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ginger has the track, timing and big threats right now. hunter biden indicted. the president's son faces three felony gun charges after his plea deal for alleged tax crimes fell apart, accused of buying a gun while lying about his drug use at the time. his lawyer joins us live. alex murdaugh in court. for the first type since he was sentenced for life in prison for the murders of his wife an son as his attorneys push for a new trial. the major deadline. what the lawyer for four of the jurors is telling abc this morning. >> hacking vegas. a massive cyber attack crippling some of the biggest hotels and casinos on the strip. customers waiting hours to check in, slot machines silenced. the race to recover. new blind side drama. the tuohy family denies allegations they tricked michael oher into a into a conservatorship.

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>> i'm sorry, but i'm phot sorry. >> way to get off to a good start. right? we have a lot of news to get to. we are tracking that hurricane. parts along the coast are expecting massive waves. >> massive waves. but we begin with breaking news overnight. united autoworkers going on strike. >> we are the union! >> they are taking unprecedented action against all three automakers at once. but only walking out at one plant for each company. senior national correspondent terry moran is at a plant in michigan with the latest. good morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, george. i'm here outside the ford plant in wayne where they make broncos and rangers. they've been on the picket line since midnight last night. hundreds last night. now they're going in shifts. it's been a summer of strikes, hasn't it? hollywood, health care, u.p.s. and now the big one, the auto industry. the uaw demanding, like the others, better pay and benefits, trying to shift the industry back towards workers.

>> union! >> reporter: at the stroke of midnight and a deal nowhere in sight, the united autoworkers are on a historic strike for the first time walking out of facilities from all of the big three u.s. automakers. >> uaw is ready to stand up. this is our defining moment. >> reporter: but this is not a mass walkout, for now. the union is aiming to disrupt corporate operations with targeted strikes at three facilities, a ford plant in michigan, a gm plant in missouri and an ohio plant for chrysler's owner. stellantis. a total of 12,700 workers have walked off the job so far. >> this strategy will keep the companies guessing. >> reporter: in the final hours a behind the scenes scramble to avoid what would be a devastating strike, with president biden calling uaw president shawn fain and all three of the automakers leader. ford and gm offering a 20% wage increase. but that's only half of what the union was calling for, a 40% increase. they say that's right in line with the pay increases the ceo's

have had since the last contract. workers also demanding a return to pension plans, better retiree healthcare and cost of living adjustments. ford's ceo telling us the union's demands are unsustainable and an industry aiming to adapt to the future. >> we are the most important industries for jobs in america. everyone will suffer, especially in the communities where we have plants. >> reporter: by one estimate a strike at all three companies could cost the economy more than $5 billion with tens of thousands of jobs lost. but for scott fox out on the picket lines here this morning, this strike is about much more than the auto industry. so bottom line, people watching this, what do you want people to know about what you're doing? >> i want them to know we're looking out for everybody not just the union people here at this plant. you got the mega dollar dudes and then you got us down here. >> reporter: the companies say they have put a fair offer on the table and they say they are prepared for a strike. they've got an inventory of cars and some money in the bank.

this could go on for awhile. as you heard there from scott fox, for the workers, this is something more. this is a time to reset the balance between workers and management which they believe has been out of whack for a long, long time. george? >> terry, thank you very much. we'll see how it plays out. gm's ceo mary barra will join us in our next hour. we turn to hurricane lee and its impact on the east coast. a state of emergency is in effect in maine this morning as the storm kicks up big waves and creates dangerous rip currents along the shore. rob marciano is there live. good morning, rob. >> reporter: good morning, michael. the center of lee still over 500 miles away. the cloud shield has arrived. these waves the last 24 hours have been relentless, slamming ashore here. beach erosion is on going. rip currents certainly a big issue with this. we could see a push of water as far as flushing, new york. new york metro getting a piece of the action. let's look at the water with this, the waves.

