. >> tonight her family speaking out exclusively to our paula faris. >> he tortured her. he absolutely tortured her. >> the signs they say they had about domestic violence. >>> plus, world whale war. high drama on the high seas. whaling in iceland despite an international ban and the controversial anti-whaling activists making waves. >> they're not iceland's whales, they're the world's whales. >> the global outrage over the appetite for the endangered species. >>> and -- >> oh, hello. >> beak performance, big bird's big announcement. the character's original puppeteer taking flight after 50 years of sunny days. ♪ can you tell me how to get how to get to sesame street ♪ >> first the "nightline 5." >> take prilosec otc, take control of heartburn. so you don't have to stash antacids here, here, or here. kick your antacid habit. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. >>> it's the jcpenney mystery sale. you've got to go. your chance to peel and reveal a mystery coupon for an extra 30%, 40%, 50% off. jcpenney, style and value for all. >> number one in just 60 seconds. >>> go

here's paula faris. >> reporter: this photo from an african trophy hunt has sparked outrage across the country, even within the hunting community. blake fisher, the idaho fish and e-mail with these photos to his family and colleagues. a slain giraffe, a leopard and this entire family of baboons propped up in poses, including a baby in the front. fisher bragging, "i shot a whole family of baboons." tonight, tonight, fisher resigned, after groups demanding he resign pointing out idaho's hunting manual says to refrain from taking graphic photographs of the kill. >> to round them up in a big group hug with a big smile on his face with a little baby leaning back with his mom. i'm sorry, that's just over the top. >> reporter: fisher tells an idaho newspaper, "i didn't do anything illegal. i didn't do anything unethical. i didn't do anything immoral." >> there's a lot of things that are legal, but they're unethical and they're wrong. >> reporter: those calling for fisher to resign point out the way he described killing that entire family of baboons. saying it was unsportsmanlike and undermine

cruz tells our paula faris the two have patched things up. president trump has three other stops on the campaign trail this week. since he's taken office, he's held 36 campaign rallies. compare that to president obama, who held just 14 at the same period of time. tara palmeri, abc news, the white house. >>> in the meantime, the trump administration is reportedly considering rolling back legal protections for transgender people. a draft proposal obtained by "the new york times" would greatly narrow the definition of gender. the revised rule would define it as a biological, unchangeable condition determined by the genitalia at birth and would be either male or female. if adopted the new definition would all but end civil rights protections for about 1.5 million transgender americans. >>> president trump says saudi arabia has been using deception and lies when it comes to the final moments of journalist jamal khashoggi's life. the saudis are acknowledging that "the washington post" columnist died inside their consulate in istanbul, but a saudi o

so, paula faris with the state of the race, two weeks to go. he's one-on-one tonight with both candidates. >> reporter: president trump heading off to texas tonight to help his one time nemesis, senator ted cruz. >> lyin' ted. lies. oh, he lies. >> reporter: their battle was bitter, so today, our jon karl asked -- >> is he no longer lyin' ted? >> to me, he's not lyin' ted anymore. he's beautiful ted. i call him texas ted. >> reporter: we traveled to texas to ask the senator about his complicated relationship with the president. you have said that he is utterly amoral, that he's a serial philanderer, a pathological liar. are those things not true anymore? >> look, i have no interest in revisiting the comments of 2016. >> you've moved on? >> i've got a job to do, and my job is forward-looking. >> is he your friend? is he your foe? how do you describe the relationship? >> he's the president. >> reporter: cruz is banking on trump to rev up the republican base, because his rival, congressman beto o'rourke, with his cheering crowds, is energizing dem

. >> that's abc's paula faris catching up with cruz before the rally. meanwhile, with the midterm elections two weeks from today, president trump now says he's planning to offer a new 10% tax cut for the middle class. he's not providing many details yet, and he acknowledges any vote in congress would have to come after the election. >>> well, police north of new york city say an explosive device has been found outside the home of the liberal activist george soros. it was found in his mailbox. the bomb squad safely detonated the device. soros is a billionaire who has funded liberal candidates and causes. the fbi is on the case. >>> the president is sharpening his attacks on the caravan of migrants heading toward the u.s. which has now snowballed into more than 7,000 people. he's calling the caravan an assault on our country claiming people from the middle east are among the crowd but not offering any proof of that. abc's kenneth moton has more from washington, d.c. good morning, kenneth. >> reporter: good morning, kendis. president trump rallied in front

