30/05/2014 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer

the candidates standing in that by`election. 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. Tonight, a new warning. A

record`breaking spike of measles. We track the spread and the surprising

reason behind it. Is this the first American suicide bomber? The Florida

man turned into a killer in Syria. And the popular tourist attraction

high in the air cracks. Visitors scramble to solid ground. Good

evening. An old enemy is back. There is an urgent new warning about

measles. Don't forget, this is a virus that can take lives. Measles

is wildly infectious. You can catch it from the air two hours after

someone infected was there. Tonight, it's spreading. The new record is

288 cases, the most since the virus was eliminated from the US in 2000.

18 states have been affected. The biggest outbreak is where the Amish

are getting sick. Unvaccinated, some travelled to the Philippines and

caught the virus. Another outbreak in upstate San Diego, where parents

deliberately avoid vaccination. Paediatricians are on the lookout,

trying to spot the tell`tale rash. trying to spot the tell`tale rash.

Measles is so contagious they have to wear special equipment. All these

cases, like the Amish outbreak, are linked to travellers ringing the

disease here from around the globe, giving it to the unvaccinated. In

the 1960s, measles sent 48,000 Americans per year to the hospital,

7000 with seizures. 5000 died. He was in extreme pain all the time. He

was screaming. This little boy was only eight months old, too young to

vaccinate, when measles struck in New York. He courted during a visit

to the doctor 's office in a room where a measles patient had been.

They had been in the same room before we arrived. Can you give us

some perspective on this? The CDC is very concerned about this. If you

are an adult and you are travelling overseas, they want you to make sure

you have had at least two doses of the measles vaccine. If you are not

sure, get it again to be safe. They also want to make sure that everyone

here is vaccinated fully and on time. It's to protect you but it is

also to protect children too young to get vaccinated and people with

immune problems who cannot protect themselves. 7000 cases of seizures

from measles? Yes. People think it of it as a mild image `` illness

that you get over but that is a lot of people who are harmed by it. Now,

America's top intelligence officers are looking at new images of a

suicide bombing in Syria are unlike any other. They believe one of those

suicide bombers was an American citizen, a man from Florida. Who is

he? Has other Americans been turned into killers as well? It was a

powerful truck bomb in northern Syria. The Al`Qaeda affiliated

terrorists who produced this video of the attack say this American was

the suicide bomber who drove the truck. The video shows it being

loaded with explosives and driving towards its target. The government

says the suspect is an American citizen. US officials are reaching

out to the man's family and are investigating how he was recruited.

American fighters in Syria have sparked concerns at the highest

level of government. The capacity of battle hardened extremist groups to

come after us only increases. 70 Americans are believed to have

joined the foreign fighters in Syria. Some have made their way back

to the US and are under investigation or surveillance. The

FBI director recently warned that Americans fighting in the Syrian

conflict might return home to form sleeper cells for Al`Qaeda. How

active are you in making sure you are keeping an eye on those people?

We are very active. The civil war there is an opportunity for fighters

to get training in the worst parts of terrorism. They will come back to

the US. A civil war in a land are way with potentially huge

implications for the US at home. `` a land far away. And growing outrage

tonight over the breakdown in care for American veterans. Right now,

there are calls for the veteran secretary to step down. Is he out?

Where do things stand at the moment? There are well over 100 members of

Congress saying it is time for him to resign. There is a growing sense

at the White House that he days are numbered. Look at what happened

today when I tried to get a straight answer here about where he stands

with the president. Yes or no, does the President has confidence in the

Veterans' Affairs Minister glitch? `` Veterans' Affairs Minister? He is

confident that the Secretary has served his nation adequately. That

is what it usually sounds like before someone is fired. That said,

the secretary told veterans groups today that he has no intention of

leaving. Then again, that might not be his choice to make. Now, for the

first time, a family is speaking about what it is like when your son

is on a progression towards a dark horizon. Their son was the shooter

in Santa Barbara. Tonight, we have new insight into their anguish and

the strange behaviour that led to such a violent surprise.

fooled everyone for a long time. Family friend this morning. He was a

very removed, remote child. He hesitated. He shook when you met

him. These videos give glimpses into his character. In this one, he

stalks a couple kissing on the beach. Consumed with envy. In his

manifesto, he claims to have attacked others. He wrote that at a

party last year he tried to push a group of students off a balcony. He

says he squirted another group with a super soaker filled with orange

juice and dumped copy on a young couple kissing in line at Starbucks.

He was so antisocial that one of his former roommate moved out early.

Well before the attack, it was said that he saw Roger as potentially

violent. My first feeling was that he actually did it. Roger's parents

say they are crying in pain for the victims and their families.

Now, the setback in the search for the missing plane. Authorities in

Australia said they have completed a scan of the undersea search area,

meaning they have probably been looking in the wrong place. They are

no longer sure if the pings a third were from the black box on the

plane. Their hunt in the Indian Ocean will now have to be expanded

and the new search could take a year. Back at home, to the

Waterworld across the golf in Louisiana, neighbours underwater.

Streets turned into rivers and in Texas, houses poking through an

impromptu marshland. Tonight, a topic we have spoken about, the

dangers of tanning beds. Tonight, it has been said that they should carry

warnings on like cigarettes. Rebecca Jarvis has the story. For years,

doctors have urged the US government to take action on tanning beds.

Tonight, for the first time, new rules, that tanning bed should carry

a visible warning, cautioning those under the age of 18 not to use them.

