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00:00Tonight, there is breaking news as we come on. Reports of multiple tornadoes touching down just moments ago.

00:06The image is coming in right now. The confirmed tornadoes, the terrifying scene in Wisconsin and in Minnesota.

00:12The system moving across several states, the Midwest and the Northeast.

00:16There are severe weather alerts at this hour from Texas all the way up to the Northeast.

00:2060 million Americans on alert. Meteorologist Lee Goldberg standing by live.

00:24He has the timing of this system as we head into the night and then the dangerous weather expected tomorrow.

00:30Also tonight, here are the dramatic moments today at the Sean Diddy Combs trial.

00:33The cross-examination of his ex-girlfriend, a star witness in this case.

00:38Tonight, ABC News now learning about a new and alarming outage for air traffic controllers, this time in the Denver area.

00:45Controllers unable to reach planes and tonight, an air traffic controller in the Northeast breaking their silence,

00:51claiming they helped prevent two passenger jets from colliding.

00:55The chilling case unfolding. Police say a teenage daughter escaping her parents allegedly held captive for at least seven years.

01:02Authorities say kept in a dog crate.

01:04She escaped running to a neighbor who told authorities, I hadn't seen her in years.

01:10President Trump, the first American president to visit the United Arab Emirates in nearly 30 years.

01:14Also tonight, what Trump is saying about Vladimir Putin not showing up for talks on Ukraine.

01:20And back in Washington, the Republicans now sounding the alarm about that $400 million jet being given to President Trump,

01:27who wants to use it as Air Force One.

01:29The Supreme Court tonight, the justices hearing arguments over President Trump's executive order

01:34that would end birthright citizenship.

01:37And the judges who have so far blocked this.

01:39What the justices at the high court signaled tonight, news coming in, a two-year-old has survived a fall from the balcony on the 15th floor.

01:48How the baby survived.

01:50The alarming scene on a golf course tonight, a 70-year-old golfer hit by an SUV tearing across that course.

01:57The economy tonight and the prices you pay and what Walmart's CEO said today about prices soon going up and why.

02:05And we remember a famous actor tonight.

02:07He was in three James Bond movies.

02:12From ABC News World Headquarters in New York, this is World News Tonight with David Muir.

02:20Good evening, and we begin tonight with the harrowing scenes playing out in just the last hour or so.

02:25Several confirmed tornadoes touching down and a tornado watch has just been issued for the city of Chicago tonight and the surrounding areas.

02:31In fact, multiple states under tornado and severe weather alerts in the Midwest and millions then bracing for storms from Texas all the way up to the northeast.

02:39Just some of the images coming in tonight, just as we came on, the dark clouds gathering over Minneapolis.

02:44You can hear the tornado sirens right there, right across the city.

02:48East of Minneapolis tonight, this twister tearing across farmland near New Richmond, Wisconsin.

02:52Again, several reported tornadoes, and tonight the tornado watch is in warnings, including Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Green Bay.

02:59The storm's moving east, Chicago, with this new tornado watch.

03:02And then this system affects the south all the way up to the northeast.

03:05What could be a very dangerous 24 hours ahead, Lee Goldberg standing by with the forecast.

03:09And ABC's Alex Perez in Chicago with this new tornado watch there, leading us off with the images coming in already.

03:17Tonight, millions in the Midwest on alert for powerful storms.

03:20Oh, my God.

03:21East of Minneapolis, this massive twister spotted tearing up farmland near New Richmond, Wisconsin.

03:28Tornado sirens sounding in Minneapolis this afternoon.

03:32Our affiliate KSTP warning viewers of the danger.

03:35This is the core metro now under a tornado warning.

03:39Warning, the most populous county that we have in Minnesota.

03:42Storm chasers from the station out on the roads tracking the storms.

03:46If there was going to be a tornado in this area, it'd be on the far left, kind of by where that building is.

03:5160 million on alert.

