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judges song contest. that's followed by jeopardy! and wheel of fortune starting at seven. then it's back to american idol at eight, followed by the interrogation tapes, a special edition of 2020 at ten. and of course, stay tuned for abc seven news at 11:00. so special programing here. thank you so much for watching. getting answers. we'll be here every weekday at 3:00, answering questions with experts from around the bay area. world news tonight with david muir is next, and i'll see you back here at 4:00. bye-bye tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. multiple officers shot and killed near charlotte. the images coming in now. at least eight officers shot. behave learned tonight three u.s. marshals have opinion killed. a suspect barricading himself in a home. s.w.a.t. teams on the scene. a police sniper in a bedroom of
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a neighboring home. schools on lockdown. pierre thomas standing by with late reporting on the shooter inside. the protests on campuses across the u.s. in new york city tonight, demonstrators defying columbia's ultimatum to leave the encampment or risk suspension. officers clashing with protesters at ut-austin. arrests tonight at the university of georgia. and what about students who just want to finish their school year and hold a graduation? meanwhile, tonight, is this the best chance for a cease-fire in quite some time to get the hostages out? tonight, secretary of state antony blinken calling the proposal from israel extraordinarily generous. so, will hamas accept? tonight, bracing for new severe storms and possible tornadoes, with more than 135 reported tornadoes in just 72 hours. this train hit by a twister. multiple cars ripped off the tracks. a confirmed ef-4 in marietta, oklahoma. winds up to 170 miles per hour.
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ginger zee standing by tonight with these new storms now coming. the mother who vanished on a bike ride. the unsolved murder. tonight, after charges against her husband were dropped, what the autopsy now reveals. animal tranquilizer found in her bones. and the evidence that had been found in the family's dryer. will there be new charges? tonight, the rochester, new york, d.a. under fire for per rating an officer who pulled her over for speeding. tonight what she says in that video to the officer, and some calls now that she step down from her job. tonight, the emergency slide that fell off a delta passenger jet in midair. word coming in it's now been found. the new concern about bird flu in the u.s., after being found in some dairy cows. the usda tonight now saying it will test ground beef. and the first bird flu found in a dolphin. in new york city, a sold out crowd. billy joel performing one of his biggest hits. and the moment w, who was in tht
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crowd, soon on the video screen. you'll see it. good evening and it's great to start another week with all of you at home. we do begin tonight with that breaking news from charlotte, north carolina. at least eight officers shot, three members of a u.s. marshals task force have been killed. all while serving a warrant in a suburban neighborhood. the officers coming under fire for inside the home. a suspect barricading himself inside, a massive law enforcement response. you see right there, including a s.w.a.t. team, armored vehicles. a tense standoff lasting four hours. police telling neighbors to shelter in place. a police sniper in a bedroom of a neighboring home. roads from the scene to the hospital were actually shut down so that the ambulances could get through with the officers. abc's chief justice correspondent pierre thomas leading us off with late reporting tonight. >> it's the whole force coming. >> reporter: tonight, multiple police officers shot and killed near charlotte, north carolina,
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after a gunman they were trying to arrest opens fire. >> he just said four cops got shot. >> yeah, they did. >> shots fired at officers. possibly one down. correction, two down. subject's barricaded himself. >> reporter: helicopters sure vafling. >> reporter: helicopters surveilling. schools put on lockdown. >> we were at the track and we could hear a lot of gunshots. >> reporter: s.w.a.t. teams storming the area. armed police, guns drawn, descending on the scene. neighbors describing the mayhem as police took over their house. >> they used one of our bedrooms to set up a u.s. marshals sniper in, just to get a high point. >> reporter: the violent exchange shocking the community, forcing local stations to break into normally scheduled programing. >> all hands on deck on this incredibly sad day. >> reporter: the attack was unusually violent. eight officers shot. three of them killed. among them, a deputy u.s. marshal. abc news has learned the man they were attempting to arrest was allegedly wanted on multiple charges.
