after he went missing at sea he was re cued and he is back with his family abc news correspondent marcy gonzales has this incredible story from new york. marcy an incredible story of survival for two months. >> it really is incredible alicia, this guy says he did everything he could to keep the boat from sinking and have enough food and water and he wanted to make it home for his parents, they were starting to lose hope. >> rescued after 66 days, lost at sea. >> had many moments i thought i would die. lewis jordan back on shore in north carolina sharing the incredible story how he survived to months alone in the atlantic. the 37-year-old set off from south carolina to fish, he woke up one night to his boat capsizing and i was flying through the air and somer assaulting and all my gps devices were rolling around in the water. jordan managed to stay with the boat rationing out his food and collecting rain water and catching fish. after ten days of no sign of jordan or the ship the search was called off. >> thought it's over i lost my son. >> then a cargo ship spotted jordan two miles off of cape h

marcy gonzales has more. there is certainly a firestorm around this legislation there. >> reporter: that is right. lawmakers are saying they are on a brink of a major milestone if this proposal is passed it will be the first time that sexual orientation is protected from discrimination under state law. >> they are going over the language of a proposed fix to the controversial freedom of religious act. >> if there is one thing taken away from the past week it's this that is that religious rights and individual rights can co-exist in harmony together. the revision adding clear protection saying that businesses cannot turn away customers based on their orientation. without the wording they say this leaves the door open like this indiana pizza shop to do this. >> if a gay couple was to come in and to provide them pizzas for a wedding we would have to say no. >> that would be illegal under this draft expected to go to a vote today. and voting on a similar law in arkansas today. the governor sent the law back deman

. >> abc's marcy gonzales begins coverage in baltimore where the curfew is back in effect. >> reporter effect at 10:00 last night. unlike the night before, people cleared out quickly and there were no major problems reported. before police started enforcing the curfew in baltimore, protesters again filled the streets. their chants and frustration echoing in cities across the country. all demanding answers and action following the april 19th death of freddie gray who suffered a spinal cord injury while in baltimore police custody. >> we just want a moment of silence for freddie gray right now. >> reporter: their message sent loudly and mostly peacefully unlike the riots that rocked baltimore monday with those intense images buildings and police cars on fire officers injured, a mother [ expletive ] going after her son after seeing him in the crowd holding a rock. >> i was angry with him. like we're trying to overcome things here you know how would you go down there and do that and make matters worse. >> reporter: concerned things could still get worse in bat more prompting this historic

. >> live in baltimore with abc's marcy gonzales. it seems quiet.ng we're hearing, it's going really well. the curfew went into effect at 10:00 last night. we're told the protesters and everyone else out pretty much cleared out quickly. there were no major incidents reported. police and the national guard are staying out through the early morning hours till that curfew is listed at 5:00 this morning. >> you know, part of the story, it's going well on the streets this time around, but so much of that story has been about that one mother that everybody's been seeing who got her son off the streets there in town. what's the buzz there around baltimore itself and i know we're hearing more from her. >> yeah, well, people are still applauding her. we're hearing more from her. she says she never expected all of this attention. she saw the cameras around when she was kind of going after her son but didn't think anyone was really paying attention to her. she said she heard something maybe was going on. she went over there to see if her son was involved even

marcy gonzales joins us live tonight. >> investigators feel confident that this was not a spontaneousmething that the copilot was likely thinking about at least for a few days. >> new insight into the disturbed mind of copilot believed to have intentionally crashed flight 9525 in the alps last week. investigator searched andreas lubitz's home finding a tablet revealing in the days before the crash he looks up medical treatment methods and ways to carryout suicide and cockpit door measures. and investigators believe that after locking the pilot out of the cockpit, he guided the plane into the side of a mountain. details from the second black box found today buried and charred. the actions of pilots and the controls with the different pilots of plane these are vital in order to find the truth. >> still no explanation why two european publications ended up with video of final moments of the crash and they have found 40 other cell phones scattered at the scene badly damaged but being analyzed for possible clues. >>> more than 2,000 dna samples were recovered from the scene and many which

