On autopilot hitting speeds topping 70 miles an hour. The search right now for these suspects caught on camera holding up a famous Manhattan Store in broad daylight stealing up to 4 million worth of jewels. Sudden exit, the announcement from colts quarterback andrew luck retiring at 29 years old and at the top of his game, stunning the nfl and angering his fans. Almost sounds like some of these fans are booing. What were learning about his reason this morning. And secrets from star wars. The brandnew first look for the highly anticipated rise of skywalker about to be revealed. Is this ray of light going to the dark side . See it here only on gma. Good morning, america. Hope youre well this monday morning. Is this ray of light going to star wars fans are going crazy. Thats whats happening. Its not just star wars though, a lot of big n frozen 2, gma was there for it all. If thats not a tease, i dont know what is. We have a lot more of that coming up later in our show. But were going to begin with that wicked summer weather as we watched that Tropical Storm in the atlantic. Were also tracking severe thunderstorms hitting the plains and heading east. Theres heavy rain making for a messy commute in the midwest this morning and ginger will start us off with the latest, good morning, ginger. Good morning, michael. I see people outside with jackets on. That cool and midland, texas, record high of 108. You know youll get storms between like this, the flash flood emergency in northern alabama. Reporter more than 9 inches of rain in northern alabama. Flooding the streets of florence. In north carolina, crews cleaning up after four mudslides shut down this highway and left trapped for hours. All of a sudden you heard a big crack and it looks like black lava coming off the top of the hill. It was very scary. I thought we were all going to die. People driving by said you could hear trees cracking as debris slid down the mountainside. All of this after that Lightning Strike injured six people at the pga tour championship in atlanta. People were struck by lightning. I dont know if theyre alert, conscious or breathing. Reporter play was suspended due to storms. So people took cover under a tree. The tree split when lightning hit. Debris causing all those injuries. Six people sent to the hospital. One of them a 12yearold girl. There were screams. It seemed like everybody else saw the tree was falling and i was just going based off that and trying to run away from it as quickly as possible. Not only do you have lightning possibility today but severe storm, 70 plusmileperhour winds in northern missouri through oklahoma and kansas. Youre going to want to watch for that. Then we promised to show you the tropics, watching this area but that should stay out in the ocean. The one here, Tropical Storm dorian has 60 plusmileperhour wind, the max sustained. Barbados under a Tropical Storm warning, 2 to 4 inches of rain possible, up to a half foot. Puerto rico looks like it will see the right side of that storm. Thankfully it does appear it is moving quickly. Well track it through the midweek and beyond. We know you will, ginger. Thank you. Now to President Trump closing out the g7 summit in france this morning and sending confusing signals about the escalating trade war with china has rattled Global Markets and threatens american consumers. Jon karl traveling with the president in biarritz. Good morning, jon. Reporter good morning, george. After a dizzying back and fort on the issue of china trade, this morning the president is backing off talk of an all out trade war with china. At least for now. Very big things are happenin la dment oin idenhas ttled markets now says a deal could be at hand. China called last night, our top trade people, and said lets get back to the table so well be getting back to the table and theyve been hurt very badly but they understand this is the right gatespect for it. Reporter this after a chaotic weekend of mixed messages on china. Mr. President , any second thoughts on escalating the trade war on china . Yeah. Sure. Why not . Might as well. You have second thoughts about escalating i have second thoughts about everything. Reporter President Trump also dropped for now his threat of declaring an economic emergency to force u. S. Companies out of china. Were getting along very well with china. Were talking. I think they want to make a deal much more than i do. Reporter his administration put a hawkish response on whether he has second thoughts about his approach. White House Press SecretaryStephanie Grisham issued a statement saying his answer has been greatly misinterpreted and the president only regrets not raising the tariffs higher. Does he have second thoughts and believe tariffs should be higher or did not hear the question . Again, he doesnt have second thoughts about what hes done. If anything, he wanted to clarify if he had second thoughts, it would be to raise the tariffs. Reporter in another surprising development, the foreign minister of iran made an unexpected visit to the g7 summit at the invitation of the president of france. Trump said today he knew all about the plan. Some of your allies are saying it was disrespect for macron to invite zarif, disrespectful to the u. S. Just the opposite. You dont feel that way . No. He has my approval. Reporter he talked about a new nuclear deal with