yesterday when fwc officers gave us a tour, some of the currents strong enough we're told to sweep you away. we're also looking at families struggling to get around. no choice but to wade through the flooded streets. and that water not clean at all. as far as why some people refuse to leave -- we spoke to one woman who lives down the street here. said her home is not flooded yet. they are going to try and wait water, good news, it's starting to subside, we're down a little but officials say it could be up to one week before everybody can get back safely in their homes here in this community. live in pasco county, james tully, abc action news. as the clean-up process continues hernando county is offering some help with it. the waist department there is offering curbside storm debris removal in coastal communities center in spring hill will also be open 9:00 to 5:00. governor rick scott is sending extra help to tallahassee to help get the power back on after hermine. more than 50,000 people are still without electricity in the state. the state is paying for extra contractors to start working this morning on downed power lines and hopes to get all customers restored by sometime today. the governor spent this weekend touring flooded areas of pasco county like properties along state richey. also met with flood victims in the worthington port apartment complex. people there were ordered to evacuate saturday. that water 5 feet deep in places. destroying cars and damaging homes. many there just want mother nature to give them a break. >> i'm really mad, more upset than mad because i lost my home. i can't be in my home with my children, i have to stay with family. >> the governor is also sending 56,000 packages of hygiene victims. six trailers filled with water as well and 200 generators to power traffic signals in tallahassee. tragic news -- an 18-year- old from polk county sacrificed his own life to save his little sister. a dive team recovered austin welch's body yesterday. investigators say he dove into the peace river in bartow to rescue his 11-year-old sister. she's safe but authorities tell us the current swept her older brother away. they spotted his body using sonar. but an autopsy is still going to be done. manatee county deputies need your help to find the man you see behind me. that man, 36-year-old ian oswald left his house last night after apparently threatening to hurt himself. oswald is a military veteran suffering from ptsd. if you know where he is call the manatee county sheriff's office. police say a south florida man threatened to carry out a pulse nightclub style attack junkworth on an unrelated charge. they say he posted threatening messages on facebook targeting people in a specific broward county community. one post even preferences the june 12th mass shooting at the pulse nightclub in orlando. he's accused of writing this -- >> the bar owner in that community says jungworth has caused problems in the past and even vandalized his his. >> we were concerned he would show up again. >> acquaintances say jungworth is openly gay and even organizes an lgbt event. over the weekend hunlz of people gathered in omaha, nebraska as a show of love and support for the family of little lane graves. the 2-year-old who was killed in june by an alligator at disney world. family and friends and many who never met the toddler gathered saturday to mark what would have been his third birthday. in his memory. at the event his parents spoke publicly for the first time since losing their son. >> happy birthday laney. you are in our hearts today and every second of every other day. >> my wife would tell you those were the happiest days of her life. i couldn't agree more. >> during the birthday ceremony people formed a giant heart and released 5,000 blue balloons. lane's parents set up a foundation in memory of their son. hernando county fa their house. when crews arrived early sunday morning flames had already engulfed the house, the family got out safely. crews say they couldn't save the home because there were not enough fire hydrants in the area. they are trying to figure out what caused the fire and the red cross is helping that family. learning more about a weekend crash that landed a former corrections deputy in jail. this man, 23-year-old jack armstrong jr. of hudson is now facing dui charges in pasco resigned. investigators say he hit a stop sign on balsam avenue overnight sunday and slammed in front of a home causing an estimated $75,000 worth of damage. a 71-year-old man inside also suffered minor injuries. 6:06. still to come -- a hunter becomes a savior for a deer that almost became a python's dinner. amazing video capturing that florida man's actions. a woman is suing after she says universal orlando discriminated against her. one rule barring fun because she doesn't have y23ppy yy6y welcome back. hot on the web -- a deer fighting to survive a python attack. gets help from a surprising source, a hunter. >> miami man in the everglades, spotted the deer in desperate need of rescue. he recorded it on his cell phe. sharing this video. you can see the huge python, if you keep looking it's wrapped completely around that deer. the deer is very still, hunter walk up, fires several shots and scares off the python. eventually he killed the snake. the man was then able to coax that deer into running away off camera. >> lucky for that deer. a team rescued five >> and blaming hurricane hermine for pushing them into the shallow water. the group dolphins plus shared images on facebook of crew members holding them on a boat. sadly they say three of them were so dehydrated with high heart