good thing we're on the east side of this thing. 30, 40 footers will be coming, approaching canada, as this thing moves up toward the north and saturday with its approaching landfall. storm surge on the northern side of this for the cape, 10 to 16 footer coming in on the south side of this. hard core surfers, they've been coming in from all over north america to right these big waves. make no mistake this water coming in with lee is extremely dangerous. michael? >> no doubt about that, rob. thank you very much for that. let's go to ginger in seabright, new jersey, with the track of the hurricane and the flood threat. good morning, ginger. >> hey, good morning. just a north wind blasting us with sand already. yes, that same cloud shield rob was seeing, we're seeing the edges of as well. lee with more than 560 miles from the center here is way out there. bermuda felt it, with crashing waves. then it's passed really quickly. this is when the thing starts racing and it goes north into canada by tomorrow night. but as rob said, the impacts

will be felt well bond. the rip current risk, they have beaches down the shore here in new jersey that are going to fine people if they get in the water. keep that in mind as waves up to 16 feet on long island. then tropical storm warnings from cape cod up to bar harbor, including halifax. rebecca, i should tell you this. about those tropical storm force winds being so wide beyond where the storm goes that you'll feel. it will be gone by sunday. >> wow. such a huge reach though. thank you, ginger. we appreciate it. we turn now to the latest on hunter biden. the president's son was indicted by federal prosecutors on three gun charges after a plea deal fell apart. in a moment we will be hearing from his attorney live. but first our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas joins us now. good morning, pierre. >> reporter: rebecca, good morning. two months ago the president's son seemed on the verge of putting this case largely behind him, but now he's at the center of a legal and political storm that could damage his father. this morning the consequences of

a plea deal unravelling. the president's son indicted on three felony gun charges. hunter biden facing two counts of making false statements and one count of illegal gun possession. the charges filed by special counsel david weiss are tied to hunter biden's drug addiction, which in 2018 was so bad, that he was using crack cocaine, quote, at times as frequently as every 15 minutes. >> i went one time for 13 days without sleeping and smoking crack and drinking vodka exclusively throughout that entire time. >> reporter: that year in october hunter biden purchased a colt revolver and filled out a form saying that he was not a drug kwrouzer, which prosecutors say made his purchase and possession of the gun illegal. but the gun charge was supposed to go away when biden agreed to plead guilty to tax crimes as part of a deal with dave weiss, who was a trump appointed u.s. attorney for delaware who had been investigating biden for five years. after that deal fell apart, weiss lobbied the attorney

general and asked to be named special counsel. >> mr. weiss has the authority he needs to conduct a thorough investigation and to continue to take the steps he deems appropriate independently. >> reporter: weiss then warned any chance of plea negotiations restarting was unlikely telling the court, quote, the parties are at an impasse. this morning hunter biden's attorneys are claiming the special counsel is bending to political pressure, mainly from house republicans who are seeking to impeach the president with thus far little to no evidence of crimes. on capitol hill, some republicans not satisfied, saying the indictment does not go far enough. while some democrats argue the justice system is working. >> i'm glad it's being uncovered. i wish it had been uncovered four years ago. >> if hunter biden committed crimes, he should be held cot accountable. that should happen in the court of law. hunter biden is a private citizen. he is not the president of the united states. >> reporter: the president has stood by his son but thursday he

had no comment as he tries to show that he's not influencing this case. george? >> okay, pierre, thank you very much. we are joined by hunter biden's attorney. abbe lowell. abbe, thank you for joining us. you say the prosecutors are bending to political pressure. are you maintaining your client is innocent of the charges? >> well, innocent has three legs to it, doesn't it? first as to the political pressure i want to make sure everybody understands that after five years of an investigation that the prosecutors knew all the facts and the only change that has occurred between when they investigated and today is that the law changed. but the law didn't change in favor of the prosecution. the law changed against it because a couple of federal courts have found this gun charge to be unconstitutional. so first, there's an agreement in place where this charge should have been brought. second the statute is likely unconstitutional. third on the facts, we think we'll have a defense. >> you say you think you'll have a defense.

on the form hunter biden wrote that he was not a drug user. by his own admission he was a drug user, wasn't he? >> okay, look. if you're going to be specific, then be specific. if the form asks if you are a drug user on the day you buy a gun that is an issue. if it says have you ever used drugs that's an issue. that will be played out in court. >> let me stop you there. you are saying your defense is going to be that he was not a drug user on the day he signed the form? >> no, our defense has multiple parts to it. the first is that there's a deal in place that should have prevented this. second is that courts are finding the statute unconstitutional. the third, if it ever gets that far, and we don't believe it should, there will be a defense on the facts of this case. again, i need to point out for people who are paying attention that what's odd about this is the fact that this happened in 2018, law enforcement showed up, no charges. the u.s. attorneys office has known about this for years. no charges. when they found out about it and made a deal it was for a diverted agreement.

