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The 2016 summer games come to a colorful close in rio. Americas breakout star simone biles carrying the stars and stripes as team usa racks up more gold medals. Claressa shields making history in the ring. Golden again now, joining us live. And the Mens Basketball Team a head above the rest closing out the games on top for team usa. And good morning, america. Square and what a finish to those olympics. There you see the fireworks, waterfalls as well at the closing ceremonies and 121 medals for team usa. Incredible, and then simone biles carrying the flag for america in maracana stadium. President obama saying he couldnt be prouder of team usa. Your determination and passion inspired so many of us. You carried that flag high simone replying, thank you, such a huge honor, go usa. What a treat she was to watch during the whole olympics. Well have more on the olympics coming up. Also the latest from ryan lochte, but we begin with those massive wildfires in washington forcing evacuations, scorching thousands of acres. Abcs Clayton Sandell is on the scene. No spokane county. Good morning, clayton. Reporter good morning. Take a look behind me. Just hours ago all of this burning rubble behind me here was someones home and you can see now just how little is left. But take a look over here. You dont see as many flames but when i look at it through my heatsensing camera here, you can see just how red hot the ground here still is. Thanks to that monster wildfire that came with little warning. This morning, wildfires are raging just outside spokane, washington. Just massive fire going down. Reporter three outofcontrol blazes engulfing nearly 8,000 acres in less than 24 hours. At least a dozen homes and buildings burned to the ground. Flames threatening neighborhoods and forcing immediate people need to leave now. Reporter overnight, one of those fires growing rapidly from 250 acres to 5,000 where hundreds of firefighters are battling the flames. Dropping fire retardant from the air. And on the ground, evacuating at least 100 people from their homes. Officials say a second fire was sparked by a downed power line. The home that once stood here now nothing but charre and ash, neighbors say the homeowners were lucky to be out of town. Gone up in flames. Its a gutwrencher. It hurts. All gone with nothing to show. Reporter a third blaze visible from many front yards still showing no signs of slowing down. The good news, no reported deaths or injuries. The bad news they still dont know how many homes look like this. George. Okay, clayton, thanks very ginger. Its not just washington state, the whole west. Yeah, 25 large wildfires burning from california to nevada up to montana, so its a large area, places like bakersfield, california, where that cedar fire is ongoing grew more than 9,000 acres over the weekend. 4 million acres burned so far this year and we have fire watches and warnings centered on the northern rockies, from montana to wyoming, that cold front will slip and thats the instigator that kicks up the wins and get a gust up to 40. Fires just keep going. Coming up in a couple of minutes my hometown and parts of west michigan had a tornado over the weekend. Ill show you the pictures and where it moves next. Thanks, ginger. Now to the race for the white house and Donald Trumps campaign trying a new tactic, signaling a possible shift on immigration as the clinton camp releases a new attack ad this morning. Abcs tom llamas is here with the latest. Good morning, tom. Reporter amy, good morning to you. We are less than 80 days out before election day. 78 to be exact but who is a new ad war is now under way between trump and clinton and what looks like a policy shift from the gop nominee. This morning, Donald Trumps new Campaign Manager, Kellyanne Conway, signaling trump may be backing off his proposed Deportation Force when it comes to undocumented immigrants. Youre going to have a Deportation Force and youre going to do it humanely. He will lay out the specifics of that plan that he would implement as president of the United States. Will that plan include a Deportation Force . To be determined. Reporter this as to minority outreach, some calling this statement offensive. Youre living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs. 58 of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose . And at the end of four years, i guarantee you that i will get over 95 of the africanamerican reporter george asking conway about it. Many in the Africanamerican Community saw that as insulting because they say most africanamericans dont live in poverty and that mr. Trump was making those comments in communities that are more than 90 white. But those comments are for all americans and i live in a white community, im white. I was very moved by his comment, in other words, he is trying to tell americans that we can do better. Reporter trumps tough talk starng this morning the Clinton Campaign out with a new ad. In times of crisis, america depends on steady leadership. Knock the crap out of him, would you, seriously. Clear thinking. I know more about isis than the generals do, believe me. And calm judgment. And you can tell them to go [ bleep ] themselves. Reporter the ad argues trump is too unstable when it comes to National Security issues. And as trump is now reshaping sources tell abc news trump will be watching clintons past debate performances from her senate and president ial campaigns and still getting advice from roger ailes and eventually, george, he will be holding mock debates with someone standing in as Hillary Clinton. Thats going to be interesting to see who that is. Okay, tom, thanks very much. Now a new twist in that clinton email controversy. Colin powell is speaking out, jon karl joins us with more on that. Reporter good morning, george. When it comes to her email controversy, Hillary Clinton is often tried to use former secretary of state colin powell as essentially an alibi. Too. Most recently, mrs. Clinton reportedly told the fbi that powell had actually advised her to use a private email. The details of powells advice is included in a new book who writes powell told her to use her own email as he had done except for classified communications, which he had sent and received via a state department computer. Powell thus confirmed a decision she had made months earlier to now over the weekend powell has pushed back telling People Magazine, quote, her people have been trying to pin it on me. The truth is she was using it for a year before i sent her a memo telling her what i did. Its also important to point out, george, that what powell did is much different. He didnt set up his own personal server and powell was secretary of state before rules were put in place telling state Department Employees not to use personal email for official business. In other words, there really isnt much of a comparison and as you can see from what powell said over the weekend hes a little bit irritated by those trying to make a comparison. Any reaction yet from the clinton camp. Reporter no, i asked and no reaction to powells latest comments. Lets get more on it from matthew dowd. Maybe no reaction is the best reaction. The more clinton and her team talk about it the more trouble they get into. Candidates who seem to step in it on their own and get in their own way during the course of the race. Hillary clintons biggest problem is trust and every time these things come up it compounds it. Meanwhile, youve seen with this new Leadership Team in place for donald trump some changes and expressed regret for the first time although didnt say exactly what it was for and outreach to the Africanamerican Community and now some talk about maybe shifting his position on immigration which has been the central tenet, pillar of his campaign. I think ryan lochte has done a better job of expressing regret than donald trump has. Donald trump did it once and