Team usa soccer to michael sam with the nights highest honor for his courage off the field. For breaking barriers and superstar drake had everyone laughing. Whats going on . This is drake. Good morning, america. That was drake, baby. And good morning, america. What a great night for sports. Robin up early in l. A. And, robin, it looks like you had a lot of fun last night. Yes, always scary to be on the big screen when youve had no sleep. Up all night on that big monitor. Thank you very much for that. It was a great night and you know what, the athletes have so much fun because they never get to spend time like that. Athletes from all various different sports coming together like that. The entertainment world. You said it, lara, drake was so funny. He killed it last night so, yes, it was a lot of fun but it was emotional as well so ill have a lot more to share coming up. Were really looking forward to that you looked beautiful, ms. Roberts. First that massive flooding in colorado. Rushing water. You see it right here overrunning an entire town in an instant. Abcs Clayton Sandell is in Colorado Springs with the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning, george. Behind me here this would normally be an insignificant creek behind me but this morning you did see it is a raging river. Even taking out this tree here, flash flooding came blasting through this area when 4 inches of rain fell in just six hours. Overnight water rushed into the streets of manitou, Colorado Springs, colorado. A wildfire scorched the earth bare with no trees or vegetation to hold the soil in place, mud and rocks come barreling straight through town. Police called for evacuations including nearly 200 boy scouts whose camp was flooded out. Roads were shut down. Some giving way. Rain falling so hard and so fast, this motorcyclist was knocked over. Colorado springs got hit too. Flood channels filled to capacity. Restaurants that used to have a nice view of the creek found themselves in the creek. Overnight, rain turned to pounding hail. Strong enough to bust car windows. Lost my back window. Reporter the good news is that those evacuees have been told they can go home but there is another chance for more rain today. Lara . All right, clayton and from flooding to wildfires raging out west, the extreme heat and dry conditions are fueling them and right now hundreds of homes have been evacuated and more are being threatened. Ginger is here tracking it all and got the very latest. Absolutely. So many people look out west to the sky and seeing this. This is from Washington State but there are 27 large wildfires from texas up to oregon and, of course, just east of seattle and thats where this video is from, just stunning pictures coming in, not the type of thing you want to look up and see but some 860 homes in that area alone evacuated. We have 1200 acres, uncontained as that one keeps burning and i have unfortunate news. Red flag warnings are in place for that same area in the cascades all the way over there into parts of eastern Washington State and down into oregon. That means some of the wind gusts along the ridges could get up to 25, maybe 40 Miles Per Hour so well update you on the dry and gusty condition, a little cooler coming but also the flooding happening. Well turn now to terrifying moments in california. Three bank robbers take hostages, lead police on a wild chase. When it was over three people dead including one of the hostages. Abcs david wright is in los angeles with the latest. Good morning, david. Reporter good morning, george. An incredible scene and this morning stockton, california, is still reeling from it. Almost every squad car in town chasing this group of bank robbers, extra rounds of ammo taped to their bodies and using hostages as human shields, this was truly the wild west. [ sirens ] in stockton, california, a bank heist straight out of the movies that led to this deadly chase. Through city streets and neighborhoods at speeds of up to 100 miles an hour. Went flying through the intersection. We jumped back on to the sidewalk. Reporter it started wednesday at this bank of the west branch. Authorities say three robbers made off with money and three female hostages. Misty holsings cousin was one of them and her daughter watched in horror as the robbers dragged her mother away. She was just going to pull out money. She left her kid in the car. Her daughter had to text her husband saying, hey, they took mom. Reporter police say the suspect stole a Bank Employees suv and fired ak47type assault weapons at police cars in hot pursuit. The hostages there in the car with them. At least 14 other cars struck with stray bullets. The actions of the dangerous criminals today was beyond reckless and chaotic. No words can describe it. Reporter police say during the chase two of the hostages were tossed out of the getaway car. One of them shot and injured. This cell phone video shows one of the hostages on the road. Her leg was all tore up and bleeding. Reporter after more than an hours chase it all ended in a bloody shootout heard on this cell phone video. In the end a weapon on the ground, the suv, riddled with bullet hole, all three alleged bank robbers shot, two of them killed. That third hostage was also killed. Police say the hostage who was killed, that mother, misty was used as a human shield and eyewitnesses said it looked like a war. Continuous gunfriar for five straight minutes. The other two hostages have been hospitalized. No word on their condition but they must be very shaken, george. That is just shocking stuff, okay, thanks very much. So brazen. We turn now to the latest on the crisis in the middle east. Both sides accepted a temporary humanitarian ceasefire early this morning. But two hours later, rockets were launched into israel. Abcs Alex Marquardt is in gaza city right now with the very latest. Good morning, alex. Reporter good morning, lara. Just a short time ago three mortars were fired from gaza into israel in the middle of this fivehour ceasefire requested by the united nations. For the most part, it has held. The violence that has raged now for ten days all but stopping. United nations using this lull in the fighting to distribute aid across gaza and people here trying to get back to their daily routines. All this comes a day after one of the worst episodes yet. Four Young Palestinian boys killed right near here hit by two israeli air strikes as they played on the beach. The Israeli Military saying it was targeting Hamas Terrorists operatives and calling the boys death a tragic outcome. More than 230 palestinians have now been killed and 1 israeli. Both sides say they want a real ceasefire but theres no sign that theyre close to an agreement and the firing will likely start once again once this temporary truce is over. Lara, george. Okay, thanks to alex for that. We turn to president obama slapping new sanctions on russia for the crisis in ukraine. Some of the most punishing measures yet and this morning Vladimir Putin is saying hell strike back just as hard. Jon karl has the latest. Good morning, jon. Reporter good morning, george. These are sanctions designed to inflict some real economic pain on russia. They hit two of the largest Russian Energy company, two of the largest russian banks and it comes just as russia has amassed some 12,000 troops on the border with ukraine and the white house is worried that there could be further problems in that country. The russians are saying putin himself saying this is actually going to hurt the u. S. Economy. Exxon mobil has deals with one of these Big Energy Companies and the kremlin has denounced these as a primitive attempt to take vengeance for the fact that events in ukraine are not going according to the washington script. Hes taking