needs a mayor unafraid to take on the status quo, bring accountability, and stop the excuses. >> gio: good morning, america. stormy holiday weekend. millions of americans under

alert. the threats for severe weather for what the tsa says will be the busiest labor day travel period on record. the best advice if you're taking to the skies or the road. >> rhiannon: clarifying their positions. donald trump saying now he'll vote no on a ballot measure aiming to overturn florida's near total abortion ban while vice president kamala harris explains her stance on fracking as the presidential race heats up. >> whit: hockey family tragedy. nhl star johnny gaudreau and his brother struck and killed by an alleged drunk driver on the eve of their sister's wedding. the charges for the driver as tributes to the brothers pour in this morning. >> gio: mosquito-borne viruses now rising. health officials sounding the alarm about west nile and triple e. how to protect yourself this labor day weekend. >> rhiannon: fall movie preview. hollywood banking on sequels to be box office blockbusters. >> i'm going to make you so happy.

>> rhiannon: the familiar faces back on the silver screen. >> whit: rookie rivalry. caitlin clark and angel reese in their final matchup of the regular season. clark scores a career high. >> caitlin clark, another three-pointer. >> whit: while reese makes double-double history plus stunning upset. the shocking defeat of novak djokovic at the u.s. open. ♪ because i'm on top of the world ♪ >> gio: and college football kickoff. week one with a full roster of matchups. espn's desmond howard joins us live in college station, texas, with previews and predictions. ♪ i'm on top of the world ♪ >> gio: ah, this is a perfect way to start this labor day weekend. >> whit: yes. >> gio: good morning, america. great to see you. happy to have rhiannon ally back here. >> whit: welcome back. >> gio: janai enjoys her last weekend of maternity leave. so we'll see her very soon. a lot of news ahead this morning, including the labor day

weekend travel crush as millions of us squeeze in that last summer trip this weekend. >> rhiannon: that's right, and communities all across the country especially here in the northeast are sounding the alarm. two mosquito-borne illnesses on the rise. two deaths from west nile were reported in new jersey, and we'll have the latest coming up. >> whit: but we begin here with the intense storm system hitting the northeast and mid-atlantic just as millions of americans head out for the labor day weekend. let's get right to somara theodore tracking it all. somara, good morning. >> somara: good morning, whit. so yesterday in raleigh, north carolina, we had two houses get struck by lightning or one got struck, and actually the fire spread. it took about 70 firemen 45 minutes to clear the fire, and, unfortunately, that threat persists today. this cold front driving through from central pennsylvania to the ohio valley through the afternoon and evening. thunderstorms likely, then as we head into the nighttime frame, we have storms lining the i-95

corridor. biggest threat with these storms hail, damaging winds and flash flooding. any plans you have today, keep that in mind. labor day forecast, we're dry throughout much of the country, cool in the northeast and midwest. warm out west. down south we're talking about the chance for flooding. i'll have that a little later on. for now, gio, back to you. >> gio: glad you started us off, somara, because all eyes are on that forecast as millions of americans hit the roads and the skies for this holiday weekend. we have team coverage, of course, starting with abc's morgan norwood at newark airport. good morning, morgan. >> reporter: hey, good morning to you, gio. yes, those storms that somara just mentioned looming over the holiday travel stretch, which by is way is projected to be the busiest on record with tsa expecting to screen close to 70 million passengers at airports from coast to coast, which could mean long lines, thankfully not seeing that here at newark, but we know that will change as the morning progresses, and speaking of the morning, most airports will be busiest in the mornings with dallas, fort worth, atlanta, and o'hare the most hectic. american airlines says they expect to fly 740,000 passengers

on friday on 6,400 flights. united looking at 500,000, up 6% from last year. tsa lines are often where the hangups happen, so if you find yourself waiting, empty out your pockets, and it will save you time when you go through screening. arrive early, and give yourself some extra time. rhiannon? >> rhiannon: all right. some good advice there. morgan norwood, thank you for that. it is not just the airports. the roads will also be packed on this last long weekend of summer, and abc's alexis christoforous joins us now with more on that. good morning, alexis. >> good morning, rhiannon. with millions expected to take to the roads this labor day weekend, timing is everything. so, today experts say try to avoid the morning, and plan on heading out after 12:00 p.m. tomorrow it's best to leave before noon, and if you're coming home on monday, travel before 10:00. if you are making it an extended holiday weekend, the best time to travel, tuesday after 1:00 p.m. and when you go to fill up this labor day weekend, you'll be paying the lowest gas prices in