ryan lochte did it four or five times. Especially on the Africanamerican Community its bit like a preacher who is supposed to be doing international missionary work but who stays at home and speaks to the already converted. He should be talking to the community that he wants to impact, part of this obviously is to demonstrate to the republicans that hes got his campaign together, but time will tell. This race, though, the balance race again. If donald trump can start to bring down the numbers of those people who think hes unqualified or biased against minorities, which i assume is why hes speaking out about the Africanamerican Community, that could really close this race. Yeah, i think this race is meant to be close in the course of this. Now, we have to look at the target states in the course of this, but as the National Number changes, the target states change in the course of this. In what i think is, we have to focus on a debate. The debate will determine the winner or loser of this campaign. The first one is supposed to be on september 26th. When i talked to Kellyanne Conway yesterday she didnt commit to the schedule set out by the commission on president ial debates. They have to do this debate much more than hillary. Donald trump needs this debate. Hillary clinton doesnt need this debate. Donald trump has to have this to change the dynamic of this race. Even though he is still negotiating he has to accept what they put up. Yes, because he needs the race. When youre four or five points behind and its solid, only way to change it is with a debate. Thanks very much. Now to new questions about how prepared are airports for an gunfire . Abcs david kerley is at Reagan National airport. Outside of washington, d. C. Good morning, david. Reporter good morning, amy. While these questions are being raised are there broader implications . A u. S. Senator wants to know if all our airports are prepared for a mass shooting or terrorist attack. It was panic. Roger, were getting reports of gunshots. Reporter passengers running, they thought, for their lives. Shooter plan at this time. Reporter the shocking pictures on the tarmac are not only flyers running but security personnel too. Someone started screaming and everybody just dropped their bags on the tarmac and started running. Reporter one suggestion, that someone heard what turned out to be applause for the olympics a week ago at jfk and yelled, someone was shooting. It was a false alarm but it was the scene that alarms new york no one was leading them to safety. No one was telling them the right thing, in fact, it was reported that several tsa agents shouted out someone had a gun or theres terrorism. Reporter the worry, every airport is responsible for its own security, and schumer says that leads to a patchwork of law enforcement, local police, sheriff and contractors. Thats the reason the senator says it may not just be jfk but other american airports that could see panic like this if there is a real shooting. Federal investigation and he wants the department of Homeland Security to look at jfk and see if there are broader lessons that can apply to all of our airports. Amy. Thank you for that. We turn to the zika virus and a new warning about where it could turn up next. Federal Health Officials say recent flooding in louisiana and texas is putting those states at higher risk for the spread of the disease. A record amount of standing water is thwarting mosquito has mounted since they confirmed it spread is south florida from downtown miami to miami beach prompting a travel warning for pregnant women. Health officials warn it could be two years before the u. S. Stamps out zika for good. New details overnight about the death of music icon prince. The Associated Press is reporting some of the pain pills taken from his estate after his death were mislabeled and actually contained fentanyl. That is the narcotic that killed him which is 50 times more investigation says at least one pill labeled as hydrocodone tested positive for fentanyl. Investigators are not sure how prince obtained those drugs. George. Okay, well move on to rio and that spectacular closing ceremony for the summer olympics. We saw simone biles carry the flag for team usa right there. Capped a triumphant run, including a gold medal in mens basketball and matt gutman has been there from the start and reporter absolutely, george. There was american medal triumph and the ryan lochte scandal and so far no zika but, last nights glittering spectacle had it all with flying acrobats and the ceremonial passing of the torch from the rio games to the japan games in tokyo in 2020 that was heavy on the nintendo themes. . One more chance to samba in rio. The closing ceremony celebrating the last day of the games with a taste of carnival. Five medals, four gold. Reporter s leading the way for team usa, the fivetime medalist carrying the flag through a rainsoaked maracana stadium, even causing this athlete traffic jam as those lined up to snap selfies with her. A little bad weather couldnt stop the party. Brazil passing the torch to tokyo, the host of 2020 summer games. Team usa ending its 16day olympic run the same way it sunday night the Mens Basketball Team crushing serbia. For three. Reporter the allstar lineup led by Kevin Durants 30 points earning team usa its 121st and final medal of the game. As she says, bring it on. Reporter but they werent alone. Claressa shields winning her second straight olympic gold medal. Golden again. Claressa shields. Reporter just as she promised me she would last week. Assuming you win gold . Thought about it . Theres no assuming here. But ill definitely win gold after that. Reporter the 212yearold is now the only u. S. Boxer with two golds bringing the hardware she won in the 2012 games with her to the podium. Kyle snyder of the United States. Can he hang on . Reporter in wrestling kyle snyder grappling for another gold for team usa at 20 years champ. Will get a medal to go with that silver. Reporter in the mens marathon american runner galen rupp citing an adam sandler flick as inspiration for his bronze medal performance. I was watching happy gilmore the other day and i fought being a marathoner. Reporter Meb Keflezighi slipping just a few steps away from the finish line then doing a few impromptu pushups before okay, so, simone biles is 48. That flag she was carrying is 9 feet tall about twice her height and with wind swirling here at 50 miles an hour yesterday, carrying that flag may have been the hardest thing shes had to do at the games so ill give her a perfect 10 for that. Also getting a perfect 10, japans Prime Minister who morphed into super mario during that closing ceremony that was probably one of the coolest things we saw. Great job, matt. Three weeks straight. Yeah, come home. A, you were there in rio too. What was the highlight . Without a doubt watching simone biles just kill it on all of the events, i mean she really is perfection. Just watching her flawlessly smile through some of the most amazing athletic feats you could imagine and she knew she was going to bring home gold. She made it look easy, too. She did. Jesse has the final medal count. The end an impressive show for all the american athletes. Team usa topping the list in most gold medals as well as the overall count. So, heres the breakdown. The u. S. Getting 121 total medals, thats 46 gold, 37 silver and 38 bronze and actually breaks the u. S. overall medal record set back in the 2008 beijing olympics when they had 110 total medals but its also worth noting that most of the gold medals by the americans were won by women. Leading the way was gymnastics ditto for katie ledecky, who blew away the swimming competition early on, and for the men, no surprise here, Michael Phelps leaving with the most overall with six, five of those gold, guys. It was a memorable olympics for the u. S. No doubt about it, amy and george. Thank you, jesse. Lets go back to ginger