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KGO World News Now May 2, 2016

Performing elephants. The circus now elephants now join the other retired pachyderms on ringlings preserve in florida. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, may 2nd. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good monday morning, everybody. Im Kendis Gibson. And im diane macedo. We start things off some rough weather in some parts of the country. It seems like weve been saying that quite a bit. In the last couple of weeks. Its been a rough spring. The extreme weather in the heart of the country, Central Indiana seeing strong storms overnight with two possible tornados touching down. There was also heavy rain, strong winds and lots of hail. The good news is no major damage reported so far. Most of those who lost power should have it back by now. At least five people have drowned in flash flooding along the gulf coast. A woman and her four great grand children swept away as they tried to get to safety throughout the region, many highways are closed and schools are canceling classes for today. Some areas received as much as 10 inches rain in 24 hours and more thunderstorms overnight mean more flooding very likely. Storms caused Severe Damage throughout the atlanta area. Many trees were uprooted including one that damaged three homes, thousands lost power and the loss of electricity impacted water service. Residents are advised to boil their water. Lets get the complete forecast now from accuweathers Paul Williams. Good morning, paul. Good morning to you, diane, kendis. Its stormy in the south and going to be wet in the northeast. Everybodys going to have their share of this muggy wet damp kind of pie. But heavy showers in the deep south. For example, right along the gulf coast, warm moisture coming off the gulf coast feeding into the frenzy of scattered showers and thunderstorms. Heavy showers cause more problems with flooding unfortunately, and im sorry, but tomorrow rain for the folks in houston, Coastal Region of louisiana, new orleans, mississippi going into alabama and the heavy rain will reach all the way into the carolinas. A few storms even into portions of florida. But not just there, then that rain stretches all the way up towards the northeast. This low pressure system brings more rain in through the northeast and the midatlantic with spotty showers from new york all the way down to the carolinas. Kendis. Diane . Paul, thank you. May day protests in seattle turned violent in some cases. The anticapitalist demonstrators through rocks, bricks even molotov cocktails at police. Five officers were injured. At least nine people were arrested. There were other may day demonstrations in portland, San Francisco and l. A. Even a peaceful one in seattle. But this particular one was the only one that turned violent. To the campaign trail winding through indiana before tomorrows critical primary. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton are itching for a oneonone fight against each other but their rivals are saying not so fast. Donald trump is hoping that the indiana primary will put his last two rivals down for the count. I knocked out 17 people. The two last ones are hanging by their fingertips. Theyre choking. Dont let me fall. Dont let me fall. Trump is riding a winning streak into the Hoosier State where one poll shows him with a 15point lead over cruz with john kasich trailing far behind. If we win indiana, most people think they quit the race and then we can focus on crooked hillary, please. Lets focus on hillary. Trailing trump by more than 400 delegates, ted cruz vows to take his fight to the Republican Convention but indiana could be his last best hope to derail trump. Youre on the 30 yard line, its not a touch down. Donald right now is on the 30 yard line and wants everyone to say the game is over. Hillary clinton also campaigning in indiana greeting voters at a pancake house with a commanding lead over Bernie Sanders, shes now taking the fight to the republican front runner. We cannot let Barack Obamas legacy fall into Donald Trumps hands. Reporter like cruz, sanders is promising to battle on after the primary season. While admitting its a tough road to climb. Reporter even so, he says it aint over till its over. In other words, the convention will be a contested contest. Voters in indiana will have their say about that tuesday. Overseas secretary of state john kerry holds high level meetings today in ja sflee, switzerland in an effort to get stalled syrian peace talks moving again. He arrived there last night. He spoke at length with a top russian official to that end on friday to stop the bloodshed where 250 civilians have been killed in recent days. Cia director john brennan is looking to clarify information from a secret an chapter of the 9 11 congressional inquiry. He says the 9 11 commission made a very clear judgment that there was no evidence of the saudi government financially backing al qaeda. The Obama Administration, however, may soon release the documents and brennan is concerned that people might seize on uncorroborated