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in these matters of personal conduct. >> reporter: the nfl players union wants brady's four-game suspension thrown out. the league is arguing it acted appropriately in upholding his punishment. back in may, brady was fined and suspended after the nfl concluded brady was generally aware that two patriots employees had conspired to deflate footballs before the afc championship game. allegations brady has denied and continues to fight. >> the nfl has gone into this with an advantage. i think they still have the advantage, settlement talks went nowhere. i think you have to give a little more favoritism to the judge ruling for the league, but you never know. >> reporter: and should the judge rule in favor of the league, analysts say there's still a way for brady to play in the season opener next week by appealing the ruling and essentially asking the judge to put his decision on hold while the appeal process plays itself out. elizabeth hur, abc news, new york. >> and yesterday's hearing gave sketch artist jane rosenburg another chance to draw brady. you may remember this very, very viral sketch on the left there. people were, i don't know were hating on it. it looked like walking dead tom brady. the one on the right she had a second chance, looks a little more flattering. >> it looks a little better. >> dimple in his chin. looks less depressed. >> hopefully she won't get such a bad reaction this time. >> she did not enjoy the 15 minutes of fame she got. coming up, surrogate grandmother, the 51-year-old who decided to carry her daughter's child for her even though she was diagnosed with ms and how the pregnancy seemingly put her disease in remission. ahead in our next half hour, queen on the court. serena williams taking the first step yesterday toward a grand slam. our robin roberts sat down with the superstar serving up a question about the one thing everyone wants to know. you're watching "world news now." next we have an incredible story. a family story of a 51-year-old mom with ms. giving birth to her own grandchild, acting as a surrogate for her daughter. >> her pregnancy had an unexpected and welcome side effect. juju chang has the story. >> reporter: this is month-old mila james snuggling with mom and dad, but here she is snuggle ing with grandma that allowed her to come into the world. after they were married, they couldn't wait to get pregnant. >> we started trying right away. >> reporter: they opted for ivf and there was success. the 20-week ultrasound looked perfect but a month later, tragedy struck. mandy lost the baby boy she named theo. >> we had so much excitement. you carry the baby for so long and then that's all like ripped apart and taken away. your whole world stops. >> reporter: her mom sherry felt the pain too. >> watch your child lose a child is the definition of sadness. i can't describe it any other way. >> i can't describe it any ore way, it will break your heart. >> reporter: doctors warned them a premature birth could happen again. >> we had a lot of tough decisions. we talked to adoption agencies. that's when i had some family members step in. >> i decided if that was surrogacy or somebody needing to carry their child, i was going to volunteer. >> reporter: it was an easy decision for sherry who at 51 had three grown kids of her own. >> my children are the best gift in the world. so to be able to give that to your own child, i can't even describe that feeling. >> reporter: but there could be complications. sherry was a high risk pregnancy because of her age and her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, a disease that attacks the central nervous system. >> my husband was probably more concerned than i was because i was all in. >> reporter: while there were risks, there was a potential health benefit for sherry whose ms was in remission. becoming pregnant might help keep it that way. researchers think protective changes in the immune system during pregnancy keep the disease at bay. there were two tries at ivf and by november of last year, sherri was pregnant with their baby. >> i'm very fortunate. i played tennis till a week before i delivered. but the delivery at 51 was way harder than the delivery of my last baby at 33. that was the hard part. >> reporter: baby mila was born four weeks ago. mom, baby and grandma are doing great. >> you can't describe it, you can't imagine it. when i think about it, i have moments where i look at mila and think about it and it brings tears. >> how do you thank somebody that's given you the ultimate gift in life, which is life? she doesn't have to because i have a grandchild now. that's the ultimate thank you. >> juju chang, abc news, new york. >> it is sort of the ultimate thank you having a grandchild. what an incredible gift of love and to do for your daughter. people don't realize but having a surrogate can cost anywhere from $140,000 to $165,000 on top of the ivf charges which are incredibly expensive as well. >> wonderful they were able 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you more jaw-dropping video from an instagram star. his name is logan paul. and look at that. it hurts to even look at. he's going around new york city and randomly dropping into a perfect splits. it is impressive how he's able to do that. >> it freaks everyone out. look at that. >> this video posted a couple of days ago on instagram and already has almost 140,000 likes. he's going around to different museums there. hey, buddy, watch. it is impressive. i don't know if i would lay down on the venues. >> the street, the subway. >> that's the only part that's a little suspect. but good for you. >> how does he do it so flawlessly. >> he says in his endeavor to become the sexiest man in the world he learned when you're flexible, you're sexable. so he decided to stretch. >> sexable. >> that's what he says. >> is that a real word? >> he made it a word. sexable. there you go. >> okay. grandmothers hold special places in everybody's hearts. when you have a wedding, you want to give them their rightful place. one couple decided they should be flower girls. this is patrick, you see there, their grandmothers right there, patrick and rachel givens decided their grandmas should be the flower girls. >> great idea. >> they seemed to rock it pretty well walking down the aisle, throwing petals down. the audience loved it. >> that's awesome. what a great idea. all right. so we know that nba players are tall. every single one of them can dunk. we want to show you this. this is the miami heat. that's him shooting a jumper there. watch him grab onto the rim without even jumping. look at that. >> that's almost unfair. you should have to move the rim up a little higher. >> he's seven feet tall a this morning on "world news now," breaking news. thousands of e-mails from hillary clinton's private account just released. why some messages will stay private and how this impacts her campaign. reaching out. pope francis in a rare virtual audience with americans in three cities not on his upcoming u.s. travel agenda. how he even brought some to tears in an abc news exclusive. and new this half hour, serena williams advancing towards tennis history. >> her progress at the u.s. open, what she has to say to body shamers and how she's responding to very personal questions. and later, thrown out by taylor swift. a famous former friend of the superstar out of a home because of a swift move, bittersweet