plane. and her first ever scare dive gets worst from there. from 13,000 feet, all caught on tape. and capture a penguin that scaled the walls 2 1/2 months guy is back behind bars this morning. how did he survive in a big city for so long? hey, good morning, everybody. look who is with us on this first weekend of summer. her name is paula farris, she is my friend and the co-west of "world news now." primarily, she my best friend. >> with rebest friends? >> my bff. and bianna, finishing up her maternity leave l be here soon. >> happy memorial day weekend. thanks to the men and women in the military. no place we could rather be this weekend, except maybe your barbecue. >> we have a place to crash. new details about the suspect in one of the country's longest misses person cases. etan pats, officials have charged this man with the murder. we will tell you why he is in the hospital this morning and there are a lot of questions about how much evidence police have against the guy. >> the question about whether the cops moved too fast in the case. and a new twist in a story out of colorado. a couple woken up in the middle of a night with an intruder. listen to this. >> she was coming in the bedroom and we shot her. >> we know now that the intruder was this college student he who was allegedly intoxicated. this morning, we will get her side of the story for the first time. and fun this holiday weekend. is this pippa middleton's first fashion fail? she was at another wedding and nobody is raving about this outfit. i like it, but that is my poor fashion sense. >> i'm not going to give my opinion on that. we are going to start this morning with the triple threat of sex treatment weather this weekend. check this out. three pieces of video. this is tropical storm bud hitting land overnight. and these are the hard rains hitting the caribbean overnight, from beryl, not hitting florida. and this is one of the wildfires in the country as a massive heat wave settles over half of america. ginger, good morning to you. >> good morning to you, dan, the heat is going to be the headline here in the states. tens of millions of folks are going to feel like july. not just the height but the humidity, for cities like chicago, that will end up in the upper 90s. that is where we find alex perez live in chicago this morning. >> reporter: good morning. for a lot of people, this is the type of weather they had been hoping for this week. for a big part of the couny,y, the unofficial start of summer will be a sizzle one. millions of americans hitting the road this weekend, most driving in blazing temperatures, 99 degrees expected in st. louis. a swelters 94 in atlanta. and indianapolis, bracing for the hottest indy 500 on record. the mercury expected to rev up to 96 degrees sunday. the oppressive heat has hit down south. at this high school graduation in georgia, several had to be treated for heat exhaust. >> they are trying to find shade, gets water. i saw a couple that had to leave. didn't look well. >> reporter: the high temperatures have many across the kuchbt on high alert. this weekend's marathon in madison, wisconsin, has been canceled because of the scorching heat. look at this map, wildfires across the u.s., and there in the southwest, the white area, a smokey haze the fires are throwing off, stretching across mull pl states. even in florida. look at this. thick, black smoke in i sky above disney world in orlando. and new mexico, the fire torched through more than a dozen homes. >> basically, what is left is someone's personal belongs and a fireplace. >> reporter: and because of that smoke and haziness in the air, authorities are asking near the wildfires to limit their time outdoors, ginger. the weather is going do the fires no justice, and not helping out at all. 70-mile-an-hour gusts. and the wind goeps nowhere. we are going to see dry and win zi conditions through memorial day. different story on the east coast. rainier and still windy. we will look at a picture out of cuba. this is what happened when what was to become beryl rolled through cuba. yes, very heavies falling and now the storm is just off the carolinas, more than 200 miles, really. but it's a subtropical storm because of its disorientation. we watch the storm pass by 2:00 a.m. right along the state line of georgia and florida. and what does it sneen it means some gusty winds, not too terrible but heavy rains and we are also going to look for really gross cloud cover. not anything you want for your barbecue. finally a look at bud. and bud was a hurricane at one point. 