linsey? >> victor, thank you. >>> and now to the families still hoping for a miracle. they are holding onto one another as they wait. some getting the heartbreaking news that they feared, but so grateful to have answers. abc's stephanie ramos on that part of the story tonight. >> reporter: tonight, as rescuers carefully sift through that wreckage for any signs of life, the meticulous process compounding the suffering for families hoping for a miracle. >> it is very difficult to know that your loved one could still be alive and have the hope to believe that and at the same time, just sit there and wait for that information to get to you. >> reporter: for the second day, buses taking relatives of the missing to the site of the collapsed tower. this coming amid criticism from some frustrated relatives about the pace of the rescue effort. how do they feel about the from officials and now that they do have the opportunity to go down to the site and see the wreckage? >> well, their reaction is abou

linsey?eve, thank you. >>> next, the new cyberattack warning as more of the nation's critical systems come under attack. tonight, two florida hospitals serving the nation's largest retirement community, the villages, have been locked out of the computers and tonight, fbi director christopher wray is comparing the ransomware challenge to the attack on september 11th, calling for a coordinated fight across the country. here's victor oquendo. >> reporter: tonight, two central florida hospitals serving the largest retirement community in america are under a ransomware attack. uf health the villages and uf health leesburg hospital saying they first detected unusual activity on their computer systems on memorial day and have since learned that the activity was related to a cyber security event. the hospital system with more than ten hospitals throughout the state suspending email access and even resorting to using pen and paper across hospitals and clinics. this attack coming on the heels of hacks

linsey? >> keep an eye on the old and young during this time. janai, thanks so much. >>> and let's get right to abc's chief meteorologist ginger zee, tracking it all for us. ginger? >> reporter: you can hear the crashing waves off of the cool great lakes, but that is natural air conditioning. you all have to use it, because you had daily records breaking from newark to laguardia to hartford at 99, all under that ridge of high pressure and this kind of blocking system that's slowly making its way east. heat advisories and alerts will still be in place tomorrow from wilmington all the way up to the coast of maine, back to syracuse. but you know to break it, you got to get severe storms and they could be severe tomorrow afternoon and evening, especially. damaging wind, the primary threat. albany to boston, watch for that. the west coast broke the long streak for portland and seattle, but it just moved inland to the northern rockies. linsey? >> unprecedented heat and it's not even july yet. ginge

linsey? >> that record-breaking heat. rob, thank you. >>> now to the pandemic and rising concerns about the highly contagious delta variant. it's now present in all but one state. abc's trevor ault is in new york. >> reporter: tonight, the delta variant increasingly taking hold in america's undervaccinated areas just as health experts feared. >> we have parts of the united states where we don't have a lot of vaccination and we also don't have a lot of prior infection, and those are going to be the more vulnerable parts of this country. >> reporter: the cdc estimating the highly contagious variant now makes up more than 20% of new cases nationwide, and several states with vaccination rates below the national average are seeing troubling trends. arkansas, one of four states where hospital admissions have jumped more than 25%. >> those that are being hospitalized are those who have not been vaccinated. we've got to make sure we do everything we can to get the word out. >> reporter: but the u.s.

linsey? >> the heat is upon us. rob, thank you. >>> news on the pandemic tonight. and america's falling covid vaccination rate. the u.s. is at risk of not reaching president biden's goal 70% of adults receiving at least one dose of the vaccine by july 4th. dr. jill biden and dr. anthony fauci in harlem, new york, today, trying to convince people to get vaccinated. 300 million americans have been administered shots. here's trevor ault. >> reporter: tonight, the u.s. no longer on track to meet president biden's goal of getting 70% of american adults at least one shot by the 4th of july. the nation about 17 million people shy of the target, on pace to come up 7 million short. >> to those who are still saying i better wait and see, you are putting people at risk. and you are preventing the full comeback. >> reporter: today, reverend calvin butts' iconic harlem church hosting dr. anthony fauci and first lady dr. jill biden. >> we want everyone 12 and older to come get vaccinated. >> we're going to

linsey?ice, thank you. >>> new developments in the manhunt for suspects wanted for a chilling shooting in new york city. the gunman opening fire on a victim with two young children just inches away. police are releasing a new image of the alleged shooter seen without his hooded mask. just one of a number of violent crimes across the country once again this weekend. here's alex presha. >> reporter: tonight, the hunt is on for this suspect who is wanted in connection with a terrifying shooting on a bronx street. watch as these two children escape tragedy by mere inches. this man dressed in all black firing at point-blank range. thursday's shooting, caught on pcamera. the children walking to a candy store. you can see this 10-year-old girl shield her 5-year-old brother as the gunman unloads, shooting his 24-year-old target in the back and both legs. the nypd says the victim is expected to survive. >> i'm disgusted, i'm going to be honest with you. it's very alarming. >> reporter: that suspect es

linsey? >> rachel, thank you. >>> and david muir will lead our team coverage of president biden's face-to-face meeting with vladimir putin next wednesday. our coverage throughout the day on abc news. >>> now to the pandemic. and in the first ruling of its kind, a federal judge in houston dismissing a lawsuit by a group of hospital employees. they were fighting their employers' vaccine mandate. that, as the u.s. approaches another grim milestone. here's trevor ault. >> reporter: tonight, the first federal ruling on vaccine mandates. a texas judge dismissing a lawsuit from a small percentage of employees with the houston methodist hospital system who were resisting the company's mandatory vaccine policy. >> we have a sacred obligation to keep our patients safe. every hospital on the planet should be doing this. >> reporter: the employees' attorneys saying in a statement, "this is just one battle in a larger war to protect the rights of employees" and "we will be appealing." tomorrow marks six m

