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

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,

36 hours under the rubble. abc's marcy gonzales is following the latest she joins us live from new york. >> reporter: rick, that gave rescuer smz hope as they continue to look for more survivors, they are coping with fumes and other potential dangers left from this disaster. >> new video of those deadly explosions in china, captured by american, dan van buren who happened to be on the roof of his apartment building when he saw the first blast and then the other. holy [ bleep ]. >> i didn't know if the building would fall down, i thought i was dead, i thought we would die. >> a warehouse storing hazardous material, dozens of people lost their lives and hundreds were hurt including this firefighter who rushed in to battle the initial flames and found just today more than 30 miles per hours after the blast buried beneath the rubble. many others are still missing as small fires continue to burn around containers containing hazardous chemicals, chinese authorities are insisting it is safe. >> are you ready about the possible health effect. >> no she says, i just feel lucky to still be h

coast. it left 1200 people dead. and states were decimated by the storm's fury. marcy gonzales joins us live from new orleans, a city that showed resilientsy in the wake of the storm. >> reporter: so many people are here are proud to share the progress made here in the past decade and former president, george w. bush visited and said new orleans is back and better than ever. >> the vibrant soul of this city shining on the eve of the anniversary of one of new orleans's darkest days. ten years after hurricane katrina ravaged this community and other parts of gulf coast, homes are still being rebuild and there is a boom in business, and a new $14 billion levee system and a resounding sense of resilience. and there are wounds still healing. >> it's horrible. >> including memories of the more than 1,000 lives lost and the devastatingly slow response. >> you forget how all levels of government left us abandoned here. when i think back and i say how did they do that to us? today former president, george w. bush, he toured the school he visited right after the storm focusing on the rec

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

, 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. >>

tore across communities. one of them turned deadly at a chicago festival. abc news reporter marci gonzalez has the story. >> reporter: today cleaning up. >> wiped out bunch of trees just torn up and as you can see thrown over here. >> reporter: after severe storms. >> terrible. >> reporter: and at least half a dozen reported tornadoes in the upper midwest: near chicago sirens blaring into the night strong sudden winds uprooting trees. >> i've never seen anything like that. >> reporter: and toppling a tent at a festival. its support poles sent flying injuring 15 people and killing this father of two. >> it started hailing and stuff so we ran into the tent 'cause we had the girls and then we decided to run in there to be safe and next thing you know it came so fast and i thought he was behind me and he wasn't. >> reporter: nearby everyone escaping just before this sports dome collapsed. >> all of a sudden you could see the rip in the death it just kind of blew down. >> reporter: and thousands of people sent running from the louisiana la palooza festival. flooding as deep as 4 feet i

protesters in ferguson are bracing for what could be another night filled with tense demonstrations. marci gonzalez is following the latest from new york. marcy. >> reporter: that state of emergency was just declared this afternoon in response to last night's violence and demonstrators are back out again today and there have already been a few arrests: today in saint louis, loud protests. >> ♪ >> reporter: and peaceful marches. following last night's violence in ferguson. [gunfire] >> reporter: gun shots and looting, bottles thrown at police. the chaos marring a day of quiet remembrance on the first anniversary of the shooting death of michael brown by a ferguson police officer. >> he's bleeding out man. please get him some help, man. please get him some help. >> reporter: last night police shooting this 18-year-old they say ran from this scene where two rival groups were firing at each other. [gunfire] >> reporter: investigators saying tyrone harris then shot at a police suv with four detectives inside. when they got out, police claim harris continued firing at them with a stolen semi a

. 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 gonzalez, abc news new york. >>> family and friends gather this morning to remember bobbi kristina brown at st. james united methodist church near atlanta. she is expected to be laid to rest next to her mother on monday. brown died in hospice care 6 months after being found face down and unresponsive into bathtub in her atlanta home. >>> a man from berks county is in trouble with the federal government after slamming his car into a barricade at the u.s. capitol. anthony larosa said he was trying to get a patent for a clothing design. his mother said he has mental issues. >>> the philadelphia fire department scored a major victory scoring a as you will a- multimillion dollar grant that will permit 100 new hierls. >> $22.79 million to higher additional firefighters. >> reporter: philadelphia firefighters responded to almost 50,000 fire calls last year compared to 44,000 the year before. due to attrition and other factors the 2100 amoeba department loses 80 to 110 firefighters a year. the city spends millions in overtime. last year alone it paid 37.6 million to have firefight

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