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KGO Good Morning America August 2, 2016

The American Airlines captain coming to the rescue when an unruly passenger attacks a crew member. Sit down. Sit down. Enough. You dont put your hands on my Flight Attendant. How he took control and stopped what could have been a dangerous confrontation. We do say good morning, america. Good to have lara back. Thank you. We have a lot of news to get to. Those new polls showing Hillary Clinton surging as donald trump battles attacks from both sides of the aisle over his comments about that military family. Yeah, continued through the day yesterday. We have an exclusive with miss teen usa. Karlie hay is here live taking on the controversy about those offensive tweets. Severe weather on move, missouri roads underwater and alerts now from las vegas. You see missouri right there. Alerts from las vegas to st. Louis and ginger, of course, is tracking it all. There are pockets of flash flooding. Isolated storms you get 6, 8 inches very quickly. Ocean city, maryland, the picture behind me and that video out of missouri, east of kansas city and now that line has moved to the east. There are warnings this morning, 4 inches plus have fallen west of st. Louis. Were watching there. Also in the southwest with that monsoon flow, 3 plus inches falls in hours and you got trouble, 90 development for this. 90 . It would be earl if it got through parts of belize and mexico. I know youre keeping an eye on it. All right, ginger. That unprecedented warning about the zika virus. The cdc advising pregnant women to avoid a popular neighborhood in miami. So far at least 14 cases have been transmitted by infected mosquitoes in that area. There have been more than 1,600 travelrelated cases across the country. And more than 400 pregnant women have been infected. Abcs dr. Richard besser is in miami and has the latest for us. Good morning, dr. Besser. Good morning, robin. You know, now that theres proof that zika is continuing to spread in this neighborhood, Public Health has done something theyve never done before telling some people to stay away but with all the travel people are doing, they dont believe this will be the last time that happens. Here in this florida neighborhood, just one square mile north of downtown miami, 14 cases of zika have been transmitted by local mosquitoes and the cdc has this warning for pregnant women. Stay away. Apparently the first time it has issued such a travel warning in the continental u. S. Ever. We believe theres still individuals that are at risk in that onemile square radius. Reporter so Health Officials are testing thousands of residents here in the wynnewood arts district, one of the busiest neighborhoods in the city, praying for mosquitos, delivering zika prevention kits, bedding nets and treatments for standing water. Just doing a neighborhood sweep to make sure theres no mosquito breeding. Reporter many of the infected had no symptoms identified from doortodoor testing. Health officials are expecting more cases will arise. The virus most dangerous for pregnant women. Have you taken any steps around your home to cut down on mosquitoes . Patio furniture, everything inside. Because if it rains and you have your chair, you know, sitting up, it can have standing water. Just making sure none of my plants have water thats just been sitting there. One of the big worries here is that the mosquito appears to be resistant to the pesticides theyre using and will make control efforts difficult. Whats surprised me talking to people here, all the concerns from Public Health, people seem to be going about their lives and dont seem to be changing behavior. Robin. All right, dr. Besser, thank you. Joining us now with more is the director of the cdc, dr. Tom frieden. Dr. Frieden, thank you for your time this morning, and this is so alarming to a lot of people because it is a fairly small area, the warning, but it is the first travel advisory in the continental u. S. Since polio which has raised a lot of eyebrows and people want to know do you feel that youre going to have to increase the area . Only time will tell, robin. This is really a new phenomenon. Weve never seen a mosquitoborne illness that could cause a birth defect and right now there is this very specific area north of downtown miami where zika is spreading in that community so were advising pregnant women not to go there and pregnant women who have to live or work there to do Everything Possible to prevent mosquito bites. Four cases were announced on friday and then ten more on monday and some are saying why wasnt an advisory issued earlier . What we realized over the weekend was that the mosquito counts were not coming down as we had liked so we havent achieved good Mosquito Control in that area. And we now have our top experts on the ground working with the top folks in florida to figure out what more can be done to knock down this very difficult to control mosquitoes. I know you said that Mosquito Control there in miami has not worked as you had hoped. Why not . Well, there are three different possibilities. First, it could be that the mosquitoes there are resistant to the insecticides being used. Unfortunately, theres no quick test for that. It can take a week or three or four weeks to figure that out for sure. Second, it may be there are breeding sites that havent been eliminated. Standing water where mosquitoes continue to be churned out and, third, it is also the case that this is a really tough mosquito to control. This is an unusual neighborhood or an emerging neighborhood. Its mixed use. It has industrial, business and residential and that makes Mosquito Control very complex. Dr. Frieden, no treatment, no vaccine as of right now, and the consequences could be quite dire so this is something that people