good morning, america. coastline crushed. the carolinas bearing the brunt as it comes ashore as a cat 1 category. this pier now in pieces. the storm surge flooding street after street. where it's headed next. utter devastation. shocking images from sanibel island. crews making helicopter rescues in hard hit areas with the massive cleanup ahead. putin's land grab. russia declaring four regions in ukraine to be russian territory and again mentioning nuclear weapons. the world outrage plus, the finger-pointing over the leaks in the nord stream pipeline.

tua's tackle. new questions after the dolphins quarterback suffers a concussion on the field. should he have been allowed to play that night following an earlier injury? the executive director of the nfl players association joins us live. the hit to your wallet. the bad news on inflation as wall street closes out a month to forget. but is there a bright side? the sales that may be coming your way. robot reveal. tesla's elon musk showing off what optimus can do. his hopes of revolutionizing the workplace. and cancer moonshot. as breast cancer awareness month begins, we're checking in on president biden's bold ambition. how technology used to develop the covid vaccine could lead to a big breakthrough. good morning, america. we are so excited to have eva back. >> yes, we are. >> hope you enjoyed your time

off. we do begin this morning with what was once hurricane ian working its way up the east coast. it was downgraded overnight to a post tropical cyclone but not bringing flooding rain. >> the power outages. florida, hardest hit as 1.3 million power outages. >> the death toll is rising with a potential to go higher in neighborhoods, rescue crews still have not been able to reach. we have team coverage. first to elwyn lopez in charleston. elwyn, good morning. >> reporter: hey, whit, good morning. here in charleston we were s spared the worst as ian's path

shifted slightly to the north, but what those hurricane-force winds left behind across the state, that's still coming into focus. this morning, south carolina feeling the effects of hurricane ian, making its third u.s. landfall this time as a category 1. winds clocking in at more than 90 miles an hour. the storm slamming the coastline in myrtle beach. >> might be it. there it goes. >> reporter: the surf carrying away part of this pier. >> the ocean was up there. it was up over that pier and just ate it up. >> i think it was crazy. there was just debris everywhere report strong waves creeping toward the boardwalk battering a shrimp boat now washed ashore. rising floodwaters surrounding homes. >> i've never seen anything like

that. you know, this flooding here, i've never seen anything like that. it's intense. >> this is it, right? this is the eye wall. >> reporter: the storm surge pushing debris down the streets of garden city. >> my gosh. the surge is coming in hard. >> reporter: waves crashing into homes on the shoreline. and in charleston, take a look at this. wind gusts rocking boats back and forth in the harbor. downtown, the boardwalk completely flooded. ian still on the move. is there oh, my gosh. >> reporter: a large waterspout coming ashore in north carolina, large waves beginning to flood the coastal city of southport, and in sunset beach, ian bringing strong winds, the powerful storm surge damaging docks, flooding streets, even flattening dunes. and back here in charleston we got between 6 and 8 inches of rainfall. today officials are still assessing the damage here. what's left of ian is now in the mid-atlantic before it makes its way through the northeast throughout the weekend. janai. >> and that storm still spinning. elwyn, thank you. turning to florida where the death toll is rising and first responders still searching for survivors. so let's get to abc's senior

meteorologist rob marciano in venice, florida. rob, as elwyn just said, that storm is not done yet. >> reporter: well, now it's post tropical but the rain is going to get everybody across the east coast including the northeast. you think back to ida last year, how badly that flooded the new york metro area has a lot on edge. the center of what's left of iean is right around greensboro, north carolina. you can see most of the action is to the north and west and east and that's where we have the flood watches, heaviest rain that's fallen across west virginia and western parts of virginia including roanoke, and that will continue, i think, for the next few hours. you see a good strong pulse of rain moving through i-95 from new york to new haven up through new england throughout the morning and then a bit of a break. but the western half of this kind of hangs back, then we go ahead another 12 or so hours, and you'll see the rainfall kind of resurge and get heavier, it looks like, during the day tomorrow, so on and off wet weekend and at times some urban flooding from d.c., baltimore, philly right up through new york city anywhere from 3 to 6 inches in the hardest hit areas, but 1 to 3

