cecilia vega has this story. >> reporter: right there, high in the seattle skies, a drone. the faa now telling abc news it is looking into that tiny remote-control powered aircraft hovering above the observation deck of the famous space needle. while curious tourists waved, the mysterious flying object gave security quite a scare. police say a man launched it right out side of his hotel window. >> there was no malcontent or malice. he wasn't trying to do anything wrong. >> reporter: it is just the latest incident raising questions about whether it's safe to fly these drones above crowded cities. take a look at this drone buzzing over the busy streets of new york last year. and crash landing, nearly hitting pedestrians at the height of rush hour. and there have been close calls with planes. >> we just saw a little drone below us. >> reporter: a drone last year coming within 200 feet of a jumbo jet. drones like these are exploding in popularity, but rules already in place for how and where they can be used haven't caught up yet. the faa is working on new safety guidelines, bu

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abc news reporter cecilia vega has the story. >> right there high in the seattle skies is a drone. the f.a.a. is telling abc news that they are looking into the tiny remote controlled aircraft hovering above the observation deck of the famous space needle. curious tourists waived the mysterious flying object gave security quite a scare. police say a man launched the drone right out of his hotel room window. >> there was no malcontent or malice. >> it is just the latest incident raising questions about whether it is safe to fly drones above the crowded cities. take a look at this drone buzzing over the busy streets of new york last year. and it crash-landed nearly hitting pedestrians at the height of rushhere and there also have been close calls with airplanes. a drone last year coming within 200 feet of a jumbo jet. drones like these are exploding in pop -- arepopularie in place for how and where they can fly haven't caught up yet. the pa is working on new -- the f.a.a. is working on new guidelines, but it could be a couple years until they take affect. until then they will keep th

abc news reporter cecilia vega has the story. >> right there high in the seattle skies is a drone. the f.a.a. is telling abc news that they are looking into the tiny remote controlled aircraft hovering above the observation deck of the famous space needle. curious tourists waived the mysterious flying object gave security quite a scare. police say a man launched the drone right out of his hotel room window. >> there was no malcontent or malice. >> it is just the latest incident raising questions about whether it is safe to fly drones above the crowded cities. take a look at this drone buzzing over the busy streets of new york last year. and it crash-landed nearly hitting pedestrians at the height of rush hour and there also have been close calls with airplanes. a drone last year coming within 200 feet of a jumbo jet. drones like these are exploding in pop -- popularity, but the rules are in place for how and where they can fly haven't caught up yet. the pa is working on new -- the f.a.a. is working on new guidelines, but it could be a couple years until they take affect. until then

abc news reporter cecilia vega has the story. >> right there high in the seattle skies is a drone. the f.a.a. is telling abc news that they are looking into the tiny remote controlled aircraft hovering above the observation deck of the famous space needle. curious tourists waived the mysterious flying object gave security quite a scare. police say a man launched the drone right out of his hotel room window. >> there was no malcontent or malice. >> it is just the latest incident raising questions about whether it is safe to fly drones above the crowded cities. take a look at this drone buzzing over the busy streets of new york last year. and it crash-landed nearly hitting pedestrians at the height of rush hour and there also have been close calls with airplanes. a drone last year coming within 200 feet of a jumbo jet. drones like these are exploding in pop -- popularity, but the rules are in place for how and where they can fly haven't caught up yet. the pa is working on new -- the f.a.a. is working on new guidelines, but it could be a couple years until they take affect. until then

for "good morning america," cecilia vega, abc news, los angeles. >> okay, let's bring in dan abrams oncilia say police say there's not a suspect but seem to be paying a lot of attention to lee. >> no question he's at least a person of interest as they like to call it. bottom line, he is someone they're looking at. look, two key issues they need to resolve, number one, was there a crime? meaning they first virginia to rule out the possibility she left voluntarily. with each day that passes, it seems the authorities become more and more convinced that this was a crime. once they determine that this was a crime and i think that in their minds they already have then the question is who did it and when you're talking about a woman who was newly pregnant and alleged affair, okay, not confirmed but alleged, the authorities are going to be looking at two people and that is, number one, her husband and, number two, the person with whom she's having the alleged affair and seems that the authorities have begun to rule out the husband although they haven't said that publicly either. >> the fact th

