good evening. and we begin tonight with new developments. what we now know about that deadly drone mistake, meant to hit al qaeda those cia drones also killing two innocent men. an american and an italian man. the american on the left there, warren weinstein, a father and grandfather. his transformation after years in captivity. this is one of the last images his family would see. tonight, what his family told me about the last time they saw him. and their message to the obama administration tonight. abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl takes us step by step through the dramatic mission and the moment it went wrong. >> reporter: the two hostages warren wean stein and italian giovanni lo porto were hidden deep in the mountainous and lawless region near pakistan's border with afghanistan. the cia had been watching it continuously for hundreds of hours, becoming convinced dangerous al qaeda operatives were living there and that there were no civilians inside. january 14th, cia headquarters in langley gives the order. sending in a drone to fire missiles into pound. but soon, the tragic mistake comes into focus. the u.s. learns innocent civilians may have been there after all. and this month, the confirmation. weinstein and lo porto were both killed in the strike. >> as president, and as commander in chief, i take full responsibility for all our counterterrorism operations. i profoundly regret what happened. on behalf of the united states government i offer our deepest apologies to the families. >> reporter: and aide worker and peace korms veteran, the 73-year-old weinstein was kidnapped in pakistan in 2011 just two days before he was scheduled to go home. his wife and daughter spoke to david muir shortly after seeing him in this 2013 hostage video. >> when he looked straight into that camera and said it seems that i have been totally abandoned. >> abandoned. and forgotten. >> i wanted to die, right there on the spot. because he has no idea how hard we've tryied to get him back. the funny thing is that i always take him to the airport and i always pick him up and he sees my lip begin to quiver and he says oh please don't cry. and that was the last time i saw him. >> what would you say to him if you could? >> i would just tell him how much i miss him. i would just tell him that i love him and that i think about him every day. >> that family has been through so much. we've been following their journey to bring their father home. after all the tears, sitting down with us, tonight, the anger. >> reporter: they blame al qaeda for mr. weinstein's death, but david, they had some tough words today for the obama administration saying that the support they received from the u.s. government throughout this ordeal was, quote, inconsistent and disappointing and adding that they hope mr. weinstein's death, quote, finally prompts the u.s. government to take its responsibility seriously to support hostages and their families. >> all right, jon karl live at the white house tonight. as you know jon, one more key development in the deadly strikes. there were two other men killed two americans who had traveled overseas with a chilling mission, to join al qaeda. one of them adam gadahn, known for his own videos tearing up his u.s. passport and trying to taunt america. abc ceason justice correspondent pierre thomas on the boy who grew up in california one of the most wanted for a decade, now dead tonight. >> reporter: listen to a terrorist threatening his own country. >> the streets of america shall run red with blood. >> reporter: he was a suburban california kid. a lover of heavy metal who became one of the most wanted men on the planet. the grandson of a jewish doctor. adam perlman, morphed into adam gadahn gadahn. the american mouthpiece of al qaeda. >> september 11th demonstrated that america is not invincible. >> reporter: he was the first person charged with treason in the u.s. since the world war ii era. even after those charges, gadahn was unrepentant. in 2011 urging radicals to attack inside the u.s. >> so, what are you waiting for? >> and pierre is with us now from washington. pierre adam gadahn one of the military's most wanted terrorists for a decade? >> reporter: david, there was a million dollar bounty for gadahn. he's been hunted for more than a decade. in many ways he was a unique figure because of his all-american voice. >> all right, pierre thomas tonight from washington. thank you. meantime also from d.c. tonight, the close call between a drone and a passenger plane coming in for a landing today. the crew oaf a trans-states airline state spotting a drone. the pilots calling the tower, the drone, just 200 feet away. >> hey, at about 1,200 feet a.g.o. it know it's bizarre, but it looked like a little drone went beneath us. >> the faa has been concerned about drones flying too close to passenger jets. they are investigating tonight. meantime the mystery deepens after another scare in the sky. the flight out of chicago, the pilot suddenly descending 27,000 neat just minutes. after several passengers lost consciousness. at