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as. give us a new kind of high tech jingle. join the conversation on facebook, twitter, instagram using bc7ny. >> high tech jingle. >> that's it for us for now. thanks for watching. i'm bill ritter. >> i'm sade baderinwa. have a great night. tell you about starting with new advice for parents about when to talk to your kids about alcohol. in its new guidelines, the american academy of immediate
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ticks suggest parents should have the booze talk with children as young as 9 years old. the group says children start to think positively about alcohol between 9 and 13 years of age. they believe the earlier you have that talk, the better. good to know. here's another reason to get more sleep. it helps prevent colds. i don't know why we do account sleep things. we're not sleeping. researchers have found that people who average fewer than six hours of sleep at night have a greater chance of catching a cold. the reason they say is getting the right amount of sleep helps keep the immune system at its best and now we know why so many of us have sick calls. don't feel bad if you're working the nightshift or not sleeping at this hour as you're up and you got to call in sick a couple times in the fall. >> like the study. >> remember that, record that. record it, send it to your boss. some animals that used to perform in south american circuses will be heading back to their natural habitats, basically heading home. >> more than 30 lions rescued
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from circuses in peru and columbia will be off to a private sanctuary in south africa to live out their last days in peace. not only are the lions going home, but other animals are also being returned to their normal lives. most of them will be staying in south america. >> wow, i wonder how hard it is to make the transition. so many of them were mistreated in the circus, making it very difficult for human handlers to take care of them. glad to see they'll be in peace somewhere and not doing the circus. >> it is great to see them back in their natural habitat. coming up, see who got a little too close to bears while taking a walk in the woods. also ahead, a big collection of costume jewelry from grandmother. the unexpected find worth thousands. >> first the historic meeting between the pope and everyday americans. the special televised virtual audience and lou it brought some people to tears. it's an abc news exclusive. you're watching "world news
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so you can be a business boy wonder! fix stomach trouble fast with pepto. pope francis is gearing up for his trip to the u.s. later this month and yed, he delivered his first message to america ahead of that visit. >> holding a virtual audience, the pope met with americans across three cities. abc's david muir traveled to the vatican to join the pontiff. >> reporter: we quietly wait outside this door, inside the closed walls of the vatican. we're not far from the pope's residence, a simple building where he lives with other priests. famous for choosing to forego the grand papal apartment. we're told in a moment the doors will open, the pope will emerge. instead, the door opens, they wave me inside. the pope asking for a moment to meet before the cameras.
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then our walk to the room where he knows we're about to connect him with hundreds of americans across the country, a virtual papal audience, a conversation with them. he knows our cameras are in three cities he won't be able to visit, a school in chicago, in los angeles, a church on the u.s.-mexico border. >> we are curious if you have a message before your visit to the united states. >> he tells us a big greeting to the catholic community of the united states and to everyone all of the citizens of the u.s. and when 19-year-old marcus from los angeles asks the can pope why his trip to the u.s. is so important. >> it's a great honor to meet you. >> reporter: he says for me it is very important to meet with you all, the citizens of the u.s. who have your history, your virtues, your joys, your sadness, your problems like everyone else. there were many questions and stories of adversity and survival. valerie 17 from chicago who has struggled with a rare skin disorder her whole life saw the
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music to survive the bullying and after the tears in front of the pope, an unexpected request from pope francis. that request in english. >> tilled like to have you sing. may i ask of you to sing a song for me? >> reporter: we were all unsure if she would sing. >> be courageous. [ speaking foreign language ] >> thank you very much.
