Good evening. Its great to have you with us on a friday night. Diana is back on monday. We begin with dangerous flash flooding hitting several states. For some it is just the beginning. Look at the images. A foot of rain. In 24 hours. All the way north of minneapolis. Look at the earth giving way. It is Still Standing tonight. The patients okay. Entire homes in the heartland surrounded by water. Neighborhoods unpassable. Unless you have a boat. Tonight millions in the path of more severe weather. Meteorologist ginger zee but abcs Neal Karlinsky at the scene of that landslide that sent emergency teams scrambling. Reporter an emergency at the university of Minnesota Medical Center 100 yard chunk of hill that suddenly cut loose leaving the building dangling on a razors edge. Paul saw it happen. No warning, all a sudden it i saw a tree moving and the whole hill came down, just a big mudslide coming down. Just rolling, just mud. Reporter geologists say mudslides like this, in this part of the country are extremely rare but in the last 24 hours several hit throughout the area. Washing out highways and threatening roads. When they do happen, there is little time to react. As the ground along a steep slope soaks up more water than it can hold. Traveling at speeds up to 35 Miles Per Hour like this slide two months ago in baltimore. And minnesota is beyond soaked, heres water along this river yesterday and today up four feet overnight. In fact thursday broke the record as the rainiest june day ever here. More than four inches. And thats on top of a month thats seen nearly five times the average monthly rainfall, the governor declaring a sate of emergency in 35 counties. Were going to see a very tragic situation today, a lot of hardship. Reporter parts of iowa are only now we beginning to dry out. They have been examining the hospital all day long and they have determined no one is in danger. The building is structurally sound. Even though the sun is shining rights now they have received so much rain so fast out here that officials will continue to monitor the mississippi and other areas for the next several days. David. Thank you. Lets bring in meteorologist ginger zee. Just the amount of rain, staggering. You hear the numbers and you say i cant put it in perspective. We wanted to show you how much rain. This will be for the twin cities. An average for june to this date would be over 2 1 2 inches but this month over 10 1 2 inches. Were talking eight inches plus, a lot coming in the last seven days. More rain on the way . Yes. This is where it will fall for the next 48 to 72 hours. Were talking through sunday. A bulls eye in southwestern iowa. And parts of eastern nebraska and North Carolina and this alone comes with severe weather. Pockets of it tonight. You could see hail and damaging winds. Also isolated tornados possible and a more jelled together area for severe storms for saturday from rapid city to des moines, look out. Congrats on your wedding. Thank you. The numbers worse than thought at one of the most dangerous labs in america. The president being briefed after cdc workers were possibly exposed to live anthrax. Abcs linzie janis is right there asking the authorities how did this happen. Reporter the number of people possibly exposed to deadly anthrax rising tonight to 84. The cdc scrambling to decontaminate what should be the safest and most secure labs anywhere. Earlier this month, workers in three labs handled live anthrax without wearing protective suits. They thought the bacteria was dead but soon found it was very much alive. Reporter one of the staffers said the cdc is devastated by this. It was something that should never have happened. We pride ourselves in making sure our people are safe and protected so they can protect you. Reporter now, 50 employees are being treated with antibiotics or vaccines and the cdc assures us the risk is low. But the stakes are enormous. Left untreated, the chance of death is 85 . Here in the state of georgia the director of poison control is alarmed. When you hear about something as this with an agent thats been huged in terrorism, we should all be worried. Reporter 87 of americans live within 100 miles of a lab that works with dangerous diseases. There are 140 of them around the nation. More than 80 studying some of the deadliest agents like anthrax, sars, and plague. What happened here in atlanta, a real wakeup call. So far none of the more than 80 employees potentially exposed to anthrax here at the cdc have become ill. But they arent out of the woods yet. Symptoms can appear up to two months after exposure. David. Linzie janis, thank you. One more Health Headline out of west africa. Health officials calling the deadly Ebola Outbreak out of control. Eboel la has been linked to 330 deaths around the world. To afghanistan where were learning three u. S. Service members killed. A service dog was also killed. It happened in the Southern Region of afghanistan. Now to terror fears at home tonight. 