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rushing water. >> this is terrible. >> gio: rescues to higher ground and the possible new threat brewing in the atlantic. >> whit: breaking overnight, an israeli air strike on a gaza city school that israel says housed a hamas command center. palestinian authorities saying dozens of people killed in one of the deadliest strikes in the ten-month war. our live report from the region. >> rachel: deadly crash, video captures a plane spiraling out of control, descending to the ground and crashing in brazil into a ball of flames. all 61 people on board killed. what went wrong? plus, the man who was supposed to be on that doomed flight. >> gio: dueling rallies, vice president kamala harris and former president donald trump targeting states in the west overnight. a look at their strategies. political analysis ahead. plus, why trump's plane had to be diverted to a different airport. ♪ >> janai: and golden moments! sha'carri richardson pumps it up in a come-from-behind victory.

high marks in the hurdles and hoop dreams for team usa's women. plus, the debut of breaking at the summer games. all the highlights ahead. ♪ >> whit: i didn't make the break dance team this year but 2028. >> rachel: it's your year. >> whit: it's on in los angeles. janai norman, she's out there in paris. you know that, right, janai? >> janai: right. i know, whit, that you are probably the best to get the gold in 2028 for breakdancing. we've seen your moves. >> whit: there's an asterisk. >> janai: there are still 39 gold medals up for grabs today alone. that means still plenty of opportunities for u.s. fans to cheer and chant usa, usa. i'll break down what's coming up for the closing ceremony in just a little bit. >> whit: excellent. >> gio: what a week she's had in paris. huh? >> whit: busy week. we got more ahead for sure.

janai, we'll talk to you in just a bit. also, a "gma" vacation alert we're following here. new danger for travelers facing flight delays and cancellations. how to avoid getting scammed. >> rachel: and also this morning, the war in ukraine is intensifying. a russian missile slammed into a shopping mall killing at least 14 people, and now russia is stepping up its response to ukrainian forces crossing the border. we'll have the latest. >> gio: we begin with the remnants of hurricane debby drenching the northeast after killing at least eight people and dropping all that rain, and abc's perry russom is there in maryland with the latest. good morning, perry. >> reporter: gio, good morning to you. this cleanup could take weeks, possibly months. we are just outside of d.c. where a tree sliced through this home. six people live here. four adults, two children, and they all made it out okay. this morning, debby's deadly storms racing north leaving neighborhoods underwater. pennsylvania declaring a disaster emergency for 21 counties yesterday after severe flooding. dozens of people in this

neighborhood outside philadelphia displaced. water pouring into homes and apartment buildings. >> they brought the boat, life jacket, and they moved us there. >> reporter: this funnel cloud spotted in the sky over erie. in northern pennsylvania, this dog rescued in waist deep water carried to higher ground. a tree falling on a house in the harrisburg area trapping a man inside. >> everything collapsed on me, and i was buried in wood and insulation. >> reporter: new york and new jersey also issuing a state of emergency. new york governor kathy hochul saying swift water rescue teams have already been deployed. raging water washing away parts of roads swelling this waterfall. in the small town of woods hole in new york's southern tier, stores downtown wiped out. >> this is terrible. >> reporter: the power of what was hurricane debby felt along nearly the entire east coast. tornadoes in multiple states. >> thought my house was getting torn apart. >> reporter: at least eight people are dead. police say a 78-year-old woman

in north carolina was killed after a tree fell on her home. four states seeing more than a foot of rain, georgia, south carolina, north carolina, nearly 19 inches of rain in florida with the rain stopping days ago in sarasota, this neighborhood is still underwater. >> i didn't do this mess. you know, i opened the cabinet, and there was so much water that came out at me. >> reporter: that woman you heard from, kim gregory, there is sewage water bubbling in her backyard, and she says that is an area that does not typically flood, and almost all of her neighbors do not have flood insurance. gio? >> gio: incredible to see what this storm has been doing all week long. perry, thank you for your report. let's turn it over now to somara theodore who is following it all. good morning, somara. we are still feeling debby. >> somara: yeah, we saw the ramifications in that video. this is what's left of debby. it's impacting new england, maine, down into boston, you're seeing some of the remnant showers, but the remnants of

