Benches clearing as they pound the pirates one step closer to the world series. Did back to the future predict it all . And good morning, america. Could it be cubs fans starting to believe they could win their first world series since 1908. That looks like a lot of fun there. This is their best chance since this moment back in 2003, not so fun. Just a few outs away from making it to the world series when a fan interfered, the infamous Steve Bartman play. Oh. That look on his face said it all. I think he to move out of town after that. We begin with historic flooding in South Carolina. 14 dams have already failed. 60 more in danger. The rivers are still rising there after trillions of gallons of rain fell. Abcs alex perez is on the scene in columbia where a dike collapsed. Good morning, alex. Reporter good morning. Authorities are watching all of those dams very, very closely and want you to take a look behind me here, you can see the water streaming down the canal there. Crews expected to be back out here today trying to shore up a breach here. This dramatic video captures the power of those rushing waters. This man and his grandmother nearly swept away clinging to a cross outside the local church for five hours before rescuers could reach them and with rivers like South Carolinas Congaree River still swollen authorities expecting the area to stay at major flood stage through the weekend while many residents are just trying to recover. Never experienced anything like this, so were just going through it right now hoping and praying that god watches over us. Reporter overnight all eyes on South Carolinas rising river, the 62 dams on the verge of bursting potentially releasing millions of gallons of water threatening countless homes, roads and lives. Across the state at least 14 dams have failed so far. These aerial pictures showing two of them before the break and here the devastation after. Were working around the clock to remedy this. Reporter columbias beaver dam nearly becoming the 14th. Officials evacuating 1,000 residents wednesday morning fearing a breach would send more than 91 million gallons of water raging into the communities downstream but workers able to avert disaster. Plugging a break there before any damage was done. And the situation here so delicate the university of South Carolina gamecocks moving their game against lsu on saturday down to baton rouge. Amy. All right, alex perez, thank you for the latest on that. Those flood warnings are still in effect and will be for days. Will be for days, thats it. We wanted to show you from North Carolina through that large mass in South Carolina where the flood warnings are this morning and a lot of them go through the weekend. Heres why. Alex mentioned this river, this was one that had flash flooding. You see the peak earlier on monday. Then its been falling and will continue to fall. There are other rivers such as the sa nchntee river growing an will another fivethirtyeight toward the end of the weekend and next week. Thats why the threat is not over. Dry since tuesday, saturday into sunday more rain on the way following all this coming up. A lot more coming up. The race for president now, your voice, your vote and that controversial comment from the billionaire behind fox news, Rupert Murdoch. Jon karl covering the race and this is not the first time hes stirred up controversy with his quick twitter finger. Reporter this was a late night tweet about dr. Ben carson and it has ignited a fullblown twitter firestorm. Hes the 84yearold media mogul worth over 12 billion. Executive chairman of newscorp which counts fox news among its holdings in addition to 120 newspapers in five countries. Now Rupert Murdoch is weighing in on his favorite for president with this controversial tweet overnight, ben and candy carson, terrific. What about a real black president who can properly address the racial divide and much else. Soon murdock was trending on twitter with speculation about what exactly he meant by a real black president . Simpson star Harry Shearer weighing. Can you please regularly advise black americans on which of them is real so they will bes free of doubt. Robert naylortweeted im so thankful that you are here to explain to me what it means to be black. That came out last late night. Time sure well hear more. Joe biden keeping his own counsel but the waiting game for his decision may be nearing an end. Reporter thats right. Biden is expected to convene with his family in delaware and biden has been clear that above all, his decision on running for president will be a Family Decision whether or not the family is on board is the most important factor. His close advisers expect they will have a very good idea about whether or not he is going to run before the democrats take the debate stage tuesday. Youve got Hillary Clinton making another big break from president obama as she tries to blunt this challenge from Bernie Sanders. Reporter yeah, this is a really big one. Bernie sanders has been very critical of the president on trade and now Hillary Clinton is out breaking with the president on this major transpacific trade deal. This, george, may be the president s biggest remaining priority for the rest of his second term and Hillary Clinton yesterday suggested she is not in favor of this deal. Latest in a series of breaks from the president. Jon karl, thanks very much. All right, george, as president obama is losing support for that key deal, he is also making a rare formal apology for that deadly attack on a hospital in afghanistan. Calling the head of the humanitarian organization doctors without borders, which lost 12 staff member, Abcs Martha Raddatz has the latest from washington, good morning, martha. Reporter