Tens of thousands still with no power. No phones, no airconditioning in the summer heat. And the terrible blow to farmers. Their crops completely wiped out. Postal crisis. Protests outside the home of the postmaster general after massive cutbacks that could threaten mailin voting during the pandemic. 46 states and washington, d. C. , warned their ballots may not be delivered in time, and President Trump with a new attack on mailin voting. Hitting home. With millions of americans out of work, the looming crisis of foreclosure and eviction as many fall behind on rent or mortgage payments. Who can those at risk turn to for help . Tanker disaster. The grounded ship already spilling oil, now ripping into two. The desperate race to contain the leak and limit the damage to the environment. And rescue reunion. The family trapped in their car with the stormwaters rising, and the strangers who jumped in to save them, together again, saying now they are all family. And good evening. Thanks for joining us on this saturday. Im tom llamas. We begin with the coronavirus pandemic and the tough decisions over whether to send children back to school and whether College Students should be on campus. Although the number of cases is tapering off nationwide, the number of deaths remain high. More than 169,000 lives have been lost to the virus, an average of 1,000 every day for the past two weeks. The cdc is saying covid cases are rising in children and that as many as 45 of those cases may be asymptomatic, meaning they could be spreading a virus without knowing it. And there is concern for College Students as well. At the university of arizona, students must test negative in order to move into the dorms, while at villanova, a large party on campus, seen in a widely shared image, is raising alarms. Tonight, parents, students and administrators are facing anxious decisions. Trevor ault leads us off. Reporter tonight, the virus deadly summer toll. The rate coming down, but still more than 32,000 american lives lost in just the past four weeks. The falcon family in texas has lost four family members to the virus, and their grandmother is now in the hospital. And i do see a lot of people not wearing their masks because theyre not taking it serious. They dont understand. Like, this can it hasnt affected them yet, but it can affect them pretty soon. Reporter these images posted on social media showing a massive Nashville Party with no social distancing. The man who hosted it, jeffrey matthews, now pleading guilty to violating health orders. And these pictures posted online from Villanova University of major crowds, which had to be a thought it was kind of crazy. Reporter the University President now telling every student, if you dont follow the Campus Health guidelines, you will be sent home. The university of notre dame with already at least 29 students testing positive. Many of the cases tied to the same gathering. And at the university of arizona, more than 2,000 students tested before moving into their dorms, and only two came back positive. It is a little bit of suspense. Like waiting like two hours. Reporter a School District outside phoenix which was scheduled to return to class monday is now cancelling the first day of school after more than 100 teachers and staff refused to show up. At this oklahoma high school, 17 students were potentially exposed after one student tested positive but misunderstood quarantine rules and went to school anyway. And as other districts hold inperson learning, the cdc says covid cases have been steadily rising among children and as many as 45 of those cases may be asymptomatic. This weekends major league sel and pirates have been postponed after a cincinnati player became infected. And tonight, the warning from a California Coffee Company owner. Dont fall for this. Reporter Shawn Mcmillan says customers tried to skirt around mask requirements by presenting these fake fliers, claiming they were exempt from covering their face. Its incredibly ridiculous, and i i mean, it didnt get them anywhere. Trevor ault joins us from new york city. Trevor, late today the fda taking urgent action to get a new type of covid test out there . Reporter yeah, tom, the fda has given emergency authorization to a test called saliva direct. Its a new method from yale that aims to cut down on cost and the wait times of testing. There are questions if its as accurate as a nasal swab, but with some people waiting hours to get a test, officials are hoping to find a better way. Tom . Those saliva tests less invasive as well. Trevor, thanks for that. Now to the dangerous heat across the west. Heat alerts in effect from arizona to washitoste, fu por in l. A. County flaring up again overnight, forcing new evacuations. And californias Power Authority declaring an emergency, ordering rolling blackouts across the state. Zohreen shah reporting tonight from los angeles. Reporter tonight, firefighters battling dozens of raging wildfires out west. I dont want this one to burn. I dont want that one to burn. Reporter in southern california, the lake fire destroying at least six structures like this one. Mandatory evacuations in effect. The fire scorching 14,000 acres in three days. And its only 12 contained, fueled by dry brush that hasnt burned in decades, strong winds, and tripledigit heat. 80 miles away in azusa, the ranch fire tearing through 