Al alarming new headline from noah about whats ahead. The flames shooting into the air. Good evening, and its great to have you with us here on a wednesday night, and we do begin with breaking news. That headline, north korea just a short time ago, issuing its newest threat. The ap now reporting that the north korean regime is calling President Trumps words a load of nonsense, saying they will complete their plan to, quote, attack waters near guam by mid august. It comes after President Trump warned north korea against making any more threats or the u. S. Would unleash fire and fury unlike anything the world has ever seen. Abcs senior white house correspondent, cecilia vega, leading us off. Reporter tonight, a new threat from north korea coming in, saying they will be ready to attack the u. S. Territory of guam by mid august. This comes as President Trumps shots fired at pyongyang sent shock waves around the world. But abc news has learned that threat caught some in the president s own inner circle by surprise. The president , in that statement, using language not vetted or preapproved by his National Security team. North korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. Reporter sources close to the president say behind closed doors with top aides including new chief of staff general john kelly he had discussed taking a tougher tone on pyongyang. But even members of his own National Security team had no idea the president would go this far. He has been very threatening beyond a normal statement and as i said, they will be met with fire, fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before. Thank you. Reporter within a few hours, north korea responding with its own warning. Saying it is seriously considering a plan to target guam with missiles. The u. S. Territory home to crucial military bases and 160,000 americans is just 2,000 miles away. Then today, Rex Tillerson sending a message of his own, landing in guam, offering very different words. I think americans should sleep well at night. Reporter the secretary of state striking a much softer tone. What the president is doing is send a strong message to north korea in language that kim jongun would understand because he doesnt seem to understand diplomatic language. Reporter then, the president himself weighed in, tweeting our Nuclear Arsenal is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before. Hopefully we will never have to use this power. But his initial words have sparked international reaction. From new zealand. I think the comments are not helpful in an environment that is very tense. Reporter to Germanys Foreign Office saying, saberrattling wont help. Even some in the president s own party calling his words dangerous. All its going to do is bring us closer to some kind of serious confrontation. I think this is very, very, very serious. The great leaders that ive seen, they dont threaten until theyre ready to act. And im not sure President Trump is ready to act. And cecilia vega is with us live tonight from bedminster, new jersey, where the president is vacationing at his golf course. You have more on the north koreans at this hour, and any response from the white house tonight . Reporter no response from the white house because this statement literally just came in. I want to read a bit of it. Its from a Top Army Commander given out by state media. They say this is a crucial warning to the United States calling a fire and fury by president a load of nonsense. They say this has infiuriated te army, and they say this plan will be complete by mid august, david. Cecilia vega who will be covering this into the night. Cecilia, thank you. Abcs chief Global Affairs correspondent, Martha Raddatz with us on this breaking development. This threat from north korea, and you have been talking to your sources at the pentagon. A lot of americans watching want to know how unlikely is it. Will we see military conflict here . Reporter President Trumps statement was a surprise to many. It is important to say war is the last thing anyone at the pentagon wants to see happen, but Pacific Command has been doing updated war planning and they are certainly focusing on defensive measures as well, but if those tough sanctions imposed on north korea do not work, if kim jongun continues to make progress on a nuclear tipped missile, a senior official told me in 6 to 12 months, the administration will have to decide whether some sort of preemptive strike or some other measure should be undertaken to stop kim, david. Martha raddatz following the breaking developments as well. Thank you. The other major headline developing at this hour involves the russia investigation tonight, and the raid before dawn at the home of onetime Trump Campaign chair, paul manafort. A dozen armed fbi agents, reportedly waking him up, knocking on his bedroom door to execute the search warrant. Abcs mary bruce at the fbi tonight. Reporter before the sun came up, a dozen armed fbi agents knocked at Paul Manaforts bedroom door, waking up trumps former Campaign Chairman with a warrant to search his virginia home. All without warning the morning of july 26th. The