20/06/2014 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer

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is time for ABC World News. Welcome to world news. Tonight, the

anthrax scare. What happened inside one of the most dangerous labs in

America. The action being taken to protect workers. And those labs, a

shield such tonight. `` sealed shut. President Obama says military action

is possible in Iraq and who is sending in. Getting answers inside

the lottery ticket investigation tonight. If you have ever purchased

a lottery ticket, how to believe a store owner who says you did not

win. And when do these cases go too far?

Good evening. It is great to have you with us. We begin with that real

scare at being out on that later. The CDC asking how this could

happen. One of their workers making a dangerous mistake. Exposing his

co`workers to live anthrax. Those workers are being treated at this

hour. There is investigation under way into how this happened.

The CDC is telling us tonight that something went terribly wrong. Live

anthrax was passed along to labs that were not equipped to handle it.

75 people were exposed. They may have become in fact it. The labrador

is handled the deadliest bacteria and viruses in the world. From a

bowler to smallpox. Precautions are serious and necessary. Scientists

and doctors worked on such deadly diseases as plague and West Nile.

Tonight the labs are shut down, sealed, being decontaminated. The

rapid response lab is where anthrax is handled in its live forum. It is

that live forum that got into lower`level labs and may have

escaped into the air. There is no threat of it being spread to friends

or family, because it is not spread person to person. But there is

concern for the workers. They are not yet in the clear. If anthrax

goes untreated, it has a very high mortality rate. It is like present.

Even if you get the right antibiotics, 47% still die. These

workers are all being offered antibiotics. For an organisation

that works so often with deadly diseases on the planet, it is

frightening mistake. It is only the workers, not the

families and neighbours. Why is that? You have to breathe it in. All

of the outer clothes were left in the lab. But they are concerned

about the workers? It can live in your body for 60 days. That is why

60 days of antibiotics. People are going to say, this is one of the

most dangerous labrador is in the country, how does this happen? This

is one of the world's Premier League labs. There are going to be looking

at how this happened. There will be some outside eyes looking at how it

happened as well. Now we move on to the crisis in Iraq. President Obama

revealing military action is on the table. 300 advisers, special forces

being sent into Iraq. We start with Iraq tonight. Clearly what the

President is trying to do is keep this nation in which the United

States has invested so much collapsing. While resisting a slide

back to war. Tonight, fighter jets launching from a US carrier. Back

over the Iraqi skies, watching the militants on the move. Today,

President Obama made it clear that US combat forces will not fight a

new war here. But within days, the first of some 300 additional US

troops, military advisers, will begin arriving. A move clearly aimed

at bolstering the Iraqi forces that are crumbling in the face of battle.

And they are not ruling out air strikes. We will be prepared to take

targeted and precise military action if and when we determined that the

situation on the ground requires it. That likely means using drones to

fire on limited targets. The President did have tough words for

his Iraqi counterpart. For failing to note Iraq's religious and ethnic

factions. But the President also said there are lessons to learn from

this crisis and from the war that has left deep scars on our nation.

What is clear is the need for the United States to ask hard questions

before we take action abroad. We all heard the President said today that

he is prepared to send those additional American military

advisers. Hundreds of them. Who are they?

These will work with Iraq's security forces and they have not ruled out

that they would help them find targets for air strikes. No combat

for American troops but it is still a dangerous mission. I'm going to

bring in our White House correspondent. They will be helping

the forces in Iraq pick targets for airstrikes, what do you think about

this? It is a significantly more dangerous mission than had been

widely anticipated. Three times as many special forces as had been

reported who will be embedded with forces in Iraq, not just in Baghdad

but also in the north. The president wants no part of going back into

Iraq in a war but at the same time, this group now taking over parts of

Iraq poses a real threat. This group is more formidable than Al`Qaeda

was. Tough choices ahead. We move onto developing headline, severe

weather in the Midwest tonight all the way to the East Coast with major

flash flooding. New images of a new and massive twister. You can see

what appears to be four funnels inside this sweeping tornado which

was terrifying for many on the ground.

