abc's nick watt has been tracking the story all night for us. he joins us from los angeles right now. good morning, nick. >> reporter: good morning, david. well four people remain in serious condition in the hospital, among 28 injured late last night in simi vl lay, northwest of los angeles when the so-called fireworks extravaganza fourth of july celebrations turned into disaster. nearly 10,000 people were packed into the park to watch the display. then this happened. >> oh! oh! oh, my god. oh! oh! oh! run!

abc's nick watts decided to spend time with the church, to learn why they twisted it into something soeporter: every day somewhere in america, this little band is picketing somewhere in america, spreading god's true word and telling the rest of us who god hates. >> god still hates fags. >> it is one man, one woman per lifetime. >> reporter: they stir anger pretty much everywhere they go. >> huh? >> this is normal -- i'm used to it. you use that expression, and you're like oh, my god, they're so pissed off, they have been told this their whole life and they can't see it. >> reporter: welcome to a weird slice of this great little pocket, as a recent immigrant, i'm struggling to understand. the tiny congregation believes they may be the only people safe when judgment day is coming. and it is coming very, very soon. they say gay marriage is the harbinger of the downfall of the rest of us. their pastor, who critics say, has been preaching hate since 1965. this week we're in kansas, to spend time with the westboro baptist church, why give them publicity? you ask, they picket soldiers and fun

abc's nick watt leading us off tonight. thank you. >>> frightening picture here in america and now to the other arresting image today. this one playing out overseas. frightening scenes out of egypt tonight. supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsi facing off against the military. things turn chaotic. soldiers firing shots into the crowd of presidential supporters. as the day wore on, fires breaking out all over the city. tonight our coverage of the crisis in egypt as we ask, could this now lead to all-ought civil war? alex marquardt is live for us in cairo again tonight. alex, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. it was a tense day her in egypt that erupted tonight. that anger against the military for ousting the country's first democratically elected president turned deadly. battles in the streets of cairo tonight. supporters and opponents of the deposed president exchanging gunfire, rocks, and molotov cocktails. the army eventually arrived, but here and in clashes elsewhere, at least 30 people were reported ki

here's abc's nick watt. >> reporter: this baby boy will of course never meet his grandma diana, but here, through william, will reach his ear. in a 1995 bbc interview, diana recalled some timeless advice she passed down to william. >> if you find someone you love in life, you must hang onto it and look after it and if you were lucky enough to find someone who loved you, that must be protected. >> reporter: this baby has a lot to thank her for. diana single-handedly rewrote the stuffy rule book on raising a royal baby. >> she very much wanted to take us away from the sort of royal aspect of life if you like and get us to see the royalness of real life, and i can't thank her enough for that. >> reporter: diana exposed her kids to the good, the bad and the ugly as she explained in that bbc interview. >> i have taken the children to all sorts of areas where i'm not sure anyone of that age in this family has been before. they have a knowledge. >> reporter: she was hands on, a mum first, a royal second. "i get into bed with them at night," andrew morton quotes her in his book, "hug them and s

>> and idiots help. >> nick watt and the new series, "would you fall for that?" night 9:00 p.m. easte >>> new information from abc 7 news i team on asiana 214 crash and problems that led up to a teen-aged passenger's death. >> we're live tonight in oakland police trying to figure out why a neighborhood dog walker was murdered. the video may tell the story. >> from stanford tonight a hacker attack. you'll learn it could have been skplif death. >> and what is new for breakfast thanks to a lab hoping to change your eating habits. >> good evening, everybody, i'm larry beil. >> the abc 7 news i team learned details about what led to the death of a 16-year-old chinese student run over by a fire truck after surviving the asiana airlines crash. >> this is the case of a veteran firefighter trying to dot right thing but something horrible ended up happening. >> this is so sensitive, my long time police and fire sources don't want to appear on camera. when praising the firefighter who drove the truck that rolled over the girl. the 49-year-old is known as a sharp, competent

abc's nick watt put it to the test in a new abc news series called "would you fall for that?"meet 9-year-old sydney. prolific artist and child prodigy, she is not. instead, she is an actress we hired with zero artistic training. >> this is the first time i have ever painted on a canvas. >> reporter: we took child's play and put it on gallery display. i am going to play the reporter for european arts network and try to get people to talk about the work. would anyone fall for it? and believe sydney is a child prodigy? >> what do you think? >> it's indicative of chaos in the world. >> so unfettered, higher self awareness. >> couldn't said it better than myself. >> reporter: remember she has absolutely no experience. >> it is beautiful. white canvas. very thought provoking. >> the circle on the white canvas. you are in territory with rothko. >> time to let them in on the secret. >> the first time she painted the painting. not an artistic prodigy. you fell for it. >> hook, line, and sinker. what if i was to tell you she is an actress who never painted before. what do you think make

