York city and donald trump fights back. Why even Hillary Clinton tonight saying this time trump is right. And just a short time ago they came before the cameras in tennessee with their dog and their Winning Ticket. What they said that had everyone smiling. Good evening, and we begin tonight with breaking news. Images coming in as we come on the air. An attack on a hotel popular with westerners. These are the images coming in from the capital of burkina faso in west africa. Eyewitnesses describing a horrific scene. Gunmen, their heads covered, shooting into the air then storming into the hotel. Cars ablaze at this hour. Gunfire heard in the streets and now reports of possible hostages inside that hotel and a warning now from the u. S. Embassy to any americans in the region. Lets get right to abcs senior justice correspondent Pierre Thomas live in washington tonight. Pierre. Reporter david, just a dangerous situation appears to be still unfolding in that west african country. At least four men attacking that hotel popular with westerners. Eyewitness reports of two car bombs going off outside the splendid hotel. You can hear the gunfire there, as well. Tonight there are reports of gunfire in and around the hotel and we believe that authorities are engaging the assailants. There was a similar attack by islamic radicals in neighboring mali in november of last year that left 20 people dead. We have a group affiliated with al qaeda tonight claiming credit, david. We want to stay with these disturbing pictures on the ground as, pierre, we want to get more information about the warning from the u. S. Embassy for americans. Reporter exactly right, david. The u. S. Embassy is warning all its personnel and u. S. Citizens to stay away from the downtown area, to stay away. Apparently the gunfight is still under way, david. Pierre thomas, well be staying on this story into the night. Pierre, thank you. Meantime, back here at home to wall street, stocks in a freefall today. The dow closing down nearly 400 points. Wild swings, at one point down more than 500 points. Experts this evening pointing to one major factor driving all of this, the price of oil. Already a very tough start to the year for americans and their savings. Is there more to come . Abcs gio benitez at the New York Stock Exchange tonight. Reporter tonight, a nightmare on wall street. All major u. S. Markets in a freefall today. The dow dropping over 500 points before closing down 390, the nasdaq finishing down 2. 7 and the s p down 2. 1 . So far this year the dow losing 547 billion. Leading the way down, financial stocks and energy. When oil trades lower, yes, there is that benefit that gas prices are going to go down, but most likely you do have an oil stock in your diverse portfolio and those prices are going to be affected by that falling oil price. Reporter a gallon of oil now cheaper than a bottle of water in some places. So, what does that mean for your nest egg . The average 401 k of 92,000 has already lost 7500 in value since the beginning of the year. One thing they shouldnt do with their 401 k s is try and trade them in and out of a falling market, because just as soon as the market falls on a day like this, it may jump once again, and you will have missed out on that. Reporter and, david, traders i spoke with here today say this up and down may actually be healthy for the market to sort of stabilize those stock prices. But no doubt these are scary times for traders and investors, david. Gio benitez on wall street tonight. Gio, thank you. Now to the search under way at this hour off the coast of hawaii for 12 marines missing after two military helicopters collided. Search teams overhead all day today braving rough seas for any sign of survivors. Abcs chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz on the desperate search at this hour. Reporter the searchers, in the air, on the sea, fighting high waves, some 20 feet, looking for those 12 marines and the wreckage from the two massive helicopters, the biggest the u. S. Has, leaving a debris field some 15 miles long, virtually the entire north shore of oahu where abcs aditi roy is tonight. The marine corps is warning beachgoers here that there might be debris from the helicopters washing up since the two crashed just a few miles offshore and asked people to call and report whatever they find and not to touch it. Reporter the ch53s went down in darkness under a cover of clouds during a routine training mission, the helicopters believed to have collided midair after reports of a fireball and loud booms. One witness saying it shook her house. At night using night vision goggles there are all sorts of things that can that adjust your perception of where you are in relation to the aircraft or where the horizon is in relation to your aircraft. Reporter in the past year there have been a rash of marine corps accidents, the highest number of fatalities in at least five years. And martha is with us tonight. Martha, we know most of those accidents have been in training. They have been, david, and the marine corps will certainly try to look at what might be contributing to this, whether its Pilot Training or equipment, but this is a reminder that military training is not without very real danger, david. Martha raddatz in washington, martha, thank you. Now to the air scare on board an American Airlines flight from new york to miami hitting extreme turbulence. There were several injuries, passengers and crew. This Flight Attendant injured rushed to the hospital. Eyewitnesses now describing the moment the turbulence hit. Abcs david kerley covers aviation