this morning on "world news now," the president throwing shade. the simmering tension between the president and attorney general. >> president trump saying jeff sessions should not have recused himself from the russia probe and admitting he wouldn't have hired him in the first place if he had known he would step aside. and we're following breaking news following senator john mccain, the confirmation he has a brain tomb iumor. what we're learning about the specific type of cancer he's battling and the latest outpouring of support. and today is the big day for o.j. simpson, set to face a parole board that will decide whether to set him free. and we're hearing from one man who once held

his hands. tell your neighbor to put some shoes on. we're taking a look at flyi fau pas to see which side we fall on. is it okay to leave your feet all out thayer in tere in the p seat. it's thursday, july 20th. from abc news, this is "world news now." >> it really is a debate of our generation. >> we have a lot going on. we talk about the feet issue. >> diane is backpacking in bhutan. >> feel sorry for her. >> she's missing out on these debates. we're going to start with breaking news from the white house. i guess the president was taking direct aim at the justice department with the darkest criticism at jeff sessions. >> the president expressing regret over hiring sessions, telling the "new york times" he wouldn't have given him the job

himself into the investigation of russian meddling. >> and sessions was the first to endorse his presidency. but the president is blaming him for opening the door to a special counsel. >> jeff sessions takes the job. gets into the job, recuses himself. i then have, which, which frankly, i think it's very unfair to the president. how do you take a job and then recuse yourself? if he would have recused himself before the job, i would have said, thanks, but i can't, i'm not going to take you. it's extremely unfair, and that's a mild word to the president. >> well, the president also took a swipe at the special counsel, robert mueller, warning that his team would cross a red line if they started digging into trump family finances, not related to russia. but he did not say what he would do about it. >> the president expressing frustr

attorney general and act fbi director, trump suggesting james comey was trying to use a salacious dossier as leverage against him. >> the president choosing the so-called failing "new york times" for that interview there. as for the probe it is moving forward, the president's son-in-law jar son-in-law jared kushner to meet with congress behind closed doors. >> so far, no word on whether they will indeed appear. all three men are expected to be asked about a meeting with a russian lawyer and any other potential russian contacts. also break right now, doctors confirming senator john mccain is battling a brain tumor. >> arizona republican is 80 years old. the tumor was discovered last friday when mccain had a blood clot removed from above his left eye. they managed to remove all of the tumor that

brain scans. >> mccain's wife cindy tweeting overnight that her husband is doing well. we are joined live with the latest. good morning. >> it is a tough diagnosis for a man known as one of the toughest senators on capitol hill, but it's not mccain's first battle with cancer. the former presidential candidate underwent three surgeries between 1993 and 2002 to remove four melanomas, but their latest diagnosis is different. glioblastoma is a rare form of brain cancer, affecting three out of every 100,000 people in the u.s. and the prognosis can vary based on a number of factors. i remains in arizona after the surgery that led to the diagnosis in the first place u a. and doctors say he is improving well. statements have been pouring in from president

obama, hillary clinton and mccain's senate colleagues among many, many others, but one of the most touching statements so far is this one, from mccain's own daughter meghan who confessed she's scared of losing her daughter, and she said while cancer may afflict him in many ways it will not make him surrender, nothing ever has. is that right mccain is be being treated at a clinic in phoenix. there is no word yet on when the senator may return to washington. >> his daughter alluding to this. the fact that the senator is really no stranger to adversity. he's faced so many obstacles in his past, known as a fighter. >> that's absolutely true. we're hearing this again and again from the statements of support from people who know him best. this is a man who survived being a prisoner of war in vietnam, a man who ran for president, who hafa

battles, a decades-long career. he is not one to back down from a fight. and we've heard this again and again from people who have known him longest, people who have known him best. guys they say the cancer in this case picked the wrong guy. >> lot of people using the term "tough" in describing john mccain but also tough in describing that diagnosis. thank you. and president trump also tweeted about mccain. but in the meantime, he's urge being sena urgeing senate republicans to get back to work on a last-ditch effort on health care. >> he's reminding them of their mommis promise to get rid of obamacare. over the past few days, the president repeatedly changed his position. he first pushed for repeal and replace. then repeal only before declaring let obamacare fail. now he's back to his original plan. >> we should repeal and replace, and we shouldn't leave t

until this is complete, until this bill is on my desk. >> more than 150 protesters were arrested on capitol hill as they rallied against the effort to abolish obamacare. the latest report from the congressional budget office says a repeal-only bill would leave 32 million more people uninsured over the next decade and average premiums would double. the supreme court is upholding part of a lower court order on president trump's travel ban. it allows grandparents and other relatives of u.s. residents to enter the country from six mostly muslim countries. it also allows familiarly to help those visitors get into the oust. but it also ruled the trump administration can strictly enforce its ban on refugees. now to the wildfire in yosemite national park. nearly two dozen homes nearby have been destroyed. more than 4,000eo