24 hours ago,s the strongest ever this early in the season. it went to almost nothing as it hit parts of western mexico. more coming up in the next couple minutes. dan and paula? >> ginger is in for a busy weekend. a lot of weekend. let's check the other headlines. let's check the rest of the morning's headlines now with my other friend, ron claiborne. >> good morning to you, dan and paula. everyone. the fbi is investigating a man who rushed towards a cockpit at the ind of a flight from jamaica to miami. he will be in court. the flight was taxiing to the gate and the man defied crew instructions to be seated and other passengers tackled him and turned him over at the gate. new details in the disappearance of a louisiana disappearance of mickey shunick. the police have a new surveillance video they believe shows her on a bicycle. they are looking for a white pickup truck seen in the video. she was seen riding her dice. >> kyle: home from a friend's house. and a former university of virginia lacrosse player convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend is seeking a new trial. he has filed the papers for what they say is a series of errors before and during his trial. he was convicted in february and faced 26 years in prisonen. >> and a very emotional joe biden opened up about his own family tragedy in a speech to the family of soldiers in virginia. he talked about the intense grief he felt after losing his first wife and 1-year-old daughterer in a car accident in 1982. >> for the first time, i knew how someone could commit suicide. not because they were deranged or nuts. because they had been to the top of the mountain and knew they would never get there again. >> he said meeting his current wife, jill, saved his wife. he told the family they will be able to smile thinking of their fallen family or spouse. and the international space nation, a day after its historic docking, a capsule is filled with supplies for the space station. it's scheduled to return to earth next thursday. and finally a neighborhood in fresno, california, turned into a rodeo of sorts friday. residents reported that a 1600-pound bull was running their the neighborhood. they didn't know it was 1600 pounds. discovered. and an officer on the force with 30 years of roping experience, he managed to las sew the bull. disturbance resolved. i do not know where the bull came from. i have been looking into it. >> spr spain? >> that would be a story. >> you have never run with the bull v you? >> no, i watched. that is enough for me. >> thanks, ron. this morning, with e are learning more about the man accused of killing a 6-year-old boy in new york 33 years a i go. etan patz is one of the most famous missing child cases ever. and the man who confessed the murderer is formally charged. abc's t.j. winnik is here with that story. good morning. >> reporter: paid degree hernandez remains hospitalized. he will don't under go psychiatric evaluation before taking to jail. after 33 years, charges that are left in the cold case. the complaint, just five paragraphs long, charges pedro hernandez, seen here in this photo, with one count of murderer in the second degree for alleged by strangling etan patz and placing him in a plastic bag, thereby causing his deaf. his confession to a police detective. he was working down the block from the bus stop where the 6-year-old waited each morning. in the arraignment, the district attorney proclaims it's been 3 years and justice has not been done. prus v prosecutors told the court he made similar admissions to others. >> in the years following etan's disappearance, hernandez toelds a family member and others he had "done a bad thing and killed a child in knock". >> reporter: etan's father, stan patz, returned home friday to the same loft where he and his family lived for over three decades. he had no comment. pedro hernandez was aryaned in a hospital. where he was taken friday morning, authorities concerned he was suicidal. the suspect's mental health may be a charge for prosecutors whose case now depends on the 3 1/2-hour confession. >> his mental state today is only relevant to whether he can stand trial. it won't help him to his mental state 33 years ago. >> reporter: a former soho neighbor remembers that hernandez was one of the few teenagers in the neighborhood who didn't join in the search in the weeks after the disappearance. dan? >> thank you. the big question right now is whether the case valely closed. let's bring in former fbi agent brad garrett. this is the criminal complaint. if you look, it's recently thin, and the hinges entirely on the confession. without a body and a crime scene, what can the cops do now to get enough evidence for a conviction? >> that i have to build a relationship between etan and pedro, in other words, whether peep working at the bodyega or around there saw anything. it's hard to buy that he could go in the basement with hernandez. that is one key avenue they have to per sue. was there a past history between them. beyond that, you want to look for other confessions that t.j. alluded to. going back to 1979 and forward, apparently, someone in 1971 made him make some version of a confession. were there others? you want to find those people and independently interview them. that does provide more detail. it's a real problem for the police. because they are