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overnight. >> stocks in japan seeing their worst day since black monday of 1987, a 12% crash. what's fueling the concerns? >> vice president kamala harris set to announce her running mate a possible clue on who won't be making the cut. >> superhuman abilities. the promise from elon musk as he reveals his company has implanted a brain chip in a second patient for a clinical trial. >> the team usa gold rush at the olympics, now tied in the gold medal count. the remarkable photo finish on the track, the day ahead for simone biles and the growing controversy over water quality in the scene. >> later, the bizarre confession from presidential candidate rfk jr. why he left a dead bear cub in new york's central park and quadruplets following twins. >> the young parents, overjoyed at their unexpectedly large family. >> from abc news this is america this morning. >> good monday morning,

everyone. i'm andrew dymburt. >> good morning to you. i'm rhiannon ally. we begin with debbie growing into a hurricane overnight, threatening to unleash historic flooding. >> 3000 national guard troops are on standby in florida as the storm threatens to dump more than two feet of rain in parts of the southeast. the coast guard had to rescue two boaters adrift about 70 miles off florida's west coast in 20 foot seas overnight, debbie strengthening into a hurricane, taking aim at the big bend region of florida, threatening to dump record amounts of rain in the southeast. >> this really slow motion is just going to dump historic amounts of rainfall anywhere in this purple area. and if you've been following along this purple area has been slowly expanding. >> rain totals could reach a foot or more along florida's gulf coast, where debbie could produce 6 to 10ft of storm surg. this video shows the conditions yesterday from the saint pete pier, as debbie's outer bands grazed the tampa area, flooding streets and causing power outages. the storm is expected

to move over northern florida today, then stall over the coastal regions of georgia. communities near savannah could see up to 20in of rain and as high as 30in in isolated areas, so that will be a generational storm that we've not seen. >> they're calling it a 500 to 1000 year storm. >> debbie, along with the thunderstorms in the northeast, have now forced the cancellation of more than 1600 flights. a delta flight was diverted back to boston last night after the plane was hit by lightning. >> delta 112 heavy. yeah, as i understand, was the lightning strike and, this overweight atlantic, that plane originally heading to rome landed safely. >> the hurricane is hitting amid concern about blood shortages. many blood drives were canceled this summer because of extreme weather. >> another major story we are following a global stock sell off over fears about the u.s. economy. japan's stock market plummeted more than 12% today, its worst day since black monday in 1987. the u.s. jobs report friday showed that unemployment rose to its highest level in

nearly three years. concern about tech company earnings and tensions in the middle east are also bringing down stocks now to the race for president, and a new mystery when it comes to vice president kamala harris potential running mate. >> here's abc's alison kosik. >> this morning. new questions as vice president kamala harris moves closer to announcing her running mate, one of the men on her shortlist, arizona senator mark kelly, posted and then deleted this cryptic tweet sunday, saying, my background is a bit different than most politicians. i spent my life serving in the navy and at nasa, where the mission always comes first. now my mission is serving arizonans. the message leaving many wondering if kelly is still a contender. harris also met over the weekend with pennsylvania governor josh shapiro and minnesota governor tim walz. her decision is expected by tomorrow before she launches a multi-day swing through battleground states. >> if harris wins this election,

you will quickly have a kamala economic crash. >> trump this weekend in georgia criticizing harris policies and her intelligence. >> she has a very low iq. >> some republicans are calling on trump to tone down his personal attacks, including questioning harris's racial identity. >> every day we're talking about her heritage and not her terrible, dangerous liberal record. throughout her entire political life is a good day for her and a bad day for us, trump supporter congressman byron donalds appeared on this week. >> why is former president trump questioning the vice president's racial identity? >> this is really a phony controversy. i don't really care. most people don't. but if we're going to be accurate, when kamala harris went into the united states senate, it was ap that said she was the first indian american united states senator. it was actually played up a lot when she came into the senate. and you just repeated the slur again, if it doesn't matter, why do you all keep questioning her identity? >> she's always identified as a black woman. she is biracial.

>> well, george, first of all, this is something that's actually a conversation throughout social media right now. there are a lot of people who are trying to figure this out. but again, that's a side issue, not the main issue. >> trump's running mate, senator jd vance, slammed democrats for their energy and border policies. he also responded to criticism among some republicans that he's the wrong pick for trump's vp, saying he wears criticism from the establishment as a badge of honor. >> my attitude is it doesn't really care as much as this is, doesn't really matter as much as this is a hit to my ego. people are going to vote primarily for donald trump or for kamala harris, right? that's the way these things go. >> as for the next debate, trump says he won't debate harris at all if she doesn't attend a new fox news debate september 4th. that's after trump backed out of a planned debate hosted by abc news september 10th. rhiannon andrew. >> all right, allison, thank you. now we head to the middle east and a new warning about a potentially wider conflict between israel and iran. days after two high profile

