25/07/2014 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer

be sentenced tomorrow. Time now for a look at the news as

seen across the United States a couple of hours ago, in ABC World

News with Diane Sawyer. Welcome to ABC World News.

Vanished, another passenger plane disappears from the sky, this one in

a tough and dangerous desert. There is breaking news in a search for the

third airline to suffer disaster in a week. What happened this time?

Hundreds of families run for cover after a tornado and giant hail

demolished their campground. What about me new science that proves

your dog may be the most jealous member of your family `` what about

me? Good evening. We come on the air

with news almost impossible to believe, another plane tragedy, the

third in one week. We have breaking news on that passenger jet that seem

to have vanished over a vast desert north of Tampa to in Africa. Reports

are coming in that the records may have been located amid questions of

powerful storms north of where the plane was flying `` Timbuktu.

The race was an all day to find wreckage, two French whiter jets

looking for any sign of this plane apps `` fighter jets looking for any

sign of this plane in Mali. A call came in from the pilots to change

course 50 minutes into the flight due to his drawing storms. According

to the French, they dropped off radar and disappeared. This is what

the jetliner with 110 passengers and a crew of six was flying into, heavy

sandstorms. The jet likely crashed and the French Foreign Minister was

not revealing any cause although the possibility remains of terrorism as

it is a dangerous area to fly and is home to and Al`Qaeda affiliate.

Flyers may be fearful with this flurry of aviation accidents. First

and March, MH370 goes missing across the Indian Ocean and in the past

week, the MH17 flight crashes over Ukraine. A plane crashed on a

Taiwanese island yesterday and if this Africa crash was brought on by

whether, should you be worried `` whether? The normal procedure when

you fly around thunderstorms `` storms is to fly around it.

Jetliners are tested to survive even lightning as we learned in a lab for

Boeing. The FAA is constantly talking about storms and problems

with airliners. They keep jets on the safest route. More than a

hundred may have been killed tonight but experts do not see a trend and

said flying remains extremely safe. Last year 3 billion people flew and

there were only 210 fatalities worldwide.

It has been an incredible week. Acura at home, the severe weather ``

back here at home. Giant lightning and hail and more. Our correspondent

has it all, including the campers running for cover.

Chaos at the campground. A tornado with winds up to 100 mph tearing

along the eastern shore of Virginia and killing a couple from New

Jersey. It injured more than two dozen people. The winds twisted

trailers and mangled trees. Golfball sized hail accompanied a frightening

soundtrack to the storm. More than 1300 panicked campers huddled for

safety. We are in a 37 foot motor home and it started rolling back and

forth. A countywide state of emergency. We were in the eye of the

tornado is what it felt like and it was scary. Ambulances rushing in.

From the air, a view of the destruction. Winds snapping trees

and flipping this tractor`trailer. All of this on the heels of strong

storms on Wednesday night in the northeast wind skies opened up over

Yankee Stadium . At Saratoga Springs in New York, spectators cleared out

just in time. It just exploded like someone had put dynamite in it. The

severe storms are on again tonight and the Southeast and also back in

parts of the West so let's look at that. Here in Carolina and Virginia

we have warnings but watch for the next couple of hours along that cold

front. We will see issues from Montana to Iowa, all the way into

the overnight hours. This is instigating windy conditions, red

flag warnings all the way from Montana to Nevada. The heat is still

baking in the Southwest tomorrow although not as hot but 110 in

Youma. It is fuelling wildfires which is turning the dry earth into

a tinderbox and tonight a new report reveals just how many family homes

could be at risk as the danger of fire increases.

It's almost unbearable. Phoenix broke records today with cabbages

over 116 degrees. Parts of Southern California sizzling to 119. ``

temperatures. The heat striking as firefighters battle wildfires in

seven States. For in Washington alone. Sizzling temperatures combine

with severe drought and a firefight that is breaking budgets. The new

report shows the cost of fighting fires has quadrupled, jumping from

$440 million to over $1.7 billion last year. 60% of all new homes

built since 1990 are in high fire risk areas, with 1.2 million homes

in the danger zone. These fires will consume us much more rapidly and

frequently and with great intensity. We are going to have to build our

infrastructure accordingly. The peak fire season is just beginning.

Now we head overseas to the conflict in the Middle East. Tonight, US

airlines are starting to fly into Tel Aviv the game. That 48`hour ban

has been lifted. But news is pouring in another deadly hit in Gaza, this

time strike on the UN shelter, where were huddled inside.

Today at this hospital, so many casualties came in they have to

stack them to a bed. Mothers and grandmothers. `` two to a bed. They

sought refuge from the war at the school. Today, they're safe haven

came under attack. This is one of the smaller local hospitals but you

can see how stretched they are for resources. Only 13 beds in this

emergency room. They have more than 70 injured. Many of them are

children. This father ate the busy doctors to please tend to his son.

`` begged the doctors. In all, 16 dead in this one attack alone. This

is where it happened. The building is clearly marked with UN colours.

We saw shrapnel in the courtyard and blood. The refugees fled, leaving

their few belongings behind. Stray horses rummaged through them for

food. The UN is outraged. They tell us they passed the school's location

to is rarely forces 13 times, including this morning. We are the

last resort for them. If they aren't safe with us, where are they safe?

