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in this morning on "world news now," the trump campaign is hoping for a turnaround. >> new numbers out overnight shows the clinton campaign with a massive financial advantage and in the polls, as well. this as he looks for a new campaign manager. >> what happened inside the orlando nightclub shooting? we have new details what the shooter said to the police during their standoff. as authorities defend how they reacted to the attack. >> hometown heroes. the cleveland cavaliers landing back on familiar turf getting a huge welcome from the city. and why steph curry's wife is helping move championship merchandise. and ready to wed at the height of wedding season, we're checking out all the latest fashions and styles to go big on the big day from the dress to the accessories and
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following our own bride to be nikki battiste as she gets ready to say i do on this tuesday, june 21st. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." good morning, everyone. i'm kendis gibson. >> and i'm diane macedo. we begin today with the trump campaign. >> yeah, a lot of news happening with the trump campaign including some stuff that took place overnight. with just a months to go before the general election. >> new financial reports so that the trump camp began june with just $1.3 million in cash on hand while hillary clinton's campaign started the month off with $42 million in the bank. meanwhile, trump has fired one of his closest aides just a month before the gop convention. >> we're talking about campaign manager corey lewandowski on the left there who was abruptly let go amid rumors of friction with other top staffers and trump's own children. some donors have also failed to sign on. trump told fox news last night that it's time for a different kind of
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the turbulent day coincided with a new poll showing hillary clinton leading trump by seven points. abc's tom llamas has the latest. >> reporter: a major campaign shake-up. donald trump firing campaign manager corey lewandowski. did this take you by surprise? >> i don't know if that's the response i would have. but what i do think is that the general election is a very different type of campaign than a primary election process. and understanding that people want to change the way the campaign is run, look, that's fine. >> reporter: sources tell abc news trump's children fueled the effort to dump lewandowski. >> i had a great relationship with them. i don't think that's going to change just because my position's changed. >> reporter: trump had refused to fire lewandowski months ago after this video surfaced showing him grabbing a female reporter trying to ask trump a question. the billionaire candidate stuck by lewandowski from the get-go. that's something you could see him ever doing? >> i know him so well, he happens to be right here. i can tell you, i don't see him doing that in a million years. i have a wonderful guy, a campaign manager. you talk about discipline.
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i can't do that. can't do it. >> reporter: prosecutors later dropped misdemeanor battery charges. >> corey, good job, corey. good job. >> reporter: but now is facing sliding poll numbers. >> hi, south carolina, i'm ivanka trump. hi, nevada, i'm ivanka trump. aloha hawaii, i'm ivanka trump. >> reporter: sources say ivanka and her brothers had had enough, and shared their frustration with their father. >> i think it's fair, but in many respects, he was coming to that on his own. we were there to help augment that and really think it through with him. >> reporter: trump now also playing damage control for his response to the orlando shooting. again, making the case that people in that nightclub should have been armed. >> if some of those wonderful people had guns strapped right here, right to their waist, or right to their ankle, and this son of a [ bleep ] comes out and starts shooting and one of the people in that room happened to
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you know what? that would have been a beautiful, beautiful, sight folks. but trump's now clarified that position saying he was talking about people like security guards and employees carrying firearms not the people drinking having a good time. tom llamas, abc news, new york. >> we're getting details about one man's apparent plot to kill trump. 19-year-old british national michael sandford is in u.s. federal custody. prosecutors say sandford grabbed a police officer's gun at a trump rally sated in las vegas. he was stopped by security at the event. authorities say he admitted he he would try to kill trump again if set free. >> the senate rejected all four gun control measures that resurfaced after the orlando massacre. the bills were voted down largely along party lines. senators failed to agree on legislation that would have expanded background checks and blocked people on the terror watch list from buying guns. some lawmakers ar n
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on a bipartisan compromise but no major changes are specced. >> hundreds of residents are out of hair southern california homes overnight because of two new wildfires. the twin blays northeast of los angeles consumed at least 3500 acres. one of them called the reservoir fire was started by a fatal pickup truck crash. only a canyon separates that fire from the fish fire. overnight changing wind conditions would tlent homes. the entire region is extremely dry and suffering from a heat wave. for the latest on the orlando massacre, the fbi released transcripts of its conversations with the gunman as the tragedy unfolded. officials say those transcripts defend how authorities handled a terrifying situation. >> reporter: we now have a better idea of the time line of the massacre that killed 49 people. radio transcripts showing officers inside the club within minutes forcing the shooter
