abc's david kerley was there. >> reporter: the rail car burst into flames after derailing. as the fire intensifies watch this massive explosion. [ explosion ] >> back up. >> two warehouses had their walls shredded, windows blown

here's david kerley. >> reporter: voting in texas with supporters and critics outside, the boy scouts national council's historic move matches the country's evolving view on gay rights. ♪ more than a century millions of boys have learned outdoor and leadership skills as part of scouting but gay members have always been banned. paschal tessier, a for nearly a decade, announced he was gay and was told he wouldn't be able to earn the highest rank. >> it was great. they're finally taking a step in the right direction allowing gay youth into the boy scouts. >> reporter: some parents are dism dismayed. >> we'll be required to teach homosexuality to young boys as young as 6 and as old as 17. >> reporter: the scouts deny that will the case but this repeal could mean the loss of some sponsorships and by one estimate up to one in ten scouts could leave the program. while the ban is lifted on scouts, gay leaders are still banned. the battle is not over. david kerley, abc news, washington. >>> computer systems at american corporations have been hit hard by cyberattackers from iran. this morning's

abc's david kerley is right there. david, that's the smoke i see behind you?rter: it is, absolutely. firefighters just started pouring water on it again, the burning railcars. plenty of smoke. this started at 2:00. a truck driver is in serious condition. and wait until you see this explosion right after the derailment. >> two railcars burst into flames after derailing. but as the fire intensifies, a massive explosion. >> back up! >> reporter: two warehouses had their walls shredded, windows blown out in the surrounding area. people in a 20-block area told to stay away. >> i thought it was an earthquake 'cause the house shook. it wasn't just a normal boom. >> when it went, it knocked me down and my two other co-workers. >> reporter: here it is again, the blast that intensified the fire. officials say a garbage truck that hauls dumpsters, hit the train. 15 cars in all derailed. the rail company says there are no dangerous inhalents. the burning cars carry acid. another car is filled with a hazardous chemical that can be explosive. this is the third serious derai

david kerley, abc news, washington. >>> computer systems at american corporations have been hit hardy cyberattackers from iran. this morning's "wall street journal" reports the hackers have infiltrated energy companies. sources tell the newspaper the hackers managed to access software that controls oil or gas pipelines. now u.s. officials are worried about potential sabotage. >>> irs workers will have an extra long holiday weekend. today is the first of five planned furlough days stemming from the sequester, but no work will mean no pay. tax returns will not be processed on furloughed days, but taxpayers will still be required to pay any due taxes and meet other deadlines. >>> now to some sports and the hockey playoffs. hoc playoff, a series that had been pretty one-sided got pretty wild. highlights from espn. >>> good morning, cassidy hubbarth with your "sportscenter" update. the bruins going for the four-game sweep at madison square garden. meanwhile, the rangers trying to force a game five and send the series back to boston. second period, bruins on the power play, up 1-0. puck pl

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abc's david kerley on this major change for an american institution. >> reporter: voting in texas with supporters and critics outside, the boy scouts national council historic move matches the countries evolving view on gay rights. for more than a century, millions of boys have learned outdoor and leadership skills as part of scouting, but gay members have always been banned. pascal tessier of maryland, a scout for a decade, announced he was gay and was told he would not be able to earn the highest rank -- until tonight. >> it's actually great. they are finally taking a step in the right direction by allowing gay youth in to the boy scouts. >> reporter: some parents of scouts are dismayed. >> we'll be required to teach homosexuality to young boys, as young as six and as old as 17. >> the scouts deny that will be the case. but this repeal could mean a loss of some sponsorships. and by one estimate, up to one in ten scouts could leave the program. and while the ban is lifted tonight on scouts, gay leaders are still banned. the battle is not over. david kerley, abc news, washington. >> da

