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this morning on "world news now," donald trump heading to capitol hill. >> the parent republican nominee set to meet with top leaders of the party despite some not supporting the presidential hopeful, this as the pressure to release his tax returns continues to mount. and breaking news. in the mystery of that missing it malaysian airplane that vanished more than two years ago. debris found is from that plane. hundreds of passengers were on board at the time. their families still waiting for answers. what this new clue tells us. and we have new details in the massive explosion that killed 15 people in texas. why investigators are call it a criminal act with the search for the suspect now under way. and talk about a stadium splurge. the professional caliber athletic complex at one texas high school raising eyebrows th
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where football is practically a religion, is the price tag worth it? at least to the taxpayers footing the bill. you decide on this thursday, may 12th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." good morning, everyone. i'm diane macedo. >> and i'm kendis gibson. i have to say my favorite story of the day so far in this half hour is the octogenarian who's just gave birth to a kid. >> blessings. >> blessings in your 70s. >> miracles perhaps, as well. >> wait 40, 50, 60 years and you might have your first child. >> we'll have more details on that one coming up. >> a live shot of capitol hill right now. it is very quiet right now in d.c., but -- >> i expect it won't last that way for very long. >> it will get heated and interesting. >> because donald trump is heading to capitol hill this morning to come face to face with the republican establishment over the future of their party. >> trump will meet with house speaker paul ryan a
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republican leaders a week after ryan said he wasn't ready to support trump. they're expected to work on unifying the gop splintered by a rough and messy primary battle. ryan saying they simply need to get to know each other. >> meanwhile trump drawing new criticism from mitt romney and hillary clinton for not releasing his taxes. it's your voice, your vote with more on that tax controversy, let's go to abc's tomium moss. >> reporter: donald trump loves to boast about his fortune. >> i'm worth over $10 billion, and i don't say that bragging, folks. i have tremendous cash flow. i'm really rich. i'll show you that in a second. >> reporter: but so far, he's refusing to prove it. and the "associated press" reporting trump says he may not release his tax returns until after the election, adding, quote, there's nothing to learn from them. but just days ago, trump signaled he wanted those returns out before november. >> you don't learn much from tax returns. but i would love to give the tax returns. >> reporter: now, trump could be the first major presidential candidate in 40 year
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to release the information. hillary clinton asking, what's trump hiding? >> my husband and i have released 33 years of tax returns. so, you got to ask yourself, why doesn't he want to release them? yeah, well, we're going to find out. >> reporter: trump has waffled on releasing his returns for months. in february, tweeting this image, "signing a recent tax return. isn't this ridiculous?" that same month, this explanation. >> i will absolutely give my return, but i'm being audited now, for two or three years, so, i can't do it, until the audit is finished, obviously. >> reporter: he's not the first candidate reluctant to disclose their returns. in 2012, david asking mitt romney why he wouldn't reveal his taxes. >> can we clear this up by asking you a simple yes or no question? was there ever any year when you paid lower than the 13.9%? >> i haven't calculated that. i'm happy to go back and look. >> reporter: romney ultimately did release his tax re
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before election day. and he's slamming trump for not doing the same, calling it "disqualifying," adding, "there's only one logical explanation. there is a bombshell in them." we reached out to tax experts and they tell us regardless of the audit, there is no law preventing trump from releasing his tax returns. this is his choice. tom llamas, abc news, new york. meanwhile, ted cruz is seeking another term in the senate after dropping his presidential bid. cruz filed official paperwork to run for re-election in 2018. that move reactivates his senate campaign committee that would collect money for his run. so far he's refused to back donald trump, as well and vowed to keep fighting for jobs, freedom and security. the head of the fbi says he's not familiar with the term that hillary clinton has repeatedly used to describe the investigation into her use of a private e-mail server. when asked about the term security inquiry, fbi director
