revealing new details about the this morning on "world news now," bombshell confession revealing new details about the new york prison worker accused of helping two convicted murderers escape. a story of sex, lies and tears. >> and under investigation, an american dentist accused of killing a beloved lion while hunting in africa. the worldwide anger and who now is demanding justice. daycare outrage. two boys severely sunburned during a field trip. the trip to the hospital, their mother's accusations. >> and later in "the skinny," "full house" reunion major hints about the olsen twins, mary-kate and ashley all grown up and returning to the sit-com remake. is this true? it's wednesday, july 29th. >> from oobz news this is "world news now" with t.j. holmes and reena ninan.

that former prison employee is now providing new details how she helped two convicted murderers escape. >> joyce mitchell admitted her role in the plot as part of a employee deal and also confessed to a relationship with one innate. inmate. here's gio benitez >> reporter: today joyce mitchell in shackles and tears, pleading guilty to helping the two murderers escape. >> she was swept off her feet a bit for a period. and then when she realized who she was dealing with, everything changed. >> reporter: in newly released statements, mitchell described a deepening friendship with inmate richard matt. quote, he treated me with respect and was nice to me. she says, he made me feel special. that relationship turning sexual. inmate matt grabbed me and kissed me. mitchell also admits sending naked pictures to the other prisoner, david sweat, telling police, matt told her, we were all going to be together. >> she got in over her head and into something that she never should have started but she did,

and she's paying the price. >> reporter: she admits smuggling hack saw blades, chisels, a punch tool and a screwdriver to the prisoners, hiding them inside frozen hamburger meat. matt giving her two pills to drug her husband lyle on the day of the escape. they referred to lyle as the glitch. the plan, joyce mitchell would pick up the escapees and drive back home where they would kill her husband, but she gets cold feet. and when she doesn't show up, the men escape into the deep rugged woods, launching the three-week manhunt. joyce mitchell, soon under arrest as we track down her husband. what do you make of the reports that she was trying to have you killed? >> reporter: lyle mitchell visiting his wife in jail. and why did she do it? i was caught up in the fantasy, she says. i enjoyed the attention, the feeling both of them gave me, and the thought of a different life. joyce mitchell will be sentenced in september. she faces up to seven years behind bars. her lawyer says she knows she made a horrible mistake. gio benitez, abc news, new york. authorities in texas have

released jailhouse video. sandra bland, and the young black woman found hanging in her cell can be seen getting her mugshot taken, filling out forms and going in and out of her cell during the period. the footage is intended to dispel rumors that she was dead before arriving at the jail. authorities say such conspiracy theories about bland have led to death threats against officials. the mother of james holmes is expected to take the stand today in an effort to save his life. yesterday his father recounted his childhood with birthday parties, soccer games, family outings. he says it wasn't till 2011 he began to notice something wasn't quite right about his son. jurors are deciding whether he should get the death penalty for the 2012 shootings. a florida man arrested for an isis inspired bomb plot. they say harlem suarez wanted to bury a remote control bomb on a key west beach and detonate it. he also talked about planting bombs in south florida.

suarez came under fbi scrutiny after he posted pro-isis comments on facebook. well, outrage is growing over the death of a beloved african lion hunted down and killed by an american. a dentist from the minneapolis area who reportedly paid $50,000 to strike the deadly blow. here's more from abc's david wright. >> reporter: cecil the lion was the star attraction at zimbabwe's national park until this minnesota dentist came along looking for that hemingway trophy photo. >> the gentleman was an american called walter james palmer. >> reporter: on july 6th, walter palmer and his guides allegedly poached the lion shooting him with a bow and arrow. now the hunter is being hunted himself. his dental practice, seen here in this promotional video, shut down, people leaving stuffed animals at the door. his yelp entry, swamped with outrage. you are a horrible human being posted one reviewer. another called him a monster.

palmer issued a statement, i will no idea that the lion i took down was a known local favorite insisting he relied on the expertise of his guides. those guides now facing poaching charges in africa. the dentist, a worldwide outcry. david wright, abc news, new york. well, the coast guard has broadened the search for those two lost boys at sea. the florida boys here. no new clues turned up since their overturned boat was found sunday. but officials believe it's still possible they could find them alive, talking about perry cohen and austin stephanos haven't been seen since they set out for a fishing trip friday. crews are scouring into the waters off georgia and south carolina, some private pilots have also joined the search. firefighters in california battling not just the flames but the searing heat and high winds, too. new fires erupting every day. this one in castro valley. firefighters on the line at every one of them, taking back one foot at a time.

