why does it keep surfacing? why do we keep hearing people are being told if you do this you're not going to have a career? people have been having babies since -- well, a long time. >> i was definitely told that. i was practicing law at the time and they said, you're pregnant, you're going to be on the mommy track. i was like, what's the mommy track? i didn't understand it. it was basically a different track from the male partners at the firm. so it's really fascinating that, you know, at least it's come -- there's a time now where women can try to have it all. you took your daughter on tour. >> i took her because i didn't have any money. >> yeah. >> you don't have any money, she's sitting on your shoulder, on your head. i mean, it's just, you know. and you do what you need to do as a parent. >> i feel like women -- i'm sorry. >> i was going to say all i thought about at that moment was, one, it was like a super bowl halftime show, but two, take that nicki minaj. these two have been at it for so long.

meghan, you listen to the podcast but when you criticize -- nicki minaj was criticized because she hit her for her mother skills and that is something you just never never do, especially if you've never had a kid before. i loved her speech because when she thanked the audience she gave credit to her daughter. she said it's because of her that got me to where i am today and it made me that much better. i love that. >> i also feel like women are the greatest multi-taskers if i have to say. >> aren't we though? >> we have the ability to do more than one thing at a time and there's no harder job than stay at home motherhood. there's no harder job than being a lawyer and being a mom. when you add mom to anything it becomes a harder situation. this is from a woman who has no children. i know what y'all do. >> you've seen it. >> i've seen it. i love that she said i'm going to prove you wrong. what i also love about cardi b, cardi b is cardi b. >> she's authentic. she's taken a lot of hits for being a former stripper and

former exotic dancer and people are like, oh, she's not worthy which is ridiculous. >> she also talks about what the body goes through after having a baby. if you follow her on instagram and read her interviews, she is so refreshingly real for someone that just had a baby. everything she said, i was like, that is exactly what i went through. >> i love cardi b and nicki minaj both. i try not to choose sides in this fudeud. cardi b got in a fight at the plaza. sometimes you're in the heat of the moment and you're angry and you're whatever -- >> and a shoe flies. >> and it's okay. and i thought it was a little -- if two men started yelling at each other i don't know if it would get the same coverage so i try not to choose sides. >> it would depend on who it was. >> she threw a really nice shoe. >> going back to the motherhood conversation, look, i want to believe that we can all have it all and nothing is going to

change. i'm scared of nothing at this point except becoming a mom. i really don't know -- i really would love to believe but honestly -- abby, you and i are very close. things have changed in your life. you've got a baby to go home to now. i still like to shoot guns, smoke cigars, eat sushi and -- >> you can still do it. oh honey, yes you can. >> i can shoot some guns while i'm pregnant? >> yes, you can. >> okay. >> sha-boom. >> you have to make space in your life for it. >> it also gives you a motivation that you didn't have before you had the baby. >> you find reserves. >> i get shamed a lot for admitting that i'm conflicted on motherhood. >> i think a lot of people feel like that. >> there has to be women who are like i got a question mark about it. when your eggs are at the eggs that mine are, i got it mom. >> women have been having babies

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so welcome back. lady gaga just penned an emotional op-ed urgings everyone to speak out about the second leading cause of death amongst young people. it is suicide. there's not enough support available for people at risk and we need to be clear that there's no shame in talking openly about this, andthge of social media, think, to get people to open up because it's so easy to push people. what do you think? >> i worry about my kids because i have a preteen, 12, and i have a teenager that's 16. when you look at the stats, they say half of 18 to 34-year-olds say it makes them feel unattractive, social media. that number goes up when you're talking about teenagers and it says that teenagers on social media feel inadequate when they look at it and that inadequacy can turn to depression. >> that doesn't surprise me. you know why? it's these things.

>> why do you have to use my phone. >> not yours. >> social media. >> my brother in college, his roommate committed suicide. i know more people that you don't always see the signs and then all of a sudden they're gone. in that split second, in that moment, they make that decision and you can't change it. you can't turn it back around. >> also we're in a different time now. when i was a kid, if something happened at school, it stayed at school for 12 hours until you returned to school. you could leave it there. now it follows you. so and so doesn't like you and everybody is piling on and it becomes a feeling where the pain and despair of it is your entire life instead of 5 or 8 hours of your life. >> and the self-worth is attached to it. >> i feel inadequate on social media. the people that i know that have committed suicide are veterans. 20 veterans a day commit suicide from ptsd. i think we should be talking in a broad sense but because there's so many veterans in my family, we are still not doing enough with the va, we are not doing enough to support veterans

