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gio benitez is there. >> this case is about sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl. >> reporter: todays down the road from the leafy campus of st. paul's, an exclusive prep school in concord, new hampshire, 19 year old olan la brie in court. >> did you live on campus at st. paul's? >> yes, i did. >> reporter: we're not showing you her face and we're disguising her voice, her attack she's describing that happened last year. >> this is the face that you're going to see in the next few days. it's probably not the face of an individual that you think of when you think of a sexual assault. >> reporter: la brie accepted into harvard looked quite different in glasses and a blazer in court today than his mug shot from last year. >> in a case like this, his lawyers are probably being very careful and methodical about exactly how he looks, what he wears, when he comes to court every day. he's facing that jury. >> reporter: but both teenagers agree they did meet up late one night here in an empty room in the math and science building and that they became intimate. the girl says la brie then becam

gio benitez is there. >> reporter: students and graduates of the elite new hampshire prep school, st. paul's, have taken the stand. testifying that their friend, 19-year-old owen labrie, told them he had sex with a 15-year-old schoolmate last year. >> i had left under the impression that they did have sex in the time wherever they were. >> did he tell you not to tell anyone? >> i believe so, yes. >> reporter: in an emotional three days of testimony last week, the alleged victim, now 16, says labrie raped her. but labrie denies ever having sex with the girl. his defense attorney challenges her story. >> well, why were you cloudy? >> i was raped. >> reporter: the detective remembers going back to the scene with the girl. >> she started crying. she was unable to talk to me or answer any questions beyond pointing out the area that owen had put a blanket down. >> reporter: the defense is frying to establish reasonable doubt by saying labrie's messages about sex were just teenage exaggerations. he's plead not guilty and he could end up being the defense's only witness to take the stand. gio

abc's gio benitez explains. >> think about what am i doing right now?. >> this is so easy. >> reporter: they're difficult to watch. teens losing their lives texting while driving. but the advocacy group students against destructive decisions says that teens aren't just texting behind the wheel for fun. they're feeling pressured by their parents. >> it's incredibly dangerous. >> reporter: according to sadd, more than 800 teens reported texting while driving to update their parents. nearly a quarter of them said they thought their parents expect a text response within five minutes. >> young people in particular have a lack of driving experience. >> reporter: sadd says most parents they surveyed don't have any set expectations on when their kids should respond to their texts. >> they expect their parents to want a message back from them almost immediately. >> reporter: the issue is real. we've seen those accidents before. just take a look at this teen looking at her phone for six seconds before losing control and careening off the road. >> tell your kids t

here is abc's gio benitez. >> reporter: watch closely because police say what you're looking at is a theft in progress. 27-year-old jana dominquez renting this home through the website airbnb, then allegedly rummaging through the owner's belongings making off with $35,000 in valuables. the owner told her she couldn't go into the home office, but that's exactly what police say she did. that camera watching it all. >> she basically broke the doorknob and the door itself. >> reporter: we've heard about home rental nightmares, like this couple, seen on camera overstaying their booking. living rent free, taking advantage of a california law that would require formal eviction after 30 days of renting. in the end, the owner had to pay them to leave. and this couple, renting out their place only for it to turn into a major party, lasting for days and causing over $50,000 in damages, according to the owners. as for that latest case, tonight airbnb says "we have zero tolerance for this sort of behavior." gio benitez, abc news, new york. >> gio, thu. >>> when we come back major airlines making

gio benitez reports. >> reporter: america's largest city on alert for legionnaires disease. >> we'velike this. >> reporter: officials have been saying they have it under control calling in the cdc with the rising number of cases, now 100 infected and ten dead. a type of severe knew manu moneyia caused by breathing in water vapor that contains the bacteria. our dr. richard besser climbeded to the top of a tower to show how bacteria spreads. >> it's shot out of giant fans into the air. if it's capitaled are with legion nel la it can travel as far as seven miles. >>> the city's health admissioner ordering all building owners to test and clean their cooling towers within 14 days or face a misdemeanor. the disease is not linked to water towers like these that store tap water or to home window or central air-conditioners like these. the people who died all had other health issues, as well. but the scary part is everyone who contracted this disease got it by just breeting in the air in this neighborhood. gio benitez, abc news new york. >>> you know how had he got the name legionnaires. >> t

