good morning. i'm diane macedo. >> i'm ryan smith in for good morning, i'm diane macedo. >> and i'm ryan smith in for kendis gibson. to syria to help local forces battle isis. live report is coming up. three federal agents are recovering after being shot outside at topeka kansas motel over the weekend. two u.s. service marble deputies had been trying to serve a warrant when the shooting started. >> officials are expected to announce a grand jury indictment today of quarterback johnny manziel. the former cleveland browns signal caller is accused of beating his ex-boyfriend in january. the browns cut him last month. the two pilots of that solar airplane are taking a much

needed rest in san francisco after completing half of their around the world journey. they describe some grueling conditions on their three-day flight from hawaii. we'll have more on that and the rest of our top stories on this monday, april 25th. >> reporter: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> we begin this half hour with a major development. more u.s. personnel are heading to syria to fight isis. >> president obama is expected to announce the increase later this morning in germany, battling isis has been a main focus as the president wraps up a week-long trip overseas. we have been traveling with the president. she joins us from germany. good morning arlete. >> reporter: good morning, ryan and diane. president obama is ramping up the pressure on isis in syria. obama will announce he's sending up to 250 additional military

personnel to syria to help local forces combat isis. the new development brings the total of u.s. forces in the country to 300. announcement comes as the u.s. is also increasing its presence in neighboring iraq. just last week the pentagon said it's sending 217 more troops to serve as advisers. raising the number of authorized military forces to over 4,000. in an interview with the bbc, president obama admitted isis may not be defeated before he leaves office. >> prosecuting the campaign against isil is critical. and although i don't anticipate that in the next nine months it will be finished, we can slowly shrink the environment in which they operate and take on strongholds like mosul cha is the beating heart of their movement. >> reporter: the president's decision coincides with a security focussed meeting with the leaders of france, germany, italy and the uk. obama will encourage those leaders to increase intelligence

sharing in the wakes of the brussels and paris attacks. the meeting will be welcomed by angela merkel. >> the time to complete is now and i'm here to say the united states is prepared to make every effort to reach an ambitious, comprehensive and high standard agreement this year. >> reporter: obama calls merkel one of his closest and most trusted partners. that comradery was on display when he defended her controversial decision to take in hundreds of thousands of syrian refugees. >> she is on the right side of history on this. she is giving voice to the kinds of principles that bring people together rather than divide them. >> reporter: the president's decision comes in syria as europe is dealing with an influx of syrian refugees. another issue expected to come up in his security meeting with european lead thers afternoon.

diane and ryan? >> thank you. the world may soon get a glimpse of a secret chapter from the september 11th investigation. the white house could release in part 28 pages of documents from a congressional inquiry into the 9/11 attacks. it may shed led on saudi support. there are new details this morning about the execution style killings in rural ohio. authorities say that there were marijuana growing operations at three of the four locations where the victims were found. eight members of the same family were shot in the head while they slept. one victim was found lying next to her 4 day old infant who was not harmed. officials say the killings were carefully planned. also under investigation, a deadly shooting outside a prom in wisconsin. one person died, but police say it could have been much worse. here is abc's marci gonzalez. >> reporter: wisconsin community reeling, a gunman opening fire

outside of a high school program, injuring students. >> we have another shooter. we have open door at the school and the school needs to be cleared. >> reporter: the dance just about to end saturday night when bullets started flying. police say 18-year-old jacob wagner armed with a high-powered rifle and large ammunition clip took aim, shooting a couple as they left the dance. a young man was hit in the leg. his date grazed by a bullet. students still inside forced to take cover, including thomas blink -- >> i was standing there for about an hour. i was just in disbelief at the whole thing. >> reporter: police say officers patrolling the dance heard the shots and rushed over. shooting the suspect, stopping him before anyone else was hurt. school officials praising those quick-thinking officers who they say prevented a disaster of unimaginable proportions. >> just kind of doling with the situation we got right now and i think it's a lot of shock. >> reporter: wagner died in the hospital. officials looking for clues that could point to a motive.

school officials told us wagner graduated last year from the high school and still volunteered in art classes at the school. wagner's grandfather telling abc news his grandson was bullied for years, saying, quote, we feel for the other families wz we mourn our own loss. and police haven't said whether wagner targeted the couple. the student shot in the leg is now recovering after surgery and his date is home from the hospital. marci gonzalez, abc news, new york. mental health professionals are seeking the repeal of north carolina so-called bathroom law. a group of psychiatrists, social workers and counselors have signed a letter to the governor over the law that bans tran gender people of using the bathroom with the people they identify with. lbgt students who experience harassment and discrimination have higher level of depression and suicide attempts. turning to politics, surprising collaboration, ted cruz and john kasich are teaming up to stop donald trump. cruz announced plans to pour his time and resources into indiana.

