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wince. making news in america this morning, breaking overnight, a grim discovery in the search for the young men missing near philadelphia. what investigators are now saying about human remains found and the person in custody. we have all the breaking details ahead. president trump arriving in france overnight. he's there to meet with the french president as he defends trump junior about his meeting with a russian lawyer in a new interview. and what would you do if you were locked inside an atm? see how one guy got in there and the ingenious way he got out. and the best from the world of sports gather for the espys. we're going to have some of the winners, some comedy and the guy getting a lot of attention for his outfit.
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a good morning to all. we begin with breaking news. investigators say human remains have been found in the search for four missing men near philadelphia. >> under lights and tents investigators have been on the scene all night long. cadaver dogs took investigators to a site on a farm where human remains were buried in a hole that's more than 12 feet deep. >> one of the bodies in the grave was that of dean finocchiaro. we get more from abc's janai norman. >> reporter: a grisly twist in the mysterious case of four young men who vanished near philadelphia. overnight investigators announcing they found at least one of them. >> i'm very, very sad to say that we can now identify dean finocchiaro, 19 years old, of middletown as one of the people that was found buried in that grave. >> reporter: the person of interest, 20-year-old cosmo dinardo, posted bail on an unrelated weapons charge and was out of jail less than 24 hours
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before he was rearrested. dinardo was charged with stealing and trying to sell 21-year-old thomas meo's car after authorities found the car in a garage on dinardo's family's property with meo's diabetes medication still inside. meo, 19-year-old jimi patrick, 22-year-old mark sturgis and 19-year-old dean finocchiaro all disappeared last week and the search continues for three of them. >> there are additional human remains inside that grave. we're not done yet. >> reporter: a neighbor says she heard gunfire on the dinardo property on saturday. >> all of a sudden we heard this very, very loud boom, boom, boom. >> we heard it. we felt it. it was violent. >> reporter: investigators have been combing through the family's farm for days sifting through soil, digging up concrete and using a backhoe to search a roughly 90-acre area, even bringing in cadaver dogs before making that horrifying discovery. >> those dogs could smell these
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poor boys 12 1/2 feet below the ground. >> reporter: a judge set cosmo dinardo's bail at $5 million cash saying it must be paid in full and calling it the highest bail she's ever set. diane and kendis. >> such a sad scene there overnight. thank you, janai. and overseas now, we're going to turn our attention there where president trump arriving in paris this morning for a two-day visit with the french president emmanuel macron. >> the president and first lady will take part in bastille day celebrations tomorrow and he'll hold a news conference this afternoon where he is sure to face questions about his son's controversial meeting with a russian lawyer. >> but before leaving washington, the president finally made it clear that he is standing by his oldest son. here's abc's jonathan karl with more. >> reporter: president trump is coming to the defense of his son. he says he doesn't blame don junior for agreeing to meet with a woman described as a russian government attorney who claimed to have dirt on hillary clinton. in an interview with reuters,
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the president says, i think many people would have held that meeting. in an e-mail exchange with an acquaintance, don junior was told the purpose of the meeting was to provide the trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate hillary. the information described as high level and sensitive and part of russia and its government's support for mr. trump. don junior's response, if it's what you say, i love it. when asked in march by "the new york times" whether he'd ever had campaign-related meetings with russians, donald trump jr. said, none that were set up and certainly none that i was representing the campaign in any way, shape or form. also entangled in all of this, donald trump's son-in-law and top adviser jared kushner, who attended the meeting with the russian lawyer after don junior forwarded him the e-mail chain with the subject line, russia, clinton, private and confidential. what do you say to democrats who say that jared kushner's security clearance should be revoked?
