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

and all you really need is two pieces of bread and something to put in between them, right? pretty simple. not so much. we're checking out some of the greatest sandwich-making fails as we take part in a challenge. we'll no doubt fail ourselves. national sandwich month. i failed at saying the word sandwich. the month begins on this tuesday, august 1st. from abc news, this is "world news now." >> yeah. >> sandwiches are delicious. >> yes, they are. it's a great month of celebrating. we have, august is here. do you believe it? august 1st? basically, we're like one tenth of the way through the scaramucci communications dir t director career at the white house. >> let's start off with that, should we? a new head-spinning day as the

forced out after 11 days on the job. >> anthony scaramucci was reportedly escorted from the white house grounds. john kelly was sworn in as the chief of staff and given free reign to carry out business as he sees fit. >> scaramucci's unceremonious departure follows a rant about reince priebus. megan hughes has more. >> reporter: white house chief of staff john kelly is charged with restoring order. anthony scaramucci was in the cross hairs. >> i predict that general kelly will go down in terms of the position of chief of staff, one of the great ever. >> reporter: the controversial communications director known as the mooch quickly made waves. >> i love the president. >> reporter: attacking several senior white house officials in a tirade to "the new yorker," calling former chief of staff reince priebus a bleeping paranoid schizophrenic and

bannon with a profane attack. his words went viral. his gestures mimicking those of the president, mocked on "the daily show." the white house who says the president has used choice words himself wasn't pleased. >> the president thought that anthony's comments weren't appropriate for a person in that position. >> reporter: sarah sanders took over from shaen spicer. everyone including the president's daughter and son-in-law will now report to the chief of staff. >> general kelly has the full authority to operate within the white house and all staff will report to him. >> reporter: scaramucci made a point of saying he reported only to the president. president trump tweeted monday, a great day at the white house. kendis, diane? and jeff sessions is no longer in the doghouse. >> sessions sat right across

as he convened his full cabinet. just last week the president refused to say if he planned to fire the attorney general, but when asked about reports that sessions may be replaced, press secretary sarah sanders had this to say. >> there are no conversations about any cabinet members moving in any capacity, and the president has 100% confidence in all members of his cabinet. >> the president had expressed anger over sessions decision to recuse himself from the russia investigation. >> abc news has learned last week that some senior white house aides were encouraging the president to move sessions to general kelly's old job of homeland security. >> and president trump personally dictated donald trump jr.'s misleading statement about the 2016 meeting with the russian lawyer, possibly putting himself in legal jeopardy. >> the story first reported by the "washington post" revealed top advisers wanted to be transparent about the meeting

would eventually come out, but they were overruled. >> they say the president crafted his son's statement on board air force one on the way home from the g-20 summit meeting. donald junior released the e-mail saying he is was promised incriminating information on hillary clinton. and sanctions on venezuela. president nicolas maduro is celebrating his victory as a mandate from the people, but the u.s. government is calling him a dictator who disregards the will of the venezuelan people. >> he joins a very exclusive club, including mr. mogave, bashar al assad and kim jong un in terms of the brutal repression of his people and in this case, the abrogation of the constitution with the constitution, with the assembly, constituent assembly. >> in a

maduro responded to the u.s. calling president trump an emperor, saying he's proud of the sanctions and warning mr. trump that his biggest mistake in life will be messing with venezuela. back home, a surge of children dying in hot cars, prompting congress to take action. they want technology in cars to alert parents when a child is left behind. 30 children have died in hot cars. 11 of those deaths were last month. and senator john mccain is back home in arizona after his dramatic thumbs-down vote on the gop health care bill. his office says senator mccain is getting chemo therapy for his brain cancer at the mayo clinic in phoenix, he's also set to receive radiation treatment. over the weekend he shared a photo tweeting old man and his daughter on the mountain. and what's left of tropical storm emily, now a tropical depression is slowly making its way a

peninsula. the bulk of the storm is moving over florida's atlantic coast. forecasters say it will blow out into the atlantic later this morning but not before slamming the region with high winds and heavy rains. gio benitez has the latest from ft. meyers beach. >> reporter: emily drenching the coast with over eight inches of rain. the governor declares a state of emergency in 31 counties. some 18,000 losing power. >> i urge you to look at weather and road conditions. >> reporter: a construction worker shooting this video as emily moved ashore. those powerful winds shutting down the sunshine skyway bridge. the coast guard rescuing two brothers clinging to a navigation light in tampa bay. their fishing boat striking the structure and sinking during the storm. in bradenton, a race to find foster homes for rescue animals. >> a lot of rain real fast,

