making news in america this morning, breaking right now, a plane forced to make an emergency landing. passengers injured. the images showing damage inside the plane. republican party officials are reportedly set to meet with the trump campaign amid mountinr run as he continues to call president obama and hillary clinton the founders of isis. a man opens his garage door to find a little guy staring back at him. a ten-foot alligar. the risky removal caught o camera. simone biles and michael phelps make olympic history as does a surprise and emotional victory for o of our female swimmers.

you. we begin with breaking newshe make an emergcy landing after severe turbulence injured passengers. >> jetbe flight heading from boston to sacramento and land in south dakota instead. now, the airline says 22 passengers and two crew members were injured as a result. look at this. the pictures from social media showing the plane's damaged bathroom. a passenger there in a neck brace. people on terrifying experience. >> it was almost like a bang like we hit a wall and just dropped straight down. the was stuff all in the aisles. you heard people crying. >> the injured passengers and crew members were taken to the hospital. no wor on their condionbut we ocourse, will continue to update you o this breaking story. we move on though to politics and hillary clinton expected to release her latest tax returns as soon as today. turning up the pressure on donald trump who is still

>> trump is now acknowledging his campaign may be in trouble as he faces more opposition from republicans. and there's also word this morning that the trump camp is meeting in orlando today with party officials reportedly to mend fences. abc's maggie rulli has the latest. >> it's either going to work or i'm going to, you know, i'm going to have a very, very nice, long vacation. >> reporter: it's a rare admission from donald trump asking for help as polls continue to show hillary clinton with a strong lead. >> ohio is very close need help. >> reporter: showing concern about even historically red states. >> i'm having a tremendous problem in utah. >> reporter: as he doubles down on a new align of tack. >> i called president obama and hillary clinton the founders of isis. >> reporter: not walking back even when confronted by conservative talk show host hugh hewitt. >> he's not sympathetic to them. >> he was the founder. >> reporter: trump off course in what was supposed to be a week focused on the economy and hillary clinton gave her speech

picking apart trump's economic plan. >> a more extreme version of the failed theory of trickle down economics with his own addition of outlandish trumpian ideas that even republicans reject. >> reporter: clinton also fending off more attacks about her e-mail. >> 33,000 e-mails, no good, folks. >> reporter: but the state department is backing her up saying there was nothing communication between clinton's staff and the clilinton foundatn when she was secretary of state. more than 70 former republican party officials signing a letter saying they want their party to stop supporting trump and instead use those towards congressional races. trump says he'll stop fund-raising for the gop if they pull money away from his campaign. kendis and diane. >> maggie rulli live in washington for us. maggie, thank you. breaking news overnight at least four people have been

many of them in a tourist area. dozens of other people have been injured. authorities say they may be politically motivated to undermine the military government there. they say there's no link to islamic terrorist groups. a troubling new report from syria. a medical group says 1500 people have been killed by chemical weapons with more than 160 attacks during the war. doctors now saying the use of chlorine bombs as the new normal. just yesterday eight convoys finally reached a of aleppo and were cooking leaves off trees to eat. the death toll expected to rise after a building explosion outside washington, d.c. at least two people are known dead but several residents of the apartment complex in silver spring are unaccounted for including young children. search operations resume this morning. dozens of people are also injured. residents had been complaining for years about pour maintenance and recently complained of a gas

emergency declared in st. charles parish, louisiana, after torrential rains. officials say it's a precautionary measure with more heavy rain expected. several roads have been closed because of flash flooding. public works crews are on standby across the state. as we look at the radar the heavy rainstorms hitting louisiana. areas around baton rouge and parts of mississippi could get seven inches of rain through the weekend. now to sports and two of the best olympic athletes their spots in the history books. last night in the pool it was michael phelps winning an event he's owned for more than a decade. >> and simone biles dominated the all-around competition setting a record margin of victory in gymnastics. 19-year-old simone biles is the queen of women's gymnastics. biles dominated the women's individual all-around final mastering the vault, the beam, the floor and gravity along with them to become the women's

