And good thursday morning. Im Marci Gonzalez in for reena ninan. Im kendis gibson. Well begin with the south and South Carolina specifically bracing for more deadly floods. The death toll this morning at least 19 with raging floodwaters pushing more than a dozen dams to their breaking points and putting nearly 50 others in danger. And the view from inside the storm zone is nothing short of dramatic. In the town of andrews, a coast guard helicopter came to the rescue of an 88yearold grandmother and her two grandchildren whose home was surrounded by water. And the danger may not lift until this weekend. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has the latest. Reporter cleanup and damage control. Both under way in South Carolina. As residents get ready for another surge of water, roads are caving in. The rush of water even bringing caskets to the surface and 62 of the dams in the state on the verge of collapse with the rivers now rising. This event is not over. Reporter the death toll is growing in the state. 19 now dead since the rain began. Were holding our breath and were saying a prayer. Reporter in columbia, officials evacuated a thousand People Living below the beaver dam. They have gone nonstop to help prevent a major catastrophe. Reporter two were killed. Their truck swept away. It had driven around a roadblock reportedly. The governor hopes they heed the warning. This is a situation where if that road is closed its closed because were trying to protect you. Reporter in downtown columbia Chinook Helicopters dropping sandbags to hold up this massive breach in the levee near the Water Filtration system. Columbia nave tiffs have never seen anything like this. Its the worst ive ever seen since living here. So were just going through it right now hoping and praying that god watches over us. Reporter Stephanie Ramos, abc news, washington. Now to a new development overnight. Investigation of Hillary Clintons emails. The ap reporting clintons private email server was the attempted of cyberattacks originating in china, south korea and germany taking place after clintons time as secretary of state. They were apparently blocked by Security Product but the report indicates there was a period of time after clinton left the administration when that protection had not been installed. So that means the server was potentially vulnerable during that time. Meantime, clinton has broken with president obama and is no longer supporting a u. S. Trade deal with pacific rim nations. Clintons opposition puts her in line with her democratic primary opponents and it might just be a move against potential candidate Vice President joe biden. More now from abcs cecilia vega. Reporter Hillary Clinton opposing one of president obamas top priorities, a political flipflop on his 12nation trade pact, the Transpacific Partnership which she once backed as secretary of state. We had to have a trade agreement that would create Good American jobs, raise wages and advance our national security. What i know about it as of today, i am not in favor of what i have learned about it. Reporter its clintons fourth major split in less than a month from her opposition to the Keystone Pipeline to calling for a nofly zone in sierra and the deportation strategy no longer works separating from the white house and the joe biden threat looming. He may not actually be running for president , but joe biden is starring in that new campaign ad. Things can change in a heartbeat. Reporter in black and white, talks about that 1972 car crash that killed his first wife and their daughter, nearly killing his sons too shaping his future. Incredible bond i have with my children is a gift im not sure i would have had had i not been through what i went through. Reporter paid for a group of supporters hoping to convince the Vice President to enter the race. The ad hits the airwaves ahead of tuesdays first democratic debate. Cecilia vega, abc news, cedar rapids, iowa. President obama has apologized for the deadly u. S. Air strike on a hospital in afghanistan. The president s phone call to the head of Doctors Without Borders came days after the strike killed 22 people at the groups facility in the city of konduz. He also promised the u. S. Will look into making changes to make sure this doesnt happen again. The United States when we make a mistake, were honest about it, we own up to it. We apologize where necessary as the president did in this case. Despite the apology Doctors Without Borders held a press conference late this morning calling for an independent investigation. Theres been an apparent close call for a u. S. Warplane with Russian Forces in a major escalation in syria. In an extraordinary display of russian force, more than 25 cruise missiles were fired at targets 900 miles away in syria. President Vladimir Putin says those were isis terrorists but the u. S. Says