making news in america this morning, donald trump is on damage control after saying second amendment supporters might be able to stop hillary clinton. overnight trump is clarifying his comments as the clinton campaign says he's encouraging violence. we're live in washington. breaking overnight a deadly shooting din demonstration. a woman and inary 70s taking part in the shooting simulation hit with a live round. firefighters pull a woman from a burning building. we have new video of the dramatic rescue. and 21 and counting. michael phelps adding two more gold medals to his treasure chest and the women's gymnastics team living up to the hype and

tweeting overnight dreams do come true, simone biles. we say good morning. politics and donald trump embroiled in yet another controversy this time accused of a veiled assassination attempt. >> during a rally in north carolina he suggested people in favor of the second amendment could possibly stop hillary clinton. despite a wave of criticism he insists he was not encouraging violence. we get the latest from abc's rule maggie. maggie, good morning. >> good mo donald trump has landed him in hot water. this time he's being accused of encouraging violence against hillary clinton. what began as donald trump attacking rival hillary clinton about the second amendment. >> hillary wants to abolish second amendment and if she gets to pick -- >> quickly turned. >> if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks.

people, maybe there, i don't know. >> reporter: clinton's campaign pounced tweeting a person seeking to be president of the united states should not suggest violence in any way. her running mate, senator tim kaine said it's comments like these that make trump unfit for the oval office. >> they just reveal sort of a complete temperamental misfit with the character that's required to do the job. >> reporter: trump's campaign is not walking anything back. the candidate saying overnight that he wasn't talking about but was trying to rally support. >> i think you're talking about the power of people that are in favor of the second amendment and they have tremendous political power and i think they really are strong, they united and, in fact, the national rifle association just came out and they agreed that that is absolutely the way they feel too. >> reporter: the nra is defending his comments and like trump also warns of a clinton supreme court nominee. donald trump is right. if hillary clinton gets to pick

supreme court judges there's nothing we can do. the former new york mayor blaming the media. >> anything they spin out the press eats up like it's gospel. it is quite clear what donald trump said was that because of the second amendment issue there is going to be a tremendous amount of political power in the hands of the people who want to protect the second amendment. >> reporter: clinton says she supports new restrictions on gun ownership but does not want to overturn the second amendment. it's another trump controversy at the time when he needs it the least. new polls show clinton up in several key swing stays with a slight lead in ohio and significant lead in pennsylvania. kendis and diane. >> trump will be in florida and virginia today. we'll see if he has any more controversial comments, maggie, thank you. meanwhile, hillary clinton is trying to distance herself from the father of the orlando nightclub shooter after he turned up at one of her rallies in florida.

victims. mateen condemned his son's actions but known himself for controversial comments and she said it was open to the public and unaware of his attendance "absolutely famous" the event. breaking news overnight in southwest florida where an officer accidentally shot and killed a woman during a training exercise. authorities in punta gorda say role play which was to simulate a shooting but something went very wrong. >> during the first scenario in a horrible accident participant mary knollton was struck with a live round and she was pronou pronounced deceased. >> she moved to florida from minnesota. the police officer involved has been placed on leave as an investigation is now under way. also breaking overnight

for michael brown. protesters gathered to mark a second anniversary of brown's death. witnesses say the shots were fired after cars sped through the crowd hitting a protester. police say there's no evidence anyone was actually shot. brown's shooting by white police officers sparked national protests but a grand jury and the justice department cleared the officer in that shooting. speaking of the doj releasing its report on the department, on the baltimore police department a year-long investigation found a pattern of racial discrimination that includes illegal st and arrests of african-americans. the investigation was prompted by a death of freddie gray ashgs black man fatally injured in police custody last year. they call the relationship broken. a massive wildfire burning in san bernardino mountains moved to 1 square miles. it is threatening thousands of homes. mandatory and voluntary evacuations are under way right now.