details in "the skinny" on this tuesday, september 1st. from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good tuesday morning to you. i'm reena ninan. >> i'm phillip mena. in the political world, it's heating up every day. we're getting new information. we have some surprising new information to tell you about revealed the latest batch of hillary clinton's e-mails. >> we're talking about more than 7,000 pages that were released last night on the state department website. >> about 125 of them are newly designated as classified. previously the state department said there were 150. >> and it appears at least one member of the state department's i.t. team was unaware secretary clinton was using a private e-mail address. the e-mail issue continues to dog clinton's campaign. here's abc's jon karl. >> reporter: although none of the e-mails were marked classified at the time they were sent, it's more evidence classified information may have been mishandled. this as donald trump launched a hard be personal attack on hillary clinton's top aide, huma abedin. >> huma is getting classified secrets. she's married to anthony weiner who is a perv. i think it's a very dangerous thing when she is the receiver of so much of this very important information and she's married to a guy who obviously is psychologically disturbed. >> abedin's husband anthony weiner infamously resigned from congress after tweeting inappropriate photos to young women. the clinton campaign called trump's attack disgraceful. while trump continues to ride high in the polls, he is now facing new competition in the critical first voting state of iowa where dr. ben carson is now tied for the lead in the latest poll. carson is tied with trump and way ahead of the rest of the republicans. jonathan carl, abc news, the white house. president obama is visiting alaska. he's hiking on a glacier today as part of a three-day visit to draw attention to environmental problems. he made sure that he would get a warm welcome in alaska by changing mt. mckinley's name to mt. denali. alaskans have been asking for the name change for decades. but politicians in president mckinley's home state are upset. >> we think it's too bad the administration has chosen to go around congress and to do this. >> some members of the ohio congressional delegation are threatening to introduce legislation switching the name back to mckinley. the mountain is the highest in north america. now to an abc news exclusive. abc's david muir sitting down with the pope three weeks before his first ever u.s. visit. as part of that special event, the pope held a virtual audience with people in los angeles, chicago and the border town of mcallen, texas. more than 100 people packed an art center near downtown l.a. to hear from and ask questions of the pontiff including single mom rosemary farfan and her two young daughters. >> he's humble and gentle. he's nice and kind and i always wanted to speak to the pope. >> in an emotional moment, the pope asked the teenager from chicago to sing for him after she described being bullied because of her rare skin condition and turning to music as a source of comfort. and we'll see much more from the pope's virtual audience during a special one-hour edition of "20/20." pope francis and the people, that's this friday night at 10:00 eastern. >> i hope we get to hear her sing. i bet it's beautiful. well, a county clerk in kentucky has lost another round in her fight against same-sex marriage. the supreme court refused to hear the case brought by clerk kim davis over her refusal to issue licenses to gay couples. davis has now lost at every level in federal court. her lawyer says davis has to think and pray over what to do next. president obama condemned the murder of a houston deputy sheriff calling it an affront to civilized society. the suspect in the case shannon miles appeared in court yesterday. records reveal miles spent four months in a psychiatric facility after being found incompetent to stand trial. his attorneys say despite hours of questioning, miles has not confessed. an atlanta area police officer is in critical condition all because of a wrong address. he and two other cops were responding to a burglary call at a residence. somehow the police and the homeowner got into a gun fight. the circumstances aren't clear at this point. the homeowner was also wounded and his dog killed. dekalb county police asked state authorities to investigate. a utah woman is also in critical condition after lightning struck near her at a family picnic. the strike sent the woman into cardiac arrest. she's now in a medically induced coma. extreme weather is affecting other parts of the country, particularly the southeast. more now from abc's rob marciano. >> reporter: torrential rains swamping streets in charleston, south carolina. rescuers going door to door. mudslides covering roads. remnants of tropical storm erika bringing flooding to north florida and spawning this waterspout. out west, almost three inches of rain bringing flash flooding across the utah desert. this after the west cleans up from a weekend of windstorms. watch this tree flatten a forklift at the storm's height in washington state. and from chicago to new york, a late summer heat wave in the works. a sweltering start to the u.s. open in new york city. here in the tampa bay area, many rivers are in flood stage and still rising. many not expected to crest till midweek. rob marciano, abc news, tampa. want to take a look at today's forecast. there is isolated downpours from florida all the way up to the carolinas. hot weather in the midwest and northeast. it will feel more like july really. cool and wet in the northwest, warming up along california's coast. >> 90s from kansas city to chicago and new york. 80s in denver, minneapolis and detroit. 70s in boston and portland. 68 in seattle, 105 in phoenix. well, hurricane fred has been downgraded to a tropical storm. it was the eastern most hurricane known to have formed in the mid-atlantic tropics in years and the first to pass over the cape verde islands. meanwhile in the pacific, another rare occurrence. three strong hurricanes at once. hurricane jimena 1200 miles east of hawaii, ignacio north of the islands and weakening and hurricane kilo is now heading away from the u.s. i think you pronounce it jimena. the j is silent, right? >> i would think. jimena. i'm sure we'll hear if it's wrong. four months after a deadly listeria outbreak, blue bell ice cream is making a comeback. it's back on store shelves in parts of texas and alabama. in late april, blue bell voluntarily recalled its ice cream after the cdc linked to three deaths and illnesses. the company nearly ran out of money as it tried to clean up its plants and get its ice cream back on the shelves. and coming soon, no more sticky dripping ice cream. british scientists say they're close to developing ice cream that doesn't melt. >> oh, come on. what's next? >> that's what they say. it is based on a naturally occurring protein that binds together the air, fat and water in ice cream to make it resistant to melting. more good news. researchers say it will also have lower levels of saturated fat and fewer calories. >> i don't want any of it. it doesn't sound good to me at all. you didn't sell it well. no one's going to eat this. >> it does sound a little weird. it's not going to be on shelves though for another three years, from what we hear. >> thank god. it could be 30 as far as i'm