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Joining the pantheon of greats. A dream come true for the ohio native. I was just a really hyper kid. I was always bouncing off the walls so gymnastics fit, and i didnt try any other sports. It was like gymnastics chose me, and then ive loved it ever since. Reporter her significant flip named the she flips back with a straight body and on the second body she does a flip and lands forward. I believe that her floor routine is the best and most difficult floor routine ever performed in the sport of gymnastics. Reporter her teammate, aly raisman impressing with a second. And russia taking home the bronze. Biles relishing the victory with her teammates, leaving rio with the coveted title, and a taste coming up today, Michael Phelps is competing in the 100 butterfly finals. Katie ledecky set a record yesterday and the u. S. Basketball teams are back on the court as well. The women take on canada. The women play serbia. Lets hope the men play a little bit better than the last time against australia. They were dominat a the aaustralia came back. Coming up, the three students who are lucky and grateful this morning. They were trapped in a cave. Spending a lot more time underground than they anticipated. How they made it out alive. And later two movies with cgi characters but meant for different audiences. Office. First we check out who will be feeling the heat the most. Im thinking dallas. World news now weather im only in my 60s. Ive got a nice long life ahead. Big plans. So when i found out medicare doesnt pay all my medical expenses, i got a Medicare Supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if youre eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80 call now and find out about an aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. Like all standardized Medicare Supplement insurance plans, it could save you in outofpocket medical costs. Call now to request your free decision guide. Ive been with my doctor for 12 years. Now i know ill be able to stick with him. [ male announcer ] youll be able to visit any doctor or hospital that accepts medicare patients. See why millions of people have already enrolled in the only Medicare Supplement insurance plans endorsed by aarp. Dont wait. Call now. Check out this dramatic video. The 74yearold pilot was so worried over not having any landing gear he texted his family that he the belly landing, the Sheriffs Office guided him down. The plane spun out but the pilot was not injured. The aircraft surprisingly wasnt damaged too much either. Sully in. Yes, indeed. Now to arkansas where a nail biting search for three lost cave explores had a rescue. One of them said he felt a ordeal. Allie rogen is here with the details. Good morning. One cold night in a cave, the price is right, but you might have to sleep on a stalagmite. Its not the latest air bb offer. A little worse for wear but all smiles. Flashing their Arkansas State wolf sign. Emerging from a cave in arkansas over 24 hours past when they were supposed to return home. It a 25yearold leading two first year students from japan. One of them documenting the trip on his smart phone. We about to enter cave. Reporter the save a wonder land. Only two miles of which have been mapped out. Its so dark, and my bodies are messy. Its dirty. Theyre stalactites. Return home by evening, the wife reported them missing. The search started around 1 45 a. M. The next morning. Before they were found the director of Emergency Management described the conditions they were likely dealing with. Theyre crawling in mud and 58 degree water. They have to be concerned about getting too cold, getting wet. Reporter cold and wet and massive. Its full of narrow twists and turns. No you can get a challenge it is to explore via with video. Whenever they go on a search and rescue mission in a cave past 24 hours, but then its a Recovery Mission f. If that put anything in perspective. Apparently Science Fiction fans have flocked to cave for decades because its known as one of the portals to a race to unfortunately we didnt find any . No smur ofes . Not that they could find. Two miles of cave. It gives me chills. Thats just the part of the cave mapped out. Theres so much more. Its an entire world under there. And not being able to see daylight. You have no idea where you are. Did they use special strategied to get out . They were found 30 from the entrance of the cave. Its not clear how much they got through, but they were filming on a smart phone. Its not like they have super fan fancy equipment to get themselves out. I understand they took turns shouting for help to help people find them. Its the most Old Fashioned way to get out of a cave. Stick with it. Thank you. Coming up, well hear from some of the u. S. Mens basketball. Theyre living on a cruise ship. The secrets of making nba rivals into the best hoops team in the world. Youre watching world news now. World news now continues after this. . Its going to be okay that, yes, well find you somewhere to stay and yes, your children will have breakfast. Every 8 minutes the red cross responds to a disaster and makes this promise. Team has played three games winning all of them. The average margin of victory is 37 points. But the most recent game wednesday against australia was