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very kind of you. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: the pope talking to single mothers, to students, even surprise agamerican nun tackling issues, immigration, abortion, education. we have never seen anything quite like it from a pope, but this pope, after all, is already break the mold. pope francis has never used a computer, owned a cell phone but is he on twitter. tweets are approved by the pope himself. he has 22 million followers. his messages retweeted eight times the rate of president obama retweeted. >> do you have a message for america before your visit, a parting message? he said i'm praying for all of you, the people of the united states and i ask you to pray for me. the pope asking americans to pray for him too before his visit to the united states. i hope you'll join us friday night at 10:00 p.m. eastern for the entire conversation with the pope as he reached out to americans across the country before his historic visit. david muir, abc news at the vatican. >> and you can see much more of
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the pope's conversation in an abc news "20/20" special this friday night starting at 10:00 eastern. >> you can see the power of how he touches people and moves them and that little girl who sang, it was so powerful. i can't wait to watch that special. my question was pope, are you praying for america? are you praying for us so i'm glad to know he is. >> he asked we do the same. very charismatic. >> i think the stock market will be okay next month now that we know. >> i'm so glad the little girl did not sing "bad blood." >> coming up, the bear encounter caught on camera. >> what that hiker is saying about the incident and why she says she was frozen in her tracks. you're watching "world news
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camera and film the encounter before luckily walking away unscathed. >> i'm walking with a bear right now. >> reporter: an incredible encounter caught on camera. stephanie rib kin was hiking in connecticut friday when she came upon two bears she thought she was a safe distance away but the bears came closer and closer. then this heart stopping moment. >> no, no, don't get crazy. >> reporter: the bears surrounded her. one of them reaching out for her leg with his mouth. >> the teeth scared the hell out of me. i thought he was going to take a whole leg muscle out in one bite. >> reporter: miraculously, something spooked the bear. >> after that i sat in my car and thanked god for let me go out of there alive. >> reporter: connecticut tracks its bear population. those red tags in the bear's ears helped authorities identify the bear as a year and a half old male. it's not the only close encounter this summer. in may, tourists surprised by a
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family of bears in yellowstone national park. >> there's a bear on my car! >> reporter: and in june, this grizzly bear also just outside yellowstone. back in connecticut, authorities immediately closed the trail so that no other hiker experienced the same scary brush with danger. >> so what happened to that little bear? >> those little red tags you saw in the ear, they're able to identify a 1-year-old male and because they said that it was showing its teeth and they construed that as aggressive behavior. that little bear had to be put down because of this. >> no. >> this is the part where she obviously i'm glad nothing happened to her, but she pulled out a camera and stayed there for you know, a bit. i figured if you're -- just get out of there. what are you doing taking pictures? know it's amazing to see these animals but this is what happens sometimes. >> glad she made it out safely though.
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and finally this half hour, something that may motivate you to chick your closet and see what freshes may be hidden. >> becky worley traveled to michigan to help one woman discover the pile of cash sitting right under her nose. >> reporter: grandma's costume jewelry. should you just give it to the kids for dress-up or is there hidden cash in here? that's the question kim glazier of michigan has. >> i'm kim. >> reporter: her mom recently handed her this basket. >> look at this, this is crazy. >> reporter: filled to the brim. >> she turns 0 and decided to
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dean out her house. >> reporter: do you think this is worth anything? >> in terms of cash, no. >> reporter: she turned to the reality show hard-core pawn. >> most of this stuff isn't real. >> reporter: but buried inside -- >> this is a gucci piece. >> >> gucci. >> reporter: and those cs, chanel. >> this looks like it's a real piece after chanel. >> costume jewelry looks gaudy but some of the goddest stuff can be valuable. >> probably the most valuable. >> reporter: how do you know if you have a pot of gold? >> firstles says invest in a $10 jewelers eye loop. >> nothing can tell you real better than your eyes. >> next lack look for hallmarks like production numbers. >> chanel has a specific logo. in the '70s they had a round disk that said chanel made in france. >> reporter: what do you think the possible value is here? >> $5,000, $6,000.
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>> that would be a very good guess. this is one of the nicest collections of chanel products i have ever seen. these would be worth probably $30,000 to $40,000. congratulations. congratulations. >> thank you, mom. >> reporter: becky worley, abc news, droity. >> thank you mom is right. >> i'd be crying, too. $30,000 to $40,000. >> never know what you might find. why i still hoard all my baseball cards and my bling. >> the mr. t look? >> ladies love cool james. that's how you rock it. >> tomorrow you can bring your gold jewelry on set. >> all tangled up somewhere. got to look for it. >> i'm alex trebek.
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. this morning on "world news now," unprecedented meetings with the pope. >> americans pouring out their hearts to pope francis. the emotional conversation just weeks before he gets rock star welcome in the u.s. it's an abc news exclusive. e-mail controversy. thousands of hillary clinton's private e-mails released overnight by the state department. what they reveal and how donald trump is attacking his democratic rival. no deal. tom brady in last minute talks with the nfl turned into a stalemate. what happened in court and who could be making a big decision as early as today. and later, thanks, grandma. the special delivery that was made possible by mom, dad, their doctors, and the baby's grandmother's womb. the medical saga and the miracle child on this tuesday, september 1st.