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cecilia vega with what's behind the drop now. >> reporter: david, good evening to you. we can consider this a vacation from that pain at the pump. i want to show you some numbers that just came out this evening. the national average for a gallon of gas now down to $3.64 a gone, four cents cheaper than it was just a week ago. why are these prices coming down? because the price of oil is dropping. libya is producing more oil. fighting in iraq that was expected to impact that country's oil supply never materialized. all of this is good news for drivers. there are drivers in 13 states that are paying less than just about everybody. you can see on the map, they're paying less than $3.50 a gallon. will they stick? analysts say there is always the possibility that something could happen in the middle east and impact prices again. the potential fo hurricane in the summer but thts i spok to today say high prices as as ten cents over the >> welcome news. >>> to the middle east where international pressure is mounting for israel and hamas to reach a cease fire. it comes as we lear

i'm cecilia vega.e begin in the middle east where the israelis and palestinians are teetering on the edge of an all-out war. thousands of palestinians who live in the gaza strip are on the move. families heeding israel's warning that new attacks to destroy rocket launchers there could come at any time. what is not yet clear, will those attacks come from israeli ground forces now at standby at the border or from the air? this new video shows palestinian rockets headed for israel and then that launch site being destroyed when israelis fire back. we have team coverage across the region and we begin with abc's chief global affairs corespondent, martha raddatz in jerusalem tonight. martha? >> reporter: good evening, cecelia. it's clear tonight that this conflict is escalating with israel sending those commandos into gaza to look for hamas rockets, the first time israel has sent ground troops into gaza in more than five years. they entered gaza from the mediterranean sea in small boats, several dozen navy co

almost two dozen people dangled for hours last night and abc's cecilia vega has what to tell yourself if something goes wrong. >> reporter: what a terrifying ride it was for the 22 people trapped for nearly three hours on the ninja. >> incoming units to magic mountain. we still have victims on the ride. >> reporter: there they were on this suspended, swinging roller coaster, hanging from a track, dangling precariously above the ground waiting for help to arrive. >> this is going to be challenging. >> reporter: an entire tree fell on the tracks, derailing the first car. see that white metal arm? it's supposed to be attached to that red railing. firefighters struggled to reach riders that high in the air, having to lift them to safety one by one. four went to the hospital. >> we saw the ninja go into the trees and it was cracking noises and crashing noises and a lot of screaming. >> reporter: today workers were on the ride inspecting the tracks. statistics show accidents at amusement parks are extremely rare, and this time there were only minor injuries. but just last year, a woman fell

here's abc's cecilia vega. >> reporter: the a-list actress was asleep in her hollywood home early one morning last month. sandra bullock told police a loud bang woke her up. and then, she saw a man dressed in dark clothes walking in her hallway, right past her bedroom door. new details in a search warrant show how terrifyingly close bullock came to her alleged stalker. when police arrived, they say they found joshua james corbett inside bullock's home and that he screamed, "sandy, i'm sorry. please don't press charges." according to the search warrant, corbett was obsessed with the megastar, writing her -- without you in my life, there's only misery. police say bullock's son, louie, was not home at the time. corbett was charged with felony burglary and felony stalking. stalking is a crime in every state, but less than a third of states consider it a felony on first offense. >> you cannot lock up the stalker forever. the answer lies in mental health intervention. >> reporter: this isn't bullock's first stalker. four years ago she was granted a restraining order who had allegedly travel

