maggie rulli has the latest. >> next to you, this is the best supervision a kid can get. >> reporter: for decades, the boy scouts of america have promised to keep your son safe, but now another allegation of sexual abuse is make its way to t the courts. >> it's time that they take responsibilit responsibility for destroying the lives of thousands. >> reporter: a judge moved forward in the case of three who accused their troop leader of sexually abusing them. denying to have the case thrown out since the allegations happened so long ago. chris malcolm says he's now ready to speak out. >> no one batted an eye to it. it was allowed to continue until he reached his ultimate goal, which was to molest me. >> reporter: in 2010, an oregon court found the boy scouts of america guilty of covering up

in the '80s, awarding nearly $20 million in damages. the scouts kept secret files of suspected child molesters for years. >> the boy scouts have fought in courts around the country to keep these files private. >> reporter: corcoran is serving a seven-year sentence. the boy scouts of america deny the allegations. >> you need to make them bleed a little bit, the boy scouts, so they do something for a change instead of ignoring it. >> reporter: they expect the case to go to court in november. and hurricane franklin is bearing down on mexico's gulf coast, strengthening into a powerful category one storm, pack winds of 85 miles per hour. franklin could trigger a

surge of four to six feet near and north of the center. look at the eye. >> it looks very powerful. >> it does. all of this comes as forecasters revise their outlook for this year's hurricane season. it could be an extremely active one with 14 to 19 named storms. five of them could be major hurricanes. this past winter, the city of seattle notched its wettest winter ever. now it has gone to the other extreme, marking more than 50 days without rain, the city's longest dry streak since 1 951. i'm not sure if people are complaining. >> probably not. a lot of us have borrowed money from a friend. >> 99 cents pizza here in new york. there's a pie in

that may require a mortgage. guinness has certified it as the most expensive pizza in the world at $2700. >> what? >> what? >> what? >>2,700 dollars. >> it includes caviar from the cass peaen sea, flower petals from california which sound like those could be in abundance. and gold from ecuador. the dough is made from squinic. >> wow. so it looks amazing. >> would you pay $2700? >> i can understand that. >> all right, check out the full video on or facebook page at wnn fans.com. >> it made me hungry and broke. well, coming up, the new warning about those new computer chips embedded in

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similar incident in july. but that's not a gun. it's a large folding knife, cast in the shape of a handgun. the woman has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. those new chips on our credit cards and debit cards are supposed to protect us from high-tech crooks but are falling prey to a low-tech problem. >> they are physically falling off the cards. what you need to know about preventing a chip hack. >> reporter: chip transactions are meant to make our transactions more secure. and in most cases they do. but what if that tiny piece of technology goes missing? experts warn that the chip in your credit card can fall out. >> they're on there pretty good. but over time, a lot of wear and tear, it could cause some issue with the underlying glue. >> reporter: this happened to a reporter from wls. when he called bank chase, they

on the ground think could uey c on another card. he ran tests to prove it can happen. >> i peeled off the chip of two cards and swapped them and took that card to a retailer and ran the transaction. on the receipt, you could dell, because -- tell, it didn't match the last four digits. >> reporter: this isn't the first time possible security flaws have been exposed. rebecca v rebecca jarvis how a cell phone can swipe the information by being near to it. >> we're able to take your entire credit cart information. >> reporter: the capturing of your card info is not so easily done because most consumers would be aware of a thief getting right next to their card. and when it comes to losing your ch

lose the entire chip or a portion of it. but in either event, quote, we strongly suggest replacing the card with a new account and card. gio benitez, abc news, new york. >> i once dropped a dorito chip. and i was really, really upset. >> were you worried hackers might take advantage? >> who's going to grab my chip. >> you weren't worried about identity theft, but somebody eating the dorito. >> i've got my chips. >> oh, do you? he's got his chips. >> they are he all accounted for. >> all the chip the are aligned. pringle chips.

