kristen: thank you so much for joining us today for "getting answers." we will be here every weekday at 3:00 p.m. answering qu >> david: tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. the serial killer underestimated. authorities acknowledging they don't know how many people he allegedly killed. breaking news from the helper the high-stakes boathouse on raising the debt ceiling. president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy under pressure to get the votes. where this stands. rachel scott is live. also to my the suspected serial killer under arrest in texas. police say he told him he was ready to kill again. investigators don't know how many victims there might be.

in the northeast, the air quality concerns, images coming and smoke from canadian fires filling the skies over several major cities including philadelphia. rob marciano times this out. tonight, a store owner facing a murder charge for allegedly shooting and killing a 14-year-old boy he accused of shoplifting. the teen shot in the back while running away. police did find a gun. what we've learned tonight about that store owner before. the apartment building collapse. authorities using drones to search for the missing. our team in iowa. the war in ukraine tonight and the missile debris raining down on the ukrainian capital of keefe, this is ukraine launches new attacks inside russia. the russian refinery tonight to set ablaze. here in the u.s., the race for the white house. ron desantis taking aim at president biden. and former president trump saying we don't need an entertainer as president. jon karl in iowa. the breaking news. after danny masterson over that

70 show convicted of speed 27 justo while ago. the race to rescue a navy pilot. we will have the latest on his condition. his actress kim cattrall returning to samantha jones? "america strong" tonight, the boy you met here, so many other children across the country seeing his story and what so many of you have done. that boy brought to the white house. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: from "abc news" world headquarters in new york, this is "world news tonight" with david muir. >> david: good evening and it's great to have you with us here in a wednesday night we begin tonight with the high-stakes vote in the house to raise the debt limit and limit spending already clearing two major procedural hurdles. now the vote tonight. speaker kevin mccarthy pilling to houston was asking them to be on the right side of history he said and to vote yes. dozens planning to vote no. one republican comps and calling it a surrender.

mccarthy will also need democrats to get this passed. president biden a at the white house lobbying democrats not all are on board. and all of this with just days now until a potentially catastrophic u.s. default. so where does this tonight? rachel scott leading us off on capitol hill. >> reporter: tonight, the hard sell. the house speaker kevin mccarthy under pressure to pass the deal he negotiated with the white house and under fire from some of his own republican members? in the final hours, what are you telling members on the fence? >> don't want to miss being the wrong side of this. don't miss out. don't sit back and say one something so much more. yeah it's a lot of things we want but this is. it putter the congressional budget office determining the bill would reduce the deficit by $1.5 trillion over ten years. conservatives unmoved, especially after the cbo also found the bill stricter work requirements for some americans

on food assistance would actually increase spending by $2 billion. speaker mccarthy calls it a victory. what do you think? >> it's not a victory. it's a surrender. >> reporter: there is an anchor on the left too. president biden president biden top white house aides reaching out some 120 democratic lawmakers urging them to hold their nose and vote yes. >> i think things are going as planned, god willing to >> reporter: the white house priority: getting republicans to agree to raise the debt ceiling and avoid an economic catastrophe. for some progressives, the trade-off isn't worth it. >> voting against the bill isn't a vote against the president, it's against the republican extremism with debt ceiling debates every few years. >> reporter: the house and senate are on track to pass the bill for the nation defaults on june 5. leaders know they have to move quickly. tonight senate majority leader chuck schumer warning there is no room for error, hoping to have that bill through the senate by the end of the weekend. david prayed >> david: rachel scott reporting on this right in the evening for us rachel

thank you. we turn to the suspected serial killer under arrest, texas man suspected of murder ellerslie confessing to more than one. police that he told them he was ready to kill again. tonight investing it acknowledging they don't know how many people he might killed. abc's mireya villarreal in texas for us to >> reporter: tonight suspected serial killer raul meza back in jail after police in texas say he confessed to twd admitted he was planning to strike again. >> i will let you know mr. meza said he was ready and prepared to kill again and he was looking forward to it. >> returns to rail mr. junior at that address. >> reporter: police watching an urging manhunt for meza after his roommate, ed role jesse fraga was fatally stabbed in his home north of austin and meza was seen afterward driving jesse fraga's truck. investigators say while meza was on the run he called detectives

detailing how he murdered jesse fraga and implicated how he implicated himself in the woman strangled to death several years prior. >> the death of corey lofted. >> reporter: u.s. marshals apprehended meza at a bus stop. they say he had a bag with zip ties, flashlight, gun and multiple rounds inside. the 62 rolled already a convicted murderer. in 1982, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing third-grader kendra paige. his release after serving 11 years for good behavior. >> we don't want him in our neighborhood! >> reporter: sparking protests in austin at the time. >> we don't know home to people he killed or would have killed so here's a serial killer that justice was not served. >> reporter: david, investigators say these two latest cases may not be wary of historians. they confirmed they are looking at between eight and ten cold cases in this area alone that

