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geo benitez, abc news mary eto hyo. oh, thank you and breaking overnight the iranian rock climber who competed in south korea without wearing a mandatory headscarf has arrived back in tehran. crowds of supporters welcomed el nas rikabi at the airport, calling her a hero. in an interview with state tv, she repeated her instagram story that are his job had inadvertently fell off in seoul. there is one report that she was likely to be taken to prison upon arrival. but we will, of course, stay on top of this story for you. now it's time for the sports music because of the baseball playoffs, and we are so close to that october, let's start in san diego at the padres and phillies in the nlcs. philadelphia's win came thanks to two solo home runs game to this afternoon. and earlier, giancarlo stanton started the yankees just sisyphus division series game against the guardians with a three run home run, never looked back. they won and now they faced the astros starting tonight, and they have to play tonight because of all those

>> all right, gio benitez in ohio tonight. thank you. >>> and just in tonight, two verdicts in a california case that made national news. believe it or not, it was 25 years ago college freshman kristin smart vanished, it was 1996. her body was never found. years later, a former classmate and his father faced charges. abc's mona kosar abdi don't with the verdicts both in. >> reporter: it was a case that made national headlines. college student kristin smart disappeared in 1996. her body was never found. tonight, more than 25 years later that jury finding 45-year-old paul flores guilty of her murder, but finding his father, ruben flores, not guilty of helping dispose of her body. the father and son had their cases heard simultaneously by different juries. authorities say flores killed smart in his dorm room during an attempted rape on may 25th, 1996, when the two were classmates at cal poly tech state university. smart, prosecutors said, was highly intoxicated. and flores was the last person seen with her. t trial, they sh evide

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gio benitez. >> reporter: tonight, some of the nation's biggest airports are scrambling to protect their websites after a coordinated attack by hackers who officials tell abc news were operating inside russia. the first so-called denial of service attack hitting laguardia airport's website at 3:00 this morning. then america's busiest, atlanta's hartsfield. l.a.x. and o'hare. more than a dozen airport websites hit with a denial of service attack, essentially jamming the websites with data. >> airports have always been a target of interest for these adversaries. >> reporter: while no flights were affected, experts say the group claiming credit for the hits -- known as killnet -- has stepped up cyber attacks on nato allies since russia's invasion of ukraine began. and claimed responsibility for taking down a u.s. congress website in july, and several state government websites last week. >> this is a type of actor that we are very worried about carrying out a destructive attack, but that's not the cas

>> as they should, gio benitez, thank you. >>> to iran tonight, and the deadly protests growing there after the death of a 22-year-old woman taken into custody by the morality police. tonight here, the new turn. workers at oil refineries in iran joining the protesters. here's maggie rulli. >> reporter: protests gripping iran for nearly four weeks, tonight, spreading to the refineries critical to the country's oil and gas industry. workers joining anti-government protests sparked by the death of mahsa amini. the 22-year-old died in custody of the morality police after an arrest for allegedly wearing her hijab improperly. across the country, women taking to the streets and risking their lives. this group confronting the president iran who visited a university, telling him to "get lost." over the weekend, hackers breaking into a broadcast on iranian state television, flashing an image of the supreme leader surrounded by flames, echoing the chants of protesters -- "woman, life, freedom." and with protests showing no seen of slowing down, iran's judiciary chief proposing a "dialogue," sayi

>> gio benitez tonight. thank you. >>> we turn overseas, tonight russia saying it is evacuating civilians in a key ukrainian stitt, taking them into russian controlled territory, and what putin is telling people about his draft. fund t usedysk saying he can't ukrainians in t here's ian pannell tonight. >> reporter: even as missiles were raining down an zaporizhzhia today, vladimir putin declared there was,massiv on. but after days of missile and drone attacks, western sources tell abc news russia is rapidly exhausting its arsenal of long-range weapons. and in a sign of how badly the war's going in some areas, russia are now offering to evacuate citizens from occupied kherson, one of the territories putin recently annexed but under siege by ukrainian troops who reclaimed scores of villages. losing kherson would be a huge below to putin's war ambitions. with mounting criticism, the russian leader announce his recent callup of troop would be over in two weeks and 16,000 reservists are already on the front lines

