>> cecilia vega on the campaign trail for us tonight. cecilia, thank you. >>> a frightening landing for passengers on an allegiant flight to boise, idaho. the smell of fuel and what looked like smoke drove them scrambling out the emergency exits and onto the wing. the odor so strong, witnesses said they could smell it in the terminal. abc's aditi roy with what those passengers feared. >> reporter: a dramatic passenger-led evacuation on the wing of this allegiant airlines aircraft, after some on board noticed what they thought was smoke outside the plane friday night. jacquelyn jones was one of the passengers waiting in the terminal to board that plane. what could you see and smell? >> i could smell some sort of fumes or jet fuel as it was burning my throat and nose. >> reporter: a boise airport spokesman says the vapor was from fuel which had spilled from an auxiliary engine. and there was no fire of emergency. in a statement, allegiant airlines says at no time where the passengers or crew members on board the plane in danger. and that p

abc's cecilia vega is on the scene as new details come to light about this disturbed young man. and the innocent victims of the tragedy in charleston. ♪ ♪ let it shine let it shine ♪ >> reporter: the community of charleston is in mourning. >> we woke up today and the heart and soul of south carolina was broken. >> reporter: an entire nation grieving with south carolina. but during this vigil to pray for those who lost their lives, through the tears, a moment of relief. the suspect in wednesday night's deadly church massacre now in custody. >> that awful person that terrible human being who would go into a place of worship where people were praying and kill them is now in custody. where he will always remain. >> reporter: 21-year-old dylann roof finally captured during a traffic stop across state lines in shelby north carolina. more than 200 miles from charleston. and late tonight, roof transported back to south carolina. police saying a citizen alerted this emto his car. >> he was transported here to the shelb we currently have representatives from all the agencies that are invo

i'm cecilia vega.et straight to the urgent search happening right now for those two escaped prisoners. here they are. both convicted murderers. one a cop killer. breaking out of this maximum security prison in upstate new york. carving their way out of a prison cell sneaking out through tunnels. emerging through this manhole. the governor rushing to the scene. tonight, police telling everyone do not approach these men. abc's fill len menphillip mena. >> reporter: tonight, an all-out manhunt. more than 200 police officers looking for those two men who police say escaped from the clinton correctional facility in upstate new york. >> no stone is being left unturned. >> reporter: the inmates, david sweat and richard matt, were discovered missing during a 5:30 a.m. bed check. authorities say the men were in separate but neighboring cells. both allegedly using clothing to make it look like they were sleeping in their beds. officials discovered holes at the back of their cells. authorities say the two men use

i'm cecilia vega, we begin in south carolina with what may be a chilling look into the mass mind of a murderer. dylann roof shows a manifesto espousing white supremacy. seen in many photos. this one here here he is, a confederate flag in one hand and a gun in the other. the hate-still filled rant calls charleston a target because of its large black population. tonight finally some hope. the doors of the church opening once again and members returning for the very first time. worshippers will be back for services tomorrow. that is where we find abc's steve osunsami. leading us off once again tonight. steve. >> reporter: families here prepare for their sunday service. investigators are looking at photos of the alleged gunman and what may be his words. tonight, both the fbi and south carolina authorities are trying to confirm if these pictures, and what appears to be a manifesto posted online, are connected to the 21-year-old accused of murdering nine people at that bible study. dylann roof, in custody tonight, is seen with a gun, and confederate flags. it's a long essay, railing against

i'm cecilia vega in new york. thanks for spending your saturday with us. good night.

i'm cecilia vega. enjoy your saturday.good night. >>> next at 6:00, oakland's first deadly police shooting since 2013. why additional officers will be patrolling city treats tonight. o came to the aid of a try tri-athlete. >>> the help that could be on the way for californians whose wells are running dry in the without. abc7 news at 6:00 starts now. >>> a roadside standoff ends in gunfire. for the first time in two years oakland police are investigating a deadly shooting involving one of their own. >> put your hands out the driver's side window. >> tonight, extra officers will be patrolling city streets. good evening i'm katie marzullo. >> this morning's standoff and shooting unfolded just down the street from a group of people at local farmer's market. we're live in oakland with mere on what they heard and what police say happened. >> reporter: vendors were just getting set up whan they saw police surround the car near the 76 gas station and watched as officers broke windows, used projectiles and eventually shot the man i

