♪ this is "nightline." >> tonight, highway horror. a bus filled with band camp students veers off a road and down an embankment outside new york city. who shot tupac in the legendary rapper looming large over popular culture. >> i like to think i'm a revolutionary. i like to bring change. >> hits like "california love"

inspiring generations of performers. >> hip-hop doesn't grow without tupac. >> nearly 30 years later, we go inside the case with some key players, including the bike cop who says he held the rapper in his arms after the shooting. >> i looks at him, "who shot you? who did this?" he looked right in my eyes and said, "[ bleep ] you." >> could charges be filed now that a grand jury is reviewing new evidence? drag for change. >> this is your drag debut on the streets of brooklyn. >> hello, streets. hello, sunshine. hello, brooklyn. >> the drag queen taking the doom and gloom out of climate change. aiming to make the movement more inclusive. >> the climate movement has diversity issues like everything else. >> while serving up plenty of laughs. and some trashy fashion. one role of a lifetime. one sore throat. but she had enough. she took mucinex instasoothe sore throat lozenges.

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♪ good evening and thank you for joining us. i'm trevor ault. we begin tonight with a terrifying and deadly bus crash outside new york city. two adults were killed and dozens of high school students injure injured heading to band camp in pennsylvania. at least five students are in critical condition. >> there's no words to describe.

my heart breaks for everybody. >> trevor: the bus was one of six transporting students from farmingdale high school on long island. authorities are looking at the front tire. >> the bus like rolled over the hill. kids were covered in blood. >> trevor: we'll have continuing coverage on this story overnight and on "gma" in the morning. for now we turn to the death of legendary rapper tupac shakur. a grand jury is reviewing new evidence nearly 30 years after the icon was gunned down, dying days after the shooting. here's abc's ashan singh. >> i like to think i'm a revolutionary. i like to bring change. >> reporter: tupac shakur, referred to as pac by friends

and fans, may be bigger in death than in life. he's become a prolific part of pop culture. from clothes to films about his life. >> why the cameras on me because i'm tupac. >> reporter: in music his imprint still fresh. >> look at kendrick lamar. unapologetically him. >> drake has tupac's ring on that he bought at auction somewhere. >> i think hip-hop doesn't grow without tupac. >> reporter: at the time of his death, he wasn't just the biggest rap star out there with hits like "california love." ♪ say what you say but give me that beat from dre ♪ >> reporter: breaking through in films like "juice." >> set yourself, you got to snap some [ bleep ], let those [ bleep ] out you're going to take them out any time you feel like it. >> reporter: a bona fide mainstream celebrity. this is a superstar who is somehow about to take a meta star turn.

that's very rare. >> reporter: pac dined with madonna, went backstage with mike tyson, was on red carpets with rosie perez. >> he's to hip-hop what james dean was to rock 'n' roll in the 1950s. i always thought tupac would have been one of the greatest actors ever if he had lived and been able to fulfill his full potential. >> reporter: it all came crashing down on september 7th, 1996, when tupac was fatally shot near the las vegas strip. >> he's a human being. he was shot by real bullets from a real gun. we're supposed to play guessing games with you? call me when it's solved. >> reporter: for 27 years, tupac's unsolved murder has cast a shadow over hip-hop. his death just the beginning of a pattern of what would become an epidemic in the nation. >> i don't know if true closure actually exists. >> reporter: justice has been

elusive. could a recent raid finally by closure? in the last year of his life, tupac became the face of death row records, an independent record label cofounded with dr. dre and suge knight. a former college football player and bodyguard. >> in the mid-'90s, suge knight was the scariest guy, not just in hip-hop but in the music industry, period. >> reporter: on the east coast, bad boy records ceo puff daddy, notorious b.i.g. with hits. ♪ it was all a dream ♪ ♪ something pepper up in the limousine ♪ >> reporter: west coast and east coast were pitted against each other in a pressure cooker. tupac's star was only rising. >> the death row era loomed large. in fact is it was a very short era and it was awful. ♪ >> reporter: september 7th,

1996. >> it felt like practically all eyes were on us. mike tyson was set t selldon. some of the biggest stars were in town to watch the fight, including tupac. >> reporter: tupac was hyped 100 iron mike won the fight in under two minutes. an exuberant pac gave an interview to b.e.t. not knowing it would be his last. tupac, shug, and their crew walked through the mgm grand hotel lobby. they encounter orlando "baby" anderson, reportedly a known member of the south side compton crips. shug reportedly had ties to the rival bloods gang. >> there had been a bounty for somebody to grab a death row gold pendant. and someone two months earlier had grabbed one off of this guy who is with tupac. so he sees orlando, and he says, "he stole my necklace." and tupac and shug just laid in.

