Nearly 30 of new cases now. In ohio alone, childrens hospitals now overwhelmed. Tonight here, news on vaccines fo children, when pfizer will submit its data for approval. Dr. Fauci on when he expects the vaccines to be ready for children. And dr. Fauci on boosters for adults. As we now learn the uk will give boosters to adults 50 and older to prepare for the winter ahead. Californias High Stakes Recall Election under way tonight. Will Governor Gavin Newsom survive . What early voting and the polls indicate so far and Matt Gutman is live in california. The final days of the trump presidency. Americas top general reportedly took secret steps to prevent President Trump from potentially ordering a Military Strike or launching any nuclear weapons. And tonight, general Mark Milleys alleged conversations with his counterpart in china. And what he promised the u. S. Would not do. The new reporting from Bob Wodward and Robert Costa in their book, and Jon Karl is standing by. Overseas tonight, what weve now learned abouT That deadly u. S. Drone strike in kabul, just days after the deadly suicide attack. Tonight, the pentagon defending the attack. Martha raddatz reporting. This evening, if you have an iphone, an ipad, Apples Emergency Security update. Why theres so much concern and the one step you should take tonighT To protect your privacy. Remembering a popular Snl Actor and comedian. What weve learned about norm macdonalds private battle. And broadway lights back on tonight. The Lion King is back. But what you havent seen. How theyre now rehearsing In These Times and Deborah Roberts takes us backstage. Good evening and its greaT To have you with us here on a tuesday night. News on the coronavirus, vaccines for children and boosters for adults. Dr. Fauci tonight on the timeline he now expects. But first, the category 1 Hurricane Slamming into the u. S. Now a slowmoving and dangerous tropical storm. 75mileanhour winds. Gusts up to 95 miles per hour when it hit. A half million without power tonight. This evening, Flash Flood watches now across five states and this stretches some 500 miles. Hurricane nicholas growing stronger, just as it approached the u. S. The 19th named storm now to hiT The u. S. In a little more than a year. Making landfall near sergeant beach, texas, then moving inland with fierce winds and up to ten inches of rain. The winds aT This citgo station. This Galveston Neighborhood battered by the dangerous winds and the rain and then daylight revealing the damage to homes, Power Lines down. And of course, the real danger aT This hour as the storm now slows to a crawl. Abcs Victor Oquendo in kenner, louisiana. Reporter Hurricane Nicholas hammering the Texas Coast in the middle of the night. Rapidly intensifying into a category 1 hurricane just before Landfall South of houston. The powerful Storm Surge overtaking roads. Winds rocking this Gas Station Canopy before sending it crashing into the ground. Ktrks Ted Oberg in the thick of it. This rain not only looks like its coming in sideways, i can tell you down here, it is coming in sideways. JusT Torrential rain. Reporter with daybreak, Nicholass Wrath coming into view, revealing homes ripped apart. Parts of roads washed away. Winds snapping the blades off this turbine. Our Marcus Moore is outside houston. The power has been knocked ouT To so many people across the region now. Crews are working around the clock to geT Those services back online. Reporter the storm now threatening to dump up to 20 inches of rain across louisiana, where many homes are covered with blue tarps damaged by Hurricane Ida just over two weeks ago. Families still cleaning up as the new Storm Moves in. Weve been trying to just pick up what we can, but now we have this other storm coming. Its not helping at all. Reporter and here in the New Orleans area, we are expecting up to 5 to 10 inches of Rain And Flooding really is the lasT Thing thaT They need here, where the cleanup from Hurricane Ida is still far from over and there is serious concern that some of this debris could actually clog the drains here, which would make the flooding much worse. David . Well, you said it. The lasT Thing they need. Victor, thank you. Lets get righT To chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee in laplace, louisiana, timing this ouT Tonight. Ginger . Reporter david, the lasT Thing that folks in laplace, louisiana, wanT To see is water. I mean, look behind me. Piles of debris, 16 days after ida, as far as the eye can see. Street after street and now a Flash Flood watch. So, the timing of it. It goes with the heaviest overnight here in Southeastern Louisiana into mississippi, alabama and the panhandle of florida. Tomorrow, all included in those Flash Flood watches, by the way. When you talk abouT The timing of the heaviest bands, it is going to become more scattered after tomorrow, so, that will be helpful, but it will leave behind more than ten inches in louisiana and mississippi. Something we hate to see and such