Heroes fight off attempt to crash plane: ABC World News Tonight with David Muir - Sept. 30, 2026

MID-AIR. THE. PILOT, WHO BEGAN STABBING THE. OTHER PILOT TO CRASH THE PLANE. TONIGHT, THE BLOODY SCENE ON. BOARD MOMENTS AFTER PASSENGERS. STORMED THE COCKPIT WHILE IN. THE AIR TO HELP THE PILOT, WHO. WAS YELLING FOR HELP. THE.

DIFFICULT IMAGES TONIGHT, THE. PLANE PLUMMETING 14,000FT WHEN. THE PILOT WHO ATTACKED PUT THE. PLANE IN A NOSEDIVE. 174. PASSENGERS, INCLUDING AMERICANS. HOW THEY PULLED THE PLANE BACK. UP. AND WHAT WE KNOW AT THIS. HOUR ABOUT THE ATTACKER. ALSO. TONIGHT, THE TORNADO WATCH. RIGHT NOW AS WE COME ON THE AIR, THE IMAGES OF A TORNADO JUST. TOUCHING DOWN, SEVERE. THUNDERSTORMS, LIFE THREATENING. FLOODING ACROSS SEVERAL STATES. RESCUERS SWIMMING OUT TO SAVE A. WOMAN. AND GINGER ZEE IS HERE. WITH THE FORECAST TONIGHT. THE. SCANDAL AT CORNELL. ABC NEWS.

NOW OBTAINING THE FIRST. STATEMENT TO POLICE BY A FORMER. CORNELL STUDENT WHO CLAIMS SHE. WAS GANG RAPED BY SEVEN MEMBERS. OF A FRATERNITY. WHAT SHE TOLD. POLICE. AND TONIGHT, THE TEXT. MESSAGES BETWEEN HER AND ONE OF. THE ALLEGED ATTACKERS. WHAT SHE. SAYS AND HOW HE RESPONDS. TONIGHT, THE YOUNG COLLEGE. HOCKEY PLAYER WHO COLLAPSED. DURING PRACTICE. THE VIDEO. NOW. OF THOSE DRILLS, THAT PLAYER ON. A VENTILATOR AFTER TEAMMATES. CAME FORWARD, WHAT'S NOW. HAPPENED AT THE SCHOOL? AND. TONIGHT, NEWS OF ANOTHER. COLLEGE STUDENT DYING AFTER.

SUFFERING HEAT STROKE DURING A. GRUELING TRAINING PROGRAM. ALSO. BREAKING TONIGHT, THE DEADLY. WORKPLACE SHOOTING. THE GUNMAN. WHO ALLEGEDLY WALKED IN TOLD. COWORKERS, THREE OF YOU ARE. GOING TO DIE. PIERRE THOMAS. STANDING BY IN THE TERRIFYING. SCENE TONIGHT, THE MIDTERM. ELECTIONS JUST WEEKS AWAY. NOW, THE TEXAS SENATE RACE, WHAT THE. REPUBLICAN IN THAT RACE IS. CAUGHT ON AUDIO SAYING ABOUT. PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS RECENT. CONVENTION IN TEXAS. TONIGHT, THE DEADLY HOME EXPLOSION. THE. BLAST FELL TEN MILES AWAY. THE.

POLICE CHASE THROUGH AN AIRPORT. GATE RIGHT OUT OF THE RUNWAY. AND YOU'LL SEE IT. A COLLEGE. SENIOR SURVIVING A HARROWING. FALL FROM HER EIGHTH STORY. WINDOW. AND TONIGHT. LOOK AT. THIS DOG RIGHT THERE IN THE. STREET, THE LEASH DANGLING, BUT. NO ONE THERE. AND WHERE THAT. DOG THEN LED. POLICE. >> FROM ABC NEWS WORLD. HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK. THIS. IS WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH. DAVID MUIR. >> GOOD EVENING. AND IT'S GREAT. TO HAVE YOU WITH US HERE AT A. VERY BUSY WEDNESDAY NIGHT. WE.

