ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - May 18, 2025

BREAKING NEWS. FORMER PRESIDENT. JOE BIDEN IS DIAGNOSED WITH. CANCER. PLUS, THE DEADLY CRASH. OF A MEXICAN NAVAL SHIP SLAMS. INTO THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE. AND. THE NEW SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. WITH MORE THAN 50 MILLION PEOPLE. AT RISK. WE BEGIN WITH THE NEWS. JUST COMING IN ABOUT THE FORMER. PRESIDENT DIAGNOSED WITH. PROSTATE CANCER WITH METASTASIS. TO THE BONE. HIS OFFICE IS. CALLING IT A MORE AGGRESSIVE. FORM OF THE DISEASE. WHAT WE'RE. LEARNING ABOUT POSSIBLE. TREATMENTS. ALSO TONIGHT, THE. TERRIFYING MOMENT A TALL SHIP. SLAMMED INTO THE BROOKLYN. BRIDGE, KILLING TWO CREW.

MEMBERS. OTHERS WERE LEFT. HANGING FROM THE MAST. THE SHIP, PART OF MEXICO'S NAVY, WAS ON A. GOODWILL TOUR OF MULTIPLE. COUNTRIES. NEW REPORTING ON WHAT. MAY HAVE CAUSED IT. THE FBI SAYS. THE MAN BELIEVED TO BE THE. SUSPECT IN THE PALM SPRINGS. BOMBING WAS A 25 YEAR OLD WHO. TARGETED A FERTILITY CLINIC IN. WHAT THEY'RE CALLING AN. INTENTIONAL ACT OF TERRORISM. WHAT IS WRITINGS REVEAL ABOUT A. MOTIVE. THE BUILDING WAS LARGELY. DESTROYED, BUT THE EMBRYOS WERE. SAVED. THE DEATH TOLL IS RISING. FROM THOSE VIOLENT STORMS THAT. RIPPED THROUGH THE SOUTH AND. MIDWEST. WE SPEAK WITH A FAMILY.

THAT WAS INSIDE THEIR HOME WHEN. THEIR HOUSE WAS THROWN ACROSS. THE STREET. PLUS THE NEW SEVERE. THREAT. MANY OF THOSE SAME AREAS. COULD BE HIT AGAIN. NEW DETAILS. IN THAT SHOCKING JAILBREAK IN. NEW ORLEANS, POLICE ARE NOW. CHECKING CAMERAS, HOPING TO USE. FACIAL RECOGNITION TO FIND THEM. HIGH STAKES PHONE CALLS. PRESIDENT TRUMP IS PLANNING TO. SPEAK WITH VLADIMIR PUTIN AND. VLADIMIR ZELENSKY AND SEEKING A. PEACE DEAL FOR UKRAINE. NEW. TROUBLE AT AMERICA'S AIRPORTS. TWO ALASKA AIRLINES PLANES. CLIPPED WINGS ON THE TARMAC. AHEAD OF A POTENTIAL RECORD.

BREAKING TRAVEL RUSH. AND POPE. LEO APPEARS TO GET EMOTIONAL AS. HE CELEBRATES HIS INAUGURAL MASS. BEFORE 200,000 OF THE FAITHFUL. >> FROM ABC NEWS WORLD. HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK, THIS. IS WORLD NEWS TONIGHT. >> GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. THANK. YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US ON. THIS BUSY SUNDAY. I'M LINSEY. DAVIS. JUST BEFORE WE CAME ON. THE AIR, FORMER PRESIDENT JOE. BIDEN'S OFFICE ANNOUNCED THAT HE. HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH AN. AGGRESSIVE FORM OF PROSTATE.

CANCER. THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND. HIS FAMILY ARE NOW REVIEWING. TREATMENT OPTIONS WITH DOCTORS. BIDEN, THE 46TH PRESIDENT OF THE. U.S, IS 82 AND LEFT OFFICE. NEARLY FOUR MONTHS AGO. AT THE. TIME, HE WAS THE NATION'S OLDEST. SERVING PRESIDENT. HIS OFFICE. SAYS HE RECENTLY BEGAN. EXPERIENCING SYMPTOMS AND WAS. DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER TWO DAYS. AGO. FORMER VICE PRESIDENT. HARRIS RESPONDED BY CALLING HIM. A FIGHTER. DOCTOR DARIAN SUTTON. IS STANDING BY WITH ANALYSIS. BUT FIRST, ABC'S SENIOR WHITE. HOUSE CORRESPONDENT SELINA WANG. LEADS US OFF TONIGHT. >> FORMER PRESIDENT BIDEN.

