As the city comes together. Also this morning, an abc news exclusive. The woman behind this dramatic Facebook Live video. The joifr just shot him in his arm. It shows the moments raf a Police Officer shot her boyfriend is here live as the officers Attorney Says theres more to the story. Ravaging wildfires tear through the west. More than a dozen growing this morning as thousands evacuate. Hundreds of acres and homes burn. Right now 11 states on high alert. And good morning, america. We begin this week with so much emotion and unrest all across the country after those devastating shootings. Some rallies like this one did turn violent. Dozens of officers injured. This healing is going to be hard. We have so many striking images to show you. This encounter between a young woman and officers in riot gear in baton rouge and last night people asking for peace in los angeles protesters joining hands making a statement as the country mourns the loss of those lives in louisiana and minnesota and, of course, those five officers in texas. In dallas this morning, closed offices reopening. The city is reaching for understanding and, amy, on the scene in dallas. Good morning, amy. Thats right, george. Good morning to you. The city of dallas preparing for president obamas visit here tomorrow. As this city still in mourning and on edge after that deadly shooting thursday night with calls for peace and justice growing louder and protests and vigils across the country. Overnight hundreds of protesters shut down l. A. s massive 405 freeway in both directions. As night fell on memphis more than a thousand demonstrators took to this bridge bringing interstate 40 to a standstill for almost four hours. All hands up. Dont hoot. Reporter in baton rouge rouge where alton sterling was killed, 48 arrests overnight following more than 100 arrests saturday. Among them, plaque lives matters activist deray mckesson. I remain disappointed in the police. Reporter in st. Paul minnesota, 21 officers were hurt during a rally. One suffering a broken vertebrae after a concrete block was dropped on his head. Protesters throwing fireworks. Rocks and molotov cocktails. 102 people arrested. Meanwhile, the country rememb remembering the five dallas Law Enforcement officers killed in an ambush by a loeven gunman. Every one of those men and women that lose their lives in the line of duty, they are fathers, they are mother, they are husbands, they are grandpas, you know, were the same. Were not different. Reporter the other nine officers injured in the shooting all released from the hospital and recovering at home. This morning, a nation praying for peace, several thousand gathered at this town hall in west dallas. I dont care what color they are, its hard to reject love. I have never seen love lose a fight. You can wrestle it down to the mat and try to hold it down, but before you count to ten, love will leap back up again. And speaking of all the love it is right here behind me an outpouring of support piled on top of two Dallas Police cruisers and president obama cutting short that trip to europe to return home to the states. He is set to visit this city tomorrow where he will attend a Memorial Service for those fallen five officers. Robin. All right, amy, thank you. We have the latest on the investigation into the gunman. New details emerging about the attack he planned and his frantic final moments when he scrawled a message on the wall using his own blood. Abcs matt gutman is on the scene for us, as well there in dallas. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning, robin. Authorities are telling us Micah Johnson acted alone still theyre picking through his cell phones and laptops in order to determine if anybody else knew what he was planning. Now, they say he had been scribbling in those journals you mentioned that he practiced bomb detonation and doing tactical drills in his backyard all in order to become what they call a killing machine. This morning abc news learning Micah Johnson had been planning an even more destructive attack on police for months. He was amassing the capabilities to do more mayham than he did on that day. Reporter but police say he saw that black lives matter protest as a target of opportunity. One that he had been training for. Taking selfdefense courses and doing tactical drills in the backyard of his middle class home. Authorities say he even detailed some of the training and planning in a journal. The person talked extensively about a shoot and move protocol and tactics. Reporter shooting and moving tactics johnson used to confuse and kill Police Officers. He had a lot of magazines and he was ready for an extended firefight. Reporter the army veteran was carrying a semiautomatic rifle and a handgun when he began sniping at police near El Centro College around 9 p. M. Thursday night. Dallas police chief david brown telling cnn his officers were trapped in a kill zone. We are learning some of the positions of our deceased officers and it was they went this a funnel. Reporter towards midnight they negotiate with him for two hours. He lied to us. Playing games. Laughing at us, singing. Reporter johnson leaving a final message. He may have been wounded as he made his way up the staircase and