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making news in america this morning, ferry wheel fall. three young passengers thrown from the ride tumbling from near the top. witnesses describing the horrifying scene as the investigation gets under way overnight. donald trump and hillary clinton spar over economic policies as prominent security experts say trump would be a reckless president. meanwhile, there is a new name entering the race. we're live in washington. a bubbling arson suspect trying to burn down a barber shop but catching himself on fire. check out this seaworld surprise when a girl tries to get a close-up of a dolphin. i guess the dolphin prefers selfies.
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a good tuesday morning to you all. take ago i look at that dolphin selfie more on that in a moment. we start with tragedy. a freak accident at a county fair that sent three children plummeting from near the top of a ferris wheel. >> witnesses watched in horror as the cart tipped over suddenly spilling them to the ground. this morning authorities are treating the incident like a crime scene. overnight a square at a county fair. >>hr ferris wheel. >> reporter: three children reportedly 10 to 12 years old in a terrifying fall from a ferris wheel in eastern tennessee. the car carrying them snagged on another cart on its way up spilling them out. one witness saying the children bounced off the metal briding of the ride eventually hitting the ground 30 to 45 feet below. >> i feel real bad for the little kids, you know, they screamed a little bit then they
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i don't know the little girls but they were so little and i hate seeing something like that. >> reporter: two helicopters and an ambulance transporting the children to the hospital. authorities say they were alert and even talking after the accident. this morning investigators interviewing witnesses trying to figure out what went wrong. >> we're considering that and treating it like a crime scene if we can determine if there any malfunction and make sure there was no foul play but an accident. >> the passengers have not been released. we do know the oldest is 16 years old. the fair will be open today but the rides are closed. that incident on the ferris wheel as officials retail new details over an accident at a kansas water park. kay kale lab caleb schwab died and he slid behind the raft during the ride.
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booms, just sounded like something hit the slide but boom, boom and looked at my cousin and i said i think that's a bodyout side the raft. as i get closer and put my hand on the slide the lifeguard says there's nothing you can do. >> some park guests claim that the water slide's harness was not working properly earlier that day. this is the first fatal accident at that park and the park will be closed again today. now to politics and donald trump facing staunch from more prominent republicans overshadowing the rollout of his economic plan. >> senator susan collins says she will not vote for trump blasting him over his temperament and 50 official security officers said he would be rec less. >> reporter: two out of every three voters believe donald trump lacks the temperament to be president that poll shows as
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some might call it a more disciplined donald trump. the gop candidate on his best behavior while speaking at the detroit economic club. sticking to the script. >> we will make america grow again. >> reporter: never losing his cool. >> i will say the bernie sanders people had far more energy and spirit, i will say that. >> reporter: and laying out his plans for america's economy. >> i want to jump-start america and it can be done and it won't even be that >> reporter: under his plan child care expenses won't be taxed and he'll simplify the tax code by having just three brackets but trump offered few details of how he would do it and no mention of spending cuts. hillary clinton took to slamming trump's proposal at a campaign stop in battleground florida. >> they tried to make his old tired ideas sound new. >> reporter: blasting his speech as repackaged trickle down economics and saying unlike trump she'll be a small business
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implement what he's proposing heaven forbid it would cost 3.5 million jobs. he would actually reduce jobs. >> reporter: and now trump may have more than clinton to worry about. evan mcmullen a 40-year-old former cia agent and congressional staffer entering the race as an independent third party candidate. >> donald trump cannot win. he is ensuringillary clinton will win the white house. >> reporter: overnight hillary clinton's campaign announced three presidential debates and she challenged trump to do the same as he's not yet signed on to the debate schedule. kendis and diane. >> that's maggie rulli for us live in washington. thanks. we move on to california. a monster wildfire is forcing the evacuation of more than 5,000 homes. the pilot fire as it's called has burned ten square miles in san bernardino mountains about 60 miles east of l.a. dry brush is spewing the fire.
