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making news in america this morning, outrage at the racetrack. a noose found hanging in bubba wallace's garage at talladega as confederate flags flyout side the speedway less than two weeks after nascar's only black driver fought to have them banned. the response this morning. scathing criticism. >> i think putin thinks he can play him like a fiddle. >> one-on-one with john bolton opening up about his time in the trump white house. why the former national security adviser is calling the president irrational and foolish and why he says trump shouldn't serve a second term. crack in the case. the new details in the deaths of two siblings from idaho. how police say a cell phone helped find the children months after they disappeared.
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plus, on stage health scare. the terrifying moment a comedian collapses during a show. blocking facebook. the new campaign to get companies to pull their ads over the site's hate speech policy. and strange sight. how this motorcycle ended up trapped in the bumper of a minivan. good monday morning, everyone. thank you for joining us. it's great to have mona kosar abdi back. we do begin with that breaking news from the world of nascar after a noose was found in a driver's garage. >> the noose was found last night at talladega superspeedway in the stall of bubba wallace, the circuit's top black driver. >> it appears justeeks a here's abc's alex presha with new reaction from wallace. >> reporter: overnight outrage after nascar says a noose was found in the garage of
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bubba wallace, the only black driver who races full time in nascar's top cup series. >> whomever that is, i hope that you are so ashamed of yourself. >> reporter: nascar saying it was found in wallace's garage stall at talladega superspeedway in alabama sunday night writing, we are angry and outraged. we have launched an immediate investigation. wallace writing that the despicable acts of racism and hatred leaves me incredibly saddened and serves as a painful reminder how much further we have to go. espn's marty smith expressing his outrage. >> this sport is in a progressive mode. this sport is in a moment where this crap, this despicable crap, is not only not acceptable, but there's just no place for it. >> reporter: the race nascar's first with fans since the pandemic erupted and nearly two weeks after nascar banned the
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confederate flag from its events but supporters of the symbol still waved the flag outside the superspeedway on sunday and a plane flew over the track towing a confederate flag. >> it is great that we can come out here and showing the sports world that you can actually come out and do your events. >> reporter: wallace, who's been outspoken about racial injustice said this last weekend. >> i'm standing up with my peers and with my following and my platform to stand up for what's right to create change not only in the sport but the world to show that everybody is the same. we're all human. we all bleed the same. >> reporter: wallace added in response to that noose, quote, this will not break me. i will not give in nor will i back down. i will continue to proudly stand for what i believe. yesterday's race was postponed because of rain. it'll take place this afternoon at talladega. mona. >> alex, thank you. also new this morning, eight corrections officers say only white employees were allowed to guard derek chauvin, the former
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police officer charged with murder in the death of george floyd. the officers have filed a formal complaint saying they believe they were targeted and treated as if they could not perform their jobs based solely on the color of their skin. the jail superintendent who made that decision has since been demoted. next to new details from john bolton's first broadcast interview about his bombshell book. the former trump national security adviser told abc's martha raddatz that the november election is the last guardrail to protect the country from president trump, and he hopes trump will be a one-term president. >> this was not like a white house i had ever seen before. it was not functioning in the same way as any of the three previous presidents i had worked for. i don't think he's fit for office. i don't think he has the competence to carry out the job. i'm not going to vote for him in november. >> reporter: overnight a scathing portrayal of president trump. >> if you don't fully appreciate what it is you're giving away or the nature of the adversary negotiating on the other side of the table, you can make some
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pretty serious mistakes. >> reporter: ex-staffer john bolton sitting down one-on-one with abc's martha raddatz discussing his book about his time in the white house including the president's approach to foreign affairs. >> the president may well be a superb dealmaker when it comes to manhattan real estate, but when you're dealing with somebody like putin who has made his life understanding russia's strategic position in the world against donald trump, who doesn't enjoy reading about these issues or learning about them, it's a very difficult position for america to be in. >> reporter: from north korea. >> the idea that just this oleaginous layer of compliments to this brutal dictator would convince him that you could make a deal with donald trump was strikingly naive and dangerous. >> reporter: to russia.
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bolton blames the president for putting his personal interests ahead of the country. >> the u.s. itself got nothing. >> reporter: even claiming one of the world's top leaders doesn't know basic geography. >> you say in the book that trump asks general john kelly if finland was part of russia? >> he said those things, absolutely, and when you're dealing with somebody who asks questions like that, it's very hard to know how to proceed. >> reporter: the book, "the room where it happened," being released tomorrow describes trump as irrational and foolish and claims there is a pattern behind the president's decision-making process. >> he was so focused on the re-election that longer-term considerations fell by the wayside. there was considerable emphasis on the photo opportunity and the press reaction to it and little or no focus on what such meetings did for the bargaining position of the united states. >> reporter: bolton alleges that the ukraine controversy, which led to trump's impeachment, was just one of many potential impeachable offenses by the president. >> the president wasn't shy in voicing the view of the ukraine that that's what he wanted.
