Tonight, the new video showing the moment that 950ton bridge collapses. At least six dead, a number that could rise as they search the rubble. And we learned one of the victims was an 18yearold fiu student. And the question tonight, could this disaster have been avoided . The mountain drama inside the west wing. Several in the president s inner circle reportedly in the crosshairs. With the National Security adviser told our reporter today at the white house. Two powerful storms hitting right now. One of them tracking east. Will it grow into a fourth noreaster and a spring slam in sam champion standing by with the track. Also tonight, the family kicked off a passenger plane. A little girl scared to fly, and the confrontation with the Flight Attendants. Plus, the ski lift disaster. The lift out of control, going in reverse. Riders sent airborne, slammed to the ground. And good evening. Im tom llamas in for david, and we begin at the scene of that deadly bridge collapse in miami. The agonizing wait for families and friends of victims. We now know a College Student is among the dead, and tonight that new video. It shows the moment the bridge came down without warning across several lanes of road killing at least six people. Teams of investigators, emergency crews, construction crews and engineers still on the scene. The 950ton bridge collapsing just days after being installed. Abcs Victor Oquendo again for us at the scene tonight. Reporter Traffic Cameras capturing the devastating moment that miami bridge collapsed trapping victims underneath. Now more than 24 hours after that deadly collapse were learning about
the first victim. The miami herald reporting, 18yearold fiu freshman alexa duran among the dead. Yesterday she driving by that bridge with a friend when her toyota was struck. Her friend survived. A desperate rescue mission now, a pain staking recovery amid the rubble. Our primary focus is to remove all of the cars and all of the victims in a dignified manner. Reporter to reach those eight cars pinned underneath 950 tons of concrete and steel, teams using heavy machinery to break the debris into smaller pieces. Authorities bracing to find more victims. We can assume theyre in there, but we cannot confirm identity of whos in there. Were caught in a bad place right now. Reporter for the families of the missing, it is an agonizing wait. Jorge and carol fragas are looking their uncle, 60yearold ronaldo fraga. We want to find out for sure if hes out there. Reporter tonight investigators zeroing in on the moments before the collapse when workers performed a stress test
on the bridge. If it is a true stress test, generally theyre putting some load on it and seeing how the bridge reacts. Reporter senator marco rubio tweeting that, the cables that suspend the bridge had loosened and the Engineering Firm ordered they be tightened. They were being tightened when it collapsed today. All that work done as traffic whizzed by. The bridge, still under construction, was celebrated as a feat of modern engineering seen here being installed last saturday in a matter of hours. Today investigators pressed on whether it had adequate structural support. Thats part of our investigation. Our investigations are very comprehensive. They are thorough and they take awhile, but when he do it, well have those answers. Reporter the Florida Department of transportation revealing that the university, which was in charge of the project, did not hire a prequalified company to do a secondary design check of the bridge. And a major statement there from florida dot. Victor joins us now from the scene of the collapse. What is the university saying about that company not being prequalified . Reporter tom, the president
of the University Says they are investigating, but they only work with approved and certified contractors. Also tonight, word of another victim who died here, a worker, 37yearold Navarro Brown from another company. They tell us he was out here when that bridge went down. That sad development tonight. Victor, thank you. Now to the drama playing out at the white house. Growing questions about who is coming and going in the west wing. Three days after the firing of secretary of state Rex Tillerson, National Security adviser, h. R. Mcmaster and ben carson are all said to be on thin ice. The white house insists no one is going anywhere, at least not yet. Heres abcs david wright. Reporter tonight the white house is trying to tamp down reports of an imminent cabinet shakeup. The cos actually spoke to a number of staff this morning reassuring them there were personnel changes, no immediate
personnel changes at this time and that people shouldnt be concerned. Reporter among the top officials whose jobs may be in danger, National Security adviser h. R. Mcmaster, who is known to have a contentious relationship with the president. Mcmaster was at the west wing today. Abcs tara palmeri caught up with him. Everybodys got to leave the white house at some point. Are you going sooner or later . Im doing my job. Reporter today press secretary Sarah Sanders specifically reassured mcmaster and insisted she was doing so at the president s behest. I spoke directly to the president last night, he asked me to pass that message along to general mcmaster. Reporter the president himself has been fueling speculation about a staff shakeup. Im really at a point where were getting very close to having the cabinet and other things that i want. Reporter in a week in which he fired secretary of state Rex Tillerson in a tweet, trump hinted at more bloodletting to come. There will always be change and i think you want to see change. And i want to also see different
ideas. Taking two sentences out of the thousands of remarks that the president makes and making it look like thats the entire focus of his administration. He just nominated two new people to be part of his cabinet so we are getting close. All right, david wright joins us now from the bhowhite house,d we heard mcmaster say, quote, everybodys got leave the white house at some point, and sources have told abc news there are some in the president s inner circle who may be in trouble of losing their jobs . Reporter well, tom, there has been a lot of behindthescenes chatter about Veterans Affair secretary david shulkin, and also the housing and urban developing secretary, ben carson. Both have faced scandals over ethics and spending and both have been summoned to the white house to talk about it. Also, there has been lots of speculation about the chief of staff, general john kelly although today, Sarah Sanders says his job is not at risk. David, thank you. Next to chilling new video