gio benitez, abc news, concord, new hampshire. >>> stock markets across asia took heavy losses in today's trading following a harsh selloff on wall street. the dow had its biggest loss since february of last year plunging 58 points yesterday. that is more than 2%. the other major averages posted similar losses. falling energy prices, china's slowing economy and the threat of a rise in interest rates sent stocks plunging. >> the company that got fda approval for the first drug to boost sex drive in women has already been sold at a big price. sprout pharmaceutical bought for $1 billion in cash. the libido drug addyi expected to be available by mid october. sprout is a privately head company with about 30 employees. valiant saysed be the core of a new business focusing on women's health. >>> during summer's most sweltering days anybody with a backyard pool can pretty much plan on uninvited guests to beat the heat. >> usually the guests are human. imagine the surprise for this family looking out to see a mother bear and her five cubs taking a dip in the kiddie pool. >> the mama was focused on

they'll be right back here first thing in the morning. >> gio benitez from concord, new hampshire, gio, thank you. >>> overseas now, a grim headline out of austria, up to 50 bodies discovered in an abandoned truck on a highway outside of vienna, believed to be migrants, part of a human trafficking operation. here's abc's chief foreign correspondent terry moran. >> reporter: they died in a truck on the side of the road, up to 50 human beings packed into a truck and abandoned on this highway east of vienna. this human tide of desperation is now cresting across the borders of europe. so far this year more than 340,000 men, women and children fleeing war and terror in the middle east. just here in hungary, the new crises point, almost 150,000 have crossed the borders in 2015, triple the number of all of last year. we saw scores of families today crossing into the country down the railroad tracks towards some kind of new life. micar came from damascus. >> so now off you go to germany. >> yes. >> reporter: they were all corralled in this field under the broiling sun. no food, no water, no id

>> gio benitez with us from new hampshire tonight. gio, thank you. >>> next, to st. louis, a city erupting in gun fire overnight. this time, a black teenager shot and killed by police, officers say he pointed a gun at them first. and tonight, right here, this video captured by police, showing the aftermath and the scene. again tonight, abc's steve osunsami. >> shield guys, protect your stick. >> reporter: it's now come to this. these are st. louis police recording their own video of a street fight with angry young people after two white police officers shot and killed a black suspect who they say pointed a gun at the officers. police are posting pictures online of the bricks and rocks thrown their way. listen as they yell out the name of objects they are trying to dodge. >> brick. >> another rock. >> brick, brick. >> reporter: they arrested nine people. >> i think it's important that we document the things that are happening. >> reporter: this is the same neighborhood where there was a murder on monday and regular shootings and robberies. 18-year-old mansur ball-bey

gio benitez, abc news, new york. >>> to the extreme weather tonight. all that heat. the west is getting hammered. monsoon season storms are moving across the southwest, triggering flash floods in arizona. and across the west, lightning sparking new wildfires. 24 now burning in 8 states. record heat and triple-digit temperatures adding to the misery. abc's senior meteorologist rob marciano is here. no signs of a letup this weekend. >> no. as a matter of fact, july, the hottest july on record for seattle. and that's after june being the hottest june on record. it's going to continue. hot, dry, high pressure over the northwest. tomorrow, august 1st, 96, portland, 102 in boise. and below the ridge, the monsoon continues. high rainfall, las vegas, santa fe. could see flash flooding. we have a severe weather threat tomorrow, across the plains. big hail and maybe some big rains there. and florida will continue to have big rains. but much of the east, enjoying the dry weather that arrived yesterday. >> thank you. >>> to politics now. a flood of documents from the hillary cli

abc's gio benitez is in concord, new hampshire, tonight. >> reporter: today, less than two miles from the leechy campus of their exclusive prep school, 19-year-old owen labrie sitting in court, watching his 16-year-old former schoolmate accuse him of rape. >> did you live on campus? >> yes, i did. >> reporter: we are not showing you her face and we're disguising her voice. >> do you see owen in the courtroom today? >> yes, i do. >> reporter: both teenagers agree, they did meet up late one night here in an empty room in the science building, and that they became intimate. the girl says labrie became violent and raped her. >> she's a 15-year-old girl without sexual experience. she tried to say no. >> reporter: prosecutors argue the alleged rape was part of that school tradition called the senior salute. senior boys competing to wrack up intimate experiences with freshmen girls, trying to, quote, slay the most girls by the end of senior year. labrie telling police, boys kept a tally written on a wall behind a washing machine. painted over by the school again and again until it was finall

