good morning. i m rina n good morning. i m reena ninan. i m devin dwyer. here are some of the top headlines we re following on world news now. people in nebraska, nebraska town of pilger, are struggling to put their lives back together after gifting raked over by powerful twin tornados. 75% of the town was shredded to pieces and two people were killed. gm ceo mary barra heads to capitol hill today. she ll be answering questions stemming from a gm ordered report about its mishandled recall of millions of small cars. lawmakers are expected to ask what barra knew and when about ignition switch problems. the ak bats badly injured during a circus stunt last month are planning to sue. four of the women spoke out yesterday saying they re learning to use their arms and legs again hoping to heal enough to live without pain.
75% of the town. its nearly 400 residents evacuated, many returning to fiend little left. everything s gone. they found some of my mom s clothes three miles north. reporter: entire blocks of downtown flattened. brick buildings crumbled, the city hall gone. among the survivors the mayor of the town who managed to get his family into the basement here seconds before the tornado blew the rest of his house away. he was hurt but is expected to be okay. more than a dozen others were critically injured. at least two people including a 5-year-old girl were killed. she was in a trailer that was located right on main street. and was directly hit. reporter: sadness and resilience. kitty. come here, kitty, kitty. reporter: lost loved ones found. amy is going to love you. reporter: an inspiration to live up to this community s unusual but fitting motto. their motto is a town too tough to die. i think they re going to give it
this morning on world news now captured. american forces say they have taken down a terrorist. the mastermind behind the benghazi attack. what s next for one of the world s most wanted. path of destruction. the town leveled by not one but two tornadoes, as millions of americans face the threat of more twisters today. mother accused. a so-called mommy blogger facing serious charges. prosecutors say she poisoned her son on purpose in a very unusual way. and in the skinny, big changes for the children s television classic sesame street. it s not a new co-star for burt, ernie and big bird. it s something else. stay tuned. it s wednesday, june 18th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now.
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being held on a u.s. naval ship in the mediterranean where he is being interrogated before being returned to this country to stand trial, where he could face the death penalty. brian ross, abc news, new york. our other major story this morning more severe storms are zeroing in on the plains after a pair of giant tornados virtually leveled a town in nebraska. dozens of homes in pilger were completely destroyed and torn apart beyond repair. one of the twisters was an ef-4 swooping down with 200-mile-an-hour wind, leaving two people dead, including a 5-year-old girl. meteorologists were amazed by the size and intensity. often when we have a outbreak of multiple tornadoes, one is smaller and one less powerful. not the case here. two separate tornadoes, one parent thunderstorm. secondly, they were on the ground at the same time, a mile or two apart, rotating in the same direction, highly unusual. the violent weather didn t let up. storm chasers captured this enormous twister last ni