84. that's what's making news in america this morning. breaking news in america this morning, protests over the death of george floyd in police custody turn deadly in minneapolis with reports of looting and a store set on fire. the anger now spreading to other cities. a violent protest in los angeles. a tense scene in memphis. what we've learned overnight about the investigation and the officers involved. the u.s. coronavirus death toll surpasses 100,000. this morning, the message from dr. anthony fauci about the challenges ahead and what one of the biggest school districts in the country is now preparing to do in the fall. changing nearly every aspect of the classroom. breaking overnight, after six days on the run, a college student wanted in connection

with two murders and a kidnapping is finally captured. how police tracked him down. president trump taking on twitter promising an executive order aimed at social media. how twitter is responding. plus, meet a generous 7-year-old boy and see why he earned the title of prom king. and the story behind the 103-year-old grandma and her much deserved bud light. good thursday morning, everyone. we do begin with that breaking news from minneapolis where protests over the death of george floyd have turned deadly overnight. >> people took to the streets for the second night demanding justice for floyd. some protesters were seen looting businesses including a target store, and another store was set on fire. the city is now asking the national guard for help responding. the outrage comes after video showed a police officer's knee on floyd's neck during an arrest minutes before his death. >> this morning the mayor is

calling for that fired officer to be charged as president trump reveals details about the federal investigation. overnight president trump announcing the fbi and the justice department are well into their investigation into the death of george floyd. >> it's on fire. >> black smoke coming out of there. >> reporter: as protests in minneapolis turn violent for a second consecutive night. demonstrators demanding justice for the 46-year-old who died in police custody. >> please, please, i can't breathe. >> reporter: cameras captured the final moments of floyd's life in handcuffs with officer derek chauvin's knee on his neck. floyd is heard begging for air. after about five minutes into the video, he stops moving and appears unconscious. officer chauvin's knee still planted firmly on his neck. police were on the scene after a 911 call said someone was trying to use a forged check at a store. this morning the mayor is calling for officer chauvin to be arrested and charged. >> what we witnessed on that

video was hard. the notion that you or i would have been put in jail upon doing something like that and he was not, it's just wrong and needs to be addressed. >> reporter: chauvin, a minneapolis police veteran, who reportedly was among several officers investigated after a deadly shooting in 2006. a grand jury later declined to indict. in this case surveillance video shows the officers approaching and arresting floyd. he's seen talking with them, not appearing to resist as police have claimed. a new report from the fire department says when it met up with emts on the way to the hospital, medics performed pulse checks several times finding none. >> i would like to know what was going through his mind as this person gasped for air, said that he could not breathe and was afraid that he was going to be killed and screaming for his mother. >> reporter: the four police officers involved in the incident including chauvin have the only one saying that's not streets where seve businesses were looted and this

autozone set on fire. police say one man was killed in a shooting amid the chaos. >> look at y'all. >> reporter: protesters were also seen outside chauvin's home in a tense standoff with officers guarding his house tuesday. many other demonstrators marching peacefully. >> and are literally marching through traffic. >> reporter: and now protests are spreading to other cities. about 500 people marched in downtown los angeles eventually blocking traffic on the 101 freeway. >> the situation becoming dramatically more dangerous here as they begin to interact with other drivers on the freeway. >> reporter: the protests there also turning violent. an american flag seen burning and this officer able to drive away as people smashed the back window of his cruiser. people also gathered in houston where floyd is originally from and where his daughter still lives. floyd's friends and fiancee say he was a gentle giant. >> he used the power of god to really lift people up in this world, and i miss that already.

>> reporter: officials in minneapolis have not given a time frame on when police body camera video will be released. president trump says he's asked the federal investigation to be expedited. now to the grim milestone in the fight against the coronavirus. 100,000 lives have been lost in the united states, but dr. anthony fauci is striking an optimistic tone when it comes to the challenges ahead. here's abc's megan tevrizian. >> reporter: this morning, four months after the country's first covid-19 death, the u.s. death toll now tops 100,000. that's higher than the number of u.s. military combat deaths in every conflict since the korean war. a new poll finding one in five americans know someone who's been hospitalized or died from covid-19. three of those people who lost their lives just this past week include 34-year-old sergeant simon zamudio of carpentersville, illinois, the father and husband passed away three days before his mother who also lost her battle with the virus. school safety agent doris

kirkland who worked with children in brooklyn for more than 30 years became the 43rd member of the nypd lost to the virus and estimate conductor joel revsen has become the second of the metropolitan opera orchestra to die from covid-19. >> this country, as i say often, has been through some really terrible, challenging times, you know, world wars, depression, 9/11. this falls in that category. >> reporter: dr. anthony fauci last night addressing the grim milestone but also striking an optimistic tone. he says a second wave of the virus is not inevitable. >> my cautious hope and optimism is that as we get into the fall, we'll be able to control the inevitable return of infection, anybody that thinks it's not going to come back in the fall is not being realistic. it's how you handle it that determines whether or not you have a second wave. >> reporter: and fauci's saying a vaccine could be ready by the end of the year. it comes as more of america

