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Transcripts For WPVI ABC World News With David Muir 20170601

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Good evening and its great to have you with us here on a thursday night. We begin tonight with reaction across this country and the world about President Trumps decision to pull out the Paris Climate Accord. The u. S. Joining only syria and nicaragua not joining the deal. He said he was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh not paris. Tonight the mayor of pittsburgh among the many reacting and President Trump a short time ago, fielding calls from the german chancellor and from the french president. Went on television saying, make our planet great again. Saying the United States has turned it back on the world. Abcs senior white house correspondent, cecilia vega leading us off. Reporter with the world watching, today the president walked into the rose garden to deliver the news himself therefore, in order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect america and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. Thank you. Reporter hes making good on a campaign promise, but in his own inner circle, the divisions ran deep. Right there in the front row, the man who lobbied for withdrawal, his chief strategist steve bannon. Not seen, those who opposed leaving the deal daughter ivanka. She was home, marking the jewish holiday. The lastminute lobbying from around the world intense, but the bottom line for President Trump american jobs. I was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris. I promised i would exit or renegotiate any deal which fails to serve americas interests. Reporter the reaction swift, the mayor of pittsburgh tweeting, i can assure you that we will follow the guidelines of the Paris Agreement for our people, our economy future. The sierra club saying, congratulations, president bannon. Leonardo dicaprio tweeting our planet suffered. But the president said the benefits just didnt add up. A number of republicans agreeing, including paul ryan the paris climate agreement was simply a raw deal for america. Even if the Paris Agreement were implemented in full, with total compliance from all nations, it is estimated it would only produce a. 02 of 1 degree. Think of that. This much celsius reduction in global temperature by the year 2100. A tiny, tiny amount. Reporter on the campaign trail, he called Climate Change a hoax. A lot of it is a hoax. Its a hoax. Its a moneymaking industry, okay, a lot of it. Reporter but recently aides said his views are evolving. On that foreign trip, he faced intense lobbying from world leaders, including the pope. The president s beliefs about Global Warming not made any clearer today. Just five minutes after announcing his decision to leave the paris accord, he declared his love for the environment. As someone who cares deeply about the environment, which i do, i cant in good conscious support a deal that punishes the United States, which it does. Reporter while President Trump says he would be willing to negotiate the deal all over again we will see if we can make a deal thats fair, and if we can thats great, and if we cant, thats fine. Reporter tonight, from the leaders of france, germany, italy, a collective rejection. Their joint statement saying the Paris Climate Accord cannot be renegotiated. This german paper saying, danke, donald. The german chancellor even calling the president. She says shes disappointed. And late today the french president emannuel macron saying this make our planet great again. Cecilia, nearly 200 countries had signed the paris climate agreement. So much has been made this agreement was nonbinding. Work needs to be done on Climate Change. What was the urgency of getting out of something quickly that was nonbinding. Reporter for him this is about jobs, making good on that campaign promise. He and this white house are chalking this up to a big win at a time when they desperately need one. Cecilia, thank you. Former president barack obama was among the first to weigh in before President Trump was even done in the rose garden. The former president ish shug a statement, the nations that remain in the Paris Agreement will be the nations that reap the benefits of jobs created. I believe the United States of america should be at the front of the pack. Also tonight here, mayors across this country and corporate america, all weighing in. The ceo of ge blasting the move, saying, Climate Change is real. Abcs Rebecca Jarvis tonight. Reporter tonight, moments a after President Trump announced that exit. U. S. Companies firing back. General electric ceo tweeting Climate Change is real. Industry must now lead and not rely on government. Elon musk, announcing on twitter, writing, leaving paris is not good for america or the world. For months, dozens of American Companies including apple, citigroup, walmart have urged President Trump not to quit the agreement arguing that participation would help strengthen Global Competitiveness and create jobs. Local governments alsoing chiming in tonight. 61 u. S. Mayors now pledging to adopt, honor and uphold the paris accord commitments. Mayor of boston with this message. When we talk about heat waves and major storms were talking about people losing their lives here in boston. Lot of reaction across this country tonight. Rebecca with us tonight, President Trump saying the paris accord is bad for american jobs. Former president barack obama said the nation is still in the accord will benefit from jobs created. Give us a reality check. Reporter tonight in this country there are threetimes the number of renunl energy jobs as coal jobs. As of now, there are 475,000 wind and solar jobs. Those are growing. Whereas as those coal jobs, 160,000 of them, they saw those numbers decline 24 last year which is why its not surprising the largest coal producer in this country has come out in appreciation of trumps exit. Supporting the move. Yes. Rebecca jarvis, thank you. At the start of the president s rose garden statement he also talked about a frightening scene playing out in manila today. Calling it terrorism. Tonight, police on what it really was and the tourists who trampled each other to get out. Heres abcs alex perez. I can hear gun shots. Reporter it was a terror scare tonight, sending hundreds fleeing. A gunman still at large at this hour, inside a resort in manila. Chaos and confusion as tourists trampled one another to get out. At least 21 injured according to police. Ambulances rushing to the casino and hotel. Police with guns drawn. As guests stream out into the street, many with suitcases. First