abundance's matt gutman taking it in from the air. >> reporter: that new wildfire in castro valley, firefighters chasing the fiery periphery, soon engulfed by smoke themselves. across the state, the fires unrelenting. 20 major burns, about 2,000 structures threatened. on the lines, over 11,000 exhausted firefighters. here at the lowell fire, containment up to 30%, but still an uphill battle. we joined cal fire to survey the so-called air attack from a helicopter. 15 aircraft buzzing the tree tops dumping water just feet from smoldering trees, then dropping down again and again for new loads of water showing the scope of a fire like this. and in the 45 minutes that that we were in that were helicopter cal fire responded to five new fires in northern california alone. and with that wind that you can probably hear against my mic and the soaring heat here, rough road for firefighters. matt gutman. an oklahoma daycare center

has shut down after allegations that two little boys suffered severe sunburns while in its care. the boys' mother posted these pictures of the injuries on facebook. some are so graphic we can't even show them to you right here. she says her 5 and 7-year-old sons were left outside at a splash park last friday without any sunscreen or shirts. >> they were supposed to take care of them and they did not. that's the bottom line. >> boys are being treated at a burn center in texas. the state of oklahoma is investigating that daycare center. the hottest weather this summer settled in the northeast. temperatures in new york back in the mid-90s today and higher in parts of new jersey. cooling centers set up across the area and people are basically being told not to do anything strenuous outdoors. parts of the northeast can expect more hot weather. dangerous heat indexes and poor air quality today. gusty winds, high temps in california's fire zone. thunderstorms from chicago to the eastern great lakes, heavy rain in the southeast.

>> triple digits in phoenix and dallas.and, memphis, new orleans and new york. 80s in seattle, los angeles and chicago and boston. what was that in boston again? what did i say? >> 88. >> 88 in boston? whoo. even if it was snowing in boston, new england patriots fans would be hot, overheating because their superstar golden boy quarterback tom brady, that four-game deflategate suspension has now been upheld by the nfl. lead commissioner roger goodell cited the fact that brady told assistant to destroy his cell phone on or just before the day that brady met with the nfl's investigator. quite a coincidence. brady's agent called the appeal process a sham. the player's union is ready for a legal fight. >> the ball is now clearly in tom brady and the union's court as to whether or not they continue this saga and go to federal court. >> the nfl made a preemptive strike and filed an action in federal court against the union saying the commissioner has the

right to hand out suspensions under the current labor agreement with players. patriots report for training camp today. brady is expected to be at there at training camp. he can participate in the camp but he is going to be out at this point the first four games. >> to california now. a farmer may have the right animal for that drought stricken state. camels. gil riegler owns oasis, america's first camel dairy farm. the milk is low fat, naturally homogenized and higher in insulin, protein, vitamin c and iron than cow's milk. >> i did not know that. they've been drinking this stuff for centuries. there's a big but here it's against the law to sell camel's milk in this country. so the farm makes camel's milk lip balm, soaps and lotions instead. have i been using that stuff and don't even know it? >> it could be in your lip balm. this camel's milk is closer to human's milk than cows and supposedly good for autistic

children, people with crohn's disease and colitis and stomach issues. >> are they trying to get it okayed in this country? >> yes, it sure sounds like it. >> all right. >> would you try it? >> why not. we've got the skinny coming up. major headlines about hollywood remakes, shaft and "full house" to tell you about. selling real estate without aggressive agents or slick advertising. how homes are sold in a world without capitalism. and the pilot running out of fuel who was told by the tower crew to wait 20 minutes before landing. yeah, i'm out of fuel. you want me to wait 20 minutes. that ain't happening. you're watching "world news now." "world news now" weato you by southern new hampshire university.

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the ntsb says human error was to blame for this deadly crash of a virgin galactic spacecraft last october. investigators found that the co-pilot unlocked a braking system early that cause the spacecraft to tear apart. co-pilot died in the accident. pilot managed to survive it. virgin has said it hopes to resume test flights later this year with a new aircraft. the faa trying to sort out who is to blame for a passenger plane nearly running out of gas in mid-air. >> the pilot with 144 passengers on board had less than five minutes of fuel left when he tried to land and was told the airport was closed. abc's jim avila on this emergency that came next. >> reporter: a rare and serious mid-air scare. an allegiant airlines md-80 on a flight from las vegas to fargo, north dakota, carrying 150, less than five minutes from falling out of the sky as the fuel gauge

registers near empty. >> we're circling fargo. we don't have enough fuel to go anywhere else. >> allegiant 426. roger, there will be a window opening in about 20 minutes for a landing. >> yeah, i don't have 20 minutes. >> an exchange you never want to hear. the pilots had been delayed on takeoff from vegas and arrived after the fargo airport had been closed by a navy blue angels practice that had been planned months before. the air controller directing him to another airport unless he declared an emergency. >> there is grand forks airport which is 70 miles to the north. >> listen we're bingo fuel here in about probably three to four minutes. and i've got to come in and land. >> reporter: bingo is a military term that means running on empty. >> there were two mistakes here. one, nobody picked up the blues were practicing. two, they didn't leave themself enough gas in case there was another problem at that airport. >> emergency declared, the blue angels got out of the way and

the plane landed safely. no one hurt. but now the pilots and the airline have lots of questions to answer. gyp av la, abc news, washington. >> can you imagine being on that plane? >> they probably didn't know what was going on, did they? the passengers didn't know all this was going on. to think i've got 3 or 4 minutes of fuel. yeah three or four minutes i'm going to be in bingo. i don't know what that means. sounds innocuous enough. we've got a problem. >> oh, boy. >> how do you not have the enough fuel? regulations require planes to have enough fuel to get to their destination airport and predesignated diversion airport plus an additional 45 minutes of flying time. they did not have that clearly. >> come on, on your car it has a little yellow light that lights up. i can't imagine a plane, right? >> simple as that. coming up, the olsen twins possibly getting back to their roots on television. the latest movie remake starring one bad mother. >> shut your mouth. >> that's it. >> "skinny" is next.