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quoting here i don't know what that means. he added will was no time line to wrap up the investigation but he said he was committed to making sure it is done well. and speaking of comey, he made some comments about isis which claimed responsibility for a series of deadly bomb blasts in baghdad. the three separate explosions killed at least 93 people and wounded more than 160 others. it was the deadliest day of violence in the iraqi capital so far this year. comey said the fbi is tracking nearly 800 isis related cases across the uts and he claimed fewer americans are traveling to enlist with the group. comey said six to ten americans headed to the region monthly a couple years ago, now that number is down to about one per month. there's breaking news in the search for the missing malaysia airlines jet. authorities say two new mes from debris are almost certainly from the plane. one of those pieces was discovered in south africa, another on an island in the indian ocean. they include a piece of an engine covering and
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panel from the aircraft's cabin. flight 370 vanished in march of 2014 with 239 people on board. we'll have more details on this new find in our next half hour and the hunt for a cause has become the hunt for a suspect after federal investigators revealed that massive fire and explosion at a texas fertilizer plant was intentionally set. that blast three years ago killed 15 people, many of them volunteer firefighters. officials now say after an intense investigation, they have eliminated all reasonable accidental and natural causes concluding this was criminal. the atf is offering a $50,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest. the man who went on a stabbing spree inside a massachusetts mall may have been mentally ill. he was discharged from a mental hospital the day before the attack, but out of the tragedy are several stories of heroism. district attorney says a macy's employee tried to stop arthur derosa from attacking people in the store and after he crashed his car tou
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derosa then went to a restaurant in the mall where he stab aid waitress. patron george heath, a teacher tried to get the knife away and died in the effort. finally an off-duty officer shot and killed derosa after he refused to drop the knife. a judge rule aid man claiming responsibility for a deadly shooting rampage at a colorado planned parenthood clinic sun fit to stand trial. robert deer is heading to a psychiatric hospital for treatment. three were killed and nine others injured in the november attack. deer said he is a warrior for the babies. >> massachusetts state police say they're looking into whether the level of force used during an arrest was appropriate. before the arrest, a 50-year-old man in a pickup truck led authorities on a high speed chase from massachusetts to new hampshire. the suspect was wanted on multiple active warrants and at some points he hit 90 miles an hour. but when the chase ended, he fell to his neepz at that point, police delivered several violent blows before
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>> three women arrested after allegedly trying to smuggle 70 pounds of opium into chicago's o'hare airport. the women all in their 50s were heading to minnesota from japan. police say they found 470 packets of opium concealed in bags of tea leaves and packed inside their luggage. the drugs are worth more than $3 million. madonna will pay tribute to prince at the billboard music awards. the ceremony will be broadcast on abc on may 22nd. the investigation into prince's death continues to focus on his doctor. here's abc's eva pilgrim. >> reporter: new questions about prince's visits with a minnesota doctor, as investigators conduct fresh searches at the singer's estate. law enforcement is looking into whether prince died of a drug overdose. a search warrant reveals dr. michael schulenberg arrived at prince's home the morning he was found dead, telling police he was bringing medical test results to prince. the doctor, seen here talking about health care in this youtube video, told police he saw the singer on april 7th and on april 20th, the day before
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his death, saying he wrote him a prescription to be filled at a walgreens. prince spotted at the walgreens that same day in this tmz photo. authorities have searched both the drug store and the doctor's health network, taking "any and all medical records for prince rogers nelson." >> there's going to be a microscope on this doctor now, in terms of what did he prescribe, why did he prescribe it, and what were the circumstances surrounding it? >> reporter: schulenberg no longer works at the clinic and tonight there is no answer at his home. we did reach out to dr. schulenberg and his attorney and they have no comment. eva pilgrim, chanhassen, minnesota. >> the international olympic committee says it has no plans to relocate or postpone the rio games because of fierce over the zika virus. that follows a warning from a canadian public health expert who said the unflux of visitors to brazil will result in the avoidable birth of malformed babies. brazil is by far the country most impacted by the virus
