Terrifying tumble. Lock at this, a man tumbles 70 feet down a water fall. Injured, but somehow survived an incredible ordeal. God, i just want to live. Hes now telling his story to gma. Buckle up, it is time for the indy 500. Racers revved up. The driver hoping to keep a family legacy alive. Its only right an andretti wins. Will he take the second flag . Live from abc news in new york, this is good morning america. Hey, good morning, happy to have cecelia vega in for paul this morning. A morning where people along the east coast are watching their memorial day plan goes pearshaped. Youre looking at a live shot in folly beach, south carolina. Where Tropical Storm bonnie is expected to hit within hours and our rob is tracking the storm, hell have much more on that coming up. Rough surf there, but we start with the pictures that are absolutely terrifying. The heartstopping moment when a fouryearold boy tumbles into a zoos gorilla enclosure and comes face to face with a 400pound silverback. As hard as this is to watch, especially for parents, we to want emphasize this this boy survived. He is in the hospital this morning. Hes in serious condition, the gorilla did not survive. The zoo keeper shot him. A controversial call they are defending this morning. We have to warn you, much of the imagery may be disturbing. Having said that, heres Marcie Gonzalez at the zoo with more, good morning to you. Reporter guys, good morning, what a horrifying scene. People watching and screaming for help as that boy spent ten long minutes trapped in that enclosure. [ screaming ] this morning, new video obtained by abc news capturing a toddlers screams the moment he comes face to face with a giant gorilla. A child has fallen into the gorilla cage. Reporter zoo Officials Say the fouryearold, now recovering in a hospital, crawled into the gorilla world exhibit. Onlookers terrified. The boys mother calling for him as the gorilla crouches over the boy. Mommys right here. Reporter then the 400pound primate races away, dragging the child through the mote. He was being dragged by the gorilla and took him to one end of the habitat and the boy screams. Reporter a 17yearold silverback shot and killed by zoo keepers to rescue the boy. The decision was not made lightly. They are very endangered animals. There arent have many in captivity. But it has the proper ending. Reporter this morning officials are looking into how the little boy made it into the enclosure. Somehow getting under a railing, through wires and bushes. Falling more than ten feet. We have rescued the child. Reporter now the zoo mourning the death along with critics. Many who question the use of lethal force. Over a tranquilizer. The park Officials Say the encounter could have been much worse. We made a tough choice and the right choice because they saved that little boys life, it could have been very bad. Reporter incredibly were told the boy was conscious when he left here for the hospital. A spokesperson says the injuries are serious, but not lifethreatening. And the the zoo will be back open today, but the gorilla exhibit will be closed as officials here investigate. Dan. Marcie, thank you. So happy to hear the boy is his injuries not lifethreatening. Moments ago, i spoke about this the animal trainer dave salmoni who trains us from toronto. Dave, thanks for joining us. Knowing what you know about gorillas, how much danger was that little boy in . I would say its easy to suggest, this is life threatening danger, in a captive environment, you never know exactly how an animals going to react to Something Like this, and typically a silverback gorilla can be nervous of something new, a child entering the enclosure, or react aggressively. Its the aggression you have to worry about. Did you agree that zoo officials made the right choice by killing the gorilla . Some are arguing that they should have tranquilized the animal. I wouldnt second guess them not being there. In almost every case, theres a protocol where theres an animal person watching the situation. Whether they would have a Lethal Action on the right hand and non lethal tranquilizer on the left hand, and they will be able to make that call. What is this kind of moment like for somebody who works at zoo . I have to imagine, this is the worst nightmare. Absolutely, perfect description, worst nightmare. These are the things you train for and these guys were trained for that. You hope to never be put in the situation because you obviously care about the life of the human being, but you care about the gorillas life almost as much as, if not as much. Thats an emotionally fridayed moment, im sure. The fact that child was able to get into that enclosure. What does that safety about the zoos where we all take our kids . You always think there is some responsibility that says you have to abide by our barriers. You can only put a fence in, you can only do so much to keep someone safe, and then that person has to also take some responsibility for their own safety. You said a moment ago something that this is true, this was not the gorillas nult, some animal advocates are going to see the story and ask, should we even be keeping animals in zoos anymore . Its a really tough question because absolutely in a perfect world, there would be no animals in zoos. And i think everyone agrees to that. I think the problem is we do have animals in captivity, and those animals need to be cared for. Dave salmoni, we appreciate your analysis on this story. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Such a tough story to watch. For his parents to see that happen too. Thank you, dan. We want to turn to the dangerous weather this holiday weekend, deadly flooding in parts of the plains, rivers cresting, swamping entire neighborhoods, homeowners ordered to get out. Abcs phillip mena is in spring, texas, with the latest on the evacuations and the rescues. Phillip, good morning. Reporter cecelia, good morning, i am right off of interstate 45, that is a main highway between dallas and houston. This sign is about 12 feet high, look at the sign just down the street, you can get an idea of how submerged these roads are. This morning, mandatory evacuations near houston. Look at that water flowing. Reporter residents being ordered to leave their submerged homes as the threat of rising waters from the near by brazos river becomes more real each minute. I thought we were going to be safe. I didnt know it was going to come up this fast. Reporter this weekends historic storms has left at least five dead. Dumping almost 20 inches of rain in 48 hours. The river predicted to crest over 53 feet. And unleash more havoc on quickly disappearing streets and homes already underwater. Ive been here 20 years. Ive never been under a flood yet. This is the worst ive southeastern. Reporter the worst of the storms may have passed, but rescue crews have been out in force around the clock. River rafts pulling this family to safety from their sunken home. While a pickup barrels through waterlogged roads is to aid this man. In wichita, the search for an 11yearold boy will resume this morning. Hes been missing since friday after being swept away in a swollen creek. The boy, among four others still missing in storms across texas and kansas. All of of this water you see here is headed south, and thats going to lead to record flooding in towns south of houston for the next several days. Dan, cecelia. Okay phillip, thank you. And rob is tracking that weather for us this morning. Hey rob, good morning. Good morning, cecelia, we have four major rivers that are still at flood stage and rising. Also west of houston, flash flooding happening there, but thats beginning to dry out. Were looking at another two to four inches potentially as the dry line fires up later on today, but Southeast Texas does look to be dry. Another story on the southeast coast, this is a Tropical Storm bonnie, barely a trorp call storm, this is becoming less relevant as it has makes its way on shore. Rainmaker. Three to four inches of rainfall here, and this will drift off the east coast as we go through the memorial day holiday. Well talk about the timing for that and what it means for your plans later in the program. A lot of people eager to hear that. Rob, thank you. We are right there in folly beach, south carolina, eva, what are you seeing . Reporter well, dan, were still waiting on bonnie to arrive here at folly beach. You can see, there is some rain right now, light wind, we have had heavy downpours for periods of about five or ten minutes or so this morning. Thats one of the Major Concerns with bonnie, are there heavy downpours . Shes moving so slowly and sits in the same area. Thats where youll see those isolated risks for flooding. Look at the video we saw yesterday of those outer bands pushing in, really worsened conditions at the beach. Dangerous waves, lifeguards keeping a close eye. They were pushed off the beach by the rains. The other major issue for people as they head to the beach all up and down the southeastern coast, and invisible threat. Rip currents. Life guards really giving people a warning about those rip currents this weekend, dan, cecelia. A lot of people rethinking those beach plans. Eva, thank you. We want to turn to politics now this memorial day weekend. Donald trump on the campaign trail today trying to woo veterans in his bid for the white house and now coming under fire for his past comments. A highly decorated person wants an apology. Dan dwyer is covering it all, hey devin, good morning. Reporter hey good morning, sel seal ya. Donald trump will be in washington for rolling thunders motorcycle ride for veterans. Hell give a speech at the Lincoln Memorial as bob dole the former veteran and senator calls on trump to aapologize for anyone hes offended. I love our vets, where are our vets . Reporter this morning donald trump headlines an event honoring americans missing in action and prisoners of war. I like people that werent captured. Reporter his past comments about pow john mccain faced criticism. This time for bob dole, the only former republican nominee endorsing trump. Im going to try to get trump to issue an apology. Reporter on twitter overnight, no apologies from trump whos blasting the media for quoting staffers on his campaign, trump tweeted, the only quote that matters is a quote from me. One trump quote creating controversy. Is there a drought now . No, we have plenty of water. Reporter trumps denial that california is in a historic drought. State water Officials Says the last four years, the driest period on record. Meanwhile Bernie Sanders begging trump to reconsider a debate. If you have any guts, come on down and lets debate. Reporter now the hash tash chicken trump went viral. This morning on abcs this week, top democrat Diane Feinstein of california is calling sanders to back out of the race. Well talk about that many other things with chief White House Correspondent john carl whos getting ready to host this week later this morning. Hey john, lets start over the veterans. Do you think trump is going to apologize for his comments about john mccain and will it matter anyway . No and no, dan. Donald trumps not one whos very big on apologies. Although in fact, if you look back a few weeks ago, he did say that he does think that john mccain is a hero, he thinks he is a good guy, but in that very same interview, literally in the next sentence, he said he had no regrets about what he said about donald trump, i mean about john mccain. He noted that after he said it, his poll numbers went up. And john, devin mentioned that those comments from Diane Feinstein the california senator who basically called on Bernie Sanders to drop out. We have that sound, lets take a listen. Able to read the sign posts as well as anybody else. If he did that, he would know that its all been over. Okay. You were there talking to her, is she basically saying what the Clinton Campaign cant say themselves . Absolutely. And cecelia, you know this as well as anybody, they really fear that sanders is doing damage