REVEALING HE'S BEEN DIAGNOSED. WITH AN AGGRESSIVE FORM OF. PROSTATE CANCER. BIDEN. SPOKESPERSON SAYS THE CANCER HAS. SPREAD TO THE BONE AND THAT. WHILE THIS REPRESENTS A MORE. AGGRESSIVE FORM OF THE DISEASE, THE CANCER APPEARS TO BE HORMONE. SENSITIVE, WHICH ALLOWS FOR. EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT. THE. PRESIDENT AND HIS FAMILY ARE. REVIEWING TREATMENT OPTIONS, THE. SPOKESPERSON SAYS. THE 82 YEAR. OLD WAS EXPERIENCING INCREASING. URINARY SYMPTOMS DAYS AFTER THEY. ANNOUNCED DOCTORS FOUND A SMALL. NODULE ON THE 82 YEAR OLD'S.

PROSTATE. HIS PROSTATE CANCER IS. CHARACTERIZED WITH A GLEASON. SCORE OF NINE, WHICH MEDICAL. EXPERTS SAY INDICATES THE CANCER. CELLS ARE LIKELY TO GROW AND. SPREAD RAPIDLY. BUT THE HORMONE. SENSITIVITY OF THE CANCER OFFERS. A VIABLE TREATMENT PATHWAY. BIDEN ENDED HIS MORE THAN FIVE. DECADES IN PUBLIC SERVICE IN. JANUARY, LEAVING OFFICE AS THE. OLDEST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY. AFTER ABRUPTLY DROPPING OUT OF. THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE LAST. SUMMER. HE'S MOSTLY STAYED OUT. OF PUBLIC VIEW EXCEPT FOR. ATTENDING POPE FRANCIS'S FUNERAL.

IN APRIL AND NOW PUSHING BACK. AGAINST A SLATE OF NEW BOOKS. QUESTIONING HIS MENTAL ACUITY AT. THE END OF HIS PRESIDENCY. >> THEY ARE WRONG. THERE'S. NOTHING TO SUSTAIN THAT. >> FORMER FIRST LADY JILL BIDEN. FORCEFULLY DEFENDING HER. HUSBAND. >> I MEAN, HE'D GET UP, HE'D PUT. IN A FULL DAY, AND THEN AT NIGHT. HE WOULD. I'D BE IN BED READING. MY BOOK, AND HE WAS STILL ON THE. PHONE, READING HIS BRIEFINGS, WORKING WITH STAFF. I MEAN, IT.

WAS NONSTOP. >> AND A SOURCE TELLS US BIDEN. IS CURRENTLY IN WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, AS REACTIONS ARE. POURING IN FROM LEADERS, INCLUDING FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP, WHO'S POSTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA. TONIGHT THAT MELANIA AND I ARE. SADDENED TO HEAR ABOUT JOE. BIDEN'S RECENT MEDICAL. DIAGNOSIS, WE EXTEND OUR WARMEST. AND BEST WISHES TO JILL AND THE. FAMILY, AND WE WISH JOE A FAST. AND SUCCESSFUL RECOVERY. LINDSEY. >> SO MANY SHARE A SIMILAR. SENTIMENT. SELINA. THANK YOU. LET'S BRING IN ABC NEWS MEDICAL. CORRESPONDENT DOCTOR DARIAN. SUTTON. AND WE SHOULD NOTE YOU.

HAVE NEVER TREATED THE FORMER. PRESIDENT, BUT BASED ON JUST HIS. AGE, HOW COMMON WOULD YOU SAY IS. A PROSTATE CANCER DIAGNOSIS AT. THIS STAGE OF LIFE? >> IT'S VERY COMMON. APPROXIMATELY 3 MILLION MEN ARE. LIVING WITH THIS DIAGNOSIS. THIS. YEAR, AN ADDITIONAL. APPROXIMATELY 300,000 MEN WILL. BE DIAGNOSED WITH PROSTATE. CANCER. NOW, THE RISK OF A. DIAGNOSIS OF PROSTATE CANCER. INCREASES WITH AGE. APPROXIMATELY 60% OF THOSE WHO. RECEIVE THIS DIAGNOSIS ARE OVER. THE AGE OF 65. SO THIS FITS IN. LINE WITH THAT. BUT JUST ANOTHER. REMINDER OF WHY IT'S SO. IMPORTANT TO CONTINUE WITH. SCREENING, BECAUSE MOST OFTEN AN.