to integrate back into suicide. sometimes it's because you went to war and you're dealing with the ramifications. >> there's so many reasons that people take their own life and all of these things, it's war, it's social media, it's all of these things, but it's also how we respond to it, you know. we've made -- you know, there are certain things, in the old days you couldn't talk about cancer because no one would talk about it, you know. we can't afford to do that with this because it's not just young people. it's people my age, it's people your age, it's people all of our ages who are thinking they're not good enough or they're inadequate or they don't have what's needed. and so we all have to sort of be stewards of each other. >> right. >> it's lady gaga. >> we have to look out for each other. >> there's people that you would think have it all. >> anthony bourdain, kate spade. >> it's empowering when someone like lady gag gets up to accept

an award and she says you may think i have everything in life but i have struggled with mental illness. >> one thing that you're saying, whoopi, that struck me, we do not talk about intense or grief enough. i'm in intense greech rigief ri. i'm still struggling how to talk about it on the show. mornings and nights are real hard for me. i'm not suicidal, but we should be able to talk in our culture about dying, cancer, grief without stigma. >> let me say this to you, i also am still in grief of my brother and my mom because it evolves, it does things. it doesn't change. you keep thinking, oh, there's going to come a day where i'll be back to what i was. it's an evolutionary process, and so we all are going through it so we have to become steward of each other. we'll be back. we'll be back. [ applause ]

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so, okay, ariana grande and pete davidson will reportedly have a prenup before they get married. unlike justin bieber and hailey baldwin who apparently are not having one, but i don't know why but they're not. so the question for you all is, how do you feel about a prenup? >> here's what pete davidson said. he said obviously i wanted one so god forbid we split up and she takes half my speakers. he is worth $3 million. ariana grande is worth $45 million. >> i think that marriage -- i'm not married. i don't know why i'm talking about arrae arrangement. it's love too. but you realize that 45% of marriages don't make it so it's important to realize when you get to the point maybe, allegedly where you don't love the person as much anymore and you don't want to be together

that you're both able to survive. that's what a prenup does. it's great because everybody is feeling -- >> i have the opposite. i got married young. i was raised in a very traditional family and we didn't get a prenup. we had no money in our bank account. my thought was i'm married someone that even if that were to happen god forbid, he's not that type of guy. people say that's not smart, you're just being stupid -- >> i would never say the "s" word. >> it makes sense for people of means that come into the marriage. i had about 5 cents in my bank account and my husband had about 25 cents so it didn't make sense. >> who's going to get the dog? there's a lot of things to discuss that's just not the money. >> i think it feels too much like a business arrangement. >> it is a business arrangement. >> it's not. it's about love. >> it's business too. an le and but it's oulsti

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while i was on a combat patrol my c in baqubah, iraq,nned out. a rocket-propelled grenade took my arm off at the shoulder. when i came home, i felt alone. my family was around me, but i couldn't talk to them about what i'd seen and what i'd done. i remember just thinking, man, the way i am right now, i don't want to live. i was discharged from the army, and i've been working with the wounded warrior project since 2007. warriors don't have to be severely wounded to be with the wounded warrior project. we do have a lot of guys that have post-traumatic stress disorder. being able to share your story, i guess it kind of helps you wrap your mind around what did happen over there. just because you've left the military doesn't mean your life is over, because when these guys are coming home, i'm kind of leading and training them, instead of for combat,

i'm leading and training them to heal. and if i come away with anything from the wounded warrior project, it's them giving my life back. my name is norbie, and yes, i do suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, but i'm okay. ♪i am beautiful in every single way♪ ♪words, can't bring me down♪ [ cheers and applause ] welcome back. so some people have really interesting choices for emotional support animals, like the woman who was just removed from a frontier airlines flight for bringing her emotional support squirrel on board with her. as a result, frontier airlines says it's going to just be dogs

and cats from now on. >> you got no peacocks, chickens, turkeys, ducks or small horses, just for the record. >> no chickens? >> no chickens. >> i don't like that. >> chickens are very, very smart by the way. >> chicken poop is the worst poop on the face of the earth. >> very good for gardening. >> it's not good for the plane and it smells bad on an airplane, just saying. >> who would bring a small horse on a plane? >> where are you going to put it? under the seat? >> my simple question is this, how did the squirrel get on? like who was the gate keeper to keep the squirrel from getting on? >> she had the squirrel in a cage. >> so it was covered? you know what, people are giving the squirrel short skrif. she raised the squirrel from birth. >> that's right. preach. >> do you know this? >> yes. it wasn't a wild squirrel, okay.

