good morning, america. confirmation firestorm. >> a crucial vote on supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh just hours away. thousands on capitol hill to protest. from the steps -- [ chanting ] -- to the halls. >> how dare you talk to women that way. >> judge kavanaugh makes his closing argument defending his fiery testimony but admitting he might have been too emotional and said things he shouldn't have said. now senators poised to decide. we're live on capitol hill. flash flooding alert. heavy rain hammering the northeast overnight and now the midwest bracing for severe storms and even snow. the terrifying accident at a pumpkin patch.

a 2-year-old now in critical condition after this inflatable bounce pad goes flying. the toddler stuck inside. abc news exclusive. monica lewinsky here live. her new anti-bullying campaign to fight harassment only on "gma" this morning. vanished. the urgent search for a missing mother of two. she disappeared mysteriously in the middle of the night. her husband says he last saw her when they went to bed. authorities now using dogs and drones to find her. ♪ 'cause i'm gonna fight like a girl ♪ and "fight like a girl." our giant breast cancer awareness event. supporters across the country and here in times square donating their hair and the singer whose song is inspiring so many thrivers, anita cochran, is here performing live. ♪ my faith and have no fear ♪ 'cause i'm a fighter i'm a survivor ♪

and anita cochran is also a thriver. good morning, america. great to have you with us on this "fight like a girl" friday and we cannot wait for our big event. >> really excited for it. people all across the country and in times square are all joining in donating their hair and their money to support this incredible cause, the fight against breast cancer. >> this will be an incredible experience throughout our show. a first, of course, we want to get to that confirmation battle dividing the country right now. overnight judge kavanaugh wrote that op-ed and thousands protesting on capitol hill. >> it is not slowing down the senate. a crucial vote taking place this morning and judge kavanaugh could be confirmed as early as tomorrow. it could all come down to four senators and our senior congressional correspondent mary bruce starts us off on capitol hill with the very latest. good morning, mary. >> reporter: good morning, robin. well, in less than an hour the

senate will hold that key vote to advance kavanaugh's nomination and while a path to his confirmation is emerging this is not a done deal yet. the senate just gafled into session and there's four key undecided votes. the clock is ticking for them to make a decision. with a critical vote just hours away, president trump overnight praised his supreme court pick. >> and you see what is going on in congress right now with one of the most respected people potentially, hopefully supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. [ chanting ] this morning the white house has cause for optimism. two of the key undecided votes seem satisfied with the fbi investigation into allegations of kavanaugh's sexual misconduct. senator susan collins telling reporters it appears to be a very thorough investigation and jeff flake of arizona who demanded the fbi investigate after this encounter with two women. >> i'm talking to you. you're telling me my assault doesn't matter, that what

happened to me doesn't matter. >> reporter: now flake sounding positive after seeing the report. >> i was a yes before this and now we're in the process of reviewing it. but thus far, we've seen no new, credible corroboration, no new corroboration at all. >> reporter: another key hold-out senator lisa murkowski of alaska is still undecided. so is democrat joe manchin. so is democrat joe manchin. one senator has made a decision, heidi heitkamp. she tells fargo station wday news she's opposing kavanaugh even if it costs her her job. >> if this were a political decision for me i certainly would be deciding this the other way. you know, there is an old saying history will judge you but most importantly you'll judge yourself and that's really what i'm saying. i can't get up in the morning and look at the life experience that i've had and say, yes to judge kavanaugh. >> reporter: on capitol hill the political pressure is

tremendous. >> this one vote we won't know until the vote is cast. >> reporter: protesters making their voices heard. >> why aren't you -- why aren't you brave enough to talk to us and exchange with us? don't you wave your hand at me. i wave my hand at you. >> you grow up. >> when i grow up? >> how dare you talk to women that way. how dare you. how dare you. >> reporter: while in the basement of the capitol senators shuffle in and out of this controlled room to review the fbi's report. behind these doors just a single copy, 46 pages of summaries from interviews with nine alleged witnesses, but democrats are challenging the investigation. >> the whole thing is a sham. >> reporter: they say the review is incomplete. the scope too narrow with key witnesses left out including christine blasey ford and judge kavanaugh himself. >> democrats agreed that the investigation scope should be limited. we did not agree that the white house should tie the fbi's

hands. >> reporter: republicans insist the fbi report was thorough and backs up judge kavanaugh's story. now they're ready to vote. >> enough already. let's vote. >> reporter: now the senate will hold that vote later this morning setting up a possible final vote tomorrow afternoon. but there is one more potential wrinkle here. one republican senator, steve daines is going to be out of town at his daughters wedding. republicans don't seem too worry. steve daines reportedly said two things he's confident of, judge kavanaugh getting confirmed, and he will walk his daughter down the aisle. >> thank you. michael. the supreme court nominee writing an op-ed in "the wall street journal" making his final case he deserves to be voted to the court. abc's terry moran is in washington with more. good morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, michael. you know it's almost unheard of, i can't remember anything like

it, for a supreme court nominee on the eve of a senate vote to publicly campaign for confirmation. but on both sides in this nomination all those old rules went out the window long ago and so this morning, judge kavanaugh himself comes out swinging. this morning, judge brett kavanaugh is making his closing arguments in an article he's written for "the wall street journal." >> this confirmation process has become a national disgrace. >> reporter: defending his intense testimony and his nomination to the supreme court, kavanaugh writes, my hearing testimony was forceful and passionate. that is because i forcefully and passionately denied the allegation against me. he also admits, i might have been too emotional at times. i know that my tone was sharp and i said a few things i should not have said. kavanaugh did not elaborate on what those few things might be. his confrontational exchanges with senators during the testimony sparked questions about his temperament. >> you're asking about blackout. i don't know. have you? >> could you answer the question, judge? >> reporter: he's also raised

eyebrows during moments like this striking a starkly partisan tone. >> this whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit, revenge on behalf of the clintons and millions of dollars in money from outside left wing opposition groups. >> reporter: this morning, kavanaugh writes, the supreme court must never be viewed as a partisan institution, the justices do not sit on opposite sides of the aisle. as president trump continues to back his supreme court pick -- >> democrats have been trying to destroy judge brett kavanaugh. [audience boos] since the very first second he was announced. >> reporter: judge kavanaugh continues to face sharp criticism including these tough words from former supreme court justice john paul stevens who

now says kavanaugh should not sit on the supreme court bench. >> he's a fine federal judge and he should have been confirmed when he was nominated but i think that his performance during the hearings cause me to change my mind. >> reporter: that is an extraordinary rebuke. justice stevens often voted liberal but was always considered a cordial and correct colleague up there. his willingness to denounce this nominee is a sign of the challenges judge kavanaugh and the court will face if he's confirmed by the senate. cecilia. >> okay, terry, thank you. it will be a huge day in washington and joining us now is a key member of the senator judiciary committee, democrat chris coons of delaware. thanks for joining us on this very busy day. right back to that extraordinary op-ed published overnight written by judge kavanaugh. he says, quote, i was very emotional last thursday, more so than i have ever been. i might have been too emotional at times and i said a few things i should not have said. you had said he crossed a line during his testimony last thursday. do you accept this mea culpa

