test test they had way too much time on their hands. they had way too much time on their hands. that's the way one richmond, virginia area homeowner described the box-headed person in this video.

you see that correctly. they are wearing a television and leaving old-school tube-style tvs on doorsteps. police officers there with like a moving truck. police think it's just a prank. residents say the same thing happened last year. that is bizarre. where are they finding these box tvs and why are they wearing one? questions. an ohio boy may be getting quite a reward from the tooth fairy. >> during a family reunion in eastern ohio, he found a mastodon tooth in a creek. it wasn't buried, just lying there. >> mastodons -- whoa, look at this picture. mastodons were distant ancestors of the elephant that roamed north america during the ice age. if that was a tooth? they became extinct about 10,000 years ago. the boy plans to show off that monster tooth at school. >> wow. >> how bizarre, a monster tooth, my goodness.

>> that's a big one there. turning now to another type of creature with big teeth and the rising shark sightings up and down the east coast, especially around cape cod. >> those sightings are translating into big business for area merchants. here is will reeve. >> dad, come look at it. >> reporter: since june there have been more than 150 shark sightings off the coast of cape cod. including this one friday near provincetown. >> that is unreal. >> we saw some type of fin, probably 15 yards off the bow. >> right before we were ready to jump off we saw the shark. >> shark was pretty much the size of the boat, probably 18 feet. yeah, it's pretty crazy. we were probably floating with it for 15 minutes. >> reporter: 40 times since july massachusetts beaches closed for sharks. with the chaos comes commerce. shark tours. the local shark conservancy center say they've seen a 60% increase in visitors the last three years. one luxury inn in chatham offering 2 1/2 hour trips for $2,500.

captain lundholm with cape star charters say cape cod is the premier place to spot sharks and has been offering more viewing tours than previous years. >> people on my fishing charters are more concerned about seeing that shark than fishing. that's kind of the big idea of why i transitioned into doing shark trips. >> reporter: in town this store sells nearly $50,000 a year of shark-themed attire. they did call it killer casual apparel. >> the shark sightings have been increasing more and more every summer. it's kind of crazy. no one seems to get scared, but i think that's the whole infatuation with the shark sightings. >> reporter: business is booming. >> well, we thought it was going to slow down because of the incidents last year. but actually it has picked up. people are still interested in sharks despite the threat. >> reporter: it's not just in massachusetts. shark-related dives in florida generated more than $221 million in revenue and fueled over 3,700

jobs in 2016 alone. >> oh my god! >> our thanks to will there. coming up, the couple who just adopted a group of seven brothers and sisters. >> and they already had six children of their own. sun care is self care. i used to not love wearing an spf just because i felt like it was so oily and greasy. but with olay regenerist whip spf 25, it's so lightweight. i love it. i'm busy philipps, and i'm fearless to face anything.

♪ we are family i got all my sisters with me ♪ we are hearing about quite an amazing family out of hot springs, arkansas. >> michael and terry hawthorne opened up their hearts to a group of seven brothers and sisters who needed a forever home. here's abc's juju chang. >> hey, girls, get up. rise and shine. >> reporter: it's 6:40 a.m. in rural arkansas. >> it's time to get up for school. want to wear this? >> reporter: and here in this tight makeshift five-bedroom home live enough kids to fill a baseball team. >> we're the hawthornes! >> reporter: these two toddlers and five sisters and their two brothers began living together

as foster children. >> what sprinkles do you want? >> reporter: terry and mike hawthorne took them all in. high school sweethearts married 36 years. they'd already raised four adult biological kids. giving new meaning to the phrase "big, happy family." while the man of the house, 57-year-old mike, earns a living landscaping, it's 57-year-old terry whose full-time job is to care for this extended brood. >> we searched all over the house for that yesterday. >> why did you end up with this gigantic family? >> we started fostering, and we went through about 80 children through the process. we fell in love with them, i knew i wasn't going to be able to let him go. we found out he had a little sister that was born. in order to adopt one -- they try to keep sibling groups together. we thought when we first started fostering them there was only three. then we found out there was five. then a brother, six. it kept going from there. >> how long before you called mom and dad mom and dad? >> second week we were here. >> that's not true, it was like the second day.

>> why was it so easy to call them mom and dad? >> because it felt like an actual mom and dad. they were caring and loveable. >> reporter: it would take this group six months and require the help of their state senator for the hawthornes to make it official to become a forever family. >> so you're the hawthorne 15? >> hawthorne -- yeah. hawthorne 15. >> reporter: micah is terry and mike's youngest biological child, now 21. >> i remember the day so clearly. we came and sat down at our kitchen table, and they were just like, this is a really big commitment and it's a big commitment for our age. it's a big commitment for this many children. it's an even bigger commitment with their behavior issues. >> reporter: while the older children are at school, micah tends to the toddlers. both have extensive developmental delays. >> that's his tummy. >> reporter: and receive therapy several times a week. >> book. >> reporter: even with all the kids occupied, there is no down time for terry.