rates they had to be put down. they were able to bring the two survivors to be treated at sea world orlando. leftover moisture today will bring us a round of showers and thunderstorms. i think covege higher, then back into drier times. the forecast coming up. also, coming up -- a man rips off a boy scout. he tried to scam someone else she can put on a seatbelt with no hands, fly a plane with her toes and a couldn't do at universal studios was file a lawsuit. >> jessica cox born without arms, and was fired up when she got this message from the orlando theme park. >> every single ride that moves has this broad blanket restriction that says that my situation being without both arms and hands i could not be on any of those rides. >> park officials informed her of this policy by handing her a the rule is riders must be able to continuously grab on to rides with at least one upper limb. park officials refundedded her ticket but not willing to make an exception even though jessica says she's been riding role coasts all her life -- roller coasters all her life she was not even allowed on kiddy rides. she filed a legal action against the state with the blanket restrictions and hope the park will tailor its policy to be mo a with disabilities. a spokesman for the park says it doesn't comment on discuss court cases. a shooting left two officers wounded. authorities say thong vang opened fire while waiting to visit someone at the fresno county jail saturday. two correctional officerses were critically wounded but other officers arrested him. officials say he's a gang member who spent 16 years in reviewing the incident. boy scout just out trying to sell snacks to raise money for his troop in ocala gets ripped off instead. a man handed that boy what looked like a $100 bill. asked for $80 in change. after the 12-year-old gave the man his trail mix he learned the $100 was a fake. the dad says it's a tough lesson for his son. >> i asked him what did you learn about this experience? he said not to trust people. that's not right. we're suppos people. >> to be honest i'm not going to want him in jail for the rest of his life but at least don't steal from children. >> employees at the walmart say that man who tricked the boy scout also tried to pass off that $100 in the store but the clerk wouldn't accept it. police haven't yesterday identified the man. mother teresa is now officially a saint. pope francis made that declaration yesterday during a canonization mass in vatican city. the big crowd parked st. peter's square in her honor. the catholic nun dedicated her life to the poor and sick. also a nobel peace prize winner. she died in 1997 at age 87. the pope also honored mother teresa by feeding pizza to the poor. a pizza maker from naples and 20 staff members brought three special ovens to the vatican. and fed lunch to 1,500 homeless people. mostly living in shelters run the governor of oklahoma declared a state of emergency after a major earthquake there and it may have been caused by the oil and gas industry. an increase in strong earthquakes in oklahoma is linked to underground disposal of wastewater from oil and natural gas production. on saturday a 5.6 magnitude quake rocked north central oklahoma, tied a record for the largest earthquake in state to rattle locals. >> here comes another one, like we've had here before. but this one just wouldn't stop. >> saturday's quake is the second one of its size in central oklahoma since 2011. it's expected to bring new attention to the practice of disposing wastewater deep underground. it's labor day monday here. hopefully you are enjoying the day off. we're going to be talking about rain chances coming up in a rain chances higher today than we've seen the last couple of days. and dry air begins to move. in i don't think today will be ruined necessarily by the weather but we're going to have a window of pretty good showers and storms and coverage 50%. so good bet we'll get wet. this is yesterday from -- jackie, sent a gorgeous shot of the strato cumulus deck rolling in. dimming the sunshine a little. of course this time of year today will be no exception of that. titan doppler radar pretty quiet, already seeing showers along the east coast and we'll have plenty of moisture to work with. so we have one of our three ingredients. the other two being the sea breezes and of course the very warm temperatures. this is the water vapor channel. usually showing you this during the winter months but we're showing you this because this will limit our rain chances today, understand it's coming in tomorrow and in fact it's on the back side of what is hermine still across the northeast. no some big waves and also issues for portions of the northeast. for us it's actually going to help out. tomorrow we'll tap into the dry air, that will limit rain chances so we'll lose one of the three ingredients and by tomorrow rain chances 20% or below and then inching slowly heading into the middle and latter part of the week. today really the wettest of the entire week as far as rain chances go. that would be 40% to 50% coverage. that is how things will move these will be thunderstorms. there will be lightning, you hear the thunder and get indoors, then things blossom further south. by 7:00, 8:00 we'll be in better shape and then we'll set thing for tomorrow as dry air begins to move in. by the way this is hermine post- tropical now. that means it gets its energy from a different source now instead of the warm ocean temperatures. it's getting its energy from the differences in air masses here that will continue to look at the movement. barely moving. posted for southern new