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>> the race for the white house and growing speculation about vice president kamala harris's potential running mate. meanwhile, former president trump's running mate looks to explain trump's remarks, questioning harris's race. >> new worries on wall street what's fueling new recession fears. what amazon just reported and the crucial report out today on jobs in texas. >> the parents of a teenager accused of fatally shooting ten people at his high school go on trial should they be held responsible for his actions at the olympics. >> the debate over a gender test, the fallout from a controversial boxing match and the latest from paris, simone biles, katie ledecky and team usa's gold rush. >> later, another freebie for airline passengers taken away. and you can blame turbulence and britney spears now headed to the big screen. >> i break your heart got lost in the game. >> oh baby, baby. >> from abc news. this is

america this morning. >> good friday morning everyone i'm andrew dymburt. >> good morning to you all i'm rhiannon ally. we begin with the emotional scene overnight. the american prisoners freed by russia and welcomed home with open arms, tears and hugs greeted them. >> and getting off the plane. wall street journal reporter evan gershkovich had two words to say i'm home. reporter. overnight, the americans freed in a historic prisoner swap, reunited with their families. wall street journal reporter evan gershkovich giving his mom a big hug on the tarmac in maryland. gershkovich, a former marine, paul whelan and russian american journalist al sukhorukova were among those freed in the largest prisoner swap since the cold war. greeted overnight by president biden and vice president harris. >> my job is to make sure, number one, they don't get them, and if they do, we get them back. >> after landing in the u.s, the former prisoners and their families were offered a flight to an army medical center in support. >> getting off the planes,

seeing the president, the vice president who was a good homecoming. so looking forward to seeing my family. >> whelan, the longest held american detainee in russia, was arrested in 2018 when he traveled to the country for a friend's wedding. gershkovich. his release comes just days after he was sentenced to 16 years in a russian penal colony. both men convicted on what the u.s. said were sham espionage charges. president biden posted a video from the oval office yesterday showing the moment their families got to speak to them. >> i miss you so much. >> the multinational deal set two dozen people free. russia received eight of its nationals in the swap, including a convicted assassin, a hacker and suspected spies, most of whom were held by u.s. allies overseas. >> germany, poland, slovenia, norway and turkey. they all stepped up and they stood with us. so for anyone who questions whether allies matter, they do. they matter. >> critics question whether such a swap encourages vladimir putin

to use more americans as pawns. house speaker mike johnson and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell saying, as we renew our call for the return of all persons wrongfully detained by the kremlin, we recognize that trading hardened russian criminals for innocent americans does little to discourage putin's reprehensible behavior. not included in the prisoner swap is pennsylvania teacher mark fogel, sentenced to 14 years for bringing marijuana into russia even though it was prescribed by his doctor. his family calling it an injustice, writing they are completely heartbroken and outrage that mark has been left behind. while a u.s. government brought other americans home. initially, talks for this deal included kremlin critic alexei navalny, but he died behind bars in february. >> now to the race for president and growing speculation about vice president kamala harris's potential running mate. it comes as former president trump's running mate looks to explain trump's remarks this week, questioning harris's race. abc's em, nguyen has details and good morning rhiannon. >> good morning. yeah. the

harris campaign is writing a fundraising wave while facing more criticism over the crisis on the border. >> this morning, the harris campaign is expected to announce a monthly fundraising record, bringing in what's expected to be more than $300 million in july, compared to about 140 million announced by the trump campaign. it comes as harris finalizes her search for a vice president. sources say. minnesota governor tim walz recently met with harris's vetting team, as did illinois governor jb pritzker, who just released a campaign style video on his youtube channel describing his accomplishments. >> there's no better place to see the change possible under democratic leadership than here in illinois. >> also, on the short list, pennsylvania governor josh shapiro, arizona senator mark kelly, and kentucky governor andy beshear speaking in oklahoma last night attacking trump. >> he called her a bum. well, if donald trump wants to see a bum, he ought to look in the mirror.

and what he'll see staring back are multiple bankruptcies and 34 felony convictions at the southern border. >> republican vice presidential candidate j.d. vance blamed harris and biden for the surge of migrants coming into the u.s. they stopped deportations on day one. >> they stopped construction of the border wall. on day one. we see the border wall sitting here, ready to be completed behind us, and that can't happen because of kamala harris administration. vance also defended trump's comments this week, questioning harris's race. >> trump told an audience of black journalists that harris all of a sudden decided to become a black person. >> all he said is that kamala harris is a chameleon. she goes to georgia two days ago. she was raised in canada. she puts on a fake southern accent. she is everything to everybody, and she pretends to be somebody different depending on which audience she's in front of. >> senate majority leader chuck schumer was asked about the attacks coming from the republican ticket. >> well, i think my republican colleagues are embarrassed. i