first, everyone thought it was just one passenger. tonight, we learned there were several. abc's david kerley again this evening. >> reporter: a passenger in distress at 37,000 feet on the united airlines sky west flight from chicago. >> she was gray. her color looked eded awful. >> reporter: hearing passengers are passing out, fearing depressurization the pilots dezone quickly. a nose dive says one passenger. >> the airframe shaking and we dropped very quickly. >> reporter: dropping 27,000 feet in less than eight minutes. >> 4,000, sky west 305 tango. >> reporter: but it wasn't just one passenger as the airline first said. >> we got her oxygen. as soon as she got in the oxygen she was alert. >> reporter: passenger and nurse mary cunningham helps a fellow passenger. >> the person sitting right behind her passed out. >> reporter: moments later, the nurse herself, feeling the effects. >> i started to feel shortle of breath. >> reporter: in all, three passenger terps passed out. all in the middle of the plane. rows 11 and 12. >> inbound flight, unknown medical problem. >> reporter: an emergency landing in buffalo. >> they did request a second ambulance. >> reporter: ems workers checked a total of 15 passengers all released. >> you just become lightheaded and see, like dolts. >> reporter: sky west says there was no indication of depressurization which would have effected the entire plane. so, what was it? sky west which declined our request for an oncamera interview, says there is nothing wrong with the plane and there were no reports of an odor. so tonight, david, this is still a mystery. >> all right, david kerley who covers aviation for us. david, thank you. severe weather hitting tonight. millions bracing for storms. we've seen damage from texas all the way up to the northeast. the ohm nous storm clouds moving in over abilene, texas. this few from a former in lorraine texas. that's a land spout there. . and tonight, in the northeast, the landslide. ginger is standing by with the new track tonight, but first, abc's gio benitez on the scene. >> reporter: tonight, severe weather across the nation hitting from the gulf to the northeast. in texas, six reported tornadoes tearing through the countryside. and golf ball-sized hail rendering highways white. drivers dodging hailstones under overpasses. that unseasonable win try weather making an annoying comeback in the midwest and northeast that will last for days. high winds downing trees near philadelphia. one landing on a house. and in florence new jersey wet ground turning to e roe shus. a landslide, causing a dangerous situation for this neighborhood. and from here on the delaware river, you can see that massive landslide, a house right there on the very edge. if more rain hits this area there's no telling what can happen to that house. >> this is our home. we put a lot of effort into it. i put a lot of love in this house. >> reporter: and tonight, town officials don't want the homeowners here. they've been told to leave in fear of a total collapse. david? >> all right, gio, thanks. let's get right to ginger zee, tracking this. more coming tonight. >> reporter: just moments ago, a severe thunderstorm watch has been issued just north of austin, texas. this is in that pocket of severe storm activity tonight that we're watching. waco you're in it. dallas, down to san antonio, be on alert. a little bit back there in parts of colorado and western kansas. tomorrow this is the friday threat area. shreveport's in it dallas kay woe, almost up to little rock and the elevated risk off to the west. this is not spring in some places in the nation. look at the numbers by tomorrow morning. temperatures sub-freezing in a lot of places. that's why we see frost and freeze warnings. >> ginger thank you. to boston tonight. the question should dzhokhar tsarnaev live or die and a dramatic day in court. the pros cue resting their case after showing wrenching images of the youngest victim 8-year-old martin richard. another witness a come bat surgeon who served in iraq and afghanistan, testifying the injuries he saw in boston were as gruesome as anything he saw on the battlefield. tonight, the apology from general david petraeus after his sentencing. once admitting he shared national secrets with his then-mistress. tonight, he was sentenced to two years probation, fined $100,000. no jail time. >> today marks the end of a two and a half year ordeal that resulted from mistakes that i made. as i did in the past i apologize to those closest to me and to many others. >> the apology, again, today from david mepetraeus. back here at home tonight, to hillary clinton. the former secretary of state, now being summoned to testify on benghazi before a house committee, not once but twice. and mrs. clinton tonight facing something else as well. a firestorm as questions mount about cash donations to the clinton foundation and from whom. abc's vega tonight. >> reporter: hillary clint tonightclinton tonight taking the stage to roaring applause. >> i wanted to be here regardless of what else i was doing. >> reporter: but today, the