this morning on "world news now," a dramatic night on capitol hill. >> democrats in the house are holding a sit-in demanding action on gun control in the wake of the orlando nightclub attack. their marathon session has already led to shouting matches with republicans. the demonstrations are even spilling outside. we'll have the latest just ahead. happening now, severe storms across the midwest, tornados on the ground in illinois. lightning and heavy rain forcing soccer fans in chicago to take shelter. at soldier field as the west still grapples with wildfires and the dry conditions fueling the flames. there are new developments from antarctic in the rescue of stranded workers in need of medical condition. we'll tell you the status of the mission and the obstacles facing the kret right now.

meet the famous bear known for walking almost exclusively on head behind legs. this is not some dude dressed in a costume. >> it looks like it. >> it does. is there a reason for his two-legged stride? we'll explain on this thursday, this is june 23rd. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." it's real big news. >> i like his little shuf. >> is it big foot? >> oh. >> you know? finally discovered. >> maybe that's what everybody's been seeing when they think they see big foot. >> it's actually a bear. >> petals the bear. >> walking on two. we'll get to that exclusive and breaking news story later on. >> we will. there is a breaking news story going on right now on capitol hill. it's kind of a chaotic scene down there. house democrats are staging a sit-in demanding votes on gun control. >> so the sit-in the started before noon yesterday and it was led by civil rights

congress man june lewis. democrats brought blankets and pillows overnight to the house floor. some senators joining this em in solidarity and they turned to facebook and periscope to send out life images when republicans shut down c-span's cameras. >> lawmakers waived pieces of papers with the names of victims of gun silence. they sang we shall overcome and chantded no bill, no break and shouted down paul ryan when he called a vote on two bills not related to gun control. >> where is the heart of this body? where is our soul? where is our moral leadership? where is our courage? >> and ryan dismissed the sit-in as a publicity stunt as democrats dig in, gun control supporters are gathering outside. the crowd also saying we shall overcome led my nancy pelosi. >> our other top story this morning, the extreme weather taking aim at the midwest right now. reports of at least 159 tornadoes overnight i

we're hearing of homes and buildings damaged in lasalle county. there are power outages, flash flooding, hundreds of canceled flights throughout the area, as well. >> this is a scene at chicago's soldier field during halftime of the copa america match between chile and colombia. fans were told to run for cover because of the dangerous weather moving in. thunder and lightning roared overhead while rain swamped the stands delay ath match nearly two hours. abc's alex perez has more where the extreme weather is heading. >> reporter: a long night of severe storms. for tens of millions in the mid wrest this, after a scary 24 hours in the east. winds gusting above 80 miles an hour in south jersey, ripping off roofs and flipping over planes. fore.een anything like this >> reporter: in maryland, a tornado tearing an almost 13-mile path across howard county. >> you're going to see a very clear lin

through these yards. >> reporter: trees crashing through homes and crushing cars. james franco mccarroll's wife lucky to be alive. >> my wife was in the kitchen. if the tree, that tree they're cutting had hit the kitchen, it would have killed her. >> reporter: in the west, those twin fires blazing near los angeles. kayna whitworth right there. >> reporter: right now, you can see firefighters getting ready to lay retardant along the ridge right there. with winds expected to pick up, nobody is out of the woods just yet. >> reporter: in all at least 23 fires now scorching nine states. alex perez, abc news, chicago. and we have a new perspective on the wildfire scorching southern california. so photographer shawn garrison was with a fire crew when the wind suddenly shifted forcing the flames dangerously close to their location. they were trapped seeking safety till the flames shifted again and they were able to get away. firefighters he

hundreds of people who were evacuated are now back at home. you can see how quickly the situation is changing. > very dangerous. they need to be careful out there. a flight makes an emergency landing while being escorted by two f-16s. the delta air lines flight to los angeles was diverted to tucson, arizona, after a passenger allegedly threatened the flight crew. a passenger recorded the man being removed from the plane by the authorities. now police say there was no threat to public safety. and polls are now open in britain whether to withdraw from the eu. opinion polls show the vote too close to call with a record number of citizens registering to vote in the referendum. opponents of the exit called the brexit say it would be a mistake to leave the largest single market in the world. those calling for withdrawal say the eu is dysfunctional. britain is a major portal for u.s. trade in europe and the vote is likely to have a big effect on financial markets. >> to presidential politics and donald trump

blistering attack on hillary clinton. he delivered a fairly subdued but scathing speech using a teleprompter. he bashed clinton over her record and her character and accuses her of lies as well as corruption. more now from abc's tom llamas. >> she's a world class liar. >> reporter: donald trump, back in the ring, delivering a scathing speech against hillary clinton. >> her decisions spread death, destruction and terrorism everywhere she touched. >> reporter: trump, trying to make the case clinton cares more about dollars than diplomacy. >> she ran the state department like her own personal hedge fund. >> reporter: in his address, the presumptive nominee mixed fact with fiction. on benghazi. >> our late ambassador, chris stevens, he was left helpless to die as hillary clinton soundly slept this her bed. >> reporter: our fact check shows this claim is false. the defense department's own timeline shows the attack started at 3:42 p.m. eastern, not in the middle of the night. clin