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from abc news, this is "world news now." tuesday. i'm phillip mena. >> i'm reena ninan. what a historic visit it was to pope francis to the united states just in three weeks. but we're also talking about that incredible through the internet visit that the pope had with lots of americans, a chance they don't really get a chance to see in a different way. >> any part of experiencing the pope, there are millions of people waiting for this chance. it was excellent to see this. it was ahead of his first ever real visit to america. it was an extraordinary media event. the pope held a virtual audience with americans moderated by abc's david muir. here's abc's stephanie ramos. >> reporter: in many parts of the world, 7-year-old pope francis has rock star status. he is the first latin american jesuit to lead the church and another historic landmark for the pope from argentina. he became the first pope to hold a virtual audience via satellite with hundreds of people in
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los angeles, chicago, mcallen texas with abc world news tonight david muir moderating at the vatican. the audience lasted about an hour as the pontiff engaged with individuals from three different groups, students at the jesuit high school in chicago's inner city, congregants from a church near the border, and homeless men women and families in los angeles. the pope said it's important to meet with the citizens of the united states who have problems like anyone else. he heard stories of struggle, invoking tears and gave immigrant children hope for a better future. at one point asking a teenager in chicago fighting tough personal battles to sing for him. she did. >> i guess i had to do it since it's the pope. >> reporter: pope francis called directly on sister norma who helps immigrants in texas. he told her he lonned her. >> it was beautiful. i think on behalf of everybody present because i represent all of us. >> reporter: in the end, crowds
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chanting i see it, i feel it, the pope is here. pope francis says he wanted to connect in a new way with people he wanted to visit but wouldn't be able to during his trip to the u.s. reena, phillip? >> thank you so much. see much more of the pope's virtual audience in a special edition of "20/20" this friday at 10 eastern. breaking overnight, state department releasing the largest batch yet of hillary clinton e-mails saying some of them contain classified information. it released 7,000 pages of messages last night but sensored about 150 of them. at the time they were sent, the information was not classified so the former secretary of state is unlikely to face legal action but she is facing increasing criticism from republicans. some of the e-mails were sent to clinton's top aide huma abedin and donald trump calls the aide a major security risk. she is married to a former congressman who resigned after
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tweeting inappropriate photos of himself. >> so huma is getting classified secrets. she's married to anthony weiner who's a perv. >> i think it's a dangerous thing when she is the receiver of so much of this important information and she's married to a guy who obviously is psychologically disturbed. >> trump repeated his attack on twitter yesterday adding the word she's bag to his description of wien err. it the clinton campaign calls account attacks disgraceful. a top trump aide says all is fair in love and war. president obama is in alaska making an urgent appeal for action on climate change. his visit is designed to underscore environmental concerns. today the president will go hiking on a glacier. the white house says to see the iraqis of climate change firsthand. he says steps must be taken now because you can see the effects in alaska already. >> if we do nothing,
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temperatures in alaska are projected to rise between 6 and 12 degrees by the end of the country triggering more melting, more fires, more thawing of the permafrost. >> before arriving, president obama announced that mt. mckinley will be called by its native alaskan name denali. that has alaskans cheering but members of congress from is ohio are angry. >> we're learning more about the suspect charged with killing a houston deputy sheriff. shannon miles was found mentally incompetent to stand trial. this after a fight at a homeless shelter. miles appeared in court yesterday as investigators struggle to make sense of the killing.
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here's abc's matt gutman. would you call this an assassination? >> prosecutors say the 308-year-old miles stopped go forth outside this gas station, then he executed him. >> officer down. life line is en route. >> reporter: they say eyewitnesss saw his red pickup. police using images from these surveillance cameras outside the gas station tracking down the make and model, door knocking every house till they came upon his house. >> they asked him if he had any guns. he said he had two, a 9 millimeter pistol and a .40-caliber gun. >> the prosecution asserting miles' gun was the same one used to murder goforth. over the weekend, hundreds mourned the deputy and father. the sheriff suggest his youthful could have made him a target. >> wa cops lives matter too. >> the responsibility for this murder lies with shannon miles. >> he lived less than half a
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mile down the road from this growing memorial. he grew up in this neighborhood. his lawyer tells us despite hours of police interrogations, his client hasn't confessed. matt gutman, abc news, houston. a kansas amman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for an airport an bomb plot. he was arrested in 2013 for trying to drive a van filled with explosives onto the tarmac of a wichita airport. part of an undercover investigation and the bombs were fake as an avionics technician, he has access to the tarmac. in court on monday, he apologized to his family. another kansas man convicted of capital murder in the killing of three people at two jewish centers. penalty phase of the trial gets under way today. frazier glen miller junior could receive the death paeblt. he confessed to the shootings but claimed he acted in defense of the white race. he made a nazi salute after the verdict. august couldn't end fast
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enough for most investors. the worst month on wall street in more than three years. with him investors worried about china's economy and today's interest rates. analysts expect september to be stormy, too. both the dow and s&p lost more than 6% in august. walmart's recent increase to its minimum wage may not help its employees much. some store managers have been told to cut workers' hours to keep a lid on costs. the company says those stores have been exceeding their staffing budgets. the world's biggest retailer boostsity base pay to $9 an hour in april and plans $10 in february. and apple has a new competitor when it comes to luxury smart watches. check out the watch urbane lux from lg. all 23 karat gold with an alligator leather strap. it starts at around $1200. as opposed to apple's luxury batch which starts at about $10,000. the new watch is expected to be
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out by the end of next month. >> fancy. alligator strap. >> it is. is alligator even legal? got to check that out. >> i think it is legal. well, this may be the cutest thing you'll see all day. a small kid at the zoo and a small animal. >> that blonde kid his name is isaiah. he went to the zoo in columbus ohio last week with his family. he hit it off well with the 2-year-old gorilla in its enclosure. >> this is just adorable. they had the basic game of hide and seek going on for a while. we think isaiah's family was ready to move along. very cute. very, very cute. that was sweet. >> love that. well, coming up "the mix," you see just about anything on the streets of new york, including a guy who do splits on the spot. >> we could be hours away from the decision in the tom brady deflategate controversy. who got cheered and who got jeered at the courthouse.