close. Abc got to hang out with the team and had fun along the way. Reporter theyre the nba dream Team Dominating the court. During practice sharing i might have a neck injury doing this if i talk to you for too long. And some close calls. Favorite moment . Opening ceremonies is pretty special. Reporter how about a replay . It saved your life. Reporter thank you. While opponents back home, here in rio theyre one team. We go to basketball camps together. You know them, and we all made it to the nba together. The highest level. I think that makes us closer. Reporter that bond plastered over social media. Reporter you guys posted funny stuff on social media. Carmelo anthony. Were a funny team. Reporter kyrie irving known as the rio correspond. Checking in. Theres so many different personalit its special. Reporter some of the personalities cheering on swimming tuesday night. After snapping picks with the men and katie ledecky. This team story also one of resilience. Paul george suffering a near career ending leg injury just two years ago. I owed myself this Second Chance to walk away and do something that i can be proud of, something i can tell my kids later down the line. Unwind, theyre regular tourists, taking selfies with christ the redeemer, and i had to ask about their accommodations. Hows the cruise ship. Its awesome. Its a hotel on a boat. Reporter does everybody hang out at the cigar lounge when you come back . Theres no cigar lounge. Theres a pool deck. Reporter and the best part so far . I think its being around the any time you get the best players in the world to connect in a different way, thats special. Reporter abc news, Rio De Janeiro. They play serbia at 6 00 p. M. Tonight and then france. In the last time kyrie irving did a sidestep similar to the one on the warriors. So Draymond Green was like that looks way too familiar and too soon. The dream team, baby. That is a dream team. The dream team. You know, my skills are big plans. So when i found out medicare doesnt pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. Then i got a Medicare Supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if youre eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80 of your part b medical expenses. The rest is up to you. Call now and find out like all standardized Medicare Supplement insurance plans, it helps pick up some of what medicare doesnt pay. 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Youre ruining my joke. Including whats included as a jaw dropping good orgye. It gets 84 on rotten tomatoes. Its as much a sweet story about belief and faith as it is a vehicle for the filthiest jokes youve never dared imagine. And another calls it ballsy and dumb and brilliant in one bite. You can gobble it up like empty calories and overchew next from disney. Petes dragon is a reimagining of the 1977 original. Pete is a wild orphan who spent a long time living in the woods on his own except for the company of his dragon. The dragons name is elliot. The scenario is discussed by robert red fords character and his on screen daughter. How long has he been out there . Six years. For six years alone. He says he wasnt alone. And then she sets out to determine where pete can come from. Where he belongs and the truth about the dragon. Petes dragon is getting 87 on rottentomatoes. One says there should be more American Family movies like petes drag. Seasons most heartening surprises. Im assuming he wouldnt say the same for sausage party. Thats the news for this hour. Follow us on facebook at this morning on world news now, a third accident on an Amusement Park ride just this week. A threeyearold air lifted after suffering an injury from a roller coaster. This has two young victims from the tennessee ferris wheel accident leave the hospital. Breaking news from thailand. At least two people dead after a series of explosions rocked a vacation spot. This road rage caught on dash cam. A driver shoots into a vehicle with a child inside. Hear how it started over wiper fluid. And the a huge day in rio from the pool to the gym. The americans golden yet again. Well meet another team getting and well have their emotional celebrations. Its a National Holiday there. From abc news, this is world news now. Was it the people of belize . No. No. Not yet. It can still happen. The dream is alive. Good morning on a friday. Im kendis gibson. Im diane macedo. We begin with yet another major accident at an Amusement Park. This time a boy has fallen from a roller pittsburgh. We have that situation. More on that in a moment. First, just a short time ago we received an update on the girls who fell from a ferris wheel. You remember this story. It took place earlier this week at the tennessee fair. Well, two of them have now been released from the hospital. The third victim, a sixyearold, remains in Critical Condition with a brain injury. Investigators blame a mechanical issue. All the rides owned by that company have been dismantled. Investigation is beginning over what happened on the roller coaster. Reporter that threeyearold was air lifted to a hospital after riding a wooden roller coaster at the park just outside of pittsburgh. The boy was conscious while being treated on site. He was talking. He was alert with his family. Reporter officials arent yet saying exactly how he