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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, breaking news, the smoke moving in.
00:03Millions of Americans right now under dangerous air quality alerts.
00:06The temporary ground stop at Boston's Logan Airport.
00:09From the Great Lakes to the northeast in New York City, the air quality alerts.
00:13Fast-moving wildfires in the U.S. and Canada creating a blanket of smoke in the skies over multiple states tonight.
00:20The ground stop for a time at Logan amid poor visibility.
00:23New York City and that new alert.
00:25Detroit warning people about the air quality there.
00:28Ginger Zee is standing by for us.
00:30Also tonight, the alarming image is just outside New York City.
00:33Passengers pounding on the doors of a train from the inside after fire breaks out under the train during rush hour.
00:40Passengers pleading with the conductor to open the door.
00:43Several people rush to the hospital.
00:45Tonight, a pilot on a United flight out of Washington, D.C., issuing a mayday.
00:49An engine failing just after takeoff.
00:52And another scare tonight, this passenger jet and the bird strike.
00:55The damage to the front of the plane, the emergency landing that followed.
00:58Also, the small plane crash right off the east coast.
01:02Witnesses seeing it go down in the Atlantic.
01:04The dramatic rescue effort that followed.
01:07Tonight, the showdown in Texas at this hour.
01:09Governor Greg Abbott now threatening to arrest Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to delay a high-stakes redistricting vote.
01:17Republicans trying to redraw the state's congressional map.
01:20Tonight, the urgent manhunt police searching for the suspect accused of killing a family of four and then allegedly kidnapping and abandoning their baby.
01:29Overseas tonight, the haunting images of hostages held by Hamas appearing desperate and frail.
01:35The family of one hostage describing him as a living skeleton.
01:39Tonight, what Israel is now threatening to do in panel reporting.
01:42The breaking headline of this hour involving Sean Diddy Combs, what we have just learned.
01:47A scare on the water.
01:49A whale slamming into a boat off the northeast.
01:51A woman thrown into the water.
01:53Tonight, there's news of a shark attack.
01:55Reports the pregnant wife of a former NBA player attacked by a shark.
02:00And this evening here, the tribute's pouring in for Lonnie Anderson, the actress from WKRP in Cincinnati.
02:06We hear from I Dream of Jeannie star Barbara Eaton, remembering her friend.
02:14From ABC News World Headquarters in New York, this is World News Tonight with David Muir.
02:22Good evening.
02:22It is great to start another week with all of you at home.
02:24We begin tonight with the air quality alerts for millions of Americans at this hour.
02:28Smoke from raging wildfires in Canada now spreading down right over the U.S.
02:32across the Midwest and the Northeast.
02:34In Boston, a ground stop at Logan Airport for a time.
02:37In New York City tonight, an air quality alert now issued.
02:39Also, the warnings about the air in Detroit.
02:42And it's not just Canada.
02:4339 major wildfires are now burning in 13 states in the West.
02:47Tonight, there are real concerns over the air quality in all those highlighted areas
02:51with the highest risk in the areas in red, from Las Vegas to Green Bay, Detroit to Buffalo,
02:56all in the red zone due to wildfire smoke.
02:59But this stretches all the way to New York City and Boston.
03:01More than 700 wildfires are burning in Canada.
03:04This one in British Columbia closing down a major highway, forcing hundreds to evacuate.
03:09The skyline of Boston barely visible because of that haze.
03:12A ground stop at Logan Airport for a time.
03:14And in the West tonight, the Gifford Fire burning more than 100 square miles north of Los Angeles,
03:19prompting evacuations, causing several injuries.
03:22Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee has the forecast, and she leads us off tonight.
03:25Tonight, air quality alerts for millions from the Great Lakes to the Northeast as wildfires
03:31in the U.S. and Canada rage.
03:34New England skies covered in thick, hazy smoke.
03:38WCVB's chief meteorologist Cindy Fitzgibbon.
03:40This is what it looks like in Worcester.
03:42This is what it looks like in Boston.
03:44At Boston's Logan Airport, the FAA issuing a brief ground stop, blaming the smoke.
03:49Dozens of flights delayed.
