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prince movie "purple rain" was filmed. >>> in florida, this truck carrying a load of cars burst into flames on interstate 95. the initial fire setting off a series of explosions there. you can hear them there. the truck driver managed to unhitch his cab. he escaped without getting hurt. >>> and finally, forget the breakfast of champions. how about the beer of champions? or you could have a boozy breakfast. wheaties is teaming up with a brewery in minnesota to make this new beer, called hefewheaties. made from the wheat, just like the german brew. so far it's only been sold in minnesota. no word if any famous athletes will grace the can. this is my two cents. strahan with the whole germany connection. and i know you like beer? so -- >> when i show up here and i'm talking -- well, i just had wheaties this morning. >> what's the problem? >> i don't know what happened. >> can you bring me a wheaties, too? >> i got you. >>> now to the latest round in deflategate. tom brady and roger goodell facing off in federal court. the judge grilling both sides. getting the league to admit there is no

. >> this area looks completely dead to me. it is just loaded with weeds. >> reporter: this florida resident's surveillance cameras were rolling when a trugreen pest control worker showed up. at his house to take care of his weed problem. >> i hired somebody else that i thought could maintain the law and very violated my trust. >> reporter: watch. the worker takes a walk around the lawn, returns to his truck and before leaving drops the flag on the grass before providing any work. he's not allow. watch this 2010 instant caught on tape. a lawn care service worker leaving a sign in the yard and a bill for the home owner and all for nothing that business later with drew the bill. in 2014, the better business bureau received more than 5,000 complaints for a variety of reasons. average customer spent $700 annually on lawn care service by way of a year-long contract, including upkeep visits like his cameras recorded. trugreen fired the employee and refunded the customer. and issued a statement that say we have a zero tolerance policy. he did see some green after all, back in his pocket. f

that we >> all that weather brought to you by target. the storm photo in florida, looks like an alien invasion. >> it looks like "the exorcist." when that thing would come down. >> it's called a rolling shutter. >> when the light shaft came through, it means you're going to die. >> so excited about that. >> someone out there knows my reference. >> she loves the scary movies. >> you never cease to amaze me. love it. keep it going, amy. >> thank you, ginger. >>> coming up, what's really in the local pool you're using to cool off. "gma investigates" putting the water to the test with results you need to know. before you take the next dip. >>> and later this morning, a sorority under fire for this recruitment video right here. what the university is saying about it right now. to school to learn now. ♪ ♪ things you never, never knew before. ♪ ♪ like "i" before "e", except after "c". ♪ ♪ why two plus two makes four. ♪ now, now, now, now. all you gotta do is repeat after me. say... ♪ ♪ a-b-c, it's easy as 1-2-3. ♪ as simple as, do-re-mi, a-b-c, 1-2-3 baby you and me

own state of florida along with pennsylvania. and just behind the sitting governor of ohio john kasich in the buckeye state but head-to-head with hillary clinton, a different story. clinton ahead in ohio and pennsylvania, but trump on top in florida. the only republican to beat hillary in those three swing states, senator marco rubio. george? >> boy, trump is defining this race right now. tom, thanks very much. >>> and now to the bombshell for oscar pistorius, dropping two days before the olympian was set to be released from prison after serving ten mons for a five-year sentence for shooting his girlfriend to death. justice officials in south africa blocking his early release and terry moran is in johannesburg with the very latest on that story, good morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, amy. what's happened in this case comes as a blow, a crushing blow to oscar pistorius. he was so close to getting out of this prison he could probably taste it but for the family of reeva steenkamp, this is justice. this morning, pistorius' lawyers desperate to overturn wednesday's bombshel