and a new line of attack on bosnia. >> her phony landing in bosnia, where she said she was under attack and the attack turned out to be young girls handing her flowers, a total and self-serving lie. >> reporter: our fact check? true. clinton later apologizing for the description. >> so, i made a mistake. that happens. it proves i'm human. >> reporter: trump noticeably held some of his fire when it came to bill clinton. trump telling david muir last he would prefer it be about hillary's record, not about personal attacks. >> what will be off-limits for you? >> i would much rather, david, have it be policy and issues, if we can do that, i'd be very happy and i think we do very well on that basis. >> though they have been at odds recently, there is something that the republican establishment and donald trump agree on, it's foreign policy and that is one of hillary clinton's biggest weaknesses. tom llamas, abc news, new york. as you can imagine, hillary clinton wasted no time firing back calling

outlandish lies. she told supporters in north carolina her speempb obtuse must have gotten under his skin and defended the clinton foundation saying it helps poor people around the world while she says trump uses the poor to make his suits and ties. she says he lacks substance. >> he has no real strategy for creating jobs, just a string of empty promises. and maybe we shouldn't expect better from someone who's most famous words are "you're fired." >> clinton went on to say she actually has a job program and said it takes experience to get results, not just a flashy slogan. clinton's former i.t. aide is refusing to answer questions over her private e-mail server. bryan pagliano set up the server for clinton but invoked the fifth amendment 125 consecutive times during a deposition yesterday. the conservative advocacy group is suing the state department

new e-mails reveal the state department staffers disabled security features on the server which was later breached. breaking overnight, louisiana deputy schaefer is dead after being shot in a new orleans suburb. it happened when david mitchell stopped a man for questioning investigators. say the suspect grabbed deputy michele's gun, the 19-year-old allegedly shot the officer three times in the back. police gave chase and arrested him in a nearby backyard. rapper troy av is pleating not guilty to attempted murder as well as other charges. investigatesers say this video shows him firing a gun during a deadly brawl at a t.i. concert last month. but rowling collins was also wounded by another shooter. his attorney says the wrap rapper is a victim, no the a criminal. the largest health care fraud take-down ever. the justice department has arrested more than 300 people

million. that nationwide sweep exposed alleged kickbacks embezzlement, false claims and unnecessary prescrippss. more than two dozen doctors are among those charged. a texas woman says that she now has a british accent after waking up from jaw surgery. >> lisa an appears to be a rare victim of foreign accent syndrome. only about 100 people have been diagnosed with the syndrome in the world over the last century. her neurologist performed a number of tests trying to determine what caused the condition but it's still a mystery. her biggest concern remains how people will respond to her. >> i didn't know the reaction i was going to get from people. so i didn't know are they going to judge me, are they going to think i'm lig. are they going to even understand how i'm speaking. > i thought she was joking with me but then she showed me the doctor had told her she was dg with the syndrome and she certainlied. then i was like oh, lord. >> oh, lord. >>

>> she had that surgery six months ago to correct an overbite. apparently she is still speaking with that south carolina september. >> it almost sounds like a combined accent. >> like a texas accent. >> meets texas. >> didn't madonna have a similar thing after she moved over there for like a week? she gain add accent. >> i think she did it on purpose and had somebody to teach her how to speak with a british accent. i'm not sure it worked out well for her. maybe she should consider jaw surgery. all right. we hope this woman either it goes well for her speaking with a cookny acsent or she figures out what happened there. coming up later in the mix," we'll go the newest official dog breed. >> first the latest from the south pole. the rescuers have made it to the trapped work persons we'll have the latest on hair mission to get them safely. >> the return of the walking bear. yes, that's right. that is a bear walking. just like a human. not a man in a bear suit

