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David Muir, ABC's World News Tonight, America's most watched newscast.
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Now streaming same day with all the breaking news of the day on Disney+.
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Most watched, most trusted.
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Now on Disney+, every night.
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Tonight, breaking news.
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The horrific attack of veteran actor from Top Gun Maverick and Jumanji stabbed to death.
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His body found outside a home.
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Police say his girlfriend's son called 911, flagging down first responders.
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What he allegedly told them when they arrived.
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Trevor Ault in Los Angeles with late details coming in.
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Tonight, hours after President Trump celebrates a better-than-expected jobs report,
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the stock market suffers its worst day of the year.
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What's behind this sudden drop?
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And tonight, the president signaling a shakeup in national intelligence.
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Mary Bruce at the White House.
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The alarming situation on board the International Space Station.
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Why NASA ordered the astronauts to take shelter.
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They closely watched Senate race.
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They could decide control of the Senate.
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Growing questions tonight about Maine Democratic candidate Graham Plattner after several women have come forward with disturbing allegations.
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The husband and father sentenced for killing his wife and another man he lured to their home
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in a plot to run off with the family's au pair,
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the judge calling him evil.
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Newly released body camera video showing a driverless taxi interfering with first responders racing to a massive and deadly explosion.
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The case making national headlines.
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Erin Katursky sits down with Karen Reed,
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her explosive new lawsuit against police after being found not guilty of killing her boyfriend.
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Bombshell text messages between officers and what they reveal.
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Tracking severe storms across multiple states,
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65 million people under alert.
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Extreme heat in the Northeast,
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temperatures well into the 90s.
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Dramatic video showing a retired Marine and his family fighting off a group of allegedly armed robbers.
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After 105 years, the Chicago bear is about to blow out of the Windy City.
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A real bear making a stunning escape why officials called it extremely intelligent.
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From ABC News World Headquarters in New York,
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this is World News Tonight with David Muir.
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Good evening.
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I'm Wade Johnson.
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And for David, we begin tonight with breaking news.
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The horrific killing of a beloved veteran actor in Los Angeles.
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Authorities describing a bloody scene.
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81-year-old James Handy found stabbed to death outside a home.
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Police say his girlfriend's son called 911,
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flagging down first responders, telling them he was the person they were looking for.
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James Handy appearing in dozens of movies and TV shows.
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His last role in Top Gun Maverick.
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What authorities are saying about the suspect and the decision made late today.
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ABC's Trevor Ault leads us off from Los Angeles us tonight.
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just learned he's now being held for a psychiatric evaluation.
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He's due in court later this month.
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All right, Trevor, all for us tonight.
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We move on now to the U.S economy and the stock market suffering one of its worst days of the year.
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The Dow dropping 695 points today.
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The Nasdaq taking the biggest hit, losing 1,121 points.
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The S&P 500 down 200.
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There's also good news for the economy.
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A new report shows the U.S added 172,000 jobs last month,
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more than double the number predicted.
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And tonight, President Trump on another key issue signaling a shakeup in national intelligence.
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Mary Bruce at the White House.
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Tonight in Wisconsin, President Trump reveling in those strong new jobs numbers.
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They smashed all expectations.
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But on Air Force One,
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reporters pressing him about something else.
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His new pick for acting director of national intelligence,
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Bill Pulte, a Trump loyalist with no experience in intelligence or national security.
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Bill Pulte is very good.
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He's very talented.
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Trump says he wants Pulte to slash staff at the agency.
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I wouldn't mind if I've heard this way too high for way too long.
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He tells the Wall Street Journal that as acting director,
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Pulte is less shackled, saying that sort of gives you more power,
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you know, for a somewhat limited period of time adding he can do a lot of the hard work
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and we wouldn't have to saddle somebody that goes in.
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And Whit, Trump has made it clear that Bill Pulte is not his permanent pick for the job.
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He says he has five people in mind.
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The question now, when does the president make that announcement public?