to Hillary Clinton. Lets look whats happening in california, the most recent poll tied, and suddenly Hillary Clintons campaign is forced to spend money, a lot of money, six figures, on advertising in the California Democratic primary. That is not where they want to be right now. Shes got a twofront battle right now, sanders and trump. And the New York Times has a front page story saying clinton is struggling to find her footing in the race against trump. Early on her campaign seemed giddy to be running against donald trump, but now some are worried that shes not fighting back hard enough. Do you think theyre right to be nervous, do you think . They are certainly right to be nervous, dan. If you look on all the traditional metrics, you would think Hillary Clinton is the overwhelming front runner in the fall campaign, demographics are on her side, trump has incredibly high negatives, but he is such an unpredictable candidate that who knows whats going to happen in this fall campaign. They have a right to be nervous and they are. All right. John, thank you. I want to remind everybody, we have a big show this morning, later this morning, john one on one one with the campaign chair. Thats coming up on this week, right here on abc. John, thanks again. A lot of news, lets go over to dr. Rod clayborn. Good morning to you, good morning, everyone, we begin with new allegations, revelations really of russian olympic athletes using performanceenhancing drugs. Russias Olympic Committee says that eight of its athletes who competed in the london olympics in 2012 have failed doping retests which could lead to suspensions from this summers rio games. Last years russia track and field suspended after a Commission Found widespread statesponsored doping. Dangerous lightning strikes in france and germany injuring dozens, parents and children. Children were huddling under a tree when they were struck. Eight children and three adults were injured there. One of the children is seriously hurt. Germany, 35 people rushed to the hospital after lightning struck a childrens soccer game. Three of the adults with serious injuries. An atlanta, Police Officer was shot and wounded during a traffic shot they arrested a man that fired a shot that struck him in the face. He was walking toward that vehicle. The suspect is charged with aggravated assault on a Police Officer. The deputy was rushed to the hospital where he is recovering. And police in dallas are investigating the shooting death of 23yearold the new Orleans Pelicans guard bryce dejeanjones. He barged into an apartment and was shot by the man who lived there. He was sleeping inside. Police say that jones mistakingly thought he was entering his girlfriends home after being locked out. He was in dallas to celebrate his daughters first birthday. And crews working for 15 hours yesterday, fished out the wreckage of the world war ii era aircraft. That crashed into hudson river here in new york city on friday night. You can see the video of that there. Divers already recovered the body of the pilot, 66yearold wpm gordon. Friends and colleagues of gordon honoring the pilot on saturday after flying over long island in a missing band formation. Finally, dont normally see proskate border tony hawk falling down, but take away his gravity, this is what you get. Hawk and fellow skater aaron jaws having some fun and a lot of difficulty in a 07 plane where they attempted some weightless tricks. That plane flying in to check out this video, they are laughing their heads off having a great time skate boarding. Looks like they hurt themselves. Yeah, check out this video by the way, they are laughing their heads off having a great time. Skate boarding. I was assured after junior high that i would never be confronted with the parabola again. That may be the answer on your show. Use that on your new show. Thanks for promoting that show, i appreciate that. Dan harris, folks. Dont touch that dial. Geniuses. Yeah. We have differentiate between the two, theres a big difference. Speaking of geniuses, whats cooking in the Weather Department . Nice plug for me. Parabola, no. Anything to do your dancing in the show. Horrible. I show you this lightning out lightnings out of west texas, johnson, texas, ron mentioned the dangerous part of this is france. Lighten is lazy it goes after the easiest target. It is not attracted to metal, get low and getaway from tall obstacles not a terrible risk for tornados, but large hail and damaging winds across lubbock and amarillo. Be aware of that if youre heading in that direction. The big story is Tropical Storm bonnie. How much rain can come down and forced out. There will be a front that comes through the northeast ginger your holiday during your holiday weekend. We could see flooding were seeing that north and west of charleston and columbia where they had flooding from last year during hurricane season. Look at the rain up the i95 corridor. Monday doesnt look like the best day for Memorial Day Services or outdoor plans. In between that and the west coast we look good with the exception of storms across the upper midwest. Thats a check of the holiday forecast, heres whats shaking locally. Reporter good morning, im meteorologist chris sowers with this accuweather update. Double scan live is clear, there we go, thanks, kneel, lets try that with a microphone. Lets get you outside and show us whats going on. All is clear for now, high, thin clouds roll in later this afternoon. Sun to clouds, thats the call from accuweather. Humid high of 86. Downpours after midnight tonight. I think. Threat of thunderstorms will hold off until midway through. Possible precipitable content. Yes, maybe some lightning, so get low. Lightning is lazy. Next weekend well be wearing our lightning is lazy tshirts. Thank you for that. Quotable. Now to the speech that stole the show on Graduation Day at harvard. Some are calling it one of the most powerful graduation speeches ever. The story is going viral, this speech. Reporter beyond viral and when you say some