here's abc's adrienne bankert. >> reporter: stalking on snapchat.shows the user's exact location, raising privacy concerns. >> it is very easy to accidently share everything that you've got with more people than you need to. and that's the scariest portion. >> reporter: it pin points a user's exact location on a map once they've shared a story with friends. >> interesting, but i think that it's kind of scary at the same time. >> i would rather be my own stalker than having someone know where i am. >> reporter: snapchat's rep saying it is off by default in a setting called ghost mode and it's impossible to share your location with someone who isn't your friend. a spokesperson telling abc news in a statement that we want to make sure that all snapchatters, parents and educators have accurate information about how the snap map works. >> let's see what's going on. >> reporter: in-camera mode, pinch to zoom out. view the map. show your location by tapping on the top right icon. >> it is innovative. it will change so much. >> if you are sitting at home an

adrienne bankert, abc news, new york. >> an american tourist is fighting for his life after he was shot in a medically induced coma. he was shot and robbed in turks and caicos while there with his wife and son. one of the bullets damaged his liver, a kidney and several arteries. police have not yet made arrests. >>> a teenage girl from north carolina who has been missing for more than a year has been found alive at a home in georgia. a 31-year-old man has been taken into custody. the 17-year-old haley burns her name now reunited with her family thanks to a tipster who her parents say helped track her down. it's still not clear whether she was taken or left home on her own. >>> tennis legend john mcenroe fired a volley at serena williams. >> innant interview he says serena is the greatest woman's player in history, but he feels, quote, if she played the men's circuit she would be like number 700 in the world. well, a few years ago williams said she would lose in andy murray because the men are faster. >> oh, no, he didn't. >>> well, tiger woods won't be attending a pro golf event which h

abc's adrienne bankert has more. >> reporter: 20-year-old michelle carter, accused of pushing the youngman she says she loved to his death. prosecutors say carter at the time a high school discount pressured 18-year-old conrad roy iii to commit suicide in 2014. at the heart of the case, tens of thousands of texts between the two. carter repeatedly telling him, it's time and you need to just do it. cell phone records showing carter telling him to get back inside the truck when he has second thoughts. carter attorney blaming her behavior on the medication she was taking. >> it's a suicide even if somebody supports another individual in a suicide, it doesn't create a homicide. >> reporter: adrienne bankert, abc news, taunton, massachusetts. >> adrienne will have more on that trial on "good morning america." >>> take a look. a spearfishing trip that went very wrong e the hospital. wow, that eight-foot shark took a bite out of parker simpson's right leg while he and the friend were in the florida keys. look again. you'll see it here in slo-mo. he said he thought the shark was going after fis

. >> abc's adrienne bankert has all the heart-stopping details of this dramatic rescue. >> reporter:s terrifying. watch as this 14-year-old girl dangles more than two stories above ground saturday night hanging from the sky ride gondola in six flags, new york. panic onlookers assembled to break her fall. >> her neck is stuck. >> reporter: here's the heart-stopping scene from a different angle. >> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: the crowd tells the teen to just let go. >> they'll catch you. they'll catch you, honey. go ahead. >> that's what she does. watch as she falls through tree branches into the arms of good samaritans below. matthew howard and his daughter among those who rushed to the rescue. >> i was looking at her the whole time. i said, just let go. i promise you i'll catch you. >> reporter: the teen was air-lifted to a local hospital. adrienne bankert, abc news, new york. >>> an american tourist is fighting for his life after he was shot while on vacation in the caribbean. kevin newman is now in a medically induced coma in a florida hospital. he was shot and robbed in turks and ca

abc's adrienne bankert with more. >> reporter: the dark side of an un-lon student chat room started bying harvard freshmen that's caused administrators to revoke their admissions. the university's own paper, "the harvard crimson" reports a group of ten students accepted to the class of 2021 and meeting on the college's official facebook page created an alternative page full of memes containing provocative and derogatory images and captions. the content too offensive to show with r-rated memes poking fun at topics like the holocaust, sexual assault and targeting ethnic groups. >> i think it was the appropriate response. harvard is a safe community for everybody and this kind of behavior has no place in our community. >> the students nowadays don't realize what they think is private will become public. >> reporter: admissions even posting on the class of 2021 facebook's group description that they have the right to withdraw an offer of admission if an admitted student engages in behavior that brings into question his or her honesty, maturity or moral character. adrienne bankert, abc news