concerned. i want the real stuff. >> it does when it's sticky on your hands, no one likes that. >> do you have to put glue or rubber cement in there to make it not drip? >> i hope not. now you're scaring me away from it. that looks normal. >> all right. we'll see what happens. it was also a big day on the campuses of the university of cincinnati, xavier university, both of them in ohio, of course. buddie is coming. >> buddie is the super hero mascot for a campaign aimed at getting marijuana legalized in the buckeye state. you get it? buddie. it's clever. >> buddie looks a little scary to me. what is he wearing there? it's a little bit risque. he was drumming up support at the university of miami of ohio yesterday. the campaign describes buddie as a crime-fighting scientist with an oversized marijuana bud-shaped head. before election day, buddie will visit more than 20 campuses and many more cities across ohio. buddie is the thing of nightmares. >> his eyes were way too white for it to be authentic. maybe -- there you go. >> right. >> he should be a big cloud of smoke. >> smoke follows. have a big nugget as a head. he's got competition. from south park, that's the other mascot. he was the other unofficial mascot. it was a towel and his eyes were way different than that. >> we have to move on. hollywood "a" lister making a movie about a not-so-glamorous side of the nfl. you love your -- >> sports. also ahead, tough personal questions for serena williams. she's taking strides towards making history at the u.s. open. and later, the 9-year-old girl taking offense over clothing marketed as lazy pants while the boy's version of the pants are caused lounge pants. how she launched her battle and won. you're watching "world news now." 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[bell chime] ting ♪ skinny, so skinny >> all right, first up in "the skinny," the new movie that may have the nfl very worried. >> the trailer released just yesterday has already gone viral called "concussion" and stars will smith as bennet omalu, the real life doctor who identified the degenerative -- can you help me out here? >> the degenerative disease. >> thank you very much. of the brain known as cte. the movie chronicles how his discovery transformed the football world in the face of tremendous pressure from the nfl. >> the nfl does not want to talk to you. you turned on the lights and gave their biggest boogeymen a name. >> you're going to war with a corporation that owns a day of the week. >> no proof was presented today because there simply isn't any. >> they have to listen to us. this is bigger than they are. >> the accent and after numerous reports and documentaries on the subject "concussion" is on track to be the most widely publicized work on the controversial subject. >> there are now more than 30 former nfl players who have committed suicide with concussion-induced depression. and dementia at the center of the issue. one of the major figures junior seau was also one of them. after coming under fire for being caught on tape using the "n" word, hulk hogan insists he is not a racist. >> the wrestling star was essentially erased from wwe history over the incident. hogan explained to abc's amy robach he was upset over a situation between his daughter brook and her boyfriend. >> if anybody should have disowned me, it should have been her. you know? she should have been the one. she should have been the one who -- to throw me out like the trash, but instead, she showed me more love than anybody. >> hogan explained he made the comments when he was at his lowest point and suicidal. >> he's asking for forgiveness from the public and his many fans and suing gawker media for releasing the recordings. let's talk about taylor swift who patched things up with kanye west yesterday at the vmas but now she has another apparent celebrity beef. >> sir ian mckellen says he was tossed out on to the street by swift, well, kind of. >> don't mess with gandolf. things seemed to be cool between the two when he recited her lyrics for "bad blood" but he says when he was staying at the lord of the rings director's new york city apartment swift gave him the boot. one small detail though, swift bought the apartment. finally, liam hemsworth has given fans a reason to celebrate. finally on instagram. >> he was once engaged to miley cyrus but apparently moved on to miss piggy. hemsworth's first post on instagram was a picture with the newly single miss piggy. >> wonder what kermit will say about this one. themselve hemsworth will guest star on the new muppets show this fall on abc. coming up, lazy pants no more. it just seems a little bit edgy and maybe a little racy? 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>> reporter: what did you decide to do about that? >> i decided to write a letter to vineyard vines. >> reporter: adair didn't hold anything back. >> i think boys and girls and men and women should all be treated the same. i don't want to wear lazy pants because it makes me feel bad. can't we all just wear comfy pants? >> reporter: what did you think when you saw the letter? >> i was shocked and impressed and incredibly proud. incredibly proud. >> reporter: after getting the letter, vineyard vines founders shep and ian murray took immediate action. >> reporter: you responded to her really quickly. >> it's important. she had a great point. i think it was misconstrued. we didn't mean that women were lazy. we meant they were pants for when you guys wanted to have a lazy day. >> reporter: the brothers inviting adair and her family to their headquarters in connecticut. >> welcome to vineyard vines. mahoney family, you are the famous adair, huh? >> you ready to design some pants with us? >> adair even whisked away to create her own pair of pjs. but first -- >> will you go cross it out? if you could name them something else, what would you name them? >> lounge pants. >> all right. let's do it. >> reporter: next she picks her pattern and colors. >> this green for the fish. >> reporter: and then watches her design start to become a reality. she said she wanted to have fish going one direction and a whale going the other. and she's clearly a whale. she's not afraid to follow her own path. >> reporter: and last but not least -- >> what are you going to call your pants? >> adair you to be awesome. >> reporter: mara schiavocampo, connecticut. >> what a great name. and kudos to her for pushing the envelope on there and kudos to vineyard vines for responding so quickly. >> there's going to be some pushback people saying there's pc right away. but she's learning. there is a difference between lounge and lazy and she called them out and got some action. >> and got nice pants. more news coming up. >> this is abc's "world news now," informing insomniacs for two decades. w, informing insomniacs for two r the same roof. but it might seem like you're miles apart. the boys town national hotline can help. trained counselors are available 24/7 to listen, provide advice and help with problems. 