debby are now leaving, so this is good news. we still got our eyes on the tropics. this area of development, 80% chance of development over the next seven days. so, this is one to watch for our friends and family down in the caribbean, okay? keep a close eye on this for now. the good news is, debby a downer no more. sunshine moving in and saturday forecast by this afternoon, temperatures in the 80s feeling a lot more like summer. humidity dropping today, even more tomorrow. that's a look at your atlantic update. whit, over to you. >> whit: all right, somara, we'll check back in a bit. we do go overseas now to the war in the middle east, dozens of people reportedly killed including children after israel launched a new round of air strikes on a school complex in gaza. the idf saying the location was also being used as a hamas headquarters and hideout. abc's tom soufi burridge joins us now from tel aviv with the latest. tom, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, whit. yeah, the idf striking a school housing hundreds of displaced families in gaza city. at least 85 people killed in that single strike according to the head of a local hospital.

video from the scene showing multiple casualties, many of the images too graphic to show. the idf saying about 20 hamas and islamic jihad militants were operating from the school compound and saying it used precision intelligence to mitigate the risk of harming civilians. egypt condemning the attack saying, the deliberate killing of huge numbers of unarmed civilians was evidence of the lack of political will on the israeli side to end the war. it comes just a day after president biden released a joint statement with the leaders of egypt and qatar calling for cease-fire and hostage talks between israel and hamas to resume on thursday. meanwhile, israel carrying out another assassination deep inside lebanon killing a senior hamas commander according to the idf. it follows two high-profile assassinations of hezbollah. in a statement to abc news, iranian officials doubling down on iran's right to retaliate against israel, but suggesting any response will be, quote, timed and conducted in a manner

not to the detriment of a potential cease-fire in gaza. rachel? >> rachel: tom soufi burridge, tracking those developments in the middle east. all right. tom, thank you. and staying overseas, the war in ukraine is intensifying after a russian missile hit a shopping mall in ukraine. the strike coming as ukraine is pressing its own major incursion into russia for the first time. abc's patrick reevell joins us with more. good morning, patrick. >> reporter: good morning, rachel. this was a very deadly strike on a supermarket in the eastern ukrainian city of kostiantynivka. at least 14 killed and nearly 50 wounded, and that strike comes as ukraine is pressing its own extraordinary large-scale incursion into russia, the first since the war began. it's now five days since ukraine's surprise attack into russia's kursk region and the ukrainian force estimated in the low thousands has seized a handful of villages. one video showing a russian troop column completely destroyed. now, russia is now racing reinforcements to the region where thousands of russian civilians are also being evacuated. the fighting taking place only

about 30 miles from a nuclear power station. vladimir putin on friday holding an urgent meeting with his security chiefs announcing strict new security controls on three border regions. the question now, though, how long can ukrainian forces keep pushing deeper before russia manages to re-establish control? gio? >> gio: and we can't forget it's been 2 1/2 years since that war has been under way. patrick, thank you so much. we're going to turn now to the search for answers after that deadly plane crash in brazil. all 61 people on board killed when the plane just seemed to fall out of the sky. abc's morgan norwood is here with more on that. good morning, morgan. >> good morning to you, gio. just shocking video there. that plane started to plummet just 90 seconds before crashing. authorities finding the black box overnight and hoping its data reveals why that airliner took a sudden dive. this morning, that horrific moment this brazilian passenger plane tumbled from the sky. social media video showing the plane apparently stalling, then going into a slow spin before helplessly falling thousands of feet to the ground into a

residential area in brazil bursting into flames as smoke billows into the air. all 61 on board, 57 passengers and 4 crew, killed in the crash. the airline voepass saying flight 2283 took off without any operational restrictions with all systems capable of carrying out the flight. [ speaking in a non-english language ] one would-be passenger emotional as he recounts running late for the doomed flight but not being allowed to board, crediting the airline worker as the reason he's alive. overnight emergency personnel getting an up-close look at the wreckage as they begin the grim task of recovering bodies from the crash scene. the plane operated by brazilian regional air carrier voepass was traveling from cascavel, brazil, heading to an airport in s sao paolo state. according to flight radar, the two-engine plane was flying at 17,000 feet when it began its rapid descent. brazilian authorities now examining both the cockpit voice

