Collision course. The lifesavers who needed help in this ugly crash. And breaking overnight, miley cyrus splitting from husband liam hemsworth. I came in like a wrecking ball the break coming less than a year after the couple tying the knot. Their statement on the news and million miles. Everybody give a big cheer because we just did something pretty impossible. A grandfather takes his entire family to hawaii. 33 in all, whisking them away on the vacation of a lifetime using only his frequent flyer miles. What made this trip so special. Good morning. Dan is off, but were very happy to have tom llamas again this morning. We begin with the latest on the death of Jeffrey Epstein. Attorney general william barr said he was appalled to learn of the death while epstein was being held at the federal Detention Center in new york city. Yeah, it comes less than three weeks after the multimillionaire and accused trafficker was taken off suicide watch. At least two federal investigations are being open to look into the circumstances surrounding epsteins death. Stephanie ramos with the search for answers this morning. Stephanie. Reporter hey. Good morning, guys. While the Justice Department announced two federal investigations into the apparent suicide of Jeffrey Epstein here at this correctional facility. One led by the fbi. One led by the inspector general. There are also other federal investigations into any possible wrongdoing at this facility. Multimillionaire financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is dead. After an apparent suicide at a new york city jail. But his accusers still want justice. The 66yearold was awaiting trial on federal charges. Accusing him of sexually abusing dozens of underaged girls. He was likely to go to jail for the rest of his life had he been convicted, but three weeks ago, he was put on suicide watch after being found unresponsive in his cell. Abc news has learned a week later he was taken off. Some of his accusers, including michelle licata, are angry at the news of his death. I never wanted anybody to die. I just wanted him to be held accountable for his actions that he did. Reporter his death comes less than 24 hours after 2,000 pages of new documents were made public for the first time. With accusations leveled against epstein and other prominent men. Screaming on the inside and you dont know how to let it come out. All you do is obey. Thats it. Reporter the 2015 defamation suit by Virginia Roberts guiffre is now settled was unsealed. The suit by her was against ghislaine maxwell. A long time epstein associate and british socialite. In Court Filings said giuffre said that maxwell recruited her while she was a locker room attendant, and was groomed to be a sex slave to epstein, adding, she was later directed by maxwell. And epstein to have sex with many, quote, powerful men including numerous prominent american politicians, powerful Business Executives and other world leaders. In deposition testimony included in the trove of documents, guiffre alleges that she was directed to have sex with british royalty prince andrew, former governor and u. N. Ambassador, Bill Richardson and and former influential senator from maine, george mitchell. All three men have strongly denied the allegations. In statements both mitchell and richardson say they never met miss guiffre. In an interview with the miami herald, guiffre spoke of what epstein and maxwell would instruct her to do. Give jeffrey what he wants. A lot of this training came from her. It trickled into one, and then two, and then before you know it, im being lent out to politicians and to academics and to people that royalty. Reporter maxwell hasnt been charged with any crimes. She has consistently denied the allegations. Her lawyers writing that guiffre had utterly failed to substantiate her patently incredible claims of being trafficked to wellknown men. Her lawyer who represents other alleged victims the fact that epstein took his own life within 24 hours of the unsealing of detailed documents is no coincidence. Whit. Stephanie ramos, thank you. The matt manhattan u. S. Attorney general saying the criminal case against epstein doesnt end with his death promising the alleged victims that the investigation will continue. Tom, you interviewed many of these victims. Where does it go from here . Its far from over. As you mentioned the u. S. Attorney in new york they still are going to investigate. Because they have a conspiracy charge here. You also have the attorneys in new mexico where epstein had an estate, theyre still investigating. And because of that conspiracy charge, what that essentially means is there could be other people involved, and we just heard it in Stephanie Ramos report, that accuser saying epstein was not the only alleged monster in this case. There were people who helped him get these underaged girls. Now, u. S. Investigators will be looking into this. But the really sad part about all of this, we spoke to some of those victims yesterday they say they were tortured for years by Jeffrey Epstein and now with this suicide he kind of tortured and tormented them one more time because all they wanted was justice. They wanted to see him rot in a jail cell. They went to his bail hearing, and testified to make sure he didnt get bail. They won there, and we have to remember Jeffrey Epstein beat this case once before, so this was their second shot at it, and now they feel so disappointed and let down that this was able to happen. This is far from over. Also breaking news in the search for an escaped inmate in tennessee. Wanted in the murder of a prison employee. Abcs will reeve has the very latest there. Will. Reporter eva, good morning. We have just learned there was a sighting of Curtis Ray Watson very early this morning. The department