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welcome to welcome to "world news tonight." trump's tax bombshell. the leaked documents. nearly a billion in losses in one year. critics saying he's a tax dodger. his supporters calling him a genius. and trump setting up a nasty rematch one week from tonight. >> i don't even think she's loyal to bil bracing for disaster. a category 4 hurricane. a fragile island, facing life-threatening wind and rain. and this monster storm may be taking aim at the east coast. deadly crash course. new details tonight about what aisle.d s about the moment of.t
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to a hail mary. why this is one weekend college football fans will never forget. and good e and good evening. thanks for joining us on this sunday.as and we begin with the race for the whuslv trump's taxes. the "new york times" obtaining information that donald trump claimed a loss of more than $90s without pay what they say is the candi genius, the gettg trump hard. with the second presidential
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president, and president, and the onlsurrogateu >> my response is he's a genius. i mean, the reality is. >> a genius? >> absolute genius. thahere'ssh more genius in their way to maneuver arountax code and rightfully use the laws to do that. >> reporter: but trump hasn't always described it that way. >> i know people that are making a tremendous amount of money and paying virtually no tax, and i think it's unfair. >> reporter: voters in florida also seeing itotways. >> i'm a working class citizen, and i pay my tes. i don't understand how he's not paying his. >> if that's what the law permits him to do, i think it makes sense to do it that way. >> reporter: clinton's campaign is pouncing on the new report, saying it reveals the colossal nature of his past business failures. nature of his "now that the gig is up, why doesn't he release his returns to show us all how smart he really is?" bottom line, experts say trump didn't do anything illegal.
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$1 billion los $1 billion loss is raising questions. and without his tax returns, and we don't know how trump accounted for the major writeoff. >> maru, thank you. and the candidate facing a huge test at the upcoming presidential debate. our new poll s our new poll says 53% saying hillary clinton won the first match, only 18% saying trump was the victor. and while "saturday night live" made light of both candidate's performances, previewing what attacks may be in store for the rematch. here's devin dwyer. >> she >> she could be crazy. and she can't make it 15 feet to her car. give me a break. >> reporter: taking aim at clinton's marriage, claiming
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>> iont? demands his rival shoulde thwn behind bars. >> she should be in prison. let me tell you. she should be in prison. >> reporter: the clinton campaign calls trump's approach parti approach particularly unhinged. >> i don't actually think it's well-considered, thought-through strategy by the trump campaign. >> reporter: but w reach in the next debate? on "snl," his first debate performance was mocked as a dud. >> this man is clearly unfit to be commander-in-chief. >> wrong. >> he's a bully. >> shut up. >> he started the birther movement. >> you did. >> reporter: >> reporter: clinton laughing today when told of the skit by aides on her plane.
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fund-raiser speech. >> they're children of the great recession, living in their parents' basement. >> reporter: critics call the comments insulting to millennial voters. today, sanders brushed it off, saying what clinton said about their economic situation is absolutely correct. >> devin, thank you. and a reminder, the second presidential debate, seven days away. co-moderated by martha raddatz, full team coverage on abc, and complete coverage of the vice 9:00 p.m. next to the monster hurricane that many on the east coast are following closely. category 4 hurrica m take a look. with sustained winds of 145 miles per hour. moving north over the caribbean. millions are in its path, as the storm's outer bands are lashing jamaica, and dumping rain over haiti.
