31/07/2014 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer

Now, it is time for a look at the news has seen across the US a couple

of hours ago. Tonight, Ebola alert. Two more

Americans placed in quarantine. The Peace Corps pulling out of areas.

And, a scare at one hospital here in the US. Another civilian shelter hit

in Gaza, as our reporter takes us into the battle with Israeli forces.

And, Kelsey Grammar murdered sister, and the decision about the

murderer tonight. `` Kelsey Grammar, his murdered sister.

Good evening. There is an urgent new concern about the deadly Ebola

virus. Tonight, two American Peace Corps workers in Africa are in

quarantine, possibly exposed. We also have news about the two

missionaries who were in fact it and a writing for their lives. Here at

home, and anxiety created a scare in North Carolina.

The deadly Ebola outbreak, tonight causing the Peace Corps to pull out

of 340 volunteers, from Liberia and Sierra Leone. Two American

missionary work are showing slight improvement. They are in strict

isolation. Staff communicate with them through windows. Doctors and

nurses visiting just twice a day, wearing full protective suits. This

woman's daughter is testing his mother every night. She is reading

and resting a lot, as much as she can. That helps you right now. The

urgent question now, will American patients be evacuated to the US for

treatment? The CDC uses special isolation pods like these to

transport contagious patients without exposing the crew. They are

airtight and totally disposable. Air travel is leading to global fears of

contagion. Nigeria, you can fly direct to three US cities. And they

carry direct flights to 30 countries around the world. This is

essentially a multi` front war against a virus. In Liberia, doctors

using hand`held thermometers to check departing passengers for

fever. And, he protecting cameras, similar to those used during the

previous outbreak. Ebola is not spread through the air. You only get

sick through close contact with body fluids like blood, or contaminated

services. One ER in Charlotte was shut today, after a scare from one

patient who had recently travelled to a high`risk country.

Every patient is now being asked their recent travel history, which

is a good idea for many infectious diseases.

Our thoughts are with those families. Now, a bloody day in the

Middle East. At least 37 people killed in Gaza. Before dawn, a UN

school, supposed to be a safe zone, was hit by artillery. Thousands of

people, including children, were sleeping inside. Hours later,

another strike on in a shopping centre filled with Palestinians.

Israel insists it was not targeting the UN facility, just responding to

fire from Palestinian militants nearby. Terry Moran is the only

international reported to be in with the Israeli forces.

Today, as Gaza was shelled from air, sea and artillery, Palestinians

return fire. The military staging area on the border, where we took

cover. The armoured Brigade of the Israeli defence forces getting ready

to go into Gaza. Are you scared coming in? Of course. We cross into

Gaza, with Dusty Rhodes and ruined buildings. Several months later, we

stopped. A tunnel, discovered he yesterday, deep, concrete sided and

narrow. Israelis see these tunnels as an intolerable and terrifying

threat, some up to 100 feet underground, stretching up to 1.5

miles long, lined with concrete and outfitted with power cables, rail

tracks and phone lines. They are used to infiltrate Israel and attack

outposts. Today, they aren't going in. It may be booby`trapped, there

may be terrorist inside. Suddenly, gunfire. This is fire that is

suppressing the sniper action that is holding us here. We hunker down

for several minutes. Israelis lay down a smokescreen, and we use it as

cover to return to the vehicle. The horrifying death toll in Gaza has

shocked the world. So many lives lost, so many children. How does

that affect these people? But for now it is time to get back

to Israel because tomorrow they will do it again.

We are back here at home with a big headline about the dramatic rise in

police officers killed in the line of duty. More than 70 officers have

died this year, today one was shot and killed during a traffic stop in

Minnesota. Now we go to correspondent.

Tonight the hunt is on in Minnesota after an officer was killed, fatally

shot during a routine traffic stop. He was very dedicated and a family

man who absolutely adored his children. They were searching for a

green Pontiac sedan that raised from the scene. They were searching

door`to`door with automatic rifles drawn. It will be a very tough time

for our Paulista pertinent. This is the latest in a surge of violence

against police `` for our district. This is a wake`up call for all of us

that we have to do more to protect law`enforcement officers in country.

Two other officers were killed at the incident in a trailer park in

Carolina recently and three were shot in New York yesterday. It is

too early to know if this is a trend but police are seeing more

ambushes. Now to Southern California with a kind of Waterworld on the

UCLA campus. 20 million gallons of water spilling from a burst pipe.