EARLY DIAGNOSIS HAS THE BEST. OUTCOMES. HOWEVER, WITH. METASTASIS AND OTHER FACTORS, AS. WELL AS AGE AND THE MEDICAL. HISTORY OF THE PATIENT, THAT. THEN THAT HELPS US TO BETTER. UNDERSTAND THE SPECIFICS OF THAT. RISK. >> OF COURSE, ALWAYS IMPORTANT. TO STAY UPDATED WITH THOSE TESTS. GIVE US A SENSE, BECAUSE WE DO. KNOW THAT THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE. RELEASED A FEW DETAILS, INCLUDING THE METASTASIS TO THE. BONE. ALSO, A GLEASON SCORE OF. NINE. EXPLAIN WHAT THAT MEANS. >> YES. WELL, WE'LL PRESUME THAT. THERE WAS A BIOPSY DONE BETWEEN. WHEN WE FOUND OR WHEN HE FOUND.

THAT HE HAD A NODULE BETWEEN. THAT AND HIS DIAGNOSIS. AND. DURING THAT BIOPSY, A. PATHOLOGIST, A PHYSICIAN WHO. LOOKS AT THE CELLS THAT ARE. REMOVED FROM THE BODY TO BETTER. UNDERSTAND HOW ABNORMAL THEY. ARE, CREATES A SCORE. AND THE. HIGHER THE SCORE, THE MORE. ABNORMAL THE CELLS ARE. WITHIN. THE. IN THE REALM OF PROSTATE. CANCER NOW, A SCORE FROM 8 TO 10. IS A MORE AGGRESSIVE A MORE. LIKELY TO SPREAD. AND THE. PRESIDENT HAS RECEIVED A GLEASON. SCORE OF NINE. BUT BEYOND THAT, LINDSEY, ADDITIONAL TESTING IS. DONE NOT ONLY TO UNDERSTAND HOW. HOW SPREAD THAT CANCER IS, WHICH. IS HOW WE UNDERSTAND THAT IT HAS.

METASTASIZED OR SPREAD TO THE. BONE, BUT ALSO HORMONE TESTING. TESTOSTERONE AND OTHER LIKE. HORMONES CAN STIMULATE THE. GROWTH OF CANCER CELLS. WE FOUND. THAT THE PRESIDENT IT'S BEEN. REPORTED THAT HE HAS HORMONE. SENSITIVE CANCER, WHICH MEANS. WHICH MEANS THAT THERE'S AN. OPPORTUNITY FOR AN ADDITIONAL. FORM OF TREATMENT WHICH CAN. IMPROVE HIS OUTCOME. >> SO APPRECIATE YOU WALKING US. THROUGH THIS DIAGNOSIS, DOCTOR. SUTTON. THANK YOU. AND NOW TO. THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE CRASH. OF THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE. A. MEXICAN NAVY TALL SHIP SLAMMED. INTO THE ICONIC STRUCTURE, KILLING AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE.

MORE THAN A DOZEN OTHERS WERE. INJURED. SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE. CREW WHO HAD BEEN ON THE MAST. BEFORE THEY HIT THE BRIDGE, WERE. SUSPENDED HELPLESSLY IN MIDAIR. ABC'S RHIANNON ALLY HAS MORE. >> OH MY GOD. >> TONIGHT, THE TERRIFYING. MOMENTS WHEN THIS MEXICAN NAVY. TALL SHIP CARRYING NEARLY 300. PEOPLE SLAMMED INTO THE BROOKLYN. BRIDGE, KILLING TWO CREW MEMBERS. AND INJURING MORE THAN A DOZEN. >> WE'RE ABOUT TO WATCH IT CRASH. INTO THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE. >> DRAMATIC VIDEOS FROM LAND. CAPTURING THE MOMENT IT HAPPENED.

AT ABOUT 820 SATURDAY NIGHT. >> THE CAPTAIN THAT WAS. MANEUVERING THE SHIP LOST, I. GUESS, POWER OF THE SHIP. >> YOU CAN SEE IT TRAVELING. BACKWARDS WHEN THE MAST HIT THE. BRIDGE, ONE AFTER ANOTHER. >> HIT THE DOCK. >> ONLOOKERS WATCHING IN. DISBELIEF. >> WE THOUGHT IT WAS MAYBE GOING. TO GO UNDER THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE. AT LIKE THE HIGHEST POINT, SO IT. WOULD AVOID STRIKING THE MAST. BUT THEN WE NOTICED IT WAS GOING. BACKWARDS. >> AND IT KEPT COMING AND COMING. AND COMING. AND I JUST REMEMBER. THINKING, WOW, THIS IS SO ODD.