meza could be responsible for and they date all the way back to 1996. david. >> david: mireya villarreal in texas for us. thank you. in the northeast concerns over the air quality because of smoke from wildfires in nova scotia, canada. hayes obscuring the skyline of philadelphia. take a look at that. the national weather service tonight has declared a "code orange alert." let's get right to senior meteorologist rob marciano tracking this and the system off florida but let's start with the air quality because this is significant. >> rob: the code orange means it doesn't just smell like campfire. it's unhealthy especially for sensitive groups. got several states under this alert. connecticut new jersey's parts of lord new york pennsylvania on the one in delaware is through tomorrow. the same high-pressure that brought beautiful weather to the northeast. the orange beginning to diffuse. the system in the gulf of mexico, this is a disturbance that could become tropical. there's a flood watch up through friday regardless of its to element it will bring rounds of

heavy rain for most the peninsula tomorrow. as you know, the first tape hurricane season. david. >> rob marciano with us. thank you, rob has always been next here tonight a south killing a convenience store owners facing a murder charge for little juliet shooting a 14-year-old boy he accused of shoplifting. the boy was shot in the back as he ran away. police did find a gun near the teen. what we've learned tonight about that store owner before. here is steve osunsami. >> this 14-year-old boy's dead end tonight this gas station owner is accused of murdering hy he suspected the teenager was trying to steal from his tour. >> looked like it might be a juvenile. >> okay. >> the 58-year-old owns the shell gas station in columbia, south carolina, that's covered in graffiti from protesters. investigators say 14-year-old cyrus carmack belton was at a cooler holding four bottles of water the police that he put back down when the store owner accused him of stealing. >> this has had lots of

shoplifting incidents. he did not shoplift anything can we have no evidence he stole anything. >> a struggle in the store spilled on the street and the teenager ran away. police say that store owner shot the child in the back. police people are outraged near and far paid even the county coroner says she is heartbroken. >> i will tell you all i have a son who is that age. >> reporter: police underlined that they did find a gun near the boy's body and that it belong to the teenager. there is stand your ground law insults going to authorities say doesn't help the store owner in this case because the teenager was killed as he was running away. investigators say that this same store owner has shot bullets and people in his tour before and one case where no one was hit, second case the police ruled it was self-defense. he's charged with murder. police say the child had a gun. >> david: steve osunsami. to deprive a building collapse in iowa.

they have turned to drones to search the building in davenport. five people are still on the kind of far, to believe to be inside. the rest of the building teetering and they say at risk of collapse. abc's alex perez on the scene in iowa again tonight. >> reporter: tonight authorities in davenport, iowa, using drones to search for the missing inside that collapsed apartment building. it's an agonizing wait for the family of ryan hitchcock and branded coven who authorities they are likely somewhere insid. corbin's son wants search teams to move faster. >> i don't feel like it's that hard. go in there look for people that's in there. go in there and look. >> reporter: how do you hold on to hope with all this destruction? >> for me personally, that lady heard. i keep having whole. >> reporter: officials have not provided a search timeline and say each time that crews enter the building it grows weaker and could collapse at any moment. residents here say there was a

history of plumbing and sewage leaks. >> we have problems with water damage, when you contact people who own the building, they don't do anything. >> reporter: required repair work was underway in the building collapse. there are new questions about why engineers hired by the building told city officials it was still safe for residents. david, i spoke with the property manager today and they would only tell me they are praying for the families and working on refunding deposits to the tenants. as for the property owner, he has been fined $300 so far and is due in court june 9. david greets you and keep asking those questions for all those people that live there, alex, thank you. now to the war in ukraine. new images from kyiv of missile debris raining down on a busy roadway in the capital. these images, as ukraine stepped up their attacks inside russia. tonight the russian refinery set ablaze. tom soufi burridge in ukraine again tonight. >> reporter: tonight dramatic dashcam video, missile debris crashing into a crowded highway in the ukrainian capital.

the missiles shot down part of a wave of recent russian attacks. but ukraine now taking the site inside russia, explosive drones striking to oil refineries deep inside russian territory, setting one of them on fire and video section collating online. russian regions bordering ukraine also under attack. the aftermath seen in video strictly online. a russian officials saying one person kills and two seriously injured by ukrainian artillery. >> these latest attacks coming after a swarm of explosive drons hit moscow, a ukrainian official suggesting ukraine was responsible. mary bruce asking the white house to clarify its position on not condoning attacks inside russia. >> reporter: as ukraine, country this been under attack for more than a year, not have a legitimate right to attack its aggressor back on its own territory? >> we don't tell them where to strike. we don't tell them where not to

strike. >> reporter: tonight the u.s. announcing more avenger air defense systems for ukraine. our teams showed one already in action. the adventure is a highly mobile air defense system. this unit's job is to hunt down a russian drone or missile and then the heat-seeking technology on board as the rest. the adventure firing stinger missiles, ukraine getting more of those too. david, the new packages were $300 million, taking total u.s. military aid to ukraine to more than $38 billion. the white house reiterating u.s. weaponry should not be used for attacks inside russia. david. >> david: tom soufi burridge and our team there to make. thank you. back here in the u.s. and the race for the white house. tonight ron desantis taking aim at president biden's and taking aim at former president trump, saying we don't need a retainer as presid president. jonathan karl in iowa tonight. >> this country is going in the wrong direction. we know it, we feel it. >> reporter: ron desantis

