>> pierre thomas live in washington. thank you, pierre. >>> we are learning more tonight about a deadly shooting at a fire station in california. a firefighter shot and killed. another wounded. emergency crews then rushing to a home up in flames ten miles away. and just moments ago, authorities on what they found there, revealing who the shooter was. abc's kaylee hartung tonight on the scene in l.a. county. >> reporter: tonight, a firefighter is dead after allegedly being shot by one of his own, the latest workplace shooting coming to a fiery end in southern california. >> all stations, we have an active shooter situation at fire station 81. >> reporter: authorities say an offduty l.a. county firefighter shot and killed a 44-year-old firefighter and critically wounded a fire captain. >> he was a brave, committed, loyal member of our department for over 20 years. >> reporter: a victim flown to the hospital. >> firefighter with multiple gunshot wounds, trying to get him into the hospital and get him the care he needs immedi

but he admitted his company was not as prepared as it should have been, david. >> pierre thomas with us from washington tonight. pierre, thank you. >>> we turn next here to vice president kamala harris concluding her high stakes visit to guatemala and mexico, taking on border issues and the root causes of some of what the u.s. is seeing on the u.s. border with mexico. the vice president meeting today with mexico's president, insisting the u.s. must focus on the root causes of migration. the vice president telling reporters this is not a quick fix. and she was pressed again about when she'll go to the u.s. border with mexico. >> if this were easy, it would have been handled a long time ago. and there is no question that it is complex, in fact. and that we have to navigate the complexities of it with a goal of solving it. listen, i've been to the border before, i will go again. but when i'm in guatemala dealing with root causes, i think we should have a conversation about what's going on in guatemala. >> vice president harris stressing this will not produce immediate returns but pledgin

some hiring their own professional hackers to hunt for weaknesses. >> all right, pierre thomas, great to have you in new york, by the way. thank you, pierre. >>> there was one more note on the fbi director. director wray was pressed today about the attack on the capitol, on the case against those who did it. he was also asked about former president trump. wray saying he was, quote, not aware of any investigation into former president trump's role in the riot, but that there are literally hundreds of investigations, he said, into that day ongoing. >> this is a very ongoing investigation and there's a lot more to come and i would expect to see more charges, some of them may be more serious changes. >> director wray saying the investigation has yielded 500 arrests and more to come. >>> now to the economy, to your money tonight. the prices you're paying at the grocery store, for gas, for clothes, even for used cars and what this all signals now about the economy here in the u.s. consumer prices up 5% last month from a year ago. that's the biggest jump since the recession in 2008. so, the

pierre thomas has late reporting tonight. pierre? >> reporter: david t, the investigation involves whether the business paid -- ranging from cars and apartments to private school tuition. tonight sources are telling us an indictment could come on the trump organization as soon as next week, but an attorney for the trump organization is saying it's all completely outrageous, david. >> pierre thomas tonight. thank you. >>> when we come back, the dangerous heat wave set to hit the u.s. this weekend. rob marciano standing by. >>> and the department of the justice suing georgia. like theyo rinse off dirty dishes like these before loading them in the dish washer. but new cascade platinum changes all that. new cascade platinum, with 50% more cleaning power! it dissolves fast to start cleaning sooner, releasing the soaking power of dawn. then cascade's food-seeking enzymes latch on and break down food into particles so small they can flow right down the drain. and it's powerful enough for the quick-wash cycle! new cascade platinum with 50% m

here now, pierre thomas. >> thanks for joining us. i'm pierre thomas.ountry is no longer just a plot from a movie script. as events from the past few weeks have shown, it's a very real possibility and the attack on the colonial pipeline may have been the wakeup call. tonight we go inside america's cybersecurity command center into the front lines with the hackers for hire. in the dead of night, under the cover of darkness, these men begin their mission. >> four cameras sitting right there. >> don't walk in front of that window. >> i'm plugging in a wireless antenna so that i can start to snoop on their traffic. >> reporter: their target, this minnesota security firm. more specifically, their computers, their data, the lifeblood of their business. >> we just kicked the device off the wi-fi. now we might be able to get a password. >> reporter: brian and jonathan are cyber mercenaries. hackers for hire. >> three, two, one -- >> reporter: known as a red team, hired by private companies and governments to hack them, before the bad guys ever get the chance. >

