winds and a storm surge of six feet in turks and caicos. still a major hurricane as we venture into sunday, but it will induce some weakening as we venture into next week. as it encounters less favorable conditions. dangerous surf, swells, rip currents and above normal tides in the united states. so focus on the cone as we work our way into a portion of next week. diane, kendis? >> all right, year' going we're keep an eye on it as it looks to go out to sea. you never know. president trump is finishing his first visit to the united nations general assembly. the south korean and japanese leaders will join the president for a working lunch, arguably, the most important meeting following his threat to destroy north korea. and now to the russia investigation, special counsel

white house documents, suggesting the president himself may be under scrutiny, particularly over his decision to fire fbi director james comey and meeting with russian diplomats. jonathan karl has the details. >> reporter: the clearest indication yet, special counsel robert houl robert mueller is looking into the actions of president trump himself. mueller has requested white house documents surrounding the president's oval office meeting with russian officials the day after he fired fbi director james comey. trump reportedly told the russians, quote, i faced great pressure because of russia. that's taken off. the next day he publicly acknowledged the russian investigation was on his mind when he fired comey. >> when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. >> reporter: mueller also wants documents concerning the response to the news that the president's son

russian operatives during the campaign. at the time, the white house insisted the meeting was only about russian adoepgss and the president publicly defended his son. >> my son is a wonderful young man. >> reporter: but e-mails show that it was set up to provide documents and information that would incriminate hillary. it's perfectly legal but highly unusual if not unprecedented for a political party to pay the personal legal bills of a president and his family. we're talking about $230,000 for donald trump's lawyers and another $200,000, nearly $200,000 for don jr.'s lawyers, all the more notable because in this case, the president is a billionaire. jonathan karl, abc news, new york. a push to privatize the air traffic control system seems to be losing steam. president trump has made it a

part of his plan to boost the nation's infrastructure. law makers from both parties have expressed concerns about congress losing oversight. in the meantime, opponents say privatization will give airlines too much power over the aviation system. a texas community is mourn being the death of a college football player. robert gray died after suffering a neck injury. he was a sophomore at the midwestern state. he was hospitalized in wichita falls and flown to a hospital in houston. he's the second college football player to die this week. clayton gabe, with worcester died on monday. now to diets and the tempting cheat days. >> quite a few dieters find cheat days give them stamina for the rest of the week. but new research says it helps fight against adaptive

genesis. they prevent the body from entering starvation mode and trying to hold onto every calorie it eats as fat. >> so it's good or no? >> cheat days. >> it is good? >> yes. you don't want to go into starvation mode. >> my problem with cheat days is it's a month. >> i don't think they're advocating that. no. speaking of diet, there's a high-stakes challenge in the world of fast food. the ceo of panera bread is challenging mcdonald's, burger king and wendys to eat their own children's meals for a week. >> what if i accept the challenge? >> no, that's called a normal day. >> it's a cheat day. or a month. >> >> month. coming up. did you know? bill gates reveals his one regret about something most o

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firefighters in spain are battling a massive wildfire. hundreds of people have been evacuated. this fire's also being blamed for power outages. heat and powerful winds are fueling the flames. authorities say the fire is in the aggressive stage and has a perimeter of about 12 miles. a humanitarian crisis is playing out in the southeast asian country of myanmar. >> more than 400,000 rohingya, considered one of the most persecuted minorities on earth have fled, threatened by their home country. >> reporter: they're running for their live, hoping to escape what they believe is certain death, risking it all to cross

bangladesh. >> translator: we are being persecuted. we are scared. there have been killings. >> reporter: disturbing reports of new attacks on the muslim minority. there are reports of villages surrounded. homes burned to the ground, torture, executions and rape. so we traveled to bangladesh to speak to survivors of government attacks, attacks such as this one, rohingya villagers seen here struck repeatedly by police. everyone we encounter wants to share their story. you see gunfire? did you see attacks from the government? what exactly happened? this is the river separating myanmar from bangladesh. just across the water in rakhine is where the attacks against the row hin fwa are reported to be unfolding. >> they're not holding anybody accountable for the crime

civilian pop lachlgts the military enjoys complete impunity. >> reporter: now aung san suu kyi has not yet condemned this violence. so far the united states' strongest comment on this came from vice president pence today, where he said, quote, myanmar needs to end their violence immediately and support diplomatic efforts for a long-term solution. so we'll see what happens next. bob woodruff, abc news, new york. >> aung san suu kyi was supposed to come to the united states to the u.n. summit. ivanka trump sharing struggles with post par tem depression.