>> all right, gio benitez on the difficult day. gio, thank you. >>> we turn now to the deadly police ambush. two police officers were shot and killed, a third officer seriously wounded tonight, in an apparent ambush in bristol, connecticut. and tonight, authorities are now asking, were the officers lured in? here's stephanie ramos. >> reporter: tonight, law enforcement investigating what they believe might have been a planned ambush that took the lives of two connecticut police officers, injuring a third. >> we are still gathering information. this is in its infancy. >> reporter: at 10:29 wednesday night, police received a 911 call for a domestic violence incident between two brothers. >> shots fired. officer down. >> reporter: when officers responded, authorities say the shooting began. that 911 call appearing to be a deliberate attempt to lure officers into a trap. sources say the suspect, 35-year-old nicholas brutcher, was armed with an ar-15 style rifle, killing officer alex hamzy and sergeant dustin demonte, injuring officer a

here's a b cs geo benitez.new video capturing this terrifying scene on board a passenger jet airlines a 3 20, departing from chile and bound for product y flying directly into a violent thunderstorm. on wednesday night, the crew warning passengers to brace for impact. they gave us the instruction how to put our hands. ah our head and just wait for the impact by that moment, really soft was going today. i just started brain onboard 48 passengers screaming as lightning flashed outside the aircraft window crew should have been able to see the weather that was in front of them. so the question investigators will have was the radar working. did they see the storm? did they see the lightning? and why did they decide to continue through that? very very rough storm the plane , eventually making an emergency landing in asuncion, paraguay, the aircraft suffering heavy damage to its nose. and thankfully every one on that plane is okay. but now officials from chile and paraguay are investigating because they're going to wa

>> gio benitez tonight. thank you, gio. >>> we turn overseas and to the war in ukraine and tonight russia saying it is evacuating civilians in a key ukrainian stitt, taking them into russian-controlled territory, and what putin is now telling the people of russia go his draft. >>> there's also news about elon musk and ukraine. musk saying he can't fund the starlink satellite being used by ukrainians in this war. here's our chief foreign correspondent ian pannell in ukraine again tonight. >> reporter: even as russian missiles were raining down an zaporizhzhia today, vladimir putin declared there was, quote, no need for massive new strikes on ukraine. but after days of missile and drone attacks, western sources tell abc news, russia is rapidly exhausting its arsenal of long-range weapons, and in a sign of how badly the war's going in some areas, russia now offering to evacuate citizens from occupied kherson, one of the territories putin recently annexed, but now under siege by ukrainian troops who have reclaim

glad i benitez fox news, ktvu fox two news at five starts now.e latest example of how we as a city have not. we've not even come close to meeting our vision zero policy. gold five is sobering reality for san francisco after a traffic tragedy this morning ends with one woman dead, the victim, a pedestrian and another person was also struck. good evening, everyone and mike mibach julie julie haener. it happened in the sunset district just west of 19th avenue, 24th avenue in santiago street. san francisco police have been investigating the deadly accident. ktvu christian captain. he's live on the scene now with the details on what happened, christian. julie mike, this intersection here at 24th and santiago just opened after a nearly day long investigation that crash happening shortly before 11 o'clock this morning, and police tell us that they're looking at the possibility that the driver blew right through the stop sign here at santiago in 24th and hit two women in the crosswalk. it is a four way stop. um based on what the officers had observed and

gio benitez at the scene. >>> the verdicts just in tonight for that son and father in a case that madeational headlines. college student kristen smart disappeared in 1996. >> years later, that son and father charged. the verdicts now in.

