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Transcripts For WABC Good Morning America 20240622

Men try to secure it. This feels like the dumbest thing weve ever done in how did they catch this reallife detroit tiger . And we do say good morning, america. And as always, a lot to get to this Tuesday Morning. Again. The cameras following him not for the campaign, jury duty. Following him everywhere. Courthouse. Was not picked for the jury but a brandnew poll out this morning shows him the pick of Republican Voters right now. He is pulling away from the rest of the gop field. Well talk about that a little bit later. But we have right now that severe weather, reported tornado, hail, damaging winds and ginger tracking it all. Hey, good morning. The picture behind me comes from just south and east of denver and there were tornadoes reported in colorado yesterday including this one in mississippi too so more than 50 reports of severe weather. That has to be confirmed later today but it looks apparent in the video. Fortunately no one injured in any of these storms but we will see them again today. For the northern slice of oklahoma, wichita, kansas city, des moines, youre there too and far western illinois, quincy with damaging winds, large hail and tornadic possibility. Las vegas, still excessive heat warning, not just bad for the fire danger but its starting to build up to the north and west. Portland could see a record high close to 100. So much more coming up but we have to get to the fires. Neal karlinsky is in South Central washington. Reporter ginger, good morning. You could see what theyre dealing with here and this is one of the more gentle areas, steep, rocky terrain. In fact, firefighters have told us some areas these boulders have come loose and rolling their way as theyve been fighting these fires overnight. This morning, firefighters across the west are stretched so thin the army is being called in. 200 soldiers from lewismcchord will be the first called up in nearly a decade to take on wildfires as their enemy joining more than 30,000 firefighters. Mother nature at its worth. Reporter the problem is all too clear in rural stephens county, washington where homeowners were left to fight flames themselves. Our states resources are stretched so thin so it was up to us. Reporter in chelan, washington, firefighters tell us the terrain is their biggest problem. Steep terrain, a lot of rocks coming down off the hillside, rolling logs on fire. Reporter up to 50 homes lost when flames blasted through this lakeside Vacation Community saturday night. It burned so hot this house is still on fire a little bit and the dock over here which is smoldering actually sank and you can see the chairs underwater, the rest of it is at the bottom. Reporter we took a boat to reach one of the hardest hit stretches and up close by the families who own these homes. In oregon a cabin has been wrapped like a baked potato in the hope it will deflect the heat and keep it safe. Those soldiers we mentioned will begin training on how to fight wildfires on wednesday and will be deployed to a fire somewhere out west on sunday, george. Thanks very much. We turn to the breaking news in bangkok. A second explosion in the city this morning after mondays deadly blast and authorities now searching for this suspect right there. Our chief Foreign Correspondent terry moran tracking all the latest. Good morning, terry. Reporter good morning, george. Bangkok is truly a city on edge this morning and a manhunt under way for a prime suspect in that bombing. Here he is, authorities say. That man in the yellow shirt captured on Security Camera entering the scene with a backpack. He sits down, removes the back then you see him leaving without it. Moments later, the blast, 22 dead and more than 100 injured. If that werent enough take a look at this. Today at a popular pier, another explosion. This one in the water there after something is apparently tossed from the pier. No one injured there. Luckily, but bangkok, no question, is just reeling today. George. Okay, terry, thanks very much. Okay, george, now to the latest on those cyberattacks against the irs. Authorities revealing they were much worse than previously thought. More than 300,000 taxpayers personal information could be at risk. Abcs Pierre Thomas has the latest and joins us this morning from washington. Good morning, pierre. Reporter good morning, robin. This hack is truly worse than we previously knew and hundreds of thousands of taxpayers will soon get letters in the mail warning that their most Sensitive Information may have been compromised. The number of americans potentially affected by the irs hack has jumped from 114,000 identified in may to today 334,000. Not just names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers stolen but also that intensely personal information on tax forms. Salaries, places of employment. Where they live. Whether theyre married and if they have children. In short, all the information that could allow criminals to assume their identities. This latest disclosure comes as the u. S. Faces an epidemic of cyberattacks targeting not only private businesses but federal agencies. In recent months the state department hacked, the white house targeted and that massive opm breach involving millions of government workers and just last week the pentagon acknowledged one of its unclassified email systems had been hit. We recently went to the Government Cybersecurity center and gauged in an epic frustrating to keep them at bay. How many attempted attacks are there on the u. S. Government agency every day. Detecting different attacks, my guess, my estimate would be the tens of thousands. Reporter as