Well, good friday morning to you. Im reena ninan. And im ryan smith. And we begin with that horrific killing spree near houston and the chilling new details about the man accused of murdering a couple and their four children, all relatives of his exwife. The accused gunman is due in court today. He has a history of Domestic Violence including alleged attacks on his wife and his own mother. For more, heres abcs kristin fisher. [ sirens ] reporter they heard the sirens. Theyve seen the headlines, but people who live in this houston suburb, even Police Officers, are still in shock about what just happened in this home. Especially over children, and i wanted to come by and pray for them right here. Reporter four Young Children and their parents allegedly shot and killed execution style by this man, ron haskell. Police say the 33yearold was looking for his exwife, the sister of the mother he allegedly murdered. Its just heartbreaking to know that when somebody is filled with so much anger that they take it out on little bitty kids. Reporter haskell is now with capital murder but there were warning signs, lots of them. In 2008 haskells wife filed a Domestic Abuse complaint saying he dragged her by the hair and repeatedly punched her in the head. One time waking up the children and doing it in front of the children. Reporter five years later haskells wife filed a restraining order against him. She did mention at times she feared for her life. Reporter he taped his own mother to a chair, choked her and threatened to kill her for speaking to his exwife. Now, everyone in her sisters family is gone except one, 15yearold cassidy. She was shot in the head, played dead and then somehow managed to call 911. I said i was so sorry, cassidy, about everything thats happened, but im so thankful youre still here with us. Reporter 15yearold cassidy is still in the hospital, but she is expected to make a full recovery. As for haskell, hes being held without bond. Kristin fisher, abc news, washington. Theyre cleaning up this morning in the Virginia Beach area. Severe thunderstorms injured at least ten people and caused significant damage to buildings. The greatest damage was near the oceanfront. The storms were accompanied by dangerous winds that also blew out windows, flooded roads and knocked down power lines. The high winds also picked up as it was driven down by the street. You see that right there and this item was hurled onto the front lawn of the church. The steeple nearly hit the car and the driver inside. It was like a spin cycle. Everything in my car just flying around. The wind literally came this way and just pushed them all the way across the street. Reporter two of the injured are in Critical Condition but are expected to live, and some people reported seeing a tornado, but there was no confirmation from the weather service. And a Violent Storm moved through central pennsylvania triggering flash floods and causing widespread damage. Rides at hershey Amusement Park including a water park were flooded. Time now for a look at todays weather across the nation. Expect more severe storms today in the midwest and rain stretching from the california oregon border all the way across to the great lakes. Scattered thunderstorms are expected along much of the east coast and gulf coast. And temperatures will reach the 80s in those rainsoaked areas, but the 90s in the midwest and south of the storms. Phoenix is in triple digits again, and boston is the cool spot in the mid70s. Well, firefighters in Washington State are facing difficult conditions as Property Owners have been ordered to evacuate. One wildfire was burning 28 square miles in just two days thanks to the hot and dry conditions. Dozens of homes are threatened. Some residents have been told to evacuate. Others have been put on standby. Investigators are trying to determine if fireworks are to blame for a deadly fire near boston. Three children were among seven People Killed when their Apartment Building went up in flames in the middle of the night. Many families escaped with moments to spare. Some of them jumping out of windows or tossing their kids to safety. Those who didnt make it were all out on the top floor. Its a tragic day in the city of lowell. It was a horrific fire. The entire city mourns the losses for those families. Witnesses say they heard fireworks exploding just before the fire. There was no sprinkler system. The building did have an alarm system, but tenants say they did not hear it. President obama says the u. S. Is ready to step in and negotiate a ceasefire in the middle east. President obama spoke with israeli Prime Minister netanyahu expressing concerns about the safety of civilians. He also urged both sides not to escalate the crisis further and to restore calm. But the crossborder violence has now entered a fourth day, and neither side is backing down. This morning gaza militants fired a barrage of rockets, one of them hitting a gas station fuel tank south of tel aviv sending a plume of smoke into the sky. Israel answering back launching new air strikes into gaza. The Israeli Military has mobilized 30,000 reservists near the gaza border for a possible ground invasion. Secretary of state john kerry has arrived in afghanistan. Hes meeting with president karzai and both president ial candidates who are claiming victory in last months election. The apparent loser is threatening to set up his own government, and kerry is hoping to strike a deal between the two men. In los angeles, a little profitable late night fun. People were getting out of their cars at a park in withery, california, to look for cash. The money was hidden in pez candy dispensers by the real estate mogul who started tweeting about hidden cash drops in may. Hes already dropped a clue about another drop this morning in orange county. All right. 