here's abc's lindsey davis. >> no one is going to catch lane number five, reece whitley. >> reporter: he's a 6'8" swimming sensation, seen here powering so victory at 66 national championships. at just 15 years old reece whitley is being called the next michael phelps, recently named "sports illustrated" kids, sportskid of the year. whitley attributes his success now to his failure at summer camp when he was just 7. >> i failed. water test, the first time i did it. i told my mom that night and she enrolled me in lesson the next week and this is what happened. >> reporter: what happened is whitley now holds five national age group records. he's on the junior world championship team and has fast enough times to have already qualifiedor the 2016 olympic trials. >> take your mark, go. >> reporter: but just as much as hess breing records, he's also >> i'm going to need to play a key role in kind of integrating swimming and inner city communities a lot more. >> reporter: 16 punishing hours of training a week, before and after school, and on weekends. in the hopes of earning a spot on the u.

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. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm lindsey davis, in new york. >> i'm rooting for both sides. thanks for watching. tune in to gma to morning. as always, we're online at abcnews.com. >>> now new york's no. 1 news, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> chaos at the mall, a store shut down tonight as police piece together how an attempted robbery ended up with a customer getting shot. >> also new at 11:00 we're learning more tonight about the killed in that taliban suicide blast in afghanistan, a young father, his heartbroken family now trying to come to grips with what happened. >>> but first tonight we have breaking news, two police officers rushed to the hospital. good evening, everyone. at 11:00 i'm bill ritter. >> i'm sade baderinwa. these two officers were injured in a bad crash tonight in morris county, new jersey. their car crashed head on into a truck in mendham. >> we have the breaking details now from the scene. >> reporter: as you can see, there is still a very active investigation here behind me and we're being told that tinley road by mendham east road is shut down and in c

lindsey davis, abc news, new >>> in the bayay area, night, what we're learning about the nurse and the risk to the babies, the mothers, and hundreds of other adults. here's adidi roy. >> reporter: tonight, a major medical scare in san jose, california. officials at the santa clara valley medical center fear over 1,000 people may have been exposed to tuberculosis after a maternity ward nurse tested positiveor the deadly disease. the hospital has identified the 350 newborns, 368 mothers and 308 workers who may have had contact with the nurse between mid-august to mid-november. the hospital posting this letter to its website, "while the ris of infection,is low, the conseqnces of a tuberculosis infection in infants can be severe." hospital officialsecommend that the babies protectively take an antibiotic for the next six months to nine months even if they test negative. >> reporter: hospital officials say the nurse's annual t.b. test was negative but she was diagnosed with t.b. in november during treatment for an unrelated illness. since she showed no symptoms, they say the risk of exposur

here's abc's lindsey davis. >> no one is going to catch lane number five, reece whitley. >> reporter: he's a 6'8" swimming sensation, seen here powering so victory at 66 national championships. at just 15 years old reece whitley is being called the next michael phelps, recently named "sports illustrated" kids, sportskid of the year.