for "this week," gio benitez, abc news, concord, new hampshire. >> our thanks to gio. >>> and abc chief legal analyst dan abrams joins us now. dan, was justice served here? was this a compromised verdict? >> i think you can make a very strong argument that justice was served. this is a tough case for the prosecutors at the beginning. she sent messages after the fact that were friendly and flirty. she did the nurse was consens l consensual. it was a very tough case for prosecutors. yet the jury was also convinced that he lied about whether they had sex. so, he's facing a series of charges related to the fact that he was 18 and she was 15. he was convicted of those challenges he would never would have faced if this prosecutor and the jury felt there was more to the story. you're seeing sort of a compromised verdict. the possibility of real time behind bars. >> dan, one of the things that's interesting about this, he did face a felony charge, as gio reported, for enticing a minor on a computer, explain that, is that what that law was about? >> he's now facing up to 7 years. of course this

abc's gio benitez reports from new hampshire. >> reporter: a 19-year-old accused of rape, taking the stand today. his 16-year-old alleged victim watching in the front row. >> my name is owen labrie. >> reporter: their encounter, a so-called senior salute where a graduating senior at their elite prep school spends time with a younger student. la bri saying he was fond of his accuser. he described the night they went up to that empty room in the science building. >> she giggled, i giggled. we kissed like a little bit. >> reporter: labrie says the situation grew more intimate. his attorney asking over and over again if she ever objected. >> did she say anything? >> no. >> did she do anything? >> no, she didn't. >> reporter: he says they rolled around on a blanket, spoke to each other in french. but la bri says he suddenly had a change of heart. >> i thought to myself maybe we shouldn't do this. it hadn't been my intention going into the night to have sex. >> reporter: but in cross-examination the prosecutor unconvinced. >> we kissed some more afterwards but i didn't have sex with her. >

gio benitez, abc news, round lake, illinois. >>> we turn to another natural disaster, the incredibleires in the west. the rocky fire north of the san francisco still out of control after exploding in size over the weekend. the blast has now burned more than 4 square miles. >> it's a big fire. and these big fires have a mind of their own. >> the rocky fire is only about 12% contained despite the efforts of 3,000 firefighters. 3,000 homes have been destroyed. none in the past day though. 7500 homes right now are threatened. >>> there's no relief in the forecast for firefighters in the west. 30-mile-an-hour winds and a cold front are heading toward california and the pacific northwest. storms and downpours hit florida's flood zone again. rain for parts of the northeast. >> 90s and triple digits from phoenix and dallas to washington, d.c. 80s in l.a., kansas city, chicago and boston. 79 in detroit. >>> most of the republican presidential candidates gathered on a stage in new hampshire last night in a preview of thursday's big debate. missing though was front-runner donald trump. he refus

we sent gio benitez to show how this is transmitted from the cooling towers. he has that, and the new cases in two other states. >> reporter: tonight, yet disease in new york city. bringing the total number up to 101. ten people in the bronx area have died. 29 in the hospital right now. including marvin montgomery. he's planning to file a $10 million lawsuit against the city. a new requirement going into effect today, saying all building owners in new york city must test and disinfect cooling towers within 14 days. the governor acknowledging authorities have to go building by building. telling new york 1 -- >> we don't know where the cooling towers are. >> reporter: but experts say each cooling tower can take up to two days to clean. >> it's going to be quite a task. it could be thousands of these towers all over the city. >> reporter: this as we learn two other people in michigan and ohio died of legionnaires' disease. officials tonight say those cases are not related to those here in new york. but they're confident the number of incidents are winding down. >