>> we are headed to the grocery store to pick up groceries for today. when i go shopping i usually have to buy multiple cans of vegetables or fruits or whatever i'm using. tonight we're having peas and it will take at least four cans. >> reporter: the kids took us to one of the group homes where they used to live. >> i was in the back house behind that building. >> reporter: a far cry from where they are now. >> how do you say thank you to somebody who's shown their love to you like that? >> show them respect and love and -- >> show respect for them and you love them. >> have you ever told them thank you? how do you say -- >> normally i say thank you, and mom will be like, for what? i'll be like, just taking care of me. >> what do you say to people who say to you, what, are you crazy? or does no one say that? >> they say it all the time and we laugh and say, yeah. i mean, yeah. we were told we were crazy.

>> reporter: for "nightline" i'm juju chang in hot springs, arkansas. >> wow. special family. i bet those kids will love some "weird science." (patti, it's your turn. and welcome back. (patti) um, now i pick numbers eight and one.

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♪ ♪ wednesday morning means "weird science." and we're going to start with plants. and the fact that we know by talking to them, it keeps them alive with that carbon dioxide. people probably think the plants are talking back to them. and that they're alive. >> right. >> and that they really feel what we're saying to them. >> they do. >> well, a researcher says, no, that's not true. a plant biologist, who's retired, he and his colleagues wrote that the chances of plants feeling happiness or sorrow. pain, making intentional decisions, possessing consciousness is zero. >> i know you shouldn't trust everything you see on the ut i once they had two plants and one they spoke very positive

affirmations to, and the other one they degraded. >> that was just them giving all that hot breath to that one versus -- >> so that's why that plant died, didn't grow as well as the other one? >> right. >> fine, fine, if the scientists say it, it's true. so the scientists are also talking about this karaoke man who they said was sent to the hospital with a collapsed lung. imagine singing your heart out, not singing your heart out, but singing your lung out. a man in china did ten consecutive songs with very high notes, they say. >> probably hit queen or something, "bohemian rhapsody." >> yeah, ten songs, high notes. then suffered chest pain, difficulty breathing, had to go to the hospital. and the doctors say in this morning's "weird science" it was because he had a collapsed lung because of high lung pressure caused by singin those kao bars. >> be careful with the journey.

don't stop believing. also apparently this morning, "weird science," we've got a solution to manspreading. >> all right. >> yes, a british designer says she's created an anti-manspreading chair. >> that looks good to me. >> that forces men to respect other people's personal space by sitting with their legs closed. look at that. now there's much more room for everybody. >> she also created another chair that encourages women to take up more space with their legs while sitting. >> i approve. and then next you're going to tell us about the invention to help with mansplaining? >> i guess so. >> oh, they're still working on it? >> i'd explain that -- >> i guess you're right. that wasn't even the joke i was making, look at that. a baby raccoon, a baby raccoon named vittles. because they have those down in the south. >> he almost became vittles. he's saying, not today. >> no, he's got a new lease on

life with this custom wheelchair. how cute is this for little vittles? little vittles.

this morning on "world news now," tracking a killer. >> authorities in dayton, ohio are laying out a detailed timeline leading up to the brief but deadly shooting rampage, and there's some disagreement over whether the gunman knew who he was firing at. also this morning the violent clashes between protestors and police at hong kong's airport. the u.s. is urging calm from all sides and the tense situation is showing no signs of ending. plus an unwelcome guest. police are asking for help to identify the woman they're calling the wedding crasher, posing as a guest, then stealing the presents. and the guy who wound up taking a solo flight of sorts. we'll tell you why he ended up being the only passenger on that whole airplane. it's wednesday, august 14th.

good wednesday morning, everyone. thank you for joining us. we begin with 32 seconds of terror. authorities say that's how long the gunfire lasted in the dayton massacre. >> investigators are using previously unseen footage to try to figure out what led to the horrific events, but they still don't know why the suspect chose the location or whether his own sister was an intended target. here's abc's eva pilgrim. >> reporter: after a gunman killed nine people in downtown dayton, officials using never before seen surveillance images and videos piecing together the most detailed timeline yet of connor betts' deadly rampage. authorities say connor betts got to the area around 11:00 the night of the shooting. you see in this surveillance video him arriving with his sibling and a friend. the three going to blind bob's bar. then at 12:13, betts leaves his sister and friend at blind bob's and goes to ned peppers across the street.