cruz tells paula faris they've patched things up. and he has three more stops on the campaign trail. since he's taken office, he's held 36 campaign rallies. that's compared to the 14 former president obama held during the same period of time. >> tara, thank you. >>> and moving on to the floor collapse at a campus party. the floor giving way during a clemson homecoming celebration. more than two dozen injured. here's erielle reshef. >> reporter: tonight, dozens recovering after that shocking moment. a clubhouse floor collapsing, sending people plummeting into the basement. watch here. partygoers dancing at the off-campus apartment complex near clemson university, when the crowd is suddenly swallowed. the celebration of the school's homecoming win over north carolina state turning to chaos as people clawed their way out of this gaping hole. this man seen desperately clinging to a floorboard. 12:30 a.m. sunday, the calls for help pouring in. >> unknown how many other people. the whole complex has collapsed on them. >> reporter: leroy pe

get it in the bank. >> reporter: paula as far as -- faris, abc news. >> thanks to paula for that. >>>ned by nate silver from 538 here to break down his team's latest forecast. how do you see the race in texas? >> cruz is up by 6 or 7 points. we give him an 80% chance of winning. texas is a tricky state to poll. beto would rely on hispanic voters, young voters. if every eligible voter in texas turned out, it could be a close race. you could see him getting 47%, 48%. he needs 50 to win. >> we'll be seeing that number 80 a lot. let's look at the senate forecast. we'll put it up. what do we have? 2-9 chance democrats win control. 7-9 chance republicans keep control. 79%. >> yeah. it's not a coincidence it's similar to the texas forecast. it's hard to find a clear path for democrats right now. they have to win texas, tennessee or north dakota. >> all behind right now. >> they're all behind in those races. >> if you have a good turn out, they're not so far behind. the 20% is a probability. the senate is a race by race driven forecast. the races that looked like toss ups before, democrats ha

here is abc's paula faris. >> reporter: raw and heartbroken -- >> i miss her. family of lauren phelps speaking out for the first time since her brutal murder last september. >> i have blood all over me. there is a bloody knife on the bed and i think i did it. i can't believe this. >> reporter: that's matthew phelps, lauren's husband, who made the 911 call. earlier this month he pled guilty in court, looking much different with long hair and full beard. admitting to brutally stabbing her and blaming it all on cold medicine. >> what medicine did you take? >> i took coricidin. i know it can make you feel good. a lot of times i can't sleep at night. >> he blamed it on cough medicine. did you ever buy that? >> never. >> he planned the whole thing from the get-go, in my opinion, right from day one until the end. >> reporter: the family says the marriage of ten months was troubled with financial issues and lauren was the victim of emotional and verbal abuse. they believe lauren, who was a youth group leader at church, had had enough and was ready to leave him. >> so y

. >> tonight her family speaking out exclusively to our paula faris. >> he tortured her.g in iceland despite an international ban and the controversial anti-whaling activists making waves. >> they're not iceland's whales, they're the world's whales. >> the global outrage over the appetite for the endangered species. >>> and -- >>

on your show this morning you sent my former co-host, known around here as the defector, paula faris to texas where she sat down with with both of the candidates of this closely watched senate race and the democratic challenger, beto o'rourke, who is running against ted cruz, has resurrected this d tru used against ted cruz in the primaries in 2016. beto o'rourke called cruz lying ted in one of the debates. paula asked the candidates about that. let's take a listen. >> he called you lying ted? >> he started insulting and attacking. it's clear he and his team are rattled. they've decided, all right, launch the dogs, release the hounds as they would say on "the simpsons." that's fine. we'll keep focused on issues and substance. >> is that a hail mary desperation? >> so we went through one debate where he not just mischaracterized my positions but outright lied about them, said i want to legalize heroin, take your guns away, want to do things that i've never said. we can either spend the rest of the debate listening to him lie about me or i can point out what i think everybody needs to

