m this morning on "world news now." the president's involvement. >> the white house admits that president trump was indeed involved in crafting his son's explanation of that meeting with the russian lawyer. well, this despite denials from the president's legal team. the latest ahead. and the manhunt for the suspect who shot two sheriff's deputies outside san francisco is over. the gunman found dead. one of the officers shot repeatedly. a wedding photographer wins big after she took on a bride and groom for starting an online crusade against her. a crusade which shy argued ruined her and her business. you know the old joke, seven

priests walk no a bar ainto a b kicked out? it's not a joke. the bar thought so, mistaking the actual priests for a bachelor party. sounds like an excellent name for a church by the way. we'll get to that one. we'll get to the hilarious story on this wednesday, august 2nd. from abc news, this is "world news now." >> you should be ashamed of yourself, imitating a priest. no, really, no, really. >> we just came for some st. pauly's girl. >> not that. we're just starting things off. weel gate we'll get to you. we'll start this half hour with the white house admitting that president trump was personally involved in crafting his son's misleading statement on that controversial meeting with the russian lawyer. >> it happened last month on air force one, but an attorney for the president had repeatedly refuted that claim, denying the president had anythin

with the statement. emily row has the latest. >> reporter: the white house admitting president trump helped craft his son's statement about his meeting with the russians during the campaign. >> the president weighed in as any father would, based on the limited information that he had. >> reporter: don jr. initially claimed he and the russian lawyer discussed adoptions and that it was not a campaign issue. then days later, e-mails revealed don jr. agreed to the meeting because he was promised dirt on hillary clinton. for weeks, president trump's own attorney denied the president had any involvement with that original statement. >> the statement that was released on saturday was released by donald trump jr. and i'm sure in consultation with his lawyers. the president wasn't involved. >> reporter: but sources revealing to abc news the president dictated the statement himself, the "washington post" reporting the president ignored advice to be more transparent and truthful. >> he certainly didn't dictate, but he, like i said, he weighed

father would do. >> reporter: the white house and the president now facing questions about his transparency with the american people. >> president trump himself drafted a statement that's misleading that's a big problem for the white house who's been trying to say he's not been involved. >> reporter: don jr.'s story also changing when it comes to who was in the meeting, initially described as a five-person sit down, only later did we learn there were eight people in the room. the senate has overwhelmingly approved christopher wray to lied tead t fbi. he fills the post from when president trump dismissed comey. he asserted his independence and vowed to resign if he's ever asked to do anything unethical or illegal by the president. vice president mike pence says the president will sign a new bill this week, slapping russia with new sanctions,

congress passed the kbbill last week with overwhelming support. it would limit the president's ability to lift it any sanctions against russia. rex tillerson said neither he or the president believe these sanctions are helpful in efforts to deal with russia. >> the relationship, as you know, in russia continues to be under considerable stress. i think of the events of the last week or so, is it getting worse? or can we maintain some level of stability in that relationship and continue to find ways to address areas of mutual interest and ways in which we can deal with our differences without those becoming open conflicts as well. >> well, tillerson also said that the president calls him late at night on weekends when something comes into his head and he wants to talk. and he says the president's tweets are part of the environment. he said whatever the president chooses to express is news to everybody, us included. construction prototypes for the trump administration's

least the fall. that's because two companies have objected to the bidding process. those complaints are being reviewed and a resolution could come as early as october. initial plans called for construction to start in san diego by june. meanwhile, homeland security is waiving dozens of environmental laws to help speed up the construction process. a man accused of shooting two deputies in northern california is now dead. the suspect was apparently shot while exchanging gunfire with the yuba county sheriff deputies. kenneth moten has the latest. >> reporter: the urgent manhunt for the suspect who shot two sheriff's deputies over. the man found dead. the gun battle breaking out in the california hills north of sacramento. deputies from yuba county responding to reports of an armed and ablg taited man pulling a plant in the garden of what investigators are calling a rastafarian church.