leg at jacksonville beach in florida. >> and we do say good morning, america. a lot to get to on this friday morning and we wanted to give a big shoutout to robin down in the gulf coast, her hometown of pass christian, mississippi, ten years after hurricane katrina and, you know, that really is robin's extended family because she has tracked their recovery for ten years now and we'll be talking to her coming up here. >> you can feel the love in the pass as robin likes to call it, yep, looking forward to all of that. >>> but first it was an emotional day in court in that prep school trial, the young accuser in tears sharing her side of the story and facing a tough cross-examination. her mother and the school nurse also taking the stand. dan and nancy standing by to discuss, but first abc's gio benitez has the latest from concord, new hampshire. good morning, gio. >> reporter: amy, good morning to you. that girl walked out of that courtroom in tears after tough questions about whether she's telling the truth. this morning, the alleged victim in the prep school rape trial is off the stan

florida in a while and a beautiful picture taken by our samantha, meteorologist that works right here, iridescent cloud and the storms. they will >> good morning, i am meteorologist mike nicco with the bay area forecast. choke owe the cloud deck already opening with sunshine. that means warmer today through thursday. showers are north of us and maybe drizzle here on saturday, and that will bring in cooler-than-average temperatures on friday through the weekend. today, 69 at the coast, 70s around the bay and 80s inland until you guest to the east bay with 90s. our warmest day is thursday but like saturday we are 5- to 10-degrees >>> okay, lara, everybody out here just can't wait for "pop." so let's do it. >> oh, thank you, ginger. all right. hope i live up to it. we begin "pop news" today with george and amal clooney. boy, do these two know how to live. the hollywood husband and wife are with best friends cindy crawford and rande gerber, quote/unquote working, guys, in ibiza. do you say ibiza? >> i don't say ibiza. >> it's pronounced ibiza. >> it is, right? >> george, that's right. >>

the florida coast. out west those wildfires wreaking havoc. smoke spreading across the country delaying flights and may even cancel a major college football game. >>> and, flipping out. a massive humpback whale weighing more than 80,000 pounds doing a backflip just feet from tourists. the incredibly rare jump caught on camera. ♪ jump >>> and good morning to our viewers in the west. just a terrible situation unfolding right now in virginia. near roanoke. that reporter and cameraman killed on live tv. a third person shot. it was a routine interview before 7:00 a.m. this morning. >> it was a very fluid situation. as you said, the shooter still on the loose. new details coming in moment by moment. let's go to abc's pierre thomas who does have the latest. good morning, pierre. >> reporter: good morning. it's unthinkable. a tv reporter and her cameraman fatally shot while people at home were watching. >> it started as a routine interview on television. then shots rang out. [ gunfire ] >> wdbj in roanoke reporting that the reporter, allison parker, 24 years aold was killed along her

on alert right now and new path that has it heading to florida. >> dramatic testimony as that former prep school student charged with rape takes the stand. denying the charges against him, confronted with deleted facebook messages that prosecutors say should put him behind bars. >>> an abc news exclusive. a little boy hit by a plane crashing on a beach tells his story for the first time. the amazing survival story from the kid his friends call the miracle dude only on "gma." >>> we do say good morning, and we want to get right to that tragedy that unfolded on live television. two young journalists gunned down. >> we have a live look right now at the memorial where people are paying respects to alison parker and adam ward, of course, they were gunned down by a former colleague, an angry former colleague. that community and their families are in a state of shock and their station held a moment of silence in their memory this morning? they're back on the air this morning, the morning team which they were so much a part of. we have much to get to. many questions about what drove this for

cars away and swallowing roads and now the storm is taking aim at florida. 10 million americans in its path. >>> new this morning, sole survivor. exclusive new details about that deadly shooting on live tv. the woman recovering from that attack, now telling her terrifying story. >> she dove to the ground and curled up in a ball. >> her husband speaking out only on "gma." >> badge of honor, the 13-year-old boy scout who saved his father after he was hit by a massive boulder on a remote mountain. how he kept his dad alive for three days all while desperately searching for help. ♪ >>> and it's an abc news exclusive. hero's homecoming. one of the americans who took down that terrorist on a train back on u.s. soil this morning. [ applause ] the whole airport cheering. his parents in tears. he's telling his incredible story in his first live interview this morning only on "gma." >>> and we do say good morning, america, on this friday morn and it's a big morning because dan harris is here. >> always an occasion. great to be here. >> and alek skarlatos is here. >> he's here live with us

