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firefighters returning from a long shift, fighting a wildfire, flipping over on the freeway. >> politics this morning. and a scandal in the battleground state of north carolina. one of the candidates for governor allegedly caught making disturbing comments about black people and slavery. he denies the remarks. how the republican party is responding. plus, former president trump speaks at an anti-semitism event, while oprah teams up with vice president harris. the latest from the campaign trail. >> rising tensions in the middle east. what we have learned about how israel carried out those pager and walkie talkie attacks in lebanon, and the new warning for israelis living along the border. >> a luxury yacht goes up in flames. the fireworks and ammunition found on board. >> history in baseball. shohei ohtani doing something no player has ever done before. reaction this morning. >> and a woman is attacked by a python inside her home, squeezed

by the giant snake for hours. how she escaped. >> from abc news. this is america. this morning. >> good friday morning, everyone. i'm rhiannon ally. >> and i'm lionel moise. in for andrew. we begin with breaking news overnight from kentucky. a judge shot and killed inside his chambers. >> and the suspect charged in his murder is the local sheriff. the shots rang out just before 3 p.m. >> walker county courthouse got shots fired. >> police say the sheriff of rural letcher county, kentucky, shot district judge kevin mullins after an argument inside the county courthouse. >> emergency services responded to the area and located district judge kevin mullins with several gunshot wounds. >> attempts to save the 54 year old judge were unsuccessful. he was pronounced dead at the scene. >> we know that it was an argument between the two that led up, but what exactly transpired prior to the shots being fired are still things

that we're trying to get answers to. >> police say the 43 year old sheriff, sean stevens, was taken into custody without incident. >> this community is small in nature and we're all shook. >> it's the third high profile murder of a judge in the last two years. last october, a maryland man shot and killed a judge. shortly after, the judge ruled against him in a divorce case. back in june of 2022. a former wisconsin judge was killed in what authorities called a targeted attack. and in 2020, the son of a u.s. district judge in new jersey was killed by a gunman who was targeting the judge at her home. the u.s. marshals service says serious threats to federal judges have more than doubled in the last three years, part of what officials say is a growing wave of politically driven violence. as for the suspect in kentucky, he is charged with first degree murder. kentucky's governor saying there is far too much violence in this world, and i pray there is a path to a better tomorrow. police say the judge was shot several times. there is

no word on what the alleged argument was about. the suspect has not entered a plea yet, but investigators say he is cooperating. breaking overnight, a possible tornado is blamed for at least one death near tulsa. >> strong winds flipped over an rv in pawnee, oklahoma. police say the vehicle fell on top of the victim. wind gusts reportedly topped 70mph, and in politics. a scandal in the crucial swing state of north carolina. a candidate for governor is accused of making disturbing statements on a site, including allegedly saying he is a black nazi. but this morning he denies making that statement and his party is standing by him. this morning, the north carolina republican party is standing by their candidate for governor, calling the allegations against mark robinson a political smear. >> let me reassure you the things that you will see in that story. those are not the words of mark robinson. >> cnn reports robinson made inflammatory comments on the message board of a website years ago, including one post where he

allegedly called himself a black nazi and expressed support for reinstating slavery. abc news has not independently confirmed cnn's report, which claims robinson made the comments between 2008 and 2012. robinson, who was once praised by former president trump as martin luther king on steroids, denies making the comments and says he's staying in the race. >> look, i'm not going to get into the minutia of how somebody manufactured this. all these salacious tabloid lies. but i can tell you this there's been over $1 million spent on me through i by a billionaire son who is bound and determined to destroy me. >> meanwhile, on the presidential campaign trail, former president trump spoke at an anti semitism event in washington. he called on vice president harris to disavow any support from hamas sympathizers, including those on university campuses. >> ground zero for the outbreak of the anti-jewish hate under kamala harris has been our college campuses. >> trump also called for a grand

jury to investigate. a new report from the fbi that says iranian hackers stole trump campaign material. this summer and tried to send it to biden. campaign associates. meanwhile, in michigan, oprah winfrey hosted a live streamed event with vice president harris last night. >> a wife and mama t vice president, please welcome kamala harris to the event. >> included conversations about reproductive rights and gun violence. natalie griffith, a 15 year old who was shot in the arm during the recent mass shooting at a georgia high school attended with her parents. >> she said that there was a shooting at the appalachia high school. my heart just dropped and my heart just got so heavy and i could not stop. i just like i had to leave. >> i'm in favor of the second amendment, and i'm in favor of assault weapons bans. universal background checks, red flag

laws. the debate. i'm a gun owner. tim walz is a gun. i know that, and i thought that was in my house. they're getting shot. sorry. yes, yes, i hear that, i hear that. probably should not have said that. but my staff will deal with that later. >> and today, harris heads to atlanta to discuss reproductive rights. as for trump, he holds a rally in north carolina tomorrow. he did not immediately comment on the mark robinson allegations. >> eight firefighters in southern california were injured when their truck crashed on this freeway in irvine. they were returning from a 12 hour shift fighting one of the wildfires in that region. officials say the driver swerved trying to avoid a ladder in the road and then hit a guardrail. six of the eight firefighters suffered serious injuries. >> overseas, israel has ramped up airstrikes in southern lebanon just days after those bombings that used electronic devices, including pagers and walkie talkies. abc news learning more about how israel

