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good morning, america. the aftermath of hurricane irma. new minimum imagines of the devastation the florida keys pummeled. a pa yoert of homes damaged or destroyed. now families return to the destruction and the despair in the caribbean. the u.s. military scrambling to help stranded americans. president trump preparing to tour involve rajjed florida and reaching across the aisle. what we're now learning about his private dinner inviting both republicans and democrats to the white house trying to strike a tax reform deal. an abc news exclusive. nfl star michael bennett telling his story about what happened in las vegas. seen in this tmz footage. >> all of a sudden i hear like somebody say get on the ground. >> heldgunpoint by police claiming he was a victim of racial profiling. >> i was just terrified.
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>> what was going through his mind and what he now tells his children only on "gma" this morning. ♪ get by with a little help from my friends ♪ and hand in hand the massive turnout across the country, stars from los angeles to nashville to new york. >> when tough times hit, this is who we are. >> thousands of you jumping in donating more than $40 million and counting in less than 24 hours. >> do not give up hope. >> the incredible effort and how you can still help this morning. ♪ whoa stand by me ♪ ♪ i love that. we do say good morning, america. what an incredible night. so many people joining together to support those affected by hurricanes harvey and irma. they were right here in our little old studio and all across the country. >> amazing to see thousands of you at home opening up your
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hearts and your wallets to help those in need and guess what, the hand in hand telethon has raised more than $44 million so far. >> the money is still coming in and the need is still so great. we're reminded of that this morning as storm victims across florida and the southeast starting that long road to recovery. you know gas is still in short supply across the state. traffic backed up. you see it there as residents try to get home and many are finding scenes of devastation like these from the florida keys. >> the destruction is so widespread. officials haven't been able to assess the total damage. abc's victor oquendo is in islamorada florida with more. good morning victor. >> reporter: good morning, robin. i'm standing right in front of what's left of a three-story apartment complex leveled by hurricane irma. you can look right inside these units. once you get past the water you can see a bedroom on one side there are the mattress a living room, a couch. for this reason residents were told to evacuate. this morning, devastation across the florida keys. >> i just -- i can't even
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believe it. >> reporter: as residents are allowed to stream back into the ruins for the first time just beginning to assess all the damage. >> i didn't expect it to be this bad. >> reporter: homes completely flattened while others ripped off their foundation. >> it was how you didn't know if you were going to make it or not. >> reporter: according to fema irma damaged or destroyed 90% of all the homes in the keys. from above islands lined with beachfront condos now scarred with shredded rooftops. buildings reduced to rubble and mountains of debris where homes one stood. >> we'd spend time with my grandparents in this house. >> reporter: surveying the damage from the air you can see neighborhoods completely shredded. david muir on the ground as they went home to home assessing the damage searching for casualties and survivors. >> people were trying to shelter in place in their homes. it just was not substantial for the type of weather that occurred here. >> reporter: the florida keys just 112 miles long this
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morning officials only allowing people who evacuated into the first 33 miles. residents growing frustrated. >> i have water, i have food. i have dogs and i can't get to my house. >> reporter: it wasn't just the building destroyed. take a look at the driveway. it completely collapsed. very long few days here for everybody in the keys but we'd like to share this image with you, this rainbow that went above the florida keys on tuesday. george, it was a very welcome sight. >> nice little sign of hope. victor, thanks very much. there is a race to restore power across florida. more than 2 million customers back on the grid but millions still in the dark. some could stay there for weeks. our chief national correspondent tom llamas is in miami with a closer look at the massive effort to get power back. good morning tom. >> reporter: george good morning to you. you know many people have described the effort to get the power back on as a military-like operation. well, that's what it looks like here. we're at the largest staging area in south florida for fp and
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l. workers tackling one of the toughest jobs in american history when it comes to power. as utility crews in the south worked feverishly to restore power this morning, nearly 4.9 million americans across 5 southern states are still in the dark with more than 4.3 million in florida alone. >> their army of restoration workers which now numbers 20,000 is hard at work. >> reporter: as temperatures rise with no air-conditioning for some, one hollywood hospital has scene a stag heing number suffering from heat exhaustion. >> we've seen patients with temperatures up to 105, 106 degree. >> no power, no internet no tv no bath. we just stuck it out and ate cold ravioli. cart kathy got her power back on two hours before the sun went down tuesday but so many in her family don't have power. now they're all staying with
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her. >> 16, three aren't here right now. >> 16 people in a three-bedroom house. >> how many bathrooms? >> two. >> reporter: serious danger for those relying on generators. 20 people including children were taken to hospital for possible carbon monoxide poisoning. >> there was a generator running at that residence when they did call. they were instructed to turn it off. >> reporter: in orlando, a generator inside this home's garage poisoned and killed three members of a family. four others are still in the hospital in serious condition. >> the sad meter is 1 to 10. this is an 11. >> reporter: utility companies want to remind everyone to keep generators 20 feet from the home or the garage because that carbon monoxide can easily seem into windows and open door robin. >> must remember that. okay, tom, thank you very much. we cannot forget that hurricane irma also left so much devastation in the caribbean. residents there are desperate for food water and shelter this morning.
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many tourists have been evacuated. however, some say they thought they'd be able to leave on a cruise ship but then they were left stranded. abc's david wright has that side of the story. good morning, david. >> reporter: good morning, robin. this is the flight line for u.s. military planes headed out to help some of the hardest hit islands. they've been doing a lot of evacuations but the military aren't the only ones that are evacuating people. private companies are getting involved too. and one effort coordinated by the marriott hotel chain is facing some criticism. this is what hurricane irma left behind in much of the caribbean. the streets increasingly chaotic and dangerous. food and water supplies becoming scarce. and american tourists stranded in a tropical paradise lost. >> we don't have food or water or places to go. we are stranded here. >> reporter: this video shows dozens of u.s. tourists marooned in the dark in st. thomas with
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all of their luggage after being turned away from the ship they hoped would take them to san juan to safety. >> we have nowhere to go. no resources. >> was there room on the boat? >> absolutely. we had a group probably 35 people that there was plenty of room for that were not allowed access to the boat. >> reporter: the tourists were told the boat would take the first 600 people first come first serve. but after lugging their bags for miles from their hotels they found out the 30,000-ton ferry was actually chartered by marriott. >> so possibly we have marriott not letting us onto this boat. >> reporter: anyone not a marriott guest, out of luck. >> they shut the lights off here in order to get us to go. >> reporter: marriott blames local officials insisting the marriott team on the ground was told they had no authorization to board additional passengers who were not on the manifest even though the company says we very much wanted to assist these other travelers to puerto rico.
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now, thankfully the people that were stranded in st. thomas are now back safe and sound here in puerto rico or even headed back to the u.s. rescued in some cases by the coast guard, if not by marriott meanwhile, the u.s. military continues to head out every day searching for stranded americans on some of those hardest hit islands. >> thank goodness for the military. a lot of chaos there. >> absolutely. absolutely and hurricane season has already been so active this year with harvey irma and now jose in the atlantic. we're going to go to ginger zee who has more on what we can expect. good morning, ginger. >> good morning. come with me and look at this. this is kind of impressive. even though there's not much left the cloud cover and rain from texas up to michigan and even new york. but all eyes now point to jose out there just east of bermuda. it's looking a little unhealthy as we call it. it ran to a lot of dry air and wind shear. things in the environment around it will improve slightly for a couple of days but this is the current track we've got.
