and their families is without equal. we know we're not the center of your life, but we'll do our best to help you connect to what is. which will cause me to miss the end of the game. the x1 entertainment operating system lets your watch live tv anywhere. can i watch it in butterfly valley? 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[ female announcer ] watch live tv anywhere. the x1 entertainment operating system, only from xfinity. now to the search for maigs 370. the families met with malaysian officials in kuala lumpur demanding absences. the meeting was also watched by families in beijing. many of them have chosen to stay in china determined not to go until solid evidence that debris or remains are found is available. joining us now from beijing is steven wang. he attended the briefing with officials. did anything come out of this meeting that was heldful to you and your family? >> well, today's meeting, i don't think it -- it just give us any useful information because they just let us to ask question, maybe we just ask four, five question. after that, they said the investigation team is very busy. and they also said we will also request later. so we didn't have any useful information today. >> did they tell you that they can't give you information because it's part of a criminal investigation or they just don't have the information that you need? >> well, it is not -- they -- they didn't mention whether it is a criminal investigation or something like that. they just said that some of the key information is still under investigation so they cannot give us. >> all right. and now, that's very hard to hear, not for the media, but for you it is because this is about family for you. what does your t-shirt say? under the shirt here, what does that say, the t-shirt you have on? >> well, this says first pray and pray for mh-370 and this is come back safely. >> come back safely. that message for you personally goes to your mother. tell us, who was your mother, where was she coming from, when was the last time you got to speak with her. >> well, she is from beijing and the last -- the last time i connect her was at about midnight before she was getting on the plane. she was in kuala lumpur's airport and she told me that i should pick her up the next morning because it is cold in beijing. so she told me that i should take a coat for her and that is the last message. >> you've been waiting for answers. obviously the waiting is the most difficult part for family. do you believe that investigators are doing everything they need to do? >> yes. well, i'm not sure, but i'm sure that there are still something that was hidden. >> something that was hidden? you think something happened and the government knows but they're not telling you? is that what you're saying? >> yes. yes. because it was ridiculous that a flight heading to beijing but it turns west and flying over the malaysia for one hour but they didn't take any action. it was ridiculous. what does the military do? they was supposed to save the country. it was impossible. i think there might be other information that they didn't tell us. >> family members, members of your own family, how much hope are you keeping that family members will be found alive? where are you in terms of what you're ready to accept? >> well, i have to say that it might be 1%, even less than 1%. but it was very little, but i think there's still hope. >> and certainly there should be hope to find out what happened. i know that's very important to the families. it's a big reason that we're staying on this story so that answers can come so that you can figure out what happened to your mother and your family can then cope with whatever the situation is. we're going to try to keep the story going. as you have questions, let us know, steven. thank you for joining us. and we are pray for your mother and the other people on that plane. >> all right. thanks. thank you. coming up next on "new day," more on the search for flight 370. an expert on our show tuesday suggested the safest flight may be one without a pilot. he's back with us to debate whether technology could make pilots obsolete. an 8.2 earthquake in chile. we're going to be live just ahead. but you're not done. capella university can help take your career even further, with the most direct path to your point "c". capella university. start your journey at capella.edu. i'm taking off, but, uh, don't worry. i'm gonna leave the tv on for you. and if anything happens, don't forget about the new xfinity my account app. you can troubleshoot technical issues here. if you make an appointment, you can check out the status here. you can pay the bill, too. but don't worry about that right now. okay. how do i look? ♪ thanks. [ male announcer ] troubleshoot, manage appointments, and bill pay from your phone. introducing the xfinity my account app. welcome back to "new day." the details of what happened in the cockpit on flight 370 before it disappeared, they're still up known. but the mystery certainly sparked a conversation about what can be done to stop something like that from this happening again. jeff wise suggests that pilots are the least secure aspect of a flight. >> if you're looking at a zero accident rate, if you want to do that, it's hard to have this highly evolved monkey sitting in the cockpit. >> unsurprisingly those comments turned up quite a bit of backlash from the pilot community. with us is jeff wise. gentlemen, good to have you both here. so obviously, there has been some backlash about what you said yesterday. they reached out to us. the airline pilots association. and they sent a statement. i'd like to read it and i want you to clarify or whatever you want to say to the comment. let's take a look at that. technology and air transportation is a powerful tool, but is no substitute for a professional pilot's ability to communicate, gain perspective from a sound judgment. do you standby those statements from yesterday? >> i think when you liken people to monkeys -- >> yeah. >> but i am also a highly evolved monkey. i'm proud to be a highly-evolved monkey. slightly. not as evolved as most pilots, granted. >> your point was more that it's the human factor, correct? i don't want to put words in your mouth. >> i think the baseline thing that people need to understand is that aviation is unbelievably safe. there's tens of thousands of planes in the air at any given time and they almost never crash. if you want to get this an even more unbelievable level of safety, you start to get to the level of performance that human beings perhaps were never intended to achieve. to err is human. if you want to never have a criminal act, never to have someone have a psychotic break, you start to wonder, can you build the system to exclude human element. >> you heard his comments yesterday. i know you spend a lot of time in the green room with our jeff. where do you stand on the idea of taking out the human factor? >> i think it's predictable where i'm going to stand on that. the airline pilots association reacted appropriately to jeff's statements. the machines that we build are designed by humans and it's designed with flaws. we have to operate them as humans. it's sexy to be proximate cause on an accident making it pilot error. it makes better news. when that occurs, there may be a flaw in the system in the way it's designed and the way we operate it. >> so you're saying it could be a one-two punch. they said just the other day with asiana, pilot error was partly to blaem. they weren't able to read some of the readings correctly in air france. there was technology also partly to blaem. there you see human and technology not working together. >> now you throw in the pilot element and go back to iowa. here is a machine that broke down on these pilots and it took basically three people to -- to take control of this airplane and we had survivors out of something that was not a survivable situation. >> that brings up a really great point, jeff. we all can think of the miracle on the hudson. i want to know there's going to be a he row ik measure on the part of the captain. >> curl churly, i'm not sure whether we can generally accept getting into that airplane looking forward and seeing no -- pilots internally, we say it's just going to come down to that one pilot and a dog. and the dog's only there to bite the pilot if he touches something. but we all know it's unrealistic will. >> i also feel that. it's an emotional response. >> sure. >> and i share it. but the way that the world is changing is to take humans out of the loop. it used to be you wanted to buy an air ticket, you went to the travel agent. we're se-- >> couple topics i want to get to quickly. training. we know the training has changed. are the younger pilots being trained on more automated systems, are they at a disadvantage if they have to revert to manual systems in the case of an merge or is that not a true assessment? >> my experience started with stick and rudder skills way back when. we've slowly been integrated. now these folks starting early on with their careers are now presented with all this new automation. you can't train experience and they don't get the opportunity to get the experience from the original type of stick and rudder. they're trained specifically for the automation of today and maybe that proficiency hasn't gotten to the point until they get to a certain level of experience, which is time. >> i would like to talk about the cockpit voice recorder. there's been questions about that two-hour limit that's not helping us and won't help us in this investigation. but those are two other technologies that people are certainly looking at of how they can be improved and there's debate. always a pleasure to have you both here. chris? >> all right. a lot of news happening this morning. we have breaking news of an earthquake overnight. the gm recall hearings and the latest on the search for flight 370. so let's get to it. sirens blaring, people running into the streets as a powerful 8.2 magnitude et quake hits off the coast of northern chile. >> why won't you give us anymore information, sir? >> based on the statement they made, they much something that they haven't released publicly. >> think about how we died and that's not fair. >> gm now admits it knew about the defect as early as 2004. >> who knew what when? images don't fully capture the devastation. >> digging through this debris field, it's over well ming. good morning. we want to welcome our viewers from across the u.s. and around the world. we're going to begin with breaking news. chile rocked by a massive 8.2 magnitude earthquake. at least five people dead. we're getting reports of fires, landslides and widespread damage. power is out in many areas. tens of thousands of people were forced to evacuate. the earthquake centered just 61 miles off chile's northern coast. let's get the latest from cnn's rafael romo. >> reporter: they just confirmed that the death toll has increased to six. they're also telling us this morning that as many as $9900,0 people had to be evacuated overnight. the tsunami warning has been lifted already, but daylight is beginning to reveal the extent of the damage. the earthquake caused at least three fires. there was also a situation where 300 inmates at a women's prison escaped during the earthquake. and also major highways were damaged by mud slides. the president of chile is traveling this morning to the affected areas. she dispatched the national police and the military to help people in need. kate, back to you. >> all right. thank you very much. we'll be checking back with you as this continued to develop this morning. also the other big story of the day, the search for flight 370. overnight a stunning confirmation from malaysia's police chief. he told reporters it's a criminal investigation and focused on criminal and psychological issues. malaysia airlines increasing cockpit security and new measures that a source to cnn said directly relates to the missing flight. let's talk more about this with mary schiavo. she's former inspector general for the department of transportation. now an attorney who represents victims and families after airplanedy sasters. and also with us, david, the author of "why planes crash." also a former faa inspector. another morning. another round of details we need to work through. david, let's start with the cockpit measures. i find this interesting that they're announcing new cockpit measures being put in place. i'm sure there's much more. what they described is the pilot and the co-pilot, they cannot be alone in the cockpit at any point. if one leaves, one of the crew needs to go into the cockpit until they return. >> right. >> does -- this seems like a smart move i assume, but what do you take from it? >> it is a smart move. what i'm impressed with with malaysia airlines is they're not waiting for the end result. here's why they typically do wait for the end result. because if they say we're making these changes now, it could put them in a liable situation. they're going to say, you knew you had a problem and you're admitting to it. later, it could be thrown back in their face. you knew you had the vulnerability and you took action on it. a lot of airlines will wait until the end report, react to the end report or even wait for the faa or someone to force them to do it so they're not saying we knew about it and tried to take action. i'm really supportive of malaysia airlines for taking action now, not waiting, because that's the lives now. they're protecting lives now. >> looking at this from the outside, it does make you wonder why isn't this already standard procedure, this cockpit security? >> right. and it's standard procedure in the united states and a lot of other countries for two reasons. one, obviously for security. and for example, the pilot is not allowed to open the door until he or she looks through the peephole. so what, you're going to have no one at the controls if the other pilot has to leave to use the restroom. we've had that rule since the locking cockpit doors. before 9/11 if the pilot flying has a heart attack, gets sick, dies, that has happened, then the flight attendant is there to let the other one back in. we've had that rule for a long time. >> let's bring in jim clancy who's been leading our coverage in kuala lumpur. one thing that's been interesting is hearing from malaysian officials acknowledging today saying for the first time that, we may not find out what happened to that flight 370. what did you hear? >> reporter: well, the police inspector general was very clear that they have exhausted a lot of leads here. they have cleared the passengers of all four areas that, you know, wasn't financial duress a that anybody was under, they weren't involved with any known terror groups. so this is the first time it has come out clarifying that. but he also notes that they've got leads. they've done 170 different interviews, interrogations, taken statements, but it's really not giving them any solid evidence of where they can go from here. nothing that jumps out at them and can tell them yes, we discovered what happened to this flight. they have said very clearly until and unless they discovered that flight recorder, they're coming to a deadened. >> jim raises a really good point. you have the four possibilities. hijacking, sab talk, personal problems and psychological issues. but they have no direct evidence leading them one way or the other so far. where do they go then? >> well, i was going to say we have to consider the source on what he's saying going back to will we ever find what happened. the source is coming from the people doing the criminal investigation. what he's saying is, we may never find out what happened from a criminal perspective. which is true. we may not ever know what happened in the cockpit. all you're going to know is the last two hours, which is not certainly going to provide any conclusive includes. so i want to frame that a little bit is that that's coming from the criminal investigation side of it. i don't think anybody's going to give up on this investigation. people are going to continue to look for that airplane as long as it takes. >> mary, from yourosition of experti expertise, what do you make of the fact that while we have no direct evidence released publicly pointing us one direction or another, authorities continue to say that this is a criminal gaix and ma we know what happened, that left turn that was made, was a criminal act? what do you take from these statements? >> i take from the statement that i'm hoping they have something else. because what is publicly available is a lack of evidence. there is just an absolute silence from any kind of terrorism activity, criminal sabotage. there's no intelligence coming over the wires. if they cleared everybody on the plane and come up empty on the pilot and co-pilot for motives and everything was calm from the transcript on the flight until they made that turn, whatever happened happened very suddenly. i take it that they just are looking anywhere at anything and they don't really have anything right now. and that's not surprising. we have had in the united states accidents that remained a technical unsolved, meaning they didn't have a solution for them f four years. >> jim, i think you would know better than anybody, jim, as you've been speaking investigators. do you think even though they are running down every lead they possibly have, do you get a sense that they're nearing in this investigation -- i hesitate to say give up, but they are reaching a dead end that they're not going to be able to circumvent. >> reporter: first of all, in the police inspector's statement, he was talking about the passengers alone. not the crew members. all right? let's make that clear. second of all, yes, they are going back. they are recovering the leads. they scanned the passengers another entire time. they've done it now three times because they don't want to leave anything unturned, but they have so little to go on. he brought up food poisoning today. no one is thinking a bad salad caused the com system to go down, but they have just ex-ploerd everything and looking at all possibilities. dead end, you can't say that. an investigation can always takeny twists and turns. but i think they're stymied. >> david, mary, always great to have you. obviously continue this conversation throughout the morning as this investigation continued. but we have no hard leads right now. let's take a look at more of your headlines. the white house is claiming victory after 7.1 million americans signed up for health care coverage under obamacare surpassing the original target of 7 million. president obama says the affordable care act is here to say, but republicans opponents say the fight to kill it is not over. anyone enrolling but could not finish, now has a grace period in order to complete it. the mideast peace process put on hold. secretary of state john kerry scrapping a trip today. earlier this yeek, kerry reportedly offered to release an american spy who was accused of spying for israel in exchange for major concessions from israel. this morning, crews will be back out digging through the site of the devastating mudslide in washington. the death toll is now at 28. officials say hubs of people and dogs are vovrld in the search. weather conditions have been good in the recent days making it easier to dig. pacific gas and electric now officially charged. indicted on 12 counts of willfully violates federal pipeline safety laws between 2003 and between. it faces a possible $6 million fine, but that could go up if the court finds they benefited financially from the disaster. it killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. yeah, that is a chain saw imbedded in james valentine's neck. she was in a harness halfway up a tree when he says somehow the saw came back at him when the power was on. he and a co-worker were able to get him off the tree. they held the blade in place in his neck. keeping it in his neck doctors say is what kept him from bleeding to death. 30 stitches, an hour of surgery, it was a quarter inch from his carotid artery. >> stop it. amazing. i have goose bumps. >> only 30 stitches? >> 30 stitches. you had a chain saw in your neck. >> because he survived, he has a phenomenal tough guy story. >> you can't out tough him. >> nope. who me? i had a chain saw in my neck. you can't beat that. >> yep. >> right? >> yep. the only person i know who had something tougher than that happen to them is probably our meteorologist indra petersons. didn't you fight off a pit bull or something like that using nothing but a high-heel shoe. >> unbelievable. i do want to quickly change subjects. we are going to be slowly ramping up to moderate risk for severe weather. that's not slight, but a moderate risk. that's the second category here in through tomorrow. let's talk about the set up. notice the big temperature contrast across the country. we're talking about a front making its way across the country going between the cold air and the warm air. most of you looking for showers through tomorrow and through the northeast lasting through the weekend. saturday morning, still looking for showers in the northeast. here is the concern today already, a slight risk. that's the first category. st. louis to just north of dallas, you have the threat. where you see the red, that is tomorrow, that's where we have the second level, that moderate risk is expected to be out there. even houston. friday, as it makes its way farther to the east, threat from pittsburgh down through new orleans. the other side of it of course means rain. yes, spring is here. and heavy rain, even flooding concerns. look at this indianapolis, 4 inches of rain. something i really want people to pay attention to. a lot of times people say i had no idea it was coming. here it is, the forewarning. it's the season. >> take rain over snow, though. >> yes, i will. any day. coming up on "new day," the difference between life and death just 1 millimeter. we're talking about that faulty gm ignition switch. we're going to talk to the person that discovered it. they literally were digging through junk yards and wound up discovering this situation. does he think there's a coverup? 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explain the millimeter and other torque ratio we were talking about. >> good morning, chris. based on the information and the work that we did, a 1.6 millimeter difference is what i found to be the difference between the plungers in a new switch versus the switches which were in the 2005 to 2007 chevrolet cobalts which i examined. 