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here is abc's nick watt. >> reporter: this baby boy will of course never meet his grandma, diana, butilliam will reach his ear. in a 1995 bbc interview, diana recalled some timeless advice she passed down to william. >> that if you find someone you love in life you must hang on to it and look after it. and you are very lucky, if you were lucky enough to find someone who loves you then you must protect it. >> reporter: if baby has a lot to thank her for. diana single-handedly rewrote the stuffy rule book on raising a royal baby. >> she very much wanted to take us away from, sort of the, royal aspects of life if you like. and get us to see the rawness of real life. i can't thank her enough for that. >> reporter: diana exposed her kids to the good, the bad and the ugly as she explained in the bbc interview. >> i have taken the children to all sorts of areas where i'm not sure anyone of that age in this family has been before. and they have a knowledge. >> reporter: she was hands-on, a mom first, a royal second. i get into bed with them at night, andrew morton quotes her in his book, hug

. >> sammy, i'm here, with my colleague, nick watt.. we begin tonight's show in central park. i gave you a camera. asked you to take my photo. switch that with my friend, would you notice it? >> of course, i would notice. you're nick watt. >> if you didn't know me, i'm shoot your you would. >> reporter: we like to think we have perfect recall. but watch as this chap agrees to take a photo. notice anything? this lovely lady seems totally aware of her surroundings. they had a long conversation. they connected. she'll notice the switch. she even reads the question, "would you fall for that," on the sign, as it passes. but she is totally blind to the change, from scott to me. time after time, people fail to catch the switch, even though they are looking right at him. >> like a vertical, like that? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: the sign comes flup we make the switch. surely she noticed. surely. >> here you go. >> reporter: thanks very much. not even a flicker. like that? does it look like i'm pushing up against it? >> yes. >> all right. >> repo

as abc's nick watt found out last year, the paparazzi says they're simply feeding the public's appetite. >> hate me for all you like. i'm the photographer. it's the general public. the general public craves it. the general public want to see it. >> reporter: abc news has learned that the lapd is still investigating the incident and whether to press attempted robbery and battery charges against west. >>> when we come back here on "world news" -- all of us yawn, but tonight, the coffee machine that notices and pours you a free can cup of coffee. j.d. power and associates has ranked quicken loans highest in the nation in customer satisfaction... i say "family," because we've been blessed with this honor for 3 years in a row... rest assured we'll treat all of your mortgage needs with tender loving care. amazing client satisfaction: it's a quicken loans family value. call 800-quicken or go to quickenloans.com to experience it for yourself. i don't always have time to eat like i should. that's why i like glucerna shakes. they have slowly digestible carbs to help minimize blood sugar spikes. [

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for "good morning america," nick watt, abc news, los angeles. >> are they pirates? they must be. >>> we're going to go back to the east coast. this has been a season of stuck weather patterns. when you get into the east coast of wet and flooding, it doesn't seem to want to go away. other pictures came out of the carolinas, showing how much rain had fallen there. 14 states, from florida to new hampshire. it's really a problem. it continues again today. the idea that we'll back drier air in for the end of the week and hopefully start to get a drier pattern for the coastline. it's an idea right now. look at boston friday. we're taking you up to the 90s. philly, as well. that's a good sign we're getting sunshine in here. new york city, into the 90s. washington, d.c., as well. in the four-day plan, trying to break up that rainy pattern on the eastern seaboard, not much is going to happen with the dry block on the west, until we get moisture moving from the east texas area to new mexico and back into the desert. hopefully we'll >>> good morning. i'm mike nicco. we'll hazy

nick watt is there. >> reporter: you can almost smell it through your tv, right? and that's the problem. the porky pungent aroma drifting out of bacon bacon divided this hood, between those who don't dig the piggy whiff. >> for me, the problem has been the bacon smell. >> reporter: and those who can't get enough. >> come on, it's the smell of bacon. that's great. >> reporter: the health department closed the place down in may, drawing so much national media attention, that even "saturday night live" chimed in. >> it has to be really tricky to walk up to a cop and complain that something smells like bacon. >> reporter: not since the '60s have the pigs drawn so much heat in the haight. and the local lovers have lost it. >> to try to save bacon bacon. >> reporter: hundreds bought t-shirts and thousands signed a petition demanding their hog heaven reopen. bacon bacon's facebook page got over 12,000 likes with fans posting, power to the pork. and bacon bacon will rise again. the whole piggy mess wound up in court. and late thursday, a judge ruled that the sweet smell o

nick watt is one of the many proud brits with the story for us. >> reporter: wait for it. wait for it. bang. andy murray is the first british man to win wimbledon in 77 years. >> the great british drought is over. >> reporter: murray stunned by his achievement barely knew what to do with himself. brits have been waiting since 1936 for it. that was the year fdr won his second term. joe dimaggio won his first world series. think about it. >> i have no idea what happened. i really don't know what happened. >> reporter: he hugged his girlfriend but nearly forgot his mom. for numerologists a feast of lucky sevens. murray won on 7/7, 77 years after the last british male victor, the last brit, women won in 1977. coincidence? yeah, probably. in the stands, bradley cooper and gerard butler went nuts and the glitteratzi gloated, ricky gervais and simon cowell claims he's even richer tweeting murray had a bet you would win. i'm not objective. i'm scottish, so is murray. generally, we're useless at sports apart from schnooker and darts. i was dancing around my living room, hugging the

