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Fallout. Members of speaker mccarthys party threatening to oust him. Relying on democrats to avoid a shutdown. Now delayed until just before thanksgiving. Desperate search. Authorities in new york state looking for a 9yearold girl who vanished while biking during a weekend camping trip with her family. New strike . What would be the Largest Health care strike in u. S. History is now looming. 75,000 employees in five states are threatening to walk off the job this week. Student loan payments resume after a threeyear pause. Tens of millions of americans have to start paying again. How some borrowers can still get some relief. Close call. The nascar crew member slammed by his own driver and somehow walking away from the incident. Hes telling his story to gma this morning. Together in pink. Were kicking off Breast Cancer Awareness Month looking at the latest in cutting edge detection and treatment, shining a light on the growing number of young women being diagnosed and celebrating and thriving. Beyonce putting the b in box office, announcing overnight her smash hit world tour is headed to the big screen. Will it create a renaissance at the theaters . Welcome to new york and the Kansas City Chiefs defeating the jets. Zach wilson had a breakout night on the field. And Aaron Rodgers returns to the stadium. Plus, all eyes on taylor swift in the stands, cheering on travis kelce. How the super star is helping attract new fans. Our reporter was at the game as so many said welcome to new york. Announcer live in times square, this is Good Morning America. Taylor swift was at the game . I didnt even notice. What . Good morning america. Great to be here with rebecca and gio. It is so great to be here. We have a lot to get to including the new fight on capitol hill after the last minute deal to avoid a Government Shutdown. Speaker mccarthy facing calls for his job coming from his own party. It was a busy weekend. We begin with the latest on donald trump in court this morning as the former president goes on trial in a 250 million civil fraud case brought by the new York State Attorney general. Our Senior Investigative correspondent Aaron Katersky is at the courthouse in lower manhattan. Good morning, aaron. Reporter good morning. Former President Trump arrived here just a moment ago and went in through a side door. Walked up to the third floor to enter a courtroom and come face to face with a judge who has already ruled much of his wealth is a mirage and the result of fraud. This morning donald trump begins a civil trial that puts him at risk of losing control of the business that propelled him to the white house. New York Attorney general Leticia James sued trump, don junior and eric an their family Real Estate Firm for persistent and repeated business fraud that grocery inflated how wealthy trump really is. Donald trump engaged in years of illegal conduct to inflate his net worth to achieve, to deceive banks and the people of the great state of new york. Reporter the investigation began more than four years ago after Michael Cohen told Congress Trump lied about the value of hi properties. It was my experience that mr. Trump inflated his total assets when it served his purposes. Reporter the judge has already desighed the core of the case, finding clear, indisputable documentary evidence trump inflated his net worth by as much as 2. 2 billion to win more favorable terms on loans and insurance. Trump has denied it, calling the judge deranged and telling a Campaign Rally in iowa. Its happening for a single reason. Im the only candidate they do not want to run against. Reporter but the judges ruling said trump was living in a fantasy world, and is already threatening to rest from trumps control some of his prized assets, including his signature sky scraper, trump tower, on fifth avenue where he rode the golden escalator to announce his first run for president. The stakes here are enormous for former President Trump because if he is barred from doing business in new york, he is required to sell off all of his new York Real Estate portfolio, it could cost him hundreds of millions of dollars and severely damage not only the trump brand, but also the value of his by. Reporter the trial will help the judge determine how much trump has to pay in penalties. The state has asked for 50 million. Trump is here listening to the Opening Statements in this civil trial, but hes going to have to come back here later when the state calls him as a witness. Linsey . Aaron, thank you. To washington now and fallout from that last minute deal averting a Government Shutdown. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy faces a possible vote to oust him from his job by fellow republicans, angry that he turned to democrats for help. Rachel scott is on capitol hill this morning. Good morning, rachel. Reporter linsey, good morning. After weeks of trying to win over the far right wing of his party, House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy ended up working with democrats on a deal to keep the government funded. That could cost him his job. This morning with the Government Shutdown averted, House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy bracing for another political fight. Now facing the most direct threat to his leadership yet. At this time next week if Kevin Mccarthy is speaker of the house, it will be because democrats bailed him out and he can be their speaker, not mine. Reporter congressman matt goetz telling Jonathan Karl he will try to remove him as speaker