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>> once again we don't discuss security clearances, but i think democrats are trying to play political games, and i think it's ridiculous. >> is there any concern over the top adviser to the president? >> did nothing wrong, no. >> reporter: the president himself has been out of public view for days. aides describe him as angry and frustrated, but these images emerged, the president meeting with faith leaders in the oval office, laying their hands on him in prayer. in the interview with reuters, the president also talked about his meeting with vladimir putin and germany, and he said the first 20 to 25 minutes of the meeting was on the issue of russian interference in the election. this is how the president put it, i said, did you do it. he said, no, i did not, absolutely not. then the president said, i then asked him a second time in a totally different way, he said absolutely not. but there is no indication in this interview about whether or not the president accepted putin's denials. jonathan karl, abc news, the white house.
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and president trump has personally intervened on behalf of a group of afghan girls trying to come to the united states for a robotics competition. the six teens were denied visas and many people on social media blamed that on the president's immigration policies. the white house official said when the president heard about the girls' plight, he got homeland security to clear the way for them to visit next week. we're going to get details today of the new republican plan to repeal parts of the affordable care act. >> president trump says he will be very angry if the senate fails to pass the bill and it's up to majority leader mitch mcconnell to pull it off, he says, but the new version reportedly doesn't differ that much from the first version. >> some conservatives say the republican plan doesn't go far enough to repeal obamacare. some moderates say it goes too far. every democrat will vote against the plan. if more than two republicans do the same, the bill will fail. we have an update on congressman steve scalise, he is out of icu but remains in serious condition this morning. the louisiana republican was one
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of five injured after a lone gunman opened fire during a congressional baseball practice. scalise has undergone several surgeries since the june 14th shooting. and president trump's pick to replace fired fbi director james comey has assured lawmakers that he will remain independent. the confirmation hearing for christopher wray focused largely on the russia investigation. wray told senators he has no reason to doubt the intelligence community's assertion that russia meddled in the election. >> as the future fbi director, do you consider this endeavor a witch-hunt? >> i do not consider director mueller to be on a witch-hunt. my loyalty is to the constitution. no one asked me for any kind of loyalty oath at any point during this process, and i sure as heck didn't offer one. >> wray is a former high-ranking justice department official. he said he'd be prepared to step down if the president asked him to do something illegal. his responses appeared to satisfy both democrats and republicans. >> all right, and let's take a look now at your weather.
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there's more rain and flooding on the way to the great lakes region today. the fox river is already at an all-time high. that's in burlington, wisconsin, after 7 inches of rain fell in a short period. there was also significant flooding north of chicago. in the east the problem is excessive heat. a heat advisory is in effect today from washington, d.c. to new york city. temperatures will be close to 100 degrees and the high humidity will make it feel even hotter. some records may fall and the air quality will not be good. still ahead, a big change could be coming to the social scene at harvard university. and the mother who says her son went limp in her arms waiting for their plane to take off, well, she is speaking out in an abc news exclusive. and the atm that caused a lot of problems when one guy found himself locked inside the machine. what police had to say coming up.
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we're monitoring the long valley wildfire that is straddling the border between california and nevada about 50 miles north of reno. it has already burned about 20,000 acres and very little is contained. this, by the way, is one of nearly four dozen active wildfires burning in a dozen western states. the market opens today in record territory. the dow closed at an all time high yesterday at 21,532. that's after fed chairman janet yellen signaled a gradual rise in interest rates. she also expressed optimism about the u.s. economy. yellen is back on capitol hill today testifying before a senate banking committee. united airlines has a new plan to deal with overbooked flights. according to bloomberg the airline's new system will offer passengers rewards if they give
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up their seats days in advance. the news comes three months after dr. david dao was dragged off a plane in chicago. he refused to leave a flight after being randomly selected by a computer to be bumped. and this morning, a mother is speaking out after an incident on a plane she says could have killed her infant son. >> the mother is demanding changes after she and her son were stuck on the tarmac during a heat wave. abc's mara schiavocampo has more in an abc news exclusive. >> reporter: the mother who feared for her baby's life as he overheated on a delayed plane speaking out in an abc news exclusive. >> it was extremely hot and everyone around me was complaining. >> reporter: she says that after a delay, the flight crew allowed her and owen off the plane to cool off. 20 minutes later she reboarded for takeoff only to have the flight delayed again and that's when she says owen's condition started quickly deteriorating. >> a mom knows, and he made a cry that i've never heard before.
