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To gather information on his accusers, including rose mcgowan. Now the reporter who broke the story is here live. And Security Breach. A man caught on camera jumping onto a baggage belt at miami international. Running across the tarmac before quick thinking workers tackled him. Now the investigation, how did he get through so easily. Good morning, america. Welcome back this Tuesday Morning. It has already been a busy tuesday for President Trump in south korea. Were going to show you right there, there he is with the south korean president making some interesting provocative comments about north korea suggesting the possibility of a deal. Just before that meeting with the south korean president , the president dined with our troops over there. There he is sitting in the mess hall with the soldiers. We will have much more on the president s trip just ahead. First we want to get to those new details about the Deadly Church shooting in texas. This morning there are serious questions about how the gunman was able to buy firearms despite his history of Domestic Violence. We are avenue hearing from the survivors who made it out of the shooting alive. Our Senior National correspondent matt gutman spoke with them and starts us off in Sutherland Springs, good morning, matt. Reporter hey, good morning, george. We knew the slaughter was bloody but didnt know until now was how methodical devin kelley went about doing it. Those survivors describing him walking back and forth from the altar to the back of the church selecting target, firing, reloading, doing it again. Many of them only saw his boots and they say he said one thing, everybody is going to die. This morning, the scale of the horror inside that shoe boxsized church shocking even to investigators. I can tell you that the scene in there is horrific. Reporter for the first Time Survivors describe the terror as a murderer stalked the house of worship. People screaming and people crying and momma, where are you . Momma, the little kids. Roseanne solis was discharged from the hospital late monday arriving home into the embrace of family members. I saw bodies with a lot of blood. Thats all i saw because i wasnt about to get out from where i was hiding. Was anybody trying to get away . Was there anywhere to go . Huhuh. There was nowhere to go. Reporter solis said the shooters only words were everybody dies. Did you play dead . Yes, i did. I played dead and i made sure that i hid myself good under that bench. Reporter this morning fatri and others remain hospitalized. She just laid on the floor. The shooter was shooting and everybody he could see was trying to run and after nobody was moving just laying on the floor he walked up and down all the aisles shooting everybody as they laid on the floor. How many times do you think he went up and down . She said 10 to 15 times. Reporter his moms bulletridden cell phone likely saved her life. Eight members of a Single Family murdered. The holcombes, associate pastor brian was one of them seen here speaking at the church earlier. If youre at christ jesus you have a ministry. Reporter more may have died if it hadnt have been for stephen willeford. Theyre friends of mine, their family. Every time i heard a shot i knew that probably represented a life. I was scared to death. Im no hero. I am not. I think my god, my lord protected me and gave me the skills to do what needed to be done and i just wish i could have gotten there faster. Reporter Johnnie Langendorff who chased the suspect along with willeford showing our david muir video he shot on his cell phone during the last moments of the shooters life. So you can see the Police Moving in. Just over that left divider they would find the killer dead. Overnight toast two heroes seeing each other for the First Time Since the shooting falling into an embrace. Now, this is a community of 650 people. Obviously the loss of 26 lives is causing it to reel but the real gut punch here is the loss of that holcombe family we just mentioned, three generations gone. Grandparents, parents and four grandchildren and when you talk to folks here they say what really angers them is that devin kelley should never have been allowed to buy those weapons in the first place. Robin. Matt, that is what were going to discuss right now, that there is a demand for answers. They didnt tell the fbi about the gunmans history of Domestic Violence enabling him to purchase those weapons he used in the rampage. Our senior justice correspondent Pierre Thomas has more. Joins us from washington. Good morning, pierre. Reporter robin, good morning. Theres no soft way to put it, the killer should never have been able to buy the Assault Rifle used to massacre all those people. In april of 2016 devin kelley walked into this Academy Sports outdoors store in san antonio and brought awe ruger Assault Rifle. A background check was done on the purchase. It came back clean and the sale of the weapon used to kill all those parishioners went forward. It should have never happened. There was no prohibitive information in the systems that we checked that say he could not have purchased that firearm. Reporter these new documents obtained by abc news military prosecutors outlined the details of kelleys dark past. The Court Records show the former airman pleaded guilty to repeatedly punching, kicking and choking his then wife. At another shocking charge, hes accused of striking his infant stepson on the head and body with a force likely to produce death or grievous bodily harm as part of the pleading the courtmartial he dropped charges he pointed a loaded