abc's matt gutman tonight on what authorities believe is the culprit. >> reporter: it is a beloved summer haven for families. >> on weekends it's packed, yeah, it's packed. >> reporter: but tonight horseshoe lake is closed and health officials are scrambling to determine what turned its placid waters into a hazard after more than 200 swimmers got sick. luckily none were kids at this summer camp. >> we got a call this morning from a concerned parent in an e-mail that just said they had heard reports about a potential problem with the lake. >> reporter: that problem still a mystery tonight. health officials have ruled out e.coli. they now suspect a virus like norovirus, that vicious stomach bug that you often hear about on cruise ships. horseshoe lake has had a norovirus outbreak before and water samples are being sent to the cdc in atlanta. >> we were going to have a family reunion out here this weekend and so now i have to get ahold of everyone and let them know it's going to be somewhere else. >> reporter: the question for

abc's matt gutman has more. >> reporter: in california, a teen plunges into the water. you see him being rag dolled by the monster surf and current. he goes in after him, and then the other is caught in the current, as well. his buddy takes the plunge, finally, hosting it, and the ocean rescue choppers arrive. >> he said i think he is dead, i said no, no, we're not going to give up on this kid. this daring rescue caught on camera, just one of so many, doesn't just seem like the sea is swallowing up the swimmers this year, rescue crews say it is, the super charged surfs and rip currents, sweep coast to coast, early monday at newport beach, california, the surf was high, they saw a struggling swimmer. he did what he had been trained to do and dove? >> then was hit by a large way with the victim and the victim came up and then did not. >> experts like the lifeguard at that beach say that too often swimmers just get too confident. >> people have to know their limitations on what they can do in and out of the ocean. the ocean is dynamic, it is not ever the same. and again, r

abc's matt gutman brings us her incredible survival story. >> reporter: it started off as an adventure. >> i was videotaping them and taking pictures. you can see them down here. >> reporter: 18-year-old sidney goode and her friend alexis fairchild parasailing in panama city, florida. >> you just assume that everything is safe. they tell you, they advertise it, safe, fun. you expect that. >> reporter: fun. that's what parasailing is supposed to be, a recreational sport that gently lofts you up 500 feet over the water. but for them, the serenity of flying like a bird turns terrifying. watch as the unthinkable happens 13 minutes into their adventure. >> it was really bad, the feeling of the wind. like that feeling was terrible. >> reporter: after winds gust, the cable attaching the parasail to the boat snaps, flinging the dpirls headlong into this 13-story building. >> they're at the commodore and a parasail just smashed into the top of it. >> reporter: people on the balconies tried desperately to hold on to the girls to keep them from flying away. >> i remember flying into the building.

matt gutman, abc news, belleview, florida. >> go to donotcall.gov, put your numbers in there. tt talked about. but such a touchy issue for so many people right now. [ phone ringing ] >> tempted to call matt gutman, right now and prank call him at 2:00 a.m. and pretend i am a robocall. see what he does. >> will he try to get $500 off you. >> we do the stories. i wonder. i might do that the next hour. >> all right. >> when we come back, justin bieber and orlando bloom in a heated argument at a celebrity hot spot. were fists really flying? >> maybe. we have all the details next in "the skinny." >> think i'm going to do that. going to call him up. >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our abc stations. ♪ skinny so skinny ♪ >> time now for "the skinny" r startingh a ♪ skinny so skinny >> time now for "the skinny" r starting with a story getting a lot of attention online right now. justin bieber in the center of a scuffle. >> biebs partying on ibiza the spanish isle, and running into orlando bloom. take a look here -- running into orlando bloom. tmz, the video. orl

