california melee. a replica an annual race of battalion cars over the alps. that's trip across the bay bridge. thanks for joining us. see you at 6:00. tonight, president trump and a new showdown. will funding his border wall lead to a government shutdown? plus, our new abc news poll. as president trump approaches 100 days in office. new world order? a far-right nationalist, one step closer to becoming president of france. the outcome of this election, set to reshape europe, and beyond. breaking news. deadly home inferno. multiple victims. the rush to save anyone who was inside. abc news exclusive. inside the abduction. elizabeth thomas' father, speaking out. new details of his daughter's ordeal. what she had to t to survive. trapped in north korea. an american professor, detained at the airport. this, as north korea now

threatens to sink a u.s. aircraft carrier. and, little survivor. the back door of a church van swinging open. a 4-year-old hanging on, then falling to the road. the driver who jumped into action. and the big question tonight. how did this happen? good evening. thanks for joining us on this sunday. i'm tom llamas. we begin with the new showdown over the wall with mexico. president trump demanding congress put up the money. but that could trigger a government shutdown on his 100th day in office. and our new abc news/"washington post" poll, giving president trump a 42% approving rating. the lowest of the last 13 presidents. but no buyers' remorse. 96% of the people who voted for him would do it again. president trump tweeting about the poll, even as he faces a friday night deadline to keep the government running. here's david wright.

>> reporter: donald trump may be the least popular president since the great depression, at this early stage. >> we're doing a good job for the workers. >> reporter: but if the election were held today he would win the popular vote. that's the conflicting message of this new poll. and it's a reflection of two things. first, the president's core group of supporters stands by him. second, the democrats have a popularity problem too. two out of three americans say the party is "out of touch." more than half of americans say trump is a strong leader. he gets especially high marks for pressuring american companies to keep jobs here in the u.s. >> we're going to defend our workers, protect our jobs, and finally put america first. >> reporter: three out of four voters, including many liberals, approve. but 61% disapprove of the high-profile jobs he's given his daughter ivanka and son-in-law jared kushner.

and 45% say trump is off to a poor start. >> in the grand scheme of things, it's a marathon, not a sprint. >> reporter: this coming week, some major challenges including a tax reform package that's sure to get picked over by both parties and the threat of a government shutdown, midnight friday. the budget battle may hinge on trump's border wall. democrats say they'll refuse to pay for it. >> when the president says, i promised a wall, i don't think he said he's going to pass the billions of dollars of cost of the wall on to the taxpayers. >> i can't imagine the democrats would shut down the government over an objection to building a downpayment on a wall. >> reporter: today trump insisted the wall is in the budget, just "so we can get started early," insisting, "mexico will be paying in some form." >> reporter: the president making those comments on twitter. david, we all know the president loves to talk polls. and he was also tweeting about

the new abc news/"washington post" poll? >> reporter: that's right, cherry picking the most favorable details. specifically that almost all of his voters would pull the lever again and almost half of the country considers him a strong leader. saying, pretty good considering much of the media is fake, and almost always negative. tom? >> david, thank you. we turn to some overseas coverage now. the results of the landmark election in france is in. a far-right nationalist candidate one step closer to becoming president. her message, an echo of president trump's. alex marquardt in paris tonight. >> reporter: it may be a french election, but the reverberations are being felt around the world. >> voters have been turning out in force. >> ripples could be felt across europe and around the world. >> there are candidates who would like to see france pull out of the european union. >> reporter: the fierce brand of far-right nationalism touted by

marine le pen, who is often compared to donald trump, tonight carrying her into a runoff election. before the results, trump tweeting today, "very interesting election currently taking place in france." but cheers erupting as this crowd learns that le pen is edged out by fellow outsider 39-yr-old emmanuel macron, who never held elected oe. starting his campaign from scratch a year ago, campaigning on a pro-europe message full of hope and optimism. he also married his former schoolteacher, who is 24 years his senior. this is a big loss for marine le pen, who has been leading in the polls for so long. now, many of the anti-le pen forces will band together to make sure that she loses in the final round. these new york-based macron volunteers were motivated by trump's victory to come home to try to prevent le pen from doing the same. >> we wanted to do something and trump gave us the energy we needed. >> reporter: le pen voters are drawn to her anti-immigration,

anti-globalist, anti-islamist stance. while macron voters, responding to his youth and uplifting tone. >> he stands for hope and in these tough times people want hope. >> reporter: this race is far from over. the candidates now have two weeks before the final round. this is being seen as a blow to trump style populism and polls for this head to head matchup have le pen eventually losing out. tom? >> alex, thanks so much. back here at home, to a deadly fire in new york. two homes destroyed, five dead, including three children. a spokesman for the mayor calling it an unspeakable loss. adrienne bankert is at the scene. >> reporter: explosive flames shooting from the windows as a fire tears through two homes, killing five, three of them, children. >> heavy fire, throughout. up to the attic.

