abc's matt gutman is in the heart of the heat, oklahoma city, where the temperature has been 100 or higher for almost every day this month. a good sweltering evening to you, matt. >> reporter: and to you, diane. this is camp shiloh, and like the rest of oklahoma city, it's staggering through its 23rd consecutive day of triple digit heat. but it feels hotter than that. check out this thermometer. it reads 125 degrees on the grass. and we heard it was so hot, that you could actually cook a steak on the dashboard of a car. so, we gave it a try, and in just a couple of moments, we'll show you what happened. the deadly heat that's batteteng the country's midsection has so far set or broken 1,000 records this month alone. it kicked up this towering dust storm in phoenix and left roads buckling on highways from texas all the way to minnesota. this camp is sweating through its 88th summer. c's chris bury spoke to its camp director. >> this is the hottest week on record here at the camp.

i'm matt gutman for "nightline" in akin, south carolin

here's abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: wild fires like this monster still burning near los alamos countyason, all of the way to s dia, canceled fireworks displays. all made worse by murderous heat and drought. dangerous temps of over 110 scorched the southwest. a record 118 in phoenix. and temps 100-plus bake in california. the mississippi valley right up to chicago, where these misting units were set up. in california, they packed the beach. >> it's supposed to be near 100 today. >> reporter: in the nation's capital, they cooled off in blic pools. >> it feels good. >> reporter: and get this, on crystal mountain in washington state, so much snow pack this week, they're celebrating the summer's hottest holiday on skis. >> loft tank tops. sunglasses. people are having a great time. hopefully, applying a lot of sun screen. >> reporter: something they expect to have here in steamy south florida, they're working an more traditional celebration. >> the work is very hard. but hearing everyone cheer that makes it all worth well. >> reporter: matt gutman, abc news. >>> a budget impasse shut down

abc's matt gutman traveling with the system all week reports in tonight from philadelphia. matt, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you, david. 100 degrees still smothers this city. and across the country, this heat has caused nearly two dozen deaths in the past 24 hours alone. and many of the hospspals were spoke to are reporting a four-fold increase in heat related cases. at this hospital in boston, a near record number of patients in the er today. >> most people complain of dizziness, weakness, fatigue. and the heat will be playing a role in their particular acute or chronic illness. >> reporter: it's not just people being knocked out but infrastructure is taking a beating, too. heat so intense, it bent these union pacific rail lines as if they were made of rubber. cracked these building foundations in tulsa. and closed the crown of the statue of liberty. and it's not just blistering during the day. nearly 100 cities tied or set records for high temperatures overnight this month. and it's effecting the sleep of millions. to see just how that works, we went to the

matt gutman is on the south florida coast where they're moving forward but with great caution tonightmatt? >> reporter: hey, david, that barge is carrying thousands of live shells of fireworks, 27 minutes wort of rockets red glare. last year nearly 100 million people watched fair works across the country. but this year because of fire and drought, many americans will miss that most hallowed of american fourth of july traditions. a tradition that we found goes back to the very beginning, john adams wrote to his wife in 1776 that the day should be celebrated with quote, bonnfires and illumination across the country. cancelled in cities lik austin and san antonio and fire-scorched texas, fireworks displays scrapped from arizona to alabama, even at mt. rushmore in south dakota. like much of the country, tinder dry. in new mexico, the dry conditions are a challenge to firefighters battling the blaze at los alamos, today the biggest in state history. still less than 20% contained. but one bit of good news, evacuation orders have been lifted in the los alamos lab is set to reopen wednesday.