But Israel said it warned the UN to evacuate the school and it had a ``

had intended to strike nearby instead. Of course the people had

nowhere to go. Tonight, these children are homeless again.

Back at home tonight, a fast thinking doctor is being credited.

In a man who opened fire at a hospital near Philadelphia.

Investigators say a patient killed his caseworker this afternoon.

Police believe the doctor fired back in self`defence, using his own gun.

Both men were wounded. Other doctors wrestled the gun away from the

patient. Tonight, the debate over capital

punishment is taking a startling U`turn. A federal judge calling for

a return to firing squads, after another faulty execution in Arizona

dragged on for nearly two hours. Today, we tracked down that judge

who says his idea is very serious. Tonight, the state of Arizona is

investigating why it took so long to as `` to execute this inmate, Joseph

Wood. He was supposed to die ten minutes after being given the lethal

injection. Instead, it turned into a 117 minute ordeal. To watch a man

lay there, gulping air, at 120 wondered if he was going to die.

After 50 minutes, his attorney filed an emergency appeal with the US

Supreme Court in a last effort to save his life. Today, he said the

execution was unconstitutional. For it to take two hours for a man to

die, I think that certainly cruel and unusual. The case follows

watched executions in Ohio and Oklahoma in six months. Today, a

federal appeals judge involved in Joseph Wood is' case said it's time

for a more primitive `` permanent method. I never heard someone

walking away from a firing squad. But the family of Joseph Wood is'

victims don't care how he died. In 1989, he murdered two people, a

father and daughter. What's excruciating is seeing your dad

lying there in a pool of blood, seeing your sister lying there in a

pool of blood. That is excruciating. To some, Joseph Wood is' lingering

death was poetic justice. We have an update tonight on that

mystery. The white flags wear bright American flags once flew. Tonight

investigators say they have the nicknames of up to five suspects.

They are still studying surveillance footage from nearby buildings. Still

ahead, the crime spree caught on camera. The gunmen terrorising

drivers and running through the hills. Tonight, the TV helicopter

helping in the chase. And all in the family. The $20 million lottery

winner keeping a promise to her brothers and sisters. Her family.

Next, the dramatic end to a blazing crime spree. Gunman armed with an

assault rifle accused of hijacking cars in Colorado. Cameras were

watching. This wild crime spree started at

2:40pm yesterday. Police say Christopher Sullivan and a female

complex sped off after a routine traffic stop, getting away 30 ``

getting away. 30 minutes later allegedly car`jacking and other

driver. Armed with a handgun and rifle, police say the pair crashed

about car, then stole a truck belonging to a co`worker. The guy

pulled out a machine`gun and started shooting at him. He drove into the

bushes. Deputies call had no idea he was there until this,

their stolen ASCII `` SUV comes crashing through. Soon, the car get

stuck and he heads for a major interstate.

That's when this motorcycle deputy rolls up. He's gun is already drawn.

He is a 20 year veteran. Sullivan got his gun. But it's over by

It ended nearly two hours later. But 4:20pm.

It ended nearly two hours later. But police say no one was injured.

Trending to the top of our instant index, these snapshots from the UK.

Royall photo bomb. The Queen making a cameo in selfies. There she is

with her hat. Snapped by athletes of the Commonwealth Games in Scotland.

Tonight, it's official, a new study is out confirming what so many dog

lovers already know. They have a jealous heart. When owners ignore

them in favour of other dogs or anyone else. So many of you sent us

evidence from your own home is. Like this one. Watch when the owner tries

to play with a small dog. He is simply not having it! Look at this

one. The dog's I say it all. Suffering because the baby is now

the centre of the universe. Finally, the big lottery winner putting her

big family first. Paying off a promise from other they loved. One

sister actually had the $20 million ticket but tonight her siblings are

becoming rich as well. Meet this family from New Jersey, a

whole bunch of them. This is a large family. Thanks to a little luck and

their mother. My mother started this tradition years ago. She said, I

have 19 children, how will I leave you much? She set my only chance

would be with the lottery. Even after she died, her kids kept up the

tradition and they finally hit the jackpot. $20 million. In all, there

are 17 brothers and sisters ranging from 53 to 76. Plus the three

children of the sibling who died a few years ago. They will all be

splitting the jackpot 20 ways. This woman bought the winning ticket. She

went to the local store because her niece was low on milk and bought a

$1 ticket. Days later, she realised she had won. I started to cry and

called my sister to come and get me. Now all the siblings get a piece of

the pie. Their mother devised a plan for how they would split their

winnings. On 76 and have worked hard all my life. This is just a

wonderful icing on the cake. I took two weeks before it sunk in. When it

did, I went and bought a new pair of boots. Many of them still plan on

working and playing the Lotto, the same way they do everything else, as

a family. The recent run of very warm days and

humid nights is not to the liking of everybody. If that's the case with

you, here is the good news. On Sunday, certainly across the north

and west of Scotland and into Northern Ireland, it could lose ten

degrees on temperatures. Further south, we drop away by