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gas. that's for natural gas explosions that triggered at least 120 fires last year. one person was killed, dozens of others injured, more than 100 homes were completely destroyed or damaged. this settlement covers road repairs, claims, and losses from three municipalities and expenses. an internal investigation is under way over a police shooting in oklahoma city. >> new police body cam video captures an officer shooting a 14-year-old boy who police say was armed with what turned out to be a bb gun. here's abc's steve osunsami. >> reporter: the family of the teenager about to be wounded in this newly released video says this is an example of police misconduct. >> hey, police department, come on out! >> reporter: the oklahoma city police department tells it differently saying that sergeant kyle hokum is sensing potential danger and is about to defend himself. on the other side of this fence is 14-year-old lorenzo clerkly jr. and his friends, playing with bb guns at an abandoned

house on march 10th. you hear the officer say he thinks they're firing a cap gun and not a real one. >> i think it's a cap gun but they are shooting something off. >> reporter: from a distance he now appears to see a gun and then yells to the teenager. >> show meouhands, drop it drop theun >> reporter: we timed it. the eighth grader had one-sixth of a second to react and was hit twice. >> you're okay. >> reporter: police are sharing this photo of the bb gun they recovered saying it looked real. the boy's family says he didn't have a gun on him when he was shot. the investigation into this continues but authorities point out that their officer has been cleared by the prosecutor, who is not filing charges, and as such he is already back on the job. meanwhile this teenager is healing from two gunshot wounds, one to his hip, another to his thigh. steve osunsami, abc news, atlanta. >> our thanks to steve on that

story. the latest, a florida man story comes from a parking lot near orlando. >> police in haines city say that's where a 68-year-old man told them he hit their cruiser, didn't cause any damage, and he was drunk. and he had the mishap while riding a lawnmower. police say the man's blood alcohol level was .241, more than three times the level limit to drive a car. >> the man's driver's license has been suspended since march 1978. two past duis and they say he had cocaine in his system. >> florida, we love you. coming up, common is opening up about his new book, and for the first time about a painful experience from his childhood.

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for the first time he opens up about a painful experience from his childhood that happened with a family friend. common sat down with robin roberts. >> "let love have the last word." what do you mean by that title? >> i'm talking about love for god, love for community, love for self, and love in action. if we look at things and put love in our core, if we work from that place, that things will shift and change. >> you do address something that no one has really heard before, when you talked about as a child experiencing sexual abuse. >> yes. >> why did you feel it was important to share that now? >> well, yeah, it was something i didn't know if i wanted to talk about. but i really believe that in telling my story, other people will be okay with talking about their situation. me, i'm a black man. we don't talk about those issues in ways that we could. so i felt i wanted to create a space for people who have experienced that to be able to share that. that's part of the healing, to be honest.

no sooner than i told the story, one of my good friends came out and told me it happened to him. >> and you have gotten to a place of forgiveness for this person? >> yes, for sure. i mean, it's still a process for me, like in certain ways. but i have to look at my life and know that, man, that's somebody else's pain that they kind of distributed to me. and i don't want to carry that. so let me figure out where -- how it is affecting me and approach it head-on, deal with it, and let it go. >> reporter: common also reflects on his very personal journey to discovering his true self and how he works to stay present. >> i pray. right before i go on to do certain things. i have these mindful techniques, that one of them is just like putting my hand over my heart and putting my hand on my stomach as it's taking a breath and like -- it calms me down.

>> reporter: he says the work he's doing on himself will help him fulfill a lifelong dream. >> you write a lot about you want to be a husband one day. you have a rather famous relationship coach. >> oh, yeah. yeah, yes. michelle obama. she has definitely helped talk me through just certain moments of relationships. we had conversations and she has given me a lot of wisdom. one great thing that she told me as i was going through this journey was that, you have to understand you're not going to get anybody that's perfect because you're not perfect, so understand that there's some certain things that you will compromise in choosing that partner, but as long as the core values, the values that are most important to you, that person marks off on that list, and you're good. >> she gave some good advice there. >> that's good wisdom. >> really good wisdom. >> reporter: for this award-winning artist, it always

comes back to this. >> freestyling. >> yeah, freestyling, that's it. >> still your love? >> yeah, i love freestyling. >> can you freestyle why somebody should read your book? >> yo it's like this, this is freestyle verse. i'll tell you why you should read "let love first." let love, it comes down in different type of words. i told you what happened in any life how it occurs. this place that they call mindfulness i got into an abyss, i got into a bliss, then i thought about the girl that i should kiss and think at first i need to mess with this and that's my heart. i took my part, so robin you are smart so you know what we do, we let love spark the whole situation, it all occurred so now i'm here to let love have the last word. >> boom! oh, that was beautiful. >> thank you, thank you. >> oh, that was such a fun interview to watch. >> "let love have the last word" is available now. i knew him as socially aware and i knew there was more behind that. it's revealing.

that interview was revealing but also i understand this book is revealing as well. >> so brave. >> very brave for him to tell his story. >> so brave, yeah, absolutely.

