good morning, america. the u.s. surpasses 8 million covid cases across the country. the nation reporting the highest daily numbers seen since july. 41 states now seeing an increase in hospitalizations. doctors and nurses being deployed to hard hit areas as new york state unveils a new plan to target hot spots and to roll out a vaccine, new york governor andrew cuomo joins us live. and also overnight, the nation's top doctor. dr. fauci revealing the white house has prevented him from speaking out on tv numerous times during the pandemic. the home stretch. just 15 days until the final votes. president trump ramping up his rallies, mocking joe biden for saying he will follow the science when it comes to the pandemic. >> he'll listen to the scientists. >> biden also hitting the crucial states blasting the president's rosy outlook.

>> turn the corner? things are getting worse. he continues to lie to us about the circumstances. >> this as the president comes under fire for attacking again michigan governor gretchen whitmer, just days after the plot to capture and kill her was revealed. wildfires exploding in the west. dozens burning right now scorching homes in hard-hit colorado as dangerous winds fuel the flames forcing mandatory evacuations for thousands. ginger is tracking the latest on the emergency this morning. miracle rescue. the mother missing in zion national park for nearly two weeks finally found safe. how search teams tracked her down. abc news exclusive, "battle of brothers." the new book taking us inside the royal sibling rivalry. new details about princes william and harry's relationship and the role meghan may have played in their split. the author's first interview on u.s. tv only on "gma" this morning. ♪ it feels like the first time and the 2020 showdown is set.

>> the dodgers are going to the world series. >> overnight, los angeles pulling off an incredible comeback. the team robbing and rocking home runs. >> cody bellinger has done it. >> the dodgers gearing up to face off against the tampa bay rays for a one-of-a-kind october. we certainly do say good morning, america. hope everybody had a restful weekend. how about the l.a. dodgers, their third trip to the fall classic in four years. >> that's right, robin. the dodgers hoping the third time will be a charm. it's been more than 30 years since they won the world series and now the match-up is set for tuesday in texas. we're going to have a lot more on that ahead. >> t.j. here with that. but we begin with the deepening coronavirus emergency. cases have surged past 8 million across the country. 40 million around the world with

at least 41 states seeing an increase in hospitalizations. icu beds are growing scarce. >> a quarter of hospitals across the country now saying more than 80% of icu beds are filled. that's higher than the summertime peak. in a moment new york governor andrew cuomo will join us live, but first our chief national correspondent matt gutman is in el paso, texas, with the latest there. good morning, matt. >> reporter: robin, good morning. this part of texas has seen a record number of cases and hospitalizations since the weekend. at one point only seven icu beds in a region of 1 million people or more. funeral director telling us that they're about to be overwhelmed with cases as dr. fauci say that the white house has tried to muzzle him, preventing him from talking to the public, quote, many times. overnight with the u.s. surpassing 8 million cases of covid since the pandemic began and nearing 220,000 deaths, dr. anthony fauci telling "60 minutes" that despite its denials, the white house has, in fact, tried to muzzle him

preventing him from making some television appearances to inform the public. >> i certainly have not been allowed to go on many, many, many shows that have asked for me. >> reporter: dr. fauci also saying he wasn't surprised president trump contracted covid. >> i was worried that he was going to get sick when i saw him in a completely precarious situation of crowded, no separation between people and almost nobody wearing a mask. when i saw that on tv, i said, oh, my goodness. nothing good can come out of that. that's got to be a problem. and then sure enough it turned out to be a superspreader event. >> reporter: the u.s. now reporting nearly 70,000 cases daily, the nation's highest numbers since july with cases on the rise in 39 states. here in texas, the state deploying doctors, respiratory nurses and ppe to surging areas, including el paso, where health officials have said covid is,

quote, out of control. in wisconsin, 1 of 14 states seeing an increase in fatalities doctors there begging people to take covid seriously. >> people still don't believe this is a real disease and we're seeing some dramatic, very dangerous situations occurring in our community. >> reporter: tyler whitmore works in a hospital in oklahoma, 1 of the 41 states where hospitalizations are on the rise. he is now on a ventilator. >> it's been challenging, obviously my son, him, him and his dad are pretty tight and so he struggles, you know, he misses his dad. >> reporter: in new york, where officials this weekend halted an upcoming wedding with a 10,000-person guest list, governor andrew cuomo revealing the state will now be focusing on what it calls microclusters of hot spots hoping to slow the spread. cuomo unveiling his vaccine plan for state of new york,

healthcare workers and the most vulnerable at long-term care facilities will get the first doses. the national governors association sending the trump administration a least of 3 dozen questions about how will the vaccine be selected and how will it be funded and distributed. george. >> okay, let's talk to the new york governor about that. andrew cuomo out with a new book, "american crisis: leadership lessons from the covid-19 pandemic." governor, thank you for joining us again this morning. we're seeing this surge across the country right now. several experts warning that the next two to three months could actually be the worst of the pandemic. how worried are you about new york? what's your strategy to stop any surge? >> thanks, good to be with you, george. i think the experts are right and have been saying it all along, right? they said the fall was going to see a viral surge, and it makes sense, the weather gets colder, people go inside, schools open, colleges open. there's less outdoor activity. so, if you listen to the

scientists, we expected this. here in new york, our statewide number is very good. we're about 1% infection rate which is one of the lowest in the united states and, remember, we started with the highest infection rate, we're now down to the lowest. but it's going to be a precarious fall across the country. there's no doubt about that. you put the viral increase of the fall together with this, quote/unquote, covid fatigue and that's a bad combination. the fatigue, i think, is in part, yes, we've been doing this for a long time but people don't know who to believe, george. and what to believe. and i think that's a major problem. we played politics with this disease. >> i do want to ask you about that, especially as it pertains to the vaccine. we saw dr. fauci last night say that he trusts the experts at the fda. how confident are you in the approval process of the fda right now? >> well, first, how confident am i? i'm not that confident. but my opinion doesn't matter.

i don't believe the american people are that confident. you're going to say to the american people now, here's a vaccine, it was new, it was done quickly, but trust this federal administration and their health administration that it's safe? and we're not 100% sure of the consequences. i think it's going to be a very skeptical american public about taking the vaccine and they should be. >> so what's it going to take to convince you that it's safe, that it's effective, that it should be distributed? to do in new york, we'll put together our own group of doctors and medical experts to review the vaccine and the efficacy and protocol, and if they say it's safe, then i'll go to the people of new york and i will say it's safe. with that credibility but i believe all across the country you're going to need someone other than this fda and this cdc saying it's safe.