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still stays out in the atlantic. the big impact even the closer it gets westward would be high surf and rip currents anywhere with waves up to seven feet. that's along the jersey coast through the mid-atlantic. certainly north carolina's outer banks and down into south carolina. so we're going to have much more on this and the wildfires burning in the west now more than 8 million acres, michael. >> thank you, ginger. you said unhealthy. irma led to thousands of flight cancellations over the past week and a half and this morning most of florida's commercial airports are now open again but flights around the storm zone are just starting to get back on track and david kerley has that for us. >> actually we just lost david. we'll try to get that later. president trump is planning to go down to florida tomorrow to survey the damage caused by hurricane irma. he's also making a big push on tax reform holding a dinner at the white house with both republican and democratic
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senators and congress has sent a bill to president trump calling the violence last month at charlottesville a terror attack. let's get the latest from cecilia vega. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. so far not a lot of details from the white house about what this trip will look like but one difference in one respect we do foe about. when the president went to -- went to texas that first time you'll remember he went to the firehouse and waved that flag. he was criticized for not seeing the damage firsthand with his own eyes for not talking directly to victims. it looks like this trip, george will be a little bit different. he and the first lady are expected to survey directly the damage to irma themselves. >> and there is so much damage. meantime, the president making that big push on tax reform cecilia. he did have that meeting last night with a bipartisan group of senators but so far the president and leaders in the congress republican leaders of congress haven't come to an agreement on what they want to present. >> reporter: yeah and what we're hearing from people both sides, in fact who at this
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dinner at the white house last night is that the complaint universally is that the white house so far has been really short on details about the tax reform push. there were three senate democrats here at this dinner last night. i'm told by sources here at the white house, look the goal for this dinner for this bipartisan get-together was to the to have everybody come to an agreement. it was really to get both sides in the room and just to start this conversation. it sounds like the president really tried to put the charm on. he took two senators on a tour of the residence after the dinner was over and got to see the lincoln bedroom and, george there will be another bipartisan meeting back here at the white house today so the president really trying to push this one. >> a lot of travel from the president as well. the congress putting the president on the spot. that resolution they passed condemning the violence in charlottesville is a reaction to the president's last month where he talked about violence on both sides. the resolution does single out white supremacist groups. any reaction from the white house. >> reporter: so far no in fact the sources i talked to said they're not sure what the president will do.
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we know he'll have ten days to either veto or sign this. otherwise, it becomes law. the president today will be meeting with senator tim scott from south carolina. he's the only african-american senator on the hill and today among those topics george, they will be talking about will be the president's response to charlottesville. charlottesville and race so it's bound to be a tough conversation. >> no reaction from the white house. pretty hard to imagine he'd veto that. >> reporter: i can't imagine but we don't know yet. to the russia investigation. president trump's former national security adviser michael flynn is still refusing to cooperate with congressional subpoenas to testify. now congressional committee is turning over new information to special counsel robert mueller about foreign contacts he did not disclose and brian ross is here with the story. good morning brian. >> reporter: good morning, robin. the new allegations today against general flynn involve what are being called more than a dozen contacts overseas for a private business venture that
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abc news says flynn concealed from authorities that elijah cummins says has been turned over to special counsel robert mueller. general flynn spent the summer in newport, rhode island seen in this photo proudly posted by his son as the general tried to stay out of the headlines. general flynn. >> yeah. >> brian ross from abc news. how are you? just wanted to ask -- >> no i sure don't. >> everyone is asking what's going on in your case. >> i am having a great time. >> reporter: congress spent the summer gathering new information that democrats say reveals flynn committed criminal acts by omitting and concealing contacts and travel overseas which they say should have been disclosed for his security clearance. investigators used flynn's own words against him reviewing speeches and news interviews in which he boasted of his overseas contacts. >> i have spoken to friends in saudi, friends in egypt, friends in kuwait and qatar and uae.
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>> reporter: he didn't list any of those contacts on his disclosure form according to congressional investigators. >> subject to a five-year jail sentence. i think that's pretty serious. >> reporter: flynn is also under scrutiny for his alleged role in a bizarre proposal to kidnap this exiled turkish dissident from rural pennsylvania and send him back to turkey. former cia director james woolsey told abc news he was at a meeting in which flynn raised the prospect. >> they were seriously considering a kidnapping operation for gulen and i told them then that it was a bad idea, it was illegal. >> reporter: all at the same time that general flynn was serving as candidate donald trump's top national security adviser. >> that would be outrageous to talk about a kidnapping on american soil. >> reporter: when we tried to ask flynn about the allegations, now coming out of washington his family stepped in to protect him. >> but thanks so much. >> the allegations about -- are
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they bothering you from a distance? >> they bother me from a distance thank you. >> reporter: flynn's lawyer says his client was not part of any plot any discussions involving a kidnapping. in the end the importance of these allegations may be that prosecutors can use them as a hammer to cut a deal with flynn to get him to tell whatever he knows about the president and russia. >> all right. we know he's in their crosshairs. thanks very much. we move ton a major development in the freddie gray case. he's the baltimore man who suffered a broken neck in the back of a police van in 2015. his death sparked violent protests and riots but no officers convicted in the case and now the justice department has announced it will not bring federal charges against the six officers involved in the arrest. saying prosecutors did not produce enough evidence to prove the officers willfully violated his civil rights. five of the officers still face internal disciplinary hearings. we got good news different gear from my hometown. >> from your hometown. you'll be happy. your cleveland indians are one step closer to making baseball
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history. they just won their 20th game in a row. tying the streak held by the 2002 oakland a's who you might remember from the brad pitt movie "moneyball." if the indians win again today they'll tie the record set by the 1935 cubs but still have a way to go before they hit the all-time record for consecutive wins in 1916 by the new york giants. baseball team though. and that team went 27 games without losing. interesting enough the new york giants in '27 won 12 games, had a tie and then won 14 after that so it was 26 consecutive games interrupted by a tie. >> it was a tie back then but don't have it now. >> now you just play until you fall out. >> that's true. let's get back to ginger. there are so many fires burning out west. >> 66 large wildfires one of them in washington state it's the north peak fire, 52,000 acres burned already only 12 percent contained. images keep coming in but it helps to have those images for us to understand how wide the
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expanse is. look at this. some good news within the red flag warnings in montana a winter storm watch for up to 6-inches of snow. that's going to help fires. the cooler weather will as well as this trough moves in. let's get to the warm cities brought to you by america assassin rated r. >> good morning, everyone, storm tracker6 live double scan showing a couple showers down by baltimore that might try and push up into some of our northern and western suburbs a little later this morning. as we take a look outside, we have sunshine but you can see the clouds are gathering
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again. and we are looking at some spotty showers as we go through the day. cool for now 50's and 60's. this afternoon we wind up with a high of 77. clouds and sun and an occasional shower. more of the same on thursday and friday. humid and a thundershower or a shower possible at times. to clarify, it's that time of year and i said snow. >> already? >> in montana. it's happening. >> it's coming. thank you, ginger. coming up that abc news exclusive nfl star michael bennett opening up for the first time about that incident with police seen in this tmz footage. he says he was handcuffed at gunpoint and a victim of racial profiling. that interview coming up. have you seen the new iphone yet? we'll tell you all about it. you've gotta make better choices, jane! farewell, cookie dough ice cream. what's that you're drinking? it's trop50. it's fine. it tastes delicious and has 50% fewer calories with this taste?