nearly one in five new mothers suffer from the often emotionally crippling disorder known as

>> ivanka trump is surprising us all by saying she suffered by it after the births of all three of her children. >> reporter: a personal revelation from first daughter ivanka trump. >> with each of my three children i had some level of post partem. >> reporter: post partem? >> and it was depression. >> reporter: the mother of three opening up first time about experiencing post partem depression on the dr. oz show. >> it was a challenging time for me, because i felt like i was not living up to my potential as a parent or as an entrepreneur and executive. and i had had such easy pregnancies that in some way the juxtaposition hit me even harder. >> reporter: trump's role as an unpaid senior adviser in the white house has come under scrutiny, and she spoke to me in 2015 about the challenges all new moms face. >> we want to be mothers, we want to be sister, we are

learning how to garden. >> the goal is to change this narrative and to be part of it. >> reporter: experiencing post partem can make going back to work even harder, and with as many as one in seven women suffering from it, trump says it's time to take the private struggle into the public sphere. >> it's incredibly important. i consider myself a very hard-charging person. i am ambitious, passionate, driven, but this is something that affects parents all over the country. >> reporter: amy robach, abc news, new york. >> meanwhile, the field of obstetrics is fighting by making aware screening diagnosis, treatment and management. >> it's particularly important to recognize the symptoms which include depressed mood or mood swings, excessive crying and difficulty with bonding with your child. >> red flags also include withdrawing from family and

eating more than usual. coming up, the reason we don't have the metric system in the u.s.

♪ did you ever know that you're my hero ♪ >> did you ever know? that is -- >> a hero? >> yes. you're the wing beneath my wind or something like -- >> this is going to end well. >> it's our "did you know" segment. did you know what the top baby names are for the year? >> kendis and diane. >> why is that funny? no, they're not. so, for girls. number one name is -- sounds like an oscar

>> emma's been popular for a while now. >> emma is popular in texas, all over the place. in the midwest. ohio valley. >> emma stone. >> uh-huh. >> emma from friends, that's what rachel names her baby. >> emma from pennsylvania. for the men. >> ooh, ooh, i like this one. >> noah. >> noah. and you want to know why? >> why? >> because ryan gosling played noah calhoun in the "notebook." and we all love ryan gosling. >> there's no doubt a lot of liam and one direction fans. liam is popular. so i've always wondered why we don't use the metric system here in the u.s. pretty easy, mostly zeros. apparently, pirates are to

was the secretary of state and one of the big initiatives george washington put him in charge of was deciding one unit of measurement for the entire country to use. a french guy came over to the u.s. specifically to persuade jefferson to make it the metric system. only his boat ended up in a storm, they ended up in the caribbean, pirates captured him, never made it. by the time the french sent someone else, there was a different secretary of state and he did not care about the metric system. >> pirates of the caribbean will soon be out on dvd, brought to you by disney. so, you know, every time you log onto your computer or log off, you have to do something. >> control alt delete.

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this morning on "world news now." hurricane maria pounds puerto rico. >> the entour island is without power, leaving more than 3 million people in the dark. an official says the country has been destroyed. we have the latest details coming from the caribbean and the current track and whether the u.s. mainland could be impacted. and the frantic search and mission to pull survivors from the rubble. children remain trapped under heaps of steel and concrete. and chunks of metal around the neighborhood, forcing some to keep kids and pets out of their yards. emergency landing is still causing a mess after a plane's parts rained down.