matt gutman flying us over >>> the threat of severe storms from texas to the east coast. >>> the aerials coming in. the home that blew up. one victim found on the street in critical condition. emergency crews on the scene. >>> days before meghan markle marrying a prince and reports her father could be pulling out of the wedding. >>> tonight celebrating margot kidder and that moment she took flight. >>> good evening great to be with you to start another week. we begin with the first lady in the hospital. melania trump now recovering from surgery to treat a quote benign kidney condition. we're told she'll be there the rest of the week. cecilia vega starting us off. >> reporter: president trump late today boarding marine one headed to the hospital visit to visit his wife. first lady melania trump is at walter reed medical center. the white house making the surprise announcement that she is being treated for a benign kidney condition. this morning, doctors performed an embolization, a procedure to plug up a blood vessel to stop bleeding. aides say the procedure was successful but released no

we'll see many more eruptions like this in the coming days. >> matt gutman from hawaii. thank you. >>> we turn to the story in windsor. we're about 25 miles from london at windsor castle where meghan markle will marry prince harry. prince charles will walk meghan down the aisle and the interview with princess diana. james longman here tonight. >> reporter: tomorrow, her life will change forever. before she joins a new family, meghan markle will spend the night at this hotel with her mother, doria ragland. >> how are you feeling miss markle? >> wonderful, thank you. >> reporter: the bride-to-be looking radiant and calm, after a family tea with her mother, her fiance, the queen and prince phillip. the town of windsor officially "harry and meghan central." the streets packed with royal well-wishers, straining for a glimpse of harry and william. look at the excitement. people can't wait to meet prince harry and his brother. there he is. >> reporter: the princes making their way through town. harry relaxed. shaking hands and taking in the moment. >> william, harry! william, h

>> matt gutman leading us off tonight. matt, thank you. >>> we're going to move on this tuesday night to the deadly storms, tornadoes and now severe storms right into the evening. alberto, after slamming ashore, tracking north at this hour. tropical downpours in fayetteville, north carolina. and across the southeast, nashville, indianapolis and chicago now in the path, as well. in the heartland, fierce winds knocking semis over in kansas. tonight, 13 million americans from oklahoma to minnesota at risk. abc's steve osunsami in the storm zone tonight. >> reporter: what's left of this storm is still strong enough tonight to bring down trees over homes. this was montgomery, alabama, today. in the birming hall area, the driver of this white suv made it out alive after high winds knocked a tree on tom of the truck. it was one accident after another. >> every trooper on duty is working a wreck right now in birmingham. >> reporter: it's the subtropical storm that washed out memorial day for millions. tv viewers in the carolinas to

>> matt gutman leading us off again tonight. matt, thank you. >>> also developing at this hour, the urgent manhunt for the killer of a sheriff's deputy in tennessee. authorities say deputy daniel baker, a husband and father, was responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle. he was then shot and killed confronting the suspect. tonight, police now identifying the alleged gunman as steven wiggins. they are warning that he is armed and dangerous. and abc's alex perez with news coming in on the search tonight. >> reporter: an intense manhunt just outside nashville tonight. investigators urgently going door-to-door, looking for a suspect they say gunned down a deputy sheriff trying to pull him over. >> anyone that would murder a deputy sheriff protecting our community is a threat to anyone. >> reporter: the ordeal unfolding about 7:00 this morning in dickson county, tennessee. >> nashville all units. prepare to copy on a polo out of dickson county. >> reporter: authorities say sergeant baker was responding to a suspicious vehicle rep

>> matt gutman tonight. matt, thank you. >>> now to the showdown tonight between president trump and the special counsel, robert mueller. mueller is now threatening a subpoena if the president is unwilling to answer questions in the russia investigation. and tonight, white house lawyer ty cobb announcing that he's retiring at the end of the month. here's abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. >> reporter: when we first asked, the president was adamant. he'd be more than happy to talk to special counsel robert mueller. would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version of those events? >> 100%. >> reporter: but now, nearly a year later, a tense standoff. so tense, abc news has confirmed mueller told the president's lawyers he could compel the president to testify. raising the possibility of a subpoena. john dowd, until recently the president's lead lawyer, tells abc news he fired back, responding, quote, "this isn't some game. you are screwing with the work of the president of the unit