this week, after he relied on democratic votes to keep the government funded. Mccarthys response . Bring it on. Its already for republicans and democrats to join together to do what is right. If somebody wants to make a motion against me, bring it. There has to be an adult in the room. Reporter under rules, mccarthy negotiated with his own party, one member can force a vote to oust him and several republicans are furious. He once again worked with democrats on a spending deal. Were throwing up a new plan this year every few minutes. Thats not governing and thats not leadership. Reporter mccarthy worked for days to satisfy the far right wing of his party. It was never enough. With time running out, he suddenly dropped his demand for Border Security an instead put a bill on the floor to keep the government funded until november 17th. And provide 16 million in disaster aid. 90 republicans voted against it. Democrats carried it across the finish line. I think this is a big victory for democrats and, frankly, i think that this could have happened much sooner. Reporter the bill passed the senate with strong bipartisan support, making it to president bidens desk with just hours to spare. The president didnt get everything he wanted either. No additional funding for ukraine. Democrats and republicans, senate and house, support helping ukraine and the brutal aggression thats being thrust upon them by russia. Stop playing games. Get this done. Reporter this was a short term deal to make the government funded for about 45 days. They will revisit this fight once again right before thanksgiving. After that effort to try to force House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy out of his job, he still has the support of majority of republicans on capitol hill, but it would only take a handful to turn against him and take him out, linsey. Razor thin margin. There was a bizarre incident over the weekend. What can you tell us about a fire alarm . Reporter this is playing out during one of the most chaotic events. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy called a last minute vote. Democrats were trying to delay this. All of a sudden a fire alarm went off evacuating the house office building. Jamal bowman a democrat, was caught pulling that fire alarm. He says this was all an innocent mistake. Thats prompting even more confusion. The fire alarm is red. It is clearly labeled with the word fire. Now Capitol Police are investigating, linsey. All right, rachel scott, at the capitol for us. Thank you very much. Linsey, overnight california Governor Newsom naming the replacement for Dianne Feinstein. Lafonsa butler will fill the seat held by the late senator. Reporter good morning. Governor newsom choosing a long time activist and labor leader lafonsa butler to take that vacant seat by Dianne Feinstein. She is the leader of a group that supports candidates who favor aborg right. Butler served as a democratic strategist and adviser to Kamala Harris during her Vice President ial campaign. Her appointment fulfills newsoms pledge to choose a black woman to hold the senate seat but will be the only black woman serving in the u. S. Senate and first openly lgbtq person to represent california in the chamber. She could be sworn in as early as tuesday. Now, feinstein will lie in state in San Francisco at city hall before her service is planned for thursday. Rebecca . And she will be remembered as butler takes that seat. All right, kayna, thank you very much for your reporting. We turn now to the urgent search for a 9yearold girl who vanished this weekend while camping with her family in new york state. Stephanie ramos is here with the latest. Good morning, stephanie. Reporter rebecca, good morning. New York State Police say as soon as it became apparent than an abduction had taken place, they initiated a search that lasted hours, employing dogs, drones and boats to find 9yearold Charlotte Sena. Theyre still searching. This morning an urgent search is under way for at 9yearold girl who went missing while on a family camping trip in upstate new york. They came here to have an ordinary time, the kids could have a chance to be in nature, have a chance to be kids. But instead the day turned into every parents night mare. Reporter Charlotte Sena was last seen saturday about 35 miles north of albany riding her bike around the loop with other kids when she decided to ride around once more alone. Charlotte was last seen 6 15 p. M. Riding her bike at loop a of the park. Approximately 6■ 45. M. , charlottes bike was located and at 6 47 p. M. Charlottes mom called 911 to report the child missing. Reporter police believed charlotte was abducted and is in imminent danger or serious harm. Charlotte is a 9yearold white female with long blonde hair, approximately 5 1 in height and weighs 90 pounds. She was last seen wearing an orring pokemon shirt and gray bike helmet. Reporter authorities issuing an amber alert as more than 100 searchers including police, forest rangers and residents from nearby combed the lake state park, hoping to find the little girl. We are leaving no stone, no branch, no table, no cabin unturned, untouched, unexamined in our search to find charlotte. Reporter charlotte had just turned 9 years old. She started fourth grade and was recently elected a class officer for student council. Police say they are also youing Specialized Technology to pinpoint people who might have encountered charlotte. Linsey . We are hoping for the best outcome. Stephanie, thank you. Now to a potential new strike with 75,000 Health Care Employees in five states threatening to walk off the job this week. Rhiannon ally has the latest. Reporter good morning, linsey. Contract ebbing paoeured setting the stage for what would be the Largest Health care strike in u. S. History. 