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city around, and we are going to turn it around very, very quickly. >> his pitch to minorities in one of the most democratic districts in the country where voters haven't chosen a republican for president in 100 years. >> a landmark agreement that could forever change college sports. the new deal, paving the way for direct payments to athletes. how it would work, changes in the air. >> what one airline is changing on every flight to protect passengers after a deadly case of turbulence this week, the new push to save chinatown. >> why these historic neighborhoods in so many big cities are now facing possible extinction. >> new revelations about taylor swift and travis kelce, who really played matchmaker and just in time for summer, the tallest waterslide in the usa opens today. >> would you take the plunge? >> from abc news this is america this morning. >> good friday morning everyone i'm andrew dymburt. i'm andrea

fujii in for rhiannon. >> we begin with the holiday weekend getaway and bad weather threatening to delay travel plans. we've seen severe weather impact travel from the midwest all the way to the east coast. >> and looking at the radar, we are expecting storms today from texas up to kentucky and illinois. big cities in the path include dallas, memphis, and chicago. >> meanwhile, we're getting our first look at the power of the most recent storms overnight, new images of storms tearing through towns from oklahoma to central texas just as the memorial day weekend travel rush begins. one day earlier, this dashcam video captured a tornado tearing through temple, texas, north of austin winds up to 120mph whipping trees and power lines, sending debris flying through the air, destroying multiple homes and leaving dozens injured. look at that car. >> it's just tipped over. >> and now we've learned the monster tornado that tore

through greenfield, iowa this week was an ef four. this woman pulled from the rubble as winds up to 185mph, blew apart her house, trapping her in the basement 50 miles away. an officer got caught in this tornado's path while trying to reach a group of campers, a tree falling directly onto his patrol car. severe storms also the east coast, forcing ground stops at jfk and laguardia airports yesterday, which could delay flights through the weekend. the memorial day holiday is kicking off what's predicted to be the busiest summer travel season ever. >> we'll see several over 3 million passenger days across the entire 430 airports that are in the united states, so that's a pretty big increase from last year. >> and looking ahead, storms this weekend could impact key travel hubs from dallas to chicago. we'll check today's forecast in just a few moments. >> now to the race for the white house and former president trump campaigning in unfriendly

territory. new york city. but trump claims he can win the big apple. and last night he explained how. abc's christiane cordero has those details. christiane good morning. >> andrew good morning. trump campaigned in one of the most democratic counties in the country, trying to court hispanic and black voters. >> if a new yorker can't save this country, no one can. >> during his rally in the deep blue south bronx, former president trump pledged to turn new york red. it won't be easy. >> first of all, he's a big, fat bigot. >> he's a crook, a liar and a cheat. new york city has voted for the democratic presidential candidate in every election since 1924. >> last night, several thousand people showed up for trump. >> it doesn't matter whether you're black or brown or white or whatever. the hell color you are, it doesn't matter. we are all americans. >> the district is more than 50% hispanic and 30% black or african american. but polls show trump making gains against president biden among those

groups, largely because of concern about the border and the economy. >> these millions and millions of people that are coming into our country, the biggest impact and the biggest negative impact is against our black population and our hispanic population who are losing their jobs, losing their housing, losing everything they can lose. >> trump promised to deport undocumented immigrants, lower crime and further reduce inflation, a message the crowd wanted to hear. >> he saved the country. we were in great shape. now we're in terrible shape. >> earlier, the biden campaign launched a series of tv and radio ads challenging trump's claims about his accomplishments for the black community. >> of course, i hate these people. >> the ad begins with trump saying, of course i hate these people, a remark he made in 1989 referring to the men who were accused and later wrongly convicted in the brutal rape of a jogger in central park in what became known as the central park five case. donald trump

disrespecting black folk is nothing new. >> he was sued for refusing to rent his apartments to black families and called for the execution of five innocent black and brown teenagers. >> and it's more than anger. it's hatred. >> the trump campaign called the ad another cheap attempt from the biden campaign to gaslight black voters. trump's visit to the bronx was his fourth campaign stop in new york during his criminal hush money trial. the jury in that case returns tuesday for closing arguments. andrea, christiane. >> thank you. norfolk southern has agreed to pay $310 million to settle claims from that toxic train derailment in east palestine ohio, last year. chemicals caught fire and burned for days, forcing hundreds from their homes. if the settlement is approved, the company will pay for community health services and environmental monitors, it says costs from the derailment now total around $2 billion. >> major story broke last night in the world of college sports, the development could change the very fabric of athletic competition at the college level . the ncaa is taking a major step toward paying college