>> and that means we'll need a change in the white house, is that what you're saying? >> look, i personally hope for a change in the white house but put that aside, if this administration continued, the cdc, george, and the fda doesn't have any credibility. you have dr. fauci now saying that they basically tried to muzzle him. he has the highest credibility in the nation on this issue, and then not only is the vaccine safe, this administration is learning nothing from the past. what they're saying is that the day we get the vaccine, that's when it ends, that's not true. the day we get the vaccine, we then have to prove to the american people it's safe, we then have to administer millions of doses and that is a massive undertaking that this administration hasn't even talked about and is going to take months and if it's not done

right, will be a debacle like back in january and february, when we made so many mistakes with this covid virus. >> this is going to be the first election in a century during a pandemic. how confident are you that it's going to go smoothly? >> i don't think it's going to go smoothly. i think the president has already been establishing his grounds to refute the election results. he's been talking about fraud and mail-in ballots for weeks, george. now, somebody who is confident about victory on election night doesn't discredit the results, right? so i think the president knows he's in trouble on election night and i think he's already designing the case to allege voter fraud through the election. >> governor cuomo, thanks for your time this morning. >> thank you. >> amy. well, george, now to the latest on the race for the white house, just 15 days until the final votes and this morning early in-person voting kicked

off in the key battleground state of florida. at least 28.1 million people have voted early around the country so far. a new record actually being set every single day as both candidates hit the swing states hard in the home stretch. our mary bruce in washington tracking it all for us. good morning, mary. >> reporter: amy, good morning. just over two weeks to go and that isn't a lot of time to change the trajectory of this race. president trump is down in the polls and now scrambling to hold on to states he won comfortably in 2016, but joe biden's team is warning do not underestimate the president's ability to fight back and win this thing. 15 days to go and the candidates are pounding the trail as they enter the final stretch. >> it's go time. >> get out and vote. >> reporter: down in the polls the president is crisscrossing crucial states and seeming to admit a loss is possible. >> if i lose, what do i do? >> reporter: in las vegas sunday, trump making a rare visit to church attending this packed indoor service not wearing a mask.

at a rally overnight in carson city, he continued to insist the country is on the mend, mocking his rival, joe biden, for saying he'll follow the science. >> he'll listen to the scientists. if i listened totally to the scientists, we would right now have a country that would be in a massive depression. >> reporter: but over 12 million americans are currently unemployed and congress is still fighting over a stimulus plan. as deaths in the u.s. climb past 219,000, biden sunday in the critical battleground state of north carolina holding a drive-in rally saying trump's rosy picture of the pandemic is flat-out wrong. >> turn the corner? things are getting worse. he continues to lie to us about the circumstances. >> reporter: biden is leading trump by 12 points nationally according to our latest poll, but his team isn't taking anything for granted blasting out a memo warning donald trump can still win this race and urging biden supporters not to grow complacent. trump is ramping up his rallies campaigning heavily in states he

narrowly won in 2016, like wisconsin and michigan, where saturday he ripped into the governor gretchen whitmer just one week after the fbi revealed she was the target of an alleged domestic terror plot to kidnap her. >> you got to get your governor to open up your state. lock them all up. >> reporter: whitmer says the president's words are putting her life in danger. >> the president is at it again and inspiring and incentivizing and inciting this kind of domestic terrorism. it is wrong. it's got to end. >> reporter: now on the stimulus, the window to get something done is closing. now house speaker pelosi is issuing a deadline, she wants to see a deal by tomorrow. that seems impossible. the two sides are still far apart on how much to spend and what to spend it on meaning millions of americans who are looking to washington for relief will have to wait until after the election. amy? >> all right, mary bruce, thank

you for that. we will have complete coverage of the presidential debate on thursday, george is anchoring with our political team. it all starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern. george. >> okay, amy, thanks. we'll turn to the wildfires. dozens burning as dangerous winds fuel the flames threatening more than a thousand homes. ginger is tracking the latest. good morning, ginger. >> good morning, george. all of the fires from utah to colorado just here in this one map, amazing numbers. look at this video. this is from the calwood fire. it's a relatively new one over the weekend. 26 homes destroyed. more than 8,700 acres burning, 15% contained. there are mandatory evacuations there. that huge one, the cameron peak fire still has evacuations and now has burned more than 203,000 acres. that one is 62% contained. so relative humidity has been a huge issue. it's been super dry especially in colorado where we still have red flag warnings. look at some of the gusts forecast, up to 40 miles per hour. the air quality is really

difficult, especially from denver to the north through ft. collins from that cameron peak fire, and we'll see bad conditions all the way back to california which i'll talk about in a bit, robin. >> we look forward to that. thank you. now to the world series match-up. all set this morning, fans in los angeles, you know, they're still ecstatic over the lakers' nba title. tampa bay fans were thrilled over the lightning's stanley cup victory and now the cities are gearing up for a thrilling baseball matchup between the dodgers and tampa bay rays. t.j. holmes, tell us all about it. >> look, folks in l.a. are still getting over hangovers from the lakers party. now here they go again. could have another championship. look, the dodgers were the best team in baseball this season. but to make it to the world series they had to pull off an incredible comeback. >> the dodgers come from behind in the series. they come from behind in game seven, and they win the national league pennant. >> reporter: the los angeles dodgers are heading back to the fall classic. >> the dodgers are going to the world series. >> reporter: down 3-1 in the championship series, the dodgers completed the comeback with a game seven thriller against the atlanta braves.

>> tonight, this time he hits the ball to deep right field. >> reporter: hitting a record tying number of home runs in the series. >> cody bellinger has done it. >> reporter: and producing a defensive highlight reel. >> turner will dive and now the throw to third. they get him there. >> reporter: which included home run-saving catches. >> he does it again. >> this is really the first time we have had our backs against the wall and we're never going to give up, you know? nothing's going to be easy. >> reporter: the dodgers now advancing to take on the american league champs, the tampa bay rays. >> from day one of spring training we -- the goal was to win the world series. we took care of business during the regular season. we took care of business against the braves so it was a little harder than we thought it was going to be, but i'm glad we pulled it off. >> reporter: it will be star hitting against stellar pitching in the world series with dodgers stars mookie betts against the rays' incredible pitching rotations.

