making news in america this morning, election meddling. just one day after robert mueller's warning. >> they're doing it as we sit here. >> the new report saying russia has targeted election systems in more than 20 states. plus, republican leader mitch mcconnell blocking a bill that would boost election security. stunning mass arrest. 16 marines taken into custody accused of human smuggling. how they were pulled from formation and could face jail time. blaming vape. doctors sounding the alarm after saying e-cigarettes are to blame for lung damage in several teen patients. >> we don't know the short term or long-term effects. >> that warning coming as a maker of e-cigarettes is grilled on capitol hill. >> you're nothing but a marketer

of a poison and your target is young people. plus, the dramatic rescue. two young girls rescued from a hot car. how were they locked inside? runaway tire rolling down a highway slam thoog a jeep. that jeep's driver talking about the terrifying ordeal. the growing debate getting scary serious, to change halloween's date. ♪ we did the mash good morning, everyone. thanks for joining us as we're wrapping up another busy week in washington. the latest efforts to sound the alarm on foreign election meddling. >> mitch mcconnell blocked two bills aimed at boosting security. the current fbi and the senate intelligence committee had

warnings. >> reporter: good morning. one of the conclusions of the mueller investigation is that russia exteinterfere in theintee election. so far this new legislation isn't getting anywhere. today senate democrats say there needs to be swift action for congress to protect the security of america's elections. >> mueller's testimony should be a wake-up call to every american that the integrity of our elections is at stake. >> reporter: those comments coming a day after special counsel mueller's testimony where he confirmed his investigation found russia interfered in the 2016 election in a sweeping and systemic fashion. >> they're doing it as we sit here and expect to do it during the next campaign. >> reporter: following mueller's t a bipartisan senate report detailed the extent of the interference saying russia gained unauthorized access to the personal data of hundreds of thousands of voters anth

scni ofden ta digitic senators responding seeking passage of multiple bills bolstering security only to be stopped by republican leader mitch mcconnell if it's just a highly partisan bill from the same folks who hyped a conspiracy theory about president trump and russia. >> reporter: senator mcconnell blocked nearly every effort to bring security to elections to the floor including some co-authored by lindsey graham. with congress locked in yet another stalemate president trump is focused on the mueller investigation. >> this was treason. this was high crimes. >> reporter: in regards to election security republican senator chuck grassley said there were similar efforts to interfear in the 2018 election that the u.s. was aware ofment while he couldn't reveal the details of what he learned he did say there was success in stopping those efforts of interference. janai, kenneth.

>> thank you. north korea says its latest test was meant as a solemn warning to south korea about their weapons development and drills upcoming. it shows kim jong-un supervising the launches and say it involved a new type of tactical guide weapon hard to intercept. the heightened tensions come as kim and president trump work on resuming stalled nuclear talks. a series of arrests at camp pendleton is being called a black eye for the marine corps. 16 marines were taken into custody during a battalion formation. they were arrested for, quote, alleged involvement in various illegal activities from human smuggling to drug-related ddz s marines could also be in trouble. >> reporter: it is possible that the marines could face jail time depending on the severity and scope of what is found but having 16 marines arrested at once will likely lead to more investigations and even more of a spotlight on human smuggling.

>> other eight marines being questioned about their alleged involvement in drug offenses. investigators try to deshl how financier jeffrey epstein ended up unresponsive with injuries in his new york city jail cell. epstein is on a suicide watch. the incident is being treated as a possible assault or zhu side attempt. investigators hot ruled out the possibility that epstein paid someone to beat him up. he says he doesn't remember what happened. this all comes just a week after epstein who is awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges was denied bail. police don't know the motive for a man's deadly rampage that lasted more than half a day and by the time it was over, four people were dead. marci gonzalez reports from l.a. >> reporter: a violent crime spree spread across four separate scenes in california setting off a tense 13-hour-long manhunt. >> go ahead and add ems. i got a total of three victims.

>> roger, three victims. >> reporter: the first call to police coming in at 1:50 thursday morning from this apartment building near los angeles where police say 26-year-old gerry zaragoza killed his father and brother and shot his mother. >> don't approach him as he's shown himself to be very dangerous. >> reporter: less than an hour later the lapd say zaragoza killed a female acquaintance and shot her co-worker at this north hollywood gas station and just before 8:00 a.m., police say zaragoza tried to rob a customer at gunpoint a bank atm. at quarter to 1:00 a shooting on a city bus where one was killed. >> he just got up and shot the dude in the chest and everybody just scattered. >> green jacket. blue dodgers hat, he ran eastbound from this location. >> reporter: police finally tracking tracing him and taking him into custody. marci gonzalez, abc news, los angeles. >> our thanks to marci. friends and former classmates came together to