ginger. look at what happened in florida. >> ridiculous last week and a half or so in tampa. i know if you're wake up anywhere in the bend of florida, you're saying come on. we do not need more rain. more than 13 inches officially since july 23rd in tampa alone and some places more than 20 inches, and guess what, it's not over yet, especially today. you've got that flash flood watch still in blue there. that low still turning and the rain, oh, filling in. we look like we dry out by the midweek. >>> good monday only. i am meteorologist mike nicco. check out cloud cover. modest cooling and the clouds will keep us mile at might and possibly drop drizzle near the coast. roller coaster middle week warmth. today, 70s most places but inland is low-to-mid 80s. the seven-day forecast shows a few 90s but only on wednesday and >>> a perfect capture of cloud-to-cloud lightning over a rainbow. that was taken by bob and jean miller in west michigan. >> all right. thanks for that, ginger. >>> all right, so much ahead this morning, worldwide outrage growing over cecil the lion's death and big game hun

sides of the country. florida on alert for flooding erika's aftermath, as cities from chicago to new york brace for a scorching heat wave. >>> trump towering. surging in the polls and taking aim at a new target. >> she's married to a guy who is psychologically disturbed. i think it is a very fair statement. >> he's opening up against one of hillary clinton's closest advisers as her lead shrinks. >>> an abc news exclusive. hulk hogan opening up for the first time after being fired from the wwe. slammed for the racist remarks caught on tape. >> are you a racist? >>> and no more bad blood. nicki minaj buried the hatchet with taylor swift. and comes out swinging with miley cyrus. kanye west drops a bombshell. >> i have decided in 2020 to run for president. >> and what moved justin bieber to tears? we're behind the scenes with all of the moments everyone is talking about this morning. the >>> and good morning, america. happy monday. boy, those vmas are a game of can you top this? kanye running for president. nicki minaj, she and taylor are okay. but things opened up with miley cyrus. >> t

as severe weather strikes from maine to florida. record downpours turning roads to rivers putting cars and homes underwater. >>> new this morning, bad behavior. a sheriff caught on camera handcuffing a third grader. >> ow, that hurts. >> the 8-year-old with adhd crying out in pain punished for after teachers said he was acting out. the call for change in schools across the country. >>> split second. the incredible rescue caught on camera this morning. >>> and pipe dream. the daredevil giving new meaning to riding the waves speeding across the water on his motorbike taking on 30-foot high waves. what he's saying about his death-defying stunt only on "gma" this morning. >>> and good morning, america. let's get right to those severe storms passing through the northeast overnight and early this morning. look at that lightning over new york city. >> yeah, that lightning and the thunder was just one of those mornings you wanted to stay in bed. everyone agree but we all came in anyway and had a deluge on that way in to work. >> we sure did, and the storms up north deadly causing that ten

florida vacation home. and this morning, animal rights activists are also taking aim at the companies that facilitate big game trophy hunting by shipping home the horns and the heads. >> if these guys cannot bring the trophy home they won't kill the animal in the first place. >> reporter: the #boycottups is gaining ground on twitter. it was said the company will still allow big game trophies saying, there are many items shipped in international commerce that may spark controversy. as for that professional hunter theo bronkhorst this was just a preliminary hearing this morning, the whole thing over in minutes. the case has now been continued until the end of september but the bigger question, tough, will walter palmer have to go back to face the music? unlikely, that's the answer that we're hearing. the u.s. does have an extradition treaty with zimbabwe but robert mugabe's government is not exactly known for its commitment to due process so the u.s. authorities may be unlikely to extradite him. okay, david, thanks. >>> wildfires out west, 7,000 structures now threatened. thou

