This man attacked his own lawyer in court. Amusement park horror. We hear from the men on this slingshot ride when the cable snapped. The one tip to make sure your ride is safe. And visiting the titanic for the first time in more than a decade. The underwater discovery scientists call shocking. Good thursday morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us. We begin with growing concerns about the safety of private jets after a fiery crash in northern california. It comes just one week after the crash involving racing star Dale Earnhardt jr. This time its a cessna loaded with fuel about to take off. It crashed bursting into flamesa by passengers at yet another small airport. This morning the second fiery crash in two weeks involving a private jet is raising questions and concerns. Plane crash, vegetation fire at airport entrance. Plane is engulfed. Reporter the Cessna Citation bursting into flames moments after an aborted takeoff running off the end of a runway at oroville airport in california. One plane fully involved off the runway approximately a half acre of grass burning. The nose and the tail were all intact. Everything but the Center Section was just starting to burn. Reporter all ten people on board escaping uninjured with only a shell of the twoengine jet remaining after the fire was extinguished. Im amazed that somebody got out of that alive. It was fully engulfed in flames and pure black smoke but a jet is the amazing thing around here. Reporter investigators say the trouble started almost immediately taking off on a flight for portland, oregon, when the pilot decided to abort unable to stop in time. The reasoning behind the pilots decision is still unclear. I mean obviously the pilot, i was next to him for a little bit. He was pretty shook up. Reporter just last week another Cessna Citation crashed off a runway, that jet that owned by Dale Earnhardt jr. Bursting into flames after crashing in tennessee. Earnhardt jr. With his family and the two pilots seen running from the burning jet. Investigators say earnhardts plane was landing when the landing gear failed. The jet hit the runway at least twice before becoming engulfed in flames. The faa and National Transportation safety board will investigate. It can take the ntsb a year or more to determine a probable cause of an accident. And were following a developing story in Southern California where authorities have been searching for a sniper who shot a sheriffs deputy walking to his car. The deputy was leaving the sheriff station in lancaster north of l. A. When he was shot in the chest. The sniper apparently fired from an Apartment Building overlooking the station near a Mental Health facility. That deputy is okay thanks to his bulletproof vest which deflected the bullet into his shoulder. The mayor says just before the shooting, the deputy was getting ready to take off his vest, which could have been a fatal decision. And police say they foiled a mass shooting plot at a california hotel. A disgrunted hotel cook allegedly told a coworker that he planned to come to work and shoot everybody he saw at the long beach marriott. The suspect was apparently upset over a Human Resource issue. Police say they found a stockpile of guns and ammunition in his home. Now to washington where President Trump appears to be embracing the chaos hes created around several important issues from guns to taxes to our relationship with nato ally denmark and this morning, abc news has learned all this chaos could prompt two republicans to jump into the race for president giving trump some unexpected competition in the gop primary. Abcs Serena Marshall has the new details. Serena, good morning. Reporter trevor, good morning. Amid all of these controversies theres also a new one, the president again suggesting an end to birthright citizenship even though thats a guarantee enshrined in the constitution. Mixed messages, confusion and what some might call chaos at the white house from further alienating our nato ally denmark, upset the countrys Prime Minister rejected his idea to buy greenland. I thought that the Prime Ministers statement that it was absurd, that it was an absurd idea was nasty. I thought it was an inappropriate statement. Reporter to again accusing American Jews of disloyalty. Isnt that antisemitic . No, its only in your head. Had no, its only antisemitic in your head. Reporter the Antidefamation League outraged after the president said a vote for a democrat means youre being disloyal to jewish people and youre being very disloyal to israel. I will be exactly clear on what that was, antisemitism. Reporter and now reigniting another controversy. Birthright citizenship where you have a baby in our land, you walk over the border, have a baby, congratulations, the baby is now a u. S. Citizen. Its frankly ridiculous. Reporter suggesting an end to a constitutionally protected guarantee. Last october he said he was considering using an executive order to do it. Now two former gop congressmen former South Carolina governor and congressman mark sanford and illinois congressman turned radio host joe walsh are moving closer to mounting a long shot primary bid against trump. Though neither expects to win, they hope to offer the party an alternate vision for the future. The president again distanced himself from guns and background checks saying we already have very strong background checks and any potential legislation a slippery slope. Trevor, janai. Serena marshall in washington, serena, thank you. Meanwhile in the race for the presidency, jay inslee has dropped out. He says its become clear he wasnt going to win the democratic nomination. He was hoping to make Climate Change the driving issue in his campaign. The cdc is reporting an increase in lung illnesses linked to vaping. More than 150 cases have been reported in these 16 states from coast to coast. Many of them are teens and young adults. 17yearold tristan zoefield of texas ended up with a blockage in his lungs. He to be placed in a medically induced coma. Thats when his parents found out he had been vaping since eighth grade. I woke up just throwing up everywhere. My heart was just pounding out of my chest going 100 miles an hour. You dont want your child to have to go through to what he went through. It is a big deal. Its not something to look over. A utah man also had to be put into a coma because of a vapingrelated lung disease. The cdc is investigating but has not linked any particular device or chemical to these cases. New video shows just how quickly the wildfires in the amazon rain forest are spreading. Officials in brazil report the number of fires has nearly doubled since last year. That thick haze has spread thousands of miles turning day into night. The rain forest produces 20 of the worlds oxygen. Environmentalists say some of the fires have been caused by people clearing the land. They blame the brazilian government for encouraging development. Well, time now for a look at your weather for this thursday morning. Heavy winds from a thunderstorm flipped over this small plane in college park, maryland, wednesday. No one was inside the plane at the time. Meanwhile, in indiana this driver look at this suffered minor injuries when that tree fell on her suv as she drove during a storm near