about three years. according to aaa, the national average for a gallon of regular now $3.33. that's more than 50 cents cheaper than a year ago when gas averaged $3.82 a gallon, and that relief at the pump may stick around for a while. according to gas buddy, prices could dip below $3 this fall as gas stations switch to less expensive winter blends of gasoline later this month. whit? >> whit: all right. alexis, thank you so much. we turn now to the tributes pouring in this morning for nhl star johnny gaudreau and his brother. both killed by an alleged drunk driver, who is now under arrest. they were hit while riding bicycles in new jersey before their sister's wedding. abc's ike ejiochi is here with the latest. ike, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, whit. the two were supposed to be groomsmen just hours after the accident. now a family and community in mourning. this morning, tributes pouring in for nhl star johnny gaudreau and his brother matthew after their shocking deaths. the brothers were riding bicycles thursday night when they were struck and killed by

an alleged drunk driver in new jersey. >> you're charged now with two counts of second-degree vehicular homicide. >> reporter: 43-year-old sean higgins appearing in court friday. investigators say higgins was driving recklessly when he attempted to pass a slower moving vehicle on its right side hitting the brothers on bikes from behind. >> gray or black suv hatchback driving erratically. it was swerving around people and driving on the shoulder. >> reporter: the tragedy unfolding as the brothers were were scheduled to be part of their sister's wedding the next night, instead, the celebration now called off. the gaudreau family releasing a statement, mourning the loss of truly two amazing humans and asking for respect and privacy during this difficult period of grief. >> there's a lot of good hockey players in south jersey, and he was probably the best. that's why he was johnny hockey. >> reporter: on friday fans and mourners gathering to pay their respects outside the nationwide arena in columbus, ohio, where john played left wing for the blue jackets.

his former team, the calgary flames, honoring number 13 on their scoreboard. the 31-year-old known as johnny hockey was a seven-time all-star during his 11 seasons in the nhl. >> nothing was given to him, and he turned into one of the best left wingers in the entire league. but anyone who knows him knows that he was all about those close to him, specifically his family. >> reporter: hockey, the unbreakable bond between the brothers, both played for boston college where they were recruited as a team. >> if you asked us to name our favorite players, theve've got to be -- both boys got to be among them. >> reporter: 29-year-old matthew the head hockey coach at their former high school. he and his wife were expecting their first child together this winter. according to the arrest warrant, higgins failed a field sobriety test after officers say he told them he had consumed five or six beers prior to the accident. he will remain behind bars until his next hearing september 5th. gio?

>> gio: just an awful, awful story. all right, ike, thank you so much. to the presidential race now. heading off to a new phase now of intensity this holiday weekend. the first mail-in ballots going out to voters next week, and the abc news debate is just two weeks away. abc's maryalice parks is here. good morning, maryalice. it's quite literally go time now. >> yeah, gio, good morning. it's the end of summer, and that means the start of this final leg in the sprint to the white house. the campaigns are counting down to that debate, and, yes, working to get out the vote now with some ballots in crucial states like north carolina mailed out the end of this week. former president donald trump overnight speaking at the national summit of the controversial parents rights organization moms for liberty known for pushing book bans and upping attacks on public schoolteachers focusing on immigration. >> our country is being poisoned, poisoned, and your schools and your children are suffering greatly. >> reporter: education front and center. gwen walz, wife of democratic vice presidential candidate governor tim

a public school teacher herself holding her first solo event with fellow educators. >> say it with me, we are not going back. one more time in your best teacher voice, we are not going back! >> reporter: earlier friday trump campaigning in western pennsylvania ticking through other hot button issues like energy and climate hitting harris for saying in 2019 she would ban fracking. in that new cnn interview, harris explaining her position. >> no, and i made that clear on the debate stage in 2020 that i would not ban fracking. as vice president i did not ban fracking. as president i will not ban fracking. >> reporter: she added that her values around needing to fight climate change have not changed, and abortion, trump friday now saying he will as a florida resident vote no on a ballot measure aiming to overturn the state's near total abortion ban, even though just the day before, he indicated the state's new six-week ban was too restrictive. >> when i heard about it, i disagreed with it. at the same time the democrats are radical. >> reporter: outside trump's event, protesters focused on this very issue.

