14/05/2014 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer

events in Turkey, the rescue operation, but now, time for a look

at the news as seen across the USA couple of hours ago in ABC World

News with Dianne Sawyer. Health alert at every airport in America.

The dangerous overseas disease. The expert that gives a family a secret

trick to cut their debt down. And a young girl with her emotional song

touches millions of people today. Good evening. The US is trying to

stop and invisible enemy from spreading into American cities. It's

the new and powerful virus called MERS. The letters stand for Middle

East Respiratory Syndrome. Tonight, the CDC said this morning to

airports around the country, telling passengers to wash their hands and

not touch their face. Tonight, health officials are trying

to track down more than 500 passengers from at least 20 states.

Anyone, including crewmembers, who shared a flight with a Florida

patients diagnosed with MERS, a new and potentially deadly disease

imported from the Middle East. The infected passenger from Saudi Arabia

flew into Boston, Atlanta and into Orlando, where a state Health

Department experts are warning travellers to look out for flulike

symptoms. It's concerning. We are going overseas next month. At two

hospitals in Orlando, to healthcare workers who treated the patient are

already showing symptoms. `` two healthcare workers. The hospital

said 20 other healthcare workers home for two weeks. We will not see

the last of this. We will see other travellers coming from this part of

the world. Two confirmed cases in the US. The CDC says doctors can

only treat the symptoms, giving oxygen to her breathing and drugs to

break the fever. No cure, no treatment? That's right. They think

it is spread through close and long`lasting exposure to someone who

is sick and believe it might be the cough that spreads the virus.

Doctors do not take any chances, wearing masks, goggles, gowns and

gloves when they walk into this patient's room. When they leave,

they throw the equipment away. What is the condition of the patients?

They are recovering. The first one has already been sent home but this

is still very serious. One third of the people who have become sick with

this have died. We head to California where 60 million

Americans are under a red flag warm don a warning about the drought. A

choking heatwave. People are told to clear the streets so fire trucks can

move in. In Texas, a sign that says it all, pray for rain. This fire

burning on a hillside near San Diego. Dangerously close to homes.

Firefighters battle on the ground as homeowners use garden hoses to keep

it at bay. With dry conditions, triple digit temperatures and heavy

winds are California braces for danger. It will be 95 San

Francisco, LA and long beach in the midst of a heatwave that could

shatter records. The wind can be a firefighter's worst enemy and the

wind isn't cooperating. These numbers climbing, reaching up to 50

mph. Red flagged warnings in effect for 15 million people. The potential

for fire is so high that firefighters in southern California

are closing roads to traffic to make way for trucks. It isn't only

California. Hundreds in French taxes are evacuated after a wild fire

burnt more than 90 homes. These fire crews called from hundreds of miles

away ready to jump into action at a moment 's notice. What they need

here is rain. We want to show you a drama for our ABC friends in

Baltimore. The frightening moment caught on camera. Video shows a man

described as mentally ill ramming a truck through the front of this TV

station. Witnesses say he claimed to be God. He barricaded himself inside

the station for hours and all employees escaped unharmed. Police

moved in with an armoured vehicle and used a robot to search the

building. The man was arrested in an edit room watching TV coverage of

the scene. Overseas to Nigeria, where US surveillance aircraft are

in the skies joining the hunt for the hundreds of missing schoolgirls.

They are peering at a stretch of land the size of New England. Our

correspondent who has covered Africa for years is back on the story. US

forces are peering down from surveillance craft like this.

