All the reaction this morning, senator cory booker joins us live. Under siege. California battling hundreds of wildfires, supercharged by nearly 11,000 lightning strikes in just 72 hours. Multiple fires now burning into each other. The firestorm on the move at this hour. Thousands fleeing. Some barely making it out. Raising the alarm. The startling new evidence, how children could carry high levels of coronavirus. Some significantly higher than hospitalized adults. This as teachers in hardhit florida are suing to stop inperson learning and the Largest School district in the nation, new york city, demanding schools to require testing. Putin critic poisoned . The most proud Opposition Leader to Vladimir Putin rushed to intensive care after falling sick on a plane in moscow. His plane made an Emergency Landing just hours after he had hot tea at the airport. Was poison mixed in his tea . Courtside confrontation. New body camera video shows the sheriffs deputy aggressively pushing raptors T
Be wearing a mask. The race for the white house heating up as the candidates battle over covid. Joe biden calling on every governor to impose a mask mandate immediately. President trump firing back, calling it an overreach. This as he admits to want to block funding for the post office to prevent expanded mailin voting during the pandemic. And the president also advancing a birther lie about senator Kamala Harris. The latest on the war of words in the race for 2020. Wildfires raging in the west. Three new infernos scorching more than 14,000 acres. Hundreds of families forced from their homes. Bison attack. A motorcycle passenger charged by a giant animal at a state park. What ultimately saved her . Epic fight over fortnite. The billion dollar battle over one of the most popular games in the world. Now removed from apple and googles app stores. Shark tale. The surfer who fought a 16foot great white telling his remarkable story this morning. How he used his bare hands and surfboard to sa
Twin trouble. Overnight Tropical Storm hanna taking aim at texas as hurricane douglas barrels toward hawaii. Both areas now bracing for another potential crisis amid this pandemic. Ginger tracking the very latest. Panic and chaos on a passenger plane. The pilot saying the flight descended 14,000 feet in just four minutes after this frightening possible collision. Showdown in the halls of congress. I am here because i have to show my parents that i am their daughter and that they did not raise me to accept abuse from men. Alexandria ocasiocortezs powerful speech saying florida congressman ted yoho verbally assaulted her. And game on. Baseball is finally back. The pros facing off on the field and united in the black lives matter movement. The world series reigning champs rained out and the unforgettable wild first pitch that was just a bit outside. Dr. Anthony fauci. Good morning, america. Were laughing at dr. Faucis first pitch. Were not laughing at him. I was. I was going to say, in hi
This morning, japan has marked 75 years since the unleashing of the worlds first atomic bomb on hiroshima. 140,000 people were killed, nearly half the citys population. A scaledback, social distancing event was held with survivors and relatives marking the 8 15 a. M. Blast anniversary with a moment of silence. This morning, were opening up the abc news vault to august 1995, the 50th anniversary, with abcs carole simpson. 4,000 americans were there the day the bomb fell. Only 1,000 of them came home. Abcs deborah amos looks at how two of them are faring today. Reporter every other year, for nearly 20 years, kay yoshioka and jack diruike spend a day in a San Francisco clinic where a team of visiting japanese specialists check for cancer, blood diseases, and anything else that might be traced to what happened 50 years ago. Kay was 8 years old then, americanborn, but living in japan because her family had moved back to care for her grandmother. That summer, with american planes firebombing
Outside the white house. The new details this morning. Chicago crackdown. Overnight the city under curfew, bridges lifted after that mass looting leading to more than 100 arrests. Violent storms wreaking havoc in the midwest leaving more than a million without power. Winds blowing at more than 100 Miles Per Hour, flipping this semi truck on an iowa highway in blinding rain and ripping this roof off a chicago building. And overnight a wildfire shutting down an interstate in ning, the red flag warnings for fire danger in the west. Ginger is tracking it all. Faceoff. 14 popular face coverings put to the test. The new demonstration using lasers to see how effective they are and the one mask researchers found that was actually worse than no mask at all. Game over . One of the top conferences in College Football reportedly on the verge of canceling the entire season. Will other conferences follow if the big ten backs out, ivorin for a chance to take the field. The commissioner of the powerfu