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storm heads next. >> the debate is on after backing out former president trump, now agreeing to face off with vice president harris. but this morning, what harris says she won't do. >> plus, new video from the attempted trump assassination. the view police had just moments before the shooter opened fire. >> breaking overnight from the paris olympics, the announcement from super sprinter noah lyles after collapsing on the track and why he was competing despite having covid. >> the alleged terror plot targeting a taylor swift concert. the job one of the suspects recently took chess piece poisoning how a world class player allegedly tried to sabotage her opponent. the debate over dirty microwaves heats up. what we're learning about radiation resistant bacteria and heads up why police say this sneaky seagull is a wanted criminal. >> from abc news. this is america. this morning. >> good friday morning, everyone. i'm andrew dymburt.

>> good friday to you. all of you i'm rhiannon ally. we begin with severe weather and travel delays affecting millions of americans. >> right now, what's left of hurricane debbie is wreaking havoc, spawning tornadoes and triggering flood alerts along an 800 mile stretch of the eastern seaboard, some areas seeing two feet of rain. this morning, debbie isn't done yet, with more heavy rain and the threat of tornadoes. one tornado touching down near wilmington, delaware last night. >> there was many reports made of damage to houses such as trees, down pole and wires down storms, also damaging several homes near washington dc. >> what's left of debbie will accelerate through pennsylvania and upstate new york today, then into new england, dumping more than six inches of rain. debbie made a second landfall as a tropical depression yesterday in south carolina, where rain totals could surpass two feet, the governor warning there not in the clear yet. >> rains are gone and but the flooding the river flooding will take place. >> debbie has already spawned at

least a dozen tornadoes. a man was killed in north carolina after a twister destroyed this home east of raleigh. the tornado also damaged a middle school. norman toler lives nearby. >> look out the back door and i dropped down to my knees and went to praying. i said, lord, you know i worked all my life for what i got here. please don't take it. and it went right in the backyard. i knew god works miracles because he worked one tonight. >> more than a foot of rain fell in north carolina, and flood watches remain in effect from the carolinas to new hampshire. we'll check your full forecast in just a few minutes. >> now to the race for the white house and an agreement on when the candidates will debate. it comes as former president trump accuses vice president harris of avoiding questions from reporters. abc's perry russom has the latest. perry good morning ryan. >> good morning to you. the first debate between trump and harris is set, marking what is likely to be another pivotal moment in the race this morning. it's game on for at least one presidential debate. former

president trump and vice president kamala harris have agreed to face off september 10th on abc. >> i look forward to the debates because i think we have to set the record straight. >> i'm looking forward to it and i hope he shows up. >> harris will not join trump for a fox news debate. six days earlier. her campaign says all future debates are contingent on trump showing up on september 10th. trump previously backed out of the abc debate after president biden dropped out of the race. harris and her running mate, minnesota governor tim walz, in michigan yesterday speaking to the united auto workers union. >> we're not falling for these folks who are trying to divide us, trying to separate us, trying to pull us apart. yeah, that's not where the strength lies. >> after holding no public campaign events this week, trump, speaking with reporters at his mar a lago resort criticizing harris intelligence and claiming she's avoiding reporters. >> she doesn't know how to do a news conference. she's not smart enough to do a news conference. >> trump taking questions for one hour on a range of issues,

insisting republicans have the momentum in this race and suggesting he's attracted crowds larger than martin luther king jr. >> nobody spoke in the crowds bigger than me. if you look at martin luther king, when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people, if not, we had more. >> when speaking about harris's time as a prosecutor and her relationship with former san francisco mayor willie brown, trump describing surviving a near-death experience in a helicopter. >> well, i know willie brown very well. in fact, i went down in a helicopter with him. we thought maybe this is the end. we were in a helicopter going to a certain location together, and there was an emergency landing. this was not a pleasant landing. >> according to the new york times, trump apparently confused willie brown with former california governor jerry brown, and both men say they were never on a helicopter with trump. that made an emergency landing today, trump heads to a rally in

montana. harris will be in arizona, continuing her tour of battleground states. and as for the criticism that harris is not answering questions from reporters, she says she hopes to sit down for an interview by the end of the month. rihanna. >> all right, perry, thank you for that new video has been released from the day former president trump was shot in pennsylvania. the police body camera video raises a lot more questions about the security on that day. this is the moment police in butler, pennsylvania, confront the gunman who shot former president trump. an officer is hoisted up onto the roof, sees the shooter and falls back to the ground. >> this clothes bro. do he turn around on me? he's straight up. >> heavily armed. police raced toward the building, some scaling this plastic shed to reach the roof. the officer who confronted the shooter describing what he saw. >> he's got a book bag. he's got my hair laying down. he's got. yeah, he's got he's laying down