a broadside against president obamas foreign policy. Politics, new jersey govern governor Chris Christie putting his toe back in the president ial waters heading to iowa after that traffic scandal. Now he has a full schedule. Reporter its a long way from the George Washington bridge. Officially this is simply an effort to help Iowa GovernorTerry Branson in his reelection but sure looks like hes testing the waters for a president ial run and later hes going to new hampshire. Decent poll numbers in iowa, as well. Jon, thanks very much. Now to the ongoing Immigration Crisis on our southern border, thousands of n unaccompanied children making their way here from central america. Many of them not getting adequate medical screening and that is raising some Serious Health concerns. Abcs jim avila has the story. Reporter this morning, the flood of immigrant children streaming across the southern u. S. Border is so overwhelming federal agencies admit they cannot medically screen all of them properly. According to a government memo reviewed exclusively by abc news some children are leaving Border PatrolProcessing Centers with high fever, flulike symptoms and other contagious diseases. The memo says the director of Refugee Health at hhs has identified a breakdown in the medical screening processes at the Border Patrol facility in nogales, arizona. Some children flown to a navy base in ventura were sick, fevers and coughing. Others had chicken pox and coxsackie virus. Two suffering from pneumonia. Its very concerning that children who had pneumonia were allowed on a plane risking their health and other refugee children. The lack of screening according to government sources may jeopardize the health of workers and other children at the facilities. In fact, abc news has confirmed that just a week after the unscreened kids arrived there appeared to be a pneumonia and influenza outbreak spreading through the ventura facility. In texas abc news learned of one confirmed case and two probable cases of the h1n1 influenza strain known as swine flu linked to the unaccompanied children. Its important to note none of these diseases have spread into the communities around the facilities and sources tell abc news the government is now adding a fit to travel screening for the children. They must pass it before being put on a plane and sent to facilities away from the border. Lara and george . All right, jim, thank you. Now to amy with the rest of the mornings top stories. Lara, good morning. We begin with new worries about growing instability in afghanistan. This morning the taliban launched a daring attack on the main airport in kabul firing gu guns and grenade, the second airport attack in two weeks. The afghan equivalent of the secret service came under attack today highlighting major security concerns as u. S. Troops withdraw from that country. And in washington, a Major Development in the irs targeting scandal. The agency is accused of targeting conservative groups. Now there is word the Justice Department will investigate the disappearance of emails the Agency Claims were lost when a computer crashed. The emails were to and from lois lerner, a key former irs official who has refused to testify. General motors says it will hire an outside law firm to investigate how its own lawyers handled the ignition defect blamed for 13 deaths. Today gms top lawyer is appearing before a Senate Committee and lawmakers want to know how they kept it quiet. Meantime, they are taking out newspaper ads urging drivers to use a single key instead of a heavy key chain to prevent that ignition glitch. It is a miracle of driver of this honda survived crashing into an 18wheeler in tennessee. Look at those pictures. The impact literally sliced his car in half but he slid down in his seat and was able to duck just before the crash. Wow. He walked away with only minor injuries. Incredible. And a growing mystery overseas. Scientists are being sent to siberia to figure out what caused this massive hole to open. Its 260 feet wide. Authorities ruled out a meteor for now. Melted ice or a natural gas explosion are the leading theories. And finally, many of us though this more than others. Keeping a straight face on live tv is not always easy. Especially when you swallow a fly. Well, thats what happened to a reporter you have to watch his reaction. Certainly if we look at, you know, the changing complexion of this cabinet compared to the last one, the one yesterday what we can see is that do you want to take a pause . Do you want to take a pause. Youve been talking nonstop. No, i swallowed a fly. Thats all right. I mean just swallowed a fly. He kept going. True form there. I dont know. I mean he just went for it. The british accent just even makes swallowing a fly dignified. Perfect line. Keep calm and carry on. Thats what he did outside 10 downing street. That is great. Back to robin up early in l. A. After last nights espys. It is always the most glamorous event in sports last night no exception. Last night, the night hasnt ended for many here. We are here live in the lobby of the jw marriott, just a stones throw from the nokia theater where the espys were held last night and the afterparty wrapped up, not kidding, just moments ago right here as always, there was so much to celebrate. Its the sports world most glammous night. Drake. This man right here. Reporter the espys celebrating this years top athletes. Good to see you. I love all of you until you start losing then youre dead to me, okay. Reporter rap star drake taking center stage as host. His personality contagious even when poking fun. You dont always come in first place we know but somehow in nascar youre the only face we know. Reporter all goodspirited. It was all love. You know, i just wanted to touch on things in sports that i hadnt really heard people make jo jokes about before. Making best moment we all feel that soccer is going to make it. Its just a matter of time. Reporter but strength off the field recognized too. The st. Louis rams select michael sam, defensive end 2014, arthur ashe courage award, michael sam. Late great arthur ashe wasnt just courageous, he was brill yafrnts too. In fact, he once put all the wisdom in the world in three short sentences. Im sorry. Start where you are. Use what you have and do what you can. Those were words to live by whether youre black or white, young or old, straight or gay. I was very emotional, very. Reporter and my dear friend, espns own stuart scott, honored with the jimmy v. Perseverance award recognizing his courageous battle with cancer. To receive this, what does it mean to you in your heart . I cant claim this as like this is mine. This symbolizes a group effort from a lot of people who happen to care about me who kept me upright for the last seven years. Reporter and capping off a night of winners, the biggest of them all, this years best team. Seattle seahawks. To win the first ever super bowl in our franchise is truly special. Reporter allstar night with the champions we all love to cheer on. And there was much to cheer about and there were so many special moments. I was here for my friend stuart scott. He has been so amazing and courageous and it was also very special to get on that stage and to announce for the first time that two great cancer organizations are joining forces, stand up to cancer is investing 4 million with the v. Foundation for Cancer Research and that was a moment that i will not forget and i had a chance to just really just experience for the first time just being there seeing all these people from different walks of life and it was fun, it was emotional and im going to have a chance later this morning to spend some time with michael sam, his comments and what he said on the stage last night really resonated with many people and ill be sharing my interview with him a bit later. We really want to see that. Boy, stuart scott, such a powerful spirit. We have to move on to weather. Even near dallas were having big flash flooding problems. Parts of i35 closed. They have more than 10 inches of rain overnight and next couple of days similar from there in parts of texas to southeastern arkansas and even mississippi. Watch for that and the potential for severe storms. Good morning, washington. Starting out with temperatures in the 50s and 60s across the region. It feels more like a midseptember then mid july. Two points are in the 50s and it feels comfortable. You might want to think about a light sweater. 