07/05/2014 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer

a damaged limitation exercise. Mike Embley is here in 20 minutes time.

Time now for a look at the news as seen across the United States a

couple of hours ago, in ABC World News with Dianne Sawyer.

Welcome. The search for the girls is on. Kidnapped schoolgirls and the UN

says a new group was taken today. Taken by terrorists threatening to

sell them. President Obama sends a team to Africa to help ring them

home. Going to extremes, big news about severe weather hitting every

corner of America `` help bring them home. Real money, cuts to the family

credit card ill with just one phone call? We will tell you what to say

and do as we save family $1000 and you can also do it. Good evening. We

begin at the White House. The president and 300 experts give their

answer to a question we have been asking, is this extreme weather

around us global warming or not? The President's answer is yes, and it is

under way right now. Our correspondent at the White House

spoke with the President today. The message in this report, it is

already happening. Extremes of today will become even more extreme. In

the north`east, torrential rain and flooding like those from hurricane

in Sandy. Did you see that one? In the south`east, coastal flooding.

The storm surge has been flooding this highway. In the farm belt,

longer growing seasons. And, in the south`west, it means more heatwaves

and exceptional drought. That brings wildfires. All of those, according

to the report is from the impact of a warming planet. The new report,

this situation, seems dire. What do you think we can do in two years?

The good news is we have taken big actions, whether it is increasing

fuel efficiency standards on cars, increasing efficiency on appliances.

We will have to do more. We also have a chance to turn back these

rising temperatures if we take some bold action is now. It is all part

of the aggressive plan laid out by the White House, reducing emissions

from coal plants, helping community race for extreme weather that will

worsen and, lead other nations like China, which has surpassed America

in damaging emissions. While the US makes up just 5% of the world 's

population, we still consume 24% of the world 's energy. While they were

more than 300 scientists behind this report, and to oil companies, there

are definitely those who don't agree `` there. Mother earth won't stop

throwing punches and I think the changes that are attempting to

lessen those punches will have much less of an impact than teaching us

how to avoid getting hit square by those punches in the first place. I

spent the day here at the White House and the president and staff

tell me they are excited about this because it will help people that ``

then something interesting happened. The President wanted to

know which storm was the worst I have ever covered. My answer,

hurricane in Sandy and Katrina. We head overseas for a note. Fear

increasing that Ukraine might be headed towards a civil war. There is

concern that even more of Ukraine will vote to try and secede in a

proposed referendum. The US State Department gave a strong warning

against any such vote, calling it an illegal effort to further divide

Ukraine. Back home, a California highway caught fire and is close to

night as workers repair the bridge. The main connector between LA and

lost Vegas. The fire started with a blow torch and a stiff breeze. The

wooden supports around the construction area blazed and traffic

act up 20 miles. The highway will be closed for two days. `` backed up.

We turn back to the story of the search for girls kidnapped in

Africa. UNICEF says another group has been taken and President Obama

told ABC News that the US is sending help. This, as around the world, the

outrage is building. People from around the world holding up signs

saying, bring back our girls. Our correspondent is tracking the search

at this hour. What it calls the worsening nightmare in Nigeria,

eight more Nigerian schoolgirls have been abducted. A second brazen

kidnapping by the terror group already holding hundreds more taken

last month. They have been brought here to take their final exams in

safety. Young women, aged 15`18, who then came face`to`face with the very

terror group they had tried to flee. Three weeks later, the government of

Nigeria says it still has no idea where the missing girls or the

kidnappers are. Today at the White House, President Obama told us that

the US is now taking action. We have already sent in 18, two Nigeria,

they have accepted our help. A combination of military, law

enforcement, and other agencies. Who are going in, to try and identify

where the girls might be and provide them with ``to Nigeria. Help ``

provide them with help. This protest happened in front of the United

Nations in New York. There was a moment of silence on capital Hill,

and growing anger, . As more time passes, the less likely it is that

they will be rescued. 50 girls have escaped, including B is that they

will be rescued. 50 girls have escaped, including bees four,

avoiding could await the others. My friends and I jumped from the

vehicle and ran home, we realise they did not look innocent. The

remaining girls, hundreds of them are in the hands of Boko Haram and

their ruthless leader who have boasted there is a market for the

young girls, as sex slaves, and he intends to sell them. Young women

carry a price premium in these kinds of transactions. Human rights groups

say there is a thriving slave trade in this part of Africa, despite laws

and crackdowns. Hundreds of thousands of children a year are

sold into slavery, as domestic workers, labourers, child brides, or

prostitutes. Now, the question is whether the US can act quickly

enough to help the Nigerians find the missing schoolgirls before they

are sold off or worse. As the president said, it is

heartbreaking. Now, back here in New York, a new video has surfaced of a

defiant stance, three men base jumping off the World Trade Center.