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people live in tents and makeshift shelters. impacts to the u.s. are not out of the question. rob marciano with the storm path in a moment, but first, gio benitez. reporting tonight from jamaica. >> reporter: tonight, hurricane matthew barreling through the caribbean, shifting east, now taking direct aim on haiti. the massive storm packing 140 miles-per-hour winds, expected to trigger flooding and mudslides. this orphanage this orphanage, boarding up. bracing for the worst. >> you can definitely tell that it's coming. >> reporter: heavy rain in colombia. and here in jamaica, they're battening down the hatches and stockpiling supplies. the first bands started rolling in just a half an hour ago. already, we've got serious flooding here. the monster storm, already deadly. killing a 16-year-old on the island of st. vincent as it
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right now, a category 4, this could be the strongest hurricane to hit haiti in decades, a country still rebuilding after the devastating earthquake in 2010, and tropical storm isaac in 2012. but tonight, all of the caribbean islands are on high alert. from here in jamaica, all the way to the bahamas, the state department is urging all americans to get out now. before matthew hits. saying there's limited time for a safe departure. tom? >> gio, thank you. let's bring in rob marciano. >> it's been since the 1960s since a storm like this hit in haiti, and thousands died. so, a very dangerous situation. here's the storm, 145-mile-an-hour winds. here's a computer model showing landfall in western haiti, probably sometime tomorrow night. likely as a major category storm. likely with rainfall over 20
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jamaica, eastern cuba, and then the bahamas. and by thursday and friday, it's abreast of the u.s. too soon to give the all-clear, but as of now, the cone of uncertainty is grazing the shorelines. we'll be watching it very, very closely throughout the week. tom? >> rob, thanks. next to an update about the deadly commuter train crash in new jersey. federal investigators releasing indehe terminaanaling said about what happened just before the crash. here's eva pilgrim. >> reporter: tonight, for the first time, the engineers account of what happened in the moments before that train full of commuters crashed into this platform, killing one person, injuring 114 others. >> he looked at his watch and noticed his train was about six minutes late arriving at hoboken. he said that when he checked the speedometer, he was operating at ten miles per hour when entering
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>> reporter: thomas gallagher, the 48-year-old engineer, says he has no memory of the accident. only waking up on the floor of can cab. and another setback in the search for answers, this event recorder recovered from the back of the train wasn't working. >> we want to get in and get the exact speed of the train. >> reporter: new jersey transit had been under investigation by the federal railroad administration for the past five years, finding 183 safety violations, some related to employee drug and alcohol use, and almost $5 million in damage to tracks and equipment. the train is required by law to have a working front event recorder so investigators are hopeful that front car will hold some much needed answers when they are able to get in there. tom? >> eva, thank you. next to the potential cyber threat that may cast a shadow over the upcoming election. will your vote count in
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here's pierre thomas. with the new warnings tonight. cretary jeh jon eland security acknowdging tonight that election officials in 21 states have requested help in blocking cyber-attacks. sources tell abc news that investigators believe the hacking has been tied to the highest levels of the russian government. >> we're doing an awful lot of work to understand just what mischief is russia up to in connection with our election. >> reporter: concerns mounting after abc news first reported this week that hackers believed to be tied to russia had computers of at least 20 states. >> if we retaliate against russia with a cyber-attack of some sort, we could get into a spiral that would be a cyber-war. >> reporter: abc news has learned that in four cases, hackers actually got inside those voter registration databases and likely copied information about thousands of voters. >> potentially, the presidential election could be manipulated by an outside threat. i never thought i would live to
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>> reporter: while there's no evidence that the hackers changed voter rolls, that is the concern going forward. imagine a situation where there's a question about the eligibility of thousands of voters in a battleground state because of a hack. tom? >> pierre, thank you. next to a new arrest in an alleged murder for hire plot in florida. the suspect facing a murder charge for her role in the shooting of a professor. marci gonzalez with what police are saying tonigh behind bars, charged with first degree murder, accused in connection to the killing of a prominent law professor at florida state university. the murder coming after his marriage to wendy adelson ended.