61 in manassas. 65 degrees in fredericksburg. Sunny and be mostly and coming up on gma, the call girl accused of killing a top google executive now in court. Why shes claiming the whole thing is an accident. Also coming up, the mysterious disappearance of an experienced diver in the bahamas. The baffling clues just found from his swim with sharks. And abc news exclusive, Cory Monteiths mother speaking out one year after the glee stars tragic death. Her message to all parents. 93 million selfies a day. This man says he started the whole thing. 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We want to get to the traffic center, because interstate 56 has been a mess today. We had some activity at nutley, activity at the beltway. That is been a mess. A lot of employees on southbound gw parkway, the gates closed. Everyone has to die for two 12 diver to 123. Southbound near 50, a bicyclist riding in the northbound lanes, that is going to cause problems, obviously. 66 eastbound just past route 50, really cutting towards the beltway interchange from the earlier accident. Falls road blocked right now with police and fire activity in arlington. How about the forecast . It seems great. Best day of the week. Tomorrow not too shabby, either. Our air is dry and cool and it will be a comfortable day. Ohio valley pulling in the northerly winds. Mind. His in we will be watching the beaches as we head towards the weekend. Highs in the low to mid 80s. Speed cameras along a dangerous stretch of route one in college park will be operating 24 hours a day. The City Council Approved the change after 3 pedestrians were killed this year. The move is a policy that limited the city cost use of the cameras from 6 00 until 8 00 on weekdays. Another update at 7 56. With aluminum foil foil never settle for less that kind of wrap is just the best to keep your sandwich nice and fresh stick it in your cooler weird al is at it again burning up the internet with his version of lordes royals her big hit and his foil. He has eight in eight days we showed jack black the other day. I remember eat it from way back then. Eat it eat it i like that hes coming back. Go. Prolific, he is. Also coming up on Good Morning America, an expert divers bizarre disappearance. Hes gone missing off the coast of the bahamas and the puzzling clues this morning from his swim with sharks. And an abc news exclusive, Cory Monteiths mother speaking out one year after the glee stars tragic death. How she is honoring her son and the message she has for all parents. And youre looking at the man who claims he invented the selfie. You know, we snap 93 million of these every day. I did one moments ago. How he says he came up with the idea in the first place. Hes got a good claim. Well get to that. First the case of the google executive found dead on his yacht. Expensive escort has been charged with giving him an overdose of heroin and security cameras showing him stepping over him and sipping a glass of wine on her way out. Cecilia vega has the story. Reporter we are learning more about her side of the story. Tichelmans lawyer says she had no intention of harming that executive. Police are telling a different story and want to know if theres more victims out there. She is the alleged highpriced call girl accused of killing a google top executive. This morning Alix Tichelman is behind bars saying the whole thing was an accident. I dont believe this was an intentional crime. This case is about two adults engaged in mutual consensual drug usage. Reporter Forrest Hayes was found dead last november. Police say Surveillance Footage from an onboard camera shows tichelman helping the father of five inject himself before he collapses. They say he can be seen stepping over his body and finishing her glass of wine. She did nothing to show concern, any care. Reporter now investigators are poring over her internet accounts and the 200 prostitution clients she allegedly boasted about searching for more potential victims. Is there somebody out there who had a neardeath experience or managed to survive this. Reporter police wonder if 53yearold dean realpelt did not escape. My boyfriend overdosed. . Just released 911 tapes she said dean has just collapsed but she repeatedly hangs up on operators. Is he awake . He is no, not really. Is he breathing . Yeah, hes breathing, like hes not i dont think hes going to die. He scared me. Reporter Atlanta Police had ruled his death accidental unlike hayes death back in california where tichelman is now being held on 1. 5 million bail. And tichelmans postings online will be key for police. Now, they say they tracked her down by pretending to be a client and her goal was to spend a lavish weekend with a wealthy man and say she charged more than 1,000 per customer. George, shes now facing charges that include manslaughter, possession and prostitution. Cecilia, thanks very much. Lets bring in dan abrams. Its not a slam dunk case. Shes charged with voluntary manslaughter. Typically that is heat of passion or a fight. To prove voluntary manslaughter in this case theyll have to still demonstrate that she had the intent to create serious injury. The defense says, look, we were doing drugs together. I didnt have any intent to do anything wrong here. So i think that this is a play by prosecutors to try to get her to plead to Involuntary Manslaughter meaning to say, look, well cut a deal because it seems like based on what we know right now, it seeps much more like a possible Involuntary Manslaughter case. As a result the sentence would be lower. How about the overdose of the former boyfriend . Will prosecutors bring that into the case . They have to figure out if it was an overdose or something else. If it was just an overdose, they may not be able to and probably wont be able to. If they can somehow demonstrate that in that case, she was responsible in some sort of criminal way, then they might be able to introduce that. Finally that security video they say they have of her being very callous, just ignoring the body. So powerful in front of a jury. Bring that video in front of a jury and say, look what shes doing. She didnt care yet when you think about the actual charge here, the question is, is it really legally relevant . Its going to come in but i dont know it should be that important legally what she did after the fact. Theyre not suggesting she murdered him. Theyre not saying she wanted to him to die and then she callously walked out. Even prosecutors at this point are saying, she may not have intended to kill him and i think thats why the after the fact behavior shouldnt be that important. Dan abrams, thanks very much. Now to we turn to the disappearance of an experienced scuba diver when he vanished in the sharkinfested waters of the bahamas. The coast guard has now called off the search and local police are declaring him dead. Abcs matt gutman has the story. Reporter this morning, four days after texas cairo track ter john petty dove down to a world dominated by sharks and never surfaced his family getting gutwrenching news. We confirmed with the