for us. Reporter that Flight Attendant with the bloodied nose on a stretcher. The American Airlines jet heading to miami into this weather hit severe turbulence. Passengers were screaming. Children crying. It felt like a roller coaster. It was just very uncomfortable, and everybody was afraid. American 1410, we have one Flight Attendant with a broken nose, and we have several minor injuries to passengers. Reporter other planes were hit too. Severe turbulence can toss people, their belongings, even heavy drink carts around the cabin. Predicting turbulence like this has always been the problem, but some new software is giving pilots a view inside the storm. We were on this test flight around miami recently where these pilots aim for trouble. Well, were headed right for this turbulence. Yes, we are. On purpose. Reporter rockwell has developed Radar Software which American Airlines is installing on its jets. Green means go, a path through the storm. And when weve actually flown through those areas, its been smooth as glass. There hasnt even been a ripple. Reporter technology which may prevent these turbulent rides. David kerley, abc news, washington. David, thank you. Now to the extreme weather this friday night. The noreaster hitting this evening bringing high winds, rain, tornado watches and warnings for a time across florida. One reported tornado near cape coral whipping winds in Sanibel Island off the coast drenching rain outside this familys home in orlando, and the roof ripped off this strip mall in venice, florida. Were tracking the noreaster and a major blast of arctic air elsewhere. Meteorologist rob marciano here on both fronts tonight. Hey, rob. Hey, david. Its the southern flank of that developing noreaster that really clobbered south florida. That rough weather has since moved out. Theyll get another round on sunday but the center of our low now over the carolinas and the precip shield push iing across virginia into the northeast, a fastmoving storm but its going to rain heavily with big winds across the northeast overnight. Only the furthest northern mountains seeing accumulating snow. The cold front you see to the west is where the cold stuff is. Minus 17 in minneapolis on sunday, but thats the actual temperature. Talk about windchills 43 below in duluth. Spreading east on monday and 4 degrees in d. C. , some areas will see the lowest temperature in two years. Bundle up. All right. Rob marciano with us, rob, thank you. Now to that showdown in South Carolina last night. 11 Million People watching the republican rumble and center stage donald trump and ted cruz, the gloves came off on a number of issues including what ted cruz meant when he said trump has new york values. Abcs tom llamas on the campaign trail tonight with breaking developments. Word late today from cruz when asked if he would apologize. Reporter tonight, ted cruz asked again and again should he apologize to the people of new york after staying the course last night on that debate stage saying donald trump embodies new york values. Could you explain what you mean by that . Yeah, i think most people know exactly what new york values are. I am from new york. I dont. Youre from new york, so you might not, but i promise you in the state of South Carolina, they do. And, listen, there are many, many wonderful, wonderful working men and women in the state of new york, but everyone understands that the values in new york city are socially liberal or proabortion or progay marriage, focused around money and the media, and i guess i can frame it another way, not a lot of conservatives come out of manhattan. Im just saying. Reporter trumps response, controlled contempt. When the World Trade Center came down, i saw something that no place on earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than new york. Everybody in the world loved new york and loved new yorkers, and i have to tell you, that was a very insulting statement that ted made. [ applause ] reporter and now cruz learning the risks of taking on new york. On the cover of the daily news lady liberty giving him the onefinger salute. New yorks mayor and governor, both democrats, outraged demanding an apology. Cruz tonight defiant. I apologize to the millions of new yorkers who have been let down by liberal politicians in that state. I apologize to all the prolife and promarriage and prosecond amendment new yorkers who were told by Governor Cuomo that they have no place in new york. Reporter and, david, just to show you how cruzs new york values attack has really struck a chord, even Hillary Clinton siding with trump on this issue tweeting, just this once trumps right. David. A rare agreement on that front, all right, tom, thank you. George stephanopoulos will be interviewing donald trump this sunday on this week with george. Now to a Major Development tonight and the story weve been following here on world news tonight involving lead in the water in flint, michigan. Tonight a Major Investigation launched. The governor of michigan asking the white house to declare a federal disaster, and this evening many asking what did authorities know, and when did they know it . Abcs alex perez back on the case. Reporter why the delay . Theres no delay. Reporter tonight michigan Governor Rick Snyder and possibly other state officials under investigation after an unprecedented toxic water crisis in flint. The Michigan Attorney general today launching a formal investigation to determine if any laws were violated and why it took authorities so long to respond saying in a statement, the situation in flint is a human tragedy, in 21st century america, no