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And the incredible rescue. Firefighters swooping in using a ladder truck to save a driver and his dog stuck in their car in this terrifying flood. 123450 have. Good morning, america. We hope you had a good weekend. That was some rescue. Absolutely. A great rescue. Those flash floods came on quickly in colorado and some Good Samaritans also jumped in to help with the rescue. Ginger is going to have the very latest on that in just a bit. Also this morning we are following new developments out of washington. Overnight President Trump spoke to japans Prime Minister about tensions with north korea in the wake of that missile launch. President putin has ordered the u. S. To cut 755 members of their diplomatic staff in russia. This comes as President Trumps new chief of staff, retired general john kelly, the secretary of Homeland Security, starts his new role as white house chief of staff this morning and replaces Reince Priebus who was forced out last friday. Much more on that in just a moment but first we want to get to the u. S. Response to north koreas missile test, its most powerful yet. Where it could reach major u. S. Cities. Martha raddatz has the very latest on this. Good morning. Reporter good morning, amy. Theres no question this is one of the most serious challenges the Trump Administration is facing. North korea is making far greater progress on its Missile Program than officials ever imagined. Overnight japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe declaring that the u. S. And japan fully agreed that they needed to take further action following a phone call with President Trump. That phone call after the latest military provocation by north korea. Their second test of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile in the past month, traveling farther than any missile they have ever launched. The north korean icbm blasted 2300 miles straight into space, but experts fear that north korea could angle the missile to potentially travel as far as washington d. C. Or new york. U. S. Bombers conducting a joint exercise with south korea and japan in response to that icbm launch flying over the Korean Peninsula in a tenhour mission. The u. S. Also conducting a previously scheduled test of the thad Missile Defense system, the pentagon video showing a test missile being detected and intercepted. People have been warning about the north korean icbm for 20 years, barking wolf about this while the wolf is at the door. This is a very real threat to the United States. Reporter nikki haley, the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations tweeting that north koreas continuing provocations require an international solution. Done talking about north korea, china is aware they must act. Japan and south korea must increase pressure. Not only a u. S. Problem. It will require an international solution. President trump also weighing in on twitter, blaming china, saying they do nothing for us with north korea and, quote, we will no longer allow this to continue. Amy . A lot of tough talk, a lot of tough tweets from the administration but what about the u. S. Being any closer to using a military operation here . Reporter you know, amy, a military option is always on the table and certainly if we were directly threatened we would no doubt take action, but the fear with any preemptive strike is that the response from north korea could be devastating to our allies in the region. So for now the president is trying increasing diplomatic and economic pressure, but as you know, amy, many before him have tried that as well. Martha, thanks very much. The white house facing escalating tensions with russia. President putin responded by forcing drastic reductions in u. S. Embassy staff. Cecilia vega has the latest on that. Putin is retaliating even before President Trump has signed the sanctions legislation. Reporter yeah, this is a direct retaliation for those sanctions, george. Vladimir putin appeared on russian state tv yesterday to say that there will be an expunges of hundreds of u. S. Diplomatic personnel in that country. Were talking about more than 700 people here. That would cut the staff down to just 455 people. Thats the same number of russian personnel working in this country. Moscow also seized two u. S. Diplomatic properties in russia. Russia is saying, hey look, we will respond in kind here. Now, we know that these sanctions were payback for russias election meddling and we know that the president had not been happy about it. He had been critical about this legislation but he is expected to sign it at some point soon. A fresh start at the white house. The new chief of staff, john kelly, being sworn in at the white house after the president fired Reince Priebus late friday afternoon. Reporter what a week it was, george. Yes, john kelly gets sworn in this morning and is expected to attend his first Cabinet Meeting. Can the new chief of staff be the one to bring some calm to the chaos that is still enveloping this west wing. We know the president has enraged by the leaks and the embattled attorney general expected to take action on that this week. Reporter exactly right, george. Jeff sessions has an active investigation into leaks. We are told that we could hear a result, at least an update on that investigation at some point soon, but look, we know this is going to also be one of task number one for john kelly coming in looking into the problem of leaks here in washington, specifically to this white house, george. Thank you, cecilia. Lets get more from matthew dowd. John kelly, what a job he has coming off of last week, the collapse of the Health Care Plan for President Trump, rebuffed by his joint chiefs of staff over the transgender ban, the white house seem to fall apart towards the end of the week. The big question on the table, what difference can a new chief of staff make . Youre right, george. He comes in probably after the worst week of Donald Trumps presidency in this. I actually dont think its going to make much difference at all. Its as if youre changing lieutenant and you still have captain kweeg leading the vote on this and a new lieutenant is not going to change the direction of the vote in this and thats what hes fundamentally going to face. General kelly still has the same person in charge of the ship and i dont think its going to go in any different direction. Perhaps one small sign of control so far this morning, at least no tweets from President Trump but hes got crises on so many fronts right now. We just saw the twin threats from russia and china and north korea. Right now the president also at odds with his own party not only on health care but a range of issues. George, i think we have not seen a congress assert its authority and rebuke a president like this on a Foreign Policy concern since 1986 when the congress overrode reagans veto of the antiapartheid bill in south africa. Its as if the congress has decided the president is a child and theyre going to put the valuables on a higher shelf so he cant harm himself or the country. Thats what this vote and thats what this seems like the sanctions bill that they passed is a rebuke to the president. They are also sending strong warnings to the president about taking any action against the attorney general, jeff sessions. Exactly. I think thats a red line for this congress. Thats a red line for the republicans in this congress. We saw a few peel off in the health care bill. If he was to fire jeff sessions, i think that would be a fundamental difference for the president and this congress. Matt dowd, thanks very much. To those chilling details on those terror arrests in australia. Four men taken into custody, reportedly planning to release a leddy toxic gas to take down a passenger plane. Security at airports stepping up. James longman is tracking the latest from london. Good morning, james. Reporter good morning, amy. It looks like this could have been a devastating terrorist attack, and unlike so many of the more improvised random killings weve seen in recent months, this time there was a plan. This morning airports across australia on high alert after a plot to take down a plane is foiled. There has been a major joint counterterrorism operation to disrupt a terrorist plot to bring down an airplane. Reporter five