rick back to you. >> marcy thank you for that report.y the way coverage of tenth anniversary hurricane katrina continues. ♪ >> coming up in ten minute we'll take a look at important role music and musicians played in recovery of big easy. >> vice-president joe biden made unannounced appreance in it delaware today and attended sussex democratic jamboree in delaware. it's for dell based candidates and office holders and seen as unofficial kickoff of the sirkle and biden was there to say thank tou the community since the daeling of his oldest son bo back in may. >> new poll numbers out tonight show the race between democratic candidates getting closer. according to mromburg politics eye a poll bernie saunders is getting support and now 7 points behind hillary rodham clinton still first choice with 37% of democratic caucus goers and bernie is 30% tonight. . >> he added he thinks the decision will mack a lot of people rehappy. trump refused to pledge support to the eventual republican knowledge any. >> until nnl chris christie it on the list

live in new orleans, marci gonzalez, abc7 news. kimberly: before you go, a lot of us go to new orleans and we don't see a lot of the scars left behind. have you seen cases where the infrastructure has not been rebuilt in the last ten years? marci: absolutely. there are communities that have not bounced back. there is frustration in those communities. also still a problem with crime, with poverty. this is something that president obama acknowledged in his visit yesterday saying this is not a finished job. this is not yet a full recovery. back to you. kimberly: marci gonzalez reporting for us. thanks. scott: thank you. steve rudin is joining us now. absolutely not remotely trying to compare the two but we have action out there. it's a good reminder, isn't it? steve: yes. erika is not a huge storm but it doesn't take a big storm to cause a lot of problems for a lot of people and the location and the timing and everything. pretty much the entire peninsula of florida that is not good. monday and tuesday. but for us though, it looks like

marci: they started the tough test in april.didates all push to the physical and the mental limits. tackling obstacle courses, scaling mountains and crossing chesapeake rivers with the fully loaded pack while tired and hungry. >> they have to show grit and determination and put a foot in front of the other each day. marci: the breakthrough for the women who have not been identified comes at a time when each branch of the military are assessing how to integrate women in roles that were historically only for men. while the first will graduate friday and forever wear the prestigious ranger tab on the uniform, for now they are still not allowed to seven as rangers. the secretary of defense has until early next year to decide whether that will change. marci gonzalez, abc7 news. kimberly: it looks miserable. jonathan: they just say it's the -- they say it's grueling. the fact they accomplished that is huge. kimberly: well done. jonathan: coming up next at "abc7 news at 4:00" -- new development from the presidential campaign trail. how

abc's marci gonzalez reports. marci: kelly rutherford talking about her international custody battle for the first time since the judge ordered her two children to go to monaco to live with her father. the "gossip girl" star sharing frustration with "good morning america." >> i walked in a courtroom where everything felt like it was already done. a done deal. marci: her son and daughter are both american citizens and are back with their father german businessman. a new york judge making the decision tuesday after he accused rutherford of kidnapping the children when she disobeyed a monaco court order not sending them back to europe last week. >> i was accused of things i couldn't defend. thinking no one knows where their children are and i was in communication because they skype every day. >> the battle began six years ago to share custody when they divorced. but when he u.s. vase was revoked and -- visa was revoked the california judge ruled that the children live with him in monaco temporarily while he reapplied

reporting live, marcy gonzales, channel 6 "action news." >> marcy thank you, back here local veterans powered past their disabilities to complete the first leg of the wounded warrior soldier ride, veterans will bike 40 miles over the weekend as part of a three day retreat, wounded warriors organizers say it's to help veterans dealing with lost limbs and chronic pain. >>> coming up the investigation into an apparent isis hit list containing threats against hundreds of americans and more on a deadly roller coaster accident. yeah, i'm married. does it matter? you'd do that for me? really? yeah i'd like that. who are you talking to? uh, it's jake from state farm. sounds like a really good deal. jake from state farm, at three in the morning? who is this? it's jake from state farm. what are you wearing jake from state farm? uh, khakis. she sounds hideous. well, she's a guy so... another reason more people stay with state farm. get to a better state. >>> a new york city firefighter is recovering after being shot in the leg while responding to a scene in staten island, police say a man barric

