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this morning, "world news now," the latest case of airline rage. >> the head of several major airlines are scolded on capitol hill. there is new video now of a violent confrontation between passengers. highlighting the need for change. but, is there a plan to make those skies more friendly to fly? we'll have the full story ahead. >> and growing outrage this morning after a texas police department changes its story involving the fatal police shooting of a black teenager. the officer involved has now lost his job. but what's next in this case? >> extreme flooding in several midwest states had deadly results. thousands of residents at risk through the week as water levels rise to record highs. >> chaos -- at kfc. the fast food wars being taken quite literally as the
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their archrival from the bourbon state. what's the beef really over? it is wednesday, may 3. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> what? >> just the image of ronald mcdonald's protesting at a kfc. i don't know what is going on. hilarious. >> exactly. somebody did offer them a pepsi to try to peace and calm everything. they're look no, okay. pepsi is not okay. >> didn't work out. >> not surprised. >> get to that. start with major airlines taking serious heat from congress and being told to start treating passengers better. the warning as a video surfaced showing two men brawling on a plane about to fly from tokyo to los angeles. >> wow. and, top airline executives appearing before a house committee taking a public beating for several recent customer service incidents. all of them promising to do better next time. abc's rebecca jarv
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details. >> another brawl aboard a plane. >> someone help this guy is crazy. >> two passengers duking it out before takeoff on the nippon airways flight from tokyo to lax. the airline says that man in red, pulled off the plane and arrested. >> the biggest issue was the unpredictable nature of the guy. made it dangerous. >> latest cabin clash on tape as u.s. airline executives faced a grilling on capitol hill about their own customer service. >> passengers are frustrated. >> airlines in the hot seat after this infamous video of a doctor dragged off a united plane. >> no customer, no individual should ever be treated the way mr. dao was ever. united ceo promising change. american airlines also apologizing for the way this mother was treated during a dispute over a stroller on their plane. >> we did not handle that situation as it should have been handled. >> members of congress
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fees to delays. >> we're kind of sick of it, consuming an cans. there will come a day when congress won't accept it anymore on behalf of the american people. >> the committee chair warning air lilines to get their act together or face tougher regulations from congress which in his word they're not going to like. rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >> a couple of more from capitol hill. house republicans scrambling to make a change to save latest health care bill. influential moderate announced opposition to the bill crafting amendment with republican leaders. congressman fred upton says a proposal would provide $8 billion over five years to help people with pre-existing conditions, pay their premiums. allowing states to opt out of obamacare protections on pre-existing conditions has been a deal breaker for some republicans. and the house is expected to vet today to approve a trillion dollar spending plan to keep the government running for
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but president trump fired off a tweet calling for -- a good shutdown in september. apparently not happy with the deal that denied him money for his border wall. white house budget director, mike mulvaney said the president was expressing frustration that democrats were claiming victory. >> it is not a gel, okay, not a negotiating tool. to the extent that the president advocated to day. imagine what a good shutdown would be is one that fixes this town. >> hours later the president changes his tone calling the spending plan a clear win for the american people. the white house said he will sign it. >> suburban dallas police department fired an officer and changed its story about a deadly shooti ining incident. jordan edward killed saturday night when officer roy oliver opened fire on a vehicle leaving a house party. originally. police said the vehicle was aggressively backing down a street towards officers. but now they say body cam videos shows the car was
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from police. >> they were simply leaving a party where they believed danger ru was. i can't wrap my mind abuy an officer decide to shoot into the car. >> the police chief says the officer was violated for several violations of policy. his termination can be appealed. the dallas county sheriff's department and opened a criminal investigation. baton rouge, louisiana, preparing for possible protests on expected news two police officers will not face federal charges in the shooting and killing of all righton sterling. could announce early as today. video of sterling's death in 2016 r. sparked protest across the can tree. police sayster long was reaching for a gun during a struggle with officers when he was shot. the officers could face state charges. >> to another high pre file case. involving fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer captured on video. in a stunning reversal. former south carolina police officer pleading guilty to federal
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death of walter scott. abc's steve osunsami on the case. >> reporter: nearly two years, the officer seen in the traffic stop claimed he did nothing wrong. but a stunning reversal. for black americans who worry about traffic stops like these. [ gunfire ] a sense of justice. >> today is -- a good day for justice. i thank god for justice. >> reporter: the officer behind the gun, 35-year-old, mike cam slager admits he wasn't defending himself when heap shot 51-year-old walter scott in the back in 2015. that he acted with specific intent to do something that the law forbids. saying those words in court, that he is guilty, now puts an end to both the federal and state trials against him. today is rare. the garners, the blands, the rice family they didn't get this type of justice that we got to day. >> reporter: in state court, slager explained there was a
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the cell phone individually. i fired until the threat was stopped. >> reporter: at sentencing later this year, prosecutors will ask for hard time. more than 20 years. the scott family would like life. steve osunsami, abc news, charleston. >> a round of heavy rain on the way for missouri as the state brace for even more record flooding. two mr. people confirmed dead, brink the death toll now to five in the state since the weekend. outside st. louis, about 200 homes damaged. by the swollen river. and 1500 are threatened. more than 270 roads remain closed. amtrak suspended all rail service across missouri. >> check out this body-cam video of a police officer saving a little boy from drowning in kansas. the officer spots the 4-year-old next to a pond. the kid falls as the the officer is getting out of his cruiser. see the officer race over and quickly pull the boy out of the pond.
