welcome to "world news tonight." trump's tax bombshell. the leaked documents. nearly a billion in losses in one year. critics saying he's a tax dodger. his supporters calling him a genius. and trump setting up a nasty rematch one week from tonight. >> i don't even think she's loyal to bill, if you want to know the truth. bracing for disaster. a category 4 hurricane. a fragile island, facing life-threatening wind and rain. and this monster storm may be taking aim at the east coast. deadly crash course. new details tonight about what the engineer is telling investigators about the moment of impact. school bus scare. a school bus rolling over. students thrown across the aisle. and now the seatbelt debate reignited.

to a hail mary. why this is one weekend college football fans will never forget. and good evening. i'm tom llamas, and we begin with the race for the white house and a major development involving donald trump's taxes. the "new york times" obtaining information had a loss of more than $900 million? 1 in 1995. as trump's supporters defend what they say is the candidate's genius, the second presidential debate is one week from tonight. mary bruce gets us started. >> reporter: tonight, an october surprise for donald trump.

that i can tell you. >> reporter: tonight, we're learning donald trump could have paid no interest taxes for years. records sent by an anonymous tipster to the "new york times" show in 1995, trump reported a jaw-dropping $916 million loss, the result of the collapse of his atlantic city casinos, his airline and the purchase of new york's plaza hotel. a loss so large, he could have legally avoided paying federal income taxes for up to 18 years, a strategy he seemed to brag about at last week's debate. >> maybe he doesn't want the american people, all of you watching tonight, that know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes. >> that makes me smart. >> reporter: tonight, trump's campaign isn't denying the report. trump tweeting, i know the tax laws better than anyone that has run for president, and how to fix them. his surrogates, today, launched a vigorous defense.

i mean, the reality is. >> a genius? >> absolute genius. >> there's no one who has shown more genius in their way to maneuver around the tax code and rightfully use the laws to do that. >> reporter: but trump hasn't always described it that way. >> i know people that are making a tremendous amount of money and paying virtually no tax, and i think it's unfair. >> reporter: voters in florida also seeing it both ways. >> i'm a working class citizen, and i pay my taxes. i don't understand how he's not paying his. >> i t it that way. >> reporter: clinton's campaign is pouncing on the new report, saying it reveals the colossal nature of his past business failures. "now that the gig is up, why doesn't he release his returns to show us all how smart he really is?" bottom line, experts say trump didn't do anything illegal. but the magnitude of the nearly $1 billion loss is amazing.

accounted for the major writeoff. and the candidate facing a huge test at the upcoming presidential debate. our new poll says hillary clinton won the first match, only 18% saying trump was the victor. and while "saturday night live" performances, donald trump is preparing for the rematch. here's devin dwyer. >> reporter: tonight, donald trump dealing up a rematch on hillary clinton. >> she can't make it 15 feet to her car. >> reporter: taking aim at clinton's marriage, claiming

unfaithful to bill. and the republican nominee doubling down on demands his rival should be thrown behind bars. >> she should be in prison. let me tell you. she should be in prison. >> i don't actually think it's well-considered, thought-through strategy by the trump campaign. >> reporter: but will it work with swing voters reach in the next debate? >> this man is clearly unfit to be commander-in-chief. >> wrong. >> he's a bully. >> shut up. >> he started the birther movement. >> you did. >> says climate change is a hoax invested by china. >> it's pronounced "gina".

good spirits despite a leaked fund-raiser speech. >> they're children of the great recession, living in their parents' basement. >> reporter: today, sanders brushed it off, saying what clinton said about their economic situation is absolutely correct. >> devin, thank you. and the second presidential debate, seven days away. co-moderated by martha full team coverage on abc, and complete coverage of the vice presidential debate, tuesday at 9:00 p.m. next to the monster hurricane that many on the east coast are following closely. category 4 hurricane matthew, 140 miles per hour, moving north over the caribbean. millions are in its path, as the outer bands are lashing jamaica,

