demonstrations are expect. abc's marci gonzales is watching the latest development and she joins us live from new york. marci? >> reporter: rick, protest and organizers designated this as a day of civil disobedience. extra officers are on patrol concerned about a potential repeat of last nights violence. today pro protests planned after a chaotic night. a black teenager shot by police after they, say he opened fire, on officers. the violence and looting, following a week of peaceful protests and marches. >> my family. >> reporter: commemorating first anniversary of the shooting death of 18 year-old michael brown by police officer darren wilson. >> there is a a small group of people out there that are intent on making sure that we don't have peace that prevails. >> reporter: police say the 18 year-old shot last night tyler harris was not part of the protest but was in this crowd when gunshots rang out at 11:15 between two rival groups. investigators claim harris ran and started shooting at a police suv were four detectives inside. authorities say as the detectives got out of the vehicle,

. marcy gonzales joins us now. >> reporter: things got started an hour ago with both parties meeting privately with the judge and the judge came out and said he had not decided which side would prevail, today a deflate-gate face-off in federal court. new england patriots star tom brady fighting his four game suspension going head to head against nfl commission under, roger goodell. >> we'll cooperate fully with that and allow the judge to handle the process. before the hearing the judge issuing a last minute orderer, encouraging both sides to engage in good final settlement issues. >> this judge will say if you can't resolve it, neither of you will like it. brady and the union taking it to court after the appeals of the nfl were denied. they said that brady's punishment after they said that they played with underdeflated balls last year. >> it was harsh. >> harsh. >> i have all played within the rules. >> but goodell says he concealed potentially relevant evidence. under the collective bargaining agreement he had every right to issue and oversee the punishment. >> if the punishment i

, marcy gonzales has more from new york. >> reporter: rick and sara that blast was so big it could be seen from space, and today hospitals in that area are overwhelmed with patients and people looking for missing family members. today thousands of rescuers desperately searching for survivors near the still smoldering rubble from this massive explosion in china. hundreds of people injured. dozens killed. the death toll still rising from the disaster that started yesterday just before 11:00 p.m. local time, firefighters first responding to a fire at a warehouse storing hazardous materials, more than a half hour later as they battled the flames, a huge blast followed by another bigger explosion. people nearby left with no time left to find safety. among the dead and injured some of those firefighters and migrant workers sleeping in nearby dormitories. bob woodruff at the scene. >> it's absolutely destroyed these are people's home and this is where they live. dvds, music. this is horrible. >> devastating damage through the major port city even a mile away, the force shattering windows. >>

today. marcy gonzales was there for the announcement, she joins us live now from the carter center in atlanta. >> he was open and even up beat as he shared details of his diagnosis and thoughts of what is ahead. former president, jimmy carter, still smiling as he detailed his melanoma diagnosis, first discovered during liver surgery. >> it's already in full in my brain so that night until the next day until i came up to emery, i just thought i had a few weeks left, i was surprisingly at ease. you know i have had a wonderful life. >> speaking this morning the 90-year-old is explaining he is fighting the disease going in for his first radiation treatment on his brain today. >> i feel good, i haven't felt any weakness or disability. the pain is slight. >> carter's father and all three siblings died of pancreatic cancer and he talked about his family and history. >> my name is jimmy carter and i'm running for president. >> and his regrets. >> i wish i had sent one more helicopter to get the hostages and i would have been reelected. that may have interfered with the foundation of the carte

was in the hospital. officials say he was the first personal to confront the gunman. marcy gonzalez is in new york with the details. >> reporter: rick, once he is released from the hospital he will be given the same award. the humble men say they don't feel like heros, explaining they just followed their instincts. france's highest honor to three americans who saved countless lives. the legion of honor member killed on spencer stone, alex skalatos and is an tone saddler, the french president saying they gave the world a message of courage. the childhood friends were on vacation traveling between amsterdam and paris when they spotted a gunman come out of the bathroom with an ak-47. >>> another american grabbed the ak-47 and was shot in the back with a pills toll. the attacker -- pistol. the attacker slacked stone with a box cutter. he managed to save him. >> i stuck my fingers into what i thought was the artery and pushed down and the bleeding stopped. it is men tied the gunman up. the attacker has been identified always moor moroccan born ayoub el-khazzani. he said he denies any tie

parker for wbbj and marcy gonzales he is is live with more on the shocking developments. >> good afternoon, we are waiting for more details, law enforcement tells abc news that the manhunt is over for the killer of two young journalists and there was no warning, a smiling reporter on the air doing her last live report of the morning. gunned down along with her camera man, colleagues and viewers and other local news team in heart broken horror police rushing to the scene finding allison parker and adam ward dead. police looking for the killer believed to be a former disgruntled employee of the news station where people are mourning today. >> we are in shock, can you hear people in the newsroom crying, it's hard to even comprehend and we cover them all the time. it's tough covering it when you don't know the people and when it's two of your own and so young. >> ward was 27 years old and just that morning wbdj was celebrating her last day on the job because the couple planned to move on start a new life together. >> it was a day of celebration. we brought in balloons and a cake. >>

festival. marcy gonzalez has more on how mother nature wreaked havoc throughout the midwest. >> reporter: yesterday alone there were 6 tornados, as you mentioned some of the most serious issues happening in places that were affected by thunderstorms. today assessing wild weather in the midwest. chicago a sudden storm ridge through a festival. strong winds collapsing a tent on to the crowd below. . it was chaos. there was a man who was struck. he was laying next to it. >> reporter: 15 people injured and 35-year-old killed. >> this is horrible. >> reporter: thousands of fans at another music festival in chicago running into the street because of severe thunderstorm warning and nearby this sports dome collapsing. >> all of a sudden you could see the rip in the dome and it kind of blew down. the youth team playing on the softball field inside escaping just in time. look at the size of these things. >> reporter: other areas hit hard by hail. so many people left cleaning up very big messes today. in the past 24 hours there were more than 220 storm damage ronts from nebraska to ohio. reporting

at how the tent was set up. and if there was warning from the organizers. marcy gonzales is live now from new york. >> reporter: investigators are still out at the scene and we just an update from them as we hear more from witnesses. >> a circus tent whipped apart with nearly 100 people inside. >> i see the big metal poles holding up the at the present time coming out of the grown ground, a 15 minutes into a walker brothers international performance like this one. >> it was terrifying, you hear the screaming children and the crying, at least 32 spectators were injured and a father and his 6-year-old daughter killed. the storm that moved through part of the same system that spawned tornadoes in the midwest and caused a deadly tent collapse near a festival near chicago and the national weather service putting out a severe thunderstorm warning just 20 minutes before the disaster. >> it's the responsibility of the show to monitor the conditions and we don't know why they were going on at that time. and what they knew. >> and investigators are looking into whether the tent was properly co

lion in zimbabwe they called the case against him frivolous if he is convicted. marcy gonzales is following the story from new york. >> reporter: yes he could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted but he insists he did nothing wrong. >> one of the professional hunters accused along with an american dentist accused of killing cecil the lion, scoffing at the charges he faces. he lost his hunting license after allegedly luring the lion out of a protected area out of zimbabwe last month. his client walter palmer still in hiding his home in florida vanalized. and his extradition to zimbabwe supported by 230,000 people who signed a petition he says his hunt was legal. and now they are fighting shipping the horns and trophy back to the u.s. >> if they condition bring the trophy home, they won't kill in the first place. >> they continue to ship big game trophies ups accepts for shipment, taxidermy items that are legally obtained. they are against the tracking and trade of endangered species. >> the three major u.s. airlines have changed their policies and now no longer allows the rem