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Camera this morning. And pipe dream. The daredevil giving new meaning to riding the waves speeding across the water on his motorbike taking on 30foot high waves. What hes saying about his deathdefying stunt only on gma this morning. And good morning, america. Lets get right to those severe storms passing through the northeast overnight and early this morning. Look at that lightning over new york city. Yeah, that lightning and the thunder was just one of those mornings you wanted to stay in bed. Everyone agree but we all came in anyway and had a deluge on that way in to work. We sure did, and the storms up north deadly causing that tent collapse in New Hampshire. A father and his young daughter killed, more than 30 others injured, and abcs linzie janis is on the scene in lancaster, New Hampshire. Good morning. Reporter george, george. Families tell us that they had just sat down to watch the circus when a severe storm seemed to come out of nowhere ripping it out of the ground and sending its giant metal poles crashing into the audience. Lancaster fairgrounds, circus tent collapse. Reporter overnight a circus performance taking a deadly turn. It was called in as a mass casualty. Reporter a Violent Storm ripping this tent to the ground with close to 100 people inside. Unfortunately, two people lost their lives here tonight. Reporter a father and his 6yearold daughter dead and at least 32 people injured. It all started at 5 46 p. M. Monday. Just 15 minutes into a Walker Brothers International Performance like this one. When 60mileperhour winds and hail start tearing the tent apart. It literally was lifted up through the air as the canvas was taking off, the poles that were holding it all the way up through the top of the tent were just coming at people. Reporter Heidi Medeiros at the show with her 3yearold son. Somebody screaming get out, get out, get out, so i took my son and threw him underneath the bleacher and threw myself on top of him. Reporter its the second fatal tent collapse in two days. Just yesterday, a man dying in chicago after fierce winds brought this concert tent crashing down. In New Hampshire, state officials now investigating what went wrong. Well be looking at the construction of the tent and how it was set up during the investigation. Reporter a spectator tells us just moments before that tent came down circus workers told everyone to stay in their seats. Abc news has reached out to the Walker Brothers circus we havent heard back them from them yet. Okay, thanks. To ginger. More severe storms coming and florida dealing with floods. Yes, this is that time of year. They can have gusty winds and can take down structures like that. Heres where you have to be on the lookout. Later this afternoon, even though we already saw some storms in the northeast, i think the atmosphere could destabilize from the midatlantic through coastal new england. Could see damaging wind and hail and lightning and an isolated funnel or tornado. Another spot with a different system back in the plains and then theres this, in that flooding in florida. Tampa essentially has had 18 inches of rain in the last two weeks. Less than two weeks. Look, that is a bus, a city bus plowing through the water. Eventually you start to see the water coming into the bus. These are the scenes that youve seen for the last couple of weeks and fortunately things are going to slow down. We still have a flood watch through the rest of today but things will get a lot drier midweek. All right, george and amy. Thanks so much. From that wild weather to those wildfires in the west, nearly two dozen large fires and the thousands forced to flee arent just worried about losing their home but looters. Abcs Clayton Sandell on the front lines of the biggest fire in lake county, california. Good morning, clayton. Reporter good morning, amy. You can see here the flames are still spreading. Firefighters are getting some help from the cooler weather. But on one big fire here in california, at least some evacuees from their homes have a new worry. Overnight, the rocky fire, still throwing punches, flames advancing as winds push hot embers into the air igniting new spot fires. This home, one of thousands threatened. More firefighters are arriving, nearly 3200 now, trying to keep the flames from racing toward more houses. You can see here the firefighters are using road flares to start whats called a backfire. The point is to use up all of this unburned fuel before the main fire can use it to cross this road. This morning more than 13,000 people are still evacuated. This is the first time that im really feeling afraid that i could lose my house. Reporter with conditions like this, people arent going home any time soon. No, itll be a few days. Reporter but even once they are able to go home, a new concern. Evacuees from the willow fire further south returning home to find while they were forced out looters moved in. They actually took suitcases and filled them with our things and then left. We did everything that we were supposed to do to leave this fire and then we come home to this. Reporter rocky is the largest of 21 major california fires. Hundreds of smaller fires triggered by lightning and one accused arsonist. Overnight officials announcing the arrest of a 34yearold woman they say set 14 fires in just the last week and a half. And so far this fire has burned nearly 100 square miles. Firefighters say they have about 12 of it contained. Theyre hoping that number goes up today. George. Theyll have a ways to go. Clayton, thanks very much. Were counting down now to the first big debate in the race for the white house. Republican candidates go head to head thursday night. Last night a warmup game. More than a dozen on stage in New Hampshire taking a pretty easy on each other hitting president obama and Hillary Clinton hard. Jon karl tracking it all. Jon, donald trump sat this one out last night but hell be front and center thursday. Reporter george, donald trump is riding higher than ever. He will be center stage. That much is certain. But there are 17 candidates, only 10 will get into the big debate. Those ten at the top of the polls by the end of the day today. It was a warmup session for the big debate. 