They say they are ready for war with america. And the driver tailgating so close she doesnt see whats on the road. The highway spinout with a big lesson. How close is too close . Good evening and thank you for joining us on this saturday. Im cecelia vega, we begin in rio where team usa already has gold in hand and we are talking about the very first medal of these summer games. The celebrations have not stopped. That opening ceremony. A stunning display of color and fireworks. The american athletes entering the stadium to roaring cheers and carrying the flag swimmer michael phelps, the most decorated olympian of all time. But tonight it is a first time competitor who has brought home the first gold. American shooter ginny thrasher. Matt gutman starts us off in rio with the victories inside ceremonies fireworks had barely dimmed before the first u. S. Gold today. Ginny thrasher turned out to be a giant in the games first competition, the ten meter air rifle. The virginia native had never picked up a fun until five years ago. Tonight shes toting gold. In the pool, the u. S. Mens 400 meter freestyle and womens medically competing for glory. Katie ledecky. Choppy waters for olympic organizers. Fresh off these images of water falls in stare wells and unfinished bathrooms. Crowds bunching in the heat for hours. Lines not moving and manometers not working. The real organizers apologizing also acknowledging a stray bullet hit a tent housing media at an equestrian event and a bomb squad detonating a suspected device at the fine issue line of the road race. It turns out it was just lost luggage. Abc news imbedded with the bomb squad all day. Showing us this controlled explosion and we learned why they are so skittish here. Grenades, domestic need i say. This stuff is very common . Yeah. Every day . Yes. Unfortunately. But security person saying for these games its not the gangs theyre concerned about but a possible lone wolf attacker. Its one reason theyre flooding this city with nearly 100,000 security personnel. Cecelia. Matt, thank you. Well turn to chicago where theres growing outrage over new video of a police shooting. This moment officers shooting at a stolen car later killing the teenage suspect and it is now coming under fire by police. Police duties and tonight the departments top boss explains why. Alex perez is in chicago. Reporter tonight, for the First Time Since the release of those heart racing Chicago Police videos, the citys top cop is speaking out. What i can say is that i was concerned by some of the things that i saw in the videos. Reporter those videos showing officers firing their guns as they pursue car robbery suspect paul oneal. What is the policy when it comes to officers firing their weapons if the suspect or person involved is not firing at them . Our policy clearly states that were prohibited from firing into, or at moving vehicles if the vehicle is the only use of force. Reporter the suspect seen crashing head on into a Police Cruiser and then fleeing on foot. With oneal handcuffing him after ab officer shot him in the back. Oneal later died from his injuries. Any member of the community is in danger. Reporter missing from the videos, bodycam images of the fatal shot. While authorities investigate why that critical moment was not recorded, peaceful protestors and oneals loved ones demanding justice. No one should go through anything like this. Reporter the family has filed a civil rights lawsuits against the Chicago Police and the three officers involved. Cecelia. To a frightening scene in new jersey. Two popular rappers in the middle of their show. You can see the crowd pushing toward the stage when a barrier collapses. Fans plunging down to the concrete below. Dozens rushed to the hospital. Reporter cheers turning into chaos midconcert when a barrier breaks, sending fans off a ledge. Reporter rappers snoop dogg and wiz khalifia on the stage in new jersey when the guardrail gives way. Fans closest to the stage falling several feet, slamming into the concrete below. There were four or five people on top of me and it was so hard to breathe. I couldnt move. I thought i was dying. It was so scary. Reporter First Responders say thats a six to eight footdrop off. From this angl fans flipping over and landing on top of each other. Theres multiple patients here and theyre starting the triage process. Reporter paramedics rushing more than 40 to the hospital. I saw my friends ankle and literally you could see bone. You could see like tendons. It was terrifying. Reporter witnesses say the crowd was pushing before the railing gave way. All these people started rushing crazy. Concert promoters say theyre working with structural went wrong. Wiz khalifa tweeting today hope everyone from last night is all right. Live nation saying concerts will go on as scheduled. Tonight donald trump is back in New Hampshire, a state whose senator he just endorsed after refusing to do exactly that. Trump giving two other big endorsements to House Speaker paul ryan and arizonas john mccain. But is the new found push for party unity too little too late . Abcs devin dwyer reports from the campaign trail tonight. Reporter a campaign reboot. Donald trump changing course and sticking to the script. I support and endorse our speaker of the house, paul ryan. The endorsement of the nations Top Republican is an olive branch to Party Leaders who are outraged by trumps performance. Do a lot of wonderful things. Even trying to heal a rift with senator john mccain. He once said this. Hes not a war hero. But now. I hold in the highest esteem senator john mccain and fully support and endorse his reelection. Reporter trump endorsing New Hampshire republican senator kelly aott as he visits her state. Three endorsements three days after he defiant lip refus give them. Does these endorsements matter . No, i dont think they do. No. I dont think they matter at all. What did you think when you saw him endorse paul ryan . I just that he did the right thing for the party. Tonight a fresh attack on Hillary Clinton for this. What i told the fbi which he said was truthful is consistent with what i have said publically. So i may have shortcircuited it. Explanation why she mischaracterized the fbi investigation tweeting anybody whose mind short circuit is not fit to be our president. Trump is reaching out to republicans and some keeping their distance. Senator aotts office saying she appreciates his support but wont be appearing with him here in her home state. Tomorrow morning the former cia director who called trump a threat to National Security will be a guest on this week. To severe weather. Monsoon rains headed