making news in america this morning, a new bombshell report stemming from donald trump jr.'s meeting with russian officials. did president trump personally dictate his son's statement on the meeting which turned out to be misleading? plus new reaction after the white house communications director director was fired. live in washington. a possible security breach at the country's largest navy base. investigators involved in an hour's long search for a scuba diver? what did they find? venezuela's opposition leader is taken from his home in the middle of the night. his wife releasing the surveillance video just moments ago. and chris christie is telling his side of the story after getting in the face of a baseball fan. hear what the governor says set him

a good tuesday morning. we begin with the shake-up at the white house. the communications director forced out just days after taking the job. >> anthony scaramucci was reportedly escorted from the white house grounds. his 11-day tenure coming to an abrupt end as general john kelly is sworn in as chief of staff. >> scaramucci is the fifth senior aide to resign in just six months into the trump presidency. three of them including press secretary sean spicer and chief of staff reince priebus stepped down in just the last week and a half. >> the president tweeting a great day at the white house. abc's kenneth moton is following the developments including the president's role in crafting that russia meeting statement. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. yes, the mooch is out after he rubbed a number of white house staffers the wrong way. it appears that this was all the doing of the president's new chief of staff who wanted a clean slate day one.

west wing chaos. the trump white house now dealing with the ousting of communications director anthony scaramucci. >> i love the president. >> reporter: the wealthy wall street financier lasting 11 days and they were rocky. day one, bad blood between scaramucci and now ex-chief of staff reince priebus and the profanity laced tirade to a reporter calling priebus paranoid successphrenic. >> he felt his comments were inappropriate. >> reporter: president trump hoping to turn the page with this new chief of staff, former homeland security secretary john kelly. >> i predict that general kelly will go down in terms of the position of chief of staff, one of the great ever. >> reporter: his next crisis may be a new revelation about don junior's meeting. first reported by "the washington post" confirmed by abc news, sources say president

trump personally dictated a misleading statement his son gave in response to the meeting. something the trump team denied last month. >> the president didn't sign off on anything. he was coming back from the g20. >> reporter: don junior's original statement said the meeting was not a campaign issue at the time. we now know the president's son took the sit-down because he thought he would receive damaging information about hillary clinton. the post also reports some advisers are worried that president trump's actions could put him in legal jeopardy and trouble. don junior's attorney had no comment about this new report but the president's legal team says it's misinformed and not true. >> one person who maybe is relieved because he's now no longer in the hot seat is jeff sessions. now we're now learning that democrats are trying to save his job. what's going on there? >> reporter: so washington. he recused himself from anything involving russia but democrats are worried president trump will use his executive pow story replace the ag with no senate

confirmation by making an appointment during the august recess so senate democratic leaders say they'll pull whatever procedural trick in the book to make sure it doesn't happen. >> there's been all this talk about sessions going to dhs. see how that plays out. the white house is defending the president's recent comments to an audience of police officers in new york. the president told those officers they shouldn't be too nice when arresting suspects. critics say the president is encouraging police brutality. but his press secretary suggested the remarks should not have been taken seriously. >> was the president joking when he say this or did he check his remarks out with the international association of police chiefs or maybe the attorney general? >> i believe he was making a joke at the time. >> well, police chiefs across the country condemned the president's comments. they say he's sending the wrong message as they try to improve relations with the communities they serve. in virginia reports of a security breach at the largest

naval base led to a search. authorities thought a scuba diver made it past a barrier at the naval station in norfolk, virginia. 13 piers were closed during the search involving boats and helicopters. after 12 hours no one has been found. the base is home to the most advanced aircraft carrier. breaking news out of venezuela. the wife of the opposition leader says her husband has been taken from their home by force coming just days after lopez spoke with vice president pence about political unrest in his country and one day after a divisive vote that handed the country's socialist president almost unlimited powers. lopez was on house arrest convicted of leading anti-government protests three years ago that led to the deaths of 43 people. back here at home tracking what's left of tropical storm emily, now a tropical depression. it is dumping rain across south