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it turned out not to be a convictable impeachable offense, but it's something the american people ought to take a look at as they should the other examples. he focused on terms like china buying more agricultural products, which he said to xi jinping directly would help him in the farm states, a really to me stunning statement by a president to the leader of an adversarial foreign country. >> reporter: president trump has : blasted bolton saying he broke the law and will pay a big price in possible potential criminal charges. democrats and republicans have questioned why bolton never sought to testify in house impeachment hearings. >> i was fully prepared if i got a subpoena. minds were made up on capitol hill. >> reporter: looking ahead to the presidential election in november, bolton said this -- >> how do you think history will remember donald trump? >> i hope it will remember him as a one-term president who didn't plunge the country irretrievably into a downward
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spiral where we can't recall from. >> trump tried and failed to halt the publication but a federal judge ruled that it was too late to pull bolton's memoir. the judge did admonish bolton for likely disclosing classified information, a claim bolton disputes. you can hear more from john bolton later on "good morning america." top democrats are calling for attorney general william barr to be impeached. it comes after barr fired the u.s. attorney for the new york city area reportedly on president trump's order. geoffrey berman has been investigating some of the president's close associates. barr also gave the order to clear the protesters across the street from the white house, and his justice department is trying to drop charges against former national security adviser michael flynn.on wedneayn icwea the department of justice who will testify. we have invited berman, and i'm sure he will -- i'm sure -- i don't know about wednesday but i'm sure he will testify.
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>> berman, a republican, initially said he would not leave his position. he changed his mind, though, after barr agreed to appoint his top assistant who is expected to continue the pending cases. now to the fight against coronavirus. several states are hitting daily records when it comes to the number of cases. and now the trump administration is worried the pandemic may be getting worse in the coming months. this morning, the white house saying it's now preparing for a second wave of the virus just in case stockpiling supplies. according to an abc analysis of numbers from "the new york times," 22 states seeing an increase of cases with 11 setting daily records. the former u.s. food and drug administration commissioner warning that states like texas, florida and arizona could see an exponential rise in cases this week. >> the challenge with exponential growth is everything looks okay until it doesn't. so this is something that has to be a concern of everyone that's been watching this. >> reporter: in california, more than 3,500 hospitalizations as of saturday. the highest total since the
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state began keeping records, and florida's expected to surpass 100,000 total cases today, 49 days after governor ron desantis lifted his statewide stay-at-home orders now admitting there is more to it. >> that's an indication that certainly in that age group that you're seeing more transmission in the community. it's not purely just a function of the fact that they're testing more. >> and the world health organization is warning that the world has entered a, quote, dangerous new phase of the virus. time now for a look at your weather for this monday morning. some severe storms rolled across birmingham, alabama. one person was killed when a il more raiisnd sevorms cou tomorrow. checking today's conditions and temperatures, it will be in the high 80s across the southeast and all the way to new york.
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both denver and kansas city get to 81. portland and salt lake city reach 86 today. 78 in l.a. 97 in albuquerque. coming up, the prisoner busted after trying to bust out for a second time. also ahead, why teenagers are claiming responsibility for the low turnout at president trump's rally in tulsa. and new developments in the case of two siblings found dead in idaho. how a cell phone helped police find the children months after they disappeared.
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police say the van's driver fled the scene after hitting a motorcycle before crashing into a fence. we should report to you this morning, the motorcycle rider is okay. new york city's museum of natural history will have a new figure welcoming visitors. the statue of teddy roosevelt is being use used use used use us d north carolina, cheers and music accompanied the removal of a 75-foot-tall confederate statue in rally. tiktok including a legion of k-pop fans are taking credit for president trump's lower than expected crowd size in tulsa. many of them signed up for tickhsith intenti attendg.p mpas expecting a packed house on friday night, but about a third of the arena was full. the campaign denies that the tiktok users affected turnout. some leading outdoor apparel companies are announcing boycotts of face book.
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the north face and pat gone that are part of the stop hate for profit campaign. top civil rights groups are asking advertisers to suspend marketing on facebook and instagram over their handling of hate speech and misinformation. coming up, the sudden death of an nfl linebacker. what happened to the former standout. also ahead, the on stage health scare for d.l. hughley. could coronavirus be to blame? and later the massive dust clouds stretching across the atlantic. when will it reach the u.s.? now, simparica trio simplifies protection. ticks and fleas? see ya! heartworm disease? no way! simparica trio is the first chewable that delivers all this protection. and simparica trio is demonstrated safe for puppies. it's simple: go with simparica trio. this drug class has been associated with neurologic adverse reactions, including seizures; use with caution in dogs with a history of these disorders. protect him with all your heart. simparica trio. faced the competition and we broke through.
