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Victory as Michael Phelps and ryan lochte go headtohead with a photo finish now heading for the finals and Carmelo Anthony setting a u. S. Olympic scoring record as they edge out australia in a nailbiter. Were live in rio for all the action. Good morning, america. How about Katie Ledecky, pushing team usa to yet another gold medal in the pool. And look at her teammates, reach out, grab her hand at the end. Another gold for team usa. Big day ahead. Amys tracking all the excitement in rio. It is so exciting here, guys. Team usa dominating in the water and on the bike. Finishing strong, celebrating there with her 5yearold son okay, amy. Well get back to you. First that breaking news, a massive fire in maryland taking down an apartment complex. Firefighters rushing to save survivors. More than two dozen people taken to the hospital. Abcs Gloria Rivera is on the scene in silver spring, maryland. Good morning, gloria. Reporter good morning, robin. The scene here is utter destruction. Officials say they still dont know what caused the fire and explosion but you can see crews are still on the scene w to put out hot spots. Overnight, a massive fire engulfing this maryland apartment building. At least 25 people rushed to the hospital as firefighters race to put out the blaze. An eyewitness took this video of what the massive flames looked like just a few feet away. County police on scene advising people trapped on 7th and 3rd floor. We got a report of people trapped on the 4th floor. Reporter watch as two to a waiting fire ladder. Residents forced to jump from upper story balconies. Children dropped by their parents from windows. Five to seven people still unkoltunovaed for as nearly 200 rescue workers responded to the inferno. Witnesses reported hearing a loud boom. Nearby homes shook as debris like this door scattered across the street. It appears there was some sort of explosion. All i heard was a big boom and it sounded like earthquake. Really bad to see that fire going up and going up. Reporter First Responders setting up a makeshift triage station on site. People seen dazed. Bandaged as the fire rages. The fire chief saying that before emergency crews got on the scene there were multiple civilian rescues. Neighbors saving neighbors, search and rescue teams will stay on the site until everyone from those 28 apartments is accounted for. George. Okay, gloria, thanks very much. We move on to breaking news suicide bomb plot in canada where Police Killed the suspect. Martha raddatz has all the latest. Good morning, martha. Reporter good morning, george. Canadian authorities believed the planned Suicide Attack on a major city in canada was imminent. S. W. A. T. Teams and the bomb squad swarmed a residence about an hour north of the u. S. Border where 23yearold aaron driver was hiding out eventually killing him in a hail of bullets. Canadian television says driver planned to use a homemade bomb to carry out the Suicide Mission in a public area with the goal, george, of creating mass casualties. And, martha, he had been on their radar. Reporter he had. He was known as an isis sympathizer who posted on social media. Although there is no evidence yet that he was directed by the terror group. But he had been previously arrested. Police say he once published instructions for aspiring referred to nonmuslims as enemies. Thank goodness they stopped him. Thanks very much. Thank goodness, indeed. To donald trump not backing down on those Second Amendment comments seen by some as a threat against Hillary Clinton. His rival now reacting and Abcs Cecilia Vega has the latest from the Clinton Campaign trail in des moines, iowa. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter robin, good morning to you. This is not going away for donald trump. He says those Second Amendment comments were designed to unite Second Amendment supporters but about them for the first time here in iowa says her opponent is inciting violence. Overnight the republican nominee doubling down on those controversial comments about clinton and Second Amendment supporters. From florida we need our Second Amendment reporter to virginia. We have to protect our Second Amendment which is under siege. Reporter but clinton telling supporters her opponent is inciting violence. We witnessed the latest in a from donald trump that cross the line. Reporter but trump continued his attack on clinton and president obama with a new accusation. Isis is honoring president obama. He is the founder. He founded isis. And i would say the cofounder would be crooked Hillary Clinton. Reporter this morning, a new batch of just released state questions about whether favors were exchanged for donations to the clinton foundation. Trump is pouncing. Pay tore play. Called pay youre not allowed to do it. Its illegal. Reporter while Clintons Campaign says Hillary Clinton never took action as secretary of state because of donations to the clinton foundation. And weve also just learned Hillary Clinton is expected to release her 2015 tax returns. That could come as soon as running mate tim kaine, a likely move to put pressure on donald trump to release him. Trying to smoke him out. Lets bring in matthew dowd for more. This was supposed to be the economy week. Donald trump had his speech on monday. Hillary clinton today speaking on the economy but, of course, its being dominated by other things. First off on donald trump, is he digging himself into a hole with these Second Amendment comments or are we overblowing it . I think probably and the media pounced on it in a way thats exacerbated it. Any reading of it he didnt actually threaten Hillary Clinton but it was a stupid remark that hurts him in the long run. This is the problem with donald trump. He cant stay disciplined long enough on one topic in order to break through and get the numbers back with Hillary Clinton. Meantime, you got more emails coming out on Hillary Clinton and a report in the New York Times up to 100 Democratic Party officials have been hacked so likely more releases to come in for voters or will this new information really hurt . George, you know, every time we watch the campaign it looks like a marvel comic movie as if russian hackers, a guy climbing the building, villains in the course of this race, i think this is embarrassing, but the question is, when they come out whether its really, really harming her in the course of this. We saw that the emails released in the course of the Democratic Convention took down the chairwoman of the party. This is feeds a story that Hillary Clinton among the majority of the country dont feel they can trust her. At the same time shes expanding the electoral map right now. Democratic officials talking about moving into states like georgia which democrats havent won since 1992 and North Carolina which president obama lost in 2012. Well, the great thing about this, george, is that actually looks for the first time in a long time well have a National Race because the map is so big for Hillary Clinton now and the map has become much smaller for we have now expanded the map probably for the biggest time since the 80s in the course of this so maybe the majority of the country will be part of the conversation. Youre saying still keep an eye on those third party candidate, third and fourth party candidates. Gary johnson and jill stein. Yeah, george, this is like a race an olympic race in the swimming pool. When all the splashes is going on in the middle of the pool look for the people on the outside lanes that can get through it without the wake. And if he gets in that president ial debate, the first