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Matt Gutman has the latest on the deadly flash flood emergency in New Mexico, where at least three people are dead, including the two children of a soldier on leave with his family, and search and rescue teams in Texas are in their sixth day hoping to find survivors as the death toll rises; Kayna Whitworth reports on the California mother who’s facing child abuse and manslaughter charges after allegedly leaving her two sons in a hot car during her cosmetic procedure, authorities say the one-year-old died at the hospital; Rachel Scott has details on Russia unleashing its largest aerial assault yet on Ukraine just hours after Pres. Trump railed against Vladimir Putin; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir.
Matt Gutman has the latest on the deadly flash flood emergency in New Mexico, where at least three people are dead, including the two children of a soldier on leave with his family, and search and rescue teams in Texas are in their sixth day hoping to find survivors as the death toll rises; Kayna Whitworth reports on the California mother who’s facing child abuse and manslaughter charges after allegedly leaving her two sons in a hot car during her cosmetic procedure, authorities say the one-year-old died at the hospital; Rachel Scott has details on Russia unleashing its largest aerial assault yet on Ukraine just hours after Pres. Trump railed against Vladimir Putin; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir.
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00:00Tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. First, it was Texas. Now, the deadly flash flooding in New Mexico.
00:06The wall of water sweeping Holmes away, a soldier and his wife and two children.
00:10Also breaking in the northeast, severe storms, damaging winds, and now flash flood alerts as we come on.
00:16First tonight, the deadly flash flood emergency in New Mexico.
00:19Now, Holmes ripped off foundations, carried down the river, at least three people dead.
00:24And tonight, the story of that soldier, a young husband and father, and his family swept away.
00:28They found the husband and wife alive. Their two children did not survive.
00:33In Texas tonight, the death toll now climbing, and the chilling new video now emerging of a mother and her son climbing trees to survive.
00:41You can hear the 15-year-old son calling out for his mother.
00:45I can climb higher, but I'm okay. Are you high?
00:50Mom, are you in a tree?
00:52Both of them in trees, and her two daughters were at that girls' camp, Camp Mystic.
00:57How the family survived this.
00:59And tonight, what ABC News has now learned about the warning systems.
01:03Authorities held discussions of a flood warning system at least 20 times since 2016.
01:09Most recently, just months ago.
01:11Matt Guppman and what he's learned tonight.
01:13This evening in the northeast, we're watching flood watches and severe storms on the move right now.
01:18Millions of Americans under alerts for potential flash floods and damaging winds.
01:22Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, the rain in New York City.
01:26Police racing to help drivers trapped under downed trees, thousands without power.
01:30Ginger Zee is here.
01:32The heartbreaking news tonight.
01:33Authorities and their new warning amid the rising number of hot car deaths involving children in this country.
01:39Tonight, a young mother now facing charges, accused of leaving her two sons in the car while she went to get a cosmetic procedure.
01:46The temperature outside above 100.
01:49One of the boys did not survive the number of cases mounting tonight.
01:53Just hours after President Trump lashed out at Vladimir Putin.
01:56Putin with the largest airstrike on Ukraine since Russia invaded.
02:00Tonight, back here at home, the case of a woman paddleboarding in the northeast, then missing.
02:05And now the coroner is calling this a homicide, where her body was found.
02:09Tonight, hear the dramatic rescue.
02:11The driver unconscious after a collision with multiple cars, officers rushing to pull the driver from the burning car.
02:18The stunning Coast Guard video tonight.
02:19Two boys stranded at the edge of this cliff.
02:22The warning involving a popular brand of crackers tonight.
02:25And so many of you at home reacting after our interview last night in Texas.
02:30The man searching for his mother and father along that river.
02:33There is an update tonight just in from him.
02:35What we've learned now.
02:36So many of you with words of support and his new message to everyone watching tonight.
02:44From ABC News World Headquarters in New York, this is World News Tonight with David Muir.
02:52Good evening.
02:53We are just back from Texas tonight.