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♪ ♪ it is time for "weird science." and we're starting with something that really needs no scientific evidence or anything. turned out being a mom is a full-time job. can you believe it? you've heard that saying work like you don't have kids, take care of your kids like you don't work. turns out moms spend about 97 hours a week parenting. you know, being a chauffeur, a chef, a teacher, life planner, meal planner, a professional cuddler, all those things that moms do. to make time for their children, 53% of the 2,000 american moms surveyed said they're not getting enough sleep, 47% said they're missing out on date nights with their significant other.

that spells trouble. 47% said they're not taking time to have hobbies or hang out with their friends. they're all struggling to eat nutritiously, to even have a sit-down meal, all to take care of their kids. still 2 of 3 said they'd like to spend more time taking care of their kids. mamas, i feel you, i feel you deep in my soul. >> i don't say anything about it because that would be mansplaining. i'm not a parent. can i say this one thing? >> maybe, we'll let you start saying it. >> all those friends say, for mothers, don't ever forget who you are. >> yes. yes. >> see? >> that is -- >> i did good. >> you did, you did. thank you to kenneth for always making time for me and my kids. >> uncle kaymo, that's me. >> kaymo love the kids. we're on this big rock right now, manhattan. what if an asteroid just came down and took it all away. >> would we get to sleep? >> would we get to continue this newscast? we wouldn't, some would like that.

apparently nasa has come up with this simulation where they say a make-believe asteroid, 200 feet wide, just plowed into a simulated new york city. >> wow. >> they said they went through what would happen. if the collision happened for real, the city would have been hit with something 1,000 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb dropped on hiroshima. >> would being in a subway help at all? >> no. 1.3 million people would die. but i see what nasa's doing here. they say scientists of the city might have been spared had there been at least eight fictitious years of planning to knock out the asteroid "armageddon" style. >> nasa is prepping us for some kind of asteroid. >> fear based, fear based. >> i'm scared. there are fossils of a t-rex that's kind of like a mini me. it was found in 1998 by a teenager and stood about 3 foot tall, a lot smaller than the "jurassic park" t-rex.

basically a little cousin.

this morning on "world news now," horror and grief after another deadly school shooting. >> a bunch of kids running out and saying, school shooter, school shooter! >> students ran for their lives when the two gunmen opened fire. officers say they were still hearing gunshots inside as they responded. new details coming in. developing overnight, president trump's tax returns. a report says he lost more than $1 billion in business deals earlier in his career and didn't pay taxes for several years. how his lawyers are now responding. happening today, a national rideshare strike. in just a few hours uber and lyft drivers won't be driving passengers to their destinations. drivers in some cities going on strike all day.

and "whale" you look at this. norway's most famous beluga whale is making waves again this morning. you won't believe the trick he showed his fans. it's wednesday, may 8th. good wednesday morning. thank you for joining us. we begin with news of yet another mass shooting at a school, this one just miles away from one of the worst in the nation's history. >> gunfire sent students and staff running for their lives from the s.t.e.m. school highlands ranch in suburban denver. the school a short drive from columbine high school. >> emergency crews raced in to recover the wounded and to try to secure a scene filled with fear and chaos. >> the tragic day ended with one student dead, eight others wounded, and two students in custody. here's abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: terror in that s.t.e.m. school outside denver. an army of law enforcement officers descending on the scene after gunfire erupted just after lunchtime.

>> as officers were arriving at ngut ty coulhoth on lockdown. we've learned one of those students has died, seven others wounded. one sixth grader describing the scene. >> i was doing work in study hall, then i see just a bunch of kids running out and saying, school shooter, school shooter! and i'm like, what, what? is this real or fake? and then i just go after them. >> reporter: some students running, others loaded into buses. anguish etched onto parents' faces. >> i just want to get to my son and hold him and make sure he's okay, he's terrified. >> reporter: officers on the hunt for shooters. >> we're going to the first shooter. second shooter still on the loose. dark hair, nirvana hoodie. second shooter has purple and blue hair, black hoodie. >> reporter: then word two suspects apprehended. both of them students. >> we got two in custody now,

and we're putting together a couple rescue teams -- >> reporter: officers going floor by floor through the large school as parents waited for word. >> lots of cars, lots of police and ambulances all in there. my third grade daughter is still in there. >> reporter: within hours those tearful reunions. parents running to their children, hugging each other in relief. officers were at the school within minutes and when they ran in despite gunfire still sounding, they encountered those suspects, took them in alive. but that school is so large that it took officers and s.w.a.t. teams two hours to clear it in its entirety and declare that lockdown over. matt gutman, abc news, los angeles. >> our thanks to matt there. just another tough story. hard hearing that. seeing those images, hearing the students. i mean, we've been through this before but it's never any less heartbreaking. we do want to bring in abc news contributor and former fbi counterterrorism official steve gomez joining us live on the phone. thank you for being with us.