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traffic. police were called with reports the antenna was swaying. case. there were reports of loose bolts. the company behind the website ashley madison says the site is growing. rumors claim the end might it be near following the hack attack that outed about 32 million would be cheaters bu the site's parent company claims hundreds of thousands of new users signed up for the service this past week alone. a company statement made no mention of the hacking scandal. >> wow. wow. >> people signing up. all right. well, with less than two weeks till the start of the nfl season, tom brady remains suspended for the first four games and the patriots star quarterback in the nfl failed to negotiate a settlement yesterday. >> now it's up to a judge to decide that decision and it could come as early as today. details.
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tom brady left court just before noon flashing a smile without talking to reporters. hours earlier, there were cheers from fans for the star quarterback. and boos for nfl commissioner roger goodell. the two arriving separately for last minute settlement talks that ended without a compromise. it is now up to the judge to settle their differences over deflated footballs. >> we want to thank the court. we tried our best to reach a settlement which we did not reach. but i think it for us it for an independent arbitrator. conduct. >> reporter: the nfl players union wants his four-game suspension thrown out. the league is arguing it acted punishment. back in may, brady was fined and suspended after the nfl concluded brady was generally aware that two patriots employees had conspired to deflate footballs before the afc championship game.
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allegations brady has denied and continues to fight. >> the nfl has gone into this with an advantage. i think they still have the advantage settlement talks went nowhere. i think you have to give a little more favoritism to the judge ruling for the league, but you never know. >> reporter: and should the judge rule in favor of the league, analysts say there's still a way for brady to play in the season opener next week by appealing the ruling and essentially asking the judge to put his decision on hold while the appeal process plays it self out. elizabeth hur, abc news, new york. >> and yesterday's hearing gave sketch artist jane rosenburg another chance to draw brady. you may remember this very, very viral sketch on the left there. people were, i don't know were mating on it. it looked like walking dead tom brady. the one on the right she had a second chance, looks a little more flattering. >> it looks a little who better. >> dimple in his chin.
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looks less depressed. >> hopefully she won't get such a bad reaction this time. >> she did not enjoy the 15 minutes of fame she got. coming up, surrogate grandmother, the 51-year-old who decided to carry her daughter's child for her even though she was diagnosed with ms and how the pregnancy seemingly put her disease in remission. ahead in our next half hour, queen on the court. serena williams taking the first step yesterday toward a grand slam. our robin roberts sat down with the superstar serving up a everyone wants to know. you're watching "world news now."
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juju chang has the story. >> reporter: this is-month-old mila james snuggling with mom and dad, mandy and jamie stephons. but it was a special gift from grandma that allowed her to come into the world. after they were married, they couldn't wait to get pregnant. >> we started trying right away. >> reporter: they opted for ivf and there was success. the 20 week ultrasound looked perfect but a month later, tragedy struck. mandy lost the baby boy she named theo. >> we had so much excitement. you carry the baby for so long and then that's all like ripped apart and taken away. your whole world stops. >> reporter: her mom sherry felt the pain too. >> watch your child lose a child is the definition of sadness. i can't describe it any other way. >> reporter: doctors warned them a premature birth could happen again. >> we had a lot of tough decisions. we talked to adoption agencies. that's when i had some family members step in. >> i decided if that was
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surrogacy or somebody needing to carry their child, i was going to volunteer. >> reporter: it was an easy decision for sherry who at 51 had three grown kids of her own. >> to be able to give that to your own child i can't even describe that feeling. >> reporter: but could be complications. sherry was a high risk pregnancy because of her age and her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, a disease that attacks the central nervous system. >> my husband was probably more concerned than i was because i was all in. >> reporter: while there were risks, there was a potential health benefit for sherry whose ms was in remission. becoming pregnant might help keep it that way. researchers think protective changes in the immune system during pregnancy keep the disease at bay. there were two tries at ivf and by november of last year, she was pregnant with their baby. >> i'm very fortunate. i played tennis till a week before i delivered.