gun at his wife. It should have banned him from being able to buy the rifle but the air force last night admitted they never forwarded that information to the fbi which maintains the database used for those background checks. We have to get to the bottom of it. Yes, there are a lot of questions the air force has to answer. Reporter this morning investigators searching for some of those answers in this tiny church and the staggering aftermath of kelleys rampage. A substantial amount of evidence, physical evidence has been collected including hundreds of shell casings, more than 15 magazines, 30round capacity magazines have been recovered. Reporter and new insight into a possible motive. Again allegations of Domestic Violence. With Police Suggesting kelley may have gone to the church to hunt his motherinlaw who allegedly received threatening Text Messages from the killer. There are many ways that he could have taken care. The motherinlaw without coming with 15 loaded magazines and an Assault Rifle to a church. I think he came here with a purpose and a mission. Reporter while kelley may have been after his motherinlaw, theres evidence that everyone in the house of worship was a target. Authorities have now studied video from inside that church. One official telling abc news the gunman came to the church to, quote, kill everyone in that building, period. He was a mass killer of children, hes a horrible monster, end quote. Guys. And, pierre, how does the military know there arent others who havent been flagged and could be out there right now . Reporter michael, we dont know if there are other cases like this falling through the cracks. The military is launching an investigation to make sure there are not more mistakes like this, all the services will be studied. Michael. Guys. Thank you, pierre. Good to know. Now to the latest on President Trumps trip to asia. The president and first lady arriving in south korea overnight. Meeting with troops and sending a new message to north korea as t they promise to increase their nuclear power. Jon karl has more. Good morning, jon. Reporter not long ago the president called talking to north korea a waste of time, not anymore. I really believe that it makes sense for north korea to come to the table and to make a deal thats good for the people of north korea and the people of the world. Reporter hes not ruling out military action but the president is acknowledging the steep cost of war on the korean peninsula. We sent three of the largest aircraft carriers world and theyre right now positioned and have a Nuclear Submarine also positioned. We have many things happening that we hope, we hope do not go further. We hope to god we never have to use. Reporter meeting with south koreas president 35 from the north korean border the president ditched the bellicose rhetoric about north korea. No more taunting of rocket man kim jongun, no talk of fire and fury. Instead, hope for diplomatic progress. I do see certain movement, yes, but lets see what happens. Reporter in his first visit here as president , he was welcomed by south koreas president moon who took office earlier this year urging a less confrontational approach to dealing with kim jongun. The president s newly diplomatic and hopeful tone was also on display at camp humphries, a joint u. S. South Korean Military outpost not far from the border with north korea. Ultimately itll all work out because it always works out. Has to work out. Reporter even as the president talked up diplomacy, he seemed to surprise south koreas president by saying that south korea would soon be buying billions of dollars in u. S. Made weapons. There were no arm sales that were announced but the president predicted that they would come and they would bring lots of american jobs. Robin. Well see. All right, jon, thank you. The latest on the russia investigation. Revelations from former Campaign Adviser carter page and several hundred pages oftestimony. He details contacts with russians on a trip to moscow and what he told several other Campaign Officials about those contacts before and after the trip. Our Congressional Correspondent mary bruce is on capitol hill with the details. This blow as part the Trump Campaign denials of any contact with russians during the campaign. Reporter george, this testimony is certainly raising a lot of questions about those previous denials. During seven hours of testimony here on the hill, it became clear that senior members of the trump team knew about a 2016 trip that carter page made to moscow and that page may have had more interactions with russian officials than he previously disclosed. At the time page sent an email to fellow trump aides in which he said that during the trip, he had been provided with, quote, incredible insights and outreach by russian lawmakers and senior members of putins administration. And, mary, several months back i talked to carter page about it. Theres a lot of focus on the trip you took to russia last july. You met with russian academics and people in the business community. Did you meet with anyone in the russian government or connected to russian intelligence . I said hello briefly to one individual who was a board member of the of the new Economic School where i gave my speech. Mary, we know who that official is now. Reporter we now know the official he was referring to was actually the Russian Deputy Prime Minister at the time page wrote that he, quote, expressed strong support for mr. Trump and a desire to Work Together toward devising Better Solutions in response to a vast range of Current International problems. Now, george, page still insists it of a