good morning, america. happening right now, closing in. police in hot pursuit tracking that prison escapee, the convicted killer. will he make it to the border? the other one killed in a hail of gunfire after three weeks on the run. the partial sigh of relief. >> they got one guy down. >> yay! [ cheers ] >> how they hunted him down. marriage for all. the supreme court's historic ruling allowing gays to marry in all 50 states. the celebrations, the tears of joy. the rainbow splashed white house and the rush to the altar, but in some states the fight not quite over. triple terror attacks. the beach turned bloody.

a gunman mowing down tourists running for their lives. dozens dead and now the concerns here at home ahead of the july 4th celebrations. and amazing moment. the president's spiritual song. ♪ amazing grace how sweet the sound ♪ >> emotional funeral for the pastor killed with eight other worship worshipp worshippers in south carolina. a message to the nation delivered sermon style. hey, good morning. and we are waking up to a changed america this morning in the wake of that historic supreme court ruling on gay marriage. two of the country's most famous buildings lit up overnight.

>> this is the spire of the one world trade center right here in new york city commemorating the court's decision. the white house also splashed with rainbow colors, an image that has gone extremely viral this morning. >> so many people tweeting the picture overnight. much more on this story coming up include inging the resistance in some states. but we begin with the intensifying hunt for the convicted killer david sweat on the run and now on his own. >> that's right on his own after his fellow escapee richard matt was shot and killed by law enforcement officials. matt's own half brother expressing relief this morning and abc's linzie janis is in malone, new york, where matt went down. linzie. >> reporter: good morning, paula. authorities taking out matt in the woods just a few miles behind 3450e here. they were hot on his trail for hours finding a camp and candy wrappers and then a desperate move by

matt leading officers right to him. overnight, the dramatic 21-day manhunt for two prison escapees. >> hold the line. >> reporter: coming closer than ever to an end. >> they got one guy down. [ cheers ] >> reporter: a border patrol agent shooting and killing richard matt after a brief standoff on friday afternoon. >> the customs and border patrol tactical team helicoptered in and engaged mr. matt who was armed and mr. matt was shot and killed. >> reporter: no shots fired by matt. but police say that the escaped double murderer was armed with a 20 gauge shotgun when the border patrol s.w.a.t. team closed in just south of malone, new york, 40 miles from the clinton correctional facility where the prisoners broke out on june 6th. >> as we were doing the ground search in the area, there was movement detected by officers on the ground. >> reporter: that fatal encounter, the end of a day-long frenzied pursuit that kicked off after campers reported a possible carjacking, discovering

their trailer had been shot at. >> they drove on about eight miles and realized that there was a bullet hole through the back of the camper. >> reporter: officers swarming that area entering a vacant cabin. police say thick with the scent of gunpowder. s.w.a.t. teams helicoptered in. then that border agent spotting matt in the woods. overnight, the fugitive's brother happy he's dead. >> i can only think of the man that threatened to kill me and has killed other people and escaped. >> reporter: telling wkbw he's been concerned about matt escaping for years. >> there hasn't a night that's gone by in 20 years that when i put my head on the pillow i wasn't worried. >> reporter: about 2:00 a.m. friday morning a woman here in the town of malone getting a suspicious knock on her door. instead of answering she called police who raced to the scene. their dogs picking up matt's scent, eventually leading to his demise. paula. >> all right, and police are not finished.

linzie, thank you. the other escapee, david sweat is a convicted cop killer and he remains on the loose this morning. law enforcement agencies are using high-tech thermal imaging to find him in rough, thick terrain. and abc's phillip mena is in malone new york about 25 miles from the canadian border with the latest on that manhunt. phillip? >> reporter: paula, good morning. the search is intensifying this morning in the area of malone, new york. the manhunt now solely focused on david sweat after fellow escapee richard matt was shot and killed just a few miles from here and police say they have no reason to believe that the two were not traveling together. so all night and into this morning police using spotlights, canines, atvs and helicopters thoroughly canvassing this area. right now roads are blocked off, and a tight perimeter has been established. residents we spoke with say they are extremely worried as police say that sweat may be armed, dangerous and more desperate than ever.