the call across the coastline. back in florida, it's been three days since hurricane ian made landfall just about 30 miles to our south. this gives you an idea how wide-reaching the power of the hurricane is and just now we're just beginning to get to the hardest hit communities. this morning, the devastation and death toll in hurricane ian's wake becoming more clear. entire neighborhoods destroyed. hundreds of residents left without a home. roofs torn off buildings, flooded neighborhoods and uprooted trees. our team finally able to see the destruction on sanibel island. ian washing out the causeway cutting it off from the rest of the state. victor oquendo was there. >> sanibel island was paradise, a beautiful place to live or take a vacation with your family. now, look. this island is unrecognizable. >> reporter: residents telling us there's nothing left. >> the whole thing is -- i don't have a house. i don't know where to go. i don't know where to live. >> reporter: the record-breaking storm surge driving up the bay wreaking havoc miles inland. >> we're just beginning to see

the scale of that destruction. it's likely to rank among the worst in the nation's history. >> reporter: now 33 confirmed storm-related fatalities, and that number is likely to rise. >> the coast guard's highest priority today continues to be for search and rescue. life safety is our most important mission. >> reporter: the coast guard going door to door and also in the air rescuing floridians by helicopter. overnight a traffic nightmare. i-75 closing in both directions. the river here rising to record levels making the interstate impassable. hundreds of thousands of floridians remain without power. >> it's like staging an army. >> reporter: 30,000 crews from across the state brought in to help restore electricity, but when the power is restored, it only helps those who have a home left to accept it. and there's so many homes like this one that does no use to accept any sort of power or a home that's damaged that can't take it in. so there's challenges there,

not to mention the other vital infrastructure, water and sewer, such a long, tough road ahead for southwest florida. eva. >> rob, thank you. now to breaking news this morning involving the war in ukraine. a reported kidnapping, this as the u.s. responds to russia's illegal annexation with new sanctions. abc's tom soufi burridge is just north of kyiv with the latest. good morning, tom. >> reporter: yeah, good morning, eva. there is a real sense of defiance on the ground here in ukraine after russia's illegal land grab. putin with a blistering attack on the west making nuclear threats and playing the victim in a carefully choreographed event in moscow. but this morning russia moving to take full control of key assets in those russian-occupied regions including the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern ukraine. this morning, after weeks of tensions at the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, further russian escalation. ukraine's nuclear power company now accusing russia of

kidnapping its director-general saying russian troops stopped him in his car, blindfolded him and took him away. ukrainian officials demanding his immediate release. this just one day after putin's formal move to illegally annex four occupied regions in ukraine to make them part of russia. putin pumping up the crowd. [ speaking non-english ] >> reporter: at a stage managed celebration in red square and earlier launching a tirade against the u.s. and its allies, bizarrely blaming the west for his invasion of ukraine saying, western nations are moving towards open satanism. the white house denouncing the illegal land grab and announcing new sanctions in response. >> he can't seize his neighbor's territory and get away with it. it's as simple as that. >> reporter: president zelenskyy responding to the news by formally applying to fast-track nato membership saying he's ready to talk to russia when russia has a new president, but

as russia illegally claims ownership of swaths of eastern ukraine, ukrainian forces already on the advance there taking it back. this video from ukrainian officials showing ukrainian forces celebrating as they capture a village near this city shouting "glory." breaking news just in, a senior ukrainian official saying ukrainian forces have now raised their flag at the entrance of that strategically important city. it's not clear whether russian troops left there are now surrounded. the irony is that putin made that incendiary claim that eastern ukraine is part of russia just as his forces are on the back foot in that region. whit. >> certainly is a piece of irony. tom soufi burridge, thank you. meanwhile, tensions are also flaring this morning over the apparent sabotage of the nord stream pipeline that supplies gas from russia to europe. russia and nato now pointing fingers. abc's lama hasan is joining us from london with more. lama, good morning. >> reporter: yeah, good morning to you, whit.

