making news in america this morning, the volcano emergency in hawaii takes a destructive new turn overnight. lava overtaking dozens of homes, shooting more than 200 feet into the air. this morning, the biggest concern for people living nearby and just how long this eruption could last. president trump's nominee to lead the cia threatens to drop out while facing criticism for her record on torture. days before her showdown with the senate, see how the white house is coming to gina haspel's defense. outrage growing after a police officer is seen drawing his gun on a man he thought had stolen a pack of mentos candy in the store. the police department's response. those stories, plus new luxury on the high seas. the $1 billion cruise ship with its own racetrack. one boy's remarkable recovery presumed to be brain

dead. his parents even signing the organ donation papers then the unthinkable. >> all right. and the so-called dine & dash dater strikes again luring yet another woman to an expensive dinner. good morning, everybody. we're going to start things off with that volcano emergency in hawaii. overnight we learned at least 30 homes have now been destroyed. >> we have some new images this morning that show the lava surrounding more buildings burning a destructive path through neighborhoods. at times the lava spewing hundreds of feet into the air while the volcano emits toxic gas. >> and now scientists are warning the eruption could carry on for weeks. this morning, the fiery line of lava on hawaii's big island shows no signs of slowing. new drone video shows the lava spewing from the ground near the kilauea volcano.

>> it's bad. it's -- the toxic gases is bad, but the level of lava that is coming out of that fissure is bad. the volume of lava is bad. i mean, this whole thing is a bad situation. >> reporter: some of the lava fountains are shooting as high as 230 feet in the air, and that lava is burning everything in its path including cars and dozens of homes. >> still a shock and the memories kind of hit me hard seeing these photos of me and my brother in my backyard and now it's covered in ten feet of lava. >> reporter: at least 1,800 people have been forced to evacuate from two neighborhoods. abc's marci gonzalez is there. >> reporter: the biggest concern is with the sulfur dioxide fumes pouring into the air from the eruptions. the toxic fumes in the smoke engulfing those neighborhoods. >> reporter: hundreds of small earthquakes are also jolting the area of after a magnitude 6.9 quake, the largest to hit hawaii in more than 40 years. scientists warn the event is far from over and say more

earthquakes and eruptions are likely. and locals on the big island are comparing what's happening now to a lava flow back in 1955. that eruption lasted 3 months and covered 4,000 acres in lava. to washington where president trump's nominee to head the cia will meet with senators today amid reports that she offered to withdraw her nomination because of her record on torture. gina haspel has spent 33 years at the agency, and after 9/11 she was in charge of a detention center in thailand where at least one al qaeda suspect was waterboarded. a white house statement last night called haspel highly qualified, and she's expected to face some tough questions during her confirmation hearing this wednesday. now to rudy giuliani who is having a tough time coming to president trump's defense as he struggles to explain the time line in the stormy daniels' payoff and acknowledges the possibility of payments to other women. he's also making it clear that the president has not ruled out

pleading the fifth in the russia investigation. abc's arlette saenz has the latest from d.c. for us. good morning, arlette. >> reporter: kendis and diane, good morning. president trump and rudy giuliani spent a few hours at the president's golf course yesterday. we don't know exactly what they discussed, but this all comes as giuliani is in full damage control mode over his own statements about the president and stormy daniels. another round of cleanup duty for president trump's attorney rudy giuliani. >> right now i'm at the point where i'm learning, and i can only -- i can't prove that. i can just say it's rumored. >> reporter: the damage control comes after he revealed mr. trump repaid his personal attorney for that $130,000 hush payment to adult film star stormy daniels despite the president denying he knew of the payment. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. >> reporter: appearing on "this week," giuliani said he's not actually aware of when the president learned about the payment to daniels. >> why did the president deny any knowledge of the payments