99 days of freedom. The reasons behind a new campaign to get people temporarily to quit facebook. And more trouble for the highend prostitute who is accused of murdering a google executive with a lethal drug injection. This morning the other Death Investigation shes now at the center of. Plus, caught on camera, Good Samaritans help a Police Officer who caught fire. Samaritans help a Police Officer who caught fire. Welcome back. So good news for people with a sweet tooth. Rumors of the death of crumbs cupcake shops may be premature. An Investor Group may acquire them and reopen the stores which closed suddenly monday night. Marcus lemonus is heading the group and says plans are not quite fully baked. He sees crumbs expanding into other sweets not just cupcakes. One of those flyers who tries to cram everything into an overhead bin, this might be an answer. Bigger bins. Some boeing 737s may have space bins, bigger and lower. Alaska airlines will get the first jets with the new overhead bins late next year. Spirit airlines, the carrier that travelers love to hate is capitalizing on that image. The Budget Airline will give you 8,000 frequent flier miles for telling why you hate it. Or for saying what you dont like about another airline, go to hatethousandmiles. Com. Who knew. Taco bell isnt your first diet food choice for many but the tex mex chain is making it easier to stick to the pal joe diet. Introducing cantina with protein bowls under 500 calories. It also plans to introduce more high protein Breakfast Foods and more vegetarian options. Today at 7eleven, july 11th so theyre offering free slurpees between 7 00 a. M. And 11 00 and downloading its smartphone phone app and get a free different food or snack ef di dare for a week. Could you completely quit facebook for several months. Outrage over them using 700,000 people for an experiment. They want them to foresake facebook for 99 days. With them averaging 17 minutes a day they figure in 99 days youd save about 28 hours. I believe it. When we come back, restoring lost memories. The Science Fiction like guise that could one day help with brain problems. Plus, soccer controversy. Why a protest is already started for the world cup thats nearly a decade away. Is coming up. Have agreed to. Kid for a night. So we can finally get some sleep. The hotel has to be right. You can get a 4star hotel for up to 60 off, even at the last minute. In the neighborhood where we wanna go . Yes. You just wont the name until after you book. Hmm. Ooh. Definitely. Its all about sleep. 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Now backed by allstate. Click or call. Look at this. A rare waterspout was spotted last night just south of cape canaveral. These twisters consist of winds and water mist and are a danger to boaters. Quite a sight for everyone else. Two types of waterspouts. Both are trouble if they move ashore but what a sight indeed. Sure is. Now for a look at the morning road conditions. Watch for wet roads and flooding along interstates 80 and 90 almost all the way from the west coast to the great lakes. Drivers on i95 will see rain from philadelphia down to miami. Flying, airport delays are possible in denver. Well, plenty of attention being paid to the world cup. Growing controversy over a decision to stage it in the persian gulf country of qatar in eight years time. And there are even efforts to get the soccer tournament moved to the u. S. Abcs brian ross has the details. Reporter in a decision that has the now led to an investigation by the fbi, the 2022 world cup will incredibly be played in one of the hottest places on earth, in the Arabian Desert country of qatar. This is a typical day in qatar, now about 1 00 in the afternoon, and the temperature is just at 124 degrees. This is heatstroke weather. Thats 40 degrees hotter than the brazil heat. That led officials in this years world cup to declare a first of its kind water break in the middle of a match. Soccer Federation Officials were warned about potentially dangerous heat but that was ignored in the final vote. The winner is qatar reporter not long after allegations surfaced some Soccer Federation members had been bribed to vote for qatar with a focus on this prominent billionaire businessman from qatar, mohamed bin hammam. Theres no doubt it that hes going around using a secret slush fund paying football