>> reporter: the first call coming just after 2:00 p.m. today, with reports of people trapped inside. firefighters arrive as the blaze spreads to a second home. both properties charred and gutted. neighbors pouring into the streets to find out what happened, in shock and in tears. >> incredibly difficult moment for people on this block to see a family literally destroyed before their very eyes. >> reporter: officials just beginning their investigation tonight. we're told the youngest casualty in this fire is a 2-year-old. at least one person made it out alive by jumping out of a second-story window. tom? >> adrienne, thank you. next tonight, an abc news exclusive. the father of the 15-year-old allegedly abducted by her teacher speaks out for the first time. his concern over how little she

had to eat during her captivity, and how fragile she still appears to be. eva pilgrim with that exclusive interview. >> reporter: tonight, the father of the missing tennessee teen speaking for the first time since being reunited. >> sometimes she'll be happy and laughing and back to the same old girl and then sometimes she'll be just in a fetal position crying. it's a roller coaster for her. >> reporter: 15-year-old elizabeth thomas missing for over a month. her former teacher, 50-year-old tad cummins, in fbi custody facing federal charges for kidnapping the teen. what did she look like? >> like she had really been through a lot and she was very talkative to us but you could tell, that something wasn't quite right. >> reporter: you said she had lost some weight? >> yes, apparently, he had not been feedi her. she said they had been eating owers d things andust the things they would find. >> reporter: the family now saying getting her back is just the first step in a long journey ahead. >> she's going to actually need

trauma therapy. she's had to spend over a month getting ready to just, you know, bolt from wherever she is and now she still feels very uneasy. >> reporter: to see her struggling with this now, as a dad. >> it's very heartbreaking. and i know i'm going to have to really brace myself for things that i'm going to hear and i'm going to hear some things that are very uncomfortable and they are going to hurt. >> reporter: the family has been advised by counselors not to ask her questions about what happened to her. at this point they are focused on keeping her healthy and helping her move forward. >> eva, thank you. firefighters in florida are battling more than 100 wildfires tonight. forcing the residents of 7,000 homes to evacuate. in the path of the two largest fires, not every home could be saved. maggie rulli with one family returning to what used to be their home. >> reporter: tonight, florida in

a state of emergency. 120 fires still burning statewide. but for the first time in days mandatory evacuation orders are lifted. residents returning home to see to what's left. >> the whole house was on fire. >> reporter: lee county resident josiel romero's 15-year-old daughter was home alone as the flames got closer and closer. >> she started panicking, she started crying, saying, dad, there's smoke everywhere. you can hardly see out here. >> reporter: this was their home before the fire. now, they've lost everything. meanwhile, this blaze burning near naples, tonight only 50% contained. >> our whole seet just engued as a tunnel of flames. >> reporter: this backyard still smoldering. near orlando, nearly 700 acres are charred. you can see just how close the fire came to the homes. the fire, suspected to be arson. now, 75% contained.

>> i just keep praying for rain because it's been a huge, huge fire. >> reporter: and that huge fire burning so hot it turned this roof into nothing but piles of twisted metal, collapsing in on itself. tom? >> maggie, thanks so much. next tonight, new provocations from north korea. detaining an american as he was leaving following a teaching assignment there. and tonight, north korea threatening to sink a u.s. aircraft carrier headed their way. here's bob woodruff. >> reporter: tonight, an american accounting professor detained in north korea. the latest example of rising tensions. the private north korean university where tony kim had been teaching for several weeks tells abc news the 58-year-old was taken into custody saturday at the pyongyang airport as he was trying to leave the country with his wife. kim's detention brings the total number of americans held in north korea to at least three. >> i have made the worst mistake

of my life. >> reporter: including 22-year-old uva student otto warmbier, now a prisoner more than a year. the north koreans say this security video shows him stealing a political banner from the hotel where he was staying with a tour group. warmbier was sentenced to 15 years' hard labor last year. >> please save my life. please think of my family. >> reporter: the third american serving a ten-year sentence. >> whenever tensions get higher, they take steps like this as bargaining chips. these are three american bargaining chips that they now have. >> reporter: this, as the rhetoric continues to escalate. noh korea quotedweek this d as saying it's ready to sink the "uss vinson" aircraft carrier, expected to arrive in the region in the next few days. on tuesday, north korea will be