requesting from jbs or whether the company will pay millions like colonial pipeline did. >> and pierre thomas with us tonight, as well. and pierre, we saw it with the colonial pipeline, the almost immediate impact on gas prices. the question tonight, how soon before we could see this affect meat prices in the u.s.? >> reporter: david, right now, between mother's day and the fourth of july is the peak time for beef consumption. and financial experts say the length of this shutdown will determine how much prices might go up and whether there are any shortages. david? >> pierre thomaswa linon. thanyo shooting at a fire station in california. a firefighter shot and killed. another wounded. emergency crews then rushing to a home up in sflflames ten mile away. authorities revealing what they found there, and who the shooter was. abc's kaylee hartung tonight on the scene in l.a. county. >> reporter: tonight, a firefighter is dead after allegedly being shot by one of his own, the latest workplace shooting coming to a fiery end in southern california. >> all stations, we have an active shooter situati

pierre thomas standing by tonight. >>> the remarkable honor, the pulitzer prize board announcing a special citation to darnella frazier. the power of an image to bring justice and change. >>> and off cape cod tonight, the lobster diver who says he was attacked by a humpback whale. trapped in its mouth for at least 20 seconds. >>> good evening, and it's great to have you with us as we near the end of another week together here. we begin tonight with president biden on the world stage, the g-7 summit, the first summit since the pandemic. the leaders of the world's democracies pledging action tonight. first the u.s. revealing 500 million doses of the vaccine for poorer nations. tonight, the rest of the g-7 pledging to match that now. now 1 billion doses of the pfizer vaccine for countries in need. and the royal welcome tonight for the bidens and queen elizabeth on that stage, what she said to fellow world leaders. her trademark wit making them laugh. and the image we haven't seen in two years. the g-. world leaders socially distanced posing for a photo. prime minster's office releasing this v

i want to bring in pierre thomas. pierre, when american presidents have met with russian leaders the talk has been about nuclear arms control. first and foremost the cyberattacks on not only the u.s. government, but now the cyberattacks on our infrastructure. so many americans saw it themselves. they saw it at the gas pumps and heard about it with the u.s. meat supplies. they heard about the hospitals being attacked took. >> reporter: david, it's an immediate threat. it's an ongoing threat. it's been intensified. all these threats appear to be i am coming from russia. law enforce ment officials are watching very closely. what will the united states do if the attacks intensify? right now they're understanding these attacks are hitting people where they live. gas stations shut down, the meat supply in question. law enforcement want to know how can biden calibrate this without escalating this. a lot of law enforcement officials are telling me it could get more difficult if the russians make it more intensifying. how can b

here's abc's chief justice correspondent pierre thomas. >> there is not a moment that goes by when police riding behind me where i don't fear being pulled over. >> when you're drive down a street, you know, those blue and red cherries come on behind you, you all of a sudden get a tingle. your heart starts to race. even when you know you've done nothing. >> i will light you up! get out! now! >> wow. >> get out of the car! >> for failure to signal? >> adrenaline pumping. pulse quickening. a routine traffic stop makes most of us anxious. but for too many black americans, such routine encounters with police can also mean the difference between life and death. walter scott. samuel debose. philando castille. for a number of those whose loved ones have been killed, the fear and anger at police, that some who have sworn to protect are instead viewed as danger. >> they are here to kill us because we are black. >> my nephew philando was murdered by a police officer in minnesota. seeing my sister's son, my nephew, shot and killed in a car by a police officer. it was devastating. >> philando castille

during an exclusive interview with abc's pierre thomas, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas warned about the growing threat facing the power grid, the food supply and other critical infrastructure. >> we're not talking about people with conscience. we're talking about criminals who want to make money illegally or who want to do harm independent of a profit motive. >> mayorkas is urging businesses to create fire walls and backup computer systems and train workers to avoid scam emails. >>> a new warning for teenagers about a highly infectious variant of the coronavirus. the delta variant fueled a surge in india and is now the dominant strain in the uk spreading rapidly to 12 to 20-year-olds. it's an urgent reason for young people to get vaccinated. >> as long as we still have these areas where people are not only undervaccinated but re-opening, it's a good setup for that to happen. the pfizer vaccine itself still has an 8% efficacy against that delta variant. >> meanwhile, millions of vaccine doses are set to expire this month because of falling demand across the country. >>>

