good morning, america. one-two weather punch. double trouble. twin tropical storms swirling in the atlantic forecast to strengthen and take aim at the gulf coast. evacuations ordered ahead of the danger. our weather team tracking this extremely rare situation and its potential additial funding despite edet as he pushes unfounded-in votin. >> you'rinto be able election, in my opinion, for weeks, months, maybe never.

>> the postmaster general's reassurances this morning. it's the abc news exclusive, the joe biden/kamala harris sitdown interview. what they're saying about trump's attacks, the election, and covid-19. >> you cannot get the country moving until we control the virus. >> would joe biden be prepared to shut down the country again? school struggles to open and stay open during the pandemic. the startling scenes in alabama, crowds attending football gamese postponements. [ crowd chanting ] and the plea from a student paper, don't make us write obituaries. and scorched earth. deadly california wildfires killing at least six people and destroying 500 homes and structures and killing at least six people. resources stretched thin. the residents taking matters into their own hands.

hey, good morning and happy saturday. so in washington today members of the u.s. house of representatives are working on a saturday. that's normal for us here on weekend "gma" but it's rare for them. they are set to vote on providing additional funding for the u.s. postal service. >> and t wte hs threatening to vetev as estrump nerareasri lawmakers there won't be massive problems. >> we'll get to that in a minute. >> first, the double trouble swirling toward the gulf in the form of twin tropical storms. evacuation orders issued for some people in florida keys. rob joins us from port chester, new york, where he is tracking this unusual event. rob, if this year can't get any crazier. >> you're right about that, eva. just with the hurricane season alone we've gotten off to a historic active start. now this, two tropical storms

that will likely be in the gulf at the same time. so let's check it out and show you where they are right now. e aladim , marco, near laura very cle to you laura. winds in puerto rico could reach tropical storm strength and then a lot of the rainfall to the south and east. the thing with this track, it will go over a lot of land so over cuba, over hispaniola so it won't really gain strength until it gets into the gulf of mexico. marco doesn't gain strength until it gets in the gulf of mexico, forecast will be below hurricane strength. these guys won't be that close together at the same time but could make landfall in those areas around the same time. that alone would be historic. we are tracking it all for sure. whit, over to you. >> all right, rob, we know you'll stay on top of it. thank you. turning now to the election just days away, president trump is going on the offensive, claiming he's preventing chaos

and anarchy, this as the senate committee grills the postmaster general about the postal service's ability to handle mail-in ballots for the chel s is in washington rachel, the white house is threatening to veto it. >> reporter: that's right, whit. good morning. this will be a rare and unusual saturday session in congress. house speaker nancy pelosi calling back her chamber to vote on funding for the postal service. this battle over mail-in voting shaping up over president trump gears up for tate nl convention coon.da orom the puon cveion prn to t whi >> i'm the only thing standing between the american dream and total anarchy, madness and chaos and that's what it is. >> reporter: speaking in front of a ld owd, once again pushing unfounded claims about mail-in voting, predicting it would trigger the greatest catastrophe in american history.

>> you're not going to be able to know the end of this election, in my opinion, for weeks, months, maybe never. >> reporter: but the president s concns time. >> as we head into the election season, i want to assure this committee and the american public that the postal service is fully capable and committed to delivering the nation's election mail securely and on time. >> reporter: louis dejoy, a gop donor and trump ally, has been at the center of controversy -- crowd chanting ]utting iace co-ctingeasures that have slowed mail delivery mailbox empty of the prescriptionheee. >> i went almost a week without medication after i finished up my dose that i had and the three-day extras i had for emergency. >> reporter: dejoy said the pandemic is to blame for some of those delays, dismissing allegations that he was trying to sabotage the election.

>> the insinuation is, quite frankly, outrageous. >> will you restore the mail collection and processing capacity that the postal service has lost in recent weeks during your tenure? >> it's insignificant -- it's not material to anything that we do. >> reporter: and dejoy's message to americans, vote early. but despite a strong push from some democrats, today's legislation in the house is not expected to include any coronavirus relief. it will still likely face a major challenge in the senate. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell calling voting by mail a nonexistent issue. dan? >> rachel, thank you. democratic ticket, former vice president joe biden and senator kamala harris sitting down with our own david muir and robin roberts for a special edition of "20/20" discussing everything from the coronavirus to attacks levied by president trump. >> if you're sworn in come january and we have coronavirus

