Quality now in the world. Smoke stretching from New York City to philadelphia to washington, d. C. As far south now as georgia. Smoke from hundreds of canadians wildfires blanketing the u. S. , pushed in like a Conveyor Belt tonight the system driving all of this with millions of americans including residents of New York City now being told to stay indoors. Sporting events canceled tonight. The smoke delaying flights at major airports. The white house today pressed on the situation, calling it another alarming example of the Climate Crisis. Tonight, the very real health risks and how long this system is expected to stay in place. Trevor ault reporting and rob marciano timing this out. Meantime the race for the white house tonight. Mike pence officially running anime right out of the gate taking aim at his former boss. Arguing donald trump should never be president again. Rachel scott in iowa. Meantime, the Special Counsel investigation into former president trump. News coming tonight. One of trumps close as compounds appearing before a grand jury. Pierre thomas with late reporting. The High School Graduation ceremony erupting in deadly gunfire. Families running from the ceremony. Tonight the story of those who were killed. The insured, and the 19yearold suspect now charged with murder. They were in ukraine tonight, the urgent evacuations now underway after the explosion involving that major dam. News tonight on the Nuclear Power plant. Tom soufi burridge in ukraine. Tonight, Pope Francis Emerging from his three hour surgery on his abdomen, and what weve learned about his condition. Marcus moore at the vatican for us. Here in the u. S. , the case of the young mother shot and killed through her neighbors door. Calls for the neighbor to be arrested and tonight that woman is now under arrest. One of the greatest Soccer Players in the history of the game has now decided to come to america. He will not play here. And we pay tribute tonight when american pianist who sold millions of albums. Youll know his music. Land we have also lost a phineas olympian who broke records. Announcer from abc news World Headquarters in new york, this is World News Tonight. With david muir. David good evening and its great to have you with us here on wednesday night we know millions of you are watching tonight and doors and trying to escape this toxic air outside. In fact 115 million americans across 16 states tonight under hazardous air warnings and alerts. All this from the canadian wildfires. The system locked in place bringing toxic smoke down into the u. S. Like a Conveyor Belt. Tonight here in New York City, the mayor and are urging everyone stay inside if you can. The images are stunning. Before and after. This was before, the earth cam webcam at the stop of the Empire State Building looking towards brooklyn this is the view tonight, the citys air quality today the index that measures this, the worse in the world now. Limited visibility affecting flights into new york. This Plane Landing at laguardia today. Ground stops for a time and all airports the new york area. Philadelphia, washington, d. C. , too. Newarks famous landmarks nearly invisible to the haze. Look at this tonight. He can barely see the Statue Of Liberty there. The Chrysler Building with the orange sky behind it. Outside Grand Central station a man wearing a mask to protect against the toxic air. In fact summoning our Wearing Masks compare Yankee Stadium is up to tonight. Major League Baseball has postponed games in philadelphia. Look at the map tonight, over the next 24 hours the smoke will continue to drift slowly down to the northeast. The i95 corridor for days. The deepest red is the most concerning. The red area is considered unhealthy through the darkest purple in marin there on the map labeled hazardous. Thats at the highest concern tonight. The white house pressed on the situation calling us another alarming example of the Climate Crisis. Rob marciano timing this out, when does the system locked in place finally shipped. Abcs trevor ault leading us out here from new york. Reporter tonight, New York City skyline looking a lot like mars, as the massive, ominous plume of Welfare Smoke pours over the border. Millions of americans are feeling its effects. From New York City to philadelphia, d. C. , and as far south as North Carolina and georgia. Officials now warning families to stay indoors even if theyre healthy. Everybody, i dont care if you are 15, 55, 85, everybody should be avoiding outdoor activities. Reporter the images are stunning. The sun shrouded as it rose above manhattan this morning. Tuesdays yankees game, Stadium Lights Illuminating that the case. Late today officials postponing tonights games in new york and philadelphia. This time lapse from earth cam showing conditions growing even worse through the day. Lower manhattan blanketed in