that teacher's family now speaking out to our eva pilgrim. his wife saying she never saw any reason to doubt him. his daughters begging him tonight to return home. >> it's. >> it's one month to the day that 15-year-old elizabeth thomas disappeared after getting dropped off at a tennessee restaurant. her alleged kidnapper? her teacher, tad cummins. now tonight, his wife, family is speaking out in an exclusive interview with our eva pilgrim. the last time they were spotted? ? we just want to come home. we miss you so much. we're here for you, no matter what. >> reporter: the last time they were spotted? two days after disappearing in oklahoma city, hundreds of miles from home. surveillance cameras captures the teacher and the student in a walmart. new tonight, abc news learning that cummins left a note for his wife. what was in that note? >> that's something because of the investigation i feel like i shouldn't discuss. >> reporter: cummins' wife of 31 years, now filing for divorce. and now we've learned cummins uses blood pressure medication. s

eva pilgrim, abc news. >> very long investigation into it.uld say many prince fans, the important part for them is remembering the singer that they loved so much and their four days of, events that are planned there in the minneapolis area. >> vibrant life he led. he will be greatly missed. still is. coming up in our next half-hour, the desperate search for a woman and her step grandson swept away in the grand canyon park. the experienced hikers lost their fo since. >> startling study of marijuana, and the american family, the majority of users are parents. what's driving that spike? you are watching "world news now." ♪ i'm in love with mary jane ♪ ♪ ♪ >> maryjane another, am i clueless? to know that that was in reference to that? thought she was a nice young lady. >> i'm in love with mary jane. >> hoboken. not so much. all right. >> ha-ha. >> apparently you can get anything at a dry through nowadays, you have food. coffee. dry cleaning. in louisiana, get a drink. but now you can get marijuana if you live in colorado. >> tumble weed express,

abc's eva pilgrim with the overnight developments. >> reporter: questions surrounding the death of former star aaron hernandez. his body now with the state medical examiner. abc news learning he was found in his cell with john 3:16 across his forehead. referencing death and eternal life and prison officials called it a suicide saying he hanged himself with a bedsheet tied to his prison cell window. mike pouncey posting my heart hurts as i got the worst news i could have imagined. it was just a day ago we shared our last convo. >> something is not right. something doesn't add up. >> not guilty. >> reporter: pointing out 27-year-old hernandez was just a acquitted in a double murder emotional in court blowing kisses to his daughter. >> guilty of murder in the first degree. >> reporter: and appealing that life sentence for another murder, a stunning fall from grace for the fme for the patriots, once with a $40 million contract, cut by the team after being led from his house in handcuffs arrested for the 2013 murder of his friend, odin lloyd. his lawyer saying there were no conversations or co

david. >> eva pilgrim in massachusetts, thank you. >>> next tonight to new questions after president trump said a very powerful armada is on its way to korea. was the ship really headed to the korean peninsula at the time or was it headed some place else? and the headlines overseas asking, was the white house lying? we learn tonight that in fact at the time those ships were headed in the other direction. here's abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. >> reporter: the "uss carl vinson" strike group is finally on its way toward the korean peninsula today. but the trump administration is now under fire for providing misleading information about the carrier's movement for over a week. "trump's lies on the 'carl vinson,'" declared a leading south korean newspaper today, reading "xi jinping and putin must be laughing," is the u.s. "bluffing" its north korean policy? last week, with the world on watch for a possible north korean nuclear test, president trump was talking tough. >> north korea is a problem, the problem will be taken care of. >> reporter: the president would not r

tom. >> eva pilgrim for us tonight. eva, thank you. >>> now to that state emergency in florida, scorching brush fires in three counties wreaking havoc, 6,000 families forced out of collier county, at least nine buildings wiped out, many of them homes. with many more now under abc's maggie rulli is in the fire zone. >> reporter: tonight, flames engulfing homes, the danger zone growing, florida in a state of emergency. residents salvaging what they can before they're forced to leave. >> i came home and there's a big ball of fire. >> reporter: 115 fires burning across the state, forcing thousands from their homes. near orlando, flames shooting up to 150 feet in the air, fire officials now saying they suspect arson. >> it is strange that the fires are popping up where they're popping up. >> reporter: meanwhile, dry conditions are fueling this blaze near naples, which tonight is only 20% contained and at least 6,000 homes evacuated, as black hawk helicopters douse the flames from above. >> came home and there's a big ball of