he's there 30 minutes before going back to his car where cameras capture him changing. he stood behind the bars for nine minutes. then just after 1:00 a.m. he comes around the corner, gun in hand. just after 1:00 a.m., the terror began. >> we believe the shooting started at approximately 1:05:35. we believe it ended at 1:06:07. that's 32 seconds. >> reporter: police quick, responding to the scene in 15 seconds, taking him down in the doorway to ned peppers. the aftermath, more than a dozen taken to the hospital, nine people were killed, including the shooter's own sister. investigators saying betts was in contact with his sister throughout the night, even calling her at one point. as to whether or not he shot her deliberately -- >> some are saying, absolutely not, he was not intentional. some saying, no, it had to be. i would say it's inconclusive. >> reporter: eva pilgrim, abc

news, new york. >> our thanks to eva. the justice department has temporarily reassigned the warden at the federal jail in manhattan where accused sex trafficker jeffrey epstein died by suicide. two guards who were assigned to watch epstein have been placed on administrative leave. the guards reportedly falsified records indicating they checked on epstein every 30 minutes as required but hadn't looked in on him for three hours. sources say epstein used a bedsheet to hang himself. investigators are still at his private caribbean island looking for evidence on possible co-conspirators. flights have resumed at the airport in hong kong after two days of violent clashes but tensions remain high with dozens of pro-democracy protestors camped out. abe's ian pannell has more. >> reporter: one of the world's busiest airports descended into chaos with thousands of anti-government protestors taking over, forcing frustrated passengers caught in the middle

to abandon travel plans for a second day in a row. what began as a protest over a new law about extradition to china, only to eventually grow into a massive pro-democracy campaign against what they see as chinese interference targeting airport officials with laser pointers, hurling plastic bottles, forcing them to retreat at one point. then police in riot gear quickly moving in. at one point one group cornered and beat a single officer who was caught out on his own until he actually drew his weapon, a sidearm, a pistol. the crowd blocking doors with luggage carts until the wall of police surged forward, firing tear gas. protestors detaining a reporter from a chinese state-owned newspaper at one point. he was also beaten. they accused him of being a police spy, tying him to a baggage cart until paramedics could finally reach him and take him away for treatment. beijing has called it terrorism and isn't ruling out sending in the people's liberation army out to the streets of one of the world's largest financial capitals.

president trump refusing to condemn china. now, china hasn't blamed president trump specifically but it has certainly criticized america for backing the protestors. and also joe biden throwing his full support behind them, describing the protestors as brave and saying america should give them its full backing. ian pannel in london. back at home the trump administration is delaying about half the next round of tariffs on chinese goods after pressure from businesses. the tariff on products like smartphones, toys, and clothing now won't go into effect until december. president trump says that delay is to lessen the impact of the tariffs on u.s. christmas shopping and he insists the trade war is only hurting china. the news triggered rallies on the u.s. financial markets. stocks jumped when the delay was first announced and ended the day significantly higher. the dow finished up almost 400 points while the tech-heavy nasdaq gained almost 2%. there are disturbing new details about last week's

russian rocket explosion. radiation levels skyrocketed after the blast sparking an evacuation order. officials say readings are back to normal but it's the latest conflicting story following the mishap involving what u.s. officials say was likely a nuclear-powered cruise missile. here's abc's james longman. >> reporter: days after that suspected nuclear-powered missile explosion off the coast of northern russia that killed seven people, new worry about just how much radiation was released. just hours after the blast, residents trying to take their own measurements. after officials first denied any fallout, russian meteorologists now confirm up to 16 times the normal radiation levels were detected in the area. not deadly, but there's still no independent information on readings closer to the blast. >> it's obviously not on the chernobyl scale, but even if there is no danger, and i hope that there is no danger, it's very worrisome that our government operates with such lack of transparency.

>> reporter: russia insists the air is safe, but more mixed signals. the government ordering an evacuation near the site, then abruptly canceling it. the reluctance to release information reminiscence of russian denials decades ago after the infamous nuclear blast at chernobyl. vladimir putin won't want to talk about what russia considers military secrets, but this does raise big questions about the kind of nuclear capabilities he's trying to develop and the dangers that poses. james longman, abc news, in moscow. opera legend placido domingo is facing cancelations and investigation after being accused of inappropriate behavior by several women. the los angeles opera plans to launch an investigation. the philadelphia orchestra has withdrawn its invitation for domingo to appear next month. nine women told the associated press that they were sexually harassed by the superstar during encounters that took place over three decades starting back in the 1980s. >> when someone comes this close and kind of smiles in a wry

