>> robin: good morning, america. the assassination attempt on donald trump. >> you know, that's a little bit old that chart. >> robin: the chaotic scene

minutes into donald trump's campaign rally speech in pennsylvania. >> take a look at what happened. >> get down! >> robin: secret service racing to shield the former president as shots rang out. trump rushed to the hospital. one person killed, two others critically injured. >> george: authorities identify the shooter overnight. this morning, what we know about the 20-year-old armed with an ar-15-style rifle after his home was searched. was he a lone wolf gunman? witnesses describe the terrifying scene, a bystander shot right in front of their eyes. >> i knew there was no way that he was going to survive. >> george: president biden's message to the nation denouncing the shooting. >> there's no place in america for this kind of violence. it's sick. >> michael: this morning, our interview with the senate candidate who was sitting in the front row when the former president was shot. dave mccormick joins us live. and right now, the heightened threat, the latest on the fbi's involvement in the

secret service's investigation with the republican national convention about to get under way, the growing questions about security. >> george: this morning, full team coverage on this special edition of "good morning america." >> announcer: from abc news, live in new york, this is "good morning america." >> george: good morning, america. it is a morning so many warned would come. an assassination attempt on a former president, a candidate for president, and a toxic and dangerous political environment. after the shooting and treatment in a hospital, donald trump arrived back in new jersey late last night. >> robin: so here's what we know right now as we take you through the events. at approximately 6:15 p.m. last night, shortly into former president trump's appearance at a rally in butler, pennsylvania, gunfire erupted. trump said he was, quote, shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of his right ear and felt the bullet ripping through. he was taken to a local hospital. president biden was briefed on the situation and the white

house confirmed the president spoke with trump by phone. >> michael: this video shows what is believed to be the suspected gunman and overnight the shooter was identified. the secret service says the 20-year-old armed with an ar-15-style rifle on the roof of a building under 200 yards from the podium outside the event's security perimeter and was shot and killed by secret service agents. senate candidate dave mccormick was steps away from trump at the moment of the shooting. he'll be joining us live just ahead. >> george: we have team coverage from pennsylvania, washington, new jersey and milwaukee where the republican national convention was set to begin. rachel scott was at the rally and she starts us off from butler, pennsylvania. good morning. >> reporter: george, good morning to you. we were, in fact, inside of that rally. the former president had just taken the stage but within minutes into his speech we started hearing loud popping noises. it was the sound of gunfire. an attempted assassination on a former president just days before he's set to accept the

party's nomination. this is the moment gunfire erupted just minutes into donald trump's speech in pennsylvania. >> take a look at what happened -- >> get down, get down, get down! >> reporter: at 6:15 p.m. saturday, several pops could be heard. the former president grabbing his ear, ducking behind the podium. secret service members quickly rushing on to the stage to shield him. the crowd just feet away, screams, running for cover, as agents lift the former president to his feet. >> i got you, sir. i got you, sir. >> let me get my shoes. >> reporter: you can see the blood running across trump's face as secret service agents surround him, the former president reaching through his security detail pumping his fist in the air. trump raising one more fist to the crowd as he's put in an armored suv rushing him to a local medical center. trump revealing he was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper

part of my right ear. >> he started speaking and we heard pound, pound, pop, pop, pop. >> you heard the popping sounds and you got down? >> like firecrackers but it continued and continued and then somebody yelled get down. we got down. we got down and we huddled and we started praying. >> reporter: one man seen gripping his chest, another carried away by two police officers. authorities say one attendee was killed, two others critically wounded. law enforcement sources telling abc news as many as eight rounds were fired from an ar-style rifle while perched on an adjacent rooftop. outside the perimeter of the event, opening fire less than 200 yards away from trump's location. you see law enforcement officials right now putting up this caution tape around this area. this is very much an active scene at this moment. the secret service saying they neutralized the suspected gunman who the fbi later identified as 20-year-old thomas matthew

crooks. you can see those snipers reacting to the sound of gunshots, shifting their position before responding fire. a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation tells us this image is believed to show that suspected gunman on the roof. president biden briefed on the situation, addressing the nation. >> there's no place in america for this kind of violence. it's sick. it's sick. it's one of the reasons why we have to unite this country. we cannot allow for this to be happening. we cannot be like this. we cannot condone this. >> reporter: shortly after his address, the white house confirming that president biden and trump spoke by phone, but the administration did not provide details of their conversation. trump posting on truth social this morning thanking the secret service, saying, i want to in this moment it's more important than ever that we stand united and show our true character as americans. remaining strong and determined and not allowing evil to win. adding, i truly love our country and love you all, and look forward to speaking to our great