president ial debate there is no telling what could happen in this race. That could make a big difference. He has to gain points to get there, 15 threshold. Matt dowd. Thanks very much. We turn to that attempt to scale trump tower in manhattan using suction cups to make his way up 21 floors before Emergency Responders pulled him inside. Abcs gio benitez is outside trump tower and has the latest. Good morning to you. Reporter robin, good morning scene here as we watched that man hang off of this building and now were told this morning all he wanted to do was meet donald trump. This morning, a reallife spiderman in Police Custody after scaling new yorks trump tower wednesday afternoon. Now hes undergoing a psych evaluation. Watch as the selfprofessed trump supporter from virginia ascends to the buildings 21st floor using industrial grade suction cups. The stunt lasting three hours. Another six to eight hours on the wall. This type of climbing is well known to be incredibly slow. Slow enough for authorities to cut through several glass windows then grabbing the daredevil, pulling him to safety. I reached out, i took hold of his hand and i said, sir, you need to come with me. Reporter hundreds of bystanders and pedestrians on the ground captivated. Even from inside witnesses shocked. Police say the unnamed man. Who released this video manifesto tuesday was heading up to the 56th floor home to, you guessed it donald j. Trump. Im an independent researchers seeking a private audience with you to discuss an important matter. Reporter and while donald trump has only responded on twitter to thank those Courageous Police officers, it seems he can count on the stuntmans vote. Be sure to get out and vote election. Reporter and this morning that man is getting his psychological evaluation and once thats all over he will be arrested and charged most likely with Reckless Endangerment and trespassing. Robin and george. All right, gio, thank you. Gridlock when that was happening. All kind of strike scenes happening in this campaign and we move on to the olympics. More gold. Katie ledecky leads them to victory as Michael Phelps and referrrefer epic rivalry. Nailbiting races and team usa stars giving their all as they go for gold. For Katie Ledecky of the United States. As expected, the u. S. Women win gold in the 4x2. Reporter call them the golan girl, katie led leading her team to victory in the womens 4x200 freestyle relay in a neck and neck race. Watch as ledecky pulls ahead of australia in winning a full second behind and now a full second ahead. Reporter the u. S. Women now winning this event five of the last six olympics. Looking pretty smooth again. Reporter and swimming superstars Michael Phelps and ryan lochte going headtohead in the 200 individual medley semifinals. Phelps placing first with lochte behind him coming in a close second. Both will swim in the finals tonight. Phelps hunting for his 22nd gold Nathan Adrian winning bronze in the 100meter freestyle. And Nathan Adrian gets the bronze. Reporter josh prenot taking silver and a surprising win for the u. S. Diving team. That was beautiful. Reporter sam dornin and Michael Hixson somersaulting into silver in the mens synchronized springboard, the highest american finish in this event. A disappointing night for the u. S. Mens who finished seventh and 14th. Japan taking gold. And Gold Medalist Kristin Armstrong pedaling to her second gold in cycling. Watch as the 42yearold collapses to the ground after crossing the finish line shedding tears of joy. Her 5yearold son leaping into her arms. For him to experience this, i think that is an experience that every mom would love to bring their child. Reporter here Armstrong Lucas who asked after the race why are you crying. You won. She said, thats what we do. We cry when were happy. She is a 43yearold woman today. Happy birthday to her. Two reasons to celebrate big today, george and robin. What else are you looking forward to today . I got a lot to look forward to but mostly im so excited about the u. S. Womens gymnastics. Simone biles and aly raisman take on the world in the individual allaround so i will be there to watch that and then phelps and lochte will go headtohead in the highly anticipated 200meter im finals. A lot to watch. Jesse has his eye on that matchup as well and the medal count overnight. Thats right. As of right now team usa leading in gold medals and overall medal count, china is second place, japan, russia, australia round out the top five. Five medals so far. Thats more than 196 different countries. They have a chance for a sixth medal tonight with ryan lochte swimming and another florida gator, conor dwyer who is going to be live on the show with us coming up in just a little bit, robin. I know youre proud. Thank you. Someone that both of us knew very well now to the life and legacy of legendary Sports Reporter and host john saunders. So many remembering the longtime espn anchor and member of the abc family who massed and here are todays Sports Reporters. Reporter john saunders, the legendary and versatile espn sportscaster hosted and provided playbyplay coverage for nearly three decades. Simply put, he was the real deal. Congratulations to the National Champion texas longhorns. Reporter ill always remember my dear friend for his warmth, his distinctive baritone voice and his hearty laughs. Reporter for the past 15 years john hosted the Sports Reporters a sunday morning roundtable discussion with his insightful commentary, his calm, cool and collected demeanor, john tackled issues of the day. One of the most ridiculous things ive heard is someone questioning the leadership of an africanamerican athlete by saying he isnt black enough. Black enough for who . There was another africanamerican some labeled not black enough, now they call him mr. Reporter among his many roles at espn he covered College Basketball with the late jim valvano. Their partnership on air blossoming into a friendship and when jimmy v. Passed away, john became a Founding Member and served on the board of directors for the v foundation for Cancer Research championing the cause as his own. Oh, he was a proud canadian. He never hid his love for hockey but it was his family that he loved most. His wife want do and daughters significant loss. I have some shocking and sad news to report to you. Reporter espn president john skipper saying he was one of the most significant and influential members of the espn family, as a colleague and a mentor, he will be sorely missed but most certainly not forgotten. Not at all. So much to his legacy and many in the espn family were reaching out to each other before the you had already heard from some producers there, something so special about him. Yeah, you know, the world lost a great human being and a great father and a great colleague, but even a better friend. He was so good at tv. I was always in awe of him that way working with him. He made me better at my job. I was lucky to work with him but more than that he made me love this profession so much more because i spent all my time with john laughing and smiler. The reason i did nfl primetime which really put me on the map is because of john. He stepped down to do baseball and he was the one that shoved me in the boss office and said ask for that job. He was great but, you know, as great as he was an even better human being and im a better person as a broadcaster. That he was, yep. Hes going to be missed. He will be. Lets move on to rob. What do you got . As a viewer he was just a joy to watch. No doubt bit. Espn home state of conneic north haven. Ef0. 