remember ally kostial. they gathered outside the 21-year-old's former high school, a day after the last known video of her was released allegedly by a male classmate. friends hope the tragedy doesn't define her life. >> i want her to be known for not what happened to her but just that she was way more than that. she was the sweetest person and i can't say that enough and that word is an understatement but that she was just our friend and she didn't deserve what happened to her. kostial's wake begins this afternoon. an attorney for the 22-year-old charged in her murder says he will plead not guilty. time now for a look at your weather this friday morning. europe is in the grips of a deadly and record-setting heat wave. it was neverly 110 in paris on thursday. that's the hottest ever for the city of lights. people were encouraged to work from home and cancel or postpone

all unnecessary travel. at least five deaths in france have been blamed on the heat. records were also set in germany and the netherlands. back here at home it is in high 80s in new york and washington. 90 in miami. 80s for chicago to new orleans and 108 in phoenix. coming up, new video of a brazen bank heist where the suspects used fake police cars. also ahead, the altered emblem president trump is speaking in front. a fake presidential seal. how did it get there?

a massive fire destroyed a house overnight in maryland.

three firefighters were hurt at the scene near annapolis. their injuries are said to be minor. no one was in the house when it started. the cause is under investigation. and a big mess to clean up in northern missouri where about 70 train cars derailed. luckily that train was only carrying sand and no one was hurt which is incredible given these images. that train was traveling from wisconsin to ft. worth, texas. the cause is still being investigated. president trump is blasting sweden after assault charges were filed against a$ap rocky. that was over a fight in stockholm captured on video and obtained by tmz. the rapper was arrested more than three weeks ago and a swedish prosecutor says he will remain in custody until trial set to begin tuesday. the president tweeted, sweden has let our african-american community down in the united states. i watched the tapes of a$ap rocky and he was being followed and harassed by troublemakers. treat americans fair, the president said. and the prime minister of sweden

replied in a statement saying, quote, in sweden, everyone is equal before the law. the government is not allowed and will not attempt to influence the legal proceedings which are now ongoing. a brazen gold heist at an airport in brazil. authorities say the thiefsss stole $40 million worth of gold and other precious metals. the suspects were dressed as police officers and armed with weapons. they used cars that looked like patrol vehicles to make their getaway. the cars were later found abandoned in a nearby neighborhood. police are searching for those suspects. so here's a unique world record that was in kenneth's home state, the great state of south carolina. a chef has created a $310 crab cake that guinness is recognizing as the world's most expensive crab cake. it's made with black truffles and is encrusted with platinum. the chef is giving part of the proceeds from the dish to a charity that benefits lo how do you like that kenneth? >> that's happening in famously

hot columbia, south carolina, the midlands. >> you're proud? >> it gets hot down there. expensive crab cakes too. >> clearly. well, coming up, the gaming tournament getting under way with $30 million at stake. also ahead, new concerns about e-cigarettes after doctors in one city treated several teenagers with lung damage and they believe vaping is to blame. what parents should know. a woman accidentally locks two little girls in a hot car. the dramatic rescue next. oh! oh! oh! ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than 7 and maintained it. oh! under 7? (announcer) and you may lose weight. in the same one-year study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. oh! up to 12 pounds? (announcer) a two-year study showed that ozempic® does not increase the risk of major cardiovascular events like heart attack, stroke, or death. oh! no increased risk? (announcer) ozempic® should not be the first medicine

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hospitalized in the past month all with lung damage because of vaping. doctors say the patients experienced shortness of breath, fatigue, weight loss and chest pain. >> they come in not breathing well, having lost weight. >> reporter: an exact cause is unknown. and wisconsin health officials are still gathering information on what connection there may be among these eight cases if any. doctors say it's unclear how long the teenagers' health issues will last. >> we don't have studies that show the long-term effects and that's why we're so concerned because these are teenagers that are facing the rest of their lives and don't know what the potential impact will be. >> reporter: the warning came as the co-founder of juul answered questions on capitol hill. a house committing is investigators whether the company marketed it to kids. >> you don't have for permission. you ask for forgiveness. you're not but a marketer of poison and your target is young people. >> reporter: juul's co-founder says juul was developed for

adult smokers that wanted to quit and never intended for minors. he says the company has taken steps to curb use. >> what we really need to do is look -- work with hopefully this committee, every tobacco researcher analyst possible, everyone we can get our hands on to help us create industrywide practices. >> reporter: the company was also accused of sending mixed messages. two teenagers testified a juul representative came to their school to give an anti-vaping presentation and when their teacher left the room, they say the representative repeatedly claimed that juul was safe to use. >> what impact did those quote/unquote totally safe comments have on your classmate? >> for my classmates already vaping it was a sigh of relief because they were able to vape without any concern. >> in a recent case a federal judge sided with public health

grouped who sued ruling the e-cigarette companies must submit their products for review by next may. an ohio family is expressing gratitude to police for saving two young children. the girls' parents accidentally locked their kids inside with their 2 and 3-year-old daughters inside with the temperature in the vehicle quickly rising. an officer broke the window to rescue the girls. now they've been reunited. >> how are you? >> give him a high-five. can i have a hug? that's okay. >> how are you doing? >> they brought a card for me and they also brought a picture. >> i appreciate him more than can be imagined. he saved my daughters' life and there's no way that i could repay him. >> very nice. both children are okay. see more of the reunion later this morning on "good morning america." a runaway tire created quite a scare on the new jersey roadway. drivers shot video, look at that, of the wheel as it rolled down a highway. moments later watch it jump the median.

