ABC News Prime: - Francine makes landfall; Harris-Trump debate fallout; IDF draft protests in Israel

ABC NEWS AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE NEWS SOURCE. >> TONIGHT, IN THE EYE OF, THE STORM, HURRICANE FRANCINE STRENGTHENS AND MAKES LANDFALL IN LOUISIANA, JUST SOUTHWEST OF NEW ORLEANS WITH LIFE, STORM SURGE AND DANGEROUS WINDS PACKING A PUNCH FOR MILLIONS IN THE REGION. WE'LL HAVE A LIVE REPORT FROM THE GROUND AS CONDITIONS DETERIORATE AND SHELTER IN PLACE, ORDERS ARE ISSUED. >> PLUS, HE WAS BIG ON DEFENDING IN MINNESOTA. SHE WENT OUT. WAIT A MINUTE. I'M TALKING NOW, IF YOU DON'T MIND, PLEASE. DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR? IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MOMENTS OF THE 2024 CAMPAIGN, THE FIREWORKS BETWEEN KAMALA HARRIS AND DONALD TRUMP ON FULL DISPLAY FOR MILLIONS OF VOTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. FRESH REACTION IN THE FALLOUT FROM THAT INCREDIBLE DEBATE TONIGHT. SURROGATES FOR BOTH CANDIDATES JOIN US. AND WHAT'S NEXT IN THE FINAL TO ELECTION DAY AS THESE TWO CANDIDATES COME FACE TO FACE AND, SHAKE HANDS AGAIN JUST 12 HOURS AFTER THEIR FIRST DEBATE. AND ALSO TONIGHT, REMEMBRANCE AND HEARTBREAK. AMERICA PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE LIVES LOST ON THIS DAY, SEPTEMBER 11TH, 23 YEARS AGO. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. I'M TREVOR AULT IN FOR LINSEY DAVIS. THANK YOU SO MUCH, STREAMING WITH US. WE'RE FOLLOWING ALL THOSE STORIES AND MUCH MORE, INCLUDING REPORT ON THE GROUND IN ISRAEL AS A NEW GENERATION OF POTENTIAL IDF FIGHTERS OBJECT TO SIGNING UP, FACING JAIL TIME INSTEAD, WHY THEY SAY THEY'RE DOING IT AND HOW THIS MOVEMENT COULD GROW AS THOUSANDS ARE REGULARLY PROTESTING BENJAMIN NETANYAHU'S HOLD ON POWER. >> PLUS, THE FORMER MEMBER OF A POP GROUP NOW SUING MUSIC MOGUL SEAN "DIDDY" COMBS AS HIS LEGAL TROUBLES AND ALLEGATIONS MOUNT . AND, OF COURSE, WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THE MAJOR MOMENTS OF LAST NIGHT'S PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE WITH DR. CARSON AND PHILIP WRYNESS, BOTH HERE RESPONDING TO THE FALLOUT. JUST ONE DAY LATER. BUT WE BEGIN WITH HURRICANE FRANCINE TONIGHT, POUNDING LOUISIANA, THE HURRICANE MAKING LANDFALL AS A CATEGORY TWO IN SOUTHERN LOUISIANA LATE TODAY. FRANCINE CAME ASHORE TERREBONNE PARISH, ABOUT 85 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW ORLEANS. IT BROUGHT WITH IT POWERFUL WINDS, A LIFE THREATENING STORM SURGE AND UP A FOOT OF RAIN. TORNADO WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT TONIGHT AND TROPICAL STORM FOR MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA, TOO. YOU CAN SEE HUMVEES DOWN THE HIGHWAY AS LOUISIANA'S GOVERNOR ACTIVATED MORE THAN 20 NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS. OUR CHIEF METEOROLOGIST, GINGER ZEE, IS STANDING BY WITH THE LATEST TRACK, INCLUDING HOW CONCERNED NEW ORLEANS RESIDENTS SHOULD BE TONIGHT. >> BUT FIRST, OUR MATT RIVERS LEADS US OFF IN HOUMA, LOUISIANA NOW. HEY, TREVOR. YEAH, WE ARE RIGHT THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL TO THE POINT WHERE EVEN THOUGH THERE'S STILL A LOT OF WIND, ACCORDING THE RADAR, WE'RE ABOUT TO MOVE IN TO THE EYE OF THE HURRICANE. WE'RE IN THE CENTER OF IT, HAVING SEEN GUSTS UP TO 100 MILES AN HOUR. AND EVEN THOUGH IN THE EYE, THINGS ARE ABOUT TO CALM DOWN, THE STORM FAR FROM OVER. >> TONIGHT, CONDITIONS DETERIORATING BY THE HOUR. THE GULF COAST AS HURRICANE FRANCINE SLAMS ASHORE. ROADS QUICKLY FLOODING IN DULAC, LOUISIANA. SOME AREAS BRACING FOR UP TO TEN FEET OF STORM SURGE AND TO A FOOT OF RAIN. ALL THIS HURRICANE COMING ASHORE AND WE WE'RE RIGHT IN THE EYE WALL. THE MOST INTENSE PART OF THIS STORM WITH UP TO 100 MILES AN HOUR AT THE THREAT OF POWER OUTAGES GOING UP BY THE MINUTE. >> MEMORIES OF 2021 HURRICANE IDA STILL FRESH IN THE MIND OF HOUMA RESIDENT L.A. CARSON. >> NERVOUS, OVERWHELMED. SCARED. EVEN YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH STORMS BEFORE. >> I FELT THE SAME WAY EVERY TIME A PHONE CALL. >> HUMVEES ROLLING DOWN THE HIGHWAY AS LOUISIANA'S ACTIVATES MORE THAN 2000 NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS, A STATE OF EMERGENCY THERE. >> AND IN MISSISSIPPI, IN FLOOD PRONE NEW ORLEANS, OFFICIALS SAY THEY'RE CONFIDENT THE PUMPS SYSTEM THAT KEEPS WATER OUT OF THE CITY WILL DO ITS JOB. >> THERE WILL BE TIME WHERE THERE WILL BE SOME FLOODING. AND OUR MISSION THEN SHIFT FROM KEEPING THE CITY DRY TO PUMPING THE CITY AS FAST AS WE CAN. >> SO LET'S BRING THAT RIVERS BACK IN FROM HOUMA, LOUISIANA, WHERE WE CAN ALMOST HEAR WHAT SOUNDS LIKE THE WIND ALMOST SCREAMING. >> YOU ARE, MATT. I WOULD IMAGINE A LONG NIGHT AHEAD. YEAH, NO QUESTION ABOUT IT, TREVOR. THAT WIND ACTUALLY STILL GOING THROUGH THE POWER HERE AT A REALLY HIGH VELOCITY. THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE HEARING. THAT WHISTLING NOISE JUST TO MY LEFT, GOING THROUGH THE POWER LINES. BUT NO QUESTION IT'S GOING TO BE A LONG NIGHT AHEAD, NOT ONLY FOR US HERE IN HOMA, BUT ALSO FOR EVERYONE IN THIS. AS MUCH AS THIS HAS BEEN A WIND EVENT, IT'S ALSO A RAIN EVENT. SOME FLASH FLOODING REMAINS A MAJOR CONCERN. AND ALSO, I WOULD ADD, POWER OUTAGES, A HUGE CONCERN FOR PEOPLE AROUND HERE BECAUSE IN THIS AREA, WHEN THE POWER GOES OUT, IT TENDS TO STAY OUT FOR A WHILE. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED DURING HURRICANE IDA A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. AND THAT'S A CONSISTENT CONCERN. WE'VE HEARD FROM RESIDENTS THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING TO IN THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS. ALL RIGHT, MATT, YOU AND YOUR CREW SAY SAFE MEMBERS AND CHIEF METEOROLOGIST GINGER ZEE IS TRACKING FOR US TONIGHT. >> SO GINGER, TIME THIS STORM OUT FOR US. YES, TREVOR. OFFICIAL LANDFALL WAS 30 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF MORGAN CITY ,LOUISIANA, BUT YOU CAN SEE WHERE THE CENTER HAS MOVED QUITE QUICKLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT 17 MILES PER HOUR. SO THIS THING'S GETTING PAST NEW ORLEANS TONIGHT IN EYEWALL, YOU COULD FIND WIND GUSTS ALL OF 75 PLUS MILE PER HOUR AND TORNADO WATCH THAT GOES ALL THE WAY TO PASCAGOULA, GULFPORT, SLIDELL, MISSISSIPPI. SO KEEP EYE ON ALL OF THAT TONIGHT. POWER OUTAGES ARE LIKELY. THEY'RE ALREADY EXPANDING AND WE'LL SEE THOSE TWO TROPICAL STORM WARNINGS. YOU KNOW, THAT'S JUST SOUTH OF I-20. SO NEARLY TO JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI. WITH THOSE WARNINGS, LET'S TAKE THAT TRACK AND WE'LL TIME IT OUT BECAUSE IT IS GOING TO EVENTUALLY THE REMNANTS OF IT GET UP TO WESTERN. SO WATCH THIS ON THIS MAP. YOU SEE ALL THOSE WIND ADVISORIES ONCE OVER THE SURGE AND THE IMMEDIATE THREAT OF THE FLASH FLOODING AT THE COAST. WE'RE GOING BRING THE STORM INLAND AND BY TOMORROW MORNING, YOU'RE GOING TO END UP WITH WIND UPWARDS OF 45 MILES PER HOUR AS FAR NORTH AS BIRMINGHAM OR JACKSON, TENNESSEE. YOU SEE WHERE THOSE HEAVIEST BANDS ARE STILL OVER TALLAHASSEE JUST EAST OF PANAMA CITY, APALACHEE, GETTING THAT PULL OF WATER STILL. THAT'S TOMORROW MORNING. BUT BY TOMORROW AFTERNOON, DON'T FORGET, YOU'VE GOT A TORNADO WATCH LIKELY TOMORROW YOU'LL SEE THAT POP UP. BUT ALSO THE ELEVATED FLASH FLOOD RISK BECAUSE THIS AREA HAS BEEN IN DROUGHT, NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS THROUGH PADUCAH FINDS THEMSELVES IN THAT ELEVATED RISK OF FLASH FLOODING. YOU COULD EASILY SEE 3 TO 5 INCHES FALL REALLY QUICKLY, TREVOR. >> ALL RIGHT. ALL KINDS OF ISSUES TO DEAL WITH, GINGER ZEE. THANK YOU. AND JOINING US NOW FOR MORE IS STEPHANIE FOX IS THE NATIONAL SPOKESPERSON FOR THE AMERICAN RED CROSS. SHE IS IN BATON ROUGE TONIGHT. STEPHANIE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. THERE'S A LOT OF ISSUES AS WE'VE HEARD FROM THAT FORECAST THAT FRANCINE IS BRINGING IN. BUT WHAT SPECIFICALLY IS THE RED MOST WORRIED ABOUT? >> YEAH. CONDITIONS HAVE BEEN STEADILY DETERIORATING THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND CHECKED MY FRONT DOOR AS I WAS WAITING TO JOIN. YOU JUST BLEW OPEN AND A VERY, VERY STRONG GUST OF HERE JUST SOUTH OF BATON ROUGE. THE RED CROSS, OF COURSE CONCERNED ABOUT THE SAFETY OF ALL THE RESIDENTS WHO ARE GOING TO BE IMPACTED BY THIS STORM WHEN IT I'M SURE THAT THEY ARE STAYING INSIDE, THAT THEY NOT GOING TO VENTURE OUT. THE TIME TO PREPARE HAS PASSED. NOW TIME IS TO HUNKER DOWN, TO WAIT UNTIL THE WORST CONDITIONS HAVE PASSED AND TO ENSURE THAT YOU ARE STAYING SAFE AND INSIDE. BECAUSE AT THIS POINT IN TIME, THERE WILL COME A POINT WHERE FIRST RESPONDERS ARE NOT ABLE TO ACTUALLY VENTURE OUT IN THE WORST THE STORM. SO PLEASE DO NOT PUT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY AT RISK. PLEASE STAY INSIDE. >> AND WHILE, STEPHANIE, EVERYONE IS HOPEFULLY HUNKERED DOWN, WE KNOW THE CROSS HAS MOBILIZED IN LOUISIANA, BUT WHAT SERVICES ARE YOU PREPARING PROVIDE? >> SO AFTER LANDFALL, WE'RE GOING TO DO A LOT OF ASSESSING AS FAR AS WHERE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS WERE FROM THIS STORM AND WHAT HELP IS GOING TO BE NEEDED AND WILL COORDINATE WITH. OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, OUR LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TO DETERMINE IS SHELTERING. IS IT FEEDING? IS IT COMMUNITY SUPPORT BY WAY OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES? AND WILL EXACTLY WHAT THOSE SPECIFIC NEEDS ARE GOING TO BE. AND THEN WE WILL CONTINUE THAT MOBILIZATION. AND THAT, AS YOU NOTED, WE HAVE STARTED SEVERAL DAYS AGO WITH THE MORE THAN 100 VOLUNTEERS THAT ARE ALREADY ON THE GROUND IN THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. >> WE'LL CONTINUE FORWARD. LOUISIANA IS, OF COURSE, NO STRANGER TO A LOT OF THESE DIFFERENT STORMS. I KNOW A LOT OF RESIDENTS HAVE PROBABLY HUNKERED DOWN MANY TIMES THE PAST, BUT WHAT IS YOUR ADVICE BESIDES STAYING PUT AS ALL THESE PEOPLE LIKELY GOING TO DEAL WITH A RESTLESS NIGHT OVERNIGHT? >> THERE BECOMES A VERY SPECIFIC HAZARD WHEN THE LIGHTS DO GO OUT, AND THAT IS THE THREAT OF CARBON MONOXIDE. SO WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT IF FOLKS ARE GOING TO BE UTILIZING A GENERATOR OR OF ANY KIND, PLEASE ENSURE THAT IT IS OUTSIDE OF YOUR HOUSEHOLD. IT IS IN A DRY AREA. IT HAS BEEN IN AN AREA, THE AREA THAT IS COMPLETELY VENTILATED FROM ALL SIDES AS POSSIBLE AND MAKE SURE THAT IT IS NOT NEAR ANY KIND OF AND DOORS. THE WEATHER HAS GONE DOWN AS AS TEMPERATURES ARE CONCERNED. SO PEOPLE WILL BE OPENING THEIR WINDOWS AND DOORS AS THOSE POWERS DO GO OUT. SO PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU'RE UTILIZING THOSE SAFELY AND YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE ANY KIND OF FATALITIES BECAUSE CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING AND THE POWER OUTAGES. >> THERE HAVE BEEN MANY NAMED STORMS THAT HAVE REALLY HAMMERED THIS REGION. BUT OF COURSE, EVERYBODY THINKS OF KATRINA AND ALL THE DEVASTATION THAT IT LEFT BEHIND SINCE AND ALL THE TIME THAT HAS PASSED. >> HAS THERE BEEN ANY MAJOR CHANGES IN TERMS OF EMERGENCY PREPARATIONS IN RESPONSE INTO THE RED CROSS LEARNED? >> EVERY SINGLE OPERATION WE LIKE TO SAY, ONCE YOU'VE SEEN A DISASTER, YOU'VE SEEN A DISASTER. EVERY SINGLE IS GOING TO BE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY ARE GOING TO BE COMPLETELY AND FROM HURRICANE KATRINA ALL THE WAY TO NOW, EVERY OPERATION WE HAVE GOTTEN BETTER AT MOBILIZING OUR WORKFORCE AND ENSURING THAT WE THOSE RELATIONSHIPS BUILT WITH THE LOCAL OFFICIALS IN THOSE IMPACTED COMMUNITIES LONG BEFORE ANY HAZARDS COME THEIR WAY. AND WE'RE ENSURING THAT WE ARE ABLE TO SUPPLY ANY SUPPLIES THAT THESE COMMUNITIES ARE GOING TO NEED. SO A LOT HAS BEEN LEARNED IN THE MANY EVENTS SINCE THAT STORM AND WILL