After it. Hey, everybody, good morning. We begin with weather extremes in every corner of the country. A Tropical Storm watch announced overnight, fires in the west, storm turing deadly in the northeast and downpours in the sunshine state. This is the worst ive ever seen it here. This video taken near west palm beach, florida. Two tornadoes there yesterday. You can actually see white caps in that lake. The furniture blowing across the patio. Across the state in pasco county, this pool lifting right out of the ground. Relentless rain causing the worst flooding in the tampa area in 60 years. This time in New Hampshire, heres abcs bazi kanani with the details, another tent collapse. Terrifying. Reporter a circus tent shredded by sharp winds and hail. Rescuers in lancaster, New Hampshire, say 100 people were inside at the time. Panicked as the tents giant poles crash down. All i could think i just need to get my son out of there. Reporter a father and young daughter did not make it out alive and this morning at least 22 are recovering from injuries. I dont want to be here. Reporter the Violent Storm system spawning multiple tornadoes tossing vehicles and shredding homes in the upper midwest. In the southeast Central Florida is drenched this morning. It looked like a literal Rushing Creek running down here on us. Reporter hundreds of homes flooded. This Mobile Home Park in palm harbor evacuated as rescuers moved in on boats and carried out those trapped. Look how tall the water is. Insanity. Reporter this woman astonished by the nerve of drivers still trying to get around after repeated warnings still in effect this morning as the waters rise. The situation is still dangerous. Do not go in this high standing water. Do not go out there if you dont need to be. Reporter bazi kanani, abc news, washington. Incredible images. Hawaii. A Tropical Storm watch in effect bears down. Could be heavy rainfall, strong winds and mudslides. Thursday. Weather also a factor in spreading californias huge rocky fire. Strong winds carried burning embers across the state highway being used as a buffer zone. In the day. The rocky fire has now consumed nearly 100 square miles and is only about 12 contained. More than 13,000 residents have been evacuated. There are about 20 other fires in california, oregon and washington. Turn to some president ial politics now. A preview of thursdays publican debate. Many gop candidates gathered last night in New Hampshire to explain why they should be the nominee. Notably absent, the frontrunner. The largest gathering of the crowded republican field yet, all but three of the 17 president ial contenders. Noticeably missing donald trump telling the forums host the New Hampshire union leader since hes not likely to get the papers endorsement hed pass. No one was throwing pumps at each other. Im really impressed with the caliber of the people that are running for president. Im not here to criticize my matter. Reporter instead using the stage to take digs at president obama. This president s done an awful job. Were not keeping that promise right now because of the incompetence of this administration. Democratic president ial hopeful Hillary Clinton also a target. Hillary clinton, president obama theyre no better. Just not honest enough to call themselves socialists. They knew it was a purposeful terrorist attack on the anniversary of 9 11. Reporter issues like immigration and Foreign Affairs took top billing but all candidates kept to their talking points. Breaking out South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham getting laughs. Im fluent in clintonspeak. When he says, bill says, i didnt have sex with that woman, he did so i understand this crowd and i can beat them the next president needs to be sure of who he im sorry i cant talk. The next president needs to have their act together. [ laughter ] not in the crosshairs, trump, none of the candidates even mentioned the republican frontrunner. The clock is ticking now. Fox news says the ten candidates who do the best in the polls released before 5 p. M. Today will be aloudedlowed to debate. The man accused of killing a Police Officer in memphis surrendered. Tremaine wilbourn will be arraigned today. Police say he shot officer sean bolton multiple times as he interrupted a drug deal. Bolton was a 33yearold former marine who served in iraq. Hell be buried on thursday. The jury in the colorado theater shooting trial is one step closer to recommending the death penalty. The nine women and three men needed just three hours to died there were not enough sufficient reasons to excuse the behavior of shooter james holmes. Next, starting today family members of the 12 people he killed will testify before the jury makes a final decision on the death penalty. Comedian amy schumer speaking out in the wake of last months Movie Theater shooting incident in louisiana. That incident took place at a showing of her movie trainwreck. Two women killed before the gunman killed herself. She smoke emotionally calling the attack personal and supporting new gun control legislation being proposed by her cousin, senator charles schumer. Were here today to say enough is enough. To Mass Shootings in our schools, our college campus, our military bases and even in our Movie Theaters. Were standing here because were united in a cause. How many breaking news flashes will it take for congress to act . How many tears, how many lives lost . Schumers legislation seeks to improve on gun background checks by offering states inson tiffs for improving their databases. Those are used to block sales to people with criminal records or a history of mental illness. Some news about former president jimmy carter recovering from a liver operation. The 90yearold carter had what was described as a small mass removed from his liver at a hospital in atlanta. The spokeswoman said it was