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judge today. nfl legend joe montana helped stop an attempted kidnapping in his home. risky ride, this stunt turning more dangerous, crashing into the crowd. seeing red. the catastrophe that sent thousands of gallons wine thisng out of this winery. good monday morning. we begin with the bombshell report about the president's taxes. >> "the new york times" reports that president trump paid only $750 in federal income taxes and no federal income taxes in ten other years. >> the report details millions of dollars in financial losses raising questions about his business acumen. >> the president is calling "the new york times" report fake news. president trump's finances under fire.

after years of refusing to release his tax returns "the new york times" says it obtained more than two decades of tax data for trump and his business organization. the documents which have not been seen by abc news shows the president is hemorrhaging cash. "the new york times" reports trump's endorsement deals from "the apprentice" are drying up. "the times" writes into the next four years more than $300 million in loans for which he is personally responsible come due. president trump repeatedly refused to release his taxes saying he's under irs audit. >> the irs doesn't treat me well. they treat me like they treated the tea party. they don't treat me well. they treat me very badly. you have people in the irs that -- they treat me very badly. they're under audit. >> trump boasted about trying to avoid paying taxes. >> i fight like hell to pay as little as possible. can i say that? i have legally used the tax laws

to my benefit. i fight very hard because this country wastes our money. >> reporter: according to "the new york times" trump paid only $750 of income taxes in 2016. in between 2015 he paid taxes only five times because most years he reported losing millions more than he earned. >> you made about $250 million in the last year? >> $605 million. >> reporter: while "the new york times" said it won't reveal the actual records to avoid revealing its sources, they reveal that the write-offs are more than $70,000 paid for hair cuts. more than $95,000 for ivanka trump's hair and make-up artist. approximately $200 million for trump and donald trump jr.'s legal defense for the russian inquiry. trump reportedly racked up $26 million in unexplained consulting fees. the documents also unearth transactions that could be seen as conflicts of interest

including payments from foreign officials saying at mar-a-lago. trump slammed "the new york times" overnight. >> it's totally fake news. made up. fake. we went through the stories -- you could have asked me the same questions four years ago. totally fake news. actually i paid tax. >> reporter: in a statement to abc news the trump organization says the story is riddled with gross inaccuracies. over the past decade the president has paid tens of millions of dollars in personal taxes to the federal government. democrats are pouncing. house speaker nancy pelosi saying it's a sign of president trump's disdain for america's working families. until president trump, every president back to jimmy carter released their tax returns. back in 2012 trump criticized president obama for paying a 20% tax rate. president trump's former campaign manager has been admitted to a florida hospital

after police were called to his home. brad pass he had guns. brad parscale has kept a low profile since he was demoted in july. president trump and joe biden are poised to face off on stage tomorrow night for the first time. debate one is set to take place in cleveland. it will look different because of the pandemic. the candidates will not wear masks. there will be no hand shakes. the live audience will be small. the president is demanding that biden take a drug test suggesting he had used performance enhancing drugs during his pri mamary debates. the biden campaign said if the president thinks his best case is made in urine, he can have at it. republicans are racing to get judge amy coney barrett seated on the supreme court before election day. the first hearing is expected to be held in two weeks. barrett would cement a 6-3 conservative lean on the supreme court.

she's made it clear she shares the same philosophy as the late justice scalia. >> to put someone on the court who are the views exact opposite of ruth bader ginsburg at a time when she asked, as her dying wish, that we wait until the next election to choose somebody is just appalling. >> democrats try to destroy judge barrett at their own peril. >> the supreme court is set to take up a case on obamacare one week after the election. democrats say health care and coverage from pre-existing conditions are on the line. joe biden is calling on republicans to do right by the american people and delay the proceedings. new questions in the breonna taylor case which has been sparking protests across the country. a new ballistics report has come to light just as the officer charged in the case faces a judge. here's abc's elizabeth schultz. >> reporter: this morning a former officer set to face a judge as the only man charged in the breonna taylor investigation. brett hankinson just hours away

from his arraignment after being indicted on three counts of wanton endangerment. investigators say he endangered neighbors when he fired that night. his charges sparking outrage after a grand jury decided not to bring murder charges against any of the officers involved in taylor's death. >> it would not be the same for a white woman. >> reporter: a state ballistics report obtain by abc news is raising new questions. >> kenneth walker fired the shot that hit sergeant mattingly. it was fired from a 9 mm. handgun. the lmpd officers fired 40 caliber handguns. >> reporter: state attorney general daniel cameron claimed taylor's boyfriend kenneth walker shot a police officer in the botched drug raid. the report says a shot was neither identified or

eliminated from having been fired from kenneth walker's gun. the fbi conducted a separate ballistics test. those results are not public. >> the kentucky state police's report could not determine if kenny's shot officer mattingly. >> reporter: the grand jury said that the police identified themselves before entering the property. vice news obtained audio of the witness saying they could not hear the police identify themselves. abc news has not individually authenticated that tape. kenneth and mona? >> elizabeth, thank you. now to the coronavirus pandemic. 33 states are seeing cases on the rise in the coronavirus pandemic. four states are setting records for people being hospitalized. in wisconsin 27% of recent covid tests have come back positive. the state hit a record for cases reported in a single day. in new york more than 1,000 people have tested positive for the virus in a single day for

the first time since june. students head back to school tuesday with in-person classes resumes, but the principal's union says they've lost confidence in the mayor's plan. in florida bars and restaurants were packed this weekend after the governor released restrictions. the fire through the california wine country is being called the glass fire. it's destroyed a winery and the glass mountain inn. mandatory evacuations are being ordered in saint helena, including at a hospital. power has been shut off for 65,000 customers in hopes of preventing more fires from starting. further north the zogg fire exploded to more than 7,000 acres in a matter of hours. time for a look at your monday morning weather. much of the west faces an

