that is a sign, david, that this investigation could be nearing completion. >> cecilia vega with us, as well. thank you, cecilia. >>> texas and ten other states are now suing the government tonight, over the obama administration's directive to scho schools, allowing transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity. the states are asking a federal court to declare that unlawful, accusing the administration of engineering a massive social experiment and side-stepping the democratic process. >>> tonight, the tsa chief was back on capitol hill, warning that those long lines at the airports will last all summer. but also reporting on what's being done to shorten them. this week, he says a pilot program now rolling out at the airport in atlanta to automatically recirculate bins and give passengers more time to take off their shoes. and there is a new tsa app that rolls out by the middle of next month that will give travelers up to the minute wait times predicted. >>> next, to some alarming moments on one passenger jet as it was taxiing to the runwa

former rival chris christie. >> all right, cecilia vega in kentucky for us. thank you, cecilia. >>> back to the vice president for a moment. robin roberts will have much more of her exclusive interview with joe biden on "gma" tomorrow morning about the 2016 race, about donald trump and about biden's own moonshot cancer initiative. that's tomorrow on "good morning america." >>> we turn to a midair scare. a flight from purlt rico to orlando, rocked by such fierce turbulence that the oxygen masks deployed. at least eight people were injured. here's abc's david kerley. >> reporter: the jetblue pilots radioed ahead. passengers hurt. >> cleared to land, jetblue 1134. >> reporter: this video, right after getting hit by teurbulenc. these photos of debris in the aisle, the refrigerator door that burst open. >> rescue unknown injuries from turbulence, inbound jetblue flight. >> reporter: eight passengers injured in a harrowing passengers. >> super scary. i was thinking that we really were going to die. >> reporter: about 30 minutes into the flight from puerto rico to or

>> cecilia vega, thank you, in a gray and wet louisville. cecilia, thank you. >>> next tonight, back here at home, to a former police officer who was arrested in texas years after a shooting death, while on duty in st. louis. shooting a suspect at point blank range. jason stockley is charged with first degree murder now. there was a high speed chase at the time. police say they thought they saw a drug deal. when the chase ended, stockley allegedly walked up to the car and then fired. anthony lamar smith took five bull lets through the driver's side window. >>> next tonight here, to a controversial move in one mississippi town. two high schools, one predominantly black, the other mostly white. but so close, the railroad tracks, the only thing between them. a court tonight ordering the a more diverse student body in both schools. but not everyone is happy. here's abc's steve osunsami. >> reporter: the court order sounds damning, and forces the cleveland, mississippi, school district to combine schools, creating new ones that aren't so racially

her husband bill, 22 speeches for over $5 million. >> and cecilia vega joins us as well. as much as hillary clinton wants to put the primary behind her, there's now talk of another democratic debate? >> reporter: there is, david. the final debate, before the california primary in june. bernie sanders says he welcomes it. no comment so far from hillary clinton. tonight, democratic party leaders tell us they're skeptical it will ever happen. >> all right, cecilia vega, thank you. >>> there are new revelations this evening about the o.j. simpson murder trial. from a leading member of his legal team. robert shapiro speaking out. and for the first time, sharing what it was that o.j. whispered to him the moment after that not guilty verdict. here's linsey davis. >> reporter: robert shapiro is back in the headlines tonight after this interview with fox news' megyn kelly where he talks for the first time in 20 years about among other things where he thinks the prosecution went wrong. >> the prosecution wedded themselves to one knife, one killer theory. i think it's pretty clear,

>> cecilia vega with us again tonight. cecilia, thanks. >>> and one more question on this before we move on. let's get right to jon karl. because jon, we showed the poll at the top there. hillary clinton up by 13 points over trump. but you're right there at the map. and listen, the trump team just wiped out 16 other republicans, he sees openings against clinton. >> reporter: they sure do, david. but make no mistake, hillary clinton begins this with a significant advantage. take a look at the map. the states in dark blue are states that have voted democratic in all of the last six presidential races. all she has to do is to hang onto those states and win the state of florida and she has the electoral votes to be elected president. what trump hopes to do to change that is to win his home state of new york, neighboring pennsylvania, perhaps even michigan. if he can do that, he can change the dynamic and he can win. >> all right. how long until november? jon karl with us. jon, thanks. >>> we're going to move on tonight, to othe