>> his work at appointing three of the supreme court justices who committed themselves to overthrowing roe v. wade is a human rights slap in the face. >> reporter: trump supporters looking ahead to the debate. >> i'm looking forward to him contrasting himself with kamala harris, our current vice president, because it's dramatically different, and she keeps copying his policies. >> now harris put out a statement overnight again saying she promised she would push for a national law restoring abortion rights. look, all of this back and forth on the issues, clearly a sign that the candidates are gearing up for that debate. they know just how consequential that head-to-head will be. >> gio: absolutely. so many things turning and twisting in the midst of all this. thank you, maryalice, and, of course, the abc news debate will host the first presidential debate between vice president kamala harris and former president donald trump, takes place on september 10th in philadelphia's national

constitution center beginning at 9:00 p.m. eastern. our own david muir and linsey davis are going to be the moderators, and it is live right here on abc and streaming on disney+ and hulu. >> rhiannon: we will be watching that, gio. overseas now to the middle east as israel launches more raids on the west bank while some fighting set to pause in gaza for the sake of polio vaccinations. abc's britt clennett is in jerusalem with more on that. good morning, britt. >> reporter: good morning, rhiannon. yeah, it's now four days since the idf launched massive raids in the west bank. the idf releasing video from the operation that killed a top hamas commander in jenin. hamas confirming his death. now, that city, jenin, now effectively sealed off as intent fighting dins there. the idf claiming they've killed 20 militants in what they say is a major counterterrorism operation, but fears that the war in gaza could be coming to the west bank. we saw firsthand some of the destruction in this camp.

locals very much angry and picking up the pieces. late last night, meanwhile, two car bomb attacks, the idf saying a terrorist infiltrated an israeli settlement. no civilians killed. in gaza video released showing further destruction in khan younis as the idf withdraws from there again. nine bodies recovered, and an air strike hit another aid convoy, this time belonging to a u.s. ngo. the idf saying armed men joined the convoy which went on to deliver the aid to a hospital even after the strike, and with limited pauses in fighting expected in the coming days to help facilitate a polio vaccine rollout, cease-fire talks grind on with no real breakthrough. a senior adviser telling me that hamas are not exempt from the pauses in the fighting, and it is not the start of a more enduring cease-fire. whit? >> whit: all right, britt clennett for us, thank you. we turn to southern california. a neighbor now under arrest in the disappearance of an elderly couple missing for nearly a week. melissa adan joins us from los angeles with the latest.

melissa, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, whit. so, police making a gruesome discovery finding what they believe are the bodies of the missing couple underneath their neighbor's home. that neighbor is now facing murder charges. this morning, a missing elderly couple from southern california presumed dead according to police who suspect their neighbor of homicide. 79-year-old dan menard and his wife, 73-year-old stephanie, vanishing a week ago. last seen with their dog cuddles at their redlands, california, home located in a nudist ranch. police finding their car abandoned nearby. the couple's cell phones and stephanie's purse inside their home. days later police involved in a standoff with the couple's neighbor. s.w.a.t. teams seen approaching sparks' property, then tearing through his home eventually going in with guns drawn forcing him to surrender. >> we did locate him under the home. >> reporter: police arresting

