making news in america this morning a quote from president trump's attorney going viral overnight. >> truth isn't truth. it's somebody's version of the truth. not the truth. >> what rudy giuliani meant when he said truth isn't truth. breaking overnight the possible charges that could be filed against the president's former attorney michael cohen. a city on edge this morning. people in nashville told not to walk outside alone after a string of deadly and apparently random attacks. the surveillance image that could be crucial to the case. one of the first women to accuse harvey weinstein of assault allegedly paid off her own accuser. the new allegations surfacing

against asia argento and anthony bourdain's reported role in the settlement process. also this morning the dramatic video strangers rush to the rescue as two people and a dog are trapped in a sinking truck. plus hollywood history could be your very own. the iconic sports car driven by james bond being reproduced for the public. >> french fry freak out. the restaurant sparking outrage after tweaking its recipe. just how big this controversy has become. we've made it to monday. good morning, everyone. i'm kendis gibson. i'm linda lopez in for diane macedo. we begin with the new fire storm surrounding the russia investigation and a new comment from president trump's attorney rudy giuliani. >> explaining why it's dangerous for the president to be interviewed by the special counsel. giuliani said truth isn't truth. arlette saenz has more on that

and where the investigation goes from here. good morning, arlette. good morning, kendis and linda. president trump spent the weekend fuming on twitter. over a new report about the white house counsel's cooperation with the russia investigation. sources tell abc news don mcgahn has met with robert mueller's team at least three times and has been questioned more extensively than any other member of the white house. >> reporter: president trump back at the white house rushing off questions about the white house counsel's role in the russia investigation. >> reporter: mr. president do you still trust don mcgahn. >> reporter: this comes after "new york times" report confirmed by abc that don mcgahn cooperated extensively with the special counsel. the president tweeted the failing "new york times" wrote a fake piece implying that because white house counsel don mcgahn was giving hours of testimony to the special counsel he must be a john dean type rat. i allowed him and all others to testify. i didn't have to.

i have nothing to hide. john dean nixon's white house counsel became a witness in the watergate scandal with a tweet of his own. i doubt you have any idea what mcgahn has told mueller. nixon knew i was meeting with prosecutors because i told him. however, he didn't think i would tell them the truth. at the same time -- >> i'm not going to be rushed to having him testify so he gets trapped into perjury. >> reporter: the president's lead attorney offered a new explanation for why he's advising the president against an interview. >> when you tell me he should testify because he's going to tell the truth and he shouldn't worry, that's so silly. it's somebody's version of the truth. >> truth is truth. >> no it isn't truth. truth isn't truth. >> sources tell abc among the topics robert mueller wanted to speak with don mcgahn about were the circumstances surrounding the firing of former fbi director james comey.

kendis and linda. >> arlette saenz, thanks so much. meanwhile the president's former attorney could be charged with bank and tax fraud. "new york times" reports michael cohen is being investigated for more than $20 million in loans obtained by his taxi businesses. he's also being investigated for payments during the presidential campaign to women claiming they had affairs with trump. the stark warning this morning from nashville police to its residents not to go outside alone. this after a string of deadly shootings in the city all within a ten-mile radius. police are pleading with anyone with information to come forward. >> reporter: the massive manhunt in nashville intensifying this morning. police search for two men driving this black chevy sedan being called cold-blooded killers. investigators say the men are behind a recent string of random robberies and shootings on the east side of the city. >> i've been in nashville all my life. i've never got up to two people shot, one person dead. three people shot.

>> reporter: authorities say the pair ambushed a group of friends outside a bar friday night. demanding money before gunning down 33-year-old bartley teal and 30-year-old jamie san antonio. >> he just had this soul about him. he was always happy. >> reporter: his band mates called him brandon was killed celebrating his birthday. >> it's not just brandon and jamie. it's the people before them. if this is all connected, there's victims before this. there doesn't need to be another one. >> no. senseless. >> reporter: their murders stoking fear after two other violent attacks. august 8th a woman shot in the back and paralyzed while walking her dogs. her husband a crew member for the band one republic said she's staying anonymous out of fear. on august 14th, 31-year-old kendall rice was robbed and fatally shot while waiting for the bus to go to work.

>> we just pray these men -- if you call them that, i would like to call them cowards. we just pray they're brought to justice. >> important surveillance camera photo there. police say they believe the suspects are still in the nashville area. we're expecting to learn more about a colorado man who allegedly confessed to killing his pregnant wife and young daughters and hiding their bodies in the oil field where he worked. prosecutors must file charges against chris watts today. a motion filed by his attorney indicates the girls may have been strangled. there's been no word on a motive. a friend of his wife shanann tells abc news that the couple's marriage may have been strained and that shanann may have suspected him of cheating. "the wall street journal" says andrew bronson's release