in turn, clearing the way for kasich to focus on oregon and new mexico. it's a move trump has labeled as desperate. earlier campaign trail, cruz revived old chatter about trump's hands. >> donald seems obsessed with telling us what big hands he has. well, maybe he can demonstrate those hands by coming and showing up at a debate. >> against the communist -- >> trump says he doesn't think his rivals can stop him but he told supporters in maryland if he loses, i don't think you'll ever see me again. as for the democrats, hillary clinton is looking ahead to the general election ahead. they are so confident they quietly started searching for a running mate. publicly he said it's too early to discuss that process. and bernie sanders agrees with that last part. he continues to hanler clinton to release the transcripts of her wall street speeches, showing no signs of backing

down. >> and we intend to take the fight all the way to california so people throughout this country have a right to determine who they want as president and what kind of an agenda they want for the democratic party. >> clinton and trump are dominating the polls in pennsylvania. the largest of five states holding primaries tomorrow. and after grinding away from behind kyle busch for 30 laps, carl edwards did what he had to do to pass busch. he bumped him on the last lap of the nascar race in richmond, virginia. won his second-consecutive sprint cup series race. nascar says it's the first last lap pass for a victory in the history of the series. you might call the win a bump and grind. >> gave him a tap there, little love tap. >> love tap. >> not so much love. >> i'm not so sure busch appreciated that. he took it in stride in truth. >> i'm sure there will be a rematch. meanwhile, there was a very different kind of race in florida and it was not on wheels, but actually on heels.

>> that's right. drag queens, pulled out their wigs and their spandex and very best heels and pulled out all the stops for this drag race. where else? in key west. and participants navigated an obstacle course of car tires, walked a balance beam, even maneuvered shopping carts. how do they do it? i do not know. >> respect. because it is very hard just walking in heels, let alone doing any of those activity. >> sprints? >> a few of them not surprisingly did take a tumble. the event is part of the annual conk republican celebration that commemorates the florida keys symbolic 1982 sus session from the united states. >> now, by the way the rules in these contests, the heels have to be at least 3 inches tall. can you do that in heels? >> not in 3 inch heels. i might have trouble doing that in sneakers or barefoot. >> this couldn't be you? >> no. >> right there pushing a cart? >> i love the cart. >> if i'm in the cart, can you push that? >> by the way, wearing a wig

that heavy is also a challenge in and of itself. they are throwing a lot of onty kals in their way besides the obvious ones. >> taking some tumbles. the wig is really that heavy? >> i think you should try it. it seems like you have a lot of questions about this process and how difficult it might be. put on a pair of high heels, throw on a wig, i think we can create an obstacle course, right? >> you know what, challenge not accepted. >> yes. you'll be great. >> i'm not going to do it. >> put the tires right there. a high jump. >> how about we do it in our imaginations and talk about it. i'm going to do it in my imagination. >> that's not as fun. >> no, i think sit. i think it will work for everyone involved. >> fine. coming up, the battle over an allegedly stolen pi ka sow. the all-out war over this painting worth nearly $1 million that's pitting an miami art dealer against a billionaire socialite. abc news exclusive with

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republican nominee. >> well, i'll tell you why. we said here are the issues. you've got to be like ronald reagan and be compete on making the country better rather than tearing down your opponents. and right off the bat, they didn't do it. more of these personal attacks and pitting one person against the other. that's the message you're sending the country. that's the way you should -- you're role models and you're terrible role models. so i don't know how we could support them. >> so many people in the country now look at the american economy and they say it is rigged. wages are stagnant. it is rigged. they say it's rigged by those at the top. >> it is. and that's -- that's in the policy area, that's -- that's our number one policy objective to change that. what i call it is -- >> you agree that the system is rigged. >> absolutely. >> is rigged in favor of the wealthiest. >> in favor of companies like ours because we have this

corporate welfare that benefits established companies and makes it very difficult for somebody to get started. >> when you look at the presidencies of george w. bush and barack obama, which one in your view was worse? i know you don't like either one. >> i would compare it to more toward bill clinton. just in the spending and regulation. the government grew much more under bush's administration whose i think is a fine person and tried to do the right thing, but -- but was misguided. >> am i hearing you correctly, you think bill clinton was a better president than george w. bush. >> in some ways. in other ways he wasn't an exemplar but as far as the growth of government, the increase in spending on