for the irs hacks, sources say the information stolen will allow someone to get a loan potentially, buy a house, even file for tax returns. Not even safe with the irs so what should taxpayers do in light of this massive hack . Reporter robin, this affects taxpayers using get transcript but theres no easy answer. You have to trust that the irs will fix the security gap and protect your information in the future and sounds like you only have to worry if you get that scary letter in the mail. All right, pierre, thank you. Such an assault on government computers. To the race for the white house. Your voice, your vote, and even off the campaign trail, donald trump managed to make headlines, this time for doing jury duty as some of his gop rivals made bids for votes at the state fair in iowa. Tom llamas covering it and it shows trump pull ago way from the pack. Reporter good morning. Some interesting Movement Since that first debate. A new cnn poll shows trump up six points since july still the clear frontrunner. Jeb in second place, the other big headline, take a look at this. Carly fiorina cracking the top ten, knocking out Chris Christie and guess who leads among both men and women . Donald trump. His popularity evident even at court. The republican frontrunner taking time off the campaign trail for jury duty. Donald trump emerging from his stretch limo swarmed by cameras and microphones outside of the court. Come on. Lets go. Thank you so much. Reporter inside of the courthouse, one potential juror even posting this snapchat showing trump waiting to be summoned writing just your average day at jury duty but the billionaire new yorker not getting tapped ready to get back to business answering questions about his new controversial immigration policy outside of the courthouse. How would you deport the 11 million undocumented immigrants . Its going to be very easy. You just watch. Reporter how would you do it . Vowing to deport all undocumented immigrants and end birthright citizenship for americanborn children of undocumented immigrants in the u. S. What would you tell the child born in the u. S. . Thank you. Reporter donald, tell us something. Reporter trump insisting hell get mexico to pay for a wall across the southern border by hiking up fees on visas for mexicans entering the u. S. Legally. Chris christie polling in the low Single Digits saying his plan makes no sense. This is not negotiation of a real estate deal but International Diplomacy and its different. Reporter now as trump stays on top, the attacks are sharpening. Jeb bush now pouncing on a comment trump said over the weekend. The billionaire said he gets his military advice from cable news and the sunday talk shows. Bush saying thats not where he gets his Foreign Policy ideas. Robin. A little more fire right there. Tom was asking some tough questions there. Sure was. Not getting any answers but asking the questions. We move on now to Oscar Pistorius set to leave prison this friday after serving ten months of his fiveyear sentence for killing his girlfriend. There is a lastminute move to keep him locked up. Ryan has the latest. Reporter prosecutors are taking another run at Oscar Pistorius asking an Appeals Court to find him guilty of murder. If convicted it would keep him behind bars for at least 15 years. With Oscar Pistorius just three days from being released from prison, this morning, prosecutors making a run to put him back behind bars. This court was wrong. Reporter in the appeal filed monday prosecutors who famously skewered the olympic track star known as the blade runner on the stand at his murder trial claims the judge erred in finding had imguilty of manslaughter instead of murder by excluding relevant evidence. Now prosecutors are asking the courts to upgrade the conviction to murder. The worst Case Scenario for pistorius is that the court of appeal reverses the decision of the Trial Court Judge and hes sentenced to murder conviction and goes back to prison for life. Reporter pistorius was found guilty of manslaughter, sentenced to five years in prison for negligently firing into his bathroom door valentines day 2014 killing then girlfriend reeva steenkamp. Not guilty and is discharged, instead he is found guilty of culpable homicide. Reporter pistorius is expected to be released to his uncles home to serve out the rest of his sentence. The legal battle could drag out for some time and could be quite costly for the athlete who lost all his endorsement deals. Now, reeva steenkamps parents arent commenting on the appeal but released a statement about his pending release. Her 32nd birthday would have been tomorrow and still struggling with coming to terms with losing their precious daughter. Im sure they are, ryan, thank you. To amy with the other top developing stories starting with new details about that deadly plane crash in indonesia. Thats right, robin, search teams in indonesia have reached a passenger jet two days after it slammed into a mountainside. Both black boxes have been found as well as the remains of all 54 people on board. The plane lost contact with the airport minutes before it was scheduled to land. And new revelations about Hillary Clinton emails. Officials say so far they have flagged more than 300 of clintons messages for further inspection. But they did not say if they were secret in nature. Clinton insists she never used her private server to send or receive emails marked classified at the time. And Defense Attorneys for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are demanding a new trial in a different location. In a court filing monday they claimed tsarnaevs trial in boston was tainted by widespread Media Coverage and publicity. Take a look at