Deadly engine blowout that nearly sucked a woman out of ase what authorities are now saying. And the other passenger plane, the new images just today. Passengers evacuating, smoke filling the cab bit. Ow rain and flash floodt alerts across several states and moving across the country. Rob marciano times it out. The deadly fall onboard a cruise ship. A passenger dropping four stories. And the new and alarming headline on the flu this evening. What doctors say theyre seeing already. Good evening and its great to have you with us here on a very busy tuesday night. And we begin with the televised hearings for the first time today, millions of americans heard from witnesses who listened in on that call between President Trump and the president of ukraine. The witnesses who were alarmed by what they heard taking the oath, ready to talk about the call that the president has said was perfect. Lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, who works in the white house, testifying the president s call asking for investigations into 2016 and into the bidens was improper, saying it amounted to a demand. The combat veteran who earned a purple heart testifying in uniform. The president criticizing him for doing so. Then, an adviser to the Vice President , jennifer williams, testifying she found the call unusual and inappropriate. And late today, kurt volker, whoch theed before he saw nothing that indicated a quid pro quo, today, he added, hate he known what this was all about, investigating the 2016 election and burisma, what he called conspiracy theories, he would have objected. Abcs mary bruce leads us off tonight from the hill. Reporter for the first time today, the American People hearing from firsthand witnesses who were listening to that infamous call at the center of this impeachment inquiry. Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god . Reporter Lieutenant Colonel alexander vindman, a decorated war veteran and top ukraine expert on the National Security council. He came to the u. S. When he was just 3 years old. His family fleeing from the soviet union. He began his testimony with a message to his father. Dad, im sitting here today in the u. S. Capitol, as proof that you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the soviet union and come here to the United States of america in search of a better life for our family. Do not worry. I will be fine for telling the truth. Reporter vindman was listening in on the july phone call where President Trump asked ukrainian president zelensky to do us a favor and asked him to investigate the bidens. Vindman called that request improper and a partisan play. Frankly, i couldnt believe what i was hearing. It was probably an element of shock that maybe in certain regards, my worst fear of how our ukraine policy could play out was playing out. How this was likely to have significant implications for u. S. National security. And you went immediately and you reported it, didnt you . I did. Why . Because that was my duty. Reporter jennifer williams, the ukraine adviser to Vice President pence, was on that call, too. She described what she heard as unusual and inappropriate. The references to specific individuals and investigations such as former Vice President biden and his son, struck me as political in nature. Reporter but republicans pushed back on that assessment. But raising an issue, even one that you thought was unusual, is different than making a demand. Would you agree . Yes. It didnt sound like, from your testimony, that you heard what took place on that call as a the demand for investigations. Is that fair . I dont believe im in a position to characterize it further than the president did in terms of asking for a favor. Reporter vindman described a july meeting where Gordon Sondland, trumps megadonor turned u. S. Ambassador to the e. U. , gave ukrainian officials an ultimatum. Ambassador sondland said that in order to get a white house meeting, the ukrainians would have to provide a deliverable, which is investigations, specific investigations. Reporter vindman says he confronted sondland. I stated that it was inappropriate and had nothing to do with National Security policy. Reporter throughout the testimony, republicans challenged vindmans loyalty, accusing him of trying to protect the whistleblower. Mr. Vindman, you testified in your deposition that you did not know the whistleblower. Ranking member, its Lieutenant Colonel vindman, please. Lieutenant colonel vindman, you testified in the deposition, that you did not know who the whistleblower was or is. I do not know who the whistleblower is. Reporter at the white house, the president attacked vindman in realtime, seeming to undermine his military service. I dont know him, as he says Lieutenant Colonel, i understand somebody had the misfortune of calling him mister and he corrected them. I never saw the man, i understand now he wears his uniform when he goes in. I dont know vindman at all. Reporter republicans joining in, questioning why the active duty soldier was wearing his uniform. Lieutenant colonel vindman, i see you are wearing your dress uniform, knowing thats not the uniform of the day, you normally wear a suit to the white house. Reporter republicans also seized on a new storyline, noting that on three occasions, ukrainian officials asked vindman to be their defense minister. Vindman says he laughed it off. Im an american. I came here when i was a toddler and i immediately dismissed these offers. Did not entertain them. Reporter and democrats returned to vindmans opening statement, when he told his father not to worry about his testimony against the president. And