kicking and stomping on him. >> reporter: the fight was caught on the hotel's security camera. >> tupac shakur basically forced himself into gang politics. >> reporter: security broke it up, tupac and his crew left. anderson declined to press charges. just two hours after that fight at the mgm grand, tupac and his entourage head to club 662, a nightclub shug owned by the strip. this is the last known photo ever taken of pac. >> tupac's in a bmw. he's in the passenger seat. shug is driving. >> reporter: according to police reports, a white car, possibly a lincoln or a cadillac, pulled up beside sugar's bmw. a gun emerged from the back seat aimed at tupac's side of the car followed by a hail of bullets. >> the bullets tear through his chest, hit his hand, tear through his side and ribcage. >> then what'd you see?

do you see people with the guns? >> listen carefully. blood. >> reporter: chris carroll, a former bike sergeant with the las vegas police department, says he was one of the first officers on scene where shug's car came to a stop. >> i noticed there was one guy still sitting in a car. of course, this turns out to be tupac. when i pulled open the door, he kind of fell out with the door. he's clearly in bad shape. a lot of blood. i look at him, "who shot you, who did this?" he went right in my eyes and he went, "[ bleep ] you." >> reporter: six days after he was shot, tupac's mother, fanny shakur, did what no parent should have to do. >> tupac stopped breathing. every time they revived them, he went back. i asked them to leave him alone and to let him go. i rejoiced with him. and with the release of his spirit. i rejoiced then and i rejoice

now. >> reporter: he was only 25. according to police reports, the investigation into tupac's murder met problems early on with people refusing to cooperate. how much do you think snitch culture hindered what you hoped to accomplish in the investigation? >> the gang mentality, the code of the streets, were absolutely the reason why we couldn't get any further than we did. nobody would talk to us. >> reporter: when asked about the investigation, las vegas police told "impact," "we will have no further comment at this time." as for orlando anderson, las vegas police have never publicly said that he was a suspect or a person of interest in the case. anderson always denied his involvement in tupac's murder, as well as having any association with the crips. telling the l.a. times in 1997, "i wish they would hurry up and catch the killer so my name could be cleared." anderson died in an unrelated

gang shoot-out in 1998. >> there's not going to be anybody charged with his murder because the shooter is dead. >> orlando anderson was never a formal suspect. now fast forward to 2023. guess where we come? right back where we started. >> the las vegas metropolitan police department -- >> reporter: earlier this summer -- >> you need to come out with your hands up and your hands empty. we have a search warrant -- >> reporter: a s.w.a.t. team executed a search warrant at a home of a man with links to orlando anderson. >> do you react? when you hear the news? >> i say, "here we go again." >> reporter: keefe dee did not respond to "impact" calls. the case is being presented to a grand jury who will decide if there will be any charges against him as some sort of

accomplice in tupac's murder. bay area rapper simba honoring his hero. ♪ >> still a classic, man. >> i see no changes. ♪ ♪ i'm tired of being poor even worse i'm black ♪ >> do you feel pressure to keep pac's spirit alive? >> not just pac. nipsey, dns -- you're about to make me shed a little tear. anybody that represented our culture, i feel like i got a responsibility to keep they name alive. >> trevor: our thanks to ashan. you can see the full episode of "who shot pac: the murder of tupac shakur" on "impact by nightline" streaming on hulu. drag for change. the environmental activist

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♪ >> trevor: the summer's record-setting temperatures and raging wildfires provided a painful and urgent reminder of the need for climate change action. but what's the best way to get everyone involved? an environmental activist and drag queen is betting on laughter. here's abc's chief meteorologist ginger zee. >> reporter: in that roaring crowd, under strobe lights -- ♪ >> reporter: dancing to ariana

grande and lady gaga's "rain on me." it's where you'd expect to find a drag performer. but what you might not expect -- is to get an environmental message. >> this is the most fun room to be in during climate week, make some noise! ♪ >> reporter: meet patagonia. >> hey, everybody, it's patagonia. >> reporter: drag queen and environmental activist. dr. the slopes to whitewater rafts, she is shaking up what it means to fight for mother nature. >> if you can hold on to your trash boyfriend for two whole years, well honey, then you can hold on to this piece of trash for five more minutes. >> reporter: she's in new york city for climate week, producing and starring in "save her: an environmental drag show." >> okay, on three i want you to