probably never going to have any forensics. they have gone back to what used to be the bodega, unless there this was a violent death, there is not going to be evidence left in the building. >> juries care about motive. why did it happen? at this point, we don't know why hernandez may have done this. how big of a hurdle is that moving forward? >> it's very big. the real question is, does pedro know what his motives were at the time? clearly, if it moved into a sexual arena, that would be an important component if it's true. you are exactly right, they have to get to the bottom of that. >> brad garrett, all valuable to have your insight. appreciate it, thank you. paula. >> thank you very much. now a story that sounds like the did vinci code. one of the people closest to pope benedict, his closest butler, is under arrest for releases confidential documents. jeffrey calfmon in london, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it has all the ingredients of a thriller. the story, scandalous leaks of papal documents. who did it? if it's going to be believed, the butler did it, and no, we are not kidding. he is at the pope's side from morning to midnight. that is butler pablo gabrielle pouring wine. and there there he is at the front of the popemobile, at the pope's right hand. he dresses the pope, serves him, tends to his every need. now, the vatican says he has betrayed him. >> the notion this betrayal could have come from somebody on the outside of the system, but from someone who was in the papal apartment and a member of the papal family, obviously is going to cause a great crisis of caution. >> reporter: for months, italian newspapers had been filled with stories of corruption, bribery inside the vatican. the vatican leak scandal, they said, had to be an inside job. but who done it? they found confidential documents inside the butler's private home. >> most people suspect that even if the butler is involved, he may be a convenient scapegoat for people that are higher up in the system. >> reporter: sound familiar. >> i need access to the archives. >> reporter: it could be a plot twist ripped from dan brown's thriller "angels and demons." it's a huge embarrassment to the pope, staggering mismanagement of the vatican itself. and there is no jail in the vatican. the butler is held in a secure room in the compound. there is an old saying that in the vatican, everything is mysterious but nothing is secret. it feels like that these days. dan? >> well said, thank you. we have good news this morning in the valiant struggle waged in a hospital room in georgia by this young woman. the victim of a rare flesh eating bacteria. her father said she just achieved a gold medal moment. steve tells us what it is. >> reporter: for the first time sthans rare infection began to take over her body, aimee cope sland now breathing on her own and able to sit up for the first time. >> that is something that the doctors didn't order it, she requested it. i say it says the strength of her spirit. she is one step back to being herself. >> reporter: her father shared the news on this facebook support page. saying that each breath is a victory. each cause for a celebration. when she opens her eyes, that is like a ticker tape parade down broadway. >> i hope that every father out there loves their children as i love they daughters. my daughters mean everything in the world for me. i would die for my entire family. >> reporter: she was hurt may 1st in a zip line accident. an innext her wound. she lost that leg and several limbs. she had a special visitor this week. singer/song writer cory durkin wrote a song for him. calling her a southern bell. he has been following her father's facebook posts. he went to georgia, sat by her bed and sang the stong. she smiled ♪ i don't know anything about you but i want to ♪ >> you could see her mouthing the words and i picked it up. she said basically, she thanked him from the bottom of her heart and said she really appreciated. >> reporter: steve oes ma'amny, abc news, atlanta. i know you want to know if the severe weather is going to hamper your weekend plans. ginger? >> thanks there is a large area that will affected. but it's stormed like yesterday that created tornadoes. i want to get straight to the video, impress frif kansas. west central kansas, the first we are seeing here is from pla cross, kansas. the second video, from walker. that is close noer night time. impressive pictures there. and here is where today. who has to be in line for isolated tornado, scattered thunderstorms that could create damaging wind. there is a pocket in eastern wyoming and up from the texas panhandle up to the plains. and the warmth, it's going to be sweaty. chicago f you get to 98, it would be the first time do that ever in may. at loois, it would tie a good morning. dave zahran n here. summer. it t is morning, almost degrees already in alexandria. ome winds out of the south temperare 86, warmest day this