brief interaction and says he learned about the Russian Deputy Prime Ministers views through Media Coverage and his public remarks. Okay, mary bruce, thanks very much. George, as we know it is election day. Some big races across the country. The highest stakes in virginia where both President Trump and former president obama have weighed in on the battle for governor. Our chief National Correspondent tom llamas is there at a pollingtation in fairfax, and, tom, this race as we know is tight and some democrats are concerned this he colose the state that Hillary Clinton won. Reporter robin. Thats exactly right. As you mentioned the voting is now under way here in virginia and so many are watching this race because many people believe this is going to be a bellwether for the midterm elections next year. The ads have gotten aggressive as have the president s tweets. The president tweeted this morning from seoul about the democrat in this race who we should mention is a veteran. Heres what the president tweeted. Lease put it up. He tweeted Ralph Northam m will allow crime to be rampant in virginia. He is weak on crime, weak on our great vets, antisecond amendment. So why does President Trump care so much about this governors race . He lost the state, the only Southern State he lost and knows if republicans win itll be a great sign. In virginia, the tight race for governor pitting democrat and current Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam against republican ed gillespie. Gillespie promised to keep up confederate monuments chose not to appear with President Trump on the campaign trail. Some think he didnt want to discuss overnight. Is there a reason you didnt campaign with the president. With this so close both sides have used scare tactics in their political ads. Run, run, run. Reporter the Latino Victory Fund a liberal pac had to take down this ad depicting minority children running from a gillespie supporter in a pickup truck with a confederate flag. Gillespie fired back with his own ad criticizing northam for supporting restoring Voting Rights to felons including a suspected child pornographer. Im a pediatrician and for ed gillespie to say i would tolerate anyone hurting a child is despicable. So clearly this race has gotten very heated. The last time a republican won statewide office here in virginia was 2009. So a win for ed gillespie would be huge for the gop. Many will be watching. New details now on that bizarre attack on kentucky senator rand paul that left him with five fractured ribs and bruised lungs. The longtime neighbor now facing charges and this morning were getting a better sense of what may have sparked that feud. Linzie janis has the story. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The senators senior advise ser calling it a serious criminal matter but a lawyer for the senators neighbor is downplaying the dispute saying it was over something most people would consider trivial. This morninger the reason behind the confrontation between senator rand paul and his neighbor of 17 years, a mystery. The republican senator telling police he was mowing his lawn in bowling green, kentucky, friday afternoon when 59yearold rene boucher allegedly came onto his property tackling him from behind. Paul suffering five broken ribs and lung contusions. The two men live in a wealthy gated community. Their Property Side by side along a small lake. Boucher a retired anesthesiologist and pain specialist who invented the thermo vest to treat back pain. A neighbor said hes known both for years telling abc news the two had a lot of political differences but in a telephone interview bouchers lawyer denying it was politically motivated. That is absolutely and unequivocally untrue. Its just a very, very hugely regrettable incident. It would not happen again in a million years. Reporter he was charged with fourth degree assault. Kentucky police now assessing if further charges are warranted. If we receive medical records that will help the Commonwealth Attorney to ascertain taken whether it was a serious physical assault or the simple assault in the fourth degree which was a misdemeanor. Reporter the fbi is looking into whether the assault may have been politically motivated but this morning some reports now suggesting it may have been over landscaping. Thats one heck of an argument. Sure is. Those injuries are serious. Yeah. They are. Thank you, linzie. Well go over to ginger with the weather and, ginger, say it aint so. Its getting cold. You got to stop saying winter that arctic air than held up there by that jet stream that has been that sense that keeps it up there its breaking down. Friday into saturday, look at minneapolis, coldest temperatures since last march at 16. Air temperatures 22 in chicago. First freeze will happen from washington, d. C. Through philly and new york city. Tuesday trivia now brought to you by walgreens. Goodgood morning, everybody. Storm tracker6 live double scan shows us that our area is dry but were seeing mixed precipitation out in the mountains to the west of the susquehanna river a little light snow out by gettysburg. That becomes rain as it pushes towards the east later. For now weve got sunshine in philadelphia, some clouds digging in from the west. And its chilly with temperatures in the 30s and low 40s. 50 is todays high and we are expecting rain to arrive during the afternoon in most areas and the polls look wetter in the afternoon and evening than they will be in the morning. Ah. Colorado springs below that mountain level. You can see the clouds and fogs were rolling like an ocean. Thats a time lapse. Cool. We much prefer that t