:00:00. > :00:08.the news as seen across the United States a couple of hours ago, in ABC
:00:09. > :00:12.World News with David Muir. Welcome to World News. Tonight, the breaking
:00:13. > :00:16.news. A reported tornado on the ground in Nebraska. Severe storms
:00:17. > :00:23.hit much of the country this hour. Hale, high winds, and possible
:00:24. > :00:28.twisters. Our storm chasers tracking it all. The note and a new
:00:29. > :00:33.investigation, what an army sergeant wrote just before he disappeared
:00:34. > :00:37.from his base and was held captive by the Taliban. Tonight, we all saw
:00:38. > :00:40.the videos. What we didn't see, the video at the end that Bowe Bergdahl
:00:41. > :00:45.never made public and what it told him. And who hasn't cracked their
:00:46. > :01:03.smartphone? Tonight, the surprising results. The simple step which could
:01:04. > :01:08.solve it. Tonight, the results. Good evening. Diane is on assignment
:01:09. > :01:13.tonight. We begin with the severe weather this power. Which is coming
:01:14. > :01:18.in from Omaha, Nebraska. Whipping winds, dark skies, and a twist that
:01:19. > :01:25.touching down. All part of dangerous storms on the move tonight. Look at
:01:26. > :01:28.the radar. This system powering up well into the night. The forecast
:01:29. > :01:32.for the next wave five hours in a moment. But leading off with
:01:33. > :01:43.pictures and sounds of the storms hitting right now. Sirens blaring in
:01:44. > :01:47.Omaha, Nebraska tonight. Tornado warning. Skies going dark as the
:01:48. > :01:53.severe weather porches heartland. Our correspondent was in Omaha.
:01:54. > :01:57.Those severe thunderstorms have finally arrived. You might be able
:01:58. > :02:01.to see just how fast those clouds are rolling behind me. We have had
:02:02. > :02:09.lightning, thunder, hail, and rain. The concern is that streets may
:02:10. > :02:13.flood. Nearly 100 mph winds have been shredding trees and knocking
:02:14. > :02:21.over trailers. Huge Hale has been peppering the landscape. Dropping
:02:22. > :02:29.baseball sized monsters. It has been clawing at homes and smashing
:02:30. > :02:32.through windshields. Incredible pictures. You have had storm reports
:02:33. > :02:34.coming in this hour. Close to 100 storm reports, including damaging
:02:35. > :02:38.winds. It is not done. We have a whole night ahead of us, especially
:02:39. > :02:42.looking at parts of Illinois and Indiana. They are next with that
:02:43. > :02:48.initial storm. It is not over. That hot pink is a rare, relatively high
:02:49. > :02:52.risk area, still including Omaha all the way to Des Moines. I also want
:02:53. > :02:55.to point out that this doesn't end tonight, it goes through tomorrow
:02:56. > :03:03.and will go into the Ohio River Valley. Pressure system will form
:03:04. > :03:06.through the Rockies. We are going to move on now to the other major
:03:07. > :03:09.story. The intention focused on the army sergeant freed by the Taliban.
:03:10. > :03:12.Tonight, what we now know about the note he wrote before leaving his
:03:13. > :03:16.base. There is something else as well. After years of studying the
:03:17. > :03:19.images, his appearance changing and his uniform replaced. At times you
:03:20. > :03:23.can see at least one of his captors with him, tonight we learned that
:03:24. > :03:26.was a final video we didn't see which most troubled US authorities.
:03:27. > :03:42.What was in it? Our correspondent with what she is learning tonight.
:03:43. > :03:46.Bowe Bergdahl is innocent until proven guilty although they will
:03:47. > :03:52.want to speak to him as soon as he is recovered enough to talk. He
:03:53. > :03:57.wrote a note before disappearing saying that he was disillusioned
:03:58. > :04:00.with the mission in Afghanistan and an army investigation earlier
:04:01. > :04:05.concluded that he had walked away from his remote base on his own.