BEGIN TONIGHT WITH THIS. TERRIFYING MIDAIR ATTACK IN THE. COCKPIT OF A PASSENGER PLANE. ONE OF THE PILOTS TURNING TO. THE OTHER AND BEGAN STABBING. HIM WHILE THE PLANE WAS IN THE. AIR. AUTHORITIES SAY IN AN. EFFORT TO CRASH THE PLANE, THE. IMAGES ARE DIFFICULT TONIGHT. VIDEO SHOWING THE CAPTAIN BADLY. BLEEDING. HE WAS STABBED ABOUT. TWO HOURS INTO THE FLIGHT FROM. THE UAE TO TEL AVIV. HEROIC. PASSENGERS AND CREW THEN. BURSTING INTO THE COCKPIT WHEN. THAT CAPTAIN SOMEHOW OPENED THE. COCKPIT DOOR AND BEGAN YELLING. FOR HELP. THEY TOOK DOWN THE. ATTACKER. VIDEO ALSO SHOWING.

THE MOMENT THE JET BEGAN. PLUNGING 14,000FT IN LESS THAN. 30S. WHEN THE ATTACKER PUT THE. PLANE INTO A NOSEDIVE, 174. PASSENGERS ON BOARD, INCLUDING. AMERICANS, AND HOW THEY PULLED. THAT PLANE BACK UP. ABC'S TOM. SOUFI LEADING US OFF FROM TEL. AVIV TONIGHT. >> TONIGHT THE HORRIFYING. IMAGES. YOU'RE LOOKING AT TWO. BLOODIED PILOTS ON THE FLOOR ON. THIS PASSENGER JET IN MIDAIR. PASSENGERS HOLDING ONE OF THEM. DOWN, TREATING THE OTHER. THESE. IMAGES JUST MOMENTS AFTER A. TERRIFYING SCENE THAT UNFOLDED.

IN THE COCKPIT OF THE PLANE. WHILE IN THE AIR, CARRYING 174. PEOPLE, INCLUDING FOUR. AMERICANS. THE FIRST OFFICER ON. THE FLIGHT FROM DUBAI TO TEL. AVIV, STABBING THE CAPTAIN. SITTING NEXT TO HIM. AND THEN. AUTHORITIES SAY HE ATTEMPTED TO. PUT THE PLANE IN A NOSEDIVE IN. AN ATTEMPT TO CRASH THE PLANE. YOU CAN HEAR THE PANIC ON BOARD. WHEN THE PASSENGER JET PLUNGES. TWO HOURS INTO THE FLIGHT. IT. IS DIFFICULT TO WATCH. A FAINT. ANNOUNCEMENT ASKING EVERYONE TO.

FASTEN THEIR SEAT BELTS. DROWNED BY TERRIFIED SCREAMS. >> IMPOSSIBLE TO REMAIN SEATED. >> THE PLANE PLUMMETING A. STAGGERING 14,000FT IN UNDER. 30S HEADED TOWARD THE GROUND AT. SPEEDS OF NEARLY 700MPH. >> SUDDENLY, THE AIRCRAFT DROP. A MASSIVE DROP, LIKE A MASSIVE. TURBULENCE FOR 20 30S. >> BUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT. TERRIFYING DESCENT, THE CAPTAIN. WHO'D BEEN STABBED FIGHTING. BACK, SENDING OUT MULTIPLE.

EMERGENCY DISTRESS SIGNALS, INCLUDING A HIJACKING, ALERT, ISRAEL SCRAMBLING FIGHTER JETS. THE WOUNDED AND BLOODIED. CAPTAIN SOMEHOW UNLOCKING THE. COCKPIT DOOR BEHIND HIM AND. YELLING FOR HELP, PASSENGERS. AND CREW THEN STORMING IN, PUTTING THE OTHER PILOT, THE. ATTACKER, IN A CHOKEHOLD. ONE. OF THOSE PASSENGERS PLEADING. FOR HELP, BLOOD RUNNING DOWN. HIS FACE AND IN A STUNNING TURN, THIS MAN, A PASSENGER WHO. STORMED THE COCKPIT TO HELP,

LATER DESCRIBING THE INCREDIBLE. MOMENT HE TOOK OVER THE PLANE'S. CONTROLS, PULLING IT OUT OF THE. NOSEDIVE, SAYING HE LEARNED IT. BY WATCHING TV. A THIRD PILOT. WHO WAS ON THAT PLANE THEN. STEPPING IN VIDEO SHOWING. PASSENGERS CHANTING AS THE. PLANE LANDS IN SAUDI ARABIA, MEDICAL TEAMS WAITING ON THE. TARMAC, THAT VIOLENT DESCENT. RIPPING OFF PIECES OF THE TAIL. BUT MIRACULOUSLY, EVERYONE. SURVIVED. TONIGHT, THAT HERO. PILOT WHO WAS ATTACKED,

IDENTIFIED AS CAPTAIN SMIT. MACHAR, IS NOW RECOVERING. ANOTHER PLANE, LATER FLYING. THOSE PASSENGERS TO TEL AVIV. CELEBRATIONS ON BOARD AS THEY. LAND, EMOTIONAL SCENES AS. PASSENGERS REUNITED WITH LOVED. ONES, DESCRIBING THE HORROR. >> THE PLANE WAS FALLING DOWN. AND THEN I FELT THAT I'M LOSING. IT AND I'M GOING TO TO LOSE ALL. MY FAMILY. MY WIFE WAS BESIDE. ME. MY LITTLE BOY WAS ALSO.