good morning, amy. That apology from the president has done little to satisfy doctors without borders, just a short time ago the group once again demanding an independent investigation clearly angered that initially afghan authorities claimed that the taliban was firing from inside the hospital, something the doctors have said unequivocally is not true. But this is also a terribly emotional loss for the group, which is used to working the worlds most dangerous places as they said this morning, our largest loss of life has occurred at the hands of american forces. Incredibly tragic but it begs the question does this have any impact on the overall efforts in afghanistan by the United States . Reporter well, really a big one, amy. It comes at a time when the president has to decide whether we stick to the drawdown schedule we now have or leave thousands of american troops in afghanistan beyond 2016. All right, Martha Raddatz in washington. Thank you, martha. Now to that terrifying scene on a highway. A tanker explosion raising real questions about safety on our roads. You see it right there. Abcs matt gutman with the story. Reporter hey, good morning. Six second, thats you will it took for flowing traffic on a major highway to jam up for a tanker to swerve, hit another suv then flip over a guardrail and explode. Traffic blocked for hours and all because a mattress was on the road. Flames raging out of control along the new jersey turnpike. After a tanker explodes into a massive inferno. That black smoke seen in the air for miles around. A dash camera in a truck just a few cars back captures it all. The music is rolling inside the cab as that Chain Reaction crash begins. You see the tanker ahead swerving to avoid quickly building traffic but it overcorrects, hits that suv, loses control and flips over. In an instant it ignites into a fireball. The driver filming it stops his truck. You can see him right there running toward the scene but he is unable to reach the tanker. I didnt even get very close before the heat was overpowering. Reporter the fire burning so hot it melted the guardrail and pavement. Traffic on this major roadway backed up for miles. A lot of people are getting outside their car, the police was telling them to go back inside for their security. Reporter the tanker driver was killed in that crash. The driver of the suv is recovering this morning. Investigators blame it all on this mattress that so quickly slowed traffic. Resulting in that inferno. Highlighting the danger of unsecured cargo falling off cars and trucks onto the road. Whats a very serious when it does happen, it can be very serious and lead to serious injury and death. Reporter it also recently happened in san diego. A car stops to avoid a mattress that has fallen on to the road and an suv behind it plows straight into it. So what can you do to avoid that kind of accident if theres debris on the road . Experts say keep a foursecond space between you and the vehicle in front of you and heres something i havent heard before i spoke to the experts. Trailered vehicles or do it yourself movers, those are most likely to drop something in the back and get something left in the roadway. Amy. Yes, i know every time i see someone carrying cargo im always keeping my distance, thank you. Important things to remember when on the road. A Big Development in the bill cosby case, the comedian will have to answer questions under oath. Abcs Kayna Whitworth is los angeles with more on that story. Good morning, kayna. Reporter amy, good morning. Bill cosbys deposition is scheduled for tomorrow in a lawsuit brought against him by a woman who says she was molested by cosby when she was just 15. She says it happened at the playboy mansion in 1974. This is on the heels now of another civil suit filed last week by a woman saying cosby assaulted her at the mansion in 2008. This morning, bill cosby is set to be deposed for the First Time Since mounting allegations of abuse against him made headlines earlier this year. On wednesday a judge refusing to dismiss a civil lawsuit filed against the comedian by judy huth paving the way for her lawyer Gloria Allred to question him on videotape scheduled for tomorrow. The lawsuit is moving forward as you can see. Reporter the court intends to keep details of the deposition under seal until a later hearing. Huth alleges the star forced her to perform a sex act on him at the playboy mansion in the mid 70s when she was just 15 years old. Were looking forward to proceeding with this case. Reporter cosbys lawyers denying those claims. In Court Documents calling them absolutely false and baseless, also alleging in documents huths former attorney tried to extort 250,000 from cosby before filing the case. This as the man who once was americas favorite dad faces another lawsuit, 25yearold model chloe goins filing a civil suit tuesday claiming cosby drugged and also assaulted her at the playboy mansion in 2008. When youre watching him on tv and thinking about what you said he did to you, how did that make you feel . All i can think is hypocrite, somebody who goes on tv and presents such a wholesome image, yet is so sick. Its hard to watch i cant watch it. Yeah. Thats why im here today, to bring out the truth, the truth about his lies, his secrets. Reporter now more than 50 women are alleging cosby drugged or assaulted them. Hes never been charged with a crime in relation to that and he denies all the allegations of wrongdoing. Representatives for cosby told abc news his lawyers have no comment at this present time. Last week the lapd turned over the results of a probe from a criminal investigation into cosby to the l. A. District attorney. That d. A. Is deliberating whether