from judge kavanaugh? >> it was clear to me that judge kavanaugh came out of the gates last friday very emotional, very raw, very angry. but he said things that he should not have. as a sitting federal circuit court judge, he knew better than to engage in an aggressive, partisan attack, not just on democrats, but on folks who opposed him and as he pointed out to us at the beginning of his testimony last friday, he himself had carefully written it and reviewed it. that was a planned slam at the democrats on the committee and i frankly think he crossed a line in terms of judicial behavior and showed us things about his temperament that i think the undecided senators ought to be weighing very carefully today. >> let's go back to this supplemental report by the fbi. you've now read it. do you acknowledge it does not contain any new evidence that brings credibility to the allegations of sexual assault or misconduct raised by dr. ford or deborah ramirez? >> well, you can't find what you

don't look for. there were a few people interviewed and they were the people who were potential eyewitnesses to both incidents, but both debbie ramirez and dr. ford came forward when they were interviewed in ramirez's case or when they testified to the committee and tried to offer additional corroborating witnesses who were never interviewed. my office has heard from many of them. they're now out in press reports trying to give statements. i would agree that the materials that i read did not provide direct corroboration, but there were a dozen, two dozen other witnesses who were not interviewed and so i was disappointed in the scope of this interview and i was disappointed in the scope of the materials. this is not the investigation that i thought the fbi would do and that the american people deserve. >> you are taking issue with the scope. but, senator, this was your idea. you are the one that proposed this one-week pause. >> that's correct. absolutely. and i'm grateful to my friend jeff flake for being the person

who helped make it happen. i appreciate that we did pause for a week while there was an fbi investigation. the scope was set by the republican majority in the senate and then conveyed to the fbi by the white house counsel. so, the idea that we should have an fbi investigation where for a week they followed all the leads for the current credible allegations in front of the committee was something i enthusiastically supported and called for. i don't think that's the work product that's in front of us. i am not blaming the fbi. i'm simply saying that the scope of this additional background investigation was too narrow for there to be corroborating evidence for dr. ford or for debbie ramirez. there was nothing in this report -- >> final question. is judge kavanaugh going to be the next supreme court justice? >> i don't know. several of my friends who are undecided have not returned my calls in the last day and that typically is a way a senator tells you they're busy deciding. i think this will be very close and we'll have to find out later

today when we vote. >> senator coons, thank you. robin. >> all right cecelia, thank you. we'll bring in dan abrams. all along it was said that this was going to be a limited, a limited investigation. but was it taken to the extreme? >> well, the question became are they looking at whether he lied in front of the senate or are they looking at simply can they find corroboration for the dr. ford and ramirez allegations? and it seems they decided not to go for the broader investigation into exactly what he said and instead went for a much more limited version, but, remember, this is not a criminal investigation. in effect the president, as people call him, the client here and he's saying to the fbi in the form of his white house counsel, here's how far we want you to go with this and when you

look at it this way and say it's not entirely up to the fbi how far they'll go it starts to make sense to what they did and didn't do. >> even though we heard from dr. ford and judge kavanaugh in that hearing, the fbi chose not to interview them and people are wondering is it truly a valid investigation and, as the senator just said to cecilia, there were so many others that could back up their stories. >> i think it's actually more important about the other people that they didn't interview than whether they re-interviewed brett kavanaugh and interviewed dr. christine ford. i think they pretty much laid out their cases there in front of the senate with numerous questions. you can say it still would have been useful to talk to them. i don't think that's the salient point here. the salient one is the point senator coons is making, how far

did you want to go with this? did you want to allow it to have additional tentacles when people said maybe you should talk to this person and that person and whether they did it or not. >> your take on the judge's op-ed? >> in "the wall street journal," i think he had to do it. in the legal community his biggest problem was his testimony with legal groups and him talking about left wing opposition groups and clinton revenge and was not helpful to him and wanted to address that. >> we'll have special coverage, of course, of today's hearing all morning long. overseas to that devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit indonesia. today marks one week since it struck. the death toll is still climbing. more than 1,500 people killed. 70,000 homeless and now time is running out for crews hopes to find survivors. rescue operations have been stalled because the land is still so saturated. michael. >> thank you. now to chicago. a city on edge this morning awaiting a verdict in the trial of police officer jason van dyke who's charged with murder for shooting 17-year-old laquan mcdonald. the case now in the hands of the jury, and abc's alex perez has the latest. >> reporter: this morning, the

police force here more than 12,000 officers is standing by ready to react. the case turned over to the jury thursday afternoon, van dyke is accused of killing 17-year-old laquan mcdonald, shooting the teen who was holding a three-inch knife 16 times. van dyke emotionally testified he fired his gun because the teen ignored commands to drop the knife and lunged at him. >> i was yelling at him, drop the knife. i yelled it i don't know how many times. >> reporter: but the incident captured on police dash cam video appears to show mcdonald who was high on pcp walking away from van dyke when he is shot. the release of the video in 2015 sparked months' long protests. [ chanting ] with a verdict now possible at any moment businesses worried about protests preparing to shut their doors. schools also getting ready, some holding special sessions to make sure students are informed.

and the jury is set to resume deliberations this morning. if convicted, van dyke could face life in prison. robin. >> alex, thank you. now to that 2-year-old in critical condition this morning after an inflatable bounce pad he was playing on went airborne at a pumpkin patch. abc's gio benitez is here with that. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. yeah, it was a 59-mile-per-hour gust that caused that inflatable at a pumpkin patch to go airborne hurting that boy seriously. again, he is in critical condition. we have police audio right now. let's listen. >> children inside of a bouncy house that tipped overd due to the. child still unconscious. >> reporter: a 5-year-old girl was also thrown roughly 30 feet while her 2-year-old brother was trapped inside. the owner writing it's been a very emotional night. thanks to everyone for the overwhelming support and concern. our thoughts and prayers are with the family at this time. now, the same type of pumpkin-themed bounce pad was involved in a new york incident

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welcome back to "gma." you're looking at first lady melania trump in kenya this morning visiting baby elephants on the third stop of her first solo international trip. she's also visiting an orphanage and going on safari and then she'll head to egypt for the final leg of her trip focused on her be best initiative. >> and you know she rarely speaks publicly. very rarely sits down for interviews so we have a big announcement. abc's chief national affairs correspondent tom llamas is sitting down with the first lady during this trip. this is an exclusive interview. the one-hour prime time special "being melania" airs 10:00 p.m. right here on abc.

is this definitely is one to see. >> it is. now the top headlines we're following. the senate is set to hold the first key vote on brett kavanaugh this morning. kavanaugh could be confirmed as early as tomorrow and these four senators could determine the fate of kavanaugh with their votes. and the winners of the nobel peace prize have just been announced and we need to say congratulations to dr. denis mukwege and nadia murad. they were awarded for their work bringing attention to sexual violence and dedicating their lives to help victims. we have good news for the 13-year-old injured in that shark encounter off the coast of california. he has now been released from the hospital. his mom told us he's not scared to get back in the water. >> wow. >> brave, brave young man. >> yes. >> a lot more brave than i am. now to that abc news exclusive. monica lewinsky, she's speaking out against bullying. october is bullying prevention month and she's here launching a new campaign taking on name-calling.