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children. researchers say the active ingredient in tylenol does more than reduce your pain. a study from ohio state university says in addition to helping with pain that active ingredient acetaminophen dekreesz the taker's empathy for the physical and social aches that other people feel. the same team of researchers is beginning work on whether ibuprofen has a similar effect how we view others. >> let's see how we feel about this guy. a two-time lottery winner from long island, new york. >> he is 48-year-old bruce madge is stroh. he won a million on a scratch off card five years ago and last year he won $1,000 a week for life. >> i turned to my fiancee and said we just won. she said yeah, right. no, i just hit life. >> the winning ticket is in both of their names of madge jis tro and his 17-year-old son. so the youngster will receive more than $50,000 a year even after his dad
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>> yeah, that's a good deal indeed. for now he says he's just going to enjoy life. >> yeah. a lot easier to do after you win the lotto twice. >> the odds of winning a million bucks more than one in 7 million. the odds of winning that scratchoff more than 1 in 2 million. >> i think maybe we need to have him in the studio, call him for an interview. see if some of that luck rubs off on us a little bit into if i'm his fiancee i would get a ring stat. >> coming up later in the mix," meet the oldest first time parents ever. >> but first, it's being called sextortion where hackers find images of their victims and blackmail them and one college warning all of its students to protect themselves. and if you think you can do more situps than this girl, you're probably wrong. find out the incredible number she pulled offsetting a new record. >> also check out our behind the scenes pics on
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you are looking at a huge guyser on a virginia college campus after a valve broke during construction. this happened at old dominion university. the problem was fixed within a couple of haurnz no one was hurt. but quite a video will. >> yeah, it
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the lack of job opportunities for female directors in hollywood is now being investigated. two federal agencies are handling the investigation. that's according to the aclu which also requested the probe. it follows a report that women comprise just 9% of all directors for the top 250 films last year. did i verse ity is a hot button issue in hollywood these days. this year's acting nominations for the oscars came under fire for being all white. federal officials issuing a new warning about a growing online and threat known as sextortion. >> when offenders find way to get sexual images of victims and blackmail them. two students found themselves targeted. linsey davis has the story. >> reporter: the alert was urgent. an e-mail blast warning all george mason university students of threats of sextortion on campus. >> there were not one or two cases was disturbing. >> reporter: police at the virginia school say unknown suspects gained t
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students over the internet enticing them to broadcast sexual acts over web cams. once they did, the suspects recorded those videos and blackmailed the students threatening to post them on internet if they didn't pay $5,000. >> i think everyone puts their lives on the internet. i feel like we should back away from that. >> reporter: it's something the department of justice says is becoming all too common calling it a significant and growing global threat. especially when it comes to children. saying in a new report that many victims drop out of school, have declining grades and in some cases engage in activities to harm themselves like cutting or even attempting suicide. sext torsion is something cassidy wolf crowned miss teen usa in 2013 knows all too well. >> congratulations. >> reporter: at just 18 years old she says she unknowingly linked on a link that gave her hacker a former classmate access to fer camera and webcam
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threatening to make the photos public. >> they watched me for a year. they had videos of me changing getting ready for school. >> reporter: her hacker was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in federal prison. now she's hoping to use her voice to help others keep themselves safe. >> i became aware how important it is to be safe online to protect your social media accounts, preb your e-mails because if someone were to get hold of any of that, they could basically control your life. >> reporter: linsey davis, abc news, new york. it's such a scary issue. for a lot of people when they hear someone got enticed into sending a nude photo, you want to blame the victim and saying what are you thinking. these can be so much more complicated. these predators are mimicking someone's boyfriend or husband. they hack into the person's e-mail account and you think you're sending that photo to someone you know and trust and you're sending it to a complete stranger. >> it is absolutely frightening.