1,400 acres. Police on the hunt for this man, suspected of starting the inferno on thursday. Fires also forcing evacuations in oregon and colorado. Back in california, for the first time in 19 years, officials issuing a stage three emergency, ordering rolling Power Outages to ease the burden on the grid, impacting hundreds of thousands of customers in the middle of a heat wave. It got so hot so fast. And i went for a walk with my neighbor, and she has a two story, and she was like, its like as hot inside as it is outside. Reporter tom, normally people without a. C. S are advised the go to cooling centers, to indoor malls, to libraries, but those options are not available anymore. You see people behind me trying to escape the heat. So many cooling off at the beach. Zohreen, thank you for that. Abcs senior meteorologist rob marciano joins us now. Rob, that heat wave in the west is just Getting Started . Reporter it is. Its going to be a Long Duration heat wave and could be the worst one california has seen in 15 years and its expanding now into the northwest. Take a look at the heat advisories and warnings for portland, teasing the 100degree mark today. Seattle, warmer tomorrow. Up and down the west coast, a bit of a cooling trend for monday and tuesday in the northwest. But the southwest continues to bake. Might get hotter in burbank as we go tuesday to wednesday. Dangerous heat. Flooding potentially across the midatlantic. Slowmoving system today. Tomorrow, d. C. And parts of new jersey. That rain getting up in the northeast tomorrow afternoon. Tom . Rob, thank you for that. Were going to stick with the extreme weather and the brutal effects of derecho that ripped through the midwest. Five days after those 100mileperhour winds, as strong as a hurricane, that misery continues. Homes are damaged and tens of thousands are still without power. For many farmers in this agricultural zone, their entire harvest has been lost. Heres janai norman with the aftermath. Reporter tonight, nearly 133,000 customers still without power days after a devastating and deadly derecho swept through iowa. I lost all my food. I couldnt save it because i couldnt afford a generator. Reporter mondays fastmoving line of powerful thunderstorms catching many by surprise, amng the rapi aa th destruction hrine killg ateast foulehi wd gusttoi 100 miles per hour, uprooting trees, toppling power lines, demolishing homes and businesses, leaving a path of destruction stretching more than 700 miles from eastern nebraska to western ohio. Residents left with spoiled food, no cellphone service, and no air conditioning in the summer heat. I was told by three different people in the police department, three weeks without electricity. Reporter and the effect on iowas crops is catastrophic. The derecho wiping out an estimated 10 million acres, up to 43 of the stas and soybeans crops, likely to cost billions of dollars. Dealing a destructive blow to the Agriculture Community still reeling from the pandemic. Iowas governor has mobilized the States National guard and declared a state of disaster for 25 counties there. Tom . Janai, thank you. Now to the turmoil threatening to disenfranchise voters during the november election. President trumps newly appointed postmaster general, louis dejoy, imposing strict costcutting measures ahead of a huge silin voting because of the pandemic. Protesters showed up at his home this morning accusing him of engaging in voter suppression. Heres abcs rachel scott. Reporter tonight, with millions of mailin ballots at risk of not being counted, protesters lining up outside the postmaster generals home, accusing louis dejoy, a trump ally and gop donor, of dismantling the Postal Service after putting in place costcutting measures that critics say will slow mail delivery. Louis dejoy is working very hard. Reporter today the president tweeting, the democrats know the 2020 election will be a fraudulent mess, threatening to block funding for the post office unless democrats meet his demands on coronavirus relief. Universal mailin voting is going to be catastrophic. Its going to make our country a laughing stock all over the world. Reporter but the Postal Service is in crisis, already faced with limited resources and longstanding financial issues, now warning 46 states and washington, d. C. , that their deadlines are incompatible with delivery standards and ballots might not be delivered in time to be counted. While the president continues to push unfounded claims that mailin voting is linked to voter fraud mailin ballots will lead to the greatest fraud. Theyre going to be rigged. Everyone knows mailin ballots are a disaster. Reporter his rival joe biden pointing out the president just requested his mailin ballot for the florida primary on tuesday. Democratic leaders nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer accusing the president of trying to suppress the vote, writing in a statement, he needs to cheat to win. So, i would say, definitely dont risk your health vote by mail, but if you do, vote plenty early. Because within this administration is an attempt to make sure your vote doesnt count and doesnt count as cast. Okay, rachel scott is in new jersey tonight traveling with the president. Rachel, the Trump Campaign announcing the president has added an event to his schedule on thursday, the night joe biden accepts the