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KGO Good Morning America July 14, 2024

This as the president S National Security team faces a new shakeup. Murder in rome. What were learning this morning about those two American Teens accused of killing a roman Police Officer. That image of one of the suspects blindfolded in police custody. What police say he told them as one of their fathers speaks out. The crash landing caught on camera. This plane spiraling out of control right after takeoff slamming into a michigan lake. Two people on board. The Good Samaritans who raced to save them. And the duchess big debut, meghan taking on the September Issue of British Vogue guest editing the landmark issue. Were taking you behind the odi am afraid we have to start with sad news. That deadly shooting overnight at a Food Festival in northern california. Families were enjoying the final night of the annual event when shots rang out. It is just awful. The scene quickly turning to chaos. What we know right now, at least three people were killed and 15 injured when a gunman dressed in camo opened fire. He was shot and killed by police but now a manhunt is under way for a possible second suspect. Families are searching for answers this morning after another deadly shooting and abcs will carr is going to start us off on the scene in gilroy with the very latest. Good morning, will. Reporter michael, this is a festival packed with families. There were literally thousands of people here eating food, they were listening to music, basically enjoying their sunday evening when that gunman opened fire. Reporter that horrifying moment caught on camera when the first shots rang out at the gilroy garlic festival in california. Whats going on . Whats going on . Oh my [ bleep ]. Theyre shooting. Who is shooting at a garlic festival . Reporter the wounded left bloodied. Many treated on the scene. Some rushed away in the backs of pickup trucks. We have several victims down. We need to set up a triage. Reporter this morning three victims are dead including steven romero, a 6yearold boy attending the festival with his mother and grandmother. It has to be someone really sick because shooting a kid thats a family event. Are you okay . Reporter the shooting started just after 5 40 p. M. In the small town of gilroy about 80 miles south of san francisco. Police believe the shooter cut through a fence to evade security, snuck onto the grounds and then opened fire with a rifle unloading on the crowd. Witnesses thought the loud pops were fireworks before they realized they were under attack. Whats going on . [ bleep ]. Theyre shooting. Out of the way. Reporter police engaged the gunman in less than a minute shooting and killing the suspect. Overnight a manhunt combing the area for a possible accomplice. Based on witness statements that there was a second individual involved in some way. We just dont know in what way. Reporter as stunned witnesses describe a horrific scene. Theyre doing cpr on her. Looked like he was playing duck hunt. He was just pecking people down. It was so scary. I just hear fire, gunfire, pop, pop, pop, pop. When youre trying to get to safety, what was the scene like . Yelling, screaming. Just became a very hectic, hectic situation. They shooting. Reporter a tightknit Community Pulling together after a shattering night. Its just so hard when it hits home like this. Its very difficult to really come to grips with it. Reporter and as authorities are continuing to search for that possible second suspect, the big question this morning is why . Investigators are really trying to zero in on that motive. George . Okay, will, thanks very much. We want to bring in Candice Marquez and cheryl lowe at the scene yesterday. Im so sorry you had to go through that. Thank you for joining us. Candice, you never expect Something Like this at this festival. When was the first moment you knew something was wrong . As soon as we got out of the portopotties we heard a pop and we said firecrackers and we turned to our left and there was a gunman. His gun was pointed to the ground. He was trying to put another clip in it. Then he started walking away towards left away from us and just started shooting and we ran the other direction. Did you see and it was so scary. Did you see anybody else with him . That possible second suspect . No, we only seen the one. And, cheryl, i know your boss and her husband both got shot in nt. Doou have any more informatin on how theyre doing . Last update i got is her husbands in Critical Condition and shes in stable condition right now. Thats all i got. They just they just got out of surgery at midnight and they were in surgery most of the evening. But one is in stable and one is in Critical Condition. Its touch and go right now. Oh, my goodness. So sorry for that. Set the scene for what was going on inside that tent. I guess your granddaughter and her son were there, as well . Yeah. My her granddaughter and our owners 3yearold son. Were in the tent. And my niece, she was actually a hero. She grabbed him and hid him under the table. So that he didnt get shot. Because he was standing right out there with him and grabbed him and said, i grabbed him, grandma, and i put him underneath the table so nothing would happen to him. Shes a hero in my eyes. She saved his life because he doesnt understand a lot. He was so confused. His parents were on the ground. His parents were on the ground. She pulled him under and by the time i got back around to look for both of them somebody grabbed both of the children and put them on the other side of the freezer to protect them from the gunman. Such strength and such courage. She looked the killer right in the eye . She did. She saw him. She saw him shoot his the little boys mom and dad, yes. She