it's very heartbreaking. >> reporter: eva pilgrim, abc news, nashville. >> eva will have more on "goodamerica" later today. >>> ousted fox news host bill o'reilly returning to his podcast today. it is the first time that he's speaking publicly since parting ways with the news channel. his no spin news podcast resumes this evening. that's his subscription-based website. he was fired from fox last week amid growing sexual harassment scandal. o'reilly went on vacation before he was fired. >>> we're getting our first look at surveillance video of a bumbling burglar at a clothing store in new orleans last week. look at this. the thief managed to drop down into the store through the ceiling, ransacking the place, then tries to climb back up through the ceiling again but -- there he goes, just falls down. yeah. all the time the alarm was going off. he eventually escaped out a back door. >>> time now for some sports. >> yes, nba playoff highlights from our guys at espn. >> good morning, america. steve levy, john anderson on behalf of john buccigross. hello to utica. the cavaliers are through t

>> eva pilgrim back on the case for us. thank you, eva. >>> and a developing headline out of arkansas today. place to hold the executions of eight men. they were all scheduled to die over the next 11 days. one of the drugs to be used expires at the end of the month. two separate courts have now put stays on those executions. the governor, though, still maintaining he's preparing for that first execution to take place tonight. >>> there's still much more ahead tonight -- united airlines under fire again this evening. after that doctor was dragged off a plane. what they're accused of now. >>> also tonight, the traffic nightmare unfolding in an american city. the major highway buckling there. >>> there's news coming in tonight after that murder of a female jogger made national headlines. the accused is about to make a court appearance. >>> and prince harry opening up the personal struggle he's battled for nearly 20 years, what he now says he did after losing his mother at the age of 12. or just another weeknight, there's wheth

abc's eva pilgrim with that. and the first comments from the victim's brother following their family reunion. >> reporter: tonight, the family of the missing tennessee teen, speaking for the first time since being reunited. >> we're all excited. it's like just pure joy. >> reporter: 50-year-old tad cummins in fbi custody and facing federal charges after allegedly kidnapping elizabeth thomas and going on the run for over a month. >> what is she like right now? >> well, right now, she's -- i mean, in ways she's like herself. but in ways she's not. and that's kind of distressing to see her like that. it's troubling. >> reporter: this as we are getting a look inside the remote california cabin where elizabeth was finally found. >> the food i gave them. >> reporter: inside, plywood walls, leftover food sitting on bare floors, along with survival gear, toilet paper and very little else. no electricity or running water. >> the search warrant papers. >> reporter: these documents left behind by investigators, listing some

abc's eva pilgrim has the more. >> reporter: the family of a missing teenager is turning to the courtfight for answers. >> i know you are keeping up with all of this. and filtering, not letting her see, how much, how much people out here love her. you are depriving her of that. it would make better sense for you to turn yourself in. >> reporter: court documents accuse tad cummins of using guilt and fear. the two disappearing weeks after another student reported seeing the two kiss. with few leads to their where where abuts filing a petition against cummins, to question any one other oath. >> we have concerns that there are people that have been told not to talk. >> the filing detailing an investigation by her father's lawyer saying she was a conflicted teen who began feeling guilty for cummins suspension from school after the reported kiss asserting that elizabeth became fearful of cummin' reaction to his suspension. >> this is an authority figure. 50 years old. took advantage of a 15-year-old girl, freshman in high school. this is an abduction. >> reporter: the two gone for four week

abc news reporter eva pilgrim has the latest. >> reporter: family of the missing teen speaking for the first time since being reunited. >> we're all excited. it's like pure joy. >> reporter: 50-year-old todd cummins in fbi custody and facing federal charges after allegedly kidnapping elizabeth thomas and going on the run over a month. what is she like right now? >> in ways she's like herself, but in ways she's not and that's kind of distressing to see her like that. it's troubling. >> reporter: this as we are getting a look inside the remote california cabin where elizabeth was finally found. inside, plywood walls, left over food sitting on bare floors along with survival gear, toilet paper and very little else. no electricity or running water. >> papers. >> reporter: these documents left behind by investigators listing some of the items seized as evidence. bed rolls, socks, beer cans. the nationwide search began after cummins and thomas disappeared march 13th from columbia, tennessee. two days later security video captured them at a wal-mart in oklahoma city. they made their way to no

