18/09/2014 ABC World News Tonight with David Muir

credibly. Jonathan Head, BBC News. More on Scotland coming up with Mike

Embley in just under 20 minutes. Time now for a look at the news as

seen across the United States a couple of hours ago in ABC World

News with David Muir. Welcome. Happening now, the

manhunt, the cop killer on the loose. Schools closed and the

pictures coming in off the man in military uniform terrorising

communities. Also, the NFL stars benched. The

famous player in trouble for disciplining his Bouye. The teams

about face their new explanation `` boy. The new player taken off the

field. Millions bracing for floods. Trees blocking highways. The worst

on the way. Look at this. On camera, the images surfacing. An

officer pulls over a driver and the move that comes next, saving the

driver's life. Another car coming out of nowhere.

Good evening. We begin with the massive manhunt under way. Schools

closed, thousands kept home in Pennsylvania. This is after a deadly

shooting. Look at the pictures out the night. This is the suspect in

military uniform. He took part in war re`enactment. Authorities say he

is terrorising neighbourhoods with fantasy becoming reality. He is a

skilled shooter and this evening their message is that we are coming

for you. This small community on edge, nearly

10,000 kids kept home from school with classes cancelled and families

shut up inside. Police reveal details about the 31`year`old man

they say killed a state police trooper and is on a mission to kill

again. He is engaged in a battle with law enforcement. Police say he

belonged to eight military simulation group re`enacting battles

among Eastern European armies. He is toting a rifle. They warned he might

believe he is a soldier in combat. In his current frame of mind, he

assumes the role in real life. Police say he altered his

appearance. It was made as part of the preparation to commit this act.

His father says his son is a skilled shooter who doesn't miss. This would

be the time of day you hear the hustle and bustle of kids coming

from school. Instead you hear the sound of the country and barely see

any activity. This woman hunkers down with her son, admitting she is

afraid. What are you doing to protect yourself? My gun is loaded,

ready to go. Police, trying to keep the public calm and delivering a

message to the killer. In the event you are listening to this broadcast

in a cold hiding place, I want you to know one thing, we are coming for

you. More than 150 police on the hunt for this man. Some of them are

here on patrol outside the police barracks doing what they can to stop

him before more lives are lost. Thank you. Two NFL stars are

benched. Adrian Peterson under fire for how he disciplined his son now

indicted and standing his ground saving it is the discipline that

made him the star he is today. The and their about`face, sidelining him

and explaining why it `` saying. Greg Hardy has been benched over

charges of domestic violence. Our correspondent reports.

In a huge about`face, the Minnesota Vikings of bow to public treasure.

Sidelining Adrian Peterson. They said he would play on Sunday ``

public pressure. He beat his son with a branch. We made a mistake and

we needed to get this right. Just hours later, another NFL bombshell.

The Carolina Panthers bench one of their stars, Greg Hardy, convicted

of assaulting his ex` girlfriend, with a neighbour calling the police.

He will face a new trial. Until today, he hasn't faced any

punishment from the NFL. The announcements come in the middle of

the worst week in the history of professional football and through it

all, Roger Kidel, NFL commissioner has been silent and virtually

invisible. Sports Illustrated named him the most powerful man in sport.

NFL revenue up 25%, $3 billion since he became commissioner. He was never

shy to hold a dress conference. Sometimes you need to show your

face. It has been over a week since he has spoken in public. We know the

former head of the FBI is investigating. We have heard they

have yet to reach out to the casino where Ray Rice assaulted his wife

and we have heard they haven't consulted police.

Millions of Americans bracing for historic floods across the

south`west doing what they can. This woman building a fortress of

sandbags around her home in Arizona, and here is why. This is the sound

and the theory which swept through California overnight, the angry

remnants of the Hurricane Fly move. You can see the radar the sour, the

rain and flooding is coming. Our correspondent is there. Rain,

pummelling Arizona. These are the remnants of Odile, the strongest

hurricane to make landfall this year, taking aim on the south`west.

In San Diego, thrashing rains and wild winds flooded streets flooding

to make tossing small planes across parking lots like toys. This car

crushed by a tree, a mother in the front, a baby in the back. I didn't

know what to think. I didn't know how bad it was. Save tonight. Big

fear is a month's worth of rain in just hours, creating scenes like

this. Just last week dozens of water rescues across the south`west,

including this van with a family inside. And the warning from a fire

chief. Less than two feet of water can actually move a vehicle.

