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KGO Good Morning America July 13, 2024

The isis mole. Sources tell abc news about a member of baghdadis inner circle. Now the new warning from an isis prisoner. What he told our reporter about what could happen next. Juul lawsuit. A former executive accusing the company of knowingly shipping out a million contaminated ecigarette pods to customers around the country. Stunning new Surveillance Video of this deadly plane crash. The aircraft free falling slamming into a house. The investigation under way. Breaking his silence. Kevin hart pulls back the curtain on his road to recovery. His message after that devastating accident. Its the final countdown the nationals force a game seven. And seventh heaven. The nationals battling back from behind beating the astros in a wild game. The manager kicked out after the controversial call that could have cost them everything. And now the epic world series showdown about to kick off tonight. And still we stand tall that song appropriate. Good morning, america. A lot of drama last night on the field and me we havent seen before. Road team has won every single game this world series. So much for home field advantage. Yeah, you dont have it in this series. Will washington be able to pull off one more win to take home their first world series or will houston win it all . We know someone will popping the champagne tonight for sure. We know who someone is hoping that will be. Come on, houston. More on that ahead. But first, were watching two major wildfires across california. In the north the kincade fire so big it looks like this. This is 85 miles away in San Francisco. Meanwhile, in Southern California, theyre bracing for those dangerous santa ana winds. Matt gutman is in los angeles, has the latest for us. Good morning, matt. Reporter hey, good morning, robin. We actually just lost a light because the winds are starting to pick up. You can see those firefighters behind me, theyre literally taking a last stand. Over the past half hour the winds have kicked up blowing the zinged palm trees. The fear is the wind will kick up embers and cast them miles down, taking them from destru destructed areas and starting new fires. These red flag warnings are under way in 43 california counties this morning. That applies to 27 Million People. Overnight, that rare new video showing the spark which incinerated 12 home, damaged 5 others in l. A. s pricey brentwood neighborhood. Take another look. Officials claiming high winds carried a tree branch into a city power line. Those sparks igniting the flames fueling that fire. The charred remains of structures spanning nearly 650 acres, over 20,000 residents remain under mandatory evacuation orders. I understand how frightening it is to live in a canyon where these things can happen. Reporter and this morning, pacific gas and electric blacking out about 1. 5 Million People in 30 counties to prevent high winds from topping power lines and sparking new fires. Worst winds that los angeles has seen in the last two to three years. Reporter and several hundred miles away in Northern California, fires still going. San francisco firefighters tweeting out this harrowing new video of what they faced trying to quell the kincade fire. Infernos on both sides of the highway as they try to douse those flames. These aircraft now flying overhead trying to keep the fire down. The kincade fire, about 15 contained but over 76,000 acres have burned. 86 singlefamily homes already consumed by that fire. Were at the time of year where we havent seen any moisture for an extended period of time and they are receptive to new fire as well as fire spread. Reporter that wind could also make more work for firefighters. Could ground the helicopters that weve seen doing so much of the heavy lifting putting out hot spots and really remote areas. Now that crew youre seeing behind me, this is their third major fire in three weeks. Firefighters here are exhausted. Theyve been on the front lines for well, since 3 00 a. M. Monday morning. The question is not if there will be another fire today, its where. Michael. All right, thank you so much, matt. And as we heard, the winds are making these flames very hard to battle. Well go to ginger for the latest on whats next. Good morning, ginger. Good morning, michael. Good morning. More than 110,000 acres burning in the kincade fire but as matt said today it is about what happens next. Lets talk about that. There is a huge, strong and one of the strongest pressure gradients meaning 77degree difference between colorado and california. Look at the state of california, smothered by alerts. And its not just because the santa ana winds will come offshore which they are, but its because they are squeeze between mountain passes and that can enhance it, because theres such a difference in the air pressure, it wants so badly to get to the coast. Its going to go super fast to get there. Lets dive in and show you what happens when you squeeze that air between mountain passes, you can go from 30 to 50mileperhour sustained wind to gusts around 80 Miles Per Hour. On top of it all this heats up and dries out the air. Relative humidity in the 1 to 6 range. George. Now to washington and the latest on impeachment as the house prepares for a full floor vote tomorrow there is new fallout from the explosive testimony of the white house aide and iraq war veteran on President Trumps ukraine phone call. He testified that key words and phrases were omitted from the official transcript of that call and our senior Congressional Correspondent mary bruce is on capitol hill with the details. Good morning. Reporter good morning. There were always gaps in the white house version of the transcript of this call. The white house said that that was just a voice trailing off or a pause in the conversation, but now a key witness listening in on that call and was tasked with editing this transcript