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. breaking news this morning on "world news now." a military kc-130 plane crashes into a field in rural mississippi, killing at least 16 people on board, we'll bring you the latest. >> debris is scattered for miles, and authorities are warning caution, saying there is fuel everywhere. the new images coming in. and a new politically-charged e-mail scandal. this time it's donald trump jr. at the heart of the controversy. the president's son was informed in an e-mail that he would be getting critical information from a russian official that would help his father's campaign. then protests, blocking hallways and taking over offices on capitol hill as senators return to work.
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to repeal and replace obamacare, with president trump stepping up pressure for a new bill. ♪ i'm singin' in the rain ♪ just singin' in the rain >> ah, we're playing some of the best hits of 2017. and most of us aren't like gene kelly, happen to get caught notice rain the rain, it can be miserable, but not anymore, because a new service offers umbrella rentals right on the street. great idea, right? >> yeah. >> except it's already failed. we'll explain why on this tuesday, july 11. from abc news, this is "world news now." >> and we say good morning to everybody on this tuesday. we'll get to that a little bit later on. but we're going to start on a serious note and the breaking news we're following at this hour. some 16 people dead after a large marine corps plane crashed in mississippi. >> that kc-130 had taken
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from a base in tennessee. it's not known if there were any civilians on board. the plane came down in a soybean field but left debris in a wide area, leading to speculation it exploded in midair. >> the firefighters first on the scene were driven back by explosions. the site remains dangerous. >> we don't want nobody out there. we have fuel everywhere, we don't want anybody without responders in the area. >> marine corps has not released much information including where that flight originated. the fbi is assisting with the investigation, but not the enit is -- ntsb, a military plane going down 85 miles from jackson, mississippi. at least 16 people are dead. and the other breaking news. there was an explosion at the air force recruitment center in south tulsa, oklahoma. th p
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on the scene show damage to the building, including doors that are blown off. there's no report of any injuries and no cause at this time. also breaking overnight, there are new details about the preelection meeting with the president's son and a russian lawyer linked to the kremlin. >> the times reporting that trump jr. was informed in an e-mail that the effort was part of an effort by the russian government to help his campaign. >> trump jr.'s attorney released a statement saying he did nothing wrong. emily r emily rowe has more. >> reporter: team trump playing defense on monday after a "new york times" report revealed the president's eldest son agreed to a meeting with the russian lawyer in exchange for damaging information about hillary clinton. sarah huckabee sanders saying nothing about don jr.'s
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was inappropriate. >> there was no collusion, that they keep trying to create that there was. >> reporter: kellyanne conway coming to his defense on gma. >> he had no idea who this person was until she entered the room. >> reporter: now that detail raising eyebrows. why donald jr. would agree to a meeting at trump tower with an unknown russian lawyer with ties to the kremlin and invite two of the most powerful people on the trump campaign, jared kushner and paul manafort, to join him. after first saying the meeting was to discuss russian adoptions, he now says it was to learn about information that would hurt hillary clinton. trump jr. saying the statements about the democrat were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. when the topic turned to russian adoptions, he claims the meeting ended. democrats, not satisfied. >> this revelation should be the end of the idea pushed by the administration and the president that there is absolutely no evidence of an intent by the
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collude. >> reporter: but republican senator roger whittaker down playing its significance on cnn. >> i just think that's pretty much of a great big nothing. >> reporter: donald jr. has hired an attorney to represent him in the russia probe. he's lass tweeted that he is willing to work with the senate intelligence committee to share what he knows. diane and kendis? >> thanks, emily. number two in the senate says that a health care bill will be revealed this week despite opposition from his own party and the public. eight protesters were arrested yesterday. president trump turned up the pressure saying that he can't imagine congress would leave washington without a new bill. and vice president pence saying that they may have to repeal obamacare now and replace it later. an active duty soldier
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been arrested on terrorism charges, ikaika kang tried to provide documents and a drone to isis. he is a native of hawaii and served tours in iraq and afghanistan and was highlighted and decorated and once awarded the global war on terrorism service medal. police have made an arrest in connection with the disappearance of fire men in pennsylvania. cosmo dinardo is being held on a gun charge. his family owns the farm where the fbi is searching north of philadelphia. the young men disappeared over the course of three days and police now say they knew each other. and while investigators suspect foul play, deninardo is not currently being called a suspect. firefight otheers are makine progress against the wildfires in the west. a new brush fire erupted late last night in the hills above a south san jose neighborhood, prompting evacuations
