he would help his team win. and inside those school hallways, in the science lab, they know adonis is a star. you know, scoring those touchdowns felt like a big weight was off my shoulders. felt like all the hard work, all the dedication, all the conditioning, finally just paid off. reporter: his mother, veronica, always watching from the stands. she is so proud. when he s in his uniform is the time when i feel like he s most like other kids. because they are all lined up. reporter: off the field, he gets around school with help from his teammates. but they will tell you, he is the glue that holds them together. have faith. have hope. and just trust your abilities, because mountains do move. you just have to keep pushing them and pushing them and pushing them. and so we choose adonis watt. we love number 45. i m david muir.
just released young mothers from custody, is that right? david, that s right. just moments ago, we saw a bus load of young mothers with children in their arms. those mothers had ankle monitors. one woman from honduras told me she was afraid her son was going to be taken away. it appears tonight these mothers and their children have been released from custody while their cases proceed. david? marcus moore, thank you. we re going to turn to other news this friday night. there are severe storms we re watching at this hours. just as we start the weekend, 20 million americans bracing for severe weathers. multiple high water rescues in the richmond, virginia area today. flooding shutting down the airport for a time. at least four reported tornados in the heart land. this one in mystery. tonight s storms stretching from colorado all the way to the east coast. abc s david kerley with the pictures and new storm track tonight. all those clouds are spinning. reporter: tonight, millions
that organized groups that are out there, like george soros, are always ready to take the charge and it is kind of like instant rally, instant protest. i thought that fake news moniker had some bounds. i guess it doesn t, right? this is, i think what we will see. conservatives play hard ball when it comes to some of them aren t, nia. a lot of them are not a lot of them are i think you might hear others who are going this way and instead of saying these are kids who are acting on their own, you know, sorrow, you know, acting because of what they saw in their classrooms and in their school hallways, he is saying that they are being hijacked. it shows they re effective. it shows right now they re effective messengers. you re seeing on twitter some kind of very fringe publications start going after these kids. they re high school kids, in a school shooting, that s disgraceful. yeah.
and i m okay. and, you know, we re all going to get through this. it s a horrible thing to go through. whether you re a parent or not. but i think regardless of us being parents, you know, at school, we all became parents yesterday. and we weren t trained to keep the kids safe but that s not what we went to college for, i should say. but, you know, at the end of the day, the kids are our top priority. and we needed to protect them and keep them safe. melissa, metal detectors, additional security guards or police officers walking through school hallways, would these be the way to resolve this issue or do you think there s something else we can do culturally beyond that? i mean, either we have 3,300 students at our school so even if you doubled our security force, that doesn t that doesn t put a dent in it. i think we have to start looking at the root cause. if you look at all of these shootings. some of them have to do with
now the corps is launching a new national television ad to try to change that. trace gallagher has the news. this is based on a real person, this ad? it is. it s called battle up and refers a real-life marine. the ad begins with a young girl breaking up a fight in the school hallways and flashes to her playing rugby and ends with her playing on the battlefield. here s the ad. watch. no one knows where it comes from. but some have it and some don t. it s the fighting spirit. it consumes fear and weakness. and demco says filming was tough because she was submerged holding a rifle in the water and coated with a layer of ice. she s now in okinawa, japan.