:00:00. > :00:00.woman. Mike Embley will be in the chair
:00:00. > :00:00.here at 2am, but first we will show you ABC World News with Diane
:00:00. > :00:13.Sawyer. Welcome to world news, tonight, wall
:00:14. > :00:22.of fire. Marching through southern California, incinerating home after
:00:23. > :00:32.home. Tonight, we show you the added danger, the twisting torture is
:00:33. > :00:36.called firenados. The president tells the story of American courage
:00:37. > :00:45.in the face of terror. Nothing can ever break us. Nothing can change
:00:46. > :00:51.who we are as Americans. A health alert tonight. A new warning about a
:00:52. > :00:55.popular sleeping pill. And, surprise! What happened behind the
:00:56. > :01:04.scenes of our big celebration for Barbara Walters?
:01:05. > :01:10.We begin out west where the wildfires are raging, and families
:01:11. > :01:16.are on the move. People pulling together to beat back wall of
:01:17. > :01:19.flames. One man, armed with a garden hose, refusing to let his house
:01:20. > :01:26.burnt. A little girl in pink cowboy boots, her home in cinders.
:01:27. > :01:29.Firefighters battling the blaze, a full moon filling the sky as houses
:01:30. > :01:36.are burning below. Tonight, this is the map. Multiple fires, including a
:01:37. > :01:44.big one right there in San Marcos. That is where our reporter is on the
:01:45. > :01:48.front lines. We have a fire burning behind us right here, with flames
:01:49. > :01:51.reaching up to ten feet tall. Firefighters standing guard over
:01:52. > :01:56.here. They are protecting this house. Every minute counts out here.
:01:57. > :02:00.In the last few days during these fires we have seen more than 10,000
:02:01. > :02:10.acres torch. A school under siege. Flames coming
:02:11. > :02:13.within feet of the school building. Firefighters working to keep the
:02:14. > :02:19.blaze at bay on a hillside, while two university workers picked up
:02:20. > :02:23.poses and fought flames as well. I think you guys might be here as? No,
:02:24. > :02:29.no, there are no heroes here. Except a fired up at. Reg Waite and
:02:30. > :02:36.cancelled, the campus evacuated, as the fire burns dangerously close ``
:02:37. > :02:40.graduation cancelled. You can see that this helicopter is about to
:02:41. > :02:45.drop water on this hillside. This is the problem, this fire is only feet
:02:46. > :02:51.away from this school. Nine fires raging in San Diego. Investigators
:02:52. > :02:58.are now looking for records, including the of arson. This and all
:02:59. > :03:02.fires treated as a crime scene, and now, in this torch land, it is a
:03:03. > :03:06.scavenger hunt for clues, from looking at are marked on trees and
:03:07. > :03:12.rocks to finding out if a neighbour cut grass recently. Anything a
:03:13. > :03:17.potential spark, and a hint that could point to the Origin of the
:03:18. > :03:22.fire. It is a heat and Winfield battle that southern California has
:03:23. > :03:28.been fighting for days `` wind fuelled. Plumes of smoke rising into
:03:29. > :03:33.the air. Firefighters struggling to see what they can. What they tried
:03:34. > :03:39.to save with hoses yesterday, today looks like this. A business engulfed
:03:40. > :03:44.in flames, now unrecognisable. These firetrucks are ready to go to moment
:03:45. > :03:50.'s notice. The biggest issue today is the temperature, it hit 99
:03:51. > :03:57.degrees. So far today, 13,000 new evacuation notices. So far, this
:03:58. > :04:01.fire is just 5% contained. Now, we want to focus everyone's
:04:02. > :04:07.attention on some of the startling images. Here is one of them. A tube
:04:08. > :04:12.fire stretching into the sky, some people call it a firenados. Danger
:04:13. > :04:19.compounded by speed. How do they form?