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reunited with the parent actually searching for him at the time. >> move on now. second grade teacher in texas. it was, giving little extra attention we might say because of a series of photographs. so, that's jennifer pope, preparing a lesson plan. while getting ready to deliver her fourth child. >> that is some commitment right there. her husband, gave the plan to pope's substitute teacher who was waiting in the parking lot. less than an hour later, there is their daughter clara. >> well, pope says she is seeing her students doing well. and is like watching her own kids succeed. she calls teaching rewarding and fulfilling and says can't imagine being in any other line of work. clearly. >> clearly. >> have to say. >> committed. >> i love my job. don't think if i am sitting on the table getting ready for labor don't think i'll go through the scripts. >> i can tell you the same thing. when i am in labor, not sending you notes, actually, no.
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at that pin the. >> all right. coming up. hillary clinton explains why she is not going away any time soon. >> hear why clinton says sheep would have won the election. and why she intend to pre mote reap s resistance against president trump's policy. and the raddest rabbit alive has returned. frank is back. by popular demand. so what is he doing? maybe trying to take over one of our jobs? >> maybe. he probably would succeed. shade from the side eye right there. >> been giving us side eye. share your pet photos on facebook, love to see them. wnnfans.com. and twitter@abcwnn. stay tuned for more frank live in studio. >> frank, calm down over there. >> you are watching "world news now." so if you're on medicare or will be soon, you may want more than parts a and b here's why.
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in what brazilian military police describe as gang retaliation for major anti-drug offensive. but the vehicles appear empty. and there were no reports of injuries. police made more than two dozen arrests and recovered 17 automatic rifles. farther north, venezuela is rapidly escalating political crisis spilling into the streets of the capital. demonstrators blocked streets with chunks of concrete. twisted metal and trash to protest socialist president attempt to rewrite the constitution. all of this amid widespread anger over triple digit inflation, and food shortages in that south american country. >> here at home, hillary clinton breaking silence talking about what she believes led to her failed presidential run. >> she said if the election had been on october 27th. in her word, little more than a week before election day she would be president today. >> reporter: hillary clinton
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believes cost her the election. i take absolute personal responsibility. i was the candidate. i was the person who was on the ballot. >> reporter: shouldering some of the blame, but not all of it. >> i was on the way to winning until the combination of jim comey's letter on october 28th, and russian wikileaks, raised doubts in the mind of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off. >> team clinton believes that is the day she lost the race. >> if the election had been on october 27 tt the i would be your president. it wasn't. >> reporter: the news dominate the the front pages. clinton now writing a book about her experience says he paid the price. >> did we make mistakes? of course we did. did i make mistakes? oh, my gosh, yes, you know you will read my confession and my, and my request for absolution. but the reason why i believe we lost were the intervening events in the last ten
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>> clinton attended the inauguration of her formal rival but now is pulling no punches. >> i did win more than 3 million votes than my opponent. so it's like -- really? [ applause ] >> i feel a tweet coming. >> going after president trump for comments like this. >> unbelievably complex subject. nobody knew that health care could be so complicated. >> health care is complicated. as for her own future, after all of those walks in the woods, clinton is now focused on writing. >> you can read all about this excruciating analysis that i am engaged in, right now, when i am not in the woods walking with my dogs. >> is it therapy? >> i wouldn't say it is therapy. i would say -- that it is cathartic. >> she has no plans to stay in the shadows. >> i am now back to being an
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[ applause ] >> reporter: an aide close to hillary clinton tells me she no longer wants to sit on the side lines. while we will see a lot more of her in weeks and months to come as an activist and not a candidate. cecelia vega, abc news. >> an activist not a candidate. yet. >> right. everyone is asking, now that this tone has shifted. this whole, not going to run, is that for real? >> quite possibly might change. might be testing the waters. with that new book expected some time this fall. that might be a launch for, another election. you never know. >> her daughter, her daughter chelsea. >> every time they say i am definitely not running. put them on the list of possible people that are rung. >> daughter chelsea said, no, no, no it is not happening. not happening. how many times do you need to hear no? >> how many candidates have we heard that from before. >> means she is running. >> coming of in
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half-hour, red sox are apologizing after visiting orioles plater was taunted with racial slurs. see the reaction he got. last night. >> but first family torn apart because of their first, thirst for fame. viral video pranks earned them millions of clicks, and hundreds of thousands of dollars. but ended up costing them so much more. you're watching "world news now." life looks great with tampax pearl. you get ultimate protection on your heaviest days and smooth removal for your lightest. tampax pearl and pocket pearl for on the go.