03:53The same system spawning this land spout tornado near North Platte, Nebraska overnight.

03:58And it's all headed east.

03:59Parts of the east coast still reeling from floods that had cars floating and flooded schools.

04:06And claim the life of a 12-year-old boy.

04:09And, David, there are tornado watches across the region, including right here in the Chicago area, through the evening.

04:17Chicago officials taking no chances, delaying the start of tonight's Beyoncé concert until it's safe.

04:22David?

04:23Yeah, everyone's going to take these watches seriously.

04:25Alex, thank you, leading us off here.

04:26Chief Meteorologist Lee Goldberg at our New York station here, WABC, tracking it all for us.

04:30Hi, David.

04:32We've had multiple tornado reports west and east of Minneapolis, reports of debris on the ground.

04:37And that tornado watch will go until 10 o'clock for parts of Minnesota and into Wisconsin.

04:41It's also a severe thunderstorm watch, parts of Missouri into Arkansas.

04:45Now, these storms move east overnight.

04:47They'll be near Milwaukee and Chicago by about 8 o'clock.

04:49And storms may wake you up in parts of Louisville down to Nashville by morning, another area over central Pennsylvania that will be moving into the New York City area.

04:57Tomorrow, the severe threat from Texas to southern New Jersey.

05:00But the highest severe risk, a level 4 out of 5 from St. Louis to Evansville to Louisville.

05:05Strong destructive tornadoes, maybe even some baseball-sized hail.

05:08A dangerous afternoon and evening.

05:09Some of these storms move into the northeast over the weekend.

05:12David?

05:12Lee Goldberger, thanks to you as well tonight.

05:14We turn now to the trial of Sean Diddy Combs here in New York.

05:17Tonight, the cross-examination of the prosecution's star witness, Sean Combs' ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura.

05:23Defense lawyers today confronting her in court with messages that she and Combs exchanged, challenging some of her claims.

05:29Aaron Katursky was at the courthouse on a warning again tonight.

05:32Some of this testimony is difficult.

05:34In hours of cross-examination, lawyers for Sean Combs using ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura's own words

05:40in an attempt to portray her not as a victim of sex trafficking, but as a willing, even eager participant in his swingers' lifestyle.

05:48In hushed tones, eight months pregnant and with her husband in the room, Ventura reading aloud, intimate, often explicit text messages about the sex she desired.

05:58One juror appeared to shake her head.

06:00Others leaned in to read along.

06:02I'm always ready to freak off, one of her messages said, referencing the drug-fueled sessions with male prostitutes that Ventura said became an integral part of her relationship with Combs.

06:12Defense attorneys harping on her apparent enthusiasm.

06:15To make him happy, you told him that you wanted to do freak-offs.

06:18Ventura pushed back.

06:20No, there's a lot more to that.

06:21But the defense suggested Ventura became reluctant only when she felt dirty and grimy, as opposed to sexual and spontaneous.

06:29As she said in one of her emails to Combs,

06:31Ventura testified Combs coerced her into sex under threat of violence and blackmail.

06:41But on cross-examination, she said Combs was also violent because of jealousy and her infidelity.

06:46Telling the jury dating rapper Kid Cudi and actor Michael B. Jordan prompted arguments that could be a little scary.

06:54Ventura kept up her composure through hours on the witness stand, David.

06:57And those will continue tomorrow, though the judge wants to make sure she's finished by the end of Friday because she could give birth at any moment.

07:05David, Eric Kaczorski back at the courthouse again tonight.

07:08This evening, ABC News learning of a new and alarming air traffic control outage.

07:11This time, controllers in the Denver area losing communications with planes for some 90 seconds.

07:16This happened on Monday.

07:18This has already happened multiple times at Newark Airport.

07:21And tonight, an air traffic controller coming forward saying he saw two passenger jets here in the northeast just seconds away from a midair collision.

07:28Here's Gio Benitez.