BESIDE ME. IT WAS VERY, VERY. TERRIFYING. >> AMERICAN MIKA BAUMAN, GRATEFUL TO BE BACK ON SOLID. GROUND. >> IT WILL PROBABLY TAKE ME A. LITTLE WHILE TO GET ON A PLANE. AGAIN, BUT I'M. I'M HONESTLY. JUST THANKING GOD THAT I'M HERE. RIGHT NOW BECAUSE IT WAS SO. CLOSE TO NOT HAPPENING, BASED. ON THE CRAZY SITUATION THAT WE. WERE JUST IN. >> YANIV WAS ONE OF THE MEN WHO. SUBDUED THE ATTACKER, HELPING. LEVEL THE PLANE, TELLING. REPORTERS IT WAS A DO OR DIE. SITUATION. PRESIDENT TRUMP.

SPEAKING JUST MOMENTS AGO. >> IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THE. COPILOT WAS PERHAPS A TERRORIST. OR PERHAPS A WHACK JOB, AND HE. STABBED THE PILOT. THE PILOT. WAS IN VERY BAD SHAPE, AND I. GUESS HE STILL IS IN VERY BAD. SHAPE, BUT HE HAD THE SENSE TO. AMAZING TO IN A WAY, HE WAS A. HERO TO OPEN THE DOOR. YOU KNOW, THOSE DOORS ARE SOLID STEEL. YOU CAN'T GET THEM OPEN FROM.

OUTSIDE. HE WAS ABLE TO FALL. BACK AND GET THE DOOR OPEN AND. SCREAM. >> THIS IS JUST REALLY. UNBELIEVABLE. LET'S BRING IN. TOM SOUFI. HE'S LIVE AT THE. AIRPORT IN TEL AVIV, WHERE. THOSE PASSENGERS TOUCHED DOWN. LATE TODAY. AND TOM, I'M. CURIOUS WHAT MORE YOU'RE. LEARNING TONIGHT ABOUT THE. SUSPECT. OF COURSE, THAT OTHER. PILOT WHO BEGAN STABBING THE. CAPTAIN. >> YEAH. DAVID, THAT COPILOT. HAS BEEN DETAINED IN SAUDI. ARABIA, WHERE HE'S BEING. INTERROGATED. AND ABC NEWS. CONFIRMING THAT ISRAELI. PASSENGER WHO PUT THE SUSPECT. IN A CHOKEHOLD AND PULLED THE. PLANE OUT OF THAT DIVE, WORKS.

AS A PLUMBER TONIGHT. HE'S BEEN. CREDITED WITH PREVENTING A. DISASTER. DAVID. >> THE HERO PLUMBER ON THAT. PASSENGER PLANE. TOM. SUFI BIRD. SO MANY HEROES ON BOARD THAT. FLIGHT. THANK YOU. TOM. BACK. HERE IN THE U.S. AT THIS HOUR, THE TORNADO WATCH. RIGHT NOW WE. HAVE NEW IMAGES OF A TORNADO. THAT JUST TOUCHED DOWN. ALSO. THIS THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS, LIFE THREATENING FLOODING. ACROSS SEVERAL STATES. YOU CAN. SEE IT ON THE MAP THERE. 24. MILLION AMERICANS UNDER ALERTS. AT THIS HOUR, MULTIPLE. TORNADOES TOUCHING DOWN IN. TEXAS AND NOW KANSAS. AND THIS. TORNADO JUST A SHORT TIME AGO.

SO GINGER ZEE STANDING BY TO. TRACK THIS OUT. AND ALEX PEREZ. WITH THE IMAGES RIGHT HERE. TONIGHT. >> TONIGHT, A MASSIVE TORNADO. TOUCHING DOWN NORTHWEST OF. WICHITA. THE TWISTER SPOTTED BY. CHASERS NEAR THE TOWN OF. ROSELLE, TEARING UP FARMLAND AS. MILLIONS BRACE FOR MORE SEVERE. STORMS AND LIFE THREATENING. FLOODS IN DONA ANA COUNTY, NEW. MEXICO NATIONAL GUARD RESCUE. TEAMS SWIMMING OUT TO SAVE THIS. WOMAN STRANDED ON TOP OF HER. VEHICLE. THIS MORNING. >> WE HAVE A TORNADO ON THE. GROUND. >> OVERNIGHT, SIRENS SOUNDING.