england and portions of cape cod as well. when with you look at futurecast look at this, just a few rain showers there, the irony is that they need rain, they are under, in fact extreme drought right along eastern massachusetts and southeastern new hampshire there. they are not going to get much 30% chance of this feature developing. we're still in the tropics, western caribbean, conditions unfavorable now but that could change. we'll let you know if it happens. if it's just raining -- it's just raining now in the winward islands. water temperature 83 this afternoon. high tide 5:19 after the low tide of 11:04 this morning. and the extended forecast will take our rain chances from 50% to 20%. then slowly coming back up but real end of the week. highs where they should be this time of year, mid-70s for overnight lows and highs around 90 degrees. a final act of giving that is going viral. a librarian leaves $4 million to the library where he worked for decades. the way that library is now honoring his memory as a thank you. first a murder suspect is on the run after a stunning escape from police custody. >> reporter: a massive manhunt for this suspected murderer seen in custody at a north las vegas police station moments before making a mysterious escape. >> he were in handcuffs and when the detectives stepped out he actually twisted the handcuffs until they broke. >> reporter: authorities say that is when 35-year-old alonzo perez made a break fleeing this compound friday undetected and stealing a truck from the nearby rental company. >> this is extremely rare. in fact we don't ever hear of frankly handcuffs are not made to break. >> reporter: he's wanted in the shooting death of mohammed robinson, a 31-year-old father of four. this morning the victim's sister says she's both furious and frightened. >> i want him found. and i want him to pay for what he did. >> reporter: and we'll have more on the manhunt coming up at 7:00 a.m. with your "gma first look," i'm diane macedo, abc news, new 6:25. you may remember the story of a librarian that left millions of dollars to his alma mater. >> we're finally getting a look at what that money bought. robert morin lived a simple life allowing him to save $4 million in his 50 years as a librarian at the university of new hampshire. when he died he left that money with the big chunk earmarked for the library. his fellow librarians say it was a total surprise. with his name and the school is building a new multimedia room at the library with his name on it. >> he watched lots of videos and tried to inspire students to be interested in film. >> the school says the bulk of the money will help expand their career services center and part of it will be used for student scholarships. we check in with your labor day forecast. looking pretty good early on but by the afternoon, clouds developing and i that would be between 1:00, 6:00, so keep it in mind. plan accordingly. lowering rain chances. more on that in the next half- hour. coming up at 6:30 -- getting a better idea of how padly hermine impacted our gulf coast beaches. badly. but one thing still making it difficult to assess the damage. >> hillary clinton is coming back to tampa. the stop she's making and the three topics she plans to mandatory evacuations still in place in one pasco county community. but some people say they are not leaving. this morning the water going down but not fast enough for many. >> plus, dozens of guns now in the hands of criminals. which weapons were stolen and how those thieves swipe them. >> more protests planned in tampa tonight after the shooting of an unarmed man. one indication that the black lives matter movement is planning something. thank you for joining us on this labor day monday. >> if you're enjoying a three- day weekend, or five days because of the storm -- what does the weather look like? >> was it memorial day just a couple of weeks ago? in the blink of an eye -- mid thunderstorms later this afternoon. by the way it's not going to impact the flooding in anclote. chais happening there is from -- what is happening there is from the rain we've gotten previously. getting into minor flood stage the next couple of days so. going in the right direction. for us it's the rainy afternoon. we'll have rain chances about 50% but it's typical summer weather for us. it's just that over the next few days we're going to interrupt that and bring in drier weather. unfortunately not today, not quite yet. it won't be raining all day, we'll have a lot of sunshine through the early part of the day and then thunderstorms build. satellite and radar looks pretty good with plenty of moisture. thunderstorms will fire around 1:00. we'll have futurecast coming up in a few minutes and extended forecast coming up. flooding still forcing people from home in pasco refuse to leave, keeping law enforcement very busy. james tully has a look at the problem it is causing out there. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the fwc officials, all they can do is just help people because they say they can't control what people do. many of them here in this pasco county community simply not leaving because they say their homes are not affected by the floods. a couple of the mobile home behind me are affected. right over the no trespassing signs you can see the anclote river flowed into the backyard here, it's completely flooded and underwater. the water reaching the door step of some of the homes elevated off the ground several feet. ivan had a nice tweet that showed us this river is going to crest at 25 feet. it's major flood stage levels. even worse, we got a close look at this yesterday. fish and wildlife officers showing us also the water chest- deep in places, families, you see struggling to get around. no choice but to wade through the flooded streets. it's not clean water. despite mandatory evacuations one family tess us though they are not going anywhere. >> the only place for us that we're able to go is a shelter. as of now our house is the only house that is not flooded. so we're trying to wait it out as >> reporter: the ancltoe prone to flooding and used to it but officials are saying staying out of the water and be safe. that water starting to recede and go back but officials tell us it could be up to a week before everybody gets back to their homes here safely. live in pasco county, james waves and storm surge at pinellas county beaches could be the worst beach erosion this decade. the coastal zone management office expects the erosion to be greater than the damage caused by tropical storm debbie in 2012. a team from the university of south florida will survey exactly how much sand the beaches lost but say that the tides are still higher than usual now an are waiting for them to go down. and figure out exactly how much sand was lost. a fight ends with a person stabbed. clearwater police say a group started fighting at a mcdonald's morning. the dispute spilled over and escalated at a 7-eleven on south missouri avenue where the stabbing happened. the vint is hospitalized now -- the victim is .ized now, the person not yet identified is expected to survive. officers showed up and quickly arrested a suspect but they have not released any names yet. a crime alert. 30 handguns and 10 semiautomatic rifles are now on the streets after a burglary at a gun shop. we have pictures from that truck there, officials say those suspects smashed the windows of titan arms on south florida avenue in lakeland. witnesses say they ran off after stealing the guns. if you know anything more call crime stoppers. we're learning black lives matter demonstrators in tampa may be preparing for more protests like what you see here from friday night. a group is holding what they are calling a stealth meeting today according to a post on facebook. many are outraged after hillsborough county sheriffs' deputies shot and killed an unarmed man in democracy 2016 -- both donald trump and hillary clinton are using labor day to campaign for votes in ohio. clinton will be in cleveland attending a labor day festival with union leaders and workers. tomorrow she'll be here in florida. democratic nominee scheduled to speak at usf at 1:45. clinton's campaign says she'll speak on her plans to keep america safe how she would work with allies and the reason she thinks rival donald trump is not fit for the presidency. be in cleveland today. he and his running mate will hold a roundtable discussion with union members. this afternoon he plans to appear at the largest county fair near youngstown. gary johnson picked up a big endorsement this weekend from a traditionally republican newspaper. editorial board of the richmond times dispatch had endorsed republican presidential candidates the past 36 years until this year. they picked the former new mexico governor also calling for him to be added to the national debates. if you got over politics you're certainly not alone. turns out heated debates are breaking out at home and work. according to a new huffington post poll 45%, nearly half of all americans have got noon a verbal or physical fight over the election. 38% say they've argued with a friend, 38% a dispute with a family member. 16% said with a co-worker and one in 10 say they fought with all three. law enforcement throughout the bay area plan to crack down and drive this labor day. the drive sober or get pulled over campaign. reminding you to plan ahead if drinking by using a designated driver or calling a taxi or ridesharing service. you can also call tow-to-go, runs through tuesday morning 6:00 a.m. federal transportation officials say the labor day holiday is one of the deadliest times of the year for drunk driving fatalities. as we check in on our labor day forecast we're going to look pretty good early on but then the showers that's a nice-looking barbecue, picnic tables set up there. 50% chance and we'll talk about rain coverage coming up. 6:36. also coming up -- sideline fail. competitor who tweeted out a picture of the rough football field leading to some hilarious theories from people in the community about how it got like that. >> president obama schedules a private meeting with the russian president vladimir look at this. notice anything a little different here? >> kind of makes you wonder what the person was doing before marking this sideline. >> a coach from the visiting team tweeted out this pictured of the squiggly line there. at pickens high school on the football field. since then the photo has gone coaches discussed the line before the fame and agreed to may anyway. the district says it doesn't know what happened but others have theories. >> what was your reaction when you saw that? >> like somebody has been drinking a little. i don't think it makes them look bad nationally. >> the school district says it will fix the crooked line before the next home game. hermine hermine done yet. who is it still disrupting? and san francisco 49ers quarterback colin kaepernick's national anthem protest could no longer a hurricane but hermine isn't done yet. >> the coastline is threatened from north as connecticut. officials in major cities are taking every precaution. in new jersey atlantic city officials cancelled two outdoor concerts. governor chris christie telling people to stay calm