plans to re-open. washington, d.c. will lift its stay-at-home order friday, and more states including illinois and pennsylvania will allow salons and barber shops to open friday. more las vegas hotels are planning to re-open june 4th, and disney, the parent company of abc news, plans a phased re-opening of the magic kingdom and animal kingdom july 11th with limits on attendance. temperature checks at the entrance and a requirement that all guests and staff wear a face covering. >> how different is the park going to look when visitors enter now? >> well, you'll see a lot more areas that are taped off that are going to specify what six feet actually looks like in the park. you're going to see a lot less density than you normally might see at a disney park. >> reporter: the second largest school district in the country is also releasing guidelines for re-opening. the plan in los angeles county includes 16 students per class, one-way hallways and assigning one ball per student to play with alone.

lunch will be served in classrooms, and all students must wear a mask. meanwhile, amid the struggle to re-open, more stories of people. like mahmoud abdula in georgia who's been baking bagels for nearly 45 years. instead of laying off his staff, he kept most of them on the job paying them out of his own pocket so they could keep baking to supply local food pantries. >> when you see, when you come to this country with nothing, and people help you out, you want to pay them back and help the community. >> reporter: and back to school for a minute, with so many parents concerned about the fall, we can't forget about the teachers and their safety concerns. a new poll finds one in five teachers say they're unlikely to go back to school if they re-open in the fall. kenneth, mona. >> megan, thank you. we are expecting to learn today that another 2 million americans filed for unemployment benefits in the last week.

that would bring the total to nearly 41 million since the pandemic began. amtrak now says it's preparing to cut its workforce by 20%. boeing plans to cut 12,000 u.s. jobs, and american airlines plans to cut 30% of its management staff. a college student accused of killing two men in connecticut has been captured. the nearly six-day manhunt for peter manfredonia ended near a truck stop in hagerstown, maryland. the 23-year-old was wanted in connection with a machete attack and the shooting of a former classmate. manfredonia was recently seen in pennsylvania. police believe he took an uber to maryland. he was arrested without incident. his family says he suffers from mental illness. a florida man was caught potentially looking for targets for a mass shooting in tampa. they say that muhammad al azhari was providing support for isis previously convicted on terror charges in saudi arabia and faces 20 years in prison if convicted. time now for a look at your thursday morning weather. tropical storm bertha made landfall near charleston, south

carolina. the storm flooded streets and strong wind gusts blew the rain sideways before moving inland. the radar shows more showers for the area today, but they'll be less severe. similar conditions in the upper midwest from chicago to milwaukee and minneapolis and in parts of the gulf coast. looking at today's high temperatures, 60s in the northeast where rain is expected. 80s across the south and the summerlike heat lingers in the west. you have 109 in phoenix. 78 in los angeles. coming up, a new idea to help restaurants re-open sooner. but first a developing story. a major announcement as president trump takes on twitter claiming the social media company is censoring conservatives. and up next, a man randomly shooting at people on a bridge. how a local soldier jumped into action to save lives.

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and we are back now with a storofersm on a bridgen kansas. poceay mrt ly shootg at cars seriously injuring a driver. that's when a soldier from nearby ft. leavenworth jumped into action. police say he used his car to hit the suspect trapping him and ending the threat. >> what was a very, very dangerous situation fortunately was ended quite quickly. again, very likely countless lives were saved by the person that intervened and helped. >> no word yet on the motive for the shooting. we turn now to the feud between president trump and twitter. the president is expected to sign an executive order today taking aim at the social media giant, and now facebook's ceo is weighing in. abc's ines de la cuetara reports. >> reporter: this morning, president trump stepping up his fight against social media platforms.

the white house confirms the president will sign an executive order pertaining to social media but is not elaborating on what the order will say. >> mr. president, what are you planning to do with twitter? >> reporter: on wednesday trump accused social media sites of treating conservatives unfairly and even interfering with the election tweeting, we will strongly regulate or close them down. he later added, big action to follow. the threat comes after twitter took the extraordinary step of adding a fact-check warning on two of the president's tweets about voting by mail in california. overnight twitter explained its decisions writing, it added the labels as part of our efforts to enforce our civic integrity policy. we believe those tweets could confuse voters about what they need to do to receive a ballot and participate in the election process, but the executive in charge of twitter's fact-checking effort is now coming under fire for his history of anti-trump posts even calling trump a racist tangerine in 2016.

