Good evening, and its great to have you with us here on a wednesday night, and we begin with that deadly explosion at a school in minneapolis, ripping it in half, trapping people inside. Contractors were working on the gas lines at the time. The blast near a central stairwell that connects all areas of the building. Summer programs were under way. Children, teachers and staff were inside. Rescue crews immediately began searching through the rubble, and tonight there is word coming in now, the name of the first victim. Abcs alex perez on the scene for us in minneapolis. Reporter tonight, a huge section of this private school in minneapolis, reduced to a pile of rubble. We have windows that were blown out, flames and fire and a Building Collapse as well. Reporter around 10 20 this morning, School Administrators and several students inside minnehaha academy, basketball and Cross Country practice just wrapping up, when suddenly a massive explosion entirely guts the middle of the school building. There was a huge explosion, smoke went up and knocked most of us kind of back, knocked me off my feet and i fell back. Reporter the blast, officials say, triggered when a crew accidentally pierced a gas line. Hey, you know, were smelling gas. We need to get everybody out, and it was literally seconds after that that there was an explosion. Reporter First Responders rushing in. Searching for survivors. A School Custodian still missing. Crews are working on extinguishing the fire at this time and also, searching for unaccounted people who may be trapped under the collapse. Reporter outside, horrified parents waiting for any word on their kids inside. Another School Janitor surviving the ordeal. His hand bandaged, reuniting with his wife. Nine adults rushed to the hospital. The school receptionist, ruth berg, killed in the explosion. Her fiance says their wedding invitations came in the mail yesterday. This school is beloved, the people there are beloved and this is a big loss for the city today. Just a horrific loss. Alex perez joins us outside that school in minneapolis, and alex, First Responders remain on the scene at this hour . Reporter thats right, david. Authorities say they are working to make the scene as safe as possible for investigators. Tonight, we are also learning that receptionist who was killed worked at the school for 17 years. Officials say she always greeted everyone with a smile, and that she will be missed. David. Alex perez leading us off tonight. Alex, thank you. Now to the Major Development from the white house today. President trump endorsing a new immigration plan that would ultimately cut Legal Immigration into this country in half. The measure also favors highly skilled workers. There was Immediate Reaction even from some republicans today, and from the white house podium today, a fierce debate over what the statue of liberty really stands for. Abcs mary bruce on the hill again tonight. Reporter eager to tackle a key campaign promise, President Trump today made a surprise push to overhaul the nations immigration system. This legislation demonstrates our compassion for struggling american families. Reporter standing with two republican senators, the president embraced their bill to slash Legal Immigration in half. The bill pushes skilled workers and English Speakers to the front of the line, and limits admissions based on family connections. Those senators today described the plan as modest and incremental, but today stephen miller, one of the president s top advisers called it a sea change. What President Trump has done today is one of the most important legislative moves that weve seen on this issue in many, many years. Reporter but miller was challenged on whether the bill lives up to american values. The statue of liberty says, give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, doesnt say anything about speaking english or being able to be a computer programmer. I dont want to get off into a whole thing about history, but the statue of liberty is a symbol of liberty and lighting the world. Its a symbol of american liberty, and lighting the world. The poem that you are referring to, was added later, is not a part of the original statue of liberty. Reporter and what about protections for dreamers, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the u. S. As children . The president told david in january, that announcement was coming soon. Reporter so mr. President , will they be allowed to stay . Im gonna tell you over the next four weeks. Reporter today, 27 weeks later, the white house says they still dont have an answer. So lets get to mary bruce live on the hill for us tonight, and mary, the president endorsing this bill today, but give us a reality check as you often do. Does it have enough support at this point to pass . Reporter david, tonight this bill doesnt seem to be going anywhere. It lacks support even from republicans. Congress has a long todo list up here, and right now, Immigration Reform isnt on the schedule, david. Mary bruce live on the hill. Mary, thank you. Also tonight, democrats and republicans sending that bill to President Trump that had been sitting on his desk. Tough new sanctions on russia for meddling in the u. S. Election. Today, the president did sign it, but without