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springsteen and the e street band relaunched their tour last night. so nice to see the boss back. there is video at the footprint center in phoenix. look at that. he's never looked better. >> last night's show was their first in september, third at metlife stadium in new jersey, after which bruce had suspended the tour due to his bout with peptic ulcer disease. >> their next show is on friday in las vegas, then nine more shows before they cross the pond in may and tour europe through july before returning stateside to pittsburgh on august 15th. have you guys seen the boss in concert? no, i have not. unfortunately danny, i'm assuming many times. >> yeah. one time i was seeing brian wilson, the lead singer of the beach boys. and if you're at a concert in new jersey, there's always like a 13% chance bruce will pop out. and he just showed up in the encore and sang, that's even better than i did. >> see the beach boys. >> i love a good all right, that's good. >> yeah. >> next to a special honor for doctor dre, the hip hop mogul was surrounded by rap royalty as he received his star on the

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police to arrest migrants who cross into the u.s. illegally. what? an appeals court just ruled a short time ago, four years after the pandemic began, scientists are worried about another global health threat from fungi. >> see what they're doing about it. >> plus, a suspected bank robbers as young as 11 years old turned in by their parents. what police are saying about rising crime involving children and a ship carrying jewels sunk centuries ago. >> but experts say they're on the verge of recovering the ship and its $17 billion worth of loot. it's wednesday, march 20th. from abc news this is world news now. good morning everyone. thank you so much for joining us. can you imagine $17 billion worth of loot just at the bottom of the ocean. >> you got to go get it. you got to be adventurous. >> titanic. yes she dropped the gold. the necklace. >> the heart of the ocean, i believe, is what it was. you

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person today. they insist there is no starvation in gaza. how do you respond to that? >> we are seeing families, civilians, children, old people and vulnerable people suffering every single day. we're seeing a trickle of aid when we need a tsunami of food assistance. >> israel believes the last five or so hamas battalions, plus its leader sinwar, are holed up in rafah, which is why one israeli official tells me, despite what the president says, there is no world in which israel does not go ahead with this offensive. matt gutman, abc news, tel aviv. all right. >> matt gutman, thank you for that. the state department has also told americans in haiti to be ready for more emergency of s. citizens left sunday on a charter flight. officials say more evacuations could come by helicopter from the embassy in port au prince. aid to haiti is being blocked on two fronts gangs have shut off the nation's ports and tuesday, congressional republicans blocked $40 million that the white house hoped to

use to stabilize the country. >> hard to believe, but four years ago this month, the covid pandemic began. now, scientists are worried about a new global health threat fungi. medical experts say it's a potential problem that needs to be taken seriously. >> we've come this far and you know what's out there. >> killer fungus may sound like something out of the science fiction series the last of us, about a pandemic caused by a mass fungal infection. but in real life, fungal infections kill an estimated 1.7 million people worldwide each year, more than tuberculosis or malaria. the world health organization and the cdc now sounding the alarm. >> we're certainly exposed to fungi every day. and yet most of the time, again, we fight them off or they're mild. of course, now with some of these new, really nasty, resistant strains we're reporting on, you know, it's becoming much worse. >> some experts believe it's driven by climate change. you and me, we're both have, you

know, bodies that are around 98.6 degrees. >> it's too hot for most fungi to thrive. and so fungi are evolving to survive and thrive in an increasingly warming planet. >> allison karsch, a mother of two from arizona, experienced fatigue so severe she was spending 18 hours a day in bed like it's real fatigue, and i would get in bed and in 90s. >> i'm unconscious. >> doctor john galgiani diagnosed her with valley fever caused by fungus that lives in the dirt in the deserts of the southwest. if you inhale one of these spores, it gets into your lungs, and that starts an infection, and, that can happen whether you're out dirt biking or doing things, kicking up a lot of dust or in fact, just living in the area where this fungus lives. >> rob purdy from california, also suffered from valley fever, fungal meningitis, actually traveled into his brain. his doctors had to drill a port into his skull, and he will need to

receive lifelong medication injected directly into his brain any day. >> i could wake up in one, one or the other of the drugs is no longer effective. it's a little bit of just waiting for the other shoe to drop. and you know, what's the insane part of the whole thing is? i feel really lucky adding some star power in the race to find a vaccine. >> former nfl star rob gronkowski, who had two teammates from his college days at the university of arizona, get sick from valley fever, one even dying from it. >> it was very, very sad. >> you know, he was very young. he was a great kid, he did a lot of good here at the university of arizona and, hopefully in the future, things like that can be preventative. >> gronk, a dog lover, is an investor in a valley fever vaccine that could soon be available for dogs. meanwhile vaccine for humans is still far away, but it would be a milestone for animals. >> very interesting. okay, the largest and most expensive and most complicated underwater recovery mission is set to begin next month. >> it will happen off the coast

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