>> cecilia vega on the scene for us, thank you. >>> now to the growing debate tonight over that former naacp leader breaking her silence. tonight she says she still considers herself black despite images as an adult and a teenager years earlier. this evening she explains it all in her own words. here's steve osunsami now. >>> i felt very isolated with my identity. >> reporter: she may be the most controversial naacp chapter president, ever, born into a white family, but tonight she's not backing down, telling msnbc that she's been black for a long time. >> i have really gone there with the experience in terms of being a mother of two black sons and really owning what it means to experience and live blackness. >> reporter: rachel dolezal, who resigned from the civil rights group monday under fire, says even as a white child living in montana, she knew she was black. >> from a very young age, i felt a spiritual, visceral very instinctual connection with black is beautiful, with just the black experience. >> reporter: she made headlines when she struggled to say if she was black or white.

david, they also tell me he dropped out of school in the 9th grade. >> of cecilia vega, thank you. >>> now to those lives cut short, people in that bible study, pillars of the community, in the classroom, the library, coaching on the track field. and this im tonight, that moment inside another church today, a packed room, the heart break of a room and steve osunsami, both you and i were there today. an extraordinary scene. >> yes, difficult for those families. we've been here twice before for police shootings in the last few months. in those instances the families were divided, but in this case, in this racially explosive incident, it is uniting families. >> pray the word of healing. >> reporter: even the dangerously high heat today couldn't keep hundreds from crowding memorials for the nine people killed in this house of god. >> whether they be black, white, whoever, we can allow this tragedy to unite us. >> reporter: white hands joined black ones together in prayer, telling us the almighty sees all their tears the same. >> hate may have motivated this but hate is not going to win. >

i'm cecilia vega in new york. thanks for spending your saturday with us. >>> next at 6:00, special pride celebration in full swing one day of a historic win for the lgbt community. >>> a california business owner defies critics to keep what he calls history flying at his shop. >>> the long, strange trip is coming to an end as the greetful dead bids fair well to fans. abc7 news at 6:00 starts now. >> overflowing with pride. the lgbt community takes over san francisco. the celebration bigger and more meaningful this you're after yesterday's landmark ruling. good evening, i'm katie marzullo. more than a million people are expected at this year's pride celebration. cornell bernard is live. >> reporter: guess what, there is a party going on tonight here at the castro. this is pink saturday, market street is closed from castro down to sanchez. the street party is all about music, it's all about dancing and, you know a lot of people say this weekend is really more than just a pride event. it's a victory. for marriage equality. >> the annual dike march arrived in

i'm cecilia vega. tonight, the manhunt for that escaped prisoner, now more desperate than ever. an army of officers working around the clock, zeroing in on just 22 square miles, now trying to find the last man standing. david sweat, the convicted cop killer, still on the run after three weeks. his accomplice, richard matt, cornered and gunned down yesterday by border guards. right now, some 1,200 officers in the search. there they are, at roadblocks checking cars. their weapons drawn, their unrelenting focus, finding david sweat before he crosses the border or hurts someone else. we begin tonight with abc's phillip mena. >> reporter: one down and one to go. tonight, the manhunt for fugitive killer david sweat is heating up. police warning sweat may be armed. >> sweat is still out there. he's considered dangerous. >> reporter: residents here on edge. >> terrifying. i've never been so scared in all my life. i had my husband look up to see, make sure his gun was handy. >> reporter: this, after federal border agents shot and killed fellow escapee richard matt, in the woods near a ca

here's cecilia vega on the campaign trail in des moines, iowa. >> reporter: hillary clinton 2.0. a presidential campaign kickoff part two, clinton's first rally since launching her 2016 run drawing thousands. >> i may not be the youngest candidate in this race but i will be the youngest woman president e united states1 >> reporter: husband bill and daughter chelsea right there with her. as clinton made the case for why she's running for a second time. the election still 512 days out. heating up with former >> great to be back in iowa. >> reporter: republican governor jeb bush releasing this ad just ahead of his expected announcement on monday. democratic challenger, vermont senator bernie sanders drawing big crowds of his own. >> they want some real change in terms of economics. >> reporter: and overnight, clinton hitting the campaign trail, too. one of america's most well-known politicians, now trying to reintroduce her again to voters. >> welcome to suxioux city, iowa. >> i want to work with you to build an economy that works for everyone. >> reporter: and from iowa, clinton he

