Everyone. Its been a busy overnight hours for us. Were following several breaking news stories starting with the epic floods in southern louisiana expected to get worse today. Overnight the number of people being rescued nearly tripled in size to 20,000. Parts of the area received over 20 inches of rain since friday. And this new video, take a look. A boat full of people making its way through a flooded street. Only car roofs peeking above the water. Abcs ray raimundi has the latest. Reporter this drone vio giving a snapshot of parts of baton rouge, louisiana, submerged underwater. I roger that. Reporter u. S. National guard helicopters swooping in to rescue this man and this little boy from the rising floodwaters, just 2 of the more than 20,000 rescued in southern louisiana. The federal government officially declaring louisiana as a major disaster. Obviously this remains a very serious event, a historic flooding, and it remains ongoing. Reporter cars submerged im going to break this window. Reporter dramatic rescues like this one captured all across southern louisiana. Get my dog. Get my dog. Your dog . Get my dog. Reporter this man rescuing a woman after her convertible sunk underneath the rising waters. Interstate 12 a major highway now a makeshift river complete with a tenmile stretch of abandoned cars. As you can see behind me, a actually flooded. Weve been here for about 30 hours now. Reporter the National Guard moving in to rescue those trapped. More than 10,000 people now in shelters. This woman lucky to escape the floods with her two daughters. I just wanted to get out. Im like, its not going to stop. Once i saw it coming up my steps, im like, i didnt plan on it being this high. We got to get out. Like my kids got to be safe. Reporter in the midst of the disaster, extraordinary acts of courage from flood victims. Oh, lord. Neighbor, some delivering water. Others passed out food. Ray raimundi, abc news, new york. And the regions rivers are cresting, which means more flooding is likely. The storms are still active and moving up from the gulf of mexico bringing in more heavy rain today as well. Yeah, so clearly were in the thick of a busy weather pattern right now. Accuweathers Paul Williams tracking it all. Good morning. Good morning to you as well, diane, kendis. A High Pressure system will keep it hot, steamy throughout boston, new york down towards d. C. But heres whats in the wings, afternoon, evening thunderstorms from richmond all the way towards columbus covering the ohio valley region, and it reaches down towards the deep south as well. In fact, this is widespread rain thats going to be in the midst of heavy downpours and likelihood of some flash flooding to occur. Gusty winds with these as well. Winds accelerating up to 45 to 65 miles an hour. Kendis, diane. All right. Our thanks to paul. And now to the other breaking news story were following, this one from Northern California. A fastmoving fire known as the in Northern California forcing thousands of people to evacuate. Officially ten homes have been destroyed, but eyewitnesses report seeing others on fire. Commercial buildings and a post office have also been burned and another 1,000 structures are in danger right now. One resident taking shelter in his swimming pool. Just about 20, 15 minutes or so, it got intense, smoke and fire and sparks just blowing for awhile here. Well, the fire has burned at least 3,000 acres, and were told it is 5 contained. That same area was devastated by a wildfire nearly a year ago. A second day of protests in milwaukee ended with shots fired and at least two people injured, one of those people was rushed to the hospital after being shot. The other was an officer injured after his patrol car was pelted with rocks. The violence marked the second day of unrest in the city, though, there was less widespread destruction of property than we saw with saturday nights rioting. Protesters are angry over the Deadly Police shooting of a man had a gun and that they have the video to prove it. Also breaking overnight, reports of a shooting at new yorks jfk airport shut down operations and sent people running for cover. A loud noise prompted a report of gunfire at terminals used by american airlines. While officers were seen running through the airport with their guns drawn, you see people there in the terminal dropping to the ground. The terminals were evacuated, and a nearby highway was shut down. Frightening scenes there at jfk but the gunfire was actually no injuries. Donald trump is looking to get back on message today as he lays out his vision for defeating isis. This after spending a lot of the weekend tangling with the media. Trumps now facing a blistering new oped suggesting a landslide defeat is possible. The oped comes after trump blasted the New York Times for an article about turmoil in his campaign. The newspapers going to maybe well start thinking about taking their press credentials away from them. And Trumps Campaign manager is now the focus of another New York Times article. Investigators in the ukraine told the times they found secret ledgers showing 12. 