Unresponsive wakefulness. He shows no signs of understanding language. His family as you can imagine upset and furious as they share this new footage showing their son playing with north Korean Children just before he was detained. And coming together, republicans and democrats taking the field as one overnight. Praying and playing that Charity Baseball game after the shooting rampage targeting congressmen. One of the hero officers throwing out that first pitch. And the latest on representative Steve Scalises condition this morning. Good morning, america. Happy friday. We made it. Its great to have david. Start now with you guys. Great to have david with us. I know you were in d. C. Shortly after the shooting rampage and saw a sign of unity. So many lawmakers told us they hope this is a turning point in the country that we bring down the temperature of the rhetoric. You can see them praying, both democrats and republicans kneeling on that field just a day after the shooting and that was quite a moment, robin. It certainly was. Almost 25,000 people were at the game. A record crowd. The most weve ever seen, 25,000 showing their support and unity. The fans holding up these signs saying scalise strong and one family. That is awesome. The president also had a message for the crowd. Well have much more on that ahead. First to the breaking news this morning, the Russian Defense ministry saying they may have killed isis leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi. Our chief investigative correspondent brian ross has the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The claim came this morning if an official statement from the Russian Defense ministry say they may have killed the isis leader in an air strike about two weeks ago. This morning the u. S. Military says it cannot confirm the claim but if true it would certainly be a major victory against isis. Abu bakr al baghdadis brutal reign only began three years ago but in that time as the founder of isis, he became the face of evil to the civilized world. History will regard baghdadi as a blood thirsty tyrant. During his reign his organization conquered a vast stretch of territory ruled over Something Like 5 Million People and he imposed his iron will and executed anyone who stood in his way. Reporter and it was baghdadi who inspired his followers to stun the world with social media videos that depicted barbarism and atrocity, among his thousands of victims were four Young Americans taken hostage in syria. James foley, steven set love, peter and Kayla Mueller whose parents say baghdadi took her as his personal sex slave before she died in captivity. Look at the symbolism in that. Hes raping america. Reporter he had been a prime target of u. S. Forces and he has been reported dead many times before only to reappear. The russians claim one of their air strikes last month near the city of raqqah targeted a meeting of top isis leaders and that some 300 of them were killed. The russians say baghdadi was at that meeting and thats why they say they may have killed him but the statement is far from definitive and no word of baghdadis fate. Many claims that he was killed before. Brian, thanks. More on that. Joining us is abc news consultant colonel stephen ganyard. If baghdadi is, indeed, dead, what does this mean for the fight against isis. Robin, probably in the short term it will have some effect in the fight around raqqah. It may upset the isis leadership. So but longer term think about what happened after bin laden, not much. This is an ideological struggle. Not like north korea where if kim jongun was killed the regime would collapse. In an ideological structure like this killing an individual soldier may not have a longterm effect. As david just mentioned this is not the first time that he has been reported dead. So how do we know for sure . Well, we dont. Remember, raqqah is a city under siege so the russians have no hard evidence. Theres no dna evidence that would suggest that hes dead. The other thing is this morning, robin, the department of defense and the u. S. Has told us that theyve heard no chatter. So nothing to back it up. No intelligence to back it up. We need to remain suspect in the claim. Im sure. Thanks so much. Robin, we turn back to that baseball game we began with. Players from both teams wearing the lsu gear to honor congressman Steve Scalise. Quite a game, the images were powerful. Congressional correspondent mary bruce was there and joins us from Nationals Park this morning. Good morning, mary. Reporter good morning, david. Yeah, quite a game, indeed. A record 25,000 tickets sold. More an a Million Dollars raised for charity as this annual tradition now takes on new meaning. The game began with this surprising emotional moment on the pitchers mound. Capitol police agent david bailey wounded protecting so many of the players throwing out the first pitch. Overnight lawmakers turned to ball players. Democrats and republicans setting aside politics for friendly competition. God bless america reporter taking to the field united before a packed stadium. Lets play ball. Reporter in the spotlight the teammate who wasnt there. Steve scalise, this hat is for you. Reporter republican congressman Steve Scalise still in Critical Condition after being gunned down at wednesdays practice. The shooters wife speaking out thursday for the first time. Horrible. Horrible. Reporter shocked and unable to explain her husbands actions. I had no idea this was going to happen and i dont know what to say about it. Reporter back on the field last night both teams coming together to heal kneeling in reflection at scalises second base position. On the big screen, the president saying the game sends a strong message about american resilience. By playing tonight you are showing the world that we will not intimidated by threats, acts of violence or assaults on our democracy. The game will go