responders, carrying the injured out on stretchers. Smoke seen rising above the neon sign. These people huddling together in a back room, others in this garage. The next i saw, started a huge fire. Reporter the police chief now saying theres likely no terror link, that it was a botched robbery. Authorities reviewing Surveillance Footage at this hour, looking for more suspects. Alex perez, abc news, london. We have learned tonight that fired fbi director james comey will testify one week from today. Hes expected to answer questions about his oneonone meetings with President Trump and the memos he kept. Special Counsel Robert Mueller now running the investigation is not objecting to the testimony. That investigation now reaching deeper into the president s inner circle. Scrutiny on Jared Kushner now and his meetings including one with a russian banker, was that meeting over russian relations or was it about Something Else . Brian rosss team tonight, finding that banker in st. Petersburg. Reporter tonight in st. Petersburg, russia, a rare public sighting of the russian banker whose secret meeting with President Trumps soninlaw, Jared Kushner, is now a focus of an fbi investigation. But the banker, sergey gorkov, trained as a spy, refused to answer questions from abc news about what he and kushner talked about. The meeting under investigation took place as gorkov ran the russian banks Branch Office in new york, after the election, and came at a time that the Kushner Family was racing to raise money for its real estate business. I think the question has to be asked, was this about you trying to get financing for your troubled real estate that you have in new york city . Reporter the troubled real estate is this skyscraper on fifth avenue, the 666 building, they borrowed 1. 3 billion. That loan has to be paid back in two years. Reporter the white house says the meeting between kushner and gorkov was about u. S. Russia relations and arranged by the russian ambassador. The bank says no, it was a private business discussion. You worry about white house policy being shaped in a way that benefits either those banks or russia at large. Reporter also in st. Petersburg tonight, an acknowledgement for the first time from russian president Vladimir Putin that Russian Hackers may have targeted Hillary Clinton and the democrats. But, he told reporters, they did they are patriots who did it on. Putin appears to be on a kind of interview circuit. On behind the wheel with oliver stone. For the first time saying hackers perhaps did some work but not state actors he said. Brian ross back with us now. On this issue of james comey, one week from today, is there any chance the white house or the president could stop this testimony from happening . The president can try to evoke executive privilege. Its a losing argument because hes already spoken publicly so much about those meetings with the former fbi director, david. Brian ross, thanks to you all. Next tonight, President Trump not ready to make good on another campaign promise, moving the u. S. Embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. Delaying the move for another six months. Back here at home tonight, to a deadly plant explosion in wisconsin and the desperate search at this hour to find the missing. Abcs linzie janis is on the scene tonight. Reporter tonight, firefighters carefully sifting through a mountain of rubble of this wisconsin corn mill, searching for two missing workers. A lot of fire, smoke, and a large explosion being heard. Reporter part of the plant exploding around 11 00 last night, sparking a massive fire. There are several burned individuals. We are on scene. Visibly right now, i see five walking wounded. Reporter crews rushing to rescue some of the 16 people inside. The fire was still active. You had Fire Departments that were trying to get to the people that needed their assistance. Reporter at least one worker was killed, and 14 others injured. The explosion rocking the tiny village of cambria, 45 miles north of madison, taking down power lines, leaving hundreds in the dark. What did it sound like . A thunderstorm, but maybe tentimes as bad. Like a huge bolt of lightning really close to us. Reporter david, as six years this mill was cited for multiple safety violations. They said those were fix. Investigators trying to figure out what caused this blast. David. Linzie, thank you. Next here this evening, inside tiger woods dui arrest. Tonight a closer look at that dashcam video. On it you can hear the officers and their questions and you can hear how tiger woods answers them. Heres abcs gio benitez. You know the reason im out with you now . No. cause youre stopped in the road. In the middle of the road. Reporter that video capturing the Moment Police say they had to wake tiger woods up in his mercedes, stopped in the middle of that florida highway with two flat tires. Woods bewildered, thinking hes in california. Youre headed down to Orange County . Yeah. Okay. Do you know where youre at right now . Ah i do not know. Have you been drinking tonight . No. No. Are you sure about that . Yeah. Reporter woods did pass two breathalyzer tests for alcohol, but told police he takes multiple prescriptions, including vicodin. Woods had back surgery in april. Youre gonna recite the entire english alphabet in a slow, nonrhythmic manner, meaning youre not going to sing it, okay . Do you understand the instructions . I do. Okay, what were the instructions . Not to sing the National Anthem backwards. Reporter tiger woods struggled for an halfhour. Hes due in Court Next Month and could face jail time if ultimately convicted gio, thank you. 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And tower that was we hit a flock of geese. Reporter bird strikes had been on the rise. Now more than 13,000 a year. The most infamous the flock taking out both engines of a usairways jet, forcing Sully Sullenberger to land on new yorks hudson river. The passengers were put on another aircraft. David, they made it to miami. Thats the good news, david. When we come back tonight walmart testing a new Delivery Plan, delivering to your home on their way home for work. Also the new headline about the newlywed mom lost at sea. The confrontation between her husband who was found alive, and her family. The showdown begins tonight. What does steph curry really think about lebron james. In his own words, after the break. There are options. Like an unjection™. Xeljanz xr. A once daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. Xeljanz xr can reduce pain, swelling and joint damage, even without methotrexate. 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