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stunt on the streets in seattle. drivers putting on what they call a side show, spinning their cars in circles. see what happened there. one driver crashed into the crowd. reports say the injuries were minor. there's been no word on any arrest. the ban on downloading which was set to take effect today is now on hold. a judge last night delayed the trump administration's move. tiktok argued the ban would hurt business as it works out a deal to create a new u.s. based company with oracle and walmart. new details about how former nfl quarterback joe montana and his wife saved their granddaughter from being kidnapped. here's abc's megan tevrizian. >> reporter: this morning new details in the alleged kidnapping after a stranger

tried to snatch their infant grand daughter. >> i can see how there's a lot of access and anybody is able to walk by the house. >> reporter: according to new information from the los angeles sheriff's department montana's 9 month old granddaughter was sleeping in the living room when an unknown woman picked up the baby and walked upstairs. that's when police say montana and his wife confronted the kidnapper. when she refused to give back the baby, a tussle ensued and montana's wife jennifer grabbed the baby away. police say the alleged kidnapper ran out without the baby and tried to hide inside another house in the neighborhood. that's where malibu deputies found her making the arrest. this video from tmz shows police at the scene. the suspect sodsai dalzell is charged with felony kidnapping and burglary. authorities are holding her on $150,000 bail. montana posted this tweet thanking everyone for their

support writing scary situation, but thankful everyone is doing well. we appreciate respect for our privacy at this time. the suspect has not yet entered a plea. she faces burglary and kidnapping charges. she's due in court on tuesday. kenneth, mona. >> megan, thank you. coming up a closer look at president trump's taxes and the fall out this morning. first we're looking at the case of a boy who died because of a brain-eating amoeba in the city's tap water. a boy who died because of a brain-eating amoeba in the city's tap water. with non-small cell lung cancer that has spread and that tests positive for pd-l1 and does not have an abnormal egfr or alk gene. it's the first and only approved chemo-free combination of two immunotherapies that works together in different ways to harness the power of the immune system. opdivo plus yervoy equals a chance for more days. more nights. more beautiful weekends.

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returning to our top story, the bombshell about president trump's tax returns, "the new york times" reports the president paid only $750 in taxes his first year in office. overnight the biden campaign started selling stickers reading i paid more taxes than donald trump. i spoke to abc reporter john santucci who covers the president. what stands out as most surprising to you? >> there's a lot, mona. the fact that donald trump for the year he was on the campaign trail and the first year in the white house according to "the times" only paid $750 in federal income tax. from "the times'" records they obtained 15 years of documents. they claim 10 out of those 15 years the president paid no federal income tax whatsoever. we learned about the audit the president has been talking about for years.

it's based off a $73 million return he received. the irs is saying it was too much. trump has been fighting it. what's interesting is, if the president loses the audit, he could have to pay the federal government $100 million in penalties and fines. >> you've covered the president since he first launch his campaign. how do you think he will fight this and do you think it will hurt president trump in the long run? >> you saw what the president did sunday night in the briefing room. anything he wants to knock down is given the stamp of fake news. it's going to be hard when an average american who makes $20,000 a year they pay $750 a year in federal income tax. that's going to be hard for donald trump to hit the campaign trail and say he's out there for the little guy. especially where this campaign is being fought out in the rust belt. >> lastly, the big debate is tomorrow night. what are you expecting? >> i think it's going to be a brutal debate. for many americans it's going to

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humid in the northeast. finally celebrating halloween in the age of coronavirus. >> will ganss spoke to a texas man who found a creative way to deliver candy to trick-or-treaters. >> reporter: it's going to take serious science to save halloween this year. >> these aren't the droids you're looking for. >> reporter: not these droids, these ones. >> halloween robot santa claus is the idea that we're going for. >> reporter: halloween at luke keys' house has always been a big deal. >> last year was huge. >> reporter: the haunted garage has been a neighborhood favorite for years. 2020 had other plans. >> what do we do? we don't want to cancel halloween. >> reporter: luke turning to robotics to help. >> i started with lego mind storm and worked my way um to a roomba. >> reporter: after a few test

runs with a candy cannon, luke came up with another good scary idea. >> i looked over to artie. i was like, oh, yeah i can ride him through the neighborhood. >> reporter: short for robotic test, r.t., testing out a candy delivery gig. >> some of the kids were apprehensive. some were like, cool, >> reporter: s.t.e.m. and sweets, r.t. deserves some robo recognition for that. >> i could be the grand marshal of the north austin halloween parade. social distancing halloween parade. >> reporter: one of the kids in luke's neighborhood has asked him to help make a robot out of his rc car. for those more focussed on the sugar rush, luke says he already bought three big bags and two costco boxes of candy bars. going to be a busy night for r.t. you guys. >> thank you, will.

i'm putting ou >> full size candy bars. candy and hand sanitizer. right now on "america this morning," tax return bombshell. the explosive report from the "new york times" claiming the president paid only $750 in federal income taxes the year he was elected. and avoided paying income taxes over several years. this morning the details about his tax write-offs including tens of thousands of dollars for hair cuts. how he's responding. why he's calling it fake news. breaking overnight, president trump's former campaign manager taken into custody and the count down to the first presidential debate. how this one will be unlike any other. new questions in the breonna taylor case. what a new ballistics report