abc's chief national correspondent matt gutman has the video just released. >> reporter: the new video shows the s.w.a.t. team in the hallway outside the sniper's room. no sense of what they'll find when they blow down the door. >> breach, breach, breach. >> reporter: that deafening explosion. one officer's body camera then revealing the moment he spots stephen paddock's own surveillance camera hidden on the service cart. >> looks like there might be a camera of some sort. >> reporter: the officers gingerly somewhering the hotel suite. >> with you, with you. >> reporter: of the deadliest mass shooter in u.s. history. the team surveying the scene, those high powered rifles resting on a chair. 23 guns ultimately found. thousands of rounds of ammunition. by the time the officers arrived at the 32nd floor, creeping down the hallway, dripping with sweat, going low behind their shields -- >> okay, everyone take a deep breath. >> reporter: paddock was already dead. he'd shot himself after he gunned down 58 innocent people and wounded hundreds at the concert playing out down below. >> and matt

matt gutman with the new concern tonight. >>> we're also following north korea's new warning at this hour. now threatening to cancel the summit between president trump and kim jong-un. what the north wants stopped and how will the white house respond? >>> the fbi on the scene at this hour of a building explosion late today. children rushed out of a day care, holding hands. >>> the video tonight. eight police body cams all rolling at once, as the officers are ambushed after being called to this home. those officers now talking for the first time. >>> new developments involved the father of the bride. meghan markle's father reportedly now saying he wants to go to the royal wedding after all. but now, the new headline late today suggesting he could be going in for heart surgery. >>> good evening. and it's great to have you with us here on a very busy tuesday night. and we begin tonight with breaking news, both on that volcano, new pictures coming in right now, and the severe storms moving through. watches in ten states as we come on the air. blasting through new york city just a short t

on this part of the island, david. >> matt gutman on the scene. thank you. >>> next the severe thunderstorm watch from wichita to chicago to d.c. it will reach new york and new england by tomorrow. damaging winds already in clarksville, pennsylvania. also, a potential tropical disturbance off the coast of florida. yes, this early. strong winds in key west and a tornado with 80 mile an hour winds in palm beach county. we're tracking a lot. let's get to ginger zee. >> we have dulles airport on a ground stop. because they're in a tornado warning. look at this mean radar image. you can see washington, d.c. and alexandria you're next. if you don't have a tornado, you could have gusts up to 70 miles an hour. hail and damaging winds from chicago to st. louis and the lows you see going to spring up more in the way of severe weather. anywhere from binghamton to philadelphia, right through baltimore. that's tomorrow. the low near the gulf of mexico it's also produced three to five inches of rain. easily could produce another four. >> thanks, ginger. we'll s

and abc's chief national correspondent matt gutman is there again tonight. >> reporter: tonight, that tower of ash punching through the clouds. before dawn, this gemini observatory time lapse capturing that new explosive eruption at kilauea's halema'uma'u. >> the one this morning was definitely the biggest we've seen so far, just in terms of energy and how high up into the atmosphere it got. >> reporter: even higher than mt. everest. ballistic rocks, up to two feet wide, already heaved hundreds of yards. residents not evacuated warned to shelter in place. and those 20 fissures scarring hawaii's landscape, roaring with increased intensity. you can see all that lava fountaining here. now, this is fissure 17. some of the fountaining has gone hundreds of feet in the air. what you're seeing over there and those roars are steam and gas flying out of these vents. that stuff is 2,000 degrees. this is what the community of leilani estates looked like last may. and now. those fissures delivering a cloud of sulfur dioxide so toxic, the national guard had to pull back from several checkpoints. an

tonight abc's matt gutman is on the scene with residents who fear they could lose everything if thisnd soon. >> reporter: high above hawaii's big island -- >> over there the ridge line you can see the steam and smoke rising. >> reporter: mother nature scarring this tropical paradise. there are now 19 volcanic fissures. this one at least several football fields in length. ripping through the earth, keeping residents here on edge. >> i heard what sounded like a jet turbine. >> reporter: at least four cracks opening up since saturday. those eruptions echoing across the lush greenery of this island. >> i've actually seen rocks fly over the tree line. >> reporter: for the last week and a half a series of explosions have spewed gases and hurled lava hundreds of feet into the air. above that lava zone steam was rising 2,000 feet, according to our pilot. >> i see a lava explosion down there. you can see that pop of red. we are watching active lava eruptions right now from the sky here. pretty impressive. you look at -- in hawaii the big island and everything you see is the result of a volcan