70mileanhour wind, not too much damage but skipped ahead towards long island and gave the folks in the hamptons a scare. A lot of Severe Weather across parts of southern minnesota. Last 24 hours really some severe rainfall there and also in parts of utah and arizona. So look for more in the way of flooding and across parts of new orleans, this front kind of gets hung up. We could see rain all the way to pittsburgh. Were looking at a live shot right now with patchy fog. At this time, were looking good for the rest of thursday here and temperatures climb back into the 80s and low 90s. Even warmer than that and the humidity making you feel like 105 later this afternoon. The thunderstorms are beginning to build back into the southeast pushing towards the beaches in late day with temperatures holding in the be through the weekend. Coming up here on gma murder mystery in d. C. , a Democratic National Committee Member killed on the street. Now wikileaks offering a big reward fueling conspiracy theories this morning. Ed sheeran is it under fire again. Did he steal one of his hit songs . Well tell you about it on gma . Maybe just a touch of a . Its a tangle of multiple symptoms. . Trintellix vortioxetine is a prescription medicine for depression. Trintellix may start to untangle or help improve the multiple symptoms of depression. For me, trintellix made a difference. Tell your healthcare professional right away if your depression worsens, or you have unusual changes in mood, behavior or thoughts of suicide. Antidepressants can increase these in children, do not take with maois. Tell your healthcare professional about your medications, including migraine, psychiatric and depression medications to avoid a potentially lifethreatening condition. 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The pockets have continued to drop closer to sunrise as you would expect in zephyr hills about a the threeuniversity quarter mile is in good shape. Looking outside its low clouds. Those will quickly disappear on us here as we begin to warm things up. Well just go mostly sunny through the better part of the day. By the afternoon, well get back into the showers and thunderstorms. They will build from the 95 corridor and continue to push towards the west. Right now, nothing doing across the tampa bay area. By the way, the high today 91. Humidity factored in. Things will cool dramatically in a matter of minutes with the thunderstorms as they continue to build up by the time we goat . What if an Insurance Company wasnt only there when things went wrong . Because for every tornado. Theres a twister. For every crash. An even bigger collision. And for every tailspin. Well, tailspins. State farm understands that getting the most out of life in all of lifes moments. When things go perfectly. Right. . [bell rings] walking to school is serious business. Especially on class picture day you have to stay clean. [dogs barking] youve gotta be responsible. Whoa and no matter what, be on time. Youre looking live at that apartment complex in maryland. Burned to the ground overnight. Massive threealarm fire. At least 25 people raced to the hospital. Firefighters battling the blaze searching for survivors right now. Were tracking all the latest. Also right now a man in custody after attempting to manhattan making it to the 21st floor before authorities could pull him inside. He is now said to undergo a psychological evaluation. A delta ceo is speaking out about that massive systems crash that stranded thousands of travelers all across the country telling our station in atlanta that a fire caused the computer crash calling it one of the worst case scenarios. It sure was. Then also the u. S. Athletes are going for the gold at the olympics. Conor dwyer part of the mens but not just a hero in the water, he also won out of the water. Joining us live and telling us about how he came to Michael Phelps rescue. Well get to that. That is coming up. First the murder mystery surround a Democratic National Committee Staffer, Julian Assange is offering a big reward for the information fueling political conspiracy theories and linzie janis is here with the story. Reporter police are still murder of dnc staffer seth rich and wikileaks founder Julian Assange is implying that he was the victim of a politically motivated assassination. This morning a new interview with wikileaks founder Julian Assange is reigniting conspiracy theories about the death of Democratic National Committee Staffer seth rich. Significant efforts to get us material and often very significant risks. The dnc shot in the back, murdered. Reporter although assange would not say whether rich was a wikileaks source the organization is now offering a 20,000 reward. Was he one of your sources then, i mean . We dont comment on who our sources are. Reporter it was an an unpromised discussion of the 27yearold voter Outreach Coordinator who was violently attacked july 10th near his washington, d. C. Home while chatting on the phone with his girlfriend. His body was found bad described by investigators as a robbery gone wrong. While d. C. Police tell abc news there is no indication that seth richs death is connected to his employment at the dnc, conspiracy theorists suggest rich may be connected to the tranche of emails leaked by assanges group just before the Democratic Convention. Richs parents say they welcome the reward and any help catching his killer but are strongly denying any connection between politics or conspiracy writing in a statement, some are attempting to politicize this horrible tragedy and in their attempts to do so are actually causing more harm than good. The family says theyre in Constant Contact with authorities and believe that the investigation is being handled professionally and with the seriousness that it requires. George. Linzie, thanks. Lets talk to dan abrams. The family not happy with assange. How about the police . My guess is theyre not that thrilled either. Look, when you add a reward, right, you you help get some information. You are getting more publicity about it, thats all the good stuff. The bad stuff is that when you get a highprofile investigation like this, you tend to get whackadoodle theories and add in the conspiracy theorists and police will sort through all sorts of irrelevant leads detracting from their time focusing on the real issues. Clearly fueling that theres no question assange right. By wikileaks offering a 20,000 remember, the police are offering 25,000 anyway, right . Hes adding 20,000. It just feels like hes trying to inject wikileaks into the discussion. As opposed to truly trying to solve this case, which is, of course, the goal the police and at family. No evidence tieing this to any conspiracy you can understand why people would have 27yearold guy, shot in what seems like a robbery but nothing is stolen. You can understand why people are asking questions but thats very different from jumping to the conclusion which can, aha, this must have been a politically motivated hit. So, look, it may end up that wikileaks ends up paying 20,000 to someone who provides information on in that had nothing to do with politics. Its been a troubled area with construction going on. Dan abrams, thanks very much. Another case were keeping our eye on that deadly shooting in a North Carolina neighborhood. The victims mother is speaking out raising questions about the killers motivation and her son was shot after her son was shot while leaving a house party and abcs Mara Schiavocampo is here with all the details. Good morning, mara. Reporter kourenrodney thomas was fatally shot while leaving a house party in raleigh early sunday, just moments after li copley fired at him from his