1.6 millimeter is approximately the thickness of a quarter. what that shorter plunger does is it does not exert enough force to hold it in the run position. >> as a result, it can switch out and that disabled a lot of electronic systems including the airbags, is that right? >> that's correct. airbags, the power steering and power brakes. >> you went to the junk yard. in your opinion, if this was changed, they had to know why they were changing it, right? >> well, that's correct. and there were -- there are indications early on, at least with the launch of the 2005 cobalt that there was a problem with the torque of the switches. and at that point, the cars, as we know now, went into production in april of 2006 there was a change made to the switch, a change to the detent plunger which is the part we were just looking at. that additional length and force that that new plunger adds to the switch is what helps to hold the switch in the run position. >> while they didn't change a huge part of the piece, they did change it for a huge reason. and yet, when they did it, you were able to discover that they did not change the serial number, is that right? >> correct. the part number for the switches in the -- starting in 2005 through the 2007 cobalt remained the same. the part number for the replacement switches remained the same and through -- >> you don't work for gm, but it seems unusual to you. you did a little research. you couldn't find that being done for other parts. even for gm, it made them difficult to calculate how many vehicles to recall. all this is true, yes? >> correct. i think that's what's continued to expand the number of cars being recalled for this issue. >> let's get to speculation here, but within your realm of expertise. why do you think you would change a part because you learned about that so you change it and not change the serial number? why would you do that? >> you know, at that point, i guess after listening to the hearings yesterday, that's still under investigation. it doesn't -- from an engineering standpoint for me, it doesn't make sense, particularly at least in a lot of my work. it's at least typical to start adding a letter, a revision, a, b, c, something after the part number to identify that there are variations so that if you have an issue, you can contain -- you know which switches may be at issue. >> you discover this. you discover the the weerld thing with the part number. you go to gm and they say -- >> they basically -- after i took pictures, documented the additions in the -- differences in the plunger lengths, i gave it to my clients, lance cooper. they couldn't explain why we were seeing a difference. >> so they were playing dumb essentially. they were saying the parts were all the same. >> yes. that's what they were telling us, at least in early 2013. >> do you believe they had to know at that point that the plunger lengths weren't the same length for a reason? >> yes. in the documentation that has come out as of the hearings shows that the detent plunger was changed to increase torque in the switch. >> now, it's one thing in litigation for lawyers to play fast and loose, especially in a deposition. they don't want to give anything away until it's actually proven in court. we understand that's what litigation is. however, these calculations being made on the corporate level about whether or not it was worth the money to change these, what do you make of that calculation, that how many cars will get -- become defective, how many accidents that can cause, is that worth the calculation of the price of fixing it? do you believe that's the way it worked inside gm? >> i think there's some indications right now that at least for this particular switch and some of the preventive actions that koifb taken, yes, the cost factor was evaluated. at least the partial fixes were excluded because of cost-related reasons. >> just to be clear, you would have to know in the decision to change this part the way they did, the reason you were doing it, is that something dangerous could happen if the plunger length wasn't long enough, right? >> yes. it was fairly clear there was a torque issue with the switch and increasing the length of the plunger will increase the torque in the switch. >> and there's no question in your professional opinion that the part was changed. it's just that the part number wasn't, right? >> that's correct. the length of the plunger in new switches is definitely longer. >> so just to sum up, you know the part was changed, somebody had to know they were changing the part, and this part number wasn't changed. and when you told that to the company, they denied it initially. all that's true, right? >> that's correct. >> a little bit -- >> it was de died initially. >> look at it this way, mark, if you hadn't gone digging through those junk yards, we may have never heard of any of this. thank you for the work you did. i know it was part of an on going civil litigation. at least now we know because a lot of lives could be affected by it. thanks for the work you did. thanks for coming on "new day." >> coming up next on "new day," these days everything is tracked, right? 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(mom) i'm so excited. welcome back to "new day." let's take a look at your headlines at this mower. chile rocked by an 8.2 magnitude earthquake. it struck late last night. at least six people have died. hundreds of thousands of people are evacuating along chile's coastline where 7-foot waves came crashing into communities. officials are trying to get a handle on how bad the situation is right now. >> the search for flight 370, their confirming, is a criminal investigation and has been for more than two weeks. almost 200 interviews have been conducted with people who knew the pilots and had access to the airplane. now, they are tightening cockpit security. they are also looking into the food on board the plane. breaking news off afghanistan, a suicide bomber blew himself up this morning outside a government building. he was trying to enter the interior of ministry when he tryinged the vest he was -- triggered the vest he was wearing. >> chrysler recalling nearly 870,000 suvs to install a shield. jeep cherokee and dodge durango will be inspected and have those boosters replaced where nets. joints in the break boosters can corrode making the vehicle's brakes harder to yutuse. let's get to "inside politics" on "new day." mr. john king joins us, as he always does. >> good morning to you. a lot driving our day "inside politics." we're going to start with obamacare. 7 plus million enrolled in the program. joining me, juliana goldman. you're with the president yesterday and it's hard not to call this a victory lap. >> it's helping people from coast to coast. all of which makes the lengths to which critics have gone to scare people or undermine the law or trial to repeal the law without offering any plausible alternative so hard to understand. i got to admit, i don't get it. why are folks working so hard for people not to have health insurance. >> his spirits there are up. he's fully embracinembracing. it's his law. is there any belief that other democrats will start bragging like that? >> i think the giddiness that you saw from the president and chief of staff came to the briefing room with donuts. you know it was a special day yesterday. i don't think it extends to how they view democrats fortunes come november. republicans are going to be p r pouring millions and millions of dollars into ads. they are still in a world of hurt. so the big question for the white house is how do they now pivot? do they need to keep playing defense or can they try and change the narrative. >> the president hits the road to try that today. does this put any pressure on republicans to be different in their argument. here's a tweet from ted cruz yesterday. he says dancing in the end zone while millions of americans hurt. obamacare wasn't working last year and it's not now. we need full repeal. the louisiana governor, a potential 2016 prospect, he's going to release today his repeal and replace plan. what is the debate to chris size it? >> i think we're moving more towards here's what we do. if you look at are real clear politics pulling on the health care issue. the average over the course of the month says it's under water. republicans still think it's a good issue for them to run on. >> i want to show our viewers a picture. senate democrats had a news conference to brag like the president. you might not recognize these faces. these are leaders of the senate leadership mostly. they're more liberal. none of them are on the ballot this year. so that's still the problem, right? getting the vulnerable, the people in the tough states to say, this is great. >> that's right. and you're not going to see them standing up there at press conferences touting the affordable care act probably. it's easier now to say let's work to fix something that's working to tweak it as opposed to fix something that's broken. you're still going to be hearing probably this needs to be fixed message coming from those vul unusually democrats. >> but do they feel a bit stronger now? >> yeah, i thankthy were looking for anything to get excited about. >> when we had the rollout, there were a lot of people saying kathleen sebelius could go. she's the former governor of kansas. she might be quick on her heels saying there's no place like home. and may be going home. listen here. she had a conversation. the next open enrollment period is in november, after the election. listen. >> absolutely. this is the most satisfying work i've ever done. >> does the president want her to stay or is this more of a case in an election year if she left and you had to nominate a replace, you would give the senate a platform to have another health care debate. >> those are issues in consideration right now. kathleen sebelius was at the president's event yesterday. they have been supportive of her early on. in october when she did an interview that didn't go so well here, the president called her to tell her look, we're sticking with you and call her with words of support. >> loyalty helps. >> yep. >> the paul ryan budget. he wants to be the chairman of the house ways and means kmiet tee. he did release his last budget as the house budget committee chairman yesterday. let's look at some of the particulars. they want to get to a balance budget eventually. balances by 2024. the big thing democrats think is they can take advantage of the changes, both spending cuts and changes in the medicare program to give you the right to opt out of medicare. do the democrats really think they can seize on that this year? >> yeah, the democrats were happy to run on the ryan budget in 2012. yesterday, when the budget came out, a lot of these tea party groups really came out and criticized it adds well. it speaks to me how he's perceived more and more of part of the party establishment. you saw sarah palin come out yesterday. >> not conservative enough. >> even more than the medicare argue. i think democrats see a stronger argument when it comes to taxes. in the ryan budget, he lowers taxes for top income earners, increases for middle income. democrats think that that exposed -- that vulnerability is when it comes to values. that's the contrast they're looking to seize on heading into november. they think the giddiness of the affordable care account extended to this. >> we'll see if democrats can shift the dynamic. former senator scott brown, now he's exploring running in new hampshire for a senate seat. he went to the republican luncheon. listen to the democratic leader welcoming scott brown back to the hill. >> i'm sure you've all heard this before, but the senator said last week in the caucus, that the constitution guarantees every state two senators, but the constitution does not guarantee every senator two states. >> leader reid there trying to put the carpet banger on scott brown. >> i don't think that -- obviously the carpet bagger is the charge they can make. why does he get under their skin? i don't know. he's good at putting himself in front of a camera. he didn't do such a good job out of the gates. i mean, as you know, i'm not sure how much this sticks. new hampshire in some ways is almost like an extension of massachusetts. he's had a home in there for a while. i don't know how much that's going to stick in the end. >> he hasn't completely said he's running yet. he says he's exploring right now. back to new york. i just want to remind you guys. i know you were celebrating with me the red sox being at the white house. if you got a chance to be next to the president, would you take a selfie? >> oh yeah, i tried to the last time. three men with ear pieces attacked me. they treated me like you did, john. he said i'm going to throw you over the balcony, john said, it would look like this and he threw me over his shoulder. >> proof john king is stronger than chris cuomo. >> no, no, i didn't say that. >> i think there's always time for a good selfie. if he's game, it's pretty priceless. >> i'm glad we had to have the pictures. red sox nation. >> we're going to take another break. coming up next on "new day," still no verified wreckage of flight 370 in the vast south indi indi indian ocean. a look at how technology has seemed so far to fail flight 370. and the grim search for landslide victims gets more dangerous. they're also having to worry about toxic chemicals in their search. we're going to take you inside. toward her balance each quarter for making more than her minimum payment on time each month. tracey got the bankamericard better balance rewards credit card, which fits nicely with everything else in life she has to balance. that's the benefit of responsibility. apply online or visit a bank of america near you. wanted to go and see a lion up close. this zoom lens is amazing. go and smell the roses! we away for yourds, tabachelorette weekend for shopping and dancing 'til monday do us part. be a weekender at hotels like hilton and doubletree. book now at hiltonweekends.com welcome back to "new day." the search for flight 370 has taught us a lot about technology in place right now. more importantly, what didn't seem to be working on the plane and around it. all the support systems. hasn't happened yet. we even had a u.s. naval base in the area supposedly renowned for its capabilities. it didn't pick up the plane. here to walk through how this plane could have disappeared is the former advisor to the u.s. ministry of defense. thank you for being here. let's retrace the steps and you can help us understand how this is able to happen and not be picked up which is kind of the riddle of this situation. >> yeah. absolutely. >> we know with the first marker here this is where the plane made what we believe is the ill-fated turn. >> we've got to look at what we know. we know the acars went out of. we know the communication saying, all right good night. the transponder was turned off. it's vital. it gives position. it gives squawk, 2157. we know from yesterday what the transcript said and we know it was at flight level three-five-zero. this is unequivocal data but it's the last we have. we know that they were told to go to 120.9. they didn't go. what were the emergency protoco protocols. there was a distress cell. it has a radio to get in touch with the cockpit and talk to other aircraft in the corridors. what conversations went on with military radar? why weren't they spiked to look for something? >> could it be that none of it happened? >> it could be none of it happened. when the aircraft tracked west, it went down to 12,000 feet and took a left-hand turn. >> as it makes this turn left to here -- >> absolutely. westbound. westbound. >> and then that gets picked up how? >> then we go back to the inmarsat analysis. what these guys have done is clever. they've never had to do this before. as we know, they came up with a southern arc and northern arc. speed equals distance over time type data. the clever bit is how they looked at the doppler shift and correlated it with the southern versus the northern. they looked at other tracks on aircraft in the northern corridor and went, doesn't match those, matches tracks of aircraft in the southern. what we need to do is corroborate that evidence. as we know, the search has been going on in the south for a long time now. >> why is that? because it got picked up by something as it started to move south, right? >> they looked at the corelation mapping and it matched that. that's why they've said it has gone south. there are assumptions now on how far south it actually traveled. we've seen it's kind of moving north wards. but what was the fuel load, what was the altitude, what was the speed, did it dump fuel. we don't know. this is why we're having so many problems tracking the aircraft. >> why so many unknowns. i may be standing on it. diego garcia is just one element here. it's supposed to be so powerful. yes, it's supposed to be looking up into space. but the plane basically goes right near it. nobody sees it. all of what i've been calling these snoopy sovereigns. india doesn't see anything. indonesia here sees nothing. how did all of these places not pick up this big jet? >> it's the million-dollar question. those questions you're can go asking are the questions that are still unknown. >> what is the possibility that they're just not saying it? >> you rightly pointed out there's a huge radar station here. why hasn't that picked anything up? as it tracked south, diego garcia, there are limits. at 200 miles, it will drop off. it wasn't looking for it. it looks for intercontinental missiles. so all the unknown questions as we see this search area tracking back up north and becoming more and more frustrating. we need to keep prodding the authorities to get those answers. >> important for two reasons. one, it would be great to know if there is other information. because if there isn't extra information, they're working off very little data. >> what we need to do is corroborate why we are looking in the south and eliminate data as to why we shouldn't be looking in the north. if we can keep progressing through the investigation using that concept, then i think the authorities and the families will be content that this investigation is thorough and it's going in the right direction. at the moment, there are still people asking the question, why didn't it go north. i can't say it didn't through the analysis we got. >> thank you. very helpful. coming up next on "new day," search teams in rural washington state have now more than mud to be worrying about. the catastrophic and deadly landslide is full of toxic chemicals we're now learning. we're going to take you inside this dangerous dig. hey there, i just got my bill, and i see that it includes my fico® credit score. yup, you get it free each month to help you avoid surprises with your credit. good. i hate surprises. surprise! at discover, we treat you like you'd treat you. get the it card and see your fico® credit score. 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>> we'll try. >> reporter: it's full of a group of toxic sludge, human waste, propane tanks, oil and gas making the search effort extremely dangerous. every person, animal and thing that comes out of here has to be decontaminated. workers are forced to wait for some areas to dry out before investigating. pumps have helped to clear some of the water where search dogs have picked up human scent. all of this heavy equipment is helping to clear the debris off the road to provide more access for rescuers but the debris is remaining put until hand crews can come out and pull belongings for family members who lost everything. two american flags fly among the men and women working here, one recovered from the debris hangs in reverence for lives lost, another flag at half staff on a lone tree left standing in the slide zone. a source of strength and a symbol of hope for better days ahead. anna cabrera, cnn, arlington, washington. we will stay on the story out there because as we keep telling you, the need is great. we're going to take a break right now on "new day." when we come back, investigators have not ruled out foul play in the search for flight 370, but why? a high tech search and criminal investigation intersecting. is this about what is known or simply guessing at what is unknown? we're also following the latest out of chile. a powerful 8.2 magnitude earthquake hit overnight. we'll take you live to santiago, chile. at your ford dealer think? they think about tires. and what they've been through lately. polar vortexes, road construction, and gaping potholes. so with all that behind you, you might want to make sure you're safe and in control. ford technicians are ready to find the right tires for your vehicle. get up to $120 in mail-in rebates on four select tires when you use the ford service credit card at the big tire event. see what the ford experts think about your tires. at your ford dealer. at farmers we make you smarter about your insurance, because what you don't know can hurt you. what if you didn't know that taking pictures of your belongings helps when you have a claim? or that farmers offers a policy that'll replace your car with a new one, if it's totalled within the first two model years. and that parking near a street lamp deters thieves. the more you know, the better you can plan for what's ahead. talk to farmers and get smarter about your insurance. we are farmers. call 1-800-470-8502 and see how much you can save. we expect about another 8.8, 8.9 earthquake here sometime in the future. >> breaking overnight, a massive earthquake rocks chile. thousands fleeing to safety. a tsunami warning stretching to hawaii. and new questions, is the big one coming. also breaking overnight, we may never know. malaysian investigators now acknowledging they may never find flight 370 or what caused it to vanish. happening today, gm's ceo set for another tough round of questions. it time in the hot seat for the senate. is her apology enough? your "new day" continues your "new day" continues right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning. welcome back to "new day," everyone. it is wednesday, april 2nd. we'll begin with the mass evacuations underway right now in chile after a devastating 8.2 magnitude earthquake hit last night off the country's northern coast. there are reports of widespread damage and also tsunami waves of up to seven feet high crashing into coast technical areas. let's get over to cnn's rafael romo who has been tracking the latest developments. what more are we learning, rafael? >> reporter: katie, it was an hour ago that about 900,000 people have to be evacuated, this as authorities were waiting for daylight to learn the extent of the damage caused by the earthquake. sirens blairing, people running into the streets as a powerful 8.2 magnitude earthquake hits off the coast of northern chile causing landslides, power outages, and triggering tsunami watch and warnings. watch the moment of impact as the shelves in this pharmacy rattled, items crashing to the ground, the initial jolt sending shoppers and employees to the door. the massive quake proving deadly and forcing officials to evacuate the nation's entire coast line. tsunami waves approached according to chile's interior minister. they say 300 prisoners escaped the immediate aftermath of the quake putting police on high alert. in a news conference chile's president warning that officials would not know the full extent of damage until inspectors are able to assess during daylight hours though initial reports show chile might have dodged a major catastrophe. >> the key point here is this 8.2 is not the large earthquake we were expecting. we're expecting a potentially larger earthquake. >> reporter: an update on the 300 women escapees from the prison, they're telling us only 39 have escaped. now the president is traveling overnight. she's dispatched the military and national police to help people there. back to you. >> they're going to need all hands on deck to be sure. rafael, thank you very much. the 8.2 magnitude earthquake comes just five days after this 5.1 magnitude quake that rocked los angeles. that has a lot of people asking if there's a possible link between the seismic events and could it suggest something about what could happen going forward? put those questions to our meteorologist. do you have answers? >> the most important thing is these are the most sies mow logically active