area. accuweather's paul williams joins us with the latest forecast. good morning, paul. >> good morning, kendis, diane. emily will strengthen once again after she clears florida. look for a wide range of rain and thunderstorms throughout all of florida. here's the latest tracking. we're expecting her to go by myrtle beach by tuesday morning. then problems we'll have? big impacts along the coastal region. >> it's going to be quite wendy o -- windy off the coast. a shootout has left two injured and another man dead. the man had broke fwhon into hi estranged wife. there was a scuffle when officers arrived. the man was hit with a taser and then shots were fired. the suspect was killed. the officers are recovering this morning. we

on the killing of a police offic officer near indianapolis. he was shot 14 times. he was killed while trying to help people inside an overturned vehicle. the vehicle is now under arrest. lieutenant allen is the first south fort indiana police officer ever to be killed in the line of duty. the country's opioid epidemic, a new survey finds 9 it92 million people took opioids. 11 million admitted abusing them. and there's a medical alert about cancer and gum disease in women. a new study finds women who have peridonnatal disease face risks of cancer such as esophageal cancer. more work is needed to determine why gum disease could promote cancer

a baby seal and her mom had a family rye unieunion on a bea hawaii. >> they became separated last week in a swimming area. rocky kept calling out but the little one didn't call back. >> wildlife officials tracked her down and they were back together within a few hours. >> how cute, rolling around in the sand. >> apparently mom was pacing up and down, waiting for her daughter to come back. the unconventional convention. more than 10,000 political junkies converged on pasadena over the weekend. but why pasadena? and why the latest internet conspiracy theory involving satan and the ill lum naughty is now swirling around outback steakhouse. the photographic evidence. it involves maps and pent grams.

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new video from los angeles where a driver repeatedly plowed his car into the vehicle in front of him before speeding off. and then hitting five parked

the victim in the car in front of him suffered minor injuries. the suspect was eventually arrested. >> and police near boston say this incident was caused by a medical emergency. that suv crashed into a hydrant, flooding a street in dorchester. it also created this big sinkhole. investigators say the 70-year-old driver suffered minor injuries. and next to the pulitzer prizewinner sam shepard passing away. >> he was one of the most influential artists of his generation and always proving he had the right stuff. >> reporter: like the rugged characters he created. on stage and on screen, sam shepard had hidden depths. as chuck jaeger in "the right stuff." he proudly went his own way, and heas

he had leading-man looks and the soul of a poet. he won a pulitzer prize and was nominated two more times. >> i took her out for dinner once. >> you're a liar. >> okay, twice. >> reporter: he starred in the film version. a critic once called him the po poet laureate. >> you cause a lot of trouble, you know? >> i'm causin' trouble? you're a pain in the butt. >> reporter: his partner for 30 year was actress jessica lange. notoriously private, he never announced his battle with lou ger ig's disease. he was remembered by friends and fans as a hero. sam shepard was 73. david wright, abc news, new york. >> died at a relatively young age,

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♪ ♪ okay. so we've heard of conventions like comic-con. but now there's a different sort of one that's popular. people who are politicos and those who love politics. >> for those people, there's

pliticon. it gives the west coast an opportunity to experience a bit of the beltway first hand. we're up all nightline with nick watt. already pliticon, the unconventional convention. costumes, photo booths. >> comic-con for politics. >> reporter: dragging political junkies of every hue out of their basements. >> he wanted to start a war with iran and russia! that's insane! >> reporter: the daily drama in d.c. means there are more junkies than ever. passions are hot. more than 10,000 people showed up over the weekend, an attendance record three times the gate for the inaugural pliticon. it's getting bigger. >> it's getting beggar aigger a conservative this year.

thought politically monochrome. >> there are a lot of mexicans bringing in drugs and bad things. >> reporter: the public is engaged. a recent pugh survey say six in ten women pay more attention to politics since donald trump won the election. >> it is energizing to be in a space where so many people care so passionately about politics that they would wait for a long time to get into a panel about politics. >> i believe in limited government. that's my main things. in some ways that's libertarian. >> reporter: tommi layeren versus chelsea handler. >> what about human decency? >> reporter: as the heavyweight title fight of pliticon. a little earlier we were backstage as the main attraction. >> we've never, ever met.

doesn't hold back. >> i'm getting sick and tired of the mainstream media. your husband was a drug dealer. it protects your right to be a whiny attention-seeking crybaby. finally we have a commander in chief who understands and isn't willing to put feelings and political correctness over military readiness and the mission. >> there are people that are listening to that and interpret the wrong way. >> reporter: let's hear a little more from chelsea and tommi. >> luckily, i am it 24 and i am still on my parents'. >> reporter: tommi admitting she's still on her parents'. but marco rubio has cropped up. >> he's

non-man. >> he's a what? >> like a non-man. >> [ bleep ] chelsea. how did we go from talking about the feelings of transgenders to marco rubio being a non-man. >> maybe he should cross over. >> reporter: and this about trump. >> he lies every day. >> what did he lie to you about? >> what did he lie to me about? where do i start? >> reporter: he didn >> reporter: she didn't know where to start. there was a lot of sound and fury, but this is a massive war for the country. we have people like you on the right. similar people on the left. do you think you're helping this country or tearing it further apart. >> that's what's frustrating about the left. they think conservative voices shouldn't be allowed to speak because they call us divisive. >> reporter: this is the new normal. >> this is how i wake up in the morning. >> reporter: the best entertainment we've got. nick watt for nightline, pasadena, california. >> what? >> what do you

i mean kind of lost me when that little kid was like l.a., there are a lot of mexicans bringing drugs over here and it continued. >> not his best moment. coming up in this happened, the story behind the lay guy design.

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t the wiccan practice. >> all the conspiracy theorists started going at it so much that outback had to step in. they said we have so many restaurants across the country, if you really look hard enough you can put them into any kind of design you want. >> but i am still thinking. >> it could be a circle, too. they're just dots that surround no center. >> no. illuminati. satan. >> definitely. all right, this is all you. >> okay, fine. >> we move on to the internet. >> a news office was hard at work when they found a surprise visitor. a mole. >> is it a friend? >> in the news office. that was not a friend. >> can't be real. >> oh, yeah. ladies and gentlemen, a snake in the middle of the news office. so 9

jumps on twitter and tweets the nt news hey, you put snakes on your front page, we catch them in our office. the nt response, snakes don't come into the office, the crocs keep them away. >> boom. that is just absolutely. >> what would you do if you were in the middle of working on a story and you found a snake? >> that would be it, buh-bye, see ya. i was warned to look out for snakes but not lit rly those ki. this kid's art is genius. riley. >> 12 years old. >> yeah. he labeled it worm. and it went viral, because it was accurate and simple. penetrating in its accurate outlook on all the world's living things. >> oh, they got really deep for just lazy and creative,

>> basically. we could do that. >> yeah, i like it. >> all right. shall we look at the baby who x

this morning on "world news now." a shakeup at the white house. >> with just over a week on the job, the new communications director, anthony scaramucci, brought in to help restore order to the west wing, well, he's ordered out. just as a a new chief of staff, john kelly is taking over. and we're left with tropical storm emily, now a tropical depression dumping lots of rain overnight. thousands are without power. then the olympic games are returning to the united states, los angeles, as it's been picked to host for the third time. now the countdown gets under way. you