. >> and i'm marci gonzalez. here are some of the top headlines we're following this morning on "world news now." >>> up in flames. wind-driven wildfires are raging in the west, burning neighborhoods and driving thousands of people from their homes. that stifling heat fueling the flames is about to get worse. a full report coming up. >>> south african athlete oscar pistorius is expected to be released from prison this week after serving ten months for killing his girlfriend. he had been sentenced to five years. >>> the faa is investigating what caused the top of a hot air balloon to blow over and hit power lines after it landed in a pennsylvania field. the three people on board suffered burns after being shocked. >>> and golfer jason day was in tears on the 18th green before tapping in a putt to seal his first pga championship victory. day finished at 20 under par, the first ever player to win a major with that low of a score. those are just some of our top stories on this monday, august 17th. >> announcer: from

county beaches, 2,067,000 people. >> thank you, phillip and marci. we have the threat for excessive heat coming into the northwest monday through wednesday. not the best of news, as we continue to have wildfires burn across idaho, washington, and oregon. farther to the east, the threat for afternoon severe colorado springs. monday, some of those storms could bring isolated tornadoes and the threat for hail. this area of low pressure will be gaining strength as we go throughout tuesday and wednesday. moving into kansas city and wichita. and then by the middle half of the week, impacking chicago as well. the heat is going to be felt across the northeast for the early half of the workweek from new york city to d.c. phillip and marci, back to you. >> thank you, molly. >>> search and rescue teams are preparing to reach a site of a plane crash in indonesia. no word if any of the 54 people on board survived. the airline, trigana is well known in that part of the world. parts. >> the european union won't let them in because of their safety record in the past

we have the latest from new york city with marci gonzalez. marci: the biggest rally of the year. dow rebounding after yesterday's knows dive, the unprecedented drop that started off the worst day in four years for stocks, cutting $3,000 from the average american's 401k. today's bounceback bringing some relief. >> you should not make any changes on the portfolio based on anything that happened in the last week. marci: this is a domino effect from the china's weakening economy. if their economy slow down their people will demand less of the products we make here. that is bad for the u.s. jobs. overnight, the chinese regulators stepped in with the emergency measures including interest rates. why we didn't fall the chinese markets it helped send stocks here and in europe soaring. >> there is lenity of emergency to call a selloff, or panic selling beyond what is necessary. strap in for a bumpy ride. marci: experts say the volatility could be good for anyone wanting to buy a home, car or get a credit card. they exmain it could cause the federal reserve to delay hiking interest rates wh

miles southeast of roanoke, it appears to be a well planned out ambush, allison parker for wbbj and marcy gonzales he is is live with more on the shocking developments. >> good afternoon, we are waiting for more details, law

abc's marci gonzales is watching the latest development and she joins us live from new york. marci? >> reporter: rick, protest and organizers designated this as a day of civil disobedience. extra officers are on patrol concerned about a potential repeat of last nights violence. today pro protests planned after a chaotic night. a black teenager shot by police after they, say he opened fire, on officers. the violence and looting, following a week of peaceful protests and marches. >> my family. >> reporter: commemorating first anniversary of the shooting death of 18 year-old michael brown by police officer darren wilson. >> there is a a small group of people out there that are intent on making sure that we don't have peace that prevails. >> reporter: police say the 18 year-old shot last night tyler harris was not part of the protest but was in this crowd when gunshots rang out at 11:15 between two rival groups. investigators claim harris ran and started shooting at a police suv were four detectives inside. authorities say as the detectives got out of the vehicle, harris continued to sh

abc's marci gonzales has the story. marci? >> reporter: shirleen, the blast was so big it could be seen from space. today hospitals in the area are overwhelmed with patients and people looking for missing family members. today thousands of rescuers desperately searching for survivors near the still smoldering rubble from this massive explosion in china. hundreds of people injured, dozens killed. the death toll still rising from this disaster that started yesterday just before 11:00 p.m. local time in the city of tianjin. firefighters responding to a fire at a warehouse storing hazardous materials. then a half hour later as they battled the flames, a huge blast followed by another, bigger explosion. people nearby left with no time to find safety. among the dead some of those firefighters and migrant workers sleeping in neighboring dormitories. abc's bob woodruff at the scene today. >> look. it's absolutely destroyed. oh, my god. these are people's homes. this is where they lived. dvds, music. this advertise horrible. >> reporte