abc news reporter matt gutman has the story. >> turbulence, the kind that can rock a plane like this rocked last night's flight so violently that these are images of the overhead compartments, cracked by passengers catapulted into the air. look closely at this hole. punched in by a passenger's head. in all, 20 injured as the south africa airways flight crossed the equator from johannesburg in route to hong kong. some passengers evacuated in cervical collars. >> hit their head on top of the roof. >> turbulence can form in even the calmest conditions, often caused by pockets of air. we flew in a simulator today in miami. >> where would you feel the most turbulence in a flight like this? >> in the back of the airplane. >> on average 23 passengers are hurt a year. most of them not wearing seatbelts. >> there is no specific instrument alerting pilots of turbulence ahead. most learn about it on their headset from the reporting of other pilots ahead of them. >> a new detection system is in the works using lasers in the hopes of giving pilots a 60 60-second warning that a rough spot is ahead

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here's abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: it's a $13 billion epidemic. shoplifters across america are costing $35 million a day to retailers. and the numbers keep growing. as seen on these youtube flash mob videos, many are brazen enough to steal anything and everything. but while shoplifting out in the open is one way to do it, down in polk county, florida, there's a more sophisticated method. what you're watching investigators say is an organized shoplifting ring in action. in this case, the suspect, melinda ford, is about to hit the dressing room at bell's department store in florida. >> our main target in the store. >> reporter: last year, we were given access to an unfolding investigation, to a crime that starts with sleight of hand and ends up costing all of us big money. cops tell us they are the prime suspect. they call her the booster. and they believe she could be the key to bringing down a multilayered florida shoplifting ring. >> we have one occupant and one suspect. >> reporter: that's why sergeant jim ostojic from the polk county sheriff's

matt gutman, abc news, miami. >> it's interesting. the expert that matt talked to tells us, as violent as it is, and dangerous as it is for people, the airplane won't fall out of the sky. >> it never makes me feel any better. i get freaked out. can you believe that it says, ironical ironically, the worst polluters for greenhouse gas, is airplanes. and you know my time as a flight attendant for crazy line airways. >> there you go. >> trying to read that from here. i should have known my history was insomniac. >>> when we come back, celebrity wedding announcements for you. >>> and wait until you hear weird al yankovic's latest parody. this time, it's more royal. ♪ skinny so skinny ♪ >>> topping "the skinny" this morning, a couple of wedding announcements. >> charlize theron and sean penn will tie the knot in south africa. they're working on a love story called "the last fate." >> the couple says they want to adopt a baby. >>> more wedding news for you. >> yesterday, we reported about danica mckellar's reunion with her fellow "wonder yea

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abc's matt gutman tells you how you can fight back and possibly make money doing it. >> reporter: the unwanted calls come in by the millions every day. >> anywhere from five to six per day. >> they call morning, noon and night. >> reporter: driving the waites of bellview, florida, crazy. >> you called this phone number about 200 times. >> reporter: a debt collector's robo call. 204 of them bombarding then 17-year-old heather waites' cell phone. >> they started calling two or three times a day. >> reporter: thing is, heather had no debt. zero. >> i shut the phone off. >> reporter: 68% of cell owners receiver at least some unwanted calls. a quarter of them say it happens several times a week. what most don't know is that these kinds of calls to cell phones are illegal under federal law. and robo callers face a he ty penalty. they could owe you $500 to $1,500 for every unwanted call. the waites' called lawyer billy howard, who had made suing the collection companies his specialty. >> there are hundreds of thousands of people that are going through this exact same thing. they just don't k

here's abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: it sure seems like a very sharky summer.lifornia swimmer chopped by a great white. >> it's biting and you're staring at it. >> reporter: the attacks no coincidence. the number of great whites up 42% since 1997. more than 2,000 of the truck-sized fish now roaming the east coast alone. the good news, we now know where a lot of them are, thanks to gps, scientists and fisherman tagging them just this weekend. millions online tracking a 2300 pounder named katherine. from cape cod to key west and nearly louisiana. their comeback, thanks to an increase in their favorite food, seelts, thanks flee not humans. i learned some sharks actually crave affection, even the hug of a reporter. david, in case you were wondering about katherine, the great white, she's hooked a big old u-turn is heading back to south floor beaches like this one and who knows, maybe at some point this summer she could be headed to a beach near you. david? >> katherine on the move tonight. matt gutman our thanks to you always. we hope to see you right back here tom

