tonight the video, the disturbing scene the violent take down outside a waffle house. a young black man unarmed. he had just taken his younger sister to the prom. police with their hands on his neck. the outrage growing. the state investigating. the fire storm over what was said inside the white house about tonight his daughter asked is this staffer still employed. the deadly stand off. several troopers called to a home. then the explosion. police say it may have been a trap. on this mother's day weekend

the severe threat moving in tonight and tomorrow. rob has the latest track. the arrest of a grandmother making headlines. pulled out of a car and the late development involving one of the officers. with mother's day almost here the children who needed a mom. who is our person of the week? >> announcer: this is "world news tonight" with david muir. >> good evening. it's great to have you with us on a friday night. we begin with a controversial scene outside a waffle house. a young african american man unarmed. he had just taken his younger sister to her school dance. an officer seen with a hand to the young man's neck. tonight we have heard from waffle house which was already in the news after another controversial police arrive ree arrest. pierre thomas leading us off.

>> reporter: tonight, outrage growing after this confrontation caught on cellphone video. >> get off me! get your hands off me! >> reporter: a police officer wrestling with 22-year-old anthony wall, who had taken his younger sister to the prom. he's still wearing his tuxedo. the two siblings seen here earlier arguing with waffle house staff. the police are called. we don't know what happened next. here we see that officer grabbing wall's neck. >> i was pretty much trying to scream for air and trying to breathe because he was holding my throat and that's when i got aggressive with him because you are choking me. >> reporter: wall then ends up on the ground as the officer tries to handcuff him. >> behind your back. >> get your hands off me. >> behind your back. >> get your hands off me. >> hands behind your back. >> get your supervisor out here, get your hands off me! >> reporter: wall says he accepts responsibility for being rowdy in the restaurant. >> i think i went overboard, going back and forth with them could have been avoided. at that time i was angry because of how we was treated.

>> reporter: but he also says the officer went too far. >> i'm not trying to be a person to die out here or anything like that. i just want you to stop choking me. >> reporter: wall was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. the case is now under investigation as authorities access whether there was excessive force. waffle house says their ceo spoke to wall today by phone to apologize and to check in on him. this comes less than three weeks after another controversial arrest at a waffle house in alabama. the police pulled a woman off a chair on to the floor. >> pierre thomas live with us now. we've heard from waffle house. we're also hearing from bernice king, the daughter of martin luther king jr. she's calling for a boycott. >> that's right. bernice king, daughter of martin luther king jr., tweeting, "family, let's stay out of @wafflehouse until they start to implement changes." >> pierre thank you. the controversy swirling over what was said inside the white house about john mccain.

mccain expressed strong reservations over the president's cia nominee. now it's learned that a staffer at the white house said of his opinion, it doesn't matter. he's dying anyway. mccain's daughter is ask how is this person still employed. here's mary bruce. >> reporter: tonight, no explanation, no acknowledgement and no apology from the white house. >> i'm not going to validate a leak one way or the other out of an internal staff meeting. >> reporter: press secretary sarah sanders refusing repeatedly to address comments made by a white house aide, who dismissed john mccain's opposition to the president's nominee to lead the cia, saying "it doesn't matter, he's dying anyway." mccain is battling brain cancer. on "the view" today his daughter meghan suggested history would be on his father's sides. >> my father's legacy will be talked about.

these people, nothing burgers. nobody will remember you. >> she wonder how the staffer still had a job. >> meghan mccain his daughter wondered while kelly sadler has a job today. why does she? >> cindy mctweeted may i remind you my husband has a family. >> reporter: the outrage has been swift. former vice president joe biden saying decency in the trump administraiton has "hit rock bottom." the attack on mccain came a day after the senator forcefully opposed trump's pick for cia director, gina haspel over role in enhanced interrogations. saying her "refusal to acknowledge torture's immorality is disqualifying." mccain himself was tortured during his five and a half years as a p.o.w. in vietnam. but on fox yesterday a retired lieutenant general disparaged mccain's experience.