>> all squirrels are wild, honey. >> let me say this about squirrels. squirrels are very smart. >> yes, they are, sunny. >> they have memory. >> smart enough to make you think so. >> they have memories. do you know what else they do? >> what do they do? >> they bury nuts and they remember where they were. >> come on. >> until they get to be 45 years old and can't remember anything. go ahead, sunny. >> the other thing they do is, they bury fake nuts so that other animals will go to the bogus burial site so their stash is safe. >> here's the other thing, sunny. they're mean. they steal food from birds. do you know that a squirrel's teeth never stop growing so i'm freaked out. >> there's going to be vampire squirrels. >> i think they're delightful. i love a squirrel. i think they're cute. i like their little tails. >> gigantic rat. >> i'm from ohio though.

our squirrels are docildocile. >> you know what i do to squirrels? >> she shoots them. >> no. there are people that actually need emotional support animals, veterans. >> yeah. >> some people are taking advantage of the system when you're trying to bring a peacock and a monkey on a plane. >> i appreciate the monkey more because at least you can have a conversation. >> yeah. >> we'll be right back. have a conversation. >> we'll be right back. hey, everyone. neil patrick harris here. i hope you'll check out my children's book called "the magic misfits." in fact, i'm going to perform a magic trick. i'm going to change your tv image from a live backstage shot of "the view" to a sponsor. go!

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they turn 8 in a week. no, they turn 8 tomorrow. >> tomorrow, oh. >> what day is today? >> the 10th. >> oh, two days from >> leibras. and you love halloween. >> love me some halloween. >> you've been dressing up as a family. i love it. it's so good. it's so good. >> we started doing a family picture every year and it just kept growing and growing. that was last year. >> isn't it so good? so you have to -- i pointed this out to my family. i was like, we need to do something like they do. so what are you going to be dressing up as this year? >> i'm not going to say because our favorite thing to do is put up a picture on instagram every halloween. i just love the holiday. i think it's the best. >> it's fun. >> it's a whole month you get to celebrate. you don't have to buy anybody gifts. you get to goiday -- you don't go to the scary christmas house.

you don't go to the scary hanukkah house. >> why not? >> halloween you get to go get scared, put on a costume. >> you get candy. >> every time you see them on instagram they are so perfectly dressed. they're adorable too.ohe ctor t? >> slide show of my children. david, my husband, is really good at that stuff. i'm more of a jeans and t-shirt guy. he likes to go online late at night and he'll just order children's clothes. children's sloalon.com. >> the babies are turning 8. this is a big birthday. what are the plans for the babies? >> wow, well they're no longer babies. this year we're going to have -- they want individual parties. they're independent now. >> what grade? >> second grade. gideon is going to start with a video games party.

his friends like lots of types of video games, although don't get me started on video games because i love them but as a parent i can't like them, the and harper is going to do mani-pedis. >> i like that. >> what are you laughing about? >> i'm laughing because i'm remembering you at that age. >> you know, i did my first movie ever with whoopi goldberg, a movie called "clara's heart." we worked together on that. [ applause ] she told me -- she told me -- i was, what, 15, 16 years old. she told me on my last day of shooting that in ten years' time she was going to have sex with me. >> i might have. >> possible. >> and so i want to know what's

happening? >> he had many questions as a kid. i said, listen, wait ten years and i'll take you through it. see, in those days you could actually have some fun like that. you can't do that now. >> hey, i was not offended. i'm looking forward to it. >> well, if i can find it, you can have it. >> my parents had no sex conversations with me at all. so i'd enjoy that too. you and your husband have been together for 14 years which is incredible. >> we have, thanks. >> you're coming up on your 4-year wedding anniversary. >> those suits are great. >> how are you going to celebrate? >> so our 4th wedding anniversary just passed which is a little strange, right, because we've been celebrating every year for 14 years and then you reset and you start again with linen and cotton and leather. leather was easy. but for our 4th we -- i was

actually in los angeles promoting this book and he was in new york. so the day of our anniversary we weren't together so we punted it and went to a great restaurant when i got back and went to 11 madison park. >> i went there on my birthday this year. unbelievable. >> super fancy. they did extra special things. we arrived and they had little -- because they know we love disney. they brought out mickey and mini -- oh look, there's a picture. pins. for dessert they made chocolate pretzels and put the street where we met. >> oh come on. they didn't do that for my birthday. >> so, yeah, we had a great, lovely meal. >> that is beautiful. you're here for a number of reasons but as whoopi mentioned, "the magic misfits," the second in the series, it's now number one, number one on "the new york times" best seller list. >> thank you. >> you love magic though and have loved it for a long time. what's the inspiration behind this? >> i do love magic.

i'm a father and a magician. i wanted to teach kids vid vocabulary and a sense of humor. there's magic tricks to learn in there. it follows this group of six kids who all love magic, not mystical magic like wands and portals and things but card tricks and coins and escape and illusion and they get to use those powers individually and maybe think they're kind of lame for doing so but when they come together and join this group called the magic misfits -- >> we can all learn. >> there will be two more after that, but yeah, i'm excited about it. [ applause ] >> neil, this is a little more serious but tomorrow is national coming out day. >> is it? >> what advice do you have for others who may be thinking about -- >> tomorrow is the day. >> it's the national day. >> yes. >> do you have any advice for