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and his coloring -- i've never seen that color before. he was screaming and then he just stopped. and my son went limp in my arms. >> reporter: mara schiavocampo, abc news, denver. >> an emotional interview. united airlines is apologizing and investigating that incident and we're going to have much more on this story later on "good morning america." but when we come back right here, caught on camera, the shocking attack that ended the life of an american college grad on vacation. and the giant iceberg now floating free. what experts are saying about its effect on sea levels. as moms, we send our kids out into the world, full of hope. and we don't want something like meningitis b getting in their way. meningococcal group b disease, or meningitis b, is real. bexsero is a vaccine to help prevent meningitis b in 10 to 25 year olds. even if meningitis b is uncommon, that's not a chance
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the reason, there's a cyclone nearby. >> hopefully that's not your view during your morning road commute. but there will be plenty of water out there. flooding is possible from the southwest up through the middle of the country. wet roads also expected along the gulf coast and the northeast. and if you're flying airport delays are possible in chicago, detroit and boston. one of the largest icebergs ever recorded is now floating in the antarctic sea. it broke off an ice shelf sometime in the past few days. >> and it raises a number of questions about climate change and what caused the iceberg to break off and what changes will it cause. abc's linsey davis reports. >> reporter: a massive iceberg is free floating after breaking away from the ice shelf in antarctica. more than a trillion tons and the size of delaware, the iceberg is one of the largest to ever snap off. the crack has been expanding for years. scientists are calling the split an enormous geographical event and are studying what role, if any, regional warming may have
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played. disappearing ice is an issue on both poles as we saw firsthand during a visit to baffin island just off the coast of greenland in 2012. there's so much more water now compared to when i first came out here, and now it's like little islands of ice. while breaks have happened before, what's unusual about this latest one is the size. the concern is if enough large glaciers end up in the ocean, sea levels could rise, which is why scientists will be keeping close watch. linsey davis, abc news, new york. newly released video shows the deadly beating of an american tourist in greece. and we want to warn you this video is disturbing. bakari henderson in that video is seen running from a group of men. he's then throw onto a car. falls to the ground as a group repeatedly kicks and punches him in the face and in the body. it all happens in less than 15 seconds. funeral services are set for this weekend in his home of austin, texas.
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harvard may soon ban fraternities and sororities. that's the recommendation from a faculty committee. the proposal largely targets the school's exclusive all male social clubs, at least one of which dates back to the 18th century. they have been blamed for problems with sexual assault and alcohol abuse. the ban, if it is approved, would start next year with incoming freshmen. and the dust is finally settling at amazon this morning after the company's single best day in its 23-year history. the company's third annual amazon prime day turned out record sales beating the company's numbers for last year's black friday and cyber monday combined. amazon estimates $1 billion in sales over this year's 30-hour period. >> all right. now we know how they'll pay for whole foods. they've just gotten it. police in texas got their money's worth, in the meantime, during an unusual rescue. >> they helped a contractor who was trapped inside a corpus christi atm. now he didn't have his cell phone, so he actually sent a
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note through the cash slot. it read, please help me, i'm stuck in here and i don't have my phone, please call my boss. and then he included his work phone. >> yes, he did. >> so a few people thought it was a prank and someone finally called police. >> sure enough, we can hear a little voice coming from the machine. you'll never see this again in your life that somebody is stuck in the atm machine. it was just crazy. >> yep, police broke down the door and were able to get him out, this after he spent two hours inside that room. >> wow. i wonder if they checked his pockets on the way out. up next in "the pulse," peyton manning getting some big laughs as he hosted the espys. and one of the most unique pieces of luggage ever checked in for a flight. a guy landed, and it was there waiting for him. and on our facebook page, get the details about a pregnant news anchor who is firing back at a body shaming viewer. that's on atmfans.com. at a body shaming viewer.