bohemian policeepartment they did recover some scuba items. With the evidence recovered, they determined that it was a shark attack. Reporter the 63yearold also an amateur underwater photographer mysteriously disappeared while shark diving in the bahamas sunday but after scouring 4600 miles of sea, the coast guard suspending its search for petty wednesday without announcing a cause of death. This was just to be one more adventure to go along with his many others. He had such an adventurous spirit and nothing, nothing slowed him down. Reporter all that was found abc news learned was the photographers beloved camera, his mask and diving vest all of them shredded by sharks. Petty had been with the same outfit that took my team shark diving twice in the past year. One, two, three. Reporter introducing us into a world ruled by 16foot tiger sharks. Every dive preceded by a twohour safety briefing. Make sure its on there good. Pull on it a couple times. Reporter underwater that swirling shark, the sharks mostly ignoring us but curious about that white camera pole and had they got too close a guide putting his own body between us. The Charter Company telling abc news overnight it believes petty was likely not killed from a shark attack, but may have died from a drowning first and awaits a full investigation. For Good Morning America, matt gutman, abc news, miami. Very sad. All right. Now we want to turn to the weather and ginger zee. Ginger. And were starting with a big weather wow. Check this out from a helicopter you can see a waterspout over the gulf of mexico very close to near freeport, texas. The southeast along the cold front whats going to happen. Unsettled weather and storms there. New orleans clearing and 86. 81, memphis. And ill leave you with a look at that refreshing air mass that has settled in not only throughout parts of the midatlantic and great lakes lew also the northeast and new england. Drier too. 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Who knew that it all began back in 1981. Were about to meet the man who says he started it back then. He says it began with a single impromptu snapshot. Abcs nick watt has the story. Reporter every single day we snap millions of selfies. Over 93 million on android phones alone every single day. And now this guy claims he invented the selfie. I called them back then silly shots but i must say. Reporter that didnt really catch on. No. Reporter someone else called them selfie and thats whats in the dictionary. I did contribute something to the photographic art form. Reporter Lester Wisbrod was a cameraman in l. A. And claimed this was the first one with art buchwald out of focus. It took time to hone his craft. Is that the bottom half of kenny rogers face . Yes, it is. Reporter he snapped everyone from Morgan Freeman to fabio. What did you do with these all these years . Its in a pile. Reporter now hes gone public and some are questioning his selfie invention claim. One credits Susan Sarandon and geena davis in thelma and louise. Not everyone was as willing as a Young Neil Patrick Harris but hes only had one selfie refusal in 30 year, loretta swit from m. A. S. H. I guess she thought if i was that close she wouldnt look good. Reporter even the first lady henry husband succumbed. Reagan said, gosh, ive never had my picture taken like that before. Never had a selfie, wow. Im on to something there. Reporter he was. These days, president s even snap selfies themselves. For Good Morning America, nick watt, abc news, los angeles. Well, whether it was first or not, thats an incredible collection. Amazing. And all with a cannon sureshot which just cant be easy to do. One thing i thought was interesting, he said holding his arm out the act of holding his arm out disarmed actors. For some loretta swit. He was very nice about her. Send us your morning snapshot with wakeupselfie. Coming up, Cory Monteiths mother is speaking out. 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Weird al, his hits from his newest album all parodies of popular songs, the latest is foil a spoof on lordes royals. With aluminum foil foil never settle for less that kind of wrap is just the best to your sandwich nice and fresh stick it in your cooler love that, right. More than 2 million clicks in 24 hours and its just one of the eight hes releasing this week. Theres a bunch. Doesnt that sound good . How about this called tacky. What do you think . That was earlier this week and then theres word crimes. Word crimes. Robin thicke. Love that. I got to tell you the viral parodies have been weird als thing for more than 30 years. He had hits like this remember this im fat im fat who could forget it. After Michael Jacksons bad but in the age of youtube he has a lot more competition. Cant wait to see whats next. Dont have time for it. Im saving you. Well be right back. Heres a good improve this summertime tip from lowes. Keep your plants watered while on havevacation, do this. 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Is seeingin east beautiful conditions. Comfortable humidity, with temperatures in the low to mid 80s. To tonight we will see a drop back into the 60s in most spots. Partly cloudy afternoon with pleasant conditions and highs in the mid 80s. Overnight while you were sleeping, d. C. s marijuana decriminalization law went into effect. It went into effect admin night. The punishment for possessing small amounts of the drug is a 25 fine. Our sister station is channel 8 will have more on this law in a few minutes. Good morning, america. Its 8 00 a. M. And could the vitamin you take every morning be harming your health . The new study revealing the danger that could be lurking in your medicine cabinet. And abc news exclusive, a year after the passing of Cory Monteith, his mom is speaking out about her struggle. Her message for all parents this morning. This is the moment tonight is the night you cant hold this back. Macklemore revealing his softer side. The best decision he says hes made in a long time. If you close your eyes great deals from gilt that you dont want to miss. All good morning, america. And look where ginger is on the u. S. Coast guard cutter the eagle. Beautiful morning. Beautiful ship thanks to our wabc chopper great shot there and well get back to them in a just a little bit. Just a gorgeous day out there and right here the inspiring story of a couple who cut their body weight in half. They did it together. Talk about teamwork. They lost nearly 300 pounds combined so how did they do it and what finally motivated them to get in shape . Their amazing transformation is just ahead. You wont believe what they look like now. I can see them. They look fantastic. Cant wait for you to see them as well. Well talk about a hot topic among parents, one moms decision to go on vacation for ten days without her daughter. Why she says parents should not feel guilty about going away. She seems happy there. Me time. Me time. As long as there is a babysit sfler exactly. Involved. Thats okay. We do want to hear from you. Do you think its okay for parents to take a little me time as ame says, a vacation without their young kids. Go to our website goodmorningamerica. Com on yahoo and let us know your feelings. News first from amy. Good morning, everyone. We begin with a state of emergency in the Pacific Northwest as more than two dozen wildfires rage and homes are being evacuated where it is so smoky authorities cannot tell how big the fire is and, unfortunately, more hot, windy weather expected today. A different scenario across southern colorado. Slammed by 4 inches of rain in just six hours, raging floodwaters overtaking a restaurant and washing out roads and just this morning reports of nearly a foot of rain falling in north texas. We have more on gingers forecast