03:51There are air quality alerts up from New York City and back through the Great Lakes.
03:56Meteorologist Mike Taylor from our Detroit affiliate WXYZ.
04:00This puts you in the unhealthy criteria.
04:02Simply put, that means that it's just bad air for everybody.
04:06The air quality rating in the Detroit area among the worst in the world today.
04:10The culprit?
04:12Smoke from more than 700 wildfires in Canada.
04:15Meanwhile, in California, hot, dry conditions fueling multiple major wildfires.
04:20The Gifford Fire north of Santa Barbara, which nearly tripled in size Saturday, now burning
04:25more than 100 square miles and still out of control.
04:29At least three people injured, one suffering serious burns.
04:33Extraordinary pictures from across the U.S. and Canada tonight.
04:35Let's get right to Ginger.
04:36And Ginger, as you said, from the Midwest to the Great Lakes to the Finger Lakes, all the
04:40way to New York City and Boston.
04:41The impact from this is vast.
04:42It is, and that's because Canada, David, has had more than 16 million acres burned.
04:49That's more than twice their average acreage to date.
04:52Now, behind me, the smoky skies are evident, and we have air quality in the unhealthy for
04:57sensitive groups category.
04:59Locating all the way down to Delaware, up to Maine, the air quality alerts back to Green
05:03Bay, Grand Rapids, Michigan, even northwest Indiana.
05:06How long does this stick around?
05:07Well, for the midweek is where we have to kind of hold out for Wednesday.
05:11By then, things are looking better.
05:12But we're going to see this push around some of that near-surface smoke, which is tough for
05:16people with asthma, certainly for the young or elderly.
05:19And we've got another area we're watching today.
05:21Flash flood alerts from Atlanta back down to Apalachicola, Florida.
05:26Two-inch-per-hour rainfall rates through tomorrow are possible.
05:29And it is that time of year, climatologically, it's when we heat up in the Atlantic.
05:32And we sure have three areas that we're watching right now.
05:35No impacts to land, just some rip current threats for South and North Carolina, David.
05:38But we know you'll continue to track it for us.
05:40Ginger, we'll see you first thing in the morning on GMA.
05:42In the meantime, to the harrowing commute on a train bound for New York City, a fire breaking
05:46out under a path train during rush hour.
05:48Passengers pounding on the doors from the inside, trying to get out of the train.
05:52Passengers on that train, as it was filling up with smoke, you can see the pictures here,
05:55pleading with the conductor to open the doors.
05:58Several people were rushed to the hospital.
05:59And here's Stephanie Ramos tonight.
06:02Move!
06:02Move!
06:03Move!
06:03Move!
06:03Move!
06:05Panic and chaos as smoke filled this commuter path train headed for Manhattan at the start
06:10of the morning rush.
06:11Easy, easy, easy, man.
06:13Open the door!
06:15A fire on board sending flames shooting out from under the train as commuters inside begged
06:20the conductor to open the door so they could escape.
06:23First responders swarming the station in Jersey City, New Jersey, where they treated 13 people
06:28for smoke inhalation, nine of them taken to the hospital.
06:31The fire stranding commuters.
06:33There are no trains out of Hoboken right now, so we are trying to make it to a ferry.
06:41Service suspended for nearly five hours on path trains, which run nearly 200,000 trips in and
06:48out of New York City every day.
06:50David, at this point, there are no reports of any major injuries.
06:54The NTSB is investigating the cause of that fire.
06:57David.
06:58Stephanie Ramos with us here.
06:59Steph, thanks as always.
07:00Tonight, a pilot on a United flight out of Washington, D.C., issuing a mayday, an engine
07:04failing just after takeoff, and the emergency landing that followed.
07:08And the other scare tonight, a passenger jet and the bird strike.
07:10Passengers putting on oxygen masks, bracing for impact.
07:14After they landed, you could see the damage to the plane.
07:17Gio Benitez covers aviation.
07:20Tonight, we're learning about a mid-air emergency on board a United passenger jet from Washington,
07:25D.C. to Germany, with 230 people on board.