They have appeared in court with an accomplice revealing how they did it

and what they said adds to the concern about security of the giant

structure built on sacred American soil.

Tonight, new video of the daring jump that landed four men in legal

trouble. This morning in court for base jumping off the top of one

World Trade Center, the tallest building in the nation, more than

1700 feet high. It was a beautiful express to have. They have pleaded

not guilty to the charges, including burglary, felony, and reckless

endangerment. The men say they never saw security and spent four hours

ticking interviews before jumping. They have exposed security flaws.

That was not the intention. But we did. According to court documents,

one of the men used his access as an ironwork at the site to sneak in

parachutes beforehand. Letting the other men in, the stunt shows how

vulnerable the building is. In March, a 16`year`old was arrested

after sneaking past a sleeping security guard and climbing all the

way to the antenna of the building. An investigation uncovered police at

a high profile building were not focused, more focused on their

cellphones than surveillance. Officials have condemned the jump,

saying that they endangered the public and adding the site is now

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Our instant index tonight begins with the best place on earth to be a

mum. This is a survey from Save the Children. Number one is Finland,

then Norway and Sweden. It is all based on available education for

children, economic support, and the risks to mothers and children. At

the bottom of the list, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo

where it is more dangerous to be a mother than to be an armed fighter.

By the way, the USA ranks 31 out of 100 and sent yet countries, tumbling

from sixth place eight years ago. This new picture has surfaced

showing none other than Prince William. He is right there in coach.

He is making his way back to London after a friends wedding, and

reportedly his grandmother asked that on personal trips, Royals pay

for their own travel and avoid of extravagance. Today, a lion king

moment at the National zoo in Washington, DC. It is the

all`important swing test for the lion cubs. Four went into the water

and paddled around, scrambled out into the arms of their human parents

and into warm blankets. They all passed with flying colours, which

means they only need their vaccinations and then they can join

their brothers and sisters in the outdoor exhibit. News Justin

tonight, new surveillance video just released of that teenager, the

aeroplane Stowaway, who probably survived a flight to Hawaii in the

wheel well of an aeroplane. Look at this video, it shows the 15`year`old

getting out of the wheel well on arrival, walking onto the tarmac.

Nobody knows how he survived temperatures that could have dipped

two `80 degrees in the air. Tonight, officials are investigating new 911

tapes of a shooting one week ago in Atlanta. Our correspondent walks us

through them. That is the voice of a 28 your

security guard, calling for help and struggling for life after one of his

co`workers started shooting last Tuesday at this FedEx distribution

plant north of Atlanta. He is a newlywed and an Army veteran in the

middle of an act of war place shooting. `` workplace. He does not

think he is going to make it. The gunshot windows above his waist.

Police say the gunmen was just 19 years old, and worked as a package

handler at the warehouse. He was armed with a shotgun and a knife and

began the shootings outside. Once he made it past the guard

shack, he was firing at workers inside of the building, who also

called 911. He was, winding six people before

shooting and killing himself, everyone else survived. ``

injuring. Tonight, this man is still in hospital. There is no known

motive for shooting. A familiar name is back in the headlines, Monica

Lewinsky, now 40 years old and breaking her silence after ten years

about President Bill Clinton. She was the intern who had the

affair that impeach the president. The world has not heard much from

Monica Lewinsky since those days, and now she is breaking a decade of

silence. She spoke to Vanity fair magazine. ``Vanity Fair. She reacts

to recently released Clinton White House papers, calling Hillary

Clinton the following. If . Back in 1999, she spoke to Barbara

Walters about the affair, in one of the most watched television

interviews of all time. He kissed you, what did you think? He is a

good kisser. Now, she is a handbag designer, she got a masters degree

in social psychology and pursued a career in communications. She said

she stayed reclusive after Hillary Clinton ran for president for fear

of becoming a political issue. She said she will be reclusive no more,

writing the following. She promises a new media project on the net

future, to help victims of online harassment and humiliation.

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