:00:00. > :00:00.was of course Angelina Jolie and William Hague speaking to my
:00:00. > :00:00.colleague. Time now for a look at the news as seen across the United
:00:07. > :00:12.States a couple of hours ago, in ABC World News with Dianne Sawyer.
:00:13. > :00:17.Welcome. Tonight, the situation out of control. The fast moving crisis
:00:18. > :00:22.in Iraq. Extremists taking control of city after city. What danger to
:00:23. > :00:27.they pose to the US and could America be drawn back into war?
:00:28. > :00:31.At home, 25 million people threatened by storms and this mess
:00:32. > :00:39.is moving east. And 90 years young for president
:00:40. > :00:46.George W Bush. 6000 foot leap and a hard landing but sealed with kiss.
:00:47. > :00:56.Good evening. We begin with the breaking news from overseas.
:00:57. > :01:01.Tonight, Americans are being evacuated in Iraq as fierce
:01:02. > :01:06.militance once linked to Al Qaeda stormed towards Baghdad. After nine
:01:07. > :01:14.years of war and sacrifice, would US forces ever go back in? We start
:01:15. > :01:19.with developments on the ground. Ferocious fighting today in northern
:01:20. > :01:24.Iraq. Soldiers desperately trying to hold off the jihad is to onslaughts
:01:25. > :01:29.sweeping down towards Baghdad. But the Iraqi troops are losing. These
:01:30. > :01:33.incredible scenes, posted on YouTube, show thousands of Iraqi
:01:34. > :01:38.soldiers who simply surrendered and I now prisoners, the militants
:01:39. > :01:46.claim. They have victory after victory. Major cities falling under
:01:47. > :01:50.their black flag. These fighters now threaten Baghdad, 11 years after US
:01:51. > :01:58.troops toppled Saddam Hussein. All that is now crumbling. The
:01:59. > :02:04.triumphant fighters from ISIS. A track record of brutality,
:02:05. > :02:11.executions, mass headings, massacres. Their goal is a new
:02:12. > :02:16.nation struggling to countries and fuel is land, as they define it.
:02:17. > :02:24.Strict, puritanical. You can set the fear. Just down the road, less than
:02:25. > :02:30.one hour away, the city of Mosul under the control of militance.
:02:31. > :02:34.People fleeing for their lives. Every car searched for weapons and
:02:35. > :02:38.explosives. The wounded child. Families with nowhere to go. Anger
:02:39. > :02:44.at the government and army which failed them. The army left?
:02:45. > :02:47.President Obama today resisting pleas from the Iraqi government for
:02:48. > :02:55.immediate US airstrikes to turn the tide. Tread cautiously. I don't rule
:02:56. > :03:03.out anything because we do have two make sure that these jihadists are
:03:04. > :03:09.not getting a permanent foothold. But in Iraq many people fear it
:03:10. > :03:12.could be too late. There is a widespread sense that this country,
:03:13. > :03:14.which has suffered for so many years, has reached a turning point.
:03:15. > :03:20.It is about to disintegrate altogether. Thank you.
:03:21. > :03:26.Turning to our global affairs correspondent. She reported from
:03:27. > :03:30.Iraq more than 20 times. We heard about deterioration. What's the
:03:31. > :03:37.biggest direct threat to the US tonight? Is there anybody else who
:03:38. > :03:42.could stop it? President Obama said today that these fighters could end
:03:43. > :03:50.up being a significant threat to our homeland. The fear, the chaos gives
:03:51. > :03:53.this terror group time and space to plot against America but the White
:03:54. > :03:58.House says there will be no US boot is on the ground and so far no word
:03:59. > :04:02.that we would conduct airstrikes. There is word tonight the US is
:04:03. > :04:07.flying surveillance drones over Iraq and there is a report that Iran is
:04:08. > :04:11.actually sending forces in the help Iraqi government. And irony that
:04:12. > :04:16.Iran would be going in. But I want to ask you about another bit of
:04:17. > :04:21.news. Bowe Bergdahl is heading back to the US from the military hospital
:04:22. > :04:24.in Germany. What is next for him? The trip to the medical centre in
:04:25. > :04:29.Texas marks the final phase of his reintegration. This move tonight
:04:30. > :04:32.means he is improving and now ready for a family reunion, although he
:04:33. > :04:37.will continue to get medical and psychological treatment. But no word
:04:38. > :04:44.yet on when the family reunion `` reunion is planned. Thank you.