i think i'm invigorating american democracy. >> and cecilia vega with us live tonight. hillary clinton has said in recent days, cecilia, that she'd consider a successful businessperson to join her on the ticket. and now reports that mark cuban, the owner of the dallas mavericks and a reality show star himself, has received calls from clinton's camp? what is he saying about that tonight? >> reporter: david, cuban says those calls came in recently from the clinton campaign. they asked to schedule a meeting. this came after he publicly said that he would be willing to consider being her vice president, but david, so far, cuban says no specific talk of a v.p. slot just yet. >> all right, stay tuned. cecilia vega, live in california, thank you. >>> we turn now to a terror arrest here in new york city. the arrest of a young american in the bronx, accused of supporting isis. 22-year-old sajmir alimehmeti is in custody tonight, accused of helping an undercover agent who he thought was an isis supporter. investigators releasing images of his transformation. they accuse him of pr

abc's cecilia vega with details. >> reporter: hillary clinton slammed by state department investigators who say she never requested or obtained permission to conduct government business on her private server, even though she had an obligation to do so. clinton has repeatedly promised to cooperate with the fbi investigation into those e-mails. >> i'm more than ready to talk to anybody, any time. i'm happy to answer any questions that anybody might have. any time you want to talk to me, here i am. >> reporter: but she refused to talk to state department investigators, and so did her clinton has said that private server was never hacked, but the state department investigation did uncover an attempted hack. multiple clinton staffers sounding alarms about it. one instructing her team not to e-mail clinton anything sensitive, saying she would explain more in person. clinton's campaign points out the new report also shows another secretary of state used a private e-mail account, too. a spokesman tweeting, her personal e-mail use was not unique at state department. i tried to ask about it. secr

her husband, 22 speeches for over $5 million. >> and cecilia vega well. as much as hillary clinton wants to put the primary behind her, there's now talk of another democratic debate? >> reporter: yes, before california's primary in june. tonight, democratic party leaders tell us they're skeptical it will ever happen. >> thank you. >>> there are new revelations this evening about the o.j. simpson murder trial. robert shapiro speaking out. and for the first time, sharing what it was that o.j. whispered to him after that not guilty moment. here's lindsay davis. >> reporter: robert shapiro is back in the headlines tonight after this interview with fox news' megyn kelly where he talks for the first time in 20 years about among other things where he thinks the prosecution went wrong. >> the prosecution wedded themselves to one knife, one killerhe i think it's pretty clear, that it was within reasonable medical probability that more than one knife was used. >> reporter: shapiro was recently portrayed in the hit fx series, "the people versus o.j. simpson." >> you

cecilia vega with us tonight. bernie sanders we just heard him, insisting he's going all the way to the convention. tonight, hillary clinton it clear that she's, quote, focused onto moving into the general election? >> reporter: she certainly is, david. her campaign is no longer spending money on tv ads running in primary states. they are now raising money, lots of it, off of comments that donald trump has made about her, and as you said, she's not campaigning in indiana today. she's right here in ohio. that battleground state for the general election. david? >> cecilia, thank you. >>> we turn next tonight to the other news, and to the city bus hijacked today with passengers onboard. and the terrifying moments that followed. it happened in washington, d.c., an armed man attacking the driver, then getting behind the wheel. the drama coming to a sudden and violent end, when the hijacker struck a man. tonight, authorities are now looking at a key piece of video. and abc's senior justice correspondent pierre thomas ha

>> cecilia vega there in kentucky tonight. cecilia, thank you. >>> there is also growing scrutiny when it comes to donald trump and his taxes. trump has said himself, i work very, very hard to avoid paying taxes. abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross on trump's golf course and his yacht, and the millions of tax dollars at stake. >> reporter: in its promotional video, the trump national golf club in new york, with its stately clubhouse, championship course and 100-foot waterfall, is presented as an elite playground for the wealthy. trump has publicly boasted that this place is worth more than $50 million. but now, his tax lawyers are trying to claim it's worth only a little over $1 million. $1.3 million. that would mean his tax bill would drop from $808,000 a year to just $80,000. and now, this small town is forced into a legal fight with donald trump. >> there are individual homes worth a lot more than $1.3 million. how could it possibly be that low? >> reporter: going back decades, trump has been a master of tax

more now from abc's cecilia vega. >> i feel good. i just feel generally good. >> reporter: hillary clinton sounding upbeat at the end of a tough fight. but bernie sanders still sighing a glimmer of hope. >> i understand that secretary clinton thinks that this campaign is over. i've got some bad news for her. >> reporter: even with a sanders win in indiana, it will still be virtually impossible for him to clinch the nomination. >> and i do not deny it for one second that we have an uphill battle in front of us. but i think we have a path to a victory. >> the facts are pretty clear. i'm 3 million votes ahead of him. 300 pledge delegates ahead of him. >> reporter: but sanders is vowing to fight on. >> so we feel great about tonight, not only in winning here, in indiana, in accumulating some more delegates but also gaining the momentum we need to take us to the finish line. >> reporter: bernie sanders' victory party came in the form of a tweet he wrote, the political revolution wins indiana. hillary clinton's campaign took to twitter too