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but the delivery at 51 was way harder than the delivery of my last baby at 33. that was the hard part. >> reporter: the baby was born four weeks ago and mom, baby and grandma are doing great. >> you can't describe it, you can't imagine it. when i think about it, i have moments where i look at mila and it brings tears. how do you thank somebody who has given you the ultimate gift in life, life? she doesn't have to because i got a cland child. that's the ultimate thank you. >> reporter: juju chang, abc news, new york. >> it is sort of the ultimate thank you having a grandchild. what an incredible gift of love and to do for your daughter. people don't realize but having a surrogate can cost anywhere from $140,000 to $165,000 on top of the ivf charges which are incredibly expensive, as well. >> wonderful they were able to do that for each other. coming up, a team of newscasters suddenly went speechless.
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okay. now it's time for "the mix." a lot of times on television especially for morning shows, you don't see the video until sometimes it rolls. this was pretty incredible reaction from australia's morning television show when the anchors were watching a piece of video about getting up close and personal with great whites. take a look. >> we did it, man. >> i am never going back in the water. >> me either. no way. >> that's it. >> that was pretty good. >> it was a story about how researchers are getting closer and closer to great whites. by the way, that guy carl did an experiment last year which is he month. >> that's the same guy.
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>> nobody seemed to notice. >> that does not even look real though, wow. we want to show you more jaw-dropping video from an instagram star. his name is logan paul. and look at that. it hurts to even look at. he's going around new york city perfect splits. it is impressive how he's able to do that. >> it freaks everyone out. look at that. >> this video posted a couple of days ago on inensta gram and already has almost 140,000 likes. he's going all these different, hey, buddie, watch. it is impressive. i don't know if i would lay down on the venues. >> the street, the subway. >> that's the only part that's a little suspect. but -- >> how does he do it so flawlessly. >> he says in his endeavor to become the sexiest man in the world he learned when you're flexible, you're sexable. >> sexable. >> that's what he says. >> is that a real word? >> he made it a word.
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>> sexable. okay. grandmothers hold special places in everybody's hearts. when you have a wedding, you want to give them their rightful place. one couple decided they should be flower girls. this is patrick, you see there, their grandmothers right there, patrick and rachel givens decided their grandmas should be the flower girls. >> great idea. >> they seemed to rock it pretty well walking down the aisle, throwing petals down. the audience loved it. >> that's awesome. what a great idea. all right. tall. every single one of them can dunk. we want to show you this. this is the miami heat. that's him shooting a jumper there. watch him grab onto the rim without even jumping. look at that. >> that's almost unfair. >> he's seven is feet tall and he doesn't have to leap.
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this morning on "world news now," breaking news. thousands of e-mails from hillary clinton's private account just released. why some messages will stay private and how this impacts her campaign. reaching out. pope francis in a rare virtual audience with americans in three cities not on his upcoming u.s. travel agenda. how he even brought some to tears in an abc news exclusive. and new this half hour, serena williams advancing towards tennis history. >> her progress at the u.s. open, what she has to say to body shalers and how she's responding to very personal questions. and later, thrown out by taylor swift. a famous former friend of the superstar out of a home because of a swift move, bittersweet details in "the skinny" on this tuesday, september 1st. from abc news, this is
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"world news now." >> good tuesday morning to you. i'm reena ninan. >> i'm phillip mena. in the political world, it's heating up every day. we're getting new information. we have some surprising new information to tell you about revealed the latest batch of hillary clinton's e-mails. >> we're talking about more than 7,000 pages that were released last night on the state department website. >> about 125 of them are newly designated as classified. previously the state department said there were 150. >> and it appears at least one member of the state department's i.t. team was unaware secretary clinton was using a private e-mail address. the e-mail issue continues to dog clinton's campaign. here's abc's jon karl. >> reporter: although none of the e-mails were mark classified at the time they were sent, it's more evidence classified information may have been mishandled. this as donald trump launched a harsh personal attack on huma abedin, hillary clinton's top aide. >> huma is getting classified secrets.