marcy gonzales channel 6 "action news." >> thank you marcy. >>> house speaker john boehner is not maskingthe iran nuclear deal calling it a direct threat to peace in the middle east and around the world, this in response to president obama's acknowledge that iran could have the capabilities to build a nuclear bomb after the first 13 years of the deal but if iran went to make the weapon it would take them at least one year. >>> the united childrens agency says that dozens of children have been killed since the fighting in yemen intensified. 17 childrens in the last two weeks alone and many families have left they are hom. jordan drafted a u.n. resolution aimed at halting the fighting in yemen. >> and hundreds of students in kenya took to the streets to remember those in the university attack. the students marched through downtown nairobi saying we will never forget you and condemned al-shabab, and called for better security on college campuses. >>> authorities are looking for clues in north philadelphia this morning, detectives put up crime scene tape on north 12th street just before 11:00

lets turn to marcy gonzales. >> reporter: opening statements started this morning, followed by video and heart-wrenching images, presented to the same jury who found him giltdy on all counts. the prosecution is starting the penalty phase of the dzhokhar tsarnaev trial and a never before seen image of him giving the finger from a holding cell at his 2013 arrangements showing he simply does not care about the lives he took and the suffering he caused. described by survivors among them celeste cochran, who lost both legs saying the pain was so intention she wanted to die. the defense painted him as being under the influence of his older brother. >> if one juror votes for life he won't get the death sentence. >> out sides a demonstration against the death penalty. rebecca gregory lost a leg in the bombings and completed the boston marathon yesterday, is one of many that fears that a death sentence could lead to years of appeals. >> part of us getting on with our lives want an ending and it won't end like this. >> the father of martin richard, killed in the attack agrees. as long as the d

. >> that was marcy gonzales reporting. >>> a man shot in montgomery county has now died. the victim was wounded in norristown last night police say he drove 3 miles to a gas station for help. "action news" reporter waltder perez is live at the norristown police station with more on this story. >> reporter: hi sara, investigators are trying to determine a motive behind the shooting which someone walked up to a car with at least one person inside and simply opened fire. >> it was right around 9:00 last night when neighbors along the 1200 block of locust street reported a commotion. >> i heard it and it sounded like firecrackers. >> but that sound was indeed the sound of gun fire, a vehicle pulled up three miles away at the lukoil gas station at plymouth meeting, the clerk saw someone badly injured and called 911. the victim was taken to the hop where he died a few hours later. the neighbors in the area say the senseless gun violence has to stop. >> you have a lot of outside people moving in and they have not adjusted to a way of life that you don't have to carry a gun and s

marcy gonzales reports from baltimore with the latest. >> reporter: despite the calm the national guard is still here and baltimore is under a state of emergency. >> the streets are quiet as they have been since last night when the 10:00 p.m. curfew went into affect. the protesters cleared out peacefully. >> this is organized and peaceful and possive. >> a different scene in new york. where marchers blocked traffic and several police officers were hurt and at least 100 protesters were arrested. demonstrators gathered in other cities across the country last night. all demanding answers and action following the april 19th death of freddie gray, who suffered a spinal cord injury while in police custody. >> the "washington post" reported that according to a prisoner transferred with gray during his arrest believe that he was intentionally trying to hurt himself by banging himself against the walls of the police van. the family says they have not heard of this and disagree with anything that says severed his own spinal cord. >> i have not seen the report we have to let this process play out

marcy gonzales is live from new york with more. >> reporter: rick, as colleagues say they noticed he was missing and they tried calling and they assumed he had gone home for the day but never imagined he would become an accidental stow away. that is the sound of a man waking up from an untimely nap. the man started yelling for help and we started yelling to the flight attendant and passengers heard the banging and screaming coming from their feet. just as alaska airlines flight took off from seattle last week. >> we have a noise from the baggage compartment. >> a contract worker for the airline that was loading baggage when he fell asleep on the job. >> a u.s. marshal emerged and started yelling real loud into the ground. hey we are turning around and getting ready to land, hold on to something. >> there could be a person in there we have to turn back around. >> the plane made an emergency landing in seattle and inside of the pressurized apartment used to hold pets, was the man. even led on to an ambulance and sent home after passing a drug test. now left with explaining to do to his