LIKE IT'S GETTING TOO CLOSE. AND. THEN IT CRASHED. >> FIRST RESPONDERS RUSHING TO. THE SCENE TO AID THE INJURED. LUCKILY, OFFICIALS SAY NO ONE. FELL INTO THE WATER. OFFICIALS. SAY THERE WAS NO MAJOR DAMAGE TO. THE BRIDGE. >> THIS IS A TOUGH BRIDGE. IT. WAS OVERBUILT FROM THE VERY. BEGINNING AND IT'S WITHSTOOD AN. AWFUL LOT. >> WE ARE JUST FEET AWAY FROM. THE SHIP, AND AT THE TOP YOU CAN. SEE THOSE SNAPPED MASTS THAT HIT. THE UNDERSIDE OF THE BROOKLYN. BRIDGE UP THERE RIGHT NOW, YOU. CAN ALSO SEE PEOPLE IN. HARNESSES. NTSB INVESTIGATORS. AMONG THOSE NOW ON THE SCENE. >> WHAT THE NTSB IS GOING TO DO.

IS TREAT THIS EXACTLY LIKE THEY. WOULD AN AIR ACCIDENT. THEY'RE. GOING TO TAKE A LOOK AT. EVERYTHING. >> THIS CRASH BRINGS BACK. MEMORIES OF MARCH 2024, WHEN A. CARGO SHIP SLAMMED INTO THE. FRANCIS SCOTT KEY BRIDGE IN. BALTIMORE AFTER IT LOST POWER, CAUSING A CATASTROPHIC COLLAPSE. SIX CONSTRUCTION WORKERS WERE. KILLED. THIS SHIP ARRIVED IN NEW. YORK JUST LAST WEEK FOR A. GOODWILL TOUR, AND OFFICIALS SAY. IT WAS HEADED TO ICELAND WHEN IT. CRASHED. AND NOW INVESTIGATORS. ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT EXACTLY. HOW THIS COULD HAVE HAPPENED.

LINSEY. >> RHIANNON. THANK YOU. TONIGHT. THE FBI IS IDENTIFYING THE. SUSPECT THEY SAY IS BEHIND THE. EXPLOSION AT A FERTILITY CLINIC. IN PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA. THEY BELIEVE 25 YEAR OLD GUY. EDWARD BERKUS WAS KILLED IN THE. BLAST. AND TONIGHT WHAT. AUTHORITIES ARE SAYING ABOUT A. POSSIBLE MOTIVE. ABC'S. JACQUELINE LEE REPORTS FROM PALM. SPRINGS. >> TONIGHT, THE FBI REVEALING. WHO THEY SUSPECT WAS BEHIND THE. CAR EXPLOSION. SEEN HERE ROCKING. A PALM SPRINGS FERTILITY CLINIC. >> WE ARE FAIRLY CONFIDENT THAT.

THAT SUBJECT IS GUY EDWARD. BERKUS. 25 YEAR OLD. AND THIS. WAS A TARGETED ATTACK AGAINST. THE IVF FACILITY. >> THE BLAST COLLAPSING. BUILDINGS, BLOWING OUT WINDOWS, KILLING THE SUSPECT AND INJURING. FOUR OTHERS. AUTHORITIES SAYING. IT WAS AN ACT OF TERRORISM AND. CALLING BERKUS NIHILISTIC. >> WE WERE ABLE TO SAVE ALL OF. THE EMBRYOS AT THIS FACILITY. GOOD GUYS ONE. BAD GUYS ZERO. >> IN WRITINGS REVIEWED BY ABC. NEWS, BERKUS BELIEVED THE WORLD. SHOULD NOT BE POPULATED. THE.