m month. to t that record is going very quickly. gh pressure directly overhead. it's going to be warm, it's to be muggy. temperatures today in 80's. pper still, around 0 degrees. yet on memory area day, have one facebook photo to share with you this morning. from cedarville, ohio a foggy sun roois. that's right, paula. >> that is cedar, where i want to school. thank you, ginger. she knows me so well. so a jailbird on the run busted after two months waddling around tokyo. a penguin is back behind bars. >> the story of his escape, and houp it came to an eand. from this story. >> reporter: may 25th, 2012, ping win number 337 was apprehended after 82 days at large and has been returned to custody in tokyo's sea life park. >> reporter: you can see the defiance, the penguin known as 337, refused to even face the media, gathered for his publicized arrest. he caught quite the flap in japan since his flight from captivity. he scaled a wall to freedom, wigeing his way to tokyo bay, all that time, alluded capture and bellying up to an all you can eat sardine buffet. yesterday, it was his captors doing the daunting. the captors telling the press he caught the bird with his own bare hand. 3367 is not the first animal to go rogue. this deadly cobra fled from the bronx zoo for six days and leaved to treat about it. and this chimp in japan spent hours fighting for his freedom. remember this peacock? he flew the coop from a central park zoo in new york city. still, none have managed to hold on to freedom as long as this penguin. now, 337 is home, safe and sound. they say he will do his time behind nearly reinforced walls. >> i was rooting for the penguin there. coming up, a new twist. this couple shoots and injures an intruder in their home, who turns tout be a drunk college student. we have the 911 calls and the other side of the story. an 80 world pom pushed out of plane. the terrifying ordeal on tape. and the reporter who got the smack from will smith? he is speaking out. who does he want to smack now? ♪ [ slap! ] [ slap! slap! slap! slap! ] [ male announcer ] your favorite foods fighting you? fight back fast with tums. calcium rich tums goes to work in seconds. nothing works faster. ♪ tum tum tum tum tums and good morning. washingtgton forecaster dave here. t this like summer morning. mug.warm, it's skies hovevering potomac. out there, u're this g to need a jacket morning. emperatures already in the mid 60's.er out of the and that's ast, the story right on memorial holiday weekend. s yesterday's high degrees, , 86 monthf may.this today, that wilbe looks like it heading to th90's for uch of this weekend. why? high pressure overhead. you can see torm causing the south carolina north carolina coast. not for us though. come through, ll not until tuesday. then, make sure your air working. r is levels up there because the dew points are in the 6s. nd then for tomorrow, hotter degrees.out 90 memorial day, hottest yet, 90's. check this out. this is one of the craziest pieces on video we have seen in a while. this is an 80-year-old woman on her first sky dif. it was a decades-long dream for her. not going so well. we will get her story coming up. >> good momorning, america. i'm dan harris. >> that is tough to watch. >> it's an incredible. >> as he said, i am paula farris, in for bianna golodryga. pippa, not perfect? who in the world? who wears orange to a wedding any way? i might. >> when you are pippa, you can get away with that. >> the dress is considered a mess, people are saying so. it's an orange hot mess. >> orange hot mess, paula coining a phrase here. >> she can send it to me and i'll wear it. >> we are going to start with the home invasion, the terrified couple, the shots fired, the 911 call and the intruder. this worn, allegedly drunk. a young college student. we are going to hear her side of the story and dan muller is here. >> reporter: we don't know why she wandered in the house but her friends say she is anything but a criminal. and now charges against the colorado grad could land her in a colorado pen. >> she was coming in the bedroom be then we shot her. >> reporter: the 911 call from the boulder home owners moments after that shot a stranger in their dark bedroom. >> yeah, she is in the house, awake. she is fine but she is shot. >> reporter: the 21-year-old includer, zoe ripple, was drunk at the time, three times the lyle limit, according to police, when she wandered in the home through an unlocked screen door wednesday night. she is recovers from a gunshot wound to the hip. but the da announced she will face felony trespassing charges. her friends say the charges are too harsh. >> she is the most happy, nonaggressive looking girl you could ever see. >> reporter: why did he is enter the home in the first place? still unknown. her attorney relaced this statement. she had no criminal intent and i think that getting shot should be punishment enough. >> in this situation situation, you think she would be pu