62-year-old michael sparks in connection to the couple's disappearance, charging him with murder. on friday, cadaver dogs detecting at least one body underneath his property. hours later, officials searching and finding a bunker underneath the home. >> great couple, you know, good christians, good people, and so when they disappeared, it was just a very big blow to the entire community. >> reporter: now, the exact motive of sparks and what led to their death remains unclear. police tell us that investigation continues with their current focus on properly identifying those discovered bodies. gio? >> gio: such a mystery. all right, melissa, thank you so much for that. and one of the two doctors charged in the overdose death of beloved actor matthew perry appeared in federal court in los angeles on friday. dr. mark chavez surrendered his medical license as part of a plea agreement. he's expected to plead guilty in the coming weeks to conspiring to distribute ketamine. chavez is facing up to ten years

in prison. rhiannon? >> rhiannon: there is a new twist in the long-running legal saga of adnan syed, syed, you might remember, was featured on the hit podcast "serial." the maryland supreme court upholding a decision to reinstate his murder conviction and ordering a new hearing. the court ruling that the 2022 hearing that freed syed violated the legal rights of the victim's family. syed remains free this morning. >> whit: communities across the country on alert as cases of mosquito-borne viruses are on the rise. abc's em nguyen is joining us now, and, em, these warnings are happening on a very busy holiday weekend. good morning. >> busy indeed, whit, yeah, good morning. health officials are sounding the alarm amid a rise in mosquito-borne illnesses including well nile virus and eastern equine encephalitis or triple e. in new jersey two older adults died of west nile virus. the number of the cases in the state now up to eight. it comes just one day after officials in wisconsin reported two people dead because of west

nile. this morning around 290 cases reported across 30 states. and while most people infected with west nile don't get any symptoms, 1 in 150 people may develop serious, even fatal illnesses. now, communities also on high alert for the rare but deadly triple e disease after officials in massachusetts said a second case was discovered in the state. the fear of an outbreak in the northeast prompting some public high schools in massachusetts to change the times of their football games. new york city also taking action to reduce the spread of west nile with regular sprayings across the city, and experts point out west nile kills roughly 100 to 200 people each year in the u.s. now, symptoms of west nile include high fever, headache, disorientation and even paralysis. and triple e symptoms overlap with many of those but include drowsiness and seizures. gio? >> gio: all right. em, thank you so much for that.

the u.s. agriculture department says dozens of health violations have been found at the boar's head plant in virginia linked to a deadly listeria outbreak. the violations include insects, mold, and puddles of blood that have been linked to a deadly listeria outbreak killing at least nine people. 57 others have been hospitalized after they ate boar's head products contaminated with listeria according to the centers for disease control and prevention. very important to watch for that. we got to get that handled. all right. time now for a check of the weather. somara theodore is back, and you're watching that rain. >> somara: yes, i am. this is going to stick around. it's all due to this disorganized tropical disturbance that we have here. all right. so flash flood threat for the gulf coast. take a look. areas in green including biloxi, new orleans, flood watch in effect now today into tonight. you can see the rain on the radar pulsing through. notice how it's meandering there, and the system in general meanders. as a result, three to five plus inches of rain is possible,

not even through today, but actually as we head through the holiday weekend, possibly beyond into the top of next week. so be very mindful on the roads. west coast still trying to find ways to beat this heat. triple digits for the state of california. 106 in phoenix. good morning, washington, oregon, parts of northern idaho, heat advisories have been issued for you as temperatures will even a little hotter than that. over the next few days we are anticipating the hot weekend to continue. salt lake city in the 90s, fresno, triple digits, even in denver, 91 today and on monday labor day. we look at the climate prediction center as we head through september 5th through 9th, we're going to stay much warmer than normal out west. meanwhile, the east coast we're pretty coo

>> somara: and that's a look at your local forecast. so, for our labor day holiday on monday here in the northeast things look pretty nice. >> gio: oh, good. >> somara: 70s and cool. >> whit: it'll cool down. as long as it's not pouring rain we're in good shape. >> somara: on monday. >> whit: okay. >> rhiannon: thanks, somara. now to the wnba and the battle to the wire for rookie of the year, angel reese and caitlin clark taking to the court for their fourth and final matchup of the year. abc's ike ejiochi is here with the highlights, and, ike, it was caitlin clark's night last night, but both these ladies are so much fun to watch. >> that's right, good morning, rhiannon. it really was her night last night, and she led the indiana fever to a 100-81 win