agents seizing documents and other materials, part of the ongoing special counsels investigation into russian meddling in the election, including possible collusion with the Trump Campaign. Manafort ran Trumps Campaign for months, overseeing the republican convention. Paul manafort has done an amazing job. Reporter but there were mounting questions about his russian connections and lobbying in ukraine. Are there any ties between mr. Trump, you or your campaign and putin and his regime . No, there are not. Thats absurd. And, you know, theres no basis for it. Reporter shortly afterwards, he was fired from the campaign, later registering as a foreign agent. And we now know manafort was in the room for that trump tower meeting with donald trump jr. And the russian lawyer who promised dirt on hillary clinton. Tonight, manaforts team confirms that recent fbi raid. A spokesman adding, mr. Manafort has consistently cooperated with Law Enforcement and other serious inquiries and did so on this occasion as well. This raid indicates that the fbi did not believe that manafort was fully cooperating with the investigation. Reporter the russia investigation, led by special counsel Robert Mueller, is pressing forward with a federal grand jury in washington, d. C. And on capitol hill, documents are pouring in to the Senate Judiciary committee. Manafort turning over 400 pages and donald trump jr. Handing in 250 pages of records. It all comes as tonight, trumps lawyers are pushing back against a report that the president is sending private messages to mueller. One of trumps lawyers tells tells usa today, the president appreciates what bob mueller is doing. He asked he to share that with him, and thats what i have done. But sources with knowledge of those conversations tell abc, it was nothing more than routine chatter between legal teams and that trump and mueller have not been in direct contact. So lets bring in mary bruce live at the fbi tonight, and mary, we are also learning about Something Else that will be closely scrutinized into these evening hours. The special counselor Robert MuellersFinancial Disclosures . Reporter for the first time, Robert Mueller has released a full account of his client history. So far, no red flags, but the president s legal team has accused mueller of having conflicts of interest, and they are pouring over these documents. Thank you, mary. We turn overseas now and to the developing headline there. The terror investigation you should way at this hour after an attack at a paris suburb. A driver mowing down a group of soldiers. On a highway, several miles to the north, the incident being investigated as a terror attack tonight, and abcs James Longman reports from paris. Reporter tonight, a suspect shot by police and in the hospital, after allegedly mowing down six soldiers. At around 8 00 a. M. , a group of officers were about to start their patrol, when according to authorities, a black bmw slowly approached, and then sped directly into the group seriously injuring three. His target, the soldiers patrolling paris. Fleeing the scene, the attacker led police on a fivehour manhunt, ending in a shootout on this busy highway north of paris. That bmw shattered with bullet holes. They started to fire, there were bangs everywhere, this one witness said. I saw the person fall to the ground, then i took cover. The suspect, believed to be a 36yearold algerian with a history of petty crime. Earlier today, heavily armed, masked police searched a building thought linked to him. This year alone, there have been six attempts on French Police and military forces, including this machete wielding attacker at the louvre, and this gunman opening fire on the champselysees. And James Longman with us live tonight from paris, and james, authorities are treating this attack as a possible act of terror . Reporter thats right, david. Counterterrorism prosecutors have opened an investigation into any probable terror links. Frances interior minister calling todays attack a deliberate act, david. Live in paris for us. James, thank you. Back here at home now, and to a suspected cop killer in missouri in custody tonight. Ian mccarthy was arrested walking on the highway. This Surveillance Video showing officer michael driving after a vehicle without its lights on, and then when he pulled over, the driver opened fire. Mccarthy is charged with firstdegree murder. We turn to the explosion in a milwaukee neighborhood. Already a ruin by the time firefighters arrived. Abcs alex perez from the scene tonight. Words cannot describe this fire. Reporter the mysterious, middle of the night explosion rocking this milwaukee neighborhood. Flames shooting 75 feet high. Everybody come in on 24th place. The fire is on 24th street, 24th street. Oh, my god. Reporter it was about 3 50 a. M. When keyjuana wyatt heard the loud boom that jolted her out of bed. Still shaking, she took out her phone, recording the inferno. Lord jesus, it just fell i was concerned about our house catching on fire. I was worried about our house catching on fire, the back of the house catching on fire. Reporter the home, which was under renovation, completely