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WPVI America This Morning August 17, 2017

A good thursday morning. Im diane macedo. Im ryan smith in for kendis gibson. We begin with a powerful show of solidarity and peace in charlottesville, virginia, just days after the city erupted in violence. Hundreds descended on the campus singing together and honoring those who died. That gathering happened in the same spot where White Supremacists had just spewed hatred and gathered just the weekend before. The vigil playing out as President Trump faces more fallout. Abcs emlay rah has the latest from washington. Good morning, emily. Reporter good morning. President trumps latest comments really the last straw for a lot of the countrys top ceos. The fallout tipping for President Trump as the Charlottesville Community comes together. But still like dust ill rise. Reporter less than a week later hundreds gathered once again. Let it shine reporter but this time in the name of peace. Were here to take back the lawn from this student generation. Reporter the show of support coming as President Trump continues to lose backing from the business community. I think theres blame on both sides. You look at you look at both sides. I think theres blame on both sides. Reporter those comments setting off another wave of backlash. Trump who sold himself as the businessman president forced to shut down his Major Business Advisory Councils amid an exodus of corporate leaders. A key Advisory Council of top ceos from Powerhouse Companies like pepsi, ge, ibm and walmart, even voting to disband informing President Trump who quickly tweeted. Rather than putting pressure on the Business People of the Manufacturing Council Council Strategy policy for rum, i am ending both. Thank you all. The ceo of apple is taking eight i step further announcing a Million Dollar donation to two civil ryes groups and telling employees he does not agree with President Trumps comments. Diane and ryan, back to you. Thats abcs emily rau reporting from washington. Thanks. Sorrow an anger over charlottesville followed Vice President pence to latin america. Dozens of people mostly americans gathered for a vigil across the treat from the hotel he was staying and had signs denouncing hate. A controversial rally on saturday and organizers are calling et a free speech rally. But there is some concern because some of the people who appeared in charlottesville had been scheduled to speak in boston. Still organizers say they do not support hate groups and are not affiliated with the organizers of the charlottesville protests. Boston officials warn that the rally will be shut down if it gets out of control. Respect this city because we respect your right to come in and speak. So if were going to respect your right to come in, we expect you to respect our city, our people, the people that live here. Dont pass hate. Dont pass judgment on people. All marchers will have to adhere to conditions including a ban on any weapons, backpacks or even sticks. The grieving parents of heather heyer, the car attack victim in charlottesville are calling for calm in the wake of her death. Mark heyer and susan spoke about their daughter during yesterdays memorial service. Susan asked mourners to make a difference. Heyer made a call for peace. She wanted to put down hate and for my part, we just need to stop all this stuff and just forgive each other. Say to yourself what can i do to make a difference and thats how youre going to make my childs death worthwhile. Id rather have my child but by golly if i got to give her up were going to make it count. More than a thousand people gathered for that memorial just a half a mile from where heyer died. We have new details about the past of the man charged with killing heather heyer. 911 cran scripts obtained by abc news reveals james alex fields assaulted his mother who uses a wheelchair. Two reported incidents in his early teens. He is being held without bail on a number of charges including Second Degree murder. The man some are blaming for President Trumps response to charlottesville is speaking out. Steve bannon is now slamming the far right as irrelevant saying, quote, i think the media plays it up too much. These guys are a collection of clowns. Abc news has learned the investigator leading the special counsels russia probe has left. Its the first reported glitch in Robert Muellers probe. The agent is now working with the fbis Human Resources department. Its unclear why he left or if the move was voluntary. The unexpected departure comes as the investigation appears to be intensifying. A search is on for five crew members missing. The black hawk went down during a routine Training Exercise on tuesday night and thats after losing radio and visual contact with another chopper. Now, search and rescue crews found and collected pieces of the helicopters fuselage and a helmet in the debris in a field over oahu. Now for a look at your weather. An out of break of severe storms spawned seven tornadoes in minnesota including this one in southwest minneapolis. Hurricane gert is now a category 2 storm with 105mileperhour winds. It should start losing steam later today as it tracks farther out to sea but still triggering dangerous surf and rip currents along the new england coast. Three tropical waves still have the potential to develop in named storms over the next several days, be careful if youre hitting the beach. And it is official. The nations got a major case of powerball fever. Now, no one hit the jackpot last night. The next saturday night with an estimated jackpot of, hold your breath, 510 million. A cash value of more than 324 million. But winning all that money is a pretty big long shot. The actual odds are 1 in nearly 300 million. Ill take those odds. Coming up, the annual list of the nations friendliest cities is out. 