coming up. Also breaking overnight the fivehour humanitarian ceasefire between israel and the palestinians was interrupted this morning when mortars were fired from gaza. Talks for a more permanent ceasefire are under way this hour. Meantime, israels military has promised to investigate the killing of four boys playing on a beach in gaza. Also overnight new security concerns in afghanistan after yet another Taliban Attack on the airport in kabul. Afghan forces stopped that attack without any civilian casualties. Cars and homes are riddled with bullets this morning after a wild bank robbery and police chase in stockton, california. Speeds reaching 100 Miles Per Hour as those suspects fired ak47s out of a stolen suv. One woman taken hostage was killed along with two of the three robbers. In north carolina, a pair of museum thieves have been caught on camera. Take a look at this surveillance video. It shows a man and a woman stealing the replica a small dinosaur from an exhibit at the museum of natural sciences. Its hard to see but police say the stolen dinosaur model is worth about 10,000 making this theft a felony. And a woman stripped of her miss delaware title for being too old is now suing the Miss America Organization for 3 million. Amanda says she repeatedly provided her birth certificate and drivers license to pageant officials and allowed her to compete even though she turns 25 in october. Finally, talk about Throwback Thursday. Lets see if you all can recognize this actor. Who do you think that is . The rock. Oh, its 9 rock. Thats right. You guys are too good even it was on prompter. Just saying. He sent this picture from t the 90s with the caption fanny pack and lean. However its fair to say he does not mention the hair, turtleneck or chain hes wearing circa 1980 or so. Im glad you showed it but the fanny pack its new. Its coming back. Allegedly. Allegedly. Its back. The fanny pack is back . Yes, indeed. Were getting you one for your birthday. Well, thank you very much. Itll be regifted. We turn now to a brandnew study of a vitamin in many medicine cabinets that could be dangerous. Niacin known as vitamin b3 for those trying to control cholesterol but side effects could outweigh the benefits. Dr. Jen ashton here to explain. Heres the actual study. Some cardiologts are calling this a landmark study. What they did is looked at a group of patients already with cardiovascular disease and put some of them on a combination drug, niacin or vitamin b3 with an antiflushing drug and compared them to placebo and what they found while nye son dropped their numbers it raised their good cholesterol, it do not prevent end events like heart attack and stroke and check out these side effects. They were significant. The patients on this high dose, 2,000 milligrams of niacin had gast gastrointestinal distress, diabetes, infections, bleeding. Merck funded this study. Not good news. Definitely side effects. You couldnt have a gastro weve phone for awhile niacin can do this but how much and to what extent wasnt delineated before this study. People think its a vitamin. It must be safe to take. Is there a dosage thats safe . The recommended daily allowance is between 14 and 16 milligrams. These patients were on 2,000 milligrams but think of it like this, yes, its a vitamin, yes, it can be available over the counter, yes, its natural but there are always risks and in medicine we have to weigh the risks versus the benefits and the premise of medicine, do no harm. Would you tell patients to take it . In this dosage, absolutely not. Way too risky. Okay. Thanks, jen. Pop news is coming up and weather too. First, lara, the morning menu. I do, indeed. Coming up in pop, who is the smartest celebrity of all on twitter . The numbers have been crunched and well have an answer for you. Also, the inspiring couple who lost nearly 300 pounds together. They are a team in every sense of the word and theyre going to tell us how they did it and how they can inspire you. And then an abc news exclusive, Cory Monteiths mom is now speaking out, its the first time she has with a message of hope for all parents. All of that and so much more coming up on Good Morning America live in times square. Gmas morning menu is brought to you by nexium. New nexium 24 hour now available without a prescription. [ male announcer ] if you had a dollar for every dollar Car InsuranceCompanies Say theyll save you by switching, youd have, like, a ton of dollars. But how are they saving you those dollars . A lot of Companies Might answer um or no comment. Then theres esurance. Born online, raised by technology and majors in efficiency. So whatever they save, you save. Hassle, time, paperwork, hairtearing out, and, yes, especially dollars. Esurance. Insurance for the modern world. Now backed by allstate. Click or call. 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Some of the priceless snapshots like this one right here and you have where she borrows his gold and then with the rapper himself. She has some wide eyes. Shes a rescue, im assuming . I dont know but she likes gold. You should know. I should know better than anybody. No followup questions allowed. People find out. Im going to assume its a rescue. Ill go with that, thank you. Because im an advocate for rescues. Its not about me. Its about you. Lets talk thank you, lara. You make me feel good inside. Leonardo dicaprio has been announced as the smartest celebrity on twitter following an investigation by time magazine. Time tested his twitter smarts with a reading comprehension test as the simple measure of gobbledygook, it measures how many three syllable words are used by stars and he comes in at number one because he tweets the conversation conservation a lot. Jimmy kimmel made the top three and ludacris. I know youre wondering, how did we score . I heard you just say that, right . In your minds so let me tell you how you scored. No need. George, youre first, seventh grade level, congratulationses. Seventh grade. How about that. Lara, you tied seventh grade level. How about that. Amy, ginger, robin, all at a sixth grade level. Thats okay. Can i just say this is a stupid test. Why . Hey, george, let me say i agree with you because im on a fifth grade level. One and two syllable words and everybody understood what i was saying. I tweet to express, not to impress. I love that. I love that. Im very proud of you. But this will be the only test i ever take in my life that i tied with george so cant we say its important . Yes, yes. Its important . As i tweeted this morning, supercalifragislistic expialidocious. Think of his score. Fifth grade. All right. Oh, by the way were giving you time to plan for an important day. Take a look at this. Tomorrow, friday is sloth giving, the celebration of the slowest animal on the planet and to get us in the mood they put together a not so scientific video of things you may not know about sloths. Oh, were alter tied of touching the ground. Something most people dont know about me, im really good at parkour. We can actually move really fast. Were just waiting for the right opportunity thats the key to being laid back. Slothsgiving is happening, its a thing. They sleep 20 hours a day. How about that . So good. Heat index coming up. First back to ginger. She is on that amazing u. S. Coast guard cutter the eagle. Hey, ginger. Here we are, the famous ship. Im sailing this morning. You did see from above there what she looks like, a beautiful shot behind me too where you can see the statue of liberty. You know, its not only gorgeous through this morning but through the weekend. This ship known so well for training cadet, 150 at a time will be here friday and saturday for people to tour by the intrepid. The weather with you this weekend, as well. Some of the numbers