IN AMARILLO. AT LEAST TWO. TORNADOES SPOTTED TOUCHING DOWN. ON THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF TOWN. >> STRONG TORNADO. >> TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS FLOODED. STREETS FAST AND FLIPPED CARS. IN CORPUS CHRISTI. THIS. SKIDDING PICKUP HYDROPLANING. RIGHT IN FRONT OF ANOTHER. DRIVER. THE SYSTEM, FUELED BY. REMNANTS OF HURRICANE POLO. INUNDATING COMMUNITIES IN. SOUTHERN UTAH. THAT SYSTEM NOW. SPREADING INTO COLORADO, TEXAS. AND IOWA THIS WEEK. AND DAVID,

WITH FLASH FLOODING EXPECTED, THE TEXAS GOVERNOR HAS. PRE-POSITIONED HUNDREDS OF. RESCUE TEAMS AND VEHICLES. SHOULD THEY BE NEEDED. DALLAS. HERE AND MUCH OF TEXAS BRACING. FOR SEVERAL HOURS OF HEAVY RAIN. TONIGHT. >> DAVID ALEX PEREZ THERE ON. THE WEATHER TONIGHT FOR US. ALEX. THANKS. LET'S GET RIGHT. TO CHIEF METEOROLOGIST GINGER. ZEE BACK WITH US HERE THIS. EVENING. TRACKING IT ALL FOR US. HI, GINGER. >> HI, DAVID. JUST MOMENTS AGO, WE GOT A BRAND NEW SEVERE. THUNDERSTORM WATCH. IT INCLUDES. MIDLAND, TEXAS, SAN ANGELO, ABILENE. BUT YOU ALSO HAVE THAT. TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 11 P.M. TONIGHT IN KANSAS THAT IS.

CENTERED ON SALINA. BUT. OBVIOUSLY THE GREEN ON THE MAP. IS WHAT IS MORE BROAD AND. WIDESPREAD THREAT ALL THE WAY. FROM IOWA, THE QUAD CITIES BACK. TO NEW MEXICO, OKLAHOMA CITY. AND DALLAS. TONIGHT. YOU NOT. ONLY HAVE THAT, BUT THE CHANCE. FOR 70 MILE PER HOUR WINDS, 1.5IN HAIL. IT'S GOING TO BE A. REALLY ROUGH NIGHT. AND THEN. TOMORROW, BECAUSE WE'VE GOT. THIS THREAT OF TWO INCH PER. HOUR RAINFALL RATES, A PLACE. LIKE DALLAS IS GOING TO HAVE. TWO DAYS IN A ROW, SO YOU COULD. END UP WITH MORE THAN FIVE. INCHES IN TOTAL. THEY VERY MUCH. WANT THIS RAIN BECAUSE THEY'RE.

IN DROUGHT. BUT BOY, IT DOESN'T. NEED TO COME THIS FAST. >> DAVID. THAT IS FOR SURE. ALL. RIGHT, GINGER, WE'LL SEE YOU. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING ON. GMA. THANK YOU. TONIGHT HEAR. THE GROWING OUTRAGE AT CORNELL. ABC NEWS. NOW OBTAINING THE. FIRST STATEMENT TO POLICE BY A. FORMER CORNELL STUDENT WHO. CLAIMS SHE WAS GANG RAPED BY. SEVEN MEMBERS OF A FRATERNITY. TONIGHT HEAR THE TEXT MESSAGES. BETWEEN HER AND ONE OF THE. ALLEGED ATTACKERS. WHAT SHE. SAYS AND HOW HE RESPONDS. HERE'S AARON KATERSKY. >> TONIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE ORIGINAL ACCOUNT OF FORMER. CORNELL STUDENT GAVE TO CAMPUS. POLICE ABOUT A HARROWING NIGHT.