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>> ♪♪ >> good morning, everyone, i'm matt o'donnell. 7:23 on this wednesday september 13th. karen rogers is here to talk about how the schuylkill expressway is always a great place to stop and smell the roses. >> yeah, you have lots of opportunities to stop and then go and then stop and go 'cause the schuylkill expressway westbound has been extra heavy. we had an accident westbound near 202. now, it's since cleared. it was a multi-vehicle accident. one of the vehicles on its side but we're still extra heavy westbound on the schuylkill heading towards king of prussia. you see it at the blue route. you're stop and go approaching 202. 43 minute ride between the vine and the blue route. speeds on the schuylkill westbound of 13, 18 miles an hour, even though that accident cleared still a good size delay on the schuylkill westbound because of that earlier accident right at 202.
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we've got other problems around the area. this one on i-95. penndot with the arrow board between academy road and woodhaven road on i-95 northbound here. a disabled vehicle blocks a lane and that's creating delays matt. >> thank you karen. dave murphy is up next. he's tracking some rain heading to the region. >> ♪♪
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>> we have a few more clouds overhead this morning with some sunshine getting in. starting out rather cool. 64 degrees but with light wind it doesn't feel too bad. 56 in allentown. your exclusive accuweather 7-day shows the arrival of some spotty showers at times through the morning and afternoon. a high of 77. it's not a washout but occasionally a shower is possible. more of the same tomorrow. a thundershower in fact mixed in on thursday, a high of 80 and 81 and humid on friday, matt. >> thanks, david. what to do if you think you
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fema just starting to assess the damage as residents finally come home. millions are still without power. and today president trump will meet with republican senator tim scott at the white house to discuss race issues in charlottesville. senator scott has been a critic of the president's response. but now to that abc news exclusive with seattle seahawks star michael bennett speaking out about the incident with las vegas police officers seen here in a tmz video but he says it was a result of racial profiling. bennett says officers singled him out. pointed their guns at him and threatened to shoot him because he was a black man in the wrong place and time and sat down with "nightline's" byron pitts. >> feels like a movie because everything was happening so fast. people were like running, people were scared because nobody knew what was going on. >> reporter: mikaila michael describes the chaos and fear before he was confronted by police. he says word spread there were gunshots in the lobby at the cromwell casino and people took off running. no one saw a gun but everyone
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saw panic. >> we saw police and s.w.a.t. and everybody is on the ground crawling. what are you going to do so we started -- we started trying to get away. >> reporter: once outside bennett says he was accosted by two police officers. police says based on the color of his skin. >> all of a sudden i hear somebody say get on the ground like there's guns already drawn and then at that point i'm just thinking like is this real right now. >> reporter: this video obtained by tmz sports shows bennett on the ground with an officer cuffing him. >> i wasn't doing nothing, man. you asked me a question. >> reporter: he says he was terrified to make a move. >> when you're a suspect and guns are drawn, you don't know what to do. what did i do? that's why i'm asking can you please tell me what i do because i'm scared and i just want to go home. >> what did he say to you. >> i'll blow your [ bleep ] head off if you move. >> did i ever say -- >> he told me to shut the [ bleep ]. you think because you win the super bowl and do all this stuff
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in the community that you be treated as a human being but at that point i wasn't seen as nothing. i was just seen as a suspect. >> the only body cam video that's been released briefly shows bennett on the ground. according to bennett police eventually googled him to confirm it was him. things changed and they realize bennett. >> i went from being just a black man to being a football player. >> reporpolice department says bennett had been running and acting suspiciously. >> i see no evidence that race playsed any role. >> reporter: bennett's lawyer says they want the police to release all the tapes from the incident. >> unless something changes drastically that we don't know of, we're going to file a lawsuit. >> how do you explain it to your 10-year-old daughter. >> i mean it was an emotional thing to sit me and sit her down and explain about stereotypes and racial profiling. what it means to be a black man in america and what it means for her to be a young black woman as she grows up in this country. >> reporter: his brother mar
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martellus got emotional when talking to reporters after the incident. >> you just think what if you know. i know he loves me very much and kind of hard to feel like he wasn't there so for me it was like it was super hard because i know how much my brother loves me. >> reporter: bennett says the experience has changed him forever. >> every time i see my wife i try to kiss her like it's the first time we ever met. i try to hold my daughters like they were just born because i don't know and that situation right there made it a reality for me that it could happen at they moment. >> reporter: for "good morning america," byron pitts, abc news, seattle. >> you could just feel his emotion in that and his brother, as well. you can see much more of byron's interview tonight on "nightline" right here on abc. we'll move on and get the latest in the corruption trial of democratic senator bob menendez. two women who were mistresses of menendez's friend took the stand and described how he helped them get visas and mary bruce has
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details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, george. well, at times this case sounds a lit more like an episode of "scandal," bribery charges, mistresses and alleged abuse of power and at the h it all a u.s. senator on trial for federal corruption. these women find themselves caught up in bribery charges against a sitting u.s. senator. federal prosecutors allege new jersey democrat bob menendez helped these women obtain visas to the u.s. as a political favor for their boyfriend, the senator's married friend and donor dr. salomon melgen. just one of the favors he did for the doctor in exchange for expensive hotel stay flights on private jets and hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions. menendez arrived at federal court last week. to cheers. >> i started my public career fighting corruption. that's how i started. and i have always acted in accordance with the law and i believe when all of the facts
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are known, i will be vindicated. >> reporter: on the witness stand one of the women reportedly testified when her visa to the u.s. was initially denied her boyfriend, dr. melgen told her he was going to fix it by talking to the senator. e-mails were counted in the indictment reveal the senator later told one of his aides, call ambassador asa perform. if convicted menendez could face decades in prison. now his defense attorneys insist none of this was part of a bribe and they say he did not improper. they say the senator, it's customary for him to help out with visa applications. >> thanks very much. coming up that revolutionary new iphone. it's apple's most expensive ever but what do you get for that thousand dollars and how can you upgrade without breaking the bank? that's coming up next. we've seen almost everything so we know how to cover almost anything. even a swing set standoff.
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back now with all the buzz about the new iphone x it has facial recognition and wireless charging and rebecca jarvis, well, she got a look at it and joins us from cupertino, california. what did you find out about the new iphone? >> hey, michael, people came from all over the world here to apple's brand-new headquarters to see the unveiling of this new iphone x. i can tell you it is sleek, it is slippery when you hold it in your hands because it's glass. i didn't drop it and according to analysts it is the most sophisticated phone on the market. it's apple's newest mobile marvel. >> it is the biggest leap
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forward since the original iphone. >> reporter: ceo tim cook unveiling the highly anticipated iphone x. the company's fanciest and most expensive model ever with a starting price of $1,000, what exactly do you get? a larger edge-to-edge screen upgraded cameras optimized for selfies and augmented reality. that is the ability to superimpose images on what's in front of your phone. animojis wireless charging and facial recognition technology that lets you unlock the phone by just looking at it. one thing absent from the new phone, as you see, no more home button. it's glass all around. $1,000 is a hefty price tag. are people going to buy this phone? >> consumers are addicted to their phones and paying an extra $5 per month to get the latest
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and greatest will be a no-brainer. >> reporter: post-presentation hundreds of techies testing out the new devices. how do you think it went? do you feel good? >> i feel wonderful. >> well rebecca looking at that footage everyone will want one of these so how do you get the best deal on the phone? that's the big question for somebody like myself. >> reporter: absolutely michael. the best thing you can do is talk to your wireless provider. ask them if they have any special upgrade programs and, in fact, now a number of wireless providers are offering money, cash towards that new phone if you make the switch the one thing i would caution people to do though is make sure that you look at all of the fees associated with that and whether or not the new calling plan and the new wireless plan is actually going to benefit you in the long run. >> yeah got to read that fine print, rebecca. so what do we do with the old phone? how can we, you know kind of make some money off the old phone? >> reporter: great question robin. with that ole phone what you can do are two different things. the easiest thing you can do is
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go to a website like gazelle or you you you yousell. you can make more if you sell it yourself through a website like ebay or craigslist but you have to do all the heavy lifting and wait for the sale to happen in order to get paid. >> good to know. all right, you're just having a great time out there, rebecca. enjoy. thanks so much. >> thank you, robin. thanks, michael. >> been nice hanging out with the phone. may not be much longer. all right, everybody, coming up on our big board, we go behind the scenes of our hand in hand telethon that raised millions of dollars.
