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right now, e vax wagss are under way on the islands off the mainland and abc's david wright is here to tell us the latest at this moment. david? >> reporter: good evening, diane. this is a significant quake and it carries with it a tsunami warning. it struck just before 1:00 this afternoon alaskan time. all at the very tip of the aleutian islands. it stretches out into the bearing sea. just a few islands away from the epicenter, he said that the shaking was incredibly strong and the water was receding from the harbor there. because of the tsunami warning people were seeking higher ground and he had to cut short our conversation so he could flee. we tend to think of california as earthquake country but alaska is more seismically active. in fact the largest quake ever recorded in north america happened in alaska. march of 1964, 9.2 on the richter scale. the real concern is along the alaska coast. they're monitoring the situation as far south as oregon. >> all right, david wright on top of the story. thank you so much, david. >>> now we're going to turn next to nationwide crackdown on a p

tonight, abc's david wright takes us inside this incident and inside the minds of the crew members whove to deal with this kind of thing. >> reporter: freak-out at 40,000 feet. >> all of a sudden this guy who was sleeping just woke up out of nowhere and started flipping out. >> reporter: the passenger on this jet blue flight to las vegas this weekend so distraught -- he punched and kicked the seats of his neighbors as flight attendants struggled to restrain him. >> freaking out. >> i was a little nervous. i wasn't sure what the guy was trying to actually do. >> we apologize for the inconvenience. >> reporter: it's become surprisingly common. according to the international air transport association, incidents of air rage are up dramatically. more than 8,000 incidents worldwide this past year. including physical assaults, drunkenness, and just rude behavior. >> don't be a hard-ass. >> reporter: youtube is full of examples. >> there's a bomb on the plane! >> reporter: flight attendants say they can often spot likely troublemakers well before takeoff. >> it's not hard to spot them. last ni

here's abc's david wright. >> edgy, sexy, glamorous, the bad girl look. >> reporter: she is a human chameleonlend that color until you have a gradient finish. >> reporter: with a worldwide audience. her specialty -- makeup tutorials that demonstrate how to transform yourself into barbie or lady gaga. >> i love this look. have fun with it. >> reporter: or even the mother of dragons from "game of thrones." videos that have made michelle phan a huge star with a powerful brand. >> how many clicks? >> i think i'm at 800 million. i have to check again because it's always changing. >> reporter: many phan is a prime example of a new breed of celebrities. folks who are bypassing hollywood, making millions on youtube. >> what makes youtube the perfect meed medium for me is i can have a two-way dialogue with my audience. >> reporter: that barbie video, 53 million views. that's a super bowl audience. an audience that's made her the ultimate cover girl with her own line of makeup. >> hi, everyone. i'm michelle phan, and welcome to my youtube channel. >> reporter: a new lifestyle network. and a growing lis

abc's david wright takes us to the desert for a ride one veteran will never forget proving he's americalifornia desert jessie williamson is getting set for the 500 mile race through the punishing dirt. he faces extra challenges. he calls them his paper cuts. he lost both legs from the knees down because of an ied in afghanistan. >> you were the only survivor. tough. >> reporter: it transformed his life in a flash. back home he got hooked on his pain meds and slipped into depression. >> a few things i was doing, not too proud of. doing heroin. >> reporter: a fellow marine came to the rescue. the sergeant recruited him to join a southern california garage staffed entirely by combat veterans rebuilding bikes and their lives. this is not your father's vfw post. >> every time i help someone else, i give a piece of myself back. >> reporter: this will be their third race together. jessie, the first double amp tee to compete. >> i imagine you need your legs. >> absolutely. >> reporter: for this wounded warrior a new mission, a reason to soldier on. >> you got to believe in yourself. >> and that

david wright, abc news, los angeles. >> a coming home they all deserve. after waiting so many years. thank you. and as we have reported here, this was part of an exchange. the white house agreeing to let those five detainees leaving. who are they and where will they end up? reporting from pakistan tonight. >> reporter: some of the highest ranking taliban commanders. in american custody. so dangerous. they have been held for over a decade. among the five men, mullah fazel mohammed, the taliban's former army chief. in 2008, a leaked u.s. army report labeled him high risk saying if he was released he would, quote, "likely rejoin the taliban". another, abdul haq waseek, helped run the taliban's intelligence ministry during their reign of terror in the 1990s. the department of defense describing him as having direct access to taliban leader, mullah omar. he was high up in the hierarchy, he used his own home as a safe house. for other militants. even if all five detainees stay in qatar for a year, critics in congress and beyond are sure to pounce and asking if