carried out those attacks. abc's christiane cordero has the details for us. christiane. good morning. >> lionel, good morning to you. sources say israel for at least 15 years had been planning this kind of attack using wireless devices, explosions targeted hezbollah militants in lebanon this week with pagers and walkie talkies blowing up at the same time, killing at least 37 people, most of them hezbollah fighters. but two children also died and thousands of people were injured, sources say. israel created shell companies to manufacture and eventually sell the pagers to hezbollah. planting explosives in the devices with a remote trigger, the walkie talkies featured the logo of a japanese company, and that company tells us that kind of device was discontinued ten years ago. the leader of hezbollah has called these attacks an act of war. israel in the last 24 hours has ramped up airstrikes targeting hezbollah sites in southern lebanon, both sides exchanging fire, and two israeli soldiers were killed. people in northern israel are being told to stay close to bomb shelters today. as for those

pager and walkie talkie attacks, one expert tells us they likely would not be considered a war crime because israel appeared to target hezbollah fighters, not civilians. rhiannon. >> all right, christiane, thank you for that. wall street opens this morning at a record high. the dow closed above 42,000 yesterday following the federal reserve's decision to cut interest rates by half a point. mortgage rates also dropping to the lowest rate in nearly two years now averaging just over 6%. another 1200 hotel workers have walked off their jobs in boston. it's the biggest wave of three day strikes in several cities aimed at getting new contracts with higher pay and better working conditions. and the strike at boeing is entering day eight. it's already cost the company and workers more than $570 million. thousands of nonunion workers are expected to be furloughed. >> time now for your friday weather. the system that spawned a deadly twister in oklahoma last night is moving across the

plains and into the midwest. showers and more severe storms are possible with strong winds and hail. meanwhile, it's a rare day in las vegas. the city could see its first measurable rain in five months. lightning and gusty winds are also expected. checking today's high temperatures nearly 100 degrees in texas and oklahoma. summerlike temperatures will extend into the midwest again today. coming up, the the run, delighting kids at a nearby elementary school. >> but first, a yacht goes up in flames in california, later sinking. we'll tell you what was found on board. >> and the government now accusing social media companies of running vast surveillance on people using their apps. the concern about where that let's hit the road. it's the disney+ blockbuster offer! [gasp] — that's right. — [gasp] $1.99 a month for 3 months of disney+. ♪ that's a great idea. get the hottest shows. — great... — you can say that again.

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all right >> firewall. >> look at this. a fire on a luxury yacht packed with fireworks and a thousand rounds of ammunition is now under investigation. flames pulled up the admiral in california's marina del rey. both people who were on board escaped. the 100 foot yacht eventually sank. the cause of the fire has not officially been determined. >> the fire at a natural gas pipeline that burned for nearly four days near houston is finally out this morning. it started monday when an suv hit a pipeline valve. human remains were found in the vehicle. police have opened a criminal investigation. seven homes nearby suffered major damage. >> a new warning today about your personal data online. the government claims tech companies have engaged in vast surveillance of personal information, and it's raising concern about how the companies are sharing the data. here's abc's andrea fujii. >> this morning the federal

trade commission is calling on congress to pass new privacy laws after the agency found social media companies engaging in, quote, vast surveillance on people using their apps. >> you can almost bet that if you're using a free service, that you're giving up something to have that service. >> the report is based on information gathered four years ago. several social media and video companies, including facebook, tiktok and youtube, were ordered to explain how they collect, track and use people's personal information, such as their marital status, income and level of education. they found the companies engaged in broad data sharing and often couldn't keep track of who they were selling the information to. the report also revealed companies did not delete all user data in response to user deletion requests, and some companies used privacy invasive tracking technologies to help sell targeted advertising. >> a wake up call to the public and to consumer that you need to take action and be aware of what

information you're potentially giving up in order to leverage free services in recent years, some companies have tightened their policies. >> just this week, instagram announced privacy protections for teens. but experts warn changes like this may not be enough. >> i don't feel like these companies truly have our children's best interests in mind. i think that they have themselves in mind for the most part. and so ultimately, it becomes the parent's responsibility to really dig in and understand what their children are, are using. >> google and discord responded to the report. google saying, we never sell people's personal information and we don't use sensitive information to serve ads and discord disputed the report, saying it combines very different models into one bucket, one important takeaway from all of this make sure you read the user agreements when you download an app to learn more about where your data might be going. rhiannon. lionel. >> very good advice. andrea. thank you for that. coming up, new evidence in the jordan

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away with about $150,000. >> fortunately, she is okay. we are learning more about the deadly voyage last year to see the wreckage of the titanic. a scientist who worked on the titan submersible is revealing what went wrong before that fatal dive. new details about previous issues with the titan submersible, which imploded on its way to the titanic wreck last year, killing all five people on board. at a coast guard hearing, the company's scientific director testified the titan malfunctioned just days before its final dive. >> the platform had a valve malfunction and the bow of the platform submerged, tilting the platform and the submersible to about a 45 degree angle. >> no one was injured in that incident, but six days later, the titan imploded on its way to the titanic. testimony this week has detailed equipment and design issues, a lack of staff experience and what critics say was a dangerous determination to rush the mission. but one staff

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