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this morning on "world news now," democrats are rallying around hillary clinton. >> their presumptive nominee winning big endorsements from the president, the vice president and progressive party leaders as bernie sanders holds a rally last night saying he's not giving up. >> paying tribute to the greatest. see the preparations under way for the emotional farewell to momentum ali as the devout muslim is remembered for his commitment to faith. >> a frightening standoff as a woman is taken hostage at a museum. her terrifying ordeal caught on camera with her captor threatening her with her life. how she managed to escape. and a dolphin stranded on a beach gets a much needed lift from a human friend. a happy friday on this june 10th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now."
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>> friday. >> good morning. happy friday to you. >> do you know what else today is? >> it is happy portugal day. >> i brought a little something for you. >> oh. it's a red shirt. >> it's a portugal jersey. >> oh, okay. >> see what it says on the back? >> a little name branding. >> very nice. happy portugal day. how do you integrate celebrate? >> by eating sardines, lots of other food. drinking lots of wine. >> so your breath is going to be all rancid. >> it doesn't matter because everybody's been drinking wine so nobody notices. >> you're numb to it. good. we will celebrate. should mention you're portuguese. >> a little bit, yes. >> a little bit. me too. new developments in the race for the white house. bernie sanders is making good on his pledge to campaign until that last primary vote is cast. now, he didn't mention hillary clinton last night at a rally attended by about 3,000 people in washington, d.c. but it does seem sanders is being a
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hillary clinton collects the endorsements of some high profile democrats. >> vice president joe biden attacking donald trump last night while saying clinton will be the next president and quoting him "god willing." massachusetts senator elizabeth warren has also endorsed clinton saying she's ready to work her heart out to put clinton in the white house. warren's backing came after president obama added his support as abc's lauren lyster reports. >> i'm with her. >> president obama endorsing hillary clinton via this video. >> if fact, i don't think there's ever been someone so qualified to hold this office. >> reporter: this coming shortly after the president met with bernie sanders at the white house. fresh from sanders' defeat at the polls this week and with hillary clinton now the presumptive nominee. sanders staying in the race for now >> i will of course, be competing in the d.c. primary which will be held next tuesday. >> reporter: and campaigning in the nation's capital thursday night. >> our job is to
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economy that works for all of us, not just the 1%. >> reporter: but sanders saying he'll work together with clinton in the near future. senator elizabeth warren also making her support known on msnbc's rachel maddow. >> i am ready to get in this fight and work my heart out for hillary clinton to become the next president of the united states and to make sure that donald trump never gets any place close to the white house. >> reporter: on the republican side, donald trump meeting with donors trying to get his campaign back on track. and blaming political correctness for the uproar over his comments about the mexican ancestry of a federal judge george stephanopoulos asking house speaker paul ryan about it. >> he says his critics have to get over. do you think he gets what's going on. >> i don't know the answer to that question. that comment is beyond the pale. that's not political correctness. >> reporter: with the focus on the general election, next week president obama will hit the campaign trail with hillary clinton in wisconsin. >> our thanks to lre
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one more note about bernie sanders day in washington. after leaning the white house, sanders met with senate democratic leader harry reid. following their conversation, reid says he believes sanders has accepted the facts that hillary clinton is the presumptive nominee. reid asked him to speak to a gathering of democratic senators next week. >> israel has extra police on duty in the old city today the first friday in the muslim holy month of ramadan. tensions are high after an attack that killed four israelis. israel has canceled many trfl permits for palestinians during ramadan. the palestinian authority condemned attacks against civilians in general without mentioning tel aviv. in north africa, libyan government forces are on the merge of a major virnth against isis. militants reportedly are retreating from the stronghold of sirte pushing into the city center. sirte is the most important isis
