Transcripts For KGO Good Morning America Weekend Edition 201

KGO Good Morning America Weekend Edition July 2, 2016

This as were learning much more about Hillary Clintons longawaited interview with the fbi. When that meeting could take place. Tiny speed demon, the 12yearold girl cops say led them on a 40mile chase topping 100 Miles Per Hour. Its one of the most serious chases ive ever seen. Veering into oncoming traffic, in a scene straight out of an action movie. How this crazy chase finally ended. Good morning and lets get right to the breaking news. The deadly end to a standoff with Terrorists Holding dozens of hostages. And you can see the tanks being sent in hours ago as troops stormed a restaurant in bangladesh thats very popular among foreigners. Armed terrorists raided the place, killing many of the people inside. The pictures were getting in also show anguished friends and family waiting for news of their loved ones inside the restaurant as troops keep people away from the scene. Now that the standoff is over officials are counting the dead and asking the question, was this yet another attack from isis. That is the question and abcs Jennifer Eccleston is on the story from our london bureau. Jennifer, good morning. Reporter dan, this morning more horrific details about that terror attack in bangladesh. Authorities now confirm that 20 hostages were killed inside that restaurant before antiterror forces stormed the building just a few hours ago. All of the dead hostages are foreigners. Authorities also outlining how the tragedy unfolded. At least seven gunmen heavily armed stormed the upscale restaurant popular with locals and foreign diners in the Diplomatic Area of dhaka, just one mile from the u. S. Embassy. At the start of the siege police exchanged gunfire with the terrorists. Two police were killed. Nearly 12 hours later, they stormed the restaurant and a bloody and terrifying scene awaited them. Remarkably two hostages escaped, and 13 others rescued. One of the attackers was arrested. Late friday isis claimed responsibility, but u. S. Officials still assessing the information say al qaeda cannot be ruled out. We dont yet know the nationalities of the dead but the u. S. Embassy said last night that all of their employees were safe. Bangladesh is witnessing a rapid increase in islamic extremist violence, most of the victims minorities and secular activists and all of them stabbed to death. Paula . Just a frightening, terrifying scene. Jennifer, thank you. With the Holiday Weekend and the islamic states urging martyrdom during ramadan, terror threats are a huge concern right here in the u. S. Authorities are keeping a close eye on the crowds in major cities. We got a rare look behind the scenes of new york citys counterterror command center, patrolling from the air, water, and street, and abcs brian ross reports. Be alert, be safe. Reporter roll call for the new York Police Department elite counterterrorism squad. Be cognizant of perps wearing explosives. Reporter if theres an isis attack here, these are the specially trained, heavily armed officers who will respond. Extra security precautions across the country will be in place for the july 4th weekend, but new york city is deploying a 24 7 force that no city in the world could match. From the air see a lot of potential targets, dont you . You sure do. Reporter from the sea theyre looking for components for a dirty bomb. Reporter and with the 525 officers, the newly formed Critical Response command on the street. Officers with radiation detectors. Dogs trained to sniff the kinds of chemicals used by isis in its suicide bombs. All coordinated in a Counterterror Center that monitors some 9,000 video feeds from cameras across the city. At the click of a mouse we can move from camera to camera. Reporter from the Brooklyn Bridge to times square. Cameras picked me up and showed just how clearly they can identify a face in the crowd. Its been referred to as a ring of steel, a coordination center. Its our way of protecting new york. Reporter plus 3 million vehicle license plates read every day, stored for five years. Youre essentially prepared to go to war with terrorists. Yes. Its inevitable that there will be an attack or another attack in this country, but we are well prepared to respond to that. Reporter police in new york say the one threat that remains the hardest to fight is the single individual not on the radar who decides today is the day he will strike. Brian ross, abc news, new york. Brian ross, thank you. The other pressing question looming over the Holiday Weekend, the weather. Millions of people in the northeast got hit with Severe Weather overnight. Whats next . Rob is of course tracking it all. Hey, rob. Some of those results from the Severe Weather overnight, a lot of reports like this across the northeast. Heres what it looked like during the height of the event, winds 60, 70 Miles Per Hour in poughkeepsie. Big hail coming down as well. In mount holly, new jersey, similar stuff. Over five inches of rain in southern new jersey. Saw some flooding there. Most of that rain has moved off shore thankfully so it looks like were getting into some dryer weather, a lovely air mass the next couple of days. As we get into the july 4th holiday, a slow moving system will likely bring a little bit of rain south of new york city. D. C. Through memphis looks to be wet. More on that in just a little bit. Paula. Rob, thank you. We want to move now to the great escape this Holiday Weekend. Millions will be on the road if they arent already and traffic is expected to thicken throughout the morning. Abcs Marci Gonzalez is joining the many road trippers on a highway in new jersey. Marci, good morning to you and how are things looking so far . Reporter hi, paula. Good morning. So far, smooth sailing. Check it out, not too much traffic so far. On so many roads across the country this weekend this wont last long. Before the fourth of