sydney homes arrested. Two fathers and two sons of lebanese descent yet to be charged. We believe its islamic inspired terrorism. Reporter details scarce but one local newspaper with details. Toxic gas to kill or immobilize everyone on board. Sources telling abc news american intelligence officials are closely monitoring the case. Homeland security says they are assisting australian investigators and have taken extraordinary steps to protect flights bound for the United States. All this comes just days after the tsa announced new security measures across u. S. Airports citing an increased threat to airport security. Any electronic item bigger than a cell phone will need to come out of your bag at the screening area. George. Thanks. Lets get more from our military analyst stephen ganyard. We know that al qaeda and isis have been focused on planes as a top target for more than a decade but this is a different kind of a threat. How would it work . Thats a good question, george. Its actually unique. Weve never seen this before. Apparently the Australian Police seized Something Like a meat mincer or grinder about the size of a bread loaf. So you would think is this a binary weapon, two chemicals that would get mixed together, is it sort of a gas canister . Hard to say. It would have to be something really big to affect the whole airplane. Remember the air conditioning recirculates the air every three minutes. The pilots could dump the cabin pressure or dump the oxygen masks. Its certainly chilling that isis and al qaeda continue to be obsessed. It shows insight into their thinking while were focused on some kind of an explosive set off in that way, theyre moving in a different direction. Exactly. Its sort of this technological tit for tat. We know that theyre trying to get different kinds of laptop bombs that can get by our screening machines so theyre trying Something Else here. Theyre going to continue to work and find innovative ways to bring down airplanes or affect the general flying public. Is this kind of threat something you had heard about before or is this brand new . This is brand new. I looked back and i couldnt find anything that has to do with gas. It just shows you how determined they are to bring down an airplane and get around screening procedures. Like you say, its chilling. Steve ganyard, thank you very much. Amy . An investigation is under way after an airport worker punched a passenger. A photo posted online shows the worker attacking the man in front of all those other passengers, and if you look closely, you can see that passenger wias holding his baby. This happened as the passengers were leaving nice, france, going to london after a 13hour delay. Eye witnesses say the two were arguing and the passenger may have tried to film the worker. Easy jet says its concerned to see the photo, adding that the worker is not one of its employees but works for the airport. Thats a bit concerning. Some punch right there. Now were moving to a prison break in alabama. 12 inmates escaped overnight and 11 have been caught. Law enforcement officials are warning residents to stay indoors. Diane macedo tracking the latest. Reporter officers are still searching for one of those dozen inmates that escaped from a high security correctional facility outside birmingham, alabama last night around 6 30 p. M. Multiple Law Enforcement agencies are now on the hunt and even some private citizens are getting involved. This morning a manhunt is on for this prisoner, one of a dozen inmates who escaped overnight from a high security center. The other 11 have been found overnight and brought back to prison. Residents are on edge after being ordered to stay inside and turn on all their outside lights. The crimes of the dirty dozen range from resisting arrest to drug possession to attempted murder. The Walker County Sheriffs Office first reported the inmates missing on their facebook page. By midnight 8 of the escapees had been found. The Walker County jail built in 1998 only holds about 250 prisoners. Neighboring Police Forces joined in the hunt with several local residents tweeting they would shoot the men on site. We dont have many details about the escape at this point but the big question is where is this guy. The other big question is how this group got out. 12 people. 12 people out of 250 roughly that are kept at that facility, so a very big question that investigators for sure will be answering as soon as they find this inmate. A lot of questions there and theres another mystery we turn to now, one of the country tou people visiting Niagara Falls say they were shocked when they saw this smelly blackwater bubbling up near the falls. The inky blob growing for hours over the weekend, catching Business Owners, city officials off guard. Well, it turns out that discolored water was legal discharge from the local waste Water Treatment plant. The sewage discharge apparently is done periodically during the year. Heres a suggestion, maybe they dont do it during the height of the tourist season so people dont have to see it. And turn off the satellites. Yeah. Maybe theyll make a change. Happy monday. Tourists are also facing problems on north carolinas outer banks. Thousands forced to evacuate after a massive power outage that officials now say could take up to two weeks to fix. Elle reporter this area without power for five days. Tourists told to get out, forced to go home. Deputies set up a roadblock behind me to make sure people know these Barrier Islands are closed. This morning a popular vacation destination now a ghost town. I think this is the only gas station that has power. Its pretty disappointing. I mean, we had another day left and wanted to be on the beach. Reporter 50,000 vacationers forced to evacuate north carolinas outer banks. The governor declaring a state of emergency after an accident knocked out the main source of power for two entire islands. Only residents allowed to stay behind living off of diesel generators. Its been hot, our food spoiled, very uncomfortable. Reporter the nightmare started thursday. Construction crews working on a new bridge made a mishap, driving a steel casing through all three underground transmission lines to the area, killing power, forcing businesses to shut down. This is peak season, so every day that were not able to do normal business were losing thousands of dollars. Reporter the Electric Company now saying the power will be fully restored in a week or two, but Business Owners say the damage is done. If its one week, we might be able to save the summer. If its three weeks, its going to be devastation for this island. Reporter now, they are allowing construction crews and residents onto the islands. There are generators that have been brought in but officials are asking people to be mindful and conserve energy. Michael . Thank you, eva. Hopefully theyre rushing because as she said they want to save their summer. That makes a lot of sense. We turn to new Jersey Governor Chris Christie whos involved in a nonso fan friendly moment. Governor christie getting into the face of a man who accused christie of being a hypocrite. This comes just a few weeks after christie was booed when he caught that foul ball at a new york mets game, and of course this month the governor was also seen lounging on a beach closed to the public during the state budget showdown. Its been a bit of a tough summer for chris christie. Tough summer. To ginger now with more on that water rescue. We love to share a this is actually in Southwestern Colorado west ofo, you can see the man and his dog flailing there. The car was in a dry riverbed and it filled with water. A brand new tropical dprtion has formed theres a tropic a little storm watch for tampa bay, you could see 3 to 6 inches of rain. It will pass florida and looks like it will stay that way. Select cities brought to you by walmart. Reporter a beautiful morning across the region, were dry on Storm Tracker 6 live double scan. As we head outside we have sunshine up over the horizon. We have bright conditions over the ben franklin bridge. In the 60s in most neighborhoods. The humidity is low. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast were going for a high of 89 today. Sunny and not all that humid. A nice way to kick july out the door. Phillies baseball this afternoon sunscreen for that. Tomorrow, a bit humid, not too bad, 91. Stickier wednesday thursday and friday with a few thunderstorms around. Stay safe traveling thi summer. And the top chef battling court. What the popular host says she was threatened with when here car pulled up to a shoot. And the case of a shrinking airline seat. 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Thats luke on modern family finding out he was rejected from college, and hundreds of families are feeling that similar frustration this morning, thinking they were accepted to the university of california irvin only to have their offer yanked just weeks before the new school year starts. Its hard to imagine. Whats the backup plan . You dont have one. Going to talk about on the big board. Looking forward to that discussion. Also it is a businessy morning in washington. President trump is swearing in his new chief of staff, john kelly, replacing Reince Priebus. The president holding a Cabinet Meeting as he faces tensions with russia and north korea. And screening is stepping up overseas after authorities uncovered a plot to take down an airline in australia. Four suspects under arrest for reportedly planning to build a toxic bomb filled with deadly poison gas. The u. S. Department of Homeland Security says they are assisting with that investigation and have taken extraordinary steps to protect flights bound for the United States. This is a serious one. Were going to move to a different travel threat, the latest on the american tourist shot on vacation this weekend in the turks and caicos. Theney is recovering this morning but he is not the First American shot this summer. Gio benitez is here with the story. Reporter that latest victim is in a Florida Hospital this morning and the search is on for the shooting suspects. The governor on the island is issuing an urgent warning about the increasing number of attacks there. This morning, another american tourist apparently targeted and shot in turks and caicos. This time a prominent d. C. Lawyer and Georgetown Professor staying at this private villa. 57yearold Michael Jones and his family returning to their lavish beach front rental friday. Two masked men forcing their way through the back of the property just after 10 00 p. M. Even a Security Guard couldnt stop them. The Security Guard had been lightly bound at the scene with his own shoe laces. Reporter jones confronting one of the intruders but was shot. The men getting away with just a laptop. What we dont know is why the shot was discharged, what led up to that shot being discharged. Reporter and its happened before. The governor there citing an increased incidents of violent crimes, 130 robberies in the tourist area last year, most of them with guns. Last month kevin newman from alabama almost died at the end of his familys weeklong dream vacation, a gunman robbing and shooting him near his resort. Doctors removing his kidney, putting him in a medically induced coma. Werstand why it happened. Reporter newman telling gma overnight, my family and i are recovering and will not live our lives in fear. Private moment rental sites are becoming more and more popular. One of the most popular, ab and b hosting 80 million guests in 2016. By all accounts the latest victim, jones, did everything right. The villa even had an alarm system and of course that Security Guard. We have to remember that a Security Guard is different in the u. S. You have to go in with a really open set of being vigilant when youre staying overseas, locking doors, making sure that when you do travel that you dont look flashy. Reporter and if youre at a hotel or resort, experts tell us dont just let anyone in your room. A criminal could be posing as a housekeeper, so call the front desk first, and make sure theyre legit. And were told you should check the state departments website for whichever country youre visiting and even submit your travel plans through the smart travel program. We should tell you in the case of turks and caicos, theres no specific warning about armed robberies so you have to do your own homework. Great advice, thank you. Now to boston where jury selection is starting in the top chef extortion trial. Four teamsters are charged with threatening show producers trying to secure union jobs, one even accused of threaeatening t host himself, model padma lakshmi. It is a really life drama spurred by bravos show top chef. Teamsters used old schooljobs. They described what was a terrifying ordeal. Doug, please pack your lives and go. Reporter padmaed to placing chopping block. Now shes preparing a deal with some heat outside of the kitchen in athe model and top chef tv h is expected to testify during a trial of four with attempting to extort the shows Production Company while they were filming at the massachusetts restaurant because top chefs Production Company is nonunion. Lakshmi told the fbi she felt threatened when pulling up to the restaurant to film, describing the situation as volatile and tense. When one of the defendants came up to her window was down and he leaned in less than 15 inches away from her face and said something intimidating, like, look what we have here, and ill smash your pretty little face. In Court Documents obtained by abc news, prosecutors said without using their hands, the teamsters bumped their stomachs and chests into the Production Assistant and several others. Prosecutors also say some time that morning tires of at least nine vehicles belonging to the Production Company were slashed. But the defendants who lakshmi described asphalt guys with beer guts who looked like smokers all pleaded not guilty. They argue their picketing was part of their unions political protest against the abuse of the massachusetts film tax credit. The brazen nature of their actions, the way that they carried out their intimidation tactics in front of so many people makes this a persuasive case for the prosecutors. Reporter according to one Police Officers report, the top chef crew also acted want to cross the picket line and has been trying to put this whole day behind her ever since it happened and was reluctant to testify but srwd with it and we what happens. Sounds like a before the movie script. Right. All right, thank you, linsey. Coming up, the fight for more leg room. How much are you losing, and could a new ruling stop those Airline Seats from shrinking. Well talk to t. J. Holmes about that when we come back. Done. Rs. Supercool notebooks. Done. Thats mom taking care of business. But who takes care of mom . Office depot office max. This week, filler paper just one cent with five dollar minimum purchase. Taking care of business. For threeget the lowestpetsmart prices of the month. Buy one, get one 50 off on select dog and cat food like blue buffalo, purina, and nutro. Plus, get 2 pails of tidy cats for three days only, at petsmart. 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We are back now with what a judge is calling the case of the incredible Airline Seats. The faa has now been ordered to take a closer look and t. J. Holmes is taking a closer look for us. Whats up, t. J. Your comfort is not the problem. Thats why for years theyve rejected calls and complaints to regulate the size and leg room of Airline Seats, because thats not their issue, nur comfort. Their issue however is safety. That is in their purview and now a court is arguing that an uncomfortable seat might also be an unsafe one. Weve seen cabin confrontations lead to shocking scenes like this. Oh, my god. Reporter and drestressed ou passengers over cancellations and delays. These are the friendly skies . You stay out of this reporter and on top of all that, as the cabin pressure is rising, leg room is shrinking. Now a federal judge is calling on the faa to take a closer look at the amount of space passengers have on commercial planes, responding to advocacy group, fliers rights request that the faa step in and finally regulate seat sizing. During the certification of the aircraft, the faa looks at how quickly all the passengers can get off the airplane in the event of an accident. Theres a great difference between people who are trying to get off the aircraft in a test and what happens in a real accident when people see fire, smokes, flames. They react differently. Reporter according to fliers rights, seat widths have decreased an inch and a half since the early 2000s and say the space between seats has decreased from an average of 35 inches to 31 inches. Some bargain airlines like frontier and spirit have just 28 inches of leg room. The seats really were designed for the way people were in the 1950s and obviously people have gotten larger, theyve gotten older, theyve gotten taller. Reporter all right, gotten taller. 