The father and two children visiting a national park. Their first camping trip. Good evening. And itsreat thave you with us here on a wednesday night. And we begin with the first pictures now coming in from puerto rico, after taking a direct hit. Hurricane maria slamming into the island, and as you heard, one official saying, the island is destroyed. He first category o hit there in nearly a century. 150mileanhour winds ripping buildings apart, knocking out power everywhere. All of the electricity is out tonight. People ordered to stay inside until at least tomorrow amid fears of more massive flooding to come. And the satellite image tonight dwarfing the island. No part of it was spared. Abcs Victor Oquendo leading us off from san juan tonight. Reporter tonight, marias direct hit, devastating puerto rico. The first category 4 storm to strike puerto rico in 85 years,. We are back here on the northern side of san juan here. I can only imagine what went down when this thing made landfall on the southeast corner of this island. Obviously, the eye getting closer and closer to us, that eye wall now scraping the northern beaches there. Reporter roofs peeled from buildings. Debris flying. Structures collapsing. Nches of areas, engulfing whole neighbors. Michelle torres using everything she can to keep the water out. The wind howled and screeched. The doors rattled. Reporter we are outside of san juan, and it was hit very hard. A lot of destruction to homes, downed trees and power lines, as well. And now, theyre dealing with this. Flooding in every direction. The Emergency Management director saying the entire island is destroyed. Many of these homes not built to withstand any hurricane, let alone a category 4. It took my house. Reporter is that all wind damage, is that what happened here . Wind dagema. Reporter hospitals damaged, running on generator power. Were standing on one of the busiest thoroughfares in all of san juan, puerto rico. The john k. Kennedy expressway. Not a single car in sight. Were the only ones out here. Emergency management now confirms, 100 of puerto rico now without power. Everywhere you look, downed power lines like these, which stretch right across the expressway. 12,000 people heeding the call to get to shelters, including our hotels ballroom. Evacuees moved off this arena floor, due to safety concerns. The howling wind piercing the darkness. Terrified residents singing about strength during trying times to ease the fear. David, you can see the damage right here behind me. This is what so many streets across san juan look like tonight. Officials saying many areas will be uninhabitable for weeks, maybe even months. Theyre urging people to shelter in place. Theyve issued a curfew and the governor now saying he is launching search and rescue teams as we speak. David . Victor oquendo leading us off from san juan. Victor, thank you. Lets get right to senior meteorologist rob marciano live in san juan, as well. Rob, where is this hurricane tonight . And you have the new models, the timing, as it gets closer to the east coast. Reporter very important forecast, david. First of all, the center of this thing is now off the coast, about 75 miles east of the dominican republic. The mountains of puerto rico took a little steam out of it. Its a category 2 now, 110mileanhour winds. It may very well strengthen again as it heads towards the turks and caicos. Should stay away from the most Populated Areas there. Getting up towards the carolinas come monday. What it does after that, certainly some question marks, but our longer term models, as you mentioned, do have it coming a little bit closer to the coastline, maybe coming up towards new england, maybe taking a very joselike track. Too soon to tell whether it will impact the u. S. Directly. But something well be watching very, very closely in the coming days. David . As we all think of the people of puerto rico tonight. Rob, in the meantime, our thanks to you and to victor. We turn next to the other devastating scene unfolding right now. The catastrophic earthquake in mexico. Buildings coming down. People trapped. So many of them children. Tonight, were on the scene of a school collapse. Some of the children have been pulled out. And rescue crews shouting silence so often today, in the moments they thought they could hear the children. Abcs matt gutman is on the scene tonight. Reporter tonight, at that school, rescuers peering into a hole. Suddenly yelling, there are children here, there are children here. Then, pulling a small child out. Dusty, miserable, but alive. Hundreds still prying away at the debris, hoping to uncover a sign of life. A little girl, believed to be entombed in the rubble that was once her school, possibly communicating with loved ones by text messages. Tonight, police escorting us into a search both frantic and eerily quiet. First responders craning in to listen for a sign of life. You see those hands up in the air. Theyve just called for silence. That means theyre trying to listen to see if they can actually hear the person theyre looking for inside still. That scene repeating itself all afternoon. But so far, that missing girl has not been found. You can see the destruction from overhead. Silence written in huge letters. Through a window, childrens backpacks still hanging on their hooks. 