:00:00. > :00:00.those stories on our website. But now, it is time to have a look at
:00:00. > :00:11.the news as seen across the United States in ABC World News.
:00:12. > :00:14.Welcome to world news. Tonight, was there a warning from the 12
:00:15. > :00:16.-year-old who picked up a shotgun and took it to metals call? And
:00:17. > :00:30.tonight, the new calls to 911. Amazing rescue, the Navy pilot
:00:31. > :00:34.ejecting from his fighter jet at high speed like this.
:00:35. > :00:40.And the fishermen who made the catch of a lifetime.
:00:41. > :00:45.We now know how many drinks you can have before your memory starts to
:00:46. > :00:50.go. And real money. Your home repair,
:00:51. > :00:51.car repair, getting it done for free? The town that has found the
:00:52. > :01:10.secret. Good evening. We begin inside that
:01:11. > :01:13.Middle School in New Mexico at the moment of crisis when police as a 12
:01:14. > :01:18.-year-old boy with a shotgun walked in and started firing. We are
:01:19. > :01:28.learning more about the possible warning message from the shooter.
:01:29. > :01:39.Tonight we hear the voices of terror inside that Middle School.
:01:40. > :01:44.As investigators release those 911 tapes they're also revealing for the
:01:45. > :01:49.first time they believe the 12 -year-old gunman he meditated this
:01:50. > :01:55.attack and may have even warned some students to stay away. We found
:01:56. > :01:58.evidence that the suspect had planned this event. They say he used
:01:59. > :02:04.his parents shotgun and smuggled it onto campus in a double back. Inside
:02:05. > :02:09.it amazing pact with 500 students he shot an 11 -year-old boy in the face
:02:10. > :02:14.and this 13 -year-old in the shoulder. Gabriel and his sister
:02:15. > :02:22.Britney were there. Gabriel was sitting behind the boy who was shot.
:02:23. > :02:27.You saw the blood. Police believe there would have been far more
:02:28. > :02:31.bloodshed if this a great social studies teacher did not put himself
:02:32. > :02:36.in the line of fire and talk to young men into giving up. He dropped
:02:37. > :02:41.the gun and raised his hands. He may not be the only heroic teacher that
:02:42. > :02:43.day. Listen to another who called 911 as she comforts the girl who was
:02:44. > :02:51.shot. If it feels like these mass
:02:52. > :02:55.shootings at schools and shopping centres are happening at an alarming
:02:56. > :03:05.frequency, that is because the FBI says they are. The numbers have more
:03:06. > :03:12.than tripled. Children that return to school tomorrow are not the
:03:13. > :03:17.children who arrived on Tuesday. Plenty of questions remain. Among
:03:18. > :03:22.them, did the gunman really try to warn some students to stay away from
:03:23. > :03:29.this gem or do the police now think he simply yelled something to some
:03:30. > :03:35.of them as he was running inside. We have a statement from the 12
:03:36. > :03:40.-year-old alleged shooter's family saying on behalf of our entire
:03:41. > :03:43.family we would like to say a constant thoughts and prayers are
:03:44. > :03:48.with those who were wounded. We are praying for them to recover. And for
:03:49. > :03:53.the medical personnel who are attending to them.
:03:54. > :03:57.We want to take you to a part of the country tonight so dry that any
:03:58. > :04:05.spark can light a fuse. 2013 was the single dry steer in the history of
:04:06. > :04:11.California. -- dry steer. We will show you a ghost town that has
:04:12. > :04:23.suddenly reappeared. Fire and burn dry brush. Potentially
:04:24. > :04:30.eight killer combination. Multimillion dollar homes saved just
:04:31. > :04:35.in time. It has been the driest year since they started keeping records
:04:36. > :04:42.in California. This is the third straight year of drought. California
:04:43. > :04:46.is one big tinderbox. No precipitation means no snow in the
:04:47. > :04:51.mountains. This is what it looked like a year ago. This is today. Ski
:04:52. > :05:01.resorts are struggling for business. Those are best that should be
:05:02. > :05:06.hibernating. -- bears. The snow melt is what is needed to fill the
:05:07. > :05:11.reservoirs. The ruins of an old Western ghost town are beginning to
:05:12. > :05:18.appear. I have never seen it like this. America's richest farmland is
:05:19. > :05:27.facing at least $1 billion in losses. Farmers have been forced to
:05:28. > :05:36.cut back on irrigation. Ranchers are unable to grow grass for their
:05:37. > :05:46.livestock. In church, the farmers were praying for rain.