with that report from your home state. My hometown, one thing im always looking at. Radar over the weekend, this was happening right by my parents home so they were in the basement calling everybody this is what it looked like. You can see the video, yeah, right there from wyoming, michigan, and heres a look from bradford, ohio, because there were several tornadoes across the great lakes and midwest from kentucky, also parts of indiana seeing tornadoes over the weekend, and that will get through and some of the coolest weather weve seen in more than a month and a half in some good monday morning. We have more cloud cover shower activity in the southwest at this. 64 in denver right now, 40s and 50s in the high country and lower 60s in the eastern plains. Over the next 24 hour, expect and coming up on gma, ryan lochte comes clean about his scandal in rio. Im embarrassed. Im embarrassed for myself, for may not be out of hot water yet. And miracle rescue. A toddler trapped under a capsized boats and rescuers trying to save her. How she managed to survive. Her parents opening up about the ordeal next on good morning america. N taking fish oil from natures bounty to support my heart. Im running, four times a week. 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Also, presid from vacation gearing up for a busy week preparing to visit louisiana tomorrow and hell pete with communities devastated by the deadly floods that destroyed more than 60,000 homes. Donald trump is striking a new tone. Signaling a possible shift on immigration as Hillary Clinton faces new fallout over her mayes. Questions whether shes trying to pin the scandal on former secretary of state colin powell. It is a gold medal morning here on gma. Claressa shields making history in the ring becoming the first gold medals in boxing. She has an incredible story and journey. We cant for her to join us live. Said she knew it would happen all along. The latest from ryan lochte, in hot water over that robbery scandal apologizing for what he called overexaggerating and further action will come for him and his teammates. Linsey davis has the story. Reporter the 32yearold says hes sorry for immature behavior and that hes learned his lesson but he still does not admi again and again he called it, quote, overexaggerating and when asked directly if he was robbed the 12 time medalist says he doesnt know. If i told the entire story, none of this would have happened. Reporter disgraced u. S. Swimmer ryan lochte finally coming clean. I overexaggerated a story. And i shouldnt have. I was highly intoxicated and i didnt happen, none of this would have happened and people would not be all over the world tuning in on this story. Reporter the story that 12time olympicedist he initially told got them in hot water saying at the returned to the Olympic Village when their taxi was pulled over and they were robbed at gunpoint by men flashing police badges. The guy pulled out his gun, forehead and said get down. Reporter he says he was still intoxicated during that interview. I take full responsibility and its my fault. Reporter his version began to unravel after authorities in brazil released Surveillance Video of him and the other swimmers at a gas station accusing the swimmer of vandalizing the rest room. Eventually two of the swimmers provided their version of that night. In a statement, gunnar bentz said we foolishly relieved ourselves on the back side of and jack conger wrote, ryan lochte remove aid poster from a nearby wall, which apparently alerted the gas station employees leading to our being confronted by two Armed Security men. A witness told our matt gutman the athletes were trying to keep the authorities out of it. No police, no police, please, please, no police. They were saying no police. Yes. Reporter but lochte till refused to call his, quote, overexaggerating a flat out lie. I wasnt lying to a certain extent. A gun was pointed at we had to call them money. You can call that a robbery, extortion or just say we had to pay the money for the damage of that poster. Reporter lochte got emotional when talking about his teammates on nbc news. I mean, i i let my down and, you know, i wanted to be there like i dont want them them dry because i mean they were my teammates. Reporter the 32yearolds future is in question with endorsement deals worth a Million Dollars including sponsors like speedo. I am speedo fit. Reporter and polo ralph lauren. Ive done the training. Reporter and while the summer games are now over, the mp committee announced late sunday theyre not finished with the matter. We are going to have further action on this when we get back to the United States but i at this point. Reporter there are actually several organizations that could sanction the swimmers. So far no word on disciplinary action. Hes not finished with swimming, he says. It just remains to be seen if the sport of swimming is finished with him. More on this from amy. Joining us espn reporter jeremy schaap. Article piecesing to the video and some of lochtes revised accounts and say they jive and puts questions back on those security guards in theres no doubt about that. In many ways this story exonerates lochte and implicates both the security guards who according to this investigation might have committed a crime themselves and it also lays some blame at the feet of the rio police whose accounts of what happened dont jibe as you say with the facts on i think this might in some ways force a reconsideration of the judgment against ryan lochte in the court of Public Opinion. Because they said there was no vandalism to the bathroom. Didnt look like anything had been repaired so it does back up what lochte is saying now that he just exaggerated. And beyond that they spoke to an eyewitness, someone who saw the situation, excuse me, escalating, came in, when guns flashed, turns out the security guards were off duty prison guards, so you can understand in some ways how in ryan lochtes mind this felt like a robbery or at least extortion. Especially when youre under the influence of alcohol. Which he admits that he was and so were the others. The usoc says it might consider further action against lochte and his teammates. What do you think will happen. I wouldnt be surprised if the usoc, u. S. Swimming come down pretty hard on ryalo were going to have to see, though, how Public Opinion is swayed by this story in usa today, if thats going to in some way alter their approach if theyre going to be more lenient than they might have been otherwise. They suspended Michael Phelps six months for a dui weaving in traffic drunk, you ow, putting other people in harms way, how would you justify giving that more severe punishment for something at least on the fast theres going to be a impact. Big companies will shy away from getting involved with any controversy like this. In the long run, if he finds as right way to rehabilitate himself there might be even some ways for him to capitalize on this notoriety. I think there might be clever ways, but in the short term, people are going to say to themself, people make those digs we dont want to have anything to do with ryan lochte but that could change. All right, a lot could change we appreciate it. George. Coming up on our big board, a massive price hike for a lifesaving allergy medicine. Could the new costs of epipens leave your family at risk. Why a former navy s. E. A. L. Over writing a book about osama bin laden. And who will play spidermans mary jane. 