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As wildfires in the U.S. and Canada rage out of control, Ginger Zee reports on the millions from the Great Lakes to the Northeast under air quality alerts; Gio Benitez has details on the midair emergency on a United Airlines flight from D.C. to Germany with 230 people on board after the pilot reported an engine failure shortly after takeoff and repeatedly declared mayday; Jon Karl has the latest on the Texas redistricting fight after Texas Gov. Abbott ordered the arrest of any Democratic lawmaker who has left the state to avoid a vote; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir.
As wildfires in the U.S. and Canada rage out of control, Ginger Zee reports on the millions from the Great Lakes to the Northeast under air quality alerts; Gio Benitez has details on the midair emergency on a United Airlines flight from D.C. to Germany with 230 people on board after the pilot reported an engine failure shortly after takeoff and repeatedly declared mayday; Jon Karl has the latest on the Texas redistricting fight after Texas Gov. Abbott ordered the arrest of any Democratic lawmaker who has left the state to avoid a vote; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir.
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00:00Tonight, the air quality concerns for millions of Americans also breaking what ABC News has just learned involving Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator Glenn Maxwell, what she allegedly just told the Justice Department involving President Trump, and the breaking headline tonight involving legendary director Francis Ford Coppola.
00:17First, the images from Chicago to Detroit, New York to Boston, the dangerous air quality for millions of Americans, hundreds of Canadian wildfires filling U.S. skies with smoke, New York City's air quality now ranking among the top 10 worst in the world, and the wildfires in the West tonight, new images of families getting out, Ginger Zee is here.
00:37Also tonight, sources now telling ABC News about what Jeffrey Epstein's associate, Glenn Maxwell, said during her two days of meetings with the Justice Department, and what she said about President Trump.
00:48And tonight, the president is asked about what happened just days after that meeting.
00:53Glenn Maxwell transferred from federal prison in Florida to a minimum security camp in Texas.
00:58Also tonight, under arrest, the man accused of killing a family of four and abducting their baby, then abandoning that baby.
01:05What authorities are now saying tonight about the arrest and the condition of the baby.
01:09Tonight, the scathing new Coast Guard findings about the Titan submersible tragedy.
01:13Five lives lost trying to explore the Titanic and what's now been revealed.
01:18The showdown in Texas.
01:19Tonight, President Trump saying Republicans are, quote, entitled to those seats, citing his victory in that state.
01:26Democrats trying to keep this from happening.
01:28Congressional maps are generally tied to the census.
01:31In New York City, a deadly outbreak of Legionnaire's disease.
01:34Tonight, at least three patients have now died.
01:37Many more sickened.
01:38What causes this?
01:40News tonight about Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola in the hospital.
01:44The cause of death now revealed for Ozzy Osbourne.
01:47Tonight, Robin Roberts face-to-face with endangered mountain gorillas and the tense moments.
01:55Tonight here, the effort to save the endangered animals.
01:58And in New York City and New Jersey, for the second time in three days, a small earthquake rattling the region.
02:08From ABC News World Headquarters in New York, this is World News Tonight with David Muir.
02:16Good evening.
02:16We begin tonight here with the air quality concerns spreading.
02:19New York City now joining Detroit and Chicago for much of this day.
02:22All three cities among the top ten with the worst air quality in the world.
02:26Smoke from Canadian wildfires hovering over much of the U.S. tonight.
02:30Millions of Americans on alert right now in 13 states from Minnesota to New York to New Hampshire.
02:35More than 700 wildfires in Canada.
02:38And in the west at this hour, the critical fire danger there.
02:41Major wildfires already burning.
02:43The dangerous air, those hazy skies bringing real air quality concerns across the country.
02:48From Las Vegas to Denver, where they had to slow down flights coming in and out of Denver because of poor visibility.
02:54From Chicago to Detroit, New York City to Boston.
02:57Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee is here with the forecast.
02:59And Stephanie Ramos with the images tonight and the health concerns.
03:03Stephanie leading us off.
03:05Tonight, smoke from hundreds of wildfires in Canada and dozens right here in the U.S., making the air hard to breathe.