more now from abc's cecilia vega. >> rush hour on a southern california freeway.he moment just before the crash. police call it a deadly case of road rage saying the black car fail gates the tail gates the motorcycle then rams it from behind and runs over and kills 39-year-old navy officer zack bube. >> we're talking about something that went from a simple traffic violation to a murder. >> driver darla jackson pleading not guilty to first degree murder. her mother says it was bube who kicked jackson's car and cut her off but records show jackson's checkered history. a driver's license once suspended for lack of knowledge or skill. two ex-boyfriends filing restraining orders against her, one accusing jackson of saying i'm going to run your expletive over with my car. in the last five years, 1500 people injured or killed in road rage incidents across america. a reminder to all drivers you never know who is in the car next to you. if convicted jackson faces 15 years to life. there are now families on both sides of this case grieving. all of this from an argument that

cecilia vega, abc news, lexington, south carolina. >> we're getting more and more accounts of exactly one woman was spared by the shooter just so she could tell her story. another woman and her 5-year-old granddaughter survived by playing dead her dress covered with blood as she shared her ordeal with a relative who spoke later with abc's david muir. >> her son was also supposed to play dead but he wanted to check on my cousin the reverend clementa pinckney. and when he got up, that's when the gunman questioned him and started, you know, saying y'all rape our women and y'all have taken over the country, and i have to do what i have to do. >> the pastor of the church 41-year-old reverend clementa pinckney, was among four ministers killed along with a recent college grad, a librarian, the pastor's wife and their young daughter survived in another room of the church. >> it has gone from anger now to disbelief. the worst grief imaginable. emotions in charleston difficult to describe. >> our coverage continues live in charleston with abc's kenneth moton. he's live there. kenneth, we've see

abc's cecilia vega is covering this angle of the story. >> reporter: police say delly walked into thatton church with a premeditated plan to kill. >> my mission is to bring justice for this community and especially for the victims in this case. >> reporter: this morning search warrants shedding new light on one of the deadliest attacks on a house of worship in u.s. history. investigators say before the massacre roof joined bible study in the church basement praying for an hour then he stood up pulled out a handgun and opened fire shooting each of his victims multiple times, standing over one of them and uttering what police call a racially inflammatory statement. but on friday he barely said more than a syllable in court. >> what is your age? >> 21. >> you're 21 years old. are you employed? >> no sir. >> his friends are talking revealing more details about the 21-year-old high school dropout. caleb brown said he and brown were friend ss since childhood. >> the trouble he got in was always like tiny behank tsk, tsk, don't do those things. >> reporter: in fact the friend he knows isn't a

our coverage begins with abc's cecilia vega with the latest on the suspect. >> a fresh-faced accusedafter his arrest. silent as he's asked why did he do it. >> what do you have to say? >> just 21 years old, friends say his alleged plan was six months in the making. this friend since childhood telling me roof had a deep hatred of black people. >> he wanted segregation. >> what did he want to see happen? how was he going to do this? >> i think he wanted something like trayvon martin to spark up the race war again. >> in this photo, flag patches, op his jacket one from apartheid era south africa the other from the former row deeshia ruled by a white minority now called zimbabwe. joey and his mom saw roof tuesday. they say he always had a gun with him. >> what kind of guns. >> .45 glock. >> does he carry it around? >> in his car. >> they called police when they saw him on tv. >> this is a small town. neighbors say they saw roof coming in and out of the country store all the time but he never raised any suspicion. earlier this year his behavior leading to run-ins with police. roof arreste

cecilia vega from berkeley tonight. >> reporter: the terrifying moment that fourth floor balcony packed with 13 party-goers came crashing down. five students visiting from ireland, and 22-year old ashley donohoe from california, killed. six more injured. today, berkeley's mayor saying improper sealing on that balcony may have allowed water to seep into the wood. the culprit could be dry rot, snapping. a balcony one floor below also ordered removed, investigators fearing it too was in danger of falling >> this was a clear-cut case to you? >> yes, it's clear-cut. >> reporter: some signs of possible danger? on stucco, dark stains or cracks. on wooden structures, soft spots. all could mean water damage. >> what might look fine from the outside, there may already be considerable damage on the inside. >> reporter: crews still working to bring that second balcony down. and investigators are on the scene trying to determine exactly what happened out here. this, as so many grieving families from ireland are now on their way to california. david? >> thank you. >>> we turn now to your voice, your