really need to take seriously. It is and its not just about this neighborhood. All over the u. S. , wherever the mosquito is present, 30 states, generally in the south of the u. S. , women who are pregnant really need to do everything they can to protect themselves from mosquito bites and thats difficult, putting on deet multiple times on exposed skin, wearing long sleeves and long pant, staying indoors, all these things reduce the risk of mosquito bites. And we cant hear those recommendations enough. Dr. Frieden, thank you very much. Thank you very much. You take care. We havent had a travel advisory in the continental u. S. Since polio. This is really unprecedented. We move on to the race for the white house. In you polls showing a Big Convention bounce for Hillary Clinton as donald Trump Doubles down in his fight with the muslim parents of a fallen soldier and steps up attacks on Hillary Clinton. Comparing her now to the devil. Abcs tom llamas is on the trail with trump in harrisburg, pennsylvania. Good morning, tom. Reporter george, good morning to you. Donald trump calling Hillary Clinton the devil is a first and this comes at the same time hes in the middle of a growing fight with fellow republican, billionaires, even the president over a back and forth with the family of a fallen u. S. Soldier. Overnight, donald trump warning of the possibility of a rigged election. And im telling you, november 8th we better be careful because that election is going to be rigged and i hope the republicans are watching closely or its going to be taken away from us. Reporter at a Campaign Event in pennsylvania he took his attacks on Hillary Clinton to a diabolical level, saying this of senator Bernie Sanders endorsement of clinton. But he made a deal with the devil. Shes the devil. Reporter but its trumps attacks on a gold star family that spoke out at the Democratic Convention that continue to get him in trouble. Have you even read the United States constitution . Reporter senator john mccain calling out trump saying just because trump is the gop nominee doesnt mean he can, quote, defame those who are the best among us. And the vfw Veterans Group saying to ridicule a gold star mother is out of bounds. Trumps running mate governor mike pence put on the spot during a town hall by a mother whose son serves in the u. S. Air force. Will there ever be a point in time when youre able to look at trump in the eye and tell him enough is enough . Reporter that mother getting booed from others at the town hall for asking her question. Captain khan is an american hero. [ applause ] and we cherish, we cherish his family. We cherish all of our gold star families. Reporter president obama also alluding to the controversy praising all the gold star families. That our gold star families have made a sacrifice that most of us cannot even begin to imagine. Reporter and fellow billionaire Warren Buffett whos supporting Hillary Clinton saying this about trump. Have you no sense of decency, sir . Reporter still trump says he has a right to defend himself. Horrible things were said about me. I think it was, frankly, very tough so all i did is respond and i will always respond. Reporter as trump fights with that gold star family the New York Times has a front page investigation looking into the numerous deferments, draft deferments during the vietnam war by donald trump, mostly for education but one of them for bone spurs in his heels. Now, this came at a time when trump was a very active athlete and had just picked up the game of golf. Trump has said that condition has since healed and he has acknowledged some guilt for not serving. George. Okay, tom, thanks. Lets talk to our political analysts matthew dowd and jon karl. Jon, let me begin with you and that the New York Times account. One of the things trump has said many times in the past that he received deferments and was ultimately kept out of the draft by a high lottery number. The New York Times calls that account into question. It sure does, george. Trump has said that he had a phenomenal draft number and thats why ultimately he was kept out of the war. But this New York Times investigation says he had five deferments, four for education, that last one for those bone spurs, according to the times would have made it virtually impossible for him to get drafted. Okay and, matt, we now have a series of polls showing Hillary Clintons bounce coming out of this convention and a lead in the six to eightpoint range. Yeah, you know, weve saw we saw donald trump get a slight bump, but it now looks like Hillary Clinton got a bigger bump. I think it has less to do with the convention than this controversy that erupted around donald trump. All selfinflicted. He should worry less about the bone spurs and more about shooting himself in the foot over and over and over again. Put on your political consultant hat. Youve worked for both democrats and republicans. If donald trump called you in what would you tell him to do to fix this . The first thing i would say is dont be yourself but that would be i think difficult in the course of this. He has to get some level of discipline and quit reacting to people. He has to get on his message and quit reacting to every Single Person that he seems to get some level of slight in the course of this. When hes doing that, hes capping himself, george. Its not that hes losing votes hes capping himself at a level he cant win at so in order to win hes got to get disciplined and stay on message. Jon, we saw him last night talking about the prospect of a rigged election. Yeah, this is something else. He said this before. After the 2012 election, he had a series of tweets that he said that this was clearly the result of a rigged election, romneys loss, but hes setting up the possibility of if he loses, saying it was because he was cheated. Okay. Jon karl, matthew dowd, thank you very much. All right, george, we move on to new questions about the deadliest hot air balloon crash in the u. S. That has killed 16 people. The pilot had been convicted of drunken driving four times. Abcs david kerley is in lockhart, texas, with more on this. Good morning, david. Reporter good morning, robin. A foggy morning here in texas. You can see the memorial thats been set up, the families were here at the site yesterday. There are no indications that the pilots past had anything to do with this crash. But it raises broad questions about licensing as investigators try to figure out why this balloon crashed. This morning, the covered remains of the balloon and gondola are in dallas for further examination as we learn more about the past of the pilot at the controls. 