07:28Shortly after takeoff from Dulles, the pilot reporting an engine failure, repeatedly declaring
07:33mayday.
07:34The plane, flying at nearly 5,000 feet at the time, forced to head back to Dulles on
07:46July 25th.
07:47In a statement, United pointing to a mechanical issue, saying the plane landed safely.
07:52It comes as this Iberia jet lost nearly half of its nose, colliding with a large bird after
07:58takeoff in Madrid overnight.
08:00This video on X, showing the jet being towed away, its engine damaged.
08:06Passengers Giancarlo Sandoval filming the terrifying scene.
08:09People wearing oxygen masks as the cabin fills with smoke.
08:13Passengers applauding as that plane landed back in Madrid.
08:18Iberia saying tonight they continued to Paris on a new flight.
08:23And David, back at Dulles, United says that flight to Germany was canceled and travelers got
08:27on other flights the FAA is investigating.
08:30David.
08:31Gio, thank you.
08:32One more aviation note tonight.
08:33Witnesses watching as a small plane crashed right off the east coast and into the Atlantic.
08:37It happened off the coast of North Carolina.
08:40Witnesses horrified.
08:41And then the dramatic rescue that followed.
08:43Here's Mola Lenghi tonight.
08:45Tonight, the exact moment a plane crashes.
08:48Oh, my God.
08:49Off the North Carolina coast.
08:51Caught on video.
08:52Striking the water and flipping over.
08:54The single-engine plane going down near Oak Island Saturday evening.
08:58Water rescue teams already in the area after responding to another call nearby seen rushing
09:03to the crash site, approaching the submerged plane by boat, jet ski, and even surfboard.
09:08The pilot speaking to ABC affiliate WWAY.
09:12At a certain point, the engine just completely stopped.
09:15The propeller stopped.
09:16And at that point, I knew that I was going to have to land in the water.
09:20Officials say he was safely removed from the wreckage and treated on shore for non-life-threatening injuries.
09:26The plane later towed from the water.
09:29Well, officials say the pilot was the only person on board.
09:32Tonight, the FAA is investigating the incident, David.
09:35Mola Lenghi with a small of thanks.
09:36Now to the showdown in Texas at this hour.
09:38Governor Greg Abbott now threatening to arrest Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to delay a high-stakes redistricting vote.
09:45Republicans trying to redraw that state's congressional map that could give them five more seats in the House in Washington.
09:52And tonight, word coming in from New York and California's governors.
09:55Will they follow suit?
09:56Here's John Carl.
09:58Tonight, the governor of Texas is threatening to arrest any Democratic lawmaker who has left the state,
10:04as dozens have, to avoid voting on new congressional maps designed to favor Republicans.
10:10I ordered the Texas Department of Safety to locate, arrest, and return to the House chamber
10:15any member who has abandoned their duty to Texans.
10:19Governor Abbott declared in a statement,
10:21this order will remain in effect until all missing Democrat House members are accounted for and brought to the Texas Capitol.
10:28Until at least some of the Texas Democrats return to the state,
10:32there won't be a quorum in the statehouse and a vote on the new congressional districts can't go forward.
10:37Members, a quorum is not present.
10:41Republicans voted to issue civil arrest warrants to bring the Democrats back to the Capitol.
10:45But those warrants have no power outside of the state of Texas.
10:50More than 50 of the Democratic lawmakers have left, some to Illinois, others to New York and Massachusetts.
10:56We just arrived here in Chicago.
11:00We have made it safely to Chicago.
11:02We are breaking quorum.
11:03My Democratic colleagues and I have just left our beloved state to break quorum and stop Trump's redistricting power grab.
11:10Republicans are seeking to redraw the state's congressional districts
11:14in a way that could help Republicans win five extra House seats in next year's midterm elections.
11:20The move was demanded by President Trump,
11:23who is eager to preserve the narrow Republican majority in Congress.
11:26On Texas, on Texas, how many more seats do you want the Republicans to draw?
11:32Five.
11:32Are you calling in for a complete redrawing of the congressional map?
11:36No, no, just a very simple redrawing.
11:38We pick up five seats.