reportedly says that details were left out. This morning, new questions about the handling of the call at the center of this impeachment inquiry. Lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, the first witness with firsthand knowledge with that call to testify to that call reportedly told investigators the crucial phrases were left out of the white house transcript of the call. According to the New York Times, vindman, a top ukraine expert on the National Security council, testified that on the call, the president claimed there were recordings of former Vice President joe biden discussing corruption. You can see the ellipses in the version of the transcript released by the white house. The times reports that vindman also recalled that ukrainian president zelensky made an explicit mention on the call of the Energy Company where bidens son hunter served on the board. Vindman tried to add those details to the reconstructed white house transcript of the call but according to the times his edits were not included and its not clear why. I want to thank colonel vindman for his courage in coming forward. Reporter in 10 1 2 hours of testimony vindman told lawmakers he was disturbed by what he heard on the call and the pressure that President Trump was putting on the ukrainian leader to investigate the bidens. Vindman told them, i did not think it was proper to demand that a Foreign Government investigate a u. S. Citizen, adding that it would undermine u. S. National security. Behind closed doors, the deposition grew heated. Lawmakers shouting at each other. Democrats are accusing republicans of asking questions in an effort to determine the whistleblowers identity. But vindman, a decorated war veteran says he reported his concerns out of a sense of duty and insists he is not the whistleblower and does not know who that person is. Now, vindmans testimony seems to contradict the testimony of Gordon Sondland, the u. S. Ambassador to the eu. He testified that no one ever raised concerns with him about his approach to ukraine, but, george, vindman says he did just that and told Gordon Sondland that his comments were inappropriate, so, george, lawmakers are likely to have some additional questions for the ambassador. Well have to see if sondland cleans that up. The house is set for the floor vote on the impeachment process tomorrow. Reporter this will help outline what comes next, the next phase of this investigation including the procedures of those public hearings that are expected to begin here in the next few weeks. Mary bruce, thanks very much. Lets talk about it more with dan abrams and start with the testimony from colonel vindman. Its in some ways the most significant yet because he was on that phone call. You cant say he was hearing it from somebody else. This is him talking about what he himself heard but i think just as important is how consistent his testimony is with ambassador taylor, how consistent it is with the texts and with the transcript of the call as we know it because you cant look at each of these witnesses in a vacuum. You have to look at how does it fit in . Thats why as mary points out ambassador sondlands testimony becomes so important. He seems to be the one who appears to be conflicting with both vindman and taylor as to what was happening at the time. Hes also the one whos assumed to be the closest to President Trump and, in fact, had been talking to President Trump during this process. Very significant. This process the house will lay out, basically a twostage process, investigation by the Intelligence Committee and then the Judiciary Committee that would write up articles of impeachment. Right, you know, people are asking a lot about how does this compare to previous impeachment proceedings . Its a little hard to compare it simply because in both the nixon case and the clinton case, there was a special prosecutor who did most of the investigating. Behind closed doors. Behind closed doors so, in the clinton case, ken starr handed Congress Everything they needed to know. Now, you could say about what Robert Mueller . The difference was, Robert Mueller wasnt investigating ukraine. He was investigating specifically the russia piece so no one has really been investigating ukraine. Its behind closed doors and in that sense its consistent with what had happened before. Dan abrams, thanks very much. Robin. George, now to stunning new details on the raid to take down the leader of isis. A source says a mole inside baghdadis safe house played a key role. Ian pannell is in the region and spoke with an isis prisoner. Good morning, ian. Reporter yeah, thats right, good morning, robin. Yet more dramatic detail emerging about the hunt for isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi. This morning, more news about an informant inside baghdadis inner circle. The Washington Post revealing the source gave crucial details including the location and layout of the isis leaders safe house. An official telling the post, the mole had turned against the Islamic State after one of his relatives had been killed by the group. Now, kurdish sources telling abc the mole was present during the raid and critical to the successful u. S. Mission. Even providing them with a pair of baghdadis underwear and a blood sample for dna testing to prove it was him. According to the post, the mole was exfiltrated two days later with his family and is expected to receive some or all of the 25 million u. S. Bounty placed on baghdadi. But thousands of isis prisoners and fighters are still alive. Some in overflowing prisons like these. We spoke with one in a maximum security jail in iraq on tuesday. So what difference will it make now baghdadi is dead, do you think . No difference. Maybe it will become worse. Worse . Worse. Reporter this man who says he has family in europe and the United States warning this is not the end for isis. I think now maybe in europe something is going to happen because many