:04:06. > :04:10.Fellow soldiers now say that there were signs. He wanted to know how he
:04:11. > :04:15.could send his computer and some blogs home and wanted to know how he
:04:16. > :04:21.could get some money. Officials are not certain how he ended up with the
:04:22. > :04:25.Taliban but the young man who loved motorcycles and had performed ballet
:04:26. > :04:27.in his hometown was so extremely idealistic that he may have thought
:04:28. > :04:43.that he could bring the two sides together. In the first video, he was
:04:44. > :04:48.asked about soldiers who go AWOL. And it was those videos that US
:04:49. > :04:52.officials were watching closely, images of Bowe Bergdahl appearing
:04:53. > :04:57.calm and grateful for his treatment gradually giving way to a face full
:04:58. > :05:03.of fear and panic. Release me please. I am begging you. We learned
:05:04. > :05:06.today that there was another video released this year and only seen by
:05:07. > :05:13.the US government that sparked the greatest concern. The once
:05:14. > :05:18.freshfaced soldier was clearly becoming frail and disengaged. That
:05:19. > :05:25.is why there was such urgency going after him and once the deal was
:05:26. > :05:29.secured according to the official, as for the accusations of desertion,
:05:30. > :05:33.that is a crime punishable by jail time but no officials we are
:05:34. > :05:39.speaking to believe that is on the table currently given his years of
:05:40. > :05:42.captivity. The US military is now saying it will look into any
:05:43. > :05:47.potential misconduct on the part of the American soldier but tonight,
:05:48. > :05:51.questions are being asked weather or not the White House dug into any of
:05:52. > :06:02.this before making the decision to exchange prisoners and tonight
:06:03. > :06:05.President Obama is firing back. Here in Europe talking about defending
:06:06. > :06:10.our allies, the president is having to defend his own decision.
:06:11. > :06:18.Regardless of the circumstances, whatever they may turn out to be, we
:06:19. > :06:23.still get an American soldier back. What the White House said initially
:06:24. > :06:32.about Bowe Bergdahl is now in question. He was per trade as
:06:33. > :06:35.something as a hero on Sunday. But today, news is that the Army is
:06:36. > :06:46.prepared to investigate him. How about the five Taliban exchanged in
:06:47. > :06:51.the deal? Is there the possibility of some of them trying to return to
:06:52. > :06:58.activities that are detrimental to us? Absolutely. Finally there is the
:06:59. > :07:04.man's father, clearly doing anything to help. He joined the president on
:07:05. > :07:08.Saturday to help announce the release and we now know that he has
:07:09. > :07:17.tweeted directly to a Taliban spokesman. For all the criticism and
:07:18. > :07:24.second`guessing, a White House is still facing many questions. The
:07:25. > :07:28.President's top advisers insist that it was an easy call and as one
:07:29. > :07:35.senior official told me tonight, any other president would have done the
:07:36. > :07:41.same thing. The five detainees are now living in luxury villas in
:07:42. > :07:43.Qatar, their families allowed to live with them and tonight officials
:07:44. > :07:51.we spoke to were unclear as to whether they were prisoners or they
:07:52. > :07:56.were free. Qatar's capital city has made itself into a modern`day desert
:07:57. > :08:00.oasis and now the five freed Taliban leaders will be able to travel
:08:01. > :08:04.anywhere within the country and enjoy its pleasures over the next
:08:05. > :08:14.year. One official told us that they are not prisoners. I can still have
:08:15. > :08:20.conversations with the Taliban, especially those who are in Qatar.