abc news reporter eva pilgrim has our story tonight. >> reporter: tonight the family of the missing tennesseen speaking for the first time since being reunited. >> we're all excited. it's like just pure joy. >> reporter: 50-year-old tad cummins in fbi custody and facing federal charges after allegedly kidnapping elizabeth thomas and going on the run for over a month. >> what is she like right now? >> well, right now she's -- i mean, in ways she's like herself but in ways she's not. and it's kind of distressing to see her like that. it's troubling. >> reporter: this as we are getting a look inside the remote california cabin where elizabeth was finally found. inside, plywood walls, leftover food sitting on bare floors, along with survival gear, toilet paper, and very little else. no electricity or running water. >> search warrant papers. >> reporter: these documents left behind by investigators listing some of the items seized as evidence. bed rolls, socks, beer cans. the nationwide search began after cummins and thomas disappeared march 13th from columbia, tennessee. two days later security v

abc news reporter eva pilgrim has the latest. >> reporter: family of the missing tennessee team speaking the first time since being reunited. >> we're all excited. it's like pure joy. >> reporter: 50-year-old todd cummins in federal custody after allegedly kidnapping elizabeth thomas and going on the run over a month. what is she like right now? >> in ways she's like herself, but in ways she's not, and it's kind of distressing to see her like that. it's troubling. >> reporter: this as we are getting a look inside the remote california cabin where elizabeth was finally found. inside, plywood walls, left over food sitting on bare floors along with survival gear, toilet paper and very little else. no electricity or running water. these documents left behind by investigators listing some of the items seized as evidence. bed rolls, socks, beer cans. the nationwide search began after cummins and thomas disappeared march 13th from columbia, tennessee. two days later security video captured them at a wal-mart in oklahoma city. they made their way to northern california and stayed at a commune, b

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. >> abc's eva pilgrim has new details about his alleged plan of escape. >> reporter: this morning's first look, new details on how that tennessee teacher allegedly hid from the law after taking his 15-year-old former student on a cross-country journey. >> he will face a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years and possibly quite longer. >> reporter: 50-year-old tad cummins appearing in federal court. prosecutors saying he planned an executed an audacious scheme, taking elizabeth thomas through nine states before being captured in california. to hide from authorities during the 39 days on the run, prosecutors claim cummins swapped license plates, disabled his car's gps, used back roads, changed the appearance of his suv and made only cash purchases. the pair ended up here in this remote cabin in california. >> it's been hard for her. >> reporter: a live report from tennessee coming up at 7:00 a.m. with your first look, i'm eva pilgrim, abc news, nashville. >>> brentwood police need your help to find this missing teenager. 17-year-old kamryn bresee was last seen wearing a black top, red

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here's eva pilgrim. >> reporter: tonight, the father of the missing tennessee teen speaking for the firstd. >> sometimes she'll be happy and laughing and back to the same old girl and then sometimes she'll be in a fetal position crying. it's a rollercoaster for her. >> reporter: 15-year-old elizabeth thomas missing for over a month. her former teacher, 50-year-old tad cummins, in fbi custody facing federal charges for kidnapping the teen. what did she l through a lot and she was very talkative to us but you could tell, that something wasn't quite right. >> reporter: you said she had lost some weight? >> yes, apparently they had, he had not been feeding her. she said they had been eating flowers and things and just the things they would find. >> reporter: the family now saying getting her back is just the first step in a long journey ahead. >> she's going to actually need trauma therapy. she's had to spend over a month getting ready to just, you know, bolt from wherever she is and she still feels very uneasy. >> reporter: to see her struggling with this now as a dad. >> it's very heartbrea

cummings' wife and two daughters are speaking out exclusively to abc news in an interview with eva pilgrim. >> there's two sides. the world's heard her side of it. there's always be some on the other side of the amber alert. >> the amber alert, it's for both of them, he's a missing person just as much as she is. he's very important to a lot of people. >> when you realize that your husband of 30-plus years kidnapped a 15-year-old -- >> i think she went by her own choice, but i don't think she was old enough to make that choice. i don't think he forcefully took her. she was manipulated by him. >> reporter: jill says she thought she had a storybook 30-year marriage. but just a few months ago, police say tad was secretly searching "age of consent," and how to marry a teen. >> what was your marriage like? >> we were together all the time. we'd go to work, come home, eat together, do things with our family, go to church, go shopping. >> reporter: that is, until one day last month when jill came home to find a note left by her husband. >> tad, this is not you. >> reporter: she called the police.