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she's married to anthony weiner who is a perv. >> i think it's a very dangerous thing when she is the receiver of so much of this very important information and she's married to a guy who obviously is psychologically disturbed. >> abedin's husband anthony weiner infamously resigned from congress after tweeting inappropriate photos to young women. the clinton campaign called trump's attack disgraceful. while trump continues to ride high in the polls, he is now facing new competition in the critical first voting state of iowa where dr. ben carson is now tied for the lead in the latest poll. way ahead of the rest of the republicans. jonathan carl, abc news, the white house. president obama is visiting alaska. he's hiking on a glacier today as part of a three-day visit to draw attention to environmental problems. he made sure that he would get a warm welcome in alaska by changing mt. mckinley's name to mt. denali.
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alaskans have been asking for the name change for daksds. decades. but politicians in president mckinley's home state are upset. >> we think it's too bad the administration has chosen to go around congress and to do this. >> some members of the ohio congressional delegation are threatening to introduce legislation switching the name back to mckinley. the mountain is the highest in north america. >> now to an abc news exclusive. abc's david muir sitting down with the pope three weeks before his first ever u.s. visit. as part of that special event, the pope held an audience with people in los angeles, chicago and the border town of mcallen, texas. more than 100 people packed an art center near downtown l.a. to hear from and ask questions of the pontiff including single mom rosemary farfan and her two young daughters. >> he's humble and gentle. he's nice and kind and i always wanted to speak to the pope. >> in an emotional moment, the
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chicago to sing for him after she described being bullied because of her rare skin condition and turning to music as a source of comfort. >> and we'll see much more from the pope's virtual audience during a special one-hour edition of "20/20" pope francis and the people, that's this friday night at 10:00 eastern. >> i hope we get to hear her sing. i bet it's beautiful. well, a county clerk in kentucky has lost another round in her fight against same-sex marriage. the supreme court refused to hear the case brought by clerk kim davis over her refusal to issue licenses to gay couples. davis has now lost at every level in federal court. her lawyer says davis has to think and pray over what to do next. president obama condemned the murder of a houston deputy sheriff calling it an affront to civilized society. the suspect in the case shannon miles appeared in court yesterday. records reveal miles spent four months in a psychiatric facility after being found incompetent to
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his attorneys say despite hours of questioning, miles has not confessed. an atlanta area police officer is in critical condition all because of a wrong address. responding to a burglary call at a residence. somehow the police and the homeowner got into a gun fight. the circumstances aren't clear at this point. the homeowner was also wounded and his dog killed. dekalb county police asked state authorities to investigate. a utah woman is also in critical condition after lightning struck here her at a family picnic. the strike sent the woman into cardiac arrest. she's now in a medically induced coma. extreme weather is affecting other parts of the country, particularly the southeast. more now from abc's rob marciano. >> reporter: torrential rains swamp agstreets in charleston, south carolina. rescuers going door to door. mudslides covering roads. remnants of tropical storm erika bringing flooding to north florida and spawning this
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waterspout. out west, almost three inches of rain bringing flash flooding across the utah desert. this after the west cleans up from a weekend of windstorms. watch this tree flatten a forklift at the storm's height in washington state. and everyone chicago to new york, a late summer heat wave in the works. a sweltering start to the u.s. open in new york city. here in the tampa bay area, many rivers are in flood stage and still rising. many not expected to crest till midweek. rob marciano, abc news, tampa. >> want to take a look at today's forecast. there is isolated downpours from florida all the way up to the carolinas. hot weather in the midwest and northeast. it will feel more like july really. cool and wet in the northwest, warming up along california's coast. >> 90s from kansas city to chicago and new york. 80s in denver, minneapolis and detroit. 70s in boston and portland. 68 in seattle, 105 in phoenix.
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well, hurricane fred has been downgraded to a tropical storm. it was the eastern most hurricane known to have formed in the mid-atlantic tropics in years and the first to pass over the cape verde islands. meep while in the pacific, another rare occurrence. three strong hurricanes at once. hurricane jimena 1200 miles east of hawaii, ignacio north of the islands and weakening and hurricane kilo is now heading away from the u.s. i think you pronounce it jimena. the j is silent, right? >> i would think. i'm sure we'll hear if it's wrong. four months after a deadly listeria outbreak, blue bell ice cream is making a comeback back on store shelves in parts of texas and alabama. in late april, blue bell voluntarily recalled its ice cream after the cdc linked to three deaths and illnesses. the company nearly ran out of money as it tried to clean up its plants and get its ice cream back on the shelves.
