Incredibly dangerous. A Good Samaritan risks her life to race into a burning home and rescue a victim trapped inside. And i dropped my phone right here, and i just i just went in. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im eric thomas. And im dion lim. It certainly took a lot of courage and some brute strength to get the man out before he was overcome by smoke and flames. Abc 7 reporter with the story. Reporter firefighters wear protective gear to clear this burned antioch apartment on peppertree way but moments earlier samantha saved a mans life with her bare hands. Samantha and her family stepped outside around 11 00 to head to the park and thats when she saw smoke. She looked around to see if anybody was responding and when she realized she was the only one there to help she ran across the street. The fires roaring and everything. And then she said i cant, shes crying at me, i cant, my roommate, hes paralyzed. He cant get out, i cant get him out, you have to help me. Samantha ran pa
The deadly flu. The most children lost yet, reported in just the last week. Do not let your guard down. What you need to know tonight. And the storm set to hit this weekend in the northeast, and tonight, the rare ef1 tornado already confirmed. Good evening, and we are just back tonight from florida where this evening, the president has now landed and where families have begun to lay their loved ones to rest. All of this as the fbi makes that alarming admission that they were warned about the shooter weeks ago. They had been told he had access to guns and a, quote, desire to suspect nikolas cruz is charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. Surveillance video shows him walking to a mcdonalds shortly after the attack, after dropping his ar15 trying to blend in with the other students leaving the school. Tom llamas leads us off from florida again tonight. Reporter tonight a stunning admission from the fbi. The agency admits they were warned about nikolas cruz six weeks ago but they dr
The major headline this evening when it comes to the deadly flu. Thmolost yet, reported in just the last week. Do not let your guard down. What you need to know tonight. And the storm set to hit this weekend in the northeast, and tonight, the rare ef1 tornado already confirmed. Good evening, and we are just back in the west tonight and we begin with that headline breaking a short time ago. A powerful earthquake hitting mexico. A magnitude 7. 5. Buildings seen swaying in mexico city. Abcs Kayna Whitworth with the images coming in at this hour. Reporter tonight, the powerful 7. 2 earthquake sent people scrambling into the streets. Dust filling the air. Inside buildings, overheadlights swaying. People bracing for safety. The warning sirens blaring in the streets and on television. And reports of some damage, this after that devastating 7. 1 quake that rocked the capital of mexico city, killing hundreds and leveling countless structures. Tonight, the worry that aftershocks could be on the
Press conference when it happens. But first after a mass shooting like we saw yesterday, Second Amendment advocates and the lawmakers who represent them are finding a way to make the debate about anything but gun laws. And the president did his part, did not mention the word gun ann an address of mass shooting. The gun lobbys talking points are designed to avoid the gun debate. For instance, the Las Vegas Strip massacre, theyd argue it is not about how he got the gun, it is bts thing he a it is about the thing he attached to the gun. And newtown, it is not how he got the gun, but it is identifying mental illness. What about the Virginia Tech massacre. It is not about how he got the gun, it is about arming schools to thwart an attack. About none of the arguments hold up this in case. Here is many other arguments that dont hold up. The gup was bought gun was bought illegally. And someone should warn that the gunman had Mental Health issues and in this case someone did. The fbi was given
Good afternoon, kimberly. This now goes down as the worst, most deadly High School Shooting in u. S. History, outpacing by two fatalities the carnage that happened inside Columbine High School in colorado back in 1999 where the death toll was 13. Here it is 17, and the sheriff did disclose today that all Family Members have now been identified, all of the 17 victims have been also positively identified, so the families have been notified, and everyone is now struggling and dealing with the grief of having families completely shattered forever. In the words of the superintendent of the school as well as echoed by the governor and the attorney general, we should not be living in a place where a parent sends their kids off to school in the morning and they never return home after that last bell rings at the end of the school day. As the sunsets, the newspaper headquartered out of the Fort Lauderdale area covering Broward County contacted the student, chris mckenna, now reporting that chri