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next year. and i got to compete with flo from progressive, mr. discount double check, aaron rodgers, and that damn aflac duck. >> lots of shade there in the monologue. as for the fashion, that's cowboys defensive back orlando scandrick rocking that metallic pink tux. >> oh, wow. >> and he's actually making some best dressed lists with that outfit. >> that's a brave choice. >> it is. >> and we told you about the push for dwayne "the rock" johnson to run for office. well, now another rock may be throwing his own hat into the ring. >> a website named kidrockforsenate.com has popped up after being bombarded by the fans of the musician and the musician actually responded on social media. >> that's right. he says, the answer is an absolute yes. stay tuned. i will have a major announcement in the near future. >> wow. and finally it is all about priorities these days when we
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4:27 on this thursday, july 13th. there's a little fog when i was driving in. >> a little more than there was the last couple days. that will be the case probably tomorrow also. let's show you what's going on with live doppler 7. maybe even a little mist as you get closer to the coast. so far, no steady rain. let's look at the temperatures at 7:00 as we go through the day planner. mid sgimpts to a few mid 60s. at noon, 50s around the coast, 60s around the bay, 70s, even 80s inland. more 80s toward 4:00. if you're heading out this evening, dress for 50s for the coast and san francisco. 60s around the bay, and 70s inland. here's a look at your morning commute. >> good morning. we have one issue in the north bay. southbound 101 in the novato area, reports of a car fire.
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fire crews are in route. sounds like the drive did make it off to the shoulder. i don't think it will be a major slowdown, but i'll keep an eye on that. here's a look at the bay bridge commute. no major delays. we do have one new problem out of the central valley. we'll check on that next. >> thank you. >> on to breaking news. several businesses are gone after a fire consumed a building in lafayette. >> a viewer sent us a video of the flames. it could be seen from miles away. amy hollyfield live for us in lafayette this morning. amy. >> reporter: hi, reggie. look behind me. they're still putting water on this building. they're still worried about hot spots. investigators were out here but determined it was too hot for them to go inside this building to start looking for a cause. firefighters say they could see this from as far away as highway four in pittsburg. taytay got the call just before midnight. there is a restaurant in this building, an italian restaurant.
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there are also a few other businesses here like an accountant and a salon. firefighters are calling this a total loss. some in the area reported hearing explosions. firefighters say that was probably propane tanks the restaurant was using for its outdoor heaters. >> kwee know those tanks were there. i counted at least three of those heaters with the small barbecue style propane tanks. and i'm sure one of them let off while we were here once i got here, i heard it go off. >> it took firefighters about an hour and a half to knock this one down. they are estimating the lost at about $1.1 million. investigators will look for a cause inside the building once it is stable. they say they're going to be here for a while, and they want everyone to know that lafayette circle will be closed this morning. reporting live in lafayette. amy hollyfield. >> thank you. happening now, president trump is in france commemorating bastille day, while under fire here at home. the president and first lady
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melania arrived in paris overnight. mr. trump will be the guest of honor at a bastille day parade to mark the 100th anniversary of america's entry into world war i. the president and the french president are holding a joint news conference this morning. abc will carry it live at 9:15. right now, coming into our live desk, a major update from los angeles after part of the ucla campus was evacuated due to a bomb threat phoned in to the school. this morning, students are back inside their dorm rooms. they were allowed back in around 12:20 this morning. the threat was at the recreation center on campus. turned out to be nothing, but it's surrounded by dozens of dorms, so take a look. hundreds of students spent more than two hours evacuated inside the drake stadium. the students living on campus while summer classes are in session. >> thank you. happening today, a bay area tennis coach

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