smile and says, "do you have to go home?" i think that was pretty clear. but there were no misconceptions in my mind. he did not touch me, he did not -- he would shake my hand or, you know, hello. but he did not put his hands on me. but i was extremely uncomfortable. >> domingo says in a statement that he believed that, quote, all of my interactions and relationships were always welcomed and consensual. cbs and viacom are reuniting. the two media titans have agreed to merge after more than a decade apart. that puts such well-known brands as mtv, nickelodeon, showtime, and paramount pictures under one roof. the companies are betting they'll be better able to compete in providing streaming services. united airlines is now banning pilots from drinking alcohol at least 12 hours before a flight. that's up from eight hours,

which is required by the faa. the rule change comes after two united pilots were arrested in scotland and charged with suspicion of being under the influence prior to takeoff. the new policy took effect last saturday. a new york city man has no middle seat worries or long lavatory lines on a recent flight in colorado. >> vincent peon's trip last week took hip from aspen to kennedy airport via salt lake city. the first leg had been rescheduled but he apparently was the only one who got the memo. when he walked on board the delta jet, all those empty seats, he was the only passenger. he's a film director, so of course he recorded the trip, finishing with a shot of him right there standing in the jet's doorway. i guess it was essentially a chartered flight. >> it looks that way. since he recorded everything, he recorded himself inside when they called him to board, and they still made the normal announcement and said, will everyone please board at this time? >> yeah. the only passenger on this flight. so i guess they knew it was only him. >> yeah, that's it.

>> not bad. you think he got good service? >> i hope so. >> got all the drinks he could? >> i'm sure he did. coming up, as starbucks and dunkin' roll out the pumpkin spice, get ready for cinnamon coca-cola. first, trying to get your kids to do a digital detox as school starts. plus the dramatic rescue of a 10-month-old girl from inside a locked car. what police officers had to do to get her out of the hot vehicle.

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tragedy at montana's glacier national park. a 14-year-old girl from utah was killed when falling rocks hit the car she was riding in. the family was on vacation and driving on a scenic highway when the rocks came tumbling down from a mountain, shattering their rear window. the girl's parents and two other children were injured. an alligator attack sent a woman in south carolina to the hospital. the 68-year-old was bitten on her wrist and leg monday night

in sun city. the over 9-foot-long gator attacked as she walked her dog near a pond in a retirement community. the alligator was captured and euthanized. another gator more than eight feet long was removed from that same pond. turning now to more frightening moments, this time for a mother in south florida. >> while loading up her car in a store parking lot she accidentally locked her 10-month-old daughter inside with the car running. abc's victor oquendo picks up the story from there. >> reporter: frantic moments for this florida mother caught on police body camera. accidentally locking her baby girl and her keys inside her suv. >> the child's in distress. they need to open it. >> reporter: the officer on scene noticed mattie, 10 months old, laying unresponsive with her eyes closed. the woman started her car using auto start, turning on the air conditioning. but in minutes the car and the air had shut off. she called onstar to open the vehicle but her account expired and they couldn't help. >> her head was to the side, he

was limp, sweaty. i said this isn't working, we have to break a window. >> reporter: the officer tries bashing the window. a bystander comes over with a window punch. the officer using a hammer. breaking through the glass. eventually unlocking the car. the nightmare was over. mattie back in her mother's arms. thankfully this case was just a close call. but so far this year, 32 children have died in hot cars, according to kidsincars.org. victor oquendo, abc news, miami beach. >> our thanks to victor on this story. we've seen a lot of stories but this one, it's a little interesting the way the mom -- the way this happened. she was putting the kid, her daughter, into her car seat after starting the car, trying to get the ac going to cool it down. but she accidentally put the remote starter for the car down on the seat, dropping the keys there, closing the door, then before you knew it, the car is locked with the keys inside. a really simple mistake.

when you've got your hands full trying to put kids in. it turned into a very scary moment. good thing that little girl's all right. >> to reiterate, this was not a case where we've seen in the past where a child was forgotten or left. it was just that incident, an accident that happened. >> yeah. coming up in our next half hour, the legal drama swirling around a popular tv show couple. the stars of "chrisley knows best" have been indicted on tax evasion charges. what prosecutors and the chrisleys are now saying. first the tug of war between parents and kids over screen time. that's next on "world news now."

♪ you can see just home after home. >> thank you. we are back with this heart-stopping example right there of the dangers of texting while driving. watch this again as that driver slams into that utility pole,

bringing it down in berlin, massachusetts. police shared the video saying in a post that the email, text, facebook, snapchat, message can wait. it's not worth your life or the life of another person. that driver amazingly walked away with only minor injuries and was issued a citation. just think about that whenever you're on that phone. >> exactly. meanwhile facebook may have had your audio conversations on its messenger app transcribed. >> sources tell bloomberg news contractors were paid to write out portions of the chats. the workers did not know where the audio came from. facebook says it stopped the practice more than a week ago. like apple and google, it was using the transcriptions to improve its voice recognition software. and speaking of facebook, dialing back the screen time is apparently a growing battle between parents and kids. especially at this time of year. >> it comes as moms and dads try to transition their kids from the freedom of summer to the structure of back to school. here's abc's rebecca jarvis.

