the fbi nor federal prosecutors had any official comment about her status david. >> all right, brian ross tonight. brian, thank you. >>> the department of homeland security will remain fully up and running. congress today sending the president a $40 billion spending bill to fund the department through the end of september, without including any restrictions on immigration. the deal alerts a partial shutdown threatened for the end of the week. the move a major vikt hit for president obama, because there was nothing about immigration attached to the bill. he is expected to now sign it. >>> extraordinary images out of southern chile tonight. look at this. this is a volcano erupting overnight. a plume of smoke. rivers of lava. a lightning bold there near the mountain top. thousands evacuated. one of the most active volcanoes in all of south america. >>> there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight." the famous sports dad striking back tonight. the world series star exposing bullies attacking his daughter naming them over social media, revealing who they are and where they work. >>> a

here's abc's brian ross reporting. >> reporter: isis is under attack from twitter, which authorities say has until now been key to the terror group's growing power and threat, but in the last week, according to people familiar with the operation, twitter has shut down, suspended at least 2,000 accounts connected to isis, a major escalation, and in response, isis supporters are calling for retaliation against twitter employees at the california-based company. among the isis targets shut down, accounts spreading the videos of the secretive executioner called jihadi john. despite the mask, investigators say he didn't fool his mother who recognized his son's voice on the very first jihadi john video in which american journalist james foley was beheaded, but according to authorities, she kept quiet about the fact it was her son, mohammed emwazi. other members of the emwazi family are also under scrutiny including his younger brother omar who we found on the streets of london. >> abc news.

>> and brian ross with us now. and of course the big question tonight, do we have any idea who was behind this? >> reporter: david, isis has made repeated threats tunisia, but authorities there believe another terror group is responsible, and the affects are already being felt here at home with new york police tonight stepping up security at some of the city's most popular museums. >> all right, brian ross, thank you. >>> now, to late developments outside phoenix, arizona, tonight. where an american city was on lockdown for much of this day, families told to stay indoors, after a string of attacks, six people shot several locations. at least one person dead. s.w.a.t. teams moving quickly through neighborhoods. and we could see the aerial images coming in today, officers moving through this apartment complex, their guns drawn there. and just look at the map tonight. multiple cri keenscenes. abc's kendis gibson is in mesa, arizona. >> reporter: a terrifying day in mesa arizona. a city on lockdown. a gunman on the loo

>>> abc's brian ross in london. thank you.e now know who he is but where he is is now the bigger question. martha raddatz spent the day at the syrian border where jihadi john is supposedly hiding. martha, the big question tonight, why can't we catch him? >> reporter: tom, the reason it's been so hard to try and find jihadi john, is that he doesn't use cell phones. he doesn't use satellite phones, no tracking devices. even though he taunts the west in the videos and is so bold, he's very good at hiding. an even bigger reason, we have no intelligence assets on the ground in syria. we have lots in the sky, drone, reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft. we need somebody or something on the ground. yet officials i speak to are confident eventually they'll find him. tom? >> we hope they do. and don't miss martha's interview with secretary of state john kerry tomorrow morning live on abc's "this week." >>> and u.s. and cuba are inching closer toward full diplomatic relations. a second round of talks this week, and both sides are ex

here's brian ross. >> reporter: isis is under attack tonight. from twitter, which authorities say has, until now, been key to the terror group's growing power and threat. but in the last week, twitter has shut down, suspended, at least 2,000 accounts connected to isis, a major escalation. >> i would say this is as serious an attack on isis twitter as we've seen so far. >> reporter: and in response, isis supporters tonight are calling for retaliation against twitter employees at the california-based company. among the isis targets shut down, accounts spreading the videos of the secretive executioner called jihadi john. despite the mask, investigators say tonight, he didn't fool his mother, who immediately recognized her son's voice. >> you have plotted against us. >> reporter: on the very first jihadi john video, in which american journalist james foley was beheaded. but according to authorities, she kept quiet about the fact it was her son, mohammed emwazi. other members of the emwazi family are also under scrutiny tonight, including his younger

