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this morning, the miracle in cleveland. >> the incredible saga developing overnight. their stories captivated cleveland for a decade. allegedly kidnapped a decade ago. their escape came less than 12 hours ago. >> i've been kidnapped and i've been missing for ten years and i'm here. i'm free now. >> that nervous voice on the end of the line, a victim reunited with the family who never gave up looking for her. plus the hero and the neighbor. what they heard, what they saw during the past ten years shedding new light on the suspects this morning. we will have complete coverage of the miracle in cleveland. good morning, i'm linzie janis sitting in for diana perez. >> and i'm john muller.
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there are so many remarkable details about the story breaking overnight. >> the three women are safe now after years of being held against their will. doctors say at least one of the women had a child with her when she was rescued. >> and then there is the good samaritan neighbor who made it all possible. we'll begin with abc's devin dwyer. [ cheers ] >> reporter: three missing women, three cold cases now astonishingly solved. >> michelle knight, amanda berry and gina dejesus all discovered. >> reporter: a neighbor heard a woman screaming for help. >> i look and i see this girl and she's going nuts on the door. we had to kick open the bottom. it was aluminum. she climbed out with her daughter. she went to my house. we called 911. >> hello, police, help me, i'm amanda berry. i've been kidnapped and i've been missing for ten years and i'm here, i'm free now. >> reporter: amanda berry
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vanished in 2003. she's now 27. inside they found gina dejesus missing since age 14 and michelle knight who disappeared in 2002 when she was 21. all being examined for possible abuse at a cleveland hospital. >> currently they're safe. we're in the process of evaluating their medical needs. they appear to be in fair condition at the moment. >> reporter: police say three hispanic brothers in their 50s are in custody as investigators now search the home for evidence. neighbors who knew one of the suspects, the home's owner say he was a normal guy. >> he's somebody you look and look away because he's not doing anything but the average stuff. nothing exciting about him. well, until today. >> now, the women and a 6-year-old also recovered from the house are now happily reunited with their relatives who say their years of prayers have finally been answered. >> devin, tell us more about the three suspects. we understand they're brothers.
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what else do we know. >> amanda berry has identified her captor as ariel castro who has apparently lived there 20 years. his older and younger brother are now in city jail awaiting charges. we expect those charges to come down today. we will also expect to learn new details on the investigation at a morning news conference with police. john and linzie. >> devin dwyer, thanks very much. devin dwyer in washington for us. now, you heard some of the stunning 911 call that amanda berry placed to police there in devin's piece. >> nowadays such calls are anticipated part of a major crime story. amanda berry's is incredible. here's more of the 911 call. >> 911. >> help me, i'm amanda berry. >> do you need police, fire or ambulance. >> i need police. >>ing 0, and what's going on there? >> i've been kidnapped and i've been missing for ten years and i'm here. i'm free now. >> okay and what's your address. >> 2207 seymour avenue.
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>> 2207 seymour. it looks like you're calling me from 2210. ing 0, stay there with those neighbors and talk to police when they get there. >> okay. hello. >> yeah, talk to the police when they get there. >> okay. are they on their way right now. >> we'll send them as soon as we get a car open. >> no, you need them now before he gets back. >> we're sending them. >> who is the guy you're -- who is the guy who went out? >> his name is ariel castro. and i'm amanda berry. i've been on the news for the last ten years. >> okay, i got that. dear. the police are on the way. talk to them when they get there. >> i need -- okay. >> i told you they're on the way. talk to them when they get there. >> that's part of the remarkable emergency 911 phone call made by amanda berry, the three women vanished within just a few blocks of each other years apart. >> left her job at a burger king. a year later gina dejesus was walking home in the same area when she went missing and
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michele knight left a cousin's house not far away. >> neighbors say they had no idea what was going on under their noses and described the home owner as friendly, charismatic who liked to play with kids in the neighborhood. >> the hero who helped rescue the women he said he and cast crow barb cued in the backyard and never suspected a thing. the uncle said castro had worked as a school bus driver. >> one of the first people to react to the story in cleveland was victims rights advocate john walsh. >> and his son was murdered and he summed up the feelings of so many. >> i wanted to do cartwheels. i know what it's like not to know where your child is. i went through that horrible pain. here's charles ramsey walking home so succinctly. i'm ray black guy. i saw a white woman crying for help and i went to help her and broke her out. amanda berry, saved her life, two other women's lives and the
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child and charles ramsey is the guy that broke them out of that house of horrors. if i ever meet him i'm going to give him the biggest hug. >> victims rights add voekd john walsh there. of course, the case in cleveland reminds us of other incidents of long-term cam tift of jaycee dugard missing 18 years when she was found in 2009. >> dugard is being honored tonight. its hope awards recognizing those who work to protect kids. we'll, of course, have more from cleveland later in the half hour and later on "good morning america" live interviews with the people who live in that very neighborhood. there is outrage this morning over the arrest of a top air force officer whose job it is to protect female service members. the charge assaulting a woman. lieutenant colonel jeff few krusinski arrested over the weekend since removed from his position and faces arraignment thursday. defense secretary chuck hagel has expressed outrage and disgust at his arrest. home grown terrorism suspect is in custody in western
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minnesota accused of plotting to attack people in his hometown. family mes of 24-year-old militia member buford rogers says he's nptsdz but he was storing pipe bomb, molotov cocktails and an assault rifle in his home 100 miles west of minneapolis. now, here's something you don't hear about every day. a member of the u.s. senate admitting to using marijuana. ohio republican rob portman did just that last night at an event in washington. he was also careful to point out that he has a long record of supporting drug prevention programs. portman is considered a likely presidential candidate in 2016. >> ah, yes, but did he inhale? all right, time for weather across the nation. it'll be wet in the southeast. and that will go into the ohio valley and parts of the mid-atlantic as well, thunderstorms rumbling across the middle of the nation. and there will be showers from california into the rockies. >> temperatures will be just about normal for most of the country right along the canadian border.