abc news reporter matt gutman takes you inside the chilling moments when police entered the gunman's hotel room. watch. >> the new video showshe s.w.a.t. team clustered in the hallway outside the sniper's room. no sense of what they'll find when they blow down the door. >> breach, breach, breach. >> that deafening explosion. one officer's body camera then revealing the moment he spots stephen paddock's own surveillance camera hidden. >> it looks like it might be a camera of some sort. >> the officers gingerly open entering the hotel suite of the deadliest mass shooter in u.s. history. the team surveying the scene, the high-powered rifles resting on a chair. 23 guns ultimately found. thousands of rounds of ammunition. by the time the officers arrived at the 32nd floor, creep do you think the hallway, dripping with slow, going low behind their shields. >> everyone take a deep breath. >> paddock was already dead. he had shot himself after he gunned down 58 innocent people and wounded hundreds at the concert playing out down below. what's most striking about seeing those first three hour

here's abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: with that single inflammatory tweet, roseanne's rising star imploded today. within hour the highly anticipated return of one of tv's most beloved shows, "roseanne," canceled. roseanne barr effectively banished from hollywood for this racist tweet. muslim brotherhood and planet of the apes had a baby equals v.j. the v.j. referred to is valerie jarrett, former adviser to president obama. barr deleted the tweet and tweeted an apology to jarret saying in part, forgive me, my joke was in bad taste. almost no one thought it was funny. within hours a's pulled the plug on the show saying roseanne's twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant, and inconsistent with our values and we decided to cancel her show. bob iger, ceo of parent company disney, adding there was only one thing to do here, the right thing. >> racism isn't politically correct. i don't think this is a joke. i think this is actually a racist tweet. and it needs to be dealt with as such. >> reporter: valerie jarrett, the target of rose app's tweet, said iger reached out and apologized before makin

abc's matt gutman is right there tonight. >> reporter: the concrete beneath these scattered blankets makeshift tents is the only tur after that mari and her eight family members can call home right now. [ speaking spanish ] >> reporter: she is part of a group of over 150 migrants who have arrived just outside the mexican border with california, traveling from some of the world's most murderous nation, hoping to seek asylum and safety in the u.s. it's just the latest flash point in what has been weeks of mounting tension. president trump railing against the so-called caravan. >> are you watching that mess that's going on right now with the caravan coming up? >> reporter: vowing to change the laws that allow them to come in, leaving those here in tijuana in possible limbo. after a cold night on the concrete here, people are starting to wake up. they've been here for 18 hours already, waiting for their political asylum applications to be reviewed. on buses, trains, and on foot, made the 2,000-mile-long trek over the past month from southern mexico. >> some with nothing more than a small

>> matt gutman following this for days for us. matt, thank you. >>> we are also following several weather headlines tonight. the tropical system that could hit this weekend, but first tonight, the severe thunderstorm watch at this hour, actually from the ohio valley all the way over to the northeast. five water rescues already in albuquerque. one person killed there. mudslides shutting down a highway in nevada tonight. the southeast in the bulls eye, cars under water in raleigh. those images coming in. let's get right to rob marciano, tracking it all day for us. >> reporter: so much of this area's seen a lot of water. let's get to the severe thunderstorm watches posted for much of ohio, in through pittsburgh, you're about to get hit. d.c. saw strong storms. now, to the crib yab. 40% chance of these storms becoming a tropical system over the next five days. by friday, gets into the gulf of mexico. uncertainty after that. what is certain, heavy rain from florida into the southeast. this area already saturated, david. >> all right, ro

here's abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: day 19. wrath of kilauea continues on the big island of hawaii tonight, lobbing lava bomb into the air, pumping out a lake's worth of molten rock and incinerating everything in its path. with roads cut off, the only way in is on foot. that's the fissure we've been looking at for a couple of days now. everything you see in front of us wasn't here a couple of days ago when we first started coming here. that lava being geysered up in the air is 100, 150 feet up. it is incredibly powerful. you can feel all the heat it's generating. and also where i am used to be a valley. now it is literally creating this new topography. a ridge has formed where cows u used to munch on cane grass. a royaling pit spitting out lava, creating rivers of molten rock, pouring across highways, cutting off access routes. >> it was at one point directed towards us and we evacuated. there's not a whole lot else we can do but be here and wait it out. >> reporter: from there they flow out to the ocean in a four-mile-long red

