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#WorldNewsTonight #DavidMuir #News #abcNews  After a weaker than expected jobs report, Jon Karl reports on Pres. Trump firing the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, claiming without providing evidence that the numbers were “manipulated;” Martha Raddatz has details on Pres. Trump ordering the repositioning of two U.S. nuclear submarines in response to threatening comments from a top Russian official; Trevor Ault has the latest on the two manhunts underway in Montana and Tennessee for armed and dangerous murder suspects in separate shootings; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir.

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00:00Tonight, furious over a disappointing jobs report, President Trump fires the government

00:05official in charge of the numbers and the urgent manhunts in two states for armed and

00:10dangerous murder suspects. First, the president taking aim at the commissioner of the Bureau

00:14of Labor Statistics, claiming without providing evidence, the data was rigged. Today's jobs

00:20report, lower than expected. It comes after the U.S. saw 258,000 fewer jobs created in

00:26May and June than previously thought. And President Trump announcing new tariffs on nearly 70 countries,

00:32sending the stock market reeling. And news at the Federal Reserve, a top official stepping

00:37down, Jonathan Karl standing by. Jeffrey Epstein's longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, transferred

00:44without explanation to a lower security prison camp in Texas. The move follows her two-day

00:49meeting with the Justice Department, Pierre Thomas, in Washington. Also tonight, President

00:54Trump issuing new warnings to Russia, repositioning two U.S. nuclear submarines following threats

00:59from a top Russian official. President Trump giving Vladimir Putin one more week to negotiate

01:04peace with Ukraine or face new sanctions. Martha Raddatz with late reporting. Breaking at this

01:10hour, two urgent manhunts in two separate states underway. Police searching for a gunman

01:15who opened fire inside a bar in Montana. At least four people killed. A small town on lockdown.

01:21And authorities looking for a suspect in Tennessee accused of killing a family of four. Their baby

01:27found abandoned on the front lawn of a home. Tonight, new flash flood threats from Texas to the

01:32Carolinas after the Northeast took a pounding. New York City manholes exploding. Subway stations

01:38underwater. And Canadian wildfires triggering air quality alerts across multiple states. Overseas,

01:45top U.S. officials on the ground in Gaza as the humanitarian crisis worsens. Children starving

01:51in need of food in panel in Israel. Here in the U.S., the incredible scene just steps away from the

01:57beach. A shark fighting with a stingray. Swimmers getting out of the water. Scary moments at the

02:03aquarium. An octopus injuring a six-year-old boy clinging onto his arm and not letting go. And

02:09America strong tonight, the special wedding vows touching hearts across the country.

02:16From ABC News World Headquarters in New York, this is World News Tonight with David Muir.

02:25Good evening. Thanks for joining us on this Friday night. I'm Whit Johnson in for David.

02:29And we begin tonight with President Trump angry over a disappointing jobs report firing a Labor

02:34Department official who releases the data. That report coming just hours after the president slapped

02:40new tariffs on dozens of countries. The one-two punch triggering a stock market slide. The Dow closing

02:46down 542 points. All major indexes showing losses. 24 hours ago, President Trump announced higher

02:53tariffs on imports from nearly 70 countries, ranging from at least 10 percent to as high as 40 percent,

03:00taking effect in six days on August 7th. This morning, that disappointing jobs report, just 73,000

03:07jobs added last month, unemployment ticking up to 4.2 percent. And the shocker, numbers for May and

03:14June revised sharply down, losing 258,000 jobs combined. Tonight, President Trump has fired the

03:21commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and now news at the Federal Reserve. A top official is

03:27stepping down. ABC's chief Washington correspondent, Jonathan Carl, leads us off at the White House.

03:33Today, President Trump abruptly fired the nonpartisan economist responsible for government

03:38statistics on the job market, claiming without providing evidence that today's weaker than expected

03:44jobs report was, quote, manipulated. Mr. President, why did you fire the head of the Bureau of Labor

03:49Statistics? Because I think our numbers were wrong, just like I thought our numbers were wrong before the

03:55election, days before the election. And now fired BLS Commissioner Erica McIntyrefer was confirmed by

04:02the Senate in January 2024 by an overwhelming bipartisan vote 86 to 8. Then Senator J.D. Vance

04:10voted for her. Her firing came shortly after today's jobs report showed that the unemployment rate

04:15has risen to 4.2 percent, with the economy adding just 73,000 jobs in July, less than expected.

04:23The Bureau of Labor Statistics also revised the job numbers for the last two months, as it often does,

04:29saying there were over 250,000 fewer jobs created in May and June than previously thought.