here's gio benitez. >> reporter: you're watching a home burglary in action, police say, but this is no break in. this woman actually rented out this home from its owner on airbnb. the guest turned alleged burglar caught on surveillance camera, stealing over $35,000 in valuables, according to authorities, after being told to stay out of the locked closet and office. >> she basically the doorknob and door itself. >> reporter: theft is just one nightmare for homeowners. >> this is awful. >> reporter: mark and starr king, parents to two young sons headed over the keys to their calgary home to rerntss who were supposedly in town for a wedding. >> anything imaginable that would violate a home has happened here. >> reporter: according to neighbors, the guests started their own party. >> within three or four hours that we exchanged keys, a party bus was here. >> reporter: a party that lasted several days and left their once-immaculate home unrecognizable. >> we don't want to touch anything. broken glass everywhere. there's barbecue sauce on the ceiling. >> reporter: the total amount of damage,

first, gio benitez, who was inside the courthouse. >> reporter: the face as he was acquitted that he forcibly raped his 15-year-old schoolmate in the science building. she testified that she said no. sobbing in court today as the verdict was read. the jury were not convinced. but also rejected la brie's claim that that didn't have sex at all. they convicted him on charges of having sex with a minor, and using a computer to entice her to the senior salute. >> there's something i want to share with you. >> reporter: prosecutors claiming the flowery language that he and his friends were competing to "slay" the most girls before graduation. >> by the defendant's own words, older students take great pride in taking the virginity of the younger students. >> reporter: what does this tell you? >> these were two teenagers getting together for a consensual encounter. >> reporter: a spokesperson for the family saying they were betrayed by the school. >> we trusted the school to protect her. and it failed us. >> reporter: tom, today, the school sent a letter to parents praising the girl's unwafe

abc's gio benitez with this story. >> reporter: watch closely, because police say what you're lookingr-old janet dominguez renting this home through the website airbnb and then allegedly rummaging through the owner's belongings, making off with $35,000 in valuables. the owner told her she couldn't go into the home office but that's exactly what police say she did. that camera watching it all. >> she basically broke the doorknob and the door itself. >> reporter: we've heard about home rental nightmares, like this couple seen on camera overstaying their booking, living rent-free, taking advantage of a california law that would require formal eviction after 30 days of renting. in the end, the owner had to pay them to leave. and this couple, renting out their place only for it to turn into a major party lasting for days, causing over $50,000 in damages, according to the owners. as for that latest case, airbnb says, "we have zero tolerance for this sort of behavior." gio benitez, abc news, new york. >> i'm not going to rent out the house this summer. >> no. >>> coming up, "the skinny." a b

gio benitez with the story. >> reporter: 19-year-old owen after a day of emotional testimony from his 16-year-old schoolmate who says he raped her in the science building on the leafy campus of their prep school. the teenage girl first describing how she felt when he asked to meet her. >> one of the most popular boys on campus, sure. wow, a special boy wants my special attention. >> reporter: that attention, she says, part of a school tradition called the "senior salute," where graduating seniors reach out to younger students to spend time with them, sometimes intimately. on the stand today, the girl testifies that what started out as kissing turned into rape. >> i didn't kick or scream or really push. i didn't. but i did say no. i said no three times. >> reporter: but later that night, the teens exchanged the first of many messages. "you're an angel," he writes her. "you're quite an angel yourself," she responds. today, prosecutors asked her why. >> i was afraid of him coming after me again. or coming to confront me or make fun of me. i had no control over what somebody else did to m

gio benitez leading us off. >> reporter: tonight, millions from coast to coast, feeling record high temperatures. >> triple digits. miserable. >> reporter: in new york, 95 degrees, tying the record. the first official heat wave in two years. people working outside drinking plenty of water. construction workers looking for shade where they can find it. in washington, d.c. -- >> it's hard and covered in sweat. >> reporter: meanwhile out west -- >> the humid was out of control and made it hotter. >> reporter: dozens of heat records shattered just in california. abc's kayna whitworth is in marina del rey. >> we are at a playground. i want to show you, the temperature is 108 degrees. >> reporter: too hard of the a baseball game. >> he had heat related illness. >> reporter: on the roads too. texas aaa reporting a spike in tie blow outs. >> if you have tires on the verge of failing already and the temperature up, it's going to push it farther. >> reporter: the commuters behind me, check that tire pressure. if you are under inflated first on hot roads, you are in trouble. >> check the pressure in your t