we'll speak with monica live in a moment. first, amy has more on this powerful new project. >> good morning, guys. we know 20 years ago monica was the target of a very public shaming. well, now monica lewinsky teaming up with an army of celebrities to fight back against harassment in a very moving campaign. it's called defy the name. take a look. >> i think the kinds of people who have had those experiences of having been bullied -- >> reporter: monica lewinsky has an urgent message. she describes herself as patient zero, the first person to be cyber bullied ever and to have suffered a vicious smear campaign that followed her for two decades since being at the center of scandal playing out online. >> i'd have a long list of bullies from childhood all the way up. >> reporter: that's why this morning monica lewinsky is working with the production team to deliver her mission, standing up for the voiceless and the isolated. the new psa launching today. >> i'm john oliver also known as

dumb [ muted ] loser. >> reporter: shows that even some of the biggest celebrities were called names too and still went on to do great things. >> and the award for best actress goes to lena the whiney [muted]. >> the skinny piece of crap tony hawk. >> changing their twitter display names to the names they were bullied by to send a message to all those bullied you are not alone. >> monica lewinsky joins us now. monica, thanks for being with us. we know you've been vocal about having been called names in the past and name-calling is something almost everyone has faced. talk about the power of defy the name. i love this psa. >> thank you. and thanks for having me. name-calling is the most common form of bullying that we see and as you were saying i think everybody knows what it's like to be called hurtful and harmful

so we call this campaign #defythename because it's about not letting the names that other people call you define who you are. you know, defy the name. don't let being bullied define you. >> i love that. you're not in the psa but you are participating in the campaign. you're actually going to change your name live on the air so i'll let you do that right now. >> well, so let me just say first too so people know how to be involved that are called to action and why i did this is that we want people to change their display name if they feel brave enough. so not your twitter handle or your user name but your display name on all social media platforms to include your bullied name. so that's what i've done and my bullied name is monica chunky slut stalker that woman lewinsky. >> is that hard to say out loud?

>> it is. it is and lucky me i had a lot of names to choose from. so it was quite a process, i think, to go through, but i felt it was important to walk the talk and to -- we'll see at the end of the month if i feel they have less power to them over me. >> and to know you're not alone and to see it and see that picture, that visual of all of those names you've been called. it's a powerful thing. >> yeah, it is. and i'm grateful to all of the people who participated in the psa and have stepped up to share the names that they were called growing up and really i think what we really want to do here is create a community online of empathy and showing people who are going through this right now that they're not alone and many people have gone through this and they have not let it define the rest of their life. >> most people probably have gone through this. >> how about you, amy? are you going to change your fame? >> yes, i said i would. >> i'm going to recruit you.

>> i am because when i was a new girl in sixth grade i was a competitive gymnast, underdeveloped an the boys started calling me skeeter. you can figure out what that means. >> i'm sorry. >> i was sobbing in the bathroom and they would call me it. yell it at me. write it on the bathroom wall so i will do the same. >> thank you. >> you will see that on my social media accounts later today. now, this psa campaign has come at a time when we're all talking about the public shaming of dr. christine blasey ford and, of course, in regards to supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. a couple of weeks ago you tweeted i am so sorry this woman was outed without consent. i am sorry for what she endured as a teenager and thank her for her bravery stepping forward. senators are now voting on the nomination of kavanaugh. what do you think about how her story, this story has been handled? >> oh, dr. ford has been incredible. i mean, she was bullied. she was called names and she didn't let that stop her from being brave and i don't believe

she wanted to testify. i know what that's like. it's a hard thing to do and she's just been an incredible role model in bravery. >> i know you don't want to talk about the past but a year ago -- >> you are right, amy. >> i know that. i've been told that. but you tweeted me too a year ago. >> correct. >> what do you think about that movement and where it is a year later? >> you know, it's -- i think it's been both heartbreaking and heartwarming to see the millions of people around the world both women and men standing up essentially raising their hands on social media and being counted. i think, you know, personally and many of us have a lot of gratitude to tarana burke who started the movement ten years ago, all the brave women who stepped forward and picked that back up this year. i think it's been extraordinary and for younger generations it will never be the same. >> you say you want to create a more compassionate internet. do you think that hashtags like

me too, #believewomen, #whyididntreport all play a role? >> absolutely. social media can be a playground and a breeding ground really for the kind of vitriol and hateful speech we've seen in bullying online but i think with the hashtags, what we see is something extraordinary that happens online too. so with #metoo and the recent hashtags -- i'm sorry. i need water. i'm nervous. >> you're doing amazing and talking about something that's so personal. >> we're going to capitol hill. let's pausespecial report with david muir. >> announcer: this is an abc news special report. the kavanaugh confirmation vote. now reporting, david muir. good morning. we're coming on the air at this

hour with breaking news. crucial vote on supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh is now under way on capitol hill. the senate is voting right now. on whether to advance judge kavanaugh's nomination to a final confirmation. that final vote could come as early as tomorrow. this vote is crucial right now. all eyes are still on four undecided senators. republican senators susan collins, lisa murkowski and jeff flake who just voted aye to move this forward. we're also watching joe manchin this morning from west virginia. he has said that he's not decided before rooifing in the chamber this morning. republican susan collins has voted yes to advance it forward. senate judiciary chairman chuck grassley saying we don't know how it's going to go until the

votes get cast. judge kavanaugh writing his fiery testimony might have too emotional in an op-ed. it's now up to the senators to decide. millions of americans, con students back home will be wa h watching back home. let's listen in to the vote. jeff flake voting aye to move it forward. >> mr. reed. mr. risch. mr. roberts. >> aye. >> mr. rounds. >> aye. >> mr. rubio. >> of course as we listen in to the senate chamber, it can be difficult to hear the actual vote. instead hearing the names being called. watching this with me is mary

bruce. mary, we were taking note that a short time ago senators collins and murkowski they didn't enter together, they were seen talking to one another. >> david, always interesting to see the body language here. between these key undecided votes. those key senators we have been watching so closely in these past few days. one thing that strikes me so much this morning is how truly so many of these senators are still wrestling with this decision. not just by the politics here but genuinely the undecided voters still seem to be struggling with this vote. senator joe manchin took another look at the fbi report on judge kavanaugh's alleged allegations of sexual misconduct. he told reporters that he didn't think how he was going to vote until he walked through the doors here today. >> some breaking news, while you were reporting in, we heard

senator murkowski voted no to this cloture vote. of course, she's been one of those key senators who we did not know which way she would go. she's a senator from alaska. it had been reported that victims of sexual assault had been in her office yesterday. as we know senators on capitol hill have been receiving many calls since the testimony of dr. christine blasey ford last week. again, murkowski meeting with some of those victims in the last 24 hours it's been reported. this morning, voting no on this cloture vote. senator murkowski said before the testimony last week before brett kavanaugh and dr. ford, quote, we're now in a place whether or not judge kavanaugh is qualified it's about whether or not a woman who has been a victim at some point in her life is to be believed. this is significant. senator murkowski's no vote is

significant. >> she might be making this vote. she had been under tremendous pressure from her constituents. it's something that's been different about this debate that we have seen here on the hill. the level of interaction between protesters and these key undecided votes. these key swing votes has been really something to watch. something tremendous. we have seen protesters not just here on the streets outside of washington but actually engaging senators directly. taking their case to their representatives, either to support or to vote against judge kavanaugh. lisa murkowski under tremendous pressure and now we know she's voting "no" to advance this debate. >> help viewers understand how this work, mary, a "no" vote this morning in the cloture

doesn't necessarily mean a "no" vote in the confirmation. >> this is a procedural vote. how senators vote today doesn't necessarily direct how they'll vote on final passage. if this vote goes through, they'll likely vote on final passage some time tomorrow afternoon. you mentioned susan collins. collins is a yes now to this vote. she could technically vote no tomorrow but that seems unlikely given some of the signs we have seen coming from her. she thought that the fbi investigation was thorough. it will be interesting to see what she has to say later this afternoon. david. >> wyden. mr. senators, no. mr. lee.