We have tried to deal with this issue for the last 20 years. The

industry calls the rules "excessive", and says that their

products are safe if used properly. 1 million Americans tan every day,

especially young people. Using an indoor tanning salon increases the

risk of melanoma, the deadliest of all skin cancers, by 59%. This woman

is a melanoma survivor and started tanning when she was in sixth

grade. I thought that there was no way, as a 17`year`old, I could get

melanoma. In 2012, an investigation showed that many salon workers

denied the machines could be harmful, even claiming it was good

for you. It is the same as being outside, if you got sunburn here, it

would not be as bad. Four years ago, the FDA recommended a ban for all

minors, but never acted on it. Tonight 's warning sheds light on

the dangers. Next, we had to Chicago and what

happened late yesterday, 1300 feet up in the air, inside the heart

pounding new exhibit in the city 's tallest building. The glass boxes

suspended in the air. Tonight, a real scare. Tourists were standing

on the glass above an urban canyon, when it seemed like the glass was

cracking under their feet. Chicago's famed tower promises to

showcase the city skyline like no one else, 100 stories high, on a

glass ledge, making it feel like you are standing on air. That is crazy!

This is the frightening view that two men will never forget. The glass

directly underneath them shattered as they harboured more than 1300

feet over the streets. `` hovered. Seconds after they snapped this

picture, sheer panic as they stood up. I immediately looked down and I

could see it cracking very fast. I jumped off, crawled off, I don't

know what I did. Authorities closed the ledge for repair but insisted no

one was in danger. They said it was a protective coating that shattered,

before the blast that make up the ledge. The family says that solid

low ground is fine for now. Now, some consumer news about the wine

that we buy, police in Italy have confiscated thousands of bottles of

a counterfeit wine to be shipped overseas, but in fact, they

substituted a good `` the good stuff with low`grade wine. So we would

have to pay ten times the value. The tipoff came from discerning

drinkers that realised the expensive wine they were sipping was not the

real deal. Today, Italian police swooped, seizing 30,000 bottles of

counterfeit wine. Worthless wine with a fancy fake label. The problem

is that most of us, including me, cannot taste the difference between

the two winds. We are ripe for the falling. Unfortunately, the average

American cannot guarantee that you are not going to get what you are

looking for `` wines. According to one study, 20% of wine on the market

could be fake. And the USA became the biggest consumer on the planet

of wine. Is your favourite wine really what you think it is?

At next here tonight, courted the act, those tiny security camera

supposed to alert you when someone breaks into your home. Tonight, they

are put to the test, do they work promised? `` court. And the journey

from homeless to high school. ``caught. That is next.

Police say he came in, grabbing electronics, but he was unaware that

two cameras had turned on. Alerting the homeowner who was out to dinner.

Allowing the homeowners to scare the intruder. Cameras in the home,

catching all kinds of burglars in the act, are they worth the money.

Watch, with a little bit of movement, the cameras are triggered

and start recording. Some even send an alert to your phone. They are

more mainstream. Situations like this happen, there are proof of them

working. These three brands work as advertised, each turning on and

beaming back real`time video. They cost anything from $130 to that is

to watch the food on your phone normally free but not perfect. For

example, the camera could be triggered by your pet. One company

says that they are introducing people detection in summer, alerting

only if there is human activity on your cameras. And a new tab system

where you can put a tab about the size of a stick of gum on doors and

windows to see if they are opened, and on items if they have moved. ``

to see if they have moved. At this home, police ended up catching the

subject who are still in prison tonight. If you are tired of

selfies, how about an 'elfie'. An elephant version. When officials got

the phone back from this man, an elephant embracing the trend and

taking a picture with his trunk. There has been an increase in 4700

babies born. That is the first increase in years. Experts say a lot

of couples delayed expanding or starting families because of the

recession. A welcome to all of the new arrivals. In America, we are

hearing huge cheers for the class of 2014. A remarkable teenager will

graduate as valedictorian, homeless and full of hope, never missing an

assignment. What did he say to himself? Our correspondent tells us

about the teenager who is America strong. When Griffin Furlong gets

ready for school every morning, he never wakes up in his own bed. Are

you homeless now? Technically I am homeless. It was two months ago that

me and my dad were living together and we could not afford to live at

the place we were staying. It makes today even more remarkable. This

young man with so little in this world was practising the speech he

will give next week, at his high school graduation, where he is the

valedictorian. I perform the way I do in the classroom because I have

everything to lose. He and his family had been homeless for 12

years, ever since cancer took the life of his mother. They have lived

on borrowed cultures and in shelters `` cultures. I was in a hotel one

night and I was starving. I had nothing to eat. And I had school.

And I knew, that there was nothing I could do about it. Most of his

teachers say they never knew until now. He is the only student who has

never missed an assignment. He graduates with perfect grades, and

is not doing it alone. Friends raised nearly $40,000 to help him

pay for college, and the university says it will help to. He is not

defined by what happened to him. On the back of his baseball caps, he

writes" never give up". So, he never forgets. I want to show that anyone

can do it, no matter what you have been through. I never want to live

that life again. I do everything I do because I don't want to live like

that. Griffin Furlong, we congratulate you. You are truly

America strong. We thank you so much for watching

tonight, we are always here, and we will be back again tomorrow.

For many places, it will be brighter on Thursday, the sunshine broke

through the