>> brian ross with us from boston again tonight. brian, thank you. >>> now, to ferguson missouri tonight, and the family of michael brown saying they plan to sue. they will file a civil suit against the city of ferguson and the former police officer, darren wilson who shot and killed their son. this comes 24 hours after the justice department revealed officer wilson will not face criminal charges in brown's death. >>> we turn overseas tonight, and to south korea, that brazen attack on the u.s. ambassador. a man with a ten-inch knife, walking right up to him, taking aim at his face. you can see him there, moments after the attack. bloody calling for an ambulance. tonight, what north korea is now saying about this attack. and abc's chief foreign correspondent terry moran reporting in again. >> reporter: a terrifying close call. >> bleeding here. bleeding here. i need an ambulance fast. get me to the hospital. >> reporter: ambassador mark lippert, moments after being attacked by a knife-wielding assailant at a conference in downtown seo

the state department tonight responding to our report and abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross back on the story tonight. >> reporter: the state department called these scenes today serious and disturbing, brutal images of what appear to be iraqi forces and militias carrying out, celebrating torture and beheadings. in this torture scene, two u.s. weapons against the wall. this video shows two civilians pleading for their lives, about to be shot dead. a man with an american-supplied weapon walks by, a gunman with what appears to be the insignia of iraqi special forces caught on tape. >> their behavior must be approve reproach or they risk being painted with the same brush as isil fighters. >> reporter: the pentagon says it has already cut off money to some iraqi army units because of gross human rights violations. but senator patrick leahy says the abc news report shows that the u.s. should cut off money to more iraqi units. >> when you look at some of the videos and look at the uniforms being worn do we really want to say the united states condones that? >> reporter: u.s. offic

>> brian ross leading us off tonight from boston. brian, thank you. >>> now to the breaking news at this hour overseas. the american ambassador to south korea, injured in an attack. seen bleeding rushed to the hospital. he was reported to be on his way to a lecture in seoul. abc's terry moran in our london bureau tonight. terry? >> reporter: david, u.s. ambassador mark lippert in seoul on thursday morning. that's the time it is right there, as you said on his way to a lecture, attacked by an assailant. south korean media reporting that the assailant yelled "no to war training" and attacked his face. he was rushed to a nearby hospital. white house officials telling abc they are aware of the situation, they are monitoring it. we should tell you that the united states and south core korea have been engaged in military training right now, north korea has been firing away its usual threats. david? >> terry moran live in london tonight on the attack on the american ambassador to south korea korea. >>> there is also breaking news back here

brian ross, abc news, boston. >>> many protests in ferguson, missouri, following that scathing report on the police department. at least two demonstrators were arrested overnight as they gathered outside police headquarters reacting to the announcement that the officer who fatally shot michael brown would not face federal charges but the justice department is calling for a sweeping overhaul of the city's police department and criminal justice system after finding systemic mistreatment of african-americans. ferguson's mayor said they are cooperating with federal officials revealing last night that a police official has been fired for sending racist e-mails and two others are under investigation. the mayor also said their actions were not representative of the employees of the city of ferguson. >>> the supreme court appears sharply divided as it considers the latest challenge to president obama's signature health care bill. at issue, is it legal to use federal subsidies to make health insurance more affordable. without them more than 7 million americans could lose coverage. the liberal

>> brian ross leading us off tonight from boston. brian, thank you. >>> now, to the breaking news at this hour overseas. the american ambassador to south korea, injured in an attack. ambassador mark lippert seen bleeding, rushed to the hospital. he was reported to be on his way to a lecture in seoul. abc's chief foreign correspondent terry moran in our london bureau tonight. terry? >> reporter: an alarming moment for sure david. ambassador lippert was attacked by a man wielding a razor who slashed at his face and screamed "south and north korea should be reunified." the ambassador wounded, bleeding heavily from the attack. he was rushed to a hospital. his injuries are said to be nonlife threatening. the assail lance also shouted "no to war training" before he was subdued and arrested on the spot. the u.s. and south korea, we should say, are engaged in joint military exercises right now. north korea, as usual, issuing dire threat ss. all in all, a very close call in seoul. david? >> terry moran live in london tonight on the attack on

the chief investigative correspondent brian ross is in boston. >> with new video made public for the first time they brought back the horror of that festive race day in boston. near the finish line and then in the distance the second and more powerful blast. the chaos and the carnage caught on tape by a wounded spectator. the imagine workers tried to treat the most seriously injured first. inside a nearby sports store, stunned spectators stumbled in. they used running clothes to fix a tournequet on the leg of a badly injured woman. it was a dramatic opening day in the trial attended by dozens of victims who were wounded or lost limbs. in a surprised opening statement, his lawyer stated it was him, admitting he was responsible for the senseless horrific misguided act. she pointed to this video with his older brother about to plant their bombs to claim her part was only following the path by his older brother, later killed in a shootout. it could help the younger brother avoid the death penalty. >> given the amount of evidence the government had i would suggest it's the only strategy.