garage killing thomas as he walked by and just moments after police say copley called 911. Weve got a bunch of hoodlums out here racing. I am locked and loaded and im going outside to secure my neighborhood. Reporter thomas mother speaking out about her sons death this morning. They dont call a group of white boys hoodlums. My kids are not hoodlums. Butlerthomas says she believes race may have been a factor in the shooting. No child, black or white, should have to be struck down before they even have a life. Reporter Officials Say they dts not find any weapons on thomas despite what the caller told 911. Theres freakin black males outside our freakin house with firearms. Please send pd. Reporter now he is charged with murder. Thomas m justice. Race did play a part and it has to end. Reporter for Good Morning America, Mara Schiavocampo, abc news, new york. So sad. Yeah, thanks to mara for that. Coming up on our big board, ed sheeran sued again accused of stealing this song. . So you could never i like this song. And a family says they were stalkered by someone called the watcher. A new twist in that case. Oceans eleven is now getting an all female reboot. . Starbucks . Cold brew coffee. Available in original black. And now with housemade vanilla sweet cream. Smooth meets sweet. Only at starbucks. Sleep number beds with Sleepiq Technology give you the knowledge to adjust for the best sleep ever. Save 1,000 on selected mattress and Adjustable Base sets. Good is in every blue diamond almond. Good is a catalyst, good is contagious. And once it gets going there is no stopping what you can do. Get your good going. Blue diamond almonds. Proud sponsor of the us swim team strike sfx boop . Complete pair of eyeglasses, 1 year replacement warranty, 38 time now for our big board. Our time of insiders standing by, todays top story, sunny is here. Well talk to her in a moment. Got a couple of things we can talk to you about. But there is more legal trouble right now for ed sheeran now facing another lawsuit for his music. The singer songwriter accused plagiarizing the heart, the heart of marvin gayes lets get it on. Yeah, for his own grammy Award Winning song. So Rolling Stone contributor joe levy is going to join us and talk about this. First of all, lets play both songs. Lets hear from ed sheerans song. . Hoping that youll understand . Okay, okay. . Lets get it on . I dont hear it. Theyre both very good. Im partial to marvin gaye so whats at issue here . Is it really something here, joe . Is there something here . Well, if i was the plaintiff in this case, i would be playing the video circulating on the internet of ed sheeran performing thinking out loud and then singing a little bit of lets get it on at the end. Many, many people recognize theres a similarity between these two songs, the question is, is there enough of a similarity to prove it in a court of law . The plaintiffs will call their experts. The defendants their experts, sometimes juries, if it even gets to a jury look at sheet music. Sometimes they hear the recordings. These cases can be hard to prove. But gayes family won a similar case in the past and this is the second time ed plagiarizing. The other his song photograph copied by the x factor winners amazing song. What does it mean for eds bottom line . You. Know, ed stheern is taking a little time off from music for awhile and may find out after these lawsuits he needs a vacation from his vacation but his bottom line could be impacted and might have to share songwriting credit if its settled out of court or make a payment but if he comes back with great new songs them all on his own, itll be just fine in all will be forgiven. Can the photograph play in this case. They can say he has a pattern and practice and likes to take other peoples music. I love both songs. I dont hear it. I didnt hear it either. I dont hear it but i didnt hear it with blurred lines robin thicke and pharrell come on. I didnt hear it. And they won 7. 4 million. Well move on to a new twist in the watcher trial. Its about a family who bought their dream home then started getting threatening letters from someone called the watcher. One read why are you here . I will find out. Another said i asked the woods to bring me young blood and this is a complicated case. Suing the previous owners saying they knew about the stalker but didnt say anything. Who has the better case . A little the new homeowners are saying the previous homeowners knew it. They said they got one letter but it wasnt very disturbing if you believe that and the new homeowners got this letter that said my graf watched the house in 20s. My father watched in the 60s. It is now my time and im waiting for the second coming. So its possible that the prior homeowners knew about it and admit receiving that letter but case because new jersey is one of those buyer beware states so you have to ask the questions, you have to google the home. You have to do the groundwork. I was going to ask legally when youre buying a home what should you do . It depends on the state. In new jersey you have that buyer beware but some states say, huhuh, not so fast. If youre selling a home you have to disclose material defects that may affect the purchase of a home like if there is a home stalker or a haunting or murders in the home, you have to youre buying a home look at the states law. Find your neighborhood lawyer and ask all the questions. That is so creepy. Sunny, thank you. Twofer today. Love it. Now to news about a huge hollywood reboot. Oceans eleven being redone as oceans eight with an all female cast reports that anne hathaway, rihanna and so many others are joining sandra bullock. Already a part of it. Lets bring in our good friend, this is nothing new and seen the reboot with ghostbusters. You know, flipping the script a little bit. Whats going on in hollywood. Look, i think its interesting that this is already gotten a huge amount of attention people saying in tweets its oceans eight for women because it only took eight women to do what it took 11 guys to do. Hollywood is in the business of making money so take stars like Channing Tatum and put him in splash. You take successful films and current successful stars and hope you get or maybe you get a series. The idea that you could spin off a female cast to oceans eleven or eight or nine or ten. Thats their job. A lot of discussion about sexism. Does that combat that . I think it does on some level. Listen, also, remember, the ghostbusters picture is looking to lose 75 million. It was not as successful as people thought. At the end of the day despite all the attention theyll get when making the movie, is it clooney and brad pitt was based on a bad movie from the 1960s. There was no skin in that game. There was no the bar was very low. Now, of course, its much, much higher talking about it a year before it comes out. Is there a particular movie youd like to see flip the switch like this. One of my favorite movies was the great escape with james garner and steve mckean. 