nation this week from wisconsin. and overnight, the former president landing back in newark, hours after an assassination attempt that could have taken his life. so as of this morning here is what we do know. one person has died, two others were critically wounded and are being currently treated at a nearby hospital. authorities tell us that all of those victims were male, their identities have not been released, george. >> george: rachel, you were there on the scene. what were you aware of in the moment? >> reporter: george, to be honest, i think all of us are still sort of processing what we witnessed. i had never been in an active shooter scenario before. immediately after we heard those loud popping noises, the sound of almost firecrackers, we didn't exactly know what it was. we started hearing people shouting get down, get down. we heard the screams. i could still recall the screams of children there with their parents attending this rally. we dove for cover. george, i've been to almost every trump rally this campaign cycle and there is this sense of security when you're there.

you're at an event with the former president of the united states, secret service, law enforcement, you go through the metal detectors, your bags are screened. this was just the unthinkable for so many of us who attended this rally. and leaving that rally yesterday, walking out after our live shots, and just this image of a large american flag hanging over a crime scene, it was just a sobering reality that this, in fact, did just happen right here in the united states, george. >> george: just terrifying, okay, rachel, thanks very much. michael? >> michael: thank you, george. we're joined by a witness who was in the front row of the rally when the former president was shot. dave mccormick is a republican candidate for senate. mr. mccormick, thank you for joining us this morning. >> good morning. >> michael: please, tell us what you saw. >> you know it was -- i was right in the front row off to president trump's right, and he had announced me and said come on up on the stage, and, so i started to walk up on the stage, and then he said, no, no, i'll have you come up in a little bit.

and within a minute or two after that we started to hear this -- the fire, sort of the staccato. a minute, sort of started and then it was clear it was rifle shots. the president went down immediately and the secret service covered him. and then he stood up, as you saw and you saw his fist emerge. as i think a sign of assurance and defiance and strength, but at about the same time behind me it became clear that someone had been wounded on the bleachers and was being cared for by other attendees, an innocent bystander, and it was serious, there was lots of blood. the entire place was just on its knees or on the ground. it wasn't clear whether the shooting was stopped, it wasn't clear whether the shooting was from one or multiple places. it was just, you know, as the previous segment said, an unthinkable moment, where the president's life, you know, we now know was saved by an inch. >> michael: and you talked about

hearing the shots. at what point did you realize that this was an attack? was that apparent to you immediately? >> well, i have been a military person and a hunter, so i know the sound of gunfire, but it wasn't quite obvious to start with. when the staccato nature, felt like seven or eight shots, i'm not sure how many it was, but then it became obvious it was gunfire and everybody went down. and then, obviously, the entire secret service team went into action to protect the president and it was -- it was obvious we were under fire, under assault at that point. >> michael: what was your sense of where the shots came from? >> you know, it wasn't completely clear. it's hard to tell sometimes. it felt to me like they were off to the president's left as he was facing the crowd because the person behind me was shot and the president was shot, which is consistent with some of the things i'm seeing on the reporting now, but it's really hard to tell. in fact, i thought that there might be two shooters because

there was so much gunfire and it was -- it was all in unison, but it looks like there was only one at the time. it was very difficult to identify exactly where it was and very chaotic the moment it started. >> michael: so what was running through your mind when you realized what was going on? >> well, you know, originally once the -- the initial firing stopped i was clear somebody bemind me was injured. i stood up and we were trying to get medics in and just trying to make sure we assessed how -- you know, who was hurt and how many were hurt. a gentleman next to me said get down, this might not be over. and, so i -- initially my -- it was clear the president had the care he needed, and he was being moved, but it wasn't clear that the crowd -- the crowd was very dense, and there was at least one, and now i'm understanding there were multiple behind me that were injured. one person behind me was clearly in duress and there was a lot of blood and we were trying to get the medics in there. it was very dense and hard to

do. eventually some police officers came in and carried the man out and took him to medical care. but the initial reaction was making sure we got the right medical care we needed for the innocent bystanders. >> michael: that's the most important thing. dave mccormick, thank you for your first-person explanation of what you saw. we appreciate your time this morning. thank you. >> thank you. >> robin. >> robin: michael, overnight, the shooter was identified. let's bring in our chief law and justice correspondent pierre thomas with the latest on the investigation. good morning to you, pierre. >> robin, good morning. today the most exhaustive investigation into a single suspect in recent history continues as the fbi desperately tries to find the motive for the man they say tried to assassinate former president trump. >> we had what we're calling an assassination attempt against our former president donald trump. >> reporter: this morning, an intensive investigation into the man believed to have been the shooter trying to kill former president trump.