insulT To injury here, david. Yeah, thinking about everybody in the gulf tonight. Ginger, thank you. And of course, the other major news tonight, the dangerous surge in Child Covid cases. And tonight here, dr. Anthony fauci with a clearer picture of when to expect vaccines for children and when he thinks there will be boosters for adults in the u. S. Tonight, the uk now planning to give boosters to adults 50 and over to prepare them for the winter ahead. Heres stephanie ramos. Reporter for millions of parents eager to know how soon their younger children could finally get a vaccine, tonight, a clearer picture. Pfizer today revealing it will submit data from its trial for 5 to 11yearolds to the fda in early october. Followed by Trial Data for children 6 months to 5 years old in the weeks after. Dr. Anthony fauci expects the fda to authorize the first shots for elementaryage kids as early as midoctober. I believe itll work ouT This way, that by the time we geT To the midfall, october or so, that we will have the capability of giving vaccines for pfizer. Reporter we meT The Bui Family in New Orleans when all three children took part in Pfizers Vaccine Trial at oschner health. Both parents are doctors. 6yearold ellie, 3yearold christian and 14monthold sloan getting shots. Were not 100 sure thaT The kids goT The vaccine yet, but just knowing thaT They have a chance and thaT They have that little extra layer of protection, makes me much more at ease with sending them back to school. Reporter Tens Of Millions of children are back in classrooms, but less than 40 of 12 to 17yearolds who are eligible for the vaccine are fully vaccinated. In ohio, cases spiking 2,000 since early august. Hospitals are full. All of our childrens hospitals are overwhelmed. Reporter across the country, children making up almost 30 of covid cases last week. And after two top scientists who are leaving the fda argued in the lancet it was premature to give boosters to the general public because the vaccines offer strong protection against serious disease, dr. Fauci today pushing back. You have clearly waning of immunity against infection and clearcut indication of waning of immunity against severe disease. Reporter and he expects the fda Advisory Panel to support boosters when it reviews the data on friday. Myself as a scientist who have seen some of the data, i believe when you look aT That data carefully, theres going to be a decision to actually give the boost as opposed to not giving it. Well, there you hear it. Dr. Fauci predicting the fda will greenlight boosters in the u. S. And tonight, the uk will now give adults 50 and older Booster Shots . Reporter exactly, david. Its part of their winter strategy. Britain will give People Booster shots, those people over the age of 50, starting with older people, Health Care workers. And those with underlying conditions. The government says the primary choice is the pfizer booster shot, regardless of what vaccine was originally given. David . Stephanie ramos. Stephanie, thank you. Now to californias recall showdown aT This hour. Will Governor Gavin Newsom survive . Just hours left, as that state votes. President biden campaigning overnight with the governor. And even before Election Day arrived, leading republican larry Elders Campaign with a website saying newsom hate been reinstated, alleging fraud. Again, declaring this before Election Day. BuT Tonight, what early voting and the polls indicate so far. Matt gutman again in california. Reporter after the fight of his political life, tonight, Governor Gavin Newsom sounding confident he wont be fired by the voters of california. So what are we going to do . We will turn out and vote no on this recall. Do i have your supporT To vote no . Reporter in the closing hours, newsom turning the spotlight onto the leading republican candidate to replace him. Conservative Radio Host Larry elder. If we dont rejecT This recall, Larry Elder is the next governor of the state of california. Im going to sound like obama. Dont boo vote. Reporter President Biden hammering that same message. Hes the clone of donald trump. Can you imagine him being governor of this state . Reporter elder is taking a page out of the trump playbook, already making baseless claims of Election Fraud before all the votes are even cast. His campaign launching a Stop California Fraud website, essentially saying he had lost, blaming the quote Twisted Results of this 2021 Recall Election. BuT The election is still going on. Not a single result has been reported. Still, Elders Website cites whaT They call statistical analyses claiming to have detected fraud in california resulting in Governor Gavin Pnewsom being reinstated as governor. When i pressed elder, he repeatedly ducked the question. Is there any evidence of Voter Fraud . The question is reporter come on today, newsom on the attack. Stop. Grow up, people. These people literally are vandalizing our Democracy And Trust in our institutions. All right, matt, when should we know . Reporter pretty soon, david, if its a landslide. You can see them already counting the ballots behind me. But if its at all close, officials say it could take up to 30 days to certify the victor. But david, we know that democratic Voter Turnout has been high, polls right now are favoring newsom. And earlier, when i asked his team if they have anything to worry about, their answer was simple. No. David . Matt gutman in california again tonight. Thanks, matt. 