:00:00. > :00:00.now for a look at the news as seen across the United States a couple of
:00:00. > :00:16.hours ago, in ABC World News with Dianne Sawyer. Welcome to World
:00:17. > :00:21.News. Tonight, sudden impact. A torrent of rain causes roads to
:00:22. > :00:27.collapse. A backyard turns into a sinkhole. And all the rescues, as
:00:28. > :00:33.millions real from the final punch of an epic storm. Campus crisis, top
:00:34. > :00:37.universities under investigation for what they do if students report
:00:38. > :00:45.sexual assault. `` reel. And fear of flying. See the panic attack on the
:00:46. > :00:55.plane, and the man they call the plant whisperer. Is the answer as
:00:56. > :01:02.simple as a straw? `` plane whisperer. Good evening. You are
:01:03. > :01:07.about to see what a record`breaking rain does after so many people have
:01:08. > :01:15.lived inside of the kind of two Day cloud burst. The earth groaning from
:01:16. > :01:24.the water. Watch as this road collapses under the weight. Oh my
:01:25. > :01:30.god. Trees and earth and road going down, so let's get right to our
:01:31. > :01:37.correspondent who starts us again on the big storm and the battering
:01:38. > :01:44.aftermath. These streets are just porn up. Chunks of asphalt on
:01:45. > :01:48.peoples lawns. Much of the country is washed up. Tonight, this massive
:01:49. > :01:54.storm delivers a final blow in the north`east. Mudslides on Long
:01:55. > :01:59.Island. Covering these commuter train tracks. When buildings of saw
:02:00. > :02:03.that much water in a short period of time, it can increase the likelihood
:02:04. > :02:15.of a collapse. `` absorb. In Baltimore, officials are testing the
:02:16. > :02:21.ground around this massive sinkhole to see if it is safe to start
:02:22. > :02:26.digging out the ten cars are swallowed. It was like somebody came
:02:27. > :02:32.by and ripped up the side of the road. As the record`breaking water
:02:33. > :02:58.hits Pensacola, homeowners began the long process of cleaning up. Entire
:02:59. > :03:18.act Carolina. Including a violent storm
:03:19. > :03:20.what she would run into. At in Arkansas, one of the deadliest in
:03:21. > :03:30.decades. Extreme flooding in ten states. All told, 860 reports of
:03:31. > :03:35.severe weather, 39 dead, and $1 billion in damage. Fixing this mess
:03:36. > :03:40.will not be easy. We are told that would take weeks or months. And we
:03:41. > :03:46.move on now to the big headline about sexual assault on College
:03:47. > :03:50.campuses. We learned today that a staggering 55 universities are
:03:51. > :03:53.facing a federal investigation because of the weight they respond
:03:54. > :04:00.to their students in a crisis of sexual assault. Our correspondent
:04:01. > :04:04.has the story. Alcohol, loud music, and late nights. Sexual assault on
:04:05. > :04:10.campus doesn't always happen like that. It can happen anywhere and any
:04:11. > :04:13.time. And the colleges may not be doing enough. Today, the warning
:04:14. > :04:18.shot from the US Department of Education fired at those 55 colleges
:04:19. > :04:22.and universities which received Federal funds. They are being
:04:23. > :04:27.investigated for possibly mishandling sexual violence and
:04:28. > :04:31.harassment claims romp students. Among those on the list, Harvard,
:04:32. > :04:41.Michigan, Ohio State Tomic and Berkely. This news, just as students
:04:42. > :04:50.are preparing to make an important decision for their future, which to
:04:51. > :04:53.attend. This student was a victim of sexual assault on campus. It
:04:54. > :04:57.happened in her freshman year. She wasn't at a party and no alcohol was
:04:58. > :05:07.involved. A friend of mine sexually assaulted me in his dorm room. I did
:05:08. > :05:12.fight him. I said no multiple times. Or Mac we have to do everything in
:05:13. > :05:16.our power to protect them. These are our children, wives, daughters,
:05:17. > :05:21.sisters. These people are you. I am someone's friend and daughter, but I
:05:22. > :05:26.am also a survivor of sexual assault. We reached out to some
:05:27. > :05:29.schools who said they take the allegations very seriously and are
:05:30. > :05:38.working to combat it. But tonight, the work is on to make every campus
:05:39. > :05:48.safer. Heading to Ukraine, the Domino's falling tonight as Russian
:05:49. > :05:54.sympathisers gain more ground. Tonight, pro`Russian mobs taking
:05:55. > :05:58.control. All government buildings as Vladimir Putin demands Ukraine
:05:59. > :06:03.pulled back its troops. One spot after another across eastern Ukraine
:06:04. > :06:07.falling. This is as Ukraine 's leader says his forces are
:06:08. > :06:14.helpless, losing parts of the country. Fear is spreading across
:06:15. > :06:18.the region. It is why hundreds of American troops have arrived here
:06:19. > :06:23.for joint training in Latvia, where those fears of a Russian invasion
:06:24. > :06:31.are very real full rock seeing what has occurred ink remain, `` Ukraine,