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Olympians have to keep their energy up. The average american man eats around 2,000 calories a day. The typical nfl player around 4,000. But swimmers like ryan lochte take the cake. Pretty much doubling that caloric consumption. Lochte gobbles down around 8,000 calories per day. The worlds fastest man, usain bolt chows down on Chicken Nuggets and wings before he hits the track. Leans on pasta. Do you eat what you want . Who doesnt love pasta. The highflying gym what ises follow a strict diet eating just 2,000 calories a day and while simone biles has a favorite splurge. After every meet i have pizza but right before i go to the arena i usually have a banana and a protein bar. Check out what aly raisman calls a gymnast birthday cake. A hunk of salmon with a pile of veggies. Beach volley bar superstar Kerri Walsh Jennings has Almond Butter and honey sandwiches. As for swimming superstar Katie Ledecky, her comfort food i eat whatever my mom makes me. Now, because its so hard being a reporter, we consume a lot of calories doing all this type of typing with our thumb, its really a tough josh being at the feast including fish with this yam puree, a very dense pumpkin dish here and, of course, dessert with cornbread and some ice cream. Thats good stuff. It looks good and really healthy, matt. And were going to talk more about this with Gold Medalist Dominique Dawes. Who knows a little bit about this, i would say. So dominique, let me ask you what would be your goto meal before a before a competition i want to carb up. Angel hair pasta, grilled chicken, veggies similar to the male gymnasts but i always loved drinking vinegar, apple cider vinegar. It sounds odd. I love that on a salad but why would you want to drink it. I grew up on soul food and loved to eat chitlins and i started loving drinking vinegar and have always continued it. Its worked for you. Well have you back and talk great. 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Right now, were waiting on an update on the accidental shooting death of a 73yearold woman and police plan to speak about the shooting. Grief counselors are helping witnesses de saw. The gun the officer used was supposed to be filled with blanks. Instead, it was filled with live ammunition. Janelle . We are checking the roadways. Watching this crash on i75 northbound just before you get to i4. Its starting to clear up a little bit. They moved the cars out of the roadway, but still seeing a slowdown here. So you might leave yourself extra time if you are heading quick check on the bridges this morning. No crashes or breakdowns. The tampa side of the Howard Frankland. Lets go ahead and check your drive times across the bridges. Not too bad, ten minutes on the courtney campbell. Still looking great on the gandy just eight minutes to get across there. A quick check of your drive tomorrows on the veterans expressway. Look at that. Almost 50 minutes to get 54 to 275. Patchy fog out there this morning. Were in good shape and a mostly clear with clouds lifting and well set the stage for a lot of sunshine through the early part of the day. Temperatures slide down in the mid and upper 70s. What you are seeing there, titan Doppler Radar scanning the tampa bay area. By lunchtime, clouds begin to pick it up. As you head east, you can begin to see the cloud cover rolling storms as you head through the latest this after moon. Coming through the weekend and beyond with high temps. Were looking at highs in the lower 90s that will peel, of course, about 100 and 105. Its between 40 and 50 for the weekend. Another hour of gma is coming . I got the eye of the tiger . Good morning, america. Its 8 00 a. M. Unstoppable at the olympics. Nathan adrian and Katie Ledecky bringing the heat as team usas families cheer them on. Their special message for their children and Gold Medalist conor dwyer joins us live. A health alert hitting close to home. Lara tells us how shes preparing for major surgery on her hip. It sounds like an old persons problem and i couldnt believe it. Hip replacements on the rise and lara takes us inside her journey. Its thursday. That means time for deals steals. Tory johnson here with big brands at over 50 off. You dont want to miss these super savings. . Welcome to my house . Team usa dominating on the court taking amy behind the scenes. How they let loose. . And i need you . . And i miss you . Reporter and show their team spirit as we say this is kyrie irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers and this is kevin durant. Good morning, america. . All that music. You know were going back rio. Happy friday eve. Good to have paula with us and also the olympic team usa racking up those gold and scoring big on the court. And amy went behind the scenes with them. There she is. Having a lot of fun. Well get to that in a bit and a lot going on in times square here. Gold medalist Dominique Dawes and Mckayla Maroney with us again. Theyre having a blast. Why do you ask . Theyre warming up for the gma thats a dream what a plunge. I mean, look at sara haines so, anyway, its our synchronized swimming competition. We dont have a pool but well get it down. The morning rundown if paula. Good morning. We begin outside washington, d. C. Where an explosion and fire have collapsed this apartment complex in silver spring, maryland. People including children had to jump from windows to escape. Crews are combing through the rubble looking for some people who were unaccounted for this morning. 30 injured. The cause of the explosion still under investigation but one resident claims that he smelled gas in recent days. And investigators in california now say that faulty wiring and a hot tub started one of the most destructive fires in the states history. The socalled valley fire north of San Francisco last year destroyed 1300 homes and left four people dead. And overseas this could be a significant defeat for isis. American backed fighters say city of sirt. Fighting intensified recently with the u. S. Launching air strikes. In politics donald trump is linking president obama directly to isis charging him with being the founder of the terror group. During a rally in florida he used the president s full name, Barack Hussein obama to criticize his Foreign Policy saying it gave rise to isis and called Hillary Clinton the groups cofounder and defended his recent amendment supporters. Meantime, another controversial guest was spotted at a campaign rally. This time it was at a trump prevent. Disgraced former congressman mark foley sitting behind. He resigned amid allegations that he sent sexually explicit messages to boys. The russian cyberattack that targeted Democratic Party officials, it appears to be much bigger than previously thought and the New York Times reports the hack that forced debbie dnc chair may have breached the email accounts of more than 100 party officials. Lets head brack to the olympics and simone biles going for the allaround gold in gymnastics and ryan lochte taking on Michael Phelps in the pool. That will be one to watch. Katie ledecky winning her third gold medal in rio last into the anchoring the womens 4x200 freestyle rely. Daryl homer taking home the gold in fencing. The First American to medal in that smart in more than 30 years. Good f count because were all obsessed with it. Team usa leading the way with 32 including 11 gold. Finally for you on this thursday another shocking case of distracted driving. We want you to take a look at this woman in philadelphia steering the guy, you guys, with her foot while shes texting similar to a driver in colorado recently that was caught texting yes, that was another incident. That was in colorado but the people that actually captured she just smirked at them and kept going. She was in a neighborhood driving on the expressway. What do you do put it up. Yeah. Were coming for you. Pop news, happier news, all right. Well start with Jennifer Lopez as if the singer, actress, producer, businesswoman wasnt busy enough she will star in a new hbo movie about blanco, the godmother would be a good name. Lopez will also executive produce the project, shared her excitement on social media saying here we go and her friend dwayne the rock johnson said cant wait to see j. Lo take this role