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david kerley shows us why some people are wary. ♪ >> reporter: they promise to double your pleasure,ut now wrigley wants to give you a kick of caffeine. "alert," a new chewing gum. one piece equals a half cup of coffee. just the latest food product with added caffeine. a bag of cracker jack treats, equal to a cup of coffee. jelly bean sports beans, a half cup. and how about biofuel popcorn? caffeine infused. >> why are companies doing this? >> the food industry is always searching around for unoccupied niches. adding caffeine to a snack food. they advertise it keeps you alert. >> reporter: it used to be just our morning coffee or tea, or a cola, that gave us that pick-me-up buzz. but the success of energy drinks is now spreading the sprinkling of caffeine. >> it's the total lack of control by some safety agency that's really of concern. >> reporter: but tonight the food and drug administration is jumping in, saying it has only approved added caffeine "for cola and that was in the 1950s," adding it's worried "children and adolescents may be exposed to caffeine." so it is "taking a fre

david kerley, abc news, rosedale, maryland. >>> disneyland in california will be open for business as usual today following something of a scare. the area called mickey's toontown was evacuated yesterday after a small explosion in a trash can. police believe it was caused by dry ice in a bottle. no injuries or damages were caused. disney is the parent company of abc news. >>> federal prosecutors have arrested seven people in what's being called the biggest international money laundering scheme ever. they are accused of running an under world bank that handled $6 billi billion, mostly for drug dealers, identity thieves and child pornographers among others. this company based in costa rico run by an american, arrests made in new york, costa rica and spain. >>> two staffers from the american embassy in venezuela are recovering after being shot. the shooting took place outside a strip club early yesterday after a fight broke out. the staffers haven't been identified. so far, police made no arrests. >>> a developing story from mexico now where an american mother of seven is under arrest on

here's abc's david kerley. >> reporter: what you are about to see could save your child's life. top, how silently and quickly he faces drowning, as he moves to deeper water. suddenly he slips away. look at it again. that fast. under water for ten seconds before being saved. some kids end up at the bottom of the pool and can't be seen. look at the test dummy in calm water versus when it is churned up. which is why with 300 kids under 5 drowning each year the government is pleading with parents. >> this is preventable. if you have children make sure they know how to swim. if you have a pool make sure there is a fence. >> reporter: more than half of those under 5 drown in the family always pool. these warnings and recommendations are nothing new. unfortunately the number of children drowning has remained steady. collin jones nearly became a statistic at age 5. >> i was under water 30 second. it only takes a child 20 seconds to drown. >> reporter: jonathan not only survived, but he learned to swim. boy, can he swim. he became a gold medalist in 2008, and he's now trying to change th

abc's david kerley was there. >> reporter: the rail car burst into flames after derailing.re intensifies watch this massive explosion. [ explosion ] >> back up. >> two warehouses had their walls shredded, windows blown out in the surrounding area. people in a 20-block area told to stay away. >> i thought it was an earthquake. the house shook. it wasn't a normal boom. >> when it went it knocked me down and my two other co-workers. >> reporter: here it is, again. the blast that only intensified the fire. officials say a garbage truck that hold dumpsters hit the train. 15 cars in all derailed. the rail company says there are no dangerous inhalants. the burning cars carry acid. another car filled with hazardous chemical that can be explosive. this is the third serious derailment this month. friday in missouri, the train took out supports for an overpass. rail lines snake through every major city and many neighborhoods. david kerley, abc news, rosedale, maryland. >>> federal prosecutors arrested seven people in what is called the biggest money laundering scheme in u.s. history.

david kerley, abc news. >> statistics are sobering. and 4. >> lightening thing thousands up, you know what they're missing. you at the pool. >> me at the pool? hasselhoff has nothing on me. now where is pam anderson? can we get diana rocking pam andersen's body? please, just out of context next commercial break. nothing tied to anything. just put it up. >> randomly bring it up. sure they will work on it now. coming up what justin bieber wants his guests to do before they step into his house. >> pam andersen, please. serious accusations against a former pro baseball great. that's next in "the skinny." >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our abc stations. former pro baseball great. that's next in "the skinny." . ♪ skinny so skinny ♪ skinny so skinny >> all right. skinny time. and this is not a good story. a developing story. we don't know the real story. facts are coming in. tmz its ts the source of this s. jose canseco no stranger to controversy, baseball great, had so much controversy with steroid, this, that. back