eva pilgrim with the details coming in at h hour. >> reporter: tonight, an urgent manhunt for the suspectho appears to kill a random, elderly stranger live on facebook. >> found me somebody i'm about to kill. i'm gonna kill this guy right here. he an old dude. >> reporter: cleveland police are looking for this man, steve stephens. they say he broadcast himself committing a murder live on his social media page. >> can you do me a favor? can you say joy lane? >> what? >> can you say joy lane? >> joy lane. >> yeah. she's the reason why this about to happen to you. >> reporter: in the seconds before he pulls the trigger, stephens explains to his victim he is about to shoot him because of a woman. the family says the victim was their 78-year-old father. >> this man right here was a good man. and i just hate he's gone. >> reporter: investigators are at the scene tonight and confirm they are investigating a homicide. police are actively searching multiple areas. tonight, cleveland state university asking students to shelter in place. >> be advised, male shooting, st. clair and superior. >> repor

. >> reporter: eva pilgrim, abc news, columbia, tennessee. >>> when we come back, shocker on the danceor the a top contender is out. >> "the skinny" is next. are rihanna and lupita nyong'o teaming up to make a movie? >> i'd go see it. >> "the skinny" is next. at 15, i was addicted. by 40, i'll have lung disease. at 50, i'll die of a heart attack. dr. regina benjamin: cigarette smoke causes immediate damage that leads to health problems, even death. those who quit or die are being replaced by a new generation of smokers. i'm dr. regina benjamin, united states surgeon general. go to cdc.gov. learn how to make our next generation tobacco-free. ♪ skinny >> big night in the ballroom. last night's show was so seismic, the lights actually went out in the studio. like literally. they had the sort of power outage most of us get when we forget to pay kpmg or con-edison. we are going to start with the shocker of the right. maks returned to the dance floor with heather morris. as maks does, absolutely nailed it. they received the first perfect score of the season. and yet, they got knocked out? wa

eva pilgrim, abc news, nashville, tennessee. >> amazing work by her, eva. >> thanks to eva.ne sawyer's one-on-one with caitlyn jenner. >> two years after she revealed her very personal decision to the world. how has she been? ♪ new lysol power & fresh 6 goes to work flush after flush lysol. what it takes to protect. ♪ ♪ >>> caitlyn jenner opening up about what it is look to live as a woman. two years ago, remember, after her exclusive interview with diane sawyer. >> in their latest one-on-one taurks t talk, the former olympic champion revealing how her priorities have changed. >> reporter: almost every day, some one goes roaring through the hills of malibu. there, a woman in a dune buggy. and there she is again, flying her plane over the houses of her children along the beach. >> same to you, bye-bye. >> you can see her two times a week at the supermarket. turning strangers into friends. >> how are you today? >> i kind of come around the corner. and this guy goes walking by. he goes, good morning, ma'am. i went -- good morning. kept walking. i just go, how wond

eva pilgrim, abc news. >>> now to boston where police are trying to find the so-called coward in their word who fired the shots that wounded a young boy. the child said to be 5 or 6 years old was shot as he left his home with his family last night. he is recovering from a wound to his lower back. and police say the boy's father believes he was the target. investigators are searching for two men. they do not have a motive. >>> police in north carolina have canceled an amber alert. an 11-year-old girl reported missing has been found in the d.c. area. the girl's guardians were found dead at her home in charlotte. police say she, the girl, is safe. and in their custody. >>> to sports. controversy at the lpga first major. lexi thompson had a two stroke lead in the ana inspiration, entering yesterday's final round. but a bad ball mark saturday cost her a four-stroke penalty. and it was caught by a viewer who e-mailed tournament officials. the ruling not sitting well with tiger woods who tweeted. viewers at home should not be officials wearing stripes. let's go, @lexi win this thing anyway. u