13yearold rodrigo narrowly picaesng he says, we had to be evacuated by crawling over a wall. The school, one of dozens of buildings that collapsed in central mexico when the massive 7. 1 quake struck. Sending millions into the streets. People posting to social media to show the devastation. Facades crumbling. Across mexico city, the desperate search for survivors starting immediately, continuing through the night. And at the school, neighbo like jesus among the first to rush into the rubble, hearing screaming from the inside. Then, making a grim discovery. We pulled out a kid and i saw and they put his own sweater on his face and they pulled him out on the stretcher. Reporter was he alive . No. I dont think he was. Reporter so far, at least 25 dead in the school alone. 11 rescued. These handwritten pages with the names of the wounded and their hospitals. Other notes listing the missing. David, an entire nation is fixated on the drama playing out just beneath me. Now, weve been here for eight hours watching rescuers get closernd closer to that little girl. Right now, they seem tantalizingly close, but one thing they all say, they are not leaving here until they pull the last person out of that school. David . Matt gutman right there in mexico city. Matt, thank you. To the white house tonight, and new reporting here on the russia investigation. Special Council Robert mueller and his new stepesting esent tr are now under scrutiny, including his firing of fbi director james comey. And the meeting with russian officials in the oval office the very next day. Abcs chief White House CorrespondentJonathan Karl with what hes learned tonight. Reporter tonight, the clearest indication yet special counbeg rol toue t mrthe action President Trump himself. As the New York Times first ee po white house documents surrounding the president s Oval Office Meeting with russia officials the day after he fired fbi director james comey. Trump reportedly told the russians, quote, i faced great pressure because of russia. Thats taken off. The next day, he publicly acknowlehe tedsius r investigation was on his mind when he fired comey. When i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a madeup story. Reporter mueller also wants documents concerning the response to the news that the president s son, don jr. , met with russian operatives during the campaign. At the time, the white house insisted the meeting was only about russian adoptions and the president publicly defended his son. My son is a wonderful young man. Reporter but emails show the meeting was set up, quote, to provide the Trump Campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate hillary. We later learned the president was directly involved in crafting that first misleading response. And jon karl with us here in new york today. And we learned Something Else today, that the legal bills for the president and his son are being paid for by donations made by Everyday Americans to the Republican National committee. How unusual is that . Reporter well, its perfectly legal, but it is highly unusual, if not unprecedented, for a Political Party to pay the personal legal bills of a president and his family. And were talking about 230,000 for Donald Trumps lawyers, and another 200,000, nearly all the more notable, david, because in this case, the president is a billionaire. N ne york. Jon, thanks, as always. In the meantime, next, to capitol hill tonight, and the senates hail mary push to kill obamacare. Their new replacement plan turning over much of the responsibility to the states. But it is running into a lot of opposition tonight, including from late night tv host jimmy kimmel, making his personal story a political one. Abcs mary bruce with the tally, republican senators can only afford two no votes. Reporter tonight, jimmy kimmel is taking on the architect of the new Republican Health care bill. And this guy, bill cassidy, just lied right to my face. Reporter last spring, kimmel his infant sons heart condition. No parent should ever have to decide if they can afford to save their childs life. It just shouldnt happen. Reporter in response, senator cassidy promised he would defend protections for people with preexisting conditions. But now, kimmel says hes not living up to his word. You can promise those people with preexisting conditions that they will not be chargemor discrimid nated agains t, they wont be denied care . Absolutely. Its in the legislation. Reporter but experts tell us theres no guarantee. In the new bill, states could allow insurers to charge more to people with some preexisting conditions. States still have to provide adequate and affordable coverage, but those terms are not defined or enforced. Optional preexisting condition . Reporter the Budget Office is expected to release a preliminary report next week, outlining how much the bill costs, but not how Many Americans could stand to lose coverage. For that, they need more time. Mary bruce with us live tonight. r still waiting for the cbo score, which would estimate how many fewer americans would be insured. In the meantime, we know that