14 republican president ial candidates participating overnight in a forum in New Hampshire. There was no republican infighting on display here. Every person thats participated in this debate is far better than any of the democrats running. Reporter it looked a little like speed dating. Each candidate getting less than ten minutes to try to make their case. Whether its Hillary Clinton or joe biden, im a new, fresh face. We made it through jimmy carter. Well make it through barack obama. Im fluent in clintonspeak. When he says, bill says i didnt have sex with that woman, he did and when she tells us, trust me, youve got all the emails that you need, we havent even scratched the surface. Reporter three of the candidates couldnt appear in person and joined via satellite from washington. But the elephant not in the room last night in New Hampshire, frontrunner donald trump. The donald told the forums cosponsor the New Hampshire union leader since hes not likely to get the papers endorsement he was going to pass on their invitation, but trump will be center stage at the first debate of the 2016 president ial cycle now just two days away in cleveland. Jon, trump is leading all the major polls right now and it looks like the rest of the field is pretty firmed up. Reporter thats right, and remember, its the top ten in the polls by the end of the day today that will be in the debate. Heres the abc analysis of who will be in the debate. The top ten candidates, as you can see, trump is far and away the leader now, doubledigit lead over everybody, and the rest of the field, Chris Christie, the tenth candidate, barely making it in the race. Thats interesting, george, because as you remember, it wasnt all that long ago that Chris Christie was considered a possible frontrunner here. And, jon, some pretty accomplished candidates not making the cut. Yeah, take a look. These are the candidates who will not make the cut in our analysis. You can see you have incredible resumes, former governor of texas, the person Rick Santorum who was the runnerup last time, the only woman in the race and former governor of new york, former governor of virginia. None of them as it looks right now will even be in that race in that debate. If you cant make the debate its very hard to see how you make any traction at all. Okay, jon karl, thanks very much. Turning to health news now and a deadly disease outbreak in new york city. At least seven people have now died from legionnaires disease. 81 cases reported so far and abcs dr. Richard besser is here. You headed up the legionnaires disease unit at the cdc for seven years. What causes this and how does it spread . Yeah, these outbreaks are tricky. Legionnaires disease is severe pneumonia and you get it by breathing in the mist that have bacteria. They occur from the summer from cooling towers on buildings and decorative fountain, all things that produce mist. Not certain really at risk. You see it with older adults, people who are current or former smokers, people with lung disease, people who have cancer, diabetes, kidney disease. How did authorities figure what was happening with this cluster . They interviewed everybody to see if there was something in common and there wasnt. So what they did was they mapped them all out to see where did they live and found they lived all across the south bronx so used google map, google earth to find all the cooling towers on the tops of those buildings and cultured them. 17 cooling towers, five were positive. Theyre cleaning them and theyre hoping that cleaning those towers will shut down the outbreak. We can hope. Thanks so much. Dr. Besser will trach your questions throughout the morning. You can tweet him drrichardbesser. The trial by North Carolina Police Officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man looking for help after a car accident. The officer charged with voluntary manslaughter and lawyers say he was acting in selfdefense and abcs Mara Schiavocampo is here with the story. Good morning, mara. Reporter good morning, the victim, a former College Athlete who moved to the area to be closer to his fiancee. During the trial the jury is expected to finally see the telling dash cam video which has never been released to the public. This morning, charlotte Police Officer Randall Kerrick faces a jury and voluntary manslaughter charges accused of shooting and killing former florida a m scholarship Football Player Jonathan Ferrell in 2013. Four shots in rapid succession when jonathan is ten feet away. Reporter during Opening Statements monday, prosecutors saying the officer who is white used Excessive Force in shooting the unarmed africanamerican 24yearold ten times. Police say ferrell had just crashed his car when he went to a nearby home for help at 2 30 in the morning, alarming the homeowner who called police. The 911 tape played in court. There is a guy breaking in my front door. Theres a guy breaking in your front door . Yeah, hes trying to kick it down. Reporter on the stand explaining she thought he was trying to break in and she was all alone with her young child and was terrified. Is he still in the house . Did he leave yet . Hes not in the house. Hes in the front yard yelling. Oh, my god, please. Reporter while ferrells fiancee testified he wasnt an aggressive person, the defense painting a different picture claiming earlier that day, ferrell argued with his fiancee, smoked marijuana and that when Police Responded he charged