what changed? not the facts, not the law, but all the politics that have now come into play. >> was hunter biden a drug user on the day he signed the form? >> i think that's something that, if it ever gets that far, you and everybody else will see the evidence. >> and what is the evidence? >> the evidence will be presented when and if there is a trial. it's not going to be somehow prelimed in this interview today or others. george, i want people to understand what happened yesterday. what happened yesterday is that after prosecutors were on the scene and investigated and saw what happened, no charges were ever filed. when a charge was theoretically filed, it was a diversion agreement. since this time, no fact has changed. they've known all the facts about hunter's possession of a gun for years, and the law that is being applied has only gotten to the point where the statute has been held to be unconstitutional. what people should be focusing on is not what happened five

years ago, but what happened in the last six weeks to change a diverted agreement into now a felony gun charge. the only thing that's changed has been the political pressure put on by the republicans in congress and the media that supports them. >> you said if this reaches trial. do you think a plea deal is still possible? >> i think the case will be dismissed before trial. >> abbe lowell, thank you very much. michael? >> thank you, george. to the latest on the flooding catastrophe in libya and massive recovery efforts under way. ian pannell has more. good morning, ian. >> reporter: good morning, michael. that's right. a massive recovery and rescue operation is under way in the city hardest hit by these floods. residents reportedly told to stay off the streets while emergency teams look for bodies. the red crescent reporting 11,000 people have died, 10,000 still missing. new satellite images though revealing the scale of the disaster before and after photographs show houses and roads washed away when the storm hit and two storms hit.

and two major dams burst. another shows one of the dams intact and what it looks like now. mass burials have taken place amid reports of bodies being washed ashore miles from the city. libyan authorities now admit the dams built in the '70s haven't been maintained for years and the u.n. claiming libya's weather warnings were inadequate saying we could have avoid most of the human casualties. more aid is arriving but disease fears as well as recovery operations, there are now thousands of survivors who desperately need help. rebecca? >> and you can just feel that desperation in though images. all right, ian, thank you very much. we turn now to the convicted killer who was caught after two weeks on the run. he's now in a maximum security prison being held alone in a cell under special observation. trevor ault, who has been tracking this from the beginning, has the very latest from the prison. good morning, trevor. >> reporter: good morning, rebecca. so danilo cavalcante is in

prison, in a maximum security facility. he's at fti phoenix an hour north of the prison that he escaped two weeks ago. department of corrections said he is in his own cell, that specialized observation unit. he will even eat his meals inside that cell. he will have the option to put together a visitor and telephone list if he chooses. this morning we are learning details about the dog who took cavalcante down, customs and border protection named yoda. a 4-year-old belgium malanois. they say he first bit cavalcante on the scalp and then latched on to his leg. that's likely the reason cavalcante was not able to fire the stolen rifle at officers. this morning yoda the dog is back home in detroit. he's one of hundreds of officers from agencies all over the country that came to pennsylvania to get danilo cavalcante back behind bars. michael? >> definitely was a big effort to make that happen. can't get away from yoda. thank you very much, trevor. now to all eyes on deion sanders

this weekend as his upstart colorado football team takes on rival colorado state. sanders quickly turning around a program that won just one game last season, making plenty of waves in the process. demarco morgan has more for us. good morning, demarco. >> reporter: good morning to you. trash talking began, deion sanders is no stranger to the spotlight. in fact, they don't call him primetime for nothing. he's certainly brought bright lights to colorado in his first season as head coach, taking over a team 1-11 last season. he overhauled the season and they are 2-0 and ranked 18th in the country. this weekend taking on their intrastate rivals. it is the hottest ticket in town. prices on the secondary market ranging from about $150 in the nose bleed section to more than $2,000 closer to the action. colorado state head coach jay norville mocking sanders for wearing a hat and sunglasses to a news conference. sanders said norville is now making the game personal and giving his team extra ammunition for the showdown. this will be the team's first

saturday meeting since 2019. colorado has won the last five game, by the way. espn's college game day will be live from boulder for the big matchup. you can catch all the action 9 a.m. eastern time. the game starts 10 p.m. eastern also on espn. everyone is watching deion. if he does what he did for jackson state, it's something to see. had to throw that in there. >> had to get that in there? okay. nothing wrong with that. we will be watching. should be a good entertaining game. thank you very much, demarco. coming up the major deadline in the murdaugh case. his team argues for a retrial, what could happen, and what the attorney for four of the jurors is telling abc news this morning. plus las vegas hacked. the massive disruption at some hotels and casinos. how some home buyers are still getting mortgage rates at 3%. it is a little known strategy and we're going to tell you all about it. first we go back to ginger. hi, ginger. >> rebecca, wind gusts on cape