florida, say a teenager who entered this country illegally from belize is under arrest. he's chargele with killing his aunt, his pregnant cousin and her boyfriend. family members say they can't think of any reason for this attack. >>> in new jersey, cameras rolling when a school bus drove through this intersection hitting an suv before slamming into that liquor store, most of the 11 children and 2 adults onboard, the driver said the brakes failed. >>> similar scene in miami, fire truck and ambulance both responding to merge calls at that time. the patient inside that ambulance had to be rescued. >>> and a big surprise overnight from the quarterback tom brady as he fights the toughest battle of his career in court. he shocked everyone last night taking the field during the patriots' preseason opener. check it out. >> beautiful night for football inside a happy gillette stadium. tom brady comes out for the first offensive series for the patriots. >> the hometown crowd going wild giving brady a standing ovation. he threw four passes. off the field, lawyers for the league and pla

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. trump is actually leading in bush's own state of florida along with pennsylvania. and just behind the sitting governor of ohio john kasich in the buckeye state but head-to-head with hillary clinton, a different story. clinton ahead in ohio and pennsylvania, but trump on top in florida. the only republican to beat hillary in those three swing state, senator marco rubio. george. >> boy, trump is defining this race right now. tom, thanks very much. >>> now to the latest on jimmy carter's health battle. he's set to hold a news conference this morning a week after revealing he has cancer. abc news chief white house correspondent jonathan karl joins us from the carter center in atlanta. good morning, jon. >> reporter: good morning, amy. the 90-year-old jimmy carter is an incredibly active former president who continues to travel the world doing humanitarian work. later this morning here at the carter center he will speak only for the first time about that cancer diagnosis revealed just last week. just days ago, jimmy carter did what he does most sundays, he went to church in his hometown of

the florida coast. out west those wildfires wreaking havoc. smoke spreading across the country delaying flights and may even cancel a major college football game. >>> school scare. terrifying new details this morning about a student who held a high school class hostage. the 14-year-old with a loaded gun in a packed classroom. the hero teachers who helped prevent a tragedy. >>> and flipping out. a massive humpback whale weighing more than 80,000 pounds doing a backflip just feet from tourists. the incredibly rare jump caught on camera. jump >>> we do say good morning, america, on this wednesday morning. that never happens to me when i go out on a whale watch. >> occasionally i get a wave of a flipper. >> this was an incredible sight for those whale watchers. very few people have seen something like that. and what did we see on the campaign trail yesterday with donald trump? he is again making headlines. >> he sure is from that key state of iowa facing off with america's top latino journalist over immigration. his controversial plan is getting all kinds of support and criticism.

florida in a decade. it has caused problems in the islands and caribbean causing major damage blamed for at least four deaths. abc's rob marciano is in miami for us this morning. good morning, rob. robin. it has been nearly ten years since this state has been hit by a hurricane and that may hold through the weekend but judging by what erika has done as a tropical storm, miami and the rest of the state taking no chances. overnight, erika battering the caribbean bringing a staggering 15 inches of rain and 50-mile-per-hour wind gusts to the island of dominica thursday killing at least four people. more than 20 others still missing. raging floodwaters proving to destructive. destructive. too much for this church. thrashing this airport runway with debris, damaging at least one plane. sweeping away cars and swallowing the roads underneath. the middle of this road gone. others plagued with sinkholes. the storm knocking out power for at least 80% of the island nation. >> we're preparing for a hurricane. >> now erika taking aim at the u.s. with at least 10 million americans in the crosshairs

florida. >> ridiculous last week and a half or so in tampa. waking up in the bend of >>> a perfect capture of cloud-to-cloud lightning over a rainbow. that was taken by bob and gene miller. in west michigan. >> all right. thanks for that, ginger. >>> all right, so much ahead this morning, worldwide out jake growing over cecil the lion's death and big game hunting in general. now, a second american accused of illegally killing a lion. we will hear from the hunters coming to the defense of the sport they love this morning. >>> and that world famous surfer who fought off the shark on live tv goes back in the water. wait till you see what happens next. >> there it is. straight out. i just saw it. directly straight out. >> mick fanning talks only to us right ahead. a-b-c, it's easy as 1-2-3 as simple as do-re-mi, a-b-c a-b-c, it's easy, it's like counting up to 3 sing a simple melody that's how easy love can be 1-2-3, baby you and me it's easy to get it all at target. get up girl, show me what you can do. it's just a summer thing double it up this summer... with a hot deal from mcdonald