and the flu combining, which many scientists have said is a real possibility, would you be prepared to shut this country down again? >> i would be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives because we cannot get the country moving until we control the virus. that is the fundamental flaw of this administration's thinking to begin with. in order to keep the country running and moving and the economy growing and people employed, you have to fix the you have to deal with the virus. >> so if the scientists say shut it down -- >> i would shut it down. i would listen to the scientists. >> president trump says that you want to defund the police. do you? >> no, i don't. by the way, he proposes cutting half a billion dollars out of local police support. look, what the police need is -- first of all, there has to be a national standard that apply to every police department in the country and that's what we're going to do. i don't want to defund police departments. i think they need more help.

they need more assistance. we have to make it clear that this is about protecting neighborhoods, protecting people. everybody across the board, so the only guy to actually put in a bill to actually defund the police is donald trump. >> president trump has referred to you as nasty, a sort of mad woman, a disaster, the meanest most horrible, most disrespectful of anybody in the u.s. senate. how do you define what you hear from the president? >> listen, i really -- i think that there is so much about what comes out of donald trump's mouth that is designed to distract the american people from what he is doing every day that is about neglect, negligence and harm to the american people. >> and incompetence. >> absolutely. absolutely. >> the idea that he would say something like that, no president, no president has ever said anything like that. no president has ever used those

words and no president has said people coming out of the fields with torches and spewing anti-semitic bile and met by people who oppose him and he says there are good people on both sides, no president of the united states has ever said anything like that ever. >> david muir and robin roberts and can you watch the rest of their exclusive joint interview with joe biden and kamala harris on a special edition of "20/20" airing tomorrow at 8:00 eastern right here on abc. eva, over to you. >> now to those deadly wildfires in california. more than 100,000 people forced from their homes as firefighters battle the flames that have scorched an area larger than the state of rhode island. abc's clayton sandell is in sonoma county where homes are destroyed and air quality is now a concern. good morning to you, clayton. >> reporter: good morning to you, eva. this morning help is finally starting to arrive here. more firefighters, more

equipment coming from ten different states but the governor here says it's still not enough. this morning, huge stretches of the golden state are scorched black. >> i left with my clothes, two guitars and the dog. >> reporter: a week-long firefight that's already claimed >>s ksaying this is goin the largest wildfires california has ever faced. >> there's been 20 epic wildfires in the state of california. >> reporter: new satellite images show the dense, unhealthy smoke from space. heat sensing images reveal long fire lines and massive hot spots. the flames showing no sign of slowing down. this is one of the biggest worries for firefighters. when the winds kick up, so do the flames, and it is burning in dense forests. these trees are hundreds of feet tall. in just one week, staggering numbers. nearly 12,000 lightning strikes, 560 new fires, an area burned equal to the size of rhode

island. but the toughest impact on the e little toyota.0 people forced i was sleeping there last three nights. i've been hanging here because i have no place to go. >> nowhere to go. age of covid. what are you going to do? >> we've been frustrated, crying, desperate. it's been horrible. >> reporter: with firefighters and equipment stretched impossibly thin, some residents are ready for do-it-yourself firefighting. danny walsh just bought his own >> yes. >> you are. but you've stayed? >> yes. >> why? >> because i chose to and i can defend my property. >> reporter: just when firefighters and residents need a break the most, forecasters are predicting more thunderstorms on the way. that can bring more lightning and of course bring new fires. whit?

>> and those evacuations increasingly complicated by the pandemic as well. clayton, thank you very much. wepprecie it. u.s. h s% the owtest on the coro number of patirelyd news. but the number of daily deaths is still rising in 25 states, washington, d.c. and puerto rico. that's as texas christian university reports that 69 students and one staff member have tested positive for covid-19. abc's trevor ault is outside nyu this morning and, trevor, schools are opening but the real struggle has been to stay open. >> reporter: well, you're absolutely right, whit. good morning. here at nyu a huge percentage of students are in quarantine because they travelled in from restricted states. at tcu with that outbreak as you mentioned. the majority of those students and staff member who tested positive were on campus a day or two before their positive test and that means they were likely contagious around their fellow