targeting the vatican, the same islamic extremists had plotted an attack against the vatican in 2010 marcy gonzales is live in new york with more on the story. >> reporter: rick, officials are watching these guys for years and now that several of them are in custody, police are finally sharing details of the thwarted plot. police in italy are taking down a network of accused terrorists that may have plotted to attack the vatican, two suspected militants including two of osama bin laden's former bodyguards were arrested last night. they learned of a new plot, the plan was to kill, not necessarily the pope but people visiting an unspecified crowded area in rome that they suspect may have been the vatican. >> it clearly comes out that the organization of a terrorist attack it underway. >> italian police say that at least one pakistani suicide bomber arrived in rome and it was called off when they were told they were being investigated. a vatican spokesperson down playing the threat saying the plot was just a hypothesis with no followup saying it is not relevant today and there is no reason for concern

marcy gonzales has more. >> reporter: back in the courtroom today a battle for convicted bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev the jury that found him guilty on all charges are seated again for the penalty phase of the trial. some are calling on the government to take the death penalty off the table. there are many that fear a death sentence could lead to years of appeals. >> part of us getting on with our lives is this ending and it's not going to end when it keeps getting drawn out like this. a sentiment shared by the family of 8-year-old martin richard, who was killed in the attacks. >> as long as the defendant is in the spotlight we live a story told on his terms not ours. >> the defense will use that. >> the defense says it will help their case as they try to humanize the defendant saying he was influenced by his older brother, to avoid the ultimate punishment death. >>> federal officials say that dzhokhar tsarnaev is not expected to take the stand. mary gonzales, channel 6 "action news." >> tonight "action news" anchor, jim gardner, has a one-on-one interview with the philadelphia archdiocese.

made arrests in new york city after the protesters blocked traffic across the brooklyn bridge marcy gonzales joins us live with that story. >> reporter: there was 35 arrests here in new york and 15 in los angeles, and at least two officers were hurt in the demonstrations which were otherwise peaceful rallies for change. protesters shutting down highways and bridges from new york -- to california. demonstrating what they say is police brutality. >> i'm tired of the system as it is, the system is broken and they don't care about black and brown lives. >> reaction to videos like this one from a police dash-cam in arizona. an officer swerving to hit the robbery suspect that police say was firing a stolen rifle into the air and ignoring orders to surrender. he says he was never ordered to stop and the officer used excessive force. the officer is back on duty and facing no charges. >> this is not the first time that a vehicle has been used in a deadly force situation. and acting to the shooting of walter scott in south carolina and a deputy shooting his gun instead of his taser in oklahoma. that r

marcy gonzales is following the developments from new york. >> reporter: that video reportedly matches up with what is on the cockpit voice recorder, the final seconds of terror after 150 people on board were killed. today new chilling details about a video reportedly recorded on germanwings flight 9525, the final moments before it crashed. two european publications describe a shaky video with screaming passengers, the wing scraping a mountain before the 15 second clip ends, one call it a fake and another saying if it does exist it needs to be handed over so investigators are analyze the sounds and images. a scene now where crews are still at work and lufthansa ceo laid flowers today. >> it will take a long, long time for everybody all of us to understand how this could happen. >> adding to the questions a stunning admission from the airline, lufthansa revealing that they first learned of the copilot suffered from severe depression while he was still in their pilot training school. andreas lubitz shared his medical records but still was allowed to become a pilot. >> it's egregious. the

connecticut, their plane dropped 27,000 feet in minutes and the people on board are questioning why marcy gonzales is live now with more on this story. >> sara and rick, that quick decent was the right move considering how many people on board suddenly felt sick, a dozen had to be checked out by paramedic, for now no one seems to know for sure. a mysterious midair scare on a united flight from chicago to hartford yesterday. just 40 minutes into the flight a passenger in the middle of the cabin starts to lose consciousness. and a nurse sitting nearby got up to help. >> we got her on the oxygen and then she was alert and came right back and i went back to my seat and they called me right better and -- back because the person behind them passed out. >> everybody in the middle of the flight started to not feel well. >> with at least three people passed out the pilots make a quick decent to get the oxygen. the jet with 80 people on board makes an money landing in buffalo. >> inbound flight unknown medical problem. >> sky west airlines said because there was no cockpit warnings and no oxygen masks dropp