july fireworks, today the bright glow of taillights. Of the record 43 million americans traveling this Holiday Weekend, 36 million will be on the roads. Their getaway plan, driven by the prices at the pump. Prices are low and i figured i would give it a shot, travel. Reporter gas prices at their lowest in more than a decade, the average gallon 50 cents cheaper than this time last year. Perfect storm. Gas prices are low. Youve got a threeday weekend with fourth of july on a monday, and you get americans feeling pretty good about the economy. Reporter airfare prices are down this year, too. According to aaa Leisure Travel index, average airfares for the top 40 flight routes will cost 9 less this Independence Day, meaning more people flying and longer lines ladies and gentlemen, Hawaiian Airlines flight 63 reporter to get through security. Im glad im here early. Reporter and experts say the best time to travel this weekend is actually today. They say try to leave before 11 00 this morning or after 1 00 this afternoon and youll have a better chance of finding open roads like this. Dan. Thank you, marci. Stay buckled up. We appreciate it. Now to the race for the white house and new developments in the email scandal that has been dogging Hillary Clintons campaign. Abc news has learned that the fbi may interview the candidate herself very soon, this as the u. S. Attorney general is now scrambling to deal with the fallout from a meeting with bill clinton. Donald trump has been crying foul about that and abcs mary bruce is on the story from washington. Hey, mary. Reporter good morning. That private huddle between bill clinton and the attorney general has become a selfinflicted wound for the clinton campaign. Raising questions from critics about bias. All this is coming as the fbi is now on the verge of finally interviewing Hillary Clinton. This morning sources tell abc news the fbis longawaited interview with Hillary Clinton could take place within days. As it gets closer to deciding whether to file charges against the former secretary of state. Certainly my meeting with him raises questions and concerns. Reporter but the attorney general who has final say over that decision admits she made a big mistake meeting privately with bill clinton earlier this week. I certainly wouldnt do it again, but it really was a social meeting. Reporter hoping to quiet the firestorm, lynch says shell follow any recommendations made by the lawyers and fbi agents investigating clintons use of a private email server during her time at the state department. The fact that the meeting that i had is now casting a shadow is something that i take seriously and deeply and painfully. Reporter as for clinton and lynchs explanation of the tarmac encounter, unplanned and purely social, discussing their grandchildren, not the investigation. Oh, just a coincidence. He just happened to be at the airport at this time. Reporter donald trump is not buying it. I love my grandchildren so much, but if i talk about them for more than about nine or ten seconds, what are we reporter mocking the description of their discussion. I love that one, i love, love, love that one. Look at the beautiful, i love these kids. After that what are you going to say, right . Reporter this morning still no word from Hillary Clinton or her campaign about that meeting between her husband and the attorney general. Paula . Mary, thank you very much. We want to bring in abcs political analyst matt dowd. Hes down in austin, texas. Matt, good morning to you, thanks for joining us. Good morning, paula. We learned that Hillary Clinton will be interviewed by the fbi very soon, possibly over the weekend, but how bad do these optics look for her campaign . Really bad, paula. I think this is a case of reemphasizing and confirming a certain bias and a thought people already have of her which is you cant trust her, you dont trust the situation and thats what a majority of americans already feel. It just reemphasizes it in the course of this. I think this is, as was said, a selfinflicted wound. Its only going to be recovered on the outcome of whatever happens with the fbi. Trump is pouncing, saying that bill clinton opened up a pandoras box by meeting with loretta lynch. Does he have a point and do you think this could help him . He absolutely has a point. I think its an interesting use of greek mythology. Pandora was the first woman on earth and Hillary Clinton is the first woman running for president on a Major Party Ticket so i think it fits. This is the difference between the airport movies and the airplane movies. In the airport movies the republicans say this is a total disaster. The democrats want to laugh this off as the airplane movies which is i picked a bad day to have a meeting on the tarmac. I think thats the situation here. You are a master at metaphors and analogies. Last question for you. How is clintons champ pushing back and do you think bill will remain on the trail with her throughout the campaign . I dont think theyre pushing back very well and theyre in a bad situation where they cant really push back very well. They have to get through this. I said, as you know, paula, a long time ago, a year and a half ago, i thought bill should be sidelined. I think Hillary Clinton is much better off on her own running her own campaign in the course of this, not the least of which she wants to stand on her own. But the fact that bill clinton is constantly in the source of these making mistakes, hes a much better campaigner for himself than he is for his wife. Great explainers, matt. Thank you for explaining to all of us the origination of pandoras box. We appreciate it. Have a great morning, matt. I was more in the airport airplane combo. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. A lot of other news. Lets get it over to the man, r. C. Whats happening . Good morning to you, dan, paula, sara, robert. Good morning to everyone. We begin with the pentagon saying the two senior isis military commanders were killed in separate air strikes in iraq earlier this week, and the white house is reporting that 2500 suspected terrorists have been killed in u. S. Air strikes since 2009. The report also said as many as 116 civilian bystanders also died in u. S. Drone strikes and other air assaults, most of them in tribal areas of pakistan. That number is far lower than estimates by human rights groups, some of which are questioning the accuracy of that new pentagon figure. A massive gas line explosion forces several homes to be evacuated in the suburbs of detroit. A car plowing through a fence striking a natural gas main at a gas facility there outside of detroit and igniting a huge fire. The driver was injured in that blast. A wild scene at tampa bays busch gardens. An orangutan escaped its enclosure but she didnt get very far. This video taken by visitors showing the animal sitting in the trees nearby. The or ang tang named luna was eventually tranquilized. Luna actually escaped once before in 2008. She needs an ankle bracelet. Something like that. The last time they lured her back with apples and vanilla ice cream. Food always works. Over to wimbledon, the tennis matches there, some fiery moments from serena williams, the top seed becoming frustrated after dropping the first set to fellow american christina mchale. She then hammers her racket onto the court several times. There she is. Hammering her racket onto the court several times. Shes fixing a problem there. She tossed it behind her into the lap of a cameraman. Williams though battled back to win the match and advance to the third round. Finally in georgia, a teenager, a pilot in training got her skills tested when she had to make an Emergency Landing on a golf course. She was 17yearold sarah loon and her single engine cessna sputtered. Then it just died. She was able to put the aircraft down near the 11th tee of that golf course. The lake or the golf course and i didnt really want to go swimming so i decided the golf course is the better bet. I tried not to hit any trees or people on my way down. She didnt hit any people, fortunately. Did she scream four . Four probably. Her parents are crediting her Flight Instructor with teaching her how to land a plan without power. I suppose that can come in handy sometimes. Calm under pressure. Yeah. 17 years old, too. They should talk to that Flight Instructor about getting her a better plane. Theyre going to get her a new plane. That is impressive. It is very impressive. Thank you, ron. We do have a much more serious and also seriously bizarre Motor Vehicle story for you now. A high speed chase with a 12yearold girl in the lead. Police say the girl took her grandmothers car out for a joy ride with her little sister in the passenger seat and all of it right in the middle of rush hour. Abcs Adrienne Bankert has more. Reporter watch as Police Dash Cam captures this high speed chase near houston, the cops in hot pursuit. Behind the wheel, a 12yearold girl. Her 5yearold sister in the back seat. Its one of the most serious chases ive ever seen. Reporter speeds of over 100 Miles Per Hour. Reckless on the road during the evening rush, putting so many at risk. Look as the car veers into oncoming traffic, other police cars joining the scene, straight out of an action movie. Id say at least 15 police cars coming by. Reporter the young girl weaving between cars on the wrong side of the road. Near misses during the chase that lasted more than 40 miles. There was quite a bit of cars on the highway here, so it was lucky that it was not worse than it was. Reporter the incredible scene began when police say the girls took their grandmothers car, prompting her to call 911, thinking her grandchildren were kidnapped. Onstar was activated, stalling the careening car. Police catching up with the girls, taking the 12yearold into custody where she will remain for at least the next few days. Some serious close calls there. The 12yearold will likely face multiple charges including evading police and stealing property. She faces a judge on tuesday. It makes you think immediately what you were like at 12 years old and if you would have had the gull to get behind the wheel of your grandmothers car. I cant even imagine. I would have been grounded until i was 20. I dont want to know what my grandmother would have done to me. My legs were not long enough to reach the pedals but thats another issue. Are they now . They may not be still. Anyway, lets get somebody to save me. Maybe rob marciano. Whats going on in the weather . If youre driving in the rain, slow down. Some rain in tucson yesterday. Look at this. Its been pouring and the monsoon really in overdrive so to speak the last few days. It became the second wettest june on record for the tucson area. Another. 8 inches yesterday. Thats what it did to the streets down there. Even some trash cans floating down the way. A couple of showers across nevada and parts of arizona. Generally speaking were drying out somewhat here and the monsoon will take a bit of a break. Temperatures will rebound to where they should be. Phoenix getting closer to 110 by monday. A lot of moisture rolling into the Central Plains and weve got flood watches from wichita, kansas city, st. Louis and probably extended further to the east. Already three to six inches of rainfall has fallen across parts of kansas and we may see another three to six inches in some spots, so flood issues even past its the Holiday Weekend. That means we have to have the beach forecast which is ron claibornes favorite part of the weather broadcast. Thats in about ten minutes. All for you. We got to wait . All for you. Its a tease. Everythings for you. Speaking of ron, we want to take a moment to honor a true news hero on his 30th anniversary here at abc news. Ron claiborne, congratulations, and thank you for all those

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