♪ ♪ >> david: tonight several developing stories as we come in the air, the founder of the oath keeper sentenced 18 years in prison for january 6th, what the judge said to him. and late reporting on raising the debt ceiling in the shark attacks an american woman losing part of her leg. first tonight the founder of the oath keepers stewart rhodes, authorities say one in the main architects behind the assault getting 18 years in prison. the judge calling him "an ongoing threat and peril to this country." pierre thomas reporting period and the debt ceiling pushing the u.s. closer to the brink of default. one week left, now breaking for the memorial day weekend with no deal. rachel scott asking the house speaker tonight whether americans who count on benefits including veterans should be making alternate plans? his answer here tonight.

their horrific shark attacks at turks and caicos, the connecticut woman losing part of her leg while snorkeling. the latest in a string of shark attacks. the severe storm as a holiday approach is from texas to montana and the system moving up the east coast. and just moments ago that confirmed in miami. bob marciano is here. the 11-year-old boy shot in the chest by a police officer after calling 911 for help. tonight how did this happen? in the case making national headlines, the bride killed just after her wedding. the never before seen surveillance video obtained exclusively by the daily mail showing what appears to be the vehicle speeding in that direction after the golf cart carrying the bride and groom. tonight florida governor ron desantis on the campaign trail asked to explain what happen with that botched start last night. what was supposed to be a big start with twitter and elon musk. in news tonight on foert trump'f r-a-goter the tehat e documentse

removed after the subpoena, now "the washington post" reporting tonight they removed the day before agents have visited the property. the young baseball player killed with a dugout collapsed on top of him. what we have learned. in america strong tonight, prisoners of war in vietnam, the homecoming that has been never forgotten. and they are here with us tonight 50 years later. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: from "abc news" world headquarters in new york, this is "world news tonight with david muir." ♪ ♪ >> david: good evening. it's great to have you with us here on a thursday night and we begin with that 18-year prison sentence in connection with january 6. the founder of the oath keepers stuart road sentenced to two decades in prison after being found guilty of conspiracy, one of the main architects behind

the assaults, calling him an ongoing threat and peril to this country. prosecutors have argued he had called for a tax on the government for years and was doing so on january 6th to keep donald trump in power. a defiant road calling himself a political prisoner, abc chief justice leading us off tonight. >> tonight the leader of the oath keepers militia headed to prison for nearly two decades for his role as one of the main architects in a january 6th attack of the u.s. capitol. and handing down the 18 year prison term for seditious conspiracy along with some january 6 defendant, federal judge annika maeda calls stuart rhodes an ongoing threat and apparel to the country. the judge imposed a lengthy sentence putting down terrorist and harassment charges. saying he was an insurrectionist. "what we absolutely cannot have as a group of citizens who because they did not like the outcome of an election then form a revolution. that is what you did." but rhodes was defiant calling himself a political prisoner,

telling the judge "like president trump, my only crime was opposing those who are destroying our country." prosecutors said the evidence against rhodes was overwhelming, put into this video from november 2020 where rhodes predicted violence. >> we have men already stationed outside d.c. has a nuclear option in case they attempt to remove the president illegally, we will stop it. >> and the fbi says images of guns stored in the local hotel outside of washington, d.c., are part of the oath keepers so-called quick reaction force. the proof the group was there to wage war and keep former president trump in office. the oath keepers and their proud boys prosecutors say played a pivotal role in sparking the violence and other writers. >> david, that sentence means a long time behind bars for the leader of the oath keepers. up next to seditious conspiracy sentencing for the leader of the proud boys, and said that it is

likely the sign of a leak lengthy sentence of jail for him too. >> david: pierre thomas leading us off from washington. thank you. we will turn to the debt ceiling showdown pushing the u.s. closer to the brink of default, one week left, house lawmakers breaking for the memorial day weekend with no deal. and so rachel scott today asking that house speaker about americans who count on benefits including veterans whether they should be making alternative plans now. here is rachel tonight. >> with a catastrophic default just one week away, president biden today reassuring america that top republicans are moving in the right direction. >> we all agree that there will be no default. it is time for congress to act now. >> but top republican negotiators making it clear they are not there yet. >> we have fundamental disagreements we have to resolve. >> republicans won't raise the debt ceiling unless the president agrees to the spending cuts, if congress does not act, social security payments would

hold and millions of americans at risk. it's because they are counting on payments for the government, should they make backup plans? >> no i would not worry about that. >> that's not enough to comfort americans like scott. served in the air force for 20 years, and now worries that his veteran benefits will stop. >> we are being held hostage. yes, obligations or obligations. i'm responsible for mine, the government should be responsible for their's. >> david: that was really interesting, saying the veteran should not worry and not be making alternative plans at this point. but leaving for the memorial day weekend just days now before the u.s. would default, americans are going to ask going home no deal, what is going on? >> members have left town, but the top negotiators say they are willing to stand washington and work through the holiday weekend if that's what it takes to get this done. any legislation will take several days to make its way through congress, so they likely snead a deal in hand within the next 48 hours, david.