65 these days apparently. People getting bigger . They are. We have smaller seats and human beings literally americans are getting larger and this is an issue. You got a guy 6565, like str. Hes sitting in a seat. This is a luxury these days, thats 35 inches that you have right now when it comes to room. Fellas can yall help me out. This is before they lean back. This is before they lean. A lot are going to 31 inches and you cant even move the seat all the way back. Im going to have to get to know my neighbor real well. But some argue that the reason they are doing this and they want smaller seats, you can get more seats on the plane and the argument is you got more seats on the plane, we can spread the wealth when it comes to prices. So if they have to have fewer seats on the plane, maybe the prices will go up. Thats one argument that some people are making. You dont buy it. I dont it doesnt do me any good because i cant sit to go anywhere anyway. I think people want a little more dollars. As a matter of fact, lets move this out of here so i can some people are using 28 inches, the low cost airlines. Yes, a lot of people are shocked by that but, yes, they say its better for the cost. The interest makes is that they would pass that savings to us, the consumer. We would have to see about that. You have to trust the airline. Of course we do. Thanks, t. J. Thanks. Stray. Coming up next, outrage over that major universitys decision to revoke hundreds ofeeks befor. I dont want to lie down. I refuse to lie down. Why suffer . Stand up to chronic migraine with botox® botox® is the only treatment for chronic migraine shown to actually prevent headaches and migraines before they even start. Botox® is for adults with chronic migraine, 15 or more headache days a month each lasting 4 hours or more. Its injected by a doctor once every 12 weeks. And is covered by most insurance. 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Well, thats what happened at the university of california at irvine for nearly 500 students. Outrage is growing and some are fighting back. Nick watt has all the details from los angeles. Nick, what exactly is going on here . Reporter good morning, michael. The headline is this, the university of california at irvine has rescinded 499 offers of admission only two months before the start of the fall term. Just imagine youre all excited about going to college, youve been accepted, life is good and then the 11th hour, maybe the 10th hour, the rug pulled from under you. Aint happening, you are no longer going to uc irvine like you bougthought. One tweeter calling that a disgrace and many saying its because the college is overbooked. Is that true . Is the University Giving them a specific reason why their admission has been revoked . They are. The chancellor told us that some kids were denied entry because of Poor High School senior year grades and most of them did not file the paperwork by the july 1st deadline. One was commenting, sorry, snowflakes, no special treatment if you dont follow the rules, but a lot of the kids are saying thats not true, they did follow the rules. They say they sent everything, and world around the social media camp fire, many of those claim the college just offered places to too many people and is cooking up bogus reasons to get them down to a freshman class of a little over 6,000. Do the students have any recour recourse . Yes, they do. One 18yearold wannabe student told the l. A. Times, i couldnt stop trying, i thought i was going to pass out. The University Says she didnt send two transcripts by the deadline, she said she did. They have filed appeals. The college admitted they were tougher on admissions than they were in the past. They apologized, admitted they could have hanltd it better and urging anyone who feels theyve been treated unfairly to launch an appeal. Thats a stressy summer. Some of these students gave up other opportunities at other universities and other scholarships and now left empty hands, right, nick . Yes. You know, two months before class begins, you know, its not a lot of time. But the University Says, listen, we are just playing by the rules. These kids did not put stuff in by the deadline, so themes the breaks. That is tough. Nick watt, thanks so much. Coming up next on gma, the incredible doctor who came to the rescue just before giving birth. Now shes sharing her story. Thats a super woman. And the legal battles brewing between lady gaga and music producer dr. Luke. Give extra. Get extra. The ford summer sales event is in full swing. They are not listening to me. Watch this. Who wants ice creeaaaaaam . So thats how you get them to listen. 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Push on to the gore point. If youre hopping on i95 northbound there was a crash north of cottman avenue. Even though the crash has cleared were dealing with a delay bridge through this point north of cottman. An accident on the ramp University Avenue to the westbound schuylkill expressway has cleared. Traveling farther west they did milling overnight by city avenue. Watch out for a rough ride there. Construction blocking eastbound lanes of the walt whitman bridge and the columbus boulevard has southbound work in Queen Village one lane getting by there. Crash this chester route 1 oxford bypass watch out for that there. Lets go outside to david murphy it its an salute lovely start absolutelily start to the week. Reporter its warm today, 89 degrees, lots of sun and humidity treating us well. Tomorrow, hotter you can high of 91. Slightly more humid, but not bad. It does get stickier wednesday, thursday, friday. We have highs from the upper 80s and low 90s. 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The pregnant obgny gives anothe herself. The incredible story this morning. Plus, get ready. Matthew mcconaughey and molly square. And shes here to say good morning, america good morning, america. How can you not love molly. Brought it brought it this. Surprised me, caught off guard by this. Happy monday, ever you with us. We have an inspiring story about a mom on a mission to cure here childs illness after medicine didnt work. Was food the key to his healing. Dr. Ashton is here to weigh in. More on that ahead but first top story in our morning rundown, escalating tensions with russia as the president tries to hit the reset button swearing in his new chief of staff this morning. Reporter trump is hoping that retired general john kelly can bring some calm to this chaotic west wing but this morning first and foremost the president has a bit of a diplomatic issue on his hands. Russia is retaliating for those tough sanctions. Vladimir putin announced the expulsion of hundreds of diplomatic personnel in that country. Talking about more than 700 people here cutting the Embassy Staff down to 455 bodies. Thats the same number of Russian Diplomats working in the u. S. Vicepresident mike pence is traveling abroad this morning. Ses moscow will not deter the commitment of the United States of america to our security, the security of our allies, and the security of freedomloving nations around the world. Reporter now, russia ss reso those sanctions that are meant to be payback for russias election meddling. President trump had been critical of those sanctions but we are told he is expected to sign legislation soon. Overwhelming support in the senate and house for that, release deadly toxic gas to bring down an airliner. Reporter george, airports across australia on high alert after a terrorist plot to take down a plane was foiled. Australian officials saying four men have been arrested for preparing some kind of aimed to air passengers. Police have been conducting raids in the sydney suburbs and believe the attempt to be motivated by islamic fundamentalism. Details are scarce but local sources say two fathers and two sons of lebanese descent had been arrested, yet to be charged. One local newspaper with chilling details, a toxic gas possibly being prepared to kill or immobilize everyone on board. Sources telling abc news american officials are closely monitoring the case because of suspected communication between the plotters and isis. This is a brand new threat and amy has todays top headlines. Tensions are escalating with north korea following its alarming missile test yet. Overnight japans Prime Minister said he spoke with President Trump and they agreed to take further action. The phone call came after north korea launched a longrange missile that may be capable of reaching as far as new york. 