places in the world but nonetheless they lie on two separate plates. the nafta plate in south america and the completely different plate by southern california. we want to look at how active it's been in south america. just there in this region in chile, they've had five quakes over 5.0 including a 7.0. the only thing they have common is they're both on this ring of fire, the sies mow logically active region in the world. let's talk about what we know about this kwiek. depth 12.5 miles. keep in mind it was close to the coast line. then became the concern of course since it was in the water with the tsunami. they did see wave heights up to almost seven feet. tsunamis, you talk about a bull's eye with the water expanding outward. we're seeing the energy cruising towards the pacific. we're watching the tsunami waves progressing towards even hawaii. right now currently just a few hours away. that threat is still there. not as strong but nonetheless we have a tsunami advisory for the hawaiian islands. that means the tsunami waves are imminent. not over yet. >> let's turn now to the search for flight 370. overnight a stunning confirmation from malaysia's police chief. he told reporters the search is a criminal investigation and also acknowledged that hijacking, sabotage and psychological issues have been the focus of their investigation for weeks. and new this morning, cnn has learned malaysia airlines has tightened cockpit security as another day of searching ends off the coast of australia. let's get to jim clancy who is live in kuala lumpur for us yet again this morning. jim? >> reporter: we didn't have a press briefing today on what the investigation may have produced, but the inspector general who's in charge of the probe did talk with reporters and tried to outline to them some of the things that they've been looking at noting that it's been a criminal investigation sings march the 16th. he said, as you noted there, all of the passengers have been cleared of any involvement in the four areas that he said mattered, sabotage, terrorism, psychological problems as well as personal or financial problems. there is a step forward perhaps. he said it has been a thorough investigation. they're going every way possible. they even investigated -- there was a shipment of thousands of mangastein fruit aboard that flight. he went to the people who picked it. they're checking everybody who packed it, put it a board the plane. even the people who were receiving it in beijing and how much they were going to pay for it. by way of illustrating how thorough, they were checking often the people who prepared the food. he didn't say that they were specifically looking at food poisoning though as a possibility here. the bottom line is though that he says they may never solve it, at least on their end on the ground as they try to look at motives, as they try to look at the people that might be involved. they do need the information from the flight data recorders to unravel what happened inside the dock pit to that in the prime minister of course of malaysia is in australia today thanking those people that have been working around the clock on the search teams trying to locate the plane. back to you, kate. >> all right, jim. i'll take it. you know the force, the pressure to come up with answers is pushing investigators to go down more roads. the question is what should they disclose, what should they not. for more analysis on this we'll bring in aviation analysis, miles o'brien. science correspondent for pbs news hour. fran thomas, former aide to president bush. calling this a criminal investigation, saying that there's certain things they can't disclose does seem to suggest especially to families that more is known. fran, do you believe that that's the context for the statement at this point or are they just basically going on what is their process? >> well, you know, chris, we've gotten so much bad information out of the malaysians, we can debate whether that's intentional or not, right? there's been so much bad information i think we're all rightly skeptical of what they're saying presumably. here in the united states if we made that statement there was a criminal investigation you wouldn't say why what the facts were behind that but there would be facts. you can be confident if the u.s. government said there was a criminal investigation, there was a reason for that. i think when you look at what their statement is, that it's a criminal investigation. they say they've cleared the passengers, right? what's obviously missing is the pilots and the crew. they've cleared the passengers and we know about this release of this policy about not leaving anyone alone in the cockpit. we know that. when you take those things together, what you're -- what you can surmise from that, that's what it is, it is surmise, there must be some sort of information in the investigation that's led them to have criminal concerns over pilots and crew. >> or they're pretending to be productive because there's so much pressure on them. miles, let me come to you. one thing i've never heard is someone who's investigating something of a criminal nature say we may never know what happened here. i don't think i've ever heard an investigator say that. it's always about when they'll figure things out. do you think this is a situation where unless it has to do with third parties, something that you can discover that isn't on board that plane itself, you will not know anything until you find the recording devices and other evidence. fair point? >> i think that's a fair point. we probably should give the malaysians a little bit of credit for the candor when they said that. we don't get much candor. to the point of do they know more? i hope they know more. they haven't shared much with us, have they? >> no. the question is why. we have david soucie as one of our experts. if it's a criminal investigation, you don't reveal it. everybody respects that. we've all dealt with it. fran's been on the side of not revealing the information. we all know that is proper because you don't want to spoil anything going forward, but the question then becomes is that really what's going on here? i mean -- and one of the reasons i ask, fran, is this. you worked on the government side. people like to brag about what they know especially when they're in multi-national situations, okay? we've heard nothing from any terrorist organizations. all they like to do is talk trash about what they were able to pull off. no sovereigns are stepping up saying, we know more, we know more. we have the fbi who's looked into the passenger manifest. they say they see no flags. they've looked into the pilots. they say, we have nothing. that has to mean something. >> it does. but i do think because you've seen -- you know, early on there was misinformation released, there was conflicting information from other governments. it seems like at least what we would have done when i was in government, you would have tacked this down. you would have said nothing good is coming out of leaks of information, misinformation. i also think what you find is because of kind of how this has unfolded, the governments are reluctant to share their most sensitive information with one another. the only thing that suffers is the overall investigation. >> that is an important point. i have diego zbar sgarcia on th brain. miles, if you look back there's so much talk why diego garcia needs the resources it gets. it started as a logistics base but now has tremendous surveillance capabilities. this plane, if you understand the assumptions and believe the assumptions, basically did like a fly by over diego garcia and they didn't see it. we had a military man come on, michael kay, and he says, well, it's only pointing up, it's not really looking for this kind of radar thing. is that a fair explanation of how it missed? instead of not giving out word of what the u.s. may have detected? >> there are a lot of reasons that they didn't see it and there's a reasonable explanation of why they did. you get into the air afterexplaining to the world where your weaknesses might be and where your strengths might be with your defenses. couple that with the nation's suspicions of each other in the region and then underneath all of that, an apparent lack of expertise and credibility to the investigation and what you have is a big mess. >> it does seem a little suspicious though that you have people offering assets. the u.s. has had ships out there. had the pinger locator. there's not a lot of manpower out there. if this plane goes past india which is totally paranoid about what happened, they see nothing, it goes past indonesia, you have the banda achi outpost there. diego garcia, nothing. it just seems odd in this age of technological surveillance that we know everything about everybody and yet this huge steel jumbo jet goes by. >> yeah, it's very odd, chris. like miles, i'm suspicious that it may be the governments who may have information are not making it public. look, when i was in government, as you point out, we wouldn't have revealed all that we knew until we could make sense of it. what you do is you make the information that you've got public once you have resolved the questions you have about it and you've done a complete investigation. i think we have to try and withhold some judgment because it may be that they've not yet revealed all that they know. >> i'll tell you, miles and fran, i did have a source who works on the defense side who said to me, if the u.s. had definitive information that had he had tracked this, they'd want it out there. they'd want bad guys to know don't think you'll be able to get something past this. we saw where it is but we don't know it. they'd want to brag on that. the questions have to be asked because it's not about speculation, it's about testing the understanding. this one doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense. miles o'brien, thank you very much. fran, thank you. especially you because you're a double agent. always good to have you. kate? 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(mom) i'm so excited. here we go with the five things you need to know for your "new day." devastation in chile. a deadly 8.2 magnitude earthquake triggering landslides and fires. six are dead. hundreds of thousands forced to evacuate along the coast line. malaysian police say the search for flight 370 is now classified a criminal investigation. malaysian officials met with passenger families today. the airline has stepped up cockpit security in the wake of this ongoing mystery. more testimony on capitol hill from general motors ceo mary barra who apologized yesterday for gm's ten-year delay for the investigation into the faulty ignition switches. 20 people remain missing from the deadly mudslides and 28 dead. president obama returns to one of his top economic priorities today, raising the minimum wage. he'll renew his carle ll to cons for $10.10 an hour. go to new day.cnn for more. this morning the mystery of flight 370 has shifted further to the east for a new area that had not yet been searched. they're calling it an adjoining search area. they're looking closer to the coast of australia. scientists had to deal with similar problems when it came to the nearly two-year search for air france's flight 447 which crashed into the atlantic ocean in 2009 and was finally recovered back in 2011. let's discuss this search effort with dave gall low. he was the co-leader for the search for air france flight 447. great to see you. >> kate, nice to see you. >> how you go about the search i think is one of the most important things when you're dealing with the missing plane like this. >> sure. >> from the air and from below the surface as well. let's walk through this a little bit. so the search area is in red. the way they've described it is from the air it's called mowing the lawn. >> right. >> you can kind of see how it's working the grid. how does this all fit together? why is that an effective strategy from the air and why does that fit with the search under the surface? >> you don't want to miss anything. the last thing you want to do is be in a place, look there and say there's nothing there and have it be there. the best thing to do is when you lose your keys at home or television remote, you start lifting up pillows in the couch and that's not the way to do it at sea. everything is moving always. it's got to be very organized, especially when you have multiple ships and airplanes out there. >> especially when you say these objects are moving all the time. >> always. always. >> it does make me wonder, once one area, one grid is combed over from the air and if you're looking under the surface as well, do you rule it out? do you just move on? >> i think in some cases they say we don't see anything here, let's move on, but you have to know which way the packets of water are moving. >> correct me if i'm wrong, they searched some areas twice in air france? >> yeah, on the surface and underwater. when we moved underwater, we looked at every spot on the sea floor twice to be sure there was nothing there. >> the key there they were dealing with a much smaller area than we're talking about now. >> yes. >> and let's talk about, as we said, these parts, this debris is moving at all times. let's bring up our next animation. you see the current there. those yellow dots are just an example, a representation of how debris could move. this is a huge challenge. how do you account for this? >> well, it's a complicated area. if you move further south, it's just crazy with wind and weather, the roaring 40s and further down even more crazy. this is a little bit less intense but still in a way it's fairly stormy, about as predictable as any weather. it's a little bit better here than further south. >> is it simply math. is it simply knowing the currents, where you would expect debris to move? >> it's part of oceanography. the people that are dedicated to studying the wind, the waves, currents, tides, all of that. it's complicated, heavy math, but we're getting better and better at it. >> the u.k. has announced they've moved one of their submarine into the area. many countries pride themselves on keeping the movements of their submarines secret. we can't assume that's the only submarine in the area. is that the way the search needs to go, moving those assets in? >> anything you can bring to bear, any clue that might give us an edge to have some idea where it may have ended up is important. the sub, you never know until they give the shot. >> that's the problem. we don't know. the area is so huge. let's show the comparison one more time. i think this is one of the more important things for the viewers to understand. the red box is the search area. that little yellow piece is the search area that was for the air france flight. today's search area, 370, is some 85,000 square miles. that's 17 times the search area for air france. >> that little dot was thought to be unsearchable. so big back when we did air force 447, people said we would never find the aircraft in that dot. this is an immense undertaking. >> this new search area, this adjoining search area, let's talk about this grid, is more northeast and closer to the coast of australia? >> yes. >> how does the ocean change? how do the conditions ching? >> there's going to be some change, but from where they've shifted it, i don't think it's going to be that perfect septemberible. it will make a little bit of difference. the sea floor will be a little bit deeper, the closer we get to the continent. >> does it surprise you that they're shifting that search area in that direction? does it indicate anything to you? >> no, because if you're sure that you haven't seen anything, then you're done with that area, best to move onto the next place because, again, everything is moving. have a look and see what's in that next spot. >> unfortunately you have to cross your fingers that you come upon something. >> we need a break. it's time for a little bit of luck and be a lot of prayer. we need a break in this case. we have to find that plane. >> absolutely right. two years later and air france we hope it does not take that long for flight 370. >> let's take a break on "new day." when we come back, the death toll is rising from the devastating earthquake off k4i8 l chile. why does it have experts furrowing their brows. we'll break it down with a sies moll low gist when we come back. it makes you indestructible, like a superhero. i'd love to be a superhero. it's so you can come back to life...i think. 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(announcer) built to be there for your family. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. welcome back to "new day." we are following breaking news. an 8.2 magnitude earthquake forcing nearly 1 million people to evacuate their neighborhoods in chile. the death toll stands at 6 as we get reports of fires, landslides and collapsed buildings. want to bring in dr. kate hutton, a seismologist at cal tech. she joins us bright and early in pasadena. i was going to apologize for the early hour but i suppose an 8.2 earthquake will get a seismologist out of bed. >> probably, yes. >> let's talk about this. we heard one of your colleagues talk about even though this wasle -- was 8.2, a larger one was expected here. >> the whole coast of south america was expected. in 1960 there was a 9.5. that was in the southern end of chile. and this area has had a number of earthquakes in the magnitude 8s, even up to 8.8 in the northern part of chile. so we're not too surprised to see this. >> this is in this area that we have heard talk about this so-called ring of fire, these plates are very -- they're very active in the area, is that what's happening? >> well, the whole rim of the pacific up south america across alaska, japan and down to the south seas is an area where the two fastest moving tectonic plates, the pacific plate and the nazca plate are active. the faster the plate moves, the more earthquakes you have and the bigger earthquakes you have. this was definitely in the ring of fire. >> so let's talk about the fact that this is a situation that potentially could have been much more catastrophic. was the fact that it was off shore, we know that this earthquake, the epicenter was off shore. is that what saved it from being far more devastating in terms of the lives lost and the destruction to the land? we're still getting word of that right now. >> well, being off shore means that no one's sitting right on top of it so the shaking could have been worse than it was, but on the other hand, a quake under the ocean floor can cause a tsunami and this one did cause a six or eight foot tsunami. so it's sort of a tradeoff, and i think it's -- the tsunami was as small as it was because the quake was only 8.2. >> now we understand, and let me play ignorant here for a second. there's a lot of -- been a lot of reports of seismic activity in the california area recently, and i think a lot of people at home are saying, what is going on down there? what is going on below the ground. we saw the 5.1 on friday in los angeles, we saw that one in wyoming, the first one in 34 years. is there anything related in all of this earth shaking and earth movement? >> well, actually, probably not because the most obvious thing when we look at the statistics of earthquake is the randomness and, you know, if you sit there and throw coins all day you may get four or five heads in a row every once in a while and it's likely -- it's more likely than not that that's the explanation, just statistics, but we're looking at it, you know, just to see if we can see anything that would imply a physical connection. but it's just too far between here and south america. one earthquake cannot influence another one over that time period or that distance. >> you know, it's so funny because i think most of us, we humans want answers always right away. i'm sure we look to you seismologists and say how can we prepare? how can we get some sort of early warning system to advise us? where do we stand on that? i know the prep work we can do individually, we can prepare ourselves, but what can we do more as humans to prepare ourselves for the fact that this kind of thing is coming? is there any way to pre-warn? >> well, we are working on early warning system which if the quake -- if you're not sitting right on top of the quake then our seismic network will get notification -- will see the seismic waves before they get to you and if we could get out a warning quickly enough, and it seems like we can beyond a certain small radius, then we could give a few seconds warning which could get people under desks, could get -- you know, you could stop elevators at floors and slow down high speed trains and all of these things that would save lives. another aspect is, you know, beyond a personal preparedness, we need to be willing to support retrofitting old structures and so forth. >> sure. >> because our building codes, and i'm sure this is true in south america also, have gotten better over time and the old buildings are not up to current code. >> dr. kate hutton joining us from pasadena bright and early there. thank you for walking through the recent seismic activity. we are assessing what has all gone on there in the light of day. they'll if i can out how bad it was. initial reports show it avoided being as devastating as it potentially could have been. >> time now for this week's human factor. the stress of managing a human ailment is difficult. for a teen it can be lonely. we want to introduce you to a young man who took to writing to cope with a rare diagnosis. cnn's medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta has the story. >> reporter: for schuyler eversol, high school started normally but his luck took a turn to the worse. >> i had severe dizziness. i couldn't walk or see straight for days at a time. >> reporter: at first he checked it up to stress but ebersol quickly realized something was wrong. >> no one knew what was wrong with me. there were whole sorts of hypotheses. >> reporter: home from school, he desperately needed an escape, and he found it in writing. >> i just started writing, and i would get lost in this world. i identified with this character. it was just a way to keep me going while everything else in my life wasn't so great. >> reporter: then after several months they found the cause of his symptoms, a rare form of lyme disease. at the same time his scattered pages started to gel into a book. >> the book is called the hidden world. it's about a main character who has a heart attack, he slips into a coma, and when he wakes up he turns into a wolf in the hospital room. >> reporter: it was published last december. with more in the works. ebersol says through it all writing saved his life. >> you really just have to find something that can sustain you and keep you mentally strong. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting. >> a lot we can learn from him. >> that lyme disease is no joke. >> certainly not. money and be power do not spell success. far from it so says editor in chief from the "huffington post", arianna huffington. she'll explain her keys to success and fulfillment when she comes up. >> announcer: the human factor is brought to you by cancer treatment centers of america. care that never quits. what's in your ear? 