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latin. >> a virginia graphic designer said he made it last year but never expected it to make news. we're told the mistake was made by the organizers not the white house. a member of the team grabbed the image from google photos. that person fired. a biological student is talking about the discovery of a lifetime. he made it in north dakota. >> it is really unbelievable. that is where harrison duran found the partial skull of, get this, a triceratops estimated to be 65 million years old. duran says the find is extra special because he's been obsessed since he was a kid. he said he knew what it was immedia immediately. >> i first spotted sort of a crushed up pile of loaded over fractured bone. we could see that in this kind of pile of scattered bone, we saw the base of a horn, horn of a triceratops going in underneath the ground and from that second we knew what it was. >> when i find a dime i have to

look twice before i know what it is. he knew. they named the triceratops alice after the land where it was found. the skull is now in a lab. they're keeping its location secret to prevent it from being stolen. that would be a real big thing to try to steal. >> are you calling that triceratops a dime? you look so good you a dime. a houston couple on the path to marriage after a special trip. >> john was trying to figure out how to propose to his girlfriend and mapped out a 15-mile route that when they looked at the app tracking, you know, tracking their progress, it spelled out marry me. finally a new effort aimed at rescheduling halloween. >> the sweetest of all holidays is on october 31st. >> an online petition aims to change it to the last saturday of october so it always falls on the weekend. it had about 66,000 signatures overnight. according to the organizers, 51% of millennials say halloween is

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making news right now at 4:27, new developments in the controversy over i.c.e. flights out of oakland international airport. the people in charge of airport operations say they didn't know it was going on. a building goes up in flames in oakland. firefighters are still on the scene. eighteen agers admitted to the hospital suffering from lung damage. the one thing they had in common, vaping. good morning. friday, july >> made it to friday. we have frances with us this morning. meteorologist mike nicco bringing us the forecast. >> mild out there. mid 50s to low 60s. some areas about five to six degrees cooler than yesterday. let's see where we end up this afternoon, our mildest afternoon

of the next three. mid to upper 60s half moon bay. fremont and palo alto and the south we hit the 80s, even 92 in morgan hill. east bay valley, still hot there. 80s in the north bay. scorching, almost dangerous weekend on the way. here is frances. starting off with a fog advisory for the golden gate bridge, down to 100 to 200 feet. be careful heading out of the waldo tunnel. that's where the fog gets thick into san francisco. on the other side of the bay this is westbound 80 for headlights moving through emeryville. looks good towards the bay bridge toll plaza, but there is road work scheduled on westbound 80 through richmond. that is slowing traffic down. so we will check out your drive times in the next report. >> thank you, frances. new developments at the oakland airport where we learn i.c.e. was flying tens of thousands of detainees. >> it's something the portd commissioners didn't know. they wonder where the action

violated oakland's sanctuary citi field. abc 7 reporter amy hollyfield live at the airport. good morning, amy. >> reporter: there was outrage at the meeting last night about what was going on. people passionately spoke out at oakland's board of port commissioners meeting. the port commission is in charge of the airport. people wanted to know why the port would allow i.c.e. to fly detainees out of here in a sanctuary city. it happened to about 43,000 people. the port said it did not know it was happening and is investigating. speakers last night said they also want to make sure this doesn't happen again. >> we just want no use of our airport by i.c.e. it's an agency that is right now working on behalf of a government that is making public threats against the immigrant community. >> reporter: i.c.e. released a statement saying i.c.e. made an internal operational decision to discontinue the use of charter flights out of oakland in

october of 2018. the agency does not share specific logistic details pertaining to detainee transfers. the big question is if these flights violated the city's sanctuary policy, the city and the port is investigating. live in oakland, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. let's get a quick update on weather and traffic starting with mike nicco. >> taking a look at the heat advisories around for us. we'll talk more about that, especially in the east bay and the central valley. showing more cloud cover than there was yesterday. the high-level clouds are gone. here is a look from the exploratorium camera. you can see low clouds and fog. 55 to 62 at 7:00. milder at lunch since we're starting cooler today. near 60 at the coast. 73 to 83 bay and inland. a brighter and milder afternoon, 60 at the coast and near 80 to 90 around our bay and inland