Concussion and three small spinal cord fractures. However, shes conscious and okay. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, august 8th. From abc news, this is world news now. Good morning to you all. We begin this half hour with the death of a 10yearold boy during a family outing at a water park. Caleb schwab was riding on the slide in kansas city, kansas, the tallest in the world 17 stories high. The name means insane or crazy in german. Riders have to follow some strict rules. Theres no word, though, on how this accident took place. We honestly dont know whats happened. Thats why an investigation, a full investigation is necessary. All our rides are inspected every day. And our rides are inspected by an outside party at the start before the season starts. The water park will be closed yet again today because its lifeguards may be too sdrau t distraught to work there. The first fatality since the park opened seven years ago. To politics, donald trump looking to get back on message as he delivers an economic speech in detroit. Hes been struggling in the polls as well as in several states. He tried to mend fences with the republican establishment, offering delayed endorsements to House Speaker paul ryan as well as senator john mccain. And he reserved his harshest attacks for Hillary Clinton. Your voice, your vote. Heres devin dwyer. Reporter down in the polls, donald trump delivered a new line of attack. The people of this country dont want somebody thats going to short circuit up here. Reporter the republican nominee trying to use clintons words against her. What i told the fbi, which is truthful, is consistent with what ive said publicly. I may have short circuited it reporter trump pouncing as clinton widens her lead in a new abc news poesht poll. Clinton up eight points, gains among women and support among democrats. Trump, on the other hand, struggles to win over some republicans like Ohio Governor john kasich. I wish that i could be fully enthusiastic, i cant be. Reporter trump facing strong disapproval for his treatment of the muslim parents of a fallen american soldier. Hillarys comments dont get the same attention that trumps do. Reporter a proclinton super pac releasing a new ad featuring a goldstar mother talking about her outrage at how trump treated the khan family. When i saw donald trump attack another goldstar mother, i felt such a sense of outrage. She was standing there. She had nothing to say. I would like to tell donald trump what it feels like, the sense of emptiness that only losing a child can bring. Reporter trustworthiness still a problem for both nominees. Clintons running mate trying to reassure americans their administration would be more transparent. The bottom line is this she made a mistake, and she said over and over again, i made a mistake, and ive learned from it. Im going to fix it, and i apologize. Reporter devin dwyer, abc news, washington. One more issue involving donald trump. Theres another mexican official whos dismissing trumps promise to build a wall and force mexico to foot the bill. This time its mexicos foreign minister who called the idea absurd. She said that they would never consider it, and she added that the real issue is not a problem about a wall but a problem about narrow minds. Hundreds of protesters gathered last night in chicago two days after the release of videos related to the Police Shooting of 18yearold paul oneal. The videos show Police Shooting at a stolen jaguar that oneal was driving. Then oneal veers right into a police cruiser, crashing headon. Theres no video of the actual shooting. Thats Something Police are investigating. Police investigating the Fatal Shooting of a man while he was playing pokemon go. 20yearold calvin riley was playing the game near san franciscos fishermans wharf. Police are collecting information from surveillance cameras. Authorities say the suspect did not take any of rileys property or attempt to rob him. They have no motive for the murder so far. From what we know, there was no confrontation. Nothing said back and forth. It was senseless, came up, shot him in the back, and ran for nothing. Investigators are asking anyone in the park at the time of the shooting to come forward. Its not clear if the attack was related to the game. A fundraising website has been created. Now to a skydiving accident over the weekend in california. The men were diving in tandem, attached, when a parachute failed to open. The skydiving company was in the news earlier when a plane with 15 passengers took off and landed upside down. Pistorius is being treated for minor wrist injuries sunday. The former track star told officials he was injured after falling out of bed and did denying that he attempted suicide. Hes serving a sixyear sentence for the murder of his girlfriends death. Before the death, pistorius was planning