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opponent had to quit because of an injury. williams is seeking to be the first player to win all four grand slam titles in the same season since 1988. those are some of our top stories on this tuesday, september 1st. from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good morning. we begin this half hour with the outpouring for the houston deputy sheriff killed in an attack. >> flags are flying at half-staff in memory of darren goforth. president obama called his widow yesterday to express condolences. this as we learn that the suspect had spent four months in a psychiatric facility. abc's stephanie ramos has more. >> reporter: 30-year-old shannon miles seen here walked into a houston court an trained for the murder of sheriff's deputy darren goforth. his arrest saturday came less than 24 hours after authorities say he ambushed goforth at a gas station. the houston area deputy never saw it coming. >> this is just a cold-blooded execution. >> reporter: police say miles seen here on surveillance cameras came up behind the deputy, allegedly pulled out a gun and began firing. even when goforth fell to the ground, miles allegedly kept firing. >> the gun holds 14 in its magazine and one in the chamber. 15 shell casings, you can do the math. he unloaded the entire pistol into deputy goforth. >> reporter: the 47-year-old deputy, father of two is remembered as a family man and as a deputy dedicated to his job. fellow deputies now reflecting on his decade of service with the sheriff's office. >> he was a good man. >> reporter: the motive behind the shooting still unknown. the killing triggering an emotional response from the local law enforcement community. the sheriff now linking the attack to the many protests around the country over the treatment of african-americans by police. >> we've heard black lives matter. all lives matter. cops' lives matter, too. why don't we drop the qualifier and say lives matter. >> reporter: miles has a lengthy criminal record but never spent much time in jail. he now faces capital murder charges in houston. stephanie ramos, abc news, washington. new pictures overnight confirmation that isis has destroyed one of the most significant pieces of architecture in the world. satellite images reveal that the main building of the 2,000-year-old temple of bel in the syrian town of palmyra is gone. there were conflicting reports about the extent of the damage to the ancient temple. last week we learned extremists blew up another ancient treasure nearby. a kansas man sentenced to 20 years in prison for an airport bomb plot. terry loen was arrested in 2013 for trying to drive a van filled with explosives onto the tarmac of a wichita airport. it was part of an undercover operation. the bombs were fake as a technician he has access to the tarmac. in court he apologized to his family. it was just a fender bender but what happens at an airport is cause for alarm. this time it was at the airport in oakland, california, leaving passengers shaken up. abc's david kerley has details. >> reporter: two southwest jets dead in their tracks after their wings made contact. >> just about ten seconds from the gate and heard a loud popping noise and basically a jolt. >> reporter: one of the jets was backing away from the gate in oakland. >> we looked out the window and someone said it was a clipped wing. >> reporter: clipped indeed. the top of the winglet missing. >> i think my only concern was please, don't have us take off. i don't want to in this plane. >> reporter: no one was hurt. both jets taken out of service and passengers rebooked. these collisions are rare but can be frightening. watch this regional jet being spun like a top at jfk a few years ago. the ntsb called for backup cameras on jetliners like those that come on most new cars. but the faa rejected having the cameras citing the cost, a lack of injuries and the belief that the cameras wouldn't stop jetliners from clipping wings. david kerley, abc news, reagan washington airport. a strange sight near the u.s. capitol last night all in the name of safety. the national park service and washington, d.c. police used helicopters to simulate evacuations. more drills are scheduled for later today. questions about capitol security were raised after in april, a florida postal worker was able to land a gyrocopter on the west lawn. president obama is talking about the environment during his trip to alaska. but it's what he said before he got there that's making waves. abc's richard cantu has the story. >> reporter: it looks the same. but mt. mckinley is no longer officially on the map. president obama arrived in alaska monday to warn about the dangers of climate change. but before he touched down, he changed the name of north america's tallest mountain to denali. >> returning the most magnificent peak in our nation to its original name. >> reporter: the mountain was named in honor of president william mckinley who was assassinated in 1901. the change is drawing cheers in alaska. >> it's about time it goes back to its original name. >> reporter: but in mckinley's home state of ohio, some republicans say this is no mole hill. >> we think it's too bad that the administration has chosen to go around congress and to do this. >> reporter: in anchorage the summit held its opening session. >> if all the ice on mother earth melts, we will all live in water. >> reporter: president obama delivered a call to action, if we do nothing temperatures are projected to rise between 6 and 12 degrees by the end of the century triggering more melting, more fires, more thawing of the permafrost. >> reporter: on tuesday, the president will go hiking on a glacier, the white house says to see the effects of climate change firsthand. richard cantu, abc news, new york. thousands of phoenix area residents are without power. a line of strong thunderstorms roared through central arizona last night dumping more than an inch of rain in less than an hour. high winds snapped utility poles and some city streets look more like creeks than roads. the storm shut down sky harbor airport and damaged the roof of one of the terminals. looks very frightening out there. now to today's forecast. more thunderstorms in the southwest to the central plains. cooler and wet in the northwest. it's going to feel like july from the upper midwest to the northeast. isolated downpours in florida and the carolinas and showers in south texas. >> 90s from salt lake city to kansas city all the way to new york. 80s in minneapolis, atlanta and detroit. 70s in portland and boston. 68 in seattle. labor day travelers, all 35 million of them will see falling gas prices as they hit the road. the average price for a gallon of gas now $2.51 a gallon. that's down 13 cents from last week and nearly a dollar cheaper than this time last year, the lowest labor day prices in 11 years. a couple health headlines to tell you about starting with new advice for parents about when to talk to your kids about alcohol. in its new guidelines, the american academy of pediatrics suggest parents should have the booze talk with children as young as 9 years old. the group says children start to think positively about alcohol between 9 and 13 years of age. they believe the earlier you have that talk, the better. >> good to know. here's another reason to get more sleep. it helps prevent colds. i don't know why we do these sleep things because we're all not sleeping. researchers have found that people who average fewer than six hours of sleep at night have a greater chance of catching a cold. the reason they say is getting the right amount of sleep helps keep the immune system at its best and now we know why so many of us have sick calls. don't feel bad if you're working the nightshift or not sleeping at this hour as you're up and you got to call in sick a couple times in the fall. >> it happens. >> like the