saying this is not hurricane sandy that devastated the area in 2012. in ocean city, maryland officials issued an advisory warning people to stay away from the beach and out of the water putting a damper on vacations. >> a shame. we were looking forward to a good weekend but if we get it over now and have clear sailing >> ocean city beach patrol will be on duty keeping people away. they say even after the storm passes and it's sunny the big concern is the rip currents afterwards. they say that is actually when it's most dangerous to go into the water. we're checking in on hermine now. it's a post-tropical system here. it's going to be nasty as far as the winds and waves but they actually want this rainfall in eastern mass. under extreme drought there. if you are getting a storm you might as they will only get a quarter to half-inch the next few days. so it's mainly a wind event for them and dangerous relationships as we've talked about -- dangerous rips. the unusual track came off the carolinas and now kind of stuck. eventually move out of the way and head north and east. with it along with -- 20 for the waves, never get to the coast. rip currents. boating looks good except for thunderstorms that will be developing as he we head through later this afternoon. coverage today 50%. we have drier times ahead with drier air coming in tomorrow. that will lower rain chances but for today i think we're still at 40% to 50%. you can see the orange, that will come in tomorrow on the back side, in fact of hermine. so let's check in on the extended forecast and show you coverage today, 50% beginning from 1:00 through 6:00 p.m., our window for the of storms. then we'll lower the rain chances to about 20% to 30%. i think we'll be mostly rain- free tomorrow in fact and getting the backup to 30% to 40%. so the middle and end of the week highs near 90. the breaking news just in -- we're just learning a pinellas county deputy is now recovering after a car crash, apparently ran a red light last night. investigators say deputy tyler green failed to stop at the red light at main street and belcher road and collided with a pt cruiser, rescuers took life-threatening injuries. the driver and passenger in the other car weren't injured. president obama will make history today becoming the first sitting president to visit laos in southeast asia. during the vietnam war u.s. bombers dropped 2 million tons of sploaftion on the country. the president is expected to announce that the u.s. will help laos clear unexploded bombs. russian president and presiden they didn't agree on a ceasefire for syria but agreed to continue negotiations. there was tough talk between china and south korea's leaders at the summit. the chinese president telling his south korean counterpart china is opposed to the deployment of a u.s. anti- missile system near seoul. speaking of north korea pyongyang fired three ballistic missiles off its east coast. summit. the south korean president said they are hurting ties between seoul and bejing. a milwaukee park will be back open. a judge ruled deputies must return the park to normal operating hours and take down a fence. there was violence after a police officer shot and killed a man following a traffic stop. the milwaukee police chief announced there were 24 murders this august, the highest one month decades. a missouri man killed by police have been laid to rest. mourners gathered to say goodbye to filando castile over the weekend. his story made national news. a minnesota police officer shot and killed him during a routine traffic stop in july. his family is now working with lawmakers to pass new laws preventing these types of shootings. while many of you have the labor day off that's not the case for local first responders. olive garden restaurants will be helping. meals to bay area police officers, firefighters and paramedics today. it's the 15th year in a row olive garden restaurants helped feed first responders on labor day. since 2002 they lived more than 10,000 meals nationwide. downtown st. pete the locale market at the sun dial is there to thank military and first responders. new developments for colin kaepernick's protest of the national anthem. the police union that patrols home games for the 49ers is threatening its own protest in the form of a boycott. we showed you last night kaepernick wearing socks depicting police officers as pigs. the santa clara police department says kaepernick continues to make inaccurate and inflammatory statements thursday. >> we have cops that are murdering people. cops in sfpd that are blatantly'sist. >> capper nim was a no show -- kaepernick was a no show yesterday in a church service in san francisco. was supposed to talk about his views. a neutral site is a home game for the seminoles. the atmosphere will be much like a home for red shirt freshman deandre francois. he's the second red shirt freshman starter in the last four seasons for fsu. rebels kick off 8:00 tonight. >> the first meeting between these two schools was 1961. usf's offense lived up to the hype this weekend, scoring of total offense. running back marlin mack left the game with a shoulder injury in the second quarter and didn't return. the coach says he's fine, it was only taken out as a precaution. the gators won but not pretty this weekend against umass. they start comeference play next weekend against kentucky. gators struggled to get into any rhythm saturday. new qb luke del rio showed poises in the pocket throwing for a pair accuracy needs improvement. the coach says the team has confidence in him. the mvp went to eddie panero. he buried three field goals from 40 yards or