took his hard-edged cultural message across iowa, slamming joe biden and the cultural elite. but also making a clear contrast between himself and donald trump. >> leadership is not about entertainment. it's not about virtue signaling. it's not about kind of the show. what the essence of leadership is is about producing results. >> reporter: santos hit the issues that have made in both divisive and a popular figure among conservatives. his opposition to masks and vaccine mandates and the coated pandemic and his ban on classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity. also made a point to feature his wife and top political advisor, casey desantis. >> ron desantis always stands up for what's right. he never backs down. he says what he is going to do and he gets it done. >> reporter: trump has been relentlessly attacking desantis for months. now the florida governor is

hitting back. >> he used to say how great florida was. hell, his whole family moved to florida under my governorship. are you kidding me? >> reporter: suggesting trump can't win a general election. >> voters are looking at this and say yeah, we appreciate what he did but we also recognize there are a lot of voters that are just never going to vote for him. we have to accept that. >> reporter: iowa republicans came to see desantis told us they are not ready to say they support him but over and over again they told us they wanted alternative to trauma. >> we all agree that he did good things, kept the country moving but his character is not good. i need leadership of someone i can trust. >> do you think trump can a beaten? >> hope so. >> why do you hope so? >> reporter: the field of republican president whole candidates is about to get bigger. "abc news" has learned that former new jersey governor chris christie will announce that he's running for president and the event in

new hampshire next tuesday and mike pence will make his announcement that he's running next wednesday. >> david: chris christie, mike pence joining the race. jon karl tonight, john thank you. as we know we've been reporting on artificial intelligence, ai, what can already do but also the major risks on the horizon and might hear the dire warning from hundreds of leaders in technology and business about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence. it got our attention. in there one sentence statement, they warned ai could pose a "risk of extinction on par with pandemics and nuclear war." the group including the top scientists who have developed ai are calling for global regulation mounts before they said gets out of hand. the concern only growing since the release of chatgpt in november. when we come back on this wednesday night, the breaking news coming in, the verdict just in involving actor danny masterson of "that 70s show" and the race to rescue a navy pilot forced to eject right off the u.s. coastline in a moment.

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he's done since is "america strong." if we first met jack sperry from penn valley pennsylvania right here two years ago. he was just eight, reading the letter he wrote me. >> hi, i'm jack's. let me read my letter. david muir. "world news tonight." >> david: jack is writing about celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder triggered by eating gluten. >> dear mr. muir, when i turned eight in march, i search for a cure for celiac disease. >> david: jacks watches the news and he hoped we would get the word out. >> i watch you every night with my dad. you are a great storyteller. and i have learned a lot from you. including about the nih. >> david: the national institutes of health says 2 million americans have celiac disease. that number could be even higher. >> food insecurity happens for celiacs every day. can you please help me tell the celiac story this may which is

celiac awareness month? >> david: and when other children learned jax was reaching out, they did too. they also have celiac disease. >> oh, i went to a party and i didn't have to bring my own food and didn't have to worry about cross-contamination. >> a straight gluten-free diet is pretty tough >> david: to be 24 and his family would travel to capitol hill asking for research and funding for food labeling. now he made it to the white house, invited by president biden. so many of you at home moved to help including pennsylvania pennsylvania state senator medi-cal political just today asked jax to help her presents a $100,000 grant to the children's hospital of philadelphia for celiac research and so back here tonight. >> hi, david. >> david: hello, jax heat seeker i am checking into years later and i am 10 years old. researchers are working to find a treatment and cure it, i am working to label gluten on all packaged foods in the u.s. just

like it is an 85 other countries worldwide. >> david: keep going, jax. you are helping so many. i >> building a better bay area. moving forward. finding solutions. this is abc7 news. ♪ >> dangerous driving through the city or walking through the city. it's very tangible. larry: safety in san francisco. the perception versus reality and what the experts are saying. >> you know there are challenges like any major city. what's happening in san francisco right now is a lot of fear. it is casting a cloud but it is feeding into a negative narrative. kristen: mayor london breed tries to flip the script while releasing her budget proposal. ♪ larry: and the new effort to bring tourists back to the city. thanks for joining us.

i'm larry beil. kristen: i'm kristen sze. san francisco's mayor announced her budget for the next two years. $14.6 billion each year. some of the biggest priorities include the homelessness crisis, cleanliness, and safety. larry: leah the newsroom with the details. the mayor has been criticized for not doing enough. reporter: here's how i see it. i can't help but compare the san francisco of today with the new york city in the early, mid 1990's. i know because i was there. the mayor was known for being somewhat indecisive. he lost to rudy giuliani because giuliani was seen as the defender of law and order. i'm not saying he was a good or a bad mayor. but he was perceived as a consistent politician at that time. i'm sure that the mayor doesn't want to be