>> reporter: this tractor-trailer losing control while driving on slick roads in tampa, dangling over a highway overpass. part of a hotel roof ripped off in ft. meyers beach. and we are still feeling the sfro strong winds. south east florida could get more rains from the remnants of tropical form storm emily. >> and a class action suit has been filed against the company that cut power to the outer banks. about 50,000 visitors were forced to evacuate, and businesses are reporting losses of tens of thousands of dollars. one inmate is still on the loose after a mass jailbreak in alabama. a dozen inmates fled the walker county jail by using peanut butter. they used the peanut butter to trick a new jail employee. must have been some peanut butter. that

an outside door thinking it was a jail cell. an intense manhunt continues for bradley kirkpatrick. >> the question concerning whether pairis or los angeles will host the 2028 olympics is over. paris will host the 2024 games. the two were in the running for both but neither wanted to wait. this will be l.a.'s third time for hosting the olympic games, maybe they threw in peanut butter. >> who wants to go bankrupt first? turning now to the most adorable video you will see all day, maybe even all month. >> it 2-year-old guy boarded a southwest airlines flight in style. watch as he fist

other passenger as he walks on. like a little celebrity. look at him go. >> his mother leah told abc news he's a little politician. not shy at all. and doesn't leave anyone out, of course. he could have just been happy that he's still small enough to fit comfortably into those airline seats. >> yeah. he's got extra legroom. >> like jimmy carter, not so long ago when gemmjimmy carter and shook hands with every passenger on board a delta flight. look at that kid. fist pumps. >> that is so cute. see, if they had one of those kids on every flight we'd be a lot less grumpy. >> as yoemsed opposed to the on crying? >> i didn't mean that. >> coming up, dessert that can drive itself to the party. >> hmm. >> you can now have your cake and wheel it too. >> ah. >> that's later in t

>> cake? all right. first, the disturbing video of a young suspect found and gagged to a chair repeatedly tased by sheriff deputies. that suspect is now suing the department. also a reminder to follow us on vam, at abc wnn. you're watching abc news now.

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police in illinois are on the hunt for this intruder who broke into a home while a teen was inside. and her mother watched helplessly through the home security system. so he makes his way up the stairs where the terrified 16-year-old girl had locked herself into her room. the teen called her mother who watched it all unfold as she rushed home. >> i was eight minutes away from my house. it was so frightening to have your child in your home and a stranger kicks your front door in.

the top of her lungs. it scared him to death. he proceeded to run out the front door. >> the girl screamed because the man was trying to open her bedroom door. he ran off. the girl wants now to be a detective. police are offering a $1,000 reward for any information that leads to his capture. >> those eight minutes must have felt like eight hours for that mom. three sheriffs deputies in tennessee are accused of using excessive force on a suspect, tasering him repeatedly while being restrained. >> the difficult is video to watch as adrian bankert has details on the lawsuit stemming from the incident. >> reporter: three tennessee sheriff's deputies suspected after this grim surveillance video emerges. jordan norris, writhing in pain, repeatedly tased while restrained. you can hear one deputy warn the young man

excessive force. his lawyer says the then 18-year-old was suffering from a mental health episode, alleging he was tased some 40 times. in filed police reports, deputies say the use of force was justified. brought in on multiple felony drug and weapons charges, they write the suspect was combative, resisting handcuffs, attempting to bite and spit at officers, even threatening them. >> he makes comments that if we arrest him, he weigas going to shoot us or kill us. we are dealing on a daily basis with bad people, but that doesn't mean we have the right to violate their rights, and we're not. >> reporter: the deputies are on paid leave. and an int independent review h been requested. >> certainly is hard to watch the video there. coming up in the next half hour, will next week's episode of "game of thrones" be spoiled for all? whether team