information about possible saudi links to the attackers. Its been five years since american operatives killed osama bin laden. And the cia relived the anniversary with live tweets. The Agency Posted step by step updates of the raid as if it were happening at that moment. Complete with photos of president obama and his inner circle in the situation room. They reveal exactly when u. S. Helicopters departed for pakistan to the moment bin laden was confirmed dead on the third floor of his compound. More than 40 Public Schools in detroit will be closed today. The move comes after the Teachers Union called for a sickout. The School Systems emergency manager is warning that this district wont be able to pay its employees after june 30th. He also says todays sickout will make it more difficult to convince the legislature to approve a rescue plan. Efforts to find a missing florida mom are intensifying today with the arrival of sonar equipment to search a pond. Volunteers joined forces over the weekend trying to look for tricia todd. Aditi roy has the latest. Reporter a community desperate to find a missing mother in florida. Dozens of volunteers on the ground, and a Police Helicopter in the air. 30yearold tricia todd was last seen wednesday morning. Now authorities calling her we know shes out there somewhere. And we just want our girl back. I dont know. Reporter todd an air force veteran and hospice nurse was supposed to pick up her 2yearold daughter from her exhusbands House Wednesday, but she never showed up. Her exhusband, the last person to see her, is now scheduled to be reinterviewed by police. Authorities telling abc news hes not a suspect. He has been completely cooperative. Hes willing to take a polygraph test. Reporter investigators say they found her car at a neighbors House Wednesday night with the keys in the ignition and her purse inside. Her phone and wallet missing. For her to not show up to pick her daughter is incredibly unusual. Reporter now a vigil planned as the community cling to hope. Aditi roy, abc news, San Francisco. Commuters in the d. C. Area could face some delays this morning following a Train Derailment. Several cars of a csx Freight Train went off the tracks in northeast d. C. A Company Spokeswoman says one of the trains leaked sodium high oxide used to produce so and soap and detergent. Two Important Energy Exploration Companies have called off their merger. The announcement was made by the Justice Department which had sued halliburton and baker hughes to stop the merger. Government claimed the combination would eliminate significant competition in more than two dozen markets. The Justice Department says it would have raised prices, decreased output and lessened innovation. This is an incredibly interesting story here. A fall inside of a womans home helped create a medical miracle for her. Were talking about Mary Anne Franco lost her eyesight more than 21 years ago in an you the auto accident. And then she fell inside of her home recently and injured her spine. When she woke up from that surgery, she could see. Wow. The suns coming through the trees. Oh, god, its wonderful to see. Im the happiest woman in the whole wide world. The neurosurgeon who performed the operation says hes never seen or heard of anything like this. He thinks the 95 auto accident may have restricted blood flow to the part of her brain that controls vision and the recent surgery restored it. I never saw someone so excited to have hurt their back. Absolutely. Her description of everything just now to see the trees and everything. Good for her. Nobodys celebrating a fall except that woman. A lot of doctors will try to figure out what happened to see if they can replicate it. Right . Krin ebl. Coming up, finding your own dead ringer. Its said we all have a twin somewhere in the world. Now as they say, theres an app for that making it easier than ever to track down your doppelganger anywhere. But first, new details are surfacing in the investigation into princes medication and whether the star died of a drug overdose. See where his family members are headed today since he left no will. Todays temperatures. And our adult childrenlaws have are here. Still. D in with us. So we save by using tide. Which means we use less. 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There were no serious injuries but the cathedral was built in the 1850s and was designated a city landmark in 1968. 