indianapolis. Luckily nobody was in the passenger seat. Looking at todays weather, more storms later today from d. C. To boston and storms are possible from the Southern Plains into the tennessee valley. Most of the south will be in the 90s. Coming up, the man who tried to fix his flat tire with bandaids and ended up in big trouble. No kidding. But first, another scandal in olympic sports. Why a world famous coach is now banned for life. And the terrifying moment at this Amusement Park when the cable on a slingshot ride snaps. Hear from th new video shows an illegal drag race ending in a spectacular crash right there in england. The driver rolled his mercedes after hitting another vehicle at 90 Miles Per Hour as Police Chased him. He had to be cut free from the car. He is serving a twoyear prison sentence. Well, two men are speaking out about a scary failure at an Amusement Park in florida. They were set to take on this slingshot ride in panama city. The workers promised ty ul be aho. Instead that cable on the right snapped, left them on the ground and they were stunned when they thought about what could have happened. I was totally in shock at the moment the cable snapped, and i was kind of freaked out with my hands still stuck in the air not knowing what happened. I was praying to god right after. I was like, thank god it didnt go up. I didnt know what was going to happen if it did go up. Safety experts say rules are different in every state when it comes to ride inspections. They advise looking for an inspection sticker although not all states issue them so you should consider asking park employees. A neonazi scandal in a Los Angeles Suburb is growing. At least three new videos have surfaced in garden grove showing students in racist activities. The first video showed members of a team giving the nazi salute as you see. The other videos were made earlier. The School District says it has reopened the investigation. New video from phoenix where a man attacked his own lawyer in court. The man was facing trial for allegedly assaulting a corrections officer. He said he was unhappy with his public defender. He reportedly has a history of being disruptive in court. A legendary coach has been banned for life. A former student is suing Richard Callaghan claiming numerous sexual assaults. Adam schmidt said the repeated abuse began when he was 14. Callaghan has denied the accusations. Repairing a tire helped land a california man behind bars. Someone called police when they saw him fixing a flat tire with bandaids and gauze. Police saw the medical items shoved into holes in the wheels and then they arrested him for being under the influence of drugs. Imagine that. Coming up, the two new shark attacks at american beaches. Also ahead, the news about the titanic thats being described as shocking. A leading scientist explains why. But first the deadly shooting in a Florida Parking lot all caught on camera. Was this selfdefense . Corey is living with metastatic Breast Cancer, which is Breast Cancer that has spread to other parts of her body. 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The case has put the spotlight on floridas controversial stand your ground law. At the center of the case this Surveillance Video showing Michael Drejka shooting markeis mcglockton. Drejka is seen approaching mcglocktons girlfriend berating her for parking in a handicapped spot and thats when mcglockton shoves drejka to the ground and takes aim and opens fire. The father of three stumbles back into the store where he would later die. Drejka was silent in Court Wednesday as both sides laid out their arguments. Mr. Mcglockton backs up as far as he can go, all the way he can go, he cant go back any further and watch that video. He starts to turn away from the confrontation, and hes shot at that time. Mr. Drejka reasonably, reasonably believed that that force was necessary. Reporter drejka is claiming selfdefense. He was originally not charged in the case because of the states controversial stand your ground law which gives floridians the right to protect themselves if they consider their lives to be in imminent jeopardy. The same law was used to defend George Zimmerman in the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin but the states attorney later decided to bring manslaughter charges arguing drejka had 11 seconds to make that decision to pull the trigger. Drejkas history is also coming into play. One witness for the prosecution says drejka threatened him five months earlier for parking in the same handicapped spot. He said i should shoot you, kill you. Never saw a gun . Never saw a gun. The trial is expected to wrap up by the end of the week. Beachgoers are on the lookout after two more shark attacks in hawaii and florida. 11yearold Christian Mariani was playing in kneedeep water in ft. Lauderdale when he was bitten on his foot. He escaped but had to get 17 stitches. It almost felt like human teeth then i ran out screaming. I just thought like to get out because i knew something was there, something bit me. I dont know what it was so i just ran out and thats it. Then the attack off hawaiis big island, two sharks were spotted after a woman had to drag herself to shore with bites on her torso. 30 unprovoked attacks have already been reported in the u. S. This year. 32 were reported during all of last year. Time is apparently running out for the wreckage of the titanic. Historians aboard a sub that explored the shipwreck for the first time in 14 years say part of it, parts of it are decaying rapidly, especially on the starboard side. The deckhouse is collapsing along with the staterooms. The officers quarters are all gone including a favorite among titanic fans, the captains bathtub. The future of the wreck is going to continue to deteriorate over time. Its a natural process. These are natural types of bacteria, so the reason that the deterioration process ends up being quite a bit faster, so its a group of bacteria, a community that are working symbiotically to eat, if you will, the iron, the manganese, the sulfur that makes up the steel. Just fascinating. Strong currents and salt corrosion are also to blame. Coming up next in the pulse, the highest paid actors in hollywood and big surprises. The controversy surrounding former White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer joining dancing with the stars. Plus, the eyeopening prediction ted cruz made about denmark during the 2016 campaign. This is not just a fever. This is not just the flu. Its meningitis b. And youre not there to help. While meningitis b is uncommon. Once symptoms appear, they can progress quickly and can be fatal. Sometimes within 24 hours. Before you send your teen to college. Make sure you help protect them. Talk to your teens doctor. About meningitis b vaccination. 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He sent out this tweet, my hope would be a joyful respite from our exhausting political climate. A decision was made to go in a different direction. We can agree to disagree. Some have suggested Melissa Mccarthy should return to saturday night live to reprise her role impersonating spicer. Oh, she was good. Politics bleeding into everything. Apparently. If dancing with the stars is infected, is nothing sacred anymore . Unbelievable. Well,