officials all over the place. Reporter a Soccer FederationVice President from the caribbean was accused of taking more than 1 million from bin hammam. Both men have been kicked out of the Soccer Federation over bribery allegations and both deny any wrongdoing. I am telling you again i did not give any cash gift to anybody. Reporter and so now qatar is proceeding with its plan to hold the world cup with what it says will be new technology to somehow overcome the desert heat. Officials in qatar say they won the vote fair and square. But while the soccer world awaits the result of an investigation by the Soccer Federation and by the fbi, there are growing calls for a new vote on who should hold the world cup in 2022. Brian ross, abc news, new york. A high priced prostitute accused in the heroin death of a google executive is now under investigation in the death of another man. Police in georgia say Alix Tichelman was dating the owner of an Atlanta Music Club last september when she called 911 to report he died of a heroin overdose. She was not charged but now police are taking another look at the circumstances. The family at the center of a rescue at sea is speaking out to abc news. Eric and Charlotte Kaufman were criticized for taking their two young daughters on an around the world voyage. The military had to swoop in and save them when their 1yearold got sick a thousand miles off mexico but they have no regrets and plan to sue their Satellite Phone carrier saying their only connection to land was cut off. We sat with no communication for 12 hours just waiting. You dont even know if they received it. No idea. You push the button and hope it works. Why bring your kids on this trip . Why i mean why wouldnt you . Why go live your life. They hope to sail the high seas and want to pay back taxpayers for the cost of the rescue with any money they might win in court. A Police Officer near dallas is recovering from so veer burns after a bizarre incident on the job. A man set himself on fire and attacked the officer setting her ablaze, as well. Surveillance cameras at a Cell Phone Store captured the officer rolling on the ground trying to put out the flames. Two customers rushed in to help and the officer is expected to be okay. And the Defense Department is Funding Research into brain implants to help retrieve memories. The first beneficiary may be Wounded Soldiers but eventually it could help anyone who suffers a traumatic brain injury or has alzheimers and someday it could enhance brain performance in people without injuries sort of like a flash drive in the brain. Three people near orlando are facing charges for illegally feeding bears. One of them was photographed doing so in the same neighborhood where a woman was recently attacked by a bear. She suffered wounds that needed dozens of stitches. The woman claims a man among those charged has been feeding those bears for at least two years. Now some sports. Major League Baseball teams enter their final series before the allstar break today. And as for some of yesterdays games and other major sports issues, here are our guys at espn. Good morning, america. Welcome to our sportscenter set in los angeles. Along with neil everett im stan verrett. While cleveland and miami both wait, lebron james wait, as well. No decision from him thursday. Also our lebron center set. Lets go give me a dodger dog. Kershaw, 36 straight innings of scoreless baseball. Fourth longest streak in dodgers history and the record is 59 and hes facing a lineup where the padres have been shut out 11 types already this season. He may be able to add nine more innings. The dodgers would give him the run he needed. Had a 10 lead, top six, 12 count, chase led headley and the 78th pitch of kershaws hit is the one that got away from him. Just the fifth home run he had given up all season so the streak ends at 41 innings. Gets a good ovation, dodgers get the win. Kersh kershaw. Scott kazmir is an allstar. Pitcher for the let seconds visiting the giants. Oakland won the first two of this series at home, San Francisco won on wednesday and kazmir gets seven innings, struck out nine, Josh Donaldson is an allstar as well, two runs off hudson against his former team, donaldsons 20th help the as win it, 61. What else you got . Lebron james just texted me. No, he didnt. Dont believe it. Maybe he did. Not true. And the world cup wraps up this weekend. Tomorrow brazil against the netherlands for third place. Coverage on espn starts at 3 30 eastern. Sunday is, of course, the finale. Germany versus argentina, thats right here on abc beginning at 1 00 p. M. Okay. A brief request. Please, please do not do what this guy did. Yeah, well, he climbed out of a big construction crane in wisconsin, bungee jumped off it jumping from 140 feet and came within five feet of the ground on his way down. Well, they thought it was pretty funny but the police didnt. The guy was dragged in by the police and he has a court date next month. Hes hoping for just a fine. Well, up next in the pulse, the 2014 emmy nominations are out. Who got snubbed. Plus, a womans trump