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this morning on "world news now," the race for the democratic nomination continues. >> overnight, bernie sanders energized by his big win in the west refusing to give up. as hillary clinton hopes she can collect more delegates from the kentucky primary but sanders promising to fight on till the convention. and many communities across the south are feeling rained out this morning after more downpours caused flash floods closing roads and threatening drivers. plus, heavy winds and funnel clouds destroying property. this frightening scene in new york city as a truck fire ignites underneath railroad tracks. some trains continued passing through the fire and smoke and even as the rails started to melt. thousands of commuters trapped for hours. imagine spend agentire day doing pullups.
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teen. he's taking it like a champ literally. find out how many it took for him to become the new world record holder on this wednesday, may 18th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." we do say good morning to everybody. i'm kendis gibson. >> i am diane macedo. >> we begin with another victory for bernie sanders but still not enough to break hillary clinton's stride. >> sanders won the primary in oregon where more than 60 delegates were up for grabs. the race in kentucky is too close to call this morning. but clinton is declaring victory with a razor thin lead of less than 1%. they'll each end up with about half of kentucky's 55 delegates. overnight sanders telling supporters in california he's staying in the race until the last ballot. it's your voice, your vote. abc's kenneth moton following developments this morning. >> reporter: the race for kentucky too close to call between hillary clinton and bernie sanders. >> do you know it's time people
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stopped listening to republican propaganda. >> reporter: hillary clinton is trying to get within striking distance of clinching the democratic nomination. bernie sanders is hoping to slow her down. >> let me be clear as i can be. i agree with you. we are till the last -- >> reporter: donald trump is cruising unopposed toward his party's nomination. the road is still bumpy for the republican who is fighting off allegations of sexism. >> you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her whatever. >> reporter: a pro clinton super pac using trump's own ads. and then there's that "new york times" article accusing trump of degrading women like rowanne brewer lane who was quoted in the piece "she said she was maligned by the times. >> he's very much a gentleman and he's polite, thoughtful. >> reporter: the paper defended the story and
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executive now trump supporter barbara res on cnn. >> we always had comments on people's appearances primarily weight, male and female. >> reporter: the claire of the convention this summer house speaker paul ryan dodged questions on trump's history with women. >> i'm not going to get into the day to day up and down of this campaign just so you know. >> reporter: the attention turns to june 7th. six states including california will vote and the front-runners trump and clinton are expected to reach the magic delegate numbers to clij their party's nominations. diane and kendis. >> our thanks to kenneth there. hillary clinton made another pitch to win over sanders voters once the primary season is over, she tweeted we're always stronger united. >> taking a closer look at the delegate count, clinton is less than 100 delegates sheaf clinching the nomination. abc's political director rick klein joins us via skype with more. >> reporter: diane and kendis, hillary clinton simply cannot put bernie sanders away. it is confounding to so many
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sanders continues to hang with hillary clinton despite the fact she's essentially locked up the nomination. he continues to draw big crowds and sometimes raucous crowds as happened over over the weekend in nevada. it is clear all of the angst and anxiety inside of the party is not going away. it could be the democratic convention philadelphia is more of a scene than the republican convention cleveland. bernie sanders now in a position to close as strong as he started and it is a mystery to the clinton folks about what they can do. simply put, they are not able to channel the energy that is headed bernie sanders way and not able to end this race des the pite that the hillary clinton is all but certain to be the nominee. diane and kendis. >> he said he would stay till the finish. the obama administration is about to make more than 4 million workers a million more workers eligible for overtime. the labor department today
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issue new rules that more than double the cutoff for the pay to more than $47,000 a year. bob that threshold they can be designated as managers and not be paid extra. some companies may reduce workers' hours in order to avoid paying overtime. the new rules take effect december 1st. >> the 9/11 victims can sue the government of saudi arabia for the role they may have played in the terror attacks. the bill sends a message that the u.s. will fight terrorism with every tool available. president obama is opposed to the bill saying he has derns could expose americans overseas to legal ricks. >> a major milestone for the nation's military. eric fanning the highest ranking openly gay official at the pentagon. the vote had been delayed for eight months because after unrelated disagreement between kansas senator pat roberts and the white house over the clothes
