making news in america this morning, the volcano disaster in hawaii takes a dangerous new turn. the lava now approaching a power plant, and this morning the first person seriously injured during the eruption speaks out. >> it was incredible. i mean, it was just an event of a lifetime. >> his experience with a so-called lava bomb. the longtime business partner of president trump's attorney michael cohen takes a plea deal agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors. this morning, what the deal could signal just as the president ramps up claims about a spy in his campaign. health alert. a new warning about sunscreen that the fda calls a scam. the products you should avoid this summer. those stories, plus a court ruling in the case of two parents trying to get their 30-year-old son to move out. also, crane disaster caught

on camera. how this all played out. and a biker comes face-to-face with a moose with surprising results. we do say good morning on this wednesday. we're going to start with a possible new crisis in hawaii. a power plant now in the path of the toxic lava from kilauea volcano. >> workers at that plant have been scrambling to prevent gases from being released. meanwhile, we're getting a new look at the damage in the area as we hear from a man who nearly lost his leg when he was hit by flying lava. this morning, a new crisis from kilauea. a wave of lava is now closing in on this power plant that supplies about a quarter of the big island's electricity. authorities say they've removed gas and racing to cap the final open well. it's just the latest in a series of emergencies triggered by the erupting volcano. >> oh, it was incredible. i mean, it was just an event of

a lifetime. >> reporter: darryl clinton survived what's being called a lava bomb. >> it was the most forceful impact i've ever had in my body in my life. >> reporter: clinton was on the roof of his home putting out fires caused by flying rocks when an explosion hundreds of yards away launched a large chunk of molten rock. the lava bomb hit clinton in the leg. >> it was super painful, and i don't know if i was in shock. i just think about my daughters and i knew i was up on that roof and i was in really bad shape. >> reporter: clinton's friend was able to apply first aid and get him to the hospital. >> the doctors did an amazing job. i can't believe they could put it back together. i thought it was -- i just wanted to live. i didn't care if they cut my leg off down there or not. and i just can't believe that's there. >> reporter: elsewhere, people are returning to scenes like this. burned out homes and property

that's been changed forever. dee nevarez took this home video while evacuating, and she returned to this. more than three weeks into the emergency on the island, evacuated residents are growing weary wondering if they can ever return to their normal lives. >> tomorrow we could be back or we could be -- the house is gone. it's that kind of stress. >> we just heard from emergency management officials. they say there's no longer a threat of a blackout if lava does reach that power plant because they're bringing older plants back online in order to produce electricity, but about 50 homes and buildings in that area have been destroyed. back to the mainland and to washington, d.c. where president trump is turning up the pressure on law enforcement officials over unproven allegations that the fbi spied on his campaign. he continued to voice complaints on twitter overnight after refusing to express support for a top official at the justice department. abc's kenneth moton has the latest from d.c. good morning to you, kenneth. >> reporter: good morning, kendis. yes, president trump is turning

up the heat after his allegations saying if the fbi had spies in his campaign, that would be unprecedented in the history of our country. overnight president trump continued to fuel his unsubstantiated claim that the fbi may have used an informant to infiltrate his 2016 campaign. trump tweeting, follow the money. the spy was there early in the campaign and yet never reported collusion with russia because there was no collusion. he was only there to spy for political reasons and to help crooked hillary win. >> a lot of people are saying they had spies in my campaign. if they had spies in my campaign, that would be a disgrace to this country, and it would be very illegal aside from everything else. >> reporter: there's no evidence that happened. "the new york times" reports the fbi used the informant, a professor from the u.s., to question two trump campaign advisers about their contacts with russians. one of those men, carter page. he wouldn't say on cnn if he believes the informant was a spy trying to infiltrate the campaign. >> we'll see. i mean, there's increasingly,

