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Of giant whales swam right beneath kayaks taking them for a ride. Their cameras rolling the whole time. The reallife whale of a tale. Up in the air and we do say good morning, america. And we are covering several developing stories for you at this hour. These are images that are just coming in of the victims of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 finally returning home this morning. Their families waiting for them in the netherlands after a week of such anger, sadness and emotion and we are there live. An anxious day in the skies. The u. S. Banned flights to tel aviv because of that near miss by a rocket causing trouble for travelers and ryan smith is tracking it at Jfk International airport here in new york. Good morning, ryan. Reporter good morning, george. Its been 23 years amid the first gulf war that flights have been diverted to and from tel aviv. But with the battle raging on between israel and hamas the faa is taking drastic measures. As missiles rained down near the airport in tel aviv, travel woes turned to fear at home. Im very afraid. Im telling you now im very afraid. Reporter and throughout the word. We dont understand what were supposed to be doing. Everyone is kind of hectic. Reporter the root of the chaos here at Israels Ben Gurion international airport, thousands of passengers now stranded. Then there was a bomb alarm. The whole airport rushed into the bomb shelters and it was terrifying. Reporter after the faas decision to prevent any american carriers from flying here for at least 24 hours. Delta and united saying they will suspend flights indefinitely. One delta flight reversed course midair when the missile made impact diverting instead to paris. Quite unfortunate that we were literally an hour before landing in ben gurion, but i respect the decision. Reporter half a dozen International Airlines voluntarily suspending flights rerouting them away from the region. Airlines avoiding travel over areas of conflict for the second time in just one week. This radar image showing the empty skies over ukraine after mh17 was shot down last thursday. The faa was caught a little off foot over the weekend and now making up for it and putting very stringent restrictions on the flights. Reporter one airline undeterred. Israeli airline elderts al and mayor bloomberg made a point to take a flight overnight. Its safe and a great place to israel has a right to defend its people. Reporter just hours ago secretary of state john kerry arrived in tel aviv from cairo with hopes of achieving a ceasefire agreement in mind. In the meantime, in a phone call yesterday opening, israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu implored kerry to lift the ban on flights and was told that updated faa guidelines would be released sometime today. Robin. All right. Ryan, thank you very much. Now to the latest on malaysian Airlines Flight 17. The victims finally returning home this morning. Nearly a week after the plane was shot out of the sky and abcs terry moran has the very latest from the site where the plane went down. Good morning, terry. Reporter good morning, robin. This is a quiet crash scene today. No rebels, no investigators, just the wreckage and what many experts believe are still human remains scattered through these fields. There are teams of experts on their way here to see what they can still learn interest this crime scene after its been looted and tampered with for several days. As you note at least now the victims are making their way home. Soldiers salute the victims of flight 17 finally receiving the dignity in death that theyve been denied since the attack that killed them last thursday. 16 bodies aboard the first plane bound for the netherlands. The whole process will take at least three days. Today forensic scientists in the netherlands will begin the grim task of identifying the bodies and looking for traces of the many passengers still unaccounted for. The investigation will point out which remains will fit to which person. Reporter overnight senior u. S. Intelligence officials saying they have no direct evidence of russian government involvement but they point to photographs of the wreckage as strong evidence a russianmade sa11 missile fired from rebelheld territory brought down the plane. The sa11 explodes before it hits its target sending out fans of hot shrapnel often leaving piercing marks like these found on debris from the plane. Meanwhile, europe imposing new sanctions. This has gotten completely out of control. Reporter but the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine, Jeffrey Pyatt told us hes concerned theyre still arming the rebels there. We are very concerned that russia has not pulled back on the flow of heavy weapons, tanks, rocket launchers, other material which we have been seeing coming into Eastern Ukraine for several weeks now. Reporter we can also report that those blackboxes have been delivered to investigators in Great Britain and they say no signs of damage on them. George. Thats encouraging. Terry, thanks very much. There will be a day of mourning across the netherlands where the victims bodies are being returned to their loved ones. Abcs lama hasan is there. Good morning, lama. Reporter thats right, good morning to you, george. It is a somber day here today where those two military planes carrying the remains of those victims will be arriving right here at eindhoven airport, the Netherlands Second largest airport and, of course, they will be the first of the bodies to arrive. Church bells will ring across the country, across the netherlands. Five minutes before those two military planes touch down here. Then youll hear the sound of a trumpet. The trumpet signals the arrival of those two planes and they are to meet them will be their relative, the king and queen of the netherlands and following a minutes silence. The bodies will then be taken, escorted by a police motorcade to a military facility about 65 miles from here which is when the grim process of identifying those bodies, thats when that will be begin. There will be a team of about 40 Forensic Experts on hand to do that. All of this, george, taking place on a day thats been declared a day of National Mourning whereverwhere we look, george, there are flags flying at halfstaff to honor those victims. George. Just a devastating blow to that country. Lama, thanks very much. A lot of emotions there. Back here at home that mystery at the Brooklyn Bridge. There is the bridge this morning as authorities try to figure out who scaled the world famous landmark and replaced american flags with white flags. Abcs linsey davis is there for us right now with the latest. Good morning, linsey. Reporter good morning, robin. Just to give you a sense talking about 120,000 cars, 4 thu thousand pedestrians, 3100 bikes that cross the Brooklyn Bridge every day. It has been targeted by terrorists before. And while terrorism has been ruled out in this instance its raised numerous questions about security. This morning, a Serious Investigation into how and why two enormous american flags atop the famed Brooklyn Bridge were swapped for a pair of old glories apparently bleached white. We dont take these things lightly or as a joke. Reporter take a look at this earth cam video at 3 30 the light illuminating one of the flags flickers out. 12 minutes later the same thing with the other flag, watch again. The flag there one moment, gone the next. At 5 30 a. M. , construction workers notice the flag flipflop. Officers soon make their way up the bridges main cables and find these aluminum pans secured with zip ties covering those lights. They then replace the white flags folding them into tight triangles following traditional procedure, but the mystery persists. That is a matter of concern. I am not particularly happy about the event. Reporter police are now looking for five people seen crossing the bridge about 20 minutes before that first light went out. They say whoever pulled off the elaborate breach was able to scale 276 feet, somehow making it past the locked gates that sit atop the steel cables. Theres some indication of some good deal of preoperational planning, perhaps some indication that they have experience climbing in construction or in bridgework or that they may have actually been up there before. Reporter this morning, the nypd has ruled out terrorism as other theories abound. Perhaps an elaborate art installation or eye political statement about surrender. Brooklyn borough president adams now offering 5,000 for information leading to an arrest. This is the Brooklyn Bridge and the only person that should be surrendering at this time is the person whos responsible for the desecration of this flag. Reporter police are calling it a case of trespassing, malicious mischief and Reckless Endangerment but could have been far worse. It certainly could have been, linsey, thank you. The very least a frightening security breach. To amy with the mornings other top stories. Robin, good morning. We begin with another massive data breach affecting a wellknown retailer. This time, the Online Ticket site stubhub and hackers broke into 1,000 customer accounts to buy tickets and stretching from new york to russia with several arrests being announced today. Here is the key takeaway for anyone who shops online. Stubhub says they got the login and password from data already stolen from other