to retire after the rio games. At home, hundreds of firefighters battling a fastmoving brush fire in the San Bernardino mountains. The socalled pilot fire has forced the evacuation of dozens from their homes. The fire grew 1,000 acres within just hours on sunday. Its now burning about 55 miles east of los angeles near silverwood lake. And gulf coast florida residents are being warned they may have to evacuate their homes this week. Heavy rains and flooding are expected from pensacola to tampa with as much as 12 inches in some areas. The downpours are also likely to cause road closures and extend into alabama and georgia. The lowpressure system will linger at least through thursday. So bad, in fact, all of the deep south will see showers and storm today. The wet weather extends all the way from the gulf up into the Tennessee Valley and across to the carolinas. There will also be rain later in the Central Plains and southern rocky. Atlanta, new orleans, and miami all heading for highs around 88 today. Highs in the northeast and midwest about the 80s. Only reaching 81 today in los angeles. It will be much cooler in the northwest. And its getting cheaper and cheaper to drive. The average price for a gallon of selfserve regular gas this morning is 2. 12. Thats 13. 5 cents less than it was just a month ago. Almost half a dollar less than this time a year ago. California has the highest prices. South carolina the lowest. Gas prices are being driven down by falling oil prices. Okay. Now to quite a milestone. The Miami MarlinsIchiro Suzuki has reached a milestone with a triple off the wall in denver. That was his 3,000th hit. Hes the 30th Major League Baseball flyer do so and the first is from japan. Only one other player hit the 3,000 milestone with a triple, paul molitor, suzukis hitting coach while in seattle. The marlins beat the rockies 107. Hes 42. Might be a little bit of an asterisk next to him. You think . A lot of those hits were during his nightmare japan. Fine. His time in japan. Fine. Debbie downer. The yankees Alex Rodriguez calling it quits after new york plays tampa bay friday night. His fourth time with 696 home runs. He may be a first in the number of headlines over his career. Heres abcs adrienne bankert. Reporter Alex Rodriguez counting down the days. I love this game, and i love this team. Today im saying goodbye to both. Reporter the new york yankees releasing the controversial lightning rod from his contract. The 41yearold emotionally reflecting on his career. At 18, i just wanted to make the team. Reporter the slugger, plagued with troubles his last several seasons. Suspended in 2014 for performance enhancing drugs. And this year, a miserable one on the field. Striking out more often than scoring. Arod himself admitting the struggle. Its been very painful and embarrassing to sit on the bench. Reporter the shakeup shocking to his fans. I grew up watching him, and i kind of feel like hes being forced out. But thats the powers that be that made the decision. Its not a farewell to the franchise. Arod will remain as a special adviser to the team through december of 2017. And the yankees still on the hook for his salary next year, 21 million. He hasnt been a really productive member of this organization or professional baseball in a long time. Reporter love him or hate him, hes still a major crowd draw. Bleacher seats for arods last game already skyrocketing to more than 400 face value. Abc news, new york. This is not the way the nfl planned to begin the 2016 preseason. The league canceled sunday nights hall of fame game between indianapolis and green bay because of poor field conditions in canton, ohio. You can imagine it put quite a damp or what was a weekend of celebrations for the 2016 hall of fame class. Eight more men now have busts in canton including brett favre, you see there. He said what drove him was hearing that his father tell a High School Coach that the young quarterback could play better. I spent the rest of my career trying to redeem myself and make him proud. And i hope i succeeded. I think so. I think he probably has. He did. Favre also said that he had fun had in his 20year career. And sometimes he couldnt believe that he was being paid to play the game. Good for him. Aaron rodgers was there. Watched that and not the bachelorette. Really into that, huh . Yeah. Coming up, the u. S. Taking first place in the medal count at the summer Olympic Games in rio. Were bringing home the gold in a number of events including swimming and gymnastics. Well have complete wrapups ahead. And a heart stopping video of a crash along an arizona highway caused by drivers tailgating. What you need to do to stay safe on the road. Youre watching world news now. 