you know, there's this drip, drip, drip where there's a lot of information that keeps coming out. >> reporter: the justice department's inspector general is now investigating the president's concerns. that order coming from deputy attorney general rod rosenstein after trump demanded the doj look into the matter. >> do you have confidence in rod rosenstein? >> what is your next question, please? >> reporter: the president refused to give rosenstein a vote of support. the doj's inspector general is already investigating but a group of house republicans is calling for the appointment of a second special counsel to look into alleged misconduct in the doj and the fbi. no sign the resolution will go anywhere in congress. diane and kendis. >> all right. our thanks to kenneth moton in washington. thank you. a longtime business partner of president trump's personal lawyer michael cohen has pleaded guilty. that was in a tax fraud case. evgeny freidman has been managing taxis for cohen and is known here in new york as the king of -- the taxi king.

his plea deal requires him to cooperate with prosecutors from any ongoing investigation. that includes the investigation into cohen's businesses and the special counsel's russia investigation. information from freidman could be used to force cohen into a plea deal of his own. the midterm elections are taking shape after some historic new rounds of primaries. stacey abrams is one step closer to becoming the first black female governor in the country. she won the democratic primary in georgia last night, and in texas former sheriff lupe valdez also made history winning the democratic primary runoff for governor. she's the first openly gay and latina nominee for governor in texas history. meanwhile, back on capitol hill, senate republicans are expected to scale back or even skip their august vacation this year because of pressure to get more things done. some incredible images from a plane crash that five americans and a pilot were able to survive. the plane from austin, texas, broke apart as it ran off a runway in honduras. first responders tried to lift the door to evacuate the

passengers while fire crews sprayed foam. experts say that airport is notoriously dangerous. >> you could be too fast as you're coming down that hill, and if you land too fast and you don't have the airplane under control, it's not hard, as we've seen in numerous instances at this airport, to go off the end of the runway. >> the passengers worked at a texas company called ezcorp. the ceo remains in the hospital along with the pilot, but the others have now been released. time now for a look at your weather on this wednesday morning. a storm system moving across the west turned roads into rivers in ft. collins, colorado. that is hail covering entire swaths of the city. looking at the radar this morning, powerful storms are moving across the ohio valley and up into the northeast. meanwhile, down in the caribbean there's a 40% chance of those storms turning into a tropical system in the next five days. by friday they'll bring heavy rain to florida and southwestern

u.s. coming up, congress gives the banks a big break just as they post record profits. but first the growing sinkhole problem in this neighborhood and one woman's terrifying ordeal in the middle of the night. plus, a crane carrying a boat topples over. see the dramatic moment caught on camera.

well, we're back with that terrifying scene as a crane lowering the boat toppled into the water. this happened at a dock in russia. the crane landed in the water damaging the boat in the process. the good news is the crane operator was able to jump out in

time. now, back here at home authorities in central florida are keeping a close eye on several sinkholes that have opened up in a retirement community. after days of nonstop rain, four new sinkholes have opened up in the villages. one of them trapped a woman inside her home in the middle of the night. we spoke to one of her neighbors. >> the lady that lives where most of the damage is now is a widow, and she thought somebody was breaking in her house. she tried to get out the front door where there was a great big sinkhole, and she couldn't get out. she called the police, and they came and were able to shimmy open some of the sliders in the back to get her out. >> and one of the new holes opened up in front of a home that was abandoned months ago because of another sinkhole. the national transportation safety board is recommending all new school buses be equipped with seat belts including shoulder harnesses. it comes after the board investigated two recent crashes in tennessee and maryland. currently only four states require lap belts on buses.