11:39Although Democrats have also skewed congressional district maps to favor their party in states they control,
11:46redistricting usually only happens after a new once-a-decade census.
11:50Now, the Democratic governors of California and New York are threatening to change their congressional districts to retaliate against Texas.
11:58And we're going to fight fire with fire.
12:00Then they're leaving us no choice.
12:02We must do the same.
12:05Texas Democrats will have to come home eventually.
12:07In the meantime, this could become quite costly.
12:10Each one of them faces a $500 fine for every day that they are out of the state.
12:16Meanwhile, this just in from the governor of Texas, he has ordered the Texas Rangers to initiate an investigation
12:23into whether any of those Democrats either accepted or solicited funds to pay for their travels outside of the state,
12:30something he says would be a violation of Texas bribery laws.
12:34David?
12:34John Carr with the breaking headline.
12:36And, John, as you point out, this is usually tied to the census,
12:38which is why so many people are watching this across the country.
12:41Thanks, John.
12:42To the urgent manhunt tonight for the man who police say killed a family of four and then allegedly kidnapped
12:46and then abandoned the baby in Tennessee.
12:49Here's Trevor Ault.
12:51Tonight, the intensifying search for the suspect accused in the gruesome killing of a Tennessee family of four
12:57allegedly kidnapping and then abandoning their infant last week.
13:01Authorities believe Austin Drummond knew the family and is still in the area,
13:06charging four other people in connection with the crime three of them believed to have helped him get away.
13:11A $17,000 reward now being offered for tips that lead to an arrest.
13:17And in Montana, in a separate case, hundreds of officers searching for Michael Brown,
13:22who authorities say shot and killed four people Friday at his neighborhood bar.
13:26By all indications, this is an unstable individual who walked in and murdered four people in cold blood for no reason whatsoever.
13:33Authorities say Brown was a regular at the Owl Bar and likely knew all four victims.
13:38Officials releasing this image, saying he'd shed most of his clothes and fled the scene.
13:43We have a visual of someone on Ash Street.
13:46He allegedly stole a vehicle with camping gear and may now be hiding in the mountains.
13:50We are acting under the assumption that he is alive, well armed and extremely dangerous.
13:55And David, authorities say the alleged Montana gunman is an army veteran with a known history of mental health and drug problems.
14:04David, Trevor Rall reporting. Trevor, thank you.
14:06Overseas tonight, the haunting images of the hostages still being held by Hamas, appearing desperate and frail.
14:11The family of one hostage tonight describing him as a living skeleton.
14:16Tonight, what Israel is now threatening to do to get the hostages out.
14:19Here's Ian Pannell.
14:21Tonight, the haunting images shocking Israel, prompting international outcry.
14:27Emaciated hostages in Gaza on the brink of starvation.
14:30The propaganda videos coming after weeks of terrible images of children in Gaza dying of malnutrition.
14:38Now, sources telling ABC News, Prime Minister Netanyahu threatening to expand the military operation to occupy all of Gaza and get the hostages home.
14:4624-year-old Evyatar David, seen in that disturbing video.
14:50His family saying he's become a living skeleton buried alive in a Hamas tunnel.
14:56We spoke with his brother, Ilya.
14:58What impact has the release of the video had on the family?
15:02It really crushed us.
15:03We were in a roller coaster.
15:07Emotional storm because it was a sign of life.
15:13And hostage Ron Praslavsky, seen here saying, I'm at death's door, in a chilling video released by Islamic Jihad.
15:21Both families agreeing for the media to show these horrific images.
15:24Ilya David, critical of Hamas, for using the hostages and its own people as bargaining chips.
15:30They used my brother, they used the other hostages, they used the people of Gaza as pawns in their sick game.
15:38So first, this starvation must stop, but it will only happen if Hamas will allow it to stop.
15:47David, it's unclear if Netanyahu's threat to occupy all of Gaza is actually a negotiating ploy to force Hamas to disarm and release all the hostages as Israel and the U.S. wants.
15:59David, Ian Piano, live in Tel Aviv for us.
16:02Ian, thank you.
16:03Back here in the U.S. and in New York City tonight, Sean Diddy Combs has been denied bail.
