>> have a great day, everyone. >> right now on america, this morning, breaking overnight, first lady jill biden testing positive for covid 19. what we're learning about her symptoms when she was last with the president and what it means for his upcoming foreign trip. the mass exodus from the nevada desert, some waiting in traffic for seven hours after they were trapped in the mud for days with burning man. >> plus, the festival's fiery clothes taking place overnight.

>> the manhunt for an escaped killer now in its sixth day. as we hear from one homeowner who says the wanted man was inside his house. >> i saw him walk out of the kitchen and through our living room. >> what happened next? as authorities reveal even more sightings of the escaped prisoner. >> tracking the tropics, forecasters say there's a 100% chance that a system taking shape forms into the next named storm. when lee could form and where it's headed. >> a dramatic smash and grab caught on camera here from the jewelry store owners who fought back and college football shocker fans rushed the field after a late night win by duke. >> it's tuesday, september 5th >> from abc news in new york, this is america this morning. >> good morning, everyone. i'm andrew dymburt. >> good morning to you. i'm ryan and allie. we begin with first lady jill biden testing positive for covid as infections across the country are on the rise. the

first lady's office announced the diagnosis last night saying she plans to remain at their delaware beach house. >> but the president's test has come back negative. abc's em win joins us now from washington. good morning m andrew rhiannon good morning. >> the first lady's covid diagnosis comes after a new variant was detected in several states overnight. first lady jill biden testing positive for covid a year after she last battled the virus. the white house says the 72 year old is experiencing mild symptoms and will remain at the biden's home in delaware. the president, who is not with her, has tested negative. >> it's good to be almost home yesterday, the president campaigned in philadelphia and he set to travel to india and vietnam on thursday, the white house says biden, who will turn 81in november, will receive regular testing and monitoring throughout the week. >> both the president and first lady tested positive for covid last summer and each experienced rebound cases shortly after both

experienced only mild symptoms and were treated with the antiviral medication. paxlovid the first lady's diagnosis comes amid a covid summer surge, with hospitalizations and deaths up nearly 20% in recent weeks. >> now we're living in this a bit of a fantasy world where we're pretending that covid is not relevant. >> last week, dr. deborah burkes , a member of the trump covid task force, warned that people were still at risk. >> if there is a lot of covid out there and we're not testing for it and we're not telling people to get tested. >> a new round of booster shots is expected later this month, but it's unclear how well they'll protect against a new variant that has been detected in at least five states. and with millions of kids now heading back to school, the surge could grow. some health care facilities in new york and california have reinstated mask mandates as a precaution. as for the first lady, the last time she and the president were known to have been together in person

was saturday when they surveyed storm damage in florida and returned to their beach house in delaware. >> andrew and when in washington , thank you. >> now to the exodus in the nevada desert where tens of thousands of people are finally allowed to leave the burning man festival. they were stranded for days after torrential rain made the roads impassable and now people are waiting in traffic for more than seven hours to get out. and over night, the giant statue of a man set on fire in the nevada desert, signaling the end of burning man festival, which became a muddy trap for tens of thousands of people. we're getting out of here. three months worth of rain fell in just hours on the festival, making roads impassable in the dry nevada desert for days. >> go, go, go, go, go, go! >> the mud proving too thick for most vehicles to traverse those monsoonal rains changed everything, turning this lakebed into a mud pit that traps

everything. >> a rv's shoes. people but now the roads have dried out enough that that exodus has begun. it stretches across the horizon. trucks, rv's bikes, cars. it's a mile and a half long. >> yesterday afternoon, organizers finally announced the main route in and out of the festival was finally reopened, creating a miles long traffic jam, saying it could take more than seven hours to reach the road that leads to the nearest town. >> we had to put trash bags on the shoes in order for us to not, you know, sink into the it looks like it feels like a 5 pounds on each leg, some walking to the nearest paved road. >> five miles away, hoping to hitch a ride. it did take me like 30 minutes to walk like 40ft because it was so, so liquid and the water was sinking , you know, five, six feet in. >> and that was really hard to balance. >> celebrity dj diplo telling abc news about his trek with a group of celebrities as karlie kloss was their leader and she was seven. >> we walked out with her and

cindy crawford and rande gerber and chris rock, kaia gerber, austin butler, michael cuevas was there. >> the musician and comedian chris rock eventually catching a ride with some fans. >> we had like ten of us jumped in the back of his truck and we took us the last two miles, put him on the guest list for eternity for my shows. >> authorities are investigating the death of a 32 year old man at the festival who died during those torrential rains. >> us officials are warning of new weapons talks between north korean leader kim jong un and russian president vladimir putin . a us official says kim plans to visit moscow this month. in july, moscow tried to get ammunition from pyongyang, russia is in need of more weapons in its fight with ukraine. some of the republican presidential hopefuls spent the holiday weekend reaching out to new hampshire voters as they seek to cut into former president trump's commanding lead entrepreneur vivek ramaswami marched at a labor day parade while former vice president mike pence sampled barbecue at a church picnic and

