Transcripts For KGO Good Morning America 20160512 : vimarsan

Transcripts For KGO Good Morning America 20160512

Meet the woman charming prince charming. The Invictus Games hero prince harry couldnt wait to celebrate. Good luck. I mean its going to be amazing. I cant wait to give you your medal. Thank you. The swimmer taking home four golds. Why she decided to give one back to the prince. And good morning, america. Happy thursday. Lets take another look at this right now. Smiles going on, a couple kisses right there. The internet explodes. Maybe found a new girlfriend. These games as you know are so incredibly special. Four gold medals for that young woman and i had a conversation with prince harry about the Invictus Games and the first lady. She called him prince charming. Looks like he found a hero just as charming. Why she gave it back and who she wants to give it to. Having a lot of fun with that. We begin with that big meeting with donald trump coming facetoface with paul ryan this morning. The unity of the Republican Party possibly at stake. Abcs tom llamas is on capitol hill with the latest. Good morning, tom. Reporter robin, good morning to you. The meetings under way at the rnc headquarters. Trump inside and outside protesters you can hear and see them. Trumps most important metering is happening inside this building. Ryan trying to figure out how to make sure he can keep the party happy and also keep donald trump happy. This morning donald trump bringing his deal making to washington to convince Republican Leaders to get on the trump train. His pitch for unity simple. No matter what you have youre going to have differences. If you agree on 70 thats always a lot. Reporter trump hopes that works on House Speaker paul ryan who has yet to support the presumptive gop nominee. This election is too important to go into an election at half strength. That means we need a real unification of our party. Reporter trump, who threatened to bounce ryan as Convention Chair now with a charm offensive. Paul is a good person and i dont know him well. I think thats part of the meeting. We have to get to know he knew everybody else because theyre governors, senators. I am a businessman. Reporter a businessman who loves to brag about his billions. And now trumps critics want him to prove it by releasing his tax returns. When you run for president , especially when you become the nominee, that is kind of expected. So you got to ask yourself why doesnt he want to release them . Yeah, well, were going to find out. Reporter trump claims hes being audited. Mitt romney says so what posting on facebook thats not a valid or legal reason and that trump is possibly hiding a, quote, bombshell of unusual size. Trump says, only when the audit is over. The answer is hopefully before the election. I would like to release. Reporter though his taxes remain a mystery he is revealing new details about his pick for running mate. How big is the universe, five or six . Five or six or seven. Any women in that group . Actually, yes. Reporter the trump cam pipe here in d. C. And tomorrow they ill be in cleveland for face to face meetings with the rnc over the convention. Trump wants entertainment including a country western act. George. Okay, tom, thanks very much. Lets talk more with jon karl down in washington this morning and, jon, about this meeting first. Paul ryan, the speaker of the house making it clear, dont expect an endorsement immediately coming out of this meeting with donald trump. But what is he looking for today . Reporter well, hes made it Crystal Clear that he eventually wants to endorse donald trump. But it will take a long time to get there. So dont expect that to happen today. Look, ryan is under enormous pressure george from his fellow House Republicans to come out and to unify and endorse the partys presumptive nominee. One very Senior Member of the house leadership who is quite close to ryan told me that the concern here is that trump could decide to effectively run against the House Republicans to run against the house just as he is running against Hillary Clinton to run as a true outsider, really a Third Party Candidate who happens to have the republican endorsement. This member of the house leadership told me that would be a disaster. For House Republicans. They are so far apart on so many issues. They have to find some Common Ground. Reporter if you went into a lab and tried to design a politician that was most unlike paul ryan you probably would have come out with donald trump. They differ stylistically and on all the major policy issues from trade to immigration but they do need to find Common Ground at least in terms of the vision of what it means to be a republican. Right now they look like two different visions. On the tax return issue, up until now donald trump has calculated it would cause him more pain to release them than withhold them but the pressure is going to increase. Reporter the pressure will absolutely increase, george. He is not the conventional politician and has gotten away with a lot that others couldnt have but on this one he will be forced to release those tax returns, especially now that he has said that he would, every Major Party Nominee for the last half century has released at least the summary of those returns, almost all of them their full returns and he will be under pressure every day to do that in the general election. Yeah, going back to 1976. Jon karl, thanks very much. Now to the latest on the stabbing spree at a mall in massachusetts. Were learning more about the man who killed two, injured several others before being shot by an offduty deputy. This morning, his family revealing the suspect was seeking help for a mental breakdown. Abcs gio benitez is in taunton, massachusetts, with the latest. Good morning, gio. Reporter robin, good morning to you. Overnight we learned the suspect may