to charge him criminally. In the vast majority of these allegations are so old they make criminal charges nearly impossible in most jurisdictions but goins says it falls within the statute of limitations. A michigan woman could face legal trouble after a wild scene at home depot. She could Face Criminal Charges for shooting at a shoplifter as he ran away. Abcs gio benitez has the story. Reporter watch, police say what youre looking at is shoplifting in action tuesday afternoon. The suspect with more than a thousand dollars worth of merchandise starts running as a home depot Security Guard in auburn hills, michigan, gives chase but it turns out the guard was the least of their worries. The customer then fired shots at the vehicle, believing to have hit one of the tires of the vehicle. Reporter thats right, a shopper in the parking lot, a 48yearold woman taking matters into her own hands opening fire on the suspects suv. Witnesses in disbelief. Its just scary the thought that somebodys going to shoot at somebody over material things. Reporter the shopper who does have a permit to carry a concealed weapon cooperating with the investigation. But police not convinced she should have shot at that car. Take down the information. Write down the description of the car, either wait for the officers to arrive or contact the Police Department by phone. Reporter and this morning, prosecutors are weighing whether to charge the woman for shooting at the suspects car, even though there may not have been imminent danger to herself or others. And the alleged crooks got away. As for that customer, well, some concealed weapon experts in the area are speaking out saying they dont believe the shooting would be justified, george. Okay, gio, thanks very much. To dan harris with todays other top stories. A major escalation in the war in syria. Russia is stepping up its involvement in syria now firing cruise miltons as part of an offensive to prop up bashar al assad. Moscow claims its targeting isis but the pentagon says the target has really been Syrian Rebels some of whom are backed by america. One had to change its route to avoid russian airplanes. Two students have now been released from the hospital. Chris mintz who was shot search times after confronting the gunman recovering at home. Also at home now the 18yearold Anastasia Boylan who played dead when shot in the back. Police in connecticut released this video showing a teenager jumping from a moving car to escape her alleged abductor. The girl said she was lured into the car and assaulted. Police are searching for the driver. Federal agents have uncovered 600,000 in cash buried in a backyard near l. A. They say its part of a Million Dollar armored car heist. Two drivers were charged last year with stealing the cash from a shipment. And finally, some International Sports news this morning, a blowout hockey game over in russia. The winning team with a commanding 1510 victory with one star player scoring seven goals. His name, vladimir putin. Yes, this is how the president celebrated his 63rd birthday. Putin was helped in this victory by the fact that his team was stacked with former nhl players and the by the fact that anybody who checked him was not sent to the penalty box but to siberia. No big deal. You can check me but youre going to the gulag. Fair game. Goalie deliberately not absolutely. Thanks, dan. Benches clear in a big playoff win for the chicago cubs. Now one step closer to their first world series in more than 100 years. That story in just 30 seconds. What a great night for the cubs. Theres a look live at wrigley field, the sign says flythew and put up a w flag every time they win. They have fans believing this could be the year they break one of sports most famous curses and t. J. Holmes is here with the story. Lara, its one game. They won one game. Theyre popping champagne and talking about curses. Well, when youre the cub, though, last night was worth celebrating. Check swing for the first time in 12 years, the chicago cubs have a postseason victory. Reporter is this the year the curse is broken . They win the wild card game. Reporter overnight the chicago cubs snapping their losing streak in epic fashion winning their first playoff baseball game in a dozen years. Fans taking to the streets in celebration. This is tremendous. Outstanding. Reporter the chicago cubs have not won a postseason contest since the infamous bartman incident back in 2003. The cubs just one inning away from going to the world series when fan Steve Bartman reached for this foul ball knocking it away from the player opening the door for the florida marlins to come back and claim victory. And the cubs world series drought goes back further than that. The cubs last made it to the series in 1945. Havent won it all since 1908. But now cubs fans dubbed the lovable losers may finally have a good omen on their side. Cubs win world series. Reporter back to the future 2 predicting 2015 as the year the cubs finally win it all. That ball is crushed. Reporter and this morning, the cubs one step closer. And fowler has gone deep. Reporter absolutely dominating the wild card playin game wednesday, not even a benchclearing brawl could stop them from shutting out the pittsburgh pirates. All right. For those not familiar, the curse was back in 1945. A guy went with his pet goat and he got kick it out because it smelled. A closeup of t. J. Hes celebrating. Double diamond studs for t. J. Holmes right there. Emphasis on stud. Stud. A lot more coming up. A judge is under fire for sentencing an abuse victim to jail. You think you have anxiety now . You havent seen anxiety. Why did she send that mother behind bars . 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