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WPVI ABC World News Now September 19, 2014

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Reporter and on the blacktop in hot pursuit of reckless truckers. We are flying right now trying to catch up. The trucker pulls over. Clocked you going 77 miles an hour and tailgating behind a car. You think its hazardous . Reporter in 2012 alone, there were over 300,000 large truck crashes in the u. S. With over 4,000 fatalities. The industry points out truckers are usually not at fault in those accidents but police do warn of a particular danger. Tired truckers. Weve got a bit of a problem. Listen what happened to abe on a frigid february night. Im starting to fall asleep going don the road. Heres the deal. Get some coffee and because we dont have a choice on this. Yep, that dispatcher is ordering the trucker who says hes too tired to drive to get back on the road. You wonder where your paycheck went this week . It came down to where it went tonight. Are we clear an that . Reporter the company refuses to talk to us but not a very clear response from the head of the trucking lobby. The driver was obviously doing the right thing and the dispatcher was obviously doing the wrong thing. Theres just too much at stake. Reporter atella later quit. His record and his conscience intact. Matt gutman, abc news, miami. You can see our full Investigation Called road to ruin tonight on 20 20. Theyve now shortened the hours that truckers can be on the road. 11 hours max. After eight hours they have to take a half hour break and theyve shortened their week from 82 to 70 hours. Regulations in place to hopefully cut down on those number of accidents. Coming up, serious allegations for superstar cher. Why she may be headed from the concert stage to court. And ben affleck reveals a reallife secret that got him in trouble at the casino. Thats coming up next in the skinny. Announcer world news now co skinny so skinny time for the skinny. Cher being sued by three of her former backup dancers. The dancers, all black women, are seeking 10 million in damages claiming they were wrongfully fired from her current dressed to kill tour claiming the star said there was too much color on stage. The dancers attorney said theyve been with cher for more than a decade. Chers publicist calls it ridiculous and that the dancers were cut to save money. Okay. Interesting. Im not going to delve into that one. Its probably safest to let that be handled by the court. If youve been on the edge of your seat waiting to see Matthew Mcconaugheys buff body in the magic mike sequel. He starred as dallas in magic mike. Its based on Channing Tatums reallife experiences as an exotic dancer. Mcconaughey says, its just not going to happen. Clearly he doesnt have a problem kind of parading around with little, but he says hes just too busy. Okay. The pumped up joe magnielo in the sequel called magic mike xxl. Hes Sophia Vergaras boyfriend. They say his body is so ripped it almost looks fake. It almost looks dan. You didnt read that correctly. The sequel will follow the strippers to a convention. Dan will keep his shirt on for the remainder of this broadcast. I assure you. Never know. Could get crazy an this friday. Ben affleck coming clean about his gamble iing issues. He counts cards at blackjack because he tried to get good at it. Counting cards is against the rules. Even though its not illegal. And that says more about the casinos than about anybody who plays cards there. Hes adding hes never been kicked out of a casino. Just told he couldnt play blackjack. His new movie opening next month. If hes hard up for cash, cant be counting cards. Maybe he should do magic mike. Another way to turn some cash on the side. Coming up, replacing a legend on saturday night live. Lorne michaels has named Darrell Hammond as the new announcer replacing don pardo. Hammond worked on the cast from 19929. Don pardo died last month at the age of 96. Big voice that will be lost forever. Time for some celebrity birthdays this friday. Lets take a look at who is celebrating their birthday. Holy birthday batman. Adam west is turning 86. Joan lunden is turning 64 today. Trisha yearwood is 50. And jimmy fallon t oon trnin big 40. An unforgettable week from an unusual miss america performance to a growing nfl scandal. Its time for the friday rewind. I have two kids and my home is my childrens playground. My goto product is lysol disinfectant spray. I really use it in every room, on every surface and it allows me to get to all the hardtoreach areas. All of the different nooks and crannies and places that little hands like to go. It makes me feel comfortable and confident that my home is fresh, its protected, and that ive killed the germs and bacteria. One lysol, hundreds of uses. Start healthing. Honey, we need to talk. We do . I took the trash out. I know. And thank you so much for that. I think we should get a Medicare Supplement insurance plan. Right now . 