yeah. >> so tell me marci as first introduce to -- >> this is jakscht. jakscht is kind of our muse at the paint place, and he is one of the reasons why we started our paint for pets series. >> now i understand you were in the corporate world. you were in business tell me about the transition that you made. fuls i was reaching certain age i had small kids i'm a single mom. i wanted to do something different with my life and try to open a business pip dabbled in other businesses and so far this is going amazingly well. >> were you a painter before? >> not before but i have art history. cary is painter but i like to come up with paintings that we choose to create. >> you tack it from there cary you have painting per se. >> i have been painting my whole life and lots of different mediums but this is a trend that is sweeping the nation by storm and i think it is an exciting time to be a part that have. >> what is a paint party for those unfamiliar with it suspect by their part yet? >> over two hour class time, we take a painting, break it down step did by ste

live in atlanta, marci gonzales, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you, marci. >>> three of four lanes have been reopened on route 22 in new jersey following yesterday's flooding. right now the left lane is closed and the eastbound lanes between westfield and glenside in scotch plains. yesterday more than three inches of rain fell in the area. drivers were stranded on the highway and the roads and suffered damage. >>> new details about a baby locked in a safe at a hotel in niagara falls. police tracked down the parents who are from our area. it turns out the baby was accidentally locked in the safe during a game of hide and seek among siblings after a maintenance worker freed the child, the family from new jersey headed to nearby ontario to visit friends. when they heard the buzz they contacted police. they were cooperative and no charges will be filed. >>> turning to a vicious attack in queens. a woman becoming the victim of a senseless act when a man threw an acid liquid on her face without any warning. police say the attack was random, hammed in the sunnyside section of the queens a

marci gonzalez, abc7 news. jonathan: so how exactly do companies like subway handle a public relations nightmare like fogle's criminal case? coming up we will talk to an expert about the process. let's take a check of the weather. let's do the traffic first. see what is going on with the roadway. jamie, is it moving slowly? jamie: it is. you can get a good idea of the volume and how slow it is. working your way on the outer loop. continuing to virginia. not bad. let's look at the map to see how heavy we are. the left-hand miles per hour. the average that is continuing to the 270 spurt. we stick in the area. bethesda update the water main break. eastbound lane is closed and the westbound is open so you are sharing. wsse said at 5 verz they hope to have everything repaired. we'll keep you updated. heading out of the city, you are in the teens. we are slowing to college park. closer to green belt at 6-mile-per-hour. this is going to take you 25 minutes. no crashes recorded. just typical delay. kimberly: thank you.

marci gonzales is live in new orleans with that story. marci? >> reporter: yeah, ken, so many people proud to share the progress made in the past decade. during his visit, president bush said new orleans is back and better than ever. the vibrant soul of this city shining on the eve of the anniversary of one of new orleans's darkest days. 10 years after hurricane katrina ravaged this community and other parts of the gulf coast, homes are still being rebuilt. a new 14 billion-dollar levee system and a resounding sense of resilience. >> this is home. >> there are wounds that are still healing. >> this is horrible. >> including memories of the more than 1,000 lives lost and the devastatingly slow response. >> i forget how all levels of government left us abandoned here. >> when i think back and i say, you know, how did they do that 0 to us . >> reporter: today former president george w. bush returned to tour the school he visited on the first anniversary reflecting on the recovery and fog -- focusing on the future. >> we are the resilience of a grea

reporting live, marcy gonzales, channel 6 "action news."k to you. >> the search continues for whoever brought an end to hitch did the bot -- hitchbot. it's life was cut short after being left on a bench. it was found a pile of leaves, headless with all it's electronic also stolen. the tongue-in-cheek statement said they have no interest in filing charges against the vandal and they vow to continue the social experiment they started. >>> the first of two job fairs for veterans is being held in wilmington. delaware senators along with the representative are hosting the event. it is going on at the middletown memorial fire hall in west green streets until 2:00 p.m. more than 30 employers are there looking for new employees. a second job fair will be held september 2 at wilmington university dover campus. >> still to come on "action news" at noon, a manhunt continues for a suspect who shot and killed a police officer in tennessee. investigators believe they know who they are looking for. >>> who is behind the series of explosions at new mexico