have made threats in the past before the attack in this mall. This as we learn so much more about two heroes. This morning, were now learning beloved 56yearold teacher george heath was eating dinner with his wife at bertuccis wood oven pizza in the galleria mall when Arthur Darosa came in stabbing a pregnant waitress. My husband grabbed him. I think he grabbed him around the waist area, i think, trying to keep him so his arm wouldnt go up to stab anybody else. Reporter heath was stabbed in the head as he tried to intervene. He did not survive. I lost a good man. I did. He was a great man. Reporter the waitress surviving but in serious condition this morning and then another hero, offduty deputy james creed stopped darosa with a single bullet. Darosa later died at the hospital. He prevented further carnage from occurring by his actions. Reporter darosas motives are a mystery but this morning were learning more about his possible history with mental illness. Our boston station wcvb obtaining Court Documents that quote his then girlfriend who told them darosa had tried to harm himself and once told her, you should be scared for your life. And now new details about his stay in a hospital the night before the attack. His family revealing he was seeking treatment for what they call a breakdown. Its a disgrace how someone goes in for help and wants help and no one does nothing. Reporter darosa was sent home at 4 00 a. M. By 6 00 p. M. The next evening the father of two left his childs soccer game, crashed his car, entered a random house and stabbed 80yearold Patricia Slavin to death and injured her daughter and allege he took that same crashed car, slammed it into macys at the mall and caused that carnage at the restaurant. Darosas family blame morton hospital for sending him home without treating his mental illness. The hospital says they extend their thoughts and prayers to the families of the victims but saying it cant disclose patient information. And this morning, the state of massachusetts says it will investigate that hospitals actions. The family claims they couldnt even get his name right. All right, gio, thank you. Now to that new warning about the zika virus. An article in the Harvard Public Health review saying holding the 2016 games in rio could create a Public Health disaster and is now calling for them to move location or even be postponed. Abcs dr. Richard besser is here with more. So tell us a little more about this assessment. This is a piece by a canadian Public Health law area and gives five strong reasons why he thinks they should be moved. Rio is in the heart of the outbreak. Not in the periphery, the second, this strain of zika is worse than previous strains and causes those severe birth defects in babies. The increase in tourism is going to spread the virus. Half a billion people coming in and going back to their countries will spread it and shorten the time that Public Health officials have to create new ways to prevent this in those countries where it comes back and its irresponsible to hold the games. The u. S. , the Major League Baseball moved two baseball games out of puerto rico for this very reason to prevent the spread of disease. What do you think about this assessment . You know, as a Public Health person i know the last thing you want during an outbreak is a lot of people coming in because it will spread it faster. But i dont think the games are going to be moved or postponed. I think the focus needs to be on making sure pregnant women dont go and those who go use repellant. And protect themselves. A new report about symptoms for zika. If youve been to a place where zika is spreading they want people to be alert to what those symptoms are. The first is a rash, usually itchy, you can also have fever, joint pain and bloodshot eyes. If youve been to one of these places within the past two weeks and you get those symptoms go ahead and get tested. Quick reminder what we can do to prevent the spread. Yeah, you want to do it now before mosquito season. Repair your screens and gutters and get rid of Free Standing water around your home and stock up on repellant because when mosquito comes you want to use that protection. Thanks. We turn to that stunning nding about the explosion at a texas fertilizer plant that killed 15 people, injured hundreds more in 2 Authorities Says it was not an accident calling it a criminal act and abcs phillip mena is in west, texas with the latest. Good morning, phillip. Reporter dm. This is the blast site. The explosion left a crater about the size of an olympic swimming pool. But the void it left in this community is immeasurable and this morning, the feds say someone ignited it on purpose. The explosion rocking the town of west, texas, now being called a criminal act. The images shocking. The smoke, blinding. I dont even recognize it. I have no idea where i am. Reporter the sounds of fear haunting. Dad, i cant hear. Cover your ears. Get out of here. Please get out of here. Reporter 15 people including a dozen First Responders killed on that april night in 2013 at the west fertilizer plant. Hundreds more injured. This morning federal Officials Say it was no accident. The fire that sparked the blast intentionally set. We came to the conclusion after we ruled out all recent reasonable accidental and natural causes. Reporter three years later this town of 2,800 still recovering. Entire neighborhoods, the local high school rebuilt. Did you move back . Yes, i moved back. All i could think about was all those lives lost. Reporter federal investigators now on the hunt for the arsonist offering a 50,000 reward. We want the community to know that we havent forgotten them and owe it to them to go where this investigation leads us. We owe that to them and thats what were going to do. Reporter in addition to the reward money, the atf says this investigation has cost 2 million