trouble thats being caused by a great giant snake. Cmp trouble thats being caused by a great giant snake. Kmp trouble thats being caused by a great giant snake. P trouble thats being caused by a great giant snake. Trouble thats being caused by a great giant snake. Time now to check the pulse, stories youll be talking about today. The primetime emmy nominations. The wildly popular and highly addictive game of thrones led the pack with 19 nods. House of cards and orange orange helped netflix more than double its nominations this year. And abcs modern family will go for a record tying fifth, fifth win. Wow. In best comedy. Incredible. Also a major snub for orphan black, a mystery that aired on bbc america that came up empty. All right. Well, its maybe one of the weeks worst kept showbiz secrets. Rosie odonnell finally rejoining the view. Right, shell be sitting on what is a fairly empty couch alongside Whoopi Goldberg perhaps other hosts. She left seven years ago after one season saying she didnt want to argue for a living. Now the big question will Elisabeth Hasselbeck be invited back for a reunion. I thought there was a big announcement from lebron james and i thought he was joining the view. He could. Could that be the big announcement. That could be it. Theres a new addition to our abc family this morning. Jimmy kimmels wife molly had a baby girl yesterday morning. Her name is jane and the late night host announced janes birth on twitter and later thanked followers for all their good wishes and quipped it shows not all tweets are mean. Good luck to them. Kimmel has two other children in their 20s from a previous relationship. Thats funny. He looks like hes 29 to me. It looks like hes not old enough to have skids in their 20s. That cant be right. A big surprise for some people in santa fe. Oh, they found a 20pound python such a scary scene right there. This is under the hood of a womans car that had stalled. Oh, my god. Look at the head. I couldnt imagine. The guy who had stopped to help her freaked out and didnt want to touch it. Would you touch that . Looking right at me. Flicked its little tongue and i flipped out. The Police Officer had no problem picking it up. He waited with the others until animal control arrived. The snake was likely someones pet who escaped or was adan doned and crawled into the engine to get warm. Warm and cozy. Makes me shiver. Stick with us. Well be right back. Yes. But youre progressive and theyre them. Yes. But theyre here. Yes. Are you. There . Yes. No. Are you them . Im me. But the lowest rate is from them. Yes. So thems best rate is. Here. So where are them . Arent them here . I already asked you that. When . Feels like a while ago. Want to take it from the top . Rates for us and them. Now thats progressive. Call or click today. Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Good friday morning. It is 4 28. How is the weather, mike . Nice to see you back, eric. Hope you are feeling better. The winds have calmed down the last hour. They are still 14 Miles Per Hour in oakland with a good sea breeze. The story is if you liked yesterday you will like today. You can see the winds blowing out on the Ferry Building bringing free air conditioning. Total subshine this afternoon is 78 to 84 and along the coast into San Francisco sunny and 61 to 68 and breezy an the bay from 70 to 80 headed into the south bay. Leyla gulen . Good morning, everyone. 4 28, starting with the Santa Cruz Mountains we have a horrible deadly crash at bear creek road along highway 17. Everything now is reopened northbound and southbound. We do not have delays. Hopefully everyone is driving safe today. The bay bridge toll plaza shows clear conditions. From emeryville to the bay bridge toll plaza up to San Francisco, there are no delays. Two women and two pets are being treated after they were rescued from an Early Morning apartment fire. Katie marzullo is in san lenadro. Katie . I am in front of the apartment the first floor unit here zooming past me you can see the window on the corner there is a note pinned there asking the owner of the building to call the Alameda County fire department. The front door is around the corner and theres a small pile of debris. Two people who lived inside this Apartment Unit are in the hospital this morning and we understand one victim is a woman that suffered smoke inhalation and the other victim is a male with severe burns to his face and body. The fire is under investigation. Firefighters say they believe cooking may have been the spark. Another element of this fire is heart warming with the tragedy for the people. A dog and cat were in the apartment and they were resolution coupled and on the scene. Firefighters gave them oxygen on the scene and both were taken to emergency veterinarian clinic. There three Apartment Units and the fire was contained to the bottom unit only but we we understand it is not going to be inhabitable. The people would live here will not come back here any time soon. From at t park not all of the action was on the field. A woman went to the hospital with injuries from trying t