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york. a businessman and grandfather are beginning ten year prison sentences in iran. those sentences follow conviction for what iran called cooperating with the hostile american government. their family fled iran after its 1979 islamic revolution, but apparently kept business ties there. the state department demands for their immediate release. back here in this country, it was a touching moment in the palm springs police officers killed in the line of duty were remembered at a memorial service. jose vega and lesly were honored, and governor brown joined the service as well as hundreds of law enforcement officers from all across the country. also in southern california, a fire on a tour bus forced the closure of a freeway. only the driver was on board when the engine went up in flames. los angeles county fire crews put the fire out.
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was behind the wheel of this stolen car when it flipped, landing on a house. the 16-year-old was ejected into the yard next and was critically injured. a neighbor says he saw the car crash into mailboxes, fences, and power lines before it launched into the house. >> how? amazing video there. animals in the news this morning starting with a pregnant manatee back where she belongs. she's named washburn after the island in the coast guard moved her yesterday from new england to sea world in florida. she will be cared for there until she gives birth and is released back into the wild. one mother already gave birth at the zoo in des moines, iowa is celebrating, an eastern black rhino, and the zoo announced her giving birth to the baby girl a week ago. >> the little one doesn't have a name yet, and, frankly, she's
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she weighed 80 pounds at birth and has been growing ever since. 80 pounds. >> now, the zoo says she was standing and walking and attempting to eat within hours of being born, positive signs that she's doing well. nice and healthy and literally bouncing baby girl. >> 80 pounds. a natural birth. >> oh, gosh. very cute. >> wow. coming up, caught on video, vandalizing a donald trump sign. what happened after one florida man posted t facebook? leading police right to his home. later, the video message from some kind-hearted canadians hoping to put america's contentious presidential race into perspective. why they say despite is all, america's great. first, let's take a look at today's high temperatures from coast to coast. "world news now" weather
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to help protect your home lysol that. let the customer beware. bold crooks grab a woman's purse out of her car as she's pumping gas just steps away. take a look. this happened in south florida. two men pull up on the left and just across from the victim and then they wait. credit card information, one guy saw there sneaking into her front seat and grabs the purse and the thieves take off. police still have not found the suspects. also in florida, a terrifying robbery inside a dollar general store. a 9-year-old girl and mother were held at gun point by the robbers. they escaped with money, and investigators say there was a similar robbery just last week. turning to app alarming report from government
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plane crash in akron a year ago. >> using strongest words used before, the ntsb calls the crash a litany of failures. >> reporter: answers about what caused a charter plane to crash into this ohio apartment building last november killing the two pilots and seven passengers on board. >> we have a plane into a house, heavy fire. we have a lot of wires down. >> reporter: the national tr failures. >> we're talking about the content level or the organizational level. it was infested with sloppiness. >> reporter: ntsb says the captain who should have been landing the jet failed to take the controls from the first officer as the plane descended twice as fast as advised. >> just sound like gunfire going off. >> reporter: the ntsb says the charter company also failed to
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fire the from past jobs. they did not immediately respond to requests for comment. according to the report, insufficient faa oversight contributed to the crash. the faa says they will carefully review the recommendations. abc news, new york. >> both pilots and seven passengers died in the crash, but it could have been worse as no one on the group was hurt. >> strong words from the ntsb officials, visibly angry after that. coming up, the facebook video that led police to a donald trump vandal. >> what happened after this man posted a video on facebook. you're watching "world news now."
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with the law. he posted this video on facebook, and it appears to show him intentionally driving off a roadway destroying a donald trump campaign sign. he was tracked down to his cape coral home with he was charged with criminal mischief. and donald trump has launched many criticisms at hillary clinton over the course of the campaign, but perhaps the biggest is over her ongoing e-mail scandal. >> the whole issue is still cop fusing to many voters. abc's dan harris gets us up investigation, was clinton dealing with classified information on that personal server? this is where the fbi comes in. >> good morning. >> reporter: what was the fbi investigating, specifically ? >> a question of if there was classified information on their server, and did people know they were sending classified information. >> reporter: this confuses me. how can you send classified e-mails and not know?