orange. New york city is now registering as the worst air quality of any major city in the world. The air quality index which is scaled from 1 to 500 with 150 deemed unhealthy, this afternoon and why ct topped 400. By comparison, delhi, india, was around 160, shanghai, china, was around 125. The hazardous air here extending update to cities like syracuse, so many once again donning the same masks theyve worn through the pandemic. This could kill us. This could literally kill us. These are very, very fine bits of matter that can get inhaled very deep into her lung tissue. Reporter newarks governor calling this an emergency crisis. New york citys mayor urging the entire city to stay indoors. This is not the data train for a marathon or to do an outside event with your children. Reporter the effects of breathing the smoke toxic particulars continuously are comparable to smoking up to a half a pack of cigarettes or more. And Emergency Rooms worried about the commutative impact from days of dangerous air now preparing for potential patients potential patients. The more exposure folks have, the more likely it is that theyll be sick. Reporter like the low visibility even delaying flights in and out of New York City area airports at one point the average flight to laguardia delayed nearly two hours. More than 6 million acres have already burned in whats shaping up to be canadas worst fire season on record. At the white house today pressed on the situation. It is yet another alarming example of the ways in which the Climate Crisis is disturbing our lives and our communities. Reporter With Hundreds Of Fire still burning out of control, that smoke will just keep coming. And david, we just heard from New York Citys mayor just moments ago. He reiterated the importance of trying to stay indoors and said if you have to go out, its a good idea to have a mask. We mentioned that air quality index, the 1 to 500 scale, the mayor revealed this afternoon New York City topped out at 484. David buried david thats just incredible. Trevor on the team, come on back inside. Thank you for that, trevor. Thats it right a senior meteorologist rob marciano of course timing this out for us in the system appears to be stuck in place for days. Rob yeah, thats the problem, david. These are difficult to protect as it is. We typically need a big system to clear things that we are just not getting it so we still have these alerts that are up for 16 states. There you see it. These are issued daily so they will probably reupped tomorrow. Heres the blocking pattern you mention, the omega block, looks like the greek letter omega. Its a tough one to break down and we headed for days. We are going to have it for a couple more days on the floor on the front side of that brings that smoke down from canada. So this is our smoke simulation. The red dots is the ground measurements of unhealthy, very unhealthy, or hazardous air in places like hartford, New York City, scranton, syracuse and back through philly and probably d. C. Tomorrow. You see the flow kind of bring things down i95 tomorrow in the morning our Nations Capital could be shrouded. The backside of this continues to bring things down on friday for places like pittsburgh and dayton, ohio. A lot of this smoke in spots, david, at least well be with us to the weekend. David all this is fascinating and alarming, rob. In the meantime, i want to go back to the actual fires in canada driving all this and there isnt even a drought in canada where these fires are already burning . Which of course is even more concerning that were dealing with it so early in the season. Not even with a drought. Rob yeah, well, weve had some heat the past two weeks in this early in the weve got some fuel so it hasnt helped much and gently Climate Change with the extra more of the contracting link wildfires thing amplified by that. Theres also some surveys that claimed that his blocking patterns are exacerbated by Climate Change as well. What we also know for a fact is that 50 of the people in canada 50 of the fires in canada are started by people. That number is even higher here in the states. That is a very bad combination. For a huge chunk of north america. David yeah. We all have to be extremely careful in these times. Rob marciano, thank you for that tonight. In the meantime, we move on to the other news in the race for the white house. Former Vice President mike pence is officially running into the he wasted no time taking aim at his former boss. Arguing that donald trump should never be president again. Rachel scott and i want tonight. Please welcome mike pence. Reporter former Vice President mike pence formally launching his 2024 campaign in iowa, Zeroing In On Donald Trumps actions on january 6 and delivering his strongest criticism yet of his former boss. President trump also demanded that i choose between him