steve, one thing about this, we don't often see suspects in these shootings who are taken in alive. in this case there are two of them. how will that impact the investigation? >> well, it's a benefit for the investigation because now you have two people who were involved in this crime. and clearly there was a plan because whenever you have two people you have a conspiracy. they had to coordinate with each other. so my bet is that they are going to be talking to the investigators and reveal as far as how they planned this out and what motivated them. there's going to be a lot of information that will be very helpful for the investigation. >> and steve, we know that over the years there's been so much talk, in fact, a lot of talk, very little action, but there has been some action about hardening these soft targets from -- we know from private security, to more law enforcement, to educators even carrying weapons. but from a security standpoint, is there a mental health component that needs to be addressed here to protect these schools? >> absolutely.

the schools, parents, even students all need to recognize that mental health issues could be a factor that will trigger somebody from going into a school and start shooting everybody. there's actually a threat assessment procedure that a lot of school districts are adopting which factors in mental health issues. so when a school is receiving information about a problem student, somebody that may turn violent, then they could bring in the student, bring in the parents, consider an intervention. >> steve, it was just two and a half weeks ago that we saw law enforcement specifically in the denver area proactively canceling classes over the threat over a woman who appeared to be obsessed with columbine, who traveled there to the denver area from florida. so they were able to act proactively then. are cases like this, students in these schools, even if you say it's likely that they had a plan, are cases like this more difficult to detect? >> yes, i think so.

and the reason that i'm encountering this from a private security standpoint is that a lot of parents and students to this day, after all these attacks that we've seen, still don't think that it's going to happen at their school. so when they do see some kind of indicator, some kind of rhetoric on social media and so on, they still don't think it's going to lead to violence. and that's the problem. and people have to continuously remind themselves, it could happen at your school. >> it can happen, and we see it continuing to happen. steve gomez, thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> thank you, steve. breaking overnight, a snapshot of president trump's finances. newly revealed tax figures detailing years of failed business deals amounting to more than $1 billion in losses in one decade alone. >> tax information obtained by "the new york times" from 1985 to 1994 show year after year donald trump lost more money than nearly any other individual american taxpayer. the "times" said the losses were so big he was able to avoid paying income taxes for eight of

those ten years. >> "the new york times" also reports even though trump was reaping the tax benefits, he was mostly risking assets of others, including banks that stopped doing business with him. >> every year that we looked at, he lost money. and the losses grew as he went further into the casinos and the losses that happened there. but it's unbelievable. we would have thought at least in one of the years that we saw, maybe the year he wrote "art of the deal," he would have made money. he didn't. he was just bleeding money every year that we looked at in his businesses. >> an attorney for the president claims irs tax transcripts from the '80s that the story is based are not reliable. the "new york times" says it received information contained in the returns from someone who had legal access to it, then matched it to irs data. former white house counsel don mcgahn has been ordered not to comply with a congressional subpoena for documents related to the russia investigation. the white house told mcgahn the records in question could be subject to executive privilege.

mcgahn is cited 157 times in the mueller report. president trump had already suggested that he'll try to block him from testifying later this month. house democrats are threatening to hold mcgahn in contempt if he refuses to appear. wall street hopes for a day concerns triggered a meltdown. the dow sank 473 points yesterday, its largest single drop since january. the index was down more than 600 points midday before a late rally. the selloff followed confirmation president trump is hiking tariffs on $200 billion in chinese goods from 10% to 25% on friday. he has complained trade talks are moving too slowly. in the weather department, breaking overnight, a dangerous storm system on the move slamming the south-central u.s. storms stretching from south texas to kansas city with blinding rain, hail, flooding, and tornados. that system is expected to crawl across the u.s. for the rest of the week. >> houston is especially hard hit, activating its emergency operations center overnight. a disaster has been declared in ft. bend county, drivers forced

to abandon hundreds of cars on flooded roads. look at all that water. because of the flooding hundreds of students are having to sleep at school. in kansas at least two tornados have been confirmed in wichita and the threat is far from over. accuweather's paul williams has more details this morning. paul, good morning. >> good morning janai, kenneth. the thunderstorms will continue to intensify throughout texas and throughout a good portion of the south-central part of the country. here's the problem. for wednesday going into wednesday night, watching out for damaging wind gusts, tornados, large hail from oklahoma city, dallas, san antonio, kansas city. then during the evening time, watching out for flooding downpours along the mississippi river and the midsouth. look for widespread heavy showers throughout omaha, minneapolis, over towards rapid city. then those same showers will begin to manifest throughout the four corners region with it staying quiet along the west coast. then there's thursday, like a bad sequel, even more thunderstorms reaching into the ohio valley region.

