there's always that chance. >> let's get to matt gutman with us live tonight. and we're learning there was a delay in reporting this collision? >> reporter: that's right, david. it will certainly something that will be investigated. seemed like a hit and run on the high seas, that cargo ship pl plowing through the fitzgerald for 30 minutes before turning around. only alerted authorities about the collision 50 minutes after it happened. david? >> matt gutman tonight, thank you. >>> we turn next to president trump, whose personal attorney spent much of the weekend saying the president is not under investigation for obstruction of justice, despite the president's tweet, saying it repeatedly on several programs before the attorney appeared to contradict himself. abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. >> reporter: the president today welcomed to the white house some of the world's leading tech ceos. >> it's great to have you at the white house. >> reporter: but looming over it all, the russia investigation and the president's own tweets. especially thi

matt gutman's 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. >> the >> reporter: there's mcafee the party animal. >> john? >> reporter: mcafee, the silicon valley gazillionaire. >> he's someone that i feel is dangerous. >> reporter: even mcagree the presidential candidate. >> stand with me to protect our freedom. >> reporter: pinning down the truth in mcagree'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 mcagree rings a bell, it should. there's a good chance it's on your home computer screen right now. yep, he's the guy behind the famous mcagree anti-virus software. we say we're going to talk tomorrow, does that mean face to face? i first crossed paths with mcagree in 2012 when he'd become even more famous south of the border. he was on the run and would only talk to me by phone. >> you ma

tonight abc's matt gutman takes us on a journey around the globe to confront what scientists see as disturbing signs of global warning. >> reporter: across the globe reports of bizarre, seemingly unrelated phenomena. cicadas emerging four years early in washington, d.c. poppy in the middle east spontaneously growing much more potent, producing heroin of astonishing strength. airline pilots reporting turbulence more violent than ever experienced before. record numbers of great white sharks -- >> got to be frightening if you're thinking about going into the water here. >> reporter: swarming feet off of popular california beaches. scientists insist those strange phenomena are actually related, triggered by global warming. which critics say president trump disavowed today. >> the united states will withdraw from the paris climate accord. >> reporter: the president pledged to "keep america first" by rejecting that 2015 nonbinding agreement signed by 174 countries to cut back on carbon emissions. >> i was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris. i promised i would exit or renegoti

our thanks to matt gutman, we really do appreciate the reporting. and let's get a look at how the weather is affecting all of this. >> the extreme heat will ease, but onshore flow coming out of e parched dry conditions, and that's not going to ease up as far as causing problems in the desert southwest. late in the week, look for hot, dry conditions to kickback in right along the entire west coast, with the exception of the coastal regions. severe thunderstorms likely to fire off in the north central part of the country with more humid air coming out of the south. damaging winds, isolated tornados, rapid city, bismarck, down towards omaha and causing problems along i-29. in the northeast, watch for thunderstorms in the area of maine. >>> and turning to capitol hill where the gop health care bill is in jeopardy. so much so that vice president pence has invited several senators to dinner to discuss their concerns. >> republican leaders released a revised version of the legislation that includes a six-month waiting period for people who let their covera

here's abc's matt gutman. giving o.j. simpson a date to plead for his freedom. >> he's not going to try to retry the case. he's done a lot of positive things in prison. >> count two, guilty, count three, guilty. >> reporter: simpson's botched 2007 attempt to recover sports memorabilia he says belonged to him. he was sentenced to 33 years for armed robbery and kidnapping. simpson telling an earlier parole board he's a model prisoner. >> i've not had any incidents. >> reporter: it's been over 20 years since his infamous acquittal for the murder of nicole brown simpson and ronald goldman. for goldman's father and sister, the parade of o.j.-related products, from "o.j. "mamade in america" it still stings. but nothing like imagining him free. what would that picture look like to you? >> he did a horrible, heinous crime, and i have no feeling except rot in hell. >> reporter: matt gutman, abc news, los angeles. >>> when we come back, "bachelor in paradise" coming back. our senior chief bachelor analyst will weigh in. >> sort of.