>> aye. >> aye. mr. hassan? no. >> as we listen in here, now pulling some of the democratic senators. this is not typical. the procedure that's under way here this morning. we're trying to keep close watch on what it is we're witnessing. we know that the democratic senator joemanchin, one of the undecides going into this morning voting "yes" to this cloture vote. there's a lot of pressure on senator manchin. he comes from west virginia

where president trump won handily in the 2016 election. mr. mamplin is a democrat and has been deliberating. and had been in the secure room where the findings of the fbi investigation are, under lock and key. he said that he was undecided. he wanted to look at the findings of that report again, before heading into this room to vote. >> mr. donnelly. >> cokie roberts watching this unfold this morning. this is slightly different from what we normally see. >> david, when senators take a vote they're wandering on and off the floor. they're talking to each other. only three, four on the floor at the same time. here, they're sitting in their seats. listening. serious. calm. standing to vote. this is a very, very serious proceeding and they know it and that's why they're behaving in this fashion. they're all there and they're taking this quite seriously. normally, i have to tell you, with the cloture vote, to vote

to end debate, if you vote "yes" on cloture, it means taking it to the next step. if you vote "no" on closure, you're saying i don't want to take it to the next step. it's very, very unlikely that you would then vote for the nominee. the fact that lisa murkowski has voted "no" is highly significant. the fact that joe manchin and sue collins voted "yes" is also significant but not quite as significant. >> we do believe that the republicans have the 50 votes they were looking for for closure. but as cokie just mentioned, sometimes this initial vote of closure is an indicator of what to come. for lisa murkowski, cokie, this was significant that she was a "no" vote this morning and senator joe manchin, a "yes"

vote. >> he could be the senator to bring judge kavanaugh to the supreme court. lisa murkowski is not up this year. she knows how to work alaska. she lost her primary the last time she ran. then, ran as a write-in candidate. she's not as fearful of the republican base as some of the others are. sussan collins i'm told, if she votes against kavanaugh she's likely not to be nominated again by republicans in the state of maine. >> jon karl watching with us this morning. senior white house correspondent. what are we to read into senator susan collins, yes to closure

but appear later on this afternoon and deliver a speech what her final decision will be. >> i think it's merely impossible to imagine that susan collins would vote yes on this the critical vote and then change her mind or vote differently on the final vote. she has her big speech at 3:00, the most immediate impact of her saying that she's not announcing yet how she'll vote on the final vote. i think it's a way to make sure that there's a little bit drama left and attention. we'll all be watching her speech. i completely agree with what mary bruce has said about all of collins' comments. now, this vote. they all point in the direction of her voting "yes" on the final confirmation. david, what we have seen is we have seen that brett kavanaugh will be a supreme court justice. >> jon karl watching this

morning. and again, that key and crucial vote as we were saying, senator joe manchin, democrat of west virginia, this is not his final vote. he did vote "yes" this morning to end the debate to end the debate of whether brett kavanaugh should be appointed to the supreme court. some very strong indicators it looks like judge kavanaugh will be the next supreme court justice. if that does happen, the swing seat on the supreme court will shift to more conservative-leaning for generations. historic vote. we're watching the first round of this. it's no guarantee of what could come as early as tomorrow. some strong indicators that we're witnessing this morning is very positive for both brett kavanaugh and for president trump and the white house. i want to bring in terry moran

who has covered the supreme court for us for years. it's very rare perhaps we haven't seen this in our lifetime, a retired supreme court justice weighs in on the eve of this closure vote. justice john paul stephens. he did reveal that he changed his views for reasons that had no relationship to brett kavanaugh's intellectual ability. he revealed in the last 24 hours, quote, i feel his performance the hearings ultimately changed my mind and ultimately disqualified him from the supreme court >> john paul stephens, longtime appointed by president ford, a lifelong republican. voted liberal. but was seen on this court by all of the other members as very cordial, very correct in the way he approached justice's duties. for him to come forward on judge

kavanaugh, known to these justices, a rising star for a generation among conservative lawyers to come out and say his performance at the hearing changed my mind and to say it publicly was a rebuke. >> on this vote, the ayes are 51. the nos are 49. the motion is agreed to. >> we just heard the gavel there moments ago. they have now voted to end debate into nominee judge brett kavanaugh. this now sets things in motion for a historic vote as early as tomorrow. which could lead to brett kavanaugh becoming the next supreme court justice. very key vote this morning. not a guarantee of which way

he'll go this week. he said this morning, he was not ready, he was undecided and that he headed back into that room where the findings of this fbi investigation still remain locked up. >> he actually said he was going to remain undecided until he walked into the chamber for that vote. adding some drama, he didn't vote when his name was first called. one of the final senators to cast their vote. and what manchin does -- first of all, if he voted no, this still would have passed. they would have needed the tie-breaking vote by the vice president. this makes this not quite a total partisan vote. si without that single vote, a senator from west virginia, a state that donald trump won in a landslide, without that single vote we would see here, we would

be headed towards the first supreme court justice to be confirmed strictly on party lines. this is about as close as you can get. single vote from the other side. this is such a break from precedent. neil gorsuch had three democrat votes. remember, it's been throughout history, supreme court nominees have been confirmed by wide bipartisan margins. ruth bader ginsburg won confirmation with only three senators voting no. antonin scalia was confirmed to the supreme court, 98-0. here we are at a state reflecting the divide, the political divide in our country, reflecting what we saw with these hearings, we have a

supreme court nominee headed towards what will by would argue, an almost certain confirmation, with a single vote from the other political party. just a single vote. otherwise, party line. >> party line with the in addition of one democrat, joe manchin being a significant and key vote. they did not need the vice president to put them over the top in this case. joe mampblin from west virginia, a democrat, obviously helping them to get the 51 votes they needed. so so much of this we haven't seen before leading up to the next supreme court justice. we say mary bruce, this nominee do a sitdown interview with his wife. we saw the op-ed in the wall street journal in the 11th hour, talking about his temperament and suggesting that perhaps he was too emotional at times and

that op-ed, though, in a national newspaper was likely gears straight to those four senators who were undecided. who might have been deliberating this issue of temperament that was raised. in addition to these allegations that were raised against him by dr. christine blasey ford. then the debate over temperament. how he displayed himself. you can see the op-ed. i might have been too emotional at times. i know that my tone was sharp. >> remarkable way to have a supreme court nominee deliver his closing argument here and it was not just to the american public. very clear aimed at those undecided key swing votes. kavanaugh hitting on some of those concerns. his tone, his concerns about his partisan attacks on his political opponents.