This was the moment across the prairies of South Dakota when

families knew they had to run for cover. Another set of twin tornadoes

were moving in when it hit 15 miles east. These were pictures of

families took with their cellphones. Women's reached 127

mph, damaging more than a dozen homes and businesses. At this farm,

they lost everything and it was a tearful reunion today for this

family. This is what the house looked like before, nearly 100 years

old, it hurt to see how little be tornado left. The severe weather

stretched east with lightning setting homes on fire in Minnesota.

Wayne 's route down trees in Ohio. In Chicago, 1400 passengers were

stranded at the airport. We have travelled a lot and never had an

experience like this. In the prairies, they are having to clean

all of this up and there is no power. Utility crews are out trying

to repair power lines tonight. 14 million Americans are in the path

of severe weather tonight. Flash floods are running through towns in

the Midwest tonight as in Minnesota where drivers are plowing through

waterlogged roads. I know you were dealing with severe weather in the

last 24 hours but now you are watching another part of the

country. What are you seeing? Three major areas tonight. The storms that

moved through Philadelphia have shifted south tonight and another

area is coming up over northern Texas with the potential for

damaging winds and flash flooding. I want to show you the area of

flooding and it is a very broad one. It is really draped across the upper

Midwest and into the Atlantic. We are looking at the potential for

three to four inches of rain. We have all seen those police chases

but this video has many asking how far is too far?

It is the last kind of driver you would expect to see on a golf

course. The lease cars barreling down the freeway with sirens

blaring. People were running all over the place. Minnesota cops were

chasing this man on an outstanding drug warrant but the department is

reviewing whether or not it crossed the line. Officers are required to

exhibit a high degree of common sense in these cases. High`speed

chases happen all too often and often turned deadly with more than

300 people killed in one year including innocent I standards like

this man's son. The burden to protect the public is on law

enforcement. Oftentimes, that means breaking off and not continuing to

pursue. So where do police draw the lines? We don't want to be in chases

coming it is a danger to us and the public. Nearly two dozen police

departments are now using GPS technology which shoots a tracker

from the front grill of a police car onto the car they are pursuing. He

can then pursue this suspect without giving chase. Some hope that this

will make car chases a thing of the past. We have much more ahead. If

you have ever bought a lottery ticket, is the store owner telling

you the truth when he says you didn't win? So many of us are doing

a little spring cleaning this time of year but does it look like this?

What it takes to spruce up the skywalk at the Grand Canyon.

A powerful moment to share with you tonight with President Obama

awarding a medal of an art to a corporal who threw himself onto a

grenade in Afghanistan to save his friend and a fellow Marine in

combat. It cost him his right eye. Inside the lottery ticket

investigation in Florida `` Medal of Honour, how do you know they are

telling you the truth when they tell you that you didn't win? These women

in South Florida were arrested in the past 48 hours as part of a

sweeping investigation of nearly 100 Florida retailers for lottery

fraud. Out of the top ten winners in scratch lottery tickets, nine were

retail storeowners including one who won six jackpots in a single day

``. You have taken it 30 times for $50,000? Yes and I have put in about

60 or $70. Florida put out a batch of PSA 's including people to sign

their tickets so no one else could claim them. Experts say that some

clerks may be playing the odds but others have been caught playing

their customers. Like this clerk in xeric use `` New York who told a

client that he had a winning ticket worth 5000 when it was actually

worth 5 million. If you have a winning ticket, you do not have to

give it to the clerk. That is what these machines are for. Place it

there and wait a few seconds and it will tell you whether you have taken

it. While some clerks may lie, the computer does not. A heart stopping

image from the Grand Canyon with workers dangling while they clean up

the skywalk. They tell us that the trick is not to look down. From all

of us at ABC News on the good night ``, good night.

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