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murdaugh back in court for the first time since he was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife and son. as prosecutors face a deadline to respond to allegations by murdaugh's attorney that could lead to a retrial. eva pilgrim is here with that story. you've been covering this since the start. good morning, eva. >> good morning. this was a trial that took six weeks and now many are watching to see if they're going to have to do it all over again. this morning alex murdaugh waiting to learn if he will get a new trial. today is the deadline for the attorney general's office to respond to the disgraced lawyer's request. this as murdaugh appeared in a courtroom on financial charges, his first court appearance since he was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of his wife and son. his attorneys are pushing for a new murder trial, claiming the original one was tainted by bias. >> the clerk of courts had improper private communications with the jurors. >> reporter: murdaugh's legal

team is accusing the court clerk becky hill of extensive deliberate and self-interested jury tampering saying she advised jurors not the believe murdaugh's testimony and also pressured the jury to reach a quick guilty verdict, all to secure herself a book deal and media appearances that would not happen in the event of a mistrial. hill, who did recently publish a book called behind the doors of justice, the murdaugh murders, sat down revealing insight into deliberations. >> i knew it wasn't going to take long for them to come to a decision about a verdict. >> reporter: that 12-person jury returning a guilty verdict. >> guilty, guilty, guilty. >> reporter: the ag's office now up against the clock, telling abc news they plan to file a response to murdaugh's attorneys' claims today, asking state law enforcement to investigate. attorney eric bland, who represents four of the jurors, telling abc news his clients spoke with investigators thursday.

>> at the end of the day i believe at least ten of these jurors are going to look into judge newman's eyes or whoever the presiding judge is and tell them, i voted my conscience, i was not pressured, i stand by my verdict. it was my just and true verdict. and i have no regrets. >> reporter: now here the thing. south carolina law requires a new trial if juror tampering is proven for cases that end in conviction, guys? >> incredible. eva, thank you very much. >> thanks. we're going to turn to the cyber attack targeting casinos and hotels in vegas. it crippled key cards, slot machines and more. mola lenghi is there with more. good morning, mola. >> reporter: good morning, george. mgm operates sop of the biggest hotel and casino brands here on the las vegas strip. their operations still reeling after that hack sunday morning. just a few days after the caesar's resorts were also attacked. potentially exposing the personal information of tens of

millions of people. chaos in las vegas this morning after sin city was hit by a massive cyber attack. >> this is the situation right now. >> reporter: mgm properties trying to recover, under siege since sunday. long lines snaking through the lobby of hotels like the bellagio. check ins across mgm properties taken off line. >> people checking in have to fill out a piece of paper that, like writing down your credit card information. >> reporter: also affected, atm's, hotel key cards. some guests being let in by security with tpeu call key. the attack leaving slot machines silent, messages on screens reading, out of service. it's not just vegas. mgm casinos and hotels across the country, including atlantic city, experiencing outage. caesar's saying it, too, was the victim of a cyber attack, costing them millions, days before mgm was breached. cyber security analysts tell abc news they believe a ransomware group known as scatter spider is responsible for the attack.

the hacker impersonating an mgm employee took down the system in just ten minutes. >> this is such a high profile heist. if they get away with this, it is going to open the door for these really spectacular attacks against american businesses. neither the by community nor the fbi can let this go unanswered. >> reporter: mgm saying they continue to work diligently to resolve our cyber security issue. caesar's telling federal regulators that loyalty program members are being offered identity theft protection. casinos are working with law enforcement, fbi and cyber security experts to uncover the nature of this hack, guys. >> definitely has been disruptive, mola. thank you. new court filings by the touehy family, denying allegations they tricked michael oher into a conservatorship. erielle reshef has the details.