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e-mail, a little c, and she said she didn't know what the c meant. >> reporter: in the end, here's what the fbi decided -- >> no charges are appropriate in this case. >> reporter: and this is not the only e-mail embroiling clinton. over a week ago, wikileaks released a trove of e-mails allegedly hacked from the clinton campaign chairman. >> the clinton cam pane and their number one response is the russians did this. the russians hacd through them to see if news is made. so far, no smoking gun that's going to sway the election, but they are telling inside the clinton campaign. you see how calculated they are. >> reporter: and how concerned the campaign is about her own private e-mail controversy. >> dit shows the campaign knew early on this would be a huge issue for her campaign. it would have like at top dem
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not just apologize? her inability to just do a national interview and generate remorse and regret is becoming a character problem. i see no downside to her just saying i'm sorry. and john replies, we're all in the same place, trying to figure out how to get her there the best way to execute. >> and then a week and a half later, we see her going on with david muir of abc. >> that was a mistake. i'm sorry about that. i take responsibility, and i'm trying to be as transparent as i possibly can. >> workings of how these things unfolds and how they happen. >> reporter: with the election now three weeks away, how is this playing in the real world? you've spent time with real voters. what are you hearing? >> the e-mail story slouptly has resinated. >> i'm not a hillary fan. for me, it's a bigger trust issue than anything else. >> if you ask someone who supports hillary clinton, they will say, everybody makes mistakes.
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>> and why not? >> i don't really think she did anything wrong. there's bigger things they could be focusing on in the election, aside from this particular situation with her issues with the e-mails. >> reporter: the e-mail issue undoubtedly be con bustble again in the next debate now just hours away. dan harris, abc news, new york. and no doubt one of many issues we'll hear about for that debate tonight. i know our reporters following hillary clinton for some 18 months now, at times were frustrated with not gett ting access to her and then seeing the behind the scenes of, you know, john and others saying, we need you to get out there and answer some questions to the press to understand how it's all going together. >> right. interesting behind the scenes look. >> see how the hot dog is made, i guess you might say. the countdown to the presidential election, a message from north of the border.
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a pony -- >> yeah? >> words of encouragement from canada, and vladimir putin like never seen before. >> i don't know where you're going >> here's two truths and a why. good morning. >> good morning, you two. beginning with lemonade, but for the first time in my life, i'm not talking about beyonce's lemonade, but instead, say hello to the 7-year-old from australia who's gone viral after this video was posted to facebook showing his reaction to receiving a pony. like a lot of kids, he always wanted his own pony, but unlike most kids, he came up with a business plan to buy his own. the entrepreneur sold lemonade
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$2,000 it took to afford his own new horse, tomboy. his mom saved up money from presents and tooth fairy, and, by the way, that video there has now more than 75,000 views on facebook. easy to see why. so adorable. next up, a polite north, sympathetic canadians took notice of the political tension and frustrations gripping the country, and thanks to the viral campaign with "tell america it's tell us things are not ased bad as they seem right now. take a look. >> you invented the internet. >> you guys are going to get humans to mars. >> your national park systems park beautiful places on earth. >> another tweeted, america, you gave the world cherry coke and the internet and golden girls. don't let anyone tell you you're not great. further proof that maybe canadians, are, in fact, as
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than why, but if you're one of those people who likes to get a jump start on the holiday shopping, may a please suggest this calendar for the vladimir putin lover in your life. it's a variety of photos showing sides of the leader incoming one cuddling with cats, another holding archaeological finds in a wet suit, and my favorite right there, strapped into a hang glider next to, for some reason, a fluffy brown stork. i don't know. what do you think? it's the calendar you've been wain kendis? >> absolutely. i'm putting it on the list right now. >> forget the dallas cheer leaders calendar. that's the one. >> when i heard putin calendar, i thought for sure more shirtless photos. >> i was thinking pew teen. >> that would be dlirks.
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this morning on "world news now," setting the stage for the final showdown. >> trump and clinton facing off for the last of the three presidential don'ts. we're going to see how the candidates have been preparing, including how donald trump intends to get back at president obama for telling him, quote, stop whining. breaking news from san francisco. four teens have been shot in the pa school. students were sent running for cover once those shots were fired. we have more details ahead. bracing for impact, a wisconsin officer could only watch as an oncoming car crashes into her cruiser on the side of the road. the dash cam capturing it all. how it all played out. the final state dinner of the obama presidency with a
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