adrienne bankert, abc news, cambridge, massachusetts. >>> sleep longer in their own rooms and lookedth-old baby sleeping by them alfs after 45 minces more of uninterrupted sleep and found nine months they sleep uninterrupted for 40 minces longer and 20 minutes longer overall. the study corrects a study by the american academy of pediatrics which recommends sharing a room for a year to reduce the risk of sids. >>> check out this wild scene on a street in china. a small audi cuts off a dump truck causing both to lose control and the truck tips over, buries the audi in gravel and the truck falls onto the car. all of this happened right behind a few workers who then helped the driver get out of his vehicle, believe it or not, everyone got out of this one okay. >>> apple is hoping not only to catch up on consumer electronics but instead to once again take the lead. >> its new smart speaker, the home pod is a voice activated device that uses siri. besides planning music it will contro home but it'll cost almost twice as much as amazon's echo. >>> apple also announced major updates to all i

abc news reporter adrienne bankert has the details. >> reporter: tonight that toddler alive after theeroic acts of perfect strangers. surveillance video captures the moment the 3-year-old boy went under at this pool in tallahassee, florida. his head bobbing as he struggled. others in the pool unaware. nearly three minutes passing by until 9-year-old colby heard noticed what was happening. >> i thought, wait a minute, he's underwater, and i don't ee think he can swim. >> reporter: colby pulling the boy up and alerting grown-ups, who carried the child's motionless body out of the pool. colby's mom, a registered nurse, sprang to action. >> i knew i had to start cpr. all my focus was come on, baby, come on, baby, come on, baby. >> reporter: the toddler revived, making a full recovery. >> him and his mom saved my baby's life. and i thank them so much. >> reporter: children aged 1 to 4 are most likely to drown. after two minutes underwater a child will lose consciousness. four to six minutes underwater can cause irreversible brain damage. colby saving a life and learning a life lesson. >> t

abc news reporter adrienne bankert has information every parent can use to keep their children safe.t a warning for families about a silent summer danger. >> he was perfectly healthy, you know, the few days before. >> reporter: hours after playing in the pool garon vega's son geo became sick. >> he was exhibiting really high fever, lethargy, and i noticed his heart was beating rapidly. >> reporter: after seeing recent headlines about secondary drowning the boy's family rushed geo to the e.r. doctors diagnosing the 2-year-old with pneumonia. the family saying these doctors told them secondary drowning was to blame. it's when a small amount of water is inhaled into the lungs. >> if we probably would have waited till the next day it probably would have been a bad outcome. >> reporter: lindsay kujawa's son was diagnosed with secondary drowning after jumping into the jacuzzi. >> i'm like he's okay, he's not blue, he's choking up the water. >> reporter: doctors say the condition is rare but can be fatal. >> it takes a surprisingly small amount of fluid to cause damage to the lungs. in a ch

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mid-80s >> no, no, i gave adrienne bankert a shoutout there. >> you did? >> yes. >> she's texting. >> oh, my goodness. i'm hard at work on my e-mail. what did you say? was it nice? >> of course, it was nice. >> of course, it was nice. i almost got stuck in dallas but a lot of people did. yeah. well, i was on the tarmac. >> she was delayed. >> two hours. >> allegedly as you would say. >> two hours but thankfully i made it here for work this morning. >> you gave adrienne a nice shoutout. meantime, ron was saying that tornado was fake. he said that wasn't real. but it was real. >> it's all part of fake weather hashtag. >> looked like computer graphics. >> it did. >> i didn't think it was real either. >> it was sped up. it was sped up. >> it was legit. >> really cool. >> and fast forward. >> a lot of other news this morning. ron. >> there is actually. hey, dan, you and i, okay. >> yep, i got you. >> good morning. >> whoa. >> good morning, everyone. we're going to begin in singapore where the u.s. defense secretary james mattis is calling north korea a clear an

. >> i'm adrienne bankert in for diane macedo. >> we're going to get to those other stories in a moment. first breaking news right now and what could potentially be a big development in the fight against terror. russia this morning claiming it has killed the leader of isis in an air strike. the russian defense ministry says al baghdadi was killed three weeks ago along with other top militants. the u.s. has not confirmed this. >> this comes as isis continues to lose territory in iraq and syria. for years al baghdadi was one of the most wanted men. a $25 million reward from the u.s. for information leading to his capture. the last public video of baghdadi was from a mosque in mosul in 2014. >> he has been on the run quite a bit since thenment russia this morning says it has killed the leader of isis, of course, we'll continue to stay on breaking story and bring you the very latest if and when we get confirmation. >>> now to something rare in the nation's capital. true bipartisanship on display at last night's congressional baseball game. there were ball, strike, runs, of course, scored. i