on. Reporter in the dugout the president s daughter, ivanka trump, spotted greeting lawmakers before the game. And on the sidelines wounded congressional staffer zack barth still on crutches and still cheering them on. Powerful night. Mary, back with us live. What do we know about congressman scalises condition and the condition of the others injured and you have news about the trophy. Reporter david, this morning scalise is still in Critical Condition. But were told he is improving. Now, also still hospitalized that Capitol Police officer crystal griner and matt mika, one of the republican coach, all of them very much at the front of everyones minds here last night and while technically the democrats did win the game this morning theyre giving that trophy to Steve Scalise. Its going to be in his office. We loved hearing that. We loved hearing he is improving. A lot of other major stories coming out of washington. President trump is heading to miami where he is expected to deliver a speech on u. S. Relations with cuba and reverse some of president obamas policies imposing restrictions on travel and trade. And the senate is sending a strong message to russia. Voting 82 to impose new sanctions for its meddling in the election. This as the president blasts the Russian Investigation calling it, quote, a witch hunt amid reports the special counsel is examining whether he obstructed justice. Our senior White House Correspondent cecilia vega has more details for us. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter hey, robin, good morning. News the president himself is being investigated for possible obstruction of justice has set him off. He is on a twitter tirade. The president took to twitter lashing out at the Washington Post report that he is now the subject of special counsel Robert Muellers investigation into possible obstruction of justice. The president calling it a phony story and the single greatest witchhunt in american political history led by some very bad and conflicted people. But now another twist, the post reporting that as part of the russia probe, mueller is also investigating the finances and business dealings of jared kushner, the president s soninlaw. Kushners lawyer telling ab news we do not know what this report refers to. Mr. Kushner previously volunteered to share with congress what he knows about russia related matters. He will do the same if he is contacted in connection with any other inquiry. Mr. President , do you believe that you are under investigation now . Reporter no comment from President Trump, instead he called for unity in the wake of this weeks shooting. Its more important than ever to help each other, care for each other and remind each other that we are all united. Reporter but less than five hours later, he was back on the attack. This time going after democrats and his old opponent, why, he wrote, is that Hillary Clintons family and dems dealing with russia are not looked at but my nondealings are. A far cry from his plea issued just hours earlier in the name of his friend Steve Scalise. That injured congressman now fighting for his life. And this morning, President Trump heads to miami where hes expected to announce his new cuba policy. This means rolling back a number of changes that the Obama Administration had put into place. Fewer americans will be allowed to travel to the island if they go, david, theyll have to go as part of an organized tour group. Thats a big change. I know youll cover it throughout the day. See you on world news tonight. Now to tensions growing at bill cosbys Sexual Assault trial. The jury deadlocked overtight and the judge ordering them to go back and try again. Abcs linsey davis outside that courthouse in norristown, pennsylvania, with the latest. Good morning, linsey. Reporter good morning, david. Day five and fatigue and frustration have both now set in. It was as if you could see the air going out of the tires yesterday as cosby accusers learned that the jury was deadlocked and at this time cosby supporters now say its time for the judge to declare a mistrial. This is unprecedented. Reporter bill cosbys spokesperson expressing outrage overnight arguing its time for the judge to declare a mistrial. The jury of 12 struggling to reach a unanimous verdict has now deliberated for 40 hours. Thursday morning when jurors reported they were deadlocked. The judge sent them back to try again. While cosbys fate hangs in the balance, Andrea Constand, the former temple Womens Basketball director of operations who claims cosby drugged and assaulted her in 2004 tweeted this lighthearted video shooting hoops as she waits in the courthouse for the verdict. The tag line, always follow through. Her case against cosby is the only criminal prosecution from the allegations of more than 50 women who have accused the comedian of drugging and or sexual misconduct. Several accusers attended the trial and expressed their frustration with the jurys deadlock. Like victoria valentino who has been here for two weeks and came all the way from california. I feel very deflated. Im worried but i do im holding on to some hope because the judge is telling them to go back in there and work on it. Reporter thursday tempers flared on the steps of the pennsylvania courthouse between cosby supporters and an alleged victim. And while early in deliberations the jury asked to have the testimony from both constand and cosby read back to them its now been more than 24 hours since the group asked a question. In a case like this where you have no witnesses, you have no forensics, its a he said she said case and credibility is everything. Reporter if the jury comes back again and tells the judge that they are deadlocked at that point it really is at the judges discretion to determine if hes going to say that this is a mistrial. If he does, at that point bill cosby would walk out a free man and then it would be up