U.S. ATTORNEY IN LOS ANGELES, DESCRIBING THE WRITINGS AS A, QUOTE, ANTI PRO-LIFE MANIFESTO. IS THAT PART OF THE. INVESTIGATION AND A POSSIBLE. PLANNED ATTACK? >> WE ARE LOOKING THROUGH THAT. WE ARE TRACKING A POSSIBLE. MANIFESTO OUT THERE, AND IT'S. PART OF OUR ONGOING. INVESTIGATION. >> NIMA TABRIZI WAS NEARBY AND. SAW THE BLAST. >> OUR INITIAL REACTION WAS WAIT. A MINUTE, THIS ISN'T NORMAL. DEFINITELY SOUNDED LIKE A LIKE A. SONIC BOOM. EVEN MY GIRLFRIEND. DIDN'T BELIEVE ME AT FIRST AND I. WAS LIKE, THAT'S A THAT'S A. HUMAN BODY PART. >> THE CAR EXPLOSION, CRUMBLING.

PARTS OF THIS FERTILITY CLINIC. THIS DEBRIS FIELD SPANS MORE. THAN 250 YARDS IN ALL. DIRECTIONS. THE CONTENTS OF THE. BUILDING IS SPREAD OVER ALL FIVE. LANES OF TRAFFIC. THE AMERICAN. REPRODUCTIVE CENTER WRITING IN A. STATEMENT, WE ARE IMMENSELY. GRATEFUL TO SHARE THAT NO. MEMBERS OF THE ARC TEAM WERE. HARMED. AUTHORITIES FINDING THE. SUSPECT'S BODY NEAR THE CHARRED. CAR ON SCENE. AUTHORITIES. CONFIRMED THE SUSPECT TRIED TO. LIVESTREAM THE EXPLOSION. OFFICIALS EXECUTED A SEARCH. WARRANT AT HIS HOME IN THE CITY.

OF 29 PALMS. AND, OF COURSE, THE. INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING. LINSEY. >> JACQUELINE. THANK YOU. NOW TO. THE DEVASTATION IN PARTS OF THE. MIDWEST AND SOUTH WITH MORE. SEVERE WEATHER ON THE WAY. ENTIRE CITY BLOCKS IN SAINT. LOUIS NOW REDUCED TO RUBBLE. AT. LEAST FIVE PEOPLE ARE CONFIRMED. DEAD IN THE CITY. AND THE DEATH. TOLL ACROSS THE WORST HIT STATES. HAS RISEN TO AT LEAST 28. ABC'S. ALEX STONE REPORTS TONIGHT FROM. LONDON, KENTUCKY. >> TONIGHT, THE FRIGHTENING. IMAGE. THIS DEADLY TWISTER. TEARING THROUGH SOUTHEAST.

KENTUCKY. YOU CAN HEAR THE ROAR. OF THE WIND. AND SEE THE FLASHES. OF LIGHT IN LAUREL COUNTY ON. FRIDAY NIGHT, PART OF A. MULTI-STATE SEVERE WEATHER. OUTBREAK CLAIMING OVER TWO DOZEN. LIVES. TORNADOES REPORTED IN AT. LEAST SIX STATES, THIS ONE IN. SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. BACK IN. LAUREL COUNTY, KENTUCKY, TONIGHT, CLEANUP IS UNDERWAY AS. THOSE INJURED BY THE TORNADO ARE. RETURNING TO SEE WHAT'S LEFT. >> WHERE THE TAHOE SITTING THERE. WAS A KITCHEN. >> DAVID FOWLER, HIS WIFE, DAUGHTER AND FOUR GRANDCHILDREN.

HID IN CLOSETS IN THE HOME HE. BUILT BY HAND, WHICH LOOKED LIKE. THIS BEFORE THE TORNADO HIT. INCREDIBLY, HIS HOME LIFTED OFF. THE GROUND WITH THE FAMILY. INSIDE AND WAS CARRIED ACROSS. THE STREET. >> I'M THINKING, WHEN IS THIS. GOING TO STOP? IT FELT LIKE IT. WENT ON FOREVER. MY WIFE SAID. SHE WAS A FLOATING AROUND. >> BURIED UNDER DEBRIS, INCLUDING GRANITE COUNTERTOPS. THE ENTIRE FAMILY MADE IT OUT. ALIVE WITH ONLY MINOR INJURIES, ABLE TO DIG THEMSELVES OUT. DAVID TOOK ME BACK TO SEE WHAT. REMAINS OF THE HOME. YOU THOUGHT. IT WAS THE END?