dan. >> phillip, thank you. and we will stay on this story here at abc news around the clock. we want to turn now to the reverberations from that historic decision by the supreme court on gay marriage. look at the front pages across america this morning. "the new york times" with the headline, "equal dignity." the front page of "the dallas morning news" reads "i do for all" and "san francisco chronicle" in a city with a large gay population declares quite simply "we do" but while many are celebrating not everybody is and abc's terry moran has the latest from outside the supreme court. terry, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan. well the issue of marriage equality, of gay marriage remains controversial across the country, but as a matter of constitutional law, the debate is over, and as happened so many times in this court for so many people over so many years, equality won. [ cheers and applause ] after years of struggle, setbacks and activism, a gay

rights triumph. the supreme court declaring gay marriage is constitutionally protected and legal in all 50 states. 46 years ago in front of the stonewall inn in greenwich village in new york city a riot ushered in the modern gay rights movement. today, in that spot a celebration. [ cheers ] >> congratulations, everyone. >> gay couples and same-sex couples and the lgbt community are finally being treated as equals. >> reporter: the president calling the man who started it all lead, plaintiff in the case, jim obergefell, who challenged ohio's ban on same-sex marriage. >> i just want to say congratulations. >> thank you so much, sir. i think it was your wishes. >> reporter: and across the country excitement in san francisco. in michigan, tears of joy. and in nashville, these women, some of the first to be married on this historic day in tennessee. but the fight for gay rights is far from over. >> there are still quite a

number of policy issues still up for discussion. >> reporter: the supreme court decision is binding on state officials but some states so far still not providing same-sex marriage licenses. >> the supreme court's decision is not immediately effective in this city. >> reporter: still, a victory for gay americans with many more to come. because the struggle for equality will continue and the thing about the opinion that was handed down here, it's so sweeping in its language, so affirming of the equal dignity under law of gay and lesbian americans, that it is hard to see how any kind of discrimination in employment, in housing, in family issues, adoption and the like could withstand what was said here yesterday echoing the words that appear over the courthouse, equal justice under law. paula. >> all right, terry, thank you. and we want to move now to homeland security. they are warning americans of potential attacks here in the u.s. over the upcoming fourth of

july holiday. they sent out a bulletin urging vigilance, this after three separate terror attacks left dozens dead in france, kuwait and the most fatal on a beach in tunisia. that's where a lone gunman massacred tourists on the beach of a popular hotel and abc's bob woodruff is in tunisia with the aftermath. bob. >> reporter: good morning, paula. this is the place where this massacre happened here on this beach and we have new witnesses this morning who told us that not only did this killer come in and open fire, he laughed when he did it. this morning the world on high alert after multiple attackers carried out three separate acts of terrorism ending the lives of more than 70 all within hours of each other. isis claiming responsibility for two of the three attacks calling it a successful blow and a bloody message. along this beach in tunisia the deadliest attack of the day took place at a popular resort packed with british and german tourists, the menacing gunman seen here in this photo we now know is abu yahya al qayrawani

disguising himself as a tourist entering through the hotel pool wearing swim gear hiding his kalashnikov rifle under an umbrella before the bloodbath ensued. witnesses told us this morning recalling him laughing as he slaughtered the innocent. >> i thought fireworks and i said no it's a gunshot. let's go. >> reporter: listen as one survivor captures the terrifying moment tourists screaming running for their lives as the gunman turned his sights to vacationers on the beach killing at least 39 people and wounding 39 more before being shot to death by police. the first attack came at this industrial chemical plant in france. yassine salhi beheading his boss and leaving behind two flags with a muslim profession of faith written on them. two hours later in kuwait as hundreds of people flocked to the largest mosque in the country for friday prayer, a suicide bomb detonated leaving 27 dead. now, back here in tunisia, more witnesses told us this morning that this killer not only brought a rifle, he also brought

three self-made bombs, three of them exploded. we don't know exactly how many people were killed or wounded because of that. dan. >> horrible story, bob, thank you for your reporting this morning. back here at home so many people talking abo "amazing grace," and abc's byron pitts was right there. ♪ glory glory ♪ ♪ glory glory ♪ >> reporter: it was a day of song and solidarity in charleston. the line started forming before 6:00 at one point ten blocks long. >> a lot loved him and supported him. >> lift up your voices. >> reporter: inside the arena more than 5,000 strong for state senator and pastor clementa pinckney. president obama here as the nation's comforter in chief. >> what a good man. you don't have to be of high station to be a good man. >> reporter: a good man gunned