marci: another american hero identified today. french investigators say mark mugalion is one of the brave men that stopped an attack on a paris-bound train friday. they say he first saw the gunman walk out of a bathroom with an ak-47. managed to get the weapon away from him before the attacker took out a pistol and shot him in back. three other americans stepped in. to help him. >> i stuck two of my fingers for what i thought would be the artery. pushed down and the bleeding stopped. marci: bringing down the gunman who slashed one of them with a boxcutter. >> ran down, tackled them. >> the first class spencer stone, alek skarlatos and anthony sadler all given france's highest zillion a -- civilian award today. pinned with the legion of honor medal with a british businessman who praised the miles per hours' quick thinking. >> the first reaction was to disarm the pistol. to see if there were any other attackers in the train. >> denied having any terror links and a still being questioned by police. his attorney says the 25-year-old c

phillip and marcy, back to you. >> thanks, molly. china's top prosecutor setting up a team to investigate possible crimes related to last week's warehouse explosion. a least 112 people died and hundreds of others were injured. 85 firefighters are still missing. authorities say there were several hundred tons it of sodium cyanide on the site. that is a toxic chemical that can form a flammable gas upon contact with water. >>> search and rescue teams preparing to try to reach the site where a passenger plane crashed sunday in indonesia. a search plane spotted the wreckage but no word if any of the 54 people on board survived. the airline is a well-known airline in southeast asia but is black listed in many other parts of the world. >> the european union won't even let them in because of their safety compliance record in the past. >> bad weather and the rugged mountain terrain have been hampering efforts to reach the site at an altitude of about 8500 feet. >>> in san diego, a mid-air collision between two small planes left five people de

all of washington society women were going to madame marcy's, as well. madame marcy later claimed she predicted boom for the president, which is really easy to do after the fact. you know, it was done as a recreation. it was something kind of fun to do, like going somewhere and having someone read cards for you. it was a fun thing to do for a lot of women in society. >> it was the thing of the time, too. it really was. another question? >> one more. >> i would like to know if harding would have won the electi election, if women would have been allowed to vote. >> we did a symposium about this a couple years ago. we investigated very closely, both the harding campaign and the cox campaign, his opponent. we asked a couple political scientists that very question. did, as a rumor, always has said, did women vote for him because he was a good looking guy? is that why, you know, all these women swarmed to him? they found there was really justification for that. there was no swell to the republican party. they tended to vote as their husbands did. a lot of wome

reporting live marcy gonzalez channel 6 "action news." back to you. >> much more to come on "action news" at noon. roofs were damaged and trees sprinterred after a blast at a u.s. army post in japan. >>> a little boy raises money for charity while giving away something for free. it i has sparked big donations to for charity. hey, mom and dad! hey, kiddo! (dad) you caught us daydreaming. about a couple of touring bikes? (dad) yeah... mounted on top of a new suv? (mom) uh huh... hooked up to the back of a custom motorhome? (dad) exactly! but how did you- you've got the new instant game from the pennsylvania lottery. (dad) right! bankroll doubler. (mom, off-screen) with top prizes of $300,000. (male announcer) want to see your dreams come to life? you could scratch your way to instant winning. the pennsylvania lottery. bring your dreams to life. a u.s. army post the blast was caught on camera. it sent tree branches flying into the road. the cause is under investigation. >>> vice president joe biden has hired a new communications chief amid r

marcy gonzalez in manhattan. marcy? >> reporter: larry and ama, they still haven't reached a settlement, but as they left today, a lawyer for the players' union called this a productive day. today a deflate gate face-off in federal court. >> give them hell, tom! >> reporter: new england patriots star quarterback tom brady going head-to-head against nfl commissioner roger goodell, fighting to have his four-game suspension thrown out. the judge questioning the league's investigation, grilling the nfl about whether there's concrete proof that brady was involved in deflating game balls used in january's afc championship win saying he was having trouble finding evidence that brady was part of a scheme or conspiracy asking is there a text in which mr. brady instructs someone to put a needle in a football? the league's lawyer responding, no. >> judge berman was very clear. it was hard not to come away with a message that he was trying to deliver the league better soften up and engage in settlement talks or be prepared to face