:04:45. > :04:49.Now we are back at home, where 26 million Americans are in a storm
:04:50. > :04:51.zone. In the midwest, families are reeling from tornadoes and now the
:04:52. > :05:22.east coast is bracing for the rain. Government forecasters warned
:05:23. > :05:29.drought has a west in a stranglehold that will help supercharge summer
:05:30. > :05:33.wildfires. In Texas, it has been the driest three years on record.
:05:34. > :05:39.Climatologists call it a modern day dustbowl. All that rain. Not enough
:05:40. > :05:44.for some and far too much for others.
:05:45. > :05:51.Now we have news from Washington and the Supreme Court ruling that affect
:05:52. > :05:58.Coca`Cola. The court said falls advertising lawsuit can go forward.
:05:59. > :06:03.It is about their blueberry drink. A competitor says the Coca`Cola drink
:06:04. > :06:06.is made almost entirely of Apple and grape juice. Not pomegranate. They
:06:07. > :06:12.say the FDA and loud label the Supreme Court says the story is not
:06:13. > :06:18.over. Tonight, 3 billion people have the world 's population is expected
:06:19. > :06:26.to watch the World Cup opening ceremony in Brazil. Take a look. The
:06:27. > :06:30.NASA astronauts kicking a soccer ball in zero gravity. They will be
:06:31. > :06:37.watching from the spaced Asian. A familiar name, O. J. Simpson. 20
:06:38. > :06:47.years after the case that transfixed a nation. The polarised reaction to
:06:48. > :06:53.his acquittal and tonight, he is hired ours are not for their
:06:54. > :06:57.murders. What is his life like now? Our correspondent tells us. It has
:06:58. > :07:02.been a long 20 years for a decent on. Since that courtroom in LA, the
:07:03. > :07:13.scene of the trial of the century. It began 1984. The murder of his
:07:14. > :07:18.estranged wife and her friend. When LA police went to arrest him,
:07:19. > :07:27.Odysseus and made his most famous run in his friends car. The trial
:07:28. > :07:32.was live on TV. It doesn't fit, you must acquit. He died of a rain
:07:33. > :07:39.tumour in 2005. The prosecutor is now a media analyst, still convinced
:07:40. > :07:48.of O. J. Simpson was the guilt. Everyone's favourite slacker,
:07:49. > :07:53.part`time actor Peter Keelan. Finally, O. J. Simpson. Bloated and
:07:54. > :07:58.grey. Last seen one year ago, begging for freedom. Now serving a
:07:59. > :08:07.sentence, guilty of stealing his own memorabilia at gunpoint. Two decades
:08:08. > :08:16.and a remarkable turnaround from that surprising not guilty verdict
:08:17. > :08:22.that lit up his famous face. Also in the news today, a
:08:23. > :08:23.high`spirited state adventure. President Bush turned 90 today and
:08:24. > :08:37.how did he celebrate? He tweeted: the adrenaline junkie did it again.
:08:38. > :08:44.Our correspondent has a junk that make the jump. 90 years old, the
:08:45. > :08:48.former president still insisted on affirming what has become a birthday
:08:49. > :08:53.ritual. No longer able to walk because he has a form of Parkinson's
:08:54. > :08:56.disease, he jumped from more than a Mile High in tandem with a retired
:08:57. > :09:06.army parachute. Leading later. You can see his shaken
:09:07. > :09:12.expression in this photo. You have to realise he is 90 years old. He
:09:13. > :09:20.has problems with his lower extremities. He kept thanking me. He
:09:21. > :09:31.said, thank you for making this possible. It is his sixth jump. He
:09:32. > :09:37.is completely throwing everything to the wind. Letting everyone know that
:09:38. > :09:43.at 90 you can do anything. In 2012, he said he wanted one more jump. I
:09:44. > :09:49.thought your wife would let you? She kept telling us all she would stop
:09:50. > :09:53.you. I think she doesn't hope that the parachute will open. I am quite
:09:54. > :09:59.sure that. When he touched down, he got a big kiss from his wife and a
:10:00. > :10:07.hug from his son, the other former president. Then home to celebrate.