CONTINUE TO LEARN AND GET BETTER AT WHAT WE DO EVERY SINGLE STORM AFTER. >> STEPHANIE FOX WITH THE RED CROSS, THANK YOU. AND STAY SAFE TONIGHT. >> THANK YOU. NOW WANT TO HEAD OVER TO FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS WHO WERE TOGETHER THIS MORNING AT GROUND ZERO HERE IN NEW YORK TO REMEMBER THE VICTIMS OF THE 911 ATTACK. STANDING JUST A FEW FEET APART, REACHING ACROSS IN A CORDIAL HANDSHAKE ONCE AGAIN, JUST HOURS EARLIER, OF COURSE, IN PHILADELPHIA. VICE PRESIDENT CROSSED THE STAGE, MAKING THE FIRST MOVE, EXTENDING HER HAND TO, THE FORMER PRESIDENT. AND THEN FOR THE NEXT 90 MINUTES, THEY SPARRED ON THE ECONOMY, IMMIGRATION, REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, FOREIGN WARS AND MUCH MORE. OUR RACHEL SCOTT IS STANDING BY FOR ANALYSIS. BUT FIRST, WE GO TO OUR CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT TODAY, A GROUND ZERO, A POLITE HANDSHAKE BETWEEN FIERCE RIVALS VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS AND FORMER DONALD TRUMP GREETING EACH OTHER AT A SERVICE COMMEMORATING THE 11 ATTACK. >> LESS THAN 24 HOURS EARLIER, A HANDSHAKE OF A DIFFERENT KIND . KAMALA HARRIS. IT'S A GOOD DEBATE, YOU SEE. THANK YOU. >> TRUMP HAD HOPED TO MAKE THE ABC NEWS PRESIDENTIAL A REFERENDUM ON THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION. >> THIS HAS BEEN A DISASTER FOR PEOPLE, FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS, BUT FOR EVERY CLASS. ON OF THAT, WE HAVE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE POURING INTO OUR COUNTRY. INSTEAD, IT WAS THE FORMER PRESIDENT WHO FOUND HIMSELF ON THE DEFENSIVE FIRST ON ABORTION. TRUMP HAS BRAGGED ABOUT NOMINATING THREE OF THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES WHO OVERTURNED ROE VERSUS. ON THE DEBATE STAGE, HE CLAIMED LEGAL SCHOLARS BACKED THEIR. THEY ALL WANTED THIS ISSUE TO BE BROUGHT BACK TO THE STATES WHERE. THE PEOPLE COULD VOTE. EACH INDIVIDUAL STATE IS VOTING THE VOTE OF THE PEOPLE NOW. >> HARRIS POUNCING ON ONE OF HER SIGNATURE ISSUES. >> YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE WANTED, PREGNANT WOMEN WHO WANT TO CARRY A PREGNANCY TO TERM SUFFERING FROM A MISCARRIAGE, BEING DENIED CARE IN AN EMERGENCY ROOM BECAUSE THE HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS ARE AFRAID THEY MIGHT GO TO JAIL. AND SHE'S BLEEDING OUT IN A CAR IN THE PARKING LOT. >> SHE DIDN'T WANT THAT. THE VICE PRESIDENT REPEATEDLY GOADING TRUMP TO GET UNDER HIS SKIN. YOU WILL SEE DURING THE COURSE OF HIS, HE TALKS ABOUT FICTIONAL CHARACTERS LIKE HANNIBAL LECTER. HE WILL TALK ABOUT WINDMILLS, CAUSE CANCER AND WHAT YOU WILL ALSO NOTICE IS THAT PEOPLE START LEAVING HIS RALLIES EARLY OUT OF EXHAUSTION AND BOREDOM. >> THE FORMER PRESIDENT TAKING ,THAT BAIT PERSONALLY RESPONDED TO THE RALLIES. >> SHE SAID PEOPLE LEAVING, PEOPLE DON'T GO TO HER RALLIES. THERE'S NO REASON TO GO. PEOPLE DON'T LEAVE MY RALLIES. WE HAVE THE BIGGEST RALLIES, THE MOST INCREDIBLE RALLIES IN THE HISTORY POLITICS. >> IN THAT SAME ANSWER, TRUMP VEERING INTO A FALSE THEORY ABOUT MIGRANTS EATING PEOPLE'S PETS IN SPRINGFIELD OHIO, IN SPRINGFIELD, THEY'RE EATING THE DOGS. PEOPLE THAT CAME IN, THEY'RE EATING THE CATS, THEY'RE EATING. >> THEY'RE EATING THE PETS OF THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE. I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY HERE, YOU BRING UP SPRINGFIELD, OHIO . ABC NEWS DID REACH OUT TO THE CITY MANAGER THERE. HE TOLD US THERE HAD BEEN NO CREDIBLE REPORTS OF SPECIFIC CLAIMS OF PETS BEING HARMED, INJURED OR ABUSED BY INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THE IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY. >> I'VE SEEN PEOPLE ON TELLY LET ME JUST SAY HERE, THIS IS THE PEOPLE ON TELEVISION SAYING MY DOG WAS TAKEN AND USED FOR FOOD. SO MAYBE HE SAID THAT AND MAYBE THAT'S GOOD THING TO SAY FOR A CITY MANAGER. I'M NOT TAKING THIS FROM THE PEOPLE ON TELEVISION TO SAY THAT DRUG WAS EATEN BY THE PEOPLE THAT WENT THERE. >> AGAIN, THE SPRINGFIELD CITY MANAGER SAYS THERE'S NO EVIDENCE OF THAT. VICE PRESIDENT. >> YES. I'LL LET YOU RESPOND TO THE REST OF WHAT YOU'VE HEARD. TALK ABOUT EXTREME. >> AND HARRIS SEIZING ON TRUMP'S REFUSAL TO ADMIT LOST THE 2020 ELECTION WHEN DAVID ASKED HIM ABOUT SOME RECENT COMMENTS IN THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS LEADING UP TO THIS DEBATE. >> YOU HAVE SAID, QUOTE, YOU LOST BY A WHISKER THAT YOU, QUOTE, DIDN'T QUITE MAKE IT, THAT YOU CAME UP A LITTLE BIT SHORT. I SAY. ARE YOU NOW ACKNOWLEDGING THAT YOU LOST IN 19 28, ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AT ALL? >> THE VICE PRESIDENT ARGUING TRUMP CAN'T FACE REALITY. >> DONALD TRUMP WAS FIRED BY 81 MILLION PEOPLE. SO LET'S BE CLEAR ABOUT THAT AND CLEARLY HE IS HAVING A VERY DIFFICULT TIME PROCESSING THAT. AND WORLD LEADERS ARE LAUGHING AT DONALD TRUMP. I HAVE TALKED WITH MILITARY LEADERS, SOME OF WHOM WORKED WITH YOU, AND THEY SAY YOU'RE A DISGRACE. >> HARRIS URGING AMERICANS TO LOOK TO THE FUTURE. >> WE'RE NOT GOING BACK. IT'S TIME TO TURN PAGE. >> TRUMP WARNING HIS RIVAL HAD THREE YEARS TO DELIVER ON PROMISES AND FAILED. SHE'S GOING TO DO THIS SHE'S GOING TO DO THAT. SHE'S GOING TO DO ALL THESE WONDERFUL THINGS. WHY HASN'T SHE DONE IT? SHE'S BEEN THERE FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS. TODAY, THE HARRIS TEAM BRIMMING WITH CONFIDENCE, SAYING THE VICE PRESIDENT IS READY TO DEBATE TRUMP AGAIN. >> LATE TODAY, FORMER PRESIDENT INSISTED HE WON THE DEBATE, BUT HE WOULDN'T COMMIT TO ROUND TWO. WE ENJOYED IT. I THINK I HOPE SHE ENJOYED IT, TOO. BUT ENJOYED IT. ARE WE GOING TO DO A REMATCH? I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK ABOUT. >> AND MARY BRUCE JOINS US NOW FROM THE NORTH LAWN, THE WHITE HOUSE. MARY, IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF THIS DEBATE, THE VICE PRESIDENT DID A HIGHLY COVETED ENDORSEMENT, NOT FROM ANY POLITICIAN, BUT FROM TAYLOR SWIFT. >> HAVE WE SEEN ANY RESPONSE TO THAT SO FAR? HIGHLY COVETED, INDEED. >> THE SUPERSTAR POSTING A POST ON INSTAGRAM, MORE THAN 283 MILLION FOLLOWERS SAYING THAT SHE WAS WATCHING LAST DEBATE AND THAT SHE HAD DONE HER RESEARCH AND MADE HER CHOICE OFFICIALLY ENDORSING KAMALA HARRIS AND THEN URGING HER SUPPORTERS TO REGISTER THAT POST. TODAY. TREVOR DRIVING MORE THAN 330,000 VISITS TO THE VOTE DOT GOV WEBSITE. >> ALL RIGHT, MARY BRUCE, THANK YOU. AND LET'S ALSO BRING IN OUR RACHEL SCOTT. SO, RACHAEL, WE HEARD IN MARY'S PIECE, THE FORMER PRESIDENT DOES INSIST HE WON NIGHT'S DEBATE, BUT NOT ALL OF HIS TOP SUPPORTERS ARE THRILLED HERE. SOME OF ARE THINKING THIS IS A MISSED OPPORTUNITY. >> YES, SOME OF HIS CLOSEST ALLIES OVER ON CAPITOL HILL ARE VERY FRUSTRATED. LOOK, TARA, THERE WAS A QUESTION OF WHICH VERSION OF DONALD TRUMP WAS GOING TO SHOW UP ON THAT DEBATE STAGE LAST NIGHT. AND THIS WAS NOT THE VERSION OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT THAT MANY REPUBLICANS, ESPECIALLY ON CAPITOL, WANTED TO SEE, BECAUSE WE ARE JUST AROUND THE CORNER FROM THE NOVEMBER AND THEY WANTED TO SEE A DONALD TRUMP THAT WAS FOCUSED ON THE ISSUES THAT WAS ON MESSAGE, THAT WASN'T DRIFTING INTO ANY CONSPIRACY THEORIES OR ANY FALSE CLAIMS. SENATOR LINSEY GRAHAM, A STAUNCH SUPPORTER OF DONALD TRUMP, SAID THAT THIS WAS A MISSED OPPORTUNITY FOR THE FORMER PRESIDENT. AND THEN YOU HAD SENATOR KEVIN CRAMER WHO SAID THAT TRUMP SHOULD HAVE GONE INTO MORE DETAIL ABOUT, KEY POLICY AREAS, THE ECONOMY, IMMIGRATION. INSTEAD, SAID HE USED THE DEBATE LIKE A MINI CAMPAIGN RALLY AND PERHAPS PROBABLY THE MOST TELLING SIGN OF HOW THE FORMER PRESIDENT REALLY THINKS THAT HE DID. HE IS NOW NOT COMMITTING TO FACING OFF AGAINST VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS AGAIN. WHEN PRESIDENT BIDEN WAS IN THE RACE, HE SAID THAT HE WOULD DEBATE HIM ANY TIME, ANY PLACE. BUT NOW THAT HARRIS WANTS THAT SECOND DEBATE, DONALD TRUMP IS HEDGING TREVOR, AND A VERY DIFFERENT RESPONSE FROM THAT FIRST DEBATE WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN. >> RACHEL SCOTT FOR US. RACHEL, THANK YOU. AND JOINING US NOW IS PHILLIP RINUS, A DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST AND, A FORMER ADVISER TO HILLARY CLINTON WHO HAS SERVED IN ONE OF THE MORE UNIQUE ROLES THAT THERE IS IN A PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BACK IN 2016 AND ALSO LEADING UP TO THIS DEBATE. YOU HELPED PREPARE VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS AND FORMER SECRETARY CLINTON BY PLAYING THE ROLE OF DONALD TRUMP, WHICH IS A VERY SPECIFIC ROLE TO HAVE TO NAIL IN THAT. >> SO HOW DID YOU FEEL THIS DEBATE ENDED UP GOING LAST NIGHT? AND DID ANYTHING SURPRISE YOU BASED ON YOUR PREPARATION? WELL, I THINK THE TECHNICAL DEBATE FOR LAST NIGHT WAS CALAMITY. AND YEAH, WOULD BE LYING IF I DIDN'T SAY HOW SHOCKED I WAS THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S PERFORMANCE. OBVIOUSLY, WE'VE ALL SEEN HIM PERFORM LIKE THAT AND HE'S YOU KNOW, AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT IS THAT PERSON. BUT THE INABILITY TO LAST EVEN MINUTES OR TO RECOVER WAS SOMETHING EVERYONE SHOULD TAKE NOTE OF, BECAUSE THAT IS DONALD TRUMP FOR, YOU KNOW, ONLY ONE DONALD TRUMP FOR THIS KIND OF PREP ON THAT SUBJECT WITH THE FACT THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE DONALD TRUMP. I WOULD A LOT OF HISTORICALLY PREP FOR PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BE COMPLEX POLICIES AND EXACT DETAILS OF TALKING POINTS. >> HOW MUCH OF YOUR PREP IS PREPARING FOR WHAT HE THROW AT THE VICE PRESIDENT OR HIS DEMEANOR VERSUS THOSE ACTUAL TALKING POINTS? WELL, I THINK THE EASIEST TO THINK ABOUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE ALL EXPERIENCED LIKE A JOB INTERVIEW. YOU WANT A POSITION, IT'S A BIG POSITION. YOU THINK ABOUT HOW TO BEST EXPRESS YOUR EXPERIENCE. YOU THINK ABOUT HOW TO PRESENT YOURSELF AND TO BE PROFESSIONAL . YOU KNOW, THERE ARE OTHER CANDIDATES, SO YOU WANT TO PUT YOUR BEST FOOT IN THIS CASE. >> YOUR JOB INTERVIEW IS WITH OTHER CANDIDATE AND THEY'RE SIX FEET TO YOUR LEFT AND THEY HAVE A CHAINSAW. AND THE ONLY WAY THAT THEY ARE GOING TO GET THE JOB IS IF THEY JUST SLICE YOU TO BITS. SO IT IS A BALANCE BETWEEN SPEAKING TO THE CAMERA, WHICH IS THE 100 MILLION AMERICANS YOU'RE TALKING TO ABOUT THE POLICY AND THE PLANS THAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO WHILE LEARNING HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS VERY UNIQUE, AS YOU PUT IT, SITUATION ON STAGE WITH SOMEONE WHO EVERYTHING THEY DO IS MEANT TO MAKE SURE THAT NOBODY HEARS YOU. >> THE. AND ON THAT SUBJECT ALSO, I MEAN THERE WERE A FEW INSTANCES IN WHICH THE VICE PRESIDENT DID DODGE SOME OF THE QUESTIONS, INCLUDING THE FIRST ONE ABOUT IF WE'RE BETTER OFF TODAY THAN FOUR YEARS AGO. SHE INSTEAD WENT ON OFFENSE TALKING ABOUT THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S RECORD. >> WAS THAT THE DESIGN FROM THE BEGINNING TO ESSENTIALLY GO ON OFFENSE? >> IT'S NOT AN OFFENSE DEFENSE THING. IT'S OF MAKING SURE THAT YOU'RE GETTING OUT THE FACTS, WHICH IS THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAS A PROBLEM WITH. AND I HAVE TO CREDIT TO ABC BOTH FOR THE WAY THAT IT PRODUCED DEBATE AND FOR THE MODERATORS. THEY HELD HIM ACCOUNTABLE. I MEAN, HE WAS SAYING STUFF LIKE HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS WERE EATING CATS, DOGS. AND, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO SAY, SIR, THAT'S NOT TRUE. AND HE GETS APPALLED. BUT, YOU KNOW, THE VICE PRESIDENT, TO THE QUESTION YOU'RE ASKING VERY MUCH AND THINKS THAT WE ARE BETTER OFF THAN WE WERE FOUR YEARS AGO. SO IT'S ACTUALLY FUNNY THAT THE PRESIDENT, THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS SAYING, ARE YOU BETTER OFF? THE ANSWER IS NO, WE WERE NOT. WE ARE BETTER OFF NOW BECAUSE WE WERE NOT DOING WELL FOUR YEARS AGO. >> THE REAGAN QUESTION DOES NOT WORK FOR HIM. PHILIP REINERS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. AND NOW JOINING US IS FORMER SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT UNDER PRESIDENT BEN CARSON, NOW THE FAITH CHAIRMAN FOR THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN. DR. CARSON, THANKS MUCH FOR YOUR TIME TONIGHT. >> A PLEASURE. THANK YOU. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE PERFORMANCE, THE FORMER PRESIDENT LAST NIGHT? >> WELL, I WAS A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED AND I DON'T THINK WE LEARNED A LOT OF NEW THINGS LAST NIGHT. I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE PROBABLY TUNED IN BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO GET A BETTER IMPRESSION OF WHO KAMALA HARRIS IS AND WHAT HER POLICIES ARE. HAS SHE REALLY A MAJOR SHIFT FROM THE EXTREME LEFT BACK TO THE CENTER? AND I DON'T THINK WE FOUND THAT OUT. WHAT DID YOU THINK OF HOW FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP PERFORMED? I THINK HE PERFORMED LIKE HE ALWAYS DOES. THERE WAS NO REAL. YOU KNOW, HE IS VERY TRANSPARENT. YOU NEVER REALLY HAVE TO WONDER TOO MUCH ABOUT WHAT HE'S THINKING ABOUT. BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK PEOPLE DON'T THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN IS WHEN YOU'RE ON THAT STAGE AND THERE'S MILLIONS OF PEOPLE LOOKING AT YOU AND YOU'RE ASKED THE QUESTION, YOU KNOW, A MILLION THINGS YOU WANT TO SAY AND YOU'RE TRYING TO REALLY RAPIDLY FLESH THROUGH THEM AND YOU FIND THE ONE YOU WANT. AND THEN BY THE TIME YOU GET DONE WITH THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE TO SOMETHING ELSE. WHEN YOU HAD MORE TO SAY ABOUT IT, I THINK, YOU KNOW, A GOOD DEBATE FORMAT WOULD BE ACTUALLY LET PEOPLE DEBATE, ACTUALLY LET THEM TALK TO EACH OTHER. AND THAT WAY, WHEN THEY ASK THE QUESTION LIKE THERE WAS A VERY GOOD QUESTION ASKED NIGHT OF KAMALA HARRIS ABOUT WHY SHE HAD THE TRANSITION. THAT WAS AN EXCELLENT QUESTION. SHE DIDN'T ANSWER IT. AND, YOU KW, WHEN YOU'RE HAVING TWO PEOPLE DEBATING EACH OTHER, THAT NEXT PERSON CAN SAY COULD YOU PLEASE ANSWER THE QUESTION? THERE HAS BEEN SOME CRITICISM FROM REPUBLICANS, THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S PERFORMANCE LAST NIGHT. I KNOW THAT YOU'RE SAYING HE WAS YOU EXPECTED HIM TO BE. SENATOR LINSEY GRAHAM SAID IT WAS A DISASTER DID YOU THINK IT WAS A DISASTER? >> I ANYTHING DIFFERENT ABOUT IT THAN WHAT WE NORMALLY SEE? DO YOU THINK IT'S NORMALLY A DISASTER? NO, I DON'T THINK. IT'S DISASTER AT ALL. I THINK HE ARTICULATED IT WELL PARTICULARLY ON FOREIGN POLICY, ON THINGS RELATED TO CHINA, ON THE ECONOMY. BUT, YOU KNOW, IS HE A SILVER TONGUED ORATOR? NO, HE IS. AND YOU CAN'T REALLY EXPECT THAT. BUT I THINK HE WAS ABLE TO GET HIS POINTS ACROSS QUITE EFFECTIVELY. >> THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT, KAMALA HARRIS, THEY WANT TO DO A SECOND DEBATE IN OCTOBER. DO YOU THINK THE FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP SHOULD DO IT? >> I THINK IF IT CAN BE DONE WITH MODERATORS WHO ARE NOT BIASED, I THINK IT COULD BE A VERY GOOD THING. YOU KNOW, THIS WAS A SITUATION WHERE YOU HAD SIX OR SEVEN CHECKS ON TRUMP AND NONE ON KAMALA HARRIS, EVEN THOUGH THERE WERE SOME THINGS THAT SHE SAID THAT WERE WHOPPERS. YOU KNOW, YOU NEED SOMEBODY TO EITHER NOT FACT CHECK ANYONE OR TO EQUALLY FACT CHECK THE PEOPLE. >> I IT'S IT'S THERE ARE MODERATORS THAT CHECK SOME OF THE MORE EGREGIOUS CLAIMS, SOME OF THE MOST EGREGIOUS THAT GAVE THE CANDIDATES AMPLE OPPORTUNITY TO FACT CHECK THEIR OPPONENT AS WELL. BUT DR. CARSON, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME TONIGHT. >> MY PLEASURE. THANK YOU. >> AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MORE ON THE DEBATE AND ITS PLACE IN HISTORY LATER ON IN THE SHOW. BUT MEANTIME, WE DO WANT TO MOVE ON TO OTHER NEWS WHERE ABC NEWS HAS LEARNED JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE HAS AGREED TO A PLEA DEAL IN HIS DWI CASE EARLIER SUMMER ON NEW YORK'S LONG ISLAND. AND ABC'S AARON KATERSKY HAS THE DETAILS TONIGHT, SOURCES TELLING ABC NEWS JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE RETURN FRIDAY TO THE HIGH END HAMPTONS VILLAGE WHERE HE ALLEGEDLY DROVE DRUNK. HE CAN PLEAD GUILTY TO A LESSER CHARGE. THE POP SUPERSTAR IS TO PLEAD GUILTY TO A TRAFFIC INFRACTION AND PAY A FINE. SURVEILLANCE VIDEO TAKEN IN JUNE SHOWS TIMBERLAKE'S GRAY BMW DOWN A STREET IN SAG HARBOR SHORTLY BEFORE HIS ARREST. POLICE SAID HE RAN STOP SIGN AND SWERVED OUT OF HIS LANE. THE OFFICER WHO PULLED HIM OVER SAID WHEN HE FOUND TIMBERLAKE, HIS EYES WERE BLOODSHOT AND GLASSY. HE HAD SLOWED AND WAS UNSTEADY ON HIS FEET, PERFORMING POORLY ON ALL FIELD SOBRIETY TESTS. HE REFUSED A CHEMICAL TEST. TIMBERLAKE WAS ON A BREAK FROM HIS WORLD TOUR TO PROMOTE HIS LATEST ALBUM, EVERYTHING I THOUGHT IT WAS. HE ADDRESSED THE CHARGES STAGE . >> IT'S BEEN A TOUGH WEEK. WE'VE BEEN THROUGH A FRONT. OUR THANKS TO AARON. NEXT TONIGHT, A FORMER MEMBER OF POP GROUP DANITY KANE IS NOW MUSIC MOGUL SEAN "DIDDY" COMBS. DON RICHARD ACCUSED COMBS OF TERRORIZING AND ABUSING HER AND ALSO CLAIMS THAT SHE WITNESSED DIDDY BEAT HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND, CASSIE. RICHARD ACCUSED HIM OF WITHHOLDING HER EARNINGS, STEALING HER COPYRIGHTED WORKS, AND SUBJECTING HER TO YEARS OF INHUMANE WORKING CONDITIONS, WHICH INCLUDED GROPING, ASSAULT AND FALSE IMPRISONMENT. AND COMBS MET NEARLY 20 YEARS AGO ON THE SHOW, MAKING THE BAND WHERE THE GROUP KANE WAS FORMED. COMBS ISSUED A STATEMENT SAYING IN PART, DON HAS MANUFACTURED A SERIES OF FALSE CLAIMS, ALL IN HOPES OF TRYING TO GET A PAY DAY, END QUOTE. >> WELL, MUSIC WORLD IS MOURNING THE DEATH OF A LEGEND. R&B SINGER FRANKIE BEVERLY DIED. >> KNOWN FOR HITS LIKE JOINT PAIN AND SUNSHINE AND FRANKIE, THE SINGER, SONGWRITER AND PRODUCER, WAS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS WORK WITH SOUL AND FUNK BAND MASE, WHICH ALSO INCLUDED HITS LIKE BEFORE I LET GO. HIS FAMILY SAYS HE LIVED HIS LIFE WITH PURE SOUL. FRANKIE WAS 77, AND WE STILL HAVE MUCH MORE TO GET TO HERE ON FROM THE DIP IN BLACK ENROLLMENT AT ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S MOST PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITIES. JUST A YEAR AFTER A SUPREME COURT RULING ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. BUT NEXT, IN ISRAEL, MANDATORY MILITARY CONSCRIPTION, A PART OF LIFE. AND WHILE MOST JEWISH ISRAELIS REPORT FOR DUTY THERE IS A SMALL POPULATION WHO REFUSE. TONIGHT'S PRIME GOING TO MEET THE MAN WHO LOST HIS FREEDOM, SAYING NO WE'VE SEEN MILITARY ACTION IS ALWAYS A FIRST CHOICE. AND ALSO, THIS HAS CAUSED A DEEPLY MILITARIZED SOCIETY WHERE THE ARMY'S PLACE IN THE CENTER OF THE SOCIETY, AND IT'S SEEN AS THIS GOLDEN GOOSE. WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH IT. YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT. THIS IS "IMPACT X NIGHTLINE" KIDDING ME? MY SENSE WAS THAT EVERYBODY AROUND HIM WAS AFRAID OF HIM. BRITTANY DESCRIBES HAVING A SECRET ABORTION. >> NOT EVEN HER FAMILY KNEW ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON WITH KATE. WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP LIKE BETWEEN HARRY WILLIAM TODAY? WHAT DO PEOPLE START TO SAY? YOU LOOK GREAT. ARE YOU TO SOMETHING? >> I TOLD THE KIDS, I SAID, I'M NOT GOING TO LET YOU EAT BREAKFAST UNTIL YOU GET YOUR CHORES DONE. SHE TALKS ABOUT TOUGH LOVE AND HARSH PUNISHMENT. NO, IT'S ABUSE. I THINK SCOTT PETERSON MURDERED ,HIS WIFE AND HIS CHILD, TO PROVE ME WRONG. >> DO YOU FEEL THAT CHURCH ACCEPTED ABUSE? >> YEAH, THAT'S. YEAH. YEP. READY? DOES CHURCH PROTECT SEXUAL PREDATORS? >> TOP THE MOST WATCHED SEASON YET? FABULOUS. IT'S A BIT. EXOTIC LOVE IDEA. "IMPACT X NIGHTLINE". ALL NEW SEASON PREMIERES SEPTEMBER ONLY ON HULU. >> FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE'S A LOT GOING ON. WE'RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH. >> WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT? FLASHING OVER NATIONAL SECURITY. WHAT'S HAPPENING? >> TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE WORRIES. WALL STREET FAST STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN CATCHING UP ON SLEEP DURING THE WEEKEND. COULD BE GOOD FOR YOUR HEART. NONALCOHOLIC BARS ARE POPPING UP IN A GROWING NUMBER OF CITIES. THAT'S THE SPIRIT. AMERICAN THIS MORNING, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> BUT WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA? WE ARE PART OF AN OPERATION. COMBAT OPERATIONS. WE'RE APPROACHING THE GATE. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM DETROIT NUCLEAR REACTOR. WE HAD A COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED BUT THE FLAG YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT MADE THE U.S. GREAT WORK. THANK YOU. >> IT'S LEO. DAVID. I'M DAVID. YOU ARE. >> YOU ARE. YOU DO EVERY NIGHT. ABC'S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, AMERICA'S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST. >> IF YOU WERE COMING OF AGE IN THE 1980S, THE BRAT PACK WAS NEAR THE CENTER OF YOUR CULTURAL AWARENESS. BUT FOR THOSE OF US EXPERIENCING IT FROM THE THE BRAT PACK WAS SOMETHING VERY DIFFERENT. THE CRITICS AGREE THAT HATED THE GRAPHIC. WHAT A DISASTER. WHY DID WE TAKE IT AS AN OFFENSE? AND NOW WE CAN SAY WE'RE BEETLES? WELL, WE DIDN'T SELL SHEA STADIUM 1985. I THINK WE COULD HAVE. TED TURNER, YOUR 24. HE'S 54. YEAH. >> IT JUST SEEMED LIKE I HAD MET MY SOULMATE. >> YOU'RE FIRED FOUR TIMES NOW . FRIDAY, 2020 IS WHAT I KNEW. THE 32 YEAR OLD FORMER BALLERINA, THE CENTER OF THE SO-CALLED BLACK TRIAL. >> HERE WE GO. YOU HAVEN'T SPOKEN OUT BEFORE. >> WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO TALK NOW? THE STUNNING OWEN 2024 PREMIERES FRIDAY AT NINE AND CENTRAL ON ABC. >> WELCOME BACK. WE WANT TO TURN OUR FOCUS AND ATTENTION TONIGHT NOW TO ISRAEL WHERE MANDATORY MILITARY CONSCRIPTION IN SERVICE FOR THE JEWISH POPULATION IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF SOCIETY THERE. WHILE MOST JEWISH ISRAELIS WILLFULLY REPORT FOR DUTY, THERE IS A SMALL BUT VOCAL POPULATION WHO REFUSE TO ENLIST IN THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES. AND IN TONIGHT'S PRIME FOCUS, ABC'S MATT GUTMAN REPORTS FROM ISRAEL, WHERE ONE YOUNG MAN SACRIFICED HIS FREEDOM TO STAND HIS GROUND. TELL MITNICK HE'S WRITING TOWARD AN UNCERTAIN FATE ON ISRAEL. HE'S ON A BUS TO AN ISRAELI MILITARY POINT THAT WAS AT THE ASK ME WHAT I'M GETTING THERE. THEY'RE ALWAYS PUSHING ME TO GET THERE EARLY AND EARLY AND EARLY. >> HOW IS THAT? I CAN'T. I CAN'T. I CAN'T. HE FACES ANOTHER ROUND OF PRISON TIME WITH SOLDIERS WHO'VE DESERTED OR SHOULDER DRUGS OR EVEN ALLEGEDLY ABUSED PRISONERS. >> JUST A STRESSFUL SITUATION. >> ANYTHING TO DO, ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE MILITARY IS STRESSFUL. >> HE'S JUST 18. BUT MITNICK HAS ALREADY DONE FIVE STINTS IN ISRAELI MILITARY PRISONS, 185 DAYS. NOT FOR ANYTHING HE HAS DONE, BUT FOR SOMETHING HE SAYS HE WILL NEVER DO. ENLIST IN THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES WHILE SERVING IN THE IDF IS MANDATORY FOR ALL JEWS IN ISRAEL, WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS. >> FOR MANY, GOING TO THE ARMY ,THE ENTRY TICKET TO THE ISRAELI SOCIETY AND ALSO ENTER A TICKET, GET A JOB BECAUSE YOU CAN GET THE COURSE OF OR SOME SKILLS THE ARMY. >> BUT WHEN MITNICK RECEIVED HIS DRAFT ORDERS, HE BURNED THEM ON THE STREET WITH FRIENDS PUBLICLY AND IN DECEMBER, MITNICK BECAME THE COUNTRY'S FIRST CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR SINCE HAMAS OCTOBER SEVENTH RAMPAGE AT A TIME WHEN MOST ISRAELIS RALLIED ROUND THEIR MILITARY. >> A PERSON WHO HAS A DIFFERENT