Breaking news as we come on the air, the mid-air scare minutes after takeoff, a southwest pilot taking evasive action to avoid colliding with a military jet and severe storms in the northeast and heat alerts for more than 130 million from Texas to Maine.

First terrifying moments on board of Southwest flight from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. The pilot taking sudden action,

dropping nearly 500 feet to avert a mid-air crash with a military jet. Passengers screaming,

one saying they were shaken to the core. The deadly shooting at the University of New Mexico,

one person killed another wounded inside a student housing complex. Police launching an urgent manhunt for the suspected gunman,

warning the suspect may still be on campus.

Dangerous storms rolling over New York City and the northeast thunderstorms,

flash flood alerts and winds gusting up to 70 miles per hour,

heat alerts from Washington, D.C. to Philadelphia to New York.

Temperatures feeling like triple digits. The Washington Monument closing Washington, D.C. to Philadelphia to New York. Temperatures feeling like triple digits.

The Washington Monument closing early today,

emergency rooms bracing for a surge of patients overcome by the heat.

Tonight, President Trump refusing to rule out a pardon for Jeffrey Epstein's former companion,

Galen Maxwell, now serving 20 years in prison for sex trafficking.

Sources tell ABC News, Maxwell received limited immunity for her two days of meetings with

the Justice Department.

Her attorney says she was asked about 100 different people and didn't hold anything back.

Overseas tonight, the U.S. military launching a dangerous ground rate inside Syria, American forces targeting

an alleged ISIS leader. Haunting images inside Gaza, hungry children making desperate pleas for food.

ABC news cameras inside a pediatric ward, children weak, thin, and frail.

The Hamas-run health ministry says dozens have died from starvation.

Tragedy at Hershey Park, a nine-year-old girl pulled from the wave pool, lifeguards trying to revive her.

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