Leader cracking down on the media philippines president Rodrigo Duterte. He is attempting to shut down a leading independent news site that has helped to expose his deadlyly war on drugs. We will speak with the sites founder and editor, renowned filipino journalist maria ressa. Organanization and philippine democracy are struggling to survive. We have written a lot about our two battle fronts a brutal drug war, tens of thousands killed, and the exponential lies on social media that incite hate spiteful free speech. Amy but first, as the death toll from californias deadly camp fire cocontinues to rise ad nearly 1000 0 people r remain missing,g, we travel to a california prison camp to speak withth the hidden heroroesombabg the massive wildfires prisoner firefighters. How w much money do you make . A dollar an hour. Amy when youre fighting the fire. What do think ofof that . Course, i think of anybody that has a job, you think you should make more. Amy is this modern day slavery . All th
Leader cracking down on the media philippines president Rodrigo Duterte. He is attempting to shut down a leading independent news site that has helped to expose his deadlyly war on drugs. We will speak with the sites founder and editor, renowned filipino journalist maria ressa. Organanization and philippine democracy are struggling to survive. We have written a lot about our two battle fronts a brutal drug war, tens of thousands killed, and the exponential lies on social media that incite hate spiteful free speech. Amy but first, as the death toll from californias deadly camp fire cocontinues to rise ad nearly 1000 0 people r remain missing,g, we travel to a california prison camp to speak withth the hidden n heroeses cog the massive wildfires prisoner firefighters. How w much money do you make . A dollar an hour. Amy when youre fighting the fire. What do think ofof that . Course, i think of anybody that has a job, you think you should make more. Amy is this modern day slavery . All th
Oneonone during her first solo trip overseas. The wideranging interview on her life in the white house and the me too movement. I support the women and they need to be heard. First on gma this morning. And taylor swift making history at the American Music awards as women ruled the night. And cardi bs epic performance. The reaction going viral. Were backstage for all the big moments right here on gma. Good morning, america. Hope youre well this wednesday morning. They are bracing for a big one in florida. Hurricane michael strengthening overnight closing in on the Florida Panhandle. It could be the strongest storm ever to hit that area. Florida all the way to North Carolina on alert. And take a look at Panama City Beach. Theyre seeing the effects of the storm already and heres what michael looks like from space spanning some 300 miles. This is what we know right now, Hurricane Michael now a major category 4 storm. It is packing 140mileanhour winds, around 375,000 people across florida h
doors of his houston megachurch. what he is saying this morning. right now hospitals and medical centers running out of supplies. babies born as their moms are rescued from the floodwaters. gma live in the middle of it all. good morning, america. we have never seen a storm like this. four days after hurricane harvey hit as a category 4 hurricane, it is still going strong. that is houston, texas, right now. roads have become rivers. the rain is still falling in houston. the rescues are still under way. evacuations under way as well. this is nowhere near over. let s take a look at that radar image that s over the gulf coast where harvey had briefly gone out to sea but there it is whipping back around for a second hit on texas and louisiana. it is heading east. so many dramatic images coming in overnight. you saw victims stuck in the aftermath of harvey. desperately seeking to be rescued. so many pitching in to help. that s right. the texas national guard sharing this
and president trump tours the devastation. this is historic. it s epic. promising major federal aid. and the remarkable way hometown heroes are springing into action using everything from big rigs to boats and jet skis to answer desperate calls for help. our team live from the storm zone this morning. and good morning, america. you are looking live at houston, texas, a city surrounded by freeways now rivers. there s a car abandoned on the ramp to the i-10 right now. so much of that city, so much of that county underwater right now. harvey is making landfall again for the third time, the tropical storm hitting louisiana this morning and battering parts of eastern texas. take a look at this image, that is a shelter in port arthur, texas, not only dealing with an overwhelming amount of flood victims but they re now dealing with flooding of their own. the problems just keep compounding and the front page of the houston chronicle this morning, it s dark and sad, epic