02:54The hill country and the heartbreak there.
02:56We heard from so many of you at home your thoughts with all of those families.
03:00And we begin tonight with a new tragedy here.
03:02First it was Texas.
03:03Now it's New Mexico.
03:04A terrifying wall of water, a new flash flood emergency and it's been deadly.
03:08Homes swept away.
03:09One family, a soldier and his wife, their two children swept away.
03:13Only the parents were found alive.
03:15The images tonight here, that powerful wall of water sweeping right through this community in New Mexico.
03:20The river rising 20 feet in just 30 minutes.
03:23At least three people were killed.
03:25Powerful currents ripping homes right off of their foundations.
03:28Dozens of water rescues reported.
03:30The governor in New Mexico tonight declaring a state of emergency.
03:33Meantime, in Texas, search and rescue teams now in their sixth day.
03:37The death toll there rising just as we come on tonight.
03:39At least 119 now dead and 170 people still missing, including children.
03:45And further north at this hour, along the east coast tonight, severe thunderstorms and now watches and warnings for more damaging winds and possible flash flooding.
03:53Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia.
03:55We have it all covered tonight.
03:57Ginger Zee is standing by with the forecast and our chief national correspondent, Matt Gutman, in Texas.
04:02The sun calling for his mother from a tree.
04:04And you'll see it right here.
04:05And now this new horrific tragedy in New Mexico.
04:08A long night ahead for residents of Redoso, New Mexico, after a ferocious and deadly wall of water blasted through the streets.
04:19At least three people killed from the banks of the Rio Redoso River outside Albuquerque rose a record 20 feet in just 30 minutes.
04:26A young soldier and father of two stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas, was on vacation with his family at a campground when they were swept away in those raging floodwaters.
04:36He and his wife were found safe, but their four-year-old daughter and their seven-year-old son did not survive.
04:42Oh, my God.
04:42They just pulled somebody out.
04:44Oh, no.
04:46This home ripped from its foundation and sent smashing downhill.
04:49Crews today combing through the debris left behind.
04:52That horror in New Mexico comes just days after those devastating floods 500 miles away in Texas, where recovery teams in Kerrville are scouring riverbeds for a sixth day.
05:04At least 170 people still unaccounted for after that catastrophic July 4th flash flood killed at least 119 people.
05:12Dispatch audio exclusively obtained by our affiliate KSAT details emergency crews initial response to the devastating floods here.
05:20We still have water coming up.
05:22The Guadalupe Shoemaker sign is now underwater on Highway 39.
05:26Is there any way we can send a code red out to our hunt residents asking them to find higher ground or stay home?
05:33Lindsey Roberson and her teenage son Jack swept from their home into those roiling waters.
05:38The next thing I saw coming for me was a house, and I don't even know how it all happened.
05:45Lindsey spoke to me from her hospital bed recovering from surgery.
05:48But I went under, and it was like being in a washing machine, just flipping around under the water.
05:54She fought to the surface, but debris also pelting her son.
05:58They were separated.
05:59Then both Jack and his mom grabbing onto trees.
06:01When there's boats and helicopters coming.
06:05What?
06:08I am.
06:10I can climb higher, but I'm okay.
06:12Are you high?
06:16Mom, are you in a tree?
06:17There's boats coming.
06:24They weren't boats, but cars floating by.
06:27Lindsey, grateful, Jack was okay.
06:29I don't think there's a word that describes the overwhelming, oh my God, there's my baby, and he's alive.
06:37Thank God, he's alive.
06:39He's alive.
06:40He's alive.
06:40And in a remarkable turn, Lindsey's two daughters were at Camp Mystic, where so many little girls were lost.
06:47Like their cousins, Eloise and Georgia Jones, they survived.
06:50It was, like, unlivable.
06:53And that's when we got news that people had vanished from their cabins.
06:57And that's when we realized, like, truly something was terrible, terrible happened.
07:03We're not running.
07:03We're not going to hide from everything.