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gio benitez is in miami with more.iami and for 50 years they've been empowering individuals with disabilities here but right behind these doors this is why i'm whispering, lourdes matamoros here 38 years leading the way and she has no idea we are about to surprise her here on "good morning america." so let's go. lourdes. >> yes. >> hi. >> i'm gio benitez with "good morning america." how are you? you are live right now on "good morning america." let's do this miami style. let's walk real fast. let's go because this morning we want to celebrate you. you've done so much, so much for this community. >> oh. >> i'm a miami boy. i know. i know. here we go. we got the miami conga right here performing and, wait, let's keep walking, because here. >> oh. >> keep going, keep going. here we go. we got your family, your colleagues, your friends all here. look at that. lourdes is amazing. the shock on your face right now. now, look, they know how special you are. but turn around here for a second. they know how special you are. but

gio benitez at the scene. >>> the verdicts just in tonight for that son and father in a case that madestudent kristin smart disappeared in 1996. years later, that son and father charged. the verdicts now in.

christian benitez is a custodial supervisor with as if usd and says. >> the payroll issues have prevented him and many other staff from paying their bills on time. predators keep on calling us to have a more just to have a car payment. i still to pay everything. nobody i can tell them. hey. >> i didn't get paid or haven't gotten paid. i don't know when i'm going to get paid. they don't care. the teachers union and its if us teach after of the service employees international union say about 3300 district employees submitted help tickets within the past 10 months. >> but many of their questions and needed corrections with an >> in the board of education addressed concerns at its meeting on tuesday for superintendent doctor matt wayne announced the launch of a call center so if usd staff experiencing issues with the district's payroll system. >> known as empower has a statement to kron 4 news doctor, wrote, quote, this is one of a number of measures we have recently taken to help accelerate our efforts to stabilize in power as seth. and it remains our top priority. we will continue to work d

this fool scarlett estevez from disney's ultraviolet and black scorpion and abc news journalist, gio benitezight on the heart and cultural aspects of their shows while encouraging audiences to celebrate hispanic heritage all year round. here's a quick preview of what they had to say. we're grateful that you know, we got shows like this for we got the opportunity to share our unique authentic voice rather than we love your boys, but we want you to do it like this. you know, it kind of let us do our thing on this one and i'm optimistic that you know more, you know, more networks and more people are gonna take those chances because of shows shows like this though. that's what's up. during latinx and hispanic heritage month. i think it's so important for us to you know, just have these conversations. a regularly because you know i use the word latinx because it's more inclusive and more fluid and you know more people can use it, but i just think that in general it's better for us to have these conversations that you know more people. stand and it can bring awareness. the heart behind this full.

our transportation correspondent gio benitez has all the details.d morning. >> reporter: michael, good morning to you. you're about to see a true nightmare and it was captured on camera by the terrified passengers in the middle of it all. this morning, new video capturing this terrifying scene on board a passenger jet. the aircraft departing from chile and flying to paraguay flying directly into a violent thunderstorm on wednesday night. the crew warning passengers to brace for impact. >> they gave us the instruction how to put our hands, our head, and just wait for the impact. by that moment, i really thought i was going to die and i just started praying. >> reporter: onboard, 48 passengers screaming as lightning flashed outside the windows, the plane being tossed around like a toy. >> up and down, up and down, and, like, free falling sometimes. >> this was a very, very rough thunderstorm with lots of lightning that could have brought this airplane down. >> reporter: you can hear the hail slamming into the plane. even shattering the cockpit windshi

about latino culture and visibility in the media between abc news correspondence celia vega and gio benitezg into that white house every day. getting to buzz myself into the white house and ask the president two presidents now questions is wild to me and we'll never get old visibility can shape a person's future the way they see society and most importantly how they see themselves. who are your role models when you were growing up and watching tv and deciding this is what you wanted to do. well, i didn't know that i was ever gonna be in tv, so that wasn't something i dreamed of and i wonder if part of that is because i never really saw that many people who looked like doing it. how about you? did you grow up? i mean i grew up when i was looking toward people were like me. i was seeing that on local news, but i was never seeing that on national news, right, but then i i struggled with identity a little bit right like i was pushing the latino side of me aside a little bit and i was pushing the gay side of me right? so there was all that. you can stream the full special are america invisible o