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Scored its first individual swimming gold medal of the summer olympics in rio. Michael phelps has another gold to put in his crowded medal closet, i imagine. He has a different apartment for it. What are the highlights . Were going to see tonight exciting stuff. As we head into day three of the games, the United States is leading the medal count with 12. While the weather in rio has proven unpredictable, american athletes are performing solidly across the board. In windy rio, athletes getting literally and figuratively blown out of the water. Rowing teams canceling their events after gusts reached up to 35 Miles Per Hour, knocking over fencing and ripping off banners. In the pool, Katie Ledecky shattering a world record in the 400meter freestyle to take the gold. Earlier that day she anchored Freestyle Relay Team to take silver. Michael phelps helping the mens team take a gold. Earning his 23rd gold medal. The Gymnastics Team dominating the first round. An unheard of 10 points ahead of the chinese team. Threetime champion simone biles leading the way with electrifying routines on the balance beam, vault, and on the floor. There were still stunning upsets. Venus williams and her sister, serena, losing a doubles tennis match for the first time. Venus also lost a single match earlier in the day, but serena is still in the running to take it again in rio. Serena was the best serena in london ive ever seen. I can only hope i get there again. That was insane. Reporter other nations had to deal with setbacks off the field. Kenyas track and field manager sent home and facing investigation following the release of a video showing him offering to protect athletes from drug tests. And one entire team banned. They failed the para athletes. Their medals over morals mentality disgusts me. Reporter now remember, guys, team russia is still competing in the current games. Although more than 100 athletes were banned as part of the same doping scandal. In fact, the International Olympics committee ignored recommendations to ban russia outright and got a lot of criticism for it, guys. All right. Not a great day for the williams sisters, but a pretty good day overall yesterday for team usa. What happen today . What are the big highlights . Overall, huge. 12 excuse me, 12 medals overall, theyre ahead. Tonight well see the first woman to wear a hijab for the American Team compete in fencing. Were also going to possibly see for the first time in 92 years female womens rugby take home a medal tonight. Thats right, the womens rugby team could go for the bronze. Female gymnastics tonight and tomorrow. It was fun watching some of the parents in the stands during the gymnastics. Aly raze mans parents looked like my parents watching the pickup games going like there and this. Swaying along with her. Reenacting it with her. It was cute to watch. I think any parent could sympathize. Special moments. Thank you for joining us this morning. Coming up, the crash on an arizona interstate caught on video. What one driver was doing that nearly caused her life. Video. What one driver was doing that nearly cost her her life. World news now continues after this from our abc stations. Welcome back. Were always told how dangerous it is to fol were always told how dangerous it is to follow another car too closely, especially on the highway. Rarely do we see a dramatic and frightening video that shows how dangerous tailgating can be. Reporter this car caught on camera careening out of control. The horrifying highspeed accident, a graphic display of the dangers of tailgating. Watch again. The driver in the green ford quickly reacts to avoid a mattress on the road. Swerving and hitting the truck in the next line and then the rocks on the left flipping across this arizona interstate. The driver, a 23yearold from texas, miraculously walks away unscathed. Her life saved because she was wearing her seat belt. Arizona Authorities Say she was driving too closely to the vehicle in front of her and didnt have enough time to react to the mattress. So how long does it take to respond . A total of about a second and a half to see something, react appropriately. And a second and a half doesnt sound like much. Does it really make a difference . It can when youre at high speeds. That second and a half may mean youve covered 100 feet or so in that time that your brain is processing this. Thats precious distance youve lost. A rule of thumb when driving on the highway, give three seconds of following distance. Find a fixed object, when a car passes it, count. If you get to the marker before three, youre too close. Police telling me tailgating doesnt save you time that Road Conditions and timing of traffic lights play a much greater role. Abc news, los angeles. And that threesecond rule, by the way, is for optimum daytime conditions. You have to do it longer at night. Exactly. Well be right back. 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