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Nailed it or should i say, nailed it govnor. [ cheers and applause ] welcome back to gma, everybody. Whoo. We have a wonderful audience here with ushis morning. [ applause ] and we have the wonderful lara spencer with top news. Thank you, michael strahan. Good morning to you. Good morning, guys, and good morning to u. Lets begin with t get ready. The woman who brought you the romantic world of vampires versus ware wolves has more to share. Stephanie meyer is given an order for a supernatural thriller that sounds really good. It will be called the rook based on a 2012 novel. The series which meyer is coexecutive producing revolves around a young woman who wakes up in a london park surrounded by dead bodies. Listen, amy, this is up your alley. Sad but true. She has total amnesia and pursued by paranormal adversaries. A lot going on. They say the lead will be one of the, quote, most fascinating and thrilling female protagonists on television ever. Okay. Tough job. I like all the ingredients. I do. Sounds great. Ill check it out. All right, stars has announced the rook will be part of its 2018 lineup. Cannot wait to see that. [ applause ] what else, what else. All right, an International Superstar and lead of quantico, priyanka chopra, will try here skills on the other side of the story and serve as executive producer of a series of a former bollywood star tries to insert if you will her colorful lifestyle and her boring if you will neighbors. The still untitled series is in the early stages of development. Chopra writing on instagram she is so looking forward to rolling up her sleeves and getting to work. She is already one of the hardest working actresses. She is a massive star. She does not need to do any of this. I think she won miss world, miss universe. Shes a huge movie star there, now a huge star here, now working behind the cameras. And congratulations to her. You bet. [ applause ] talking to her, when shes not filming quantico, she flies to india and does movies. Shes a very hard worker and really fun and nice too. You route for her. Finally in pop news this morning, a case of the boys copying the girls. A new trend is catching a lot of attention this morning. Its male cleavage. Oh, no. Come on. It is. Im not going to say i have or have not seen it right here on the set. Singer and actor harry styles, hes doing it. Basketball star dwayane wade is doing it. Many stars and models showing off their smooth packs with their shirts unbuttoned to their sternums all to show off their assets. Men want to show off their physiques like their female counterparts. They say the look works best with button down shirts. You want them buttoned halfway down but tucked in at the bottom for a neat cleavage look. The look is not for everybody, as you might imagine. Smaller cleavage can be tasteful. Experts say if a best to keep those bad boys under wraps. Theres no hair, they wax. Remember the wild and crazy guys . Absolutely. They were ahead of the curve. Wait until tomorrows show. [ applause ] he promised it, guys. Tune in tomorrow. George, i cant go alone, man. I need you as a backup. Thats pop news. Well done. [ applause ] were going to move on now to our gma cover story, a new twist in the legal battle between kesha and her former producer, dr. Luke. Shes accused him of abuse. Hes suing her for defamation, and his legal team now trying to bring lady gaga into the case. Diane macedo with the details. Reporter just when we thought the legal battle couldnt get uglier, dr. Lukes lawyers are now trying to force lady gaga to testify. They say she witnessed keshas alleged defamatory comments and urged sony music to fire him. Lady gaga is pushing back. Fighting against being pulled into the legal fight between kesha and music producer dr. Luke. Lawyers served gaga with a court order over the weekend compelling her to testify in a deposition, this after they say the singer refused to submit a date. Now in a statement to variety, gagas lawyers accuse lukes team of attempting to manipulate the truth and exaggerating lady gagas role. Lady gagas team have said in a statement they have given everything that dr. Lukes lawyers asked for and theyre happy to take it on in open court if thats what it requires. Reporter suing kesha for defamation after she sued him for sexual aassault. Her case brought a wave of public support including from lady gaga who frequently tweeted messages of solidarity under the hashtag, free kesha. Lady gaga has very much been in support of kesha. Its been more than four years since she put out a record. Her career was at a complete stand still. Reporter kesha asked for an injunction, allowing her to release music without permission from luke. Ive been a prisoner of the pain reporter now the singer is releasing a string of new songs and getting ready for a massive tour for her upcoming album. Reporter with that spp now issued, gaga will have to set a date for appearance of three hours at a deposition and lukes attorneys have mentioned that celebrities, plural, are being deposed in the case, so mike and amy, we will be staying tuned for what other big names may be called to testify. Diane, we appreciate that. Now to that incredible special delivery. An off duty doctor stepping in to save a babys life. But she didnt do it just on any day. She did it while she was just hours away from giving birth herself. Take a look. Reporter for dr. Amanda he is, delivering babies is all in a days work. I probably delivered since i started over 1,000 babies. Reporter but when the doctor who was nine months pregnant herself arrived at the hospital in the earliest stages of her own labor, preparing to be induced for the birth of her second daughter, the last thing she was expecting was to put on her scrubs. I was waiting for an iv, waiting to get hooked up to the monitors and my husband actually said is that a woman screaming. Reporter down the hall, her patient leah johnson, was in labor with her fourth baby and her contractions were speeding up but the oncall doctor had yet to arrive. She was a patient of mine and i had seen her a few times throughout the pregnancy. When i came down to the hall room i made sure i put on another gown to cover my backside. It looked normal, i dont think you could tell i was wearing a hospital gown. Reporter leahs baby girl making her debut and 12 hours later amandas daughter made hers. The new moms connecting over skype. Ive been talking about you for a week now. Im glad to finally get to speak to you. I know, im glad youre doing well. Reporter leah counting her blessings, and dr. Amanda too, both marveling in the births of their sweet little girls. Im so happy. You deserve to be recognized. I tell you, i had no idea when you came into the room that thats what was going on. Im impressed with how you did. I cant believe how fast you went and you were totally in control. It was amazing. [ applause ] great story. Incredible story. Our senior medical correspondent dr. Jennifer ashton is here. Incredible story, but how is this medically possible . I think we definitely have to file this one under the category of i am woman, hear me roar. I mean, look, its possible because every labor, every induction, every delivery is different and thats not only true woman versus another woman but within the same woman it can be different. And they just have to be at different stages in the course of their labor and delivery. This was for the doctor an eelective induction which obviously hadnt started yet, and for the woman, the patient, second stage of delivery, and that only takes if everything goes well a couple of seconds to a couple of minutes. In a situation where you have fetal distress, how much time is available . Fullterm