thank you. tonight, your money, your taxes. president trump's new plan. what it means for you. after several efforts to repeal obamacare fail, the president now turns to a major tax overhaul. proposed cuts for middle class families, also major cuts for corporations and wealthy americans. also tonight, the crisis in puerto rico. a full week after the hurricane hit, more than a million people without power or drinking water. the mayor of san juan tonight saying people are starting to die. the deadly showdown. the police video just released. the suspect jumping from his pickup, firing at police. officers responding. tonight, abc news obtaining some of the russian ads bought on facebook. you will see them for yourself. posing as an american group, the ads say, "we need trump." the massive explosion, 30,000 forced to evacuate. authorities now asking, was this an accident or not? and the first airline to offer free text messaging while you're flying. are phone calls next? good evening. and it's great to have you with us here on a wednesday night. and we begin with the president's sweeping new tax plan, and what it could mean for middle class americans, corporate america and the wealthiest americans, too. late today in indianapolis, the president promising a revolutionary change for middle class families. but still unanswered tonight, how will he pay for it? and even some republicans this evening saying this will be even more challenging than their efforts to kill obamacare. abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl, leading us off. >> reporter: after failing yet again to get a republican health care plan through congress, president trump is now promising to deliver on something even more ambitious -- a massive new tax cut. >> there's never been tax cuts like what we're talking about. >> reporter: details are still sketchy, but the plan calls for slashing the tax on corporations, now 35% to 20%. for individuals and families, reducing the number of tax brackets from seven to just three. doubling the standard deduction for families. that would mean no income tax whatsoever on the first $24,000 of income. the president insists his plan will benefit the working class, and not the wealthy. >> they can call me all they want. it's not going to help. i'm doing the right thing, and it's not good for me. believe me. >> reporter: of course, it's impossible to know how any plan will affect the president because he still has not released his tax returns. but there's one big provision that would clearly benefit the wealthy. he wants to eliminate the estate tax. something that is only paid on estates valued at more than $5.5 million for individuals, $11 million for couples. while congress will surely make changes in the plan, the president insists there's one the target, claims the taliban, the aircraft defense secretary jim mattis had flown in on hours before. at the time of the attack, mattis was meeting afghanistan's president. but not only did the taliban take credit, but so did isis, releasing a video they claim shows the attack in progress. afghan special forces raided a nearby house. they were backed up by a u.s. air strike. a missile from an apache helicopter malfunctioned, killing one woman and wounding several others. this was mattis's first visit since the u.s. announced it would be adding 3,000 american troops to the 11,000 already there. this attack is a stark reminder that even after 16 years of trying to defeat the taliban, and the loss of thousands of lives, they still remain a formidable threat. david? >> martha raddatz from washington. martha, thank you. next tonight here, abc news obtaining some of those ads bought on facebook by russian agents. facebook admitting they were paid more than $100,000 by russian companies during the election. tonight, you're going to see the ads for yourself. and were the russians at it again, just within the last week, during the debate over the nfl? abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross with what those ads said. >> reporter: tonight, abc news has obtained some of the posts and ads congressional investigators say the russians planted on facebook as part of the kremlin effort to help get donald trump elected. americans would have no idea what they were reading was written by the russians. they rail against illegal immigrants. this one warns against "so-called refugees jeopardizing our national security." this ad uses a popular cartoon. "dora the explorer knows how easy it is to cross the u.s. border. it's like a children's game." with this line -- "we need to stop this madness. we need trump." the ads supposedly come from a group called secured borders, but congressional investigators say there is no such group, that they were, in fact, created by russian companies which paid more than $100,000 to facebook to post them during and after the election. >> their goal was to spread dissension, was to split our country apart, and they did a pretty good job. >> reporter: many of the ads, investigators say, came from an operation in st. petersburg, russia, in this building where young russians are hired to send out fake news. a former employee says she took this undercover video inside when she worked there in 2015, hoping to expose the operation, where the so-called trolls worked 12-hour shifts. the former employee, lyudmila savchuk, told abc news, facebook was one of their main platforms. according to investigators, the ads show their slant, pro-trump, anti-clinton. their targets? voters in specific areas of key swing states. of specificity? that's one of the questions we need answered. >> that is the question tonight. brian with us. who helped the russians target those ads to particular swing states, swing voters that were so important in this election? and today, there was one republic senator who even said there's a possibility the russians are still at this, even weighing in during the nfl debate. >> reporter: yes, david. on capitol hill today, senator james lankford, member of the senate intelligence committee, says russian trolls have been tweeting on both sides of the issue, trying to raise the noise level, he said, and push divisiveness in the country. by the way, this morning, president trump tweeted that he considers facebook to be anti-trump. >> brian ross with us tonight. brian ross, thank you. next tonight, to a major new fallout from the scandal rocking college basketball. famed louisville head coach rick pitino placed on unpaid leave. the highest paid coach in the ncaa. his attorney saying pitino has yote, in effect been fired. abc's linsey dis tonight on why. >> national championship, the louisville cardinals! >> reporter: tonight, legendary coach rick pitino, out at the university of louisville. >> effective immediately, coach pitino has been placed on an unpaid administrative leave. >> reporter: it comes just one dar ryteafegllco and corruption case, announced by the fbi. >> these defendants conspired to secretly funnel six-figure payments to the families of three high school players. >> reporter: an adidas executive charged with funneling money to a top high school recruit to make sure he committed to louisville, a school adidas sponsors. three years ago, pitino himself complained about the influence of shoe companies in recruiting. >> i never thought that shoes would be the reason you recruit players. >> reporter: louisville is already on probation after another scandal involving escorts for recruits. >> while this may be a dark day for the university of louisville, better days are ahead. >> reporter: tonight, coach pitino says he's effectively been fired, and the matter will now follow its legal course. but he also says that he has done nothing wrong, and that the facts will exonerate him. david? >> linsey davis, our thanks to you again tonight. next, this evening, to new images just released of a deadly showdown with police in sacramento. the encounter with a murder suspect, showing what happened in the moments after they pulled him over. here's abc's senior national correspondent matt gutman tonight. >> reporter: police began following eric arnold, because he was wanted in connection with a double murder. the seconds after the stop, it became clear what he seemed capable of. [ gunshots ] tonight, sacramento police releasing 15 dash and body camera angles of the september 7th shooting. after the stop, you can hear the officers give arnold explicit instructions. >> drop the keys out the window. >> reporter: and then, from multiple angles, you see arnold burst out of his truck, spin and fire. getting off six shots from his semiautomatic. police respond with over 30 bullets. arnold is hit over 14 times. but some of his six shots hitting their mark. two officers wounded. this officer, badly limping. david, both of those officers were released from the hospital and are recuperating. that suspect was pronounced dead on the scene. david? >> all right, matt gutman, thank you. and we do have one more note from overseas tonight. a massive explosion that officials now say may be sabotage. a huge blast in ukraine tearing through an ammunition depot at a military base. 30,000 people evacuated from the nearby town. ukraine has been fighting russia-backed separatists for three years now. there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this wednesday. the highway standoff at rush hour. traffic backed up for miles. shootout on a major highway. news coming in now about the suspect. also, the murder mystery unsolved for nearly three decades in this country. now, there is a major break, in what had been called the case of the killer clown. and the first u.s. global airline to offer free text messaging while you're flying. so many asking today, will phone calls on planes be next? we'll be right back. 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