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Erik Menendez denied parole after California’s Parole Board finds he poses an “unreasonable risk to public safety;” Matt Gutman has breaking developments on the Menendez brothers, decades after Erik and Lyle were convicted of murdering their parents; Aaron Katersky reports on the armed officers that swarmed the Villanova University campus outside Philadelphia in response to an active shooter report, which the university says turned out to be a “cruel hoax;” Trevor Ault has details on the accident on a dairy farm in Colorado that left six workers dead; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir.
Erik Menendez denied parole after California’s Parole Board finds he poses an “unreasonable risk to public safety;” Matt Gutman has breaking developments on the Menendez brothers, decades after Erik and Lyle were convicted of murdering their parents; Aaron Katersky reports on the armed officers that swarmed the Villanova University campus outside Philadelphia in response to an active shooter report, which the university says turned out to be a “cruel hoax;” Trevor Ault has details on the accident on a dairy farm in Colorado that left six workers dead; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir.
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00:00Tonight, breaking news as we come on the air in the West.
00:03After decades in prison, a parole board decision on Eric Menendez.
00:07The news just coming in, the Menendez brothers behind bars for more than three decades
00:12for the shotgun murders of their parents.
00:14Tonight, what we've just learned about their push for freedom.
00:16Matt Guttman with late word on the case.
00:19The dramatic video just coming in, SWAT teams moving in on the campus of Villanova University
00:23after reports of an active shooter on the first day of orientation.
00:27Aaron Katursky with late reporting what officials are now saying about what happened.
00:32Hurricane Aaron lashing the East Coast.
00:34Flood alerts from the Carolinas up to the Northeast.
00:37Massive waves crashing into homes, surging over dunes.
00:40Beaches now shut down on a major week for summer vacations.
00:44Our weather team standing by with the latest track.
00:46Developing in the West tonight, a deadly accident out of Colorado Derry.
00:50What we've just learned.
00:51Tonight, the Kremlin all but rules out a face-to-face meeting between President Zelensky
00:56and Vladimir Putin anytime soon.
00:59Despite the promise the White House says Putin made to President Trump
01:02as Russia ramps up attacks on Ukraine.
01:05The midair scare on a Delta flight when passengers look out the window
01:08and see a piece of the wing dangling during landing.
01:12President Trump celebrates a major legal victory in a civil fraud case
01:15when an appeals court just ruled.
01:17A new era for sports fans and our friends at ESPN.
01:21How you can find all of your favorite content all in one place.
01:26The daring effort to locate and save a missing hiker stranded on a remote Alaskan cliff.
01:31And America's strong tonight.
01:33Two teachers' families.
01:34Their unbreakable bond thanks to one selfless act.
01:37From ABC News World Headquarters in New York, this is World News Tonight with David Muir.
01:49Good evening as we come on the air in the West and thanks so much for joining us on this busy Thursday night.
01:54I'm Rachel Scott in for David.
01:56We will have the latest on the active shooter scare at Villanova University in just a moment.
02:00But we do begin tonight with breaking news.
02:02A major turn in that case that has made national headlines for decades.
02:06More than 35 years after murdering their parents, Lyle and Eric Menendez getting their first chance at parole today.
02:13Late word just coming in on the case a short time ago.
02:16ABC's chief national correspondent Matt Gutman leads us off tonight.
02:20Tonight, that crushing defeat for Eric Menendez.
02:23His bid for parole rejected by a California parole board.
02:26Eric and Lyle have been behind bars for decades for the shotgun murders of their parents, Kitty and Jose, 36 years and a day ago.
02:34And in a marathon session via video link, the now 54-year-old grilled about the savage murders of his parents in their Beverly Hills mansion.
02:42And just as he had claimed in that first trial...
02:44My dad had been molesting me.
02:48Eric Menendez said they killed after years of sexual abuse by their father.
02:52Fear was driving me to that den.
02:54Our lives were in extreme danger immediately.
02:56And once they broke the secret of that abuse, they said they feared their father would kill them.
03:01And when asked why he killed his mother, Eric described feeling betrayed when he learned she knew about the abuse for years.
03:09I saw my mother, my father, as one person after I learned that she knew.