leveled. We did see the basement block had been bulged out, which would be indicative of something happening internally forcing those blocks out. Reporter tonight, arson investigators are sifting through debris hunting for answers. And david, you can see whats left of this home. Investigators here still on the scene. No official cause just yet, but luckily, no one was home at the time. David . Just a stunning scene there. Alex, thank you. We turn next here tonight, the first hurricane of the season gaining strength at this hour. Hurricane franklin with 75 mileanhour winds growing in the gulf of mexico tonight. Already felt near cancun, on track to slam ashore later this evening. Allegation tonight, noah forecasters advising their outlook on what could be a, quote, extremely active season with 14 to 19 named stormed. Including 5 to 9 hurricanes, and up to five of them major. Lets bring in rob marciano tonight. Where is this hurricane tonight . It has warm weather underneath it, and thats why we have seen so many storms so far this season, and thats active as you mentioned. In the southern gulf of mexico, 75 mileanhour winds, and we expect more, but a category 1 storm at land storm, and then the mexico, flooding rain and mud slides. Were worried closer to home, off the coast of florida, and another one rolling toward the bahamas. That has a better chance of developing here, potentially threatening the u. S. Coastline. This could be the most active in seven years. Thank you. Next tonight, to new fallout this evening after the senates failure to repeal and replace obamacare. You remember john mccain giving it a thumbs down in that late night vote scuttling the plan. Ron johnson of wisconsin stunning a radio interviewer with his answer when asked about mccains vote. He has a brain timer right now. That vote occurred at 1 30 in the morning, so some of that might have factored in. Really . A spokesman for senator mccain saying it is bizarre and unfortunate that he would question the judgment of a colleague and friend. He was open and clear about the reasons for his vote, and senator johnson did apologize for those comments. We turn next here tonight to the controversy sparked by a former Google Engineer who wrote a tenpage memo criticizing the Diversity Program saying women lagged behind in the temp world because of their buy yol ji. He is handing by his words as we hear from him for the first time. Heres abcs chief business correspondent, rebecca jarvis. Reporter tonight, the fired Software Engineer who sparked a firestorm after challenging bias inside google and its Diversity Program speaking out. Im not saying any of the female engineers at google are in any way worse, than the average male engineers. Reporter in an interview on youtube, james damore standing by his internal memo in which he argues that women, on average have more neuroticism and higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance than men. And that the abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we dont see equal representation of women in tech and leadership. Damore says he values diversity, but insists that by recognizing differences, we can improve the workplace. For example, cooperativeness, which is higher in women than men, we should make the workplace a place where you can actually thrive if youre cooperative. Reporter google firing damore after his post went viral, saying his words violated their code of conduct by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace. Today, the ceo of youtube, owned by googles parent company, sharing how hard it was to explain the memo to her daughter. I thought about how tragic it was that this unfounded bias was now being exposed to a new generation. David, the Labor Department is already investigating allegations of wage discrimination. Google denies those allegations, david. Rebecca, thank you. There is much more ahead on world news tonight this wednesday. The deadly construction accident. The emergency crews rushing to the scene. The construction worker trapped under 40,000 pounds of concrete falling from a crane. Headlines tonight involving stroke, and the difference between men and women and. And cbs facing a lawsuit tonight. Were customers charged for generic drugs more than they needed to be . Look at this. They come face to face with a Mountain Lion, and you will hear them decide whether they should run or not. Whether to walk or simply go backwards. Should we back up . What are you spoeupposed to do . I dont know. If your cat has fleas, you have fleas. 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What are you supposed to do . I dont know. I dont think youre supposed to run or go away from it. Reporter park rangers say running away could trigger their instinct to chase. Back up. Reporter nice kitty cat. Ever so slowly, they back away. Be careful. Reporter they decided to pitch their tents on another part of the trail this night, and had a very restless nights sleep. David right, abc news, new york. Can you imagine . I wouldnt be sleeping. When we come back, the important medical headlines, when it comes to men and women and strokes. We