celebrating the 85th anniversary of their people's army, it's possible kim jong-un will use it to launch another nuclear test. tom? >> bob, thanks. next tonight, new fallout after the confrontation on an american airlines flight. a flight attendant clashing with a mother of two small children over a stroller when another passenger steps in, taking her side. tonight, the other passenger could face charges, and the flight attendant is grounded. here's gloria riviera. >> reporter: tonight, american airlines investigating a flight attendant for this confrontation. >> hey bud, hey bud, you do that to me and i'll knock you flat. >> hey, you stay out of this. >> reporter: the crew member now suspended with pay after facing off with a passenger. the female passenger, seen sobbing with her young children. american airlines tells abc news

she was told the flight attendant she'd have to gate check the double wide stroller as she tried to fit down the aisle. some passengers say they saw that employee grab the woman's stroller out of an overhead bin, accidentally hitting her in the head and just missing her kids. >> i think the right course of acti to take at that point have tried to calm her down to rather than more forcefully and aggressively just get the stroller off the plane. >> reporter: but the flight attendants' union issuing a reminder that it's a very big deal and against federal law to threaten a flight attendant. american saying, "we are deeply sorry. the actions of our team member do not appear to reflect patience or empathy." according to faa policy, the passenger who confronted the

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>> reporter: a dra matic moment playing out on this highway in arkansas. keep your eye on that white church bus ahead. out of nowhere, the back door swings open. clinging on for dear life is a 4-year-old girl. seconds later, the girl falls to the ground. unaware of what just happened, the bus driver keeps on down the road. witnesses say it would be 15 minutes before the bus returned. the little girl, now motionless in the middle of a state highway. >> i saw it happening and it blew my mind. it was kind of like i wasn't seeing what i was seeing. it looked like it was a movie. >> reporter: ryan ciampole, a certified emt and volunteer firefighter, happened to be driving behind the bus. his dash cam rolling. that's him rushing to the little girl, cradling her in his arms. moments later, the 4-year-old regains consciousness. >> i couldn't leave her just laying there. >> reporter: he carefully lifts her up. while his girlfriend is on the phone with 911. >> once the adrenaline and the shock kicked in her little body, she started kicking and screaming, where's my mommy? and things like that so stuff like that is really heartbreaking. >> reporter: miraculously, the

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finally tonight, she's out of this world. the current commander of the international space station about to break a big record tonight. here's gio benitez. >> reporter: they call it "the peggy factor." mission control's code word for the way superstar astronaut peggy whitson always get the job done. >> i love it up here. >> reporter: tonight, commander whitson making history with her record for any american. by the time she lands in september, her tally will be 666 days in space, with more spacewalks, currently eight, than any other female astronaut. she says what matters is the mission. >> i'm not here because of the record. but i think having the record is important because we have to continue to progress, we have to continue to take the next steps. >> reporter: whitson is perhaps a surprising interstellar star. at 9, growing up in iowa, she

watched the moon landing and her dream was born. >> at the time young girls weren't supposed to do those kinds of things. >> reporter: she persevered, earning a ph.d in biochem and landing a job with nasa. then overcoming the long odds. it was ten years before nasa decided she had the right stuff to become an astronaut. her favorite thing about being in space, simply seeing the earth. from north africa's reds to the caribbean blues, from so far away. >> we need to do more to be one earth, one people. >> reporter: gio benitez, abc news, new york. >> tonight, peggy tweeting her gratitude from space, saying it's one of the rides you hope never ends. we, of course, wish her a safe return in late summer. thanks so much for watching. i'm tom llamas in new york. "gma" first thing in the morning, david muir right back here tomorrow night. have a great evening. good night.

concerns grow as steve kerr is expected to step away in the middle of the playoffs. >> after i turned myself in. >> accused killer talks for the first time about the moment he snapped and killed three people in fresno. and travelers facing long lines at sfo are frustrated to find out it's a planned project. abc 7 news at 6:00 starts now. >> announcer: live where you live, this is abc 7 news. >> well, it may not look like it right now, but rain is on the way and that could mean a wet commute for drivers in the morning. good evening, i'm eric thomas. thanks for joining us. the rain should hit sometime overnight. spencer christian is in for drew with more of what you can expect. spencer?

>> eric, we have clouds beginning to thicken in the bay area. skies are still bright, but look at what is happening to our north, northwest just off the north coast of california. we have rain developing there. that's the system coming in our direction to bring us a little rain during overnight hours and tomorrow. relatively light storm. it ranks 1 on the storm impact scale. it will produce rain early in the morning, mainly in the north bay initially. then it will spread as light rain and showers across other parts of the bay area into the midday and evening hours. we expect less than 1/10 of an inch of rainfall or accumulation of rainfall total i should say across the bay area, but it is going to slow down the morning commute. i'll give you a closer look at the storm and when it will end a little later. eric? >> spencer, thank you very much. developing news, warriors steve kerr will be out for game 4 in portland because of health issues and that could stretch further into the playoffs. sports anchor mike shumann is live in is in excruciating pain. >> reporter: well, no question, eric. today bob ye