>> reporter: they say this is a legal response to those explosive allegations made by oher that eroded the uplifting story that was told in that story. oher filing a suit against them accusing them of lying to get him to sign into a conservatorship and profiting off him. now in a filing of their own, they're swinging back. this morning new court filings from the family who inspired the 2009 hit movie "the blind side" denying allegations that they tricked former nfl star michael oher into a conservatorship and kept blockbuster profits for themselves. >> never had one before. >> what, a room to yourself? >> a bed. >> reporter: in a legal response filed tuesday, they state earnings from the film were split equally with the four family members and oher, each receiving 20%. >> tony is your quarterback. you protect his blind side. when you look at him, you think of me, how you have my back, how you have his. >> reporter:37-year-old made

headlines last month when he alleged the tuohys tricked him into signing what he thought were adoption papers but ended up being a conservatorship. in the new documents, the deny that happened. the tuohys say they occasionally referred to them as a son but they never intended that reference to be viewed with legal implications. [ applause ] the filings also alleging the conservatorship was only instated to work around what they say were certain ncaa regulations and allow oher to play football at the university of mississippi. >> the baltimore ravens select michael oher, offensive tackle, mississippi! >> reporter: the tuohys disputing oher's claim that he didn't know about the conservatorship pointing to his 2011 memoir "i beat the odds"

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great job, everybody. great to have you with us as we celebrate the start of hispanic heritage month. >> we are dancing into the weekend with the empire dance studio here in times square. plus we'll have a very special live performance. >> gio is behind the wheel in california gearing up for a big surprise for angel. she's inside her garage, hard at work. has no idea she's about to be live on gma. we'll see what gio has in store for her. but first more on our top story. the united autoworkers going on strike, taking unprecedented action again all big three automakers at once. joining us now is mary barra, the ceo of general motors. thank you so much for joining us. you are in the midst of a strike. you at gm, you said your final offer for what was called unprecedented is a raise of 20% over the life of the contract including 10% in the first year. were you surprised the union rejected it?

is that offer still on the table? >> well, it's great to be here today. you know, as we look at the situation we're in, i'm extremely disappointed and frustrated that we're on strike. we need to talk about the offer you just reviewed. the offer is still on the table. it is a very strong offer not only from a gross wage perspective, 20%, that compounds to 21% over the life of the agreement but also maintaining world class health care and job security because of the allocations we've made to all of these plants. they have product and components to continue to build. disappointed where we're at, but the deal is still on the table and we are still at the table ready to negotiate to get people back to work. >> the union's asking for 40% hike in wages which they say matches the pay increases you and your fellow big three ceo's received over the last four years. the union said worker salaries went up just over 6% during that same time period. is that accurate and fair? >> well, i don't know where the 40% came from. i will tell you from an executive compensation

perspective, 92% of my compensation is based on performance. when we look at where we are from a gm perspective, when gm does well, our employees do well. we've had record profit sharing that our employees have participated in. now in addition, we're putting a 20% gross wage rate increase, along with other bonuses that come as part of that. this is a very, very strong financial offer. again, along with world class benefits and health care. the fact, and i think what our employees, is most important to them is job security. that's important when we are in the middle of a transformation from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles and also a very competitive industry. >> with the big transformation to go ev. last year the companies adjusted earnings before interest and tax was a record $14.5 billion. you talked about profit sharing. but profit sharing with your workers was just $500 million. they say you can afford to pay

them more. what's your response to that? >> well, again, each of our employees got over $12,750 from a profit sharing perspective. i think that's significant. from a profit perspective, everybody has to understand the profits that general motors makes we reinvest in the business, we reinvest in our people to put new products. having products that people want to buy is the way that we keep all of our assembly plants running. so we've been investing in our people, in our facilities to make sure we have a strong portfolio. so we maintain the leadership position we have in this country. gm sells more vehicles than anyone else. >> you talked about your transformation to ev from combustion. but that's another concern among union members because they're concerned that those cars may require fewer workers to build. >> well, at general motors, i know there's a lot of people making different assumptions or statements about the transition from ev to av.