abc news reporter matt gutman takes you inside the chilling moments when police entered the gunman'soom. watch. >> the new video shows the s.w.a.t. team clustered in the hallway outside the sniper's room. no sense of what they'll find when they blow down the door. >> breach, breach, breach. >> that deafening explosion. one officer's body camera then revealing the moment he spots stephen paddock's own surveillance camera hidden. >> it looks like it might be a camera of some sort. >> the officers gingerly open entering the hotel suite of the deadliest mass shooter in u.s. history. the team surveying the scene, the high-powered rifles resting on a chair. 23 guns ultimately found. thousands of rounds of ammunition. by the time the officers arrived at the 32nd floor, creep do you think the hallway, dripping with slow, going low behind their shields. >> everyone take a deep breath. >> paddock was already dead. he had shot himself after he gunned down 58 innocent people and wounded hundreds at the concert playing out down below. what's most striking about seeing those first three hours of t

abc's matt gutman shows us more. >>> we're here just near fissure number 20. and it is shooting lava up at least 100 etthe air. now, i want to show you something. this cauldron over there is putting out an enormous amount of lava. there is a crack in the earth that it's going down into and all of this has been flowing steadily into the ocean and that is what is creating this laze. that's the steam created when the lava hits the cool ocean. also putting off these very dangerous particles that basically are like tiny glass particles. now, take a look at this. this is a crack in the ground from methane. there is so much activity underground that everywhere we've gone we've seen these bursts where methane comes through. the problem is it creates brush fires making things even more complicated and risky for first responders. matt gutman, abc news, kapoho, hawaii. >>> time now for a look at your weather on this tuesday morning. several roads around raleigh, north carolina, have been closed because of extreme flooding. some drivers even had to be rescued during the h

david. >> matt gutman on the border. thank you, matt. >>> there are developments in the serial killer investigation in california. investigators tonight on why they believe that former police officer went on a reign of terror allegedly. joseph deangelo behind bars tonight. authorities believe he committed 12 murders, more than 50 rapes. tonight right here what might have fueled his rage. here again is abc's witt johnson. >> reporter: tonight, investigators revealing new details about what may have fueled the rage of accused golden state killer, joseph deangelo. one rape victim in 1978 describing how her attacker sobbed while saying, "i hate you bonnie. i hate you." >> that name told me that he had some significant female in his life named bonnie. and he had some anger against what bonnie or what he perceived bonnie had done to him. >> reporter: it turns out deangelo was engaged in 1970. the woman? bonnie jean colwell, who eventually broke it off. as investigators were narrowing their search through a dna profile, another

abc's matt gutman is there. >> reporter: what you're watching is one of the many eruptions that haveeen blasting out of kilauea all day today. this is what scientists and volcanologists have been warning of for weeks now. what they're saying is that the lava level in kilauea has subsided to the extent that it has interacted with the water table causing these steam-driven explosions, and those eruptions are the biggest blasts erupting out of kilauea in nearly a century, 100 years since the 1924 eruption, and what they're saying is that this could smother parts of the island closing down the airports. there is no major threat to human health at this point, but the national weather service saying that exposure to the ash and the gas could be hazardous and they're warning people who live nearby to avoid too much exposure to the outdoors at this point. also, local agencies and authorities are warning people to avoid the roads because that ash could obscure the road and there are other hazards but right now no major concerns for the population, however, those volcanologists say that could