1400 firefighters are battling the fire which is only 6% contained. over to the olympics now where swimmer michael phelps picked up two more gold medals last night. first he won the 200 meter butterfly reclaiming the top spot after a stunning loss in 2012. >> less than an hour later he anchored the men's 4x200 fr freestyle relay although the u.s. was well on its way to victory by the time he got into the pool, the 31-year-old phelps has now won three golds at rio, 21 golds so far in his lifetime. and fellow american swimmer katie ledecky picked up her second gold in rio on her way to what could be a historic run for her. she held on to win the 200 meter freestyle. that actually is normally her weakest event. she crushed the world record in the 400 on sunday. the u.s. women's gymnastics team is also dominating. the team scored last night of just under 185 was more than 8

victory since 1960. the americans had the highest team score on every event and many are saying this is the best gymnastics team ever. >> well, we're killing it right now in rio. take a look at the medal count, the u.s. in first place with 26 including nine gold medals, china is in second place with 17. well, breaking overnight a strong earthquake felt in california. the details coming up. a man is dead after being shot while leaving a house party. this morning we have the call made by the suspected shooter. plus, infants evacuated from a nicu. the danger found forcing them to be moved to another facility.

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the sunshine state can't catch a break. the radar shows storms in florida still stretching down the gulf coast. some big rain totals in the past 24 hours more than 6 inches in cross city, more than 5 inches in panamaty and nearly 2 in st. petersburg. a moderate earthquake rattlratt rattled northern california. it struck about 100 miles east of sacramento. people in the bay area say they felt the quake which is pretty two aftershocks followed. no reports of damage or injuries. the kansas water park where a young boy died last weekend re-opens this weekend but the water slide will remain closed for the rest of the season. 10-year-old caleb schwab died while coming down the ride in a three-person raft and new details are emerging about previous safety concerns and claimed the lap belts were not secure enough.

fair in tennessee. three fell out of a ferris wheel and a 6-year-old suffered a traumatic brain injury after what inspectors said was a mechanical failure. her 10-year-old sister and another 16-year-old are in stable condition. delta is expecting some more cancellations today. the airline is trying to recover from the computer outage. three days ago that grounded thousands of flights around the world. well, according to flight aware, delta has more than 100 flight cancellations today and dozens of delays and airline officials say it was caused by an equipment failure at their headquarters in atlanta then computers failed to switch over to backup power. well, facebook is now blocking the ad blockers starting today software used by annoying ads on facebook will no longer work. instead they're attempting to offer better ads rolling out new preferences to give you more control over the types of ads that pop up on your page.

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neighborhood early sunday. >> i fired a warning shot and, uh, we got somebody that got hit. >> reporter: police say 39-year-old chad cameron copley fired a shotgun from inside his garage around 12:30 a.m. hitting thomas who was just passing by this mailbox on his way back to the car. >> they have firearms and we're gonna secure our neighborhood. >> reporter: now copley charged with murder. mara schiavocampo, abc news, new york. >> four new people have been diagnosed with the miami. according to the florida department of health, those four individuals likely contracted the virus through a mosquito bite. that brings a tote alf locally transmitted cases to 21. the department still believes that active transmissions of the zika virus are only taking place within a one-square-mile area. the knee neonatal intensive care unit at a washington, d.c. hospital is being disinfected after a bacteria was discovered on three infants. all babies were transferred from

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no trap. he tracked it. he got it. and scherzer still has a no-hitter going. no-hitter broken up now in the seventh. jose ramirez going to add to the damage. deep fly off the wall. lynn dhoore comes to score and indians go on to win, 3-1. tigers and mariners. we'll pick it up bottom 15. victor martinez put the tigers up 5-4 with a soloom the top half. bottom half kyle seager had a three-run homer earlier that tied it in the eighth. nelson cruz brought home and justin upton. adam lind is on third. may have seen him slide into third base. only question is it long enough? off francisco rodriguez, the answer is yes. lind in there throw up the line,