abc's marcy gonzales is in new york with more on this bizarre story. >> reporter: yes rick, the victim says through the whole thing the woman didn't say a word. but she was not happy. >> if this passenger was trying to write an air raid story stranger than fiction, here is the proof that she succeeded. >> i was being stabbed by a pen. >> lenny woke up from a pre-flight snooze to the woman next to him stabbing him with a pen. >> imagine sleeping and then being stung by bees and i went ow. >> he screamed loud like a little girl. before the screaming apparently he was snoring and that the airline says set the woman off. >> and he said i was sleeping and she stabbed me with a plane. the perturbed passenger was escorted off and the attendants couldn't help but laugh. >> and they gave out free gin and tonics and everybody on the plane was happy. >> well, as happy as they could be with the flight delayed two hours before finally heading to new hampshire and he has a few bruises but is not pressing charges against the woman allowed on a later flight. >>> well, happening in a few hours from now

marcy gonzales is live with more from new york. >> reporter: the suspect is hospitalized in police custodying to investigators but still they say they know a lot about his plans a close call in paris authorities stopping what could have been another charlie hebdo type of massacre, a man caught by chance as investigators say he was about to launch a terrorist attack against churches. >> this person was in contact with north person that may have been in syria which who he explained information of an attack. >> but the 24-year-old suspect accidentally shot himself on sunday and they claimed he called for help and when police arrived they followed a trail of blood back to his car, there in his apartment they found combat weapons ammunition and a bulletproof vest and an outline of his plan and communication with isis, he was already on a terror watch list because he wanted to go to syria. >> much like the boston marathon bombing they were on the screen but not to the level that would require on going surveillance before he was caught he took one life shooting this 32-year-old mother to death ch

marcy gonzales has the latest on the manhunt tonight. >> almost as chilling as their tactics is who investigators think may be behind a recent string of bank robberies. >> the fbi says the two men that targeted two pittsburgh banks since january may be former or current military or current law enforcement officers these videos hint they are well trained. >> the trigger finger is off the trigger guard when are you handling a weapon safely that is what you intend to do before you shoot. >> they are also basing their concern that it may be officers that turned against the law on their use of gun holstered and the layers they are wearing possibly hiding body armor. >> if they are former law enforcement they will have the right gear and weapons, an entrance route and escape route. >> and now the fbi is more concerned because the criminals are getting more violent. in the most recent robbery they pointed a gun at an employee's head. >> they would engage law enforcement if they were pursued. the fbi is looking for this gray toyota corolla and there say reward leading to an arrest. >>> and there will be

marcy gonzales has more on the investigation. >> reporter: turning himself into police today. >> we'll defend this in the court of law volunteer reserve deputy joseph bates is charged with second degree manslaughter for this. the shooting death of unarmed suspect eric harris in what bates claims was an accident. harris was running after trying to sell drugs and a gun to an undercover officer. bates says after chasing harris down he shot what he thought was his taser and it was in fact his gun. >> he knew he errs and used deadly force instead of less lethal. >> people wonder why the 73-year-old was involved in such a high risk operation, he is an insurance executive and involved since 2008. >> i had training but innocent mistake someone like me could make prosecutors are going to say not so innocent. >> that is the sentiment of harris's family. >> there is no way that an officer can get confused about this. >> this brings them one step closer to healing. >> bates released on bond is expected back in court next week. >>> new jersey governor, chris christie, gave a major policy speech tod