:05:47. > :05:56.And back east, a thick fog took place. The Brooklyn Bridge buried.
:05:57. > :06:03.Skyscrapers barely poking through. Next, we were amazed by this story
:06:04. > :06:09.of the Virginia coast. The pilot ejecting thousands of feet in the
:06:10. > :06:14.sky, falling into the ocean and miraculously a fishing boat is there
:06:15. > :06:19.to save him. This Navy pilot is being raced to
:06:20. > :06:24.the hospital tonight. After narrowly averting death. He had been flying a
:06:25. > :06:32.supersonic jet 50 miles off the coast of Virginia beach. Something
:06:33. > :06:40.goes terribly wrong. He pulls the emergency lever in his cockpit. It
:06:41. > :06:43.is like a rocket ride. The canopy blows off. The pilot is still
:06:44. > :06:51.attached to his seat as he is rejected. As he plummets, his
:06:52. > :06:56.parachute automatically deploys. His seat detaches. Cold kills very
:06:57. > :07:03.quickly. The cold water is every problem. Some would say by luck or a
:07:04. > :07:10.god's press, a fishing vessel is nearby. -- god's press. Putting him
:07:11. > :07:18.out of the ocean just five minutes later. He is in a critical
:07:19. > :07:22.condition, but the life. We have a headline tonight about
:07:23. > :07:26.some of the military officers in charge of launching America's
:07:27. > :07:30.nuclear vessels. They are tested every month to make sure they know
:07:31. > :07:35.how to operate the systems. Today we learned 34 air force officers have
:07:36. > :07:41.been charged in a cheating scandal. Some of them sent answers to each
:07:42. > :07:48.other. And there is news about an American soldier missing. Today the
:07:49. > :07:53.US military says it has a new video showing this army sergeant is still
:07:54. > :07:57.alive. The images have not been made public. It is believed he was being
:07:58. > :08:01.held prisoner by the Taliban in Pakistan. This first sighting of him
:08:02. > :08:06.in three years. And today, another wave of criticism
:08:07. > :08:21.by the State ardent and CIO of the attack in Benghazi. -- CIA. A brazen
:08:22. > :08:25.attack that left a US consulate in flames and four Americans damp,
:08:26. > :08:32.including US Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Tempered at the 11th, 2012,
:08:33. > :08:36.in Benghazi, Libya, has become a political football -- September the
:08:37. > :08:40.11th. After a year-long investigation, the Senate
:08:41. > :08:47.intelligence committee's conclusion was the attacks were preventable.
:08:48. > :08:49.The conclusions are there were no protests prior to the attacks as the
:08:50. > :08:59.White House has claimed. Most damning, the report concludes
:09:00. > :09:11.there was coal on -- there was On one key point, the report backs
:09:12. > :09:23.up the White House. It says: In fact, both the State Department
:09:24. > :09:28.and Ambassador Stevens himself turned down an offer from the
:09:29. > :09:33.military to keep a special forces unit in Libya a month before the
:09:34. > :09:36.attacks. Overall, the report is highly critical of the State
:09:37. > :09:39.Department, which was headed by Hillary Clinton at the time. Her
:09:40. > :09:43.spokesperson referred questions today to the State Department, which
:09:44. > :09:47.acknowledged the obvious security lapse that night, but disputed the
:09:48. > :09:51.notion the attacks could have been prevented, saying there was no
:09:52. > :09:55.specific threat against the consulate.
:09:56. > :09:58.Also in Washington, a big case before the Supreme Court today,
:09:59. > :10:04.raising the question of what do you think. Everybody agrees on free
:10:05. > :10:08.speech in America, but how close should you be able to get to the
:10:09. > :10:12.person who challenges your opinions? A 67 -year-old woman
:10:13. > :10:17.opposing abortion is asking the Supreme Court to decide.
:10:18. > :10:25.Don't do it, don't do it. You will regret this for the rest of your
:10:26. > :10:30.life. Is it OK for patients entering clinics where abortion is offered to
:10:31. > :10:40.be confronted by strangers? Protesters all the way to the door.