recorder and the flight data recorder as they investigate what caused this crash. >> usually this sort of thing in large airplanes or small airplanes occurs because the flight crew was not able to maintain or did not maintain enough air speed. >> atr, the aircraft manufacturer, said its specialists are fully engaged to support the investigation and the customer adding, our first thoughts are with all the individuals affected by this event. the company saying that in a statement. certainly thinking of all of those families. as you know, covering aviation that recovery of that black box is significant, and it's critical. >> gio: it is critical, because the information is so important on there, but it's also going to take a while to analyze it all. >> whit: absolutely. morgan, thank you. we do turn now to the race for the white house. both vice president harris and former president trump making their cases to voters this weekend as new polling analysis suggests the race is now dead even. abc's zohreen shah joins us from phoenix, arizona. zohreen, good morning. >> reporter: whit, the contrast here yesterday was really something. harris here in battleground arizona in front of 15,000

people. trump, meanwhile, in montana. that is not a swing state. both of them sparring over the issues before their face-off next month. ♪ this morning, duel rallies across the west. ♪ still today ♪ >> reporter: vice president kamala harris continuing her blitz across swing states, now to arizona attending a rally with thousands. [ crowd chanting ] harris continuing the rollout just days after picking minnesota governor tim walz as her vice presidential running mate on the democratic ticket. walz touting the number of attendees in arizona. >> you know, it's not as if anybody cares about crowd sizes or anything, so -- [ laughter ] >> you know what, hold on a second. hold on. >> reporter: at one moment a protester interrupting harris. >> let me just say this on topic of what i think i'm hearing over there. let me just speak to that for a moment. now is the time to get a cease-fire deal and get the hostage deal done.

[ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: harris and trump both sparring over abortion. >> it would ban medication abortion in every state. [ crowd booing ] but we are not going to let that happen, because we trust women. >> we will protect innocent life. >> reporter: trump and harris expected to face off in person after both committed to being at the abc news presidential debate in september. trump in montana overnight, his plane diverted to billings after mechanical issues in the deep red state, which is not expected to be competitive in november. >> it's a big state. it's a beautiful state, and we love it, and we've won it every time by a lot. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: and trump and harris are running neck and neck in the latest fivethirtyeight polling. harris with about 45% of the vote. trump with about 43% of the vote, and the polling is very close in the battleground

states, as well. harris today is heading to nevada for a swing state event there. trump will be in missouri for a fund-raiser. whit? >> whit: we know it will come down to the battleground states. zohreen, thank you. reminder, david muir and linsey davis will moderate the abc news prime time debate between vice president happens and former president trump. that's on september 10th right here on abc. rachel? >> rachel: all eyes will be on that debate. new details in the case of a former paramedic accused of killing his wife with eye drops. prosecutors now say he poisoned his young daughter too. abc's ike ejiochi is here with details. ike, another twist in this case. good morning. >> reporter: that's right. good morning, rachel. prosecutors are now saying 39-year-old joshua hunsucker engaged in a pattern of aggression towards other witnesses including the alleged attack against his own daughter. >> the first matter this afternoon will be the matter of jos josh hunsucker. >> reporter: this morning, a

new twist in the case of the north carolina paramedic accused of killing his wife by putting eye drops in her drinks. prosecutors are now accusing 39-year-old joshua hunsucker of poisoning his then 10-year-old daughter with the same substance. hunsucker back in court with new charges, four counts of intimidation of a witness and obstruction of justice. prosecutors alleging hunsucker engaged in a pattern of harassment towards witnesses in the case including poisoning his own daughter in an attempt to implicate others according to a court filing. the substance, tetrahydrozoli a decongestant, found in eye drops the same substance prosecutors say was used in his wife's death. the case coming on the heels of an eerily similar case just a few miles away when south carolina nurse lana clayton was convicted of poisoning her husband with eye drops. she pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. just one month after clayton was charged in 2018, hunsucker's wife stacy died. investigators growing suspicious when joshua hunsucker

immediately cremated his wife's body and filed for her $250,000 life insurance policy. her blood testing positive for poison according to court documents. but since his arrest, hunsucker has been free on bond. prosecutors allege hunsucker had become increasingly aggressive and are actively trying to revoke his bond. now, following friday's hearing, hunsucker remains behind bars scheduled to be back in court in october. an attorney for the family of stacy hunsucker telling abc news the family's primary goal at this point is the safety of the family including their two grandchildren. it goes on to say, the hearing's result went a long way in achieving that goal and hopes in all of this stacy will not be forgotten. gio? >> gio: that is the hope. such a troubling story. all right. ike, thank you so much. the fda has rejected a psychedelic treatment along with therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in adults. the treatment is a pharmaceutical version of mdma. the fda citing a lack of data and requesting additional trials.