>> matt gutman flying over the scene, filing that report earlier today. matt, thank you. >>> now, to the landmark settlement tonight involving former gymnastics doctor larry nassar. his former employer, michigan state university, now agreeing to a $500 million deal with hundreds of his victims. and for the first time, right here tonight, a look at the disturbing police videos. nassar in his own words, being asked important questions before that conviction. here again tonight, abc's linsey davis. >> reporter: just as we learned about that historic half billion dollar settlement, today, a first look at disturbing police interviews with larry nassar. >> i was victimized to myself. >> reporter: the former doctor calls himself a victim. >> i don't get it. why didn't she say something if she was -- if she was -- if she was feeling violated in any way, shape and form? there was no communication. >> reporter: in the first interview in 2014, nassar even showed officers videos of what he described as medical treatment. >> if you don't have patient confidence and pa

as for bee, her fate on the show at this point, david, remains unclear. >> matt gutman with us again tonight. thanks, matt. >>> next, to the crackdown at the border. hundreds of children separated from their parents if they cross into this country illegally, even if they're applying for asylum. the parents in many cases incarcerated. the children can be sent 1,000 miles away. abc's chief national affairs correspondent tom llamas with one mother whose son was taken from her eight months ago, and authorities can't tell her when she'll see him again. tom is just back from the border tonight. >> reporter: homeland secruty secretary kirstjen neilsen on the southern border tonight, getting an up close look at immigration enforcement this week. but behind the scenes, a hard line tactic under way, separating immigrant families that cross illegally into the u.s., including asylum seekers. >> if you don't want your child to be separated, then don't bring them across the border illegally. >> reporter: at least 700 children have been separated from their families since october. it happened to hi

matt gutman, abc news, los angeles. >> our thanks to matt.anne's show premiered this past spring, the great ratings here on abc, president trump was quick to praise her. his reaction so far? >> he spoke at a rally in tennessee but never brought up the scandal. >> reporter: here in nashville made no comment on roseanne barr. a few months ago, he praised her and her ratings. >> look at roseanne, i called her yesterday. look at her ratings, look at her ratings. >> reporter: but now there's only silence from the white house as barr's show has been canceled following a racist tweet about former obama aide valerie jarrett. sarah sanders said the president's focused on other things like the summit in north korea, trade and the economy. in nashville, the president turned his attention to the midterm elections telling voters to vote for marsha blackburn in the senate race and slammed the democratic candidate. >> i never heard of this guy. who is he? who is he? if you want your country to be safe, then you must go out and get the democrats the hell out

matt gutman, thank you. >>> next, from montana tonight, outrage. two american women detained and questioned by a border patrol agent while at a convenience store, because the border agent heard them speaking spanish. here's abc's kayna whitworth. >> reporter: a montana woman says she's considering legal action after this interaction with a border patrol agent. a. >> ma'am, the reason i asked you for your i.d. is because i came in here and i saw that you guys are speaking spanish, which is very unheard of up here. >> reporter: ana suda and her friend, mimi, who are both u.s. citizens, were talking to each other in spanish at a convenience store when the uniformed border patrol agent interrupted them. >> he asked where i was born. so i look at -- i look at him and i say, "are you serious?" he's like, "yes, i'm serious." >> reporter: the store, in havre, montana, is 30 miles south of the u.s./canada border. border patrol agents have a broad authority to operate within 100 miles of any u.s. border, though they cannot initiate stops without reasonable s

abc news reporter matt gutman is at fisher 20. >> it is shooting lava 100 feet into the air. it's creating a massive plume of smoke and gases. in there is sulfer dioxide. three times the sulfer dioxide is causing some increased concern. now this lava flow consumed two more homes. had our first injury from the lava as well. also it's feeding this massive river of lava that is going into the ocean and creating what's called laze. that is the lava mixed with cool water to create steam and fine particles that are glass like that can be very ir stating for people to breathe in. so there's multiple hazard right now as this continues to pan out. there is so much activity under ground that everywhere we've gone, the problem is it creaes brush fires. make things even more complicated and risky for first responders. matt gutman, abc news, hawaii. >> that was wild. >> of we bring in a chance of a couple of showers moving into what the forecast. it does rain in may. it's not a lot of rain to talk about. but nums, it could be moisture to finish out the week. it's a pretty quiet picture, b

matt gutman, abc news, hawaii. >> developing news in fairfield where a couple is facing child neglect, abuse, and torture charges. >> police say they found the couple's ten children living in squalor. but the mother is defending herself and her husband. >> my husband is an amazing person. i am an amazing mother. >> reporter: standing in the door way of her fairfield home, ina rogers said charges she and her husband abused, even tortured their ten children are untrue. >> the torture allegations are absolutely lewd carouse. these are unfounded and ridiculous. >> the 30-year-old rogers is back out on bail charged with abuse after police returned her 12-year-old son to the family home after he had been reported missing. rogers invited reporters into her home, which she claims was left messy by police. all of the children sleep in one room and the bathroom is covered with what appears to be cat feces. fairfield police arrested ro jers' 29-year-old husband jonathan michael allen. he's been charged with nine felony count os of child cruelty and seven of torture. he's pleaded not guilty. >> t