AT THE CHI PHI FRATERNITY HOUSE. IN 2024 THAT SHE NOW ALLEGES. WAS GANG RAPE. JANE DOE. STATEMENT OBTAINED BY ABC NEWS. DESCRIBED HOURS OF GROUP SEX. SOME SHE SAID SHE CONSENTED TO. AND SOME THAT FELT LIKE. COERCION. THE YOUNG WOMAN. RECALLED A GROUP OF MULTIPLE. MEN WALKING INTO A ROOM. I WAS. INSTANTLY HORRIFIED AND I. REMEMBER SQUEALING OUT LOUD AND. RUNNING ACROSS THE ROOM AND. HIDING UNDER THE COVERS ON. ANOTHER BED. AS THE NIGHT WORE. ON, I FELT LIKE I WAS UNABLE TO. MAKE ANY DECISION BECAUSE OF. HOW INTOXICATED I WAS. BUT.

TONIGHT, THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY. STILL BELIEVES THAT STATEMENT. SHOWED CONSENSUAL SEX, DESPITE. VULGAR SNAPCHAT MESSAGES SHARED. AMONG THE FRATERNITY BROTHERS. APPEARING TO INVITE MORE MEN. INTO THE ROOM. >> IF YOU TAKE THAT SNAPCHAT. BEING VILE AND CRUDE AND VULGAR, THAT DID NOT HAVE ANY RELEVANCE. TO THE ISSUE OF WHETHER JANE. DOE CONSENTED TO WHAT WAS. HAPPENING TONIGHT. >> ABC NEWS HAS ALSO OBTAINED. TEXT MESSAGES JANE DOE. EXCHANGED DAYS AFTER WITH ONE. OF THE MEN SHE NOW ACCUSES OF.

RAPE. BRO, EVERYONE KNOWS MY. REPUTATION IS DESTROYED AND I'M. UTTERLY ASHAMED. BUT LATER. TEXTING EVERYONE NEEDS TO GROW. UP BECAUSE SEXUALITY AND SEX IS. CHANGING AND STUFF LIKE THIS IS. GOING TO BECOME MORE COMMON. I'M ALSO REALLY OPEN MINDED. THOUGH. I LOVE YOU KING. THE. FOLLOWING WEEK THAT MAN APPEARS. WORRIED. I'M BEING LABELED AN. ASSAULTER IN THE PUBLIC EYE. JANE DOE FIRST REASSURED HIM, I'VE NEVER MENTIONED YOUR NAME, BUT THE NEXT DAY SHE TEXTS, I. THINK I'M DONE TALKING TO YOU.

I KNOW YOU LIED. AND THAT SAME. DAY SHE WENT TO POLICE ON. SOCIAL MEDIA. THE FRATERNITY. BROTHERS HAVE BEEN DUBBED THE. CORNELL SEVEN. A LAWYER FOR ONE. OF THEM SAID, THAT'S NOT FAIR. AND HIS CLIENT IS INNOCENT. >> IT'S GUILT BY ASSOCIATION. WHEN YOU ACTUALLY READ THE. COMPLAINT AND SEE WHAT'S THERE, YOU REALIZE THEY'RE NOT. ACCUSING HIM OF RAPE. >> TONIGHT, THE GOVERNOR OF NEW. YORK SAYS CORNELL HAS NOW. ACCEPTED HER CALL FOR AN. INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION INTO. HOW THE SCHOOL HANDLED THIS. >> PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THE. TRUTH, AND I THINK IT'S. IMPORTANT FOR THE PUBLIC, FOR.

THE VICTIM, HER FAMILY AND THE. UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY TO KNOW. THAT THEIR UNIVERSITY DID. EVERYTHING THAT THEY'RE. SUPPOSED TO DO. >> SO TONIGHT, DAVID CORNELL. CONFIRMS THE OUTSIDE REVIEW AND. THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY IS. STANDING BY THE DECISION HE. MADE TWO YEARS AGO NOT TO FILE. CRIMINAL CHARGES, THOUGH HE. SAYS HE'S OPEN TO ANY NEW. EVIDENCE AS HE PREPARES TO TAKE. THE CASE TO A GRAND JURY. >> DAVID AARON KATERSKY IN. ITHACA ON THIS CASE AGAIN. TONIGHT. THANK YOU. AARON. TONIGHT, THE YOUNG COLLEGE. HOCKEY PLAYER WHO COLLAPSED. DURING PRACTICE AT ARIZONA.