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Trumps incendiary words about china and coronavirus. Theres a plague coming over from china, here it comes. What a disgrace. What a disgrace. Reporter milley told the chinese general noT To worry. If were going to attack, im going to call you ahead of time. Its not going to be a surprise. And after the January 6th capitol riot, milley again called the chinese general again, telling him, quote we are 100 steady. Everythings fine. But democracy can be sloppy sometimes. Shortly after the riot, speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi called milley alarmed thaT Trump was both unstable and dangerous. Milley tried to reassure her, saying there are, quote, a lot of checks in the system. According to a transcript of The Call obtained by woodward and costa, pelosi responded, quote, hes crazy. You know hes crazy. Hes crazy and what he did yesterday is further evidence of his craziness. Milley replied, i agree with you on everything. Milley, the authors write, was certain trump had gone into a serious mental decline. During a meeting aT The pentagon, according to the book, milley, who is actually not in the chain of command, told the top Military Leadership they were noT To Sign Off on any order to use nuclear weapons without his signoff. No matter what you are told, you do the procedure, milley told them. You do the process. And im part of that procedure. According to the book, milley looked everyone in the eye and asked each one of them to say they agreed. This is really something. Jon, former President Trump responding a shorT Time ago . Reporter just a few minutes ago in an interview on news max, the former president said that if it is actually true, that general milley reached ouT To the chinese and, quote, was willing to advise them of an attack or about advance of an attack, thats treason. Trump also said thaT The idea he was going to attack china is, quote, the most ridiculous thing he has ever heard. 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Reporter Bystander Video widely shared online capturing the aftermath of the deadly strike, but a New York Times investigation using Surveillance Video and interviews calls the strike into question. WhaT The Pentagon Thought were explosives may have been water canisters, loaded by the Driver Zemari Ahmadi and his colleagues, who worked for an american aid agency. Everyone got along with him. And so really, they jusT Took one of our best people away from us. For what . For Filling Water Containers . Reporter u. S. Central command is now investigating the Drone Strike, but as of tonight, they continue to say it was justified. David . All right, martha, thank you. When we come back, if you have an iphone, Apples Emergency Security update. The one step you should take tonight. And remembering a beloved Snl Actor. Certain hpvrelated cancers . Youre not welcome here get out of my Face Hpv can cause certain cancers when your child grows up. Get in its way. Hpv can affect males and females. 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Welcome home. Good nighT This is abc 7 news. The course of Californias Future could change dramatically. Voters have jusT Two hours lefT To cast ballots in a Recall Election to decide if Gavin Newsom remains our governor. This is a lifeanddeath decision. Public health and public safety, our wellbeing, is on the ballot. An allout efforT To save his job, casting his challengers as dangerous. His challengers claim what is dangerous is keeping newsom in office. We are going to change california. We are going to change the world. You are watching abc 7 news at 6 00. Thanks for joining us on this election night. We are down to jusT Two hours until the polls close. Because of the pandemic, every registered voter received a Malein Mail Mail Mail Ma millions were turned in before the polls opened. While there are concerns abouT Turnout, whether voters bothered to cast ballots on a single race, voters we talked to were not going to siT This one out. All the things we hold dear in this state are riding on this election. It is because T T is so important we have multiple dedicated reporters covering this from every angle up and down the state. We will starT Team Coverage Tonight with our reporters focused on the biggest names on the ballot. Laura anthony is live in Orange County covering Larry Elder. First lets go to sacramento. Liz, what was the governor doing today . He was busy even aT The last minute. He was. Governor newsom and his team are