03:13So when I was running into the den, I was in a state of terror, of panic, of rage.
03:18A parole member telling Eric he understands the concept of the learned helplessness for sexual abuse victims.
03:25But that same member excoriated Eric's record for being replete with diverse violations, including violence, manipulation, misuse of things.
03:34You have criminal acts.
03:35And the commissioner's hammering Eric about his serial use of illicit cell phones in prison.
03:41One noting the violation would have required a prison guard to smuggle it in and likely have benefited a prison gang, which taxed the import of the phone.
03:49Eric admitting he'd paid $1,000 for one of the phones, saying,
03:53I really became addicted to the phones.
03:55You're doing life without parole.
03:56This is not really harming anyone.
03:59But that all changed after that Netflix series, Monsters, triggered an avalanche of new support.
04:04This is done.
04:05This is done.
04:06You understand?
04:08Spurring the former DA to call for the brother's release.
04:11I believe that they have paid their debt to society.
04:15Eric telling the board today, in November of 2024, now the consequences mattered.
04:20Now the consequences meant I was destroying my life.
04:23The hearing's final words left for the victim's family, in this case, also the brother's family.
04:2818 of them speaking on the brother's behalf, including Jose Menendez's sister, Terry Barrault, battling stage four cancer.
04:36We spoke with her in April.
04:38You've held your silence for 35 years?
04:40It's a whole branch of my family erased.
04:42The ones that are gone and the ones that are still paying for it, which were kids.
04:52And today, speaking rapidly, almost out of breath, she made her plea, calling Eric a sweet, gentle soul who deserved to be protected from his father and has repeatedly over the past 35 years asked her forgiveness.
05:04I want to make it clear, she told the commissioners, that although I love my brother, I have fully forgiven Eric.
05:11But in the end, those pleas weren't enough.
05:15Deliberations, Rachel, lasted about nine hours, but it took only minutes for that parole board to come to its conclusion.
05:21Now, tomorrow, Lyle is up.
05:23It's a different set of commissioners.
05:24Same process.
05:25And we expect tomorrow to also be a very long day.
05:29Rachel.
05:29Matt Gutman with this breaking news, right, Matt?
05:31Thanks.
05:32Next tonight, with millions of students returning to college across the country, a chaotic scene unfolding late today at Villanova University just outside Philadelphia.
05:41Reports of an active shooter during the first day of freshman orientation.
05:45Heavily armed officers swarming the campus, searching for the gunmen.
05:49The school put on lockdown.
05:50Students urged to shelter in place.
05:52But just moments ago, officials at Villanova now calling this a cruel hoax.
05:57And there were scares on two other college campuses today.
05:59Here's ABC's chief investigative correspondent, Aaron Katursky.
06:03Tonight, fear and chaos as school begins at Villanova University outside Philadelphia, one of the nation's best-known Catholic schools.
06:10Police searched the campus but found no victims.
06:13There was never an active shooter on the campus.
06:16And we are going to conduct a full investigation.
06:19Panic students seen running and ducking for cover after the university warned of an active shooter at the law school.
06:25Police pouring into the campus on orientation day.
06:28Heavily armed officers, long guns drawn, entering buildings, clearing classrooms.
06:33The alert came around 4.30 in the afternoon.
06:35Students and faculty cell phones blaring a warning of a possible active shooter.
06:40The message instructing everyone to shelter in place, move to a secure location, and lock and barricade doors.
06:46So we have the zone of the law school.
06:48Warning specifically to stay clear of the law school's Scarpa Hall.
06:52Canine units and columns of officers armed with rifles moving in.
06:55Everybody use caution around the windows.
06:57Subject on the second floor.
06:59Police escorting students out.
07:01Yesterday was move-in day.
07:03Villanova posting this video on social media.
07:05Some 1,800 students and their families on campus when the alert sounded.
07:10A welcome mass for the freshman class and their families was being held at the time.
07:14Worried parents were separated from their children.
07:16Getting that text message was surreal.
07:19And thank God no one's hurt.
07:20Again, Rachel, there was no shooting.
07:22There were no victims.
07:23But you saw the overwhelming police response to what Villanova now calls a cruel hoax.
07:28Tonight, police are investigating who did it because it's a serious crime.
