tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. the homes engulfed in flames. the fires out of control at this hour, fueled by winds. homes and properties burning right now. the images coming in and the horrific stories. the child running into her parents' room, screaming, "the hill is on fire." also, the crippling blizzard tonight. the dangerous storm. treacherous driving. the sudden 60-degree drop. and the nor'easter targeting new york city and boston, whipping winds and blinding rain. what to expect tomorrow morning. rob marciano with the new track. there is also breaking news involving the president's personal attorney. two men helping rudy giuliani investigate joe biden in ukraine under arrest tonight. the two men taken into custody at the airport with one-way tickets out of the u.s. reportedly hours after having lunch with giuliani at the trump hotel.

what they're charged with tonight. their photographs with president trump and his son. and the president responding late today. the alleged gunman who drove more than 600 miles from outside dallas to el paso in court for the first time. what happened in that courtroom today. 22 people were killed inside that el paso walmart. the death toll mounting tonight. turkey's military assault on u.s. allies, on the kurds, who helped the u.s. fight isis. president trump pressed on this late today, as well. tonight, we learn of the si, the deadly attack. tonight, the gunman now charged. the bus driving facing charges tonight, cursing, getting physical with a child, slamming on the brakes. that child then heading into the windshield. what authorities are now saying tonight. good evening. it's great to have you with us here on a thursday night. we have several developing stories as we come on. and we begin tonight with the out of control fires right now. homes at this hour engulfed in

flames. burning through a neighborhood near san bernardino, california. evacs ontiune ar there were one that school children were sheltering in place. abc's kayna whit worth with what we know so far. >> reporter: out of control wildfire raging in a neighborhood east of los angeles. >> 500 acres up in flames and numerous medical emergencies inside the mobile home park. >> reporter: firefighters on the ground in a house to house all-out war to save homes. >> that is just a tough thing to watch, those flames just so absolutely overpowering. >> reporter: mandatory evacuations ordered, but a students at a nearby school forced to shelter i then rushed to another school out of harm's way. the fire threatening railways and the power grid. first responders racing to clear

roads. david, the winds are whipping up to 30 miles an hour, and the air is bone dry. these are the most extreme conditions we've seen in years. fisirefighters have ng right been afraid of. david? >> the dramatic pictures near san bernardino tonight. kayna whitworth leading us off. thank you. of course, this is not the only fire burning in california right now. there is also a wildfire emergency to the north of where kayna is. homes threatened in the hills east of san francis families will be forced to evacuate there. reports of children racing into their parents' ro, saying "t in "the hills are on fire."miions witht power. we have reported on that, a preemptive move by the power companies so the lines will not ab>> rs c'wiorte cllr: tonight, winds fanning fires across northern california. the merrill fire forcing families from their homes in the middle of the night. >> my daughter came running into our bedroom, screaming, "the

hill is on fire." >> reporter: another fire breaking out on san bruno mountain. >> look at all those homes that lie in wait. >> pg&e, after being held responsible for previous devastating blazes, now trying r to hundreds of thousands across the region. that includes perry biestman.s blind. >> reporter: and now, biestman is trapped in his home, unable to use his electrical-powered lift one day before his 91st birthday. >> it's just gone on too long. >> reporter: tonight, it's unclear how long the power will arning through friday.n d david? >> will carr and kayna whitworth from california tonight. thanks to you both. and this is not the only weather emergency playing out as we come on tonight. there is also a crippling blizzard. the national weather service calling it a potentially historic october winter storm. up to two feet of snow, dangerous driving already. take a look. multiple accidents tonight. a treacherous commute.