matt gutman, abc news, miami. >> matt, thank you. >>> tonight we are hearing for the first time from a man who found himself in a situation so desperate he was convinced he was going to die. how he survived for six days out in the wild involved not only astonishing grit but extraordinary ingenuity. here's abc's marzy -- marci gonzalez. >> reporter: this is more than a badly broken leg. it's evidence of an amazing survival story. >> the situation turned into a life or death scenario. >> reporter: greg hein was hiking alone, 13,000 feet up in an isolated area of the sierra nevada earlier this month when a boulder slammed into his leg. he couldn't walk and knew it would be days before anyone started looking for him. >> kind of incapacitates you. >> reporter: so he wrapped his leg in an air mattress, made a splint out of hiking sticks and a belt, then slowly dragged himself down the mountain to an area where rescuers would be able to see him. >> i was going to crawl out or someone was going to rescue me. >> reporter: for six days he survived by eating bugs and drinking melted snow until

abc news reporter matt gutman has the story. >> turbulence, the kind that can rock a plane like this rocked last night's flight so violently that these are images of the overhead compartments, cracked by passengers catapulted into the air. look closely at this hole. punched in by a passenger's head. in all, 20 injured as the south africa airways flight crossed the equator from johannesburg in route to hong kong. some passengers evacuated in cervical collars. >> hit their head on top of the roof. >> turbulence can form in even the calmest conditions, often caused by pockets of air. we flew in a simulator today in miami. >> where would you feel the most turbulence in a flight like this? >> in the back of the airplane. >> on average 23 passengers are hurt a year. most of them not wearing seatbelts. >> there is no specific instrument alerting pilots of turbulence ahead. most learn about it on their headset from the reporting of other pilots ahead of them. >> a new detection system is in the works using lasers in the hopes of giving pilots a 60 60-second warning that a rough spot is ahead

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here's abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: turbulence, the kind that can rock plane like this. rocked last night's flight so violently that these are images of the overhead compartments cracked by passengers catapulted into the air. look closely at this hole -- punched in by a passenger's head. in all 20 injured as the south africa airways flight crossed the equator from johannesburg en rout to hong kong. passengers evacuated in cervical collars. >> most of them hit their heads on the top of the roof. >> reporter: turbulence can form even in the calmest of conditions. caused by pockets of air. we flew in a simulator today in miami. >> so which part of the plane would feel the worst? >> the very back of the airplane. >> reporter: there's no specific instrument alerting pilots of turbulence ahead. in fact, most pilots person about it on their headset from the reporting of other pilots ahead of them. a new detection system is in the works using lasers in hopes of giving pilots up to a 60-second warning that a rough spot is ahead. but not soon enough for the jostled passengers last

abc news reporter matt gutman has the story. >> turbulence, the kind that can rock a plane like this rocked last night's flight so violently that these are images of the overhead compartments, cracked by passengers catapulted into the air. look closely at this hole. punched in by a passenger's head. in all, 20 injured as the south africa airways flight crossed the equator from johannesburg in route to hong kong. some passengers evacuated in cervical collars. >> hit their head on top of the roof. >> turbulence can form in even the calmest conditions, often caused by pockets of air. we flew in a simulator today in miami. >> where would you feel the most turbulence in a flight like this? >> in the back of the airplane. >> on average 23 passengers are hurt a year. most of them not wearing seatbelts. >> there is no specific instrument alerting pilots of turbulence ahead. most learn about it on their headset from the reporting of other pilots ahead of them. >> a new detection system is in the works using lasers in the hopes of giving pilots a 60 60-second warning that a rough spot is ahead

