>> that's the nypd broadcast over their own radio. tonight, the investigation into who is behind the threats and how he got access to police air waves. is trump backing out of presidential debates. the republican nominee raising concerns over dates while he deals with backlash about his comments about muslims. i'm

>> and i'm shirleen allicot in for joe torres. new jersey getting hit with heavy downpours. here's a look at the river from somerset county. that's where they got several inches and the river overflowed. >> the weather in suburbs seeing heavy rain. this is monroe in orange county. a car over there washed out. will the rain continue tonight? meteorologist jeff smith here with the first look at the accuweather forecast. jeff. >> sandra, there's rivers and streams in somerset county running at or above bank full. there's a flood warning in that area through 8:00 p.m. and new flood advisories, southern parts of orange county here. pretty close to monroe where you saw the video and northern orange and southern duchess and ones ter county and a flash flood watch for north western new jersey. any storm that develops

heavy thunderstorms. if you're unlucky enough to fall under this, you're going to get heavy rain. watching storms and showers moving into northern orange. that's why we have the flood advisory. putnam county moving into sen. parts of duchess and around the five bureaus of new york city, we've been dry for the past few hours, but there's showers developing so you want to grab the umbrella during the evening and heavy downpours across ocean county dawn this morning. flooding problems there and parts of hunter county, three to 4 inches of rain causing flooding problems in and around the fleming ton area. here's our future cast. scattered showers and storms out there. it could contain downpours and grab your umbrellas if you're headed out tonight and tomorrow. we'll tell you when it drys out in your accuweather forecast. >> thank you, jeff. we'll see you then. two people are dead from flash flooding.

got 6 inches of rain in a matter of 2 hours. flood waters rushed through the main streets sweeping up cars. in one instance you see people here, they had to form a human train to rescue a driver trapped in his car. people in homes and buildings had to quickly evacuate. maryland's governor declared a state of emergency. >> it was shocking and devastating, but what was incredible, that was the bad devastation. the good side was watching heroic rescues and seeing the first responders and the neighbors helping those out of the cars as they were floating by. >> that rushing water caused a ditch into the streets. town officials say it is the worst damage they have seen in decades. police are searching for a man who tried to rape a woman in a church on staten island.

suspect has suuo-o- he's identified as asunicon moran. the man grabbed the woman by the threat and pushed her off. she was able to fight him off the nypd on alert after someone got ahold of a police radio and started making threats. someone was targeting a police captain and sent police on a chase trying to track him down. eyewitness news reporter aj. >>reporter: sandra, whether this was a prank or real, they're not -- they're sending warnings at the midtown precinct as they respond to calls. who is behind these unauthorizes admissions is a miss tory and how they were able to tap being investigated. >> it was a seemingly innocent

went out over several nypd frequencies early saturday evening. but minutes later, the unknown voice start the making direct threats to the midtown south precinct captain. >> captain, remember how you put me in jail. i'm out and i'm putting a bullet in your head. >> officers responded to the numerous unauthorized calls around 5:42 p.m. he said -- he said he was standing next to a van in time square and challenged the captain to find come and spot me. >> continuing to taunt the captain, the suspect later said he was inside the wall greens at time square, but searchs found nothing. >> i'm right here at the wall greens. >> some people tried to [indiscernible] >> at this point, investigators aren't sure the person is using a lost or stolen police radio, but they're warning patrols to be careful with calls coming over the radio.

receive a response before air. live at the midtown south precinct, i'm aj ross, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> aj, thank you. new details today on the deadly hot air balloon crash in texas. federal investigators are now on scene and confirmed 16 people have died. new video shows the hart of texas moments after it took off saturday morning. meanwhile we're starting to learn the names of some of the victims including matt and sunday rowing married fo less than 6 months. the pilot alfred nickels being remembered by his friends tonight. here's abc elizabeth her. >>reporter: tonight, new video emerging showing the hart of texas hot air balloon in the sky just before 7:00 saturday morning and at balloon captured again in these pictures flying low over a farm

calls. the balloon is engulfed in flames. >> among those killed is the pilot and the own of the company that operated the balloon, nickels. >> he loved what he did. his up most priority was the safety to his passengers. >> it's very, very rare that we see an accident of this magnitude occur in the united states. >> fellow pilots and friends calling the accident tragic, but rare. this crash is raising questis just 2 years ago, the ntsb called for more regulations of the hot air balloon tour industry in a letter to the faa cited operational deficiencies in the industry. now before those recommendations are revisited, officials say investigating this accident in texas thoroughly is priority. >> we're here to find out what happened, so that we can keep it