one of the things general motors has done, because we want to make sure we take our employees along with us in this transformation. we developed power units internally. we are allocating them to the plants that build today's internal combustion vehicles. so we have a very concentrated plan that we've worked on for several years now to make sure that we have work for all of our employees as we make this transformation. our employees are very talented. the work they did through covid, the work and how they manage the semiconductor shortage and supply chain challenges we still see today. they're world class. in fact, for the last two years general motors has been recognized as having industry leading quality by jd power. that's a result of the talented team we have on the manufacturing floor. >> they definitely are talented and are the best at what they do. it's not gm that's affected. uaw is doing something it's never done before, striking at all three major automakers at the same time. they said it's only going to

walk out a select plant. how will that impact your business? and will it keep operations running? will you be able to keep them running? >> well, right now the plant that is on strike is our wenshill plant. they build the chevrolet colorado and canyon. these are brand new midsize trucks doing very well in the market place, as well as our cargo van that is in strong demand. this can have an impact in a matter of days. right now our other plants are running. >> will you be back at the bargaining table today? >> we're there now. we're ready and want to get back to it. we want to problem solve. we want to get people back to work as quickly as possible. >> well, we hope that's the case and it happens asap. thank you so much for joining us. we want to say that mary barr is a member of the disney board, disney is an abc news parent company. rebecca? >> thank you. coming up in our gma morning menu, more moms are looking to get back into the work force. these are the steps you should take and how to use your time

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looking to rejoin the work force. right? >> that's right, george. we're seeing this really interesting trend. women with young children are jumping back into the labor force. we got some expert advice about how to do it. we asked moms from around the country why they left the work force. >> i left the work force to focus on my family. because i didn't have a maternity leave i stayed home with my first baby. >> and why they're looking to come back now. >> i have so much still to do, give and achieve. finding the right work/life balance so i can provide myself personal fulfillment outside of the family. >> i want to continue on my journey. >> bay area native annie sunn recently decided she wanted to re-enter the work force after leaving her career in the mortgage industry six years ago to raise her two kids. >> there's a lot of convincing people that stay at home mom still has skills. >> annie updated her linkedin with a care giving break under experience.

she posted a call to action highlighting the skills she honed as a stay-at-home mom such as time management, multitasking and problem solving. >> another challenge for me is what career can i get into where it allows flexibility to care for kids at home? >> she's not alone. when offered, 87% of workers embrace the opportunity for flexible work and spend an average of three days a week working from home. >> having a job where more flexibility is embedded into it allows more opportunities for more women to engage in pele paid labor. >> for moms looking to re-enter the labor force they can follow annie's lead by embracing their caregiving break and highlighting associated skills, tapping into their networks and expanding the search beyond their original industry. according to linked in, 51% of employers are more likely to contact a candidate that provides context about their

career break. you can list important child raising and parent care taking skills like multitasking, time management, planning, budgeting. many of these soft skills, george, are the most in demand. employers look at it as, we can teach you the things you need to do for this job, but we can't teach you how to be the person to be great ate. >> the biggest issue for so many working moms is the rising cost of child care. >> such an issue. we focus a lot on that on good morning america. those rising child care costs, the lack of child care options. they have prevented some women from re-entering the work force or it just makes for a constant stress on moms who do work. more flexible work has played a huge role in bringing moms back and alternative forms of child care and new businesses like we care that we have also focused on here have also propped up. george, the bottom line is solving child care. critical to getting women back to work. >> absolutely. thank you, rebecca. michael? >> thank you, george. now to a gma health alert on the dangerous new health care

trend that some are referring to as budget ozempic where people are attempting to use lax l laxatives as a weight loss tool. sales of the over the counter medication increased by over quarter billion dollars over the last few years. the trend is growing in popularity due in part in effect of tik tok. our chief medical correspondent dr. jennifer ashton is here with the warning. i see you shaking your head already. >> yeah. >> tell us about this. what is this dangerous trend? tell us about it. >> first of all, i'm glad we're talking about it. say it with me, michael. people should not get their medical advice on tik tok unless it's from a person who has a couple of initials after their name. this is a perfect example of that. these drugs work differently. obviously i see the reasoning for this because ozempic is so expensive and so popular now. totally different pharmacology. this is not something people should be following. >> what are the risks? >> well, listen,

over the counter, are drugs. they come with possible risks and side effects including bloating, nausea, vomiting, dehydration, if used in extreme cases, light headedness or dizziness, even fainting. they can worsen a gi condition if taken incorrectly or inappropriately. gastroenterologists will tell you this is not candy and it shouldn't be used like that. >> you're board certified in obesity medicine. what is the approach? >> well, look. there is a pyramid, and it is the gold standard in managing obesity and the condition of obesity over life for everyone attention to food and fitness is at the bottom of that pyramid. it is essential. for many people with obesity, fda approved weight loss medications like the wegovy and ozempics are there. for some people baria trick surgery. this is the cold standard. >> i love your advice. if they don't have a few initials after their name. we're not talking about jr. and sr. thank you very much. george? >> thank you.