paula faris is here with that story. good morning, paula. >> reporter: good morning.ct didn't even make it inside the house. he was apparently scared off when daniels turned on a house light. >> kit? >> yes, michael. >> just keep driving. >> reporter: he was the voice behind kit, that crime fighting car voice in "knight rider" and for seven seasons on the show "boy meets world" william daniels played mr. feeny, who was always there for his students with a life lesson to save the day. >> to me a real hero is someone who does the right thing when the right thing isn't the easy thing to do. >> reporter: well, mr. feeny is still saving the day. the 91-year-old scaring off a burglar trying to break into the san fernando valley home he shares with his wife and former "st. elsewhere" co-star -- >> you look cute with a bib. class 2007. >> reporter: actress bonnie bartlett. the couple now with a lighthearted take on that close call spoke exclusively to abc news overnight. >> i struggled with an intruder. took him to the ground. i beat him up and he ran away with bruises all ov

. >> reporter: for "good morning america," paula faris, abc news, new york. >> and our thanks to paula>> okay, jen, how is this technique different from traditional ivf and the risk and benefits? >> similar to traditional ivf and anyone can do this. not just same-sex couples but to clarify, one woman holds some cells for a few days just inside the body. then the other woman carries the embryo for nine months in her uterus, so benefits, it's slightly less expensive than traditional ivf. it has shown some good pregnancy rates but it's not totally ready for primetime and need more research and this device has been out for awhile but has been improved. there is a theory being in a woman's more natural body environment can be better but pretty interesting. >> this is your wheelhouse. what is the emotional significance? >> i think that's the key. for some people, some couple, some women, the drive to be physically involved in a pregnancy is massive and powerful and this now shows us that we have the technology to make it happen. >> all right. jen, thanks so much. >> you bet. >> michael. >>>

she is apologizing now and paula faris here with the story. , paula. >> good morning, everyone. it all started with a conversation on her morning show about the halloween costume police but after her comments drew fierce backlash, she says she listened to people with opposing views on the matter, including some of her friends and colleagues, and it has caused her to rethink her own views. overnight, nbc's megyn kelly apologizing for this moment on her show tuesday morning. >> what is racist because you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface on halloween or a black person who puts on whiteface for halloween. like, okay, when i was a kid that was okay as long as you were dressing up like as a character. >> reporter: kelly and her panelists were discussing halloween costumes that go too far citing this costume of a real housewife who's dressed as diana ross and it ruffled many feathers last year. >> she made her skin look darker than it really is, and people said that was racist and i don't know. i felt like who doesn't

phil will join us in a moment after paula faris brings us the background of this high-profile case. ood morning, paula. >> good morning. it has been a mystery what happened in the moments before their car plunged off that cliff. alexandria duval now speaking out telling dr. phil she had no idea her twin sister had died until days after that accident. it was the murder trial that gripped the nation, alexandria duval, one-half of the so-called twins of yoga -- >> feel the outer rim of your back foot. >> reporter: -- accused of intentionally murdering her twin sister by deliberately driving them off this cliff in hawaii in 2016. witnesses said the sisters were screaming and fighting as the car careened towards the cliff's edge. and now after being found not guilty -- >> whatever happened happened. she wasn't responsible. >> reporter: duval who has always maintained her innocence and that the crash was an accident is breaking her silence. >> the whole thing was like a tragic, horrible, awful situation. >> reporter: speaking out for the first time to dr. phil. >> tell me what happened the

abc's paula faris is here with more on this story. aula. >> reporter: good morning, amy. according to this report, cristiano ronaldo allegedly tried to buy this woman's silence. and he is calling this whole story, and i quote, fake news. >> cristiano ronaldo. >> reporter: he is one of the most famous soccer players in the world, worth $400 million, for his moves on the field and fronting brands like nike. underwear companies and tech giants. but this morning, cristiano ronaldo is speaking out after being accused of sexual assault. >> no, no, no, no, no. what they said today, fake -- fake news. >> reporter: in a new complaint filed in nevada, 34-year-old kathryn mayorga seen in pictures with the soccer superstar, says ronaldo assaulted her in 2009. she claims that after meeting her in the palms hotel, the megastar invited her and a group of people to his penthouse suite to enjoy the view of the strip. she said he invited her to the hot tub and while she was changing, he pulled her to a bedroom and assaulted her. she said she screamed no