matt gutman with the new concern tonight. >>> we're also following north korea's new warning at this now threatening to cancel the summit between president trump and kim jong-un. what the north wants stopped and how will the white house respond? >>> the fbi on the scene at this hour of a building explosion late today. children rushed out of a day car, holding hands. >>> the video tonight. eight police body cams

matt gutman flying us over >>> the threat of severe storms from texas to the east coast.

matt gutman flying us over at this hour from texas up the east coast. the new track tonight. ginger zee standing by.

matt gutman with the new concern tonight. >>> we're also following north korea's new warning at thisetween president trump and kim jong-un. what the north wants stopped and how will the white house respond? >>> the fbi on the scene at this hour of a building explosion late today. children rushed out of a day care, holding hands. >>> the video tonight. eight police body cams all rolling at once,

here's matt gutman tonight. >> reporter: the shooting on this california high school campus sent police radio's cracking. >> attention palmdale lancaster units respond to highland high school so far, active shooter on scene. >> he had fired the rifle. another 14-year-old student was struck by the gunfire in the arm. >> reporter: a student sitting there in shock. highland high school in palmdale put on lockdown. >> she called me and said mom there's a shooter. what do we >> reporter: the suspect found at a nearby shopping mall. law enforcement officials tell me if it's determined the rifle was left unsecured by that 14-year-old boy's parents. they could be prosecuted. >> matt, thank you. . >>> tonight we're hearing from the woman on the southwest flight sitting two seats away from that mother sucked back in and she didn't survive. what she and two other passengers did to get her back in the plane. >> reporter: passengers on that southwest plane were just 20 minutes into their flight when shrapnel from a broken engine blasts through a window. >> and almost immediately i felt the rush of w

abc's matt gutman is there. >> reporter: that standoff at the mexican border intensifying. the top of this border fence but not crossing. customs and border officials telling abc news, not a single asylum seeker has yet been processed. they have made a 2,000-mile, month-long trek from southern mexico in bus and on foot. mari martinez says she and her family have been pursued by the gang ms-13. she told me if i stay in my country, i'll be killed. president trump tweeting the migrants are openly defying our border. >> are you watching that mess that's going on right now with the caravan? coming up? >> reporter: the migrants here say they won't give up. by far the longest part of the journey for any asylum seeker happens when they're actually in the united states. and that's the process of being granted or seekingsylum. it can take years and it hinges on something called a credible threat interview. basically, these migrants have to prove that they face persecution if they are sent back home. and the majority of them are sent home. matt gutman, abc news, tijuana, mexico. >>> t

matt gutman, pahoa, hawaii. >>> the weather delivering a one-two punch to colorado. ft. collins. almost an inch, wow, is that hail? an inch and a half of rain fell in just over an hour. but look at that impressive scene. hail there on that roadway. incredible stuff there. >>> in california, in the meantime, a hiker has fallen to his death at the famous half dome rock formation in yosemite national park. he slipped after -- while hiking with another person during a thunderstorm. the wet granite can be very slippery. this is the first fatality on half dome in seven years. >>> and one week after his rant inside a new york deli, a new york attorney has offered an apology. he sparked outrage after he yelled at employees for speaking spanish instead of english. in a tweet yesterday, schlossberg said to the people i insulted, i apologize. i am not a racist. the video does not reflect his true self, he added. >>> a sinkhole has opened up on the grounds of the white house. >> it's opened near the press briefing room. some joked that it's the first lady's escape tunnel that co