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celebrate that this week. >> that's right. >> and just realized, wow. >> i haven't read any of them. >> i haven't read a book since grade school. >> that's what kindles are for, right? >> read the ratings book. on a serious note this morning, we have a report on a home explosion in a milwaukee neighborhood. >> it was a frightening scene, actually, investigators are trying to figure out what caused the blast. neighbors heard a loud boom and saw flames shooting 75 feet in the air. alex perez is there. >> you can't describe this fire. >> reporter: the mysterious middle of the night explosion rocking this milwaukee neighborhood, flames shooting 75 feet high. >> everyone coming in on 24th place. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: it was about 3:50 a.m., when kiowana heard the loud boom. still shaking, she took out her phone, recording the inferno. >> lord

of our house was going to catch on fire. >> reporter: the home which was under renovation, completely leveled. >> we did see the basement block had bulged out, which would be indication that something happened internally forcing them out. >> reporter: tonight investigators are sifting through debris, hunting for answer. no official cause just yet. but luckily, no one was home at the time. alex perez, abc news, milwaukee. >> that scene is just unbelievable. >> ah. >> it's just almost unrecognizable as having ever been a house. >> it's incredible. we've had many occasion like that over the last couple years. we've seen that scene in new jersey that was caught on camera where several houses sort of exploded because of a gas leak. and then we saw an incident just this past week or so in minneapolis where that academy blew up and ended up killing two people. >> the odd thing in this case is that police don't believe that th

this explosion. so the other big question is, if it wasn't a gas leak, what was it? >> what was it? >> we'll stay updated on that story. coming up "this happened."

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♪ we are back with "this happened" this morning. and traffic in little rock, arkansas was at a stand still. >> oh. >> due do a crash, you know, cleanup sometimes takes a while. you have to tow the cars, repair the road. in this case, crews had a different challenge. removing a bunch of frozen digiorno and tombstone pizzas. the truck apparently hit the overpass that damaged the trailer, spilling the pizza all over the road. bad news for anyone like kendis, who wanted to run to the roadway, take advantage of the opportunity. the truck also lke

all the pizzas were ruined. no one was hurt, but this, my friends is a tragedy. >> it was devastating. little rock will rebuild after that. >> good thing it wasn't right before the super bowl or something. >> ooh, that would be an extra tragedy. >> not good. >> that would be an extra tragedy. >> uh-huh. so police academy in indiana use a unique effort to make sure their cadets are strong. in some police academies they'll spray you with mace to make sure you can withstand that, yeah, you are tough. indiana, what you got? um -- >> is that a rubber chicken? >> a rubber chicken. >> to test the students' focus. yeah, the indiana university police academy, if they wince after hearing the squeeze of that rubber chicken, then they have to dp

she is stern. >> that guy? not so much. >> that guy is, ah. >> i think we should play this game, actually. it looks like fun. we've got to get ourselves a rubber chicken. on to a major league baseball, something that has nothing to do with the game itself but to a new fan in the stands. this is at the st. louis cardinals game. check it out. that is a cat. little kitty running in from the stands. he runs across field. all the players can do is just watch. finally, someone tries to, you know, pick up the cat, get it off the field. oh, no, no, no, no. that did not work out. the cat, >> oh! >> ow! oh, oh! >> i wanted the front row seat. i got the front row seat. leave me alone. >> that cat was not happy. >> so the poor guy not only has been scratch

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this morning on "world news now." north korea fires back with a new threat. >> in response to president trump's warning of fire and fury, the north calls the comments a load of nonsense and vows to attack the u.s. territory of guam within days. >> some of the president's top aides were actually surprised by the language he used, leaving some to question if u.s. leaders are all on the same page as this conflict reaches a new level. we're covering all angles, this thursday morning. then the first hurricane of the season, franklin, is gaining strength and barrelling down on mexico, popular vacation spots as well. we'll have the accuweather forecast ahead. and finally, they've been able to capture all the