websites. That is why it is so important to have different passwords for different sites and to change them often. Also breaking overnight a plane flying to chicago forced to make an Emergency Landing because a fire indicator light came on shortly after the southwest flight left baltimore. Passengers used emergency chutes to evacuate but so far no evidence of any fire. [ gunshots ] listen to that in this suburban neighborhood in south texas. Investigators were trying to serve a warrant for a murder suspect when he opened fire and then barricaded himself inside. Two officers were wounded before Police Ultimately shot the suspect. And new confusion over the fate of obamacare after Conflicting Court rulings. Two appeals courts issued opposite rulings tuesday on the legality of an irs rule that allows Health Coverage bought under the Affordable Care act to be subsidized. The issue could take more than a year to resolve in the courts. And a deadly Lightning Strike on a florida beach. A young man died before emergency crews could arrive. Two other victims survived. This season so far, 14 americans have been killed in Lightning Strikes. Well, some kayakers got a little too up close and personal with this pod of whales in argentina. Watch as one whale actually swims beneath one of the kayaks briefly lifting the paddler and her boat out of the water. Whoo, thats a little scary but the whales eventually swam off. No one was injured. Everyone was okay and it was all, of course, as they all happen to be these days caught on camera. Finally a sweet gesture from the biggest superstar in sports. This is what lebron james sent his neighbors, a dozen cupcakes, very fancy cupcakes all to say sorry for the swarm of media invading the neighborhood following his recent announcement that he is returning to cleveland. The cupcakes also came with a note apologizing for the chaos and saying hes blessed to have such understanding neighbors, hint, hint. So understanding, thank you. Right. Ahead of time. You know you are. Right. Enjoy the treats. That is a wonderful gesture. The right thing to do. That was. All right, amy, thank you. To the fallout from the new york city man who died after an alleged choke hold by police. Federal authorities are now closely monitoring the case as the victim, eric garner, will be laid to rest today. Abcs Ron Claiborne has that story. Reporter it is this dramatic video now causing some dramatic changes. A suspect arrested and later dying. Stop. Reporter now the new York City Police commissioner announcing the retraining of all 35,000 officers in arrest procedures and the use of force. There will be a retraining of every member of the new York City Police department in the week, months and potential years ahead. Reporter the top to bottom review was ordered in the wake of last thursdays incident and the alleged use of a choke hold to subdue 43yearold eric garner, suspected of selling illegal cigarettes. They are making it clear that a choke hold is a banned procedure. They are also making it clear that weve got to come up with alternatives. Reporter this move comes as the fbi and u. S. Justice department have begun monitoring the circumstances of garners arrest and death. Already, one officer, this man, has been stripped of his badge and gun and assigned to a desk job. Come on. Reporter now four paramedics who responded to the scene after garner collapsed are suspended without pay by their superiors while reviewing their actions. Two Police Sergeants present at his arrest said that garner did not appear to be in great stress and that his condition did not seem serious. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. Reporter the father of six died about an hour later. Last night a vigil in Staten Island. Later today, garners funeral. For good morning america, im Ron Claiborne, abc news, new york. Thanks to Ron Claiborne for that. We have a hurt alert. An alarming spike in cases of a serious illness carried by mosquito called chikungunya, painful virus first picked up in the caribbean but confirmed cases in the u. S. Soared over the past week. Abcs dr. Richard besser here with details. Good morning, rich. This is really catching the eye of officials. People watching this closely. 28 increase in one week. Just last december it arrived in the caribbean. We were talking about a handful of cases. Now there are over 400,000 cases in that area and americans are picking it up when they travel. We have the same mosquito here thats causing disease there is there a couple of americans picked it up in florida. What are the symptoms and what can you do . The symptoms, headache, fever, muscle ache, telltale symptom is joint pain and arthritis. The way to avoid it fight the bite. Make sure you use repellant and get rid of Free Standing water and screens are intact and that will do a lot. Rich, thanks very much. To lara in the social square. All right, george, here i am in social square. We turn now to a Good Samaritan fighting back against an alleged shoplifter on facebook and posted this cell phone video youre about to see of an apparent thief in the ago and helped Police Identify the suspect. Just ran this stuff out of walmart right here. Stole it. Reporter he is the vigilante gone viral. Take a look and listen as one man uses his cell phone could catch an alleged shoplifter outside an oklahoma walmart. Hes taking off right now. Whatever, dude. He took his license plate. Its all right. Its all right. Theres the vin number. What are you doing here . Hes taking it. Just stole all this stuff. I paid for it. Yeah, i got his vin number and everything. Dont, dont. Anthony, the Good Samaritan says he was waiting for his fiancee to check out at this walmart near tulsa sunday night when he saw a man suspiciously looking around the exit then darting out without paying a dime. It was very obvious that he was stealing them. None of the items were bagged. Reporter anthony refused to go on camera fearing possible retaliation. But he did speak with us by phone. I asked him if he had paid for his items and he kind of said, sir, dont worry about that. Reporter the video has been shared more than 4,000 times since anthony posted it to facebook and it also captured the attention of police. Look at him. Just stole all this stuff. Dont, dont. Dont. I mean, that says it all and this morning they say they have identified the man in the video. That would be police. As well as the woman who was behind the wheel and currently working with walmart in this ongoing investigation. Yet another example of the many uses of smartphones. Uhhuh. Good playbyplay there too. Yes, he does. Now to that Severe Weather thats forming. Hey there, ginger. Good morning to you, guys. Yeah, smartphones and social media. Thats a hit. Its good. Not Everybody Loves it. Its going to work today. If you have warnings coming through on your phones because severe storms possible along the cold front from maine all the way back down into parts of the new jersey area into parts of pennsylvania and then other pockets back off to the west. Washington state through montana, another one there in parts of nebraska, wyoming and south dakota. So thats this afternoon and evening. Along that front you might see storms in places like memphis. A quick look at how hot it is going to be, excessive heat warning in effect today for phoenix through tomorrow. 114 expected. Your local forecast in just 30 seconds. First this mornings stormy cities brought to you by the university of phoenix. Hi, everyon e, david murphy with an update from accuweather. Nothing showing on Storm Tracker 6 live double scan this morning and sky 6 showing plenty of sunshine. Were in the 70s and its muggy and its going to be hot and humid later. Accuweather says todays high a sticky 93. In the afternoon well be on the lookout for thunderstorms especially north and west of philadelphia. Later tonight theyll drop down in through the city and overnight down to the shore. Tomorrow morning showers but improvement in the afternoon. Back to gma. I dont know if you noticed but i dont even need my maps. Ill stand next to amy and well look like the outlook for Severe Weather or summer. Thats one way to look at it. Beautiful. Did you all get did you talk about this ahead of time. Very beautiful. Just magic. It is beautiful. Thank you two. Coming up here on gma, Bombshell Development in the case of the missing wife of a marine. Why police are now looking at her neighbor. Also ahead the former prosecutor now going on defense charged in a shocking murderforhire plot. Did i target a rival attorney . Plus we reveal the magic words you can say to stop telemarketers from calling you. Secrets from a former insider coming up. No problem this morning. 