coming up will be drier, comfortable, less humid, so were talking places like new york city, boston, that air mass is going to settle in and feel, oh, good morning everybody. A beautiful thursday. Temperatures are cooler and humidity is low. 72 degrees at reagan national. Gaithersburg, and we were 1 shy of the record at dulles this morning. Ow to mid 80s this afternoon mostly sunny skies expected so much more coming up from right here on the eagle. George. Looks great out there. We kick off our heat index with an issue that stirs up strong emotions with parents with young kids. Should you go on vacation without them . One mommy blogger generating lots of buzz saying she felt no guilt after leaving her 3yearold behind for a tenday vacation and linsey davis has the story. Reporter many mothers struggle with the daunting need to be in several places at once like miranda in sex and the city. Feeling guilty had become a part of mirandas daily routine. She came up with this creative solution for inner peace. But 37yearold mom kerry westby is taking a different approach saving in a Huffington Post blog sometimes in order to maintain inner peace moms need to get away. Its crucial for our children to see motherhood is an addition to ones life and not a subtraction. Reporter she went all the way to paris and italy for ten days, maia stayed at home with her partner. When a mom says i need some me time the reaction is very much like who are you to take off . This is your role. This is your job. Its very important that moms take permanent time so they can be better parents. It gives them more energy. It makes them feel recharged. Reporter westby admits getting over the mommy guilt was daunting at first but she believes its important to show children that personal time is part of creating a balanced life. Selflove is the most important lesson we can teach our kid. We have this sense of obligation to be with them 24 7. As a mom its really important you strike a balance between your needs and your childrens kneads. Reporter westby knows not everybody has the luxury of a tenday trip. She suggests that something as small as taking a bus ride around town or a trip to the movies alone or even just taking a night off and letting your partner take the reins, whatever it takes to help put the me back in mommy. For Good Morning America, linsey davis, abc news, new york. All right, lins. Next up in our heat index. Finding the determination to shed the unwanted pounds. We asked you 0 tell us how much weight you lost and got so many inspiring tweets, people losing 25 up to 15 pounds. Were about to meet a remarkable couple that did it as a team and, boy, did they succeed. Heres their story. In the spring of 2012 jessica and Robert Foster were a couple struggling with obesity. Food was my comfort and when i was feeling down or blue or angry, anything, you know, id just i ate. I kind of played the fat guy part and that was kind of what i saw as being my identity. Reporter finally fed up, they decided to change their lives together. She took up zumba and encouraged rob to start running and changed their diets and eventually became vegan. Every time we dropped a pants or shirt size it did nothing but boost what was battered selfesteem from all those years before. Reporter their goal to be healthy role models for their four young daughters. I wanted to show these girls you can do anything you put your mind to and dont let anybody ever tell them that they cant because look at us. Its me. I did it. Reporter two years later they are transformed losing 280 pounds together. They did it all right. So are you ready to meet this wonderful couple . Come on out, robert and jessica. [ cheers and applause ] oh. You look great. Awesome. Fantastic. So lets start with jessica. Heres jessica two years ago. This mother of four weighed 287 pounds and worried about the threat of diabetes. She went on to lose 120 pounds and, boy, do you look amazing. Yeah. All right. So now robert, he weighed 327 pounds. He didnt have any energy. Couldnt play with his kids. He said enoughs enough and lost 160 pounds. Hes running marathons. You guys look great. Come on over. [ applause ] thats fantastic. It is a pleasure to meet you. Nice meeting you. So inspirational to so many who want to do it but dont know where to start. What advice do you have . You know, i think the couple biggest things that i could say is, you know, you got to start off with the right goals, you know, so many people out there meaning dont set them too high. Dont set them too high and dont make them short term. I want to lose x number of pounds. Once you get to the point where you lost that weight where do you go from there . You dont have to get an expensive gym membership. You did a great approach at home with milk bottles. We didnt buy gym memberships, all at home, cross fit in our home and that was kind of later down the line. We started off with very, very fun type of activities, though, because Getting Started is tough. And if you start with something thats fun that you can incorporate other people into, friends and family, makes it really easy and you get that high from doing, you know, physical activity and that exhaustion and you just crave more at that point. Easy and fun. Fantastic. Love it. You look amazing. A couple, a great team and hopefully our viewers are really getting inspired. Thank you so much for being with us. George, over to you. They look fantastic. We turn to that emotional interview with the mother of glee star Cory Monteith who died last year of an overdose. In this abc news exclusive she has a message for parents and spoke with Bianna Golodryga about drug abuse. Just a small town girl reporter its been one year since Cory Monteith who shot to fame on the hit series glee lost a lifelong battle with drugs and alcohol at the age of 31. Now corys mom, ann mcgregor is speaking out for the first time about the son she called baby bear. How are you feeling right now . The last few days im beginning to accept it. The loss is horrendous. Until three days ago i couldnt look at a picture of cory so theres been progress. Reporter can you talk about that night one year ago . No. When you found out . No. I know its late and lea, do you keep in touch with lea. I do. She texts me and emails me. Shes hurting too. Reporter she last saw cory two days before his deathth and said he was planning to sign a lease on a new place in vancouver. So he wanted to give hollywood up. He didnt want that life anymore, do you think . I think he was easing himself out of it. Reporter corys mom shared these never before seen videos of cory as a child. Here at 8 years old in a school play and here a smiling boy giving his dog a bath. Cory had that mischievous side to him all the time. He was always kind of, you know, looking forward something else. Stimulation. When did he start to get into trouble . Cory was 15. He did a code blue and i think that was the turning point. He had a lot of emotional things. He was trying to figure out a lot of it was he really wanted a relationship with his father. I think when a child gets invalidated they keep reaching even higher. They want to find out why. I remember after corys first o. D. , the drive we took and all he did was stare into his eyes and hug him and look at him because i had this feeling i really want to know him because im not going to have him my entire life. That was way back then. And what is your advice to mothers out there of other stars who are facing similar problems. I dont think we have power to change the choices theyre making. I think with the kind of connection cory and i had, if we couldnt prevent that situation, i dont have the answer. What could i say to them . Live every moment. Grab the second. Do you blame hollywood at all . I dont think blame is a good thing to do, no, he could that was his choice. Just the same shy does everything you have to get some satisfaction when you saw how much talent your son had. Pretty amazing. And he was a star. Im still in awe. I always will be. And i asked her how she felt the show dealt with his death. She said she hasnt been able to watch it since. In fact, she cant even look at corys photos so this was a cathartic moment to finally talk about her son and Little Things she said we know him as this tall, strapping man he was a peopleny born at 4 pounds. The doctors said if he survives hell keep on growing. A lot of pain and wisdom. And big message for parents. Coming up, Neil Patrick Harris, hes going to be here live. Tomorrow, hold on tight for the dance party in the warrick for zedd igniting the morning with the smash hit presented by dreamwalk by dr. Scholls. 