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billion dollar ransom payment to terrorists. >> wild ride a child is spotted riding on the roof of this suv. what police are saying here, suspension, controversy. >> one school's punishment over a teen's hair stirs debate about a new law that just took effect . >> falling out of favor. the leaf peeping hotspot urging some tourists to stay away. this year. >> and where's the art? the museum demanding its money back after an artist tried to make a statement with blank canvases. >> from abc news in new york this is america this morning. >> good tuesday morning, everyone. i'm andrew dymburt. >> good morning to you. i'm rhiannon ally. we begin with the mystery solved for the us military. >> a $100 million fighter jet

went missing after the pilot ejected over south carolina on sunday and it's now been located . but the marines have grounded all aircraft following a string of mishaps. >> abc's justin finch is here now with new details. justin, good morning. >> rihanna and good morning. debris from that f 35 fighter jet now found after the us military launched an exhaustive search. even asking for the public's help in south carolina to a military mystery, investigators converging at a debris site with burn areas and downed trees that is presumed connected to the crash of that missing f-35 fighter jet. that jet among the most sophisticated on earth with the $100 million plus price tag was undetected for more than 24 hours. the officials say that f 35 vanished sunday afternoon. the pilot safely ejecting near joint base charleston after reports of an undisclosed mishap in the cockpit. the debris located in williamsburg county about two

hours northeast. a military spokesman reporting that the pilot was in stable condition after being rushed to a medical center. but there was no sign of that jet itself, prompting the base to post this on social media, urging if you have any information that may help our recovery teams locate the f 35, please call the base defense operations center. charleston area congresswoman nancy mace posting on how in the hell do you lose an f 35? we knew the f 35 was stealth, but this is ridiculous. the jet which the us marines operate, is equipped with a transponder for a beacon designed to signal where the aircraft crashed. military radar is designed to monitor the jet's location, but in this case, it took longer. >> if there was, say, an electrical failure on board where the transponder, the beams out to the radar was no longer functioning, then it becomes a stealth aircraft, essentially invisible to radar at that point

, it would have disappeared off air traffic control, radar screens. and who knows where it ended up. >> and the marines acting commander has now called for a two day safety stand down to review all aviation safety and best practices, noting three class a aviation mishaps in just the last six weeks andrew. all right, justin, thank you. >> meanwhile, law enforcement sources say they have a confession in the shooting death of a los angeles county sheriff's deputy, but they're still searching for a motive. they say kevin salazar admitted to gunning down officer ryan clincoln brewer inside his patrol car. salazar surrendered yesterday after a standoff with police at his home. his family says he's mentally ill and hears voices in his head. >> my son is sick. he has schizophrenia and the police know. and i asked for help so many times and they they didn't do nothing. >> deputy clincoln brewer was 30 years old and recently got engaged. >> the biden administration is

defending the deal struck with iran to release five american prisoners return to the us this morning. but critics of the deal say they're not satisfied with the explanation from the white house. this morning, controversy and confusion as five americans held prisoner for years in iran arrive back in the us and reunite with their families after a stopover in doha. the biden administration celebrating the prisoner swap. >> it means that husbands and wives, fathers and children, grandparents can hug each other again, can see each other again . so it's a day that i'm grateful for. >> but not everyone is so pleased. as part of the swap, the biden administration is granting clemency to five iranians held in the us and it will unfreeze $6 billion in iranian oil revenues. >> this involved the access by iran to its own money money that

had accumulate rated in korean bank as the result of oil sales that iran made. >> the biden administration says iran has agreed to use the money only for humanitarian needs like food and medicine. they're not getting cash. >> they're not going to they can't just cut a check and pull out the money for whatever they want, whenever they want. >> republicans call it a ransom payment and warn iran will use the money to fund terrorism. any reasonable person would conclude that tehran is going to learn from this lesson that there is an incentive to taking more americans wrongfully and using that out to get payments, to get relief from sanctions. >> the latest example of president biden rewarding and incentivizing tehran's bad behavior. >> iran's president has said iran will use the $6 billion. however, it sees fit. but the biden administration insists us officials will approve each transaction. the white house says this deal does not signal

