Next debate. Donald trump and ben carson demanding changes to the debate format. And they want it capped at two hours with commercials and want to speak directly to the camera at the open and close. Cnbc says its considering the demands. Turning now to the democrats and a new hint from joe biden about a possible run. A top aide for the Vice President sent a letter to former staffers saying if biden enters the race, he will need their race. And he said everything that biden and the president have worked for is at stake. The letter also promised the Biden Campaign would be optimistic but gave no hint when an announcement might come. As Jonathan Carl tells us, biden reporter joe biden was in full v. P. Mode today. At the president s side in the morning, and then, awaiting the president of south korea in the afternoon. Are you running for president . I will answer in korean. Reporter can you just tell i cant hear you. Reporter okay. A little louder . Have you made your decision reporter no
The man has been charged with criminal trespassing. Thats a rough hangover. Okay. So california now has one of the toughest equal pay protections in the country. Governor jerry brown signing the bill into law yesterday at the rosie the riveter park near san francisco. It requires employers to prove that any pay gap between workers is due to factors like skillet level or srntd aeniority and no gender. This is really a big deal, important. Inequities that have plagued our state and have burdened women forever are slowly being resolved. Many critics say the new law will drive even more businesses out of that state. Fiat chrysler has less than 24 hours to make a better offer or face a strike. Otherwise auto workers may walk off the job at midnight. They rejected the companys first offer last week by better than 2 to 1. The union could call for a walkout at all Fiat Chrysler plants or just keep that facilitys. The company said it is continuing to work toward an agreement. Okay. So new devel
Confrontation. And backstreets back is a big way. Nick carter blowing the doors off the ballroom with a performance that had the entire audience on its feet. Bindi irwin with an emotional tribute to her father. What shaped me the most was would probably be when my dad passed away. You know, its been nine years. And gary busey says goodbye to the ballroom and opens up just to gma this morning. When you made me cry and good morning, america. A lot to get to this tuesday. Thank goodness the rain has stopped in the carolinas. But the threat has not passed. Take a look at this drone video right here. It shows just how powerful these floods are. You know, nine dams have been breached already. Many neighborhoods still underwater. It is causing billions of dollars in damage. As you know, george, the water is still rising this morning. And will be for days. You see the map showing the flood warnings right now. Our extreme weather team covering it all and we start with abcs alex perez in columbi
Lets end this. Is your iphone battery running down too quickly. Theres an app for that. The facebook app continues to run in the background even if the background refresh is turned off. Facebook acknowledges theres a problem and says that it hopes to fix it soon. One fix may be to delete the app and access facebook from the web until the app is fixed. And netflix wasnt available for about 90 minutes yesterday. But it wasnt just the video streaming service. Hbo go, chase bank, uber and the bbc were also down here in the u. S. All in all, about two dozen sites were not available. Many major sites use the same Cloud Service which admits it had a problem but denies that it was a cyberattack. Everything should be back up and running now. Walmarts stock dropped more than any single day in almost three decades. The retailer expects to take a hit this year as a result of increasing competition. But walmarts problems may be good news for you. Heres abcs rebecca jarvis. Reporter bad news for inv
Bat with a flow, a runner scores to take the lead, even the umpires are confused. Theyre going crazy. Fans throw bottles on the feel, benches clear not once but twice. Well show you what happened next. Everybody, just calm down. Good morning, america. Talk about a seventh inning stretch. Took 53 minutes for the seventh inning right there. What a crazy game. The rangers versus the blue jays, see that runner come home. He was allowed to run even though the umpire was waving it off. It was just an insane inning. Well tell you what happened. T. J. Will have all the details. But we begin with breaking news. President obama announcing he will leave thousands of troops in afghanistan beyond next year, halting the withdrawal. Abcs Martha Raddatz has all the details, joins us from washington. Good morning, martha. Reporter good morning, robin. All of the nearly 10,000 troops we have now in afghanistan were supposed to be out by the end of next year, except those at the embassy, but the presiden