>> watching it on the hill for us, rachel scott, thank you. and a young american tourist is recovering from a horrific shark attacks in turks and caicos, and losing her leg, here is abcs reporter. >> reporter: a connecticut woman in the hospital after a shark bit off her leg and turks and caicos, and was snorkeling with a friend at a local area employed from the nearby resort for an emergency call saying that the victim had her leg bitten off by a shark, the incident the latest in a string of shark encounters before memorial day weekend and the start of the summer travel season. and store in harbor new jersey, teenager bitten in the leg while holding her surfboard, and body camera video obtained by wplg showing first responders racing to help 20-year-old kevin bronco after he was bitten on the leg

wall fishing last week. shark encounters are uncommon in those ending with injuries and deaths even more rare, local authorities investigating this incident. >> david: thank you. we are tracking severe weather as the holiday weekend begins from texas all the way up to montana and also assisted up the east coast while looking at this just a short time ago a confirmed tornado in miami. of course it's just one of the systems we are tracking, rob marciano on all of this tonight. hey, rob. >> hi, david, just a minister parts of florida and going to drift north over the weekend. during the day, tomorrow georgia and south of north carolina we will see the heavy rain and some wins and some rough surf, and will go into the dry zones of new jersey even though the water is much colder up there. that's happening while we are watching a severe weather threat during the part of the south in the north, but not just tonight, the damaging winds tomorrow as

well. >> david: rob marciano with us again tonight, thank you. now to the case of mississippi, the 11-year-old boy shot in the chest by a police officer after that boy had called 911 for help. tonight the investigation of calls for action and of course how did this happen? here is abcs steve now. >> no justice, no peace. >> in the middle -- friends and family of a police shooting victim are marching on city hall calling for the firing of one of their police officers. on saturday 11-year-old darian murray was shot in the chest inside his own home by an officer who was responding to a call for help. >> this boy was unarmed, he had nothing in his hands, so we could not have received a threat. >> the issue is with his mom's ex-boyfriend who she says was violent with her before and showed up at the home again around 4:00 a.m. her son was woken up by the fighting was one of the people who called police. authorities knew there were children at the home.

>> once he was like, come out with your hands up, and at that moment is when my son came out. >> why the officer fired his gun and pointed it at the child is unclear and city police aren't commenting at this point. >> you are asking someone to come out with their hands up, but you are shooting. i don't understand. >> but in a statement the mississippi bureau of investigation says that after the gun fired the boy received significant injuries and had to be transported to a local hospital. >> he was like i don't want to die, that's what he was saying, while i was on the ground and i said you are n going to die, baby. you are not going to die, just keep talking. >> tonight his mother wants the police officer charged. >> her son had a collapsed lung and a cut on his liver. the mayor says the officer who shot him has been suspended. no word yet on what happened if anything to the ex-boyfriend. david. >> david: so many questions on this case, thank you. tonight another case making national headlines, the bride killed just hours after her

wedding. the never before seen surveillance video that shows what appears to be the golf cart carrying the bride and groom and the vehicle speeding in the same direction right after them. here is abcs eva pilgrim. >> tonight, never before seen video showing the moments before an alleged drunk driver crashed into a golf cart killing a bride on her wedding night. >> the last thing i remember her saying was she wanted the night to never end. >> in the video obtained exclusively by daily mail it appears to show eric and sam hutchinson riding on their golf cart moments later you see a car speeding down the street. then shortly after that, first responders speed by rushing to the scene of the crash. police and folly beach, south carolina say that jamie , plowed into the couple going 65 and a 25-mile-an-hour zone. sam was killed in the crash. eric and his brother-in-law was also in the cart were badly injured. >> is there anything you would like to say to the driver? >> no, i can't right now. i would like to, i mean, she stole something.

she stole an amazing human being that should not have been taken. >> the driver is now facing dui charges for the crash, her blood alcohol level more than three times the legal limit and is still behind bars tonight. david. >> david: eva pilgrim with us tonight, thank you. there is news this evening on former president trump's handling of classified documents at mar-a-lago after our team reported that documents were moved after the subpoena, now "the washington post" reporting they removed the day before federal agents visit the property. here's terry miranda. >> two a former president trump's employees moved boxes and papers from a storage room inside the mar-a-lago home just one day before fbi agents visited the property last june according to "the washington post." the move coming after the team received a subpoena from the justice department for

classified documents. abc news previously reported that investigators suspect those boxes contained classified material. based on witness statements, security camera footage and other documentary evidence according to sources familiar with the investigation. the timing of the moving of the boxes has raised suspicions and was all done in an effort to obstruct the federal investigation according to the post. the former president said that he had a right to those documents. >> i took the documents, i am allowed to. >> sources familiar with the investigation said that federal investigators believe that donald trump kept documents in his office in private residence possibly showing the document to his visitors. >> special counsel jack smith has investigated these matters in any final decision on any charges could be coming as soonest the summer. >> david: terry moran tonight also in washington. thank you. now to the race for the white house, ron desantis officially on the campaign trail after his botched launch on twitter and asked in a series of interviews what happened.

