making news in america this morning, the back and forth over the senate health care bill. a razor thin vote passes to get the process going as john mccain battling brain cancer makes a dramatic return to capitol hill. but there's also a new setback for the bill overnight. we're live in washington with it all. the standoff between the president and his attorney general escalating this morning. president trump again expressing regret for hiring jeff sessions. are the attorney general's days numbered? a woman rescued after spending nearly a week lost in the wilderness. hear what she ate to stay alive and the wooden hut she built for shelter. how a case of mistaken identity led to a football player losing his job with the dallas cowboys.

a good morning to you all. we begin with president trump back in washington after venturing onto the campaign stage. >> yes, yet again. the president held a rally in youngstown, ohio, last night where he ticked off his accomplishments and claimed that no other president had done anywhere near what he's done in his first six months in office. well, after a day of explosive tweets and statements against his own attorney general, he talked about his ability to be presidential. >> with the exception of the late great abraham lincoln, i can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office. that i can tell you. >> all right. quite a claim there. the president also did a victory lap on health care after the senate cleared the way for the debate. >> but just a short time later the effort to repeal and replace obamacare suffered a crushing blow. >> yeah, last night a comprehensive proposal to replace major portions of the

affordable care act failed in the senate. the vote came just hours after republicans narrowly voted to begin debating their health care overhaul so what's next? the senate is expected to vote today on an amendment that would create a clean repeal of obamacare, which wouldn't take effect, though, for two years. >> it all unfolded as john mccain made a dramatic return to washington. abc's emily rau joins us from there live. good morning, emily. >> reporter: good morning, diane and kendis. it really was a roller coaster of a ride yesterday in the senate and that demonstrating the difficulty of this effort to repeal obamacare and the divisions within the republican party. >> mr. mccain, aye. >> reporter: less than a week after going public with his brain cancer diagnosis, senator john mccain swooping in to cast a critical vote on health care and deliver a no nonsense call to action for his senate colleagues. >> we've been spinning our wheels on too many important issues because we keep trying to find a way to win without help from across the aisle. that's an approach that's been

employed by both sides. >> reporter: with mccain's help and a tiebreaking vote from vice president mike pence, republicans narrowly voted to begin debate on their health care overhaul plans. [ chanting ] protesters then interrupting making their voices heard from the senate gallery and democrats joining in outside the capitol. >> how about if we fill the streets outside every republican office across america? we don't know what their bill is. they don't know what their bill is. >> reporter: president trump celebrating at a rally in ohio tuesday evening. >> we're now one step closer to liberating our citizens from this obamacare nightmare. >> reporter: but that celebration short-lived. late tuesday night the senate voting on a comprehensive bill to repeal and replace much of the affordable care act. the motion failed by a vote of 57-43, an indicator of the long road ahead for republicans.

and today the senate will consider a separate bill to repeal obamacare with a two-year expiration date. that would give lawmakers time to come up with a replacement, but it's an idea that several republicans have already said they would not support. diane and kendis. >> an uphill battle, indeed for republicans on capitol hill. emily rau, thank you. attorney general jeff sessions is reportedly not stepping down despite a barrage of attacks from president trump. >> sources say sessions has not spoken to the president in several days but has no plans to resign. the president says he is disappointed in sessions for recusing himself from the russia investigation this past spring, and he tweeted that sessions had taken a weak position on what he called hillary clinton's crimes. but the president is refusing to say if he plans to fire the attorney general. >> he should not have recused himself almost immediately after he took office, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me prior to

taking office, and i would have quite simply picked somebody else. >> that said, they have a big history. sessions was the first senator to endorse candidate trump. republicans are coming to his defense, though, including fellow senator lindsey graham, who called the president's tweet highly inappropriate. and president trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort will not testify publicly today before the senate judiciary committee. he had been called by that committee to answer questions about a meeting with russians in trump tower last june. instead, manafort and donald trump jr. have agreed to hand over documents and provide testimony in private at a later date. manafort met behind closed doors on tuesday with staff from a different senate committee. the house has overwhelmingly approved a package of sanctions against russia and limits the president's ability to suspend those sanctions. it's unclear if the senate will act on the measure before its august recess. trump administration officials initially said the president