abc's cecilia vega in berkeley tonight. >>> reporter: the fourth floor balcony was packed with partiers when it came crashing down overnight. >> i repeat, one of the balconies broke. >> reporter: students, many visiting from ireland here to work for the summer, falling over 40 feet to the street below. >> we've got three patients on the ground that need treatment. they're on backboards but need further treatment. >> reporter: emergency crews racing to the scene just blocks away from the uc berkeley campus. fellow students heard the horror. >> it was just a loud crash, and then silence for a couple of minutes, then a scream. that was all i heard, really. >> reporter: the building, not even a decade old. here's that balcony before and after. completely detached, perched precariously on the balcony below. six people now dead, seven other students seriously injured. >> reporter: you think 13 people were on this balcony at the time of the collapse? >> yes. we're just trying to figure out what caused this. >> reporter: the weight limit on that balcony, 3,000 pounds. the 13 students would have

abc's cecilia vega tonight in the town where he was visiting friends just days ago. >>> reporter: a fresh-faced accused killer. dylann roof, hands behind his back, a bulletproof vest, just hours after his arrest. silent as he's asked, why did he do it? >> what do you have to say? >> reporter: just 21-years-old, friends say roof's alleged plan was six months in the making. today this friend since childhood telling me roof had a deep hatred of black people. >> he wanted segregation. >> how was he going to do this? >> i think he wanted something like trayvon martin to spark up the race war again. >> reporter: in this photo, flag patches on roof's jacket. one from apartheid-era south africa, the other from the former rhodesia, when it was ruled by a white minority. now called zimbabwe. joey meek and his mom kim saw roof just tuesday. they say he always had a gun with him. >> what kind of guns did he have? >> 45 glock. >> reporter: this is a small town, tight community. neighbors say they saw roof all the time in and out of the country store, but nothing seemed suspicious. but earlier this year, his

abc's cecilia vega with the clinton campaign in iowa. >>> hillary clinton 2.0.campaign kickoff part two. clinton's first rally since launching her 2016 run drawing thousands. >> i may not be the youngest candidate in this race. but i will be the youngest woman president in the history of the united states. >> reporter: husband bill and daughter chelsea right there with her as clinton made the case for why she's running for a second time. the election still 512 days out. heating up. >> great to be back in iowa. >> reporter: former republican governor jeb bush releasing this ad just ahead of his expected announcement. >> we fix how we tax, how we regulate. >> reporter: democratic challenger vermont senator bernie sanders drawing big crowds of his own in iowa. >> people have had it with establishment politics. they want some real change in term of our economics and our politics. >> reporter: clinton hitting the campaign trail too. one of americation most well-known politicians now trying to reintroduce herself yet again to voters. >> welcome to sioux city iowa. >>

abc's cecilia vega tonight. >> reporter: rush hour on a southern california freeway. this is the moment just before the crash. police call it a deadly case of road rage saying the black car tailgate motorcycle then rams it from behind and runs over and kills 39-year-old navy officer zach. >> we're talking about something that went from a simple traffic violation to you know to a murder. >> reporter: driver darla jackson pleading not guilty to first degree murder. records show jackson's checkered history. a driver's license once suspended for lack of knowledge or skill, two ex-boyfriends filing restraining orders against her. one accusing jackson of saying "i'm going to run your expletive over with my car." in the last five years, 1,500 people injured or killed in road rage incidents across america. a reminder to all drivers, you never know who's in the car next to you. if convicted, jackson faces 15 years to life. tonight, there are families on both sides of this case grieving. all of this stemming from an argument that police say could have and should have been avoid

it would be the fifth in two weeks and abc's cecilia vega with the new warning now. >> reporter: theecovering tonight the man on the stretcher, a 47-year-old dad. >> subject is on the beach. respond for a shark bite. >> reporter: swimming off the outer banks. bitten on his backside and ankle. witnesses said he yelled shark and ran out of the waist-deep >> water. the victim with multiple bites, is stable. >> reporter: though shark attacks are rare, experts say one possible reason, warmer water attracting sharks. >> i saw the shark on my left arm, it was halfway up my beaccept just attached and then it wasn't attached anymore. >> reporter: tonight, a coast on high alert, and a dad thankful he lived to tell. cecelia vega, abc news, new york. >> thank you. >>> when we come back, the other warning involving a parasite able to survive in family pools, even in the chlorine. >>> also the search tonight for the american olympic sailor lost at sea. >>> and this question are you owed money this evening? all of this involved a beer, and three words, made in america. did they promise something el