pitched himself as a candidate for change. >> republican voters in new hampshire know that we need new leadership in the white house. joe biden has failed this country at home and abroad. i think people also know we need new leadership in the republican party. and i'm going to work my heart out to earn the chance to do that for him. we have a lot of ground to cover, and there's no doubt about that. >> but we also have a lot of time ahead of us. trump was not on the campaign trail. >> a wall street journal poll shows 59% of gop voters rank him as their top choice. that's up 11 points since april. >> the urgent manhunt for an escaped killer in pennsylvania is now entering day six. investigators got the fugitives mother to record a message pleading for his surrender. they have been blasting that message from search helicopters above as the community remains on edge. here's abc's derrick dennis this morning. >> a close call for this chester county, pennsylvania homeowner nearly coming face to face in his house with prison escapee danilo cavalcante on the run for

nearly a week. >> woke up my wife. i said, hey, i think there might be somebody downstairs. you know, get get on the phone, ryan drummond says he and cavalcante had a chilling exchange from one floor to another in his home last week. well, i decided to do was flip the light switch on and off. you know, three or 4 or 5 times pause. and then he flipped the light switch from downstairs 3 or 4 times, which was the moment of like, oh my god, this guy is down there. cavalcante is slipping out of drummond's door, getting away with food, peaches, apples, a green snap. peas were had been missing. you know, we have a bunch of little steak knives. it's possible that he could have also taken one of those. >> authorities say carvalho somehow broke out of the chester county prison last thursday. he was just starting a life sentence without parole for stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death in front of her young children. police zeroing in on a two mile radius around the prison, noting for credible

sightings, including home burglaries that they believe was cavalcante. >> we can confirm that we have invested stated actually to burglaries. >> those incidents, coupled with this home surveillance video captured on saturday of cavalcante hiding in a backyard, leaving investigators convinced of his general whereabouts. authorities have still not said how cavalcante escaped six days after he broke out. a $10,000 reward was offered for information leading to his capture. rhiannon andrew. >> derick thank you. now to the weather. the national hurricane center says a system in the mid-atlantic has a 100% chance of development if it reaches tropical storm strength, it will be called lee. computer models say a week from now it could be south of bermuda or heading toward the southeast coast. as for today, millions of children will be dismissed early from school because of extreme heat. cities from detroit to philadelphia say kids are being let out early with temperatures expected to be in the 90s. for many children, particularly in

the northeast. they're going back to school amid the hottest condition days of the year. well it is time now for a look at your morning weather. >> good morning. we have a heatwave on our hands from the great lakes all the way to the east coast here. chicago to new york city. record highs are going to be challenged for the next couple of days. how about these record challenging highs today, this afternoon in baltimore, in d.c, the forecast calls for highs to be near 100 degrees. yeah, records could fall on this date. how about tomorrow? it's still hot and humid across the east, but there is a cold front coming later this week. thursday, friday, the heat wave will break with some cooling thunderstorms. i'm accuweather meteorologist kevin corcoran in. >> coming up the airline boss stepping down after allegations his airline sold tickets for canceled flights. also ahead, dozens of people injured after a car slams into a denny's.

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those injured. >> they were here eating lunch and he when i saw him in the hospital at the emergency room just now, he said he heard a big bang and then all of a sudden he saw the hood of the car. >> the driver was not hurt and no charges have been filed. >> justice was swift. at a los angeles area jewelry store for a would be robber. he was bashed after attempting a smash and grab as retailers in the area get fed up with being targets. here's abc's morgan norwood. this morning. >> dramatic video showing the owners of a jewelry store in california taking matters into their own hands, fighting off an alleged thief. just moments after they say he stormed into their store and attacked employees with bear spray. i was scared because, you know, this guy was really big and tall. >> so i was like, he might hurt my family. >> the family says he smashed this case and filled the box with $70,000 worth of jewelry determined to protect their family owned business, the

father grabs a bat while he's swinging their nearly 70 year old uncle jumps in the suspect's shirt, ripped away as he's chased down the street. this attempted robbery comes amid a rash of brazen smash and grabs just last month, dozens of suspects made off with $100,000 worth of merchandise from a nordstrom in la's canoga park. then there was this heist in glendale. thieves taking $300,000 worth of stuff from a luxury store, the city making several arrests in recent weeks as la launches a task force to investigate these crimes. >> we view them as organized crime, and we will use every tool available under the law. but some critics argue it's the law that needs to change. >> a proposed california law prevents stores from requiring employees to confront shoplifters. and many major retailers already have no such policies in place. but this family owned shop in el monte says they'll do whatever it takes to safeguard their store. we're a small family business,

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