World news tonight. Good evening and thank you for joining us on this saturday. Im cecilia vega. Lets get to the latest from texas. The relentless rain just not letting up. Damage so bad president obama declaring a major disaster ordering federal aid to help with the clean up. Those floodwaters still rising. Lets take a look. At the edge of dallas the Trinity River there, a narrow stream but tonight it is mostly covered in water. Only the tops of trees seen in the flood. Death toll rising to 29 confirmed fatalities. Hunt now on for 11 people still missing and theres another 24 hour fsof dangerous weather ahead. Abcs senior meteorologist from those floodwaters tonight. Reporter tonight in dallas, residents on edge. That new drone video showing the Trinity River at its highest level in 24 years. That sign and those flashing lights warning of high water. At least five major texas cities now seeing their wettest may on record. So many roads around dallas, surge merged in water. This is a major thoroughfare. Until they bring water pumps in here, this road is closed. Residents north of the city under water, too. Thats our fence line and that fence is probably five feet tall. Reporter heavy rain making patti anxious. Having lived through awe drought, now flood. Whats worse . The flood. We prayed a little too much for rain. Im hoping it tapers off. Reporter the storm damaging hundreds of homes and taking more than 20 lives. Flooding is the number one weatherrelated killer. 38 people dying in 2014 alone. Flash flooding is dangerous and hard to predict. Small streams can become raging rapids in minutes. To protect yourself, know if youre on a flood plain and the fastest way to get to higher ground. And Pay Attention to weather warnings. Hello, anybody in the house . Reporter overnight, Police Officers announcing new evacuations the brazus river threatening this neighborhood near houston. Seeing it is hard to believe. Reporter as volunteers help people like kellie burns clean up, the river submerging her home in about 4 feet of water last weekend. Most of the water drains into the Trinity River which is usually 30 feet wide. Look at it now. The river is expected to crest tomorrow afternoon. Rob, you were telling me these next 12 hours going to be crucial. Yeah. Very much so. Here the rain stopped for the most part but the rivers are still on the rise. Across southeast texas, houston in particular. Computer models are picking up potential to see more showers and storms rise up through the evening and overnight period. Flood watches remain in effect there and then the rain push office to the east really that needs it. The northeast could stand to get a couple inches of rain. One to two inches spread across the area. And then that means a few days of dry weather here in floodravaged texas. They will take it. Good news for them. Finally. And we move to another top story. A growing scandal for the former speak are of the house, Dennis Hastert. The former speaker of the house, claims he sexually abused a minor years ago and lying to the fbi. And there may be another alleged victim. Reporter tonight the allegations of sexual abuse by Dennis Hastert are growing. Sources say there may be a second victim. Sources say that hastert is surprised by the indictment. Hes baffled by it. But maybe it will all work out in the long run. Reporter once the most powerful man in congress hes now charged with bank fraud and lying to the fbi after he allegedly promised to pay 3. 5 million in hush money to cover up his past misconduct. Sources say the man he was paying was a former student in Northern Illinois where hastert was a teacher and wrestling coach, but sources say its unlikely the mystery man who received the payments will be charged with extortion. In this situation, at least to date hastert has denied that he is a victim of extortion. Reporter sources say the second alleged but unknown victim received any money from hastert. One of his former wrestling stars said this is not the hastert he knew. Never have i heard anything negative against him. Reporter in the indictment hastert tried to mask his withdrawals, taking out 10,000 in 100 separate transactions, when asked about it. Hastert told the fbi that he didnt think the Banking System was safe, saying, i kept the cash. Hastert has yet to comment on the charges or be seen publicly, and he hasnt been arrested because authorities dont believe hes a flight risk. If convicted, hastert faces up to ten years in prison. Cecilia . And we turn to 2016. Tonight Hillary Clinton has a new rival in the race to the white house. Martin omalley a twoterm governor of maryland now joining bernie sanders. And is the second clinton challengers. Omalley positioning himself as a progressive, ready to take on wall street. Ive got news for the bullies of wall street. The presidency is not a crown to be passed back and forth