>> you know, that's a little bit -- >> he's got a gun! >> reporter: in this video believed to be the suspected gunman according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation, a man in what appears to be a t-shirt and khaki shorts on a rooftop allegedly firing an ar-15-style assault rifle in the direction of the trump rally. >> shots fired toward the blue water tank. >> reporter: and in this video from our affiliate wtae, you see a man's body after he was shot and killed by what sources say was a secret service counter sniper. the fbi overnight using dna and biometrics to identify the suspect as 20-year-old thomas matthew crooks of bethel park, pennsylvania. >> and our hearts go out to the victims of this heinous act which occurred today. >> reporter: searches conducted overnight at the suspect's home and locations associated with the young man. as authorities try to piece together his background and potential motive. law enforcement sources telling abc news, the early evidence points to the shooter being a lone wolf gunman.

>> we have no reason to believe that there is any other existing threat out there. >> reporter: an initial investigation complicated by a sprawling crime scene and concerns the suspect might have left behind explosives. >> there was identification of suspicious packages around where the shooter was and so we deployed, in an abundance of caution, bomb assets to make sure that those were cleared. >> reporter: the state police will conduct the investigation involving the murder of an innocent spectator and two others in the crowd who were critically wounded while the fbi conducts the investigation into the assassination plot. >> the fbi has deployed a number of our resources, including investigative agents, our evidence response team, bomb technicians. >> reporter: the fbi director is personally involved in this case which is now the highest priority of the fbi. the attorney general has warned repeatedly about a surge in threats of political violence and law enforcement sources have been telling me for months that

this is, perhaps, the most dangerous threat environment since 9/11, robin. >> robin: we have been hearing that. pierre, there are calls for an investigation into the secret service? >> reporter: that's right, robin. the house oversight committee chairman has officially invited the secret service director to appear before a hearing on july 22nd. i'm told by the secret service this morning that the director will cooperate with any congressional investigation and that an internal investigation will now be launched to review the security for yesterday's event. one thing that will be looked at is whether the security perimeter needs to be pushed back even further. robin? >> robin: so many questions need to be answered. pierre, thank you. shortly after the shooting president biden issued a statement and then appeared before cameras to denounce political violence. let's bring in our chief white house correspondent mary bruce. good morning to you, mary. >> reporter: good morning, robin. overnight, the president racing back here to the white house cutting short his weekend in delaware to closely monitor this crisis. the president reaching out and speaking with donald trump, but

the white house is not providing any detail of that conversation. the two men, of course, do not speak often. this is an incredibly rare thing for them to connect. the president earlier did say he was grateful that trump is safe and was praying for him. the president is now calling for the country to unite in this moment. he is strongly condemning this violence and trying to dial down the political temperature in this country. the president's campaign also quickly hitting the pause button. they are stopping their political communication, pulling down their ads, pulling them off of the airwaves. it is a sign that for now they are trying to put politics aside, but there is no question, this has completely upended this race. now later this morning here at the white house, the president will be briefed by his homeland security team and law enforcement officials, no word yet on whether the president, though, plans to change his upcoming campaign travel. michael. >> michael: thank you so much for that, mary. donald trump touched down in new jersey overnight and headed to his home in bedminster, new

jersey, where our trevor alt joins us from there. good morning, trevor. >> reporter: good morning, michael. the former president arrived here in bedminster well after midnight, he landed at newark airport where he was surrounded by the secret service counter assault team, a very visible display of force as his motorcade took him to trump national, his golf course, a place where we have seen him spend a lot of time over the past eight years during some of the most stressful moments of his presidency and the aftermath. although this is very different from anything we've ever seen the former president go through before. we have heard from several members of his family, particularly from his children, his daughter ivanka writing i love you, dad, today and always. sons don junior and eric, still tying things back to the upcoming election with don junior writing "he'll never stop fighting for america" and eric writing "this is the fighter america needs" and then a follow-up post saying "never surrender." the former president was already planning on staying here in bedminster after his rally. it's unclear now how long he will be here as he recovers from this assassination attempt. george. >> george: okay, trevor, thanks very much.