07:05Officials here grilled about the county's lack of answers about warning systems in a region nicknamed Flash Flood Alley.
07:10Those are important questions.
07:12Those are, we will answer those questions.
07:14I wish y'all would bear with me in that.
07:17ABC News Learning, Kerr County commissioners discussed some sort of a flood warning system 20 times just since 2016.
07:24And finally, in April, authorizing a contract worth up to $73,000 to develop a system.
07:30Councilmember Ray Howard fuming.
07:32That just blows me away.
07:34That's unfathomable.
07:37That I never worked on it.
07:39This is lives.
07:40This is people's.
07:42This is families.
07:44This is heartbreaking.
07:46And just 20 miles downriver from here in Comfort, Texas, they have sirens and test them every day at noon.
07:54Every day at noon.
07:56Every day at noon, that siren goes off, alerting people that the system is working.
08:01Authorities say those sirens save lives.
08:04And back upriver tonight, we're learning more about those families lost here.
08:08Water just started coming, like, super fast.
08:12Leo Romero Jr. turns 19 today.
08:15He watched his father, stepmother, and his two-year-old brother ripped away from their home.
08:19I don't want to say I accepted it, but no, I thought I was going to die.
08:23His father, Leo, remembered for having the sweetest smile.
08:26Leo's wife, Natalia, is the kindest living soul.
08:30And Carlos is a sweet little boy who loved to play, smile, and laugh.
08:34And, David, just a short time ago, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announcing a special session of the state legislature that will largely focus on flood preparation and relief.
08:43And just a reminder, Comfort, Texas, 15 miles downriver from here, it only cost them $70,000 to buy those two sirens there.
08:50David?
08:50Those sirens that definitely save lives.
08:52We know this emergency meeting is just days from now.
08:54Matt, we'll stay on this, of course, for the people of Texas.
08:58Tonight, we're also watching very closely a line of scattered storms north of Kerrville, where Matt was, just outside that area.
09:03And in the east at this hour, there are also damaging thunderstorms and now flash flood watches in effect from Washington, D.C., right up through Philadelphia.
09:10So let's get right back to Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee, back with us again tonight.
09:13Ginger, first Texas, of course, and you're tracking storms there again?
09:16Yes, and they're just north of Kerr County, so you can see them on the map.
09:22We're talking about the storms one to three inches that will fall really quickly, even a flash flood warning in place for the town of Brady.
09:29You see how they're kind of sinking south?
09:31Be aware of that tonight, especially in hill country.
09:33Now, it's going to dry out Thursday and Friday before rain comes back for the weekend.
09:37Rui Doso, though, under a flood watch again at this hour because we see the futurecast moving through 8, 9 p.m., mountain time.
09:44That's another storm that could produce an inch or two really quickly, and that swollen river has not gone all the way down yet.
09:50Let's go to the east.
09:51Washington, D.C. is currently in a flash flood warning.
09:54We've just heard reports of trees into cars.
09:56Severe thunderstorm warnings are happening from there into Virginia.
09:59Richmond about to get hit with that line as well.
10:02Delaware, New Jersey, Philadelphia, you still have it ahead of you.
10:05We're going to get rid of this entire thing after midnight.
10:08As you can see, that severe thunderstorm watches up, but many of these storms are moving slowly.
10:12They could produce two to three inch per hour rainfall rates, David.
10:15Level three out of four for flash flooding.
10:18All right.
10:18Watching these storms here in the east through midnight, Ginger says.
10:21And, Ginger, we thank you.
10:22There's no shortage of heartbreak tonight because we move on now to authorities and their new warning amid the rising number of hot car deaths involving children in this country.
10:30Tonight, a young mother is now facing charges accused of leaving her two sons in the car while she went to get a cosmetic procedure.
10:36Tonight, a 20-year-old mother in California facing child abuse and manslaughter charges after allegedly leaving her two young sons in a 100-degree car while she had a cosmetic procedure.
10:56The one-year-old later dying at the hospital.
