this morning on "world news now." parts of the caribbean laid to waste as hurricane maria heads north. >> millions face power outages that could last months. this as other islands deal with total devastation. we have the latest on the storm's path through the weekend. and tensions between the u.s. and north korea boiling over as kim jong un delivers a statement on camera, blasting president trump with insults and direct threats. as we hear new reports that the leader trump now calls rocket man is preparing for another nuclear test. the latest developments. then a fatal shooting in oklahoma city is raising new questions about the police use of force.

refusing orders to drop a pipe. it turns out that man was deaf. we have new details about the investigation. ♪ pulled up to the scene ♪ we're getting wet and wild with this hot tub driving machine. yeah, we're different. >> what in the world? >> a car you can go swimming in or leave the top down when it rains as long as you have your swimsuit. we are different on this friday, september 22nd. >> we are different. that is for sure. from abc news, h this is "wd news now." we'll celebrate our differences on our final day of summer or first day of fall. >> first day of fall. >> we'll hold on to the last 12 hours that we have of summer. but we're going to start with the catastrophic damage caused by hurricane maria. >> the category three storm with winds topping out

per hour is approaching the turks and caicos islands. >> it first made landfall in dominica. the country's prime minister says at least 15 people are dead but expect that number to rise. >> it's a similar scene in puerto rico. president trump plans to visit the island which i explains is obliterated. >> reporter: in puerto rico, the first look at hurricane maria's path as thousands of families face a difficult and uncertain future. as the store bore down on the island, many had nowhere to go. the most powerful scene here in generations. the entire island still without power. we headed south to where maria made landfall. now that we're south of town we're seeing damage that almost looks like a tornado came through. clearly this is the path of the eye when it came

millions of trees obliterated. in yabucoa we find residents lining up for water that's been trucked in. >> we need light, water. >> reporter: maria ortez flagged us down. >> we can't let them die. we can't let them die. we need all the help we can get. >> reporter: she takes us to a firsting home now on the brink. harrowing scenes inside. this man clinging to life. now i see when that generator runs out. >> what we're going to do? what we're going to do? >> reporter: 11 patients all frail dehydrating in the sweltering rooms. some with alzheimer's. >> all they have now is me, and my person here. that's all they have. >> reporter: communities all around puerto rico in dire conditions. the governor out with the national guard outside san juan, rescuing the stranded. and back at the nursing home, maria with a message for her

>> i just want to say, theresa, i love you, theresa, i'm here. i'm alive. i love you. >> reporter: our heart just goes out to her. she also needs oxygen. oxygen and diesel are not something we carry. our team contacted the office of emergency management and are aware of her desperate plea and hopefully can get her help. >> that dire situation will only get worse when people, what, 4 million people who live on puerto rico. >> just a small sample of what they're dealing with there. some 70,000 people live on the island of dominica. and the prime minister says it's going to take a long time to get the country back on its feet. >> video taken after maria swept through the island shows complete devastation. hundreds of homes have been destroyed and limited communications. the main hospital has been heavily damaged, making it impossible to care for

critically ill patients. the prime minister says it's worse than a war zone. >> every street, every cranny, every person is impacted by the hurricane. we have no running water now. no electricity and no power. >> so the question for many now, will this hurricane have an impact opt u. impact on the u.s. main land? >> accuweather's justin povick is tracking maria now. >> it's producing dangerous winds. still a major hurricane as it churns off to the north. i want to go over the most likely scenario here, bending north and northeast out to sea. but still we cannot completely rule out, again, the eastern seaboard for possible impacts. we're going to be talking about rough surf, dangerous rip currents and heavy

kendis? diane? >> hard to believe we'll be talking about maria still next week. but we are talking about another humanitarian disaster taking place. american experts are now in mexico, helping to rescue people who are trapped in buildings that collapsed after the earthquake. and more than 60 crew members and their five dogs are from the los angeles county fire department and the federal agency. the death toll it from the magnitude 7.1 quake is now more than 270 people and more than 2,000 were injured. millions watched for more than a day as workers tried to free a young girl from the rubble. but officials now say there was no child there waiting to be saved. one rescuer at the site described the whole story as confusion. north korea's top diplomat says the country may test a nuclear bomb in the pacific ocean. the foreign minister says it could be an h-bomb. and a test of unprecedented sc