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the ground and in the air as you can see there. right now it's unclear what started the fire. hundreds of miles south of that fire residents in mexico are bracing for tropical storm xavier. here's a look at the time line. waves and winds churning and residents across the gulf of california and cabo san lucas are being evacuated. they reached 60 miles per hour and some could see 6 inches of rain. people along florida's gulf coast are likely to see more flooding a the day for a sececond day. some could get up to a foot of rain. >> headlines from the olympics now and the u.s. domination in the pool, well, it continues. >> 21-year-old ryan murphy extended their hold on the 100-meter backstroke and american men have won gold six consecutive types and he set an
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off the record. dominant, it's been ten years since the u.s. men's basketball team lost a game. >> wow. >> the team's 70th in a row, that victory, that is, came at venezuela's expense. 113-69 was the final score. carmelo anthony scored 14 points and played in their last defeat, a six-point loss to greece in 2006. >> venezuela clearly known for their defense. here's a look at the medal count this morning. the u.s. sits in a tie with china the americans lead in the overall count with 19, china second there with 13. well, still ahead, why delta's computer malfunction is still affecting flights. more than 24 hours after that systemwide shutdown. and another murder mystery involving a jogger. the newest case is a woman found dead just blocks from home. some new details about the victim overnight. plus, caught on camera. an attempted arson gone wrong. the suspect catching himself on
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of zika is only taking place within that one square mile area. delta has a warning for flyers today, expect more delays and cancellations. the airline is slowly recovering from a computer outage that stranded thousands of passengers. more than 1,000 flights were canceled on monday and to try to cushion the blow delta is offering a $200 travel voucher for customers delayed more than three hours or have their flight cancelled. walmart is increasing its stake in online sales by e-commerce it tries to fend off competition from amazon. the founder is joining the executive of both which will operate separately. walmart is paying more than $3 billion for jet which launched just last year. it is now illegal to sell e-cigarettes to anyone under 18. new federal regulations kick in. retailers have to check the i.d. of any purchaser who they believe looks younger than 27. the new rules impact sales of
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the next generation iphone, apple reportedly added a new pressure sensitive home button. dual cameras will take sharper photos for the larger version and the screen sizes are expected to be the same as the iphone 6 and iphone 6 plus. when we come back, taking distracted driving to a whole new level. check out this woman texting with her feet up. a dolphin tired of getting its picture taken, revenge. snatching a tablet from a woman. which you are you? be the you who doesn't cover your moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. be the you who shows up in that dress. who hugs a friend. who is done with treatments that don't give you clearer skin. be the you who controls your psoriasis with stelara? just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. stelara? may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer.
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so delicious, it should have another name. you can only hope this woman in colorado is in a self-driving car, not only is she texting while driving she has her leg up on the dashboard. a passenger in another car couldn't believe what she was seeing so pulled out her camera to the video is online going viral. looking at today's driving conditions flooding will be another hazard in three parts of the country today. the deep south, southwest and northern plains. wet roads extend up to the eastern great lakes. if you're flying airport delays are most likely in new orleans, charlotte, new orleans, miami and phoenix. well, for the feck time in less than a week a female jogger was visiting her mother in
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most recent case is linked to last week's brutal murder of a jogger in new york. let's get the latest from abc's linsey davis. >> reporter: residents in princeton, massachusetts, remain on edge as police search for a killer. >> we have a young woman who appears to be a murder victim. >> reporter: the victim 27-year-old vanessa marcotte went for a jog on saturday at 1:00 p.m. anticipate never came back. marcotte lived in new york city where she worked for google as an account manager. her social media pages showcase her life including photos with her mother who she was visiting in massachusetts. >> we do not know if this was a random act. we are asking the public to be careful and vigilant. >> reporter: police sources tell abc news investigators are looking into signs of sexual assault. this is the second time profile case in less than a week involving a young woman murdered while going out for a jog in broad daylight. authorities say there is nothing at this point connecting the massachusetts case with the
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queens. they are urging people to jog in pairs and pay attention to their surroundings. linsey davis, abc news, queens, new york. for the first time we're hearing from the mother of twin girls who died in their father's hot car. police say aceh north was drunk when he left his 15-month-old daughters in the car. the mother says it was the first time she left the girls alone with the dad. overprotective after losing another daughter in 2014. >> i was the one day i left, i just want to tell them i'm sorry. >> entertainer tyler perry is offering to pay for the twins' funeral. a pair of robbers hoping to make off with some easy money clearly picked the wrong target in houston. the men tried to hold up a convenience store. but when they demanded cash and pulled out a gun, the clerk whipped out her own gun and opened fire. the stunned robbers scampered away. the clerk isn't sure if the men
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we do know she's okay. surveillance video from kentucky shows what can happen when you play with fire. two men were trying to set fire to a barber shop and hair salon but the second molotov cocktail splattered one of the arsonists and his clothes caught fire. there he goes running probably screaming and he falls. wasn't much damage to the have lone. those crooks are still on the loose. >> didn't go as planned. >> no, i don't think so. sports including w baseball. >> usain bolt having fun at a news conference. here are our friends at espn. >> i'm scott van pelt. we do our show every night at midnight and some of the featured elms include the best thing i saw today which this particular show was usain bolt. he is going to be running sunday in the 100-meter final because he's the fastest in the world. this is his last olympics so naturally he has a dance ensemble.
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there are dancers, i presume he was snapchatting the whole thing because that's how we do, ladies and gentlemen, the stylings of usain bolt. from the world of baseball, brandon crawford, that was his seventh hit of the night. he had six hits in the nine games prior. he had seven hits in this game and that, the last, knocked in the go ahead and eventually winning run. think he was thrown out at second, who cares. seven enjoy your day. >> you too. up next in "the pulse," the michael phelps death stare instantly becomes an internet hit. check this out. caught on camera. a dolphin that really wanted to play with an ipad. look, the wolf was huffing and puffing.
