right now on america this morning, four days to go the heavy hitters joining the campaign trail, biden, trump, clinton and obama and now oprah weighing in on dr oz, plus the unheard of security precautions that some election workers are taking, and with voters ranking the economy as their top issue, the new report today on jobs and how some companies are now cutting back breaking overnight . a new treatment approved overseas in the fight against rsv virus. overwhelming hospitals, young children hit hard what doctors are saying. a woman out for her morning jogs brutally attacked in a popular new york park. what we're learning about the suspect's criminal past and we hear from the good samaritan who called

911 saying no one else stopped to help. breaking overnight how nba star kyrie irving is now apologizing for his anti semitic tweet after being suspended abc news exclusive the man behind the massive fraud at the fire music festival tells good morning america. what fueled his bad decisions, bilking people out of millions and the monster powerball jackpot what you should and shouldn't do if you win the $1.5 billion. from abc news in new york. this is america this morning. good friday morning, everyone i'm really in an alley andrea from g in for andrew, we begin with the race to the finish just four days until election day. everyone from president biden to former president trump to hillary clinton are hitting the campaign trail. even oprah is speaking out. she's endorsing john fetterman in the pennsylvania senate race over

the man she made famous on her talk show. dr oz. the campaign responding, saying dr oz loves oprah and respects that they have different politics. meanwhile election workers are taking new precautions amid concerns about political violence. some are even wearing bulletproof vests. abc is elizabeth schulze begins our coverage. elizabeth. good morning. hey brandon. good morning, president biden is trying to shore up support in blue states as his party fights to keep control of congress, while former president trump is predicting a red wave in the final sprint to election day, with control of congress hanging in the balance, leaders from both parties are making their closing arguments that you must vote republican giant this is the choice, a choice between two vastly different visions of america, campaigning in new mexico and california president biden touting his economic record and arguing democracy is on the ballot to much political violence. there's too much

intimidation. former president trump's stumping for seven terms senate republican chuck grassley and teasing his own 2024 run. i will very, very, very probably do it again. the balance of power in the senate coming down to three dead heat races pennsylvania, nevada and georgia over in georgia. the closer we get to election day, the tighter this race gets democratic senator rafael warnock with 46% herschel walker with 46 as well. cross the country growing concerns about increased threats against election officials in arizona, startling images of armed poll watchers in tactical gear, colorado election officials received a ballot with a suspicious, powdery substance. we identified it through our process is secured the ballot and contacted law enforcement that county clerk of former marine now wears a bulletproof vest, philadelphia's district attorney with a stark warning of any type who are pondering

interfering in any way. were they free? fair and final election. better be warned. we have handcuffs. we have jail cells, and we have philadelphia juries that will be here. in milwaukee. the mayor says an election worker was fired after she reportedly requested military absentee ballots under fake names. rhiannon elizabeth thank you, as americans voiced their concern about the economy , more companies are voicing concern as well. amazon is putting a pause on corporate hiring and the rideshare company company lift is cutting about 650 jobs. the labor department this morning is releasing the monthly jobs report. it is expected to show a slight drop in job growth compared to september. but that growth is still likely well above pre pandemic levels. musk is beginning major layoffs at twitter. today he is expected to cut about half the company's 7500 employees. bloomberg

reporting twitter employees are now suing over the layoffs, claiming the company did not provide enough notice violating federal and state laws. there was no immediate response from twitter. house speaker nancy pelosi says her husband is home from the hospital and beginning a long recovery process after last week's attack, paul pelosi was in san francisco hospital for six days being treated for a fractured skull and other injuries, is accused attacker. a canadian citizen is due in court today and could be deported. he was reportedly in the u. s illegally for years. authorities say they have a record of his entry at the us mexico border in 2008. more hospitals report being overwhelmed by the number of rsv cases in children and overnight a major development word that a new treatment has been approved overseas for the youngest children. children's hospitals from coast to coast are seeing a dangerous spike in sick kids. rsv infections are now double. what we saw last year with case is not expected to peak until february. we've