11:00Their grandmother haunted by what the boys endured.
11:03They were strapped in their car seats.
11:04They couldn't even get up to save themselves.
11:08She literally locked them in their car seats and shut the doors.
11:11According to arrest documents, Maya Hernandez told police she left the car running with the air conditioning on when she went into a med spa.
11:18But investigators say the engine automatically turned off.
11:21Authorities say one-year-old Amilo Gutierrez's body temperature measured 107 degrees.
11:28So far, 14 hot car deaths have been reported this year.
11:33Hey, kitties.
11:34Newly released body camera video shows police outside an Atlanta mall breaking into a car to rescue two toddlers locked inside after someone passing by called 911.
11:45Police say the real field temperature inside the car was 117 degrees.
11:50Oh, you're hot.
11:51And, David, that California mother now being held on more than a million dollars bond.
11:57Authorities think her two children were in that hot car with no air conditioning for nearly 90 minutes.
12:03David.
12:03It is such an important reminder.
12:04Kena Whitworth with us tonight.
12:06Kena, thank you.
12:07Next tonight here, just hours after President Trump lashed out at Vladimir Putin, Putin responding with the largest airstrike on Ukraine since Russia invaded.
12:15Rachel Scott at the White House.
12:16Just hours after President Trump railed against Vladimir Putin, saying he's very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.
12:25The Russian leader unleashing his largest aerial assault yet on Ukraine, firing more than 700 drones into the country.
12:32It comes as Trump makes it clear his patience with Putin is wearing thin.
12:37We get a lot of **** thrown at us by Putin, for you want to know the truth.
12:41He's very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.
12:45The administration now resuming weapons shipments to Ukraine, shipments the Pentagon put on pause last week.
12:51The president has insisted he didn't know who ordered the pause.
12:54Yesterday, you said that you were not sure who ordered the munitions halted to Ukraine.
13:01Have you since been able to figure that out?
13:02Well, I haven't thought about it because we're looking at Ukraine right now and munitions, but I have no, I have not gotten into it.
13:09President Trump today saying he's now considering sending even more weapons to Ukraine, including granting their request for another patriot air defense system.
13:17When you talk about a system like that, highly sophisticated, tremendous amount of money, and they're doing it because they want to prevent death.
13:25They're getting hit hard, very hard.
13:28So we're looking at it.
13:30And David, President Trump has long praised Russian President Vladimir Putin.
13:34The question now, is this a real turning point in their relationship?
13:38Putin has not responded directly to those attacks from the president, David.
13:42Rachel Scott at the White House for us.
13:43Rachel, thank you.
13:44Next tonight here, the case of a woman paddleboarding in Union, Maine.
13:47She went missing.
13:48Well, tonight, the coroner is now calling this a homicide.
13:51And where her body was found, here's ABC's Map Rivers.
13:55Tonight, the search for a suspected killer after the death of a Maine paddleboarder.
14:00The body of 48-year-old Sunshine Sunny Stewart was found under unusual circumstances in this rural area east of Augusta,
14:08according to officials familiar with the investigation.
14:10Stewart reported missing after she went out paddleboarding alone on Crawford Pond last Wednesday.
14:16Last seen wearing a blue dry pack, a light-colored shirt.
14:21She is very experienced in the water with a paddleboard.
14:24Police say her body was found the next morning near 100-acre island, which is only accessible by boat.
14:30The coroner later ruling her death a homicide.
14:33No suspects identified so far.
14:35When you have a case where you don't know who committed this act, things that are found on her, near her, etc., may give the police some clues.
14:46Stewart was working as a contractor and had previously been a marine biologist, lobsterman, and boat captain.
14:52Her sister saying anyone blessed to be in her presence was in awe of her.
14:57Now we have to rally and give her justice.
14:59David, state police urging residents to remain vigilant and report suspicious behavior.
15:06David.
15:06Matt Rivers with us tonight.
15:07Matt, thank you.
15:08When we come back here, the dramatic rescue.