was hurt on the ride called rolo coaster. The rules say guests feet tall must be accompanied by an adult. In this case, his older brother. This is on the heels of two accidents earlier this week. A tenyearold killed at the schlitterbauhn water park on the tallest water slide in the world. It was a loud boom boom. I immediaknew immediately somebl off the raft. Reporter and monday three girls fell from a ferris wheel in tennessee. And hit the ground laying there. Reporter authorities in pennsylvania are now investigating what went wrong. Its still unclear how long the park will remain closed. Linsey davis , abc news, new york. Another bomb attack at a popular resort in thailand hours after twin explosions in the coastal town of wuhin. Authorities say the attac be politically motivated possibly to undermine the military government. They ruled out islamic terrorism. In syria humanitarian aid arrived in the war ravaged city of aleppo. Convoys delivered water and fresh food. A temporary cease fire allowed the supplies into the city. It got so bad residents were reportedly cooking leaves off trees for food. There was no Running Water for try to intervene. Only 15 doctors remain in the city to treat hundreds of thousands of victims. A new report finds at least 1500 people have been killed chemical weapons in syria. With more than 160 attacks. Doctors now saying the use of chlorine bombs is the new normal. A woman and two children were killed in a chlorine gas attack in aleppo. The d outside of washington d. C. Several residents of the apartment complex are unaccounted for including young children. Search operations have been suspend for the night. Dozens of people were injured when they jumped or fell out of windows. Lets move to politics. More than 70 former Republican Party officials and stachers have signed a letter urging the Republican National convention to stop supporting donald trump. Senate races. They say trumps divisiveness and recklessness as well as imp competence would turn it into a landslide. Meanwhile trump is doubling down on the can claim that president obama and Hillary Clinton are the founders of isis. Isis will hand her the most valuable player her only competition is president obama. Trump says when president obama withdrew from iraq, it cleared the way for isis. The clinton calls it another example of trash talking the United States. Hillary clinton compares her plan to the economy to drufrs. Clinton suggested she would create millions of jobs while she warned his policies would only benefit the super wealthy. He would give trillions in tax cuts to big corporations, millionaires and wall street money managers. That would explode our national debt. Clinton is also pressuring trump by releasing her 2015 tax returns as early as today. Trump has refused to release his. The man who tried to scale the trump tower has a troubled past and a troubled future as well. The undergone a psychiatric evaluation after being charged with reckless endangerment. He recently changed his name and told police he was climbing the building to get a private meeting with trump. Federal officials are redirecting emergency money intended for other programs toward zika virus research. Congress needs to approve a funding bill. Health and Human Services is programs. Hhs calls the move a short term solution. Marijuana may be legal in half the country, but feds are keeping it on the list of the most dangerous drugs. They determined it has a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use. They will allow more research into the therapeutic effects. Its legal in 25 states more medical use. Simone biles and michael competition as they grabbed more gold for the u. S. The americans widened the lead over china in the medal count. The u. S. Now up to 16 golds and 38 medals overall. Reporter 19yearold simone biles is the queen of womens gymnastics in rio. On the way to winning gold in the womens individual all around final she mastered the vault, the beam, and the floor. Become womens olympics champion. Aly raisman captured silver. Redempti redemption. The american women stole the show and shared a hug after the competition. For biles another step in what may be the womens best career of all time. In the mens 200 medley, lochte versus gold medal becoming the only swimmer to win four consecutive golds in the same event. Lochte finished in fifth. Phelps swam in the 100 butterfly semi final. He placed second. Simone manuel tied for a gold medal in the 100 medal free style. She becomes the first African American woman to win an ryan murphy struck gold in the 200 meter backstroke. More adisappointment for missy franklin. Her rio olympics dreams are over. Nathan adrian and his u. S. Cocaptain qualified in the 50 meter free style. Katie ledecky set record. She was nearly seven seconds faster than anyone else in the pool. Kayla henderson defended her judo title. She was forced to tap out in submission winning the contest. Jim ryan, abc news, Rio De Janeiro brazil. Seven seconds. Thats incredible. I love watching the reactions. Aly raismans parents are my this happened after winning the first medal ever for this country. You not only get this kind of reaction, but a handshake from the British Royal family. Fiji beat the british in the final. Players took to their knees as