abc's matt gutman is on borj a barge in south florida tonight, where the show will go on, but carefully. matt? >> reporter: now, very carefully, david. these workers are putting the final touches on the thousands of live shells in this barge, ahead of the key biscayne fireworks display. fireworks continue to be among the most hallowed fourth of july traditions. there will be 14,000 separate displays on july 4th, and it's one of the reasons that there are more fires started on july 4th than any other day. wildfires like this monster still burning near los alamos, new mexico. one reason counties across the south from alabama to texas all the way to arizona canceled fireworks displays. all made worse by heat and drought. dangerous temps of 110 scorched the southwest. 118 in phoenix. and 100-plus baking california, the mississippi valley, right up to chicago, where these misting units were set up. in california, they packed the beach. >> near 100 today. we figured we would come down. >> reporter: and in the nation's capital, they cooled off in public pools. >> feels good. >> reporter: and g

abc's matt gutman is in corpus christi tonight. matt? >> reporter: with the wind kicking up, they are running out of time. cotton is king in texas. the state's biggest crop cash. it takes 100 days to grow this. the farmers fear from tropical storm don is it will take cotton, rip it off the stock, ruin it. they're sprinting to get the cotton crop in. >> could lose it all if it's bad enough. >> reporter: farmers like david kercher, whose family has worked this land for a century, are frantically pulling tarps over precious harvest, compressing it, working round the clock. all to get the cotton off the plant. is it all hands on deck for you? >> yeah, oh, yeah. you got to get what you can and get out. >> reporter: and praying the rain and wind hold off, anything left on the plant. >> it goes into the ground. >> you lose it. >> yeah. you lose it, yeah. >> reporter: but almost everybody else in texas, folks like feed store owner david deirlam, hoping for the just opposite. >> in this case, everybody has been praying for something like this. th

all right, matt gutman leading us off tonight. matt, thank you. >>> we're going to turn next to that terrifying shark attack. a little girl in the hospital tonight. we learned she has been upgraded from critical condition after being attacks in just a foot and a half of water. it happened on ocracoke island, a very popular spot along north carolina's outer banks. especially in this heat wave. abc's steve osunsami is in north carolina tonight. >> reporter: it was late in the afternoon. the young girl, swimming with her father in just a foot and a half of water, was riding on a boogie board when witnesses say the shark struck, seriously wounding her leg. >> the mother yelled that a child had been apparently bit by what appeared to be a shark. >> reporter: the 6-year-old suffered wounds to her calf and foot. they were severe enough that emergency personnel air lifted her to the only trauma hospital in the area, nearly two hours away. if authorities confirm this is a shark attack, it will be the 13th in the u.s. so far this year. earli

abc's matt gutman here in new york, this city now sweltering, too. matt? >> reporter: thanks, david. that's right. new york city today, 104 degrees. deadly heat. now, i've been following this heat wave for five days now, all the way from dallas. haven't felt anything quite like this. it's been so hot here that they closed the crown of the statue of liberty for the second straight day. so hot, people are cranking up their air conditioning and pushing utility companies to the very limit. utilities from montana to new york including the nation's largest, which oversees 13 states, set new records for power use today. here in new york, con-ed blew past its previous record by 1:00 p.m. and are unsure how much the system can take. >> on the one hand, it's really exciting. on the other hand, it's kind of scary. so, yeah, we're in unchartered territory. >> reporter: that's partly because even as the heat in mega-cities like new york subsides, energy use rises. >> especially in cities, the concrete and steel and asphalt really retain that heat and just carry it for

matt gutman is at cape canaveral with the very latest. we're just 30 minutes away from history. and it seems like the weather is complying. we've seen a couple of sneak peeks of the sun after 24 hours of nearly torrential rain here. first, nasa gave the launch only a 30% chance of go. that seems to be improving. it was so bad at one point, that lightning struck very near the shuttle. now, no damage was done. everything was okay. the astronauts are now in the hatch. everytytng is closed. they're sitting on 3 1/2 million pounds of rocket fuel, ready to go, as are nearly 1 million people, watching from the roads, from beaches. they're packed in. they're cheek to jowl, old and young, all hopinin to catch a glimpse of history that will last them a lifetime. the mission is a 12-day mission to go up to the space station, take much-needed supplies and come back down with garbage. it's taken nasa 30 years to get to this point. there will be a lot of tears shed here when this is all over. and all of us are hoping it goes by safely. josh? >> matt gut

