martha raddatz with an exclusive look at the war being waged from the skies. >> reporter: coming in for a landing at an air base on the arabian peninsula, the famed u-2 spy plane. we are in the chase car speeding alongside at close to 100 miles per hour, the driver talking the pilot down safely, since he has limited visibility in this aircraft when landing. returning from a 12-hour mission 70,000 feet above the war against isis. so high that pilots must wear pressure suits similar to astronauts. >> flying the u-2 is crazy, because you're the highest person in the world besides the people that are on the space station. >> reporter: you have the best surveillance possible, right? >> exactly. >> reporter: we are allowed on a mission in an awac over iraq and syria. those huge airborne radar systems coordinating the war planes. we've been orbiting over iraq for about two and a half hours now, very near the syrian border. when you're on station, that's the busiest time. you're looking out for aircraft, looking out for enemy? you pass on whatever? >> yes, ma'am, and funneling information back

martha raddatz, abc news, washington. >> and here in new york state he was once one of the most powerful men in the empire state, but sheldon silver now faces a long prison term. the former speaker of the state assembly was given 12 years following his conviction on corruption charges. silver briefly addressed the court and down his family, colleagues, as well as constituents. his attorneys do plan an appeal. >>> the cdc has a new recommendation for parents of preschoolers with adhd. try therapy first. government health officials say far too many young children are being given powerful drugs to treat attention problems. that's despite the serious side effects caused by some of those drugs including stomach aches and sleep problems. and there's little research on the long-term effects of those drugs as well. >>> well, to the white house now where president obama hosted the nation's finest teachers, calling the event one of his favorites of the year. >> the president was introduced by the nationalç teacher of th year, j johanna hayes, who taech teaches at a high school in waterbury, conne

martha raddatz, abc news, the arabian peninsula. >> we thank martha for that report. >>> back here at home, and to one of the most famous races in the world. to the 100th running of the indy 500. the winner, rookie alexander rossi, crossing the finish line on fumes. lindsay czarniak is in indianapolis tonight. lindsay? >> reporter: tom, a rookie driver won the indianapolis 500. that's so rare. it hasn't happened in 15 years. >> the winner, alexander rossi. >> reporter: 24-year-old alexander rossi came out of nowhere. a year ago, he was a part-time driver in a different racing series in europe. he made himself a household name in front of a record crowd of 350,000. the drama started early. juan pablo montoya, losing control. he was okay, but his day was done before it could ever get going. the rest of the field had to make pit stops for fuel. but rossi took a massive gamble. he knew he didn't have enough. but managed to conserve what he needed to coast across the finish line on fumes. and managed to win the indy 500. he has only been driving indy cars for three months. now, he's won th

abc's chief global ail fairs correspondent martha raddatz tonight on the training mission gone wrong.porter: the coast guard flew two of the naval aviators to the hospital within hours of the jets colliding. the other two, who had been picked up by a passing fishing boat, arriving an hour later. the two jets were flying 24 miles off of cape hatteras, a training mission, likely flying in tight formation, like these air force jets, just a few feet separating them. it is not clear what parts of the ear plain airplanes hit, but even wingtips striking could bring the plane down, saying former f-18 pilot steve ganyard. >> flying formation in tactical aircraft is very dynamic and there's very little room for error. but first rule is, don't run into the other guy. >> reporter: the jets are a total loss, which means about $140 million at the bottom of the ocean. but of course, david, we are all grateful the pilots and crew survived. david? >> that's for sure. all right, martha raddatz tonight, thank you. >>> back here at home, the sex scandal rocking an american campus. baylor university today

martha raddatz is the only broadcast reporter traveling inside ramadi. >> reporter: it is a four-hour drive through the desert of one of iraq's most restive provinces. we can see all of the destruction as we drive. and if you look way off into the distance in the tree line, you can see areas isis still holds. this is what a once thriving, vibrant city looks like after isis takes control, and the iraqis with american air power take it back. block after block, mile after mile. schools flattened, homes destroyed, bridges blown apart. only some 15,000 families have been able to return to a city that was once home to 1 million. this family of eight, barely getting by. >> it's a bit difficult, electricity, water is very difficult. >> reporter: the city may be liberated, but the people here are far from same. it's estimated that there are more unexploded bombs and ordinance here than any place on earth. and it is left to an american company to find them. they do not want their faces shown, but these bomb technicians are trying to clear thousands of hidden bombs that isis left behind. >> what

my assessment in mosul is getting worse and worse every day. >> reporter: martha raddatz, abc news, baghdad. >> our thanks to martha and her team for that report. >>> back here at home, president obama enlisting a grammy winning rapper to help tackle america's drug crisis. the president in his saturday address to the nation, appearing with macklemore, the musician describing his own battle with painkillers. hoping to raise awareness of prescription abuse. >> if i hadn't gotten the help when i needed it i definitely would not be here today and i want to help others facing the same challenges that i did. >> president obama also calling on congress to approve more than $1 billion in funding for treatment and research. >>> but we do want to move on to the storm threat on the move tonight. this time-lapse video showing a supercell and right there some fierce lightning strikes in oklahoma. meteorologist indra petersons joins us. it's great to have you back but you brought some bad weather with you. watch a huge part of the country. >> we're watching a very strong cold front pushing its way throug