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of guantanamo bay. gay rights advocates are praising a proposal by mexico's president to legalize same-sex marriage. the proposal would require an amendment to the mexican constitution. top catholic leaders criticized the president's call and urged lawmakers to listen to their conscience and vote against. the head of the tsa says 58 new security officers and for more bomb-sniffing dog teams are being sent 0 chicago's o'hare airport to address long delays at security checkpoints. he's also apologizing for the mess at the airport earlier this week. alex perez got a firsthand look at the long lines. >> reporter: the flyers are furious and fed up. >> are you [ bleep ] kidding me, tsa? what the [ bleep ]? >> reporter: with epic lines and thousands of missed flights, there are calls tonight for the tsa head to resign, if he doesn't shorten lines by memorial day, in about two weeks. >> there's got to be a better way. >> reporter: it's so bad, passengers in chicago have had to sleep on those cots at times. >> not the greatest. >> reporter: and news that 100 part-time screeners here w
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time work by this weekend, with 250 more screeners being sent in the coming months. so, check it out. just arriving here at o'hare and the lines are already growing. experts say, to beat the lines, avoid flying early morning and in the evening. the crunch is being felt around the country, all due to tighter security since the brussels attacks, with fewer security officers screening a surge in passengers. since 2013, the number of tsa officers has fallen by 5,000 agents. but passenger volume has spiked over 8%, 68 million more u.s. flyers in the air. and more and more airports now considering joining chicago and denver, asking passengers to show up to the airport three hours ahead of time for domestic flights. alex perez, abc news, chicago. now to the looming showdown on capitol hill over the funding to battle zika. the senate has voted decisively in favor of a bipartisan $1.1 billion measure to fight the virus. but the house is expected to approve today a
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$622 million bill. the white house issued veto threat on the house measure saying it is woefully inadequate. >> now it's florida's turn for flooding and drenching rains. many streets and highways on the central atlantic coast are underwater and closed this morning. the town of vero beach received nearly 10 inches of rain yesterday making it the wettest day on record. a tornado also touched down on interstate 95. and there is daniel from strong winds, many schools in the are closed today. let's look at the radar. you can see the storm system right now moving out of texas and into the southeast. texas will still see thunderstorms but the heaviest rainfall will be further east especially in florida. >> tens it of thousands of new york city comirts were strand last night after a fire broke out below the metro-north railroad tracks. the fire stopped all trains in and out of grand central terminal and the heat from it was so intense it bent some of the supports for the tracks. crews are now trying to mak
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known if there will be service for this morning's rush hour. major league baseball's appeals is under way now that suspensions have been handed out following sunday's base brawl. second baseman rougned odor faces eight games on the sidelines and a $5,000 fine for his punch to jose bautista. odor says he doesn't regret it. bautista was suspended one game they are both appealing. 14 players and managers and coaches were discipline by that game. and we're waiting to hear about possible fines and suspensions following maybe a similar scene in south africa's parliament. the lawmakers wearing red were arguing the south african president had violated the constitution by improperly using public money. >> when they delayed the session for several minutes, security guards were called in to clear them out. oh, and then it got ugly. that didn't go over too well for the lawmakers who fought to stay in their
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language, he wasn't exactly sure what to do at that point. just kind of arms at his side for a little while. eventually, they were escorted out the door and then they resumed. things move along. business as usual. >> but the most hilarious scene is the guy with the sign language like hmm. >> he makes this one sign. i don't know if it means featuring. he just sort of makes this one sign and kind of puts his hands down like i don't know what you want me to say about this. the sign language man was speechless. >> like it's a hot mess. that's all i can say in sign language at this point. coming up, arguably the greatest nothing but net ever that you should decide and see. >> first, the reason behind this strange scene. police bull dozers crushing rows and rows of motorcycles. >> fighting gang violence. abc news taking you inside the overcrowd prisons housing some
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they seized them idiots screw balls and morons. >> they're quite subtle here in new york city. so turning now to the crime wave south of border to what's being called the murder capital of the world. >> the government of el salvador is waging an all-out war on brutally deadly gangs exporting their violence to the u.s. dan harris brings us this abc news exclusive report. >> reporter: it's the middle of the night in the murder capital of the world. we're in el salvador, on patrol with armed to the teeth cops who take us to this rundown police station, where they're holding allegedly vicious combatants in this country's all-out gang war. as we approach the cells, the low roar abruptly extinguished. how many people are they holding in here? 169 people in here? i'm not sure you can get a sense of how small this is, but this is tiny. they're just piled on top of