here's abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: adam west was forever immortalized as the first batman. >> brace yourself, robin! we're going down. >> reporter: his tv hit show in 1966, as colorful as it was campy. ♪ west perfected a dead-pan delivery in his comedic turn as the caped crusader. >> some days you just can't get rid of a bomb. >> reporter: the lifelong actor actually got his start in a paul newman film in 1959. but he catapulted to fame during that three-year run on abc. >> precisely, robin. >> reporter: once it was canceled, west complained that he lost jobs because of typecasting. but later in life, it also led to a rediscovery, as mayor adam west in the animated series "family guy." >> i was trying to gain super >. >> silly, yes. idiotic, yes. >> reporter: eventually, west came to terms with his cult favorite status. >> it's given so many people worldwide so much pleasure, and it's been very good to me. >> reporter: his family tonight saying he saw himself not so much as the dark knight, but as the bright knight. matt gutman, abc news, los angeles. >> a tv legend. >>> through the

matt gutman with the american scientists in a race against time.awaiian island, dr ruth gates is growing hope. she takes us to her undewater lab. those cargo nets hold so-called supercoal, cull vated to withstand global warming. >> we are assisting evolution but doing what nature does naturally and doing it much more rapidly. >> reporter: coral are tiny animals. their exoskeletons create reefs upon which 25% of the world's fish depend. at the great barrier reef in australia. which noaa scientist scott heron showed us. >> around 80 to 90% of this reef is impacted. >> reporter: nearly 50% of the reef has died just over the past 18 months. back in hawaii -- >> can this bereplicated on the dale big enough to save the world's coral? >> it will take a lot of people in many places with the same time with the same mission in mind. >> reporter: if we fail to slow global warming, she adds, a bigger worry than coral survival will be human survival. matt gutman, abc news, los angeles. >> we hope you'll journey with matt and those american scientists later toni

tom. >> matt gutman with an upclose look at that danger. thank you. >>> overseas now, that deadly collision involving a u.s. navy ship off the coast of japan. the captain report tli saying he tried to give warning, but the "uss fitzgerald" failed to respond. abc's gio benitez with the latest report. >> reporter: tonight in what may be the first account of the collision that claimed seven american lives attributed to the captain of the cargo ship that struck it. reuters reporting the skipper told ship's owners that he flashed lights to signal the "uss fitzgerald" before the crash. and that he says the destroyer failed to take evasive action, suddenly veering into the ship' s path. >> there is negligence involved. two ships are not supposed to hit each other, and if both ships follow the rules the way they are supposed to be followed, they simply will not impact each other. >> reporter: abc news has not independently confirmed reuter's report of the captain's account. and the navy tonight is not commenting while it investigates why the ship s

abc's matt gutman in phoenix tonight, where they have broken yet another record, today reaching 117. >> reporter: that heat cooking the southwest tonight. multiple wildfires tearing through california and arizona. where flames blasted through sonoita, init is rating six structures. hundreds of residents there evacuated. surging demand is triggering power outages. >> this is not the day for the air to be going out. >> reporter: and airport slowdowns. hundreds of flights delayed this week. airport workers seeking shade in luggage carts. these construction workers ducking beneath an excavator. we teamed up with phoenix fire and rescue today -- some sort of heat related illness. taking multiple heat calls. call after call. there is no love. >> no love. this is what we do all day. >> reporter: some actually seeking the heat. tourists flocking to 128 degree temps in death valley. pavement so hot, pets in phoenix outfitted with protective shoes tonight. >> matt, authorities there are warning everyone how deadly the heat can be? >> reporter: that's right, david. on average, more than twice a

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>> matt gutman tonight, thank you. >>> we turn next to president trump, whose personal attorney spent much of the weekend saying the president is not under investigation for obstruction of justice, despite the president's tweet, saying it repeatedly on several programs before the attorney appeared to contradict himself. abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. >> reporter: the president today welcomed to the white house some of the world's leading tech ceos. >> it's great to have you at the white house. >> reporter: but looming over it all, the russia investigation and the president's own tweets. especially this missive o friday. "i am being investigated for firing the fbi director." calling it a "witch hunt." on sunday, the president's own lawyer contradicted him. >> the president is not under investigation. >> reporter: he insists the president was only talking about an article in "the washington post," but on one show, the lawyer actually seemed to contradict himself. >> so, he's being investigated for taking the action that the attorney general and deputy attorney gene

the governor of texas tweeting out his thoughts and prayers for >> our thanks to matt gutman. >>> a tennessee officer has been suspended after a suspect committed suicide in a squad car. wilson was handcuffed but investigators say the cuffs were too loose. he managed to get free and shoot himself with a gun officer hinton overlooked during a search. hinton is not facing criminal charges. >>> and police outside philadelphia are looking for the shooter who killed a young woman in an apairnts road rage incident. 18 year old bianca robinson was shot. her car and a red pickup truck were trying to get into the same lane. the driver of the pickup pulled out a gun and shot her in the head. >>> now north carolina where police there say a man trying to haul in a shark from pier was bitten in the arm. witnesses say he had waded into the water to help land the shark wh i and bit down. the man wasn't seriously hurt, and the shark did get away. >>> authorities in california are investigating these images from near san francisco's golden gate bridge in which a boater appears to have hit a humpback whale. of