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How long will it take his nominee to be confirmed?
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And what does Bill Pulte do at the agency in the meantime?
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Whit?
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All right, Mary Bruce, our thanks to you.
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Next tonight, the alarming situation on board the International Space Station,
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NASA, ordering the astronauts to take shelter in the Crew Dragon spacecraft because of an air leak.
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Operations on board the ISS have now resumed.
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The leak was in a rarely used part of the space station.
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Turning now to the closely watched Senate race that could decide control of the Senate.
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Growing questions about Maine Democratic candidate Graham Plattner after reports of several women coming forward with disturbing allegations.
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Plattner now responding.
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ABC's Selena Wang reporting from Maine tonight.
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Tonight, the Democratic candidate in one of the year's most closely watched Senate races battling a firestorm of controversy.
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Graham Plattner, an oyster farmer and former Marine,
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is running to unseat Maine Republican Susan Collins.
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But Plattner's past now coming back to haunt him.
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First, a series of sexist Reddit posts now deleted,
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then reports he exchanged sexual text messages with at least six women shortly after he was married in 2023.
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Plattner's wife Amy standing by him.
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I want my marriage and I want to be married to Graham.
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Overnight, the New York Times reporting several of Plattner's ex-girlfriends described quote unsettling behavior.
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One claiming Plattner regularly grabbed her by the shoulders,
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sometimes hard enough to leave marks,
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and on one occasion yanked her out of a cab by her wrist.
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She says during one argument,
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Plattner twisted her arm behind her back,
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shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn't get out.
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The allegations in the latest story are troubling,
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and I believe that Graham Plattner has a lot of questions to answer.
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Plattner fiercely denies any violence,
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but admits to mistakes in his past,
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speaking with ABC affiliate WMTW.
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I'm very happy to talk about incredibly uncomfortable things in my life,
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But when things come along that are just made up or lies,
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I'm very much going to push back against those.
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He was already facing questions about why he got a tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol on his chest
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while he was in the Marines some 18 years ago.
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Plattner insists he only recently became aware of the Nazi connection.
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I got it covered up within days because I didn't want that on my body.
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It all puts National Democrats in quite a bind.
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Winning Maine is crucial in their effort to retake the Senate.
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Senator Bernie Sanders standing by Plattner.
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Look, I'm sure he's not a saint.
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And by the way, let's not forget,
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he has acknowledged, this guy served four tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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He has acknowledged that he came back with PTSD.
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But Senator Alyssa Slotkin exasperated.
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I look forward to the day where I am not answering every single week a question about bad behavior by another dude.
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I just, I look forward to that day.
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And Whit Grim Plattner is not the Democratic nominee yet.
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The primary is on Tuesday,
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and Maine's Governor Janet Mills is still on the ballot.
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Now, she suspended her campaign back in April,
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but with all the scandals swirling around Plattner,
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she's making sure Democrats know that they can still vote for her if they want to win.
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All right, Selena Wang, thank you.
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We move on now to the husband
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and father sentenced to life without parole for killing his wife and another man he lured to their home in Virginia.
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Prosecutors say Brendan Banfield killed both victims as part of an elaborate plot while having an affair with the family's au pair,
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the judge calling him evil.
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Here's ABC's Matt Rivers.
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Tonight, Judgment Day in a twisted double murder plot.
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I sent you to life in the penitentiary for the rest of your natural life.
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Brendan Banfield convicted of killing his wife Christine
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and a stranger he lured to their home in order to frame him for the murder
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and stage it as a home invasion.
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Banfield posed as his wife online and catfished Joseph Ryan through a fetish website.
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When he arrived at the house,
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Banfield shot him and stabbed his own wife.
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I was able to see him stabbing her.
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The husband and father conspiring with the family's au pair so they could carry on an affair.
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Today, Christine's sister said she never truly knew Brendan.
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I don't believe anyone did.
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Not family, not friends, and certainly not Christine.