he has been identified as 47 year old jesus contreras benitez of redwood city.e accident happened yesterday afternoon at a home on peggy lane in menlo park, the connecticut based company that the man worked for declined to comment on the story . cal osha is investigating a surprise sweep of a newly formed homeless encampment took place in oakland today. the people there had been recently evicted from the wood street encampment. as our brooks jarocz tells us now. it comes just days after ktvu reported that caltrans was in the talks to leased that land to the city. you're not even giving people an option without warning. dozens of caltrans workers and chp officers surrounded the fenced in caltrans property at 34th street in mandela parkway in west oakland. this is like the fourth eviction in two weeks for people , residents and our veers from the cleared out. wood street encampment moved here just days ago. caltrans says they broke in and changed the gate locks, and now it's taking the property back. you can't do that. without giving them an alternative. you're pl

christian benitez is a custodial supervisor with as if usd and says. >> the payroll issues have prevented him and many other staff from paying their bills on time. predators keep on calling us to have a more just to have a car payment. i out the pay everything. nobody i can tell them, hey, i didn't get paid or haven't gotten paid. i don't know what i'm going to get paid. they don't care. the teachers union and sfu st chapter of the service employees international union say about 3300 district employees submitted help tickets within the past 10 months, but many of their questions and needed corrections went unanswered. very basic >> in the board of education addressed concerns at its meeting on tuesday for superintendent doctor matt wayne announced the launch of a call center so if usd staff experiencing issues with the district's payroll system. >> known as empower has a statement to kron 4 news doctor, wayne quote, this is one of a number of measures we have recently taken to help accelerate our efforts to stabilize in power as seth. and it remains our top priority. we will continue to w

culture and visibility in the media between abc news correspondence cecilia vega and geopenita gio benitezwalking into that white house every day. getting to buzz myself into the white house and ask the president two presidents. now question is wild to me and we'll never get old visibility can shape a person's future the way they see society and most importantly how they see themselves. who are your role models when you were growing up and watching tv and deciding this is what you wanted to do. why i didn't know that i was ever going to be in tv, so that wasn't something i dreamed of and i wonder if part of that is because i never really saw that many people who looked like you and me doing it. how about you? did you grow up? i mean i grew up when i was looking toward people were like me. i was seeing that on local news, but i was never seeing that on national news, right? but then i i struggled with identity a little bit right like i was pushing the latino side of me aside a little bit and i was pushing the gay side of me right? so there was all that you can stream the full special our am

christian benitez is a custodial supervisor with usd and says. >> the payroll issues have prevented himlls on time. predators keep on calling us to have a mortgage us to have a car payment. i still to pay everything. nobody i can tell them. hey. >> i didn't get paid or haven't gotten paid. i don't know when i'm going to get paid. they don't care. the teachers union and its if us teach chapter of the service employees international union say about 3300 district employees submitted help tickets within the past 10 months. >> but many of their questions and needed corrections with an >> in the board of education addressed concerns at its meeting on tuesday for superintendent doctor matt wayne announced the launch of a call center for usd staff experiencing issues with the district's payroll system known as empower has a statement to kron 4 news doctor. we wrote, quote, this is one of a number of measures we have recently taken to help accelerate our efforts to stabilize in power as seth. >> and it remains our top priority. we will continue to work diligently in transparently to resolve outs

christian benitez is a custodial supervisor with as if usd and says. >> the payroll issues have prevented him and many other staff from paying their bills on time. predators keep on calling us to have a more just to have a car payment. i still to pay everything. nobody i can tell them. hey. >> i didn't get paid or haven't gotten paid. i don't know what i'm going to get paid. they don't care. the teachers union and sfu st chapter of the service employees international union say about 3300 district employees submitted help tickets within the past 10 months. >> but many of their questions and needed corrections went unanswered. >> in the board of education addressed concerns at its meeting on tuesday where superintendent doctor matt wean announced the launch of a call center so if usd staff experiencing issues with the district's payroll system. >> known as empower has a statement to kron 4 news doctor, wayne quote, this is one of a number of measures we have recently taken to help accelerate our efforts to stabilize in power as seth. and it remains our top priority. we will continue to work