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♪ ♪ well the parents behind the youtube channel, daddy-o-five, lost custody two of of their children. called the videos pranks. others called it owe abuse. an official investigation is under way. >> the videos are hard to watch. even the parents admit it may look like abuse, but they insist this was all an act. they sat down with abc's t.j. holmes to aapproximately ja apo ex-plain. >> the videos. >> tell me. >> i didn't do that. >> tell me what you did. >> i swear to good i didn't do that. >> showing parents heather and mike martin pranking and at times screaming profanities at their crying children. >> he is not going to knock the [ bleep ] out of you. >> wracking up millions of v
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and sparking criticism and allegations of abuse. >> you think the world gives a damn you are crying right now? >> the martins want the world to see them differently. >> we love our kids they're the most important thing in the world to us. we made poor choices, portraying ourselves this way. but we are not bad people. >> i am ashamed, this just, it started out as -- family fun, it started with me and my kids. we were just, but then it was just about making a video. >> they would get excited when they would get a lot of views. and you know it was more for shock value. it was a show. a bad show. but it was a show. >> a show that children should not be involved in. >> they shouldn't. >> you say characters, what are we to believe was real? and wasn't real? in those
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>> we did do pranks. most of the time the kids knew about them. they were planned. some stuff is real. some stuff was acted out, scripted. >> reporter: you are not suggesting that your kids and the crying and the sobbing and -- that emotion was not real? >> not every single time. some of it was acted. some of it was. >> can you stop? >> martins claim some of their kids' emotions are exaggerated for the sack of making more dramatic videos and getting views. mike says deep down he thought becoming a celebrity would make his kids proud. t.j. holmes, abc news, new york. >> now the biological mother of two of the children has obtained custody of those two kids. and she just said that they are now doing great. she clearly did not approve of the videos. >> think they were
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tter the fit, the better it protects. always. ♪ strangers in the night exchanging glances wandering in the night ♪ >> we are back with a very special "the mix." frank is in the house again. >> frank is back. >> frankster. >> yeah, yeah, he is just going to. >> just going to hang out and chill. >> hang out. >> calm down. >> first story. >> stay calm. >> related to animals. frank may like this one. the couple was out there, looking through the patio furniture, looking for a table. one point, moves the ladder the behind the ladder is a frog. and this was how they reacted, no beg deal at all. >> oh, my god. ha-ha-ha. >> the dog -- has the same exact reaction absolutely terrified. probably not even sure why.
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the dog takes off. look. the dog forgot its toy outside. >> the dog, dog knows where, the important things. i just love he is the fastest one running ahead of her. and the dog. >> there was no attempt to defend, no, nothing. he was out of there. >> this is my territory, i am defending my woman. >> would you defend me? >> i would defend you if a frog happened to come out of nowhere. a snake forget about it. frank, your thoughts? >> what to you think about this? would you defend us? what would you do if you saw a frog? turn his back to it. >> this is, this is, this is. >> what he would do. >> this is ratings gold in the sweeps. >> in the meantime. now to that fast food war that is just getting out of hand. you thought all of the battles on the airlines were bad. this is uncalled for the a group of pals dressed as ronald mcdonald,
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troll the fast-food chain. the group was waiting there. then they started shouting, you know you are while holding cans of alcohol. shockingly, alcohol involved. image. ronald mcdonald's hanging out at a kfc. nothing to see here. nothing to see. >> looks perfectly normal. yeah. >> just about as there mall on as a rabbit on a news set. frank, your thought on that. >> and finally. for our mast "the mix" story, we fact you to new zee lant. familiar. new zealand, has a famous dance, the all-blacks do it all the time. to in flflict fear on opponents. now, a little one in new zealand getting a lot of attention. >> look. >> ha-ha. >> just, knows the dance. absolutely. >> my go
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this mor this morning on "world news now" -- president trump is calling for a government shutdown. as congress expects to iron out a crucial deal today, could the president shake things up? plus we'll have the latest on amended health care bill that could affect coverage for millions. >> outrage in louisiana across the country as friends and family learn that two white police officers involved in his death will not face charges. incident caught on camera as the officers struggled with each other and the reaction of his family to the news. >> new this half-hour, rallying against racism. >> red sox fans giving an orioles player a standing ovation at fenway park. the night before, a different scene, racially attacks from the stand. the player calling the fans
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