>> victor oquendo from missouri tonight. victor, thank you. >>> that severe weather in branson, part of the same system now threatening tornadoes tonight. 40 million americans are on alert at this hour. this tornado reported just a short time ago in indiana. it comes after a devastating outbreak in iowa. 27 reported tornadoes as we came on the air last night. crossing the road and a cloud of debris. look inside the ef-3 tornado that devastated downtown marshalltown. 144-mile-an-hour winds right there. just stunning. in pella, 143-mile-an-hour winds shattering cars and building parts twisted together there. abc's marcus moore tonight in the storm zone just as millions more now brace for tornadoes and storms tonight. >> reporter: tonight severe weather on the move. this apparent tornado touching down west of louisville. multiple homes damaged. the same system spawning dozens of reported twisters thursday. >> right over our house, and then there is a full-fledged tornado over there north. >> reporter: the national weather servic

here's victor oquendo. >> reporter: a florida sheriff's body cam rolling.olusia county sheriff says the woman noticed a baby in the back seat of a car, it was 93 degrees outside. at first she thought it was a doll. but after realizing it was a living, breathing baby, she opens the unlocked car and calls police. mom arri24es later immediately breaking down. there have been 25 child hot car deaths so far this year, thankfully, this 8 month old is not among them. that mom, 33-year-old megan burgess, said she thought she dropped all of her kids off at her father's house. she was arrested and charged with child neglect. victor oquendo, abc news, miami. >> the 8 month old baby boy is said to be in good health and good spirits. a scary scenario. >> a tough scenario as a parent. glad that other person came by. >> yeah. >> had the heads up to take action. >>> when we come back, see what the cleveland browns are up to off the field. >> we're headed to comic-con, "the skinny" is next. to comic-con, "the skinny" is next. when your blanket's freshness fades before the b

she was arrested and charged with child neglect, david. >> victor oquendo tonight. thank you, victor. >>> there is much more ahead on "world news tonight" this thursday. authorities are now calling an attack of killer bees in this country. the woman who was hospitalized tonight, stung more than 200 times and this evening, the new warning. >>> also, the dramatic showdown. a woman accused of using a baby as a human shield. police then moving in. >>> and more of that surprise moment on stage. bruce springsteen suddenly appearing with billy joel, and there was a reason for this. what they revealed on stage when we come back. man 1: this is my body of proof. woman 1: proof of less joint pain... woman 2: ...and clearer skin. woman 3: this is my body of proof. man 2: proof that i can fight psoriatic arthritis... woman 4: ...with humira. woman 5: humira targets and blocks a specific source of inflammation that contributes to both joint and skin symptoms. it's proven to help relieve pain, stop further irreversible joint damage, humira is the #1 prescribed biologic for psoria

victor oquendo has details. >> in the first look, in ocean city maryland this lifeguard sprinting toave two girls caught in a rip current tuesday. one of more than 140 rescues just that day as hurricane chris triggers alerts up and down the east coast. >> it's really rough. you can't get out too far. >> strongly encouraged not to swim. >> been out here since 59 km or so. it was huge this morning. it's down a little bit. that current is still ripping. >> we went on the water with miami beach lifeguard brittany austin. >> how quickly can you get swept up in a current? >> you can go from knee deep water at low tide and step into a deep rip current. as soon as you take your feet off the bottom, it can sweep you up. >> we'll tell you how to stay safe at the beach at 7:00 a.m. i'm victor oquendo, miami beach. >>> a colorado man captured incredible video of a lightning strike. take a look. >> wow. >> you can see the lightning strike the top of the tree and arc down the trunk. small branches break off from the tree, they go flying. no one was hurt besides the tree. >> right. that is pretty i

our detectives also seized two firearms. >> reporter: victor oquendo, abc news, miami beach. >> this is a wild story. the fbi and the atf now investigating, and federal charges are likely to be added to the attempted arson and the attempted murder charges that stolper is currently facing. as the police say, classic case of see something, say something. >>> we want to move on to the nearly three dozen airline passengers sent to the hospital after a terrifying flight. >> as you can see, oxygen masks were deployed when the plane took a sudden plunge. some of those passengers now describing the harrowing experience, and abc's janai norman has more. >> reporter: panic in the air as this flight bound for croatia quickly turned into a nightmare for the 189 passengers on board. >> not fun. >> reporter: the chaos unfolding nearly two hours after takeoff from ireland. >> the plane just started to go downwards. >> reporter: flightradar24.com showing ryanair flight fr7312 apparently losing cabin pressure rapidly descending more than 28,000 feet in less than ten minutes. video from inside the cab