scream "gay." one, two, three -- [ crowd yelling "gay" ] ♪ ♪ >> reporter: coming off the hottest summer on record for the earth, ocean temperatures soaring to their highest since humans have existed, and unprecedented wildfires in canada this year. climate change can feel anxiety-inducing. patagonia says leave the doom and gloom behind. >> if we want a sustainable movement where people are joining us and fighting together, we have to make it fun for the long haul. we can focus on the problems, but let's also celebrate the solutions and do it together. >> reporter: paddy is the drag persona of winn wily. >> when was the first time you remember caring about the planet? >> growing up i loved nature, being a queer kid exploring the outdoors. queerness is about looking at who you are and realizing you

might be a different ecosystem. i think queerness is everywhere in nature. if we look at our oceans, every clownfish possesses the ability to transition within their lifetime. >> reporter: five years ago, winn got the inspiration for paddy during a hike to the top of the continental divide in colorado. >> i was on a backpacking trip with friends. decided to pack six-inch boots into my pack. took videos and photos. posted online and woke up to 3 million views. >> reporter: the professional photographer never turned back and now has nearly 1 million followers on instagram and tiktok combined. >> birds tell to us act on climate. >> reporter: harnessing the power of the internet to encourage the queer community to explore the great outdoors. >> if by look at the traditional narrative of being queer, it's oftentimes running to big cities for acceptance. i think 23 there's a lot of queer people running to the environmental movement. >> has the climate community been receptive and inclusive?

>> the climate community is incredibly white, straight, privileged. so i want a climate movement that's more diverse. >> reporter: they now also have organized pride events like this one in atlanta, just last weekend. it also helps connect lgbtq hikers and nature lovers with each other. and to get a little glam. ♪ i even got a patagonia makeover. >> this is what we call trash powder. it's just powder. but you are such a great drag mom. >> reporter: and this is paddy's masterpiece. >> trash we gathered from our neighbors, from ourselves, used it to create this skirt that is called marie trashionette, big skirt, big hip pads. it looks like a mound of trash now, but it looks like a mound of trash on our body. >> reporter: america creates more plastic waste than anyone

around the world. >> now that you have powder, i'm going to need to see you in this trash skirt. >> yes, please. >> this is your drag debut on the streets of brooklyn. step into your future, baby. you're going to cinch it up, and this is your destiny. we're walking. kind of fun. >> you're looking so nature-y, brooklyn. hello, trees. hello, sunshine. >> rewearing things is the new black. >> reporter: paddy says sustainability and reuse have always been in the dna of drag and goes hand in hand with what drag's all about. >> i think a lot of drag queens were constantly taking something from another look, pairing it with another thing. i think if we look at the roots of drag as an art form, we see activism there from the beginning. drag was created to protest and create change. there is another world that's possible where we see people as people, where we see nature as relative and not a resource. >> reporter: in a story of waste, paddy's chapter is about bold action. ♪

>> broadway! are you ready! >> reporter: tonight's performers all wearing upcycled looks. >> the message i want everyone to walk away with tonight is that if you say who you are and what you're good at, if you apply that to what you care about, amazing things can happen. >> trevor: our thanks to ginger during this climate week. coming up, the joy of painting. why bob ross' first tv painting could fetch nearly $10 million. ♪ things are looking up ♪ ♪ i've got symptom relief ♪ ♪ control of my crohn's means everything to me. ♪ ♪ ♪ control is everything to me. ♪ feel significant symptom relief with skyrizi, including less abdominal pain and fewer bowel movements at 4 weeks. skyrizi is the first and only il-23 inhibitor for crohn's that can deliver both clinical remission

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>> trevor: and finally tonight, your chance to own bob ross' first-ever joy of painting landscape. you will need an acre of cash. the masterpiece was completed during the first episode of "the joy of painting." it's now for sale at a record price. "a walk in the woods" was done on camera in 1983 with the man who likes to tell his viewers, "anyone can paint." it was purchased by a pbs volunteer at a benefit auction. the painting was finished on camera in seven minutes. the asking price, $9.8 million. so if you're doing the math, that is roughly $6,000 per second. that's "nightline." you can watch full episodes on hulu. we'll see you right back here at the same time tomorrow. thanks for staying up with us. good night, america. but do they really? do they see all that you are?