they received their medals. Fijis coach said he was a little bit lost for words, but then the celebrations. Listen. [ school kids in fiji just erupting. The Prime Minister declared it a National Holiday today as a result of this. This is epic. He attended every day of the competition. Its one of those things where people will say there are no words. No words needed. No. There were signs, i saw signs posted in fiji while they were watching. They said this Government Office match. Congratulations to fiji. Coming up later in the mix, some things you wont want to try at home like a 360 degree swing and other fun ideas. First, a driver resorts to deadly force in a fit of road rage. Firing at another vehicle even though there was a child inside. Well show you why it escalated so quickly. And the olympics boxer getting lots of attention. Youll want to l and why she credits the sport with saving her life. Find us on facebook, wnnfans. Com. Introducing new ky touch gel cr . Me. For massage and intimacy. Every touch, gently intensified. A little touch is all it takes. Welcome back. Authorities in two communities on either side of the country are asking for the publics help to sort out some disturbing road rage incidents. Of course weve seen plenty of road rage incidents before, but rarely does it rise to this level of take a look. Clayton sandell slhows us. Reporter in Los Angeles Police are working to find this man. Firing twice at the family including a child in this white suv. . The driver side armed with unknown type of black handgun. Reporter the suspect enraged because the uv apparently sprayed his car with windshield wiper fluid. The level that this took was quite alarming. Reporter in Florida Police say this black truck follows a civil sedan. This woman waves and points a pistol. The driver refuses to identify the woman with the gun. Most road rage cases avoid a deadly turn. But road rage has been blamed for 1700 deaths nationwide. But the l. A. County sheriff says they have no suspects. Its surprising. You would think the video would give them good evidence. Lucky no one was hurt, especially with kids in the car. All over wiper fluid. Uhhuh. Coming up in our next half hour, eddie murphy changing his career path. Going from comedy to drama. First the american boxer whose sport helped keep her on were getting in the ring hours before she get in the raning fo rio. Youre watching world news . . I like the version of eye of the tiger. Appropriate for the next story. Yes. Check out american boxer mikaela mayer. Shes getting ready for the fight of her life today in rio. Shes a lightweight boxer who credits her sport with saving her from going down the wrong path of life. Were up all night line with rachel smith who tells us about this inspiring fighter. Reporter i first met her under the bright lights of olympics stadiums, but in this basement gym with some of the best amateurs in the world facing off at the tournament of champions. A ramp up to the olympics. She spends almost all of her time in the gym. Three times a day, six days ready. Reporter training a body and her mind. My boxing workouts are more mentally draining than physically. Reporter now a series olympics medal tcontender. When she was a teenager she was fighting but nowhere near a boxing ring. Why were you kicked out of school . I was kicked out of school for getting in a fight with one of my exbest friends. When i found boxing, i switched gears. It focussed me. I stopped going out anding. I cracked down in school. Reporter it seems that being if the ring is not about fighting and taking out anger but about discipline tech teate. Theres a bigger goal now. Reporter we caught up with her where she and the other olympics youre surrounded by athletes with the same common goal. Every direction you turn is an olympics focus. Its almost like youre back in college a little bit because its kind of dorm style living and everybody is in the same cafeter cafeteria, but its fun. Double the cannon. Reporter mixing a little fun with her fighting, the women even came up with code names for fire the cannon. Walk the plank or walk it back toward the rope. Its a lot of work. We have to find spots to make ourselves laugh and have a good time. Reporter and now after years of hard work, dedication, and single minded focus, mikaelas made it to rio, and she says shes ready for the biggest fight of her life. It was really a brutal path to get here, and wite chances of making it being slim, but to have such a dream, you have to believe in yourself. You have to believe youre the best before you are. Reporter rachel smith in atlanta. Are you trying to be abusive . Why are you trying . Im inspired it. The cannon. Here i come. Im that quick. Like boughter fly and a bee. Shes pretty cool. Yeah. And a little bit scary. I would not want to mess with all right. Im that quick. male 1 its a Little Something ive done every night since i was a kid, empty my pocket change into this old jar. Its never much, just whats left after i break a dollar. And i never thought i could get quality Life Insurance with my spare change. Neither did i. Until i saw a commercial for the Colonial Penn program. Imagine people our age getting Life Insurance at such an affordable rate. 