russia is accusing the west of sabotaging that pipeline. nord stream runs under the baltic sea from russia to germany. now, russia's u.n. ambassador telling the security council in a meeting that russia called that the u.s. has much to gain in expanded gas trade from the damage to nord stream, but he stopped short of blaming the u.s. president biden calling the leaks a deliberate act of sabotage accusing vladimir putin of pumping out disinformation and lies, but the president also stopping short of accusing russia, but whoever did it, denmark and sweden say the leaks were caused by several hundred kilos of explosives and the leaks are now disrupting air and sea travel and are likely to have wide-reaching consequences for the environment. norwegian scientists releasing this animation showing what they describe as the largest single emission of methane that they have ever been able to measure. now, this is just the latest conflict between russia and the west, and if russia did cause the explosions, it would have sabotaged its own pipeline, whit. >> all right, lama, thank you.

let's bring in abc news contributor, colonel steve ganyard, a former defense and state department official. steve, good morning to you. it's always great to have you, so let's go back and start with these annexed regions, the u.s. and its allies call it an illegal land grab. how might russia respond now if ukraine makes a move to take these territories back, and how real is that nuclear threat we keep hearing from putin? >> yeah, whit, as tom noted, the russians just this morning lost another key strategic city in the north to the ukrainians, so probably not much going to happen right away on the battlefield, but some really concerning talk out of putin yesterday, one, he said these areas are russia. i will do whatever it takes to defend them. they are as russian as moscow is. the other thing he did was to say that the u.s. has already set the precedent of using nuclear weapons in hiroshima and nagasaki at the end of world war ii. so very concerning that he seems to be laying the groundwork for the potential use of nuclear weapons on the battlefield.

so maybe a week ago we would have said, there's a 10% chance. i think we're probably closer to 25% chance, and mr. putin continues to talk himself into a corner, and it's hard to see a way out. >> certainly an alarming escalation there. let's talk about the biden administration, how they're responding. they announced another round of sanctions, penalties, visa restrictions. is that likely to do anything to deter or stop vladimir putin? >> no, it's not, whit, and the other -- we saw yesterday that the ukrainians applied for nato membership. that's probably not going to happen because it takes all 30 members to agree to that, and nato doesn't certainly want to have to defend ukraine, but you think about their nato accession and you think about they've asked for entry into the eu and they're humiliating the russians on the battlefield, so everything that mr. putin didn't want to happen seems to be happening. >> i do want to go back to that pipeline. there's a lot of finger-pointing we've seen between nato and russia over the blast of the nord stream pipeline, the leak there.

what would there be to gain from sabotaging the pipeline? why would they do that? >> well, given the russians' behavior and how they've broken with the west, there was no chance that pipeline was ever going to be used again. so i think what was most interesting, on the same day those explosions occurred, the danes were celebrating a new pipeline underneath the baltics coming in, bringing gas from norway into europe. so this is a not so subtle message from the russians saying, it's a nice pipeline, but don't count on it being safe in the future. so more saber rattling and more intimidation from the russians. >> certainly is. colonel steve ganyard, we always appreciate your time, thank you. >> janai, over to you. >> all right, whit. we turn to the economy and the impact on your bottom line. the fed's preferred measure of inflation showing prices actually rose more in august than previously reported and, of course, wall street ended the month of september with an absolutely terrible week. abc's business and economics correspondent deidre bolton is here with more on that. deidre, good morning to you. >> reporter: janai, friday marked the last day of the month

and the third quarter, the dow and the s&p 500 at their lowest levels since november of 2020. part of the reason for the negativity, one of the favorite reports show that food, energy, and housing prices still too high for it to stop raising rates. higher rates can hurt americans who need to borrow money for mortgages, car loans and credit cards. americans are dealing with the highest inflation since the early '80s. the fed wants to bring that level down, even if it hurts employment or the stock market's performance. companies have to manage higher inflation too and they're also still dealing with leftover pandemic issues such as supply chain and inventory inefficiencies. nike reporting its inventory levels soared 60% in north america, its largest market. nike says it still has too much clothing in stock. other retailers making similar comments earlier this year including target and walmart. the silver lining for consumers, there will be more sales on casual clothing, home goods and electronics as we head toward the holiday season. back to you. >> all right. well, this morning a young

