Why the officer is not facing charges. And donald trump falling behind in the polls and proving hes not too proud to beg for votes. Please do me a favor, let me win iowa. Ben carson surges as the candidates take center stage at tonights big republican debate. Is he about to deliver a knockout blow or will donald come back . And we do say good morning, america, on this wednesday morning. Big buildup to tonights big debate. A lot at stake. But you have baseball, debate tonight. Lots of big showdowns. Well start with that world series kickoff. The royals take the mets in 14 innings, all kinds of ups and down ending well past 1 00 a. M. On the east coast and the few minutes of blackouts had fans everywhere in a frenzy. T. J. Holmes is at kauffman stadium. In kansas city. An unforgettable night last night for the right and wrong reasons. We had a classic here on this field last night. While people were focused on the power hitting and pitching we had an outage that left millions of viewers shut out. The royals win game one. Reporter overnight the Kansas City Royals take World Series Game one, 54. After 14 epic innings, a recordsetting 5 09. The second longest game in world series history. But it was a Technical Glitch at the bottom of the fourth inning that had fans at home fuming. We have lost our picture. Reporter fox lost the broadcast feed for over five minutes, viewers missed one at bat before the game was hauled. Fox broadcasting has taken some kind of a Technical Glitch. Reporter announcers for the International Broadcast called the game until foxs feed was restored. Okay. Were heading back. Reporter blaming a Rare Electronics Failure and apologizing for the outage. But back to baseball, both teams came out swinging after the royals scored that jawdropping insidethepark home run in the first here comes escobar. 10, kansas city. Reporter the mets came roaring back to take the lead. Here comes the mets and they take the lead. Reporter only to give up a game tying home run in the bottom of the ninth. This game is tied. Reporter but it was royals first baseman eric hosmers bases loaded sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 14th that finally clinched the win for the royals. Fox says this was a rare issue that actually caused primary and backup systems to go down. That power outage caused issues inside the stadium but the 40,000 people didnt realize it so the game stopped for a short time. No one here exactly knew why. Fox said they are working on this problem to make sure the rest of the world series goes without incident. George. I know youre going to be there for all. A great start. We are still feeling the effects of Hurricane Patricia this morning. The remains of the storm bringing heavy rain and strong winds to the northeast and the entire east coast is on alert for flooding. Ginger has that. The pictures out of charleston, South Carolina, with the highest tide theyve seen in more than 26 years. Youve got to see this video. This coming in and unfortunately i think this could happen again anywhere from stuart, florida, up to portland, maine, we have coastal massachusetts, rhode island, new jersey, maryland, all with flood watches and warnings, the wind advisories on the interior for gusts up to 60. Most of the rain and wind comes through today into early tomorrow then we dry it out but before that happens three plus inches. Ill have a whole lot coming up and your nations weather. Dont go anywhere. We will not, thanks. The race for president , your voice, your vote. And the stage is set for tonights big republican showdown in colorado. The first debate where ben carson on top in some polls pulling ahead of donald trump and the billionaire fighting back and pleading for help and abcs tom llamas is on the trail in council bluff, iowa. Good morning, tom. Reporter good morning to you. Donald trump tells me he cant explain the new polls but hes not giving up on iowa. And he may be playing ropeadope going into tonights debate. Last night he was very tame, not on the attack and almost begging iowa voters to stick with him. Look, please do me a favor, let me win iowa. Reporter overnight, donald trump in iowa admitting his drop in the polls is starting to get to him. I mean, i am second. Its not like terrible but i dont like being second. Second is terrible to me. Reporter but the setback motivating trump. Im going to work harder in iowa. Im not leaving iowa. Im not leaving iowa. [ applause ] now, if i lose iowa i will never speak to you people again, that i can tell you. Reporter i asked about the carson surge. How do you explain carson . What is going on in the polls . I have no explanation. I think were doing great. Reporter carson spending the eve of the debate getting in the ring and picking up an endorsement from a former ufc champion Vitor Belfort who called carson a savior. Are you going to put trump in a submission pull in the next debate. Ill let him do that. Reporter trump better be ready for that. Marco rubio waking up to serious criticism the morning before the debate. The sun sentinel saying hes missed too many votes and jeb bush was right. They endorsed rubio in 2010. George. Here with our political team. Lets start with trump. Pretty good sense of humor. But hes going to be coming in this debate in a different position. This is the first time we see him come on to a debate stage as anything but the clear frontrunner. The question now is three polls in iowa that have shown him trailing carson. A poll nationally that shows him trailing carson. Does he attack carson and come in as somebody who looks like a frontrunner or somebody who is worried that the lead is slipping away . Matthew