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It allows me to continue to drink my coffee, action news is brought to you by avalon flooring. Action news is brought to group. Good morning, im tamala edwards. Seven aches 26 on this wednesday july 23rd. Lets get a look at track. Matt pelman is starting on the schuylkill. A pretty eventful morning on the schuylkill expressway tam and of course we like boring but this morning there have been several things that have happened and including a fenderbender here on the westbound side by exit for lincoln and kelly drive. All thats left at this point is the Police Officer off to the side and a whole bunch of westbound traffic trying to get from approaching the boulevard out to gladwyne we are jammed up. Eastbound also a sizable jam from city avenue on into University Avenue where there there was a broken down vehicle out of the way now h a broken down vehicle on 95 southbound by the betsy ross bridge off to the side but speeds are still in the teens as you continue south side to girard avenue and we had a fire location in West Philadelphia along girard avenue. Thats been extinguished but some fire activity at the sheraton in center city is still blocking 17th street. Stick with 15th or 19th by logan square instead. Tam. Okay, thanks matt. Lets go over to sky 6 hd and take a live look there into center city. You can see a few clouds floating by but the real story today david sounds to be like the heat and humidity. Yeah, its already a little muggy. With the sun currently behind the clouds doesnt feel all that bad on the terrace. 73 degrees in philadelphia currently, 70 in allentown, 71 in millville and when that sun bracks out from behind the clouds you do feel the stickies building in again. Today hot and humid, a high of 93, heat index Center City Philadelphia probably will get up to close to 100 at times. Later today in the northern and western suburbs be on the lookout for some storms. Those will probably start passing down through philadelphia later tonight and the shore after midnight. Tomorrow clouds in the thanks, david. Coming up on gma how to get rid of telemarketers quickly. All by myself take a look at that. Those are the los angeles highways. Completely empty except for that one skateboarder. How is this possible . Anymore well, the video is going wildly viral. To compare, take a look at what the highways normally look like. You can never move. Out there but this is just an incredible thing. How he did it in just a bit. Celine getting a lot of play. The las vegas airport. L. A. X. Right out there in l. A. Also this morning a Bombshell Development in the case of the missing wife of a marine. Police searching for clews and now looking at her neighbor. Also coming up well reveal the magic words you can say to stop telemarketers for calling you for good. A former insider is now spilling the secrets. Taking notes on that one. We have a new study this morning which reveals which diet plans and pills give you the most bang for your buck. Well tell you which ones are really worth the money. All coming up. We begin with that disappearance of a marine wife vanished more than three weeks ago believed to be heading for 9 Joshua Tree National park and a search turned up now. Theyre looking at an exmarine who lived next door. Cecilia vega has the story. Reporter this morning new allegations about missing erin corwin, a search warrant revealing police are investigating the possibility that corwin three months pregnant and her neighbor Christopher Lee were having an affair. Investigators now fearing the worst calling the circumstances surrounding her disappearance suspicious. Were looking for a crime scene. Were looking for something thats going to give us an indication that something has or has not happened to her. Reporter erin, the wife of a marine, has not been seen in nearly a month vanishing from twentynine palms, california, without a trace and her husband, Lance Corporal Jonathan Corwin reported her missing one day after she was seen leaving Joshua Tree National park and lee says he went hunting in joshua tree the same day but he denied seeing her there. At this point were trying to investigate each and every person thats been an acquaintance with her. Reporter lee who was recently honorably discharged initially denied knowing erin well but investigators say corwins friend told them she might have been pregnant with lees child and that lee was worried that if his wife discovered erin was pregnant, lees wife would divorce him and keep him from his child. In the Court Document police say it is highly likely that erin could have been warmed by an unknown firearm. On july 4th lee was arrested on what police call an unrelated weapons charge for possessing a destructive device. reportedly out on bail. Police have not named a suspect or ruled out the possibility that corwin may be voluntarily missing but this morning, wherever she is remains a mystery. For good morning america, cecilia vega, abc news, los angeles. Okay, lets bring in dan abrams on this and we just heard cecilia say police say theres not a suspect but seem to be paying a lot of attention to lee. No question hes at least a person of interest as they like to call it. Bottom line, he is someone theyre looking at. Look, two key issues they need to resolve, number one, was there a crime . Meaning they first virginia to rule out the possibility she left voluntarily. With each day that passes, it seems the authorities become more and more convinced that this was a crime. Once they determine that this was a crime and i think that in their minds they already have then the question is who did it and when youre talking about a woman who was newly pregnant and alleged affair, okay, not confirmed but alleged, the authorities are going to be looking at two people and that is, number one, her husband and, number two, the person with whom shes having the alleged affair and seems that the authorities have begun to rule out the husband although they havent said that publicly either. The fact theyve picked up the neighbor on an unrelated weapons charge of some sort mean they know more than theyre saying . Not necessarily. Theres no question that that evidence they were able to obtain in connection with the search warrant in this case, but the actual charge, i think, maybe completely unrelated. In some cases you see them charge someone, they want to hold them. In the meantime, in this particular case it seems that in the context of executing the search warrant, they found Something Else, had to charge him. Hes now been released so hes not even being held. I dont think that they view that as connected at this point to the case. But theres still a lot of questions that need to be answered and they want to try to see is it possible that they can link that physical evidence, the shoe print, the footprints, the tire tracks, et cetera, to the two of them in that park. Okay. Dan abrams, thanks very much. Now, guys to another case, a former prosecutor charged with trying to hire a hit man to kill a rival attorney. The alleged motive, payback for a courtroom defeat that had cost him a lot of money. Abcs Mara Schiavocampo is here with that story. Reporter good morning. That man clarence bombery is used to being an attorney not a defendant but he not only tried to hire a hit man he even made a deposit. This morning. Clarence gomery is waking up on the wrong side of a prison cell, the 59yearold former michigan prosecutor turned defense attorney now charged with homicide, solicitation of murder. The facts of the case are significant and disturbing. Reporter his alleged target, chris cook, another attorney he battled with when he was a defendant in a civil case last year. I represented a client who was defrauded by mr. Gomery in a land purchase. Reporter police say hes seen here in better times tried to hire a hit man to kill cooke, offering him 20,000 plus another thousand to buy a gun but the man he allegedly tried to solicit turned him in. I think god intervened to a degree in this matter and i think that also there was a very ethical person that came forward. Had he not come forward, mr. Gomery very well may have found somebody else to carry out his plan and wed be investigating a murder. He has no criminal history at all. He is not a danger to others or himself. Reporter his former lawyer argued that the married father and grandfather is not a financial flight risk because hes declared bankruptcy. But the judge wasnt buying it setting bail at 5 million. Im concerned for the safety of the public. Im concerned for mr. Cooke. I do believe that the right thing will occur in this case and that the system will do its job. Reporter he declared bankruptcy after that civil judgment against him and pleaded not guilty in this case back in court for a preliminary hearing next week. Robin . Well see what happens. Mara, thanks so much. Another check of the weather and ginger zee and, mara, look at this. What do we see this, ging . Thats the question. Its all up to how you see it. Ive gota whole lot of answers but last time i looked up in the clouds i saw a dolphin but this looks like a face of some sort. Mark twain. Mark twain. Karl maximum someone said on twitter, as well. God. And god. Weve heard them all. We needed that. Eddie said she looks like she has a mustache so weve got everything. We thought it was a cool photo to show. Here along the west coast, up in the pacific northwest, absolutely need some rain and it has been relatively dry for parts of july. Seattle going to get a little bit more. Sacramento actually now has had its wettest july since 1980 with 0. 2 inches of rain. They dont need a lot to make it the wettest. The less humid air coming into the great lakes and event thanks, ginger, david murphy on the terrace. A mix of clouds and some sun this morning. Temperatures in the low 70s. Your exclusive accuweather 7day, hot and humid this afternoon, a high of 93. 