david. >> matt gutman in california, thank you, matt. >>> one more scene and this one from dallas tonight. a paramedic trying to save a life was targeted and shot. tonight he's in critical condition. he responded to a call to a threat. he came under fire himself. a man with a rifle seen leaving the scene. authorities sent in a robot that already dead. along with the body of another man. >>> we turn next tonight to a deadly tornado outbreak across several states. tornadoes already reported from texas to illinois. at least 17 dead now. this ef-3 with 140 mile an hour winds on the ground for 55 miles. abc meteorologist rob marciano in fruitville, texas, tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the system that brought deadly tornadoes to texas now targeting tens of millions in the east. >> we're outside eustace, texas. >> reporter: just after those tornadoes tore through, tom mitchell discovering this truck overturned in rushing water, and a family of four trapped inside. >> oh, my god! somebody go through the back seat! >> reporter: with tornadic storms still swirling overhead, good samaritans racing

here's abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: these are the final few moments of the murderous sunday eveningis san diego pool. all of it caught on camera. those two officers sprinting up. they take up positions and quickly, one with a shotgun, one with a handgun, they fire. [ gunfire ] sfwa bystanders capturing police in a shootout with 49-year-old gunman peter selis. officers swarm from two directions, securing the area and finding multiple casualties. moments earlier sunday evening police say that without warning he began blasting into a birthday party at the pool at this apartment complex. in one of the many videos that has surfaced you see selis, feet up, casually on the lounge chair as he seems to reload his weapon. then he points it at someone. [ gunshot ] gunfire from his .45-caliber handgun sending survivors scrambling. knocking deck chairs into the pool as they fled on a pool deck slippery with blood. around the pool dozens of bystanders watched. some even filmed as more shots rang out. >> i was just having a relaxing sunday. >> reporter: is that where you live? >> that's where i li

and now he's finally ready to tell his story, but only and exclusively to abc's matt gutman. >> reporter is a party animal. >> john? >> huh? >> reporter: a one-time tech multimillionaire. >> it is the number one computer threat. >> reporter: presidential candidate. >> stand with me to protect our freedom. >> reporter: and international fugitive. >> john. >> we begin with that software millionaire on the run suspected of murder. >> reporter: john mcafee became rich and famous for creating and selling his self-named anti-virus software. >> you made $100 million from selling mcafee, right? >> that's what they say. >> how much did you make? >> much more. >> what did you do with the money? >> i wasted it like everybody who has money. >> reporter: he built nine homes, filled them with expensive art and furniture, bought a >> is that love? isn't it selfishness? >> reporter: even creating a zen yoga retreat. but mcafee says his zen was disturbed by a constant wave of what he calls frivolous lawsuits. so he decamped to this idyllic-looking compound in belize. >> john. >> mcafee. >> has been eludi

here's matt gutman tonight. >> reporter: tonight, o.j.on could soon become the world's most famous parolee. the nevada parole board announcing today that simpson will have a hearing in july and could be eligible for release in october. he was convicted by a las vegas jury 2008 on robbery and kidnapping charges, sentenced to 13 years. in 1995, simpson was famously acquitted of murdering nicole brown simpson and ron goldman. goldman's father and sister recently told me, the sense of justice they felt after the vegas conviction would evaporate. >> there is a chance that he could get paroled this year, in 2017. >> october, yeah. >> reporter: what will that picture look like to you? >> disgust. >> he committed a horrible heinous crime, and i have no feeling except rot in hell. >> but 20 years after that slow speed bronco chase and the dizzying array of evidence -- there's been a recent cascade of o.j.-related projects like the espn documentary "made in america." >> reporter: sources tell us simpson has been a model prisoner the past decade, bu