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oh we are still happy and smiling from last night's hand in hand telethon. raised more than $44 million to help those affected by hurricanes harvey and irma. >> so many stars packed our times square studio to help and michael and i got to be right there with them lending a hand and linzie janis, you were here too. >> i was here too. incredible 44 million. what an awesome, awesome number. you had dozens of hollywood superstars coming together across the country last night for this hand in hand telethon. it was such a moving event filled with stories from storm victim musical tributes and so many of you from home calling in to donate. ♪ lend me your ears and i'll sing you a song ♪ ♪ and i'll try not to sing out of key ♪
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>> reporter: it's the kind of star power you usually see at the oscars. from justin timberlake. >> millions of people are in need. >> reporter: to julia roberts and matthew mcconaughey. >> do not give up hope. >> reporter: dozens of celebrities joining forces in four different cities for the hand in hand telethon to raise money for the victims of hurricanes harvey and irma. many of them sharing heartbreaking stories from the storm zone. >> a boat filled with rescuers saw jordan's pink knapsack bobbing in the water. when they pulled her out jordan was shivering, traumatized and missing her momma. >> we'll say a quick prayer. >> reporter: a prayer from justin bieber. >> we know you will guide us through the storms. >> reporter: leonardo dicaprio, george clooney and julianne moore working the phones. >> when you answer the phone tonight what are you going to say. >> thank you. say thank you, thank you for calling. >> reporter: for jamie foxx hurricane harvey hit especially close to home. >> did you raise your hand right away for this. >> oh i'm from texas, i'm from
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terrell, texas. a lot of, you know people friends of mine in houston. >> reporter: houston native beyonce gave this emotional plea urging people to donate. >> we come together in a collective effort to raise our voices to help our communities, to lift our spirits and heal. >> reporter: some familiar friends also uniting for the cause. ♪ lean on me ♪ >> reporter: stevie wonder opened the show with a powerful message. >> anyone who believes that there is no such thing as global warming must be blind. ♪ so we got to get together ♪ >> reporter: more musical tributes from dave matthews usher and blake shelton. ♪ stand by me stand by me ♪ >> reporter: and a moving rendition of "hallelujah" by tori kelly and luis fonsi. ♪ hallelujah ♪ >> reporter: thousands of americans calling in to donate.
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proving hurricanes harvey and irma are no match for the open hearts and hands across the country. so $44 million and counting and it's not too late. you can still donate. guys early estimates of the damage from hurricanes harvey and irma about $200 billion. which is not on par with the damage caused by katrina so every little bit counts. >> did you have a favorite moment last night? was there something that really resonated, moved you? >> i loved that performance by tori kelly and luis fonsi of "despacito." >> the musical performances were just, man, the way they celebritied the songs, seeing everybody and i'm telling you, guys no ego, no diva everybody was here, we also need to say the real stars of the night, people who donated. >> yes. >> those are the a-listers. those were the ones and heard from a lot of canadians. >> a lot of canadians last night even someone from new orleans who said i've been through it and we know what it takes and
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>> ♪♪ >> good morning, everyone, i'm matt o'donnell. 7:56 on this wednesday september 13th. karen rogers ready to go with traffic. >> i'm ready to go. 95 not so ready. we've got a big accident here and you can see the fire crews on the scene with this. this is i-95 approaching bridge street southbound as you head towards center city. you've got the two left lanes blocked. you see those fire crews out there and how about that travel time? a 41 minute drive from woodhaven to the vine so i-95 southbound jamming up past academy to approaching bridge street here approaching bridge street we've got a major accident, few vehicles off to the side and two fire trucks blocking the two left lanes. northbound jamming as well. everybody has to slow down and check it out. baltimore pike at north lane an accident in springfield township delaware county is new. that one's cause something problems. also an accident here on 130 in new jersey it's blocked here at drexel avenue. so 130. look for this accident in pennsauken. police and an ambulance on the
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scene already. might want to stick to 38 instead matt. >> thank you karen. taking a live look outside center city philadelphia. could start seeing some rain from what was hurricane irma today. dave murphy has the accuweather forecast. >> matt, the clouds definitely getting thicker over the last hour or so. take a look. we're at 67 degrees, temperatures not too bad. there's not much wind out here, 58 in allentown and this afternoon we see a high of 77. we will see clouds, some sun right at times there will be a spotty shower popping through. most of the day is dry. tomorrow humid with some thundershowers developing especially later in the day and into the evening, 80 the high there. humid tomorrow on friday. and another friday shower is also possible. the weekend mainly dry matt. >> thanks, david. an autopsy is that scheduled today for the freshman found dead on a lehigh valley campus. 19-year-old mccrae suffered a head injury in an apparent fall outside his dorm at lafayette college in easton on sunday afternoon. he died in the hospital on monday. police are investigating whether alcohol was a factor in the freshman lacrosse
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it's 8:00 a.m. the aftermath of hurricane irma. startling new images coming in of all the destruction. the florida keys devastated. so many homes devastate or destroyed. the president about to tour a ravaged florida. new this morning, olivia newton-john on her latest health battle. why she's re using medical marijuana to cope with all her pain. do you need a sleep coach? what's really waking you up night after night? our correspondent analyzing her every waking andeping moment to figure out what's keeping us all up and the coach that's showing her how to get a solid sleep. one-on-one with yolanda hadid. the real housewife opening up about her excruciateing battle with lyme. people didn't believe you. you're not sick. her most desperate moment. how she's dealing with the disease along with her supermodel daughter.s we say good morning, america.
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♪ and good morning, america. we hope you're well this wednesday morning. welcome back. >> welcome back is right. as this week winds down we've got great ways to look fashionable and save money. the new clothing box craze where companies send youits right to your door and wo into our "gma" consumer lab to find out which one is really best for you in your warhead. >> extremely more on that ahead. first let's head to the florida keys where 25% of all homes are d. many others are badly damaged. some areas have been compared to a war zone. abc'endo is in islamorada for us this morning. good morning, victor. >> reporter: good morning, robin. we are just starting our journey through the florida keys and have seen debris everywhere and this was our first stop. this used to be a three-story apartment collection leveled by power of the storm surge we're seeing here. this used to befloor. you can see right imagine what it's like for these homeowners. for so many who live in the lower keyshis will be the
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first time they see what's still standing and officials say they can't fully of the damage because it is so widespread. we also want to point out one more thing here where i'm standing, this is what's left of this driveway now completely surrounded by water. this area collapsed. you can see a pipe rightere. robin, the rebuilding process here in the keys it is going to take a long time. >> it certainly will and as we said we're still continuing to assess the damage situation down there. even more dire in the caribbean. as more americans are the shortage of food and water is creating adavid wright is in puerto rico, the staging area for military flights. >> reporter: good morning, george. this is the staging area for the puerto rico air national guard. the hub of relief efforts to some of the hardest hit islands. already they have rescued thousands of american tourists who were stranded packing them into these giant c-130s packing them as tight as subway c during rush hour. these are people who r out the storm on these remote isla marooned in a difficult situation. food and water growing scarce
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and in some cases chaos on the streets. we met one group who were stranded in st. thomas and they had been hopes that a cruise ship would come to the rescue. they were told by the coast guard that there was a ship coming into the port but when they showed up they were told it was chartered by marriott. marriott guests only and they were turned away. even though there was plenty of room on the boat. well, marriott says that they wanted to help these people but they blame local officials saying that they were told they could only take passengers whose names and passport numbers were already on the manifest. george. >> okay david wright. thanks very much. >> you have to scratch your head about that. tributes are pouring in this morning and rightfully so for edith windsor, a pioneer in the gay ryes movement. her landmark 2013 supreme court case paved the way for legalize legalizing same-sex marriage. president obama said they lost a tiny tough as fighter. she was 88 years old.
