. >> reporter: mazel, a human rights activity, believes some of the american financial aid to egypt could be used with conditions to help these victims. >> every american listening to us right now, not only americans, anybody in the world, you can make a difference. you can contact your congressman, and you can contact your senator. you can show them you care about these issues. if you send an e-mail or fax or make a telephone call, you can save a life. >> george: chris, amazing story. one update, good news, sagan is out? >> sagan is out. we assume her family or friends gave the ransom money. >> george: why are the christians targeted? >> many of the aratreans are christians, so they're targeted. one of the things they use when they're tortured, she said they're hapgd lik they were hanged like the jesus christ. in practice, there is much of the territory they don't control. many of the tribesman have free reign rein, and that is why it is going on. >> george: you have a new book called "dateline jerusalem" and a show called "jerusalem date line." >> reporter: the show is hopefully soon to

>> mazel tov. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ a lot of leaks. a lot of leaks happening. >> jimmy: it's a giant move. >> yeah, it's very exciting. >> jimmy: it's fantastic. >> yeah, we're planning a wedding. >> jimmy: did you cry? >> did i cry? >> jimmy: when you proposed? >> a little bit, yeah. >> jimmy: yeah. >> yeah. >> jimmy: it's a weird thing. like, i got really emotional when i did mine. >> yeah. >> jimmy: and it was almost -- >> to alexi? did you -- >> jimmy: i proposed to your -- yeah. [ laughter ] she said no. >> because she did say -- she did tell me, it was like -- that was good but not. i've had better. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i tried, i tried. yeah. i tried. no, i kept saying to her -- because it's kind of -- you know it's going to happen. did she know it was going to happen? >> she knew, yeah. >> jimmy: you kind of feel it, if you're dating or whatever. >> yeah. >> jimmy: and so my wife now, she knew it was going to happen. i knew it was going to happen. i'm like, "just be cool. be awesome." like, this is my moment. don't cry. don't

. >> mazel. >> congratulations. >> i really feel that way. >>> can you get through weather? >> i got the shaking and the crying over with yesterday. now, it's all normal. let's get right to it. and let's talk about what we had to do out west. all of the fires. some good news that the humidity will be up and there will be showers, thunderstorms. that's going to give you a little more rain. that's the next 24-hour rain. it's not too much. but every bit does help. and in the east, where we don't necessarily need it. but it's certainly going to feel more summer-like, around the cold front. you get thunderstorms and cooler air right behind. i'll leave you with a look >> thank you, guys, so much. i don't know what to say about weather anymore. >> that's great. >> thank you. >> congratulations. >>> and here's a look at what else is coming up on our "gma morning menu" -- the mom who said her weight loss pictures were stolen by a diet company. >>> and can caffeine spray give you the same boost as a cup of joe? >> no. >> i don't know. we're going to find out. >>> and also, under press

but again, a mazel to paula faris. >> congratulations. congratulations. >> thank you. that's such a weird side effect. bianna, did that happen to you? >> yeah. >> i'm like 17 weeks along. thank you, guys. appreciate it. >>> we're going to turn, now, to the flooding we saw at the top of the show. wild weather throughout the country, and very wild for one 5-year-old. he was sucked into a drainpipe. several dramatic rescues to bring you. and sam has all of this in the park. good morning to you, samuel j. >> good morning, josh. how's it going? by the way, we continue this summertime pattern, of heavy rains scattered across the country. the kind of rains that can bring four inches in a matter of minutes, up to hours. and that causes incredible flash flooding, putting live danger. here are yesterday's videos. a miracle in ft. myers, florida. a 5-year-old boy was splashing in a small ditch, filled with water. when he was suddenly pulled into a drainpipe. >> there was a tiny whirlpool. you never would have been able to tell there was a drainage pipe under it. >> reporter: adul

. >> mazel. >> congratulations. >> i really feel that way. >>> can you get through weather? >> i got the shaking and the crying over with yesterday. now,v1/[ it's all normal. let's get right to it. and talk about what we had to do out west. all of the fires. some good news that the humidity will be up and there will be showers, thunderstorms. that's going to give you a little more rain. that's the next 24-hour rain. it's not too much. but every bit does help. and in the east, where we don't necessarily need it. but it's going to feel more summer-like, around the cold front. you get thunderstorms and cooler air right behind. i'll leave you with a look across the nation. >> thank you, guys, so much. i don't know what to say about weather anymore. >> that's great. >>caq congratulations. >>> and here's a look at what else is coming up on our "gma morning menu" -- the mom who sent her weight loss pictures were stolen by a diet company. >>> and can caffeine spray give you the same boost as a cup of joe? >> no. >> i don't know. we're going to find out. >>> and under pressure. why s

al sharpton has his own show and rachel mazel just did hirsh of -- rachel madow just did. >> i think she's talking about journalism, not activism, which is different to me. being in front of the camano -- >> they're really is a difference between fox and msnbc. you have the feeling walter cronkite there was a solid metal even in the south that wrote 11,000 columns and 700,000 of them were about race relations. more than any journal i know about right now. >> the response of the body for covering the story of race and poverty continues. i and a stand the way the media works of course and we follow what isn't going to write and what we think when we think there is a problem. when we have katrina or some initio but there is a troubling trend that should be covered. >> new orleans was 70% black with the majority of the bodies counted in the flood were white. because the whites were living in the swamps around the city and the blacks got to the dome. it was a really shallow reporting that we all contributed to and it needed a bad story. it was a story of nobody caring about the infrastruc