04:36I believe the numbers were phony. The president claimed, without providing evidence, that the numbers were

04:41rigged to make him look bad. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified,

04:47Trump declared on social media. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate. They can't be

04:53manipulated for political purposes. But many economists expressed alarm at the firing, worried that it is

04:59now President Trump who is trying to manipulate the numbers. And at least one Republican senator, a Trump ally,

05:06suggested Trump's move was, quote, impetuous. It's not the statistician's fault if the numbers are

05:13accurate and that they're not what the president had hoped for. All this after the president announced

05:21a new wave of tariffs set to go into effect next week, raising the tax on imported products from

05:27nearly 70 countries. That, coupled with the jobs report, sent the stock market tumbling today.

05:33The Dow losing 2.9 percent this week, its worst week since early April, when Trump's trade war began.

05:41But Trump's tariffs are now facing serious legal challenge. A federal appeals court raising questions

05:46about whether the president has the authority to impose the across-the-board tariffs without congressional approval.

05:54John Carl back with us now from the White House. And John, the economic news today coming as President Trump

05:59ramps up his criticism against Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. And now a top official

06:04is stepping down. Yeah. Adriana Kugler, she's one of seven members of the Fed's board of governors

06:10and a Biden appointee, announced her resignation today. She didn't give a reason why, but her term

06:17wit was scheduled to be to expire in January. And her departure gives President Trump the opportunity

06:23to name a new Fed governor, perhaps giving him more influence over the Fed, and also the chance to name

06:30somebody, put somebody on the board who could be a replacement for Jerome Powell when his term as

06:35chairman expires next year. All right, John, thank you. Now to Jeffrey Epstein's convicted co-conspirator,

06:42Ghislaine Maxwell, moved from a low-security prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison in Texas.

06:48Officials have given no reason for the move, but it comes a week after Deputy Attorney General Todd

06:54Blanche interviewed Maxwell for more than nine hours. Here's ABC's Chief Justice Correspondent,

06:59Pierre Thomas. Tonight, we're learning Jeffrey Epstein-accomplished Ghislaine Maxwell has been

07:05moved to a less restrictive prison without any explanation by the Justice Department. Previously

07:10incarcerated at a federal prison in Florida, Maxwell, serving a 20-year sentence for trafficking girls

07:16to Epstein, transferred in recent days to this prison camp in Texas, a lower security facility

07:22with fewer guards and limited perimeter fencing. The move coming just one week after Maxwell's

07:28meeting with the Justice Department No. 2 ranking official. She'll now be housed alongside other

07:33high-profile inmates like Elizabeth Holmes, former CEO of a failed blood-testing startup, and Jen Shaw

07:39of the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. And tonight, Epstein and Maxwell's victims expressing their

07:45outrage at the unexpected transfer. The family of Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide earlier

07:51this year, saying, President Trump has sent a clear message today, pedophiles deserve preferential

07:57treatment, and their victims do not matter. Giuffre's family telling our Lindsay Davis they were shocked

08:03after President Trump made this claim that Jeffrey Epstein stole Giuffre from his Mar-a-Lago club,

08:08where she worked in 2000. I think she worked at the spot. I think so. I think that was one of the

08:15people. He stole her. And by the way, she had no complaints about us, as you know, none whatsoever.

08:23We're still reeling from the very real loss of her, and kind of the way that it was thrown out,

08:32and the words have been stolen as if she was an object, that that's really painful to hear as a

08:40family. But tonight, we're still awaiting a definitive answer as to exactly why this transfer

08:47took place. Pierre Thomas in Washington, thank you. Next tonight, President Trump issuing new warnings

08:52to Russia and repositioning two U.S. nuclear submarines after what he calls highly provocative

08:58statements by Russia's former president. Meantime, President Trump has given Vladimir Putin just one

09:04more week to negotiate peace with Ukraine or face tough new sanctions. Here's ABC's chief global affairs

09:10correspondent, Martha Raddatz. Tonight, in a rare and extraordinary warning to Russia,

09:16President Trump ordering two U.S. nuclear submarines to the region. A threat was made, and we didn't think

09:23it was appropriate, so I have to be very careful. So I do that on the basis of safety for our people.

09:29That threat Trump was talking about, a post on social media from the former Russian president

09:36about unleashing Russia's nuclear arsenal. Trump saying he repositioned the submarines just in case

09:43these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that, adding words can often lead to

09:49unintended consequences. The war of words only escalating since Trump took office.