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linsey? >> martha, thank you. now to former attorney general william barr, what he's now saying about former president trump's claims of election fraud and what it was like inside that explosive meeting when the former president confronted his a.g. here's abc's chief washington correspondent jonathan karl. >> reporter: bill barr was seen as one of trump's most loyal cabinet secretaries. but in a series of exclusive interviews he tells me donald trump's claims of election fraud are "b.s." >> if i found something, you know, i had no motive to suppress it. but my suspicion all the way along was that there was nothing there. it was all [ bleep ]. >> reporter: barr told me he had conducted his own informal inquiry. even talking to cyber security experts at the department of homeland security and the fbi about allegations that voting machines were rigged. they found nothing. >> you can tell me all you want to about, you know, how this could have been hacked or whatever. but it's a counting machine. so you just reconcile

here's abc's linsey davis. >> very nice to meet you. >> reporter: we met kevin strickland on his 62ndticular on this day? >> i was determined to spend this birthday awake as long as i could. you know? never know if it's going to be the last one. >> reporter: this is the 43rd birthday he's spent behind bars. >> what it does to someone to be behind bars for 43 years? >> i think i've been destroyed. >> reporter: what he calls his destruction is not just the result of decades in prison. it's decades in prison for a crime he says he did not commit. years spent dreaming of a life outside his prison cell. do you think that a lot? >> yes. want it bad. want it bad. people hurt you. >> so 43 years. how have you survived this long, to this point? >> hope. prayer. desire to return to society and bond with my children and grandchildren. >> reporter: the prosecutor who originally tried strickland for a triple murder in 1978 is now deceased. but the same office with prosecutor jean peters hyme baker is at its helling is saying he's innocent. >> it is important to recognize when the system has made w

i'm linsey davis. tonight, the fight to level the playing field. former nfl players living with the aftermath of head injuries sustained in the game accusing the league's concussion settlement program of discrimination. now the nfl pledging to end that controversial practice known as race-norming, just as the outrage reaches a tipping point. here's abc's ryan smith. >> i chose to give everything that i had when playing for these teams. and then not being able to be supported by the fraternity that i gave my all to is hurtful. >> reporter: for lewis leonard, a former nfl defensive tackle, this is personal. months after an abc news investigation examined allegations of racial bias in the nfl's concussion settlement program, lewis and his wife lacy are demanding answers. >> they're making money off the backs of our husbands and our fathers and our brothers. >> i understand that it's a business. but it hurts. it do, it hurts. >> reporter: the leonards are joining a growing chorus of black former nfl players and their families speaking out about the pro

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abc's linsey davis takes a look. >> reporter: chambersburg, pennsylvania, is rooted in american historyumored to be a stop on the underground railroad and burned down in 1864 by the confederacy. it is small town america. overwhelmingly republican and mostly white. a place where linda and marvin worthy and their 11-year-old daughter taila call home. was there ever a time you felt unwelcome in chambersburg because of your race? >> i received a phone call once, asking if i was marvin worthy, and that i understand my wife decided to enroll in your service, but i found out you were [ bleep ]. we want to withdraw. i said, excuse me? >> reporter: they turned their personal struggle into action, forming a group called racial reconciliation. >> marvin and i decided that we were going to start to have conversations about how we can reconcile around the issue of race in our own community. >> reporter: for the next few years, they hosted uncomfortable conversations, mostly with their white neighbors, about what it really means to be an ally. >> it's not enough to be anti-racist. you have to combat

. >> reporter: kevin strickland told abc's linsey davis he has always maintained his innocence in a tripleas convicted of in 1979. two other men who pleaded guilty also insisted strickland was not involved, and a lone witness recanted her story. so last month, the state prosecutors office affirmed strickland's innocence and is fighting for his immediate release, a process now plagued with frustration. >> this is wrong. the right thing is getting mr. strickland out. >> missouri's governor just last week announced the names of 36 people in the state being granted pardons, but strickland wasn't on the list. >> we look at those case, but i don't know that necessarily makes a priority to jump in front of the line. >> the state supreme court has denied a petition to free strickland without giving a reason. so now that we've gotten to this point, i'm just curious why mr. strickland is still behind bars? >> that's a hard reality. the only thing i can tell you about that slightly in defense of the system is that it believes in finality. >> reporter: more than a dozen state lawmakers are now calling