>> this guy is constantly attacking trump voters, trump, mitch mcconnell, you name it, and he's the head of integrity at twitter. >> this is an outrage, an absolute outrage. the president has every right to be furious. >> reporter: this morning facebook ceo mark zuckerberg weighing in saying twitter is wrong for fact-checking trump but zuckerberg also says government should not be censoring social media. >> in general i think a government choosing to censor a platform because they're worried about censorship doesn't exactly strike me as the right reflex. >> reporter: again, there's no word yet on what the president's executive order will include, but over the weekend "the wall street journal" reported the president wants to create a panel to review anti-conservative bias on social media. kenneth and mona. >> ines, thank you for that report. and coming up, new details on why actress lori loughlin agreed to plead guilty in the college admissions scandal. also ahead, a roadside rescue just in time. ad, a roadside

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i saw people in need, and i just had to help them. >> a passenger was also injured and rushed to the hospital. and back now to the coronavirus and the benefits of wearing a mask. face coverings will be more uncomfortable as the weather gets warmer. the mask worn by abc's becky worley reads 105 degrees on the thermometer. 30 degrees warmer than the outside temperature. earlier i spoke with dr. david eisenman about several issues including wearing a mask. >> early on we said that people should not wear masks, and they should be reserved for health care workers, and now we are seeing that you should wear a mask because there are so many asymptomatic people who are infected and that the mask is a physical barrier to spreading it. i just don't think we've cleared up that confusion. i also think that while we're re-opening, it feels to people like we're going back to normal, which means that to them that we don't need a mask when, in fact, it means we need the mask even more. >> as we speak today, the u.s. death toll from the coronavirus has surpassed 100,000, and i want to ask you about how we got

to this point. can you walk us through the response during the early stages back in january and february and some of the lessons that came in hindsight. >> the first lesson that we can draw from the past from what happened is that we really need a national strategy. without that we lose lives. we closed the borders back in january, and we had february to prepare, and we did not use that time. we did not use it, and we lost our ability to prepare, and so that's our second lesson, which is that it's not just what you do, it's when you do it. we still don't seem to have a national strategy for what might come in october. >> and dr. anthony fauci on wednesday struck a more optimistic tone saying we might have a vaccine by the end of the year. meanwhile, a new poll shows that 49% of americans say that they would get the vaccine when it becomes available, but 31% aren't sure, and 20% just flat out said no. many citing safety concerns.

how optimistic are you about our race for a vaccine and the impact that it will have? >> a vaccine by early 2021 is ambitious and a little hard to believe. we really have to make sure that it's effective, and all the chips have to fall into place to make sure that it's safe and effective before people are going to turn out to use it. >> our thanks to dr. eisenman. coming up, a 7-year-old who earned the title of prom king. plus, one grandmother who really deserves her bud light. that's next. this moment. this moment right now... this is our commencement. no, we'll not get a diploma or a degree of any kind. but we are entering a new chapter in our lives. our confidence is shaken; our hearts cracked. the kind of a crack that comes from the loss of a job; from life plans falling apart. we didn't ask for it... but we are rising to meet it. and how far we've come isn't even close to how far we can go.

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building a better bay area for a safe and secure future this is abc7 news. making news right now at 4:27 protests over the death of george floyd take a violent turn. shooting left the man dead and now the city of minneapolis is calling the national guard for help. it will be another week before governor newsom talks guidelines for reopening gyms. but one bay area gym is defying the law and reopening early. ciace atne s e frcio prchool before opens next week. it is thursday, may 28th. we'll get to all those stories very shortly and checking in with mike nicco for a look at the day ahead. good morning, mike. >> kumasi, how are you? i'll find out later.

let's take a look at what is going on. heat advisory and it continues and most heat will retreat to the inland east bay neighborhoods and the high risk there with moderate risks in other other areas. even the fog forming showing it will be a little different when you drive around this morning as you head out to your essential job. let's take a look at these temperatures. they should feel refreshing along the coast and into san francisco and places like richmond, oakland and san mateo in the 70s and the east bay valleys and mid to upper 90s in morgan hill. one last day of heat and we'll talk about the thunderstorms this weekend, kumasi. several cooling centers are back open in santa clara county today to haik just talki ab available in community centers in san jose starting at 1:00 p.m. and cooling centers in gilroy, morgan hill and saratoga and

also open at 1:00. because of the order in the county, though, space is limited and if you do go there, you have to wear a mask and social distance. new this morning san jose police are looking for witnesses after a shooting sent five people to the hospital. someone fired at the victims along william court near south 24th street just before 10:00 last night and so far police haven't shared any details about any suspect in this shooting. also, there is no word on how the victims are doing this morning. mnchlt now breaking news from the abc7 live desk. the city of minneapolis requested help from the national guard to help combat protests in the city right now. this is the second night in a row. last night that protesters were clashing with police following the death of george floyd. heyo seet' a live lk

yonbviously see the windows have been smashed out. we have been watching this happen all night long. it's a different feel from the first night of protests in the city. last night demonstrations turned violent with looting and vandalism and also a shooting near the protest that left a man dead. meanwhile fires erupted at several businesses. witnesses say they were startled by the arsonist. >> the night before we started out with about 8,000 protesters at 38th and chicago. and they were great. they were grachanting for thingo remain peaceful and tonight didn't have that same feel. and that's sad. >> floyd died monday night in police custody and witness video shows a white police officer kneeling on his neck and keeping the other knee there for several minutes after floyd s