david wright, abc news, new york. >> the key to a summer block buster. thank you, david. later tonight, the secrets of summer love on "nightline prime." then "gma" in the morning. and i'll see you right back here tomorrow night. you have a great evening and a good night. be well. >> the flag of pride is flying in san francisco. >>> police may have put a name to this face. who they've targeted as a person of interest in a robbery and an attack. >>> and 'tis the season for fireworks. how authorities are trying to reduce the chance they'll stark a dangerous fire in these dry conditions. abc7 news at 6:00 starts now. >>> more than a million people are showing their pride this weekend with parties and public events to celebrate gay, lesbian, bisexual transgender culture. the annual parade and pride festivities are now in full swing in san francisco. good evening, thank you for joining us. there are several events going on right now in the city. sir gentlemen -- sir joe quintana is live where a march is getting underway. reporter: the dyke march will start shortly, and its usua

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david wright, abc news, troutsdale, oregon. >> so many random things in these kind of things.nd no link between padgett and the student killed and the victim likely surprised him while he was suiting up kind of a wrong place at the wrong time thing. >> and you always wonder about the family and the background of shooters like him and it's said that padgett came from apparently a churchgoing family with a long military tradition and planned to enlist. he was a member of the school's junior rotc so -- >> yeah, strange little anecdote. they had to build a wooden car for a class project, and he built his wooden car to resemble a bullet. >> when you look back, you never know. all these things that people try to connect the dots. >> so sad. >>> all right, a walmart truck driver pleading not guilty to the fatal crash that also injured comedian tracy morgan. prosecutors say it appears kevin roper who admitted to having not slept? at least 24 hours may have fallen asleep behind the wheel. investigators are looking into roper's commute, he lives in georgia and works in delaware. >>> it

abc's david wright has the story. >> reporter: off road in the california desert, jessie williamson is set for the baja 500, a 500-mile race through the punishing dirt. williamson faces some extra challenges. he calls them his paper cuts. paper cuts? >> paper cuts. >> reporter: he lost both of his legs from the knee down because of an ied in afghanistan. >> you were the only survivor. >> yes. >> tough. >> it transformed his life in a flash. >> back home he got hooked on his pain meds and slipped in to depression. >> things i was doing out there, not too proud of. got >> jesse, you want to help to load this up. >> reporter: a fellow marine came to the rescue, jim hamm recruited jessie to join a southern california garage staffed entirely by combat veterans rebuilding bikes and their lives. this is not your father's vfw post. >> every time i'm able to help someone else i get a piece of myself back. >> reporter: saturday's baja 500 will be their third race together, jessie, the first double amputee to compete. >> on terrain like this i would imagine you need your legs. >> absolutely. he's

abc news's david wright from the scene. >> reporter: police say the teenager responsible for this rampage was a 15-year-old freshman, jared michael padgett, who arrived on campus as though it were just another day. >> he arrived at school yesterday morning on the school bus, carrying a guitar case and duffel bag. >> reporter: inside the ar-15 assault rifle used in the attack. plus a hunting knife and a handgun, plus nine extra clips of ammo. the shooter obtained the weapons from his family home. the weapons had been secured but he defeated the security measures. >> reporter: authorities say padgett went straight to the locker room near the gym where he shot and killed fellow freshman emilio hoffman. football coach todd rispler saw what was happening and reached down the hall to sound the alarm. the gunman chasing after him, shooting. look closely at the coach's t-shirt there. that's a bullet hole! today the local mayor told me the coach's quick thinking saved lives. >> basically the lockdown was -- >> he's a hero. >> reporter: police say padgett's death was a suicide. but not clear is the

right now, evacuations are under way on the islands off the mainland and abc's david wright is here to tell us the latest at this moment. david? >> reporter: good evening, diane. this is a significant quake and it struck before 1:00 this afternoon alaska time. off the island. that's that long finger that stretches out into the sea towards russia. speaking to the city. of a population of 300 or so. just a few miles away from the epi center. >> we felt a large building moving around. everybody up on the evacuation shelter. . about 140 people. we are starting to experience something we don't know how high the waves will be. >> alaska is even more seismic cli active. half the quakes that occur in north america every year happen in alaska. the largest quake ever recorded happened there. that's a 9.2 quake that occurred in march of 1964 as for today's 8.0 earthquake there was a tsunami warning but now has been lifted. >> thank you very much. david. >>> and now, we're going to turn next to nationwide crackdown on a problem that could reach into every community in this country. today, the fbi

david wright, abc news, new york. >> the key to a summer block buster. thank you, david.later tonight, the secrets of summer love on "nightline prime." then "gma" in the morning. i'll see you right back here tomorrow night. you have a great evening and a good night. be well.