abc's senior national correspondent matt gutman tonight. >> reporter: the warnings, blaring up and down california coast. dozens of great white sharks feet from some of the nation's most popular beaches. >> you are paddleboarding next to approximately 15 great white sharks. >> reporter: orange county sheriffs using a helicopter loudspeaker. >> exit the water in a calm manner. >> reporter: sightings from long woman nearly lost her life from a shark bite just two weeks ago. >> i don't think i'll ever go in again. >> reporter: we join shark lab's professor chris lowe on a mission to tag as many as he can. >> i never thought i'd actually see the day where i would see that many in one morning. >> reporter: in one 400-yard stretch, we have 20 sightings. >> right here! >> reporter: researchers daringly sneaking up on the sharks to get that tag on. scientists believe the ocean has been so unusually warm the past 18 months that the sharks haven't needed to migrate to mexico as they normally would in winter. the good news, these sharks would rather eat stingrays than humans. matt gutman, abc news

matt gutman live with us tonight. workers told to shelter in place you learned there was a tour group inside the site within this happened? >> reporter: that's right, david a public tour, now it was cancelled as soon as that cave-in was discovered. we're told no one was exposed. even at decommission sites like this, nuclear materials can be remain radio active for thousands of years >>> we turn next to a troubling new case a new brawl breaking out on a passenger plane, an altercation between passengers while on the tarmac, a flight attendant caught in the middle. and it comes after the chaos we saw overnight at the ft. lauderdale airport. so many american passengers asking, what's happening? here's abc's david kerley. >> reporter: another sign of civility disappearing from aviation. a flight attendant pleading for security and the captain. >> stop it! >> reporter: and then that same flight attendant slammed to the floor as the two men continued to fight at their end of their flight. three passengers were involved befo

matt gutman has been following him for four years to find out. >> reporter: there are so many layers to the epic, disturbing story of john mcafee. maybe because there are so many john mcafees. >> john mcafee is one of the wildest characters you'll ever come across. >> reporter: there's mcafee the party animal. >> john? >> huh? >> reporter: mcafee the silicon valley gazillionare. >> it is the number one computer threat. >> reporter: mcafee the international fugitive. >> he's someone that i feel is dangerous. >> reporter: even mcafee the presidential candidate. >> stand with me to protect our freedom. >> reporter: pinning down the truth of mcafee's life story is never easy because often it is as slippery as he is. >> he is like teflon, nothing sticks to the man. >> reporter: if the name "mcafee" rings a bell, it should. there's a good chance it's on your home computer screen right now. yup, he's the guy behind the famous mcafee antivirus software. when we say we are going to talk tomorrow, does that mean face to face? i first crossed paths with mcafee in 2012, when he'd become even mor

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matt gutman has the latest. >> reporter: the warnings blaering up and down the california coast. dozens of great white sharks feet from some of the nation's most popular beaches. >> you are paddle boarding next to approximately 15 great white sharks. >> reporter: using a helicopter loud speaker. >> exit the water in a calm matter. >> reporter: sightings from long beach where a woman nearly lost her life from a shark bite just two weeks ago. >> i don't think i'll ever go in, again. >> reporter: we joined professor chris lowe on a mission to tag as many as he can. >> i never thought i would actually see the day where i would see that many in one morning. >> reporter: in one 400-yard stretch, we have 20 sightings. researchers daringly sneaking up on the sharks to get that tag in. scientists believe the ocean has been so unusually warm the past 18 months that the sharks haven't needed to migrate to mexico as they normally would in winter. the good news, these sharks would rather eat stingrays than humans. matt gutman, long beach. >> we have tips on how to avoid sharks. >> shark repel

matt gutman, abc news, california. >> quite a scare in california.r president obama is talking about life in the white house. four months after leaving office. in italy making his first public foreign trip since leaving washington. and during a summit in milan he addressed climate change and food waste. he also took questions on what he doesn't miss about the presidency. >> the hardest thing about being the president states is -- it is unique in its isolation. it is a very nice prison. so you don't have the freedom of movement to be able to just take a walk. i don't miss that. >> he also doesn't miss talking in sound bites clearly. why don't we stretch that out, mr. obama, little bit more. he said now he is only captive to selfies which he joked is almost just as bad. he said he can walk anywhere as long as he is willing to take a selfie every two steps. >> very nice prison, huh? >> all right, the way to inspire america to want to run. >> you can be in a nice prison. >> speaking of, the white house is learning something we know here. bunnies make eve

abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: this morning, we learn more about red flags raised about salman abedi, who killed 22 people just outside an ariana grande concert monday. in this interview with bbc. an official from the abedi's mosque he was previously reported to police. >> they reported this person. a possibility has been shifted to the police and to the security services. >> reporter: and this morning, a friend of abedi tells abc news that in 2011 he fought alongside a 16-year-old abedi in libya against the ckaddafi regime. they were part of the so-called manchester brigade. now more about abedi's suspicious actives. >> strong smell coming out of the carpet. >> reporter: abedi slipped through the cracks. today the british government saying there are 23,000 current and former suspects and 3,000 so-called live suspects. but law enforcement sources tells abc they have the capacity to monitor 500 of them at a given time. this man's family member detained as officers stormed in. >> there were officers right at the door, pointing guns. >> reporter: and the raids go on. this morning, two n

matt gutman, thanks for your reporting this morning. >>> and as the holiday getaway begins, there was a terrifying incident onboard a train in oregon. >> a suspect who police said was acting erratically stabbed two good samaritans to death. marci gonzalez with more. >> reporter: police say those good samaritans did nothing but try to defend two women being targeted in a hate-filled rant. the confrontation quickly turned violent. >> responding to a stabbing at the transit station hollywood. >> reporter: this morning, two people are dead and one injured after a stabbing on a portland, oregon, train friday that police say may have been religiously motivated. >> one was stabbed in the neck and the other in the stomach. >> reporter: witnesses say it started when the alleged suspect began acting erratically, hurling insults at two young women believed to be muslim. one wearing a hijab. this woman was on the train and heard the suspect. >> he doesn't like muslims because they're, like, they're criminal. >> reporter: several commuters stepped in trying to calm him down. that's when witnesses

here is matt gutman. >> respond to the tunnel for a possible collapse. "make trouble 200 miles -- matt: 200 miles from seattle, a portion of a tunnel collapsed where radioactive material is stored. >> they told us to take over to make sure we were all safe and accounted for. matt: in these areas, you can see right into the tunnel holding the radioactive material, now a gaping hole, triggering fears of a radioactive leak. facilityace near a where plutonium is extracted for -- was extracted for nuclear weapons back in the 1980's. the only worked there the cleanup of enough radioactive debris to fill the superdome. significant federal workforce and state oversight to clean up the enormous mess left by the weapons production process. matt: the energy department says while the cleanup is ongoing, there is no indication of a release of contaminants at this point. crews are still testing the area. it is a contamination test site, yes. it has spread beyond that. matt: because of the cave and remains a mystery. >> to re lindsey: thank rrator: "the time is to do wh

. >> yeah, the incident so concerning that fighter jets were sent to escort the plane and abc's matt gutmans in honolulu with what happened on board and the suspect's brush with the law before this even took off. matt, good morning to you. >> reporter: hey, good morning, dan and paula. we now know that that suspect's behavior twice raised red flags before that plane even took off from los angeles, but what scrambled those jets was his bizarre disturbing midair behavior, apparently mumbling when he forced his way to the front of the plane while wearing a blanket on his head and carrying a laptop. this morning this new video shows the moment fbi agents led anil uskanil off the american airlines jet in honolulu. minutes earlier he was led cuffed down the aisle. >> he was pretty dishevelled. >> reporter: authorities say while flight 31 was about half of way from los angeles to honolulu friday, uskanil, a turkish national tried to force his way to the front of the plane. >> he looked like he wasn't all there. >> reporter: passengers telling us he was carrying something. >> he did have a laptop.

matt gutman, abc news, long beach. >> by the way, we have timms on how to avoid sharks. >> we do. >>ou like to hear them? >> shark repellent. >> first is my favorite. think like a shark. it means if you see seals and fish and things sharks might want to eat, don't swim there. >> two, avoid looking like a seal. >> i don't know how one does that. >> do not do this in the water. >>> swim in a group or have a partner with you, preferably one that swims slower than you do. >> right. >> don't swim in areas known to be frequented by sharks. that seems obvious. >> try to swim on clear, sunny days. >> because they get confused on foggy days. >> they do. >> and then we have tips on how to save yourself from snakes. oh, we're out of time. got to can't get to those. >> shark repellent, can i put that on as well? that will help. when we come back, steve harvey has been accused of some divo behavior. >> oh. and we have breaking news. the superstar sending us some love this morning. the skinny is next. ♪ i want you to stay this bright blue forever, that's why you'll stay in this drawer forever. i c