07:32Rachel?
07:33Yeah, just terrifying moments for those students, right?
07:35Aaron Katursky with this breaking news.
07:37Aaron, thank you.
07:38We move on now to Hurricane Aaron battering the east coast from the Carolinas to the northeast.
07:43The massive storm now a Category 2 hurricane and only growing in size.
07:47The latest path shows Aaron running along the coast, about to make its next move.
07:51Winds up to 100 miles per hour, waves up to 20 feet, and dangerous rip currents.
07:57Those waves bashing North Carolina's outer banks where a state of emergency remains in place.
08:02The surf running through beachfront properties.
08:04The storm now stirring up dangerous waves in the northeast.
08:07Surfers flocking to New York City's Rockaway Beach.
08:10Flood alerts now reaching into New England.
08:12The forecast in just a moment.
08:14But first, here's ABC's Morgan Norwood.
08:16Tonight, 20-foot waves turning life-threatening surf.
08:20Flooded roadways, the images still coming in as Hurricane Aaron carves up the east coast like a bus saw.
08:27In Hatteras, the dunes lining Highway 12, no match for Aaron's relentless surge.
08:32The man shooting this video scrambling to safety as waves crash over,
08:36inundating that main route along the outer banks.
08:39The storm bashing the coast all night long.
08:42Wind whipping on this pier in Nags Head as people come out to see the awesome power of the ocean.
08:47Aaron's seen here on satellite massive, more than 700 miles across.
08:52And it's bringing massive swells along hundreds of miles of coastline, from Florida to New England.
08:58On New York's Long Island, waves up to 16 feet.
09:02Swimmers banned from all New York City beaches.
09:05But that didn't stop surfers from taking advantage of massive waves that look more like Hawaii than Rockaway Beach.
09:11The surf's a lot bigger.
09:12The current's really strong.
09:14It's, you know, a very big swell.
09:15You know, at least double, you know, triple the size that it normally is.
09:18Our ginger Z is on the Jersey Shore.
09:20Here in Manispawn, down the shore in New Jersey, the seafoam is kicking.
09:24We're getting sandblasted.
09:25The waves easily 8 to 10 feet.
09:27But by tonight, it will be even closer.
09:29The big bulldoze of water toward the shore.
09:31And that's why the concern for homes there without any dune in front of them.
09:36New Jersey's governor declaring a state of emergency for all 21 counties.
09:40Now, Rachel, we're certainly feeling it here on Rockaway Beach.
09:43Of course, the winds are whipping, but the waves are the big story.
09:45You can see those massive waves crashing onto the shore, also hitting that lifeguard stand as well.
09:50And look, we know it's only expected to get worse as high tide approaches.
09:54Beaches once again closed again tomorrow, Rachel.
09:57All right, Morgan Norwood, thank you.
09:59So let's get right to meteorologist Danny Beckstrom from our New York station, WABC.
10:03Danny, time this one out for us.
10:05Rachel, Hurricane Aaron still a Category 2 with max sustained wind of 100 miles per hour as that northeast turn begins.
10:11But significant impacts are still expected up and down the east coast, even as Aaron pulls away.
10:16Right now, the center, about 375 miles east-northeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
10:21But this large hurricane is bringing widespread impacts.
10:24Tropical storm warnings remain in effect from the Outer Banks to coastal Virginia.
10:28And coastal flood alerts from the Carolinas to Maine, where several feet of inundation is possible during high tide, even into tomorrow.
10:35The wind helping to push that water onshore as gusts continue 30 to 45 miles per hour tonight from the Outer Banks to Cape Cod,
10:41contributing to the flood threat and coastal erosion.
10:44The wind relaxes as Aaron pulls away, but this is such a large storm system that it will take days for the water to settle.
10:50High surf advisories posted up and down the east coast for waves up to 20 feet on Friday, and in some cases into Saturday, especially in the northeast.
10:56The risk for life-threatening rip currents continues from Florida to Maine.
10:59And while the improving weather conditions make it look like beach weather,
11:02it's so important to remember life-threatening conditions in the water up and down the east coast.
11:07Rachel, back to you.
11:08Yeah, that threat stretching to the weekend.
11:09All right, Danny, thank you.