others maybe thinking of coming out and being so brave? >> ah, well, that's such an individual decision to make so i guess -- i guess i applaud the fact that there's a day that people can use maybe as a conversation starter if they're not sure about how to maybe broach the conversation, but i don't think it's any -- i wouldn't want to put any undo pressure on someone for needing to choose a specific day to come out. i mean, if you're gay and you need to tell people, we live in a time now where there's a lot more examples of representation of people, whether on film or whether in real life or whether in your family who are gay and leading a super regular, upstanding life. so i think it's a great time to come out but if there's reasons that you don't want to, i don't think it's anyone's call to

force you to do it. >> i wonder if it's a day so that people feel like someone else is coming out too and there's a strength in the numbers. >> i just feel like it's so individual. some people now feel like they know who they are at a very early age, and some people are married with kids and they're still struggling with it. i don't think there's any way to declare -- there's religious reasons, political reasons, familial reasons. i was pleased that when i came out the ceiling didn't crash in, i was able to stand taller and be more -- not proud but just more transparent about who i was and i didn't have to be so guarded. in turn, i think that it allows your light to shine a little bit brighter. so hopefully it's a day that people can take for that. >> that's great. >> this is a great kid, right? >> i'm 45. [ applause ] >> i know.

i know. but i just -- i always -- i always knew you were -- i told you that -- >> you knew i was gay even back then? >> i knew you were a great kid. >> i kind of do see doogie howser. thanks to neil patrick harris. members of our studio audience are going home with a copy of his new book, "the magic misfits: the second story." we'll be right back. a copy of "the magic misfits." we'll be right back. >> announcer: why was a woman with a clean record sentenced to 15 years in prison for her late ex-boyfriend's crimes? >> cindy was finally settling into a life that she always wanted and then came a knock on the door. >> announcer: she's sharing her decade-long nightmare, next. d, take new dayquil severe with vicks vapocool. (acapella) whoa! (vo) and vaporize it with an intense rush of vicks vapors. (acapella) ahhhhhhhhhhh! (vo) new dayquil severe with vicks vapocool. the daytime, coughing, stuffy head, vaporize your cold, medicine. introducing vicks vapocool drops.

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society with people profiting on the backs of disenfranchised mostly brown and black people in our country. it's not okay anymore. [ applause ] >> rudy, the documentary is incredible. you've had producers here sobbing over this story, and wa that first scene where one of your daughters is getting ready for a dance recital and you tell her i'm going to go back into my bed and i'm going to watch -- i'm going to think about you, and they grew up while you were behind bars. tell us what those years in prison were like for you. >> they were devastating, knowing that i had three little girls that were waiting for me. i had a life waiting for me. i just had to get back to them. it was hard. it was definitely a roller coaster, very emotional. knowing that my daughters were being raised without me, it was almost unbearable. >> rudy, the project was obviously very personal, and the emotion was very raw. how did you keep the cameras

rolling? i know this is affecting you at the same time as you're trying to tell the story. >> yeah, it was incredibly emotional. i'll never forget the first time i was filming my father and he broke down crying in front of me, you know. everything in me was saying, rudy, put down the camera, hug your dad, tell him it's going to be okay, tell him you're going to get through this, butmeintar me and it said, rudy, hold your shot. this is for a greater good, you know. you have an opportunity to tell a story affect other people and you made a promise to your family that if they were open and honest and vulnerable and allowed you to tell their story that you would make something good out of it. so that was the sacrifice. having to be emotionally detached from them for nine years, nine and a half years. >> cindy, in 2016 you were granted clemency by president obama. >> yes. [ applause ] >> what was -- moment like when they said,

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new video from the storm zone. not much is left of the cedar point plaza. this is in callaway, florida, about 15 miles from where hurricane michael made landfall. callaway is part of panama city where just about every structure and tree was damaged in some way by the hurricane. some folks getting out there shortly after the storm. take a look at this, a completely collapsed school in panama city. this is drone footage. the drone actually kind of flies through and you can see the other side of the building. >> wow. >> where the wall once stood is no longer there. the basketball and its hoop is still up there, though -- the basketball hoop is there but not much else. we're going to have more on the coverage and some of the images

that we're getting from the storm zone throughout the morning but we do have some other major new stories to tell you about, including the stock market plunge.closing at 25,598 technology stocks among the hardest hit. analysts say investors are also worried about rising interest rates but the white house says there is no reason for concern. they're calling the massive losses a correction. the fbi says it's found a 200-bomb that was going to be set off on election day. prosecutors say it was part of a suicide attack hatched by paul rosenfeld of the new york city suburb of tappan. the massive bomb would have exploded on washington, d.c.'s national mall. the fbi says rosenfeld confessed to the plot. he's being held without bail. the victims of last weekend's deadly limousine crash are being remembered. the gathering included emergency workers who responded to

saturday's scene where 20 people were killed. the limo compaperator is now charged with criminallpreco th. here is how to get banned from a gun range for life. watch as two men pose for a selfie with one of them pointing a gun at his friend's head. the gun safety range officer swoops in and breaks up the photo shoot. they say the gun wasn't loaded but they broke a cardinal rule of shooting ranges. the two men were kicked out and told never to come back. for cranky folks who hate seeing kids out on halloween, chesapeake, virginia, apparently the place for you. >> the commonwealth city by the bay has strict trick or treating rules. anyone out grubbing for candy after 8:00 p.m. can get a fine and/or three days in jail. if you're a teenager, forget about it.

