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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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in "the skinny," on this friday, june 10th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> my favorite part of the president is the slow jam in the news where he pointed out orange is not the new black. >> okay. >> referring to donald trump, of course. and hint. let's get started with the president. >> speaking of donald trump. >> exactly. both donald trump and hillary clinton are attending events in washington today. both will be speaking around midday. >> clinton begins her day with some new support from several high profile members of the democratic party. primary among them president obama, of course, released an online video endorsing her yesterday. >> the president praised clinton's judgment as well as her toughness, in his words. later clinton got the backing of the vice president as well as massachusetts senator elizabeth warner. both of them also went after the presumptive republican nominee. >> donald trump is a
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nasty, thin-skinned, fraud who has never risked anything for anyone and who serves no one but himself. >> but it's my view that a presidential candidate who publicly attacks a sitting federal judge who ruled in a way that was against his own economic interests cannot be trusted to respect the independence of the judiciary as a president. >> the vice president was referring to donald trump's statements about a federal judge of mexican descent who trump has criticized. trump's comments are still a hot topic of discussion even among some republicans. >> but trump seems determined to move beyond the controversy while criticizing hillary clinton. abc's tom llamas is covering the trump campaign. >> reporter: donald trump attacking the president's endorsement of hillary clinton, tweeting he wants four more years of obama but nobody else does. trump now trying to get his campaign back on track. the candidate blaming political
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correctness for the uproar over his charge that federal judge gonzalo curiel is biased against him because curiel is mexican-american. >> we're building a wall. he's a mexican. >> reporter: george stephanopoulos asking house speaker paul ryan about the comments that have rocked the trump campaign. >> he says his critics have to get over it. do you think he gets what's going on? >> i don't know the answer to that question. getting over that kind of a comment is not -- no, this is something that needed to be condemned. that comment is beyond the pale. that's not political correctness. suggesting that a person can't do their job because of their race or ethnicity, that's not a politically incorrect thing to do. that's just a wrong thing to say. >> reporter: trump meeting with his fund-raising team. i asked campaign chairman paul manafort about the challenges ahead. >> any reluctance from donors after the judge curiel issue? >> w
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>> donald trump and hillary clinton got into a twitter war after trump sent out that tweet. clinton responding with home run own tweet that the read delete your account. the most popular tweet of that their entire campaign. at last check, more than 250,000 retweets. but trump, of course, fired back saying, how long did it take your staff of 823 people to think that up? tom llamas, abc news, new york. >> who would have guessed a few years ago that the presidential campaign would come down to a tweet war? >> yes, the words delete your account are fighting words. that's what we've come to. >> there is a theory that this may be clinton's way of trying to just kind of poke donald trump and see how far he'll go. >> and see if he'll go on a late night rant on twitter. >> but they seem to work well for him sometimes, too. >> it is. >> all right. >> at least we've moved on from talking about the size of his hands correlating with -- >> there is that. >> yeah. moving onto the breaking news from ohio. a tense situation overnight in suburban cincinnati. law enforcement officers have been looking for an armed man
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including a sheriff's deputy. the area has been shut down and residents are being urged to stay indoors. officials say the suspect is a 19-year-old man, one of the victims is a female deputy who had responded to a call about a doe pless tick disturbance. we are told she is conscious and alert. we'll stay on top of this breaking news story. >> and today is the day muhammad ali planned himself. a grand final farewell in his home town of louisville. tens of thousands are expected there today before the memorial service at an arena. there will be a 19-mile procession through his old neighborhood followed by a private burial. former president bill clinton will deliver the eulogy for ali who died last week at age 74. abc news will have coverage throughout the day. >> president obama is expanding the role of u.s. forces in afghanistan. he has approved more air strikes in addition to allowing u.s. troops to accompany conventional afghan troops. the u.s. troops will now provide assistance as well as advice in the field. that role has previously been limited to afghan special
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operation forces. u.s. military officials stress this is not a blanket order to target the taliban. and in neighboring baghdad, attacks by two suicide bombers have left at least 31 people dead and dozens more injured. at least 19 civilians were killed in an attack on a commercial area in a predominantly shia neighborhood. another suicide bomber rammed a vehicle filled with explosives into an iraqi army checkpoint that one killed 12 people. isis claiming responsibility for both bombings. hundreds of yarnell, arizona, residents are out of their homes overnight as a brush fire threatens their community. the blaze consumed about 1300 acres of land so far and destroyed three unoccupied structures. three years ago, another brush fire killed 19 members of a firefighting crew there. that prompted the community to clear out the brush. >> the community of yarnell has worked very hard the last two years putting in a fire break along the east side of town that we w
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burn off and herd the fire around yarnell. that is why we were so successful yesterday. >> and the federal government is also chipping in with funding to fight the fire saying it has the potential to become a major disaster. the fire is believed to be caused by humans. yarnell is northwest of phoenix. on the east coast, riders were stuck at a north carolina amusement park after the power went out. among the three rides affected was a rotating swing ride called the windseeker. it's the tallest in the park. the power was out for only about a minute or two, but it took about two hours before people could be brought down from the rides manually. >> the trial for the police officer facing murder charges in the death of freddie gray resumes today in baltimore. caesar goodson is facing the most serious charges of the six officers accused in the case including second degree murder. he drove the van in which gray suffered that fatal spinal injury. the judge blast prosecutors for failing to share evidence with the defense.
