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WPVI Good Morning America August 1, 2014

This morning you dont have. The blockbust er superstar performing for us in central park ready to hear their hero, the one and only enrique here live on gma. Now im hearing that you been running around happy friday, everyone. A lot of news to get to. A lot of excitement for enrique. Such a big crowd already. Check it out. Central park is rocking this morning. It could be the Biggest Party in our summer series and were getting out there looking forward to seeing enrique. Wow. Sing all of his hits. That is coming up but right to that ebola outbreak. Americans infected with the deadly virus will be on u. S. Soil for the first time ever. Those infected aid workers heading home and dr. Richard besser is at emory hospital in atlanta where the patients will be treated. Good morning, rich. Good morning, george. This is Emory University hospital. And this is where that first patient with ebola from africa is going to be flown. Many in atlanta and across the country are asking why. This morning, two american missionaries Nancy Writebol and dr. Kept brantley fighting for their lives are being flown from africa back to the United States. Abc news has learned theyll be flown one at a time on a special jet with an isolation pod like this. An airtight tent and at least one will be heading to atlanta to Emory University hospital. Its very difficult right now for the doctor. Hes in what we would say stable right now but series condition and nancy is a little better. Reporter according to the cdc its the first time an ebola patient will be treated in the United States. Emory located only a few minutes from the cdc contains an isolation unit, one of four in the United States which can treat patients exposed to certain infectious diseases. The hospital saying overnight its staff are highly trained to tr stop ebola. It takes meticulous work. You have to find the cases, respond to them and prevent them. Reporter abc news learned dr. Brantly insisted on making sure the only dose of an experimental serum was given to writebol instead of him and brantleys wife says i remain hopeful and believing that kept will be healed from this dreadful disease. The patients are heading there. I imagine they are on edge at that hospital. Reporter well, i imagine some are, george. But when i worked at the cdc up the street, sometimes our investigators would be exposed to something dangerous in the field. This is where we would take this is where we would send those people. The last time back during the big sars outbreak one of our investigators got sick in hong kong. He went here. They know what theyre doing. Thats good news. Okay, rich, thanks very much. George, we want to turn now to the weather and that Tropical Storm brewing, bertha is packing strong winds and heavy rain as it barrels towards puerto rico and florida right now and ginger is tracking it all. More than 700 miles from puerto rico but this thing is cooking and it will get to puerto rico which has a Tropical Storm warning by tomorrow afternoon. You could see more than 6 inches of rain with this. You could see winds up to 50 miles per hour. It skirts by dough tthe dominic republic and skirts by the mainland. There is another big story this morning. Look at these pictures out of houston. Just north of houston, we had more than 6 inches of rainfall so some flash Flooding Issues early this morning. Now theyre starting to recover but that rain will be headed east and so if you are in lake charles, louisiana, shreveport, louisiana, both in the bullseye today into tomorrow, 4 to 5 inches and a bit more going back into the southwest. It is not just here but in the east coast where weve got big rain for the weekend. Ill be detailing that. Soggy weekend coming up. We turn to the crisis on our border and congress to address it set to go home without a plan blocked in the senate before they headed on break and House Republicans will hold an emergency meeting this morning to see if they can overcome division in their ranks and jon karl is covering it all. This has become a study in dysfunction. Reporter it is a complete mess. The House Republicans are meeting this morning to try to salvage the republican alternative to deal with the border crisis, but even if they can figure a way to pass something, its going nowhere. The president has already said he would veto the republican plan. The national is leaving town without doing anything at all, so for all the talk about the urgent need to do something about that flow of unaccompanied children crossing the border, congress is set to go on a fiveweek august recess having done nothing at all about it. So border bill stalled. Immigration reform seems dead for this year. Did congress get anything done before heading out. Reporter they did get some things done. There was an emergency with the Highway Trust Fund about to expire. That funds construction and projects on the highway. They did pass that for a temporary period of time and they did pass a bill to deal with the mess at the Veterans Administration with veterans hospitals so not a complete loss in congress but pretty close. Thanks. Well have much more sunday on this week and amy for the other top stories. Good morning, everyone. And we begin with breaking news from the middle east. A ceasefire declared overnight has collapsed. Hamas and israel trading attacks, two Israeli Soldiers and dozens of palestinians reportedly killed. Right to abcs terry moran in gaza for us. Terry, good morning. Reporter good morning, amy. So much for that ceasefire. Within two hours of the declared start time of the ceasefire fighting broke out between Israeli Soldiers and palestinian fighters in the south. There are reports of israeli casualties and tens of palestinians killed, we are told, this is turning out to be one of the bloodiest mornings so far in this awful conflict. Israel has responded, weve been hearing, all morning with heavy, intense barrages down into that region, some shelling up here. Palestinian rockets firing into southern israel. It looks like the agony of gaza will continue. Amy. All right, terry moran in gaza with the latest. Thank you. Also breaking overnight, new rules in the sky aimed at protecting american travelers. The faa is now banning airlines from flying below 30,000 feet over iraq because of concerns that militants there could shoot down planes. Some European Airlines are banning flight s s altogether. Taiwan, cars and concrete went flying. 