kenneth, janai? >> it's going to be a tough couple of days. a los angeles business executive facing prison after pleading guilty to fraud charges in the varsity blues college admissions scandal. >> stephen semprevivo is accused of paying $400,000 to get his son into georgetown university as a tennis recruit. his son does not play tennis. prosecutors are recommending an 18-month prison sentence, $95,000 fine. uber and lyft drivers are planning to strike today. it comes a day before uber's highly anticipated initial public offering. strikes are planned for several u.s. cities as well as britain, australia, and south america. drivers in new york city are slated to strike from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., but each major city in the u.s. will have different hours. those in l.a., boston, and san diego may strike for 24 hours, so plan accordingly. drivers are demanding more money and better work conditions. get home in time. >> right, exactly.

you want to get an uber? >> about to stall some things. >> some of us here on the third shift. >> i know, get your bike out but it's going to be raining in places. >> we should be okay but it's going to cause some issues. meanwhile a phony passenger got a rush hour driver a real ticket near new york city. >> this is what police say was riding with a guy monday when he was pulled over in an hov lane. the mannequin was dressed up in a sweatshirt, sunglasses, a hat, and jeans. it even had its own water bottle. the real guy behind the wheel received a summons. but that passenger ain't no dummy. said, i ain't paying. >> ha ha, that's pretty good. >> we've seen this before. but every time i see it i'm still amazed that someone -- a lot of people probably get away with it. >> those lanes, yeah. police say the driver told them his work schedule changed so he was trying to make up some time. i'm someone who's habitually late, so i could be one of those people that's like, look, if this is what it takes to get to work a little earlier, i'll do

it. >> and you're going to get a ticket, though. >> no. >> possibly. >> how would you dress up your mannequin to make sure it wasn't caught? >> it's so funny, i would make him look just like janai norman. >> and i would just sit there, curls and all. >> that's what she does now. >> gosh! coming up, why this is a big day if you're at work right now. plus a man shows how to drive and walk your dog at the same time. see how this is ahead in "the mix." first, the bartender who's been arrested for overserving a patron who went on to commit a mass shooting. you're watching "world news now." now." to commit a mass shooting. you're watching "world news now." gimme one minute... and i'll tell you some important things to know about medicare. first, it doesn't pay for everything. say this pizza is your part b medical expenses. this much - about 80% - medicare will pay for. what's left is on you. that's where an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan,

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thick smoke from a yacht fire could be seen for miles in south florida. flames destroyed the vessel as it sat at a marina in riviera beach yesterday morning. no one was hurt. it took about six hours to bring the fire under control. the cause is under investigation. turning now to texas where a bartender is facing a possible prison sentence accused of overserving a customer. >> that customer eventually left the bar and went on to a shooting rampage. here's abc's will carr. >> reporter: authorities have charged the woman who served alcohol to this man, seen twirling a 6 1/2-inch blade on

the bar before he committed the worst mass shooting in plano's history. authorities say spencer height's blood alcohol level was four times the legal limit in september 2017 when he stumbled into his ex-wife's home where he shot and killed eight people before he was killed by authorities. >> and if the right decisions would have been made, my son would still be alive. >> reporter: police just arrested linsey glass, the bartender, charging her with a misdemeanor for selling alcohol to an intoxicated or insane person. according to the affidavit, glass texted a co-worker before the shooting calling height a psycho. she also saw height carrying a gun. glass claims she did the right thing. she called the bar's manager and says he told her not to call police. the bartender did follow height out of the restaurant and eventually called 911, but that call came in just minutes before the shooting started. in los angeles, will carr, abc news.

>> our thanks to will there. horseracing will not have a triple crown winner this year. >> long shot kentucky derby winner country house won't run in the preakness. an assistant trainer says the colt has a virus. his handlers hope a little rest will help the horse get better. country house will be the first derby winner to miss the preakness since 1996. >> so much controversy for the kentucky derby. >> so much. coming up, the whale of a tale that refuses to get stale. >> huh? >> how about that. see the new antics of that loveable beluga whale in norway that was initially suspected of being a russian spy. in our next half hour, queen elizabeth pays a visit to her newest great grandchild as the world waits in eager anticipation for its first glimpse of baby sussex today. sussex today. i used to not love wearing an spf just because i felt like it was so oily and greasy and that it was going to clog my pores. but what i love about olay regenerist whip with spf 25

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♪ nothing moves this child of the '90s like that powerful anthem of the boy and the orca.

he sticks his arms up, willie jumps over, unbreakable bond. >> and this morning a real whale is stealing hearts around the world. >> whale of a tale. will ganss reporting. all right, first there was flipper. then as we talked about, free willie. then nemo and dory. but those famous fish don't have anything on this whale in norway. let's dive in. whale, whale, whale. look what we have here. russia's most famous ex-spy with more than just a license to krill. this beluga turning up off the coast of norway wearing this harness which reads, equipment, st. petersburg. marine biologists suggesting he may have been trained by the russian military. now he's becoming a big-time star-fish. or more accurately star-mammal. hanging out with local fishermen, working on his beach bod, making healthy snack decisions like this one, and posing for these fin-tastic selfies with whale watchers from all over.

