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in butler, pennsylvania speaking out for the first time. >> we just became part of history. not in a good history. >> saying their alerts about the gunman's suspicious behavior fell on deaf ears. >> you had no communication with the secret service at all on that saturday? >> the procedural breakdowns they say allowed the shooter to get close enough to almost assassinate the president. plus, warning in the water. >> she told me, mom, i feel really bad, and i think i'm going die. >> the risk you may not know you're taking from an ordinary day at the beach. >> there are bacteria, parasites, and viruses. >> the health emergencies. what our reporting revealed. >> what could they have done differently? and one more time for you. >> the wayne brady bunch. ♪ the "who's line is it any way?" star pulling back the curtain. >> it was the scariest thing i think i've ever done. >> his new reality show about his blended family and coming out as pan sexual.
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tonight, an abc news exclusive. for the first time, members of the s.w.a.t. team tasked with keeping former president trump safe at rallies speaking out. they saw the gunman, marked him as suspicious and alerted others. so why didn't anyone stop the shooter? here is abc's senior investigative correspondent aaron katersky. [ gunshots ] >> get down! >> i remember sitting in the parking lot, talking to one of the guys. and we just became part of history, and not in a good way. >> reporter: how do you process it? you are a part of history, and not in a good way. >> part of processing that is making sure that we accurately tell the story because the truth is not going change. >> reporter: the s.w.a.t. team from beaver county, pennsylvania assigned to the july 13th campaign rally where the former president, donald trump, was shot, a former fire chief was killed and two others were injured now speaking exclusively to abc news. one team member saying he knew
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something was off about a young man on the event grounds, seen in video obtained by abc affiliate wtae. >> this proximity to the building just didn't seem right. >> reporter: in new video obtained by abc news shows thomas crooks moments later appearing upright on that roof, shortly before he was shot and killed by a secret service sniper. the fbi giving new details on the shooter today. investigators determine crooks arrived at the rally site at 11:00 a.m., staying there for an hour. then he arrived home at 1:30 p.m., where he grabbed the ar-style rifle, telling his parents he was going to a shooting range. crooks returned to the site about 3:45, and flew a drone for roughly 11 minutes. the fbi says it's working to determine whether crooks was viewing drone footage which would have revealed insights into the security posture. texts from local security show they noticed crooks at 2:00 p.m., nearly two hours before
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the event. you see me go out with my rifle so he knows you guys are up there. by 5:14 p.m., they grew suspicious. >> he was looking up and down the building and just wandering around. it seemed out of place. >> reporter: nichols' suspicions grow further when he noticed crooks pull something from his pocket. >> i had my binoculars and zoomed in. that's a range finder. >> reporter: nichols snapping these photos of a shooter, which had a text group between the local snipers that were onscene. i sent the pictures out the that group and advised them of what i noticed and what i'd seen. >> reporter: what do you think is transpiring once you have sent in what you sent in? >> i assumed there would be somebody coming out to speak with this individual or find out what's going on. >> reporter: nichol also radioed his concern into local command. so how do you know if greg's concerns about crooks are being relayed properly? >> we don't.
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we have to assume that when he put that information out to command, that command took that information and did something with it. we don't know if they did. >> reporter: members of the s.w.a.t. team do not know what happened to the information they relayed, and "the washington post" reports trump's secret service detail complain they'd were unaware of the warnings. the members of the beaver county s.w.a.t. team described what they consider to be failures of planning and communication that would prove disastrous. >> we were supposed to get a face-to-face briefing with the secret service snipers whenever they arrived, and that never happened. that was probably a pivotal point where i started thinking things were wrong because that never happens. and we had no communication with the secret service. >> reporter: you had no communication with the secret service at all on that saturday? >> no, not until after the shooting, i believe. >> reporter: and by then? >> it was too late. >> reporter: crooks was able to access that roof by climbing on to hvac equipment. he traversed across multiple rooftops to get into position. >> someone is on top of the
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roof, look. >> reporter: and the fbi is still working to determine how he was able to conceal the weapon just prior to the shooting. >> the suspect is directly on top of us. >> reporter: after the fire, members of the beaver team rushed to the rooftop, as seen in graphic footage from footage camera. and as you're scrambling on to that roof, you don't know for sure whether he is dead or alive or whether you'll encounter fire? >> at that point, no. >> reporter: the secret service declined to respond directly, but told abc news the agency is committed to better understanding what happened and is offering complete cooperation to ongoing investigations. >> how does this happen? you're protecting one of the probably more high-profile political candidates in history. so how does a 20-year-old able to fire off several shots at him? i think with some better planning, perhaps, it could have been stopped. >> was this a failure of communication? >> i believe so in a lot of respects. in multiple agencies working
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together is always taxing, no matter what the problem. i know that we could not communicate with secret service or pennsylvania state police, or really, the patrol directly. >> reporter: the team believes it did everything it could have to thwart the attack, but accepts its share of failure. >> i think we all failed that day. >> reporter: how so? >> life was lost. >> yeah. >> people died. if there is anything we could have done to stop that, we could have -- should have done. >> byron: our thanks to aaron. we turn now to the alarming threat beneath the surface. as temperatures soar, our focus tends to focus on the shoreline. for some, waves, splashing and swimming has turned into parasites and viruses with near tragic results. here is abc's somara theodore making her "nightline" debut.