any change in relations with iran. iran's president speaks today at the un. >> a new threat from the united auto workers union as their strike enters day five. the union says if serious progress is not made by friday at midday, more workers will walk out. cnbc reports the latest proposal from chrysler's parent company could lead to the closure of 18 facilities affecting thousands of workers and a michigan auto parts maker says it will lay off 300 people if the strike continues. former president trump plans to address autoworkers next wednesday in detroit instead of attending the republican primary debate. some democrats want president biden to visit the picket lines. >> a bird strike created some dramatic moments for a spirit airlines crew flying to memphis. it was a routine flight from orlando until just before landing when a bird strike knocked out all the instruments on the pilot's side of the cockpit. but the plane did land safely. >> a disturbing story from new york is shining a spotlight on the immense toll that the fentanyl crisis is taking on

this country. this time, a little boy at a daycare lost his life. police officers, doctors and community activists are now trying to raise awareness about just how quickly this drug can kill. this morning, a dire warning about children and fentanyl. this is by far the most dangerous drug i've ever seen. >> it's extreme, namely extremely potent. >> just days after four children were found unresponsive at this home based daycare in new york, all were taken to the hospital and treated with narcan, an opioid reversal drug. three survived, but one year old nicholas could not be revived. and the boy's father says the family has been given no answers as to how the overdose happened. police say they found a kilogram of fentanyl in the hall and traces of the drug near where the children had eaten lunch. and beneath their sleeping mats . police have arrested the daycare operator and her husband's cousin, both are charged with murder. they say her husband fled the scene. a 10th of the size of a fingernail . >> can kill an adult. so imagine what it could do to a child.

>> pediatric deaths from opioids are skyrocketing. in 2018, 381 children died of opioid poisoning. in 2021, that number more than quadrupled nationwide . >> unfortunately, we have seen cases involving kids in our emergency department. the real risk is ingestion. but as you know, kids walk around and are curious and then they put their hands in their mouth and drugs from marijuana to heroin are being laced with fentanyl. >> and then there's these colorful fentanyl pills, a sign drug dealers are now targeting younger buyers. a recent study found in most child exposure cases, the victims orally ingested the substance use. >> and there is new hope for the people of maui following last month's fire disaster. lahaina is 150 year old ban tree is sprouting new leaves. at least a dozen new shoots have been spotted and dozens of volunteers have been working trying to revive the tree. >> time now for a look at your tuesday weather. dramatic video

from the flash flooding in atlanta last week. police smashed a driver's window before pulling the man out and bringing him to safety. it will be mostly dry across the southeast today, which welcome news there. but rain is expected from the midwest to the southern plains with the potential for severe storms in oklahoma and northern texas. rain is also expected today in new england. florida and the pacific northwest. checking today's high temperatures, 70s in the northeast, 90s along the gulf coast. 60s for the northwest. coming up, the bear scare at disney world. >> but first, new revelations about the murders of two teenage girls in indiana in 2017. why the suspect's attorneys claim a white nationalist group is responsible. >> and later, the artist who told a museum that his empty frames were indeed artwork. he gets a reality check

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was dating someone of another race, which they say could be a motive for the murders. >> the defense attorneys want to suggest just that this crime was not committed by their client. the defendant, that it was committed by a group of people. >> the defense also accuses a detective of lying to obtain a search warrant of allen's home. >> they're trying to get the search warrant of his house thrown out because if they can do that, it really creates a dilemma for the prosecution in this case. >> the girls bodies were found on valentine's day 2017 near this trail. authorities released this video captured on libby's phone along with audio believed to be the killer's voice. this. allen admits being on the trail that day and investigators say they traced an unspent bullet back to his gun. then in june of this year, court documents revealed allen allegedly confessed that during phone calls from jail. but his

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dress code. the suspension was handed down just as the so-called crown act took effect in texas. the law bans discrimination based on hair texture or hairstyles associated with race. >> crown stands for creating an open and respectful world for natural hair. barbers hill independent school district, says it's dress code is not in conflict with the crown act, and that protective hairstyles are permitted. >> but must comply with the dress and grooming code, which states male student's hair will not extend at any time below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes because of his hair. >> they said that when let down, his hair is below his eyebrows, which they never seen his hair let down because as you can see from pictures from all the pictures, his hair is always up. so they just basically picking with my child in 2020, another student at the same school was banned from graduation over his locks.

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