matt gutman starts us off in atlantic beach, north carolina. >> reporter: arthur crashing the north carolina coast overnight. winds topping 100 miles per hour. a drive-by hurricane, blowing up transformers and wind whipping these trees. we felt arthur's force as the eyewall approached. and just minutes later -- we're in the eye of the storm, there's no wind, barely a drizzle, a pretty eerie feeling. the wind battered for seven hours, tossing boats and leaving them grounded like strewn toys. the storm stranding some communities by plowing surges of water into some streets and mountains of sand. the sand even frosting homes like this one in nag's head. at dawn, brigades of power crews were out in force. and north carolina's governor was relieved. >> there have been no casualties or serious injuries reported. >> reporter: many of these communities tonight still without power and stretches of north carolina's coast underwater. roads still buckled. folks who evacuated like david gunnels fighting traffic and closed bridges to resume vacations. >> we were just hoping that we'd be able to get back d

matt gutman has the story. >> reporter: in the lush green hills of genteel encinitas, california, a toxic tale of shrubbery. the invasive brazilian pepper tree, and two men losing it. in a dispute over clearing the poisonous bushes from a driveway. >> 99 emergency. my partner just got shot. please come to lone jack road. please hurry! he's bleeding, got shot in the head. >> reporter: for evelyn zeller, march 28, 2013, began as a beautiful day. they're all beautiful days here in the san diego suburbs. that morning she awoke in the master bedroom of this rented spanish contemporary and shared a tender moment with her boyfriend, john upton. >> it was my birthday. john woke me up to wish me a happy birthday. >> reporter: she says upton, still in his pajamas, headed outside to make room for two day laborers clearing brush on the driveway of their neighbor, michael vilkin. john went out to offer to move the car? >> yes, yes. >> reporter: to understand what happened, you need to understand the lay of the land. upton lived here. vilkin owned the adjacent undeveloped 2.6 acre lot, including this n

matt gutman, abc news, belleview, florida. >> go to donotcall.gov, put your numbers in there. nformation how you can follow up on claims matt talked about. but such a touchy issue for so many people right now. >> tempted to call matt gutman, right now and prank call him at 2:00 a.m. and pretend i am a robocall. see what he does. >> will he try to get $500 off you? >> i wonder what he would do. we do these stories. i might do that next hour. >> all right. when we come back, justin bieber and orlando bloom in a heated argument at a celebrity hot spot. were fists really flying? >> maybe. we have all the details next in ♪ skinny so skinny ♪ >> time now for "the skinny" r starting with a story getting a lot of attention online right now. justin bieber in the center of a another scuffle. >> biebs partying on ibiza the spanish isle, and running into orlando bloom. take a look here. running into orlando bloom. tmz got the video. orlando in the white shirt. bieber on left goes in. >> go ahead. >> according to tmz, an eyewitness said that bloom went up to the biebs and threw a punch. whi

abc's matt gutman is in florida tonight and he was right there with the rescue teams already getting the calls today. matt? >> reporter: that's right, david. arthur is kurng about 100 miles that way or more. it's bringing bands of wind and rain on the sea behind me. the hidden danger is what's hidden beneath them. a high rip current risk declared nearly 500 miles of u.s. coastline from florida to south carolina. this afternoon when a drowning call came in we were with ocean rescue. >> you guys have -- >> reporter: they found someone who just got caught in a rip tide. like millions on this holiday weekend, folks playing in the surf. despite that sunshine, a silent killer lurked nearby. what we're seeing is basically a channel forming and that's a rip current. >> that's basically what a rip current is, a channel that forms on a sand bar. >> reporter: officials warning us today those current powerful enough to sweep even a strong swimmer out to sea. you can see the current by adding dye to the water. now you see it, now you don't. remember, if you are caught in a rip current, swim parall