impacts to the u.s. are not out of the question. rob marciano with the storm path in a moment, but first, gio benitez. >> reporter: tonight, hurricane matthew barreling through the caribbean, shifting east, now taking direct aim on haiti. the massive storm packing 140 miles-per-hour winds, expected to trigger flooding and mudslides. the orphanage, bracing for the worst. heavy rain in colombia. the first bands started rolling in just a half an hour ago. already, we've got serious flooding here. the monster storm, already

island of st. vincent as it slowly marches north. gaining strength. right now, a category 4, this could be the strongest hurricane to hit haiti in decades, a country still rebuilding after the devastating earthquake in 2010, and tropical storm isaac in 2012. from here in jamaica, all the way to the bahamas, the state department is urging all saying there's limited time for a safe departure. >> thank you. let's bring in rob marciano. >> it's been since the 1960s since a storm like this hit in haiti, and thousands died. here's a computer model showing landfall in western haiti, sometime tomorrow night.

inc inches. here's the official track. jamaica, eastern cuba, and then the bahamas. and by thursday and friday, it's abreast of the u.s. too soon to give the all-clear, we'll be watching it very, very closely throughout the week. tom? >> rob, thanks. next to an update about the deadly commuter train crash in new jersey. federal investigators releasing this footage inside the terminal. and revealing what the engineer said about what happened. here's eva pilgrim. >> reporter: tonight, for the first time, the engineers account of what happened in the moments before that train full of commuters crashed into this platform, killing one person, injuring 114 others. >> he looked at his watch and noticed his train was about six minutes late arriving at hoboken. he said that when he checked the speedometer, he was operating at

>> reporter: thomas gallagher says he has no memory of the accident. only waking up on the floor of can cab. and this event recorder recovered from the back of the train wasn't working. >> we want to get in and get the exact speed of the train. >> reporter: new jersey transit had been under investigation by the federal railroad administration f violations, some related to employee drug and alcohol use, and almost $5 million in damage to tracks and equipment. the train is required by law to have a working front event recorder so investigators are hopeful that front car will hold some much needed answers when they are able to get in there. tom? >> thank you. next to the potential cyber threat that may cast a shadow

november? here's pierre thomas. >> reporter: homeland security secretary jeh johnson acknowledging tonight that election officials in 21 states have requested help in blocking cyber-attacks. sources tell abc news that investigators believe the hacking tied to the highest levels of the russian government. >> we're doing an awful lot of work to understand just what mischief is russia up to in connection with our election. >> reporter: concerns mounting after abc news first reported this week that hackers believed to be tied to russia had targeted the voter registration computers of at least 20 states. >> if we retaliate against russia with a cyber-attack of some sort, we could get into a spiral that would be a cyber-war. >> reporter: abc news has learned that in four cases, hackers actually got inside those voter registration databases and likely copied information about thousands of voters. >> potentially, the presidential

i never thought i would live to see that day. >> reporter: while there's no evidence that the hackers changed voter rolls, that is the concern going forward. imagine a situation where there's a question about the eligibility of thousands of voters in a battleground state because of a hack. tom? >> pierre, thank you. next to a new arrest in an alleged murder for hire plot in florida. the suspect facing a murder charge for her role in the shooting >> reporter: tonight, this woman charged with first degree murder. accused of facilitating the killing of a prominent law professor at florida state university. dan markel was shot to death in the driveway of his home in tallahassee. >> the working theory of the

divorce that was ongoing. >> reporter: his relatives have not been charged and deny any connection. >> even my family who thought i'd been mistreated would never do something like this. never. >> reporter: but police allege that katherine magbanua, arrested saturday, is the link between the adelson family and the alleged hitmen. investigators claiming in this affidavit that she had past romantic relationships with one of the accused hitmen, as well the family telling abc news magbanua was an employee. police also claim the accused hitmen's first call after the murder was to magbanua, her attorney telling us she has no prior convictions, and their priority is getting her out on bond. while tonight, police aren't saying whether there could still be more arrests. marci gonzalez, abc news, new

