david. >> david kerley leading us off tonight. >>> as you heard david mentioned just a short time before we came on the air the fbi putting out this bulletin. they want to know more about the suspect. he was from illinois. a bernie sanders supporter and he didn't hide his strong political views on social media, particularly when it came to president trump. here's pierre thomas tonight. >> reporter: police today racing to the home of james hodgkinson in a desperate search for clues about the would-be mass murderer, killed in a shootout with police. trying to find a motive for a man who had strident political beliefs, but who no one knew would explode into a barrage of gunfire. in the 66-year-old's hometown in southwestern illinois, shock. >> i mean, he was in a few fights and stuff like that, but nothing that would demonstrate violence as far as what he did. >> reporter: tonight, the fbi focused on these posts portraying a deep hatred for republicans, even calling president trump a "traitor." "trump has destroyed our democracy. it's time to destroy trump and co." and he posted a cartoon c

airlines flying from those eight countries meet these two standards, the ban will be lifted, tom. >> david kerley with that new travel plan tonight. david, thank you. >>> next to the extreme fire danger after weeks of record-breaking heat. 40 major fires burning tonight. nearly doubling in 24 hours. the fastest growing in arizona. 28 square miles. just 1% contained. thousands of firefighters putting their lives on the line. abc's phillip mena is at the scene. >> reporter: tonight, the "goodwin fire" near prescott, arizona. quad rup. ling in size. ground teams fighting the blaze had to be pulled back at one point. >> we're not going to put firefighers in danger. >> reporter: this fire in the same area where 19 elite hotshots lost their lives fighting a blaze four years ago. >> we'd ask you all guys to leave. >> reporter: now forcing the entire town of mayer to evacuate. >> that's very upsetting. we moved here about three years ago, bought a beautiful home. >> reporter: wildfires now in 11 states. the largest, the brian head fire in southern utah, destroying more than a dozen structures. a 911 call

david kerley tells us how to keep safe. >> reporter: it's the close call no one saw coming. this fire caused not by a kitchen fire or candle but by an air conditioner. >> i look out my window and the ac unit was on fire. >> reporter: while nothing beats the heat like a cool blast of air conditioning, there might be hidden dangers lurking in your home. when the temperature rises, experts say it could put strain on an air conditioner, and if not well maintained they can be fire hazards. >> if they are overworked and overheated or there's electrical issues it can catch nearby combustibles on fire. >> reporter: from 2010 to 2014, there were 2800 reports. fires from air conditioners. so what can you do to stay both cool and safe? first of all, make sure to change that filter, and ensure you have an adequate power supply. no extension cords or power strips. try not to share an outlet with other powered devices. >> when you start using extension cords, they can be problematic. they overheat and can cause a fire. >> reporter: get your unit checked one to two times a year and make su

flying from those eight countries do meet these new standards, the ban will be lifted, tom. >> david kerley with that new travel plan tonight. david, thank you. >>> next tonight to the fbi's investigation of kaspersky lab. a russian-based cybersecurity company whose software is used in american businesses, government and maybe even your home. sources telling abc the agency is questioning some of its employees. abc news was the first to report weeks ago that the fbi is investigating the company's potential ties to the kremlin, worried that its software could be used to spy on americans. abc's senior justice correspondent, pierre thomas, with the latest developments. >> reporter: tonight, thousands of miles away from its moscow headquarters, the computer software company kaspersky lab is under increasing pressure from the fbi. last night near washington and boston, sources say fbi agents went knocking on the doors of as many as a dozen kaspersky employees, pressing them for information about how the company operates, and any potential ties to the russian government. kaspersky's anti-virus sof

david kerley, abc new, washington. >> back in the country, delta air lines is testing new technology that could replace boarding passes. delta is testing a system that would allow travelers to use their fingerprints to check bags and board flights as well. for now, the fingerprint system is only available at washington reagan national airport. for certain delta sky mile members. >> southwest airlines is using two doors to deplane, some california airports. they're trying to hope to, hoping to speed up the process. the airline is testing that plan for the next two weeks. so far the airline says the idea is getting rave reviews. >> police officer in southern new jersey is getting attention for what he didn't do. >> officer tom sherman, pulled a woman over for a vehicle violation. e things happening in her life. so, officer sherman decided not to issue a ticket. >> last thing i want to do is give you a ticket. i've don't think you need. you are going to get it taken care of. >> can i give you a hug? >> sure, you can give a hug. >> what kind of soda are you going to get? >> a root beer.