dowd, ben carson could be under pressure because of inconsistency in his plans. Donald trump makes me smile in the course of this. Watching him yesterday was like a guy with iowa electile dysfunction getting polling viagra to get his poll numbers up. You just wanted to get that viagra line in there. He makes me laugh. Ben carson you watched him with his gloves and fists. He has to practice more with his vocal chords. He is now the frontrunner in some states, iowa and nationally in the last polls, but so hes going to have to show up in a much different way. Ben carson on the spot. But jeb bush may be under more pressure. Hes moved further out and marco rubio will be standing next to donald trump and next to jeb bush. He really finally needs a breakthrough performance. Jeb bush has had two very disappointing debates and his own people at that family retreat they had down in houston were acknowledging he was acknowledging that he needs to do better. I think jeb bushs strategy reminds me of the story gathered around and the bears chasing, how you outrun the bear. I dont need to outrun the bears, i just need to outrun you. Thats all he is trying to do is outrun marco rubio and the other establishment figures and not worry about ben carson and donald trump right now. We will see if he does it tonight. Thanks very much. To robin. Thank you. Now to the new outrage over that violent confrontation in a South Carolina classroom. The fbi is now investigating. The deputy who slammed the student to the ground. Abcs mary bruce has the story. Reporter this morning, the fbi opening an investigation into this disturbing confrontation. As new details about the School Officer involved surface. Abc news learning that students call him officer slam. Some arguing this shocking classroom takedown shows why. Are you gonna come with me . Reporter the principal vowing to make changes. Our district and our school have zero tolerance for what occurred. I personally have zero tolerance as well. Reporter the sheriff investigating. The student was wrong in what she did. Theres no doubt about that. It started with her and it ended with my officer. What im going to deal with is what my deputy did. Reporter the incident prompted when the student who reportedly had been using her cell phone repeatedly refused to leave the classroom when reprimanded. Thats when ben fields is called in. When she still refuses, grabs the 16yearold female student violently slamming her to the ground. Put your hands behind your back. When deputy fields came in there we knew what was about to happen. Reporter last year he was honored as an exceptional role model but this is not the first time hes been accused 6 misconduct. In 2007 he was sued accused of using Excessive Force. In that case the jury sided with fields. A second lawsuit filed by another student is heading to trial. And, robin, this Morning Police say they are investigating yet another video that they say shows the student striking the officer with her fist. All right, mary, thank you very much. Well talk more about that because joining us now from columbia, South Carolina, is todd rutherford. He is the attorney for the girl seen in that violent confrontation. Mr. Rutherford, thank you very much for being with us this morning. Let me begin by asking you what has your client told you about what happened in the classroom that day . As you can see in the tape, she doesnt say anything when the officer approaches her and she said that they requested her cell phone. She put it away immediately and so when they continued to ask for her cell phone she simply didnt want to give it to him. When the officer came in he asked her to leave and she wanted to stay in the classroom. She wanted to continue her education. Unfortunately for her that wasnt in the cards and the officer placed his arm around her neck. You can see her kind of reacting and whether its an intate reaction to try to get his hand off or whether shes never been choked before she either way starts reaching up and punching his arm and then he throws her to the ground and tosses her all the way across the room. Its one of the most disturbing videos ive seen especially one that involves a child. Disturbing is the word weve heard over and over again. People have that type of reaction. That is a video that people have seen. Police officers are saying there is another video and there are reports that the young woman struck the officer with her fist leading to the confrontation starting the confrontation. Has she told you anything about that . Can you shed any light on that . Absolutely not, robin and i think what theyre referring to are the same hits she delivered while she was being choked and i would submit it doesnt matter. This was not a roadside confrontation or a confrontation where he didnt know the security of his surroundings. He was in a classroom setting. In fact, had he just left her alone she would have sat there and continued with class. He didnt do that. He couldnt do that on his own. He simply had to make sure that he asserted his authority as a 300pound weight lifting man and tossed her so far across the room that it was out of frame. He had to walk several steps to where her body landed. She now has a cast on her arm. She has neck and back injuries. She has a bandaid on her forehead where she suffered rug burn. This was a child who was brutally attacked by a cop who the sheriff is saying we need a civil rights investigation. All the sheriff is doing is taking us down a rabbit hole. Her civil rights werent violated, her simple rights were violated. You should never be able to treat a child and student about that. The sheriff said he is