republicans can only afford to lose two votes. Four key senators tonight, rand paul, john mccain, susan collins, lisa murkowski, they could all be pivotal here. What do you know, mary . Reporter david, heres the state of play. Paul tells me hes a no. Collins is leaning no. Murkowski says shes studying the bill. And mccain wont say where he stands. Republicans do not have the votes yet. But they intend to hold a vote next week. David . Mary bruce live on the hill again tonight. Thank you, mary. Next, north korea reacting this evening to President Trumps fiery address at the u. N. The president saying the u. S. May have no choice but to totally destroy north korea, calling its leader kim jongun a rocket man on a suicide mission. Tonight, north koreas foreign minister calling those remarks, quote, the sound of a dog barking, and that north korea is not scared. We turn now to the horror unfolding right now in myanmar. Vice president mike pence just today tellinsetynco sg swg t a the rohingya are considered one of the most persecuted minorities on earth. Our cameras there as they escape their homes amid reports of torture, rape and ethnic cleansing by their own countrys military. Myanmars de facto leader, ang san suu kyi, a nobel laureate, addressing the Rohingya Crisis for the First Time Since reports more than 400,000 have now fled in fear. And abcs bob woodruff tonight, on the front lines in myanmar. Youre about to see what bob witnessed firsthand. Reporter they are running for their lives, hoping to escape what they believe is certain death. Risking it all to cross illegally from myanmar into bangladesh. Translator we are being persecuted. We are scared. There have been killings. Reporter disturbing reports emerging of a new wave of attacks unleashed by Government Forces in myanmar on the rohingya, a muslim minority. There are reports of villages surrounded, homes burned to the ground, torture, executions and rape. So, we traveled to bangladesh to speak with survivors of government attacks. Attacks such as this one. Rohingya villagers seen here struck repeatedly by police. Everyone we encounter wants to share their story. Did you see gun fire . Did you see attacks from the government . What exactly happened . This is the naf river, separating myanmar from bangladesh. Just across the water there in rakhine is where the attacks against the rohingya are reported to be unfolding. Myanmar authorities are not holding anybody accountable for the crimes that are being perpetrated against the civilian population. S limie eryta and bob woodruff is with us now. And bob, we mentioned their de facto leader, ang san suu kyi, reporter she has not condemned it yet. Condemned it yet. Theres a list of leaders around the world that are criticizing for this, including the pope. The strongest words so far, really, are from Vice President pence today, where he called on myanmar to, quote, end their violence immediately and support diplomatic efforts for a longterm solution. Dr,f reporting tonight. Bob, thank you. There is still much more ahead on world news tonight this wednesday. The frightening scene at Yankee Stadium. The game delayed late today. The foul ball, the little girl. The players shaken and in tears on the field. Well have more in a moment here. Dramatic images. The family struck by lightning during a camping trip. We have news on their condition tonight. And then, the coast guard discovery this evening, right off the american coast. The submarinelike vessel detected, and what they have now detected, and what they have now discovered in that sub. Stay with me, mr. Parker. Detected, and what they have now discovered in that sub. 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Players on both sides look distraught, bowing their heads. Some even crying. A little too graphic for us to show you. Epter that injureda little girl. The crowd calls for help. A medical team tends to the girl who is rushed from the stands to the hospital. Tonight, her condition is unknown. A similar scene played out at Yankee Stadium in july when a foul ball hit a fan in the head. And a young boy was struck by part of a broken bk ac b in shattered bats and foul balls injuring fans in recent years have prompted some teams to extend protective netting. After that incident in july, the yankees said they were seriously exploring extending the netting next season. David . Linsey davis, thank you. When we come back, the famous star behind raging bull, and his tribute tonight to the legendary boxer. Also, that family on a camping trip, struck by lightning. And the coast guard discovery right off the coast. What was in that submarine . 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More than 200 are dead and more remained trapped following a 7. 1 magnitude earthquake that hit heavily populated sections of mexico tuesday. Surr crumble. Cribed watching it was crowding everything, the street making sure we were away from trees. We pretty much tried to be next to the wall and like, just like but it was there is the second major earthquake to hit mexico in the past two weeks. President enrique pena neato is calling a new national emergency. Trn unfortunately several people have lost their lives including