assassinations. abc's christiane cordero has the details on that. christiane good morning rhiannon. >> good morning to you. secretary of state antony blinken spoke to g-7 leaders yesterday, reportedly warning them iran could strike israel within the next 24 hours, according to the website axios. blinken said the u.s. doesn't know the exact time of a planned attack by iran, but it could begin as early as today. iran's supreme leader ordered a strike on israel after last week's assassination of a top hamas leader in tehran. meanwhile, the israeli military says an officer and a soldier were injured this morning in northern israel after rockets crossed from lebanon. israel has been fighting with the iranian backed militant group hezbollah in that area. the pentagon is now sending an additional fighter squadron and more warships to the middle east, and overnight defense secretary lloyd austin said he spoke with his israeli counterpart to reiterate u.s. support for israel president biden is convening a to discuss developments in the

middle east. andrew. >> all right, christiane, thank you. and a development from the war in ukraine, ukrainian forces say they sank a russian submarine in crimea. a russian airfield was also hit. it's the latest long range attack by ukraine. >> now to the olympics. and team usa tops the medal count and has now tied china in the number of gold medals. it comes after cyclist kristen faulkner won the women's road race, the first u.s. medal in the event since 1984, and after a stunning finish for the sprinters, it was a photo finish in france. the men's 100 meter dash coming down to the wire, the top three finishers crossing the line almost simultaneously. but noah lyles had the edge, winning gold by five thousandths of a second. shane thompson from jamaica coming in just two inches behind, couldn't really see what was going on over there. >> so i just had to keep, you know, running like i was going to win it. >> lyles saying even he thought his competitor had him beat. >> when i got to be honest, i

came over. i was like, i think you got that one big dog. >> the win marking the first time in 20 years the u.s. has taken home gold in the event. and it was an international celebration for track star thea lafond. >> your sister just won a gold medal. >> yeah. >> her brother, along with the entire navy football team, cheering the moment they found out she took home gold in the triple jump. meanwhile, the final day for swimming, ending with not one but two new world records for team usa bobby finke grabbing gold in the 1500 meter freestyle, beating the record set in 2012, then the women's four by 100 medley team, breaking another world record. it comes as the triathlon faces more troubles. the belgian triathlon team dropping out of today's mixed relay, saying one of its athletes is infected with e coli after swimming in the sun last week. the race went on after water quality issues forced delays. other swimmers

mentioned the dirty water after the race, and a swiss swimmer also got sick. but acknowledging they can't say for sure that the river is to blame, training in the sun was canceled yesterday due to water quality concerns, but officials say water levels have now improved. also today, two more events for simone biles, the balance beam and floor exercise. >> time now for your monday forecast. >> good morning. we're tracking a very dangerous storm in the name of hurricane debby, closing in on landfall late this morning in the coastal bend or the nature coast of florida. it's going to be slowly drifting all week long up the northeast coast, and because of its slow forward movement, it will bring tremendous flooding to areas near and east of interstate 95. some areas are going to see 18 to 24in not far from savannah and charleston. for accuweather, i'm jeff cornish for abc news.

>> coming up, the woman kicked off a plane because of a skin condition. >> but first, elon musk reveals a new patient with a special brain chip. why he says this technology could bring superhuman powers. >> plus, new images in the unsolved murder of a general

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catalytic converter. one suspect had a tattoo above his left eye and right cheek. no arrests have been made so far. >> we turn now to elon musk. he's promising superhuman abilities as he reveals his company has implanted a brain chip in a second patient this morning. what could be a game changer for people living with severe physical disabilities? elon musk revealing a second patient has been implanted with neuralink, an experimental brain computer interface that allows patients to control technology with their mind. musk is a co-founder of the startup. >> i don't want to jinx it, but it seems to have gone extremely well with the second, implant. so there's, a lot of signal, a lot of electrodes. it's working very well. >> not much is known about the second patient, including when they received the implant. but we do know they suffered a spinal cord injury, just like nolan arbaugh. >> this is all from there to there. >> yeah, man. >> arbaugh was the first neuralink patient. he opened up to good morning america back in may. >> i was just very happy that i

would be a part of something that i believe is so monumental. and this next step forward of helping people with paralysis. >> musk says he believes neuralink will allow all humans, whether they have physical disabilities or not, to more efficiently interface with the digital world and even compete with artificial intelligence if it's extremely safe. >> and you have and you can superhuman abilities, i think probably a lot of people would, would choose to have it. >> the news only one of the major breakthroughs for people facing mobility issues. synchron, another company using brain implants to give disabled patients access to computers, recently released this video. >> that's awesome. that's pretty cool. >> is it? yeah nice. >> it's like watching a theater showing a 64 year old man with als who cannot use his hands, playing games and sending texts through an apple vision pro headset. >> it's just another way to retain as much independence as possible. >> back to neuralink. musk hopes to implant eight more patients by year's end.

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