restrictive regulations, it was two and a half times under bush that it was under clinton. >> is it possible another clinton could be better than another republican? >> it's possible. it's possible. >> you couldn't see yourself supporting hillary clinton, could you? >> well, her -- we would have to believe her actions would be quite different than her rhetoric. let me put it that way. on some of the republican candidates we would before we could support them, we'd have to believe their actions would be quite different than the rhetoric we've heard so far. >> great job by jonathan karl because that is a striking admission for someone who has supported the republican party for so many years. hillary clinton saying she's not interested in koch's support. >> be interested to see how this shapes up as the campaign goes on. >> absolutely. coming up, the high stakes fight over a picasso. >> the art dealer versus a socialite. the socialite says the painting was stolen from her home. you're watching "world news now."

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well, let me tell you something, when you are, a legal tug of war can happen like this one playing out over a valuable picasso portrait over one of the artist's early mistresses. >> a miami judge ordered a miami art dealer to return the painting to the fifth avenue to the home of an elderly billionaire widow from whom it was allegedly stole. >> reporter: a billionaire socialite and a miami art dealer are in an all-out war over this painting by pablo picasso, worth nearly $1 million. >> i can't believe i'm in the middle of this. >> the gallery owner putting the portrait of one of picasso's mistresses up for sale even though wilma tisch claims the rare masterpiece is hers. the piece allegedly stolen from her home sometime between 2009 and when she says she noticed it missing in 2013. >> when are you too rich to notice that you're missing a picasso? >> reporter: tisch is demanding back the pricey painting which

hendel claims he legally bought three years ago from a private seller who he believes rightfully owned it. >> he's trying to argue that hey, i'm the victim here myself. i paid fair value for this and didn't get it. the problem with that is that a thief can't pass good title. >> reporter: tisch filing a lawsuit tuesday claiming she is the rightful owner of the masterpiece and handel has wrongful possession after he improperly removed the painting from a storage facility where it was being held during the dispute over ownership. >> what am i going to say, you can have it just because you think it was stolen. show me, please. >> reporter: tisch's lawyer says a judge ordered hendel to return the work to new york. we found that disputed masterpiece right here. back on hendel's wall in miami. >> how am i supposed to believe a letter that says we think it's stolen. so therefore, stop your life. >> reporter: jordan smith, abc news, new york. huh. very interesting. if that was in fact stolen, i don't know that hendel has a

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from the next cut to the next chapter, the chance encounter between a judge and a prisoner inside a courtroom in miami. >> call this one of the most awkward high school reunions ever. this morning, it's going viral. here's abc's john donvan. >> reporter: a tale of two encounters the first one captured on a courtroom camera. the judge mindy glazer, before her arthur booth charged with burglary. suddenly she has a glimmer of recognition. you see that smile? and then she asks. >> did you go to nautilus for middle school. >> oh, my goodness. >> yep, they were kids together here at miami beach's nautilus middle school. two kids in school photos who both show promise but then arthur's life went wrong. >> i'm sorry to see you there. i always wondered what happened to you sir. this is the nicest kid in middle school. >> oh, my goodness. >> drug addiction, a life in and out of prison, it all seemed to hit him at once. the path his life had taken, the video was watched millions of times since then back in june. now we'll see if this video also

catches on because the other day, booth was released from jail, his family was there. and so was judge glazer. at this, their second encounter, she had a message for him. >> you're going to do something good for somebody else. >> better believe it. >> call it a pledge to do better for old time's sake. john donvan, abc news, washington. >> i love that story. what an emotional reaction, too. you could see the expression on his face when he's reminded what he was like as a child. >> i love how those moments can happen in your life that can just change you. it seems like the meeting between those two made him say hey, maybe i might do things differently. it will be interesting to see how this plays out. >> i love her expression, too. she wasn't scolding or yelling at him. you used to be the nicest guy. >> that's the news for this half hour. >> remember to follow us on facebook at wnnfans.com. on facebook at wnnfans.com.

this morning on "world news now," shaking things up on the campaign trail. >> donald trump's rivals take aim with the cruz and kasich campaigns joining forces and coordinating their strategies. all aimed at keeping trump from reaching a delegate majority. overnight the power play angering trump even more. we have new details on the fight against isis. the president confirms hundreds of additional military personnel will head to syria. we have the latest on the effort to bolster the u.s. presence in the war torn country. and just in time. the quick-thinking flight crew that prevented this car stuck on the tracks from getting slammed into by a train. the helicopter's last minute maneuvering proves life saving. and sleep for success. many of us try to get enough zs. but that can be a tall order. it