matt gutman has the latest on the search from los angeles. >> reporter: the u.s.s. fitzgerald has been tugged back to court, seven remain missing. multiple sailors were injured in the collision with the container ship. five sailors were hurt badly enough they had to be medevaced. one the ship's commanding officer. you can see responders near the wreckage to extract the wounded. helicopter footage shows the destroyers mangled mid section, the damage caving in compartments and destroying ship machinery and the radio room. damage above and below the water line caused major flooding, those red hoses seen pumping sea water out of the belly of the ship which typically has a crew of nearly 300. the navy said this 30,000-ton container ship and 79,000-ton destroyer collided in open water 56 miles southwest of japan. the navy telling abc news this morning, that the extent of the personnel injuries aboard the ship is still being assessed. there are two primary questions going forward, which of the ships had right right-of-way. the bigger issue how did a ship with some of the s

matt gutman, abc news, los angeles. >>> two electric shock drowning deaths in two different states are investigation this morning. the first was on friday in western lake erie. 19-year-old evan curry of ohio died after jumping into the water to save the family's dog. the family's boat was docked and plugged into the shore. it is believed that some of the current seeped from the wires into the water. >> the wife that was on the boat, saw her two sons struggling and her husband struggling. she pulled out the shore plug that was connected to the boat and the electric current in the water stopped. >> on a separate incident, on saturday night, an 11-year-old girl in new jersey was electrocuted in a lagoon behind her home. police say kayla was in an inflatable raft with two friends when the two of them touched a metal rail. the other girls weren't injured. several states have called for circuit breakers to be placed near bodies of waters and pools to try to solve this problem. >>> tensions between u.s. and russia this morning over cuba. you recall president trump rolled back obama-era polici

matt gutman, thanks for your reporting this. joining us now from washington is retired marine colonel and abc news contributor steve ganyard. steve, good morning to you. and you just heard matt's question, the most glaring one that we all have, these ships aren't traveling swiftly. they're on one another's radar. how could a collision have happened? >> paula, it's hard to imagine how it could have. as matt said, these are two very sophisticated ships, and they should have seen each other. on the other hand, this happened really just about ten miles outside of the mouth of tokyo bay, which is one of the busiest ports in the world. it was the middle of the night, and so oftentimes what happens in these collisions at sea, it's a series of mistakes on both ships that lead to a tragic event. >> we are, as everybody knows, at a time of heightened fears over north korea. what kind of impact could taking a destroyer like this out of commission, what kind of impact could that have on our ability to defend ourselves and our allies? >> dan,

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our matt gutman on the scene as it grew to nearly three times the size of manhattan. >> the wind here has acted like gasoline on that fire. it's moved hundreds of yards in the last few minutes. >> there he goes making that drop. >> reporter: back in california, a rapid aerial assault saving many homes near san bernardino. >> god bless them, god bless them all. they saved our home. >> reporter: cindy and her grandchildren returning home after evacuations lifted there. you can see the smoke covering the town of dewey behind me, but the winds have died down, and that is a good thing. because some of this brush hasn't been burned in 40 years. that is a lot of fuel. this fire is expected to keep growing and burning for weeks. philip menna, dewey, arizona. >>> and a hollywood actor who stars in big bang theory, one of his homes burned down in san luis obispo. affecting a whole lot of people. accuweather tracking all of this. >> thanks and good morning to you. unfortunately, more severe weather for today. damaging winds the primary threat, but there can be hail. isolated tornados and heavy r

we begin with matt gutman. >> reporter: tonight, the u.s. navy confirming casualties aboard the uss fitzgerald. a helicopter filming the destroyer's battered midsection, as the navy says it limps to port at a crawl of three knots an hour. those red hoses appearing to dump water overboard. >> the video that we're seeing shows that this ship is clearly in danger. it's taking on water, it's low in the water line. >> reporter: the seventh fleet, saying the collision happened in open water 56 nautical miles southwest of its base in yokosuka, japan. the navy says its destroyer, built to counter ballistic missiles, was hit by the acx crystal, a container ship well over two football fields long, and the larger of the two ships. >> both ships are supposed to get out of each other's way but in general the larger ship would have the right of way. the larger the ship, the harder it is to steer, though. >> matt, what do we know about the condition of the sailors and the concern about the ship taking on water? >> reporter: right now, the u.s. navy is sayi