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by definition it was successful but by definition of success, if you are lying in a pool of blood on the floor of your office, you are not successful. i've been talking to so many people who are completely burned out. i was on book tour and women, especially women for some reason, maybe because they're more willing to be open about it, they're coming up to me saying, i don't remember the last time i was not tired. so we need to change that and redefine success by including what i'm proposing. first of all, our well-being, then our wisdom. you know, when we're burned out we make bad decisions like bill clinton says the worst decisions i made were when i was tired. >> he didn't say late at night? >> he didn't say when or how. bringing joy into our life. loving what you are doing here, giving, focus on people and ourselves, not just being narcissistic but giving to others. >> how do you do it? the concept is admirable. we could -- we all strive to get enough sleep, to feel more rested. clearly not many of us are succeeding at it. how do you propose we actually pull it off? >> so, first of all, please, i'm pulling it up. >> "new day" cup. >> it's hard for me to pull up because i'm busy reading it. i need to know everything in here. >> he's so tired. >> yes! >> so, anyway, you are asking the key question. how do we move from agreeing that this is the right thing to actually doing it? that's why the book is full of little tips, small, microscopic little steps. at the end of each of the four sections there are three steps. a total of 12 steps by coincidence. remember, after well-being, the first simple step is get 30 minutes more sleep a night than you are getting now unless you're michaela who gets her full eight hours. >> i don't have children, a husband, a pet, i don't have any of those things. >> which is unusual because you know what you hear people bragging about is how little -- >> especially men. men wear sleep deprivation like a symbol. i had a guy who bragged he had only gotten four hours sleep. i said, you know what, if you had gotten five, this dinner would have been moring. >> can i ask about that differentiation because i think there is this interesting thing. kate and i can relate to a lot of this. we're women in a mostly male dominated world one might argue. >> two against one here in general. >> we've skewed the numbers. >> we've won this war. >> one battle. one battle down. >> that's why i can't sleep at night. >> we're hearing all of these messages to women. you can do it all. you can't do it all. you need to lean in, you need to lean out. we're being told be a woman in a man's world or do you have to act like a man in a man's world. all of these messages get confounding. >> what i'm saying is women need to change the world in which we are participating, that the way men have designed it is not working. it's not working for women, for men, for polar bears. another step that i was delighted to find out that chris is already participating in is learning to meditate. just five minutes a day is a great beginning. chris already did it. he meditates. he takes naps. you see, i think we need to talk about that. >> sometimes they become the same. >> no problem. >> there's a good tip on page 171. >> resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. note to sellf. note to self. >> or note to us. >> it says here on page 125, you should praise the person to your left. and on page 127 it says praise the person to your right. >> i'm still at the beginning of my 12-step process. i'll get to that. >> arianna, this is pay bible. >> when you look at the important tips, i love the concept. some folks are going to watch this and say, arianna huffington is the picture of success. >> yes. >> this might work for someone who has quote, unquote, made it. for someone who may be starting off in their career, how does this work for them? because our culture does not pride itself on saying, yes, you can get more sleep. yes, you don't need to look at your blackberry anymore. yes, you can take time for yourself. >> but it's changing. now 35% of american companies have introduced stress reduction practices. at the "huffington post" we have two nap rooms, for example. increasingly people have rooms which say after work you are no longer expected to answer work e-mail. we take better care of our smart phones than we take of ourselves. >> that is a very good point. >> 20% are remaining. 15% battery remaining and we rush to our little recharging shrines to charge them up. we are often completely unaware of when we are running out of battery and feeling collapsed in some form or another. and i think your question about whether you're starting in your career, i can say unequivocally that if i knew then what i know now, i would have been more effective, less stressed out, less worried. all the worries that we have, all our negative fantasies about things that never happen, we can prevent all that when we are recharged and not operating on burnout. >> sometimes people who have achieved success have something to share with other people who are on their way up. i think that's why it makes sense that you wrote this book, and i think that one of the central messages in it is one of the things we need to start to do is start to define success more for ourselves. >> instead of letting other people? >> yes. >> i know it's not easy but happiness is a process. that's the way you start getting through it is by starting to answer your own questions. this is very well done. of course, well written. we expect nothing else. >> 14 books in. she has a message to tell. >> i was saying thrive. i thought it was called thrive. turns out it was thrive. >> let's have one more. arianna, lift the cup, chris cuomo, list the book. >> the show is "new day." >> the show is "new day" and if you want it, you will be more successful. it says it on page 116. >> it is. >> you will learn to meditate and sleep like michaela. >> i'm sure the most baffling part about this interview is that the viewers learned chris meditates. >> and that michaela gets eight hours sleep. >> we'll be back. breathe in through the nose, out through the mouth. >> lead us in meditation. 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"newsroom" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com breaking overnight. new cockpit security rules. >> 59.7, 210. >> cnn learning about strict new guidelines. malaysia airlines issuing internal memos to its employees as investigators refocus their attention on the flight crews. u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel. >> we're going to go back and walk through this. >> in hawaii and talking to cnn about the search. >> what could have been done, maybe what should have been done, what needs to be done better. >> as australian s
what's he's been doing all these years. >> announcer: this is abc "world news tonight" with david muir, reporting tonight from washington. good evening, from washington tonight. where we met with the president today. what he says about that special counsel now brought into investigate russia. but we're also following those horrific pictures out of new york city today, the deadly crash, the driver plowing into pedestrians, right in the middle of times square. a barrier is the only thing that stopped the car. the driver right there on the left, trying to get away. witnesses in panic. nearly two dozen hit or injured. many lying on the street. this is video of the car in the air. and moments ago we learned the one person killed was an 18-year-old tourist from michigan. the driver in custody tonight. there were initial worries, could this be terror in new york? tonight, what authorities now believe. and abc's gio benitez is in times square. >> reporter: tonight, unimaginable horror. a car plowing into a packed times square. watch again -- the car airborne, careening into a thick crowd of people. and in this gruesome surveillance video, you again see that maroon honda accord from moments before barreling into pedestrians, mowing them down. authorities say this is the man who brought times square -- one of the most heavily watched, guarded, and surveilled places in the world -- to a total and horrific halt. hands out at his sides. the expression on his face snarling. jumping in the air, the car he turned into a weapon. and the carnage behind him. police telling abc news the man, 26-year-old richard rojas, a u.s. citizen and former navy vet from the bronx, told them he had, quote, smoked something before plowing into a packed times square. rojas also told police he thought the world was coming to an end. in the immediate aftermath, pedestrians help police apprehend rojas and force him to the ground. squirming and struggling in this cell phone video, police escort him into a waiting squad car. while all around, unimaginable carnage. >> step back, step back. >> reporter: firefighters dousing that car, trying to put out the flames. >> we did get a very quick response from police officers on the scene, from fire units, people were treated and transported as quickly as possible. >> reporter: first responders scrambling to help the nearly two dozen injured. ambulances taking them to nearby hospitals. 18-year-old alyssa ellsman visiting from michigan was hit. she did not survive. right there, you can see the destroyed bumper. the car's just a block away here on times square, one of the busiest spots in the country now completely shut down. in all directions, this usually jam-packed area evacuated, leaving only police. pandemonium in the streets. pedestrians in shock. annie donahey had just crossed the street when the car came down sidewalk. >> her purse was like a foot away from her, and she was dead. >> reporter: and that was the woman you were walking right next to? >> and then i just started to cross the street. and 30 seconds later she was dead. >> reporter: tonight, rojas in custody. initial drug tests have come back negative for alcohol and positive for drugs. >> gio joins us tonight from times square. gio, there has been a stepped-up police presence in times square. amid worries about terrorists using cars as weapons. that was the first fear today. but tonight they're convinced this was something else. >> reporter: that's right, david, they say this is not terrorism. they believe he was on drugs and he did have a history with violence in the past. so, right now, they're still investigating, david. >> gio, thank you. and we're in washington tonight, because some of the network anchors were invited to the white house today to meet with president trump on the eve of his first foreign trip. i asked the president how he'll answer overseas when asked if he supports this new special counsel overseeing the russian investigation. the president telling me that i believes it hurts the country terribly. he didn't stopped there. the president was also pressed about the fbi director he fired. when asked did he pressure comey to end the investigation into michael flynn, how he answered. here's jonathan karl tonight. >> reporter: tonight, asked for the first time about the appointment of a special counsel to investigate russian meddling in the campaign, president trump insisted the whole investigation is a witch hunt. >> mr. president, let's get your reaction to deputy attorney general rod rosenstein's decision to appoint a special counsel to investigate the russia -- russian interference in the campaign. was this the right move or is this part of a witch hunt? >> well, i respect the move, but the entire thing has been a witch hunt, and there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign, but i can always speak for myself, and the russians, zero. i think it divides the country. i think we have a very divided country because of that, and many other things. so i can tell you that we want to bring this great country of ours together, jon. >> reporter: behind closed doors, in a meeting with network anchors, the president went even further. david muir asked him about his upcoming foreign trip, saying that world leaders would undoubtedly ask him if he supports the idea of a special counsel. the president's response -- "i believe it hurts our country terribly, because it shows we're a divided, mixed-up, not-unified country. it also happens to be a pure excuse for the democrats, having lost an election that they should have easily won, and i think it's a very, very negative thing. and hopefully, this can go quickly." in his news conference, the president was also asked whether he tried to get james comey to back off his investigation of fired national security adviser michael flynn. >> did you at any time urge former fbi director james comey in any way, shape, or form to close or back down the investigation into michael flynn? and also as you look back -- >> no. no. next question. >> reporter: that answer now sets up a showdown with comey, who reportedly took detailed notes of his conversations with the president. >> and jon karl with us live tonight from the white house. this does set up a showdown of sort between the president and james comey, only two people in that room and one memo reportedly written by james comey, saying the president did pressure him to drop the flynn investigation. but the president made it very clear today in that room that that simply did not happen. >> it was a categorical denial. in the memo comey reportedly said, the president said, i hope you can see your way of letting this go, flynn go. >> jon karl live with us from the white house. as jon reported right here on this broadcast, the white house was given just 30 minutes' notice before the justice department revealed a special counsel. would now be taking over the investigation into russian meddling and any possible collusion with the russians. -- with the trump campaign. the deputy attorney general who decided the special counsel was in fact needed, rod rosenstein was on capitol hill today, making his case as to why. the president as you heard calling this the biggest witch hunt in american history. but a key republican, tonight, with advice for the president on how he should be handling this. abc's mary bruce on the hill. >> reporter: tonight, the man who appointed the special counsel to lead the russia investigation smiling for cameras as he arrived on capitol hill. >> mr. rosenstein, the president says this is a witch hunt. is that what this is? >> reporter: behind closed doors, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein briefing all 100 senators on why he decided a special counsel was necessary. >> he said to make sure that the integrity of the department of justice was protected, and to make certain the american people felt that this was going to be handled firmly and justly. >> senator, trump just said a special counsel hurts our country terribly. >> well, he's entitled to his opinion. i would suggest to the president that one has been appointed. honor that decision, cooperate where it's appropriate. >> reporter: today it was hard to find a single republican who backs the president's assessment. >> no, i think this is a serious investigation. >> is this a witch hunt? >> i don't think i'll characterize what it is. >> reporter: rosenstein was initially invited to the hill to discuss the firing of former fbi director james comey. the white house at first claimed the president acted on rosenstein's recommendation, which he outlined in a memo. but trump later admitted that, recommendation or not, he was going to fire the director. >> i was going to fire comey. my decision. >> reporter: in his press conference today, the president vented about comey's recent testimony before congress. >> it makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election. >> that was a poor, poor performance. so poor, in fact, that i believe -- and you would have to ask him because i don't like to speak for other people -- but i believe that's why the deputy attorney general went out and wrote his very, very strong letter. >> and mary bruce with us from capitol hill tonight. we just saw there, again, the president referring to that memo from the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. but rosenstein himself made it clear on capitol hill to those senators that he was not the driving force behind the decision to fire comey? >> david, rosenstein has been eager to set the record straight. senators tonight tell us that rosenstein told them that he knew the president was going to fire comey even before he wrote that memo, david. >> mary, thank you. and while we're at the white house today, the president did reveal to us something else, he says he's very close to naming his pick to run the fbi. abc's senior justice correspondent pierre thomas at the fbi tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the president is saying he is close to naming a new director of the fbi, acknowledging former senator and vice presidential candidate joe lieberman is a leading contender. >> we're very close to an fbi director. >> when are you going to name one? >> soon. >> is mr. lieberman -- is senator lieberman one of your top picks, sir? >> he is. >> reporter: and tonight, sources tell abc news the new special counsel is already at work on the investigation. robert muller was the longest serving fbi director since j. edgar hoover. in his new role he'll have broad powers -- the power to seek subpoenas, to convene a grand jury, and add as many fbi agents as needed as he digs for evidence of any crimes, ranging from collusion with the russians to obstruction of justice. mueller has worked under democratic and republican presidents -- and he worked closely with james comey for years, his successor at the fbi. >> i want to commend the president for the choice of jim comey as the next director of the fbi. >> and pierre thomas with us live at the fbi tonight. pierre, this fbi investigation has already been under way now for about ten months, long before election day. this new special counsel, does he start all over or does he pour through the evidence that they have already gathered there at the fbi? >> david, i'm told that mueller will assess the investigation and the evidence so far and determine how best to proceed. it's totally his call. but those who know him describe him as fair but relentless, david. >> pierre thomas with us tonight, our thanks to you again. we're following other news tonight, and to the dangerous storms in the heartland. stretching all the way up to the northeast tonight. 25 million americans in the path this evening. tornado watches in several states. this twister already touching down in western oklahoma today. an anxious night ahead. meteorologist rob marciano is in the storm zone tonight. >> another funnel coming down! >> reporter: storms fire up in the heartland. >> look at the storm, it's titanic. this is a serious situation. >> reporter: a rare, high-risk forecast this morning, and now a major, severe weather outbreak under way. >> look at the dirt that storm, that tornado is kicking up right now. >> reporter: strong, damaging long-track tornadoes and monster hail possible. already a tornado doing damage here in oklahoma. it was produced by this thunderstorm, the leading edge is now over top of us. you see those clouds, it tells you just how turbulent this atmosphere is. public schools in oklahoma city let out early, ahead of the storms. it's the latest in a deadly multiday outbreak. over three dozen reported tornadoes since tuesday. the most powerful, this ef-3 twister northwest of wichita. winds gusting to 165 miles per hour. with a 27-mile path. david, behind me is that same cell we have been tracking and you can see the rotation of that wall cloud, just spectacular but very, very dangerous. it's not the only one. look at the watches that are up. for the next several hours. as you watch the storms in motion, they'll progress off towards the east and become linear. some wind damage possible and certainly some hail. through dallas tomorrow morning. then, another batch of severe weather, day two, slightly east of here tomorrow. getting windy. david. >> rob, our thanks to you. you and the team stay safe out there tonight. in the meantime, we learned today that roger ailes has died. the former fox news ceo had just recently resigned amid among mounting allegations of sexual misconduct. he leaves behind a complicated legacy, his impact on politics and tv news. but also a culture now under the microscope at fox. abc's chief national correspondent tom llamas tonight. >> reporter: tonight, new details in the sudden death of media titan roger ailes. this police report from may 10th states ailes fell and hit his head in his palm beach mansion. then while in the hospital ailes slipped into a coma and died from internal bleeding. the news of ailes' death even r. >> 20 minutes before the top of the hour, the drudge report has a story right now, and this is a fox news alert that roger ailes, one of the founders of the fox news channel, has died. >> reporter: the architect of fox news, he was as bombastic as he was controversial. >> we came up with we report, you decide. fair and balanced. >> reporter: but last year, ailes' was the headline, forced to resign after accusations of sexual misconduct and racial discrimination at the network. he was a powerful force, shaping american politics. and the media. his former colleagues paying tribute on air. >> he was a presence. he'll be missed on this channel. he'll be missed. >> reporter: david, roger ailes' wife said he died this morning surrounded by his family, she called him a patriot. he was 77. david. >> tom llamas outside fox news channel headquarters in new york. there's still much more ahead on "world news tonight" -- death in police custody. video of the takedown. the officer accused of using a stun gun seven times during an arrest, and then an unapproved chokehold. suspect was trying to do. there's also an alert for parents tonight. we want to share with you the x-ray that has a mother warning families about a wildly popular toy on the market. and tonight, the king's secret revealed. what he's been doing all these years and how no one noticed. when we come back. 