that's i-25 in colorado. and a 60-degree drop in just the last 24 hours in denver. abc's clayton sandell from denver tonight. >> reporter: the season's first winter blast tonight causing a lot of slipping, sliding, swerving and smashing. snowy roads from rapid city, south dakota, to billings, montana. colorado commuters caught on interstate 25 needed help from . even their big trucks skidding on the icy pavement. the cold burst striking less than three weeks after the official end of summer. temperatures in denver nosedived overnight 50 degrees, from a balmy 80 to 30. at denver's airport, more than 100 flights canceled. more than 700 delayed. and david, blizzard warnings are now going up in the plains and it's still very cold. it could fall to 15 degrees here tomorrow and if that happens, it would be the largest two-day temperature drop in six years. david? >> whiplash in denver and in the middle of the country tonight. clayton, thank you. so, how long will the red flag

warnings last in california and what about this major winter storm? we're also following the nor'easter in the east. let's get to rob marciano, tracking it all. another busy night, rob. >> reporter: very much so, david. and this snowstorm very much connected to those santa ana winds. impressive storm, as clayton mentioned.tu drops and big-time snowfalls in record-breaking proportions. up andenr ivenche os and it's still piling up there. ahead of it, severe thunderstorm was ouhetc mpaisr fosourofi.rt and that blizzard warning is going to remain up in north dakota, right through saturday. and the temperatures dropping potentially below freezing all the way into texas. so, we have a freeze watches and warnings there. that nor'easter still offshore and just east of here, they're really getting some ugly weather, long island and eastern new england. rain, wind and coastal flooding. and then in the west, we still have a wide range of fire weather threat tonight, though tomorrow, the focus is going to be more on los angeles to san diego. conditions there are getting extreme, as we speak. david? >> all right, rob marciano,

watching it all night for us. rob, thank you. there is also a developing headline tonight involving the president's personal attorney, rudy giuliani. two men helping giuliani investigate joe biden in ukraine, they're now under arrest tonight. the two men taken into custody at the airport with one-way tickets out of the u.s., just hours after having lunch with giuliani at the trump hotel. tonight, what they're charged with, and their photographs with president trump and his son, and the president pressed on this late today, asked if giuliani could be indicted next. here's our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas now. >> reporter: the two american businessmen, who helped the president's personal attorney jodein ukraine, were gate scheduled to appear before eacod, t lreevss p aarodnas, wh born in ukraine, and igor fruman, who was born in belarus, were arrested overnight by the fbi at dulles international airport outside of washington. >> they were about to board an international flight with one-way tickets. >> rearlier, they dined with

giuliani at the trump hotel. the men now charged with illegally funneling campaign contributions, including some from russia, to a pac supporting president trump and other federal prosecutors say they were doing it to "buy potential influence." with the president ae tht e itwh don jr. according to prosecutors, they were also hoping to force out the u.s. ambassador to ukraine,a yoe ri >> they sought political influence bunoont t alyo dvvaa interests of at least one foreign official, a ukrainian government official who sought the dismissal of the u.s. ambassador to ukraine. >> reporter: the other person who allegedly wanted ambassador yovanovitch out? rudy giuliani, who was frustrated she was blocking his efforts to get ukraine to investigate biden. yovanovitch was removed from her post and giuliani acknowledges he played a role.

her name later came up in president trump's phone call with the ukrainian president. trump calling yovanovitch "bad news," adding cryptically, "she's going to go through some things." late today, the president saying he may have posed for pictures with the two men who were indicted, but that he does not know them. >> maybe they were clients of rudy. you'd have to ask rudy. i just don't know. >> are you concerned that rudy giuliani will be indicted in all of this? >> well, i hope not. >> let's get to pierre thomas, with us live on this developing story in washington. and pierre, the former american ambassador you spoke of there, the ambassador to ukraine, she's expected to testify before congress tomorrow, but of course, the big question this evening is, will she actually be allowed to show up by the state department? >> reporter: david, marie yovanovitch is scheduled to appear before congress first thing tomorrow morning. she's expected to attend, but tp at the last minute. and tonight, we've learned lawmakers have also subpoenaed those two associates of giuliani indicted today. david? >> pierre thomas tonight.