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The family is awaiting the results of that test and she disappeared while vacationing with friends. The highprofile case was never solved but vander sleuth is serving 28 years in jail after being convicted of murdering a different woman. Two flight attendants were rushed to the hospital after becoming ill. They were overcome by the smell of nail polish remover but its the third hit by odor within the week. A Group Representing Airline Workers say theyre getting more issues about odors and theyre working on the issue. New details about that giant elm tree that collapsed in new yorks central park. Injuring a mother and her three young sons. Authorities say it suffered from a decay of its root system and added that the tree had been regularly inspected. Most recently last fall and there were no visible signs of decay or disease. Strange. Lots of cities have beautiful scenery and beautiful trees, great things to see and great things to do but conde naste has a difference ranking. Friendliest, nashville was fourth after ashland. Key west and telluride but number one, charleston, south carolina. Once again, by the way. Charleston sticking to the top spot. Many conde nastsays it as the charm of an old city. Youre friendly. When we come back an injury update following an incident for tom cruise. Maybe the worst ceremonial first pitch that ever happened. The guy never saw it coming. woman when you have type 2 diabetes, theres a moment of truth. And now with victoza®, a better moment of proof. Victoza® lowers my a1c and blood sugar better than the leading branded pill, which didnt get me to my goal. Lowers my a1c better than the leading branded injectable. The one i used to take. Victoza® lowers blood sugar in three ways. And while it isnt for weight loss, victoza® may help you lose some weight. 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If youre flying airport delays are most likely in detroit, chicago, and memphis. Now, police have all but given hope of finding a young alabama woman missing for nearly a month and found the two men she was last seen with and arrested them for burglary but there was no trace of her. And then cops say what was practically a miracle happened and Abcs Steve Osunsami has the story. Reporter 25yearold lisa theris says shes lucky shes alive. She says the poison ivy still stings. It was all about finding a road or finding a person. Reporter she and her father showed her the Walking Stick she found that helped her make it out of the forest. It helped me out a lot. Reporter she had been missing for 25 days when a woman driving down a country road saw what she first saw was a dead animal and called police. I couldnt even hear any cars the whole time i was out there until the end. Do you think you were drugged . It would make sense but im not sure. You dont know. I dont know for sure. What do you think . I think i heard that maybe so. Reporter steve osunsami, abc news, troy, alabama. Steve will have much more on that story later on on good morning america. Production of Mission Impossible 6 is on hold as tom cruise recovers from an injury he suffered on set. We showed you the video earlier this week. The 55yearold leaping from a building during a stunt and coming up short. Slamming into the side of ray building. Yeah. Turns out that cruise broke his ankle and paramount says production for the film has shut down until cruises full recovery. We hope its a speedy one. It was a night of good and bad for aaron judge of the yankees. First the good. Judge crushed his American League leading 37th home run of the season giving the ypgs the lead against the mets. Latter in the ninth he struck out for the 33rd game in a row. The dubious record for the most consecutive with a strikeout by a nonpitcher. Just means hes swinging for the fences and hes obviously doing it. You cant win the lotto if you dont buy a ticket is what my coach used to say. Enough with baseball and my coach. Lets get highlights from espn. Good morning. America. Shes nicole. Im neil. How is my hair . Stellar. Its all real too, i hear. Yeah. East coast bias so i get to go first. Red sox looking to sweep the cardinals. Trailing 43 runners on first and second. Two outs. Mookie betts, off the monster and bogart will score. Jackie bradley coming around from first, always fast, gets around the tag at home. Molina, Yadier Molina cant get him. Ball isnt in his glove so wouldnt have counted anyway. Red sox walk it off, 54. Sweep complete. You can go. No photographers were injured in the making of these highlights. You had a walkoff. The dodgers were in trouble. They were down going into the bottom of the ninth. You know what, the dodgers werent in trouble because theyre just theyre having one of those seasons. Logan forsythe, Cody Bellinger scores from first. 42 becomes 43 and then route 66 says walk this way. Walk this way. Yasiel puig scores forsythe and barns, dodgers come back with their 51st home win. 51 games over. 500 which is a lot. That is a lot. The dodgers are having an historic season and may not be crying in baseball, but itll be tough not to after watching. Sorry to the gentleman out there but a young man named jordan tossed what could be the worst ceremonial first pitch in history. Watch. Last night at fenway, yeah, he does not get it down the plate, instead he hits a cameraman behind home plate. That never feels good. The guy whose name is tony later tweeted thank the lord it was just a bit outside. Tony actually caught a photo of the ball coming in as it was heading toward him. Up next in the pulse, a freak of nature. An easy way to get another carrot for your diamond ring. Fan also have to do without a certain snack during falcons games. Well explain. 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Yep, after all those years the carrot grew straight through the ring. Allowing it to be plucked right out of the soil when that daughterinlaw plucked the carrot. Your joke. She always wanted an extra carrot on that ring. Badumdum. A wisconsin man cashed in on a big habit from hi younger days. Charles old collection of nintendo video games earned him 20,000. He sold 750 games on ebay and he says the collection started when he was a kid. He says most of the collection came from garage sales, goodwill and online auctions and paid as little as a dollar for many of them. Hey, if youre interested, folks, i got some atari games at home. He said while he started the collection as a kid he really got into it five years ago. So this was an adult

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