prize, and the proud moment for his parents. it s friday, may 31st. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now with john muller and diana perez. good friday morning to all of you. we are excited it is friday. we hope you are too. what s that? excited for sleep. coming up. just around the bend. we are also excited about this kid from queens. awesome. representing queens like the two of us. nice! hometown boy! won the national spelling bee. very smart people. i woke up before the shift with the last ten minutes on. dumb luck. turned it on. last ten minutes. fascinating. can t wait to tell you about it. let s move on to this. the relentless storms battering the plains, unleashing a batch of violent twisters. tornados ripping through oklahoma, arkansas yesterday injuring at least nine people. injuring at least nine people. one of them touched down in suburban tulsa last night. have to wait until the sun comes up to see the full extent of the damage. our coverage
the case said his son was killed execution style. homeowners in southern california who evacuated, ahead of a fast-moving forest fire were allowed to return home. the wind-whipped fire is burning dangerously close to high voltage electric lines. power has been rerouted away from the threatened lines, and head off to any outages. the fire burned more than 1,000 acres in the angeles national forest. hot, dry weather is expected to challenge crews trying to bring the blaze under control. great plains and great lakes area bracing for another round of punishing storms today. a tornado barreled through tulsa area last night. the latest in a string of twisters to slam oklahoma and arkansas. yesterday, at least nine people were injured. abc s ginger zee is chasing the storms, many of which are being caught on camera. we were trying to give you a head up over the next 45