babies, they are built to withstand the stress of labor and delivery because its not just stressful for the mom but for the baby too so their heart rate can drop periodically. That happens all the time. In general when it goes down and stays down, we start the clock, the clock starts ticking and we can watch that for a few minutes. Personally i gave it like a six to sevenminute limit and then that baby has to come out, whether thats with a stat csection or operative delivery like forceps or vacuum and when you hear that primal shriek you know things are starting to go down. I like how you put that. Thats the technical term. But was this a safe scenario for either of them though, for either one of them . I think you have to remember there are two patients for every one pregnant woman so in this case four lives at stake, the doctor, the hospital, the nursing staff would never let anything go on that would endanger any one of those four lives. But i think it speaks to the very powerful drive that all Health Care Professionals have. We always sacrifice, compromise our own sleep, our own health for the sake of the patient and thats what you saw. Two moms who were fighting for their babies, really. Absolutely. A great sisterhood. Super women. I love seeing the after pictures, all the smiling faces. Me too. Thank you, dr. Jen. We appreciate it. Lets head over now to ginger. Emily just became a tropic storm an hour ago, now we have this making landfall in the next two hours. We knew there was going to be a lot rain. Look at that, Tropical Storm watches in tampa and fort meyers. The flood watch is what i want you to key into, 3 to of inches of rain, or 8plus locally. Well see problems on the roads. It weakens and becomes a depression and Tropical Storm heads out wednesday, thursday, away from land, rainfall, rainfall, rainfall, is key, 4plus widespread in some cases up to 8. Lets get a check closer to home. Reporter no such problems like that around here. Storm tracker 6 live double scan we have sunshine across the region high cirrus clouds in the distance. Temperatures nice and low humidity to start out. This afternoon, lots of sunshine, not very humid, 89 degrees is the high. Tomorrow, 91 a bit more humid and not bad. 92. Wednesday, thursday, friday, and even saturday it will be stickier. Of the most anticipated shows of the season. Yes, the men tell all episode where rachel and her sutures confront each other, and abc news Abbie Boudreau is in l. A. With a sneak peek. Reporter expect a big night of drama, maybe the biggest ever. This season of the bachelorette is a historymaking one in more ways than one. A season of highs. I like adventure. Reporter and lows. Oh, my god reporter in rachels search to find true love. I dont have the answers for you. Reporter down to her last three men, brian, eric and peter. And a couple of emotional evenings in the fantasy suite. I dont want to hurt anyones feelings. Reporter tonight an explosive men tell all. You cannot call anyone on this stage a joke. I can say whatever i want. Reporter demario defending himself over claims he had a secret girlfriend while he was on the show. We were on again off again. Reporter kenny and lee facing off after a season of sabotage and drama. One day youll understand. Reporter and lee in the hot seat, confronted over the revolutions over controversial tweets. Its still pushing you to behave in a certain way towards kenny, eric, me in a way that you dont even recognize. Reporter rachel in a gma exclusive first look confronting lee facetoface for the first time. Its so disappointing to me because you had such strong opinions on such sensitive topics, and you turned it into something so ugly, like i didnt want to get any life into you, your opinions or your brief time on the show. I feel like im in such a unique position to where i have the opportunity to be a spokesperson for africanamericans, for women. Reporter rachel also doing her best to help heartbroken dean move forward after their shocking breakup. Are you still in love with her . Theres a part of me that will always love her but im ready to move on. I have a lot of love for dean even today. So to sit there on the couch and hear him question me and not have closure, that was hart. Reporter now the clock is ticking for the happy ending rachel is promising her fans after already announcing shes engaged. It worked, it worked and i love i love that theyre letting me tell people that it worked and i really did find my equal. How is brian doing . Who . Did you hear her . She tried it and it did not work. I know you guys wanted me to do that. Reporter tonights twohour event is one of the most intense ever. It goes beyond the rose, diving deep into racism and other big issues. And as for rachel, she did reveal one clue about her fiance, she has a code name for him, jerome. La lara, back to you. That does not sound like brian. Very good try. I totally appreciated the effort. Thanks, abs. You can see the bachelorette, the men tell all tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern right here on abc. Coming up, get ready good morning, im tamala edwards, 8 27 july 31. How is the commute going . Matt pellman has answers. Reporter weekend over fun is over, time to come back from the shore. 42 northbound is heavier than norm from 41 to 295. Of a crash by cools road off to the side. Speeds are not good 9 Miles Per Hour in lindenwald along the white horse pike. Theres a crash by white horse avenue blocking traffic. Dont use berlin road that has a lot of construction going on pretty much all this week. Gibbs borough road could be the way to go instead. The construction is by the patco lindenwald station. It could be difficult getting in and out of there. Ac rail line is not returning on the bus instead between philadelphia and cherry hill because the truck struck the controversy pass friday afternoon. Youll be on the bus a couple of weeks. Lets go outside to david murphy this is how you start the week david. Reporter absolutely beautiful and continuation of the gorgeous weather we had yesterday. 69 degrees in philadelphia. Cooler in the suburbs. Low humidity, this afternoon gorgeous sunshine and 89 the high. Tomorrow, hot 91, bright, a little bit more humid, but not too bad. Wednesday, thursday, friday well get increasingly sticky and there will be a thunderstorm around on those days. Saturday it will be stormy with a cold front coming through. Humid, 84. By the time we get to sunday, nicer, 85 degrees. Gorgeous out here now, tam. Ill be out for a cup of coffee with you, david. Matthew mcconaughey is next on g. M. A. Well see you in 30. Youbusted tail. Rd. And impressed the boss. Maybe, its time to be your own. Transform your career with strayer universitys mba program today. Lets get it, america. Welcome to my house [ cheers and applause ] welcome back to gma and weve got a great audience here as you can hear on this monday morning. And you know, Nothing Better than laughing and laughing with your audience. We have a special guest whos going to make us laugh, a true superstar. Shes starring in a new movie called fun mom dinner. Please welcome molly shannon. [ cheers and applause ] yeah, george. Amy. Michael. Thank you. Thank you for coming. This is so fun. Isnt it . We are so excited to talk about your movie, fun mom dinner. Yes. Your character in the movie is obsessed with social media. Yes, she is. Shes an oversharer. We want to talk about your instagram because we checked yours out too. You did . Yeah. We found this awesome video of you water skiing. Tell us about this. My family and i were on vacation in Lake Arrowhead and my kids and my husband were going to wake up and water ski and theyre like, youre going to do it too, right, mommy. And i didnt have a desire to do it. That was your first time . My very first time. Thank you, george. Takes a lot of muscle. So much muscle. I stayed up and i was so nerv s nervous. I was surprised how out of breath you get. I dont need to do it again, lets say that. But im glad i did it. Molly just mentioned shes a very physical person and in this movie, fun mom dinner, she flips a guy over a table. Do you ever worry about stuff like that when youre filming because you are such a physical comedian. Yes, i actually do worry about that. I think because i did physical comedy so much on snl, we always had