of correction releasing these photos taken by a resident who notified authorities. Watson had been seen on their property. This is the very First Sighting of watson. You can see he has changed his clothes and hes now wearing overalls, a hat, carrying a backpack. This property is in the same town as the prison in tennessee. Overnight, investigators also ini increasing the reward for his capture to 57,000. State investigators have released pictures of his tattoos, adding that he also has one on the left side of his neck. Watson disappeared from west tennessee pen ten penitentiary on wednesday, Officials Say he sexually assaulted and strangled a longtime employee of the prison, killing her, before fleeing on a tractor. Authorities are urging residents to be alert and vigilant. Tom. A chilling it just like m. All right, will. Thank you. A frightin bronx, when two nyfd ambulances rushed, colliding. It was all caught on camera. Take a look. You can see the ambulances coming from Different Directions there. One plowing into the other. That ambulance losing control, bringing down a street sign, before flipping on to its side. The four emergency workers inside all seriously injured. But expected to survive. Now to arrests in several states as investigators crack down on those who are threatening violence. Some doing so on social media. The fbi now issuing a new warning in the wake of backtoback mass shootings. Reporter this morning, the fbi warning americans of a possible increase in hate crimes after several threats in the past week. Yesterday police in new haven, connecticut, arresting 53yearold jeffrey hansen, accused of posting a threatening message of a festival. Elsewhere, two alleged white arsting 23yearold connor forn clymo. If there is a possibly determined enemy, we have at least the means to deal with it. Reporter seen here in this 2016 video from affiliate ktnv, acting as a neighborhood crime fighter. Investigators say he communicated with a dangerous neonazi group. While searching his home, agents say they found illegal guns and bombmaking materials as well as a notebook outlining plans for an attack. Once you Start Talking about actually harming people, then Law Enforcement can come after you. Reporter and in florida, authorities citing an alarming Facebook Post leading to the arrest of 26yearold richard clayton. Investigators say the post red, read, three more days of probation left. Then i get my ar5 ck dot o arnext wee afterent dlyotgs ache country, amica on wah. The fbaski for the publics help to stop potential threats. The fbi is also offering states and their local authorities help with any of these investigations. Gun control is a hot topic on the campaign trail in the wake of those massacres in el paso and dayton. Headon. Abcs senior Congressional Correspondent mary bruce is in des moines with what they are telling the voters. Mary, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, eva. This fair is a campaign rite of passage. A fun chance for the candidates to connect with voters. But this year, were seeing a very different tone. The candidates eager to keep up this conversation, making their pitches on how they plan to tackle rising gun violence. At the iowa state fair, the Democratic Candidates taking their case directly to voters. All right, im hot and sweaty but im happy to answer questions. Reporter taking in the sites. I just want a pork chop on a stick. Youre going to get one. Reporter and working the crowd. We got this. Reporter but front and center the debate over gun reform. We need reasonable gun safety laws in our country including universal background checks and a renewal of the assault weapons ban. Reporter the candidates eager to keep up the pressure, pitching their plans to tackle gun violence. We are going to make change, we are going to pass gun safety laws in this country. I have a 6 and 3yearold boy, and just imagine i was imagining it was one of them that got shot and the other saw it. Im so sorry. Reporter back in washington, the president is pushing for stricter background checks. Do you believe the president when he says he wants to see some kind of meaningful reforms . I find thats fascinating when he says hes going to check with the nra. Reporter do you get a sense this time around things are different . Democracy is starting to show a little muscle out there and i think Mitch Mcconnell is just getting a little bit worried. My view, he ought to be a lot worried. Reporter now, voters we talked to here at the fair say its time, they do want to see change on this issue. The challenge for these Democratic Candidates is going to be keeping this conversation front and center, keeping up the pressure because of course, congress isnt back in session for another month. Tom . Mary, camped out for us. Mary, thanks to you. Lets bring in our chief anchor, George Stephanopoulos, hosting this week later this morning. This was important week for the campaign. I believe, and we saw the ssi tir attacks on President Trump, but we also saw a split, some who held him accountable for the shooting in el paso because of the president s comments on undocumented immigrants and mexicans, and called him a white supremacists, but others didnt want to go that far. Tough talk in 2016, is that what democratic voters want . They want President Trump to be called out. I think the risk for the Democratic Candidates is, how do you call the question for the candidates, how do you call out President Trump without appearing calling all of his supporters racist and white supremacist. There is no question that plays with the democratic base. Speaking of the president , he said he want meaningful background checks. He also said he was going to have senator Mitch Mcconnell on board, but he has flipflopped on this issue before, and