This is and, yes, that is a runaway elephant, all 8,400 pounds of her on the loose in a wisconsin neighborhood. We might be the only state in the nation that weve been joking has a dumbo alert. How she managed to pull off this great escape. More on the dumbo alert coming up, but i do want to say good morning to everybody and good morning to cecilia vega. Hey, guys. Our senior White House Correspondent in for paula this morning. Happy Holiday Weekend. Great having you here. Thank you. The president is making news this morning. Is that unusual . No. Overnight at an event honoring veterans President Trump returning to what seems to be one of his very favorite pastimes attacking the, quote, fake media. Hes also been hitting twitter pretty hard this weekend in part to defend his use of twitter. Some say its not president ial but trump says it is modern day president ial. And apparently this modern day presidency includes another round of attacks on msnbc anchors, President Trump calling hos
Wimbledon. Andy murray defends his title and Serena Williams is the womens champion but is pregnant and isnt playing. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, july 3rd. From abc news, this is world news now. Good morning to you this half hour. With President Trump stepping up his attacks on the media and pushing back against bipartisan criticism. He took aim at cnn with a mock wrestling video. The New York Daily News headline, wrestle maniac, and the New York Post giving him the wrestle moniker, rowdy gripper. Like rowdy piper was back in the wwe when it was the wwf. I dont know if i should be proud or embarrassed that i now that. But before tweeting the doctored video, the president defended his use of social media as modern day president ial. Reporter President Trump escalating his war on the media, tweet ago mock video showing him outside a wrestling rink, tackling and punching a man with the cnn logo over his face. Tom bossert seeing the video for the first time defending
Clock, the senate giving back two weeks of august vacation to work on pushing the again today forward, including repealing and replacing obamacare. Republican leadership blaming the delay of the recess on democrats obstruction. We have third highest ranking republican senator, john thune of south dakota. Chris van hollen, democrat of maryland both joining us this hour. There is donald trump, jr. , releasing his entire email exchange about a meeting with a russian lawyer. He did it to be quote, unquote, totally transparent. If he was aiming to make the story about russia go away. He failed there. It is blown up. We have white house reaction. Legal analysis later in the hour. Melissa back to the markets. The dow logging a 160 point swing on heels of big news out of washington. Straight to Nicole Petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. We have you concerns about selling about 11 30, down 130 points on the dow. Of the later in the day as Mitch Mcconnell said they would delay taking
Burn as we look at these pictures. Paul deanno has a look at the conditions in this area. The fire is going unstopped right now. I heard you use the word uphill, which is exactly what were facing right now. The wind blowing from the northwest to the southeast. And in this particular location, that will push the smoke and the flames uphill directly towards Alum Rock Park. We are looking at right now west winds sustained 15 to 17 Miles Per Hour. It is hot. Thats not going to change. It is dry. Thats not going to change. But whats happening right now and what could change is that wind, which likely will relax by about 6 or 7 tonight after the peak heating of the day but the breeze thats out there now likely will be there for the next hour. Back to you. Thank you. Lots of fuel to burn, too. Well have more from san jose in a moment. But we have another fireworking in the east bay. This fire at a salvage yard in san leandro sending up some thick smoke happening on eden road. The company is a
J myimsatthy v im jimmy. Im the host of the show. Thanks for watching. Thanks to all of you for coming. I appreciate that. [ cheers and applause ] i do. I want to apologize. We had so much fun stuff planned for you tonight. We worked on it all day. We had a bachelor in paradise, kids going back to school. We were going to talk about theres a horrible new pair of uggs we were going to discuss. I even thought hey, maybe we wont talk about donald trump much tonight. And then he opened his mouth and all manner of stupid came out. [ laughter ] and im not joking when i say i would feel more comfortable if Cersei Lannister was running this country at this point. [ laughter ] this press conference today. I dont know if you saw this. I know a lot of you are here on vacation. It started it was supposed to be a press conference about infrastructure, and it ended with our president making an angry and passionate defense of white supremacists. It was like if your Book Club Meeting turned into a coc