over the last three years. One of its most expensive ever. Robin. Thank you. Now to a big alert about popular kids shoes after one family says they may have started a fire in their car. Investigators are focusing on batteries used to light them up. Abcs Mara Schiavocampo is here with the new warning. Good morning, mara. Reporter robin, good morning. Weve all seen those little blinking kids shoes. Well, theyre powered with lithium ion batteries which can explode or cause fire, and thats what this family thinks happened and is speaking out to alert others. This morning, these childrens shoes are being pulled off the shelves after a texas family says their sons pair may have led to a big fire. Its scary. Thats what it is. Reporter days ago attila and jovan virag discovered a blaze in the backseat of their car, flames burning a hole through the floor melting the passenger seat and filling the vehicle with smoke and soot. They believe the culprit was the lithium ion battery powering the blinking lights on their sons sneakers which he left in the car. The blaze completely charring one shoe. Its batteries and wires left exposed. There was nothing else in there to start a fire. Im glad my son wasnt wearing it at the time. Reporter lithium ion batteries are extremely common used in millions of electronics every day from cell phones to tablets but can also be dangerous. In rare cases, bursting into flames. Its on fire. Reporter like with these hoverboards and have recently been banned as cargo on passenger planes. The investigation into the car fire is still ongoing but Authorities Say the sneakers remain a possible cause. Payless where the shoes were purchased telling abc news they have removed the shoes from store shelves out of an abundance of caution. Now, the Consumer Products Safety Commission says this is the first case theyre aware of. Other retailers selling them are pulling them for now and that is just the size of a penny, so tiny. But the damage its apparently doing. To amy with the mornings other top stories starting with that Violent Arrest caught on camera. Thats right. The attorney general in New Hampshire is now launching an investigation into several officers who were caught on camera punching a suspect who had led police on a chase through several towns. The man was wanted on multiple warrants including assault. He had dropped to his knees when he was repeatedly punched. Authorities are now going to investigate whether that force was necessary. Well, George Zimmerman is selling the gun he used to kill unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin placing it up for auction online today. Zimmerman calls the gun an american firearm icon. He was acquitted of murder and manslaughter in martins death and speaking on the phone, he was unapologetic about the sale. What i decided to do is not cower. Im a free american, and i can do what id like with my possessions. The opening bid for the gun is 5,000. We have some breaking news from brazil where the senate there has voted to impeach president Dilma Rousseff because of an accounting scandal. This move suspends her from pending a trial and plunges the country into political chaos just before the rio olympics. Disturbing claims about inside some of americas largest chicken plants. Oxfam says some poultry workers are denied bathroom breaks and have to wear diapers to keep up with production. One report says its troubling but extremely rare. In sports history was made in the big leagues as Washington Nationals pitcher max scherzer threw 20 strikeouts to beat the tigers. That ties the record for the most strikeouts in a nineinning game and guess what he received oh, yeah, a gatorade bath to celebrate. Thats refreshing. Finally it was the catch of the day but it was not the fisherman who did the catching. Take a look as we see someone swooping, boom, to steal the catch right off this fishermans line in canada. Yeah, thats an eagle with impeccable timing and that, of course, keen eagle eyesight. Yep, has a Bad Reputation among locals for stealing so this isnt the first time. That wont be the last time. That guy, home of the brave. Likes other people to do the work. Smart guy. Lets get to the Invictus Games, shall we . Prince harry received a very special gift. After winning the 100meter freestyle, elizabeth marks gave prince harry her gold medal and asked him to please take it back to the hospital in the uk that saved her life. The 25yearold swimmer also an active Duty Army Staff Sergeant suffered hip injuries during a tour in iraq. By the way, she had a great game, four gold medals in freestyle backstroke and breaststroke and all week we saw harry supporting all the competitors and robin by his side for some of it but somehow elizabeth really seems to attract the attention of the internet and touched his heart and, of course, the internet is trying to speculate, oh, they make a great couple. They are speculating. Shes married. Shes married. He was become lovely. She did great. Shes giving her award back. It was a lovely moment. Have you seen online . Yes. Its hard to miss. Its all over. The closing ceremony is tonight. Its been a spectacular game. Its just a beautiful event. It is. It is. Lets go to rob now. Boy, the storms in the midwest not letting up. Storms across parts of arkansas and these storms rolling through st. Louis overnight. Wind damage that have taken trees down and hail in omaha. So much so they were plowing it yesterday. Look at that. Accumulating on the sides of the road. These storms will advance off to the east today. Your local forecast 30 seconds away. I am meteorologist mike nicco with the forecast. We will is low clouds and high clouds away from the coast and low clouds will be there, stubbornly today. Back to average highs today, saturday this will be spring wees in the morning and

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