down with eight others inside mother emanuel ame church during midweek bible study. >> blinded by hatred the alleged killer could not see the grace surrounding reverend pinckney and that bible study group. >> reporter: in his speech delivered like a sermon, the president spoke of the nation's long struggle with race and the south's seismic shift this week regarding the confederate flag. >> for too long we were blind to the pain that the confederate flag stirred in too many of our citizens. it must be emanuel for how to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. a roadway toward a better world. ♪ amazing grace how sweet the sound ♪

♪ that saved a retch like me ♪ >> incredible. incredible moment there. our thanks to byron pitts for his reporting this morning. look, we're 6 1/2 years into the presidency and i think that's going to be seen as one of his signature moments. >> just a reminder that there is more that unites this country that divides and what a unifying moment. i once was lost but now i'm found. i don't think any of us will ever forget that. >> absolutely. and we do want to turn now to the coast of north carolina where there has been yet another shark attack. it happened in waist deep water, this man is the fifth victim in that area in just the last couple of weeks. here's abc's reena ninan. >> shark out there. >> reporter: a 47-year-old father may have the battle scars from a shark attack off a beach in avon, north carolina. bites to his right leg and lower back.

>> he starts screaming, he goes shark, shark then he runs back to shore and his body was bit up. >> reporter: officials say he waded out to waist deep water after spotting a school of dolphins which can easily attract sharks. as he warned others that's when he was attacked. >> he got his child and the other kids out of the water and that was just pretty impressive. >> reporter: a good samaritan couple rushing to his aid treating his wounds and keeping pressure on until rescuers arrived. >> one victim, multiple bites, he is stable. >> reporter: he was transported by helicopter to the hospital where this morning he is reportedly in stable condition. this is the fifth shark attack along the north carolina coastline in just two weeks. >> i think it's a little too paranoid. everyone is kind of on edge right now. >> reporter: two teens attacked on the same day on june 14th. abc news speaking exclusively with 16-year-old hunter treschl who lost his arm that day. >> i saw the shark on my left arm. it was halfway up my bicep kind

of just attached and then it wasn't attached anymore. it's not a life-changing thing to lose an arm. >> reporter: well, shark attacks still extremely rare. your odds of being injured or bitten 1 in 3.7 million. here's the problem the population of great whites are surging so they're swimming closer to the shore than ever before. you know, it's not a bad time to remind people that building sand castles isn't a bad idea. staying on shore. >> safer on the beach. >> you said that there were children that were in that particular area of the water. >> there were children. there certainly were. and it was because of that father who acted so quickly in a split second spotted the dolphins and then pulled the kids off. >> brave dad. reena, thank you. great to have you. >> you bet. >> thanks, reena a lot of other news overnight. let's turn for a look at the other developing stories this monk to mr. ron claiborne. sinkholes. >> in florida, a florida community, dan and paula, on edge after several sinkholes opening up in just one neighborhood. this 15-foot deep sinkhole appeared friday in the city of port richey, just the latest to occur in that same area. in all ten homes evacuated

in port richey. one had three sinkholes on the property. no idea when the sinkholes will stop because the ground there is getting increasingly unstable. and in philadelphia, a transit police officer is under fire for allegedly confronting a passenger who was holding his infant daughter in his arms. the incident caught on security cameras showing the officer allegedly grabbing the man by the neck, pushing him against the wall while the baby is still in the passenger's arms. the officer says he confronted the man because he had boarded the train without paying his fare. an internal affairs investigation now under way. no one was injured in that scuffle. and crews in alaska will resume the recovery of the bodies of nine people in a sightseeing plane crash. officials have now identified all of the victims. the eight passengers were on an excursion from the holland america cruise plus the pilot of that aircraft. the ntsb is investigating the cause of that mishap. now, to the search for a former member of the u.s. olympic sailing team missing off the coast of miami, florida. officials say they have found trevor moore's inflatable boat drifting in the waters of biscayne bay. his wallet, cell phone and life