>> cecilia vega with us again tonight.ia, thank you. >>> we're going to move on now to a mid-air scare involving two american fighter jets. their f-18 superhornets colliding off the coast of north carolina. the coast guard and commercial fishermen pulling all four crew members out of the water. abc's chief global ail fairs correspondent martha raddatz tonight on the training mission gone wrong. >> reporter: the coast guard flew two of the naval aviators to the hospital within hours of the jets colliding. the other two, who had been picked up by a passing fishing boat, arriving an hour later. the two jets were flying 24 miles off of cape hatteras, a training mission, likely flying in tight formation, like these air force jets, just a few feet separating them. it is not clear what parts of the ear plain airplanes hit, but even wingtips striking could bring the plane down, saying former f-18 pilot steve ganyard. aircraft is very dynamic and there's very little room for error. but first rule is, don't run into the other guy. >

i'm cecilia vega.n this unofficial first weekend of summer, we begin with dangerous weather wreaking havoc in so much of the country. torrential rain in parts of texas. this pick-up truck there, no match for the saturated road in magnolia, texas, historic rain triggering damaging floods. this suv washed away. this is how it came to a standstill. now a tropical storm warning in the atlantic as millions are at the beach this holiday, rip current dangerous from florida to north carolina. your holiday forecast in a moment. and we have team coverage on it all, but first, abc's phillip mena with those flood rescuers in woodlands, texas. >> reporter: tonight outside houston, neighborhoods under water, residents scrambling to get out any way they can. >> we're just watching the water. we have nowhere to go. >> reporter: up to 16 inches in 24 hours washing out roads and submerging cars. two dead and now five missing after days of violent storms. in wichita, an 11-year-old boy is missing after being swept away w

i'm cecilia vega. we begin with the race for the white house and the voice from the past coming back to haunt donald trump. the gop's presumptive nominee accused of posing as his own spokesperson during a phone interview. well, tonight, we're hearing from the woman on the other end of that call. at the same time, hillary clinton is on the attack, suggesting that donald trump is hiding something by refusing to release his taxes. abc's mary bruce starts us off. >> reporter: tonight, the person on the other end of this call. >> what's your name again? >> john miller. >> reporter: tells us there's no question in her mind. >> i knew right away. i knew as soon as i got off the phone it was donald. >> reporter: in 1991, sue carswell, then a reporter for "people" magazine, conducted this interview with a person who identified himself as donald trump's spokesman, john miller. >> he's somebody that has a lot of options, and, frankly, you know he gets called by everybody. and he gets called by everybody in the bo

that the unity she showed in 2008 happens this time around in 2016. >> and cecilia vega with us live tonight, and so many people asking, cecilia, is hillary clinton ready for what donald trump will likely bring against her? and you've asked her that very question. >> reporter: i did, david. i asked her if running against donald trump would give her any pause, she said, not one bit. she wouldn't even let me get the question out, really. and you heard her say it again today, basically, bring it on. david? >> cecilia, thank you. >>> and one more question on this before we move on. let's get right to jon karl. because jon, we showed the poll at the top there. hillary clinton up by 13 points over trump. but you're right there at the map. and listen, the trump team just wiped out 16 other republicans, he sees openings against clinton. >> reporter: they sure do, david. but make no mistake, hillary clinton begins this with a significant advantage. take a look at the map. the states in dark blue are states that have voted democratic in all of the last six presidential races. all she has to do