The big question this raises about ageing pipe across the country.

pipes. 38,000 gallons of water every minute

raining down on the UCLA campus. The basketball court eight inches deep.

20 million gallons of water escaped, enough to fill over 1000 swimming

pools and with the drought that California is going through, it is

liquid gold. This is a semi submerged parking structure on

campus with more than 700 cars marooned. They say that they will be

stuck down here until Friday at the earliest. With this amount of water,

it is like a flashlight and you never know what will happen. Five

drivers were rescued from the river running down the street and it is

not over yet. This repair will not be completed today. The 93`year`old

water may not broke just before 3:30pm on Thursday. The location of

the leak is creating issues for us. Technicians had to battle rush`hour

traffic to reach the scene and then figure out which valves to turn and

then turn them off slowly to avoid further ruptures. It took almost

four hours before they got hit under control. There are 1 million miles

of water main in this country, some of them dating back to the Civil War

and no one knows exactly what condition many of them are in and no

one knows exactly what condition many of them are in until it is too

late and they break. To replace them all would cost upwards of $1

trillion. Replacing the actually might be that she part. `` cheap.

They are still calculating the cost. The pavilion here was just

renovated a few years ago for millions of dollars. Today we

learned that the economy grew at a rate of 4% in the spring, a rebound

fuelled by consumer spending. If you look at the first quarter, the

economy sagged, the biggest low since the recession ended but it is

seeming to come back. A new report out of Washington confirms something

many already suspect. If you have studied your cellphone bill, you may

have seen unauthorised charges showing up. It is called cramming

and we learned that it is costing customers hundreds of millions of

dollars. Now we go to our correspondent.

Your cellphone taking centrestage in the nation's capital today because

of bogus charges sneaking onto your monthly bill. Is massive fraud

happened right under the noses of the telephone companies. It is

called cramming. The charges come from outside companies that have

tricked you into subscribing to a monthly service, often after you

open an unsolicited text message. Look at this bill. A mysterious

charge is listed simply as a usage charges. It is not until you go 123

pages in that you will find the detailed description. In many cases,

consumers were unaware. It is not just cellphones. This man had

charges show up on his landline for outside voicemail services. How

could this happen? How could someone start charging my account similar to

charging my credit card without my knowledge? That new report estimates

that more than 20 million Americans may be tricked every year but only

one in 20 ever real life it. `` realise it. There are people you can

hire to help. Companies which offer experts to analyser bill to find

extra charges and then split any savings with you down the middle but

for now, it is up to us. Up next, the limits of forgiveness. Kelsey

Grammar, his murdered sister and whether the murderer should go

free. `` Kelsey Grammer. An actor we all know, Kelsey Grammer

inside a drama as old as Greek tragedy and as new as life today. It

is about crime and forgiveness and justice. He spoke emotionally to the

prisoner who killed his sister for decades ago as the inmate bagged a

parole board for freedom. Tonight we have their answer. An emotional day

for Best Actor Road three as he waited for the decision of a

Colorado parole board `` for actor, Kelsey Grammer. He was speaking via

video conference to his sister's killer during a parole board hearing

on Tuesday. He was convicted of abducting his sister with the help

of accomplices when she was just 18 and stabbing her to death. While he

accepted the apology, he said he still wants him behind bars for the

remainder of his life sentence. This happened when he was 20 years old

and he wanted the killer to know that she was dramatically affected

by what happened to his sister `` he. Today, a prison spokesperson

announced that the parole board denied the plans for release. He may

be forgiven but he is still behind bars serving a life sentence. At the

top of our index tonight, laughter as rebellion. An avalanche of

selfies pouring in with women smiling in defiance. Turkish women

responding to a curious statement from the Deputy Prime Minister who

said that women who laugh and public are indecent, there laughter a sign

of moral decline. He has since said that his comments were taken out of

context. A mystery in Germany is causing a stir. An elaborate crop

circle etched in a field. A balloonist discovered it last week

and the farmer who owns the land of said he didn't do it. One theory is

college students home on a summer break, having some fun. If you are

eating out at a chain restaurant, a new reality check from a watchdog

group identifying the most extreme meals in terms of calories, sat and

salt. `` fat. By one estimate, it would take 12 hours of walking to

burn the calories off. Both chains told us tonight that they were proud

of their menu choices that they offer to customers. We thank you for

watching. I will see you again tomorrow.

The threat of showers continues to increase day by day across the UK,

especially across southern and eastern areas that have been