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>> she told me, "mama, i feel really bad and i think i'm going die." and i said no, not today. >> reporter: a parent's worst nightmare. eva england, a healthy high schooler went from a fun-filled weekend at the lake to the icu. so you get to the hospital, and you guys find out she has kidney failure. >> my first statement was are you sure you're in the right room? yes, sir. this is the correct room. she has e. coli and she's got a specific type of e. coli that causes kidney failure. and i was just floored. how does that even happen. >> so i was in shock. i was just kind of like what? what is that? >> reporter: eva hat hemolytic syndrome, caused by e. coli bacteria, one of many dangerous organisms waiting to pounce on
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unsuspecting swimmers. and she is hardly alone. the cdc estimate morse than 5 million people contract waterborne illnesses each year from congesting contaminated water in lakes, oceans, and pools. . there are bacteria, parasites, and viruses, and they can cause a range of health outcomes, but most commonly, they are ear infections and skin infections, gastrointestinal disease and respiratory infections. >> reporter: just today we counted more than 300 beach advisories and closings across the country due to contamination. the highest numbers we found in massachusetts, texas, and california, with several other states surpassing a dozen. >> tonight nearly two dozen people sick. many kids after swimming in virginia lake. >> reporter: back in virginia, eva was one of 23 lake goers to contract e. coli memorial day weekend. the outbreak making local and national headlines. . there are several reasons why there could be increases, but
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one kind of scene that emerges in research is that we have more extreme weather events, and these events mobilize these infectious pathogens that are already in the environment and make it more likely that we encounter them. >> thank you. >> reporter: mara diaz is a water quality manager for surfrider foundation, a nonprofit founded by surfers in california nearly 40 years ago. since then, it's transformed into an army of volunteers with 60 labs across the country. >> we're trying to fill in the gaps of the agency-run beach programs. so our volunteers are testing where the agencies aren't. and there is still work to be done. >> reporter: mara coordinates the testing, include hearing on long island, new york. >> we're testing for fecal indicator bacteria. when there is fecal pollution, there are pathogens and things that could cause you to be sick. for instance, i see there are some bird droppings.
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that's one of the sources of pollution. >> reporter: next up the team heads back to the lab to incubate the samples. >> we're going to go ahead and read our early samples. i'm going put it under the black light and see it glow and then go ahead and count the cells. have i 37 large wells, and have i five small wells. >> reporter: just like one-third of tests they run here, red flags. >> a high bacteria reading? >> yes, for that plate. >> reporter: mara believes a lack of national testing standards leaves swimmers vulnerable to disease. >> the virginia department of health reported that the department of environmental quality collected routine samples for e. coli on april 2nd, may 6th, june 4th. and they claimed that e. coli concentrations of each sample were so low that they could not be measured. what could they have done differently? >> they should be testing going into the memorial day weekend. and i'm not trying to villainize the agency. they don't have enough resources
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to test all their beaches, all the time. >> reporter: the virginia department of health didn't test lake anna until a full week after memorial day, but says the lake water was likely to blame for the outbreak and has closed its investigation. it says food contamination was ruled out. how did having e. coli impact your plans? >> it honestly upset me because i was really excited for summer, and now kind of i have like restrictions on things. >> reporter: and her parents' warning to others -- >> there needs to be an awareness. and they need to know that in some cases, you can lose your kidneys. i mean, flat-out, it's scary. >> when people are getting on their boats with their families and friends, they're not thinking about runoff or e. coli in the water. so awareness is what is missing from all of this.