>> cecilia vega with us from ohio tonight as we are live on the air in the west. cecilia, thank you. >>> we move to other news tonight, and a city bus hijacked today, and the terrifying moments that followed. it happened in washington, d.c., an armed man attacking the driver, and then getting behind the wheel himself. the drama coming to a sudden and v vie leapt end, when the hijacker struck a man. tonight, authorities are looking at a key piece of video, and abc's pie area thomrre thomas w video tonight. >> he ran over my boyfriend. >> reporter: as the bus hijacking comes to a dramatic, violent end, police descend on the scene, surrounding the suspect who's still inside. >> show me your hands. >> reporter: police will be poring over this difficult to watch video, recorded by a bystander on his cell phone. only feet away, just out of frame, is the dying victim, run over by the bus. >> it was crazy. i don't know why people do that. very crazy. >> reporter: it all started at this quiet bus stop. the suspect got on here. no one anticipating what would happen next. wi

i'm cecilia vega. if you thought the race for the white house couldn't get any nastier, it just did and in the most personal way. late today donald trump launched a blistering new attack on not just hillary clinton but her husband bill too. yes, trump went there after the former president's sex scandals. the presumptive g.o.p. front-runner also fired off at top members of his own party who refused to back him, telling them, he doesn't want or need their help. abc's mary bruce on the campaign trail leading us off tonight. >> reporter: tonight donald trump is taking aim at both clintons. >> she's married to a man who was the worst abuser of women in the history of politics. and hillary was an enabler and she treated these women horribly, just remember this, and some of those women were destroyed not by him but by the way that hillary clinton treated them after everything went down. >> reporter: and blasting hillary clinton for saying he treats women badly. >> she's going, did you hear that donald trump r

i'm cecilia vega. a great night. >>> next, a break in a bay area murder case as law enforcement raids a mansion, taking suspects into custody. >> from one business to the next. >> burned theground. fire destroys self businesses on a busy east oakland block. >>> a soggy saturday in parts of the bay area could be a preview of sunday. abc7 news at 6:00 starts now. >> a hillsboro mansion raided with at least two suspects taken into custody. today law enforcement took a big step in the investigation of a missing bay area man. thank you for joining us. keying green went missing in april, today law enforcement raided the home of his ex-girlfriend and mother of his two children and took her into custody along with another man. sir gentlemen kin fan sir joe is live with details. >> reporter: neighbors tell me it was a full police tactical operation here overnight, as you mentioned there were two people arrested in a murder investigation. neighbors say the gate was busted open with an armored police vehicle, and

and thank you for joining us on this saturday, i'm cecilia vega. we begin with heavy rain and severe storms tonight, threatening millions of americans. more than 120 storm reports in just 24 hours. and that weather taking a deadly turn in texas, where flash flooding swept through this house, killing the great grandmother and her four great grandchildren. that state seeing the brunt of it. up to eight inches of rain falling in some spots. and take a look at this. the flood caught on camera, washing away this road. and this time lapse. that is one of five reported tornadoes that ripped across the southern plains. abc's phillip mena leads us off from the storm zone tonight. >> reporter: tonight, flash floods bringing a deadly wall of water. nearly eight inches of rain in texas. waters rising to roof level in mere minutes. >> need ems at timber, multiple units, ems timber. >> reporter: a grandmother and her four great grandchildren, all under 9 years old, unable to escape. >> we're going to probably need possibly dive team to walk the back of this hous

cecilia vega, abc news, new york. >> one final political note, don't expect to hear any more rolling stones songs at trump rallies. the band says they never gave permission. >>> overseas, north korea is gearing up for the biggest meeting of its ruling party in some 36 years. all over the capital city people have been practicing for celebrations which will mark the event that starts tomorrow. the meeting is likely a chance for kim jong-unto cement power. >>> rescue efforts to rescue stranded residents they still not able to save a 64-year-old grandmother and her gand children. they admit the video against the outcry against their response. >>> palestine tien texas is getting help from adrian peterson. he's donating $100,000 for relief efforts. he said his families are fine. >>> the latest on the crisis in flint the city's utility director has agreed to a plea deal, he'll cooperate with prosecutors in exchange for a lesser sentence. this, as the president visited flint and drank some filtered tap water. the president vowed to keep the pressure on leaders at all levels until all of the

>> cecilia vega, abc news. >> happening tonight, it's the annual billboard music awards from las vegas wins of any artist in history. ity britney spears will open the show with with a medley of her hits. madonna will pay tribute to prince. there will be many more chart-topping performers taking the stage. the billboard music awards start at 5:00 tonight right here on abc7. still ahead, meet the students who beat the odds in more ways than one. what each of them overcame to split their high school's highest prize four ways. and here is a live look from our roof cam showing you the american flag there flying in the breeze. just a slight breeze. cooler weather today. lisa argen on the roof checking it all out when we come back. from bank of america to buy a new gym bag. before earning 1% cash back everywhere, every time and 2% back at the grocery store. even before he got 3% back on gas. kenny used his bankamericard cash rewards credit card to join the wednesday night league. because he loves to play hoops. not jump through them. that's the excitement of rewarding connections. apply onlin