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not individuals doing these sextortions. >> hopefully they get to the bottom of it with a crackdown now. >> coming up in our next half hour, kicking off the hyper loop wars. could the future of high speed transportation involve shooting people through giant tubes at 750 miles per hour. >> what engineers are now saying after a test run. >> kind of looks like splash mountain. >> a little bit. >> first the skyrocketing costs of those friday night lights. why residents of one city in texas say a stadium for high school football is completely out of bounds. you're watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now"
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friday night lights have been, of course, a teenage rite of passage for generations of americans mostly texans but they're bookkeeping increasingly expensive. >> the race to build bigger and bigger high school football stadiums has left
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one city in texas with a bill for $63 million. here's abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: in the texas of tv's "friday night lights," where high school football is big -- >> clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose. >> can't lose! >> reporter: stadiums are getting even bigger. the town of mckinney, texas, just voted to build this giant 12,000-seat stadium. the price tag, colossal. nearly $63 million. the decision, not without controversy. >> please vote no. >> reporter: critics say taxpayers should not be pumping this much money into high school football. >> we've got a perfectly fine stadium. >> reporter: but the school district is hinting at what you might call texas stadium inflation. pointing to behemoths like the ones in cady and allen, texas. both priced at about $60 million. the school district tells us it will be a multipurpose facility and besides, they say they want their kids to get the
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get at the other schools. matt gutman, abc news, los angeles. >> the mix is next. we're in the middle of potty-training. which means that most nights, this is the potty. these robot sheets, they needed more than detergent could handle. they needed a rescue. otherwise, we might have had to say bye-bye to our favorite robots ya. so we added tide rescue to the wash. it cleans super deep down where detergent just doesn't. daddy, i've got to go potty! progress! go, go, go! eww stinky. introducing tide rescue. eliminates tough odors at the source. find it in the stain remover aisle. unless you have allergies. flonase is the first and only nasal spray approved to relieve both itchy, watery eyes and congestion. no other nasal allergy spray can say that.
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okay. so kicking off the mix," you remember just last which can there was all this controversy about janet jackson becoming a mom at possibly 50. >> right, was that too old. a lot of speculation. >> so then we introduced you to this couple from india. among the oldest to give birth. this woman her age is estimated between 70 and 72 years old. it's not necessarily clear. she doesn't have a birth certificate. but she's now one of the oldest to give birth. she gave birth to a bouncing baby boy in april. the dad is 79 years old. they've been married 46 plus years and trying for all that time. finally after two years of ivf treatments she gave birth for the first time. >> look at that. >> you
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>> just imagine the gray hairs during his teenage years. >> they say staying busy keeps you young. >> they'll be busy. >> maybe they'll make new records, as well. we'll see. well, we have a new record, as well. it's not every day that the pta calls a young girl a beast on their facebook page. in this case, it was meant in a good way. this was in kansas city. because kiley bass just 10 years old did 2,110 push-ups in one sitting breaking the national record for project fit america. the goal of the organization is to promote fitness at elementary and middle schools across the country. so kyle little decided you know what? i'm going to show you what her mother says are her abs of steel. >> jack, have you done 2,000 situps in your entire lifetime? >> i don't know how long it takes to do 2,000. >> are you asking me? >> yeah. >> no. probably no
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watching her do those situps. >> yeah, so am i. >> impressive on her part. it's always a bummer when you get a little fender-bender or somebody scratches your car. this guy took it okay. so this was a scratch that he walked out to. then he saw this note from the guy that hit him or the person that hit him. i don yo, i hit your car. i'm leaving this note because someone's watching. they're still looking. okay, i'm good. my bad. peace out. he said he's not even mad about the scratches. hands down the funniest notes. >> thinks it was a hit and run, what a nice gesture, this guy left a note after all. he's just doing it pretending to be a good samaritan >> he said he doesn't even care? good for him. so if you find yourself fishing in maple lake in british columbia beware of the resident thief. check out the eagle.
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this morning on "world news now," breaking news. in the mysterious disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370. after nearly two years, we now have new clues that may help find the plane. we're live with the latest. and in politics, donald trump and his taxes are the new hot topic. hillary clinton is pushing for him to release his returns this as trump heads to capitol hill in hopes of winning support from republican leaders there. >> and new this half hour, george zimmerman managing to stir up fresh controversy. >> the man acquitted of murder charges in the death of trayvon martin is offering to sell the gun he says he shot the teen with to the highest bidder. and fashion parade on the french riviera. hollywood's "a" listers kick off

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