07:31Tonight, ABC News is learning about a new and alarming outage at an air traffic control center near Denver

07:36that left controllers unable to communicate with some planes for nearly 90 seconds.

07:40The FAA says two radio transmitters went down just before 2 p.m. Monday at a facility that handles planes flying above 18,000 feet in and around Colorado.

07:51Air traffic controllers quickly moving pilots to a backup radio channel.

07:55We're in a Cascogian area on 120575.

07:58We're supposed to switch over to Denver 112-475.

08:02What we have here really is radio failure that we've seen many times before.

08:06We're going to see it again until we change things around.

08:08But it was a very orderly procedure in terms of backing it up.

08:12This all comes after a series of tech issues at Newark's Liberty Airport, a system-wide outage back on April 28th at a Philadelphia facility,

08:19causing air traffic controllers to lose radar and communications with planes packed with passengers for up to 90 seconds.

08:26And tonight, a controller at that facility now coming forward, recounting the moment on May 4th,

08:31when he saw two planes just seconds from colliding midair.

08:35Jonathan Stewart telling the Wall Street Journal he was manually keeping track in his notebook,

08:40worried that radar and radio communication might fail again.

08:44When he saw the two aircraft on a collision course, he instructed the pilots to turn the planes away from each other,

08:50but the incident leaving him badly shaken.

08:52Stewart says he took stress-related trauma leave after the incident, adding,

08:56I don't want to be responsible for killing 400 people.

09:01Meanwhile, David, the FAA has been meeting with the airlines for the past two days to figure out how many flights each airline must cut at Newark.

09:08We've just been told that meeting will go into a third day.

09:12David?

09:12All right, Gio Benitez with us tonight.

09:14Gio, thank you.

09:15Now to the chilling case unfolding in Camden County, New Jersey.

09:17Police say a teenage daughter escaping her parents, they say, held captive for seven years.

09:22Authorities say she was kept in a dog crate.

09:24She escaped running to a neighbor who said they hadn't seen her in years.

09:29Here's our Chief Justice Correspondent, Pierre Thomas.

09:32Tonight, police say this was a house of horrors for an 18-year-old daughter allegedly held captive by her mother and stepfather for seven years.

09:40Her parents accused of keeping her in a dog crate.

09:44That's absurd.

09:45Why would you keep a child in a dog cage?

09:47Police say the parents also padlocked the child in a bathroom, beat her repeatedly, and chained her like a slave.

09:54She escaped and made her way to a neighbor who spoke to our ABC station, WPVI.

09:59She definitely had scars on her wrist from, I think, getting chained up.

10:04That neighbor hadn't seen the victim in 11 years.

10:08Tonight, the young woman's mother, Brenda Spencer, and her stepfather, Brandon Mosley, facing kidnapping charges.

10:14Mosley also facing charges for allegedly sexually abusing the young woman.

10:18To me, this is the most abhorrent, heinous crime anyone could commit.

10:24David, police say the nightmare began when the young lady was removed from school in only the sixth grade.

10:30Another 13-year-old child was also living in the home.

10:33David.

10:34Pierre Thomas, live in Washington here.

10:36Now to President Trump tonight, the first American president to visit the United Arab Emirates in nearly 30 years.

10:41The news he made there and what the president is also saying tonight about Vladimir Putin not showing up for talks on Ukraine.

10:48As Republicans in Washington now sound off on this gift of a $400 million jet that the president wants to use as Air Force One.

10:56Mary Bruce traveling with the president.

10:57President Trump today welcomed with great fanfare to the United Arab Emirates.

11:04The third and final stop of a Middle East tour designed to boost business ties with wealthy Arab states, where his own family has major financial interests.

11:13It is so beautiful.

11:15Very proud of my friends.

11:17Trump and the president of the UAE announcing a new artificial intelligence partnership, including a planned data center powered in part by American-made chips.

11:26We are going to be your friend and we're going to be your partner.