batch of zika-carrying mosquitoes, the first captures in two weeks. next, to an incredible weekend in college football. we start in the big house, wisconsin versus michigan. the badgers hoping for a comeback on this deep pass when cornerback jourdan lewis goes airborne with a one-handed interception. the wolverines winning that one. then in tallahassee, a unc down by one point against the florida state seminoles. fourth quarter, four seconds left, tar heels go for a 54-yard field goal. kicker nick weiler, pressure on, kick is up. it's good. the noles upset at home. and in georgia, fourth quarter, the bulldogs come back with a 47-yard touchdown pass with ten seconds to go. game over, right? wrong. last play of the game,

a hail mary into the end zone. receiver jauan jennings jumps for it and brings it down. head coach butch jones overcome with emotion, taking a knee on the field. like us, he just couldn't believe it. our condolences to amy robach, who was there, a bulldog fan, that was tough to watch. still ahead, the bus ends up in the ditch. the crash belt debate. and a toddler lost in a cornfield. nearly impossible to spot. we have the late developments. you owned your car for four years. you named it brad. you loved brad. and then you totaled him. you two had been through everything together. two boyfriends, three jobs... you're like nothing can replace brad. then liberty mutual calls...

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now to the scary moments inside a school bus packed with students as it flipped over into a ditch. here's clayton sandell. >> reporter: tonight, new video of a terrifying, unscheduled houston area school bus. watch as high school and middle school kids go flying when their bus veers off the road, flipping onto its side. >> all units on scene, school bus rollover. multiple patients. >> reporter: 25-year veteran driver, brenda armster, briefly looks in the mirror to ask a question. >> does anybody get off here? >> reporter: in that split-second distraction, the school district says armster failed to see a truck stopped ahead making a left turn.

>> the bus just started gliding through the road. >> reporter: 11 of the 52 students were injured. >> we have someone injured right here. >> reporter: once again raising the issue of why more school busses don't have seatbelts. currently, only six states require them. in this rollover cra simulated by one of the largest providers of school bus seat belts, kids not buckled in go airborne. >> seatbelts save lives, and three-point belts should be on every school bus. >> reporter: tom, federal safety officials called for seat belts to be in every school bus. that will cost school districts anywhere from $7,000 to $11,000 per bus. tom? >> thank you. >> when we come back, the wedding day drama that landed people in the hospital. and why this may be the last

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finally tonight, an 8-year-old just won a scholarship to college by being herself. here's gloria riviera. positive way. >> reporter: even though she is only 8, when jordan phipps makes a promise, you believe her. >> i will pay attention and i will do my best. and i will study hard every day. >> reporter: the soccer-loving third-grader from garland, texas, asked her mom to post her promises. that video went viral. >> i have the attitude of a north texas eagle. >> reporter: she's obsessed with

her mom's alma mater. her video and clear academic enthusiasm led u.n.t. to make jordan a life-changing offer, surprising her at school. >> we have for you a $10,000 scholarship. [ cheers and applause ] >> she touched us with her video, and her spirit and her positive attitude. >> reporter: jordan tells us she may want to major in engineering, and has a message for other little girls. >> that they can do whatever they want to do, and they can do whatever they stick their mind to. >> reporter: and just because it really is so sweet, here's one last look. >> i am smart, i am a leader. failure is not an option for me. success is only moments away. >> reporter: gloria riviera, abc news. i'm tom llamas in new york. have a great evening.

5:30... "quiet and mild for the start of our workweek, with rain chances by hump day." a new report says donald trump could have avoided paying taxes for up to 18 years after taking a big loss on his return. and members of the st. patrick's catholic church in cedar rapids return for sunday service after a threat of flooding. you're watching kcrg-tv9. now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrg-tv9 news at 5:30. a cloudy but pleasant, fall-like day across eastern iowa. this is a live look at our decorah city cam. you can see some of fall foliage there. meteorologist chris havely starts us off tonight. chris, mild temps continue into the start of

clear tonight, setting us up for some potential patchy fog on monday morning. this looks to occur mostly likely in river valleys. monday afternoon, sunshine and a wind shift to the southeast will bring us mild and pleasant conditions for the start of the workweek. this pattern will continue into tuesday, however, a cold front will be moving into the area for wednesday. back to you. a man faces charges after a crash seriously injured a pedestrian in cedar falls overnight. police arrested michael kelly, of blue grass, on a charge of operating while