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creek, michigan, has been charged with five counts of murder following the hit and run crash earlier this week. charles pickett junior did not appear in court. but the prosecutor says he'll be arraigned when he's medically able. pickett is charged with driving his pickup into a group of cyclists tuesday night and then running from the scene. five people were killed. he could face life in prison if convicted. >> something cool from iceland. a possible break through in the battle against climate change and pollution. a power plant there is the first in the world to turn carbon emissions into stone. yeah, the team took the emissions from the atmosphere, dissolved them in water and sealed them with basalt rocks managing to do so in just two years instead of thousands they originally thought it would take. basalt is available all over the world which means the method could actually be scaled up and put into wider use. some of us get a little cranky with the weatherman sometimes when things get rough. >> they get it wrong. >> you can yell at the tv sometimes.
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but duke the german shepherd, he has a better reason for being vocal. the dog apparently loves to watch chief meteorologist steve caporrizo of our albany, new york, station. >> duke comes running as soon as he hears his voice and shows his enthusiasm for the forecast by barking along with the forecast. it's always great to have a fan bark back at you. >> i absolutely love that. we fostered a pitbull once. the people who adopted him sent meet a photograph i wish i still had. of course, i couldn't find. he heard me on tv once and they said he came running and perked right up and stared at the television. >> i have a little french bulldog that i dog sit once in awhile. when i used to pop on the tv in d.c., mia would come running to the tv. she's actually barking right now. >> she's probably so confused. what are you doing in there? come out and play with me. >> she didn'
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>> so maybe you were getting a different reaction. >> exactly. yeah, just about that. speaking of barking at somebody, bieber gets into a dogfight. a fistfight. >> uh-oh. >> that fight caught on video thankfully with a guy nearly twice his size. whoa. is it too late to say sorry? we'll have that in "the skinny." >> announcer: "world news now" weather, brought to you by american advisors group. weather, brought to you by american advisors group.
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stanford university swimmer convicted of campus sexual assault. >> now vice president joe biden is adding his voice to the growing chorus of outrage as we larn some new details about that athlete's background. here's abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: the vice president opened his letter echoing the sentiment of millions. writing, "i do not know your name, but your words are forever seared on my soul." the victim's letter, clicked on nearly 14 million times, describes in raw detail her sexual assault by former stanford swimmer brock turner. "i am filled with furious anger," biden wrote, "both that this happened to you and that our culture is still so broken that you were ever put in the position of defending your own worth." adding, "and while the justice system has spoken in your particular case, the nation is not satisfied." national outrage reaching a fever pitch. this banner hanging off an l.a. freeway. and a petition to recall the judge in the case signed by nearly a million people. all this as more details emerge
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turner whose lawyers say he denied ever using any illicit substances. but in a sentencing brief submitted to the judge and obtained by abc news, the prosecution says texts and photos found on his phone show excessive drinking and using drugs including this photo prosecutors say is turner with a pipe. a second photo in the prosecution's brief which we misidentified yesterday as turner holding a bong was in fact, another student turner had on his phone. in one text sent the summer before of college, turner writes, dude, i did acid last week. the judge weighed all of that and still decided on that six-month sentence. we already know that turner will be out on september 2nd. that is after serving just three months of that six-month sentence. matt gutman, abc news, los angeles. still a very heated case. you know, before it though, this judge had 13 years behind the bench without controversy.
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this, now he's getting some death threats. but there is that petition to recall him. i just checked. it has more than a million signatures. >> even the public defender on this case said despite what you may think about the sentencing which obviously he didn't agree with, he said that he doesn't think that the judge should be recalled. he says there can be public outrage but you don't want people recalling judges because they don't support the way that they do their job. he followed his job lawfully. >> yes, did he. and they decided not to appeal. >> when we can come back, what can president obama said to jimmy fallon about his new smartphone. >> how justin bieber got into trouble again with his fists. "the skinny" is next. >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our abc stations.