cecilia vega, abc news, new york. >> amazing. he could get seven years in prison.. poor bullock has been subject to this before. we understand in 2010 she sought a restraining order for another man who was stalking her. i know this is a big issue in hollywood right now. >> a big issue for a lot of celebrities. it was also interesting, like ben affleck's wife, jennifer garner -- a lot of the hollywood celebrities have come out in defense of, you know, some sort of a stalker act. >> the paparazzi, too, being a big issue. >> absolutely. >>> coming up -- the benefits of baby talk. it seems that all those momma and dadas add up to something when it comes to developing brain foundation for your child. minneapolis for major league >>> and a big night in minneapolis for major league baseball. the winners, losers and this year's all-star game. you are watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our abc stations. ♪ baby baby baby ♪ oh we're like baby baby baby ♪ we're like baby baby baby ♪ >> baby, baby, baby, oh. is there anything cut

the parents were called irresponsible for bringing their young children on the trip and cecilia vegastory for us. >> reporter: it was a trip eric and charlotte kaufman spent years planning, sailing all the way from mexico to new zealand with their two young daughters. >> how long was that supposed to take? >> about 3,000 miles. >> reporter: but 18 days in it came to a crashing end. they that they were stranded in the pacific ocean 900 miles off shore. their 1-year-old daughter sick and in dire need of rescue. >> that's when we realized we entered a very bad spot. >> reporter: the parents who face harsh criticism for bringing their children on that adventurous sea this morning are telling their story for the first time. why bring them on this trip? >> why -- why wouldn't you? >> this is how we are living. >> reporter: lira had fever and a rash. the antibiotics they brought weren't working. it was only getting worse. what did you do? >> we grabbed the emergency position indicating beacon and activated it and then we sat there. >> reporter: 12 hours after they hit that button national g

more from abc's cecilia vega. >> reporter: this morning a search warrant revealing terrifying details her own home. police say loud bangs woke up sandra bullock early one morning last month. that's when she saw a man dressed in dark clothes walking in her hallway right past her bedroom. the a-list actress locked herself in and called police. when they arrived at her hollywood home, they say joshua james corbett was inside and that he screamed, "sandy, i'm sorry. please don't press charges." according to the warrant, corbett was carrying magazine pictures of bullock and handwritten notes to her. one of them read, "you are very special to me, and without you in my life, there is only misery." another said, "i will forever be thinking of you and louie, my son, as you are my wife by law." police say bullock's son louie was not home at the time. corbett, who pleaded not guilty told police he did not mean to upset bullock. he said he did not expect her to be home. for "good morning america," cecilia vega, abc news, new york. >> that is scary stuff. >>> and then we have a frightening moment

america's major universities sending millions of gallons of water pouring into the street and cecilia vega the latest. good morning, cecilia. >> reporter: george, good morning to you. boy, just a few hours ago this campus was a virtual lake. i want to show you what it looks like right now. take a look, a pile, a mound of wet carpets out here right over here, wet towels that are scattered all over this campus. inside this recently rebuilt athletic center dryers, there is a big cleanup in store here. overnight the seets of los angeles transformed into a raging river. >> that sinkhole is getting bigger and bigger. >> reporter: after a nearly century-old water main 30 inches in diameter burst monday afternoon creating a 15-foot hole and sending up to 10 million gallons of water surging into a busy street and onto the ucla campus at a rate of 35,000 gallons per minute. >> we're at the steps in front of pauley pavilion at the ucla campus. >> reporter: all this at the height of a historic california drought. >> when you have this amount of water it's like a flash flood. you'd never know what's go

cecilia vega, abc news, new york. >> he could face seven years in prison and bail $2 million. >> $2 millionl it should. poor bullock has been subject to this before. we understand in 2010 she sought a retraining order for another man stalking her. i know this is a big issue in hollywood right now. >> a big issue for a lot of celebrities, ben affleck's wife, jennifer garner. a lot of the hollywood celebrities have come out in defense of, you know, some sort of stalker act. >> the paparazzo a big issue now. >> absolutely. >>> coming up the benefits of baby talk. seems like the mama and dad a's add up to something when it comes to brain development. >>> and a big night in minneapolis for major league baseball. the winners, losers and this year's all-star game. you are watching "world news now." ♪ baby baby baby baby oh ♪ like baby baby baby baby oh sfloenchts ♪ ♪ >> baby baby baby oh. is there anything cuter than baby talk for your newborn. >> new research is showing it's not just cute but essential for your little one's speech development. here's linzie davis. >> hello, mikey. do you know who