matt gutman is there. >> reporter: her concert silenced by that bomb, the scattering fans, and the carnage. but tonight ariana grande is silenced no more. the pop icon writing in a statement today -- "we won't let this divide us. we won't let hate win." vowing to perform again in this battered city, a benefit concert "in honor of and to raise money for the victims and their families." all around england, signs of that c hospitals ordered to prepare for an attack. in manchester this evening we were there as s.w.a.t. teams swarmed downtown. minutes ago, tremendous amount of screaming here. police telling people to get back. that was a false alarm, but it was the real thing at this man's house two hours south of here. >> when i opened the door there were three to four officers right at the door pointing guns. >> reporter: his family member arrested, one of multiple ongoing searches in the country. >> matt is with us live from england. word has gotten out that ariana grande plans to return? >> reporter: that's right, and 2 million likes on social media. folks in manchester say they can't wait

. >>> matt gutman is outside honolulu. passengers onboard that flight, witnessing this disturbing scene. >> reporter: that's right. 181 passengers, 6 crew members, seeing him subdued, taken down, and hauled off in handcuffs. we know all the passengers are off the plane, they're safe. there was about a 30-minute delay here in honolulu, but airport officials are trying to make it up. and the two f-22s, escorting the plane back to honolulu. coming from air bases like the one right behind me. >> no word on a motive, but the reason this alerted authorities, because the man was waiting near the bathroom with the laptop. amid concerns about laptops on flights around the world. matt, thank you. >>> we're also following breaking governments involving president trump tonight. breaking news on what he told the russians inside his office, the day after he fired james comey at the fbi. tonight, the "new york times" reporting the president said i just fired the head of the fbi. he was a nut job. the "times" reporting the president said

. >> abc's matt gutman is in san diego and will have the latest on "good morning america." but we want to turn to the other top story. that severe weather outbreak across a wide swath of the eastern u.s. >> a powerful system bringing massive floods and tornadoes killed 14 people across 4 states and this morning those storms are on the move. heading north and east triggering warnings from north carolina to new york. >> over the weekend a massive wedge tornado slammed through canton, texas, east of dallas. look at the size of that. it carved out a 35-mile-long path of destruction. that twister ripped homes right off their foundation, wrapped trucks around trees. amazing scene there and demolished the entire lot of new vehicles at one car dealer. but perhaps most amazing two dozen teenagers attending their prom emerging unscathed. th untouched in a direct hit. >>> ten miles north of canton a rescue played out due to a group of good samaritans that passed by this truck. inside that truck a father, a toddler and an infant were all trapped. but then the man shooting the cell phon

abc's matt gutman is there on the scene for us in la jolla. orning, matt. >> reporter: hey, good morning, robin. that shooting happened at a pool about 150 feet in that direction beyond that mobile command unit. eyewitnesses telling us overnight they saw a white male holding a beer can in one hand and a gun in the other. mowing people down all of them were people of color. now, officers got right to the scene but it took minutes for them to take this man down and eyewitnesses said he was even taunting some of the victims. the shooting erupted at 6:00 p.m. during a pool party at this upscale apartment complex in affluent la jolla, california. >> three people down, the suspect is reloading his gun in the pool area. >> reporter: according to police the woman killed and six of the seven others injured were african-american. the other victim was a latino mail. the shooter a 49-year-old white meal named pete selis. his motive not known but witnesses say selis sat calm with a beer in one hand and a gun in the other as he sprayed bullets at the 30 part