kavanaugh laying out in that op-ed trying to defend himself and his testimony and interestingly making the admission that he said things that she -- he should not have said. whether they played any role in their decisionmaking here, those four undecided. three of them senator collins, senator flake, senator manchin, now being a yes to support his confirmation. if they vote tomorrow on final passage, judge kavanaugh of course will be confirmed. >> no question about it. if it's an indicator of what's to come tomorrow, he'll be the next supreme court justice. the only one vote to vote no wa senator murkowski of alaska.

extremely divided on this choice for the supreme court. we did say, mary was talking about this moments ago, in that op-ed, he was talking directly to these senators, in doing so to the american people about the temperament he displayed in front of that senate judiciary committee a week ago. about his behavior back in his college days and during his high school years. we saw that moment where senator klobuchar asked him about whether he had ever blackout and he turned the question around and said, i don't know, have you, senator? a moment that played again and again on cable news and news report that followed. brought up this question of temperament. terry, this was the quote in his opening statement. this was not the reaction to a

question that was asked of him. he said this two-week effort has been calculated political hit with apparent pent-up anger with president trump. revenge on behalf of the clintons. and you're a veteran of the court. have you heard a nominee talk in such sharp, partisan terms. >> that's right. an important point. brett kavanaugh is a writer. he writes as a judge. never as partisan as what kavanaugh said there. what justice john paul stephens was remarking on. the anger and the tears, those are understandable emotions for a man who was saying he was falsely accused in front of his family and the world and that was incredibly painful.

anger and tears were a natural reaction to that. brett kavanaugh was a loyal, partisan republican lawyer for ken starr in the florida election contest and the bush/gore election in the bush white house. i think people were concerned about what was revealed about his partisanship. not as much about the emotions. >> terry moran stay with us. we're on the air with breaking news of the crucial vote involving supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. 11:00 a.m. eastern. moment ago on the senate floor, this moment was crucial in pushing brett kavanaugh closer to that post on the supreme court. >> thank you. on this vote, the ayes are 51. the noes are 49. the motion is agreed to. >> you heard the gavel there.

just moments ago. 51 votes to now limit this debate. of course, senators can change their vote between today and the final vote which could come as early as tomorrow. it's rare that that actually happens. senator joe manchin, a democrat from west virginia, helping them get those 51 votes. the only democrat to vote "yes" to push this nominee forward to the supreme court. of the four undecided senators we have been watching, only one voted no. senator lisa murkowski, republican senator of alaska who voted no. she has heard from survivors of sexual assault. it's been reported that she met with some in her office just

yesterday. so many of those poignant moments. we saw jeff flake in the elevator just before the hearings last week. where survivors of sexual assault approached him in the elevator, one of the women saying, look at me when i'm talking with you. it's widely believed that led senator jeff flake and his colleagues on the senate judiciary committee, he then joined democrats in pushing for this one-week pause. he and senator chris coons suggesting that. jeff flake going along with that idea. really changed the course of this whole process. many republicans have come out to say that they believe the fbi investigation not only was thorough and complete but did not offer any corroborating evidence to dr. christine blasey ford's testimony. the argument from democrats, some calling this a sham, saying

many of the names that were put forward who have corroborated dr. ford's testimony and the testimony of debbie ramirez, she talked with the fbi, many of the names put forward that could back up their stories were simply not reached out by the fbi. ultimately questions about whether or not the white house controlled who they could talk to and why this was ten or so people who were reached by the fbi and why that number wasn't greater than that. that will be something debated for some time to come. the tweet there at the bottom of the screen, very proud of the u.s. senate for voting "yes" to advance the nomination of judge brett kavanaugh. debate can still continue but this certainly minimizes this. the final vote could come as early as tomorrow. strong indicators today, this very well means that judge brett kavanaugh could be the next supreme court justice. it would be an historic shift

for the court. he would occupy that swing seat. the court would then lean conservative likely for generations to come. the other question here, cokie, is about how women around this country are seeing this vote here this morning, not just women, men, many men who have survived sexual assault as well. the women who came to the capitol. they came from all over this country to try and influence some of those senators who were undecided. some of those four. what do you suppose they're receiving this? >> very stark and emotional reactions to this. but, you know, we've been seeing any way even before this very contentious hearing, a big gap between the men and women are reacting to judge kavanaugh. of course, it's not as big as

the partisan gap with republicans supporting him and the democrats not supporting him. you're going to see a reaction to this. it's not fair for judge kavanaugh to bear the weight of all of the women who have been sexually harassed in history but that's part of what has been going on here. and again, his response to it exacerbated it. for women and the election and all of that, we have real problems now with two of our major institutions of government. you have a man who's very likely to join the supreme court, who despite his op-ed in the wall street journal today saying he would be a fair and impartial judge, testified in a very, very partisan fashion before the senate. and you have a senate that is so divided that the -- as we have

said earlier, one democratic vote for kavanaugh. one republican vote essentially against him. you know, throughout much of our history, they didn't call the roll. they said fine. that's gone. the speeches we heard today leading up to this vote, from the leaders of the senate, the two leaders of the judiciary committee and then the two leaders of the sena, chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell were so partisan against each other and accusing hard right and hard left groups of influencing the members. it's going to be very, very hard for the senate to come back from this nomination in a way that they can cooperate with each other and it's going to be very, very hard for the court. because they're going to have a certain cloud over them.

>> such an important point, cokie. >> terry, it's so true we haven't heard the partisan rhetoric when it comes to a supreme court nominee used by that nominee himself let alone the senate judiciary committee. we heard from chuck grassley this morning. then, dianne feinstein. clearly the partisan lines drawn. you would expect that moment in our country from the senate and certainly from the white house, but the supreme court itself has been somewhat insulated from that for so many years, i'm so curious what the justices on the court think about what they witnessed over the course of the last week or two? >> reporter: that's a great question, david. they dread what's happening. however they feel about judge kavanaugh. this place still has a very estimation in the opinion of most americans. they respect the supreme court for the most part. it's damaged itself in recent years with a couple of rulings

in our partisan times. but you noticed that the supreme court doesn't have any way of enforcing its opinions, except its own legitimacy in the hearts of americans. chief justice john roberts is an institutionalist. he has practiced here for 30 years. he loves this institution. i know whatever he thinks about brett kavanaugh he'll be concerned going forward, how do i protect that reputation, the true source of the court's authority. >> terry, our thanks to you again. mary bruce, some interesting color coming in to us from the chamber. senators collins and murkowski who had been side by side throughout much of these proceedings were greeted right after the vote. senators coming over to shake

their hands. obviously, the two women voted differently. >> reporter: yeah, they're reporting a they were greeted by both parties like celebrities. democrats coming over to shake lisa murkowski's hand. the republican from alaska who joined democrats on voting no for judge kavanaugh. and susan collins has been wrestling with this decision, she has been meeting with constituents in her office trying to wrestle with what she was going to do. today, joining her party in supporting brett kavanaugh. >> jon karl, 51 votes to minimize the debate as we move forward and move closer to that final vote on brett kavanaugh. it's looking clearer by the moment that brett kavanaugh could be the next supreme court justice. they have to be happy over at