>> anyone older than 12 you're subject to a fine and/or six months behind bars. >> good! >> chesapeake officials say they won't actively seek out violators, but 8:00 p.m., is that the deadline for trick or treating? >> you can get a fine and 30 days in jail. >> that would not fly in my neighborhood when i was growing up. >> what if you have a sister that is 10 and you're 13 -- >> right, and you have to go out. i guess that's why they're not actively seeking out the 13-year-olds. >> these are important laws on the books. coming up, tracking hurricane michael. >> we'll have a live report from a storm chaser in hurricane-ravaged mexico beach, florida. that's next on "world news now." that's next on "world news now." exico beach, florida. that's next on "world news now."

we're back, tracking the location of former hurricane michael as it move into central georgia. >> it has passed macon but the most intense parts are ove we're back, tracking the location of former hurricane michael as it move into central georgia. >> it has passed macon but the most intense parts are over

atlanta, athens and over by the tennessee border. turning now to the devastation in mexico beach, florida where michael first made landfall. >> joining us now from destin, florida, which is 50 miles west of mexico beach, storm chaser doug kiesling. you experienced a powerful storm surge and headed straight there into the eye of the storm. you were right in the middle of it. what was it like? >> it was very intense. we're on border line category 5 strength winds with over category 5 wind gusts. it was really calm up until the eye wall hit the area. and i played it so i can be on the west side of mexico beach and escape and basically drive towards the eye itself. so when the eye hit, it was basically whiteout conditions and the water rapidly rose about 10 to 15 feet in areas from storm surge. as soon as that happened, i just got out of there and headed into the eye itself.

>> how did you manage to get into the eye to begin with? what was that like? >> that was intense because you're driving around in whiteout conditions dodging debris that is flying around, along with the downed trees, you know, down in this part of florida, it's pine forest on the side of the road. people think of florida as sunny beaches. you go a little bit inland, it's a lot of pine trees. all those pine trees, they had all been snapped off just right above the surface. >> yeah, you did do a three-hour live stream of your coverage. it seems as if you were the only person out there on the roads, which is a good thing, but also the conditions just seemed to be completely treacherous. you've done a number of storms. hate to do these sort of comparisons but how does this one compare to others? >> this reminds me a lot when hurricane charlie hit back in 2004. because the amount of devastation.

but what was really surprising i was waiting in mexico beach to see if any of the ems or first responders would show up. i was actually walking around for a couple of hours without seeing another soul. i did find a couple that was injured and we were trying to, you know, contact someone from ems. there is just no cellphone communications. you can barely get a text message out. that's why i evacuated and headed back to the hotel in destin, which i knew would be outside the impact zone. >> tell us about the damage you've seen. we know it's been devastating there as far as buildings, homes, schools. what are you seeing? >> when i drove back, the damage in mexico beach is pretty much damage. just a couple of blocks from the coast inland, it's just slabs of concrete with debr >> slabs of concrete with debris all over the place.

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mexico beach, florida, where mi mexico beach, florida, where michael made landfall, just devastated. homes are ripped from their foundations and left floating down the street. the storm surge reached the second story of some buildings and main highways as well. you can see many roads are impassable. abc's ginger zee says the destruction is so great it reminds her of gulf port, mississippi after katrina. >> as you were saying earlier, the good news is it moved through so fast. that means the cleanup will get underway today. so many people need help. >> we are now joined by the communications director for the american red cross. she's in tallahassee. stephanie, what are people seeing down there?

>> hi, everyone. right now it's a bit calm but obviously the danger is not over yet. we walked out a little while ago and saw we had downed trees and power lines. currently i'm standing by a staging area so we lost power last night. i'm actually walking around with a head lamp to be able to see in front of me. this is just a very small glimpse of what folks are experiencing here. >> a lot of the people heeded that warning to evacuate. so how many people have evacuated, are in shelters in florida and just in that region? >> yes, i know that more than 375,000 were under evacuation orders. the red cross is managing evacuation centers throughout op just staying overnight in about, like, 70 shelters across the area.