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matt gutman, abc news, miami. >>> now to an abc news investigation tonight. the fbi is on the trail of an alleged art scam conspiracy, using an artist so skilled at making fakes they're accused of making millions off of fake masterpieces. see if you can tell the difference tonight. we put this up in our newsroom earlier today, side by side there a mockup of the real thing, one of them a fake. i got it wrong. the trouble is for so many buyers who have been duped, this is hardly a laughing matter, losing millions. tonight abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross and his team tracking down one of those alleged scammers with a paintbrush. listen to how he explains himself tonight. >> reporter: with the works of big name artists going for tens of millions of dollars, it's no surprise that away from this elite auction house, the big money has attracted a flock of crooks, including this new york art dealer selling masterful fakes. for example, one of these is authentic mark rothko, the other a worthless fake. many people leaving a big art auction couldn't

that's where we find abc's matt gutman tonight. >> reporter: it went from a sunny day to this, the rain stinging the face and that cold air swept up here, all of those waves are 12-foot seas up there going to get up to 20 as the night continues. the carolina coast line tonight lashed with wind and rain. watch as arthur's storm clouds pour into wrightsville beach, knock north carolina. the midday sky blackened. 35 miles out to sea, swells as tall as two-story buildings. >> 18, 20 foot right there. a mountain of water. >> reporter: sand kicked up on the shores. we drove across much of north carolina today, the rain sometimes blinding. the roads inland clogged with cars heading away from the coast. this line stretches for miles down the road. we're just starting to see people driving away from the coast and traffic already is pretty bad. >> i think everybody is starting to realize that this is going to be a little more serious than everybody had expected. >> reporter: with the storm bearing down, some or boarding up, and many are heeding the governor's call. >> for those areas that are not

matt gutman, abc news, belleview, florida. >> go to donotcall.gov, put your numbers in there. you can follow up on claims matt talked about. but such a touchy issue for so many people right now. [ phone ringing ] >> tempted to call matt gutman, right now and prank call him at 2:00 a.m. and pretend i am a robocall. see what he does. >> will he try to get $500 off you.♪ the world has gone mad to ♪ bad today [ indiscernible ] ♪ and most guys today ♪ the woman cries today ♪ just silly gigolos >> the pair has also taped a "cheek to cheek" concert special which will air on pbs. >> i love that. i would download that on itunes. >> that is great. >> familiar face missing in the upcoming season of "dancing with the stars." >> pro dancer, maksim chmerkovskiy, is quitting the show after season 16 before returning for season 18 to win the mirror ball trophy with olympic ice dancer, meryl davis. he told the ladies of "the view" he is planning to leave the ballroom for good. >> not big enough. i'm done dancing. so i just want to make sure -- >> maks. >> done dancing period? >> dancing with t

matt gutman, abc news, miami. >> all i hope is my beach has a tracking device to figure out where itwant to end up in the water with one of those. but i'm glad they're on the rebound i guess. >> they said one report puts the shark population off the california coast at more than 2,000 alone. and matt was here a couple weeks ago. he says he's been out, as you see, doing numerous shark stories. they've proven over and over again that they have increased in the waters. i don't know what they're eating. >> well, seals apparently. but in the '80s they were fished pretty heavily, to the point of depletion. good to see them back. >> all right. >> if you like sharks. >>> when we come back, big news. really big news out of buckingham palace this morning. >>> and a take on pharrell's "happy" video. you've got to see this one. by weird al yankovic. check it out in "the skinny." yankovic. check i ut in "the skinny." it's next. ♪ skinny ♪ skinny ♪ so skinny >>> time now for "the skinny" and some big news out of buckingham palace. >> that's right. reports flying around the globe this morning the d

that's where we find our matt gutman this monk. good morning. >> reporter: hey, ginger, good morning. just the past couple hours, since we've been here, really felt that wind and that surf pick up. it's up to about seven feet, and already over the past 24 hours, we have seen swimmers and paddle boarders get into trouble, get jammed up against the rocks because of the voracity of those waves. and it's not what you see above the surface, but beneath it. rip currents a major concern. children and even adults getting swept far out to sea with these conditions. and with millions of people out on these beaches the next couple of days, that's a major concern here. now back to david and amy. >> yes. everyone, heed those warnings. >>> we want to talk about the world cup and that heartbreaking loss by team usa. the americans coming so close to pulling off a stunning comeback. we were all believing, but they fell short in extra time against belgium. abc's bob woodruff is in sao paulo this morning with the very latest. bob, good morning. >> re