here's jon karl. >> in his first full day as a presidential candidate ron desantis did a flurry of interviews. at least 11 of them. most with friendly conservative radio shows. after the botched launch of his campaign yesterday, the ron desantis team had hyped the announcement with the elon musk on twitter as a bold unconventional move. but when the time came, and technical disaster struck. >> you have so many people here that i think we are melting the servers. >> it is not that many people, fewer than 300,000, a tiny fraction of elon musk's 140 million twitter followers. and most of the interviews today ron desantis was asked about the follow-up. >> i did not really know what was going on, because twitter handled all of that. >> and donald trump was relentless. portraying the botched launch as a sign of incompetence, calling him rob instead of ron. >> the question as rob is young,

inexperienced, or naive, or more troubling, is he a fool who has no idea what the hell he is doing. >> desantis says it shows that trump pierce impaired >> he is -- trump fears him. >> i think it's showing everybody that he understands that i have a good chance to beat them, because he does not criticize anybody else now. it's only me. >> ron desantis took his most direct shots at trump's policies. >> we are 31 trillion in debt and he almost added 8 trillion in four years as president. >> accusing donald trump of moving to the left on abortion and immigration. >> ron desantis plans to hit the campaign trail next week, a four day swing through iowa, new hampshire, and south carolina. >> david: pretty clear they are taking on each other, thank you. when we come back, the suspect in idaho college murders now questions about another disappearance. the young baseball player killed when it dug out on top of him, in the moment. that wasn't .

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>> david: finally here, the moment the nation held its breath, the prisoners in vietnam finally coming home. 50 years later with us. it was the relief and the joy in this country 50 years ago. u.s. servicemen captive in vietnam were finally coming home. norman mc >> i have a wife and two wonderful children. >> held captive for 2,399 days, more years later, he and prisoners of war here. >> i'm norma a. mcdaniel, i was

shot down on july 20 1966. >> tom hampton, i was a young captain when i shut down. on the 27th of june 1972. >> lee ellis, i was a first lieutenant and was there five and a half years. >> alvin alvarez, i was captured eight and half years. >> all four men shot out of the sky and captured. their treatment was brutal. >> they drag you out and go back into yourself. >> the resistance was torture and resisted and tortured. >> i felt like it was me versus the whole field. >> they would spend years communicating through prison walls by tapping. >> i would tap to say hi you go 23, 2, 4. we would sign up every day with this one. that's god bless you.

it was like goodbye andgod bles. >> david: it was 1973, many years into that war when the peace treaty, the paris pcos we. the p.o.w.s finally started to come home. the image back then of everett alvarez walking off the plane mid salute. he has not forgotten that moment. >> it was unreal. it was overwhelming. >> david: in the right hand corner of this photo at the bonhomme, this is tom hampton. >> this was your reaction when the aircraft carrier said we are in international waters, eight years, eight and half years? >> lee ellis holding the plane home handed a cigar. >> and my mustache with what it had to, so i would go home like i came in. >> norman mcdaniel when he was reunited with his wife and his son was 11. >> i will never forget, he said we are never going to let you leave us again.

>> david: to honor the 591 p.o.w.s coming home, president nixon invited them to the white house. servicemen walking in on crutches, some wearing eye patches. and this week 50 years after that dinner so many of those p.o.w.s together again at the nixon presidential library. 150 p.o.w.s and 37 states. they told us why this reunion was so important. >> i think it's important because they are all here next to me. >> they are the best, i would die for any of these guys. >> i just thank god for every one of us who came back and i feel so sorry for the ones who did not make it back. >> we are just grateful. we have had good lives. we are grateful. >> david: we honored them but then, we honor them now. heroes. i am david muir, good night.

dan: tonight, the new detect wildfires in the bay area. plus. >> it does not exactly look like the hub of a lot of transit. ama: a multibillion-dollar transit center without the masses. tonight, an inside look at it in the future of the transit center. sandhya: cool by standards. i will let you know if it continues for the holiday weekend. abc 7 news at 6:00 starts right now. ♪ announcer: building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc7 news. ama: the holiday getaway is underway. we are looking live at drivers around the bay area because forecasters predict record travel for the memorial weekend. dan: traffic is a mess and open because of an incident near keller avenue. only one lane remains close in

the westbound direction and all lanes were closed at one point. a white suv and another vehicle are involved but we have not heard of injuries but will stay on top of it. good evening. ama: we are focused on two forecasts, travel and the weather but we want to start with weather. dan: she has the weather covered. sandhya: yes. good evening. good evening die everyone. let's look at a live picture now. it is a murky view from the mount tam cam. the marine layer is deep, sitting at the cousin pressing across the bay tonight. 50/60's. you notice the marine layer advancing this evening. temperatures fall and drizzle will fall first thing tomorrow morning between 5:00 and 8:00 a.m. so if you are getting out of town, watch out for damp roadways and pocket support visibility. at 3:00 in the afternoon, you can see the temperatures 70's and then come 50's because side, nowhere where they should be this time of year and as