study. >> there you go. remember that. record that. record it, send it to your boss. some animals that used to perform in south american circuses will be heading back to their natural habitats, basically heading home. >> more than 30 lions rescued from circuses in peru and columbia will be off to a private sanctuary in south africa. they'll be flown there next month to live out their last days in peace. not only are the lions going home, but other animals are also being returned to their normal lives. most of them will be staying in south america. >> wow, i wonder how hard it is to make the transition. because so many of these animals were so mistreated in the circus, making it very difficult for human handlers to take care of them. glad to see they'll be in peace somewhere and not doing the circus. >> it is great to see them back in their natural habitat. coming up, see who got a little too close to bears while taking a walk in the woods. also ahead, a big collection of costume jewelry from grandmother. taken in for appraisal. the unexpected find worth thousands. but first, the historic meeting between the pope and everyday americans. the special televised virtual audience and how it brought some people to tears. it's an abc news exclusive. you're watching "world news now." 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"world news now" continues after this from our abc stations. a wild encounter on a hiking trail left one woman paralyzed with fear, unable to move as she was surrounded by bears. >> she did, however, manage to pull out her camera and film the encounter before luckily walking away unscathed. >> i'm walking with a bear right now. >> reporter: an incredible encounter caught on camera. stephanie rivkin was hiking in connecticut friday when she came upon two bears. she thought she was a safe distance away, but the bears came closer and closer. then this heart stopping moment. >> no, no, don't get crazy. >> reporter: the bears surrounded her. one of them reaching out for her leg with his mouth. >> the teeth scared the hell out of me. i was thinking, oh, he's going to take a whole leg muscle out in one bite. >> reporter: miraculously, something spooked the bear. she was able to get away unscathed. >> after that i took a good ten minutes in my car and just sat there and thanked god for letting me out of there alive. >> reporter: connecticut tracks its bear population. those red tags in the bear's ears helped authorities identify the bear as a year and a half old male. it's not the only close encounter this summer. in may, tourists surprised by a family of bears in yellowstone national park. >> there's a bear on my car! >> reporter: and in june, this grizzly bear also just outside yellowstone. back in connecticut, authorities immediately closed the trail so that no other hiker experienced the same scary brush with danger. >> so what happened to that little bear? do you know? >> those little red tags you saw in the ear, they're able to identify a 1-year-old male and because they said that it was showing its teeth and they construed that as aggressive behavior, that little bear had to be put down because of this. >> no. >> this is the part where she obviously is glad nothing happened to her, but she pulled out a camera and stayed there for you know, a bit. i figured if you're -- just get out of there. what are you doing taking pictures? i know it's amazing to see these animals but you know, this is what happens sometimes. >> glad she made it out safely though. coming up, hidden treasure. we'll explain. though. coming up hidden treasure. hands...where it belongs. olay regenerist. it regenerates surface cells. new skin is revealed in only 5 days. without drastic measures. stunningly youthful. award-winning skin. never settle for anything less. the regenerist collection. from the world's #1. olay, your best beautiful >> important message for residents age 50 to 85. write down this number now. right now, people are receiving this free information kit for guaranteed acceptance life insurance with a rate lock through the colonial penn program. if you are on a fixed income, learn about affordable whole life insurance that guarantees your rate can never increase for any reason. if you did not receive your information, call this number now. your acceptance is guaranteed, with no health questions. stand by to learn more. >> i'm alex trebek, here to tell you about a popular life insurance plan with a rate lock that locks in your rate for life so it can never increase. did you get your free information kit? 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happy wifey. ♪ ♪ and finally this half hour, something that may motivate you to check your closet and see what treasures may be hidden. >> abc's becky worley traveled to michigan to help one woman discover the pile of cash sitting right under her nose. >> reporter: grandma's costume jewelry. should you just give it to the kids for dress-up or is there hidden cash in here? that's the question kim glazier of west bloomfield, michigan has. >> i'm kim. >> reporter: her mom recently handed her this basket. >> look at this, this is crazy. >> reporter: filled to the brim. >> this year my mom turns 80 and she decided it's time to start cleaning out her house. >> reporter: do you think this is worth anything? >> it's worth a lot of memories. in terms of cash, no. >> reporter: she turned to the reality show hard-core pawn. >> i have never seen anything like that. most of this stuff isn't real. >> reporter: but buried inside -- >> this is a gucci piece. >> gucci. >> reporter: and those cs, chanel. >> this looks like it's a real piece of chanel. >> costume jewelry looks gaudy but some of the gaudiest stuff can be valuable. >> the most gaudy is probably the most valuable. >> reporter: how do you know if you have a pot of gold? first, les says invest in a $10 jewelers eye loop. >> nothing can tell you real better than your eyes. >> reporter: look for brand hallmarks, little clues like logo shapes and production numbers. >> chanel has a specific logo. in the '70s they had a round disk that said chanel made in france. >> reporter: what do you think the possible value is here? >> $5,000, $6,000. >> that would be a very good guess. this is one of the nicest collections of chanel products i have ever seen. these would be worth probably $30,000 to $40,000. congratulations. congratulations. >> thank you, mom. >> reporter: becky worley, abc news, detroit. >> thank you mom is right. >> i'd be crying, too. $30,000 to $40,000. >> never know what you might find. why i still hoard all my baseball cards and my bling. >> the mr. t look? >> ll cool jay. >> ladies love cool james. that's how you rock it. >> tomorrow you can bring your gold jewelry on set. >> all tangled up somewhere. got to look for it. >> that's the news for this half hour. this morning on "world news now," unprecedented meetings with the pope. >> americans pouring out their hearts to pope francis. some even brought to tears. the emotional conversation just weeks before he gets a rock star welcome in the u.s. it's an abc news exclusive. e-mail controversy. thousands of hillary clinton's private e-mails released overnight by the state department. what they reveal and how donald trump is attacking his democratic rival. no deal. tom brady in last minute talks with the nfl turned into a deflategate stalemate. what happened in court and who could be making a big decision as early as today. and