which was one of the league's best this season. and now, get this, the highest payrolls in all of baseball belong to teams like the yankees, the dodgers, the houston astros, tampa bay has one of the smallest payrolls. they have already beaten the yankees and the astros this postseason. now they get a chance to take on another big team, the dodgers, the games are happening in arlington in a little bubble all in one site and that will be cool, and yes, robin. you're looking at the face of a man who stayed up until midnight to watch it. >> you have given me an idea. we've got to have an isolated camera on t.j. in the on-deck circle. >> oh, yeah. >> warming up. >> on deck circle. that's what we'll start calling it. you're right. >> okay. whatever you need, guys. a lot of other headlines coming up this morning including this miraculous rescue of a mother missing for 12 days in zion national park. how a tip from a park visitor helped rangers find her alive.

and how to go home safely. what you can do in addition to masks and social distancing to help reduce the risk of an outbreak. top public health expert dr. jha will be back with us. first back to ginger with more on those wildfire evacuations. ginger? >> yeah, let's start with this one in utah. that's the range fire, and we know at least 3,000 acres have burned and we know those fire conditions are going to be difficult with the wins and relative humidity, so too will the north bay mountains up through the sierra and air quality alert has not budged down here in central california. your local weather in 30 seconds. first, though, we have got to get the select cities sponsored by target.

. good morning. abc7 meteorologist mike nicco. our cooling trend continues today but we'll still be a little above average away from the coast in san francisco. local critical fire conditions in the north through wednesday. and then autumn weather. yes, it's going to be a little cooler this weaning end. today we're still holding onto the 70s and 80s while the coast is in the six and that's above average. tonight we're in the 50s. north bay mountain and hills, and captured in vermont that moment that autumn meets winter. yes, we got snow in vermont, new hampshire and maine this weekend. >> wow. beautiful. all right, we'll be right back. ♪ music playing ♪

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fenway park in boston hosting early in-person voting. more than 2,000 people showed up on saturday. and take a look at this moment from the new york jets game. that is safety marcus may. what a catch. i've never seen a catch like that before. >> oh. whoo! >> how about securing that? that's kind of -- >> his backside. >> he's using the backside. that's right. remember that moment -- >> you're not going to say it. you're not going to say it. >> no, i'm not going to say it. >> you can say it, it was the infamous butt fumble against the patriots on thanksgiving day 2012. i saw in the copy -- i thought, he is not going to say that. i'm here for you, george. >> thank you. we're going to continue now with that incredible rescue. the california mother found alive in zion national park. this after nearly two weeks going missing on a one-day hike. kayna whitworth joins us now are with the latest. good morning, kayna. >> reporter: hey, robin. good morning.

so holly courtier's daughter says that her mom lost her job during the pandemic so she decided to spend her extra time in the national park. she was already a nature lover and now this morning, the 38-year-old is recovering in the hospital. this morning, a family reunited after the miracle rescue of holly courtier, the 38-year-old mom missing and alone for 12 days in zion national park. >> we're such a tight-knit family and i couldn't imagine one person gone. >> reporter: she disappeared october 6th after taking a shuttle bus into the park. the avid nature lover left her phone behind, planning a solo hike through the canyon, but authorities say she never returned to be picked up. spread out over the park's 232 miles, family, volunteers and rescue teams traversed the park known for its high plateaus and maze of narrow, deep canyons searching by drone and on the ground with k-9 units. >> i went out with a very

experienced hiker and we actually said, you know what, we're going to step off the trails and look where she could be. at one point we're hanging on the edge of a cliff and rocks are falling on us and i thought, oh, my gosh, if this is my sister, you know, i didn't -- at one point think how could she live through this. >> reporter: days passed with no sign of holly. she was without food and had little water. that was until a tip came through alerting park rangers of a possible sighting. rescue people finally tracking her down. holly speaking to family members from the hospital. >> she hasn't ate since then at all. she's had very little water, we found out. but the moment i talked to her on the phone she said i love you so much and that was her signature thing to say to people that she loved and i said i'm so glad you're coming home. >> reporter: now, holly had just hiked the narrows in zion national park with her daughter a few weeks prior to her disappearance.

her sister this morning said she's so thankful to the rangers who never gave up on finding her. george. >> i'll bet they are. thanks very much. we're going to take a look ahead on the pandemic's impact on the holidays. experts are warning about the risk of gathering friends and family indoors for thanksgiving and christmas and dr. ashish jha is standing by with his advice on how to minimize the risk after this report from becky worley. >> reporter: outdoors, it's where experts have been urging us to go with small groups. but what happens when it's freezing outside? >> i do really recommend that people stay away from indoor gatherings. >> reporter: the cdc recently updated its guidance saying, the virus can spread in small droplets that linger in the air potentially for hours and another of their reports shows how dangerous that can be inside. it details 20 relatives who attended a family gathering over a three-week period including a teen who unknowingly brought the virus with her. all but 2 of the 14 who shared the house contracted covid. six only visited for a few hours mostly remaining outdoors and

left not infected. so when it comes to being indoors with people from outside your household -- >> if it's something that you can't imagine not doing, then you need to prepare for at least two weeks in advance for everybody in that gathering to essentially be quarantined. >> reporter: experts also say wearing masks and socially distancing are key, but another important factor, reducing the amount of virus particles that could be in the air. >> air circulation is critically important. we've learned from increasing evidence that air transmission is more effective for this virus than we originally thought. >> reporter: so how do you improve air circulation indoors? first with outside fresh air. through an open window. that fresh air diluting particles floating in the air. the second option, with air that's been run through the filters in your heating system. but experts say dirty filters aren't as effective at getting rid of particles so change out

your filter now. plus, that's gross. and while finer filters like those rated merv 13 are more effective not all heaters can handle the workload of a finer filter so check your system specs or call your hvac guy. another layer of filtration, air purifiers. >> the simplest that i'm recommending for consumers are things called hepa filtration and they are efficient at removing particles of the size we care about and they are readily available in the market. >> reporter: you have to make sure to buy the appropriate size air purifier for your space. all are layers of air improvement, but there's no magic bullet to make indoor gatherings risk-free. for "good morning america," becky worley, abc news, oakland, california. >> and joining us now is dr. ashish jha, the dean of the brown university school of public health. dr. jha, thanks for being with us. we saw this virus surge after recent holidays but those were all in warmer months where people were mostly outdoors. now we're going to see thanksgiving and christmas where

