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dramatic new video as russian fighter jets intercept american drones setting off parachute flares with the pentagon is saying this morning climate protesters take the court as more high temperature records are broken worldwide. >> the new wave protests. voters are demanding action on climate change and why they could be doing more harm than good. >> caught on camera, the mysterious explosion that forced evacuations in new york. >> ups workers moving closer to a strike. it could be the biggest in the us since the 1950s. what's at stake? >> is it the twitter killer? mark zuckerberg launches his version of twitter overnight. the response so far. >> and later, give him a hand. this man is celebrating quite the feat. from york, this is america. >> this morning. good thursday

morning, everyone. >> i'm rhiannon ally. >> and i'm lionel moise, in for andrew. we begin this morning with one of america's biggest cities taking new action on gun control nationwide. >> 18 people were killed in mass shootings over the holiday weekend. five of them in philadelphia. and that is where city officials are now taking legal action to address a massive spike in the number of so-called ghost guns on the street. >> police say ghost guns pose an especial, dangerous and growing threat. abc's andrea fujii explains why. >> this morning, days after police say this gunman opened fire randomly in a philadelphia neighborhood, killing five people and wounding several others, including a toddler. the city is taking aim at so-called ghost guns, the kind of weapon allegedly used in monday's attack. >> one was an ar 15, the other was a nine millimeter. we've confirmed through our lab both of those weapons were privately made firearms. >> the city is now suing two manufacturers of ghost guns. those are weapons that can be purchased online and assembled

at home, posing a major concern to police because the guns are untraceable and they can be bought without age or background checks. >> the manufacturers attempted to avoid liability by claiming that it is selling parts, not guns, but the gun kits they sell can be assembled in minutes by virtually anyone. >> philadelphia has seen a 300% increase in the number of ghost guns used in crimes over the last four years and nationwide, ghost gun recoveries are up nearly 1,100% since 2017. >> the atf doesn't know about them. you're required by federal law once you make these guns to call the atf and register it with a serial number. that's not being done. >> one of the ghost gun makers being sued has already faced multiple lawsuits in los angeles and washington, d.c, amid growing concerns about gang violence. >> they're going into the hands of gang members, convicted felons who can't who obviously can't go buy a gun. so they're getting ghost guns. the gun makers have not responded to the new lawsuit. >> as for the philadelphia

shooting suspect, authorities say he grew more agitated in recent days, posting messages about guns. liberals and evil spirits. he's being held without bail. rhiannon lionel. >> andrea, thank you. breaking overnight, deadly russian missile strikes have hit the western ukrainian city of lviv. it's being called the largest attack on the city's civilian infrastructure since the start of the war. dozens of apartments and cars are damaged. at least four people were killed, but rescue teams are still searching through the rubble. >> the other big story this morning, a dangerous confrontation in the sky between russian fighter jets and us drones. and this wasn't the only high stakes confrontation involving us forces in the last 24 hours. abc's justin finch has the dramatic video this morning. justin, good morning. rihanna and good morning. >> and these troubling events both occurring in the middle east just hours apart from each other. and this morning, the air force has released this video saying it shows russian fighter

jets flying dangerously close to us, drones operating over syria. >> typically, it takes a long time for these kinds of videos to be declassified. and what we saw here was same day declassification kind of shows you how seriously the pentagon is taking it. >> the air force says three drones were conducting a mission against isis targets when three russian aircraft began harassing the drones, dropping multiple parachute flares in front of them for forcing them to make evasive maneuvers. one russian pilot approaching engaging the jet's afterburners, reducing the drone operators ability to safely operate the aircraft. the air force saying these events represent another example of unprofessional and unsafe actions by russian air forces. >> over the last few months, there have been dozens of these risky and unprofessional encounters being carried out by russian fighter jets. and in the past they used to notify the us when they would be carrying out these kinds of overflights, but not anymore. also yesterday, another international incident.