matt gutman reports. >> reporter: trapped in that giant parachute, shooting down the coach like a lost kite. the cable to the boat snapping, sending the girls crashing into the building, then into a parked suv. one year ago today, and sidney is still recuperating. tonight, the ntsb issuing a scathing report. sidney's parents telling us they thought their daughter was in good hands. >> you assume she was safe. you expect that. >> reporter: there are no federal guidelines, they can only recommend that operators be licensed by the coast guard. how does that make you feel? >> not safe. >> reporter: sidney went back to the hospital today, to say thank you. >> i know. i know. >> reporter: she has undergone multiple surgeries. >> even if you think she's going to wake up, breathe on her own, they told us she may not talk or remember. >> reporter: today, she was walking on that same beach. >> just an incredible recovery. >>> when we come back, a mistake on a major american highway that had drivers puzzled. >>> and she's got moves like jagger. it is mick jagger, and who he's poking fun at. that'

abc's matt gutman is getting drenched in the atlantic beach, where the winds are hitting 100 miles an being pummeled and has been pummeled over the past several hours now. arthur a category 2, seeing sometimes gusts up to or over 100 miles an hour here. lots of rain coming down, too, 4 inches. but the problem right now for lots of folks, power. i want you to see those dancing lights above me. they've been out for the past couple of hours. lots down there also out. we saw transformers explode right before us. that's how fierce this storm has been here, and it's caught a lot of people off guard. takes a couple of days to order an evacuation. nobody really thought the storm would come this far westward, but it has, making landfall much more closer to the north carolina interior than expected. we know that tens of thousands of people are without power now. probably by morning this fast-moving storm will be out of here. crews will start working on restoring power. but the major issue is going to be water, building up already. it started over the past couple of hours, but we're really start

abc's matt gutman is in the eye of the storm with the latest. >> reporter: good evening. the eyewall of hurricane arthur is right here, right above us in atlantic beach. now, kicking up winds of over 100 miles an hour, those gusts are very, very powerful. caught a lot of folks here unaware. evacuation orders sometimes take days. none were issued for this area. a lot of folks staying here. people in trailers have come to this hotel to get out of this wind. much more fearsome and direct that people expected. i don't know if you can see these powerlines up here, but across the street, they're flickering. transformers have been exploding everywhere. 10,000 people, probably a lot more by now are without power. that number is going to rise. also, rain is coming down. at least four inches of rain here. tonight, heavy flooding. this wind is pretty bad. i'm going to get out of this. juju? >> talk about being blown away. matt, stay inside and stay safe. of course, you can stay with abc news throughout the night and we'll keep you up to date with all the latest details on the storm.

sales of this iconic breakfast staple are plummeting and abc's matt gutman tells us why. >> reporter:'s been the staple of -- >> delicious part of this nutritious breakfast. >> reporter: but that orange juice, posted near the cereal and toast, has a problem. last month americans bought less orange juice than they ever have since they started to keep track. over the past decade sales down 38%, blamed largely on a devastating bacteria killing florida citrus crops. recent studies showing it's also rich in calories and sugar. and then there's the competition, aisles and aisles of it. fruit juices, vitamin waters, mineral waters, coconut waters. it's almost overwhelming. the florida department of citrus is trying to win back soured consumers with new ads. >> this is captain citrus! >> captain citrus! >> reporter: and tapping to tap the captain citrus, someone more buff, because what the industry needs now is a super hero. matt gutman, abc news, miami. >> sure, a rapping orange. >> a rapping orange will be the super hero. i'm from florida. we have an orange tree in our backyard. >> really?

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