as abc's eva pilgrim reports, one more glaring mystery. >> reporter: tonight, search warrants concerning music super star prince's death unsealed, painting a picture of the singer's opioid addiction. these court documents show investigators found a sizable amount of narcotic medications located inside paisley park. the pills, hidden in aspirin, and other over-the-counter pain relief bottles, all over the house. some of them, found in a suitcase along with handwritten lyrics to his 1987 hit "u got the look" were prescribed under the name of his long time friend and drummer kirk johnson, including the oxycodone prescribed by dr. todd shulenberg after prince's plane made that emergency landing in moline, illinois. >> what's the nature of the emergency? >> unresponsive passenger. >> reporter: johnson picked those drugs up from the pharmacy, but told investigators he didn't know prince was addicted, and it was the first time he had done something like that for prince. the search warrants now show that schulenberg told investigators he put the prescription in johnson's name for prince's privac

abc's eva pilgrim picks up the story. >> we got him. [ applause ] >> reporter: relief tonight. the murder of a young woman out for a run, finally solved. authorities say 31-year-old angelo colon ortiz attacked vanessa marcotte. the 27-year-old google employee home visiting her family in princeton, massachusetts. she went out for a run in broad daylight on august 7th. when she didn't return, her family called police. marcotte's body was found in the woods, off a two-lane road, half a mile from her mother's home. >> it was through her determined fight and her efforts that we obtained the dna of her killer. >> reporter: investigators say ortiz's dna was found under marcotte's fingernails. after the murder, more than 1300 tips poured in, many describing a dark colored suv and its driver. an alert state trooper spotted that suv. >> he looked at the driver of the vehicle. and it matched our suspect. >> reporter: ortiz gave a voluntary dna sample. it was a match. >> she was a loving, caring and intelligent young woman who had her whole life ahead of her. >> reporter: ortiz isn't charg

here's eva pilgrim. >> reporter: tonight, new details on what led to a deadly workplace shooting spree at a luxury health club in south florida. police say a recently fired employee gunned down two of his former bosses before turning the weapon on himself. >> i noticed he wasn't clean-shaven, he wasn't looking his best. >> reporter: authorities say 33-year-old abeku wilson, a former trainer at this equinox gym, walked into the health club around 1:00 yesterday afternoon and shot general manager janine ackerman and fitness manager mario ortiz. the gunfire sent people running for cover. shutting down this upscale mall where the gym is located. >> all of a sudden the alarm started sounding. >> get inside, get inside, we ran inside and they locked the door. >> reporter: investigators say wilson was fired earlier in the day for workplace violence and escorted out of the gym. police say he then went home and got a gun before returning. >> obviously, everybody is connecting the dots, it was his firing that caused him to do what he did. >> reporter: equinox's chairman releasing a statement on

abc's eva pilgrim with the details. >> reporter: tonight an arrest in that disturbing sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl streamed on facebook live. >> it's disgusting. it's so disgusting. she was so scared. >> reporter: a 14-year-old boy is behind bars, facing charges for the alleged crime. police say more arrests are coming for the others involved. >> and now they will be held accountable for what they did. >> reporter: authorities say at least 40 people viewed the facebook live video, but not a single person called police. >> it just disgusts me that people would look at those videos and not pick up the phone and dial 911. >> this [ bleep ] is hilarious. >> reporter: this isn't the first crime caught on facebook live in chicago. in january, a group of teenagers were arrested after police say they kidnapped a disabled man, then broadcast themselves attacking him. >> [ bleep ]! >> reporter: and in oklahoma last october, a man posted his alleged getaway, after a violent and deadly rampage. as for the alleged assault, facebook pulled the video down. telling abc news we work hard to c

abc's eva pilgrim with the new developments. >> reporter: tonight, the search intensifying for that tennessee teacher and the student he allegedly kidnapped almost three weeks ago. investigators releasing video of the first confirmed sighting of the pair. >> i feel at least hopeful that i've seen her. >> reporter: 50-year-old tad cummins and 15-year-old elizabeth thomas captured on this walmart surveillance camera in oklahoma city on march 15th, two days after they disappeared from columbia, tennessee, almost 700 miles away. the new pictures showing only small changes to their appearance. thomas' hair dark and red. cummins' gray facial hair now brown. >> she looks subservient to him, walking behind him, looking to him. it's a very scary image. >> reporter: the two disappeared after cummins was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with his teenage student. >> he was putting a lot of planning into disappearing. he searched "what size mattress will fit in the back of a nissan rogue?" >> reporter: authorities telling abc news, cummins packed warm weather clothes, shos and t-shirts, but