david. >> david kerley with us tonight. thank you, david. >>> another disturbing moment that led to an emergency landing here at home, in grand rapids, michigan. a jetblue flight from new york to san francisco, diverted after a passenger smelled smoke. the flight crew then traced the smell to a smoking carry-on bag, an electronic device with a charred lithium ion battery. the plane eventually continued on to san francisco. >>> overseas tonight, and to afghanistan, one of the worst attacks in years and it comes just as president trump decides whether to send more u.s. troops. a devastating suicide truck bombing in kabul. the moment was captured on an office surveillance camera. the rush-hour blast killing at least 90 people and more than 400 injured, including several americans. here's abc's martha raddatz. >> reporter: the death toll was so large, the destruction so vast, that even for this country at war for well over a decade, the loss was staggering. in the early morning hours, the massive truck bomb ripping through what

>> david kerley with that incredible video tonight. thank you. >>> when we come back, the big scare in the big easy. two tourists brutally attack. the search tonight for suspects. >>> and news about that girl falling from an amusement park ride. you may remember this video. she is caught by starangers. what investigators are now saying about how it happened. no. it's not a question, it's a thing. take on summer right with ford, america's best-selling brand. now with summer's hottest offer. get zero percent for seventy-two months plus an additional thousand on top of your trade-in. during the ford summer sales event get zero percent for seventy-two months plus an additional thousand on top of your trade-in. offer ends july 5th. itthe power of nexium 24hr protection from frequent heartburn. all day, and all night. now packed into a pill so small, we call it mini. new clearminis from nexium 24hr. see heartburn differently. pain is sometimes in my hands, be a distraction. right before a performance especially. only aleve has the strength t

here is david kerley. >> reporter: passengers in neck braces on stretchers, in wheelchairs, all injured tonight when their united airlines jet hit turbulence. >> many people were crying. >> reporter: they were scared? >> yes. >> reporter: the flight from panama city to houston was off cancun, mexico on the edge of a tropical storm when the 737 was buffeted by turbulence bouncing passengers around the cabin. >> we had initially about 14 people that we evaluated. in the end we ended up transporting 7 to local hospitals. >> reporter: so many hurt, more first responders were called. >> ems 92, we're getting an additional call to gate echo 14. >> reporter: once on the ground in houston, those neck braces were put in place on the injured, but rescue crews say all those injuries were minor. >> david kerley with us live tonight. we heard the plane was flying on the edge of a tropical storm. i'm guessing that was a factor? >> absolutely. this is why flight crews tell you when you're in your seat, keep your seat belts on. the faa are looking into the indent. >>> and the storm bearing down on the

david. >> david kerley, thank you. >>> next this evening, the pentagon now identifying three u.s. service members killed in combat in afghanistan. they served with the 101st airborne division, they were killed in an insider attack by an afghan soldier they were there to support. >>> back here, president trump facing a constitutional challenge, is the president profiting from foreign entities in the state of maryland and the district of columbia filing suit, no president has been challenged on the emoluments clause before. >> reporter: using his official position to market his business enterprises with the focus on the trump hotel in washington. to hold their big events here. just three weeks a group from turkey and a month before trump took office, the celebration of bahrain day with the hotel charging bahrain $100,000. >> this because mr. trump is the president-elect? >> we know that the foreign governments are spending money there in order to curry favor with the president of the united states. >> reporter: today the attorneys general of the district of columbia and maryland, bo

heerd david kerley. >> reporter: australian airport security quickly carrying the hog tied passenger jetliner. a dramatic end to a short flight just after takeoff from melbourne. the malaysian airlines crew tells the captain a passenger is trying to breach the cockpit door. as the pilot recounted to cntrollers. >> trying to enter the cockpit has been overpowered bypass injuries. we will land. >> a device a power pack. an hour later the plane is take headed back to melbourne. police suggest the suspect has a history of mental illness. david kerley, abc news, washington. >>> comedian kathy griffin was fired from cnn late today after she was photographed with the bloody replica of president trump's severed head. the image is too gruesome to show to you without blurring. tonightis sparking outrage across the political spectrum. >> my name is kathy griffin. >> reporter: tonight comedian kathy griffin is out of a job because of this disturbing image depicting the president decapitated. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: the president tweeting, my children, especially my 11-year-old son, barren, ar