the white house. >> absolutely. clear political impact here as well, david. if you look at the senators that were in play here, so many from states that donald trump carried dramatically, republicans believed that this vote has energized their core supporters, has energized their core supporters that makes the election looking a lot more positive for republicans in the senate races before this whole controversy over kavanaugh erupted. >> our thanks to all of you joining us for the live coverage. historic moment. voting "yes" to closure. they'll close the debate on brett kavanaugh for the most part. they'll move closer to that final vote. it very much looks like brett kavanaugh relieved this morning. we'll have team coverage of this historic moment in our nation's capital later on "world news

tonight." for many of you, we return you tocheers and applause ] many have donated their hair raising money for the breast cancer research foundation and if you want to learn more about how to participate go to our website at goodmorningamerica.com and i love reading these different signs, my grandmother was a survivor. courage, find a cure. because of my kids. never lose hope. all of them absolutely beautiful. keep fighting. [ applause ] so now "pop news" with diane macedo. [ applause ] >> i'm a little worried about "pop news" this morning because i have to start off with some bad news for chris evans' fans. the "captain america" star has announced after a decade playing that iconic hero he will be hanging up his shield. evans writes on twitter -- we

have a really big evans fan, he wrote on twitter, officially wrapped on "avengers 4." it was an emotional day to say the least. playing this role over the last eight years has been an honor. to everyone in front of the camera, behind the camera and in the audience, thank you for the memories. so "avengers 4" will be his tenth and last film as captain america. that one hits theaters on may 3rd, 2019. you do not want to miss it. okay, now some good news. >> yay. >> j. lo fans out there, be bummed no more. she is set to debut a new single at the american music awards this tuesday. the song is also from her upcoming movie "second act," where she plays a woman who reinvents herself for a second chance at a corporate career and writes on twitter about the amas it's going to be an amazing night. it sure is. you can see the amas right here on abc this tuesday at 8:00 p.m. and if j. lo is there, i am watching. >> she never stops working.

>> she's keeping busy. all right, and finally, some parents are learning a tough lesson about leaving their shredder unattended. yeah. they say their toddler loves to help them shred documents, yeah, you see where this is going. so leo got his hands on something that did not need to be shredded, a thousand dollars. a thousand and 60 dollars to be exact. the belnaps had been saving up for a year to buy university of utah football season tickets but leo beat them to it and found the stash and shredded it into a million pieces. ben and jackee say all they can do is laugh about it. we're hoping the bank accepts confetti as currency. >> some of it. >> scotch tape and a lot of time on their hands. >> see what you have to look toward to. >> i know. >> i'm keeping them from the shredder.

>> all right, diane, thank you. our "gma" cover story. ben affleck is now speaking out as he finishes rehab. the oscar winner opening up about his struggle with alcohol addiction. abc's erielle reshef is here with more and, erielle, he says he is fighting for himself and his family. >> he does, cecilia. ben is opening up in a lengthy instagram post. his honest account of his struggles eliciting support from famous friends and his fans. this morning, ben affleck breaking his silence in a candid instagram post after completing a 40-day stint in rehab for alcohol addiction. the "batman" actor writing thursday afternoon, he remains in outpatient care adding, the support i received from my colleagues, family and fans means more than i can say. in august, affleck's estranged wife jennifer garner reportedly staging an intervention driving him to the treatment facility. the father of three chronicling his struggles.

on instagram. saying, battling any adeck is a life long struggle. because of that, one is never really in or out of treatment. it is a full-time commitment. i am fighting for myself and my family. this marks the 46-year-old's third time in treatment. first in 2001 when he confessed to partying too much and not having a lot of boundaries. then in 2017, the two-time academy award winner opening up about seeking help for addiction. writing on facebook, i want my kids to know there is no shame getting help when you need it. garner and affleck have continued to co-parent their three children telling robin in 2016 they will always put their kids first. >> and she works very hard and she's great with the kids and, you know, like i say we put them first and just take it one step at a time. do our best. >> reporter: affleck says he's reminding himself if you have a problem getting help is a sign of courage, not weakness or failure. that's absolutely true. he wrote that he hopes in the

future, guys, that he can be an example for others that are struggling and we saw on his instagram post a flood of support from gal gadot, tom brady, a ton of his fans. >> i think he has been that. >> we wish him the best. >> thank you so much, erielle. we'll turn to lady gaga, "a star is born," one of the most anticipated movies of the year following the tragic love story between a rock story and struggling artist. i had the chance to sit down with gaga to talk about her big screen debut, working with bradley cooper and all that oscar buzz. "a star is born," a lot of reviews out there already, a lot of oscar buzz. >> you know, it's extremely humbling and i'm just grateful to have been a part of this experience. it's interesting for me. you know, i think, you know, taking off my wigs, taking off my makeup, you know, going back to an earlier place in my life to play this character, it's an interesting thing for me to

reveal and to experience. >> can i touch you now? >> my gosh. >> let me just touch you for a second. ♪ good lord i feel like i'm dying ♪ >> when i met bradley and he came over and i just had an instant connection with him and we were so comfortable together, he made me feel so comfortable. he said to me, he said, do you mind if we sing together? i said, sure. ♪ in the shallow shallow ♪ we're far from the shallow now ♪ >> what was your first impression, the first time you heard him sing? >> i was blown away. i was blown away by his voice because he sings from his gut. ♪ baby maybe it's time to look away maybe it's time to let the old ways back ♪ >> the energy that you two have in this film that comes off the screen, my initial thought was, how were they able to put chemistry and energy on the film to this degree because i've

never seen it. >> he taught me so much about acting and taught me so much about being present on camera and this is his directorial debut but i feel like he's been a director in many ways his whole life because of his love for movies. >> you're one heck of a student, i got to say, because the range of this role, it's intense. >> ali is somebody that's really hard working like many people in this country and she works long hours as a catering girl and then she goes home and takes care of her father. she is a real woman who also has a talent but who has completely given up on herself and she's so different from me. i really believed in myself when i started out. i was like, i'm going to do this. my friends called me gaga. all right, i'm gaga and i hit the ground running. i knocked down every door to play every club in new york city. i mean, i had something to say. i wanted to say it and i believed in myself but this

girl, ali, she is jaded by the business. >> but when i was watching this, i was wondering if there's a part of you that goes, i remember those days of singing in places people wouldn't imagine i would sing in before i was this megastar, so did you relate to that part? >> i did relate to that part but it was different. it was different. i really had to go back to an earlier time in my life, more like high school, in high school, you know, i got made fun of for having big dreams. i got made fun of for loving to sing and for loving to be in all the musicals and wanting to be an actress, wanting to be a musician. and during that time i was bullied and i was made fun of and i was depressed and that is where i drew from, from my life experience for this character. ♪ ♪ never hit the ground