11:30Earlier, Trump visiting the largest U.S. military outpost in the Middle East, a key hub in Qatar strategically located to help counter Iran.

11:38The president saying his administration is now close to a nuclear deal with Iran.

11:43Iran has sort of agreed to the terms.

11:46Trump also touting efforts to end the war in Ukraine after urging Ukrainian President Zelensky and Russian President Putin to meet in Turkey tomorrow.

11:55Zelensky agreed, but Putin refused.

11:58Both countries instead sending representatives.

12:01Trump now throwing cold water on any potential progress.

12:04Nothing's going to happen until Putin and I get together.

12:07Okay.

12:08Qatar, like all the countries Trump is visiting on this tour, has business ties with the Trump Organization, now run by the president's sons.

12:15Eric Trump last month inking plans for an exclusive Trump golf resort.

12:19Hanging over the president's trip to the Middle East, his eagerness to accept a $400 million luxury jet as a gift from the Qatari royal family.

12:28The plane would serve as Air Force One before it's transferred to Trump's presidential library.

12:33But tonight, even some of the president's close allies are raising objections.

12:37Qatar, you know, supports Hamas.

12:41Okay.

12:41Actually, the Hamas leaders live in Qatar.

12:43I trust Qatar like I trust a rest stop bathroom.

12:50Now, this deal is still not done, but the president is facing increasing political pressure back home.

12:55Even some top members of his own party are pushing back, saying this deal needs to be closely scrutinized, raising security and legal concerns.

13:02David.

13:03Mary Bruce reporting from the Middle East all week.

13:05Mary, thank you.

13:06We turn now to an historic battle at the Supreme Court tonight.

13:08The justices hearing arguments over President Trump's executive order that would end birthright citizenship and the lower court judges who have so far blocked the order.

13:18Here's Rachel Scott.

13:20Birthright.

13:21That's a big one.

13:22Tonight, the Supreme Court grappling with one of President Trump's most controversial moves.

13:27His day one executive order revoking the right to citizenship for every baby born in the United States.

13:33Just absolutely ridiculous, but, you know, we'll see.

13:36We think we have very good grounds.

13:38Federal judges in three states have ruled the ban on birthright citizenship violates the Constitution's 14th Amendment, issuing nationwide injunctions, blocking it from going into effect.

13:49The administration today arguing those nationwide injunctions are judicial overreach.

13:53We have the government racing from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, having to sort of clear the table in order to implement a new policy.

13:59Justice Samuel Alito sounding sympathetic.

14:01The practical problem is that there are 680 district court judges, and they are dedicated and they are scholarly, and I'm not impugning their motives in any way, but, you know, sometimes they're wrong.

14:14But Justice Elena Kagan says the ban on birthright citizenship is different because all the courts seem to agree the ban is unconstitutional.

14:22This case is very different from a lot of our nationwide injunction cases in which many of us have expressed frustration at the way district courts are doing their business.

14:33Under questioning from Justice Brent Kavanaugh, the lawyer for the Justice Department, conceding the administration has not fully determined how the ban would work.

14:41On the day after it goes into effect, it's just a very practical question of how this is going to work.

14:47What do hospitals do with a newborn?

14:50What do states do with a newborn?

14:54I don't think they do anything different.

14:56What the executive order says in Section 2 is that federal officials do not accept documents that have the wrong designation of citizenship from people who are subject to the executive order.

15:04How are they going to know that?

15:06The states can continue to, the federal officials will have to figure that out.

15:09And Justice Sonia Sotomayor, noting the high court, has repeatedly reaffirmed the right to citizenship for every child born in this country.

15:18So as far as I see it, this order violates four Supreme Court precedents.

15:25The majority of the justices on the bench appear skeptical of the president's executive order ending birthright citizenship,

15:31but conflicted on that central question of whether federal judges could issue those nationwide injunctions to block it, David.

15:36All right, Rachel Scott tonight. Rachel, thanks as always to the economy and the prices you pay.