brian ross abc news new york. >>> authorities in japan are investigating death threats against u.s. ambassador caroline kennedy. it comes weeks after an attack on the u.s. ambassador in south korea. abc chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz. >> reporter: the threats were made by telephone directly to the u.s. embassy in tokyo, i will kill ambassador kennedy. the male caller reportedly said in english. >> we take any threats to u.s. diplomates seriously. the take every step possible to protect our personnel. >> reporter: caroline kennedy is the most well-known u.s. ambassador in the world who's always eager to get out among the japanese people, as she told abc's john karl last year. >> people notice you when you are out in running clothes jogging around. >> depends how fast or slow i'm moving. >> reporter: the threat against caroline kennedy happened last nth, before the attack on theist ambassador to south korea focused new attention on security for american diplomates. when ambassador mark lippert was slashed by the knife wielding man, the only person protecting him was

brian ross is in london with the very latest on the manhunt. brian? >> reporter: well, good morning, paula. now that the game of mohammed emwazi is made public the search ince tense fide. authorities kept his name secret hoping he would contact family and friends in london but he practiced incredibly good operational security. almost as if he scrubbed his name from social media sites. as best it's known he's still somewhere in syria and still alive, paula. >> you've heard from of mohammed emwazi's days in school his childhood and reported obsession with violent video games? >> reporter: that's right. at the age of 11 teachers at his school already detected a violent streak. so much so they put him in anger management therapy. he told his teachers he liked violent video games, including duke nuclear'em: a time to kill. and he joined eye group north london boys and some preceded them going off to fight in terror groups. in somalia. and that's when he joined up at the age of 23, 24. he went off to syria, isis carrying out brutal executions and today he's

brian ross now. >> isis under attack tonight. from twitter which authorities say has until now been key to the terror group growing power and threat but in the last week according to people familiar with the operation twitter has shut down suspended at least 2000 accounts connected to isis 2000 accounts connected to isis. major escalation. >> this is as serious an attack on isis twitter as we have seen so far. >> in response isis supporters are calling for retaliation against twitter employee at the california base company. among the isis target shut did you know accounts spreading video of the secretive executioner called jihad john. despite the mask investigators say tonight he didn't pull his mother who immediately recognized her son immediately recognized her son's voice. on the very first jihad john video in which american journalist james foley beheaded. according to authorities she kept quiet about the fact it was her son mohammad. other members of the family are also under scrutiny tonight including his younger brother om

tonight brand new developments and here's brian ross whose investigation helped put this on the national radar. >> reporter: just after midnight on interstate 40 in north carolina where a guardrail meant to protect almost killed. >> we need to get somebody out here quick. i'm starting to bleed. >> all right, sir. i'm trying to locate you. >> reporter: the motorist hit the guardrail head on after nodding off and was trapped in his car bleeding out. >> i'm going to die. >> we're trying to get you some help. >> reporter: the long steel rail seen in this photo from behind the driver and passenger seats sliced through the suv like a thick, sharp spear, and then cut off his legs. >> i've lost my legs in a wreck. >> are you saying you've lost both your legs, sir? >> yeah. >> reporter: 36-year-old jay tray lore did survive, available to save his life with a tourniquet but not his legs. >> this one was gone and i had a chance to lose that one, too. >> reporter: it wasn't supposed to happen. this test film from 15 years ago shows how a guardrail is supposed to absorb the impact in a head-on crash