from the pulse nightclub shooting in orlando. For the first time, were seeing images inside the club as the terror attack unfolded. Gunman omar mateen pledged allegiance to isis walking into the club with an Assault Rifle. The video released at trial as prosecutors try to prove his widow played a role in the attack. We want to warn you some of the video is disturbing. Heres abcs lindszie janis. Reporter tonight, prosecutors showing jurors how casually omar mateen entered the pulse nightclub casing the venue for 11 minutes through that doorway a packed dancefloor. Mateen then leaving the club, moving his car to a closer spot before coming back in. This time with his Assault Rifle opening fire on that dancefloor. Then moving to another part of the club. Within six minutes, police entering through the lobby. Their guns drawn. As they see the full horror inside, officers yelling to the wounded to get out if they can. If you can walk shots fired. Reporter mateen holing up in the restrooms for the next three hours. Outside, s. W. A. T. Teams busting through an exterior wall. Shots fired. Shots fired. Reporter within moments, engaging mateen in a gun battle killing him. But not before he took 49 lives. Tom, salman denies knowing about her husbands plans and she pleads not guilty to providing support to a foreign terrorist organization, tom. Linzie janis tonight. Thank you. Overseas now and stunning new developments in a mystery death of a russian dissident on british soil. Authorities confirming a critic of russian president Vladimir Putin was murdered in his home in london. Putin already blamed for the nerve agent attack on an exrussian spy. Abcs chief foreign correspondent, terry moran is in moscow. Reporter Counter Terrorism police and hazmatsuited technicians swarm a home in south london. Another russian victim in england, a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin. This man, nikolai glushkov, a former Top Executive at aeroflot, the russian airline, who fled russia and claimed asylum in britain in 2004, found dead monday. Police say it was compression of the neck, strangulation, and theyre now treating his death as a murder. Glushkovs killing came just over a week after russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned by a militarygrade nerve agent in salisbury, england. And today, British Foreign minister Boris Johnson accused putin personally in that attack. We think it overwhelmingly likely that it was his decision to direct the use of a nerve agent. Reporter russia that has
denied any involvement. Putin today campaigning in a lab coat, ahead of sundays president ial vote and state tv this week showing a fawning documentary with this exchange. What is not possible to ever forgive . Terry moran abc news. And news tonight in the chopper crash in iraq. Seven American Service members were killed when their air force helicopter went down near the syrian border. The u. S. Official says the chopper may have hit a power line. Bill de blasio identifying them as christopher senetes. As we head into the weekend, the possible fourth noreaster in three weeks waiting on the other side. Heavy snow falling across the plains. Trucks sliding off interstate 90 in rapids city, south dakota and watch the snowen t on top of th truck clipping an overpass in massachusetts, knocking loose the protective netting. We have sam champion, and were following the weather tonight. Just like we have forecasted the last three, well do the fourth. Lets get to the boards. This is a storm that tonight is dropping snow in the sierras and california, and also into the rocki rockies. We start the maps on monday morning, and the low is in oklahoma at that point. No matter where the storm goes what it is on the east coast, from dallas to atlanta, i want people to understand all weekend long, it could be even tornados on sunday. Be careful with that. Now we go to tuesday at 7 00 p. M. , and you see our coastal low forming right there on the carolinas and virginia. Exactly as it has the past few times and we have two models to watch. One model makes it a snow maker from washington, d. C. All the way into maine. The other model would pull it off the shoreline too far away for it to be a problem for the mid atlantic or new england, and what i would always say is this far out, dont believe anyone who gives you totals and well forecast this storm this weekend here on abc. Sounds good. Could be a rough start to spring. Absolutely. A manhunt in pasadena, california. Police searching for a suspect accused of dropping a boulder from a highway overpass smashing through the windshield of a family car below, and a young father and husband killed because of it. Heres abcs kayna whitworth. Reporter tonight a mother and wife pleading with the public for help after her husband was killed by a 35pound boulder while they were driving on a california freeway. If anybody saw anything, please help us. Reporter guadeloupe gutierrez was driving her 23yearold husband in the passenger seat, when police say their car was deliberately hit. That boulder did not come off the side of the freeway and strike the vehicle. That boulder was purposely moved and thrown from the overcrossing. Reporter gutierrez, pregnant with the couples second child. Their 4yearold daughter in the back seat when the basketball sized rock crashed through their windshield. We decided to have a second child about two weeks ago. We found out i was pregnant. He was so excited. Now hes gone. Reporter tom, california Highway Patrol is checking that boulder for dna evidence. They are also searching this area for surveillance cameras as they try to find whoever is responsible. Tom . Kayna whitworth for us, thank you. Next tonight, Southwest Airlines facing questions tonight. An adult and a toddler kicked off their flight in chicago. Heres abcs david kerley. Reporter the passenger with the 2yearold said he didnt understand. Because shes sitting. Shes been sitting for the last five minutes. Reporter the child had been crying, not sitting in her seat, but on the lap of the man who appears to be her father on the southwest flight from chicago. The family ordered to leave the aircraft. This is not helpful guys. You want to go to atlanta, or . The decisions been made. Reporter this all happening after the jet had headed to the runway and then back. Weve got an incident on board. Possible belligerent passenger. Were going to be returning to
alpha 16 please. Reporter citing regulations, the Flight Attendant and a ground supervisor were adamant. Former pilot john nance calls that absurd. Just because somebody has authority does not mean that they need to use it in the draconian way that this was applied. Reporter in a statement, southwest says, a conversation escalated on board and the airline offered regret for the inconvenience, but the man seemed to get the last word. Im glad you screwed up everyones day. Reporter the family was put on the next flight to atlanta and southwest says it will reach out to the customers to listen to their concerns. Tom . David, thank you. And there is still much more ahead on world news tonight this friday. The ski lift disaster. The malfunction, the lift going backwards. Several riders sent airborne and slammed to the ground. Plus, the amber alert in mexico. Police now say a pennsylvania teen flew to cancun with a family friend who is married, and what she allegedly did to trick her school. Plus the powerful explosion caught on camera. Moments after firefighters told
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