>> I THOUGHT IT WAS THE END. I'VE NEVER COME THAT CLOSE TO. DEATH BEFORE IN MY LIFE. >> AT LEAST 19 PEOPLE KILLED IN. THIS STATE. 17 IN THE COUNTY. ALONE. >> EACH A CHILD OF GOD, MISSED. BY THEIR FAMILY, THAT HAVE. PEOPLE MOURNING THEM RIGHT NOW. >> AND TONIGHT WE'RE LEARNING. SOME OF THEIR NAMES. MAJOR. LESLIE ROGER LEATHERMAN OF THE. LAUREL COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT, WAS FATALLY INJURED WHILE. RESPONDING TO THE TORNADO. THE. DEPARTMENT WRITING HIS COURAGE, COMMITMENT AND SACRIFICE WILL. NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. IN MISSOURI, THE CITY OF SAINT LOUIS ALSO HIT.

HARD. AN ESTIMATED 5000. BUILDINGS IMPACTED THERE. FIVE. PEOPLE LOSING THEIR LIVES IN THE. CITY. MORE THAN THREE DOZEN. INJURED. AND LINDSAY, THIS IS. WHERE THAT FAMILY HOME ONCE. STOOD. THAT BLEW DOWN THE. STREET. THE SUV WHERE THEIR. KITCHEN WAS. AND THIS AREA IS. BRACING FOR MORE SEVERE WEATHER. LATER THIS WEEK. LINDSAY. >> OUR HEARTS GO OUT TO THOSE. FAMILIES. ALEX. THANK YOU. AND. NOW, AS YOU MENTIONED, A NEW. SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS. TARGETING MILLIONS AGAIN THIS. WEEK. THESE IMAGES FROM THIS. AFTERNOON SHOW A TORNADO MOVING. NEAR THE DENVER AIRPORT. TORNADO.

WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FROM TEXAS. TO NEBRASKA. LET'S BRING IN. METEOROLOGIST DANI BECKSTROM. FROM OUR NEW YORK STATION. DANI, WHAT'S THE GREATEST RISK. TONIGHT? >> LARGE TORNADOES. LINDSAY. AND. THIS NEW MULTI-DAY SEVERE. WEATHER THREAT IS FIRST FOCUSED. OVER THE PLAINS TONIGHT. TAKING. A LOOK AT THE AT THE MAP. TEXAS. UP TO NEBRASKA. BRACING FOR. SEVERE STORMS WITH THE GREATEST. CONCERN FOR STRONG TORNADOES. AS. I JUST SAID, IN THE AREA SHADED. IN RED, INCLUDING WICHITA. THAT'S UNDER A LEVEL FOUR OUT OF. FIVE RISK TOMORROW. MANY OF. THESE SAME CITIES STAY IN THE.

THREAT ZONE, BUT IT ALSO SPREADS. EAST INTO MUCH OF MISSOURI, INCLUDING SAINT LOUIS. STILL. DEALING WITH FRIDAY'S DAMAGE A. WIDE AREA AT RISK FOR VERY LARGE. HAIL AND STRONG TORNADOES. TUESDAY, THE THREAT SHIFTS EAST. AGAIN, WITH NUMEROUS SEVERE. STORMS EXPECTED FROM NORTHERN. LOUISIANA INTO NEARLY ALL OF. KENTUCKY, WHERE THEY'RE BRACING. FOR THE SECOND ROUND IN JUST A. MATTER OF DAYS. LINSEY. >> NO REST FOR THE WEARY. DANNY. THANK YOU. WE'RE LEARNING MORE. TONIGHT ABOUT THE BRAZEN. JAILBREAK BY TEN INMATES IN NEW. ORLEANS. AN URGENT MANHUNT IS. UNDERWAY FOR THE SEVEN MEN STILL. ON THE LOOSE. ABC'S FAITH ABUBEY.

REPORTS FROM NEW ORLEANS. FAITH. TELL US WHAT YOU'RE LEARNING. >> LINSEY. INVESTIGATORS ARE. FACING MOUNTING PRESSURE TO. RECAPTURE THE SEVEN REMAINING. FUGITIVES WHO ESCAPED FROM THIS. JAIL. ABOUT TWO MILES FROM THE. FRENCH QUARTER HERE IN NEW. ORLEANS. THE HEART OF NEW. ORLEANS TOURISM. SOME OF THOSE. ON THE RUN ARE MURDER SUSPECTS. AND TONIGHT, OFFICIALS ARE DOING. THEIR BEST TO REASSURE THE. PUBLIC THAT THEY'RE THROWING ALL. RESOURCES AT THIS INVESTIGATION, INCLUDING FACIAL RECOGNITION. CAMERAS. NOW, THE NONPROFIT THAT. IS BEHIND THOSE CAMERAS TELL US.