abc news reporter nick watt has details now on this made for the movies caper. >> 1600-year-old cityn anything like that. apart from the i tall i don't know job. that was a movie. this brazen heist played out on the same beautiful canal. >> 7:00 a.m. monday morning armed men on a vessel pull up to small boat just loaded with 3 boxes of money. one robbery pulls out a rifle telling a security guard that robbery is under way. meanwhile masked accomplice under a tarp jumps on board the money boat and opens all 3 cases. grab the 2 cases for the bank note and loads them on to the get away speed boat leaving behind one case full of coins. man disappeared with 1.7 million dollars in cash. that was supposed to pay the pensions with elderly venetian. >> robber do watch movies and they do get ideas about how to do things. >> cops are still scching their head. those robbers left not even a trace or tire mark technically not even robbers. they are pirates. >> los angeles. >> lake tahoe mansion on the market in case you are looking. asking praise is 75 million dollars and that's actually a bargain

nick watt walk you through exactly what went wron wrong. >> those fourth of july high in the pwlichbing of an eye turn to terror. subpoena fireworks weren't exploding in the sky. they were shooting straight at the crowd. hitting spectator like shrapnel. >> block of wood about this big came somewhating down and hit the side of my leg. firefighters and medic medley on the scene. 36 people injured. youngest just 17 months old. oingdest 71 years old. one team transferred to specialist burn quantity. >> i think it's a miracle nobody really got killed or hurt. >>reporter: investigators say one did he vase detonated prematurely. setting off chain reaction. domino effect tipping over other fireworks that fired directly in the crowd of spectator. >> 350 feet away. >> big round cylinder block hit the person sitting next to me. >> things too extreme. used to pop and good time but now it's like extreme. >> last night disaster display staged by bay fireworks out of new york. they have worked in the past with like of new york mets, republican national convention and nasa. in statement today bay firew

nick watt, abc news, los angeles. >> i love what diana said.they become. >> headline grabbers for life. kate and will are strait-laced. modern and great as they are. >> they would be the fun ones. crazy, kooky aunt and uncle. >> aunt pippa. >> prince harry has grown into his own. a good looking man. yes he is. >> impressed when he came to the jersey shore. tell you that much. >> announcer: every day, more americans choose abc news. america' >>> this morning on "world news now" -- baseball bombshell. the performance enhancing drug scandal and why investigators are zeroing in on some of the most highly paid stars on the field. >> sexting scandal, anthony weiner whose congressional career is under fire again his latest explanation with his wife at his side. >> anthony made some horrible mistakes both before he resigned from congress and after. >> new demand that weiner step out of the new york mayoral race. >> then eating insects. would it bug you if you were served a taco made of crickets. >> they're really, really delicious. little tacos you get

nick watt talks about the new baby and his family.bunch. >> reporter: here's the story of a real couple who just gave birth to an already very famous child. a babe that will get to know his fascinating family. from the king, to grandpa pa, charles. and who will share his eccentric passion in life. >> prince charles is an affectionate, loving bad. i think he will be the same with his grandchildren. >> reporter: camilla, her kids from her first marriage have little ones. let's turn to kate's parents. carole and michael. a pair of rookie grandparents who will get their hands dirty. >> they almost have a castle of their own. and it would be fine for the baby to be there. >> reporter: what about the fun times? that's where the uncles and aunts come in. notably aunty pippa. the girl about town, named for her fashion choices. >> i think pippa's going to be a cool auntie. >> and then, there's prince william's dad, there is larry ra's face. >> duh diana didn't want his baby to have a baby of his own. she scared very much for if. and new were h

abc's nick watt has been tracking the story all night for us. he joins us from los angeles right now. good morning, nick. >> reporter: good morning, david. well four people remain in serious condition in the hospital, among 28 injured late last night in simi vl lay, northwest of los angeles when the so-called fireworks extravaganza fourth of july celebrations turned into disaster. nearly 10,000 people were packed into the park to watch the display. then this happened. >> oh! oh! oh, my god. oh! oh! oh! run! >> reporter: fireworks were flying thick and fast, horizontally, low to the ground, straight into the crowd. >> i thought it was pretty spectacular. and then, everything just went crazy. and everybody started screaming. and a block of wood about this big came shooting down. and it hit the side of my leg. >> reporter: here's how it looked from a nearby hillside. >> uh-oh. uh-oh. uh-oh. uh-oh! >> reporter: at first, many revelers were unsure if all this was just a thrilling part of the display. >> is that supposed to happen? >> i don't know. >>