:06:32. > :06:39.Crimea, for them, this is real. With 50 pounds of gear, injury training
:06:40. > :06:44.and live fire, the soldiers navigate a mile long course as rapidly as
:06:45. > :06:49.possible. This is called a stress shoot. Not only do they have to
:06:50. > :06:54.shoot, they have to run to get their heart rate up. A gruelling exercise
:06:55. > :07:01.for Americans and Latvians but one that forges a bond between the
:07:02. > :07:04.Allies. You all right? Yeah. Does having the US troops here send a
:07:05. > :07:12.message to Vladimir Putin? I believe so, Mohamed Morsi. And what is that
:07:13. > :07:17.message? `` I believe so, madam. And what is that message? Better not to
:07:18. > :07:23.come to NATO countries. But the question is, is Vladimir Putin
:07:24. > :07:27.listening? Now, news about the tragedy in Benghazi, the attack on
:07:28. > :07:32.the US consulate that killed four Americans including the US
:07:33. > :07:35.ambassador. Today, a retired regarded general testified before
:07:36. > :07:40.Congress that the US military should have tried to do more to fend off
:07:41. > :07:48.the attack. What would you say to the mother of one of the people that
:07:49. > :07:57.was killed? I would say, sorry for your loss and your sacrifice. We
:07:58. > :08:00.should have done more. In the White House pointed out today that the top
:08:01. > :08:05.military officials have repeatedly said there were no US military
:08:06. > :08:09.forces close enough to fight back. There is news tonight about the
:08:10. > :08:15.missing Malaysia passenger plane now 55 days since it disappeared. And
:08:16. > :08:18.investigation released today into the search shows confusion, wrong
:08:19. > :08:27.information and a four hour delay from the start. For the first time,
:08:28. > :08:31.the report reveals it took four hours to launch a rescue. A story of
:08:32. > :08:36.confusion by air traffic controllers, bad information from
:08:37. > :08:41.the airline and another country having to tell them that their plane
:08:42. > :08:46.was missing. The back and forth, the miscommunications, there is no
:08:47. > :08:53.excuse. Malaysia has finally released the comedic and between the
:08:54. > :08:58.aircraft and the ground. The mystery begins just after aircraft
:08:59. > :09:06.controllers handover the flight to Vietnam and what would have been the
:09:07. > :09:14.aircraft's last communication. Moments later, the aircraft's
:09:15. > :09:18.location transponder is shut off and it turns around. 17 minutes later,
:09:19. > :09:24.Vietnam tells Malaysia that it cannot contact the jetliner. At this
:09:25. > :09:28.point, it was in Malaysia and airspace. But Malaysia NetApp
:09:29. > :09:35.controllers are unaware, confused and not even contact the military. I
:09:36. > :09:43.be time it is called, the aircraft is far south over the Indian Ocean.
:09:44. > :09:49.Today, there is still no idea where it is. The surge area has been
:09:50. > :09:55.expanded from 21 square miles to 21,000 square miles. Now, the
:09:56. > :10:00.ongoing turmoil swirling around the Los Angeles Clippers. There is a new
:10:01. > :10:06.jump ball off the court. Could the owner accused of racism be forced to
:10:07. > :10:15.sell the franchise? Could one of the buyers be his wife's? Shelley
:10:16. > :10:18.Stirling has not missed a Clippers game since the scandal broke and
:10:19. > :10:24.with a galaxy of celebrities waiting to take over the team, she could be
:10:25. > :10:27.the real one to watch. But if she is to become the new owner, she may
:10:28. > :10:32.have to overcome racially charged controversies in her own past. Daryl
:10:33. > :10:37.Williams was one of their tenants. She developed a system of getting
:10:38. > :10:44.rid of people they did not like. In 2003, Shelley Stirling was
:10:45. > :10:46.videotaped posing as a government official, allegedly gathering
:10:47. > :10:53.information on tenants she wanted to evict. Daryl Williams was part of a
:10:54. > :10:58.housing commission dissemination lawsuit against the Stirling family.
:10:59. > :11:04.They settled. In another lawsuit, a former property manager said that
:11:05. > :11:05.she had said... Shelley Stirling has denied making those inflammatory
:11:06. > :11:19.statements, saying: That lawsuit was also settled out of
:11:20. > :11:22.court. They were last seen together leaving a steak house on Sunday.
:11:23. > :11:28.Shelley was defending her husband against charges he is racist. But
:11:29. > :11:35.that same day, she released a statement denouncing:
:11:36. > :11:43.And today, the Clippers coach would not respond to questions about
:11:44. > :11:51.Shelley Stirling taking over the team. I'm not thinking about any of
:11:52. > :12:05.that. But he did say he expects her in the stands tonight.
:12:06. > :12:10.Fear of flying. A woman having a panic attack on a plane and the man
:12:11. > :12:16.they called the plain whisperer, showing how you facedown fear. ``
:12:17. > :12:20.plane whisperer.