silver redeeming herself after just missing a bronze medal your years ago and stole the shot with lots of emotion and a big hug afterwards. michael phelps faced off against ryan lochte. lochte's only individual swim but it was phelps who came away with the gold medal becoming the only to win four consecutive gold medals in the same lochte finished fifth. phelps placed second in the butterfly. in a huge surprise simone manuel tied for a gold medal with penny oleksiak and set a new olympic record. the u.s.' ryan muir struck struck gold but in the 200-meter semifinal it was more disappointment for missy franklin who failed to qualify meaning her rio olympics are now

olympics. for the u.s. looking at all of this. looking at the simone biles victory. the margin of victory she won by more than 1980 and 2012 combined. >> we cannot give you a sense of how big it was for the other simone, simone manuel and her victory last night. the first female american swimmer to win any medal, much less gold and, you know -- >> for an african-ameran there's been this reputation that not a lot of african-americans are swimmers and so this is just such a wonderful moment to see her do this. >> the look on her face when she touches the wall and gets out of the water and looks up and realizes she had just tied for gold. she had no idea that was going to happen and, of course, she cried as she heard the national anthem. >> the medal count, united states continues to lead with 16 golds, u.s. has the overall lead with 38. still ahead a new study

of american children. also a rescue mission deep inside a cave. three adventurous students lost more than a day. how they were finally found. the investigation into whether a tennis player was poisoned to stop her from

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gun safety demonstration say they forgive the officer. mary knowlton w killed because when it was supposed to shoot blanks during citin's safety class. her husband was there but says he is not vengeful. people make big akstes and they shouldn't have to liv with it the rest oheir life. >> it to judge. i want to beangry. i want my mom back. i want one more day at least to saygood-bye. >> officer lee coel was role-playing as criminal when knowlton was st and remains on administrativeleave. police still aren't sure why his gun was loaded with live ammunition. >> macy's feeling the pressure from e-commerce and discounters so they're closing 100 of its locations. 14% of its stores. macy's says some of those

earlier they posted falling sales and slower traffic but numbers weren't as bad as some had expected. that news from macy's was run reason for a milestone on wall street yesterday. all three major stock indexes reached record highs thursday. that hasn't happened since 1999 when the dotcom boom was in full swing. there is a new headache for volkswagen hackers can build a wireless device that will clone a vehicle's key and say 100 million volkswagens made in the la t decades can be unlocked and driven off by thieves. volkswagen confirms the flaw but says not all models are impacted. a pilot forced to make an emergency landing after the plane's landing gear malfunct malfunctioned. unwanted guest, a massive alligator inside a family's garage. how exactly did they get it out? . this... or this. today, there's a new option.

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delays possible in new orleans, kansas city, chicago and detroit. and in arkansas a search for three missing college students is now over. >> a happy ending. they were found in a cave dirty and exhausted but they weren't injured. here's abc's gio benitez. >> reporter: relief after three students who disappeared in a cave are found safe. >> casey and here's daisuke. >> reporter: the trio found about entrance to the cave. >> i really scared. >> finally we heard a tiny voice off in the distance. >> reporter: 25-year-old casey sherwood a soon-to-be senior and cub scout leader who was reported missing by his wife along with two incoming freshmen japanese exchange students out on a spelunking expedition exploring the cavern during their summer break. >> pretty brutal cave and dan dangerous spots. >> reporter: brian says it shows the blowing cave.

has ever found the end. >> reporter: gio benitez, abc news, new york. >> detectives are looking into whether british player at the wimbledon tennis tournament was poisoned. gabriella taylor fell ill with a bacterial infection and had to drop out of wimbledon's junior tournament last month. the 18-year-old spent four months in the ic. some experts doubt that she was dlik ratley poisoned but her mother says the bacteria is so rare it could not have been an accident. federal officials say they're redirecting money from congress still needs to approve a $1 billion funding bill. in the meantime, health and human services is taking $81 million earmarked for medicare, medicaid and administration for children and families. government health officials call the move a short-term solution. marijuana may be legal in half the country but feds are keeping it on the list of the most dangerous drugs and a review determined pot has a hypotension for abuse and no accepted medical use but the

research into its therapeutic effects. medical or recreational marijuana is legal in 25 states. >> the heart association raising an alarm about children's health and says 91% of young people do not have healthy diets and it found less than 1% of american children have what the group considers ideal cardiovascular health problems blamed on diets high in simple car as sugary drinks. a video caught a small he was so worried he didn't have landing gear he texted his family to tell them he loved them. a helicopter helped guide him down. it spun out but the pilot was not hurt. the plane also not seriously damaged. landing without gear. >> amazing landing there as you said now we know what sully is doing. okay, so it's a busy time for sports fans. of course we have the olympics but we have baseball and hallelujah, footba.