florida as it towards and into the atlantic. all tropical storm warnings across the state have expired and most of the flood watches have been dropped as well about 31 counties are still under a state of emergency and total of 8 inches of rain are still possible in some locations by the time the storm is through. now here's a look at the rest of today's forecast. >> good morning, emily downgraded to a tropical depression overnight, will strengthen to a tropical storm as soon as she clears florida bringing rain and thunderstorms across portions of miami. keep in mind as thee tracks toward the north expecting her to pass myrtle beach by 2:00 a.m. wednesday, cape hatteras 2:00 p.m. wednesday and moving out to sea and towards bermuda at 2:00 p.m. on thursday. i'm accuweather meteorologist paul williams with your forecast.

the olympic dilemma involving los angeles and paris is finally solved. >> los angeles will host the games in 2028 and leave the olympic games for paris. both wanted the earlier games. the international olympic committee left it up to the two sides to figure it out on their own. the 2028 games will be the third in los angeles. it also hosted the 1932 and 1984 games. >> like parents dealing with bickering children. you figure it out. the airline crew credited with averting disaster. the search under way after a couple disappeared while hiking. we have the latest clues and how the weather is slowing the search. >> this wasn't the case of bumper cars but looked like it in l.a. cars lamb slamming into one another. the road rage caught on camera.

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a california man is now facing multiple charges after this bizarre incident at a busy los angeles intersection. watch as the driver plows into the car in front of him, hitting that car repeatedly and then speeds off but police say he wasn't finished. in total he hit five parked cars before police finally caught up with him. a new york jury resumes deliberations in the fraud trial for former form suit cal executive today. martin shkreli is best known for boosting the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000%. now he's on trial for his conduct as a hedge fund manager. federal prosecutors say he looted his drug company to pay back investors in the failed hedge fund that he ran.

his attorneys say it's not true. also in the new york area a united airlines flight encountered a close call with a drone, all of this playing out over newark international airport. the plane carrying 249 passengers was arriving from switzerland and at one point that drone was more than 1,000 feet in the air. the plane landed safely. the faa and new jersey state police are investigating that incident. a quick thinking cabin crew managed to avert what could have been a major in-flight incident after a cell phone battery burst into flames on a flight. abc's adrienne bankert with how it all played out. >> reporter: investigators sorting through how a lithium battery pack or a mobile phone caught fight inside an overhead bin on a packed international flight. the crew noticing smoke shortly after meal service on board a sri lankan airlines jet extinguishing the fire. >> there's no single safety standard, manufacturing the standard for lithium ion

batteries. they can be made anywhere by anyone and never know what you get. the cheap they are, the less well built they are and the higher the risk for fire. >> reporter: the faa reported at least 18 incidents involving lithi lithium ion batteries on airplanes or in airports. the faa recently conducting new tests on lithium-ion batteries which can smoke and explode like this. adrienne bankert, abc news, new york. and hbo is now facing a major cyberattack that could have repercussions for fans of "game of thrones." hackers bragged about stealing some programming material including some scripts for episodes that have not aired yet. those hackers are now threatening to release some of those episodes. >> so the ultimate in spoiler alerts right there. all right. >> correct. when we come back, a smashed nose and a windshield that you can barely see through. how a pilot landed a plane that looked like this. plus, christie's side of the story.

