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David Mure, ABC's [music]. World News Tonight. America's most. watched newscast. Now streaming same day. with [music] all the breaking news of. the day on Disney Plus. Most watched, most trusted, now on Disney Plus every. night. >> Tonight, Cornell's president speaks out. about the alleged gang rape [music] at a. frat house, promising a transparent. investigation and calling out party. culture on campus. Tonight, what we're. learning about the school's [music]. original investigation and how the. university punished the seven men who. were accused. [music] The search for six.

people on board a medical flight that. went down off Nantucket. Crews find. [music] a debris field, but no black. boxes and no sign of the passengers. A. US Marine accused of [music] killing and. robbing a woman in Okinawa, Japan, claims that he denies the incident, prompting a scathing response from. Japan's prime [music] minister in. flaming tensions with the US. 30 days to. the midterm elections. Polls tightening. with control of [music] Congress at. stake. President Trump on defense, campaigning in districts he easily won.

two years ago. Tennessee's commissioner. prisons resigns after the botched. execution of Christa Pike. [music] A. former US attorney is now assigned to. investigate. Anti-epidemic measures. imposed in one region of Russia after an. employee at a [music] plague research. center was diagnosed with an unknown. pneumonia. Officials describe it as a. quote dangerous infection. [music]. Questions tonight after an Apache. helicopter hovered at a low altitude. over a historic town in Alabama. A. [music] violent accident kills one. person and injures eight others. 16.

vehicles damaged. The crash site. stretching a mile and a half. And. emotional victory. [music] Yale's. quarterback turns in one of his best. performances ever in honor of his dad. Yale's longtime football coach whose. death was reported just the day before. [music]. From ABC News World Headquarters [music]. in New York, this is World News Tonight. >> Good evening [music] everyone. Thanks so. much for joining us on this Sunday. I'm. Lindseay Davis. We begin tonight with.

new developments in an investigation. that has cast a long shadow over one of. the nation's most prestigious. universities, Cornell. The university's. president is speaking out for the first. time in a video message promising a. transparent investigation while. acknowledging that the school, in his. words, must do better. It comes as the. New York Times reports on how the seven. fraternity members, Jane Doe's alleged. attackers, were disciplined by the. school. Two were expelled. Late last. week, New York's governor named the. state's attorney general as a special. prosecutor, taking the investigation out.

of the hands of the local district. attorney, who decided not to file. criminal charges in 2024. All of the men. have denied any wrongdoing. ABC's Olivia. Rubin leads us off. Weeks after a former. student sued Cornell, alleging she was. gang raped and drugged by fraternity. brothers and the university failed to. protect her, now the school's president. is speaking out. >> I believe we as an administration and we. as a community must do better. >> Michael Kotikov calling out party.

culture on campus. It raises. heartbreaking and troubling issues about. sexual assault, dehumanization, and aspects of party culture, alcohol, and drug use. >> This is new details emerged tonight. about how exactly the Ivy League. University disciplined those seven KI. fraternity members Jane Doe accused in. 2024 of sexually assaulting her. We're. learning for the first time the. punishment for those seven men after the. university launched an internal.

investigation. According to the New York. Times, the school expelled the two. fraternity members who first invited. Jane Doe to that house and sent these. Snapchat messages inviting others to the. room. The two others who Jane Doe claims. forced her to perform sex acts without. her consent were suspended for 2 years. and three semesters each and ordered to. write reflection papers. Another student. who graduated accused of forcibly. kissing Jane Doe barred from campus and. the remaining two men accused of.

entering the room where the alleged. assault occurred ordered in part to. study sexual harassment and write those. reflection papers. No criminal charges. were ever filed. The district attorney. declining to prosecute after he said. campus police only sent him a six-page. summary of Janeo's allegations which her. attorney says omitted her explicit. allegation of rape. If you have a. complaining witness saying, "I'm 100%. certain I was raped," that should make. it into a report.