that's our purpose in life. >> in short, ntsb officials look at three things when it comes to these investigations, the human, the machine, and the environment. elizabeth her, abc news, near lockhart texas. new backlash today for trump over his comments about the family of a fallen muslim soldier. the republican presidential nominee tweeted today that captain khan was a hero. but his parents denied still firing back tha is not a leader. eyewitness news reporter cefaan kim is the news room with details. >>reporter: that backlash against trump today is mounting after he went after the parents of a war hero. could the republican nominee back out of the presidential debate. trump is hinting at the -- blaming clinton for the scheduling and making it clear he's not happy. >> clinton wants to be against

she were on saturday night -- nobody is home. >> trump pointing the finger at his rival saying the debates were scheduled during the nfl because clinton would benefit. the republican nominee voicing his displeasure, but the presidential debates -- they say the schedule is set and by partisan commission started working on the dates 18 month the debate attracted 58 million viewers when the first one drawing 70 million. >> i don't like, it's against two nfl games. i lot a letter from the nfl saying this is ridiculous. the nfl doesn't want to go against the debates because the debates are going to be massive from what i understand. >> the nfl is denying they have sent a letter to trump. >> you have sacrificed knock and

delivered by the father of -- khan, the father of an army captain killed 12 years ago ripping into trump, the republican nominee then going after khan's mother suggesting she was forbidden to speak because of their belief. >> the wife was standing there. speak. >> that drew condemnation and khan's mother said she decided not to speak because she was overcome with grief. >> all of america felt my pain. i give them the spirit. >> khan's father swinging back saying that trump has a black soul and calling on gop leaders to withdraw for the nominee. trump's campaign chair --

president obama will talk about progress on reon -- he'll talk about reducing homelessness for veterans. he'll talk about how -- retired police officer takes cops on a chase in new jersey. the disturbing discovery police made inside the suspect's car

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he ran off the road and crashed into a barrier. >> he had clearly indicated verbally to a family member, one of his children that he had caused harm to their mom, to his wife. >> when troopers approached, they found him with a gunshot wound and the 55-year-old body of mary was found in the trunk. they're both pronounced dead at the homes. charles schumer says federal regulators are too slow getting bad food off store selves. schumer is calling on those to review its recall -- he's questioning whether the agency is doing enough to prevent contamination-related food illnesses. >> from the time it's known that the product may have serious

the shelves can be months. >> he cited tainted flour when e.coli and an outbreak began last december. but the recall wasn't issued until may. anticipation is building as the jackpot winner in the massive powerball drawing has yet to come forward. we're learning more about where that winning ticket was sold. someone bought the ticket at a supermarket in raymond in northern new hampshire. 487 million jackpot was the 8th largest in u.s. lottery history. still looking for that winner. >> yeah, somebody's going to be happy. a lot of rain today and we

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man's car over wednesday and they accused him and his girlfriend of transporting weapons and drugs in their car. of course this was a -- when man's girlfriend opened the truck, balloons came pouring out and he got down on one knee. >> i know she had a moment when the heart was pumping and she was freaking out. i'm glad it ended like that. >> what did i get myself into. >> i'm joking. >> speaking of what we're getting ourselves into, how about this weather. we've had downpours and flooding, more of the same. >> very muggy and occasionally we'll get showers and any showers could contain a heavy downpour or two and it can cause flooding if the showers sit over your area. east wind transporting moisture from the

tonight, right through the day tomorrow, the atmosphere is like a big sponge that needs to be rung out and it will get rung out in some locations in the form of heavier showers and even a thunderstorm or two. 84 is your normal high this time of year. we're below that thanks to the cloud cover. 102 back in 1933. in central park, .1 inches of rain, but parts of new jersey again today, receiving between 3 and 5 inches of rain especially over central new jersey. any thunderstorm or shower can be lal still some clouds on tuesday. can't rule out a stray shower. it won't be that bad of a day and down right nice by mid-week near advantage temperatures for august standards and humidity tries to return into the weekend. mid-to upper 70s from new york city points south. it's low 70s north of the city. only in the 60s towards monticello. a lot of activity developing north of new york city. we zoom into that area