25 people were killed including four firefighters who were investigating a leak. The aftermath, take a look at that. This morning, looks like a war zone with fears that more people could be atrapped. New worries on wall street. The dow thursday suffering its worst loss in six months dropping 317 points. Basically erasing all of this years gains. Investors are worried about rising interest rates. But this morning their attention will turn to the monthly jobs report. Its expected to show solid job growth in july but not enough to lower the unemployment rate. The director of the cia is apologizing after it was found they hacked into a Committee Investigating the cia. John brennan first denied those claims and two Democratic Senators are now calling on brennan to resign. And a shocking sight in burbank, california. Take a look. That is a pack of coyotes running through a neighborhood darting across lawns in the Early Morning hours hunting for food and water during the record drought. Moments later you can see a Newspaper Delivery man showing up and sees the coyote, throws the paper really quickly and makes his escape. In maryland, some Office Workers are lucky no one was seriously injured after this suv came crashing through their building. The driver went airborne while trying to park. Thats quite a scene. Finally we are getting the real skinny about joe biden. The Vice President of the United States apparently likes to go skinnydipping. I know you wanted to know that this morning. This is all according to a new book which quotes secret Service Agents say he be found in his pool in his birthday suit and some agents admitting theyd rather cover their eyes or cover someone else but apparently its just the way he rolls. Thats how biden rolls. Whatever. May be how biden rolls. I dont know. Theres some questions about that book. Well get to that. Well turn to an eerie recording hidden away for more than a decade of former president bill clinton hours before the 9 11 attacks telling a group of australian businessmen why he did not order a strike against Osama Bin Laden. Here it is. Well, i am just saying hes a very smart guy. I spent a lot of time thinking about him and i nearly got him once. I nearly got him and i could have gotten i could have killed him but i would have had to destroy a little town called kandahar in afgnistan and killed 300 innocent women and children and then i would have been no better than him. And so i didnt do it. Abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross here right now. Its just so chillin hear that knowing within just hours before the attack. Exactly. Of course, bin laden had no problem killing innocent civilians. This does track what we had learned in early report, specifically the report of the 9 11 commission about previous attempts to go after Osama Bin Laden. They found three separate incidents between 1998 and 1999 where u. S. Intelligence was deemed credible enough to warn for possible strikes to kill him but the intelligence was so sketchy two separate sets of concerns for all those and the former cia director george tenet has talked about this, as well, number one, they could never be sure Osama Bin Laden was there. Right. And, number two as president clinton talked about the risk of killing innocent civilians. In kandahar they had a human intelligence source that put bin laden there but it turns out that he had left the room just before the supposed strike. He, bin laden. And, therefore, the strike would not have killed him and clintons judgment in fact was vindicated. Okay, brian ross, thanks very much. We turn to a football star publicly apologizing to his wife after a violent incident in a casino. His twogame suspension by the nfl widely criticized as not being Strong Enough set off a firestorm and abcs ryan smith is here with the story. Good morning, ryan. Reporter good morning. Ravens star running back ray rice addressed the media for the First Time Since the nfl handed him a twogame suspension and while some sided with him for sounding contrite others wonder why he didnt do more. I made a huge mistake. Reporter this morning Baltimore Ravens Football Player ray rice was speaking out for the first time following the nfls much criticized twogame suspension of the star for this shocking alleged attack on his then girlfriend, now wife, janay. Accused of punching and dragging her out of an elevator. I know thats not who i am as a man. I made the biggest mistake of my life. She can do no wrong. It caused a frenzy on social media both for and against him one writing hes human. We all make mistakes. Another, its ridiculous that ray rice gets a twogame suspension for assaulting his wife. That should be jail time plus years suspension. The nfl wouldnt comment on it but now facing accusations of incensensitivity to domestic violence. 