Sometimes people don't realise what they're getting into. Residents are

taking no chances, sandbagging, some schools closing. Dry riverbed is

like this one can only handle so much water in a short period of

time. And this will be the first time ever on record that two

tropical systems will have impacted Arizona in just ten days. Residents

here are hoping that a record flood doesn't come with it. What are you

watching tonight? Tonight into tomorrow is the time period for the

worst of it. Palm springs to El Paso, Texas, it is the remnants of

Odile moving up a Arizona and New Mexico. And we are watching for the

timing. We put it in Pacific Time, and it is just east of Tucson,

Arizona that the heaviest of the rain will fall. Silver city New

Mexico is right in the heart of it as well. The green is four to six

inches. Two to three near Tucson, Arizona. Only a few inches are

required for flash flooding. In this map, the moisture mixing with some

of that gulf moisture puts Euston on alert as well. We were in California

last night for the broadcast `` Houston, Texas. Those wildfires are

still burning, every. Another blaze and 14 burning tonight. This moment

from inside the fire zone. Watch this. A fireman retrieves this

woman's wedding ring from the rubble. She is overcome. It was

incredible to see, her home lost but that memory recovered amid The Rec.

Mac wreckage. `` amid the wreckage. And new concern about the threat

posed by ISIS in the US. One of the biggest fears, a lone wolves.

Security is being stepped up in Times Square. This man from upstate

New York was under arrest, a local business owner charged with

recruiting terrorists for ISIS. Our senior justice correspondent rings

the details. The notion that the owner of Mojo's Peter and chicken

may have been a secret disciple of ISIS left many residents shocked. It

is mind`boggling that can happen in America. He is a Yemeni American,

described as a seething with hatred. Newly revealed documents show him

his ordering support for terrorist groups and violent Jihad. At one

point proclaiming that ISIS will one day rule world. He is of

overseas, often using social media. This is the first known case where

anyone has been accused anywhere of attempting to recruit for ISIS.

WriteNow authorities are very concerned that ISIS is using social

media to encourage attacks by a lone wolves. He sent $600 to a man in

Yemen as seed money to join ISIS in Syria, while trying to convince two

FBI informant in the US to join ISIS as well. He was arrested in May

after giving one of the informants more than $1000 to buy handguns.

Police are stepping up security tonight in Times Square despite no

specific plot. High`level security is now the rule. Let's get straight

to our chief White House correspondent. And on the threat

from ISIS and the new US effort in Iraq. The president getting some

late help today. And from Congress no less. A house just voted in a

rare bipartisan vote to support the President's plan to train the

moderate theory and opposition. This is crucial for the White House

because they are counting on those Syrian fighters `` Syrian

opposition. They are counting on them to do the fighting on the

ground needed to defeat ISIS. As for the headline about US troops, the

president was emphatic today saying that American forces deployed to

Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission. At the White House

has also made it clear that the President is not rule out embedding

a small number of US forces with Iraqi troops on the front lines.

They say those would be a adviser is not rule out embedding a small

number of US forces with Iraqi troops on the front lines. They say

those would be overseas tonight and to the Queen in her castle, the one

in Scotland, and with good reason tonight. Just a few hours from our

voters will head to the polls deciding whether Scotland will stay

in the UK or strike out on their own. Is this the end of the UK as we

know it? And tonight on the eve of this historic vote, a message from

the Queen. Even Sean Connery weighing in. Our correspondent in

Scotland. At a packed pub in Edinburgh we heard first`hand the

passions ignited by the Scottish independence referendum. That is

what is on the ballot tomorrow. The ancient dream of the Scots to have

their own country, free from the control of the British government in

London. The outcome here is too close to call. Famous faces weighing

in. Sean Connery says independence is too good to miss. The Queen

pleading I hope people will think very carefully about the future. If

Scotland leaves, markets will be in will be in turmoil. Even the union

jack may have to change, the blue field representing Scotland

removed. This may be the last night of the UK as Americans have come to

know it. No one knows how this vote will come out. But there is a

feeling here that Scotland has found its voice, and that that will change

the United Kingdom forever. High stakes in Scotland. There is still

much more ahead on World News tonight. The real money team and the

new headline if you are buying a used car. The one day of the week

the experts say to avoid. Any guesses? And the officer pulling

over this driver and the move that saves the driver's life. Another car

suddenly comes out of nowhere. Our instant index. A heart stopping

moment caught on tape just now surfacing. A routine traffic stop on

the interstate, the trooper asks the driver to step away, and less than a

minute later, watch this. Rear`ended by another car, that driver charged

with drunk driving. The trooper and the driver injured but alive. The

single busiest airport in the world right here in the US, Atlanta.

Eating out Beijing and Heathrow. We will turn next to our real money

team, the new way to buy a used car, and what is the one date of the week

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fast lane of family life. `` get that. That is World News tonight for

this Wednesday. Hello there. The way we begin our day will not be a

reflection of how we are likely to end our day. Because it