this. A couple of bike riders very lucky to be alive. Look at that. The truck swerved, hit another truck. The debris flew everywhere and somehow they walk away unscathed. This happened in russia. It seems like the riders just went on with their day. Wow. After that remarkable collision. Well, this could end up being the busiest summer ever for the airlines. New estimates released overnight show air travel this labor day day holiday expected to be up 3 with more than 14 Million People in the air. And finally before we show you this next piece of video, you should know the child of volunteered is okay. But perhaps what will infuriate you the most, what youre about to see is all for a baseball. Take a look at the angels fan there reaching over a railing to get the ball with a toddler in tow. He nearly flips over with his little girl pinned up against that railing. After all that effort and risk he loses the ball. There you see. The stadium attendant comes over and looks directly at that un undeserving day and gives the ball to someone else. If he thinks that was punishment for his actions to not get the ball, i want to know what happens when he got home and mama saw what he did. I want a split screen. Look at the little girl to make sure shes okay and shes crying and upset. I wouldnt want to go home to that one. Okay, amy, thanks very much. To those scathing claims against amazon. Theyre fighting back against the New York Times portrayal of their workplace led by jeff bezos who insists he doesnt recognize the hellish Company Environment described by the times. Reporter this is the Biggest Online retailer in the country. Laser focus on customer service, but now some of its employees are speaking out describing nightmare conditions at work. This morning, amazon the worlds most valuable retailer known for dreaming up delivery by drone and gigantic warehouses manned by thousands of robots. Is now defending itself after an indepth article in this weekends the New York Times where past and present employees described the company as a nightmare workplace. Where workers are encouraged to tear apart one anothers ideas and where employees often see their coworkers cry at their desks. The article describing callous disregard for employees dealing with personal crises like cancer. One worker telling the times after she lost a baby she was told her performance would be monitored to make sure her focus stayed on her job. In a memo emailed to his 180,000 employees sunday, Ceo Jeff Bezos writes the article doesnt describe the amazon i know or the caring amazonnians every day. Even if its rare our r or isolated our tolerance needs to be zero. Employees describe a challenging but rewarding workplace. Either you fit here or you dont. You love it or you dont. Reporter but bezos says the workplace described in the article not only as soulless but says it wouldnt survive in the marketplace adding anyone working in a company that really is like the one described in the New York Times would be crazy to stay. I know i would leave such a company. And now bezos is encouraging any employee who sees this kind of treatment outlined in the article to come forward even send him a personal email, robin. Okay, rebecca, thank you. Now to a history making moment. Two women set to become the First Female Army rangers ever after conquering one of the most physically and mentally challenging courses on earth. Abcs Martha Raddatz is in washington, has all those details for us. Good morning, martha. Reporter good morning, robin. The women have not been identified by name but young officer, west point graduates who did not want to be judged differently than their male colleagues and they were not. All i want to be reporter they have done it. Two women making history earning the elite army ranger tab. Major. Reporter there were 19 women who started the grueling combat Training Course back in april. Do not touch my barbed wire. Reporter candidates are pushed to their physical and mental limbs tackling obstacle course, scaling mountains. Crossing rivers chest deep with fully loaded packs right alongside their fellow male candidates. Theyre going through the exact same thing their male counterparts are and have to show grit and determination and put one foot in front of the other each day. Reporter notoriously tough only 40 of the male ranger students graduate each year all part of an ongoing assessment about opening combat positions currently closed to women. Each branch of the military now required to look at how women could be integrated into those direct combat roles, now, two have proven that they have what it takes to enter the allmale ranger ranks. The standards are exactly the same for male and female ranger students. Reporter but while they will graduate friday and forever wear the ranger tab for now they are still not allowed to serve as rangers. That is a decision that will be made by the secretary of defense by january. After the services turn in their assessments but this is a huge first step. Robin and george. It is a huge first step. Some of us are shaking our heads like theyve earned this right. Its going to force some change. It has to. Now to that dangerous air quality in the northwest a result of all those fires, right, ginger. You cant miss it in these pictures coming in from the Columbia River much more ahead this Tuesday Morning including the latest on the former student at that elite New Hampshire prep school now facing Sexual Assault charges. A new warning for ez pass users. Fake notices telling them to pay outstanding bills. Millions could be affected. Stay with us. How much protein does your dog food have . 18 . 20 . 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