and abc's matt gutman is in victoria, texas, tonight. tells us about it, matt. reporter: hey, diane. well this tropical storm and the rain it will bring couldn't come at a better time for the folks here. these soybean plans would normally be chest high at this time of the year. instead, the cracks in the soil here are about waist deep. 30 inches down. now, this entire state, almost every inch of it, locked in this devastating drought. grasshoppers are swarming here, huge plumes of them. the rain helps checkckheir population. but the drought has kept them thriving. this mountain lion, parched with thirst, was caught loooong for water in a downtown el paso car wash. and this drought is also disrupting these bats' normal behavior. now, the storm is forecast to dump about three inches of rain here. texas needs at least a foot of rain just to get back to normal. so, this is not going to be a drought buster, diane. but it is a good start. >> it will help. thank you, matt gutman, in texas tonight. >>> and now, the race to b bng help to the people suffering in the bigge

storm failed to bring much rain to the state, which is suffering through an epic drought, and abc's matt gutmanoins us now with details from corpus christi in texas. good morning, matt. >> reporter: hey, ron. well, this is exactly what texans did not want to see this morning, clear sky, just a gentle breeze and dry pavement. tropical storm don broke up almost as soon as it hit the texas coast. that's how dry and how hot it has been here. the only rain that some parts of texas did get is brownsville, texas, only half an inch and, unfortunately, brownsville was one of the places that didn't need it. cotton farmers were concerned that it would rip cotton off the stalks, so they frantically harvested it yesterday. apparently there was no need to do that, so as a drought buster, tropical storm don wasn't really effective, and this place still needs 15 inches of rain, ron. >> okay, matt gutman reporting from corpus christi. >>> finally the phone hack iing scandal rocking rupert murdoch's british newspapers may be reaching across the atlantic. reporters at the murdoch owned "new york post" have been t

here's abc's matt gutman. >> surprise! we're the happy meal guys! >> reporter: starting today, this iconic box of fun is going on a diet. mcdonald's has launched a big campaign to make a small change in the happy meal. the agele lesles lesles leslessd with the fries portion cut in half and apple slices added. would you be okay if i took half your fries if they're mine? no? they may not like it, but first dy michelle obama, who's heading a nationwide campaign against childhood obesity, called the move a positive step. the company says its new meals cut about 100 calories, reduce sodium and reduce saturated fat by about 20%. but many of the meals still weigh in at about 500 calories, about a third of what a 6-year-old should eat in a day. this is how much sugar is in a happy mealalow. >> this is the amount that is actually in a happy meal now. it includes the french fries, the bun of the burger and the soda that comes with the happy meal. and this is a lot of sugar. >> reporter: one of the reasons the company has been accused by parents of contributin

for "good morning america," matt gutman, abc news, somewhere in the bahamas. >> what a treat that mustever imagined when signing up to be a journalist he would spend so much time underwater. it is so gorgeous. i didn't realize dolphins live that long. >> i didn't either. >> many more than 20 years. >> we saw on the cover of "national geographic." i spent a lot of time, as you know, in the florida keys, and it's true you flock to the same area on the boat where you can see the dolphins and we all do. you can read an excerpt from "dolphin diaries" at abcnews.com/gma. >>> coming up, the royal trend that will have some of us covering up our legs, and lara learned some must haves for the beach. >>> this morning pg&e will begin digging up an abandoned section of a pipe that was originally part of the explosion in san bruno. it's part of the investigation in the deadly disaster. the pipe was installed in 1948. they want to inspect the quality of pipe. shoddy welds is believed to have contributed to the explosion. let's see how the morning commute is going this thursday. >> not so good if you

send matt gutman.unt down some lionfish and caught them himself and cooked them because that is the solution that a lot of officials think is the answer. make it a delicacy. look at matt. >> a man for the job. george, i just got a tweet and it says morning, robin, we have the lionfish on pizza. it was yummy. >> on pizza. >> this is what cleo says on pizza. everybody is typing a way to do it. >>> would you put yourself in a deep freeze if it meant you could come back to life later? well, we'll look at the growing controversy over cryogenics. >> shaking her head, no way, not going to do it. this is the founder of the movement. just died. bob woodruff will interest that. >>> tori spelling grew up on "90210" and now raising her kids on tv on "home sweet hollywood." juju sat down with her. love the title of this "mommywood." >> you do like it so juju will be back with us later. right to the cult leader heading to trial for his alleged sexual assault on t t underaged girls. warren jeffs is the head of a poly