abc's david wright is there tonight. >> reporter: 8:05 this morning in troutdale, oregon -- sirens blaring. police respond to a high school's call for help. >> priority call reynolds high school. got a report of shots fired in the locker room. at least one person down. medical is responding. >> reporter: police on site within minutes, guns drawn. and a swat team. students filing out, hands in the air, bags searched by law enforcement. >> i was really scared, i was like this is happening, this is real. >> reporter: witnesses say the gunman armed with a n assault rifle started shooting in the locker room near the gym, chasing a beloved phys ed teacher down the hall. >> he was carrying a gun running after one of our pe teachers, mr. rispler, who ended up getting shot. >> reporter: cameron and cayden were right inside the gym. >> the second shots were really loud and really close. >> our friend tate was banging on the door saying there was a guy with a gun there's a guy with a gun let us in, so we let him in, and we sprinted towards our weight training room and hid there. >> reporter: 100 stud

along with david wright and david ortiz, that's the most in baseball over that time.one on, one in. the pitch to mccann is driven to center field. dyson has room to put it away, and the yankees are down to their final out on the road tonight. ichiro advances to third. so only brett gardner stands in the way of an 8-4 royals victory at home tonight. >> eric: royals offensively had a big night. even left quite a few runners on base. they had some other scoring opportunities. duffy pitched relatively well. >> matt: gardner held hitless tonight. the yankees started play tonight with a better road record than home mark. and should things not turn around tonight, joe girardi's guys would drop to 18-14 on the road. still a better record than at home. doesn't happen very often that the yankees are better away from yankee stadium. the last time they had a winning road record and losing home record, 1968, mickey mantle's final season in the big leagues. a two-out runner at third, a runner in the ninth. 8-4 kansas city. >> eric: and if gardner can get on, these folks here have a

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david wright, abc news. >> thank you. >>> time again for the weather, and ginger zee, and wow.cture you have behind you. >> first day of summer was saturday, and jim grant sends beautiful photos. but look at this, a sun halo around the sun with the palm tree in the foreground. it looks like a rainbow around the sun. reflection, refraction, all happens. today, san diego, fog in the morning, 70 for a high. seattle, 80, one of the more warmer days, cooling down into the midweek. really nice too. high clouds today, if you need pictures taken, do it in >> reporter: thanks a lot ginger, david murphy on the terrace. we have a fair amount of sunshine early on and temperatures pushing toward the 70. 84 is the high, tomorrow, 85. storms possible on >>> all that weather brought to you by nutella. and those sun halos, don't need rain like a rainbow. >> i have never seen one. >> me either. thank you, ginger. >>> now coming up, the life or death struggle for a florida couple treading water 14 hours after falling off their boat. they tell us how they survived. >>> and thousand eat like a cave

more from abc's david wright. >> this was a significant earthquake. the island, the finger in the bering sea, russia. and population of 300. a few miles away from the epicenter. >> a significant earth quake that was long lasting. we had everybody in the evacuation shellers. about 140 people. we are starting to experience them. don't know how the waves will be. >> we tend to think of california as the earth quack country. but alaska is even more seismically active. half of the quakes that occur in north america every year happen in alaska. in fact, the largest quake ever recorded in north america, happened there. that is a 9.2 quake that occurred in march of 1964. >> felt a very large building moving around. so, kidding the length -- and duration and intensity we would, say we felt that. >> an initial tsunami warning, but that has been lifted. david wright, abc news, los angeles. >> now to the growing pressure on leadership of iraq as the country appears headed toward war. secretary of state john kerry urged iraqi prime minister maliki to form a united

here's abc's david wright.e for this rampage was a 15-year-old freshman, jared michael padgett, who arrived at school as though it were just another day. >> he arrived at the school on a school bus carrying a guitar case and a duffel bag. >> reporter: inside the ar-15 assault rifle used in the attack plus a hunting knife, a handgun and nine extra clips of ammo. >> the shooter obtained the weapons from his family home. the weapons had been secured, but he defeated the security measures. >> reporter: authorities say padgett went straight into the locker room near his gym where he shot and killed fellow freshman emilio hoffman. football coach todd rispler saw what was happening and raced down the hall to sound the alarm. the gunman chasing after him shooting. look closely at the coach's t-shirt there. that's a bullet hole. the local mayor told me the coach's quick thinking saved lives. >> so basically the lockdown was -- he's a hero. he's a hero. >> reporter: police say padgett's death was a suicide but what's not