03:12The New York City area blanketed in a thick haze at noon.
03:15The air quality among the top 10 worst in the world.
03:19The AQI, the air quality index in the city is 123.
03:22That is unhealthy for sensitive groups.
03:24It's especially hard for people who already have trouble breathing.
03:28I always recommend my asthmatics to carry their albuterol pump when the air quality is bad and to have it on them because it can happen at any moment.
03:36Doctors say no matter your health, you need to be careful.
03:40Detroit breaking the top 10 again today.
03:42Officials there calling on Canada to do more to deal with their more than 700 wildfires that are causing problems from Buffalo to Burlington and Boston.
03:51The smoke from the Canadian wildfires was so bad at one point here in Boston.
03:56There was a ground stop of planes here at Logan Airport.
04:00Meanwhile, the western U.S. has wildfires and air quality problems of its own.
04:05Low visibility forcing Denver's airport to slow departures and arrivals for a time.
04:09And in Riverside County, California, the Rosa Fire burning southeast of Los Angeles, one of multiple raging in the Golden State.
04:18Rebecca Shaves shot this video as she escaped the Gifford Fire north of Santa Barbara Saturday.
04:24That fire now more than 125 square miles.
04:28And David, you can see just how hazy New York City looks behind me.
04:32We can expect at least one more day of these conditions.
04:36David.
04:36Stephanie Ramos with the view there from New Jersey looking right over Manhattan.
04:39Steph, thank you.
04:40Let's get right to Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee tracking it all again tonight for us.
04:43Hi, Ginger.
04:45Hi, David.
04:46We've got those smoky skies over the Hudson River here in New York, too.
04:49And that air quality in that 126 category.
04:53So unhealthy for sensitive groups.
04:54Let's dive in and see who else is included.
04:56Philadelphia, back up to Syracuse, Buffalo, New Hampshire, down to Detroit, Cleveland, and Fort Wayne, Green Bay.
05:04Doing this for like day four or five.
05:06Some people in the Great Lakes are on nearly a week.
05:09And we're going to see this move.
05:10That easterly wind will push the smoke tomorrow close to New York and almost out of here by tomorrow night.
05:16But look where it starts to move into.
05:18Delaware, the Poconos, the Catskills are going to be seeing it really thick.
05:21And then check it out, Washington, D.C. by Thursday morning, it's moving just west of you.
05:26Extreme heat warnings up in the southwest.
05:28Some red flag warnings with really low humidities.
05:30And a quick look at the Atlantic.
05:32You know it is heating up.
05:33We're watching for the next name storm, David, which would be Erin.
05:36Ginger Zee with us again tonight.
05:37Ginger, thank you.
05:38Now to the Jeffrey Epstein case.
05:40And tonight, what sources are now telling ABC News about what Jeffrey Epstein's associate, Glenn Maxwell,
05:45said during her two days of recent meetings with the Justice Department.
05:48What she said about President Trump.
05:49And tonight, the president has now been asked about what happened just days after that meeting.
05:54Glenn Maxwell was transferred from federal prison in Florida to a minimum security camp in Texas.
06:00Here's Aaron Katursky.
06:02Tonight, less than two weeks after the unusual meeting between the country's second highest law enforcement official
06:08and Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator, sources tell ABC News,
06:12Glenn Maxwell said nothing in those two days that would harm President Trump.
06:16Maxwell, convicted of sex trafficking, is serving a 20-year prison sentence.
06:20And during this meeting with the Justice Department, sources familiar with its content say she told Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche,
06:26who until recently was Trump's personal attorney, that Trump did nothing in her presence that would have caused her concern.
06:32In the week and a half since that unusual meeting, Maxwell has been moved from a federal prison in Florida
06:38to a minimum security camp for women in Texas, a rare move for a convicted sex offender.
06:43Late today, President Trump was asked if he authorized transferring Maxwell from that prison
06:48to a minimum security camp with more favorable conditions, including fewer guards and limited fencing.
06:54Todd Blanche is one of the most highly respected people you'll ever meet.
06:57So I know this. I didn't discuss it with him, but anything he talked about with her or the fact that he did that,
07:04not unusual, number one, and most importantly, is something that would be totally above board.