marcy gonzales is live now with more.w consider against this 21-year-old man. >> reporter: this is an emotional day for so much people across boston inside of the courtroom, some victim's family members and even one of the jurors wiped away tears as the verdict was read. >> guilty on all 30 counts boston marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev slumps after learning he could face the death penalty. they deliberated for 11 hours over two days coming with a conviction. finding him guilty of three people as well as the violence that followed including the murder of mit police officer, sean collier survivors responding jeff baumann who lost both of his legs in the attack tweeting today's verdict will never replace the lives lost but it is a relief. and someone step closer to closure. the defense team led by joanie clark will try to keep dzhokhar tsarnaev off death row. >> they knew he would be convicted the question for them is could they save his life. >> the other -- is life in prison. if they can convince the jury that he was inf

marcy gonzales tells us it's a miracle nobody was hurt. >> reporter: land never looked so good for the 2500 people on the carnival spirit. stuck at sea for two days off the coast of sydney australia being slammed by 30 foot waves our patio furniture flew off the balcony. 35 miles per hour winds rocking the ship making it hard to walk and at times dangerous to even sit. >> my suitcases were flying out of the cup ards and the tv was falling down. >> the sudden storm so severe that sydney harbor port was forced to close and that is why the ship heading back from a 12 day voyage had to wait in open waters. >> the ship would have literally surfed into the harbor and it's a rare occurrence. >> finally today the all clear, the cruise liner pulling into port. >> happy to be back on land vacationers leaving with vacation videos and memories they would probably rather forget. if they were hoping for sunshine once in sydney no such luck, this storm that killed several people in australia, was expected to continue through at least part of today. >>> and now to an "action news" exclusive and a firs

marcy gonzales is live with more on the verdict and the reaction to it. >> reporter: the verdict deliberated for more than 35 hours and they told the media they have no doubt they made the right decision. >> after the decision was read. >> guilty of murder in the first degree. >> aaron hernandez glared at the jury bho found him guilty of all counts. appearing to mouth the words you are wrong. his fiance and mother embracing in tears the victim's family breaking down. >> i forgive the hands of the people that had a hand in my son's murder. >> lloyd was shot execution-style in a massachusetts industrial park, he was hernandez's friend dating his sister but prosecutors offered in motive and the murder weapon not found. but the jury says the mountain of evidence including video of him with a gun was enough to convince them that he plotted the murder. and the 25-year-old had a promising career and a $40 million nfl contract hernandez will spend the rest of his life in this prison without the possibility of parole. >> aaron hernandez pay have been a well known new england patriots player but the j

marcy gonzales has the latest. >> a close call in paris.orities stopping what they say could have been another charl "charlie hebdo" type of massacre a man caught by chance just as investigators say he was about to launch a terrorist attack on churches. >> this individual was in contact with another person who may be in syria with whom he will exchanged information on the arrangements for commission of attack. >> reporter: before he could, police say the 24-year-old suspect accidentally shot himself sunday. they claim he called for hip. when police arrived they followed a trail of blood back to his car. there and in his apartment, they reportedly found combat weapons, a bulletproof vest reas well as documents about al qaeda and isis and an outline of his plan. the suspect a computer science skoons student was already on a terror watch list because he allegedly wanted to go to syria. >> much like the boston marathon bombers on law enforcement's radar screen but not to the level that would justify any sort of on going surveillance. >> >> repo

marcy gonzales. >> after the verdict was read. >> get of murder in the first degree. >> reporter: formerew england patriots star aaron hernandez glared at the jury who found him guilty of all counts in odin lloyd's murder appearing to mouth the words you're wrong. his fiance and mother embrace ing intears. his victim's family breaking down. >> i fib the hands of the people that had a hand in my son's murder. >> lloyd was shot to death execution style nearly two years ago in a massachusetts industrial park. he was hernandez' friend dating his fiance's sister. but prosecutors offered no motive and the murder weapon was never found. yet the jury says the mountain of evidence including video of hernandez with what appeared to be a gun was enough to defense them that he plotted the murder and pulled the trigger. >> going by the law, we didn't need the murder weapon. >> reporter: now less than two miles from gillette stadium where the 25-year-old had a promising career and a $40 million nfl contract hernandez will spend the rest of his life in this prison without the possibility of parole. >>