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vallow was convinced that her kids had become zombies. relatives say vallow and her husband chad daybell both in jail now were part of a doomsday cult. cell phone pings led police to the children's bodies. vallow's brother's cell phone was traced to the property the days each child went missing. he died of natural causes in december. the university of southern california is remembering former football player max tuerk. >> the 26-year-old he died saturday while on a hiking trip with his family in his native california. no details about his death were provided. tuerk played in the nfl with arizona in 2017. comedian d.l. hughley is recovering this morning after a scare during a show. the 57-year-old collapsed friday on stage in nashville. on instagram he told fans he was suffering from exhaustion, dehydration. he also revealed he tested positive for coronavirus but is not showing symptoms. >> earlier i spoke with dr. imran ali. i asked him about that health scare but started with the president's rally amid the pandemic. dr. ali, let's start with the president's rally over the weekend.
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not a full house but thousands of people right next to each other. we knew the coronavirus concerns before. what else did you see that concerned you, and what should health officials, those at the rally, and even those who know someone who attended the rally, be focused on right now? >> you know, we didn't see a full house. we did see by some estimates approximately 6,200 people, and i looked at the crowd video, and i would say just by looking at the video, 90% of them did not wear face coverings, and they were very close to each other, and we do know that, you know, this virus according to research from the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine may have a dispersion factor or what we call a k factor which is very high. that means 10% of people who are 80% of the viral spread. it really is very concerning, and that's why we really are trying to make sure people don't go to crowded arenas. >> comedian d.l. hughley was performing over the weekend.
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i'm sure you saw when he collapsed on a stage in nashville. he was treated for exhaustion and dehydration and then tested positive for covid-19. he says he's asymptomatic. no fever, no cough. hughley is going to quarantine in his hotel in nashville for 14 days. most are assuming this morning that collapse was linked to the virus. would that be correct? >> it's hard to say. i have personally treated patients who did not exhibit the particular classic symptoms of shortness of breath. you know, just simple fatigue and lack of appetite was just enough for me to trigger a covid test to find that they were positive. but also the sodium and potassium and other electrolytes which are controlled by our kidneys can be affected, and we indeed, affect the kidneys but i don't have all the information from his particular case. but it is concerning, because we are seeing, you know, atypical presentations of this virus. it's not a presidential virus
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will be an uptick in allergies. the best will be spectacular sunrises and sunsets. speaking of best, next is the rarest and best views of sunday's partial solar eclipse. >> it was from on board the international space station. astronaut chris cassidy posted these pictures. >> you can see the sun's rays being blocked by the moon creating that shadow. the space station crew witnessed the eclipse while flying over china. cassidy called it a super cool view. >> pretty cool. an online petition to change the name of columbus, ohio, has close to 25,000 names. >> they want to call the ohio capital flavor town. the sponsors chose that name because columbus is a culinary crossroads and celebrity chef guy fierier but did grow up in california and finally a record price tag for a famous guitar. >> the instrument used to be owned by nirvana's kurt cobain and played it during their acoustic show on mtv.
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xeljanz. an "unjection™". iphone users habe making news at 4:27, the worldwide developers conference begins today. and apple fans won't have to fight the crowds. and a driver tried to hit voters. plus say there may be more to the story. and a noose found in the garage of nascar's only black driver. officials vow that the person behind it won't get away with it. good morning, thanks so much for joining us. hope you had a nice weekend. let's get a check of the weather with mike nicco. did you have a good father's day, mike? >> very relaxing. yeah, it was unfortunate, the park we tried to go to was closed.
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other than that, wife made a nice dinner. >> good. hard to know what is open and what is not these days. you just don't know. >> probably should have checked our website first. that would have been a smart idea. hopefully everybody had a good weekend, too. let's talk about what is going on. let's take a look at live doppler 7. you can see plenty of cloud cover is spilling in as we have alittle bit of and on shore breeze. let's take a look at the temperatures today. 62 to 67 degrees from the coast into san francisco. mid 70s, mid-80s around the bay. and upper 80s in the south bay. low 90s. same thing in the north an to m head into the east bay valleys. and these are today's temperatures, not yesterday's. it is a forecast, not a recast. back to liz with the news of the day. happening today, apple's worldwide development conference
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is traditionally held in lack packed event center, but because of the pandemic, it will look a little different. julian glover is live with what we can expect. >> reporter: good morning. as you mentioned, yes, the event will be kicking off around 10:00 this morning with the key note speech being delivered by tim cook. but, no, it will not be in a packed san jose convention center, this time it will be streaming from apple park. the key note usually runs a couple hours and when apple unveils many of its new products and features. this year we're expected to get a look at ios 14. biggest change is said to be a new way to display your home screen. and the apple watch could also be getting a new update. but the biggest announcement is the switch from intel processors to a chip. the company is make it itself. the new processor would be similar to the technology to what is inside the iphone and ipad and provide longer battery
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life. the event runs through thursday. and aside from all the big announcements, the conference whethe sllffer se engineerin other the developers. and you can catch the key note at 10:00 a.m. on youtube, apple tv and apple.com. i'm julian glover, abc 7 snoonoma county is reportin another death related to the coronavirus. it was a person at a skilled nursing center. it is sonoma's fifth death since the pandemic began. this was the first weekend that the county allowed hotels, short term rentals and zoos to reopen. it ided johnson beach and sav ffuge says health and safety of visitors is the top priority. >> we modified the trucks a little bit. there are social distancing
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