would sign the bill, but they've since backed away from that. we learned north korea's nuclear capabilities may be more advanced than once thought. pentagon analysts tell "the washington post" the country may have a missile capable of bringing a nuclear warhead to the u.s. as soon as next year. the defense intelligence agency says north korea is making surprising progress in its intercontinental ballistic missile program. a u.s. warship fired warning shots at an iranian boat in the persian gulf. you hear it there. the navy says the "uss thunderbolt" was operating in international waters when the iranian vessel started getting dangerously close. the americans tried to warn them off with radio calls, flares and the ship's whistle before firing finally those shots. now for a look at your weather. many roads in las vegas looked more like rivers during afternoon thunderstorms. the rain was brief but very heavy and quickly overwhelmed drainage systems. even the signs put out to warn

drivers were no match for the flash flooding. they got washed away. thunderstorms are also in today's forecast. the temperature will reach the mid-90s today in las vegas. the highs in the 80s along the coast, hotter inland and the southern plains, upper 90s. another cooler day, though in the midwest and northeast. well, still ahead right here, the country with a plan to ban all gas and diesel cars. and an alarming new study showing evidence of brain disease in nearly all former nfl players. plus, trapped in the woods for days. how a woman survived and the hut that she made out of wood.

a georgia couple plans to sue a day camp after their 5-year-old son drowned during what they call insane negligence. now police say benjamin hosch died friday during an outing near a waterfall. the kids were eating lunch and splashing in the water when a chaperone noticed benjamin was missing. he was later found a short distance away. >> my wife called me, said your boy is face down. >> their negligence killed my son. they robbed us of his life, of his potential. >> that emotional press conference there from the family. camp cricket, by the way, which is outside atlanta was operating without a license. it has since been shut down. the family attorney says benjamin wasn't wearing a life jacket and did not know how to swim. more than a thousand people turned out to say good-bye after a flood killed ten members of an

arizona family. after the funeral service you can see the ten white hearses pulling away from the church for the procession to the cemetery. three generations, grandmother, aunts, uncles, children and grandchildren were all washed away in that flash flood earlier this month in the tonto national forest. >> it's quite an image there seeing all of those hearses there pulling away. a whole entire family. a court appearance this morning for the third highest vatican official. he's facing sex abuse charges in his native australia. cardinal george pell is the pope's top financial adviser. he's charged with sexually abusing multiple people years ago. pell has not entered a plea but his attorney told the court in melbourne today that pell plans to plead not guilty at a future court date. president trump says apple will build three big factories here in the u.s., however, in the interview with "the wall street journal," he didn't say where or when those plants would be built. apple hasn't commented. the company only owns one factory in ireland and outsources the rest of its manufacturing mostly to china,

something president trump often criticized during the campaign. and britain is about to ban all new internal combustion vehicles from its roads. the move is intended to tackle air pollution and would take effect in 2040. it does not require existing gas and diesel-powered cars to be taken off the road or be charged any extra for driving into cities. there's already a trend in europe, though, toward electric vehicles. and the girl scouts are now working to increase the number of girls interested in technology. the organization has added nearly two dozen new badges related to science, tech, engineering and math. those badges can be earned through activities like programming robots and writing computer codes. they will be available to members over the next two years at least. when we come back, the family of a young american woman who mysteriously died at a mexican resort is sharing their tragic story in an abc news exclusive. plus, caught on camera, the dramatic takedown of a man with a knife. how that plays out.

one laugh, and hello so i tried always discreet. i didn't think protection this thin could work. but the super absorbent core turns liquid to gel.

snap! so it's out of sight... ...and out of mind. always discreet. for bladder leaks. an investigation is under way in northern california after six adults and three children were left stranded on this monorail. the train at the gilroy gardens theme park was stuck for about 90 minutes. everyone is okay, but officials still aren't sure why the ride broke down. >> seems like we have one of these stories every day nowadays. drivers in much of the west may wish they were above ground because of flooded roads there. roads will also be wet in the upper midwest and in most of the southeast. and a new report from boston university showing a strong link between football and brain injuries. >> yeah, researchers studied the brains of more than 200 deceased football players from high school level to the nfl. 87% of them showed evidence of cte, and of the 111 former pros who were examined, 110 of them also showing evidence of the degenerative disease.