he made it a point the say the nra would be represented and respected. Is there any reason we should believe hes committed to this issue . The president is going to have to choose. I think theres no question about that, as you point out. After past shootings hes come out for background checks and then backed away from it. Most notably after parkland. Its a fantasy to believe that the nra is going to sign on to background checks. The president is going to have to choose. He can be for background checks, and the overwhelming majority of American Voters as well who say theyre for them as well, and cut the nra loose. If he sticks with the nra were not going to get background checks. George has a big show this morning. Hell go oneonone with cory booker, as 2020 candidate campaigns in iowa, and hell also have the latest analysis on Jeffrey Epsteins suicide. Plus. Powerhouse round table coming up on this week on abc. Now to violence overnight in jerusalem, clashes breaking out between Israeli Police and palestinians at a holy site there. Abcs Julia Macfarlane is following the developments from our london bureau. Good morning. Reporter good morning, whit. Thats right, the clashes began early this morning when tens of thousands of muslim worshippers went to the al aqsa mosque for prayers. However, this morning, police allowed several dozen jewish worshipers leading to riots. Palestinians say 14 people were sent to the hospital for treatment and israeli media report four Police Officers were injured. Julia, tensions were already high, because today is a holy day for both the jewish and muslim faiths. Reporter exactly right. Today is a holy day for both of those religions. Its the first day of the Islamic Religious festival of eid aladdha. Its also a day of mourning in judaism. With both these religious dates todays gotten off to a violent start. Meanwhile, overnight in a separate incident, israeli troops shot and killed a palestinian gunman after he opened fire at them across the perimeter fence around the gaza strip. Whit . Julia, thank you. Eva. President trump revealing more details about that letter he says he received from north Korean Leader kim jongun recently. The president saying that kim wants to meat again to restart negotiations. The two leaders have already had three meetings about denuclearizing north korea. Trump also stating that kim offered him a small apology for his recent missile test. Just hours after that revelation, north korean officials issued a report that kim has personally supervised the recent missile tests. A brawl broke out on the basketball cart when the Phoenix Mercury took on the dallas wings on saturday. Phoenixs Brittney Griner and dallas wings Kristine Anigwe griner starts chasing her down the court. Both players are restrained. Others joined in, and in the end, six players ejected from the game. Dallas ended up winning, 8077. By the way, that night was griner bobblehead night too, so she was out there on the hunt on her bobblehead night. That was intense. Could have been worse. Not something you exactly see in basketball. Right. All right, rob marciano not here. Out in the field, orlando. Not getting into any fights last time we checked. But he has the forecast for us this morning out in disney springs. Rob, good morning. Reporter good morning, its bobblehead morning down here in orlando. Good morning, guys. Speaking of the wnba, the nba that works perfectly to one of the reasons were here, the experience is happening here in disney springs. Thats opening tomorrow. More about that in just a second. Its warm and muggy as it here in the morning here in august, but it shouldnt be too shabby a day here this afternoon. Where it was even rougher yesterday, where it came down like cats and dogs was in tucson, arizona, Flash Flood Watch out for this area. Monsoon flow, and they had just a little less than an inch of rain, but it all came down at once. Flash flooding there. Where they had even more rain, little rock, arkansas, setting a record there, more than 2 1 2 inches of rain falling, more than 3 inches of rain falling during the day yesterday, and they had heres well. Lot of moisture in the atmosphere. Here where is the radar is putting it down. Topeka, kansas, about to get some of this action today. Where i think it will be more intense is farther to the north at least for today. Flash flood watches are posted for nebraska, kansas, rapid city, mt. Rushmore may get a little bit wet this morning. This were weaves its way north and east. Strong storms during the daytime and nighttime tonight. It moves off toward the east tomorrow. Getting towards minneapolis, or just south of minneapolis, maybe chicago as well, locally 5 inches of rain. Severe Weather Threat across the Northern Plains today. Thats a check of whats happening nationally here from it is steamy here in orlando in the morning, but we get cooling afternoon showers, a nice balance for folks who are attending walt disney world. One of the star players of the orlando magic, Mohamed Bamba magic mo as we like to call him, joined me yesterday, all 7 feet of him to explore the nba experience. Well share that story with you a little bit later on in the program. What could possibly go wrong there . Rob, did you bring the kids with you to disney . Or are you just doing solo dad trip this time . I brought one of the kids with me and she got oversugarified. There were some intestinal issues last night. Well just say that. This is a morning show. Good morning. Everybodys excited for breakfast now. Disney world. Thanks, rob. Poor thing. Its the trip of a lifetime for one family, a grandfather taking his brood to hawaii after racking up enough frequent flyer miles to whisk them all away. When we say all, we mean dozens. Diane is here with this story. Reporter