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cable car stranded 600ft up, dangling off one cable. plus how brazen thieves ransacking retail stores are now impacting the bottom line and why you may have to pay for it. >> and later, the very special giraffe sticking its neck out. >> now the subject of a public naming contest. from abc new york this is america this morning. >> good wednesday morning, everyone. i'm andrew dymburt. >> good morning to you. i'm morgan norwood in for ryan. and we begin with a countdown to the first republican primary debate in the 2024 race for president. >> eight candidates will be on the stage for tonight's debate. donald trump will not be one of them. so the big question is, can any of the candidates muster a breakout moment big enough tonight to take the spotlight away from trump, whose legal challenges are now taking center stage? this week, abc's lionel moyers kicks off our coverage this morning. >> the stage is set for the

first republican presidential debate. florida governor ron desantis and businessman vivek ramaswamy will take the podiums in center stage. but the front runner, former president trump, will not be there. >> i've made no secret of the fact that i want him on that debate stage, but i'm thrilled that we've got eight great candidates that are going to be on that. that stage. >> at least one candidate is already seizing on trump's absence. >> if he's not tough enough and honest enough and smart enough, stand on the same stage with me and debate these issues is that it's time to come back to mar a lago and retire. >> others welcoming the moment many people in this country didn't even know who i was six months ago. >> so this is a good opportunity for me to introduce myself to the country. >> people will make a decision based on the future of their family, not what's going on in the legal entanglements of the former president. >> republicans who failed to qualify for the debate are attacking the republican national committee's requirements. >> many of these require moments were put on the rnc by donald trump and donald trump had the audacity not even to show up

because he doesn't want to defend his record of losing the rnc says it's stuck to its rules . >> trump's main rival so far, florida governor ron desantis, is preparing for jabs tonight. i've been more attacked than anybody else by biden. >> harris the media, the left, other republican candidates. and there's a reason for that, because people know that i'm the biggest threat. so some analysts say if there's any way to stop trump, the party needs to whittle down the number of candidates now standing at 13 and do it fast. >> we're going to see if candidates are going to decide, you know, if you want to be the man, you got to take on the man or the woman. and right now, you know, donald trump is the leader. and if you want to be number one, you have to take on the person who is number one. also tuning in tonight, independent voters. >> i'm not a fan of either trump or biden. i think it'll be tough to have to vote for either one of those if it's a rematch. so i

would like to hear what the other challengers have to say. >> i wanted to know what advice you would give the candidates for the debate tonight. >> you're on a date with the american voters. tonight, talk about them. you know, there's sick of hearing donald trump talk about himself. former president trump will counter-program tonight's debate, his prerecorded interview with former fox news host tucker carlson is expected to be posted online tonight. >> still, the trump campaign claims it will get access to the spin room at tonight's debate to respond to the other candidates. andrew morgan, first debate of the season is tonight. >> lionel, thank you. speaking of the former president, one of his employees at mar a lago has apparently changed his story in the classified documents investigation. sources say the recent obstruction charge brought against trump came after an it worker at mar a lago decided to cooperate with investigators as abc's justin finch is here now with more. justin, good morning. >> good morning, andrew and a notable turn here, sources say

that mar a lago worker flip out, retracting his previous statement to the grand jury. the it staffer initially testified that he was unaware for of any effort to erase surveillance video at the club, but he apparently changed his story after receiving a target letter from prosecutors. the indictment claims trump, his aide, walt nauta and property manager carlos de oliveira, attempted a cover up as the government investigated trump's handling of classified documents. it's trump nodded at andy oliveira have all pleaded not guilty. meanwhile, in a separate case, sources say rudy giuliani is expected to surrender today at the fulton county jail in georgia. giuliani trump and 17 others are charged in connection with trying to overturn the 2020 election in that state. last night, authorities released mug shots of the co-defendants who've already surrendered, including lawyer john eastman. as for trump, he says he's surrendering. tomorrow, the

former president expected to go directly to the fulton county jail to have his height, weight and other vitals taken. deputies will also fingerprint trump and take his mug shot as well. andrew back to you. >> justin, thank you. >> well, we're learning new details about the grim recovery effort after the deadly wildfire in maui. officials say only about 100 families have sent in dna samples and they're pleading with people who have missing relatives to submit those samples so authorities can identify more remains pulled from the rubble. more than a thousand people still unaccounted for. experts do not expect all victims to be identified, based on the devastation of the fires. >> it's very difficult to do both emotionally and physically. and we have, in fact, one expert here that is one of the world's experts on behalf of the fbi laboratory in pulling fingerprints in difficult to pull situations. so he's been integral to the success here of us being able to identify victims. >> and crews are now shifting their search to apartment

buildings, which pose more safety concerns. the official death toll stands at 115. now to a developing story involving a deadly police shooting in philadelphia. >> new video appears to contradict what police initially said happened. some viewers may find the video disturbing. a family in philadelphia is demanding answers after this newly released video of a deadly police shooting. it appears to contradict the officer's account of what happened. >> we have some business to straighten up. >> lawyers for eddie irizarry's family released the video of his final moments last week as officer marc dial opened fire during a traffic stop. no, sir. you. are the family pointing to the video as evidence challenging the initial version of events by police. according to the police report, irizarry was driving the wrong way down a one way street when he was pulled over. the police report stated irizarry got out of his car and lunged at officers with a knife before officer dial opened fire. but the video shows