STATE THIS EVENING. THE VIDEO. NOW OF THE DRILLS THAT PLAYER. NOW ON A VENTILATOR. HIS FAMILY. SAYS HE'S NOT BELIEVED TO GET. ANY BETTER FROM HERE. AND AFTER. TEAMMATES CAME FORWARD, WHAT'S. NOW HAPPENED AT THAT SCHOOL. HERE'S TREVOR AULT. >> TONIGHT, A MAJOR DEVELOPMENT. AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY. IN. THE CASE OF THAT YOUNG HOCKEY. PLAYER, MATTHEW MAY, WHO. COLLAPSED AND FELL INTO A COMA. FOLLOWING PRACTICE IN THE. SEARING HEAT TONIGHT, THE HEAD. COACH HAS BEEN PUT ON LEAVE. AFTER SEVEN PLAYERS CAME. FORWARD, ARGUING THE SCHOOL'S. VERSION OF THAT PRACTICE DID.

NOT MATCH WHAT THEY ACTUALLY. ENDURED. >> RESPECTFULLY, I DECLINED TO. ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING. AUGUST 20TH. >> THIS NEW VIDEO SHOWS. >> SOME OF THAT PRACTICE RUN BY. A FORMER GREEN BERET LAWYER FOR. THE FAMILY, CLAIMS IT LASTED. MORE THAN 80 MINUTES IN DIRECT. SUNLIGHT, WITH ONLY A HANDFUL. OF PLAYERS ALLOWED. WATER AND. ATTORNEY FOR THE GREEN BERET. SAYS HIS WORKOUT WAS UNDER AN. HOUR, AND HE LEFT BEFORE IT. COLLAPSED DURING THE COOL DOWN. AFTER AND A NEW TRAGEDY TONIGHT. HITTING A FAMILY IN SOUTHEAST. TEXAS. A COLLEGE SENIOR AT.

TEXAS A AND M DYING OF. COMPLICATIONS FROM HEAT STROKE. TWO WEEKS AFTER HE SUDDENLY. COLLAPSED. 21 YEAR OLD AUSTIN. STAHLMAN IS THE SON OF A LOCAL. SHERIFF. HIS PARENTS TELL ABC. HE GOT SICK RUNNING WITH A. STUDENT GROUP CALLED THE SEAL. PLATOON, TRAINING TO EVENTUALLY. TRY TO BECOME A NAVY SEAL. >> WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A MOMENT. TO SPECIFICALLY PRAY FOR AUSTIN. STAHLMAN AND THE BRAZORIA. COUNTY SHERIFF BO STALLMAN'S. FAMILY. >> AND DAVID, IN THAT ARIZONA. STATE CASE, THE UNIVERSITY SAYS. THEY CONTINUE TO COLLECT. INFORMATION. THE COACH SAYS. HE'LL FULLY COOPERATE AND.

SUPPORT THE TEAM FROM A. DISTANCE. SEVERAL PLAYERS IN. THE FAMILY WANT AN INDEPENDENT. INVESTIGATION. DAVID. >> THESE CASES WITH THESE YOUNG. PLAYERS ARE ALSO DIFFICULT. TREVOR AULT WITH US AGAIN. TONIGHT. TREVOR. THANK YOU. WE'RE GOING TO TURN NOW TO THIS. DEADLY WORKPLACE SHOOTING IN. VIRGINIA. THE GUNMAN WHO WALKED. IN AND ALLEGEDLY TOLD COWORKERS, THREE OF YOU ARE GOING TO DIE. LET'S GET RIGHT TO PIERRE. THOMAS, OUR CHIEF JUSTICE. CORRESPONDENT. PIERRE, WHAT. HAVE YOU LEARNED IN THIS CASE. >> DAVID? POLICE DESCRIBING. >> IN DISTURBING DETAIL DEADLY. WORKPLACE VIOLENCE AT A RETAIL. STORE IN MANASSAS. AUTHORITIES. SAY JUST AFTER 7 A.M. MARVIN.

GRANT, AN EMPLOYEE AT UNITED. RENTALS, WALKED INTO HIS OFFICE. AND SAID, QUOTE, THREE PEOPLE. ARE GOING TO DIE. HE THEN. ALLEGEDLY PULLED OUT A HANDGUN, FIRING AWAY. THREE PEOPLE WERE. WOUNDED, WITH TWO DYING AFTER. THEY WERE TAKEN TO A LOCAL. HOSPITAL. THE THIRD PERSON SHOT. IS IN STABLE CONDITION. POLICE. SAY GRANT FLED THE SCENE AND. WAS LATER SPOTTED BY VIRGINIA. STATE POLICE SOUTHBOUND ON. INTERSTATE 81. POLICE SAY GRANT. FATALLY SHOT HIMSELF DURING A. CONFRONTATION WITH AUTHORITIES, ENDING A TRAGIC DAY. >> DAVID PIERRE THOMAS IN.