matt gutman has the details. >> reporter: the video showed the swat team huddled in the hallway.sense of what they may find. >> breach breach breach. all right. >> reporter: a body camera revealing what they found. >> i think it might be a camera. >> reporter: the officers ginger ly entering the hotel suite of the deadliest mass shooter in u.s. history. the team surveying the scene, those high-powered rifles resting on a chair. 23 guns ultimately found, thousands of rounds of ammunition. by the time officers arrived at the 32nd floor, creeping down the hallway, dripping with sweat, going low behind their shields. >> take a deep breath. >> reporter: paddock was already dead. he shot himself after gunning down 58 innocent people and wounded hundreds at the concert playing out down below. what's most striking about seeing the first three hours of this body camera footage is how much time elapses. we see the officers going floor to floor methodically. we see them breach the wrong rooms and more than six months after the attack, we still don't have a final police report, no timeline a

matt gutman, hawaii. >> incredible. and matt is okay we should mention to you.ted to starting a devastating wildfire faces a massive fine. >> last summer's eagle creek fire took two months to get under control and hundreds of families were forced out of their homes. >> a judge has ordered a 15-year-old who started it to pay $36.6 million in restitution. his attorney called the figure cruel and just unusual. some victims' families say it's not nearly enough. >> nearly $37 million. the judge said it's on par with the costs. it doesn't even amount to the costs. >> wow. get writing that check. >>> in the next half hour, after more than two months, we have a new "american idol." the finale show was part singing, part love connection. there's a lot going on there. >> can't tell who won. but first, we head to asia in the newest plane, 25 hours inside the same plane with me, ekes, i'm so sorry. inside lifestyles of the rich and kendis. ♪ come fly with me so sorry. inside lifestyles of the rich and kendis. ♪ come fly with me ♪ let's fly, let's fly away >> i love the new

here's abc's chief national correspondent matt gutman tonight. >> reporter: the shooting on this california high school campus sent police radios crackling. >> attention palmdale lancaster units respond to highland high school so far, active shooter on scene. >> reporter: 7:05 in the >> reporter: 7:05 in the morning students heading into class. police say there were two suspects arguing and he fired the rifle. >> he had fired the rifle. another 14-year-old student was struck by the gunfire in the arm. >> reporter: a student sitting there in shock. highland high school in palmdale put on lockdown. >> multiple calls on a shooting at highland high. >> she called me and said mom there's a shooter. what do we do? >> reporter: the wounded student driven to the hospital. the suspect just 14 found later at a nearby shopping mall. he was take engineer away in a police cruiser. terrifying parents and students finally reunited hours later. law enforcement officials tell me if it's determined the rifle was left unsecured by that 14-year-old boy's parents. they could be prosecuted. david? >> matt, thank

abc's matt gutman is there. >> reporter: you can see all that lava fountaining here. now, this is fissure 17. some of the fountaining has gone hundreds of feet in the air. what you're seeing over there and those roars are steam and gas flying out of these vents. that stuff is 2,000 degrees. >> wow, impressive there. and people on the big island have been told to stay indoors. officials say this activity could continue for several more days. some 39 homes and buildings have now been destroyed. >>> and police have arrested the ex-boyfriend of a southern california spa owner killed when a package bomb exploded in her hands. steven beal is facing charges related to explosives found in his home, but he has not been charged with the bombing in aliso vio. investigators say ey belve the attack was targeted but they don'have a motive. >>> and a police officer in hartford, connecticut, is in critical condition after she was stabbed in the neck. police say the officer was responding to a tenant/landlord dispute when the tenant put her in a headlock and stabbed her repeatedly. tw

abc's chief national correspondent matt gutman right there tonight, and we should let you know that while close to the scene, he and the team are safe, but the pictures are dramatic. and here's the report he filed earlier. >> reporter: david, that's fissure number 20, and it has been putting out more lava than the rio grande puts out water over the past three days. now, i want to show you something. this cauldron over there is putting out an enormous amount of lava. there's a crack in the earth that it's going down into, and all of this has been flowing steadily into the ocean, and that is what's creating this laze. that's the steam created when the lava hits the cool ocean, also putting off these very dangerous particles that basically are like tiny glass particles. now, there's something else i want to show you, that's how unstable the ground is here. everywhere we go, we hear pops, and that's when the ground essentially opens up. that's methane coming out with minor explosions, making things more complicated for first responders who now also have to deal with brush fires. david. >> jus