the same people helping us with stunts and making sure everything was padded. But in movies, things do happen so you do have to be careful. So i always think yeah, that was that was the hardest. I think i learned so much about i would prefer if it was just me and an object versus me and another person, but yeah. Ridiculous. We saw her in snl. Lets see a little bit of the movie. I got us a reservation. Would you want to join . Topless . Yeah, topless. Sexy dancers. No, tapaa. Wow, that would be really nice, thank you. We like to do these fun mom dinners, lots of wine, no kids. Its kind of heaven. Why not . Yes, yes. Do your kids think youre a fun mom . They do. I think they think im silly. I like to play games a lot. Like my we were interviewing new babysitter nannies and i said to my daughter, we should trick my son nolan, her brother. So my daughter stella dressed me up in an outfit, put a wig on and sunglasses and a scarf and i pretended to show up on the front lawn to ring the doorbell and we had my son and his friend look out the window and i pretended i was the nanny interviewing for a job. I picked up a leaf and acted really weird and waved to them and they were like, she looks weird so we do silly things like that. Theres a great karaoke scene in the movie. You look so natural at it. When is the last time you went out and had a karaoke night . Well, michael, im not that big into karaoke but i had dinner recently with kate beck ins sale and she said, come on. So we stayed up all night and did shots of tequila. Actually, she did. But we sang songs from annie and it was so much fun. There you are. I love that. That was from our karaoke night in los angeles. Your instagram. You really have. Isnt it amazing the more tequila you drink, the more you like karaoke. Exactly. And the better you sing. Yeah. But things get out of hand in this movie at the dinner. Im curious, do you have anything you can say for Morning Television about maybe one of your real life fun mom out dinners . Yes, michael. I had this crazy fun night. My husband was out of town and my neighbors tracy and laura morning tv now. Morning tv. They came over and it started where we were sitting on the front lawn and had a little champagne. Then my friends came over and we stayed up all night drinking champagne on the front lawn. By midnight the kids were making waffles and things were breaking. It was one of the best nights. We all laughed. It was spontaneous and fun. And your husband missed it all. My husband missed it all, yes. But i think the movie is interesting because it is true that sometimes you become friends with these mothers who have kids and you may be the only thing you have in common is you have kids and you think i would never be friends with this kind of person if it werent for our children but then it is true in life, i had a friend like that who our kids were friends and i thought were so different and i really grew to love her and it was funny because she wouldnt be the type of person that i would be friends with. I love some of my mom friends. Yeah, and theyre sharing your closest thing which is being a mom. Your children. Your children, yeah. It takes a village. Youve had that, lara . Oh gosh, yeah. I have this whole crew and were so different and theyre nothing like the girls that i grew up with but theyre so dear to my heart and we all have something to offer and we really do parent as a group. We all do here too. It does help to have other parents to lean on and have tequila with occasionally. It really does. Tell you what, i guarantee a lot of moms are going to have a fun mom night out by seeing the movie. The movie is fun mom dinner. It will be in select theaters and on demand this friday. Check out the very funny molly shannon. Molly, we love you. And coming up, the mother helping her son conquer his illness with diet. Was that the key . Dr. Ashton will be back with us to discuss this story. Strummed guitar you cant experience the Canadian Rockies through a screen. You have to be here, with us. Strummed guitar travel through this natural wonder and get a glimpse of amazing. With a glass of wine in one hand, and a camera in the other, aboard rocky mountaineer. Canadas Rocky Mountains await. Call your travel agent or rocky mountaineer for special offers now. Welcome back to good morning, look at the crowd out here, i have found, whats your name, again . Ron. Youre missing all the rain in naples. You can see emily west of certify it will increase in intensity tomorrow morning drying out. Youre totally missing it ron. Thats the big picture. Lets get a look lows e closer to home. Reporter no precipitation here, Storm Tracker 6 live double scan moving from the 60s to the 80s. 91 hot and humid tomorrow, stickier starting wednesday. Fe in the book called the other side of impossible. Its about people running out of medical options and finding hope in unconventional approaches. Mara schiavocampo is here with the details. Good morning, the stories are remarkable, a child making a full recovery from a painful illness, a woman confined to a wheelchair walking again, all because they wouldnt stop looking for answers. Reporter at just three years old, suzanna meadows son shepherd was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis causing pain, swelling and fatigue. His doctors prescribed medication but it made him sick. With the pain getting worse, suzanna felt helpless. She took a leap of faith and researched options outside the realm of conventional medicine. It was desperation. Absolutely. Reporter she removed dairy, gluten and limited sugar and added fish oil, probiotics and a chinese antiinflammatory herb. After six weeks he said, mommy, my knees dont hurt anymore and ran out of the room and you can imagine how stunning that was for us. While theres no way to know for sure what helped him, i believe that it was this protocol that we tried. Reporter once a skeptic of nonscience based medicine, suzanna wrote about her sons recovery in the other side of impossible where she profiles six other stories of people who hope to defy the medical odds, going beyond conventional medicine to take on daunting conditions. One of those stories is of terry wall, a clinical professor at the university of iowa, diagnoses with multiple sclerosis in 2000. After just three years, she was confined to a wheelchair. But terry is a fighter, spending nights pouring through scientific articles looking for the latest studies on m. S. She created a food plan, an extreme form of the paleo diet. At nine months i got on my bike and biked around the block for the first time. Im crying, my wifes crying, my kids are crying. Reporter 17 years later she has regained almost all of her muscle function. Such an amazing story. Suzann suzannas son is off medication and is painfree. The people in this book did work in consultation with their doctors on these treatments and the one thing they had in common, perseverance. They would not give up. The power of positive thinking, amazing, mara, thank you. Dr. Jen is with us to talk about it. What is your assessment on the link between these elimination diets and chronic disease . Theres not a lot of Good Research out there yet and hopefully there will be. Let me explain basically whats involved in an elimination diet. If you look at this cascade here, this is kind of the major food groups thats part of the typical american diet. The thinking is they all may contribute to a common pathway that ends in some type of inflammation that a lot of chronic illnesses have. With an elimination diet you break that down, bear it down to the bottom level, take all these things out and then you slowly add them in, reintroduce them to see which ones are causing the problem. Another way of thinking, youre kind of taking all the junk out of our diet and eating clean and the thinking is that that may reduce inflammation. Theres not a lot of research out there yet on this. Nutritional science is lagging way behind medical science. Youve probably heard the saying let food be thy medicine. This is an example. We saw the woman with m. S. , amazing. There are some patient scenarios that should not try this. Yeah. Any time you take something to an extreme and potentially sacrifice or compromise something that is proven and known to work in most patients, then that becomes a little