martha raddatz, baghdad. >>> mar that raddatz will report to george stephanopoulos from baghdad this morning. >>> vice president joe biden and donald trump come to mark a milestone, they attended the school of the arts and sciences at the university of pennsylvania. trump's daughter tiffany and biden's naomi are among the grads. >>> gratts -- graduates from rudd guesser university will hear from president obama. he is the first sitting president to speak at rutgers. >>> a new wildfire is raging forces people from their homes out west. we'll tell you what firefighters have on their side helping them fight the flames. >>> students from a philadelphia school lead on a journey for africa. you'll see pictures of the great expedition. >> reporter: coming up in weather, it's chilly out there, western suburbs are in the mid 30s. there's a freeze watch in effect in the poconos. i'll have the details in the seven-day forecast. >>> students in west philadelphia are on the trip of a lifetime right now taking them all the way to africa and they invited "action news" to share will memories. >>> bo

all right, martha raddatz with us tonight.nk you, martha. >>> back here at home, the sex scandal rocking an american campus. baylor university today apologizing for blocking alleged sex assault victims from coming forward. the school today saying it will fire its football coach, after numerous assault allegations against players. a law firm investigating the claims says the program did not report cases. the university also demoting president ken star. his name may sound familiar. star investigated then-president bill clinton during the monica lewinsky scandal. >>> now, to a major medical headline tonight. the new superbug scare here in the u.s. a powerful bacteria making its way to the u.s. for the first time. it's resistant to an antibiotic considered one of the last lines of defense. abc's linsey davis on the new concern tonight. >> reporter: it's what doctors have dreaded for years. a strain of bacteria so resistant that the toughest antibiotics can't kill it. and it's almost here. tonight, the cdc is sounding the alarm, re

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are the politics back home martha raddatz on the front lines, askings, are we close to defeating the enemy? >>> from abc news, it's "this week." reporting from baghdad, co-anchor martha raddatz. >> good morning to you from iraq where the fight against isis terrorists is intensifying. the enemy, voters see as one of the most important challenges our next president will surely inher inherit. with a growing number of u.s. forces, nearly 5,000 u.s. troops on the ground in iraq, and several hundred headed to syria, the decisions our next commander in chief will make about this fight will have life or death consequences. we have seen the battle from the air. but this week, for the first time, we saw the american ground forces up close, as they helped the iraqis push back isis. it's battle that continues to claim american lives. the two weeks ago. half a dozen bombings and shootings of late. a sign that the terrorist threat is evolving yet again. we'll have exclusive interviews with american soldiers and marines scattered across this war-torn country. and a one on one with the u.s. commande

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martha raddatz: many of you have young daughters.enator rubio, should young women be required to sign up for selective service in case of a national emergency? sen. rubio: first, let me say there are already women today serving in roles that are like combat. i do believe that selective service should be opened up for both men and women in case a draft is ever instituted. martha: do you believe young women should sign up for selective service, be required to sign up? governor bush: i do. i do. sharyl: ted cruz went hard in the opposite direction. sen. cruz: the idea that we would draft our daughters to forcibly bring them into the military and put them in close combat, i think is wrong, it is . sharyl: hillary clinton had reservations. secretary clinton: the idea of having everybody register concerns me a little bit unless we have a better idea of where that is going to come out sharyl: from 2007. secretary clinton: i do think women should register. i do think it is fair to call upon every young american. notyl: bernie sanders did reg

our team traveling into the heart of the battle zone and abc's martha raddatz takes us inside this fight. >> reporter: we arrived at the al assad airbase 150 miles west of baghdad. to meet the u.s. marines on the fight against isis. >> it's been very very different, how we are doing it through and by the iraqi military. >> reporter: and leading the charge on the ground, these elite iraqi counterterrorism forces. their goal -- recapture mosul, iraq's second-largest city and isis' de facto capital in iraq. they train for an assault. rappel down buildings. and set off an explosion. this may be an exercise to train all these new recruits, but these counterterrorism forces have been in the fight for year. on friday, we got a firsthand view of what that fight means, driving to ramadi recaptured from isis just months ago. in the rubble, thousands of hidden bombs. >> so, martha, when you and your crew are out walking around, please do not leave any hard surface or pavement. >> reporter: despite the dangers, a small number of the families that once lived here are now returning, children make peac