did. She said, grandma, i saw him shoot them and then she grabbed that little boy and put him underneath the table and somebody else grabbed him and put him on the other side of the freezer that was over there by the time i got over there. How is she doing . I didnt know where she was. Shes a little shaken. She went to sleep. She was a little scared because she heard that there was still one out there, but she seems okay right now, but well see. Well get her some help if she needs it, you know, someone to talk to but she seems okay. And the little boy . He doesnt really understand right now. Hes 3, so he didnt show any emotions either way. He just wanted to know where his mom was. He just wanted his mom, yeah. So well see how that goes. Did you hear the gunman say anything, get any sense of why he was no, he was very quiet. He didnt say anything. Nothing, not a word. Didnt look side to side. Didnt look anywhere. Straight ahead and just kept walking towards the tent and shooting. Thats all he did. It wasnt to point at one certain person. It was just bam, bam, bam, bam and just going. Just shooting randomly. Yes. Just randomly. And the weird thing was there wasnt that many people around in the area he was shooting at. I mean, everybody was mostly walking towards the exits. Didnt seem like there was that many people around there. He wasnt hurrying . He was there andtw. Seed le didnt run or anything. He just walked fast over. We went behind the portopotties and didnt see him anymore. The next thing we saw was the police had shot and killed him. Thats the next time i saw him. He was down on the ground and shot and killed. Thank goodness the police got there so quickly. They did. Well, there was a lot of police. A lot of security there. I mean, it felt you feel secure. I mean theyre on horseback. Theyre on motorcycles. Theyre on bikes. Theyre all over the place during the festival. So theres no reason to think we were not safe there. And then this happened. You know what im saying . It could happen anywhere. You never think it will happen in your town, but look what happened. Could you believe it was happening . I thought we were safe there. No, no. Still cant believe it really. It hasnt processed really. I cant process the whole thing yet. Its too new right now. Well, i can only imagine. We want to say were sorry for the little boy that lost his life. We want to say to his family we were really sorry. Feel for them. It is such a tragedy. Just 6 years old. Yeah, i saw the mother carrying him. He was so little. I mean, it was just its just devastating. Everything that happened is devastating. But everybody came together and tried to help everybody out in that area that we were at. They were helping. They were putting people hiding people, putting things over us so no one would get shot. At the time you dont even know where hes at. After we walked around the portopotties, we had no idea where he was at. We lost him. I had no idea. We were just trying to save ourselves and find my granddaughter and the little boy. I had no idea what was going on. It is just heart breaking. Thank goodness you came together and so many lives were able to be saved as well. Thank you for joining us this morning. Youre welcome. Thank you. Youre welcome. You used to go to that festival. I grew up in san francisco. This is you saw those families in the video. This is a family festival. This is where my grandparents would take us on the weekends in k it would happen in your own community, this certainly hits close to home. But how many times are we going to have this conversation . Too many. There is an answer. Take this in right here. The gun violence archive says there have been 246 Mass Shootings so far this year. This is the 210th day of 2019. So more than one every single day of this year. You cant even respond to numbers like that. Its just horrific. Cant explain it. George, well move on to washington now. This fallout this morning over President Trumps repeated attacks on congressman Elijah Cummings and his Baltimore Area district calling it rat and rodent infested. Once again the president is denying his attack on the africanamerican congressman and the majority black city is racist. Our senior Congressional Correspondent mary bruce is there on capitol hill. Mary, the president is up and tweeting about it. There seems to be a real pattern here. Reporter this is now the second time in just two weeks that the president has been accused of launching racist attacks against a member of congress and the president s attacks against chairman cummings have been relentless. As you mentioned, he is back at it again this morning and now the president is trying to turn the table insisting he is not being racist, the democrats are. In more than a dozen tweets over the weekend, the president disparaging congressman Elijah Cummings, saying baltimore is a disgusting rat and rodent infested mess. Housing the hsh hashtag blacks for trump 2020. The condemnation from democrats swift. The president is as he usually or often is disgusting and racist. A racist president who attacks people because theyre africanamericans. Reporter it comes after cummings grilled trumps acting Homeland Security secretary about conditions along the border. Come on, man. Whats that about . None of us would have our children in that position. They are human beings. Reporter its the second time in two weeks trump has come under fire for racial attacks against members of congress. But now trump insists democrats are the ones playing the race card tweeting, cummings is racist. The president s chief of staff insists trumps comments are appropriate. If i had poverty in my district like they have in baltimore, id get fired and i think that the president is right to raise that and it has absolutely