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west, the new toll, the triple digit heat is taking and what to expect today. the race for the white house. >> florida governor ron desantis cutting staff and shifting strategy. and now the growing push for a third party candidate . >> new details after the dramatic arrest in the gilgo beach serial killings in long island, new york. the new search as investigators built their case against the suspect, a 59 year old architect and married father of two. and what a former colleague says the suspect recently asked her when discussing true crime podcasts. >> the lingering mystery surrounding the jfk assassination newly released documents shed light on a worker at the cia investigating lee harvey oswald before kennedy's death. >> later, a travel nightmare for a newlywed couple on their honeymoon in the new bride forgets her passport. how a flight attendant saved the day. >> and soccer superstar lionel messi gets a superstars welcome in miami.

>> from abc news in new york, this is america for this morning. good monday morning, everyone. >> i'm andrew dymburt. happy monday. >> i'm rhiannon ally. we want to begin this morning with the search for two young children missing after floodwaters swept away their family's car in pennsylvania. >> it's the latest example of extreme weather wreaking havoc across the country. from record heat to wildfires, smoke to flash floods. the death toll is expected to rise after a flash flood outside of philadelphia. five people were killed in overnight. two children were still missing, including a nine month old boy and two year old girl. >> miraculously, a dad and his son were able to get safely. however, the grandmother, the mother and the two children were swept away by the floodwaters. we have recovered the mother and she is one of the deceased. >> authorities in bucks county say the family was visiting from south carolina when their vehicle got swept away by the floodwaters. >> that could have been any one of us leaving our house and just going to the grocery store or something. >> across the country in riverside county, california,

firefighter are facing a treacherous combination of wildfires and 100 degree heat. the so-called rabbit fire, one of four wildfires burning east of los angeles has threatened more than 150 buildings. the heat turning deadly in san diego county. police say a biker died after trying to help hikers who had no food or water. 14 states are under heat watches and warnings today. el paso, texas, has seen triple digit temperatures for 30 consecutive days for people at a car show had to be taken to the hospital for heat exposure. a biologist in neighboring new mexico is warning about the impact on wildlife, telling npr that birds are struggling to adapt. >> the birds that are most susceptible to heat stress are just going to be gone in the northeast, country star jason aldean had to cut short a concert in connecticut because of the heat. >> it was it was pretty intense last night at the show. anybody that was at the show knows how hot it was. >> and now smoke from the historic wildfires burning in canada is triggering more air

quality alerts. dense smoke is expected over the eastern great lakes and parts of new york and pennsylvania. while hazy skies are expected for much of the northeast today, near record temperatures are also expected in parts of colorado. we'll check your forecast in just a few minutes. >> we have breaking news overnight. what could be a significant development from the war in ukraine. explosions have reportedly damaged a crucial bridge that connects russia to crimea. now that is the ukrainian territory annexed by moscow in 2014. this video circulating online shows what appears to be a partial collapse with the bridge sagging, russian officials say at least two people have been killed and it is the same bridge that was damaged by a truck bomb back in october before being rebuilt. it serves as a major supply route for the russian war effort. >> now to the race for president and florida governor ron desantis shifting his campaign strategy and cutting staff. it comes as new fundraising numbers show the state of the race amid growing calls for a third party candidate to enter the race. abc's em win is here now with more. good morning.

>> good morning, andrew. the latest fundraising numbers show desantis struggling to catch former president trump in the gop's crowded contest. just as the florida governor starts to shift that strategy and refocus resources on the iowa caucus as the 2024 presidential race is fired up now less than six months out from the key iowa caucuses, florida governor ron desantis defending a major shakeup and shift in strategy for his campaign soon after, sources say he fired roughly a dozen staffers with more dismissals expected. the team apparently navigating a cash crunch after hiring, too many staffers early on. we raised more money than donald trump did into his campaign, who, of course, was the former president. >> and yet they try to spin that negatively in florida, gop frontrunner donald trump taunting desantis for even entering the race and his establishment handlers are wasting such precious time and resources to divide the party. >> the former president has yet to commit to the first republican presidential primary

debate in august, something his most vocal challenger, former new jersey governor chris christie, called cowards. this. >> come on, donald, get on the stage and defend your record. you know, if you want to be the nominee, you need to defend your record. >> this as candidates released their latest fundraising figures , trump raking in over $15 million. desantis with over 20 million, though he relied on big dollar donors, candidates like nikki haley and tim scott in the middle of the pack, christie netting just 1.6 million and mike pence at just over a million. each of the gop hopefuls vying to take on president biden, who raised close to $20 million in the second quarter. one of his staunchest allies pointing to any third party candidates as a hindrance after a group formed in is raising money on the idea of a unity ticket. >> it is a fool's errand to think that a third party can win in this country. they will be a spoiler. >> biden's campaign closed the quarter with more than 20 million cash on hand, which is

about even with trump and rising gop hopeful senator tim scott. rhiannon all right, and thank you for that. >> a top democrat in congress is apologizing after calling israel a, quote, racist state during an event this weekend. congresswoman pramila jayapal, the leader of the progressive caucus, said she meant to say that benjamin netanyahu's government has engaged in racist policies, not israel as a nation. the democratic leadership has released a statement in support of israel. >> a pennsylvania man is barking . dog is being credited with helping to capture a murder suspect on the run for nine days. michael durham is now being held at a state prison. he escaped from the warren county jail on july 6th. police say the barking dog saturday prompted a homeowner to check out a suspicious person in the woods about four miles from the jail. and the homeowner recognized the man as durham and asked his wife to call 911. no word yet if they'll get the $22,000 in reward money. >> we turn now to the arrest and