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You have mylan pharmaceuticals, the company that creates the epipen that grbts it say they are working tirelessly to get access out there to all the families who need them. They also say that nearly 80 of the commercially insured patients using the epimen savings card received it for 0 dollars but the issue im hearing from a number of parents and doctors right now is that if youre uninsured or even if you actually have access to that program. Rebecca, i mean, so many people calling this company vultures and what impact does it have on the companys bottom line . Thats right, amy. The person who called them vultures is martin kelly, the poster child for bad behavior in that and the stock since this news came out about the 400 increase in prices it took a hit down 1 1 2 and a number of senators have said theyll start investigating thats never a good piece of news for a public company. All right, but maybe it might make a change for those families hoping for more a more affordable option. A former navy s. E. A. L. Has agreed to pay the government nearly 7 million. Matthew bissonnette reached the settlement with the department of justice over the bestselling book about the operation to kill osama bin laden. Dan abrams is here to talk about that so bissonnette agreed to forfeit the royalties and speaking fees he made from the book. What do you make of it. This is a fight no one this guy is a true american hero. Youre talking about you were le heart, silver star, numerous bronze stars. He wasnt alleged to have disclosed classified information. What he was accused of was not allowing the government to vet his book and some of the slides for his speeches before he did it. Now, when you have access to Sensitive Information like that, thats one of the rules, right . You want to talk about this publicly, fine, but you have to get our authorization first. He didnt. Relates to specifically the lack of vetting. He says he was wrongly advised that he didnt have to get this preclearance so is that why he was singled out by the government. Weve seen a lot of books about this, et cetera, movies. The reason he was singled out was related to the vetting. Its not that the information was made public, its that he didnt get permission to release this particular information. The government takes this stuff very seriously as you can understand, the need to get potentially classified information approved first before they can release anything. Does this mean he cant make any money in the future talking about this. No, so he had to pay back fo because he used slides that hadnt been vetted. So now he can give speeches, he can talk about it. He just has to make sure everything is aboveboard, that the government knows what hes doing, knows basically what hes saying and theyve approved the sorts of slides, the material he can try to make some of that back. Thats a big number, right . Talking about over 7 million. A costly lesson. Absolutely. Thats exactly the same thing he said too. Well move on to a controversial brewing about who may play spidermans girlfriend in the new movie. One has zendaya playing mary jane and want to talk to Larry Hackett about that. Created a little bit of a backlash on social media. I guess some people think this should be reserved for a white years ago when people of color didnt have starring roles and the fans of these things take it seriously. On the other hand most of the fans tend to be young people much more open to the idea of n nontraditional casting as they call it. You know, i want to point out were talking about the casting of the girlfriend of a man who plays a spider in a movie so i think we can probably loosen up the reins here a little bit but this is kind of a trial balloon on the part of the studio and think theyre setting this up whether intentionally or not and getting some most positive, some is always going to be negative in the internet world. So, you know, hopefully for zendaya she gets the role because shes been bandied about now. Give my girls a reason to go. We know hollywood has received recent and quite a bit of criticism for casting white actors in what one might assume should be a role reserved for colored people. Is this potentially the industry trying to right itself doing something right . What do you make of this move . Could it be in reaction to that negative press before. You have a case, you know, about a month ago with matt damon in that picture where he played a white guy saving people in the siege of the great wall of china. And you had a case of casting of emma stone in aloaloha where was supposed to play an asian person. I think there is an effort to kind of change this around. I think, though, that this has to happen at the studio level and it has to happen at the casting level. Having these discussions at oscar time is too late and nyes to be now so in this zendaya conversion may be a good one and may be the start of more broad changes clute the industry. Larry, thanks so much. Want to thank dan and rebecca as well. Coming up next the race against time to save a toddler trapped underwater. The harrowing 911 calls and how she managed to make it out alive. Mustangs. I cant believe we live in the middle of all this. Theyre supposed to be one of the most gentle creatures in nature. Really. . I read that once. Theres one of these. Wild mustangs . . 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Take a look at how she survived. We thought we were going to lose her. Reporter this morning tammy and brian say its a miracle their daughter kennedy is home. Yay. Reporter the 23monthold incredibly surviving after being trapped under the familys capsized boat in floridas indian river for nearly an hour. Im in the river. My boat crashed and i have a baby stranded in the water. Please god send someone now. Shes got a baby in the water. Yes, please hurry. Reporter the boat flipping after hitting power lines and tammy and brian escaping the water safely with their 7monthold daughter but kennedy nowhere to be found. Heard in the darkness. We couldnt tell if she was in the boat or if she was trapdzed under the boat or if she was out in the river because we heard cries but it sounds like it was coming from everywhere. Reporter First Responders rushing to the scene and after nearly 45 minutes, they begin to lose hope. We were just getting ready to leave and thats when we heard a light cry. I was listening and could hear she was right there. Reporter incredibly kennedy was floating in a life vest under the boat inside pocket. I mean its a miracle. Its a complete miracle that everything worked like it did because we shouldnt all be here today. Incredible. Little kennedy spent two nights in the intensive care unit. Police say that life jacket, that little life jacket, thats what really saved her life. Amazing she found that air pocket. Incredible. Its just incredible. When you hear that story there she was right under the boat. Wow. Thanks for bringing that to us, making history in the ring and now she is joining us live right here on gma. And prince harry has a message for the fastest man alive. What he wants usain bolt to know coming up. Go anywhere. Like on your commute. Or at the office. Ahh whered he go . Im in the break room. Enjoy the bold taste of ocean spray any time or place. 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Take a look at the other big delay, down on southbound 25, downtown to the denver tech center, nearly a half there. 