WASHINGTON. THANK YOU, PIERRE. NOW TO THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS. TONIGHT, JUST WEEKS AWAY. NOW, THIS EVENING, THE TEXAS SENATE. RACE. AND WHAT THE REPUBLICAN. IN THAT RACE IS CAUGHT ON AUDIO. SAYING ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP. AND THE PRESIDENT'S RECENT. CONVENTION IN TEXAS. HERE'S. MARY BRUCE TONIGHT. >> TONIGHT, AN AUDIO OBTAINED. BY THE NEW YORK TIMES. KEN. PAXTON, THE REPUBLICAN. CANDIDATE IN THE CLOSELY. WATCHED TEXAS SENATE RACE, CAN. BE HEARD COMPLAINING PRESIDENT. TRUMP'S RECENT MIDTERM. CONVENTION IN DALLAS HURT. REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGNS, INCLUDING.

HIS OWN. >> WE DID THAT CONVENTION WITH. OUR MEMBERS. EVERYBODY. WE'VE. GOT RIGHT NOW. YEAH, NOT NOT. GOOD. >> IN A REMARKABLE LEAD UP TO. THE MIDTERMS, POLLS IN THE. RELIABLY RED STATE NOW GIVE. PAXTON'S DEMOCRATIC OPPONENT, JAMES TALARICO, A SLIGHT EDGE. PAXTON, THE TEXAS ATTORNEY. GENERAL, HAS WEATHERED PERSONAL. SCANDALS AND CORRUPTION. ALLEGATIONS. TALARICO, A FORMER. MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER AND. STUDENT MINISTER, MAKING.

INROADS INTO EVEN SOME OF THE. REDDEST PARTS OF THE STATE. DURING THE REPUBLICAN MIDTERM. CONVENTION, TALARICO HELD A. FOOD DRIVE NEARBY. >> THEY ARE TOASTING TO THEIR. OWN CORRUPTION. >> LATE TODAY, THE PRESIDENT. ASKED ABOUT PAXTON'S COMMENTS, BLAMING TRUMP'S CONVENTION FOR. HIS CAMPAIGN WOES. >> WELL, I HAVEN'T HEARD THAT, BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE. CONVENTION WAS AMAZING. >> BUT POLLS PUT HIS APPROVAL. RATING AT OR NEAR RECORD LOWS, IN SOME CASES AS BAD AS IN THE. AFTERMATH OF JANUARY 6TH. AND.

TONIGHT, TEXAS IS OUTGOING. REPUBLICAN SENATOR JOHN CORNYN. WITH A WARNING. >> THE PRESIDENT WANTS TO MAKE. ALL THESE ELECTIONS ABOUT. HIMSELF WHEN HIS FAVORABILITY. RATINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY ONCE. WERE. THAT'S NOT A PLUS. THAT'S. A NEGATIVE. >> AND, MARY, WE SHOULD POINT. OUT THAT DESPITE THAT AUDIO. CAPTURED, PRESIDENT TRUMP IS. SCHEDULED TO BE IN TEXAS. TOMORROW TO CAMPAIGN WITH KEN. PAXTON. I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO. TRACK THAT. IN THE MEANTIME, WHILE WE HAVE YOU TONIGHT, THE. OTHER MAJOR HEADLINE. THIS. INVOLVES CHANGES AT THE. PENTAGON AND A SHIFT FOR THE.

U.S. IN IRAQ. >> DAVID, IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS. WAR WITH IRAN, SECRETARY PETE. HEGSETH TODAY ANNOUNCING HE IS. SLASHING THE NUMBER OF GENERALS. AND ADMIRALS AT THE PENTAGON BY. 20%. IT COMES ON THE SAME DAY. THAT U.S. FORCES HAVE NOW. FORMALLY WITHDRAWN FROM IRAQ. AFTER MORE THAN TWO DECADES. DAVID. >> MARY BRUCE, LIVE AT THE. WHITE HOUSE TONIGHT. MARY. THANK YOU. MUCH MORE NEWS AHEAD. HERE TONIGHT. WHEN WE COME BACK, THE COLLEGE STUDENT AND THE. TERRIBLE FALL TONIGHT, THIS. COLLEGE SENIOR SURVIVING A. HARROWING FALL FROM HER EIGHTH. STORY WINDOW. WHAT HAPPENED.

