zohreen, good morning, once again. >> reporter: good morning, dan. international flights arrive here at l.a.x. every day. well, america is cutting off most travelers from india this coming as covid cases and deaths continue soaring in that country. the u.s. announcing a travel restriction from india on tuesday cutting off entry to most people who travelled there in the last two weeks. now u.s. aid arriving in india as the toll on the health care system grows. >> this is not starting from zero. we were already working but we are ramping up now. >> reporter: india's covid surge nearing 400,000 new cases in a 24-hour period stressing the health care system. overnight one hospital treating covid patients reportedly caught fire killing more than 15. here in the u.s., the biden administration announcing yesterday 100 million americans fully vaccinated. the cdc director saying at this pace the nation could re-open soon. >> i think july 1st would be a hiplace and the five of usay aty all together today is something we were afraid would never happen again. >>

here's abc's zohreen shah. >> reporter: tonight, the urgent search for the suspect who shot and killed 6-year-old aiden laos on a los angeles are highway. aiden's mom driving him to school on the 55 freeway when authorities say her vehicle came under fire in an apparent road-rage incident. >> someone pulled out a gun and shot my little brother in the stomach, and he said, mommy, my tummy hurts. so she went and she picked him up, and he was bleeding on her. >> reporter: his older sister alexis who was not in the car at the time speaking out on her distraught mother's behalf. >> he started turning blue, and that's when the ambulance took him, and that was the last time that my mom saw him alive. >> reporter: officials say the suspect was possibly in a white volkswagen. according to the family, two people were in that vehicle. >> please help us find the people that did this to my little brother. he's only 6, and he was so sweet. >> reporter: and whit, tonight that memorial for aiden is growing behind me as authorities continue their investigation. they say this shooting is unrelated to th

zohreen, what are investigators saying about a possible motive tonight? >> reporter: linsey, at this time, police still investigating why the shooting happened. the governor releasing a statement moments ago calling it devastating, especially on a day when many of us are celebrating the women who made us who we are today. linsey? >> zohreen, thank you. >>> the shutdown of the major fuel pipeline in its third day. officials announcing they're lifting certain rules for truck drivers who transport fuel in an effort to avoid supply shortages. this affects roughly 45% of the gas, diesel, jet fuel, and heating oil on the east coast. the pipeline stretches 5,500 miles, from texas to new jersey. it delivers more than 100 million gallons a day. here's elwyn lopez. >> reporter: tonight, the clock is ticking to get one of the nation's largest pipelines back online to prevent gas prices from jumping. federal agencies, including homeland security and the fbi, on alert after that ransomware attack forced colonial pipeline to shut down its 5,500-mile network, spanning a

here's zohreen shah. >> reporter: tonight, california gubernatorial hopeful caitlyn jenner giving this controversial statement to tmz on trans legislation.oues tolic boys who are trans from playing girls' sports in schools. what's your opinion on that? >> a question of fairness. that's why i oppose biological boys who are trans competing in girls' sports in school. it just isn't fair. and we have to protect girls' sports in our schools. >> reporter: it's a dramatic shift for jenner, a transgender woman and advocate. >> i also want to acknowledge all the young trans are out there, given the chance to play sports as who they really are. >> reporter: her latest comments coming as over 30 stes consider banning trans athletes competing based on identity. governors in seven states have signed bills making it against the law for transgender girls to compete on a public school girls' sports team. lawmakers arguing that transgender girls and women have an unfair advantage. in march 2020, idaho's house bill 500, dubbed the fairness in women's sports act, banned trans girls and women's ability to