>> we are seeing some images there, some early images of the devastation. i imagine you guys -- obviously you have your offices there in tallahassee, but you have crews coming from all over the country, perhaps world to help out. >> absolutely. around the country, even in the states affected. they're ready to roll up their sleeves and help those affected in these communities. we also have this, like, nationwide warehousing network so we're able to preposition supplies, vehicles, equipment. we're ready to head out there and start supporting these people. >> everyone watching around the country is probably wondering what they can do to help, seeing this devastation and people losing their homes. >> absolutely. they can definitely donate to help support the people affected by this disaster. they can go to www.redcross.org. call 1-800-red-cross or text "michael" to 90999. another way they can help, disasters like these definitely

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this morning on "world news now," michael turns deadly. this morning on "world news now," michael turns deadly. the massive storm tearing through the florida panhandle before moving into georgia. our team there when the storm hit, toppling a hotel overhang, knocking out power to thousands of people and causing widespread destruction. >> our ginger zee says the damage reminds her of hurricane katrina. we'll have ginger's report plus the latest forecast live from accuweather. the new details coming in about an alleged bomb plot on u >> authorities say the suspects had built a 200-pound explosive. we'll have details ahead. and michael's fury on full

display. we're taking a ride inside a hurricane hunter plane as it reached the hurricane's eye wall. it's thursday, october 11th. from abc news, this is "world news now." hopefully they packed their dramamine for that flight. bumpy ride as michael was a monster. it's carving out a deadly path of destruction across the southeast, crushing cars, destroys homes, swamping neighborhoods one after another. >> michael is no longer a hurricane this morning, now a tropical storm, but it's still pounding georgia, moving inland on the florida panhandle just shy of a category 5 storm. take a look at how much rain has fallen, 1/2 a foot in some places. lots of rain and wind for the hard-hit carolinas. >> take a look at this middle school gymnasium in panama city. the roof peeled back and two

walls just gone, allowing a drone to fly from end to end. utility crews are scrambling to restore power to about a half a million homes and businesses. >> michael is now the strongest hurricane to hit the florida panhandle in recorded history. it's the first category 4 storm to make landfall in the u.s. in october since hurricane hazel back in 1954. and michael is the first major hurricane to track into the state of georgia since 1898, 120 years ago. >> this is a storm we'll be talking about for quite awhile. no doubt. officials are waiting until daybreak to begin assessing the extent to the damage. >> abc's david muir was at ground zero when hurricane michael came ashore. >> reporter: the winds ripping

the roof right off this building. and this one, too, the roof lifting up and tearing off. slamming to the ground. this region had never endured a category 4 hurricane before. the winds, 155 miles per hour as the hurricane made landfall. the stunning scope of the waves crashing ashore at st. andrews bay. the national weather service buoy recording waves higher than 30 feet before landfall before that buoy simply stopped working. power lines down, transformers bursting behind us. >> whoa. whoa. we're getting -- you see that? >> reporter: hundreds of thousands are without power. our team positioned between concrete walls at this panama city hotel. we could see suvs outside rocking and beginning to lift. across this region, the water rising, taking over streets, submerging these homes to their rooftops. flooding local stores. this gas station roof coming apart.

>> it's coming off. >> reporter: and during all of this, the families huddled inside the hotels just before part of the hotel roof collapses right in front of us all. >> it's going to go. it's going to go. >> reporter: you can see the roof of the hotel that we had been standing out there, that was the shelter for a category 4 hurricane. that has now come down on those suvs. then the windows shatter. the size and scope of michael's damage is just now being realized. the toll staggering, just shy of a category 5 hurricane. the boardwalk leading to the beach, twisted. this woman seeing her car for the first time. debris had pierced her windshield. we go to check on the families. >> is everyone okay? >> yes, we are. >> reporter: inside this room, a mother and her three children. tiffany crenshaw telling me one of her daughters has autism and the anxiety from this hurricane has left a mark and their room is under water. >> didn't expect to have a flooded hotel room?

>> no. >> this is a couple of inches of water. >> we weren't expecting it to get this bad this fast. >> reporter: up on the third floor, our room, the windows blown. as you look outside, you see tonight the streets have disappeared. >> those are the streets. from the third floor of the hotel, the window blew in. you can see the streets are completely flooded. >> reporter: the recovery effort will be overwhelming. >> we'll check in now with new tracking just in to find where michael is headed. >> and also how much longer it will remain a threat. good morning. >> good morning. still a tropical storm at this time. likely to stay such until it moves out into the atlantic. moving to the northeast at 20 miles per hour. if you think back to florence, it was only moving about 2 miles per hour so this is moving with much more speed through georgia into south carolina and casee, t

of rainfall with this. some spots through the carolinas will pick up 4 to 8 inches, which isn't the best of news, but it does movey quickly. 8:00 a.m. thursday in through south carolina, north carolina. by friday morning it's out to sea already. so that is some very good news. but, again, we still have to deal with it for the next few hours. kendis? lynda? >> and those strong winds were really a big part of the story for this storm. what are the concerns now for the winds and the wind damage into the region where it's traveling? >> well, we could still see some more wind damage with this. so something to keep in mind here, i do want to map out here, it does go into parts of north carolina and then eventually into parts of virginia as well, but just keep in mind here, what we are still talking about as far as winds are concerned will be some of those gusty winds. currently we have wind gusts of more than 50 miles per hour here through south carolina. it's knocked out sensors off towards the south and west. meanwhile, though, those wind

gusts, again, are going to be on top of what is soggy soil through the carolinas where they've been hit with florence. which means even 30-mile-per-hour winds can still create a lot of trees down and power outages. >> i saw something, is it supposed to reform once it gets off the coast? >> it's not out of the question because it will be entering the warm waters of the gulf stream. that's why it's going to go out as a tropical storm. would it strengthen maybe a little bit? possibly. hard to stay if it would become a hurricane again. something to watch, though, nonetheless. >> interesting to watch. thank you. the red cross says more than 3,000 people, by the way, decided not to evacuate. >> many didn't have the time to get out. we talked with one woman who rode it out in a closet. >> we were told it was going to be a cat 5 when it hit. by then, yeah, we were terrified but there was nowhere for us to go and we couldn't get on the roads. it was too late. i took my whole family and my

daughter and we packed a food and water cooler and put it in our downstairs closet. we just stayed in there until we thought it was over. thank god we kept having the emergency alerts coming up so we had a pretty good idea how long we should be in the closet for. i had to go upstairs and grab a few things. i thought the roof was going to come off. when we came outside and saw the trees were down and we saw the fence was down, we just knew that we were very lucky. i don't suggest trying to ride out a storm. >> not at all. a hurricane pilot, by the way, says the turbulence from michael's southern eye wall was the worst he had ever experienced. >> you can actually hear how powerful the storm was. you can hear a computer warning, too. and we think that's the autopilot announcing that it's disengaging. >> the autopilot is like --

>> see ya. >> son, you are on your own. >> i'm evacuating. >> this is intense, even for me. all right. well, coming up, the morning's other news stories. president trump is about to get one step closer to his border wall. there is a new bill to fully fund his proposal. plus, how former president reagan is about to head back out on the campaign trail, and it's all thanks to technology. slightly creepy technology. and, of course, we're tracking michael with this live look at the latest radar images showing the storm at this hour making its way through georgia. you're watching "world news now." now." you're watching "world news now."

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well, michael isn't the only well, michael isn't the only extreme weather that's taking place right now. take a look at the dakotas. several inches fell in just 24 hours. some highways were shut down and hundreds of customers are without power overnight. snow and trees that still have their leaves makes falling branches a lot more likely. it's pretty when it's there -- >> far, far away from where we are. a new york city area man is being held without bail in a

plot to set off a massive bomb on election day. >> the fbi says it found the 200-pound device in paul rosenfeld's home in tappan. investigators say he admitted to planning to set it off at washington, d.c. national mall in a suicide attack. rosenfeld apparently also tested out smaller bombs. a bill to fund the president's border wall is set to be introduced later this week. the build the wall act will include other immigration-related measures that have already passed in the house but stalled in the senate. house majority leader kevin mccarthy's office says the wall would cost u.s. taxpayers $23.5 billion. former new york city mayor michael bloomberg is officially a democrat again, hinting at a possible presidential bid in 2020. bloomberg used instagram to announce his voter registration change from independent to democrat, saying that the nation

badly needs democrats to provide checks and balances. bloomberg is not saying when or if he'll decide on running for president. >> well, if michael bloomberg runs for president, maybe he'll have to campaign against the ghost of ronald reagan, well, not the ghost, but maybe a hologram. >> the nation's 40th president has returned thanks to technology. 14 years after his death, the great communicator is again speaking to crowds at the reagan presidential library. >> out of respect for this office and the events which have transpired in it, i almost never remove my suit coat. >> well, there are three reagan holograms, in case you were wondering. one that shows him on the campaign trail, one in the oval office. the third with him on horseback in riding pants but the audio is taken from his real remarks. >> i see. >> it's very hall of presidents at disney world. >> it really is. which hall of presidents is

has ey at disney world. e animatroc thvoic w e come back, the beach town in florida that has been all but leveled by michael. >> our own ginger zee was there as the devastation was unfolding. we'll show you that coming up next. you're watching "world news now." now." xt. you' atching "world news now." we're gonna replace candy with some healthy halloween treats today. these are called veggie fruit chews mine tasted like poopoo! mine tastes like broccoli, yuck! i want candy!

and we're back with a look at the live radar. as you can see, atlanta is still right there in the thick of some of those tropical storm force rain bands and so is macon, georgia. at its peak, michael was a 400-mile-wide storm. you can see a lot of cities are still being impacted even by the tropical storm force winds at this hour. >> interesting about this storm, the area in georgia and the carolinas that you normally worry about, savannah, charleston, all those coastal areas, they actually look like they might not get the brunt of this. they might get the outer bands. it's places like raleigh and charlotte that are actually hing to be getting hit.