irizarry's car door and window were closed. what about what you just saw? >> could ever be confused as he got out of the car and lunged at police officers. >> police say two knives were found in the car, but they would not say if either knife was in irizarry's hand when he was shot. >> there was an intentional, misleading of the public. irizarry family is now filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of philadelphia. >> and officer dial this officer really took someone very special to us. >> and i just want him to pay for what he did. >> a police oversight group has recommended officer dial be fired. meanwhile, the district attorney is investigating. >> well, the father of a pro football player has died in this massive home explosion outside of charlotte, north carolina. tennessee titans quarterback caleb farley bought the 6300 square foot house for his dad, whose body was found in the debris. officials are focusing their investigation on a natural gas pipeline. a family friend

somehow survived that explosion which happened around midnight for as large a house as that was , that gas was there for a while. >> it finally found its way to an ignition source and caused the explosion. >> and so sad. farley also lost his mother to breast cancer in 2018. the titans said the team will do whatever it can do to support farley and his family. >> people stranded by mudslides after tropical storm hillary hit southern california have now been rescued. residents were safely evacuated from the seven oaks community, but search efforts are underway for a 75 year old woman missing in the san bernardino nationa forest. meanwhile, tropical storm harold slammed texas, dumping six inches of rain in some places after coming ashore on padre island. the storm is blamed for thousands of power outages. >> and on that note, we want to check in for your wednesday forecast. >> good morning. the heat wave continues from the midwest and great lakes all the way to the

gulf of mexico for the next two days, at least. record highs will be challenged with a high risk of heat related illnesses. chicago you'll be 100 degrees or close to it for each of the next two days. but these real field temperatures are really dangerous. between 115 and 120 this afternoon, from memphis to little rock, we're also watching the tropics. tropical storm franklin making its way toward hispaniola with up to 30in of rain. i'm accuweather meteorologist kevin corcoran. >> coming up, what could be a significant development in the fight against prostate cancer. >> but first, what we're learning about a boy attacked by a bear north of new york city and the dramatic 13 hour long effort to rescue children dangling in this cable

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>> seven year old boy has survived a bear attack outside of new york city. police say the boy was playing in his backyard with a sibling in westchester county when he was scratched by a male cub. the child is expected to recover. witnesses say the boy's father was left bloody after rushing to help his son. police say they euthanized the bear at the scene because it continued to pose a danger. its remains are now being tested for rabies. >> scary stuff for sure. now to the dramatic rescue of children trapped high above a ravine in pakistan. inside a cable car. that rescue playing out on live television over a 13 hour period. here's abc's alison kosik. >> it was a heart stopping rescue in mid-air. more than 600ft above a ravine in north west pakistan. six children and two adults trapped in this cable car after a line snapped, leaving them, um, dangling from a single cable. all the cable car transports students to

school every day, a lifeline in that mountainous region with few roads. it took crews three hours to stage the delicate rescue effort here. one child is seen swinging out from the car, hoisted up by a safety line to a military helicopter hovering above. but crews feared the rotors from the rescue chopper could destabilize the cable car . and as the hours went by and darkness set in, they needed a new strategy. one of the adult passengers called a local tv network saying they had no food or water and at least one student was slipping in and out of consciousness when it got too dark and dangerous for choppers to daring, responders climbed out on to the cable to set up a makeshift rescue zip line. the operation extending into the night until finally the last of those trapped were brought down to the ground, safe after 16 long, harrowing hours, this boy

saying we were very scared. the first car was shaking. then helicopters came and we gained some confidence. meanwhile, those two brave rescuers are now being hailed heroes across pakistan on by the grace of allah, all of them are fine, he said. there are regular complaints that the cable car system is not properly maintained. so there are new calls for safety improvements. without it, though, those kids would have a two hour drive to school. that cable car cuts it to four minutes. and drew morgan , allison, thank you. >> a promising development now in the fight against prostate cancer. a study out of the u.k. found that mri scans could be used to screen men for the disease. and the scans were shown to be more accurate than blood tests. the blood tests that detect high levels of psa proteins are considered unreliable. so researchers say the mri is diagnosed. serious prostate cancer that would have

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target, home depot, tj maxx and ulta recently sounding the alarm on brazen thieves ransack stores in 60 tremely difficult to quantify the degree of the problem because not a lot of information is shared. this flash mob recently took off with $100,000 in merchandise from a california mall, but big box retailers have been hit the hardest. the national retail federation says organized retail crime is increasing accounting. for $94.5 billion in losses in 2021. >> a lot of the stolen merchandise just ends up being resold on third party marketplace online. >> the spike in retail theft is being blamed on everything from inflation to what critics call a lack of law enforcement from prosecutors. experts say some of those losses in stores are being passed on to consumers. forced the average family to pay an estimated $500 more each year for goods to fight back. walgreens has launched a prototype store where all merchandise, except for

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dining room or an extra living room or a full bathroom. the median price of a house in the us is now $406,000. >> next, an emotional moment of gratitude between two strangers over the gift of life. >> love the story. a young woman who underwent a heart transplant last year got a chance to meet the father of her donor at the cleveland clinic. catherine herrmann was diagnosed with a rare heart condition as a baby and had more than 20 surgeries. so she told her donor's father, daryl conner, how the new heart has changed her life. >> i did a5k yesterday, something i've never been able to do in my life. >> never. yeah. yeah. i have a job. i'm back in school. it's things that nothing would have been able to happen without. without that gift. i'm >> conner says he finds comfort in knowing that his late daughter's organ donations saved lives just like catherine's next , a delicate rescue effort on the golden gate bridge. >> but it wasn't a person who was in distress. it was an

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