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each other. they're only supposed to be in here for 72 hours. how long have you been in? >> one year. >> reporter: one year? and now these el salvadoran gangs are exporting death directly into america. active in 46 states, because of a revolving door of illegal immigration and deportation. here, the violence doesn't rest even for those in mourning. this grieving mother is holding a wake for her 17-year-old son, alexis, murdered by gangs just -- and right in the middle of the service, [ gunshots ] gunfire. a horrifying scene. in fact, the madness in el salvador has provoked a massive influx of illegal immigrants coming over the u.s. border many of them unaccompanied minors and targeted by the very same gangs once they
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u.s. dan harris, abc news, new york. >> and the extent of the violence once here in the u.s. is absolutely horrible. buff largely it involves a lot of prostitution as well as drugs and human trafficking. > these gangs have active members in 46 states in the u.s. already. >> amazing. > good stuff, dan. thank you. coming up in our next half hour, a family in denver terrorized. two middle school teachers, their children asleep attack bid three money burst through the door. as it turns out, it was all just a caves mistaken identify? first a warning for summer. your sunscreen may not be working as well as you think. the new report and some backlash from sunscreenmakers. you're watching "world news now." >> announcer:
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some sunscreen makers firing back at a trusted consumer magazine. here's abc's brandi hitt. >> reporter: a new warning that your sunscreen may not be providing as much protection as you think. "consumer reports" tested 65 lotions, sprays and sticks marked with spf 30 or higher and claims 43% tested below the advertised spf level. >> we found that two sunscreens with kids in their name claimed an spf of 50 plus and in our tests, tested at an aspf of 8. those were cvs kids sun lotion spv 50 plus and banana boat tear free sting free kids sunscreen lotion. >> reporter: both reject consumer reports'" testing it methods. cvs says its own fda approved testing say no indication our product has
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t's got to be clean, it's got to be tide. okay. so kicking off the mix" what, did you do in high school? check out this kid. he's 17 years old, and he's just recently broken what they believe is a world record for the number of pullups all in 24 hours. guess how many pullups did he do in a 24-hour period? >> 200. >> no, that's how many we can do in 24 years. he did 7,000 pullups in a 24-hour period. this is and dishapiro. he's a high schoolner northern virginia. and in six hours, did he 3500. it is unofficially officially the record. his family recorded the whole thing. he was inspired by his dad who has been battling cancer for a little way. he also raised money for him but also wants to g
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ninja warrior. >> he should hang out with that little girl that did the 2,000 situps. a lot of i78 pressive people coming out this week making me feel like a total slacker >> you can do 7 in 24 hours. >> take off the two zeros. not going to happen. i have more impressive things to show you. remember the old nothing but net commercials with larry bird and michael jordan? the last one ended with them stand ong top of a sky scraper to see who would miss a basket. these guys from dude perfect just sort of made that you a reality. they set out to break all these different world records and this one is the tallest basket ever made. >> no. >> oh. wow. >> and watch it. 533 feet as you can see, he goes absolutely bananas. that was just the last of i don't know, at least ten
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>> there's a reason for they're called dude perfect you would say. speaking of competition, there's a little bit of a competition that is taking place here in new york city with advertising firms in lower manhattan. they started this post-it war on their windows. it started out with one advertising company posting hi. and then shortly after, it was on like donkey kong. look at that. all post-its there. then the others tried to up the ante and they've tried to outpost each other. >> are they now hiring special post-it artists to do this? don't they have jobs? >> you would think at this point. we tried to get marcus to match -- i can't figure out what he's trying to. >> i see i heart -- marcus, how we doing? >> marcus, what is that? >> i love lucy. >> i love me. >> okay. >> we're not very good -- we're not going to win that
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this morning on "world news now," berni this morning on "world news now," bernie sanders is picking up momentum. hillary clinton is still leading with delegates, but as sanders celebrates winning another state overnight, he says he's even more determined to keep going. and playing nice? donald trump and megyn kelly sitting down to hash out their differences. how he responded to his previous attacks on the reporter as hillary clinton rolls out a new ad hoping to highlight a weakness among female voters. >> new this half hour, an incredible rescue caught on police dashcam. >> the officer responding to the scene of a man trapped under a burning vehicle, enlisting the help of some good samaritans just in time to save his life. >> the abc news exclusive. five-time grammy award winner
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