>> cecilia vega, abc news. >> happening tonight, it's the annual billboard music awards from las vegasto earn the most wins of any artist in history. madonna will pay tribute to prince. there will be many more chart-topping performers taking the stage. the billboard music awards start at 5:00 tonight right here on abc7. still ahead, meet the students who beat the odds in more ways than one. what each of them overcame to split their high school's highest prize four ways. and here is a live look from our exploratorium cam. -- the golden gate bridge camera. cloudy and foggy not just there but many places across the bay. we may not see sunshine until afternoon. lisa argen will be along shortly with the full accuweather forecast. >>> we recommend you don't try what this man is about to do. naturalist casey anderson spends a lot of time with this orphan grizzlies cub. you see him tickling and playing around with bella the bear, the montana bear and rescue education sanctuary provides a home for orphan bears while they learn how to live in the wild. >> a quiet revolution is sweeping bay area

little girls are in a little league of their own. >> it just shows that girls can do it too. >> cecilia vega, abc news. >> happening tonight, it's the annual billboard music awards from las vegas. adele is a finalist in eight categories. she's expected to learn the most award of any artist in history. ma donna will pay tribute to prince. there will be many more chart-topping performers taking the stage. the billboard music awards start at 5:00 tonight right here on abc7. still ahead, meet the students who beat the odds in more ways than one. what each of them overcame to split their high school's highest prize four ways. and here is a live look from our exploratorium cam. five to six degrees cooler than yesterday at this hour. is there a warmup in store? lisa argen will have your forecast in just a few. i like the bride more than the groom. turquois dresses... so excited. did all her exes get invited? no one's got moves like uncle joe. ♪ should i stay or should i go? ♪ when it's go, book with choice hotels and get a free $50 gift card for staying just two times. book direct at choicehotels.c

we have more now from abc's cecilia vega. >> reporter: the former model quoted in a front page "new york times" investigation into donald trump's relationships with women is coming to his defense. rowanne brewer lane now denouncing the story. it said when she met the billionaire, trump immediately took her into a room at his mar-a-lago estate, asked her to put on a swimsuit and then paraded her before a crowd. >> i think they had an agenda with that one, because as many times as i asked and as many times as they promised that it was not a hit piece, clearly it was. >> reporter: "the times" portrayed the incident as degrading, but brewer lane, who went on to date trump, says it wasn't. >> he's very much a gentleman. and he's polite, he's thoughtful, he's a good listener. >> reporter: trump tweeting, "we have exposed the article as a fraud." but "the times" is standing by its reporting, saying brewer lane was quoted fairly, accurately and at length. the story quoted other women, too -- >> miss utah! >> reporter: including a former miss utah, who told the paper trump introduced himself and

cecilia vega, abc news, columbus, ohio. >> okay, so let's get to the delegate count now with the front-runners all about unstoppable. >> donald trump picked up at least 51, if not all of the state's gop delegates. that brings his overall count to 1 1,049. inching closer to that magic number of 1,237. >> despite his victory he'll have to split indiana's delegates evenly with hillary clinton. she has more than 2,200 delegates in all and sanders is facing an uphill battle. he needs to win 95% of the remaining delegates to clinch the nomination. >>> do stay with abc news for the latest on the primary results. live team coverage and analysis straight ahead on "good morning america." >>> and later in this half hour donald trump accusing ted cruz's dad of being assassination. that photo that trump says is proof and reaction from ted cruz's father. >> president obama heads to michigan today to get a firsthand look at the flint water crisis and maybe a taste. the trip comes after-year-old mari copeny wrote her a letter and plans to meet with her and other residences but the governor under fire for the

i'm cecilia vega, and we begin tonight with the mystery of egyptair flight 804. we are hearing for the first time the pilots' radio calls and now the new clues. we know there was smoke on that plane during its final moments. so was there a mechanical failure too? today the egyptian military gathering pieces of debris floating in the sea. among them mangled parts of the plane itself. there at the left, a child's pink backpack. those objects signs of the lives lost. and we are learning more about those passengers tonight, too, including the parents on their way home, their children waiting for them at the airport. abc's matt gutman starts us off from cairo. >> reporter: as the physical remnants of that doomed plane were laid out on a ship, tonight we hear for the first time the voices of the men flying it. >> hello, hello, egyptair 804 flight level 370, squawk number 7624. >> reporter: that's a recording of the flight deck's communications with the air traffic control tower early thursday. their final words chillingly mundane. >> thank you so much. good day. have a