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its loss would be a major blow to isis. a virginia man who joined isis for two months and apparently changed had his mind has appeared in federal court back here in the u.s. muhammad quis is charged with providing material support to terrorists. he was captured in northern iraq in march later telling kurdish tv he became disenchanted with isis. >> i didn't really support their ideology and that's when i decided i needed to escape. >> at least 85 americans have been charged with isis-related crimes but quis is the first to be captured on the battlefield. three people have been killed in houston after a small plane crashed into a car parking lot. the plane missed multiple landing attempts as the houston's hobby airport and for eight agonizing minutes, the controller tried to help the might land. that hooilt pilot a mother of six was taking her husband and
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sick father. an investigation is now under way. the faa as opted not to require psychological testing for pilots but the agency plans to take steps to encourage self-reporting of mental illness. more training will be provided for medical examiners who screen pilots. this comes one year after a german wings pilot who struggled with mental health issues deliberately crashed a plane into the alps. 150 people were killed. tens of thousands of fans are expected to attend today's memorial service for muhammad ali in his hometown of louisville, kentucky. yesterday the legend was mourned at a muslim prayer service. abc's ryan smith has more. >> it was what the champ himself had hoped for. ♪ >> reporter: 15,000 people of all races and religions attending muhammad ali's jenaza, part of the funeral ritual for the islamic faith. his body arriving at this arena in louisville. his beloved hometown. his family fellow boxing greats and people from all over the
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of cell phones capturing the moment. >> this is a great crowning ceremony for his life. >> ali had no shortage of admirers from the common man to celebrities. >> whether you are black, white, asian or latina, jewish, christian, muslim or atheist, ali belongs to you. >> reporter: everyday people like jeff lally mattered most to the champ. lally showing us decades only video from the day ali stopped by his gym playfully challenging him. >> he said ladies and gentlemen, the kid can fight. >> louisville celebrates with a 19-mile procession through the city followed by an inner faith service for tens of thousands. >> ryan smith, abc news, louisville, kentucky. >> thank you. we'll have much more from louisville throughout the day here on abc. meanwhile, congress is moving to rescue puerto rico's debt stricken the government. the house voted overwhelmingly to allow the territory to
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in return for federal oversight of their government. the bill had bipartisan support but still needs senate an probable. a $2 billion on the bond is due in just three weeks. when it comes to eating tex mex, diners apparently got to go to mo's. mo's southwest grill is now the most popular brand in that specialty. after a rough year, chipotle fell all the way from first to fifth. mo's is known for a wide selection of ingredients for some build your own menu items. >> so there's good news for parents. teens are having a lot less sex. a new survey from the cdc finds only 41% of high school students have had sex. that by the way is down from 47% for much of the last decade. the survey also finds a decrease in students who had had sex before the age of 13 and the researchers noted that video game usage has nearly doubled since 2003. the world health organization is
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warnings about the zika virus. the who says women who live in areas where it's spreading should considering delaying pregnancy since there's no other sure way to avoid the risk of birth defects. the head of the cdc is urging lawmakers and congress to act quickly in approving more money to fight zika. >> a vaccine is promising but it's going to take at least a couple years to have it available. even when and if we have a vacci vaccine, we need a better way to control mosquitoes. >> the house and senate are supposed to negotiate differences in their bills to fight the virus. >> fans were late for last night's game of the stanley cup final in pittsburgh. they missed quite a bit. the penguins and san jose sharks scored four goals in just over five minutes of the game that by the way is the fastest opening four-goal opening in history.
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an empty net goal later. and the sharks are alive. final score, 4-2. game six sunday in san jose. >> basketball keeping things interesting. hockey keeping things interesting. >> there's something else. >> there is something else. today is the day, everybody. are you ready? >> i'm ready. i'm scared. >> it's the month long soccer party known as the european championship. >> yes. >> gets under way in france. >> i knew you wanted to know that. so this was the scene in paris early this morning as dawn broke across cat french capital. last night, it was a whole different thing as about 90,000 people gathered for a concert at the foot of the eiffel tower. security is tight. following the european terror attacks. now, the tournament first match is today with romania facing france. and yes, i'm a fan of la blue to win the whole thing. >> why is that. >> because i like the french. >> just because.