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i remember seeing her reaction the day the decision came in. very powerful. and the city of los angeles is putting on its true colors. they're on display, the colors of the 2028 olympics lit up the night sky putting dozens of landmarks ahead of the announcement that l.a. will host the summer games. earlier the olympic flame was lit at the l.a. coliseum and those landmarks will be glowing and those colors again tonight and this is the third time we're going to host the olympics. they hosted in 1932 and 1984. >> oh yeah. coming up here singer olivia newton-john opening up about her cancer battle and why she's using medical marijuana to help with her pain. and robin's one-on-one with real hadid. what she's sayingll those people who doubt she has lyme disease and her mission to raise awareness and we have lara upstairs. what's up? >> hello, michael. we'll help you become a frugal fashionista and breaking down the clothi trend. could a box hold your dream warhead delivered right to your
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back on "gma," great to have you all herith us this wednesday morning and weed to crew. there was a telethon here last night, okay. it was all set up. they've been here our fabulous crew since yesterday morning and then all through day and then this morning. [ applause ] come on. >> saw you working. next to andy cohen. >> and richard gere. i just kept singing woman." you didn't notice how about a little "pop news." >> yes, absolutely. let's get to it. good morning everybody. we'll begin with former white secretary sean spicer. making his late night televisiontonight, he has decidedo sit down with jimmy kimmel for his first interview since leavingt
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house. th to entertainin kimmel tweeted this picture of himself last week so he's a navy hat. he's posing with spicer and writes i promise to lookt the camera time will you come to my show. reserve member spicer wrote five minces later it's a deal and now we have a show. >> simple. >> yeah. i'm sure you guys all have enjoyed melissa mccarthy's spicer on "saturday night live." we're sure jimmy will asking sean how he feels about her emmy nominated performance when he hits the couch on jimmy kimmel live on abc 11:35 p.m. don't miss it. >> it'll make pop tomorrow. >> yeah. [ applause ] we'll wait and see what happens. issa ra easy b of "insecure" shouldn't be any longer andced her role on instagram sharing a photo getting made up and had aon about being a teen and living through cover
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girl's ads and issa joins an of many including queen latifah. >> it is a great show. >> she is so incredibly so deserving. >> that smile lights up a room. easy breezy. >> finally, hurricane irma y that will make you believe. a nun whose mission is to help others was really ablehen they pulled up to street that was blocked w downed tree, yeah she is holding a chainsaw. rather than wait for divine intervention she pulled out that chainsaw and she started cutting down those trees. how fabulous is this. a police officer from the miami-dade department was driving by and he saw her. he had to whip out his phone and start shooting. he shared the video and instagram saying sister margaret ann in action. the principal of a local
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high school in miami cnn, quote, there was a, i had the means and i wanted to help out. >> yes, she did. [ applause ] >> the call of action. right to . >> in the habit. that's "pop news," everybody. >> some principal.. we move on to olivia an interview about her cttleealing she had so much pain at some point she couldn't lk and sought relief with medical marijuana. abc's deborah roberts here with the story. good morning, deborah. >> reporter: good morning. so many people touched byw honesty this morn diagnosed with breast cancer back inia newton-john has publicly shared her struggles and her victories and now with the battle intensifying she's revealing the hard truths about living with this ravaging di ♪ better shape up ♪he wroez to fame as the original sandra dee. solidifying her stardom as a singer with h "let's get physical" 's get physical ♪ >> reporter: but this morning the actress and singer making headlines for her candor about her second battle with cancer
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and how she's coping with the pain and keeping spirits up for herself and fellow survivors. opening up in a new interview with australia's "60 minutes" nen was so bld times a treated it with marij by her husband john telling the program, the pain level was really the hardest thing. i was trying to do shows and it was pretty agonizing. after surviving breast cancer with chemotherapy treatments and mastectomy in 1992 the 68-year-old singer took to facebook in reveal that her cancer had returned. writing what she thought was back pain turned out to be breast cancer that has metastasized. but after a course of radiation therapy, marijuana use and other natural wellness treatment, newton-john says she's finally on the mend. i can walk but i can't go long distances. but i'll get there because i couldn't walk at all a month or so ago. as i heal i'll be able to walk more. ever upbeat and positive newton-john reflecting on her life in that "60 interview. i've had and am having an
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amazing life so i have no complaints. we all have something we need to go through this life and this has been my challenge. the pain may be slowing her body but certainly not her spirit. olivia just performed last friday at her namesake art center and is planning to give it all this weekend in a cancer walk with all that pain and told "60 minutes," i need to get through this. i have lots to do but, of course, it's sc i'd be lying if i said it wasn't scary but i felt that this was something i could get through. george. >> honest and strong right there. here with dr. jen ashton right now. you see her mix and match a lot of different treatments for this cancer. >> well i mean first of all when you talk about metastatic cancer of any type when you talk about metastatic breast cancer there are more people living with metastatic breast cancer today than ever before which is a good thing but it's not such a good thing. we wish that wasn't the case at all. and we had a better cure for the disease but when you talk about how you manage those symptoms you heard her address it a little bit.
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it's really about the goal. you want to prevent further spread in some cases when that's not possible you do want to manage the symptoms and when you talk about cancer that's spread those symptoms will be determined on what site of the body they spread to. when you talk about metastatic to the bone that is excruciatingly painful. anyone who suffered a broken bonos that pain imagine that times a million. >> and for her, this homegrown marijuana really made a difference. is that for everyone >> that's what's is great. we have another public figure shedding light on something that needs a lot more attention. even though there have been studies out seven, ten years about the use of medical marijuana for treating chronic pain we are still in our infancy so there are a lot more questions now than answers. it appears that one of the compounds, a cannabinoid targets a particular receptor in the body involved in pain and we need more research and need more research to know what strains of marijuana are best for certain pain, what dose what root do you inhale it ingest it.
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if you want to use this like a drug, you have to really study it like a drug no differently than something pharmaceutical. >> what's the most important thing for people to know about it. >> i think it has to be a combined approach. not just the patient, the circle the care givers and you support them so they can support the patient. >> jen ashton thanks very much. ou >> george out here we've an eclectic crowd. this is aaron he just became a u.s. citizens. congratulations. the dancing grannies, that's right. they're from england. guess what, guys, there's only one way to make this bigger today and that's a guinea pig with a fidget spinner and sunglasses on. they do this in canada in case you ever want to visit canada. that is your "gma" moment for today. we want you to send us yours. for now that's the big picture. let's get a check closer to home. >> storm tracker6 live double scan picking up a couple showers north of baltimore and we're on the lookout for some spotty showers as we go through the day.
