making news in america this morning, memorial day, president trump on the offensive firing back after questions mount about his son-in-law and top adviser jared kushner. is a staff shake-up in the works? plus one of europe's most influential leaders, angela merkel now saying her country can no longer rely on the u.s. we're live with details. north korea fires its third missile in just three weeks. hear why the secretary of defense warns the country is a threat to the united states. memorial day washout. millions of people in danger of having a wet holiday after severe storms caused severe damage. we're tracking it all. see why this romantic hot air balloon proposal wasn't exactly smooth sailing.

a good monday morning to you all. we begin with the white house facing new allegations focused on russia and the president's son-in-law. >> yeah, president trump slammed media reports his son-in-law jared kushner tried to establish a secret back channel with russian officials. the president is touting his first overseas trip as a big success. but the german chancellor angela merkel walked away from the g7 summit quoting here suggesting the relationship between the european union and the u.s. is not as strong as it used to be. >> abc's kenneth moton joins us live from washington. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, diane and kendis. foreign policy to domestic issues. president trump is gearing up for a fight in the russia investigation. we are hearing of a growing group of private attorneys and pr team to handle the negative headlines. trump white house overhaul, on the heels of his first foreign trip as president -- >> i think we hit a home run. >> reporter: -- president trump back home considering a staff

shake-up in the face of the russian investigation and his family. the private attorney one of many trump hired to handle the russia investigation seen talking with ivanka trump at the white house. her husband, presidential adviser jared kushner, under scrutiny but not the target of the fbi investigation. sources say kushner tried to set up a seek back channel with the russian ambassador to the u.s. even after intelligence agencies found russia tried to meddle in the election. >> there ought to be a review of his security clearance to find out whether he was truthful, whether he was candid. if not then there's no way he can maintain that kind of a clearance. >> reporter: a frustrated president tweeted calling leaks coming out of the white house fabricated lies made up by the fake news media and spoke with "the new york times" reportedly saying, quote, jared is doing a great job for the country. i have total confidence in him. >> look, i think jared has said that he's more than willing to answer any and all questions. >> reporter: trump's focus his overseas trip calling it a great

success for america. but fresh from the g7 summit german chancellor angela merkel expressed doubts about the u.s. and the uk. [ speaking a foreign language ] >> reporter: telling her country the times when we could completely count on others are over. the chancellor's remarks came after president trump criticized germany's trade policies at the g7. this week expected to be a crucial one for the white house as the president works to control the negative headlines in this investigation into russia. >> a lot of people are saying corey lewandowski's former campaign manager might be returning to the white house. north korea is sparking concern around the world after defiantly firing another missile. the ninth test this year. >> u.s. officials say this time it appears to be a short-range scud missile. it flew 280 miles before landing in the sea of japan. >> north korea has been trying to develop a long-range missile that could reach the united states. the defense secretary says everyone is threatened. >> we always assume that with a

testing program they get better with each test. the north korean regime has hundreds of artillery cannons and rocket launchers within range of one of the most densely populated cities on earth, the capital of south korea but the bottom line is it would be a catastrophic war if this turns into combat. if we're not able to resolve the situation through diplomatic means. >> north korea carried out two nuclear tests last year, japan's prime minister condemned this latest launch as an unacceptable provocation. also breaking overnight police in britain have made yet another arrest in that terror attack at the ariana grande concert in manchester, england. investigators trying to close in on a suspected terror network linked to the manchester suicide bomber, salman abedi, have arrested a 23-year-old man now. authorities confirm 14 suspects remain in custody in connection with that attack. electronics may be expanded.

most larger than a smartphone to be checked. homeland security secretary john kelly says that ban could be expanded to include all international flights too and from the u.s. kelly says the change would help fight potential new bombmaking technologies. british airways is warning passengers to expect delays after a worldwide computer outage. the company says a power supply problem forced it to cancel all flights out of london's heathrow and gatwick airports saturday. many are back online but the company is earning passengers not to go to either airport unless they've already been rebooked. some memorial day parades and ceremonies may be canceled because of the weather tracking two systems right now, one in the south dumping rain in louisiana and mississippi. the other one is stretching from eastern ohio straight up into new york city. more man 125,000 customers in the memphis area have lost power after a severe storm there. dozens of large trees were

knocked down as you can see. damaging homes as well as vehicles, but no serious injuries reported. now for a closer look at your memorial day forecast. >> good morning, kendis, diane. well, the unofficial start to summer will officially start with some summerlike thunderstorms rumbling through the gulf coast throughout portions of the southeast and we're watching out for very gusty winds and we're looking for the possibility of hail connected with these thunderstorms but not only that but we'll see scattered showers walk right along the i-5 corridor affecting new york, d.c., boston and including believe it or not, philadelphia as well. everybody in the mix of that but down to the deep south is where the heavy thunderstorms will rack up some big-time problems. kendis, diane. still ahead great white sharks are visiting some popular beaches from coast to coast. plus, a memorial day miracle. a woman missing several days found alive in her mangled car.