21 of 32 teams employed a player with a doumestic or Sexual Violence charge on his record last year. This morning critics are calling out nfl commissioner Roger Goodell who has suspended players for longer periods for duis, drug use, even illegal tattoos. Such an opportunity for the nfl to speak directly to women and to families and they fumbled the ball. Reporter while ravens coaches and players are rallying around their teammate. Hes a heck of a guy. Reporter rices wife who pleaded with the commissioner to go lightly on her husbands punishment is standing silently in support. Rice said one day his daughter will be able to google his name and want to know what happened. A group of senators wrote to the commissioner last night imploring him to issue a stiffer penalty saying the suspension represents a cavalier attitude towards women. Lara. But, ryan, these suspensions usually are not changed. No, Roger Goodell handed down the suspension, ray rice agreed and the union didnt appeal so unlikely but you never know. They could bow to public pressure. To a shocking shooting in chicago. An executive angry about being dou demoted shot the ceo. They had been coworkers and friends for years and abcs alex perez has the story. Reporter this morning whats being called a case of white collar rage turned deadly sending panic through chicagos financial district thursday. Police say it was just before 10 00 a. M. When tony defrance, an employee at aerostream took the elevator to the 17th floor and shot his bought boss and friend, company ceo steven virginia loy. How do we incorporate reporter seen in this company video. Motive, defranefrances had just demoted as chief technology officer. He was demoted i believe on friday based on what we have so far for a oneonone with the ceo during that oneonone, he produced a firearm. Reporter police say 60yearold defrances was carrying a gun inside a backpack and went trait to lavoies office and then there was apparently a struggle over the firearm. Reporter defrances shot lavoie in the tom and head before killing himself. Terrified employees hearing the gunfire scrambled for cover as authorities arrived. I was actually able to see them pulling out one of the people on a stretcher and put into the ambulance. Reporter lavoie, a father of three girls, now in critical condition. This morning employees returning to the office. Shaken by the tragedy that unfolded on the 17th floor. For good morning america, alex perez, abc news, chicago. All right, george, we turn to a video that went viral hoping one homeowner catch a criminal that ripped him off. The outraged victim posting this Security Camera on facebook to help track down a crook who swiped a fedex package right off of his front porch. Abcs reena ninan explains. Reporter take a look at this video. Watch as this man in broad daylight walks up to dan dillons indianapolis porch and is caught on not one, but five Security Cameras ripping into this package just delivered by fedex. And walking away with 300 earrings, but not before staring directly into this camera. Dillon taking his frustration to facebook before going to police posting the videos prominently showing the burglars face writing this message. Any of you indy southsiders know this guy . My wife wants her earrings back. A crime is a crime. Whether you think its right or wrong and depending on your circumstances but you just cant steal. Reporter almost 10,000 people shared his video in just 24 hours leading the cops directly to this suspect, Brandon Nelms the next day. It was extremely high quality video which led to being able to identify the suspect. Its just amazing what the internet and social media can do and bringing all these people around. Reporter one man relying on an army of facebook friends to catch the same guy, his cameras caught too. For good morning america, reena ninan, abc news, new york. Thats an incredible shot of him looking right at the camera. Dumb criminal files. Oh, theres a camera. Let me look right up. Say cheese. Just take it away. Make sure you get a good look, people. My good side. Sorry. Ginger, we are not smiling about what youre bringing us this weekend. No, no and if that dumb criminal, the least he could do was be a model like the one guy, remember. That would have been okay. Were not smiling a lot of places. There are flash flood watches until early this afternoon for charleston, also for asheville but this is showing you rain as we go through the weekend so theres more to come and i think well see much more of that. Miami as has a little bullseye. Up through parts of georgia, North Carolina and south carolina, some places getting 4 to 5 inches through sunday. Washington, d. C. And then it starts too scoot off to the east and we will have a cloudy and rainy start for many along the coast but wont necessarily be a fullon rainout the further north you go. Well be watching but we all want to check on indianapolis who had their coolest july on record and now we go into the weekend, much more moderate, look at the temperatures. 82 as we head into our afternoon today. Staying in the low 80s. Detroit right there. Minneapolis should see more sunshine, therefore they get into the mid80s saturday and sunday and chicago, a weekend ahead. You may see some clouds and maybe a rain shower but ill leave you with that. West, heavy rain back in that monsoon flow. Denver, 891, spokane, real warm at 97. Reporter hi, everybody, david murphy here with an update from accuweather. Nothing showing on Storm Tracker 6 live double scan, as we look outside weave a sun and clouds, its warm and humid this morning with temperatures up over 70. And this afternoon well see a high of 82, the humidity hangs around and there could be a spotty popup shower or thunderstorm in a couple of spots as we go through the afternoon and evening. Tomorrow, morning rain clearing out to dry conditions in the afternoon and high of 79 next criminal has to be the criminal selfies or something. Maybe that will happen. Theyll do it. Okay, ginger, thanks. Coming up on gma, the latest on that law professor murder mystery. The dramatic 911 call released. Why it took paramedics so long to arrive on the scene. Also coming up this socalled slender man case is back in court. We could learn if one of the two teens of stabbing their friend is mentally fi

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