THAT SOME OF THEIR CAMERAS DID. HELP CAPTURE ONE OF THE ESCAPED. INMATES, BUT ANOTHER ONE DID GET. AWAY DURING THE HOURS LONG DELAY. IN ALERTING THE PUBLIC. LINSEY. >> CERTAINLY A LOT OF URGENCY TO. CAPTURE THEM. FAITH. THANK YOU. NOW TO EFFORTS AT PEACE IN. UKRAINE. PRESIDENT TRUMP IS SET. TO TALK TO RUSSIAN PRESIDENT. PUTIN TOMORROW AND UKRAINE'S. PRESIDENT ZELENSKY. THE CALLS. WILL COME AFTER RUSSIA LAUNCHED. ITS LARGEST DRONE ATTACK YET. OVERNIGHT. AT LEAST ONE PERSON. WAS KILLED. ABC'S LAMA HASAN. JOINS US NOW. LAMA, WE ARE JUST.

LEARNING. THE PRESIDENT ZELENSKY. MET TODAY WITH THE VICE. PRESIDENT. WHAT CAN YOU TELL US. ABOUT THAT? >> YEAH. THAT'S RIGHT. LINDSAY, FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THAT. BLISTERING BLOW UP IN THE OVAL. OFFICE, PRESIDENT ZELENSKY. MEETING WITH VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE ON THE SIDELINES OF POPE. LEO'S INAUGURATION. THEY WERE. SEEN SHAKING HANDS, ZELENSKY. ALSO MEETING THE POPE, THANKING. HIM FOR THE VATICAN'S OFFER TO. HOLD TALKS BETWEEN KYIV AND. MOSCOW. PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYING. HE WILL CALL PRESIDENT PUTIN AT. 10 A.M. TOMORROW. THIS IS A. CRUCIAL CALL. THE STAKES ARE.

HIGH. HE BELIEVES A CEASEFIRE. WILL TAKE PLACE. TRUMP WILL THEN. SPEAK WITH PRESIDENT ZELENSKY. AND NATO LEADERS. THIS COMES. AFTER A DIPLOMATIC PUSH FOR. PEACE IN ISTANBUL, HOLDING. DIRECT TALKS FOR THE FIRST TIME. IN THREE YEARS, BOTH SIDES. AGREEING TO EXCHANGE 1000. PRISONERS OF WAR. THE TWO SIDES. STILL FAR APART ON KEY ISSUES. BUT WHAT THEY DID AGREE ON IS TO. CONTINUE TALKING. LINDSEY. >> PERHAPS A SIGN OF PROGRESS. LAMA. THANK YOU. THERE'S STILL. MUCH MORE AHEAD ON WORLD NEWS. TONIGHT THIS SUNDAY, INCLUDING A. DANGEROUS INCIDENT AT THE.

SEATTLE AIRPORT AND THE DRAMATIC. COME FROM BEHIND WIN. >>> NEXT TONIGHT, NEW CONCERNS. ABOUT SAFETY IN THE SKIES, INCLUDING AN INCIDENT BETWEEN. TWO ALASKA AIRLINE PLANES IN. SEATTLE. HERE'S ABC'S CHRISTIANE CORDERO. >> Reporter: AS MILLIONS OF. PEOPLE PREPARE TO HIT THE SKY. FOR THE RECORD-BREAKING MEMORIAL. DAY TRAVEL RUSH, TONIGHT THE FAA. IS INVESTIGATING HOW TWO ALASKA. AIRLINE JETS CLIPPED WINGS AT A. SEATTLE AIRPORT.

NO INJURIES REPORTED. PASSENGERS ON THE TWO PACKED. CALIFORNIA-BOUND FLIGHTS FORCED. TO DEPLANE AND BOARD OTHER. AIRCRAFT. IT COMES AS ABC NEWS HAS LEARNED. OF ANOTHER CLOSE CALL EARLIER. THIS MONTH. THIS TIME AT NEW YORK'S. LaGUARDIA AIRPORT, ONE OF THE. NATION'S BUSIEST. AN AMERICAN EAGLE JET CLEARED. FOR TAKEOFF AND BOUND FOR. BUFFALO, NEW YORK, FULL OF. PASSENGERS RACING DOWN THE. RUNWAY WHEN AIR TRAFFIC. CONTROLLERS TELL THE PILOT TO. ABORT. >> STOP. >> Reporter: THE JET STOPPING. JUST OVER 1,000 FEET FROM A.