later, thanks, grandma. the special delivery that was made possible by mom, dad, their doctors, and the baby's grandmother's womb. the medical saga and the miracle child on this tuesday, september 1st. from abc news, this is "world news now." good morning on this tuesday. i'm phillip mena. >> i'm reena ninan. what a historic visit it was to pope francis to the united states just in three weeks. but we're also talking about that incredible through the internet visit that the pope had with lots of americans, a chance they don't really get a chance to see the pope but in a different way. >> any part of experiencing the pope, there are millions of people waiting for this chance. it was excellent to see this. it was ahead of his first ever real visit to america. it was an extraordinary media event. the pope held a virtual audience with americans moderated by abc's david muir. here's abc's stephanie ramos. >> reporter: in many parts of the world, 78-year-old pope francis has rock star status. he is the first latin american jesuit to lead the roman catholic church and another historic landmark for the pope from or argentina. he became the first pope to hold a virtual audience via satellite with hundreds of people in los angeles, chicago, mcallen, texas, with abc world news tonight david muir moderating at the vatican. the audience lasted about an hour as the pontiff engaged with individuals from three different groups, students at the jesuit high school in chicago's inner city, congregants from a church in mcallen, texas, near the u.s./mexico border and homeless men, women and families in los angeles. the pope said it's important to meet with the citizens of the united states who have problems like anyone else. he heard stories of struggle, invoking tears and gave immigrant children hope for a better future. at one point asking a teenager in chicago fighting tough personal battles to sing for him. she did. >> i guess i had to do it since it's the pope. >> reporter: pope francis called directly on sister norma who helps immigrants in texas. he told her he loved her. >> it was beautiful. i think on behalf of everybody present because i represent all of us. >> reporter: in the end, crowds chanting i see it, i feel it, the pope is here. pope francis says he wanted to connect in a new way with people he wanted to visit but wouldn't be able to during his trip to the u.s. reena, phillip? >> thank you so much. see much more of the pope's virtual audience in a special edition of "20/20" this friday at 10:00 eastern. breaking overnight, state department releasing the largest batch yet of hillary clinton e-mails saying some of them contain classified information. it released 7,000 pages of messages last night but censored about 150 of them. at the time they were sent, the information was not classified so the former secretary of state is unlikely to face legal action but she is facing increasing criticism from republicans. some of the e-mails were sent to clinton's top aide huma abedin and donald trump calls the aide a major security risk. she is married to a former congressman who resigned after tweeting inappropriate photos of himself. >> so huma is getting classified secrets. she's married to anthony weiner who's a perv. i think it's a dangerous thing when she is the receiver of so much of this important information and she's married to a guy who obviously is psychologically disturbed. >> trump repeated his attack on twitter yesterday adding the word sleaze bag to his description of weiner. the clinton campaign calls the attacks disgraceful. a top trump aide says all is fair in love and war. president obama is in alaska making an urgent appeal for action on climate change. his visit is designed to underscore environmental concerns. today the president will go hiking on a glacier. the white house says to see the iraqis of climate change firsthand. he says steps must be taken now because you can see the effects in alaska already. >> if we do nothing, temperatures in alaska are projected to rise between 6 and 12 degrees by the end of the country triggering more melting, more fires, more thawing of the permafrost. >> before arriving, president obama announced that mt. mckinley will be called by its native alaskan name denali. that has alaskans cheering but members of congress from president mckinley's state of ohio are angry. we're learning more about the suspect charged with killing a houston deputy sheriff. shannon miles spent a few years in a mental institution been found mentally incompetent to stand trial. this after a fight at a homeless shelter. miles appeared in court yesterday as investigators struggle to make sense of the killing. here's abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: an alleged assassin shackled hand and foot. would you call this an assassination? >> prosecutors say the 38-year-old miles stopped go forth outside this gas station, then he executed him. >> officer down. lifeline is en route. >> reporter: they say the eyewitness saw his red pickup. police using images from these surveillance cameras outside the gas station tracking down the make and model, door knocking every house till they came upon his house. >> they asked him if he had any guns. he said he had two, a 9 millimeter pistol he had recently gotten rid of and a .40-caliber gun. >> reporter: the prosecution asserting miles' gun was the same one used to murder goforth. over the weekend, hundreds mourned the deputy and father. the sheriff suggest his youthful could have made him a target. >> we've heard black lives matter, white lives matter, well cops lives matter, too. >> the responsibility for this murder lies with shannon miles. >> reporter: miles lived less than half a mile down the road from this growing memorial. he also grew up in this middle-class neighborhood but he's in county lockup. his lawyers tell us despite hours of police interrogations, his client hasn't confessed. matt gutman, abc news, houston. a kansas man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for an airport bomb plot. terry lohen was arrested in 2013 for trying to drive a van filled with explosives onto the tarmac of a wichita airport. part of an undercover investigation and the bombs were fake as an avionics technician, he has access to the tarmac. in court on monday, he apologized to his family. another kansas man convicted of capital murder in the killing of three people at two jewish centers. the penalty phase of the trial gets underway today. frazier glen miller jr. could receive the death penalty. miller confessed to the shootings but claimed he acted in defense of the white race. he made a nazi salute after the verdict. august couldn't end fast enough for most investors. it was their worst month on wall street in more than three years. investors worried about china's economy and today's interest rates. fortunately, today is the start of a new month but it doesn't solve either problem. analysts expect september to be stormy, too. both the dow and s&p lost more than 6% in august. walmart's recent increase to its minimum wage may not help its employees much. some store managers have been told to cut workers' hours to keep a lid on costs. the company says those stores have been exceeding their staffing budgets. the world's biggest retailer boosted its base pay to $9 an hour in april and plans $10 in february. and apple has a new competitor when it comes to luxury smart watches. check out the watch urbane lux from lg. it's all 23-karat gold with an alligator leather strap. it starts at around $1200. as opposed to apple's luxury watch which starts at about $10,000. the new watch is expected to be out by the end of next month. >> fancy. alligator strap. >> it is. is alligator even legal? 