jacket were on board. moore is an experienced sailor. he competed in the 2012 olympics on the u.s. sailing team. and finally, the u.s. women's soccer team is headed to the world cup semifinals. the women defeated china in a 1-0 or 1-nil friday score. this is their fourth consecutive shutout in the world cup. the second seeded americans will now face off against top ranked deutschland, that's germany to you. >> thank you for that clarification. >> that's german for germany right? >> that's german for germany. the usa is the only country to reach the semifinal in all seven women's world cups. paula. >> i'm headed to montreal for the games tuesday, but that's going to be a tough matchup against germany. >> you have to remain neutral, you know. >> i'm not going to be -- >> no, no. >> no no, we believe. >> we believe that we -- >> we allegedly believe. >> -- can win. if you're claustrophobic sari this next story will -- >> it'll get you. to the frantic efforts to save

an escape artist from a magic trick that went terribly wrong. you're looking at what happened when illusionist criss angel went scrambling to help the man inside lying motionless inside that tank. the magician now speaking out about what happened. abc's gio benitez has more. >> get him out. get him out! >> reporter: this morning superstar magician criss angel is speaking out about his harrowing caught on camera rescue of a fellow illusionist. >> he was going limp and as soon as i ran up there and i looked at his eyes i could just tell it wasn't part of the show. >> get him out! >> reporter: inside the water tank illusion istist spencer horsman motionless but alive. the rehearsal wednesday was for angel's new show "supernaturalists" in connecticut. horsman calls it a water torture cell. >> if i fail at a magic trick, the worst that's going to happen is i get booed. if i fail at an escape, i could get killed. >> reporter: angel says horsman blacked out fainting underwater. angel acting fast even with that scare in connecticut overnight, horsman performed that same act.

>> something you don't know about spencer is that he has asthma. okay. and he can't swim. that's another thing you don't know. >> anything can happen when you are performing live. >> reporter: and this time in front of an audience. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. i'm spencer horsman. what you're looking at behind me is a 30-inch steel reinforced cube filled with 100 gallons of water. >> reporter: restrained in that water tank, he is supposed to get out on his own. >> to the kids in the audience, please do not try this. >> i believe that he would be okay but i was still really worried. >> reporter: for "good morning america," gio benitez, abc news, new york. >> and that's why i don't do magic. >> yeah, there's some things i don't need to be told not to try at home. that is one of them. >> not just children don't try this at home. adults. how about nobody try this at home, how about, rob, you don't try -- i know you're a daredevil. >> there's a quarter behind's ron's ear. look at that.

that's about all the magic i can get. here you go. thanks. that's from my uncle. he was quite the magician. this this is rain heading across parts of condition they had heavy rain last night. witnesses to unusual storm packing wind and rain, large rain shield. this wind downing trees, 90-mile an hour wind across parts of kentucky. check out this tree that went through a home outside louisville. flash flood emergency outside of muncie indiana. we have a severe weather threat a strong time for this time of year, washington, d.c. baltimore, back to richmond, we'll see strong winds and maybe a tornado him meanwhile out west, 100 degrees expected in portland. that's the national forecast, here's the local forecast. >> reporter: good morning, everyone, i'm meteorologist chris sowers with the accuweather update. rain spreading into the area south to north we'll get you

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♪ girl you don't want i want you to want me ♪ ♪ and if you want -- >> yes, adorable they are. little pooches strutting their stuff proving that you don't have to be pretty to be a winner. coming up we're live with the winner of the world's ugliest dog contest and our very own nick watt was one of the judges. can't wait to see which dog took the prize. but i love that. it's an illustration of how beauty is on the inside. >> it truly is. >> i hear nick channeled his inner simon cowell and was pretty tough. >> it'll good. also the sneak peek at caitlyn jenner's new documentary series and the promise that she is now making to her viewers. but first here donald trump, a man who is no stranger to controversy refusing to back down now in his latest battle which all stems from some inflammatory comments he made