RIGHT BEFORE THAT FALL. AND. WHAT WE'VE NOW LEARNED TONIGHT. AND THEN LOOK AT THIS LITTLE. DOG RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE. STREET. THE LEASH HANGING THERE. NO OWNER BUT WHERE THAT DOG. THEN LEADS THE OFFICER IN THE. PATROL CAR. THIS IS INCREDIBLE. >> TONIGHT, A DEADLY HOUSE. EXPLOSION IN PERRY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, JUST OUTSIDE. HARRISBURG. IT WAS FELT TEN. MILES AWAY. ONE PERSON WAS. KILLED IN THE HOME. DEBRIS WAS. SCATTERED ON THE ROAD AND ON. SURROUNDING PROPERTIES. THE. CAUSE UNDER INVESTIGATION.

TONIGHT. A DRAMATIC POLICE. CHASE ONTO AN AIRPORT RUNWAY IN. SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. THE DRIVER. CRASHING THROUGH AN AIRPORT. GATE, THEN ENDING UP ON THE. RUNWAY PLANES RIGHT NEARBY. THAT DRIVER WAS ARRESTED FACING. MULTIPLE CHARGES TONIGHT. WHEN. WE COME BACK THIS EVENING THAT. COLLEGE SENIORS SURVIVING AN. EIGHT STORY FALL. WHAT HAPPENED. RIGHT BEFORE THE FALL. AND THAT. DOG IN THE MIDDLE OF STREET. DOG IN THE MIDDLE OF STREET. AND WHERE THAT LITTLE DOG GUIDED POLICE. >> TO THE INDEX. TONIGHT, A. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SENIOR IS. AWAKE AND RECOVERING AFTER AN. EIGHT STORY FALL FROM HER DORM. WINDOW. POLICE SAY KRISTEN.

SERGEANT WAS JUMPING ON HER. COUCH CELEBRATING A FOOTBALL. WIN NEAR AN OPEN WINDOW. HER. ROOMMATES THEN CALLING 911. >> YES, SHE'S ON THE GROUND. SHE FELL OUT OF THE WINDOW. WE. WERE DANCING AND SHE JUST FELL. OUT OF THE WINDOW. I'M NOT, I'M. ON. I'M LOOKING DOWN AT HER ON. THE FLOOR. SHE'S NOT MOVING. >> HER FATHER SAYS SHE IS A. FIGHTER AGAIN, AWAKE AND. RECOVERING. AND WE DO WISH HER. WELL. WHEN WE COME BACK HERE. TONIGHT, THAT LITTLE DOG, THE. NO OWNER. WHERE THAT DOG THEN LEAD THE OFFICER.

>> FINALLY.LY. TONIGHT. HERE. AMERICA STRONG. THE LITTLE DOG. IN THE STREET. DETERMINED TO. GET HELP. TONIGHT IN LEAWOOD, KANSAS, OUTSIDE KANSAS CITY. THE LITTLE DOG IN THE STREET. HI. A POLICE OFFICER ON PATROL. SPOTTING THE DOG BARKING. THE. LEASE STILL ON HANGING RIGHT. THERE, BUT NO OWNER IN SIGHT. >> GOING BACK HOME. >> THE OFFICER GETTING BACK. INTO HIS SQUAD CAR, FOLLOWING. THE DOG TO ITS HOME. A SECOND. DOG RIGHT THERE IN THE DRIVEWAY. WITH ITS LEASE STILL ON TWO. >> THIS IS WHERE YOU LIVE.

>> BEHIND THE DOGS, AN OPEN. GARAGE DOOR. THEIR OWNER IN. NEED OF HELP ON THE FLOOR. >> HI. ARE YOU OKAY? >> THAT HOMEOWNER HAD BEEN. LYING THERE FOR MORE THAN THREE. HOURS TONIGHT, THE LEAWOOD. POLICE DEPARTMENT ON THAT. LITTLE DOG IN THE STREET SAYING. THANKS TO THE RESIDENTS LOYAL. COMPANION, OUR OFFICER WAS ABLE. TO FIND THEM AND GET THEM THE. HELP THEY NEEDED. THE RESIDENT. WAS TREATED BY MEDICAL. PERSONNEL AND IS NOW RECOVERING. SAFELY AT HOME. >> HI. >> TONIGHT HERE, THE LOYAL DOG, THAT LEASH DANGLING IN THE. STREET AND THE RACE TO HELP ITS.

OWNER. THE INSTINCTS OF OUR. DOGS. SO LOYAL. DOGS. SO LOYAL. I'M DAVID MUIR. SEE YOU HERE TOMORROW.