entire town of mariposa. the fire is now at 75 square miles, it has doubled in size since this time yesterday. however, it is now moving south, away from the park, which remains open to visitors, despite all that smoke and haze in the air. >> a new study finds that the world has produced so much plastic waste it could burr eye the entire island of manhattan, two miles deep. researchers say since 1950, our planet has made more than 9 billion tons of plastic. the problem they say is that plastic doesn't break down easily, as we all know. so about 75% ends up in land fills or in the ocean. and less than 10% is actually recycled. excitement now building for next month's total solar eclipse. this is really cool, the first one to be visible from the u.s. mainland in 38 years. a total

on earth. those along a70-mile wide past from oregon to south carolina will get the full effect. hotels along that path already filling up. >> wow. and alaska airlines plans a flight to show everybody the eclipse from the sky. so nfl training camps are starting. james connor, his jersey is the second-biggest seller right now behind tom brady. that's according to one retailer, amazing. >> yeah, it is. he gained national attention two years ago at the university pittsburgh while successfully battling hodgkins lymphoma. he scored 20 touchdowns last season for pitt and was drafted in the third round. >> and check out falcons rookie linebacker, duke riley, working out, as you do, by pulling a suv that weighs nearly 6,000 pounds. not bad. the third-round pick -- with a

lsu posted a video doing extreme pushups. i see. >> is that a bungee cord? >> wow. that's on a cord. >> that's like your daily routine, right, kendis? first pulling cars and then the pushups with the bungee cord. >> defense is going to take him out. >> throw a chain on him, do some pushups, why not? >> it would be good if he had some weight on ton p of it. >> why not add to it. the helicopter that made an emergency landing in the ocean with a well-known personality on board. and road rage spilling out into the streets of manhattan. one man pulling out a machete. check out our behind the scenes pi scenes pics on wnn fans.com. you're watching "world news now."

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a hirelicopter carrying two people forced to make an emergency landing in the water after long island, new york. he deployed pontoons to stay afloat until emergency responders got there. the chopper was playing wwe executive shane mcmahon, the ceo of vince mcmahon. then this wild scene from new york city. the guy in the white tee shirt wielding a machete while the guy in the tank top was holding onto a garbage can. one swing of the machete, and it went flying down broadway. this comes with its own little sound track, i'd say. and then they were standing in the middle of the street, exchanging employs, think also threw some stuff at each other. the whole thing started as a road rage dispute. the guy who had the machete was arrested. ah, new york in the summer. >> there are no w

further south, another case of road rage in virginia ended in a hail of bullets. >> this morning police are still trying to piece together what exactly happened. here's abc's david cukerley. >> reporter: the end of a road rage shooting that left a driver wounded. surveillance video reportedly showing part of the incident. that black suv pulling off the road. it's difficult to see, but the other vehicle, a van, drives on. >> a white mail suspect in a white sprinter van. >> reporter: an immediate manhunt starts. police say this all began on the interstate. after exiting, the vehicles hit a stoplight. the driver of the suv wassage tatd, pulled in front of the van and got out of her vehicle. >> she gets out the car and he opens the door. he didn't say nothing, just started shooting. >> reporter: road rage incidents are climbing. we've seen vehicles bumping each other or guns pulled. a private tracking group says

than doubled in the past two years. the incident that happened here has come to an end, the suspect, a 58-year-old maryland man has turned himself in to police. coming up in the next half hour. the terrifying moments for a pilot forced to land on a busy highway. >> but first today is the big day for o.j. simpson. should a parole board set him free? next we're hearing from one of the jurors in his murder trial. stay with us. new lysol power & fresh 6 goes to work flush after flush for a just-cleaned feeling that lasts up to 4 weeks. lysol. what it takes to protect. ♪...from far away. but they only ♪harsee his wrinkles.♪ ... ♪if only harry used some... ♪...bounce, to dry. ♪he would be a less wrinkly, winning guy.♪

we're back with a live look at a prison in lovelock, nevada. i'm sure you probably haven't heard of it up till now. but all eyes will be paying attention to this prison there about 90 miles outside of reno today. >> we're hours away from a parole board hearing to decide weather whether to release o.j. simpson. >> it's a place we've been in before, waiting for o.j. simpson. and we hear from a man who once held his fate in his hands. >> reporter: for decades, o.j. simpson has stood at the incendiary nexus of race, class, celebrity and criminal justice.