on. Rolling in the deep celebrating. Her vocal coach. The question is, what did he think . He seemed pretty happy. Stars are just like us. Im going to a concert tonight. Where are you going . Barbra streisand. Oh, nice. See babs in brooklyn. You know, shes doing this new album with all these duets. You could see some amazing popup guest. You want to fill in for me tomorrow in case its a late night. Ill be here. We shall see. Want to hear about fill in for pop. Pop news, amy schumer finally spilling some details on that highly anticipated new movie with the legendary golden hawn. She lured her back to the screen and now we know theyll take on the mother daughter roles we sort of assumed but schumer gave inside scoop on the script and says her characters boyfriend breaks up with her before theyre supposed to go on a n nonrefundable trip to south drink alone. Ridiculous. Those two are the best. You know, nothing like a night at the ballpark, right, a beer, some snacks. The american pastime but nacho fast. Oh, no. Take a look. What the heck happened there . Ill tell you what hatched there. The pirates fan goes for a foul ball forgetting hes holding a beer in one hand and a plate of nachos in the other, yeah, all over his own head. There it his shirt. The poor pirates fan didnt even get the ball. Not even close. He also didnt even catch a clean shirt that someone was kind enough to throw him. A face full of cheese. George, i hate when that happens. He did score a new plate of nachos courtesy of the ballpark but his team lost to the padre, 40. He could taste that foul ball. No, that was the nachos. Thats why you always go for the hot dog. One of the reasons. Heres whats coming up on our gma morning menu. I gear up for major hip surgery, yeah, were going to talk about that i want to share the warning signs that i wish i had known about and also tell you how to heal if youre in the same situation. Dr. Jen ashton is going to join us live. Thanks for sharing that. 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The best almonds make the best almondmilk. Proud sponsor of usa volleyball. She spent summer bingewatching. Get back to great. This week sharpie singles now twentyfive cents. Office depot officemax. Gear up for school. You were just sitting on my lap. It is true. We often say in this program everybodys got something and what we hope to do is share our something with you in itll make your life a little bit easier and our dear, dear friend here, lara, youre going through your something in im having a Little Something. A few months ago i found out what i thought was a strained muscle was actually a symptom of something a lot more serious. So in a couple of days i will have to have my entire right hip replaced. It was a shock to hear and a decision that took me quite some time to accept. I love sports. I love being active. Up. Look at that lara spencer. At gma im always willing to do whatever is needed for the show because i love it. I was a jock growing up from the time i was able to walk. If youre having a stressful day, theres always tennis. Go take it out on that little yellow ball. Chew on that, agassi. That to me is therapy and really helps me. I was starting aches and pains. My shoulder started bothering me. Lara presented to our office with multiple diagnoses and started on her shoulder and elbow and continued to report that the hip was more of a problem for her. I kept thinking i had a muscle pull and i played on. This hurts. And i then i pulled my muscle again and i played on and definitely too long. Lara came in a time of great deal of pain. Her hip was starting to fail. There was a breakdown in the bearing surface between the cartilage and bone. Shes almost bone on bone here. Made the most sense for her even with reduced demands playing less tennis, being less active to have a hip replacement. It was so upsetting. I was like, and he was like, theres not a lot we can do here for you. This is way down the road and it took me a long time. I was like, no, im 27. In my head im 27. So i really i waited for a long time before i did anything about it or told anybody because it sounds like its an old persons problem and i just couldnt believe it. I think approximately 10 of all hip replacements on done on thats a huge number of people in that age group we dont care about as much. How can we bet her to a point where shes as strong as possible going into the surgery. She is definitely attacking this like an athlete. Shes been hard core at saying, i want to do everything i possibly can to be as fit going in. Now were going to layer in upper extremity work. This is not easy. But i think its really important to deal with w be afraid. If you dont talk about it, you cant fix it. So im happy if i can save one person from not having to go through the pain. Good job. Step down. This has happened because i played hard. Because i love it. I love moving and thats what ive come to see is that i will be back. Most certainly will be and jen is going to join in on the been quite emotional about this, especially when you first got the diagnosis. How are you doing now . Im terrified. I just said, oh, face it. I can talk the talk but walking the walk youre shaking. Im terrified. Im terrified. Its it was embarrassing to share and then i realized theres nothing to be embarrassed about. It is i have a genetic predisposition for this but if youre athletic and you move itsap younger. That number is shocking. I would imagine the fear shes feeling is the most natural reaction in the world. Its not only common, its natural. Its appropriate and not just for a big operation like this, really, youve heard me say it before theres no such thing as minor surgery. The appropriate reaction for the vast majority of people having to go into the operating room is this, and i applaud you for being so open about it. I think more people need to hear done, youre going to sleep, getting sedation and getting a part of your body taken out or repaired or fixed. Do yourself a favor. Do not google this operation. I made that mistake. I agree with you, dr. Spencer. What exactly happened to her hip . As she said she was born with it. This used to be call congenital dysplasia of the hip. Now its rephrased as developmental dysplasia and if you think of the hip as a ball and socket join that like a ball and socket lara has a shallow cup so if the cup was like this if. I have a shallow cup. That cartilage see, you can laugh. Got to find the humor. As that cartilage gets worn around with normal movement or athletic just saying it is making it hurt. Bone on bone. Another way to think of it, when you get those potholes in your driveway its only a matter of time until you have to replace the whole thing. If you had this predisposition, anything you can do to ward it off. Well, its ironic and thats a really loaded question, george, because as we were talking and, you know, the obvious answer is, well, if she wasnt an athlete maybe she could have gotten to her 60s or 70s without needing this joint replaced but no orthopedic surgeon, no physician, no one in the sports world would say dont be active. Now, if seated and didnt participate in any sports, yes, she wouldnt have been feeling this in her 40s, but in some cases its only a matter of time. Its a good thing she did not ignore the situation because that could have led to something even worse. Well, theres no ignoring it at this point. The pain is so chronic. I have such you tried to fight through it. I did and i, you know, i got cortisone shots and the doctor said youll know and boy, do i know. I just want to say to anybody it is it is it takes over your life. It takes over affects you emotionally, mentally, physically, you cannot sleep. Its hard to think about. Its gnawing at you all the time. I wish i would have taken care of this sooner and spoken up but i was like, i can handle it. Did you have any pain in your back thats the thing and it will lead to problems it would have led to if i didnt do this they said i would have bac problems and could lead to knee problems and starting to walk differently. And good news, the incision usually is about this big. Youre going to be Weight Bearing and walking day of surgery. Three to sixmonth rehab but you are going to kill it. Yes. Youve seen how amazing your body is. Its on saturday morning, yeah, so i wont see you guys for a couple of weeks then ill come running back. Well be hearing from her during those two weeks. Out there. Im sure it will. Coming up, live in rio with olympic gold medal swimmer conor dwyer. You were a diver. Yes. Yes. Thank you. . Go big or go home . D the surf4 allows me to actually operate my business from everest. I help clients achieve their dreams. 