had one senior republican colleague say to me this mornin, i guess now you're going to win the election. after we heard trump last night, harris is expected to choose her running mate by tuesday. >> both governor shapiro and transportation secretary pete buttigieg have canceled some upcoming events, fueling even more vp speculation. andrew. all right. >> ed wynn, for us in washingto, m thank you. some jitters on wall street this morning with renewed fears of a recession. the dow tumbled nearly 500 points yesterday thanks to weak economic data, including a rise in unemployment claims. and late yesterday, amazon reported a weaker than expected sales outlook. and the big news comes today with the government's monthly jobs report expected to show the labor market cooling. >> hamas has declared today a global day of rage to protest the assassination of its political leader allegedly killed by israel. the call for action comes on the day of ismail haniyeh s burial. he and a bodyguard were killed wednesday in tehran by a bomb that was smuggled into his guest

house two months ago, and then detonated remotely. >> they should have known that's what victims and their families are arguing as they try to hold the parents of the accused mass shooter at a texas high school responsible for the deaths of ten people. abc's andrea fujii reports on their first day in court, an emotional testimony on the first day of a civil trial stemming from a deadly school shooting outside houston. >> victims families arguing the accused shooter's parents should have done more to prevent the tragedy there. >> the parents and the bottom line is that's your responsibility. to know what's going on with your child. >> police say 17 year old dimitrios pagourtzis opened fire at santa fe high school in 2018, killing eight students and two teachers, wounding more than a dozen others. he was found mentally incompetent to stand trial. now, survivors and victims families are suing his parents, claiming they should have known their son was mentally ill and prevented him from gaining access to his father's weapons. they say pagourtzis had nearly $2,000 in

ammo and other disturbing items delivered months before the shooting. >> parents of a depressed child should safely store their guns if they don't, then their child commits a school shooting with them. the parents share in the responsibility. >> you can't give me an excuse and tell me, oh, it's because of this and because of this that my son's dead. you can't do that. somebody has to take accountability for my son's murder. >> but the parents say there were no warning signs about their son's mental health problems and claim others were to blame, including the company that sold ammo to their underage son. the trial comes just months after the parents of a michigan teen became the first parents ever convicted for a mass school shooting. jennifer and james crumbley were sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison for missing opportunities that could have prevented their son from killing four students at his high schoo. back in texas, the ammo company was also a defendant in this

case, but reached a settlement. the trial is expected to last three weeks. the families are seeking at least $1 million in damages. andrew. rhiannon. >> all right. andrea, thank you for that. it is time now for your friday weather. >> good morning. we're tracking some more dangerous and volatile weather in areas around the park fire in northern california and into the northwest extreme heat. some areas in the interior will face temperatures between 98 and 104 degrees. isolated thunderstorms could spark new wildfires, and the humidity is going to be ultimately dropping very low into the latter parts of the weekend. so some more smoke production out there, poor air quality for many. some areas will challenge or break record highs on this friday for accuweather. i'm jeff cornish for abc news. >> coming up, a big win for the nfl in court. >> also ahead, the debate over a gender test at the olympics, fallout from a controversial boxing match, and the latest from paris and later a new twist

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fought win for all three of the world's best gymnasts. simone biles, with a spectacular comeback after the twisties, took her out of the tokyo games. suni lee thought her career was over last year when she battled back to back kidney infections, and brazilian rebeca andrade fought her way to silver after suffering three acl tears. biles nearly lost out on gold after a mishap on the uneven bars, but she stuck the landing on her floor routine, gliding to gold for the eighth time in her olympic career. >> i don't want to compete with rebecca no more. i'm tired. like she's she's way too close. i've never had an athlete that close, but i don't like it no more. it's i'm getting uncomfortable. guys like, i don't like that feeling. i was stressing. >> lee took bronze in her own last minute coup with the performance of her life on the floor, beating out italy by 13 hundredths of a point. >> it has taken so much. i mean, i was telling everyone today

like i really didn't think that i would even get on the podium. so it's just like crazy that i was here and i did everything that i could. >> katie ledecky won her third medal of the games, team usa taking silver and the women's four by 200 freestyle relay. meanwhile, one track star managed to strike gold before even taking the field. team usa discus thrower veronica freely took to social media to reveal that she couldn't afford her rent this month, despite being a world class athlete, rapper turned reality tv star flavor flav answered the call, offering to pay her rent in the boxing world, a controversy after algerian boxer iman khalif won her bout in just 46 seconds. her italian competitor throwing down her helmet, saying the match was unjust, with critics questioning khalifa's gender and eligibility. she is believed to have a variation in her chromosomes. the international boxing association disqualified her from a competition last year, saying she failed a gender

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