nicu awareness month and the survival story of twins born at just 22 weeks they are two of the youngest twins ever to survive premature birth thanks to their parents and a team of doctors at the cleveland clinic. >> reporter: it is hard to believe just 11 months ago twins could fit in the palm of your hand. they are now home with their family. at just 21 weeks pregnant, kim thomas learned she was 4centimeters dilated. >> i was scared. >> reporter: just halfway through her pregnancy with twins. doctors at the cleveland clinic say they did their best to stop her labor. >> the odds for survival is very low. >> reporter: but her labor progressed and the twins were born on october 12, 2022 at just 22 weeks and 1 day old. both babies not even a pound. they were rushed to the nicu with the odds against them. >> they said even if they do survive, it's not likely they will make it the first three days.

>> i know they won't remember, but it was hard for them. >> reporter: the staff say they had never worked with babies this tiny. >> they fit in the palm of my hand. >> her extended hand wasn't even big enough to cover my thumb nail. >> this is the smallest diaper we have here. even this tiny diaper was large on them. >> reporter: from a collapsed lung to a brain bleed kim and dj say the first few months were a roller coaster. but they never gave up hope. >> almost new year's we were like, okay. we got this. that's when they finally got to meet each other. >> reporter: the nurses making sure each milestone was celebrated with special photo shoots. after 138 days in the nicu, the twins, still needing supplemental oxygen, were ready to go home, complete with a celebration, officially the youngest surviving premature twins born at the cleveland clinic. >> everyone showed up. when i say every doctor that

worked on them, pretty much all the nurses that were there. >> this is quite an emotional moment for us. >> i did have my doubts on day 1 that we would see that day. it made it that much more incredible when it came. >> they are just so sweet. the twins turn 1 next month and are doing great. by the way, the youngest preemies to ever survive were born only one day earlier than dj and kamai. they are a true marvel of modern medicine. aren't they? >> absolutely. what a beautiful miracle. thank goodness for that incredible hospital staff and medical team. thanks for bringing us that story, rhiannon. we turn now to the mysterious disappearance of a 17-year-old arizona girl more than 20 years ago. john quiones has been following the story for 14 years. on tonight's all new "20/20" he brings us all the twists and turns in the vanishing of alissa turney. >> reporter: last time i set

foot on this dusty desert road between phoenix and los angeles, was 2009. i was reporting on a vibrant teenage girl named alissa turney. she had disappeared in 2001. and to this day, some wonder if this unforgiving and lonely landscape might hold secrets of her fate. >> 17-year-old alissa turney -- >> disappearance and presumed death of alissa turney. >> she hasn't been seen in seven years. >> just a bombshell arrest tonight almost 20 years after phoenix teen alissa turney vanished. >> reporter: my report on her case went on to have a life of its own. >> this is story of alissa turney. >> reporter: showing up in countless stories about alissa on the internet and podcasts. recently it was even at the center of a trial aimed at answering once and for all what really happened to alissa?

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♪ ♪ ♪ >> yeah! >> wow! excellent work. excellent work. welcome back to gma. it is fall. you can feel fall in the air. but it is also hispanic heritage month. it's getting heated up in the studio this morning. we are celebrating with the empire dance studio, bringing us that incredible routine. amazing work to all of you, from dancers from all parts of latin america.

adolfo you are the leader in all of this. tell us about dance in your culture. >> it's how we express ourselves. we are happy, we dance. we're sad, we dance. we are celebrating being on tv, we dance. >> always dancing. we love it. >> we're happy you're dancing this morning. made us happy. how about that? gio is live in california bringing us the inspiring story of how angel romero is bringing her community together with some cool cars. he's got a big surprise for her. hey, gio. >> reporter: hey, michael, good morning. listen, i'm going to be a little bit quiet. this is a big, big surprise. i'm inside a low rider here. inside the garage, take a look. we've got the president angel in there, in that garage. we've also got her sister, her niece right there. you see them working right there. angel thinks we are actually here to highlight the female-led garages across the country.