:10:41. > :10:45.Here it is happening in Kentucky's. -- Kentucky. Massachusetts said no,
:10:46. > :10:50.ordering protesters to stay 35 feet away from the doors. It is currently
:10:51. > :10:54.illegal for protesters to cross this yellow line. The buffer zone is
:10:55. > :11:00.roughly two parking spaces wide, and it takes about seven seconds to get
:11:01. > :11:04.to the entrance. This planned parenthood employee said it is an
:11:05. > :11:07.important protection for women exercising their rights under the
:11:08. > :11:12.law in a state where there have been fatal shootings at clinics. The
:11:13. > :11:19.protesters were able to get close to women and also make them feel
:11:20. > :11:22.intimidated and scared. But 77 -year-old grandmother Elenor
:11:23. > :11:26.McCullin says she has a right to free speech at any distance,
:11:27. > :11:31.insisting she has been able to talk 80 women out of their abortions.
:11:32. > :11:36.When we get to the buffer zone I have to stop, and they keep going
:11:37. > :11:41.and I lose. One person lost, one mother and one father that I can't
:11:42. > :11:46.help is one too many. She was front and centre in court today, Supreme
:11:47. > :12:03.Court Justice agreed that she has a right to free speech.
:12:04. > :12:08.Court watchers today said this could go either way. A decision that means
:12:09. > :12:16.so much to so many. Next, an urgent headline tonight
:12:17. > :12:21.about keeping your memory and drinking alcohol. The Journal new
:12:22. > :12:27.Rolla G shows how alcohol, beer, wine, speeds up memory loss --
:12:28. > :12:35.Journal Numerology. But only if you drink a certain amount. How much?
:12:36. > :12:40.You may have begun to poor that end of day drink
:12:41. > :12:47.On this night, a word of caution. British researchers tracked a group
:12:48. > :12:51.of 5000 middle-aged men for a decade, tallying how much they drunk
:12:52. > :12:57.each night and gave them all memory tests. The results were clear. The
:12:58. > :13:01.heavier drinkers experienced a more rapid memory decline later in life
:13:02. > :13:06.than the light drinkers. A 65 -year-old could have the memory of a
:13:07. > :13:10.71 -year-old. The tipping point Mike Conway new start feeling tipsy. Of
:13:11. > :13:20.those having more than 2.5 brings a day -- might come when you start
:13:21. > :13:25.feeling. What effect does drinking too much alcohol have on the plane?
:13:26. > :13:30.Too much alcohol can have many effects -- the rain. It can be toxic
:13:31. > :13:35.to rain cells, and increase the risk of stroke. The researchers say
:13:36. > :13:40.drinking all of this alcohol every night can sync my memory. But other
:13:41. > :13:45.studies show having one serving of alcohol can help keep it afloat. The
:13:46. > :13:51.lesson tonight? Simple. When you have had two drinks, called it
:13:52. > :13:58.quits, in a lead to better memories. Next tonight we are going
:13:59. > :14:03.to show you some real car repairs for free. How families in a great
:14:04. > :15:12.town are helping each other get it done for nothing.
:15:13. > :15:18.Our biggest real money yet, hundreds of families in my hometown of
:15:19. > :15:23.Kentucky -- in Kentucky's are saving thousands every year on home
:15:24. > :15:30.repairs. How are they doing it? -- in Kentucky.
:15:31. > :15:34.It is morning in Louisville, Kentucky. Our first stop? The
:15:35. > :15:40.babysitter. We are going to meet Laura and Frankie. Hi, how are you?
:15:41. > :15:46.She is babysitting 1-year-old Frankie for three hours. How much?
:15:47. > :15:52.It is free. It has been really fabulous. Across town. Now we are
:15:53. > :15:58.going to see a photo shoot. Becky, a professional photographer, is taking
:15:59. > :16:04.a family portrait. Also free. How much are you saving? At least $200.
:16:05. > :16:07.So what is the catch? Hundreds are doing something called Time
:16:08. > :16:13.banking. Instead of paying with money, they pay with their time. And
:16:14. > :16:16.everybody's is equal. It is organised through a national group
:16:17. > :16:22.that helps communities get started and track their time. It is booming.