abc's cecilia vega is here with the story for us. lia. >> reporter: nice to see you. christopher deedy will be back in court this morning and all eyes will be on that courtroom. this is a case that has gripped this island paradise. this surveillance footage shows the final moments of 23-year-old kollin elderts' life shot to death by off-duty federal agent christopher deedy. his first trial ending with a deadlock deadlocked jury. it painted him as a portrait as a bar-hopping drunk the night he shot elderts. >> the defendant was fueled by alcohol primed by warning about hostile locals and imbued with a sense of entitlement. >> reporter: but the defense alleges it was the victim and his friend who were the aggressors harassing other customers before scuffling with deedy and that deedy fired his gun in self-defense. >> what our law enforcement officers are trained to do, stop it before it becomes violent. >> reporter: he says he went for a night out testifying that he intervened when he saw elderts harassing other customers. >> i told him

and cecilia vega has the latest. good morning, cecilia. >> reporter: george, good morning to you., what a mess out here. this campus a few hours ago was a virtual lake. i want to show you what it looks like right now. take a look at this, piles of wet carpet. the recently refurbished athletic center, going to take a long time to clean up here. >> that sinkhole is getting bigger and bigger. >> reporter: after a nearly century-old water main 30 inches in diameter burst monday afternoon creating a 15-foot hole and sending up to 10 million gallons of water surging into a busy street and onto the ucla campus at a rate of 35,000 gallons per minute. >> we're at the steps in front of pauley pavilion at the ucla campus. >> reporter: all this at the height of a historic california drought. >> when you have this amount of water it's like a flash flood. you'd never know what's going to happen. >> reporter: take a look. ucla's legendary basketball arena, recently renovated for $132 million, soon submerged. >> it's really upsetting i mean, it's not nice to see it. >> reporter: water also rushin

cecilia vega has the story. >> reporter: we are learning more about her side of the story.intention of harming that executive. police are telling a different story and want to know if there's more victims out there. she is the alleged high-priced call girl accused of killing a google top executive. this morning alix tichelman is behind bars saying the whole thing was an accident. >> i don't believe this was an intentional crime. this case is about two adults engaged in mutual consensual drug usage. >> reporter: forrest hayes was found dead last november. police say surveillance footage from an onboard camera shows tichelman helping the father of five inject himself before he collapses. they say he can be seen stepping over his body and finishing her glass of wine. >> she did nothing to show concern, any care. >> reporter: now investigators are poring over her internet accounts and the 200 prostitution clients she allegedly boasted about searching for more potential victims. >> is there somebody out there who had a near-death experience or managed to survive this. >> reporte

abc's cecilia vega is outside the park in valencia with all the latest. good morning, cecilia. >> reporter: george, good morning. we are talking about a ride that is a suspended swinging ride high in the air with speeds of 4 gs around those turns. for those stuck on it, what a terrifying ride it was. >> incoming units to magic mountain. we still have victims on the ride. >> reporter: take a look. the riders were trapped for nearly three hours. 22 people dangling precariously. >> yeah, the coaster hanging railcars, about 7 railcars ranging from 20 to 30 feet off the ground. we'll have to remove all the patients. this is going to be challenging. >> reporter: four people sent to the hospital after riding a rollercoaster known as the ninja at six flags magic mountain amusement park outside los angeles. rescue workers say a tree branch fell on the tracks late monday evening, derailing the first car and forcing it to shut down. see that white metal arm? it's supposed to be attached to that red railing. >> it was really scary. i was sketched out to get on any oth