courtroom as a parole board will decide whether to set him friday. he has been here in lovelock since a botched robbery attempt to steal back his memorabilia. in a sense, we've been here before. >> find the defendant, not guilty of murder. >> reporter: simpson acquitted after the trial of the century in which he was accused of the double murder of his ex-wife, nicole brown simpson and her friend ron goldman. >> you had to have been there and lived what we lived to understand. >> reporter: now a four-part series, the jury speaks, airing on oxygen is asking jurors to recast their votes, knowing what they know now. >> it's not what we want. it's what the law is. >> reporter: lon pryor was juror number 247 during the people versus o.j. simpson. if you had to cast a vote about his guilt or innocence, how would you vote? >> i'm probably pretty sure that he probably is

nicole brown simpson and ron goldman. >> reporter: are hear oththere things that have changed your view? >> he decided to come out and do this fictitious book about if i did it. it became apparent to me in my mind that he was problem lit person who went over there and killed those people. >> reporter: but pryor says he ultimately stands by that not guilty verdict. >> it wasn't based on what i thought i did it or didn't do it. it was based on the presumption given to my by judge ito of reasonable doubt. >> reporter: the jury reached a verdict. >> not guilty of the crime of murder. >> reporter: pryor says his first days of freedom were mired in fear. >> i had people camped out at my home in los angeles all the time. i had people that would show up at my house and leave threatening remarks. >> reporter: for simpson, life after the not guilty verdict was also not as he may he

in 2008, after a baffling attempt to steal back his memorabilia, he was found guilty of robbery and kidnapping. and sentenced to that nine to 33 year term in prison. >> to go to nevada and decide were you going to take it upon yourself and go and take back your memorabilia, i just thought the whole concept of it was pretty stupid. >> reporter: after his parole hearing, simpson could be a free man again. as for lon cryer, his maim will forever be linked with o.j. simpson. >> o.j.'s stay in prison has been not so traditional. most prisoners have to have an i.d. card, and they've taken away all his i.d. cards for fear they may be stolen for profit. he doesn't have any identification in prison. >> i kind of get a sense that people know who o.j. is. he doesn't need an i.d. card. if the parole board decides to free him, he won't walk out of that prison you saw there in nevada until october of this

coverage of that hearing today at 1:00 p.m. eastern time, right here on abc. who'd have thought, a parole board hearing on tv. we'll be right back. not all fish oil supplements provide the same omega-3 power. megared advanced triple absorption is absorbed three times better. so one softgel has more omega-3 power than three standard fish oil pills. megared advanced triple absorption.

mix time here on a thursday. and we have lots to get to, including the debate of our time. >> it is the debate of our time. there is plain and simple, plain etiquette, in my opinion, i don't know if you'll agree here, what our viewers will think. there's nothing better when you get on a plane and you realize you have the row to yourself, but there's probably nothing worse than realizing that this person behind you has decided to take it upon themselves to use their feet, barefoot, there on the ledge, and also apparently. >> is that a good thing? is that not -- >> this was taken by jessica shar. she says that t

not only just putting their feet there on the armrest but also using those toes of theirs to open and close the window shade. yes or no? >> they're being -- >> utilitarian? >> exactly. >> no, and no. >> it looks like she got a nice pedi. >> how in the world -- >> jack's saying no. >> no one's feet belong there. >> you've seen worse on planes. >> that's true. >> where they've had their feet on top of the tray. >> oh, stop. i've had someone's toenails in my face, so maybe i've had a little trauma from that. >> it is horrible. >> i can't even. people eating breakfast this morning, i'm sorry. >> so let's move on to this young kid at camp, a 11-year-old getting to camp and realizes something is missing. so decided that he'd write mom and dad a note. here's the first note he writes, mom and dad, the kid actually uses the three stars. do not check if i had

i was so bored during free period. i expected more from you, mom. not so much dad. >> throwing shade at the dad. >> mom fixed alex's problem and sent some toys, to which alex sent a followup note, dear mom, thank you for the package that you gave me, i am working on a lego set? are you doing anything interesting? i am. i love you. stay safe. cute. >> he made up for it. this is, would you eat this? it's a burrito, but not your traditional burrito, an ice cream cotton candy burrito. so dentists everywhere are either thrilled because their pockets are lined or cringing at this. >> that looks great. >> you would eat that, kendis? >> that looks like a sugar bomb. >> you would eat pizza. >> i don't understand why we're making a big deal out of this, it's great. a very rare

>> you're not supposed to. >> by a fisherman, greg ward who caught the rare lobster, and

breaking news this morning on "world news now." senator john mccain has brain cancer, doctors removing a tumor after discovering it during another procedure. we'll have the latest on his condition and prognosis. and president trump's hard words for his own attorney general, saying he wouldn't have appointed him if he knew he would have recused himself from the russia investigation. that stunning admission just ahead. and new this half hour, the bizarre moment when a man pulls a gun out on a utility truck. >> guy shooting out the tires. >> one of the workers pulling out his camera to film a neighborhood resident apparently just snapped, firing multiple rounds at the vehicles.