by you, between two royal families. Reporter and just after that announcement, omalley sitting down with george stephanopoulos, for an exclusive interview. Are you saying that both bush and clinton are beholding the bullies of wall street . Im saying that we need new leadership to accomplish, as to rein in excesses and when you have somebody thats the ceo of one of the biggest repeat offending banks in the history saying he would be fine with bush or clinton that should tell us something. Clinton tweeting, welcome to the race, governor omalley. You can see the rest of georges exclusive interview tomorrow morning on this week. Turning now to new worries about the militarys big mistake unknowingly shipping potentially deadly anthrax by fed ch the pentagon adding utah and australia to the list of states. Somewhere it reached two foreign countries. Richard besser is here, what are the news concerns . It turns out it wasnt a onetime event. They expect more and more states will be added to the list. Now there is a concern the procedure they used to deactivate the bacteria may not be working . Yes, initially they thought there was a problem how it was performed but if the procedure is such it was done wrong, it could get much larger and expand beyond d. O. D. And we have another headline. A new provides i for treating women with advanced Breast Cancer removed with other treatments. The double ibrance doubled the amount of time before the cancer grew worse in this trial from four months to nine. And in mississippi, a final goodbye for the king of blues. Among the hundreds at b. B. Kings funeral. Family, friends, longtime band members and governor of that state. A letter from president obama read during the Church Service they sent the blues legend off with prayer and of course a lot of music. And in washington, d. C. Tonight the surviving members of the family brutally murdered in their mansion, tonight preparing for a funeral. The husband, wife and young san will bow buried monday. Meanwhile the family charged with the crime is now preparing for his defense. Abcs Gloria Rivera with the latest. Reporter tonight the lawyer hired to meet with the suspect by his family is speaking out. He tells abc wint claims he had nothing to do with the murders and also said his mother is devastated. The mom cant believe he would do anything like this. Reporter wint the only suspect in custody so far is accused of the brutal murder of savvas savopoulos, his wife amy, their young son, and longtime housekeeper vera figueroa. Just as family and friends prepare to say their final goodbyes at mondays funeral, ficker is accusing investigators of focusing too closely on the wrong man. Theyre not looking elsewhere. Theyve closed their eyes. Reporter wint was apprehended in washington, d. C, with, ficker claims, the full cooperation of wints own brother. They werent running away. Reporter as for the dna evidence from that Dominos Pizza crust linking wint to the crime scene . He doesnt even like pizza, he doesnt eat pizza. If he was hungry, he wouldnt order pizza. Reporter investigators say the crime required the presence and assistance of more than one person. Daron wint will next appear in court on june 22nd. Gloria rivera, abc news, washington. And next to a scare in florida, two teens attacked by sharks on the same day. Tonight beaches on high alert. Heres linzie janis with the latest. Reporter two shark attacks on florida beaches in just one day. Friday afternoon, a 19yearold woman swimming in waistdeep water in New Smyrna Beach bitten on the foot. At first she was a little freaked out. Reporter she suffered only minor injuries. Roughly an hour later, 65 miles south at cocoa beach, a 14yearold girl wading in the ocean also attacked, her foot more severely injured. And less than a week ago on that same beach, 13yearold alysa whetro was also bitten in shallow water. The pain, like a sharp pain. Then i pulled my foot up and thats when i saw it all bleeding. Reporter florida is the shark attack capital of the world, with most incidents on the east coast. But beachgoers on the states gulf coast on high alert too, after this shark was filmed just last month swimming near a residential community. And across the country, in california, this juvenile great white right alongside a sheriffs boat. A flyby of the same area, spotting at least six more sharks swarming in the water, some up to six feet long. A recent report says their population has increased by an estimated 42 over the last late 1990s, partly because of a federal ban on hunting them. Shark attacks are still rare, and fatalities even more so. But last month in hawaii, the first deadly attack in u. S. Waters since 2013. Linzie janis, abc news. And to the west coast now, a massive fire consuming a Southern California home. The mother jumping to safety but her 5yearold son still trapped inside. What