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david wright has the story. >> reporter: it's one week to the day since mike herdman vanished in thisea. now rescuers are turning to a high-tech tool to help the search. drones armed with infrared camera, the hand launched puma -- >> they're a force multiplier. instead of 30 guys in the field looks, we can launch this aircraft and cover a lot of ground. >> reporter: his friend told authorities he last saw him friday chasing after his dog wearing only a t-shirt and shorts. >> get you out safely. >> reporter: search crews from half a dozen agencies including this homeland security rapid response team have been scouring the back country. a wilderness area twice the size of the grand canyon. >> every footprint is a clue. every broken branch. that's what we're looking for. >> reporter: wednesday and thursday they spotted the dog duke but duke got away. so they're taking along a decidedly low-tech tool. >> we're going to be given harmonicas. ♪ >> reporter: hoping the music will put duke at ease. herdman's family and friends are convinced his fitness and training have kept him alive. >> i ha

you spent something like -- david wright spent something like $200,000? >> maybe even less than that. there's very little outside spending on david brat's behalf. this was really a grassroots campaign. but let me emphasize, david brat is a college professor, very in regards to social media and facebook, websites. we are releasing one element of modern campaigning coming in low that is -- in a very voter turnout, if you can activate the the base, you can get a lot of traction. >> we want to thank you, john being here. we will talk more about immigration reform later in the broadcast. his article that we will link to it "the nation" on democracynow.org. when we come back, the great debate on human rights watch. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. one of the world's largest and most influential human rights organizations is facing an unusual amount of public criticism. laureates,eace prize adolfo pÉrez esquivel and mairead maguire, and a group of over 100 sch

david wright, abc news, troutdale, oregon. >>> all right. cantor has been beaten in the virginia primary by a little-known tea party candidate, the defeat was apparently fueled by voter anger over looser immigration laws which cantor had backed. he spoke to supporters last night. >> we need to focus our efforts as conservative, as republicans on putting forth our conservative solutions so that they can help solve the problems for so many working middle class families that may not have the opportunity that we have. >> david brat is the man would carried off the major upset a college economics professor who spent $100,000 to win that race, cantor spent 5 million. >>> hillary clinton getting a rock star reception. a crowd of a thousand went wild as she arrived at a barnes & noble in manhattan for a book signing for "hard choices."lu]xd some of her fans slept on the sidewalk to be among the first to meet her. in chicago today. >>> now to a major setback for the iraqi government. militants in control of the city of mosul after a stunning swift ta

abc's david wright is in troutdale, outside portland, oregon, for us, this morning. od morning, david. >> reporter: good morning, robin. today was supposed to have been the last day of classes before the start of summer vacation, but now, instead of celebrating the start of summer, this community is marking a much more tragic american tradition, grief. and yet one more fatal campus shooting. 8:05. high school's urgent call for help. >> got a report of shots fired in the locker room. >> reporter: within two minutes, police arrive on campus. >> i was really scared. i was like -- this is happening. this is real. >> reporter: eyewitnesses say the gunman, armed with a rifle and body armor, walked into the locker room and took aim at a 14-year-old freshman on the soccer team. emilio hoffman, killed instantly. >> he was such a sweet and genuine, and caring guy. >> reporter: inside those locked rooms, they heard it unfold. in horror. >> our friend, tate, was banging on the door saying, there's a guy with a gun, there's a guy with a gun. so we let him in. >> i'm in shock. >> r

abc's david wright has the story. >> we just saw the suspect stick something outside the left driver'side window. >> reporter: a dramatic chase. the armed suspect running from police at over 100 miles an hour. the drama unfolding live on local news. >> what looked to be an assault rifle. >> reporter: driving that red nissan altima, he branished a high-powered assault weapon outside the window snaking for an hour, the police in hot pursuit. watch as the pan difficulties the car, and runs near the school. especially this part. >> you could see that this suspect has high ground up on the roof. >> reporter: the suspect raced over rooftops, assault rifle in hand. forcing entire neighborhoods in lockdown. area schools evacuated. parents anxiously texting their kids to make sure they were safe. >> it was pretty nerve-racking. >> reporter: finally the suspect holed up in this north hollywood home. the s.w.a.t. teams held at bay another three hours. finally police fired tear gas into the home, forcing him out, face down on the grass, he surrendered. the suspect now identified as 41-year-old nol