300 military advisors are being sent into iraq. There is a new concern. Those militants are on the move are trying to recruit fighters and they want some of them from right here in the u. S. Why . Once they have the training, they would have their passports to come right back. Heres abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross tonight. Reporter with a new round of videos posted today, u. S. Law enforcement officials are increasingly concerned about the shrewd and slick social Media Campaign being run by isis to recruit us and european followers to fight not only in syria and iraq, but perhaps one day the us. There are driveby shootings complete with english subtitles, and catchy, phrases. Lets go for jihad, lets go. Reporter one new video today featured a supposed recruit from britain. And another from australia. Reporter the kind of men Authorities Say have the right documents to travel freely to the us. So even if theyre not americans, we have to be concerned about people coming into this country and creating terroristic attacks. Reporter by some estimates, more than 2,000 westerners are believed to have answered the jihad call. Including about a hundred from the us, such as this man, seen in an earlier isis propaganda video before reportedly being killed in battle. Well bring the right of islam to rule all of the entire world, over europe and america. Reporter u. S. Authorities have been on alert. Just today, two texas men were indicted for allegedly planning to travel overseas to join jihad and support terrorist activities. If you have information on this man. Reporter the man behind it all, is a rarely photographed 43yearold iraqi with a 10 million u. S. Reward on his head, known as abu dua, or albaghdadi. When albaghdadi announced the goals of his group in 2012, he issued his own direct threat to the us about a second and worse 9 11. Reporter and with the threats and the western recruits the group is now reported to be Holding Hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold in iraq. We know youll stay on it. Thank you. Tonight the white house weighing in after the images on world news. The surge of young faces crossing the american border from the south. Some of the children without their parents, others with family, one mother, collapsing when authorities told her she had made it to the u. S. Tonight the Obama Administration with the warning they will take action against those crossing the border and speed up deportations saying showing up on the border illegally is not a ticket to the country. The white house making headlines on samesex marriage. Moving to expand federal benefits for samesex couples. Everything from Social Security benefits to sick leave which would allow samesex couples to take time off. To care for their spouses are who ill. Now to the outrage involving the irs. Asking how can the tax man get off the hook when ordinary payers would never get away with that. Abc on the case tonight. Reporter the irs commissioner on the hot seat today. Admitting his agency lost two years of emails from its biggest scandal in decades. Why . Because of a computer crash. You asked taxpayers to hang on to seven years of their personal Tax Information in case theyre audited and you cant keep six months worth of employee emails. Reporter congress is demanding those emails to help expalestine why the irs targeted tea party groups. But the commissioner says theyre gone. The hard drive was recycled and destroyed in the normal process. Reporter Congress Today not buying it. This is being misleading again. I dont believe you. Thats the first time anybody has said they do not believe me. I dont believe you. Thats fine. Reporter for the commissioner it was a long day. Its all about trust and nobody trusts the irs right now. Amazingly awful. This is the most corrupt and deceitful irs in history. Reporter we caught up with him. After the hearing. If the american taxpayer used the excuse my hard drive is lost or receipts are gone, what would the irs say . If the american taxpayer said my hard drive is gone, but i could give you other information, the irs would work with them. Reporter another black eye for the irs. Jeff zeleny abc news. One more headline causing a fire storm. Bonuses revealed at the va. Whats being called and outlandish bonus culture. We learned today that despite the scandal delaying care for veterans, every top manager at the va received positive performance reviews. 80 received bonuses. In all, more than 350 paid 2. 7 million in bonuses last year. Now to california. The pilot of a u. S. Airways flight reporting a laser strike impairing the pilots vision. In the cockpit. That was on the planes descent into lax. The fbi investigating. There were nearly 4,000 strikes last year alone. Thats nearly 11 a day. To a Lightning Strike, so close to a delta jet on the ground. Some personnel were injured. This evening a surprising number. Its believed every plane in america is struck by lightning at least once a year. In mows cases, passengers have no idea in most cases. David kerley on the close calls and the armour protecting you. Reporter its a striking sight. A jetliner hit in air by lightning surviving. That Lightning Strike in ft. Lauderdale yesterday injured two workers but the aircraft wasnt damaged. No major damage to these aircraft. Hows that possible . In a seattle lab behind a thick door these boeing engineers are making lightning. That is a million volts of electricity zapping a model of a boeing 777. Rob steinle is boeings lightning guy. We want to see where lightning hits the airplane. Why do jetliners survive a strike . Because the aircrafts skin acts like a channel. Think of it as an extension cord. That million volts of electricity flows over the skin and off the aircraft without ever penetrating the inside of the aircraft. Reporter how do they know it wont penetrate . Watch the probe strike a piece of aluminum skin with 200,000 amps. Boeing wants to make sure its thick enough. You see that its scratched the aluminum but didnt actually go through . That is indicative of like a once in a lifetime level that a plane would occur. We hit it pretty hard. Reporter it isnt often you get a chance to charge up a massive electric machine, so when offered okay. So heres my chance to make lightning. Whoa thats amazing so when i fly through the next thunderstorm and theres lightning, youre telling me dont worry . Dont worry. Youll be fine. Better in the tube than on the golf course. Reporter reassurance tested in the lab that these spectacular jolts are survivable. David kerley, abc news, seattle. Well