paula faris is here with that. > reporter: after many calls to resign, they are coming from within the hunting community, including several idaho game commissioners. they say it goes against everything taught in hunter education. trophy hunting is usually legal, but it's always highly controversial. [ chanting ] and this morning, the target is idaho fish and game commissioner blake fischer after sharing these trophy photos in an e-mail he shared with more than 100 friends and colleagues. abc news obtained that e-mail in which he shows himself and his wife posing with at least 14 animals they say they killed in namibia last month. here he is posing with a giraffe writing, look at me and the rifle compared to it. it is all i can do to hold the head up. and then this picture with a leopard saying, i shot a leopard. super cool, super lucky. but it is this photo of him smiling, holding up the bodies of a family of baboons, including a baby right there in the front, that's raising the most ire writing, i shot a whole fami

now her family is speaking out for the first time and paula faris sat down with them and joins us noward to hearing from them. good morning, paula. >> good morning, robin. it is such a sad story. the family says they noticed a difference in him. he stopped spending time with them and he became withdrawn and depressed. they worried that he might do something to himself. they never considered he may take her life. but this morning, they're saying he fooled them all and they believe he was planning to kill her all along. >> reporter: raw and heartbroken -- >> i miss her. i wish i could hold her. >> reporter: the family of lauren phelps speaking out for the first time since her brutal murder last september. >> i have blood all over me and there's a bloody knife on the bed and i think i did it. i can't believe i did this. >> reporter: that's matthew phelps, lauren's husband, who made the 911 call. earlier this month he pled guilty in court looking much different with long hair and full beard, admitting to brutally stabbing her and blaming it all on cold medicine. >> what medicine did you t

and in a separate incident a college player who got hit is now in critical condition and paula faris g, paula. >> reporter: so sad. these incidents happened over the weekend. the high school player reportedly said he couldn't feel his body before he passed out. he would succumb to his brain injuries two days later. this morning, devastating brain injuries to two football players sparking fear and concern after both players initially seemed okay. >> he is an outstanding young man on the football field, i mean, he is just a fighter. >> reporter: high school football player dylan thomas is being remembered this morning as a star on and off the field. >> how difficult, coach, is it going to be for the rest of the season? >> it's going to be extremely difficult. it's going to be difficult right now, it's going to be -- i mean, it's just hour to hour. i just -- it's extremely hard. >> reporter: this atlanta-area community is in mourning after thomas died following a brain injury that he suffered on the field. the 17-year-old suffered a bad hit in the second quarter of the game when he first

paula faris with the details. >> it is certainly disturbing. year and it is an especially troubling illness because there is no cure, there's no vaccine and doctors don't know how it's spread. this morning, more cause for concern as three suspected new cases of that rare polio-like illness were reported in pittsburgh. the disorder is called acute flaccid myelitis or afm. it looks like a cold or the flu but quickly turns into polio-like symptoms. those symptoms can include fever, arm or leg weakness, walking strangely, paralysis and problems speaking. so far this year clusters have been detected in 16 states. 38 cases total. that's already surpassing last year's total. >> your typical 2-year-old before this was running around, telling knock-knock jokes. >> it attacked julia's body, her spinal cord. >> reporter: these illinois parents say their 2-year-old daughter julia is recovering after treatment. but 20-year-old hanna mcneil of colorado is learning to walk again after weakness in her lower extremities worsened landing her in the hospital. she

we'll speak with sara gilbert and john goodman but first, paula faris has a look at her exit and where> reporter: tonight is the night when abc's new sitcom, "the conners," makes its debut. >> where do we plug it in? >> yeah, yeah. >> reporter: the "roseanne" spin-off sans roseanne will answer what happened to the family matriarch? roseanne lost her show after her tweet, which compared valerie jarrett, president obama's former senior adviser, to an ape. >> pick a seat partner. point for my team. a whole hoping to bringlaughsrm roseanne who led the show for a decade. [ applause ] >>> joining us now are sara gilbert and john goodman. two of the stars of the new spin-off, "the conners." come on, welcome, you guys. a little setup here. so have a seat. a little quick turnaround to see these guys like a nascar crew in here put that together for us. >> it's an impressive crew. >> very impressive. this is impressive what you guys are doing here with the show, "the conners." cannot wait to see it tonight. there are so many reviews from critics, which have all been positive, and everyone seemed