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good evening. and it's great to have you with us here on a monday night. and we have two developing stories. new images from inside the london terror attack and the attackers. but first, the horror playing out in this country. a fired worker, an army vet returning to the place he once worked, just after his former workers showed up for their shift. he slipped in the back door. abc's steve osunsami is on the scene, in orlando, leading us off tonight. >> reporter: sheriff deputies in orlando tonight are calling what happened inside this local business an execution. >> i don't want to make it too gruesome, but most of the victims were shot in the head. some were shot multiple times. >> reporter: they make awnings here for rvs and campers, and just as workers were starting their day, police say 45-year-old john neumann stormed through the back of the building with a semi-automatic pistol in his hand, knives in his pocket and revenge on his mind. he was fired here in april, and police say he was singling out his former managers and other victims, gunning them down one by one. >> caller heard multiple gunshots. shooter still on the scene. >> reporter: 46-year-old kevin lawson is just one of the five people who won't be going home tonight. eight others made it out alive, some families members are seen here. this woman was waiting to find her sister. >> she saw one on the floor is all she said, and she kept saying, "my boss is dead." >> reporter: neumann was a troubled man, a veteran who police say was arrested for beating someone at this very same business three years ago. charges were not filed. witnesses say he turned his gun on himself when he heard the sound of police sirens. >> and steve osunsami with us live tonight from orlando. steve, both the atf and the fbi responding to the shootings today. >> yes, david, they were here today. because earlier, there were concerns that this was terror related. right now, there's a large police presence outside this man's home. they're hoping they can find some explanation as to why he came here shooting. david? >> steve osunsami, thank you. we also have new images this evening from inside the terror attack in london. a clearer portrait of what happened there. people running for their lives. three attackers using that van to plow into pedestrians. and then jumping out of the van armed with knives. and this new surveillance video tonight, showing a restaurant manager holding the door there on the left, as the attackers are pushing from the outside, armed with their knives trying to get inside. abc's chief foreign correspondent terry moran from london tonight. >> reporter: tonight, newly released security camera video reveals the traumatic moments of terror up close. watch as this restaurant manager hustles people inside. they barricade the door. they close the front windows. one woman peering out, sees the attackers, turns and runs. the manager lets more people in. watch. you can see the attackers approach, trying to enter, a terrifying tug-of-war begins as the manager guards the doorway and forces the door shut, just as one of the machete-wielding attackers tries to get in. a second angle shows the manager holding the door as the attacker pushes. patrons eventually peeking outside to see if all is clear. and this -- [ gunshots ] >> i'm trying to keep myself safe. >> reporter: this photographer gabriele sciotto caught outside, as the police opened fire on attackers. other officers move in. people fleeing the scene. those moments coming during the 18 minutes of terror that seemed an eternity. at 9:58 p.m., the attack begins, that white van runs off the london bridge. starts ramming pedestrians. at the south end of the bridge, three men with long knives get out and start slashing and stabbing people. at 10:08 p.m., police are called to the scene. and by at 10:16, all three suspects are dead. their phony suicide vests failing to keep police at bay. 50 shots fired by 8 officers. today the people of london walked back to work on that very bridge amid a show of force by police across the center city and new barricades protecting the sidewalks on several bridges. and we're learning more about the victims. 30-year-old canadian chrissy archibald, who died in her fiance's arms after being struck by the white van. her family releasing a statement urging people to volunteer at a homeless shelter, as a tribute to her. london mourned them all today. at a vigil in potters field. mayor sadiq khan, the first muslim elected to the office, hurling defiance at the terrorists. >> as a proud and patriotic british muslim, i say this, you do not commit these disgusting acts in my name. >> reporter: many here expressing the wound this whole city has suffered. >> it's not just the victims. it's everyone else. it's the whole community. >> reporter: british prime minister theresa may saying this. >> we can't go on as we are, enough is enough. >> our chief foreign correspondent terry moran joining us tonight. and terry, prime minister may was pressed today asked if these three terror attacks in just the last three months were in fact related? >> reporter: and david, she said they are not linked by a common network but they are bound together by what she called a single, evil ideology of islam extremism. she added in a comment that adds draw praise and criticism. there's far too much tolerance for extremism in britain. david. >> terry moran live in london. terry, thank you. as you know, terry, we also have new video of the attackers before the attack, a broadcast that included one of the three attackers. he's seen in a tv documentary expressing his extremist views. so, how did british authorities take their eyes off of him? and tonight, we learned he had a newborn. his wife delivering in recent days. here's abc's brian ross. >> reporter: authorities tell abc news tonight that the attackers, seen in this video in the midst of their terror rampage, were led by a man known to police for years as a potential threat. >> we always ask ourselves should we have known and could this have been prevented. >> reporter: it was just last year that the ringleader butt was featured in a documentary aired on the british channel 4 about a group that openly campaigns for strict sharia law, here praying before the black flag of islam, and then getting into a confrontation with police. of the some 3,000 people authorities considered active threats, this group is among the most extreme. >> the members of this network which number probably around in the hundreds are on the more dangerous end of the spectrum. >> reporter: a second attacker was identified today as rachid redouane, of libyan or moroccan descent. both men come from this east london neighborhood, where police arrested at least 12 people. neighbors said butt, the father of a toddler and a newborn, of pakistani descent, held a backyard barbecue that some now say seemed like a farewell gathering. other neighbors told abc news they called police butt was making against nonmuslims. >> in the name of allah, we believe, i'm even ready, if i have to, even to kill my own mother if she comes against allah. >> reporter: authorities tonight say the three men had been waiting for several months to carry out their attack. and that their decision to act was triggered by this message posted by isis just hours earlier, urging followers to attack during the holy month of ramadan with vehicles, guns and knives. >> that's the question, were they responding to that message? isis has claimed responsibility for the attack. brian with us now, do investigators believe they were in fact inspired by isis? >> they don't know for sure. we do know the leader of the london group that attacker belonged to, is now in syria, playing a rom innocent role with isis. >> all right, brian ross and your team will stay on it. meanwhile, president trump sparking controversy with his twitter storm after the london attack, blasting london's mayor. tonight, our chief white house correspondent jonathan karl asking the white house, why pick a fight with london's mayor right after a terror attack there. >> reporter: the white house today is defending the president's tweets attacking the mayor of london. why is the president picking a fight with the mayor of london right after his city was hit by a terrorist attack? >> i don't see that the president is picking a fight with the mayor of london at all. >> reporter: but less than 24 hours after the attack, the president tweeted, "at least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and mayor of london says there is 'no reason to be alarmed!'" and just this morning, the president accused the mayor of offering a "pathetic excuse" for his words. in fact, the president took london mayor sadiq khan out of context. here's what he actually said. >> londoners will see an increased police presence today and over the course of the next few days, no reason to be alarmed. one of things the police and all of us need to do is to make sure we are as safe as we possibly can be. >> reporter: the mayor also warned the threat level remains severe. >> severe means an attack across the country is still highly likely, and so we have all got to be vigilant. >> the president directly misrepresented what the mayor of london said. >> i don't think that's actually true. i think that the media wants to spin it that way. >> reporter: you think the mayor was saying there's no reason to be alarmed by an attack on his city. you think that's what he's saying? >> look, i think the point is, there is a reason to be alarmed. >> reporter: and today, this from the mayor. >> i really don't have time to respond to trump -- to tweets from donald trump. we aren't going to let anybody, whether it's donald trump or anybody else to divide our communities. >> reporter: the president is also using the attack to reignite the debate over his travel ban, now tied up in the courts tweeting this morning -- "the justice department should have stayed with the original travel ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to the supreme court." but he is criticizing his own justice department, and a so-called watered-down travel ban that he himself signed. >> jon live at the white house. tonight, and now a prominent conservative married to white house counsel kellyanne conway is also asking the president to stop tweeting about legal issues? >> george conway is a respected conservative lawyer. he is also a supporter of the president. he's practically pleading with the president to stop tweeting. saying his tweets quote, seriously undermine the president and the administration. david. >> married to white house counselor kellyanne conway. thank you, jon. congress back to work after a break with that major showdown looming. former fbi director james comey set to testify thursday with the meetings with president trump and the memos he kept. about the meetings before he was fired. will president trump try to stop him, invoking executive privilege? well, tonight, we now have answer on that from the white house and abc's mary bruce on the hill. >> reporter: tonight, that blockbuster testimony from the fired fbi director is moving forward. the white house now says definitely president trump won't try to block him. >> president trump will not assert executive privilege regarding james comey's scheduled testimony. >> reporter: sources close to comey say he's angry after being fired with no warning. on thursday, he'll get to tell his side of the story. front and center will be his private conversations with the president. he's preparing to answer questions about those memos he wrote detailing their encounters. what's your one key question for him? >> we've seen these reports that are been attributed to comey. and the questions are going to be about whether that's how it happened. no one has heard from him directly. >> reporter: lawmakers are eager to know, did president trump ask comey to pledge his loyalty? did the president pressure comey to drop his investigation into fired national security adviser michael flynn? and did comey tell the president he wasn't under investigation? as trump claims. hanging over the hearing, the biggest question of all. is there any evidence of collusion between the trump team and the russians? >> there's a lot of smoke. we have no smoking gun at this point, but there is a lot of smoke. >> so let's get to mary bruce. live on the hill again tonight. the committee has requested those memos as you reported there, mary, but a lot of questions about whether or not the public will ever see them. >> david, lawmakers remain hopeful but no clear answer yet on when we might see those memos. regardless, lawmakers are confident that comey will be discussing those private conversations with the president. david. >> mary, thank you. and to let everyone at home know, on thursday, abc news will carry director comey's testimony live with a special report beginning at 10:00 a.m. eastern right here on abc. after president trump's decision to pull out of that international climate agreement, our new poll tonight, finding it's an unpopular move. americans oppose the paris accord withdrawal by a margin of 2 to 1. 59% opposing the move. just 28% supporting it. most told pollsters feel it will hurt america's leadership in the world. there's still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this monday -- bill cosby's sexual assault trial begins and the tv daughter who showed up with him. also, we have new developments in a deadly warehouse fire. dozens killed, 36 people trapped inside. police now announcing two arrests. we have new developments. the new headline for parents of newborns. the new recommendation when it comes to babies and when they should not be sleeping in your bed. and the medical emergency behind the wheel. the driver in the wrong lane, the husband in the next car over, and what he does. the incredible 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this photo today, thanking keshia knight pulliam, who played rudy huxtable, for her support. >> i'm showing up in the manner that if it was reversed, i would want someone to show up for me. >> reporter: the defense argues that andrea constand has changed her story multiple times and she initially told detectives she never contacted cosby after the incident. but they say phone logs indicate she called him 53 times. david. >> linsey davis, thanks. when we come back tonight -- the big, new device from apple unveiled today. could it take on amazon's alexa? also the new headline about a deadly fire killing dozens. what police have now revealed. and that medical emergency we told you about behind the wheel. the driver in the wrong lane. the husband in the next car over and what the emergency was inside the car. back in a moment. the husband in the next car over and what the emergency was inside the car. back in a moment. connected business world. s heard througe at&t network security helps 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warden's own stepdaughter. and pay jar storms hitting the east coast at this hour. good evening. great to have you with us on a friday night. another major bomb shell out of washington. tonight the shakeup at the white house. the chief of staff, reince priebus seen getting on to air force with the president today, but by the end of the day, he would no longer have his job. in the pouring rain, the president answering questions. about the retired general about to arrive in the west wing. abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl leading us off. >> reporter: tonight, standing in the pouring rain, president trump announced reince priebus, his chief of staff is out. replaced by homeland security secretary, general john kelly. >> reince is a good man. john kelly will do a fantastic job. general kelly has been a star. done an incredible job thus far. respected by everybody. a great, great american. reince priebus is a good man. >> reporter: priebus was on air force one with the president today, and so was his nemesis, the new communications director anthony scaramucci. scaramucci is the winner in their bitter feud, which exploded into public view this week. >> i don't know if this is reparable or not, that will be up to the president. >> reporter: it was scaramucci who threw down the gauntlet, phoning a reporter with "the new yorker" and ripping into priebus, calling the white house chief of staff, "a bleeping paranoid schizophrenic," accusing him of leaking and adding priebus will "be asked to resign very shortly." scaramucci's expletive-laced tirade also ripped into the president's chief strategist. "i'm not steve bannon," he said, launching into a profane attack that we can't repeat on television. "i'm not trying to build my own brand." but today, bannon is still in the white house, so is scaramucci, but priebus is out. >> reince is a superstar. >> reporter: priebus lasted barely six months in a white house that has seen more early turmoil than any other, the national security adviser, gone. the press secretary, gone. and now gone too, the chief of staff, who had been desperately trying to hang on. >> on behalf of the entire senior staff around you, mr. president, we thank you for the opportunity and the blessing that you've given us to serve your agenda and the american people. >> reporter: but priebus and trump never really clicked and the former rnc chairman struggled to manage all the competing factions in the west wing. now, the president is turning to a military man to impose order on his chaotic white house. the president offered a hint earlier today of what was to come. >> john kelly, who has done an incredible job of secretary of homeland security. incredible. one of our real stars. truly one of our stars. >> jon karl with us here in new york. just dizzying on this front, who's gone and two's coming. first, reince priebus, we're just hearing from him tonight. tensions had been simmering for some time. this was in the works before this beak if. >> the president made it clear that this change was coming. in terms of that statement from reince priebus on the new chief of staff, john kelly, he said i can't think of a better person than john kelly to succeed him. you'll see a purge of rnc veterans in the white house. the people that priebus had brought in will be leaving. leaving very soon. many of them today. check this out, under consideration is jeff sessions, the attorney general, the embattled attorney general to go over to become secretary of home land security. that's at least under consideration. >> jon karl, thank you. we're also following breaking developments involving north korea, tonight, they have launched an icbm and tonight x experts now saying this missile went higher and further than before. could this missile reach cities on the east coast? possibly new york or d.c. martha raddatz tonight. >> reporter: the missile icbm airborne for close to 45 minutes before splashing down in the sea of japan. >> it looks like this thing could go about 10,000 kilometers, that mean from north korea they could hit most of the united states. >> reporter: meaning not just hawaii where they are already putting out safety warnings but seattle, los angeles and possibly, even washington, d.c., and new york. like the missile launched on july 4th, this icbm was blasted straight into space. but they can angle it for distance instead of altitude. this miss sill went higher and flew farther than the july 4th test. >> getting close is all that's needed. >> reporter: the u.s. and south korea responded tonight by conducting their own missile exercises, something they did after the july 4th test to little effect. >> martha with us live again. the amount of time this missile was in the air, the distance that you put out, really concern those watching closely. we still know that north korea's main goal here is trying to get a nuclear weapon on top of one of those missile and that's right, david, while a thought that technology would be years away, it's reported that u.s. officials have concluded if a confidential assessment that north korea could have a nuclear-capable icbm by next year. president trump said he would not let that happen. >> martha, thank you. meantime to the dramatic collapse of the health care effort. after seven years of promises to repeal and replace obamacare. it came down to just one vote. john mccain's. tonight, we take you inside the drama. the vice president trying to convince him and reports of president trump calling mccain right before his vote. abc's mary bruce back up on the hill tonight. >> reporter: senator john mccain walked out of the capitol today, just hours after delivering the final blow to his party's top priority. the drama, playing out overnight. >> how do you improve healthcare in american when you throw 16 million people off the healthcare they currently have? >> reporter: lawmakers were voting on what they called a "skinny repeal," to roll back just parts of obamacare. with two republicans, lisa murkowski of alaska and susan collins of maine expected to vote no, the vice president arrives, prepared to cast a tie-breaking vote. the vp makes a beeline for mxcain to convince him. they reportedly huddle for 21 minutes. but then, mccain goes over to chat with democrats. and when the vote begins, he reportedly takes a call from the president, one last attempt to close the deal. when mccain walks back in, the room wakes up. democrats on their feet. bernie sanders nudging his neighbor. with all eyes on mccain, he casts his vote with a thumbs down. republican leader mitch mcconnell stone faced. his arms crossed in defeat. >> yes, this is a disappointment. a disappointment indeed. >> why did you vote no? >> i felt it was the right vote. >> reporter: today the senator tweeting, i urge my colleagues to trust each other, stop political games and put health needs of american people first. but from president trump, frustration. >> boy, oh boy. they've been working on that one for seven years. can you believe that? the swamp. but we'll get it done. >> mary bruce with us live tonight from capitol hill. mitch mcconnell tweeting today, time to move on. does this mean to effort to repeal and replace obamacare is over. >> most i have talked with, this is going to be a very tall order and to get anything done they will maybe have to work with democrats. but for now, leadership is moving on. today, they were headed out of town. we spotted republicans given new talking points on tax reform. david. >> mary, thank you. new tensions with russia tonight. the kremlin seizing two u.s. diplomatic compounds in russia and ordering the american embassy to cut hundreds of staff. the move comes as retaliation after congress approved new sanctions on russia for meddling in the u.s. election. that bill tonight, now sits on the president's desk. president trump can't dial back those sanctions without congressional approval. he has ten days to sign it into law. we turn next at this hour, severe storms hitting at this hour. americans under flash flood watches. more than 2,000 flights delayed here at airports in the east. planes at washington's reagan airport taking off from very wet runways. meteorologist rob marciano. hey, rob. >> david the same areas that got hit with heavy rain earlier this week are getting hit again. this system, flood watches down to mississippi. severe thunderstorms across the carolinas. the heaviest rain is in virginia, d.c. and baltimore, where the flood watch is out. overnight, southern pennsylvania and new jersey gets it. even new york and philadelphia, but that rain ends pretty quickly. the problem is, 3 to 4 inches of rain over saturated flooding. the next 18 hours will be dicey there. david. >> all right, rob, we'll be watching it this weekend. we turn next to the death of a police officer, the first on a scene of a car crash. rushing to help the people trapped inside the car when one of them then allegedly shot and killed him. lieutenant aaron allan, a six-year veteran of the force, a husband and a devoted father. tonight, this question, why did they turn on the officer who was trying to help them survive? here's abc's gio benitez. >> reporter: tonight, a growing mystery and tragedy in a small indiana town. a 38-year-old police officer trying to help people in a car accident, shot and killed. >> suspect is still out and about. >> reporter: southport police lieutenant aaron allan responding to this rollover crash thursday when, police say, one man trapped inside the car started shooting. >> we need to find out what's going on so nobody else gets hurt. >> reporter: backup officers arriving to chaos. shooting at the car. >> officers trying to defend themselves and arms flailing in the car. >> reporter: 28-year-old jason brown was rushed to the hospital and arrested on suspicious of murder. the car's passenger interviewed and released. >> reporter: lieutenant allan was a husband and father, named the department's officer of the year in 2015. he was killed doing what he loved. >> he responded to a crash with urgency to preserve life. tragically, his was lost. >> reporter: and david, we still don't know why the suspect fired at lieutenant allan or what caused that car accident. but we know that he's the 27th officer shot and killed in the line of duty this year. we turn next to an abc investigation tonight, that newly released government video seen exclusively right here. taking us inside an encounter between u.s. border officers and a teenager from mexico. a short time later, that teen was dead. and the video appears to contradict what those officers testified happened. here's abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross tonight. >> reporter: this video obtained by abc news sheds new light tonight on the death of a 16-year old mexican high school student, in the white sweatshirt, after being caught by border officers as smuggling drugs from mexico, hidden in two bottles in his shoulder bag. it comes as president trump today told border agents in new york not to worry about being too rough in carrying out arrests. >> i said, "please don't be too nice." like when you guys put somebody in the car and you're protecting their head, i said you can take the hand away, okay. >> reporter: in the case of the teenage smuggler, well before trump took office, things go bad for him almost immediately, as these two customs officers start to examine the two bottles. what's in them? highly concentrated methamphetamine dissolved in liquid. >> if they truly suspected there was a controlled substance in the bottle, they should've conducted a field test. >> reporter: instead, the two officers encourage, or at least permit, the young man to drink it. >> cruz now points at the bottle, and she's saying, "okay, drink it." and she makes the gesture that we associate with "to drink." now, watch the male agent. he says, "drink another one." you see them exchanging glances and smiles. >> reporter: then it happens again. >> two more sips. >> reporter: four drinks in all. within a half hour the drugs take effect. the teenager can barely stand. a massive overdose. with symptoms like a heart attack. >> i never asked him to drink. he volunteered to and i believe i gestured to go ahead. >> you told him to go ahead and drink on more than one occasion, did you not. >> no. >> reporter: the video suggests otherwise. both officers remain on the job. no punishment. >> brian ross with us tonight. brian will have much more coming up tonight, including how long the call for medical help. his "20/20" investigation is tonight. in the meantime tonight from london this evening, little charlie gard has passed away. he died at a hospice. his case attracting worldwide attention. tonight, pope francis leading the tributes, tweeting, i entrust little charlie to the father. there's still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this friday -- the escape from prison in this country. the young woman stabbed to death. the inmate breaking out, accused of kidnapping and killing the warden's own stepdaughter. the charter bus up in flames. dozen of passengers scrambling to escape. then, the accident on the hudson river late today. dozens injured. emergency crews are on the scene. lot more ahead. it's looking up, not down. it's being in motion. in body, in spirit, in the now. boost® high protein it's intelligent nutrition with 15 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for when you need a little extra. boost® the number one high protein complete nutritional drink. be up for it take the zantac it challenge! pill works fast? 