sailor cleared of charges he intentionally destroyed a billion dollar warship. a military court acquitting ryan sawyer mays of setting a devastating fire in 2020. abc's zohreen shah is here now. good morning to you, zohreen. >> reporter: good morning, eva. this was quite the case, fingers were pointed squarely at a young sailor after this fire broke out, but two years after that massive blaze destroyed the "uss bonhomme richard," navy sailor ryan mays has been found not guilty. look, outside of war this was the biggest and it was the costliest ship fire in the navy's entire history, and it destroyed that $1.2 billion vessel. and navy prosecutors had argued that mays lit cardboard boxes in a storage area on fire and they said it was because he was upset about not making it into the navy s.e.a.l.s but from the very beginning, there was no physical evidence that connected him to the fire

on the ship, and mays had always strongly denied all of those charges, and now he says he has lost his friends, he has lost time with his family and he has lost his navy career. he says he is now looking forward to just starting over. it is still unclear how that fire started. but the navy's investigation uncovered mistakes of their very own that made the fire worse than it should have, and more than 20 people have been disciplined. whit. >> incredible story, all right, zohreen, thank you. meantime, history made at the u.s. supreme court as justice ketanji brown jackson was officially welcomed with the traditional investiture ceremony. justice jackson is the first black woman to serve on the supreme court. president biden and vice president harris were among the guests at the ceremony. and then there was the traditional walk down the supreme court steps with chief justice john roberts. the court begins hearing cases in the new term on monday. >> a special moment in history. time now for a check of the weather. and we're going to go back to rob there in venice, florida. hey, rob. >> reporter: hey, good morning again, guys. let's talk -- show you some pictures. you know, tornadoes are always a threat on the east side of these

storms as they come on shore, and we had one caught on video just off the coast of north carolina. this is newport, north carolina. you can see that waterspout coming onshore and picking up some debris, so that threat for the most part is over now that we've lessened the wind field. at least on the right side of this, but it's always been left side loaded so we have wind advisories up for parts of western virginia and west carolina with gusts up to 50 miles an hour, and we showed you a little of where ian is going or what's left of ian is going and it's kind of slowly lumbering through the northeast and spinning its way out as a post-tropical cyclone and that will bring rain and wind the next really two days across eastern pennsylvania, new jersey, much of the northeast, some spotty flooding, but it shouldn't be that horrible. be on your toes if you're susceptible to that kind of live stuff. that's a check of what's going on with ian. time for a look at your local forecast.

>> reporter: on the bright side of things, the weather has been really nice the past couple of days here for rescue and recovery. we'll talk more about that and what's going to happen in the next couple of days in just a little bit. >> all right, rob, thank you for that. well, hector lopez, a baseball player and manager who broke the color barrier has died at 93. the new york yankees held a moment of silence last night to remember lopez who spent eight seasons in pinstripes with the powerhouse yankees of the 1960s. he then went on to become the first black manager at minor league baseball's highest levels. >> a trail blazer, indeed. still ahead here on "gma," new questions for the miami dolphins after the frightening head injury to its star quarterback.

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the missiles landing in the waters between the korean peninsula and japan. both countries promptly condemned the tests. also right now, terrifying moments in the air for passengers on a spirit airlines flight headed to orlando last night. flight 2077 making an emergency landing at baltimore's thurgood marshall airport after an apparent engine fire. the aircraft jus minutes after it had taken off from that same airport. the airline says, all passengers deplaned safely. and today marks five years since the mass shooting at route 91 harvest country music festival in las vegas. 58 people died, and more than 800 others were wounded in what remains the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history. memorials are planned throughout the day. we start this half hour with more on those frightening moments on the football field when dolphins quarterback tua tagovailoa was injured during thursday night's game against the bengals. the nfl's chief medical officer promising to be as transparent

as possible about the matter amid outcry over whether he should have even been allowed to play that night. abc's andrew dymburt is here with more. andrew, good morning. >> reporter: eva, good morning. when tua went down thursday night, it was the second noticeable injury in as many games on short rest too. a reminder of just how brutal and dangerous football can be. but now many around the nfl are wondering if the miami dolphins should have handled the situation differently. this morning, growing backlash around the nfl after miami dolphins quarterback tua tagovailoa takes a violent hit suffering head and neck injuries thursday night. >> somebody needs to be fired. now, i don't know who. but somebody got to go. >> reporter: the league saying they're speaking to everyone involved. there's been swift reaction around the nfl with many questioning if tua should have even played in the game at all. >> the nfl has to do a better job in knowing what to do if they see someone get injured the way that he got injured. >> reporter: mcdaniel, the dolphins first year head coach standing by the decision to