marcy gonzalez has more. >> i am jarod the subway guy. >> from famous tv pitch man. >> i weighed 425 pounds. >> to accused sek offender. >> today jared fogle has been charged and has admitted to participating in a five-year criminal scheme to exploit children. >> former subway spokesperson jared fogle in court in indianapolis after agreeing to plead guilty to paying for sex with a 13 and 14-year-old girl and receiving and distributing child pornography. >> and in so doing we will fully and completely acknowledge the responsibility for his wrongdoing. >> prosecutors claim from 2007 until june of this year fogle traveled and used social networking in pursuit of underaged girls. according to court documents he said in 2012 he met a 17-year-old prostitute at the plaza hotel in new york city and asking her to find him another underage girl saying the younger the better. they found pornography involving children as young as 6 given to him by the executive director of his charity, russell taylor. they say taylor now in custody on child pornography secretly recorded children and shared them

marcy gonzales is live now from new york. >> reporter: investigators are still out at the scene and we just an update from them as we hear more from witnesses. >> a circus tent whipped apart with nearly 100 people inside. >> i see the big metal poles holding up the at the present time coming out of the grown ground, a 15 minutes into a walker brothers international performance like this one. >> it was terrifying, you hear the screaming children and the crying, at least 32 spectators were injured and a father and his 6-year-old daughter killed. the storm that moved through part of the same system that spawned tornadoes in the midwest and caused a deadly tent collapse near a festival near chicago and the national weather service putting out a severe thunderstorm warning just 20 minutes before the disaster. >> it's the responsibility of the show to monitor the conditions and we don't know why they were going on at that time. and what they knew. >> and investigators are looking into whether the tent was properly constructed. at this point they don't expect to file any charges. >> marcy tha

reporting live, marcy gonzales, channel 6 "action news" sara back to you. >> thank you. >>> crews in indonesia have now recovered all 54 bodies from the site where a plane went down two days ago, more than 70 rescuers reached the crash site in the rugged mountains of indonesia a, and they recovered the black boxes that are said to be in good condition. >>> bad weather is complicating recovery efforts in the port city of tianjin, where a massive fire and explosion, and 50 people are still missing, they are concerned that rain will cause slides at the site and the chemicals could become flammable if they come into contact with water. >>> more ahead on "action news" at 12:30, a woman is left with permanent skin damage after spending just hours in the sun without sunscreen and doctors say her birth control is partly to blame. >> those stories and more next. i'm only in my 60's... i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you m

marcy gonzalez has more. >> i am jarod the subway guy. >> from famous tv pitch man. >> i weighed 425 pounds. >> to accused sek offender. >> today jared fogle has been charged and has admitted to participating in a five-year criminal scheme to exploit children. >> former subway spokesperson jared fogle in court in indianapolis after agreeing to plead guilty to paying for sex with a 13 and 14-year-old girl and receiving and distributing child pornography. >> and in so doing we will fully and completely acknowledge the responsibility for his wrongdoing. >> prosecutors claim from 2007 until june of this year fogle traveled and used social networking in pursuit of underaged girls. according to court documents he said in 2012 he met a 17-year-old prostitute at the plaza hotel in new york city and asking her to find him another underage girl saying the younger the better. they found pornography involving children as young as 6 given to him by the executive director of his charity, russell taylor. they say taylor now in custody on child pornography secretly recorded children and shared them