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>> three people lost their lives today. keep your prayers, keep your faith, make sure that these officers who have families have people to reach out and hold them up. >> reporter: david, tonight, the u.s. marshals are in mourning over those wounded and killed. one official telling me, quote, it's devastating. a terrible day. david? >> david: horrific scene. pierre, thank you. we tern now to the growing campus protests over the war in gaza. tonight, here in new york, university officials ordering students to leave their encampment by 2:00 p.m. or face immediate us pex. they did not leave. so, what happens next here? and the arrests on campuses now across this nation. abc's stephanie ramos at columbia again tonight. >> reporter: tonight, defiance at columbia university. pro-palestinian protesters refusing to dismantle their tents, despite a warning to leave this campus lawn or face suspension.
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>> we will not be moved by intimidation tactics. we will not be moved unless by force. >> free, free the hostages. >> reporter: outside columbia's gate, nypd officers taking this woman into police custody. but after more than 100 arrests here ten days ago, the school says calling the nypd back inside campus would only enflame the situation. columbia's president pleading with protesters to clear the way for graduation. pointing out many seniors messed out on high school celebratios due to the pandemic. but organizers insist this is a bigger issue. >> there's no universities in gaza. there are thousands of students who have been killed who they don't have the luxury to have commencement. >> reporter: columbia says it will not die vest from israel, as protesters have demanded here, and more than 60 other colleges across the country with
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protests against the war in gaza. >> it's important for us as u.s. citizens to stand up and let our voices be heard about it, because it's our tax dollars that are going to funding this thing. >> reporter: for the second time in a week, arrests at the university of texas in austin. >> let them go! let them go! >> reporter: state police moving in, as protesters refuse to disperse. several arrested at the university of georgia, too. officers taking some of the encampment down. back here at columbia university, david, you can hear and see some of those demonstrators still out here outside the columbia gates. university officials already suspending student protesters who refuse to leave. and as of right now, those talks, david, are at a standstill. >> david: stephanie, thank you for that. meantime, there is intense new pressure tonight on israel and hamas to agree to a cease-fire and a new deal to release hostages still being held by hamas amid these new videos of
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hostages released. tonight, israel has made a new offer. secretary of state antony blinken there in the region, calling this proposal extraordinarily generous. so, will a has accept, amid these images they put out of the hostages they still have? tom soufi burridge in israel tonight. >> reporter: just days after hamas released new video showing 64-year-old american israeli hostage keith siegel breaking down in tears, renewed hope tonight as talks to bring him and other hostages home move into a critical phase. siegel's daughter demanding a deal. >> stop the talking and start the action. >> reporter: his wife aviva released in november, after 51 days in hamas captivity with her husband, filled with fear as each day passes. >> i know how i was treated with keith and how much help i needed from keith, and -- i'm not there to give him the help. >> reporter: secretary of state antony blinken meeting with arab leaders in the region, calling a new cease-fire proposal
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presented to hamas "extraordinarily generous." >> the only thing standing between the people of gaza and a cease-fire is hamas. they have to decide and they have to decide quickly. >> reporter: that proposal, a 40-day truce combined with the release of potentially thousands of palestinian prisoners, according to a top british official. israel dropping its previous demand of the release 40 hostages. now willing to accept 33, according to "the new york times." a senior hamas official calling it progress, but not a done deal. it comes as israeli airstrikes kill more than 20 people in the southern gaza city of rafah, according to local officials. in an hour-long phone call, president biden warning israeli prime minister netanyahu not to launch a ground invasion into rafah, where israel says the last remaining hamas battalions are hiding. and david, egypt saying hamas' ne gauche yafting team has left
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k cairo and will submit a deal. david? >> david: everyone being very tentative on this, but hopeful indeed. tom, thank you. back here in the u.s. tonight, and to the new severe storms ys set to move in. this new round of severe weather on the way from south dakota, all the way down to texas tomorrow and then again on wednesday. it all comes after more than 135 reported tornadoes in the past 72 hours already. this one right here near lincoln, nebraska, the tornado slamming into a train, derailing several cars. and then the widespread damage tonight, an ef-4 with winds up to 170 miles an hour. this is marietta, oklahoma. so, ginger zee is standing by with these new storms set to hit tomorrow and wednesday. and abc's mola lenghi on the scene of devastation, he's in sulfur, oklahoma, tonight. >> reporter: tonight, families and first responders from nebraska to oklahoma combing through devastated neighborhoods after a relentless tornado outbreak pummeled the plains.