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disturbing new findings from auto safety testing. front seat passengers in some small suvs are not as well protected as the drivers in some types of crashes when impact is

the tests show what happens when a vehicle runs off the road and hits a tree or utility pole. only the 2016 hyundai tucson received a good rating on the passenger side. and we turn now to a very different type of vehicle. braving the roughest conditions on earth. >> a small plane has reached the south pole on a dangerous medical rescue mission that has been attempted only three times over the past 60 years. adrienne bankert joins with us the latest on that. good morning. >> reporter: diane and kendis, it's a trip some officials say is more difficult to navigate than a trip to the international space station. those patients on their way to south america for treatment. a high risk medical mission goes exactly as planned for acy on board this rescue plane wlrg the winter. 24-hour darkness and temperatures averaging minus 70 degrees. they successfully arrive along the coast of antarctica as a british

this video from the national science foundation capturing the touchdown after making it to the south pole and back to pick up two patients in desperate need of medical attention. >> it's about the most dangerous kind of flying you can do in the world. it was something that required an extraordinary level of skill and courage and it looked routine but it certainly was anything but. >> reporter: moonlight helping the crew navigate the harrowing flights. a seconds plane flying out the sick. no doubt thankful for coming out alive. >> it is exciting to be there to start with, but then of course, you know, you put in the variable of darkness and the extreme temperatures, it makes it a bit more adventuresome. >> reporter: and it was quite an adventure. we still know very little about the patients or their conditions. but we do know that the worst of this rare journey is over. diane and kendis. >> quite some tense moments there. >> yeah. there were so many obstacles in play they had a second plane on

wrong with the first group. it goes show show how dangerous this mission was. >> i was looking at how cold it was in that area. minus 79 degrees. >> is that all? negative 79. apparently the south pole only gets about 3 inches of snow a year. >> very interesting. coming up in our next half hour, the danger we rarely hear about on airplanes. >> two cases of alleged sexual assault have developed in just one week. what every parent needs to know before sending their children on a flight by themselves. but first, he's back. that bear in new jersey that captivated thousands of people online two somers ago walking on his hind legs. he's hungry. or something. >> announcer: "world new

>> i guess that's what we went with. >> about walking. > there is no bear songs. it might not be quite 500 miles but is he walking again on his behind legs. >> that's right. we're talking about a mystery black bear in new jersey that caused an online viral sensation two years ago. now it appears he's back. here's abc's ron claiborne. >> reporter: people in oak ridge, new jersey, say, there's no doubt about it. that's the same bear, all right. the same one they first spotted nearly two years ago. a black bear, walking on its hind legs with the agility and ease of any human. >> i don't see it. >> reporter: now, nicknamed pedals, he was first seen and captured on video back in august 2014. >> there it is. there it is. >> does she know that's a bear? >> you know that's a bear, right? >> i know! >> more than likely it was a car accident. bears can walk on their hind legs very well. and it's just, they don't choose to do so. >> reporter: at one point in the

on all fours, but then he's right back up again and on the move. there had been concerns that pedals could not survive in the wild. state and wildlife officials said if it is the same bear, he's still going strong and is testimony to his indomtable will. so, they will let keep him roaming. or, in this case, walking. ron claiborne, abc news, new york. >> now, that last video that one, you see at one point, whoever's filming sort of loses sigh of the bear because he goes behind the house. so the person filming shoots around the other side. as you peaks out this way, the bear turns around and noticed him. the bear kind of looks at him and then just keeps walking. > kind of weird. i promise to never dress up as a bear again like yesterday. but especially after some of the committees on twitter, eric says dignified also this is how to make me laugh at this time of the morning. >> john hall writes when you wake up a

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it is time for "the mix" now and there is something new in the air. the american kennel club has announced there is the newest breed of dog that's out there. >> oh. >> yeah. so we introduce you to the pumie. >> they're cute. >> it is from hungary and has been used for herding cattle, sheep and swine for centuries. so this dog has been around for a lot of years, but it just became eligible to be named as a breed by the american kennel association after there were at least 300 of them in the u.s. >> apparently for very active folks. >> they're really cute. >> they are cute. hopefully they don't smell like last year's breed that

>> those don't look like they smell. >> they're cute. there's this is water bottle flipping craze going on. it started with a talent show. this guy comes out and that's it. >> genius. >> he does that after much suspense. the crowd goes wild. so did other people. it became a viral sensation. we see that guy manages to land the bottle on the cap. then we saw another attempt. check this one out. four bottles at one time. he lands them all. and now someone is maybe using it to get some job skills. check this out. ♪ >> so the video shows him walking into a boardroom for a job interview. everyone at the table you know is asking him the typical job interview questions and they ask him so, you know, what talents and skills do you

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>> exactly.

this morning on "world news now," chaos in congress. members of the house yelling at each other all through the night as democrats is taken a sit-in refusing to leave. the unprecedented event continuing to play out. we're live from capitol hill with the very latest. >> storms are hitting the midwest right now bringing more than a dozen tornados and lightning strikes and that system is now heading east. we'll have the accuweather forecast just ahead. new this half hour, a lesson in cybersecurity from an unlikely source. >> facebook's mark zuckerberg is sparking a big debate over whether it's revealing his own computer has a rather analogue alteration. and date night for will and kate. when you're britain's royal couple, it's not exactly your usual neighborhood block party. what we're finding out this morning about the one thing kate admits she's not able to do. it's thursday, june 23rd.