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>> what about the portuguese. >> i've had escargot. >> it is portugal day. >> for today i'm with portugal. >> not today, tuesday when they play. >> i'm for portugal when they play. >> where is your jersey? >> there's a little bit of competition in the back because jack is all about who? >> who's going to win this one, baby. >> england. >> my husband's british. i'm rooting for england on saturday, too. but when portugal plays on tuesday. >> he's english, away. >> he is english, that's true. he is english. >> listen, the key about all of this important part we want to get across is that it allows you to be drunk at 5:00 a.m. and it's socially acceptable at a bar. >> you can join us for happy hour is what we're saying. coming up, this is a scary one. a woman taken hostage, the whole standoff caught on camera. >> the ordeal happening inside a museum as police figure out how to get her out alive. that story
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this is in namibia. he spotted something strange on a beach and realized it was a male dolphin. the kayaker picked it up and carried it into the surf. he says as soon as he put it into the water, it took off like a bullet. biologists say that was the right thing to do for a beached dolphin, although others may want to call for help. here at home, by standers tried to come to the rescue of a woman taken hostage inside a museum in oregon. >> we're getting a look at newly released video that captured the frightening standoff. here's abc's kayna whitworth. >> reporter: nearly six minutes of terror at the museum. cell phone video capturing the moment a male visitor takes a female employee at the high desert museum in oregon hostage, dragging her across the hallway. she grabs the corner of the wall, but the 6'6" aggressor pulls her away. >> you don't have to do this. >> yes, i do. >> the male is holding female, his arm around her neck, threatening to kill her. >> reporter: the suspect, identified by authorities as
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36-year-old nicholas berger. he then puts that gift shop employee in a chokehold. authorities say he had a knife. >> he's gonna hurt her. >> reporter: others approaching him, trying to help. then you see her break free. oregon state trooper richard brannin confronts the man outside. >> shots fired. >> reporter: firing three times and killing him. >> she believed, and i believe as well, that if mr. berger got her out of that building, she would not be with us today. >> reporter: the victim who is okay had never even seen this man before. and they're still trying to piece together a motive. kayna whitworth, abc news, los angeles. >> such a bizarre story. >> it is. now this incident actually happened last tuesday but we're just getting a look at the video right now. it's frightening when you hear about it simply but then seeing the video. >> and happening in front of all those people in the middle of the day. >> absolutely weird. >> an investigation under way now, of course. coming up in our next half hour it, vpts joe biden joins a chorus of growing outrage over the sentenc
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stanford athlete convicted of sexual assault. the words of encouragement now from the vice president and what we're still learning. >> but first an even closer look at o.j. simpson. the revealing new documentary on espn shedding new light on one of the most notorious murder trials in american history. you're watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now"
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♪ more than 20 years later, we're still learning new details about o.j. simpson and his murder trial. >> a new documentary debuts tomorrow night here on abc offering new and revealing interviews with people close to simpson. abc's aim you row back has the story. >> more than 20 years after the verdict -- >> not guilty of the crime of murder. >> reporter: america's interest in simp on has been
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this spring millions watched the mini series "the people versus o.j. simpson." if i don't talk it looks like i have something to hide. there's a brands new documentary from espn? o.j. made in america," a five-part series telling what may be the definitive story from the lawyers, jurors all part of it. >> he's plucked out of the black community. out of the black consciousness and he submerged in an all white university. >> reporter: the film chronicle kaz the rise and fall of the hall of famer, that initial shock of his arrest. >> it was quite surprising. your ex-husband's always a suspect in a case. >> reporter: and it devils into the explosive history of race relations and the l.a.p.d. and how that was used by the defense like when the jury was brought to see his house. >> we took all of his white friends down, put all of his black people
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never seen before. because that's what we were told the jury would identify with. >> the defense team's job as carl douglas and anyone else would tell you is to use all the arrows in their quiver. >> if we had had a latin jury, we would have had a sombrero. there would have been a mariachi band out front. we would have had a pinata at the upper staircase. >> reporter: so in the end, what does the film's director think? did o.j. do it. >> the last thing i want to do is take away from the greater message of the film which is honestly trying to hear from all sides and to understand why all this stuff happened both the crime itself potentially but also sort of from everyone lost their minds in the case in 1994 or '95 and why the verdict was what it was. >> reporter: amy row back, abc news, new york. >> i can't believe it's been 20 plus years and it's still so popular with so many viewers all
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this morning on "world news now," donald trump meets with potential donors as hillary clinton earns prominent endorsements. her supporters also took the opportunity to blast trump and that campaign battle is now spilling on to social media. we have the details straight ahead. and breaking news out of ohio. an overnight manhunt for a suspect who opened fire near a supermarket. a sheriff's deputy was shot. police urging residents to stay indoors. the late breaking details ahead. and new this half hour, the latest developments in the stanford swimmer convicted of sexual assault. >> the outrage over his sentencing extending to the highest reaches of the government. the vice president now weighing in as we learn more about the holes in the swimmer's defense. >> president obama opens up on the "tonight show." what we never knew about the president's new smartphone and why it's really not that smart at all. we

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