let's bring in jon karl, who's at the national convention site in milwaukee, and jon, this is reverberating across the political world, including former presidents. >> reporter: absolutely, george. we're hearing condemnations across the political world at what happened, calls for calm including from the former president, former president obama, said there is absolutely no place for political violence in our democracy. we should all be relieved that the former president trump was not seriously hurt and use this moment to re-commit ourselves to civility and respect in our politics. michelle and i are wishing him a quick recovery. former president bush also putting out a statement saying "laura and i are grateful president trump is safe following the cowardly attack on his life," and former president clinton saying "violence has no place in america, especially in our political process. hillary and i are thankful that president trump is safe and heartbroken for all those affected by the attack at

today's rally." so that's the -- and i got to tell you, i was here on the floor of this convention, george, talking to the chairman of the republican national committee, when this news broke. somebody told me about it. i walked up to chairman michael whatley, told him, shots were just fired at the rally in pennsylvania as i was doing that, an aide came up to him, gave him the phone, whisked him off the floor. clearly an event that is going to have repercussions, not just for what happens here in milwaukee, but for the entire political process and this election. >> george: what does it mean for milwaukee for the convention, what do we know? >> reporter: well, the immediate impact was the pre-convention activities. there was a big welcome party planned last night. that was all canceled. but, george, i get the sense here that this convention is going to go forward in all force. in fact, one of those involved in the planning said, the convention will continue with a vengeance.

i think you will see that image, that image of donald trump with his arm raised, blood on his face, that will become the symbol of this convention. i don't think you're going to see anything scaled back here. perhaps some of the events outside of the convention hall, but this convention is going to go forward. >> george: jon karl, thanks very much. let's get more on the security and threat environment with aaron katersky. good morning, aaron. >> reporter: george, good morning to you. i can tell you the u.s. secret service is going to be reassessing its security plan for the republican national convention, starting tomorrow there in milwaukee, where jon is, and that happened almost right away after this assassination attempt here in pennsylvania. and even before it, officials had feared that the country's bitter political divisions could result in violence with elections, political candidates and political events have long been considered targets and threats against the president, members of congress and judges, have been surging. authorities in washington, d.c.,

are now stepping up security for supreme court justices in new york, heavily armed officers descended on trump tower, and other locations, associated with donald trump, as the investigation continues here in butler to figure out why this young man armed with an ar-style rifle acted, and apparently acted alone, with no apparent ties to any terror group. donald trump is long gone from here, but the fear what happened to him here in butler, pennsylvania, could lead to more violence. >> george: it is a fear growing for some time. aaron katersky, thanks very much. robin. >> robin: our coverage will continue, but time now for the weather and lee goldberg from our new york station wabc is here with us. good morning, lee. >> lee: good to be with you. unfortunately we have more disruptions for the rnc in the world of weather. a look at milwaukee, some showers moving through this morning. the first of several rounds potential severe weather as

these ridge riders are aimed at the upper midwest and into the dakotas. a few tornados overnight flooding across illinois. a cluster of storms tonight, another one tomorrow night in milwaukee. thankfully that will be ending by monday and better weather by the second half of the week. that's the national view. here's the local forecast for you. here on "gma" and i'll also be anchoring "this week" joined by jon karl and our team and our team coverage is going to continue right here. >> michael: coming up, we're taking a closer look at the secret service response. we're going to speak with a former senior official with the agency.

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"gma" and our coverage of the assassination attempt on former president donald trump. the alleged shooter opening fire from a rooftop during the rally in butler, pennsylvania, sending the crowd into chaos with trump saying he was shot in the ear. secret service rushing to shield him from the bullets. rachel scott was right there when the shots rang out. good morning again, rachel. >> reporter: hey, michael, good morning to you again. we were inside of that rally. the former president had actually just took the stage and within minutes of his speech, we started hearing these loud popping noises which ultimately turned out to be gunfire. cameras catching the former president grabbing his ear, ducking behind the podium, secret service members quickly rushing on to that stage to shield him. the crowd was just feet away left screaming and running for coverage. in images, you can see the blood running across trump's face. the former president surrounded by secret service pumping his fist in the air as he exited that riser.