people tend to be inside. what are you anticipating? >> good morning. thank you for having me on. first of all, i think it's really frustrating that this is where we are as a country going into the holiday season. we could have really suppressed this virus and we haven't, and so i am very worried about what's going to happen. what we know is that when large numbers of people gather, especially indoors, the virus tends to spread very efficiently as we saw in that report. we have seen it after every holiday. i'm worried that we'll see more after thanksgiving and christmas. >> dr. jha, is there a safe number that people can keep their indoor activities to in terms of people inside their home? >> yeah, so there's no single magical number. if you want 100% safety, unfortunately that means not seeing anybody outside of your household. now, that's pretty tough both for thanksgiving and for the holidays. and so as we heard in that report, if you want to see other family members, there's a set of steps you can take from really keeping yourself quarantined for

a couple of weeks going in, limiting the number of people working on ventilation inside, it's not going to be an easy holiday season. >> we just heard in becky's report that, yes, keeping the air circulating, having air purifiers may help. what about air humidifiers? what do we know about that? >> yes, well, what we know is that the virus does spread more efficiently in colder, drier air. we haven't seen any data that putting in humidifiers lowers that spread. i mean in some ways it stands to reason it would. but we haven't seen that data or at least i haven't seen that data. what i've been recommending to people is obviously try to keep a level of humidity in your home that's reasonable and will let you be comfortable. but it's really about air -- sort of the freshness of the air. that's much more important, i think, than the humidity per se. >> well, dr. jha, we certainly appreciate your expertise and time this morning. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> for more tips on how to stay safe and healthy with company

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show "the crown" is giving us his first u.s. tv interview. maggie rulli joins us from outside buckingham palace with more on all of that. good morning, maggie. >> reporter: good morning, amy. the book says that rift is really more like a sibling rivalry on steroids. now for their part, harry and meghan seem to be moving forward, but even an ocean and a country cannot keep them away from this royal drama. in the new book, "battle of brothers," royal historian robert lacey paints a bleak picture of two young men struggling with the demons of their past, two princes pitted against each other from the start. so many stories out right now focused on meghan and megxit, but based on your book, it seems like this rift happened quite some time ago. >> this story goes right back to the beginning when they were children, and at the age of 6, 7, william suddenly starts becoming more serious. he's aware of his destiny as a king. harry goes in the opposite direction. >> do you think that william set harry up to fail? >> there is a sense, i think, in which william could be

criticized for setting harry up to fail. it suited the elder brother so well to have the court jester, to have the guy who always carried the blame, both when they were teenagers and now. >> reporter: lacey contends that harry was increasingly unhappy in this role. so when he met meghan, he took the chance to break free. >> he falls in love with this megawatt woman. he is inspired and transformed by her, and he wants more than that, and the palace couldn't handle it. >> do you think meghan was treated unfairly by the palace? >> as a click down there in buckingham palace, i think they had it in for meghan. >> reporter: the couple, says lacey, became too big for the institution. >> they were megarock stars who for the first couple of years, overshadowed william and kate. somehow they had to be edged out, and i fear that that is the long-term solution that the palace sees. >> reporter: the palace sending a message to harry.

>> a picture is issued of the four monarchs of the present and the future, and i think the underlying message of that is just remember your place, harry and meghan. these are the people that really matter in the royal family, and you are the backup, and you're trying to play too prominent a role. >> reporter: the battle between the brothers reaching fever pitch as harry publicly announces his plans to step down as a senior royal. >> they explode, and they publish their own plans, which they've been planning to release after proper discussion, but harry lost his cool, he put it out there. the royal family get about ten minutes' notice of what he's going to do, so they lose their cool. william in particular loses his cool. >> reporter: william refusing to even have lunch with harry before the big meeting at the queen's sandringham estate last january where the couple's future was mapped out. now living in california harry

and meghan have been speaking up on causes important to them without the constraints of the royal family. lacey argues their departure was grossly mishandled by all and is a great loss to the monarchy. well, the book is out tomorrow and so far there's been no comment from the palace. and as far as some brotherly reunion is concerned, lacey thinks the responsibility is on william to reach out. guys. >> hopefully that will happen. maggie, thank you. coming up, we have our "play of the day." come on back. of the day." come on back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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good morning, america. it's 8:00 a.m. out of control. the united states surpasses 8 million covid cases across the country reporting the highest daily numbers since july. 41 states now seeing an increase in hospitalizations. doctors and nurses being deployed to hard-hit areas as new york city governor andrew cuomo unveils a new plan to target hot spots and roll out a vaccine. the first lady fighting back. melania trump takes aim at her former friend and adviser over those explosive secretly recorded audiotapes calling the memoir about the first lady idle gossip. the personal and legal battle under way right now. aj mclean revealing the first time he tried drugs. the backstreet boy opening up about his relapses and journey to recovery. dr. ashton joins us live with the warning signs everyone should know.

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about that. but first, we have a lot of news to get to, starting with the latest on the coronavirus. cases have passed 8 million across the country with at least 41 states seeing an increase in hospitalizations as icu beds are growing scarce. we're going to go back to our chief national correspondent matt gutman who is there in el paso, texas. good morning again, matt. >> reporter: good morning again to you, robin. this part of texas has seen a record number of cases and hospitalizations since the weekend. at one point there were only seven icu beds for a region of about a million people. that as dr. anthony fauci for the first time saying that the white house has tried to muzzle him. overnight, with the u.s. surpassing 8 million cases of covid since the pandemic began, the u.s. now reporting nearly 70,000 new cases daily. the nation's highest numbers since july with cases on the rise in 39 states. here in texas, the state deploying doctors, respiratory

nurses and ppe to surging areas, including el paso where health officials have said covid is, quote, out of control. in wisconsin, 1 of 14 states see an increase in fatalities. doctors there are begging people to take covid seriously. >> people still don't believe this is a real disease. and we're seeing some dramatic, very dangerous situations occurring in our community. >> reporter: in new york, where officials this weekend halted an upcoming wedding with a 10,000-person guest list, governor andrew cuomo revealing the state will now be focusing on what it calls microclusters of hot spots hoping to slow the spread. earlier this morning, george to -- george spoke to the governor. >> how worried are you about new york? what's your strategy to stop any surge? >> it's going to be a precarious fall across the country, there's no doubt about that. you put the viral increase of the fall together with this, quote/unquote, covid fatigue and that's a bad combination. >> reporter: which is why

there's so much focus on the vaccines. now over the weekend the national governors association sending the trump white house a list of about 36 questions asking about how the vaccine will be selected and how it will be funded and distributed. george. >> a lot of skepticism out there. thanks very much. the race for the white house now. just 15 days until the final votes and more than 28 million people have already voted early around the country. a new record is being set every day as both candidates hit the battleground states hard in the homestretch. back to mary bruce in washington. good morning, mary. >> reporter: good morning, george. well, just over two weeks to go and that is not a lot of time to change the trajectory of this race. the president is down in the polls and on defense. he has been campaigning aggressively in states that he won comfortably in 2016 while joe biden even though he has a double-digit lead in the polls, his team isn't taking anything for granted and blasted out a memo over the weekend warning supporters not to underestimate the president's ability to fight back and win this thing. now, the pandemic, of course, is still front and center in this final stretch. the president has been painting a rosy picture insisting the country is on the mend while joe