16:07He will remain in jail until his sentencing October 3rd.
16:10Combs was convicted on two counts of transporting individuals for prostitution and not guilty of more serious charges.
16:16His lawyers had argued others convicted of similar crimes had been granted bail.
16:20The judge denying the request.
16:21When we come back on this Monday night, this evening, there is news of a shark attack involving the pregnant wife of a former NBA player bitten by a shark.
16:29We'll have more in a moment.
16:30The other terrifying moments in the water, a whale slamming into a boat off the northeast, a woman thrown into the water right there.
16:37And then the tributes pouring in tonight for Lonnie Anderson, the actress from WKRP in Cincinnati.
16:42Tonight, I Dream of Jeannie star Barbara Eden and what she's saying about Lonnie Anderson in a moment.
16:46Tonight, we're learning the pregnant wife of former New York Knicks star Danilo Gallinari was attacked by a shark while on vacation in Puerto Rico.
16:55His wife, sports journalist Eleonora Boye, was bitten on the leg near San Juan, waiting in the water along a crowded beach there.
17:01Tonight, she says she and the baby are fine.
17:04A scare for boaters off the Jersey Shore.
17:06A video showing the woman being thrown overboard, a mink whale repeatedly slamming into the boat with several people on board.
17:13The boater was not hurt.
17:14The whale did not survive this.
17:16When we come back here tonight, remembering Lonnie Anderson from WKRP in Cincinnati.
17:21Tonight, I Dream of Jeannie star Barbara Eden paying tribute.
17:26To the next tonight, the tributes for actress Lonnie Anderson, who died after a long illness.
17:31Best known, of course, for her role in WKRP in Cincinnati.
17:33Married to Burr Reynolds for five years.
17:35Tonight, I Dream of Jeannie star Barbara Eden paying tribute to her, quote, dear friend.
17:39Calling her a real talent with razor smart wit and a glowing sense of humor.
17:44A darling lady and a genuinely good person.
17:46Lonnie Anderson was 79.
17:48When we come back here tonight, every parent, every grandparent waits for this moment.
17:53But they don't expect it to happen in front of thousands.
17:55You'll see it in a moment.
17:58Finally tonight here, America Strong, one step at a time.
18:03Tonight here, the incredible moves on the WNBA basketball court.
18:06But this time, we're not talking about the players.
18:08The big game in Las Vegas, the Aces against the Lynx, the sold-out crowd, and during halftime, some of the youngest fans right there on the court.
18:17Invited by the Aces for the third annual diaper derby, they call it.
18:20All the dads with their babies lined up.
18:23Moms on the other side, holding their babies' favorite toys to try to coax them to crawl across the court to get to them.
18:29Then they were off.
18:31And watch the third baby from the right, in the white shirt, pink headband with the bow, little Ada, who just turned one, off to an early lead.
18:39Dad Paul in the red Las Vegas Aces hat and jersey, right behind her, pointing toward Mom.
18:45Halfway across the court, with a sizable lead, Ada stopping to grab her stuffed animal, hugging it.
18:50Watch this.
18:51Slowly, she carefully stands up.
18:57The crowd goes wild, and Ada wasn't done.
19:02Remarkably, she starts walking.
19:04Her first steps, right there in front of Mom and Dad, and in front of a crowd of more than 10,000.
19:09Making her way to crowd Mom, Louisa, with a big hug.
19:17Ada winning the call by walking.
19:20After the race, Dad carrying Ada and her trophy.
19:23She'd been standing, but she hadn't been walking.
19:26She just ran, like, just standing up in the middle of the day.
19:29Tonight, Dad Paul overjoyed, telling us she did one step at home.
19:34She's been practicing, but then she just kept going, and that was wild for us.
19:37We were not expecting her to take off like that.
19:41Tonight, Ada and her incredible first steps, right in front of the sold-out crowd, cheering her on.
19:47How can you beat that?
19:48Hopefully, Ada walked right over to the TV tonight to check herself out.
19:51I'll see you right back here tomorrow night.
19:53Good night.
19:53David Muir, the most watched newscast in America.
20:00And 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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