facebook is sending a connectivity team to help restore communications in puerto rico. and tesla is increasing solar-powered battery production to try to help the island. and two more women who lived at a florida firstinursing home lost power have now died. the power outage cut off electricity that gave air conditioning to the ohm. >> the 7.1 quake collapsed 38 buildings, mosl buildings mostly apartment buildings. two-thirds of those buildings were built using an outdated construction method now illegal in the u.s. where floors are supported only by

columns without support beams. it appears the las vegas shooter could have been stopped sooner. the gunman injured a security guard in the hall outside his room six minutes before he began firing on the concert crowd below. the guard told hotel security that he had been wounded but security did not tell police the exact location. in the meantime, the motive, though, remains a mystery. here's pierre thomas. >> reporter: with no clear motive or evidence of accomplices, abc news has learned some investigators increasingly suspect stephen paddock had a severe mental illness. >> a comprehensive picture is being drawn as to the suspect's mental state and we do not believe there is one particular event for us to key on. >> reporter: thdetailed calculations of height and wind velocity. >> he had written the distance, the elevation he

the drop of what his bullet was going to be for the crowd. >> reporter: we've learned that the hero security guard was shot before the massacre happened. the gunman firing 200 rounds at the guard through the door. >> what we have learned is mr. campos was encountered by the suspect prior to his shooting to the outside world. >> reporter: paddock shooting himself after shooting moo tint crowd for 11 minutes. >> 12 minutes is a long time. >> reporter: this friend who worked with hem for six years is baffled by his act of terror. >> he was kind. and i don't know what happened to him. i don't know. >> reporter: with no clear motive, sources telling us police would like to have an autopsy done on the suspect's brain. pierre thomas, abc news, washington. and a michigan mother jailed for refusing to have her son

vaccinated is now free. rebecca bredow said it was against her beliefs. the judge said her ex-husband would take the boy to be vaccinated while she was in jail. she's due to face a judge again tomorrow. russian operatives reportedly spent thousands of dollars on campaign ads. while facebook and twitter have already said russian operatives bought ads intended to influence the 2016 presidential election. all three companies have been asked to testify before congress. walmart is making it easier and faster for you to return unwanted merchandise. starting next month, customers can scan items they no longer want with their phones and drop it off at a service desk. since there will be no need to wait in line, walmart says the new process will take 35 seconds or less to complete. ofrm and a police officer north of los angeles got pretty creati

propose to his girlfriend. >> he arranged to have her pulled over for dui. deputy kevin bose convinced his colleagues to stage a dui sobriety test. but the whole time i was right behind her on his knee, engagement ring at the red eye. >> she said yes. probably a little worked up before that happened. >> i hope she passed the test. she wasn't arrested. >> that would be awkward if she was. >> wouldn't it be. >> luckily, that's what happened. happily ever after. >> they'll spend the honeymoon in a jail. coming up -- >> he's romantic. >> a new movement for women confronting cat callers on the street. >> we'll check out how some are fighting back against the harassment by taking selfies of the men they say are objectifying them. also ahead, the chicago cubs fan hit by a foul ball is now suing the team after he says

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the chicago cubs are fighting a court battle now against a long-time fan who suffered a serious injury at a game. >> he was hit in the face with a foul ball at wrigley field in august. his doctors have told him he'll probably never regain the sight in his left eye. protective netting would have kept him safe, but the teams and ptho address that problem. >> this is a problem that major league baseball has known about for decades. my hive alife and the life of m fans have been changed forever by the failure of major league baseball not to protect their fans. in st. louis, the netting goes to the opposite edge of the dugout. if the

netting, jay would not have been injured. >> so the suit comes weeks after a young girl was hospitalized aft aftering h after being being hhit by a lin. more women are speaking out against harvey weinstein, including meryl streep and kate winslet. >> all in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct. here's lindsey davis. >> reporter: the woman who holds the record for the most academy award nominations is speaking out. meryl stri meryl streep said she had no idea he had sexually abused women for decades. streep calls the women who spoke up our heroes, including a reporter who now claims weinstein accosted her ten years ago. >> he

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ever get whistled at or cat called when you walk down the streets? >> all the time. it happens in the hallways here. >> it's a very common problem, and when it happens it's hard to know how to react. but one woman came up with an interesting way. >> reporter: cat calling. an act parodied on comedy shows. but for many women, unsolicited comments and gestures from strangers are no laughing matter. and one woman has taken to social media to flip the script, making international headlines in the process. a college student in the netherlands spent a month taking selfies with men she says were cat calling her, aptly title titled,@dear cat callers. the caption stating he

her for blocks before asking "want to come in my car"? another stranger, she alleges, even asked for a kiss. >> so many women get harassed, feel demeaned and do nothing. it's so hard to speak up, hard to talk back when you feel unsafe. >> reporter: the 20 year old writing this instagram has the aim to create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life. >> what this woman has done is used social media as a tool to take back her own power. >> reporter: she is not the first to fight back. in 2014, show shawna robbers filmed her sever walking the streets of new york, documenting more than 100 cat calls in just ten hours. she inspired abc news to do our own experiment, a producer with a hidden camera receiving similar cameras. >> i

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♪ we're leading off today's "this happened" with congratulations to iceland! >> yes! they've just become the smallest nation to ever qualify for the world cup. beating kosovo 2-0. >> it's pretty cool. iceland broke the record held by trinidad and tobago with a population of 1.3 million. iceland's population? just over 300,000. so big congrats to iceland when they play in the euro cup, they showed up with over 8% of their population. if they said another country did that they would have

looking at millions of people. iceland has many loyal fans. >> they're all of iceland and reykjav reykjavik came out to celebrate their entry into the world cup in russia next year. >> i like it! >> france is in. speaking of soccer, check out this play. a dutch player makes his move. the goalkeeper attempts, a tackle, open net, oh! >> oh, he missed it! >> you had one job! >> you know what makes it worse? the team ended up losing by one goal. >> one job, buddy. >> oh. >> ah. >> that makes me feel bad. now to a very confused dog named blue. she was playing a game of fetch with her owner when the ball was thrown into the air and -- >> apparently, the

white. >> yeah, and blue started -- >> blue is looking up at the moon. and she now thinks that the ball is stuck in the air. she apparently paced back and forth. she starts barking. she's trying desperately how to get the ball back down. all the while, her owners could have just shown her the ball to make her realize right here. >> to calm her down. . >> i know. instead they just point, laugh, and video the whole thing, which, let's be honest, we all would do and we all very much appreciate. >> blue is obviously not the brightest one. >> come on, how am i going to get it, ah! >> oh, blue. now to a cat who has its first experience with catnip and probably goes exactly how you would expect. >> oh, my god, yes, catnip! it is -- >> aren't they supposed to be eating it, bathing it, you name it.

this morning on "world news now," the vicious and deadly fires burning across california. >> those fast-moving fires have consumed home after home in some neighborhoods as families and hospitals rush to get everyone out. winds are fanning flames in both northern and southern california. and breaking overnight, a campus police officer is shot and killed inside a police station, sparking an all-out search for the suspect and sending the campus, one of the largest in the state of texas, into lockdown. the very latest from the scene. denver got an early taste of winter with its first snowstorm of the season, which, apparently caught a lot of people off guard. they were not listening to the