And called foul on questis about the president s false attacks against joe bidens son. The second issue we cover on this stage is elevating a lie and attacking a statesman. That was so offensive. Our Political Team breaks down all the big moments. The crisis in syria. A major focus at the debate as Vice President pence heads to turkey trying to broker a ceasefire with Russian Forces filling the void left by the u. S. Withdrawal. Major storm. A powerful noreaster taking aim threatening major cities. Flood and wind alerts already sparking airport delays. Ginger is tracking the very latest. Behind bars. Felicity huffman waking up in prison this morning after turning herself in for her role in the College Admissions scandal. What were learning this morning about her life behind bars. Trapped. Im not okay. The bus driver locked me underneath the bus. The dramatic 911 call released from underneath a coach bus heading from hartford to boston. The frightened woman locked in the luggage compartment. How her fellow passengers heard her banging for help. Im so scared. Please help. The Washington Nationals are National League champions finally. The world seriesbound Washington Nationals sweeping the st. Louis cardinals and booking their first trip to the fall classic in franchise history and why baby shark may be behind their incredible run. Feels like the very first time i have waited a lifetime good morning, america. Happy wednesday morning to everybody out there. Congratulations to the Washington Nationals. Big win last night. Definitely a big win. My friends in the d. C. Bureau are moving a little slow this morning. It will be the first world series in our Nations Capital in 86 years, and you can tell just how long those fans have been waiting for this moment. While celebrating in washington, the democrats were in ohio last night for their latest debate. 12 candidates on the stage, the most yet, and so many took aim at the new frontrunner, Elizabeth Warren. The speaking time tells the story, warren five minutes more than her closest rival as she was forced to defend herself against 16 separate attacks. Warren drawing attacks and Bernie Sanders returning to the stage after suffering from that heart attack. Abcs linsey davis is in westerville, ohio, with all the highlights. Good morning, linsey. Reporter hey, good morning to you, michael. Certainly some fiery exchanges on the campus here last night, again and again we saw pileons on senator Elizabeth Warren. Meanwhile, mayor Pete Buttigieg was on the offense. It seemed clear that several of these candidates saw last night as a do or die moment, and some did, and other campaigns seemed to die. Overnight, Elizabeth Warren stood center stage rising in the polls and now under attack from her rivals. Senator warren is more focused on being punitive or pitting some part of the country against the other. Reporter the massachusetts senator also facing tough Unanswered Questions about her health care plan. Will you raise taxes on the middle class for to pay for it, yes or no . So, i have made clear what my principles are here and that is costs will go up for the wealthy and for big corporations and for hardworking middle class families costs will go down. Yes or no question that didnt get a yes or no answer. But this is why people here in the midwest are so frustrated with washington in general and capitol hill in particular. Reporter south bend mayor Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar pounced. At least bernie is being honest here and saying how hes going to pay for this and that taxes are going to go up and im sorry, elizabeth, but you have not said that and i think we owe it to the American People to tell them where were going to send the invoice. Reporter warren swiped back at the field on the issue of income inequality. My question is not why do bernie and i support a wealth tax. Its why is it does everyone else on this stage think it is more important to protect billionaires than it is to invest in an entire generation of americans. Ha y, senator warren. I want to give a reality check here to elizabeth because nobo on th stage wants to protect billionaires. Not even the billionaire wants to protect billionaires. Reporter Vice President joe biden trying to take back the spotlight and claimed credit for helping her create an agency to crack down on banks after the financial crisis. I agreed with the great job she did and i went on the floor and got you votes. I got votes for that bill. I convinced people to vote for it so lets get those things straight too. I am deeply grateful to president obama who fought so hard to make sure that agency was passed into law. Reporteid ao fang questions about his son hunters business dealings with ukraine, which President Trump asked the ukrainians to investigate despite no evidence of wrongdoing. My son did nothing wrong. I did nothing wrong. I carried out the policy of the United States government in rooting out corruption in, in ukraine. Reporter new jersey senator cory booker defending biden calling out the question. The second issue we cover on this stage is elevating a lie and attacking a statesman. That was so offensive. Reporter vermont senator Bernie Sanders back on the Campaign Stage after a heart attack reassuring voters hes got