:08:21. > :08:25.An official told us that they have their families with them and after a
:08:26. > :08:29.year they can go home. Home would be Afghanistan and the areas controlled
:08:30. > :08:35.by the Taliban. Still engaged in fierce combat with American
:08:36. > :08:40.soldiers. US intelligence reports found that 29% of freed Guantanamo
:08:41. > :08:44.detainees are confirmed or expected to have rejoined the fight,
:08:45. > :08:51.including one who became the senior military mentor of the Taliban. We
:08:52. > :08:55.were struck by this today, an official telling us that they are
:08:56. > :09:03.not prisoners? That's right. The State Parliament said that President
:09:04. > :09:09.Obama had assertions from the Qatar government that they would be
:09:10. > :09:12.prisoners and the spokesperson we spoke to refuse to say whether or
:09:13. > :09:19.not there would be restrictions on them. A search after explosions were
:09:20. > :09:24.discovered in a California Park. The dramatic conclusion to the manhunt
:09:25. > :09:32.as a San Francisco man is arrested and captured by the FBI with people
:09:33. > :09:43.who knew him leftist on. `` left stunned. Police struggled to take
:09:44. > :09:54.down the 32`year`old man. His captor culminated `` capture, concluded a
:09:55. > :09:57.manhunt. We found items in his apartment that caused us great
:09:58. > :10:02.concern. Tonight we find out the specifics of what so spooked the
:10:03. > :10:08.FBI. Components of a bomb that could be detonated by remote control, a
:10:09. > :10:15.device that the FBI claims were made to maim and kill. He is well`known
:10:16. > :10:17.as a social media and political correspondent but there was no
:10:18. > :10:23.indication that he was planning to harm anyone or himself. He was a
:10:24. > :10:29.very dangerous and desperate person. Tonight, Elise said they could take
:10:30. > :10:37.no chances. Those who knew him are shocked and cannot believe that he
:10:38. > :10:39.was building bombs. To Syria where voting has taken place in the
:10:40. > :10:50.presidential election with President Bush are all aside `` Bashar
:10:51. > :10:57.al`Assad expected to easily take the election. A scientific discovery of
:10:58. > :11:06.a mega earth discovered 560 light`years away, with one Harvard
:11:07. > :11:08.astrophysicist calling it a" Godzilla Earth" with positive
:11:09. > :11:13.implications for life although it may be too hot. The simple solution
:11:14. > :11:24.to protect your smart phone from this, the cracked surface. We have
:11:25. > :11:26.tested this solution in water, and being runover and here are the
:11:27. > :12:09.surprising results. How many of you are walking around
:12:10. > :12:14.like me with a broken phone? We asked you to send us pictures of
:12:15. > :12:18.your cracked screens and it seems I am not alone. Americans have spent
:12:19. > :12:23.$6 billion on replacements in 2007 and that is just with iPhones. We
:12:24. > :12:28.came up with a simple solution on how to protect your phone. So you
:12:29. > :12:35.have just spent $200 on a new phone, one of about a billion sold
:12:36. > :12:41.each year and you have trashed it. You are not alone. Turns out there
:12:42. > :12:48.are many products promising to keep them safe and many people online
:12:49. > :12:52.pushing them to the limit to find a true safe way to protect your
:12:53. > :12:57.phone. So we decided to get some real answers and take a look at one
:12:58. > :13:08.of the more durable brands, the author box `` Otter Box. I am going
:13:09. > :13:15.to test my iPhone with it and put it to the test. We will test it against
:13:16. > :13:27.the $10 gel case. The first test, the skill test `` spill. They have
:13:28. > :13:34.both survived. Test two. The Dunk test. They sat inside for five
:13:35. > :13:41.seconds. The Otter Box worked but be gel case, not so much. The Otter Box
:13:42. > :13:54.promises to protect from balls up to six points six feet. The phone is
:13:55. > :14:01.fine. He gel case is fine as well. We now go beyond claims, driving
:14:02. > :14:14.over your phone. While, it looks like it's OK. `` wow. But get a load
:14:15. > :14:22.of this. The $10 case? No way. It is fine. They were so surprised by that
:14:23. > :14:27.that we tossed it around and still nothing is wrong. What before you
:14:28. > :14:35.think it is the phone that is indestructible, we took all the
:14:36. > :14:40.cases off. Done. It is shattered. We got calls about the crazy man in
:14:41. > :14:45.Central Park and it was just him. I do say it is the edge of the case?
:14:46. > :14:48.That's right, you want to make sure that the edges are protected so that
:14:49. > :14:53.it is the edge that is hitting the floor and not the screen. A headline
:14:54. > :15:01.about food that may be on your dinner table tonight. Many fast food
:15:02. > :15:09.restaurants have removed additives in their food and tonight Panera
:15:10. > :15:14.Bread is doing the same. A video that will warm your heart. Soldiers
:15:15. > :15:20.in Georgia walking information and singing as they go, one soldier's
:15:21. > :15:26.girlfriend in the distance never suspect a thing. He drops to one
:15:27. > :15:34.knee, popped the question and she says yes. And the platoon approves.
:15:35. > :15:43.From a proposal to a modern American wedding in Minnesota posing when the
:15:44. > :15:55.deck, well, there it goes. The bride is soaked and guests arrived after
:15:56. > :15:59.Justin out `` just an hour but they decided not to let anything get in
:16:00. > :16:14.the way of their special day. All of us here, good night. Wednesday is
:16:15. > :16:22.going to be a wet one for many of us so it is umbrellas and waterproof at
:16:23. > :16:24.the ready. It will be wet across England, right across from the
:16:25. > :16:25.Southeast to the