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here's abc's deborah roberts. for the couple who call the island of st.uly conquered it. >> reporter: last september their world turned upside down after hurricane irma and hurricane maria devastated their paradise. >> one of the most devastating things i've ever seen or been through, to see such a beautiful place in complete terror. >> we are all still healing. >> reporter: they teamed up with kenny chesney's foundation helping rebuild their beloved island. >> i was there from day one doing what any human would do with the resources we had. >> reporter: despite the wreckage, the couple still finding beauty and magic around them, as captured in these stunning engagement photos taken by hurricane survivor ann burkett. >> being in the wedding industry and knowing all these amazing vendors that i do, i immediately called my friends of llg events and asked if they would help me give them a wedding of their dreams. >> reporter: for the couple who gave so much back, an amazing gift, donations, offering them a dream wedding. >> it was just magic that we could ta

deborah roberts with us tonight. >>> good evening. and it's great to have you with us here on a tuesday night. we're monitoring a tornado touchdown and severe storms coming this evening, but we are going to begin with a guilty verdict for a former police officer now found guilty of murder for killing an unarmed black teenager leaving ifn a ca. body cam video showing officer roy oliver running down the street, shooting five times at a car full of teenagers, leaving a home outside dallas. the officer had claimed the car was coming at a fellow officer. the body cam showing something different. and in that car, 15-year-old jordan edwards was shot and killed. the officer testifying in his own defense, still insisting he had no other option. abc's marcus moore leading us off from texas. >> reporter: tonight, a former texas police officer, roy oliver, is a convicted murderer. >> we, the jury, unanimously find the defendant guilty of murder. >> reporter: the case hinging on this tense body cam video, showing the moment oliver, who is white, f

. >> he is truly a.stci serious da from what she told our deborah roberts last year. >> do you think this president is racist? >> absolutely not. i would never sit nor work for someone who i believe to be a racist. >> reporter: now president trump's campaign wants to take her to court. >> they were encouraging the president to not engage on this. of course that's the first sign we know for the. >> the to jump right? >> reporter: the president launching a vicious counterattack, calling his former adviser a crazed crying lowlife, adding good work by general kelly for quickly firing that dog. >> regardless of what you think about omarosa, regardless what you think about donald trump, this is a question of what is outside the boundaries of civil and respectful speech, it's about what becomes msisracist. >> is this any way for the president to talk about any american, let alone somebody he hired and made the highest afri in his white house? >> i think the president is certainly voicing his frustration w theacthatit this person has shown a complete hack of integrity. >> why did he hire som

i'm deborah roberts. thank you for joining us.r white house staffer omarosa manigault newman is coming out swinging against president trump, releasing what she says is a secret recording of their conversation. she's also accusing him of lying and of being a racist. it's a major change in tune from when i spoke to her back in december, just days after being fired from the white house. >> are you under an obligation that you need to be loyal to the president? >> the only loyalty and obligation i have is to god. >> reporter: president trump may have once called her his loyal friend, but tonight omarosa manigault newman doesn't exactly sound friendly toward her old boss. >> he is truly a racist. >> reporter: the former white house staffer now turning on the administration and the president she's called a friend for 15 years. releasing audio she secretly recorded, claiming the president is a racist who useed racial slurs. in her new book "unhinged" which abc news obtained she says president trump had been recorded using the n word whil

>> reporter: and there wasn't a peep of criticism when she sat down with abc's deborah roberts days after she was fired. >> do you think this president is racist? >> absolutely not. i would never sit nor work for someone who i believe to be a racist. >> many people see donald trump -- >> nor would i have continued a relationship, a friendship, a business relationship with someone for 14 years if i believed that. >> reporter: but soon, she started turning. first, on another reality tv show -- >> i'd like to say not my problem, but i can't say that because, like, it's bad. >> reporter: and now she is flat-out calling the president a racist and a bigot. >> i had a blind spot where it came to donald trump. i wanted to see the best in him. and obviously, i failed miserably. >> reporter: on "meet the press," she says she made those recordings to protect herself. >> if i didn't have these recordings, no one in america would believe me. no one. >> jon karl with us live tonight from the white house. and jon, many questions tonight about how omarosa recorded those conversations, one in the situatio

>>'ll itting our deborah roberts donald trump was not a racist. >> do you think this president is racist? >> absolutely not. i would never sit nor work for someone who i believed to be a racist. >> manigault rose to fame through the apprentice reality show. being fired in two different seasons. she remained close with trump for 15 years, fiercely defending him in the detra will have to bow down to president trump. >> tara palmery, abc news, washington. >>> now an accuweather update, from abc 7 moshings. >> good morning i'm meteorologist frances dinglasan and they've shown some of the coastal clouds moving into the bay. it was much clearer this morning and it will quickly pull back. let me show you what's going on upstairs and this is post tropical storm john and it will kick up high clouds over the next couple of days and we'll also have this trough of low pressure that will increase the onshore flow and so temperatures will be coming down in the interior areas. it's also giving us some gusty conditions and parts of northern california which is why a red flag warning is in effect until 1

. >> reporter: even telling deborah roberts donald trump was not a racist. >> do you think this president is racist? >> absolutely not. i would never work for someone i believed to be a racist. >> reporter: omarosa rose to fame on "the apprentice." being fired in two different seasons. she remained close to trump for 15 years fiercely defending him. on the campaign trail as liaison to the african american community. every critic, every detract or will have to bow down to president trump. >> one of the books more outrageous claims is that the president installed a tanning bed in the white house residence. a well placed senior white house officials tells us that's just not true. >> that was tara palmeri for us. the president not commenting on this weekend's anniversary of the deadly charlottesville protest. >> police there and in washington bracing for new rallies one year after the violent clashes. eva pilgram in charlottesville with the story. eva, good morning. >> good morning, guys. this is where it happened. this is where the car came barreling down crashing into that group of people.

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reporting here tonight, deborah roberts. >> who am i? where am i from? i was left out in a donation bin. >> i just wanted to know why. >> there's this feeling about being wanted. >> i just thought that i would never really know. >> reporter: coeur d'alene, idaho, a small scenic town just outside spokane on a lake nestled in the mountains. its name originating from a native american tribe who called themselves the discovered people. but while some are discovered here, others are lost. our first mystery begins in 1987 at this hospital. a pregnant woman checks herself in, alone, in labor, and oddly carrying no luggage or personal items. >> she said she was from california and that she was visiting some friends in idaho. she was 5'5", brown hair brown eyes. they said she was quite attractive but uptight. >> reporter: she signs in as amy dee beach, saying she's single and unemployed. at 6:30 a.m. she's moved to the birthing room. >> she gave birth to a healthy baby girl, good size, full term. >> reporter: after a short time with her new baby the mom does she

deborah roberts here with the details. >> an important one. this is a heartbreaking statistic.ave had access to their guns. with that in mind, this new video is hoping to sound an alarm. >> hey, dad. do we have a gun? >> reporter: it's the chilling psa you won't forget. a loving dad with a gun in the home. >> anyway, i need it to protect you, your sister and mom. >> from what? >> from bad guys like on tv. >> but what about the eight kids who get shot every day by mistake. their dad is probably thinking they were safe too. >> reporter: his revealing a stunning statistic. on average eight children a day accide accidentally injured or killed by guns. stories often making the headlines. >> authorities say this 4-year-old boy accidentally shot his 2-year-old cousin. >> reporter: investigators say the boy found the loaded handgun in his mother's purse. >> reporter: the tragic loss of young lives prompted this new national campaign by the brady center to prevent gun violence with the hopes of ending what they call family fire. >> we want this country to give a name to these incidents