About president trumps firing of fbi director james comey. This as acting fbi director Andrew Mccabe made a stunning contradiction on capitol hill. Abcs janai norman breaks it down for us from northwest washington. We are following some breaking news. A new incident airlines overnight. Sam sweeney is at live desk with more. Larry the United Airlines flight from houston to ecuador was delayed after a scorpion was spotted onboard. United says the scorpion crawled out of a passengers clothing on flight 1035 as it was preparing for takeoff. That takeoff was aborted and the crew ordered everyone off the plane. Paramedics passenger and determined that he hadnt been stung. Passengers were put on a different flight, and eventually took off about three and a half hours later. No word on whether they captured the scorpion. This is the second time a scorpion has been reported on a united flight. Back on april 14, a united passenger was stung by a scorpion, also on a plane out of houston. The veno
You are paddleboarding next to approximately 15 great white sharks. Good evening, everyone. And its great to have you with us here on a thursday night. And tonight, President Trump explaining why he fired james comey, and getting personal. Calling the fired fbi director a showboat and a grandstander. And we learned today, the president says he asked james comey, who was leading the investigation into russian meddling, if the president himself was under investigation. Tonight, some asking, should the president be asking the fbi director a question like that at all . Abcs chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl leading us off. Reporter contradicting white house officials from the Vice President on down, President Trump today said that he decided on his own to fire james comey. Look. Hes a showboat. Hes a grandstander. The fbi has been in turmoil, you know that, i know that, Everybody Knows that. You take a look at the fbi a year ago, it was in virtual turmoil. Less than a year ago.
directly from comey. they have invited him to testify here next week. still no response from the former director. david? all right, stay tuned on that front. mary bruce, thank you. next tonight here, breaking developments in the deadly standoff in trenton, new jersey. a neighborhood on lockdown for 35 hours. a bystander killed in the crossfire. abc s gio benitez at the scene with breaking developments. reporter: a s.w.a.t. team and snipers scrambling in a new jersey neighborhood on lockdown. heavily armored vehicles moving into position during the deadly 35-hour standoff. police now reviewing this video capturing the heated first exchange. three local deputies injured, a bystander taking fire. police officers trying to pull him to safety, but he later died. the chaos erupting wednesday morning. u.s. marshals executes a warrant to tyleeb reese for a sex offender violation. immediately after you heard that second knock, it was boom, boom, shots, bang, bang, bang. reporter: rees
reporter: and overnight, police firing tear gas to try to get him out. tonight, after nearly two days on edge, reese surrenders to authorities. and david, police tried everything to get reese to come out. even using sound cannons. now, he ll likely face some very serious charges after this 35-hour standoff, especially after that bystander s death. david? gio benitez tonight. thank you, gio. next this evening, we are tracking a mother s day storm. it could develop into a nor easter. it s already moving up the coast tonight. reported tornadoes in the heartland. a twister spotted today in oklahoma. a severe thunderstorm threat now from texas to north carolina at this hour. it s moving north. so, let s get right to rob, who is tracking it all for us tonight. hey, rob. reporter: hi, david. that hail you mentioned, we re getting reports of some of it being softball-sized, so, that is damaging and certainly dangerous. take a look at the radar. it is lit up tonight. we have severe thun