:10:08. > :10:13.A big happy birthday and salute from all of us here. The undercover Boss
:10:14. > :10:15.heading into a secret world we rarely see. What happens to him? Our
:10:16. > :11:29.cameras are right there. Next tonight, our investigation into
:11:30. > :11:34.a hidden world where prisoners are kept in confinement. For years and
:11:35. > :11:38.years. Rooms smaller than an ordinary parking spot. Tonight you
:11:39. > :11:42.will see an undercover Boss go behind ours, posing as a prisoner to
:11:43. > :11:48.make a decision, does this work? Or two inmates, more dangerous than
:11:49. > :11:54.when they went in. You are looking at prisoner 106. On the books as a
:11:55. > :12:02.dangerous armed robber. He is preparing to enter hell on earth.
:12:03. > :12:14.Solitary confinement. Just listen to the residents. This is prison. We're
:12:15. > :12:20.not here to be nice. As the prisoner is moved into the unit... I do not
:12:21. > :12:25.know if I have ever felt as vulnerable as I do right now. Even
:12:26. > :12:28.the offices do not know he's actually the secretary of
:12:29. > :12:34.corrections for the state of New Mexico. this is a public safety
:12:35. > :12:42.issue... He is spending 48 hours on the inside to decide how to reform
:12:43. > :12:47.the state use of solitary. I can't allow that. Is the kind of
:12:48. > :12:51.confinement that is prisoner lives with every day. This is my home
:12:52. > :12:56.right here. He wanted to be an astronaut growing up but he got
:12:57. > :13:02.caught up in gangs. How many murders did you commit? Two. He has been
:13:03. > :13:06.kept in a cell like this every day from the past ten years. These four
:13:07. > :13:11.walls are all he has. He knows every crack, every inch of peeling paint.
:13:12. > :13:20.What does that do to your head? It is perpetual misery. It is monotony,
:13:21. > :13:25.repetition. The only way to survive in here is to establish a strict
:13:26. > :13:30.routine. A sort of imitation of life. I exercise, I read a lot. If I
:13:31. > :13:36.didn't have books I probably would have gone insane. As for the
:13:37. > :13:42.secretary, 24 hours in and claustrophobia is setting in. I feel
:13:43. > :13:49.like the cell is squeezing down. They get one hour a day outside.
:13:50. > :13:54.Being walked back to your cell, by two guards is robber Blee the only
:13:55. > :13:59.human contact you get all day. Critics point to studies that saved
:14:00. > :14:04.solitary confinement can result in rain damage, similar to that made by
:14:05. > :14:08.head trauma. We are social animals, built for interaction. Take that
:14:09. > :14:13.away and inmates can literally lose their minds. As the secretary
:14:14. > :14:16.finally gets released, he says he now believes that solitary should
:14:17. > :14:26.continue to be used but only for the most dangerous. Days later, one
:14:27. > :14:32.prisoner is brought out of solitary. Here are the first time in years,
:14:33. > :14:38.real human contact. is great. This is living right here. Finally,
:14:39. > :14:42.soccer is the most popular sport in the world. And yet, so many children
:14:43. > :14:49.have to make balls out or whatever they can. Tonight, an American
:14:50. > :14:59.genius to the rescue. Trying to get every child a ball and a dream. Here
:15:00. > :15:04.in Brazil, soccer is pure joy. Played on beaches, in the street and
:15:05. > :15:09.everywhere I went in Rio, the kids taught me how to do it. At millions
:15:10. > :15:14.of children around the world can't even afford a ball. This is what the
:15:15. > :15:22.use, so`called rag ball is made of just about anything. These children
:15:23. > :15:29.will improvise a ball out of anything they can find. I have a
:15:30. > :15:33.solution. E and his wife found a cheap, indestructible plastic used
:15:34. > :15:37.to make high chairs and shoes. They turned into a ball strong enough for
:15:38. > :15:44.even the conditions. If it is function, it is fine. `` punctured.
:15:45. > :15:52.With an initial investment by Sting, for every ball they sell, one
:15:53. > :16:03.is donated. More than 850,000 in 170 countries. Some of them, right here
:16:04. > :16:10.in Los Angeles. A mission that will live on long after the World Cup. By
:16:11. > :16:15.the end of the year, they will be able to deliver their 1 million
:16:16. > :16:23.ball. Changing the lives of children everywhere, that is America Strong.
:16:24. > :16:36.We thank you for watching. I will see you tomorrow. Good night.
:16:37. > :16:41.Thursday turned out to be another warm day a cross inward and Wales.
:16:42. > :16:42.Temperatures were at