>> in a lot of ways i still have a lot left to say, you know. so much left to say, so much more music, so much more acting hopefully. ♪ we're far from the shallows now ♪ >> very popular song. >> thank you. >> big part of the movie. number one on itunes already and how much of the music in the film did you write? >> i wrote a lot of the music in the film. but it plays a character in the movie because, you know, then in the chorus she says off the deep end, watch as i dive in. i'll never meet the ground, crash through the surface where they can't hurt us, we're far from the shallow now, and then later in the film, we hear music from her that is the opposite of deep. >> yeah. >> we hear the shallow. >> "the shallow." you almost made me cry reciting the lyrics. ♪ in the shallow

i've been singing it ever since i watched the movie. that just goes to show for you it's more -- here's a role, you played a role. you're involved in so many other aspects of it people wouldn't expect especially for your first movie. you had to write music for that. that's some really deep involvement and knowing that bradley was writing, as well. when you guys talk about this being a family you can see why. >> oh, it was totally a family. i mean we all worked together and, you know, that means the world to all of us. it takes a village to make a piece of art and i couldn't be more grateful to have all of these wonderful people by my side. i'm so, so humbled by this experience. it's a dream come true. >> and bradley and gaga's "shallow" which sounds nothing like what i did is currently number one on itunes and she actually helped write 11 songs for the movie. bradley helped write some songs

as well and she had an incredible team, willie nelson's son helped write these songs. "a star is born" is in theaters now and it was -- it was really something to see her talk about being bullied and having big dreams but nobody is laughing at her now but at the same time she is the most gracious, humble and appreciative megastar that you could ever be around. >> amazingly talented. >> love hearing that. [ applause ] >> we got to watch the movie again. >> not bad singing yourself. >> by reciting the lyrics itself and you made her cry by singing it back to her. >> for a different reason. [ laughter ] let's go over to ginger for some -- what you got? >> what a group we've got outside. good morning, everybody. and it's time for your "gma" moment which is almost as special. it's just as special as what we've got going on and see a lot more from. but this one comes from my hometown of grand rapids, michigan, from the mary friedman hospital. it is patients dancing with their caretakers and it's

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petaluma down to novato. that's going to evaporate the next hour or so. it's going to get warmer this weekend, jessica. >> we'll see you in about 30 minutes. ♪ fight like a girl [ applause ] welcome back to "gma" and our big breast cancer awareness event. this is my new friend, kelly. she is fighting like a girl and we have so many -- i know this -- triple negative. you got this girl. >> triple negative. >> we have so many incredible warrior, thrivers and supporters in the studio and look at their beautiful faces, every one of them and they're on the jumbotron as well, the faces of breast cancer thrivers and let's go outside to amy and cecilia with special guests. >> we are here with some incredibly fearless young ladies who are all going to help in the battle against breast cancer.

ruth, olivia, paige and leyla, they are cutting their hair for the cause. >> all right, guys, are you ready? while they finish their donations, oh, we're still going. show us what you got. olivia, are you ready to do this. >> yes. >> go, let's cut. [ cheers and applause ] cut, cut, cut. all right. i think we're going back inside to michael. got a lot of hair out here. >> thank you so much. that is so awesome to see those young kids participating in all of this. and i'm here now with oscar winner and four-time emmy winner "mad about you" star helen hunt. got a big new project called "shakespeare uncovered." helen, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me on this beautiful day. >> beautiful audience here. got to admit that too. you and paul reiser, seven years on "mad about you," i hear you

two are still close. >> we are. >> i hear it's his new role that's given you cool points with your 14-year-old daughter. >> my daughter has not yet "mad about you" although, you know, life is long. we can hope. but once paul appeared in "stranger things" suddenly she cared. so, you know, i told her that he was over for lunch. he was at the house, star from "stranger things" was at the house. i have not yet impressed her with my work but there's still time. >> has she seen any of it. >> she saw "miracle season" because she's in it and has two wonderful scenes. there she is, look at her. that's her graduation. ah. [ laughter ] very beautifully choreographed, ah, nice going. and she's also in another movie -- she's busy. she does have time for "stranger things." >> following in your footsteps. do you have advice for her?

>> she doesn't want my advice. she doesn't need my advice. she has a level head and a kind heart and a strong work ethic so i think the more i keep my mouth shut, the better everything will be. >> i love that. >> that's awesome. >> and now -- >> keeping our mouth shut. >> now you're the host of a new series called "shakespeare uncovered" but your love of shake peer started when you were a teen. >> when i was 16 or 17 i already worked for a long, long time and it occurred to me, boy, i don't know how to do anything else. what if i get bored of doing this one day and i've studied acting since i was 8 or 9 years old and dared to put a toe in the water of shakespeare which always seemed daunting and fancy and maybe i wouldn't understand it or maybe it would be boring. and i started to just a little bit peel back the layers of what is in those plays, the humor and the heartbreak and the adventure and the politics that are in these plays, and i thought, i will never get bored if i work with this. so when they asked me to host

this episode about a play i have done and loved, i was thrilled to do it. >> and the way this works, an actor, they draw on their own personal experience when it comes to shakespeare and you chose "much ado about nothing." we have a short clip which sets up the episode that we'll watch right now. >> on "shakespeare uncovered" -- >> i do love nothing in the world so well as you. >> reporter: helen hunt. >> the opening says we are all in. >> and the original romantic comedy. [ applause ] >> so who are you in "much ado about nothing." >> it may be the mother of all romantic comedies. i've performed in romantic comedies my whole life. i love tracy and paul and jamie buchman, all couples who use their wit and their cleverness and their outrage and their love to communicate with each other and in this play these two very

smart people with all of this chemistry just, just pounded each other. i'm more clever. i'm more clever until something real happens and a young girl who is important to the beatrice character is hurt and suddenly they drop all of it and the language changes and that line that someone said i do love nothing in the world so much as you, just the simple music of that line shifts the whole play, so there are plenty of brilliant writers that we all get to see if we're lucky enough to go to the theater but with shakespeare the music of the language itself does something to you even beyond the content of the words, and that's pretty rare and beautiful at a time when i need beauty bad. >> i agree with you. i think we all do. >> yes. >> helen, thank you for bringing your love of shakespeare and the series is the third season of "shakespeare uncovered" that premieres friday, october 12th on pbs and coming up, more of our breast cancer awareness event. we're celebrating all those who