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pretty big miste at the olympics. >> during the me 20 invidual medl. ryan lochte were going elps and he-to-head in the final there. inhe home stretch, plps was way aheadf the pack. but the announcer for the canadian broadcast company got a little confused. >> ryan lochte going to earn his 13th career medal saving the best for last, finally he's going to do it. ryan lochte is michael phelps in this event in even make the podium.might not >> oops. clearly he could not see that they have different hairstyles. he confused phelps with lochte. >> the announcer elliotte friedman is owning his mistake tweeting "i'm sorry, everyone. i blew it, no excuses." >> steve harvey has been there.

least he owned up to it and, wow, what a great win for lochte. >> i think phelps is over it. especially after seeing this. the score at baltimore's m&t bank stadium last night was 22 for michael phelps' 22nd medal. >> well, it was ironic, the baltimore ravens and carolina panthers were playing a preseason football game but they stopped the game, pausing in the fourth quarter to show phelps winning the 200-meter individual metly and fans jne players watching. phelps is from baltimore and as you mentioned the ravens won by 22-19 over the panthers. >> how appropriate? a souped up swing set that is no child's play and certainly not for the faint of heart. >> a 360-degree swing and takes the rider 30 feet in the air upside down. the guy riding is the british inventor who built it in his own backyard and he is not using any safety equipment.

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>> all right. it is friday. here's what's ahead over the next few days. a lot of sunshine and very similar to what we had yesterday. the storms that fired last night really continued right through 2:00, 3:00 in the morning. warm and humid, no surprise there with temps in the low 90s. partly to mostly cloudy skies at times. you woke up, you can see some sky out there certainly. look at that, temperatures in the mid and upper 70s across the areas here. farther away from the city lines, you can check in on the perseid meteor shower, ongoing as we speak. that cluster you see there is

moving set of thunderstorms last night. in fact, we'll put this into motion and you can see the storms that fire across the central part of the peninsula and took their time heading off towards the west. we'll still have the low clouds out there in some pockets. we'll watch for visibility issues this morning. for the most part, we'll clear things out. a lot of sun shine, blue skies and start building back up with the south east flow that will favor our area for getting the last of the thunderstorm activity. with that, just continuing here for the weekend. once we get the sea breezes going and the heating of the day, that's'll we need to get some storms. the futurecast, put this into motion. dry out there if you are heading out this morning. bus stop's looking good. there you see that sun vine breaking out around 9:00, 10:00 a.m. we'll all be clear with nice

showers beginning to pop up. thunderstorms redeveloping. here's the thing. if you have outdoor plans tonight, keep in mind the later on we get into the evening the stronger the storms with the rainfall and frequent lightning. so even clouds will be affected. as we check in on the tropics, no development is expected in the next five days. they update the seasonal forecast. we'll have more on that coming up in temps today once again above a hundred with temperatures anywhere from the upper 08s along the coast to the 90s across the entier your. 91 -- across the interior. the rain chance will be about 50%. that'll do it for the next few days with high temps in the low 90s. there you go. as we head into next week, similar weather conditions that

storms and morning sunshine. abc action news starts now. captions by: caption colorado, llc (800) 775-7838 e- mail: comments@captioncolorado.com i took the baby and i slammed her like this and i slammed her down. >> now at 4:30, extremely disturbing details a 6-year-old boy tells deputies how he killed his newborn sister. >> and a coaster accident. the questions now being asked after a 3-year-old boy falls out of a >> and cheering for trump. the message the republican nominee delivered last night at a rally in central florida. good morning, i'm deiah riley. >> we begin with that horrible crime in pinellas county where a 6-year-old boy killed his baby sister. >> the boy will not face charges, but his mother will.