>> the us navy says it stopped iranian forces from seizing two commercial oil tankers in the gulf of oman. the pentagon says an iranian military ship approached a tanker which sent out a distress call. a nearby us destroyer responded, prompting the iranian vessel to flee, but not before allegedly opening fire on the tanker striking near the crew's living spaces. images showing the damage and the ammunition debris recovered from the vessel and the us military says no one was injured. iran now denying there was any attempt to seize those oil tankers. rhiannon. >> all right, justin, thank you . >> a scathing new report blames what it calls ineffective policies after the border patrol mistakenly allowed a migrant into the us who was on the fbi's terror watch list. government investigators say agents released the man without waiting for results of a database search. the border patrol says at the time, agents were swamped

by an increased flow of migrants that man was later arrested. well, the secret service has confirmed white powder found at the white house was indeed cocaine. >> they are now trying to determine how the drugs ended up in the west wing. and the plastic bag was found near an entrance that is used by staffers and visitors. abc's rachel scott reports. that is where visitors leave their phones before they take a tour. >> those west wing tours are by invitation only and led by a white house staffer. sources say that the secret service is combing through visitor logs and surveillance video, trying to pin down who was responsive, all for bringing that bag of cocaine into the white house. >> rachel, thank you. the white house says president biden believes it's incredibly important to get to the bottom of this. >> we turn now to our climate as we see more heat records broken this week. protesters demanding more action on climate change are finding new ways to make their voices heard. but critics say the demonstrators are doing more harm than good. this

morning, three protesters are under arrest for interrupting the action at wimbledon, throwing confetti and puzzle pieces onto the grass courts. it's the latest in an escalating series of protests by climate activists who've also recently vandalized famous paintings, even gluing themselves to works of art to get attention. observers warn this is likely just the beginning. there's also no question that these tactics are going to escalate, and i think that harm will certainly come to the activists and probably to property and others involved. just yesterday, climate activist greta thunberg was charged by prosecutors for blocking traffic to an oil facility in sweden. the demonstrations come as much of the globe faces record breaking heat. scientists say tuesday was the hottest day ever recorded on earth. the average global temperature hit 62.9 degrees. c surpassing the previous record set one day earlier.

>> we're going to continue to break records as climate change continues until that point where emissions and greenhouse gases are no longer accumulating in the atmosphere. >> the historic heat has been reported this summer from quebec, canada to northern china in the us, more than a dozen heat related deaths in texas alone. in death valley, california, where temperatures have hit 126 degrees. a man was found dead in his car this week . the low temperature at night, 938. one major factor, the return of el nino, a natural climate pattern warming the surface of the pacific, which scientists say when combined with human caused climate change, could very well be a perfect storm. now, it's important to note when it comes to that record for average global temperatures, scientists looked at data that only goes back to 1941. >> silver lining to this extreme heat across the south seems to be fewer mosquitoes. a new study found decades of rising temperatures have reduced the

number of days on which mosquitoes can thrive. but that number has actually increased in northern states. it is time now for a look at your thursday weather. good >> another hot day on the corners of the lower 48. we've got hot temperatures here in the northeast. good beach weather for us. got to watch out for a few pop up. thunderstorms in the interior. also out in the west, we had record heat in seattle and portland yesterday. we could come close again today. meantime it's going to be another stormy day on the plains. denver could have some airport delays today and tonight, even a few tornadoes looking ahead to the weekend. pretty stormy for those east coast and gulf coast beaches. not as hot in the northwest. i'm accuweather meteorologist kevin corcoran. >> coming up the jumbo power ball jackpot that keeps us all dreaming big. >> but first, workers at ups moved closer to a strike. the

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mail with more secure mailboxes and electronic locks from the postal service to ups, big brown, as it's known, could soon face the biggest labor walkout in the us since the 1950s, as union workers demand better pay and working conditions. >> this morning, a strike at ups is looking more likely after a breakdown in talks between the delivery giant and its employees. both sides accusing each other of walking away from negotiations. >> both the ups management and the teamsters know that that you probably don't get the best deal until the 11th hour. >> a walkout would have ripple effects throughout the economy, with the company employing more than 330,000 workers and delivering millions of packages each day. the value of the goods it delivers annually has been estimated at 6% of the us economy. a strike would threaten the supply chain already under stress from a shortage of truck

drivers. one college has come up with a new way to address the problem. pima community college in tucson, arizona, is offering to teach students how to drive trucks and learn english at the same time. >> we know that there are thousands of students in tucson who are language learners, but who really want to access this career training and become truck drivers. the program looks to take advantage of the city's spanish speaking immigrant population. >> you look around your house and pretty much everything you have is, you know, comes by truck. >> we've all seen the ramifications when the supply chain has issues. truck drivers are a key part of that supply chain. >> as for the labor talks at ups, the current contract expires at the end of this month . employees have authorized a walkout if no deal is reached. it profits at ups are nearly three times higher than they were before the pandemic and the union recently reported significant movement on pay increases. that was before talks broke down. >> well, there was no big

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