225 and c470 busy as well. A lot of traffic on i70, this accident on 20th at i25. You can see the traffic on the north side going to boulder, a lot of folks heading that way on 36 right now. First day of classes for cu boulder and csu. We have scattered showers to the west and increasing cloud cover as well. Denver, 72 already at the airport with winds from the southwest about 10 miles an hour. Well see the winds die down as we head throughout the day today. Today. Well have 80s in the since 1961, Pearle Vision has been providing expert eye care. Caring for your eyes even easier. Right now, buy one pair of glasses, and get another pair free. This is genuine eye care in your neighborhood. Good morning, america. Its 8 00 a. M. , and we have new details overnight about princes death. Pain pills with the wrong labels, 50 times more powerful than heroin. The latest from the investigation. . Well be safe and sound . Danger at the beach. I think weve all been there. You realize suddenly the water has gotten a lot bigger. Perfectly safe, the hidden dangers lurking in the shallows, how to protect yourself from being rushed to the e. R. . And dangerous woman. Shes the first u. S. Boxer to win two gold medals and youll never guess the lucky token she had in her pocket. Claressa shields joins us this morning as she says good morning, america. Good morning, claressa. Good morning to her. That was great right there. Welcome to country week here on gma and theres chef bill durney and hell kick off our playlist with country meats and sweets right there and a performance from nashvilles old dominion. Country meats and sweets. I like that. I not just a Country Music monday but we also have have star power from jennifer lopez. Well tell you why she is holding a pie. Its all part of a celebration that had even usher starstruck taking a picture on stage with Lionel Richie all coming up. First news from tom llamas with the morning rundown. We begin with breaking details overnight about the new wildfires erupting in the west. Three fires are now ging out of control in Eastern Washington state. At least a dozen homes and buildings burning into the ground. Dozens of families forced to evacuate. One fire exploded from 250 acres to 5,000 acheers in a matter of hours and in southern california, some good news. Massive fire in San Bernardino county. Now, donald trump may be poised to abandon one of his most controversial promises. He vowed he would kick millions of undocumented immigrants out of the country but now his new Campaign Manager is hinting he could change his mind on creating a controversial Deportation Force saying the plan is not written in stone. To be determined. As the weeks unfold he will lay out this specifics of that p that he would implement as president of the United States. Reporter now, trump is also taking heat for his pitch to black voters after saying theyre living in poverty with bad schools and no jobs. Trump is already beginning to prepare for his upcoming debates with Hillary Clinton holding his first debate prep session over the weekend. Former secretary of state colin powell is clarifying a report that suggested he advised Hillary Clinton to use a personal email account. Powell tells People Magazine that clintons people have been, quote, trying to pin it on me her private email server for one year before he told her about his use of personal email for unclassified messages. And overseas theres growing concern that isis is turning to children to carry out attacks. Turkeys president is blaming the terror group for a suicide bombing at a wedding that killed 51 people. Funerals for the victims beginning today. The bomber believed to be as young as 12 years old and a shocking scene in iraq, police arresting this boy with explosives around his waist. Take a look at that. They say he was minutes away back here at home a new twist in the prince death investigation. The Associated Press reports pain pills found in the singers home were mislabeled and actually contained the powerful narcotic fentanyl, which killed him. Investigators say the mislabeled pills could be a manufacturer error or could have been illegally manufactured. Now, federal Health Officials are warning that local transmission of the zika virus could spread to other gulf coast states beyond florida. Heres why. About recent flooding in texas and louisiana because standing water could be a breeding ground for mosquitoes carrying the virus. President obama visits louisiana tomorrow to assess the damage. 3,200 people remain in shelters. 60,000 homes are damaged or destroyed. And finally one boy with a big heart helping out those flood victims right there in louisiana. Instead of accepting gifts at his Birthday Party carson boutte spent his birthday delivering pizzas to families va flooding. His goal was to spread a little sunshine to a few people but donations came pouring in and he ended up handing out more than 300 pizzas to total strangers, a little boy with a big heart. Really nice. Thats fantastic. Thank you, tom. Jesse, what do you got . We got pop news, george and its monday. Well kick it off with an amazing monday are you guys ready for this . Ill rail here on some alist names that youre not going to richie, ciara and bon jovi. These are allstar team, guys. Gwen stefani and blake shelter at the 2016 apollo in the hamptons benefit this past weekend. J. Lo was snapping this epic selfie video to capture all the alisters on instagram including this gwen stefani throwback. Take a look. . . Dont speak i know what youre saying . And gwen wasnt the only one on the stage. For the grand finale Lionel Richie. You see the roots up there, chris rock up there, usher. If the guest list wasnt impressive enough, how about john mcenroe, don johnson, pharrell, christie brinkley, katie holmes, jack nicholson, they all made an appearance. The event was hosted by Ronald Perelman raising 5 million to benefit the historic harlem theater. Always gets them out. Do we know why j. Lo was holding a pie . She likes pie. Kids were handing out pizzas. That was my question, sorry. Forget all the alisters. What about j. Lo and the pie. Next up, all right, all right, all right, big news for Matthew Mcconaughey fans. Turns out the oscar winner has a youtube channel. Who knew. Apparently not too many people but then benefits reddit to the rescue, 200 followers to more than 70,000 and counting, mcconaughey has only posted six videos nearly two years since he started the channel but im pretty sure we could expect a few more video diaries now that he has a much bigger audience. Good news for mcconaughey fans. I was actually 1 of the original 20. I already knew about that. Like that. And finally, the 2016 rio olympics ended last fight with a big bang and the fastest man in the world, usain bolt, got a royal message on his birthday. Prince harry wishing the olympic Gold Medalist congratulations on his 30th birthday tweeting, now that youre officially the a rerun. So back in 2012 Prince William harry visited jamaica and usain bolt let him win and looks like prince harry is coming for one of those nine gold medals that usain won because hes the fastest human being in the world. I dont think usain bolt has much to worry about this time. 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There she is, Claressa Shields, she won big in rio and shell join us live in just a bit. Hello, claressa. But first gma is on the lookout with a summer swimming alert. All of us know about the dangers of deep water but hundreds because of surprise dangers in shall dough water. Becky worley joins us from San Francisco with what to do when youre hit by unexpected waves. Good morning, becky. Good morning, george. Yeah, when we head to the beach we fear riptides, sharks but most injuries including broken bones, concussions, even paralysis happen just ten feet from the dry sand. A massive wall of water bearing the shallows. Oh, my god. Reporter but sometimes that area can turn dangerous in seconds. I think weve all been there. You realize suddenly the water has gotten a lot bigger. In this delaware hospital alone, nearly 2,000 swimmers with injuries requiring emergency treatment in the last five years. The energy from a three or fourfoot wave is the same energy of getting hit by a small miles an hour. Reporter josh bazle spent his childhood swimming at the beach until one day i was in waist high water with my back to the ocean when a wave picked me up and slammed me head first against the ocean floor. Reporter he is now a quadriplegic. So, im heading into the water here in malibu, california, a big swell hitting today. With me Los Angeles County lifeguard and water safety to that hard sand. Its like wet cement. Reporter to stay safe, experts say swim in lifeguarded areas. Always check with the lifeguard. Theyll give you the safe area to swim. Reporter think like a