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She says cutting the cord is simple as long as you know what not to do. Tip one, dont just hang up. Ignoring a caller slapping down that phone midconversation will land your name right back on the call list. Tip two, dont engage the telemarketer in conversation, not even to explain why youre not interested. Any conversation opens the door to another sales pitch. And tip three, never tell them to call you back later. They will. Even if you Say Something like im in the middle of dinner, that means, oh, i shouldnt call you at 6 00 p. M. So ill try them in the morning. Reporter what should you do . Keep calm and say the magic phrase, please add my name to your do not call list and take it a step further and add your name to the national do not call registry. Once youre on the list its illegal for companies to call you. Theres a fine line between being rude and being too friendly. You just want to remain polite but not reveal personal information. You may not know their number but they certainly wont forget yours in the end. For good morning america, Rebecca Jarvis, abc news, new york. It is, indeed, a fine line, dont be rude, right . If youre on the do not call list and still being contacted by telemarketers, we suggest you go to goodmorningamerica. Com on yahoo and find out how to turn it off. We will help you, i promise. Very frustrating. It is. The timing is always impeccable. Right right in dinner. If you engage them in dialogue, oh, it just goes on and on, definitive, no, no, no. The problem is our kids jump and answer the phone mommy, its for you. Yeah. You know its not really. All right, coming up, everybody, is this the craziest closet in the country. This is insane. It has three floor, its 3,000 square feet. Theyre calling it the ultimate she cave. Thats someones closet. Yeah. No way. Im moving in. Im moving. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Bigger than my apartment right now. And the l. A. Freeways like youve never seen them. 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I had a little trouble with the rope ladder. He fell twice. But look at all this food weve got. Yeah we got this delicious kfc meal and they threw in 2 extra sides for free. For free and i love what youve done with the drapes. All by myself this is for you. I think its sweet. Sing it. To the social square and that video of l. A. Weve been showing you, those freeways so we went to gio benitez to see how the filmmaker made it. This is yesterday in l. A. During rush hour traffic. A total nightmare so how did the filmmaker turn this l. A. Into this l. A. . Check it out. Its the third most traffic congested city in the world. Angelino spending a 59 hours a year sitting in the grind but sites like these, the city of angels as a complete ghost town. Its unheard of but this morning the stunning video called urban isolation has everyone talking after appearing on buzzfeed. Just take a look. The walt disney concert hall, empty. An overpass just a skateboarder there and the entrance to i5, the freeway with the worst traffic in the state, pretty desolate. I was thinking how cool if traffic didnt exist. Basically kind of making a ghost town out of like. Reporter but how did this director pull it off . In the video itself, you dont see any cars, but when theyre skating on the freeway there actually were cars. Reporter he used an Editing Program to cut out the cars, a slow and teedous process that took hundreds of hours. It looks so peaceful and calm. But cars were actually whizzing by at 80 miles an hour. There were definitely some sketchy types shooting some of these shots. Catchy times indeed. According to a recent study l. A. Is number one in the nation in gridlock. So its probably faster to get around on that skateboard, robin. Thank you. Appreciate that. Oh. Ariana grande. Yes. Is going to be here live on gma. No problem. Next hour. Now heres a good tip from lowes. Want to keep your plants watered while on vacation. Use an old wine bottle and fill with water, in goes the cork, drill a little hole and voila. To see more, go to goodmorningamerica. Com on yahoo [ male announcer ] bring your style to life. Get 10 off new valspar reserve interior and exterior paint at lowes. If it doesnt work fast. Youre on to the next thing. Neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair has the fastest retinol formula to visibly reduce fine lines and wrinkles in just one week. Neutrogena®. To visibly reduce fine lines and wrinkles in just one week. All the goodness of milk, all the deliciousness of hersheys syrup. Nervous whitening will damage your teeth . Introducing new listerine® healthy whitetm. It not only safely whitens teeth, but also restores enamel. Lose the nerves, and get a healthier, whiter smile that youll love. Listerine® healthy whitetm. Power to your mouthtm good morning, im tamala edwards. 7 56 now on this wednesday july 23rd. Matt pelman is still keeping his eye on the schuylkill. Good morning. Doing it again because schuylkill is not behaving. Another crash on the westbound lanes of 76. To the eastbound lanes of the vine street expressway you see the couple vehicles involved in the accident right there partially blocking the ramp and making you really difficult for big tractortrailers like that one to get past the accident scene. So, the westbound side of the schuylkill is a parking lot as you come away from passyunk through this points at the vine and hopefully this truck is going to slowly snake its way past the accident. On 95 southbound side by the betsy ross bridge still have that disabled vehicle off to the side with the slow speeds continuing and in West Norriton watch out for a crash along eagle drive at burnside avenue. One in Hamilton Township Mercer County blocking the northbound lanes of 130 past 156. Use the new jersey turnpike or 295 northbound instead. And in winslow township reports of a crash along williamstown road. Tam. Okay, thank you matt. Lets go on over to sky 6 and look out over the airport. You can see the skies are clear. But its not going to feel so great us a step out later today when the heat and humidity really set in. Lets go on over to david murphy. Tam, the is unis out from behind the clouds here on the terrace and it does feel humid. Right now the temperatures are in the mid 70s in the immediate region, 75 in philadelphia, millville and wilmington and allentown for that matter. And your high this afternoon is going to be a humid hot 93. In the afternoon especially late today, youll see some thunderstorms north and west of philadelphia that will eventually plow down through philadelphia probably not until tonight for the most part and at the shore very late tonight as they head from the north to south. Some of them could be gusty with drenching downpours and lightning. So, look out for the storms late tonight, okay. Okay, well remember to take cover. Thanks so much david. Sending you to gma theyre taking a look at the best diet good morning, america. Its 8 00 a. M. , and are you looking to lose weight right now . Well tell you which diet plan will give you the biggest bang for your buck . Im alive. And clean break. 9 new way more couples are choosing to split amicably avoiding a drawnout divorce and saving money. Plus, what a closet case. Is this the ultimate fashion fantasy . 3,000 square feet stacked top to bottom with designer duds. Were taking you inside the doors. And no problem here. Ariana grande is joining us live and wait till you find out why. Good morning, america. I want you hoo ho ocho there she is. Ariana grande with Ryan Seacrest doing their thing in social square. They are here live this morning with a very, very big announcement. Yeah. I dont know if i can keep up. Thats coming up. Also this morning, you know on monday we revealed your five dienl ifs in our americas favorite place, all gorgeous all across the country, hold a lot of special meanings for so many and tomorrow the winner. Ginger will be live tomorrow to reveal the winning location. First a clue. One of the best ways to see this location is with one of these. Firefighters. Firefighters. Firefighters will get you anywhere. I think theyre talking about the kayaker. Getting there. George, its open to interpretation. You see kayaks. I see firefighters. Hard to know which to focus on. All right. So the clue, the guys, theyre carrying it. New york city firefighters, thats theyre here because it is the 20th anniversary of that. Its their calendar. Its all for a very good cause which is what draws me to the story. Absolutely. I am a philanthropist at heart and well have more in pop news but first i will continue to do my research. And while youre doing that, amy is going to bring us the news. Good morning, george, good morning, everyone. We begin with breaking news just in from ukraine. Two ukrainian fighter jets have been shot down over the eastern part of the country held by prorussian rebels. Not far from where Malaysia Airlines flight 17 was shot down just this week. The fate of the crews remain unclear and no word how those jets were shot down. Also this morning the first bodies of the malaysia Crash Victims arriving in the netherlands aboard military planes. As those remains arrive, the painful process of identifying the victims will begin. Meantime, pressure is mounting on russia to stop the flow of weapons into Eastern Ukraine. Well, the faa is expected to decide today whether to lift the ban on u. S. Flights into israel. Flights were stopped tuesday after a rocket fired from gaza landed near the tel aviv airport. Overnight a fresh barrage of missiles and shelling had families in