over the chicago sky. this was the regular season matchup, and the fever taking three games out of four against chicago this season. it was also the last chance for rookie rivals clark and angel reese to try to one-up each other in that battle for rookie of the year honors. now, clark, getting the best of the night shooting 8 for 14 including five three-pointers for a career high 31 points. reese scored 10 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for her 23rd double-double of the season breaking the wnba rookie record. now, both reese and clark are getting credit for a huge increase in interest in the wnba this season, and this game was no different. it was a sellout crowd in chicago for barbie night in honor of reese's college nickname at lsu, bayou barbie. now, the fever firmed up their chances for a playoff berth while chicago is on the edge of not making it to the postseason. both players insist the rookie of the year race is the last thing on their minds. they just want to win. guys? >> whit: sure. >> rhiannon: yeah, but no matter who wins this, they both are

winners here, because they changed the game for the better. >> gio: 100%. >> whit: for the fans, so much fun to watch. thank you, ike. we appreciate it. still ahead here, our college football gameday week one preview with espn's desmond howard. >> gio: plus, after a blockbuster summer, hollywood banks on the movies hitting the theaters this fall. >> rhiannon: later, where to go for the best labor day weekend deals. mom, dad. the new school year is a chance to show off what i'm into. you know how i love dinos? how i talk about dinos all the time? like at all three meals, in the car, through the bathroom door, blah blah blah, dinos dinos dinos? well, i've evolved! and it's all about sharks now. so, for back to school, let's just focus on sharks and only sharks and if it's not sharks, it's not for me. ♪ ♪ have you always had trouble losing weight and keeping it off? same. discover the power of wegovy®.

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♪ just a bit of a break from the norm ♪ >> whit: we're all feeling the jams on this one, right? welcome back to "gma." that, of course, is deejay jazzy jeff and the fresh prince also known as will smith celebrating the summer of 1991 with their hit, "summertime." coming up, will ganss takes a look at what it takes for a song to become a summertime anthem. >> rhiannon: i don't know if anything can ever top that. >> gio: oh, man. that's a good one. a lot of debate over which song should get it this year. >> whit: we'll get into it. >> gio: let's take a look at some of the other big stories we're following on this saturday morning. happening right now, the labor day travel rush, oh, it is shaping up to be the busiest on record with tsa expecting to screen more than 17 million passengers. millions of americans are expected to hit the roads and the skies this holiday weekend while millions are under alert for nasty weather, thunderstorms, threatening flash flooding, torrential rain, hail, even tornadoes. >> whit: all right right now the fda has authorized novavax's new

protein-based vaccine that targets the highly contagious omicron subvariant. it began circulating widely in the usa earlier this year. the fda's decision comes only a week after it approved a new round of shots from pfizer and moderna, which both target another offshoot of the virus. >> rhiannon: a massive upset at the u.s. open as number 28 seed australian alexei popyrin defeated olympic champion and number two seed novak djokovic. defending champion coco gauff rallied from a set down to win her u.s. open third round match, and all eyes were on center court where frances tiafoe defeated ben shelton in an all-american matchup. what a summer it has been. >> whit: djokovic upset. alcaraz upset too. it's been incredible. some americans doing big things still. >> gio: yeah, absolutely. we are going to start with a closer look at the race for 2024, and joining us are abc white house correspondent maryalice parks and contributing political correspondent rachael bade. welcome to you both. good morning. rachael, let's start with you, because we saw this week

kamala harris sit down for her first interview. politically how did she do? >> you know, politically speaking, she did what she needed to do, and that was turn the page on the kamala harris of ole, the kamala harris who ran in 2020 for president and supported a lot of liberal positions that are not popular with swing voters and instead run directly and as hard as she can toward the center. i mean, she was asked about a lot of positions and held back then and said she doesn't support them anymore like banning fracking, which actually would hurt her in pennsylvania. she said she wouldn't ban fracking as president and asked about her suggestion that crossing the border should basically be decriminalized, decriminalizing illegal border crossings, back in 2020, she said she's not going to do that, that the laws of the united states need to be upheld, and she even suggested she would appoint a republican to her cabinet. this is exactly what a lot of democrats want to see her do, move to the center, speak to swing voters, and that's what she's got to do to win in their view. >> whit: and, maryalice, on that exact topic during the interview we saw this sort of appeal to the moderates,