matt gutman is there. >> reporter: it came in like a missile. tonight, that video showing the twin engine cessna plummeting. skimming right above multiple cars. it slams into the highway and bursts into a fireball. with the fire still blazing, motorist is pulling the passengers from the plane. you can see them through the smoke to the right of the plane. an off duty firefighter rendering first aid until first responders can arrive. they are bloodied, stunned, but miraculously, alive. >> they just came in sideways. i seen them literally come around the corner. >> reporter: somehow, the plane only clipping a single vehicle. >> the rear-end of my truck was spun around. had a passenger in there. saw flames all around us. >> reporter: emergency crews from the john wayne airport, putting out the fireball. >> anytime you have a plane that crashes on to a freeway, the potential for loss of life and injury exists. >> reporter: this is the 405 freeway, one of the busiest roads in whole country. and imagine that plane crashing into this highway, the southb

here's matt gutman. >> reporter: tonight, the horrifying final moments for those sailors aboard the uss fitzgerald. the destroyer, "t"-boned in the middle of the night, immediately flooding the cramped compartments where more than 100 of the crew sleep. >> the water flow was tremendous. so, there wasn't a lot of time in those spaces that were open to the sea. >> reporter: the navy telling abc news divers found several sailors in the flooded wreck. and officially calling off the search for survivors. >> they had to fight the ship to keep it above the surface and, so, it was traumatic. >> reporter: one of the missing dakota rigsby. his local fire department asking for thoughts and prayers. brayden harden made a quick escape, his mother tells abc news, as the ship was nearly torn in half. he was one of hundreds heroically scrambling to keep the surging seawater from sinking the ship. the navy saying it will launch at least two investigations into what happened just outside tokyo harbor. >> we are going to cooperate with all the stakeholders in this, especially with the japanese. but we wil

. >> reporter: our matt gutman on the scene as it grew to nearly three times the size of manhattan. >> it acted like gasoline on that fire, and moved 100 yards in the last five minutes, sending that column of smoke. we saw it from 20 miles away. >> there he goes p making that drop. >> reporter: a rapid aerial assault saving many homes near san bernardino, california. >> gad bless them all. they saved our home. >> reporter: this woman and her grandchildren returning home after evacuations lifted there. you can see the smoke covering the town of dewy, but the winds have died down here, and that is a good thing. some of this brush hasn't been burned in 40 years. that is a lot of fuel. this fire is expected to keep burning and growing for weeks, tom. >> for weeks. all right, phillip. thanks so much. >>> next tonight to the fbi's investigation of kaspersky lab. a company whose software is used in american businesses, government and maybe even your home. the agency is questioning some of its employees. abc news was the first to report weeks ago that the fbi is investigating the company's po

matt gutman has the latest. >> reporter: tonight us ships and aircraft scouring the busy waters off japan for those seven missing sailors. but officials say they could also still be trapped in the wreckage on board the ship. >> we've still got an active search and rescue going on for our missing shipmates. >> reporter: now, a mystery emerging -- multiple maritme trackers show the acx crystal cargo ship hooking this giant u-turn friday night minutes before nearly t-boning the uss fitzgerald. abc news has reached out to the owners but so far no response. three crew members, including the ships commanding officer medivaced, others treated on board. the collision with the 30,000 ton acx cyrstal in one of the world's busiest shipping lanes seemed to gut the ship's midsection. but the navy said there was also damage below the water line. >> the damage is consequential and will probably take the fitzgerald out of service for months if not years to come. >> reporter: this evening the fitzgerald limped back to port nudged by tugboats listing to its right side. those hoses pumping sea water overboa

abc's matt gutman "details coming if from san antonio. >> reporter: a gunfight and chaos erupting indowntown san antonio tonight. the pair of officers were on routi routi routi routine patrol when they tried to blast the officers. >> as soon as they stepped out of the vehicle, the one suspect opened fire. striking one officer in the head. facial area. >> reporter: the other officer reportedly returning fire and risking his life to save has partner. >> he was pulling his partner out of the line of fire once he was hit. >> reporter: one gunman shot by police. the other taken into custody. tom, the sheriff saying that gunfight lasted just seconds, but it left both of those officers in critical condition. tonight, the governor of texas tweeting out his thoughts and prayers for both of those officers, tom. >> just like ours. all right, matt. thanks so much. >>> next tonight, the investigation of a deadly traffic accident involving tennis star venus williams. williams and another driver colliding in an intersection near her florida home. the newly released report finding that she was at fa