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the windows, the cranes across this city. first, abc's linzie janis leads us off with the devastating images tonight. she is in san juan, puerto rico tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the images now emerging of the utter destruction hurricane irma left behind. buildings and trees ripped apart. this communications tower snapped. hundreds now homeless. >> we were standing out there, and i would not want to see another hurricane like this again. >> reporter: barbuda's prime minister telling abc news it's as if a bomb was dropped on the tiny island, one of the first hit. >> my main concern right now is how we are going to survive after this. >> reporter: st. martin next in irma's crosshairs. shipping containers tossed like toys. boats crashing together. at least 14 now dead in the storm zone, including 16-year-old zander venezia. drowning in rough surf off the barbados coast. irma's death toll expected to rise and scores more injured. coast guard teams like this one have been flying in and out of the virgin islands rescuing people. our cameraman on one of those choppers, capturing scenes of destruction adds irma moved across the caribbean. we met canadian college student alex demoor, badly hurt in a fall in st. thomas airlifted to puerto rico for treatment. we lent her our phone so she could call her family. she and american student maddie gortat leaving the island with one pair of flip flops between them and little else. the pair describing how they rode out the storm. >> we didn't know if the roof was going to come off at any moment. >> we were praying. >> we were praying the whole time. >> reporter: irma now moving in on the turks and caicos islands. large portions of them it a an elevation of less than 10 feet. the storm surge could be double that. >> i'm anxious about the storm. i have never been through a hurricane. >> reporter: california firefighter, josh livingston, there celebrating his birthday, now hunkered down and bracing for a category 5 monster. >> we have been watching some of the destruction on the other islands. we're kind of waiting for it to hit this island. >> and linzie janis joins us now from san juan, and linzie, nearly a million people without power. hundreds of thousands without water tonight, and you were saying that authorities told you it could be months before power is restored there? >> reporter: that's right, david. and here's the reason why. there are hundreds and hundreds of trees like this one downed across this island. this one actually has a power line tangled up in it, david. >> linzie janis leading us off tonight. linzie, our thanks to you, and let's get to the storm track. chief meteorologist, ginger zee is back at the weather wall in new york. you have been studying this new shift in the track late today. what does it now mean for the u.s.? >> reporter: it could mean catastrophe, especially for southeast florida. let me take you through this storm. hurricane irma still a category 5 over the turks and caicos it will go tonight. southern bahamas as we go through friday. then it's friday into saturday where it's just south of florida and it goes into the keys early sunday morning. 5:00 a.m. sunday, places like key largo, homestead and miami, feeling the surge, feeling the ridiculously strong winds. and up west of savannah, between orlando and melbourne. through the day on sunday into monday, it will keep going north as a strong category 1, and then tropical storms and this cone now involves indiana and ohio. the storm surge watch goes from jupiter inlet over to the keys included. you have those hurricane watches are for all of south florida, and we stopped the time here at sunday afternoon at miami beach having a wind gust of 127, david. >> just incredible, and while we have you, ginger, we wanted to show everyone at home the image that really drives home the real danger here in miami and south florida. when it comes to the storm surge you just mentioned. we know that miami floods easily. look at this tonight. if you had a 3-foot storm surge, those areas in yellow would be underwater. a storm surge higher than 3 feet, and watch this. the areas in red go completely under, and that's why they are so concerned here in miami tonight, ginger. authorities are trying to get the warnings out. >> reporter: water is one of the most powerful things, and this doesn't even take into account high tide. high tide happens just after midnight, and just after noon, that could make the surge from 5 to 10, and make it 8 to 13 easily, david. >> bracing here in south florida tonight. ginger, thank you. the island of barbuda taking a direct hit from hurricane irma. more than 90% of the island homes and buildings destroyed and tonight, listen to this. hurricane jose is now on a path to hit that same island. just moments ago, i spoke with the prime minister, gaston brown, with now an urgent effort under way, trying to get everyone out. prime minister brown, thanks for joining us, and the pictures coming in are just devastating. i know you have had a chance to fly over the island and to visit it in person. describe what you saw for us. >> well, to me, i never contemplated they had such damages. i mean, the landscape was just totally decimated. 90% or more of the buildings were damaged. it literally destroyed a country. >> mr. prime minister, i know you described it as though a bomb went off on that island, and we are all watching the track now of hurricane jose, which could get to that island as well. just incredible that you could be facing two hurricanes now. you're trying to get everybody off the island? 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>> reporter: they are, david. take a look at the road behind me. it is mostly empty. that's because so many people have already left. i can tell you this. we're getting out of here first thing in the morning, david. >> all right. good news. stay safe to the team right there. gio, thank you. a million people may be trying to get away, but that still means that millions more will be staying right here in the storm zone, and as you look across miami here behind me, you can see home high-rises and the question tonight, can the construction, can the windows withstand a category 4 hurricane? we asked abc's chief national correspondent, tom llamas, to take us up into one of those buildings. how much faster and more powerful will the winds be, the higher you go? >> reporter: tonight miami's glass towers and the cranes that build them causing concern hurricane irma could shatter it all. those are big targets out there. >> again, we're going to lose buildings that are going to have to be repaired, but i don't think buildings are going to completely collapse. >> reporter: 25 cranes are being secured and those that live near them, told to evacuate. developers and builders abc news spoke with tell us buildings in downtown miami will hold up, but that high-rises could sway, some up to 12 inches. >> i expect to feel some here. we did feel it here during matthew, and matthew was basically a tropical storm. >> reporter: being in a high-rise, you're less likely to get hit by debris on the ground, but high up, 50 floors like we are right now, there's another danger. the wind up here is much more powerful. hurricane researchers tell us on the fiftieth floor a category 4 hurricane winds at 140 miles per hour would be 220 miles per hour on the 50th floor. south beach resident andres asion will ride out the storm in his 21st floor condo. >> my plan if it gets too crazy i'll go into the elevator shaft and it's like a fortress. >> reporter: and as irma approaches, other miami residents lined up outside of this packed costco, trying to prep by getting supplies that are now scarce. in some stores, even water is getting tough to find. >> and tom llamas joins us live from miami beach, and people won't forget what you just reported. how much stronger those winds will get. stay away from the windows here in miami. you're looking at something else here tonight as well. reports of price gouging. are people being ripped off as they try to prepare? >> reporter: in some cases they are. i just got off the phone with the office of the attorney general here in florida. since monday, david, get this. they have received 4,000 complaints of price gouging. >> tom llamas with us here in south florida. tom, thank you. hurricane irma is causing major disruptions in air travel across the country. some 4,000 flights have already been canceled, and look at this image tonight. a lot of air traffic to and from florida. you can see it right there. so many trying to get out of the storm zone, planes flying around irma. and those other hurricanes, and tonight, there is a new and urgent plea just in from the miami airport for passengers still showing up hoping to find a flight. abc's amy robach is there. >> reporter: the rush to get out of the storm zone resulting in big lines in south florida airports. >> i have to spend the night in the airport because all the hotels are filled. >> reporter: a row of passengers in wheelchairs able to board in west palm beach, but at miami international airport -- >> no one is manning the desks. pretty chaotic. >> reporter: hundreds showing up without tickets and finding none. the major airlines suspending operations at all south florida airports by friday evening. already more than 4,000 flights in irma's path canceled. 12 cruise ships canceling tips with at least 23 cruises diverting away from the storm. the norwegian escape cruise ship coming back to miami early to let people off. >> it's a lot of stress. it's very stressful. no one knew what was going on. >> reporter: airport officials are asking passengers who don't already have reservations to stay away from the airport. as you can see, these airports are extremely busy, and they say if you are here when they halt operations tomorrow, you will be bused to a shelter. their advice? book online or over the phone, david. >> amy robach in a packed miami airport tonight. amy, thank you. hurricane irma has already made history tonight. even before it hits the u.s. maintaining winds of 185 miles an hour for a record 36 hours straight, and we wanted to show you something. since 1970, just four category 4 or 5 hurricanes have made u.s. landfall on the mainland. among then, hugo in 199, that at 140 mile-an-hour winds. in 1992, andrew, in homestead florida with 165 miles per hour winds, and irma is stronger than all of them. senior meteorologist, rob marciano, in key largo tonight on what is making irma so dangerous. >> reporter: irma's first strike giving us a glimpse of its sheer power. the hurricane morphing into a monster with a rare combination of conditions. moist air over deep, warm water with temperatures over a degree above average feed the storm. there's also a lack of upper level winds that would choke the storm, and irma has avoided large land masses that would break apart the hurricane. >> it is like going over a giant all you can eat buffet for a hurricane right now. >> reporter: tonight, the eye 30 miles wide with the clouds whirling around it, 600 miles across. with the inner core equivalent to an ef-3 tornado. most striking, the longevity of irma's power, that record breaking stretch of 185-mile-per-hour sustained wind for over 36 hours. >> and rob marciano reporting in from key largo, and we're dealing with a very rare situation here. irma is just one of three active hurricanes churning tonight? 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"i'm not steve bannon," he said, launching into a profane attack that we can't repeat on television. "i'm not trying to build my own brand." but today, bannon is still in the white house, so is scaramucci, priebus is out. >> reince is a superstar. >> reporter: priebus lasted barely six months in a white house that has seen more early turmoil than any other. the national security adviser, gone. the press secretary, gone. and now gone too, the chief of staff, who had been desperately trying to hang on. >> on behalf of the entire senior staff around you, mr. president, we thank you for the opportunity and the blessing that you've given us to serve your agenda and the american people. >> reporter: but priebus and trump never really clicked and the former rnc chairman struggled to manage all the competing factions in the west wing. now, the president is turning to a military man to impose order on his chaotic white house. the president offered a hint earlier today of what was to come. >> john kelly, who has done an incredible job of secretary of homeland security. incredible. one of our real stars. truly one of our stars. >> and jon karl with us here in new york. really just dizzying on this front, who's gone and who's coming. but first, reince priebus, we're just hearing from him tonight. you've been reporting that tensions had been simmering for some time. this was in the works before this public feud this week? >> the president made it clear weeks ago that this change was coming. in terms of that statement from reince priebus, on the new chief of staff, john kelly, he said i can't think of a better person than general john kelly to succeed him. but david, you'll see a purge of rnc veterans in the white house. the people that priebus had brought in will be leaving. leaving very soon, many of them today. and check this out, under consideration is jeff sessions, the attorney general, the embattled attorney general, to go over to become secretary of homeland security. to replace john kelly. that's at least under consideration. >> lot more to come on that front. jon karl, thank you. we're also following breaking developments involving north korea. tonight, they have launched an icbm and this evening, experts now saying this missile went higher and further than before. could this kind of missile now reach cities on the east coast? possibly new york or d.c. abc's martha raddatz tonight. >> reporter: the north korean missile traveled farther than any missile they have launched. the missile icbm airborne for close to 45 minutes before splashing down in the sea of japan. >> it looks like this thing can go about 10,000 kilometers, that mean from north korea, they could hit most of the united states. so, they finally have done it. >> reporter: meaning not just hawaii, where they are already putting out safety warnings, but seattle, los angeles and possibly, even washington, d.c., and new york. like the missile launched on july 4th, this icbm was blasted straight into space. but the north can angle the missile's trajectory for distance instead of altitude. and today's missile went higher and flew longer than the july 4th test, which experts fear it could potentially hit the mainland. >> getting close is all that's needed. >> reporter: the u.s. and south korea responded tonight by conducting their own missile exercises, something they did after the july 4th test, to little effect. >> and martha with us live again. the amount of time this missile was in the air, the distance as you point out, really concern those watching closely. but we still know that north korea's main goal here is trying to get a nuclear weapon on top of one of those missiles. >> that's right, david, and while it was thought that technology would be years away, it's reported that u.s. officials have concluded in a confidential assessment that north korea could have a nuclear-capable icbm by as early as next year. president trump has said he will not let that happen. >> martha, thank you. meantime, to the dramatic collapse of the health care effort. after seven years of promises to repeal and replace obamacare, it came down to just one vote. john mccain's. tonight, we take you inside the drama. the vice president trying to convince him and reports of president trump calling mccain right before his vote. abc's mary bruce back up on the hill tonight. >> reporter: senator john mccain walked out of the capitol today, just hours after delivering the final blow to his party's top priority. the drama, playing out overnight. >> we're closer than we have ever been. >> how do you improve healthcare in american when you throw 16 million people off the health insurance they currently have? >> reporter: lawmakers were voting on what they called a "skinny repeal," to roll back just parts of obamacare. with two republicans, lisa murkowski of alaska and susan collins of maine expected to vote no, the vice president arrives, prepared to cast a tie-breaking vote. the vp makes a beeline for mccain to convince him. they reportedly huddle for 21 minutes. but then, mccain goes over to chat with democrats. and when the vote begins, he reportedly takes a call from the president, one last attempt to close the deal. when mccain walks back in, the room wakes up. democrats on their feet. bernie sanders nudging his neighbor. with all eyes on mccain, he casts his vote with a thumbs down. republican leader mitch mcconnell stone faced. his arms crossed in defeat. >> yes, this is a disappointment. a disappointment indeed. >> why did you vote no? >> i felt it was the right vote. >> reporter: today the senator tweeting, i urge my colleagues to trust each other, stop political games and put health needs of american people first. but from president trump, frustration. >> boy, oh boy. they've been working on that one for seven years. can you believe that? the swamp. but we'll get it done. >> so, let's get to mary bruce on capitol hill again tonight. mitch mcconnell tweeting today, time to move on. does this mean the effort to repeal and replace obamacare is now over? >> well, republicans insist they're not giving up. but most i have talked with, admit that this is going to be a very tall order and to get anything done they will maybe have to work with democrats. but for now, leadership is moving on. today, they were heading out of town. we spotted republicans given new talking points on tax reform. david. >> mary, thank you. there are new tensions with russia tonight. the kremlin seizing two u.s. diplomatic compounds in russia and ordering the american embassy to cut hundreds of staff. the move comes as retaliation after congress approved new economic sanctions on russia for meddling in the u.s. election. by a veto-proof bipartisan majority. that bill, tonight, now sits on the president's desk. the legislation also says that president trump can't dial back those sanctions without congressional approval. he now has ten days to sign it into law. we turn next at this hour, to the severe storms hitting at this hour. americans under flash flood watches. as we head into the weekend, more than 2,000 flights delayed at eight major airports here in the east. a blinding storm blowing this a trampoline away. planes at washington's reagan airport taking off from very wet runways tonight. a very messy start to the weekend. meteorologist rob marciano in it all. hey, rob. >> david, the same areas that got hit with heavy rain earlier this week are getting hit again. flooding there no doubt about it. take a look at this system, flood watches down all the way to mississippi. severe thunderstorms across the carolinas, but the heaviest rain is in virginia, d.c. and baltimore, that's where the flood watch is out. overnight, southern pennsylvania and new jersey get it. as this coastal low takes shape. even new york and philadelphia, but that rain ends pretty quickly. the problem is, 3 to 4 inches of rain over saturated soil. brings a high risk of flooding. the next 18 hours will be dicey there. david. >> all right, rob, we'll be watching it this weekend. thank you. we turn next to the death of a police officer, the first on a scene of a car crash. rushing to help the people trapped inside the car when one of them then allegedly shot and killed him. lieutenant aaron allan, a six-year veteran of the force, a husband and a devoted father. and tonight, this question, why did they turn on the officer who was trying to help them survive? here's abc's gio benitez. >> reporter: tonight, a growing mystery and tragedy in a small indiana town. a 38-year-old police officer trying to help people in a car accident, shot and killed. >> suspect is still out and about. >> reporter: southport police lieutenant aaron allan responding to