here is gio benitez. >> the raptor is supposed to be a thrill. but for the schoolteacher, a tragedy. police tell us he was killed because he tried to retrieve his cell phone which fell in the ride. the coaster hitting him at 60 miles an hour. >> he got knocked out and his skull got cracked. >> reporter: cedar point saying our prayers are with the family. officials say he made a deadly mistake. he went in the a restricted area for the phone. it's one reason that parks at universal in rornd tertsing. if you drop a cell phone, go ahead and speak to a worker about it. and most of the parks that lost and found departments that get you your stuff back safely. david. >> gio, thank you. >>> the fouerful drug oxycontin approved for children. details in a moment. and a popular stretch of beach tonight, a great white spotted. swimmers back in the water. >> and jenna bush hager making news because of the name they chose for their new baby. oh, i don't know. the apocalypse? we're fine. i bundled re> and jenna bush hager making news because of the name they ch

gio benitez, abc news, new york. >> i'm not going to rent out the house this summer. >> no.the hearts of children of all ages. >> also, kim kardashian has a book out there. it's just entirely of selfies. why some say it's not exactly the page turner it was hoped to be. you're watching "world news now." >>> "world news now" continues after this from our abc stations. ♪ skinny, so skinny >>> it's going to be a difficult "skinny" for me. all right. we start though with more celebrity breakup news it. this is the split that really has people upset. >> miss piggy and kermit the frog calling it quits. kermit announced the split first in a press conference to reporters but then issued a joint statement with the miss piggy. >> we are really doing this, huh? in that statement, the on again and off couple said they have made the difficult decision to terpnate their romantic relationship but they still have a work relationship. they will continue to work on their television show the muppets which airs where? >> abc. >> yeah, it's coming this fall. >> you know what the truth is? we knew

gio benitez in court for the dramatic closing argument. >> reporter: today in his closing argument, the prosecutor telling jurors 19-year-old owen labrie brought a 15-year-old girl to this dark science building and raped her, a date gone horribly wrong. >> she thought she could handle going with an 18-year-old senior boy who's at the end of his high school career for a senior salute. she thought she could handle his advances by saying no and holding onto her clothing, that that would be enough to make it stop. >> reporter: the senior salute, a current school tradition at the center of this case. graduating seniors spending time with younger students, sometimes intimately. on the stand, the alleged victim in tears. >> i was raped! >> reporter: she testified that she said no to labrie again and again. >> this someone was going to get what he wanted and not take no for an answer. >> reporter: but labrie claims they never had sex at all. >> i thought to myself maybe we shouldn't do this. it hadn't been my intention going into the night to have sex. >> reporter: still labrie did admit bringi

gio benitez has the story. >> reporter: tonight, tampa florida, inundated. a town by the water, now underwater cars left behind water rushing over the wheel wells, happening so fast, hundreds caught off guard. reporter sarah rosario from our tampa affiliate wfts right in the middle of it. >> this is exactly what they don't want you to do. >> reporter: more than 40 residents evacuated from flood waters up to four feet high children, their pets, the elderly, all carried out in boats. >> i've never seen it in the years i have lived here. >> reporter: and now the sheriff there warning everyone to get off the road for their own good. >> we are highly recommending that anyone who lives in those areas, by 3:00, be off the road. >> reporter: further north deadly storms moving east after tearing up the midwest. this scene at a summer festival just outside of chicago. this fencing is the least of the damage here, people here were just trying to enjoy a summer festival, but just take a look, a tent comes crashing down, killing a father of two. the 35-year-old's family

here's abc's gio benitez. >> reporter: tonight, students and graduates of the elite new hampshire prep school, st. paul's, have taken the stand. testifying that their friend, 19-year-old owen labrie, told them he had sex with a 15-year-old schoolmate last year. >> i had left under the impression that they did have sex in the time wherever they were. >> sex with who? >> owen and jesse. >> and did he tell you not to tell anyone? >> i believe so, yes. >> reporter: in an emotional three days of testimony last week, the alleged victim, now 16, says labrie raped her. but labrie denies ever having sex with the girl. his defense attorney challenges her story. >> well, why were you cloudy? >> i was raped. >> reporter: the detective remembers going back to the scene with the girl. >> she started crying. she was unable to talk to me or answer any questions beyond pointing out the area that owen had put a blanket down. >> reporter: they're trying to establish reasonable doubt saying his messages about sex was teenage exaggerations. he could end up being the defense's only witness to take the stand