the drugmaker lykos therapeutics says it plans to request a meeting with the fda to ask the agency to reconsider the decision. all right, time for another check of the weather now with somara theodore, and she's right here with the weather. and it's looking really beautiful in florida, somara. >> somara: it is. you know, all eyes all week have been on debby, rightfully so, but as debby departs, now we're talking about the heat, and this is lauderdale-by-the sea. good morning, florida. all right. so let's talk numbers, shall we? you are under a heat advisory in the state of florida. parts of georgia into south carolina and even in texas, we have triple-digit feel-like temperatures today. it feels like 111 in corpus christi. houston, 103. miami feeling like 107 degrees. crank up the heat, right? so, over the next three days these heat index values stick around. so it's going to feel hot over like houston, new orleans feeling like 105 on monday. even atlanta, 93 degrees on monday. 96 is what it will feel like on tuesday. you can see we're still feeling like the triple digits throughout much of florida as we

head into your workweek. that's a look at the forecast across the country. >> somara: and that's a look at your local forecast. so, things are heating up for our friends in the south. can i still say hotlanta? >> whit: yes. >> somara: hotlanta. >> whit: say good-bye to debby hopefully soon. thank you, somara. we turn to the summer games and team usa shining in paris. men's and women's basketball and women's soccer all on track to go for the gold this weekend

after a busy day of events. janai norman, of course, covering the games for us joining us now from paris. it's the final countdown, janai. >> janai: it is the final countdown, and i feel like i'm missing all the fun back there, somara and rachel, gio is back in the seat, oh, my goodness. but, guy, all eyes today are on women's soccer as they battle brazil for the gold, and both the u.s. women's and men's 4x400-meter relays are favored to medal. the men with the help of 16-year-old quincy jones, the youngest male track and field athlete in u.s. history. this morning, it's gold for the american women in the 4x100-meter relay with a game-changing fourth leg from sha'carri richardson. after losing some ground from a shaky baton handoff, richardson blitzing ahead for the win, sensational second leg, teetee terry said the four had to rely on trust to bring them over the edge.

>> we don't practice together often. for instance, like with me and gabby, she knows i'm going to get it to you and tell you to stop. just keep doing what you need to do. don't search for it. i'll get it to you. that's just the mindset we go in with. >> reporter: on the men's side, disappointment in their 4x100 relay running without noah lyles after his covid diagnosis, the u.s. men came in seventh after a botched handoff. later disqualified for passing the baton outside the handoff zone. canada taking the gold. in the 400 men's hurdles, american rai benjamin besting defending champion and world record holder, karsten warholm, of norway for the gold. >> with these two guys right here, it's like can't have a bad day. i mean, if you have a bad day, you'll get punished, so i told myself, like, you know, just go out and run your own race and see what happens.

>> reporter: meanwhile, the women's basketball team continued their reign of dominance, trouncing australia 85-64. they'll play on sunday for an unprecedented eighth consecutive gold medal, and making its olympic debut, breaking. japan's ami yuasa coming out on top wowing the judges with her fierce power moves and top rocking setting the new gold standard. and the b-boys and, unfortunately, not whit johnson will be battling it out today in breaking. [ laughter ] but we can't forget to mention u.s. women's volleyball in the gold medal match tomorrow facing off against italy. and, guys, in basketball, both the women and the men, it is the u.s. versus the home country, france, the men today, the women tomorrow, still lots of gold up for grabs. >> whit: absolutely. huge day ahead. >> janai: guys, i miss you all. >> gio: we miss you. >> rachel: we say in unison. >> whit: exactly, but we love