why do you have confidence that you can do that . And tell your dad not to worry . Congressman, because this is america. This is the country ive served and defended, that all of my brothers have served and here, right matters. Thank you, sir. Yield back. [ applause ] reporter later, two more witnesses that republicans had requested, including former special envoy to ukraine, kurt volker, who worked with sondland to get ukraine to investigate burisma, the Emergency Company where hunter hyden sat on the board. Volker said at the time, he didnt see the biden connection. In hindsight, i now understand that others saw the idea of investigating possible corruption involving the Ukrainian Company burisma as e givement to investigating former Vice President biden. I saw them as very different. Reporter volker testified bottom line, the investigations President Trump wanted were not in the National Interest of the United States. I dont think that raising 2016 elections or Vice President biden or these these things i consider to be conspiracy theories that had been circulated by the ukrainians, particularly the former prosecutor general, are theyre not things that we should be pursuing as part of our National Security strategy with ukraine. Mary bruce with us live on capitol hill. A very long day, mary. You were on the air with us all day. And of course, another big day tomorrow. Ambassador Gordon Sondland set toch the, perhaps one of the most important witnesses in this impeachment inquiry. And hes the one that told ukraine they would not receive the 400 million in u. S. Military aid unless they launched those investigations that the president wanted. Reporter david, there is no question, Gordon Sondland is the most anticipated witness of this inquiry. When it comes to ukraine, hes had the most direct conversations with the president. And like kurt volker today, sondland has claimed that he didnt know that these investigations that the president was pushing for were we lated to the bidens. Now, he has revised his testimony once before and tonight, there is some concern from republicans that he could change it again. David . All right, well see you tomorrow. Mary bruce, thank you. I want to bring in abcs jonathan karl, because jon, President Trump said he was watching from the white house. And that hes happy with what hes seeing. Take a look. And yet, i just got to watch and the republicans are absolutely killing it. They are doing so well, because its a scam. Its a big scam. Jon, you were on the air with us today when the official white house account actually tweeted out criticism of Lieutenant Colonel vindman, testifying in uniform there. The white house account actually used to take aim at one of the witnesses . Reporter ah, that is for sure, david. They went after vindman in two ways. First, quoting tim morrison, they questioned his judgment, and then, on twitter, they questioned vindmans loyalty to the United States, raising the fact that he had been offered the job of defense minister for ukraine. It was an offer that he rejected and immediately reported it to his supervisors. These were extraordinary attacks for several reasons, especially because, for more than a year, vind mand has come to work every day here at the white house, working in the National Security council, presumably will be back here on the job again tomorrow. David, vindman said that he did not expect any repercussions for telling the truth, but he did say if he had criticized the president in this way or questioned the president in this way in russia, quote, it would surely have cost me my life. All right, jon karl, our thanks to you and to mary and the entire team today. And we hope youll stay with abc news. Well be back on the air tomorrow morning and thursday beginning at 9 00 a. M. Eastern to continue our coverage. In the meantime, we move onto the other news this evening, two guards on duty at the jail where accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein died, have now been arrested on federal charges. Youll remember in August Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell at 6 30 in the morning. Well, tonight, what security cameras show what the guards were doing in the hours before he died. Heres abcs eva pill 2k3wri78. Reporter tonight, the two guards on duty the night Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide facing criminal charges. Tova noel and Michael Thomas are accused repeatedly failing to conduct 30minute inmate checks and of falsifying jail records to make it look like they had. Thomas allegedly telling a supervisor, we messed up. We didnt do any rounds. Prosecutors say Video Surveillance shows the guards sat their desk and appeared to have been asleep, at times browsing the internet for furniture and motorcycles. Epstein had just been removed from suicide watch, but was left for eight hours before he was found with with a noose around his neck. Those guards have pleaded not guilty. Their union blaming staff shortages. Today, the director of the brur roe of prisons grilled epsteins death. Do you concur with the opinion that it was a suicide . That was the finding of the coroner, sir. Okay. Do you have any evidence to suggest otherwise . I do not. Reporter the pathologist hired by epsteins family to investigate has said that the evidence points to homicide. Federal prosecutors say security footage shows no one entered the area where epstein was housed that night. So, lets get to eva pilgrim with us tonight live, and you mention the surveillance. Epstein was obviously a high profile inmate. Authorities knew this at the time. And yet, at the time of his death, people were