abc's zohreen shah is here with much more on that.>> reporter: good morning, dan. according to houston police, the tiger belonged to victor cuevas, the man last seen with it. he denied owning it. remember, it is illegal to own a pet tiger in the city of houston. now police say eventually his wife was the one who turned in the big cat. >> we got him, and he's healthy. >> reporter: this morning, after a week-long frantic search, police say india, the missing houston tiger, is now safe in a houston animal shelter. police releasing this video of the caretaker's wife surrendering him. india was last seen roaming houston's streets seven days ago with victor cuevas. >> the tiger was passed around a little bit, but ultimately they knew where the tiger was at all times. if it wasn't with her, she knew where it was at. >> reporter: his lawyer speaking out overnight, advocating for stronger private ownership laws. >> there's a lot of sense in regulating 600 pounds of raw muscle, even though they may be gentle and kind. if someone were to example

zohreen, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, whit.housands of international travelers arrive here at l.a.x. every day. well, america is about to cut off most travelers from india. the situation there is grim with their health ministry reporting about 3,500 deaths in a 24-hour period, and experts think this is an undercount. the u.s. announcing a travel restriction from india on tuesday cutting off entry to most people who traveled there in the last two weeks. now, u.s. aid arriving in india as the toll on the health care system grows. >> this is not starting from zero. we were already working, but we are ramping up now. >> reporter: india's covid surge nearing 400,000 new cases in a 24-hour period stressing the health care system. overnight one hospital treating covid patients reportedly caught fire killing more than 15. the second such incident in a week. the white house touching upon escalating fears. >> people are worried. no question, people are worried. >> reporter: here in the u.s. the biden administration announcing yesterday 1

abc's zohreen shah is here with more. good morning, zohreen. >> reporter: good morning, eva.now cars are being attacked and while the projectiles are small, they can be deadly. just four days ago in washington state, an 8-year-old boy dying from a projectile incident. now some drivers fearing getting on the freeways. tens of thousands of southern california freeway drivers on high alert as investigators responsible for a terrifying string of either pellet or bb gun shootings. >> by the time you come to a stop say five, ten miles away, you call 911, a chp officer will go to the scene. we don't even have the exact location anymore. it would help if someone pulls over immediately. >> reporter: over 80 since april. most happening along the 91, one of the country's busiest arteries. >> we're looking for you and we ask you to stop before somebody gets seriously injured. >> reporter: eight shootings reported on thursday alone. no shooting resulting in serious injury, but the drivers like taryn campbell said her ford taryn campbell said her ford flex was hit along the 91 freeway last

zohreen, thank you. >>> now to a story of justice delayed but not denied.ric riddick and his family now speaking out. riddick spent nearly three decades behind bars in pennsylvania for a murder he says he did not commit. tonight he's out of prison, but the fight to clear his name is not over. here's abc's zachary kiesch. >> reporter: he served nearly 30 years of a life sentence for a crime he insists he did not commit, but tonight, eric riddick is free. >> free at last, free at last. thank god almighty, my son is free at last. >> reporter: at 22, riddick was convicted of first-degree murder, a verdict based alarmingly on a single eyewitness who testified he saw riddick shoot and kill a man. >> i'm not guilty of this crime, 100%. just me not listening to my mother and my family made me subject to put myself in situations that allowed me to be falsely accused. >> reporter: years later the witness recanting the story, saying he was coerced by philadelphia police. under pennsylvania's statute, riddick's window for appeal had expired. also at trial, riddick's at

here's abc's zohreen shah. >> reporter: tonight an oregon mother warns of the risk when kids imitatents they see on tiktok and get hurt. >> i have parental controls on all her stuff. this still wasn't enough. it still wasn't enough. >> reporter: one of them kim crane's 13-year-old destiny hospitalized with third-degree burns two weeks ago after she apparently saw a tiktok video of a person spraying hair spray onto a bathroom mirror then lighting it on fire and trying to do something similar. >> she screamed my name and opened the bathroom door, and she was -- her body was on fire. >> reporter: it's not the first time reportedly copying tiktok has led to serious injury. the prank seen here called a skull breaker challenge has sometimes caused serious head injuries, and this colorado boy dying in april after a challenge encouraging people to film themselves holding their breath until they black out. >> people say all the time, just watch your kids closely, closer if you have to, like they'll get mad at you, so what. like it's your child's life can change instantly. >> reporter: tiktok