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♪ skinny, so skinny ♪ topping the "skinny" this morning, more exciting news for "full house" fans. >> we told you yesterday about casting announcements for the spinoff fuller house," now it's the one everybody's been waiting for.

>> previously it was reported mary-kate and ashley olsen would not be involved so they could focus on their fashion careers. but netflix now hinting that the twins may reprise their role after all. netflix's boss says they're "teetering whether or not they'll be around." what a turnaround from the initial no. fans no, we're not going to do it. >> from 1987 to 1995, they shared the role of michele tanner the youngest daughter of one of perk's favorite tv families. their involvement in the reboot would mean a big reunion. with john stamos bag saget and laurie lock lynn. the 13-episode series will stream on netflix at some point next year. our next story. >> i'm very exsighed about this. thildhood coming back. it's like double stuffed oreos and corn pops. >> yeah, that's what i was thinking, too. go to our next story now. while she gets her childhood together. we'll start with a quiz.

who's the man that would risk his neck for his brother man? >> shaft. can you dig it? >> yes, isaac hayes. he's loving you right now. we're, of course, talking about "shaft," the hit film starring richard roundtree in the title role. you can't forget the oscar and grammy winning theme song from hayes. "shaft" a remake now officially in the works. >> new line cinema signed on two writers to work on the script. both writers, their work is familiar tore abc sit-com fans. one created "blackish" and the other "the goldbergs." "shaft" was rebooted in 2000 with samuel l. jackson as the lead. no word yet who will play the private eye john shaft in this latest version. >> that's a big role for somebody. somebody's going to want it. i don't know who could. >> you'd be good. >> i don't know if i could pull off the afro. >> bet get you the afro wig, you'd be fine.

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well, after a lifetime of being closed off, cuba once again open for business. with it, a real estate boom. >> if you think americans are creative with the way we're selling property, the cubans taking it to a whole new level. we're up "up all nightline" with abc's nick watt. >> reporter: here in lala land where i live, realtors are actually spending up to $100,000 producing movies to sell mansions. oh, how capitalism has evolved. ♪ meanwhile, in havana, cuba, where i was recently for my travel channel show watt's word -- >> that deal is not going to happen. head shaking. this is how they do it. >> the whole district, whole havana they come here to sell their houses. they have the sign. you see? they have a sign with pictures

of the house. >> reporter: this actually happens every morning on el paseo del prado in havana since raul castro made it legal again for cubans to buy and sell property. >> this is for sale? >> how much? >> $55,000. >> big marble stairway. this is the style. the house was built in 1930. >> it's a fixer upper. >> yep. >> reporter: how did you learn to do this job? >> watched some films. there's a jennifer lopez film she has a film where she's a realtor. >> rich couple gets divorced. they need four houses instead of two. >> the movie was "parker" and j.lo played an unsuccessful realtor. >> in america you would have your own tv show. >> why? >> because people in america love tv shows about property. >> really? >> yeah, love them. >> i see one big problem. what happens if somebody owned a house before the revolution, the revolution came they were kicked out of their house. somebody buys it now.

>> people were not kicked out. they left. why would they come back after 55 years? >> because they like cuba? >> it is no longer their house. >> reporter: brushed aside by a realtor as she would explain a minor easement issue. wow, she's good. i'm nick watt for "nightli havana, cuba. >> wow. she should get her own show. >> why not? everybody has their own show. >> i'd watch that. >> people love those shows about, what are those? i'm trying to think of some of the names of the shows. >> "love it or list it." >> "million dollar lifting." but american citizens, you can't go buy it just yet. it's not okay for you. >> lift the embargo first and then you can. >> a little detail we want to throw in there. >> don't miss our updates on facebook, wnnfans.com. this is abc's "world news now" informing insomniacs for two decades. wnnfans.com. this is abc's "world news now" informing insomni

making news in america this morning, suspension upheld. tom brady will miss a quarter of the season because of deflate gate. accused of a cover-up and destroying a key piece of evidence that could have proven his guilt. new this morning without warning a large tree comes crashing down landing on a group of children at a camp. the parents watching it all happen. worldwide anger. a dentist admits to hunting down a famous lion. the american now a wanted man. uproar growing on line. his business a target on social media. medical milestone. a team of surgeons changing a young boy's life with a groundbreaking operation giving him two new hands.