surfer, study the water before you get in. Look at the ocean. Have that situational awareness. Reporter waves come in sets. Get through the break zone during smaller waves. And if youre caught inside as a big one hits, dont brace yourself standing tall. It tightens you up and the wave will push you over and slam you into the sandy bottom. Reporter as counterintuitive as it, ken says if you see that wall of water, go down and grab sand. If you go under that, it dissipates. Grab a breath of air, and relax under the wave. If you arent able to get beneath a wave and a big one tumbles you, these next instructions could save your life. Grab the back of your head, elbows are in front of you so if you hit the sand, youre kind of protecting your head whoo spin cycle. I spoke with water experts on the east coast too, and they say the majority of injuries they see happen are when people are getting out of the water. So time your exit to coincide with the smaller waves, get through the break zone as fast as you can and, george, u have to keep your head on a swivel watching behind you for those bigger waves. Yeah, ive never seen that about putting your hands behind your head either but when and your producers were out there, you actually had a real scare with riptides when you were out there. We were treading water behind the break zone and realized we were 200 yards offshore. But this is proof that knowing what to do in the ocean makes it safer to be there. We swam parallel to the beach, 10, 20 yards and were out of the rip calmly making our way to the shore. Listen, i love the ocean. I want to help people have tools and awareness to stay safe in becky, thanks very much. And coming up, shes boxing her way into the history books. Gold medalist Claressa Shields joins us live fresh off her huge win in rio. . Go . Ght a book. And while i was telling you about the book, i downloaded a song. Oh, and full disclosure, when we were just chatting about that song thing, someone arranged a date. Guilty. The point is, life is digital. So, carmax, created a site where you can reserve a car online. 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I dont know why i did a cartwheel but it just happened. You did a cartwheel, claressa, because you could and i fully applaud that. Now you pulled out your gold medal from 2012 when you were on the podium. Tell me why. Well, you know, i knew i would be on the gold medal podium but like i said, when i i was 17, i didnt feel like i got a lot of recognition so i wanted to let people know and let it be a memory that i am a twotime olympic Gold Medalist and won when i was 17, i won the olympics when i was 21. Like this is not a game. This is not a joke. I can really fight. I train hard and i got both my gold medals. It was a surprise for everyone. I even shocked myself when i pulled it out. That smile, though, it was such a moment and all felt the pride that i know you were feeling in that moment and you had quite a journey getting to that podium for the second time. You had a difficult childhood and talked about it. Talk about how your past has helped mold you into the twotime Gold Medalist that you are now. Well, you know what, after the first olympics, you know, just the fact that ive had so far was just the separation of me and my coach jason crutchfield, and with that he just taught me how to be stronger, like by myself and to you know, i had coach billy, i had coach k. I had my teammates on the team. And we trained hard together and got mad together and it was just like coming here, we all had so much faith in each other to do like to do great things that we were okay with the results that we got but just like just the buildup to be here, i think i went without a coach for one year where i was just training myself and 2014 is when i decided that i would go, you know, ma olympic games, and i had just won the World Championships and i did that training on my own so to get that 2016 medal and get all the support i had was great and im glad that i did it and, you know, maybe 2020, who knows. It worked out. It worked out really well. Oh, i mean we can only hope for 2020. That would be awesome, claressa. I know part of your mission is to inspire others, to help others. Medals. Well, with the platform that i have now, im just going to, you know, tell people my story and tell them how my story involved god helping me get to where i got and how me being faithful to god helped me be where i am and train hard and put my body through all that hard work and still be able to smile about it afterwards and not be bitter about it. And just to those kids who i know who are like me and who come from similar backgrounds, just to tell them they can make it. I want to find a few programs where i go and i speak and we actually have places for the kids to come. Its not like an afterschool program. More of like a program to where they learn how to navigate their life out of school, you know what i mean. Oh, and you are the perfect role model for that, claressa. We can only hope for 2020 in tokyo with more of you. Thank you for joining us. Yeah, thank you guys for having me. Congratulations. Lets head outside to ginger. All right. Ayla from pennsylvania. And were just having a great morning. Ayla, i wanted to show you something. Look at this video from arizona, this is a dust storm that rolled through on there sunday. Thats a time lapse of it. One of our photographer at our affiliate took that. Wow, look at that. Oh, my goodness. Interesting look at that. Old dominion day. Have you noticed were a Little Country and did a forecast for a lot of folks in the band and how their lives are intertwined. 83 today , harrisonburg, 80. Did you notice how much cooler it is out here . Isnt it fresh . This is one of the coolest mornings weve had in two weeks. Good monday morning. We have temperatures across the front range in the 60s. Activity across western colorado moving in from the southwest. Well see temperatures into the 90s by this afternoon, a slight chance of storms but nothing in the way i told you were getting a Little Country. George and amy, lets do this. Well get there, ginger. Coming up, noah galloway, famous from going from the battlefield to the ballroom. Now hes to live life with no excuses. We are kicking off our Country Music playlist week with barbecue and a huge performance from old dominion live. Well be right back. . More thaa 90,000 Denver Public School Students are heading back to school today. Amanda del castillo joins us with a look. Reporter there will be today and lasting until tomorrow morning as well. It all involves dps officials and government leaders who come to get to know the students, the faculty and parents at various campuses around the city. Today during a ceremony, the superintendent addressed the amanda del castillo, denver 7. And it will be pretty hot this afternoon, downtown denver right now 65 degrees, 72 already at the airport, winds out of the southwest about 10 miles an hour. And cu and csu are heading back with the upper 80s to lower 90s. Southbound i25 is backed up after this crash, and 225 at hamden as well. Northbound side of 470 has been with that accident . How you like me now . . How you like me now . Welcome back to gma. Our wwe summer slam champions, finn balor and charlotte and they are joining us live after last nights fierce smackdown telling all and thats coming up. Were also kicking off our gma country playlist week. Look chef bill durney is here along with old dominion and, boy, we got a lot of meat over there in just a little bit. First i am here with an american hero, noah galloway, you know him from season 20 of dancing with the stars. Well, the u. S. Army war hero has a new memoir called living with no excuses the remarkable rebirth of an american soldier. Its all about his inspirational to the ballroom. Did you like that graceful sitdown . I was afraid i would fall over. You are incredible and you talk about a real