greater. not bad for a converted soccer player. if you are looking for a sports drink without all the added chemicals soon there's a new option. gatorade has come out with an organic version. pepsi co announced the new markets this fall. called g-organic. comes in several different flavors and has seven ingredients including organic cane sugar and sea salt. today's labor day and you know a lot of stores have special sales today. before you head out know some deals are better than others. this weekend you can -- you could have saved on mattresses, and you can save on refrigerators and other appliances. because stores are getting ready for the holidays they want to but hold off on buying electronics. apple this wednesday is set to unveil a new i-phone. older ones get marked down after that. as for big screen tv's, the better deals can be found around black friday. at movie theaters it's looking more like halloween. horror film in the top spot for a second straight week. "don't breathe" earned close to million in two weeks. number two "suicide squad" earning just over $10 million. over"star trek" beyond grossed over $30 million in china. people had to wait for at least an hour just to get into zion national park over the weekend. park officials think that 100th anniversary of the national parks brought out the huge crowds. they overwhelmed the shuttle bus that's the park uses. and there was no space in the lots. many visito after traveling from all over the country to visit. park officials already held public meetings earlier this year about overcrowding. almost 4 million people visited between march and november. the parks service is considering making people reserve their spot in the park but they were reluctant to do anything that would limit access. there's scientific proof that superman's simple disguise of glasses works in real life. >> a new study proves glasses can actually confuse people. side by side. when both pictures showed both people either wearing glasses or not wearing glasses 80% of the participants accurately identified them as the same person. that acras ridropped by 6% when -- that accuracy dropped by 6% when wearing glasses next to someone who was not. researchers hope this helps form future policies po on face identification. there are mandatory evacuation orders in one town. >> james tully live in the flooded community of elfers. many people still refuse to leave though. >> reporter: that's right. i don't hear a lot of people stirring in this mobile home park behind me. i hear water flowing through the backyards of several of these homes. getting nearly close to the houses. yesterday our crews toured the area with fish and wildlife officers, many people staying put hoping it leaves quickly. river levels crested yesterday afternoon. now starting to go down but for many the damage is already done. families waiting in shelters until they can come home. reporting in pasco county, james tully, abc action news. the erosion that hermine did to pinellas county beaches could be the erosion this decade. the counties's coastal zone management office expects the erosion to be greater than the damage done by tropical storm debbie in 2012. a team will now survey exactly how much sand the beaches lost. curbside storm debris removal will be available in hernando county. county officials say the service is being provided to ensure timely removal of trash debris called by hurricane mcdonald's ends with a person stabbed. police say a group started to fight around 3:00 a.m. and that dispute moved to a nearby 7-eleven where the stabbing happened. the victim expected to survive. officers say they arrested a suspect but haven't released names. a former pasco county deputy charged with dui has resigned from the job. the fhp arrested jack armstrong jr. early sunday morning. they say he crashed into a hudson home causing $75,000 in damage. the 71-year-old homeowner received minor armstrong is now facing dui charges. manatee county officials need your help to find this man, 36-year-old ian oswald left his house last night apparently threatening to harm himself. he's a military vat suffering from ptsd. if you know where he is call the manatee county sheriff's office. dry this morning on titan doppler radar. we'll see a lot of moisture working its way, in fact a little patchy fog if you're watching from eastern pasco. visibility reduced though not highs in the upper 80s to near 90 with 50% chance of storms. hey, was up doc? what's up doc? southwest airlines, welcome to chicago. the windy city. >> you've seen a fair share of entertaining flight videos. this may take the cake. a southwest flight attendant employee did numerous impressions of the looney tunes characters including bugs bu more than one million times. 2 1/million views on youtube so far. daffy duck reminded passengers to steer clear of the doors and done for their "thafety." "good morning, america" is next. >> keep up to date with us on our various social media good morning, america. hermine triggers states of emergency. and dangerous coastal flooding. as life threatening rip currents from carolinas to new england keep beaches closed this morning. have millions dodged a bullet. breaking right stakes showdown. president obama meets one-on-one with russia's president vladimir putin, trying to strike a deal on syria to fight isis. the president speaking out from china just moments ago. and nascar superstar dale earnhardt jr. now announcing that he's stepping away from the race track. >> i definitely don't belong in a race car today. >> the crash that's put his career on hold, sidelining the two-time daytona 500 winner with