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than i was because i was all in. >> reporter: while there were risks, there was a potential health benefit for sherry whose ms was in remission. becoming pregnant might help keep it that way. researchers think protective changes in the immune system during pregnancy keep the disease at bay. there were two tries at ivf and by november of last year, sherri was pregnant with mandy and jamie's baby. >> i'm very fortunate. i played tennis till a week before i delivered. i kept working out with my trainer. but the delivery at 51 was way harder than the delivery of my last baby at 33. that was the hard part. >> reporter: baby mila was born four weeks ago. mom, baby and grandma are doing great. >> you can't describe it, you can't imagine it. when i think about it, i have moments where i look at mila and think about it and it brings tears. >> how do you thank somebody that's given you the ultimate gift in life, which is life? >> she doesn't have to because i have a grandchild now. that's the 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personal with great whites. take a look. >> we did it, man. >> i am never going back in the water. >> me either. no way. >> that was pretty good. it was a story about how researchers are getting closer and closer to great whites. by the way, that guy carl did an experiment last year which is he wore the same suit for like a month. >> that's the same guy. >> nobody seemed to notice. >> that does not even look real though, wow. we want to show you more jaw-dropping video from an instagram star. his name is logan paul. and look at that. it hurts to even look at. he's going around new york city and randomly dropping into a perfect splits. it is impressive how he's able to do that. >> it freaks everyone out. look at that. >> this video posted a couple of days ago on instagram and already has almost 140,000 likes. he's going around to different museums there. hey, buddy, watch. it is impressive. i don't know if i would lay down on the venues. >> the street, the subway. >> that's the only part that's a little suspect. but good for you. >> how does he do it so flawlessly. >> he says in his endeavor to become the sexiest man in the world he learned when you're flexible, you're sexable. so he decided to stretch. >> sexable. >> that's what he says. >> is that a real word? >> he made it a word. sexable. there you go. >> okay. grandmothers hold special places in everybody's hearts. when you have a wedding, you want to give them their rightful place. one couple decided they should be flower girls. this is patrick, you see there, their grandmothers right there, patrick and rachel givens decided their grandmas should be the flower girls. >> great idea. >> they seemed to rock it pretty well walking down the aisle, throwing petals down. the audience loved it. >> that's awesome. what a great idea. all right. so we know that nba players are tall. every single one of them can dunk. we want to show you this. this is the miami heat. that's him shooting a jumper there. watch him grab 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tuesday, september 1st. from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good tuesday morning to you. i'm reena ninan. >> i'm phillip mena. in the political world, it's heating up every day. we're getting new information. we have some surprising new information to tell you about revealed the latest batch of hillary clinton's e-mails. >> we're talking about more than 7,000 pages that were released last night on the state department website. >> about 125 of them are newly designated as classified. previously the state department said there were 150. >> and it appears at least one member of the state department's i.t. team was unaware secretary clinton was using a private e-mail address. the e-mail issue continues to dog clinton's campaign. here's abc's jon karl. >> reporter: although none of the e-mails were marked classified at the time they were sent, it's more evidence classified information may have been mishandled. this as donald trump launched a hard be personal attack on hillary clinton's top aide, huma abedin. >> so huma is getting classified secrets. she's married to anthony weiner who is a perv. i think it's a very dangerous thing when she is the receiver of so much of this very important information and she's married to a guy who obviously is psychologically disturbed. >> abedin's husband anthony weiner infamously resigned from congress after tweeting inappropriate photos to young women. the clinton campaign called trump's attack disgraceful. while trump continues to ride high in the polls, he is now facing new competition in the critical first voting state of iowa where dr. ben carson is now tied for the lead in the latest poll. carson is tied with trump and way ahead of the rest of the republicans. jonathan carl, abc news, the white house. president obama is visiting alaska. he's hiking on a glacier today as part of a three-day visit to draw attention to environmental problems. he made sure that he would get a warm welcome in alaska by changing mt. mckinley's name to mt. denali. alaskans have been asking for the name change for decades. but politicians in president mckinley's home state are upset. >> we think it's too bad the administration has chosen to go around congress and to do this. >> some members of the ohio congressional delegation are threatening to introduce legislation switching the name back to mckinley. the mountain is the highest in north america. now to an abc news exclusive. abc's david muir sitting down with the pope three weeks before his first ever u.s. visit. as part of that special event, the pope held a virtual audience with people in los angeles, chicago and the border town of mcallen, texas. more than 100 people packed an art center near downtown l.a. to hear from and ask questions of the pontiff including single mom rosemary farfan and her two young daughters. >> he's humble and gentle. he's nice and kind and i always wanted to speak to the pope. >> in an emotional moment, the pope asked the teenager from chicago to sing for him after she described being bullied because of her rare skin condition and turning to music as a source of comfort. and we'll see much more from the pope's virtual audience during a special one-hour edition of "20/20." pope francis and the people, that's this friday night at 10:00 eastern. >> i hope we get to hear her sing. i bet it's beautiful. well, a county clerk in kentucky has lost another round in her fight against same-sex marriage. the supreme court refused to hear the case brought by clerk kim davis over her refusal to issue licenses to gay couples. davis has now lost at every level in federal court. her lawyer says davis has to think and pray over what to do next. president obama condemned the murder of a houston deputy sheriff calling it an affront to civilized society. the suspect in the case shannon miles appeared in court yesterday. records reveal miles spent four months in a psychiatric facility after being found incompetent to stand trial. his attorneys say despite hours of questioning, miles has not confessed. an atlanta area police officer