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His testimony was the most self-serving display of narcissism I have ever witnessed.
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The mother of Joseph Ryan, heartbroken.
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I have felt the deepest loss I could ever experience.
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But Banfield showing no remorse.
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I'm greatly disappointed in the legal system.
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The judge handing down life without parole.
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The level of cruelty, calculation,
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and inhumanity in this case reflects something far deeper than anger or impulse.
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It reflects evil.
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Witt, as a part of the plea deal,
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the Au Pair is serving 10 years for manslaughter.
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Witt.
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Matt Rivers, we appreciate it.
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Next tonight, newly released body camera video showing a Waymo self-driving taxi interfering with first responders
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as they race to a massive and deadly natural gas explosion in Dallas.
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A police officer struggling to move the car and what Waymo is saying tonight.
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Here's ABC's Morgan Norwood.
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Tonight, as this massive fire tore through a Dallas apartment complex,
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this new body camera video showing a Waymo,
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a driverless car, slowly first responders as they scramble to secure the scene.
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This deadly fire killing three people and injuring several others.
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Watch as this Dallas County constable pleads with support to move the vehicle.
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This call may be recorded for quality assurance.
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Yes, you need to move this car ASAP, please.
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Waymo reportedly unlocking the car,
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allowing the deputy to drive it out of the way.
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Come on, man.
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Can you go?
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The system seems to be having a minor issue.
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This mishap, just the latest in a series of Wayward Waymo incidents.
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And Whit, tonight, Waymo saying that vehicle was in the process of completing a three-point turn in order to leave the area.
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They add that they're working closely with Dallas law enforcement moving forward.
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Okay, Morgan Norwood, thanks so much.
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Now to the case making national headlines.
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One year after being found not guilty of murdering her Boston police officer boyfriend,
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Karen Reed is now filing a lawsuit accusing police of misconduct.
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The lawsuit alleging disturbing voice and text messages were sent between officers.
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Tonight, our chief investigative correspondent,
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Aaron Katursky, sitting down with Karen Reed.
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Tonight, nearly a year after she was acquitted of killing her boyfriend,
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Karen Reed is speaking out about her scathing new lawsuit against two Massachusetts police departments that she says framed her for murder.
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I've always known that if I could free myself,
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that I would right the wrongs that have been done to me.
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So this is now a new, this is your crusade.
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I think that's a good word for it.
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Reed's lawsuit includes vile and racist messages.
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She says her from the lead investigator,
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former state trooper Michael Proctor,
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disparaging women, Asian Americans, Hispanics, Jews, and black Americans.
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Take your time.
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I saw a f***ing was involved,
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so I wouldn't rush if you're working.
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Let them die.
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Like, literally, shove a f***ing nightstick up his a**,
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plant a bag of coke on him,
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and just be like, you're going in.
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That person in their core cannot logically, objectively investigate someone.
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He is rotten and evil in his core.
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A federal investigation into the handling of Reed's case ended with no charges,
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but her attorneys say they uncovered many more messages the feds never saw.
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There are thousands, I mean,
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tens of thousands of messages.
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Vile and vulgar like these?
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Yes.
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His view of the world,
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as reflected in these text messages,
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indicates that Karen Reed was a person that he didn't care about.
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And I've learned something about the underbelly of these institutions that I feel I have to do something with.
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I have to make something good come of this.
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With the Massachusetts State Police denounced the messages and fired the trooper.
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The trooper's lawyer accused Karen Reed of trying to distract from her own conduct the night her boyfriend died.
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And Reed is facing a lawsuit from her boyfriend's family for wrongful death.
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All right, Aaron, thank you for that.
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Tonight we're tracking severe storms across multiple states.
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65 million people under alert.
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Extreme heat in the northeast.
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Temperatures well into the 90s again tomorrow.
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Let's get right to ABC's senior meteorologist Lee Goldberg.
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Lee, that severe weather on the move.
