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then the final breach, mateen comes out shooting. one officer is hit in the helmet. >> probably within an inch of losing his life. the other office therz returned fire killing the suspect. >> brian ross, abc news, orlando. near chicago, 16-year-old girl held accused in the murder of her uner driver. the memorial day attack on grant lawson was unprovoked. the high school student, lisa wasney attacked him with a stolen knife and machete moments after getting in the vehicle. wasney has no prior record, charged with first degree murder and an adult. >> man in the meantime acued in the dragging death of a michigan trooper and now been found not guilty. charles warren jr. collapsed after the verdict was read outside of detroit. in 2015, warren's trailer hit the trooper, chad wolf on motorcycle parole. 71-year-old not realizing what
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happened. dragging wolf nearly four miles. he faced 15 years we hind bars. >> video of tiger woods arrest shows him dazed disoriented. police dash cam video was shot as officers in florida put woods through a sobriety test. you can hear him slurring his speech and apares to lose his balance. tests prove he had not been drinking. woods says his condition was caused by combination of prescription medications. his next court appearance scheduled for early july. >> so, babies, they grow up fairly big. including this four-month-old. 270 pound toddler. >> there she is. that's fiona the hippo. first media availability yesterday at the cincinnati zoo. born six weeks premature, by the way. in january, she weighed in at just 29 pounds. which is apparently really small. usually weigh 50-120 pounds. >> good lord. zoo officials say
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however already very popular. and ohio brewing company has created a beer in her honor. >> how cute! >> very cute. >> well, coming up. foelt gra photographic evidence. truth can be stranger than fiction. what australian scientists found swimming in the ocean that may give you nightmares. >> later, checking out the last of the leftovers. what the show's star is saying about this weekend's highly anticipated season finale. first here is a look at today's temperatures. >> announcer: "world news now" weather -- brought to you by carfax.com.
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they're super concentrated, so i get a better clean. number one trusted. number one awarded. it's got to be tide check it out. new high-speed train operating in kenya. the train's nearly 400 mile route stretches from port city to kenya's capital. built by chinese company, costing more than $3 billion. the new railway is kenya's largest infrastructure project since it gained independence from britain in 1963. >> hoping to have a train system for the entire east africa. >> very cool. >> scientists exploring the deep seas near australia. good god, what's that? found a species of fish. with no face. they look like lumpy blobs, with puffy head and flat body. the faceless fish were found 2 1/2 miles below the surface of
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living nearly completely in the dark. >> the mouth. >> freezing. cold. >> i would not want to run into that during a swim. >> no, not, not even for, for breakfast or dinner. >> ooh. >> learning new details now about one of nasa's most ambitious missions to date. flying a spacecraft directly into the atmosphere of the sun. >> unmanned probe will travel closer to the sun than any spacecraft in human history. you know aliens have been there. here is abc's marci gonzalez. >> reporter: a motion of extremes. >> reporter: it may seem like the trailer for a sci-fi blockbuster. >> humanity's first mission to touch the sun. >> reporter: but there is nothing fictional about this, nasa's unveiled plan to enter the sun's atmosphere. >> solar probe is going to be the hottest, fastest mission. >> the parker solar probe named after honoring, dr.
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>> hooray for solar probe. >> reporter: will launch from florida summer 2018. at its fastest traveling at 430,000 miles an hour. >> that's like traveling to tokyo in a minute. >> unmanned probe will get seven times closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history. breaching the outer atmosphere called the corona to study why it is even hotter than the surface of the sun. collecting data to give scientists a better understanding of how stars work, and to help predict major space weather events that impact technology, and satellites. until you actually go there and touch, the sun, you really can't answer these questions. >> they are questions nasa scientists have been freeing to answer for 60 years. but materials that can with stand the extreme temperatures and radiation, didn't exist until now. testing is still under way ahead of next year's launch. kendis, diane. >> cool stuff. >> marci, thank you. >> coming up, the clock is running down on the
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for years now fans of the hbo series leftovers have been waiting for this moment. and this weekend, we finally get it. the series finale. >> sunday night, all will finally be revealed. or will it? abc's nick watt sat down with the show's star justin thoreaux says the ending may surprise. >> i want answers. [ screaming ] >> reporter: here its the leftovers elevator pitch. in an in the stand, 2% of the earth's population vanishes. massive. mournful. >> sam. >> the show follows those left behind. >> going to come out of the
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chief. >> that 2% of the population appearing as just the landscape that we start with. or the springboard for everything else. >> damon lindeloff co-creator of the leftovers, previously co-creator of the lost. and, stars cary and my kids are just gone. >> lost her family and works as a government investigator into the disappearance. >> did you understand what was going on as you were shooting it? >> yes and no. nora is mysterious to me. >> no. no. stop. >> we are talking possible apocalypse with sweeteners thrown in. >> you try to make people feel happy. >> look, also that. you know, it was also just like not enough of justin's naked rear end