15:41Tonight, Walmart warning customers that President Trump's moves on tariffs are forcing the company to raise some of its prices.

15:47The CEO saying even though the president raised and then reduced tariffs on China for now, the impact will be felt regardless.

15:54We will do our best to keep our prices as low as possible.

15:57But given the magnitude of the tariffs, even at the reduced levels announced this week,

16:02we aren't able to absorb all the pressure given the reality of narrow retail margins.

16:07We're positioned to manage the cost pressure from tariffs as well or better than anyone.

16:11But even at the reduced levels, the higher tariffs will result in higher prices.

16:15Prices at Walmart are expected to go up later this month.

16:19When we come back here tonight, the news coming in, we have learned a two-year-old boy has survived a 15-story fall from a balcony.

16:26How the toddler survived this.

16:28And then look at this tonight, the alarming scene on a golf course.

16:30A 70-year-old golfer hit by an SUV tearing across the course.

16:35We have learned more about his condition here in just a moment.

16:38Tonight, a frightening scene in Silver Spring, Maryland.

16:42A toddler has survived a 15-story fall from an apartment building.

16:45First responders believe the two-year-old boy fell from a balcony and survived by landing on the bushes below.

16:52Authorities are now investigating the fall.

16:53Again, the boy is expected to survive this.

16:56An alarming scene on the golf course in Chicago.

16:58Police say a 70-year-old golfer was struck by an SUV racing across the Billy Caldwell golf course.

17:04An employee in a silver sedan chasing the SUV, stopping the driver.

17:07The suspect arrested by police.

17:09The victim remains in intensive care tonight.

17:12When we come back, remembering a famous actor who was in many Bond movies.

17:17To the index, we learned today that actor Joe Don Baker has died.

17:20In the original Walking Tall, he also appeared in three James Bond movies.

17:24The remake of Cape Fear along with Fletch and The Natural.

17:27His family tonight calling him a beacon of kindness and generosity.

17:30Joe Don Baker was 89.

17:33When we come back here tonight, the school year nearing an end.

17:35And the children tonight determined that we celebrate the quiet heroes, too.

17:41ABC World News Tonight with David Muir.

17:44Sponsored by Chewy.

17:48Finally tonight here, America Strong.

17:50With the school year ending.

17:51From the custodians to the bus drivers.

17:53The school children who say, they got us here, too.

17:56At Kennan's Elementary School in Spartanburg, South Carolina, they are cheering for their beloved custodian, Mr. Punzel Fernandez.

18:04Mr. Fernandez started working at the school back in 1987, nearly 40 years ago.

18:10So for his 80th birthday, the students, the teachers, they all wanted to celebrate him, lining the elementary school hallways and surprising him.

18:20Singing happy birthday to Mr. Fernandez.

18:23And right here tonight.

18:25Hi, David.

18:26That proud custodian.

18:28They touched me, touched my heart.

18:29I love everyone.

18:31They show me they love me, too.

18:32And joining us, too.

18:33Hey, David.

18:34The school principal, Mrs. Elizabeth Phillips.

18:37He makes sure that we have what we need all of the time.

18:40He loves the children.

18:41He loves the staff.

18:42And we all love him.

18:43And from celebrating that custodian to celebrating a bus driver in Bradford, Tennessee, north of Memphis, this video being shared, viewed by millions.

18:52Six-year-old Mally Courtney inviting her school bus driver to her kindergarten graduation party.

18:57She loves that bus driver.

18:59And Mally's Aunt Holly capturing the moment.

19:01Hey, David.

19:02I know that she's just thrilled that she gets to be on the news.

19:05And I'm so thankful my video got to y'all and that y'all are sharing it.

19:08Thank y'all so much.

19:09Hey, David.

19:11Tonight here, Mally and Mom Olivia.

19:13I'm glad everybody got a chance to see how impactful my daughter's bus driver is.

19:19It made my day.

19:20We played games.