that's 99%. >> they're much higher than it would be expected if we did all the nfl players, but they do say this disease is more common than we anticipated. it's common. >> an nfl statement says the league is committed to continuing its work with a wide range of experts to improve the health of current and former players. a wisconsin family is suing a mexican resort after the death of their 20-year-old daughter. abbey conner was discovered face down in a swimming pool in playa del carmen, mexico. her brother blacked out in the pool but survived. both had blood alcohol levels above 0.2. the conners and other families believe mexican resorts are serving tourists tainted alcohol. >> the bartender pours out a line of shots, and they come all the way down, and i take one and, you know, everyone else does, and the last thing i remember was just like we are right now sitting here talking

and lights went out, and i woke up in the ambulance. >> now, mexican officials say they've seized more than 1 million gallons of tainted alcohol from businesses in the past seven years. mexico's health ministry tells abc news there are no records of tainted alcohol at the resort where conner died. spanish police found a creative way to subdue an upset man at a border crossing without any injuries. now, he was armed with a large knife and started allegedly yelling "god is great" in arabic at the border with morocco, so police surrounded him, and then one of them found a weapon of his own, a plastic barrier. you can see he throws it at the man and they manage to arrest him. he's believed to be a moroccan citizen. for the first time we're hearing from a woman who survived nearly a week alone in the wilderness of washington state. jean geer went to olympic national park to scatter the ashes of her late husband.

she says while out there, she became disoriented and got lost. jean and her dog kept her warm -- kept each other warm first night in the woods but two days into her ordeal she built a shelter out of branches and moss. she ate pine needles, berries and an ant that was biting her while she was out there. >> take that, ant. >> i go, wait a second. i have a bigger mouth than you so i'll eat you, so i ate it. i go, what, that was a strange thought, jean. and i did eat it, though. >> i love her. >> interesting spirit there. jean drank stream water a couple of times of day. she was rescued by helicopter crews six days after getting lost. all right, time for sports now. >> let's turn to espn. good morning, it's "sportscenter" from los angeles. stan verrett, neil everett, baseball. >> yeah. >> you're hitting leadoff. >> yeah, if you're watching this, tweet stan. we're trying to gauge how popular the segment is. cleveland hosting the angels.

ben revere, top ten, and that's old zimmer who hit a grand slam earlier in the game. and the indians hadn't had two grand slams in a game since 1999. well, they got a walkoff grand slam from edwin encarnacion in the bottom of the 11th. two grand slams, cleveland, walkoff, 11-7. cardinals taking on the rockies. harrison bader making his major league debut, his mom and dad were there. where else would they be? bottom nine, bader up with nobody out, that will be good for a double. his first major league hit. puts him in scoring position. two later, jedd gyorko up. fly ball, carlos gonzalez is going to squeeze it, and he's coming home. so is bader. bader is in there. he scores, cardinals win it, 3-2, a game he'll never forget. well, up next in "the pulse," an nfl player cut from his team after allegations of shoplifting but police say it was all a mistake so what's the team doing now?

and there's no crying in baseball, right? well, a dad's missed opportunity got a different reaction from his son. that's why new downy protect and refresh conditions fibers to... how your clothes smell can say a lot abut you. ...lock out odors. new downy protect and refresh.

new charmin ultra soft! ♪ it's softer than ever. new charmin ultra soft is twice as absorbent so you can use less. and it's softer than ever... so it's harder to resist. okay, this is getting a little weird. we all go, why not enjoy the go with charmin? outer layer of your tooth surface. enamel is the white, the more that we can strengthen and re-harden that tooth surface, the whiter their patients' teeth are going to be. dentists are going to really want to recommend the new pronamel strong and bright. it's going to give their patients whiter teeth.

♪ ♪ time for "the pulse" starting with the strange story of former dallas cowboys receiver lucky whitehead. >> his name, lucky. he wasn't so lucky. he was released on monday after reports that he was arrested for stealing items from a convenience store in virginia last month. but whitehead's agent claims that he wasn't in virginia at the time of the robbery, and police now say the man they arrested falsely used whitehead's identity, even providing his date of birth, his social security number. the cops in virginia are now seeking the real suspect's true identity. >> but the cowboys are standing by their decision saying an accumulation of events led to

whitehead's release. now we're off to the ballpark for one father's valiant effort to catch a foul ball. >> he certainly did try. check out dad. he drops his drink and then, oh, still misses the ball. this is at a texas rangers game. he can't make the catch. you see it bounce away. >> that's not the worst part. this is. his son's disappointment is obvious. the kid is not happy about missing out on the ball and, yep, his face tells it all. at least they watched the rangers beat the marlins. >> yeah. >> consolation. >> i don't know if he was too happy about that anyway. and a baby who made a dramatic entrance into the world just celebrated her first birthday with the man who helped make that happen. >> this is probably one of my favorite stories of the day, the last 24 hours. so here you have little evelyn hall of texas who had a tea party with the police officer who delivered her in a gas station parking lot. now, apparently evelyn's parents