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers in five states threatening to walk off the job this thursday. California, washington, colorado, virginia and washington, d. C. A coalition of unions representing them said it remains far apart with the company on key issues. The workers are seeking pay raises, better pensions and protections against outsourcing. Guys, the company said it will continue to negotiate in good faith. Of course, this is not the only strike making news. We know the hollywood Writers Strike ended, but production cannot resume on shows and movies until the actors strike is resolved. Whats the latest . The actors went on strike back in july. They havent been to the bargaining table with the studios since before the strike started. The end of the Writers Strike last week was certainly a good sign so they return to the bargaining table today and hopefully will have a much better idea of how close they really are to getting a deal done soon. Linsey . So many people hoping that is over sooner than later. Thank you, rhiannan. Gio . Now to federal student loan payments returning after a threeyear paw. Entens of millions of americans are back on the hook making payments again amid stubborn inflation and rising Interest Rates. Elizabeth schulze joins us with more. Reporter good morning, gio. The government student loan pause gave millions of americans a financial cushion during the pandemic. Now, after more than three years, the bills are due again. 28 million borrowers will be required to start repaying their federal Student Loans this month. Those Monthly Payments afternoon between 200 and 300. Now heres whats important to know. Your balance should be about the same as when the pause started. Thats because, until last month, Interest Rates were frozen at 0 . If you are looking for relief, there is a oneyear grace period where if you miss a payment, you will not be held delinquent. But interest will still keep adding up during that time at the rate that you locked in before the pause. So you want to try to make a payment now if you can. The Education Department here has also launched a new Repayment Program called save which, depending on your income, could spare you hundreds every month. If you want to see what your bill would like like go to student aid. Gov. Rebecca . Extremely useful information, thats going to impact a lot of people. Thank you. We turn now to damar hamlins return to the field after not playing in the first three Buffalo Bills games this season, hamlin finally seeing action. His first since suffering cardiac arrest on the field in january. And Demarco Morgan has those details. This was such a great thing to see. Good morning to you. We were all hoping to see him during the season opener. That didnt happen, but you know the saying, good things come to those who wait. An emotional and highly anticipated return it was for damar hamlin, completing his remarkable come back less than a year after suffering cardiac arrest. Huddling with his fellow bills just before heading out onto the field. He would be the last player to leave the tunnel. Check him out. Watch out there, the home crowd. Hamlin was a healthy scratch the first three games when an injury to the starting safety put him in a backup role. He played as the bills beat the dolphins. Hamlin spoke after the game about what returning to the field meant to him. That moment meant everything to me. I think it was more about proving something to myself than anything else. Just showing myself that i had the courage, the strength, the pride, you know, everything, although words, in me to be able to go through something so traumatic and be able to come back from it and still to be able to still do what i love at the highest level in the world is just, is amazing. Reporter it is amazing. As far as when hamlin will play again, that is still unclear. If that starting safety is ready to go next week, hamlin might be scratched again. If not, then this incredible story could continue. We are hoping for the best. It happened, but its better to be safe than sorry. Its incredible either way. It was so scary back in january. Just months later its incredible to see him on the field. Talk about a come back kid. Nine months. All right, demarco, thank you very much. That wasnt the only big nfl game sunday. Trevor ault is bringing us the other one that drew a bit of attention. Reporter gio, good morning. Just a little bit of attention. Were talking about the super bowl champs chiefs taking on the new york jets. All eyes were on the stands. Taylor swift cheering on travis kelce. How the singer is bringing in some new fans to the nfl. Plus highlights from the big game, guys. Also ahead we hear from the nascar crew member who managed to walk away look at that after he was hit by his own driver after a pit stop. Toys r us announcing it will reopen after filing for bankruptcy. Good news for paerp day. Now to ginger. The marathon. I was so sad for my friends there. Cancelled for the first time. Thats because they had all time hottest october temperature reached. 92 was the high. Sioux falls also did it. Several others tied their warmest october temperatures. All because of that big ridge. Lot of folks will have daily records today from des moines to omaha, houston, green bay, parts of michigan could end up