VIEW AND A DIFFERENT ACTION AND REFUSES TO SERVE IS SEEN BY MANY OF THE PUBLIC AS TRAITOR. >> THE IDF HAS DENIED HIS REQUEST FOR CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR TWICE. IN A STATEMENT TO ABC NEWS, THE SAYING THE IDF CONDEMNS REFUSALS, THE SOLDIER PRESENTED HIS ARGUMENTS AT A PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEE WHICH EXAMINED AND DETERMINED THAT THERE ARE NO CONSCIENTIOUS REASONS FOR HIS CLAIMS. EVERY TIME HE REFUSES TO OBEY DRAFT ORDERS AND REPORT DUTY, HE RISKS FACING 30 DAYS OR MORE IN PRISON. >> AND THAT DAY WE WATCHED HIM WALK INTO THE DRAFT CENTER, NOT KNOWING WHAT HIS FATE WOULD BE. BACK. STOP. MITNICK ENDED UP GOING TO MILITARY, BUT FOR THE PAST 20 MONTHS, ON ALMOST EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT IN TEL AVIV, YOU'D BE LIKELY TO FIND MITNICK AMONGST THE THRONGS OF ISRAELIS CLOGGING CITY CENTER AND CLAMORING FOR THE OUSTER OF ISRAEL'S PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU. BUT ON THE FRINGE, GOING A STEP FARTHER THAN THE REST, CHANTING IN ARABIC, HEBREW AND ENGLISH FOR AN END TO THE OCCUPATION. >> ONE, TWO, THREE, OCCUPATION AND SO IN AN ERA OF TEENAGE SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS, MITNICK STRING OF FIVE COURTS MARTIAL HAS EARNED HIM A DIFFERENT KIND OF FAME. >> MANY ISRAELIS WOULD CALL IT INFAMY. NOW WITH THE I-MAN, START SCREAMING AT MITNICK, SCREW FROM ACROSS THE STREET. >> WOW, THAT GUY WAS. I MEAN, PEOPLE ARE REALLY TRIGGERED WHEN THEY SEE THAT THAT GUY WAS CALLING YOU GUYS TRAITORS IN THE STREETS. WE DIDN'T. YEAH, THAT'S THE END WITH HIS CROWN OF CURLS AND GENTLE BLUE EYES, THE KID HAS BEEN WORKING ON HIS JUGGLING. >> HE HAS A GIRLFRIEND AND DUTIFULLY WALKS FAMILY DOG. >> DOES THAT COME OFF AS MUCH OF A FIREBRAND SLAMMING COFFEE? >> MITNICK IS THE SON OF AMERICAN JOURNALIST JOSH AND LESLEY BENEDICT, WHO IS A THERAPIST. HIS FATHER, JOSH, COVERED THE MIDDLE EAST FOR DECADES, DIED AFTER A LONG BATTLE WITH CANCER IN 2021. TAL HAS HAD A LONG FASCINATION POLITICS, AND YOU CAN SEE IT IN THE BOOKS ON HIS SHELF AND HE PRIZES A COLLECTION OF POLITICAL BUMPER STICKERS HE INHERITED HIS FATHER. >> THIS IS A GENERATION OF PEACE DEMANDS. >> I REMEMBER THIS VERY VISCERAL MOMENT OF SCROLLING ON INSTAGRAM OR, MAYBE TWITTER, AND SEEING A B'TSELEM POST ABOUT A LITTLE GIRL FROM GAZA WHO WAS BORN, AND AFTER A COUPLE OF MONTHS THERE WAS A SICKNESS DISCOVERED. THEY ASKED FOR A PERMIT TO GET TO EAST JERUSALEM TO SEE A DOCTOR. AND THEY HAD A THEY HAD I MEAN, THEY HAD AN APPOINTMENT WITH THIS AND THEY GOT REJECTED AND REJECTED AND REJECTED. AND THEN SHE JUST SHE PASSED AWAY. IT MUST BE SO HARD TO LIVE THE FACT TO LIVE WITH THE QUESTION OF WHAT IF I WAS BORN ON THE OTHER SIDE? AND IF YOU HAD BEEN BORN ON THE OTHER SIDE AND YOUR DAD HAD GOTTEN SICK, YOU WOULD LIKELY NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET HIM ALL OF THOSE TREATMENTS TO BE ABLE TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL BACK AND FORTH ALL THE TIME. >> YEARS, RIGHT? YES. >> DURING THE PAST YEAR, WE HAVE BEEN EMBEDDED IN GAZA WITH ISRAELI TROOPS ON FIVE OCCASIONS IN GAZA CITY, WE'RE USING TANK AS COVER RIGHT NOW IN HAND, YUNIS SAYS. >> OUR PPG IN SOUTHERN GAZA. >> EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK, THERE IS RUBBLE. MANY OF THE SOLDIERS WE SPENT TIME WITH SEEMED TIRED, BUT NONE SPOKE PUBLICLY ABOUT THEIR OBJECTION TO THE OVERALL MISSION. BUT UNDER THE SURFACE, SAYS NOAH LEVY, EAST LAWYER, THAT'S CHANGING DURING THE WAR. THERE WAS A GREAT INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO TURNED TO US AS A NETWORK THAT SUPPORTS AND GIVES ADVICE TO CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS. >> SINCE MITNICK, CONSCIENTIOUS CLAIMS HAVE CONTINUOUSLY BEEN DENIED. HE SPENT THE FIRST HALF OF THIS YEAR IN AND OUT OF MILITARY PRISON HOME SWEET HOME WHEN CAMPER HERE WE WERE THERE THIS PAST JUNE WHEN HIS MOTHER LESLIE PICKED HIM UP, BUT ALSO THE DAY BEFORE, BECAUSE I HAD MONEY IN THE CANTEEN, IT DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT TO BUY CIGARETTES. OH, THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE GETTING PEOPLE TO THINK THAT THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT. >> CHOCOLATE? NO. THE 18 YEAR OLD HAS SPENT HIS NEWFOUND ADULTHOOD IN A CELL FOR HE BELIEVES IN. >> DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT IT MIGHT STEM FROM THE TRAUMA OF SOMETHING UNPRECEDENTED HAVING HAPPENED IN THIS COUNTRY? THAT THAT'S WHY THEY WANT TO MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF YOU, AND THAT'S WHY MAYBE THEY FEAR YOU? >> YEAH, I MEAN, DEFINITELY. I UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS ALSO PART OF MY PUBLIC CAMPAIGN AND ALSO THE TRAUMA OF OCTOBER 7TH AND THE. >> BUT IF DEMOCRACY DIES THE SECOND THAT THERE'S A WAR GOING ON, DID WE REALLY HAVE DEMOCRACY FROM THE START? >> THIS QUESTION HAS EARNED MITNICK A STEADY STREAM OF HATE MAIL. >> WE'VE SEEN MILITARY IS ALWAYS A FIRST CHOICE AND ALSO THIS HAS CAUSED A DEEPLY MILITARIZED SOCIETY WHERE THE ARMY'S PLACE IN THE CENTER OF THE SOCIETY AND IT'S SEEN AS THIS GOLDEN GOOSE. WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT. >> THOUGH MEDICS LATEST REQUEST FOR CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR STATUS WAS DENIED, HE SAYS HE WON'T BE SENT TO PRISON THIS TIME. >> A SMALL VICTORY IN HIS BOOK . YOU KNOW, WE SEE PICTURES OF YOUR FATHER. HERE WAS ALSO A JOURNALIST. >> DO YOU THINK HE WOULD FEEL ABOUT THIS? I THINK HE WOULD BE PROUD THAT I'M STANDING UP FOR MY OPINION, AND ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES VALUES OF SAME VALUES THAT HE TAUGHT ME, OF ACCEPTANCE OF, LISTENING TO THE OTHER SIDE AND MAKING THIS PLACE BETTER. >> AND DOES SEEM WILLING TO PAY THE PRICE FOR THAT CHOICE. >> OUR THANKS TO MATT GUTMAN FOR THAT REPORT. AND WE STILL HAVE MUCH MORE TO GET TO HERE. A COMMUNITY COMING TOGETHER TO HELP HONOR THE LIFE OF A WOMAN THAT THEY NEVER MET. >> BUT NEXT, LOOK BACK AT LAST NIGHT'S HISTORIC DEBATE. >> BY THE NUMBERS, "BAYWATCH" IS A FANTASY. "BAYWATCH" WAS SEXY. "BAYWATCH" WAS THE NUMBER ONE SHOW IN THE WORLD. WHEN YOU HEAR THAT THEME SONG, I HAD NO IDEA HOW MUCH FUN I WAS GOING TO HAVE. PEOPLE ARE JUST HANGING THAT STUFF ALIVE. WOW IT WAS A WILD TIME AND I WAS A WILD CHICK. JASON MOMOA EXPLODED FROM AND WAS A BOMBSHELL. >> ANDERSON WAS AN ICON. PAMELA WAS, THE SWEET GIRL FROM CANADA WHO CAME TO GET THE AMERICAN DREAM. REALLY PROUD OF EVERYTHING I'VE DONE. >> ALMOST. "BAYWATCH" WAS A WHIRLWIND OF EPIC HIGHS AND LATER LOWS WITH A LOT OF PRESSURE. EVERYBODY WAS DISPOSABLE. AND IF YOU DIDN'T FIT INTO THEIR BRAND, YOU WERE GONE. >> CREATIVE LOST, FAME. EVERYONE LIKES TO WATCH SEXY THINGS. BETRAYAL IS ONE OF THE HARDEST TYPES OF TRAUMA TO. OVERCOME. THIS IS HER KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR. EVERYTHING FELT. ALL OF A SUDDEN, I FOUND THIS FOLDER. I OPENED IT. I DON'T THINK CAN SAY THAT WAS VERY SHOCKING. STOMACH JUST DROPPED. HE JUST REALLY DIDN'T THINK I HAD IT IN ME TO DO SOMETHING. SO I DID. BETRAYAL A FATHER'S SECRET. THE ALL-NEW SEASON ON HULU. >> FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE'S A LOT GOING ON. WE'RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WANTING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. FLASHING OVER NATIONAL SECURITY. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE WORRIES ON WALL STREET, FAST, STRAIGHT WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CATCHING UP ON SLEEP DURING THE WEEKEND COULD BE GOOD FOR YOUR HEART. NONALCOHOLIC BARS ARE POPPING UP IN A GROWING NUMBER OF. THAT'S THE SPIRIT, AMERICA THIS MORNING AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. IT WAS A REGULAR DAY FOR 19-YEAR-OLD MELISSA WITH SOMETHING TERRIBLE HAD HAPPENED TO HER. WE SEVERAL SUSPECTS, ALL THESE KINDS OF LEADS, A KNOWN SERIAL KILLER IN YOUR AREA. COULD HE BE INVOLVED? WE'RE ACTUALLY FINDING EVIDENCE THAT COULD HAVE SLIPPED THROUGH THE CRACKS. HER LAST HOURS ON THIS EARTH, THAT HORRIFIC THIS BEAUTIFUL YOUNG GIRL. POLICE WILL FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED AT WIT'S END AT THE HUNT FOR A KILLER. >> ONLY ON HULU. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? >> FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS "START HERE". TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY'S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET'S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD R. MURROW AWARDS. SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO YOU. START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW, THAT'S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. IT'S LUNCHTIME IN AMERICA, SO WHAT DO WE SERVE? >> WELL, HOW ABOUT EVERYTHING? YOU NEED TO KNOW YOUR HOUSE YOUR MONEY? >> BREAKING NEWS POP CULTURE WITH THE BIGGEST STARS, MUSIC TRENDS, AND, OF COURSE, GOOD FOOD. IT'S ALL COMING UP ON "GMA3". YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT. WE'LL SEE YOU THEN. THREE WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW. A THIRD. OUR "GMA" IN THE AFTERNOON. SO JOYNER AFTERNOON FOR. >> EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THAT TOO. I'M TOM SOUFI BURRIDGE REPORTING FROM HOW TO BEAT THESE PEOPLE. ACCORDING TO BRING THE HOSTAGES ME. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'LL TAKE YOU YOU'LL STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE. >> SINCE PRESIDENT BIDEN DROPPED OUT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN LATE, THE COUNTRY HAS WAITED ANXIOUSLY FOR WHAT WE WITNESSED LAST NIGHT. FORMER PRESIDENT FACING OFF AGAINST A CURRENT VICE PRESIDENT. A MOST UNIQUE DEBATE WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF TONIGHT BY THE NUMBERS. >> SO LAST NIGHT'S PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE WAS THE SECOND EARLIEST DEBATE, THE EARLIEST EVER WAS THE BIDEN TRUMP DEBATE IN LATE JUNE. 75 DAYS, THOUGH, HAVE PASSED SINCE THEN BETWEEN THE BIDEN TRUMP DEBATE LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE. IT MAKES IT BY FAR THE LONGEST PERIOD BETWEEN A GIVEN YEAR'S PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES. THE SHORTEST PERIOD WAS JUST FOUR DAYS. BILL CLINTON, GEORGE BUSH AND ROSS PEROT, THEY DEBATED EACH OTHER SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11TH, 1992. THEY DID IT AGAIN ON THURSDAY THE 15TH, AND THEN THEY DID IT A THIRD TIME FOUR DAYS AFTER THAT, THE 19TH, THE RICHARD NIXON JFK DEBATES BACK IN 1960. THEY WERE THE ONLY TIME THAT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FACED ANOTHER FOR FOUR SEPARATE DEBATES. NOW, IF LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE REMAINS THE ONLY ONE BETWEEN HARRIS AND TRUMP, AND THAT IS A STILL UP IN QUESTION, YOU WOULD HAVE TO GO BACK TO 1984. THE ONLY OTHER TIME THAT CANDIDATES DEBATED EACH OTHER JUST ONCE, RONALD REAGAN DEBATED INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE JOHN ANDERSON. HE THEN ALSO SEPARATELY DEBATED JIMMY CARTER. NOW WE'RE TALKING BIG TOPICS. LAST NIGHT, THERE WERE 11 DIFFERENT IMPORTANT TOPICS THAT WERE RAISED FROM THE ECONOMY TO IMMIGRATION. AND WE HAVE MUCH MORE AHEAD HERE ON ONE OF THE MOST WELL-KNOWN AND ICONIC BRANDS. NOW, CAMPBELL SOUP COMPANY IS CHANGING ITS NAME, BUT FINDING THE LOVE IN YOUR LIFE, EVEN IF THAT LOVE IS FOR YOUR SELF. OUR CONVERSATION WITH THE STAR AND CREATOR OF THE NEW HULU SERIES HOW TO DIE ALONE. >> THERE IS A SPECIFIC. DURING OUR WEDDING, I LOOKED AT JASON AND I REALIZED THIS WAS REAL. THIS WAS OUR FAMILY. THIS IS HER KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR. EVERYTHING FELT RIGHT. ALL OF A SUDDEN, I FOUND THIS HIDDEN. I OPENED IT AND I DON'T THINK I CAN SAY IT. I'M SORRY. SHE PUT HER HAND TO HER MOUTH AND, LIKE, GASPED. JASON WOULD KILL ME BEFORE HE WOULD LET ME TELL ANYONE THIS PART OF HIM. HE'S IN SO MUCH TROUBLE. I REMEMBER FEELING LIKE, WHAT THE HELL? THAT WAS MY DAD. WHAT IS GOING ON? THAT'S WHEN THAT FIRE INSIDE OF ME SHIFTED TO LIKE A FLAME. I WAS LIKE, IT'S ON THE TRAIL. IS ONE OF THE HARDEST TYPES OF TRAUMA TO OVERCOME. HE DIDN'T THINK I IT IN ME TO DO SOMETHING, SO I DID. >> BETRAYAL A FATHER'S SECRET. THE ALL-NEW SEASON ONLY ON HULU FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. >> THERE'S A LOT GOING ON. WE'RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. FLASHING OVER NATIONAL. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE ABOUT. THE WORRIES ON WALL STREET. FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CATCHING UP ON SLEEP DURING THE WEEKEND. BE GOOD FOR YOUR HEART. NONALCOHOLIC BARS ARE POPPING UP IN A GROWING NUMBER OF CITIES. THAT'S THE SPIRIT AMERICAN THIS MORNING. AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS FLASH . WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR IN ROLLING FORWARD. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS TOWN FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING FROM THE SCENE OF DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE ABC NEWS LIVE EVERYWHERE IN ICELAND. LET'S GO ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET FOREVER. THE STORY IS WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE, YOU'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE, YOU'RE STREAMING, ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE, STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. >> THE COUNTDOWN TO THE EMMYS IS ON. LOVE IT. OH. OH, MY GOD. THIS IS GREAT. THE CURSE BEFORE BIGGEST NIGHT. >> IT'S CRAZY. I WAS SHOCKED. YES, CHEF RAMSAY. INCREDIBLE EMMY SPECIAL CAROL FOR THAT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE SEVEN SIX EMMYS, A NIGHT OF FIRSTS WITH ROBIN ROBERTS. IT'LL BE A CRAZY GOOD TIME. SO CRAZY NIGHT AT EIGHT SEVEN CENTRAL. >> ON WHAT NETWORK ARE WE ON? ABC? ABC OH, MY GOD. >> HOW DO YOU SPELL THAT? ABC? GET READY EVERY FRIDAY. HOTTEST TRENDS STYLES AND MUST HAVE WHAT'S THE RIGHT STUFF TO BUY RIGHT NOW? I REALLY LOVE THAT TIME. TO BUY THE RIGHT STUFF. YES. AND SAVE BIG TIME. DO THE RIGHT STUFF FRIDAYS ON "GMA". >> YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT WITH MUCH AT STAKE, SO MUCH ON THE LINE, MORE AMERICANS TURN HERE THAN ANY OTHER NEWSCAST. ABC NEWS, WORLD NEWS WITH DAVID MUIR, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE MOST WATCHED NEWSCASTER ACROSS ALL OF TELEVISION. >> JUST ONE YEAR AFTER THE SUPREME COURT RULED HARVARD'S RACE CONSCIOUS ADMISSIONS PRACTICES WERE UNCONSTITUTIONAL, THE UNIVERSITY HAS SEEN A DECLINE IN BLACK ENROLLMENT. STRANGERS STEP UP TO HONOR A WOMAN'S LIFE AND AN ICONIC BRAND IS DROPPING PART OF THEIR NAME. >> THESE STORIES AND MORE IN TONIGHT'S RUNDOWN. >> THE NUMBER OF BLACK STUDENTS AT HARVARD IS DROPPING ACCORDING TO A NEW REPORT BY THE COLLEGE. THE BLACK STUDENT POPULATION OF THE CLASS OF 2028 DROPPED BY 4% COMPARED TO JUST A YEAR AGO. THE NUMBER OF HISPANIC STUDENTS INCREASED BY TWO PERCENTAGE POINTS, WHILE THE ASIAN-AMERICAN POPULATION STAYED THE SAME. THE CHANGE IN DATA COMES MORE THAN A YEAR AFTER. THE SUPREME COURT RULED HARVARD'S RACE CONSCIOUS ADMISSIONS PRACTICES UNCONSTITUTIONAL. SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS SAID THAT THE FULL EFFECTS OF THE SUPREME COURT DECISION WON'T BE KNOWN FOR SEVERAL MORE YEARS. >> OUR HOPE IS THAT THEY FOUND AND TO SHOW THE WORLD THAT MY SON WAS A GOOD PERSON AND HE WASN'T THE CRIMINAL, THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE HIM OUT TO BE. >> THE FAMILY OF TYRE NICHOLS HELD A PRESS CONFERENCE AFTER THE OPENING STATEMENTS FOR THE TRIAL OF THREE FORMER MEMPHIS POLICE OFFICERS CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEATH OF TYRE NICHOLS. THREE OFFICERS HAVE PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO CHARGES THAT THEY DEPRIVED THE 29 YEAR OLD NICHOLS OF HIS RIGHTS THROUGH EXCESSIVE FORCE. FAILURE TO INTERVENE AND OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE, WITNESS TAMPERING. TWO OTHERS PLEADED GUILTY TO THE FEDERAL CHARGES. >> A FUNERAL HOME HOLDING A WAKE FOR A 92 YEAR OLD WOMAN WHO DIED WITH NO LIVING, LOVED ONES TO CLAIM HER BODY. THE FUNERAL HOME STARTED SEARCHING FOR A FAMILY. SHE DIED LAST MONTH. EVEN PUTTING AN AD IN A NEWSPAPER FOR SOMEONE WHO MIGHT KNOW HER. AFTER GETTING A RESPONSE, THE COMMUNITY IN AND DONATED FUNDS FOR A GRAVESITE, HEADSTONE AND A FUNERAL, MEXICO PASSED SWEEPING CHANGES TO THE IN A CONTENTIOUS JUDICIAL REFORM BILL THAT IN PART WILL MAKE ALL JUDGES STAND FOR ELECTIONS. CRITICS OF THE BILL THAT THIS WILL POLITICIZE THE JUDICIAL BRANCH AND THREATEN MEXICO'S DEMOCRACY. THE VOTE CAME AFTER HUNDREDS OF PROTESTERS PUSHED INTO THE SENATE ONCE IT BECAME CLEAR THAT THE BILL WAS LIKELY TO PASS. >> THE BILL NOW NEEDS TO BE RATIFIED BY 17 OF 32. >> THE COUNTRY'S STATES AFTER ROUGHLY 150 YEARS. THE CAMPBELL COMPANY HAS DECIDED TO DROP SOUP FROM ITS NAME. THE ICONIC BRAND HAS MADE THE CHANGE TO BETTER REPRESENT THE WIDE RANGE OF PRODUCTS UNDER ITS NAMESAKE. THE COMPANY NOW GOING BY, THE CAMPBELL COMPANY, SAYS IT WILL CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON THE LUCRATIVE CATEGORY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 20 YEARS. THE GENDER WAGE GAP HAS WIDENED . CENSUS INCOME DATA SAYS THAT WHILE MEN'S MEDIAN EARNINGS ROSE 3% LAST YEAR, WOMEN'S ONLY ROSE 1.5%. THE CENSUS ALSO SAYS THAT THE COMPOSITION OF WOMEN IN THE WORKFORCE HAS CHANGED, INCLUDING AN INFLUX OF HISPANIC WOMEN AS WELL AS YOUNGER WOMEN AND THOSE NEW TO THE WORKFORCE . >> AND TIME TONIGHT FOR THE LATEST IN SERIES STREAMLINE, WHERE WE BRING YOU SOME OF THE BIGGEST FILMS AND TV SERIES HITTING SCREENS WORLDWIDE, SPEAKING WITH SOME OF THE PEOPLE BEHIND THEM. AND NEXT GUEST IS A PEABODY AWARD WINNING ACTOR CREATOR NATASHA, KNOWN FOR HER PERFORMANCES IN HBO'S WHITE LOTUS AND HER WINNING WORK ON THE HIT TV SHOW INSECURE. AND NOW SHE HAS HER OWN NEW COMEDY SERIES THAT SHE CREATED, EXECUTIVE PRODUCED AND STARS. IT'S CALLED HOW TO DIE ALONE. IT IS ABOUT TO PREMIERE ON. IT TELLS THE STORY OF A WOMAN BATTLING THE DATING WORLD, FACING ECONOMIC AND OVERCOMING A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE THAT TURNED HER LIFE AROUND FOR THE BETTER. >> LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT ONE TIME FROM MY BIRTH. >> GET IT, GET IT, GET IT, GET IT OUT NOW, SAID TWERKING. WHAT HAPPENED? HERE'S HOW I. I'M BROKE. MY FAMILY THINKS I'M A LOST CAUSE. MY LOVE LIFE IS A JOKE. AND THE PUNCHLINE IS I WORK AT AN AIRPORT. I'M AFRAID TO FLY. OKAY, LET'S HEAR IT. TAKE IT OFF. COME ON, LET'S. >> ONE KEY, NATASHA ROCKWELL JOINS, US NOW. >> HOW ARE YOU? I'M WONDERFUL. THANKS FOR HAVING ME. THANKS. IT'S WONDERFUL. HAVE YOU HERE? THE FIRST CLIP THAT WE'VE EVER HAD THAT STARTS WITH SAD TWERKING, HOPEFULLY WON'T BE THE LAST. >> YES. A NEW A NEW TREND THAT STARTED HERE. CONGRATULATIONS ON THE SHOW. THIS ONE REALLY DOES SEEM LIKE YOU KIND OF BUILT IT AND IT'S GOT YOUR NAME ON IT. HOW DO YOU FEEL? >> IT FEELS SURREAL. I'VE BEEN WORKING ON IT FOR ABOUT SEVEN AND A HALF YEARS. AND SO IT JUST FEELS WONDERFUL TO FINALLY BE AT THIS PLACE WHERE I CAN SHARE IT WITH THE WORLD. >> YEAH. AND SO SO THE CONCEPT OF THIS KIND OF HAS TO STRUGGLE, STRUGGLING MAYBE WITH LOVING HERSELF AND ALSO FINDING SOMEONE ELSE AND THEN HAVING THIS NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE. DOES THAT COME FROM ONE AND A PERSON WITHOUT GETTING TOO PERSONAL HERE? BUT IF IT'S YOUR STORY TO TELL, I WOULD ASSUME THAT THERE'S SOMETHING INTERNALLY THAT YOU FELT THE NEED TO EXPRESS. >> YEAH ABSOLUTELY. I THINK AT THE TIME WHEN I WAS PUTTING PEN TO PAPER, I REALLY WANTED TO SAVOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO TELL MY STORY. AND PART OF THAT STORY IS ME DEALING WITH THE IDEA BEING ALONE AND LONELINESS AND REALLY TO UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO. AND THANKFULLY, THERE'S A LOT OF THERAPY AND I WAS ABLE TO THAT DYING ALONE IS NOT SCARY. IT'S THE LONELY, THE LONELINESS PIECE THAT I THINK WE HAVE TO FOCUS ON. AND THE ANTIDOTE IS LIKE VULNERABILITY, SO I WAS EXCITED TO DO A SHOW AROUND THAT. >> YOU TOUCHED ON THIS A LITTLE BIT IN, YOUR EARLIER ANSWER, BUT THE CONCEPT OF LONELINESS IS IS VERY MUCH A THEME IN YOUR SHOW. THE IDEA OF BEING ALONE VERSUS BEING LONELY. >> THAT JUXTAPOSITION, WHAT WERE YOU TRYING TO EXPLORE ,MAYBE PROCESS THROUGH THAT? >> YEAH, I THINK I SPENT THE BETTER PART OF MY TWENTIES TERRIFIED OF DYING ALONE. AND I THINK THAT WAS COURTESY OF A LOT OF ROM COM ROM COMS AND DISNEY. AND I THINK WHEN I PRIORITIZE ROMANTIC LOVE OVER THE OTHER KINDS OF LOVE, I DIDN'T SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES. AND SO ME IT WAS REVISITING OTHER KINDS OF LOVE PLATONIC, FRATERNAL, YOU KNOW, FAMILIAL AND BEING ABLE TO SEE MORE LOVE IN MY LIFE MAKE ME FEEL LIKE I WAS LIVING IT FINALLY. AND SO THE JOY OF THE SHOW THINK IS WATCHING SOMEONE OPEN UP THEIR EYES TO THE LOVE THAT'S IN LIFE AND THEN RECOGNIZING THEY DESERVE TO GIVE THAT TO THEMSELVES, TO YOU. >> PEOPLE KNOW YOU FOR FOR MANY OF YOUR ROLES ON CAMERA, BUT YOU'VE ALSO ON INSECURE, YOUR SUPERVISING PRODUCER. >> YOU'VE DONE SOME WORK BEHIND THE SCENES CREATING IT. AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER IS A DIFFERENT ANIMAL. YEAH DID YOU FEEL PREPARED FOR IT? >> WAS THIS A SHARP LEARNING CURVE ON IDENTITY? >> FELT THE LEVELING UP IN TERMS OF RESPONSIBILITY, BUT I DID FEEL A LITTLE BIT LIKE EVERYTHING THAT HAD DONE PRIOR REALLY DID ME FOR THIS MOMENT, AND I JUST FELT READY. >> I THINK I BENEFITED FROM WATCHING ISSA AND HER APPROACH TO CREATING HER OWN SHOW FOR FIVE YEARS, YOU KNOW, I HAD A FRONT ROW SEAT TO HER JOURNEY AND I DEFINITELY FOUND MYSELF, YOU KNOW, TAKING NOTES UNWITTINGLY AND, THEN SEEING THOSE NOTES APPLIED IN ACTION. >> ON THE SUBJECT OF WHERE YOU CAME FROM. IN PREPARING FOR THIS INTERVIEW. WATCHING THE TRAILER YOUTUBE, THE TOP COMMENT WAS FROM A PERSON WHO SAID, THIS WOMAN WAS MY ACTING TEACHER, MS.. >> ROTHWELL. YEAH. >> WHAT'S IT MEAN TO YOU TO NOW BE IN THE POSITION WHERE YOUR FORMER STUDENTS ARE WATCHING THE SHOW THAT YOU CREATE CREATED? IT IS. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET ME TO CRY IT. IT'S EMOTIONAL. I WAS A HIGH SCHOOL THEATER TEACHER IN THE BRONX FOR FOUR YEARS AND THAT WAS COURTESY OF HAVING GRADUATED WITH A THEATER DEGREE DURING A RECESSION. AND SO I NEEDED TO DO. ONE OF THE THINGS I WOULD ALWAYS SAY TO THEM IS, YOU KNOW, DON'T GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS. >> DON'T GET DON'T GET COMFORTABLE. WE'RE HAPPY TO HAVE YOU BACK HERE IN YORK CITY TALKING ABOUT THE SHOW. THE SHOW IS CALLED HOW TO DIE ALONE. NATASHA ROTHWELL CREATED. IT PREMIERES SEPTEMBER 13TH ON HULU. >> THANKS SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. THANKS FOR HAVING ME. >> AND FINALLY TONIGHT, WE ARE REMEMBERING THE HEARTACHE THAT WE ALL SHARED, THE REMEMBRANCES ON THE DAY WE MUST NEVER FORGET. SHELLY, A MARTIAL LIEUTENANT COLONEL DEAN E MARTIN, UNITED STATES ARMY. MY. COULD COULD GET MY MOM C.S. LEWIS. ROSS LYLES, MY BROTHER JOSEPH, MICHAEL, GINA, CONNIE AND HE DISAPPEARED. BUT IF I COME HERE AND I SPEAK HIS NAME OUT LOUD, AND YOU HIS NAME, HE WILL NEVER, NEVER DISAPPEAR. >> MY FATHER, MANUEL JOAN DE MOTOR JR. I LOVE DAD. AND NOT A DAY GOES BY WHERE I DON'T THINK OF YOU. >> MY BROTHER, DANIEL. JAMES GALLAGHER. 