and abc's matt gutman was right there. matt, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, diane. first, you see that blinding blow torch of a flash. then, the shock waves come and you start to feel your body vibrate. it was everything that the nearly million people out here, spectators, had hoped for. and more than that, it was a safe launch. >> let's light this first one more time. >> reporter: nana's final salute to the space shuttle. >> two, one, zero. and life yauft. >> reporter: nearly a million spectators gazed up at that sun bright torch in the sky, as they did 30 years ago, krachling roadsides, beaches and parks to watch the shuttle roar into space. capping three decades of engineering triumph. >> america's first space shuttle. the final liftoff of atlantis. >> and two tragedies. >> reporter: the challenger exploded just after blastoff in 1986. and "columbia" disintegrated upon reren try in 2003. today, "atlantis" and its crew aboard almost never left the ground. yesterday, this lightning struck right near the launch pad. and today, t-minus 31 seconds -- we just hear, jos

matt gutman is in south florida with more. >> reporter: wild fires like this one still burning near losos new mexico. one reason counties across the south from alabama to texas all the way to arizona canceledfireworks display. dangerous tents of 110 scorched the southwest 118 in phoenix and temps 100 plus baking california and misspry valley up to -- mississippi valley up to chicago where the misting units were set up n california, they packed the beach -- up in california, they packed the beach. >> we figured we would get away from the heat and come down. >> reporter: and in the nation's capital they cooled off in public pools. >> it feels good. >> reporter: on cystal mountain in washington state -- crystal mountain in washington state, they are celebrating on skis. >> we have seen by kinsy and board -- bikinis and board shorts and tank tops and people are having a great time and i plying sunscreen hopefully. >> reporter: something they expect to have here in south florida but are working on a more traditional celebration. >> the work is hard burks hearing everybody -- but hearing ever

parts of the state are 15 inches short of their average r rnfall abc's matt gutman shows us how bad it is. >> reporter: these soybean plants would normally be about chest high this time of year. instead, the tracks in the soil here are about waist deep. >> well, just how much rain will don dump on south texas and what paththill it take? >> accuweather meteorologist jim dickey is tracking the storm. >> we're looking at the infrared satellite imagery here. we see the bright oranges, that marking that this storm is slowly strengthening as it's moving northwestward in a concentric pattern. landfall is expected around corpus christi. as we head toward nightfall, not really expect to be much of a windstorm. winds sustained 50, 65 miles per hour as it does make landfall. really more of a good thing here. extreme drought across much of texas. we're going to get some much-needed rainfall. some spots as much as 8 inches. rob and tanya, back to you. >> thanks to jim dickey. >> live updates coming up on "good morning america." >>> we turn to the storm in washington. the government will max out its

abc's matt gutman is sweating it out in chicago. >> reporter: chicago is being called an urban heat island, the blazing sun and merciless humidity are cooking this city. sdmrits serious out here. >> reporter: it was also tortuous across half of the country and dangerous. in chicago, the heat index of 110 degrees stirred memories of 1995 when a heat wave here killed over 700 people. in these conditions the body even at rest can lose a quart of fluid an hour, and for every degree that a person's core temperature rises, the heart goes 15 beats faster per minute, and that can cause serious cardiac stress. >> you stop sweating i believe around 103, 104, okay, so you start getting -- at that point the body i i really starting to shut down. >> reporter: and your body literally begins to cook. >> if you don't get medical care someone could die within a half hour. >> reporter: the first warning sign is when you stop sweating in this extreme heat. the others include headache, dizziness and nausea, so we went around chicago to find out how much risk people were putting themselves in. 106. >> like i'm