trump imposed a new executive order that aims to punish anyone doing business with north korea. meanwhile, kim fired back at the president's u.n. speech in a rare personal statement. he called the president deranged and says he will pay dearly for threatening to destroy north korea. he also described the president as a rogue and gangster who likes to play with fire. and north korea reportedly owes new york city some serious cash. the country's diplomatic mission has more than 1300 unpaid parking tickets. that date back more than 20 years but adds up to more than $156,000. north korea is not the only country neglecting parking debts. the city is reportedly due more than $16 million in back fines from foreign delegations. they have so many parking spots dedicated just to them! >> diplomatic place. >> how are they wracking this up? >> i don't know. we'll see when they'll pay that out. so republicans are facing growing opposition

resurrected effort to kill obamacare. the health insurance industry has joined the american medical association as well as aarp and several other groups slamming the new republican bill saying millions could lose access to affordable coverage. >> reporter: it's a health care hail mary. republicans hopeful they can finally pull off their plan to repeal and replace the affordable care act with the cassidy-graham bill. >> one thing about obamacare, it's not affordable. >> reporter: president trump saying yes, but the vote tally on capitol hill suggesting otherwise. republicans can only afford to lose two votes and already senator rand paul says he's a no and several others waivering in concern. one of the concerns is whether it covers pre-existing conditions. >> it would b

approaches how to deal with preexisting illnesses. >> reporter: but the bill offers no guarantees, so some with preexisting conditions could end up paying more. it overhauls baum care by ending subsidies. and less funding to make it happen. the congressional budget office plans to release a preliminary report showing how much it will cost, but it won't show how many americans stand to lose coverage because the office needs more time. >> and janay also points out that the successor fail usual of t -- failure of the legislation hinges on four senators. rand paul says he will not vote for the bill. susan collins is leaning no. and lisa murkowski is undecided and john mccain refuses to say where he stands. the cvs pharmacy will limit

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fall officially begins at 4:02 eastern time this afternoon. but mother nature has fast forwarded to winter in the sierra nevada mountains. skiers have seen this pretty much all year round. one area resort had so much snow this year it didn't close until last month. >> all right, time to reopen. and equifax is facing another mess following the massive data breach. they were directing people concerned about the breach to a fake website. now the site was supposed to help consumers determine if they are among the 143 million americans potentially affected but they tweeted the wrong link several

the fake website was removed on wednesday. equifax is apologizing to customers. now to oklahoma and a police-involved shooting raising new questions. >> officers say they shot and killed a man after he refused orders to drop a metal pipe. but it turns out the man was deaf. kenneth moten has more. >> reporter: the investigation into the police shooting of a deaf man in oklahoma city. >> officer involved shooting. >> reporter: it all began moments earlier. the stunning hit-and-run captured on surveillance video. investigators say a green pickup truck hit a car, flipped and landed upright. the driver took off. the police say they tracked down the truck but was confronted by his son, magdiel sanchez. they say he was holding a metal pipe. >> we scheming reaming at them was deaf, that he couldn't hear anything. and they proceeded on shooting him. >> reporter: one officer used a taser. the other fatally shooting

>> you have a weapon out, you can get what they call tunnel vision or lock in to the person who has the weapon or threat against you. >> reporter: the officers were not wearing body cameras. sanchez couldn't hear, but he could see that officers were in uniform and marked patrol cars. the officer who fired the fatal shots is on leave during the investigation. kenneth moten, abc news, oklahoma city. coming up in the next half hour. dramatic rescue caught on camera. the two people trapped inside this burning car and how the quick-thinking rescuers saved their lives. but first, sean spicer's next move. riding a little post-emmy bounce. what he's hearing about the mistakes he made with the media, next on "world news now." clearasil rapid action begins working fast for clearly visible