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and coming soon, no more sticky dripping ice cream. british scientists say they're close to developing ice cream that doesn't melt. >> oh, come on. what's next? >> that's what they say. it is based on a naturally occurring protein that binds together the air, fat and water in ice cream to make it resistant to melting. more good news. researchers say it will also have lower levels of saturated fat and fewer calories. >> i don't want any of it. it doesn't sound good to me at all. you didn't sell it well. no one's going to eat this. >> it does sound a little weird. it's not going to be on shelves though for another three years, from what we hear. >> thank god. it could be 30 as far as i'm concerned. i want the real stuff. >> it does when it's sticky on your hands, no one likes that. >> do you have to put glue or rubber cement in there to make it not drip? >> i hope not. now you're scaring me away from it. that looks normal. >> all right. we'll see what happens. it was also a big day on the
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campuses of university of both of them in ohio, of course. >> buddie is the super hero mascot for a campaign aimed at getting marijuana legalized in the buckeye state. you get it? buddie. it's clever. >> buddie looks a little scary to me. what is he wearing there? he was drumming up support at the university of miami of ohio yesterday. the campaign describes buddie as a crime-fighting scientist with an oversized marijuana bud-shaped head. before election day, buddie will visit more than 20 campuses and many more cities across ohio. buddie is the thing of nightmares. >> his eyes were way too white for it to be authentic. maybe -- there you go. >> right. >> he should be a big cloud of smoke. >> smoke follows. have a big nugget as a head. he's got competition. from south park, that's the other mascot. he was the other unofficial mascot. it was a towel and his eyes were
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way different than that. >> we have to move on. hollywood "a" lister making a movie about a not so glamorous side of the nfl. you love your -- >> sports. also ahead, tough personal questions for serena williams. she's taking strides towards making history at the u.s. open. and later, the 9-year-old girl taking offense over clothing marketed as lazy pants while the boy's version of the pants are caused lounge pants. how she launched her battle and won. you're watching "world news now." "world news now" weather brought to you by creditcards.com. to you by creditcards.com. what do you got to offer us today? balance transfer that's my game bank you never heard of, that's my name haa! thank you. uh, next. watch me make your interest rate... disappear. there's gotta be a better way to find the right card. whatever kind you're searching for, creditcards.com lets you compare hundreds of cards to find the one that's right for you. just search, compare, and apply at creditcards.com.
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you could say serena which yams eased her way into the defense of the u.s. open title. she played just 27 minutes of tennis yesterday before her russian opponent had to quit their first round match. williams didn't lose a game. in fact, she only lost five out of 37 points seeking to become the first player since steffi graf in 1988 to win all four grand slam titles in the same calendar year. >> she's well on her way. it was a different story for the williams older sister venus. she battled for almost three hours in the scorching heat before winning her first round match. at 35, she is the oldest woman in the field. she's never lost a first round match at the u.s. open. >> i watched some of that match too. it was hot outside. and i got tired just watching that. >> i always wonder why we can't change the u.s. open date. it's some of the hottest days an the women are out there and men too. >> it was a good day for the williams sisters. you can't ask for more than two wins. >> there's no way around it, all
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eyes are on serena right now. abc's robin roberts talked with her about tennis and other stuff, as well. >> reporter: serena williams back to defend her u.s. open crown. how do you keep it all together? >> actually it's really easy. i don't feel pressure to win here. i feel like i want to win here more than probably anybody, but at the same time, i don't feel that pressure. >> reporter: i was there when you won the first one and you came on "good morning america." >> it's really exciting. i actually went out and made history. the first african-american to win in i think 41 years. remembering that moment of holding that trophy was everything to me. >> reporter: though much celebrated, serena has also been the victim of body shaming comments. you embraced it and said this is my body. >> it's me and i love me. and i learned to love me. i love that i am a full woman and i'm strong and i'm powerful and i'm beautiful at the same time. and there's nothing wrong with that. i have too many things to do, you know, i have grand slams to win, i have people to inspire and that's what i'm here for.
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>> reporter: speaking of that, new york magazine, those pictures were slamming. >> thank you. >> reporter: is it fun for you to be able to show that side of you we all don't always get to see? >> it was fun. because i do a lot of things off the court. i don't just play tennis. >> reporter: there's no acing serena when it comes to talking about her private life. especially when concerning recent rumors of let's say a mixed doubles partner off the court. >> anybody that we might recognize other than family that will be in your box here at the open? >> i mean venus definitely will be there. yeah, we'll see. >> reporter: i tried my best. >> you did. >> that was pretty good. you got to admit. >> that was a good one. >> that was a good one. nicely done, robin. >> yep, and the u.s. open action continues today on espn. >> coming up, why the nfl may not be happy with will smith. and with everything now cool with kanye, taylor swift has a new beef with an unlikely foe. "the skinny" is next.