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replacement one and he flipped it inside out. >> now, didn't seem to bother phelps. he held the team's lead to win the gold. his coach prepared him sore anything yelling at his teammate, look what happened. the green color of the water in the diving pool didn't bother some of the divers. they say it actually helped because the water wasn't blue like the sky. >> but it was blue the day before. and the water in the adjacent pool was also blue. now, the probably algae indicating the pool had not been properly cleaned overnight. >> the other theory it was some guy who usually turned the chicago river green was there taking care of it. not true. olympic officials say the water was tested and there was no risk to the divers. >> st. patrick's day early. the pose may be coming to a baseball stadium. >> didn't work out for this guy, the nfl, tim tebow is trying his hand at professional baseball.

winning plans to hold a workout for major league teams to scout him. gary sheffield among those who say he's a natural. >> tebow turns 29 this weekend and hasn't played pro football in four years and hasn't played competitive baseball since high school. >> i wish him well. and perhaps this is a nominee for should we say mother of the year. >> she told her kids they could have the wi-fi password by texting a photo to her of completed chores including a clean kitchen. and couldn't use an old photo of the kitchen being cleaned by specifying there had to be a box of crackers near the stove. >> very smart. so the photo for whatever reason is being cited as an example for other parents, but we're talking about -- i mean most parents don't know how to change the wi-fi password. >> it doesn't work very well if you need your kids to help you change the password. you might give them an idea of how to hold you accountable. >> exactly.

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? good morning. it's wednesday, it's not pouring outside. how about that? we're in the transition to a drier pattern as we've been talking about the last couple of days. some isolated sprinkles but it's the kind of sprinkles that you step outside and you just feel a couple drops. that would be about it. we're in pretty lot of us get back to work and some back to school. look at the area of low pressure to our west. this has thinned out nicely. it's moved slowly but far enough west now where it's beginning to lose its influence in significant fashion across our area. so despite the fact we're going to have a lot of clouds and a couple of isolated sprinkles i think by the afternoon is when we'll transition to thunderstorms. we'll still get those, we're in

huge improvement from what we've been the last self days. temperatures now in the mid and upper 70s. nice and comfortable. tracking that low as it continues to head towards the west. it will be impacting the northern gulf. a lot of showers and storms but for us a southeasterly flow which will favor some late-day afternoon thunderstorms along the spine of the state here because of the sea breezes coming together. so it's going to be more of this -- nothing doing through 9:00, 10:00. then clouds thicken up. that is normal. except by the afternoon we'll see the thunderstorms building and we'll repeat as we head into thursday. same for friday as well. coverage about 50% through today and into next couple of days. temperatures recovering as a result of more sunshine. upper 70s to around 90 degrees. it will feel a little warmer than that but we won't be stuck in the low 80s though that is always a bonus but to get low

year. so we have the cloud cover as a result. there comes the school bus. 77 through the morning. we'll have a few peaks of sun but it will be mostly cloudy and mostly dry. you also may need to pack the rain gear, even if it's not raining in the morning it usually is by the afternoon. 85 as we pick them up and temperatures as far as the high will reach 89 to 91. that that with mostly cloudy skies and showers and storms which will result in 50% coverage. we'll keep it that way. tomorrow i think we'll start with more sunshine so we'll have a longer period of sunny skies and that will warm temperatures even a little more. so about 92 for the high. and low 90s friday heading into the upcoming weekend. rain chances 40% to 50% typical for this time of year. abc action news at 4:30 begins

overnight a punta gorda police officer accidentally shoots a woman to death. what the police chief is saying about the tragic accident. >> and donald trump will campaign in florida. he'll be making several stops including central florida. >> it's the first day of school for hundreds of thousands of bay area kids. door quickly and safely. >> good morning. i'm james tully sitting in for dan shaffer on this back-to- school wednesday. >> good morning. i'm deiah riley. we got your back-to-school coverage coming up. first we start with breaking news. an update in charlotte county. a punta gorda police officer accidentally shot and killed a woman during a citizens academy. it happened at police headquarters during a role- playing scenario. the woman killed is 73-year-old