ree s ppg many areas across the country but in some locations people are behaving in a way where they're almost ign ag oama.ng crowds of hundreds from high school football games with some sections packed together and one principal says they're discussing changes for future games. >> if there's an outbreak there won't be high school football. i'm worried about my boys and cheerleaders and bands having a full season. parents of big ten athletes protesting outside conference headquarters voicing anger with the decision to postpone fall sports. at the university of virginia, cavaliers head coach bronco mendenhall says he's worried about all students returning to campus. >> we've been staying in the same dorm as a football team. the students are coming and some classes will be in person. by that very design the bubbler. >> reporter: as the fall semester resumes, the head of the cdc says it will take cooperation from entire communities to keep kids safe in

school. president trump still pushing for re-opening everywhere. >> we have to open our schools. hopefully we'll be playing football. now they're talking about the football stuff in colleges, et cetera. >> reporter: mississippi is facing some of the potential consequences of in-person learning. more than 200 students have tested positive and thousands more in quarantine. one elementary school closed a week into classes because of an outbreak. >> many of the cases that we're seeing are in parties outside of the school setting, are in sleepovers outside of the school setting. >> reporter: the same could be these thursday night parties at ohio state university drawing concern. school officials say they've opened dozens of conduct cases telling abc students who host or attend a party or any gathering with more than ten people will face an interim suspension. at notre dame with the university logging 336 cases, the student newspaper publishing usrite oies." >> it's up to all of us to work

together, so we don't end up hurt. >> reporter: and at the university of north carolina's chapel hill campus, classes are canceled monday and tuesday so that students can move home just two weeks after the first day of classes. they had multiple outbreaks at the university. they've now switched entirely to virtual learning. eva. >> all right, trevor ault for us, thank you. now to espionage charges filed against a former army green beret. abc's alex presha is in washington with the officer accused of spying for russia. good morning, alex. >> reporter: good morning. eva. he's 45-year-old peter rafael dzibinski debbins, a former army green beret. and take a look at this. overnight the alexandria, virginia, sheriff's office releasing this mug shot. federal prosecutors say for nearly a decade and a half he secretly spied for russia sharing classified information about his special forces units including the identities of his team members so russians could

evaluate to see if they too could cooperate with russian intelligence. now the doj says debbins spied from december of '96 to january of 2011 even after he resigned from active duty. court documents show during that time he periodically visited russia and was assigned a code . his mother born in the soviet union. his wife is russian and first visited the country when he was 19. the fbi responding calling it a shocking betrayal of his fellow soldiers and his country. peter debbins charged with conspiracy to gather or deliver defense information to aid a foreign government and that could come with a life sentence if convicted. dan. >> alex presha, thank you. there's more russia news breaking overnight. russia's top opposition leader and avowed enemy of vladimir putin suspecteofei poisoned and now f germany for after russian doctors finally gave in to his family's demands. abc's senior foreign correspondent ian pannell is in nearby lithuania with the latest. ian, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. that's right.

the intervention of at least three world leaders, alexei navalny has finally arrived in germany. a plane carrying the russian opposition leader departed almost in secrecy from siberia in the middle of the night. navalny who remains in a coma was transported under heavy security to the hospital in berlin where he's going to be treated. the 44-year-old is russia's top opposition activist and investigative journalist and a thorn in the side of the kremlin and vladimir putin. he fell seriously ill on a flight to moscow. passengers recorded the sound of agonizing moaning on the plane and filmed it as it made an emergency landing and then navalny was rushed to the hospital. his team insists he was poisoned possibly in a cup of tea that he drank that morning. >> ian, as you know, i spoke to in cwd courtmoscowewears ago afe his arrests. he had been arrested many times

and when i spoke to him, he was rather flippant. you can see me behind him as he turns around and talks to me and he was rather flippant and said this isn't an unusual experience for me, this happens to me all the time. given he's been such a thorn in you used, should we be surprised the doctors did not want to send him out of the country for treatment? >> reporter: no, i think you make a very good point. he has been arrested, he's been beaten, he's been detained multiple times. the russian authorities claim that it actually wasn't safe to move him. they've also said it wasn't poisoning but low blood sugar. navalny's team say authorities deliberately stalled in order to allow time for the poison in his body to dissipate before the german doctors could assess him. the kremlin's long been accused of poisoning its critics in the past as you know, something it's always denied. but there are major inconsistencies in the official explanation of what happened here but this morning, relief for navalny's familynd