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stepping outside, we have a fair amount of clouds that have begun to gather over the airport. some sun is possible today but at times a little damp. 77 is today's high with that clouds and somewhat sun mix a spotty showers. thursday and friday both look more humid. a thundershower on thursday, regular old shower on friday at times, neither day total washout. warm and humid for the weekend. "the real housewives of beverly hills" star yolanda hadid is on a mission opening up about her struggle with lyme disease, chronic lyme. it's her beautiful new book "believe me" trying t raise awareness and i sat down with her recently and talked all about it. she really wanted people to understand what it is to have lyme. tell us how you're doing right now in i'm doing actually really great. i'm about i think 90%. i mean i still have some brain
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issues where like my scanner is on where sometimes i have a word time with word retrieval. >> people didn't believe you. they're like -- look at you. you're not sick. >> this is such an invisibility disability that didn't just happen to me that happens to everybody that suffers from lyme including my own daughter who is on the cover of magazines, yet people don't know how much she really struggles behind the scene, you know. >> your son, as well. how severe is it for them. >> anwar is okay. he's been treated for two years and he's really good but bella still, it's something that she deals with every day of her life. you know in so much pain and joint pain and brain fog, severe exhaustion and it's a nightmare. >> i don't remember what it's like to be normal. >> you wondered when you accepted to do the role on "housewives" like hmm, why -- to give you a platform to be able to speak about this. >> the minute i got on the show i got sick i never worked on that show with a normal brain.
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like i was always struggling and trying to just hold on and keep my job. >> you are just so incredibly open. to read you thought about taking your own life. >> you know i think in that moment i was just so desperate in so much pain like sweating on the bathroom floor in some hotel in florida trying to please other people i remember laying in the ocean and just going like, just take me like i just cannot live one more day. and in the same moment that i thought that the picture of my kids came up and i'm going like there's many people that get to a moment where you just throw your hands up and go i tried everything. i cannot go one more minute. >> why do you think there's such a misunderstanding about lyme supply think there is a misunderstanding because there's no education. i think that people have judghings that they don't understand. the first case of lyme disease was diagnosed in 1975.
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we're now in 2017 and there's still no cure. the cdc says that chronic lyme doesn't exist. well i'm here to tell you that it does exist. >> you're very honest. you had resources but didn't guarantee anything. >> it didn't guarantee anything. >> you want to make sure people don't who have such limited resources that they don't waste their money on something. >> yeah. we all deserve to get the same treatment and the same chances in life. feeling that you're you know more privileged than other people and can get certain treatments that others can't get, i mean that was like -- that makes me emotional because that is the worst feeling of all of it. >> i've had the pleasure of meeting your daughters. they are the most down to earth, approachable, lovely young women. how have they helped you through this journey? >> there were in the car driving me to the hospital. kids holding me in the back. it's brought he closer made us stronger and we're all out oe and just of ourfamily. >> someone picking up your book
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"believe me," what do you want them to walk away feeling and >> probably just hope. you know hope and education. life isn't perfect. you know we all struggle every day and that's just normal. you know everybody has the same struggles but it's okay. it's life. >> yeah. >> i'm telling you, the way she writes about it talks about it, the invisible and people -- she was getting hammered on social media. and kind of like in a brain fog with lyme and to have chronic lyme her children but she really wants phr saig her mess her message and it's a beautiful and powerful message "believe me" iight no glad she's getting it o there lot suffers from it. trouble sufferi? ays to help get a better night sleep and the cdc says up to 70 million people, that means we're notalone, have sleep or wakefulness disorders. our becky worley well she's one of them getting great tips from a sleep coach.
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♪ >> reporter: time 2:45 a.m. location, oakland, california. >> good morning to you, becky. >> good morning, lara. >> reporter: job, west coast correspondent for an east coast morning show. >> great tips as always becky worley, we thank you. >> reporter: after my 5:00 a.m. live shots i'm usually back to bed. this shift work can lead to problems like insomnia. the worst is when it's my day off and i wake up at 3:00 a.m. anyways then it takes me a while to get back to sleep. joy. my short-term memory can get weird. wait. why did i come in here? i am a sleep mess. enter this sleep coach. >> we help you find those nooks and crannies of where the underlying issues may be and then help you get back on track with your sleep. >> reporter: mara has me log my sleep, caffeine intake and alcohol consumption and investigates my sleep space. okay, so i see the blackout
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shades. >> yeah. >> those are key. >> yeah absolutely key. >> reporter: she makes suggestions like with my right before bed facebook habit. >> the amber light settle is like the night shift. you can put it on and schedule it. what happens a lot of times is right before bed people are exposed to blue light and then they'll have a hard time falling asleep. >> reporter: she looks at my fellow. >> you want to visualize a line coming from the top of your scalp coming down your forehead down through your nose lip, chin neck chest, all the way down to your belly button. >> reporter: when we talk about what wakes me up in the night, a surprising culprit is identified. >> a lot of types people don't think about, well what noises can my pets or how can they make me up at night. she leaves three three practical steps to improve lie sleep. noise, wear earplugs when i can and at the least -- >> taking off the dog collar to eliminate the noise at night. >> eat earlier and cut alcohol. finally
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finally, chill. the problem, emotions we haven't dealt with can bubble up at night. monkey brain. >> exactly. >> reporter: so to process feelings she advises multiple check-ins where you breathe deeply, do a gut check and feel your feelings before you go to bed. so a lot of the best ways to improve your sleep actually happen out of the bedroom. >> yes. it's not just, okay what's happening in the bedroom or how much sleep did you get at night but what's happening the whole day. >> all right, good advice for all of us. >> a lot of good advice there. i could have told becky to the to go right to bed after a live shot. >> you got to power through, girl. >> we'll all be sleeping good tonight if we follow her advice. what does your dog really think about you? >> loves me.
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>> ♪♪ >> hello. it's 8:27 on this wednesday september 13th. i'm matt o'donnell. let's see what's jamming things up on the roads this morning with karen rogers. >> we've got problems on the roads and we're starting with this on i-95. looking at a 23 minute jam as you can see 38 minutes from woodhaven to the vine on i-95 approaching broad street. that big accident i had showed you last time has just cleared but nonetheless we're looking a at very slow speeds. major problems right now and
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chopper6 has been on the scene of this. septa's bridesburg station, police activity on the tracks. reports of someone walking on the tracks. the trenton regional rail line now seeing half an hour delays because of this. so you're not seeing trains move there right now. watch for this. septa's bridesburg station, police activity on the tracks. chopper6 live on the scene. reports of someone on the tracks here. trenton regional rail line half an hour delays because of that. let's go back to our traffic system here and talk about some other problems. big picture here looking at slow speeds. 13 miles an hour on i-95. we talked about that accident that just cleared and that's creating some slow speeds. also an accident on 130 that's still blocking it at drexel avenue matt. >> thank you karen. looking at some clouds looking out for rain. here's dave murphy. >> right now clouds are getting thicker. 67 degrees in philadelphia. it's fairly comfortable. 58 in allentown. but we are on the lookout for some showers moving in a little bit later this morning and probly continuing here and there off and on through most
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of the day. clouds and sun overall today a spotty shower possible at times. not a washout. a high of 77. and then more humid thursday, friday and saturday. a spotty shower popping up each of those days with highs near 80 or so. sunday clouds and sun 83. matt. >> thank you david. last night's hurricane relief effort telethon seen here on 6abc raised $14.5 million for the victims of harvey and irma. a recap on 6abc.com. ah, dinner. throughout history the one meal when we come together break bread, share our day and connect as a family.