7 broadcastthe abce center, this is an abc 7 news update. Good morning. I am autria godfrey. We have a check of the thursday morning commute. This is one of those mornings all the way around. Some areas were bad and got better than others. George washington parkway near cia, the gate has been reopened. Everybody had been diverting to 123. The beltway, Prince Georges County, our usual delays remain from branch avenue to pennsylvania towards 50. 270 southbound, they will crash at montrose road. Delays into germantown. Also, slow traffic in virginia moving north on i95 into newington. One heck of a morning. At least weather is nice. It has been more than nice, i would say. Comfortable temperatures. Morning itgrees this feels more like a midseptember as opposed to mid july. Gaithersburg, 66. Our highs will be in the low to mid 80s today. Mostly sunny skies expected today. The weekend is staying dry but a few thunderstorms next week. Big news on capitol hill. The house is moved to block virtually all of these see dc. C. s gun control laws. An amendment to the house approved spending bill would eliminate all the regulations. Thanks for watching. One more update coming up at 8 56. Out in times square this morning, lets see who is inside right now. Neil patrick harris. There he is in the social square. We caught him right there. What cant that man do . He has so much going on. New movie coming out raising a family. Cant wait to talk to him about that. Ginger taking to the high seas. We have a look at her at the helm of the u. S. Coast guard cutter the eagle looking at 21,000 feet of sail, five miles of rigging and its all under gingers direction right now. 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This ship so impressive and if youre in new york city you can see it both tomorrow and saturday. So well be talking a lot more about what happens on the boat but lets get to the weather forecast. Severe weather possible in the heart of texas there so just north and west and including dallas. You could see damaging wind, hail, even an isolated tornado. Always hearing many reports about Severe Weather there. I also want to give you a look from west to east across the nation but for now im going to sit right here in the beautiful sunshine. Oh, new york is we have beautiful sunshine around here today as well. 60s in then d. C. , burbs. Mostly sunny skies and comfortable and all that weather is brought to you by target. George. This is you got to get out here and see the ship. It is so magnificent. You look great up there, ginger. What a great site in the harbor. We turn to one mans quest to show how were one big family. Bestselling author a. J. Jacobs is creating the biggest family tree. Sara haines has the story. Reporter what if i was related to Channing Tatum or Kate Middleton or denzel. Could it be . Is it possible as i look around im related to everyone here . Not possible, its true. Absolutely reporter meet a. J. Whose goal is to throw the worlds biggest Family Reunion right here in new york and says even he and i are related. A mere 31 steps away. Yep, a. J. Is my fourth great uncles great daughters nephew. You got it . Youre connected through the ziegenthuse. My grandmothers maiden name. You have to come to the global Family Reunion. We want to get the word out about it so cousin amg and i sat out to try to meet and invite family minimums. You have 77 million cousins. Two new cousins. Welcome to the family. A. J. s family tree has over 77 million leads and continues to grow. Here i am and then just 23 relatives away theres george stephanopoulos, people say that they dont feel alone anymore. They feel connected. Im Daniel Radcliffe and a. J. Jacobs and hes my cousin and we are probably cousins. Reporter even though his own family claims two american president s, not everybody is impressed. Tory, its your cousin a. J. , were just 17 steps away. Its your cousin through the donskis. With more than 77 other relatives maybe no one will notice shes not at the reunion. For Good Morning America, sara haines, abc news, new york. Look at her saddling up to her cousin. Find out how youre related to a. J. And take part in the biggest Family Reunion by going to our web item goodmorningamerica. Com on yahoo one of the most talented people in show whats your favorite place in america . The place that makes you the happiest. This summer thats what gma wants to know. Maybe its where you had your first kiss or walked as a child with your dad. Go now to goodmorningamerica. Com on yahoo and tell us about your favorite place in america and, who knows, we might just drop in and visit you there. Incredibly multitalented Neil Patrick Harris is here, so excited about that. Thanks. He is starring in hedwig n broadway and here to share another talent. Hes been hired as ambassador to the art at the exhibition. Art of the pixel and tell us all bit. What is the pixel. Thank you. Well, the pixel is a small little dot that is used in tvs now. Lg is a Great Company asked me to be a partner with them. Called the art of the pixel competition and asked students from around the world and art schools to submit Digital Media that would look great on these amazing technological tvs. Nine students from nine different art schools and you can go online to lg. Com and vote for your favorite and they win money and the schools win scholarships and its just to show off these unbelievable ultra hd and the Old Technology is astonishing and now the digital art world can start using a bigger canvas. You know what i mean. Are you an artist yourself . Im not an artist. Im more of like a collector of contemporary art and so i always assumed eventually technology would get this good and so theres really phenomenal things. I like that i can honor and represent digital artists. And young artist. Young emerging artists who look up to artists who follow their dream whether it was in a different medium. You have until july 31st to vote. Lg. Com which is convenient because thats the name of the company. I now any chance i see you doing something im a big fan and in love with you, frankly and love your work and love talking about the books you write and plays you do. Thanks. And i dont know how you do it all because while youre spending time with emerging artists youre across the street, directly across the street doing hedwig for which you just won a tony award. Thank you. Thank you. No thought that i would forget to mention, hard to miss when you notice that youre wearing your glitter nail polish. We put it on yesterday and i was remiss to take it off for a few days. The show is going fantastically well in it through midaugust and its like a crazy rock n roll tour de forcey kind of role and ive been having a blast doing it. Its killing me. Its slowly crushing me physically but thats why we act. Is it the hardest thing youve ever done, you know, in all yeah, it is. When youre first rehearsing