abc's gio benitez has more. >> reporter: it was a scare in the air right after takeoff. the united flight from chicago to miami hitting a bird, a pilot in a nearby plane alerting air traffic control. >> we just see smoke and fire coming out of the left. >> reporter: passengers on board receiving an air drop with this image of the flames shooting out of the engine. >> big jolt. loud, crazy banging noise. up and down, went around and landed. very scary. >> reporter: from the ground witnesses could hear the pops. >> when i saw the plane, and you could see the one jet engine was on fire, and the sound coming from it was extremely loud. >> reporter: the pilot immediately declaring an emergency, turning the boeing 737 around, going back to o'hare and landing safely. no one was injured. bird strikes are more common than you may think. the faa recording about 16,000 per year, but they rarely cause any serious accidents. >> this is not a heart-stopping emergency, but it is an emergency. any time we have something going wrong with an engine, and a bird flying through it is certain

our next question, from univision's michelle benitez. >> talking about guns, for hispanic voters, a toponcern is safety, especially children's safety. and throughout the years of having bills that propose training for all georgians, the possession of firearms. ms. abrams, how would you ensure your own gun safety bills will become law through a gensembly y remain in control of the other party? >> sadly, because gun violence is so rampant in the state of georgia, whether you're in peachtree city, or down in albany, or up in the georgia mountains, gun violence is now so prevalent and so rampant, that iie, especially legislators, are willing to finally take action, and we've seen it, we've seen this on the federal stage. democrats and republicans came together and finally passed common sense gun laws. georgia is known as part of the lead pipeline. it is so terrible in georgia, when it comes to the weakened gun laws in the state, that we were the subject of an episode of "fbi most wanted," because in georgia, it is so easy to get a gun and transfer a weapon, and while mr. kemp will say it's

transportation correspondent gio benitez is at laguardia airport with more.ing to you. yeah, the summer did not mark the end of those high ticket prices. they are about to skyrocket again. but this morning right here, don't worry, there are some things you can do. you've just got to act fast. this morning, experts warn the clock is ticking to score a holiday flight before prices soar predicting this could be the most expensive holiday travel season in years. >> after about october 20th we'll see airfares rise between $10 and $15 per day for each holiday. those holidays will peak at over $500. >> reporter: domestic airfares already climbing. thanksgiving flights averaging $281 round trip. that's a 25% increase over last year. christmas even more expensive. $435 round trip. up a whopping 55% over 2021. >> airlines have not built back their networks to the size they were in 2019 so over the holidays right now, we're going to see about 5,000 less flights scheduled per day headed into thanksgiving and christmas. both of these factors will mean there are fewer flig

gio benitez here with that story. gio, good morning. >> whit, good morning. this is one you truly have to see to believe. it happened less than a week ago but we're just now getting the video showing us exactly how those school bus drivers went the extra mile. this bus driver's day is about to become anything but typical in kentwood, michigan. parents are frantically waving him down. their car was just stolen and their 2-year-old baby is inside. >> they screamed at me that somebody had stolen their car with their baby in it. >> call the police. there's a kid, somebody steal the car and the baby inside. >> reporter: the mother approaches in tears. >> i immediately got on the phone to 911. >> reporter: but dave skinner didn't stop there. he got on the radio to tell his colleagues and that made all the difference because another bus driver was listening. he turns that bus around and rushes to help the child. the thieves had left the baby on the side of the road. >> i know, i know. >> reporter: bringing the child on to the bus wrapped in that blanket, making a pr

also, saw gio benitez. >> big night there. >>> following a lot of headlines right now, including, offired a ballistic missile over japan and sent people to seek shelter. first time north korea fired a missile over japan in five years. >>> also president biden visited puerto rico yesterday. of course, it was hammered by hurricane fiona and said he's committed to the island and he announced more than $60 million in funding to help coastal areas to become better prepared for the storm. >>> it was the market's best day since july. the dow soared 765 points. the rally fueled by thoughts the fed may not have to raise interest rates as much as originally feared. >>> plus, is this a good time to buy a home or not? rebecca jarvis is breaking down what you need to consider with plunging home prices. that's all coming up. >>> we turn to the stunning new report about widespread abuse in women's soccer. the report finding rampant verbal, emotional and sexual misconduct in the national women's soccer league. eva pilgrim is here with more on that. good morning, eva. >> guys, this report is pretty d