>> reporter: it's a battle so prevalent even the head of youtube, ceo susan wojcicki, said she's having it with her kids, too much screen time, telling "the guardian," "i have times when i take away all my kids' phones, especially on a family vacation, because i want people to interact with each other." it comes back to balance. new york mom megan can relate. she says she can't get her kids away from screens and they're weeks away from starting school. >> it does have to be structured very differently during the school year mainly because there's no wiggle room. >> reporter: even though it's been a long summer of video games and smartphones her kids don't want to put the screens away. >> they don't understand when i do say no. so that's when the outrage and the whining comes in. >> reporter: according to the american association of pediatrics, children 2 to 5 years old should only be on screen for one hour a day. while children 6 and older should have limits on what kind

of media they should use to make room for sleep and physical activity. during the school year it's important that children stay focused on their studies. >> it's best not to go in just cold turkey. our job is to take a child's screen time as they have it now and get it down to that quota by the beginning of the school year. >> reporter: rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >> our thanks to rebecca. big challenge when it comes to getting those kids off the screens. pediatricians say it should be somewhat of a partnership as well but also parents just got to be parents as well. >> right, absolutely. setting those limits. even recommending, one suggestion is designating screen-free times. and you know, there are articles out there from interviews with bill gates and the late steve jobs and other tech elites showing that silicon valley parents are strict about technology use. so that should tell you something, if the people even behind a lot of this technology are saying, look, i am limiting how my kids use it.

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♪ ♪ okay, guys. itme for "the mix" on this wednesday morning. and you've heard of wedding crashers, right? vince vaughn. >> great movie. >> right? great, great movie. now it appears police are saying, this is happening in real life. they're calling a woman in comal county, texas a wedding crasher because she's going to weddings near the san antonio area pretending to be a guest, and then she's taking the wedding gifts. >> oh no. >> stealing them. >> that is a no bueno. >> right? getting all dressed up, showing up to your nuptials like she's happy for you, then making a swift getaway, according to police, with the gifts. they're offering a $4,000 reward for information leading to an

arrest. they've got clear pictures. do you know her? >> we'll see. >> the alleged wedding crasher. also, moving on to cinnamon coca-cola. sounds yummy. coca-cola is unleashing the holiday spirit by the six-pack with the launch of the new cinnamon-flavored coke, along with a holiday-themed soda, sprite winter cranberry. they'll stick around until december 31st there. pretty festive. >> i don't know about the cinnamon coke. isn't cinnamon already spicy? plus the coke bubbles? let us know how it tastes. so a chef is sparking a debate about where to hang your dish towels in the kitchen. you know, flop it over the sink? over the counter? over the edge of the stove? not the edge.

so he says, do you fold your dish cloth over your tap or hang your tea towel through your oven handle? we couldn't be friends. i do both. >> actually, they say -- safety experts say you're not supposed to put the towel on the oven handle because -- >> why? >> it can't be on the stove just in case it -- >> something drips down? >> you're cooking, you ignite the towel. >> do you abide by that? >> i think my towel is always just on the counter. >> oh, you just do one towel? >> yeah, just like leave it. i probably should put it all neat somewhere. >> right. >> on the handle. but that's not the case. >> we've got four towels, one over the tap, two over the handle to the kitchen oven, and then one just on the counter. so we can clean up any mess. >> any mess. >> any mess, we're ready, yep. so rock, paper, scissors. tarmac worker versus passenger on a spirit airlines flight. who wins? passing the time. >> i mean, looks fun, but shouldn't that man be unloading

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this morning on "world news now," some troubling developments in the investigation of jeffrey epstein's apparent suicide. allegations of guards trying to falsify records as several jail employees are reassigned. some wild weather including lightning that left its mark on a major airport in the southeast. we'll look ahead at today's forecast including possible dangerous storms in the middle of the country. new this half hour, the real legal battle for a reality tv couple. >> chrisley knows best has been a hit show for seven seasons but now federal prosecutors are leveling allegations against the stars that could land them in prison. and could we be in for a beyonce super bowl halftime show three-peat? could we? why the new partnership deal