thank you, pierre. the impeachment showdown this evening and the president now lashing out after a new poll, this time from fox news. 51% answering that poll now n only be impeached but also removed from office. and tonight, the president's supporters, from republicans on the hill to the president of ukraine, alleiedeask ar, i ais, foreign government, for help investigating a political rival? and the difficulty they face in answering that question. here's our chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. >> reporter: late today, president trump repeatedly defended his decision to ask the president of ukraine to investigate joe biden. >> we had an absolutely perfect conversation. >> reporter: but vulnerable republican senators, like cory facing tough questions. >> do you believe it's appropriate for the president of the united states to ask a foreign leader to investigate a political rival, yes or no? >> well, look, this is what we're going to get into. the senate intelligence committee is having an investigation. >> but the question is, is it appropriate for a president to

ask a foreign government -- >> look, i think we're going to have an investigation and it's a nonpartisan investigation. >> but senator, it's a yes or no question. >> it's a nonpartisan investigation. it's an answer you get from a very serious investigation. >> reporter: president zelensky of ukraine has said he didn't feel pressured by the president, and today, he told tom llamas that he didn't think the president did anything wrong. >> whado you think of a president asking a foreign nation to investigate a political rival? is that corrupt? >> i think that this is not corruption, because it was -- it was just call. >> jon karl live at the white house tonight. and jon, tonight you are also learning of yet other administration officials now being swept up in this impeachment inquiry. >> reporter: david, the house intelligence committee has subpoenaed energy secretary rick perry. they want information about his interactions with ukraine. just last week, perry said he would cooperate with congressional investigators, but a senior white house official tells me tonight that they will instruct him to defy that subpoena as they have all others. >> jon karl with us again tonight. thank you, jon. next this evening, the death toll mounting in turkey's

military assault on america's kuises inside syri the kurds, of course, helped the u.s. fight isis and then they helped secure those isis fighters. well tonight, turkey releasing images of their jets taking off for air strikes. the kurds with their own images of what they say is the destruction in syria where they live. and, of course, caught in the middle, civilians now fleeing for their lives. late today, president trump was pressed on what the u.s. should do, knowing that the president talked to the president of turkey right before all this happened. abc's ian pannell from the region again tonight. >> reporter: tonight, turkey's army pounding kurdish targets in northern syria. the u.s.-backed allies who lost 11,000 soldiers in the war against isis are now fighting for their lives and homes, facing attack from the air and on the groun turkish-backed militias seen barreling their way into syrian villages. at least 23 kurdish fighters

killed and now reports children on both sides of the border among the dead. but the turkish president defiant, tonight warning europe that if it calls this an invasion, he'll open his borders and sent 3.6 million refugees their way.ounds are on the move. we met najat suleiman and her family. she says they fled after seeing civilians and children targeted in the strikes. she asks us, "why did the americans flee?" her 11-year-old son, mustafa, lost his voice after hours of screaming in fear. with a strained voice, he tells us he was afraid for his life. this is just the second day of bombing and already you're just seeing people by the side of the road. they were in a van, they've got no belongings with them. they've got nowhere to go. they've got nowhere to stay. we watched them clamber into the back of a passing truck and head off. with nowhere else to go, they

say they'll sleep in the desert. after this assault was launched, the president called it a bad idea. but that came just days after the white house announced the turks were moving in and u.s. area.s were moving out of the the president pressed again late today. >> i hope we can mediate, john. i hope we can mediate. >> would you support sanctions? >> i don't think we want to go back in. let's see what happens. we are going to possibly do something very, very tough with respect to sanctions and other financial things. >> reporter: the u.s. now moving a number of high value isis detainees out of the country, including two of the so-called beatles, who were responsible for the execution of more than two dozen western captives. now local officials are warning that the fighting here means an increased risk of issmas si david? >> ian pannell live from the region again tonight. ian, thank you. the alleged gunman, who drove