iran. Were looking to make iran rich again. Lets let them be rich. Lets let them do well if they want or they can be poor as can be. Reporter the president was asked if he would meet with Iranian Foreign minister zarif while here in france. He said it would be too early to do that but when he was asked if he had passed on a message for the french to give to the iranian leadership, he said he could not and would not answer that question. Before you go, the president is commenting on this strange but well sourced report out of axios he had considered hitting hurricanes with Nuclear Bombs to stop them from coming to the u. S. . Reporter the president responded to that via twitter. It was a tweet sent out while he was meeting with german leader ange angela merkel. He said the story was ridiculous and never said anything about blowing up hurricanes. George. Jon karl, thanks very much. The president is also this morning facing a new changer for the white house in the race for 2020. This one from within his own party, former illinois congressman joe walsh telling george on this week he will take on President Trump for the gop nomination. Walsh called the president a child, thats a quote, saying he is unfit for office. Walsh swept into congress as a member of the tea party in 2010 but only served one term before become a conservative radio host. Thank you, cecilia. Now to the calls for action growing as those catastrophic fires burn in the amazon. World leaders and the pope are weighing in as we see new images of the devastation and more help arrives to fight the massive flames and matt gutman is on the front lines in brazil this morning. Matt gutman is on the ground in brazil. Reporter good morning, michael. This is one of the 80,000 fires that have burned. Yesterday i flew over this area and in years covering wildfires in the u. S. Ive never seen anything on this scale. Fires covering what we are told are hundreds of square miles. This morning, brazilian firefighters continue to pound those record fires from the ground and from the sky. The Brazilian Air force c130s are dropping those streams of water and an american 747 super tan tanker enlisted hit remote fires. Those curtains of fire ringing brazil. A record 80,000 fires this year chewing up vast swaths of forest. The fire is spread over an area twothirds the size of the u. S. Charred earth as far as the eye can see. We flew over fires stretching dozens of miles. Here near the worlds biggest wetlands, the smoke blotting out the sun. Theyre creating so much smoke they are forming their own weather patterns, which is why its so bumpy and theres so much turbulence. Brazil has deployed 44,000 troops but most fires go unfought here. There are thousands of fires burning across brazil right now but what makes this unlike so many others, there isnt a single firefighter in sight. This squad of 30 firefighters with no fire trucks and no hoses responsible for an area twice the size of new jersey. Theyre using that foam spray to you can see them slapping the flames over there. Its not easy work. There are hundreds of fires in this area but they chose this one because its near a village where locals helped out passing buckets, even using branches to put out flames. Now to give you a sense of how overwhelmed firefighters are in this country, theres a single firefighter in this area for every thousand square miles. They dont have radios, fire trucks or hoses. The u. S. And other nations have offered support and assistance. Brazils president said they dont need any. Guys . Just devastating. Absolutely. Well go to hong kong where were seeing some of the most intense clashes yet. Officers fired Water Cannons and tear gas and warning shots. Ian pannell is on the scene, good morning, ian. Reporter yeah, good morning, george. Thats right. This is a city shaken to its core by a weekend of violence. Overnight the police releasing a statement condemning the protesters for the battles that raged across the city for hours and hours over the weekend and taking a dangerous new turn. Anarchy on the streets of hong kong. Police firing a warning shot even pointing their guns directly at demonstrators using live ammunition for the First Time Since this threemonth fight for the future of hong kong erupted. One officer losing control with an unarmed protester. Water cannons deployed onto the streets. Protesters charging police with sticks, bricks and umbrellas. Police firing a relentless barrage of tear gas. Theres more tear gas canisters being brought forward as some of the protesters are literally picking them up trying to throw. Its forcing us to take cover. The air thick with smoke and anger on both sides. This is certainly the worst situation weve seen, the most violence, the most tear gas and the most resistance from the protesters. The question now is how long will china tolerate these scenes . Police say 21 officers were injured over the weekend and had no choice but to draw weapons because they were facing a lifethreatening situation. In all 86 protesters arrested, the youngest just 12 years old. And the reminder that china has said that itll move across the border if the Hong Kong Police cant control the situation and there were brief moments over the weekend where it started to look like that. George . Okay, ian, thanks very much. Cecelia . Says still a trainee, confessed he was not