between the nfl and jay-z could mean another beyonce super bowl halftime show.ing uphe skny." you want to watch this one longer? it's wednesday, august 14th. you need me, i don't need you. no truer words by jay-z. if you know those lyrics, then apparently you know the nfl was listening too. >> i guess you are right. you know we love any morning that we get to talk about beyonce. >> we sure do. >> the queen. we will get to that later in "the skinny." we do begin this half hour with the justice department taking action after the death of jeffrey epstein, removing the warden and two guards who were supposed to be watching him. >> sources say the guards are suspected of falsifying log entries to make it look like they were checking on epstein as frequently as required. abc's linsey davis has more. >> reporter: the first fallout

from the jeffrey epstein suicide. attorney general william barr ordering the warden to be pulled from the jail and temporarily reassigned. two staff members on epstein's unit placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigations. this comes after sources tell abc news one of the workers was not a designated corrections officer. a law enforcement official says epstein used a bedsheet to hang himself. the fbi and nypd scouring epstein's private island. sources tell us they're looking to find evidence of co-conspirators in epstein's inner circle, including close associate ghislaine maxwell. virginia roberts giuffre says maxwell recruited her to be a teenage sex slave to epstein. >> the training started immediately. how to be quiet, be subservient, give jeffrey what he wants. a lot of this training came from ghislaine herself. >> reporter: maxwell denies the allegations. her whereabouts are unknown. abc news has noticed a lot of

activity on the island, people coming and going. there's been ample opportunity for anyone to remove any damning or incriminating material prior to authorities' arrival on monday. it's been five weeks since he was first arrested and 14 years since any allegations were first made against epstein. linsey davis, abc news, new york. >> our thanks to linsey for that update. officers in california are mourning one of their own this morning killed during a traffic stop in riverside. we told you about this story yesterday morning. highway patrol officer andre moy jr. died monday. he was preparing to impound a pickup truck when police say the driver, who had a violent criminal history dating back to the 1990s, grabbed a shotgun and killed moy. the suspect died in a shootout with responding officers. officials say the 34-year-old moy was a model officer. >> officer moy embodies everything that the california highway patrol stands for, with professionalism, dedication, and

service to the public. andre had a servant's heart and that's why he was a member of this organization. he's the type of guy that everybody liked. his mother last night told me that this was his dream job. and he loved going to work. and it's what he always wanted to do. >> the shooter's wife offered condolences to officer moy's family. she says her husband called her during the traffic stop and that a bullet smashed into her car as she arrived to pick him up. now to the mass shooting investigation in dayton. newly released video is showing the alleged killer's movements leading up to the massacre but the images don't answer a number of questions regarding his motive or intended targets. here is megan tevrizian. >> reporter: after the horror in dayton, officials piecing together a timeline using never before seen surveillance images and video of connor betts' deadly rampage. authorities say the gunman arrived in downtown dayton around 11:00 p.m. the night of

august 3rd. video showing him with his sister and a friend, the three going to blind bob's bar. at 12:13 a.m., betts leaves them at the bar and goes to ned peppers across the street. he's there 30 minutes before going back to his car. in hard to see video, police say these cameras capture him changing. he's seen on video again, this time with body armor on, wearing a heavy backpack, walking down an alley. just after 1:00 a.m., the terror began. >> we believe that the shooting started at approximately 1:05:35. we believe it ended at 1:06:07, 32 seconds. >> reporter: police quick to respond in 15 seconds, taking him down in the doorway of ned peppers. >> i would say that the body armor, because of the way it was worn, was vulnerable. and fortunately we were able to take advantage of that vulnerability. >> reporter: the aftermath, the gunman shot and killed nine people. among the dead, his own sister. investigators revealing betts

was in contact with his sister throughout the night, even calling her at one point. it's still unclear whether or not she was shot deliberately. >> some are saying, absolutely not, he was not intentional. some saying, no, it had to be. i would say it's inconclusive. >> reporter: even with these details, investigators still unclear of a motive. although they say the shooter was obsessed with mass shootings. his friend ethan kollie, charged with two federal counts for lying on a federal gun form, is scheduled to appear in front of a federal judge wednesday afternoon. kenneth, janai? >> our thanks to megan. keeping an eye on the wild weather in much of the country. strong thunderstorms in eastern colorado spawned several tornados. you can see a couple of them near the kansas and nebraska borders including those twin tornados. no damage or injuries are reported. lightning strikes at the jacksonville airport earlier this week were so severe that fueling and baggage handling had to be suspended. the lightning even left marks on the pavement, incredible.

overnight the strongest storms are in kansas and oklahoma. another strong system is moving south through tennessee right now into alabama and georgia. more than 20 states are suing the trump administration over new coal rules. the lawsuit claims the rules violate the clean air act because they do not significantly replace power plants' greenhouse gas emissions. the new rules give more authority to states and allow coal-fired plants to stay open if they adopt newer and more efficient technology. if someone gave me a bmw for my birthday, i'd be grateful. >> well, you should give a lesson to this young man in india whose parents gifted him with a luxury car. that is his new beamer 3 series floating down a river. the 22-year-old apparently wanted a jaguar which cost about $14,000 more. >> so police aren't making any

arrests since no complaints were filed. the son took some video, took some of this video, sent it to his parents. told them, no, that he was not happy. >> and police call that son arrogant. >> police have spoken. interesting. coming up, how apples and tea could be the secret to living a long life. plus the new details we're hearing from the man who's taking his 89-year-old grandma on the road trip of her life. and later in "the skinny," just how hip are oprah and gayle? the bffs, our bffs, get quizzed on the latest slang.