elsewhere it's up to individual school districts whether to spend the extra money. the ntsb is also calling for more oversight of drivers. in the meantime, we're learning more about the school bus crash in new jersey last week that left a student and a teacher dead. the driver has a history of violations and had his license suspended 14 times, but 13 of those were for parking violations. congress has approved a bill that will roll back the rules imposed on banks after the 2008 financial crisis. the bill considered a win for president trump will gut much of the dodd/frank law dramatically raising the threshold at which banks are deemed too big to fail. supporters say the move will boost lending. but one democrat calls it a big bank bonanza. the banking industry just reported record profits during the first quarter. and new questions are being raised about amazon's 30-day return policy. "the wall street journal" reports amazon has been closing the accounts of customers who send back too many items. those customers are then banned

from opening new accounts. an amazon spokesman would only confirm that the company bans users who, quote, abuse the return policy. all right, coming up, a biker comes face-to-face with a moose. also, a judge rules in the case of two parents trying to force their 30-year-old son to move out. we have the son's reaction next. and the new recommendation on how much sleep you should get and how much is too much. much is too much. h surface. the thing that's really important to dentists is to make sure that that enamel stays strong and resilient for a lifetime the more that we can strengthen and re-harden that tooth surface, the whiter their patients' teeth are going to be. dentists are going to really want to recommend pronamel strong and bright. it helps to strengthen and re-harden the enamel. it also has stain lifting action. it's going to give their patients the protection that they need and the whiter teeth that they want. ♪

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two parents trying to force their 30-year-old son to move out of the house. >> now a judge has issued a ruling, but the son is vowing to appeal. abc's gio benitez has the details. >> reporter: a bizarre case of parents versus son. mark and christina rotondo telling a judge through an attorney that their 30-year-old son must move out of their home. >> they have no obligation to provide support. he's well over the age of 21. >> reporter: in a lawsuit they say they have sent him five letters in the past two months like this one, you must leave this house immediately telling him, you have to work. even giving him more than a thousand dollars to find a new place. >> there is no reason for these people to have him in their home. >> reporter: michael says he's planning to leave in a few months. >> i'm not a burden to them in the home. they don't provide laundry or food. it's really a moot point for them to seek me to be ejected.

>> reporter: the judge in the end siding with the parents. >> i'm granting the eviction. i think the notice is sufficient. >> you're going to make it so that these people can just throw me out instead of letting me stay. i'm not bothering -- i'm not bothering them living here. it's very little -- it's little to no cost to them. >> reporter: gio benitez, abc news, binghamton, new york. >> oh, boy. these people. >> well, if he says he's not bothering them, then that settles that, right? >> they say something different. he turns 31, by the way, pretty shortly. hundreds of faculty members at the university of southern california now demanding the school's president resign amid a growing sexual abuse scandal. current and former students are suing usc accusing a former gynecologist at the student health center of sexual misconduct. the students say dr. george tyndall molested patients over a period of several decades. tyndall worked at usc for 30 years. he left last year after an investigation ended in a settlement. some of those students are now speaking publicly. >> it is horrifying to know that

during such a vulnerable moment in my life i was in the hands of a predator. >> sometimes the word of a woman and particularly a young woman is not afforded the value that it should be afforded. >> tyndall has denied any wrongdoing and members of the board of trustees of the school say they have full confidence in the university's president. in medical news doctors are out with a new recommendation on how much sleep you should be getting. the big headline, a consistent seven hours a night and then nine hours on weekends is optimal. sleep less than five hours a night on a regular basis, and you have a 65% higher chance of dying earlier. >> you have my ear. >> on the other hand, too much sleep is bad for you too. researchers found more than nine hours on a regular basis also increases your risk of dying earlier. >> only babies get nine hours. >> well, i guess we don't have to worry about that problem. >> yeah. and the fda is warning

people not to buy what are being called sunscreen pills. the agency says the supplements are a scam. they include brand names sunsafe rx and sunergetic. the fda commissioner says there's no pill or capsule that can replace your sunscreen. >> all right, don't look now but we have a series with the warriors and the rockets. take a look. the final shot here, houston led by three points with less than a second to play. steph curry's attempt to tie it, missed it. the rockets won, 95-92. his parents were not looking happy at all, steph's parents there. the series is now tied. game five tomorrow night. >> keeping things interesting. >> uh-huh. and up next in "the pulse," the expanding problem on the white house lawn. >> yeah. also ahead, the plaque that doesn't resemble the person it's meant to honor. any guesses right now? and a dog ends up 2,000 miles away from its owners. we'll show you his long journey home thanks to some volunteers. , then i learn type 2 diabetes