. >>> we learned that this week that marci borders died.ot know the name but you will never forget her image. >> marci borders was the survivor of the september 11th attack. caked in dust she peers into the camera lens with a look of fear and desperation. minutes earlier she was on the 81st floor of the tower when the first plane struck. she was told to stay at her desk but borders made her way outside. that's when the south tower collapsed. she recalls the incident in this interview. >> i couldn't sit there. i was saying to myself and saying outloud that i didn't want to die i didn't want to die. >> borders found shelter inside an office building. that's when this iconic image was captured. her life was never the same after that. borders struggled with alcohol, drugs and depression. she loss custody with her children and then she was diagnosed with stomach cancer. she was only 42 when she died. the world recommends her as, quote, the dust woman. but for those who knew her and loved her she was a mother, sister, daughter. and as one relativ

marcy. uh, the last one, silas wright again, a senator and governor of new york in the middle of the 19th century. largely forgotten. what i'll conclude with this a person that again almost nobody knows that name but any people who collect banknotes or really have a passing interest know his portrait. he appears on this famous $5.00 bill. this is one of the top two or three most popular of u.s. bank note. that's this indian of the lakota sioux tribe. he is the only native american depicted on a banknote. there's a lot of controversy when the snow came out because the headdress is not sioux, it's pawnee. this led to a lot of speculation about, well, is this a real indian, or is this somebody from the bureau of engraving them printed -- and printing that put on the wrong bonnet? it actually is the right person. it is just the wrong headdress. because here is an actual photograph of this indian. again, i depicted it here, but you can also see it, an. example of this note for my collection so, t

phillip and marcy, back to you. >> thanks, molly.kage but no word if any of the 54 people on board survived. the airline is a well-known airline in southeast asia but is black listed in many other parts of the world. >> the european union won't even let them in because of their safety compliance record in the past. >> bad weather and the rugged mountain terrain have been hampering efforts to reach the site at an altitude of about 8500 feet. >>> in san diego, a mid-air collision between two small planes left five people dead in san diego. the planes a sib saber liner and sing is engine-cessna 172 collided approaching an airport and burst into flames. the faa and ntsb are investigating the cause of the crash. one of the planes crashed in a nature preserve. >>> an army sky diver has died after a mid-air collision with another jumper at an air show in chicago. corey hood was knocked unconscious during the stunt. he hit an apartment building and plummeted to the ground with his parachute trailing behind him. the 32-year-old was a decorate

marcy gonzales, channel 6 "action news." >> marcy thank you. >>> new jersey war veterans continue to receive important resources that is because of $8 million in special funding that is added to the state budget, steve sweeney and other lawmakers met in mount holly to discuss how to use the money, it will be used to promote veteran care operated by rutgers, it makes up for lost funding discontinued by the federal government. >>> the newly combined kraft-heinz company is cutting 3,000 jobs, it represents 5% of the global workforce, they are trying to cut $1.5 billion from the new joint company's annual budget. several will be at the illinois headquarters no word on how many will be in pennsylvania. and now on wall street, a mixed bag, the dow down marginally just fractions of a point and the nasdaq up 8 and the s&p up 2 points on the day. >>> it's time for a look at the accuweather forecast, we pretty much had to drag adam joseph back in. >> can you blame him it's beautiful out. >> you pulled me in by the neck with one of those canes. lots of sunshine again and just a few fair weather

abc's marci gonzales is here with the latest. marci? >> reporter: shirleen, police have a major new clue as they search for the bomber behind the deadly attack. as they try to find a man spotted on surveillance video leaving a backpack at the scene there was yet another scare in the same city. today another blast in bangkok. people running at this ferry peer after police say someone -- pier after police say someone threw an explosive device into the water. it adds to the seven tension in thailand's capitol after yesterday's bombing that killed at least 22 people and injured more than 100 others. >> i heard the big bang. i looked back and i sigh they were screaming and i -- see they were screaming and i start running. >> police are looking for this man captured on surveillance camera walking up to the scene. he is wearing a backpack, sits down, takes the backpack off then leaves without it. moments later, the deadly explosion. thailand's prime minister is saying the attack was aimed at destroying the company's economy by targeting a majo

details from abc's marcy gonzales. >> another american hero identified french investigators say mark moogalian is one of the brave men who stopped a violent attack on board a packed paris-bound train friday. authorities claim he first saw the gunman walk out of a bathroom with an ak-47, managed to get the weapon away from him before the attacker took out a pistol and shot him in the back. three other americans on board stepped in. >> alek said let's go. >> helping moogalian. >> i stuck two fingers in the hole, found what i thought to be the artery, pushed down and the bleeding stopped. >> reporter: and bringing down the gunman who slashed one of them with a box cutter. >> ran down, tackled him. >> reporter: airmen first class spencer stone, army national guard specialist alec skoe las toe and their friend anthony sadler all given france's highest civilian award. >> translator: the entire world admires your bravery. >> pinned with a legion of honor medaling >> his first reaction was to disarm the pistol and then go down the train to try to see if there were any other terrorists in the