happens next, a Daring Rescue by someone who just happened to be driving by. Hers abcs newest correspondent. Kayna whitworth. Reporter tonight they think it was an electrical fire that threatened a family if not for the thinking of a teenager who just happened to be driving by. I put my car in park. Reporter firefighter Jason Chapman and his certified fema search dog boogie have saved lives before but when his own home went up in flames, he was at work and wasnt there to help. We do it for a living. Were trained to do it as firemen, so its expected of us. Its not expected of a 17yearold. Reporter that teenager turned Unlikely Hero matt hawker saw flames and heard creams, he ran up to the home. I was so shocked after and i was just amazed at what i did myself. Reporter and what he did was save chapmans 5yearold son, brayden. I grabbed the kid and when i picked him up he was pulling my hair and slapping me because he was scared. But i lifted him over the balcony and lowered him down. Reporter braydens mother was in the backyard, suffering a broken leg after jumping 19 feet from her balcony to escape the fire. But the family dog, boogie, didnt make it out. She died in the fire and was given firefighters honors and that teenager earning the familys respect and gratitude as well. Brayden, suffering only smoke inhalation, was well enough to attend school just two days later. And according to firefighter, his mother is set to be released from the hospital this weekend. Thank you, kayna. You will be based in our los angeles bureau. We want to welcome you to the abc family. And we have much more on world news tonight. Up next. The crime you never see, and the decoy they use to grab goods. You wont believe this one. And later, sir Paul Mccartney making head lines once again. 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Reporter in just seconds, the purse and everything inside it, gone. A string of thefts hitting california businesses. What police say they all have in common distract and grab. Watch, one woman orders food, makes small talk with a bakery worker, while two others make off with a purse stashed behind the counter. In this donut shop, police say crooks even used the victims own grandson as a decoy while a designer purse, watches and passports out the door. Its not just the value of the purse and the contents. There were also some personal identification documents within that purse that were stolen. Reporter bob arno advises police on how to catch crooks in the act. He shows us just how easy it is to pull off the crime. Bob and his wife distract these unsuspecting people. The woman on the right leaves her purse hanging on her chair. Bob swoops in and steals her wallet. Reporter did you have any idea what he was doing right behind you . 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Next cutting off locks of love in this famous landmark in paris. Tourists leaving symbols of eternal love on this bridge. Well love might not last forever, not here, anyway. Close to 1 million padlocks weighing 45 tons causing part of the bridge to collapse. The locks now coming down monday. They say they want paris to keep its reputation as a city of romance but would lov vis tors to show their love in other ways. And theres no love lost on this woman in a ohio courtroom convicted of pepper spraying a woman in a burger king. The judge offering the choice of jail or being pepper sprayed by her victim. To her surprise it was only salt water there. The judge said he did it for the scare factor. That same judge sentencing another woman to walk 30 miles pore skipping out to pay cab fare. And when we come back. Catching the tiger by the tail. The seemingly ferocious feline that had a neighborhood on edge. What happened when animal control came to the rescue. Ntrol came to the rescue. 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And i prepared for a tiger. Reporter while his partner circled around to approach from behind, daniel stepped forward ever so carefully a ring pull device to collar the beast in quivering hand. Im going to ring pull the heck out of a tiger. Reporter just a few days earlier, Police Stopped this car in washington state, because some people reported that was a real tiger on the top. It was not. And turned out it was not. It was a very harmless stuffed animal. I bought this one, hook, line and sinker. I get on the radio and you can hear it. I called dispatch, disregard p. D. Its a stuffed animal. Reporter just the same out of an abundance of caution. Animal control officers took it into custody. Tonight the tigers owner still unknown. Ron claiborne, abc news, new york. I can only imagine the ribbing he got at the office. Gma in and this week in the morning. Well see you right back here tomorrow night. For all of us at abc news enjoy your weekend. Good night. 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