transformational moment for you, 9 11, the moment you decided you want to fight for your country. I was in college and seeing that, you know, the scenes that everyone in the world watched live on television, that was enough for me to drop out of school, join the military to be part of the fight. And you found a passion there but then in december of 2005 your humvee hit a roadside bomb and you lost your arm and your leg in that and your recovery was long and hard. What kept you going . You know, there were several things. Book. You know, for a long time people assume it was one turning moment that got me back into living my life and, you know, being a better father and getting back into fitness, but there were several things. Thats what i share in the book and i go into great detail of my depression. You hit several low moments. Yes, i did. It wasnt just one turning moment. It was one attempt failed, another attempt failed. It was just a constant roller coaster of emotions and i share i love one of your quotes. In the book you say sh, i needed to quit concentrating on what i lost and focus on what i had left. How do you make that mental shift . It sounds great, but its really hard to do. It is. I mean, ive been asked how long did my recovery take and honestly it took about five years. Thats not just physical, thats the mental and emotional effects that it had on me and to recover from that. Incredibly you decided to speak up and share your story and become an inspiration for so many situation and in similar ones. Tell me about like the courage it took to stand up and share something so personal. Well, i mean, at first it was just me trying to be a better father. Getting back into fitness and i started gaining this following as i was doing things then made mens health and went on dancing with the stars and it was incredible, the reaction i share the sides of my story that people dont know about, the down parts and i did it because when i was going through those struggles, i thought i was the only one. I was hiding it from everyone and im hoping that itll connect with somebody or someone that may know someone going through that and see those signs to help them. Dealing with loss, whatever it is. Exactly. You mentioned dancing with the stars. You were fantastic. I mean, had you ever danced before and what did you think when producers said, hey, ive got this proposition for you. You know, i didnt want to do it. They asked me if ive ever danced before. I said no, and i didnt want to do it. They convinced me to do it. I thought id last maybe two or three were so supportive of me. I was not the best dancer on the show but i lasted the entire ten weeks, me and sharna, because of what Sharna Burgess was able to do with me, she was able to tell my story through dance and i give her all that credit. She was able to take someone, not just missing a arm or leg but no ability to dance and make it through that entire show. You came in third place. Congratulations. What was your biggest takeaway from that experience . The reaction from people and danced to toby keiths american soldier and that dance, the reaction from everybody was incredible. And that kept me motivated week after week to just do the best i could and to push and improve each week. I know that continues to reach out to you. What are you hearing from them . How can we do better to improve the relationship between vets and the rest of us . Im hearing a lot of things from veterans and a lot that are when i was on the cover of mens health and on dancing with the stars, they were proud to see positive stories of veterans. Push those positive stories, not just mine but others. Veterans are successful and i dont like to hear the negativity that comes with veterans because even vietnam vets, successful ceos have fought in vietnam and went through struggles and got help, went to college and have been successful and those are the stories that need to be told. Well, it is certainly an honor to interview you and your story is one to be read. Noah, thank you so much. Living with no excuses. Tonight on nightline at 12 35 a. M. Eastern right here on abc. Noah, thanks again. Thank you. George, over to you. It is an inspiring story. Were going to move on now to a brandnew series from tyler perry. Its called tyler perrys too close to home and takes us from deep south to the white house and Chris Connelly talks about it. Reporter a special place within tyler perrys los angeles residence, a tribute to decades of africanamerican pioneers in entertainment. This room just represents a of the people who have literally paved the way so that i could be in this position and its my homage to them. Reporter the atlanta based perry remains a billion dollar phenomenon writing, directing and acting in plays, movies and tv series all under his name. You look like a big bottle of peptobismol. Im sitting here in the middle of this success while at the same time i have my hand and my feet Still Holding on to everything that ive had in the reporter his newest tyler perrys too close to home, tlcs first scripted series, an eightparter spanning washington, d. C. And a trailer park in the deep south. The attempted assassination of the president of the United States. I love the idea ojust how fun and exciting it could be to have someone have this great life in the white house, living their dream and then have it all fall apart because of selfish greedy whatever reasons and find themselves back at home. Reporter among those, the besieged bonnie played by soap and broadway stage siren kelly sullivan. I relate too her a lot. Shes very strong. If bonnie was a friend of mine, i uld not mess with her me either. Reporter thats social media superstar brock ohern who saw this man bun video. How to make a bun in 15 seconds or less. Reporter catapult him to 2. 1 million instagram followers, a true showbiz newbie. Skochool school . I played jack from jack and the beanstalk in high school. The show will feature his first screen kiss ever. It was a lot of fun to be honest. How far do you have to go back to get somebodys first stage kiss . My first stage kiss i think i was 17 so and it certainly was not anywhere as good as the kiss that i had with brock. Ive only been madea on stage. She aint getting kissed by nobody. Its never going to happen. Never going to happen. Reporter madea will return to the big screen in october boo a madea halloween while he admits fatherhood has changed his priorities. It changes so much of what i dream about. It used to be about business. Where is the next deal . Now its about him. Reporter for good morning america, Chris Connelly, abc news, los angeles. Thanks to chris for that. Tyler perrys too close to home premieres tonight on tlc. Now lets go outside to ginger. Thank you, george, so much to all my new friends. What a party weve got and a beautiful morning. Look at some of these numbers coming in this morning as far as how cool it is. We called it a taste or a touch of fall because its 59 in chicago. 