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rescue crews managed to pull him out but he died less than an hour later. the region's naval commander says the community has lost a true patriot and hearts and prayers go out to his family. police outside jackson arrested a man accused of killing eight people including a sheriff's deputy. investigators say 35-year-old kori godbolt first got into an argument with his estranged wife and her family and say that set him off and say he then pulled out a gun, opened fire killing three women. the sheriff's deputy you see had responded. he was killed as well as four other people in two neighboring homes. godbolt in handcuffs after his arrest telling a reporter suicide by cop was his intention but he ran out of bullets. we're learning new details on the stabbings of three good samaritans who came to the aid of a young woman being harassed on a portland train. now police say a suspected white supremacist 35-year-old jeremy christian went on an anti-muslim tirade when three men stepped in

to try to calm him down, that's when christian allegedly stabbed all of them. >> he told us to go back to saudi arabia. he told us that we shouldn't be here and to get out of his country. this white male from the back of us came and he was like, you can't disrespect these young ladies. then they just all started arguing. >> wow, well, two of the victims passed away. the third is in serious condition. police say christian has a known criminal history as well as extremist views. a new video now, a florida man is facing trespassing charges as this appears to show him unplugging a bounce house. police in port st. lucie, florida, say he unplugged it while kids were playing inside. the children all under the age of 3 had to be rescued after that bounce house then collapsed. now, the man claims he was actually just trying to unplug the party's sound system. quite a story. a missing woman in washington state has been found alive after apparently crashing her car days

ago. sharon leming was reported missing tuesday and found in her vehicle yesterday afternoon down a 40-foot embankment from a highway. she's being treated at a hospital in seattle. when we come back, a woman is missing after her husband says they got into a boating accident. so hear what he's telling investigators and why the fbi is now getting involved. plus, talk about taking the plunge. of course, a man proposes to his girlfriend on a hot air balloon. and then, well, we'll tell you the rest. for mom" per roll more "doing chores for dad" per roll more "earning something you love" per roll bounty is more absorbent, so the roll can last 50% longer... ...than the leading ordinary brand. so you get more "life" per roll.

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similar to the northern lights, just in the southern hemisphere. roads wet in most of the south. here at home with flooded road as long the texas gulf coast watch out for puddles in the northeast, new england and rockies and northwest. flying on this busy holiday airport delays those likely in houston, atlanta, new york and boston. still no sign of a missing newlywed that vanished during a sailing trip with her new husband over mother's day weekend. >> they were found drifting in the caribbean but the search has been called off for that new mom and the fbi has been called in to help. abc's linzie janis has more. >> reporter: the fbi investigating the mysterious disappearance of florida mother isabella helmand who vanished while on a sailing trip with her husband louis bennett setting off from cuba the evening of may 14th. but at 1:30 a.m. the coast guard getting a distress signal from the couple's boat off the coast of the bahamas. >> the catamaran struck an

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the zoo in perth, australia, it captures a moment an orangutan mother climbed out of her enclosure to save her son which had fallen into a garden. the incident promised a brief evacuation of zoo visitors as you can imagine but mom successfully retrieved her 5-year-old son and returned to her own enclosure. a canadian couple has quite the proposal story to tell this morning but not the one they planned. christine peters said yes when her boyfriend popped the question midhot air balloon flight. but then the balloon started descending a little too fast. the pilot said brace for an emergency landing and it crashed into two different trees before finally crashing onto a field. lucky for them the most serious injury was a broken fingernail. the happy couple says the whole experience was, quote, awesome. >> one way to put it. mine would be terrifying. >> awesome. from terrifying, awesome to a frightening crash at the indy 500 over the weekend that

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>> good morning i'm tamala edwards, 4:30 a.m., monday, may 29, memorial day, will you need a tent for the cookout. showers are hanging around for memorial day. david murphy has the timing to see how everything will affect your plans. a strange odor sweeps across a cumberland county town. a war vet comes home to rest, how a village found him. jfk would have turned 100 years old today. how the former president would have celebrated that's up next on "action news." finally for us on this memorial day, two sides of a bitter conflict finding common

ground in more than 50,000 american soldiers died in the vietnam war along with 2 million civilians. now both sides are using their shared grief to overcome decades of anger. here's abc's maggie rulli. >> reporter: this memorial day two sides of the vietnam war are coming together. >> translator: look towards a brighter future. >> reporter: finding common ground through a common grief. >> as people, we have the same hearts. >> reporter: the nonprofit the two sides project connects families who lost loved ones on both sides of the conflict. >> i mean, that's how you heal. >> reporter: after six americans traveled to vietnam in 2015, this time it was their turn. welcoming four vietnamese to the u.s. for the first time. standing beside the vietnam veterans memorial -- >> james c. mitchell. >> reporter: they showed them where their parents' napes are etched. margo carlson started the project. >> i hated them. >> reporter: her father was a fighter pilot in the war and

died when she was just 2 years old. >> i think after a while i realized i didn't want to live with hatred anymore. i became aware as i grew older my dad's bombs had probably killed a lot of people and that there was probably a daughter like me on the other side who lost her dad. >> reporter: at the memorial that hatred feels so far away. she says the tears she cries today are those of joy for having brought the two sides together. >> this really feels like we're all coming full circle. >> reporter: the two sides project says they want to continue their mission to heal those affected by the vietnam war and any future conflict as well. maggie rulli, abc news, washington. >> what a great initiative. >> it is a great initiative. so many will visit so many of those sites. well deserved on this memorial day. >> that's what's making news in america this morning.

>> good morning it is 4:30 a.m. monday morning memorial day matt is off, jeanette reyes is joining us. >> here's what we're following this morning, saluting those who paid the ultimate sacrifice america honors those who died defending our freedom. a war against north korea could be one of the worst fights. many are squeezing out more time at the shore before the tough ride back home.