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here's david kerley. >> reporter: a sudden gust of wind at a central illinois festival causing chaos,ng three balloons crashing into each other. >> he's hanging out. oh, my god! >> reporter: that's the pilot, who ends up dangling from the gondola. >> oh, my god. oh! >> reporter: that pilot is fine. but his two passengers are still in the basket, alone. >> i was kind of scared. i just didn't know what to do. i thought i was gone. i was kind of praying. >> reporter: bruce sanders' $85 ride -- >> the wind just went crazy, guys! >> reporter: -- leaves him in control, drifting for a minute and a half. >> it came down hard, too. the balloon fell on top of me and i rolled about, probably 15 times on the ground. >> reporter: he said he's considering another balloon ride. the faa is investigating the incident. tom? >> thank you. >>> when we come back, the reca recall on a popular form of birth control. >>> and the woman unaware she's stepping into danger, walking while texting on her phone. stay with us. that's life. you diet. you exercise. and if you still need help lowering your blood sugar.

here's david kerley. >> reporter: tonight, new images of the shooting as abc news has confirmed from two sources that the shooter had a list of republican congressional members in his pocket. that, as another frightening view from the coffee shop across the street from the field, of the horrific shooting. look to the right. a stray bullet, blowing out a car window along the street. then, watch this, those two capitol hill police officers, jump out of their black suv gathering at the back, as a bullet hits the ground near their feet. the officers move into position to engage the shooter, as bystanders run to safety. out on the field, louisiana congressman steve scalise, lies near second base, hit by a bullet. hit in his hip. once the shooter is down he's evacuated, but still tonight he is in critical condition from that round, which damaged his organs and bones. >> when he arrived, he was in critical condition with imminent risk of death. >> and david, you learned there was about a dozen names on the shooter's list? >> reporter: one source tells us there were about a dozen congression

a bird strike forcing the emergency landing and here's abc's david kerley. >> reporter: pulsating flames of a united airlines jet. >> the engine was rattling, so it was like, moving back and forth. >> reporter: passengers unsure what was wrong. >> it was scary. i just thought i was gonna die. [ laughter ] i'm still, like, shaking. >> reporter: but the pilots knew as soon as they took off from chicago's o'hare airport what had happened. >> tower, united 1738, we had a right engine failure. we're gonna take it out runway heading, 1500 feet. we'll call you back in a minute, declare an emergency. >> united 1738, roger. >> and tower that was we hit a flock of geese. >> reporter: bird strikes had been on the rise. now more than 13,000 a year. the most infamous -- the flock taking out both engines of a usairways jet, forcing sully sullenberger to land on new york's hudson river. the passengers were put on another aircraft. david, they made it to miami. >> that's the good news, david. >>> when we come back tonight -- walmart testing a new delivery plan, delivering to your home on their way home

want to go to david kerley on the scene in alexandria with more from the scene. >> reporter: george, as you told us earlier the two senators who were including senator flake who we heard from could see this shooter or knew the shooter was coming and shooting from the dugout on the third base side. there were others who could see that as well and the park which is down here to the left of where these police cars are, there is a ymca right next door and owen britain who is a defense contractor and lives in this neighborhood and was in for his morning workout at 7:05, he's walking out and somebody says there is a shooter out there and he explained what he saw and how he felt when he saw that shooter. >> i was leaving. it was maybe five after, ten after 7:00. i was on my way out and as i got to the door someone told me not to go outside, there was a man with the gun. i looked out and there was a man with a gun crouched behind a wooden structure and carrying a kalashnikov assault rifle and exchanging fire with police officers, what i know now are police officers crouched behind the black