abc's matt gutman tells us the boiler remains on full blast in oklahoma city. >> reporter: we just took this juicy t-bone out of the fridge. we'll see if we can cook it on the dashboard of this caca i parked it about ten minutes ago and already dashboard reads 151 degrees. we came back aboutwo hours later and about 195 degrees. experts say this is cooked enough to eat. >> maybe. just doesn't look that great. matt says that steak was done to a medium well stage. >> woo. >> right theren 0 the dashboard. oh, boy. taking a look now at the weather from all around the country, severe storms with hail. gusty wind, also a chance of tornadoes from fargo to duluth. scattered afternoon thunderstorms around indianapolis, nashville, atlanta, jacksonville and much of the gulf coast. more heavy rain in the four corners of the southwest and showers from seattle to portland. >> phoenix meanwhile, hits 108, albuquerque, 93, salt lake city, 86. upper 90s in the twin city, chicago and dallas. mostly 90s along the east coast. >>> more news now. president obama says if he does support legislation that would

matt gutman, abc news, the cayman islands. >> that is remarkable. >> apparently he did five minutes.love to see the raw tape. >> that's what we're being told. i think the very long flippers have something to do with it, perhaps. >> fins? >> or flippers. we both scuba dive and it's true that it's very peaceful and quiet. >> tranquil. if you free dive you don't even hear yourself wreathing. that is not a photoshop photo. >> this is you, where were you? >> near the bahamas. there are reef sharks very close by. >> i don't believe it. in fact, it looks like a pool in yonkers. >> it might be. >> scuba dive, there's a whole other world down there. ♪ ooh baby, (what) can i do for you today? ♪ [ female announcer ] need help keeping your digestive balance? align can help. only align has bifantis, a patented probiotic that naturally helps maintain your digestive balance. try align to help retain a balanced digestive system. try the #1 gastroenterologist recommended probiotic. align. >>> "world news now"deliversyour "morning papers." >> daniel, you're on. >> oh, i'm sorry, i was busy checking ou

abc's matt gutman dove in to show us what it's all about. >> reporter: they go places humans shouldn'tet under water. no oxygen. it's man versus shark. but the first generation of human or the bead owe, clinging these to these scooters. >> it's free-diving meets formula one meets top gun. >> reporter: this new sport takes free-diving. diving as deep as you can on one breath. a free-diving guru calls it formula 3 free-dive zmrg you're taking your body where it doesn't want to go. where everything is contracting in your body. >> yeah. >> why? >> i guess it's, you know, what can you do? what are we capable as a species. >> reporter: many push it all of the way to blackout, causing drowning to make free-diving one of the most dangerous sports in the world. before becoming a man fish, you got to become a guinea pig first. now, he's going to teach me how to hold my breath longer than i ever thought possible. my body is demanding to breathe. he trains you to ignore it and after an hour of instruction -- >> breathe, breath, breathe. breathe. breathe. >> reporter: >> good job, man. >> all right

it's a question for abc's matt gutman standing by live now at cape canaveral. >> reporter: it is just starting to pop out, josh. been waiting for this after suffering through two days of torrential rain, nasa is only giving the chances for launch day at 30%. keeping their fingers crossed. we had a lightning bolt strike within a few hundred yards of the shuttle. the astronauts -- looking at the strain behind me, are boarding it getting strapped in ready with 3.5 million pounds of rocket fuel. here to watch it, nearly 1 million people sitting in epic traffic jams. the mission is relatively routine to meet the international space station and bring back a lot of garbage but so much history, olymp"atlantis final launch with ups and downs. >> remarkable stuff. we do hope that it does go weather permitting. abc's matt gutman in cape canaveral. >>> > former editor of london's tabloid newspaper "news of the world" served as a top aid to the british prime minister is under arrest facing criminal charges connected to the phone hacking and pay scandal that forced rupert mur

