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financial supporters are now indicating and reaction to the president's new statement about getting more sleep and avoiding events after 8 p.m, hurricane beryl takes aim at mexico after lashing jamaica. >> how the storm could impact the u.s. and in the west, a new wildfire triggers evacuations amid a potentially record breaking heat wave. fire crews in california, facing temperatures of 110 degrees on the front lines. >> chaos on the beach. one shark biting, multiple people injuring four at a popular beach. one victim suffering what's described as a severe bite. what witnesses are saying the deadly shooting at yellowstone national park, a ranger in the hospital. what we're learning plus the new cheating investigation in olympic swimming. with just three weeks until the summer games. >> top dog. the woman who broke a record at the july 4th hot dog eating contest and she's not done yet. >> and a different way to spend the holiday weekend. the

so-called furry convention. making history. get your animal costume ready. >> from abc news this is america this morning. >> good friday morning, everyone. i'm andrew dymburt. >> i'm andrea fujii in for rhiannon. >> we begin with president biden under new pressure to step aside more financial supporters are questioning biden's campaign in the wake of last week's debate. >> but the president addressed a july 4th crowd at the white house and remained defiant as he heads back onto the campaign trail. today. >> he's also promising to get more sleep and avoid events after 8 p.m. abc's christiane cordero has the latest. christiane. good morning. >> good morning. andrea. president biden is in a make or break stretch of his campaign. he's visiting wisconsin today with every appearance now being closely, closely scrutinized. president biden took in last night's 4th of july celebration from the truman balcony watching the fireworks with the first lady and vice president harris speaking to supporters

before the celebration, he again dismissed calls to end his reelection campaign. >> you got me, man. i'm not going anywhere. all right? >> three democratic congressman lloyd doggett, raul grijalva and seth moulton are now calling for biden to drop out of the race after last week's debate performance. other democrats have questioned if biden's candidacy can continue. we needed a boost from thursday. >> we didn't get it and the campaign has been very, i think, arrogant in their response. >> we need a reset. we need a course correction. we've got to acknowledge that this was not just one bad night. >> during a meeting with democratic governors, sources say biden said he needs to get more sleep and work fewer hours, even suggesting he could not schedule anything after 8 p.m. >> joe biden is our president, he said. he's all in. i doubled down, said. i'm all in. and not only that, i'm here with you to prove it. >> california governor gavin newsom, campaigning in michigan for the biden-harris ticket, dismissed concern about biden's

8 p.m. comments. >> it wasn't a literal 8:00. i will be doing things differently. it was more figurative. i've been with him a lot. i've seen him, do things that i don't care if you're 30 years old, i couldn't do. and i know that's not. people say, well, you're gaslighting all this stuff. i reject that because i'm just telling you what i've seen. >> but during a radio interview yesterday, the president appeared to struggle at times to complete his thoughts. >> by the way, i'm proud to be, as i said, the first vice president, first black woman served with a black president. i'm proud of the one of the first black woman, the supreme court. there's just so much that we can do because together we there's nothing. look, this is the united states of america. >> and now more financial pressure on the biden campaign. hours after democratic party mega-donor reed hastings, the co-founder of netflix, called on biden to step aside the associated press reports some financial backers are now holding off or canceling upcoming fundraisers for the biden campaign, a sign the president and his advisers have

more work to do to convince their own supporters that the president has the stamina to take on donald trump. as for former president trump, he spent yesterday speaking with veterans. he's challenging president biden to more debates. they have one more scheduled debate in september. andrea. christiane. >> thank you. president biden sits down today with our george stephanopoulos for his first post-debate tv interview. it airs tonight at eight eastern here on abc. breaking overnight, a suspected drunk driver is in custody in new york city accused of driving his truck into a park last night, killing three people and injuring six others. the victims include members of a family having a holiday picnic, several victims ended up pinned beneath the truck. >> firefighters in northern california are battling wildfires in a potentially historic heat wave. a large fire in butte county forced 29,000 people to evacuate this week. officials yesterday allowed them to return home. temperatures were about 110 degrees as crews

worked to contain the flames. >> obviously, having those high temperatures are tough on the body and it just kind of changes our strategy a little bit. on how we operate. we just make sure that we're taking in more water throughout the days, more work to rest cycles. >> meanwhile, a new wildfire is burning outside modesto, california, forcing evacuations in mariposa county. >> now to hurricane beryl gaining strength as it barrels toward mexico and the u.s. gulf coast. overnight hurricane beryl strengthening back to a category three storm now taking aim at mexico's yucatan peninsula, where resort towns are bracing for a direct hit. boarding up evacuating coastal communities while also moving 10,000 sea turtle eggs away from the storm's path in cancun. the hurricane, already blamed for at least nine deaths in the caribbean, damaging or destroying 95% of homes on two