the decade old gilgo beach killings on long island, new york. we are learning more about the double life, the 59 year old suspected serial killer allegedly led as an architect and a married father of two. and how police revisited an old tip to track him down. this morning, a new search for evidence in the case against suspected gilgo beach serial killer rex humann investe alligators on long island, new york, combing through this storage unit as they build their case against the 59 year old architect and married father accused of killing three women. more than a decade ago and suspected of killing a fourth. this is clearly a sick and depraved human being, somebody who is taunting victims. as crime scene detectives were seen at huberman's home this weekend, the daily mail obtaining photos of police removing guns. officials say haberman had permits for 92 firearms. sources say investing hunters are hoping to find so-called trophies from

the victims, such as earrings or locks of hair. they're also looking for evidence that could link him to six other local murders. we're going to see if he's involved with the other other deaths. >> and if not, then we'll continue to go after those that committed these crimes. and hold them accountable. >> investigators say huberman was hiding in plain sight. the case took a new turn last year when a task force of investigators took a fresh look at the evidence. they linked huberman to a chevy truck registered to him at the time of the murders and similar to one reported by a witness when one of the victims disappeared in 2010. that witness described the suspect to police as appearing like an ogre. earlier this year, a surveillance team recovered a pizza box with crusts still inside, which they say huberman had thrown out. they say dna from the crusts matched a hair that was found on one of the victims. meanwhile associates of fuhrman are now coming forward, one sharing a voicemail she got from him. hey, this is rex.

dominique vidal was in a professional networking group with huberman. she says the two once talked about true crime podcast notes. >> and he asked me if i had a favorite case. and then he asked me if i knew about the gilgo beach murders. >> authorities say huberman googled the gilgo beach investigation more than 200 times. he has pleaded not guilty. he is due back in court next month. >> new images of the erupting volcano in iceland concerns about sulfur dioxide and other gases have prompted officials to shut down the area to tourists. the volcano, about 25 miles from the capital, began erupting about a week ago. >> okay. let's take a look at your monday weather. morning. >> we get a break from the heavy downpours for at least one day today from new england south. word, but the rain will return tomorrow. so meantime, in the interior northeast today and tonight, severe weather is possible. flash flooding, large

hail, damaging winds from western new york down to tennessee. also, you might see some wildfire smoke in the air today. some hazy skies expected, possibly some poor air quality, too. meantime, the heat is on in the south and west. advisories and warnings remain in place. i'm accuweather meteorologist kevin corcoran in. spectator blamed for a massive today. the race for the white house. >> florida governor ron desantis cutting staff and shifting strategy. and now the growing push for a third party candidate . >> new details after the dramatic arrest in the gilgo beach serial killings in long island. new york. the new search as investigators built their case against the suspect. a 59 year old architect and married f the tour de france. >> also ahead, the looming strike plus, a new snag in the t over documents related to the assassination of john f kennedy

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tour de france. >> about 20 riders crashed when the spectator bumped into a bike . riders are now calling on fans to show better behavior. some say they've had beer poured on them. >> ups workers could walk off the job in two weeks, but negotiations remain stalled as the union demands better pay and other benefits. the head of the teamsters union says he's asked the white house not to intervene if there's a strike. analysts say a ten day work stoppage could cost the economy more than $7 billion, making it one of the costliest strikes in the last century. >> well, historians hoping to learn more about the jfk assassination suffered a setback on friday when a judge upheld an order by president biden keeping some documents from the investigation out of the public eye. one man described in the documents worked for the cia. here's abc's derek dennis with more. this morning. >> a recent decision by president biden concerning documents related to the jfk assassination is raising new questions about what the government knew and when. the president late last month issued

a final order cert defying documents from the jfk investigation to be released. but the new york times reports 4684 of the files remain either partially or fully withheld from the public's eye. >> on june 30th, president biden washed his hands of the jfk matter and said that this would be his last order about jfk. >> jefferson morley is editor of the blog jfk facts. he says some of the files being withheld could shed light on the cia's investigation before jfk's death . >> what remains is about 4400 documents from a variety of federal agencies, primarily the cia, that still contain some redactions, ranging from a word to a paragraph to a page to the whole document. >> but morley says there's one name that's been a mystery all these years and was made public in the files. reuben ephron, who worked for the cia and was intercepting lee harvey oswald's

mail in the months before the assassins ation reuben ephron died 30 years ago. >> so they're not protecting the name of a living person. they're protect eating the operational activity that he was engaged in, which was reading lee harvey oswald's mail. what it shows is that the cia was running some kind of intelligence operation. we don't know exactly what around lee harvey oswald, the accused assassin, while president kennedy was still alive. >> it will now be up to individual government agencies to determine if and when more documents from the investigation are released in the future. >> rhiannon andrew, our thanks to derek dennis there. >> coming up, mission impossible falls short at the box office. >> also ahead, a honeymoon nightmare at the airport. the bride forgetting her passport. how a flight attendant saved the how a flight attendant saved the day have heart failure with unresolved symptoms? it may be time to see the bigger picture.

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