gaza scrambling for safety yet again. Secretary of state john kerry landed this tel aviv this morning to push for a ceasefire. More than 650 palestinians and at least 31 israelis have now been killed in the conflict. Back in this country a frantic scene on a beach in northern california. A man who dug a tenfoot hole in the sand then became trapped in that hole when it collapsed on him, dozens of people tried desperately unable to rescue him in time. New details about this man who was seen riding on the back of a car speeding down a North Carolina highway three weeks ago trying to fight his way through that window. Well, he is now in custody. He has been arrested after a threehour standoff with Police Following a domestic dispute. Bizarre crime scene or crime spree in oregon. Vandals are throwing doughnuts at cars and using other pastries to smear vehicles there. Theyre apparently damaging the paint and making a mess out of lawns and sidewalks. Theyve been on the run for six weeks now. Jelly doughnuts appear to their weapon of choice. Finally, how do you know youve had too much rain this summer. Well, you know when you can do this. An alabama woman, take a look at this. Appears to actually be, well, she can be surfing on her lawn. This is after 3 inches of rain became trapped beneath her sod creating a giant waterbed. Thankfully water levels are turning back to normal there but looks like fun. Have the kids come out. Have a good old time. Better than a bouncy house. She truly could feel the earth move under her feet. But im fine. Very subtle. Very subtle. Thank you, amy. Thank you. Turning now to a new study that can help you shape up for less revealing the best diet programs and pills for your money. Abcs news senior medical contributor dr. Jennifer ashton is here with us. What was the cost analysis . So this is really about who is the biggest loser not just about the number on the scale but about the number in your bank account and how much is this costing and what they looked at is weight lost versus cost, cost per pound lost and then the quality of life. All of these methods were effective. However, the big winners went Weight Watchers and Prescription Medication call ed qsymia had te most bang for the buck. Any type of social network like that, jenny craig, Weight Watchers works because you have a support system, its social. Youre accountable. Nutritionally it makes sense and any time you put those things together youre going to get a good result. Again, this was just about cost effectiveness when you talk about this Prescription Medication, were not really sure what the mechanism is but we know its effective. Its for major weight loss for people who are morbidly obese and not to be taken lightly. I do have some patients on it that have lost 20 pounds in six months which is pretty significant. You offer two very different winners here if you will. But theyre so different how do our viewers decide which route to go. Think about it like this. If youre about to embark on a major weight loss attempt, you want to not just focus on the number of your goal in terms of the weight youre trying to lose but what you can afford. No one has unlimited resources here so you want to make your money matter and when youre talking about weight loss, theres more than just financial cost. Theres social cost, medical costs. We need to take them all into account. We do and this is so effective because theres just so much out there. People want to do the right thing. Yeah, absolutely. You gave it to us. Thank you. Thank you. Pop news and weather coming up but now over in the social square, that morning menu. Getting in there, robin. Off we go to the social square scare to tell you whats coming up on our gma morning menu. First the dirty Little Secrets at the gym and the services you definitely dont want to touch when youre there. Bleh. The new way for couples to save money. Well, calling it quits amicably as well. And then is this, the ultimate dream closet. We get the grand tour of this threefloor, 3,000squarefoot fashion lovers fantasy and Ariana Grande is here live. So is Ryan Seacrest. Its a great day here on gma so stay with us. Wont you. Gmas morning menu is brought to you by nexium. New nexium 24 hour, now available without a prescription. Man ok, and just click on the one you want. Woman but, but jimmy. All of these travel sites seem the same. Captain obvious i always use hotels. Com. With their loyalty program, i get a free night for every ten nights i collect. So theyre not the same, because theyre different. Woman jimmy look, this one has a kingsized bed. 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Thats kind of what he looks like with those shorts. Hes working it. Amy rapping over there . Loving it. Too legit too legit to quit i like that. That makes you look like youre legit. Its into character. It totally is. You should do that. You should do it again. Thats what you did to me yesterday. I know you did. Ill get you yet. Hey, pop news and i want to start by honoring the one and only billy joel. Joining the ranks of music royalty, the long island native becomes the next recipient for the gershwin prize. The award is presented by the United States library of congress and the Library Officials say this was an easy decision calling joel a storyteller of the highest order. Past recipients include paul mccartney, Stevie Wonder and carole king. Good company. Yeah. Great company and just thrilled to share that with you. [ applause ] he is a gift to the music world. In other music news, a tree planted in los angeles in memory of one of the beatles has been killed by beetles. Oh, no. Terrible case of irony. The George Harrison memorial tree planted after his death in 2001 grew to be more than 12 feet tall but like so many trees in the area, the beatle tree as it was called has fallen victim to a bark beetle infestation. A new pine tree will be planted in honor of harrison after the drought and fire season in hopes that the beetles will let it about. Ding, ding, ding. A lot of poetry there. Poetry in motion. If youre feeling the heat do not blame ginger. Today its the new york city firefighters fault. Today marks the release of their annual calendar in which new yorks bravest leave their coats behind and risk their lives to make each month more fiery than the next. In honor of this, the 20th anniversary of the calendar there are 175 firefighters featured inside. I had not noticed. A rich perspective of all the years they have done this good deed. So many ways because the proceeds go to the Staten Island university burn center. And we want to say thank you to the firefighters. Thank you. Thank you for what you do. Thank you. Thank you so much for everything you do. Not only for the calendar, which is a lovely read, could also save lives on the line. I dont know if you noticed. The cover boy. Wow. The cover guy. Were here for, you know, to raise money for the Staten Island burn center and been doing it for 20 years and hopefully this year will be the best. Tomorrow tonight at sophias, 5 00. Everybody, come on down in they came here today. This is the official release. Less than 20 and such great money well spent. Shall we . Shall we will you help me . Of course. Lets throw it to ginger whoo. I like that. That was a nice way. I got a couple ladies looking on with me through the calendar too. Ill give it to you guys later. Thank you so much, lara. Lets check in on the forecast. We wanted to start in miami. Speaking of hot and steamy this morning, the cloud cover weve been watching there and, of course, a stormy one throughout parts of the southeast. Thanks to that low pressure system thats actually been what we call retrograding and moves backward and rotates clockwise and grabs the tropical moisture and away you go with storms. Along the cold front too throughout the northeast through the afternoon and evening, can you feel it in the air, that sticky stuff, youll get storms especially late tonight by the thanks, ginger, david murphy here on the terrace. Weve got a mix of sun and clouds, it is feeling warm and humid with temperatures in the mid 70s right now. Your exclusive accuweather 7day a hot and humid high of 93 this afternoon and during the afternoon well be on the lookout for some thunderstorms starting up in the northern and western suburbs and eventually winding up down through philadelphia later tonight. Morning showers and a storm tomorrow gives way to improvement in the afternoon and friday and saturday in particular look great. Back to good morning america. We are just a hot and steamy show because the heat index is next. Okay, ging. Kick off our heat index one of the top stories. Time magazines website. How do give yourself a boost in the workplace. Easy ways to impress your colleagues and your boss. First pick up space. It may sound odd but researchers say an expansive pose can increase your feelings of power. Id be a little careful there. Yeah. Excuse me. You put your legs across, thats what they said. Next its okay to look a little out of place with what you wear. It could signal selfconfidence and youve heard i guess that works with me right now. You feel out of place . Great. L. Maintaining eye contact is important. But this research is just, you should choose when to do so. When youre giving someone that the look. Yeah. But it is true. When were outside, people just want you to look them in the eye. Thats it. I agree. You lose them