>> But now, in a memo from November 2024. reviewed by ABC News, an investigator. from Cornell said that the DA's office. declined to review more evidence. gathered by police. The DA saying. Cornell didn't share all the materials. >> It was not complete. It was stick your. head in the sand and don't look to find. a crime. The state of New York launching. a new criminal investigation. Governor. Kathy Hokll tapping Attorney General. Leticia James as special prosecutor. >> I want the truth. How is this woman.

denied justice? >> As women around the country flood social. media in support of Jane Doe, writing, I. am Jane Doe. Sharing their own stories. of sexual assault and harassment. Lindsay, all seven of those men deny. wrongdoing. one of them filing a lawsuit. against Cornell looking to overturn that. disciplinary decision and have his. record expuned. Now, a judge has already. denied that lawsuit, but his attorney. appealing, telling ABC News tonight. their efforts are for every student.

whose future Cornell puts in jeopardy. Lindsay. >> Olivia, thank you. Now to the urgent. search tonight for six people after a. medical aircraft vanished over the. waters off Nantucket. Authorities say. crews have located a debris field from. that missing plane. Here's ABC's Morgan. Norwood. >> Tonight, after 66 hours of scouring the. coast of Nantucket, the Coast Guard. suspending the search for that downed. air ambulance bound for Boston. All six. people aboard, four Canadians and two. Bermudeians still missing. >> Coast Guard crews along with our.

partners have searched approximately. 2,840. square miles over about 53 and a half. hours. According to the operator Bermuda. Skyport, the Canadian registered air. ambulance left LFWade International. Airport in Bermuda around 12:41 Saturday. morning. At 2 a.m., roughly 80 minutes. later, the FAA losing contact with the. Gulfream G100. A source telling ABC. News, officials believe the plane. rapidly descended 7,500 ft before. hitting the water. Air traffic control. audio indicates the pilot may have been.

coming in blind with electrical problems. while a storm loomed ahead. Okay, you. declaring. >> the Coast Guard deploying planes, choppers, and cutters, even bringing in. sonar to search the seafloor. >> I just want to tell the families that we. we are um our Coast Guard men and women. Our thoughts go with with the with the. uh members on the aircraft as well as. their families and friends. Uh and our. folks carry out their duties with great. professionalism. >> And Lindsay, the cause of that crash.

still under investigation tonight. Crews. have not recovered the blackbox. Lindsay. >> Morgan, thank you. Overseas now to. chilling new details in that attack on a. Fly Dubai flight to Israel. Sources tell. ABC News that the alleged co-pilot who. was wielding an axe was planning to. crash the plane into Tel Aviv. The. heroic pilot spoke with Israel's prime. minister and described the moments. before the attack. ABC's Tom Sufi Burj. reports tonight from Tel Aviv. >> Tonight, the new details on that Fly. Dubai flight to Israel after this. vicious attack midair. Sources telling.

ABC News the alleged attacker on that. flight was intending to crash that plane. into Tel Aviv before passengers rushed. the cockpit. That suspect now identified. as Omani national Hamam Al-Hami, the. 29year-old co-pilot. Sources saying. Al-Hami had previously been flagged in. Oman as a security risk and was. suspended as a traininee co-pilot at. Oman Air in 2024 for possessing. extremist materials, raising questions.

about how he was hired at Fly Dubai. Tonight, the heroic captain on that Fly. Dubai flight, Captain Smith Mashar, speaking with Israel's prime minister. >> You are a hero of the entire world. saying minutes after his co-pilot went. to pray, he felt a big blow to the back. of his head. He was on the floor badly. wounded and made one last push. >> I gave everything that I had and just. went for the door and opened the door. and thankfully people were waiting to. pounce back.