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>> thoreaux appears immortal. there are heavy religious overtones. >> the whole justin jesus thing is -- >> look at the guy. yes. right. >> do you accept jesus christ as your lord and savior? >> or, not religious. >> i just don't know. >> we regionally wrote kevin as an angry guy. when justin started playing him. i was like, justin doesn't strike me as being angry. we course corrected as writers. >> we are talking about it as if it is a grueling watch. it is not. it is engrossing. people, you know, want to relate to, to a number of subjects. grief, sadness, whatever. because in some way, that sort of story telling, illuminates parts of your own life. the reason it is compelling it can be cathartic at times. those moments of earned happiness in our show reflect that as well. >> mind expanding, thought
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all now there ready to be binged on hbo. >> you can knock that off in a weekend the i've wouldn't recommend it. you will be suicidal. >> hang on. don't binge? >> we should be responsible, doctors, and say, here is the prescription. you know, i would take two of these at a time. then let a day or two go by. you can take two more. >> does the name kevin mean anything to you? >> the leftovers, cult following in tow is coming toward the end of its third and final season. >> no. >> we are not going to be one of the shows, in year eight trying to wring story lean out of it. >> there is a wacky cousin. >> wacky cousin. >> i feel this is a show that will be -- i think people will pay attention to it. history will be kind. >> seems like a grand statement. to make. >> it does. i mean television history can i be clear. >> so what does happen in the end? >> unexpected. >> if you are a super religious person watching the leftovers and atheist watching the
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different take away front final episode of the show. >> is it all going to be -- not all going to be neatly wrapped up for us by the end. >> much like life, things don't wrap up in the way you expect them to. for me it was gratifying to sort of, see the way that, where they, sort of chose to put the last stroke on the painting. >> do we get an answer to, why you don't die? >> uh, i don't want to answer that question. >> didn't want to answer either. >> if everybody loves the leftovers finale. there is universal acclaim. then i am not sure that we have done our jobs right. >> definitely discussion about it. much rather have that. than, than just sort of like that was pleasant. >> how long does this usually take? >> pleasant is not a word, i would ever use for the leftovers. >> nick watt, abc news, los angeles. >> yeah, pleasant is not the frequent emotion if you are watching the show. i am in a desperate race to catch up. >> draining. >> so i can get there by the fina
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season one. >> i want answers. better not pull the sopranos. none of this don't stop believing and the screen goes black. i am not having it.
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it is time to check the wnn inbox, when we get to hear -- >> take it out. >> from you guys. >> usual position in the trash. >> we start with, might remember, national wine day. kendis and i decided to put elbow grease in and make our wine. >> or toe grease into it. first didn't get the memo you needed your socks off. so, then we were, i was making a white wine. a version of the running man. >> trying not to fall. and you are dancing. >> came so close to falling. >> my goodness. >> so, i think i spit up in my mouth. now i need real wine. >> this was good wine. i did drink it. it
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it looks more like toe jam than, than kendis noir. >> said hopefully the grapes didn't get thrown out. sure there's a winery out there that would release a limited run of macedo merlot or gibson blanc. >> we did the story on the romper catching on. many demanded kendis wear one. and twitter. looked like your campaign worked out. >> exactly. >> there you go. >> ha-ha-ha. >> ha-ha-ha. >> we did address it last week. but there it is. you have a little romper. i think we should do that for every insomniac theater. so, patrick wrote. is kendis wearing a onesy. duh. >> not everybody got the memo. i do like you took it seriously. now play who w
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kendis or these guys? >> well. >> well, cam newton looking pretty good in his romper. >> that one is good. >> oh. >> somebody pointed out where are your eyes? >> my eyes are up here, lady. ha-ha. >> i was, i was trying to take, take in the whole romper situation. but my eyes were here. >> they were. >> here. >> all right. dirty dancing might remember, talked about that last week as well. even -- attempted our own lift. wrote on face book. kendis made hundreds of men extremely jealous. >> hundreds. only hundreds? >> two. >> ha-ha. then there was, we, we did get some assist there. if you notice. jonathan, one of our editors, several viewers notice heed was particularly gentlemanly in this whole thing. you might notice him frantically looking away throughout the situation. jonathan, thank you. very much for that. >>
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this morning on "world news now" -- will the u.s. turn away from the world on the issue of climate change? >> pulling out of the pair ace agreement was a key campaign promise for donald trump. but that would make the u.s. one of only three countries in the world not to be part of the agreement to curb pollution. does the location of the president's announcement today give us a hint of which way he will go? >> meanwhile, there is no love lost between president trump and former campaign rival, the two got into a twitter spat overnight following clinton's onstage comments about the trump campaign alleged involvement with russia. >> tanker truck explosion on a colorado interstate forcing the driver of the vehicle to jump from the flames and roll into traffic. the highway then shutting down for several hours in both directions. >>

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