actually shot as he had claimed and he told investigators he had caused the holes in his uniform by cutting them. There was no sniper, no shots fired and no gunshot injury. The county Sheriffs Department said that he will be fired. Michael . Not surprised by that. Now we turn to new developments in the Harvey Weinstein case. The disgraced hollywood executive is due in court this morning facing new Sexual Assault allegations. Eva pilgrim is outside the courthouse in Lower Manhattan with the story. Good morning, eva. Reporter good morning, michael. Harvey weinstein here today, a grand jury returning a new indictment of the movie mogul. Once one of the most powerful men in hollywood, Harvey Weinstein is facing charges for sex crimes including rape involving two women in 2006 and 2013. This new indictment isnt expected to include any new charges. Prosecutors represented the case for strategic purposes to include the testimony of sopranos actress annabella sciorra. She claims weinstein raped her in the early 90s. While thats outside the statute of limitations to bring charges, prosecutors say her testimony is important at trial to show weinstein is a predator. Cecelia . Okay, eva. Thank you. Michael . Now well go to the stunning retirement announcement that rocked the nfl this morning. Indianapolis colts star quarterback andrew luck called it quits at 29 years old. T. J. Is here and, t. J. , the fans were caught off guard. The nfl was caught off guard. Were you . The reactions were different. Were you caught off guard . Absolutely. This will go down as one of the most shocking retirements in pro sports history. This guy is 29. One of the best in football in the prime of his career and has hundreds of millions of dollars of potential career earnings still on the table, says im done. At 29. In doing so hes making the statement theres more to life than football. Now youre starting to hear the reaction of some of the fans almost reporter bombshell nfl news leaked and started to spread in the middle of a preseason game. Look at this reaction. There are people that guy is wearing an andrew luck jersey. Reporter Indianapolis Colts star andrew luck was on the sideline with his team when word got out that hed be retiring from the nfl at the age of 29 and with three years left on his 140 million contract. This is not an easy decision. Honestly its the hardest decision of my life but it is the right decision for me. Reporter the 2018 comeback player of the year opened up about his surprise decision in an emotional post Game Press Conference saying years of battling constant injuries had taken a physical and mental toll. I felt stuck in it and the only way i see out is to no longer play football. Its taken my joy of this game away. The only way forward for me is to remove myself from football. Reporter drafted first overall by the colts in 2012 to fill the legendary cleats of peyton manning, luck was a fourtime pro bowler in his seven seasons. My teammates, i feel so conflicted because of my love for these men but its clear to me thats whats best for the team. Reporter this year after an ankle injury left him struggling to heal in time for the regular season he decided to hang it up during the prime of hiunof ionsf dollars in potential career earnings. You heard jim irsay say he passed up billion dollars in earnings by retiring this early. Reporter lucks team and many across the nfl stand by their colleagues courageous decision. Hes had a great career and done a lot for the city of indianapolis so proud of him and, you know, wish him the best. I think it takes an immense amount of courage, a lot of guts to do what hes doing. The colts could have gone after 24 million in a signing bonus that hell let him keep for putting his, torn abdomen, he has played through all this. A concussion, he has been through a lot in just seven months of a career but he is saying theres more to life. I want to live a happy life and football aint making me happy. I saw the fans reaction, all the booing. This guy has given so much to the city, to the team and its always its easy to be tough hid ows what he needs ody. To do and hes doing the right thing. It takes a lot of courage as j. J. Watt said. It was a cool statement. Seeing some guys in football saying, i got more life to live so im done with this. Yep. Im the first to tell you you do. How is postfootball life working for you . Its working out all right. Another sports headline. A huge congratulations to the new Little League world series champs, louisiana beating curacao 80 to win their first title. Louisiana pitcher egan prather sent his team into a complete frenzy leading to a huge pile on. Ouch. It looks like he was in pain. Saints quarterback drew brees sharing in the excitement for his states team. He posed this video of his own sons going wild the moment of this win, brees writing on instagram, congratulations to the river ridge Little League team for being world series champs. What an incredible accomplishment. So proud of you. This is a tough go for louisiana, though, they lost their first game. Then they had to win six games six gapes in eight days to win this title but they did it. They did it. We have a lot more coming up including this driver appearing to be asleep in his tesla which is on autopilot going down a busy freeway. 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