he was writing in his own blood . That appears to be the case on the way up the staircase he scrolled the letters rb. Reporter police are still investigating its meaning. At 1 30 a. M. Police fatally wounding johnson with a robotborne bomb killing him. A tactic that triggered protests around dallas sunday. The use of that robot bearing the bomb was controversial. Do you think it was warranted . I do believe it was warranted. It saved lives, it would have been a tragedy for more officers to lose their lives. Reporter now, authorities decided to go ahead and detonate that bomb despite the fact that they knew there were people inside that college at the time. They had apparently become trapped there when the school went on lockdown but all of them were evacuated unharmed. Lets get more from our senior justice correspondent Pierre Thomas in washington and, pierre, the investigation has intensified. Authorities still searching for any possible accomplices. Reporter good morning, george. Authorities this weekend continued to look for any support johnson may have had especially from black supremacists and so far found no evidence to link others but the Dallas Police chief said he plans to leave no stone your honor turned. The suspect Micah Johnson embraced a radical form of afro trendicism and supported the new black panther part which advocates violence against whites and jews. He was on radical websites and in one case liked a page that said kill everything blue that moves. And while such language is incredibly scary it may be just within the margins of free speech. Its a general call to harm people but not a direct threat but there are those in Law Enforcement who worry those preaching this might inspire violence the way isis radicals have been doing on social media. So much hate. Thanks, pierre. Robin. Thank you, george. Now to a texas mother being called a hero. Mia taylor and her four sons were caught in a hail of bullets and joins us from gar land, mia, it is so good to see you. Tell us how you are doing this morning as you continue to heal and recover from your wound. Im just very thankful and im just glad to im flat im still here. Im glad my boys are still here and im just they trangful. Thankful is the word and we are thankful for that, as well. You went there with your sons to the protest. Tell us what happened then. Yes, maam. We i wanted to take my boys to the protest so they can just see unity and how we can come together to make a difference and everything was great. You know, it started to come to an end and we were just talking. And then the shots rang out. When did you know that you were hit . As we were on the corner, we heard it was really just me and my boys and the Police Officers on that corner and we heard that first shot. And we all just kind of looked around and officers included not entirely sure what that was or where it was coming from and then the second shot rang out and i heard the officer, he yelled out, you know, hes got a gun. He said, run or get down and then it just was a barrage of bullets that just almost sounded like they were coming from everywhere. My kids took off up the block and, of course, im making sure that theyre ahead of me as much as possible and im running as well, but then i feel it hit me in the back of my leg and it slowed me down immediately and i guess my son andrew turned around to either see where i was or he might have heard what i said, im not entirely sure but he turned around and im like, oh, god, i just grabbed him and i just fell on him just kind of just through all my weight on him to get him down into the street and your motherly instincts just kicked in. You were there, you wanted to protect your children. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. And what did the police do when they knew that you were shot . The police around you . Several a few officers had come up that block right where we were and they saw us laying there and one of them asked is anyone hit . My son said no because he was not aware at the time that i had been shot. I said yes but in a very low kind of tone as to not startle my son. And the officer asked again a little more aggressively is anybody hit . I said, yes, sir, i am, in my leg and i mean they went into action. They surrounded us. They did for me and my son what i did for my son and that was to protect us and they went into action, no hesitation whatsoever. They were doing their job. Im just so grateful. Doing their job to protect and to serve and you saw some Police Officers get shot before your eyes, mia. Yes, maam. Yes, maam, yes, maam, yes, i did. I saw two officers i saw two officers get shot. Im so sorry. I mean, i know what you were saying and what people are trying to grapple with whats going on in this country, and in part the protests you said that you were there with your sons because of unity. You wanted to show dallas coming together. There were others that were there, though, as you know because they were upset with the two gentlemen that were killed earlier in the week and in minnesota and in louisiana. What do you say to people who are waking up or about to start a new week, mia, and last week is one that we all want to put behind us but we have to learn and move forward