start tua thursday. >> if there would have been head, i wouldn't have been able to live with myself if i had prematurely put someone out there and put them in harm's way. >> reporter: just days before the devastating hit, tua had suffered what appeared to be a head injury against the buffalo bills. tagovailoa was seen stumbling and struggling to stand up. some medical experts say that could be a potential sign of head trauma. the team said he suffered a back injury but he kept playing in that one. in the primetime game thursday, the third year qb's hands and fingers seizing up after the big blow, a bodily response medical experts call fencing, an immediate sign of neurological trauma. tua was carted off the field and rushed to the hospital. baltimore ravens head coach john harbaugh calling it astonishing. >> i couldn't believe what i saw last night. i couldn't believe what i saw last sunday. >> reporter: according to the cdc, the risk of getting a concussion increases with each subsequent concussion you have and the risk for severe damage

and possibly death is increased if a concussion does not have time to completely heal. asciio nand nfl players if proper . we review all the vt ta aatre iake sure that the concused.>> t was disard that and was able to fly back home with the team, but his long-term prognosis is not known at this time. tua said late friday that he was feeling much better and focused on recovering. janai. >> still so many questions. andrew, thank you. so the nfl players association reacting swiftly to thursday's incident and promising a full investigation on whether the strict rules on head injuries were violated. joining me now is the executive director of the nfl players association, demaurice smith. demaurice, thank you so much for being with us. there are so many questions. within an hour of sunday's game when tua was questionably back in the second half, you guys at the players association announced you were initiating an investigation. what does that entail and how

much more scrutiny will this get following what happened thursday? >> well, thank you for having me on this morning. there's going to be a full investigation, and that investigation started in earnest last week, and it focuses on really two things, one, whether the protocols were followed when there was an obvious indication that he may have suffered a traumatic brain injury last week. the second focus that we have the opportunity to do under the collective bargaining agreement is to look at the decision of the medical personnel and primarily to ensure that they were treating this player like we want all of our players treated like a patient first instead of a player first. >> and, demaurice, the first thing you said is that one of the things you will investigate is whether those protocols were followed. under the league's concussion protocol, players displaying gross motor instability is a no go. i know this is coming up because

of thursday but all goes back to sunday. we all saw him stumbling after that hit and what looked exactly like gross motor instability. how could he have been cleared to play on sunday? >> well, that's the goal of the investigation, and i saw it as well, and i've been in this job long enough not only to see someone engage at a time on the field where it looks like they've suffered a traumatic brain injury, but more importantly i've been in this job long enough to know that the goal of the collective bargaining agreement and the reason we wrote the protocols back in 2011 is we want our patients first.t our players as- and when you look at what happened last week, when we all saw him stumbling on the field, the first question i always have is, would that doctor have put his son or his daughter back in the game? yeah, the protocols are designed to find out what happens after they view a traumatic incident like that, but more importantly

the collective bargaining agreement wants to make sure that doctors treat them as patients first. >> and you said those protocols are put in place in 2011 so over ten years ago. the team says they went above and beyond checking him. whose responsibility is it to protect these players from themselves, these elite athletes who they live to compete, who should be protecting them? >> it's not even a question of -- thankfully it's not a question of should. every employer under the law has an obligation to do their best to protect the employees. we have a multilayered system that is designed to make sure that someone has eyes on a player on the field. so that responsibility starts with the team doctor. it starts with every person on the team who has a job of providing medical care. there is a neutral unaffiliated traumatic consultant paid for by both the nflpa and the national football league. it's that person's call at the

end of an analysis to make a decision about whether the person goes in, but the idea of writing this entire thing was to put everybody on notice that is the importance of protecting player safety, and the concern that we have is whether or not everybody involved in this chain acted in a way to treat the player as a patient first rather than a player first. >> so many people wondering exactly that. demaurice smith, thank you so much for being with us this morning. we are all thinking about tua as he recovers. whit. >> janai, thank you. we do want to turn now and get a check of the weather once again. let's go back to rob in florida and watching the remnants of ian here, rob. >> reporter: hey, good morning, again, whit. as if these hurricanes aren't bad enough, often as they leave it's just hot and sticky and miserable, and people, you know, have to deal with not having refrigeration or air-conditioning. the weather behind this system has been relatively nice. i want to show you a picture of ana maria island.

so rescue and recovery efforts not just the first three days but the next three days have been pretty good. low levels of humidity pulled in behind the system, and that is making things not just more comfortable but a lot safer for these folks having to do what they need to do and the next three days look to be just as nice.good saturday morning too g up to low clouds and fog foroo g some of us the clouds peeling back to the coast, but it's a cooler day today some breezy winds and the clouds hanging on to parts of the coast, but san francisco, we'll seeck up to yo >> all right. thanks, rob. well, coming up on "good morning america," elon musk's unveiling his vision for the workplace. the humanoids who may one day be doing some jobs. we'll be right back. the workpl. humanoids that will one day maybe be doing the job. we'll be right back.

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elon musk is debuting a prototype, and abc's deidre bolton has more. >> reporter: introducing optimus, elon musk's long anticipated humanoid robot. musk and the tesla team unveiling the robot at tesla's 2022 a.i. day. >> literally the first time the robot has operated without a tether. >> reporter: the 5'8" prototype walking on stage and waving to the audience and even busting a move. the bot running with the same hardware makeup as tesla's autopilot system fully equipped with advanced human-like qualities. >> it's going to do everything that a human brain does, processing vision data, making split-second decisions based on multiple sensory inputs and also communications. >> reporter: the tesla and spacex ceo says he hopes optimus will fundamentally transform civilization, one day handling tasks thought to be boring, repetitive or downright dangerous, but others who witnessed the demonstration

saying this early prototype falls flat and didn't demonstrate anything new. the release of the long anticipated humanoid robot comes just four months after tesla announced it's cutting 10% of its salaried staff. the company later clarified that its hourly staff is expected to grow, meaning total cutbacks would be only 3.5%. >> he predicts that this new robotic future where there's not many human employees, the profits from tha ecomiacvi tt ll beroom thawi b great, tha other entities will be able to afford to actually pay humans to basically do nothing. >> reporter: a.i. and its risks have been a mainstay in pop culture ever since "the terminator" showed us what a worst case scenario future could look like. >> i'll be back. >> good morning, sir. >> reporter: things looked more promising in 2004's "i, robot" where the a.i.s acted more like servants but once again -- >> that thing threw somebody out

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outbreak hit in december, which really suppressed travel, so like we've seen throughout 2022, people are ready to travel again and there's going to be no change in that for the holiday season, so looking on google flights is the best way to find the cheapest fare, and if you're not sure where you want to go, if you want to go somewhere warm, google flights has an explore map where you put in your home airport, a rough set of dates, and it will show you a map, and you can sniff out the cheapest fares. >> that's good. also, any chance it's worth waiting till the last minute to get a deal? i'm asking for a friend. >> i'm a procrastinator. in the past that would work but these days flights are completely selling out, so i would highly recommend as much in advance as possible. however, if you do need to book last minute, always look to use your frequent flier miles, a lot of times. >> thanks, brian. we'll be right back.

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our "gma" cover story, kelly osbourne opens up about her diagnosis of gestational diabetes and the symptoms pregnant women need to look out for. >> and then it's "deals & steals." great finds all for under 20 bucks. stay with us. >> good morning. this week the governor extended california's covid policy. he signed assembly bill 162 which extended obligations to workers. the supplemental paid sick leave policy is set to expire at the

end of the year. in the east bay, part will be lifting the mask mandate. passengers are still strongly encouraged to wear a mask on trains. ac transit lifting its mandate tomorrow. officials will bring the mandate back if covid spikes or if federal officials issued new orders. let's get a check of the forecast. lisa: welcome to october. it is cool. we have visibility issues in part of the north bay. partly cloudy, concord. mid-50's in santa clara. yes, you can see the blanket of low clouds. far-reaching. 52 santa rosa, fog. as we look at visibility, 2.5 mile santa rosa, as well as the shoreline with drizzle. we are warmer with clouds.

highs cooler than yesterday. it was a hot one friday. 80 san jose today. downtown, five degrees cooler in the upper 60's. inland valleys, 85. another cool day below average. sunday, that is not the whole story. >> thanks for joining us. the news continues now at 8:00. we will see