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more than 135 tornadoes reported in the last 72 hours. >> should we get away from the windows? >> reporter: this incredible video shows the conductor and crew ducking for cover as their train took a direct hit from a massive twister in the suburbs of lincoln, nebraska. >> right over us. >> reporter: at least 31 cars derailing. >> we have to get pulled over. oh -- >> reporter: and new video shows the heart-stopping moment an ef-4 twister crossed i-35 near marietta, oklahoma, saturday night. watch again as that massive object barely stormchasers' car. the storms killing at least five people, including a 4-month-old baby girl found in a field some 200 yards away from her destroyed home in holdenville, oklahoma. this town here almost unrecognizable. homes, small businesses, mom and pop shops, reduced to rubble. the tornado here rated ef-3, winds at least 165 miles an hour.
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kimberly and joyce mensch's furniture store of 24 years, one of many businesses completely destroyed. >> we've raised our kids here. we've raised our grandkids here. it's our home. it's our love. it's our passion. i mean, it's everything. >> reporter: well, david, as folks pick up the pieces, tonight, they're bracing themselves for yet another round of storms, potentially launching all of this debris that you see here into the air, essentially creating unguided missiles with some of this stuff, as even more tornadoes could rip through these communities on wednesday, david. >> david: that is always such a concern, that the debris gets whipped up in the storms that follow. mola, thank you. let's get to ginger zee, because unfortunately, ginger, this same region could get hit all over again? >> reporter: yes. david, the same area and that is just not enough time to recover, let alone even breathe, after something like that. so, we'll get to those risks, but also, you have to note, oklahoma, for example, it's been nearly eight years since they've seen a tornado of that
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magnitude. wichita tomorrow, kansas city, des moines, omaha, all in the risk. looks like it starts in the afternoon. goes through the evening hours, but then on wednesday, that threat is later. it starts later and it goes later, into the early morning hours of the panhandle of texas, western oklahoma, wichita included. david? >> david: ginger zee, thank you. now to the case that made national headlines. the unsolved murder. tonight, after charges against her husband were dropped, what the autopsy now reveals. animal tranquilizer found in her bones. here's erielle reshef. >> reporter: tonight, that bombshell toxicology report raising new questions in the unsolved murder case of colorado mom suzanne morphew -- ruling her death a homicide. an autopsy revealing several substances consistent with an animal tranquilizer fluid were found in her bones, noting, "these drugs are marketed as a compounded injectable chemical immobilizer for wildlife." suzanne morphew mysteriously
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vanished on mother's day of 2020 while allegedly on a bike ride. her husband, barry morphew, initially charged with first-degree murder and evidence tampering. in his arrest affidavit from 2021, investigators stating a needle cap for a tranquilizer dart was found "in the dryer" inside bedsheets. in his defense, barry explained he shot "a deer with a tranquilizer dart" and disposed "of the tranquilizer solution." all charges against him were dropped just before trial. he and his daughters, macy and mallory, speaking exclusively to abc news last summer. these charges were dropped without prejudice, which means if authorities feel like there's more evidence, they could charge you again. do you live with fear of that? >> well, i was innocent the first time they arrested me, so i'm sure it's possible. but i don't have anything to worry about. i've done nothing wrong. >> reporter: in september 2023, just months after that interview, authorities discovered suzanne's remains in
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a shallow grave 45 miles south of the family home. did you have anything to do with the disappearance of your wife? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: david, it has been almost a year since that interview with the family. and we reached back out to them today to see what they make of that discovery of animal tranquilizer in suzanne's bones. they tell us through their attorney they are skeptical about the integrity of this investigation. meanwhile, prosecutors have told us in the past that they are not ruling out future charges against suzanne's husband, barry. david? >> david: you'll continue to follow the case. erie erielle, thank you. tonight, in rochester, new york, the d.a. issuing an apology, after police video shows her pberating an officer that pulled here over for speeding. here's will reeve. >> reporter: tonight, calls for an upstate new york district attorney to step down. >> i'm the d.a. i was going 55, coming home from work. >> 55 in a 35! >> i don't really care. >> reporter: under fire for berating an officer during a traffic stop, captured on police body camera.