multiple bullets. >> what's your condition? >> shot in the leg. shot in the shoulder. >> reporter: the suspect taking off on foot, triggering a mass ever search and closing words. and then word that suspect is dead. both deputies were airlifted to the hospital for srnlry. the department says they are in serious condition. kenneth moten, abc news. the last of a dozen alabama inmates who escaped is back behind bars. brady kilpatrick was and rehenlded in florida they used peanut butter to hide the numbers on a door. that apparently caused a new jail worker to open an outside door believing it was just a cell. bad mouthing a wedding photographer will cost a texas couple $1 million. newlyweds accused the photographer of holding their wedding photos

demanding an extra $150, when they had already paid thousands. she sued saying the couple responded by spreading false information about her on social media. that campaign caused her to close her business. the jury said that amounted to defamation. >> i felt completely dead. it was my passion. and i loved my clients, and i loved what i did. it was really hard. my reputation was everything to me. >> the couple is considering an appeal. she is hoping to now restart her photography career. miami beach is trying to dry out after heavy rains maid it look like miami lake. as much as five inches of rain sw swamped the city in 24 hours. it overwhelmed the storm drain system which was supposed to deal with three inches p

some places. in florida the state has confirmed the first case so far this year of sexually transmitted zika virus. the person's partner recently traveled to cuba. there is no evidence that zika is being transmitted through mosquitos anywhere in florida. and a little bit north, the timeline to restore power to the outer banks has been cut in half. officials say it should take a maximum of six days to repair a cable that provides service to thousands of customers on two islands. in the meantime, businesses in the popular tourist area have filed a class action lawsuit against the company that accidently cut the table lacabl week. it's a busy time for them. so you can understand. so seven priests walk into a bar and get kicked out. >> it does sound like the start of a joke, but it was just another day at a pub in the uk. the seven patrons strolled into a welsh bar dressed for

but the barman turned them in away. he said the pub has a no-bachelor-party policy. >> this is a thing in the uk. many times men out for a bachelor party or stag do will go dressed as priests. so the bar manager luckily figured out that they were the real deal and he bought the priests a round to apologize. bless me father, for i have sinned. >> the bartender. like the st. pauly girl. >> i thought you were crunching for time. >> maybe they were searching for holy spirits. >> i know you were buying time to twrie ry to come up with mor puns. >> so i came up with the holy spirits. >> holy spirit is better than st. pauly's girl. i'll give you that at least. coming up, why conspiracy theories are swirling over a curiously-named children's book

hear why barron trump, a don and a trip to russia are part of the plot. and a male student get as case thrown out after the judge views surveillance video from the night in question. but does the footage imply ha there was consent? remember to find us on facebook at wnn fans.com and twitter at abc wnn. >> they probably wanted wine. >> wine? i'm only in my 60's. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. call now and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare surance company.

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this dramatic rescue caught on dash cam video, showing minneapolis police officers pulling people out of that car before it burst into flames. it crashed into a guardrail. the driver was killed. alcohol was not a factor in the crash. both passengers were

their seat belts. quite a bit of video there. >> lucky those bystanders were there. and a contractor is recovering after a lightning strike stopped his heart. the man was among three workers hit by lightning yesterday. one worker went into cardiac arrest and a school police officer used a defibrillator on that man and did cpr until emergency crews arrived. he's said to be awake and alert a few hours later. surveillance video is be being credited for saving a university of southern california student from rape charges. >> after watching the video, a judge decided there was not enough evidence to send the case to trial. >> reporter: 20-year-old armand was facing charges of raping a student in her campus dorm room. he always maintained his innocence. >> i knew from the very beginning that i

anything wrong. >> reporter: and this surveillance video is one of the reasons those charges have been dropped. >> i thought the whole case would go around my word versus hers, but when i found out there were cameras it was relieving. >> reporter: the video show the alleged victim leading primge out of a bar. she repeatedly kisses him before taking him outside. another video shows the student checking him into her dorm. >> it told me what i had been telling myself that what happened was with consent and it was not a sexual assault in any way. >> reporter: at the time of his arrest, the victim's roommate had walked into the room after the alleged crime had occurred. he was in the bathroom and the roommate confronted him and he left. >> i didn't think that she was incapable of giving consent in any way. >> reporter: the attorney says the young woman told investigators she couldn't remember anything after leaving the bar. primge also

intoxicated. >> without a video, i don't know what i would have done. >> reporter: his attorney says they a statement from a uber driver saying the woman was all over primge in the back seat. he could have faced a maximum of ten years in prison. diane and kendis? >> the district attorney says charges will not be re-filed in this case, but there's still no word on whether the university is conducting their own investigation. >> he was very fortunate to have that video there. a deadly mystery at the beach. >> hear how a woman on vacation with her family was found dead, right in the middle of the beach, and the strange theory police now have of how she got there. but first, the diane tha ta. the footage that friends and family of the late princess are fighting to keep hidden. you're watching "world news now."