to the District Attorneys Office to determine if theyre going to try him again. David. Linsey davis who has been on the case since the start. Dan abrams is with us so theyre deadlocked. Yep. The judge tells them to go back and try at it again. How common is it, though, that a jury changes its mind, someone on the jury and come back with a different decision. It happens occasionally. Judges do this in any case where a jury says, we cant reach a decision. The judge is effectively saying, please, go back, talk about it. See if you can reach an agreement. Think about all of the time and effort that has gone into this trial. Hes not saying that but the judges goal here is see if theres any way to get a verdict. I have seen cases where despite the fact they said were deadlocked they then change, they talk and they do reach a verdict. But it doesnt happen all the time. Not all the time. If it comes back and the judge declares a mistrial today what then for bill cosby . He walks free. For now then the question do the prosecutors decide to retry him and i think theyre going to be two key factors there. Number one, what does Andrea Constand think . Does she want to go through this again . If the answer is yes that will have a big impact on the prosecutors. Number two, what was the vote on the jury . Meaning if they were 111 for a conviction, i think it would be hard for the d. A. Not to retry him. If it was 102 for an acquittal it makes a much better argument to let it go. Well watch it throughout the day. Amy has other news involving u. S. Troops. The pentagon preparing to send nearly 4,000 more u. S. Troops to afghanistan to fight the taliban and isis. Thats according to the Associated Press which reports most of the troops will train and advise afghan forces. And there are new tensions now between the u. S. And turkey following this brawl in washington last month. Police say bodyguards for the visiting turkish president attacked Peaceful Protesters and now u. S. Officials have a issued arrest warrants for 12 of those bodyguards. Turkeys president says local police failed to protect him. Authorities in london now fear as many as 100 people may have died in wednesdays apartment tower fire. Crews are working in secure areas of that building trying to find any remains, a criminal investigation is under way. And a special tribute to adam west better known as tvs batman. The city of los angeles brought a little bit of gotham city to its own city by activating the bat signal one last time. West died of leukemia last week. Finally it looks like this man may be relaxing in a hot tub there but take a look as we pull back. Thats actually an eightfoot pothole on a street in jackson, mississippi. He put this on instagram and said chilling in my new hot tub, jacksonlife. He was trying to raise awareness about the condition of the local roads and guess what, it worked. Crews were out yesterday making repairs so the power once again of social media. Uhhuh. We get things done in mississippi. Jackson life. Taken a picture. I wouldnt have crawled into that water. Didnt look too good. Now to another incredible image or another incredible images showing a blimp crashing right by the u. S. Open and rescuers rushing this to save the pilot and alex perez is on the scene in wisconsin. Good morning, alex. Reporter hey, good morning, michael. You know its hard to ignore a huge blimp in the air so when it started to deflate everyone on the ground here at the u. S. Open knew something was very wrong. This morning, federal investigators working to figure out what caused this advertising blimp to come crashing down exploding into a ball of flames. The aircraft crashing into this field about half a mile from the u. S. Open tournament golf course in erin hills, wisconsin, around 11 15 thursday morning. We have a blimp down. Reporter thousands of spectators watching the competition, many finding themselves watching this instead. In disbelief. Oh, there it goes. Saw the whole thing as its going down and three explosions on the ground and, you know, it was just a terrible feeling all of a sudden. Thats the blimp. Thats not good. Reporter on board the pilot, Trevor Thompson and rode the burning blimp to the ground. The patient is out however he is injured. Reporter rescue crews pulling him from the wreckage moments before several explosions. I looked up and saw it on fire and i felt sick to my stomach. I had the shakes. I felt terrible for the people inside. We have a 200pound male patient 40 burns on his back. Reporter thompson placed on a stretcher and carried on to a waiting medevac helicopter. And that pilot is in stable condition and expected to be okay. The ntsb is investigating the crash. Michael. All right, thank you, alex. Glad hes going to be okay after all that. Must be a scary situation. Now to ginger and, ginger, theres a lot of hail in the plains and more Severe Weather coming. You can see this is stockton, kansas, huge hail behind me. Northern alabama, trampoline shoved up, a lot of places reporting 60 to 70 Miles Per Hour winds. Chicago gets into the enhanced risk saturday. We have more coming up for now lets get to the weekend getaways brought to you by carmax. Reporter weve got showers to the north and west of philadelphia pushing into areas away from reading, north of pottstown and moving in the direction of cuz kutztown and allentown and quakertown getting hit in the next hour. Temperatures in the 60s and pushing up to the 70s pretty quickly. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast shows a high of 82. There will be spotty showers this afternoon after we get rid of the morning batch. It gets more humid through the day, stays sticky this weekend. The major new questions about what really happened while he was in captivity and the new images of him just before he was detained. Say no to this because of my bladder . Thanks to tena. Not anymore only new