the football team dealt the final blow. and now, new steps are in plans, including to hire a diversity officer. we get the test. repter: the students cheering the resignation of the % president tim wolf. it s about getting equal rights. reporter: wolf, announcing he is stepping down. we got frustrated with each other. and that s why i stand before you today. and i take full responsibility for this frustration. and i take full responsibility for the inaction. reporter: his decision following student protests, including jonathan butler, who went on a week-long hunger strike. please start focusing on the fact that the mizzou hunger strike itself. look anothert why did we have to get there. 30 football players and the coach refusing to take the field until wolfe resigned. oblems. ththgood news isis we re g gng to fix them. reporter: wolfe had come under fire for his alleged mishandling of a series of incidents on campus. including a student being called the n word
into the florida panhandle and now moving north. and ginger, of course, is following all of that for us this morning. i ll start us off in east baton rouge where the sheriff s office took these photos. students that were with on a bus got caught up. they couldn t get through the flash flooding. they put them on a truck and couldn t get the truck through the flash flooding so had to rescue them off there. thankfully everybody okay but a lot of this fueled from the remnants of patricia. mississippi, alabama. this morning mostly west florida up to southern indiana and ohio that s where the storm is now. but it will move quickly tonight into the early morning hours, pennsylvania, new york, washington, d.c., will get it by tomorrow morning. then it s out of here. but it drops up to three inches of rain, especially in some of the higher elevations. i ll be back talking about snow on the west coast in just a couple of minutes so don t go anywhere. 3 inches of rain. the race fo
reporter: a rock star welcome for gop white house hopeful donald trump in front of a pumped up crowd at a rally in springfield, illinois. trump taking jabs at his opponent and slamming ben carson. if you try to hit your mother over the head with a hammer, your poll numbers go up. reporter: the latest national poll shows trump and carson are practically tied followed by marco rubio, ted cruz and jeb bush which means trump will share center stage with carson at the fourth presidential debate tonight. i have never seen this before. reporter: in the last week carson calling himself the victim of a media witchhunt. you re asking me about something that occurred 50 years ago and you expect me to have the details on that. reporter: carson will likely face tough questions tonight after a week s worth of stories sent him into defense mode over claims in his autobiography he was offered a description to west point and had a violent youth. rubio says he knows everything he
the japan earthquake and rocked the santa cruz harbors with subjects causing $14 million in damage. we will be out here this morning and let you know if there is activity in the santa cruz hard before. keep a chose cry on that. the bay area air quality management district warns smoke from the massive valley fire could drift into the bay area today. more than 70,000 acres have burned and the fire is 35 percent contained. we expect a new update in a couple of hours. year, cadaver dogs searched anderson springs for a miss man, a 69-year-old whose was war found in anderson spring. 900 are capped out at shelter at napa county fairgrounds with no estimated time when people are allowed home. volunteering making a shelter feel pore like home with the details from melanie. moose lodge is tent city everyone here having lost their home or had to leave it. i see it as a fresh start. most of the clothing cliff is wearing is donated. there are so many donations they have overflowed
and we do say good thursday morning, everyone. i m kendis gibson. and i m reena ninan. we begin with a marathon debate. donald trump saying it was almost as long as gone with the wind. it was long. three hours of bickering, zingers and contentious confrontations as the republican presidential candidates battled for attention and votes. it was also entertaining. a field of 11 faced off at the ronald reagan presidential library in southern california last night touching on a range of issues from immigration to iran. from the prime spot at center stage, donald trump took direct fire, and he also threw the first punch, but carly fiorina held her own and stole the show. with more, here s abc s bazi kanani. bazi, good morning to you. reporter: good morning, reena. good morning, kendis. as you mentioned, this was a lengthy debate, and even with all of those candidates on the stage, 11 of them, there was still plenty of time to dig into the issues. analysts say that i