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martha raddatz, abc news, the arabian peninsula. >>> pope francis is insisting he's not the retiring type. the pontiff says he will not step down from the papacy. he addressed the issue in response to a question from a child that the vatican event on sunday in 2013, his predecessor pope benedict became the first leader of the catholic church to step down in more than 600 years. >>> forget about the record 73 wins. season comes down to tonight for the golden state warriors. they evened out the series on saturday night outscoring the thunder 19-5 in the final five minutes for the 108-101 win. >> it was a great game sated. game seven of the western conference is tonight in oakland. momentum is now on golden state's side. they've come back from a three-games to one deficit. and only lost three times this season on home court. >> awesome. >> going to talk about cleveland now. we're really excited. >> you love your basketball. >> so the cleveland cavaliers are now waiting that outcome. they finished off the toronto raptors in six games to win the eastern conference title earning them the n

abc's martha raddatz got a firsthand look at how u.s. marines are preparing for a major offensive. >> reporter: we arrive at the air base 150 miles west of baghdad. to meet the u.s. marines in the fight against isis. >> it's very, very different how we're doing it by and through the iraqi military. >> reporter: leading the charge on the grounds he's elite iraqi counter-terrorism forces. their goal, r iraq's second largest city and isis defacto capital in iraq. they train for an assault. rappel down buildings and set off an explosion. this may be an exercise to train all these new recruits, but these counter-terrorism forces have been in the fight for years. on friday, we got a firsthand view of what that fight means. driving to ramadi, recaptured from isis just months ago. in the rubble, thousands of unexplosioned bombs. >> martha, when you and your crew are walking around, please do not leave any hard surface or pavement. >> reporter: despite the dangers a small number of the families that once lived lear are now returning. children mak

martha raddatz, abc news, baghdad. >>> fbi director james comey says the u.s.ng progress against isis recruiting, he says his bureau is tracking nearly 800 isis-related cases across the u.s. he claimed fewer americans are now traveling to enlist with the terror group. comey claimed that a couple years ago six to ten americans headed to the region monthly. now the number is down to about one per month. >>> now to some breaking news. some potential big clues about the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370. that plane vanished more than two years ago. >> the boeing triple 7 with more than 200 people on board at the time. abc's lauren lyster is here with the new details that we're learning this morning. good morning, lauren. >> good morning. those two new clues confirmed in the disappearance of this aircraft. more than two years after it vanished in the sky on its way to beijing. let's tell you about them. they were just released. this partial rolls-royce stencil from an aircraft's engine and the interior panel from the main cabin of the plane are most cert

here's abc's martha raddatz. >> reporter: the coast guard rescued the naval aviators within hours. from the water, the other two had been picked up by a passing fishing boat. they were brought to the hospital within hours. the two jets were flying 24 miles off of cape hatteras, a training mission, likely flying in tight formation, like these air force jets, just a few feet separating them. it is not clear what parts of the airplanes hit, but even wingtips striking could bring the planes down, says former f-18 pilot steve ganyard. >> flying formation in tactical jet aircraft is very dynamic, and there's very little room for error. but the first rule is, don't run into the other guy. >> reporter: the jets are a total loss, which means about $140 million at the bottom of the ocean. but of course, we're all grateful the pilots and crew survived, thanks to those ejection seats. martha raddatz, abc news, washington. >>> the mother of the so-called affluenza teen has been indicted by a texas grand jury. tanya couch is facing charges of hindering apprehension of a known felon and money lau

>> martha raddatz. she joins us from washington. hey, martha. >> hey. >> what was the view from your perch? just a few feet from the president? how was that? >> what you really look for, me, anyway, is the reaction of those that are the butt of some of those jokes. a couple of members of the trump family, his sons, laughed at the jokes, bernie sanders, hillary clinton's staff laughed. of course, obama didn't aim quite as many jokes at hillary clinton. and some of the republican establishment were taking it all in stride. it just shows you, dan and paula, on at least one night a year, everyone comes together. it was a fun night. now back to work. >> wraeing back to work. you have to hand to it the trump boys, too. they knew what they were going to face when they walked into the room. we want to talk about indiana. the crucial hoosier state. who is likely to win? what does it mean for the shape of the race? we heard devin. >> we did hear devin. >> what does it mean? >> it is such a tight race and so crucial. trump has been leading in m

and martha raddatz will be live from iraq. that's coming up later on "this week" right here on abc. >> thanks, dan. >>> a frightening moment at boston's fenway park. a man in the stands struck by a broken bat. adrienne bankert joins us with the story. the fan, he was sitting behind new protective netting put in place after a couple of incidents last year. so how did this happen? >> reporter: you know, paula, the large end of that bat wednesday over the net, which was a contingency for fans in the stands. the question, is major league doing enough to prevent injuries? overnight, a fan bloodied at a boston red sox game after a bat comes flying into the stands. >> it hit him right in the head. straight on in the head. >> reporter: the still unidentified fan hit above the right eye but what was left after houston astros george springer's at-bat. those at the park acting quickly on the assist. >> they waved down medical personnel. to come and look at the guy. they came down, had a big towel on his head. kind of pressed against it.