7 million in an undisclosed cash payment designated for paul manafort. Manafort had consulted with ukraines prorussian political party. His lawyer says he hasnt received any such payments. And Vice President joe biden is hitting the campaign trail with Hillary Clinton for the first time. Theyre holding a rally in his hometown of scranton, pennsylvania. Now, scranton has been a democratic stronghold, is hoping to capitalize on their areas economic stagnation and anger over illegal immigration. Clintons support among the working class there has been eroding, so shes hoping biden can help. Well, lets get on now to the olympics and simone biles in action again today looking to build on her third gold medal performance. Biles came out on top in the vaults last night. She now has two more events to go, the balance beam today and the floor routine tomorrow. If she can medal in both, shell be the fst american gymnast to round of games since 1904. History in the making. It is an olympic threepeat for usain bolt. The jamaican sprinter hangs on to the title of worlds fastest man beating out american Justin Gatlin in the 100 meters. Bolt is the first man or woman to win the event in three straight olympics, and have you seen this photo . Bolt, even before the final, this is a shot of him smiling as he pulls away from his opponents in his semifinal heat. Now while bolt has a what, me worried . Look on his face, the other three guys look a little stressed out. Whats so remarkable about that photo too, its not like he was in the lead the whole time but sort of pulls ahead at the end. So, to have that much confidence when you just finally get out in front, great, great photo. Thats why hes one of the greatest. Speaking of the greatest, lets take a look at the medal count, shall we . The u. S. Leads the way with 69 overall, and the americans also lead in the number of gold well, still ahead, more news from rio. Gold medalist ryan lochte talking about getting robbed at gunpoint. Plus, a little girl snatched away from a campsite. Hear how her familys quick thinking saved her from a lion. And a pilot forced to ditch his plane in the water during an air show. How those people on the beach four boaters including a child had to be rescued after their boat capsized off the gulf coast of florida. When the coast guard arrived they were clinging to the hull of the overturned boat with their life jackets on. Breaking news in the arrest police officer. Royheem deeds is accused of killing officer tim smith shot to death after he left his patrol car in the town of eastman. Smith would have turned 31 today. Three couples from mississippi were victims of a plane crash in alabama this weekend. The group was returning from a dental convention in florida when their plane went down. Investigators say the pilot issued a distress call before crashing in a wooded area near the tuscaloosa airport. And now to a dramatic crash landing in england. A small plane was forced to touch down along a beach during an air show. The plane hit the water hard and flipped upside down trapping the pilot, but onlookers came to the rescue and turned the plane over. The pilot walked away with no serious injury and the plane appeared to be relatively unscathed, as well. Nice landing. Twitter may bring its Football Games to apple tv. The mini Blogging Service recently won the right to livestream thursday night nfl games. 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Claritin provides powerful, nondrowsy 24 hour relief. For fewer interruptions from the Amazing Things you do every day. Live claritin clear. Its mama to the rescue at Katmai National park in alaska. Shes known as grazer and is popular with internet followers. She and her cubs were fishing at a salmon run when the cubs were swept away over a small waterfall. Well, after a glare at the careless kids, she takes a different route down to the pool and fishes the cubs out of the water. And drivers should watch out for road flooding in a large region of the country from the gulf and the deep south all the way up to the ohio valley and wet roads are also likely in the upper plains and rockies. You can see where we will have airport delays. Houston, chicago, miami, memphis and new orleans, problems are likely. A nightmare for a family in their little girl was swooped up by a Mountain Lion. Thats right, and just like we saw the mother bear there, this is a different kind of mama bear that jumped into action. See what happened. A harrowing tale of child versus the wild. We didnt think we were in danger. We just thought it was passing through, but now we know it was actually stalking the kids because they had come up for dinner. Reporter 4yearold kelsi butt was out camping with her family this weekend near green canyon hot springs, idaho, when her mother put her down for a nap. It was after dinner i took her and her cousins to the tent. Reporter but kelsi wandered off and thats when her mother says a Mountain Lion pounced clutching her in her mouth. Her mom jumped in immediately. It just grabbed her with its teeth and flipped her over, and so i ran to her screaming, running at the lion, and i run up to her, i scoop her, and shes just clinging to me. Reporter the mouain lion dropped the girl after hearing her mother scream, left big scare for the whole family there. To lift little kelsis spirits, the family has given her a new nickname, puma princess. This Morning Police in new new york city are questioning a man in connection with the shooting death of an imam and another man as they left a mosque. Investigators say the man was seen in the area where the shooting took place. Surveillance video shows the gunman approached the victims from behind, opened fire and then walk away. They released a sketch of the suspect saying the motive is still unclear. Neighbors believe it was an antimuslim hate crime, but police have not yet confirmed a motive. And who needs a life preserver when you have an ice cooler. Three men whose speedboat sunk at night in lake tahoe clung to the cooler and a seat cushion. Their cries for help were heard on shore, and a fourth tried to swim to shore. None of the four tourists had been wearing a life jacket but luckily for them they had that cooler. Frightening moments for a u. S. Swimmer, ryan lochte, and the u. S. Olympic Committee Says the group was in a taxi heading back to the Olympic Village early sunday morning when armed men posing as police pulled them over. Lochte says the gunmen told the swimmers to get on the ground and he initially refused. And then the guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it, put it to my forehead and he said, get down, and i put my hands up like, whatever. He took our money. Well, lochte tweeted his thanks to family, friends and the message went on to say, the