risky. If youre becoming malnourished in the course of this elimination diet which generally is a temporary thing, its not meant to be totally long term in most cases, i think thats a problem. Again, mara said it at the end, the best, in my opinion, Holistic Health care is when you incorporate the best of western medicine to the best of nonwestern medicine and really individualize that and find what works. Nutrition and food has to be a big part. Its our fuel, just like a car. Definitely. Mara mentioned perseverance and im a huge proponent of that. The energy you put out is the energy you get back. Does that really play into this . Absolutely it does. In medicine and science we call that the placebo effect. This is real. Its thought to work up to 30 of the time which means if you go into something expecting a positive outcome lieb yoke your surgery, you have a good chance at experiencing that. The flip side of that is also true. If you go into something expecting the worst, you have a good chance that thats what youre going to feel. This leads to this. So important. This is really an important story. I hope and pray its all good. Thank you so much, dr. Jen. The other side of impossible is out now. Check it out. Coming up, check out Matthew Mcconaughey. Hes with us next. Feeling alright plays ] with simply right checking from santander bank, just make one deposit, withdrawal, transfer, or payment each month to waive the monthly fee. And theres no minimum balance. Youre all right with simply right checking from santander bank. Are you feeling all right, baby . With simply right checking from santander bank. And still have dry eye symptoms . Ready for some relief . 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You play walter, evil guy, not exactly the devil, but for you was it cool to play somebody who is deceptively bad but charming at the same time . Yeah, it was a lot of fun. I mean, hes not the devil but hes the devil impersonated. Hes the man in black. Walter, the story is im trying to bring down this tower that holds the universe together. Idris plays the gunslinger, the last in the line. Hes the only man that can keep the tower from falling and the only guy that can kill me. You got to see the movie to see if he does that. You dont think he will. Stephen king has a big fan base, especially when it comes to his books that are turned into movies. Was there any pressure for you or idris to make sure that this came across . Somewhat. Hes got 8 books and theyre not the kind you skim, 800 pages. Its a lot of reading. People have loved the people that love these books i mean have loved them for decades. So were going into it, you got the responsibility of the inherent fans of these books, but pretty quickly it got fun. It just got, you know what, this is going to be our incarnation of this. I got to be the author of walter now. Idris gets to be the author of gunslinger. Stephen was very open of, look, youre going to make the movie. You make it your own. You make it your own based off of what stephen put on the page first and hopefully we put out something that the fans are going to love and the essence of the books. Its also something that if youve never read a page of the books youre going to take a great ride. Tell you what, you never disappoint, let you know that right now. Thank you. Last time you were here, another movie i loved, you were here to talk about gold which i enjoyed. Yeah. You gained 40 pounds for that mov movie. 47 pounds. What was the transformation for this movie . Started off with a tenday fast to kick start losing all the fat that i had on myself in gold. Mind you, putting on 47 is more fun than losing. I can imagine. Started off with a tenday fast and slowly started to move around a bit, like take the stairs to the second floor which i didnt do when i was doing gold. And then just started working out and was happy to know, hey guess what, the old body remembered where it could go and lets get back to 185 and get in shape. You got to get me in lessons, man. Its hard for the old body to get to where it needs to go. I saw this fake story. It said that you were retiring. You were moving to moscow, idaho. I heard about this too. Do you always hear stuff like that about yourself . I heard i have nine kids, too. As far as i know i got three. No, i really do only have three. A buddy of mine goes, hey man, im looking at some property up here and im at this realtor who says she sold you property here in idaho. I said tell her she is lying because i dont have any property in idaho. I like idaho, idaho. But i dont have any property. And youre not retiring yet . No, im not close to retiring. Good. Everybody hear that . [ applause ] when you say you have three kids, we got to say happy birthday to your son. Levi. Just turned 9 the other day. There he is in mauritius where were working right now. We have three, all healthy. Levi is 9, vita is seven and i love the names. Levi is a name for matthew in the bible. We talked about matthew junior if we had a boy. My favorite is matthew two in the bible. Levi was one of six different names. I didnt want it to be matthew junior. L levi was one of six possible boy names. Hes born, find out hes a boy. Youre not thinking about the name. An hour later the doctor comes up and they hand you that card that you fill out. Blank was born at 6 22 p. M. So we went, its levi. Thats how he got his name. Vita we always knew we wanted and livingston, ive met a couple of livingstones in my life and they were men that if you saw them from 200 yards way, it was like, that mans got a great constitution. I thought it was cool, livingston, alvarez mcconaughey. I named my son michael junior. I failed. You have a great constitution, man. Thank you. The dark tower opens nationwide on friday. Well be right back, everybody. Fios is not cable. Were a 100 fiber optic network. And with the new fios gigabit connection. You get our fastest. Internet ever. With download speeds up to 940 megs 20 times faster than most people have. Switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone for 79. 99 a month online for the first year. Plus hbo for one year and multiroom dvr service for two years, all with a twoyear agreement. And switching has never been easier. Get out of your contract with up to a 500 credit to help cover your early termination fee. Go to fiosgigabit. Com want to thank you guys for watching and give a big thanks to Matthew Mcconaughey. Thank you so much. Thank you, man. Great way to start the week. Thanks, guys. Have a great monday. Have a great day. Good morning, im tamala edwards, 8 56 july 31. Lets go over to matt pellman with traffic, good morning. End july like we started it with very, very slow traffic. Schuylkill expressway, they milled a lane overnight. Its crowd and a bumpy ride in the left lane. I have a vehicle that doesnt want to run on the boulevard by large street taking out the inner lane. The phils play 12 35 p. M. , that will give us extra traffic for the evening rush. Watching a crash wempt southbound side of west chester, south of route 100. The ac rail line is not running between here and cherry hill because of the accident friday in pennsauken. Lets go outside to david murphy with a look at accuweather. Good morning. Reporter beautiful start to a beautiful day, tam. Take a look, 72 degrees under mostly sunny skies. Looks like it stays bright today. Humidity is low and staying that way. This afternoons high, 89 degrees. Warm enough for cool drinks if youre exerting yourself. Tuesday, hot a bit humid, not too bad, 91. Stickier wednesday, thursday, friday, scattered storms possible in the afternoon and evening. Saturday a cold front comes through for a period of the day that could be bumpy and drying on sunday. Coming up on action news at noon, a stray bullet flies hitting a local home hitting a 17yearold girl in her living room. Well have more on the search for the gunmen who opened fire in feltonville. Live with kelly and ryan is up next on 6abc. Im tamala edwards. Have a great monday he gets things done stevfor south jersey. O tell you dont believe him. Because Steve Sweeney gets things done for himself, for the special interests who pay for his campaigns, and definitely for chris christie. But Steve Sweeney doesnt get things done for you. 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