our chief investigative correspondent brian ross is in london with the very latest on the manhunt. brian? >> reporter: well, good morning, paula. now that the name of mohammad emwazi has been made public, the search has intensified. authorities tried to keep his name secret in hopes that he might give away his location by contacting family or friends in london. that never happened. authorities say he practiced incredibly good operational security, no indication of him using phones. almost as if he has scrubbed his name from social media sites. as best it's known now, he's somewhere in syria and he's still alive. >> you're learning more about mohammad emwazi's days in schools, childhood, reported obsession with violent video games. >> reporter: that's right. at the age of 11, teachers at his school already detected what they called a violent streak. so much so they put him in anger management therapy. he told his teachers he liked violent video games including one called duke nukem, a time to kill. by the time he was in his late teens, he had joined a group of young men, called the l

abc's brian ross has details. >> reporter: this video shows two unarmed iraqi civilians pleading fornot isis but the very forces the u.s. is counting on to stop isis. the video slowed down, shows men with u.s. supplied weapons. this freeze-frame catches a soldier with insignia of the iraqi special forces. they watch the but do not stop as two villagers are killed and then the gunmen opened fire on the pile of body. the disturbing video is one of dozens of such images discovered by abc news on social media sites connected to elite units of the iraqi army and the militias who fight alongside them. >> what we are seeing here is a brazen, proud, display of the terrible crimes. >> reporter: in this video of a prisoner being tortured u.s. supplied weapons can be seen in the background. other images show men in what appear to be iraqi army uniforms celebrating right after a civilian has been beheaded. >> this is the uniform of the iraqi special forces now. >> retired army lieutenant helped train the iraqi forces. >> this is a failure. absolute failure of security policy for iraq. >> iraqi a

brian ross, abc news, new york. >> nasa successfully launched four identical satellites on a billionying satellites blasted off from cape canaveral last night in spectacular fashion. as you see here. one by one observatories are placed in an oblong orbit in a pyramid formation to provide 3-d views. >> giant chunk of a weakened hillside in west virginia collapsed. the concern now is that a weekend forecast of rain could extend the landslide. and cause flooding. dozens have been evacuated. the hillside, man made, near the end of the runway. at charleston's airport there. so far no impact to airport operations. >> well your friday forecast now. rainy again in the ohio, mississippi river valleys. flood possible from louisville to cleveland. showers in the carolinas. chilly in the northeast. rain in philly. new york, ahead of next week's cold front. >> heating up in the southwest. upper 80s in los angeles, phoenix. 50s and 60s from seattle to minneapolis. and washington, d.c., 40s. and atlanta, new york, boston. >> well, a lottery ticket holder who failed to claim $1 million in winnings h

abc's brian ross reports. >> reporter: isis is under attack from twitter which authorities say has untily to the terror group's growing power and threat. but in the last week, according to people familiar with the operation, twitter has shut down, suspended at least 2,000 accounts connected to isis. a major escalation. >> i would say this is as serious an attack on isis twitter as we have seen so far. >> reporter: in response, isis supporters are calling for retaliation against twitter employees at the california-based company. among the isis targets shut down accounts spreading the videos of the secretive executioner jihadi john. despite the mask, investigators say he didn't fool his mother who immediately recognized her son's voice on the first jihadi john video in which american journalist james foley was beheaded. according to authorities, she kept quiet about the fact it was her son, mohammed emwazi. other members of the emwazi family are under scrutiny, including his younger brother omar, who we found on the streets of london. >> abc news. can we ask a couple of questions about you

abc's brian ross explains. >> reporter: growing up in rhode island, katherine russell was a daughtera well-to-do doctor's family who fell in love, converted to islam and changed her name to marry tamerlan tsarnaev, the man that would be identified as the mastermind of a horrific act of terrorism. law enforcement authorities say russell herself is under investigation and could face criminal charges in connection with the marathon bombing over whether she knew but kept quiet about what her late husband tamerlan and his brother dzhokhar were up to and then prosecutors say were caught on camera placing the marathon bombs. after her husband was killed in a police shootout, the 24-year-old russell denied to the fbi knowing anything about the attack. >> as a mother, a sister, a daughter, a wife, katie deeply mourns the pain and loss to innocent victims. >> reporter: now law enforcement authorities say they believe russell accompanied her husband to this macy's store in boston two months before the attacks and helped to buy five pressure cookers, two of which were used to make the deadly bom