is in critical condition all because of a wrong address. he and two other cops were responding to a burglary call at a residence. somehow the police and the homeowner got into a gun fight. the circumstances aren't clear at this point. the homeowner was also wounded and his dog killed. dekalb county police asked state authorities to investigate. a utah woman is also in critical condition after lightning struck near her at a family picnic. the strike sent the woman into cardiac arrest. she's now in a medically induced coma. extreme weather is affecting other parts of the country, particularly the southeast. more now from abc's rob marciano. >> reporter: torrential rains swamping streets in charleston, south carolina. rescuers going door to door. mudslides covering roads. remnants of tropical storm erika bringing flooding to north florida and spawning this waterspout. out west, almost three inches of rain bringing flash flooding across the utah desert. this after the west cleans up from a weekend of windstorms. watch this tree flatten a forklift at the storm's height in washington state. and from chicago to new york, a late summer heat wave in the works. a sweltering start to the u.s. open in new york city. here in the tampa bay area, many rivers are in flood stage and still rising. many not expected to crest till midweek. rob marciano, abc news, tampa. want to take a look at today's forecast. there is isolated downpours from florida all the way up to the carolinas. hot weather in the midwest and northeast. it will feel more like july really. cool and wet in the northwest, warming up along california's coast. >> 90s from kansas city to chicago and new york. 80s in denver, minneapolis and detroit. 70s in boston and portland. 68 in seattle, 105 in phoenix. well, hurricane fred has been downgraded to a tropical storm. it was the eastern most hurricane known to have formed in the mid-atlantic tropics in years and the first to pass over the cape verde islands. meanwhile in the pacific, another rare occurrence. three strong hurricanes at once. hurricane jimena 1200 miles east of hawaii, ignacio north of the islands and weakening and hurricane kilo is now heading away from the u.s. i think you pronounce it jimena. the j is silent, right? >> i would think. jimena. i'm sure we'll hear if it's wrong. four months after a deadly listeria outbreak, blue bell ice cream is making a comeback. it's back on store shelves in parts of texas and alabama. in late april, blue bell voluntarily recalled its ice cream after the cdc linked to three deaths and illnesses. the company nearly ran out of money as it tried to clean up its plants and get its ice cream back on the shelves. and coming soon, no more sticky dripping ice cream. british scientists say they're close to developing ice cream that doesn't melt. >> oh, come on. what's next? >> that's what they say. it is based on a naturally occurring protein that binds together the air, fat and water in ice cream to make it resistant to melting. more good news. researchers say it will also have lower levels of saturated fat and fewer calories. >> i don't want any of it. it doesn't sound good to me at all. you didn't sell it well. no one's going to eat this. >> it does sound a little weird. it's not going to be on shelves though for another three years, from what we hear. >> thank god. it could be 30 as far as i'm concerned. i want the real stuff. >> it does when it's sticky on your hands, no one likes that. >> do you have to put glue or rubber cement in there to make it not drip? >> i hope not. now you're scaring me away from it. that looks normal. >> all right. we'll see what happens. it was also a big day on the campuses of the university of cincinnati, xavier university, both of them in ohio, of course. buddie is coming. >> buddie is the super hero mascot for a campaign aimed at getting marijuana legalized in the buckeye state. you get it? buddie. it's clever. >> buddie looks a little scary to me. what is he wearing there? it's a little bit risque. he was drumming up support at the university of miami of ohio yesterday. the campaign describes buddie as a crime-fighting scientist with an oversized marijuana bud-shaped head. before election day, buddie will visit more than 20 campuses and many more cities across ohio. buddie is the thing of nightmares. >> his eyes were way too white for it to be authentic. maybe -- there you go. >> right. >> he should be a big cloud of smoke. >> smoke follows. have a big nugget as a head. he's got competition. from south park, that's the other mascot. he was the other unofficial mascot. it was a towel and his eyes were way different than that. >> we have to move on. hollywood "a" lister making a movie about a not-so-glamorous side of the nfl. you love your -- >> sports. also ahead, tough personal questions for serena williams. she's taking strides towards 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>> reporter: what did you decide to do about that? >> i decided to write a letter to vineyard vines. >> reporter: adair didn't hold anything back. >> i think boys and girls and men and women should all be treated the same. i don't want to wear lazy pants because it makes me feel bad. can't we all just wear comfy pants? >> reporter: what did you think when you saw the letter? >> i was shocked and impressed and incredibly proud. incredibly proud. >> reporter: after getting the letter, vineyard vines founders shep and ian murray took immediate action. >> reporter: you responded to her really quickly. >> it's important. she had a great point. i think it was misconstrued. we didn't mean that women were lazy. we meant they were pants for when you guys wanted to have a lazy day. >> reporter: the brothers inviting adair and her family to their headquarters in connecticut. >> welcome to vineyard vines. mahoney family, you are the famous adair, huh? >> you ready to design some pants with us? >> adair even whisked away to create her own pair of pjs. but first -- >> will you go cross it out? if you could name them something else, what would you name them? >> lounge pants. >> all right. let's do it. >> reporter: next she picks her pattern and colors. >> this green for the fish. >> reporter: and then watches her design start to become a reality. she said she wanted to have fish going one direction and a whale going the other. and she's clearly a whale. she's not afraid to follow her own path. >> reporter: and last but not least -- >> what are you going to call your pants? >> adair you to be awesome. >> reporter: mara schiavocampo, connecticut. >> what a great name. and kudos to her for pushing the envelope on there and kudos to vineyard vines for responding so quickly. >> there's going to be some pushback people saying there's pc right away. but she's learning. there is a difference between lounge and lazy and she called them out and got some action. >> and got nice pants. more news coming up. >> this is abc's "world news now," informing insomniacs for two decades. toxic chemicals and carcinogens are leaching into the environment. it's happening right where we live, work and play. everywhere. cigarette butts are toxic waste. let's stop the toxic litter. learn more at rethinkbutts.org making news in america this morning, a new batch of hillary clinton e-mails released overnight. thousands of messages off her private server. some of them now deemed classified. what else do they reveal? 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