>> the fact is john mccain -- it worked on john. that's why they call him "songbird john." >> reporter: but there is no evidence mccain caved under pressure. instead giving his captors false information. the host of that fox program later apologized. but there's another apology mccain still has yet to receive: one from the president himself, who famously questioned mccain's past during the campaign. >> he's not a war hero. he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren't captured. >> mary bruce with us live tonight from washington. mary, we know the white house put a statement overnight saying they respect mccain's service to the country and his family is in their prayers. we saw when the white house was asked how someone like this remained employed, how did they respond? >> the white house said very little. no public apology. one source told us that aid did call meghan mccain to apologize.

she's still employed at the house. we're following severe storms at this hour. they move into tonight into tomorrow. for new york city it's round two after last night's lightning storm. let's get to rob marciano with us live with the new track for us. hey, rob. >> hi david. active pattern with strong pulses moving quickly. we've got a severe thunderstorm watch up inner denver. another pulse of thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon. another one tomorrow night for chicago. some will pack a punch. wind damage from chicago to pittsburgh to philadelphia. south of that action we're looking at summer like heat, potential records, with little rock, atlanta and even d.c. >> we want a safe weekend to celebrate moms. we turn to the deadly stand off in oklahoma today.

state troopers delivering a high risk warrant. when they got to the home, they came under fire. then an explosion. was it a trap? here's >> reporter: smoke and flames erupting this morning as officers rushed into a home in talihina, oklahoma with a warrant for a wanted drug suspect. >> as soon as they made entry, they were met by gunfire. >> reporter: police fired back, four officers wounded by bullets and shrapnel, the building immediately going up in flames. >> captain paul timmons, oklahoma highway patrol right now we suspect that the building may have been booby trapped with some type of explosive device that may have started the fire. >> reporter: the suspect, a felon police say had a history of threatening officers was killed the fire destroys two 100-year-old buildings. >> you know it's sad. there's so much history and the cornerstone literally of talihina is right there and it's hard to take. >> reporter: tonight, authorities say suspect may have had surveillance cameras to see them coming. >> police say one officer's protective vest stopped a bullet and likely saved his life. those other four troopers are all expected to fully recover. david?

>> clayton, thank you. there was also a school shooting today. the panic, fear and faces of the children. this time a 14-year-old student with a rifle in california. here's matt gutman tonight. >> reporter: the shooting on this california high school campus sent police radio's cracking. >> attention palmdale lancaster units respond to highland high school so far, active shooter on scene. >> he had fired the rifle. another 14-year-old student was struck by the gunfire in the arm. >> reporter: a student sitting there in shock. highland high school in palmdale put on lockdown. >> she called me and said mom there's a shooter. what do we

>> reporter: the suspect found at a nearby shopping mall. law enforcement officials tell me if it's determined the rifle was left unsecured by that 14-year-old boy's parents. they could be prosecuted. >> matt, thank you. . tonight we're hearing from the woman on the southwest flight sitting two seats away from that mother sucked back in and she didn't survive. what she and two other passengers did to get her back in the plane. >> reporter: passengers on that southwest plane were just 20 minutes into their flight when shrapnel from a broken engine blasts through a window. >> and almost immediately i felt the rush of wind. >> reporter: passenger jennifer riordan was being sucked from her window seat. held only by her seatbelt. hollie mackey sitting two seats away. what did you see? >> the bottom part of her rib

cage was out the window. i had leaned over to try to pull jennifer in. >> reporter: between the two women, a young teenaged girl. >> she got her hands right in there with mine, and she tried to pull jennifer in as well, and a very brave girl. >> reporter: unsuccessful, hollie doing whatever she could to comfort jennifer. >> i put my hand on jennifer's back so she would at least know we were there. >> reporter: passenger tim mcginty rushing in to help. >> i went to the window and tried to -- >> reporter: but he, too, helpless, no match for the enormous pressure. the memory is overwhelming. >> just tried to pull her in. and it was -- you know, couldn't. just couldn't. >> martha raddatz with us tonight. martha, i know as that plane decented tim mcginty was able to pull jennifer riordan back

insi insi inside. >> they were not thinking about their own lives at all. they really want jennifer's family to know they don't think she suffered. they believe she died almost instantly. >> you can see martha's interviews with the pilots and passengers of the plane on 2020. we turn to michael cohen. tonight companies that paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars after the election now talking. one of them say cohen came to them. here's tom llamas tonight. >> reporter: tonight two of the companies, who paid the shell company michael cohen set up just before the election say they have serious regrets. there is no other way to say it, at&t ceo randall stephenson wrote to employees today, hiring michael cohen as a political consultant was a big mistake. but the ceo also says hiring