abc's matt gutman has more now from sarasota. >> reporter: good morning, america.dent kenney ever treated. >> after hypnosis my score went up by 500 points. >> on the s.a.a.s? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: eric williams, no 20, revealed that he had been hypnotized dozens of times. >> he told me if i ever wanted to get in the car with somebody who was drunk or under the influence of alcohol, i would immediately throw up. >> reporter: feel physically ill. >> physically ill. >> reporter: that little bit of programming lasts years. kenney was open about his work even advertising it on amazon. >> you will be going into a deep hypnotic trance. although we call it sleep, you will actually be very aware of everything that happens. >> reporter: star runner josh lang had torn his quadricep. >> it actually worked out. i was able to run and slowly went away. >> reporter: so it helped you? >> yeah, definitely. >> reporter: none of that could be possibly connected to the deaths of their friends. >> to just try to pick someone to blame it on and i don't think he deserves it at all. >

abc's matt gutman is in corpus christi with the very latest. good morning to you, matt. to get as much as they expect. parts of south texas will get an inch of rain. now, they need 15 inches just to catch up. yesterday, we saw soil so cracked, the cracks were 30 inches deep. now, this storm could bring about 60-mile-per-hour winds. we've seen people pull their boats out of the water. also, oil platforms, 11 of them closed in the gulf of mexico, just a fraction of the oil production. now, it would seem unusual for people to pray to get hit by a tropical storm. but that's exactly what's been happening here. now, tropical storm don probably won't be a drought-buster. but it is a good start. josh? >> all right. abc's matt gutman with the latest as don barrels towards texas. >>> meanwhile, a u.s. army soldier missing since july 4th is in a texas jail cell this morning, awaiting federal charges. the army says that private first class naser abdo admits to planning a terror spree at ft. hood afterereing arrested with weapons and a bomb in his backpack. police also say they found

abc's matt gutman is in oklahoma city where they've hit triple digits almost every day this month. >>far set or broken 1,000 records this month alone. it kicked up this towering dust storm in phoenix and left roads buckling on highways from texas all the way to minnesota. with this camp suffering through the heat, abc's chris bury spoke to its camp director. >> this is the hottest record, hottest week on record here at camp tanaduna. >> reporter: in chicago this heat stirred up this soupy fog. dangerous enough to chase swimmers from lake michigan. this noaa map shows the heat gobbling up most of the country like a virus. on average, the heat kills more americans than hurricanes or tornados. here in oklahoma city, five highways buckled this month. last year, zero. >> you have that concrete that's expanding in extreme heat. and of course it doesn't have any place to go. you can't go down because of the base. so it has no choice but to pop up. >> reporter: and kids with no choioi but to head indoors. >> let's go, too hot. >> reporter: how hot is it? we just took this juicy t-bone out of

matt gutman, abc news. >>> now the warning signs for heat-related illnesses.o difficult to see. as matt mentioned insomnia can be a problem during a heat wave like this one. abc's medical editor dr. richard besser has some guidance. >> this is really important. listen to this. in 10 to 15 minutes if you've stopped sweating your body temperature can go up to 106 degrees or higher. and that can be deadly. before you go to bed you can try a cool shower or cool bath. that will help bring down your ç core body temperature and make it easier to sleep. the tip i heard today that i like the most, try putting your sheets in the freezer for a couple of hours before you go to bed. it will make your bed more comfortable, may help you get to that part of falling asleep. >> put your sheets in the freezer, all right. >>> as temperatures soar to record highs, new york city's electric company though is warning everyone to brace for some scattered power outages. city officials are making sure new yorkers are getting a little bit of relief from all this oppressiveve heat. thth'v

for "good morning america," matt gutman, abc nene, aiken, south carolina. >> thank you, matt.the owner of harrison canine. this is indo. >> a 2-year-old german shepherd. >> we saw what he can do when provoked or when doing indo's job. but there is a nice, sweet cuddly side. >> he likes to lick on you. this is the other side of indo. this is why they're worth $50,000 to $100,000. >> what can take him to a nice family dog or to a guard dog. >> just on command.d. >> so a series of commands theoretically not only to the -- now, they come over from germany. you've indo for how many weeks. >> about four weeks. >> how long is the training process. >> he's been in training since he was 8 weeks old. we train him at our facility for three months. >> so at the end of three months, ready to go. when he arrives here, how much training has he had. >> he's had master's degree in tracking ability. >> we saw that. we saw the tracking, as well. why is that important as well as security and protection. >> well, i mean for the average individual, say the child wanders off, the dog can go find her