49yearold skip nichols had been arrested four times for drunk driving and served time in prison twice. A former girlfriend said he was a recovering alcoholic. Balloon pilots are not required to hold an faa medical certificate to fly. But they are expected to selfreport convictions. Safety Officials Say thats not enough. Should they be held to a different standard than somebody who is flying an airplane for hire on air tour operations or helicopters, so, so we do see this discontinuity. Reporter investigators say evidence suggests after flying above the clouds and fog the pilot was trying to land when the gondola hit and then ran along the top transmission lines bursting into flames and fallen about ten stories to the ground saturday killing all 16 on board. Now, investigators had hoped the ground crew, the tracking crew would actually be able to tell them whether or not the conditions were like this when the balloon hit these power lines. Unfortunately, they knew the pilot was landing but couldnt find the balloon. They actually drove around for an hour looking for it. Thank you. Amy with the mornings other top stories starting with an fbi employee accused of working for china. A long of time fbi technician pleaded guilty to acting as a secret agent for china. Kun shan chun worked in the new york office and accused of using top secret clearance to leak the identity of a special agent to the chinese government. He is expected to face two years in prison. The u. S. Military expanding its air campaign against isis launching air strikes in northern libya targeting isis vehicles and tanks. President obama approved that military action at the request of the u. N. Backed government in libya. More air strikes are expected but no u. S. Ground troops. In this country, five people have been killed in this charter bus crash north of fresno, california. The bus reportedly swerved before hitting a sign pole came which crashing through the windshield. The bus was heading to sacramento. No word yet on what led up to that crash. A dramatic rescue in michigan after an elderly man ended up driving into a lake. Good samaritans were trying to free him when police arrived. They were able to smash the window, cut his seat belt and untangle his legs pulling him out of the car just as it slipped completely under the water there. Well, a sign of the times at mcdonalds. The company says it will remove artificial preservatives from chicken mcnuggets and some breakfast items and no longer use High Fructose Corn Syrup in buns saying it is responding to consumer demands. Just dont mess with the fries. I agree, robin. That is a very good tip for mcdonalds. Simple. Finally this is going to make everybody feel good. You dont have to feel guilty the next time you forget to floss. The government is acknowledging there is little evidence flossing prevents gum disease or cavities. A study by the Associated Press describes evidence of its benefits as weak and unreliable. I mean i still think its hygienic but apparently you dont have to floss. Especially not while youre driving, please. You just made so many peoples day. I know. The guilt of years and years of not flossing suddenly gone. Poof. Poof. Good to have you back, lara. Thank you, robin. An American Airlines pilot coming to the rescue tackling an allegedly drunken disorder will go passenger facing charges for attacking a Flight Attendant and threatening the whole crew. The episode caught on a cell phone, and abcs nick watt has our story. Sit down. Sit down. Enough. You dont put your hands on my Flight Attendant. Reporter this morning, new video showing an American Airlines pilot taking down an unruly passenger after he allegedly attacked members of the flight crew. I said take a seat, sir. I dont want to take a seat. I dont care what you want to do. Youre going to take a seat right now. Reporter the passenger, 25yearold Michael Curnow facing federal charges for allegedly interfering with a flight crew after his plane landed at Charlotte Douglas international airport. Federal agents say kerr took the short flight from lexington, kentucky, july 21st and became disruptive after drinking three glasses of jack daniels in just over an hour. Oh, wow. Yeah. Reporter in this video you can see kerr standing in the aisle, refusing to sit down. Kerr briefly sits on the armrest of the seat before following the Flight Attendant up the aisle. According to an fbi affidavit, kerr threatened to break the Flight Attendants jaw. Move. Take a seat. Move. Take a seat. Kerr is then seen here telling the pilot to move. Moments later he tries to run through the Flight Attendant pushing her down before the pilot takes kerr to the ground. Sit down. Sit down. Enough. You dont put your hands on my Flight Attendant. Reporter the association of Flight Attendants issuing this statement saying we have seen an increase in these incidents throughout the industry. Alcohol is a leading cause of air rage incidents as i

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