for the a downpour in the phoenix area caused instant rivers. This one so powerful it ripped away part of an iron fence. Some roads flooded so quickly. Drivers trapped in the mud. Tonight flash flood watches are up in two states. Next to a headline in the battle against zika. Another new case contracted from mosquitoes, the 16th right here in the United States. The battle to contain the virus taking to the skies. For expectant mothers on the ground grows. Abcs eva pilgrim has the latest from miami. The growing number of zika cases in miami met with an air assault. This plane armed with pesticides for the first time taking aim on mosquito eggs in the zika zone north of downtown miami. The city of miami going around and vacuuming up water out of the drains hoping to get r grounds for mosquitoes. Florida is one step closer to adding another weapon to their arsenal. The fda approving the use of genetically modified mosquitoes to fight zika. It mates with the female and the off spring does not develop into an adult. Dies before adulthood. Little comfort to expectant moms like fabiola surena 22 weeks its its frustrating not knowing what it could do without prevention. This week hope as the first pregnant woman in puerto rico infected with zika gave birth to a healthy baby girl. I know shes going to be fine. She looks so perfect. Zulmarys is one of more than 600 mothers in puerto rico. With zeke where the cdc estimates 10 of the population is infected. Cecelia. Overseas brussels still shaken after the deadly airport attack back in march. This time a man shouting god is great in arabic used a machete to attack two police officers. A third officer shot and killed. The attacker. The motive is still under investigation. Next, north korea a determined enemy of the United States. Just this week the u. S. Imposed new sanctions and north korea conducted a new missile test. Bob woodruff was right there and tension, access never allowed before. To view the capitol from this soviet chopper, from the square famous for the military parades to the bridge to the smoking power plant. Driving two hours south we arrive at the demilitarized zone. Heres the line. On the other side is south korea. North korean soldiers on one side and american on the other. One of the top officials give us in more than a decade, just hours before we meet reports of a missile launch. Just this morning the south korean joint chief of staff saying north korea launched another missile into the sea. Off the east coast. Whats your reaction . He says theyre payback for u. S. Sanctions which he calls nuclear blackmail. Said this is a declarations of war. The United States will have to what is that price . He says americans detained in north korea will be treated with the laws of war. People like the 21yearold given 15 years hard labor for the theft of a sign. Any communication going on between your country and ours . No. Zero . Before we depart director general hahn insists north korea wont dismantle any nuclear as he thanks us for our visit. Bob rode woodruff abc news news. Next, a victory in the battle against a legendary band of jewel thieves. This time the pink panther gang caught redhanded. Heres abcs jennifer ecleston. Reporter high stakes jewel heists, the smash and grab gang making off with millions in minutes. Not this time. Handcuffed by police, five panther gang arrested in barcelona. Police tipped off, able to catch the kroox in the act. Their sledge hammer left behind. 400,000 worth of rings, bracelets and gems recovered. The master criminals pulling off 380 jobs in 30 countries since 1999. Netting 370 million in loot. Im sorry. The gangs name inspired by this scene out of the return of the pink panther when they hide loot in a jar of face these guys have done the same thing. Here the real life pink panthers crashing luxury getaway cars into this dubai mall. 2 million in jewels gone in two minutes. And this man calmly snatches 100 million in gems from a luxury hotel in the south of france. Authorities say the panthers have hundreds of members but the special unit dedicated to taking them down is winning the battle against the worlds most audacious jewel thieves. Still much more ahead on this saturday. A disaster in the making. Are you guilty of it . Tailgating. What happens next to this driver. It will make you think twice before you do it again. And the serious moment for beachgoers at a popular Summer Vacation spot. . . . Its easy to love your laxative hydrates, eases and softens to unblock naturally, so you have peace of mind from start to finish. Love your laxative. Miralax. When people ask me what its like to win an olympic medal, i tell them, you already know. The medals youve earned are all around you. Your bronze. Your silver. Your gold. 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The driver in the green ford quickly reacts to avoid a mattress on the road, abruptly the next lane, then those rocks on the left, flipping across this arizona interstate. The driver, 23year old briana disaia of texas miraculously walks away unscathed. Her life saved because she was wearing her seatbelt. Arizona Authorities Say she was driving too close to the vehicle in front of her and didnt have enough time to react to the mattress. How long does it take to respond . A total of a second and a half to see something react appropriately. That doesnt sound like much. Does it make a difference . It can when youre traveling at high ee half means that you may have covered 100 feet or so in that time that your brain is processing this. Thats precious distance you have lost. A rule of thumb, give three seconds of following distance. To measure, find a fixed object like a telephone pole. When the car in front passes, count one 1,000, two 1,000, three 1,000. 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Reporter she and sara jumped into the water pushing the boat to land taking three and a half grueling hours in open water. It would be ashamed that we would die in the water and were swimmers. She began swimming in damascus. Sometimes you can train and you can see like the roof. Reporter after surviving she and her sister settled in germany finding a coach and a mission. Go to the olympics and tell the world that refugees had to leave their homes not because they wanted to, but because they had to. This afternoon another incredible moment for yusra on the olympic stage in the 100 meter butterfly placing first in her heat. Even though she fell short today shell compete on wednesday and has another shot at olympic glory. Cecelia back to you. And thank you for watching. 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