southeast. haven't talked about florida in a while and a beautiful picture taken by our samantha, meteorologist that works right here, iridescent cloud and storms on in the southeast along that front, hot and humid in jacqui: good morning, washington. a beautiful day to look forward to. lots of sunshine, a dry pattern here for the rest of the work we. mostlyunny ski, humidity will be lower with high mperatures in the lower r 80's. 50'sn thees in the suburbs. 53 degrees downtown. looking at tomorrow, mostly >>> okay, lara, everybody out here just can't wait for "pop." so let's do it. >> thank you, ginger. all right. hope i live up to it. we begin "pop news" with george and amal clooney. boy, do these two know how to live. the hollywood husband and wife are with best friends cindy crawford and rande gerber. quote/unquote working, guys, in ibiza. do you say ibiza. >> i don't -- >> it's produced ibiza. >> it is, right? >> george, that's right. >> of course, jesse. >> barcelona. >> so they're there working, i say, in quotes. launching a tequila. they do know how to mix business with p

. floridaing in michigan. central michigan seeing four to 4-inches fast. tuesday trivia brought to you by j. c. penney. >> good morning, i'm meteorologist karen rogers with your accuweather update. storm tracker6 live double scan showing heavier pockets of rain mix in right now with the showers that we've been seeing all morning long at this point so be careful about that as you headed out. not going to rain all day. outside it is degree re, lots of clouds, light rain as you you can see from our temple university camera and feeling very humid. it's 72 degrees right now. we're only headed up top 82 humid and we're watching for some thunderstorms, some of which could be strong later this afternoon. speaking out on morning america". >> we kind of both stood still for a minute and the bear lunged and we ran. >> how she managed to get away. >>> so many of you weighing on this story, former actress accused of kidnapping her kids. >>> babies at work, the new rules allowing parents to bring their infants in to the office, is it really best for your baby and you. coming up on "good morning america

positive. >> reporter: bacteria closed down this florida pool for cleaning. a cdc report found that 1 in 8 public pools nationwide were closed immediately upon routine inspection. in metropolitan atlanta, those numbers are higher. 1 in 6 according to an "atlanta journal cost constitution" investigation. "gma" investigates wanted to know what was lurking in your pool. we went undercover to collect samples. our expert, dr. amy kirby wasn't told what pools we were testing. >> we tested for six types. >> reporter: fecal bacteria, e. co coli, staff, and pseudomonis. all three pools contained fecal bacteria above the limits set. >> if you swam, there would be a risk of contracting any number of diarrheal illnesses. skin infections. particularly with open wounds. >> reporter: her recommendation, each pool should be closed and shocked. >> raise the chlorine level, let it run about 12 hours, then reopen the pool. >> reporter: after our producer called pool number one, it was closed, cleaned, and reopened. pool number two was already closed for the season. we called multiple times to the thir

for the southeast. haven't talked about florida in awhile. beautiful picture taken by our samantha meteorologist that works right here. the clouds and storms, they will be on. hot and humid in florida. that's the big picture. let's get a check now a little closer to home. >> hey, ginger, i'm meteorologist karen rogers. it's still warm, it's still muggy out there this morning. we're currently dry but watching for a spotty shower along the coastline. let's go outside with our temple university camera. we're seeing that sunshine. seeing some clouds as well. it's 76 degrees. here's your accuweather forecast. it's turning less humid by the afternoon. so, the afternoon is going to feel more refreshing when you step outside and we'll have brighter sunshine. 86 degrees for your high. tomorrow nice and mostly sunny, 84. 84 on thursday. wait for "pop." so let's do it. >> thank you, ginger. all right. hope i live up to it. we begin "pop news" with george and amal clooney. boy, do these two know how to live. the hollywood husband and wife are with best friends cindy crawford and rande gerber.