when, in fact, he admitted the payments? >> i don't know when the president learned about it. >> reporter: and giuliani raised the possibility that similar payments were made to other women. >> did michael cohen make payments to other women for the president? >> i have no knowledge of that. but i would think if it was necessary, yes. >> reporter: stormy daniels' attorney fired back. >> the president had effectively an extramarital affair slush fund that was administered by michael cohen and that he would just be expected to take care of these things. >> reporter: giuliani also took aim at the russia investigation days after president trump said he'd like to sit down with robert mueller. >> i would love to speak. i would love to go. nothing i want to do more because we did nothing wrong. >> reporter: but if the president is subpoenaed to testify, giuliani says he may not comply. >> will you comply? >> well, we don't have to. he's the president of the united states. >> reporter: if the president does sit down with special counsel robert mueller, giuliani did not rule out of the possibility that the president

may take the fifth and, of course, the president's attorneys right now are advising him not to sit down for an interview with mueller. diane and kendis. >> it's been an interesting couple of days, indeed. arlette saenz in d.c., thank you. five people have been killed in a series of crashes on interstate 80 in nebraska. police say one of the drivers may have been on his phone. in the most serious crash, three people not wearing their seat belts were killed after being thrown from their car, and in another crash, police say a tractor trailer driver was killed after slamming into another truck. they believe he may have been texting. a manhunt is under way in missouri after what police are calling a deadly case of road rage. they say a 24-year-old air national guardsman, cody harter, got into a fight with another driver along a highway near kansas city after arguing at a merge point. now, witnesses say the suspect stabbed harter, jumped back into his vehicle and took off. harter's family is now making an

emotional plea to the public. >> my son, he drove 65 miles an hour because he was so frugal with his gas money. i can only imagine someone was upset because he wasn't going fast enough. is that a reason to take his life and leave him there? >> harter's mother says her one comfort is that her son did not die alone thanks to a good samaritan who tried to help him as he stumbled into traffic. turning to the weather now, the extreme heat is making drought conditions even worse in the southwest. now, let's take a closer look at your forecast for this monday. good morning. dry and hot conditions will continue for the southwest courtesy of this high pressure system that will create if not warmth downright hot conditions and that heat will build. very warm across texas and the center part of the country. we're looking for high fire danger starting now continuing until the latter portion of the week. dangerous cross winds blowing dust, strong winds. ongoing drought. not only that but going into tuesday temperatures will rise

10o 20 degrees above the norm for this time of the year and we're bracing for strong storms by monday evening near rapid city. i'm accuweather meteorologist paul williams. coming up, the $1 billion cruise ship with a racetrack on board. but first the new report about president trump and the first lady and their increasingly separate lives. and one bear's bold move to grab a snack inside this house.

we're back now with an emotional rite of passage playing out in nashville. the mother of deebony groves, one of the victims of the deadly shooting at a waffle house last month, accepted her daughter's belmont university. this comes as the suspect makes

his first court appearance later today. he faces four counts of criminal homicide. today in a rare news conference, first lady melania trump will officially announce her platform which will focus on children's issues including the prevention of cyberbullying. in the meantime, "the washington poshe and the president spend little to no time together and are leading separate lives inside the white house. aides tell "the washington post" the two have their own bedrooms, they seldom eat together, and the first lady rarely steps foot in the west wing. a jetblue flight from puerto rico was forced to make an emergency landing after the windshield shattered midair. the airline says the flight landed in ft. lauderdale out of an abundance of caution. the flight crew said it was only the outer layer that shattered. >> it happens, i won't say frequently, but i've actually had this happen before so, like i said, there is multiple, multiple layers in the wind screen and it's the outer layer

that shattered so it looks like a bit of a spiderweb. we were not in any great danger. >> those passengers were then put on another plane and arrived in tampa about three hours late. a carnival cruise ship has returned safely to port in new orleans after a nightmare on board. a water main break on the carnival "dream" flooded 50 rooms and a hallway. workers armed with buckets formed a human chain to try to carry the water away. they say the carpeting was dried or replaced within six hours. >> wow. >> they're efficient. so, this is impressive. a megaship here hitting the high seas, not just any megaship, "the norwegian bliss" features a racetrack that spans two levels. now, speed demons can take a go-kart for a spin up to 35 miles an hour. now, the ship cost $1 billion and can hold more than 4,000 passengers. >> not too shabby. "avengers: infinity war" has officially become the fastest movie to make a billion bucks.