:16:23. > :16:25.Now in 42 states in just three years. The number of time banks
:16:26. > :16:33.across the country have nearly doubled. For example, get your oil
:16:34. > :16:38.changed in Kent, Ohio. Medical services in Pennsylvania. Your
:16:39. > :16:42.computer fixed in California. And your bike repaired in New York. And
:16:43. > :16:51.in Kentucky's, how about a yoga class? Remember Becky, our
:16:52. > :16:56.photographer? That is her. And Linda uses her time dollars to visit a
:16:57. > :17:00.local chiropractor. She says she could never afford it otherwise. I
:17:01. > :17:05.don't have the money for a chiropractor, I feel wealthy now and
:17:06. > :17:09.I don't have cash. The cycle keeps going. Home improvements, dog
:17:10. > :17:16.working, home improvements, even jewellery repair. In one day our
:17:17. > :17:19.family saved $1480. And for this town, it is not just money, it is a
:17:20. > :17:30.whole lot more. All of this organised through the
:17:31. > :17:33.website. There are very few restrictions on what you can
:17:34. > :17:38.contribute. If you can have a skill, you can offer it in your community
:17:39. > :17:42.to see if there are any takers. This isn't just about real money, it is
:17:43. > :17:51.also about real friendships and they are real proud of their hometown.
:17:52. > :17:56.My kind of town. Tonight, a victory for underdogs everywhere. For the
:17:57. > :18:06.first time in 138 years, those frilly fancy pure bred dogs at this
:18:07. > :18:12.dog show are about to meet their match. We aren't talking about them
:18:13. > :18:15.finally being allowed to compete in an agility category. Our
:18:16. > :18:20.imaginations ran wild today about what they will do next month when
:18:21. > :18:28.Westminster comes to Madison Square Garden. News tonight about birds as
:18:29. > :18:35.well. Also a message for our lives. New research today claims that the
:18:36. > :18:39.formations are really a genius of friendship and aerodynamics. Each
:18:40. > :18:46.bird has an assigned position, each flap of the wing precisely timed to
:18:47. > :18:50.help the one out in front. The bird leading the pack takes 40% of the
:18:51. > :18:56.headwind, freeing up the weaker birds to go behind him. Birds flying
:18:57. > :19:01.faster in formation with their friends, but they can't alone. The
:19:02. > :19:04.kindness of strangers comes in all shapes and sizes, and sometimes when
:19:05. > :19:10.you least expect it and needed the most. Just as the little girl on the
:19:11. > :19:16.plane. Her mother and the mystery passenger who made all the
:19:17. > :19:20.difference -- and need it the most. Little Kate, a three-year-old ball
:19:21. > :19:27.of energy with dirty blond hair and big blue eyes. But Kate also has
:19:28. > :19:32.autism. She can't sit still for long. So when she and her mum
:19:33. > :19:37.boarded a plane to Philadelphia, her mum was bracing for the worst. We
:19:38. > :19:41.know flights are difficult for her. A businessman sat down and Kate
:19:42. > :19:45.started reaching for him and calling him daddy. What happened next led
:19:46. > :19:57.her to write an extraordinary thank you note that she posted online.
:19:58. > :20:04.But instead, that businessmen, Eric, put down his work and spent the next
:20:05. > :20:11.2.5 hours playing games with little Kate. You saw the little ninja
:20:12. > :20:15.turtles? She brought them out and she wanted to play and I showed her
:20:16. > :20:20.my dogs. Sometimes the simplest things are a big deal, it was a big
:20:21. > :20:24.deal for him to treat her like a little person. The letter became a
:20:25. > :20:31.global sensation. It only took one day to make its way to Eric. I would
:20:32. > :20:37.have never expected this. It is a little overwhelming at times.
:20:38. > :20:44.And thank you for put in your papers away and playing turtles with her.
:20:45. > :20:50.Eric grew emotional hearing the end of the letter. I am cheering up, it
:20:51. > :20:55.makes me feel good. By just doing a little, Eric did so much. And that
:20:56. > :21:06.makes him American Strong. 2.5 hours of love on a plane.
:21:07. > :21:10.We thank you for being with us tonight. You can always go to the
:21:11. > :21:12.website and we will have Nightline later. See you back here tomorrow
:21:13. > :21:22.night. It looks like staying unsettled for
:21:23. > :21:26.the next few days, thanks to an area of low pressure. Today, an unsettled
:21:27. > :21:30.day with a breeze blowing from the south and also some showers, some of
:21:31. > :21:33.which will be heavy with hail and thunder. This morning we will have
:21:34. > :21:39.fog patches on Northern Ireland and Scotland, Burleigh eyesore risk. But
:21:40. > :21:40.showers from the word go in the south-west will continue to go