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i'm sorry, please, stop shaking your head again. that's the silliest thing i've ever heard. that's silly, next. >> he did keep us entertained for a while. off the job for a month, sean spicer is trying to shake off that

>> along with his high profile appearance at the emmies, he sat down with paula faris. >> this will be the largest audience to witness an emmies, period. >> reporter: have you spoken with the president about your cameo? >> i have. >> reporter: and what did he say? >> he was very supportive. i thought i did a great job. so it was very reassuring. >> reporter: some argue that the reason you did it is because this is step one in trying to rehab your image. >> i feel very happy with mayim and. i am able to go out and explain a lot of things now. i'm not out on a tour, i'm out having some fun. >> reporter: it might be fun for spicer, but not for his many critics. people have hard feelings, they feel that you lied to the american people. have you ever lied to the american people? >> i don't think so. >> reporter: you don't think so? >> i don't cheat on my

>> reporter: unequivocally you can say no? >> i've not knowingly done something to do that, no. >> reporter: any rye gets about the combative relationship with the press corps? >> i made mistakes. there's no question, we all do. some of them i tried to own very publicly. and in some cases there were things that i did that until someone brought it up i said gosh, i didn't realize it was a mistake, i'm sorry about that. but to watch some of the personal attacks, questioning my integrity, questioning what my intentions were, i think were really over the top. >> reporter: we pressed spicer on some of his most controversial moments like the inaugural crowd size. >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period. >> reporter: he said his delivery could have been better but makes no apologies for doing his job. the photographic evidence was different. >> i think it would have been better to focus on other evidence not photographic

have had more facts at hand and been more articulate in describing the entirety of what that day was about. >> reporter: let's talk about the russia issue. has the mueller team reached out to you? >> i can't discuss that at all. >> reporter: have you hired a lawyer? >> i'm not going to discuss that issue at all. >> reporter: you haven't been subpoenaed? >> i'm not going to discuss that issue at all. >> reporter: have you ever heard in the white house that mueller should be fired? >> i'm not going to discuss that at all. >> reporter: you're not under the auspices of the white house anymore. >> i understand that. but i would do anything, there's an issue of executive privilege. as long as that's not invoked i will do everything to do my part to further this investigation coming to a swift conclusion. >> reporter: he d >> he did not want to talk about the investigation. >> no. >> but props on paula for tr

have you had russian dressing? i cannot comment on that whatsoever. coming up, the hot tub with its own wheels and an engine. >> they're different, yes, they're different. and from the fashion runway, beards for ladies.

time now for "the mix." frank is in the house, debuting his tuxedo, because it is fashion week in milan. all the fashion designers compete to show who can make the biggest statement. gucci sent a model down the runway with a crystal beard. we decided we are trend-setters, baby. >> we've got it going on. ouch. i don't know. is it supposed to tickle? >> i think you have it on backwards. but it probably still looks just as ridiculous. what do

frank's eating my scripts. so these are the inventors which i was in college. look at my beard. they have invented a car that can actually -- or a hot tub that can actually be a car, or a car that's a hot tub. >> oh, yeah! >> it's drivable. a convertible. >> it is a convertible. convertbling c convertible car to a hot tub. >> mm-hm. >> if you drive it really fast, you can hit the year 2016. >> from the beer garden in new york's east village, here are the yaya yaws! ♪ ♪ ♪

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this morning on "world news now." the search for earthquake survivors is getting desperate. rescuers in mexico are jumping on any signs of life underneath the rubble as questions surface over the search for a missing schoolgirl who turned out not to exist. and we're getting new reports from puerto rico after hurricane maria tore through, leaving the island without electricity and very vulnerable now that food, fuel and supplies are running low. we'll keep an eye on where the storm is heading next. and new this half hour, more violent confrontations as people protest the turkish president here in the u.s. >> look at this. a man can be seen on video, getting punched and slammed as security rushes him away.