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given up hope and were preparing to donate his organs. >> but now he's walking, shooting baskets and making jokes. for 13-year-old trenton mckinley, playing with his remote control cars is one of the only things he can do right now. >> i think a lot more before doing stuff now. >> his mother jennifer says she's just thankful he's alive. two months ago, trenton was at a friend's house sitting in a small utility trailer like this one while being pulled by a dune buggy. >> i flipped, and i hit the concrete and the trailer landed on top of my head. after that i don't remember anything. >> reporter: trenton was rushed to the hospital. he had seven skull fractures. >> with his feet they actually stapled that shut so they could get him back breathing but he was dead a total of 15 minutes. when he came back, they said he would never be normal again. >> reporter: for the next

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is suffering from seizures and nerve pain. the president of the university of florida is apologizing for how some students were treated at graduation. they were dancing on stage during the ceremony and then hurried along and pushed offstage by a school employee. he was accused of only shoving african-american graduates. the school president calls their treatment inappropriately aggressive. and a california man is demanding an apology after an off-duty officer accused him of stealing and pulled a gun on him. jose arreola had just paid $1.19 for a pack of mentos just before the officer walked into the store wearing street clothes. when he put the candy in his pocket, the officer drew his gun then ordered him to leave the mentos and get out. >> he looked at me and right away he thought, you know, i was a thief, i'm stealing it and nothing -- nothing i said convinced him. >> the clerk had to tell the

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good morning on this monday, may 7th, 4:27. thanks for squojoining us today. >> great weekend. the a's swept, the giants swept and the warriors won. >> that's the way i like it. >> weather looking nice yesterday, nice again today, especially if you like warm weather. it is dry on live doppler 7. a handful of neighborhoods in the 40s, danville at 47, half moon bay at 45. novato at 48, ukiah 49. everybody else in the low low lw fifties. day planner in less than three minutes. here is alexis. >> really quiet so far today, mike. we have one issue to talk about on the nimitz, a disabled

vehicle on 880, on the northbound side before you get to marina boulevard. emergency crews are on the scene. the two right lanes are blocked. at 4:28 in the morning, that's not causing a backup. tow truck dispatched to the sooep. a quick look at the bay bridge toll plaza. we have the stackup in the cash lanes on either side. pretty lengthy delay as you approach to pay crash. you should be just fine. next traffic update in just a couple minutes. i am following breaking news this morning. a shooting at a church in san francisco's mission district. police responded to the first samoan congregational church. blocked off near guerrero, cream scene tape about midnight. police say the victims are expected to recover from their injuries. no word on exactly what led to

this shooting. >> daly city police arrested two men suspected of opening fire at a bowling alley. [ gunshots ]. >> oh, my goodness. >> this cell phone video shows gunshots being fired and people screaming at the classic bowling center on king drive last weekend. on saturday police arrested two suspects. one of them is from oakley, the other from vol layer row. the shooting left one man in critical condition. no one else was hurt. early voting today for the june 5th california primary. in san francisco, the city hall opening center opens at 8:00 a.m. ballots must be postmarked on or before june 5th and received by june 8th to be accepted. if you haven't registered to vote, you still have time. the deadline is may 21st. a quick update on weather and traffic. you're never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. >> let's start with mt. tam. notice what you do not see.

no fog. a little sea breeze out there. we're going to have total sunshine today, and we'll build upon yesterday's slight warming trend. starting out this morning 49 to about 54 at 7:00. the coast, a little sea breeze for you. you'll stay in the 50s to near 60. temperatures average at noon bay and inland, 69 to 72. by 4:00, 73 around the bay. may need the air conditioner as you're driving around this afternoon and early evening hours. by the time we get to 7:00, it gets comfortable. 56 at the coast. upper 60s for the bay and inland neighborhoods. we'll take a look at the accuweather forecast. we've got warmer weather coming for the weekend. here is alexis. >> looking forward to it. so far so good for the monday morning commute. looking live at walnut creek, southbound 680 towards highway 24, no blocking issues and light volume this morning. a quick check of drive times, westbound 580 trace s