what it takes. We are going to be mounting a Vigorous Campaign all over this country. That is how i think i can reassure the American People. Reporter a moment of unity on the issue of impeachment. Trump is the most corrupt president in the history of this country. As a former prosecutor i know a confession when i see it. He should be removed. Reporter the fiercest attacks of the night were reserved for President Trump and his recent move to withdraw all u. S. Troops from Northern Syria leaving our kurdish allies to fend for themselves against turkey. This is shameful, shameful what this man has done. This is a crisis of Donald Trumps making and it is on a long list of crises of Donald Trumps making and tts why dude got to go and when im in commanderinchief we will stop this madness. Reporter of the 19 candidates who are running only 8 so far have qualified for next months debate in georgia. Weve also learned that at least two of the congresswomen of the socalled squad including alexandria ocasiocortez plan to endorse senator Bernie Sanders for president. George . Ilhan omar as well. Linsey, thanks very much. Lets get some analysis from jon karl. We did see a brandnew dynamic on the stage last night. All those attacks on Elizabeth Warren. You saboth mayor pete and senator klobuchar trying to crowd into joe bidens centrist space. Reporter when you are the frontrunner, you get hit hard. We saw in the previous debate, it was biden that took all the hits. This time it was clearly Elizabeth Warren, and you saw Amy Klobuchar and mayor Pete Buttigieg kind of gang up on her onetwo punch and not go after biden, it was almost as if they were waiting or expecting biden to fade in this race and they want to pick up the space he has occupied. Warren also, george, i have to say looked a little bit evasive in her answers, but when you are the frontrunner, you take the hits. You definitely do take the hits and one of the things that weve seen not only is Elizabeth Warren rising in the polls but joe biden in these new fundraising numbers that came out, he has far less money on hand than warren an others. Reporter this is remarkable. The cash on hand. This is what you need to run your campaign. Biden has about a third of what mayor buttigieg has in terms of cash on hand, a fourth of what Bernie Sanders has. He is number five overall in terms of the money to run the race. That does not look like a frontrunner. Debate was different last night, and jon, the other way this debate was different last night, far more focus on President Trump than you had seen in the earlier debates where democrats were more focused on each other. Reporter well, particularly in our debate in houston, it was, you know, you went long periods of time with no mention whatsoever on donald trump. The candidates wanted to focus on what they would do and attack their rivals in this race. You can no longer ignore donald trump, the impeachment inquiry is center here and trump was very much front and center in this debate. Okay, jon karl, thanks very much. Cecilia. That crisis in syria was also a major topic last night at the debate. Vice president pence today heads to turkey hoping to broker a ceasefire deal. This as russia moves in to fill the void left by the u. S. Withdrawal. Lets get right to our chief glal Affairs CorrespondentMartha Raddatz there in washington and, martha, were just now hearing from turkeys leader on this. Reporter we sure are, cecilia. Turkeys president is strongly rejecting calls for a ceasefire this morning saying he will only talk to President Trump in turkey in person, but in a matter of hours, Vice President pence will be on his way to turkey to lead a delegation trying to stop turkeys assault on the kurds as u. S. Forces continue their dangerous withdrawal from Northern Syria. With turkey pounding Northern Syria taking key terrain, a close call for american troops. Turkish militias coming dangerously near a u. S. Base. The americans responding with a show of force. F15 fighter jets and apache helicopters in the air. And as the 1,000 american troops move out under President Trumps orders, the russians are filling the void rolling through the country with Syrian Government forces. This russian journalist giving a tour of what appears to be a nowabandoned u. S. Base. A Basketball Court now empty. This russian who has worked for progovernment media saying the americans were here yesterday and now we are. But well over 175,000 people have now beedid and scores killed and injured. Our kurdish allies feeling betrayed, but President Trump saying he doesnt want u. S. Forces policing 7,000 miles away. We want to bring our soldiers back home after so many years and theyre the greatest warriors in the world. Theyre policing, theyre not a police force. Reporter on capitol hill, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell rejecting that idea. It makes us a prudent and responsible world power. It stands up for our own security and the freedom of others. Reporter but President Trump is unconvinced. A senior u. S. Official telling abc news that the commander of Kurdish Forces spoke to President Trump urging him to keep more troops in syria, but the president said the official told him he did not need to go halfway around the world to fight isis. George . Defiant