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readings will be about five degrees above normal. it will be cooler than usual in the southern corners. >> all right, coming up, congress changing the way we all shop online. and bracing for a new cyberbattle. the online attack coming today and how it could mess with your digital domain. and we will return to the morning's breaking news, the incredible story from cleveland. three women missing for years found alive. the latest on their conditions next.
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third. for the first time apple made the top ten with more than 156 billion and one year after going public, facebook squeaked in at number 482 on the list. all right, this morning the fbi is warning that hackers are planning to target institutions across the country. the cyberattack set for today could cause computer network shutdowns and disruptions at hundreds of banks and federal agencies. hackers in the mideast and north african linked to a group called anonymous are believed to be responsible. the senate has passed a bill that could end tax-free online shopping for millions of americans, but it is now facing an uphill battling in the house. the internet tax bill would require larger retailers to collect sales tax for online purchases and send the money to the states. the maker of one-a-day vitamins could face legal actions over its health claims. a watch group is saying their claims are not based on science and are misleading. the center for science in the public interest is threatening to sue unless the ads are changed. bayer says it's reviewing the matter. next up on this tuesday morning, found alive.
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new images this morning of extreme flooding in parts of north carolina. people using rowboats to get around instead of cars. and there's more rain in the forecast for that region. >> and speaking of the forecast, expect wet roads there in the mid-atlantic and for the southeast and the ohio valley this morning. there will be rain, and storms could flood roads in the nation's capital's midsection from california into the rockies. if you're flying, airport delays are possible in washington, philadelphia, salt lake city and los angeles. more now on the breaking news overnight, cheers breaking out in the streets of cleveland after three women were rescued from what appears to have been a decade of captivity. the women and at least one child being kept overnight at the
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hospital. they all appear to be okay. >> family members say they never gave up hope and can't wait for a reunion. three suspects, all brothers, are being held in connection with the kidnapping. one neighbor says he can't believe that home owner ariel castro was capable of this. >> you're in shock right now. >> yes, i knew ariel for all that time, since 5 years old. nice guy, ka rcharismati charismatic. got into his four-wheeler. i would get in and ride with him. parents trusted him. he trusted the parents. he was just a regular guy on the street, you know, that had a four-wheeler that had some bikes that parents trusted to let the kids get on the bike with him, and he was just loving, happy, you know. he put on that great mask that everyone thought he was a good guy. >> when you heard that he was accused of possibly having these three women -- >> i don't understand how i should be feeling.
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i should be happy, excited, ecstatic that they found him, but at the same time i feel hurt. my heart is feeling rough right now to know this happened two houses -- none of us noticed anything. i feel ashamed of myself, my community right now and this neighborhood that we didn't see anything, so right now i don't even know how i feel, and to know it was this guy, it's like, no way. no way. it's like i can't believe it because the fear of what could have happened when i was young, the fear of what could have happened to my friends when i was young, my sister, like that's just -- it's an impossible feeling. >> powerful emotions. the hero another neighbor, charles ramsey. he had just returned from mcdonald's when he heard a cry for help. >> ramsey sprang into action helping tear down the door which held the woman back for so long. >> i'm at home and i hear this help, let me out. this girl screaming. now we don't have it on this street because everybody on this street knows each other, so when
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you hear something like that you come a running to see what's going on. i thought it was a kid got attacked by a pit bull and i looked at that girl. i said, you look familiar. and i'm prying the door open and she's trying to get out and she climbed through the bottom of it, and when she got out, she said, my name is amanda berry, call the police and i called the police and the [ bleep ] -- the stuff with them, you wouldn't believe that. they thought i was lying. when she told me, it didn't register until i got the call to 911. now i'm calling 911 for amanda berry. i thought this girl was dead. >> that man is a hero. like the other neighbors, ramsey says he was shocked to find out the missing women were living just doors away. well, years after the girls went missing their stories still drawing national attention. live >> two of them, amanda berry and gina dejesus were featured in the oprah winfrey show in 2009 and their families talked about holding on to hope they were still alive. >> what's been the hardest for me amanda has been gone for too long and i want her home.