matt gutman, abc news, chicago. >> matt's got to be hot out there, too, jeans on, the shirt. >> i wase shorts. whoo. >>> let's take a look at your thursday forecast. we have some heavy rain, hail, and 70-mile-an-hour winds from kansas city to chicago and portland, maine, and some pop-up thunderstorms around south florida and atlanta, the carolinas, nashville and new orleans. another wet day for much of new mexico and colorado. >> okay, we're also looking at 91 degrees in albuquerque and 94 in sacramento. upper 80s from fargo to omaha. 96 in indianapolis. a sticky 91 here in new york. boy, it feels it too. more 90s in baltimore and miami. >>> december might be months away but it t beginning to look a lot like christmas in denmark. >> how about that. this is where santa is going to be, as you can see. we're talking about some jolly st. nicks from around the globe. they met there for the annual santa congress. >> very cool. teams of santas took part in a series of competitions including gift tossing, an obstacle course, and even a bumper car race. >> how about that. in the end, team denm

. >> reporter: the julia child of weather reporting is abc's matt gutman cooking steaks. >> we're going the dashboard this car. dashboard reads 151 degrees. we came back about two hour later. it's proenl about medium -- probably about medium well. >> reporter: well done, now let's see you eat it. ♪ and

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then a school board investigation revealed this week that he lied about all of it, abc's matt gutmanuestions how in the space of three months three students hypnotized by northport principal, george kenny, died. the first died in march, a car crash, the second in april, suicide, the third in may, also a suicide. all of them just shortly after being hypnotized. kenny was open about his work which he said was to help motivate students to focus on school and athletics but officials discovered kenny had hypnotized up to 75 people at the school, including students and their parents as well as staff members and their children. >> he's trustworthy, honest. he's been a great role model. >> reporter: kenny even advertised his hypnosis on amazon, recording these. >> you will be going into a deep hypnotic trans. although we call it sleep, you will be very aware of everything that happens. >> reporter: it was not unnoticed. kenny received three school board warnings to stop hypnotizing students but did not. his attorney says he's done nothing illegal. >> we have a story here that involves studen

something was protecting him. >> reporter: for "good morning america," matt gutman abc news. >> terrificight's "world news." diane? josh good morning. our made in america team is at it again. tell everyone to get ready. we're trying to create more american jobs right in your neighborhood. and there will be a block party starting tonight. be there. it's tonight on "world news." and it's something to see what people are doing. >> who doesnsn like a good block party? i'm in. >> we do it every morning right outside. >> thanks, josh. >>> the buzziest headlines and trends. let's head over the big board and lara >> thank you. good morning everyone. we start with some fabulous news from david and victoria beckham, a daughter at last. they have already three adorable sons. victoria gave birth to their first little girl yesterday. guys, her name is harper. isn't that great? congratulations. a little cheer for the beckhams. >>> all right, moving on right now, we love this story. with a little baby theme going on right now. check out this video. it comes from japan. we're going to file this under in

mind if they met some of the world's best-trained and also most expensive guard dogs are abc's matt gutmanand personal with these canines. >> reporter: the flash of teeth. the growl. the neck-snapping ferocity. >> holy [ bleep ]. >> reporter: don't call this a guard dog. more like the ultimate in luxury security. a $100,000 psion of canine royalty, he'll switch from kill to cuddle in seconds. >> they're fur people. they want to be part of the family. people we sell the canines to, that's what thth consider them. >> reporter: that plus perfect pedigree and championship training. owner of harrison k-9 in south carolina recently soso one of his 3-year-old pooches for $230,000. take the three dogs we worked with. izzo, about $100,000. indo, nearly $50,000. and my favorite, flecky, a bargain basement price of $37,000. what kind of people can afford a $50,000 or $200,000 dog? >> my average client is a businessman. he travels extensively. usually owns his own company. he's worried about security. and bodyguards are really not an option. they're not necessarily trustworthy. >> celebrities too? >>