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We really haven't seen a lot of heat here in the northeast,
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but now that we have it,
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we have a severe risk coming up on Saturday.
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Those storms tonight, they're in the Midwest.
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We have severe thunderstorms.
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We've already seen some damaging ones across parts of Minnesota.
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There's a severe thunderstorm.
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Watch from Minneapolis into Wisconsin.
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More storms late tonight from Nebraska into Illinois.
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Damaging winds hail, even an isolated tornado.
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That severe weather, that's going to reach the Great Lakes into the northeast on Saturday.
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Let's time it for you in the morning.
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That's when we see storms in the Ohio Valley into Pennsylvania and New York.
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I think the strong storms are going to approach the I-95 quarters.
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We go through late day,
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especially into the evening hours.
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Have your mobile alerts on.
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Damaging winds, hail, frequent lightning, all possible.
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Before that, it's another 90-degree day as the heat peaks along with some humidity.
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The front will break the heat.
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It'll last only into early next week,
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and then the heat is on again.
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Summer is definitely hitting its stride.
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Witt.
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All right, Lee Goldberg, thanks so much.
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When we come back, dramatic video showing a Marine and his family fighting off a group of allegedly armed robbers,
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details on the desperate search for a college student overseas one week after he was last seen,
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and the bear being called extremely intelligent,
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how it made its escape after being trapped inside a factory.
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Next tonight, a Marine turns the tables on a group of attempted carjackers outside Washington, D.C.
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Police say doorbell camera video shows four teenagers approach Jacob Borda at gunpoint on Wednesday.
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tries to disarm one teen who allegedly fired a gun.
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No one was hurt.
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Borda's dad and brother rushed in,
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tackled the suspects, and called 911.
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The desperate search for a missing American college student in Kyoto, Japan.
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Police say 20-year-old James Weston Higginbotham was last seen one week ago on a family trip.
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Search teams are combing a mountain range for any traces of the man.
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Investigators say it is highly probable Higginbotham left intentionally.
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His family says he ventured off shortly after an argument with his mother.
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When we come back, the bear being called extremely intelligent,
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how it evaded capture.
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And the Chicago Bears inching closer to leaving the city they call home for another state.
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To the index now, the Chicago Bears are inching closer to getting a new home outside Chicago.
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The team's board of directors voted to move forward with a plan to build a stadium in northwest Indiana.
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The vote comes after Illinois lawmakers failed to approve the bill that would give the bears a break on property taxes.
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Area lawmakers say they will continue fighting to keep the bears in Illinois.
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Now to another bear making headlines,
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and this one officials call extremely intelligent after it made a clever escape.
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We told you earlier this week about the bear that went on a rampage and injured four people in Fukushima, Japan.
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That bear was trapped inside a factory,
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but then officials say it turned on a tap to drink water
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and later evaded capture when it unlocked and opened a window before running away.
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Finally tonight, paying tribute to one of our own,
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former ABC News journalist Jim Wooten.
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Over the course of more than two decades for ABC News,
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Jim Wooten reported from more than 40 countries and five continents.
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In Bosnia, he chronicled the devastating war and its impact on ordinary people.
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From the early morning on,
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all day long, one after another,
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those wounded in the front line fighting at Brčko were brought here.
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The genocide in Rwanda.
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This is the land Yves now calls home.
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It's volcanic rock.
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You can't farm it, you can't build on it,
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you can't live on it.
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You can die on it,
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but they can't bury you in it.
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The AIDS crisis in South Africa.
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Even a
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little boy's reach ought to exceed his grasp.
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Here at home, he often covered politics.
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What Governor Clinton needed to do tonight was to present the possibility that he can be seen as a president.
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He left an indelible mark on journalism and all of us here at ABC News.
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Wooten is survived by his wife, children, and grandchildren.
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He was 88 years old.
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And our thoughts are with Jim's family tonight.
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I'm Whit Johnson in New York.
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Have a great night.
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Thank you.
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