11:11We turn now to a disturbing discovery on a dairy farm in Colorado.
11:15Authorities responding to an emergency call finding the bodies of six farm workers.
11:19Here's ABC's Trevor Ault.
11:21Tonight, authorities making a tragic discovery at a dairy farm in northern Colorado.
11:26I'm on scene, unconscious victims are approximately 12 feet down, with possible high levels of H2S and unknown gases.
11:36First responders arriving at the scene outside Boulder around 6 p.m. Wednesday for what they called a confined space rescue,
11:43instead finding the bodies of six workers.
11:46You can go ahead and stand down the chopper.
11:48It's not yet clear what exactly the victims were doing at the time of their deaths,
11:52but authorities are calling this a dairy accident.
11:56In a statement tonight, the Dairy Farmers of America says, in part,
11:59we are deeply saddened by this incident,
12:01and our thoughts and most sincere condolences go out to the friends and families of the deceased.
12:07And, Rachel, authorities say this was not a criminal incident, and OSHA is now investigating.
12:13Rachel?
12:13Trevor, thank you.
12:14President Trump's efforts to end the war in Ukraine now hitting a setback.
12:18The president signaled a meeting between President Zelensky and Vladimir Putin could happen within a couple of weeks.
12:24But tonight, Russia is suggesting that meeting won't be happening anytime soon.
12:27Here's ABC's Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl.
12:31Today, Russia all but ruled out a meeting between President Putin and President Zelensky anytime soon.
12:38This after the White House said Putin promised President Trump that the meeting would happen in a matter of weeks.
12:44Did Putin promise to do a meeting with Zelensky, a direct meeting, in the coming weeks?
12:49He has.
12:50Overnight, Vice President J.D. Vance said a Zelensky-Putin meeting should take place,
12:55even if there is no agreement on the terms of a peace deal.
12:58I think the president's preference and my preference would be, let's have them meet regardless.
13:03We shouldn't say that they can't sit down until you've figured out every little detail.
13:07Sometimes them sitting down is what facilitates figuring out those details.
13:10But hours after Vance said that, Russia flatly rejected the idea.
13:16Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying the only way Putin would sit down with Zelensky
13:20is if, quote, all issues requiring consideration at the highest level are thoroughly worked out first.
13:26Lavrov suggests that would require a long process of lower-level meetings to hammer out the details.
13:32Meanwhile, Russia continues to bombard Ukraine, launching more than 600 drone and ballistic missile attacks
13:40in just the last 24 hours, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.
13:45Zelensky said today Moscow's strategy is clear.
13:48Quote, they are trying to wriggle out of the need to hold a meeting.
13:51They do not want to end this war.
13:54Today, President Trump was asked if a peace deal is still possible.
13:57I would say within two weeks, we're going to know one way or the other.
14:00After that, we'll have to maybe take a different tack.
14:05But we'll see.
14:06But we'll know pretty soon.
14:08So let's get right to John Carl.
14:09He joins us live from the White House.
14:11And John, the White House says Putin agreed any peace deal would include security guarantees for Ukraine.
14:16But what are the Russians saying about that?
14:18Well, Rachel, the Russians are saying that Russia would have to have a say in those security guarantees for Ukraine,
14:25an idea that is seen as absurd because the whole point of the security guarantees is to protect Ukraine from another Russian invasion.
14:33Rachel.
14:34John, thank you.
14:36Tonight, a major legal victory for President Trump.
14:38A New York appeals court throwing out the massive $515 million penalty in the state's fraud case against him.
14:45The court allowing the conviction against him to stand, but saying the dollar amount was excessive.
14:50The president calling it a total victory.
14:52It comes more than a year after the president, his eldest sons, and his business were found liable for inflating the value of his real estate assets.
14:59The New York attorney general says she plans to appeal.
15:02We learned today that evangelical leader James Dobson has died.
15:05He was the polarizing founder of Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council, a vocal opponent of abortion, same-sex marriage, and LGBTQ rights.
15:14He advised five presidents, wrote dozens of books, and had millions of followers.
15:18James Dobson was 89.