was offered for billions of dollars in fines being lifted against turkey's largest bank. the trump administration recently announced economic sanctions against turkey because of bronson's case. to a dramatic rescue in long beach, california good samaritans coming to the aid of two people and their dog in a sinking truck. witnesses say the vehicle crashed through the railing and tumbled into the water. several people jumped in to help the mother and son. everyone made it out safely without injury, including the dog. >> good to know. time for a look at your weather for this monday morning. >> heavy rains overnight brought flash flood warnings to raleigh, north carolina where at least three inches have fallen. water rescues are reported there and also parts of arkansas. in the meantime tornados spotted in the southwest sunday. storm chasers capturing this funnel cloud damaging barns in northeast oklahoma. in new england a man was killed and a woman in critical

condition after being caught in a rip current at a new hampshire beach. calmer weather for that region today. coming up, are commercials coming to netflix? the company explains a recent change. the miracle rescue of a woman who spent ten hours stranded at sea after falling off a cruise ship. later the story of the so-called fat cat up for adoption who stands at attention for food. the overwhelming response this

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now been displaced. more than 350 have died. video posted to social media showed the power of the flood waters wiping out this bridge. relief teams rescued about 22,000 people on sunday alone. >> it is the monsoon season in india. the lawyer for an undocumented immigrant arrested while rushing his pregnant wife to the hospital thinks officials got the wrong man. he was captured while driving to a hospital in southern california. agents say he's wanted for murder in mexico. get this, mexican authorities say they have no information on him. his lawyer believes it's a case of mistaken identity. his client though still faces did he poor they -- deportation. police in sacramento doing that, ramming a teenager on this bicycle. police stopped this 16-year-old because he didn't have a light on his bicycle. he ran away during questioning. a second patrol vehicle hit the

teen. he was treated for nonlife threatening injuries and cited for resisting arrest. authorities say the officer lost control of the suv because of speed. a michigan man has been convicted of sexually assaulting a sleeping woman on a spirit airlines flight. the victim was in a window seat. the 35-year-old man was sitting next to her. the man's wife was in the aisle seat. fbi's investigation into midair sexual assaults have increased by more than 60% in recent years. netflix customers concerned about cher dash commercials interrupting their shows shouldn't be. that's what netflix is saying this morning after viewers complained about promotions popping up between shows. netflix said they're only testing the ads. they're only for netflix programs and not for commercial content. "crazy rich asians" made some crazy money to lead the way at the box office. it earned more than $25 million over the weekend on its way to a $34 million opening week. at the bottom of the list kevin

spacey's new movie "billionaire boys club" earning just $287. in eight theaters, that's an average of about $36 per theater. a legendary car from the james bond movies is being reproduced. you can buy your own version of the aston martin that sean connery first drove in "gold finger." the 25 cars being built will in claud the same rotating license plates and other gadgets seen in the movie. the car is expected to sell for $3.5 million. >> that car is cool. >> it is cool. but $3.5 million? coming up, a story breaking overnight an actress and leading voice in the me too movement accused herself of sexual assault. first we hear from the father and son seen here racing to escape this wild fire as flames engulfed them. saved the lives. the wild crash on this racetrack, new details on the driver's condition.

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spots will go into the 70s and 80s away from the coast. see how we're doing on the roads. >> good morning, drew. we are really quiet so far this morning. here's a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. starting to stack up in the cash lanes. no metering lights yet. we should have under an hour to go before they turn those on and things back into the maze. drive times light too with one exception, we are in the yellow tracy into dublin, 37 minutes for you, southbound 680 dublin to mission boulevard in the green at 15, northbound 101 to cupertino in the green at 16 minutes. >> a side show shut down the westbound lanes of the bay bridge and created miles of traffic into san francisco but one man didn't get away. >> abc 7 news reporter kate larson has more on the arrest and what appears to be an increasingly noisy problem for people living near the bay bridge. >> reporter: engines revving and tires screeching, three cars

shut down traffic on the bay bridge when instead of continuing west into san francisco, they decided to drive in circles across all five lanes at 10:45 sunday morning. >> responded, by the time we got there most of the vehicles had fled the scene. >> reporter: officer williams says the driver of the white mustang convertible crashed or broke an axle doing doughnuts so without a working car the chp arrested him for reckless driving. >> had several good videos taken by bystanders that were able to help us with documenting what happened and it will help us with filing charges. >> reporter: an hour after the bay bridge side show a san francisco woman shot this video of cars burning rubber in the pier 30 parking lot south of the bay bridge. >> what the heck. all these cars going up the embarcadero at excessive speed. it was chaos out here. this is worse than mary and dave nearby and witnessed the car show in the parking lot. the couple frequently calls sfpd

about the car shows they say normally happen late at night and have become a noisy nuisance the past several years. >> they'll be back once or twice a week for sure and the police do come by and then they leave. >> they need to fix this problem. please. we need to sleep. >> reporter: far from fixed while we were shooting video of the parking lot, a group showed up to do this. police were not far behind. kate larson, abc 7 news. now to developing news on the mendocino complex fires. cal fire issued new mandatory evacuations last night. this is the area north of the glenn colouisa county line, east of the mendocino national forest boundary, south of 308 and west of county road 306. the ranch fire which is part of the mendocino complex is 76% contained. it is the largest wildfire