when you dont. I agree. Good stuff there. Up next some dirty Little Secrets about the gym. How you could be picking up and spreads germs without knowing it according to new york university. Some examples are revealed. Be careful not to wipe your face or hands on the dirty side of a towel . Really . Thank you. I would have done ha. I guess the point was even if it came out clean from the laundry, once its put on any surface it would be dirty. No longer sanitary. Two, dont touch the bottom of your shoes when you stretch. Also makes a lot of sense. Things your mom taught you confirmed by nyu. Also our clothe, finally in the lockers, turns out they may not be as clean as you think. Better putting off your gear in a disposable shopping bag. All great advice. Im glad science i like how you confirmed what our mother told us all along. We have a new survey. A big question this morning. What does where you live say about your mood . Well, this new study revealing that new york city is, in fact, the unhappiest city in america. What . What . Experts used data from a center for Disease Control Life Satisfaction survey to come one the results and did not give specific reasons but things like the weather and our living situation can affect your happiness. But its really good news this study if you live in louisiana, the five happiest cities are all in that state, lafayette, snagging the number one spot, robin already knew that. Thanks very much. I went to college there, of course, mississippi gulf coast, a stones throw away. Sallyann lived in new orleans for many years and were fat and happy. Oh, yes. The sun is always shaping. But, no, its the food, its the people. Its our faith. Its just a wonderful, wonderful place to live. Yeah. I think i need to go research that. Im in. Im in. Okay, we move on in heat index. Painful subject, it can be expensive but more kims are finding a new way to split and save money and paula faris tells us all bit. Reporter divorce can be a difficult process. Its expensive, emotional and can result in years in court but now there is a new website trying to make that grueling process just a little bit easier. Theyre able to follow step by step. Reporter wevorce uses Computer Software to connect couples looking to uncouple with lawyers located across the west coast. Well, they cant save your marriage they say they can save you time and money. The Technology Allows us as we continue to build that to make it more and more affordable for families. We let the families go at their own pace. Reporter someone files for divorce in the u. S. Every 13 seconds and while the average divorce can range anywhere between 15,000 to 150,000, wevorce says it can cut it to 10,000. Its not just money. Wevorce offers counseling and mediation. Because of the stresses of divorce that we will always have people available. Reporter married for 15 years mark and nora say theyve seen enough of their friends go through nasty divorces. We both heard Horror Stories about screaming and yelling across attorneys tables and this seemed like a much more cordial way to end our marriage. Reporter so two years ago they decided to use it to try and keep the peace. Not just for them but also for their 12yearold son. These guys wanted us to get along, you know, in a way that was really healing to everybody in the family. So that we could move on to our next chapter. Reporter still, some experts say its not for everyone. If we have a couple who fight like cats and dogs then i would strongly caution against going the wevorce route. Theyll abandon and each hire their own attorney and end up costing them twice as much. Reporter more mark, nora and hundreds of past users i think it would have been drastically different had we gone the traditional route. Im thankful we didnt. Reporter they say they have no remorse for their wevorce. Now the irony in all this, the founders of wevorce were husband and wife at one time and went through a divorce and realized it doesnt have to be so painful, so negative ands thatty, so after they were divorced, they could created wevorce. A positive out of a negative. Exactly, again. Every 13 seconds. Through their own experience they can hone what they share. All right. Thanks. Wait, not only thanks but congratulations. New gma weekend anchor. Fantastic. Glad to be part of the team. We were saying weekend gma anchor in case you havent heard so looking forward to watching you saturdays and sundays starting in august. Thanks, everybody. Also burning up the heat index. A fashionistas dream come true. A texas woman who is proudly showing off her brandnew closet. Not house, thats a closet but so what makes this different from yours, you might wonder . Well, its three floors, its 3,000 square feet, its jammed with jewelry, handbags, shoes. Melissa rye cross got lost i think but did try to go on a tour. Take a look. Reporter welcome to my closet. Youve probably heard the saying, everything is bigger in texas. And 52yearold teresa romers closet is one giant and gleaming example. I just have always had this fascination of beautiful closets because to me my closet is my retreat. You know, i mean, men can have their man caves. I look to look at it as a she cave. Reporter a closet in her home that took a full year to build. Three floors, 3,000 square feet and the price tag how much did the closet alone cost you . Roughly around 500,000. Reporter yep, half a million bucks and thats just the closet itself. Bags and shoes and jewelry. How much does the merchandise alone in this closet cost . Probably close to about 2 million. But we dont want to tell my husband. Whoa. First floor is just handbags and jewelry. Reporter wow so here on the second floor we have shoes and the champagne bar and all the clothing and the hair and makeup station. Reporter he shes a former beauty queen and entrepreneur and mother and swears shes worn every shoe you see. Most every shoe has a signature from the designer. Now were going to make our way up to the third floor where i have hats and furs and things that i dont wear very often. Reporter she says she got the idea while throwing fundraisers at her husband. When she says her female guests constantly insisted on seeing her closet . Why not have a closet so big that i can have fundraisers in the closet. Now she does just that. But shopping for all those clothes and accessories, she says she leaves that to a personal shopper. Wonder does she wear all that . She said she wore every shoe. Wow. All right. Well, that was something. Coming up, superstars Ryan Seacrest and Ariana Grande here live with a very big announcement. Stay with us. From good morning america. Good morning. The cher tan hotel in center city was evacuated this morning when officials found smoke coming out of the basement. Investigators say a breaker that supplied electricity to the ballrooms tripped. One person was taken to the hospital for observation. And well have an update on this investigation coming up on action news at noon. 8 27 now on this wednesday july 23rd. Im tamala edwards. July 23rd. All about the schuylkill this morning. Yeah, we have a breaker here tam a hit the brakers on the schuylkill expressway westbound side. Were still jammed solid from approaching this point at passyunk out to the vine street expressway. The good news is the crash on the ramp from the westbound schuylkill to the eastbound vine that caused the extra heavy delay is now gone so everything is opened but its taking time for that delay to clear out. Couple other problems spots in West Norriton watch out for a crash along eagle drive at burnside avenue. Winslow township a crash and downed wires is along womens town road at lake dale road. Led for cross keys road or new brooklyn. In Mercer County 130 northbound blocked past 156. 156, 206 or 295 are some alternates. Tam. Okay, thank you so much matt. Now lets go outside to meteorologist, david murphy. He says you can already feel that its going to be a sticky hot day. Were at 75 degrees in philadelphia, lots of mid 70s numbers across the map. Allentown 75, reading is up to 76. 