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A Brooklyn woman said she was able to release a shark's mouth from her leg while she was swimming on the Fourth of July off a Long Island beach. A New York woman who survived a Fourth of July shark attack while swimming off a Long Island beach spoke out Thursday for the first time since her harrowing ordeal, telling ABC's "Good Morning America" how she struggled to free herself from the ocean predator's clenched jaws. Lyudmila Emag, 47, of Brooklyn, told "GMA" how she was able to get her hands inside a shark 's mouth and pry herself free after it bit her upper thigh and groin while she was swimming off Fire Island. "It felt like something grabbed me by my thigh and I screamed (to) my friend ... 'Something is biting me,'" Emag recalled. "I felt, you know, like I was in a trap." Emag said that as the shark's razor-sharp teeth dug into her leg, she began to fight back. Lyudmila Emag appears on "Good Morning America,...

A shark bit a Florida fisherman washing his hands off the side of a boat in Everglades National Park. A shark bit a Florida fisherman who was washing his hands off the side of a boat in Everglades National Park. The man reported the shark attack to officials with the National Park Service on Friday morning, and the park ranger who treated the man said that the injury “was consistent with a shark bite,” according to a statement from an official with Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks. The attack is "extremely uncommon" for the Everglades National Park according to officials. “The individual stated he had been fishing from a boat in Florida Bay and was washing his hands in the water when the bite occurred,” the statement said. ​​ In this undated file photo a Bull Shark is seen. STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images Video of the attack, which a National Parks official confirmed depicts the incident reported, shows a shark leaping out of the water to bite a fisherman's hand. The...

Sayfullo Saipov was sentenced Wednesday for his 2017 ISIS-inspired terror attack in New York City. Sayfullo Saipov, the ISIS-inspired attacker who was convicted of killing eight people earlier this year, was sentenced to eight consecutive life sentences on Wednesday. Saipov was convicted in January of all 28 counts he faced in connection with carrying out the deadly attack along a Manhattan bike path with a rented Home Depot truck . The Uzbekistan native was spared the death penalty after jurors deadlocked on sentencing for the nine charges he faced that were eligible for capital punishment and instead agreed to a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of release. Judge Vernon Broderick noted the "sheer unrepentant nature" of Saipov before he imposed eight consecutive life sentences, plus 260 years and two concurrent life sentences. "The conduct in this case is among the worst, if not the worst, I've ever seen," Broderick said. "The eight pe...

The Maine teen charged in the New Year's Eve knife attack near Times Square on New York City police officers is due in court as soon as Tuesday. The Maine teen charged in the New Year's Eve knife attack near Times Square on New York City police officers is due in court as soon as Tuesday to face attempted murder and attempted assault charges. Trevor Bickford, 19, of Wells, Maine, carried out what a senior police official told ABC News was a terror attack likely motivated by Islamic extremism. "He knew what he was doing. He knew why he was doing it and he thought he would die in the attack ," Thomas Galati, NYPD Chief of Intelligence and Counterterrorism, told ABC News. "He did yell out 'Allahu Akbar.'" Trevor Bickford, 19, has been charged with attempted murder for attacking New York City police officers on New Year's Eve near Times Square. Handout Galati said the FBI interviewed Bickford last month in Maine after his mother reported her concer...

A new ABC News podcast series takes a look at how Dan Day infiltrated a right-wing militia and helped the FBI foil a planned terrorist attack. Longtime Kansas resident Dan Day said he's someone who has fiercely defended the Second Amendment and the right for Americans to form militias. But more than six years ago, the husband and father of two risked his life to help the FBI take down members of a dangerous militia group who plotted an attack on Somali immigrants that investigators said could have eclipsed the Oklahoma City bombing. Day's story will be chronicled in a new five-part ABC News podcast "Truth and Lies: The Informant," which launches on Jan. 11 with the first two episodes. Former FBI informant Dan Day drives through Garden City, Kan., in August 2021. ABC News The series, which builds on the extensive reporting behind the 2021 ABC News Studios Hulu documentary "The Informant: Fear and Faith in the Heartland," includes interviews with Day, the F...