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However, i would likeo did it, ladies and gentlemen. He has invented the 360 degree swing. The way it works, its on sort of a pendulum. Theres a weight on one side. Person on the other. Once he gains enough momentum, he goes over the top. Thats not the first time hes created his own invention. However, diy enthusiasts be ware, there are zero safeguards to keep the rider from falling but he is living every childs dream. Yes. Dont try it at home. Also in the category of dont try it on your own, there is allison teal. She wore her surfboard to a volcano. The lava started flowing a few weeks ago. 2000 degrees lava, and shes an adventur adventurer. Itll feelt just ask barry. . Politics and foreign wars all the weather all the scores thats the world news polka . . Around the world and up your street the skinny is our gossip feed. Thats the world news poe have a . . Its late at night and youre wide awake and wearing ther pal mug and everybody dance . . Have fun be a pal. Every anchor guy and gal do to world news polka . . Why go tout out to russia for olympics thats too far. We have the winter games here digging out my car . . Polar vortex, thats the world news polka . . I cant walk on the snowy sidewalk. Its not note . The doctor told me to stay away from . Do the world news at 90 seconds yet poe . . If your neighbors call the cops heres all you have to do . When they yell its half past three, say hey, thats news to me . This morning donald trump taking on his fellow republicans responding to new efforts among his critics to shift money away from his white house run. How trurch is trump is firing back. Fighting terror at home as two separate cases of home grown radicals face justice. Includ sent to prison for trying to join isis. New this half hour, a very public mistake in rio. Everyone watching the faceoff between Michael Phelps and ryan lochte. When one announcer gets a little confused as to who is who. And eddie murphy seemingly closing the door on return to comedy. The first look at murphy in a dramatic turn coming up in the skinny, this friday, august 12th. Good morning. Some would say hes given up comedy years ago. Not all of them were great, but the good ones were so good. Well get to that in the skinny, but first a new republican effort to abandon donald trump. More than 70 former gop and to Reince Priebus urging the party to stop supporting trump. Theyre calling him reckless, divisive and incompetent, and they say gop money would be better spent on gop races. Trump is making it clear hes not changing his ways. David wright is on the campaign trail. Reporter in florida. I call president obama and Hillary Clinton the founders of isis. Reporter donald trump is hammering away at that new line he is the founder of isis. Hes the founder of isis. I would say the cofounder would be crooked Hillary Clinton. Reporter conservative radio host pressed him on it. I know what you meant. I meant hes the founder of isis. But hes not sympathetic. He hates them. He was the founder. Reporter he mocked the Clinton Campaign for allowing the father of the orlando but right behind trump is mark foley, the exflorida congressman who resigned in disgrace for sending sexually explicit messages to young pages. The Trump Campaign struggling to recapture the dominance he four times on the cover of Time Magazine over the last number of months. Reporter this week hes got the time cover again, meltdown. Not exactly the headline youd want. Reporter in a religious round table trump asked for help. Im in a tremendous problem in utah. Reporter and in an interview entertained the idea he might not win. Its either going to work or im going to have a very, very nice long vacation. Reporter david wright abc news, florida. And hillary in trumps comments about isis saying he has an aversion to the truth. Clinton took aim at trump on a different front hammering him on the economy. She emphasized her commitment to Small Businesses but depicted trumps proposals as beneficial to the rich. And harmful to typical americans. She said his ideas are based on fear and she used the olympics to make her point. Compete. Instead, theyre winning gold medals. America isnt afraid to compete. Clinton also slammed the proposed tax cuts. She said it would allow him to pay less than half the current tax rate. Prosecutors say a man hatched the plan to support isis reaching out to members of the terror group online. He faces up to 20 years in prison. His family says he has a history of mental illness. A mississippi woman was sentenced to 12 years in prison for planning to join isis. She and her fiance were arrested after they tried to travel to syria to join the terror group and said they were going on their honeymoon as a cover. Youngs fiance will be sentenced later this month. Home from the hospital. The youngest victim a sixyearold girl is in Critical Condition with a brain injury. All the rides are closed at that fair and the company that runs them has been told to back up and leave. A threeyearold boy is in a pittsburgh hospital this morning after falling from a roller coaster at an Amusement Park near there. Its not clear how the accident took place. Riders must be at least four theyre accompanied by an adult. There are no seat belts in the 78yearold ride called the roller coaster. Theres only a bar for protection, and