. >> reporter: paxton telling nbc's linsey davis, she can't believe the response her speech is gettingeech went viral, you've been getting a retweet from hillary clinton, what your reaction to that? >> i was shocked. i didn't expect the speech to really go far past the stage. >> reporter: paxton finished her speech without interruption. >> we cannot stay silent. thank you. >> reporter: the school district says it now plans to review student speech protocols in advance of next year's graduation ceremonies. the school points out that valedictorian speeches do not reflect the school's position or that of its employees. paxton says her parents were the only ones she told about switching her topic. mona, andrew? >> andrea, thank you. >>> and breaking overnight, a big loss for lebron james and the lakers. the suns eliminated the defending champs from the play-offs in the first round, and it is the first time lebron has been eliminated in the first round in his entire career. the nuggets also eliminated the blazer last night. >>> coming up, the video of u.s. soldiers confronting a stubborn ra

here's abc's linsey davis.old valentina smith unleash from the pitcher's mound. >> it's kind of like, oh, she's just a girl. this is going to be easy, because sometimes when i go up to pitch i start with a changeup and some of them laugh and smile. then i throw a fastball, and they're like. uh. they just start getting serious. the smiles just start to fade away. >> reporter: valentina isn't just one of the starting pitchers for the parkland all-stars little league team in florida, she's also a strong hitter. two weeks ago she hit her first ball over the fence. >> i didn't know it was gone until i started getting halfway from first base, because when i heard my whole dugout cheering and i saw it land, i just started crying so hard because it was my first time hitting it over the fence. >> reporter: valentina's been playing some form of baseball since she was 4. and today she works just as hard off the field. >> i've always wanted to show girls that they can do it just as good or maybe even better than what boys

linsey davis will be right back here tomorrow night. the san mateo county coast. what we've learned about the encounter near pacifica. this usually is the biggest weekend for pride but many of the events are canceled. even so, that has not put an end to the celebration. and new developments in the scott peterson case. why his lawyers say he should get a new trial. >>> near pacifica a man was bitten by what authorities say was a great white at gray whale coastal beach. we are told he is expected to recover. cornell bernard joins us live, and cornell, what did you learn about what happened? >> reporter: posted signs say the beach is closed. first responders say a 39-year-old surfer was bit. >> the patient was bitten by a smaller great white shark and was able to swim to shore with assistance from bystanders where they

>> whit johnson, we'll be watching and linsey davis right here this weekend. thank you. >>> we turn next to chilling new details after the deadly grocery store shooting. a grandmother and grandson shot. the grandmother trying to protect her child. so far it's not believed the gunman knew his victims but that warning signs were ignored. what was reportedly found on facebook. here's victor oquendo. >> reporter: tonight, chilling new details about the shooting inside a south florida supermarket that claimed the life of a 1-year-old boy and the grandmother who fought to save him. >> the suspects enters the produce section and you can see he's looking towards the victim. >> reporter: the sheriff's office says the alleged gunman, 55-year-old timothy wall, shot the child first. the grandmother jumping in to stop him. >> she struggles with him, his gun jams. she was able -- he was able to overpower her down to the ground and he shoots her down while she's on the ground. wall then turning the gun on himself. >> reporter: the sheriff visibly angry, saying there were war

linsey davis back here tomorrow night.n abc 7 news at 6:00, parties, picnics and lessons in history are part of the juneteenth celebrations with the date carrying even more significance this year. >>> dozens of people hanging on to multiple fire escapes. >> fire crews describe the scene they found when responding to an apartment building fire today in san francisco. the daring rescues of people and their pets. >>> and a wildfire in monterey county could have an impact here in the bay area. abc 7 now. >>> today the nation commemorates the end of slavery and honors black-americans across our country with juneteenth. now, officially a federal holiday. with that, we say, good evening. i'm dion lim. you're watch watching us here, hulu live and wherever you happen to stream. abc 7 news reporter stephanie sierra joins us live. she celebrated juneteenth celebrations happening across the bay area. you have a closer look for us. >> reporter: yes, dion, you could feel the excitement, even though many said they were celebrating the mo

linsey davis will be right back here tomorrow night.night. >>> assault weapons overturned. what state leaders are saying about the ruling. >>> big races and free vaccine doses? a county fair that has a unique offer kicks off today. >>> we hear from passengers on a flight, including one who rushed to help after a man tried to break into the cockpit. abc7 news starts now. >>> tilting a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc7 news. >> it is a slap in the face. >> a stronger gun control measures, a federal judge has overturned california's ban on assault weapons. think you for joining us. you are watching abc7 news at 5:00 live here on abc7, hulu live, and wherever you stream. cornell bernard spent the day getting reaction to the ruling that came down late last night. state officials want to judges, they wanted to fight this decision. >> reporter: from sacramento to washington, d.c., lawmakers promising to appeal this ruling. the governor calls it a direct threat to public safety. >> this is a judge that is not teth