together. We do. We absolutely do. As my son stated, you know, these are isolated incidences, unfortunately, its frequent in the incidences but we have to we have to learn to love. We have to learn to understand that policemen and policewoman are not robots. They are human. We are all human and we all make mistakes. Some are more permanent mistakes than others but we can all get over anything if we just come together, just communication. It all starts with communication if you ask me, i just we all have so much more in common than i think that we all want to admit. And it starts with family. It starts with family. You know, you remind me a lot of my mom. She said, honey, we have more in common than not so why dont we focus on those similarities and a lot of it begins with family. Exactly. Mia taylor, thank you so much. Exactly. We do. Yeah, thank you very much. Thank you. For your strength and courage and continue to know that the nation, the world, are thinking of you, your family, all the people there in dallas, as well as the families who lost loved ones last week in other places. Thank you, mia taylor. You take care. Yes, maam. Thank you. Thank you. So she was shot, she didnt want to startle her son so she whispered to the Police Officer that she had been hit. And you just see how much she is powered by love. So strong. Message there for all of us. All these shootings front and center in the race for the white house right now as just one week before the Republican Convention in cleveland. And abcs tom llamas has the latest from the campaign trail. Reporter with the country still reeling after the ambush in dallas and protests across the nation, donald trump is accusing the president of ignoring reality, trump tweeting president obama thinks the nation is not as divided as people think. He is living in a world of the make believe. Race now at the forefront of the campaign. One of trumps biggest supporters, former new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani with this advice to black children. If i were a black father and i was concerned about the safety of my child i would say be very respectful of the police. Id also say be very careful of those kids in the neighbor and dont get involved with them because, son, theres a 99 chance theyre going to kill you, not the police. Reporter and this blunt view of black lives matter. Black lives matter, white lives matter, asian lives matter. Hispanic lives matter. Thats antiamerican and its racist. Reporter a much different tone from Hillary Clinton. Im going to be talking to white people, i think were the ones who have to start listening to the legitimate cries that are coming from our africanamerican fellow citizens. Reporter trump supporter retired army general Michael Flynn whos being vetted to be trumps running mate strongly disagreeing with clintons statement. And she talked about white people being to blame. I mean, that is so irresponsible. Reporter but flynn may have his own troubles gelling with trump. I think women have to choose. Reporter he is a registered democrat who unlike trump supports abortion rights. And a big week ahead. Senator sanders expected to endorse Hillary Clinton at a rally tomorrow and we may learn who donald trump will pick to be his running mate before next weeks convention. George. Okay, tom, thanks. More on this from Martha Raddatz who joins us from dallas and our political analyst matthew dowd from san antonio. Martha, you spent the weekend there speaking with voters and now heading across the country to cleveland. This issue, of course, top of mind for everyone. Reporter it truly is, george. Really everyone weve talked to has talked not only about a racial divide but the political divide and because were in dallas and weve been around here obviously, everybody is talking about how you bridge that divide. Some of the voters i talked to say they really havent made a decision yet. That theyre listening to donald trump, theyre listening to Hillary Clinton, but keeping their children safe and somehow bringing this nation together is really paramount on their mind, george. Matthew dowd, we saw in marthas interview with general flynn, he said he was basically prochoice. Difficult for republican Vice President ial nominee but donald trump is zeroing in on this decision now, biggest decision as you said of his campaign, the biggest one he has control of. Other contenders, chris christie, mike penns, the governor of indiana. Who would help him the most . Well, i think this is a very important point in the time for donald trump. I mean for two reasons this decision matters to him a lot. One, he needs to dominate the conversation again, george, in the course of this and hes lost control somewhat of the conversation over the last month. Its important for that and, two, he needs somebody to be part of his tag team. Hes been tagteamed. He needs somebody to help him attack the other side and carry his message and hes not had that since hes gotten the nomination or come close to getting the nomination. Okay, thanks very much. Colorado to california this image from border kelce, cold springs fire. Two out of the state campers were arrested for set ago this fire. 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