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And one cup at a time. Welcome back. We have a whole lot more olympics fun ahead. First outside to rob with the weather. Charlotte. Ive heard of that place. Oh, hey, good morning, again, guys. Great crowd out here. Meet pat and jim. Youre celebrating your 7 09 birthday. I am, yes. Kind enough to give you a kidney. Yes, she did. Youre 75 but you have a 70yearold kidney. A pretty good deal. You both toledo. Heat advisories popping for the next three days. Good oldfashioned heat wave back over looking good in the line of sunshine early on. Warm, humid, setting the stage with a southeast wind and showers and thunderstorms for today. Temperature is about 50 with a high of 91. Itll feel, of course, warmer than that with the humidity pattern with temperatures into the 90s. Triple digit heat indices and of course the rain chances of 30 to 50 right through the end of the week and up through the upcoming weekend. Is warm and humid and this crowd is ready to jump into the pool. Gma games coming up in a little bit. Robin, back inside. Huge deals steals. Big savings. Big brands on some of your favorite things from backpacks to bracelets. Thank you, tory for that. Excite sfwld what its like to be an olympic parent opening up to good morning, everybody. We are watching a crash in pinellas park. Lets zoom in and take a look at exactly where it is. Northbound 49th street before you get to u. S. 19 money it looks like clearing stages. We were seeing a lot of redheading northbound and now its yellow. So theyre in the process of getting it route of the roadway. I want to take a look outside as we check on the cameras around i75 and state route 60. Hearing reports of a crash in the northbound lane. A little southbound as you head through the brandon area. This crash right before you get to i4 northbound on i75 is in the clearing stages and looking northbound up to i4. Ivan . Lets go up to the top of the river gate here and check out the view. Look at that. Low clouds and in fact, we were so low that we had actual fog. We had reduced visibility up to the north and at this point, this is warming up and well begin to separate the temperature and the dew point and begin to clear things out. Tempe looks good. Well for showers and afternoon storms. The timing, again, between 5 00 and 8 00 p. M. The reason for that with that southeast flow with us here. Titan doppler is quiet now, but the thunderstorms will develop along 95 and continue throughout the day to push west. By 2 00, 3 00, well begin to see thunderstorm activity. Then itll be a late day for 7 00 across the beaches with temperatures in the low 90s. 100 keeping the Rain Coverage . . Nailing synchronized swimming for their School Talent show getting more than a million views. Joining us live and theyre helping us judge our own performance right here in times square. Weve got our gold medal gymnast Dominique Dawes and Mckayla Maroney gearing up for the big performance. All part of our gma games. How great have they been . Yes, theyre all in. Yes. Theres so much excitement in rio where team usas athletes around the world and the biggest fans of all, their families are opening up about being with them on this amazing and sometimes exhausting journey. Behind nearly every Gold Medalist is a family cheering them on every single step of the way. Fully invested. There cant be any wavering. No back and forth. Reporter sacrificing time and money to hp achieve their dreams. The only day that she has off is a sunday and this is 365 days for the year. Reporter for this family this is their third trip with their gold medal diving son david. No family vacations. Sporting event to go here or there. I actually worked for the coach which paid for his diving lessons. We just did a lot of juggling. I do not look away when he dives. Im following the dive as hes going down and then i know when he hits, its like just, oh. Its kind of a sigh of relief. Reporter and even the families back at home like Gold Medalist swimmer conor dwyers grandmother are forever invested. I feel like i swam that race with him. And joining us now from rio is Ileana Lochte mother of 12time olympic swimmer ryan lochte. Do you feel the love here in times square . Can you feel it all the way there in rio . So many people cheering on your son and so many other, but tell us, whats the emotion like for mom to be there and watch your son . Oh, its fantastic. I wouldnt want to be anyplace else. Just watching him swim and knowing that hes so happy doing the sport that he loves, you and i understand you do something that a lot of moms do for their children. You pack a Little Something for him every time a little bag. It starred a long time ago when he was little and it actually started with my daughter and then it continued through him and it gets a little bit bigger and bigger each time. Whats in the bag . Whats in it . Okay, so this time we had a water represents the fact that in 2008, he wasnt allowed to drink the water so he brushed his teeth and was sick for three days. So this time i put all the candy in there so he can have that and then i put some drawing, a pad and crayons and coloring yeah. Anything to keep him very sweet. And i know his grandma keeps him entertained as well. Shes cheering him on back home. Isnt she . Oh, my gosh. Shes in a nursing home and so, therefore, they did a big thing for her and she carried the torch. Oh. Thats an adorable but shes always and thats she even people here in the audience are saying how sweet that is to see the family and all the sacrifis done for him and for this particular moment and a lot of people, you know, talk about Michael Phelps and the rivalry but theres a real friendship between the two of them, isnt there, really, ike . It is and its a healthy one, of course, they want to beat reach other in the water but outside of the water theyre just best of friends and you can see up on the podium when theyre even laughing, its great. And also his mom and i are yes, it does. A final question. Whats up with your sons hair . Okay, lets talk about ryan lochtes hair. Now i know he meant for one thing. You explain, mom. I have no idea. Thats ryan. He always does something its better than the grills, okay. And so ive gotten used to everything that he possibly could do and so this is an okay thing. You know, it and he just but i thought, you know, i didnt like it but he looks cute. Hes adorable and you know what, that is ryan. He owns it. You know, and perfectly harmless and a lot of fun. Hey, ike, congratulations on all the accomplishments and all