biden says that's just flat out wrong, that the country needs to take this pandemic seriously. as the death toll climbs past 219,000. now, the candidate also have one final face-off at this thursday's debate. the pressure is on for both of them but especially for the president. this could be his last best chance to try and change the direction of this campaign. george. >> okay, thanks, mary. we will have complete coverage of the debate on thursday. i'll be anchoring with our political team starting at 8:00 eastern. coming up, the first lady taking on her former friend and adviser over those secretly recorded audiotapes. the battle under way. also, backstreet boys' aj mclean opening up about the moment he became an addict. his road to recovery and his message this morning. and we have a tasty twist on fall desserts and matthew mcconaughey is going to join us live as well. so come on back. ♪ when i was in high school, this was the theater i came to quite often.

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uber and lyft want all the power. so, show them the real power is you. vote no on prop 22. ♪ good morning, good morning welcome back to "gma" on this monday morning. i love the leather. >> you know it's fall when you bring out the leather pants. >> that's what i always say. >> that's what george always says. >> always says that. >> that was funny, george. >> you are on a roll this morning. you're starting the week off good. hey, tomorrow here on "gma," garth brooks is going to join us live, cannot wait for that. he has a little bit of an announcement he'll share. >> always great to have him. time for "pop news." hey, lara. >> hey, you guys, good morning to you. we'll begin with jennifer hudson channeling the queen of soul. the singer looking exactly like aretha on the set of the upcoming biopic called "respect." "entertainment weekly" shares shots.

there's marlon wayans as aretha's first husband, mary j. blige playing aretha's mentor, there she is, and forest whitaker in the cast as her preacher father and broadway star audra mcdonald playing her mother. jennifer saying about her very first meeting with aretha, quote, we met in new york and one of the first things she said to me was, you're gonna win another oscar for playing me, right? no pressure. you can see the full interview in the new issue of "entertainment weekly" and all see if aretha is right with that oscar when it hits theaters this coming january. also in "pop news" this morning, guys, dreams are coming true again for fleetwood mac. the band's album "rumours" came out 42 years ago and this morning happy to report it's back on the top ten of the billboard charts. the sudden interest in stevie and the gang, this video, of course, posted by nathan apodaca, there he is on tiktok again.

skateboarding and drinking cranberry juice, all set to their 1972 hit, "dreams." mick fleetwood responded to that with a tiktok of his own. there's mick. and then stevie one-upped him. here's stevie's video. she actually sings in hers. you guys, i don't know if you know, this was the best-selling album in history till it was unseated by michael jackson's "thriller." congratulations to fleetwood mac. still one of the best albums bar none, just every song fantastic. and finally, a staple of the '70s, remember the diet soda tab in the pink can. >> yeah. >> it's about to fizzle out. it's about to fizzle out, rob. tab had a huge fan base that has kept the brand alive through petitions over the years and sales have gone too flat to justify the cost of production any longer. the company's north american director saying, quote, we're forever grateful to tab for

paving the way for the diets and lights category and to the legion of tab lovers who have embraced the brand for nearly six decades. the beloved soda in the bright pink can set to be discontinued starting december 31st. my mom will be very sad. and then finally this morning, a little girl named lily has a gift for finding the perfect hiding spots. take a look. >> we're playing hide-and-seek here and lily is so good at this game. i don't know where she is so if any of you guys know where lily is can you please help me find her, please? >> 21-year-old trevor posted this video of lily hiding in plain sight. already has a million views on tiktok. i say the only way we're going to find that chameleon is do a full sweep, yep, a full sweep of the deck. there you go. >> ba-dum-dum. >> that's "pop news." heading back to the studio. >> thank you. we turn to our cover story. first lady melania trump is

firing back at stephanie winston wolkoff, who wrote an essay of their audio recordings of their conversations. senior national correspondent terry moran has the story. good morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, george. like most first ladies melania trump tries to steer clear of controversy, but she's taking a public stand against this tell-all book, because she says what she calls its salacious claims are interfering with her work on behalf of children. this morning, first lady melania trump is fighting back, taking on her former friend and adviser who wrote a book about her personal life and released secret audio recordings of their conversations to cnn. >> they say i'm complicated. complicit. they say i'm the same like him, that i don't do enough, i don't say enough. >> reporter: melania trump who's heard venting to stephanie winston wolkoff in the tapes from 2018 is now blasting the release as pettiness writing in a letter on the white house website, these kinds of people only care about their personal agenda, not about helping others. in the recordings the two are

heard discussing the controversial policy to separate children from their parents at the u.s./mexico border. >> they sleep on the floor. they are -- they are -- there's nothing. they are taking care nicely there but, yeah, they are not with parents, it's sad, but when they come here alone or with coyotes or illegally, you know, you need to do something. >> reporter: these recordings were released the same night the president and first lady revealed they had tested positive for covid-19. and now the first lady is fighting back saying wolkoff secretly recorded our phone calls, releasing portions from me that were out of context and then wrote a book of idle gossip trying to distort my character. the justice department is now going a step further. government lawyers filing a civil lawsuit against wolkoff, accusing her of breaching a nondisclosure agreement. >> the lawsuit has so many claims in it that are false, that weren't covered by the nda, so we'll see what happens.