58, bloomington, illinois and look at that high, it moves on over here. And you can feel it. Its almost i said almost cool. I dont know if i have to call it that. But 50 in far western new york too. That is the big picture. Of course, itll get warmer this Weather Report brought to you by carmax. And im not alone. Joining us now fresh off their performances in last nights wwe summer slam at the Barclays Center in brooklyn are the new first ever wwe universal champions, finn balor, the demon thank you. Wow. So millions of people are watching. Barclays is nuts, its sold out. What does that feel like for you guys . Well, what a night last night. Barclays sold out crowd were electric start to finish. Obviously for me personally to be involved in one of the main events was a huge honor. What does it mean to be the universal champion . What does that mean to you . Ive been doing it a long time, 16 years all over the world. Europe, mexico, japan. Its very rare to get an opportunity to be the first. But last night i became the first ever wwe universal champion. People out here are pumped. Charlotte, what does it feel like . Theres so many other women. Youre at the pinnacle now. You know, im honored to be here, and i was here after wrestlemania, so it feels like yesterday but this title is a representation of all the hard work of all the women, so, yes, i am honored to be here as champ we are so happy youre here. Youre going to give me some moves coming up. You can see both champions, finn balor and charlotte on wwe monday night raw tonight on usa. Back now with our big barbecue to kick off our country week. Youve been sending in pictures of your best dishes. There. Were going to share some from hometown barbque of of brooklyns pit master bill durney. How does a guy from brooklyn get to do this . I know. Its a long way. I am from the south. Im from south brooklyn. Well, its travel. You know, we all love to travel and i was inspired by people all around the world cooking on wood and wood fire, and now im just inspired by, you know, the sites, the sounds, the smells in new york city, brooklyn, new york. What a feast you brought us, ribs, pork, all kinds of fixings. We brought some pork shoulders that weve been smoking for about 16 hours last night. We have some texasstyle spare ribs, shout out to texas. Thats beef. Oh, yeah, shes are pork ribs. Pork . We got boos coming from the back. We got people from south and North Carolina back there. We got some spare ribs and then we also did a jamaican jerk baby billy, is there a secret to grilling ribs at home . Yeah, for sure. A lot think they cant get smoke on their backyard grills but actually they can. One of the tips wed like to give is just to get a bunch of aluminum foil and some wood chips and put them on your grill and let them slowly come up to temperature so theyll create a nice little smoke there. Two different sections of the grill . Yes, exactly, twozone cooking, so you want to coals on one side and the opposite for indirect cooking. We have some questions from your fans at home. Evan will be asking a question. Hi, this is evan here. I have a question about grilling. How do you get that smoky flavor on a gas grill . Right, so this is what we were just speaking of on the gas grill. Also i think the science we can debate the science but old wives tale, should you soak the wood chips . My tip, not soak them. Combustion needs dehydration for the wood so why would we soak them before we put them on. Whats your favorite wood . We like white oak and we like finishing with cherry wood. Cherry wood is a soft, mild smoke whereas white oak is a hardwood that has a little more smoked flavor. Standing here well smell like it for the rest of the day. Im totally okay with that, by the way. We have another question from emily now. Chicken and pork usually take a long time on the grill. Can i partially cook the meat to shorten the time on the grill . Emily, its a really interesting question. We get a question a lot at the restaurant, can we hold like this . But there is a danger zone. Thats between 40 and 140 degrees so you never want to leave your meat partially cooked. You want to you can start it one way and finish it on the grill but it needs to be cooked through to temperature. One last question, here comes jen. Hi, my name is jen. And i wanted to know how long i can freezer before it goes bad. Thats an awesome question, jen. So what we like to say for a safe time is about six months. Hunters all around, you know, can do it for much longer periods of time, but frozen for your home cooked, six months in the freezer. If its nice and sealed, vacuum packed, itll be just as good coming out of the freezer. A lot of good tips, thanks for joining us, chef. Always a pleasure. Coming up, old dominion will perform live. . . To tell him that its over then bring it on over . . Stringing him along any longer . Back now with old dominion helping kick off our gma country playlist week. They Just Announced a new fall tour. Here they are with song for . . Right now we both know were Marina Del Rey . . Planes gonna fly away and youll be on it . . And by this time tomorrow ill be singing yesterday . . The sunshines gonna fade and we cant stop it . . So before we turn in i cant make you love me . . Lets be browneyed girl, sweet caroline, free fallin, small town saturday night . . Before we lose that loving feeling lets go dancing on the ceiling . . Keep on living that teenage grass is green . . Pretty soon ill be so lonesome i could cry but thats a song for another time . . Just for one more day what do you say baby be my pretty woman . . Because we know sunday mornings coming down and lets take a drive . . You and i down some old country road . . Talk about ow of those pink houses . . Yeah we might be a candle in the wind but lets pretend were . . Browneyed girl, sweet caroline, free fallin, small town saturday night . . Before we lose that loving feeling lets go dancing on the ceiling . . Keep on living that teenage dream Paradise City where the grass is green . On my mind but thats a song for another time . . . So before were singing i will always love you . . Lets sing browneyed girl, sweet caroline . . Free fallin, small town saturday night . . Before you lose that loving feeling lets go dancing on the ceiling . . Keep on living that teenage dream paradise cy where the grass is green . . Pretty soon ill be so lonesome i could cry . . But thats a song for another time . . Yeah thats a song for another time, browneyed girl, sweet caroline . Free fallin, small town saturday night thats a song for vo we went to hollywood to ask burgers, tacos and chili could taste just as great made with turkey. Thousands stepped into the jennieo tasting booth to find out. . Good morning america is brought to you by target. Expect more, pay less. Old dominion giving us a nice start to our week. Thank you very much. Youre heading on a big tour. We are. Big time, man. Its our first headline tour. Feels good. Very good. Thanks for starting it here on gma. Great monday morning. Thanks for having us. Thanks for this monday treat. Thanks for watching. Have a great monday, everyone. . Aurora police want you to look out for 71yearold walter rogers. He was last seen wearing a jeans and dark shoes. Police in aurora believe alcohol and speed were factors in this fatal crash overnight. A driver lost control and slammed into a group of people in the sidewalk, killing one. The fbi wants to find this bank robber. He got away with cash from a key bank in castle pines saturday, wearing a fake beard as a disguise. Police say hes in his early 20s with a dimple on his nose and piercing in his ear. There is a cash reward offered for information. We have a pleasant morning, 67 degrees right now downtown. We have a mix of sun and clouds, 75 degrees at dia and winds out of the southwest at 11 miles an hour. Well have calm conditions throughout the afternoon but we are in the upper 80s to lower 90s with increasing cloud cover for the afternoon. Much of the activity will be on the mountains. Were warm across the plains today, cooling down by wednesday. And we have problems here, the w line coming out from golden, 10 to 20 minute delays both directions because a car tracks. They are sending a tow truck out there. This is the southbound side of i25, left lane blocked here on the map and we have backups from broadway all the way to this point. 225 is busy. Take a look at broadway, eastbound side. Lets go back to the map. Accident near broadway, causing its live on the Wendy Williams show oig. Wendy how you doing. You wont believe what im about to tell you. All hot topics, all hour long. All puig. Week. I take it straight in chaser. Now heres wendy nin chaser. Now heres wendy oin chaser. Now heres wendy n chaser. Now heres wendy chaser. Now heres wendy week. I take it straight no chaser. 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