were told preschoolers are often allowed on that ride. The boy was riding with his older brother. No word on his condition. Three students who went missing in a cave have been rescued. They have a mild case of hypothermia. Theyre expected to be okay. Officials say they were found about 30 minutes from the caves the other two on a trip. Conditions in the cave are described as miserable. Youre crawling in mud, 68 degree water. They had to be concerned about getting too cold, getting wet. The wife of one of the students reported them missing wednesday night. Two of the students are Japanese Exchange students. And wall street all three major stock indexes reached record highs on tuesday. That hasnt happened since 1999 full swing. Some Analysts Expect to see more records broken once the Summer Vacation is over. The market has been helped by solid employment news, a rebound in oil prices and good earnings reports from major retailers. One of these retails, macys posted falling sales and slower traffic at the stores, but the numbers werent as bad as feared. The Company Announced theyll close about 14 of their are worth more as realize than as stores. Lets hear it for the animal kingdoms comeback of the year. The california island fox. You know. Of course. Shes cute. Three subspecies found only on the island off the coast of california has been removed. From the endangered species list. A fourth species has been upgraded to threatened. The recovery effort is being called one of the most successful ever. Welcome back. I want one. No . I dont know that theyd make great house cats, even though theyre the size of your standard house cat. Do you think theyd get along with frank, my bunny . No. Frank would be dinner. Coming up, team usas swimming super stars put on a show in rio. And apparently confusing an announcer. And later. 22 years in the big leagues and its down to tonight. Alex rodriguez steps to the plate one last time. Who is throwing the Retirement Party . Well tell you in the skinny. First a look at todays forecast. World news now weather brought to you by american advisors group. Our daughter, libby, is convinced that the washing her buddy antonio. So, when its time for his bath. 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Gold in the 100 meter and 200 meter backstroke to Michael Phelps. This is ryan murphy in the 200. The United States has swept the event in six straight olympics. The last time the u. S. Failed to take both races was in barcelona now dominating is just one of the words that you can use to describe the other simone who had a ni the gymnastics world. She broke down in tears after taking gold in the womens all around final beating aly raisman by almost the double margin of victory in any of her three world championships. Also the largest margin ever in this category. Taking a look at the medal count the u. S. Continues to lead with china second and then japan. The u. S. Has the overall lead with 38. And the huge news that sparked a National Holiday, fiji now has a medal. What about belize . Track and field starts tonight. One of the gold medals belongs to Kristin Armstrong. Shes gotten used to climbing to the top step of the medal podium over the last few olympics. This time her win in the n affair. Thats a gold medal. Reporter american cyclist Kristin Armstrong making history. The oldest female cyclist to win gold and the first to win the same event three games in a row. I think for so long weve been told we should be finished at a certain age. I think theres a lot of athletes out there that are showing thats not true. Reporter waiting for her at the finish line, her 5yearold son lucas. Think what would it be like if i had my son in my arms on the podium. Reporter shedding tears of joy showing him her new medal. Lucas asking why are you crying . You won. She said thats what we do. We cry when were happy. Being a mom has been my secret weapon. It provides me balance and keeps me on track and focussed. Reporter her son, her focus, her secret to success. After the race she said she competition and today she turns 43. What a way to celebrate. And a canadian broadcaster hut pus himself put himself in line for the Michael Phelps death stare. He had a little trouble telling the difference between phelps and ryan lochte. This was awesome. Listen up. Has this one in him. Ryan lochte going for his 13th career medal saving the best for last. Hes going to do it. Ryan lochte is going to beat Michael Phelps in this event in the games. Phelps might not even make the podium. That was awesome. It was great race for lochte if youre in canada. The broadcaster realized who was who after the race was over. He tweeted out im sorry everyone. I blew it. No excuses. Weve all been there. Steve harvey is like thats an average day. I feel you, brother. Hear what arod has planned for tonights Retirement Party. And why the kardashian clan is celebrating this morning. Its not because were not sambaing ever again. What . No more. Im done. Im staying here. World news now continues after this from our abc cc1 test message . It is skinny time on this friday. We begin with eddie murphy returning to the begin screen in a leading role, but this role is different than the ones we expected. Murphy plays the title character in a drama called mr. Church. Hes a cook