tang take the reassuran reassurance. Much more ahead on world news this friday night. The new and surprising numbers out tonight. The number of great white sharks on americas coast line. Our cameras with them under water and our matt gutman standing by on one of the beaches where theyre looking for the sharks tonight. Then the tiny golfer in red, white and blue swinging her way to the history books tonight. What she did and said that made us all laugh. You have got to see our person of the week. Ugh. Heartburn. Did someone say burn . Try alka seltzer reliefchews. They work just as fast and are proven to taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. Mmm. Amazing. Yeah, i get that a lot. Alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. Enjoy the relief. My dad has aor afib. Brillation, he has the most common kind. Its not caused by a heart valve problem. 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A truck size fish, up to 7,000 pounds and 23 feet long. Fast as a horse and armed with 300 fleshslicing teeth. Scientists are crediting to an increase of their favorite food, seals, a federal ban on hunting great white and its effort to change their image. The whole world needs sharks in order to keep our oceans healthy. Reporter i splashed in. With jim to swim with tiger sharks in the bahamas. Turn around, man turn around wow. About as big as great whites. Even petting them. The fence is working. Thousands following the great white name cavern tracking her journey from cape cod to the gulf of mexico. She has millions of fans following her online. With thousands of great whites out there, at least we know where one of them is. Kathryn has been spotted headed towards the florida panhandle. Swimmers beware. But, no, this isnt a movie on on average, there is only a single shark attack every year. David. That is good to know. Matt, thank you. When we come back. 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[ male announcer ] ask your doctor about lyrica today. Its specific treatment for diabetic nerve pain. Finally tonight. The pintsize golfer back the course today. She didnt make the cut but she sure made an impression. Its the lessons she taught us about competition, pressure and taking time for ice cream that makes her our person of the week. Reporter shes the 11yearold red, white and blue this week swinging her way into history. Still wearing her braces. She came with her swing. Her outfit, her caddy and hands on her hip and sending the message, shes got this. She became the youngest player to qualify for the u. S. Womens open even before her history making moment, a winning stroke. What she said about competing. I just want to go out there and have fun and play the best i can. I really dont care about the outcome. I just want to have fun. Reporter about dad who has been by her side. Can your dad beat you . No. Reporter she played on thursday and again today. And after her first round, not bad. She walked up to the microphone. Stepped on to a box and trading her golf club for her ice cream. It was a lot of fun. I struggled today but it was great. Reporter it was the lesson she learned we could all use. I learned that you got to be patient. One shot at a time. Reporter just 11, so many wondering about what about the pressure. The giant crowds. She says she loves them. Shes been golfing for more than half her life and saying she got serious at about 7 while waiting for her brother to finish on the Practice Range and about the age thing what is like to be asked for an autograph by people older than you . Its awesome. Reporter even though she didnt play as well as yesterday it was still enough to make history and for others to make way for her. After all those swings, now its back to being the daughter from california who says she likes to read sherlock holmes. But her immediate plan eat some more ice cream. Sounds good to us. So we choose lucy lee who certainly will be back. Another sports hero tonight. Team usa the world cup on sunday and a sunday edition of person of the week with tim howard and the obstacles hes overcome sunday night. Diane sawyer back here monday and for diane and all of us here at abc, have a good night. Breaking news, tragedy along the interstate a grass fire that destroyed several buildings. Were live just look at this. A wildfire continuing to burn, fuelled by gusty winds of Solano County the fire spread into a rural neighborhood nearby. Good evening and thanks for joining us. Lets go back now to sky 7 hd. The fire burning near interstate 80. Not too far from fairfield it started as a vegetation fire, then quickly jumped the free, and now, several homes are still burning. This is a video on the east side of 680. It looks like at heeft two structures have burned so far. Winds are high. In the area. In fact we understand a third fire, a third house has gone up in flames, helicopters have been brought in for water drghts. Sky 7, you can see them trying to drop water onto the fire. This is a live look from sky 7, several buildings still burning. One has been completely destroyed. Yes. And there are crews from cal fire, Solano County and Contra Costa County on the scene right now. On the phone with us is cal fire, are you there . Yes. I am. Thank you, lynn. Update us if you can. This has been, i know its gusty but its been more stubborn. Yes. Wind is our worst enemy. Just burns through vegetation, and also, through homes what do we know about how many buildings are burning now . Is three houses now . I do not have an update im not sure. You probably have a better view from the copter how challenging is it . I know theyre using water drops from helicopters how challenge yefrnging to hit the target . We got the sense at least one house was
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