especially in the critical swing states. >> she pitched herself as the unity candidate saying that she would appoint a republican to her cabinet and look for diversity of opinions and doubled down on being the cop going against the felon, right, that she was the one that actually prosecuted gangs when it came to the border. but, look, democrats never agree on everything. i also talked to a lot of democrats who know there's risk to some of that strategy, right? you know, she's talking about gaza, for example. there were a lot of democrats who i think at the beginning of her campaign thought that they maybe saw an opening. they thought maybe she would present herself different than president biden. a lot of progressives but not just progressives, a lot of main street democrats who are hoping that if she wins there might be a change in u.s. policy to try to get israel to come to the negotiating table to change how it's prosecuting this war. she was asked about that. she absolutely just said no, would not go there. did not want to put any daylight between her and president biden. that's kind of the big question. going forward does she put any distance between herself and president biden? you know, on that issue in particular i talked to one palestinian american who works

at really high levels of sort of dem politics. she said after the interview she was gutted and dismayed. i mean, the reality is we don't know yet if she can find that sweet spot of keeping her base excited, environmentalists excited, but also appealing to moderate voters. >> rhiannon: and, rachael, let's talk reproductive rights. we know this is a huge campaign issue. it was a big week for trump and harris on this. how important is it for the candidates to clarify their positions on this for the election and for voters? >> well, democrats have been pretty clear where they stand on reproductive rights. it's donald trump right now who is, let's be honest, is about as clear as mud on his positions. i mean, he bragged for a long time that he was the president who essentially overturned roe v. wade, but this week alone he flip-flopped multiple times on whether he supports florida's six-week abortion ban. first suggesting that six weeks is not enough time for women to even know they're pregnant and that he would sort of vote to scratch that or strike that in this ballot measure that they have coming up in the fall, and then after getting blowback

from the pro-life community, he changed his position again and said he would support keeping it in place essentially. so i think the big thing i want to mention this morning is this head scratcher of his proposal of free taxpayer-funded ivf for everyone or requiring insurance companies to basically madate or mandating insurance companies pay for ivf. i went through not one, but five rounds of ivf. i can speak to the emotional but financial struggle it is to actually go this. $40,000 a pop with no guarantee that it's going to be successful and the only reason i have my 2-year-old daughter today is because i happened to work for a company that required the insurance company to pay for ivf. that is very rare. so the fact that donald trump is now coming out and saying, look, we have to do that, that really pulls out -- pulls at the heartstrings of a lot of women who i think are really struggling with fertility issues, but i got to tell you, i spoke to a lot of republicans who said that this is basically pandering to women, that there's no way that they're going to pass something like this,

that a lot of republicans don't support it. so, i think this week there will be a lot of questions about whether donald trump is making empty promises for votes right now or whether he's serious about this, which is a huge issue. >> gio: and, maryalice, you were telling us earlier in the show about those mail-in ballots going out next week. the abc debate is just ten days away now. so what's going on in the campaigns right now? >> and they're absolutely focused on that debate and know just how consequential an actual head-to-head would be and saw the last debate changed the entire race and know that's potentially the case this time too. but in the final stretch both campaigns would like to say they're focused on getting out the vote and focused on moderate and swing voters. the other thing that went on this week that did not go unnoticed, trump, as "the new york times" put it dialed up the vulgarity online. the amount of posts that were, frankly, sexually charged, really misogynistic, racially charged of these attacks against harris that are getting nastier and nastier, darker and darker. we were talking earlier about

