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READY? YES, I AM. IS ANYBODY GOING TO BE WATCHING TONIGHT? >> ONE DAY UNTIL THE BIGGEST MOMENT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE? THE STAGE IS SET FOR WHAT IS SURE TO BE A HISTORY NIGHT IN PHILADELPHIA AS KAMALA HARRIS AND DONALD TRUMP PREPARE GO HEAD TO HEAD FOR THE FIRST AND PERHAPS ONLY TIME BEFORE VOTERS NATIONWIDE HEAD TO THE POLLS IN NOVEMBER. OUR REPORTERS ARE COVERING THE CANDIDATES AND THE ISSUES FROM IMMIGRATION TO ECONOMY AND MORE. AND THE FIGHT FOR OF CONGRESS. PLUS, THE WILDFIRE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. FLAMES BURNING ACROSS MORE THAN 20,000 ACRES. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE FORCED FROM THEIR HOMES. SEVERAL LARGE FIRES BURNING IN THE REGION. WE'RE THERE ON THE FIRE LINE. >> AND OUR GOAL IS TO APPLY STEADY PRESSURE AND WIN. MR. CROUCH DOWN. THE URGENT MANHUNT FOR A HIGHWAY SHOOTER ALONG INTERSTATE 75 IN KENTUCKY. SEVERAL PEOPLE SHOT AND WOUNDED SCHOOLS IN THE AREA CANCELED. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS TELL ,ABC NEWS. THE GUN WAS BOUGHT THE DAY OF THE SHOOTING AND MORE DETAILS ON THE STATE OF THE SEARCH. BUT IT'S ALL ABOUT HARRIS AND TRUMP AND THE STAKES COULD NOT BE HIGHER AS WE GO INTO JUST THE FINAL HOURS BEFORE THEIR DEBATE. WE'RE LIVE FROM THE CONSTITUTION CENTER IN PHILADELPHIA. OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE COUNTDOWN TO THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE KICKS OFF. >> GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. I'M LINSEY DAVIS. THANKS SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US HERE IN PHILADELPHIA AT THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER, WHERE WE ARE JUST 24 HOURS AWAY FROM THAT MAJOR DEBATE BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND KAMALA HARRIS. HARRIS ARRIVING IN THE BATTLEGROUND STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA A SHORT TIME AGO BEFORE HER FIRST FACE OFF WITH TRUMP. WE'RE COVERING ANGLES OF THE DEBATE TONIGHT AND MUCH MORE, INCLUDING DEVELOPMENTS WHEN KATE'S HEALTH AS SHE BATTLES CANCER, ISSUING A SPECIAL MESSAGE THE WORLD THIS EVENING, THE FIRST WORDS FROM THE MOTHER OF THE GEORGIA SCHOOL SHOOTING ,HER EMOTIONAL WORDS TO THE COUNTRY. AND REMEMBERING AN ICON, LEGENDARY HOLLYWOOD STAR AND TRAILBLAZER EDWARD EARL DEAD AT 93. WE LOOK BACK AT THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF THE CELEBRATED ACTOR. BUT THE BIG NEWS OF THE NIGHT, THE COUNTDOWN TO THE FIRST AND PERHAPS ONLY PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BETWEEN KAMALA HARRIS AND DONALD TRUMP, WHICH HAPPENS IN THIS VERY ROOM IN JUST OVER 24 HOURS FROM NOW. VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP MEET ON THIS VERY STAGE AND THEIR FIRST EVER FACE TO FACE ENCOUNTER WITH. THE LATEST POLLS SHOWING THE TWO LOCKED IN A VIRTUAL DEAD HEAT. HARRIS ARRIVED IN PHILADELPHIA A SHORT TIME AGO AS SHE LOOKS TO MAKE HER DEBUT ON THE PRESIDENTIAL STAGE. FOR TRUMP, IT WILL BE HIS SEVENTH SHOWDOWN. WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE A RARE CHANCE FOR EITHER CANDIDATE TO SHAPE THE NOVEMBER. WITH ALL EYES HERE ON THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER IN PLAYING HOST TO YET ANOTHER MAJOR HISTORIC MOMENT THAT COULD HELP DECIDE THE 2024 ELECTION. IN SOME STATES LIKE NORTH CAROLINA ALREADY SEND ABSENTEE BALLOTS TO VOTERS. WE'RE BRINGING YOU LIVE TEAM COVERAGE AHEAD OF THE HIGH STAKES DEBATE. AND BEFORE WE GIVE YOU A GLIMPSE OF THE DEBATES STAGE, WE KICK THINGS OFF WITH OUR CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, MARY BRUCE HERE. >> PHILADELPHIA TONIGHT WITH JUST 24 HOURS TO GO UNTIL THEIR HIGHLY ANTICIPATED SHOWDOWN, VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS SETTING OFF FOR PHILADELPHIA, WHERE TOMORROW THE FIRST TIME SHE WILL COME FACE TO FACE WITH FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. >> HOW ARE YOU FEELING? HOW ARE YOU DOING? IN A NEW RADIO INTERVIEW, HARRIS SAYS SHE'S READY FOR WHATEVER TRUMP THROWS HER WAY. >> THERE'S NO FLOOR FOR HIM IN TERMS OF HOW LONG HE WILL GO. AND WE SHOULD PREPARED FOR THAT. WE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE FACT THAT HE IS NOT BURDENED BY TELLING TRUTH. >> FOR DAYS NOW, THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN HUNKERED DOWN IN THIS PITTSBURGH INTENSELY PREPARING HER TEAM, EVEN BUILDING A STAGE FULL TV LIGHTING TO HOLD MOCK DEBATES. HARRIS LEANING ON SEVERAL ADVISERS WHO HELPED PREP HILLARY CLINTON FOR HER 2016 DEBATE AGAINST TRUMP, INCLUDING ONE WHO PLAYED THE ROLE OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT IN REHEARSALS. >> BUT HARRIS ALSO TAKING BREAKS TO GET OUT IN THIS CRITICAL STATE IN A PITTSBURGH SPACE SHOP, GREETING ONE VOTER WHO IS IN TEARS. I FEEL AN INCREDIBLE STING. >> YOU KNOW, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE GOOD. >> WE'RE GOING TO BE FINE. >> HARRIS PERHAPS PREVIEWING HER MESSAGE FOR THE DEBATE. LOOK, IT'S TIME TO TURN THE PAGE ON THE DIVISIVENESS. IT'S TIME TO BRING OUR COUNTRY TOGETHER TO CHART A NEW WAY FORWARD. >> WHILE HARRIS HAS BEEN LARGELY OFF THE TRAIL SINCE THURSDAY, TRUMP OVER THE WEEKEND HOLDING A RALLY IN BATTLEGROUND WISCONSIN. >> SHE WILL BE THE WORST PRESIDENT. AND TRUMP IS NEVER WRONG. I AM NEVER EVER WRONG. >> THE FORMER PRESIDENT TRYING TO SET EXPECTATIONS. IS ANYBODY GOING TO BE WATCHING AND SPIN THE DEBATE BEFORE IT EVEN HAPPENS? YOU KNOW, IF I DESTROY HER IN THE DEBATE, I'LL SAY. TRUMP SUFFERED A HUMILIATING DEFEAT, AND I, NO MATTER WHAT. >> MARY BRUCE JOINS US NOW. MARY I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN TALKING TO YOUR SOURCES IN THE HARRIS CAMPAIGN. WHAT'S HER STRATEGY HEADING INTO THIS DEBATE? WELL, LINSEY HARRIS IS CERTAINLY AN EXPERIENCED DEBATER, BUT HER CAMPAIGN IS QUICK TO NOTE THAT THIS IS FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT. TOMORROW WILL BE TRUMP'S SEVENTH PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE WILL BE KAMALA HARRIS IS FIRST. AND HER GOAL HERE TOMORROW NIGHT IS TO REALLY HIGHLIGHT HER POSITIONS ON THE ISSUES AND THEN PIVOT TO PUT THE SPOTLIGHT FIRMLY ON TRUMP, TO REMIND VOTERS OF HIS RECORD TO COUNTER WHAT THE CAMPAIGN DESCRIBES AS TRUMP AMNESIA AMONG VOTERS. AND YES, SHE WILL CERTAINLY TRY TO GET UNDER DONALD TRUMP'S. THE CHALLENGE LINSEY IS FOR HER TO BEAT HIM WITHOUT BEING BAITED. WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS IN JUST ABOUT 24 HOURS FROM NOW. MARY BRUCE, THANKS SO MUCH. NOW, THE ABC'S SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL RACHEL SCOTT ALSO IN PHILADELPHIA TONIGHT. >> AND RACHEL, PRESIDENT TRUMP ALWAYS SAYS THAT HE'S NOT ONE FOR FORMAL DEBATE PREP, BUT YOUR SOURCES HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU THAT HE IS PREPARING. YES LINSEY CERTAINLY NOT DOING ANY OF THOSE MOCK DEBATES THAT VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS IS. BUT I'M TOLD THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS TAKING THIS VERY SERIOUSLY HE KNOWS HOW CONSEQUENTIAL THIS DEBATE, THIS MOMENT COULD BE. I'M TOLD THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAS HELD NEARLY HALF A DOZEN POLICY INFORMAL SESSIONS, HIS ADVISERS, INCLUDING WITH FORMER CONGRESSWOMAN TULSI GABBARD. BUT WE ALL REMEMBER CHALLENGE HARRIS ON THE DEBATE STAGE BACK IN 2019. ALSO INVOLVED HIS DEBATE PREP. IT'S CONGRESSMAN MATT GAETZ. NOW, WE ARE TOLD THAT GATES IS FIRING OFF QUESTIONS AT HIM ON SOME OF THE TOUGHER ISSUES, LIKE HIS STANCE ON ABORTION. ALSO, HIS LEGAL TROUBLES. SOURCES ALSO TELL ME THAT TRUMP HAS BEEN BRIEFED ON HARRIS' PAST DEBATES, AND THAT INCLUDES THE DEBATE WITH TRUMP'S OWN FORMER VICE MIKE PENCE. THERE WAS THAT NOTABLE EXCHANGE ON THE DEBATE STAGE. PENCE TRIED TO INTERRUPT. HARRIS AND HARRIS SHUT HIM DOWN, SAYING, I'M SPEAKING. TRUMP PRIVATELY TOLD ALLIES HE WON'T LET THAT HAPPEN TO HIM TOMORROW NIGHT. LINSEY ALL RIGHT, RACHEL SCOTT, OUR THANKS TO YOU, AS ALWAYS. POLLING HAS CONSISTENT SINCE THE START OF THE YEAR WITH TWO MAJOR ISSUES STANDING ABOVE THE REST, VOTERS NATIONWIDE, IMMIGRATION AND THE ECONOMY. WE'LL GET TO THE IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS. BUT FIRST, IT'S THE ISSUE OF IMMIGRATION AND THE BORDER CONTINUES TO GARNER THE ATTENTION OF BOTH CANDIDATES ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. ABC'S MIREYA VILLARREAL HAS MORE FOR US FROM TEXAS. MARIA, WHAT IS THE STATE OF IMMIGRATION IN THE BORDER AS THE CANDIDATES PREPARE TO HIT THE DEBATE STAGE NIGHT? >> WELL, YOU KNOW, LINSEY, THAT IS A REALLY GREAT ESPECIALLY LEADING UP TO THE DEBATE. AS OF RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE CONTINUED TO HEAR FORMER PRESIDENT TALK A LOT ABOUT IMMIGRATION. HE TALKS A LOT ABOUT THE FLOW OF MIGRANTS INTO THE UNITED STATES AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, HE TALKS ABOUT WHERE ARE COMING FROM. WE'VE HEARD PRISONS WITH WE ALSO HEARD MENTAL INSTITUTE ACTIONS. WE'VE ALSO HEARD HIM TALK A LOT ABOUT MISSING CHILDREN AND THEY'VE GOTTEN LOST IN THE COURT SYSTEM AND HOW THEY ARE MORE LIKELY DEAD OR THEY ARE THEY HAVE BEEN TRAFFICKED OR THEY ARE A PART OF SOME SORT OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. LET'S BE VERY CLEAR WHEN HE SAYS THESE THINGS THEY ARE NOT STATEMENTS OF FACT. THEY ARE NOT BACKED UP BY REPORTS OR STATISTICS. A LOT OF THIS IS, AGAIN AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE, IT'S REALLY RILE UP A PARTICULAR OF VOTERS AND GET THEM TO COME OUT TO THE POLLS AND VOTE OUT FEAR OF WHAT MAY BE HAPPENING IN THEIR BACKYARDS. BUT AS OF RIGHT NOW, WE DO KNOW THAT ENCOUNTERS HAVE CONTINUED TO DECREASE OVER THE LAST THREE MONTHS. RIGHT AFTER WE SAW PRESIDENT BIDEN PUT THAT EXECUTIVE ORDER INTO PLACE, BASICALLY SHUTTING DOWN THE BORDER BETWEEN PORTS OF ENTRY. AND SINCE THEN, WE'VE ALSO SEEN SOME NEW ASYLUM RESTRICTIONS BEING PUT IN PLACE THAT GET ALL OF THIS LEADING TO A DECREASE. HARRIS HIS CAMP HAS CONTINUED TO SAY THAT HER WORK ROOT CAUSES OF MIGRATION IS THE REASON FOR A LOT OF THIS, OR AT LEAST PART OF THE REASON. OBVIOUSLY, WE DON'T HAVE A WHOLE OF STATISTICS ON THAT. AND IN FACT, CRITICS HAVE SAID IF THIS WAS WHERE THE ADMINISTRATION WAS GOING TO GO, WHY DIDN'T WE DO THIS SOONER? HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ALL OF THIS DECREASE, ALL OF THIS SUCCESS NOW ON THE IMMIGRATION LEVEL IS NOW COMING JUST A FEW MONTHS AWAY FROM THE ELECTION? >> MARIA, OUR THANKS TO YOU AS ALWAYS. IT'S ALL ABOUT THE ECONOMY. IT'S BEEN A COMMON REFRAIN WHEN DISCUSSING ELECTIONS GOING BACK DECADES. AND THIS NOVEMBER, AS VOTERS FEEL SQUEEZED BY INFLATION AND STAGNANT WAGES, THAT REFRAIN IS EXPECTED TO RING TRUE FOR YET ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SEASON. FOR MORE ON ALL THINGS ECONOMY, WE'RE JOINED BY ABC'S ELIZABETH KELSEY FROM WASHINGTON. ELIZABETH, GIVE US A LAY OF THE LAND ON WHERE ECONOMY IS NOW AS THE CANDIDATES FIND THEMSELVES IN CRUNCH MODE. JUST BEFORE THE DEBATE, LINSEY AND THIS REALLY IS A PIVOTAL MOMENT FOR AMERICAN ECONOMY, WHICH WE KNOW IS THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE FOR SO MANY VOTERS. THE KEY QUESTION NOW IS IF THE U.S. CAN ACHIEVE THAT COVETED SO-CALLED SOFT LANDING IN OTHER WORDS, CAN THE ECONOMY SUCCESSFULLY NAVIGATE INTO A TIME OF, LOWER INFLATION, LOWER PRICES THAT YOU PAY EVERYDAY FOR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES WITHOUT CRASHING INTO A RECESSION? AND THERE ARE SOME PROMISING SIGNS HERE. INFLATION PEAKED AT 9% BACK IN JUNE 2022. NOW IT'S HOVERING AT JUST UNDER 3%. >> THAT MEANS THE PRICES THERE ARE STILL GOING UP, BUT THEY'RE NOT GOING UP BY NEARLY AS MUCH. AND ANOTHER GOOD SIGN, AMERICANS WAGES ON AVERAGE HAVE NOW BEEN INCREASING FASTER THAN INFLATION FOR MORE THAN A YEAR. SO THOSE HIGHER PAYCHECKS, THEY CAN HELP ABSORB SOME OF THAT STICKER SHOCK THAT YOU WOULD FEEL LIKE AT THE GROCERY STORE. THIS HELP EXPLAIN WHY SOME COMPANIES LIKE WAL-MART, WHICH IS REALLY CONSIDERED A BELLWETHER OF CONSUMER SPENDING IN THE ECONOMY, THEY ARE OPTIMISTIC. NOW. THEY SAY THAT SHOPPERS ARE TRYING TO HUNT DOWN A GOOD DEAL, BUT THEY ARE STILL SPENDING AT A PRETTY SOLID PACE LINSEY. >> AND WHAT ARE SOME OF THE WARNING SIGNS IN THE ECONOMY RIGHT NOW? >> SO, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE THINKING ABOUT AMERICAN ECONOMY AS AN AIRPLANE THAT'S TRYING TO LAND IN THAT SWEET SPOT, THERE ARE CLEARLY SOME HEADWINDS. SO ONE OF THEM IS HOUSING, RENT PRICES ARE STUBBORNLY HIGH. WE HAVE SEEN HOME PRICES ACROSS THE U.S. AT RECORD LEVELS AND HIGHER MORTGAGE RATES HAVE MADE BUYING A HOUSE EVEN MORE UNAFFORDABLE. THE OTHER WARNING SIGN REALLY IS THE JOBS MARKET. THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE NOW AT 4.2%. THAT'S STILL A HISTORICALLY LOW NUMBER, BUT YOU CAN SEE THERE ON THAT CHART, IT IS TICKING UP. SO WHAT THAT MEANS, IT IS HARDER TO GET A JOB NOW AND COMPANIES ARE NOT HIRING AS MUCH AS THEY WERE EVEN AT THE START THE YEAR OR A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK. WE HAVE SEEN THIS IN THE STOCK MARKET. INVESTORS ARE WORRIED THAT HIRING COULD START TO SLOW DOWN EVEN MORE DRAMATICALLY. BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT THE S&P 500, THAT'S WHEN YOU SEE IN MOST AMERICANS RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS ARE FOUR ONE CARE ACCOUNTS THAT STILL UP LINSEY AND IMPRESSIVE ABOUT 15% SO FAR THIS YEAR. SO A SILVER LINING WHEN YOU'RE AT LEAST THINKING ABOUT THE STOCK MARKET AND SOME OF THAT NEAR-TERM UNCERTAINTY, TOO. >> SO ELIZABETH, ULTIMATELY HOW MUCH IS THE ECONOMY ABOUT THE NEXT PRESIDENT AND HOW MUCH DOES IT FALL WITH THE FEDERAL RESERVE, WHICH OVERSEES LARGE PARTS OF THE ECONOMY? YOU KNOW, THE NEXT PRESIDENT CERTAINLY WILL SET THE STAGE WHEN IT COMES TO PRIORITIES AND THE AGENDA. BUT WHAT WE HAVE SEEN IS A LOT OF THOSE POLICIES NEED APPROVAL FROM CONGRESS. AND IN A GRIDLOCKED, THE FEDERAL RESERVE HAS TAKEN ON AN OUTSIZED IMPORTANCE IN THE ECONOMY. SO WHAT'S HAPPENED IS THAT THE FEDERAL RESERVE HAS REALLY TAKEN ON THIS FIGHT AGAINST INFLATION, IT'S DONE THAT BY MAKING IT MORE EXPENSIVE TO BORROW MONEY. THAT MEANS HIGHER COSTS. IF YOU'RE TRYING TO PAY OFF CREDIT CARD DEBT, TAKE OUT A MORTGAGE, GET AN AUTO LOAN. THE FED IS EXPECTED TO LOWER THOSE COSTS NEXT WEEK FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FOUR YEARS. THAT WOULD MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT LESS EXPENSIVE TO BORROW MONEY. SO ULTIMATELY, THOUGH, THE PATH THAT THE FED CHOOSES WILL BE CRITICAL FOR THE ECONOMY OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS AND GOING INTO NEXT YEAR. THE PRESIDENT DOES HAVE ONE ROLE IN THAT, THOUGH, LINSEY, THAT THE PRIZE THE NEXT PRESIDENT, REGARDLESS OF WHO IT IS, WILL ULTIMATELY DECIDE WHO SHOULD BE THE LEADER OF THE FED WHEN THE CURRENT FED CHAIR HIS TERM DOES EXPIRE IN 2026. >> LINSEY. ECONOMY TOP OF MIND FOR SO MANY AMERICANS. ELIZABETH SCHULZE. OUR THANKS TO YOU. AND MAKE SURE TO IN TOMORROW NIGHT FOR OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE STARTING AT 7 P.M. EASTERN WHEN WHIT JOHNSON ANCHORS FROM RIGHT HERE IN PHILADELPHIA FOLLOWED BY OUR POLITICAL POWERHOUSE ROUNDTABLE AT 8 P.M.. AND OF COURSE, THAT ALL IMPORTANT DEBATE I'LL BE MODERATING ALONGSIDE DAVID MUIR AT 9 P.M. EASTERN RIGHT HERE ON ABC NEWS LIVE. NOW TO THE URGENT MANHUNT FOR A HIGHWAY SNIPER SUSPECT WHO WOUNDED FIVE PEOPLE IN KENTUCKY. 75 SATURDAY. TODAY, MANY SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED AND PEOPLE URGED TO STAY INSIDE. AND THE ALARMING TEXT AUTHORITIES SAY THE SUSPECT SENT JUST BEFORE HE OPENED FIRE. HERE'S OUR CHIEF JUSTICE, PIERRE THOMAS. >> TONIGHT, THE URGENT FOR THE MAN SUSPECTED OF BEING THE SNIPER WHO FIRED AT DRIVERS ALONG THIS BUSY STRETCH OF HIGHWAY IN KENTUCKY. THE HAVE BEEN SHOT THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD AN HOUR SOUTHEAST OF LEXINGTON SCHOOLS AND NINE DISTRICTS SHUT DOWN AS POLICE SEARCH FOR 32-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH COUCH THOUGHT TO BE HIDING IN THIS THICK, DENSE FOREST. >> THIS IS THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF ACRES. >> IT'S KIND OF LIKE A JUNGLE. COUCH CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS. NOW FACING CHARGES OF ASSAULT AND ATTEMPTED MURDER, ACCORDING TO AN WARRANT. MINUTES BEFORE THE SHOOTINGS, COUCH, A FORMER ARMY RESERVIST, SENT A TEXT TO A WOMAN SAYING HE WAS GOING TO KILL LOT OF PEOPLE. POLICE BELIEVE ON SATURDAY EVENING CARTER WAS IN THE WOODS, FIRING 20 TO 30 SHOTS, HITTING 12 VEHICLES. FIVE PEOPLE WOUNDED BY GUNFIRE. NO FATALITIES, BUT AT LEAST ONE PERSON SHOT IN THE FACE AND ANOTHER IN THE ARM. POLICE SAY THIS IS COUNTY'S VEHICLE RECOVERED NEAR THE ATTACK AND THEY SAY THEY DISCOVERED AN AR-15 STYLE ASSAULT RIFLE. CLOSE IN THE WOODS. AND PIERRE THOMAS JOINS US NOW LIVE HERE. WHAT ELSE ARE AUTHORITIES LEARNING ABOUT THE SUSPECT'S? >> WELL, POLICE SAY HE PURCHASED THAT ASSAULT RIFLE, THE SAME AS THE ATTACK, ALONG WITH MORE THAN 1000 ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION AND WORRY THAT HE MAY HAVE ACCESS TO OTHER WEAPONS AS WELL. >> LINSEY PIERRE THOMAS FOR US, OUR THANKS TO YOU AS ALWAYS. NEXT TONIGHT, A POLICE OFFICER INVOLVED IN THE ARREST OF MIAMI DOLPHINS STAR TYREEK HILL IS NOW ON ADMINISTRATIVE DUTY. HILL PULLED OVER AND PLACED IN HANDCUFFS HOURS BEFORE PLAYING IN THE FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON. THE INCIDENT CAPTURED VIDEO. VICTOR OQUENDO REPORTS IN FROM FLORIDA TONIGHT. WHAT OF THESE FOUR OFFICERS SEEN HANDCUFFING MIAMI DOLPHINS ? TYREEK HILL HAS BEEN PLACED ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE. SEEN FACE FIRST ON THE PAVEMENT, DETAINED JUST A BLOCK FROM THE. POLICE SIGHTING ARGUABLY THE BEST WIDE RECEIVER IN FOOTBALL FOR CARELESS DRIVING AND A SEATBELT VIOLATION ACCORDING TO ESPN. IT HAPPENED HOURS BEFORE THE SEASON OPENER SUNDAY ANOTHER. HE WAS DRIVING THAT BLACK SPORTS WHEN OFFICERS ORDERED HIM TO STEP OUT. >> MOMENTS LATER, ONE OF THE OFFICERS APPEARS TO TAKE HILL TO THE GROUND. THE POLICE DEPARTMENT LAUNCHING AN INVESTIGATION HOURS AGO. THE POLICE UNION THAT REPRESENTS THOSE OFFICERS CLAIMING HILL WAS NOT COOPERATIVE. >> THE NFL'S STAR WAS EVENTUALLY RELEASED. GOING ON TO SCORE THIS ELECTRIC 80 YARD TOUCHDOWN AFTER GAME HILL INSISTED HE WASN'T SPEEDING AND THAT HE DIDN'T SAY OFFENSIVE TO POLICE. >> I'M STILL TRYING TO PUT IT ALL TOGETHER, SO I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE YOU A VERSION. >> I STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. HEAD COACH MIKE MCDANIEL, EMOTIONAL TALKING WITH REPORTERS TODAY. >> IT'S BEEN HARD FOR ME NOT TO FIND MYSELF MORE. AND TONIGHT, TYREEK HILL'S AGENT SAYING IN PART, AT NO POINT, DID HILL POSE A THREAT? AND THEY BELIEVE THIS ESCALATED BECAUSE OF OVERZEALOUS OFFICERS. LINSEY ALL RIGHT, VICTOR, THANK YOU FOR THAT. THREE X POLICE OFFICERS WILL SOON FACE TRIAL FOR THE BRUTAL BEATING OF TYREE NICHOLS IN JANUARY OF LAST YEAR. THE OFFICERS TO DARIUS BEEN DEMETRIUS HALEY AND JUSTIN SMITH HAVE ALL PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO VIOLATING NICHOLS CIVIL RIGHTS. TWO OTHER OFFICERS PLEADED GUILTY. VIDEO OF THE INCIDENT SHOWS FIVE MILES VERSUS BEATING NICHOLS AFTER HE WAS PULLED FROM HIS CAR JUST A BLOCK FROM HIS FAMILY HOME. THREE DAYS LATER, TYREE DIED A TRIAL HAS NOT YET BEEN SET, BUT JURY SELECTION BEGAN TODAY . HOUSE REPUBLICANS HAVE RELEASED A REPORT ON THE 2021 U.S. WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN. THE REPORT ACCUSES THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION OF FAILING TO RESPOND TO WARNINGS FROM MILITARY GENERALS THAT THE SITUATION WOULD DETERIORATE ONCE U.S. TROOPS LEFT. IMAGES SHOCKED THE WORLD AS PEOPLE CLIMBED AND CLUNG ONTO PLANES. 13 SERVICE MEMBERS AND 170 CIVILIANS WERE KILLED IN A SUICIDE BOMBING AT THE ABBEY NEAR THE KABUL AIRPORT DURING THE WITHDRAWAL, THE WHITE HOUSE RESPONDED TO THE REPORT, SAYING THAT THIS IS A PARTISAN EFFORT TO CHERRY PICK THE FACTS AHEAD OF THE ELECTION. TODAY THE JUDGE OVERSEEING TRIAL OF BRIAN KOLBER, THE MAN CHARGED FOR THE FATAL STABBING . FOUR COLLEGE STUDENTS HAS AGREED TO MOVE THE MURDER TRIAL OUT OF THE CITY WHERE CRIMES OCCURRED. THE JUDGE GRANTED THIS MOTION WRITING THAT HIS ATTORNEYS A REASONABLE LIKELIHOOD THAT PREJUDICIAL NEWS COVERAGE WILL COMPROMISE A FAIR TRIAL. THE DEFENSE ALSO ARGUED THAT THERE WAS A MOB MENTALITY WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. THE FAMILY OF ONE OF THE VICTIMS SAID THAT THEY ARE INCREDIBLY DISAPPOINTED THAT THE TRIAL WILL BE NOW TO DANGEROUS WEATHER ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 67 MAJOR WILDFIRES ARE BURNING IN THE WEST. THE BRIDGE FIRE IN ANGELES COUNTY SENT FIREFIGHTERS RUNNING FROM THE FLAMES AND THE LINE FIRE EAST OF L.A. SO EXPLOSIVE IS CREATING ITS OWN WEATHER. IN THE GULF, TROPICAL STORM FRANCINE IS STRENGTHENING MANDATORY. EVACUATIONS ARE ALREADY IN PLACE. GINGER ZEE TIMES THAT STORM FOR US IN A MOMENT. BUT FIRST, MOLA LENGHI REPORTS FROM THE FIRE LINES. >> TONIGHT, NEW EVACUATION ORDERS EAST OF LOS AS THE LINE FIRE BURNS OUT OF CONTROL IN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, THREATENING SOME 36,000 HOMES, BUSINESSES AND, BUILDINGS. MORE THAN 12,000 PEOPLE HAD ALREADY BEEN ORDERED TO FLEE. THOUSANDS TOLD TO BE READY HERE IN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY AS THE FIRE CONTINUES TO. >> YOU SEE THE MASSIVE PLUMES OF SMOKE BILLOWING IN THE AIR. >> GOVERNOR NEWSOM DECLARING THAT STATE OF EMERGENCY IS, THE FIRE EXPLODED IN SIZE. TRIPLE DIGIT TEMPERATURES ADDING FUEL TO THE FIRE, CREATING PYRO. >> CUMULUS CLOUDS AND LIGHTNING STRIKES THAT COULD START NEW FIRES WHEN. THE THUNDERSTORMS ROLL THROUGH. THEY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BLOW THE FIRE OUT IN MULTIPLE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. >> SO WE JUST HAVE TO BE READY FOR THAT. IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, THE BRIDGE FIRE BREAKING OUT SUNDAY. FIREFIGHTERS FORCED TO RETREAT FROM THE FLAMES. AND IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, AN ALL OUT AERIAL ASSAULT ON THE BOYLES FIRE AND CLEAR, BUT NOT BEFORE IT DESTROYED 30 HOMES AND DOZENS OF PEOPLE. >> WELL, LINSEY, YOU CAN SEE HOW THE HEAT FROM THE FIRE MELTED, THE FENCE LINE THERE BEHIND ME, THE FIRE JUST 3% CONTAINED TONIGHT. THAT LINE FIRE. EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT AND FIREFIGHTERS ARE REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT DRY LIGHTNING THUNDERSTORMS GOING INTO TONIGHT, LINSEY. >> A LOT OF CONCERNS, MOLA LENGHI, OUR THANKS TO YOU. AND NOW TO TROPICAL STORM FRANCINE. THE SATELLITE IMAGES TAKING SHAPE, LIKELY A HURRICANE TOMORROW HEADING FOR LANDFALL ON WEDNESDAY. HURRICANE AND STORM SURGE WARNINGS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ISSUED. ABC METEOROLOGIST GINGER ZEE HAS THE TIMING AND THE TRACK FOR US. HEY, GINGER LINSEY FROM SABINE PASS TO MORGAN CITY, LOUISIANA. WE'VE GOT A HURRICANE WARNING ALREADY. SO IT'S A TROPICAL STORM AT THIS MOMENT, BUT WE WILL SEE LIKELY A HURRICANE LATE TONIGHT OR EARLY TOMORROW. SO FRANCINE THEN INTENSIFY EVEN MORE AND I WANT TO TIME IT ALL OUT FOR YOU BECAUSE WE'VE GOT BATON ROUGE AND NEW ORLEANS IN TROPICAL STORM WATCH. LAFAYETTE IN A HURRICANE. AND LOOK AT THAT CONE. REMEMBER, THE CONE IS WHERE THE TRACK CAN GO. SO IF IT GOES ON THE WESTERN SIDE, YOU GET MORE IMPACTS AND TEXAS GOES ON THE EASTERN SIDE. NEW ORLEANS GETS A HEFTIER HIT. BUT AT THIS MOMENT, IT'S RIGHT ABOUT CAMERON LOUISIANA. SO THAT DIRTY SIDE OF THE STORM REALLY IMPACTS MORGAN CITY PROBABLY THE MOST. BUT AGAIN, WE'RE A COUPLE OF DAYS OUT HERE ABOUT, YOU KNOW, JUST LESS THAN 48. WHAT I WANTED TO DO IS TIME IT OUT AND TALK ABOUT, NUMBER ONE, STORM SURGE. LOOK AT HOW THE OUTER BANDS ARE REACHING TUESDAY NIGHT. SO SOME OF THE IMPACTS AND DETERIORATION WILL GO QUICKLY. SO GET EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO PREPARE DONE NOW BECAUSE BY WEDNESDAY MORNING, IT'S JUST TOO LATE. 6 A.M. THERE YOU CAN SEE FROM CAMERON OVER TO MORGAN CITY, THE HEAVIEST RAIN IS ABOUT TO MOVE ONSHORE. THE STORM SURGE COULD BE 5 TO 10 FEET. A LOT OF THESE PLACES SO LOW LYING. WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT THAT. IN LOUISIANA, THEY TAKE ON WATER. WELL BECAUSE THEY DO IT REGULARLY. BUT WITH A TEN FEET OF EXTRA SURGE, IT'S A PROBLEM. THEN BY 1 P.M., BATON ROUGE STARTS TO TOUCH ON THAT. NEW ORLEANS GETS THOSE BANDS AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE WHIPPING WINDS EASILY UP TO 75 MILE PER HOUR GUSTS. WE WILL THEN MOVE THIS THING ALL THE WAY UP INTO ARKANSAS, TENNESSEE AND INLAND FLOODING COULD BE A PROBLEM. THAT'S WHY THEY'VE SIGNIFICANT FLASH FLOOD RISK THAT GOES UP TO JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI. LINSEY. ALL RIGHT, GINGER, WE KNOW YOU'LL BE MONITORING IT FOR US. NOW TO THE SAD NEWS THAT CAME IN LATE TODAY, THE PASSING OF LEGENDARY ACTOR JAMES EARL JONES. TONIGHT, WE REMEMBER HIS LONG AND DISTINGUISHED CAREER AND, OF COURSE, THAT UNFORGETTABLE VOICE. HERE'S ABC STEVE OSUNSAMI JAMES EARL HAD A WAY ABOUT HIM AS AN ACTOR AND AS A PERFORMER THAT WAS TRULY GALACTIC. >> HE'S PERHAPS BEST KNOWN FOR LENDING HIS VOICE TO ONE OF THE GREATEST VILLAINS IN THE HISTORY OF CINEMA. >> I AM A FATHER. IT WAS JONES WHO MADE THE CHARACTER OF DARTH VADER, THE STAR WARS FILMS DELIGHTFULLY MENACING. I AM ALTERING THE DEAL TO CREATE A ROLE FOR AND ANY FURTHER, BUT JONES HAD A SUCCESSFUL CAREER THAT STRETCHED DECADES EARLIER, AND IT WAS ONE OF THOSE RARE ARTISTS WHO'VE WON AN EMMY, GRAMMY, OSCAR AND TONY NOD AND GIVE YOU EVERYTHING I HAD TO GIVE YOU. I YOU YOUR LIFE. >> ONE OF HIS TONY AWARDS WAS FIRST BROADWAY PERFORMANCE IN THE PLAY FENCES, A STORY ABOUT A BLACK WORKING CLASS FATHER STRUGGLING PROVIDE FOR HIS FAMILY IN 1950S AMERICA. HE TOLD US 2014 HOW HE PREPARES WHEN HE TAKES THE STAGE. WE YEAH. WE YELL AT THE SEATS. YELL AT THE EMPTY SEATS. YEAH. YEAH. IN COMING TO AMERICA, A COMEDY THAT BECAME A CULTURAL MOMENT. >> JONES WAS THE KING OF ZAMUNDA. LET THEM WAIT. >> I'M TALKING TO MY SON. AND IN DISNEY'S LION KING. HE WAS THE KING OF THE JUNGLE. >> JAMES EARL JONES WAS BORN IN MISSISSIPPI AND OVERCAME A STUTTER AS A CHILD. HE WOULD GO ON IN MOVIES LIKE FIELD OF DREAMS TO DELIVER SOME OF THE MOST ICONIC LINES IN STORYTELLING. >> OH, PEOPLE WILL COME. REAL PEOPLE WILL MOST DEFINITELY COME. >> OUR THANKS TO STEVE OSUNSAMI FOR THAT. AND JOINING US NOW IS ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR MIKE MEWES. MIKE, THOUGH, OF COURSE, JONES ACTED IN MANY MOVIES, I THINK I READ TODAY IT WAS SOMETHING LIKE 200. IT WAS, OF COURSE, THE VOICE OF DARTH VADER. IT WAS HIS THEATER ROLES THAT MADE HIM TRULY UNFORGETTABLE. WHY DO YOU THINK THAT? >> I CAN'T HELP BUT SMILE AS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THAT. AND WE SAW IS A GREAT PACKAGE OF A LIFE WELL LED. FOR ME, THIS IS A OF LIFE. WHAT YOU SAW IN THAT PACKAGE WAS AN INCREDIBLE RANGE OF ACTING AND ACTING. THE FACT THAT I WAS REMEMBERING HOW HE DID THE ROLE IN FENCES AND AUGUST WILSON PLAY THAT AUGUST PLAYS ARE SO ICONIC AND AMERICAN OF LITERATURE, THE CANON OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. IT IS SO VERBOSE AND SO TO THINK THAT A MAN WHO HAD A STUTTERING PROBLEM AS A CHILD COULD GO ON TO CONQUER AUGUST WILSON AND TO NAIL AND TO MAKE IT AS MEMORABLE, AND THEN TO ALSO TO DO SHAKESPEARE WITH OTELLO AND MACBETH. ANOTHER WRITER THAT IS VERBOSE AND STRONG IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. TO MASTER THAT AND TO BRING IT TO THE STAGE. THERE'S NOTHING. LINSEY, YOU AND I BOTH KNOW THIS OF EXPERIENCING BROADWAY EXPERIENCING LIVE ACTING ON THE STAGE. THERE IS AN ENERGY THAT HAPPENS BETWEEN THE AUDIENCE IN THE STAGE AND SOMEONE THAT HAD COMMANDING PRESENCE OF A LION. MUSTAFA IN FRONT OF YOU WITH, THAT STRONG VOICE THAT JUST RESONATES. THAT IS WHERE THE ENERGY IS AND THAT'S WHERE THE TRANSFER IS OF JUST PURE GENIUS AND JUST A PURE. >> AND YOU'RE RIGHT, OF COURSE, HE WAS A MASTER, WHETHER WAS ON STAGE IN THE MOVIES, IN COMMERCIALS. AND YOU MENTIONED THIS EARLIER ,THE JONES WAS A STUTTERER THROUGHOUT MOST OF HIS CHILDHOOD. HOW DOES HIS OVERCOME TIMING OF THAT? IT HELPED TO SHAPE AND HELP HIS CAREER, REALLY. I WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE IDEA OF AN ACTOR AND THEN WHEN I SAY THIS, I'M GOING TO USE THE WORD THESPIAN WHEN IT COMES TO JAMES EARL JONES. IT IS. YOU HAVE TO COMMAND LANGUAGE. YOU HAVE TO MEMORIZE YOUR WORDS, BUT THEN YOU HAVE TO YOUR OWN TWIST INTO IT. AND SO TO USE LITERATURE, LIKE POETRY THAT HE USED OR TO OVERCOME THAT HE WAS ALWAYS JUST EMBEDDED THE ENGLISH CANON INTO HIS CONSTITUTION OF LANGUAGE. SO HE CAN BE VERBOSE AND TO COMMANDED. I WAS WATCHING A CLIP, HIM DOING SESAME STREET. HE WAS THE FIRST CELEBRITY ON SESAME STREET AND WAY HE ENUNCIATED EACH LETTER SLOWLY AND WITH EMPHASIS AND THE WAY THAT WHEN HE SAID THAT LETTER I HE WENT THE CHILDREN ON TELEVISION. HE JUST INSTINCTIVELY KNEW HOW TO CONNECT WORDS AND LETTERS TO HUMAN EMOTIONS. AND THAT IS RARE FOR A THESPIAN TO DO. AND THAT'S WHAT GIVES HIM THE TITLE OF THESPIAN. >> AND YOU'RE RIGHT, WE SHOULD ONLY REALLY REFER TO HIM AS THAT. A THESPIAN. GIVE ME ONE SENTENCE OF. HOW YOU THINK THAT HIS HE WILL BE REMEMBERED, HIS LEGACY. HE WILL REMEMBER HIS RANGE OF ACTING ABILITY AND TO SHOW GENERATIONS ACTORS THAT COME DON'T LIMIT YOURSELF AND YOUR ABILITY AND THEN DO THAT TRANSFER PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND I OVER PEOPLE WHO HAD CAREERS OUTSIDE OF ACTING NOT TO LIMIT YOURSELF. YOU CAN SHOOT FOR THE MOON AND, FOR THE SKIES, LITERALLY. >> THAT'S WHAT JAMES EARL JONES HAS TAUGHT US. A REALLY GOOD MESSAGE FOR US ALL. MIKE NEWS, OUR THANKS TO YOU AS ALWAYS. >> SO MUCH MORE TO GET TO HERE ON PRIME TONIGHT, INCLUDING A COMMUNITY IN MOURNING. A TEARFUL FAREWELL TODAY. TWO BROTHERS, JOHN AND MATTHEW GAUDREAU DAYS AFTER THEY WERE STRUCK AND KILLED A SUSPECTED DRUNK DRIVER. BUT NEXT, THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE THAT NO ONE COULD HAVE PREDICTED. AS WE HURTLE TOWARD ELECTION DAY AND A ROLLER COASTER OF A YEAR, A LOOK BACK AT THIS HISTORIC POLITICAL SUMMER ALL LEADING TO THE DEBATE STAGE . THIS IS "IMPACT X NIGHTLINE". ARE YOU KIDDING ME? MY SENSE WAS THAT EVERYBODY AROUND HIM WAS AFRAID OF HOW BRITTANY DESCRIBES HAVING A SECRET ABORTION THAT NOT EVEN HER FAMILY KNEW ABOUT. WHAT'S GOING ON WITH FAITH? WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HARRY AND WILLIAM TODAY? >> WHAT DO PEOPLE START TO SAY? YOU LOOK GREAT. ARE YOU ON 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, HARSH PUNISHMENT. NO, IT'S ABUSE. I THINK SCOTT PETERSON MURDERED HIS WIFE AND HIS CHILD OVER. DO YOU FEEL THAT CHURCH ACCEPTED ABUSE? THAT'S HIM. >> YEP. READY? DOES YOUR CHURCH PROTECT. HOW DO YOU TOP THE MOST WATCHED SEASON YET? FABULOUS IT'S A BIT, BUT EXOTIC. YOU HAVE NO IDEA. "IMPACT X NIGHTLINE" ALL NEW SEASON PREMIERES THIS 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 TODAY? TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE WORRIES ON WALL STREET. FAST STRAIGHT FORWARD 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 CITIES. THAT'S SPIRIT. AMERICAN. THIS MORNING, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA? WE ARE PART OF AN OPERATION. OUR COMBAT OPERATIONS. WE'RE APPROACHING THE GATE. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, SUNK THEIR REACTOR. SO YOU HAD A COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG, YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT MADE THE USA. >> GREAT WORK. HI, ISMAIL. >> DAVID, I'M DAVID. YOU ARE. YOU ARE YOU DO YOU EVERY NIGHT. >> ABC'S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR IS AMERICA'S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST. >> IF YOU WERE COMING OF AGE IN THE 1980S, THE BRAT WAS NEAR THE CENTER OF YOUR CULTURAL AWARENESS. BUT FOR THOSE OF US EXPERIENCING IT FROM THE INSIDE, THE BRAT PACK IS VERY DIFFERENT. THE CRITICS AGREE AND AIDED THE BRAT PACK. WHAT DISASTER? >> WHY DID HE TAKE IT AS AN OFFENSE AND? NOW, LIKE I SAY, WE'RE BEETLES. WELL, WE DIDN'T SELL SHEA STADIUM 1985. >> I THINK WE COULD HAVE CUT TOMORROW NIGHT. THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL MOMENT OF THIS CAMPAIGN, KAMALA HARRIS ,KATHIR. WE WILL CHART A NEW WAY FORWARD . DONALD TRUMP. WE WILL SOON BE A GREAT NATION AGAIN. FACE TO FACE. HISTORIC. THE ABC NEWS PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE MODERATED BY MUIR AND LINSEY DAVIS TOMORROW NIGHT LIVE ON ABC STREAMING ON ABC NEWS LIVE, HULU AND DISNEY PLUS THE ABC NEWS PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. TWO MONTHS AGO, THIS RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE CERTAINLY LOOKED A LOT DIFFERENT THAN IT DOES NOW, BUT AFTER CHAOTIC SUMMER UNFOLDED BEFORE OUR EYES, THE RACE HAS CHANGED AND BROUGHT IT HISTORIC MOMENTS SURE TO BE DISCUSSED FOR GENERATIONS TO COME. SO HOW EXACTLY DID WE GET HERE? OUR JAY O'BRIEN TAKES A LOOK BACK AS WE MOVE FORWARD IN AN ELECTION TURNED ON A DIME MORE THAN ONCE. >> THIS IS A PIVOTAL. >> IT'S THIS MOMENT, THE TRUMP BIDEN REMATCH THAT LITERALLY REWROTE THE STORY OF THIS CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN, 80 ONE YEARS OLD AND SUFFERING FROM A COLD HIS TEAM SAYS STRUGGLES TO ANSWER CERTAIN QUESTIONS, THEIR FIRST AND ONLY DEBATE. >> LOOK, IF WE FINALLY BEAT MEDICARE, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP POUNCES. I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT HE SAID AT THE END OF THAT SENTENCE. >> AND THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE WAS NEVER THE SAME. >> NOW, HURTLING TOWARD ELECTION DAY, I THINK. >> AWESOME. I THINK SHE'S EXCITING. HARRIS HAS BEEN THERE FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS AND IT'S ONLY GOTTEN WORSE. I JUST WANT US TO BE HAPPY OUT HERE LIVE LIFE. >> WE WANTED TO LOOK BACK ON THIS UNPRECEDENTED RACE THE FORMER PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, FOUND ON ALL 34 COUNTS. >> BREAKING NEWS RIGHT NOW. WE'RE GETTING WORD THAT FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DURING A RALLY IN PENNSYLVANIA NEW PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS JUST ANNOUNCED THAT HE IS ENDING HIS REELECTION BID. AND THIS SUMMER THAT CHANGED IT ALL BACK IN LATE JUNE AFTER THAT DEBATE. THE FALLOUT IS SWIFT. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY DIVIDED OVER PRESIDENT BIDEN'S ABILITY TO WIN A SECOND TIME. TO JOE BIDEN HAVE A BAD NIGHT, IN MY OPINION. YES, HE ABSOLUTELY DID. DO YOU THINK, JOE PERFORMED WELL LAST NIGHT? BEAUTIFUL DAY. DO YOU THINK JOE BIDEN SHOULD BE THE DEMOCRATIC MA'AM? DEMOCRATS START CALLING ON BIDEN TO. >> STEP ASIDE WITH THE GREATEST RESPECT. I DON'T THINK HE'S UP FOR. BIDEN TRIES TO STICK IT OUT. WHEN YOU GET KNOCKED DOWN, GET BACK OUT. >> TELLING OUR GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS WITH THE FRIENDS OF THE LORD ALMIGHTY COMES OUT AND TELLS ME THAT I MIGHT DO THAT. >> BUT AS THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION NEARS, THE PRESIDENT FACES INCREASED PRESSURE FROM HIGH PROFILE MEMBERS OF HIS PARTY. >> IT'S UP TO THE PRESIDENT DECIDE IF HE IS GOING TO RUN. >> THEN, AS BIDEN TRIES TO FEND OFF THAT PRESSURE, FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD HOLDS A RALLY IN BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA. TRUMP IS WOUNDED IN EAR. TWO OTHER RALLY GOERS ARE ALSO HIT. AND ONE MAN, FIREFIGHTER COREY COMPERATORE, IS KILLED. >> THEN IN JUST OVER A WEEK, THE RACE STARTS TO CHANGE QUICKLY. JULY 13TH, THE SAME DAY AS THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER PRIVATELY MEETS WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN, EXPRESSING CONCERNS IF HE CAN WIN. THE RNC STARTS DAYS LATER, JULY 15TH. TRUMP MAKES HIS TRIUMPHANT RETURN. A BANDAGE ON HIS EAR. BIDEN IS STILL ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, BUT TWO DAYS LATER, ON JULY 17TH, HE PAUSES HIS CAMPAIGN AFTER TESTING POSITIVE FOR COVID. THEN TRUMP FORMALLY THE GOP NOMINATION AND RETURNS TO HOLDING RALLIES. AND THREE DAYS LATER, ON JULY 21ST, PRESIDENT, STILL ISOLATING FROM COVID, RELEASES A LETTER SAYING HE'S DROPPING OUT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE. BEEN THE HONOR OF MY LIFE TO SERVE AS YOUR PRESIDENT. >> HARRIS SCRAMBLES TO MOUNT A PRESIDENTIAL BID. SHE RALLIES TOP DEMOCRATS TO HER SIDE AND BECOMES THE PRESUMPTIVE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE IN JUST DAYS . THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN AND SOUTH ASIAN CANDIDATE TO LEAD MAJOR PARTY TICKET. PROFESSOR MATTHEW DALLEK TEACHES HISTORY POLITICS AT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND SEES PARALLELS BETWEEN THIS ELECTION AND OTHER CHAOTIC PERIODS IN AMERICAN. I WOULD DESCRIBE THE SUMMER OF 2024 AS ON PAR WITH SOME OF THESE REALLY EXTENDED MOMENTS. RIGHT. BUT SAYS THIS COUNTRY HAS SEEN EVEN MORE TUMULTUOUS TIMES. >> 19 68, ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING. MORE 100 CITIES BURNED. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, LARGE SCALE UPRISINGS, RIOTS IN MAJOR AMERICAN CITIES. THE MURDER OF ROBERT KENNEDY, LYNDON JOHNSON FROM THE RACE, 68. ABSOLUTELY FELT LIKE THE COUNTRY, I THINK FOR A LOT OF AMERICANS, COUNTRY COMING APART. >> IS IT STRANGE FOR YOU THAT THIS WAS A RACE THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HISTORIC BECAUSE ONE OF THE CANDIDATES HAD BEEN INDICTED FOR TIMES AND CONVICTED ONCE, AND THAT ISN'T EVEN CONSIDERED BE ONE OF THE MOST HISTORIC EVENTS OF THIS RACE NOW. >> WELL, WHAT'S CRAZY IS THAT NO ONE IS REALLY TALKING ANYMORE ABOUT A CONVICTED FELON RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. I MEAN, PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT A LITTLE BIT, BUT IT'S SORT OF FALLEN AWAY. >> DO YOU TELL STUDENTS THAT THEY ARE LIVING THROUGH A HISTORIC PERIOD OF TIME? I THINK THEY PROBABLY KNOW IT. WE TO TEST THAT. RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU ARE TO VOTE THIS YEAR AND FOUND FOUR GW STUDENTS, THREE ARE VOTING IN A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FOR THE FIRST TIME. >> WHAT WAS A MOMENT WHERE YOU JUMPED AND WENT, OH MY GOSH ,THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT WAS OBVIOUSLY SHOCKING, BUT I THINK THE MOMENT THAT STICKS OUT IS JOE BIDEN DROPPING OUT OF THE RACE AND RALLYING BEHIND KAMALA HARRIS THAT WE SAW I THINK WAS INCREDIBLY SURPRISED AND EXCITING. >> BUT RATHER THAN PROMOTING THAT NATIONAL HE PROMISED IN THE DAYS AFTER THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, I I'M ENTITLED TO PERSONAL ATTACKS. >> TRUMP QUICKLY RETURNING TO OLD HABITS ATTACKING HIS NEW RIVAL, TELLING ABC'S RACHEL SCOTT, I DIDN'T KNOW SHE WAS BLACK UNTIL A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO WHEN SHE TO TURN BLACK AND NOW SHE WANTS TO BE KNOWN AS BLACK. >> WHAT'S TOP ISSUE? THE TOP ISSUE IS THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY, CLIMATE JUSTICE, ABORTION RIGHTS AND, ISRAEL-PALESTINE. I THINK I WANT TO SEE THE GOVERNMENT IN OUR COMMUNITIES INVESTING IN GREEN JOBS AND HOUSING AFFORDABILITY AND OUT OUR INTIMATE HEALTH CARE DECISIONS, WHETHER THAT BE REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS OR GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE. I THINK CLIMATE CHANGE IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE ADDRESSED RATHER THAN LATER. >> FOR THEIR PARENTS GENERATION, ANOTHER KEY ISSUE THE ECONOMY. >> BOTH CAMPAIGNS ALSO BATTLING OVER KEY DEMOGRAPHICS LIKE BLACK VOTERS, SUBURBAN WOMEN AND, RUST BELT VOTERS. >> DEMOCRATS HOPING HARRIS' NEW RUNNING MATE MINNESOTA GOVERNOR TIM WALZ CAN GIVE THEM AN EDGE THERE. I KNOW GUNS. I'M A VETERAN. I'M A HUNTER. AND I WAS A BETTER SHOT THAN MOST REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS. >> AND I GOT THE TROPHIES TO PROVE IT. TRUMP TURNING HIS VP PICK, OHIO SENATOR J.D. VANCE, TO DO THE SAME. PROMISE YOU THIS I WILL BE A VICE PRESIDENT WHO NEVER FORGETS WHERE HE CAME FROM. >> IT IS A MOMENT OF CHANGE. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF CHANGE THAT IS. THANK YOU. AND ELECTION YEAR ROLLERCOASTER ALL LEADS TO THAT STAGE. THE FIRST TIME THESE TWO CANDIDATES WHO'VE NEVER EVEN MET IN PERSON WILL FACE OFF. >> THIS IS DEFINITELY GOING BE IN THE TEXTBOOKS AT SOME POINT . YOU WANT THE HISTORY TO STOP FOR A LITTLE BIT? OH, I MEAN, EVERYBODY IN THE RACE, NO ONE SAW IT COMING. A LOT OF THAT CONTINUES TO BE MADE. OUR THANKS TO JAY O'BRIEN FOR THAT LOOK AND FORWARD. >> STILL A LOT TO GET TO TONIGHT. COMING UP, THE FDA OUT WITH NEW GUIDELINES FOR MAMMOGRAMS AND DRAWING ATTENTION TO AN ALL TOO COMMON BREAST CANCER RISK. THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES DATE BACK TO 1860 IN THIS COUNTRY. SO WHEN DO THEY MATTER MOST. WE LOOK AT THEIR IMPACT ON THE RACE TO THE WHITE HOUSE AS WE COUNT DOWN TO DEBATE NIGHT. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA FOR AN OPERATION LIKE THIS? A COMBAT OPERATION? SO WE'RE APPROACHING THE GATE NOW. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM OR FIVE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. OPERATION NUCLEAR REACTOR RECEIVED A COUPLE AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG THERE'S NOT A TEAR IN AND OUT OF CARE. HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS LABEL RIGHT HERE IN THE USA? >> LOOK AT YOUR SMILE. YOU'RE PROUD OF IT? I LOVE IT. GREAT WORK. HI. WHERE ARE YOU FROM? ARE THINKING THAT IT'S NATURE. IT'S MALE. >> DAVID. >> YES. YES. I'M DAVID. >> I KNOW YOU ARE. YOU DO? EVERY NIGHT. ABC'S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR IS AMERICA'S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS. >> WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR IN ROLLING FORWARD. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS TOWN, LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE ABC NEWS LIVE EVERYWHERE IN ICELAND. LET'S GO ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. YOU'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING, ABC LIKE ABC NEWS LIVE, STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. PORTRAYAL IS ONE OF THE HARDEST TYPES OF TRAUMA TO OVERCOME. THIS IS HER KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR. EVERYTHING FELT RIGHT. ALL OF A SUDDEN I FOUND THIS HIDDEN FOLDER. I OPENED IT. I DON'T THINK I CAN SAY I'M SORRY. IT'S SHOCKING. MY STOMACH JUST DROPPED. HE JUST REALLY DIDN'T THINK I 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, WANTING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. FLASHING OVER NATIONAL SECURITY. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE WERE 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 CITIES. THAT'S THE SPIRIT OF AMERICA THIS MORNING. AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE, EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHY? WHY DO SO PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? FROM ABC NEWS THIS START HERE. TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY'S 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 AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO 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 LUNCH TIME IN AMERICA. SO WHAT DO WE SERVE THAT. >> 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. COMING UP ON "GMA3". YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT. WE'LL SEE YOU THERE. THREE WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW. A THIRD HOUR "GMA" IN THE AFTERNOON. SO JOIN AFTERNOON FOR EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THAT TO REPORTING FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL. I'M JAMES LONGMAN WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU'RE STREAMING ABC LIVE. WELCOME BACK TO OUR COVERAGE HERE IN PHILADELPHIA AT THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION WHERE WE JUST UNVEILED OUR DEBATE STAGE A SHORT TIME AGO AS BOTH KAMALA HARRIS AND DONALD TRUMP PREPARE TO FACE OFF TOMORROW NIGHT. PEOPLE MISTAKE THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES OF 1858 AS THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES. BUT ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND, STEPHEN DOUGLAS, WERE VYING FOR A U.S. SENATE SEAT IN ILLINOIS BACK THEN. THEY WOULDN'T FACE EACH OTHER IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION UNTIL TWO YEARS LATER. HERE'S A HISTORY OF PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES IN THIS EVENING'S BY THE NUMBERS. >> THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE IN 1960 IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT. THE IMAGE OF RICHARD NIXON FACING OFF AGAINST JOHN F. KENNEDY ENTRENCHED THE IDEA THAT APPEARANCES AN IMPORTANT PART OF PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS. BUT THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL WOULD NOT TAKE PLACE UNTIL 1976. PRESIDENT GERALD AGAINST FORMER GEORGIA GOVERNOR JIMMY CARTER. BOTH CANDIDATES FELT THEY NEEDED THE EXPOSURE. IN 1980, PRESIDENT CARTER DIDN'T DEBATE RONALD REAGAN UNTIL JUST ONE WEEK BEFORE THE ELECTION, REFUSING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE THAT YEAR BECAUSE OF THE PRESENCE OF INDEPENDENT JOHN ANDERSON. WITH MORE THAN 80 MILLION VIEWERS, THAT DEBATE REMAINS THE SECOND MOST WATCHED DEBATE IN HISTORY, WITH RONALD REAGAN COINING CATCHPHRASES. THERE YOU GO AGAIN. THE MOST WATCHED DEBATE WAS IN 2016, DONALD TRUMP AGAINST HILLARY CLINTON, WHICH ATTRACTED 84 MILLION VIEWERS. HISTORIANS SAY PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES MATTER MOST WHEN THERE IS NO CLEAR FRONTRUNNER IN THE POLLS AND UNDECIDED VOTERS STILL MAKE UP A LARGE CHUNK OF THE ELECTORATE. BOTH CONDITIONS COULD BE TRUE. THIS AND WE STILL HAVE MUCH MORE AHEAD HERE ON PRIME TONIGHT. APPLE, ITS LATEST DEVICES TODAY NOT JUST POWERFUL NEW IPHONES AND, UPDATES TO SIRI, BUT NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR DETECTING SLEEP AND EVEN CLINICAL GRADE HEARING AIDS. AND THE PRINCESS OF WALES HAS FINISHED CHEMOTHERAPY. 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LET'S GO BACK 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 LIVE, YOU'RE STREAMING, ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING EVERYWHERE. >> THEY IS A FANTASY WHEN YOU HEAR THAT SONG, YOU BETTER SUBTITLE TIME AND I WAS A WILD . YOU AND JASON MOMOA EXPLODED AND WAS A BOMBSHELL ANDERSON WAS AN ICON AND PROUD OF EVERYTHING I'VE DONE ALMOST . >> "BAYWATCH" IS HOW YOU WIN THE EPIC HIGHS AND LOWS. EVERYONE LIKES TO WATCH SEXY THINGS GET READY AMERICA EVERY FRIDAY HOTTEST TREND STYLES AND MUST HAVE. BUT WHAT'S THE RIGHT STUFF TO BUY RIGHT? I REALLY LOVE THAT IT'S TIME TO BUY THE RIGHT STUFF. YES. AND SAVE BIG TIME TO THE RIGHT. THE RIGHT. FRIDAY "GMA", YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT. >> IT'S THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL MOMENT OF THIS CAMPAIGN NOW. KAMALA HARRIS, DONALD TRUMP FACE TO FACE. THE ABC NEWS PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE MODERATED BY DAVID MUIR AND LINSEY DAVIS NIGHT LIVE ON ABC AND STREAMING ON HULU AND, DISNEY PLUS NEW MAMMOGRAM GUIDELINES AIM TO DETECT BREAST CANCER EARLIER ,GOOGLE FACES ANOTHER ANTITRUST LAWSUIT THAT COULD BREAK UP THE COMPANY. AND NO LOVE FOR COWBOY CARTER. THE COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION'S BEYONCE. THESE STORIES AND MUCH MORE IN TONIGHT'S RUNDOWN. BEGINNING TOMORROW, ALL WOMEN HAVING MAMMOGRAM WILL BE NOTIFIED IF THEY HAVE DENSE BREASTS, WHICH CAN MAKE SPOTTING CANCER ON A MAMMOGRAM MORE DIFFICULT. THE FOOD AND DRUG IS REQUIRING FACILITIES AND DOCTORS TO NOTIFY THEIR PATIENTS ABOUT DENSITY IN AN EFFORT TO IMPROVE CANCER DETECTION. ABOUT HALF OF WOMEN OVER THE AGE OF 40 HAVE DENSE BREAST TISSUE. AND WHILE IT DOESN'T POSE IMMEDIATE THREAT, IT DOES INCREASE THE RISK OF CANCER. >> JUST ONE MONTH AFTER A JUDGE RULED GOOGLE WAS ACTING AS A MONOPOLY AS A SEARCH ENGINE, THE TECH GIANT IS UNDER FIRE AGAIN. THE COMPANY IS NOW FACING AN ANTITRUST TRIAL OVER THEIR ADVERTISING TECHNOLOGY. IS ACCUSED OF HOLDING A MONOPOLY OVER TECHNOLOGY THAT MATCHES ONLINE PUBLISHERS ,ADVERTISERS AND CONTROLLING THE AD EXCHANGE MARKET. THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND A COALITION OF STATES OPENED THE FEDERAL TRIAL TODAY. GOOGLE'S LAWYERS SAY IF THE GOVERNMENT INTERVENES, ANOTHER TECH GIANT WILL JUST FILL THE VOID. >> NOMINATIONS ARE OUT FOR THE 2024 CMAS HONORING THE BEST IN COUNTRY MUSIC. MORGAN WALLEN LED THE WAY. SEVEN NOMINATIONS, INCLUDING ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR AND FOUR NOMINATIONS FOR HIS HIT SINGLE WITH POST MALONE. I HAD SOME HELP. A NOTABLE ABSENCE BEYONCE WHOSE ALBUM COWBOY CARTER NUMBER ONE ON THE BILLBOARD COUNTRY ALBUM CHART, MAKING HER THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO EARN THAT SPOT. BEYONCE SAID. SHE WAS INSPIRED TO DIVE DEEPER INTO COUNTRY MUSIC, IN PART BECAUSE OF AN EXPERIENCE WHERE SHE DIDN'T FEEL WELCOME IN THE GENRE. THE CMAS BE HELD NOVEMBER 20TH ON ABC. >> APPLE ANNOUNCED ITS NEW LINE OF PRODUCTS, INCLUDING THE IPHONE 16, WITH A NEW CHIP DESIGNED TO RUN APPLE'S NEW FORAY INTO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. THE CALLS ITS A.I. FEATURES APPLE INTELLIGENCE AND SAYS IT WILL CHANGE HOW IPHONE USERS USE SIRI, RIGHT? EMAILS AND TEXTS. TAKE PHOTOS AND EVEN USE EMOJIS. APPLE ALSO DIVING DEEPER INTO THE HEALTH SPACE, REVEALING A NEW APPLE WATCH THAT CAN DETECT SLEEP APNEA AND THE AIRPODS PRO TWO, WHICH WILL DOUBLE AS A CLINICAL GRADE HEARING AID. >> MORTARS CAME TO PAY RESPECTS AT A MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR LATE NHL STAR JOHNNY GAUDREAU AND HIS BROTHER, MATTHEW GAUDREAU. WIDOW MEREDITH REVEALED AT THE SERVICE THAT SHE'S NINE WEEKS PREGNANT WITH THE COUPLE'S THIRD CHILD. MATTHEW'S WIFE, ALSO PREGNANT. THE BROTHERS WERE RIDING THEIR BICYCLES IN NEW JERSEY ON AUGUST NINTH WHEN THEY WERE STRUCK AND KILLED BY A DRIVER SUSPECTED OF BEING UNDER THE INFLUENCE. >> ALCOHOL. THE END IS CALM FOR U.S. SOCCER. GREAT MORGAN AFTER A 15 YEAR PRO CAREER. THE TWO TIME WORLD CUP CHAMP AND OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST ANNOUNCED RETIREMENT LAST IN A SOCIAL MEDIA POST WHERE SHE ALSO REVEALED HER PREGNANCY. FINAL APPEARANCE CAME FOR THE NWSL SAN DIEGO WAVE FC AGAINST THE NORTH CAROLINA COURAGE SUNDAY. >> SHE PLAYED FOR 13 MINUTES, A NOD TO HER LONGTIME JERSEY NUMBER BEFORE BEING SENT BY FANS ONE LAST TIME. >> PRINCESS CATHERINE HAS REACHED A MILESTONE IN HER BATTLE WITH CANCER. "WORLD NEWS TONIGHT" ANCHOR DAVID MUIR HAS THE LATEST. >> TONIGHT, THE DEEPLY PERSONAL MESSAGE RELEASED BY CATHERINE, PRINCESS OF WALES. HER VOICE NARRATING A VIDEO WITH HER FAMILY, PRINCE WILLIAM AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN, GEORGE CHARLOTTE, LOUIS, TOGETHER IN THE COUNTRYSIDE. PRINCESS KATE REVEALING SHE HAS COMPLETED CHEMOTHERAPY FOR CANCER AFTER SHARING HER DIAGNOSIS WITH THE WORLD JUST SIX MONTHS AGO. >> AS THE SUN COMES TO AN END, I CANNOT TELL YOU WHAT A RELIEF IT IS TO COMPLETED MY CHEMOTHERAPY TREATMENT. LIFE AS KNOW IT CAN CHANGE IN AN INSTANT. AND WE'VE HAD TO FIND A WAY TO NAVIGATE THE STORMY WATERS AND VARIED UNKNOWN. >> IT FELT LIKE PRINCESS CATHERINE SAYING SHE'S NOW DOING WHAT SHE CAN DO TO QUOTE ,STAY CANCER FREE. >> DOING WHAT I CAN TO STAY CANCER FREE IS NOW MY FOCUS. ALTHOUGH I FINISHED CHEMOTHERAPY, MY PATH TO HEALING FULL RECOVERY IS LONG AND I MUST CONTINUE TO EACH DAY AS IT COMES. I AM, HOWEVER, LOOKING FORWARD TO BEING BACK AT WORK AND UNDERTAKING A FEW MORE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS IN THE COMING MONTHS WHEN I CAN, ENDING WITH A MESSAGE OF GRATITUDE AND A MESSAGE OF HOPE TO ALL OF THOSE BATTLING CANCER. >> TO ALL THOSE WHO CONTINUE BATTLING CANCER JOURNEY I REMAIN WITH YOU SIDE, SIDE, HAND IN HAND OUT OF DARKNESS CAN COME LIGHT. SO LET THAT LIGHT SHINE. >> SO NICE TO SEE THOSE JOYFUL IMAGES OF WITH THE FAMILY. OUR THANKS TO DAVID FOR THAT. A NEW ERA NOW BEGINS FOR WHEEL OF FORTUNE WHEN RYAN SEACREST MAKES HIS DEBUT TONIGHT, TAKING OVER, HOSTING THE INFAMOUS GAME SHOW HOST ALONGSIDE VANNA WHITE, WHO HAS RAVED ABOUT THEIR ON SCREEN CHEMISTRY. PAT SAJAK NOW AFTER 40 PLUS YEARS ON THE SHOW, WON AN EMMY FOR HIS FINAL AS HOST AND SAYS HE IS COMPLETELY ON BOARD WITH SEACREST TAKING OVER. IT'S ONE OF THE MOST WATCHED SPORTING EVENTS IN THE WORLD AND WE NOW KNOW THE HALF TIME HEADLINER FOR FEBRUARY'S SUPER BOWL COMING OFF OF A SUMMER OF SUCCESS RAP ARTIST GRAMMY AWARD AND PULITZER PRIZE WINNER KENDRICK LAMAR WILL BE TAKING TO THE STAGE. WILL HIS VIRAL BEEF WITH DRAKE BE PART OF THE BIG PERFORMANCE? OUR JANAI NORMAN HAS THAT STORY. >> ALL EYES ON RAP ARTIST KENDRICK LAMAR FOLLOWING SUNDAY'S ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HE WILL HEADLINE THE SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW. >> MEET ME IN NEW ORLEANS, FEBRUARY 9TH, 20, 25. WHAT ARE YOUR BEST DRESS TO THE 17 TIME GRAMMY WINNING RAPPER SAID IN A STATEMENT RELEASED BY THE NFL? RAP MUSIC IS STILL THE IMPACTFUL GENRE TO DATE, AND I'LL BE THERE TO REMIND THE WORLD. >> WHY THEY GOT THE RIGHT ONE? LADY DON'T GO TO MEAN CONFRONTATION AIN'T THE NEW TO ME. LAMAR. KNOWN FOR HIS RAP LYRICS THAT TACKLED SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES, WAS A SPECIAL GUEST DURING DR. DRE HALFTIME SHOW IN 2022. WE GOT BEAT UP BY KENDRICK LAMAR. >> RIGHT NOW IS THE MOST VITAL ,IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL RAPPER IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. >> WHILE THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNING RAPPER HAS A RECORD OF HIS MUSIC BECOMING THE SOUNDTRACK OF MOVEMENTS, I DON'T WANT GIVE THE NEXT BLACK MAN TAKE NOTICE. >> IT'S LAMAR'S CHART TOPPING SUMMER ANTHEM. >> NOT LIKE US. >> THAT TURNED HIM INTO ONE OF THE BIGGEST ARTISTS OF THIS YEAR. THEY'RE NOT LIKE US. THEY NOT LIKE US. >> IS RAP BATTLE WITH DRAKE. HIS MUSICAL BATTLE WITH DRAKE HAS MADE HIM EVEN MORE TOPICAL THAN EVER. AND ON TOP THAT, IT'S GIVEN HIM ONE OF THE BIGGEST SINGLES OF THE YEAR. >> NOT LIKE. KNOWN AS A DISH TRACK AND AN ONGOING FEUD, THE RAPPER HAS FELLOW RAPPER DRAKE. >> THEY NOT LIKE US. THEY LIKE US. >> I FEEL LIKE THE FEUD WITH DRAKE IS PROBABLY GOING TO MAKE IT TO THE STAGE OF THE SUPER BOWL. I THINK HE'S GOING TO HAVE EYE ON BIGGER ISSUES WITH WHAT HE SAYS AND REALLY JUST HE'S PROBABLY GOING TO HAVE SOME, I WOULD GUESS, BARELY MAJOR GUEST APPEARANCES BECAUSE THE SUPER BOWL ALWAYS DOES. >> IN A STATEMENT, HIP-HOP MOGUL AND ROC NATION FOUNDER JAY-Z SAID LAMAR'S DEEP LOVE FOR HIP-HOP AND CULTURE INFORMS HIS ARTISTIC VISION. HE HAS AN UNPARALLELED ABILITY TO DEFINE AND INFLUENCE CULTURE GLOBALLY. >> WE'LL SOON SEE. OUR THANKS TO DIDDY FOR THAT. IN THE MEANTIME, WE ARE ALMOST 24 HOURS AWAY FROM THE START OF TOMORROW'S DEBATE. THAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT HERE AT PHILADELPHIA'S NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER. FOR MORE THAN 21 YEARS, THE CENTER HAS HOSTED MAJOR EVENTS, BUT NOTHING QUITE THIS. REPORTER SARAH BLOOMQUIST FROM OUR PARTNER STATION WPI HERE IN PHILADELPHIA HAS THAT STORY. >> WE ARE ON THE MOST HISTORIC MILE IN THE UNITED STATES AND IT'S HERE AT THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER ON INDEPENDENCE MALL, WHERE THE TWO CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT WILL DEBATE A NATIONAL TELEVISION AUDIENCE. >> IT'S THE TYPE OF EVENT THE HAS BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO HOSTING. >> SURE. I MEAN, WE'VE HAD A GREAT HISTORY OVER THE LAST 21 YEARS OF HOSTING THESE TYPES OF EVENTS IN 2008. HILLARY CLINTON AND BARACK OBAMA WENT HEAD TO HEAD BEFORE THE PRIMARY ELECTION. THEN IN 2020, FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND THEN FORMER VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN HELD TOWN HALLS HERE HOSTED BY ABC NEWS. AND EACH YEAR, THE CONSTITUTION CENTER AWARDS THE LIBERTY MEDAL HONORING MEN AND WOMEN OF COURAGE. JOHN MCCAIN, MALALA YOUSAFZAI, FORMER PRESIDENTS, AND BONO. >> BETWEEN THOSE TYPES OF EVENTS, WE HAVE WORLD LEADERS, SUPREME COURT JUSTICES, LAWMAKERS, SORTS OF FOLKS THAT VIEW THE CONSTITUTION CENTER AS A PLACE TO HAVE THESE IMPORTANT DISCUSSIONS IN PHILADELPHIA. >> THE CENTER BROKE GROUND SEPTEMBER 17TH, 2213 YEARS TO THE DAY AFTER THE CONSTITUTION WAS SIGNED. ITS ADDRESS FIVE 25 ARCH STREET PAYS TRIBUTE TO MAY 25TH, THE DATE THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION BEGAN PHILADELPHIA IN 1787. >> FOR 20 ONE YEARS, THE NCC HAS BROUGHT THE U.S. CONSTITUTION TO LIFE FOR HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF VISITORS EACH YEAR THROUGH INTERACTIVE EXHIBITS, RARE DOCUMENTS, MOVIE THEATER AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES. >> SO HERE WE ARE. 21 YEARS AFTER THE OPENING, THE NCC WILL MAKE HISTORY AGAIN. >> WE'RE REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. IT'S EXCITING. OUR THANKS TO SARAH FOR THAT. AND THAT IS OUR SHOW FOR THIS HOUR FROM THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER HERE IN PHILADELPHIA. AS CLOCK TICKS DOWN TO THE MONUMENTAL PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, I'M LINSEY DAVIS BE SURE. STAY TUNED TO ABC NEWS LIVE FOR MORE CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS OF THE DAY'S TOP STORIES AS OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE CONTINUES. THANKS SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US. >> COMING UP IN THE NEXT HOUR, WE'RE JUST ONE DAY AWAY FROM THE FIRST EVER MEETING OF FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD AND VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS ON THE DEBATE STAGE WITH THE CANDIDATES, A DEAD HEAT. THE STAKES COULDN'T BE HIGHER. AND A CELEBRATED WITH AN UNFORGETTABLE VOICE WHO TRANSCENDED LIMITATIONS BOTH ON SCREEN AND IN HIS OWN LIFE. WE REMEMBER ACTING JAMES EARL JONES. WHY DO SO MANY 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. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET'S GET RIGHT TO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD R. MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO 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? 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. COMING UP ON "GMA3". YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT. WE'LL SEE YOU THEN. "GMA3" WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW. A THIRD HOUR OF "GMA" IN THE AFTERNOON. SO JOINING AFTERNOON FOR EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. >> LOVE BACK TO WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS. WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL NATION AT WAR ENROLLING FOR IT. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH TOWN FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE. ABC NEWS LIVE EVERYWHERE IN. LET'S GO BACK ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL AT TEN DOWNING STREET FOREVER. THE STORY IS WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE YOU'RE STREAMING ABC THINGS LIKE ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA? AN OPERATION LIKE THIS OR COMBAT OPERATIONS THAT ARE WE'RE APPROACHING THE GATE NOW. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM FOUR OR FIVE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, OPERATE ON NUCLEAR REACTOR. SO WE HAVE A COUPLE OF LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG, ERE'S NOT A TEAR IN AND OUT OF IT. HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS LABEL RIGHT HERE, THE U.S. LOOK HERE, SMILE. >> YOU'RE PROUD OF IT? I LOVE IT. GREAT WORK. HEY, WHERE ARE YOU? YOU THE NATURE, ISMAIL, DAVID, NATHAN. YES, YES. >> I'M DAVID YORK. I KNOW YOU ARE. YOU DO EVERY NIGHT. >> ABC'S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR IS AMERICA'S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST. >> WHENEVER WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS. IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO. >> ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED HERE IN IN BUFFALO IS ALL DAY TEXAS EDINBURGH SCOTLAND FROM ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI. UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HERE IN WARSAW. WE'RE HEADING TO A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY, GIVING BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME. >> WE'LL TAKE YOU THERE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE WEEKNIGHTS WHEREVER YOU SCREEN YOUR NEWS ONLY ON ABC NEWS LIVE 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 LINSEY DAVIS. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US. WE HAVE A LOT OF NEWS TO GET TO TONIGHT, BUT WE BEGIN HERE IN PHILADELPHIA, OF COURSE, WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE SET TO TAKE PLACE ABOUT 24 HOURS FROM NOW RIGHT BEHIND ME WHEN DONALD TRUMP AND KAMALA HARRIS STEP ONTO THE STAGE. WE HAVE A FIRST LOOK AT THAT DEBATE STAGE WHERE THE TWO WILL MEET FOR THE FIRST TIME FACE TO FACE ENCOUNTER. THE LATEST POLLS SHOWING BOTH LOCKED IN A VIRTUAL DEAD HEAT. HARRIS ARRIVED IN PHILADELPHIA A SHORT TIME AGO, FOR TRUMP, IT WILL BE HIS SEVENTH SHOWDOWN. IT WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE A RARE CHANCE FOR EITHER CANDIDATE TO SHAPE THE NOVEMBER ELECTION. WITH ALL EYES HERE ON THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION IN PHILADELPHIA PLAYING HOST TO YET ANOTHER MAJOR HISTORIC MOMENT THAT COULD HELP DECIDE THE 2024 ELECTION. AND SOME STATES LIKE, NORTH CAROLINA, ALREADY SEND ABSENTEE BALLOTS TO VOTERS. WE ARE BRINGING YOU LIVE TEAM COVERAGE AHEAD OF THE HIGH STAKES DEBATE. BEFORE WE GIVE YOU THE VERY FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE DEBATE STAGE, WE KICK THINGS OFF WITH OUR CHIEF WHITE HOUSE, MARY BRUCE, HERE IN PHILADELPHIA TONIGHT. >> WITH JUST 24 HOURS TO GO UNTIL THEIR HIGHLY ANTICIPATED VICE PRESIDENT, KAMALA HARRIS, SETTING OFF FOR PHILADELPHIA, WHERE TOMORROW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, SHE WILL COME FACE TO FACE WITH FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. >> HOW ARE YOU FEELING? HOW ARE YOU GUYS? IN A NEW RADIO INTERVIEW, HARRIS SAYS SHE'S READY FOR WHATEVER TRUMP THROWS HER WAY. >> THERE'S NO FUTURE FOR HIM IN TERMS OF HOW HE WILL GO AND AND SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THAT. WE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE FACT THAT HE IS NOT BURDENED TELLING THE TRUTH. >> FOR DAYS NOW, THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN HUNKERED DOWN THIS PITTSBURGH HOTEL INTENSELY PREPARING HER TEAM, EVEN BUILDING A STAGE WITH FULL TV LIGHTING TO HOLD MOCK DEBATES. HARRIS LEANING ON SEVERAL ADVISERS WHO HELPED PREP HILLARY CLINTON FOR HER 16 DEBATE AGAINST TRUMP, INCLUDING ONE WHO PLAYED THE ROLE OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT IN REHEARSALS. >> BUT HARRIS TAKING BREAKS TO GET OUT IN THIS CRITICAL STATE IN A PITTSBURGH SHOP GREETING ONE VOTER WHO IS IN TEARS. >> I FEEL FEEL BAD. INSTEAD OF I WANT TO STAND, YOU KNOW, I GOOD, WE'RE GOOD. >> WE'RE GOING TO BE FINE. HARRIS PERHAPS HER MESSAGE FOR THE DEBATE, LOOK, IT'S TIME TO TURN THE PAGE ON THE DIVISIVENESS. IT'S TIME TO BRING OUR COUNTRY TOGETHER. CHART A NEW WAY FORWARD. >> WHILE HARRIS HAS BEEN LARGELY OFF THE TRAIL SINCE THURSDAY TRUMP OVER THE WEEKEND HOLDING A RALLY IN BATTLEGROUND WISCONSIN. >> SHE WILL BE THE WORST PRESIDENT. AND TRUMP IS NEVER WRONG. I AM NEVER, EVER WRONG. >> THE FORMER PRESIDENT TRYING TO SET EXPECTATIONS. IS ANYBODY TO BE WATCHING AND SPEND THE DEBATE BEFORE IT EVEN HAPPENS? YOU KNOW, IF I DESTROY HER IN THE DEBATE, SAY. TRUMP SUFFERED A HUMILIATING DEFEAT AND I NO MATTER WHAT. OUR THANKS TO MARY BRUCE. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP ALWAYS THAT HE IS NOT ONE FOR FORMAL DEBATE PREP, BUT ABC SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL RACHEL SCOTT HAS LEARNED HOW HE'S BEEN PREPARING FOR THE BIG NIGHT. >> YES, LINSEY CERTAINLY NOT DOING ANY OF THOSE MOCK DEBATES THAT VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS IS DOING. BUT I'M TOLD THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS TAKING VERY SERIOUSLY. HE KNOWS HOW CONSEQUENTIAL THIS DEBATE, THIS COULD BE. I'M TOLD THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAS HELD NEARLY HALF A DOZEN INFORMAL SESSIONS WITH HIS ADVISERS, INCLUDING WITH FORMER CONGRESSWOMAN TULSI . BUT WE ALL REMEMBER CHALLENGER WAS ON THE DEBATE STAGE BACK IN 2019. ALSO INVOLVED IN HIS DEBATE PREP IS CONGRESSMAN MATT. NOW, WE ARE TOLD THAT GATES IS FIRING OFF QUESTIONS AT HIM ON SOME OF THE TOUGHER ISSUES LIKE HIS STANCE ON ABORTION AND ALSO HIS LEGAL. SOURCES ALSO TELL ME THAT TRUMP HAS BEEN BRIEFED ON HARRIS' PAST, AND THAT INCLUDES THE DEBATE WITH TRUMP'S OWN FORMER VICE PRESIDENT, MIKE PENCE. THERE WAS THAT NOTABLE EXCHANGE ON THE DEBATE STAGE WHERE PENCE TRIED INTERRUPT. HARRIS AND HARRIS SHUT HIM DOWN, SAYING, I'M SPEAKING. TRUMP HAS PRIVATELY ALLIES. HE WON'T LET THAT HAPPEN TO HIM TOMORROW NIGHT, LINSEY. ALL RIGHT, RACHEL SCOTT, OUR THANKS TO YOU, AS ALWAYS. >> POLLING HAS CONSISTENT SINCE THE START OF THE YEAR WITH TWO MAJOR ISSUES STANDING ABOVE THE REST FOR VOTERS NATIONWIDE, IMMIGRATION AND THE ECONOMY. GET TO THE ECONOMY IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS. BUT FIRST, THE ISSUE OF IMMIGRATION, THE BORDER THAT CONTINUES TO GARNER THE ATTENTION OF BOTH CANDIDATES ON THE CAMPAIGN. ABC'S MIREYA VILLARREAL HAS MORE FOR US FROM TEXAS. MARIA, WHAT IS THE STATE OF IMMIGRATION IN THE BORDER? AS THE CANDIDATES PREPARE TO HIT THE DEBATE STAGE NIGHT. >> WELL, YOU KNOW, LINSEY, THAT IS A REALLY GREAT QUESTION, ESPECIALLY LEADING UP TO THE DEBATE. AS OF RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE CONTINUED TO HEAR THE FORMER PRESIDENT TALK A LOT ABOUT IMMIGRATION. HE TALKS A LOT ABOUT FLOW OF MIGRANTS INTO THE UNITED STATES. AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, HE TALKS ABOUT WHERE THEY ARE COMING FROM. WE'VE HEARD PRISONS WITH WE ALSO HEARD MENTAL INSTITUTIONS. WE'VE ALSO HEARD HIM TALK A LOT ABOUT MISSING CHILDREN AND HOW THEY'VE GOTTEN LOST IN THE COURT SYSTEM AND HOW THEY ARE MORE LIKELY DEAD OR THEY ARE THEY HAVE BEEN TRAFFICKED OR THEY ARE A PART OF SOME SORT CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. LET'S BE VERY CLEAR WHEN HE SAYS THESE THEY ARE NOT STATEMENTS OF FACT. THEY ARE NOT BACKED UP BY REPORTS OR STATISTICS. A LOT OF THIS IS, AGAIN, AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE, IS IT TO REALLY RILE UP A PARTICULAR BASE OF VOTERS AND GET THEM TO COME OUT TO THE POLLS AND VOTE OUT OF OF WHAT MAY BE HAPPENING IN THEIR BACKYARDS? BUT AS OF RIGHT NOW, WE DO KNOW THAT ENCOUNTERS HAVE CONTINUED DECREASE OVER THE LAST THREE MONTHS, RIGHT AFTER WE SAW PRESIDENT BIDEN PUT THAT EXECUTIVE ORDER INTO PLACE, BASICALLY SHUTTING DOWN THE BORDER BETWEEN PORTS OF ENTRY. AND SINCE THAT, WE'VE ALSO SEEN SOME NEW ASYLUM RESTRICTIONS BEING PUT IN PLACE AGAIN. ALL OF THIS LEADING TO A DECREASE. HARRIS' CAMP HAS CONTINUED TO SAY THAT HER WORK EN ROOT CAUSES OF MIGRATION IS THE REASON FOR A LOT OF THIS, AT LEAST PART OF THE REASON. OBVIOUSLY, WE DON'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF STATISTICS ON THAT. AND IN FACT, CRITICS HAVE SAID IF THIS WAS WHERE THE ADMINISTRATION WAS GOING TO GO, WHY DIDN'T WE DO THIS SOONER? HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ALL OF THIS DECREASE, ALL OF THIS SUCCESS NOW ON THE IMMIGRATION LEVEL IS NOW COMING JUST A FEW MONTHS AWAY FROM THE ELECTION? >> MARIA, OUR THANKS TO YOU AS ALWAYS. IT'S ALL ABOUT THE ECONOMY. IT'S BEEN A COMMON REFRAIN WHEN DISCUSSING ELECTIONS GOING BACK DECADES. AND THIS NOVEMBER, AS VOTERS FEEL SQUEEZED BY INFLATION AND STAGNANT WAGES, THAT REFRAIN IS EXPECTED TO RING TRUE FOR YET ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SEASON. FOR MORE ON ALL THINGS ECONOMY, WE'RE JOINED BY ABC'S ELIZABETH SCHOLZ FROM WASHINGTON. ELIZABETH, GIVE US A LAY OF THE LAND ON WHERE THE ECONOMY IS NOW AS THE CANDIDATES FIND THEMSELVES IN CRUNCH MODE. JUST THE DEBATE LINSEY AND THIS REALLY IS A PIVOTAL MOMENT FOR THE AMERICAN WHICH WE KNOW IS THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE FOR SO MANY VOTERS. THE KEY QUESTION RIGHT, IS IF THE U.S. CAN ACHIEVE THAT COVETED SO-CALLED SOFT LANDING IN, OTHER WORDS, CAN THE ECONOMY SUCCESSFULLY NAVIGATE INTO A TIME OF LOWER, LOWER PRICES THAT YOU PAY EVERYDAY FOR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES WITHOUT CRASHING INTO A RECESSION? AND THERE ARE SOME PROMISING SIGNS HERE. INFLATION PEAKED AT 9% BACK IN JUNE 2022. NOW IT'S HOVERING AT JUST UNDER 3%. >> THAT MEANS THE PRICES THERE ARE STILL GOING UP, BUT THEY'RE NOT GOING BY NEARLY AS MUCH. AND ANOTHER GOOD SIGN, AMERICANS WAGES ON AVERAGE HAVE NOW BEEN INCREASING FASTER THAN INFLATION FOR MORE THAN A YEAR. SO THOSE HIGHER PAYCHECKS, THEY CAN HELP ABSORB SOME OF THAT STICKER SHOCK THAT YOU WOULD FEEL LIKE AT THE GROCERY STORE. THIS DOES HELP EXPLAIN WHY COMPANIES LIKE WAL-MART, WHICH IS REALLY CONSIDERED A BELLWETHER OF CONSUMER SPENDING IN THE ECONOMY, THEY ARE OPTIMISTIC RIGHT NOW. THEY SEE THAT SHOPPERS TRYING TO HUNT DOWN A GOOD DEAL, BUT THEY ARE STILL OUT SPENDING AT A PRETTY SOLID PACE LINSEY. >> AND WHAT ARE SOME OF THE WARNING SIGNS IN THE ECONOMY RIGHT NOW? >> SO, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THE AMERICAN ECONOMY AS AN AIRPLANE TRYING TO LAND IN THAT SWEET SPOT. THERE ARE CLEARLY SOME HEADWINDS. SO OF THEM IS HOUSING. RENT PRICES ARE STUBBORNLY HIGH. WE HAVE SEEN HOME PRICES ACROSS THE U.S. AT RECORD LEVELS AND HIGHER MORTGAGE RATES HAVE MADE BUYING A HOUSE EVEN MORE UNAFFORDABLE. THE OTHER WARNING SIGN REALLY IS THE JOBS MARKET. THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE NOW AT 4.2%. THAT'S STILL A HISTORICALLY LOW NUMBER. BUT YOU CAN SEE THERE ON THAT CHART, IT IS TICKING UP. SO WHAT THAT MEANS, IT HARDER TO GET A JOB NOW AND COMPANIES ARE NOT HIRING AS MUCH AS THEY WERE EVEN AT THE START OF THE YEAR OR A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK. WE HAVE SEEN THIS IN THE STOCK MARKET. INVESTORS ARE WORRIED THAT HIRING COULD START TO SLOW EVEN MORE DRAMATICALLY. BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT THE S&P 500, THAT'S WHEN YOU SEE IN MOST AMERICANS RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS ARE FOUR ONE ACCOUNTS THAT IS STILL UP LINSEY AND IMPRESSIVE ABOUT 15% SO FAR THIS YEAR. SO A SILVER LINING WHEN YOU'RE AT LEAST THINKING THE STOCK MARKET AND SOME OF THAT NEAR-TERM UNCERTAINTY, TOO. >> SO ELIZABETH, ULTIMATELY, HOW MUCH IS THE ECONOMY ABOUT THE NEXT PRESIDENT AND HOW MUCH DOES IT FALL WITH THE FEDERAL RESERVE, WHICH OVERSEES LARGE PARTS OF THE ECONOMY? YOU KNOW, THE NEXT PRESIDENT CERTAINLY WILL SET THE STAGE WHEN IT COMES TO PRIORITIES, THE AGENDA. BUT WHAT WE HAVE SEEN IS A LOT OF THOSE POLICIES NEED APPROVAL FROM CONGRESS. AND IN A GRIDLOCKED CONGRESS, THE FEDERAL RESERVE HAS TAKEN ON AN OUTSIZE IMPORTANCE IN THE ECONOMY. SO WHAT'S HAPPENED IS THAT THE FEDERAL RESERVE HAS REALLY TAKEN ON THIS FIGHT AGAINST INFLATION. IT'S DONE THAT BY MAKING IT MORE EXPENSIVE, BORROW MONEY. SO THAT MEANS HIGHER COSTS. IF YOU'RE TRYING TO PAY OFF CREDIT CARD DEBT, TAKE OUT A MORTGAGE, GET AN AUTO LOAN. THE FED IS TO LOWER THOSE COSTS NEXT WEEK FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FOUR YEARS. THAT WOULD MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT LESS EXPENSIVE TO BORROW. >> SO ULTIMATELY, THOUGH, THE PATH THAT THE FED CHOOSES WILL BE CRITICAL FOR THE ECONOMY OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS AND GOING INTO NEXT YEAR. THE PRESIDENT DOES HAVE ONE ROLE IN THAT THOUGH, LINSEY THAT THE PRES THE NEXT PRESIDENT REGARDLESS WHO IT IS, WILL ULTIMATELY DECIDE WHO SHOULD BE THE LEADER OF THE FED WHEN THE CURRENT CHAIR HIS TERM DOES EXPIRE IN 2026. LINSEY. ECONOMY OF MIND FOR SO MANY AMERICANS. ELIZABETH SCHULZE. OUR THANKS TO YOU. >> AND MAKE SURE YOU TUNE IN TOMORROW NIGHT FOR OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE STARTING AT 7 P.M. EASTERN WHEN WHIT JOHNSON FROM RIGHT HERE IN PHILADELPHIA, FOLLOWED BY OUR POLITICAL POWERHOUSE ROUNDTABLE AT 8 P.M.. AND OF COURSE, THAT ALL IMPORTANT DEBATE I'LL BE MODERATING DAVID MUIR AT 9 P.M. EASTERN RIGHT HERE ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> STILL MUCH MORE TO GET TO TONIGHT. COMING UP, AS THE CANDIDATES MAKE FINAL DEBATE PREPARATIONS, WHY THIS PRESIDENTIAL FACE OFF WILL BE ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS. BUT NEXT, ONE OF THE POLICE OFFICERS SEEN HANDCUFFING MIAMI DOLPHINS RECEIVER TYREEK HILL WAS PLACED ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE TODAY AS A UNION REPRESENTING THE OFFICERS, SAYS THE STAR PLAYER REFUSED TO SIT . >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE ARE HERE IS REAL A NATION AT WAR. AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON GROUND IN UKRAINE. >> REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS, ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE FOR UKRAINE. REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY IN ROLLING FORTH. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH LITTLE TOWN FROM THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII AND 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, FROM THE FBI REPORTING FROM THE NURSES ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT DOWNING STREET IN LONDON, STREAMING LIVE TO YOU FOREVER. THE STORY IS WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. WE'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE HERE, STREAMING ABC LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. >> AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS DAY. >> WHAT SHOULD THE FANTASY YOU HEAR THAT THEME SONG YOU MAY FEEL TIME AND I WAS A WILD CHIP NOW ON JASON MOMOA EXPLODED AND WAS A ANDERSON WAS AN ICON VERY PROUD OF EVERYTHING I'VE DONE ALMOST "BAYWATCH" AS A OF EPIC HIGHS AND LOWS. >> EVERYONE LIKES TO WATCH SEXY THINGS. >> TOMORROW NIGHT, THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL MOMENT OF THIS CAMPAIGN. KAMALA HARRIS. TOGETHER WE WILL TARGET. NO WAY O WORD DONALD TRUMP. WE WILL SOON BE A GREAT NATION AGAIN. FACE TO FACE. HISTORIC. THE ABC NEWS PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE MODERATED BY DAVID MUIR AND LINSEY DAVIS TOMORROW NIGHT LIVE ON ABC AND STREAMING ON ABC NEWS LIVE. HULU AND DISNEY PLUS THE ABC NEWS PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. >> I'M SELINA WANG IN HANOI, VIETNAM. WHEREVER THE STORY WILL TAKE YOU THERE, WE'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE. I WANT TO TOSS IT NOW TO OUR STEPHANIE RAMOS WHO'S LIVE IN OUR STUDIO TONIGHT. STEPHANIE, WE'RE FOLLOWING, OF COURSE, A LOT OF BIG HEADLINES TONIGHT. WE CERTAINLY ARE, LINSEY. THANK YOU. NOW TO THE URGENT MANHUNT FOR. A HIGHWAY SNIPER SUSPECT WHO WOUNDED FIVE PEOPLE ON KENTUCKY'S ICE, 75 SATURDAY. TODAY, MANY SCHOOLS CLOSED AND PEOPLE URGED TO STAY INSIDE. AND THE ALARMING TEXT AUTHORITIES SAY SUSPECT SENT JUST BEFORE HE OPENED FIRE. HERE'S CHIEF JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT THOMAS. >> TONIGHT, THE URGENT MANHUNT FOR THE MAN SUSPECTED OF BEING THE SNIPER WHO FIRED AT DRIVERS ALONG THIS BUSY STRETCH OF HIGHWAY IN KENTUCKY. AND HAVE BEEN SHOT THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD AN HOUR SOUTHEAST OF LEXINGTON SCHOOLS AND NINE DISTRICTS SHUT DOWN AS POLICE SEARCH FOR 32-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH COUCH THOUGHT TO BE HIDING IN THE DENSE FOREST. >> THIS IS THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF ACRES. >> IT'S KIND OF LIKE A JUNGLE. COUCH, CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS NOW FACING CHARGES OF ASSAULT AND ATTEMPTED MURDER. ACCORDING TO AN ARREST WARRANT. MINUTES BEFORE THE SHOOTINGS, COUCH, A FORMER ARMY RESERVIST, SENT A TEXT TO A WOMAN SAYING HE WAS GOING KILL A LOT OF PEOPLE. POLICE BELIEVE ON SATURDAY EVENING, COUCH WAS PERCHED IN THE WOODS, FIRING 20 TO 30 SHOTS, HITTING 12 VEHICLES, FIVE PEOPLE WOUNDED BY GUNFIRE. NO FATALITIES, BUT LEAST ONE PERSON SHOT IN THE FACE AND ANOTHER IN THE ARM. POLICE SAY THIS IS COUNTY'S VEHICLE RECOVERED NEAR THE ATTACK AND THEY SAY THEY DISCOVERED AN AR-15 STYLE ASSAULT RIFLE. CLOSE IN THE WOODS HERE. THOMAS, THANK YOU. WE WILL IN WITH HIM IN JUST A BIT. TONIGHT, ONE OF THE OFFICERS SEEN HANDCUFFING DOLPHINS RECEIVER TYREEK HILL HAS BEEN PLACED ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE ,BODY CAMERA, VIDEO SHOWS, HILL BEING ARRESTED, THEN PINNED TO THE FACE FIRST JUST A BLOCK AWAY FROM THE STADIUM. THE MIAMI-DADE POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS THEY ARE COMMITTED TO CONDUCTING A THOROUGH AND OBJECTIVE INVESTIGATION AND CLAIMED HILL WAS NOT COOPERATIVE AND WAS DETAINED DUE TO RECKLESS DRIVING AND DRIVING WITHOUT A LICENSE. HILL INSISTS HE WASN'T SPEEDING AND SAID NOTHING OFFENSIVE TO POLICE. HARVEY WAS RUSHED TO A HOSPITAL LAST NIGHT FOR EMERGENCY HEART SURGERY AFTER EXPERIENCING CHEST PAINS. WEINSTEIN WAS EXPECTED IN COURT THIS WEEK WHERE PROSECUTORS WERE TO PRESENT EVIDENCE TO A GRAND JURY IN ORDER TO A NEW INDICTMENT ON CRIME CHARGES. WEINSTEIN HAS ANY WRONGDOING AND HAS SAID HIS SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS WITH WOMEN WERE CONSENSUAL. BACK TO WASHINGTON NOW, WHERE THE DEPARTMENT JUSTICE INDICTED TWO ALLEGED LEADERS OF A WHITE SUPREMACIST CHAT GROUP CALLED TERROR GROUP. THE DOJ ALLEGING THE DIRECTLY SOLICITED TERRORIST ATTACKS AND PLOTTED TO KILL, QUOTE, HIGH VALUE TARGETS. IT'S A FAST MOVING STORY. ONCE AGAIN, LET'S CHECK IN WITH PIERRE THOMAS. >> STEPHANIE, THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CLAIMS IT UNCOVERED A WHITE SUPREMACIST NETWORK THAT HAS BEEN PROMOTING RACE WAR AND CALLING FOR THE MURDER OF PEOPLE BASED ON THEIR RACE, RELIGION AND ORIENTATION. THE CHILLING PART IS THAT SOME OF THESE ATTACKS, ACCORDING TO THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, HAVE ALREADY BEEN CARRIED OUT, INCLUDING A MAN IN SLOVENIA WHO KILLED TWO PEOPLE BEFORE TAKING HIS OWN LIFE, A MAN IN TURKEY WHO STABBED FIVE PEOPLE. AND A NEW TEEN WHO THE FBI SAYS PLOTTED TO ATTACK THE POWER. DOJ OFFICIALS SAY THE SO-CALLED TERROR GRAHAM GROUP, WHICH USES THE TELEGRAM MESSENGER PLATFORM, EVEN HAD AN ACTIVE HIT LIST TARGETING A U.S. SENATOR, A FEDERAL JUDGE AND A FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR. IN A RARE INTERVIEW. THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HEADS OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY AND RIGHTS DIVISION TELLING ME DOMESTIC TERRORISM INVOLVING RACISM IS NOW A WIDENING THREAT. >> THE THREAT OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM IS ON THE RISE INSIDE THE UNITED STATES AND ACTS OF VIOLENCE CARRIED OUT BY WHITE SUPREMACISTS IS THE SINGLE MOST LETHAL TYPE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENT EXTREMISM THAT WE SEE IN THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW. >> WITH THE CASE THAT WE HAVE BROUGHT HERE. AND WE'RE ON THE HIGHEST END OF THE RICHTER SCALE, THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPLOITING THESE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS FORMS TO KNOW TO THE GREATEST EXTENT POSSIBLE, WHO ARE SEEKING TO GIVE SO-CALLED SAINTHL CARRY OUT THESE ATTACKS. THEY'RE GIVING OUT BOMB MAKING INSTRUCTIONS. THEY'RE PUTTING TOGETHER HIT LIST. THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SAYS THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE NOT BEING PROSECUTED FOR THEIR WORDS, BUT BECAUSE THEY'RE ENCOURAGING SPECIFIC ACTS OF VIOLENCE. AND AS OFFICIALS NOTED, SOME OF THESE ATTACKS HAVE ALREADY BEEN CARRIED OUT STEPHANIE. >> OUR THANKS AGAIN TO PIERRE THOMAS. AND NOW TO THE SAD NEWS THAT CAME IN LATE TODAY, THE PASSING OF LEGENDS, ACTOR JAMES EARL JONES. TONIGHT, WE REMEMBER HIS LONG AND DISTINGUISHED CAREER AND, OF COURSE, THAT VOICE. HERE'S STEVE. >> JAMES EARL JONES HAD A WAY ABOUT, HIM AS AN ACTOR AND AS A PERFORMER THAT WAS TRULY GALACTIC. HE'S PERHAPS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS VOICE TO ONE OF THE GREATEST VILLAINS IN THE HISTORY OF CINEMA. >> NO, I AM YOUR FATHER. IT WAS JONES WHO MADE THE CHARACTER OF DARTH VADER IN THE STAR WARS FILMS DELIGHTFULLY MENACING. >> I AM ALTERING THE DEAL TO CREATE A WALL FOR IT ANY FURTHER. >> BUT JONES HAD A SUCCESSFUL THAT STRETCHED DECADES EARLIER, AND IT WAS ONE OF THOSE RARE ARTISTS WHO'VE WON AN EMMY, GRAMMY, OSCAR AND TONY. >> I DIDN'T GIVE YOU EVERYTHING HAD TO GIVE YOU. >> I GAVE YOU YOUR LIFE. ONE OF HIS, TONY AWARDS WAS FIRST BROADWAY PERFORMANCE IN THE PLAY FENCES, A STORY ABOUT A BLACK WORKING CLASS FATHER STRUGGLING TO PROVIDE FOR HIS FAMILY IN 1950S AMERICA. HE TOLD US IN 2014 HOW HE PREPARES WHEN HE TAKES THE STAGE. YEAH, WE YELL AT THE SEATS. WE WANT TO YELL AT THE EMPTY SEATS. YEAH, YEAH. >> IN COMING TO AMERICA, A COMEDY THAT BECAME A CULTURAL MOMENT WAS THE KING OF ZAMUNDA. >> LET THEM WAIT. >> I'M TALKING TO MY SON. AND DISNEY'S LION KING. HE WAS THE KING OF THE JUNGLE. >> JAMES EARL JONES WAS BORN IN MISSISSIPPI AND OVERCAME A STUTTER AS A CHILD. HE WOULD GO ON IN LIKE FIELD OF DREAMS TO DELIVER SOME OF THE MOST ICONIC LINES IN STORYTELLING. >> OH, PEOPLE WILL COME. REAL PEOPLE MOST DEFINITELY COME. >> AN ABSOLUTE LEGEND. OUR THANKS TO STEVE OSUNSAMI FOR THAT. AND STILL TO COME, COUNTING DOWN TO THE PRESIDENTIAL. OUR RACHEL SCOTT ON THE SET IN PHILADELPHIA WITH A SNEAK PEEK INSIDE THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER, WHERE VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL TAKE THAT STAGE. >> AND IN CASE ANYONE IN AMERICA. GOOD MORNING, AMERICA. GOOD MORNING, AMERICA. YOU DON'T JUST SEE IT. YOU FEEL IT. I'M IN. I'M IN. I'M IN. I'M IN AM. I'M IN. I'M IN. TO BE HERE. >> LET'S GO. THE SHIP IS INCREDIBLE. IT FEELS LIKE LIVING IN A SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE. WE JUST SAW WHERE NO ONE HAS SEEN BEFORE. LOOK AT THAT. OH, MY GOSH. WE HAD. WE ARE HEADING INTO THE UNKNOWN. HAMMER. HAMMER! IT DOESN'T GET ANY MORE CUTTING EDGE IN THIS PORTRAYAL IS ONE OF THE HARDEST TYPES OF TRAUMA TO OVERCOME. THIS IS HER KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR. EVERYTHING FELT RIGHT. ALL OF A SUDDEN, I. THIS HIDDEN FOLDER. I OPENED IT. I DON'T 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 ALL NEW SEASON ON HULU. >> WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA? WE ARE PART OF AN OPERATION. THE SECOND THAT OPERATION, WE'RE APPROACHING THE GATE. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM A DIFFERENT NUCLEAR REACTOR. SO YOU HAD A COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED BUT THE FLAG. YOU KNOW HOW IT MADE THE USA GREAT WORK. HI, IT'S MY DAVID. >> I'M DAVID. YOU ARE. >> YOU ARE. YOU DO EVERY NIGHT. ABC'S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR IS AMERICA'S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST. ABC NEWS LIVE HONORED WITH EMMY NOMINATIONS MORE THAN ANY OTHER STREAMING NEWS NETWORK AND NEWS LIVE PRIME WITH LINSEY DAVIS THE FIRST AND ONLY STREAMING SHOW NOMINATED FOR BEST OUTSTANDING LIVE NEWS PROGRAM THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE. WE'RE ABOUT 24 HOURS AWAY FROM THE DEBATE BETWEEN VICE PRESIDENT AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. IT IS ALL HAPPENING IN PHILADELPHIA AT THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER. AND TONIGHT OUR RACHEL SCOTT GIVES US A BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK AT THE DEBATE STAGE AND WHAT TO EXPECT. >> WE'RE HERE AT THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER. WE ARE JUST HOURS FROM THE VERY FIRST DEBATE BETWEEN VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS AND FORMER DONALD TRUMP. >> WHEN THESE TWO CANDIDATES ENTER THIS ROOM, IT WILL BE THEIR VERY FIRST TIME COMING FACE TO FACE AND THEY'LL BE STANDING JUST SIX FEET APART. THIS ROOM IS QUITE INTIMATE. THERE WILL BE STUDIO AUDIENCE TO CHEER THEM ON. NO CAMPAIGN STAFF ALLOWED IN THIS ROOM, AND THE CANDIDATES WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO TALK TO CAMPAIGN STAFF DURING THE COMMERCIAL BREAKS EITHER. NO PRE-WRITTEN DEBATE NOTES ARE ALLOWED ON THE STAGE. THERE WILL BE A PEN AND PAD ON EACH OF THEIR PODIUMS. THE FORMER PRESIDENT WON THE COIN TOSS AND SO HE CHOSE TO HAVE THE FINAL WORD. AND THIS VICE PRESIDENT, KAMALA HARRIS, CHOOSING THE PODIUM ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE DEBATE STAGE. THEIR MICROPHONES WILL ONLY BE TURNED ON. >> IT IS THEIR TURN TO SPEAK. EACH CANDIDATE WILL HAVE 2 MINUTES TO ANSWER EACH QUESTION, 2 MINUTES FOR REBUTTAL AND JUST 60 SECONDS FOR ANY FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS. AND THEY WILL BE PAYING CLOSE ATTENTION TO THIS MONITOR RIGHT. THE COLOR WILL CHANGE AS THE TIME WINDS DOWN TURNING YELLOW WHEN THERE'S JUST 15 SECONDS LEFT AND, TURNING RED WHEN THEIR TIME IS UP. AND OF COURSE, OUR MODERATORS OUR VERY OWN DAVID MUIR AND LINSEY DAVIS WILL THEY'LL BE SITTING RIGHT HERE. MODERATOR WHAT IS THE FIRST AND VERY LIKELY ONLY PRESIDENTIAL BEFORE NOVEMBER? RACHEL SCOTT THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT. BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK AND AS WE COUNT DOWN TO TOMORROW NIGHT'S STAKES DEBATE, HELPING TO SHED SOME LIGHT ON THE MAGNITUDE, IT ALL IS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN MARK UPDEGROVE MARK, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. FIRST OFF, PUT THINGS INTO PERSPECTIVE FOR US. JUST HOW SIGNIFICANT IS TOMORROW NIGHT'S DEBATE GOING TO BE FOR HISTORY BOOKS? >> POLITICALLY, IT DOESN'T GET MORE SIGNIFICANT TONIGHT FOR THE CANDIDATES AND FOR HISTORY. THIS IS THE ONLY TIME THESE TWO CANDIDATES WILL SQUARE OFF IN A BEAT AGAINST ONE ANOTHER. DEBATES CAN BE DETERMINATIVE. THEY CAN BE DEFINITIVE TERMS OF DETERMINING THE FATE OF A CANDIDATE. WE DON'T HAVE TO GO MUCH FURTHER THAN LAST JUNE TO TO KNOW THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN WAS THOUGHT TO BE TOO OLD. HE SORT OF CONFIRMED THAT PERCEPTION AMONG VOTERS MINDS AND THEN DROPPED OUT OF RACE, PASSING THE TORCH TO KAMALA HARRIS. >> MANY AMERICANS KNOW KAMALA HARRIS, DESPITE THE FACT THAT SHE'S BEEN IN THE VICE PRESIDENCY FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS. SO THIS IS VITALLY IMPORTANT FOR KAMALA TO ESTABLISH HERSELF AND VITALLY IMPORTANT FOR DONALD TRUMP TO THAT HE IS CAPABLE OF LEADING THE NATION FORWARD ONCE AGAIN AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. >> STEPHANIE AND MARK TOUCHED ON AN IMPORTANT POINT THERE. WE KNOW TOMORROW WILL MARK THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS. SOME EXPERTS SAY SHE HAS A RELATIVELY BLANK SLATE WITH VOTERS. YOU KIND OF TOUCHED ON THAT. HOW UNUSUAL IS THAT FOR A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE? >> WELL, USUALLY YOU HAVE A LONG TIME TO ESTABLISH YOURSELF, AND THAT'S TO NOT KNOW WHETHER THE ANOMALOUS ABOUT THIS ELECTION CYCLE. OBVIOUSLY, PRESIDENT BIDEN HAD SEWED UP THE NOMINATION FOR HIS PARTY. AND THEN AGAIN OUT AFTER THE LAST DEBATE. SO WE HAVEN'T SEEN AN ELECTION CYCLE FOR A CANDIDATE THAT HAS BEEN THIS SHORT AT LEAST IN THIS CENTURY. SO THIS IS HIGHLY UNUSUAL. AND AGAIN, DESPITE THE FACT THAT THAT KAMALA HARRIS WAS SERVED AS VICE PRESIDENT FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS, MANY VOTERS REALLY HAVEN'T SEEN HER UP CLOSE. BUT THESE THESE CONTESTS ARE SO VITALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONLY OPPORTUNITY THAT MANY VOTERS HAVE JUST TO HAVE AN APPLES TO APPLES SIDE BY COMPARISON BETWEEN THE TWO CANDIDATES. >> AND, MARK, WE KNOW SO MANY PEOPLE WILL BE WATCHING THIS DEBATE TOMORROW. HOW MUCH DO PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES REALLY INFLUENCE THE OUTCOME OF AN ELECTION? >> I THINK THEY COULD BE ENORMOUSLY DETERMINATIVE. AGAIN, WE SAW WHAT HAPPENED WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN. BUT -- BUT I THINK AGAIN, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO SIZE UP CANDIDATES IN THIS KIND OF WAY, APPLES TO APPLES SIDE BY SIDE AS, BEING ASKED THE SAME QUESTIONS. IT BECOMES A REALLY IMPORTANT MEANS OF COMPARISON BETWEEN THE TWO CANDIDATES. SO, AGAIN, IT DOES NOT GET BIGGER, THIS FOR A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. AND GIVEN THE STAKES, THE ELECTION, IT DOESN'T GET MUCH BIGGER THAN THIS IN HISTORY. >> STEPHANIE? IT CERTAINLY DOESN'T. IT'S SUCH A HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBATE. WE WILL ALL BE WATCHING. MARK, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN AND ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR MARK UPDEGROVE. THANK YOU. AND THAT DOES IT FOR OUR COVERAGE FROM NEW YORK CITY THIS HOUR. LET'S TOSS IT BACK OVER TO LINSEY DAVIS IN PHILADELPHIA AS WE ARE NOW HOURS AWAY FROM THE BIG DEBATE, LINSEY. STEPHANIE, THANK YOU. 