:04:20. > :04:29.Swirling tubes of fire erupting out of the wildfires in California again
:04:30. > :04:33.today. Sometimes called firenado. When a group of firefighters come up
:04:34. > :04:36.and there is a firenado, do you attack it differently? You can't
:04:37. > :04:43.really attack it. It has an energy of its own. Some only last a few
:04:44. > :04:46.seconds, others, ten to 15 minutes. Some may only be four, five may be
:04:47. > :04:51.six feet tall. Others could be hundreds of feet tall. So, how does
:04:52. > :04:55.one of these get going? In wildfires, the atmosphere is hot and
:04:56. > :04:59.dry by Peter Bridger within the fire can be thousands of degrees. That
:05:00. > :05:05.difference in heat mixes and can start rotating. A firenado forms
:05:06. > :05:12.when they come together with intense heat, rising very quickly. It can
:05:13. > :05:15.even break off into space, starting other fires. They live embers into
:05:16. > :05:21.the air, and that can be caught by the wind or cast out away from the
:05:22. > :05:24.existing fire line. You can hear that crackling of the fire behind
:05:25. > :05:28.me. The wind is blowing it so quickly and the temperature now is
:05:29. > :05:32.close to 100 degrees. We need relief and it is on the way. Temperatures
:05:33. > :05:37.on Friday in the 80s, I Monday and Tuesday, back into the 60s. It is
:05:38. > :05:38.going to cool down, the wins will subside, and we are going to need
:05:39. > :05:49.it. Today there was a solemn celebration
:05:50. > :05:52.of healing. There, at the 9/11 Memorial Museum right here in New
:05:53. > :05:56.York, dedicated by President Obama, who reminded the nation that
:05:57. > :06:02.nothing, not even an act of terror, can break us. We were down there
:06:03. > :06:05.this morning, a very sombre morning. The president was there to
:06:06. > :06:13.honour those who were lost, those who survived, and the heroes who
:06:14. > :06:20.define a country to today. This is a time and image of a site
:06:21. > :06:24.transformed. Now, there are just two reflecting pools, and in the middle,
:06:25. > :06:34.the Memorial Museum. It is seven stories below ground. He stopped to
:06:35. > :06:39.see Big Read, the firefighter that stopped right there that day. The
:06:40. > :06:42.president was he to honour the heroes that day. He spoke with a
:06:43. > :06:46.group of injured office workers, huddled in the wreckage on the 86th
:06:47. > :06:52.floor of the south tower. They thought there was no way out. Then
:06:53. > :07:00.there came a voice, a young man in his 20s, strong, emerged from the
:07:01. > :07:03.smoke and over his nose and mouth he wore a red handkerchief. He would
:07:04. > :07:08.help carry the wounded down 17 flights of stairs, going back up to
:07:09. > :07:15.do it over and over again. They didn't know his name, but they knew
:07:16. > :07:20.their lives have been saved by the man in the red bandanna. All these
:07:21. > :07:26.years later, that young man's mother, standing in the pink, fans
:07:27. > :07:32.beside one of the women he saved. It is our greatest hope that when
:07:33. > :07:35.people come here and see his red bandanna, they will remember how
:07:36. > :07:42.people help each other that they. This is the true legacy of September
:07:43. > :07:45.11. The true legacy, as she says. The museum is now open to the
:07:46. > :07:52.families, survivors, and it will be open to the public later this month.
:07:53. > :07:55.Now, we had to Washington, and the new survey of the outrageous
:07:56. > :08:04.treatment of veterans at some VA hospitals. Treatment delayed and the
:08:05. > :08:14.consequences up. Today, the heads of veterans affairs saying that he was
:08:15. > :08:19." mad as hell". A wounded Vietnam veteran himself,
:08:20. > :08:24.has been under fire before. Today on Capitol Hill, it was his reputation,
:08:25. > :08:29.not his life, on the line. Are people cooking the books? Have you
:08:30. > :08:40.ever fired anybody when you find out they are manipulating the reckless?
