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the news as seen across the United States a couple of hours ago, in ABC

World News with David Muir. Welcome to World News. Tonight, the breaking

news. A reported tornado on the ground in Nebraska. Severe storms

hit much of the country this hour. Hale, high winds, and possible

twisters. Our storm chasers tracking it all. The note and a new

investigation, what an army sergeant wrote just before he disappeared

from his base and was held captive by the Taliban. Tonight, we all saw

the videos. What we didn't see, the video at the end that Bowe Bergdahl

never made public and what it told him. And who hasn't cracked their

smartphone? Tonight, the surprising results. The simple step which could

solve it. Tonight, the results. Good evening. Diane is on assignment

tonight. We begin with the severe weather this power. Which is coming

in from Omaha, Nebraska. Whipping winds, dark skies, and a twist that

touching down. All part of dangerous storms on the move tonight. Look at

the radar. This system powering up well into the night. The forecast

for the next wave five hours in a moment. But leading off with

pictures and sounds of the storms hitting right now. Sirens blaring in

Omaha, Nebraska tonight. Tornado warning. Skies going dark as the

severe weather porches heartland. Our correspondent was in Omaha.

Those severe thunderstorms have finally arrived. You might be able

to see just how fast those clouds are rolling behind me. We have had

lightning, thunder, hail, and rain. The concern is that streets may

flood. Nearly 100 mph winds have been shredding trees and knocking

over trailers. Huge Hale has been peppering the landscape. Dropping

baseball sized monsters. It has been clawing at homes and smashing

through windshields. Incredible pictures. You have had storm reports

coming in this hour. Close to 100 storm reports, including damaging

winds. It is not done. We have a whole night ahead of us, especially

looking at parts of Illinois and Indiana. They are next with that

initial storm. It is not over. That hot pink is a rare, relatively high

risk area, still including Omaha all the way to Des Moines. I also want

to point out that this doesn't end tonight, it goes through tomorrow

and will go into the Ohio River Valley. Pressure system will form

through the Rockies. We are going to move on now to the other major

story. The intention focused on the army sergeant freed by the Taliban.

Tonight, what we now know about the note he wrote before leaving his

base. There is something else as well. After years of studying the

images, his appearance changing and his uniform replaced. At times you

can see at least one of his captors with him, tonight we learned that

was a final video we didn't see which most troubled US authorities.

What was in it? Our correspondent with what she is learning tonight.

Bowe Bergdahl is innocent until proven guilty although they will

want to speak to him as soon as he is recovered enough to talk. He

wrote a note before disappearing saying that he was disillusioned

with the mission in Afghanistan and an army investigation earlier

concluded that he had walked away from his remote base on his own.

Fellow soldiers now say that there were signs. He wanted to know how he

could send his computer and some blogs home and wanted to know how he

could get some money. Officials are not certain how he ended up with the

Taliban but the young man who loved motorcycles and had performed ballet

in his hometown was so extremely idealistic that he may have thought

that he could bring the two sides together. In the first video, he was

asked about soldiers who go AWOL. And it was those videos that US

officials were watching closely, images of Bowe Bergdahl appearing

calm and grateful for his treatment gradually giving way to a face full

of fear and panic. Release me please. I am begging you. We learned

today that there was another video released this year and only seen by

the US government that sparked the greatest concern. The once

freshfaced soldier was clearly becoming frail and disengaged. That

is why there was such urgency going after him and once the deal was

secured according to the official, as for the accusations of desertion,

that is a crime punishable by jail time but no officials we are

speaking to believe that is on the table currently given his years of

captivity. The US military is now saying it will look into any

potential misconduct on the part of the American soldier but tonight,

questions are being asked weather or not the White House dug into any of

this before making the decision to exchange prisoners and tonight

President Obama is firing back. Here in Europe talking about defending

our allies, the president is having to defend his own decision.