them. His own bad choices leading to his death. This case is not about race. It never was. Reporter kerrick has pleaded not guilty. If convicted he faces 3 years to 11 years in prison. Hes been unpaid suspension since the shooting. Amy. Mara, thanks so much. Now to comedian amy schumer getting serious about gun control, speaking out after last months deadly Movie Theater shooting. The killer picking her new movie trainwreck for his rampage and now shes joining forces with her cause new york senator Chuck Schumer to fight for tougher laws. Cecilia vega has more. Reporter actress comedian now activist, the daughter of a sandy hook survivor wrote a letter urging amy schumer to speak out on gun violence in america and that is exactly what she did. Im just a modern chick who does what she wants. I think we really like each other and we should start dating. No. Yes. No. Yes. Reporter we know her as hollywoods leading funny woman. Do you follow sports . Sports. I love them. Who is your Favorite Team . The orlando blooms. Reporter this morning amy schumer isnt laughing. Shes speaking out for the First Time Since last months deadly shooting at that Movie Theater in lafayette, louisiana, making an emotional plea. I wanted to just go down to louisiana and then i was angry. My heart goes out to jillian and mayci and everyone tied to the horrifying actions of this man who shouldnt have been able to put his hands on a gun in the first place. Reporter the star joining forces with her cousin, new york senator Chuck Schumer, calling for new gun control legislation with stricter background checks. I have a lot of press kosher supermarkets but i almost never get this many people so i want to thank my cousin for that. I am expecting a backlash and handle it the way ive handled it the last ten years. Ive had Death Threats and a lot of hate directed toward me, but im someone who i want to be proud of the way im living and what i stand for. Reporter the shooting that killed two and injured nine was personal for the actress. Theatersgoers were watching her movie trainwreck when the gunfire broke out. I thought about these victims each day since the tragedy. Reporter an actress known for her fareless comedy. Booties what they want reporter not backing down from this fight either. She sure isnt. The one thing schumer did not say, the shooters name, and while she says these may be her first Public Comments on gun violence, schumer promises they will not be her last, amy. All right, cecilia, thanks so much. And we turn now to dan who has the mornings other top stories starting with another shooting this time at a concert . Thats right. Good morning, good morning, everybody. Police looking for someone who opened fire outside a hiphop show. It was packed with teenagers. Two are in Critical Condition and the shooting happened after some sort of argument. The excon accused of shooting a Police Officer in memphis, tennessee, heads to court. He surrendered, hes accused much shooting officer sean bolton. When bolton interrupted a drug deal, wilbourn denies pulling the trigger. A big story for the economy this morning. Puerto rico has defaulted on a 58 million debt payment, the first in what could be a series of defaults. Much of this debt is held by individual investors and mutual bond funds. The governor of the island says puerto ricos economy is in a, quote, death spiral. Look at this rescue in californias silicon valley, a sheriff deputys pulling a driver out of his car seconds before a commuter train crashes into it. That driver was purported under the influence but is okay this morning. And near pittsburgh, a runaway garbage truck was seen crashing its way down the street damaging five cars, nobody got hurt here. This may have happened because of faulty brakes. Workers were seen running after the truck. And a much bigger problem in europe. Listen to this. Two cranes collapsed while putting a section of bridge in place. Five homes were crushed. One man had to be pulled from the wreckage. Somewhat amazingly he was the only person who got hurt. And finally this morning, a surprising and somewhat inconvenient location to find a wild animal. Heres what one golfer spotted on the putting green, a kangaroo. This happened in australia obviously because if it happened in jersey wed be leading with the story. Lara spencer recently started golfing again and i hear shes been making up excuses for the shortcomings in her short game so heres a new one for you, my friend, marsupial on the green. Exactly. It was a kangaroo shaking the flag. I was very distracted. I wasnt distracted by pop news, it was a kangaroo. No. Good one, dan. Look at that monster hail behind you. Oh, my goodness, hail from indiana to pennsylvania, a lot of the northeast and midatlantic also seeing the hail overnight but look at this. That is a tornado in florida. It wasnt just flash flooding, but an ef0 related tornado. They think. The damage looks like it is. It did not hurt anyone. This is what george is referring to. They had hail for dinner in liberty, indiana and even in cincinnati, big hailstones falling. Ings i am meteorologist mike nicco, check out beautiful sunrise this morning same thing for our sunset because of the midlevel clouds from guillermo. They will prius virga and mild highs, briefly warmer inland tomorrow and thursday. We are in the 60s along the coast in San Francisco and 70s elsewhere, until you get inland east bay, lowtomid 80s with free air conditioning. My sevenday forecast shows two days of warmth before it is cool and even though that Flash Flood Watch loosens a bit in parts of western florida, this is what you deal with after the storm so lots of pothole, sinkholes reported around tampa. Thank you, ginger. Coming up, we have a lot more ahead this morning. Up next, this disturbing new video right here. Take a look. A sheriff handcuffs an 8yearold boy in