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♪ ♪ i got to take it on the other side ♪ ♪ take it on the other side >> playing the song in honor of a book that's getting a lot of buzz right now, called "the other side of impossible", and it features people battling croppic illnesses looking to unconventional treatment. >> they are keeping hope despite diminishing odds. >> reporter: at just 3 years old, shepard was diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. it causes swelling in the joints, pain and fatigue. >> he was having trouble getting out of bed. he would walk with a limp. >> reporter: his doctors prescribed medication, but it made him sick. and with the pain getting worse, susanna felt helpless. she took a leap of faith and researched options outside the realm of con

it was desperation. >> it was desperation, absolutely. >> reporter: susanna removed dairy, gluten and limited sugar from her son's diet and added fish oil, probiotics and a chinese anti-inflammatory herb. >> after six weeks he said mommy, i don't hurt anymore and ran out of the room. you can imagine how stunning that was for us. while there's no way to know for sure what helped him. i believe it was this protocol that we tried. >> reporter: once a skeptic of non-science-based medicine she wrote about her son's recovery and the other side of impossible where she chronicles six other stories of people who hope to defy the medical odds to take on daunting conditions. one of those stories is of terry rawls, a clinical professor at the university of iowa, diagnosed with multiple sclerosis i

after three years she was confined to a wheelchair. but terry is a fighter. spending nights poring through scientific articles, looking for the latest studies on ms, she created a food plan, eating up to 12 cups of fruits and vegetables a day. >> at nine months i got on my bike and biked around the block for the first time. i'm crying. my wife's crying. my kids are crying. >> reporter: 17 years later, she has regained almost all of her muscle function. >> isn't that amazing there that she's been able to regain that much function? >> what a great turn around for her that she gets to celebrate that. and our thanks to mara for that story. we should mention that susanna's son is off all medication and pain free. >> incredible. the people profiled in her book worked in consultation with doctors on their unconventional treatments. whatever works.

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but lysol kills 99.9% of cold and flu viruses. ♪ time now for the mix. we love food, and we love fails, and we're going to bring them together. it is national sandwich month, everybody. >> not just a day. >> no. a whole month. >> not just a week, a month. >> gives us another reason to love august. now we have it. however, sandwiches might seem simple, but clear. >> easy, right? two pieces of bread. >> let's check it out. cannot burn the braiead. does not make for a good sandwich. >> middle looks secure. maybe you can scrape it off.

>> that's not really a sandwich, >> oh. then it's mozzarella. >> that is a sandwich. >> does it count if it's just a slice of cucumber and tomato? >> yes. that's a vegan sandwich. >> okay, then i definitely don't want to be vegan. how about this one, peanut butter and captain crunch? this looks like your slice of pizza. >> that is how those inmates in alabama got out of jail. they bribed the warden with that. oh, no. >> you know, the escape wasn't fully successful, though, they forgot the captain crunch. now we know. >> this's true. >> how about this one. >> what is, what in the -- >> a full loaf of bread on either side of the lettuce. >> holy cow. >> this, my friend is a sandwich. this is how you do it. >> i would totally do it, but they have meat in every single one. >> lots of meat, little bit of cheese. >> and a whole lot of yum. >> yummy. >> is it good? >> it's delicious.

>> all right, i'm goi to eat vicariously through you. if behad this, this i would be eating. check this out. it looks like your run of the mi mill mini cooper. oh, but wait, there's more to this. a british bake iractually put the new spin on it. >> the whole thing's edible? >> yes, well, most of it, except for the wheels. he created a cake shaped like a minute eye coop mini cooper with a radio-controlled engine. >> like bakery and craftsmanship. >> it needed red velvet. because you need red velvet in your mini cooper. if you need to protect yourself from intruders who are going to steal your minute ei c,

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you've got a flamethrower this morning on "world news now." we're tracking what's left of tropical storm emily, slamming florida with strong winds and heavy rain. thousands left without power. where's it heading today? plus, scaramucci says good-bye after 11 days on the job. the white house communications director has gone. >> oh. >> escorted from the white house grounds. now it's a sign that the new chief of staff, general john kelly is cleaning house, possibly. our analyst is standing by. and new this half hour, a frightening incident on a plane. a lithium battery igniting mid