people may be upset about this, but like i said, how many baghdadis go, another one pops up. Reporter he claims he was just a policeman in isis but he shows no remorse for what they did. What would you say to the parents of kayla mueller, of steven sotloff, of james foley, of all the other foreigners who were beheaded, what do you say to them . Well, what would you say about the people who got killed in the Islamic State, the children . What would you say . You have no words for them . This is not my i didnt write their destiny. This is their destiny. Reporter well, i have to say that was a chilling interview. Its not just a prisoner issuing those warnings i heard the same thing from kurdish fighters and know that u. S. Law enforcement officials on alert for a potential isis revenge attack. Michael. All right, chilling, indeed. Thank you so much. Now to that new lawsuit filed against juul. A former executive suing the company accusing it of knowingly shipping out 1 million contaminated pods earlier this year and not telling customers. Whit johnson has more. Reporter this morning, the former senior Vice President of Global Finance at juul claiming in a new lawsuit that he raised concerns about a shipment of contaminated pods. In the lawsuit, sid breja alleged that Company Leaders often responded to concerns about health and safety by quoting former ceo kevin burns who allegedly said half our customers are drunk and vaping like expletive. Who the expletive is going to notice the quality of our pods. Bra accuses the company of firing him in retaliation for whistleblowing. Mr. Breja became aware of very concerning actions within the company that could jeopardize the health of millions of juul users. Mr. Breja performed his duty to shareholders, the board and the public by reporting these issues internally expecting that juuls Senior Management would do the right thing. Juul has not responded to abc news request for comment but in an earlier legal filing, the company claimed at no point during his termination meeting or during his entire ten months of employment did breja complain he had been retaliated against, suggest he had ever identified any safety or quality concerns or claim that his employment had been wrongfully terminated. Now, the lawsuit alleges that the 1 million contaminated pods were the popular mint flavor. And despite the protests from this executive the Company Refused to issue a recall or really any kind of safety and Health Warning for consumers out there. Okay, whit, thanks very much. World series time right now. Epic game seven set for tonight after the nationals battled back against the astros in a game packed with drama last night and t. J. Is down in houston outside the stadium with all the action. Hey, t. J. Reporter george, this game was all kinds of crazy. First, you had two players taunting each other with bats. You had a manager get so upset he had to be physically restrained before he was ejected and you had a controversial call that had us all thumbing through the rule book. Now we get a game seven. The nationals have forced game seven. Reporter the Washington Nationals live to fight one more day forcing a winner take all game seven after defeating the Houston Astros 72 in a contentious and controversial game six. The game got off to a fast and fiery start. Astros third baseman alex bregman got the hostilities going early on carrying his bat all the way to first bat after this solo home run setting off the nationals and their fans who felt he was showboating. But four innings later nationals superstar juan soto returned the favor taunting bregman by carrying his bat to first base after he whacked this staggering home run giving the nationals a onerun lead. Things got even more heated after a controversial call in the seventh inning. Nats shortstop trea turner was called out when he bumped the astros first baseman even though he was hit by the throw and appeared to run in a straight line. After that widely condemned interference call and a long delay nationals manager dave martinez, who recently had a heart procedure, had to be restrained and was thrown out of the game by the umpires. But the nats turned their frustration into momentum. Immediately responding with a tworun home run. Back at the wall it is gone reporter and never looked back. We had a great opportunity to play a home game, game seven of the world games. Reporter on that controversial call, seriously, pulled out a rule book and 5. 09 paragraph a, section 11 states that the runner, even though hes running in a straight line, he has to run a little in foul territory and the player wasnt a little to the right where he should have been so that was the interpretation and mlb umpires did get that call right. The first time in the world series the road team has won the first six games and we get a game seven, best two words in sports. Doesnt matter what sport. Game seven is always good. Its going to be something. 2 00 i got an email from charlie gibson. He was watching the game. A. M. He was not pleased with that 2 00 a. M. He wasnt pleased with that call. Following a lot of other stories including kevin hart speaking out after that brutal car accident and sharing personal videos of his recovery. Only on gma, were taking you inside the elite Training Facility turning puppies into canine commandos like the one that helped take down the leader of isis. Wait until you see this. First back to ginger. Temperature in denver this morning, 6. Yeah, 6 degrees, feels like 6 below, look at goodland, kansas. The accident as long interstate 70. The spinouts. This will keep moving east. The flurries are ending this morning in denver. Look at the Winter Weather advisories, kansas city to chicago. Jobina will be tracking that. There are some developments. Definitely. And a bit of good news. I understand the winds were not what we expected. Alameda county, san ma

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