75 in trenton and wilmington. And this afternoon accuweather says it will be hot and humid, a high of 93 degrees. Now late in the afternoon especially north and west of philadelphia well be on the lookout for some thunderstorms. By tonight we expect some of those storms to roll down in through philadelphia and then be at the shore late tonight, so from north to south, thunderstorms and some of them could be gusty with drenching downpours and lots of lightning. Okay, tam . Thats it for action news right now. Well be back in 30. Less problem one less problem without you i got one less problem without you you know who that is and you know the song. Ariana grande with her smash hit and guess what, she is here live this morning, very big announcement which we cannot wait for. And then also coming up, improve this. Were having fun with paint this morning. Well show you some great diy tricks for creating very cool accent walls. These are really easy and really pretty. I cant wait for that. Then im also really hungry and guess whos here . The chef and host of the new show frankenfood. Hes going to join us. Our gma frankenfood showdown. Were actually going to be concocting fun food mashups. Mine is really good. Who can whip up the most creative recipe. First inside to robin. Ive got im in great company, two superstars right here. Ryan seacrest and one of the hottest singers, the hot singer lets sayen 0 the planet, Ariana Grande. Oh, thanks. Here to tell us about the exciting iheartradio festival. So wonderful to have you both here. Thank you for making the time and, boy, the lineup. The fourth year. So glad youre going to be a part of it . Im so excited to be a part of it. Tell us who will be performing. This is the biggest music event of the year for me. Because its a twonight festival in las vegas. Starts on friday. The 19th of september. Goes through the 20th all day into the night of saturday night and we work all year to put it together. Are you ready. Going to try to remember as many as i can. Taylor swift will be there. One direction will be there. And ed sherron will be, usher, paramour. Ariana grande will be there. And this is the first time youve done this festival. Yes, im excited and fairly intimidated. Come on. Not intimidated by anything. Im honored to be on that list of amazing artists. All genres, brown band, motley crue so that there are no silos. As it should be much thats the beauty of music. Do you get as excited as we do in seeing all these great artists. Yeah. That you dont normally get a chance to see. The most exciting part of the show there are so many different genres coming together and its very unique in that way and its two nights. More music. Your girl iggy azalea will be there. Shell kill it. The list goes on and on and were so excited because you have new music coming out next month. We had zedd. Oh, really. He was at the the place was pack sfwld thats amazing. Everyone wants to know this new music my everything. You have so many followers. They want to know do you have a Favorite Song already . I do. Its called best mistake featuring big sean and thats my favorite one on the album, i think but i really do love break free as well which is the doing really well. Shameless plug. Skyrocketing up the it is. Zedd could not say enough great things about you and the collaboration that you all have together and so much that everyone has going on, its hard to keep up with him. Isnt it . You do everything and then you launch a clothing line on top of all that too. Well, you have to stay dressed when youre working so much, right . You got to put something on. Its my uniform. Well launch a line of macys of suits and accessories this fall. Awesome. Those look sharp. Its a good idea. See, what do you need a better endorsement than that. He told me to say that. No, he really didnt. There was more to it than that. Oh, yeah, buy all the clothes. It was like you look really tall in your clothes. You look really tall. In your clothes only. You really help people, guys who dont have stylists, were very fortunate we have people that help put us together. Guys that dont so kind of like a garanimals. Theres an easy way to get in and out with things you know will match and so theres a Number System to it because i like to get stuff that i think matches but this is a way to get in, shop quickly and be pretty sure it all goes together. Guys, we could use all the help we can get. Its almost predone for sfwlu sounds very sensible. I know some boys who ill be sending your way. Is there a specific boy i got a few that need some help. Theres too many. Ha can always get you in trouble. Ryan will lead you astray but this has to be very exciting just the reception youre getting from so many people who are so appreciative and find so much good in your music. It means the worldment im very excited of the you know, i put so much work into it. Music is my whole life. It is my whole life and so excited for this new album. I put so much into it and so im very excited. And then i heart festival, it all culminates there. How will it be different . How do you do it each and every year . This is the fourth one. What makes it special. All of the artists come together and do things together that they dont get to do throughout the course of the year. Backstage youll see, you know, artists who dont see each other get a chance to come up with an idea and many time attract a new collaboration will come out of being at the iheartradio festival that will be released a few weeks later so this is the big weekend of the year for us. Tickets go on sale, iheartradio. Com and ill be hosting. Shell be singing and enjoying it and recovering sunday. Party had by all. Las vegas, nice place to have it. Mgm grand in las vegas. I know a lot is going on with your family right now and it means a lot that you came in this morning. Thanks for having me, you guys. Know that were thinking of you. Thank you. Dont miss the iheartradio Music Festival coming up september 19th and 20th. Yeah. We got ginger outside. Final check of the weather. You know we have so many folks out here excited to see Ariana Grande, ryan, the crowd just pumping and i found another sunset twin. Turn your nails around, yellow and orange. I love it. So lets go ahead and start with another place we absolutely adore and that would be seattle which today, lots more in the way of cloud cover. The rain showers that have not been around are certainly there. But we do have a lot in the way of red flag warnings. See all those pockets of red. Gusty wins no good and of course the thunderstorms could bring lightning that could start up flames. Now we look coast to coast, that scorcher in the southwest. Denver, 97. Thanks, ginger, david murphy here on the terrace under and the the sun it is warm and humid. Your sevenday shows a hot and humid high of 93. Later this afternoon there will be some thunderstorms especially in the new york and western suburbs and later tonight they arrive and we are so pumped about this. Tomorrow morning i will be live at one of these amazing locations revealing your pick, the final pick for americas favorite place, you wont want to miss that. Head to our website, goodmorningamerica. Com on yahoo to see more favorite place ph o photos sent in by viewers. All that brought to i by bp, but, you guys, the map is look good. Cant wait to see where you land. We saw the kayak, too. So were able to sort of a little clue. Thank you, ginger. Now to kate spades mission to empower women and looked around the world to find the right group of women. So they now helped create a line of accessories that are both stylish and this is the best part, theyre socially responsible. Bianna golodryga has our story. Reporter on purpose its kate spade and companys hottest new line of accessories crafted by 150 women in a small village in rwanda, every piece is handmade and one of a kind. This is a for profit venture that youre encompasses upon. Why rwanda. We found this Incredible Group of women that got together postgeneral side 20 years ago and looked to tart to put their life back together again. Reporter from bracelets to inclusives to scarves, items are flying off the shelves. Some are even sold out online. Still all available in our stores and also its a continuing project so in the fall we have well deliver new pieces. I can see the kate spade brand, the touch is still there. The Company Believes by empowering women to empower themselves, it will ultimately influence their communities for the better. Whether they are Machine Operators in terms of machine sewing or detailed embroiderers they are about 40 higher than what that average wage is in rwanda. Reporter theyre help to financially support their families and send their children to school. Its been so rewarding and you see it in them. You see it in their faces and their demeanor. Reporter kate spade and Company Hopes this will promote others to do the same and empower communities all across the globe. For good morning america, bianna golodryga, abc news, new york. An incredible initiative and we have some of the items right here from the collection and we should mention they range in price from 22 to 140. The next on purpose collection available in stores and online in august and you can find out much more about the on Purpose Initiative at goodmorningamerica. Com on yahoo a great way to spend your money and get really cute accessories. Very bright and kate spady. If you buy it, they can keep making them. Thats the best part. Coming up, we have improve this. Great diy tips for walls. Interit fun it is fun. Time to improve this. This morning we have great diy tips for creating fun accent walls with paint. Its all about paint today and here to show us how is tanya nayak. Design exterritory pore hgtv and the food network. Welcome to good morning america. Thank you. Im loving the ombre wall. I love it on hair and fashion. Why not do it on a wall . This is so easy. Actually four separate colors of paint and a tip to make it easi easier, take your strip and pick four colors in a row. Sort of blipdzs. The question that i have and i can see it up close is how do you do it so that it doesnt look like sort of stop point. You want to go in sections so you dont want to paint four stripes on the wall. Start off with a darkest first and work your way lighter and vice ver si and blend, blend, blend until you get a nice flawless look. One of the suggestions is to use a rag so that you can sort of blend this way so you start i would start with the lightest and then maybe do the rag and yeah. And darker and darker and i love the idea using the strip. One strip is the way to go. Love that and for a kids room, pretty sophisticated and would look great in a dining room or perfect accent room. This is the wavy stripe wall. This is something im