making flipper and free willie seem like total tinseltown washups. one overzealous fan dropping her phone into the ocean when she wanted a closer look at him, a whale of a fail. or was it? the girl saying she didn't do it on "porpoise" but it didn't matter, the whale diving down to fetch it for her. this video of that encounter making major waves online. now an internet poll set up to name the aquatic all-star. one of the top three options, beluga, james beluga, a nod to his former career no doubt. but the overwhelming winner, valdimir, russian for "whale," and a play on the president's name. the whale is not a suspect for any crimes and won't be charged with espionage. >> i am amazed by this. so the phone goes in the water. >> uh-huh. >> the whale retrieves it. >> uh-huh. >> after this was a spy whale.

>> right. well, you can tell he's trained. and they're saying if he can't fend for himself in the harbor, they're looking at putting him in an animal facility in iceland. >> exactly what the russians wanted. wanted. women are standing up for what they deserve in the office in the world and finally, in the bedroom our natural lubrication varies every day it's normal so it's normal to do something about it ky natural feeling the lubrication you want nothing you don't get what you want

♪ gonna be a long night gonna be all right on the night shift ♪ ♪ gonna be a long night gonna be all right on the night shift ♪ i also want to hear -- ♪ all night long we love a national day of celebration and today we're celebrating third shift workers day. >> yes! yes. shout-out to everybody at work right now. >> the insomniacs we love you because you watch us while you can't sleep, we are here for you. we are celebrating this national third shift workers day by being here for you. take a look as i walk around behind the scenes here. so thrilled. there in one of our control rooms. >> hey, guys.

happy third shift day. >> they're like, get out. they're like, yeah, okay. but then i got real extra. >> yeah? >> i'm like, you know what we need to get hyped for this. >> okay, all right. >> i'm going to run down these halls, we're going to celebrate. >> happy third shift workers day! >> it's observed on the second wednesday of may. created for workers who work crazy hours. a lot of manufacturing jobs. >> they're all like, who is this guy? >> hospital workers. shout-out to nurses. it's national nurses appreciation week. >> you made sure to get that in. somebody took you to task not mentioning the nurses earlier this week. >> we also mentioned the teachers, nurses, you're important too, we know that. >> all of you are important. so in italy you can buy a home for $1.60. it's true. so there is -- it's an hour's

drive or so from -- a few hours' drive from the amalfi coast. you've heard of that, gorgeous, right on the water. in sicily, they're selling 100 pieces of property for $1.60. it's because they have so many people who are moving away to urban areas and they want to revitalize it. the town only has 11,000 residents, but signs are posted on homes saying "for sale." the thing is you get it for $1.60 but you have to renovate the homes within a year or lose your $8,000 security deposit. but it could be worth it. >> oh, wow. >> yeah. we like some slang words, and this teacher from massachusetts who apparently gathered a list over 15 years. here's some of what the slang terms he learned there. putting something on it. which means getting someone on the trend. >> nunya, none of your business. >> and also i saw john. that goes back to philly. >> yeah, right? >> that's a thing. object person. >> dead. >> yeah, there you go. >> meanwhile a man walks his dog

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so you sell for thousands more than the one next door. don't get stuck in the past. sell with a redfin agent. this morning on "world news now," suspects arrested after a deadly school shooting just miles from columbine high school. we're hearing from students recounting the terror they endured. breaking overnight, rescues from heavy rains and flash flooding are under way. the severe weather outbreak is affecting several states and it's far from over. and this morning the search for a missing 4-year-old is ramping up. >> as volunteers work to find maleah davis, police are zeroing in on a person of interest in her disappearance. and the countdown is on to the season premiere of "the bachelorette." we're learning more about the men vying for hannah's heart ahead in "the skinny" on this wednesday, may 8th.

good morning, everyone. we've got some uplifting stories for you and we need them this morning after we're starting with some very somber and tragic news out of colorado. we begin with the new details about those moments of terror in a suburban denver school. >> police say two students open fire on their classmates, killing one of them. one witness said he saw so many people running from the scene at s.t.e.m. school highlands ranch that he thought it was a gym class. kids inside the school didn't know whether the gunfire was real, and then the panic set in. >> after the shooting stopped, frightened parents reunited with their children. >> police have been investigating all night long. overnight one of the suspect's cars was towed from his home with an expletive spray painted on the side. it was just after lunch when two gunmen unleashed a barrage of bullets inside this colorado school. >> i was doing work in study hall, and then i see just a bunch of kids running out and saying, school shooter, school

