making news in america this morning, a young boy dies while riding the world's tallest water slide. we have new details now about the victim and the 17-story ridthat's raised fety questions in the past. losing ground, donald trump stepping up his attacks on hillary clinton as polls show him in a summer slum the republicans still dealg with the fallout of a number of controversies as he prepares to lay out his economic policy. we're live in washington. breaking overnight, a fast-growing wildfire forcing people from their homes. plus, sandbagging under way as the sunshine state deals wit tropical downpours and fears of flooding. and golden boy, michael phelps does it again taking home his 19th gold medal. leading team usa to victory. plus major upset involving

good monday morning. we're going to get started here with the sad new details we're learning about the amement park accident that killed a young boy. >> caleb schwab, it turns out was the son of a state lawmaker and died riding the verruckt water re in kansas city. verruckt means insane and that's at >> yeah. the slide is 168 feet tall and plunges 17 stories down. park officials aren't saying how caleb died, but the park will be closed again today as the investigation gets under way. more now from abc's alex perez. >> reporter: authorities investigating what went tragically wrongt this popular kansas city water park. >> our thoughts and prayers are with the family during this difficult time. >> reporter: abc news learning the 10-year-old o

scott schwab died while riding what's known as the tallest water slide in the world here at the schlitterbahn water park. >> it still brought tears to my eyes thasomeonelse lost their child that's my child's age that i'm sure they thought was safe. >> reporter: before the ride even opened two years ago, many raised questions about its safety, especially after watching these early tessafety showing sandbag dummies flying off the slide. the ride's opening delayed at least three times while the reworked it addingt belt and safety netting. >> they had tests that failed and they basically had to tear it down and rebuild a portion of the ride. quite possibly this incident is not going to be a result of a mechanical issue, more possibly a result of a human error. >> reporter: alex perez, abc news, kansas city. we're going to turn now to the race for the white house. donald trump shifts foinhis to the economy today after more thank mired in personal feuds, as well as slumping poll

ground, trump is looking to mend fences with the republ ican establishment and stay on message. we get the latest now from abc's maggie rulli. maggie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, kendis and diane. donald trump is trying to reverse his downward spiral by taking his campaign on the offensive, attack iing hillary clinton, supporting his fellow republicans and laying out his plans for our economy. donald trump refocuses today th a policy speech at the detroit economic club the says will help aricans. he's also endorsing speaker paul ryan and john mccain for re-election, something he refused to do last week and some hold-outs within the gop are coming around. george p. bush, the texas land commissioner and son of jeb bush who red support him says it's time to put the party first. he gopcrambles to unite, hillary clinton continues to make gains. an abc news/"washington post" poll shows the former first lady extending her lead by eight points. addingo his trouble,

putin. former acting cia director mike morrell on "this week" saying the billionaire has already been manipulated by the russian president. >>mr. fm ump's perspective, right, he simply heard putin compment h. he then responded by complinting him. he never thought that he might be be playing. >> reporter: yet trustworthiness remains a problem for both nominees. clinton's running mate says their administration would be more transparent. >> the bottom line is this, she made a mistake and she said over and over again, i made a mistake and i've learned from it and i'm going to fix it, and i apolize. >> reporter: clintmeantime, says she's not taking her lead for granted. in an e-mail to supporters, she says trump could still win if he ends eugh to convince voters. and like trump she'll also be giving a speech in detroit on the economy this thursday. kendis and diane. >> all right, that's maggie rulli live for us in washington, maggie, thank you.

california wheret-mo aasng fire has forced dozens from theihomes. the blaze calledhe pilot fire has burned 1,500 acres in a matter of eight hours. hundreds of firefighters on the scene with zero containment burning about 55 miles east near of silver wood lake. residents along florida's gulf coast are bracing for floodi heavrain is forecast from pensacola to tampa where officials are handing ou sandbags. some could see 1 to 3 inches each day this week and all that could even come withinn hour or two making flash floodi and as you can see that storm, the systems anyway will cover the entire deep south all the way up to tennessee valley and the carolinas. heavy rain and thunderstorms are also likely throughout the region, but beautiful weather can be expected more to the north. let'now s get the olympics and american swimmer michael phelpsdding to his already crowded medal case. >> if he can find room for it. phelps now has

he swam the second leg as the u.s. beat out france in the 0 relay. this is now phelps' 23rd overall medal. >> he's going to need a room. united states firsimming gold in rio came from a member of the women's team 19-year-old katie ledecky broke her own world record as she took t 400-ter freestyle. ledecky knocked nearly two seconds off her own . next in her sights tuesday nit's 200-meter freestyle king place then. and there was a stunner in the tennis competition, venus and serena williams are out and the sisters suffered their first ever lost in olympic doubles competition and felln straight sets to auo from the czech republic. this loss ends the williams sis sisters' 15-match olympic winning st. well, the red, white and blue has a lot of gold going into today's action. look at the medal count, the ited states leads with 12, china in second with eight, italy and japan tied with seven, and as far as goals are concerned the u.s. and china and

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and miami if you're taking to the air. here in new york pole are frantically searching for clues in the brutal slaying of a new york city jogger, talking about rina vetrano who went for a run lak anst weenever returned home. her body was later fouy her father, a retired firefighter. >> for the fir time we're hearing from her grief-stricken parents. they thanked investigators for their work and vetrano's mother had a very clear message for her daughter's killer. >> the whole entire world knows what a pathetic, puny, weak pie of filth that you are. >> policsay they don't believe vetrano knew her killer. hundreds gathered for her funeral over the weekend, and there's now a $10,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest. overseas former olympian oscar pistorius back in a south african jail after being treated at the hospital for wris injuries.