>> reporter: wolkoff is also responding to the first lady's letter in a statement to abc news writing, i wrote this book to share with the public my experience of working with melania, our 15-year friendship and her ultimate betrayal. this portrait is not all flattering, but it's the truth and americans deserve the truth about the occupants of the white house. in august, wolkoff told our linsey davis that melania has changed over the years. >> i gave her the benefit of the doubt that she was different than donald was and that she was different than the other trump children. >> and now? >> a trump is a trump is a trump. >> reporter: so the first lady has also written in that post that winston wolkoff, the author of that tell-all book hardly knew her. wolkoff responding in a statement to abc news, i find it puzzling that the first lady of the united states asked someone she hardly knew to attend her nuptials, to join her for countless lunches, to help plan the presidential inauguration, stay over at the white house and

act as her senior adviser, george. >> terry moran, thanks very much. robin. and george, now to backstreet boy and "dancing with the stars" contestant aj mclean getting candid about his 20-year battle with addiction. will reeve spoke to aj about it and how he finally made the commitment to staying sober. >> reporter: with a career that made him an international superstar -- ♪ tell me why >> reporter: performing for tens of thousands of fans each night. ♪ backstreet's back all right >> reporter: aj mclean of the backstreet boys is revealing his 20-year battle with addiction. >> what happened the first time you tried drugs? >> the first time i tried drugs was literally an hour before my call time to the call video shoot. i was off the walls. >> reporter: the singer kept his addiction a secret until his destructive behavior began affecting his band. >> they basically broke into my house and they dumped ice water on me while i was passed out in my bed.

everybody started to catch on. i wasn't me anymore, you know, i was just living a lie. >> reporter: the 42-year-old has now spent two decades with stretches of sobriety and stints in rehab. after a trip to las vegas 11 months ago, aj hit rock bottom. how bad was it the last time you were using? >> i was never sober. not for a second. and the turning point for me was when i came back home, my wife could smell it on my breath and my youngest of my two daughters would not sit with me. >> reporter: he's been sober since that day and says he's finally doing it the right way working with a program and a sponsor. >> there's too much to live for today. my beautiful children, my amazing wife, my career, my brothers, i've never felt more grounded than i do today. >> reporter: for "good morning america," will reeve, abc news, new york. >> he has such a beautiful family.

thank you, will, so much. dr. jennifer ashton will joins us now to talk more about it. jen, how common is it for someone to become addicted after trying drugs just for the first time? >> so glad we're talking about this, robin. it's hard to get a precise number on that, but in speaking with addiction experts, it absolutely does happen. we know there are genetic predisposition for people who deal with addiction and substance abuse, but it can also be situational. we've heard those stories as well. people who have surgery or in an accident and that's what starts their addiction. >> and we heard aj talking frankly about how this is something he's been struggling with for over 20 years now. what are the warning signs if you think somebody you know is struggling with addiction? >> well, you bring up a really important point, robin, because oftentimes the person with this disease will be so impaired, so sick, they might not be able to realize it themselves so you may

be able to detect it in someone else. some things to look out for, are people who are struggling with relationships, they're having disruption in those relationships. there's a failure to keep up with their day-to-day responsibilities like work. they're engaging in high-risk behaviors and they're no longer doing activities that they used to find enjoyable, and robin, one of the big ones, someone dealing with years of sobriety told me when someone starts to pull away from that sobriety community, stops going to meetings, stops going to treatment, that can be a big warning sign. >> i would imagine so. and this is another question. intervention. what's your advice to someone who wants to stage an intervention? >> well, robin, yesterday, i spoke with someone who is sober for over 20 years and now participates in interventions and he said the number one tip he would give is plan, plan, plan. ask for professional help, and robin, when that person agrees to go for treatment, they often

will need a transporter to accompany them to the facility and this requires daily work. this is a lifelong battle like any other chronic illness. >> and thank you for saying that because people -- what is it about addiction and people don't look at it the same way as other illnesses? >> yeah, that's right, robin. if you can't see it sometimes people take it less seriously. i encourage people to look at this no differently than heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure. it's a disease, period. >> it is. all right, jen, thank you as always. let's get back to ginger now. ginger. >> yes, robin, it didn't just snow in montana, but the most snow in a single october day ever in recorded history for at least great falls, montana. they had more than eight inches. but you're seeing video from billings, montana, where they had close to a half foot, now still in a winter weather

advisory, some of the mountains just 14 inches of snow, and we'll get more. it will move to the east, right? even minneap . good morning. abc7 meteorologist mike nicco. our cooling trend continues today but we'll still be a little above average away from the coast in san francisco. local critical fire conditions in the north through wednesday. and then autumn weather. yes, it's going to be a little cooler this weaning end. today we're still holding onto the 70s and 80s while the coast is in the six and that's above average. tonight we're in the 50s. north bay mountain and hills, now to a life-changing trip for supermodel mia kang, the star is opening up in a new memoir about fighting her eating disorder and finding her inner strength with muay thai boxing. adrienne bankert spoke to her about it. good morning, adrienne. >> reporter: somebody else really excited about this story, it appears.

mia kang has graced the pages of magazines like "vogue" and "sports illustrated" swimsuit issue and now she hopes her story will inspire others who have struggled. this morning, mia kang is in thailand, the same place where a boxing gym became a surprising sanctuary following her many bouts with anorexia. >> i feel like i've lost a lot of years to eating disorders. >> reporter: she's opening up in her new memoir "knockout." born and raised in hong kong she describes a troubled home life and found comfort in food. >> i grew up as an overweight child and i was really bullied in school because of that. >> reporter: desperate to lose weight, mia began starving herself. >> that's where i developed anorexia when i was 13 and i lost about a third of my body weight very quickly and i got scouted as a model right away. >> reporter: just like that her global career launched. >> it's been an incredible, incredible experience. i am the happiest girl in the world. >> reporter: but behind her dazzling smile she still thought

she was fat leading to liquid diets, drugs and depression. >> but you kept that same cycle for many, many years and then you had this breaking point, right? >> so when i was -- i was 27. i took this campaign, but they want me to really shrink down as much as i can. i just burst into tears and really my body was like, again, we need to do this again? >> reporter: mia had had enough taking a break from modeling ending up here. thailand would change her life. >> so i stumbled across this muay thai gym. i was driving my car, pulled over and asked if i could give it a try, gave it a go. i felt absolutely in love with muay thai. >> reporter: a combination of boxing and martial arts, helped mia to free herself from self-destructive habits and find her strength. >> that's kind of the pivotal turning point from living this life of self-loathing and hating

the body that i was in. i am half korean, half british. i love my thighs. >> reporter: now embracing a fuller figure she's helping others to find their confidence. >> i see a woman who is a sum of all the experiences that she's been through. i feel proud of the woman that she is. >> reporter: and we mentioned that mia is in thailand currently. right now she's not able to travel due to covid restrictions, but like all of us, grateful for other ways to connect. "knockout" is out tomorrow. >> thank you so much. coming up next, more messaging from the one and only matthew mcconaughey. he joins us live. >> announcer: she's a sensation. sofia carson. ♪ now friday she performs her new single for you on "good morning america." wake up to sofia carson friday on "good morning america's" concert series sponsored by carmax. ert series sponsored by carmax. morning america's" concert series sponsored by carmax.

good morning. we hope your week is off to a great start. i'm julian glover. san francisco being recognized for something no city wants. a new report says the city is one of the most rat-infested places in the entire country. it's number five on the list of most infested city. orkin says it ranks u.s. cities based on the number of new rodent treatment calls each year. here are the top five. chicago taking the number one spot for the sixth year in a row followed by los angeles, new york, washington, d.c., and coming in hot at number five, san francisco. let's shift gears and check in now with mike. >> thank you, julian. hi, everybody. we'll start with your neighborhood temperatures. we're mainly in the 50s. there's 48 in half moon bay.