09:55And so has the war in Ukraine, the war President Trump had said he would end in the first 24 hours

10:03of his presidency. More than six months later, it has only gotten worse, and President Trump's patience

10:10is growing thin, now threatening new sanctions on Russia in the coming days.

10:15Russia? I think it's disgusting, what they're doing. I think it's disgusting.

10:20The president did not say what kind of nuclear submarines he deployed to the region,

10:25but the U.S. already has nuclear ballistic missile subs circling the globe. We were aboard the USS

10:32Maine in 2022 when the commander of submarine forces told us Russian subs are always being watched.

10:40We know when there's Russians underway at all times. We track that very, very closely.

10:45This may all be saber-rattling, but it is a very large saber. Nuclear-armed submarines are the most

10:52deadly, destructive warships on the planet. Witt?

10:55Martha Raddatz for us tonight. Thank you. Now to breaking news. We're following two urgent manhunts

11:01in two separate states underway. Police searching for a gunman who opened fire inside a bar in Montana.

11:06At least four people killed. The small town on lockdown. And in Tennessee, authorities are looking for a

11:12suspect accused of killing a family of four. Their baby found abandoned. Here's ABC's Trevor Ault.

11:18Tonight, an urgent manhunt for an active shooter who authorities say killed four people in western

11:24Montana. The Deer Lodge County Law Enforcement Center says Michael Paul Brown is believed to be

11:30armed and dangerous. They see he first opened fire inside a bar in the town of Anaconda and was last

11:36seen in the Stumptown area six miles away. And tonight in northwest Tennessee, another active manhunt.

11:42Officials offering a $15,000 reward as they search for 28-year-old Austin Robert Drummond,

11:49saying he murdered a family of four and then kidnapped and abandoned their infant.

11:54It appears, with all the information that we have, is that this was a targeted incident.

12:00They say Drummond was last spotted 80 miles south in Jackson, and they've recovered his white Audi.

12:06They're urging residents to stay alert.

12:08And Witt, as for that Montana manhunt, officials say it's not yet clear what circumstances led to

12:14the gunman opening fire. The governor says he's monitoring the situation. Witt.

12:18All right, Trevor Ault, thank you. We're tracking dangerous summer storms. The northeast slammed by

12:23torrential rains and deadly flash flooding. A geyser erupting in a Staten Island street.

12:29Commuters escaping a flooded subway stop by climbing along the gates. And tonight,

12:34there are lingering effects of flights canceled and delayed. Here's ABC's Morgan Norwood.

12:39Tonight, clean up across the northeast after deadly storms wreaked havoc, inundating roadways and

12:45swapping public transit. Half a foot of rain in some areas. Geysers of floodwater erupting on this

12:51street on New York's Staten Island. Water sloshing inside city buses. A manhole exploding.

12:57In citizen app video from Brooklyn, subway strap hangers gingerly holding on to anything they can

13:04as they make daring escapes out of stations. Water gushing out of cracks in the walls.

13:10East of Baltimore, first responders rescuing drivers in Joppa Town, Maryland.

13:14And west of Baltimore, authorities in Mount Airy say a 13-year-old boy was swept into a drain pipe

13:19and drowned. I worked diligently to try to get him out. Unfortunately, he had succumbed to his

13:25injuries before we were able to rescue him from the fight. The storm strangling airports across the

13:29region. More than 1,900 flights canceled Thursday and over 800 more today. And Whit, as cleanup continues,

13:36these storms are giving way to a massive temperature drop, up to 20 degrees in 24 hours. Also, a break from

13:43that humidity. Whit? We'll take that. Morgan Norwood, thank you. Now to the air quality alerts across the

13:49Midwest due to wildfire smoke from Canada. The Chicago skyline here, barely visible. Now among

13:55the worst air anywhere in the world. Smoke drifting down from more than 650 Canadian wildfires, triggering

14:02air quality alerts for millions in at least five U.S. states. We move overseas tonight as the humanitarian

14:08crisis in Gaza worsens. Top U.S. officials are on the ground there visiting an aid site backed by Israel

14:15and the U.S. Tonight, what we've just learned about their meetings amid an urgent push for a ceasefire

14:20hostage deal. ABC's chief foreign correspondent Ian Pannell is in Israel. Tonight, U.S. Special Envoy Steve

14:28Whitcoff and Ambassador Huckabee visiting a controversial Gaza raid site backed by Israel and the U.S.