23 YEARS AGO, MY 20 THREE-YEAR-OLD BROTHER WENT TO WORK AND NEVER CAME HOME. LIFE IS DIMMER WITHOUT YOU HERE, BUT YOUR MEMORY BRIGHTLY ON IN OUR HEARTS. >> MY DAD ARKADY SALTZMAN, TWO MAJOR THINGS, DAD. THIS PAST YEAR, I BECAME A MOM FOR THE FIRST TIME. THAT'S BEEN THE BIGGEST BLESSING OF MY. OUR DAUGHTER ADELINE IS NAMED AFTER YOU. WISH YOU COULD BE HERE TO BE HER GRANDPA. >> MY FIANCEE, ANDREW J. BAILEY. ANDREW. AND THIS VERY SPACE IS WHERE WE MET AND WHERE I LOST YOU. LIFE CAN CHANGE THE BLINK OF AN EYE. SO LOVE MORE ESPECIALLY NEIGHBORS LIVE MORE, LAUGH MORE WITH FAMILY FRIENDS. BECAUSE WE ARE NOT PROMISED TOMORROW AND STILL THOSE MOVING MOMENTS THAT WE REMEMBER EVERY SINGLE YEAR. WE DO WANT TO SHOW ONE FINAL LOOK AS THEY HAVE LIT UP THE SITE OF THE TWIN RIGHT HERE IN NEW YORK CITY, THE SITE OF THOSE ATTACKS, 23 YEARS AGO. STILL ALL THOSE LIVES LOST REMEMBERED TODAY. AND THAT IS OUR SHOW FOR THIS HOUR. I'M TREVOR AULT. STAY TUNED TO ABC NEWS LIVE. MORE CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS OF THE DAY'S TOP STORIES. AND THANK YOU FOR STREAMING WITH US. >> AND COMING UP IN THE NEXT HURRICANE, FRANCINE IS TAKING AIM AT LOUISIANA. WE'RE FOLLOWING THE STORM'S TRACK AND ITS TIMING. PLUS, A GRAMMY WINNING ARTIST STYLE IS OLD SOUL FUZED WITH MODERN ELEMENTS SINGER LEON BRIDGES JOINS US TO DISCUSS HIS FOURTH FULL LENGTH ALBUM. LEON LEON, YOU'RE 24. HE'S 54. YEAH, IT JUST SEEMED LIKE I HAD MET MY MATE. >> YOU'RE FIRED FOUR TIMES SINCE 2020 IS ALL NEW. THE 32 YEAR OLD FORMER BALLERINA, THE CENTER OF THE SO-CALLED BLACK SWAN TRIAL. >> HERE WE GO. >> YOU HAVEN'T SPOKEN OUT BEFORE. WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO TALK NOW ? THE STUNNING ALL NEW 2020 PREMIERES FRIDAY NINE CENTRAL ON ABC. >> IT'S LUNCH TIME IN AMERICA, SO WHY DON'T WE START? WELL, HOW ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO MAKE YOUR HOUSE YOUR MONEY? >> BREAKING NEWS POP CULTURE WITH THE BIGGEST STARS. MUSIC TRENDS AND, OF COURSE, GOOD FOOD. COMING UP ON "GMA3". YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT. WE'LL SEE YOU THEN. THREE WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW. A THIRD HOUR OF JAMMING IN THE AFTERNOON. SO JOIN US. AFTERNOON FOR EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THAT. >> THREE TO WHEN EVERY NEWS BREAKS. WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR IN ROLLING FORK. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS TOWN FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING, THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE. ABC NEWS LIVE EVERYWHERE IN ICELAND. WHAT'S GOING ON? THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET FOREVER? THE STORY WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE, YOU'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS, YOU'RE STREAMING, ABC NEWS LIVE ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. THIS IS "IMPACT X NIGHTLINE" KIDDING ME. OH, MY SENSE WAS THAT EVERYBODY AROUND HIM WAS AFRAID OF HIM. BRITTANY DESCRIBES HAVING A SECRET ABORTION THAT NOT EVEN HER FAMILY ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON WITH KATE. WHAT THE RELATIONSHIP LIKE BETWEEN HARRY AND WILLIAM TODAY . WHAT DO PEOPLE START TO SAY? YOU LOOK GREAT. AH, YOU WANT TO KNOW SOMETHING ? I TOLD THE KIDS. THEY SAID, I'M NOT GOING TO LET YOU EAT BREAKFAST UNTIL GET YOUR CHORES DONE. SHE TALKS ABOUT HOW LOVE AND HARSH PUNISHMENT, YOU KNOW, IT'S ABUSE. I THINK SCOTT PETERSON MURDERED HIS WIFE AND CHILD TO PROVE ME WRONG. >> DO YOU FEEL THE CHURCH ACCEPTED? >> YEAH, THAT'S HIM. YEAH. READY? DOES YOUR CHURCH PROTECT PREDATORS? HOW DO YOU TALK THE MOST SQUATCH SEASON YET? IT'S A BIT. EXOTIC. YOU HAVE NO IDEA. IMPACT MY LIFE. THE ALL-NEW SEASON PREMIERES THIS SEPTEMBER. ONLY ON HULU. >> THE COUNTDOWN TO THE EMMYS IS ON. LOVE. >> OH, MY GOD. THIS IS GREAT. THE CURSE BEFORE TV'S BIGGEST NIGHT. IT'S CRAZY. I WAS SHOCKED. >> YES, CHEF RAMSAY. INCREDIBLE EMMY. SPECIAL CALL FOR THAT, LADIES COMING AT THE 76TH EMMYS. >> A NIGHT OF FIRSTS WITH ROBIN ROBERTS. IT'LL BE A CRAZY GOOD TIME. SO CRAZY NIGHT AT EIGHT SEVEN CENTRAL ON WHAT NETWORK ARE ON ABC ABC. >> OH, MY GOD. HOW DO YOU SPELL THAT? ABC REPORTING FROM MONTEREY PARK, CALIFORNIA I'M ROBIN ROBERTS. WHEREVER, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE, YOU'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME. I'M IN FOR LINSEY DAVIS. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US. WE HAVE A LOT OF NEWS TO GET TO THIS EVENING, INCLUDING HURRICANE FRANCINE MAKING. LANDFALL IN LOUISIANA, JUST SOUTHWEST OF NEW ORLEANS WITH LIFE THREATENING, STORM SURGE AND DANGEROUS WINDS PACKING A PUNCH FOR MILLIONS IN THE REGION. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LIVE REPORT FROM THE GROUND AS CONDITIONS DETERIORATE AND IN PLACE, ORDERS ARE ISSUED. PLUS, IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MOMENTS OF THE 2024 CAMPAIGN. THE FIREWORKS BETWEEN KAMALA HARRIS AND DONALD TRUMP ON FULL DISPLAY. WE HAVE FRESH REACTION AND THE FALLOUT FROM THAT INCREDIBLE DEBATE TONIGHT. AND WEEKS AFTER A FRAUGHT AND DISPUTED NATIONAL IN VENEZUELA, WE REPORT ON THE THOUSANDS WHO ARE FLEEING THE COUNTRY HEADING INTO BRAZIL. WE TAKE YOU AROUND THE WORLD. WE BEGIN HURRICANE FRANCES POUNDING LOUISIANA TONIGHT. THE HURRICANE MAKING LANDFALL A CATEGORY TWO IN SOUTHERN LOUISIANA LATE TODAY. FRANCINE ASHORE IN TERREBONNE PARISH, ABOUT 85 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW. AND IT BROUGHT WITH IT POWERFUL WINDS, A LIFE THREATENING STORM SURGE AND UP TO A FOOT OF RAIN. TORNADO WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT TONIGHT AND TROPICAL STORM WARNINGS FOR MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA TO YOU COULD SEE HUMVEES ROLLING DOWN THE HIGHWAY AS LOUISIANA'S GOVERNOR ACTIVATED, MORE THAN 2000 NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS. OUR CHIEF METEOROLOGIST, GINGER ZEE IS STANDING BY WITH THE LATEST TRACK, INCLUDING HOW CONCERNED NEW ORLEANS RESIDENTS SHOULD BE TONIGHT. BUT FIRST ARE MET. RIVERS LEADS US OFF IN HOUMA LOUISIANA. TONIGHT, CONDITIONS DETERIORATING BY THE HOUR ON THE GULF AS HURRICANE FRANCINE SLAMS ASHORE. ROADS QUICKLY FLOODING IN DULAC, LOUISIANA. SOME AREAS BRACING FOR UP TO TEN FEET OF STORM SURGE AND, UP TO A FOOT OF RAIN. THIS HURRICANE COMING ASHORE AT THINK WE'RE RIGHT ON THE EYEWALL. THE MOST INTENSE PART OF THIS STORM WINDS UP TO 100 MILES AN HOUR AT THE THREAT OF POWER OUTAGES GOING UP BY THE MINUTE. >> MEMORIES OF 2020 ONES. HURRICANE IDA STILL FRESH IN THE MIND OF. >> HOUMA RESIDENT L.A. CARSON. NERVOUS, OVERWHELMED. SCARED. EVEN THOUGH YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH STORMS BEFORE, I STILL FEEL THE SAME WAY EVERY. >> TIME. A PHONE CALL. HUMVEES ROLLING DOWN THE HIGHWAY. LOUISIANA'S GOVERNOR ACTIVATES MORE THAN 2000 NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS. A STATE OF EMERGENCY THERE AND IN MISSISSIPPI IN FLOOD PRONE NEW ORLEANS. OFFICIALS SAY THEY'RE CONFIDENT THE PUMPS SYSTEM THAT KEEPS WATER OUT THE CITY WILL DO ITS JOB. >> THERE WILL BE TIME WHERE THERE WILL BE SOME FLOODING. OUR MISSION WILL THEN SHIFT FROM KEEPING THE CITY DRY TO PUMPING THE CITY AS FAST AS WE CAN. >> SO LET'S BRING THAT RIVERS BACK IN NOW FROM HOMER, LOUISIANA, WHERE WE CAN ALMOST HEAR WHAT SOUNDS LIKE THE WIND ALMOST SCREAMING WHERE YOU ARE. MATT, I WOULD IMAGINE ALONG THAT AHEAD. YEAH, NO QUESTION ABOUT IT, TREVOR, THAT WIND STILL GOING THROUGH THE POWER LINES HERE AT A REALLY HIGH VELOCITY. THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE HEARING THAT WHISTLING NOISE JUST TO MY LEFT GOING THROUGH THE POWER LINES. BUT NO QUESTION IT'S GOING TO BE A LONG NIGHT AHEAD, NOT ONLY FOR US HERE IN HOMER, BUT FOR EVERYONE IN THIS REGION. AS MUCH AS THIS HAS BEEN A WIND EVENT, IT'S A RAIN. EVENTS WITH FLASH FLOODING REMAINS A MAJOR CONCERN. AND ALSO, I WOULD ADD, POWER OUTAGES, A HUGE CONCERN FOR PEOPLE AROUND HERE BECAUSE IN THIS AREA, WHEN THE POWER GOES OUT, TENDS TO STAY OUT FOR A WHILE. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED DURING HURRICANE IDA A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. AND THAT'S A CONSISTENT CONCERN. WE'VE HEARD FROM RESIDENTS THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING TO OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS. ALL RIGHT, MATT AND YOUR CREW, STAY SAFE, RIVERS, AND KEEP GINGER ZEE IS TRACKING FRANCINE FOR US TONIGHT. >> SO GINGER TIME THIS STORM FOR US. >> YES, TREVOR. OFFICIAL LANDFALL WAS 30 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF MORGAN CITY, LOUISIANA. BUT YOU SEE WHERE THE CENTER HAS MOVED QUITE QUICKLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT 17 MILES PER HOUR. SO THIS THING'S JETTING PAST NEW ORLEANS TONIGHT IN. THAT EYEWALL, YOU COULD FIND WIND GUSTS OF 75 PLUS MILE PER HOUR. AND TORNADO WATCH GOES ALL THE WAY TO PASCAGOULA, GULFPORT, SLIDELL, MISSISSIPPI. SO KEEP AN EYE ON ALL OF THAT TONIGHT. POWER OUTAGES ARE LIKELY. THEY'RE ALREADY EXPANDING AND WE'LL THOSE TWO TROPICAL STORM WARNINGS, YOU KNOW, THAT'S JUST SOUTH OF I-20. SO NEARLY TO JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI. WITH THOSE WARNINGS, LET'S TAKE THAT TRACK. WE'LL TIME IT OUT BECAUSE IT IS GOING TO EVENTUALLY THE REMNANTS OF IT GET UP TO WESTERN TENNESSEE. WATCH THIS ON THIS MAP. YOU SEE ALL THOSE WIND ADVISORIES ONCE FOR OVER SURGE AND THE IMMEDIATE THREAT OF THE FLASH FLOODING AT THE COAST. WE'RE GOING TO BRING THIS STORM INLAND. AND BY TOMORROW MORNING, YOU'RE GOING TO END UP WITH WIND GUSTS UPWARDS OF 45 MILES PER HOUR AS FAR NORTH AS BIRMINGHAM OR EVEN TENNESSEE . YOU SEE WHERE THOSE HEAVIEST BANDS ARE STILL OVER TALLAHASSEE, JUST EAST OF PANAMA CITY, APALACHEE, GETTING THAT PULL OF WATER STILL. THAT'S TOMORROW MORNING. BUT BY TOMORROW AFTERNOON, DON'T FORGET, YOU'VE GOT A TORNADO WATCH. TOMORROW YOU'LL SEE THAT POP UP. BUT ALSO THE ELEVATED FLOOD RISK BECAUSE THIS AREA HAS BEEN IN DROUGHT, NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS THROUGH, PADUCAH FINDS THEMSELVES IN THAT ELEVATED RISK OF FLASH FLOODING. >> YOU COULD EASILY SEE 3 TO 5 INCHES FALL REALLY QUICKLY, TREVOR. ALL RIGHT. ALL KINDS ISSUES TO DEAL WITH, GINGER ZEE. THANK YOU. MEANTIME, IN THE WEST, THREE MAJOR WILDFIRES ARE BURNING AROUND LOS ANGELES, FORCING TENS, THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO EVACUATE. THESE FIRES HAVE BEEN FUELED BY WINDS. IT'S CAUGHT SOME PEOPLE BY SURPRISE. THIS WOMAN RAN FROM THE AIRPORT . FIRE WAS PICKED UP BY A RIVERSIDE COUNTY FIRE OFFICIAL THERE. DOZENS OF HOMES AND STRUCTURES HAVE ALREADY BEEN DESTROYED AND CREWS ARE FIGHTING TO SAVE THE REST. >> ABC'S MOLA LENGHI REPORTS TONIGHT, WILDFIRES ACROSS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BURNING OUT OF CONTROL SCORCHING NEIGHBORHOODS AND FORCING THOUSANDS TO FLEE THEIR HOMES. OFFICIALS SAY AT LEAST TEN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN INJURED. THIS WOMAN ESCAPING THE FLAMES AND RUSHING INTO AN EMERGENCY VEHICLE. >> I'VE NEVER SEEN LIKE THIS BEFORE EVER. THERE'S A POSSIBILITY I MIGHT WE MIGHT LOSE EVERYTHING THERE. >> THE BRIDGE FIRE EXPLODING TO 49,000 ACRES. THE STATE'S LARGEST FIRE, 0% CONTAINED. >> FIREFIGHTERS GOING DOOR TO DOOR TO EVACUATE COULD SEND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. AND I PRAY EVERYBODY IS GOING TO BE SAFE. BUT IT'S JUST TOO MUCH. IT'S JUST A LOT IF YOU DON'T GET IT. >> OFFICIALS SAY THEY'RE NOW WORKING AIRLIFT THREE MORE PEOPLE WHO ARE TRAPPED BEHIND THE FIRE LINES. WIND WHIPPED FLAMES, DESTROYING NEARLY 40 STRUCTURES AND THREATENING 2500 MORE. OUR MELISSA DON IS ON THE FRONT LINES IN THE TOWN OF WRIGHTWOOD. >> FIREFIGHTERS ARE WORKING ON TOUGH TERRAIN HERE IN THIS MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY, TRYING TO CREATE A PERIMETER TO PROTECT NEARBY HOMES AND WORKERS AT THIS NEARBY SKI RESORT USING SNOW BLOWERS BEAT BACK THE FLAMES. THE AIRPORT FIRE ALSO IS 