15:19When we come back, the alarming sight for passengers on board a Delta plane as the 737 came in for landing, part of the wing flap dangling,
15:28and the daring efforts to locate and rescue an injured hiker on the side of an Alaskan cliff.
15:33Details ahead.
15:34Next tonight, the FAA is investigating a Delta flight that landed with a damaged wing flap.
15:41Passengers spotted the problem as they were still in the air, the wing flap dangling as the 737 landed in Austin on Tuesday.
15:48It had taken off from Orlando.
15:50No one was hurt, and the plane landed without incident.
15:52Delta says the plane has been taken out of service for maintenance.
15:55And a dramatic rescue off a cliff in Alaska.
15:58A Coast Guard helicopter located a stranded hiker using a powerful searchlight and guidance from first responders.
16:05The hiker had fallen off a trail and was unable to signal for help.
16:08The crew hoisting the hiker to safety, rushing him to the hospital.
16:12And when we come back, we go inside the exciting new way to get all your sports news in one place from our friends at ESPN.
16:18And the image is just in a runaway front loader barreling through a busy Massachusetts intersection.
16:23Details ahead on what happened.
16:27To the index now, the police chief in Milford, Massachusetts, says it's a miracle no one was killed.
16:33A 60,000-pound front end loader barreling through traffic after its brakes failed,
16:38taking out a traffic sign and clipping an SUV before hitting a guardrail in a pole before coming to a complete stop.
16:45No one was injured.
16:46Tonight, a new era for sports fans and our friends at ESPN.
16:50For the first time in the sports media company's history,
16:53ESPN is rolling out a brand new way to watch sports all in one place.
16:57ESPN chairman Jimmy Pataro says starting today,
17:0012 networks, including all the shows, games, and features,
17:03are now available on an interactive ESPN app and streaming service.
17:07You'll finally be able to get all of ESPN all in one place.
17:11All of our content, all of our networks available direct-to-consumer for the first time in ESPN's history.
17:18So that's 12 networks, 47,000 live events.
17:25On top of live games, all of our studio programming, all of our original films,
17:3130 for 30, E60, SE featured, all of that will be available direct-to-consumer.
17:37ESPN is also adding more NFL content.
17:40All of it will be available through the new app.
17:43If you're already a paid ESPN subscriber, you don't have to do anything to get the new service.
17:47Of course, Disney is the parent company of ABC and ESPN.
17:50When we come back, how the families of two teachers created an unbreakable bond.
17:54And finally tonight, America's strong, the selfless gift that formed an incredible bond between two families.
18:10They are two teachers at the same elementary school in Winnetka, Illinois.
18:15Allie Sosinski teaches K-4, Lillian Johnston teaches art.
18:19But weeks ago, their lives became even more entwined.
18:22After learning Allie's husband, Brad, was in dire need of a new kidney, Lillian stepped up to be tested.
18:29Lillian was one of the first people who did it.
18:31And I remember coming into school the next day and she said,
18:34Allie, I filled out that form.
18:35And I was like, thank you so much.
18:37And as it turns out, Lillian was a perfect match.
18:40Even though it had only been a few months that we've been looking,
18:43you know, it was getting down to the deadline for us.
18:46Lillian did not hesitate to volunteer her kidney to Brad,
18:49while aware of what it was like to go through health challenges too.
18:52About 11 years ago, I was in a situation where I almost lost my life.
18:56And I remember thinking about my kids growing up without a mom.
19:01This is classic Lillian.
19:02So was it surprising to me?
19:05No.
19:06The surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital was a success.
19:10Brad is back home and healing.
19:11It's a new lease on life, that's for sure.
19:13Our daughter is five and a half.
19:15If our son is two and a half, like we don't want them to go through life without a dad.
19:20And Lillian tells us tonight, recovery is going well.
19:23And she plans to resume teaching in just about a month,
19:26with a new bond that stretches far beyond the classroom.
19:30You can't get through life by yourself, right?
19:32You need to lean on people.
19:34I'm just really grateful.
19:35Really grateful.
19:36Thank you so much for watching.
19:39I'm Rachel Scott.
19:40For David and all of us here, good night.
19:45David Muir, the most watched newscast in America.
19:50And now, ABC's World News Tonight has won the Emmy for Best Live News Program
19:55for the third year in a row.
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