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>> can you stay over here, ma'am? >> no, i will not. >> this is a legal traffic stop. >> reporter: sandra doorley, the monroe county d.a. whose jurisdiction includes rochester, refused to stop after being caught speeding 20 miles over the limit, pulling into her garage. >> get out of my [ bleep ] house. >> reporter: calling the local police chief before confronting the officer who tried to pull her over. >> i'm doing my job. you say you're a d.a.? >> i am the d.a. let me get you my badge. >> reporter: and flashing her credentials -- >> you know what? if you give me a traffic ticket, that's fine. i'm the one proprosecutes it, okay? just go ahead and do it. >> reporter: doorley apologizing for her behavior, saying she had no intention of using her position to receive a benefit. now, governor kathy hochul asking for an investigation, saying doorley has "undermined her ability to hold others accountable for violating the law." doorley said she pleaded guilty to speeding and paid the fine, and has asked another d.a. to review the incident. david? >> david: will reeve tonight. thank you. when we come back here, news on that emergency slide that
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101st sold out show. the packed crowd singing to "uptown girl," and up on the big screen, christie brinkley. ♪ uptown girl ♪ >> david: who inspired the song. they married and had a daughter. and you'll remember that 1983 music video, the two dancing together. ♪ uptown girl ♪ >> david: they would separate in the '90s, but decades later, christie brinkley right there, dancing to that song. ♪ looking so fine ♪ >> david: the whole crowd seeing the moment. and then, their daughter, alexa ray, taking the stage for a duet with her father. ♪ say good-bye to hollywood ♪ ♪ say good-bye my baby ♪ >> david: tonight, christie brinkley sharing these images, writing, "thanks for singing us
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a song. you got us feeling all right." ♪ uptown girl ♪ >> david: the original uptown girl, cheering on billy joel, 40 years later. ♪ uptown girl ♪ ♪ my uptown girl ♪ >> david: connection still there. billy joel and the uptown girl. i'll see you tomorrow night. good night. these repulsive scare tactics mean nothing compared to the deaths of over 34,000 palestinians in palestine. >> it does feel like they're trying to shut us down, but they're scared to do anything because they know that we're going to fight back from stanford to columbia, protests against the war in gaza continue on college campuses.
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>> but for many, the clock is ticking. good afternoon. >> i'm kristen sze and i'm dionne lim. these protests have been going on for more than a week now, and today the standoff between protesters and officials at columbia university reached a boiling point. in texas, police moved in to break up protests at ut in austin. >> here in california, students at more colleges started their protest movements. today, we begin our coverage with abc seven news reporter ryan curry, who's been following the story at san francisco state. free, free, free palestine, free palestine. >> what's happening around the country is now happening in san francisco, and we just want to be part of that, their strength in numbers and strength and solidarity. >> so we think it's important that we get our voices heard. >> students are putting up tents on the quad in the center of campus. this is the latest university to set up a pro-palestinian encampment, but their demands are similar to students from other universities . >> to ask the csu system to divest from the hundreds of millions of dollars that they