abc's victor oquendo. >> reporter: tonight, haunting words of a survivor, recalling the tragic final moments of much of her family and how she struggled to survive. >> i couldn't see anybody. i couldn't hear anything. i could hear screams. i just -- i felt like i was out there on her own. >> reporter: tia coleman speaking from her hospital bed. was on an annual vacation with ten other family members when disaster struck. >> finally, i said, lord, just let me die. let me die. i can't keep drowning. i just can't keep drowning. i fell in. and then i just let go. >> reporter: coleman says when the waters on that missouri lake became choppy, people grew nervous. >> everybody started getting like, hey, this is a little too much. >> reporter: the duck tour boat tossed around by strong winds caused by a severe thunderstorm. finally capsizing and sinking. >> the last thing i heard my sister-in-law yell, grab the baby. >> reporter: coleman losing her husband and three children. the youngest, just a year old. her 13-year-old nephew donovan, her only relative on board to survive. her family, 9 o

victor oquendo, abc news, miami beach. >>> a minnesota man is facing vehicular homicide.. he's also accused of leaving the scene of the accident. police chief suspects the truck drive knew the boulder had fallen out. >>> the kansas city water slide where a 10 year old boy died two years ago will be torn down. demolition will begin after the season ends on labor day. caleb schwab died after the raft he was on went airborne. >>> you see a pair of launch towers used in 1957 were demolished yesterday. each was nearly 200 feet high. the towers launched nasa's first three mars rovers. they were last used in 2011. a private company has leased the site to launch a lunar lander next year. >>> serena williams keeps adding to her legacy. >> just ten months after suffering life-threatening pulmonary embolism after giving birth, she is in her tenth wimbledon singles final. she beat julia gergis and faces angelique kerber for the title tomorrow. >>> president trump is apparently thinking of making changes to the country's most famous jumbo jet? >> yes, according to a report on axios, h

here's abc's victor oquendo for us. >> reporter: tonight, rip currents turning d rescuing hundreds ofwimmers at packed beaches up and down the east coast. in volusia county, florida, a 61-year-old man from michigan died after being swept away by a rip current wednesday. how quickly can you get swept up in one of those currents? >> it can be instant. you can go from standing in knee deep water at low tide, step into a deep rip current and as soon as you take your feet off the bottom, it can just sweep you out. >> reporter: that's what happened to blake spataro, off st. simons island in georgia. >> a 19-year-old male is missing for 30 minutes. they hear him yelling for help but can't see him. >> i didn't want to die out there. i was talking to god the entire night. >> reporter: the teen fighting the current for ten grueling hours in the dark. he says he did his best to stay calm, as the coast guard and his father desperately searched. >> i was screaming. i was hollering. i was looking. >> reporter: spataro eventually reached the shore the following morning, where he was able to get help

here's abc's victor oquendo. >> reporter: a florida sheriff's body camera rolling as he arrives on scene of a tragedy avoided they say thanks to this woman. the volusia county sheriff says jessica kaiser noticed a baby in a car seat in the back of this nissan in a strip mall parking lot. it was 93 degrees outside. >> it's hot. yeah i hear, ya. >> reporter: at first she thought it was a doll, but after realizing it was a living, breathing baby she opens the unlocked car and calls police. mom arrives, 24 minutes later. >> is he okay? >> he's okay. >> he's fine. >> reporter: immediately breaking down. >> yes, he's okay. i know, you're welcome. >> i work in the emergency department, i'm a nurse and like, i hear these stories. i have four kids and i always say, like, how could that possibly ever happen? >> it happens. >> reporter: there have been 25 hot car deaths this year according to kidsandcars.org thankfully this 8-month-old is not among them. david, that mom, 33-year-old 33d megan burgess said she thought she dropped all of her kids off at her father's house, and she was arrested and ch

abc's victor oquendo tonight. >> reporter: that's sarah webb, sobbing in the back of a squad car in roswellgeorgia, arrested for reckless driving. what she doesn't know at the time is that officers decided to take her into custody because of a coin flip. >> a head, r tail. >> okay. >> reporter: minutes earlier, webb acknowledging on police bodycam she was speeding. >> do you know how fast you were just going, ma'am? >> i'm so sorry. he patrol car officer courtney brown and her partner discuss that they didn't even record her speed before deciding whether to arrest or release webb by using a coin flip app. >> this is tail right? >> yeah, so release? >> 23. >> reporter: but they decide to arrest her. >> we got -- let me write this down. too fast for conditions. >> is it reckless? >> yeah, you can do reckless. >> do me a favor and step out of the vehicle for me. >> reporter: all of the charges against webb were dropped. both officers involved are on administrative leave an internal affairs investigation is underway. david. >> victor, thank you. >>> next tonight, a police impersonator now under