were racing to the hospital but couldn't make it in time, and that's when the officer, mark diebold, stepped in. >> the two have bonded over the last year, as you can see and in this case they celebrated evelyn's birthday with a teacup and had a great time clinging cups. >> quite a memory. she won't remember that party but i'm sure she'll have plenty of stories about it later. >> he looks very comfortable at the table. something tells me he's done it before. >> more news after this. introducing listerine® zero alcohol™. it delivers a whole mouth clean with a less intense taste. so it has the bad breath germ-killing power of this... [rock music] with the lighter feel... of this. [classical music] for a whole mouth clean with a less intense taste... ahhh. try listerine® zero alcohol™. also try listerine® poketpaks for fresh breath on the go.

atmore than one flavor, oruch texture, or color.ing. a good clean salad is so much more than green. and with panera catering, more for your event. panera. food as it should be. tand, our adulte children are here. so, we save by using tide. which means we use less. three generations of clothes cleaned in one wash. those are moms. anybody seen my pants? nothing cleans better. put those on dad! it's got to be tide. buried just under the surface, the answer to it all. ♪ we want to need each other. ♪

my challenge is to be in sync with my body, myself, my life. it all starts with a healthy routine. begin the activia two week probiotic challenge by enjoying activia yogurt with billions of probiotics everyday. take the activia probiotic challenge! by enjoying activia yogurt with billions of probiotics everyday. we carry flowers that signifyn why we want to end the disease. and we walk so that one day, there will be a white flower for alzheimer's first survivor. join the fight at alz.org/walk. you'dreamt about it, it, maybe you should just go ahead and do it. we're legalzoom, and we've helped over a million people just like you start their own businesses. legalzoom. legal help is here.

it's wednesday, july 26th. thanks for being here. >> natasha is off. the rest of us are here. let's get things started with mike. >> a cloudy start this morning. let's look at live doppler 7. haven't heard any reports of drizzle. don't see rain. let's talk about the kurment temperatures. right now, most of us are in the mid 50s to 60s. novato, 55. 61 in hayward and los gatos. we'll look at your 12-hour day planner. here's alexis. >> we're starting off quiet right now, but we had a pretty nasty crash overnight. let's get to video from the scene. this is northbound 101 near great america parkway in santa clara. two separate crashes right in the same area. you're seeing the flipped suv. it started with a white mercedes

that rear ended a tanker truck and the mercedes was trying to avoid the initial crash. thirty-two peop three people transported to the hospital. that tanker truck did stay structurally sound. we're not seeing any reports of fuel spill or anything like that. all of these laen lanes opened up about 40 minutes ago. you should be able to get through northbound 101 near great america parkway with no major issues. of course, overnight road projects still wrapping up. we'll look at those in just a few. happening today, senate republicans will hold another vote to try to repeal obamacare, but experts predict the outcome could be the same. >> republicans really hope for a boost from the return of cancer stricken arizona senator john mccain. unfortunately for the gop, their most comprehensive plan to date fell far short of the numbers needed to pass last night. they only mustered 47 votes and they needed 60.

today, there's another vote schedul scheduled. this time, a different plan, it would repeal parts of obamacare now and replace it later. >> also happening today, the latest suspect arrested in the beating death of an 88-year-old san jose woman is expected to be arraigned. this is the mugshot of 19-year-old johnny brown. santa clara county sheriff's deputies captured him yesterday. 88-year-old flo douglas died about a month after last september's attack. friends lovingly called her ms. flo. they believe brown and zachary broke into her home, beat douglas, and robbed the longtime church volunteer. two other people are accused of trying to cover up the crime. >> the metropolitan transportation commission scheduled to discuss a proposal to increase most bay yara bridge tolls by $3. that would effect the seven state-owned bridges in the bay area, including the bay bridge. it would fund more than $4

billion in regional transportation projects. state lawmakers would also need to approve the measure and the governor would have to sign off. there's a lot before it would go before voters next year. >> quick action by san jose firefighters is being credited with stopping a destructive grass fire from getting out of control. it burned at least one building off query road near almaden lake park last night. videos show the flames which charred three acres. no word yet on a cause. >> it's now 4:30. if you're just joining us, let's get a quick update on weather and traffic. >> we'll start with the 12-hour day planner. what you're going to see are temperatures add 7:00 that are around the mid to upper 50. through 8:00, notice the gray. those are the morning marine layer clouds. they're back to the coast and going to be stubborn. 65 at san francisco. you can see upper 60s to low 70s around the bay. and 80s starting to show up in the inland east bay