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Tomorrow night live on ABC and streaming on ABC News, live, Hulu, and Disney plus the ABC News presidential debate. Reporting outside the Gaza Strip. I'm Matt Gutman, wherever the news is, we'll take you there. You're streaming. ABC News live. MAKING HER NIGHTLINE DEBUT. >> THERE'S THIS REAL RECOGNITION THAT SOMETHING ISN'T WORKING FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE ANYMORE. >> IF YOU ASK SINGLE ADULTS WHAT DATING IS LIKE RIGHT NOW, I FEEL FATIGUED IS PROBABLY A REALLY GOOD WORD. >> THEY MIGHT SAY SOMETHING LIKE, IT'S JUST SO HECTIC RIGHT NOW, AND IT'S REALLY HARD TO FIND A GENUINE CONNECTION. >> I FEEL SO DEFEATED RIGHT NOW. >> CALL IT BURNOUT OR FATIGUE. MORE AND MORE SINGLES SAY THEY'RE FED UP, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO THOSE APPS. >> IT GETS TO A POINT WHERE I'M LIKE, OKAY, WHEN ARE WE MEETING? ARE WE ARE WE PEN PALS? LIKE ARE YOU IN JAIL? LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, LIKE, WHERE WHERE ARE YOU? >> RELATIONSHIP EXPERTS SAY THEY'RE HARDLY ALONE. >> WHAT'S DIFFERENT FOR DATING IN THIS MOMENT IS THAT THE SHEER VOLUME OF REJECTION AND DISAPPOINTMENT IS SO MUCH HIGHER FOR DATERS THAN IT HAS BEEN IN PREVIOUS GENERATIONS. >> BETWEEN ALL THE SWIPES, LIKES, TAPS AND DMS, ALMOST 80% OF SINGLES SAY THEY EXPERIENCE SOME DEGREE OF EMOTIONAL FATIGUE OR BURNOUT WHEN DATING ONLINE. >> THEY'RE DISAPPOINTED. THEY'RE FRUSTRATED, AND I THINK THEY'RE OVERWHELMED BY CHOICE, WHICH IS WHY A GROWING NUMBER OF PEOPLE ARE CHOOSING TO TAKE THEIR SEARCH FOR LOVE OFFLINE, LIKE SINGLES AND DATING EVENTS ARE SEEING A 42% BOOST IN ATTENDANC, INCLUDING THE COMEBACK OF SPEED DATING EVENTS AND POTENTIAL MEET CUTE RUN CLUBS. >> LAST TIME THERE WERE 30 PEOPLE THERE AND LOOK HOW MANY PEOPLE THERE ARE NOW. >> EVEN A PIZZA TOUR. >> I'M REALLY PRIORITIZING IN-PERSON CONNECTIONS, KIND OF JUST MEETING PEOPLE BY CHANCE. >> I DON'T FEEL LIKE I'VE FELT THIS ENGAGED ABOUT DATING IN YEARS, AND SO IT'S NICE TO BE LIKE, OKAY, THERE'S A REAL WAY TO MEET PEOPLE. >> MEANWHILE, SOME PEOPLE ARE GOING EVEN MORE OLD SCHOOL. >> MATCHMAKING IS OLD LIKE IT'S ANCIENT WISDOM AND MODERN LOVE BLENDED TOGETHER. >> I'M SIMA TAPARIA. I'M MUMBAI'S TOP MATCHMAKER. >> SHOWS LIKE INDIAN MATCHMAKING AND JEWISH MATCHMAKING, REFLECTING A RENAISSANCE IN THE ANCIENT ART OF MATCHMAKING. >> ARE WE GETTING ANYTHING RIGHT ABOUT LOVE? >> ALISA BEN-SHALOM IS A PROFESSIONAL SHADCHAN OR MATCHMAKER WHO'S HELPED MORE THAN 200 COUPLES DOWN THE AISLE. HER JOB? AN OLD SCHOOL ONE MADE FAMOUS IN POP CULTURE BY FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. >> MATCHMAKER, MATCHMAKER. MAKE ME A MATCH. >> FIND ME A FIND. CATCH ME A CATCH. >> AN ORTHODOX JEW, ALISA DOESN'T OWN A TELEVISION, BUT THAT HASN'T STOPPED HER FROM HELPING SINGLES FIND LOVE IN HER HIT NETFLIX SHOW. I'VE HELPED OVER 200 COUPLES TO GET TO THE CHUPPAH. HOW DO YOU TAKE SOMETHING OLD AND MODERNIZE IT SO THAT IT'S APPEALING TO THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS? >> SO I LOVE TO TAKE JEWISH WISDOM AND PUT IT IN PLAIN LANGUAGE. A MATCHMAKER REALLY HAS THREE JOBS. THE FIRST JOB IS TO BE AN INTRODUCER AND PUT PEOPLE TOGETHER. THE SECOND JOB IS TO BE A COACH, WALK THE WALK AND TALK THE TALK AND HELP THEM THROUGH THE PROCESS. THE THIRD JOB IS TO BE A CLOSER. A CLOSER IS THE PERSON THAT SAYS, YEAH, YOU'RE GOING TO GET MARRIED. THIS IS GOOD. WE'RE LIKE, I KNOW YOU MIGHT LOVE HIM, BUT IT'S NEVER GOING TO WORK. YOU NEED TO BREAK UP. >> SINCE THE SHOW'S SUCCESS, ALISA HAS SPENT HER DAYS TRAVELING THE WORLD ON A MISSION. ALISA BEN-SHALOM PUTTING ON LIVE MATCHMAKING SHOWS. OKAY, EVERYBODY SMILE. >> ALL RIGHT. >> LET'S TAKE MATCHES. >> WHEN WE BRING UP TWO GUYS AND TWO GIRLS, WE GRILL THEM AND GET TO KNOW THEM. NO, HE'S ACTUALLY NERVOUS. AND THEN THROW IT BACK TO THE AUDIENCE. >> YOUR MATCHMAKERS AND I ASKED THEM, HEY, WHO DO YOU KNOW FOR THESE PEOPLE? >> AND WHO ARE YOU GOING TO SET THEM UP WITH? SO THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS ON DATES. YOU HAVE TO TRANSLATE IN YOUR BRAIN WHAT PEOPLE SAY. YOU'RE SINGLE. YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY. OKAY, GOOD. RABBI, LOCK THE DOOR. BECAUSE WE'RE NOT LEAVING UNTIL WE HAVE MATCHES, OKAY? THAT IS THE RULE. THAT'S RIGHT. WE CAN GO ALL NIGHT. I GOT ALL NIGHT IF YOU DO. SO WE'RE GOING TO START OUT WITH THE BASICS. NAME AGE, WHAT YOU DO. >> I AM 20 YEARS OLD. I'M A SOPHOMORE. I'M STUDYING ADVERTISING. AND THE MAIN QUALITY THAT I'M LOOKING FOR IN A MAN IS EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE. YES. I MEAN, I JUST DON'T HAVE TIME TO PLAY GAMES. >> AFTER THE SHOW, I HAD A CHANCE TO JUMP INTO THE HOT SEAT. >> DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC DEAL BREAKERS? PHYSICAL TRAITS. ANYTHING THAT MIGHT BE A DEAL BREAKER? >> SHE KNOWS. OKAY I AM SPECIFIC ABOUT HEIGHT. >> I SHE WANTS SOMEBODY REALLY SHORT. >> AND ALTHOUGH I DID GET TEASED FOR MY HEIGHT PREFERENCES, I'M FIVE EIGHT AND I NORMALLY AM LIKE WEARING HEELS. I GET A LOT OF GRIEF FOR THAT. SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE NOT GIVING YOU GRIEF. >> WE GO LIKE THIS. RIGHT. >> I TOOK AWAY A VALUABLE LESSON, IF NOT A DATE. >> I FIND THAT WE ARE ALL EXTREMELY SIMILAR. WE LOVE OUR COMMUNITIES, WE LOVE OUR FAMILIES AND I THINK THAT WE HAVE MANY MORE SIMILARITIES THAN WE DO DIFFERENCES. I WATCHED INDIAN MATCHMAKING BEFORE WE GOT INTO JEWISH MATCHMAKING, AND I WAS LIKE, OH MY GOSH, IT'S THE SAME. HI I'M SIMCHA MOMMY. >> I'M A MATCHMAKER FOR MANY FAMILIES, NETFLIX'S INDIAN MATCHMAKING FEATURES SEEMA AUNTY, HOW ARE YOU? >> HOW ARE YOU? NICE TO MEET YOU ON THE SHOW. >> SHE TRIED HELPING APARNA RAMANI FIND LOVE. >> I WANT SOMEONE WHO'S RIGHT FOR ME. SOMEONE WHO I CAN ALIGN WITH. >> THOUGH SHE DIDN'T FIND HER MATCH, SHE SAYS SHE TRUSTS THE PROCESS. >> I THINK IT HAS BEEN THE BEST WAY FOR ME TO MEET PEOPLE. AND IN THE SOUTH ASIAN COMMUNITY, MATCHMAKING INCLUDES YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR AUNTIES, YOUR RANDOM FRIEND AT A WEDDING WHO THINKS SHE KNOWS ANOTHER RANDOM FRIEND FOR YOU. >> IN THE MATCHMAKING WORLD, IT SEEMS THERE IS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE. AT THIS CONFERENCE IN NEW YORK CITY, MORE THAN A HUNDRED MATCHMAKERS ARE HERE TO LEARN HOW TO HELP CLIENTS FIND THEIR PERFECT MATCH. >> ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S DIFFERENT BETWEEN MATCHMAKERS TODAY AND MATCHMAKERS, A LONG TIME AGO IS THAT MATCHMAKERS TODAY KNOW THE SCIENCE OF RELATIONSHIPS, AND THEY KNOW WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO LONG TERM HAPPY RELATIONSHIPS. >> JADA HARMAN HAS BEEN LOOKING FOR THAT SPECIAL SOMEONE OVER THE PAST YEAR. I LOVE SOMEONE WHO IS AMBITIOUS, HAS GOALS FOR THEMSELVES, HAS HOBBIES. LATELY SHE'S SHIFTED HER STRATEGY. >> I AM GOING ON A FIRST DATE WITH SOMEONE THAT I MET IN PERSON, AND I'M ACTUALLY FEELING PRETTY EXCITED AS SINGLES LIKE JADA CONTINUE THEIR SEARCH FOR LOVE IRL, THE MAJOR DATING APPS ARE EXPERIMENTING WITH MAKING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. >> BUMBLE FOUNDER WHITNEY WOLFE HERD TALKED ABOUT THAT ON BLOOMBERG TV. >> AND THEN YOU DON'T HAVE TO TALK TO 600 PEOPLE WILL SCAN ALL OF SAN FRANCISCO FOR YOU AND SAY, THESE ARE THE THREE PEOPLE YOU REALLY OUGHT TO MEET. AND SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE POWER OF AI. >> BUT SOME RELATIONSHIP EXPERTS ARE SKEPTICAL. >> FOR NOW, NO ROBOT IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO TELL ME WHO I'M ATTRACTED TO. THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO WAY THAT THEY'RE GOING TO KNOW WHETHER I LIKE THAT PERSON'S SMELL. THERE'S NO WAY THAT THEY'RE GOING TO KNOW IF I LIKE THAT PERSON'S BRAIN. THERE'S NO WAY THAT I'M GOING TO THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO PREDICT WHETHER OR NOT THAT'S GOING TO BE A LASTING CONNECTION FOR ME. >> IN SEARCH OF THAT LASTING CONNECTION, MATCHMAKING SERVICES AND PLATFORMS LIKE TAWKIFY SAY THEY'RE TAKING THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS APPROACH. >> FINDING A MATCH CAN POTENTIALLY BE A NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK KIND OF STORY. AND IT'S NO DIFFERENT FOR MATCHMAKERS, BUT BECAUSE OF THE SIZE OF OUR DATABASE, WE DO USE AI TO NARROW DOWN THE POOL. THE OLD SCHOOL ELEMENT OF A HUMAN REALLY UNDERSTANDING ANOTHER HUMAN'S EMOTIONS, DOING A VIBE CHECK, MAKING SURE THAT SORT OF LIKE THE OFF PAPER THINGS MATCH. THAT'S WHERE WE BRING IN HUMANS. MATCHMAKING WHETHER IT'S WORKING WITH A MATCHMAKER, GOING TO THAT SPEED DATING EVENT, OR GIVING THE APPS ONE LAST TRY, EXPERTS SAY THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE GAINED IN THE JOURNEY, NOT JUST THE DESTINATION. >> DATING CAN BE THIS PROCESS OF SELF-DISCOVERY AS WELL. >> AND FOR SOME, THAT MIGHT MEAN ULTIMATELY CHOOSING TO BE ON THEIR OWN. >> I THINK THERE'S BEEN A BIG CULTURAL SHIFT, AND PEOPLE RECOGNIZE THAT THERE IS SOMETHING TO BE SAID FOR A HAPPY SINGLE PERSON. >> JADA AGREES. SHE SAYS HER TIME ALONE MAKES HER APPRECIATE THE GOOD DATES. >> I HAD A REALLY GOOD TIME. >> IT WAS REALLY FUN. I DEFINITELY WOULD SEE THIS PERSON FOR A SECOND DATE. >> AND I'M JUST FEELING REALLY HAPPY AND WE'LL SEE WHERE THINGS GO. >> OUR THANKS TO RINA AND WELCOME TO THE NIGHTLINE FAMILY. WHEN WE CO Baywatch is a fantasy when you hear that theme song was a wild time and I was a wild chick Jason Momoa exploded, common was a bombshell Anderson was an icon Proud of everything. I've done. 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The ABC News presidential debate moderated by David, Muir and Lindsey Davis tomorrow night live on EBC and streaming on Hulu and Disney Plus You're watching. America's number one, streaming news keeps screaming with ABC News live. >> WELCOME BACK JOHN LEGEND DID PLENTY WHEN HE WAS YOUNG. HE PLAYED PIANO AT THE AGE OF FOUR, WAS SINGING IN CHURCH AT SEVEN AND WENT OFF TO COLLEGE AT 16. THE ONLY SURPRISE ABOUT THE FATHER OF FOUR WRITING AN ALBUM FOR FAMILIES AND KIDS MIGHT BE WHAT TOOK HIM SO LONG. HE SAT DOWN WITH ABC'S LINSEY DAVIS. >> GREAT TO SEE YOU, AS ALWAYS. GIVE US A SENSE OF WHO IT'S HARDER TO WRITE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE OR THE ORDINARY PEOPLE. >> WELL, WRITING FOR THIS ALBUM, YOU KNOW, IT'S A CHILDREN'S ALBUM FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILY SING ALONGS AND LULLABIES. >> IT WAS REALLY INSPIRING FOR ME BECAUSE I THOUGHT ABOUT ALL THE THINGS THAT I LIKE TO TELL MY KIDS, AND CHRISSY LIKES TO TELL OUR KIDS AND THE MESSAGES WE LIKE TO SHARE WITH THEM, TO INSPIRE THEM TO MOTIVATE THEM, TO COMFORT THEM. THIS IS THE FIRST ALBUM I'VE EVER WRITTEN ON MY OWN, WITHOUT ANY CO-WRITERS OR ANYONE ELSE WRITING WITH ME, AND I WROTE IT AT HOME, INSPIRED BY MY FAMILY, AND IT FELT REALLY NATURAL. >> SO NOT IN THE STUDIO, BUT RIGHT AT THE PIANO IN YOUR HOUSE AND THE KIDS ARE PLAYING AND RUNNING AROUND. >> THE KIDS ARE AROUND. >> SO I'M IMMEDIATELY BEING INSPIRED BY OUR LIFE, OUR LIFE AND THE WAY WE TALK TO THEM AND, YOU KNOW, SHARING THOSE MESSAGES WITH EVERYONE. >> DID THEY SAY ANYTHING OR DO ANYTHING THAT YOU SAID? YEAH, I'M GOING TO INCORPORATE THAT INTO THE SONG. >> WELL, ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS ON THE ALBUM IS CALLED ALWAYS COME BACK, AND IT'S SOMETHING WE TELL OUR KIDS ALL THE TIME BECAUSE I HAVE TO LEAVE A LOT FOR WORK, AND THIS SONG WAS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, COMFORTING THEM, KNOWING THAT I'M GOING TO BE GONE FOR A LITTLE WHILE. I KNOW I'LL BE FINDING MY WAY HOME, THOUGH. I'M GONE. >> WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE IN LOVE TO INCORPORATE YOUR WIFE, CHRISSY TEIGEN, LUNA AND ALSO MILES, TWO OF YOUR KIDS? YEAH. >> SO THE LEAD SINGLE FOR THE ALBUM IS L O V E, AND IT'S LIKE THE ANTHEM, THE THEME SONG FOR THE ALBUM. BECAUSE LOVE, LOVE, LOVE MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER. AND I FELT LIKE IT WOULD BE PERFECT FOR LUNA AND MILES AND CHRISSY TO SING ALONG WITH ME ON IT. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THE KIDS HAVE SUNG WITH ME. >> WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE? YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M GOING TO ACTUALLY GO IN THIS NEW DIRECTION. >> WELL, YOU KNOW, IT STARTED WITH A VERY PRACTICAL THING. ME TRYING TO LEARN ONE OF HIS FAVORITE SONGS ON HER FISHER-PRICE KICK AND PLAY PIANO. MATT, MAYBE YOU COULD BE A PURPLE MONKEY AND A BUBBLE GUM TREE AND. AND SO I WENT IN THE PIANO ROOM AND LEARNED IT. AND THEN CHRISSY POSTED A VIDEO OF ME SINGING IT TO SD. MAYBE YOU COULD BE A PURPLE MONKEY IN A BUBBLE GUM TREE. AND EVERYONE WAS LIKE, JOHN, YOU GOT TO DO MORE OF THIS. AND I WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW WHAT? I THINK I CAN WRITE AN ENTIRE ALBUM LIKE THIS. AND I DON'T WANT TO JUST COVER CLASSIC SONGS. I WANT TO CREATE NEW CLASSICS. >> SWITCH GEARS FOR A MOMENT AND TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MANY PEOPLE SAW YOU PERFORMING AT THE DNC. YOU HAVE THIS POLITICAL ACTIVIST SIDE WITH YOUR ORGANIZATION THAT YOU CREATED, FREE AMERICA. WHERE DOES THAT COME FROM? >> WELL, YOU KNOW, I WAS ALWAYS INSPIRED BY ARTISTS WHO SAW IT AS PART OF THEIR MISSION, AS PART OF THE DEFINITION OF THEM BEING AN ARTIST TO BE CITIZENS OF THE WORLD WHO CARED ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE WORLD, TALKED ABOUT IT IN THEIR MUSIC, BUT ALSO ADDRESSED IT OUTSIDE OF THEIR MUSIC. >> AND I ALWAYS CARED ABOUT POLITICS. AND WHEN I WAS 15 YEARS OLD, INSPIRED BY PEOPLE LIKE DOCTOR KING, BUT ALSO BY ARTISTS THAT I SAW AS LEADERS, I WROTE AN ESSAY AND IT WAS A BLACK HISTORY MONTH ESSAY, AND IT WAS SPONSORED BY MCDONALD'S. THIS ESSAY COMPETITION. AND THEY ASKED, HOW DO YOU PLAN TO MAKE BLACK HISTORY? AND I SAID, I PLAN TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL RECORDING ARTIST AND USE THAT SUCCESS AS A PLATFORM TO HELP PEOPLE IN MY COMMUNITY TO LIFT OTHER PEOPLE UP. AND I'VE BEEN TRYING TO LIVE THAT ASPIRATION SINCE I WAS 15. >> THAT'S FANTASTIC. YOU KNOW WHAT'S FUNNY? I WROTE THAT ESSAY, TOO. I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT I WROTE IT ABOUT, BUT BUT I DO REMEMBER WRITING THAT WELL, YOU'RE DOING IT. >> YOU'RE MAKING HISTORY. >> THANK YOU FOR UPLIFTING US ALL. SO APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. GREAT TO SEE YOU. >> OUR THA This is impact by Nightline. Kidding me. My sense is that everybody around him. I was afraid of Brittany describes having a secret abortion, that not even her family knew about. What is the relationship like between Harry and William today? What do people start to say? You look great. Are you on his empik? I told because I said, I'm not even here. Let you eat breakfast until you get your chores done. She talks about how Faith love and harsh punishment. Know it's abuse I think Scott Peterson murdered his wife and his child. Whoo-hoo wrong. Do you feel the church accepted abuse? Yep, that's him. Yep. Ready does your church protects sexual predators top? The most watch season yet fabulous, just a bit. 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Reporting from Santa Fe New Mexico. I'm Lindsey Davis wherever the story is will take you there. You're streaming, ABC News live. >> AND FINALLY, TONIGHT, ELIZABETH OLSEN AND CARRIE, KNOWN FOR SOME PRETTY BIG PROJECTS. THEIR LATEST SHOW TELLS THE STORY OF A FAMILY COMING TOGETHER IN A MOMENT OF IMPENDING TRAGEDY. HIS THREE DAUGHTERS IS COMPELLING, ABSORBING AND PREMIERING IN SELECT THEATERS TONIGHT. WELCOME BOTH TO THE SHOW. >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING US. >> YEAH, WELL, YOU TWO PLAY SISTERS. YOU HIRE YOUNG MOTHERS CARING FOR AN AILING FATHER ON HIS DEATHBED. WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE BIG THEMES IN THE FILM? >> OH, MY GOODNESS, I THINK IT'S THE ROLES WE PLAY IN OUR FAMILIES. HOW IT'S VERY EASY TO DEFAULT TO THOSE ROLES WHEN WE GO HOME AND HOW INCAPABLE WE ARE OF SEEING THE PEOPLE WHO ARE RIGHT IN FRONT OF US. THERE'S A LOT OF TENSION AND BUILT UP EMOTIONS. >> I MEAN, THAT FEELS LIKE THE, THE, THE STARTING PLACE AND THE HEART OF THE FILM AS WELL AS WHAT IT MEANS TO PREEMPTIVELY GRIEVE FOR SOMEONE THAT'S PASSING AND THE ROLES WE PLAY. >> AND IN A SMALL, CRAMPED NEW YORK APARTMENT ON FILM, IT FELT MORE LIKE A THEATER PIECE. IN MANY WAYS. I THINK AUDIENCES NOW LOVE YOU AND THE GILDED AGE HEAVENS, WHAT A VISION. >> THE WHOLE AUDIENCE WILL BE LOOKING AT YOU. >> YOU ARE SWEET. >> HOW DO YOU CONTRAST THAT TO WHAT YOU WERE ABLE TO DO HERE? >> WELL, I THINK THE SPACE, IT DOES UNFOLD LIKE A THEATER PIECE IN THAT IT'S VERY LANGUAGE FORWARD. IT'S SO TIGHTLY STRUCTURED, IT'S SO BEAUTIFULLY AND SPECIFICALLY WRITTEN, AND THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT AN EXTRAORDINARY FILM. >> AND YOUR PERFORMANCE IS SO NATURALISTIC. I MEAN, AGAIN, MY SONS AND I LOVE YOU. IN WANDAVISION, WE THINK OF YOU AS A MARVEL CHARACTER. BUT IN THIS, IT'S VERY LIKE SPARE AND STRIPPED DOWN. WERE THERE A LOT OF REHEARSALS? >> YES, WE HAD REHEARSALS. WE HAD ABOUT THREE DAYS TO FIGURE OUT THE RHYTHM AND THE MUSICALITY OF THE LANGUAGE AND HOW WE ALL WORKED AS A UNIT, AND I MENTIONED THE APARTMENT AND THE FACT THAT IT'S SHOT ON FILM. >> I THINK OF ALL THESE LIKE, FRANKLY, WOODY ALLEN MOVIES WHERE I'M LIKE, THERE IS NO NEW YORK APARTMENT THAT LOOKS LIKE THAT. THERE WAS SOMETHING VERY REALISTIC. >> IT'S A RENT CONTROLLED APARTMENT ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE, IS THAT RIGHT? YES. >> AND DO YOU THINK THE FACT THAT IT WAS SHOT ON FILM, LIKE, WHAT DO YOU WHAT DID YOU TAKE AWAY WHEN YOU WENT INTO THOSE SCREENING SESSIONS? >> WHEN YOU'RE ACTIVELY SHOOTING ON FILM, YOU HAVE TO BE VERY DELIBERATE WITH HOW YOU'RE COVERING A SCENE. AND SO IT ACTUALLY CREATES THESE LIMITATIONS. AND, AND THIS STRUCTURE OF HOW YOU'RE GOING TO SHOOT. AND A REALLY FREEING WAY. SO IT WAS ALL INCREDIBLY INTENTIONAL AND, AND SPECIFIC TO HOW WE WERE TELLING THE STORY. >> IT SOUNDS LIKE A WONDERFUL PROJECT TO BE A PART OF WAS IT WAS REALLY SPECIAL. >> LIZZIE. >> KERRY, THANK YOU BOTH FO TO C BED-STUY NEIGHBORHOOD TO MEET THE OWNER OF J10 PATISSERIE. ARE DOWN TO THREE. MY BABY, MY FIRST EVER BUSINESS IS JUST HIM. ACTUALLY MEANS, I LOVE YOU. MY NAME IS JACK. I'M A LOVER. EVERYTHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH LOVE, FAMILY, FRIENDS, RELATIONSHIP, FOOD, COMMUNITY EMBODIES THAT I AM. SO MY SLOGAN IS MADE FROM LOVE NOT MADE WITH LOVE. EVERY DAY I WAKE UP AT 3:30 A.M. AND I'M JUST LIKE, LET'S TO IT. I REALLY LOVE WHAT I DO. THE FRENCH COOKING TECHNIQUES ARE VERY INTRICATE, VERY DETAILED, VERY TECHNICAL. SO KNOWING THAT I LIKE TO SOLVE PROBLEMS AND KNOWING THAT I LOVE A CHALLENGE, I JUST GRAVITATED TOWARDS THEIR TECHNIQUE OF BAKING ALL OF MY RECIPES ARE MY OWN. I CREATE THEM FROM SCRATCH. I CALL IT LIKE BLACK GIRL SPIN ON FRENCH PASTRIES. THE QUALITY OF FOOD HERE IS VERY. I TRY TO BE AS LOCAL AS POSSIBLE. I TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING THAT WE DO IS ONE HELPING THE COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO HELPING THE PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN THIS COMMUNITY. >> THE CULTURE IS CRIMINALIZED AND WE DON'T ANY COLORING. WE DON'T USE ANY PROCESS ANYTHING. WE PUT FRESH BERRIES. WE MAKE JAMS. WE PUT IT ON THE FOOD DANISH, OUR FILIPINO BISCUITS. EVERYONE LOVES THE HAM AND CHEESE CROISSANTS, THE CHOCOLATE, THE ALMOND CROISSANT. DO YOU WANT TO THROW PEOPLE? >> ARE WAITING OUTSIDE FOR ME TO OPEN THE DOOR. I OPEN THE DOOR. THEY ZOOM IN. I DON'T EVEN HAVE TIME TO ENTER THE DOOR BECAUSE THEY WANT TO GET THEIR STUFF. BECAUSE THEY. I LOVE INTO IT. A LOT OF US SAY NEVER, BUT WE BARELY HAVE ANY LEFTOVERS. SO PEOPLE KNOW THAT IF THEY COME HERE, IT'S GOING TO BE FRESH EVERY SINGLE DAY. >> WE WANT THAT. SO THIS IS MY THIRD TIME COMING THIS WEEK, AND I ABSOLUTELY LOVE. >> THE ALMOND CAPPUCCINO. IT IS REALLY REFRESHING TO WATCH THIS BUSINESS THRIVE IN NEIGHBORHOOD. IF ANYONE HAS BEEN HERE IN BED-STUY FOR A DECENT AMOUNT OF YEARS, WE'VE WATCHED HOW NOT JUST BUSINESSES MOVE, BUT PEOPLE DESPITE HOW MANY WAYS THAT PEOPLE LIKE TO TALK ABOUT BED-STUY AND DISPARAGE IT AND SAY THAT BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE ARE DESTROYING A NEIGHBORHOOD. >> WE HAVE A NEIGHBORHOOD OF LOVE. THIS IS BED-STUY, BROOKLYN, A HISTORICALLY BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD. JUST ENCOMPASSES EVERYTHING THAT I WANTED FOR MY BUSINESS TO SERVE AN UNDERSERVED. SO IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR ME TO MAKE SURE THAT I PUT AN IMPACT ON COMMUNITIES THAT NOT ONLY I COME FROM, BUT THAT I WANT TO SEE, GROW AND FLOURISH AS WELL. WE DO ACCEPT SLAP HERE. AND THE PROCESS FOR ME TO GET IT WAS QUITE EASY BECAUSE THE SPACE DOESN'T LOOK LIKE YOUR TYPICAL BLACK OWNED BUSINESS. NO ONE ACTUALLY CAME INTO MY DOORS UNTIL LIKE THE FOURTH MONTH. I GOT A LOT OF FEEDBACK IN THE BEGINNING, LIKE, OH, WE THOUGHT YOU WERE JUST ANOTHER WHITE PERSON GENTRIFYING THE NEIGHBORHOOD. >> NO ONE KNEW THAT WE EXCEPT THE SNAP AND ABC. WHEN I TOLD MY FRIENDS AND MY FAMILY AND EVEN PEOPLE IN THE THEY WERE LIKE, YOU DON'T WANT TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE TYPE PEOPLE. JUST LIKE THOSE PEOPLE WERE MY MOM. THOSE PEOPLE. MY FAMILY. THOSE PEOPLE ARE MY FRIENDS. THOSE PEOPLE ARE. PEOPLE WHO LIVE ACROSS THE STREET FROM ME. SO LIKE, IF YOU LIVE ACROSS THE STREET FROM A BAKERY, YOU CAN NEVER GO IN BECAUSE YOU CAN'T AFFORD. HOW IS THAT OKAY? PEOPLE NEED ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE FOOD. HEALTHY FOOD IS NOT SITTING IN A STORE FOR WEEKS THAT, WAS SITTING ON A TRUCK FOR WEEKS THAT WAS SITTING IN A FACTORY FOR WEEKS. THIS IS FOOD. YOU GET FRESH FROM MY OVEN STRAIGHT TO YOUR MOUTH. WE'VE HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE COME IN HERE LIKE I'VE NEVER HAD A FRESHLY MADE CROISSANT OR I'VE NEVER HAD A KEY, SO I'VE NEVER HAD A MOOSE CAKE OR I'VE NEVER EVEN TASTED ANYTHING VEGAN BECAUSE IT'S TOO EXPENSIVE. BEFORE COMING HERE, I NEVER REALLY HAD A OF THE STUFF THAT WE MAKE. I'VE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF A LOT OF THE STUFF THAT WE MAKE. I'VE BEEN MAKING BRIOCHE BREAD, I'VE BEEN MAKING KABOBS. IT'S ALL A LEARNING EXPERIENCE AND I REALLY LOVE AND HOPEFULLY ONE DAY I COULD DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS. >> I'VE BEEN WORKING FOR THE LAST 22, 23 YEARS OF MY LIFE. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE COME INTO A WORKPLACE BECAUSE IT'S FUNNY. >> MOST OF MY STAFF ARE INTERNS . IN RETURN, THEY RECEIVE EDUCATION FROM ME ON HOW TO DO EVERYTHING HERE FOR LIKE THREE MONTHS. >> THEY ARE ABLE TO ACCESS ALL OF MY RECIPES. I DO HAVE TWO BARISTAS THAT ARE ON PAYROLL. YOU'RE RIGHT. EVERYBODY'S HERE BY GOD'S GRACE ,JUST HELPING ME RUN MY BUSINESS. >> I'M ACTUALLY IN THE PROCESS OF WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZER TO HAVE THE BAKERY BECOME LIKE A RESIDENCE KITCHEN, WHERE I HAVE PEOPLE WHO MAY HAVE WANTED TO OPEN A BAKERY OR A BUSINESS AND COULDN'T HAVE. I WANT IT TO BE LITERALLY A SPACE FOR THE COMMUNITY GROW WITH FOR US TO POUR OUT LOVE AS WELL AS GET LOVE. I LOVE HOW SHE'S COMMITTING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY, SO I JUST WANT TO SUPPORT THE BUSINESS. 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AS KAMALA HARRIS AND DONALD TRUMP PREPARE TO GO HEAD TO HEAD FOR THE FIRST AND PERHAPS ONLY TIME BEFORE VOTERS NATIONWIDE TO THE POLLS IN NOVEMBER. OUR REPORTERS ARE COVERING THE CANDIDATES AND THE ISSUES FROM IMMIGRATION TO ECONOMY AND MORE. AND THE FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF CONGRESS. PLUS, THE WILDFIRE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. FLAMES BURNING ACROSS MORE THAN 20,000 ACRES. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE FORCED THEIR HOMES. SEVERAL LARGE FIRES BURNING IN THE REGION. WE'RE THEY'RE ON THE FIRE LINE. >> AND OUR GOAL IS TO APPLY STEADY PRESSURE AND WORRYING. MR. CAPPS DOWN THE URGENT MANHUNT FOR A HIGHWAY SHOOTER ALONG INTERSTATE 75 IN KENTUCKY. SEVERAL PEOPLE SHOT AND WOUNDED SCHOOLS IN THE AREA CANCELED. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS TELL ,ABC NEWS. THE GUN WAS BOUGHT THE DAY OF THE SHOOTING. AND MORE DETAILS ON THE STATE OF THE SEARCH. BUT IT'S ALL ABOUT HARRIS AND TRUMP AND THE STAKES COULD NOT BE HIGHER AS WE GO INTO JUST THE FINAL HOURS BEFORE DEBATE. WE'RE LIVE FROM THE CONSTITUTION CENTER IN PHILADELPHIA AS. OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE COUNTDOWN TO THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE KICKS OFF. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. I'M LINSEY DAVIS. THANKS SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US HERE IN PHILADELPHIA AT THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER, WHERE WE ARE JUST 24 HOURS AWAY FROM THAT MAJOR DEBATE BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND KAMALA HARRIS. A FIRST LOOK AT THAT DEBATE STAGE WHERE THAT MOMENTOUS DEBATE WILL HAPPEN ONE DAY FROM NOW. HARRIS ARRIVING A SHORT TIME AGO BEFORE HER FIRST FACE OFF WITH DONALD TRUMP. WE'RE COVERING ALL ANGLES OF THE DEBATE TONIGHT AND MUCH MORE, INCLUDING DEVELOPMENTS WITH PRINCESS KATE'S HEALTH AS SHE BATTLES CANCER. ISSUING A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO THE WORLD THIS EVENING, THE FIRST WORDS FROM THE MOTHER OF THE GEORGIA SCHOOL SHOOTING. HER EMOTIONAL WORDS TO THE COUNTRY. AND REMEMBERING AN ICON, LEGENDARY HOLLYWOOD STAR AND TRAILBLAZER JAMES EARL JONES DEAD AT THREE. WE LOOK BACK AT THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF THE CELEBRATED ACTOR. >> BUT THE BIG NEWS OF THE NIGHT, THE COUNTDOWN TO THE FIRST AND PERHAPS ONLY PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BETWEEN KAMALA HARRIS AND DONALD, WHICH HAPPENS IN THIS VERY ROOM IN JUST OVER 24 HOURS FROM NOW. VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP MEET ON THIS VERY STAGE AND THEIR FIRST EVER FACE TO FACE ENCOUNTER WITH THE LATEST POLLS SHOWING THE TWO LOCKED IN A VIRTUAL DEAD HEAT. ARRIVED IN PHILADELPHIA A SHORT TIME AGO AS SHE LOOKS TO MAKE HER DEBUT ON THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE STAGE. FOR TRUMP, IT WILL BE HIS SEVENTH SHOWDOWN. IT WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE A RARE CHANCE FOR EITHER TO SHAPE THE NOVEMBER ELECTION. WITH ALL EYES HERE ON THE NATIONAL CENTER IN PHILADELPHIA, PLAYING HOST TO YET ANOTHER MAJOR HISTORIC THAT COULD HELP DECIDE THE 2024 ELECTION IN SOME STATES LIKE NORTH CAROLINA, ALREADY SEND ABSENTEE BALLOTS TO VOTERS. WE'RE BRINGING YOU LIVE TEAM COVERAGE AHEAD OF THE HIGH STAKES DEBATE. >> AND BEFORE WE GIVE YOU THE GLIMPSE OF THE DEBATE STAGE, WE KICK THINGS OFF WITH OUR CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, MARY BRUCE, HERE IN PHILADELPHIA TONIGHT. >> WITH JUST 24 HOURS TO GO UNTIL THEIR HIGHLY ANTICIPATED VICE PRESIDENT, KAMALA HARRIS, SETTING OFF FOR PHILADELPHIA, WHERE FOR THE FIRST TIME SHE WILL COME FACE TO FACE WITH FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. >> HOW ARE YOU FEELING? HOW ARE YOU FEELING? IN A NEW RADIO INTERVIEW, HARRIS SAYS SHE'S READY FOR WHATEVER TRUMP THROWS HER WAY. >> THERE'S NO FEAR FOR HIM IN TERMS OF HOW HE WOULD GO. AND WE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THAT. WE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE FACT THAT HE IS NOT BURDENED BY SOMETHING. >> THE TRUTH. FOR DAYS NOW, THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN HUNKERED DOWN IN THIS PITTSBURGH HOTEL INTENSELY PREPARING HER TEAM, EVEN BUILDING A STAGE WITH FULL TV LIGHTING TO HOLD MOCK DEBATES. HARRIS LEANING ON SEVERAL ADVISERS WHO HELPED PREP HILLARY CLINTON FOR HER 2016 DEBATE AGAINST TRUMP, INCLUDING ONE WHO PLAYED THE ROLE OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT IN REHEARSALS. >> BUT HARRIS ALSO TAKING BREAKS TO GET OUT IN THIS CRITICAL STATE IN A PITTSBURGH SPACE SHOP GREETING ONE VOTER WHO WAS IN TEARS. >> I FEEL BAD INSTEAD OF THAT. I WAS SCARED. >> YOU KNOW, IT'S GOING TO BE OKAY. WE'RE GOING TO BE GOOD. >> WE'RE GOING TO BE FINE. HARRIS PERHAPS PREVIEWING HER MESSAGE, THE DEBATE. LOOK, IT'S TIME TO TURN THE PAGE ON DIVISIVENESS. IT'S TIME TO BRING OUR TOGETHER TO CHART A NEW WAY FORWARD. >> WHILE HARRIS HAS BEEN LARGELY OFF THE TRAIL SINCE THURSDAY, TRUMP OVER THE WEEKEND HOLDING A RALLY BATTLEGROUND WISCONSIN. SHE WILL BE THE WORST PRESIDENT AND TRUMP IS NEVER WRONG. >> I AM NEVER, EVER WRONG. THE FORMER PRESIDENT TRYING TO SET EXPECTATIONS. >> IS ANYBODY GOING TO BE WATCHING AND SPIN THE DEBATE BEFORE? IT EVEN HAPPENS. YOU KNOW, IF I DESTROY HER IN THE DEBATE, THEY'LL SAY. TRUMP SUFFERED A HUMILIATING DEFEAT TONIGHT. >> NO MATTER WHAT. MARY BRUCE JOINS US NOW. MARY, KNOW YOU'VE BEEN TALKING TO YOUR SOURCES IN THE HARRIS CAMPAIGN. WHAT'S HER STRATEGY HEADING INTO THIS DEBATE? WELL, LINSEY HARRIS IS CERTAINLY INEXPERIENCED DEBATER, BUT HER CAMPAIGN IS QUICK TO NOTE THAT THIS IS FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT. TOMORROW WILL BE DONALD TRUMP'S SEVENTH PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE WILL BE KAMALA HARRIS IS FIRST. AND HER GOAL HERE TOMORROW NIGHT IS TO REALLY HIGHLIGHT HER POSITIONS ON THE ISSUES AND THEN PIVOT TO PUT THE SPOTLIGHT FIRMLY ON TRUMP TO REMIND VOTERS OF HIS RECORD, TO COUNTER WHAT THE CAMPAIGN DESCRIBES AS TRUMP AMNESIA AMONG VOTERS. AND YES, SHE WILL CERTAINLY TRY TO GET UNDER DONALD TRUMP'S SKIN. THE CHALLENGE LINSEY IS FOR HER TO BEAT HIM WITHOUT BEING BAITED HERSELF. >> WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS IN JUST ABOUT 24 HOURS FROM NOW. MARY BRUCE, THANKS SO MUCH. NOW TO ABC SENIOR CORRESPONDENT RACHEL SCOTT, ALSO IN PHILADELPHIA TONIGHT. AND RACHEL, PRESIDENT TRUMP ALWAYS SAYS THAT HE'S NOT ONE FOR FORMAL DEBATE PREP, BUT YOUR SOURCES BEEN TELLING YOU THAT HE IS PREPARING? YES, LINSEY CERTAINLY NOT DOING ANY OF THOSE MOCK DEBATES THAT VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA IS DOING. BUT I'M TOLD THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS TAKING THIS VERY HE KNOWS HOW CONSEQUENTIAL THIS DEBATE, THIS MOMENT COULD BE. I'M TOLD THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAS HELD NEARLY HALF A DOZEN POLICY SESSIONS WITH HIS ADVISERS, INCLUDING WITH FORMER CONGRESSWOMAN TULSI GABBARD. BUT WE ALL REMEMBER CHALLENGE HARRIS ON THE DEBATE STAGE BACK IN 2019. ALSO INVOLVED IN HIS DEBATE PREP, IT'S CONGRESSMAN MATT GAETZ. NOW, WE ARE TOLD THAT GATES IS FIRING OFF QUESTIONS AT HIM ON SOME THE TOUGHER ISSUES, LIKE HIS STANCE ON ABORTION AND ALSO HIS LEGAL TROUBLES. SOURCES ALSO TELL ME THAT TRUMP HAS BEEN BRIEFED ON HARRIS' PAST DEBATES. THAT INCLUDES THE DEBATE WITH TRUMP'S OWN FORMER VICE PRESIDENT, MIKE PENCE. THERE WAS THAT NOTABLE EXCHANGE ON THE DEBATE STAGE WHERE PENCE TRIED TO INTERRUPT HARRIS. HARRIS SHUT HIM DOWN, SAYING, I'M SPEAKING. TRUMP HAS PRIVATELY TOLD ALLIES HE WILL NOT THAT HAPPEN TO HIM TOMORROW NIGHT, LINSEY. ALL RIGHT, RACHEL SCOTT OUR THANKS TO YOU, AS ALWAYS. POLLING HAS BEEN CONSISTENT SINCE THE START OF THE YEAR. TWO MAJOR ISSUES STANDING ABOVE THE REST FOR VOTERS NATIONWIDE. IMMIGRATION AND THE ECONOMY. WE'LL GET TO THE ECONOMY IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS. BUT FIRST, IT'S THE ISSUE OF IMMIGRATION AND THE BORDER THAT CONTINUES TO GARNER THE ATTENTION OF BOTH CANDIDATES ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. ABC'S MIREYA VILLARREAL HAS MORE FOR US FROM TEXAS HERE. WHAT IS THE STATE OF IMMIGRATION IN THE BORDER AS THE CANDIDATES PREPARE TO HIT THE DEBATE STAGE TOMORROW NIGHT. >> WELL YOU KNOW LINSEY, THAT IS A REALLY GREAT QUESTION, ESPECIALLY LEADING UP TO THE DEBATE AS OF RIGHT NOW. WE HAVE CONTINUED TO HEAR THE FORMER PRESIDENT TALK A LOT ABOUT IMMIGRATION. HE TALKS A LOT ABOUT THE FLOW OF MIGRANTS INTO THE UNITED STATES AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, HE TALKS ABOUT WHERE THEY ARE COMING FROM. WE'VE HEARD PRISONS. WE ALSO HEARD MENTAL INSTITUTIONS. WE'VE ALSO HEARD HIM TALK A LOT ABOUT MISSING CHILDREN AND HOW THEY'VE GOTTEN LOST IN THE COURT AND HOW THEY ARE MORE LIKELY DEAD OR THEY ARE THEY HAVE BEEN OR THEY ARE A PART OF SOME SORT OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. LET'S BE VERY WHEN HE SAYS THESE THINGS, THEY ARE NOT STATEMENTS OF FACT. THEY ARE NOT BACKED UP BY REPORTS OR STATISTICS. A LOT OF THIS IS, AGAIN, AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE, IS IT TO REALLY RILE UP A PARTICULAR BASE OF VOTERS AND GET THEM TO COME OUT TO THE POLLS AND VOTE OUT OF FEAR OF WHAT MAY BE HAPPENING IN THEIR BACKYARD? BUT AS OF RIGHT NOW, WE DO KNOW THAT ENCOUNTERS HAVE CONTINUE TO DECREASE OVER THE LAST THREE MONTHS, RIGHT AFTER WE SAW PRESIDENT BIDEN PUT THAT EXECUTIVE ORDER INTO PLACE, BASICALLY SHUTTING DOWN THE BORDER BETWEEN PORTS OF ENTRY. AND SINCE THAT, WE'VE ALSO SEEN SOME NEW ASYLUM RESTRICTIONS BEING PUT IN PLACE AGAIN. ALL OF THIS LEADING TO A DECREASE. HARRIS' CAMP HAS CONTINUED TO SAY THAT HER WORK ROOT CAUSES OF MIGRATION IS THE REASON FOR A LOT OF THIS, OR AT LEAST PART OF THE REASON. OBVIOUSLY, WE DON'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF STATISTICS THAT AND IN FACT, CRITICS HAVE SAID IF THIS WAS WHERE THE ADMINISTRATION WAS GOING TO GO, WHY DIDN'T WE DO THIS SOONER? HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ALL OF THIS DECREASE, ALL OF THIS SUCCESS NOW ON THE IMMIGRATION LEVEL IS COMING JUST A FEW MONTHS AWAY FROM THE ELECTION? >> MARIA, OUR THANKS TO YOU AS ALWAYS. IT'S ALL THE ECONOMY. IT'S BEEN A COMMON REFRAIN WHEN DISCUSSING ELECTIONS GOING BACK FOUR DECADES. AND THIS NOVEMBER, AS VOTERS FEEL SQUEEZED BY INFLATION, STAGNANT WAGES, THAT REFRAIN IS EXPECTED TO RING TRUE FOR YET ANOTHER ELECTION SEASON. FOR MORE ON ALL THINGS ECONOMY, WE'RE JOINED BY ABC'S ELIZABETH SCHULZE FROM WASHINGTON. ELIZABETH, GIVE US A LAY OF THE LAND ON WHERE THE ECONOMY IS NOW AS THE CANDIDATES FIND THEMSELVES IN CRUNCH MODE. >> JUST BEFORE THE DEBATE, WHAT LINSEY AND THIS REALLY IS A PIVOTAL MOMENT FOR THE AMERICAN ECONOMY, WHICH WE KNOW IS THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE FOR SO MANY VOTERS. THE KEY QUESTION RIGHT NOW IS IF THE U.S. CAN ACHIEVE THAT COVETED SO-CALLED SOFT LANDING, IN OTHER WORDS, CAN THE ECONOMY SUCCESSFULLY NAVIGATE INTO A TIME, LOWER INFLATION, LOWER PRICES THAT YOU PAY EVERYDAY FOR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES WITHOUT CRASHING INTO A RECESSION? AND THERE ARE SOME PROMISING SIGNS HERE. INFLATION PEAKED AT 9% BACK IN JUNE 20, 22. NOW IT'S HOVERING AT JUST UNDER 3%. THAT MEANS THAT PRICES THERE ARE STILL GOING UP, BUT THEY'RE NOT GOING UP BY NEARLY AS MUCH . AND ANOTHER GOOD SIGN, AMERICANS WAGES ON AVERAGE HAVE NOW BEEN FASTER THAN INFLATION FOR MORE THAN A YEAR. SO THOSE HIGHER PAYCHECKS, THEY CAN HELP ABSORB SOME OF THAT STICKER SHOCK THAT YOU WOULD FEEL LIKE AT THE GROCERY STORE. THIS DOES HELP EXPLAIN WHY SOME COMPANIES LIKE WAL-MART, WHICH IS REALLY CONSIDERED A BELLWETHER OF CONSUMER SPENDING IN THE ECONOMY, THEY ARE OPTIMISTIC RIGHT NOW. THEY SAY THAT SHOPPERS ARE TRYING HUNT DOWN A GOOD DEAL, BUT THEY ARE STILL OUT SPENDING AT A PRETTY SOLID PACE LINSEY. >> AND WHAT ARE SOME OF THE WARNING SIGNS IN THE ECONOMY RIGHT NOW? >> SO, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THE AMERICAN ECONOMY AS AN AIRPLANE THAT'S TRYING TO LAND IN THAT SWEET SPOT. THERE ARE CLEARLY SOME HEADWINDS. SO OF THEM IS HOUSING. RENT PRICES ARE STUBBORNLY HIGH. WE HAVE SEEN HOME PRICES ACROSS THE U.S. AT RECORD LEVELS AND HIGHER RATES HAVE MADE BUYING A HOUSE EVEN MORE UNAFFORDABLE. THE OTHER WARNING SIGN REALLY IS THE JOBS MARKET. THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE NOW AT 4.2%. THAT'S STILL A HISTORICALLY LOW NUMBER. YOU CAN SEE THERE ON THAT CHART, IT IS TICKING UP. SO WHAT THAT MEANS, IT HARDER TO GET A JOB NOW AND COMPANIES ARE NOT HIRING AS MUCH AS WERE EVEN AT THE START OF THE YEAR OR A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK. WE HAVE SEEN THIS IN THE STOCK MARKET. INVESTORS ARE WORRIED THAT HIRING COULD START SLOW DOWN EVEN MORE DRAMATICALLY. BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT THE S&P 500, THAT'S WHEN YOU SEE IN MOST AMERICANS RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS ARE FOUR ONE ACCOUNTS THAT IS STILL UP LINSEY AND IMPRESSIVE ABOUT 15% SO FAR THIS YEAR. SO A SILVER LINING. YOU'RE AT LEAST THINKING ABOUT THE STOCK MARKET AND SOME OF THAT NEAR-TERM UNCERTAINTY, TOO. >> SO, ELIZABETH, ULTIMATELY, HOW MUCH IS THE ECONOMY ABOUT THE NEXT PRESIDENT AND HOW MUCH DOES IT FALL WITH THE FEDERAL RESERVE, WHICH OVERSEES LARGE PARTS OF THE ECONOMY? YOU KNOW, THE NEXT PRESIDENT CERTAINLY WILL SET THE STAGE WHEN IT COMES TO PRIORITIES AND THE AGENDA. BUT WHAT WE HAVE SEEN IS A LOT OF THOSE POLICIES NEED APPROVAL FROM CONGRESS AND IN A GRIDLOCKED CONGRESS, THE FEDERAL RESERVE HAS TAKEN ON AN OUTSIZED IMPORTANCE IN THE ECONOMY. SO WHAT'S HAPPENED IS THAT? THE FEDERAL RESERVE HAS REALLY TAKEN ON THIS FIGHT AGAINST INFLATION. IT'S DONE BY MAKING IT MORE EXPENSIVE TO BORROW MONEY. SO THAT MEANS HIGHER COSTS. IF YOU'RE TRYING TO PAY OFF CREDIT CARD DEBT, TAKE OUT A MORTGAGE, GET AN AUTO LOAN. THE FED IS EXPECTED TO LOWER THOSE COSTS NEXT WEEK FOR, THE FIRST TIME IN FOUR YEARS. THAT WOULD MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT LESS EXPENSIVE TO BORROW MONEY. >> SO ULTIMATELY, THOUGH, THE PATH THAT THE FED CHOOSES WILL CRITICAL FOR THE ECONOMY OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS AND GOING INTO NEXT YEAR. THE PRESIDENT DOES HAVE ONE ROLE IN THAT, THOUGH, LINSEY, THAT THE PRESIDENT PRESIDENT, REGARDLESS OF WHO IT IS, WILL ULTIMATELY DECIDE WHO SHOULD BE LEADER OF THE FED WHEN THE CURRENT FED CHAIR, HIS TERM DOES EXPIRE IN. 2026 LINSEY. ECONOMY TOP OF MIND FOR SO MANY AMERICANS. ELIZABETH SCHULZE. OUR THANKS TO YOU. AND MAKE SURE TO TUNE TOMORROW NIGHT FOR OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES STARTING AT 7 P.M. EASTERN WHEN WHIT JOHNSON ANCHORS FROM RIGHT HERE IN PHILADELPHIA FOLLOWED BY OUR POLITICAL POWERHOUSE ROUNDTABLE AT 8 P.M.. AND OF COURSE THAT ALL IMPORTANT DEBATE I'LL BE MODERATING ALONGSIDE DAVID MUIR AT, 9 P.M. EASTERN RIGHT HERE ON ABC NEWS LIVE NOW ,THE URGENT MANHUNT FOR A HIGHWAY SNIPER SUSPECT WHO WOUNDED FIVE PEOPLE IN KENTUCKY, I-75, SATURDAY TODAY, MANY SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED AND PEOPLE ARE URGED TO STAY INSIDE. AND THE ALARMING TEXT AUTHORITIES SAY THE SUSPECT SENT JUST BEFORE OPENED FIRE. >> HERE'S OUR CHIEF JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT, PIERRE THOMAS. >> TONIGHT, THE URGENT MANHUNT FOR THE MAN SUSPECTED BEING THE SNIPER WHO FIRED AT DRIVERS ALONG THIS BUSY STRETCH OF HIGHWAY IN KENTUCKY. THE VICTIMS HAVE BEEN SHOT THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD AN HOUR SOUTHEAST OF LEXINGTON. SCHOOLS AND NINE DISTRICTS SHUT DOWN AS POLICE SEARCH FOR 32-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH COUCH THOUGHT TO BE HIDING IN THIS THICK, DENSE FOREST. >> THIS IS THOUSANDS AND OF ACRES. >> IT'S KIND OF LIKE A JUNGLE. COUCH, CONSIDERED ARMED, DANGEROUS, NOW FACING CHARGES OF ASSAULT AND ATTEMPTED MURDER ,ACCORDING TO AN ARREST WARRANT MINUTES BEFORE THE SHOOTINGS, COUCH A FORMER ARMY RESERVIST SENT A TEXT TO A WOMAN SAYING HE GOING TO KILL A LOT OF PEOPLE. POLICE BELIEVE ON SATURDAY EVENING, COUCH WAS PERCHED IN THE WOODS, FIRING 20 TO 30 SHOTS, HITTING 12 VEHICLES. FIVE PEOPLE WOUNDED BY GUNFIRE. NO FATALITIES, BUT AT LEAST ONE PERSON SHOT IN THE FACE AND ANOTHER IN THE ARM. POLICE SAY THIS IS COUNTY'S VEHICLE RECOVERED NEAR THE ATTACK AND THEY SAY THEY DISCOVERED AN AR-15 STYLE ASSAULT RIFLE CLOSE BY IN THE WOODS. PIERRE THOMAS JOINS US NOW. AND PIERRE, WHAT ELSE ARE AUTHORITIES LEARNING ABOUT THE SUSPECT'S WEAPON? WELL, POLICE SAY HE PURCHASED THAT ASSAULT RIFLE THE SAME DAY AS THE ALONG WITH MORE THAN 1000 ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION. AND POLICE THAT HE MAY HAVE ACCESS TO OTHER WEAPONS AS WELL. >> LINSEY PIERRE THOMAS FOR US, OUR THANKS TO YOU AS ALWAYS. NEXT TONIGHT, A POLICE OFFICER INVOLVED IN THE ARREST OF MIAMI DOLPHINS STAR TYREEK HILL IS ON ADMINISTRATIVE DUTY. HILL PULLED OVER AND PLACED IN HANDCUFFS HOURS BEFORE PLAYING IN THE FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON. THE INCIDENT CAPTURED ON VIDEO. VICTOR OQUENDO REPORTS IN FROM FLORIDA TONIGHT. >> ONE OF THESE FOUR OFFICERS SEEN HANDCUFFING MIAMI DOLPHINS TYREEK HILL HAS BEEN PLACED ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE. HILL SEEN FACE FIRST ON THE PAVEMENT, DETAINED JUST A BLOCK FROM THE STADIUM. POLICE SIGHTING ARGUABLY THE BEST WIDE RECEIVER IN FOOTBALL FOR CARELESS DRIVING AND A SEATBELT VIOLATION ACCORDING TO ESPN AND IT HAPPENED HOURS BEFORE THE SEASON OPENER SUNDAY. >> HE WAS DRIVING THAT BLACK SPORTS CAR WHEN OFFICERS HIM TO STEP OUT. MOMENTS LATER, ONE OF THE OFFICERS APPEARS TO TAKE HILL TO THE GROUND. THE MIAMI-DADE POLICE DEPARTMENT LAUNCHING INVESTIGATION. HOURS AGO, THE POLICE UNION THAT REPRESENTS OFFICERS CLAIMING HILL WAS NOT COOPERATIVE. >> THE NFL'S STAR WAS EVENTUALLY RELEASED. GOING ON TO SCORE THIS ELECTRIC 80 YARD TOUCHDOWN. AFTER THE GAME, HILL INSISTED WASN'T SPEEDING AND THAT HE DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING OFFENSIVE TO POLICE. >> I'M STILL TRYING TO PUT IT ALL TOGETHER, SO I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE YOU A VERSION THAT I STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. >> HEAD COACH MIKE MCDANIEL EMOTIONAL TALKING WITH REPORTERS TODAY. IT'S BEEN HARD FOR ME NOT TO FIND MYSELF MORE UPSET. >> AND TONIGHT, TYREEK HILL'S AGENT SAYING IN PART, NO POINT DID HILL POSE A THREAT. AND THEY BELIEVE THIS ESCALATED BECAUSE OF OVERZEALOUS OFFICERS. LINSEY. ALL RIGHT, VICTOR, THANK YOU FOR THAT. THREE POLICE OFFICERS WILL SOON FACE TRIAL THE BRUTAL BEATING OF TYREE NICHOLS IN JANUARY OF LAST YEAR. THE OFFICERS TODAY IS BEING DEMETRIUS, HALEY AND JUSTIN SMITH HAVE ALL PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO VIOLATING NICHOLS CIVIL RIGHTS. TWO OTHER OFFICERS PLEADED GUILTY. VIDEO OF THE INCIDENT SHOWS FIVE MILES VERSUS BEATING NICHOLS AFTER. HE WAS PULLED FROM HIS CAR JUST A BLOCK FROM HIS FAMILY HOME. THREE DAYS LATER, TYREE DIED. A TRIAL DATE HAS NOT YET BEEN SET BY JURY SELECTION BEGAN TODAY. HOUSE REPUBLICANS HAVE A REPORT ON THE 2021 U.S. WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN. THE REPORT ACCUSES THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION OF FAILING TO RESPOND TO WARNINGS FROM, MILITARY GENERALS, THAT THE SITUATION WOULD DETERIORATE ONCE U.S. LEFT. IMAGES SHOCKED THE WORLD AS PEOPLE CLIMBED AND CLUNG ONTO PLANES. 13 SERVICE MEMBERS AND 170 CIVILIANS WERE KILLED IN A SUICIDE BOMBING AT THE ABBEY GATE NEAR THE KABUL AIRPORT DURING THE WITHDRAWAL. THE WHITE HOUSE RESPONDED TO. THE REPORT SAYING THAT THIS IS A PARTISAN EFFORT TO CHERRY PICK THE FACTS AHEAD OF THE ELECTION. TODAY THE JUDGE OVERSEEING THE TRIAL OF BRIAN, THE MAN CHARGED FOR THE FATAL STABBINGS OF FOUR COLLEGE STUDENTS HAS AGREED TO MOVE THE MURDER TRIAL OUT OF CITY WHERE THE CRIMES OCCURRED. THE JUDGE GRANTED THIS MOTION WRITING THAT ATTORNEYS SHOWED A REASONABLE LIKELIHOOD THAT PREJUDICIAL NEWS COVERAGE WILL COMPROMISE A FAIR TRIAL. THE DEFENSE ALSO THAT THERE WAS A MOB MENTALITY WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. THE FAMILY, ONE OF THE VICTIMS, SAID THAT THEY ARE INCREDIBLY DISAPPOINTED THAT THE TRIAL WILL BE MOVED NOW TO DANGEROUS WEATHER ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 67 MAJOR WILDFIRES ARE BURNING IN THE WEST. THE BRIDGE FIRE LOS ANGELES COUNTY SENT FIREFIGHTERS RUNNING FROM THE FLAMES AND. THE LINE FIRE EAST OF L.A. SO EXPLOSIVE IS CREATING ITS OWN WEATHER IN THE GULF. TROPICAL STORM FRANCINE IS STRENGTHENING. EVACUATIONS ARE ALREADY IN PLACE. GINGER ZEE TIMES THAT STORM OUT FOR US IN A MOMENT. BUT FIRST, MOLA LENGHI REPORTS FROM THE LINES TONIGHT. >> NEW EVACUATION ORDERS EAST LOS ANGELES AS THE LINE FIRE BURNS OUT OF CONTROL IN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, THREATENING SOME 36,000 HOMES, BUSINESSES, BUILDINGS. MORE THAN 12,000 PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY BEEN ORDERED TO FLEE. THOUSANDS MORE TOLD TO BE READY HERE IN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY AS THE FIRE TO SPREAD. YOU SEE THE MASSIVE PLUMES OF SMOKE BILLOWING IN AIR. >> GOVERNOR NEWSOM DECLARING THAT STATE OF EMERGENCY IS THE FIRE EXPLODED IN SIZE. TRIPLE DIGIT TEMPERATURES ADDING, LITERAL FUEL TO THE FIRE, CREATING PYRO. >> CUMULUS CLOUDS AND LIGHTNING STRIKES THAT COULD START NEW FIRES. >> WHEN THE THUNDERSTORM ROLLS THROUGH, THEY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BLOW THE FIRE OUT IN MULTIPLE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. >> SO WE JUST HAVE TO BE READY FOR THAT. IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, THE BRIDGE FIRE BREAKING OUT SUNDAY. FIREFIGHTERS FORCED TO RETREAT FROM THE FLAMES. AND IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, ALL OUT, AERIAL ASSAULT ON THE BOYLES FIRE AND CLEAR LAKE. BUT NOT BEFORE IT DESTROYED 30 HOMES AND DOZENS OF PEOPLE. >> WELL, YOU CAN SEE HOW THE HEAT FROM THE FIRE MELTED THE FENCE LINE THERE BEHIND ME. THE FIRE JUST 3% CONTAINED TONIGHT. THAT LINE FIRE. EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT. FIREFIGHTERS ARE REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT DRY LIGHTNING AND THUNDERSTORMS GOING INTO TONIGHT, LINSEY. >> A LOT OF CONCERNS THERE, MOLA LENGHI. THANKS TO YOU. AND NOW TO TROPICAL STORM FRANCINE. THE SATELLITE IMAGES TAKING SHAPE, LIKELY A HURRICANE TOMORROW HEADING FOR LANDFALL ON WEDNESDAY. HURRICANE AND STORM SURGE WARNINGS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ISSUED. ABC'S CHIEF METEOROLOGIST GINGER ZEE HAS THE TIMING AND THE TRACK FOR US. HEY, GINGER. LINSEY FROM SABINE PASS TO MORGAN CITY, LOUISIANA. WE'VE GOT A HURRICANE WARNING ALREADY, SO IT'S A TROPICAL STORM AT THIS MOMENT, BUT WE WILL LIKELY A HURRICANE LATE TONIGHT OR EARLY TOMORROW. SO FRANCINE THEN INTENSIFIES EVEN MORE AND I WANT TO TIME IT ALL OUT FOR YOU BECAUSE WE'VE GOT BATON ROUGE AND NEW ORLEANS IN TROPICAL STORM WATCH. LAFAYETTE IN A HURRICANE WATCH . AND LOOK AT THAT CONE. REMEMBER, THE CONE IS WHERE THE TRACK CAN GO. SO IF IT GOES ON THE WESTERN SIDE, YOU GET MORE IMPACTS IN TEXAS, GOES ON THE EASTERN SIDE, ORLEANS GETS A HEFTIER HIT. BUT AT THIS MOMENT, IT'S RIGHT ABOUT CAMERON LOUISIANA. SO THAT DIRTY SIDE OF THE STORM REALLY IMPACTS MORGAN PROBABLY THE MOST. BUT AGAIN, WE'RE A COUPLE OF DAYS OUT HERE ABOUT, YOU KNOW, JUST LESS 48. WHAT I WANTED TO DO IS TIME IT OUT AND TALK ABOUT, NUMBER ONE, STORM SURGE. LOOK AT HOW THE OUTER BANDS ARE REACHING TUESDAY. SO SOME OF THE IMPACTS AND DETERIORATION WILL GO QUICKLY TOMORROW. GET EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO PREPARE DONE NOW BECAUSE IT'S BY WEDNESDAY MORNING, IT'S JUST TOO LATE. 6 A.M. THERE YOU CAN SEE FROM CAMERON OVER TO MORGAN CITY, THE HEAVIEST RAIN IS ABOUT TO MOVE ONSHORE. THE STORM SURGE BE 5 TO 10 FEET. A LOT OF THESE PLACES ARE SO LOW LYING. WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT THAT IN LOUISIANA THAT TAKE ON WATER WELL, BECAUSE THEY DO IT REGULARLY WITH A TEN FEET OF EXTRA SURGE, IT'S A PROBLEM. THEN BY 1 P.M., BATON ROUGE STARTS TO TOUCH ON THAT. NEW ORLEANS GETS IN THOSE BANDS AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE WHIPPING WINDS EASILY UP TO 75 MILE PER HOUR GUSTS. WE WILL THEN MOVE THIS THING ALL THE WAY UP INTO ARKANSAS, TENNESSEE AND INLAND FLOODING COULD BE A PROBLEM. THAT'S WHY THEY HAVE SIGNIFICANT FLASH FLOOD RISK THAT GOES UP TO JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI. LINSEY ALL RIGHT, GINGER, WE KNOW YOU'LL BE MONITORING IT FOR US. NOW, THE SAD NEWS THAT CAME IN LATE TODAY, THE PASSING OF LEGENDARY JAMES EARL JONES. TONIGHT, WE REMEMBER HIS LONG AND DISTINCT WISH CAREER AND, OF COURSE, THAT UNFORGETTABLE VOICE. ABC STEVE OSUNSAMI JAMES EARL JONES HAD A WAY ABOUT HIM AS AN ACTOR AND AS A PERFORMER THAT WAS TRULY GALACTIC. HE'S PERHAPS BEST KNOWN FOR LENDING HIS VOICE TO ONE OF THE GREATEST VILLAINS IN THE HISTORY OF CINEMA. I AM THE FATHER. IT JONES, WHO MADE THE CHARACTER OF DARTH VADER IN THE STAR WARS FILMS DELIGHTFULLY MENACING. >> I AM ALTERING THE BEAT CRADLED ALL PARADE ANY FURTHER. >> BUT JONES HAD A SUCCESSFUL CAREER THAT STRETCHED DECADES EARLIER, AND IT WAS ONE OF THOSE RARE ARTISTS WHO'VE AN EMMY, GRAMMY, OSCAR AND TONY NOD AND GIVE YOU EVERYTHING HAD TO GIVE YOU. >> I GAVE YOU YOUR LIFE. ONE OF HIS, TONY, WAS FIRST BROADWAY PERFORMANCE IN THE PLAY FENCES, A STORY ABOUT A BLACK WORKING CLASS FATHER STRUGGLING TO PROVIDE FOR HIS FAMILY IN 1950S AMERICA. HE TOLD US IN 2014 HOW HE PREPARES WHEN HE TAKES THE STAGE. YEAH. WE YELL AT THE SEATS. YELL AT THE EMPTY SEATS. YEAH. YEAH. >> IN COMING TO AMERICA, A COMEDY THAT BECAME A CULTURAL MOMENT, JONES WAS THE KING OF ZAMUNDA. >> LET THE MAID. >> I'M TALKING TO MY SON. AND IN DISNEY'S LION KING. HE WAS THE KING OF THE JUNGLE. >> JAMES EARL JONES WAS BORN IN MISSISSIPPI AND OVERCAME A STUTTER AS A CHILD. HE WOULD GO ON IN LIKE FIELD OF DREAMS TO DELIVER SOME OF THE MOST ICONIC IN STORYTELLING . >> OH, PEOPLE WILL COME READ. PEOPLE MOST DEFINITELY COME. >> OUR THANKS TO STEVE OSUNSAMI FOR THAT. AND JOINING US NOW IS ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR MIKE MEWES. THOUGH, OF COURSE, JONES ACTED IN MANY MOVIES, I THINK I READ TODAY IT WAS SOMETHING LIKE 200. IT WAS, OF COURSE, THE VOICE OF DARTH VADER. IT WAS HIS THEATER ROLES THAT MADE HIM TRULY UNFORGETTABLE. >> WHY DO YOU THINK THAT IS? LESLIE, I CAN'T HELP BUT SMILE AS WE'RE TALKING THAT AND WE SAW THAT IS A GREAT PACKAGE OF A LIFE. WELL. FOR ME THIS IS A CELEBRATION OF LIFE. WHAT YOU SAW IN THAT PACKAGE WAS AN INCREDIBLE RANGE OF ACTING AND ACTING ABILITY. AND THE FACT THAT I WAS REMEMBERING HOW HE DID THE ROLE IN FENCES, AN AUGUST WILSON PLAY THAT AUGUST WILSON PLAYS ARE SO ICONIC IN THE AMERICAN SCOPE OF LITERATURE, THE CANON OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. IT IS SO VERBOSE. AND SO TO THINK THAT A MAN WHO HAD A STUTTERING PROBLEM AS A CHILD COULD GO ON TO CONQUER AUGUST WILSON AND TO NAIL IT AND TO MAKE IT AS MEMORABLE, THEN ALSO TO DO SHAKESPEARE WITH THE DEVIL AND MACBETH AND WRITER THAT IS VERY VERBOSE AND STRONG IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE. TO MASTER THAT AND TO BRING IT TO THE STAGE. THERE'S NOTHING LINSEY. YOU AND I BOTH KNOW THIS, THAT EXPERIENCING BROADWAY, EXPERIENCING LIVE ACTING ON A STAGE, THERE IS AN ENERGY TRANSFER THAT HAPPENS, THE AUDIENCE IN THE STAGE AND SOMEONE THAT HAD THAT COMMANDING PRESENCE OF A LION, MUSTAFA IN FRONT OF YOU WITH THAT STRONG VOICE THAT RESONATES, THAT IS WHERE THE ENERGY IS AND THAT'S WHERE THE TRANSFER IS OF JUST PURE GENIUS AND JUST A PURE THESPIAN AND RIGHT, OF COURSE HE WAS A MASTER, WHETHER IT WAS ON STAGE IN THE MOVIES, COMMERCIALS. AND YOU MENTIONED THIS EARLIER THAT THE JONES WAS A STUTTERER MOST OF HIS CHILDHOOD. HOW DOES HIS OVERCOMING OF THAT? IT TO SHAPE AND HELP HIS CAREER, REALLY? >> I MEAN, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE IDEA OF AN ACTOR AND WHEN I SAY THIS, I'M GOING TO USE THE WORD THESPIAN WHEN IT COMES TO JAMES EARL JONES. >> IT IS YOU HAVE TO COMMAND THE LANGUAGE. YOU HAVE TO MEMORIZE YOUR WORDS. BUT THEN, LINSEY, YOU HAVE TO PUT YOUR OWN TWIST INTO IT. AND SO TO USE LITERATURE LIKE POETRY THAT HE USED OR TO OVERCOME, THAT HE WAS ALWAYS JUST EMBEDDED THAT THE ENGLISH CANON, HIS CONSTITUTION OF LANGUAGE, SO HE CAN BE VERBOSE AND TO. I WAS WATCHING A CLIP OF HIM DOING SESAME STREET. HE WAS THE FIRST CELEBRITY ON SESAME STREET AND THE WAY HE ENUNCIATED EACH LETTER SLOWLY AND WITH EMPHASIS AND THE WAY THAT WHEN HE SAID THE LETTER I HE WENT TO THE CHILDREN ON TELEVISION. HE JUST INSTINCTIVELY KNEW HOW TO CONNECT WORDS AND LETTERS TO HUMAN EMOTIONS. AND THAT IS RARE FOR A THESPIAN TO DO. >> AND THAT'S WHAT GIVES HIM THE TITLE OF THESPIAN. AND YOU'RE RIGHT. WE SHOULD ONLY REALLY REFER TO HIM AS THAT. A THESPIAN. GIVE ME ONE SENTENCE OF HOW YOU THINK THAT HIS HE WILL BE REMEMBERED HIS LEGACY. >> HE WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR HIS RANGE OF ACTING ABILITY AND TO SHOW GENERATIONS OF ACTORS TO COME DON'T LIMIT YOURSELF IN YOUR ABILITY AND LINSEY THAT TRANSFER TO PEOPLE LIKE YOU I OVER PEOPLE WHO HAD CAREERS OUTSIDE OF ACTING NOT TO LIMIT YOURSELF. YOU CAN SHOOT FOR THE MOON AND FOR THE SKIES LITERALLY. >> THAT'S WHAT JAMES EARL JONES HAS TAUGHT US. A GOOD MESSAGE FOR US ALL. MIKE NEWS, OUR THANKS TO YOU ALWAYS. >> STILL MUCH MORE TO GET TO HERE ON CRIME TONIGHT, INCLUDING A IN MOURNING. A TEARFUL FAREWELL TODAY TO BROTHERS JOHN MATTHEW GAUDREAU DAYS AFTER THEY WERE STRUCK AND KILLED BY A SUSPECTED DRUNK. BUT NEXT, THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE THAT NO ONE COULD HAVE PREDICTED. AS WE HURTLE TOWARD ELECTION DAY AND A ROLLER COASTER OF A YEAR, A LOOK BACK AT THIS HISTORIC POLITICAL SUMMER ALL LEADING TO DEBATE STAGE. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR. AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. >> REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. >> ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE FROM THE SCENE OF. THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE IN UKRAINE, UKRAINE REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY IN ROLLING FORTH THIS TORNADO 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 FOREVER. THE IS WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'RE GOING TO YOU THERE. YOU'RE 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 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. CLASHING OVER NATIONAL SECURITY . WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY, TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING, THE WORRIES ON WALL STREET. FAST STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CATCHING UP ON SLEEP DURING THE WEEKEND COULD GOOD FOR YOUR HEART GONE. ALCOHOLIC BARS ARE POPPING UP IN A GROWING NUMBER OF CITIES. THE SPIRIT AMERICA THIS MORNING AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA. WE ARE PART OF AN OPERATION TO SERVE COMBAT OPERATIONS. WE'RE APPROACHING THE GATE. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM DIRECTIONS NUCLEAR REACTOR. SEE THE COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO THE HOUSE DESTROYED BUT THE FLAG TELL YOU HOW IMPORTANT IT MADE. THE USA GREAT HIGH APPRECIATES . >> YOU THINK IT'S LOUD? DAVID. DAVID. I'M DAVID. >> YOU ARE. YOU DO EVERY NIGHT. ABC'S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID IS AMERICA'S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST. >> IF YOU WERE COMING OF AGE IN THE 1980S, THE BRAT PACK WAS NEAR THE CENTER OF YOUR AWARENESS. BUT FOR THOSE OF US EXPERIENCING IT FROM THE INSIDE THE BRAT PACK WAS SOMETHING VERY DIFFERENT. THE CRITICS AGREE. HATED THE GRAPHIC. WHAT A DISASTER. WHY WE TAKE IT AS AN OFFENSE AFTER THEY WERE BEETLES. WHAT WE DID WAS KILL SHEA STADIUM 1985. I THINK WE HAVE HAD "BAYWATCH" AS A FANTASY. WHEN YOU HEAR THAT SONG MADE, THE HOUSE PILED AND I WAS A WILD A HALF JASON MOMOA EXPLODED. >> HARMON WAS A BOMBSHELL. ANDERSON WAS AN ICON. >> REALLY PROUD OF EVERYTHING I'VE DONE ALMOST. >> "BAYWATCH" WAS A WHIRLWIND OF EPIC AND LOWS. EVERYONE LIKES TO WATCH SEXY THINGS. REPORTING FROM THE ELECTRONICS SHOW IN LAS VEGAS, I'M ELIZABETH SCHULZE WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE . TWO MONTHS AGO, THIS RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE CERTAINLY LOOKED A LOT DIFFERENT THAN IT DOES NOW. BUT AFTER A CHAOTIC SUMMER UNFOLDED BEFORE OUR EYES, RACE HAS CHANGED AND BROUGHT WITH IT HISTORIC MOMENTS SURE TO BE DISCUSSED, GENERATIONS TO COME. SO HOW EXACTLY DID WE GET HERE? OUR JAY O'BRIEN TAKES A LOOK BACK AS WE MOVE FORWARD FROM IDYLLIC ACTION TURNED ON A DIME MORE THAN ONCE. >> THIS IS A PIVOTAL MOMENT. >> IT'S THIS MOMENT, THE TRUMP BIDEN REMATCH THAT LITERALLY REWROTE THE STORY OF THIS CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN, 81 YEARS OLD AND SUFFERING FROM A COLD HIS TEAM SAYS STRUGGLES TO ANSWER CERTAIN QUESTIONS IN THEIR FIRST AND ONLY DEBATE . WHAT IF WE BEAT MEDICARE? >> FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP POUNCES. >> I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT HE SAID AT THE END OF THAT SENSE. AND THE RACE FOR WHITE HOUSE WAS NEVER THE SAME. NOW HURTLING TOWARD ELECTION DAY. I THINK SHE'S AWESOME. I THINK SHE'S EXCITING. HARRIS HAS BEEN THERE FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS AND IT'S ONLY GOTTEN WORSE. I JUST WANT US TO HAPPY OUT HERE LIVE LIKE WE WANTED TO LOOK BACK ON THIS UNPRECEDENTED RACE THE FORMER PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, FOUND ON ALL 34 COUNTS. >> BREAKING NEWS RIGHT NOW. WE'RE GETTING WORD THAT FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DURING A RALLY IN, PENNSYLVANIA PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS JUST ANNOUNCED THAT HE IS ENDING HIS REELECTION BID AND THIS SUMMER THAT CHANGED IT ALL. BACK IN LATE JUNE AFTER THAT DEBATE, THE FALLOUT IS SWIFT. THE DEMOCRATIC DIVIDED OVER PRESIDENT BIDEN'S ABILITY TO WIN A SECOND TIME. >> THEY, JOE BIDEN, HAVE A BAD NIGHT, IN MY OPINION. YES, HE ABSOLUTELY DID. DO YOU THINK JOE BIDEN PERFORMED WELL LAST NIGHT? BEAUTIFUL. DO YOU THINK JOE BIDEN SHOULD BE THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE, MA'AM? DEMOCRATS START CALLING ON BIDEN TO STEP ASIDE WITH. >> THE GREATEST RESPECT. I DON'T THINK HE'S UP FOR IT. BIDEN TRIES TO STICK IT OUT. WHEN YOU GET KNOCKED DOWN, YOU GET BACK UP TELLING OUR GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS OF THE CHANCES HE COMES ON TELLS ME I MIGHT DO THAT. BUT AS THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION NEARS. >> THE PRESIDENT FACES INCREASED PRESSURE FROM HIGH PROFILE MEMBERS OF HIS PARTY. >> IT'S UP TO THE PRESIDENT DECIDE IF HE IS GOING TO RUN. >> THEN, AS BIDEN TRIES FEND OFF THAT PRESSURE, FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HOLDS A RALLY IN BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA . TRUMP IS WOUNDED IN THE EAR. TWO OTHER RALLY GOERS ARE ALSO HIT. >> AND ONE MAN, FIREFIGHTER COREY COMPERATORE, IS KILLED. THEN IN JUST OVER A WEEK, THE RACE STARTS TO CHANGE QUICKLY. JULY 13TH, THE SAME DAY AS THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER PRIVATELY MEETS WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN, EXPRESSING CONCERNS IF HE CAN WIN. THE RNC STARTS DAYS LATER, JULY 15TH. TRUMP MAKES HIS TRIUMPHANT RETURN A BANDAGE ON HIS EAR. BIDEN IS STILL ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, BUT TWO DAYS LATER, ON JULY 17TH, HE PAUSES HIS CAMPAIGN AFTER TESTING POSITIVE FOR COVID. THEN TRUMP ACCEPTS THE GOP NOMINATION AND RETURNS TO HOLDING RALLIES. AND THREE DAYS LATER, JULY 21ST, PRESIDENT BIDEN STILL ISOLATING FROM COVID, RELEASES A LETTER SAYING HE'S DROPPING OUT OF THE RACE. >> IT'S BEEN THE HONOR OF MY LIFE TO SERVE AS YOUR PRESIDENT. HARRIS QUICKLY SCRAMBLES TO MOUNT A PRESIDENTIAL BID. SHE RALLIES TOP DEMOCRATS TO HER SIDE AND BECOMES THE PRESUMPTIVE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE. IN JUST DAYS, THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN AND SOUTH ASIAN CANDIDATE TO LEAD A MAJOR PARTY TICKET. PROFESSOR MATTHEW DALLEK TEACHES HISTORY AND POLITICS. GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND SEES PARALLELS BETWEEN THIS ELECTION AND OTHER CHAOTIC PERIODS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. I WOULD DESCRIBE THE SUMMER OF 2024 AS ON PAR WITH SOME OF THESE REALLY CRITICAL EXTEND DID MOMENTS. >> RIGHT. BUT SAYS THIS COUNTRY HAS SEEN EVEN MORE TUMULTUOUS TIMES. >> 19 68 ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING. MORE THAN 100 CITIES BURNED. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, LARGE SCALE UPRISINGS, RIOTS IN MAJOR AMERICAN CITIES. THE MURDER OF ROBERT KENNEDY, LYNDON JOHNSON, WHICH RAN FROM THE RACE. 68. ABSOLUTELY. LIKE THE COUNTRY. I THINK FOR A LOT OF AMERICANS, COUNTRY COMING APART. >> IS IT STRANGE FOR YOU THAT THIS WAS A RACE THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HISTORIC BECAUSE ONE OF THE CANDIDATES HAD BEEN INDICTED TIMES AND CONVICTED ONCE, AND THAT ISN'T EVEN CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST HISTORIC EVENTS OF THIS RACE NOW. WELL, WHAT'S CRAZY IS THAT NO ONE IS REALLY TALKING ANYMORE ABOUT A CONVICTED FELON RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. I MEAN, PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT A LITTLE BIT, BUT IT'S SORT OF FALLEN AWAY. >> DO YOU TELL, YOUR STUDENTS, THAT THEY ARE LIVING THROUGH A HISTORIC PERIOD OF TIME? >> I THINK THEY PROBABLY KNOW IT. WE WANTED TO TEST THAT. RAISE YOUR HAND IF. YOU ARE GOING TO VOTE THIS YEAR AND FOUND FOR GW STUDENTS . >> THREE ARE VOTING IN A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FOR THE FIRST TIME. >> WHAT WAS A MOMENT WHERE YOU JUMPED AND WENT, OH MY GOSH ,THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT WAS OBVIOUSLY SHOCKING, BUT I THINK THE MOMENT THAT REALLY STICKS OUT IS JOE BIDEN DROPPING OUT OF THE RACE AND THE RALLYING BEHIND KAMALA HARRIS THAT WE SAW I THINK WAS INCREDIBLY SURPRISING AND EXCITING. >> BUT RATHER THAN PROMOTING THAT NATIONAL UNITY HE PROMISED IN THE DAYS AFTER THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, I THINK I'M ENTITLED TO PERSONAL ATTACKS. >> TRUMP QUICKLY RETURNING TO OLD HABITS ATTACKING HIS NEW RIVAL TELLING ABC'S RACHEL SCOTT, I DIDN'T KNOW SHE WAS BLACK UNTIL A NUMBER OF YEARS WHEN SHE HAPPENED TO TURN BLACK. AND NOW SHE WANTS TO BE KNOWN AS BLACK. WHAT'S YOUR TOP ISSUE? TOP ISSUE IS THE OF DEMOCRACY. CLIMATE JUSTICE. ABORTION RIGHTS AND ISRAEL-PALESTINE. I THINK I WANT TO SEE THE GOVERNMENT IN OUR COMMUNITIES INVESTING IN GREEN JOBS AND HOUSING AFFORDABILITY AND OUT OF OUR INTIMATE HEALTH CARE DECISIONS, WHETHER THAT BE REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS OR GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE. I THINK CLIMATE CHANGE IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE ADDRESSED SOONER RATHER THAN LATER. >> FOR THEIR PARENTS GENERATION ,ANOTHER KEY ISSUE THE ECONOMY. >> BOTH CAMPAIGNS ALSO BATTLING OVER KEY DEMOGRAPHICS LIKE BLACK VOTERS, SUBURBAN AND RUST BELT VOTERS. DEMOCRATS HOPING. HARRIS' NEW RUNNING MATE, MINNESOTA GOVERNOR TIM WALZ, CAN GIVE THEM AN EDGE THERE. I KNOW GUNS. I'M A VETERAN. I'M A HUNTER. AND I WAS A BETTER SHOT THAN MOST REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS. AND I GOT THE TROPHIES TO PROVE IT. >> TRUMP TURNING TO HIS VP PICK, OHIO SENATOR J.D. VANCE, TO DO THE SAME. I PROMISE YOU THIS I WILL BE A VICE PRESIDENT WHO NEVER FORGETS WHERE HE CAME FROM. >> THAT IS A OF CHANGE. >> WE DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF CHANGE THAT IS. THANK YOU. >> AND THIS ELECTION YEAR ROLLERCOASTER ALL TO THAT DEBATE STAGE. >> THE FIRST TIME THESE TWO CANDIDATES WHO'VE NEVER EVEN MET IN PERSON WILL FACE OFF. THIS IS GOING TO BE IN THE TEXTBOOKS AT SOME POINT. YOU WANT THE HISTORY TO STOP FOR A LITTLE BIT AND EVERYBODY HAS GOT A RACE. >> NO ONE SAW IT COMING. A LOT OF HISTORY THAT CONTINUES TO BE MADE. OUR THANKS TO JAY O'BRIEN FOR THAT. LOOK BACK AND FORWARD. >> STILL A LOT TO GET TO TONIGHT. COMING UP, THE FDA IS OUT WITH NEW GUIDELINES, MAMMOGRAMS AND DRAWING ATTENTION TO AN ALL TOO COMMON BREAST CANCER RISK. THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES DATE BACK TO 1860 IN THIS COUNTRY. SO WHEN DO THEY MATTER MOST? LOOK AT THEIR IMPACT ON THE RACE TO THE WHITE HOUSE AS WE COUNT DOWN TO DEBATE NIGHT. >> LET'S GO. THIS 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. WELL, THAT HAD WE ARE HEADING INTO THE UNKNOWN. NEVER, EVER, EVER. IT DOESN'T GET ANY MORE CUTTING EDGE IN THIS. >> WHENEVER NEWSROOM WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR, ENROLLING FOR THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS TOWN FROM LEWISTON, MAINE. THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE. >> ABC LIVE. EVERYWHERE IN ICELAND. LET'S GO ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET. FOREVER STORY IS WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. YOU'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE ABC LIVE HERE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. IT'S LUNCHTIME IN AMERICA. >> SO WHAT DO WE SERVE THEM UP? WELL, HOW ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW YOUR HOW YOUR MONEY BREAKING NEWS POP CULTURE WITH THE BIGGEST STARS MUSIC TRENDS AND OF GOOD FOOD. COMING UP ON "GMA3". YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT. WE'LL FIGURE THAT. THREE WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW. A THIRD HOUR OF "GMA" THE AFTERNOON SO JOINING AFTERNOON FOR EVERYTHING NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THAT THREE TWO BETRAYAL. ONE OF THE HARDEST TYPES OF TRAUMA TO OVERCOME. THIS IS KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR. EVERYTHING FELT RIGHT. ALL OF A SUDDEN, I FOUND THIS HIDDEN FOLDER. I OPENED IT. I DON'T 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 OF A FATHER'S SECRET. >> THE ALL-NEW SEASON ON HULU. IF YOU WERE COMING OF AGE IN THE 1980S, THE BRAT PACK WAS NEAR THE CENTER OF YOUR CULTURE OF AWARENESS. BUT FOR THOSE OF US EXPERIENCING IT FROM THE INSIDE THE BRAT PACK WAS SOMETHING VERY DIFFERENT THAT CRITICS AGREE AIDED THE BRAT PACK. WHAT A DISASTER. >> WHY DID WE TAKE IT AS AN OFFENSE. AND LIKE I SAY WE'RE BEETLES, RIGHT? WELL, WE DIDN'T FAIL SHEA STADIUM 1985. I WE COULD HAVE HAD TOMORROW NIGHT THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL MOMENT THIS CAMPAIGN. KAMALA HARRIS GOT THERE. WE WILL CHART A NEW WAY FORWARD. DONALD TRUMP, WE WILL SOON BE A GREAT NATION AGAIN. >> FACE TO FACE. HISTORIC. THE ABC NEWS PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, MODERATED BY DAVID MUIR AND LINSEY DAVIS NIGHT LIVE ON ABC AND STREAMING ON ABC NEWS, HULU AND DISNEY PLUS THE ABC NEWS PRESIDENTIAL 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 OVER NATIONAL SECURITY. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? TENSIONS IN, THE MIDDLE EAST, WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE WORRIES ON WALL STREET FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN CATCHING UP ON SLEEP DURING THE WEEKEND COULD BE GOOD FOR YOUR HEART. >> NONALCOHOLIC BARS ARE POPPING IN A GROWING NUMBER OF CITIES. THAT'S THE SPIRIT OF AMERICA THIS MORNING. AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC. REPORTING FROM TAIPEI, TAIWAN, I'M RICK KLEIN. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU'RE STREAMING. ABC NEWS LIVE. WELCOME BACK TO OUR COVERAGE HERE IN, PHILADELPHIA AT THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER, WHERE WE JUST UNVEILED DEBATE STAGE A SHORT TIME AGO AS BOTH KAMALA HARRIS AND DONALD TRUMP PREPARE TO FACE TOMORROW NIGHT. PEOPLE OFTEN MISTAKE THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS OF 1858 AS THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES. >> BUT ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND STEPHEN DOUGLAS WERE VYING FOR A U.S. SENATE SEAT IN ILLINOIS BACK THEN. THEY WOULDN'T FACE EACH OTHER IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION UNTIL YEARS LATER. HERE'S A HISTORY OF PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES IN THIS EVENING'S BY THE NUMBERS. >> THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE IN 1960 IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT. THE IMAGE OF RICHARD NIXON FACING OFF AGAINST JOHN F. KENNEDY ENTRENCHED THE IDEA THAT APPEARANCES ARE IMPORTANT PART OF PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS. BUT THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE WOULD NOT TAKE PLACE UNTIL 1976. PRESIDENT GERALD FORD AGAINST FORMER GEORGIA GOVERNOR JIMMY CARTER. BOTH CANDIDATES FELT THEY NEEDED THE EXPOSURE IN 1980. PRESIDENT CARTER DIDN'T DEBATE RONALD REAGAN UNTIL ONE WEEK BEFORE THE ELECTION, REFUSING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE THAT YEAR BECAUSE OF THE PRESENCE OF INDEPENDENT JOHN ANDERSON. WITH MORE THAN 80 MILLION VIEWERS, THAT DEBATE REMAINS THE SECOND MOST WATCHED DEBATE IN HISTORY, WITH RONALD REAGAN COINING CATCHPHRASES LIKE THERE YOU GO AGAIN. THE MOST WATCHED DEBATE WAS IN 2016, DONALD TRUMP AGAINST HILLARY CLINTON, WHICH ATTRACTED 84 MILLION VIEWERS. HISTORIANS SAY PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES MATTER MOST WHEN THERE IS NO CLEAR FRONTRUNNER IN THE POLLS AND UNDECIDED VOTERS MAKE UP A LARGE CHUNK OF THE ELECTORATE. BOTH CONDITIONS COULD BE TRUE THIS YEAR. AND WE STILL HAVE MUCH MORE AHEAD HERE ON PRIME TONIGHT. APPLE, ITS LATEST DEVICES TODAY, NOT JUST POWERFUL NEW IPHONES AND, UPDATES TO SIRI, BUT NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR DETECTING SLEEP AND EVEN CLINICAL GRADE HEARING AIDS. AND THE PRINCESS OF WALES HAS FINISHED CHEMOTHERAPY. AN INTIMATE LOOK AT KATE'S IN HER OWN WORDS. WHENEVER WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS, IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED HERE IN LONDON. >> IN BUFFALO. >> IN TEXAS. EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND. FROM POLAND ONCE AGAIN TONIGHT . THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US. UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HERE IN WARSAW. DO YOU THINK YOU'LL EVER BE ABLE TO GO BACK HOME? WE'RE HEADING TO A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY. >> SPLINTERED HOUSES AND SPLINTERED LIVES. THE MAGNITUDE OF THE DEVASTATION. YOU'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS REPORTING FROM ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI, SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO. >> RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA. THE U.S. CAPITOL. MAYFIELD, KENTUCKY. >> MINNEAPOLIS, MEXICO. TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST, ALASKA. GETTING YOU BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. GIVING YOU A FRONT ROW SEAT TO OUR WORLD AS IT PLAYS OUT IN REAL TIME LIVE. >> ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME. >> WE'LL TAKE YOU THERE. STREAM ABC LIVE WEEKNIGHTS AMERICA'S MOST HONORED STREAMING NEWS PROGRAM ON ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE RIGHT NOW WHEREVER YOU JOINING US. >> FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE'S A LOT GOING ON STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING 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 FORWARD 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 CITIES. THAT'S THE SPIRIT AMERICA THIS MORNING. AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC. >> IT WAS A REGULAR DAY FOR 19-YEAR-OLD MELISSA WITH SOMETHING TERRIBLE. HAD HAPPENED TO HER. YOU HAD SEVERAL SUSPECTS, ALL THESE KINDS OF LEADS. NO ONE SERIAL KILLER IN THE AREA. COULD HE BE INVOLVED OR ACTUALLY FIND A KEY EVIDENCE THAT COULD HAVE SLIPPED THROUGH CRACKS? >> HER LAST HOURS ON THIS EARTH WITH THIS BEAUTIFUL YOUNG GIRL. POLICE WILL FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED AT WIT'S END. THE HUNT FOR A KILLER. >> ONLY ON HULU. "BAYWATCH" IS A FANTASY. WHEN YOU HEAR THEME SONG. ALSO OLD TIME AND I WAS A WILD CHICK ONE A JASON MOMOA EXPLODED COMMENT WAS A BOMBSHELL. >> ANDERSON WAS AN ICON, VERY PROUD OF EVERYTHING I'VE DONE. ALMOST. >> "BAYWATCH" IS A WHIRLWIND OF EPIC HIGHS AND LOWS. EVERYONE LIKES TO WATCH SEXY THINGS GET READY AMERICA EVERY FRIDAY HOTTEST TREND STYLES AND MUST HAVE. BUT WHAT'S THE RIGHT STUFF TO BUY RIGHT? I REALLY LOVE THAT. IT'S TIME TO BUY THE RIGHT STUFF. YES. AND SAVE BIG TIME. THE RIGHT STUFF. FRIDAYS ON "GMA". >> YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? ABC THIS IS STARTING TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY'S TOP STORIES. START HERE. THAT'S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T COMING. >> MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS. >> YOU'RE WATCHING AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ABC NEWS LIVE. BREAKING NEWS. EXCUSE SIX LIVE REPORTING KEEPS STREAMING WITH ABC NEWS. >> NEW MAMMOGRAM GUIDELINES AIM TO DETECT CANCER EARLIER. GOOGLE FACES ANOTHER ANTITRUST LAWSUIT THAT COULD BREAK UP THE COMPANY. AND NO LOVE FOR COWBOY CARTER COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION SNUBS BEYONCE. THESE STORIES AND MUCH MORE IN TONIGHT'S RUNDOWN. I'M BEGINNING TOMORROW. ALL WOMEN HAVING A MAMMOGRAM WILL BE NOTIFIED IF. THEY HAVE DENSE BREASTS WHICH CAN MAKE SPOTTING CANCER ON A MAMMOGRAM DIFFICULT. THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION IS REQUIRING FACILITIES AND DOCTORS TO NOTIFY THEIR PATIENTS ABOUT DENSITY IN AN EFFORT TO IMPROVE CANCER DETECTION. ABOUT HALF OF WOMEN OVER THE AGE OF 40 HAVE DENSE BREAST TISSUE. AND WHILE IT DOESN'T POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT, IT DOES INCREASE THE RISK OF CANCER. >> JUST ONE MONTH AFTER A JUDGE RULED GOOGLE WAS ACTING AS A MONOPOLY AS, A SEARCH ENGINE, THE TECH GIANT IS UNDER FIRE AGAIN. THE COMPANY NOW FACING AN ANTITRUST TRIAL OVER THEIR ADVERTISING TECHNOLOGY. IS ACCUSED OF HOLDING A MONOPOLY OVER TECHNOLOGY THAT MATCHES ONLINE PUBLISHERS TO ADVERTISERS AND CONTROLLING THE AD EXCHANGE MARKET. THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND A COALITION OF STATES OPENED THE FEDERAL TRIAL TODAY. GOOGLE'S SAY IF THE GOVERNMENT INTERVENES, ANOTHER TECH GIANT WILL JUST FILL THE VOID. >> NOMINATIONS ARE OUT FOR THE 2024 HONORING THE BEST IN COUNTRY MUSIC. MORGAN WALLEN LED THE WITH SEVEN NOMINATIONS, INCLUDING ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR AND FOUR NOMINATIONS FOR HIS HIT SINGLE WITH POST MALONE. I HAD SOME HELP. A NOTABLE ABSENCE BEYONCE WHOSE ALBUM COWBOY CARTER REACHED NUMBER ONE ON THE BILLBOARD COUNTRY ALBUM CHART, MAKING HER THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO EARN THAT SPOT. BEYONCE SAID SHE WAS TO DIVE DEEPER INTO COUNTRY MUSIC, IN PART BECAUSE OF AN EXPERIENCE WHERE SHE DIDN'T FEEL WELCOME IN THE GENRE. THE CMA WILL BE HELD NOVEMBER ON ABC. APPLE TODAY ANNOUNCED ITS NEW LINE OF PRODUCTS, INCLUDING THE IPHONE 16, WITH A NEW CHIP DESIGNED TO RUN APPLE'S FORAY INTO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. THE COMPANY CALLS ITS APP TEARS APPLE INTELLIGENCE. IT SAYS IT WILL CHANGE HOW IPHONE USERS USE SIRI, RIGHT? EMAILS AND TEXTS, TAKE PHOTOS AND EVEN USE EMOJIS. APPLE ALSO DIVING DEEPER INTO THE HEALTH SPACE, REVEALING NEW APPLE WATCH THAT CAN DETECT SLEEP APNEA. AND THE AIRPODS PRO TWO, WHICH WILL DOUBLE AS A CLINICAL GRADE HEARING AID. >> MORTARS CAME TO PAY RESPECTS AT A MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR LATE STAR JOHNNY GAUDREAU AND HIS BROTHER, MATTHEW GAUDREAU. JOHNNY'S WIDOW MEREDITH REVEALED AT THE SERVICE THAT SHE IS NINE WEEKS PREGNANT WITH THE COUPLE'S THIRD CHILD. MATTHEW'S WIFE IS ALSO PREGNANT. THE BROTHERS WERE RIDING THEIR BICYCLES IN NEW JERSEY ON AUGUST 29TH WHEN THEY WERE STRUCK AND KILLED BY A DRIVER SUSPECTED OF BEING UNDER INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL. >> THE END HAS COME FOR U.S. SOCCER ALEX MORGAN AFTER A 15 YEAR PRO CAREER. THE TWO TIME WORLD CUP CHAMP AND OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST ANNOUNCED RETIREMENT LAST IN A SOCIAL MEDIA POST WHERE SHE ALSO REVEALED HER PREGNANCY. MORGAN'S FINAL APPEARANCE CAME FOR THE NWSL SAN DIEGO WAVE AGAINST THE NORTH CAROLINA COURAGE SUNDAY. >> SHE PLAYED FOR 13 MINUTES, A NOD TO HER LONGTIME JERSEY NUMBER BEFORE BEING SENT OFF BY FANS ONE LAST TIME. PRINCESS CATHERINE REACHED A MILESTONE IN HER BATTLE WITH CANCER. "WORLD NEWS TONIGHT" ANCHOR DAVID HAS THE LATEST. >> TONIGHT, THE DEEPLY MESSAGE RELEASED BY CATHERINE, PRINCESS OF WALES. HER VOICE NARRATING A VIDEO WITH HER FAMILY, PRINCE WILLIAM AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN, GEORGE CHARLOTTE AND LOUIS, TOGETHER IN THE COUNTRYSIDE. PRINCESS KATE REVEALING SHE HAS CHEMOTHERAPY FOR CANCER AFTER SHARING HER DIAGNOSIS WITH WORLD JUST SIX MONTHS AGO. >> AS THE SUN TO AN END, I CANNOT TELL YOU WHAT A RELIEF IT IS TO COMPLETED MY CHEMOTHERAPY TREATMENT. LIFE. WE KNOW IT CAN CHANGE IN AN INSTANT, AND WE'VE HAD TO FIND A WAY TO NAVIGATE THE STORMY WATERS AND VARIED UNKNOWN. >> I JUST SPOKE WITH PRINCESS CATHERINE, SAYING SHE'S NOW DOING WHAT SHE CAN DO TO. >> QUOTE, STAY CANCER FREE. DOING WHAT I CAN TO STAY FREE IS NOW MY FOCUS. ALTHOUGH I FINISHED CHEMOTHERAPY, MY PATH TO HEALING AND FULL RECOVERY IS LONG AND I MUST CONTINUE TO EACH DAY AS IT COMES. I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO BEING BACK AT WORK AND UNDERTAKING FEW MORE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS IN THE COMING MONTHS WHEN I CAN ,ENDING WITH A MESSAGE OF GRATITUDE AND A MESSAGE OF HOPE TO ALL OF THOSE BATTLING CANCER. >> TO ALL THOSE WHO CONTINUE THEIR OWN CANCER JOURNEY, I REMAIN WITH YOU SIDE BY, SIDE, HAND IN HAND OUT OF DARKNESS CAN COME LIGHT. SO LET THAT LIGHT SHINE FOR SO NICE TO SEE THOSE JOYFUL IMAGES OF HER WITH THE FAMILY. OUR THANKS TO DAVID FOR THAT. A NEW ERA NOW BEGINS FOR WHEEL OF FORTUNE. WHEN RYAN MAKES HIS DEBUT TONIGHT, TAKING OVER, HOSTING THE INFAMOUS GAME SHOW, I'LL HOST ALONGSIDE VANNA WHITE, WHO HAS RAVED ABOUT THEIR ON SCREEN CHEMISTRY. PAT SAJAK NOW RETIRED AFTER 40 PLUS YEARS ON THE SHOW, WON AN EMMY FOR HIS FINAL SEASON AS HOST AND SAYS HE IS COMPLETELY ON BOARD WITH SEACREST TAKING OVER. IT'S ONE OF THE MOST WATCHED SPORTING EVENTS IN THE WORLD. AND WE NOW KNOW THE HALF TIME HEADLINER FOR FEBRUARY'S SUPER BOWL COMING OFF OF A SUMMER OF SUCCESS, RAP ARTIST GRAMMY AWARD AND PULITZER PRIZE WINNER KENDRICK LAMAR WILL BE TAKING TO THE STAGE. WILL HIS VIRAL BEEF WITH DRAKE BE PART OF THE BIG PERFORMANCE? OUR JANAI NORMAN HAS THAT STORY . >> ALL EYES ON RAP ARTIST KENDRICK LAMAR FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HE WILL HEADLINE THE SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW. >> MEET ME IN NEW ORLEANS, FEBRUARY 9TH, 2025. WHAT ARE YOUR BEST ADVICE TO THE 17 TIME GRAMMY WINNING RAPPER IN A STATEMENT RELEASED BY THE NFL? RAP MUSIC IS STILL THE MOST IMPACTFUL GENRE TO DATE, AND I'LL BE THERE TO. >> REMIND THE WORLD WHY THEY GOT THE RIGHT ONE TO TO ME, CONFRONTATION AIN'T THE NEW TO ME. LAMAR, KNOWN FOR HIS RAP LYRICS THAT TACKLE SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES, WAS THE SPECIAL GUEST DURING DR. DRE'S HALFTIME SHOW IN 2022. WE GOT BEAT UP BY KENDRICK LAMAR. >> RIGHT NOW IS, THE MOST VITAL, IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL RAPPER IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. >> WHILE THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNING RAPPER HAS A RECORD OF HIS MUSIC BECOMING THE SOUNDTRACK OF MOVEMENTS, IF I DIDN'T WANT TO GET THE LEGS UP, THAT MAN TAKE IT NO LESS. >> IT'S LAMAR'S CHART TOPPING SUMMER ANTHEM NOT LIKE US, THAT TURNED HIM INTO ONE OF THE BIGGEST ARTISTS OF THIS. >> THEY NOT LIKE US. THEY NOT LIKE US. >> IS RAP BATTLE WITH DRAKE HIS MUSICAL BATTLE WITH DRAKE HAS MADE HIM EVEN MORE TOPICAL THAN EVER. >> AND ON TOP OF THAT, IT'S GIVEN HIM ONE OF THE BIGGEST SINGLES OF THE YEAR. >> NOT LIKE US. KNOWN AS A DISH TRACK AND AN ONGOING FEUD, THE RAPPER HAS WITH FELLOW RAPPER DRAKE. THEY NOT LIKE US. THEY NOT LIKE US. >> I FEEL LIKE THE FEUD WITH DRAKE IS PROBABLY NOT GOING TO MAKE IT TO THE STAGE OF THE SUPER BOWL. I THINK HE'S GOING TO HAVE HIS EYE ON BIGGER ISSUES WITH WHAT HE SAYS AND. IT'S REALLY JUST HE'S PROBABLY GOING TO HAVE SOME, I WOULD GUESS, BARELY GUEST APPEARANCES BECAUSE THE SUPER BOWL ALWAYS DOES. IN A STATEMENT, HIP-HOP MOGUL AND ROC NATION FOUNDER JAY-Z, LAMAR'S DEEP LOVE FOR HIP-HOP AND CULTURE INFORMS, HIS ARTISTIC VISION. HE HAS AN UNPARALLELED ABILITY TO DEFINE AND INFLUENCE CULTURE GLOBALLY. >> WE'LL SOON. >> SEE OUR THANKS TO DISNEY FOR THAT. IN THE MEANTIME, WE ARE ALMOST 24 HOURS AWAY FROM THE START OF TOMORROW'S DEBATE THAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT HERE AT PHILADELPHIA'S NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER. FOR MORE 21 YEARS, THE CENTER HAS HOSTED MAJOR EVENTS, BUT NOTHING QUITE LIKE THIS. REPORTER SARAH BLOOMQUIST FROM OUR PARTNER STATION WBEZ HERE IN PHILADELPHIA HAS THAT STORY. >> WE ARE ON THE MOST HISTORIC MILE IN THE UNITED STATES, AND IT'S HERE AT THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION ON INDEPENDENCE MALL, WHERE THE TWO CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT WILL DEBATE A NATIONAL TELEVISION AUDIENCE. >> IT'S THE TYPE OF EVENT THE NCC HAS BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO HOSTING. >> SURE. I MEAN, WE'VE HAD GREAT HISTORY OVER THE LAST 21 YEARS OF HOSTING THESE TYPES OF EVENTS. >> IN 2008, HILLARY CLINTON AND BARACK OBAMA WENT HEAD TO HEAD BEFORE THE PRIMARY ELECTION. THEN IN 2020, FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND THEN FORMER VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN HELD TOWN HALLS HERE HOSTED BY ABC. >> AND EACH YEAR, THE CONSTITUTION CENTER AWARDS THE LIBERTY MEDAL HONORING MEN AND WOMEN OF COURAGE. JOHN MCCAIN, MALALA YOUSAFZAI, FORMER PRESIDENTS, AND BONO. >> BETWEEN THOSE TYPES OF EVENTS, WE HAVE LEADERS, SUPREME COURT JUSTICES, LAWMAKERS, ALL SORTS OF FOLKS THAT VIEW THE CONSTITUTION CENTER AS A PLACE TO HAVE THESE IMPORTANT DISCUSSIONS IN PHILADELPHIA. >> THE CENTER BROKE GROUND ON SEPTEMBER 17TH, 2213 YEARS TO THE DAY AFTER THE CONSTITUTION WAS SIGNED. ADDRESS 525 ARCH STREET PAYS TRIBUTE TO MAY 25TH, THE DATE THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION BEGAN IN PHILADELPHIA IN 1787. >> FOR 21 YEARS, THE NCC HAS BROUGHT THE U.S. CONSTITUTION TO LIFE FOR HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF VISITORS EACH YEAR THROUGH INTERACTIVE EXHIBITS, RARE DOCUMENTS, MOVIE THEATER AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES. >> SO HERE WE ARE, 21 YEARS AFTER THE OPENING, THE NCC WILL MAKE HISTORY AGAIN. WE'RE REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. IT'S EXCITING. OUR THANKS TO SARAH FOR THAT. AND THAT IS OUR SHOW FOR THIS HOUR FROM THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER HERE IN PHILADELPHIA. AS THE CLOCK TICKS DOWN TO THE MONUMENTAL PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, I'M LINSEY DAVIS BE SURE TO STAY TUNED TO NEWS LIVE FOR MORE CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS OF THE DAY'S TOP STORIES. AS OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE CONTINUES. THANKS SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US US. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC. 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 FOR EDWARD R. MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT'S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. IT'S LUNCH TIME IN AMERICA. SO WHAT ARE WE SERVING? WELL, HOW ABOUT EVERYTHING? YOU NEED TO KNOW YOUR HOUSE YOUR MONEY? >> BREAKING NEWS POP CULTURE WITH THE BIGGEST MUSIC TRENDS AND OF COURSE, GOOD FOOD ALL 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 JORDAN AFTERNOON HERE. >> EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THAT. THREE TO WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS. WE ARE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR IN ROLLING FORWARD THIS TORNADO THROUGH THIS TOWN FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS FROM 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 IS. WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE YOU'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE ABC NEWS HERE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA? AN OPERATION AFTER ISIS PLUNDERED COMBAT OPERATIONS? WE'RE APPROACHING THE GATE NOW. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM FOUR OR FIVE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, OPERATE FROM NUCLEAR REACTORS. WE HAD A COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG THERE'S NOT A TEAR IN AND OUT OF CARE. HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS LABEL RIGHT HERE MADE TO YOU AS THEY LOOK HERE? >> SMILE. YOU'RE PROUD OF THIS? I LOVE IT. GREAT WORK. HEY, WHERE ARE YOU? ARE YOU THINKING THAT NATURE? >> IT'S MALE. DAVID. YES, YES, I'M DAVID. >> YOU ARE. I KNOW YOU ARE HERE EVERY NIGHT . ABC'S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR IS AMERICA'S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST. TOMORROW, THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL MOMENT OF THIS CAMPAIGN. >> KAMALA TOGETHER WE WILL CHART IT. NO WAY OVER DONALD TRUMP. WE WILL SOON BE A GREAT NATION AGAIN. FACE TO FACE. HISTORIC THE ABC NEWS PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE MODERATED BY DAVID MUIR AND LINSEY DAVIS TOMORROW NIGHT LIVE ON ABC STREAMING ON ABC NEWS LIVE, HULU AND DISNEY rd a u.s. Navy destroyer in the Eastern Mediterranean. I'm Maggie Rulli, wherever the story is will take you there. You're watching ABC News live. >>> TONIGHT, BREAKING NEWS AS WE COME ON THE AIR FROM PHILADELPHIA. VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS AND FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ON THE EVE OF THEIR HIGH STAKES FIRST DEBATE RIGHT HERE IN THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER. THE FIRST TIME EVER THEY'LL MEET FACE-TO-FACE. >>> ALSO TONIGHT HERE, WE REMEMBER AN ACTING LEGEND, JAMES EARL JONES. >>> FIRST TONIGHT, VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS ARRIVING IN PHILADELPHIA, JUST A SHORT TIME AGO. THE VICE PRESIDENT LOCKED IN DEBATE PREP FOR DAYS, HOLDING MOCK DEBATES. IN A NEW INTERVIEW THAT AIRED TODAY, THE VICE PRESIDENT SAYING FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IS, QUOTE, NOT BURDENED BY TELLING THE TRUTH. TONIGHT, HOW DONALD TRUMP IS PREPARING IN THESE FINAL HOURS. AND THE NEW POLL JUST OUT TONIGHT. SHOWING THIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE IS A DEAD HEAT. MARY BRUCE, RACHEL SCOTT, AND RICK KLEIN ON THIS NEW POLL JUST IN, ALL HERE IN PHILADELPHIA TONIGHT. >>> THE NEWS BREAKING LATE TODAY. LEGENDARY ACTOR JAMES EARL JONES HAS DIED. ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST DISTINGUISHED PERFORMERS. A POWERFUL PRESENCE ON STAGE AND SCREEN. >> NO. I AM YOUR FATHER. >> David: THE VOICE THAT DEFINED ONE OF THE GREATEST VILLAINS IN MOVIE HISTORY. STEVE OSUNSAMI WITH THE TRIBUTES COMING IN. >>> ALSO TONIGHT, TROPICAL STORM FRANCINE GAINING STRENGTH. THE STORM EXPECTED TO BECOME A HURRICANE TONIGHT, AS IT NOW TAKES AIM AT THE U.S. GINGER ZEE WITH THE NEW TRACK. >>> THE WILDFIRE EMERGENCY AT THIS HOUR. THOUSANDS OF EVACUATIONS OUTSIDE LOS ANGELES. FLAMES BURNING ACROSS MORE THAN 20,000 ACRES. DOZENS OF LARGE FIRES BURNING IN THE WEST. >>> TONIGHT, THE URGENT MANHUNT FOR A HIGHWAY SNIPER SUSPECT ALONG INTERSTATE 75. SEVERAL PEOPLE SHOT AND WOUNDED. THE ALARMING TEXT AUTHORITIES SAY HE SENT MOMENTS BEFORE HE OPENED FIRE. >>> TONIGHT, ONE OF THE POLICE OFFICERS INVOLVED IN THE ARREST OF MIAMI DOLPHINS STAR TYREEK HILL NOW ON ADMINISTRATIVE DUTY. HILL PULLED OVER AND PLACED IN HANDCUFFS ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD JUST HOURS BEFORE PLAYING IN THE FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON. >>> THE DEEPLY MOVING MOMENT AT TODAY'S MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR HOCKEY BROTHERS JOHNNY AND MATTHEW GAUDREAU. WHAT JOHNNY GAUDREAU'S WIFE REVEALED DURING THE SERVICE. >>> TONIGHT, THE RETURN OF "MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL." THE JETS' AARON RODGERS TAKING THE FIELD FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE SUFFERING THAT SEASON-ENDING INJURY. >>> THE NEW HOST BEHIND THE WHEEL. RYAN SEACREST MAKES HIS DEBUT TONIGHT ON "WHEEL OF FORTUNE." >>> AND PRINCESS CATHERINE AND HER MOVING MESSAGE TONIGHT AMID HER BATTLE WITH CANCER. MILLIONS REACTING TO WHAT SHE SAID. >>> GOOD EVENING TONIGHT FROM PHILADELPHIA. WE ARE HERE AT THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER, WHERE TOMORROW NIGHT, ABC NEWS WILL HOST THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BETWEEN VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS AND FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. THE STAKES COULD NOT BE HIGHER, WITH A NEW POLL JUST OUT TONIGHT, SHOWING THIS RACE IS TIED AT 49-49. THE CANDIDATES WILL MEET FACE-TO-FACE FOR THE FIRST TIME ON THIS STAGE WITH NO AUDIENCE IN THE ROOM, A VERY INTIMATE SETTING. THEY'VE NEVER MET BEFORE. IT WILL BE TRUMP'S SEVENTH PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. IT WILL BE THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE FOR HARRIS. THE VICE PRESIDENT ARRIVING HERE IN PHILADELPHIA A SHORT TIME AGO AFTER SPENDING DAYS IN PITTSBURGH IN DEBATE PREP. COMPLETE WITH MOCK DEBATES AND STAGE LIGHTING. IN A NEW INTERVIEW THAT AIRED TODAY, THE VICE PRESIDENT SAYING FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IS, QUOTE, NOT BURDENED BY TELLING THE TRUTH. THE FORMER PRESIDENT HOLDING A RALLY IN WISCONSIN OVER THE WEEKEND, THEN MEETING WITH HIS TEAM, INFORMALLY, HE SAYS, AT MAR-A-LAGO. BUT OUR TEAM LEARNING TONIGHT HE IS PREPARING FOR THIS DEBATE. TONIGHT HERE, THE NEW NUMBERS WHERE THIS RACE STANDS IN THE BATTLEGROUND BATTLEGROUNDS, TOO. ABC'S MARY BRUCE LEADING US OFF RIGHT HERE IN PHILADELPHIA. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, WITH JUST 24 HOURS TO GO UNTIL THEIR HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED SHOWDOWN, VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS SETTING OFF FOR PHILADELPHIA, WHERE TOMORROW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, SHE WILL COME FACE-TO-FACE WITH FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. >> HOW ARE YOU FEELING? HOW ARE YOU FEELING? >> FEELING GOOD. >> Reporter: IN A NEW RADIO INTERVIEW, HARRIS SAYS SHE'S READY FOR WHATEVER TRUMP THROWS HER WAY. >> THERE'S NO FLOOR FOR HIM IN TERMS OF HOW LOW HE WILL GO, AND WE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THAT. WE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE FACT THAT HE IS NOT BURDENED BY TELLING THE TRUTH. >> Reporter: FOR DAYS NOW, THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN HUNKERED DOWN IN THIS PITTSBURGH HOTEL, INTENSELY PREPARING. HER TEAM EVEN BUILDING A STAGE WITH FULL TV LIGHTING TO HOLD MOCK DEBATES. HARRIS LEANING ON SEVERAL ADVISERS WHO HELPED PREP HILLARY CLINTON FOR HER 2016 DEBATE AGAINST TRUMP, INCLUDING ONE WHO PLAYED THE ROLE OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT IN REHEARSALS. BUT HARRIS ALSO TAKING BREAKS TO GET OUT IN THIS CRITICAL STATE. IN A PITTSBURGH SPICE SHOP, GREETING ONE VOTER WHO WAS IN TEARS. >> COME HERE! WHAT IS THAT ABOUT? WHAT IS THAT ABOUT? WHAT IS THAT ABOUT? >> I THINK YOU UNDERSTAND. I'M PRETTY SURE YOU KNOW. >> OH. IT'S GOING TO BE GOOD. WE'RE GOING TO BE GOOD. WE'RE GOING TO BE FINE. >> Reporter: HARRIS PERHAPS PREVIEWING HER MESSAGE FOR THE DEBATE. >> LOOK, IT'S TIME TO TURN THE PAGE ON THE DIVISIVENESS. IT'S TIME TO BRING OUR COUNTRY TOGETHER, CHART A YOU THIS -- CHART A NEW WAY FORWARD. >> Reporter: WHILE HARRIS HAS BEEN LARGELY OFF THE TRAIL SINCE THURSDAY, TRUMP OVER THE WEEKEND HOLDING A RALLY IN BATTLEGROUND WISCONSIN. >> SHE WILL BE THE WORST PRESIDENT. AND TRUMP IS NEVER WRONG. I AM NEVER, EVER WRONG. >> Reporter: THE FORMER PRESIDENT TRYING TO SET EXPECTATIONS. >> IS ANYBODY GOING TO BE WATCHING? >> Reporter: AND SPIN THE DEBATE BEFORE IT EVEN HAPPENS. >> YOU KNOW, IF I DESTROY HER IN THE DEBATE, THEY'LL SAY TRUMP SUFFERED A HUMILIATING DEFEAT TONIGHT. NO MATTER WHAT. >> David: SO, LET'S BRING IN MARY BRUCE. SHE'S LIVE HERE IN PHILADELPHIA. MARY, I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN TALKING TO YOUR SOURCES INSIDE THE HARRIS CAMPAIGN W. WHAT'S HER STRATEGY HEADING INTO THIS DEBATE TOMORROW NIGHT ON ABC? >> Reporter: WELL, DAVID, HARRIS IS CERTAINLY AN EXPERIENCED DEBATER, BUT HER CAMPAIGN IS QUICK TO NOTE THAT THIS IS FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT. THIS WILL BE TRUMP'S SEVENTH PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. IT WILL BE HARRIS' FIRST. HER GOAL HERE TOMORROW NIGHT WILL BE TO HIGHLIGHT HER POSITIONS ON THE ISSUES AND THEN PIVOT TO PUT THE SPOTLIGHT ON TRUMP. REMINDING VOTERS OF HIS RECORD, TO COUNTER WHAT THE CAMPAIGN IS DESCRIBING AS TRUMP AMNESIA. AND, YES, DAVID, SHE WILL TRY TO GET UNDER HIS SKIN. THE CHALLENGE FOR HARRIS, TO BAIT HIM WITHOUT BEING BAITED HERSELF. DAVID? >> David: MARY, THANK YOU. >> David: MARY BRUCE LEADING US OFF HERE IN PHILADELPHIA. MARY, THANK YOU. LET'S GET RIGHT TO ABC'S RACHEL SCOTT, ALSO HERE AT THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER. RACHEL, PRESIDENT TRUMP ALWAYS SAYS HE'S NOT ONE FOR FORMAL DEBATE PREP, BUT YOUR SOURCES TELLING YOU HE IS, IN FACT, PREPARING. >> Reporter: YES, DAVID. I'M TOLD THAT DONALD TRUMP IS TAKING THIS VERY SERIOUSLY. AND THAT HE KNOWS JUST HOW CONSEQUENTIAL THIS DEBATE, THIS MOMENT WILL BE. THE FORMER PRESIDENT, I'M TOLD, HAS HELD NEARLY A HALF A DOZEN INFORMAL POLICY SESSIONS, INCLUDING WITH FORMER CONGRESSWOMAN TULSI GABBARD. SHE CHALLENGED HARRIS ON THE DEBATE STAGE BACK IN 2019. ALSO INVOLVED IN HIS DEBATE PREP, CONGRESSMAN MATT GAETZ. WE ARE TOLD THAT GAETZ IS FIRING OFF QUESTIONS AT TRUMP ON SOME OF THE TOUGHER TOPICS INCLUDING HIS STANCE ON ABORTION AND ALSO HIS LEGAL ISSUES. WE'RE ALSO TOLD THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAS BEEN BRIEFED ON HARRIS' PAST DEBATES, INCLUDING ONE WITH FORMER VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE AND THAT NOTABLE EXCHANGE, WHERE PENCE TRIED INTERRUPTING HARRIS AND HARRIS SHUT HIM DOWN, SAYING, "I'M SPEAKING." THE PRESIDENT HAS SAID HE WON'T LET THAT HAPPEN TO HIM, DAVID. >> David: RACHEL, THANK YOU. WITH 24 HOURS TO BE BEFORE THIS DEBATE, THE NEW POLLS JUST IN. LET'S GET RIGHT TO WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF RICK KLEIN, ALSO HERE AT THE CONSTITUTION CENTER, AND RICK, THESE TWO NEW NATIONAL POLLS ESSENTIALLY SHOW A DEAD HEAT. AND WHAT ARE YOU SEEING? >> Reporter: DAVID, RECENT POLLS SHOW AS TIGHT RACE IS GETTING EVEN TIGHT TIGHTER BY SOME MEAS. THE LATEST POLL FROM PEW AMONG REGISTERED VOTERS, AN EXACT TIE. A "NEW YORK TIMES" SIENA POLL HAD A TWO-POINT EDGE FOR DONALD TRUMP. THIS IS AFTER WEEKS OF HARRIS MOMENTUM THAT APPEARS TO HAVE DISSIPATED GOING INTO THE DEBATE. WHEN YOU DRILL DOWN ON THE BATTLEGROUND STATES, YOU SEE A VERY CLOSE RACE ACROSS THE SPECTRUM. THE TWO STRONGEST STATES FOR HARRIS RIGHT NOW, WISCONSIN AND MICHIGAN. BUT CHECK THIS OUT. PENNSYLVANIA, THE STATE WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW, LESS THAN ONE PERCENTAGE POINT SEPARATING THE CANDIDATES, JUST UNDERSCORING THE STAKES TOMORROW NIGHT, DAVID. >> David: OF COURSE, PENNSYLVANIA A MUST-WIN BATTLEGROUND FOR BOTH CAMPAIGNS. I KNOW, RICK, YOU WERE ALSO DIGGING INTO THE NUMBERS IN THIS POLL, THERE'S A STRIKING NUMBER IN THERE THAT SPEAKS TO HOW CRUCIAL THIS DEBATE COULD BE FOR VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS, IN PARTICULAR. >> Reporter: DAVID, THIS REALLY JUMPED OUT AT ME. PEOPLE WERE ASKED HOW MUCH THEY KNOW ABOUT THE CANDIDATES NOW, AND GUESS WHAT? ALMOST A THIRD OF VOTERS SAY THEY NEED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT KAMALA HARRIS, 28%, BEFORE THEY CAN MAKE THEIR DECISION TO VOTE. THAT COMPARES TO DONALD TRUMP, 90%, 9 IN 10 VOTERS, SAY THEY KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT HIM TO MAKE A DECISION. AGAIN, PUTTING EXTRA PRESSURE ON KAMALA HARRIS TOMORROW NIGHT, DAVID. >> David: RICK KLEIN, THANK YOU. THE ABC NEWS PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, JUST 24 HOURS AWAY. VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS, FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, THEY'LL BE RIGHT DOWN ON THE FLOOR HERE, THE STAGE BEHIND ME. THIS IS A VERY INTIMATE SETTING HERE IN THIS ROOM. NO AUDIENCE. THEY WILL MEET FOR THE FIRST TIME, RIGHT HERE IN THE HALL. I'LL BE MODERATING WITH OUR LINSEY DAVIS. OF COURSE, THAT DEBATE, RIGHT HERE ON ABC, 9:00 P.M. EASTERN TOMORROW NIGHT. >>> WE CONTINUE WITH THE OTHER NEWS TONIGHT, TO THE TROPICAL STORM, FRANCINE, JUST FORMING IN THE GULF, AND GROWING STRONGER, SET TO BECOME A HURRICANE AS IT TAKES AIM AT THE U.S. TAKE A LOOK AT THE SATELLITE IMAGE TONIGHT OF FRANCINE TAKING SHAPE, LIKELY A HURRICANE TOMORROW, HEADING FOR LANDFALL ON WEDNESDAY. MANDATORY EVACUATIONS ALREADY IN WHERE PLACE. HURRICANE AND STORM SURGE WARNINGS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ISSUED TONIGHT. LET'S GET RIGHT TO CHIEF METEOROLOGIST GINGER ZEE WITH THE LATEST FORECAST FOR US. HI, GINGER. >> Reporter: HI, DAVID. SABINE PASS TO MORGAN CITY, LOUISIANA, ON HURRICANE WARNING. LAFAYETTE, HURRICANE WATCH. BATON ROUGE AND NEW ORLEANS IN A TROPICAL STORM WATCH. YOU POINTED OUT THAT SATELLITE. IT'S GOT ITS CENTER, IT'S MOVING NORTH-NORTHWEST AT 7. IT'S GOING TO PUSH EAST OF COASTAL TEXAS AND BRING IT RIGHT TOWARD LOUISIANA. YOU COULD STILL SEE THOSE OUTER BANDS, SOME RAIN ON THE COASTAL PARTS OF TEXAS, BUT I WANT TO TIME IT OUT FOR YOU AND TALK ABOUT THE IMPACTS. IT'S GOING TO BE NUMBER ONE, STORM SURGE. MOST OF THE COASTAL, ESPECIALLY SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA, UNDER A WARNING FOR 5 TO 10 FEET. YOU SEE THE TIMING THERE, THAT'S TOMORROW NIGHT. YOU'RE ALREADY STARTING TO SEE THE OUTER BANDS. BUT THEN, YOU GET IT CLOSER. BY WEDNESDAY, 6:00 A.M., YOU COULD SEE RAIN, AND WE'RE TALKING 4 TO 8 INCHES WIDESPREAD, LOCALLY UP TO A FOOT. SOME OF THE WIND GUSTS COULD EASILY TOP 75 MILES PER HOUR. YOU SEE IT RIGHT THERE AT 1:00 P.M. IN THE AFTERNOON, NEW ORLEANS GETTING SOME OF THE HEFTIEST BANDS. EVERYBODY EAST IN THAT DIRTY SIDE OF THE STORM, WE'LL BE WATCHING VERY CAREFULLY. THAT INLAND RAIN COULD BE A PROBLEM ALL THE WAY UP TO TENNESSEE. >> David: WE'LL CONTINUE TO TRACK IT WITH YOU, GINGER, THANK YOU. >>> WE ARE ALSO TRACKING THE WILDFIRE EMERGENCY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TONIGHT. EVACUATIONS OUTSIDE LOS ANGELES. AT LEAST 67 MAJOR FIRES BURNING IN THE WEST, IN FACT. ONE OF THEM, THE BRIDGE FIRE, RIGHT THERE IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY. FIREFIGHTERS RUNNING FROM THE FLAMES. THE LINE FIRE EAST OF L.A., SO EXPLOSIVE, IT'S CREATING ITS OWN WEATHER PATTERN. DANGEROUS WINDS AND THUNDERSTORMS. MOLA LENGHI ON THE FIRE LINES TONIGHT. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, NEW EVACUATION ORDERS EAST OF LOS ANGELES, AS THE LINE FIRE BURNS OUT OF CONTROL IN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. THREATENING SOME 36,000 HOMES, BUSINESSES, AND BUILDINGS. MORE THAN 12,000 PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY BEEN ORDERED TO FLEE. THOUSANDS MORE TOLD TO BE READY HERE IN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, AS THE FIRE CONTINUES TO SPREAD. YOU SEE THE MASSIVE PLUMES OF SMOKE BILLOWING IN THE AIR. GOVERNOR NEWSOM DECLARING THAT STATE OF EMERGENCY AS THE FIRE EXPLODED IN SIZE. TRIPLE-DIGIT TEMPERATURES ADDING LITERAL FUEL TO THE FIRE, CREATING PYROCUMULUS CLOUDS, AND LIGHTNING STRIKES THAT COULD START NEW FIRES. >> WHEN THE THUNDERSTORMS ROLL THROUGH, THEY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BLOW THE FIRE OUT IN MULTIPLE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. SO, WE JUST HAVE TO BE READY FOR THAT. >> Reporter: IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, THE BRIDGE FIRE BREAKING OUT SUNDAY. FIREFIGHTERS FORCED TO RETREAT FROM THE FLAMES. AND IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, AN ALL-OUT AERIAL ASSAULT ON THE BOYLES FIRE IN CLEARLAKE, BUT NOT BEFORE IT DESTROYED 30 HOMES AND DOZENS OF VEHICLES. WELL, DAVID, YOU CAN SEE HOW THE HEAT FROM THE FIRE MELTING THE FENCE LINE THERE BEHIND ME. THE LINE FIRE JUST 3% CONTAINED TONIGHT. EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT. AND FIREFIGHTERS REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THUNDERSTORMS AND DRY LIGHTNING GOING INTO TONIGHT, DAVID. >> David: MOLA LENGHI WITH US TONIGHT. MOLA, THANK YOU. >>> WE'RE GOING TO TURN NOW TO THE SAD NEWS THAT CAME IN LATE TODAY, THE PASSING OF LEGENDARY ACTOR JAMES EARL JONES. TONIGHT, WE REMEMBER HIS LONG AND DISTINGUISHED CAREER, AND, OF COURSE, THAT VOICE. HERE'S STEVE OSUNSAMI. >> Reporter: JAMES EARL JONES HAD A WAY ABOUT HIM, AS AN ACTOR AND AS A PERFORMER, THAT WAS TRULY GALACTIC. HE IS PERHAPS BEST KNOWN FOR LENDING HIS VOICE TO ONE THE GREATEST VILLAINS IN THE HISTORY OF CINEMA -- >> NO. I AM YOUR FATHER. >> Reporter: IT WAS JONES WHO MADE THE CHARACTER OF DARTH VADER IN THE "STAR WARS" FILMS DELIGHTFULLY MENACING. >> I AM ALTERING THE DEAL, PRAY I DON'T ALTER IT ANY FURTHER. >> Reporter: BUT JONES HAD A SUCCESSFUL CAREER THAT STRETCHED DECADES EARLIER. AND WAS ONE OF THOSE RARE ARTISTS WHO'VE WON AN EMMY, GRAMMY, OSCAR, AND TONY. >> NOW, I DONE EVERYTHING I HAD TO GIVE YOU. I GAVE YOU YOUR LIFE. >> Reporter: ONE OF HIS TONY AWARDS WAS FOR HIS BROADWAY PERFORMANCE IN THE PLAY "FENCES", A STORY ABOUT A BLACK WORKING CLASS FATHER STRUGGLING TO PROVIDE FOR HIS FAMILY IN 1950s AMERICA. HE TOLD US IN 2014 HOW HE PREPARES WHEN HE TAKES THE STAGE. >> WE YELL. WE YELL AT THE SEATS. >> David: YOU YELL AT THE EMPTY SEATS? >> YEAH, YEAH. >> Reporter: IN "COMING TO AMERICA", A COMEDY THAT BECOME A CULTURAL MOMENT, JONES WAS THE KING OF ZAMUNDA. >> LET THEM WAIT! I'M TALKING TO MY SON. >> Reporter: AND IN DISNEY'S "LION KING," HE WAS THE KING OF THE JUNGLE. >> REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE. >> Reporter: JAMES EARL JONES WAS BORN IN MISSISSIPPI, AND OVERCAME A STUTTER AS A CHILD. HE WOULD GO ON IN MOVIES LIKE "FIELD OF DREAMS" TO DELIVER SOME OF THE MOST ICONIC LINES IN STORYTELLING. >> OH. PEOPLE WILL COME, RAY. PEOPLE WILL MOST DEFINITELY COME. >> Reporter: THE TRIBUTES ARE POURING IN FROM ACROSS THE WORLD, INCLUDING FROM ACTOR MARK HAMILL, WHO PLAYED LUKE SKYWALKER IN THE "STAR WARS" FILMS, AND FROM OTHER BLACK ACTORS WHO SAY THAT JONES IS THE REASON THEY GOT INTO THE BUSINESS. JONES DIED THIS MORNING AT HIS HOME IN NEW YORK, SURROUNDED BY FAMILY. HE WAS 93 YEARS OLD. DAVID? >> David: AN ACTING GIANT WITH A TENDER HEART. STEVE OSUNSAMI, THANK YOU. >>> TO THE OTHER NEWS NOW, AND WE MOVE ONTO THE URGENT MANHUNT FOR A HIGHWAY SNIPER SUSPECT. FIVE PEOPLE WOUNDED ON A KENTUCKY INTERSTATE. SCHOOLS CLOSED, PEOPLE URGED TO STAY INSIDE. THE ALARMING TEXT AUTHORITIES SAY HE SENT JUST BEFORE HE ALLEGEDLY HOPED FIRE. ALLEGEDLY OPENED FIRE. HERE'S OUR CHIEF JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT PIERRE THOMAS NOW. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, THE URGENT MANHUNT FOR A MAN SUSPECTED OF BEING THE SNIPER WHO FIRED AT DRIVERS ALONG THIS BUSY STRETCH OF HIGHWAY IN KENTUCKY. >> THE VICTIMS HAVE BEEN SHOT THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD. >> Reporter: AN HOUR SOUTHEAST OF LEXINGTON, SCHOOLS IN NINE DISTRICTS SHUT DOWN, AS POLICE SEARCH FOR 32-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH COUCH, THOUGHT TO BE HIDING IN THIS THICK, DENSE FOREST. >> THIS IS THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF ACRES. IT'S KIND OF LIKE A JUNGLE. >> Reporter: COUCH CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS, NOW FACING CHARGES OF ASSAULT AND ATTEMPTED MURDER. ACCORDING TO AN ARREST WARRANT, MINUTES BEFORE THE SHOOTINGS, COUCH -- A FORMER ARMY RESERVIST -- SENT A TEXT TO WOMAN SAYING HE "WAS GOING TO KILL A LOT OF PEOPLE." POLICE SAY ON SATURDAY EVENING, COUCH WAS PERCHED IN THE WOODS FIRING 20 TO 30 SHOTS, HITTING 12 VEHICLES. FIVE PEOPLE WOUNDED BY GUNFIRE. NO FATALITIES, BUT AT LEAST ONE PERSON SHOT IN THE FACE AND ANOTHER IN THE ARM. POLICE SAY THIS IS COUCH'S VEHICLE RECOVERED NEAR THE ATTACK. AND THEY SAY THEY FOUND AN AR-15-STYLE ASSAULT RIFLE CLOSE BY IN THE WOODS. POLICE SAY COUCH PURCHASED THAT ASSAULT RIFLE THE SAME DAY AS THE ATTACK, ALONG WITH MORE THAN 1,000 ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION. POLICE WORRY HE MAY HAVE ACCESS TO OTHER GUNS. DAVID? >> David: PIERRE THOMAS WITH US TONIGHT. PIERRE, THANK YOU. >>> WE TURN NOW TO THAT LEGAL VICTORY TONIGHT FOR THE SUSPECT CHARGED IN THE IDAHO COLLEGE MURDER CASE. THE JUDGE AGREEING TO MOVE THE TRIAL OUT OF MOSCOW, IDAHO, WHERE THE FOUR STUDENTS WERE STABBED TO DEATH IN NOVEMBER OF 2022. THE JUDGE AGREEING WITH BRYAN KOHBERGER'S DEFENSE THAT THERE IS A QUOTE REASONABLE LIKELIHOOD THAT PREJUDICIAL NEWS COVERAGE WILL COMPROMISE A FAIR TRIAL. THE IDAHO SUPREME COURT WILL NOW DECIDE WHERE IT WILL TAKE PLACE. >>> NEXT TONIGHT HERE, ONE OF THE POLICE OFFICERS INVOLVED IN THE ARREST OF MIAMI DOLPHINS STAR TYREEK HILL IS ON ADMINISTRATIVE DUTY TONIGHT. VIDEO OF THE INCIDENT SHOWING HILL BEING PLACED IN HANDCUFFS ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. JUST HOURS BEFORE PLAYING IN THE FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON. POLICE CITING HILL FOR RECKLESS DRIVING AND DRIVING WITHOUT A LICENSE. HILL LATER INSISTING HE WASN'T SPEEDING AND THAT HE DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING OFFENSIVE TO POLICE. POLICE BODY CAMERA VIDEO NOW PART OF THE INVESTIGATION. >>> WHEN WE COME BACK ON THIS MONDAY NIGHT, THOSE TWO HOCKEY BROTHERS KILLED BY AN ALLEGED DRUNK DRIVER. THE DEEPLY PERSONAL MOMENT TODAY AT THE MEMORIAL SERVICE, WHAT JOHN GAUDREAU'S WIFE REVEALED. >>> AND PRINCESS CATHERINE AND HER VERY MOVING MESSAGE TONIGHT Whenever news breaks, we are here in Israel, a nation at war. After that brutal surprise attack by Hamas on the ground. In Ukraine reporting from Lewiston. 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ABC NEWS LIVE AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THEIR DAY HERE AT ABC NEWS. >> THIS IS STARTING TO BE IN THE NEWS AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY'S TOP STORIES 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, clashing over National Security. What's happening today tensions, in the Middle East. What people are talking about? The worries, on Wall Street, fast, straight forward with some fun in between catching up on sleep. During the weekend could be good for your heart. Non-alcoholic bars are popping up in a growing number of cities. That's the spirit America This Morning. America's number one, early morning news on, ABC News live. Reporting from Santa Fe New Mexico. I'm Lindsey Davis wherever the story is will take you there. You're streaming, ABC News live. >>> TONIGHT, THE DEEPLY PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM THE WIFE OF HOCKEY STAR JOHN GAUDREAU. HE AND HIS BROTHER WERE KILLED BY AN ALLEGED DRUNK DRIVER IN NEW JERSEY WHILE RIDING BIKES THE DAY BEFORE THEIR SISTER'S WEDDING. AT TODAY'S MEMORIAL SERVICE, JOHN GAUDREAU'S WIFE MEREDITH REVEALING THE MOMENT SHE TOLD HER HUSBAND THAT THEIR FAMILY OF FOUR WAS ABOUT TO BECOME A FAMILY OF FIVE. >> I'M IN MY NINTH WEEK OF PREGNANCY WITH OUR THIRD BABY. A TOTAL SURPRISE, BUT AGAIN, JOHN WAS BEAMING AND SO EXCITED. >> David: THE BROTHER, MATTHEW GAUDREAU, HIS WIDOW IS ALSO PREGNANT. TWO NEW BABIES ON THE WAY AMID SO MUCH GRIEF FOR THAT FAMILY. >>> WHEN WE COME BACK TONIGHT, WE HAVE JUST LEARNED TONIGHT ABOUT THE LOSS OF A NEW YORK SPORTS LEGEND. What does it take? To be the most watched news cast in America an operation think after Isis Fighters sister combat operations. We're approaching the gate now militants came in from four or five different directions operation. 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The ABC News presidential debate moderated by David, Muir and Lindsey Davis tomorrow night live on EBC and streaming on Hulu and Disney Plus >>> T >>> TO THE INDEX, AND WE LEARNED TODAY THAT LEGENDARY METS PLAYER ED KRANEPOOL HAS DIED. AFTER GOING INTO CARDIAC ARREST. DEBUTING IN 1962, HELPING THE MIRACLE METS WIN THE WORLD SERIES BACK IN 1969. HE WAS 79. >>> A NEW ERA FOR "WHEEL OF FORTUNE" TONIGHT. RYAN SEACREST MAKING HIS DEBUT TONIGHT, ALONGSIDE VANNA WHITE. SUCCEEDING LONGTIME HOST PAT IS A JACK AFTER MORE THAN 40 YEARS ON THE SHOW. >>> AND "MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL" IS BACK, THE JETS TAKING ON THE 49ers IN SAN FRANCISCO JUST A SHORT TIME FROM NOW. JETS QUARTERBACK AARON RODGERS MAKING HIS RETURN. 8:00 P.M. EASTERN, RIGHT HERE ON ABC AND, OF COURSE, ESPN. >>> WHEN WE COME BACK HERE TONIGHT, THE NEW AND MOVING MESSAGE FROM PRINCESS CATHERINE TONIGHT. 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, clashing over National Security. What's happening today tensions, in the Middle East. What people are talking about? The worries, on Wall Street, fast, straight forward with some fun in between catching up on sleep. During the weekend could be good for your heart. Non-alcoholic bars are popping up in a growing number of cities. That's the spirit America This Morning. America's number one, early morning news on, ABC News live. Get ready, America every Friday hottest Trends Styles and must have what's the right stuff to buy right now. I really love that it's time to buy the right stuff. Yes. And save big time to the right stuff Fridays on GMA you're going to love it. ABC NEWS LIVE AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THEIR DAY HERE AT ABC NEWS. >> THIS IS STARTING TO BE IN THE NEWS AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY'S TOP STORIES Betrayal is one of the hardest types of trauma to overcome. This is her knight in shining armor. Everything felt right all the sudden. I found this hidden folder. I opened it. I don't think I can say I'm sorry shocking my stomach just dropped. He just really didn't think I had it in me Lisa. So I did betrayal a father's secret the all new season on Hulu. Baywatch is a fantasy when you hear that theme song was a wild time and I was a wild chick Jason Momoa exploded, common was a bombshell Anderson was an icon Proud of everything. I've done. Almost Baywatch was a whirlwind of epik highs and bitter loves Everyone likes to watch sexy things. Whenever Wherever news breaks, it's so important to always remember that lives are changed here in London in Buffalo Uvalde. Texas, Edinburgh, Scotland reporting from Rolling Fork. Mississippi the cranium refugees here in Warsaw committing to a small community outside of Mexico. City getting you behind the stories as they happen, ABC. News live Prime will take you there stream ABC News live weeknights wherever you stream, your news only on, ABC, News live. America's number one source >>> FINALLY TONIGHT HERE, PRINCESS CATHERINE REACHING A MILESTONE IN HER BATTLE WITH CANCER. TONIGHT, THE DEEPLY PERSONAL MESSAGE RELEASED BY CATHERINE, PRINCESS OF WALES. HER VOICE NARRATING A VIDEO WITH HER FAMILY, PRINCE WILLIAM AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN, GEORGE, CHARLOTTE, AND LOUIS, TOGETHER IN THE COUNTRYSIDE. PRINCESS KATE REVEALING SHE HAS COMPLETED CHEMOTHERAPY FOR CANCER, AFTER SHARING HER DIAGNOSIS WITH THE WORLD JUST SIX MONTHS AGO. >> YOU LEAD THE WAY. AS THE SUMMER COMES TO AN END, I CANNOT TELL YOU WHAT A RELIEF IT IS TO HAVE FINALLY COMPLETED MY CH CHEMOTHERAPY TREATMENT. LIFE AS YOU KNOW IT CAN CHANGE IN AN INSTANT. AND WE'VE HAD TO FIND A WAY TO NAVIGATE THE STORMY WATERS AND ROAD UNKNOWN. >> IS THIS FILMING? >> David: PRINCESS CATHERINE SAYING SHE'S NOW DOING WHAT SHE CAN TO, QUOTE, STAY CANCER FREE. >> DOING WHAT I CAN TO STAY CANCER FREE IS NOW MY FOCUS. ALTHOUGH I HAVE FINISHED CHEMOTHERAPY, MY PATH TO HEALING AND FULL RECOVERY IS LONG. AND I MUST CONTINUE TO TAKE EACH DAY AS IT COMES. I AM, HOWEVER, LOOKING FORWARD TO BEING BACK AT WORK, AND UNDERTAKING A FEW MORE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS IN THE COMING MONTHS WHEN I CAN. >> David: ENDING WITH A MESSAGE OF GRATITUDE AND A MESSAGE OF HOPE TO ALL THOSE BATTLING CANCER. >> TO ALL THOSE WHO ARE CONTINUING THEIR OWN CANCER JOURNEY, I REMAIN WITH YOU, SIDE-BY-SIDE, HAND-IN-HAND. OUT OF DARKNESS CAN COME LIGHT. SO LET THAT LIGHT SHINE BRIGHT. >> David: HER MOVING MESSAGE TODAY, AND THE KIDS ARE GROWN UP. THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, TOMORROW NIGHT. 9:00 P.M., RIGHT HERE ON ABC FROM PHILADELPHIA. I'M DAVID MUIR. GOOD NIGHT. FROM PHILADELPHIA. >> I'M DAVID MUIR. GOODNIGHT. >> LET'S GO. THIS SHIP IS INCREDIBLE. IT FEELS LIKE LIVING IN A SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE. WE JUST SAW NO ONE HAS SEEN BEFORE, RIGHT? LOOK AT THAT. OH, MY GOSH. WELL, WE ARE INTO THE UNKNOWN. HAMMER, HAMMER, HAMMER. IT DOESN'T ANY MORE CUTTING EDGE. AND THIS. >> 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 INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD R. MURROW AWARDS AND 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 A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. TOMORROW NIGHT, THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL MOMENT OF THIS CAMPAIGN. >> KAMALA HARRIS. GATHER WE WILL CHART A NEW WAY FORWARD. DONALD TRUMP. WE WILL SOON BE A GREAT NATION AGAIN. FACE TO FACE. HIS. THE ABC NEWS PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE MODERATED BY DAVID MUIR AND LINSEY DAVIS. TOMORROW NIGHT LIVE ON ABC AND STREAMING ON ABC NEWS LIVE, HULU AND, DISNEY PLUS THE ABC NEWS PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. >> BABE RUTH. HANK AARON SHOHEI OHTANI. LEGENDS THE GAME. BUT NOW THE LIST OF GREATS REDEFINED FROM ABC NEWS RECLAIMED THE FORGOTTEN LEAD SIDE OF THE STORY OF BASEBALL YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD BEFORE LIKE THIS. THE AWARD WINNING PODCAST IS. LISTEN, WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS OR SCAN THE QR CODE YOU SEE HERE. >> REPORTING FROM THE VOLCANO ERUPTION IN ICELAND. I'M MARCUS MOORE. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'LL TAKE YOU THERE. >> YOU'RE STREAMING WITH ABC NEWS LIVE. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME. I'M LINSEY DAVIS. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US. WE HAVE A LOT OF NEWS TO GET TONIGHT, BUT WE BEGIN HERE IN PHILADELPHIA, OF COURSE, WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL SET TO TAKE PLACE ABOUT 24 HOURS FROM NOW RIGHT BEHIND ME WHEN, DONALD TRUMP AND KAMALA HARRIS STEP ONTO THE STAGE. WE HAVE A FIRST LOOK AT THAT DEBATE STAGE WHERE THE TWO WILL MEET FOR THE FIRST TIME FACE TO FACE ENCOUNTER WITH THE LATEST POLLS SHOWING LOCKED IN A VIRTUAL DEAD HEAT. HARRIS ARRIVED IN PHILADELPHIA A SHORT TIME AGO. FOR TRUMP, IT WILL BE HIS SEVENTH SHOWDOWN. IT WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE A RARE CHANCE FOR EITHER CANDIDATE TO SHAPE THE NOVEMBER ELECTION WITH. ALL EYES HERE ON THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER IN PHILADELPHIA, PLAYING HOST TO ANOTHER MAJOR HISTORIC MOMENT THAT COULD HELP DECIDE THE 2024 ELECTION. AND SOME STATES LIKE NORTH CAROLINA ALREADY SEND ABSENTEE BALLOTS TO VOTERS. WE ARE BRINGING YOU LIVE TEAM COVERAGE AHEAD OF THE HIGH STAKES DEBATE. BEFORE WE GIVE YOU THE VERY FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE DEBATE STAGE, KICK THINGS OFF WITH OUR CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, MARY BRUCE HERE IN PHILADELPHIA TONIGHT. >> WITH JUST 24 HOURS TO GO UNTIL THEIR HIGHLY ANTICIPATED SHOWDOWN, VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS SETTING OFF FOR PHILADELPHIA, WHERE TOMORROW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, SHE WILL COME FACE TO FACE WITH FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. >> HOW ARE YOU FEELING? HOW ARE YOU FEELING? IN A NEW RADIO INTERVIEW, HARRIS SAYS SHE'S READY FOR WHATEVER THROWS HER WAY. >> THERE'S NO FUTURE FOR HIM IN TERMS OF HOW LONG HE WILL GO. AND WE SHOULD PREPARED FOR THAT. WE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE FACT THAT HE IS NOT BURDENED BY SOMETHING TRUTH. >> FOR DAYS NOW, THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN HUNKERED DOWN IN THIS PITTSBURGH INTENSELY PREPARING HER TEAM, EVEN BUILDING A STAGE WITH FULL TV LIGHTING TO HOLD MOCK DEBATES. HARRIS LEANING ON SEVERAL ADVISERS WHO HELPED PREP HILLARY CLINTON FOR HER 2016 DEBATE AGAINST TRUMP, INCLUDING ONE WHO PLAYED THE ROLE OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT IN REHEARSALS. >> BUT HARRIS ALSO TAKING BREAKS TO GET OUT IN THIS CRITICAL STATE. IN A PITTSBURGH SPACE SHOP GREETING ONE VOTER WHO WAS IN TEARS. >> I FEEL BAD. INSTEAD OF I WANT TO STAND, YOU KNOW, I THINK, GOOD, WE'RE GOING TO BE FINE. HARRIS PERHAPS PREVIEWING HER MESSAGE, THE DEBATE. LOOK, IT'S TIME TO TURN THE PAGE ON THE DIVISIVE MESS. IT'S TIME TO BRING OUR COUNTRY TOGETHER. >> CHART A NEW WAY FORWARD. WHILE HARRIS HAS BEEN LARGELY OFF THE TRAIL SINCE THURSDAY, TRUMP OVER THE WEEKEND HOLDING A RALLY IN BATTLEGROUND WISCONSIN. >> SHE WILL BE THE WORST PRESIDENT. AND TRUMP IS NEVER WRONG. I AM NEVER, EVER WRONG. THE FORMER PRESIDENT TRYING TO SET EXPECTATIONS. >> IS ANYBODY GOING TO BE WATCHING AND SPEND THE DEBATE BEFORE IT EVEN HAPPENS? >> YOU KNOW, IF I DESTROY HER IN THE DEBATE, SAY. TRUMP SUFFERED A HUMILIATING DEFEAT TONIGHT. I NO MATTER WHAT. OUR THANKS TO MARY BRUCE. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP ALWAYS SAYS THAT HE IS NOT ONE FOR FORMAL DEBATE PREP, BUT ABC SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT SCOTT HAS LEARNED HOW HE'S BEEN PREPARING FOR THE BIG NIGHT. YES, LINSEY CERTAINLY NOT DOING ANY OF THOSE MOCK DEBATES THAT VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS IS DOING, BUT I'M TOLD THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS TAKING THIS VERY SERIOUSLY. HE KNOWS HOW CONSEQUENTIAL THIS DEBATE, THIS MOMENT COULD BE. I'M TOLD THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAS HELD NEARLY HALF A DOZEN POLICY INFORMAL SESSIONS, HIS ADVISERS, INCLUDING WITH FORMER CONGRESSWOMAN TULSI GABBARD. WE ALL REMEMBER, WAS ON THE DEBATE STAGE BACK IN 2019. ALSO INVOLVED IN HIS DEBATE PREP IS CONGRESSMAN MATT GAETZ. NOW, WE ARE TOLD THAT GATES IS FIRING OFF QUESTIONS AT HIM ON SOME OF THE TOUGHER ISSUES, LIKE HIS STANCE ON, ABORTION AND ALSO HIS LEGAL TROUBLES. SOURCES ALSO TELL ME THAT TRUMP BEEN BRIEFED ON HARRIS' PAST DEBATES, AND THAT INCLUDES THE DEBATE WITH TRUMP'S OWN FORMER VICE PRESIDENT, MIKE PENCE. THERE WAS THAT NOTABLE EXCHANGE ON, THE DEBATE STAGE WHERE PENCE TRIED TO INTERRUPT. HARRIS AND HARRIS SHUT HIM DOWN, SAYING, I'M SPEAKING. TRUMP HAS PRIVATELY TOLD ALLIES HE WILL NOT THAT HAPPEN TO HIM TOMORROW NIGHT. ALL RIGHT, RACHEL SCOTT, OUR THANKS TO YOU AS ALWAYS. PULLING HAS BEEN CONSISTENT SINCE THE START OF THE YEAR WITH TWO MAJOR ISSUES STANDING ABOVE THE REST FOR VOTERS NATIONWIDE. IMMIGRATION AND THE ECONOMY. WE'LL GET TO THE ECONOMY IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS. BUT FIRST, IT'S THE ISSUE OF IMMIGRATION AND BORDER THAT CONTINUES TO GARNER THE ATTENTION OF BOTH CANDIDATES ON THE CAMPAIGN. ABC'S MIREYA VILLARREAL HAS MORE FOR US FROM TEXAS AND AROUND WHAT IS THE STATE OF IMMIGRATION IN THE BORDER AS THE CANDIDATES PREPARE TO HIT THE DEBATE STAGE TOMORROW. >> WELL, YOU KNOW, LINSEY, THAT IS A REALLY GREAT ESPECIALLY LEADING UP TO THE DEBATE. AS OF RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE CONTINUED TO HEAR THE FORMER PRESIDENT TALK A LOT ABOUT IMMIGRATION. HE TALKS A LOT ABOUT, THE FLOW OF MIGRANTS INTO THE UNITED STATES AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, HE TALKS ABOUT WHERE THEY ARE COMING FROM. WE'VE HEARD PRISONS, WHICH WE ALSO HEARD MENTAL. WE'VE ALSO HEARD HIM TALK A LOT ABOUT MISSING CHILDREN AND HOW THEY'VE GOTTEN LOST IN THE COURT SYSTEM AND HOW THEY ARE MORE LIKELY DEAD OR THEY ARE THEY HAVE BEEN TRAFFICKED OR THEY ARE A PART OF SOME SORT OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. LET'S BE VERY CLEAR WHEN HE SAYS THESE THINGS, THEY ARE NOT STATEMENTS OF FACT. THEY ARE NOT BACKED UP BY REPORTS OR STATISTICS. A LOT OF THIS, AGAIN, AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE, IS IT TO REALLY RILE UP A PARTICULAR BASE OF VOTERS AND GET THEM TO COME OUT TO THE POLLS AND VOTE OUT OF FEAR OF WHAT MAY BE HAPPENING IN THEIR BACKYARDS? BUT AS OF RIGHT NOW, WE DO KNOW THAT ENCOUNTERS HAVE CONTINUED TO DECREASE OVER THE LAST THREE MONTHS, RIGHT AFTER WE SAW PRESIDENT BIDEN PUT THAT EXECUTIVE ORDER INTO PLACE, BASICALLY SHUTTING DOWN THE BORDER BETWEEN PORTS OF ENTRY. AND SINCE THAT, WE'VE ALSO SEEN SOME NEW ASYLUM RESTRICTIONS BEING PUT IN PLACE AGAIN. ALL OF THIS LEADING TO A DECREASE. HARRIS' CAMP HAS CONTINUED TO SAY THAT HER WORK ON THE ROOT CAUSES OF MIGRATION IS THE REASON FOR A LOT OF THIS ,OR AT LEAST PART OF THE REASON. OBVIOUSLY, WE DON'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF STATISTICS ON THAT. AND IN FACT, CRITICS HAVE SAID IF THIS WAS WHERE THE ADMINISTRATION WAS GOING TO GO, WHY DIDN'T WE DO THIS SOONER? HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ALL OF THIS DECREASE, ALL OF THIS SUCCESS NOW ON THE IMMIGRATION LEVEL IS NOW COMING JUST A FEW MONTHS AWAY FROM THE ELECTION? >> MARIA, OUR THANKS TO YOU AS ALWAYS. ALL ABOUT THE ECONOMY. IT'S BEEN A COMMON REFRAIN WHEN DISCUSSING ELECTIONS GOING BACK FOUR DECADES. AND THIS NOVEMBER, AS VOTERS FEEL SQUEEZED BY INFLATION, STAGNANT WAGES, THAT REFRAIN IS EXPECTED TO RING TRUE FOR YET ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SEASON. FOR MORE ON ALL THINGS ECONOMY, WE'RE JOINED BY ELIZABETH SCHULZE FROM WASHINGTON. ELIZABETH, GIVE US A LAY OF THE LAND ON WHERE THE ECONOMY IS NOW AS THE CANDIDATES FIND THEMSELVES IN CRUNCH MODE. >> JUST BEFORE THE DEBATE, LINSEY, AND THIS REALLY IS A PIVOTAL MOMENT FOR THE AMERICAN ECONOMY, WHICH WE KNOW IS THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE FOR SO MANY VOTERS. THE KEY QUESTION RIGHT NOW IS IF US CAN ACHIEVE THAT COVETED SO-CALLED SOFT LANDING. IN OTHER WORDS, CAN THE ECONOMY SUCCESSFULLY NAVIGATE INTO A TIME OF LOWER INFLATION PRICES THAT YOU PAY EVERYDAY FOR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES WITHOUT CRASHING A RECESSION? AND THERE ARE SOME PROMISING SIGNS HERE. INFLATION PEAKED AT 9% BACK IN JUNE 2022. NOW IT'S HOVERING AT JUST UNDER 3%. >> THAT MEANS THE PRICES ARE STILL GOING UP, BUT THEY'RE NOT GOING UP BY NEARLY AS MUCH. AND ANOTHER GOOD SIGN, WAGES ON AVERAGE HAVE NOW BEEN INCREASING FASTER THAN INFLATION FOR MORE THAN A YEAR. SO THOSE HIGHER PAYCHECKS, THEY CAN HELP ABSORB SOME OF THAT STICKER SHOCK THAT YOU WOULD FEEL LIKE AT THE GROCERY STORE. THIS HELP EXPLAIN WHY SOME COMPANIES LIKE WAL-MART, WHICH IS REALLY CONSIDERED A BELLWETHER OF CONSUMER SPENDING IN THE ECONOMY, THEY ARE OPTIMISTIC RIGHT NOW, THEY SAY THAT SHOPPERS ARE TRYING TO HUNT DOWN A GOOD DEAL, BUT THEY ARE STILL OUT SPENDING AT A PRETTY SOLID PACE LINSEY. >> AND WHAT SOME OF THE WARNING SIGNS IN THE ECONOMY RIGHT NOW. >> SO, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THE AMERICAN ECONOMY AS AN AIRPLANE THAT'S TRYING TO LAND IN THAT SWEET SPOT. THERE ARE CLEARLY SOME HEADWINDS. SO ONE OF THEM IS HOUSING, RENT PRICES ARE STUBBORNLY HIGH. WE HAVE SEEN HOME PRICES ACROSS US AT RECORD LEVELS AND HIGHER MORTGAGE RATES HAVE MADE BUYING A HOUSE EVEN MORE UNAFFORDABLE. THE OTHER WARNING SIGN REALLY IS THE JOBS MARKET. THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE NOW AT 4.2%. THAT'S STILL A HISTORICALLY LOW NUMBER, BUT YOU CAN SEE ON THAT CHART IT IS TICKING UP. SO WHAT THAT MEANS, IT IS HARDER. GET A JOB NOW AND COMPANIES ARE NOT HIRING AS MUCH AS THEY WERE EVEN AT THE START OF THE YEAR OR A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK. WE HAVE SEEN THIS IN THE STOCK MARKET. INVESTORS ARE WORRIED THAT HIRING COULD START TO SLOW DOWN MORE DRAMATICALLY. BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT THE S&P 500, THAT'S WHEN YOU SEE IN MOST AMERICANS RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS ARE FOUR ONE ACCOUNTS THAT IS STILL UP LINSEY AND IMPRESSIVE ABOUT 15% SO FAR THIS YEAR. SO A SILVER LINING WHEN YOU'RE AT LEAST THINKING ABOUT THE STOCK MARKET AND SOME OF THAT NEAR-TERM UNCERTAINTY, TOO. SO, ELIZABETH, ULTIMATELY, HOW MUCH IS THE ECONOMY ABOUT THE NEXT PRESIDENT AND HOW MUCH DOES IT FALL WITH THE FEDERAL RESERVE, WHICH OVERSEES LARGE PARTS OF THE ECONOMY? YOU KNOW, THE NEXT PRESIDENT CERTAINLY WILL SET THE STAGE WHEN IT COMES TO PRIORITIES AND THE AGENDA. BUT WHAT WE HAVE SEEN IS A LOT OF THOSE POLICIES NEED APPROVAL FROM CONGRESS AND IN A GRIDLOCKED CONGRESS, THE FEDERAL HAS TAKEN ON AN OUTSIZED IMPORTANCE IN THE ECONOMY. SO WHAT'S HAPPENED IS THAT? THE FEDERAL RESERVE HAS REALLY TAKEN ON THIS FIGHT AGAINST INFLATION. IT'S DONE THAT BY MAKING IT MORE EXPENSIVE TO BORROW MONEY. SO THAT MEANS HIGHER COSTS. IF YOU'RE TRYING TO PAY OFF CREDIT CARD DEBT, TAKE OUT A MORTGAGE, GET AN AUTO. THE FED IS EXPECTED TO LOWER THOSE COSTS NEXT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FOUR YEARS. THAT WOULD MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT LESS EXPENSIVE TO BORROW MONEY. >> SO ULTIMATELY, THOUGH, THE PATH THAT THE FED CHOOSES WILL BE CRITICAL FOR THE ECONOMY OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS AND GOING INTO NEXT. THE PRESIDENT DOES HAVE ONE ROLE IN THAT, THOUGH, LINSEY, THAT THE PRESIDENT NEXT PRESIDENT, REGARDLESS OF WHO IT IS, WILL ULTIMATELY DECIDE WHO SHOULD BE THE LEADER OF THE FED WHEN THE CURRENT FED CHAIR, HIS TERM DOES EXPIRE IN 2026. >> LINSEY. ECONOMY TOP OF MIND FOR SO MANY AMERICANS. >> ELIZABETH SCHULZE OUR THANKS TO YOU AND MAKE SURE YOU TUNE IN TOMORROW NIGHT FOR OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE STARTING AT 7 P.M. EASTERN WHEN WHIT JOHNSON ANCHORS FROM RIGHT HERE IN FOLLOWED BY OUR POLITICAL POWERHOUSE ROUNDTABLE AT 8 P.M.. AND OF COURSE, THAT ALL IMPORTANT DEBATE I'LL BE MODERATING ALONGSIDE DAVID MUIR AT 9 P.M. EASTERN RIGHT HERE ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> STILL MUCH MORE TO GET TO TONIGHT. COMING UP AS THE CANDIDATES MAKE THEIR FINAL DEBATE, WHY THIS PRESIDENTIAL FACE OFF WILL BE ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS. BUT NEXT, ONE OF THE POLICE OFFICERS SEEN HANDCUFFING MIAMI DOLPHINS RECEIVER TYREEK HILL WAS PLACED ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE TODAY AS UNION REPRESENTING THE OFFICERS, SAYS THE STAR PLAYER REFUSED ORDERS TO SIT WHENEVER BREAKS. WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. >> REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE AWAY FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY STRIKE. CONTINUE FOR UKRAINE. REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY IN ROLLING FORTH. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH 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 STORY IS ON THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN, BEIRUT FROM THE FBI REPORTING FROM THE NURSES ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET IN LONDON, STREAMING LIVE TO YOU. THE STORY IS WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. WE'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE, YOU'RE STREAMING, ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. >> STAY WATCH IS A FANTASY WHEN YOU HEAR THAT THEME SONG OF TIME AND I WAS WILD CHICK ON JASON MOMOA EXPLODED WAS A BOMBSHELL. >> PAMELA ANDERSON WAS AN ICON AND PROUD OF EVERYTHING I'VE DONE, ALMOST "BAYWATCH". IT'S HOW OF EPIC HIGHS AND LOWS EVERYONE LIKES TO WATCH SEXY THINGS. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST? AMERICA? WE ARE PART OF AN OPERATION, COMBAT OPERATION, SO WE'RE APPROACHING THE GATE. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. THEY REACT. SO YOU HAVE A COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG, YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT MADE THE USA. >> GREAT WORK. HI, IT'S LYLE. >> DAVID. I'M DAVID. YOU ARE. YOU ARE. >> YOU DO EVERY NIGHT. ABC'S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR IS AMERICA'S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST. >> TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT NORMANDY TO MARK THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY. I'M MARY BRUCE. THE STORY IS GET YOU THERE. YOU'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE. >> I WANT TO TOSS IT NOW TO OUR STEPHANIE RAMOS, WHO'S LIVE IN OUR STUDIO TONIGHT. AND STEPHANIE, WE'RE FOLLOWING, OF COURSE, A LOT OF BIG HEADLINES TONIGHT. >> WE CERTAINLY ARE, LINSEY, THANK YOU. NOW TO THE URGENT MANHUNT FOR A HIGHWAY SNIPER SUSPECT WHO WOUNDED FIVE PEOPLE ON KENTUCKY'S I. 75 SATURDAY. TODAY, MANY SCHOOLS CLOSED AND PEOPLE URGED TO STAY INSIDE. AND THE ALARMING TEXT AUORITIES THE SUSPECT SENT JUST BEFORE HE OPENED FIRE. HERE'S CHIEF JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT PIERRE THOMAS. >> TONIGHT, THE URGENT MANHUNT . THE MAN SUSPECTED OF BEING THE SNIPER WHO FIRED AT DRIVERS ALONG BUSY STRETCH OF HIGHWAY IN KENTUCKY. THE VICTIMS HAVE BEEN SHOT THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD AN HOUR SOUTHEAST OF LEXINGTON SCHOOLS, NINE DISTRICTS SHUT DOWN AS POLICE SEARCH FOR 32-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH COUCH THOUGHT TO BE HIDING IN THICK, DENSE FOREST. >> THIS IS THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF ACRES. >> IT'S KIND OF LIKE A JUNGLE. COUCH, CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS, NOW FACING CHARGES OF ASSAULT AND ATTEMPTED MURDER. ACCORDING AN ARREST WARRANT. MINUTES BEFORE THE SHOOTINGS, COUCH, A FORMER ARMY RESERVIST, SENT A TEXT TO A WOMAN SAYING HE WAS GOING TO A LOT OF PEOPLE. POLICE BELIEVE ON SATURDAY EVENING, COUCH PERCHED IN THE WOODS, FIRING 20 TO 30 SHOTS, HITTING VEHICLES. FIVE PEOPLE WOUNDED BY GUNFIRE. NO FATALITIES, BUT AT LEAST ONE PERSON SHOT IN THE FACE AND ANOTHER IN THE ARM. POLICE SAY THIS IS COUNTY'S VEHICLE RECOVERED NEAR THE ATTACK AND SAY THEY DISCOVERED AN AR-15 STYLE ASSAULT RIFLE CLOSE BY IN THE WOODS. >> PIERRE THOMAS, THANK YOU. WE WILL CHECK BACK IN WITH IN JUST A BIT. TONIGHT, ONE OF THE OFFICERS SEEN HANDCUFFING MIAMI DOLPHINS ,TYREEK HILL HAS BEEN PLACED ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE. BODY CAMERA VIDEO SHOWS HILL BEING ARRESTED, THEN PINNED TO THE PAVEMENT FACE FIRST. JUST A BLOCK AWAY FROM THE STADIUM, THE MIAMI-DADE POLICE SAYS THEY ARE COMMITTED TO CONDUCTING A THOROUGH AND OBJECTIVE INVESTIGATION AND CLAIM HILL WAS NOT COOPERATIVE AND WAS DETAINED DUE TO RECKLESS DRIVING AND DRIVING WITHOUT A LICENSE. HILL INSISTS HE WASN'T SPEEDING AND SAID NOTHING OFFENSIVE TO POLICE. HARVEY WEINSTEIN WAS RUSHED TO A HOSPITAL LAST NIGHT FOR EMERGENCY HEART SURGERY AFTER EXPERIENCING CHEST PAINS. WEINSTEIN WAS EXPECTED IN COURT THIS WEEK WHERE PROSECUTORS TO PRESENT EVIDENCE TO A GRAND JURY IN ORDER TO SECURE A NEW INDICTMENT ON CRIME CHARGES. WEINSTEIN HAS DENIED ANY WRONGDOING AND HAS SAID HIS SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS WITH WOMEN WERE CONSENSUAL. BACK TO WASHINGTON NOW, WHERE THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, TWO ALLEGED LEADERS OF A WHITE SUPREMACIST CHAT GROUP CALLED TERROR GROUP. THE DOJ ALLEGING THE GROUP DIRECTLY SOLICITED TERRORIST ATTACKS AND PLOTTED TO KILL, QUOTE, HIGH TARGETS. IT'S A FAST MOVING STORY. ONCE AGAIN, LET'S CHECK IN WITH PIERRE THOMAS. >> STEPHANIE, THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CLAIMS IT UNCOVERED WHITE SUPREMACIST NETWORK THAT HAS BEEN PROMOTING A RACE WAR AND CALLING THE MURDER OF PEOPLE BASED ON THEIR RACE, RELIGION AND ORIENTATION. THE CHILLING PART IS THAT SOME OF THESE ATTACKS, ACCORDING TO THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, HAVE ALREADY BEEN CARRIED OUT, INCLUDING A MAN IN SLOVENIA WHO KILLED TWO PEOPLE BEFORE TAKING HIS OWN LIFE, A MAN IN TURKEY WHO STABBED FIVE PEOPLE, AND A NEW JERSEY TEEN WHO THE FBI PLOTTED TO ATTACK THE POWER GRID. DOJ OFFICIALS SAY, THE SO CALLED TELEGRAM GROUP, WHICH USES THE TELEGRAM MESSENGER PLATFORM, EVEN HAD AN ACTIVE HIT LIST TARGETING A U.S. SENATOR, A FEDERAL JUDGE AND A FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR. IN A RARE EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HEADS OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY AND CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION TELLING ME DOMESTIC TERRORISM INVOLVING RACISM IS NOW A WIDENING. THE THREAT OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM IS THE RISE INSIDE THE UNITED STATES. AND ACTS OF VIOLENCE CARRIED OUT BY WHITE SUPREMACISTS IS THE SINGLE MOST LETHAL TYPE DOMESTIC VIOLENT EXTREMISM THAT WE SEE IN THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW. >> WITH THE THAT WE HAVE BROUGHT HERE, WE'RE ON THE HIGHEST END OF THE RICHTER SCALE. THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPLOITING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS TO, YOU KNOW, TO THE GREATEST EXTENT POSSIBLE, WHO ARE SEEKING TO GIVE SO-CALLED SAINTHOOD TO OTHER PEOPLE WHO WILL CARRY OUT THESE ATTACKS, GIVING OUT BOMB MAKING INSTRUCTIONS. THEY'RE PUTTING TOGETHER HIT LIST. >> THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SAYS THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE NOT BEING PROSECUTED FOR THEIR WORDS, BUT BECAUSE THEY'RE ENCOURAGING SPECIFIC ACTS OF VIOLENCE. AND AGAIN, AS OFFICIALS NOTED, SOME OF THESE ATTACKS HAVE ALREADY BEEN CARRIED OUT STEPHANIE. OUR THANKS AGAIN TO PIERRE THOMAS. AND NOW TO THE SAD NEWS THAT CAME IN LATE TODAY, THE PASSING OF LEGENDARY ACTOR JAMES EARL. TONIGHT, WE REMEMBER HIS LONG AND DISTINGUISHED CAREER. OF COURSE, THAT VOICE. HERE'S STEVE OSUNSAMI. >> JAMES EARL JONES HAD A WAY ABOUT HIM AS AN ACTOR, AS A PERFORMER THAT WAS TRULY GALACTIC. HE'S PERHAPS BEST KNOWN FOR LENDING HIS VOICE TO ONE OF THE GREATEST VILLAINS IN THE HISTORY OF CINEMA. >> NO, I AM YOUR FATHER. IT WAS JONES WHO MADE THE CHARACTER OF DARTH VADER IN THE STAR WARS FILMS DELIGHTFULLY MENACING. >> I AM ALTERING THE DEEP PRAY . >> I DON'T OPERATE ANY FURTHER. BUT JONES HAD A SUCCESSFUL THAT STRETCHED DECADES EARLIER, AND IT WAS ONE OF THOSE RARE ARTISTS WHO'VE WON EMMY, GRAMMY, OSCAR AND TONY. I DIDN'T GIVE YOU EVERYTHING I HAD TO GIVE YOU. I GAVE YOU YOUR LIFE. ONE OF HIS TONY AWARDS WAS FIRST BROADWAY PERFORMANCE IN THE PLAY FENCES, A ABOUT A BLACK WORKING CLASS FATHER STRUGGLING TO PROVIDE FOR FAMILY IN 1950S AMERICA. HE TOLD US IN 2014 HOW HE PREPARES WHEN HE TAKES STAGE. >> YEAH, WE YELL AT THE SEATS. YOU YELL AT THE EMPTY SEATS? YEAH. YEAH IN COMING TO AMERICA, A COMEDY THAT BECAME A CULTURAL JONES WAS THE KING OF ZAMUNDA. >> THEN WAIT. >> I'M TALKING TO MY SON AND DISNEY'S "LION KING". HE WAS THE KING OF THE JUNGLE. >> JAMES EARL JONES WAS BORN IN MISSISSIPPI AND OVERCAME A STUTTER AS A CHILD. HE WOULD GO ON IN LIKE FIELD OF DREAMS TO DELIVER SOME OF THE MOST ICONIC IN STORYTELLING. >> OH, PEOPLE WILL COME. READY? PEOPLE DEFINITELY COME. >> AN ABSOLUTE LEGEND. OUR THANKS TO STEVE OSUNSAMI FOR THAT. AND STILL TO COME, COUNTING DOWN TO THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE . OUR RACHEL SCOTT ON THE SET IN PHILADELPHIA WITH A SNEAK INSIDE THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER, WHERE VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL TAKE THAT STAGE. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS "START HERE". TO BE IN THE KNOW GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY'S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. LET'S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD R. MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. NOW, THAT'S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. LET'S GO. THIS SHIP IS INCREDIBLE. IT FEELS LIKE LIVING IN A SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE. WE JUST SAW WHAT NO ONE HAS SEEN BEFORE. BUT LOOK AT THAT. OH, MY GOSH. WELL, WE ARE HEADING THE UNKNOWN. HAMMER, HAMMER, HAMMER. IT DOESN'T GET ANY MORE CUTTING EDGE. AND THIS PORTRAYAL IS ONE OF THE HARDEST TYPES OF TRAUMA TO OVERCOME. THIS IS HER KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR. EVERYTHING, RIGHT? ALL OF A SUDDEN, I FOUND. THIS HIDDEN FOLDER. I OPENED IT. I DON'T THINK I CAN SAY IT WAS 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 ALL-NEW SEASON ON HULU. >> TOMORROW NIGHT, THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL OF THIS CAMPAIGN. >> KAMALA HARRIS. TOGETHER WE WILL CHART A NEW WAY FORWARD. DONALD TRUMP. WE WILL SOON BE A GREAT NATION AGAIN. >> FACE TO FACE. HISTORIC. THE ABC NEWS PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, MODERATED BY DAVID MUIR AND LINSEY DAVIS TOMORROW NIGHT LIVE ON ABC AND STREAMING ON ABC NEWS LIVE . HULU AND DISNEY. PLUS THE ABC NEWS. PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. >> ABC NEWS. HONORED FOR EXCELLENCE WITH 40 EMMY NOMINATIONS. MORNINGS, EVENINGS. LATE NIGHT WEEKENDS. STREAMING 24/7. 40 EMMY NOMINATIONS. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE NEWS. ABC NEWS. >> AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE NEWS SOURCE. WE'RE ABOUT 24 HOURS AWAY FROM THE DEBATE BETWEEN VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS AND PRESIDENT TRUMP. IT IS ALL HAPPENING IN PHILADELPHIA AT THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER. AND TONIGHT, OUR RACHEL SCOTT GIVES US A BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK AT THE DEBATE STAGE AND WHAT TO EXPECT. >> WE'RE HERE AT THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER AND WE ARE JUST HOURS AWAY FROM THE VERY FIRST DEBATE BETWEEN VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. WHEN THESE TWO CANDIDATES ENTER THIS ROOM, IT WILL BE THEIR VERY FIRST TIME COMING FACE TO FACE, AND THEY'LL BE STANDING JUST SIX FEET APART. THIS ROOM IS QUITE INTIMATE. THERE WILL BE NO STUDIO AUDIENCE TO CHEER THEM ON. NO CAMPAIGN STAFF IN THIS ROOM. AND THE CANDIDATES WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO TALK TO CAMPAIGN STAFF DURING THE COMMERCIAL BREAKS EITHER. NO PRE-WRITTEN DEBATE NOTES ARE ALLOWED ON THE STAGE, BUT THERE WILL BE A PEN AND PAD ON EACH OF THEIR PODIUMS. THE FORMER PRESIDENT WON THE COIN TOSS, AND SO HE CHOSE TO HAVE THE FINAL WORD IN THIS DEBATE. VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS CHOOSING THE PODIUM ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE DEBATE STAGE THERE. >> MICROPHONES WILL ONLY BE TURNED ON WHEN IT IS THEIR TURN TO SPEAK. >> EACH CANDIDATE WILL HAVE 2 MINUTES TO ANSWER EACH QUESTION. 2 MINUTES FOR REBUTTAL AND JUST 60 SECONDS FOR ANY FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS. AND THEY WILL BE PAYING CLOSE ATTENTION TO THIS MONITOR RIGHT HERE. THE COLOR WILL CHANGE AS THE TIME WINDS DOWN TURNING YELLOW WHEN THERE'S JUST 15 SECONDS LEFT AND TURNING WHEN THEIR TIME IS UP. AND OF COURSE, OUR MODERATORS VERY OWN DAVID MUIR AND LINSEY DAVIS. WELL, THEY'LL BE SITTING RIGHT HERE MODERATING WHAT IS THE FIRST AND VERY LIKELY ONLY DEBATE BEFORE NOVEMBER. >> RACHEL SCOTT THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT. BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK, AND AS WE COUNT DOWN TO TOMORROW NIGHT'S HIGH STAKES DEBATE, HELPING TO SHED SOME LIGHT ON THE MAGNITUDE OF IT ALL IS PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN MARK UPDEGROVE. MARK, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. FIRST OFF, PUT THINGS INTO PERSPECTIVE FOR US. JUST HOW SIGNIFICANT IS TOMORROW NIGHT'S GOING TO BE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS? POLITICALLY IT DOESN'T GET MORE SIGNIFICANT TONIGHT FOR THE CANDIDATES AND FOR HISTORY . THIS IS THE ONLY TIME THESE TWO CANDIDATES WILL SQUARE OFF IN AND BEAT AGAINST ONE ANOTHER. DEBATES CAN BE DETERMINATIVE, CAN BE DEFINITIVE IN TERMS OF DETERMINING THE FATE OF A CANDIDATE. WE DON'T HAVE TO GO MUCH FURTHER THAN LAST JUNE TO TO KNOW PRESIDENT BIDEN WAS THOUGHT TO BE TOO OLD. >> HE SORT OF CONFIRMED THAT PERCEPTION AMONG VOTERS MINDS AND THEN DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE, PASSING THE TORCH TO KAMALA HARRIS. MANY AMERICANS KNOW KAMALA HARRIS, DESPITE THE FACT THAT SHE'S BEEN IN THE VICE PRESIDENCY FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS. SO THIS IS VITALLY IMPORTANT FOR KAMALA TO ESTABLISH HERSELF AND VITALLY IMPORTANT FOR DONALD TRUMP SHOW THAT HE IS CAPABLE OF LEADING THE NATION FORWARD ONCE AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. >> STEPHANIE AND, MARK, YOU TOUCHED ON AN IMPORTANT POINT THERE. WE KNOW TOMORROW WILL MARK THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS. SOME EXPERTS SAY SHE A RELATIVELY BLANK SLATE WITH VOTERS. YOU KIND OF TOUCHED ON THAT. HOW UNUSUAL IS THAT FOR A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE? >> WELL, USUALLY YOU HAVE A LONG TIME TO ESTABLISH YOURSELF, AND THAT'S TO NOT KNOW WHETHER THE ANOMALOUS ABOUT THIS ELECTION CYCLE. OBVIOUSLY, PRESIDENT BIDEN HAD SEWED UP THE NOMINATION FOR HIS PARTY AND THEN AGAIN DROPPED AFTER THE LAST DEBATE. SO WE HAVEN'T SEEN AN ELECTION CYCLE FOR A CANDIDATE THAT HAS BEEN THIS SHORT, AT LEAST IN THIS CENTURY. SO THIS IS HIGHLY UNUSUAL. AND AGAIN, DESPITE FACT THAT THAT KAMALA HARRIS WAS SERVED AS VICE PRESIDENT THREE AND A HALF YEARS, MANY VOTERS REALLY HAVEN'T SEEN HER UP CLOSE. BUT THESE THESE CONTESTS ARE SO VITALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONLY OPPORTUNITY THAT MANY VOTERS HAVE TO TO HAVE AN APPLES TO APPLES SIDE BY SIDE COMPARISON BETWEEN THE TWO CANDIDATES. >> AND, MARK, WE KNOW, SO MANY PEOPLE WILL BE WATCHING THIS DEBATE TOMORROW NIGHT. HOW MUCH DO PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES REALLY INFLUENCE THE OUTCOME OF, AN ELECTION? >> I THINK THEY COULD BE ENORMOUSLY DETERMINATIVE. AGAIN, WE SAW WHAT HAPPENED WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN. BUT -- BUT I THINK AGAIN, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO SIZE UP CANDIDATES IN THIS KIND OF WAY, APPLES TO APPLES SIDE BY SIDE AS BEING ASKED THE SAME QUESTIONS. IT BECOMES A REALLY IMPORTANT MEANS OF COMPARISON BETWEEN THE TWO CANDIDATES. SO, AGAIN, IT DOES NOT GET BIGGER, THIS FOR A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. AND GIVEN THE STAKES, THE ELECTION, IT DOESN'T GET MUCH BIGGER THAN THIS IN HISTORY. >> STEPHANIE. IT CERTAINLY DOES. AND IT'S SUCH A HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBATE. WE WILL ALL BE WATCHING. MARK, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN AND ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR MARK UPDEGROVE. THANK YOU. AND THAT DOES IT FOR OUR COVERAGE FROM NEW YORK CITY THIS HOUR. LET'S TOSS IT BACK OVER TO LINSEY DAVIS IN PHILADELPHIA AS WE ARE NOW JUST HOURS AWAY FROM THE BIG DEBATE LINSEY. STEPHANIE THANK YOU. HARD TO BELIEVE THAT JUST 24 HOURS FROM NOW, THE STAGE WILL BE SET WITH BOTH CANDIDATES VYING FOR THE PRESIDENCY IN WHAT'S SURE TO BE A HIGH STAKES FACE OFF. 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