cohen was legal and legitimate. and that it was cohen, donald trump's longtime personal attorney and fixer, who approached at&t during the transition period. over the next year the company paying cohen's llc a total of $600,000. tonight, the question, what did at&t think it could get from a deal with someone so close to the president? the company points out it hired consultants like cohen for advice about its proposed merger with time warner. a merger president trump spoke out against on the campaign trail. >> it's too much concentration of power in the hands of too few. >> reporter: along with that $600,000 dollars from at&t, also under scrutiny a reported $500,000 in payments to cohen from columbus nova, a company with deep ties to a putin ally. and $1.2 million dollars from swiss pharmaceutical giant

novartis. novartis is also calling their deal with cohen "a mistake." tonight, the attorney for porn star stormy daniels threatening more revelations. michael avenatti tweeting, "let this serve as formal notice, there is significantly more evidence and facts to come relating to mr. cohen's dealings and mr. trump's knowledge and involvement. you can come clean now or wait to be outed. >> are you talking about more financial statements? more emails? >> well there's no question we have emails, text messages, we have financial data, information, i mean there's a lot of information out there. >> let's get to tom. tom, we know the companies are acknowledging public they paid cohen. it's important here. it appears six months ago robert mueller first began asking questions about this. he's been on this money trail for sometime? >> that's right. it's been on his radar. the other question was this lobbying.

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finally our person of the week. one mom who says she's already received her gift, three of them. [ laughter ] >> reporter: sharis peters and that laugh. enough to fill the whole family. she and her husband thomas and their children miles and jasmine and jade. for years, it was just sharis and thomas. they'd been trying to have children, but like so many couples it was a challenge. >> we knew that we wanted to have children and there wasn't

much that was going to stop us from doing that. >> reporter: they tried in vitro, they tried everything. >> we both paused, and thought about what if we foster kids, so i started doing some research. and soon after, they met 3 and a half year old miles and his 5 and a half month old sister jasmine. a brother and sister who needed a mom and dad. >> we knew we wanted to foster a sibling set. we wanted more than one child. we fell in love right away. >> reporter: but what they didn't know was that miles and jasmine's biological mother was about to have another child. they did not hesitate. they wanted these siblings together. >> these kids changed my life in ways i couldn't imagine. i didn't know that i could love somebody so much. i'm honored to be their mom. i'm honored that they love me. i'm honored that i was given this opportunity. >> reporter: and on this mother's day weekend, her husband thomas grateful for his children and for his wife. >> i really feel blessed that i'm able to share this journey with her. she's a spectacular mom. spectacular wife.

i love her very dearly. >> reporter: all of them grateful for their mom. but she says those three foster children, who they adopted are the real gift. >> these are my kids. there's no two ways about it these are my kids. they were meant to be my kids. >> reporter: and tonight, disney and abc saluting those who chose to foster through so many groups including fostermore.org. and sharis with her own message. >> every kid needs a loving adult. every kid needs somebody who cares about them. and so if your heart is open and you feel like you have the room to love somebody, there's somebody out there that wants you to love them. >> happy mother's day! so we chose all of our moms and step-moms. happy mother's day. good night. good n >> announcer: now in abc 7 live breaking news. and that breaking news is on

the san mateo bridge. all eastbound lanes are closed right now after a crash on the bridge involving multiple vehicles. you can see this is a live view from sky7. and they've got the tow trucks out there. the fire department, traffic is backed up for what seems like an eternity as we zoom out on sky7 here. three to four cars are involved. the good news is that all of the injuries are minor. but take a look at all this traffic. i'm looking at our app here. traffic is backed up all the way on 92 into 101 in foster city. and the commute from the peninsula to the east bay is just going to be a nightmare this afternoon >> well that friday afternoon commute going east is always bad. and you can take a look at this perspective. you can see the reason there is nothing coming towards you is because the chp has everybody stopped before the middle of the span. >> exactly. >> but foreof us heading west

you're okay. >> you're fortunate. bus, yeah, you want to be heading towards the peninsula at this moment. >> yes. >> we'll let you know when it opens up on san mateo brinl for the eastbound compute. and with that we say good afternoon thanks for joining us i'm larry beil. >> i'm kristen sze in for ama debts turning to the controversial comments about john mcmahon. >> i feel like i understand the meaning of life and. >> egan mccain getting emotional responding to the controversial comments made about her father. a white house aide talking about john mccain said it doesn't matter he is dying anyway. abc 7 news reporter karen traverse has the compensates >> there is no love loss between president trump and senator john schan. washington can be a rough and tumble town backup you a kmept by a white house aide about mccain's health has sparked a major backlash. >> it doesn't matter he is dying any way zblees