zero to do with race. Reporter some republicans are struggling to defend trump but they werent condemning him either. To focus on an entire city and call it rat and rodent infested, you see no problem with that . Of course, he shouldnt, you know i dont think theyre going to invite him to throw out the first pitch at a baseball game any time soon. Reporter the Baltimore Sun publishing this scathing ed tort. Better to have a few rats than to be one. And cnn anchor Victor Blackwell moved to tears. People get up and go to work there. They care for their families there. They love their children who pledge allegiance to the flag just like people who live in districts of congressmen who support you, sir. They are americans too. Reporter now former First Lady Michelle Obama is sending a message of support giving a shot out on twitter this baltimore step team who have embraced her slogan, had they go low we go high. As for chairman cummings he is defending himself on twitter writing, mr. President , i go home to my district daily. Each morning i wake up and engo and fight for my neighbors. Almost as if the president refuses to accept hes the president of every state, every city in the united states, including baltimore. A shakeup in the president s team. The director of National Intelligence dan coats who butted heads with the president is stepping down. The president is putting forward an outspoken ally to replace him. Pierre thomas has the latest. Good morning, pierre. Reporter george, this morning. Coats is leaving that critical job where he coordinates u. S. Intelligence agencies effective august 15th. Coats had what some would call an uncomfortable relationship with the white house when President Trump has downplayed russian interference, coats widely respected by republicans and democrats, has repeatedly warned that the russian attacks were aggressive and likely to intensify in the future. Earlier this year he offered a much more stark assessment of the capabilities of isis than the president. Hes also flatly said north korea is not likely to give up its Nuclear Weapons despite the president s overtures to the north korean dictator, george. Pierre, the president nominating texas congressman John Ratcliffe to replace him. Ratcliffe stood out for his fiery defense of President Trump. Lets listen. I agree with the chairman this morning when he said donald trump is not above the law. Hes not. But he damn sure shouldnt be below the law. The president clearly liked that but some democrats in congress and republicans as well questioning whether that is enough to qualify him for the director of National Intelligence. Reporter expect a partisan fight. Senator Chuck Schumer has already released a statement saying nominating ratcliffe would be a big mistake because hes exhibited Blind Loyalty to the president , george. Pierre, thanks very much. Michael . Thank you, george. Now to the swelters temperatures in the west fueling more than a dozen wildfires burning across the region. Good morning, rob. Good morning, michael. This is 1 of 16 uncontained large fires in chino hills east of l. A. Sparked yesterday afternoon. Grew to 150 acres. Got a bit of a handle. Look at that home damaged. The heat contributing to this. This is going to be i think the last day out west. Heat advisories up for fresno, las vegas, temperatures up and over 100 degrees. 114 in palm springs. Heat building across humidity. So now have heat advisories across much of eastern massachusetts. Lower 90s in boston. This is when you measure the temperatures in the shade and then our bodies react. Not quite as bad as it was last week. Thankfully, michael, but its still going to be quite toasty. Take it easy out there. When is winter coming, rob . Shh a few months. A lot asking that but well get into some good news. Were happy to report former red sox slugger david ortiz is now out of the hospital seven weeks after being shot in the Dominican Republic in what Police Called a case of mistaken identity. He underwent an emergency procedure to treat his wounds. Then two more operations after being flown to a hospital in boston. 14 suspects are under arrest in connection with the shooting. Good to see big papi home. He was in the hospital for some time. Quite sometime. That is good news. Th sri ctody in rome accused of teens killing an Italian Police officer. Were there live with the latest. Two shark attacks in florida just an hour apart. Thankfully both victims surviving. Now this surfer is telling his story. First back over to rob. I want to show you these tornados, guys, touching down yesterday across minnesota. Seven reported, at least two in minnesota. This one west of minneapolis. It did do some damage here unfortunately about an hour west of the city there. So the heat obviously contributing to some of this. Well have weakening of these storms as they push off towards east. Talk about the tropics all right. Heres flossie and erick. Forecast not just to become a hurricane but a major hurricane towards wednesday and making a run at hawaii track to the south but keeping an eye on that and flossie and this disturbance in the Eastern Caribbean south of puerto rico and that will bring some heavier rain. Well watch that for potential development as well. Time fo time for your selected cities brought to you by amazon. Good monday morning. Im abc 7 news meteorologist mike nicco. The heat, welcome back sea breeze. More clouds and cooler temps tonight and a slow warming trend. It will be a little above average. 60 at half moon bay. 6 of at san francisco. 68 in richmond. Low to mid70s for the rest of the bay and 80s inland tonight well drop back into the mid50s to low 60 pps accuweather sevenday forecast, hottest saturday and sunday. 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