amy: that is an excerpt of an abc report by brian ross.in evers, you reviewed all of this footage for them? >> yes i did. the sad thing about this footage, it is essentially visual documentation of abuses that we, other organizations and the media, have been documenting for years. successive u.s. and iraqi governments have turned a blind eye to. the kinds of abuses that we saw in that report, these atrocious you know absolutely atrocious acts of no accountability whatsoever, something the u.s. ever menaced on about for some time. and just failed to do anything. amy: what is the response to human rights watch? >> the response to the report was that they had actually withheld aid from specific groups who they knew were committing these abuses before. that is the first time i ever heard the u.s. was withholding aid from abusive groups. that is the obligation under the leahy law. but they have never responded directly to us in terms of the allegations, you know, the kind of documentation we have done of these kinds of abuses by iraqi security

brian ross now. >> reporter: on the eve of what could be a major victory against isis by the iraqi army and militia forces, the director of the cia, john brennan, today said both sides appear to be involved in horrific human rights abuses. >> it's tough sorting out good guys and bad guys in a lot of these areas. >> reporter: brennan was reacting to an abc news report this week which revealed dozens of graphic videos and photos of seeming war crimes with gunmen carrying u.s. weapons or men who appear to be iraqi security forces or militia fighters. in this scene of torture, american-supplied weapons against the wall in the background. >> i didn't see any of the photos or any of the videos where someone was trying to stop someone from doing something. >> reporter: these men celebrate a beheading, the very forces the u.s. is counting on to stop the atrocities of isis. >> when we see it, we do bring it to the attention of authorities and we will not work with entities that are engaged in such activities. >> reporter: the cia director's tough talk comes as the u.s. has sent almost 3,000 amer

abc's brian ross picks up the story for us. [ sirens ] >> reporter: the attack came just after 12:00de the crowded bardo museum ran for their lives, some shielding their children as the two gunmen approached with heavy-duty weapons. some tourists hid in the galleries behind priceless antiquities. this french tourist described how police ordered them to run run run. when we left the museum she said we saw dead bodies including tourists from poland germany, spain and italy, most cast massacred as they got off a tour bus that brought them from a cruise ship. the parliament building was put on lockdown as defiant lawmakers sang the country's national anthem. the prime minister said the two gunmen were killed and police are searching now for two or three more who may have been accomplices. the location of the attack at the bardo museum also raised alarms that other museums an the world could become terror targets. it was just last noont isis destroyed priceless centuries old antiquities at a museum in mosul iraq and they said other museums including those in the u.s. need to be on high al

abc's brian ross spoke with another victim who testified she still hasn't made eye contact with tsarnaev. >> i mean he's destroyed lives. >> reporter: what do you say about the fact he could not look you in the eye? >> i just don't think that he can face what he did. either that or he doesn't care. >> reporter:. >> in an open letter she said it was empowering testifying against him. >>> in another high-profile case jodi arias will not be executed for her crime. a jury in phoenix voted 11-1 in favor of the death penalty. not enough to send her to death row. a judge must now decide between life in prison or parole in 25 years. she was found guilty in the murder of her boyfriend two years ago. >>> new details in the investigation of hillary clinton's use of private instead of government e-mail. abc news has learned that clinton was in violation of state department e-mail rules during her entire tenure as secretary of state. for nearly two years after too. it could take months to sort through her private e-mails to see if she improperly transported secret information. >>> the latest on harri

abc's chief investigationve correspondent brian ross tonight. >> reporter: this video shows two unarmed iraqi civilians pleading for their lives, begging not isis but the very forces the u.s. is counting on to stop isis. the video, slowed down, shows men with u.s.-supplied weapons. this freeze frame catches a soldier with the insignia of the iraqi special forces. they watch, but do not stop what is about to happen. the two villagers are killed. and the gunmen open fire on the pile of bodies. the disturbing video is just one of dozens of such images discovered by abc news on social media sites connected to elite units of the iraqi army and the militias who fight alongside them. >> and what we're seeing here is a brazen proud display of these terrible crimes. >> reporter: in this video of a prisoner being tortured, u.s. supplied weapons can be seen in the background. other images show men in what appear to be iraqi army uniforms celebrating right after a civilian has been beheaded. >> this is the uniform of the iraqi special forces. >> reporter: retired u.s. army lieutenant colonel james

brian ross investigates. >>> and president clinton's official portrait.e artist who now says he painted monica lewinsky's dress right into it. >>> and 50 years of "the sound of music." do you know what it may have been called? and who else may have played maria?