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[ bloop, clicking ] and connect, as a family. just, uh one second voice guy. [ bloop ] huh? hey? i paused it. bam, family time. so how is everyone? find your awesome with xfinity xfi and change the way you wifi. welcome back to "gma," everybody. great to have all of you with us and great to have you in the studio with us. mrs. and i have a question for everybody here. do you guys, everybody in the audience, when you have a question about something, anything, what is the first thing you do to get an answer? >> search for it. >> you google it right? the name google has become a verb. if you just google it. that's what people say, you want
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to know who i am just google me, girl. if you want to know -- >> very easy for you. >> hey, i have never used that, okay. i have evernever used it -- >> you're saying that's the first time. >> you've said that before. >> he said that before. you have. >> let's get off me and -- >> no, no, no. >> usually if you do something, you search for things like how to draw how to make money, google -- >> how to make money? >> george people have done it. i have a list. number six, you can't see what's on the list. there's number six, how to make money. i say just go work. [ applause ] but the searches for how to are up 140% over the past decade because people literally go out and try to figure it out online. what have you guys done to how
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to search for lately? the last thing i think i did was how to tie a bow tie. >> did it work? >> those diagrams -- no they don't work in diagrams? >> no -- >> too much folding and flipping. i just gave up and put on a regular tie. >> i did how to braid your own hair and i actually had to cut the piece of my hair out. i knotted it so badly. everything is back -- you know -- have you ever tried to braid your own hair? just don't. >> george and i haven't. i'll be honest with you. but i'm going to give 2017 top ten lists. i won't give all ten, how to make money was number six, that confused me too. number five is how to draw. >> well -- >> number four how to lose weight. >> okay. >> number three, how to get pregnant. >> oh boy. >> that is not true. >> that is not true. >> that's not true. [ applause ]
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>> and i tell you right now -- i could answer that but i'm trying to keep my job. >> yeah, about to say. >> number two -- you'll love number two. goes with number three, number two, how to kiss. >> oh, no. >> you are totally making all of this up. >> george this is real. this is real. and the number one googled item of how to is very simple. how to tie a tie. >> oh. >> that makes sense. [ applause ] >> after number three -- >> how to make pancake, how to write a cover letter. how to make french toast is number nine then the one my dad always asked me like how to lose belly fat. >> your dad -- >> my dad always -- he's 80 years old and he's like i want to be build like a wasp. how a wasp -- >> a -- >> at first -- >> i've never. >> he's 80 years old. did i say that?
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but that is it. those are the top things george, and those are all real. >> okay. [ applause ] >> i can never top that. google me baby. >> google me baby. >> google me girl. >> google me girl. so obviously september is here. a lot of parents, kids are off to college. the house can feel a little empty so there are some who have unique ways of coping with that empty nest syndrome. like this. so you -- here's a woman's bedroom. or a little girl's bedroom. not little girl. now at college. that's the before and then rosie then did this with the little girl's bedroom. she turned -- but it's not a guest room. that's actually a puppy palace. that's her dog. she made it her puppy's room and so this freshman at texas a&m writes on twitter i'm in college for not even a month and my mom rearranges my entire room just for my dog.
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i feel you, girl. so we wanted to ask would you change your kid's room after they left for college? would you find a more useful -- [ applause ] >> there's a lot saying yes. >> i think i would not. i would want a shrine. come home soon. >> you wouldn't do it. >> if we redid our girls' rooms for our dogs who they don't particularly like -- that would be mutiny in the family. >> you hear parents saying oh an exercise room. >> exercise room is the number one choice for adults who when their kids go away they're ready to get fit. >> they want to look like a wasp. [ laughter ] >> they want to look like a wasp. >> i'm changing -- personally i'm changing everything and i'm selling the house. i don't need a house for all these kids. they're gone. [ applause ] >> light candles. please come home. i know it's very sad. all right. well that's my topic. what do you guys have?
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>> well talking about dogs. we're going to find out what it's like now to be a dog. that is a new book from dr. gregory berns from emory university down in atlanta. dr. berns, thanks for joining us. what's it like to be a dog? >> well the bottom line is it's very much like being a human but without the words to tell us what it's like to be a dog. >> ah. >> seriously? so and you're saying one of the things that actually got you into this this whole idea of do the dogs really like us or do they want us for our food? >> yes, so what i've been doing for the past five years is i've been training dogs to go into an mri machine because they can't talk to us so i want i wanted to do see what they're thinking by actually looking at what's happening inside their head. and the first thing that we did was to see whether they liked us just for food or whether they actually had something like love for us and what we found was that the majority of the dogs like praise and just talking to
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them like saying, hey, good girl good boy as much if not more than food. >> realliy i'm so surprised. have you this book. "what it's hike to be a dog." you really do believe that my dogs it's me not the food? i'm so excited. [ laughter ] >> well wait a minute. i don't know you or your dog so one of the interesting things is -- >> you might be different, i guess. >> it's definitely me. me. >> they're like people. >> dogs are like people. >> they're different so all the dogs are different. just like people. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> but, doctor one thing, i talk to my dog and i'm like my little boy, and i look really silly doing it do they understand when we talk to them because i think he and i have a great verbal relationship. [ laughter ]
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>> well that's the million dollar question that we really want to know is what they understand and everything that we're finding shows that they understand some things. they're really good at linking words with actions like sit and stay and fetch but they don't really seem to understand that words represent objects or names. and so my own dog, cali, for example, i'm not even sure that when i call her cali that she links that word with a sense of self. it could just be i better look at the person who made that. >> but the bottom line is you say dogs are like humans. they have feelings. they really do love us? please tell me yes. >> yes, absolutely. absolutely. >> i dent want to ned a therapy session. i'm going to read your book doctor. >> thank you very much. "what it's like to be a dog." >> i love that. i love this idea. >> your dog loves you. >> don't you guys -- i know you don't have more than one dog but
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do you have different voices for your dog? do you actually do their voices. >> oh look at george. >> oh. >> that's cooper. yeah. >> what does cooper sound like? >> cooper is a very eager southern gentleman. he's a very polite southern gentleman. he's got a southern accent. daisy our dachshund. >> oh boy. >> is just mean. >> she's like -- >> she's haughty and fancy. >> i think it's the breed. i had a dachshund. >> yeah there she is. >> look at her. she's like get off my bed. that's so funny. >> nice sheets, george. >> daisy has nom nice sheets. >> i'm sorry. [ laughter ] >> i think this soups amazing. i can't wait to read it. i'm really -- >> sounds like you need to. so needy right now. >> i am. >> one of her dogs died this weekend -- >> i'm feeling particularly needy. >> and there's nobody who loves her for fur babies more than this woman right here. her rescues. >> so thank you, thank you to
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gregory berns and thank you for indulging me. [ applause ] >> yes. you guys coming up how boxes are changing the way we shop. are they the secret to get the perfect wardrobe delivered right to your
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>> from shamrock, texas, 50 years old. we're so happy you're here. we have a couple clouds from irma and they're also in cape may new jersey. that's the cloud cover stretching not just from southern new jersey back into texas. a lot of intensity of the storm has died out but the rain will keep moving through the north and east. you can see what's left of it with that low pressure system. some of the rain will get heavier thursday, friday morning. that is also for your birthday john. that's the big picture. let's go ahead and get a check now a little closer to home. >> recognize that shot? that was our sky6 they just showed on "gma." couple showers down to the south and west of philadelphia as ginger mentioned. we are going to get damp at times today. 77, clouds and sun. tomorrow humid some thundershowers in the afternoon, a high of 80 tomorrow. tsmart. lara, up to you. >> thank you so much ginger we're going to move to our frugal fashionista series. we love this one. and this morning we're breaking
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down the clothing box trend. if you've heard of this delivering a wardrobe designed just for you to your doorstep. there's a company called stitch fix leading the way with more than $700 million in sales last year. so more companies are jumping into the market and paula faris is here now with a closer look. >> good morning to you, lara. as you just said this is a multimillion dollar business with a huge convenience factor if you're like me i break out in hives when i have to shop. these are delivered to your door. here's how it works, you give your size and preferences and for a fee the companies will do the rest but can they nail your style better than you can? take a look. >> it's a great piece and throw it on over anything. >> trunk club is among the growing number of companies expanding this kind of in person styling service for women on the internet. >> clothing box service is like this one takes the legwork out of shopping. customers fill out a questionnaire and for about $20 a stylist does your shopping for you. and at trunk club stylists let
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you preview their picks in an e-mail. >> i think they're very popular. >> evan clark of women's wear daily says the appeal of clothing boxes is more than just about convenience. >> with the subscription boxes, they're looking at their customer base as individuals and that's i think a very powerful kind of approach and it's new in fashion. >> reporter: but what about the services that send you their picks sight unseen. lauren chan fashion features editor at glamour and former plus size model, a size 16 which is average for women in the u.s. is skeptical. >> i think it's pretty hard to nail somebody's style based on a form. >> reporter: she agrees to help us check out clothing box services wantable stitch fix and dia & co. when they arrived we transferred those into new boxes show she wouldn't know which clothes came from which company. >> i could do this. >> reporter: she liked most of what was in the first box but it was a totally different story in the dressing room. >> you're not even going to come out. >> i can't.