it youre learning about it and when youre first performing it, youre sort of shellshocked so you have to sort of maneuver your way through it and yet youre also trying to be iggy pop and be sort of spontaneous punk and with that comes flailing and doing it differently every night and different improve vegas things that happen and shes such an angry fractured person that i get to its a little bit of an opiate at this point. Its a lot to get into with the physical therapy and the exercise and the makeup and getting ready for it and then when youre doing it youre in this wonderful 100 minutes of insanity. You told me right when the show was starting you wouldnt use an understudy. You didnt feel you could. Have you stayed true to the word. You havent missed a show. I havent missed a show yet. Weve done show 105 so its good but the nice thing about hedwig shes doing a one onetime performance is the con seat of the show. Its rock n roll so if shes scratchy or under, it just makes her more angry. Which i can tell you having seen the show is fun. I care about broadway and it being really good every time you want to see a show. Thats why you come to new york and see these things. Its in my best interest to be skinny and angry and vocally on point. We have a question for you from one of your many, many fans out there. Jessica portillo on twitter asks, how do you prepare yourself before a show and do you get nervous still . Second part first. Im not really nervous. I just get more adrenaline rush. I dont get too confident i think if you feel like youre going to be really good thats when i it end to slip on my heels. Theres a lot of ritual befoe s. I have usually a vocal warmup. I eat three hours before. I have a vocal warm number two hours before. 90 minutes i start getting into the makeup. At about a half hour we get into the wrrd and the wigs, so its a lot. Im there many hours before the show starts and it takes about an hour to recover. It makes it sound like im exhausted like a terrible job. Its the best thing ever. Its crazy. Its full steam ahead. And emotional and its rock n roll and its you get to sing and stomp around like mick jagger and sit really still. Remember i said you watch it and you it makes you want to go try Something Different yourself, push yourself which is a really great message which is a perfect time to transition to gone girl. Talk about a juxtaposition of characters. Right. How is that . Some people are saying like the antibarney. Like kind of creepy. I didnt choose to be in gone girl. David fincher who is probably the best director going right now, im a massive fan of his from the game on. I got an email saying he wanted to have lunch with me to talk about a project and you drop everything and do that and he is the coolest guy and gone girl i had raid the book as did millions and millions of people and said, yes, wholeheartedly and i play sort of a count counterpoint to the lead to named desi collins, always been in love with rosalynn pikes character and its so good. I just think every shot that david does is like a piece of art. You can freeze frame everything and its all so gorgeous and symmetrical and well lit and it was really like another level of acting, especially having just done a multicamera sitcom which im so proud of. Will you do me a favor . Take a vacation at some point. Thats my plan. After hedwig is done ill take a nice break until the first of the year. Give david our love and beautiful kids our love. Thank you. When your book comes out, i had a real fun game of would you rather. Promise me youll come back. Absolutely. Id love to. Thank you. Keep up the great work. Cheers. Neil patrick harris, the art of the pixel. Reporter of the pixel. Lg. Com. Ambassador art ambassador. I mean, come on. Thanks again and coming up here there we go. The star of disneys planes fire rescue is with us. I cant remember disthinks planes fire rescue was a worldwide hit grossing 219 million. Now, fearless fly boy dusty crop hopper is back with planes fire rescue where engine damage has him setting a completely new course, take a look. Give them a go. Huh . All right. Let me just get this no. Pop the wheels, genius. Pop the wheels. Oh, thats it. Yeah. You think. Yeah, im tall. Look at this. The man behind dusty, crop hopper is here, dane cook, reprising the lead role. Welcome, to Good Morning America. Great to be here. Great character and hes really struggling with like a career path. He needs to sort of forge his own way. Its one thing that i think is like classic disney is that they allow characters to grow and i think thats what we bring to this next one. The humor is bigger and then the grit is grittier. What is it like being in a disney you know, its i would imagine its sort of a big deal even for a major i get into it. I really do. I live with planes for a year now. I live in a hangar and sleep on a tarmac. No, its the greatest experience to get in there with great comedic actors and see it come to fruition is credible. Its a nice juxtaposition from the dane cook that many of us know with a saucy flavor. Parents say we love the movie and where are the swear words . Thats another show altogether. Yeah, this is really about getting, you know, getting the whole family together and just having a blast for a couple of hours. Its an awesome franchise. I dont know if you know this but i actually was also a character. I play a reporter who is a corvette and did not make the cut but i want you to know we are colleagues existentialally. That will be in the extended i made like the dvd. So its that. Welcome to our world. I love that you have another comedy special coming up on showtime. I do. And explain the title troublemaker. Yes, because i never get into any of that in my entire career. You know its about the material. Its about the content. People know i always kind of like to push things a little bit and so youll have to see why the title can you give me a preview of can you beep me for the next 40 seconds . I always like getting into the relationship stuff and i say at the beginning if you came to the show tonight and youre in a relationship, 60 of those relationships will end before this night is through because were going to really rip the lid off of it so you got to see. You got to see who stayed together and who left. Thats on showtime and that is coming out october 17th. But, meanwhile, dusty. Planes fire rescue. If i may the family movie of the summer. The one you want to go to and have an incredible movie. I saw the movie with the entire cast. Were you missing and longing for that reporter . Theres like something missing something not quite right. You steal the show. It is a great movie. I have two kids and they loved it. Thank you for all your work. Pleasure to get to know you and planes fire rescue, in because im happy Good Morning America is brought to you by olay. Challenge whats possible. And look at little nicholas pergleh rife simon. Newest member of our gma family. Son of margaret and her partner barbara. Everyone is doing great. He looks terrific. Congratulation, ladies. Have a great day. Live from the abc 7 broadcast center, this is an abc 7 news update. Good morning. I am autria godfrey. An eye on the roads, your eyes have been busy, jack. This is one of those mornings, put it that way. All your travel lanes are open but it is very slow nonetheless. Hearing of potential problems on the inner loop of the beltway, Prince Georges County before branch avenue. It may have some debris from the offroad overpass. In the district, springfield with the seminary, and pentagon across the 14th street bridge, the beltway in virginia, it is from springfield to the legion bridge, 15mile ride will take you just over an hour. 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