and the constitution. Now voters will be faced with the same choice. I chose the constitution. And i always will. Reporter its the first time in more than 80 years that a former Vice President is challenging the president he served under. Pence, who was once known for his deep loyalty to trump, now says hes unfit to serve. Anyone who puts themselves over the constitution should never be president of the United States. And anyone who asks someone else to put them over the constitution should never be president of the United States again. Reporter the republican field is only growing larger. North dakota governor doug burgum also jumping into they. Im officially announcing im running for the president of the United States of america. Reporter 12 candidates now in the race, trump is still the clear front runner. There are some in there that i dont know why they are running. Quite honestly. I love diversity, period. I think that the cream is going to rise to the top. Reporter former new Jersey Governor Chris Christie announce his second bid for the white house in new hampshire. A former advisor and friend to trump, now making the case against him. The person i am talking about who is obsessed with the mirror, who never admits a mistake, who never admits a fault, and who always find someone else and Something Else to blame for whatever goes wrong but finds every reason to take credit for anything that goes right. Is donald trump. David here goes the race. Rachel joins us live for myla where mike pence announced his campaign, the republican field now up to 12 candidates. You dont need me to tell you that rachel but what is the talk within republican circles with the field already this large because we all know the size of the field was a dynamic that help donald trump leading up to 2016. Reporter exactly, david. Many say such a crowded field back in 2016 helped donald trump emergency front runner in that race and that it could help him once again. Some of those long shot candidates have a lot of work to do to close the gap or even make the Debate Stage Periods David rachel scott traveline country, live from iowa tonight. Thank you. Theres news in the Special Counsel investigation into former president trump. We have learned of another one of trumps closest confidant appearing before a grand jury. Lets get right to abcs Chief Justice correspondent Pierre Thomas. Pierre, who was questioned and we know anything about the line of questioning from federal prosecutors . Reporter a close ally of trump reluctantly appearing before a grand jury in miami as the Special Counsels investigation into his handling of classified documents enters the final stretch. Prosecutors calling taylor boot which who was one of trump boss for super pacs to testify about what trump did with those documents and how he responded to the governments efforts to get them back. After leaving the court, he blasted the investigation is bogus and deeply troubling in an effort to get trump but his testimony comes just 24 hours after he learned former Chief Of Staff mark meadows also testified as part of the Special Counsel investigation. David, the Special Counsel aggressively tried to talk to those closest to trump. David Pierre Thomas tracking all of this very closely for us. Pierre, thank you. We are going to turn out to the High School Graduation surmounted the turn deadly in richmond, virginia. Families were just leaving the graduation when gunshots then broke out, sending them running in fear. Tonight hear the stories of those were killed and now the 19yearold suspect charged with murder. Abcs faith abubey in richmond. Reporter these Graduation Cheers interrupted by gunfire. The harder unfolding after a pack High School Event in richmond, virginia, stepfather and son shot dead. 36 Road Renzo Smith an 18yearold shawn jackson, he just walked to the stage at graduation, murder and his cap and gown. I didnt know sean but i shook his hand and wished him congratulations about 20 minutes before he died. Reporter tonight please have the alleged gunman in custody. 19yearold ameri tyjohn pollard, now charged with two counts of seconddegree murder. Authorities say pollard targeted jackson, the two involved in an unspecified yearlong dispute and after exchanging words outside the theater, police say the suspect got a gun from his car, came back and open fire. Essentially was chaos for the first several minutes after this event. Reporter five innocent people also shot and wounded in a 9yearold girl hit by a car in the cast. Police say shes jacksons little sister. Stephanie rizzi was at the graduation and saw the young man, shawn jackson, taking his last few breaths. I could see his face. First of all, i cant erase that image from my mind. I think of my own sons. Reporter tonight, this community is in mourning, jacksons aunt shaking with tears streaming