cameras, and he did not sign it without blasting lawmakers and the bill itself. Abcs senior white house correspondent, cecilia vega, tonight. Reporter President Trump, so often criticized for being too soft on the kremlin, today reluctantly signed into law tough new sanctions on russia. But for someone who seems to so enjoy a signing ceremony, the white house kept this one behind closed doors away from the cameras. The president signing it, but issuing scathing words at the same time, calling the legislation, seriously flawed. And when we asked him about it reporter mr. President why are the russian sanctions seriously flawed . No comment. Congress had boxed the president into a corner, the bill passed by an overwhelming vetoproof majority, democrats and republicans. The president said he signed it for the sake of national unity, but in written statements, he slammed lawmakers, saying they included a number of clearly unconstitutional provisions. Adding, i built a truly Great Company worth many billions of dollars. As president , i can make far better deals with Foreign Countries than congress. Senator john mccain from arizona where he is undergoing Cancer Treatment saying, i hope the president will be as vocal about russias aggressive behavior as he was about his concerns with this legislation. Tonight, the president also facing tough questions about his own behavior after using a boy scouts jamboree last week to vent about politics. We won florida. We won south carolina. We won North Carolina. We won pennsylvania. Reporter the president told the wall street journal, the head of the boy scouts personally called him to say, it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them, and they were very thankful. But the political tone of the speech angered so many the boy scouts were actually forced to issue an apology. And today they said there was no phone call from scout leadership to the white house. The president also says he got a call from mexicos president , praising his work on the border. The president of mexico called me. They said their southern border, very few people are coming because they know theyrnot going to get through our border. Reporter but mexico says, nope. That call did not happen either. Today we asked the white house, did President Trump lie . No. On mexico, he was referencing the conversation that they had had at the g20 summit. In terms of the boy scouts, multiple members of the boy scout leadership, following his speech there that day, congratulated him, praised him. Reporter but the president specifically said that he received a phone call from the president of mexico and from the leader of the boy scouts. They were direct conversations, not phone calls. Reporter so he lied. He didnt receive that phone call . It wasnt a lie. Thats pretty bold accusation. Reporter how would you characterize it . The conversations took place, they just simply didnt take place over a phone call. He had them in person. Cecilia vega with us live from the white house tonight, and cecilia, the president is also taking some heat about comments he allegedly made about the white house itself . Reporter yeah. He reportedly, david, told members of his bedminster golf club, that, quote, the white house is a real dump. As you can imagine, that prompted swift backlash. Take a look at this picture from president obamas former white house photographer, no stager to publicly slamming this president , he said, no american should ever call this white house a dump. David, tonight a spokesperson for donald trump says that comment did not happen. Cecilia vega with us again tonight. Cecilia, thank you. We turn to a major Train Derailment were following in the middle of a pennsylvania town. Train cars crashing into homes, exploding into flames. Tonight, evacuations under way, and abcs linzie janis on the scene for us. Reporter that massive Freight Train carrying hazardous chemicals careening off the tracks in this pennsylvania neighborhood. Train derailment. With fire. Reporter tanks of propane and molten sulfur, bursting into flames. The blast captured on this Home Security camera. Kristina sutphin jolted out of bed when a train car hit her home. Shook my whole house. It took my kitchen out and my stairwell so we had to climb out the window. I just yelled for my neighbors and they got a ladder and got me and my daughter down. Reporter the csx Freight Train traveling from chicago to selkirk, new york, crashing in the tiny town of hyndman, about 100 miles southeast of pittsburgh. The entire town, over 1,000 people evacuated. The red cross setting up a shelter. David, train cars are still burning at this hour. The ntsb is on the scene, and the department of health is conducting air pollution tests and thankfully, no one was injured. David . Linzie janis, our thanks to you as well. The u. S. Military testing a long range missile amid rising tensions with north korea tonight. The launch from an air force base in california was previously scheduled with advanced warning to commercial airliners and ships in its path. It was last night here, we reported that north koreas most recent missile test landed in the same area where an air france plane had flown through ten minutes earlier. More than 300 people on board that plane. To our troops overseas