shooter! and i'm like, what? >> reporter: terrified students were put on lockdown as the shooters roamed the halls. >> we have a shooter in room 107. >> reporter: within two minutes of the first call for help, deputies storm the scene, gunshots still ringing out when they arrived. >> we're going to the first shooter. the second shooter is still on the loose. >> reporter: the suspects were quickly taken into custody and officials say both were students at the school. in the wake of the violence at least seven students injured and one 18-year-old boy killed. shocked parents gathered together in a nearby parking lot waiting to find out if their children were safe. >> i -- i just want to get to my son and hold him, make sure he's okay, he's terrified. >> reporter: fernando montoya's 17-year-old son was shot three times after one of the gunmen stormed his classroom. >> he said all of a sudden a guy pulled -- i believe a pistol, i'm not sure, out of like a guitar case and started to shoot. >> reporter: the violence coming as a shock to officials in the denver suburb, but the sheriff's

department has prepared for this exact situation after nearby shootings like columbine and aurora. in 2016 officers took abc behind the scenes during an active shooter drill. >> there's got to be immediacy, that aggressive action, you need helping officers respond to this tragedy, potentially saving so many student lives. >> parents and students to this day, after all these attacks that we've seen, still don't think that it's going to happen at their school. people have to continuously remind themselves, it could happen at your school. >> a stark reminder there from steve gomez who we spoke with this morning. a representative whose district includes that school, he said it's not enough to send thoughts and prayers, it's empty, it's weak, and it does an injustice to our children who are on the front lines of this violence. i think that is something that really underlines this. the children who are on the front lines of the violence. because it was just two weeks ago here we were sitting and talking about this -- the girl,

she was like 7 or 8 years old, recounting what she saw in that synagogue shooting just a couple of weeks ago. these kids are left with these lasting traumatic experiences. it is them who are seeing it more than a lot of us, and it is heartbreaking. it's not fair. >> we're so -- i say used to this, that when we hear thoughts and prayers, i often follow up with, yes, we can have thoughts and prayers, but prayers also need action. and so those children need action to obviously take those next steps. and for this to try to prevent these from happening, these incidents from happening. breaking overnight dangerous storms are battering the plains, blinding rain, damaging winds, flooding, hail and tornados. in houston crews have received more than 200 calls for help from people surrounded by floodwaters. at least 40 have been rescued. >> take a look at these storm clouds in eastern colorado. large hail covering the roads and fields and more of this is on the way. let's go to accuweather's paul williams for the details.

good morning, paul. >> good morning, kenneth, janai. we're expecting another round of hail, not necessarily in colorado, but throughout a good portion of the midwest. we're watching out for damaging hail force in san antonio, dallas, oklahoma city, kansas city during the day. during the night look for flooding downpours throughout the eastern portions of arkansas as well as the midsouth into the memphis area as well as cape girardeau with flooding downpours and massive travel delays. look for widespread rain from minneapolis to omaha, over toward rapid city. showers with a mix of snow near denver. and then showers for the four corners region. then watching out for the risk of more thunderstorms for thursday for st. louis, indianapolis, and nashville. janai, kenneth? >> paul, thank you. turning to breaking new details on president trump's tax records showing more than $1 billion in business losses over a 10-year period. >> "the new york times" obtained donald trump's tax figures from 1985 to 1994. they show massive annual losses, sometimes more than $250 million

in one year. losses that allowed him to avoid paying income taxes for eight of those ten years. the "times" says it acquired printouts from trump's official irs tax transcripts including figures from his federal tax form. an attorney for the president says old irs data is unreliable and called the report demonstrably false. lawmakers here and president trump's home state are working to uncover his tax returns. the democrat-controlled new york state senate is expected to pass a bill today that would allow president trump's state tax returns to be released in three key committees in congress. the filings could disclose virtually the same information as his federal returns. the justice department is threatening to ask the white house to invoke executive privilege over the entire mueller report if democrats move forward with plans to hold attorney general william barr in contempt. negotiations between justice officials and the house judiciary panel broke down last night, and the contempt vote is set for today over barr's refusal to turn over the unredacted report.

republicans say democrats need to let it go. >> they told everyone there had been a conspiracy between russia and the trump campaign. yet on this central question, the special counsel's finding is clear. case closed. case closed. this ought to be good news for everyone. >> the justice department says the attorney general is choosing to follow the law rather than comply with democratic leaders. democrats fired back saying barr's arguments are without credibility, merit, or legal or factual basis. multiple reports this morning that the stepfather of a missing 4-year-old texas girl is now a person of interest. darion vince says maleah davis was taken after he was ambushed, beaten, and knocked unconscious by the alleged kidnappers. police are now reportedly saying that his recollections of the night maleah disappeared are inconsistent. abc's maggie rulli has more. >> reporter: the search for