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bathroom with hostages. at 2:58 a.m., 30 minutes after the first shot, omar mateen calls 911 calling himself an islamic soldier, then hanging up. over the next hour, calls from negotiators as the killer claims. there is a vehicle outside that has some bombs. you people are going to get it and i'm going to ignite it if they try to do anything stupid. no explosives are ever found. at 4:21:00 a.m., police pull an air conditioning unit, evacuating a group of survivors. the heef chief of police stressing there was no gunfire in the three hours it took support s.w.a.t. teams to make him down. >> i think there is this misconception that we didn't do anything for three hours. i'm trying to clarify that's absolutely not true. we have been training for this situation for many, many years since column birngs since 9/11. >> reporter: factors that add to an already complex investigation. abc news learning days before the standoff, mateen spent $9,000 on jewelry. two months
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over his interest in this florida home he owned with his father for just $100. the fbi telling us that they released the full transcripts unedited to provide transparency but they will not release the audio conversations from those calls out of respect for the victims and their families. >> our thanks to adrien here in new york. another baltimore police officer in the freddie gray case learns his fate later on this week. cesar good son junior drove the van in which gray suffered a fatal spinal injury. prosecutors say he purposely allowed gray to bounce around the inside of that vehicle. the judge will issue his verdict thursday morning. and now that it's tuesday morning, let's hope that the new nba champions are getting some much needed rest. they were partying quite a bit. when the cavaliers arrived at the airport in cleveland yesterday afternoon, it was quite a scene. >> j.r. smith didn't bother wearing a shirt as he got
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there were more than 10,000 fans waiting there to greet the team. lebron james carried the championship trophy while wearing a t-shirt that said "ultimate warrior." he has take it on instagram to blast his critics. that makes for some interesting reading. > okay. maybe he lost it in vegas. cleveland, by the way, their fans are having some fun at the expense of the wife of warriors star steph curry. while the warriors were blowing their three-games to one lead, i i shap claimed the finals were fixed for money and tv ratings. well, now these t-shirts with the taunting phrase bye ayesha are all the ranl among cavs fans. the thirtmaker says sales have gone through the roof since sunday night's title clincher. >> of course, a play on bye felicia which is not generally meant affectionately toward the person you were directing the comment. >> it's say
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knowing you. have a nice life. no. >> i wonder if she's regretting that tweet or if she's still -- she's still stands by it. >> she did delete it. >> she apologized and said the emotions got the best of her. >> keep it classy. bye felicia. >> the daring rescue at the bottom of the world. >> the last minute effort to save people at the south pole. we'll hear how they'll attempt to get to them in a time and place where the sun won't come out till august. and the latest trends from the world of weddings. the most glamorous and stylish new dress designs and how grooms and brides are working things like social media in with the traditional. >> check out our instagram, abcwnn. it's national selfie day. shall we? >> yeah, let's do it.
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beautiful shot. that is acclaimed italian composer and me analyst performing a floating platform or on a flowing platform in the arctic ocean off norway. the piece here is titled "ello ji for the arctic," to encourage conservation efforts for the arctic.
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quick, he's just holding on to the piano. dangerous rescues playing out on the opposite pole where a research facility worker is in urgent need of medical help. >> two small planes are waiting for a break in the weather for the final leg of there journey to the south pole. abc's alex marquardt has the latest. >> reporter: the two planes landing on the edge of antarctica, prepping for the most dangerous part of the rescue. just one will make the 1,500-mile flight in the dark. the sun set for the winter in march and won't rise again until august. the temperatures now averaging 70 below, at which jet fuel can freeze. >> you need a good weather window to make it from that base direct to the south pole. >> reporter: at the pole, at least one person needs an immediate medical evacuation and a second might come out, as well. >> we don't have the capabilities at our facilities to handle this particular emergency. >> reporter: this is just the third rescue of this kind attempted in 60 years. in 1999, a doctor at the station diagnosed herself with breast cancer.
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unable to get out, she gave herself chemotherapy. a race to the pole. a place so unforgiving, so remote, that the last person who was evacuated called it harder to reach than the international space station. alex marquardt, abc news, london. all right. coming up in our next half hour, a dramatic thinning of the herd on "the bachelorette."" >> two rose ceremonies, six guys shown the door. eight remain. so who is left standing? our senior bachelor analyst will join to us lead off the "skinny." >> there are now only nine days left if you still want to be a june bride. so what's trending in the world of weddings? how about two words, metallics and skin. you're watching "world news now."