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Police in Northern California have a suspect in custody accused of deliberately setting that monster wildfire east of sacramento that has ballooned now to 111 square miles. Full details in just a moment. A terrifying flight caught on camera. The cabin of a jetblue plane filled with smoke just after takeoff from long beach, california, because of engine trouble. The pilot turned back and made an Emergency Landing. Everyone evacuated safely down the slides. A record 86 of the eligible voters answered a simple sixword question. Should scotland be an independent country . And by a wider than expected margin, the answer was no. Apple stores are open overseas for sales of iphones 6. The first customer at this store in australia this morning dropped his live on tv. Those are some of our top stories on this friday, september 19th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. He thought he was going to be a smooth dude. I know. Hopefully that guy is the phone will still work out for him. Tricky little box to get open. When you have the excitement in your nervous hands. The results of how the phone fared in just the first in just a minute. First, we want to begin with an arrest in the monster wildfire thats roaring out of control east of sacramento. The king fire was triggered with more than 3,000 evacuations, threatened more than 12,000 homes and currently is only 5 contained. Clayton sandell has the latest. Reporter this firestorm tearing through not only forest but the lives of thousands fearing for their homes appears to be a deliberate act. We have arrested a suspect in custody is wayne allen huntsman. Reporter investigators allege huntsman ignited the rapidly growing nightmare known as the king fire. Hes now facing a charge of felony arson. Bail set at 10 million. Those first flames saturday becoming a 111squaremile monster brning an area the size of salt lake city. Californias governor is now declaring a state of emergency here and further north in the town of weed where another blaze left more than 150 homes in ashes. Winds are supposed to increase this afternoon. Reporter chief steve keen and his team are here from southern california, part of a firefighting army over 4,000 strong up against flames known to travel 10 miles in just a few hours. Have you ever seen a fire move this fast . Me, no. I really havent. Ive been fighting fire a long time. This kind of fire behavior is unprecedented. Reporter that unprecedented behavior is why more than 2800 people are evacuated. Here on the fires front lines, these flames are burning through a layer of three to four inches of these very dry pine needles and branches. When the wind kicks up, it can make this fire unstoppable. Clayton sandell, abc news, near georgetown, california. Unbelievable video there. A little farther south, the remnants of hurricane odile ravaging the southwest. Torrential rains are hitting texas the hardest dumping up to a half a foot of rain. Trapping drivers, washing away their cars. Rescuers had to rip the roof off one vehicle just to pull the driver to sauft. More rain in the forecast. Heres now a look at todays weather. Epic floods continue throughout the southwest with another three inches of rain possible in some areas. Scattered showers also stretch from georgia into florida and across the upper midwest and the great lakes. Temperatures are cooling across the nation with some parts of the northeast waking up this morning to frost, yes, frost. Later today 50s and 60s in the northeast. 70s and 80s across the midwest and 90s in the south. Next to australia, the latest continent to be touched by the isis threat. Counterterrorism officials launched a massive raid sweeping up 15 suspects believed to be plotting grisly murders. Brian ross has the new details. Reporter hundreds of Australian Police moved out under the cover of darkness. At least 15 suspects arrested and more being urgently sought. In an isis plot that stunned this country. Innocent civilians were to be chosen at random and publicly beheaded on the streets of sydney. This is not just suspicion. This is intent. Reporter as in the u. S. , australia has become increasingly alarmed about efforts to recruit its young citizens by jihadists. In particular, after news reports that the man in the green shirt, a onetime sydney nice club bouncer turned jihadist has become a senior isis leader in syria. Officials fear he has the power to order attacks by australians who never even made it to syria. At the same time, the isis Propaganda Machine surfaced another of its western hostages. British journalist john cantlie forced to read a threeminute script as a kind of spokesman for the benefits of isis. You are thinking hes only doing this because hes a prisoner. Hes got a gun at his head and hes being forced to do this, right . Well, its true. I am a prisoner. Reporter this is the second time cantlie has been taken hostage in syria. He was captured and released two years ago only to return and be captured again traveling with the american journalist james foley who has since been executed. Brian ross, abc news, new york. Sierra leone in west africa is going to a new extreme to slow the spread of ebola. Shoppers flooded the markets yesterday ahead of a threeday shutdown that started at midnight. The government is ordering the 6 Million People to stay inside their homes through sunday. Meanwhile, volunteers will conduct a house to house search for victims in hiding and dispense them health information. The white house has ordered the government to develop a plan to fight antibiotic resistant germs. Its linked to 23,000 deaths and 2 million illnesses a year. Those drugs are losing effectiveness because they are overprescribed for people and used in some animals including chickens. It was just two weeks ago that purdue announced it had removed all antibiotics from chicken hatcheries. The fda has approved a new injectable drug as a weekly injection to improve blood sugar control in patients with diabetes. Its part of a new class of medicine which spurs the pancreas to create extra insulin after meals. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of the disease affecting more than 26 million americans.

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