there is no evidence those terrorist targets were hit. Ive said before that we believe russia has the wrong strategy. They continue to hit targets that are not isil. U. S. Officials say russia is creating a dangerous situation for u. S. Aircraft which have had frighteningly Close Encounters with russian warplanes. At least one u. S. Plane was forced to change course because a russian jet got too close. The search for the crew of the u. S. Cargo ship that sank near the bahamas has been called off. The coast guard said it was a painful and difficult decision to stop looking for the 28 americans and 5 polish citizens lost last week during hurricane joaquin. The ntsb is still searching for the ships data recorder and president obama has promised to give full support to the investigation saying the grieving families deserve answers. Two of the students injured in the mass shooting at a college in oregon have been released from the hospital. Chris mintz hailed as a hero hailed for confronting the gunman recovering at home after he was shot seven times. Also home this morning, 18yearold ana boylan who played dead when she was shot in the back. Most of the Funeral Services for the nine people are taking place over this weekend. All right, were going to switch gears to a quick baseball highlight from last nights National League wild card game. Kyle schwarber of the cubs hammered a tworun home run right out of pittsburghs pnc park. Wow. That put chicago ahead of the pirates, 30 and that was more than enough, thats more than they needed. This was the scene outside Wrigley Field after the cubs won it, 40. This was the cubs first playoff win since 2003. Full highlights coming up from the guys at espn. All right, still ahead, 600,000 discovered in a backyard. Where did it come from . Dramatic escape. A teen pulled from the street and put in a car jumping from the vehicle to get away. Survive story in the South Carolina floods. A woman and her grandson saved by a cross . A collision and inferno caught on camera in new jersey. This tanker truck colliding with a honda flipping over the guardrail and look at this. The flames that erupted. The driver of the truck passed away in that crash. The collision may have been triggered by a mattress and a box spring that apparently fell off of a van. A huge stash of cash found buried in a suburban backyard in Southern California has been linked to a Million Dollar armored car heist. Federal agents collected 600,000 yesterday behind a home in San Bernardino in Southern California. Two armored car drivers were charged last year with stealing the money from a bank of america shipment. The rest of the cash has yet to be recovered. A potentially crippling strike at chrysler factories across the country has been averted. Some 40,000 members of the united autoworkers set to walk off the job overnight but negotiators for both the uaw and chrysler reached a new tentative contract just in time. No details have been released but the uaw has tweeted that it has secured significant gains over the last proposal. This should be a big day in washington. Volkswagens top american executive heads to capitol hill to discuss the emissions scandal with members of a house committee. Michael horn is expected to tell lawmakers that while it straightens out its problems, volkswagen wont sell diesel vehicles in the u. S. For its upcoming model year. Horn will also say he first heard about it in the spring of last year and that he was assured by engineers that it would be fixed. And europes Third Largest Budget Airline is promising some super cheap fares. Norwegian airs ceo says oneway lights from the u. S. To europe would cost as little as 69. 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Com you are looking at a dramatic rescue caught on camera in houston after a worker was left dangling from a bridge for nearly an hour. The worker was repairing the bridge yesterday afternoon when he slipped interest a catwalk. Luckily he was wearing a harness and firefighters were able to pull him to safety through a manhole. Now for a look at your morning road conditions, some relief is in store for flood ravaged South Carolina. But roads will be wet from the midwest into the great lakes with flooding conditions across western texas and much of new mexico and roads will be wet across parts of florida. A florida judge is under fire after locking up a victim of Domestic Violence. Yeah, judge Jerry Collins found the woman in contempt of court because she ignored a subpoena to appear at the trial of her alleged abuser. Her husband spent 16 days in jail accused of strangling her at knifepoint as she held their 1yearold baby. The woman told the judge she didnt show up because she was suffering from depression and anxiety but the judge sentenced her to three days in jail. My anxiety and im just you think youre going to have anxiety