most important thing is he and his teammates are safe and unharmed. Now, its kind of strange that the International Olympic committee actually denied the story just a short while before the u. S. Olympic committee came out and confirmed it. As if you wouldnt have four people there saying, we lived through it, we know what happened. Had well, were hearing from them directly. Yeah. All right, time now for good morning, america. Kevin connors, john anderson. You know, i was wondering at some point watching the 100 meters on sunday night if usain bolt was going to burst into flames he was so fast. He is fast and a little slower but at 29 youre allowed to do. Here i will recreate the 100meter dash right now. All right, and now we go on to baseball. Mookie betts just went crazy for the red sox in this game against the diamondbacks. Off zack greinke in the first. Tworun shot. Its 20 and then he got out, and he plowed a threerun homer out there. At fenway all his home runs were over the monster. And theres a threebagger. Thank you very much. Goodness me. 4 for 6, 26 homers on the year, 3 homers and 8 rbis, red sox won huge. Cardinals and cubs, sunday night baseball on espn. Cubs led 31 till the eighth inning when Stephen Piscotty did that off hector rondon, threerun home run. Look, jumping for joy, and then what do your teammates home run, completely change the game, give your team a win . Well, you get to the dugout, and they give you highfives and then they chuck water in your face. Thats a compliment now. It used to be, it would happen and you would say, what did i do . You would apologize. Now its nice job. Well, theres all kinds of ways to show that youre enamored with someone and your appreciation. Thats true. If i had some water, i would throw it on you now, but i dont, so good morning, america. Can i get some water . I like that idea. Dont you dare. Up next in the pulse, the big question at the medal ceremonies in rio, what are those trophies that the athletes are getting . Ah, yeah. And the Michael Phelps face forever etched in ink. With myself, with my life. It all starts with a healthy routine. Enjoying activia yogurt with billions of probiotics every day. Because when my routine is in sync, i can face any challenge. So take the activia probiotic challenge visit activia. Com to learn more. Take the activia probiotic challenge now. 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Something is missing at the awards podium. Yeah, so instead of getting flowers, this year winners are getting this little guy. Its a figurine of the rio olympics logo, and it doubles apparently as a holder for those welldeserved medals. Organizers thought it would be nice to give the athletes well, the figurines have triggered a guessing game on social media with speculation ranging from a paperweight to a happy meal toy. It does look like a happy meal toy. Michael phelps intensity will live on on the leg of one of his fans. Uhhuh. Remember that death stare that he put on the south african chad le clos before the 200meter butterfly final. Yep. Who could forget that . Well, a man named ricky fung apparently liked it so much, he tattoo right leg. Thats his leg right there on the right. Fung said he wasnt even a fan of phelps before the games, but his performance this time around inspired him so much, now hes going to look at that for the rest of his life. Yeah, its pretty good. 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Looking at todays weather, it will be very hot in the west. There will be more heavy rain throughout the south, especially in the gulf, and it will be hazy, hot and humid in the northeast. Finally this morning, a heartwarming moment for a family in illinois bringing everyone to tears. It was a gift from a teenager and it took the man who raised her completely by surprise. Abcs john donvan explains. Began unwrapping a present at a family gettogether, no one watched his face more intently than the women on either side of him, sally to the right, lauren on the left. How is he going to react . Am i going to make him cry . Reporter now, joe is sallys boyfriend, a relationship that began when lauren, who is sallys daughter, was a year old already. So joes been in laurens life since she can remember. I was only with my biological father every other weekend, but i was with joe almost every day. Reporter and during that time, Something Like a real father daughter bond formed. He did things for me, and he took me places. As the years went by, you know, i not only fell in love with sally, but i fell in love with lauren, as well. Reporter now, the surprise inside the box was a framed poem of appreciation from lauren, and that got joe crying already, but then he discovered the envelope with a set of legal documents inside. Well let the video explain the im asking joe to adopt me. Yes. Reporter people say joes a man of few words, maybe. In the end she chose me, so theres no better gift than that. Reporter few words but perfect for this picture. John donvan, abc news. And it turned out to be a happy graduation gift for her as well. He, of course, said yes. Everyones happy. A great moment and great to see him show his heart right there. He same he came from a separated family so he never wanted to see another kid go through what he went through. Congrats. Thats whats making news in america this morning. Do check us out at atmfans. Com. Have a great monday. Atmfans. Com. A neighborhood is up in arms over the migrates Homeless Population and our denver 7 crew was even assaulted by a homeless person last night. Is this the result of new enforcement efforts on the 16th street mall . Plus jeff co schools and this week. This is after a car crashes into Clear Creek Canyon last night. Jason gruenauer is on the scene for us this morning. Any updates . Reporter yes. Just within the last 10 to 15 minutes, that road has been we were here and saw emergency crews come through, pick up cones from the intersection,