as abc's david kerley reports in some cases those amounts are unprecedented. >> reporter: they promise to double your pleasure. now wrigley wants to give you've a kick of caffeine. alert, a new chewing gum. one piece equal to half cup of coffee. just the latest food product with added caffeine. a bag of crackerjack treats, equal a cup of coffee. jellybean sport beans, half cup. biofuel's popcorn, caffeine in fused. why are the companies doing it? >> the food industry is always searching around for unoccupied niches. adding skaf fine caffeine to a . >> reporter: use to be morning, coffee, tea, cola that gave me the pick me up buzz. the success of energy drinks is spreading sprinkling of caffeine. >> it is the total lack of controls by some safety agency that is really of concern. >> reporter: the food and drug administration is jumping in saying it is only approved added caffeine for cola and that was in the 1950s. adding it is worried children may be exposed to caffeine so it is take a fresh look at these new sources of caffeine. experts we talked to say children should have as little

tonight david kerley with the images the moment that bridge collapsed and the new concerns growing tonight. >> reporter: surveillance video captured the moment of the collapse. the bridge falling away, two cars plummeting into the river. investigators say an oversize truck struck the bridge's steel girders possibly triggering the collapse. today ntsb officials were interviewing the truck driver hoping to determine what went wrong. this isn't the first time a truck hit the bridge but never before with such catastrophic results. this week's collapses are renewing concerns about the nation's aging infrastructure. one out of every nine of this country's bridges is structurally deficient, meaning part of the bridge has been rated poor, nearly 67,000 bridges. some of them get a lot of traffic. we make 200 million trips over a structurally deficient bridge every day. we visited one of those bridges. washington d.c.'s key bridge with former ntsb investigator jim wildey. >> that's what you're worried about. >> when the concrete falls away the underlying reinforcement steel can corrode. >> "20/20's"

here's abc's david kerley tonight. >> reporter: during one of the most critical parts of flight, thisan allegedly started yanking on the handle of one of the plane's exits. alaska airlines said they were ten minutes away from landing in portland, oregon, when the passenger in row 17, one of the exit rows, made some unusual statements and started pulling on the handle, trying to open the emergency door. passengers leapt into action. >> they took him down. they held him down until the flight attendants could get there with restraints. those passengers continued to help them restrain this individual, who was wanting to get out mid flight. >> reporter: they used shoelaces and seat belts to hold down 23-year-old alexander herrera. the airline and experts say he never would have been able to get the door open in flight. >> as frightening as it is, it simply can't be done. until you're on the ground, there's enough pressure inside holding all those doors closed. >> reporter: passengers held down the 220-pound suspect who is under arrest. the question, why did he do it? david, tonight, that's

david kerley. >>> another quick look at the weather.or that we return it to ginger in central park. ginger? >> we've got a hurricane forecast. federal forecasters using the words "extremely active" to describe what's going to happen come summer and fall. remember, hurricane season starts june 1st already if you can believe it or not. look at these numbers. they expect three to six major hurricanes, that's category 3, 4 or 5, so really big, but, remember, as you're looking at these numbers not to get too worried. be vigilant but not necessarily making landfall. the rainfall for the northeast and quick hook at the severe storm possibilities today. your local forecast is coming up in just 30 seconds but first your sunny cities brought to you by coppertone. >>>çk good morning, maryland, im lynette charlesÑ- and we do have patchy fog out there this morningÑmhp'd temperatures above afternoon. we will be cool and we will be windy, high coming in aroundçkÑ- 64. we'll haveÑ- the around, maybe a few peaks of sunshine but as we head toward the wee

david kerley. >>> meanwhile, let's take another quick look at the weather. that we return it to ginger in central park. ginger? >> we've got a hurricane forecast. federal forecasters using the words "extremely active" to describe what's going to happen come summer and fall. remember, hurricane season starts june 1st already if you can believe it or not. look at these numbers. they expect three to six major hurricanes, that's category 3, 4 or 5, so really big, but, remember, as you're looking at these numbers not to get too worried. be vigilant but not necessarily making landfall. there's a look at the rainfall for the northeast. and a quick hook at the severe storm possibilities today. your local forecast is coming up in just 30 seconds but first your sunny cities brought to you by coppertone. >>> good morning. your forecast, see a lot of sunshine out there. not quite as breezy as it has been this week. cooler weather through the holiday weekend with the coolest monday coming with that chance of rain. temperatures today, we're going to have mid to upper 50s