this rollover crash thursday when, police say, one man trapped inside the car started shooting. >> we need to find out what's going on so nobody else gets hurt. >> reporter: backup officers arriving to chaos. shooting at the car. >> officers trying to defend themselves and arms flailing in the car. >> reporter: 28-year-old jason brown was rushed to the hospital and arrested on suspicion of murder. the car's passenger interviewed and released. lieutenant allan was a husband and father, named the department's officer of the year in 2015. he was killed doing what he loved. >> he responded to a crash with urgency to preserve life. tragically, his was lost. >> reporter: and david, we still don't know why the suspect fired at lieutenant allan or what caused that car accident. but we do know that allan's the 27th officer shot and killed in the line of duty so far this year. david. >> thank you, gio. we turn next to an abc investigation tonight, that newly released government video seen exclusively right here. taking us inside an encounter between two u.s. border officers and a teenager from mexico. a short time later, that teen was dead. and the video appears to contradict what those officers testified happened. here's abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross tonight. >> reporter: this video obtained by abc news sheds new light tonight on the death of a 16-year old mexican high school student, in the white sweatshirt, after being caught by border officers smuggling drugs from mexico. it comes as president trump today told immigration agents in new york not to worry about being too rough in carrying out arrests. >> i said, "please don't be too nice." like, when you guys put somebody in the car and you're protecting their head, i said you can take the hand away, okay. >> reporter: in this case of the teenage smuggler, well before trump took office, things go bad for him almost immediately, as these two customs officers start to examine the two bottles. from his shoulder bag. what's in them is highly concentrated methamphetamine dissolved in liquid. >> if they truly suspected there was a controlled substance in the bottle, they should've conducted a field test. >> reporter: instead, the two officers encourage, or at least permit, the young man to drink it. >> cruz now points at the bottle, and she's saying, "okay, drink it." and she makes the gesture that we associate with "to drink." now, watch the male agent. he says, "drink another one." you see them exchanging glances and smiles. >> reporter: then it happens again. >> two more sips. >> reporter: four drinks in all. within a half hour the drugs take effect. the teenager can barely stand. a massive overdose. with symptoms like a heart attack. >> his body is sending him the signal that something horrible is happening. >> reporter: the officers will later say under oath that the teenager volunteered to drink the substance. >> i never asked him to drink. he volunteered to and i believe i gestured to go ahead. >> you told him to go ahead and drink on more than one occasion, did you not? >> no. >> reporter: the video suggests otherwise. but both officers remain on the job. no punishment, not even a letter of reprimand, david. >> brian ross with us tonight. brian will have much more coming up tonight, including how long it took to call for medical help. his "20/20" investigation is tonight at 10:00 p.m. right here on "20/20." brian, i'll see you then. in the meantime tonight, from london this evening, little charlie gard has passed away. he died at a hospice, one day after being transferred from the hospital. his case attracting worldwide attention. after his parents fought to bring him here, to the u.s., for experimental treatment for his rare genetic disorder. tonight, pope francis leading the tributes, tweeting, i entrust little charlie to the father. and pray for his parents and all those who loved him. there's still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this friday -- the escape from prison in this country. the young woman stabbed to death. the inmate breaking out, accused of kidnapping and killing the warden's own stepdaughter. the s.w.a.t. team responding. we'll have more coming in now. the charter bus up in flames. dozen of passengers scrambling to escape. and then, the accident on the hudson river here in new york city late today. the ferry slamming into a pier. dozens injured. emergency crews are on the scene. lot more ahead. ut moving forwar, not back. it's looking up, not down. it's being in motion. in body, in spirit, in the now. boost® high protein it's intelligent nutrition with 15 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for when you need a little extra. boost® the number one high protein complete nutritional drink. be up for it take the zantac it challenge! pill works fast? 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turks and caicos. the most dangerous side of the hurricane hitting there. this evening, a hurricane watch is officially in place here in south florida. the buildings, windows and crepes across there city, and first, abc's linzie janis leads us off with the devastating images tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the images now emerging of the utter devastation hurricane irma left behind. buildings and trees ripped apart. this communications tower snapped. hundreds now homeless. >> i was standing, and i would not want to see a hurricane like this again. >> reporter: barbuda's prime minister telling abc news its as if a bomb was dropped on the tiny island, one of the first hit. >> my main concern right now is how we are going to survive after this. >> reporter: st. martin next in irma's crosshairs. shipping containers tossed like toys. at least 14 now dead in the storm zone, including 16-year-old xander venesia. drowning in rough surf off the coast. the death toll expected to rise and scores more coast guard teams like this one have been flying in and out of the virgin islands rescuing people. our cameraman on that chopper capturing scenes of utter devastation as irma moved across the caribbean. we met canadian college student alex demoor, badly hurt in a fall in st. thomas airlifted to puerto rico for treatment. we lent her our phone so she could call her family. she and american student maddie gortat leaving the island with one pair of flip flops between them and little else. the pair describing how they rode out the storm. >> we didn't know if the roof was going to come off at any moment. >> we were praying. >> we were praying the whole time. >> reporter: irmany now moving in on the turks and caicos islands. the storm surge could be double that. >> i'm anxious about the storm. i have never been through a hurricane. >> reporter: california firefighter, josh livingston there celebrating his birthday, now hunkered down and bracing for a category 5 monster. >> we have been watching some of the destruction on the other islands. we're kind of waiting for it to hit this island. >> and linzie janis joins us now from san juan, and linzie, nearly a million people without power. hundreds of thousands without water tonight, and you were saying that authorities told you it could be months before power is restored there? >> reporter: that's right, david. and here's the reason why. there are hundreds and hundreds of trees like this one downed across this island. this one actually has a power line tangled up in it, david. >> linzie janis leading us off tonight. linzie, our thanks to you, and let's get to the storm track. chief meteorologist, ginger zee s back at the weather wall in mork. what does it now mean for the u.s.? >> reporter: it could mean catastrophe, especially for southeast florida. let me take you through this storm. hurricane irma still a category 5 over the turks and caicos it will go tonight, and then it's friday into saturday where it's just south of florida and it goes into the keys early sunday morning. 5:00 a.m. sunday, places like keilar goe, feeling the ridiculously strong winds. through the day on sunday into monday, it will keep going north as a strong category 1, and then tropical storms and this cone now involves indiana and ohio. this goes from jupiter inlet over west palm beach, and these hurricane watches are for all of south florida, and we stopped the time here at sunday afternoon, and it will have a wind gust of 127, david. >> just incredible, and while we have you, ginger, we wanted to show everyone at home the image that drives the real danger here in miami and south florida. we know that miami floods easily. look at this tonight. if you had a 3-foot storm surge, those areas in yellow would be underwater. a storm surge higher than 3 feet, and watch this. the areas in red go completely under, and that's why they are so concerned here in miami tonight, ginger. authorities are trying to get the warnings out. >> reporter: water is one of the most powerful things, and this does not take into account high tide. high tide happens just after midnight, and just after noon, that could make the surge from 5 to 10, and make it 8 to 13 easily, david. >> bracing here in south florida tonight. ginger, thank you. the island of barbuda taking a direct hit from hurricane irmany ma. more than 90% of the island homes and buildings destroyed and now hurricane jose is now on a path to hit that same island. moments ago, i spoke with the prime minister, now an urgent effort under way to get everyone out. prime minister, thank you for joining us, and the pictures coming in are just devastating. i know you have had a chance to fly over the island and to visit it in person. describe what you saw for us. >> well, for me, i never contemplated this. the landscapers just decimated. 90% or more of the buildings were damaged. it literally destroyed a country. >> mr. prime minister, i know you described it as though a bomb went off on that island, and we are all watching the track now of hurricane jose, which could get to that island as well. just incredible that you could be facing two hundrrricanes now. you're trying to get everybody off the island? >> well, we are. we're active, and actions have taken place. we will have the island completely evacuated. >> mr. prime minister, thank you for your time. i know you're very busy, and please make sure the people of your island know they are in our thoughts and prayers. >> many thanks. preparing for their second hurricane there now. here in florida tonight, more than a million people have been ordered to evacuate. we have seen the traffic jams going in one direction out of the storm zone all day here. many gasation stations have run dprie. abc's gio benitez is right here in south florida tonight. >> we started crawling. we're stopped right now. >> reporter: tonight, heavy traffic clogging major florida highways. >> everyone's trying to get to the same place, out. >> reporter: as more than a million floridians are asked to evacuate -- >> i know many of you are stuck in traffic. i know it's frustrating, but please be patient. evacuations are not meant to be convenient. they are meant to keep you safe. >> reporter: officials in key west telling residents that staying behind is irresponsible and dangerous. >> we are running out of time. the opportunity to leave is now. >> reporter: some in the keys fleeing by free shuttle bus to a miami shelter. >> i'm scared to death. i've been here 18 years i've never ever dealt with anything like this. >> reporter: on the only road out of the keys, people abandoning their cars near elevated bridges, hoping to avoid flooding. many on the road facing fuel shortag shortages. nearly 35% of gas stations in miami and ft. lauderdale are out of gas. 41% out up in gainesville, too. using police escorts to get fuel in faster, several hospitals evacuating too. one air lifting patients in a c-130 to a hospital in alabama. >> those gas stations running empty, alarming here tonight. gio benitez joins us from key west, along the long road in and out, and are people heeding the warning to get out? >> reporter: they are, david. take a look at the road behind me. it is mostly empty. that's because so many people have already left. i can tell you this. we're getting out of here first thing in the morning, david. >> all right. good news. stay safe to the team right there. gio, thank you. a million people may be trying to get away, but that means millions more will be staying in the storm zone, and as you look across here at miami, you can see so many high-rises and the question tonight, can the construction of the windows withstand a category 4 hurricane? we asked abc's tom llamas to take us up into the buildings. how much faster and more powerful will the winds be, the higher you go? >> reporter: tonight miami's glass towers and the cranes that build them causing concern hurricane irma could shatter it all. >> those are big targets out there. >> again, we're going to lose buildings that are going to have to be repaired, but i don't think buildings are going to completely collapse. >> reporter: 25 cranes are being secured before the storm, those that live near them told to evacuate. developers and builders abc news spoke with tell us buildings in downtown miami will hold up, but that high-rises could sway, some up to 12 inches. >> i expect to feel some here. we did feel it here during matthew and that was tropical storm. >> reporter: people in high-rises don't have to worry about debris like you down on the ground but up here, 50 stories, with a view like this, you do have to worry about something else. the wind is much more powerful up here. hurricane researchers tell us on the fiftieth floor a category 4 hurricane winds at 140 miles per hour would be 220 miles per hour that high up. south beach resident andres asion will ride out the storm in his 21 st floor condo. he has storm impact windows and cameras set up to watch the storm apprach. but even he has a plan b. >> "my plan if it gets too crazy ill go into the elevator shaft and it's like a fortress." >> reporter: other miami residents lined up outside of this packed costco, trying to prep by getting supplies that are now scarce. even water, tough to find. >> tom, people are not going to forget what you just reported. how much stronger those winds will get. stay away from the windows here in miami. reports of price gouching. are people being ripped off as they try to prepare? >> reporter: in some cases they are. i just got off the phone with the office of attorney general here in florida. since monday, david, get this. they have received 4,000 complaints of price gouging. >> tom llamas with us here in south florida. tom, thank you. hurricane irma is causing major disruptions in air travel across the country. some 4,000 flights have already been canceled, and look at this image tonight. a lot of air traffic to and from florida. you can see it light there. so many trying to get out of the storm zone and tonight there is a new and urgent plea just in from the miami airport for passengers still showing up hoping to find a flight. abc's amy robach is there. >> reporter: the rush to get out of the storm zone resulting in nights in airports. >> i have to spend the night in the airport because all the hotels are if i woulded. >> reporter: passengers in wheelchairs able to board at west palm beach, but at miami international airport -- hundreds showing up without tickets and finding none. the major airlines suspending operations by friday evening. already more than 4,000 flights in irma's path canceled. 12 cruise ships canceling chooses. the norwegian cruise ship coming back to miami early to let people off. >> it's a lot of stress. it's very stressful. no one knew what was going to going. >> reporter: airport officials are asking passengers who don't already have reservations to stay away from the airport. as you can see, these airports are extremely busy, and they say if you are here when they halt operations tomorrow, you will be bused to a shelter. book online or over the phone, david. >> in, amy, thank you. hurricane irma has already made history tonight. even before it hits the u.s. maintaining winds of 185 miles an hour for a record 36 hours straight, and we wanted to show you something. since 1970, just four category 4 hurricanes have made u.s. mainland. in 1992, andrew, in homestead florida with 165 miles per hour winds, and irma is stronger than all of them. senior meteorologist, rob marciano, in key lar goe tonight on what is making this so dangerous. >> reporter: irma's first strike giving us a glimpse of its sheer power, an explosion of nature's potent mix. the hurricane morphing into a monster because of a rare combination of conditions. high humidity and deep, warm water, above average feed the storm. there's also a lack of upper level winds that would choke the storm, and irma has avoided large land masses that would break apart the hurricane. >> it is like going over a giant all you can eat buffet for a hurricane right now. >> reporter: tonight, the eye 30 miles wide with the clouds swirling around it, 600 miles across. with the inner core equivalent to an ef-3 tornado. most striking, the longevity of irma's power, that record breaking stretch of 185 mph sustained winds for over 36 hours. >> and rob marciano reporting in from keylarg go, o, and we're dealing with a situation here. that is one of three active hurricanes turning tonight? >> reporter: we have katia in the gulf of mexico, and now jose which is another major hurricane. a category 3 strength likely to impact some of the islands that were devastated by irma. the last time this situation happened was back in 2010, and we're clearly getting into the height of hurricane season, which is clearly a very active season at that. david? >> all right, rob marciano tonight. rob, amy, tom, 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that end that and allow us officials to keep migrant families together until their cases are settled and immediately there was backlash about this. the aclu calling it, quote, another cruel attack on children who this administration has targeted again and again with its anti-immigrant policies. congress must not fund this and democrat bennie thompson adding the trump administration has managed to find a new low in its continued despicable treatment of migrant children and families, terminating the florez settlement is illegal and goes against long-standing american values about the treatment of children but according to acting secretary of homeland security that is not what is happening, he says people are taking advantage of this agreement and adults accompanying minus are being released as well in the 20 day period creating incentives across the border illegally. >> now child should be in a pond in a scheme to manipulate the immigration system which is why the new rule to exploit children is a free ticket as one gentleman and told me, a passport for migration. >> reporter: the mexican government expressing his concern. the hill reporting mexico will, quote, evaluate corresponding legal alternatives. of approved by congress it will take effect in 60 days. >> reporter: democrats and the mainstream media quickly slamming the president's changes. >> i think the trump administration people surround every day thinking of new ways to be cool to migrants. >> reporter: immigrant families and specifically kids help literally indefinitely at the pleasure of the trump administration, kind of like guantánamo. they would rip kids from the bosoms of their mothers. >> 2020 democrats also weighing in. kamala harris tweeting we must continue to fight this administration is cruel agenda. elizabeth warren echoing that message adding we must fight this. bernie sanders tweeting trump's immigration agenda is cruel, racist and a stain on this nation and joe biden adding it is cruel and abhorrent to strip migrant children of the few protections they have. the obama and trump administration previously expressed concern with the floors agreement and asylum loopholes being exploited but critics attacking the president for his attempt to fix the issues. editor in chief of the washington free beacon points out the left's hypocrisy. >> for years coyotes and human traffickers have been exploiting the loopholes in our asylum laws that were exacerbated by the floors consent decree. this will, the trump administration's attempt to rectify that to bring standards of care for the children and keep families together which is precisely what i thought the most reasonable people wanted to describe this policy is cool. >> dhs is they plan to create a set of higher standards for family detention facilities to apply, those facilities would be regulated and audited regularly and those audits will be made public. >> j in the believe out of the race for the white house. >> it has become clear that i'm not going to be carrying the ball, i'm not going to be president so i'm withdrawing. >> the environmental activist reaching 2% in any qualifying poll. he will continue to fight climate change telling the ap the democrat has announced today he is seeking a third term as governor. the presidential race appears to be tightening at the top. a new poll showing joe biden at 22% barely leading bernie sanders. elizabeth warren in third at 17%, three of ten candidates qualify for the third democratic debate. it will be hosted by abc, had texas southern university in houston next month, slated for two days but if 10 or fewer candidates qualify it will be a one night event. todd: we are following the story all week. the mission to find two firefighters lost at sea. the coast guard shifting its search as far north as north carolina week after finding -- they were last seen leaving for a fishing trip in florida. hope is wearing thin. >> time has become our enemy. we need a conversation with a we continue with an active search or moved to regular patrol activities. >> reporter: volunteers and government agencies have searched 90,000 mi. so far. there is a $30,000 reward to find the men. jillian: two servicemembers killed in afghanistan. their identities and other details about their deaths are unknown. 