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i don't even know if i can walk in it. >> reporter: she had questions about this. >> i wonder if it will be too billowy. >> reporter: the third box. >> very prized and happy. >> reporter: inside each box five items hand picked by a stylist meant to match her budget and style. lauren selected clothes that fell into the midrange of 50 to $100 apiece. there were keepers like this one. >> this outfit i like. the winning look so far. >> reporter: a few that didn't make the cut. >> so i didn't want to try this one on. >> reporter: but she did have a clear favorite liking four out of the five items in box b. who do you think box b is. three, two, one? >> oh. >> reporter: lauren liked stitch fix best overall. she liked two items from dia & dia & co and one piece from wantable. wantable said they were excited she loved one of their items and said we welcome all feedback that allows us to pry an exceptional customer experience for customers who use our
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personal styling service. dia & co which specializes in sizes 14 and up said more than 75% of their stylists identify as plus size themselves and over time, work with customers to build an incredible wardrobe. lauren picked stitch fix, say they use a combination of feedback from clients to understand what they want and think that sets them apart and, lara these services learn a ton about the returns. they learning just as much about your style and most offer some sort of prepaid shipping label and also intersent advise it and wantable gives you 20% off if you keep all the items and others will give you about 25%. >> we were just asking some of the audience members. they said it's worth it because you if try it and don't like it it's free shipping. >> you like to go to the store. i don't. i think i'll try it out. i am adverse to shopping or you could just do it for me. >> we'll talk about it. thank you, paula. guess who is here? russell westbrook, nba
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it is fashion week here in new york. we've got one of if not the most fashionable athlete here. mr. russell westbrook. [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you. >> sporting the prints and the flannel. he is the reigning nba mvp. this year's "sports illustrated" fashion mvp. russell literally wrote the book on men's fashion called "style driver" and we are so happy to have you here to talk about your fashion and a little bit about your life. >> thanks for having me. >> you're the nba mvp just named this year's best male athlete at the espys. we're looking at some of your greatest moments on the court because you are incredible. embarrassing a lot of guy, man. amazing what you do on the court but you know fashion is a -- >> i like the wink.
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>> fashion is a huge passion of yours. >> yeah. >> so how do sports and fashion intertwine. >> i mean it's very, very huge. i think now, you know guys like myself and different sports love fashion. fashion is something that you get an opportunity to kind of express yourself on the court i'm running around and screaming and pounding my chest and doing all type of crazy stuff and in fashion i can walk and be swagged out and have fun. >> swag is the name of the game. talk to me about your term style drivers. like what's a style driver. >> that's for me like that set trends lead their field whether in music, art, fashion or whatever it is or maybe and, you know whatever michael can be a style driver. he dresses up pretty nice if you guys can see. >> driving away. you have a very special personal icon. >> yeah. >> who is that. >> my style icon is my mom. my mom, she -- >> yes, yes, yes. >> i see it. >> she's always swagged out.
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she's -- she has always kept me up to par on fashion, on the style and to this day i can still call her and she can give me a yay or nay. >> you call your pom for fashion advice. >> yeah why not. >> he's just endearing everybody. speaking of styles any way you can help me like jazz up some of my look. >> yeah i can help you out. let's do it. >> style drivers, let's go. >> let's do it. >> over there. >> where we at? okay. okay. >> what's options? >> so some of your philosophies you take risk. >> yeah why not. >> with michael who is so clean and classic what would you do to upante? first we got to give him a pocket square. give him a pocket square to go with his suit. >> which one do you suggest? >> no i don't like that one. >> oh boy. >> need a little more -- >> can we put more time on the
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clock? >> okay. give me that. >> i like that too. >> i like that. makes my tie pop. >> adding a layer. >> yeah just a little polka dot. >> can we please see the hat. >> let's see, okay. >> you wear a hat. >> i wear hats. i wear hats. >> i wear hats. >> maybe some shades. >> a shade guy. give him some shades. >> you make your own shade by the way. >> i do. i do, i do. >> all right. >> and then michael loves a man purse. so -- >> a nice little bag in will you walk the runway for us. >> thank you. thank you. >> michael strahan style by russell westbrook. [ applause ] there he is. everybody, style drivers is out right now. >> there you go. >> thank you, russell. thank you, michael. we will be right back. give them one more. come on.
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>> ♪♪ >> good morning "action news" has concerned a septa train struck and killed a person near the bridesburg section. karen rogers has been following this breaking story. >> that's right matt. chopper6 is overhead that of situation. we have fire crews on the scene. they're doing that accident investigation. this happened at the bridesburg station and septa saying you can expect up to an hour delays right now with the trenton regional rails after that fatal scene here and we see fire trucks that have been on the scene while the accident investigation continues so expect some long delays here with septa's regional rails with the trenton line. let's go outside right now and show you what it looks like on the schuylkill expressway here. we're back to normal delays after a mess on the schuylkill earlier with a big multi-vehicle accident westbound near 202. looking at 23, 25 miles an hour in either direction here,
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the schuylkill at city avenue kind of your normal delays right here finally matt. >> thank you karen. cloud cover abounds. let's go to dave murphy outside. david. >> getting thicker over the last couple hours matt. a couple sunny breaks here there and. we're at 69 degrees starting to warm up and this afternoon accuweather says we'll see a high of 77. now, there's the chance of a spotty shower at times today so not completely dry but certainly by no means a washout. tomorrow humid and some scattered thundershowers in the afternoon and evening, 80 is the high. humid with another shower friday, 81 and the weekend looks warm, maybe a bit humid highs in the low 80's and matt some spotty weekend showers can't be ruled out. >> thank you david. parts of florida are inching towards recovery but the count of damaged and destroyed homes is going up. the latest on irma's aftermath on "action news" at noon. plus funeral services being held today for a community activist who was gunned down in front of his young daughter in spring garden. "live with kelly and ryan" is
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