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about the upcoming third season of "the conners" at 9:00 on abc7. ♪ how you like me now ♪ how you like me now welcome back to "gma." thank you for starting your week. so excited to talk to our next guest. >> an academy award winning actor, philanthropist, college professor, hook 'em horns and according to his instagram, a pickle expert. now he's written a memoir, "greenlights," the one and only matthew mcconaughey is joining us live. >> good morning, y'all. thank you for having me. >> the crowd goes wild. we love having you here even if it's virtually like this. speaking of virtually, "dazed and confused," your first movie and had you a virtual reunion with the cast, a table read for charity. what was it like reading those lines again, matthew?

>> well, i did not have to rehearse. i can tell you that. i remember them. you know, so much of that script and -- that was my very first job i ever got in what became a career 28 years later. getting to see everybody, i remember in the 45 minutes before the actual virtual read we all got to see each other and talk. some looked younger than they did back then. some people looked younger. it was really, really cool to catch up and for me that was the inception like i said, i didn't know if that was a one-off hobby but turned out to be a career for me. >> you know, you've been writing journals for most of your life and when you decided to write this book, you wanted to look back through them and to do so, i understand you went into the desert by yourself with no electricity. how did that go? >> for the most part it went well. not the entire time and there were some cold nights. but, yeah, a total of 52 days. the first 12 were without

electricity, after that there was a generator on hand at times but, yeah, i wanted to go away with all 36 years of my journal and see what the heck i had. i had been threatening to go away with them for the last 15 years but never had the courage to do it. finally a got a little time on my hand and a kick in the back side by my wife which she does so well and said get out of here and don't come back home till you got something. what i found was what you got in this book, "greenlights." >> what a great discipline to keep those journals all those years. one thing you write in the book, the only thing i ever knew i wanted to be was a father. never a doubt ask. >> never a doubt. this was -- at 8 years old i -- my dad was a big please and thank you man. you shake a man's hand. you look him in the eye and say yes, sir, no, sir, i was meeting some of his new friends looking up at them and shaking their hand and saying nice to meet you, sir. my 8-year-old mind what i noticed was every man that i had said sir to, the common

denominator they were all fathers and i remember saying, that's when you made it. that's when you've succeeded in life when you become a father and so from that day on it was clear to me the one thing i knew i always wanted to be, always was -- >> you write about your father in the book a great deal. matthew, how much do you think that you're like your dad? >> very much. i hope, i hope even more sometimes, you know, he really instilled values in myself and my two brother, values that i know i wouldn't be sitting here, the man i am with the life i got if he wouldn't have worked to instill. our family loved hard. we laughed hard. we hugged hard. we loved hard. it was not always pretty. but the love in our family was never, ever, ever in question. >> you said you earned those spankings. you said you earned them.

>> i say in the book there's not a butt whooping i would trade in for the values that were inst l instilled in me because of them. i know, every single one, there was never a time i got this trouble or got those butt whoopings where i didn't like, you definitely earned that one. >> speaking of love, i know that you write about your wife camila and write specifically about the moment you first saw her. did you know she was the one? >> i can't say i knew she was the one. i will say this, she was moving to my right to left across a room and it did not look like she was walking meaning her head was not bobbing. she was for floating and i did not say who is that. i said what is that? and in the book i write about two pages in what went through my mind of who and what she was. when i just saw her move it was just four seconds of her moving and i will say this, every beautiful thing that went

through my mind about who and what she was, she has turned out to be exactly that and then some. so i knew right away she was something special and very soon over the next years when we really fell in love and knew this is the woman i want to spend the rest of my life with. >> tell us the lesson you learned when you traded in your truck for a sports car. >> ah, everyone's got a red sports car in their life, right? that fancy shiny thing. look at it. and this is a great pic. before this picture i was a truck guy and took the girls mudding and worked and hustled. no matter when we showed up at the concert i was the guy that would work our butts to the front row and at the party and did not lean against the wall. i got out and danced. then i get this red sports car. as you can see what do i start doing, i start leaning against that red sports car and i think i'm so cool with my red sports

car. well, the girls thought that was cute for about one day and they were like, you really got pretty boring, matthew. what happened to the hustler? now you just lean against that red sports car. well, i noticed this was a block in my flow and really getting in the way of my success and fun, i traded that red sports car back in for my truck. the next day when i got my truck back i was back. >> a man who knows himself. >> i was letting that car do the work for me. no. don't do that. >> the three of us here in the studio have gotten to know you over the years and we got to say, what you see is what you get. it doesn't matter after -- even after the academy award, all the accolades, how do you stay grounded and i know that we'll find out more of that reading your book. >> great question. i mean it's daily work, daily maintenance. i think -- i think i have my values in pretty good order. you know, if i get lost a little bit, i do what i've done with this book, i go away, i spend

some time with me and try to get my head and heart communicating clearly because as we all know they don't always communicate clearly. >> amen. >> try to keep my ego in check but also try to keep it healthy. having three kids and a wonderful wife helps quite a lot. those are the things that really matter like when i say the only thing i ever wanted to be was a father, what's the greatest legacy i want to leave? my children. so, you know, between that and when i do go to work or get an accolade or a trophy or an applause, i always try to remember that it's because i stayed in process at the time of what i was doing. i'll tell this great story, "dallas buyers club" i win best actor. they give me a trophy. my kids come to me and say what did you get the trophy for. do you remember a year and a half ago when you said, pop, you look like a giraffe and you get up and i'd be gone and i'd put you to bed. yeah, well, remember when pop

was leaving the work i was doing on those days, now a year and a half later, my peers came and gave me a trophy for it and deemed it excellent so you can do things today that will pay you back tomorrow and that in a nutshell is sort of a lot of what's behind "greenlights." it's about investing in our own future, being kind to our future selves. >> that's a beautiful story. an absolute beautiful story. >> delayed gratification? that's right. amen, my brother. amen all the way and never enough time, matthew. our love to you and that beautiful family of yours. i know we'll have more with you tomorrow. going to talk about your career, how that iconic line, come on, amy. >> all right, all right, all right. >> yeah, came to be. >> three times. >> his book, "greenlights," you got to pick it up comes out tomorrow. coming up behind the scenes