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? time t and we're going to start with this. apparently there's no crying in baseball and apparently there is no shadow boxing before an olympic meet, as well. >> no? well, check out the death stare on michael phelps. it came after south african chad le clos starting dancing and shadow boxing before the semifinal. phelps wasn't too happy about that and had lost to le clos four years ago in london. >> it is just an angry stare.
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online. this picture showing phelps staring there at him with the assassin creed game and there he is with that glare. >> if looks could kill, this, ladies and gentlemen, is dangerous. phelps did come out ahead last night, both men advance to tonight's final. >> but you know it's game on, as well, tonight. >> maybe they should start it the way they start boxing matches where the two have to stare at each other head-to-head. crying jordan as far as memes go. now to a bizarre case of lost and found in wisconsin. >> so two men were out canoeing on a lake, they saw a leg, they thought it was a body. >> at first. >> in a beaver dam. it turned out it was actually just a prosthetic. just your typical day so searched online and tracked down the rightful owner through a
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>> he lost it while fishing. the beavers must have snapped it up. he went out ahead and say anyone found a lost leg, i'll give you 50 bucks for it and it all worked out. aside from bite marks the leg appeared to be in good condition and the owner of the leg made good on his promise and paid the men who found it 50 bucks. >> the beaver has not been spotted since. >> the beaver is pretty ticked off. okay, so here's an exam of why it inexpensive camera than a tab let. >> a dolphin apparently didn't like the close-up this visitor was trying to take, just grabs her ipod and drops it in. the ipod owner is not so happy. >> wasn't having it. that was a quick grab. we don't know why the dolphin might have grabbed it. you my state -- >> i say the dolphin wanted to play pokemon go. >> i'm thinking it did. >> that's my theory.
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4:27 on this tuesday. still heavy rain but no, sir as -- terrific as it was yesterday. ponding still on the roads but not adding significant rainfall through the early morning hours. if you're just about to head out you're going to see pockets of moderate to heavy ra since it rolled through metro tampa and now across portions of the north. lutz, wesley chapel getting in on that, 75 and a cluster offshower that is making a -- off-shore that is making a move to the north and east. it will bypass most of pinellas and into hillsborough. last 24 hours we got one to three inches. the heaviest of which, coastal areas which is why we've
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off-shore the closer you get to the low the heaviest of the rain and it's from 6 to 10 inches. this is rainfall in the last three days which has of course flooded some areas and set the stage for another day of unsettled conditions out there as far as the potential for additional flooding. 5 to as much as 8 inches. some pockets of 10 inches fallen across the nature coast. area of low pressure continues to pump in moisture, it's onshore now as far as the center of circulation. so t pushing towards the west as we've been talking about. i think today will be our transition day so i tomorrow we'll be back into a more -- by tomorrow we'll be back into a more typical pattern with afternoon thunderstorms. it will be more common, what we're used to. another 2 to 4 inches before that happens. at this point we're completely saturated so even an inch of rainfall is going to be a problem. we could pick up a lot more than that across the north.
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p.m. tonight and then back into the afternoon summer thunderstorm pattern tomorrow. as a low moves away. area of high pressure moves in and a southeasterly flow will favor once again, oh, late-day, sea breeze collisions. this is more of what we're used to this time of year. then we'll begin tomorrow and through the end of the week so. we're not going to lower rain chances significantly, it's just the timing of the rain will be in the afternoon, it will be a thunderstorm, it will come and go. and we'll be able to handle steady heavy rain we've dealt with. higher as far as the temperatures, 83, we talked about that yesterday with the cloud cover. i think we'll have enough breaks in the cloud cover, not completely blue sky but enough breaks and should warm up a little more than we've been. 90 by wednesday. that is an indcavings something new. that -- indication of something new. that is plenty of sun in the morning, and in the afternoon, summer thunderstorms. that holds by the way through the end of the week and into the weekend.
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abc action news at 4:30. three young girls fall about 45 feet from a ferris wheel in tennessee. what witnesses say went wrong. >> a home invasion burglary in the bay area to tell you about. authorities looking for a man that kicked in a woman's front door, what happened and what they stole straight ahead. >> last time it rained lik the street with my kids on my shoulders to get out. >> another round of rain could cause more flooding in the bay area. one man says a street in front of his house is impassable. thank you for joining us for abc action news on this tuesday. i'm dan shaffer. >> good morning, i'm deiah riley. floodwaters are inching closer and closer to homes in pasco county. >> as reporter marisela burgos shows us a new round of rain is making homeowners worried. >> every time it rains you have

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