about mexicans during his presidential announcement speech. >> in fact, he is firing a new salvo against univision, now dropping coverage of the miss usa pageant which the billionaire partly owns and the donald is coming back swinging. abc's tom llamas has been following the story from the beginning and joins us with more. good morning, tom. >> reporter: paula and dan, good morning. donald trump tells me he's going to sue univision for violating a multimillion dollar broadcast deal, but now he's making this personal with a letter to the network's boss telling him to stay off his golf course and resort, which is very close to univision's headquarters. ♪ >> reporter: this morning, donald trump firing back at univision for refusing to broadcast his miss usa telecast. in a letter first obtained by abc news trump tells univision's ceo he and all of his employees are banned from trump's luxurious golf course in doral, florida, this after america's largest spanish

language tv network announced thursday they're cutting all ties with trump because of comments he made about mexican immigrants. is donald trump anti-mexican? >> absolutely not. i love the mexican people. i have great respect for mexico. >> reporter: but this is what the republican candidate said when he announced his run for president. >> when mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. they're rapists and some, i assume, are good people. >> reporter: overnight, abc news speaking with latino singer j balvin who canceled his performance at the pageant after trump's comments. >> i'm disappointed because what he said about latinos and what he said about the mexican people it took me not even a second to say we're not going to work with that guy. >> do you regret those comments? >> not at all. i said it about people from all over. i didn't say about mexico -- i said from people all over. >> reporter: the head of the rnc said trump's comments were not helpful. >> i think you have to look at

candidate as a package and not everything is going to be i think 100% copacetic. >> reporter: univision called trump's comments insulting. now, nbc still plans to run the miss usa pageant but says they do not agree with his position on a number of issues including his recent comments on immigration. guys, august 6th is the first rnc debate. if donald trump is polling in the top ten in at least five national polls which he's already doing right now he'll get a spot on that stage. >> it'll make an interesting night. i guess my question to the nbc guys, they can play golf at trump's resort. >> they're still allowed on the golf course. if it you, dan harris paula, you want to go out, you're invited as well. >> dan doesn't play golf. dan will drive the cart. >> i will drive the cart or caddie. thank you very much, tom. i appreciate it. we want to send it over to ron for another look at the stories we've been tracking overnight. good morning, ron. >> good morning again to you, paula and dan. robert, good morning to you. good morning, everyone. we begin with the hot pursuit going on right now in upstate new york for fugitive inmate david sweat. sweat is on the run this morning after his fellow prison escapee richard matt was killed in a hail of gunfire on friday. police believe they are closing in on sweat near the canadian

border. and celebration and resistance for the supreme court's historic same-sex marriage ruling. as couples around the country are lining up to say "i do." opponents though in some states where same-sex marriage had been banned are still vowing to resist the law. and an activist has scaled the pole outside of the statehouse in south carolina and taken down the confederate flag there. earlier this week governor nicki haley said it's time to move the flag. the activist was arrested. the flag which is protected by state law is expected to be raised again in time for a rally by flag supporters scheduled for later today. and finally a family on vacation, a trip to yellowstone national park nearly picked up an unusual hitchhiker. you see him there, a curious grizzly bear fascinated with the peters' family's car latching on to it at one point creeping up to the driver's side. >> oh, my gosh. i would pass out. >> for a face-to-face meeting. man against grizzly. you can hear the family giggling. >> that's not giggling. they're screaming. >> giggling or screaming. >> that's terror. >> your choice.

apparently enjoying or horrified by the close-up. a little girl even saying that he smells like beef jerky which everybody who has been close to a grizzly bear knows eventually and that bear did walk away leaving everybody -- >> beef jerky. >> teriyaki or hickory smoked? >> closer to hickory smoked actually. >> well, we know you're a fan. >> of course. and the quickest way to get a grizzly bear on your car is cover it in honey. i think that's why the kids were laughing. they did that this morning. washington, d.c. here -- another tangent we're going off on there. >> yeah. >> washington, d.c., light rain, 69. the current temperature and you're not going to climb much higher than that and it's going to be an ugly day across our nation's capital. this is a large system for this time of year. a pretty strong -- more like a spring or fall one. it's got some strong winds behind it. a big rain shield that's encompassing the lower great lakes getting into pennsylvania current temperature. pittsburgh seeing a tremendous amounts of rain. we have gale warnings up for the great lakes. excuse me, a decent amount of

rain could see pockets of 3 to 4 inches. we'll take a bit of a pattern change once the front goes through, it will be cool, milwaukee, chicago pittsburgh 70s. maybe hitting 80 middle of the week. very hot across the west, 100 there, go to the beach if you want to cool off. >> reporter: good morning, everyone, i'm meteorologist chris sowers with this accuweather update. light rains overspreading the area. cloudy and breezy this afternoon, periods of rain, maybe are a gusty thunderstorm, 73 degrees. dan, paula, gang, ronald, sara. >> robert. >> thank you, sir. coming up here -- i just wanted to see where that was