abc's david kerley is in washington, d.c. with that side of the story. david? >> reporter: good morning. about 1 in 10 of us will be on the road this holiday weekend and there will be concerns with bridges like this one, more than 67,000 in the country that have a designation that is concerning. look at this. the mad dash for the atlantic beach for memorial day, families starting the summer in the car. more than 31 million who will pay a little more for gas. and they may be thinking about these pictures, of that bridges that collapsed in washington state, send twog cars into the river below. no official cause but a truck did hit an overhead steel girder, a remind that they many bridges are poorly rated. in fact, every day americans make 200 million trip as cross what are called structurally deficient bridges, 1 out of every 9 bridges. part of each of those bridges in poor condition. is this a problem you've seen in a lot of bridges? we looked at key bridge in washington, d.c. with a former government investigator. we could see concrete ready to fall way. sounds

abc's david kerley shows us. >> reporter: when the 15 cars jumped the track, two of them immediatelyt fire drawing onlookers who were surprised suddenly by this massive explosion. >> back up. >> reporter: that explosion only intensified the fire. >> it shook the building. i never felt nothing like that. >> reporter: windows shattered. nearby warehouse walls shredded. here it is again. >> when it went it knocked me down and my two other co-workers. >> reporter: as a precaution people were told to stay 20 blocks away. officials say it was a trash truck which carries dumpsters that hit the 47-car freight train. two of the cars carrying acid burned into the night. >> reporter: it's been five hours since the derailment and firefighters just stopped pouring water on it. there's still smoke coming out of the two cars burning. these firefighters learned that the driver of that trash truck was one of their own, retired. he's in serious congress this morning. meantime, the ntsb says it will now investigate how his truck was able to strike a train and cause such a dangerous explosion. for "good

david kerley, abc news, washington. >>> prince harry playing polo in connecticut this afternoon afterrsey. harry delivered a speech in manhattan last night for the royal foundation charity. he arrived on a double-decker bus with david cameron. and took swings at a baseball field in harlem. where dozens of kids cheered him on. decent looking swing. >> yeah. >> earlier harry paid a visit to the devastated jersey shore, just before crews moved in. the ride is dismantled in chunks, dropped on to a barge. >> as promised doing most of his tour with chris christie. chris christie was there with him. ever the royal tour guide as he has been. he did promise though when this visit, there he is. when the visit was announced. he said no one will take their clothes off, vegas style for harry. harry seems to be having a genuinely good time. >> very well received. all the kids like him. he is very natural, right? >> natural when it comes to the public. like his mom. when it comes to children, especially. this is kind of proof that what happened in vegas isn't affe all. >> a guy played sports all my

david kerley, abc news, washington. >>> girls as young as 15 can now buy the morning after pill withoutvailable on drugstore shelves no longer locked behind pharmacy counters. the fda lowered the age to buy the plan b-one step, emergency contraception from 17 years old. there was a court order requiring the pill be made available to women of all ages, but the fda decision fell short of that. >> the department of justice can decide to appeal this independently of whatever the fda decides. it could get an appeal. >> that's right. the question a lot of people are asking here. we get it. you can go. get it. how often can you get it? is there going to be a system in place that tells the pharmacist or person that sold this, this person bought one two days ago. a week ago. how often can you take it before it makes you sick. essentially a pill that the child that you would have conceived no longer will exist once you take this pill. >> interesting. >> how safe could it possibly be if you take it more than you should? >> lot of questions about how it will be sold. product code. the cashiers know