cecilia vega live at the jail in charleston where roof is being held and continues our coverage. d morning. >> reporter: david good morning to you. dylann roof's friends tell me he wanted to start a race war. he is now in this jail behind me facing a single count of murder but there are more charges to come. an accused killer brought home to south carolina to face justice hours after his arrest in north carolina dylann roof flown by airplane back to charleston police officers at his side. and this morning, the first pictures of roof behind bars. friends say the 21-year-old high school dropout was a loner, an unabashed racist with a deep hatred for black people. >> he wanted to make something spark up the race war again so he put -- he picked charleston i guess and then he targeted a black church. >> reporter: childhood friend joey meeks and his mom kim saw roof on tuesday, the day before the shooting. they say the fbi showed up at their house after they called police when they recognized roof's face on tv. they say roof advocated for segregation and always carried a gun in his car

cecilia vega is there with more. cecilia, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. the rally takes place behind me on roosevelt island. it will be the first big rally since she launched in april. and the deep subject, that is her mother. she hasn't spoken about her. she was abandoned as a child. hillary clinton said that experience deeply affected her as an adult. it deeply affected the advocacy she has taken on as a politician. and this is one of america's well known politicians to reintroduce herself to voters. we have seen the small round table discussions that she has been holding around the country. she is criticized for having them highly staged and choreographed. now she is going to make her case why she should be come president of the united states. today she is going to talk a lot about the middle class. that is going to be one of the center pieces of her campaign. thousands of people are planning to show up for the event today. they say they are at capacity right now. and among the people on the stage here, bill clinton, chelsea clinton. we don't know whet

and abc's cecilia vega has more on the young suspect. count of murder but there are more charges to come. he was extradited from north carolina overnight after his arrest. friends say the 21-year-old high school dropout was a loner and unabashed racist with a hatred for black people. they say he advocated for segregation, wanted to start a race war and they tell me he always carried a gun but a loner not affiliated with any organized hate groups and they believe he acted alone and he's being held in isolation. police say that's for his own protection. paula, he has his first court hearing later this afternoon. >> all right, cecilia, i know you'll be covering the story all day. thank you. >>> also happening right now, a state of emergency in missouri. one of several states bracing for record flooding in the aftermath of tropical storm bill. at least three deaths blamed on those floods. more than 13 inches of rain falling in parts of oklahoma. over a foot in texas and that rain is moving into the ohio valley and the northeast. ginger's fore

above the ground with only boulders below and somehow managed to survive caught on camera and cecilia vega story for us. >> reporter: it began as a breathtaking jump. high in the skies of arizona's superstition mountains. a group of friends taking a well choreographed leap of faith but then as one b.a.s.e. jumper takes off to join his friend midair their two parachutes become tangled wrapped in each other's lines rendering their chutes nearly useless spiraling down tied together. a look of sheer panic on this man's face. they are 200 feet above ground directly below a boulder field. a potentially deadly freefall but as they dropped, they somehow managed to untangle themselves. jumper scott frankson coming to a crash landing on the face of the boulder. his parachute catching on the rock possibly preventing him from suffering serious injuries. >> are you okay? >> yeah. >> reporter: the other making it to the ground. both walking away just fine. thankful for a miracle in the superstition mountains. >> he's okay. >> reporter: for "good morning america," cecilia vega abc news, san francisco. >>

more now from abc's cecilia vega. >> reporter: this morning the man twice convicted of stalking actressila kunis is on the run. authorities say stuart lynn dunn escaped from a southern california mental health facility saturday night. prying open a small bathroom window, scaling a barbed wire fence and making a break for it. >> we are working around the clock to try to bring him back into custody. >> it's getting closer and closer, huh? >> reporter: police telling abc news he still appears to be fixated on the "black swan" star. >> we don't know the level of his mental stability. again, we did have concerns that he maintained this fixation. >> reporter: dunn was ordered to stay away from kunis after his 2013 arrest outside her beverly hills gym. the incident so terrifying kunis hid in her suv until police arrived. a year earlier, dunn was arrested for breaking into kunis' vacant hollywood condo living there for two weeks. the new mom has been alerted about dunn's escape. this morning, kunis is not commenting. now, police hoping they catch dunn before he gets close to kunis again. for "g