seen about a 500% increase in positive testimony children that have been admitted for oppressed reinfection hospital. pediatric beds are now above 80% capacity , and at least 17 states. in michigan, rsv cases jumped from 95 in september two more than 800 in october in the cases apparently more severe than in years past were given a lot of support that often requires inhalation therapies. sometimes steroids, sometimes breathing machines like ventilators. until the virus itself works its way out. officials yesterday confirmed a six year old boy from detroit died from rsv. his death one of hundreds expected this year. 500 children in 14,000 adults die from rsv related complications each year with infants and seniors most vulnerable, susceptible to complications and hospitalization and issues with it. or young babies, so babies and children under the age of two. meanwhile overnight doctors in europe announcing a

breakthrough in preventing rsv infections, the european commission now approving a monoclonal antibody injection that protects newborns against the virus, and looking for solutions to be able to prevent rsp for close to 50 years. we i don't think that this is going to stop all infection from rsv with this is really designed to do is stop rsv from being a serious disease and really causing those severe lung infections. the treatment is not been approved in the us, but it could be approved by next fall. an alleged serial attacker is under arrest in new york accused of sexually assaulting three women, police say 29 year old carl pfanner raped and robbed a jogger running just before dawn along the hudson river. yesterday another jogger called 911 and stayed with the victim until help arrived. she wasn't wearing any shoes, and she just looked pretty disoriented. she was holding one hand over her. i um and then kind of when i looked a little bit closer. i

could see that she had like blood on both of her arms. she was bleeding. um. and it was just so beyond me that nobody else thought to, you know, go up to her. police say the suspect has 18 prior arrest for a string of crimes, including assault. the u. s and south korea are threatening to end the regime of kim jong un if he attacks them or their allies with a nuclear weapon. the warning comes after north korea fired about 30 missiles over a 48 hour period. including an intercontinental ballistic missile. kim has been lashing out against joint military exercises conducted by washington and seoul. the u. s says those drills have now been extended. a piece of chinese space junk way. nearly 25 tons is expected to crash somewhere on earth. today experts don't know exactly where to expect impact. the rocket was used to deliver a piece of china's new space station. nasa's artemis. one moon rocket is on the move starting it slow rollout from an

assembly building at the kennedy space center to the launch pad overnight. nasa says after many setbacks, it's confident artemis will be ready for takeoff november 14th turning to the weather. now it is unseasonably warm in the midwest and in the east, but here's the scene in denver, up to two inches of snow expected this morning. here's your friday forecast. severe storms will roll through the southern plains this afternoon, bringing hail strong winds, even possible tornadoes. that system will also drop some much needed rain in the mississippi valley and looking ahead to the weekend near record. he is expected on the east coast. sunday's new york city marathon will be close to the warmest ever. temperatures in the seventies will stay until monday. checking today's high temperatures around 70 from the great lakes to new england, but a cold front keeps the northern plains and rockies in the forties 51 in albuquerque. coming up the two

celebrities who could be teaming up to buy a team in the nfl also ahead. what a former housekeeper for amazon founder jeff bezos, is now claiming about the working conditions she faced. but first, while the family of gabby petito woman killed by her fiance during a road trip, is fr

. you won't want to miss this tonight on abc. investigators in tulsa, oklahoma, are looking for the man who fire bombed this donut shop after vandalizing it with a baseball bat. the shop had just hosted a drag queen art show. police say he also left a note filled with hateful rhetoric. a new lawsuit this morning stemming from the gabby petito case. she is the travel blogger who was killed by her fiance, brian laundry during a road trip now potatoes family is suing police in utah, claiming

they could have prevented her death. a bcs lionel moise has more this morning. gabby potatoes, parents filing a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit against the police department in moab, utah, claiming gabby would be alive today, if not for the officers negligence. she could have been protected that day. there are people there are laws put in place to protect victims. and those laws were not followed . her fiance, brian laundry, were questioned by moab police in august of 2021 while on their cross country trip weeks before her family reported her missing . police were responding to a 911 call from someone saying they saw brian slapped. gabby did he hit you, though, but i told officers she was suffering from anxiety and other medical issues. they labeled the incident a mental emotional breakdown rather than a domestic assault and separated the two for the night police department failed to properly train their