>> marty, marcy, thank you. >>> and another airplane headline tonight. the wing part suspected of belonging to that missing malaysian airlines jet is now in a lab for analysis. a team of international investigators hoping something on that piece of metal may finally reveal what happened to flight 370. abc's alex marquardt reports in from reunion island, where they found that mystery part. >> reporter: tonight, what could be the key piece of evidence in the disappearance of mh-370, now in the hands of investigators after arriving in southern france. experts confident that the six-foot long piece of the wing, called the flaperon, that washed up on a beach in the indian ocean, will finally yield some answers as to how the plane went down. >> they can look at how metal bends. how metal breaks. they'll be looking for potential explosive witness marks, anything that might show explosive residue. >> reporter: even before any results come out, officials are increasingly sure this is part of the fatal malaysian airlines plane that disappeared 16 months ago withou

abc's marci gonzalez in atlanta where he's undergoing treatment. marci? >> reporter: yeah, sade, carter already had part of his liver removed because of cancer and now he's targeting those spots on his brain. carter really opened up today about this battle that is just beginning. with humility and even humor -- [ laughter ] form army president carter openly detailed his melanoma diagnosis, sharing his fears when he learned the cancer first discovered on his liver had spread. with doctors also finding it on his brain. >> i just thought i had a few weeks left. but i was surprisingly at ease. you know, i've had a wonderful life. >> reporter: a life thed 890- year-old is optimistically fighting for. undergoing radiation treatment on the four small cancer spots on his brain starting today. >> the goal there is to prevent them from growing. >> reporter: some of the focus of his life though now changing. >> my name is jimmy carter and i'm running for president. [ applause ] >> reporter: after leaving the white house, carter and his wife of 69 years rosaline comm

marci gonzalez is at jfk for us this morning. hi, marci. >> reporter: hi, paula. you know, so many of these drones look and feel just like toys and for a few hundred bucks, anyone can buy and operate them, but now after these two near misses here, aviation officials are again warning these could have potentially deadly consequences. this morning the federal aviation administration investigating two dangerous close calls. the first at 2:23 p.m. on friday. a jetblue flight from port-au-prince about to land at new york's jfk airport, the pilot spotting a drone just 100 feet below. >> it was a four bladed drone. the color or direction i'm not sure, ma'am. it just popped right underneath our nose. >> reporter: the same happening just hours later as delta flight 407 from orlando was at just 1700 feet on approach to jfk. >> there was a drone flying just under the southwest side of this abandoned airport here. >> what altitude would you say that was? >> i would say probably about a hundred feet below us. just off our right wing. >> reporter: air traffic control warning ot

. >> joining me now is marcy stech from emily's list.ng here, marcy. >> great to be here. >> you were at clinton's campaign event today. do her supporters have reason to be worried? >> well, look, i couldn't find a more clear contrast between the conversation that reporters want to have with hillary clinton and the conversation that voters want to have with hillary clinton. today in this gymnasium right behind me, there were hundreds of supporters packed in there. the energy was palpable. they wanted to talk about real issues that were affecting their daily lives. they wanted to talk about things like criminal justice reform. they wanted to talk about education. they wanted to talk about access to equal pay for women. that was the real conversation that was happening with hillary clinton and voters in this substantive forum. the only people, as she said, who want to talk about her e-mail are reporters and also the republican field who have nothing else to run on themselves. >> but we hear that the candidate and the campaign put out to th