our transportation correspondent gio benitez is live at laguardia airport in new york with more.d morning, gio. >> reporter: hey, michael, good morning. yeah, we're talking about the latest 5g technology to make wireless access on our phones even faster. but there's a concern and that concern is, if those towers are too close to the airport and those signals are too close, they could potentially interfere with planes and make it difficult for them to land in bad weather. now, at&t and verizon, they voluntarily delayed their full rollout near airports until july. but 19 smaller carriers have not so reuters reporting overnight that the acting faa administrator sent a letter to regulators saying if more action wasn't taken, the faa would be forced to take immediate steps to ensure the safety of the traveling public, raising the likelihood of flight disruptions across the united states. now, airlines are working to change equipment on their planes because they want to avoid that 5g interference, but no doubt about it, this he say they need the time to do that. guys? >> okay, gio, tha

cruise prices are being slashed and our transportation correspondent gio benitez is all over this.core a great deal. good morning, gio. >> reporter: hey, robin, good morning to you. yeah, you know, we usually see cruise deals in january called wave season but those cruise dees are here right now because these cruise lines just want to fill up these ships. this morning, with cruise lines still struggling to get passengers on board, you may be able to get some of the best deals ever. >> we're seeing prices of like under $200 or $40 a night. you can take a five-day cruise for less than the cost of a single airfare. >> reporter: the cruise critic is tracking the deals and says people are turning to the high seas to avoid the skies. >> they're really trying to attract people who might be scared of the other things that are going on in the travel industry such as the high cost of airfare or hotels. >> this is the first time i've ever cruised more than once in a year. >> reporter: ashley foxx is saving big bucks on the cruise she's on sailing from florida to the bahamas, st. thomas and st

our transportation correspondent gio benitez has the story for us. >> reporter: this morning, the ntsb trying to figure out how a plane crashed and caused this. >> we just had an explosion of some sort out here towards walmart. black smoke. sounded like an airplane. >> reporter: the 1974 twin engine beechcraft king air departing columbus around 6:40 a.m. bound for parkersburg, west virginia. listen as the pilot calls air traffic control. >> runway 2-2 clear to land. >> reporter: that plane vanishing from radar moments later. the confusion caught on tape. >> did that plane just go down? >> reporter: it did go down into that dealership. on board, 49-year-old tim gifford who had just retired. he was a fierefighter in columbus. the pilot, 45-year-old eric sievers, his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child speaking with abc news overnight. >> we have an 11-year-old daughter. she was, you know, as could be expected, devastated. you know, her dad was her life. >> reporter: the community shocked. amber davis was at work nearby when she heard the crash. >> seen a huge cloud of smoke, very thick

mira, te presento al doctor benítez.mente, doctor. tome asiento, por favor. muchas gracias, doctor. para el señor salvatierra y para mí es muy importante tener su opinión, su médico de cabecera. - ajá. ¿qué tal salieron los estudios? me gustaría enseñarle algo. sí. [pulso cardiaco] ese es su corazón, don alberto. en un corazón normal, encontramos un sistema especial que envía impulsos eléctricos. en su caso, esos impulsos toman una dirección diferente. por eso, las arritmias. ¿y qué sugiere, doctor? ¿que hagamos un nuevo diagnóstico? basado en el suyo propio, coincido con la arritmia, pero la evidencia muestra que el origen de ella es un problema eléctrico. usted sabe de la intermitencia de los problemas eléctricos. sí... también. [asiente] ¿y eso es muy grave? en lo absoluto. lo podemos tratar con una laparoscopia. ¿perdón? es un procedimiento muy sencillo. ni tenemos que abrir. introducimos una sonda por la ingle que llega hasta el corazón. ah, y doctor, ¿usted mismo haría la intervención? sí, desde luego. bien, pues y