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a quick scan of his microchip located his owners. >> but they were about to have a baby and couldn't travel cross country, so volunteers stepped in connecting each other online. 20 volunteers across the country with 3 overnight stays, 31 pit stops got jake all the way back home. >> wow. >> teamwork. >> that is amazing. okay, now to the latest plaque that looks nothing like the person it's supposed to honor. >> check it out. any guesses who this might be? i bet you were guessing soccer star brandi chastain. >> oh, yes, that was my first bet. >> she was being inducted into the bay area sports hall of fame but people say it looks more like mickey rooney or gary busey or jon voight. >> maybe if her hair was pulled back. last night on "jimmy kimmel live," chastain talked about her first reaction to the plaque. >> one of the gentlemen i had been working with came over and i said, hey, can you look at the nose? is that -- i don't have a bridge on the nose.

on my plaque. look at all the evidence -- >> or the hair or that -- i don't even imagine you wearing that collar to be honest so -- >> well, the bay area sports hall of fame says it will make a new plaque. >> but it did remind us of ronaldo's bad bust. remember this guy? >> oh, yeah, that was pretty terrible. >> it looked like they made a statue of him and left it too long in the sun. they did remake that one, by the way. >> okay, because he didn't look that good with the plaque. doesn't resemble him. n't resemble him. alice is living with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of her body. she's also taking prescription ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor, which is for postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive her2- metastatic breast cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. ibrance plus letrozole was significantly more effective

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>> it's 4:27 in the morning and meteorologist mike nicco, do we have a winning forecast? >> yes, later. unless you like drizzle. that's what i encountered on my commute. you can see the grayness of the clouds over there. drizzle too low to the ground to see it. trust me. it's out there. temperatures in the low to mid 50s. morgan hill a warm spot. 49 in los gatos and 50 at clear

lake. more on that wetness that's out there waiting for you. >> we've already had a handful of spinouts this morning. definitely slow down and drive for conditions today. taking a look at our traffic maps, we aren't seeing much red but have issues to talk about, northbound 101 off-ramp to broadway. we have a solo vehicle spin-out crash. it sounds like they took out that side barrier so caltran is going to have to get out there. i had my wipers on my entire commute from the east bay today. you likely will, too. next update in 25 minutes. reuben foster's ex-girlfriend ak cuccused hf oi hitting her and then testified she made it up. >> reporter: a big day for reuben foster. he could be walking out of this

courthouse later today with a big win off the field. today a judge will decide if he'll go to trial related to a domestic violence incident in february. foster's former girlfriend, elissa en flis testified she falsely accused the 49ers' linebacker of domestic violence because she wanted to get back at him for breaking up with her. >> it came off raw. it came off organic and broke down on the stand and apologized. >> reporter: ennis also testified she tried to bring false domestic violence charges back in 2011 when that man tried to break up with him. 49ers are waiting for the case to be resolved before making any decisions on foster's future. the judge is expected to issue the ruling at 3:30 this afternoon. matt keller, nbc 7 news. san francisco police are investigating after a thief

stole thousands of dollars in sunglasses. surveillance video shows a man trying to break into eyes in disguise at 2:30 a.m. sunday. the suspect tried smashing the tempered glass, tried to put his arm through the glass and unlock the door but couldn't get in. that is, until someone who appears to be the same man where he smashed the glass and swiped what appeared to be fendi sunglasses. >> i was upset and couldn't sleep all night after the call. >> it seems to be happening not only here, other colleagues that have am tom tri stores, this is a new crime that's gaining popularity. >> thieves turn around and sell the sunglasses on ebay. san francisco police say both incidents are open investigations and the suspect who is unknown may be the same person. it is 4:30 now. if you're just joining