marci gonzalez is following the latest from new york. marcy. >> reporter: that state of emergency was just declared this afternoon in response to last night's violence and demonstrators are back out again today and there have already been a few arrests: today in saint louis, loud protests. >> ♪ >> reporter: and peaceful marches. following last night's violence in ferguson. [gunfire] >> reporter: gun shots and looting, bottles thrown at police. the chaos marring a day of quiet remembrance on the first anniversary of the shooting death of michael brown by a ferguson police officer. >> he's bleeding out man. please get him some help, man. please get him some help. >> reporter: last night police shooting this 18-year-old they say ran from this scene where two rival groups were firing at each other. [gunfire] >> reporter: investigators saying tyrone harris then shot at a police suv with four detectives inside. when they got out, police claim harris continued firing at them with a stolen semi automatic handgun. police explaining all four detec

marcy glaz has the story. >> reporter: today an apology from the environmental protection agency forspill that caused this mess. >> it's a tragic, and unfortunate incident in epa is taking responsibility to ensure that that spill is cleaned up. >> reporter: that effort happening around the clock after an epa crew released retlooe million gallons of the flood. >> i'm concerned. this is a serious situation. >> reporter: tests show the water carrying 3500 times the acceptable amount of lead. shutting down water ways and business that's rely on them. >> completely devastating. they do shift to organizations. >> reporter: today, officials are testing the environmental impact, saying water quality is improving. >> the threat to human health is returning back to pre-event levels. it's getting there. optimistic that we can be able to reopen the river. >> reporter: the head of the epa says there have been no health affects from the spill, some are concerned about the long term impact. marcy gonzales, abc news, new york. >>> police are looking into the killing of maddy middleton and a threat a

marcy glaz has the story. >> reporter: today an apology from the environmental protection agency forthe spill that caused this mess. >> it's a tragic, and unfortunate incident in epa is taking responsibility to ensure that that spill is cleaned up. >> reporter: that effort happening around the clock after an epa crew released retlooe million gallons of the >> i'm concerned. this is a serious situation. >> reporter: tests show the water carrying 3500 times the acceptable amount of lead. shutting down water ways and business that's rely on them. >> completely devastating. they do shift to organizations. >> reporter: today, officials are testing the environmental impact, saying water quality is improving. >> the threat to human health is returning back to pre-event levels. it's getting there. optimistic that we can be able to reopen the river. >> reporter: the head of the epa says there have been no health affects from the spill, some are concerned about the long term impact. marcy gonzales, abc news, new york. >>> police are looking into the killing of maddy middleton and a threat at a

marci gonzalez tells us more. >> reporter: today another blast in bangkok. people running at this ferry pier after someone threw an explosive device into the water. no one was hurt but it only adds to the tension in thailand's capital after yesterday's bombing that killed at least 22 people and injured more than 100 others. >> i heard a big bang. i could see people screaming and started running. police looking for this man captured on surveillance camera walking up to a popular shrine. he's wearing a backpack, sits down, take the backpacks off and then leaves without it. moments later the deadly explosion. thailand's prime minister saying it was aimed at destroying the country's economy by targeting a major tourist area. >> certainly not like politically motivated attacks we've seen in the past which have been designed to grab attention. >> no group has claimed responsibility. police say with confidence they will catch the bomber. marci gonzalez, abc news, new york. >>> the family of a woman killed by police while being held hostage by an accused bank robber

so chef marci, thanks very much. our own platter here. >> it looks good. >> you have like five restaurant. >> this looks amazing. >> budd and marilyn. >> three days old. >> so this is fresh. >> love it. >> so we will dive in here. thank you so much. lets get to quincy because he was checking out kevin hart this weekend and he made history, we love it. hi, conviction i. >> guys, i'm at broad and erie, kevin hart's old stumping ground. i talked to him before his big show saturday. he was really serious. serious side coming up next. >>> you do know that it is national pie day. apparently you can buy a good day attack me stores. >> i love it. he was down in wildwood for that? >> it is good day with strawberry us. >> oh, look at that. >> here's 1t looks natural. >> it does. thank you, mike. >> oh, it is good. but where is my orange juice, dad? >> all right, i'll get some. cereal name after our show. >> i want milk, i want milk. >> here go. >> the 10:00 news doesn't have their own cereal, do they? >> we'll have a good day