frnd of ur, atr us om porr,ew york, with more on the twin tropical storms and heat and fires in the west. >> lots of action in the weather department. that's for sure, whit. marco and laura of top concern. let's go to laura and show you where it is right now. our friends in puerto rico, american citizens will get the brunt of this as we go through the next 12 to 24 hours. we'll track it out. here's what we expect to happen going over hispaniola. and wl ve troraoi rver puerto cuba. big mountains there too that could tear this thing apart and they've issued mandatory evacuations for mobile homes and houseboats in the keys, so that has already taken place. here's marco, hurricane watches are posted for cancun. this gets into the gulf of mexico. it's going to have heavy rain and looks like texas is the target with this on tuesday. that's an update on what's happening in the t

we will have more on the heat that's exacerbating the fires in the west in the next half hour. guys, back up to you. >> busy in the weather department. rob, thank you. now to the nba playoffs heating up as we're starting to see the effects of playing in the bubble without the fired up crowds teams are used to having to cheer them on. janai norman has more on the action overnight. >> reporter: this morning, the top seeds taking control in the nba playoffs. two teams now on the brink of elimination afowutes

'seen lee buto >> there is no home court advantage for these teams. there's no real home crowd to fuel these home teams, so it seems like games are being tighter. young players are playing better not being in adverse conditions and overall it seems like a much more even playing field. >> reporter: young players likes normally turning heads and breaking ankles but overnight this nasty injury forcing him out of the game. kawhi leonard leading the clippers to victory, giving them a 2-1 series advantage over the mavericks. and it was a reunion of sorts for the utah jazz who crushed the denver nuggets overnight. following his trip out of the bubble for the birth of his son earlier this week -- >> you'll be out soon, man. i'll see you soon. >> reporter: starting guard mike conley jr. is back with the team after completing his mandatory quarantine. >> you know what i just went

through in the quarantine and, you know, being locked up all day and not being able to play, being on that court was all i was thinking about other than my family so i'm just thank be back and looking forward to the rest of the series. >> reporter: four more big games are scheduled for today but this bubble effect is fascinating seeing how a lack of home court advantage and rowdy crowds has an impact. guys? >> it really is. janai, thank you. coming up here the massive search for a soldier who disappeared from ft. hood. "good morning america" is sponsored by behr. today let's paint. exclusively at the home depot. look at that scuffed up wall. staring at you. embarrassing you in front of your in-laws. spreading rumors about you at work. that wall is your everest - but not any more. today let's paint.

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>> reporter: whit, good morning. sergeant elder fernandes has been missing for nearly a week. his unit says they've searched ft. hood, the barracks, the parking lots there on the post but still no sign of him. this morning, another ft. hood soldier is missing. elder fernandes was last seen monday afternoon. his family says he was likely dropped off at home by another soldier, says he never saw him that night, and his unit says he didn't show up to work the next morning. his family now desperate to find him. >> monday came and gone, no phone calls from him, and he wasn't answering phone calls either from anyone else. tuesday, no calls.igion division says they are actively searching for fernandes. ft. hood releasing in a statement information gathered from fellow soldiers so far indicate fernandes may have left the post on his own accord. worried sick, his mother rushing

from her home in massachusetts to ft. hood demanding answers. >> i don't know where he's at right now. i don't know what he's feeling. i don't know if he's hurt. i don't know what's going on. >> reporter: according to fernandes' relatives and family attorney, fernandes told them he had been sexually harassed while working in a supply room, reported it and was then belittled by his peers. he was also hospitalized before his disappearance. ft. hood confirming that there is an open investigation into abusive and sexual contact involving sergeant fernandes, saying he was transferred from his unit and offered proper care. this coming after multiple incidents involving ft. hood soldiers. most recently, specialist vanessa guillen whose murder sparked national outrage. for the fernandes family, they're holding out hope, urging anyone with information to come forward. >> anybody that can see this, that can see elder's picture

somewhere to help me find elder and help him get home safe. >> reporter: texas equusearch, a search and rescue organization, is expected at ft. hood today to help find sergeant fernandes. dan. >> stephanie, thank you. really thinking about that family this morning. we're going to move on to the horrifying saga of the so-called golden state killer. his victims calling him a monster as the judge ensures that joseph deangelo will die in prison. deangelo himself addressed the court before abc's zohreen shah is on the story from l.a. zohreen, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan. a judge gave the 74-year-old convicted killer and rapist life in prison without parole, this after numerous women stood up saying how deangelo had robbed them of years of their lives, speaking of the terror he caused them. the former police officer known as the golden state killer, one of the world's most infamous killers and rapists, rose from