07:10Tonight, sources also tell ABC News the Justice Department is now considering releasing a transcript of the nine-hour conversation
07:17during which her attorney said Maxwell was asked about 100 different people associated with Epstein.
07:22I asked Maxwell's attorney if she's simply telling the Justice Department what it wants to hear.
07:27Does she have an incentive to just tell the deputy attorney general what he wants to hear?
07:32No, because she wants to tell the truth.
07:36And tonight, David, the Republican-led House Oversight Committee is issuing subpoenas to the Justice Department,
07:42to former President Bill Clinton, and to other former government officials inquiring about the Epstein files,
07:48keeping alive a controversy President Trump has tried to end.
07:52David.
07:52Aaron Katursky tonight. Aaron, thank you.
07:54Next tonight, to a gruesome case that's making national news. Tonight, news of an arrest here.
07:58The suspect accused of killing a family of four and then abducting and then abandoning their baby.
08:03The arrest nearly after a week on the run, and he has been seen on this security camera.
08:08Tonight, what authorities are saying about the condition of the baby, and here's Trevor Ault.
08:11After an intense six-day manhunt, tonight, authorities have arrested the suspect accused of murdering a Tennessee family of four
08:19and kidnapping, then abandoning their infant.
08:22He thought he could outrun us, but he was wrong.
08:25Investigators sharing these images of Austin Drummond dripping with sweat shortly after he was captured in the woods of Jackson this morning.
08:32He was spotted overnight staying in a vacant building.
08:35Surveillance videos showing him armed with a black rifle, dressed in camouflage.
08:40Authorities say the suspect knew the victims, but they're still investigating a motive.
08:44The suspect's girlfriend is the sister of a victim.
08:50And tonight in Montana, the search for a gunman in a separate shooting is still ongoing.
08:56Authorities say Michael Paul Brown was last spotted Friday fleeing the scene of Owl Bar after allegedly gunning down four people.
09:03He was able to escape and get up in the mountains.
09:06We are absolutely operating under the assumption that he is armed and extremely dangerous.
09:10The town of Anaconda is still on edge as they grieve.
09:15And David, we've learned the brother of that Montana suspect is serving a life sentence himself for a fatal stabbing in that same town.
09:22And in Tennessee, officials there say that baby, which had been abandoned, is safe and healthy.
09:27David.
09:27Trevor Ault with us here tonight.
09:28Trevor, thank you.
09:29Tonight, the new findings from the Coast Guard on that catastrophic implosion of the Titan submersible.
09:34People all over the world will remember holding out hope for those five people on board who were trying to make it to the Titanic.
09:39The accident killing those five people on their deep sea voyage.
09:43Tonight, Coast Guard investigators are now laying much of the blame on the company's CEO, saying he ignored repeated warnings.
09:50Here's Gio Benitez.
09:50More than two years after the Titan submersible imploded on its way down to the Titanic, killing all five on board, the Coast Guard's final report blaming the disaster squarely on Ocean Gate CEO Stockton Rush.
10:04Investigators say if he had survived the disaster, they would have recommended manslaughter charges.
10:10I'd like to be remembered as an innovator.
10:12One button.
10:12Rush famously bragged about breaking the rules as he built his sub out of experimental materials.
10:18The carbon fiber and titanium, there's a rule you don't do that?
10:20Well, I did.
10:21Members of Rush's team testified they repeatedly warned him of the dangers.
10:26He wanted me to be the pilot that runs the Titanic missions.
10:29And I told him I'm not getting in it.
10:30The report found Rush threatened whistleblowers and ignored and concealed safety concerns as the Titan's hull grew weaker with each dive.
10:39It was actually predictable that the hull was experiencing damage that was cumulative and eventually would fail.
10:47Everyone on board died.
10:49One crew member breaking down as she remembered the passenger's excitement right before that doomed dive.
10:55They were just very happy to go.
10:58That's the memory I have.
11:00Nobody was really nervous.
11:05They were excited about what they're going to see.
11:08And David, tonight we're hearing from the Taud family who lost their father and 19-year-old son.