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>> and not knowing is what's tearing us apart. but i fight. i'm never going to give up. >> now, sadly, berry's mother didn't live to see this day. she passed away in 2006. family members say she literally died from ray broken heart. incredible ending to a story that changed countless lives. we'll have much more coming up on "good morning america." we're getting eyewitness accounts this morning from two of the survivors who narrowly escaped that limo fire near san francisco over the weekend. the drivers said it took only 90 seconds for the limo to turn into an inferno killing five women including a new bride. one of the four women who made it out said she had to bang on the partition window to tell the driver the car was smoking. the cause of the fire has not been determined. the driver says it may have been electrical. well, the eyes of the political world focusing on south carolina today and that is where former governor mark sanford is trying to complete a political comeback by winning back his old congressional seat. he resigned four years ago after an extramarital affair. his democratic opponent is
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elizabeth colbert busch. the sister of comedian steven colbert. one sports note to mention well, sort of. president obama hit the golf links with a bipartisan group of senators, and one of them stole the show. georgia republican saxby chambliss hit a hole in one on a course near washington. afterwards chambliss called it pretty special because the ball flew where it wanted it to go. >> pretty cool. hit a hole in one, hanging with the president, good today. really impressed the president. up next, stories you'll talk about today including the biggest night of the fashion calendar. extreme styles on display overnight. the stars that struck down the red carpet in new york overnight. >> the pregnant kim kardashian. the little guy we can't get enough of taking to the water for the very first time. hilarious. [ female announcer ] at royal caribbean, our ships are designed for wow.
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>> punk was the theme this year and celebrities like sarah jessica parker fully embraced it with a bold print gown and thigh high velvet boots topped off with a mohawk headpiece. >> miley cyrus also went all out in a fishnet dress and spiky due and anne hathaway turned heads. >> a new museum letting fans get up and personal. >> fans can celebrate all things abba with the opening of a new exhibit in stockholm. >> it features music and a lot more visitors to sing along with hologram and band members and even see digital images of what they looked like in abba's flare pants and boots. >> it gives "knowing me knowing you" a whole new meaning. >> are you a fan? >> i saw them -- >> corny or not, they're good.
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forget the sea legs, an australian toddler already has his ski legs. >> this is cool. ryder is a 7-month-old learning to waterski. look how happy this little guy is. >> there he is being pulled along the shoreline. next summer, different story. that's when parents plan to get him behind the boat and waterski for real. >> he's going to have like special muscles from waterskiing. >> that is just too cute. i love that. looks like he's having a blast. >> if he wasn't smiling, i'd say, you know what, that borders on something else but he's clearly pleased. check him out. >> i love it. that is so much fun. >> do you waterski? >> no, i did when-- i did when i was a kid. i probably -- i was 12 years old. that looks like definitely not 7 months, but it was a blast. now i'd be a little afraid of. >> i haven't done it in years. i wouldn't mind giving it a shot. >> much more inhibited in my old age. >> give it a go this summer. too cute on that kid. >> take me out on your boat. >> you buy it.
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>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> good tuesday morning. it is 4:28. >> we will check on the weather forecast. we were talking about some places got .1" of rain yesterday? >> east bay valley got a lot of healthy rain. you can see live doppler 7 hd shows it is quiet. the last three hours you can see the best chance of rain has been in the central valley. as we head into the afternoon we will have partly sunny conditions, like yesterday. temperatures are about the same. if you were comfortable yesterday afternoon you will be comfortable this afternoon. 68 to 74 inland. 61 to 63 at the coast. that is the forecast. how the traffic?
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>> good morning, everyone. this is "motorcycle safety awareness month," so share the road and be careful. this is 280 to san jose away from 17. we have one car there moving along northbound direction. it is looking clear. no delays. we have construction before you get out the door. if you are traveling toward richmond we have a couple of lanes blocked eastbound side from san quentin until 5:00 a.m. until 6:00 a.m. northbound 101 through petaluma from washington to railroad avenue is blocked. >> developing news with new accounts of the deadly limousine fire that killed five women and injured four on the san mateo bridge carrying nine passengers, one more than allowed under state rules. the rear of the him seep was riding close to the ground. we are lending the survivors had to crawl through a partition
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dividing the driver area from the passenger compartment to escape. among the victims was a new bride, neriza fojas, and as well a nurse at community hospital. and a woman from san lorenzo on the night out on the town to celebrate the bride's marriage. >> it was the life he shared with his jive, neriza fojas, before she was trapped and died in a burning limousine. >> i cannot believe it happened. >> it happened on the day they celebrated their oldest's daughter 10th boulevard. her friend survived and told john that before the fire broke out smoke poured in from the back of the limousine. >> she was all the

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