pierre thomas has the latest. good morning, pierre. >> reporter: george, good morning.more than 300 criminal syndicates operating in more than 100 countries. it allowed the fbi and other law enforcement agencies to know what the bad guys were planning. they seized more than $48 million in cash and cryptocurrency, hundreds of firearms and cocaine and other drugs. the gangs were allegedly involved in executions and fbi may have saved more than 100 lives going creative and sneaky. robin? >>> now to the potential breakthrough in the battle against alzheimer's. the fda approving a new treatment for the condition for the first time in nearly 20 years. eva pilgrim is back with those details. good morning again, eva. >> reporter: good morning, robin. yeah, the fda conditionally approving the first new treatment for alzheimer's in nearly two decades. biogen's aducanumab that goes by the name aduhelm. it's a monthly infusion for early stage alzheimer's. its goal to slow cogny five decline. the first treatment that targets how the disease works, not just the symptoms. despite the

pierre thomas here with the breaking headline. >>> not giving up. crews in florida removing 3 million pounds of debris as they search for survivors in that deadly building collapse, as we learn more harrowing stories of survival. new details now emerging about the building's condition before it crashed to the ground. >>> sentencing day. "smallville" star allison mack set to learn her fate in just hours for her role in that notorious sex cult. >> i'd say she was the most charismatic co-leader that anyone could ask for. >> our exclusive with one of her victims, the daughter of "dynasty" star catherine oxenberg. >>> split-second survival. the swimmer bitten by a shark in california revealing the moment he came face-to-face with the massive predator. what he did next to save his own life. ♪ >>> and good morning from michigan, from the lighthouses on the lake to the breathtaking dunes that look like they're straight out of "star wars." get ready to "rise & shine" with "gma." ♪ ♪ >>> we certainly do say good morning, america, with michael strahan and whit

an official told pierre thomas that the public should not panic but remain alert and ready to pass on law enforcement. with have more on this story at 7:00 on good morning america. >> thank you. >>> developing news. we are standing by for an update at the top of the hour on the lava fire that's burning near mount shasta. it has tripled in size since it started over the weekend. now it's only 19% contained right now and about 8000 people have had to be evacuated because of it. in a town hall meeting monday, the fire manager of the shasta trinity national forest apologized to evacuees. he said his crews initially left thinking they'd extinguished it on friday only to find that it had reignited an hour later. >>> governor newsom is going to be where the lava fire is burning. he's meeting virtually with president biden, vice president harris and other governors to talk about the wildfire season, drought and unprecedented heat. >>> you can follow fire statewide with our exclusive wildfire tracker. it's updated with the latest information from cal fire. check in to see where the fires are s

pierre thomas has the latest. good morning, pierre. >> reporter: good morning, george.hat revealed how shockingly ill-prepared some are in deal week threats and we got more details about just how devastating that hack was. the ceo of colonial pipeline describing a moment of crisis when he apparently worried the hack could lead to an environmental disaster. >> if there was 1% chance that that system was compromised it was worth shutting the pipeline system down. >> reporter: the concern that the recent hack of the company's computers didn't just impact administrative functions but potentially the flow of fuel and the massive pipeline itself. the decision to shut it all down done within an hour. millions of gallons of fuel halted. soon thousands of gas stations shutting down. people panicking racing to buy gas. >> i've never seen anything like this. >> reporter: the ceo describing an impossible decision, he would pay the $4.4 million in ransom to criminals associated with the russia-based hacking group known as darkside. >> it was the hardest decision i made in my 39 year

chief justice correspondent pierre thomas got an inside look at how it works. >> so we just kicked the device off the wi-fi. from that we might be able to get a password to get on their wi-fi network. >> reporter: brian and jonathan are cybermercenaries, hackers for hire known as a red team. good guys hired by private companies and governments to hack them before the bad guys get the chance. >> ransomware alone, our economy has suffered more than $350 million in ransomware payments this year. >> reporter: may 7th, colonial pipeline, the largest fuel conduit in the u.s. discovers they can no longer access critical data. it's called ransomware and it's used as a weapon all over the world by underground cybercartels, illegal hackers breaching into systems. >> there are two types of companies out there. those that know that they've been hacked and those that don't yet know. >> reporter: days later colonial announces they restarted operations, but we would soon learn they paid a $4.4 million ransom in bitcoin. red-teaming has become a key tool in the global fight ag