zohreen, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan.s more americans get vaccinated, more are flying. tsa's top official telling me they are shattering pandemic records. he says this shows we're returning to a sense of normalcy. this weekend, a single-day pandemic air travel record. airports like atlanta's there waa line way around th. >> reporter: 1.7 million travelers passing tsa friday compared to 200,000 this time last year. here at l.a.x., some kids flying just to surprise mom. >> so glad you came. love you. >> i could have come back later, but i wanted to be back for mother's day. >> reporter: as acti tsa administrators saying they are significantly ramping up staff. >> between now and the fourth of july, we do expect several hundred thousand more on some of our busiest spaces. really is shaping up to be a very busy summer. >> reporter: as the traveling boom continues, airport vaccine clinics expanding. miami airport joining some us u.s. cities like atlanta monday offering the vaccine. now the focus turning to young people. the fd

zohreen, thank you very much. really appreciate it. >>> we're going to check the weather and rob marciano is in miami beach this morning. robert, good morning to you, sir. >> good morning, dan. a beautiful morning here in miami beach, and we are here to preview the upcoming hurricane season and all the cities that are vulnerable as we sort of were last year with the record-breaking season, so let's start actually with what's happening in new orleans. obviously very prone to hurricanes. they had zeta go through at the end of the season. this is a severe thunderstorm that came through earlier this week and spit up a little tornado and did some damage there. a little bit more inland in goodland, kansas, blowing dust there with winds 70 miles per hour north of wichita, softball-size hail with that severe thunderstorm. the severe weather threat will remain, it looks like, in the central plains. i think after 1:00 to about maybe 9:00, 10:00, is when you'll see it east of denver through the panhandle of texas, damaging w

abc's zohreen shah is here with more on that. zohreen, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, whit. this is a case that gripped the nation. it took weeks to find mollie's body. it took three years to find a verdict, and this morning we have a decision, guilty. >> we, the jury, find the defendant, cristhian bahena rivera, guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree. >> reporter: this morning, a verdict in the long-awaited murder trial of iowa college student mollie tibbetts. jurors finding this man, cristhian bahena rivera, guilty. rivera seen slightly nodding as the verdict was read. the court concluding that rivera was the man who killed the 20-year-old after she went for a jog in brooklyn, iowa, three years ago. the jury foreman speaking out. >> i thought was heart was going to pound through my chest to be honest with you. it was very -- it became very real for me because this is it now. we went through, you know, two weeks of this trial, and it came down to this, so it was very, very, very, very emotional at tha

here's zohreen shah. >> reporter: an oregon mother warns of the risks when kids repeat stunts they seee parent controls and it still wasn't enough. >> reporter: one of them, kim crane's 13 year old destiny, hospitalized with third degree burns two weeks ago after she apparently saw a video of a person spraying hair spray onto a bathroom mirror and lighting it on fire and trying to do something similar. >> she screamed my name and opened the bathroom door and her body was on fire. >> reporter: it's not the first time reportedly copying tiktok has led to serious injury. the skull breaker challenge has sometimes caused serious head injuries, and this boy dying in april after seeing a film showing them how to hold their breath until they black out. >> they get mad, but so what, your child's life can change instantly. >> reporter: the company says they have not heard of the incident. but they have a section dedicated on safety. they often give videos warning labels. zohreen shah, abc news, los angeles. >>> a decade after surviving a near-fatal shooting, former congresswoman gaby giffords is