. >>> going back to ginger. look at what happened in florida. if you're waking up in the bend of florida, you're saying come on, we do not need more rain, more than 13 inches officially since july 23 in tampa alone. it's not over yet. especially today you have the flood watch the low still turning and the rain filling in. looks like we dry out a little by midweek. let's get select cities brought to you by pet smart. >> reporter: good morning, everyone, nothing showing on storm tracker 6 live double scan anywhere over land today. as we look outside, we have plenty of sunshine building up over the shore in cape may, elsewhere around the region. it's looking like another hot one and a little bit more humid as we roll through the day. 92 degrees hot, more humid than over the weekend. there could gusty thunderstorms in northern areas in the evening hours. sticky tomorrow, 90 degrees, but less humid on wednesday and down in the 80s. and gene miller. in west michigan. >> all right. thanks for that, ginger. >>> all right, so much ahead this morning, worldwide out jake growing over cecil the lion

florida. boy, it has been so wet here from tampa up through jacksonville and i think you'll get more rain today. miami, by the way, got over 2 inches of rainfall yesterday. they need it. that was a record. they'll be probably shut out today. again, most of the rain right along that stalled frontal boundary. by the way, north of that front is where we saw that beautifully dry air that the east has been enjoying >> yet another hurricane in the eastern pacific, hurricane guillermo, or if you're from south america, guillermo. we'll talk more about that in a little bit. >> language with rob. >> well done. >> thank you, marciano. >> heading towards hawaii although they shouldn't be too worried. mahalo. >> so many languages. >> mahalo. >> good morning. thank you, rob. >>> coming up on "gma," look at this, why police say this father tried to run down a group of teenagers with his suv. the charges he's facing this morning. >>> plus, the surfer versus the shark. new video this morning of mick fanning's all too close encounter and how he lived to tell that tale. >>> "good morning america"

parts of florida. especially the panhandle. >> and with temperatures soaring into the 90s, with humidity, a great day to go to the beach. beach forecast, back by popular demand, in about ten minutes. >> said with such gusto. >> you have to sell it, baby. >> all right, robert. thank you very much. we're sold. >>> coming up on "gma," a very unsettling story from the water this time of year. a gator attack. a nine-foot alligator attacking a kayaker in florida. dragging her under the water. the new 911 calls coming in this morning. what may have happened that saved her life. >>> plus, palace fight. the paparazzi and the dangerous tactics they're using to get photos of little george. how the royal family is taking action. buddy doesn't knowea why why he's full of energy; but mom and dad know that they're feeding them the complete nutrition of natural balance®. now available at petsmart! we're always looking to bring you the very best in pet nutrition. with natural balance®, part of our family of natural foods, you can give your pets premium quality ingredients. introducing natural

in its theme parks in florida and california. so, how long do we have to wait until we can mingle at the catena and pilot the millennium falcon? >>> live from abc news in new york, sunday, august 16th, 2015, this is "good morning america." >> good morning. there were some high, high level nerdery going on at the d23 expo. the big disney convention this weekend. where aside from the theme park news, they also unveiled this. the commemorative poster for the "star wars" movie, featuring harrison ford himself on the lower quadrant of your screen there. >> your voice went up. we also got a closer look at the bad gal from the film. captain fazma. am i pronouncing it correctly? >> i think so. i got to tell you, this whole "star wars" thing, makes me feel like i'm 44 going on 7. >> that's a good feeling. >> rob and i are already planning to dress as droids and go to the movie together. >> that will be awesome. it's going to be a good time. >> i want to see that. >> as long as i'm not an ewok. >> much more on "star wars" coming up. >>> but our top story, all-out battle against those wildfires