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within a one-mile area. fires at opposite ends of santa barbara county are 15% contained and keeping people away from their homes c. and severe storms across the outer banks spawned multiple water spouts along the coastline, including one that moved onshore for a brief time near kill devil hills. honda is making another death on takata's defective air bags. the victim was repairing a honda accord when it deployed. it exploded and shot out metal fragments. the incident happened last year but honda says it just learned about it. this is the 12th death in the u.s. and the 17th worldwide linked to takata's air bags. now police are warning parents with razor blades found
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vandals are melting portions of the slides, sticking razor blades inside of them. so far, no injuries have been reported. and in festus, missouri, razor bla blades have been found in shopping carts. a woman was cut last week as she was cleaning the handle bar with a wet wipe. so your 11-year-old fishing in south carolina and you're like, wow, this is great, i need a really, big catch here. this is awesome. >> exciting. but? >> it wasn't a fish. >> oh, no. so he was all excited to reel in that catch. turns out it was an old purse. here's the thing, though, still kind of cool, because inside, there were i.d. cards, photos, credit cards, all from stores that no longer exist or are no longer open. the boy conditions realize the purse had belonged, actually, to a family friend. so they got in touch. turns out that pocket booha
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same area, 25 years ago. >> man, maybe you could use that blockbuster gift card, oh, wait, no. circuit city? >> not going to work. no. >> darn it. >> but, you know, he went fishing for fish. he got a time capsule. >> worthless one, except for the memories. coming up, blowing up the bathtub with pizza. >> oh. looks like a slice you can eat, but it's minneapoleant for bath fun. now a mom is making serious side cash. >> taste the rainbow. and reality star and model blac chyna went to court getting a restraining order against rob kardashian. we'll have her exclusive interview about that case. you can follow kendis and me on instagram at abc
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a dangerous rescue in sarasota, florida, after a construction worker's scaffold malfunctioned. he was left dangling ten or 20 stories above the fwrouptd. they were eventually lowered to the ground safely. a dockworker has been killed in philadelphia after a shipping container fell on his truck. it's believed a crane knocked over a container from the top of a stack, causing it to fall on the truck. the 52-year-old worker was a checker who counted containers and monitored operations. the accident is still under investigation. we're going to turn now to the high profile mud slinging between reality tv stars blac chyna and rob kardashian. >> yesterday, she was granted a restraining order against kardashian after he posted
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explicit photos of her online, an act that could be illegal. >> reporter: after being the victim of her ex's vicious attack last week. >> i would like to thank the judge first and foremost for granting me this restraining order. >> reporter: granted against the father of her 8 month old baby daughter dream. >> we had a complete and total victory. >> reporter: the incident that started it all? kardashian posted personal and graphic images of china withoyn social media. instagram has since shut down his account and chyna has denied all allegations. >> i was devastated, and i'm looking at this and i'm like, how could somebody do this to me, and i was very fearful. if you could do this, what else could you possibly do? >> reporter: it started off with a video chyna sent to him of
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kissing another man. why did you send rob a video of you kissing another man? >> if somebody keeps poking at you and poking at you and poking at you, you're eventually going to pop. and i was like, maybe if i send this video to him imaybe he'll leave me alone. >> reporter: and mr. kardashian's lawyer. >> we offer our regrets for what has taken place in the last couple days, and now we move forward to do one thing and one thing only, whatever's in the best interest of this child. >> reporter: it's chyna's past that seems to have colored incident. born angela white, she once worked as a stripper and has previously posted intimate, semi-nude photos of herself on her own social media accounts. >> just because something i used to do, i shouldn't be bullied to say okay you used to do this so you deserve that. >> any explicit
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may have chosen to post no the past, that's her choice. she gets to choose this time if these photos are made public, and she did not consent to it. >> reporter: 38 states and the district of columbia have made revenge porn a crime. in california it's personable by $1,000 fine or up to six months in jail. chyna says a restraining order was necessary for another reason, clapg he has gotten physical with her. >> he has hit me, yes. >> reporter: was this recently? >> that was in april. >> reporter: kardashian referred to the attorney's statement regarding allegations against him. since last week, the kardashian women have been uncharacteristically silent on rob and chyna. kim's representatives e-mailed a non-disclosure agreement she signed to be on the kardashian
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shows. chyna has not filed charges with the police and says she is not trying to get sole custody of their daughter. >> i would never try to take dream from her dad. >> reporter: how will you go forward co-parenting dream with her dad without animosity? >> hopefully me and rob can learn to have common ground and be the best co-parents as we can be. >> reporter: for now, she says she's just focussed on her children. what is dream up to now? >> dream is growing two of her two front teeth and her bottom left tooth. it's so funny, i'm looking at her trying to make her laugh. >> reporter: i'm linsey davis, in los angeles. >> beautiful kid. coming up, it's a popular summer activity, but paddleboarding in the wrong conditions can be extremely dangerous. >> we'll see how far off course a little wind can take someone on a paddleboard. you're watching "world news now."