going to deal more with the actions of his officer, not the actions of the young woman, your client, but the actions of the officer and the investigation. It sounds like youre not pleased with how the investigation is proceeding. Im not pleased at all and i would actually differ with the notion the sheriff has been out in front with anything. Hes way behind. This officer is known as officer slam. Take out your cell phone because were going to see something and the world has seen what they were expecting. What she was expecting. The deputy needs to be in handcuffs and should have been as soon as the sheriff saw the video. Tom, thanks for your time this morning. All the best. Thank you. The officer in question is on suspension, unpaid leave and they feel today there will be a determination if indeed he will keep his job. Many more investigations to go. We got the latest now on former House SpeakerDennis Hastert expected in federal court this morning to plead guilty after he was discovered paying millions of dollars of hush money to cover up sexual abuse while he was a High School Wrestling coach. Abcs brian ross is in chicago with that story. Moments ago he entered a plea of guilty that he failed to report the huge cash withdraws he made to try to cover up up his past misconduct. Mr. Speaker reporter once second in line to the presidency, Dennis Hastert will become the first speaker of the house to be convicted of a crime, at least since the civil war. The charges against hastert come out of his role as a popular High School Wrestling coach in yorkville, illinois in the 1970s. Authorities say he sexually abused several teenage boys on the team and a few years ago began to pay one of them more than a Million Dollars in hush money to keep quiet. These boys were 14, 15, 16 years old. Reporter jolene virge told abc news her late brother Steven Reinboldt was another of hasterts victims, something she says she learned years later when her brother told her he was gay. I asked, stevie, when was your first samesex experience . I mean, he just looked at me and said, it was with Dennis Hastert. And i just i was stunned. Reporter this carries a maximum sentence of five years but under his plea deal hes expected to serve no more than six months in prison. George. To amy now for todays other top stories starting with the laser incident on a passenger jet. An Airline Pilot being targeted by a laser beam overnight, the captain of an American Airlines flight flying from san diego into phoenix reported by hitting by a green laser. It landed safely and paramedics were called but the captain declined treatment. This is the second incident in san diego in the last month. Well, there is troubling news about student test scores. For the First Time Since 1990 average math scores on a nationwide test have dropped among both fourth and eighth graders. Here are this years scores out of a possible 500. Just last week, president obama called for limiting the amount of class time spent preparing for standardized tests. And on wall street the big headline is from apple. The company reporting record iphone sales. Apple made 11 billion profit in just three months. Many investors though wonder if the company can keep those kind of numbers up. Also this morning, a megamerger, walgreens is buying rite aid in a deal worth 17 billion pending government approval. And a missing sleepwalker in colorado has been found after wandering away from home for three hours. The 19yearold finally woke up nine miles away near her uncles house. She was wearing just socks on her feet and the clothes she slept in. Police think she may have stepped onto a bus at one point and even visited a 7eleven along the way. She doesnt remember any of it. She just woke up and thought i think im near my uncles house. No idea how she got there. Why do i have a drink in my hand . Nine miles. Nine miles. Wow. Glad shes okay. All right, amy. Thank you. Big questions after another frightening injury on a High School Football field. That story in just 30 seconds. A california High School Football player in medically induced coma after a hard hit to the head. Abcs matt gutman has that story for us. Reporter it seemed like a routine tackle. Hes down and he looks like hes in pain. Reporter but number 18, josh nava, is slow to get up. He seems to try to shake it off then wobbles to the surveillance. Sideline. The 17yearold varsity staple propped up by a teammate helping him to the bench. Came off the field, everything seemed normal. He went through like concussion symptoms. Reporter the concussion so severe he collapses flopping under that bench. Rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery to stop the bleeding, swelling and pressure on his brain. He had what was supposed to be an added security measure against concussions. Riddells inside impact helmet rimmed with sensors that alert coaches to hits that could cause brain injuries. That sensor is in there to kind of monitor the severity of certain impacts and frequency of certain impacts as well. Reporter a product similar to this called brain sentry. A red light will blink if a player sustains a hard hit. If a coach sees a red light like this he at least knows to take a second look at a player wearing this helmet. In his case the School District says his helmet sensor did not go off. Riddell saying we are hopeful he has a full recovery, since few facts are known it would be inappropriate for us to speculate on the circumstances surrounding the incident. Nava remains in an induced coma but overnight his brother posting good news on facebook. He is breathing on his own. 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