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♪ it's a beautiful night we're looking for something to do ♪ >> something dump to do. >> you picked up on that one. >> finally. i agree with you bruno. >> maybe not the most romantic wedding song. hopefully more romantic ones at the weddings you'd go to. there are probably many in your calendar. >> the wedding trends these days are changing almost by the day or the week. joining us with what's buzzing on the white carpet isn't abc's nikki battiste getting ready for your big day. >> 11 weeks. we're in the throes of wedding season. not that i'm counting. so i went to the ultimate authority in the weddings here in new york to find the hottest even sizzling trends for summer brides. ♪ >> reporter: 'tis the season to be wed and there's no place for a bride to be like kleine feld. >> look at
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like heaven. wedding guru and chertoff is editor-in-chief of twirl weddings.com and showing us what's happening. >> when i see the runways right now, i think they are sexy. >> today brides are taking their cue from the red carpet. last year at the 2015 met gala, beyonce came out in this naked dress. >> these dresses are so sexy, they might make fathers of the bright bride faint. >> metallics are big right now. you're seeing dresses with three dimensional details. the design of the dress has flower or petal patterns kind of popping off the dress. >> there are also geometric patterns, convertible dresses and check this out, capes. when it comes to bridesmaid dresses you can now rent them. or thanks to pippa middleton,
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wearing white. >> let's talk about colors. >> monochromatic colors and metallics are stealing the show. from invitations to flower acsens to cookie favors with edible gold paint. >> this is from bride and blossom. >> this is from denise facinelle with some accents. you can see how can go in the traditional glam look with the classic white bouquet and pins and ribbon kind of glam it up a little bit. >> there's one trend that may tlump them all make your entire wedding story personal. >> speaking of personal liszing my fiance came to you for a little help with this engagement ring. >> and he is probably the only man to ever come to me without getting input from the bride. >> zero. he had no idea. we never discussed. >> reporter: lindsey skog gins designs her own wedding and engagement rings. she gets to know a
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incorporates their couple into a symbolic design. >> this is designed two rose of diamond diamonds that intersixth in different places. they couple found out after they got together that they had mutual friends that had at different points tried to set them up and one day they randomly met without anybody planning anything. so it was fate. >> reporter: she says rose gold angie metric touches can make your ring unique. >> this is a traditional round wedding band. from the side, it's got that octagonal shape to it. what a lot of brides are doing is making sure their wedding band is unique from the start so that they can add rings to their collection as milestones occur in their life. >> no pressure, guys. pile on the diamonds. >> speaking of diamonds, i want to show you some of the -- there are all these social media trends, tech trends, too. this is
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adorned with a bunch of crystals. reem acra for $500, fect your bouquet. if you want to get creative, there's also. >> that looks good on you. wedding wire.com has a #generator. you go online, i put in nikki battiste and my fiance dean simpson. it gives you fun #s. some of mine were on kyle simpson. like ba tease simpson and can you feel the simpson tonight. if you want to all of your guests anyone that instagrams a company called luster will send a printer and print master to print all of your instagram photos. >> i managed to break the selfie stick. >> this is your favorite. we were chatting about this. maid of social is a new duo of women maid of social. they will stoeshl media wedding plann planners. for $3,000
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all right. time now for "the mix." have you ever wanted to walk on water? >> yeah. >> why not. >> sure. >> there's a new art installation that might help you with that. remember the artist in 2005 who did the orange gate through central park, saffron colored gate in central park? those were 7500 paneled gates in the middle of the park. so that was back in 2005. and that was christo's last project. his new one now takes to us italy. where he has built these floating peers in lake iseo. not sure if i'm saying that correctly. it is three kilometers of this walkway that attaches two islands there. the material changes color with the time of the day and with the weather.
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him 11 years to get his next art installation. >> you walk across. they say it feels like you're on a rocking boat. >> yeah. >> and people enjoy the feeling of being kind of out there. feels like you're right in the middle of the water. >> very cool. also overseas, there's quite a sight in hiroshima, japan. this family own a milk company. so they decided what else to do with their house than to turn it into a milk carton. >> wow. >> they transformed the whole house into it. so they haven't been finded as who the real owners of this house is. but are. but the house has been there for several decades. and apparently they will run a milk store out of it. do deliveries out of it and they also live in that neighborhood. >> i'm guessing it's pretty easy to find when you're trying to get there and which one is the milk store. >> i can't really tell. >> not a lot of neighbors getting asked f
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now to krispy kreme where we have a newbie czar flavor. >> yes. >> to add to the mix. the new one is watermelon. watermelon flavored doughnuts. it's covered in a watermelon glaze and some chocolate chips to replicate the watermelon seeds. if it's not your jam, they're also apparently coming out with a lemon flavored glaze doughnut, as well. >> both of those sound all of. >> get them for you. >> a lot of us like to netflix and chill. so does this dog. >> oh, boy. >> i don't know about the chill part. but this dog is addicted to sitting on his computer and just for hours. it's a sheba by the name of chick cowill sit there for several hours just watching tv. >> we're sure he's not in a coma, right? >> i'm not sure. >> the dog hasn't been drugged or anything. >> he just sits there there and watches cartoons. >> did he order that hoodie on amazon. >> i think he's still
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this morning on "world news now," gun control debate falling flat on capitol hill. four separate bills all turned down. despite the latest polls saying americans want gun reform. so what happens next? the latest just ahead. the extreme heat wave in the west is giving way to massive wild firnz hundreds have been forced from their homes as two new fires spread in the suburbs of los angeles. >> and new this half hour, how american airlines are keeping flush. >> and it's not higher ticket prices. see how airlines managed to squeeze nearly a billion extra dollars outs of passengers in the first three months of this year alone. and let's call it the culling of the herd on "the bachelorette." two rose ceremonies, six guys given the boot. so who is left standing and what brought jojo to tear

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