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. >> ai'm adrienne bankert in for diane macedo. that special election in georgia, the republican candidate celebrating after the most expensive congressional race ever. >> take a look. there she is, karen handel defeating democrat jon ossoff. the 30-year-old for a seat held by her party for decades. fending off what would have been a political upset that would have rattled congress and, of course, the white house. abc's janai norman has the latest from washington where the president was actually already offering congratulations overnight. good morning, janai. >> reporter: kendis and adrienne, good morning to you. it was definitely a hard fought victory for karen handel. she managed to beat out the young democrat and held on tight to that seat held by republicans for nearly four decades. 30-year-old jon ossoff had supporters across the country and hoped to be a breath of fresh air for georgia's 6th district. >> we are going to show those cynics in washington, d.c. who have been peddling hate and >> reporter: the candidates appeared

here's adrienne bankert. >> reporter: tonight, a new jersey family mourning the loss of their 11-year-old daughter. >> female electrocuted, unconscious. breathing. >> reporter: the child and two friends were on an inflatable raft in a lagoon when two of them touched a metal rail that sent an electric shock. the 11-year-old, dying at the hospital. her friends not hurt. this comes just one day after the sudden death of a 19-year-old from ohio, electrocuted after he jumped into the water near a boat dock to save the family dog. >> we don't want anybody swimming in a marina around a dock where there could be electric service to that dock. >> reporter: it is called electric shock drowning, usually caused by a short in the wiring of a dock, marina or boat charging the water. pools can be just as dangerous. these children in florida, touching the metal rail. this girl instantly goes limp. the man helping her, also shocked. all survived. several states now calling for changes including circuit breakers near the water, and for electrical outlets that shut down when there's a short or overload. the

adrienne bankert reports. >> reporter: tonight, that tsa agent confronted by a passenger who says hem her. authorities say surveillance video shows officer alexander johnson reaching into that woman's bag and pocketing $500 during a security screening at orlando international airport. johnson now facing a felony grand theft charge. a 2012 abc news investigation reveals hundreds of tsa officers nationwide have been fired for theft, like this one from memphis. and then there is this former officer also at orlando international. in 2012 he was the last person seen with an ipad intentionally left by abc at a security checkpoint as part of an investigation with our brian ross who tracked him down. >> and the tracking device shows that it's located right here at this address. >> okay. >> is it here? >> no, sir. >> reporter: but shortly after our team set off the ipad's gps alarm, the officer produced it. >> you found it, there it is. >> reporter: he was ultimately fired. in the latest case involving johnson, the agency said it has "zero tolerance for misconduct in the workplace." and it im

adrienne bankert has more. >> reporter: tonight, that toddler, alive after the heroic acts of perfect strangers. surveillance video, capturing the moment. the 3-year-old boy went under at pool in tallahassee, florida. his head, bobbing as he struggled. others in the pool, unaware. nearly three minutes passing by, until 9-year-old colbi noticed what was happening. >> i thought, "wait a minute, he's underwater and i don't even think he could swim." >> reporter: colbi pulling the boy up, and alerting grownups who carried the child's motionless body out of the pool. colbi's mom a registered nurse, sprang to action. >> i started to administer cpr all my focus was on come on baby come on baby. >> reporter: the toddler revived, making a full recovery. >> him and his mom saved my baby's life and i thank them so much. >> reporter: children aged one to four are most likely to drown after two minutes under water a child will lose consciousness four to six minutes under water can cause irreversible brain damage. colbi saving a life and learning a life lesson. >> take care of the people you don't

adrienne bankert with the latest. >> reporter: tonight, this suburban new jersey home blown to pieces. >> it was louder than thunder. it's something i have never heard before. my whole body and my arm, i saw it shaking. >> reporter: around 4:00 a.m. a fireball sending a shock wave, rattling nearby homes. >> a house explosion confirmed. fully engulfed house fire. >> reporter: neighbors rushing to the homeowner before paramedics arrive. dave parozzi says the man was thrown from the blast, narrowly escaping. >> he was charred. it looked like projectiles hit him in the face. it was bad. >> it obviously appears to have been a gas. >> reporter: less than a hour later in chicago, two houses explode. >> we have a house explosion. we've got two people trapped in the house. >> reporter: the blast so powerful, 50 homes are damaged. a witness capturing the suburb on fire. flames seen shooting into the air from blocks away. >> windows out everywhere. i went outside and i saw flames. >> reporter: four people are rescued. two sent to the hospital and later released. crews still investigating a in bo