14 troops have been killed in combat in afghanistan this year. right now a special envoy is in peace talks with the taliban and possibly end america's longest war. >> happier news, donald trump honoring a basketball legend with the presidential medal of freedom. it will be his seventh white house visit. the first in 30 years. >> reporter: the fall of fame or won 6 nba titles, 13 straight all-star games, the boston celtics. it is 9 minutes after the hour, 2020 democrats have a bull's-eye on the hawkeye state. >> that's why we have to win in 2020. >> we have to restore the backbone. >> a system that works for all. >> reporter: the candidates crisscrossing 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democratic field swarms the hawkeye state. jillian: is the 2020 field afraid of a second wipeout by donald trump? thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. take a look at the latest polling in iowa and you can see joe biden with 20%, others before trailing behind with 19%. kamala harris with 11% and bernie sanders at 9%. do any of those numbers surprise you to >> not at all. we are excited and iowa and we are so pretty much guaranteeing and iowa victory for our president. nobody is worrying us. i'm not scared at all. i'm here on the ground. i was just at the iowa state fair and nobody had quite the splash like donald trump did in 2016 so i'm not concerned at all. >> obviously iowa crucial as the first caucus state but do you get a sense based on the numbers we just showed you and the general sense on the grounds are democrats finally realizing they do need to win rural america in order to take back the white house? >> absolutely. you definitely need to win rural america, you need to and iowa to be the next president of the united states and i ones are excited about what donald trump has done for economic growth. unemployment the lowest it has ever been, wages are up, people's businesses are billing. i went are excited because it was promises made and promises kept. i don't expect anything other than a trump landslide in iowa and the dems should be nervous. >> how about women voters, how crucial are they going to be in iowa? what are your constituents and coworkers saying out there after we saw a lot of people in iowa the last couple weeks? >> great question in tonight all across america we are having and power women events where we are having women come meet with us, do meeting briefs and we are educating them on the promises our president has made and how he has delivered for women, how our president has made women a top priority and women are learning all about that and well -- all the women doing these events this evening, we are educating women that it is okay to show your out word support unapologetic support for our great president because he stands for us and is changing america and keeping us safe. >> along those lines do you think donald trump does better with suburban women in 2020 than in 2018 when we saw cracks in that suburban women block for donald trump? >> absolutely we will do better because we have larger team, we are partnering with the are in see who as you are probably aware has had record turnout for donations. our president is doing phenomenal with the women. we are going to ensure that he does better than he did in 2016 and that is where we have this wonderful national coalition with strong women like myself who are unapologetically supportive and showing our love for our great president. >> look at those results from 2016 and i would donald trump 51.2%, hillary clinton with 41.7%, that was the final. my question is what do you expect those numbers to look like in 2020 and what is the message democrats are missing telling the people of iowa at this point in the game? >> the message is they don't have the proven track record donald trump does. is a businessman who has turned this country around, joe biden's that is just highlighting the legacy of obama. that's not a winning strategy so definitely, i am predicting a landslide in the state. i want to see that number in the 80% so we are going to do great. i'm not concerned, we are pushing forward and we are getting women coming across the country in droves. >> live from iowa, thanks so much. >> 18 after the hour. could racial bias impact the jury verdicts? one state put it to the legal test. inside the case of a controversial new standard. >> we talked about iowa and now we are going to kentucky. griff jenkins at the state fair joins us live in louisville. >> we have urban, blue grass and horses, they sell $3 million, we are taking into the fares when we come back. >> welcome back. a decision is expected to say that could make it easier for illegal immigrants to go to college at least in one state. right now students from arizona in the dac a program get a discount on the standard out-of-state tuition. the board of regents will go on ending the dac requirement and instead leave all illegal immigrants a discount as long as they graduate from in arizona i school and students would still have to pay more than in-state students. >> disabled veterans with student loans have one less thing to worry about donald from using executive order to cancel their debts. >> we wipeout an average of $30,000 in debt owed by 20,000 eligible veterans who made immense sacrifices, the ultimate sacrifice in many ways. >> reporter: eligible veterans will be cleared from paying federal income tax on the loan, the president signed the order in kentucky. jillian: 117th kentucky state in full swing and with more than 600,000 people expected, it is a busy two weeks at the fairground. todd: griff jenkins joins us from the kentucky state fair. >> reporter: good morning was one of the oldest in the country and a horse show makes it more special. i had the fried oreos and funnel cakes and went on some crazy rides but we also may have something else to tell you about, watch. ♪ >> reporter: kentucky is known for blue grass, bourbon and horses and all three at the state fair. >> our world championship, they were a year for this particular show. instead of riding my horse i will drive a buggy. it is really fun. >> a celebrity is this too. >> william shatner. if you haven't seen it it is so excited. >> this cow. sometimes you just got to take a load off at the fair. not everybody will admit the reason they come to the fair is for the food. that is better than the ice cream. >> what is the best part of the fair? this? >> definitely. >> i only come to the fair for the food. >> really good. >> i like it, corndogs. >> best corndog i ever ahead. >> two things i love in life, donuts and cheeseburgers. it was easy when i found cecelia's donut burger. >> donuts with a hamburger and we take the patty and dip it in the maple server. >> wristband to ride the rides and game tickets to win the big prize, come on, let's go. >> thank you, sir. >> what is your favorite thing about the fair? >> going on rides. >> any of the rides scary? >> not really. >> best food, best ride, the horse show and this scary ride. from the state fair. that kid is lying. some of those rides are scary. by the way, cecelia, happy birthday, she's the one who gave me the donors cheeseburger. governor matt bevan will join us later this morning in advance of the selling of the annual hand. all the money going to charity, went for $2.8 million. if you go upwards of 3 i am hoping to get a vitamin. >> griff just can't it is called a liar on tv. >> i did. you saw that thing drops, it is terrifying. todd: thanks so much, 26 after the hour. first it was recreational pot and a judge in mexico just approved recreational cocaine. is that a preview of things to come? creates a slippery slop on the war on drugs? >> taking a rock home from national park but males it back because she felt guilty. the adorable apology letter going viral this morning. we will tell you about it when we come back. >> welcome back. a look at top headline starting with a fox news alert. california shifted be shot by a sniper right outside his station. deputy is expected to be okay. 's bulletproof vest credited with saving his life. los angeles county sheriff's office is two people were detained but no arrests have been made. >> the trump administration's scrapping the floors agreement, the decades-old case preventing kids from being held in detention centers for more than 20 days. democrats lamb the new rule which will allow migrants to stay in detention centers indefinitely. the president says this will allow migrant families to stay together while detained. >> bowing out of the race for the white house, j inslee barely reaching 2% in any poll, he will continue his fight to defeat climate change, democrats expect to announce he is seeking a third term as governor. >> prosecutors in washington state dealing with a new challenge. >> state supreme court sending the case back to a lower court over alleged racial bias in the jury panel. david springer explains. >> a guilty verdict in the seattle court room a common occurrence but as the state supreme court ruling it could be subject to an uncommon challenge with racial bias among jurors. >> it is an issue we are all aware of, very difficult to unravel and difficult to prove, unconscious bias is more difficult to deal with. >> reporter: in the ground breaking decision they remanded a guilty verdict back to marion spearman. and an investigation for black juror during deliberations, it appeared to be an open and shut case against thomas bird lose the two eyewitnesses, found the murder weapon in his vehicle and the getaway driver testified against him. the loan black juror was holding out after finally relented, she told defense attorneys her views were dismissed because she and the defendant are black. prosecutor since questions to jurors, all denied racial bias but the supreme court said that wasn't good enough. >> allegations of racial bias are something the court takes really seriously in the sense the court needs to conduct an inquiry, not an inquiry normally conducted after a verdict but is very trial to -- familiar trial judges. >> they are worried about solid convictions getting tossed. washington state judges are forced to hold a hearing after convictions when jerry racism is alleged, putting every juror under oath to determine if bias played a role in the verdict, difficult at best, but a new tool for defendants who have just been found guilty. >> a break down at the border, in a scathing letter obtained by fox news government watchdog telling donald trump cvp that violent criminals walk free for nearly a decade. the group says the agency didn't follow a law that requires dna samples to be collected from detained migrants. the process was supposed to allow agents to cross reference samples with the fbi violent crimes database. dhs says it is working with them to move forward with dna collection at the border. governor of north carolina vetoing a bill that would have required sheriff's and police to cooperate with ice. democrat roy cooper called unconstitutional and claimed it would weaken law enforcement by draining resources. state lawmakers who supported the bill are outraged. >> this is one of the most disturbing vetos since i've served. >> lawmakers could move to override the veto. it is unclear if they will. a new pilot program could put more criminals on the streets. the city of sacramento will get $9 million to hire a staff of people who will determine if low-level defendant should be released without bail. california governor newsom wants to end cash bail completely. >> a judge green lights the right to use cocaine recreationally in mexico allowing two people to possess, transport and use the drug but not sell it. the organization behind the cases decriminalization could be the push they need to take back the lead in the war on drugs but the question is could america the next. here to weigh in as the director of national drug control policy doctor david mary, thank you for joining us, do you think this is what needs to be done in mexico to get a hold of the problem? >> thanks for having me on. i worked for the former director, thank you. it is not only a mistake for mexico to do this, it is a damaging and even tragic blunder. cocaine ravages communities when used more readily, more accessible, easier, you don't get a just and peaceful mexico, you will get enormous damage to public health, to criminal justice and even to national security. the cartels, heavily armed and vicious still control the cocaine trade and of a judge wants to say we are making it available the government will handle is now the cartels aren't going to take their forelock and stuff their foot and say i guess it is over and handed guns. they are going to control this making it more likely that there will be corruption and violence in the mexican system that is already tenuous in fighting for its life. it is a huge mistake. >> you mentioned violence, in 2018 drug-related homicides in mexico rose to 33,000, that was a 15% increase from the previous year according to the council on foreign relations. it seems this idea helps the cartels you are talking about. in the united states anyways seems like we have something to worry worry about because there are already drugs coming across the borders from mexico so now you have the potential that more people than two could possess, transport and use them. will stop them from bringing them over here? >> they are already coming across the border. 90% of the drugs that influence the united states from methamphetamine to cocaine flow-through or transit mexico or produced there already and we are fighting the fight of our lives here. cocaine in the last year for which we have data was responsible for 13,000 plus american death and it is rising and rising steeply so this is a very dangerous drug. the drug traffic and the cartels control these. they are heavily armed. this is not like gangland violence, these people have capacities with rpgs, armand vehicles, machine guns that are almost comparable to syria. they are armed insurrection groups that are narcotraffickers and they are not relinquishing their control of cocaine so when you make cocaine more available, the likelihood is we will be awash in it just as we have seen the legalization of recreational marijuana, we've seen an explosion in the last 3 years, 43 million americans plus are uses of high potency marijuana. we don't need to add more cocaine. >> your take on this next topic, a new political report claims two the government's top scientists warned of the coming opioid crisis back in 2006. let's take a look at this portion of this memo from 2006 that says, this is from the director of the national institute on drug abuse and it says that institute in 2005 monitoring the survey revealed approximately one of 10 high school students will have abused vicodin before graduating, this statistic is alarming and i recommend discussing various ways in which we can work more collaboratively to address this topic of urgent public health concern. this was 2006. what went wrong between then and now? >> we were fighting that fight, by 2006 we were partner agencies, we had produced the synthetic drug strategy that was a focused effort to say here is what we must do to combat the rising overprescribing of opioids, we tried to get shopping curtailment leading to knockdown the online pharmacies, trying to get as many realizations out there that these pills were being diverged in youth were getting access to them. the interesting thing is by 2006 there were earlier warnings on this and when we tried to address this to capitol hill or the respective agencies like fda or dea we got enormous amount of either pushback or duck and cover and with a little surprise there was that much money and influence and authority, afghan druglords with new law firm behind some the equivalent of what we were facing where people did not step up and do their full duty at that regard the threat with the emerging. it doesn't really land hard, the opioid crisis in 2010 and that is when the overdose deaths skyrocket and they have double. >> that is what we are trying to fight, the overdose deaths involving analysts in 2006. >> one last thing if i might. the opioid crisis and the rise of heroin and sentinel through mexico. those fires burned together and the overdose crisis. >> we are fighting that battle right now. thank you for your time, appreciate it. >> 40 minutes after the air the mainstream media wants you to worry about imminent recession. >> reporter: recession jitters, donald trump rattled with economic alarm bells prompting wild week on wall street. >> there are indicators the us could be headed for recession. >> reporter: should we be worried about student loans? taxpayers could be on the hook for billions as more americans default on student loans. >> dancing with the stars debacle, host of the show taking aim at a new cast member, sean spicer, the former white house secretaries and having it, the response justin overnight. they answered 410 questions in 8 categories about vehicle quality. and when they were done, chevy earned more j.d. power quality awards across cars, trucks and suvs than any other brand over the last four years. so on behalf of chevrolet, i want to say "thank you, real people." you're welcome. we're gonna need a bigger room. >> recession jitters donald trump said to be rattled economic alarm bells cause wild week on wall street. >> there are indicators the us could be headed for a recession. >> there are some rough waters ahead, maybe a recession on the horizon. >> are we talking about a recession. the media focuses on a potential recession another crisis is being ignored. >> new numbers on a student loan crisis. >> reporter: the new york federal reserve's reasons debt survey may not have flashed recession signs but it did show another disturbing trend that more americans are default on their student loans, severely to lincoln student loan to sword since 2012 and are now 35% of severe derogatory, the most damaging marks that appear on credit reports. even more than credit cards, auto loans and mortgage issues, 10%, $1.5 trillion federal student loan portfolio is 30 days past due or more. another 20% is indifferent or forbearance, 30% income-based repayment plan allowing them to monthly payment it 10% of discretionary income and the balance after 20 years or 10 for people in public service. congress created plans for new borrowers and the obama administration expanded them retroactively. this makes up 30% of student loan so colleges can offer expensive degrees with learning potential knowing the student can offer income-based repayment and after 20 years have that unpaid debt to taxpayers. a good deal for college students but not everyone else because the congressional budget office, a nonpartisan agency projects a 306% billion dollar cost to taxpayers due to student loans. the vicious cycle keeps going on. this little girl doesn't take nature for granted. park rangers sharing an apology note from a child who stole a rock from national park. >> she loved smoking the park so much she wanted a souvenir. not only did she mail the rock back to north carolina but she included a donation. >> park rangers thanked her for honesty, shared the note online. it is going viral. you are not allowed to take anything from hawaii because otherwise bad things happen to you. >> it is 46 after the hour. terrifying moments on the tarmac when the planes gives off the runway and explodes into flames. how 10 people managed to escape without a scratch. >> an army veteran beauty queen kicks out of a pageant for being a conservative but she's not going down without a fight. she joins us live next. these folks don't have time to go to the post office they use stamps.com all the services of the post office only cheaper get a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again. >> good morning and welcome back to conservative beauties clean from nevada stripped of the title days before the miss america pageant. >> i was officially disqualified for the miss america pageant. i don't understand how you can censor someone with conservative values. my name is katie williams. i'm a former nestor that estate 2019 and i have officially been dethroned. >> the for minister that us as she was banned because she supports the president. she joins us with her side of the story. what happened? >> thanks for having me on and it was a crazy turn of eventss. i joined the pageant in april and kind of got a weird feeling with the ceo, she would encourage me a lot on the phone and as soon as i get on with her she was disapproving of everything i did. i tried my best, best effort to make her happy and i guess it wasn't enough, the week before the pageant she disqualified me. >> looking at the photos you have served our country and we thank you for your service. let's talk about the pageant statement on your accusations and this is, quote, katie williams is distorting the facts, none of this had to do with her personal political views. the miss america pageant is about politics pageant, she acknowledged in writing that she understood these rules before she was accepted into the pageant. i understand you did sign as stated in the screen we show that you signs and you acknowledge these rules and part of the conversation that you had to delete things from your social media account having to do with your conservative views and you didn't want to do that. >> he continued to encourage me over the phone and included a few snapshots on my twitter encouraging me to get political figures and i was confused and i read the statement. i knew what she said and i can't say what their motives are but at the end of the day i fought for this country and us army veteran, a wife and mother and my job is to inspire young women and conservatives to speak out against hits on our free-speech and i won't let that happen, no bureaucratic red tape will hold me down and i will keep saying what i need to say. >> you mention the exchange with the ceo on screen reading the ceo writing bring your stash and try to get a photo with trump and trump junior. how do they explain this apparent contradiction to you? >> getting pictures with political figures wasn't a political post. when we get on the phone together she would continuously encourage that. on my pageant profile did which i did make after she asked, a picture of myself and candace owens. she was totally fine with that picture but the moment i put my trump 2020 had on the problem started. jillian: but you knew when you made the posts we are looking at right now that they were going to have something to say considering they have rules against politics. >> yes they do and i didn't honestly think they would say anything about it. the current sitting president, i want him to get reelected and as an army veteran i think he has done well for the country. >> thank you for sharing your story, we appreciate it. >> we will be right back. lue. thank you, admiral. so if you need money for your family, call newday usa. >> welcome back, this guy knows how to sashay away from the critics, is just doing of a brand-new stage. >> ousted white house press secretary sean spicer slamming critics as he joins the cast of dancing with the stars telling them, quote, i never really cared what they think. >> his remarks follow up tweet saying he had hopes the show would, quote, be a joyful respite from our exhausting political climate and free from inevitably divisive bookings from any party affiliation. >> he will join "fox and friends" live at 7:30 eastern time. bill marr fires back at rashida tlaib after she suggests boycotting his tv show tweeting some people have one move only, boycott, cancel, make go away but here's the thing, the house voted 318-17 to condemn the bds movement including 93% of dems, does she want to boycott 93% of her own party. >> is referring to july but warehouse overwhelmingly passed a boycott, investment and sanctions against israel. >> a purple heart is returned to his family. the metal found in a fleamarket across the country after that. >> that night, they crawl on their belly for miles and miles. >> it helps james era would metal, he died in 2015. >> bursting into flames trying to take off in california. you see the raging fire by a full tank of gas. faa investigates. >> bill diblasio and the live stream campaign appearance on a high note. >> i apologize you never got to know donald trump but this new york volunteers to get rid of them for you. thank you, everybody. >> you can see somebody frantically trying to fix the audio malfunction. the mayor's voice is higher than his poll numbers. >> it does continue right now. >> immigrant families, specifically kids will be held literally indefinitely at the pleasure of the trump administration kind of like guantánamo. >> i have the children on my mind, this new rule will do more to bring them together. >> it is thursday, august 22nd donald trump defending his new rule to end the catch and release ball. >> democrats from it was a tax to stop the president's plan to secure the border.
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