david kerley has more on the new security measures and what's behind them. ing, robin. this is all about terrorists figuring out how to put explosives in electronic devices and sneak them through security. that's why we saw that laptop ban in eight countries in the middle east and africa. the u.s. wanted to expand that ban and the airlines and the europeans pushed back so the answers from the u.s., we are setting a new global standard for screening of passengers in foreign airports that want to fly to the u.s. this is going to affect 325,000 passengers a day. higher security, more swabbing of electronic devices, more canine units, you'll see all of that. the airlines are pushing back a bit and saying it is expensive and the time line, three weeks for some and a couple of months for the others, they say, is quick to try to implement what the u.s. is demanding. if they don't meet it they won't be able to fly into the u.s. >> thanks so much. >>> well, you know, amy is already on vacation. have you seen her great pics in alaska. >> amazing. she's taken us right t

david kerley has the story now. >> reporter: good morning.ily france was headed from colorado to texas with her baby and got stuck in a weather delay and for nearly two hours had to deal with her baby, the heat and says her son began losing consciousness. >> return to gate, shortness of breath. >> reporter: the colorado mother is angry over united airlines' response to what she said were scary moments on a flight. >> we have an infant shortness of breath. this is going to be a return to gate. >> reporter: emily france said she and her son were on the plane, got off and back on with the temperatures around 90 degrees. she says there was hot air coming out of the vents while waiting to take off and that the longer they waited the hotter her son got. flight attendants brought her bags of ice she says to help cool owen down and let her stand by the open door but says owen began drifting in and out of consciousness fearing for the 4-month-old's life she pleaded for an ambulance. >> we have an ambulance request for bravo 61. it's going to be on the

david kerley is on the scene now. massive police presence, but as we heard from the chief, right now, the incident is a stable situation. >> reporter: i would call it a stable situation, and agree with the police chief on that, george, but they called this a closed incident, with all due respect to the police chief, this is a very active scene behind me. still blocks and blocks, are cordoned off with yellow police tape, and there is a tremendous amount of police presence here as they continue their investigation. which the police chief say they are doing. now as pierre thomas mentioned, it was a quick response. the police chief pointed out that within three minutes, they had officers at the park. you can see the fire trucks on the left side. the park is up to the left side, but you can see they have moved us back two or three blocks and this is the entire area in alexandria that remains cordoned off so they can conduct their investigation with the fbi and also the atf, george. >> we expect to hear from police in about

not boarding passes and david kerley joins us from reagan national airport with this story. this supposed to work? >> reporter: think about it of you're not fumbling for your boarding pass out of your pocket or pulling up a boarding pass on your phone. you just walk up to a counter and your face is used to identify you. now, they've been using this technology in finland for awhile and this is what jetblue is going to start using. it basically takes a picture of your face and then that face, that data is then moved into the queries into the database of for us the customs and border protection folks to match the picture at the counter and the picture on your passport. get a match, you get to get on the plane. so it should move things a little bit further along and a little bit quicker. the problem is for jetblue it's only one flight, from boston to aruba if you want to take that trip you can try the new system. >> might be worth it. >> i'll try. >> david, though, the whole point is you still have to have your passport. the hope is this speeds up the process to get onto those pl

abc's david kerley is at reagan national airport with a look at the conditions right now. w is it going, david? >> reporter: actually it's going pretty well. you take a look at the line and see folks going through security here and the morning rush is just about over. and the tracking services show no real big trouble spots so far in the air travel system. about 1 in 12 americans who travel this weekend will be flying, in fact, overall air traffic is up about 4%. they expect that over this weekend, as well and if you're ready for this, expect the busiest day if last year any week from today because last year the friday after the fourth of july was the busiest air travel of the year, not thanksgiving, not christmas, the friday after the fourth of july. atlanta and jfk expected to get hit the hardest this weekend and overall robin about 2.5 million people will be getting in lines like this to get on their jets and celebrate the holiday. >> as we always say pack a lot of patience when you head to the airport. thank you so much. rob is here with the forecast especially the seve