11:14They say no report can alter the heartbreaking outcome.
11:17But if this leads to regulatory change, that will bring them some peace.
11:22David.
11:23Gio Benitez with us tonight.
11:24Gio, thank you.
11:25Now to the showdown in Texas.
11:26Late today, President Trump saying Republicans are, quote,
11:28entitled to those additional seats, citing his victory in that state.
11:33Democratic lawmakers fleeing the state trying to keep this from happening.
11:36Congressional maps being redrawn are generally tied to the census.
11:40Here's our chief White House correspondent, Mary Bruce.
11:43Tonight is the battle over the Texas congressional map rages on.
11:47President Trump now arguing Republicans are entitled to five more House seats there because he won the state.
11:53I won Texas.
11:54I got the highest vote in the history of Texas, as you probably know.
11:59And we are entitled to five more seats.
12:02But the congressional map is not tied to presidential races.
12:05It's historically tied to the once-a-decade census.
12:08Republicans and Democrats have used redistricting to their advantage before.
12:13But tonight, well aware of Republicans' narrow margin in Congress and the midterms approaching,
12:18President Trump is now saying, quite simply, Republicans are entitled to more seats.
12:23But that can't happen without Democrats present.
12:26And dozens have fled the state.
12:28Today, Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn calling on the FBI to help bring them back and arrest them.
12:35I asked the president if he supports that idea.
12:38Do you want the federal government and the FBI to help locate and arrest these Texas Democrats who have left the state?
12:45Well, I think they've abandoned the state.
12:46Should the FBI get involved?
12:48Well, they may have to.
12:49They may have to.
12:49No, I know they want them back.
12:51Not only the attorney general, the governor wants them back.
12:55You can't just sit it out.
12:56You have to go back.
12:57You have to fight it out.
12:58That's what elections are all about.
13:00Meantime, with Congress on break, Republicans back in their home districts facing heat.
13:05In Nebraska, Congressman Mike Flood getting an earful.
13:09Booed for his support for Trump's massive tax and spending bill.
13:12Why does it seem like when you make your voting decisions, they're based on capital rather than the working class?
13:18With all due respect, sir, the Republican Party now more than ever represents the heart and soul of the working class.
13:31After 90 contentious minutes, the town hall ending with chants of vote him out.
13:37Thank you very much and have a safe drive home.
13:42And tonight, former President Obama is now weighing in on the Texas fight, posting, quote,
13:47we can't lose focus on what matters.
13:49Right now, Republicans in Texas are trying to gerrymander district lines to unfairly win five seats in next year's midterm elections,
13:56saying this is a power grab that undermines our democracy.
14:00David.
14:01Mary Bruce, live at the White House tonight.
14:02Mary, thank you.
14:03Overseas tonight, devastating images coming in of deadly flash flooding in a Himalayan mountain town.
14:08Look at this.
14:08Northern India tonight.
14:10Videos circulating online showing the moment a torrent of rain and mud brings down the hillside, slamming the village,
14:16killing at least four people, at least 50 others missing tonight.
14:19Disaster response teams, including soldiers, rescuing many who were trapped.
14:23The town tonight has now been cut in two.
14:25Many homes buried in mud right up to their rooftops there.
14:28When we come back tonight in New York City, a deadly outbreak of Legionnaire's disease.
14:33We have just learned a third patient has now died.
14:35Many more sickened.
14:36What causes this?
14:37There's also breaking news.
14:38There's been a deadly crash involving a medical plane.
14:41What we've learned tonight.
14:42And there's news coming in this evening about legendary director Francis Ford Coppola and his health.
14:46He directed, of course, The Godfather and many other movies.
14:49The latest on his condition right after the break here.
14:53Tonight, there's been a deadly crash involving a medical transport plane in northeast Arizona.
14:57The Navajo Police Department says four people on board the plane were killed.
15:01The plane going down on the Navajo Nation.
15:03It was on its way to pick up a patient at a nearby hospital.
15:06In New York City, a deadly outbreak of Legionnaire's disease.
15:09We have just learned at least three patients have now died.
15:11Nearly 60 cases reported.
15:13The cluster breaking out in Harlem.