he was then rushed to a local medical center and he later revealed he was shot in the upper part of his right ear. one attendee was killed two others critically injured. law enforcement sources telling abc news as many as eight rounds were fired from an ar-style rifle while perched on an adjacent rooftop outside the perimeter of the event. the suspect opening fire less than 200 yards away from where the former president was standing. the secret service saying they neutralized the suspected gunman who the fbi later identified as 20-year-old thomas matthew crooks. now president biden was briefed on the situation. we're told that the president did speak with donald trump and then the president later addressed the nation, calling for this type of violence to come to an end. saying, we simply cannot condone this. >> george: what an environment it is. okay, rachel, thanks very much. let's bring in our chief washington correspondent jon karl in milwaukee for the republican national convention. jon, this has already been the most unusual and unprecedented political campaign of our lifetimes. everything upended now. >> reporter: it's all upended. you are seeing the initial

reaction across the political spectrum as you might imagine. democrats, republicans, congressional leaders, former presidents, condemning the violence saying violence has no place in our political system. nancy pelosi, the former speaker who knows political violence, her husband paul attacked by somebody with a hammer less than two years ago in their home, in san francisco, saying violence has no place. but you're also seeing something else, george, and that is, this is an absolutely energizing moment for republicans. that image of the bloodied donald trump standing up and raising his arm to that crowd, has now become the symbol of this campaign. it will undoubtedly be the symbol of this convention. republicans are angry about what happened, and they are energized, and you are starting to see some rhetoric out there where they are putting the blame on democrats, including biden and the biden campaign, for their rhetoric about donald

trump. of course, no shortage of violent rhetoric across the political spectrum. >> george: jon karl, thanks very much. robin. >> robin: george, we're going to go now to our chief white house correspondent mary bruce who's there on the north lawn for us. good morning again, mary. >> reporter: good morning again. the president continues to closely monitor this situation. he is here at the white house where this morning he will receive a briefing, another briefing, from his homeland security team, and law enforcement officials. this after the president raced back here to the white house overnight, cutting short his weekend in delaware so that he could continue to keep a close eye on all of this as it was unfolding. the president, we know, reached out and spoke with donald trump overnight. the white house, though, providing few details, no details, on that conversation. the president then coming before cameras last night and calling on the country to unite in this moment, strongly condemning this violence. he is trying to dial down the political temperature. his campaign hitting the pause button. they are pulling all of their ads off of the airwaves and they are trying to use this as a moment to bring the country

together and put politics aside, but no question this is completely and fundamentally changed this race from here on out. robin. >> robin: there's no doubt about that. mary, our thanks to you. we will continue our coverage in a moment but time now for the weather and lee goldberg who's in from our new york station wabc. good morning to you, lee. >> lee: good morning. it's a hot week ahead. i challenge you to find comfort on the weather map. even a place like seattle ten consecutive days above 80. i don't know that a lot of folks have air conditioning there. we had a record back in 2015 of 15 days. look at the heat coast to coast. feels like 106 in kansas city, 105 to 110 in new orleans. now that the rain is gone along the east coast we have the heat building there. i-95 corridor it's rough, feels like 108 in philly and in new york city 101 tuesday and wednesday. here's the good news. pretty strong front for july coming through during the midweek could be strong storms but temperatures even cooler than normal. rare to see the blue on the map. that's really for next weekend. that's the national view. here's the local forecast for you.

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>> george: we want to focus on the secret service response to this assassination attempt. we have our contributor, a former senior official, with the secret service. thank you for joining us this morning. boy, it's really hard to believe that something like this could happen. how do you explain it? >> that's a great question and that's the question i think everybody is going to want answered eventually which is going to come in the form of an investigation. we're potentially looking at three investigations here. you're looking at the fbi investigation for an attempted assassination against former president trump, looking at a secret service mission assurance investigation to look at the protective methodologies at the event, any lapse and gaps or

problems that occurred and the officer use of force incident here, the countersniper shooting of the suspect. all of that is going to be looked at, investigated, and then they're going to determine what the answers are and for the secret service to be looking at were there any potential gaps, what are the gaps. one thing people have to remember is that the secret service is not in the business of risk elimination. you can't eliminate all risks. what they do is risk mitigation and that risk mitigation process comes in the form of the advanced process where the advance team goes out to a site, they look over the site and put in protective methodologies to minimize risks. that risk mitigation is not only secret service personnel but is also counterparts from local and state agencies that also help with that to form the perimeters, the rings of protection around an event site. i'm sure the investigation will highlight that and the secret service does one thing very well, it adjusts and it adapts to problems. >> michael: and you spoke with the secret service agents, they managed to shoot the suspect, but why didn't they see him on the roof before he was able to get any shots off?