athletes after long opposing the move. despite the billions in revenue the athletes helped generate. >> certainly a huge step in the sense that the ncaa, an institution that for a century now has kind of been built on and advocated for amateurism among its student athletes, has now agreed to the terms of a settlement in which they and their schools could directly pay those student athletes a class action lawsuit against the ncaa claimed the organization broke federal law by prohibiting college athletes from profiting off their own name. >> the ncaa and its biggest conferences have now settled that lawsuit. the settlement includes $2.8 billion in damages to be distributed to current and former athletes. it also calls for a new revenue sharing model, which will pay athletes a cut of the money their schools generate from revenue streams, including ticket sales and broadcast deals. >> there's no stipulations on exactly how much will go to each athlete or each individual school, but there's certainly some questions that remain about whether title nine will factor into that. >> a judge still has to approve the deal, which could take

months in 2022 alone. five of the top college sports programs generated more than $200 million. athletes did not receive any compensation for most of the ncaa history, but the organization faced an onslaught of legal challenges in recent years, and in 2021, the supreme court struck down limits on compensation for college athletes, allowing them to make money from endorsement deals. now, even if this new deal is approved, the legal battle isn't over just yet. the ncaa still faces three lawsuits over whether athletes should be considered employees, which could mean minimum wage and overtime laws might apply, pro golfer scottie scheffler, attorney says new video showing scheffler's arrest proves he did nothing wrong. >> the video, released by louisville police, shows scheffler pulling up outside last week's pga championship and a police detective running after him that detectives report claims scheffler dragged him with his car, which was not seen on the videos released by police yesterday. the detective has been disciplined for not turning on his body camera. scheffler faces several charges, including

a felony. he's due in court june 3rd. >> a dire new warning about hurricane season, which begins next week. government forecasters say this season could be extraordinary, with up to 25 named storms and double the average number of major hurricanes. they say developing la nina conditions increase the likelihood of powerful hurricanes by reducing wind shear in the atlantic. >> time now for your holiday weekend forecast. >> good morning. we're tracking another round of strong and severe thunderstorms this friday. the most consolidated area of this will be into parts of illinois, eastern iowa, southern wisconsin, parts of michigan and northwestern indiana. but other areas from texas all the way into the mid-atlantic states will see some strong scattered clusters of thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening. we could see two rounds of this in chicago. when it comes to holiday travel. on the way back home on memorial day, great lakes and northeast will be the trouble spots for accuweather. i'm jeff cornish for abc news. coming up, the school teacher

who quit because of cell phones in the classroom. >> but first, the airline announcing big changes to protect passengers from turbulence, how it could affect meal service, and what the utah author and mother accused of killing her husband is saying in her first jail

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only three needed a chair on arrival. he says people are doing it to skip the security line. he's calling for penalties to be imposed. >> we turn now to utah and the mother and author charged with killing her husband. she's now speaking out from jail after her lawyer abruptly withdrew from the case. this morning, a children's author turned murder suspect is speaking publicly for the first time about the charges against her. >> what i've really done is protect eric at all cost. >> corey richens rose to fame for writing a children's book after her husband eric's sudden death in 2022. but a year later, investigators arrested her, accusing her of poisoning her husband by lacing his drink with fentanyl. what i really didn't do is part of my husband. >> i could not and would not ever do that to eric or anyone for that matter. >> prosecutors also claim corey was seeing another man and was planning to go on vacation with him. they say she texted that other man to say love you five times in the week between her husband's death and his funeral,

the world has heard the real facts of the case. >> the media's twist and turn, what they think they know, or what will sell or get the most views. and it's time for you to get in some serious damage control. >> richard's jailhouse interview comes days after her lawyer withdrew from the ongoing civil case involving eric's estate. according to court documents, richens and her lawyer faced an irreconcilable situation, forcing the lawyer to withdraw from both the civil case and criminal trial. the next court hearing is in mid june, and there's another dispute in this case, richards lawyer accused prosecutors of listening in on their phone calls from jail. prosecutors deny it. >> a teacher in arizona is leaving the classroom after a decade, and he blames cell phones. mitchell rutherford says he's quitting over whatworse afe even offered extra credit for kids who limited their phone use. but he says nothing worked. more leaders at the state and federal level are now endorsing school cell phone bans. >> coming up, new safety measures at the beach to protect swimmers from sharks. >> also ahead, the efforts to

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