abc's victor oquendo from branson. >> reporter: tonight investigators studying these harrowing images. the tour boat tossed around a missouri lake moments before it sinks. witnesses on a nearby dinner cruise helpless as they watch the boat struggle to stay afloat under crushing waves. >> oh my gosh. >> is he overheating? >> reporter: 31 people onboard a duck boat on table rock lake when 63-mile-an-hour winds whipped calm water into into six feet waves. >> his nose is under the water. >> reporter: passengers on another duck boat posting video from their trip appearing relaxed. but you can see the weather turn. and the crew of that boat scrambling, making its way to shore. the first boat unable stay afloat, sinking beneath the waves. >> we need a water rescue. will be north of the showboat. will be a duck that has capsized. >> reporter: 40 minutes before that call, the the weather service sending out a warning of severe thunderstorms. you can see those storms rolling in on the radar. but the area under the threat of storms since the morning. >> we're trying to dive for some more missing

victor oquendo, abc news, branson, missouri. >>> a southern california congressman says it's not okaym the idea by president trump. >> i served in active duty in the u.s. military. for me to watch the u.s. commander in chief go on to foreign soil and disrespect american intelligence agencies and attack u.s. institutions, while standing next to vladimir putin, was disgraceful. it was an embarrassment. >> congressman lu says an invitation by president trump to putin is, quote, completely not acceptable. president trump's lawyers are waiving attorney/client privilege regarding the secret recorded conversations he had with former long-time attorney michael cohen. the president is now lashing out publicly at cohen for the first time. here's abc news reporter brian clark with the latest on that recorded conversation. >> reporter: president trump taking to twitter saturday morning, lashing out at his former lawyer, michael cohen. inconceivable that the government would break intowyer morning, almost unheard a lawyer would tape a client, totally unheard of, and perhaps illegal. the good news

abc's victor oquendo has more. the incident claimed 17 lives. good morning, victor. >> reporter: good morning, jessica. investigators want to find out when the decision was made to head out on the water since a severe thunderstorm warning was already in effect before they headed out on to the lake. they already interviewed a number of people and divers have recovered something from the bottom of the lake that could answer a lot of questions. this morning, a critical piece of evidence from the deadly duck boat accident in branson, missouri, that killed 17 people is in the hands of investigators. 80 feet below the surface, the ntsb says they recovered a recorder from the sunken boat. video likely showing what happened. >> the real objective is to find out what information they had on board when they made the decision to go out. t way to washington, d.c. to be dried out and analyzed. they'll be checking to see if life jackets were used. >> we think it will show any instructions he might have given to the passengers. >> he said above you are your lif

water where the victims, many of them children, one just a year old, lost their lives, and abc's victor oquendo is in branson where a survivor who lost nine members of her family is talking about what happened when she was tossed into the water. victor, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, paula. that survivor was riding the duck boat with her family, 11 relatives in total. nine of them died when that boat sank. she was critically injured but is now describing what it was like out here on this lake from her hospital bed. >> i said, lord, just let me die, let me die, i said i can't -- i can't keep drowning, i just can't keep drowning. and that's how i felt, and then i just let go. >> reporter: tia coleman survived the duck boat tragedy in branson, missouri, but nine members of her family including her sister-in-law died. >> she was there with her 13-year-old, her soon-to-be 3-year-old. i was there with my husband and our three children, who were 9, 7 and 1. my in-laws were there, my mother-in-law and my father-in-law and the uncle who lives with them. >> reporter: her 13-year-old nephew her

abc's victor oquendo has the story, and victor, rip currents are a major problem this summer. >> reporter good morning, george. at least 36 people have been killed by rip currents so far this year. hundreds more have been rescued and those numbers, they can be even higher if not for that group of strangers that banded together to save lives. watch the life-saving rescue. beachgoers in emerald isle, north carolina linking arms forming a long human chain stretching out into the crashing waves and deadly rip currents to save swimmers who were pulled out to sea. look again as strangers come together successfully pulling people to shore. >> public beach access, water rescue. >> reporter: the fire department says it was a busy day of water rescues. a 41-year-old man drowning after being torn away by a rip current. the warning, do not ignore the red flag warnings at the beach. the town of emerald isle tweeting, please don't put yourself, others and our emergency responders at risk unnecessarily. so far this year at least 36 people have been killed by rip currents. hundreds more rescued. >> how q

abc's victor oquendo has the story. >> reporter: this morning a frightening reminder of the power ofurrents. >> i tried to put up the fight of my life and i couldn't -- i couldn't win. >> reporter: 19-year-old blake spataro was standing in waiste deep water when a rip current swept him into the ocean. >> dispatch all water units. advising a 19-year-old male is missing for 30 minutes and hear him yelling for help but can't see him. >> reporter: for ten hours as the coast guard launched a massive search, blake struggled to survive adrift in the ocean. >> i saw lights and trees for miles and it felt so, so cruel just to be that far out from civilization when it's right in front of you. >> i was up and down the beach all night screaming, hollering. >> reporter: finally coming ashore at this golf course. >> how quickly can you get swept up in one of those currents? >> it can be instant. >> reporter: this aerial view shows how easy it can be. to get swept away. the waves breaking on shore like tentacles. scientists illustrating it by using green dye. now, if you're trying to stop a rip cur