mo tasreha t60o eln 0 pleaso, court for the first time. seen on surveillance images at the entrance to that walmart where 22 people were killed in august.pened in hat courtroom today. >> reporter: the man accused of murdering 22 innocent people stoic while being led into a packed el paso courtroom. wearing a sportcoat and glasses, patrick crusius said little as some of the families of his alleged victims watched. >> do you wish to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty? >> not guilty. >> reporter: the allen, texas, native pleading not guilty to capital murder charges. >> run! >> go, go, go, comon! >> r say the 21-year-old drove 600 o armed with an assault-style weapon. panicked shoppers diving under tables for cover. after surrendering, el paso's s s enbo his was it the makeup of this community? was it your proximity to the

border? >> i think both. i think both. >> what drove him? was it hate? >> apparently so. >> reporter: police say crusius told authorities he drove to this border town because he wanted to kill as many mexicans as he could. the alleged gunman is expected back in court on november 7th. and david, some of the victims are still in the hospital recovering from their injuries. david? >> marcus moore tonight. thank you, marcus. we have new details tonight after that attack on a german synagogue. we have now learned that there were ten americans among those barricading themselves inside. the gunman was seen firing down the street, reloading several times. and today, he was flown by helicopter to appear before a judge. precuts sahe h nin pounds of explosives in his car. there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight" t. e ages cin n of e school bus overturning. a high school football team on the way to a game when the bus flipped on its side. first responders on the scene right now. also, the pictures coming in tonight. the alarm near new york's times square late today, after an

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finally, singer ed sheeran and prince harry do have some characteristics in common. it might look like prince harry there, but it's harry who answers the door. it's singer ed sheeran. >> thanks very much for coming out. really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me, man. this is something i'm quite passionate about. >> me, as well. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> awesome. this, for me, is a subject and a conversation that's just not talked aboh. i think people all over the world are reallyug sutuffering.o >> people don't understand what it's like for people like us. >> yeah, i mean -- what? >> well, you know, the jokes and the snide comments and, you know, i just feel ke it's time wetoodd , wee not going ake this amo. we are ginger and we're going to fight. >> um -- okay. ah -- slightly awkward. >> sheeran joking he's there to stand up and fight for everyone

who looks like them. prince harry using humor, too, saying this is not about that, it's about standing up for mental health. >> this is about world mental health day. >> oh, yeah, yeah. yeah, yeah, of course, of course. yeah, i knew -- no, no, i definitely knew that. se, they're using humor to shed lighur>>t f on a o prince harry has been talking about for some time now. his own challenges after he diana, and saying, we must all look out for one another and our mental health. and tonight, this message from both of them. >> reach out, make sure that your friends, strangers look out for anybody that might be suffering in silence. and we're all in this together. right? >> thanks for watching. >> cheers. >> really important cause. i'm david muir. i hope to see you right back here tomorrow. good night. now from abc7 news, live breaking news.

>> the breaking news tonight, pg&e. and dan noyes is there keeping track of all of this. >> we'll go out of these doors and go over to bechtel plaza. if that's not safe, we'll go to the embarcadero plaza. this is earthquake country, much like it is wildfire country. we need to be prepared for that also. we need to be prepared to duck, cover and hold at any time. if there is an active shooter situation for some reason, we will get out, hide out and take out. so the format of tonight's briefing and then we'll g toans >> that's a officer briefing the media, getting this thing going. he did this yesterday, talked in the eventuality of an earthquake or active shooter situation. just some procedure they're getting to. we're waiting to hear for the first time since all this happened from the ceo of pg&e, bill johnson, who is attending this news conference and no doubt will speak here saying, s

bay area communities are now getting their power back after the shutoffs. because of the red flag weather conditions, those shutoffs began tuesday. the most recent happened just last night. >> 600,000 customers were still without power around 10:00 this morning. let's listen to the next phase of this news conference. this is bill johnson, the ceo of pg&e. >> with that title comes the ultimate responsibility for this psps event. i spent a good part of the last week in the emergency operations center. i want to start by acknowledging where we are in this moment. on october 8th, two days ago, we decided to proactively turn off power to 800,000 customers. the largest psps event ever, at least that we can find. and as a result of this, millions of people have been without a fundamental service