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alabama. now we're learning details on how they got out. >> some in jail on attempted murder charges managed to get out of the jail near birmingham by using peanut butter and covered the number over a door with that peanut butter drinking a guard into thinking it was a cell and opening it. the door led to the outside. >> that might sound crazy. but these people are crazy like a fox. i'm not going to make any excuses. it was a human error. that caused this to happen. >> 24-year-old bradley kilpatrick is the inmate that is still on the loose. multiple law enforcement agencies are searching for him in jail on drug charges. 11 of the escapees were recaptured monday. a massive search is under way for a young couple who vanished in southern california in triple-digit heat. rachel nguyen and her boyfriend joseph orbeso have not been seen since friday. their car found near a trail at joshua tree national park. their belongings were left at an airbnb. the heat there is so intense,

some volunteers to be air-lifted out of the park. the ukrainian pilot has been rewarded for an emergency landing in severe hail. the plane had just taken off on a trip to turkey from cyprus thursday when it was hit by egg-sized hail. the stones shattered the jet's windshield and disabled its autopilot. when it finally lands, the 126 people on board burst into applause. the pilot received ukraine's order for courage. >> so does that mean it's not going to make its next flight? probably not. new jersey governor chris christie is speaking out about his latest baseball encounter. as we told you yesterday, he went face-to-face with a fan at a game at milwaukee over the weekend. he says the fan took things just too far. the insults came from both sides with christie eventually yelling in the other man's face. the governor appearing on cnn says he has no regrets. >> public officials are public servants, but they're not meant to be public punching bags. i don't think it's the right of anybody to stand up and swear at you and curse you out. i've gone through this before on the boardwalk and other places

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good morning on this tuesday, august 1st. jessica is off today, the rest of our team to wake you up and get you going. >> all right. we'll kick you off with a look at some fog that's developing this morning. the marine layers's compress and that means europe going to find reduced vis abilities in areas. it's really nailing places like the coast and also up into the north bay more than anywhere else. lowest vis ability about two miles. your temperatures, we're running in the low to upper 50s in most neighborhoods but you see some 60s like down in the south bay and mid to upper 60s in our inland east bay. so you'll notice a difference when you step outside in the is going to spring board us to some hot temperatures and poor air quality. i'll have your 12-hour day planner at 4:30.

alexis. >> a little bit of that fog on the bay bridge on my commute this morning. a quick check of traffic this morning, we're off to a quiet start but we're ramping up as you said out of tracy this morning. we have a collision just part of grant line road. it's off on the shoulder but they're calling for an ambulance to the scene. pretty heavy volume spilling over to 205 as well. a quick check of the walnut creek camera, southbound 680 we do have lanes schedule to be closed between 680 and pleasant hill road. they should have that done by 5:00 but i'll keep an eye on it. thank you. developing news out of san rafael, fire investigators are trying to find the cause at dichly clemttry school. thick clouds of black smoke poured from the roof of one of the buildings yesterday afternoon. firefighters tell abc 7 news hot tar was on the roof and tar paper may have ignited. there are four classrooms in that building.

there are concerns that they'll be ready when school opens later this month. a man taping his room nates having sex and trying to blackmail them is expected to make his first court appearance. he threatened the couple with release of the tapes unless they paid him thousands of dollars. he lived with his wife at an apartment in this complex which they shared with a couple in their 20s. the young couple moved out after two months and started receiving some disturb being e-mails from an unknown address. police used the e-mails to track him down and arrest him. a neighbor plans to talk with her daughter who lives with roommates. >> i wanted to know what happened and what to look out for, yeah. i'm surprised. >> police recovered the video and are now searching through recorded material that they've collected. happening today were a trial date expected to be set in the murder trial of the suspect of killing kate styly. he will be in court at 9 clock this morning. he's accused in the high profile

shooting on pier 14 killing style stlily two years ago. last week they aniensd federal ranger will be called to testify about the gun used in the shooting. the gun was stole frnt ranger's car. it is back to mike nicco. >> here's a look at our exploratorium camera on pier 15. looking back you see some of that fog we talked about. temperature 54 to 63, so definitely warmer that morning. notice the coast, low to mid-60s from noon to 4:00. 72088 around the bay. 99 at 4:00. 60s at the coast, 75 around the bay and 90 inland still at 7:00. and notice the spare the air moniker is back, i'll tell you more about where i expect the poor air quality up next. here's alex sis. so far we're looking pretty good.