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way, good morning. look at this. look at all this excitement that's about to happen here and we're in our velvet. it's feeling so comfy out here in new york city. what if we had this, though. look at this out of north dakota, just some fresh snow angels happening. a couple of inches of snow, yeah, that's all southeast of devil's lake, north dakota. oh, my goodness. can you imagine it being here at this time of year? i can't either. cold air will follow that but for now tha all right. just cutting just above there. that's where we're going. >> okay, thank you very much. here now with some of the faces of breast cancer who are bravely battling the disease, one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their lives, and,

amy, i know you have two stories you want to share. >> that's right. adele weiss and dana debolt are both in the middle of their breast cancer journeys and thankfully they have a team of loved ones fighting right there with them right by their sides. >> sure. my life is kind of chaotic right now. >> reporter: adele weiss is a nurse and she's battling breast cancer in the fight for her life. >> it's a little scary because you don't know what the next day is going to hold. >> reporter: hospitalized this week with an infection, the complication after a double mastectomy in august. a setback delaying the next step, chemotherapy. she's grateful, though, that a routine mammogram spotted the cancer. her self-exams did not. >> it's really important to get screened. god only knows what would have happened. how many lymph nodes or tumors. >> reporter: she's about to start chemotherapy when 65% of women lose their hair. half say it's the most traumatic part of treatment. >> that is one of the scariest things for me. it sounds crazy and it's vain

but i've always my whole life, my hair was always my thing. because i didn't have the great body and i couldn't wear all the most fashionable clothes, but i always had nice hair. >> dana debolt lost her hair after a couple weeks of keep me in may. >> that was hard to lose my boobs. i let them go no problem. the hair was not like that. i'm wearing a wig right now and i feel more comfortable. >> but the surgery and early chemo were particularly rough on dana. >> i cry myself to sleep. i won't let me family see it. and i would cry because i was in so much pain but that's what you got to do for the people you love, right? >> reporter: her daughter veronica is 3 years sgloel that's my driving force, you know. and i love her so much. you have no idea. i love her so much. the scariest part of all was when i didn't know anything and looked at her and thought i cannot die. i cannot die for this baby. like i cannot die and that was the hardest and the scariest

part for me definitely. >> but some good news about her cancer. >> my cancer was 93% estrogen receptive meaning that is the best kind of breast cancer to have because it can remove it from your body and it cannot grow. >> she credits her doctors for getting her through texting her daily walking through every step and her baby sisters always by her side. this morning her sister joanna fighting like a girl will cut her hair off in tribute, solidarity, sisterhood, an epic show of support of dane florida and all those battling breast cancer. >> i'm cutting my hair ten inches all of this and i'm donating it to be made into a wig. >> adele's two daughters will also cut their hair. >> i think it's important for her to know that we're here to help her every step of the way and she doesn't have to fight this battle alone. >> both of these women have strong families, carrying them through and both are ready to give back and empower others.

>> i feel a responsibility to provide support and encouragement, comfort in any way to anybody else going through it. let me see what your hair would look like on mine. >> oh, no. >> let's see here. what do you think? this hair will really cheer up someone's sister, i know it. it's beautiful, it's gorgeous. ♪ 'cause i'm gonna fight like a girl ♪ >> ah. pulls at your heartstrings and all of these beautiful women are here with their families, adele's daughter, we have christina and alexandra and dana's sister joanna and all heard are going to be cutting their hair. you can see their ponytails are ready. i have to ask you, what does it mean to have this kind of support and to see your sister here by your side cutting her hair? >> it's wonderful. i'm so blessed and so lucky to have this. my whole family is here. it's wonderful. this is the best experience of this entire journey so far. >> there's a lot of love, adele. you're feeling it with your

daughters there. >> absolutely. every day they're there to support me, whatever i need, checking on me every day, mom, acan i do for you? and to have them do this because i know how attached they are to their hair means a lot. >> all of us survivors and thrivers can't do it without all of you, so thank you and we're very excited to see your new haircuts in just a bit. robin, back upstairs to you. >> all right, amy, thank you very much. and i met a woman, amy, who said because of you, because of you, she got checked and she's now five years out from having cancer. because of you. [ applause ] >> congratulations. >> because of you. coming up, a very special performance from the thriver whose song "fight like a girl" is inspiring us this morning. anita cochran will perform when

we are back now with a woman inspiring us to fight like a girl this morning. country singer and songwriter anita cochran is here.

[ cheers and applause ] she is a thriver herself and we're going to hear her sing "fight like a girl" in just a moment. the song will resonate with everyone but especially our audience right here because everyone here is a breast cancer survivor, thriver, supporter and we appreciate you being here to listen to anita right now. talk about "fight like a girl." you had a nasty fall in new york city last night. >> yeah. >> how are you doing? >> you know, i'm doing okay. most people say, you know, break a leg but last night i broke two ribs, so -- >> she's not kidding. >> how about that. >> you weren't going to let that stop you. >> no, fight like a girl. [ cheers and applause ] >> talk about you were diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer august of last year. you sit down to write this song. what was your mind-set going through that? >> well, you know, i got really sick after my fifth chemo round and i was like, i almost gave up. i almost called my doctor and said i can't finish the chemo but started feeling better and said i got to do what i got to

do to live so i continued on and finished my last chemo september 19th. almost two weeks ago. >> oh, my gosh. >> so, yeah. i was inspired to write this because, you know, i wanted to inspire everybody else to fight like a girl. keep fighting. we got to fight every day. we got to stay in training every day for this. >> your last chemo treatment, your dad -- >> my dad had cancer ten years ago with colon cancer but rang the bell with me, yeah, he'll be 90 at the end of october. there we go, yeah. >> wonderful, beautiful. [ applause ] well, we want to hear you sing and something special is going to be happening during the performance with this beautiful woman right here, thank you for making your mess your message and sharing it with us. she dreamed of this moment of being on "gma" and she made it happen. one of thousands of faces. >> thank you very much. >> and we are weigh going to see so many more faces as she sings her song, here's anita singing "fight like a girl." [ cheers and applause ]

♪ ♪ i'm in a battle my back's against the wall ♪ ♪ broken and scattered you thought i'd take the fall ♪ ♪ sure, i could lay down, give up and surrender ♪ ♪ but i won't let you be the strong contender ♪ ♪ you had me in pieces like a puzzle on the ground ♪ ♪ you thought you found my weakness i wouldn't make another round ♪ ♪ but i'm in the ring and swinging for the rafters ♪ ♪ so you can't take my happy ever after ♪ ♪ 'cause i'm gonna fight like a girl i'm gonna take my stand ♪ ♪ i'm going to throw every punch and dodge every blow i can ♪

♪ you ain't going to see me cry ♪ ♪ no, not one tear ♪ i'm going to claim my strength my faith and have no fear ♪ ♪ 'cause i'm a fighter i'm a survivor you ain't gonna change my world ♪ ♪ 'cause i'm gonna fight like a girl ♪ ♪ you thought you had me up against the ropes ♪ ♪ that i wouldn't break free you couldn't take my hope ♪ ♪ 'cause every day i've been getting stronger ♪ ♪ so you can't break my spirit any longer ♪ ♪ 'cause i'm gonna fight like a girl i'm gonna take my stand ♪ ♪ i'm gonna throw every punch and dodge every blow i can ♪ ♪ you ain't gonna see me cry no, not one tear ♪

♪ i'm going to claim my strength my faith and have no fear ♪ ♪ 'cause i'm a fighter i'm a survivor ♪ ♪ you ain't gonna change my world 'cause i'm gonna fight like a girl ♪ ♪ and when this match is over i will yell i'm a soldier i'll be a warrior when they ring that bell ♪ ♪ ♪ i'm gonna fight like a girl i'm gonna take my stand ♪ ♪ i'm gonna throw every punch and dodge every blow i can ♪ ♪ you ain't gonna see me cry no, not one tear ♪ ♪ i'm gonna claim my strength, my faith and have no fear ♪

i'm a survivor fighter you ain't gonna change my world ♪ ♪ yeah i'm a fighter i'm be a thriver you ain't gonna change my world ♪ ♪ 'cause i'm gonna fight like a girl ♪ [ cheers and applause ] "gma's" concert series sponsored by carmax. ♪

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