>> Of Dubroski was sitting in row 8 with. his wife and daughter. Drovski says. there should be stricter background. checks on pilots worldwide. >> To me, this is like shocking. This is. like a huge security flaw and I would. really like it to see that it's actually. this this hole is plugged. >> And Lindsay, another airline, Royal Air. Moroc says they did not employ Alami. last year after he completed 3 months of. pre-employment training. Fly Dubai say. they're not in a position to comment.

while they cooperate with the. investigation which is ongoing. Lindsay. >> Tom Suie Burge for us in Tel Aviv. Thank. you. Next tonight, a US Marine has been. arrested on suspicion of killing and. robbing a Japanese woman in Okinawa. Japan's prime minister called the. incident extremely brutal and heinous. The allegations are once again bringing. the long fraud history of the US. military presence on the island into. sharper focus. Here's ABC's Lama Hassan. Japanese investigators combing the scene. outside this hotel in Okinawa Prefect's.

capital city, Naha, where police claim. 20-year-old Marine Devon Jacob Ballard. killed and robbed 39year-old Ana Yagi. between 2:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. on. Saturday morning. Police say they have. surveillance video showing them entering. the hotel together, but Ballard leaving. on his own with her belongings. Ballard. denying all the allegations, saying he. did not know. The murder investigation. igniting a scathing response. The prime. minister Sai Takayichi posting on social. media saying the occurrence of such an.

extremely brutal and heinous incident is. a matter of profound regret and as the. government of Japan we have lodged a. strong protest with the US side. The US. ambassador summoned by the foreign. ministry and confirming they are fully. cooperating with the Japanese government. and local police. Okinawa is home to. some 1,800 US Marines. The US and Japan. are strong allies with the US. administering Okinawa from the end of. World War II until 1972.

Lindsay, this latest incident is opening. up old wounds. There have been similar. cases involving US Marines in Okinawa in. the past, prompting several protests. with some demanding a change to the. ongoing US military presence. Lindsay. >> Llama, thank you. We turn now to. politics. The critical midterm elections. now just 30 days away. Voting is already. underway in several states. President. Trump was back on the campaign trail as. Republicans are fighting to keep control. of Congress. Here's ABC's Steven Portoi. Tonight, President Trump playing defense.

for the GOP. [cheering]. Trump appearing Saturday in Ohio, a. state he won by 11 points just two years. ago, but where Republicans are now in. tight races. >> Nobody counted on the fact that Trump. was going to go out and campaign for all. these people. In the past week, Trump. has appeared in four traditional GOP. strongholds to rally his base. He heads. next to Nebraska, a state he last won by. 20 points, but where an incumbent. Republican senator is facing a challenge.

from an independent. Trump on Saturday. again defending data centers. >> Look, there's so much money to be made. for Ohio, you can't just turn them off. They'll go to China. This weekend, addressing the new concerns about AI, Trump announcing his director of. national intelligence will lead what he. calls a new super intelligence force. But the scope of the role isn't clear. Just last week, Trump insisted that AI. firms should police themselves. And his. Treasury Secretary telling Axios the. tech titans need to come up with their.

own solutions. >> They should slow down, but it it's, you. know, I mean, it's kind of like Hannibal. Lecter. Stop me before I kill again. 30. days before the midterms, Americans are. facing the pressures of higher prices. >> You just cannot keep these high price. fuel going for another 6 to9 months. It. just it's unsustainable. It's just. crazy. >> The president spent much of this weekend. aggressively pushing for year round. daylight saving time. He argues. Americans would prefer an extra hour of. daylight in the evenings in the winter. months. Opponents say it would mean.

children would have to go to school in. the dark. Lindsay. >> Steven Portoi from the White House for. us. Thank you. Now to breaking news. The. US is removing all B1 Air Force bombers. from an air force base in southern. England. The US has used the military. base northwest of London as a hub for. launching strikes in Iran. It comes amid. growing security concerns about the. base. Just last week, several suspects. were arrested in connection with a. suspected terror plot against the base. And we're learning new details tonight. about that botched execution in. Tennessee. Christa Pike's attorney says.