>> all right, zohreen. the support a trans teen is getting after a vicious attack at school that was caught on camera. the teen hearing from some high profile people now. abc's zachary kiesch has more. >> after that fight i was very scared for my life. >> reporter: this morning there's an outpouring of support flooding in for a south florida sixth grader after this disturbing video. 13-year-old chad sanford who identifies as transgender seen here in this cell phone video, tripped and then slammed to the ground at deerfield beach middle school. >> my head was bleeding and i had a big migraine after that. >> reporter: after the nba's miami heat heard chad's story, they gave her the ultimate vip treatment with free tickets to a game. even participating and winning e going to the justin score bieber concert. >> reporter: stars like beyonce's mom tina knowles weighing in sharing the video and writing on instagram, stop the hate. stop the violence against each other. >> this has been great that i can put out my s

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zohreen shah has more. good morning, zohreen. >> reporter: hey, good morning, michael. last year. well, that high demand causing a lot of delay. for home owners like joel newton wanting to spruce up their space finding an expert was not easy. >> the first six or seven were so busy they wouldn't talk about the project or the bids were high. >> reporter: newton says he was rejected by numerous before they even stepped inside his southern california house and for contractors like chris williams juggling up to 15 projects has become the new normal. >> super, super busy. >> reporter: the demand for construction materials in 2020 surged largely on the backs of diy renovators but now developers are back in the game resulting in even more demand. delayed construction projects last year and now making up for large time purchasing large quantities of building supplies. >> it just keeps going up. >> reporter: president of the national association of the remodeling industry says costs across the board have skyrocketed. >> i tell people, it's an easy 25% more, many times even up to

>> zohreen shah, thank you so much. >>> we want to turn now to the weather. rob marciano following severe weather and storms in several parts of the country over the next few days. rob, what's going on? >> we're still dealing with rainfall in texas, and just outside of houston, this is what it looked like yesterday. in victoria, texas, the last two days they saw seven inches of rain, and yesterday, may 1st alone, five inches just in one day. that broke a daily record. it's also about what victoria averages for the entire month. one month worth of rain yesterday. we're getting off to a fast start. flash flood watches posted for much of southern louisiana from southern mississippi into alabama. heavy rain coming off the gulf of mexico. this is not only a flood threat, but now a severe weather threat today with the potential of seeing damaging winds, large hail and certainly an isolated tornado as we get the heat of the day going here. new orleans, up to tupelo, you'll see that, and a pocket east of denver with a short wave. that will bring in a threat for sever

all right, zohreen shah for us, thank you. that shooting there in southern california is just 1 of more than 7,000 gun deaths in the u.s. so far this year. the numbers rising significantly during the pandemic. janai joins us with more on the increasing violence. janai, good morning. >> reporter: hey, whit, good morning. i'm out here in times square that was the scene of a shooting just a few weekend ago. in an example of a troubling trend, a surge of gun violence around the country. look at this. the total number of deaths by gun violence, not including suicide, you can see a moderate raise from 2018 to 2019, but in 2020, more than 4,000 americans died by gun violence. that's roughly a 25% increase in a single year and already this . obviously that is changing constantly. for example, one of the last mass shootings friday night in minneapolis, and with that alarming rise in gun violence, the impact on innocent children has been devastating. 6-year-old aniya allen was riding in her mom's car in minneapolis, and she was 1 of 3 c

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zohreen shah, abc news los angeles. >>> in the east bay a new class of officers was sworn into the oaklandtment, 23 officers took the oath at yesterday's ceremony, the first since the start of the pandemic. over the last year oakland has seen a dramatic rise in violent crimes, newly appointed police chief lauren armstrong says this is the first academy where they emphasized de-escalation. it is part of the department shift to community policing. >>> education is one of the foundations of building a better bay area no matter whether it is remote or in person. the controversy throughout this pandemic seeming to follow sf ust at every turn. san francisco unified only recently brought students back to class and now at least one state assembly member says the district should not get $12 million in extra funding which was meant as an incentive to reopen. abc7 news education reporter leanne melendez explains. the plan to push school districts to reopen was meant to be simple, have kids in the lower grades back in the classroom and fully reopen one entire middle or high school grade by may 15. ass