democratic nomination . Reporter thats right, tom. The president trying to steal the spotlight from his rival, joe biden, holding an event on thursday just miles away from bidens hometown of scranton, pennsylvania. All of this, part of an ongoing strategy by the Trump Campaign to counter the Democratic National convention. The president will be visiting four battleground states next week. Tom . Rachel scott with news from the campaign trail tonight. Rachel, thank you. We do move on to georgia where a state trooper has been charged with murder after he shot a 60yearold black man who allegedly tried to flee a traffic stop. A lawyer for the slain mans family claims it started with a burned out taillight and that the trooper fired his weapon seconds after he forced the driver off the road. Heres abcs stephanie ramos. Reporter tonight, as the family of 60yearold julian lewis lays him to rest, the white former Georgia State trooper charged with his murder is behind bars. My husband was somebodys father, somebodys son, and hes gone. Gone. By the hands of a murderer. Reporter according to the Georgia Bureau of investigation, fired trooper Jacob Thompson tried to pull over lewis for a broken taillight when lewis, who was black, allegedly refused to stop, leading the trooper on a chase. Thompsons report says he hit lewiss car, forcing it into a ditch. In his incident report, thompson claims he shot lewis because he was afraid he was going to run him over. The attorney for lewis family says the Justice Department approved a request for a civil rights probe due to other allegations against the former trooper. Not this case. Absolutely. Not this one. It will not be swept under the rug, not this one. Reporter thompsons Attorney Says the former trooper has an excellent character and at the end of the day, he believes thompson will be exonerated. Tom . Stephanie, thank you. From overseas tonight, a sea of protesters taking to the streets in belarus for a seventh straight day after the countrys strongman president Alexander Lukashenko claimed a landslide election victory and a sixth term in office. Protesters claim the election was rigged. Lukashenko is reaching out to Vladimir Putin for support. Reporter after 26 years in power, the people want the man known at europes last dictator out. Thousands of Peaceful Protesters turning out for the seventh day in a row, despite being beaten by government forces. The people rejecting president lukashenkos claim of a landslide victory in last weeks election. Dozens of people reporting mass beatings, being deprived of food and water for days. Around 7,000 people were detained. A local journalist says guards told him, youve got your revolution. Thousands of workers staging mass walkouts at government owned companies. Tractor drivers, Health Workers all joining the movement. The country is pulled between europe and russia. Lukashenko today appealing to the kremlin for help, support he claims Vladimir Putin has promised to provide. Secretary of state mike pompeo said the u. S. Was monitoring the situation in belarus along with Foreign Ministers from the european union, who are preparing to impose new sanctions, tom . Julia, thank you. Much more ahead on world news tonight this saturday. The sledgehammer attack. 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Dan grabs him by the wrist. Im not letting go. Im not letting go of this kid. If this was what i was put here for, to save this one life, ill do it. Reporter all of them making it to safety. That was two weeks ago, and just yesterday the group of heroes and the father they rescued coming together, reliving those wild moments. I was a little bit crying for my kids. But for me, i was fine. Because i know that water couldnt take me anywhere. But it was just for the kids. Reporter now connecting on solid ground and building a bond. After everything, i couldnt stop telling them thanks. Reporter for the rescuers,. When its the right thing to do, theres no room for hesitation. None of us had a Second Thought to not do this. You cant forget Something Like that. And thats something thats family. An incredible rescue. Thanks so much for watching. Im tom llamas. Stay safe, good night. And the iteam has learned bay number of arrests in connection way scheme where inmates received unemployment benefits. Abc 7 news at 6 00 starts right now. Announcer building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Well, just how hot is it . Take a look. 106 in concord. 103 in santa rosa. And a sweltering 97 in san jose. Those numbers all add up to warnings about high fire danger and the possibility of more Power Outages across the bay area. Hello. Thanks for joining us. Im eric thomas. And im dion lim. You are taking a live look right now at santa cruz beach, a popular spot, as temperatures soar into the triple digits in some cities. Lets find out just how long this heats going to be with us. I can confirm 106 where i live. Heres meteorologist drew tuma. Yes, its another day of recordbreaking heat as our dangerous heat wave rolls on. The official numbers just came in a few minutes ago. We had numerous cities set new records or tie old records. Nine cities in fact from santa rosa to napa. Redwood city to gilroy all seeing record heat today. 2 i sanow its a very even a 98. Itsan fransco. T next couple of hours, little in the way of relief from this heat