spotlight right here on the clinton foundation. report after report questioning foreign donations it accepted while clinton was secretary of state. "the new york times" reporting that as clinton's state department was signing off on the sale of one of america's largest youruranium mines to russia the mine's chairman donated more than $2 million to the clinton foundation. and despite promising of transparency those donations never disclosed. >> she is so well behaved! >> reporter: on the campaign trail, we asked clinton about the allegations. did foreign enties receive any special treatment for making my kind of donations to the foundation or your husband? >> the republicans seem to be talking only about me. i don't know what they'd talk about if i weren't in the race. >> hillary! >> reporter: clinton's camp now calling the claims of undue influence totally baseless and partisan conspiracy theories. but daughter chelsea today promising even more transparency. >> we will be even more trans parent. >> reporter: you can see chelsea clinton coming to the defense of her mother. she said, you won't see much of me during the campaign because i'm a new mom. >> reporter: she's a huge asset to this campaign and the campaign staff knows that the donation allegations are not going away any time soon. i would be shocked if we don't see chelsea playing a big role for 2016. but look when she's out there and the same for the rest of the clinton family as we saw today, they are all going to be facing tough questions, david. >> these questions aren't going away. cecilia, thank you. tonight, lor let that lynch has been confirmed as the nation's next attorney general. history this evening. the first african-american woman to serve in the post. now, to baltimore tonight. a city on edge again this evening. hundreds of protesters swarming city hall. the governor dispatching state troopers to keep the peace after the death of freddie gray dragged into a police van, put in leg irons. his spine would be severed. he would later die. tonight, tensions enflamed further after a police union chief like nlded protesters to, quote, a lynch mob. we're going to turn next tonight to dr. oz firing back. here's abc's linsey davis. >> reporter: dr. them melt oz taking his critics to task. >> i have long believed that doctors should not fight their battles in public, but now i believe i must. >> reporter: for nearly 30 minutes, oz defended and attacked. naming names of the ten doctors who accused him of promoting quack treatments in an e-mail calling for him to be removed from hi faculty position at columbia university. >> it's ironic that i'm being accused of a conflict of interest by these doctors when as you're about to see, some of them have their own conflict of interest issues. >> reporter: the show pointing out some of the physicians have big ties to big industry. specifically, genetically modified foods. in the past some criticism of oz has come directly from congress. >> i know you feel that you're a victim but sometimes conduct invites being a victim. >> i completely heed your commentary. >> reporter: dr. gilbert ross one of the ten physicians calling for oz to be ousted fired back today, saying in a statement to abc news instead of addressing the primary concern, that he often dispenses questionable medical advice dr. oz has chosen to evade responsibility. dr. oz says this attack by the doctors is coming now because of a bill he opposes that's currently before congress that could mean that states would not be required to label those gmos david. >> linsey, thank you. we are monitoring breathtaking images from chile. that volcano, showing it rumbling back to life. and this imposing image. the volcano at night, lightning, lava and ash raining down. thousands being evacuated. at least one person now missing. here's abc's clayton sandell. >> reporter: a fire and brimstone breathing beast, quiet for more than 40 years, is now wide awake. that time lapse capturing super heated gases spewing six miles above southern chile. today's blast even stronger than yesterday, helping the volcano create its own weather, sparking these surreal swarms of lightning. 4,000 people scrambled to evacuate. a layer of ash coating everything for miles away and flights are canceled. tonight, chile's president has declared a state of emergency, while everyone waits to see what this unpredictable beast will do next. clayton sandell, abc news, denver. >> clayton, thank you. there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this thursday. the pregnant restaurant manager, fired after this moment. the company telling that woman to pay the money back after a robber steams nearly $400. and the moment america gasped. the hero firefighter falling through the roof. there is news tonight about his condition, and a major development about how this fire started. the arrest tonight. and then tonight, the diane sawyer exclusive. the interview with bruce jenner. the first look at the olympic champion and sharing who he is most concerned about tonight. 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