UNITED FLIGHT TAXIING ON THE. SAME RUNWAY. AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL APOLOGIZING. FOR THE CONFUSION. >> SORRY ABOUT THAT. I THOUGHT UNITED HAD CLEARED. WELL BEFORE THAT. >> Reporter: THE INCIDENT ADDING. TO A SERIES OF AIR TRAFFIC. CONTROL RELATED INCIDENTS. INCLUDING TECH OUTAGES AT A. FACILITY IN DENVER AND ONE IN. PHILADELPHIA THAT MANAGES AIR. SPACE FOR NEWARK'S LIBERTY. AIRPORT. CONTROLLERS AND PILOTS UNABLE TO. COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER FOR. NEARLY 90 SECONDS. AND LINSEY, TODAY, ANOTHER. INCIDENT. THIS TIME AT HOUSTON'S HOBBY. AIRPORT. ITS AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL TOWER.

RAN ON A BACKUP GENERATOR FOR. ABOUT AN HOUR THIS AFTERNOON. DURING A POWER OUTAGE. FLIGHTS WERE DELAYED. THE FAA IS INVESTIGATING. LINSEY. >> Linsey: MORE CONCERN IN THE. SKIES THERE. THANK YOU. >>> WHEN WE COME BACK, THE. EMOTIONAL CEREMONY AT THE. VATICAN AS THE CHICAGO NATIVE. CELEBRATES HIS INAUGURAL. >>> TO THE INDEX NOW, AND WHAT A. FINISH AT THE PREAKNESS. THE FAVORITE, JOURNISM, CAME. FROM BEHIND AT THE WIRE FOR THE. WIN. JOURNALISM TAKES THE SECOND LEG.

OF THE TRIPLE CROWN AFTER BEING. EDGED OUT BY SOVEREIGNTY AT THE. KENTUCKY DERBY. >>> WHEN WE COME BACK, A SPECIAL. MOMENT FOR THE NEW POPE AND A. >>> FINALLY TONIGHT, A CHICAGO. NATIVE MADE HISTORY AT THE VATICAN. ABC'S MAGGIE RULLI WAS THERE TO. WITNESS IT. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, THE WORLD. CELEBRATES THE AMERICAN POPE. MORE THAN 200,000 CROWDING. AROUND ST. PETER'S SQUARE TO. MARK THE OFFICIAL START OF POPE. LEO XIV'S PAPACY. ON A DAY OF BOTH ELATION AND.

DEEP EMOTION. THE MASS RICH IN TRADITION. POPE LEO PRAYING BEFORE THE TOMB. OF ST. PETER. BEFORE RECEIVING THE SYMBOLS OF. THE PAPACY. A WOOLEN VESTMENT WORN OVER HIS. SHOULDERS. AND THE FISHERMAN'S RING, A. SIGNET RING BEARING THE IMAGE OF. ST. PETER. A MOMENT THAT RESONATED WITH. EMOTION FOR THE NEW POPE. >> IT MUST BE AN AWESOME THING.

TO LOOK AT THAT RING AND SEE. YOUR CONNECTION TO ST. PETER. >> Reporter: AT ONE POINT, THE. POPEMOBILE STOPPING FOR POPE LEO. TO HOLD AND BLESS BABIES IN THE. CROWD. JERRY SPEARMAN KNEW POPE LEE. FROM HIS TIME AT VILLANOVA. >> A MAN WHO WAS AND IS VERY. PERSONAL TO ME AND SO MANY OF MY. FORMER. FORM R. FORMER AUGUSTINIANS IS NOW A. GIFT TO THE WORLD. NOT ONLY THE CHURCH BUT TO THE. WORLD.

>> Reporter: AFTER HIS. HISTORY-MAKING MASS, THIS. MOMENT. POPE LEO BREAKING PROTOCOL TO. HUG HIS BROTHER, LOUIS, FROM. FLORIDA. AND LINSEY, WE HAVE SEEN HOW. POPE LEO IS CONNECTING WITH. EVERY AMERICAN WE MEET ON THE. GROUND, AND NOW, HE'LL BE THE. HOLY FATHER TO 1.4 BILLION. CATHOLICS AROUND THE WORLD. LINSEY. >> Linsey: WHAT A TOUCHING. MOMENT. MAGGIE, THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR.