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fun factor of this? mike: once good morning, america. on this thursday morning, mission inspiration making history. blastoff. >> three, two, one. >> ignition and liftoff. >> spacex launching those four private citizens into orbit going farther than any civilian has before. 360 miles away from the planet, circling earth for three days, only four people waking up to this spectacular view this morning. we're going to have the latest on mission inspiration right now. new battle over boosters. pfizer and moderna making the case for a third vaccine shot as the clock ticks down to the critical fda vote and hospital admissions reach record numbers in nine states.
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the world's top gymnasts demanding justice. >> how much is a little girl worth? >> the olympians' heart-wrenching testimony calling out the fbi for its handling of the larry nassar sexual abuse case. >> to be clear i blame larry nassar and i also blame an entire system that enabled and perpetrated his abuse. >> accusing the agency of turning a blind eye to them. >> it disgusts me that we are still fighting for the most basic answers and accountability over six years later. >> this morning, hours after her powerful speech, gold medalist aly raisman joins us live. america's top general under fire after that new report about his actions in the final days o. usthe major dense dereemt hp si p.>>nth. cam video of the
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missing 22-year-old woman days before she vanished. >> he wouldn't let me in the car. >> police name her boyfriend a person of interest and this morning, the police chief leading the investigation joins us. turning himself in. prominent south carolina lawyer alex murdaugh expected to surrender to police after they say he attempted to stage his own murder. stroller scare. frightening video of a baby suddenly rolling down a hill. the infant okay this morning. how the mom found the child. ♪ and good morning ♪ and from "the morning show" to "good morning america," one-on-one with jennifer aniston on "gma." ♪ good morning ♪ ♪ good morning ♪ ♪ good morning ♪ good morning, america. it's good to be with you on this thursday morning, a/k/a -- >> happy friday >> that's right. how about that incredible launch last night?
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it was really incredible. >> there it was last night and right now the inspiration4 is flying higher than the international space station. the first all civilian crew to reach orbit are the only four people waking up to this spectacular view right there. >> can you imagine? people all across the nation got to watch that successful launch overnight. gio benitez was there for liftoff. he joins us now from the kennedy space center there in florida. good morning, gio. >> reporter: oh, robin, good morning to you. it was such an exciting night here and so far spacex pulling off an incredibly risky journey to where no civilian has gone before, 363 miles away from earth. >> three, two, one. >> ignition. >> reporter: overnight, spacex making history launching four private citizens into orbit without a professional astronaut on board. >> it is headed into orbit with the crew. >> reporter: only those four are waking up this morning to this
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view, more than any civilian has seen before. crowds of people gathered in the distance to watch this historic launch. you can see this incredible moment when the crew dragon capsule detaches from the falcon 9 rocket, the massive booster descends back down to earth. and as the capsule detaches from the rocket's second stage cheers down on earth for the mission known as inspiration4. as the dragon enters space, the crew members start experiencing zero gravity. inside the capsule the crew releasing a toy inspired by the specially trained dogs at st. jude children's hospital. >> that is apropos. >> reporter: this morning, they are soaring 363 miles away from earth orbiting the planet at 17,500 miles per hour for three days going farther than any civilian has before, 100 miles past the international space station.
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38-year-old billionaire jared isaacman bought all four seats on board and then gave three of them away as a fund-raiser for st. jude. >> there they are, our first all civilian crew. >> reporter: one of those crew members, 29-year-old hayley arceneaux, a physician's assistant at st. jude, once a patient there. now she is the youngest american ever to go to space and the first pediatric cancer survivor to go, too. >> i'm just a regular person going to space and, you know, not everyone has had childhood cancer but everyone has had to ovrcome something. >> reprter: the trip not without risk. this is the first time the crew dragon has ever gone this far into space, a computer does the flying and if there are any issues, there is no way to get to the international space station, but they can return to earth. and remember elon musk wants humans to eventually get to mars and be able to live there. so there is no question this is just the beginning of civilians going farther and farther into
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space, robin. >> just the beginning. all right, thank you. joining us now is abc news contributor and aviation expert colonel steve ganyard and, steve, after spending their first night in space, what do you expect the crew to be doing right now and throughout day one? >> robin, i'll bet it was actually pretty hard to sleep given that view that gio showed us looking at that beautiful picture window that they have. you know, the scientists, the nasa astronauts on the international space station have very regulated routines during the day where they have to get things done and have to do science, they have to do experiments, but this is a tourist flight so they want to have fun and do minor experiments to show what things do in space but, you know, enjoy the view and enjoy the vacation. >> and remind us, steve, of the risks and rewards of this mission. >> yeah, the risks in space are always there. space is hard and space is dangerous and the reward is and what's really remarkable here that we're making it routine.
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we're saying, look, of course, it's going to work and it's going to be safe and what it does, it makes space travel reliable, safer and cheaper. that's the reward. >> you know, gio talked about and others have talked about this is laying the potential groundwork for space travel. other than that, what does this really -- what is the purpose of this other than that? >> yeah, these flights are not designed for scientific breakthroughs so i think that, you know, we can't expect big things out of them. but what they do is every time we go into space it makes space cheaper, it makes it safer, we learn something every time we go up and it makes it more reliable and i do think you'll see in your lifetime the ability to get on a space cruise craft in the same way that you would get on a commercial airplane. mr. musk is going to roll out a giant new spaceship here in the not too distant future. we've already seen it do some test flights and it will be able to take 100 people to mars. nonstop. and he wants to do three flights a day.
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he thinks he can do a million people to mars by 2050. this flight we're watching to today, that's laying the groundwork for that sort of safe, reliable and cheap travel in the future. >> you want to be a passenger on that trip to mars? >> yeah, you want to go with me? i'll go with you. >> i'll take michael and george with me. all right. >> come on. we can take four of us. >> "gma," "gma" from there. thank you, steve, we appreciate it. glad everything is going well. >> our executive producer just approved that. >> once i put it out to the universe i knew that was going to happen. >> i think she should go and scout first and report. >> they have to do that before we go. >> exactly. >> in our next hour we'll hear more from one of the passengers who is on board. cancer thriver hayley arceneaux. michael. >> i love that. turning now to the fight against covid-19 and the new battle over booster shots, as ahead of that crucial fda meeting to discuss a third jab of the pfizer covid vaccine. whit johnson is at pfizer headquarters with more.
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good morning, whit. >> reporter: michael, good morning to you. there's still considerable debate within the scientific community about whether booster shots are even needed for everyone and fda analysis suggests that an extra dose appears to be safe but key decisions still need to be made about who should get them and how soon. the looming question of whether vaccinated americans are ready for booster shots could be answered as early as tomorrow when the panel is expected to vote an a recommendation. pfizer is making the case a third shot is needed for those 16 and older, about six months after receiving their second dose. >> what we've seen is increases in cases, in breakthrough cases as time goes on just because of a waning immunity, and this is why this booster question is coming into play right now. >> reporter: pfizer also suggesting the reduction in vaccine protection is likely not due to the delta variant but instead vaccine effectiveness decreases with increasing time
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since being fully vaccinated. pfizer saying that efficacy was 96% a week after the second dose but then dropped to nearly 84% after four months, but some at the fda have responded with skepticism arguing in its report accompanying pfizer's data that the vaccines at their currently approved doses still afford protection. against severe covid-19 disease and death in the united states. moderna citing new data saying people who received its vaccine should get a third dose as well. >> it's not the kind of thing that you want to miss by six months. you'd rather be a little too early than a little too late because ultimately lives are at stake. >> reporter: moderna following pfizer's six-month timeline but says its booster will only be a half dose, arguing that provides more than enough protection. the conversation over booster shots heating up as covid-19 cases and deaths continue to climb. hospitalizations in nine states hitting new record highs.
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including washington, where doctors have been treating overflow patients from neighboring states, now with a dire warning that space is running out. >> if we get to the point where we can no longer accept patients you're going to have patients that die as a result of a lack of available care. >> reporter: now the biden administration's timeline for booster shots on september 20th might be delayed because the final step in this process goes through a cdc panel and they're not expected to meet until next wednesday. so boosters likely won't be available until the end of next week at the earliest, but the biden administration says they're ready to roll out those shots to 80,000 locations across the country if approved. robin. >> all right, whit, thank you. now to heart-wrenching testimony on capitol hill from four of america's top gymnasts bravely testifying about former team doctor larry nassar's sexual abuse calling out the fbi's mishandling of the investigation. rachel scott has the latest. >> reporter: this morning, the
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fbi under fire after four of the world's top gymnasts accuse the agency of turning a blind eye to the biggest sexual abuse scandal in sports history. >> i don't want another young gymnast, olympic athlete or any individual to experience the horror that i and hundreds of others have endured. to be clear -- sorry. >> take your time. >> to be clear, i blame larry nassar and i also blame an entire system that enabled and perpetrated his abuse. >> reporter: the woman testifying before senators painting a damning picture of a system that protected their abuser, the inaction allowing more female athletes to be molested by former dr. larry nassar. >> it took over 14 months for the fbi to contact me despite my many requests to be interviewed by them. nassar found more than 100 new victims to molest.
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it was like serving innocent children up to a pedophile on a silver platter. said when she gave a detailed three-hour interview to fbi agents, there was silence on the other end. >> i was so shocked at the agent's silence and disregard for my trauma after that minute of silence he asked, is that all? those words in itself was one of the worst moments of this entire process for me. i told them how he molested me right before i won my team gold medal. >> reporter: weeks ago the justice department inspector general found fbi agents not only failed to respond with urgency, but they lied trying to cover up their mistakes. fbi director christopher wray who was not overseeing the agent at the time apologizing to the women. >> i'm deeply and profoundly sorry to each and every one of you. >> reporter: but when pressed about why the case was mishandled, no answers. >> and i don't have a good
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explanation for you. it is utterly jarring to me. it is totally inconsistent with what we train our people on, totally inconsistent with what i see from the hundreds of agents demandg at the agent every day. so far, only one fbi agent has been fired. it is estimated that during that 18-month period that the fbi did nothing, at least 70 more women were sexually abused, and robin, i can tell you there was silence in the room when each of these women said they knew other victims on that list, robin. >> all four, so powerful. so powerful. rachel, thank you. coming up in our next hour, aly raisman will join us live. george. we're going to get the latest now on america's top general and his calls to chinese officials during the last days of the trump administration. president biden is standing by joint chiefs chairman mark milley as he faces criticism from some republicans and now it turns out that he wasn't the only top official trying to
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reassure the chinese. our chief washington correspondent jon karl has the story. >> reporter: asked if joint chiefs chairman general mark milley did the right thing by undermining then-president trump, president biden offered milley an enthusiastic endorsement. >> i have great confidence in general milley. >> reporter: and a spokesperson for defense secretary lloyd austin said austin also has, quote, full trust in milley. the show of confidence comes as milley is facing harsh criticism and calls for his resignation over his actions during the final weeks of donald trump's presidency as reported in the new book by bob woodward and robert costa. the book reports milley took extraordinary actions to undermine trump's authority, even reaching out directly to china because he believed trump's erratic behavior could lead to war. a spokesperson for general milley confirmed some of the major revelations in the book. his calls with the chinese and others in october and january, milley's spokesperson said, were in keeping with his duties and responsibilities conveying reassurance in order to maintain
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strategic stability. chris miller who served as acting defense secretary during the final two months of the trump presidency said he never authorized milley's contacts with china and called milley's actions, quote, a disgraceful and unprecedented act of insubordination adding that milley must resign immediately. but abc news has learned milley was not the first pentagon official to reach out to china. it was actually former defense secretary mark esper who first reached out to china shortly before the election to assure them the united states would not launch a military attack. milley's first contact came after that and was authorized by then-secretary esper, a top former defense official told abc news. it was donald trump who chose general milley to be the joint chiefs chairman but now he is saying milley should be tried for treason. general milley will find himself in the hot seat later this month when he testifies before congress. he was already going to face tough questions about afghanistan, now he'll be sure
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to face whether he undermined civilianontrol of the military. george. >> meantime, jon, president biden reached a new agreement with australia. >> reporter: this is a big deal. the united states and britain will share sensitive nuclear technology and form a defense pact. this is designed to counter china's rising military power and the chinese are furious. they are warning that this will contribute to instability and calling it a throwback to the cold war. one important point though, george, these are nuclear-powered submarines, not submarines armed with nuclear weapons. >> thanks very much. michael. we turn to "jeopardy!" champion matt amodio who is entering the record books, notching his 21st consecutive victory last night and moves him into third place behind legends ken jennings and james holzhauer. matt known for winning daily doubles when robin was guest hosting. you set him on his path to glory. >> i want my cut.
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>> his winnings over $740,000. >> very nice guy. >> even 10% is not bad. >> i'll take it. we have a lot more coming up on "gma" including the urgent search for gabby petito, the 22-year-old's boyfriend is named a person of interest and the police chief leading the investigation is going to join us. and that prominent south carolina lawyer is expected to turn himself in to police, but first, let's check in with ginger. good morning. good morning to you all. we were concerned about what would happen in grand isle, louisiana, some of those towns so wrecked and, yes, they had to put a pause on cleanup. look at that. there's more where that came from. most will happen east, pensacola down to apalachicola, i'd be on the lookout for heavy rain today. your local weather in 30 seconds. first let's get stormy cities sponsored by jersey mike's.
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mike: good morning. i thought i would start with one of the most gorgeous sunrises i have seen a long time. accuweather highlights, afternoon sunshine, cooler than average today. wet weather this weekend and the fire danger that will heighten behind it. 63 in san francisco, 74 at santa rosa, near 80 and our east bay valleys. tonight, we are back in the 50's. the storm thahahahahahahahahahaa we'll be right back. stay right there. more on this friday eve. stretch it out. ♪ i've always been running. to meetings. errands. now i'm running for me.
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mike: good morning. thought i would start with this. doesn't that put you in a good mood? a beautiful sunrise from mount tam this morning. a little mist and drizzle in higher elevations, but coupland comes the -- coupland comfy for this -- cool and comfy for this afternoon. a chance of drizzle this afternoon and a chance in the north bay sunday. reggie: new developments in the case of a 22-year-old who went
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circling the earth for the next three days. the french government anounced the head of isis has been neutralized and thank the united states. he was wanted in the death of four u.s. troops murdered in an isis ambush in niger in 2017. he claimed responsibility for that attack and for the brutal murder of french aid workers in 2020. the head of the french army says he was identified traveling on a motorcycle. also, take a look at this. a stroller suddenly rolling away from a mom. there you see it start to go on a hill outside a supermarket in turkey. >> oh. >> all through that traffic. thankfully the infant is okay and the mother ran after the stroller and found her baby safe and sound. went to the hospital as a precaution. >> that is scary. and the milwaukee bucks are making history with a big announcement about their new lead play-by-play announcer, lisa byington become the first female full-time tv play-by-play announcer for major men's professional sports team. congratulations, lisa. job well earned. >> yes, indeed, she earned that.
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a lot more ahead including the new developments in that murdaugh gets set to turn alex- himself in. that's coming up i just a little bit. we turn to the desperate search for gabby petito, the 22-year-old who vanished on a cross-country trip with her boyfriend. police now designating him a person of interest. we'll hear from the chief of police leading the case in a moment, but first, trevor ault has the latest. good morning, trevor. >> reporter: good morning, michael. yeah, it seems the nation is searching for gabby petito but her boyfriend, brian laundrie is not. investigators have been combing across the country but brian came back home to florida without gabby. he seems to be holed up with his parents and he's not speaking with her family or investigators, and this morning, we have a new look at a confrontation with the couple just weeks ago where police were called in. five days into the urgent search for gabrielle petito, authorities releasing new body cam video following an incident between her and boyfriend turned person of interest brian laundrie. >> what's going on?
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why are you crying? >> i just been fighting this morning, going through some personal issues. >> reporter: days before petito was last seen officers responding to a 911 call about an argument outside a ches nience store in utah near they fin separating her from laundrie immediately. >> he wouldn't let me in the car before. >> why wouldn't he let you in the car? >> told me i need to calm down, yes, but i'm perfectly calm. >> reporter: according to the police report, petito reportedly hit laundrie in the face and scratches were evident. the incident responding officers said it seemed to be less of a domestic dispute and more of a mental emotional health break. >> sometimes i have ocd and sometimes i get really frustrated. >> reporter: the two agreeing to separate for the night. before the utah incident leading up to gabby's disappearance the couple had been on a
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cross-country road trip in this white van documenting their travels on youtube and instagram. >> brian is stretching doing some morning yoga. >> reporter: but on september e couple lived with ed t the parents. with the van but without gabby. details now the key to finding her. gabby petito was last seen august 24th checking out of a hotel with laundrie in salt lake city, utah. her mother said the next day was the last time she spoke with gabby who told her they were in grand teton, wyoming, on their way to yellowstone. >> we need to know exactly where he was, where she was, their last locations. >> reporter: investigators say they tried to talk with laundrie saturday. his attorney doubling down in a statement saying, mr. laundrie will continue to remain silent on the advice of counsel because they believe any statement made will be used against you. overnight, gabby's family telling us, they only have one
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question for him. >> there's one question, where did you last see gabby? that's the question that matters right now. >> reporter: and gabby's family is calling brian's silence reprehensible. they're trying to help out with the search. her stepfather in wyoming but without brian talking it is hindering the investigation. george. >> okay, trevor, thanks very much. let's bring in the chief of police, todd garrison. chief garrison, thanks for joining us. explain what it means that brian laundrie is a person of interest. >> well, you know, two people went on a trip and one person returned, and that one person is not talking to us, all of our information is being directed through the attorney and he's got all the answers. so, you know, my number one question is where is gabby? >> what do you make of the fact that he's not talking to you? >> well, you know, everybody has rights and we'll respect the constitution and their rights.
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i can't speculate why he's not talking, but he has the pieces to the puzzle that we need to be able to find gabby. >> you are trying to get other pieces as well. are you trying to get a search warrant for the boyfriend's home? >> right now, everything that we are doing is methodically being done, right now we are not trying to obtain a search warrant for the home. we don't have a crime in this. we are investigating a missing person. >> you did find the van they were driving in. can you tell us any more about what you found there? >> there was some things in the van that we are analyzing right now, whether or not they have any evidentiary value is too early to tell. >> and we know there was some kind of an altercation between the two of them when they were in utah. police called to the scene. do you believe that's connected to the disappearance and what more do we know about that? >> all we know is that they did have a disturbance and they were separated that night and at some point they returned together.
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but, you know, it's not uncommon that people have disagreements in relationships, so whether or not that has anything to do with the disappearance or not, we're still sorting through all of that data. >> what are your next steps? >> right now, we're still going through all the electronic data and financials and everything that we possibly can go through. you know, we have hundreds and hundreds of tips coming in and we have to sort through all those tips and, you know, we're just trying to find where gabby is at. >> any other persons of interest? >> right now, no. >> chief garrison, thanks very much for your time this morning. >> thank you. >> all right, george, thank you. we are certainly thinking of gabby's family and friends. coming up, the latest twists in that fast developing case of the south carolina lawyer who police say tried to stage his own murder. authorities now investigating the death of the family's longtime housekeeper. come on back. .
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♪ i see trees of green ♪ ♪ red roses too ♪ ♪ i see them bloom for me and you ♪ (music) ♪ so i think to myself ♪ ♪ oh what a wonderful world ♪ back now with those major new developments involving prominent lawyer alex murdaugh. he is expected to surrender to police today after he allegedly tried to stage his own murder while the death of the family's longtime housekeeper a few years ago is now coming under scrutiny. eva pilgrim is tracking it all for us. good morning, eva. >> reporter: good morning, robin. the life of a prominent south carolina lawyer at the center of
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a complex low country mystery unraveling. alex murdaugh's arrest is now imminent. this morning, alex murdaugh expected to turn himself in to authorities. his attorney telling abc news he plans to voluntarily surrender to south carolina officials today on charges of conspiracy to commit insurance fraud. the news coming one day after authorities arrested 61-year-old curtis edward smith, a former client of murdaugh charging him with assisted suicide, insurance fraud and several other charges. according to the police affidavit, murdaugh and smith staged a flat tire and planned for mr. smith to murder murdaugh on a rural road on september 4th leaving his only remaining son buster to collect a life insurance policy valued at approximately $10 million, but murdaugh survived the shooting calling 911 himself. he was airlifted to a hospital in savannah, georgia, for a superficial gunshot wound to the head. the shooting happening just one day after murdaugh left the
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prestigious law firm his family helped build accused of stealing money. murdaugh's life has been under scrutiny following the brutal unsolved murders of his wife maggie and 22-year-old son paul this past june. >> are they breathing? >> no, ma'am, my wife and my son. >> and what is your name? >> my name is alex murdaugh. please hurry. neither one of them is moving. >> reporter: probes into that case now launching other investigations. authorities announcing wednesday they have opened a criminal investigation into the 2018 death of his longtime housekeeper and nanny gloria satterfield as well as the handling of her estate. do they believe that her death was an accident? >> i don't know. i don't think they know. i think that they're bothered that they don't know. i think that they're still searching for answers. i think they have legitimate questions that to date have gone unresolved. >> reporter: murdaugh at the
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time settled a wrongful death lawsuit with her estate for more than $500,000 saying she tripped over the family dogs falling down the stairs and died during -- following a traumatic brain injury. the lawyers who represent her sons say they haven't seen a dime and didn't even know the case had been settled until they saw it on the news after the double murders. >> they just want answers. they want answers to know what happened to their money. they want answers to know who made claims against what insurance policy. >> reporter: now, murdaugh is expected in court this afternoon for his arraignment and bond hearing and, guys, he will walk into the courthouse where his father, his grandfather, his great-grandfathers, their pictures hang in that courthouse for the stamp they left in that community. >> you can't underestimate how prominent they are there in south carolina. just when you think there can't be another twist there is. >> there's still a lot we don't know in the case so there are potential other twists that we will see. >> a lot of questions to be answered. all right, thank you so much,
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welcome back to "gma." those feeder bands from nicholas spinning up waterspouts in pensacola. you can see pensacola beach. looks like this wasn't damage but enough to get pretty incredible video. there was also a loft flash flooding with this. in lillian, alabama, pictures of the roads full of water. this is what we were warning about with that flash flood watch that is, by the way, still in place along parts of the gulf coast including lake pontchartrain, but from biloxi and pascagoula, right through mobile, destin, panama city, mexico beach all included because they're going to be scattered but you could get heavy rains there. then from a separate front, the one that blew through it is blowing through. this is from kentucky where they had more than a half foot of rain so flash flooding there and today, severe storms possible from nebraska right up through minnesota. that's mostly damaging winds. coming up here on "gma," aly raisman joining us live after her powerful testimony on capitol hill. what she wants to see happen
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next. brooke shields talking about her new beginning after devastating accident and melissa etheridge joining us live. your local news and weather is next. stay with us. my name is on the front. but... i am more proud of the back.
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>>uild, is abc 7 news. reggie: good morning, jobina isi here with a look at your traffic. jobina: our major blocking issues have cleared, but we are facing residual delays. a live look from the san mateo bridge. it will slow down once you make it into the western span and into the peninsula. antioch hercules, an hour and three minutes, and earlier this morning, some of you were aware that the metering lights were malfunctioning. that has been fixed. hi, mike. mike: on this thursday, temperatures falling below average, barely below 80 in antioch, livermore and fairfield. 60's toward the band out towards the coast. we have an air quality advisory for wildfire smoke, but our air will be mostly healthy.
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a minor warming trends tomorrow and then the coolest this week. a drizzle both mornings and some rain sunday in the north bay. reggie: up next, gold medal winning gymnast aly raisman is live, ♪ ♪ ♪ easy tools on the chase mobile app. simplicity feels good. chase. make more of what's yours.
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good morning, america. it's 8:00 a.m. historic mission. >> three, two, one. >> ignition. >> spacex launching those four private citizens into orbit, going farther than any civilian has before. 360 miles away from the planet, plus, how this thriver is making her own mark on history. new battle over boosters. pfizer and moderna make the case for a third vaccine shot as the clock ticks down to the critical fda vote and hospitalizations reach record numbers in nine states. aly raisman demanding justice, one of the world's top gymna gymnasts' powerful testimony. >> it disgusts me that we are still fighting for the most basic answers and accountability
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over six years later. >> this morning, the gold medalist joins us live. shannen doherty's candid new message about living with stage 4 cancer and how she's refusing to let the disease define her. ♪ good morning ♪ one-on-one with jennifer aniston, from reunited with reese again to traveling back in time at that "friends" reunion as we count down to the new season of "the morning show." ♪ a lovely day, lovely day. and brooke is back. after a devastating accident this morning how she's encouraging others to find their inner strength and she's saying -- >> good morning, america. ♪ lovely day, lovely day, lovely day ♪ good morning, brooke shieldss. hope you're doing well this thursday morning. >> thursday morning, friday eve, george, you know, some of the amazing things happened here before the show. i don't know what extra cav nine
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was in the coffee this morning but we have a video to show what happened as we warm up before the show. >> look at brad. >> look at you. >> what. >> of course, the party started. marlin is flipping awe of this. they call it club "gma" this morning. >> you didn't get all my dancing on camera. >> yes. you're off camera. got me putting on makeup. >> wait. ginger, okay, she -- >> we have to cut the video right here, cut it. okay. but, yeah, we don't show george doing the worm in the studio, amazing. why did he cut that? but it's before the show gets going. >> every once in a while you need to get going. >> there was something special this morning. we have a lot to get to starting with that historic launch, the first all civilian crew to reach orbit, the inspiration4 flying higher than the international
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space station right now. let's go back to gio who is there at the kennedy space goning, gio. robin, good morning again. this is t biggest milestone yet for private space travel opening up the universe to civilian exploration. >> all: three, two, one. >> ignition and liftoff. >> reporter: overnight spacex making history launching four private citizens into orbit without a professional astronaut on board. >> it is headed into orbit with the crew. >> reporter: only those four are waking up this morning to this view from the dragon's cupola, more of earth than any civilian has seen before. crowds of people gathered in the distance to watch this historic launch. you can see this incredible moment when the crew dragon capsule detaches from the falcon 9 rocket, the massive booster descends back down to earth. and as the capsule detaches from the rocket's second stage cheers
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down on earth for the mission known as inspiration4. [ applause ] this morning, they are soaring 363 miles away from earth orbiting the planet at 17,500 miles per hour for three days going farther than any civilian has before, 100 miles past the international space station. 38-year-old billionaire jared isaacman bought all four seats on board and then gave three of them away as a fund-raiser for st. jude. >> there they are, our first all civilian crew. >> reporter: robin spoke with colonel steve ganyard earlier this morning about what this trip means for the future of spaceflight. >> we're making it routine, we're saying, of course, it's going to work and it's going to be safe and what it does is it makes space travel reliable, safer and cheaper. >> reporter: and that really is the goal for elon musk to eventually get humans to mars. george. >> okay, gio, thanks.
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we turn to the fight against covid and the new battle over booster shots ahead of that crucial fda meeting to discuss a third pfizer vaccine. good morning, whit. >> reporter: george, good morning. there's still considerable debate about whether booster shots are even needed, but tomorrow an fda panel is expected to vote on whether to recommend a third dose of the pfizer vaccine. this morning pfizer is making the case that people 16 and older should get that extra shot about six months after receiving their second dose. the company also suggesting the reduction in vaccine protection is likely not due to the delta variant but instead the passing of an extended period of time. and moderna is also recommending a third shot after six months but says its booster will only be a half dose arguing that provides more than enough protection. the biden administration initially said boosters would be available on september 20th. that looks like it's going to be delayed because another step in this process goes through a cdc
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panel that doesn't meet until next wednesday, so boosters likely won't be available until the end of next week at the earliest if approved. guys. >> at the earliest. all right, whit, thank you. coming up, olympic gymnast aly raisman joins us live. what she wants to see happen next. >> so brave. plus, actress shannen doherty getting candid about living with stage 4 breast cancer. what is the greatest song of all time? we're going to find out who is getting the ultimate respect coming up in "pop news" and we'll be right back. ♪ hey ya ♪ ♪ hey ya ♪ we have to face that beauty is in the eye of the coder. search for beautiful skin. beautiful woman. where are the women of color? who gets to be beautiful online is decided by code and society. that's why olay wants to double the number of women
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♪ it's a beautiful life ♪ >> welcome back to "gma." tomorrow on the show, we have "deals & steals," tory johnson will have fall favorites at deep discounts. always good to get a discount. >> we love that but right now we're loving "pop news" with lara. >> thank you. good morning to you guys. let's start with music. we'll begin with the greatest songs of all time. it's been 17 years since "rolling stone" magazine released its definitive list of the 500 greatest songs in their opinion, but a little bit has changed since that happened so the magazine did a bit of an update. i'll only give you the best of the rest. number ten, outkast's "heyeyeyey fleetwood mac's "dreams" and "get ur freak on." "strawberry fields forever," number six, another hit, how about this one. of course.
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>> classic. >> of course, this is in the top ten. the man, marvin gaye and here are your top five according to "rolling stone." nirvana, smells like teen spirit, followed by like a rolling stone by bob dylan. sam cooke's 1964 hit "a change is gonna come." number two, it's "fight the power" by public enemy and the number one song of all time, thank you, drum roll, please. [ drum roll ] >> hit it. ♪ r-e-s-p-e-c-t ♪ >> of course. the queen of soul getting the most respect with her song from 1967. so if you're wondering how the list is compiled, "rolling stone" asked arstyus lders theions theook ist coo look. make it your weekend play list. >> i like it. very eclectic. >> "rolling stonrolling stone's
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"satisfaction" was in the top five, this time not even in there. i take umbrage with that one. late night hosts, assemble. jimmy kimmel. 1250e6in' colbert, trevor all joining forces to fight climate change and devoting their entire show on september 22th n kimmel saying he's doing his part because he doesn't want to die while jimmy fallon said in the interest of recycling use whatever jimmy kimmel said. climate night set to take place during climate week, that is this coming monday right here in new york city, global leaders, climate activists meeting to address the climate crisis. it is a great idea. >> you just made ginger zee very, very happy over there. >> oh, i know. i'm trying to get on kimmel so i can help him out, you know, come on, jimmy. i'm available.
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so -- >> finally this morning, a ho ih nee apparently. check it out. there's miso giving mike his owner a run for his money. miso pretty much torturing him for quite a while. it all was captured on camera by his neighbor. finally mike we hear used a little reverse psychology getting miso by pretending to give up and just leave and then miso was like, that's not fun. >> he had the zoomies. >> mike later posted sorry about that. my dog is crazy. >> we've all been there chasing our dogs. oh, my gosh, they're losive. >> michael sounds like he knows what the zoomies are. >> i know where he is. >> how about we talk to fires. northern california, between eureka and redding, the monument
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fire now more than 214,000 acres burned. not great conditions for the next two days. still have a lot of red flag warnings and extreme drought but the same area in this is getting a pattern change and even the potential for some rain mike: good morning.rain i thought i would start with one of the most gorgeous sunrises i have seen a long time. accuweather highlights, afternoon sunshine, cooler than average today. wet weather this weekend and the fire danger that will heighten behind it. 63 in san francisco, 74 at santa rosa, near 80 and our east bay valleys. tonight, we are back in the 50's. the storm thahahahahahahahahahaa now to our "gma" cover story. aly raisman was one of those brave young women who just testified on capitol hill yesterday. the gold medalist's astonishing
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speech calling attention to the fbi's handling of the larry nassar sexual abuse case and aly is good enough to join us live right now. let me just say how proud we are of you, all four of you, thank you, thank you for your bravery and for speaking out as you did. can you just take us into the hearing room and let us know the emotions that you felt. >> yeah, thank you for having me. it's -- it's hard to describe, you know, first of all, just putting together the testimony was so difficult because it's so personal, you know, we only had a small amount of time and it's trying to think about what is important to say, also recognizing this is so much bigger than just my experience, there's so many people out there that are affected by the mishandling of, you know, the fbi, usag and usopc so so so
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last for the testimony and in listening to simone, maggie and mckayla, i am so proud of them and support them so much but because i am so close to them and they are my dear friends, it was really hard to listen to them because i care about them so much and then i was nervous, obviously, to go and i think in the beginning of the speech i felt really scared because it is really intimidating and, you know, i wanted to say the right things, i put pressure on myself. i hope that this is the day that somebody listens to us and somebody investigates into what happened because we've been actually saying the same thing for years but not much has happened. >> so what do you hope that the nation took away from your testimony and that of simone, mckayla and maggie? >> yeah, you know, i really hope that people realize just how bad things are, i mean this, is a really big cover-up and the fact important eno to handle itcsth
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eight w horrific and so many people could have been spared the abuse. nassar was first reported decades ago and i would have never met him. i should have never met him and after i reported, there was over a hundred new victims that were abused and i've met many of those survivors and it's absolutely horrific so i think it's important for people to recognize the power of one adult believing, validating a survivor and listening and taking proper action and i'm really hoping that the senators, you know, they seem to be validating, they seem to have been very supportive yesterday and i hope they take that support and put it into action and actually do an investigation and make sure that we're looking at how the fbi, usag and usopc are
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connected and the people that need to be held accountable so no child gets hurt. some of those people who enabled us might still be in positions of power. we don't know because we don't have the answers yet. >> that's why an investigation is so necessary as you all said and i heard it when you told senators that it took over 14 months for the fbi to contact you after your initial report in 2015 so how did the mishandling of this case impact your recovery because you've said many don't realize, this type of trauma sometimes can carry on with people for the rest of their lives, aly. >> yeah, it's -- it's really hard, you know, it takes everything i have. you know, i wanted to mention yesterday that, you know, while i may look like i have it together, i'm not crying, it takes everything i have to do that. i'm sure if people saw me behind
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closed doors this weekend, i definitely don't look like the same person that they saw in that room. it's really, really hard and it's really affected me. i feel like it actually honestly affects me more than it did a few years ago where i feel really nauseous, where i get really lightheaded where i get really bad migraines now. i mean, to be honest i haven't really been able to work out as i went out from working out seven hours to not being able to work out at all because that's how much processing this has impacted me. there was a long time where i couldn't even stand up in the shower because it took everything out of me and every time i speak out about it, it's reliving it and it's also recognizing i recognize that most survivors don't have the opportunity to come on "good morning america" and i'm very grateful that i do get to come on but i take that responsibility very seriously that lot of survivors don't get
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the support and validation. like i recognize that the four of us yesterday, it's very unusual that all the senators are saying they support us and they believe us. i recognize that's not usual so i take that -- i'm very grateful for that but so i think that the other survivors for the survivors who don't feel validated and believed i'm affected by it so much and feel so supported by our country, i'm so grateful for that but i think about the other survivors, the little boy, the little girl at home that is abused in their family and they are told that their abuse doesn't matter or they're making it up and i am fighting for that person because i know that this is so much bigger than me. >> you are so well spoken. thank you, thank you for speaking up. not only for yourself and your teammates but for those that feel that they're voiceless. you're giving them a voice this morning, aly, and thank you for getting up and being with us this morning. you take care. >> thank you, thank you for having me.
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>> our best. all right. michael. thank you so much for that, robin. we turn now to shannen doherty's candid new message about living and thriving while fighting stage 4 cancer. kaylee hartung joins us with the actress' emotional new role. how she's refusing to let the disease define her. good morning, kaylee. >> reporter: hey, michael, good morning. throughout her now six-year battle with cancer we've seen shannen doherty's strength and her determination shine through. now a lifetime movie is giving her a new platform to show us what it all means to live with cancer. for the first time in her three decades long television career. >> bless telomere we're still not going to be doing this in ten years. >> reporter: shannen sthan is tackling a topic on screen that is deeply personal. >> this is the first acting thing i've done about cancer because i've been pretty careful about bringing the acting into that world. ♪ >> reporter: the "90210" alum aa
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fighting breast cancer determined to be a voice of strength. >> i have a responsibility to talk about cancer and perhaps educate people more, to let people know that people with stage 4 are very much alive and very active. >> reporter: doherty discussing her upcoming movie on a virtual panel. >> what do you think about a bucket list? >> reporter: the film, a chance to explore the realities of living with cancer. doherty first received her diagnosis in 2015 documenting much of her journey on social media. two years later the good news that she was in remission but in february 2020 doherty revealing on "gma" that her fight wasn't over. >> it's going to come out in a matter o o o days or a week tha have stage 4 so my cancer came back and that's why i'm here. >> when you tell people that you have stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, everything changes, the way people treat you changes, the way people look at you
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changes. >> yeah, i mean, they look at you like you're dead man walking basically. >> reporter: now 50 years old doherty is refusing to let cancer define her. >> in my close-knit quarters it doesn't come up. my husband says, you would never know i had cancer. i don't ever complain. i don't really talk about it. it's just our life at this point. >> reporter: so this lifetime moved is about a woman who learns she's diagnosed with breast cancer and creates a bucket list. shannen was ask fundamental she has one of her own. the only thing on her list is living, she said. >> i love that. thank you so much. definitely strong woman. shannen will be joining us for breast cancer awareness month and talk about her movie. your journey, "more than an athlete." tell us about it. >> this is the second episode of the four. it's titled "a dream realized" where we focus on high school, thank goodness i made it out and
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beyond to help prepare for the nfl and take a look. >> high school was to me surviving every day. never felt like i had a handle on every day. i was just surviving every day. my social life right there or as the kids say, loser, was nothing happening in my social life, man. my life was school and i played football which was the real reason i was there. >> and this episode will also look at how my uncle art used to take me in the front yard and show me how to play defensive end and slap me around a little bit. he is a big man, george. but he's in it, my mom is in it. my breakout of texas southern and it focuses on the nfl scouts and all these people who helped me realize my dream streaming
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0 building a better -- >> building a better bay area. >> checking in with jobina for a look at traffic. >> taking you back to the san mateo bridge, once you get to the western span, you will slow way down. we are facing residual delays from an earlier crash. it is slow for anyone headed toward the north bay. speeds are under the limit until you get halfway across. drive times here, very slow for coming from antioch to concord. >> mike has
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>> as far as your weather goes, good morning to you. welcome to thursday. 60 in oakland. one of our warmest spots. most areas in the mid to upper 50's. there has been some elevated mist, especially in the east bay hills. five to 10 degrees cooler than average. we will halt the cooling trend tomorrow. a chance of drizzle over the weekend. a chance of light rain in the north bay sunday morning. heightened fire danger on monday and tuesday.
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>> we will have another abc 7 news update in 30 minutes. you can find the latest ♪ i got you ♪ welcome back to "gma." thank you for being with us on this thursday morning. we are counting down to the new season of "the morning show" with jennifer aniston. the actress talking about her behind-the-scenes dynamic with reese witherspoon and returning to the set of "friends." chris connelly sat down with her and he's here to tell us about that chat. good morning, chris. >> reporter: hey, good morning, michael. well, from the tumultuous doings that her character must navigate on "the morning show," to her own feelings at the "friends" reunion, these days jennifer aniston is no stranger to big emotions. >> i want happiness. i earned happiness. i'm a human being, lizzie. >> she is a fighter, she is a survivor.
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and she knows how to show up on the day during a crisis. >> reporter: jennifer aniston returns to apple tv's "the morning show" with reese witherspoon and steve carell as the beset indomitable host alex levy. i'm curious to know what you found the most gratifying about the response to season 1. >> well, the reception was wonderful. >> let the party begin. >> and we also went into territories of the issues that were a little, you know, taboo. first season dealt with me too. >> a woman can say one thing about you, it doesn't matter what her motivation is, and everything you've done in your life gone. >> reporter: while further exploring that reality season 2 addresses issues of race, ethnicity, hatred and discrimination, mental health, cancel culture and more. >> we have the opportunity to have the conversations that people are having behind closed doors that people would never
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ever dare say in a public place because they'd be canceled. i wasn't sure how we were going to top season 1 and then covid happened and we had to shut down. >> reporter: the six-month hiatus sparked a decision to incorporate the pandemic with aniston and witherspoon doing double duty as stars and producers since season 1. >> to be riding this wave along with your producing and co-starring partner reese, what's that like? >> we've known each other for so long, so it's kind of an easy dream scenario to finally get to do this together. >> reporter: aniston looks for aspects of alex that resonate with her own life. >> alex is a lot more of an emotional roller coaster than i am. >> like, the anxiety and stress maybe of having to show up at a public function. >> you can't go like this. >> i know that.
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>> that wasn't a hard one to access. that one lives pretty much right at the surface. >> reporter: just as her "morning show" character is at her workplace, aniston returned to the "friends" set this spring silently at first. >> i don't think i could -- >> what were you feeling? >> i think i was sucker-punched. you literally walked in. you time traveled. >> where is the tissue box? >> we had so much excitement and hope about what was in front of us. and that also included some difficult times that were happening for me personally so, yeah, it was a little bit of a jarring reality. >> and it goes to jennifer aniston. >> reporter: now aniston, who won a s.a.g. award for playing alex and delivers time and again the key scenes of emotions that make it a must-watch. >> i did crawl to the finish line of season 2. i'm not going to lie. >> i would rather die than go back there, okay. >> well, think about it. >> oh, my --
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>> i was almost losing my mind going, am i being punked? get me to a comedy like please, i've never said to call my agent like seriously, i want to do comedy. >> does anyone remember laughter? "the morning show" returns tomorrow on apple tv plus. i think you'll see she's earned that comedy, guys. >> she is hysterical. thank you so much, chris. remember when she came here getting some research for it. she was so kind to everybody. and funny. great sense of humor. not only is it thankful thursday it's also thriver thursday. my digital series is back for a fourth season. we'll kick it off with some breaking news overnight. the woman who became the first pediatric cancer thriver and person with a prosthetic to travel into space, hayley arceneaux. here's a sneak peek. >> hope has been the word that i've always held onto. being the first person with a
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prosthetic body part to go to space is really powerful for me. it's showing that space travel is changing. it's being opened up to everyone. getting to lead that is such an honor. >> couldn't think of a better person to represent the mission spirit of hope and be a great ambassador for st. jude children's research hospital. >> our plan is to call the st. jude patients in orbit and it's going to be so fun for them to see their p.a. in space. i think it's really going to inspire them because kids are so visual. they are my biggest inspiration. >> she's here today because of what st. jude did for her. she'll also tell you that it was some of the happiest times of her life going through treatment. >> now with my patients they all tell me they want to be astronauts. they're thinking of life after cancer and they're thinking of growing up and having their dreams accomplished.
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i think a thriver keeps smiling on the difficult days. you have to hold onto hope. >> way to go, hayley. big thank you also to our incredible sponsor for all four seasons of "thriver thursday" bristol-myers squibb. the full episode will soon be up on my facebook page and new episodes on thursdays starting in october. >> i do a lot with st. jude's. >> i know you do. >> what else can we expect? >> a whole bunch of topics, diabetes, being a caregiver. living with ms. also, there are going to be familiar faces, isaiah stanback who won the super bowl. >> 2011 with the giants. >> i knew you would remember that. also, carissa bodnar of thrive cause-metics. it's cosmetics with a purpose.
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she has a friend with cancer and come up with cosmetics and given up millions of dollar. >> super generous. >> super generous and her products are great. coming up, one-on-one with brooke shields. we got time, yay. ♪ i see trees of green ♪ ♪ red roses too ♪ ♪ i see them bloom for me and you ♪ (music) ♪ so i think to myself ♪
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♪ oh what a wonderful world ♪
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we are back with brooke shields. she's opening up about moving forward after a devastating accident. deborah roberts spoke with brooke about her new beginning and how she's encouraging others to find their inner strength.
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>> every stage of your life is a new beginning. how am i going to respond to this? who am i going to be? what do i want and make it on your own terms. >> reporter: this morning, in the midst of a recovery from a frightening accident, brooke shields discovering what it is to begin anew. >> last time we talked, you were recovering from a devastating fall. what was it about that moment that brought you to this moment? >> it just solidified even more what i wanted to say and why i was here. it's this idea of when you are at your lowest or your most afraid, what do you do to move forward? what do you do to take that next chance and chapter in your life and i thought, wow, if there's a message at all it's that i'm actually living. >> reporter: brooke channeling those feelings and ideas creating a new online platform and lifestyle brand called beginning is now. using her personal struggles as a way to help others.
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what was it that you took from your struggle to beginning is now? >> i realized what a survivor fighter i was. there's a resilience and a strength in women and they're often not told that it's okay to show it. when they show it we're not taught that as you get older, you can be more confident, stronger, sexier, beginning is now is a content-forward digital platform. a well-being wellness lifestyle. >> so this will be a site that people can go to if they are -- if they're kind of beginning something now. >> if they're beginning anything. if they don't know what to do next. if they've never worked out before. we're providing tips and tools on how to embrace the strength that you have in you and the resilience that you know you've had but maybe you haven't acknowledged to go forward into something. >> reporter: while her new initiative focusing on wellness and empowerment is geared toward
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helping other women, brooke says she's benefiting too. finding strength even getting back in front of the camera. >> each time you go into a new chapter, it is a power surge. it's like and to me that is what i wanted to step into. >> reporter: for "good morning america," deborah roberts, abc news, new york. >> great message right there. now let's go to ginger. >> george, i've got nags head, north carolina, a picture there to show you, our surf line camera and warning rip currents really bad because of tropical stuff going out in the ocean. they're saying only experienced swimmers there and anywhere from pea island down to cape lookout lighthouse, nobody should get in the water, not even experienced because of this. close enough without landfalls in the spaghetti model but the high surf and rip current risk is going to go all the way up the east coast and another area of concern, right now it's too far out to tell but will slip to
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now to cracking the code of beauty for national coding week making sure everyone is truly seen for exactly who they are. "gma" contributor megan ryte is here with more on that. good morning, megan. >> good morning. people of color face bias not just from other people, but from technology. this segment is sponsored by olay and the company is working to encourage women of color to pursue careers in science and technology to give women and girls of color a seat not only at the table but also at the keyboard. for many, beauty standards come from the visuals we see around our world. but what if those images, particularly those we access on the internet, don't represent everyone equally? enter joy. the subject of the documentary
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"coded bias" who says beauty data can marginalize people of color. >> if you search for the terms beautiful woman, beautiful skin, beautiful face, you're going to see that the majority of results reflect euro-centric beauty sandards so oftentimes women of color are marginalized. it shows you who's considered worthy of attention. >> reporter: but joy is on a mission to change the face of coding with who's considered worthy of attention. >> can you see my mask. >> reporter: she found the software didn't detect her face until she put on a white mask suggesting some artificial intelligence programs can better identify light skin over dark. >> the experience was a reminder of the work that is still needed in an age of automation. we can't have social justice without algorithmic justice. >> reporter: she is now joining
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forces with our sponsor olay as a spokesperson, working to raise awareness about coded bias, closing the gap when it comes to careers in science, technology, engineering and math, better known as s.t.e.m. >> where are the women of color? where are the women that look like me and you? >> reporter: olay is also helping to double the amount of women in s.t.e.m. and triple the number by 2030. how do we get there? some platforms -- with programs like black women code. >> we made a search engine that was more inclusive and more diverse. >> when you run the code and it works it's the best feeling ever. >> reporter: olay helping 1,000 young girls attend coding camp next summer, giving them the tools to help bring about change. you can get involved by using #decodethebias. that's on instagram or twitter to help, olay will send 1,000 girls to code camp, and inspire
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the next generation of women. back to you, lara. >> that is terrific, megan. thank you. and coming up, melissa etheridge joining us live in the studio. ♪ because you're just as cool as you try ♪ "gma's" refining beauty is sponsored by olay. elp olay double the number of women in s.t.e.m.
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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hey google, turn up the heat. ♪ ♪ ♪
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♪ don't be afraid ♪ oh, that voice. we're back with our "gma" concert series. and the incredible grammy, academy award-winning melissa etheridge who is releasing her new album, "one way out." it is coming out tomorrow, but she is here this morning to perform. i just want to talk to you for a minute, melissa, because we want to hear you sing. good to see you. you know what, your songs withstand the test of time which this album really shows. how are you giving new life to music from your past?
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>> well, i went into -- i was thinking about doing a box set and i went into my vault of demos and songs that i did back in the late '80s and early '90s and i found some songs that i've put aside because sometimes i felt they were too powerful. they were too feminist, too maybe, you know, for the time, and when i went back and listened, i went, wait a minute, these are -- these are much too good to let just slip away into nothingness so i got my original band back together, the one that i recorded with in like '88, '89 and '90 and had a gr late 20s, early 30s, that i don't quite have now, you know, but it was fun to reconnect with that again.
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>> "as cool as you try," okay, we're about to hear that, and although it was written years ago, how does it resonate today? >> well, i think it resonates more today. this song originally came from my own question of, you know, what am i supposed to look like? especially when you start to have some sort of fame, you start comparing yourself to what you're seeing, and, ooh, i'm supposed to look and be super thin and be this sort of thing, and this is a song to myself which then in turn becomes other people to be -- you're just as cool as you feel on the inside. >> amen. >> so the key is to, you know, really find your own coolness, that coolness which is your own happiness inside your own body. >> that's right, and own it, own it as you do. >> own it. >> my friend, so good to see you, and now from her new album, "one way out," here is melissa etheridge with "as cool as you
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try." ♪ ♪ they holy roll you in bed give you a hole in your head ♪ ♪ just when you think you're all right, they change the scene overnight ♪ ♪ don't be afraid to survive you're just as cool as you try ♪ ♪ you're just as cool as you try you're just as cool as you try ♪ ♪ you either live or you die you're just as cool as you ♪ ♪ you're just as cool as ya
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you're just as cool as you try ♪ ♪ hey, child, ain't nothing wrong with your hips ♪ ♪ ain't nothing down with your lips, yeah ♪ ♪ oh, you know you got what it takes, come on, sh-sh-shake till it breaks, yeah ♪ ♪ don't be afraid, let it fly, you're just as cool as you try ♪ ♪ you're just as cool as you try you're just as cool as you try ♪ ♪ you either live or you die you're just as cool as you ♪ ♪ you're just as cool as ya you're just as cool as you try ♪ ♪ ♪
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♪ you're just cool as you try you're just as cool as you try ♪ ♪ you either live or you die you're just cool as you, yeah, you're just as cool as ya ♪ ♪ you're just as cool as you try ♪ "gma's" concert series is sponsored by the new love your car guarantee from carmax. ♪ you're just as cool as you tr
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dear ms, from day one you've tried to define me. but i never invited you in. it's my life and this is my journey. i've found a way to do things differently with ocrevus, an infusion treatment that's 2-times-a-year. for adults with relapsing or primary progressive forms of multiple sclerosis, ocrevus is proven effective in reducing relapses in rms and slowing disability progression in rms and ppms. don't take ocrevus if you've had a life-threatening allergic reaction to it, or have hepatitis b. tell your doctor about vaccinations or if you've had hep b, as it could come back. a common side effect of ocrevus is infusion reactions, and some may require hospitalization. it can increase your risk of infections, which can be serious, and may decrease certain types of immunoglobulins. while pml was not reported in clinical trials, it could happen. an increased risk of cancer, including breast cancer, may exist. sorry, ms. you don't get to control every part of me ms can't own us. ask your doctor about two-times-a-year ocrevus.
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"as cool as you try," thank you, melissa, for that great performance. thank you for watching. ♪ you're just as cool as you try ♪
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>> moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. kumasi: good morning everyone. here is jobinaa with a look at traffic. jobina: a live look from oakland showing our coliseum. traffic is crawling. we had an earlier crash on northbound 880 at jackson. residual delays remain. our second slow stretch will be at the richmond san rafael bridge. delays are across to the north bay. mike: we are still pretty cloudy out there but the clouds are breaking free. temperatures will be cooler paired mostly 60's and 70's. fairfield, antioch at 80. a wildfire smoke, there's the air-quality advisory.
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>> now it's time for "live with kelly and ryan." ♪ >> announcer: it's "live with kelly and ryan!" today, actress jessica chastain. and "dinner on a dime week" continues with chicken ocala recipe that is just... delicious. plus, we will open up the "inbox." all next on "live!" ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] and now, here are kelly ripa and ryan seacrest! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> ryan: hey! good morning, art deja. kel:h, . hi, there.

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