and the film explores a relationship that develops between murphys character and the girl named when mr. Church came into our lives, i wanted him gone. I hope you dont mind. I bring books with me every place i go. I hate reading. But over time i couldnt imagine life without him. Id like to check out a book. Okay. In that new trailer we see mr. Churchs fondness for charlotte remains strong as they go through various emotional scenes. The film hits theaters sebe next up, Alex Rodriguez plays his final game with the new york yankees and possibly in Major League Baseball tonight. Hes being released by the team after the game even though the yankees owe him about 27 million through next season. After tonights game jamie fox will host a Retirement Party for rodriguez at a club in manhattan. Jayz, beyonce wont be there because theyre on vacation in jayz is sending champagne said to be worth about 80,000 to that party. For a second i thought we were going to show pictures of people who werent going to the party. If you are looking for kendall jenner, you can find her on the cover of vogue magazine. To celebrate the magazine released a weird video where her Famous Family seems to be ignoring the fact that shes the vogue cover girl. That is, until she gets a text from ryan seacrest. Were so proud of you. A major laser in the background. In an interview she relates. She knew since she was a child about her fathers desire to be a woman, but she says her dad back to being bruce. And she says her mom knew what the family secret was way back since her third date with bruce. Wow. So they got in deep on this vague interview. I guess so. Finally something of a hollywood time capsule has been opened thanks to drew barry moore. She posted this photo of all the boxes that she sorted through this week. What she found was really a treasuretrove. Drew in the lower right corner with quincy jones and his kids and et. And from a couple years later, theres Drew Barrymore and sharon stone. We dont know what will provide a 90s flash back if that doesnt. The caption reads im glad im as happy as i was when i was loved babes in toyland. Coming up, the friday rewind. I used to blame the weather for my frizz. Turns out my curls needed to be stronger. Pantenes prov formula makes my curls so strong. They can dry practically frizz free. Because strong is beautiful. Introducing new ky touch gel cr . Me. For massage and intimacy. Important message for residents age 50 to 85. Write down this number now. Right now, people are receiving this free information kit for guaranteed acceptance Life Insurance with a rate lock through the Colonial Penn program. 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And bizarre scenes in new york and tremendous sadness at places where fun usually reigns. I looked at my cousin. He was standing next to me. I said i think thats the body outside of the raft. As i said closer and put my hand on the slide the life guard says theres nothing you can do. I feel bad for the little kids. You know . They just screamed a little bit and then they just hit the ground and laying there. I hate saying Something Like that. The whole entire world knows i dont think any of us realized that wed witnessed. It was only when i looked a the police chief that i realized this was not a game anymore. He was jumping up and down, anxious. Didnt think much of it. Two minutes later we turned around and he was running across the side of the building. If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people maybe there is. I dont know. We witnessed the latest in a ng from donald trump that cross the line. He is the founder of isis. Hes the founder of isis. I would say the cofounder would be crooked Hillary Clinton. I dont want either donald trump or Hillary Clinton to be president. Neither one of them are acceptable for americans. Our generous and talented and beloved colleague John Saunders has died. And i love this team. And today im saying goodbye to both. You just kind of feel everything like all your hard work put in to that one moment, and then especially with the team. You all get to share that memory together, and its something youll remember forever. What a week. Its been an amazing week. And its been a great week at the olympics for team usa. Michael phelps back in the pool tonight. Probably to win his fifth gold medal there in rio. And weve seen the gymnasts dominate, especially the women, and they come back next week to compete in the individual events as well. And belize will take to the track and field and will dominate jamaica. This is abcs world news now informing insomniacs for two decades. This is abcs world news now informing insomniacs for making news in america this morning, breaking right now, a plane forced to make an emergency landing. Passengers injured. The images showing damage inside the plane. Republican Party Officials are reportedly set to meet with the Trump Campaign amid mounting support to pull support for his run president obama and Hillary Clinton the founders of isis. A man opens his garage door to find a little guy staring back at him. A tenfoot alligator. The risky removal caught on camera. Simone biles and Michael Phelps make olympic history as does a surprise and emotional victory for one of our female swimmers. All the highlights from the