obsessed with. Shape tape so while it looks super complicated its tape. It is. Pull that off. Thats awesome. See, isnt that so cool. I use it a ton and paint floors a lot and painters tape. Lots of different kinds too and make sure you know which kind you want to use. I didnt know you could get it with designs. They have it in a chevron. I knew youd like that one. I usually draw it. Thats i never had more respect for Charlie Brown and his shirt and measurements and taping, its a lot of work but makes it just so you know if you want to try a striped wall you can kind of be a little messy because this makes it perfect. Kind of foolproof of i like this color combination. Is there a certain kind of paint you like for this. So i like to mix up the finishes and do a matte and glossy if youre going to doctor stripes, a little more detail so we did some of both. A great texture and finally you know the pallets you know signed your grocery store. We dont recommend stealing them. Please ask. Please ask the local retailer. Theyll give them to you. They dont want them a lot of types. Do ask but these have been transformed as you can see into a wonderful accent wall. Tell us about this. This is great for outdoors. Its very inexpensive. Most of the time its free and have a living wall. Whatever you want. I love the idea of either stacking them, i know you were thinking even a trellis would be a nice idea. Do this with ivy in and out of it. We use this is a great product and look for these in your local Home Improvement store. Indoor outdoor paint, primer and paint, one stop shopping so to speak and do a wall if you dont want to go all the way up do a ledge and then put plants on the top so its a great way to create depth and texture and, again, get these for next to nothing or even for free. Look how gorgeous it is. Its fun. Its easy, accent walls are cheap and yep. And paint is easy and fun. What an easy way to transform the look of a room. Taniya, we thank you and hdtv and you need to head to our website if interested. Goodmorningamerica. Com on yahoo for taniyas tips. A major food bonus. Gmas frankenfood showdown. There he is, josh capon, chef extraordinaire. What can i get you . [customer] oh, sorry. I was daydreaming. [server] dreaming about your wedding, huh . [customer] yes actually. [server] with a big Ice Sculpture and a String Quartet . [violins playing] [customer] yeah. Howd you know . [server] youve got the new instant game from pennsylvania lottery. [customer] yeah. 1 million golden ticket, with 5 top prizes of 1 million bucks. [narrorator] want to see your dreams come to life . You could scratch your way to instant winning today. The pennsylvania lottery. Bring your dreams to life. Oohlala gmas improve this brought to you by lowes. Lowes, never stop improving. Okay. We have all heard of those crazy food mashups like the cronut. Now frankenfood and delighted to welcome josh capon here to judge our gma frankenfood showdown. You have great restaurants in new york and miami as well and this new show frankenfood. Tell us about it. Frankenfood is a lot of fun. An actual frankenfood is a combination of unusual ingredients that come to life like frankenstein himself and putting the fun back in food. We have a couple here. The dubin and starts with a name. It is a love child of a doughnut and a ruben sandwich. Who doesnt love a ruben sandwich and a doughnut and this is one of the classic ones chicken lollipop and its a r n reinterpretation. Youll judge. Well make these crazy combinations. Now if you want to pay me off now and i will choose you as the winner. Well make frankenfood then youll judge. You guys are behind the show. All right. I think you guys had like 45 seconds, right . Okay. I didnt know. We already started. Ill get started here. Are we starting with. George is making the tweet potato fries and adding candied walnut and fluff. A lot of fluff there. Almost like a thanksgiving day staple. Wow. This is i need to heat this up a little bit. This will go in the oven. A lot of candied walnuts. I might let you win. Ill put this on top. What is lara making. Sweet my bring it on fry pie. This is apples chopped up with honey and cinnamon and put them into a pie we have to move on. 0 seconds. Fondue. Fondue. You better bring it. Vanilla ice cream and more maple syrup over that and th then what did you use . I thought it was whatever you had in your refrigerator you bring. You might have youre from michigan. It is an unusual combination of ingredients. Time is up. We need to taste taste. All right. How about this . George would you like us to taste your dish . Go for it. Everybody loves candied walnuts. Sweet potatoes flies, marshmallow fluff and candied walnuts. Like a thanksgiving staple. Okay. We need some more Sweet Potatoes but good. But good. This is my bring it on fry pie. Bring it on. Would you like to feed me . This is i dont have a fork. Ill use this. We can use the same fork. Here. Lets see if lara brought it. Whats in it . This is apples. Honey, cinnamon, into ray pie crust and cheese fondue all over the top. I love the cheddar cross. That would be better with a marshmallow topping. Can i just say that. I have to go with the Cheddar Cheese salt. Salty and sweet. French toast, eye cream, bacon and maple syrup. Its messy but its worth it. I like sweet with salty and i love bacon. Ah. Youre a woman after my own heart. Mmmm. Bacon maple syrup, french toast. Diner staple. Amy, well done. Im sorry you have to end here. Its pork. No. Spinach. A lot of people dont know that ginger is a wonderful cook. By the way. Dont take this as the example of me being a wonderful cook but give you a little crunch. We need which one wins . I think i think right. Do we have a winner . Okay. Okay. Wheres the trophy . Where is the trophy . Okay. Drum roll, drum roll. [ drum roll ] oh, yay. I agree. Well done, amy. Well done. Thank you. Congratulations. Frankenfood, sunday nights on spike tv. The recipe on our website and you can tell us what food mashups you like and bring us your ultimate food combos. Dont disguise bad odors. Continuously neutralize them with glad with febreze. Kings of leon on friday presented by dreamwalk by dr. Scholls. Congratulations. Well deserved. Thank you, josh. Good morning, america. A lot coming up tomorrow. Deals steals. Ke ha is here live, as well and ginger, youre on your way out. I got my bag packed going to your favorite place in america. Ill be there live to reveal where it is tomorrow. Mean taepodong, have a great day, everybody. Bye good morning. State police are investigating a possible road rage incident on the schuylkill expressway. Chopper 6 hd were you over the scene on the expressway near blue route in conshohocken montgomery county. Two cars crashed here around 5 30 this morning. One person was injured and theres no word yet on that persons condition. Well have an update on this investigation coming up at noon. At 8 56 on this wednesday july 23rd. Im tamala edwards. Lets go to matt pelman. Hes taking a look at mass transit. Luckily that schuylkill crash long gone tam. Now we have some delays on the regional rails. The thorn day paoli line seeing up to 25 minute delays. Theyre saying because of some equipment problems. So expects that if youre headed out in Chester County in the main line area. On the road in Chester County an accident, normal backup on 202 northbound side by the 30 bypass as head towards route 29. Nothing like yesterday luckily. In abington theres a crash along fitzwatertown road at ban erode. In Mercer County northbound lanes 130 blocked past 156 because of a crash. 156, 206, 295 could all get you around it. Tam. Okay, thanks matt. Lets find out just how hot hot will be today and go on over to david murphy. Good morning. Its already pretty darn warm tam. We have sunshine across most of the region. Take a look as the number at the airport in philadelphia has just hopped up to 78 degrees. 79 in wilmington and it wont be long before we get 80s on this map. Your exclusive accuweather 7day well wind up with 90s across most of the area. 93 is there high in philadelphia. Afternoon thunderstorms north and west of philadelphia most hold off until tonight in the city but theyll drop down out of the north. Tomorrow we see improvement during the day. Tam. Thanks, david. Coming up on action news at noon today a major inconvenience for hundreds of hotel guests in center city. Reaction from people who were forced out into the streets for hours after a fire erupts with kelly and michael next here on 6abc. vo ours is a world of passengers. The redeyes. daughter im really tired. vo the transfers. Well, thats kid number three. vo the copilots. All sitting. Trusting. Waiting. For a safe arrival. Introducing the allnew subaru legacy. Designed to help the driver in you. Care for the passenger in them. The subaru legacy. Its not just a sedan. Its a subaru. Son dad, this is a remix. Its the new Red White Blue slam. Same thing. Hmmmm. This has blueberries, strawberries and cream cheese icing. You dont know what youre talking about. Yup, he loved to say that, too. [bell rings] waitress welcome to dennys announcer its live with kelly michael. Today, film, television, and stage actor, hank azaria. And from the hit series, once upon a time, jennifer morrison. Plus, the latest technology to make your home life easier and better. Ll next on live. Now, here are kelly ripa and Michael Strahan [cheers and applause] kelly thank you