4-year-old maleah davis intensifying outside h i just want to find maleah. >> reporter: she requires constant care after multiple brain surgeries. maleah's stepfather, darion vince, says he was driving with maleah and her 2-year-old half-brother to pick up maleah's mother at the airport when he stopped to check a tire. he says that's when a blue pickup similar to this one pulled up. >> two hispanic males get out. one of them makes a comment saying maleah looks very nice, very sweet. the other male hits darion in the head. >> reporter: he says he was beaten unconscious, waking up on the side of this highway nearly 24 hours later on saturday night. his 2-year-old with him but his car and maleah gone. >> we'd love the public to help us so we can fill in the blanks in this story. >> reporter: maleah and her siblings were reportedly removed from their family's home last august when child protective services was investigating allegations of physical abuse related to her head injury. but the family was cleared and

the children were returned home. maggie rulli, abc news, dallas, texas. now to a consumer alert about tomato prices. they're going to soar. consumers could pay 40% to 85% more for vine ripe and other fresh tomatoes because the u.s. will now impose a nearly 18% tariff on mexican tomato imports. >> that was done to protect florida growers, apparently, but mexico says that many tomato exporters simply don't have the money to cover the new fee. more than half of the u.s. tomatoes come from mexico. an irish sweet shop has come up with a creation that sounds more like a pregnancy craving than something we really eat. >> behold the invention known as chicken nugget ice cream, a facebook video showing how it's made, a combination of mcdonald's nuggets and vanilla ice cream, topped with a couple more nuggets. no word how it's selling. it's so funny how we introduced this because i have to say, when i was pregnant with my son, i

did go back to eating meat for a while. and i had a meal that i would hide from my husband. i would go to mcdonald's and get mcnuggets and fries and ice cream. >> then you would, big cheeks and all. >> oh, yes. >> eating it all up. i mean as in the food was stored in the cheeks. i wasn't saying you had big cheeks, pregnant -- >> there he goes. coming up, the bets are on for what harry and meghan will name baby sussex. first the very real difference that kim kardashian is making in the lives of prison inmates. what she's managed to accomplish for 17 drug offenders. later in "the skinny," the new "star wars" movies, yes movies, slated for release.

breaking ove breaking overnight, this massive hay fire in southe breaking overnight, this massive hay fire in southern california. flames are burning at a dairy farm near the chino airport outside los angeles. no reports of injuries or whether any flights have been affected, but my goodness, that's a big one. >> quite a scene there. kim kardashian west appears to be making good on her vow to fight for prison reform. >> multiple reports say west has worked behind the scenes to commute life sentences for 17

first-time drug offenders in the past three months. she's reportedly funded the work of an advocacy group fighting mass incarceration. her visit with president trump last year helped gain one woman's release. i have to say, job well done. >> yep. >> right? >> she's putting in work. >> she is. turning now to the anticipation building over baby sussex. >> today is the day the world is expected to get a real glimpse of harry and meghan's newborn baby boy. speculation running high over what they will name him. abc's linsey davis is at windsor castle. ♪ >> reporter: a royal celebration in honor of the newest member of one of the most famous families in the world. the queen at windsor with prince philip may be the first royal to meet the baby. >> congratulations on another great grandchild. how many of them have you got now? >> eight. >> reporter: both will and kate in the dark about the big question that still looms. >> i look forward to meeting him

and find out what the name will be. >> reporter: bets are on alexander as the favorite, followed by arthur, james, and spencer. princess diana's maiden name. harry notably close to his late mother. the royal highnesses remain tight-lipped and baby sussex relatively quiet as well. the couple is said to have enjoyed a peaceful first night. prince william warning, that won't last. >> i'm very pleased and glad to welcome my brother to the sleep-deprivation party that is s of fatrhood. >> it's been the most amazing experience i could ever have possibly imagined. >> reporter: the big reveal on wednesday. we're finally going to get a chance to see baby sussex. the moment that so many have been waiting for with bated breath. harry and meghan doing things their own way, spending the time together first privately as a family before stepping back out into the spotlight with their new bundle of joy. linsey davis, abc news, windsor.

>> our thanks to linsey there. and we can't wait for that, a first official glimpse of the new royal baby. when we come back, three new "star wars" movies on the way. and the news about the 30 men competing for the bachelorette. "the skinny" is next. "the skinny" is next. olay regenerist hydrates skin better than creams costing over $100, $200, and even $400. for skin that looks younger than it should. fact check this ad in good housekeeping. olay regenerist. now try olay hydrating eye. hydrates better than the #1 prestige eye cream.