down her face, telling us this was a senseless act of violence. What are you going to miss about them the most . Just them, period. [crying] just hugging them, talking to them. We cant do that anymore. We cant. Reporter that family understandably devastated, they say they wish all of this was just a bad dream come in the meantime tonight Authorities Say more charges to be filed against the suspected shooter. David. David just awful. Faith abubey tonight. Faith, thank you. We turn out to the war in ukraine. Tonight the urgent evaluations now underway after the major dam was destroyed and what we are now learning about europes largest Nuclear Power plant of course inside ukraine. Abcs Tom Soufi Burridge from ukraine again tonight. Floodwater still rising and tonight reports that the extremf communities in southern ukraine. Water continuing to gush through the now ruptured dam which was blown up. The facility is russian controlled, but both sides blaming the other for the blast. Under the threat of shelling and snipers, Ukrainian Rescue teams and boats were racing to reach thousands from flooded frontline areas. Peoples pets taken to safety too. Some agricultural areas swamped, others now cut off from their water supply. With the dams vast reservoir draining. We are well upriver from the dam and you can see how much the water has receded. To the south of here, the river effectively become the frontline. Ukraine you controlling the west bank and russia the east including the Nuclear Plant and the devastated dam. The watercooled Nuclear Reactor is stable for now but an ecological disaster unfolding tonight with dead and dying Fish Littering the landscape, as water levels drop upriver from the dam. David, reports tonight that ukraine is pushing its offensive in the east, claiming its recapturing more ground, even as the disaster from the ruptured dam here in the south continues to unfold. David. Its be been a just and credible pictures there. Tom soufi burridge. Tom, thinking. Natural tonight pope francis has emerged from a three hour surgery on his abdomen. Abcs marcus moore on the popes condition tonight. Tonight pope francis out of surgery after a three hour long operation on his abdomen. Following the surgery the pope was said to be in good spirits and even joking with his surgeon. Hes fine and hes awake. Reporter the Holy See Press Office stating the operation have become necessary to correct an abdominal hernia causing painful and worsening intestinal blockage. Because because what that hernia caused by scars from previous operations. The 86yearold Pontiff Scene this morning in his weekly general audience showing no signs of the surgery to come. Arriving o in the pope mobile, walking with a cane. [speaking latin] reporter the pope taking a moment to shake hands with the faithful as he was pushed in a wheelchair. He later arrived at romes omalley hospital where the surgery was performed under general anesthesia. The popes doctor says that recovery typically takes seven days but that the pope was already back at work after the surgery. David that is encouraging. Marcus moore live at the vatican. Marcus, thank you. When we come back here, the young mother shot and killed right through her neighbors door. Call for the neighbor to be arrested and whats not happening tonight. 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It may not be much better tomorrow, as you saw today at conditions can change in her research is be aware of your surroundings and be ready to protect you and your family if the smoke gets thick. David lets hope the system shifts by early next week to rob, thanks so much. See you tomorrow. Good night. Building a better bay area. Moving forward. Finding solutions. This is abc7 news. It was shocking. Because i know the kid. I just saw him the other day recently. Its very shocking. Kristen shocking and we are learning more about the 15yearold boy who was killed early this morning in san jose. Good afternoon. Im kristen sze. Da im dan ashley. It happened in the parking lot of an apartment complex. Kristen Zach Fontes What was at the scene and has more for us. Reporter devastation after the death of a high school student. The corner and the Unified School District confirmed his name is justin s. Last night i was hearing the ambulance and people screaming from my window. I went out and i checked it out but i didnt think of anything. Reporter it was only later that the 18yearold found out the victim was a school friend. I just saw him th recently. Its very shocking. He was a close friend. Me and my friends chatted through text and everything. Its a very hard loss. Reporter police say they were called to the scene just before 1 a. M. This morning at this apartment complex. While many of the previous collisions can be traced back to speeding, this was not the case in this collision. A vehic t