15:15Legionnaire's is a severe form of pneumonia caused by bacteria.
15:18The outbreak traced to 11 cooling towers in central Harlem.
15:22Authorities say they've now been cleaned.
15:23For the second time in three days, a small earthquake hitting northern New Jersey and rattling parts of New York City.
15:29The magnitude 2.7 quake near Hillsdale, New Jersey.
15:32A magnitude 3.0 quake hitting Hasbrook Heights, New Jersey, Saturday night.
15:37When we come back, there's news coming in on legendary director Francis Ford Coppola in the hospital.
15:41And Ozzy Osbourne's cause of death revealed tonight.
15:44To the index, Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola, behind The Godfather and so many others,
15:51is in the hospital in Italy after appearing at a film festival there.
15:54He reportedly underwent scheduled heart surgery and is now under observation.
15:58There had been some reporting he had mild cardiac arrhythmia before the operation.
16:02Tonight, a spokesperson now saying he's resting nicely.
16:05He's 86 years old.
16:07Ozzy Osbourne's cause of death has been made public tonight.
16:09His death certificate shows he died of a heart attack.
16:11It also shows he suffered from Parkinson's and coronary heart disease.
16:15The document lists his occupation, by the way, as songwriter, performer, and rock legend.
16:20When we come back here tonight, Robin Roberts, face-to-face with endangered mountain gorillas
16:24and some tense moments you'll see them and the extraordinary effort to save the animals.
16:31Finally tonight, Robin Roberts on a remarkable journey in Rwanda,
16:34the effort to save endangered mountain gorillas and what she witnessed just a few feet away.
16:39I'm in Volcanoes National Park, making my way through the dense brush and up steep ravines
16:47on a once-in-a-lifetime trek to catch a glimpse of one of this area's most esteemed
16:53and beloved creatures, the endangered mountain gorilla.
16:58My trek guide, Prosper, showing me dormant volcanoes in the distance and rolling hillsides.
17:04It's beautiful.
17:05Beautiful.
17:05And we find what we were looking for.
17:12That's the mother with the baby.
17:15And they don't mind that we're here.
17:16No, they know why we are here.
17:20We are here to protect them.
17:22It's hard to put into words being this close in their habitat.
17:26They're just right there.
17:27They're right there.
17:29Oh, but then we get a surprise.
17:31So we have one behind us.
17:36So let's see him coming.
17:40A five-year-old juvenile coming to check us out.
17:44A tense moment.
17:45But we try to remain calm.
17:47It's okay.
17:48He is...
17:49Prosper making a grunting sound to let him know we're not a threat.
17:55I'm stiff as a board.
18:02No, no, it's okay.
18:03It's okay.
18:03Then another mother.
18:05This one giving her nine-month-old baby a piggyback ride.
18:08See, she has the baby on her back.
18:11Baby on the back.
18:13Yeah.
18:13Do you see that?
18:14Another catches on.
18:16I know I'm growing up, but I still want to be on your back.
18:20I know mother is okay.
18:22Trekking through the rainforest to these animals has sparked a tourism boom.
18:26And those tourists, largely American, help finance guerrilla conservation efforts.
18:32Back in 1985, we had a little less than 250 of them.
18:37Then we moved to 2021.
18:40They became over 1,000.
18:4110% of the tourism revenue here goes back into the community, from schools to paving roads.
18:49So today, you have a model where the communities and the gorillas will be able to coexist.
18:55We follow the family deeper into the forest.
18:58High above us, his name is Marambo.
19:02Hello, Marambo.
19:04Nice to meet you.
19:05It's almost like it's not real.
19:07That's the father.
19:08That's the one they were all coming up to see, and we followed.
19:14And it was worth it.
19:17Remarkable effort in Rwanda.
19:19Our thanks to Robyn.
19:20She'll be here first thing in the morning with a team at Good Morning America.
19:22I'm David Muir.
19:23I'll see you right back here tomorrow night.
19:25Good night.
19:27David Muir, the most watched newscast in America.
19:30And now, ABC's World News Tonight has won the Emmy for Best Live News Program for the third year in a row.
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