elective and he is expected to make a full recovery. Unclear what type of followup care carter will receive. Well, still ahead, u. S. Airlines taking a stance on animal trophy hunting after the death of cecil the lion. Plus, controversial punishment. A child restrained with handcuffs in the principals office. This video now the center of a federal lawsuit. Dramatic rescue. A deputy risking his life pulling a man to safety as a train barrels through. Well, youre looking at a blinding sandstorm rolling through the jordanian capital. The cloud so dense visibility at zero. The wall of dust engulfing planes and an entire hangar in less than a minute. Flights had to be grounded or diverted but it only took about 20 minutes to get everything back up and running. Well, its again pedal to the metal for vehicle sales. Automakers reporting another strong sales month in july. All of the big thee automakers were up at least 5 last month. Analysts credit cheap gas, easy credit and pe fwhchlt tup demand. One of the businessman who helped create mr. Coffee died. Before Vincent Marotta developed it, most every kitchen relied on a percolator. In a stroke of marketing genius he was responsible for recruiting baseball legend joe di mat dimaggio as a spokesman. Delta and American Airlines are both manning rare animal trophies on their planes. Hunters can no longer use the carriers to transport the remains of hunted lions, leopard, elephants, rhinos and buffalo. And you can show your support. Look at this now. You can show your support for Animal Rights by buying the new cecil the lion beanie baby. Cecils killing by that big game hunting dentist set off that international furor. The maker says all profit also go to a Wildlife Conservation group in britain that was tracking the lion. It goes on sales till the end of the month for 6 bucks. Plowing through cars and heading down the treat a runaway garbage truck caught on camera. A quiet hike turns terrifying when a man comes facetoface with that, a Mountain Lion. Woah woah marge. Youre not marge . Im sorta marge. We both drive a stick, we both like saving money on car insurance, and we both feel integrity, such as, that of healthcare in the america of the us and therefore. Yes. Thank you. No. No. Please, stop sorta you, isnt you. Start with a quote from esurance and get a set of discounts personalized to you, not someone sorta like you. Esurance. Backed by allstate. Click or call. This allergy season, will you be a sound sleeper, or a mouth breather. Well, put on a breathe right strip and instantly open your nose up to 38 more than allergy medicines alone. So you can breathe and sleep. Shut your mouth and sleep right. Breathe right. vo whats your dog foods first ingredient . Corn . Wheat . 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The giant balloon broke free during a gust of wind landed in an intersection. Nobody hurt here. City councilman calls the balloons escape despicable. Of course. Minions are part of that despicable me franchise. Drivers in the midwest wont be dodging bullets but flooding could be a problem in the plains. Midatlantic coast and most of new york and new england. If youre flying airport delays are likeliest in kansas city and washington. We turn now to some video thats pretty difficult to watch. A kentucky sheriff being sued after video shows a School Resource officer putting two Elementary Students in handcuffs. Both of the children suffer from adhd. The lawsuit asks for a judge to ban the school from doing this again and for money to compensate for the pain and Emotional Trauma and for attorneys fees. The mother of the boy in handcuffs says he has trouble sleeping, suffers from anxiety and is afraid of police. The death toll from an outbreak of legionnaires disease has risen to seven. They answered questioned last night. Legionnaires is spread through mist that comes from a water source. The five cooling towers have been decontaminated. Not clear if they are the actual source. Investigators in the netherlands are looking into the collapse of two huge cranes, the first comes crashing down then seconds later a second one also comes down. That bridge section falling on top of five homes as well crushing all of them. One man was pulled from the wreckage. He was the only person injured. A powerful blast in wisconsin is raising safety concerns across the country. A uhaul exploded while transporting a gas grill with a propane tank. The propane leaked and was sparked by the igniter on the kill. The key to preventing this is tightening the valves on the tank and taking it off the grill. Well, a dramatic rescue in californias silicon valley. Watch now as a sheriffs deputy, look closely, highlighted, pulsels a man from a car just before the train hit it. The 20something driver was incoherent, not responding to deputies. Another report says the driver may have crashed into a crossing gate and suffered only minor injuries. Also, this was caught on camera. Only can be described as a runaway garbage truck, there it is running away. You also see one worker, here he comes, chasing after it. Then another running down the street as well trying to catch up to the truck. By the time they caught up ittage daed three other cars. Police say the trucks brakes somehow disengaged. When the driver got out, talked to a supervisor, nobody injured here. How about sports highlights . Baseball, our highlights from the guys at espn. Good morning, welcome to our sportscenter set here in los angeles. Along with neil everett, im stan verrett talking baseball and battle of brandons. Hes got a cyclone. I have to go first. Thats how good it is. Brandon crawford, brandon belt. Brandon crawford, second home run of the game. First of the highlight. Giants are up, 60. Had matt cain had a lead and got away. It was 75. Bottom nine. Now its 77. A. J. Pierzynski, tworun shot and boiman of the 12th with the giants up 87, Adonis Garcia off vogelsong. 