Regardless of the circumstances, whatever they may turn out to be, we

still get an American soldier back. What the White House said initially

about Bowe Bergdahl is now in question. He was per trade as

something as a hero on Sunday. But today, news is that the Army is

prepared to investigate him. How about the five Taliban exchanged in

the deal? Is there the possibility of some of them trying to return to

activities that are detrimental to us? Absolutely. Finally there is the

man's father, clearly doing anything to help. He joined the president on

Saturday to help announce the release and we now know that he has

tweeted directly to a Taliban spokesman. For all the criticism and

second`guessing, a White House is still facing many questions. The

President's top advisers insist that it was an easy call and as one

senior official told me tonight, any other president would have done the

same thing. The five detainees are now living in luxury villas in

Qatar, their families allowed to live with them and tonight officials

we spoke to were unclear as to whether they were prisoners or they

were free. Qatar's capital city has made itself into a modern`day desert

oasis and now the five freed Taliban leaders will be able to travel

anywhere within the country and enjoy its pleasures over the next

year. One official told us that they are not prisoners. I can still have

conversations with the Taliban, especially those who are in Qatar.

An official told us that they have their families with them and after a

year they can go home. Home would be Afghanistan and the areas controlled

by the Taliban. Still engaged in fierce combat with American

soldiers. US intelligence reports found that 29% of freed Guantanamo

detainees are confirmed or expected to have rejoined the fight,

including one who became the senior military mentor of the Taliban. We

were struck by this today, an official telling us that they are

not prisoners? That's right. The State Parliament said that President

Obama had assertions from the Qatar government that they would be

prisoners and the spokesperson we spoke to refuse to say whether or

not there would be restrictions on them. A search after explosions were

discovered in a California Park. The dramatic conclusion to the manhunt

as a San Francisco man is arrested and captured by the FBI with people

who knew him leftist on. `` left stunned. Police struggled to take

down the 32`year`old man. His captor culminated `` capture, concluded a

manhunt. We found items in his apartment that caused us great

concern. Tonight we find out the specifics of what so spooked the

FBI. Components of a bomb that could be detonated by remote control, a

device that the FBI claims were made to maim and kill. He is well`known

as a social media and political correspondent but there was no

indication that he was planning to harm anyone or himself. He was a

very dangerous and desperate person. Tonight, Elise said they could take

no chances. Those who knew him are shocked and cannot believe that he

was building bombs. To Syria where voting has taken place in the

presidential election with President Bush are all aside `` Bashar

al`Assad expected to easily take the election. A scientific discovery of

a mega earth discovered 560 light`years away, with one Harvard

astrophysicist calling it a" Godzilla Earth" with positive

implications for life although it may be too hot. The simple solution

to protect your smart phone from this, the cracked surface. We have

tested this solution in water, and being runover and here are the

surprising results. How many of you are walking around

like me with a broken phone? We asked you to send us pictures of

your cracked screens and it seems I am not alone. Americans have spent

$6 billion on replacements in 2007 and that is just with iPhones. We

came up with a simple solution on how to protect your phone. So you

have just spent $200 on a new phone, one of about a billion sold

each year and you have trashed it. You are not alone. Turns out there

are many products promising to keep them safe and many people online

pushing them to the limit to find a true safe way to protect your

phone. So we decided to get some real answers and take a look at one

of the more durable brands, the author box `` Otter Box. I am going

to test my iPhone with it and put it to the test. We will test it against

the $10 gel case. The first test, the skill test `` spill. They have

both survived. Test two. The Dunk test. They sat inside for five

seconds. The Otter Box worked but be gel case, not so much. The Otter Box

promises to protect from balls up to six points six feet. The phone is

fine. He gel case is fine as well. We now go beyond claims, driving

over your phone. While, it looks like it's OK. `` wow. But get a load

of this. The $10 case? No way. It is fine. They were so surprised by that

that we tossed it around and still nothing is wrong. What before you

think it is the phone that is indestructible, we took all the

cases off. Done. It is shattered. We got calls about the crazy man in

Central Park and it was just him. I do say it is the edge of the case?

That's right, you want to make sure that the edges are protected so that

it is the edge that is hitting the floor and not the screen. A headline

about food that may be on your dinner table tonight. Many fast food

restaurants have removed additives in their food and tonight Panera

Bread is doing the same. A video that will warm your heart. Soldiers

in Georgia walking information and singing as they go, one soldier's

girlfriend in the distance never suspect a thing. He drops to one

knee, popped the question and she says yes. And the platoon approves.

From a proposal to a modern American wedding in Minnesota posing when the

deck, well, there it goes. The bride is soaked and guests arrived after

Justin out `` just an hour but they decided not to let anything get in

the way of their special day. All of us here, good night. Wednesday is

going to be a wet one for many of us so it is umbrellas and waterproof at

the ready. It will be wet across England, right across from the

Southeast to the