abc's adrienne bankert on the panic underground. >> everybody come down this way! >> reporter: tonight, underground rail chaos, hundreds of panicked new york city subway passengers fleeing a train derailment in dark tunnels filled with smoke. >> i saw the power went off and the train started jumping up and down. >> you could see sparks out the window. >> reporter: officials say two cars of a jam packed "a" train, came off the tracks, careening into a wall when the emergency brakes engaged. the side of this car, ripped open, tracks and signals damaged. >> we got a go this way. >> that's where the smoke is coming from. >> reporter: smoke created by trash on the tracks catching fire, people knocking out windows to get air and get out. using their cell phones as flashlights. >> the train bucked forwards. it backed backwards, and in the process of doing that, two of the cars derailed and scraped the side of the wall. >> reporter: at least 34 passengers are treated for minor injuries. this comes as the businessest transit system is under fire for long delays and cancella

here's abc's adrienne bankert with the symptoms to look out for. >> reporter: tonight, a warning fora silent, summer danger. >> it was alarming, because he was perfectly healthy, you know, the few days before. >> reporter: hours after playing in the pool, garon vega's son, gio, became sick. >> he was exhibiting really high fever, lethargy, and i noticed that his heart was beating rapidly. >> reporter: after seeing recent headlines about secondary drowning, the boy's family rushed gio to the e.r. doctors diagnosing the 2-year-old with pneumonia. the family saying these doctors told them secondary drowning was to blame. it's when a small amount of water is inhaled into the lungs. >> we probably would have waited until the next day and that probably would have been a bad outcome. >> reporter: lindsay kujawa's son was diagnosed with secondary drowning after jumping into the jacuzzi. >> i'm like, he's okay, he's not blue, you know, he's choking up the water. >> reporter: doctors say the condition is rare, but can be fatal. >> it takes a surprisingly small amount of fluid to actually cause

abc's adrienne bankert with more.ou are witnessing the witness, worldwide. ♪ can i get a witness >> katy perry streaming live online through the weekend. from her bedroom. to the kitchen. joined by celebrity guests. >> are you with me? >> no, i am not with you, gordon ramsey. i'm a pop star, you are a chef. stay in your lane. >> and her glam squad. going makeup free. >> these are my bags, my wrinkles. this is all of me. not just part of me anymore. ♪ swish swish ♪ another one in the basket >> to very perry. >> reporter: all leading up to a free concert with a small audience of just 1,000. live streamed to the world from los angeles. ♪ it up it's your favorite song ♪ >> reporter: a peek behind the curtain into her music and personal life. opening up admitting to having suicidal thoughts and depression. >> it's hard i feel ashamed that i would have those thoughts, you know, and feel that low, or that depressed. >> reporter: showing us all how she stays centered, and good humored doing yoga with jesse tyler ferguson. >>

adrienne bankert is here. >> hey, yeah, we are. >> my fonsi imitation.s actually my -- i didn't realize we were back from commercial break. i need to say something. >> wake-up time. we're going to talk a few stories. first former president barack obama might have spilled the beans on the sex of beyonce and jay z's twins. they are expecting very, very soon and in a video honoring the rap artist for the songwriters' hall of fame, the former president hints that beyonce and jay z are thinking pink. >> jay and i are also fools for our daughters although he's going to have me beat once those two twins show up and let's face it. we both have wives who are significantly more popular than we are. >> it's unclear whether the power couple will actually have two baby girls but did say girls and we're sure fans would love to see 5-year-old blue ivy carter with sisters. do you think he spilled the beans? >> yes. >> absolutely. >> i think it's very political av >>> michael phelps may be a 23-time olympic gold medalist but how does he match up against a shark. he will

ith your first look, i'm adrienne bank earth -- adrienne bankert, massachusetts. ♪ [doorbell] ♪ ♪ whene doctors working as a team for your health, you get the care you need to help you thrive. ♪ visit kp.org to learn more. kaiser permanente. thrive. ♪ me to listen carefully. i'm ralph northam,aught and when survivors of the virginia tech shooting asked me to support an assault weapons ban and close the gun show loophole, i took on the fight. i saw what those weapons can do as an army doctor during the gulf war. now, i'm listening carefully to donald trump, and i think he's a narcissistic maniac. whatever you call him, we're not letting him bring his hate into virginia. >> from abc's news, this is a breg alert. >> the capital of iran under attack. ultimate gun and suicide bomb assaults. within the hour, a claim of responsibility. adriana: flames tear through a fairfax county home and a firefighter rushed to the hospital. our crew is on the scene with brand-new information on what happened. i'd adriana hopkins. larry: and we've got a lot going on. first a check of our forecast with veron