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homicide was due to the bitter divorce that was ongoing. >> reporter: his relatives have not been charged and deny any connection. >> even my fam >> even my family who felt like i'd been mistreated would never do something like this. never. >> reporter: but police allege that katherine magbanua, arrested saturday, is the link between the adelson family and the alleged hitmen. investigators claiming in this affidavit that she had past romantic relationships with one of the accused hitmen, as well as adelson's brother, charlie. the family telli magbanua was an employee. police also claim the accused hitmen's first call after the murder was to magbanua, her attorney telling us she has no prior convictions, and their priority is getting her out on bond. while tonight, police aren't saying whether there could still be more arrests. marci gonzalez, abc news, new york. >> we thank marci for that report. staying in florida,
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mosquitoes. discovered in a new neighborhood in miami beach. the first captures in two weeks. next, to an incredible weekend in college football. some giant upsets and come from behind magic you just don't see every day. we start in the big house, wisconsin versus michigan. the badgers hoping for a comeback on this deep pass when cornerback jourdan lewis goes airborne with a one-handed interception. the wolverines winning that one. then in tallahassee, an unranked unc down by one point against the florida state se fourth quarter, four seconds left, tar heels go for a 54-yard field goal. kicker nick weiler, pressure on, kick is up. it's good. the noles upset at home. and in georgia, fourth quarter, the bulldogs come back with a 47-yard touchdown pass with ten seconds to go. game over, right? wrong. last play of the game, tennessee's josh dobbs launches a hail mary into the end zone. receiver jauan jennings jumps
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head coach butch jones overcome with emotion, taking a knee on the field. like us, he just couldn't believe it. and our condolences to amy robach, who was there, a bulldog fan, that was tough to watch. still ahead on "world news tonight" this sunday, the shocking moments caught on camera. the school bus ends up in the belt debate. and a toddler lost in a cornfield. nearly impossible to spot. we have the late developments. d your car dr for four years. you named it brad. you loved brad. and then you totaled him. you two had been through everything together. two boyfriends, three jobs... you're like nothing can replace brad. then liberty mutual calls...
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now to the now to the scary moments inside a school bus packed with students as it flipped over into a ditch. here's clayton sandell. >> reporter: tonight, new video of a terrifying, unscheduled stop f houston area school bus. watch as high school and middle school kids go flying when their bus veers off the road, flipping onto its side. >> all units on scene, school bus rollover. multiple patients. >> reporter: 25-year veteran driver, brenda armster, briefly looks in the mirror to ask a question. >> does anybody get off here? >> reporter: in that split-second distraction, the school district says armster failed to see a truck stopped ahead making a left turn.
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>> the bus started just gliding through the road. >> reporter: 11 of the 52 students onboard were injured. >> we have someone injured right here. >> reporter: once again raising the issue of why more school busses don't have seat belts. currently, only six states require them. in this rollover crash simulated by one of the largest providers of school bus seat belts, kids not buckled in go airborne. >> seat belts save lives, and three-point belts should be on every school bus. >> reporter: tom, federal safety officials have called for seat belts to be in every school bus. but doing that will cost school districts anywhere from $7,000 to $11,000 for each bus. tom? >> clayton, thank you. when we come back, the wedding day drama that landed friends and relatives in the hospital. what happened? and why this may be the last trip and prince george and his
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back now with our "index." and wisconsin farmland where search parties had been looking all night for a missing 3-year-old. the toddler wandering off into a dense cornfield. missing for 20 hours. finally found this morning. whisked off to a hospital. tonight, he's doing okay. and a bride and groom's special day gone terribly wrong. at least a dozen wedding guests were injured when a trolley carrying them flipped over on a busy highway in delaware. many wedding guests carried off in stretchers. state police tonight are investigating. and a ya the royal family. waving good-bye to canada this weekend, after their historic eight-day visit. and it may be the last overseas trip for prince george and princess charlotte for a while. word is they'll be kept close to home now to normalize their childhood. look at that image. up next, an 8-year-old's words of wisdom. and what she said that just earned her a college scholarship.
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finally to finally tonight, an 8-year-old just won a scholarship to college by being herself. and going viral. here's gloria rivier way. >> reporter: even though she is only 8, when jordan phipps makes a promise, you believe her. >> i will pay attention and i will do my best. and i will stu and i will study hard foevst. >> reporter: the soccer-loving third-grader from garland, texas, asked her mom to post her promises. wt viral. >> i will take advantage of what
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i will have the attitude of a north texas >> reporter: she's obsessed with texas, her mom's alma mater. her video and clear academic enthusiasm led u.n.t. to make r surprising her at school. >> we have for you a $10,000 sc. [ cheers and applause ] >> she touched us with her video, and her spirit and her positive attitude. >> reporter: jordan tells us she may want to major in engineering, and has a message >> that they can do whatever they want to do, a ty whick their mind to. >> reporter: and just because it really is so sweet, here's one last look. >> i am smart, i am a leader. failure is not an option for me. success is only moments away. news.porter: gloria riviera, abc >> no doubt a powerful message. we thank gloria for that report. i'm tom llamas in new york. have a great eveng
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