0% CONTAINED, JUMPING A HIGHWAY OVERNIGHT. YOU CAN SEE HERE IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY HOW IT CONSUMED AND ENGULFED THESE HOMES AND WHAT USED TO BE HOMES, LEAVING BEHIND A PILE OF CHAR AND ASH. ABOUT A DOZEN HOMES BURNED TO THE GROUND AS 6000 FIREFIGHTERS TRY TO GAIN THE UPPER HAND WITH THE FIRES. TONIGHT, OFFICIALS SAY THE THIRD BLAZE IN THE AREA. THE LINE FIRE WAS SPARKED BY ARSON. POLICE ANNOUNCING THEY'VE ARRESTED A 34 YEAR OLD SUSPECT. WELL, TREVOR, HERE IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY, FIREFIGHTERS STILL HAVE THEIR HANDS FULL, BUT SOME RELIEF IN SIGHT AS WE'RE EXPECTING LOWER TEMPERATURES OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS, MAKING CONDITIONS ON THE GROUND A LITTLE EASIER TO DEAL WITH. BUT THAT MIGHT COME WITH SOME HIGHER WINDS, WHICH, OF COURSE, COULD CAUSE SOME OF THESE FIRES TO CONTINUE TO SPREAD TREVOR. >> ALL RIGHT, MOLA LENGHI FOR SMOLLER, THANK YOU. AND NOW TO POLITICS, WHERE FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS, THEY WERE BOTH TOGETHER THIS MORNING AT GROUND ZERO HERE IN NEW YORK TO REMEMBER THE VICTIMS OF THE 9/11 ATTACKS, STANDING JUST A FEW FEET APART THERE, REACHING ACROSS IN CORDIAL HANDSHAKE. OF COURSE, JUST HOURS EARLIER IN PHILADELPHIA, THE VICE CROSSED THE STAGE, MAKING THAT FIRST MOVE, EXTENDING HER HAND TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT. AND THEN FOR THE NEXT 90 MINUTES, THEY SPARRED ON THE ECONOMY, IMMIGRATION REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, FOREIGN WARS AND MUCH MORE. OUR RACHEL SCOTT IS STANDING BY FOR ANALYSIS. >> BUT FIRST WE GO TO OUR MARY BRUCE TODAY AT GROUND ZERO, A POLITE HANDSHAKE BETWEEN FIERCE RIVALS VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS AND FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP GREETING EACH OTHER AT A SERVICE COMMEMORATING THE 911 ATTACK. >> LESS THAN 24 HOURS EARLIER, A HANDSHAKE OF A DIFFERENT. KAMALA HARRIS SAID GOODBYE. >> P.S. THANK YOU. TRUMP HAD HOPED TO MAKE THE ABC PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE A REFERENDUM ON THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION. THIS HAS BEEN A DISASTER FOR PEOPLE, FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS. BUT FOR EVERY CLASS. ON TOP OF THAT, WE HAVE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE POURING INTO OUR COUNTRY. >> INSTEAD, IT WAS THE FORMER PRESIDENT WHO FOUND HIMSELF ON THE DEFENSIVE. FIRST ON ABORTION, TRUMP HAS BRAGGED ABOUT NOMINATING THREE OF THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES WHO OVERTURNED ROE WADE. ON THE DEBATE STAGE, HE CLAIMED LEGAL SCHOLARS BACKED THEIR DECISION. THEY ALL WANTED THIS ISSUE TO BE BROUGHT BACK TO THE STATES WHERE THE PEOPLE COULD VOTE. EACH INDIVIDUAL STATE VOTING. >> IT'S THE VOTE OF THE PEOPLE NOW. HARRIS POUNCING ONE OF HER SIGNATURE ISSUES. >> YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE PREGNANT WOMEN WHO WANT TO CARRY A PREGNANCY TO TERM SUFFERING FROM A MISCARRIAGE, BEING DENIED CARE IN AN EMERGENCY ROOM BECAUSE THE HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS ARE AFRAID THEY MIGHT GO TO JAIL. >> AND SHE'S BLEEDING OUT IN A CAR IN THE PARKING LOT. >> SHE DIDN'T WANT THAT. THE VICE PRESIDENT REPEATEDLY GOADING TRUMP, TRYING TO GET UNDER HIS SKIN. YOU WILL SEE DURING THE COURSE OF HIS RALLIES, HE TALKS ABOUT FICTIONAL CHARACTERS LIKE HANNIBAL LECTER. HE WILL ABOUT WINDMILLS, CAUSE CANCER AND WHAT YOU WILL ALSO IS THAT PEOPLE START LEAVING HIS RALLIES EARLY OUT OF EXHAUSTION. >> BOREDOM. THE FORMER PRESIDENT TAKING THAT BAIT PERSONALLY TO THE RACIST. SHE SAID PEOPLE START LEAVING. PEOPLE DON'T GO HER RALLIES. THERE'S NO REASON TO GO. PEOPLE DON'T LEAVE MY RALLIES. WE HAVE THE BIGGEST THE MOST INCREDIBLE RALLIES IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICS. >> IN THAT SAME. TRUMP VEERING INTO A FALSE CONSPIRACY THEORY ABOUT EATING PEOPLE'S PETS IN SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, IN SPRINGFIELD. THEY'RE EATING THE DOGS, THE PEOPLE CAME IN. THEY'RE EATING THE CATS. THEY'RE EATING. THEY'RE EATING THE PETS OF THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE. >> I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY HERE, YOU BRING UP SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, AND ABC NEWS DID REACH OUT TO THE CITY MANAGER THERE. >> HE TOLD US THERE HAD BEEN CREDIBLE REPORTS OF SPECIFIC CLAIMS OF PETS BEING HARMED, INJURED OR ABUSED BY INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THE IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY. >> I'VE SEEN PEOPLE ON TELLY ME JUST SAY HERE, THIS IS THE PEOPLE ON TELEVISION CLAIM MY DOG WAS TAKEN AND, USED FOR FOOD. SO MAYBE HE SAID THAT, AND MAYBE THAT'S A GOOD THING TO SAY FOR A CITY MANAGER. I'M NOT TAKING THIS FROM THE. YOU SAY MAD DOG WAS EATEN BY THE PEOPLE THAT WENT THERE. >> AGAIN, THE SPRINGFIELD CITY MANAGER SAYS THERE'S NO EVIDENCE OF THAT PLACE. BUT SAYING THIS. >> I'LL LET YOU RESPOND TO THE REST OF WHAT YOU'VE HEARD TALK ABOUT EXTREME AND HARRIS SEIZING ON TRUMP'S REFUSAL TO ADMIT LOST THE 2020 ELECTION WHEN DAVID ASKED HIM ABOUT SOME RECENT COMMENTS IN THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS LEADING UP TO THIS DEBATE. >> YOU SAID, QUOTE, YOU LOST BY A WHISKER THAT YOU, QUOTE, DIDN'T QUITE MAKE, THAT YOU CAME UP A LITTLE BIT SHORT. I YOU THAT ARE YOU NOW ACKNOWLEDGING YOU LOST AND TRYING TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AT ALL. >> THE VICE PRESIDENT ARGUING TRUMP CAN'T FACE REALITY. >> DONALD TRUMP WAS FIRED BY 81 MILLION PEOPLE. SO LET'S BE CLEAR ABOUT THAT AND CLEARLY HE IS HAVING A VERY DIFFICULT TIME PROCESSING THAT. >> AND WORLD LEADERS ARE LAUGHING AT DONALD TRUMP. I TALKED WITH MILITARY LEADERS, SOME OF WHOM WORK WITH YOU, AND THEY SAY YOU'RE A DISGRACE. >> HARRIS URGING AMERICANS LOOK TO THE FUTURE. WE'RE NOT GOING BACK. IT'S TIME TO TURN THE PAGE. >> TRUMP WARNING HIS RIVAL HAD THREE YEARS TO DELIVER ON PROMISES AND FAILED. SHE'S GOING TO DO SHE'S GOING TO DO THAT. SHE'S GOING TO DO ALL THESE WONDERFUL THINGS. WHY SHE DONE IT. SHE'S BEEN THERE FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS. >> TODAY, THE HARRIS TEAM BRIMMING WITH CONFIDENCE, SAYING THE VICE PRESIDENT IS READY TO DEBATE TRUMP AGAIN. >> LATE TODAY, FORMER PRESIDENT INSISTED HE WON THE DEBATE, BUT HE WOULDN'T COMMIT TO ROUND TWO. WE ENJOYED IT. I THINK I HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT, TOO. BUT I ENJOYED IT. ARE WE GOING TO DO A REMATCH? I JUST DON'T KNOW. I'LL THINK ABOUT. >> AND MARY BRUCE JOINS US NOW FROM THE NORTH LAWN, THE WHITE HOUSE. MARY, IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF THIS DEBATE, THE VICE PRESIDENT SECURE A HIGHLY COVETED ENDORSEMENT, NOT FROM ANY POLITICIAN, BUT TAYLOR SWIFT. >> HAVE WE SEEN ANY RESPONSE TO THAT SO FAR? HIGHLY COVETED, INDEED. >> THE SUPERSTAR POSTING A POST ON INSTAGRAM FOR MORE THAN 283 MILLION FOLLOWERS SAYING THAT SHE WAS WATCHING LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE AND THAT SHE HAD DONE HER RESEARCH AND MADE HER CHOICE OFFICIALLY, ENDORSING KAMALA HARRIS AND THEN URGING HER SUPPORTERS TO REGISTER POST TODAY, TREVOR DRIVING MORE THAN 330,000 VISITS TO THE VOTE DOT GOV WEBSITE. >> ALL MARY, BRUCE. >> MARY THANK YOU. AND LET'S ALSO BRING IN OUR RACHEL SCOTT NOW. SO RACHEL, WE HEARD IN MARY'S PIECE THE FORMER PRESIDENT DOES INSIST HE WON LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE, BUT NOT ALL OF HIS TOP SUPPORTERS ARE THRILLED HERE. >> SOME OF THEM ARE THINKING THIS IS A MISSED OPPORTUNITY. YES, SOME OF HIS CLOSEST ALLIES OVER ON CAPITOL HILL ARE VERY FRUSTRATED. LOOK, THERE WAS A QUESTION OF WHAT VERSION OF DONALD TRUMP WAS GOING TO SHOW UP ON THAT DEBATE STAGE LAST NIGHT . AND THIS WAS NOT THE VERSION OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT THAT MANY REPUBLICANS, ESPECIALLY CAPITOL HILL, WANTED TO SEE, BECAUSE WE ARE JUST AROUND THE CORNER FROM NOVEMBER ELECTION. AND THEY WANTED TO SEE A DONALD TRUMP THAT WAS FOCUSED ON THE ISSUES THAT WAS STAYING ON MESSAGE, THAT WASN'T DRIFTING INTO ANY CONSPIRACY THEORIES, PROMOTING ANY FALSE CLAIMS. SENATOR LINSEY GRAHAM, A STAUNCH SUPPORTER OF DONALD TRUMP, SAID THAT THIS WAS A MISSED OPPORTUNITY FOR THE FORMER PRESIDENT. AND YET SENATOR KEVIN CRAMER, WHO SAID THAT TRUMP SHOULD HAVE GONE INTO MORE DETAIL ABOUT KEY POLICY AREAS THE ECONOMY, IMMIGRATION. INSTEAD HE SAID HE USED THE DEBATE LIKE A MINI CAMPAIGN RALLY, AND IN IT PERHAPS PROBABLY THE MOST TELLING SIGN OF HOW THE FORMER PRESIDENT REALLY THINKS THAT HE DID. HE NOW NOT COMMITTING TO FACING OFF AGAINST VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS AGAIN. WHEN PRESIDENT BIDEN WAS IN THE RACE, HE SAID THAT HE WOULD DEBATE HIM ANY TIME, ANY PLACE. BUT NOW THAT HARRIS WANTS THAT SECOND DEBATE, DONALD TRUMP IS HEDGING, TREVOR, AND A VERY DIFFERENT RESPONSE FROM THAT FIRST DEBATE WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN RACHEL SCOTT FOR US. >> RACHEL, THANK YOU. NEXT TONIGHT, ABC NEWS HAS LEARNED JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE HAS AGREED TO A PLEA DEAL IN HIS DWI CASE IN SAG HARBOR, NEW YORK. THAT'S ON LONG ISLAND ABC'S AARON KATERSKY HAS THE DETAILS TONIGHT. >> SOURCES ABC NEWS JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE WILL RETURN FRIDAY TO THE HIGH END HAMPTONS WHERE HE ALLEGEDLY DROVE DRUNK SO HE CAN PLEAD GUILTY TO A LESSER CHARGE. A POP SUPERSTAR IS EXPECTED TO PLEAD GUILTY TO A TRAFFIC INFRACTION AND PAY A FINE. SURVEILLANCE VIDEO TAKEN IN JUNE SHOWS TIMBERLAKE'S GRAY BMW DRIVING DOWN A STREET IN SAG HARBOR SHORTLY BEFORE HIS ARREST. SAID HE RAN A STOP SIGN AND SWERVED OUT OF HIS LANE. THE OFFICER WHO PULLED OVER SAID WHEN HE FOUND TIMBERLAKE, HIS EYES WERE BLOODSHOT AND GLASSY. HE HAD SLOWED SPEECH AND WAS UNSTEADY ON HIS FEET, PERFORMING POORLY ALL FIELD SOBRIETY TESTS. HE REFUSED A CHEMICAL TEST. TIMBERLAKE WAS, ON A BREAK FROM HIS WORLD TOUR TO PROMOTE HIS LATEST ALBUM, EVERYTHING. I THOUGHT IT WAS. >> HE ADDRESSED THE CHARGES ON STAGE. IT'S BEEN A TOUGH WEEK. WE'VE BEEN THROUGHOUT THE SHUTDOWN AND JOINS US NOW. SO, AARON, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, TIMBERLAKE ORIGINALLY CLAIMED INNOCENCE IN THIS CASE. RIGHT. IS THIS A CHANGE? YOU SURE? HE SURE DID, TREVOR. IN FACT, HE SAID HE HAD ONE MARTINI THAT JUNE AND HIS ATTORNEY INSISTED HE WASN'T DRUNK, BUT HE IS EXPECTED IN COURT IN SAG HARBOR TO PLEAD GUILTY TO THIS INFRACTION OF IMPAIRED DRIVING AND RESOLVE THIS CASE, IN ALL LIKELIHOOD, WITH NOTHING MORE THAN A FINE DRIVER. OKAY, AARON KATERSKY, THANK YOU. AND ALSO TONIGHT, THE MUSIC WORLD IS MOURNING THE DEATH OF A LEGEND. R&B SINGER FRANKIE BEVERLY HAS DIED. HE WAS KNOWN FOR HITS LIKE JOY AND PAIN AND JOHN AND RAY. >> WELL, THE SINGER, SONGWRITER AND PRODUCER WAS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS WORK WITH, SOUL AND FUNK BAND MASE, WHICH ALSO INCLUDED HITS LIKE JOY, PAIN. HIS FAMILY SAYS WE HEARD JOY AND PAIN. HIS FAMILY, HE LIVED HIS LIFE WITH PURE SOUL. FRANKIE BEVERLY WAS 77. >> WE STILL HAVE MUCH MORE TO GET TO HERE. COMING UP, THREE NEW ASTRONAUTS LAUNCH TO THE ALREADY CROWDED INTERNATIONAL STATION. BUT NEXT, AN OLD SOUND WITH A FRESH TWIST LEON BRIDGES IS ONCE AGAIN ELEVATING HIS GENRE. A CONVERSATION THE GRAMMY AWARD WINNING ARTIST. HIS NEXT. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS. >> WE ARE HEARING ISRAEL A NATION WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND. >> UKRAINE REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. ABC LIVE IS RIGHT THERE EVERY FROM THE SCENE OF THAT JEFF CORNISH STRIKE, THE NEED FOR UKRAINE. REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY IN ROLLING FORTH THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE TOWN FROM THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII. FROM CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. LET'S GO TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY WHEREVER THE STORY FROM THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL, OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN BEIRUT FOR THE FBI, REPORTING FROM THE NURSES ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET IN LONDON, STREAMING LIVE TO YOU WHEREVER . THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE YOU STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE ABC NEWS LIVE. YOU'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. >> AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS THE COUNTDOWN. >> THE EMMYS IS ON. LOVE IT. OH, MY GOD. THIS IS GREAT. BUT FIRST, BEFORE TV'S BIGGEST NIGHT. >> IT'S CRAZY. I WAS SHOCKED. YES, CHEF RAMSAY. INCREDIBLE EMMY SPECIAL CAROL FOR THAT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE 7/6 EMMYS, A NIGHT OF FIRSTS WITH ROBIN ROBERTS. IT'LL BE A CRAZY GOOD TIME. SO CRAZY. FRIDAY NIGHT AT EIGHT SEVEN CENTRAL. >> ON WHAT NETWORK ARE WE ON? ABC? ABC OH, MY GOD. >> HOW DO YOU SPELL THAT? ABC, YOU'RE 24. HE'S 54. YEAH. >> IT JUST SEEMED LIKE I HAD MET MY SOULMATE. >> YOU FIRED FOUR TIMES FRIDAY, 2020 IS WHAT I KNEW. >> THE 32 YEAR OLD FORMER BALLERINA, THE CENTER OF THE SO-CALLED BLACK SWAN TRIAL. >> HERE WE GO. YOU HAVEN'T SPOKEN OUT BEFORE. WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO TALK? NOW THIS STUNNING ALL NEW 2020 PREMIERES FRIDAY AT NINE EIGHT CENTRAL ON ABC. >> REPORTING FROM OUTSIDE WEMBLEY STADIUM SURROUNDED BY SWIFTIES AS TAYLOR SWIFT IS SET TO KICK OFF FIVE SOLD OUT CONCERTS ON MAGGIE RULLI. YOU'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, WE'RE TRACKING SEVERAL HEADLINES AROUND THE WORLD. MORE THAN 150 PEOPLE ARE DEAD IN VIETNAM AS IT RECOVERS FROM A MAJOR TYPHOON. ROADS IN NORTHERN VIETNAM REMAIN BLOCKED. THERE ARE DOZENS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE STILL MISSING. THIS TYPHOON WAS THE STRONGEST TO HIT VIETNAM IN DECADES. OF VENEZUELANS HAVE NOW FLED TO BRAZIL SINCE NICOLAS MADURO TO CONCEDE AN ELECTION. BUT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, INCLUDING THE U.S. SAYS HE DID NOT WIN. MIGRATIONS FROM VENEZUELA TO BRAZIL HAVE GONE UP BY 25% SINCE THE JULY ELECTION. MIGRANTS HAVE VERY LITTLE FOOD. SOME HAVE TAKEN TO LOOKING THROUGH TRASH TO TRY TO SURVIVE. AUTHORITIES SAY AT LEAST 12,000 VENEZUELANS HAVE ENTERED COUNTRY SINCE JUST JULY 28. AND RUSSIA HAS LAUNCHED THREE NEW ASTRONAUTS TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AS SOYUZ ROCKET CARRYING TWO RUSSIANS AND ONE AMERICAN DOCTOR. SHORT TIME WITH ISIS. THEY JOIN A PRETTY CROWDED SPACE STATION AS TWO ASTRONAUTS THERE THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING ON AN 8-DAY MISSION ON BOEING'S STARLINER, BUT THEY'RE NOW STRANDED FOR AN EIGHT MONTH STRETCH AFTER THE STARLINER HAD A NUMBER OF TECHNICAL ISSUES AND ALSO MORE INTERNATIONAL NEWS. JUST IN TONIGHT, ALBERTO FUJIMORI, THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF PERU, WHO WAS CONVICTED OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES, HAS DIED AFTER A BATTLE WITH CANCER. FUJIMORI PRESIDENCY BEGAN RIGHTING PERU'S ECONOMY AND DEFEATING AN INSURGENCY BEFORE WAS LATER CONVICTED FOR CORRUPTION. WELL, HE WAS PARDONED IN DECEMBER, AND JUST THIS JULY, HIS DAUGHTER SAID HE WAS ACTUALLY PLANNING TO RUN FOR PERU'S PRESIDENCY AGAIN FOR THE FOURTH TIME IN 2026. HE WAS 86 YEARS OLD. >> OUR NEXT GUEST HAS MADE A NAME FOR AS AN OLD SOUL WITH A FRESH SOUND. HE IS A GRAMMY AWARD WINNING ARTIST WITH MORE THAN A DOZEN PLATINUM AND GOLD CERTIFICATIONS, BILLIONS OF STREAMS. AND NOW LEON BRIDGES IS RETURNING TO THE STORIES THAT MADE HIM ON HIS FOURTH FULL LENGTH ALBUM. >> LEON, LET'S TAKE A LISTEN TO HIS LATEST SINGLE PLACE. >> I GUESS FROM DAY AND I FOUND SOMETHING TO TAKE YOU ANY MINUTE, PLEASE. >> WELL, WE HOPE HE'S AT TO BE HERE WITH US. LEON BRIDGES, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. THANKS FOR HAVING ME. IT'S A PLEASURE. >> TALK TO YOU HAVE ENJOYED YOUR MUSIC FOR A LONG TIME. IT'S INTERESTING. >> YOU'VE BEEN AROUND, YOU KNOW, VERY DECORATED ARTISTS. USUALLY THE FIRST ALBUM IS THE SELF-TITLED ONE RECORDS YOUR FOURTH ONE, AND YOU'RE NAMING IT. >> LEON. WHY DID YOU GO FOR THAT? MAN, YOU KNOW, I YOU KNOW, I HAD TO GO ON A JOURNEY, YOU KNOW, AND, YOU KNOW, WITH EACH ALBUM I WANTED TO ALMOST REINVENT MYSELF AND, YOU KNOW, WITH THIS ONE, YOU KNOW, I WANTED TO JUST GET BACK TO MY ROOTS AND KIND OF GET BACK TO THIS. >> THE REASON WHY PEOPLE FELL IN LOVE WITH ME IN THE FIRST PLACE. I KNOW YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT, I THINK WHAT YOU SAID, ACTUALLY, AS YOU'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS ALBUM SINCE. >> WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT? YEAH, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IT'S -- IT'S A REFLECTION OF JUST LIKE MY EXPERIENCE GROWING UP IN FORT WORTH, TEXAS. YOU KNOW, IT'S KIND OF DELVES INTO, YOU KNOW, THE THINGS I JUST VALUE MOST IN THIS LIFE. YOU KNOW, I GREW UP IN IN FORT WORTH, AND, YOU KNOW, I WANTED TO ALMOST MAKE THIS A LOVE LETTER TO THE CITY. >> YEAH. SPECIFICALLY FORT WORTH, BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'VE HAD A LOT OF SONGS REFERENCING TEXAS, TEXAS ON ONE OF YOUR BIGGEST SONGS. LAREDO WAS ONE OF YOUR SINGLES, BUT IS THIS SPECIFICALLY CENTERED ON FORT WORTH? >> IT IS. IT IS. YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS ON THE ALBUM IS THE SONG CALLED PANTHER CITY. YOU KNOW, AND IT'S THIS, YOU KNOW, JUST KIND OF STEP KIND OF SNAPSHOTS OF JUST MY TIME GROWING UP ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF FORT WORTH. AND I LOVE FORT WORTH, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT'S YOU KNOW, I LOVE THE PEOPLE THERE. AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE MY PLACE OF REFUGE. >> YEAH, I KNOW YOU'RE GOING ON TOUR PRETTY SOON PLAYING AT AUSTIN CITY LIMITS AND BE BACK IN TEXAS. >> HOW DO YOU LIKE GOING ON TOUR? >> AND ESPECIALLY HOW DO YOU LIKE GETTING TO PLAY IN TEXAS? YEAH, I LOVE IT, MAN. YEAH. YOU KNOW, ON STAGE IS, YOU KNOW, MY SANCTUARY, YOU KNOW? AND I THE MOMENT AND JUST CONNECTING WITH THE AUDIENCE AND LIKE SEEING THAT JUST COLLECTIVE EFFERVESCENCE IN THE CROWD, YOU KNOW, AND, YOU KNOW, I'M EXCITED TO REALLY, YOU KNOW, BRING THESE SONGS TO LIFE. WELL, IT'S A PLEASURE TO MEET YOU, LEON. WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOU STOPPING BY THE NEW ALBUM. THE MAN'S NAME COMES OUT OCTOBER 4TH AND TICKETS FOR LEON'S TOUR ARE ON SALE NOW. AND STILL AHEAD TONIGHT, WE ARE HONORING THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES ON 911, TAKING TIME TO LISTEN TO THE STORIES OF THOSE SURVIVED. COMING UP, THE MAN LED TO SAFETY FROM THE 78TH FLOOR. HIS GUIDE DOG IS STREAMING ON HULU. >> I'M A ROCK AND ROLL STAR. I'M NOT A SAINT. I'M JON BON JOVI. JON BON JOVI. THE NEW SPECIAL. WHAT? YOU HAVE NOT YET SEEN THAT JON BON JOVI WOULDN'T MICHAEL STRAHAN IS NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> LET'S. THE SHIP IS INCREDIBLE. IT FEELS LIKE LIVING IN A SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE. WE JUST SAW WHAT NO ONE HAS SEEN BEFORE. LOOK AT THAT. OH, MY GOSH. WOW. WE ARE HEADING INTO THE UNKNOWN. EVER, EVER, EVER. IT DOESN'T GET. ANY MORE CUTTING EDGE. AND THIS PORTRAYAL IS ONE OF THE HARDEST TYPES OF TRAUMA OVERCOME. THIS IS HER KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR. EVERYTHING, RIGHT? ALL OF A SUDDEN, I FOUND THIS FOLDER. I OPENED IT. I THINK I CAN SAY I'M SORRY. IT'S SHOCKING. MY STOMACH JUST DROPPED. HE JUST REALLY DIDN'T THINK I HAD IT IN ME TO DO SOMETHING . SO I DID. BETRAYAL. A FATHER'S SECRET. THE NEW SEASON ON HULU. >> WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA? WE ARE PART OF AN OPERATION OPERATION CENTER. WE'RE APPROACHING THE GATE. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. THE REACTOR RECEIVED A COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAGS ARE GOING TO COME FORWARD IN THE USA. GREAT WORK. HI. >> IT'S LYLE. DAVID. I'M DAVID. YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE. >> YOU EVERY NIGHT. ABC'S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID IS AMERICA'S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST. ABC NEWS LIVE HONORED EIGHT EMMY NOMINATIONS MORE THAN ANY OTHER STREAMING NEWS NETWORK AND ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME WITH LINSEY DAVIS FIRST AND ONLY SCREENING SHOW NOMINATED FOR BEST OUTSTANDING LIVE NEWS PROGRAM. >> THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE. 23 YEARS AGO TODAY ON SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2001. SO MANY PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED THE EVENTS THAT FOREVER CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY. THEY HAVE SHARED THEIR STORIES OF UNTHINKABLE HORROR. BUT WE'RE HEARING A SURVIVAL UNLIKE ANY OTHER. >> ABC'S DANNY NEW HAS MORE. >> LET'S LOOK AT THE NORTH TOWER QUICKLY QUICKLY COMING DOWN UNDERSTANDABLY. MOST OF US WILL NEVER FORGET THE SIGHT OF THE TWIN TOWERS FALLING ON SEPTEMBER 11TH. >> AND WOULDN'T YOU KNOW, WE DECIDED TO HOLD THE ON SEPTEMBER 11TH. >> BUT FOR MICHAEL HINGSTON, WHO IS BLIND, HE SAYS HE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THE WAY THE BUILDING SHOOK WHILE HE WAS HOLDING A MEETING ON THE NORTH TOWER 78TH FLOOR. >> WE KIND OF A MUFFLED THUMP AND THE BUILDING SORT OF SHUDDERED. >> NOW, IN THAT MOMENT MICHAEL AND HIS COLLEAGUES DID NOT KNOW A PLANE HAD HIT THEIR TOWER, BUT HE IMMEDIATELY CALLED HIS WIFE AND THEN RETRIEVED HIS LOYAL GUIDE DOG ROSELLE, WHO WAS NAPPING UNDER HIS. >> SHE WAS GUIDING AND I KEPT ENCOURAGING HER GOOD DOG, ROSELLE, A GOOD GIRL. >> AS HE STARTED TO DESCEND THE STAIRS, ONE OF MICHAEL'S MAIN GOALS WAS TO KEEP ROSELLE CALM AMIDST ALL THE CHAOS. AND SOMETIMES THEY EVEN TEAMED UP TO HELP OTHERS. FOR EXAMPLE, ON THE 68TH FLOOR, MICHAEL SAYS, A WOMAN EXCLAIMED THAT SHE COULD NOT GO ON ANY FURTHER. >> WE JUST ALL HAD A GROUP HUG THERE ON THE STAIRS AND ROSELLE GAVE HER KISSES AND SHE WAS ABLE TO KEEP GOING. >> AND THEN ON THE THIRD, SEVENTH FLOOR, MICHAEL SAYS HE AND ROSELLE WERE EVEN OFFERING COMIC. >> IT GOT QUIET AGAIN AND I WAS GOING, OH MY GOSH, SOMEBODY'S GOING TO BLOW HERE. SO I JUST SAID, HEY, EVERYBODY, MY NAME IS MIKE. I'M I GOT A GUIDE DOG. DON'T ANYONE WORRY. IF THE POWER AND LIGHTS GO OUT, ROSELLE AND I ARE OFFERING A HALF PRICE SPECIAL TO GET YOU OUT TODAY. ONLY. YOU KNOW, AND PEOPLE STARTED LAUGHING AT THAT. EVENTUALLY, MICHAEL ROSELLE AND HIS TEAM MADE IT TO THE LOBBY AND WERE SAFELY ESCORTED OUTSIDE. >> WE HEARD THIS RUMBLE THAT QUICKLY BECAME THIS DEAFENING ROAR. >> BUT IN THE DECADES SINCE, MICHAEL HAS DEDICATED LIFE TO TELLING PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD ABOUT THAT MORNING, HE'S BECOME AN ACCLAIMED KEYNOTE SPEAKER. AND IN 2011, HE WROTE THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER THUNDER DOG ABOUT HOW HE AND ROSELLE SURVIVED. TO THIS DAY, HE HAS STILL NOT STOPPED TRYING TO PEOPLE LEARN ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AND IN THE MIDST OF IT ALL STILL FIND THAT SENSE CALM. >> AND FOR ME, THAT BECAME THE BEST THERAPY POSSIBLE. >> OUR THANKS TO DANNY NEW. AND THAT IS OUR SHOW FOR TONIGHT. I'M ABC NEWS LIVE IS HERE FOR YOU ALL NIGHT WITH THE LATEST NEWS CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS. >> YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON HULU, ROKU, PLUTO TV AND THE ABC NEWS APP AND OF COURSE, ON ABCNEWS.COM ABCNEWS.COM This is impact by Nightline. Kidding me.