14:33Their trip coming as the humanitarian crisis deteriorates. I spoke to Steve Whitcoff. He had a great

14:40meeting with a lot of people. And the primary meeting was on food. And he also had some other

14:46conversations that I'll tell you about later. But he had a meeting on getting the people fed. And that's

14:53what we want. But here's what the U.S. officials didn't see. This is the horrific reality of Gaza.

15:00Jana Rayad is eight years old and weighs just 24 pounds. She's been treated for malnutrition before,

15:06but now her condition is deteriorating again.

15:11Nasma says, bit by bit, I feel I'm slowly losing my daughter. American pediatrician Tom Adamkiewicz

15:18speaking to ABC News from Nassau Hospital in Gaza, calling on U.S. officials to see what he's

15:24witnessing. I've seen those children with my own eyes. And so I would call for the United States

15:30ambassador to come here, come and see for yourself what's going on here. Whit, Israel facing a diplomatic

15:37tsunami of pressure to ceasefire and bring the hostages home with major protests against the war

15:43expected in Israel this weekend. Whit? Ian Pannell, our thanks to you tonight. When we come back,

15:48the driver killed crashing into the gate of a military base, security teams opening fire,

15:53a six-year-old boy's frightening encounter with an octopus at the aquarium,

15:57and the stunning sight at the beach, a shark and stingray fighting it out just offshore.

16:05Next night, security forces opening fire on a driver accused of trying to crash through the main

16:09gate at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. The civilian shot and killed. Authorities say he

16:15refused to stop. Security deployed a vehicle barrier. The driver crashed into it and security

16:21shot the suspect when the vehicle kept moving. A six-year-old boy is recovering after a close

16:26encounter with a Pacific octopus at the San Antonio Aquarium in Texas. His mother sharing these pictures

16:32of his arm covered in purple bruises. She says the octopus clung on and wouldn't let go. Three employees

16:39help to get the boy free. The aquarium's website says guests are allowed to feed and gently touch

16:44the octopus. We will hear from the mother and son tomorrow on GMA. When we come back, swimmers jumping

16:51out of the water during a fight between a shark and stingray, and the special wedding vows touching hearts

16:57across the country. To the index now, a jury in Florida ordering Tesla to pay $243 million for a deadly

17:05crash involving its autopilot feature. Jurors finding the company partially liable for the crash,

17:11saying the feature enabled the driver to take his eyes off the road after he dropped his phone and

17:16tried to find it. The car failed to stop at an intersection killing a woman in a parked SUV.

17:22Tesla plans to appeal. A large crowd of swimmers keeping their distance during a fight between a

17:27shark and stingray at Florida's Panama City Beach. They were spotted just a few feet offshore,

17:33the shark taking a bite out of one of the stingray's fins. The area is known for frequent sightings

17:38of both in the water. Still ahead, the groom and his big surprise when reading his wedding vows.

17:46Finally tonight, the groom and the big surprise, his unexpected wedding vows, America Strong.

17:52Tonight, Zach and Hallie Swain and the wedding vows touching hearts across the country.

17:57The couple celebrating their wedding this summer. And when it was time for the vows,

18:01Zach surprising his bride and the guests.

18:04Hallie, your light shines so bright. It's what drew me into you when we met.

18:17Not only reading his vows out loud, but signing them too.

18:20I'm so in love with you.

18:22Hallie wiping away tears. The bride's parents, Gina and Paul, are deaf. And Zach learned sign language so

18:29they could witness and be included in his vows. I promise to encourage, support, and believe

18:37in you. Secretly going to night classes for four months before the wedding. Even if others don't.

18:43The moment Zach started signing and saying his vows, I immediately started tearing up. The way he

18:49included my parents made it even more meaningful. And it reminded me why I chose him. And I'll keep

18:55choosing him every day. After the ceremony, Zach and Hallie finding her parents at the reception.

19:01Zach holding out his ASL certificate. A gift for his new in-laws, overcome with emotion. A thumbs up

19:07from dad. Hallie's mom signing, thank you. And a hug for their new son. I actually handed them my

19:15certificate of graduation to show them that not only am I committed to Hallie for the long run, but I'm

19:21committed to our future family. The amount of recognition this has brought to the deaf community

19:26has truly been so amazing. And for all of you that don't know any sign language, this is I love you.

19:32And you can share it with someone you love. I love you. Truly a special moment. And

19:37congratulations. Thanks for watching tonight. Have a great night.

19:44David Muir, the most-watched newscast in America. And now, ABC's World News Tonight has won the Emmy

19:52for Best Live News Program for the third year in a row.

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