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will smith as bennet omalu, the real life doctor who identified the degenerative can you help me out here? >> the degenerative disease. >> thank you very much. of the brain known as cte. the movie chronicles how his discovery transformed the football world in the face of tremendous pressure from the nfl. >> the nfl does not want to talk to you. you turned on the lights and gave their biggest boogeymen a name. >> you're going to war with a corporation that owns a day of the week. >> no proof was presented today because there simply isn't any. >> they have to listen to us. this is bigger than they are. >> the accent and after numerous reports and documentaries on the subject "concussion" is on track to be the most widely publicized work on the controversial subject. >> there are now more than 30 former nfl player who have committed suicide with concussion-induced depression. and dementia at the center of the issue. one of the major figures junior seau was also one of them. after coming under fire for being caught on tape using the
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"n" word, hulk hogan insists he is not a racist. >> the wrestling star was essentially erased from wwe history over the incident. hogan explained to abc's amy robach he was upset over a situation between his daughter brook and her boyfriend. >> if anybody should have disowned me, it should have been her. you know? she should have been the one. she should have been the one who -- to throw me out like the trash, but instead, she showed me more love than anybody. >> hogan explained he made the comments when he was at his lowest point and suicidal. >> he's asking for forgiveness from the public and his many fans and suing gawker media for releasing the recordings. let's talk about taylor swift who patched things up with kanye west yesterday at the vmas but now she has another parent
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celebrity beef. >> sir ian mckellen says he was tossed out on to the street by swift, well, kind of. >> don't mess with gandolf. things seemed to be cool between the two when he recited her lyrics for "bad blood" but he says when he was staying at the lord of the rings director's new york city apartment swift gave him the boot. one small detail though, swift bought the apartment. >> finally, liam hemsworth has given fans an reason to celebrate. finally on instagram. >> he was once engaged to miley cyrus but apparently moved on to miss piggy. hemsworth's first post on instagram was a picture with the newly single miss piggy. >> wonder what kermit will say about this one. he will guest star on the new puppetss puppets -- muppets show this fall on abc. >> the young girl calling out a
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finally this half hour, the 9-year-old fighting against the subtle sexism she encountered when shopping online with her mom. >> taking the issue right to the company's headquarters and inspiring change. abc's mara schiavocampo has the story. >> reporter: adair mahoney may be pint sized but this 9-year-old packs a powerful punch. the north carolina native was shopping for pajama pants online at the popular store vineyard vines when she noticed boys bops were called lounge pants while the girls' were called lazy pants. >> i thought did they really just call me lazy? >> reporter: what did you decide to do about that? >> i decided to write a letter to vineyard vines. >> reporter: adair didn't hold anything back. >> i think boys and girls and men and women should all be treated the same. i don't want to wear lazy pants
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because it makes me feel bad. can't we all just wear comfy pants? >> reporter: what did you think when you saw the letter? >> i was shocked and impressed and incredibly proud. incredibly proud. >> reporter: after getting the letter, vineyard vines founders shep and ian murray took immediate action. >> reporter: you responded to her really quickly. >> it's important. she had a great point. i think it was misconstrued. we didn't mean that women were lazy. we meant they were pants for when you guys wanted to have a lazy day. >> reporter: the brothers inviting adair and her family to their headquarters in connecticut. >> welcome to vineyard vines. mahoney family, you are the famous adair, huh? >> you ready to design some pants with us? >> adair even whisked away to create her own pair of pjs. but first -- >> will you go cross it out? if you could name them something else, what would you name them? >> lounge pants. >> all right. let's do it. >> reporter: next she picks her pattern and colors.
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>> this green for the fish. >> reporter: and then watches her design start to become a reality. she said she wanted to have furnish going one direction and a whale going the other. and she's clearly a whale. she's not afraid to follow her own path. >> reporter: and last but not least -- >> what are you going to call your pants? >> adair you to be awesome. >> reporter: mara schiavocampo, connecticut. >> what a great name. and kudos to her for pushing the nef onechb very lop on there and kudos to vineyard vines for responding so quickly. >> there's going to be some pushback people saying there's pc right away. but she's learning. there is a difference between lounge and lazy and she called them out and got some action. >> and got nice pants. more news coming up. >> this is abc's "world news now," informing insomniacs for two decades. "world news
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