she's still in critical condition and a. former US attorney has been tapped to. lead an independent review. Let's bring. in ABC's Perry Russ. Perry, what more. can you tell us? >> Well, attorneys for Christa Pike tell. ABC News she remains unconscious on a. ventilator days after her botched. execution. Tennessee is now launching an. independent review after she was. injected with two doses of a drug that. were supposed to kill her Wednesday. night. Former US attorney at Stanton. will now investigate the state's. Department of Correction to see if. protocols were followed and consider if. recommendations are needed. In a.

statement, the department says it did. follow protocols. The investigation will. likely focus on the department of uh. commissioners right there, Frank Strata, who announced his resignation on. Saturday. He will leave his job at the. end of the month. There are questions. about his record in Arizona. He oversaw. prisons where advocates say three. executions were botched. Pike was. sentenced to death after being convicted. of beating, torturing, and killing. Colleen Surmer back in 1995. Lindsay. >> All right, Perry. Thank you. Firefighters are battling a fastmoving. wildfire in a national forest in.

Southern California. The flames. triggered evacuation orders and warnings. for several nearby communities. The. state is also facing a dangerous heat. wave. Here's ABC's Jacqueline Lee. >> Tonight, a wildfire erupting Saturday. afternoon outside Los Angeles. Smoke. visible for miles and prompting. evacuation orders inside parts of the. Angeles National Forest. Nearly 300. firefighters battling the Bokeh fire, burning more than a thousand acres. >> I'm definitely worried. I'm always. filled with anxiety about it. It's all. we have. So, you know, just hoping and.

praying. >> That fire now 40% contained. It comes as. Californians are facing a punishing heat. wave with temperatures hitting triple. digits. And tonight, firefighters are. now combining AI technology with. existing tools to combat fires faster. Thousands of these cameras use. artificial intelligence to detect the. exact coordinates of an emerging. wildfire and send it directly to first. responders. Calire is using that data. along with data from three newly. launched satellites helping firefighters.

intervene before a wildfire gets out of. control. So just because AI can help. with early notification, it doesn't mean. it's going to stop every fire from. happening. >> Correct. Yeah. Still requires boots in. the ground uh to put those fires out. >> Lindsay, an air quality alert has been. issued for areas impacted by the. wildfire smoke, including the city of. Santa Clarita. The alert is expected to. be lifted later tonight. Lindsay. All. right, Jacqueline, thank you. Let's get. right to ABC's meteorologist Leslie. Lopez for more on that dangerous heat. wave. And Leslie, I know you're also.

tracking a flash flood threat. >> That's exactly right. Two dangerous and. life-threatening events, but I want to. start with what's going on in. California. Fourth consecutive day for. Los Angeles to hit over 100°. And we're. looking at heat advisories and extreme. heat warnings up and down the state from. Northern California all the way down to. San Diego. We're also watching the. temperatures continue to stay hot all. the way through most of this work week. And you're looking at Billings, Denver. That's where the heat is expanding. So. those daily records will be challenged. And now off to the flash flooding. Look. at that. A three out of four flash flood. risk over into southern Texas. We could.

see as much as 6 to 10 inches of rain in. some of these areas along the Gulf, even. out towards North Carolina. >> We just cannot seem to get a break. All. right, Lesie. Thank you. Overseas now, Russian health authorities say an. employee of an anti-plague institute has. been diagnosed with pneumonia of an. unknown cause. People who had contact. with that individual are now under. medical observation. ABC's Marcus Moore. joins us now. So Marcus, what's the. latest here? >> Lindsay, Russian officials have launched. what they call anti-epidemic measures. after an employee at a plague research.

center in the Kutz region of Siberia was. diagnosed with what they described as. pneumonia of an unknown cause. Health. officials initially describing it as a. particularly dangerous infection. In. response to the situation, there was an. emergency meeting of the country's top. health officials. We know that a number. of people who came in contact with the. infected person have been under medical. observation. Authorities saying they've. shown no symptoms and no other. infections have been reported. As you. can imagine, a number of rumors are now. circulating about what's happening.