98, the braves win. Texas twostep in arlington, astros and rangers. Adrian beltre, hes got a triple. Came back in the bottom of the second. That ball hit nearly the same place, thought about three here, but then realized hes not that fast or that young. Hell take two. Then a base hit. So now home run gives him the cycle and hes got it. Third career cycle. No ones got more. Just the fourth player with three cycles in Major League Baseball history. So how about that for adrian bell ray. You like applesy how about them apples. Thats all we got. Back to you. The new list of the Party Schools is out. Did your alma mater make it . Is that a good list to be on. Mine was number one when i graduated. Proud of that . 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They released a joint statement staying they plan to remain partners in parenthood and raise their three sons together. I hope no doubt gets back together. Somebody has to, right . Wont be these two. Well, big ten, big parties, Princeton Review says university of illinois is the Top Party School in the country. School officials arent about to break out the champagneignurbana. Its unfair to the illinois students. Two other big ten school, iowa and wisconsin followed by bucknell and syracuse, the orange are partying. Last year they were number one on the list. Is this a list you want to be on . If you want a stone cold Student ExperienceBrigham Young rank dead last and shell greated by opening a big old bottle of chocolate milk. You noticed all those schools come from very, very cold winters. What else are the kids going to do down there . You got to warm up. This has a lot of women including this one, the reason she has a blanket. Nodding their heads in agreement or disagreement in the newsroom here. Scientists say the workplace temperature is set for middleaged men meaning its too cold for women who have a lower met boltic rate. Most follow a model developed in the 60s. Women keep space heaters during the summer months to keep the chill away. I use this morning blanket. Every single day she has this blanket on. Ratty. And, yeah, there i am. This is actually a real picture. Now its gone. Finally a Close Encounter of the extremely unwanted kind. It could happen to anyone during the Summer Holiday trip into nature. A guy who shot the video was hiking last summer in Glacier National park when he came just about facetoface with a Mountain Lion. Probably 50 feet away from me. Staring right at me. I barely saw him. No, hey, hey. Hey. Back up. Okay, the guy kept making more noise as the animal moves away further into the woods. And later in the video he admits being scared during the encounter then he says, oh, that was awesome. But lets keep filming. Mountain lion right there, im going to keep rolling. My fear would be that theres another Mountain Lion you know what they say about deer, they travel in a group. Somebody else was around. Yeah. He kept rolling. Rolling for me would have been hightailing it out of there. T. J. Rolling. All right. For some of you, your local news coming up. Everyone else, america this morning continues after this. Until i realized our body handles a lot. 1,100 meals a year. 730 rushed snacks. Add 300 stressful decisions. No wonder our digestive system sometimes acts up. So try the activia challenge enjoying activia twice a day for 4 weeks may help reduce the frequency of bloating, gas, discomfort or rumbling. It works or its free now at chilis, new smoked chicken burritos for lunch. Make it a lunch combo. Then tap, swipe, and go. 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Looking at todays weather, there are still showers in the forecast for tampa as well as the rest of florida. Heavy rain to the west. Theres also rain in the forecast from the rockies to the Central Plains and into the northeast. And finally this morning, the excitement growing ahead of this mornings special concert that you can see on good morning america. The stars of the show one direction, the superstar boy band playing right across the street from our studios here in new yorks central park. Yeah, many Ticket Holders spent the night lined up as you can imagine and have been braving rain and lightning. Jim dolan spoke with some of these folks. He dont know about things we do they dont know about the i love you reporter theyre in pretty good spirits and voice considering some of these girls have been here since early sunday morning. My neck really hurts. Reporter well, sure, because youre sleeping and sitting on stones for the last day and a half. Its not a job, its a vocation. They are here, of course because of one direction on gma. You dont know youre beautiful reporter one direction, the phenomenally popular english and irish boy band that if youre 18 years old has been huge for, like ever. I just love them because i love their music. And, you know, thats all. Reporter the band just lost Founding Member zayn malik recently but the girls are over it totally. We miss him but theyre doing great without them so ready to move on because they just love their hair. Their personalities. Theyre nice. Theyre good people and their music is beautiful. Reporter sleeping on rocks, making sign, pitching tents, could it all be worth it . Duh. So excited. Reporter 22,000 people on the waiting list. They will probably not get in because everybody who got a ticket is happy to get it and theyre going to be going. Reporting live from central park, jim dolan, channel 7, eyewitness news. Do you think some people might move off the wait list because of the storms . One direction fans are not going anywhere. This is a live look. Its been raining like crazy on those folks but i bet theyre not going anywhere. I think youre right, teej. Thats whats making news in america this morning. One direction down one member