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we are back with a look ahead to tonight's "dancing with the stars." derek hough is said to return to center stage with a special performance and lara is back with the details. hey, lara. >> hello, george. yeah, that's right. derek hough, six-time "dancing with the stars" champ turned judge is going back on the dance room floor to show how it is

done. we caught up with him for a sneak peek at his exciting return. before derek hough was a judge on "dancing with the stars" -- >> by the beard of zeus, that is a lot of chest hair. >> reporter: -- he was a "dancing with the stars" champ. >> amber and derek. >> reporter: winning six mirror ball trophy, the most in dwts history. >> so much fun. it's been a great season. the cast has been amazing. >> reporter: and tonight for the first time since 2017, derek will be back on the dance floor doing what he does best. ♪ >> here on the ballroom the lights were off. nobody was in the room and i was having a moment like, wow, i've done hundreds of performances in this room on this floor and i'm just so excited to add this one to the list and it's going to be really special. >> reporter: the mirror ball champ will be joined by his girlfriend haley dancing the paso doble.

>> this will be the first time we have danced together in that ballroom so it's going to be really special. >> reporter: while he's been away from the dance floor he's been perfecting his skills on tiktok from his trailer. ♪ at the gym. even while his girlfriend eats her dinner. ♪ my dance >> i'm so excited to perform on "dancing with the stars" once again. it just feels just exciting and sort of returning to a space that i love so much but also honestly i'm grateful. so excited to share this performance with everyone. >> we are so excited too, derek. can't wait to see you out there. "dancing with the stars" airs tonight, 8:00 p.m. eastern, 7:00 central. ginger, i know you'll be watching. >> you know i will be and now we have to get to our countdown to halloween. you ready? we want to see your best diy

halloween costumes and decorations. you just enter the disney hallo moment sweepstakes and get five lucky winners who will get awesome disney prizes. learn all the details to enter the sweepstakes by checking out good morning. i'm abc7 news meteorologist mike nicco. milder today but stilt a little above average on the coast in san francisco where the cloedz will linger longer. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa time to cook up something sweet with claire saffitz showing ace twist on apple pie with a recipe from her new cookbook, "dessert person," thank you so much for being here and you'll show us a fall favorite. our double apple crumble cake. i love your first step. never tried it before.

you precook apples. tell us why. >> yes, so i saute the apples in a little butter and that just makes it so that the apples inside the cake are really tender and soft. it also drives off excess moisture so that the cake doesn't get too wet because there's a lot of apples inside. also have a great tip for slicing apples since we are in apple pie season so i like to slice with the tip of the knife. a trick i picked up in culinary school. if you do that rather than further down the apples don't stick so can you slice much, much more quickly. >> i could have used that tip yesterday. all right. so you said you don't want the cake to be too wet but also have a tip for making sure it doesn't get too dry, doesn't dry out. >> yes, so i'm mixing together all the wed ingredients, method is really simple. comes together quickly so i like to add oil, it's an oil-based cake rather than butter. and that plus all of the apples inside just means you can leave the cake out on your countertop

for several days and won't dry out at all. >> you use apple butter instead of applesauce. why? >> yeah, this is apple butter. this is the double apple part of the apple cake. i have apple butter plus fresh apples inside and apple butter is applesauce just further cooked down and reduced so there's less water and this cake is kind of my spin on like a classic applesauce cake but gives a much more intense apple flavor and also tenderness so i think it's a lovely kind of ingredient hack for a cake. >> speaking of hacks, no apples are the same and you never know which ones to pick. you say there is a way to test which apples are the right apples for this pie. >> yes, i'll show you. so i picked up this tip from an apple farmer. i like to use super firm apples when i bake. that way they don't break down into applesauce and hold their shape so this is a tip, if you hold an apple in your palm and grip it, you try to press your thumb into the flesh, pressing as hard as i can, i can't make an indentation.

that's how i know it's a good baking apple. >> well, my two co-anchors have been testing it and digging in. i've been talking so i haven't been able to eat but i'm about to do it. i know you have a finished version to show us as you're mixing. >> yes, let me show you. that's the batter. i'll add apples and crumb topping that goes over top but let me show you what the finished one looks like. >> tah-dah. >> beautiful. beautiful. you know what else is beautiful, this other dessert you have, this other pie, it's called your cranberry pomegranate mousse pie. >> really good. >> it's really good, says robin. >> have it right here. >> wow. >> i love this pie. >> so light. >> this is a great one for thanksgiving because it is light and arie and tart and refreshing. i think it's a great alternative to heavier thanksgiving desserts like pecan pie, so i just think it's a nice way to end an already heavy, filling meal. adding cinnamon on top.

>> yum. >> of that slice. there you go. >> what's the crust? >> a little sweetened creme fraiche. it is a speculos wonderful. >> i don't eat sweets, claire but i'll have to devour this. this is so good. thank you so much. i mean, you know, robin, it takes a lot. >> thanks for having me. >> this is a rare sight. >> enjoy it now. every now and then, right? >> in moderation. >> claire's cookbook "dessert person" is variable tomorrow. coming up an inspiration performance by 13-year-old keedron bryant. stay with us.

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good morning. i'm julian glover from abc7 mornings. people in san mateo are on edge after three mountain lion sightings over the weekend. home surveillance camera captured this mountain lion walking through the backyard on saturday night. it comes after two other sightings. there was one on friday night at 10:00, another saturday morning at 6:45. we'll check in with mike nicco. >> thank you, julian. hi, everybody. pretty good day to take a break outside if you need to, whether it's exercising or working from home or the kids are remote learning. temperatures will be a little warmer than average but not as warm as they were over the weekend. 60s along the coast. 70s around the bay. 80s inland. i want to show you there is a heightened fire threat for the north bay mountains. 11:00 tonight through 8:00 wednesday. after that we've got some cooler weather on the way.

>> thank you, mike. now time for "live >> announcer: it's "live with kelly and ryan!" today, from the hit comedy series, "the conners," sara gilbert. and courtesy of chef melba wilson. plus, we will meet on 93-year-old woman who received a special birthday surprise. also for your voting consideration, we will announce the finalists in "live"'s boxtume contest. all next on "live!" ♪ [cheers and applause] and now, he or she has, kelly ripa. >> kelly: hi. hi. good morning. it is monday, october 19th. ryan is taking the day off. and i'm sorry. i have --