his wheelchair in court friday to apologize to his victims. >> and i am really sorry. >> reporter: joseph deangelo sentenced to life without parole after confessing to 13 murders and more than 50 rapes in the '70s and '80s in california. chris pedretti, a rape victim at age 15, was one of the survivors, telling the court deangelo took a piece of her life. >> he stole my youth, my innocence. who could i have grown up to be? i guess i'll never know. >> reporter: deangelo didn't just attack his victims, family members say their loved ones were sometimes left beaten beyond recognition. he stalked others tormenting them with chilling phone calls before he struck. >> i'm gonna kill you. >> reporter: overnight sahiseenng. >> it's time. it's just time. it's time for these families. i'm just so grateful that we got to this day. >> reporter: after investigators pieced together clues about his dna from public genealogy websites, they captured him two

years ago living a life openly in plain sight. he was wheeled into the court hearings appearing as a frail suspect often heard muttering. >> i've listened to all your statements. >> reporter: but prosecutors showing this from his jail cell appearing to do arm exercises, even clamoring up to his desk, showing a killer still very much in control. the golden state killer will die in prison. while investigators were able to find him and bring justice for victims, two unsolved questions remain and may never be answered. why he killed and raped people and why he suddenly stopped 34 years ago. eva. >> those two questions that those victims will be thinking about. it's time for a check with rob and a check of the weather. it is a busy weekend in the weather department, rob. >> yeah, that's for sure. let's start with the west. we talked about the tropics. i want to share video coming out of tucson, arizona. the monsoon flow or season typically gets cranking in july

and they have had a very late start. it's been very, very dry, even fires in arizona but obviously now getting -- trying to catch up with heavy rain yesterday. st an arming number n fires in the past week and we might see more in the way of lightning strikes with this monsoon flow beginning to kick in here but the heat probably a more greater widespread concern. 100 in sacramento the next several days. vegas, palm springs, the usual spots are not cooling off much either. we have to wait until we get into fall, it looks like, before we break this pattern. that's a quick check on what's happening nationally weatherwise. ti

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♪ welcome back to "gma." in today's "weekend download" making the best impression during online job interviews. sally sherry is a media and presentation coach who works with high-profile executives and she's here sharing some advice in how to ace that on-camera interview. sally, good morning to you. so many people are dealing with this right now and it's awkward not sitting next to someone in person. so give us an idea of how they can connect with that interviewer much better. >> oh, absolutely. yes, to get that job, you have to make an unforgettable connection with your interviewer and that means starting strong. so make sure you test everything, that you preview yourself and preview before actually hitting that go button. you also need to boost your energy when you're on camera and you have to really radiate your passion. why do you want this job? but be careful of hand

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the massive and still largely uncontrolled fire has killed at least five people, destroyed at least 560 structures and has burned more than 314,000 cow pag up as an evacuation center for live stock. owners are asked to make sure their animals have identification tags on them with your phone number, and they are asking for donations for wheelbarrows, bales and water. let's get a check of the weather now with meteorologist lisa argen. >> a spare the air alert continues over the weekend. a live look outside right now with the layers of fog and smoke from mt. tam here. 57 in the city. it is 66 over in oakland. the poor air quality around the bay reduce visibility to 3 to 4 miles where there is smoke. check it out. this is sutro right now, and a deck of low clouds will be

compressed and evaporate throughout the day today and we'll be left with sky. 66 and it is 69 in concord and the visibility with the fog three quarters of a mile. here in half moon bay and it'll be shifting today as the winds come out of the west-southwest and we'll be looking at some of that smoke pushing up. and our fire danger heightens tomorrow with a chance of thunderstorms right on through tuesday. >> the news continues right now with good morning ♪ ♪ try my $4 mini munchies with marinara or ranch. back at jack in the box.

try my $4 mini munchies with marinara or ranch. back at jack in the box. . good morning, america. it's our second hour and happening right now, double trouble. tropical storm laura impacting the u.s. virgin islands and puerto rico this morning while tropical storm marco nears the yucatan later today. this morning. house speaker nancy pelosi calling the house back to vote on postal service aid. and yesterday president trump's new comments on the election and the postmaster general's senate hearing. we've got the latest. new revelations. kelly osbourne revealing she had gastric sleeve surgery almost two years ago leading to her dramatic 85-pound weight loss, ca