that you all do as families and its so important to share what the families go through, as well so have a lot of fun. Continue having fun. Were saying hi to you from behind the scenes. Bye. With the mens basketball team. Oh, im so envious here, amy. Hi know. I made andrew my husband so jealous with this one assign many. Team usa is unbeatable on the basketball court. Carmelo anthony became the United States alltime leading scorer in olympic competition overnight and the dream team is cruising through the competition and having a ball on and off the court. Theyre the nba dream Team Dominating the olympic fires a rainbow for three. Reporter pulling off a nailbiting win over australia overnight but during practice sharing laughs. I might have a neck injury if i talk to you for too long. Might have to make it short. Reporter and some close calls. Favorite moment . Opening ceremonies was pretty special. How about a replay. Just saved your life. Thank you. While opponents back home usa. Go to basketball camps together and you know them but then we all make it to the nba together and, you know, we compete against each other on the highest level and i think ma makes us closer. . And i need you . . And i miss you . Reporter you guys posted some funny stuff on social media. Carmelo were a funny team. Reporter kyrie irving known as the teams rio correspondent. Rio correspondent, irving checking in. We all come together. Its just a special moment. Reporter some of those infectious personalities cheering on team usa swimming tuesday night. Appreciate it. Reporter afterwards snapping pics with the men and, of course, Katie Ledecky. This team story also one of brazilians. Paul george suffering a near careerending leg injury just two years ago. I almost owe myself this do something that i could be very proud of and something i can show my kids later down the line. Reporter when its time to unwind theyre regular tourists taking selfies with christ the redeemer and, of course, i had to ask about their swanky accommodations. How is the cruise ship . Cruise ship is awesome. Its a hotel on a boat. So, you know, its a botel. Reporter does everybody just hang out at the cigar lounge when you come back . Im trying to get theres no cigar lounge lounge. Its a pool deck. Reporter and the best part so far . I think its being around the guys. Any time you get the best players in the world to jell and connect, thats special. They really were the greatest group of guys. You can see how much fun theyre having on the court as they go for gold so we are cheering them on. Team usa racking up olympic medals especially in the pool and joining me now is conor in the freestyle and gold in the 4x200 relay and you also made headlines for giving Michael Phelps your roommate by the way your swim cap when his malfunctioned. Congratulations. Thank you. Thanks for being here. Lets start out. Tell me what its like in the pool. You guys are killing it. Its crazy. People are just from the beginning of the meet we started lighting it up and it might be one of the best alltime performances that team usa has ever thrown together in any sport and inclu weve just been lights out. The ball has been rolling and everyone just seems to be getting their hand on the wall and getting on the podium. So impressive to watch and i asked if you had family members with you. You told me 21 family members. They were going nuts and had good cheers going and always nice to have family and friends support you. Your grandmother felt like you on. Tell me what happened with the swim cap. Walk us through what that moment was like. Yeah, so it was a leadoff leg and once youre done leading off getting your job done you go and cheer your squad on so im cheering and i got a tap on my shoulder from michael saying, diddy, diddy, my cap broke. He looked rattled so i handed him this one, turned it inside out and i think its the first time that someone has swam or a cap has swam two legs in a relay so mike owes me one for differing him my cap and it fit well. Well, im sure you guys can work that out. I hear theres a little bit of a medal count and you guys are roommates as i mentioned so its pretty impressive. Yeah, we have three other roommates. Lochte is in there too and five gold, one bronze and two silvers and those two are up tonight so should keep tallying up. How do you feel . You really soaking it in . Yeah, i havent slept much but i am soaking it in and just here on out. Now you get to have some fun, right. Should be fun going around rio. Copacabana. St. Teresa. Thanks very much. Lets head back to new york and rob. It is the bucket list. And avas crew from florida. Happy birthday. You look terrific. Severe weather were worried about including iowa and some thunderstorms that could produce a tornado or two. 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Our judges this morning are schooled in synchronized fifth grade talent show in a Youtube Video that went viral comes to us right now on skype. Hello, guys. Whats up, guys. Its time to see what team gma can do. Get ready for the performance of a lifetime. Everybody, get ready to dive in. Yes. Thats what she said. . . . Up, back, around. . Open. Close. Up. So now unbelievable performance. I wish we had towels. The water looks very warm, though. So i think theyre okay. Back to our judges in texas and get the scores. Synchronized swimmer . Sara. Sara. Sara haines. So i think had a smile on her face the entire time. Well done. The standout but i do believe a decision has been made. Weve got gold medals for the entire team. A medal for you. Real judging as usual, Dominique Dawes, amazing, forget swimming. S, synchronized Good Morning America is brought to you by foalers. The best part of waking up is foalers in your cup. It is a true olympic standout performer, sara with one final move. Thanks for watching. Have a great thursday. Good morning, everybody. We have a serious crash on a u. S. 41 right at buena vista. One northbound lane taken away. Also seeing slowdowns heading westbound. So be aware of that. You might want to try shay or tuttle to save yourself extra time. Were still seeing delays up at 15th street and a slowdown in both directions there. You might want to avoid opening up our cameras and taking a look outside, we are looking great on i275 through downtown tampa. The lanes wide open just five minutes to get from downtown to the Howard Frankland bridge. Across the bridges, you are looking great less than ten minutes to get across all three bridges. Ivan . Janelle, a second tool that were looking pretty good out the cloud cover will continue spinning out. Were going to give way to blue skies this morning. Then well transition into afternoon thunderstorms, which of course are in the forecast today as well. 80 in tampa, 81 in clear water right now. As we check in with temps by the afternoon, of course, approaching the low 90s. Titan doppler dar widening out the shot with the steady, heavy rain as well. Well make our own today with the scattered thunderstorms that beg t later on this evening. The temperatures will be about 91. Well have 100 to 103. Futurecasting for you, there it goes. Still quiet by lunchtime. By 2 00, 3 00, well have the storms bubbling up. Captions by caption colorado, llc 800 7757838 e mail parents are filing suit against the state and why they say students are suffering. Chief and i realized that this was not a game anymore. Witnesses describe the frightening moment a demonstration tragically turned deadly. Plus, a look into the past incident involving the officer who pulled the trigger. First at can, a group of parents filing a lawsuit against a state and several