Health officials trying to allay any. fears in the community and are saying. the situation is stable. Lindsay, >> we'll be tracking that closely. Marcus, thank you. Now to a heartbreaking. tragedy on the south side of Chicago. A. 7-year-old girl died in a stabbing. attack. Authorities say she was out. walking when a suspect approached her, allegedly stabbing her multiple times in. the back. Bystanders detained the. suspect until officers arrived. It's. unclear if there was a relationship. between the suspect and the victim. There's still much more ahead on World. News Tonight this Sunday. An Army Apache.

helicopter hovering over a car show. Was. it an officially sanctioned military. display? And a [music] horrific crash. with a devastating scene. The wreckage. stretching for more than a mile and a. half. There are questions tonight about an. Apache helicopter hovering over Ozark, Alabama. The Army aircraft was seen. hovering low over a car show at the. town's annual arts and crafts festival, kicking up dust and debris. It's unclear. whether the flyover was officially. sanctioned or which military facility. the helicopter may be based. A violent.

accident killed one person and injured. eight others along a crash site that. stretched a mile and a half near. Philadelphia. Surveillance video. captured the final moment the pickup. truck collided with stopped vehicles. Havford Township police say that the. pickup was traveling erratically at a. high rate of speed. They believe the. driver was having a medical emergency. When we come back, celebrating the life. of the beloved bald eagle, Jackie. Yale quarterback Dante Reno winning for. his father whose death was reported just.

the day before. Dante threw for 298. yards and four touchdowns in a stellar. victory yesterday. On Friday, Yale. announced the death of his father, their. longtime football coach Tony Reno, who. died this week at 52. And in Big Bear. Lake, California this weekend, a. celebration and memorial for Jackie, the. beloved bald eagle. Millions watched. Jackie on a Nescam live stream for years. as she and her mate raised a family of. chicks. More than a thousand fans. gathered at the memorial in her honor. She was 14 years old. When we come back, the 95year-old grandfather working.

[music] through his bucket list with his. granddaughter at his side. Finally, the grandpa and his shrinking. bucket list. One dream, one adventure, one memory at a time. >> Where do we just land? >> I love. >> visiting Hawaii for the very first time. at 95 years old. >> Hang loose, grandpa. >> Born in Detroit, Michigan, Frank. Kirkowski worked at a shoe store for. nearly 30 years before retiring. And for. much of his life, there were places he.

dreamed of seeing but couldn't afford to. go. I wasn't able to do a lot of those. things then and now I have the. opportunity and again thanks to Jasmine. >> but now at 95 he's busy making up for. lost time savoring fresh fruit on the. beach dancing in Hawaii. soaking in the simple pleasures and. beside him through it all his. 30-year-old granddaughter Jasmine. Kirkowski the two have been side by side.

from the very beginning. >> he would tuck me in at night. >> decades later. That bond is still taking. them places. >> He finally mentioned to me when he was. in his 90s already that he wanted to go. to Disneyland. I'm like, I'm going to. make this happen. >> And she did. >> Having a good time. >> At 93, Frank went to Disneyland for. [music] the first time, riding the. carousel, waving to Mickey and Minnie, finally meeting the characters he'd. known since childhood. Another dream, a. concert. This time, the two jamming out. in Vegas with the Eagles. But tonight,

the grandfather and granddaughter say. the list was never really about the. places. >> What was your favorite part? >> Well, being with my granddaughter, >> but of course. Thanks so much for. watching. I'm Lindsay Davis. Good night. >> David Mure, the most trusted, most. watched [music] newscast in America. And. now, World News Tonight has won the Emmy. for best live news program for the. fourth year in a.