tonight. From afghanistan, the battle in that country claiming the lives of two more u. S. Service members. The taliban taking responsibility saying a suicide attacker drove a truck bomb into a military convoy. Nine americans have died supporting Afghan Forces so far this year. We turn next tonight to growing concern and what could be a new case of Carbon Monoxide in a police suv cruiser. A Massachusetts Police officer behind the wheel, crashing into another car. His cruiser, a ford explorer. The same type linked to other cases involving police vehicles, and here tonight, abcs david wright. Reporter tonight, another case like this one of a Police Officer passing out at the wheel, and having an accident, allegedly after unsafe exposure to Carbon Monoxide. This crash happened in newport beach, california. The new case in auburn, massachusetts. He said that he had just been involved in an accident and he had passed out, he had hit another vehicle. Reporter the auburn officer lost control, struck a car at a stop sign and wound up in a Church Parking lot across the street. Hes been hospitalized. So have two other officers who also tested positive for Carbon Monoxide exposure. Its the latest in a series of troubling incidents involving late model ford police suvs. The austin, texas, Police Department took nearly 400 vehicles off the streets after officers there reported getting sick from fumes. Tonight ford says it is sending engineers to auburn to inspect their vehicles and modifications made to them. Ford says that the modifications that Police Departments make to these vehicles may be the cause of the problem because they have to drill holes in order to install some of the equipment that Police Officers need. In any case, ford says it will fix all of the vehicles that are experiencing problems, david. David wright. Thank you. Next here to an historic heat wave in the Pacific Northwest were watching. A haze over portland. Thats smoke from the wildfires amid triple digit temperatures and some breaking records. In the east tonight, blinding rain and hail. This is from patterson, new jersey not long ago. 30 million americans will be in the storm zone by the end of the week with this system. Lets get right to meteorologist rob marciano live with us tonight along the westside highway in a darkened manhattan. Hey, rob. Reporter hi, david. Well start with the heat on west. For some parts of the northwest, it will be the hottest streak they see in nearly a decade. Check it out in the pacific. Thats hot air surging north. We have heat thats smothering nevada, california, west oregon and washington. Tomorrow, portland and salem. They could see alltime record high temperatures there, and that air quality with the smoke not good for the i5 city there is. Meanwhile, widespread strong thunderstorms from baltimore to boston. Hefty rain, and lightning with these, and the severe storm will be in chicago and cleveland and pittsburgh tomorrow, and then to the northeast on friday with some filler thunderstorms that can be potent like were seeing tonight, david. Just about every part of the country were watching. Rob marciano, our thanks to you. To the economy, and the stock market. The dow reaching another milestone tonight. Closing above 22,000 for the first time, gaining 52 points to finish at 22,016. And stocks have been surging, taking just 107 training days to go from 21,000 to 22,000. And it comes as tens of thousands of americans lined up today for jobs and they told us that its not just the job they need. Heres abcs gio benitez. Reporter tonight, from coast to coast, as many as 50,000 people have new job offers, standing in line for hours to get hired by Online Retail giant, amazon. Im ready. I can do this. Im gonna get a job today. Reporter marty has a part time job, and says he came here for the benefits. Almost all of the jobs, here are fulltime. He got an offer. Im 56 years old. There arent a lot of places that want to hire someone over 50. Reporter stay at home mom, kerilyn houtman, needs to get a job too, and got one. You found out on the spot. Im gonna go home and tell my husband. Reporter what do you think hes gonna say . Hes gonna be happy, the extra income is gonna be beneficial. Hes military so, we dont make great pay. Reporter amazons goal, to hire 100,000 people within the next year hosting these amazon job fairs across 12 states. The companys success causing concern for some. American malls, once packed, as the hubs of shopping and socializing, are now losing ground. Experts tell us that shift means 5 million traditional retail jobs could be gone in the next decade. And david, so many people here telling me they are most interested in jobs with benefits. Especially health care. Amazon says that kicks in on the first day they report to work, david. Gio benitez. A lot of hope to find some jobs. Thank you. There is much more ahead on world news tonight this wednesday. The developing story at this hour. The pool emergency. Nearly two dozen people rushed to the hospital late today. Most of them children, and authorities now blaming a possible chemical leak. How this happened. Look at this. The airport worker struck by lightning and surviving it. We have news on his condition tonight. 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