♪ 20 years since her tragic death, princess diana's marriage to prince charles is now at the center of a new controversy. >> it involves some video tapes of diana that she never knew would become public and now are about to be seen by millions around the world. her family and friends fighting to keep the films private. >> reporter: six days before the debut of the british channel 4 documentary, diana in her own words, friends of the late princess speaking out against its release, saying the tapes are a betrayal of diana's privacy. the footage seen here in the trailer includes sessions diana had with her voice coach in 1

they are more like privacy sessions of her private thoughts. >> she went to the queen, explaining all of the trouble she had with her husband. and the queen just shrugged her shoulders and basically told her to get on with it. >> reporter: when the tapes were first unearthed after her death, her brother said they belonged to the family. but after a long legal dispute they were returned to the photographer in 2004. they were aired in the states but never shown in the uk. settleen settleen's attorney. >> it failed because the police looked at them. the spencer family looked at them, presumably, and so what was private to diana was actually lost in the process. >> reporter: the tapes putting a spotlight on the cracks in the marriage to prince charles, the princess pointing to this moment from their engagement video that she called

brave enough to take me on. and i suppose in love. >> of course. >> whatever in love means. >> i was brought up in the sense that when you are engaged to someone you loved them. >> reporter: channel 4 defending the tapes saying it is a matter of public record and provide a unique insight into the preparations diana undertook to gain a public voice and tell her own personal story. >> whatever love means. >> whatever love means. >> that's not the right answer, gentlemen, in case you're wondering. >> for love. she said, in some of the tapes that they had only met 13 times before they got engaged, which is kind of fascinating. >> i mean, there is an irony, that this tape shows that she was kind of reluctant, frightened at times, hiding from the public, and now the tapes themselves are public. >> interestingly enough, though, prince harry and william are not fighting it anymore. they're not asking for this documentary n

in public. they have said their piece. they had an hbo documentary about their mother, her life and legacy and that's it. that's all they're going to say about her. >> stay with us, we'll be right back i did everything i could to make her party perfect. almost everything. you know, 1 i n 10 houses could get hit by an expensive septic disaster. but for only $7 a month, rid-x helps break down waste. avoid a septic disaster with rid-x.

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castle but his real adventures begin when don, the master of all masters. >> what? >> inspires him it to travel to, wait for it! russia. >> oh. wow. >> here again, legit books that are on amazon, in the internet, in the library of congress, talking about a barron trump who knew a don. they traveled to russia, he was rich and they lived in castle trump. >> sounds very similar to -- >> i'm going to be scouring those books to see if they have the lottery numbers. mind blown. >> blown. how about this, does this bro yo blow your mind or is this business as usual. this is hilarious footage from a hotel in spain. this is a mad dash for the sun beds. >> the sun beds? >> the hotel says every morning at 8:00 a.m. when the pool opens, the patrons of the hotel do this sprint to get as near to

the water everybody wants the prime spot in the sun bideds. >> it is important. they're not training for the olympics or iron man. many of them lay their towel down and go off to breakfast and do their thing. >> who's awake at 8:00 a.m. for that. >> the hotel says they have almost 500 rooms, so this becomes a problem when you have 500 people sprinting for the chairs. they remove the towels if the chairs are left unattended for two to three hours. >> it's important to be close to the pool bar. i have no kids that i know of. but, if i did -- >> that i know of. >> yeah, that i know of. this would be my kid right here. check this out. >> hanging out. and then beyonce comes on. ♪ all the single ladies >> and when they turn off beyonce, this 21 month old starts crying. bring out some single ladies.

♪ all the single >> that's hilarious. i love her facial expression.

there you go.x this morning on "world news now," the white house acknowledging that president trump was personally involved in crafting his son's misleading statement on that controversial meeting with the russian lawyer after weeks of denials. and the close call for a commercial jet with more than 300 people on board. it actually passed through the same area where north korea tested its latest missile. see how close that plane came to disaster. and new this half hour. the parent of a young 12 year old girl who killed herself after relentless bullying now suing the school district that she attended. >> they're saying the school didn't do enough and ignored their pleas for help. and if it was even possible,