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it suddenly opens up, trapping one man inside for several minutes. he was rescued after about an hour and taken to the hospital with minor injuries. >> that's terrifying. now to the legal drama involving reality tv couple todd and julie chrisley. >> outspoken todd is denying federal tax evasion and bank fraud charges but the u.s. attorney says he'll seek prison time. >> i like going to a spa. there's nothing but toxins. for me to cleanse myself of that, all day, every day. >> reporter: he's the popular reality star who's facing real legal trouble. fans have watched todd chrisley and his wife, julie, raise their kids over seven seasons of their show "chrisley knows best." >> well, guess i better stop, here's the police. god, is he getting out of the car? >> yeah, what the [ bleep ] you want me to do? >> reporter: now the chrisleys have been indicted on charges of bank fraud and tax evasion, handed out by a federal grand

jury in atlanta. >> just because rich and you're on a tv show doesn't mean the law is not going to come and get you when you commit a federal crime. >> reporter: the chrisleys' accountant has also been indicted on tax-related offenses. the indictment covers nine years and says the chrisleys used false documents to secure millions in loans and didn't pay income taxes for four years. in an instagram post monday night, chrisley declared he had nothing to hide, saying he'd been blackmailed by a former employee. the feds say the opposite. >> the fact that he is publicly denying it so far, we look forward to the day to prove all this in court. we're very confident in the evidence. >> the chrisleys and their accountants have made arrangements to turn themselves in later this week. now health news. adding two common items to your grocery list may be the key to a longer and healthier life. >> foods rich with flavonoids, apples and tea can lower the risk of diseases like cancer. a wall-balanced diet that includes tea and fortified

portions of fruit and vegetables per day. they say it's especially beneficial for smokers and heavy drinkers. when we come back, could we soon see another beyonce super bowl show? hannah b. opens up about her struggle of re-entry into normal life. "the skinny" is next. hannah b. opens up about her struggle of re-entry into normal life. "the skinny" is next.

♪ ♪ fast like a lambo time for "the skinny" starting with the big news from the carters. >> rapper jay-z said every night we're in the end zone, tell, what, wait, tell the nfl -- i got it, i wrote it down. jay has reportedly scored himself a major partnership with the nfl. the partnership would allow jay-z to be the league's live entertainment music strategist handpicking entertainment for nfl events. >> time-out, live media entertainment music strategist? you guys, do you think that that position even existed before?

make your own opportunities. >> exactly. >> of course this has the twitterverse speculating that he could very well just strategize his wife right onto that stage for her third halftime show, and we would be here for it. >> we all know rock nation, they got a whole list. >> a whole thing. >> of artists. so there's plenty of them they can put up there. >> oh my gosh. >> they've got plenty of partnerships. would we like to see beyonce for a three-peat? of course. four-peat, five-peat, six, up to infinity and beyond. >> a chance for jay-z to help with the backlash the nfl has received in recent years so this looks like a win. >> people are considering will colin kaepernick play a role? next to "the bachelorette." hannah b. talking about how her life has changed since doing the show. >> alabama hannah has become a pageant queen, on "the bachelor," "the bachelorette," got engaged, called it off, and took a major spill on national tv. i miss my friends and family who

have watched my life explode. i can't keep up with the people who matter most because i can barely keep up with my own life right now. >> hannah does say she's grateful for the past year. we can't ask our senior analyst, "bachelorette" analyst, jack sheahan, about it because he's currently in the booth right now in our ear. >> jack, tell us what do you think about it, we'll tell the viewers. his heart goes out to hannah b., all right. word from go irish. >> there you go. >> the word from jack. one of hannah's exes seems to be doing just fine. tyler c. is revealing that he's the star of a new underwear ad for mack weldon. tyler c. posed for a new ad in the men's fashion company resuming his career as a model after his second-place finish on "the bachelorette." >> maybe this did help his career. tyler c. is not giving up on romance. he's been spotted out several times with fellow model gigi hadid. so this might have been good for his career, his love life. poor hannah.