flood advisories issued here near southern duchess and certain putnam getting heavy downpours. i wouldn't be shocked to see ponding of water or flooding on that interstate and heavy showers and downpours moving into orange county from -- we had showers developing near jersey city moving northeast. those have weakened, but one shower, one downpour popped up over the bronx heading g the next 15 to 30 minutes and also showers and storms over parts of ocean county $30 minutes and also showers and storms over parts of ocean county and new jersey where we had flooding report earlier and also more recently flooding reports in the fleming ton -- in the fleming ton area. here's our future cast overnight into the day tomorrow. same deal. it could be a shower or thunderstorm at any point. you want to grab the umbrella and we dry out by tuesday into the day on wednesday. here's your accuweather forecast for

there. a few showers. maybe a thunderstorm, fog develg late. we're down to 71. a few showers, maybe a heavy thunderstorm. tomorrow, humid. the high getting up to 80. that can last into tomorrow evening and partly cloudy. 69 late tomorrow night. tuesday is not too bad. more clouds than sun. maybe a stray shower and we clear things out mid-week. great day on tuesday, 822. humidity is back friday. near 90, maybe a thunderstorm returning by saturday. just don't drive into areas where water covers the road headi >> good advice. thank you, jeff. laura behnke next with sports. >> it's an interesting time ahead of us. the eve of baseball trade line. the latest on the moves and rumors for the yankees and that's on the. the yankees try avoid a sweep against the worst team east. the mets pull -- it may

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all right. i asked you the question, all of this trading and everything, is it going to help them this year? >> the yankees, not this year, but if the mets make a trade, it will help. the yankees came through with the best back -- now in the span of a week, two three is gone. andrew miller is on his way to cleveland in exchange for the reliever. the yankees get foyer minor leaguers including frazier who is the top prospect in the yankees farm system. the dealing may not be done, but don't expect the team to just give up. >> he'll assume the closer rolls and andrew is going to be

trade, the rest of the yankees wrapped up against the rays. tampa up 2-0. when this happened, miller had a big series, going deep off penada. carlos helping his trade stock. the two run jack. a 3-2 game at that point, but the rays took over. luke delivering the single. that's costly because two scores, 5-2 rays. the yankees would add one more but down. 5-2, the yanks drop their fourth straight as they're swept by tampa. one of the prizes available at this year's trade deadline is off the block as the brewers swung a deal with the bruins and the catcher wanted nothing of that. luke roy opted to use his no trade clause and vetoed the deal that would have made him an indian. the mets

3 players for luke roy. while the current mets, they were trying to snap a four game losing streak facing the rockies. the mets on the board. neil walker a start. he brings in cabrera, but he comes up limping. he would leave the game with a strained tendon. colorado kept tieing it and colorado -- that scored a run and made it 3-3. the rockies would take the lead. the mets getting it back. walker again 3-run blast. last chance for the rockies , but jay gets the final out as he rebounds after two blown saves. 6-4. the mets avoid the sweep as they snap their skit. >> you can't look at the score board. we have -- we're taking care of our own business and i thought today this was a big win for us. >> the yankees dropped next. very big. the sound you heard

as word hit social media that odell beckham left practice with an injury. he got tangled up with jenkins at practice. he was cleated -- he has a few cuts and he'll be sore, but the giants do not expect the injury to linger and neither does beckham. >> nobody wants to be hurt and it off and you'll be all right. it's football. we go down. i've been worse. >> it is the golf equivalent of a double header and it's happening at the pga championship in springfield new jersey. rain of course postponed round 3 yesterday. before the leaders had a chance to tee off, they played 18 holes this morning. they're in the mist of another 18 this afternoon in the final round. jimmy walker has led this tournament wire to wire, but

number one player in the world defending champ hot on his heels. we'll have the full highlights at 11:00. what an exhausting day. oh, gosh. >> the weather did not go up for 36 holes. >> and it was rainy today. >> thank you, laura. that's the news for now. thank you for joining us and stay tuned for abc world news. i'm shirleen allicot.

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welcome to "world news tonight." we're following several breaking stories. first, the rescues in the middle of a flood disaster. a surprise wall of water. the human chain to save lives. cars swept away, at least two dead, and as we come on the air a state of emergency. trouble for trump. the republican n of words with the family of a fallen soldier. what he told george stephanopoulos about the veteran's mother, as trump tallies his own sacrifices. hot air horror. new video, moments before the deadliest hot air balloon crash in u.s. history. tonight, what we're learning about the victims and the new questions about the dangers of these joyrides. zika in america. the high alert now that the first cases from mosquitoes here are confirmed. tonight we're with a woman who