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welcome back to "gma" on this saturday morning with a look at the first teaser trailer for disney's "snow white" making its debut at d23. it's a live action musical re-imagining the classic 1937 film that stars rachel zegler as snow white and gal gadot as the evil queen. "snow white" hits theaters march 21st, and we'll have more from d23, the ultimate disney fan event coming up in our next hour. >> rachel: sad we have to wait till march. >> gio: i know. it looks so good. here's some of the other big stories we're following on this saturday morning. overnight an idf air strike hit a school hitting hundreds of displaced families in gaza city and reportedly killed at least 85 and injured more according to the head of a local hospital. the idf saying about 20 mosques and islamic jihad militants were operating from the school compound. egypt condemning the attack saying, the, quote, deliberate

killing of huge numbers of unarmed civilians is evidence of the lack of political will on the israeli side to end the war. >> rachel: and new developments in the deadly shooting of sonya massey. the deputy charged with sonya massey's murder remains behind bars, but the sheriff who hired him is stepping down. sheriff jack campbell announcing his retirement in a statment saying, quote, it has become clear that the current political climate has made it nearly impossible for me to continue effectively in my role. >> whit: the fda approved the first nasal spray to treat severe allergic reactions and will serve as an alternative to inject products like the epi pen. the drug called neffy has been cleared for adults and children who weigh more than 66 pounds. the fda saying the spray may reduce barriers to rapid treatment of anaphylaxis. that would be a big deal. let's move on to our closer look at the political headlines that we're following this morning, and joining us are abc white house correspondent maryalice parks and contributing political correspondent rachael bade. good morning to both of you. maryalice, let's start with you.

we know republicans have been criticizing kamala harris for not coming out and doing a news conference and speaking to the media answering questions. also, we've seen harris and walz presenting themselves as these warriors, this joyful part of the campaign. what is the strategy here? >> look, i think there's legit criticism there that she hasn't done a press conference yet, hasn't sat for a formal interview. so much has happened in 2 1/2 weeks. there are so many questions. i mean, we're reporters. we like more press conferences all the time. >> whit: of course. >> but she's going to have to define her campaign more. she will have to flush out her policy positions. but that strategy you're talking about, that joyful warrior presence, that excitement leaning into the laughing, it has been effective out there on the campaign trail. amazing how quickly she's kind of branded herself like that, blunting criticism that she laughs too much. she looks and sounds different than president biden. i think that it's reminding democrats they don't have to feel that sense of doom that, frankly, a lot of them felt about the biden campaign, but

it's also letting her draw a contrast to trump without talking so much about trump. i think every time she sounds joyful or happy, you're sort of reminded that he can sound mean and nasty. like, i'm thinking about in his press conference when he criticized her for not giving a press conference, he didn't just say she's not taking questions. he said, she's not smart enough to take questions, and it's that language that so many swing voters are put off by. >> gio: republicans have been watching this vp pick because they wanted to see, would this be a reset for the trump campaign? so, how is that going? >> if i had a dollar for every time i heard a republican say trump needs a reset, i would be pretty wealthy right now. it's not going well, and the reason is because republicans are asking trump, you know this, rachel, you covered him for a long time, to actually fight his basic instincts. right? stop with the personal attacks and stop with the school yard taunts like maryalice was talking about and focus on policy. there is this belief amongst republicans up and down the ballot that even though harris has erased this lead that trump

had over biden pretty much all year, that she is actually in some ways a richer target for republicans, politically speaking, and that's because in the past she's supported some policy positions that are rather unpopular with swing voters, things like medicare for all, banning fracking, supporting a mandatory gun buyback program and decriminalizing border crossings. so, republicans want trump to focus on that. instead, what do you see this week when he does his press conference? he falsely claims that it was unconstitutional for democrats to replace biden atop of the ticket. he falsely claims that his crowd sizes were larger than martin luther king jr.'s "i have a dream" speech, and j.d. vance goes out there and starts attacking harris' running mate for his military record. this is not the campaign republicans want to see trump run. this is not the campaign they think he can win on, and that's why you see "the wall street journal" editorial board, which is very conservative, running headlines like this, will donald trump blow another election? >> gio: wow.