out of bed. he denies that it was a suicide attempt. pistorius is serving a six-year seence for the murder of his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. police are investigating the deadly shooting of a college student who was playing pokemon go near a popular tourist attraction. 20-year-olds calvin riley was playing the game near san francisco's fisherman's wharf. police are now collecting footage from the surveillance cameras in the area. authorities say the suspect did or attempt to rob him. they say they have no motive for that murder. a passenger on a spirit airlines flight is charged with assault after an alleged air rage incident. the 64-year-old passenger was taken down by a fellow passenger after witnesses say he attacked a flight attendant and tried to open the cabin door. police say the man appeared to be impaired. the flight heading from tampa to los angeles was forced to make an emergency landing in phoenix. a parking fail turned out to be a pretty expensive mistas ta

roadster attempted to parallel park but as you can see didn't go so well. she crashed into the ferrari 458. that ferrari goes for ou $300,000. you can see that crash drew quite a bit of attention. the driver of the ferrari was overheard saying, that's the dumbest thing i've ever seen. he driver was probably hyperventilating after seeing that. >> i'm not sure the ferrari owner was laughing when makinghat remark. >> no, not at all. after riding the bench for the past several wee, inevitable yesterday. the yankees slugger announced he is retiring at the end of the week. >> he will still be paid the full $27 million for this season and another 27 million for next year. >> oh, man. >> but he leaves the game four short of 700 home runs. >> this is a tough day. i love this game, and i love

>> but not entirely because starting next season, a-rod will be a special adviser to the yankees, and the 41-year-old rodriguez is free to sign on with another team for the rest of the season, although that's unlikely. >> pricey adviser there for the yanks. and other 40 something player did reach a milestone yesterday. >> our friends at espn have the details. >> good morning, america i'm john. that's kevin. we're here to talk about sports. specifically baseball angu who had 3,000 hits, not on sunday. it took a while to get there. >> just one on sunday but, right, 3,000 over the course -- actually more than that because he played in japan to start things out, but we get to here and now from sunday. that's ichiro and that's offer the wall, and that is a triple and as john said that is the 3,000th hit in his major league career. first player born in japan to reach that milestone. he had 1,278 hits in

baseball. congratulations. the hall of fame game between the colts and packers, first game of the preseason was canceled, unplayable field conditions. the root of the problem, bad paint b, logo at midfield got kind of yucked up and end zone had a similar probl. players and coaches expressed some safety concerns and despite the best effort of the ground crew, they were scrubbing and washing and raping and shoveling, they couldn't get the field ready, and so they said, no mas for the football. >> big weekend in canton, no game. >> bigch i mean, america was thirsting for football, and we >>'m with you. like it's not in the grand scheme of things, it's not a very important game at all but marks that football is back and the people of america likehe football. >> thursday is when the preseason begins in earnest. enjoy your day. for john anderson, i'm kevin connors. ll ght, fella, thank you. >> up next in "the pulse," historic w. an athlete in rio taking her country's first ever medal this one going viral, a wedding dance routine that

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top stories on this moay, the world's tallest water slide is closed while investigators look into how a 10-year-old boy was killed on the ride. previous safety concerns forced the ope of the ride to be delayed two years ago. if you're flying on delta today, you might want to check for delays. the airline is having computer systems are down. pictures on social media show long lines of people waiting at the check-in counters. well, people along florida's gulf coast are bracing for heavy so areas couldee 15 inches of rain this weeale. a front remains over the region rothsday. and looking at toy's weather, the entire south will hvy rain while it wille a beautiful dn the northeast. there ll be some sttered rain across the rest of the country. and finally from us this morning, a new weapon identity thieves preying on thousands of unsuspectg victims. >> they found a new way to swipe

and anyone with a cell phone can be vulnerable. abc's lauren lyster explains. >> repor a growing threat right in the palm of your hand. iden thiev hijacking your cell phone. >> my frlet amy know that their phones weren't working. >> reporter: lindsay and mark called their carrier discovering criminals crafted a fa.d., fooled storcl buying three brand-new iphones on tir dime. >> i think what happened is they got ahold of my online account because they said they had gone in and che a couple different times if i had upgrades available. reporter: this kind of cell phone hijacking is on the rise. over 2,6ases in januar this year alone. mo tn double than three years ago. why is this particular fraud growing? >> you don'teally need to prove a great deal in order to walk into a store and either change a service or do an upgrade. >> reporter: if crooks get access to other personal information like your credit

your phone. >> they saw,ou kw, close to $11,000 of charges that i di make, and th callemy cell phone to see if it's actually a aulent charge or not. the thactual has my number. he can say, sure, ye. >> rep to orter:otect yourself experts say call you phor ll carrier and set up a special pass code or p.i.n. number serving as an exa layer of security for your account. lauren lyster, abc news, los angeles. >> that's tough because people are focused on keeping a password on your phone but this one involves not hacking the phone yourself but hacking your account. >> so, they're becoming even more bold. >> it makes you that much more vulnerable becau in some cases you don't know it's happening and take out other accounts an and/only find out when you get the bill. that's what's making news in america. >> do check us out at atmfans.com.

>> we're following baking news this morning, flights around the world grounded this morning. the airline that can't put passengers in the air and how it's affecting milwaukee's travelers. >> and a mistake puts the hall of fame game on hold. what happened to the field that kept the packers from playin last night. >> but first, weather watch 12. there's a warm day ahead but we're tracking showers and storms in the forecast. when we'll see rai >> good morning and welcome to "wisn 12 news this morning." i'm ben wagner. >> and i'm melinda davenport. it's 4:30 on this monday, august 8th. let's start with the forecast. meteorologist sally severson is in the weather center. sal. >> keeping an eye on the state fair frft today. after a few clouds around