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♪ girl you don't want i want you to want me ♪ ♪ and if you want hey girl you got me ♪ all right. it's time for a big abc news exclusive this morning. you are about to meet the freshly crowned winner of the world's ugliest dog competition. >> you just said exclusive and abc's nick watt or should we say simon cowell was one of the judges and he's there with the winner if that's what you can call her in san francisco. nick you look highly unimpressed. >> look who i woke up with this morning. it's important to note that quasi is happy and healthy, just kind of funny looking, sort of half a dog and as you said as the mean british judge, it was my job to tell her that. ♪

for 27 years now the sonoma marin fair in california has hosted what's become the world's anti-westminster kennel club show. >> ugly, ugly, ugly. ♪ >> reporter: this year an exceptionally ugly lineup, the dog, not the judges. this dog has attitude as well. ugly on the inside. and then came quasi, a rescue from florida born with a spinal condition. >> i've never seen anything like that ever, ever, ever. >> i know. >> i mean, when you finally get used to the way she looks, you then see her walk and it's even worse. >> all right, third place, frodo, hideous. second place, sweepee rambo, nightmarish but in the judges' chambers no cameras allowed. unanimity.

>> quasi modo is the world's ugliest dog. >> reporter: but here's the thing, facially she's quite attractive. >> yeah, she's cute. she is. >> reporter: but then that side view. tasmanian devil's uglier cousin. world champion ugliness. now, guys, i've spent a bit of time with quasi. now and still every time i look away and look back, i double take, half a dog. and paula and dan, she's coming to new york today to see you. >> oh! >> look at the legs. >> oh. >> she's really gotten used to you there. >> is she stretching out? >> she's stretching. >> friends, friends now. >> despite the verbal abuse you heaped upon her, she seems to like nick watt nonetheless. and actually i love -- i love this annual tradition because even dogs that don't look great or logs who are older need forever homes and should be adopted. so it's a great thing. >> they should and i think nick had a lot more fun than he let on. he did a great job. nick by the way, thank you. >> and he's nicer than he looked. >> i'm not so sure about that.

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shows her bonding with her family and going shopping for the first time as a woman. >> i'm telling my story. people don't understand looking into the mirror and nothing seems right. >> i know this isn't the part that matters but she is beautiful. caitlyn promises fan ss she will talk about everything and above all going to do some good and we can't wait to see it. she's a gorgeous woman. >> i wish i had a waist and legs like that. >> i just want her hair. that's all. >> okay. harry potter fans, you're about to feel like you've taken felix felicis. i hope you know what that is, dan. that's liquid luck. author j.k. rowling just opened the "chamber of secrets" and announced a brand-new play called "harry wild which will open in london in 2016. it will be an all new story conceived by rowling and two collaborators. so far we know it will not be a prequel but it will tell an untold part of harry's life. now if only there was a magic potion to get daniel radcliffe to reprise the role. >> oh so he won't do it?

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>> good morning it is saturday, i'm eva pilgrim here's what we're following for you right now on "action news," get the plans done early or you better grab an umbrella. storm tracker 6 live double scan shows heavy rain and potential severe storms moving towards us. hundreds of police officers and k-9s are stepping up their search for escaped killer david

sweat, the other killer he broke out of prison with is dead. same-sex couples nationwide are celebrating the supreme court decision recognizing their right to walk down thee. we have wet weather, this is going to be a rather gloomy day especially for those west of philadelphia. how about we go over to the flood watch here it's making me disy. we're expecting periods of rain, some of it will be heavy the national weather service issued a flood watch for all areas west of delaware river because we're expecting an additional two inches of rain out of the system that's bearing down on the delaware valley. we're seeing the light rains