here's abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: zmr this is an overturned school bus. >> reporter: the collisionthe morning commute flipping this bus packed with 48 >> i got an ambulance. >> reporter: 14 children injured. with the bus on its side, kids pop through the roof hatch ditching those backpacks. >> we flipped over and then i opened the door and i helped a couple people get out. i helped my brother get out. >> reporter: within minutes the area swarming with police, medics and terrified parents, like this parent, her son in stable condition tonight. >> i was actually able to see one of the little girls who pulled my son -- it's just emotional for everybody. >> reporter: witnesses said this flattened white sedan crashed into the bus. >> you see a car just zoom across like it was high-speed chase. >> reporter: even though 14 of those kids were hurt that female bus driver credited with helping getting every single one of them out of the bus to safety. david. >> thank you, matt. >>> when we come back here -- news this evening on the escaped fugitive in the east. girlfriend found dead on vacat

here's matt gutman. >> reporter: tonight, police investigating a deadly shooting spree in los angeles. the suspects leaving bullet-riddled cars in their wake. >> male driver with a female passenger, both hispanic. male handed the female a gun and shot the victim unprovoked. >> reporter: at 2:15 p.m. saturday, authorities claim a man and woman carjacked a green suv. the pair speeding off. just two hours later, police getting distress calls about a man and woman shooting pedestrians from their car. allegedly opening fire at four different locations. four gunshot victims rushed to the hospital, one of them pronounced dead. >> the victims were random, randomly picked. and these attacks were unprovoked. >> reporter: the abandoned suv found with no trace of the suspects. tonight after an intense manhunt, police say they are questioning a man and woman matching the suspects' description. the three victims who survived are all recovering. the police say they do not have a specific motive but say it does not appear to be gang related. and the shootings seem to have occurred at random. tom? >>

abc's matt gutman on the scene. >> reporter: tonight, heavy equipment stuffing that radioactive hole with hundreds of tons of dirt, all meant to prevent radioactive particles from spreading. >> i am extremely concerned about what happened yesterday and how the department of energy can give us confidence that this will not happen again. >> reporter: it's something the department of energy can't do, after learning the tunnel was built solely of timber instead of concrete and steel as it originally said. >> we don't know exactly what could be causing it. >> reporter: what's more, a 2015 study commissioned by the department of energy itself warned of a collapse at the site, but nothing was done. >> okay, so is that what happened here, that maybe you took your eye off of this particular tunnel because you were looking at so many other projects? >> got a lot of different projects that we have to look at. >> in retrospect, was that a mistake? >> um, no. >> perhaps what's most disturbing, david, there are hundreds of feet more of this rotting away and officials admit they still don't have a

those delays ricochetting all around the world and what triggered that outage matt gutman is in london>> reporter: that computer glitch grounding the fleet at heathrow and gatwick airports. over 300 flights cancelled and 200 delayed. the misery etched on the faces of stuffed in the terminals, stuck in lines that seemed as long as runways. this one stretching outside and around the corner. as in the u.s., this is one of the busiest holiday weekends of the year here. the airlines blaming it on a massive it system failure caused by a power outage with screens flickering out, cancellations had to be scribbled on white boards. on the tarmac row after row of british airways planes crammed into every available parking space at the airport. jets idling for hours and babies crying, miserable passengers milling in the aisles. >> we have been here for three hours and haven't made it through back dropoff. >> reporter: we saw the chaos intensify. you're evacuating the building? >> yes. >> reporter: a few thousand in there? >> yes. >> reporter: a few thousand people still inside. how are you getting

here's abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: tonight, new details emerging about this turkish national, seen here in handcuffs after allegedly trying to force his way to the front of a flight. airline officials now saying he was acting erratically hours earlier and had to go through tsa screening twice, but wasn't deemed a threat. the fbi boarding the flight in honolulu after anil uskanil was subdued. >> we're going to send a couple of agents back there right now. don't be alarmed by that. >> reporter: eyewitnesses say halfway through friday's flight he moved towards first class while carrying a laptop. >> he was just ducked over like this. >> i never saw his face. or anything. >> reporter: a quick-thinking flight attendant blocked his path with a beverage cart. almost immediately, a passenger jumping in to restrain him and send him back to his seat. >> i heard they used duck tape and zip ties. >> reporter: warnings immediately going out to all american airline flights. >> we're cancelling the inbound approach for right now for inbound emergency. >> reporter: these f-22 fighter jets scramble