asking, why wasnt there surveillance on his actual cell, a camera there . Reporter well, cameras cover the hallways of the jail here, david. The only time that epstein would have been monitored by cameras around the clock was while he was on suicide watch. David . Eva pilgrim with us tonight. Eva, thank you. Next this evening, there are now arrests in the death of an 18yearold Fraternity Pledge in Ohio University last year. Tonight, nine people are now facing charges related to alleged hazing at an offcampus house. Heres gio benitez. Reporter tonight, nine men, most of them fraternity members, are facing serious charges following the 2018 death of Ohio University freshman pledge collin wiant. One of the students charged with reckless homicide, another, involuntary manslaughter. Many of the other charges range from Drug Trafficking to hazing. Wiant was found unconcious last november at an offcampus House Associated with the Sigma Pi Fraternity. Hello. I think my friend drank a little too much. Okay, is he responsive . He was, and then he, like, kind of laid back, started passing out. Reporter in a wrongful death lawsuit, the wiant family alleges he was subjected to extensive hazing that included being beaten witha inuded nitrous oxide, which a coroner ruled ultimately killed him. The fraternity reportedly denies responsibility. Tonight, wiants parents reacting to the cal charges. It was necessary, because its the only way were going to drive change to save lives. But there are no winners here. His death is systemic of this larger scale person. Reporter and david, at least one of the men charged will be arraigned tomorrow. Meanwhile, the Sigma Pi Fraternity has been expelled from Ohio University. And other fraternities on the same campus are also under investigation for separate hazing allegations. David . All right, gio benitez reporting. Gio, thank you. And at syracuse university, police are investigating a series of hate crimes on campus. Students there have reported investigation. Vandalismnee a student sitin now enters day six. And in georgia tonight, a 16yearold is under arrest, accused of plotting to kill worshippers at a mostly black church. Police say the unnamed teenager targeted the bethel african methodist church. High School Classmates told administrators she had a and School Administrators alerted police. Next tonight here, the new report about the midair tragedy aboard a southwest flight. Engine apartments tearing through the cabin. A woman partially sucked out of the window. We reported on this at the time. Federal safety officials are now recommending boeing redesign thousands of jet engines on planes in the air. Abcs david kerley covers aviation. Reporter it happened in an instant. Everybody breathe, we are almost there. Reporter southwest 1380 just had an engine blow apart. Tammy jo shults was the 737 captain. It was rather radical. And it yawed and then it began its own decent. Southwest 1380 has an engine fire. Descending. Reporter but part of the engine had sheared into the fuselage, breaking out a window. A rapid decompression. One passenger, a mother, jenniferiordanriordan, did not survive the accident. The bottom part of her ribcage was out the window. Reporter when engine blades break, they are supposed to be contained and ejected out the rear of the engine. But in this case, the engine cover parts broke away and pierced the jets skin. Tonight, the ntsb is calling on boeing to redesign those covers for all of the 6,800 nextgen 737s in service. We recommended that engine and aircraft manufacturing develop more robust designs. Reporter boeing says its working on design enhancements, strengthening those covers, which, it says, will satisfy the ntsb recommendation. It will be months before those changes are ready and they will have to be approved by the faa. In the meantime, boeing says that increased inspections of fan blades reduce the risk of a repeat of the southwest accident. David . All right, david kerley, thank you. And to your health this evening. An alarming headline involving this years flu season. The cdc says it is hitting hard and early. 30 states already reporting cases of the flu. Thats the most in a decade for this time of year. California, louisiana and maryland among those now showing widespread flu activity. Health officials urging everyone 6 months and older to get a flu shot. And overseas, from afghanistan tonight, an american man has been freed after three years held captive by the taliban. Kevin king was released among with australian timothy weeks in exchange for three taliban leaders held by the after began government. King and weeks were teaching at American University in kabul when they were seized at gunpoint, in august of 2016. There is still much more ahead on world news tonight this tuesday. The new storm threat. Heavy snow, rain and flash flood alerts across several states as it moves across the country. Rob will time it out. Also ahead. Smoke in the cockpit. The passenger plane forced to evacuate before takeoff today. The deadly fall onboard ui sh fles,in themginwon, bears. A lot more news ahead tonight. cat 2 fwhoa so many choices cat 1 look extra gravy cat 2 and lil soups cat 1 theres the shreds cat 2 yeah friskies has it all. cat 1 i want it all can i have it all . vo feed their fantasy. Friskies. Now to that new storm threat tonight. Two storms combining, stretching across nine states from california to montana, and then it moves across the country. Heavy snow and possible flash flooding, so, that means we get right to meteorologist rob marciano tracking it all for us. Hey, rob. 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