one should have to fear something as basic as turning on the kitchen faucet. Angry residents now testing their children for lead poisoning. Tell us how long we got to keep suffering through this. Reporter the frustration growing since 2014 when the city of flint stopped paying for water from lake huron and began to process water from the flint river to save some 19 million. It wasnt until more than a year later that officials declared the water unsafe. This week Governor Snyder deploying the national guard. Volunteers delivering bottled water and tap water filters to residents. And, david, the governor even asking president obama to declare a federal emergency in flint. Theres already a fema team on the ground assessing the situation. David. Alex, thank you. Now to the capture of el chapo in mexico and the american actor at the center of so many headlines involving el chapos arrest. Sean penn breaking his silence about his secret meeting with the fugitive drug lord. He says he was interviewing him and he denies leading authorities to el chapos hideout claiming hes been made a scapegoat. We had met with him many weeks earlier in a place nowhere near where he was captured. El chapo was captured three months after that meeting. Tonight penn says he regrets his reporting didnt bring attention to the war on drugs. There is still much more ahead on world news tonight this friday. Walmarts big announcement tonight closing more than 260 stores. Well break down the list. Also, the new headline this evening about chipotle. They will close down every restaurant on the same day and why theyre doing it. The emergency we learned about in space. The space walk cut short. The dangerous problem involving the astronaut. 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He never cries for his mother. When his dad comes home, he never looks up and runs to him. Hes just somehow in his own space in his own world. Reporter but donalds parents, his mother especially, determined to get into his world. But she didnt give up hope. No. Reporter it was the 1930s. No one had even heard of autism. Mary triplett was in a world where if you had a kid like donald, you were told basically one thing, put that child away and forget. Send him to an institution. Send him to an institution, and they did. And then they said, wait a second. Were giving up too easy. Reporter she fought to get him into school, and he was soon sitting in the first grade. What would a mother not do for her child . Exactly. Its parental love, and thats not just for children with autism. Thats for what would any parent do for their child . Reporter she would teach him how to drive, and tonight this is donald now, 82 and still driving. He learned how to drive at 27. Yeah. And he drives in his own special way. Reporter both hands on the wheel using both feet and always a cadillac. You can imagine his mother saying, no, no, no, just use one foot, but that didnt work. He still drives with two feet. Reporter everyone in that mississippi town knows him. Hey, don. How are you . All right. Hey, t. W. , how are you doing . Reporter and until just recently donald had no idea he was case number one diagnosed with autism. Decades later so many parents fighting for their children including karen, her own son mickey here as a baby. Here we go. Reporter fighting for him after his diagnosis, the schooling, a seat with the other kids, and look at him tonight. We have all watched him grow. Karen was a longtime producer at abc news working with john donvan. They reported those early stories on autism. We have to see mickey and people like mickey as one of us and were not there yet. Were getting there. Reporter she says with every child, the whole Community Needs to have their back. Donalds did, first his mother then everyone else. You know, donald has autism today. I find it very hard to say hes disabled because theres really not anything he is unable to do. And so we choose Donald Triplett and all of the children who have come after him. John and karen and their new book in a different key comes out next week. An excerpt tonight on our website. Im david muir. I hope to see you right back here on monday. Until then have a good evening. Good night. Vening. Good night. Just in, clearer pictures of a suspect from a shooting on a bart train. It will be a great story to tell people in the future. Super bowl 50 bringing more than just football to the bay area. Hear from the people getting jobs because of it. And. We capture a major milestone in construction of the transbay terminal. There are two Major Developments on that bart shooting. A clearic purr tour of the suspect accused of killing another passenger inside of a train on saturday. The victim has just been identified. Good evening, and thanks for joining us tonight, im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. That news as state leaders come down hard on bart officials for dropping the ball on a major security threat. Janet oh joins us live with the story. Janet . Reporter the state senator, Steven Glazer says bart has been making bad decisions for a long time, but he is surprised nothing is being done about this. Its unfortunate and outrageous. Strong words from state senator Steven Glasier after last saturdays Fatal Shooting that put bart security, or lack therefore, back in the spotlight. Bart released photos of the suspect, accused of firing multiple times, killing a bart passenger on a train at the west oakland station. That victim has been identified as 19yearold carlos romero. Police do admit not all cameras are real, and others dont always work. Security is not a