as abc's david kerley reports, he was restrained by very brave passengers. >> reporter: during one ofnking on the handle of one of the plane's exists. alaska airline says the 737 from anchorage was just ten minutes from landing in portland, oregon, when the passenger in row 17, one of the exit rows, made some unusual statements, pulling on the handle, trying to open the emergency door. passengers leapt into action. >> they took him down. they held him down until the flight attendants could get there with restraints. and those passengers continued to help them restrain this individual, who was wanting to get out midflight. >> reporter: they used shoelaces and seatbelts to hold 23-year-old alexander herrera. the airline and experts say he never would have been able to get the door open in flight. >> as frightening as that is, it simply can't be done. until you are on the ground there is enough pressure inside holding all those doors closed. >> reporter: once it was, it was passengers coming to the aid of the crew, holding down the 220-pound suspect. why did he do it? that's what investi

abc's david kerley joins us from washington with the latest in all this. morning, david. >> reporter: good morning, robin. associated press is livid in that this morning, other news organizations very concerned about this government action. ap says that the justice department just told the news organization that earlier this year the records for 20 separate phone lines for the company and some of its reporters' personal outgoing calls were secretly obtained by the government. ap calls it a massive and unprecedented intrusion by the government. those records covered a two-month period early last year. why would the government want those? the ap believes it's part of a leak investigation about this time last year may 7th ap published an article about how a second underwear bomb plot was thwarted in yemen. the president and white house made it clear they want to go after leakers. but the white house claims they knew nothing about this investigation. the attorney general will answer questions later today. >> more with bill o'reilly, host of "the o'reilly facto

and abc's david kerley has the latest from washington, d.c. good morning, david. >> reporter: good morning, robin. this is a crazy one. tray tables up, electronic devices off, ready to land, and a man gets up and tries to open the emergency door. as you mentioned the passengers jumped to stop him. this morning, 23-year-old alexander herrera will be in court after allegedly trying to open an emergency exit in midair. >> he was trying very hard to get out of that plane. he was very intent trying to get that door open. >> reporter: alaska airlines says it was a critical point in the flight just ten minutes from landing. the passenger in row 17, one of the exit rows, made some unusual statements and started yanking on the handle trying to open the emergency door. >> somebody was screaming to stop him, take him down. >> reporter: passengers pounced on the 220-pound suspect. >> then he got up. >> reporter: henry showed a reporter what he did. >> i leave h. and -- that's what i did. >> wow, you're strong. >> reporter: the flight crew brought shoelaces

abc's david kerley has much more now on the growing safety concerns this morning. >> reporter: they were taxiing for takeoff. >> scandinavian just clipped the regional jet. >> reporter: at newark airport a big wide-body scandinavian airlines flight headed to norway swiped a smaller united jet. >> got some serious tail damage. >> it was a big bang, we all kind of shook in our seats. >> reporter: both jets were headed to the runway, the united express jet going to nashville in front when the bigger sas jet turned right. its left wing sliced into the smaller jet's tail. >> apparently it did affect the tail end of the plane in some way. all of a sudden there were 10 large fire trucks around us. >> reporter: then just hours later, another ground mishap. this time in chicago when a polish jetliner clipped wings with a lufthansa cargo jet. no one was injured in either incident. it appears both were low speed encounters. much different than this at jfk two years ago when a regional jet was spun around like a top by a much larger aircraft. and here's the worry. these so-called runway incursions a

here's abc's david kerley. >> reporter: this video of moore tornado was taken through a crack in ones can't show up to tornado wind. safe rooms above ground built into your house or underground in the backyard can save your life. the safe rooms are subjected to their own tests to with stand winds up to 250 mile an hour. canon fired wood. one company dropped bricks, lumber and a car on its shelter. >> there are above ground and below storm shelters that offer near absolute occupant protection from the worst case tornado. >> reporter: many homes don't have basements because of loose clay soil or they flood easily. they have doors that open inward, making is easier to be opened by debris. many schools have no safe rooms. right now only alabama requires any new school built to have safe rooms for students. but that could change for tornado areas when new building codes are adopted in the coming years. and in joplin the site of the storm two years ago. the paper says 1,000 safe rooms were bought in the first year after the storm. the city of moore, oklahoma, has been trying to get federal