:08:41. > :08:46.The to the executives at hospitals across the country to hide patient
:08:47. > :08:53.delays. A scandal that started in Phoenix were a whistleblower alleges
:08:54. > :08:57.that as many as 40 veterans died. They never came in the door, we
:08:58. > :09:03.never saw them. The first time he confirmed he has seen evidence of
:09:04. > :09:09.cooking the books at some VA hospitals. Any adverse incident like
:09:10. > :09:16.this makes me mad as hell. What he doesn't know he says until a report
:09:17. > :09:21.this August is whether hiding those delays is to blame for any deaths. A
:09:22. > :09:29.national scandal that would cost high level jobs.
:09:30. > :09:35.Now we turn to our headline for our fleet of fried nation. A wake`up
:09:36. > :09:41.call from the FDA. Experts worry that the starting dose of eight
:09:42. > :09:49.popular sleeping aid is too big for many people. The result can affect
:09:50. > :09:56.your life. BSD is saying that anyone who is starting on Lunesta should
:09:57. > :10:03.start at half the dose. Instead of two mg, start at one mg. The effect
:10:04. > :10:08.of the drug last into the morning. 7/2 hours after taking three mg,
:10:09. > :10:11.many people have problems with memory and co`ordination. It
:10:12. > :10:18.continues past that at 11 one half hours. Some people are still
:10:19. > :10:25.impaired. 11 one half hours! To the bottomline for everybody? Start with
:10:26. > :10:30.a low dose. For many people, a tiny dose is all you need. Now we turn to
:10:31. > :10:37.the nationwide outcry about sexual assault on campus. So many
:10:38. > :10:43.allegations that tonight, a secret avenger is on the move at Columbia
:10:44. > :10:47.University. Mysteriously, a fly with the names of young men alleged to be
:10:48. > :10:51.a sale and is appearing across campus along with graffiti on the
:10:52. > :10:57.walls. Is this a spur to action or a witch`hunt?
:10:58. > :11:03.In one of the nation 's most prestigious universities, a kind of
:11:04. > :11:11.storm is brewing. I was raped by one of my close friends who is also a
:11:12. > :11:17.student. She is one of 20 student at Columbia, many of whom say they have
:11:18. > :11:19.been victims of sexual assault on campus. Now publicly complaining
:11:20. > :11:24.that the university has not taken their cases seriously and has not
:11:25. > :11:30.punished the perpetrators. What type of Justice are you seeking? I just
:11:31. > :11:35.wanted him to get off campus. I see him around is an every time, I feel
:11:36. > :11:42.triggered and scared. These ministration did not do anything to
:11:43. > :11:45.even taken off is temporarily. One week ago, something extraordinary
:11:46. > :11:50.happens. Someone took matters into their own hands. They sprayed
:11:51. > :11:54.graffiti on bathroom walls and plastered the campus with flyers,
:11:55. > :11:59.listing names of students who they identified as campus rapist. It has
:12:00. > :12:05.caused an uproar with many, saying this is vigilantes Justice. They
:12:06. > :12:11.have not been found guilty in a court of law and it is irresponsible
:12:12. > :12:15.and dangerous to post their names. I understand why people would not
:12:16. > :12:22.believe the list. I know for a fact, because I believe my friends
:12:23. > :12:26.that all those men are guilty. Columbia University have scrubbed
:12:27. > :12:35.graffiti walls and released a statement to ABC News.
:12:36. > :12:41.Campus sexual assault is a huge problem in the country. One in five
:12:42. > :12:46.women have been assaulted while in courage and two thirds of them are
:12:47. > :12:53.sorted by someone they know. This woman says she has nothing to do
:12:54. > :12:56.with the list. If I can stop one person from having to go through
:12:57. > :13:03.what I went through, it will be worth it. Sexual assault is a huge
:13:04. > :13:05.issue on campuses across the country. The government is
:13:06. > :13:09.investigating the bite universities and colleges for allegedly
:13:10. > :13:15.mishandling sexual assault. What about the young men on those
:13:16. > :13:23.players? None of them have spoken publicly. No word from them so far.
:13:24. > :13:27.Up next, that video of the house cat flying in to save a child. It
:13:28. > :13:37.strikes a nerve across the country. We will tell you about the new move
:13:38. > :13:41.the date against the unruly dog next door. `` today.