>> whit: we're going to go from one rachel to another, rachel scott. you've been covering the trump campaign closely and see this new marquette university poll showing harris leading trump now. what is the state of the race right now? >> rachel: it is neck and neck, but as rachael just mentioned, you have harris making really big gains, really erasing sort of trump's edge among key demographics, especially in some of these battleground states, one of the things that i found very interesting from this poll is looking at the enthusiasm gap. when we talk about former president donald trump wanting to run against president biden, it's because a lot of his campaign advisers are looking at the cross tabs on those polls and saw not very much enthusiasm among democrats when it came to president biden. it was just at, like, 34% around may. now it's 55%. so, when maryalice is talking about democrats being energized, right, that is not what the trump campaign wants to see. on the other end of that, though, trump is still on firm ground when it comes to critical issues, immigration, the border, he has very strong polling on those issues, and that is

exactly why republicans really want him to focus on the issues, not so much the attacks. >> gio: it's been fascinating to see how it's a whole new race. maryalice, let's talk about the website for a second and tim walz, because there was a slight tweak that some folks noticed because the campaign initially called walz a retired command sergeant major. now it says that he rose to the rank of command sergeant major, so it's a very, very slight tweak, but republicans have really been attacking his military service. >> yeah, exactly. but taking a step back here, it has been 20 years since there has been a veteran on both the democrat and republican ticket. you have to go back to kerry versus george w. bush. you know, before it was often a prerequisite, military service for running for office. how remarkable that the country has sort of swung away from that but now it has two enlisted men running at the top of the ticket. some people will care about the fact that walz seemed to misrepresent. he said that he was in war when he never saw active combat. you know, the campaign now says

he misspoke, but i actually think more americans will care there are two veterans. walz served in uniform for 24 years. they changed the campaign website to no longer say retired, because even though he did rise to that rank, he didn't serve in that position long enough to formally retire at that rank. but, look, when he got out he was really outspoken against the he was consistent with that position. i do think that's something he'll be able to talk about. frankly, a lot of americans were consistent in their opposition to the iraq war. and i talked to a lot of veterans, some major veteran organizations across the country that were excited about that pick, just because of the work that walz did when he was in congress fighting for veterans and veterans' benefits. >> rachel: you know i love a good political discussion. let's keep this going on. thanks so much, guys. all right. time for a check of the weather with somara. hey, somara. >> somara: hey, let's do it, all right. we know the south has seen up to 15 inches of rain in some parts of the carolinas because of debby. we're not done yet. still looking at some soaking rain this afternoon, even a threat for flash flooding, especially in that yellow zone

from parts of virginia beach all the way down to north and south carolina, we could see an additional one to three inches of rain. all right. we're also tracking out west threat for fires. look at this. red flag warnings have been issued for parts of nevada, idaho right up into washington state. we are air quality alerts up there, and we have very strong gusty winds, 40 miles per hour in salt lake. i'll end it here. look at this. this is where we're going to see the snow -- i'm sorry, the smoke the coming days through tomorrow. >> somara: and that's a look at your local forecast, my friends. >> whit: okay, by the way, you did that just in unison with the camera move and everything. >> somara: oh, really? >> whit: thank you very much. all right, coming up here on

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>> gio: we are back with an alert on vacation scams just as the second half of summer kicks off. there are people out there impersonating airline employees, but they're really trying to steal your money, and this morning "gma" has all the info you need to help you spot the scammers. barbie deacy was looking forward to a caribbean vacation, but when one of her friends had to back out of the trip, deacy tried to call customer service and says she instead ended up on the line with a scammer. >> it was just a mistake on my part that was -- almost could have been a really costly one. >> reporter: deacy first shared her story with abc affiliate wbay and says she's a frequent flier and thought she knew the customer service number from memory. she was one digit off, and a man purporting to be an airline agent quickly answered with some bad news. >> he proceeded to tell me it looked like my entire booking had been canceled and that somebody from my party must have canceled the booking. and i said, that's impossible. >> reporter: she says he asked her to wire $500 per passenger to a third-party service to save

the booking. that's when deacy became suspicious and hung up. >> they really did seem like they were doing everything to help me. >> reporter: a similar experience happened to kathleen marcozi. she says she found what she thought was an airline number online and the person supposedly trying to help her wanted her to send $400. and a signed document to rebook her flight. >> i said, i'm not signing this. and he said, you have to sign it or you'll lose your booking. >> reporter: the ftc issued a warning saying scammers are often lurking behind fake accounts trying to steal travelers' information. >> always know that you're dealing with someone who you've contacted through a legit channel through their website, their their app, through their chat. >> reporter: and the safest way to make sure you end up speaking directly with the airline or your travel agent is by contacting them through a number listed right on their specific website. >> don't respond to someone who has reached out to you through an unexpected or unsolicited message. >> i felt like a huge idiot, to be honest. it was a big learning

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>> janai: back now on "gma" from paris and to the high-energy sport making its debut at the olympic games this year. yes, we are talking about breaking. it may have started in the bronx, but it has come a long way, baby. there was beatboxing and stunts, this unlike any other sport. >> wow. >> janai: this morning the first ever gold medal in breaking going to japan's ami yuasa from japan. the popular dance style originated in the bronx back in 1970, but don't call this new sport breakdancing. breaking is finally making its olympic debut. >> it started in the u.s. to represent the u.s. and makes it -- and it means a lot more just because we're in the essence of it all. >> janai: tonight all eyes on the men as they get ready to head into competition. the u.s. team inspiring a new generation, like students at kids breaking league, a breakdancing school in harlem.