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it's the "it" sport of the summer. go to a beach or a lake and you're bound to see stand-up paddle boards. >> while the sport has grown, so have the number of rescues and in some cases deaths, largely due to an unknown danger. we see how our reporter learned about it first hand. >> reporter: paddleboard
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in america, it seems so simple but experts say it can suddenly turn dangerous. >> i didn't prepare enough. >> reporter: nancy cuppa says she was paddling back from a lighthouse in delaware when a wave knocked her off her board. she wasn't wearing a life jacket or a leash and the current swept her board away. >> i was way too far offshore for people on the beach to hear me. >> reporter: she says she would have drowned if a passing boat didn't rescue her. 15 paddleboarders died in 2016, three fatal accidents in one weekend. and in many cases, an unknown danger. wind played a huge part. to show you how the wind can wreak havoc, i become the experiment. with the coast guard watching over, i put on my personal flotation device. beautiful day to go paddleboarding. even though it's blowing 10 miles per hour at my back, when i turn around the ferocity of the wind surpris
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as long as the paddle out. imagine if i'd gone further. oh, man. did i have to work out there. i don't know how long i could keep that pace up. it's just scary. then to show how fast this can go from scary to possibly deadly, we wait for the wind to pick up. it's now howling, upwards of 18 miles per hour. after just a few minutes of it at my back i amway out here. i'm on the board for five minutes and i'm 700 yards from shore. it's so choppy i have to get down on my knees to try to turn the boat around and get back to shore. the wind churns up the waves. oh, boy! i get back on the board, but the wind knocks me off. boom, i'm in the water again. the coast guard pulls the plug for safety concerns. i'm certain i
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♪ ♪ ella, ella, ♪ under my umbrella ♪ ella, ella, ella, >> theis song's about ella fitzgerald, right? >> we're going to focus on startups to start this mix, because a new one in china is off to quite a start. they've decided to start a sharing umbrella service. >> okay. >> put out 300,000 umbrellas in is 11 different cities. they figure, take an umbrella when you need it, put it back and someone elsewillgrab
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want to know how it's going? they have now lost almost all 300,000 umbrellas. >> that's how popular it's been. people have been we'll grab them and put them back. >> but they have forgotten the last part of that step. people are take the umbrellas and taking them home and not returning them. so the whole leave a penny take the penny thing doesn't work if no one leaves a penny. in this case no one's leaving the umbrellas. now we know they like them. >> maybe it's a monsoon right now. >> citi bike, you borrow a bike. you need to take it inside. >> genius. this was genius. this woman in maryland has posted video of what is a booming business. her name is ashley stewart. and she started her business as
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bath-esda. it's like a bath bomb. she has a pizza bath bomb. you put it in there, the shape of a pizza. >> looks delicious. >> tastes great. and then ooh. >> that's really cool. >> she started a little while ago with minion bath bombs to get her two boys into the tub, and now that is just awesome. and it's a soap. so it's kind of, it's one way to get them to clean themselves and also to taste out. >> i think i would bathe more often if i could do it with pizza. >> i would do a lot more things if it had pizza involved. >> on that note, anything better than a pizza bath bomb? mac and cheese pizza. it's happening people, pizza hut is out with mac and cheese pizza. they're coming out with a barbecue mac and cheese pete sac -- pizza, only
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this morning on "world news now," wildfires in the west. several new fires popping up overnight. exhausted firefighters working around the clock. we'll tell you where the danger remains right now. and new development surrounding donald trump jr. and an e-mail he got before meeting with a kremlin-linked lawyer. and forget tonight's big all-star game. the big show actually happened last night. >> it was bombs away at the home run derby with the major league's biggest sluggers putting on an impressive show, especially from baseball's brightest young star. and poor rachel. it's getting down to the wire for "the bachelorette," having to send two dudes home last
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