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hey, flex. considering there's a heatwave, it's kinda chilly in here. oh, that's because i'm pre-cooling the house with the ac before 4 pm. then i'll turn our thermostat to a comfortable 78 or higher that way i could stay cool later. ooh, what about me? you're never cool. oh. welcome back. wayne brady has been a working actor since he was a teenager. he says he was told from the beginning to keep his private life private. but he says put:00 it out there was the best decision he's ever made. here is abc's megan wright. >> everyone is getting along, and it just seems like perfect. has it always been this way? >> no.
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and it's not the way the family dynamic is. it's far from perfect. >> reporter: meet the wayne brady bunch. wayne, an entertainment staple for nearly 30 years in the industry. >> camera rolling. >> reporter: but now he and his modern family together on television. >> i'm doing this show because i want to be happy. and my family is taking that journey with me. >> reporter: this brady bunch baring it all in a new television show featuring the star and his family. including his daughter -- >> my dad likes to believe he is the man of the house, but we all know i'm the man of the house. >> reporter: ex-wife. >> i am wayne's business partner. i'm also his ex-wife. >> partner. >> way cooler with me in the mix. >> reporter: and their son. >> look, if we're going to do it, let's put it all out there and see whathas. >> reporter: it's a family dynamic that sounds ready-made for tv. >> so much of my life has been public until now. >> reporter: wayne the family
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remix coming out as pansexual in 2023. >> we talk about coming out as pansexual and having people and myself not even knowing that term, not even knowing what that was coming out. and saying, oh, if this is what i am. and identifying as queer and being part of the lgbtq+ community. >> reporter: brady hopes to shed light and context on what it means for him to be attracted to people regardless of their sex or gender expression. what were these conversations like with you in regards to your father coming out as being pansexual? >> the pansexual thing was another friday. like all right. and then i went about my business. >> reporter: are you worried that the way people have viewed wayne brady might change, maybe not for the positive? >> i've always been worried. we've created a really safe, healthy bubble between the four of us. i know that the world can be mean and harsh, but at the same
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time, we should be someone else's safe place. >> i think that with the help of this family, i'm actually me, and you're getting a better version of wayne on your tv set right now. >> reporter: known for classics like "who's line it is any way?" "let's make a deal". >> even though the name of the show is "wayne brady: the family remix" it wasn't that wayne said we're going to do a show and we're going to talk about. it came about organically. >> reporter: organic, complicated, and blended. >> we said hey, even if the marriage didn't work, let's make this thing work. and let's let go of whatever people may think about this thing. >> reporter: jason met wayne's ex-wife mandy while working as backup dancer for wayne's improve show in las vegas. now jason, coming into this situation, did you have any natural reservations? >> i felt like i had natural
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instincts to know that miley was very central to both of their lives. so i off the bat prioritized mom and dad time. if i can support and be in the mix, good. if i need to hang back, cool. i'll do that. >> he is such an amazing unicorn of a guy to be able to slip into a situation like this that he made it tenable for me to be able to go, oh, you are a good guy. >> reporter: the family began sharing their lives on tiktok during the pandemic while quarantining together. >> child of divorce, split custody. so it's not like we had a choice to not quarantine together. and it was my idea to start tiktok. ♪ >> reporter: so at some point, the four of us put our heads together and said let's be real. we want to show the truth behind that smile, and that's how we came up with the idea of doing
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the show. >> they also get to see that you're not a throuple. >> because some people really think that. >> exactly. >> yes not a regular nuclear family. >> have you noticed a change in wayne? >> yes. it's a beautiful change, because we got the chance to meet wayne and his authentic self for the first time. the show captured that. it was very real for us too. >> i feel lighter. and you know that expression, zero fs to give, that's how i'm feeling now. and that's pretty -- that's a pretty cool place to be too. >> byron: our thanks to megan. when we come back -- trust me, kid, i'm no hero. you are an x-man. >> $438 million in one weekend? that's marvelous. >> i'm soak wet right now. -zone. ♪ ♪ i got the power of 3.
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