adrienne bankert trying to get showers and thunderstorms continue there it is all across the stalled frontal boundary, tropical moisture from a tropical storm that hit mexico a day and a half ago, much-needed rain getting into the sunshine state of florida which is in horrible drought, that's good news. here's a check of the national headlines. here's the local forecast. >> reporter: that's the one thing we don't needed here, more rain, unfortunately we have showers breaking out from the jersey shore westward into the lehigh valley and the poconos. very light stuff. cloudy conditions, spritzes and sprinkles in the city of philadelphia. there could be a leftover shower up until 10:30 or so. in the afternoon full sunshine, very, very comfortable, high temperature in the mid 70s. >> you did. >> she's texting. >> oh, my goodness. i was hard at work on my e-mail. what did you say? was it nice? >> of course, it was nice. >> i almost got stuck in dallas but a lot of people did. well, i was on the tarmac. >> she was delayed. >> two hours. >> allegedly as you would say. >> two hours but thank

adrienne bankert here with that story. orter: wow, yes, look at that video. videos to six flags shocked by what they saw. two kids screaming. that 14-year-old in serious danger. a day of fun turns terrifying. watch as this 14-year-old girl dangles more than two hanging from the sky ride gondola at six flags in upstate new york. her little brother sitting next to her screaming for help. >> please, please, help me. >> reporter: panicked onlookers assembling to break her fall fearing she's trapped. >> her neck is stuck. >> here's the heart-stopping scene from a different angle. >> oh, my gosh. >> the crowd tells the seen to just let go. >> just let go. >> they'll catch you. they'll catch you, honey. go ahead. >> reporter: that's what she does, she falls through tree brancheses into the arms of good samaritans below. >> unconscious at the this time. th the teen was airlifted suffering no serious injuries. matthew howard and his daughter among those who rushed to the rescue. >> i said, just let go. i promise you i'll catch you.

harvard university rescinding students after they reportedly posted offensive messages abc's adrienne bankertest. good morning, adrienne. >> reporter: good morning to you, amy. yes, ten of about 2,000edheir dreams of being admitted to harvard are now being told their futures at the school are over be harvard is renown fon the best . but this morning, the dark side started by some incoming the university's own paper reports a group of ten students accepted to the class of 2021 and meeting on the college's official facebook page created an alternative page full of memes containing provocative and derogatory images and captions. the content too offensive to show with r-rated memes poking fun at topics like the holocaust, sexual assault and targeting ethnic groups. one allegedly calling the fictional hanging of a mexican child, pinata time. "the crimson" reporting incoming students who wanted to join the chat had to post something offensive in another group dedicated to mostly light-hearted memes. wyatt hurt is one of the newly admitted freshmen. >> i haven't on people saying this was the wrong t

abc's adrienne bankert is here with the story. >> reporter: good morning to you all. good morning, george. yes, they say everybody has a twin, right? to see these two men it's like looking in a mirror except they never met though they were both housed in the same prison. after years of pleading his innocence, this father meeting his grandchildren for the first time on the other side of freedom. finally having picture perfect proof. this morning, a man who says he was wrongfully convicted imprisoned for 17 years, now free after tracking down his own doppelganger. >> i hoped and prayed every day for this day to come and, you know, and when it finally got here it was overwhelming feeling. >> reporter: richard jones was charged with aggravated robbery in kansas city, kansas, nearly 20 years ago, accused of trying to steal a purse in a parking lot. jones had an alibi. and no physical evidence, dna or fingerprints ever linked him to the crime. witnesses telling police the suspect was a light-skinned, hispanic or african-american man. pic

abc's adrienne bankert is here with new details from his emotional interview. d morning, adrienne. >> reporter: complained the show didn't do enough to stop a night of heavy drinking and now infamous intimacy. demario describing how things quickly moved from flirting to passion defending himself after he says he's been made to look guilty. demario jackson speaking out for the first time in graphic detail since the scandal on the set of "bachelor in paradise." ♪ almost paradise >> reporter: emotional in this e! news interview. >> see your mom cry every single day. it was very difficult. >> reporter: it was a tryst between contestants demario jackson and corinne olympios into sexual misconduct after a producer filed a complaint against the show. production halted with allegations 24-year-old corinne was too drunk to consent at the time, something demario repeatedly denied. >> our first real conversation was at the bar. really like friends and then we started having more fun. you know, had things got wild because it was more of like her being like the aggressor, wh