♪ skinny just gimme the skinny it is time for "the skinny." and we're starting this morning's "skinny" with a big headline from our parent company disney. >> with "avengers: end game" still killing it at the box office, abc's parent company disney is looking ahead to quite a bright future for all of us. future, future, future for all of us. our former disney cast member will ganss has all the details about our future. >> are your batteries running out? do we need to recharge you? >> that's what happens when you go behind the scenes at disney. >> oh, right, right. anyways, you guys. you might think that after making more than a billion dollars in "avengers: end game's" opening weekend disney

might take a bit of a breather, breather, breather, but you'd be wrong. here's all the magic disney has planned for the next eight years in less than 60 seconds. "aladdin" flies into theaters this month. are you ready for a whole new world of disney films coming at you? you've got a friend in woody, buzz, and me inevitably crying in the last row of the theater. "toy story 4" hits theaters in june. then the beyonce king, i mean lion king, roars to life in july. maleficent before halloween. thanks for the costume ideas, miss jolie. frozen 2 november. "star wars: the rise of skywalker" in december. in 2020 let's get down to business. live-action "mulan" in march. scary ex-men movie. new mutants in april. in december "west side story." ♪ and spot emma stone playing a fur-loving fashionista in cruella. 2021. indiana jones in a new movie in ju

avatar 3, 4, 5. come out december 2023, '25, '27. mixed in between all of that, seven untitled marvel movies, four untitled pixar movies, three untitled disney animation movies, nine untitled disney live action movies. >> future's looking bright. >> my bank account's looking broke, i'm going to be sitting in amc quite a while. >> you work for the parent -- you're part of parent company disney, whatever. all of that profit is going right to you, will ganss. >> you're right, it's all me, it's all me. >> jack, are you excited? >> can you tell? >> yes. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> sticking with themes about abc news and disney -- >> things that are happening right here on abc. to "the bachelorette." the season premiere is now less than a week away. >> 30 men trying to win hannah's heart. they include two conners, two lukes, a garrett, a grant, a

hunter. one man's favorite pastime is drinking with his mom. another is a globally ranked guitar hero champ. >> conner s., 24 from dallas, he works for goldman sachs, and loves justin bieber with love in all caps. >> john paul jones is 24 from maryland. his job is listed as john paul jones. he says -- >> jpj. >> he says he rarely uses words less than three syllables long. doubt it. he loves champagne. when referring to him use his full name, john paul jones. >> john paul jones, i love you, the list goes on. mateo from atlanta, he's 25, a management consultant. on the side he's a sperm donor who's helped create 114 children for all types of families. >> sounds like a winner. jack, anything? >> who stands out to you? >> it's good that the father of the united states navy, john paul jones, will be joining us for the season. my understanding was that there

were going to be 33 dudes involved in this whole mess. but now there's going to be 30. which tells me, i compared the lists, joe r., matt d., and ben not happening. good-bye. >> there you go. >> analyst out. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from any one else.

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♪ hit ♪ hit the road jack don't you ♪ hit the road jack don't you come back no more no more ♪ ♪ hit the road jack don't you come back no more ♪ ♪ what you say two men in oakland, california have been hitting the road literally in the name of public service. >> the two men known only as pothole vigilantes have been operating outside the law, working at night under cover of darkness to fill the city's gaping potholes. >> the men say they're doing what the city refuses to do. an email to our san francisco station city of oakland says it doesn't condone what the men are doing considering the risks involved. >> residents seem to be siding with the pothole vigilantes. reminds me when people used to put coins in meters when the time was expired and those cities said, no, you can't do

that, et cetera. >> they should be allowed to. it's not every day your son graduates from college but it's not every day that mom graduates either. >> that was a conundrum one mom was facing and her decision to watch her son earn his degree has now turned into a heart-touching moment for both of them. here's abc's david muir. >> reporter: this was the moment everyone was expecting. a mother proud of her son. it was his graduation day. it turned out that mother had skipped her own graduation to come to his. shondra love wilson had earned her degree from ferris state but instead wanted to watch her son stefan graduate from central michigan university. what she did not know, standing with her son, was that stefan's school had learned that she had chosen his graduation over her own. >> i made a call today when i found this out to david isler, the president of ferris state university. by the virtue of the authority vested in me by the state of michigan and the board of

trustees, on behalf of president isler and the ferris state trustees, i confer upon you, shondra wilson, the bachelor's degree that you have earned with all rights and privileges pertaining thereto. please move your tassel from your right to your left. >> reporter: mother and son embrace. both earning their bachelor's degrees on the same day in the same moment. starting their next chapter together. >> so sweet the way that he was cheering for his mom, oh my gosh. >> biggest cheerleader for sure, just like mom's his cheerleader. i would have been sobbing. >> yeah. >> i'm like, my robe would have been wet from just all the tears there. and we just say bravo to both of them. >> such a sweet story, absolutely. >> doing it together, i love these. >> love that good news. our thanks to david for that story and congrats to everyone

who's graduating.

making news in america this morning, breaking details overnight in the colorado school shooting just miles from columbine. >> we have a shooter in room 107. >> the terrifying moments inside that school. police responding hearing the shots. one student killed. several wounded. what we're learning now about the two suspects including a juvenile student. also breaking right now, the flood emergency. 15 inches of rain in just a matter of hours stranding students at school near houston. drivers forced to abandon their cars. the new weather threat right now. trump tax bombshell. the president's tax figures revealed showing business losses of more than $1 billion.

no federal income taxes paid for eight years. how his attorney is responding this morning.