of a tropical mh less hurrican. >> so michael did make landfall, by the way, at panama city beach, just near mexico beach. >> ginger zee was there inside the safety of a fortified building as michael's powerful storm surge of up to 15 feet devastated the entire community. >> reporter: we start the day reporting on a balcony across from a blue house. >> if i don't feel comfortable, i'm going to stand right inside the door here. >> reporter: you could feel michael on the way. the pressure suddenly plummeting. >> my ears have been popping for a half hour. i'm not standing outside because i can't and i won't because it is just too dangerous. we have seen debris flying, pieces of homes, certainly huge -- you can hear it. just take a listen to that. that incredible roar. >> reporter: the wind overwhelming, stronger than in nearly half a century.

>> i am constantly trying to we are in a cement building. we are in the safest place we can possibly be at this point. we're not going to be the only ones dealing with hurricane force wind. >> reporter: we ride out michael's direct hit on a second floor condo in mexico beach. large chunks of debris seen flying by. >> i think at this point we're going to try to wrap up. >> reporter: we retreat further inside. >> look, we've had to step away from the door because debris is flying so close to our hotel. you see that right there? it looks so much like the hurricane i always describe to people, and that is a washing machine. you have all of this water, you have all of this wind and you can't see anything. just 20 minutes ago i was able to see the homes rightthey are e still. >> reporter: and then the car wash-like conditions. we managed to catch a glimpse of something even more terrifying.

>> i just saw something i've never seen in real life. i saw an entire home taken off its foundation and rolled down the street. that is the type of storm surge we're talking about right here in mexico city at this moment. i saw the roof on its side rolling down the street. my heart is racing. again, i have never seen something like an entire home, a well-built home rolling down the street. we just watched that happen in real time. i'll tell you right now, it makes you shake. >> reporter: we see firsthand that storm surge can be the most dangerous part of the storm. >> that is where the house used to be. >> reporter: finally, we're ready to head outside again. >> we rode out hurricane michael in an interior space. it's safe now. i have to tell you the home i saw blowing away is no longer there. >> reporter: that blue house across from us is no longer there. simply gone. then we head over to the other side of the condo.

>> we've seen a lot on the front but seeing all this damage, more than just downed trees, so much debris. where homes were, they are not. they are moved. they are -- that one there off of its foundation. in the middle of a road. cars everywhere and under water. it's really wild to see in these raw moments. there is damage as far as our eyes can see. you can see the home washed into the street by the storm surge. the truck there in front, that's where that -- and then down this way there are at least -- the woman who is with us here told us there is one woman who stayed in a house that is now no longer. we don't know if she's alive. >> our thanks to ginger zee, too, in some truly dangerous conditions bringing us that reporting there. >> yeah, she says it reminded her of riding through katrina, many of the impact of that.

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>> joe is an italian citizen who came to the u.s. as an infant and wasn't aware he wasn't an american citizen. next to the flight that was delayed for nearly two hours. all because of a squirrel. of course in florida. >> police escorted a woman off a frontier airlines flight in orlando after a standoff with the flight crew. she boarded the plane with what she told airline employees was her emotional support squirrel. >> hmm. but the airline wasn't buying it. frontier airlines says corporate policy prohibits rodents, including squirrels on its planes. >> i should hope so. well, if squirrels make you a bit squirrely, how about a snake or how about a snake that is actually a robot? oh, that's so creepy. >> look at that. >> what? a robot snake. >> japanese researchers have created the robotic snake that can slither up pipes. >> gross. >> scale ladders and even swim under water.

why? >> it's for a good cause, kendis. scientists say the device could be used to save lives in search and rescue missions, crawling into places that could be too risky for humans. >> okay. still kind of creepy and weird. >> to watch. >> it's like a reverse slinky. >> it is. speaking of things creepy, the philadelphia flyers' new mascot has made quite an entrance for the flyers' home opener. >> remember gritty? well, gritty blasted his way on to the ice at the wells fargo center from the rafters on a wrecking ball, of course, to the song "wrecking ball" playing in the background. >> oh, gritty. meantime, fans were there catching gritty fever. 4-month-old connor shirk wearing a costume his mom made herself from a hoodie and about a ton of yarn. >> very, very creative mom.

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making news in america this morning, historic storm. >> oh. >> michael roaring ashore, one of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit the united states devastating the florida panhandle. >> i saw an entire home taken off of its foundation and rolled down the street. >> buildings ripped apart. >> we got to go. we got to go. >> a hotel collapsing in front of an abc news crew. new video of the damage left behind. the storm surge surrounding homes and stories of survival beginning to emerge. >> that's when he said, move, move, move, and the door blew open, and the roof flew off. >> and it's not over yet. the storm moving inland overnight battering areas that haven't se a morne inthan 100 years.