how j.d. vance posted some pretty misogynistic stuff online. it's hard for me to see that that is really a play for moderate voters. swing voters, moderate women in suburbs, you know, in this final stretch is he actually alienating the exact kind of people that he needs, and can the campaign sort of bring him back to where he needs to focus. >> whit: and on the flip side we have seen harris avoid that altogether, the identity politics of it all. next question, please. >> she didn't want anything to do with it in that interview. next question. >> rhiannon: maryalice parks, rachael bade, thank you so much. let's take a look at our big holiday weekend forecast with somara. >> somara: hey, everyone, so, we're talking tropics. take a look, a lot going on out there. you can see here we have a 50% chance of development over the next seven days in the caribbean right off the coast of africa. this area has about a 20% chance of development, and that is one we talked about near the gulf coast, that's going to bring flooding to the region in places like new orleans, biloxi and the gulf coast of texas. if you're planning on heading to the beach for the holiday weekend, okay, out in texas, 93

degrees. the water temperature is 87, not bad. i like that. miami in the mid-80s, up in jones beach in the low 70s. >> som >> somara: that's a look at your local forecast. my friends, back to you. >> gio: all right, somara, thank you. coming up on "good morning america," kicking off week one of the college football season. espn "gameday's" desmond howard joins us to look at the matchups. stick around. joins us to look at the matchups. stick around. won't it taste bitter? not this dark chocolate. (♪) now what? we wait. (♪) i can't... (♪)

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what you got tonight? >> i tell you what, this is going to be a great matchup. there's so many story lines in this game. you got mike elko, who is the coach of the texas a&m aggies. he used to coach the quarterback for notre dame, so there's a lot of story lines. i think the biggest story line, though, is going to be notre dame's offensive line. they're starting two new tackles. these guys don't have a lot of experience, and i tell you what, they don't call this place the 12th man for nothing. they get loud. they get rowdy. it's going to be crazy. i want to see how they affect -- the crowd noise affects the offensive line coming in with riley leonard who used to play for mike elko. >> gio: they're loud and rowdy behind you, desmond. you got a massive game in atlanta noon eastern between number 14 clemson and number 1 georgia, so what should fans expect to see from the number one team in the country?

>> i tell you what, the number one team in the country, the georgia bulldogs coming in with quarterback carson beck. you know, he's a guy that had a really, really strong season a year ago. i think they're still kind of hurt they didn't make the cfp because they lost to alabama in the s.e.c. championship game, but they're not making a lot of noise about it. i think they're just going about their business. they are kind of, like, laying in the weeds. they're number one, but they're not making a lot of noise. i expect them to come out and play a high-spirited game against the clemson tigers in atlanta today. >> rhiannon: desmond, we are so excited football is finally back. we are kicking off week one, of course, of the season. what are the other big storylines you're watching? >> well, the biggest storyline is the 12-team playoff format. it used to be four teams. now we have 12 teams meaning more teams have hope of making the college football playoffs, so even if you lose in week one, like florida state, florida state, they lost in week zero, but their hopes and dreams and everything is still ahead of them as long as they can get back on track.

so, no matter who wins and loses early, you still have a hope -- you still have hopes of making it to the cfp. that's the storyline, but now it's all about kyle field, right? everybody, everybody, the 12th man, let's go. [ cheers and applause ] >> rhiannon: the 12th man, indeed. [ laughter ] looking good out there. >> the 12th man, baby. >> rhiannon: having fun out there. wow! you can catch "college gameday" live from texas a&m starting at 9:00 a.m. eastern on espn. then our labor day weekend espn and abc college football lineup has notre dame at texas a&m and that is primetime on abc at 7:30. looking forward to all of those games. coming up here on "good morning america," looking ahead to the fall movie season. there's some big ones coming out. we'll tell you which films hollywood is banking on to go big at the box office. box offi. s mental health, but his medication caused unintentional movements in his face, hands, and feet called tardive dyskinesia, or td. so his doctor prescribed austedo xr— a once-daily, extended-release td treatment for adults.

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our "play of the day" is a dalmatian in new york central park. spotting a saks player and he's singing. that's very cute. the man charged with killing five of his family members last month in alameda, pleaded not guilty to all charges. 54 year old shane killian is accused of murdering his two young sons, his wife and his mother and father in law. the july 10th mass shooting happened inside the family's house on kittyhawk road. killian faces life in prison if convicted of all charges. his next court appearance is in october. san jose is now ranked the number one most expensive city to buy or rent, compared to the most populous cities across the country. that's according to a

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