officers to be able to handle these situations and identify properly identify the aggressor in a domestic violence situation . gabby petitto is believed to have been killed in wyoming more than two weeks after that, utah police stop her remains found in mid september. her death ruled a homicide. the city of moab is vowing to fight the lawsuit, saying the attorneys for the potato family seemed to suggest that somehow our officers could see the future based on this single interaction, adding, no one could have predicted the tragedy that would occur weeks later and hundreds of miles away . and i guess there's been some things in the past. and i have read and changes haven't happened when those changes need to come. lionel moise, abc news new york laundry was found dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound in florida. the fbi says he wrote in a notebook that he killed petito. her family is also sued laundries estate. amazon founder jeff bezos is facing a lawsuit from his former

housekeeper. she claims working conditions at his home were so bad she had to climb out a laundry room, windowed, accessible bathroom, and she says staff members got urinary tract infections because they couldn't take breaks a basis. lawyer insists the lawsuit has no merit. meanwhile bezos may be looking to become an owner in the nfl is reportedly considering buying the washington commanders with rapper jay z. so stay tuned. that's an interesting duo. yeah coming up the exclusive interview behind the dettori isse fire festival what he is saying about the massive fraud. but first the new punishment for nba star kyrie irving and his anti semitic tweet and his new anti semitic tweet and his new reaction overnight. migraine hits hard, so u hit back with ubrelvy u level up u won't take a time-out one dose of ubrelvy works fast it can quickly stop migraine in its tracks within 2 hours without worrying if it's too late or where you are unlike older medicines, ubrelvy is a pill that directly blocks a protein believed to be a cause of migraine. do not take with strong cyp3a4 inhibitors.

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twist in the anti semitism scandal in the n b a new punishment has been handed down. and now kyrie irving is apologizing. this morning. nba star kyrie irving benched in the wake of tweeting about an anti semitic film, the brooklyn nets , suspending irving for at least five games without pay after he refused to apologize for posting a link to a documentary that denies the holocaust. falsehoods are, unfortunately and it's not that i don't believe in the holocaust. i never said that deleted the tweet last week, but continued to defend his actions to cause any harm. i'm not the one that made the documentary is also resisted demands to unequivocally denounce anti semitism. you have any anti semitic police cannot be anti semitic. if i know where i come from late wednesday, he in the nets announced they would each donate $500,000 to anti hate groups. but late yesterday,

after once again, refusing to apologize, the team finally had enough, saying irving is unfit to be associated with the brooklyn nets. the anti defamation league, also speaking out, saying it will refuse irving's $500,000 donation tweeting kyrie irving has been given ample opportunity to do the right thing, apologize andem failed at almost every step along the way. this suspension is well deserved. then overnight , irving backing down and apologizing, saying, i initially reacted out of emotion to being unjustly labeled anti semitic. instead of focusing on the healing process of my jewish brothers and sisters that were hurt from the hateful remarks made in the documentary. irving says he did not intend to disrespect jewish culture. the man behind the 2017 fire festival is speaking out about defrauding investors. billy mcfarland, sir. four years in prison, the festival attendees

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reggie: paul pelosi returns home after that brutal attack one week ago. he's been released from the hospital. another hearing is set today for the suspect. kumasi: the corruption against an embattled bay area sheriff. reggie: new funding from the biden administration announced this morning. kumasi: taking a live look outside because more rain is on the way. drew is tracking the forecast and how it will impact your weekend. reggie: it will be raining. welcome to this friday, november 4. kumasi: we start with a check on the forecast withdrew. drew: showers saturday and sunday. this morning is not as cold as yesterday but still chilly this morning. 41 in santa rosa. 48 in the city. 38 right now in palo alto.

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