>> sometimes when i wake up, i look forward to breaking more than breakfast. >> janai: they told our station wabc that they're excited to watch the competition, especially with their own instructor judging the action in paris. >> it means a lot to me because breaking was originated here 50 years ago, but now it's finally getting the recognition it deserves. >> reporter: its roots are american, but the two-day breaking competition in paris welcomes competitors from more than ten countries. >> it feels super good just because we've never imagined it being on this platform, so us being here is -- it's an honor. >> janai: breaking is not scheduled to be included in the l.a. 2028 games, but with all the excitement surrounding this new competition, that could change. that kid said sometimes he looks forward more to breaking than breakfast, unbelievable, and, guys, the breaking competition of the b-girls yesterday got a lot of people on social media talking. some good. some less good, but, whit, i

know that you would be great, because you really can do a couple moves. >> whit: well, i can do the worm and the windmill. the rest of it, you know -- >> gio: and that's good enough, because we can't do any of those. rachel. >> rachel: more than i can do. >> whit: breaking by a different definition. more pop than lock. >> gio: hey, janai, we've loved your reports from paris. absolutely fantastic all week long. thank you, thank you, thank you. enjoy. >> janai: thank you, guys. >> gio: and we'll be right back on "gma." ♪ (vo) consumer reports conducts over fifty tests to determine the best vehicles. and only one brand was named the “2024 best mainstream automotive brand” ... subaru. with eight vehicles that are recommended models. outback. ascent. legacy. impreza. wrx. brz ... and 2024 top picks crosstrek and forester. safe. reliable. trusted. loved. subaru. get 2.9% apr for 72 months on a new subaru outback during the subaru a lot to love event. going on now. your record label is taking off. but so is your sound engineer. you need to hire.

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♪ ♪ >> whit: back now with our "play of the day" and big celebrations for some little leaguers. take a look. >> off the chest. it's a footrace. >> whit: there you go. lots to celebrate overnight as the 11 and 12-year-olds from maui, this little league team stealing the spot in next week's little league world series and the win comes almost a year to the day of those devastating wildfires in maui. congratulations to them. >> rachel: love it. >> gio: congratulations to them. coming up here in our second hour, magical day at d23.

there's rebecca jarvis. she's live. stick around. today ahead of a fundraiser tomorrow. it's her first trip to the bay area since she became the democratic presumptive nominee for president. harris has been speaking in front of huge crowds all week, but it will be a much more intimate affair when she appears at a fundraiser in san francisco tomorrow. that event will be at the fairmont. tickets at tomorrow's fundraiser start at $50,000 for a photo with harris. half $1 million gets you at the head table with vice president harris. and big changes are coming to a critical hospital in east san jose, and neighbors are fighting to stop it. come monday, regional medical center will be downgraded to a level two trauma center, which is not the full closure. the hospital

had originally planned, but it does impact the kind of emergencies they can treat. neighbors and health care workers held another rally, asking the hospital to back off on its plans. let's check the forecast now with meteorologist lisa argen. >> all right zack good morning to our marine layers with us this morning. a few high clouds as well. and right now it is 54 downtown 60 in oakland with 63 in san jose. gray skies and a look at the airport, we can see that marine layer getting compressed. high pressure is still with us, allowing for a warm day in lynn. 50, in petaluma, 62, in concord, we will eventually erase that heat, but for today, we've got the good air quality. right now becomes moderate as we're looking at those winds filtering in a little bit of that haze and smoke to the north of us. otherwise we're looking at more mid 90s today arriving. so maybe a few degrees warmer than yesterday. 94 in concord, 75 in oakland, some sunshine downtown. we are much cooler for your sunday and the next few days after that. zach

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