proned out book bag next to him. >> those officers scrambling to locate the shooter. >> this building, he was on top of this building, the left one finding him after several tense minutes. >> by then, he's dead. when chaos subsides, some police are heard questioning how the shooter got access to a rooftop only 400ft from trump. >> i told them the post guys over here, i wasn't even concerned about it because i thought someone was on the roof. >> i thought, that's how they count. >> how can you lose a guy walking back here? >> they were on the roof. they were inside. why were we not in the building? >> why are we not on the roof? >> so many questions. documents show the shooter visited a gun range more than 40 times in the months before the rally, including a final visit just the day before the assassination attempt. >> new images from ukraine's surprise incursion into russia show dozens of russian troops surrendering, some even waving white flags. it came after ukraine destroyed a border checkpoint, part of its largest advance into russia since the war began. another video is said to show a ukrainian drone

striking a russian helicopter. reports say furious battles are underway in the kursk border region. >> a third death is being blamed on the listeria outbreak linked to sliced deli meats. the cdc says the most recent victim lived in virginia and was at least 65 years old. it was the first death since late last month, when boar's head expanded a recall to include more than 7 million pounds of meat. dozens of people have been hospitalized in 13 states now to north carolina. >> in the case of joshua hunsucker, he was first arrested for allegedly poisoning his wife with eyedrops and trying to cash in on her life insurance. now, prosecutors claim he tried to do the same thing to his young daughter. here's abc's andrea fujii this morning. >> the north carolina man charged with murder for allegedly poisoning his wife with eye drops is due back in court. 39 year old joshua hunsucker, a former paramedic, faces new charges accused of also trying to poison his ten year old daughter. she survived. prosecutors claim his plot was

inspired by south carolina nurse lana clayton. >> i did impulsively put the values in instead of the string, and i did it with the intent to make him sick and uncomfortable. >> back in 2018, clayton was charged with poisoning her husband with eye drops. she pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. just a month after clayton was charged, stacey hunsucker died. investigators say they grew suspicious when joshua hunsucker immediately cremated his wife's body and filed for her $250,000 life insurance policy when they tested her blood, they say poison was found, but since his arrest, hunsucker has been free on bond and he's accused of intimidating his late wife's parents in an effort to blame them for her death. prosecutors claim he also staged his own kidnaping and routinely recorded his in-laws, followed them, made vulgar gestures and sent a package to their home demanding they drop charges against him. today, prosecutors are asking to

revoke hunsaker's bond as he awaits trial. he's also been indicted for witness intimidation and obstruction of justice. he maintains his innocence. andrew rhiannon. >> andrea, thank you for that. it is time now to check your friday weather. >> good morning debbie. still bringing trouble to the northeast in this case with a tornado threat tied to some gusty squalls of rain in the east side of the circulation and drenching rain will move in very intense rainfall across the region here into the northeast. it will come in quick. it will end quickly as well, but several hours of rain will drive. rainfall amounts up to 4 to 8in into the interior northeast, 2 to 4in in places like philadelphia and baltimore, 1 to 2in in southeast new england. for accuweather, i'm jeff cornish for abc news. >> coming up, the terror plot against a taylor swift concert. new details about the suspect. >> also ahead, the overnight announcement about the olympic

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isis flag. they say he confessed to planning the attack with knives and explosives, with the hope of killing. as many people as possible. his alleged accomplice had just taken a job at the stadium and a third teenager is being questioned. swift has five shows in london beginning next week, and london's mayor says those concerts will go ahead as planned. >> it's day 14 of the paris olympics, team usa began the day one gold medal ahead of china quincy wilson at age 16, making history in the men's 4x4 hundred relay. but overnight, another olympic star dropped out of his final event this morning. noah lyles is olympic run is over. the two time medal winner announcing overnight he won't compete in today's four by 100 relay final, saying i believe this will be the end of my 2024 olympics. it is not the olympics i dreamed of, but it has left me with so much joy in my heart. lyles took bronze in the 200 meter yesterday, then collapsed on the track, leaving in a wheelchair, later revealing he has covid. u.s. track and field says after lyles tested

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