matt gutman has more. >> reporter: that ash punching through the clouds.ring the new eruption. >> the one this morning was the biggest we've seen so far in terms of energy and how high up into the atmosphere it got. >> reporter: even higher than mt. everest. ballistic rocks. residents not evacuated warned to shelter in place. and the fissures scarring the landscape roaring with increased intensity. this is fissure 17. some of it has gone hundreds of feet in the air. what you are seeing over there and those roars are steam and gas flying out of these vents. that stuff is 2,000 degrees. this is what the community of leilani estates looked like last may. and now. those fissures delivering a cloud of sulfur dioxide so toxic the national guard had to pull back from several checkpoints and evacuating those like this woman eight months pregnant. even the rain didn't put a damper on clouds of sulfur dioxide that came rolling through here, forcing guardsmen away from their post. it's one of the reasons that respirators are one of the most scarce items. scientists w

here is matt gutman. >> reporter: even after trying to blame ambien, roseanne then retweeting images valerie jarrett. president who celebrated roseanne before -- >> look at roseanne, i called her yesterday. look at her ratings. >> reporter: -- has so far not condemned her racist words. instead, the president tweeting about disney ceo bob iger. iger called jarrett personally to apologize for the racist tweet. and the president tweeting he never called president donald j. trump to apologize for the horrible statements said and made about me on abc. maybe i just didn't get the call. ignoring roseanne's words completely, and when pressed on this, the white house at first complained of a double standard before eventually saying no one is defending roseanne. >> the president's calling out the media bias. no one's defending what she said. >> reporter: roseanne firing off more than 200 tweets since losing her show. even turning on sor co-stars, writing to actor michael fishman who called her tweet reprehensible, you throw me under the bus, nice. and to sara gilbert, she replied, wow, unreal.

abc reporter matt gutman has more. >> reporter: tonight the start of main eruption scientists predicted blackening the sky over kilauea. that stack of ash towering up to 4,000 feet, and tonight new warnings about those fissures. a 20th fissure cracking open the earth and pumping out clouds of sulfur dioxide. officials here declaring a condition red in parts of the big island with gas posing an immediate danger to health. we drove through, some of the roads impassable. these pants haven't been burned. it is some of fumes that have actually killed them over the past ten days of continuous exposure to this hazardous gas. at least five new eruptions since saturday a ratting some 400 residents who stayed. >> shaking your house. >> oh, yeah, every five seconds, boom, boom. >> reporter: barely a half-mile away. there's explosions of gas and rock sending those boulders hundreds of feet in the air. but you can also see the shock waves and the heat just radiating right there. it's just starting to hit the water table triggering an explosive eruption. the ash and gas being spewed out by eres is h

that's matt gutman reporting in hawaii. back here a 3.2 earthquake shook santa clara this afternoon. maybe you felt it. usgs centered the quake about 15 miles east of downtown san jose. but the usgs says it was felt as far away as berkeley. it hit at 2:42 this afternoon and 2:46 a few minutes later. this push alert went out. download the app when you have a moment. it's free, and enable to the push alert so you can be the first to know when important newsbreaks. >>> scientists have combined nasa satellite bfrgs on earth to show us where fresh-water is changing around the world. what they found is the earth's wetland areas are getting wetter and dry areas are getting dryer. agriculture played a key role in gru ground water depletion, particularly in california. southwest california lost 4 gigatons per year. >>> while we're talking about things happening in terms of our weather on our planet it is in the middle of may and it is still snowing. >> fresh powder fell around lunchtime today. the slopes suddenly closed last month a

here's abc reporter matt gutman on the island of hawaii. >> reporter: before dawn this bvatory time lapsepturing that new explosive eruption. >> the one this morning was definitely the one we'beggest we seen so far. >> residents not evacuated warned to shelter in place. and those 20 fissures scarring hawaii's landscape roaring with increased intensity. this is fissure 17. some has gone hundreds of feet into the air. what you're seeing over there and those roars are steam and gas flying out of these vents. that stuff is 2,000 degrees. this is what the community of l lelani estates looked like last may. and now the fissures so toxic the national guard had to pull back from several check points and forced to flee again. >> i don't think it's safe for me and my kid to breathe in these conditions. >> reporter: even the rain this morning didn't put a damper on clouds of sulfur dioxide. it's one of the reasons that respirators are the most scarce and sought after resource on this island right now especially the scientists warning of major eruptions at any time. >>> this fire in red wood city del