helicopters and crews are scouring remote forests looking for this veteran outdoorsman and abc's david wrighte story. >> reporter: a flat-out search as rescuers scour this dusty corner of california for missing firefighter, father and husband, mike herdman. >> day one they began at a place called doe flat and you can see the yellow path they took up here. >> reporter: herdman, an avid outdoorsman was on a weekend camping trip with his buddy, fellow firefighter, tayler byers. byers told authorities he last saw his friend chasing after his dog duke who had run into a creek, barefoot only wearing a t-shirt and shorts. he simply disappeared, according to byers. >> we found his backpack and footprints in the direction he was last seen going so we, you know, we're starting from there and working our way out methodically rock by rock, bush by bush. >> reporter: the campsite where he was last spotted is two days' hike into the back country here, an area almost twice the size of the grand canyon. it's remote, inaccessible terrain that will make him that much harder to find, that much harder to report

prison officials as the leader of a white gang called 211, and jason wright, have both been accused by convicted sex offender david of several serious offenses. laudone says he was beaten and forced to store hooch, homemade alcohol. laudone also says he's been extorted, forced to buy $25 a month in canteen items for holloman and wright. but lieutenant fox feels laudone's story doesn't add up. >> i went back and pulled your canteen records. and he spent like $96 since the first of december on canteens. holloman spent $292 and wright spent $266 on canteen, so that story is not washing with me. wright did admit that he talked with laudone and laudone agreed to hold the hooch as long as he got to drink some. of course, laudone's story was no, they beat me up and made me hold it. you know? >> of course. >> there's no doubt he's scared about something. don't know what it is. i have no idea what he's scared of. whether it's a gambling debt or whether it's something to do with the super bowl. he's truly scared to the point that he turns in and fingers at the 211 leader here. you know? he knows that's a death sentence. reg

david cameron. let's talk about the implications to britain now. with me is ben wright. all playing out in britain? >> well, i think the irony is even though it is clearly a colossal defeat to david cameron, after the european elections he hoped he would be able to concoct a blocking minority that would stop jean-claude juncker. he failed to do that. the key person who abandoned him was angela merkel. she knew the diplomatically, politically at home it was too high a price to pay by not supporting jean-claude juncker. once her stand became clear, other allies of david cameron he might have won over like the swedes, the dutch, the fins all flaked away. which is why he's in such a lonely place today. there is some indication that back home british voters quite like the fact that british prime ministers come here and make these lonely stands and fighting the british interests, that's how he'll frame it today, and in the interest as he would put it of britain. i think that would resonate quite a bit. but in reality, looking at how david cameron hopes it renegotiate britain, o

williman, who's our show runner, david fincher who directed the first two episodes and the cast is incredible. i mean, you know, to come to work every day with robin wrighte in the series. >> jimmy: you're perfect together. you work so well. do you go to d.c. and now people get scared of you? >> well, it's interesting. >> jimmy: i would. >> for example, last year i did a benefit for my foundation in washington, d.c. and it happened to have fallen on the night when they were going to decide whether to shut the government down. right? and every one of the most major politicians showed up at my little benefit before they went and voted, and of course they voted wrong. but i thought, that's not me. that's francis underwood. they're all scared of him. that's why hey showed up. lll >> jimmy: it's not you, of course. >> no, not at all. >> jimmy: has the president ever talked to you about it? >> well, i heard that president obama likes the show. i think he said something about he wished washington were as ruthlessly pragmatic as it is the in the show. [ impersonating bill clinton ] but i'll tell you who loves that show. [ laughter ] [ applause ] i love that "hou

wright will spea on autism. "washington journal" is live every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >>> next, former irs official jennifer o'connor and the david ferriero talk about missing e-mails belonging to lois lerner. lerner is part of an investigation on whether irs targeted political groups seeking tax exempt status. darrell issa oversees this hearing. >> good morning all. if you could please close the doors and be seated. good morning. the committee will come to order without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. as i said last night late for many of you and i say again this morning, the oversight committee exists to secure two fundamental principles. first, americans have a right to know that the money washington takes from them is well spent. and second, americans deserve an efficient, effective government that works for them. our duty on the oversight and government reform committee is to protect these rights. our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers because taxpayers have a right to know what they get from their government. so it's our job to work tirele