islands in saint vincent and the grenadines. beryl weakened to a category two after hammering the cayman islands with a powerful storm surge and causing widespread damage across jamaica. the airport in montego bay was able to reopen last night, but people hoping to leave the island found no employees at the ticket counter. >> frustrated passengers waiting for days, the minister of tourism tells me that all three international airports on this island should be fully operational this morning. >> now texas is preparing handing out sandbags in corpus christi for potential impacts from beryl. as early as sunday night. beryl was expected to be a category two hurricane as it reaches mexico. we'll check your forecast in just a few moments. >> overseas, a major power shift in the uk. the conservative party has been voted out for the first time in 14 years. it's the worst election results in 200 years. labor party leader keir starmer will become britain's

next prime minister, with his party projected to win in a landslide. public support for the conservatives eroded after brexit and covid, and due to inflation, growing concern this morning about a wider war in the middle east as hezbollah intensifies attacks on northern israel, the iran backed militants fired more than 250 rockets and drones from lebanon in retaliation for the assassination of a top commander. >> at least one person was killed on each side of the border. abc's matt gutman was there as some of those attacks ignited fires. >> this fire is about to jump this road. it's climbed up this entire valley. you can see the flames. it's been climbing up the valley for the minutes that we've been here. and meanwhile, there's word of progress in the stalled talks for a cease fire and hostage deal in gaza. >> president biden spoke with prime minister benjamin netanyahu yesterday, and israel is reviewing the latest proposal from hamas. >> now to a series of shark attacks on this holiday weekend

in texas, it was one shark causing chaos on a popular beach. authorities in south texas are on high alert for sharks after four swimmers encountered the same shark off south padre island. video from a witness shows the shark near the shore, where a man suffered a severe bite to the leg. >> i turned around, he wasn't there anymore. >> the victim was pulled to shore by his father in law. i started swimming towards him and then he jumped up out of the water saying shark, shark, shark. >> and that's when adrenaline kicked in. i went right after him. the shark then bit a second victim and grazed a third. >> a fourth swimmer was also injured, fending off an attack. authorities captured this footage of the shark swimming in the area, then flew their helicopter closer to the water, scaring the shark away. >> it's not a real scene. it was like, how is this? how is this actually happening right now? >> all of the victims are expected to recover, but experts say the sharks behavior is consistent with how sharks hunt. looking for food by biting what's in front of them.

>> once they find out it's not a fish, they let go. but the damage has been done. >> experts say. this type of shark attack is rare and is usually a case of mistaken identity by a hungry shark. there was another shark bite yesterday in new smyrna beach, florida. the victim visiting from ohio is expected to be okay. >> time now for your friday weather. >> andrew. andrea. good morning. we're following barrel as it makes landfall this morning as a category two hurricane. there will be some lessening of the wind speed over land and then some re-intensification as it approaches the northern mexico southern texas coast. very late this weekend into early next week. meanwhile, this weekend, searing heat with record high temperatures challenged in more storms from the upper midwest into the southeast. >> andrew, andrea, back over to you. >> coming up, a deadly shooting at yellowstone national park. >> also ahead, pasta only the menu change on delta airlines

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exclusive joe biden, george stephanopoulos tonight on abc, a spectacular eruption at italy's tallest volcano. >> lava shot from mount etna, sending what looked like a waterfall of molten rock down the mountain in sicily. the eruption led to the closure of a nearby airport. >> a holiday shoot out in yellowstone national park has left a suspect dead and a park ranger injured. the fbi is investigating the shooting near canyon view lodge. rangers responded to a call about an armed man making threats. at some point, a gun battle erupted and the suspect was killed. his name has not been released. the ranger is being treated at the hospital. no word on a motive. >> outside chicago, one community came together this holiday, hosting the 1st july

fourth parade since a deadly shooting massacre two years ago. they say they refused to let the tragedy define them. in highland park, illinois, outside chicago, a july 4th unlike any other, i wanted to come back and have different memories to replace the tragedy. it was two years ago when a lone gunman perched on a rooftop opened fire on the city's 4th of july parade, firing 83 rounds in one minute, seven people were killed, 48 wounded. this is the first year the parade was back, scaled down and along a different route, this time with a spirit of defiance. danny cohen's relative, jacki sundheim was among the victims lost two years ago. >> i'm here, you know, to prove to the world that some of us are still standing. and i want to memorialize and honor her. >> many of the hundreds of people lining the route said they did so to reclaim their

parade, their independence day. >> this is what we should be doing. it should come back and say, you know what? that horrendous thing that took place scared everybody and you know, put us all in a tailspin. and then now we're like, you know what? still, we're not going to allow it because that's the worst thing you can do. let them have power over you. >> and as for the man charged in the shooting, he recently rejected a plea deal and is set to go on trial in february. police say he dressed as a woman to escape the scene, a motive for the attack remains unclear. >> delta has been serving pasta only meals on its international flights after a flight was diverted this week due to spoiled food. about 70 people were sickened as they were heading from detroit to amsterdam. sources claim the food contained black mold. delta says it switched to the pasta option out of an abundance of caution. the fda reportedly only inspects airline caterers every 3 to 5 years. >> coming up, the july 4th fireworks mishap as a barge

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