>> so, mike, if you watch the video, there's a video of the countersnipers on the rooftop. if you watch that video, they appear to range and identify the threat as soon as it showed up on the roof. now the secret service countersniper and secret service personnel are bound by typical u.s. use of force rules. they can't just shoot somebody because they see somebody. they have to make sure and identify it's a threat and make sure that the threat is actionable. in this situation you're talking about a threat even 100, 120 yards out, that is not easy to see from a rooftop speculative. -- perspective. when you do see that you have to make sure that it is a threat and it wasn't a mechanic or somebody else going on the top of the roof to do something, or worse another potential law enforcement officer. if you watch the video it looks like they identify the threat, they probably call in a ground

team to go assess, is that a friend or a foe, and then almost simultaneously, you see the rifle discharge the round at the target. so it appears to me that they did see the threat, they did take action as soon as they could identify that it was a threat and ultimately stopped the threat. >> robin: we so appreciate your insight. it's very, very helpful. you talk about the investigations. we know that the fbi is going to be investigating into the background of the shooter and you talk about the secret service also under an investigation. who would be leading that investigation against the secret service? >> well, the secret service is going to do its own investigation, probably with the department of homeland security office of the inspector general and probably with the fbi in tow as well to look at the protective methodologies in place, to assess what the advance did, what they were looking at, what assets were in place, if more assets were potentially needed, if there were gaps, if there were personnel failures. they'll look at all of that. if we look at past incidents

that the secret service was involved in, and what they've done moving forward is they've made sure they put into place things that would mitigate those gaps. look, a presidential campaign is very frenetic. it's a tasking of resources on the secret service. potentially they've got to protect these going into four or five states with multiple stops, in each state, deploying personnel all over the place, cars, vehicles, armor. there's only a finite amount of resources the secret service has and in many ways they depend on their state and local counterparts to help fill those gaps, which they did here in butler with the pennsylvania state police and the local officers. all of that is going to be looked at. all of that will be reviewed and my guess is it will be reviewed quickly, because we still have a campaign ahead, that is safe and protected, and the american people have to feel that it is safe. >> michael: talk about the agents' response as they rushed

the stage and formed a human shield around the president. >> when you go through secret service training one of the things you always practice over and over again is an attack on a protectee. this was almost a textbook where you have have an incident happening against a protectee, the agents responded almost immediately, formed a human shield, a body bumper, putting their lives, their bodies in between the threat and the protectee and then evacuating the protectee to a secure location, in this case the motorcade, and then, of course, taking the motorcade to the hospital so the protectee could be assessed. the video itself is almost a training exercise for the secret service. it was almost textbook. >> robin: donald, thank you again for your insight and perspective. really do appreciate your time. we're going to keep following the very latest on the investigation into the assassination attempt on donald trump, but coming up next here on "good morning america," we have more news of the day as we celebrate the lives of richard simmons and dr. ruth. ruth. dupixent can help people with asthma breathe better in as little as 2 weeks. so this is better. even this. dupixent is an add-on treatment

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because it was taken away from me because i just wasn't good enough. i wanted to make sure they knew the other side of richard simmons and i put a suit on and i went to washington and people told me i looked good. and that i sounded good and i made sense. and that's going to be my legacy for the rest of my life. >> reporter: richard simmons died at his home in los angeles on saturday the day after he turned 76. after years out of the spotlight richard simmons had been reaching out recently to old friends and business associates. he was having so much fun, lenny told us. we're lucky that richard simmons spent a lifetime sharing that fun with the rest of us. guys? >> michael: we really are, chris. thank you for that. this morning we also are remembering the life and legacy of dr. ruth westheimer. dr. ruth was 96 and she broke ground, chris. >> reporter: that's right. in the '80s and '90s if you had those two as guests on your show all you needed was a band and

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time, and we'll see you tomorrow morning on gma. former president trump safe the shooter and at least one bystander confirmed dead tomorrow night david muir reporting on world news tonight and of the republican national convention. >> now from abc seven mornings. >> good morning, i'm stephanie sierra. >> we're learning more about the man the fbi says attempted to assassinate former president donald trump. he is identified as thomas matthew crooks. he is 20 years old and from bethel park, pennsylvania. the sources say he was registered to vote as a republican and recently made a donation to a democratic aligned group. back here at home, a tragic update on a missing three year old girl from the south bay . the family of ellie lorenzo confirmed her death. fremont police say a body resembling ellie's was located in san jose on saturday. ellie's mother called police on friday when the toddler did not return from a scheduled visit with her father.

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