33 lions rescued from circuses in south america are enjoying their first taste of freedom. The big cats were flown to a sanctuary in south africa. Unfortunately, they will never be able to survive in the wild. So they cant be released because circus keepers broke their teeth and removed their claws. But at least here they will be able to roam freely. Back here at home, a potential battle is brewing right now over princes 300 million estate. His family members are heading to court today for a probate hearing in minnesota. Since the music legend died with no known will, there are a lot of question marks surrounding what happens to his estate. Abcs eva pilgrim has the latest. Reporter authorities turning their attention to princes medication, and whether the star died of a drug overdose. Sources telling abc news the superstar was getting prescriptions from multiple doctors. Authorities have executed a search warrant at his local walgreens. But no official word yet on why he died. Toxicology results still weeks away. Meanwhile, the superstars family heads to court as they move forward to settle his estate. I protected him. Reporter princes older brother alfred remembering his little brother. His attorney putting to rest rumors of family disputes. With any estate matter, with any family matter, weddings, funerals, emotions, you know, soar. Reporter and with estimated 300 million estate on the line, people claiming to be heirs are coming out of the woodworks. Heir hunters international, a company that searches for possible heirs to estates has been overwhelmed with people claiming to be princes love child. So far, one mans story has piqued their interest. He was born in the 80s and his mother crossed paths with prince a couple times. As im sure many, many other people did. Reporter heir hunters is still verifying key details of his story. If prince had any children, they would inherit his entire estate. Eva pilgrim, abc news, chanhassen, minnesota. Apparently theres some other new relatives coming into the light whether they are actually relatives or not, of course, remains to be determined. Yeah. This l. A. Company that searches for possible heirs to estates has found a great grand niece or grand niece. The teenaged great granddaughter of princes deceased halfbrother. This is going to be ugly. Thats a lot. Its going to be a mess. Coming up, tracking down your doppelganger. Your own personal dead ringer could be just a few clicks away. Youre watching world news now. Announcer world news now continue is after this from our abc stations. Feel my you got double vision no disguise thanks to social media, quite a few people have been seeing double because by chance they go online and with all this social media they find their own doppelganger. What if youre not waiting for chance . Now theres an app that can help you track down your own dead ringer anywhere in the world. Abcs ju ewe change explains. Reporter are you two twins . Meet maddy and amber, the pair look like twins, but believe it or not, theyre complete strangers. Were not even related. No, youre kidding me. Reporter theyre doppelgangers a mysterious phenomena in which two people look nearly identical. Who can forget these bearded redheads who found each other on the same plane. This is not bradley cooper. Its his look alike, matt katzenback. Folklore has it we each have seven lookalikes out in the world. This lovely girl got in touch on the site. This dublin native is working to prove that theory. Oh, my god. Hello. Reporter her very first meetup went viral and has now been viewed more than 8 million times. Since then shes become a doppelganger detective of sorts. These are all the filtered matches. Reporter cofounding the website twinstrangers. Com to help others in their search. I think people want to find their twin strangers out of curiosity. Reporter we paired up with twinstrangers. Com to go behind the scenes of a meetup bringing amber from perth, australia, and maddy from tacoma, washington, here in l. A. When we met in person, even i was confused. Hi, how are you. Hi. Youre like double trouble. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Reporter i want to know the first reaction when you saw the photo of each other on the site. Seeing her picture is kind of weird. That was the first time ive seen anyone that looked similar to me. Reporter much less dead ringer. The kind of top half of their face started loading and i thought it was a picture of me. The rest loaded and i was like wow, thats insane. Reporter we wanted to see if theres a genetic reason for similarities. We asked amber and maddy to take a dna test that ancestry. Com agreed to process for free. In just a few weeks, the results are in and guess what, they are 100 not related. But they do have similar european roots. Despite the results, they say their newfound bond will only grow. Juju chang, abc news, new york. Would you want to know who your doppelganger is . Yeah, why not . I would find it creepy. Fascinating. So awkward for me and taye diggs to be in the same room. Do you think he wants your autograph . Hes a big fan. Ive actually met him on the red carpet and my producer said we look alike. He didnt think that was cute at all. He didnt find it . He was just like im going to move on. I did once have a friend. We are doppelgangers. Theres our face swap. Cant tell which ones which. I think im on the left. I did have a friend once get mad at me because i said i couldnt hang out. One of his friends saw me out. And so he said i thought you werent going out tonight. I said im at my parents house on long island. That person had seen a complete stranger she thought looked so much like me, she didnt know why i didnt say hi to her. She saw cindy crawford. 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