despite the backlash. Thanks very much. Were going to get the latest now on impeachment. With new testimony set for today from a Key State Department official, the president s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, Vice President mike pence and the Defense Department all defying congressional subpoenas refusing to turn over any documents. Our senior Congressional Correspondent mary bruce is tracking it all from capitol hill. And mary, House Speaker nancy pelosi is holding firm on her refusal to hold a formal vote on an impeachment investigation. Reporter yeah, george, despite growing pressure the speaker is holding off for now on a formal vote to authorize this impeachment inquiry and shes defending their impeachment process. Meeting late yesterday, the speaker and Top Democrats couldnt come to an agreement on a vote because in part they are facing a lot of pushback from vulnerable democrats in swing districts who are concerned that a vote to authorize this inquiry might be confused with an actual vote for impeachment. Now, the white house, of course, has been quick to note the democrats are breaking with precedent here. They say that without this vote, they are deprived of certain rights, but, george, it seems democrats dont want to appear that they are caving to political pressure from the white house and the speaker is adamant that under the constitution, they simply do not have to have this vote. Those are the rules, meantime, more witnesses putting Rudy Giuliani at the center of this whole effort. Reporter yeah, and, george, right now Rudy Giuliani is defiant. He has announced he simply is not going to cooperate with house investigators. He is calling this inquiry baseless and illegitimate, but he is under a growing intense spotlight for running essentially a rogue operation to push ukraine to investigate the president s rival joe biden and this morning, george, there are also growing questions about what role the acting white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney may have played. A state Department Witness told congressional investigators that mulvaney played a key role in stripping control of the u. S. Relationship with ukraine away from officials that have the most expertise in this area. Lawmakers may want to talk to mulvaney as well. And as for giuliani, well, what can they do . They can potentially issue some subpoenas to him to actually come in and testify, but it doesnt look like hes going to comply with that. Of course, democrats say, all this stonewalling, george, simply adds to their case for obstruction. Meantime, President Trump maintains his phone call was perfect but the white house showing real concern now. Reporter yeah, and george, we have learned that the white house is now conducting an internal review of the president s phone call with the ukrainian president that sparked this impeachment inquiry. Sources say this internal probe is looking especially at the actions of the Deputy White House counsel John Eisenberg who placed that rough transcript of the call into a separate private server, george. We are told that this is simply a factfinding review, but there are reports that some within the white house think that this is a hunt for a scapegoat. Much more to come. Thanks very much. Michael. Were going to turn to the noreaster taking aim threatening to make a mess of the evening commute across the region. Several Major Airlines offering to waive change fees for travel in and out of the area and ginger is tracking it all and joins us now with the timing of the storm. Good morning, ginger. Good morning to you, michael. We have already seen this storm drop 3 inches to 5 inches of very helpful rain southwest of montgomery, alabama, helping the drought through georgia, but boy, is it going to come fast through tomorrow morning. That is the timing in the northeast. If youre from pennsylvania and new jersey, over to connecticut and even up to maine, youll be thinking about the rain but the wind and thats why i want to bring you to the state of new york. Use this as an example to showcase how windy and how rainy its going to get. Let me tuck myself into the Long Island Sound here just to give you an idea. Anybody in green that floods easily, when you get 2 inches to 4 inches of rain falling tonight if youre driving i87 or i90, especially north of albany, it looks like well get those heavier pockets. Now, bring that camera back out because the whole state is going to get windy and i think this is what youre going to notice the most especially going into tomorrow morning. But the closer you are to the coast, the heftier the winds. Im standing in the streamlines right where the low pressure system is located but you can see them coming right over long island. Jfk, laguardia, both right there could easily see gusts of 40 to 50 miles per hour. Cecilia, it is not just new york. Atlantic city to boston feeling the winds by tomorrow morning. We are bracing for it. Thank you, ginger. Were going to turn to that fiery explosion at a california fuel storage facility. Thousands of nearby residents were ordered to take shelter from those fumes before the fire was contained overnight. Will carr has the story. Reporter this morning, new video of that devastating explosion at an Energy Facility