now . You havent even seen anxiety. Advocates for Domestic Violence were outraged saying the woman was revictimized by that judge. And a wild scene at a home depot in detroit. A shoplifting suspect was being chased by security after he jumped into a waiting suv, a woman took out her handgun and opened fire. The vehicle drove away. Its believed the suspects made off with more than a thousand dollars in merchandise and detroits mayor says the woman was justified in her actions. Others, though, disagree. Yeah, id say. Meantime, police in bridgeport are searching for a woman in a suspected attempted abduction and released this video showing the alleged victim jumping out of this moving car. The 17yearold girl told them she was lured inside the car. Then assaulted by the driver before she was able to leap to safety. That 17yearold was reportedly not hurt in that jump. Another remarkable story of survival as those historic floodwaters swamp South Carolina, clara gantt and her grandsons say they were saved by a cross. She says her car was swept away way by the raging floodwaters before coming to a stop right next to a huge red cross. You see there. Gantt and her grandson hung on to that cross for five hours until they were finally rescued. The thems week five gets started with the colts taking on the texans. But both American League Division Series begin as well today. Now those National League highlights we mentioned from neal and nicole at espn. Shes nicole, im neil. Tonys producing. Hes a pirates fan. Nicole is a cubs fan. I had a good day. Tony did not. Heres why. Jake arietta on the mound for the cubbies and a wild card game in pittsburgh. You know, hes 170 when given three plus runs in support this season. I knew that. He got that in the first two innings. 11 ks. Allowed four hits. That is the final out. Cervelli gets it to sterling marte. They got the cardinals next. Tony has hockey. Here it is, oh, from the cubs, just keep the good things in chicago. Jonathan toews raising the cup, drop the puck on a new season. What a game this was between the rangers who got beat by tampa bay in the Eastern Conference Finals last year and chicago beat the lightning in six to win it and it looks like it looks like its tied here. Patrick kane knocked it in but the ref had blown the whistle. Premature blowing of the whistle, lost sight of the puck. Barry said it was a good call. Who am i to argue . Thanks, guys. One more item from last nights game. Things got a little weird in the seventh when chicago pitcher jake arietta was hit by a pitch, the benches cleared. Nothing too serious here. But after being ejected for throwing a punch, pittsburghs sean rodriguez, take a look, unloaded on a cooler. 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Just a lot the high clouds. You can see how clear the air is. Warmer when you step outside. But you need the sweatshirt. Temperatures around 60. We will hang the upper 60s from the low 70s to upper 70s. Upper 70s at lunch and mid80s inland, warmer than yesterday. I will tell you how much more we will climb to the weekend. Good morning, everyone. We start off with a look at the Golden Gate Bridge and a picture showing flashing lights and it looks like maybe c. H. P. Is making its way over to the toll plaza and we will find out what is going on there. The rest of traffic is moving nicely. We have an accident in the clearing stages if you travel on transition between highway 4 and 680 much it look like it will reopen shortly. An injury accident so try to avoid the area and take 242. Three drifters are in jail waiting to be sent back to california to face charges for the murder of a wellknown Yoga Instructor in marin county. We are in san rafael. Amy hollyfield . Yes, we have new information at the Sheriffs Office were they say the officers from here are sell en route to portland and there is a great amount of relief here at the Sheriffs Office where they were working the case around the clock. Here mug shots of three arrested, two men and a woman raining in age from 18 to 24. They were arrested in portland yesterday. Investigators say the three were driving in the victims car. They were found outside a homeless shelter in portland and Police Tracked them using the g. P. S. On the victims car. I saw three malicious type men holding guns and i thought it was a play because it was bizarre. Heard brakes, tires skidding and a bunch of Police Officers saying get down or we will shoot. 67yearold steve carter was shot dead while walking his dog open a trail outside of fairfax county, the Yoga Instructor and his wife have been staying in marin county with a friend while his wife was receiving treatment for breast cancer. Authorities say they still do not know the motive behind the murder but they plan to investigate the suspects when they reach
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