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♪ skinny, so skinny we have breaking news in "the skinny" this morning with president obama appearing on late night tv. >> the commander in chief appeared last night on the "tonight show" slow jamming the news and bemoaning the fact that he was once a hi-tech guy when he first got into the white house. >> the president said he was proud to be the first president ever to carry a blackberry and finally this year, the white house issued him his first smartphone. but it wasn't quite as smart as he was hoping. >> i get the thing and they're like, well, mr. president, for
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great phone, state-of-the-art, but it doesn't take pictures. you can't text. the phone doesn't work. you know, you can't play your music on it. so basically, it's like does your 3-year-old have one of those play phones? it's like that. >> the president of the united states. >> it's got like the stickers on it. >> i'm going to call minnie mouse. i want minnie mouse. >> your imaginary friend. that's beak the phone i've got. >> president obama also said that the first thing he's going to do when he leaves office is get some sleep. >> oh. >> what's that? >> you would think he would get like a real iphone. >> that, as well. >> also appearing last night on the show was the queen of pop. >> madonna was apparently so thrilled to cross paths with the president backstage, that she found herself a little starstruck. she shared two photos of her encounter with the president on instagram captioning one of them "for once i'm speechless." >> that's a pretty cool moment.
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"a meeting of the leos." a cosmic convergence." >> talked about birthdays and everything. >> according to another photo she shared of the president and the first lady, the feeling is apparently mutual. look at them decked out. >> that is very cool. >> next up justin bieber gets in trouble again with his fists, again. >> bieber was outside a hotel in cleveland after game three of the nba finals when he got into shoving match with a guy that was five foot tall as mark said, twice his height. oh. so tmz obtained this video. the shoving match escalated into bieber throwing a flurry of punches and the guy almost effortlessly slamming him to the ground before bystanders pulled them apart. >> the guy's massive. >> some witnesses say bieber was getting bombarded with requests for photographs which could have sparked the fight. >> apparently trying to save face, the biebs posted his
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instagram picture the next day with the caption "not a scratch on this pretty boy." >> on another photo is, he writes, "no hesitation." >> he's really good friends with floyd mayweather. i got to say in that five second clip -- >> his sense of boxing. > in that clip, he landed more punches than floyd and pacquiao did in that glorified fight last year. >> no one hitting anybody, right? >> no. >> the thing is, i wonder how many people just mess with bieber all the time? god knows what happened leading up to that and i can't imagine the patience level has to run thin at some point. finally to a much classier photo from across the lake. >> and this was certainly no instagram selfie. kensington palace released the final portrait in a series that was taken to celebrity queen elizabeth's 90 birthday taken by famed photographer annie liebovitz. >> just in time for prince philip's 95th birthday. we're seeing him pose with his bride of 58 years taken just af
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nstantly hydrates to plump and lift. ♪ so this week's headlines were dominated by two very starkly contrasting world views. >> yes, so you had the presidential front-runner under fire accused of divisive comments amid the passing of a boxing legends who leaves behind a legacy of bridge building. >> here now is our weekly "friday rewind." >> he was bigger than just a world boxing champion. he was a champion in life. >> he just wants everybody to be happy and celebrate his life, celebrate his legacy. not shed tears of sadness. shed tears of joy. >> he's a member of a club or society very strongly pro oisz mexican which is all fine. but i
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>> claiming a person can't do their job because of their race is the textbook definition of a racist comment. >> this is one of the worst mistakes trump has made. i think it's inexcusable. this judge was born in indiana. he is an american, period. >> we've reached a milestone. first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee. >> we are going to fight hard to win the primary in washington, d.c. and then we take our fight for social, economic, racial, and environmental justice to the philadelphia, pennsylvania! philadelphia, pennsylvania! >> i'm coming to you simply as a woman wanting to be heard. yes, there's plenty more i'd like to tell you about me. for now, i'm every woman. >> he ignored a jury and in my mind, ignored her. >> i could hear her screaming as
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i backed up my patrol car, he tried to take my child. >> he was getting his butt kicked by mom. and that was one of the refreshing things that you saw in that video. >> it's not a mystery to me. the same thing that happened to my daughter is what happened to whitney. there's only one person that was around both occasions. >> you won't say his name. nick gordon is who you're referring to. >> i won't say his name. ♪ >> and next tuesday, presidential primary in d.c. >> and next monday, cupcake lovers day. >> how do you celebrate that one? >> i don't know. by loving cupcakes. >> okay. all right. >> a little awkward. the president and the former secretary of state will campaign in wisconsin next wednesday, as well. >> announcer: this is abc's "world news now." informing insomniacs for two decades.
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this friday, june 10th, making news in america, president obama saying, i'm with her. officially backing hillary clinton and another major endorsement for clinton. elizabeth warren what issing donald trump. >> he is a loud,s thatty, thin-skinned fraud. he will never be president of the united states. >> plus, the twitter war between the presumptive nominees. a massive manhunt is underway. authorities just released the alleged gunman's identity and that teenager is now on the run. >> remembering the greatest. muhammad ali laid to rest today. where the legend started his boxing career. we're live in louisville. and get ready for late night laughs. president obama opens up to jimmy fallon talking about his
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