>> a lot of post-bachelorette news. what about "bachelor in paradise"? they're still on that island. now to our friend gayle king, good morning, gayle, and her best friend, lady o., oprah, the dynamic duo teamed up in a video for "o" magazine to see if they're up to date with the latest slang. >> first up, they're tackling the word "snack." you know what a snack is? >> yes. >> not like snack like a couple of apples. take a look. >> okay, kind of like a piece of meat but not a whole piece. you're saying someone looked like you want to eat it up because it's attractive, you know that, that's good. snack. >> okay, snack, okay, food. >> i just had lunch with somebody who was a real snack. >> yeah. >> i'm not going to say who it is either. >> yeah. >> he was more than a snack. >> a big old snack. >> that was a meal. >> he's a whole buffet. >> okay, never mind. >> i want to know who they're

talking about. >> oh my god, look at that, a whole meal, a whole buffet, yes, uh-huh. >> kitchen table talk did not stop there. that phrase made famous by cardi b? >> that one. do you think gayle and oprah know what it means? >> i bet they do know what it means. >> okay, that's cardi b. >> okay. >> we all got that, thank you, cardi. >> wig snatch. >> did she say wig snatch? oh my goodness, she said next, we all got that one. okay, so the two are taking on the word "thicc," no "k." >> do you think you know what they're trying to describe? >> someone's described as thicc? yep. let's go to the tape. >> that's a compliment. if you say somebody's thicc, it means they're a little -- >> voluptuous. >> curvaceous. >> very common in the black culture. like we're both thicc.

>> yeah. i am thicc and very proud of it. >> i am living for this video. oh my goodness, this is amazing. >> i love it. i love it. >> being thicc. >> there are so many words they can go through. >> so good. >> really. love it. ed sheeran's climbed a mountain, actually the mountain. >> the "game of thrones" star known as "the mountain" ran into his one-time costar and that happened. >> during his reunion with the singer he showed off his sheer power by hoisting sheeran over his head. >> which is no small feat. 5'8" sheeran reportedly weighs 181 pounds. the man is strong. ed sheeran's -- i mean, not a mountain himself. >> right, no. and look, he's a big guy, he can -- >> right, ed sheeran's not thicc or anything, right? we wouldn't describe him as thicc.

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we can't get enough of the story we first told you about yesterday during #goodnewstues about a man, his grandma, and their amazing road trip. >> we're hearing new details as they embark on their quest to visit every national park. here is david muir. >> reporter: brett ryan and grandma joy embarking on their first road trip to a national park in 2015. there she is in great smoky mountains national park in tennessee where grandma joy spent her first night in a tent at age 85. >> she'd never camped a night in her life. we arrived at 1:00 a.m. in the rain and she held the umbrella over my head while i put the tent together. the majority of her life has been spent in this tiny little

town in ohio called duncan falls. the deserts, sand dunes, beaches, all that was really something that she had yet to experience in life. >> reporter: they've taken five road trips together already. >> so far we have traveled 25,000 miles across 38 states, hitting 29 u.s. national parks. >> reporter: one of their most memorable, great sand dunes national park in colorado. >> we walked across the sandy landscape and up a sand dune, and then she got down on the ground and i said, what are you doing? and she said, i want to roll down, it looks fun. i think it just tapped into some inner sense of childhood wonder in her. she said, how can you get hurt on the sand? you've got to give it a whirl, you're only going to be here once, right? >> you lived! have fun getting back up. >> reporter: she did and kept going. visiting grand canyon, yellowstone, joshua tree, glacier national park. there was redwood national park too. >> hey, grandma, where are we? >> in the middle of a redwood forest. >> how do you feel when you look

up at these trees? sml.y ke you fl very >> does it make you feel very young? >> not me. i've walked too many miles. >> reporter: and she's still walking. texas and new mexico next. we're cheering for grandma joy. >> grandma joy and mr. ryan there, they're going to cherish those memories forever. >> really, and grandma is going to turn 90 years old next week. so some good memories as she heads into her ninth decade. >> 32 more parks to go. 61 national parks. >> oh that video of her rolling in the sand. >> just enjoying life there. >> incredible. doesn't it make you want to spend some time -- >> got to get on the road. >> yeah, that's good. don't miss our updates on facebook at wnnfans.com. >> we've got more news next, stay with us.

happening now on "america this morning," standoff with china, violent protests once again shutdown one of the world's busiest airports as china accuses the u.s. of inciting chaos in hong kong. meanwhile president trump backing down in the ongoing trade war, delaying tariffs on several popular products. what it means for american consumers. >> developing now, the search for suspects after shots are fired into an immigration and customs enforcement office in texas. bullets flying within inches of a federal employee. were agents targeted? >> breaking overnight, a new bombshell in the jeffrey epstein case. what his jail guards did just

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