Scouring a remote and rugged area the size of New England in search of

the missing girls. The plane is equipped with powerful cameras that

get real`time images of the ground as far away as 35,000 feet. With

this kind of detail. It can monitor phone calls below. Tonight, we learn

at long US drone joins the search. This is urgent work for parents of

the missing who have positively identified at least 50 girls in this

latest video. For all this attention, it is only now, one month

on, they have got what they want, the support of the international

community and the attention of their government. One of America's top

commanders here for a scheduled trip has reviewed the search efforts led

by a team of experts. The next step is talks. Nigerian government is in

contact with Boko Haram, the group behind the kidnapping. For all the

effort, support and worry, these tiny faces are still in grave

danger. And there was a terrifying event in upstate New York, reaching

into American backyards. Parents looking on, children playing inside

an inflatable bounce house when a gust of wind sent it hurtling into

the air. No, it isn't a kite, but an inflatable playhouse in the air. One

minute in the earth of a front yard, the next, swept off the ground

with three children inside. The wind blowing upwards of 25 mph, lifting

the house two stories high and carrying it over a stretch of

Woods, finally landing on a two`storey school building. One girl

suffered just grapes but two boys, ages five and six, suffered serious

injuries. One landed on a car and has a serious head injury. His arms

and legs were going everywhere. The safety commission estimates 5000

people are injured with inflatables like this one. The manufacturer

tells us: Today, at the White House, the medal of honour was

awarded to former army sergeant Kyle White. He served in Afghanistan

where he risked his life during a Taliban ambush. His platoon was

outnumbered. He dodged enemy fire, dragging as many fellow troops to

safety as possible. On his wrist, a stainless steel bracelets etched

with the names of his six brothers who lost their lives. Next, real

money. The tricks that helped the family dig out of $120,000 of debt

and how you can do it also. The goal of the hour, Cinderella story. How

did this singer hit instant fame across America today? `` the girl.

Next, our team is back with help. The average American family owes

$109,000. If you include mortgage, car loans, credit cards piling up.

Imagine being able to climb out of that for good. We show how to cut

your family debt and put money in your pocket. You must be edgy and

amber. They are drowning in debt. We are always in a pinch. He is a

lawyer, she is a physician's assistant. They owe just over

$120,000. When we got married we came into the marriage with debt,

and then we had kids. There is a way out. Step one is, stop the bleeding.

Americans racked up $22 billion each year in late fees and penalties. To

help with this, try a free ill tracking service and never pay a

late fee again. They monitor your bills, know when they are due and

allow you to schedule automatic payments. Reddy? Let's do it. To

tackle existing debt, we bring them for a special interview. With

powerhouse finance guru David Ramsey. `` Ready? Tip number three,

make a budget. Only one in three Americans have won. When you agree

on spending, this is a contract between both of you. What are the

kind of sacrifices that they will have to make? You won't see the

other side of a restaurant for a long`time. Finally, the Magic Mill,

pay off debt using the snowball method. Put your debt, smallest two

largest, pay minimum payment, attack the little one with a vengeance. ``

magic Hill. If the family stick to the plan, Ramsey says they can pay

off that debt in just 36 months. If you live like no one else, later,

you can live like no one else. You pay a price and it sets you free.

Finally, a star is born. A video we have watched you sharing all day. 6

million views for a teenage girl and a song played on and out of tune

piano. Her video shot on a cracked iPhone. Cinderella in the middle of

her dance. Everything is going to be all right. This voice has captured

the world. Unfiltered, and unexpected. Welcome to New York. A

Minnesota high school senior, the voice behind that of big hit.

Titled, " is daughter". Since posting the song on Easter Sunday,

over 6 million views from 178 countries. Did you expect this?

Absolutely not. She only began playing the piano last year and has

written a dozen songs, posting for friends and family. This one she

wrote in 15 minutes. She recorded it on these cracked iPhone and played

it on her great`grandmother is out of tune piano. The next day I had

all these messages and 100 friend requests and I wondered what was

happening. Reactions pouring in. You have the voice of an angel. What

opportunities are being thrown at you? Do you have an agent? You are

meeting with an agent? No. Do I have an agent? Dad, Mum? This daughter is

taking it one note at the time. ``at a time. Thank you for watching.

I will see you back here again tomorrow.

Plenty of showers today across the eastern side of the British Isles.

Temperatures got up to 19 Celsius. It will get hotter than that towards

the end of the week with temperatures climbing. Highs could

reach 23 degrees across the