15:10A driver unconscious trapped in a burning car after a collision with multiple cars.
15:14Officers trying to get the driver out, and you'll see it here.
15:17And so many of you at home reacting after our interview last night in Texas.
15:21You'll remember the man searching for his mother and father along the river every day since the 4th of July.
15:26We've just heard from him moments ago tonight with an important update and his message to all of you at home watching tonight in a moment.
15:34Tonight, police racing to save a driver from a burning car in Sarasota, Florida.
15:38You can see the flames at the scene of a three-car crash.
15:41Officers found one of the drivers unconscious.
15:43They cut the seatbelt, saving the driver's life before that car became fully engulfed in flames moments later.
15:50Tonight, two teenagers rescued from a cliff in Oregon.
15:52Take a look at this dramatic video showing the Coast Guard finding the 14-year-old boys in Rhodes End Point, pulling them into a helicopter.
15:59Officials say the teens had scaled the rocks to reach an area called God's Thumb.
16:02They called for help, realizing it was not safe to continue.
16:06When we come back tonight, this warning involving a popular brand of crackers tonight.
16:11And that update just in from a man you met last night in Texas, searching for his mom and dad every day since the 4th of July.
16:17An outpouring of support from all of you at home.
16:19To the index and a recall tonight involving a popular brand of Ritz crackers.
16:24The parent company of Ritz tonight issuing a voluntary recall of some sandwich crackers.
16:28The company saying some individually wrapped crackers may be incorrectly labeled as cheese, but may have peanut butter inside.
16:35Shoppers with peanut allergies are urged to discard any product identified in the recall.
16:39And we have more on our website for you.
16:41When we come back tonight, that determined son I interviewed last night in Texas, looking for his mom and dad along that river.
16:48We have just heard from him tonight with a very personal update in a moment.
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16:58Finally tonight, we won't forget that son we met searching for his mother and father in Texas and what we learned late today.
17:08We heard from so many of you at home after our interview here last night.
17:12So many of you moved by the man we met along the Guadalupe River, Robert Brake.
17:17Hey, Robert.
17:20Oh, man.
17:21I'm sorry.
17:21I'm sorry you're dealing with this.
17:23No, thank you, guys.
17:24He has been there every day since the 4th of July, looking for his parents, Robert and Johnny Brake, who were swept away in their cabin.
17:32And you've been out every day?
17:33Yes, sir.
17:34Yes, sir.
17:34His brother and his brother's girlfriend escaping their RV nearby.
17:38And this is the video of that RV being swept away just moments later.
17:42And by the time his brother could then make it to his parents' cabin, they were gone.
17:48So many of the cabins had been washed away.
17:51We were there for the moment Robert's wife texted him the last known photo of his father.
17:56His father's back right there at the edge of the stone pier, his brother to the side.
18:00Both were fishing the day before this all happened.
18:04My father and that's my brother.
18:05Yeah.
18:12I know it's hard.
18:16If you ever wanted to see the kind of man he was, there it is.
18:20He's patient, humble, spending time with the people he loves.
18:23That's my father.
18:24That's my father.
18:26And just a short time ago, Robert telling us his father's remains have been found.
18:32He believes they were found miles and miles away.
18:35And he is hopeful tonight that his mother will now be found near his father.
18:39And Robert telling us he has received thousands of messages from strangers all over this country.
18:46I was up to 2.30 reading comments from people I have no clue who they are.
18:50If we can be this kind to everybody every day, this will be a much better place.
18:54We will not forget what he told us.
18:56And tonight, his message about his own parents and his hope for the rest of us.
19:01If my parents' tragedy brings people together in this country,
19:07if that's what my parents' tragedy created for one day, I can live with that.
19:10Some common humanity.
19:12I can live with that.
19:14We're with you, Robert.
19:15We hope you find your mother.
19:16I'll see you tomorrow.
19:17Good night.
19:19Thank you for making World News Tonight with David Muir, America's most watched newscast.