latina female led garages across the country. we're gonna do that. we're also gonna celebrate her though. she doesn't know that just yet. these are her friends, her family, members of the car club. we've got members of the kids bike club here with me. i think it's time to give her that surprise. what do you think? [ applause ] why don't we go ahead and open up that garage door! [ cheering ] angel! hey, angel! why don't you come on out here? [ applause ] come on. come on. hi. i'm gio. >> hi, hi. >> how are you? >> good. >> come with me. we've got a little bit of something special for you. you are live right now on "good morning america." all your friends, family members. everyone is here. >> oh my god. >> you have made such an impact in this community here. come with me. come with me.

stand right here. i want you to see this piece. we're going to celebrate you. we're also going to talk about the incredible latina members of the low riding community across the country. take a look at this right here. >> hop in, girl. >> reporter: it's a sacred club and a way of life. low riders. >> i came out the first time with my husband and his car. yeah, i'm not going to be a passenger princess. i was like, huh-un. >> reporter: once a male dominated scene in los angeles, it's the women like the lady low riders who are cruising into the future. >> i just want people to look at us and feel like, those girls are bad. they built those cars. they own those cars. it's an amazing feeling to be in the driver's seat of your own ride. >> reporter: two sisters are taking charge of the legendary dallas low riders. for them, their cars are about finding their identity. >> low riding is like everybody expressing themselves through their cars, through the paint

jobs, the way they design it, put their touch to it. >> i built my own car, me and my dad. i wanted it to be sparkley and just eye catching. >> reporter: for decades car lovers converting their rides into pieces of art turned into a stereotype in the hispanic community leading to low rider bans throughout the 1990s. though bans lifting as recently as this year. and now one woman in the san jose area is working to change the way people view low rider culture. >> growing up, people always looked at low riding, low riding community as criminals. we're not. we're good people. >> reporter: angel romero formed a car club in 209, making the focus of the club helping their community, organizing back to school drives, hosting lunches and donating to local homeless shelters. while inspiring the next generation of riders with their kid's bike club. angel, uplifting the women around her. >> angel has given me community,

empowerment. >> she goes beyond for the whole club. she's with us, helping us, supporting us. >> reporter: and honoring her late mother. >> we take a lot from our mother, who was a low rider woman herself. to see my sister just flourish into this, for her dream to come true has been an honor for me to be by her side. >> reporter: aw. listen, angel. this is clearly a lot for you to take in right now. how are you feeling right now? >> i feel like i can't talk. i'm just overwhelmed, with everybody being here and stuff. sorry. just overwhelming. to see the effect that i have on other people, you know? for people to embrace me and what i believe in, i wouldn't have been able to do any of this

without my family and my girls here. do you know what i mean? >> reporter: well, those are tears of gratitude. don't apology for that. happy tears. angel, come in here. what does angel mean to you, to the community? >> she's a leader. she leads us all. we wouldn't be here without angel. >> reporter: and this car club. this is so unique, so special. >> it's extremely. we have our daughters. we're passing it down. thank you, angel. >> reporter: this is angela's house. everybody has been hiding and being very, very quiet. i want to bring sara in. sara, you are a board member at the car club. she also has a little something for you. >> angel, on behalf of all of us, i would like to present this appreciation award as a small token of our appreciation, gratitude and love. you continuously go above and beyond for the bike club, for

the car club, and your effort, the commitment, everything doesn't go unnoticed. this is your vision that we helped execute, but this is all you, baby. thank you. thank you. [ applause ] >> reporter: and you know, listen. you watch gma. you know that's not all. our friends over at jet blue vacations, they know that you need to relax. they are sending you on a trip puerto vallarta, mexico. four nights. four adults. all inclusive resort. >> thank you so much! >> reporter: you got an award right there. thank you for everything you do. thank you for highlighting this and speaking and inspiring so many women across the country now. >> thank you. thank you.

girl power! >> reporter: yes. thank you all so much. guys, back to you. >> thank you so much, gio. girl power is right. coming up, we go behind the scenes with a national geographic filmmaker on his epic adventures around the world. acs with a "national geographic" filmmaker on his

behind the scenes of the national geographic filmmaker. bertie gregory captures wild life all over the world. will reeve spoke with him. >> reporter: when i sat down with bertie gregory, he struggled to pick which adventure in which far flung place around the globe was the most heart pumping adrenaline inducing or awe inspiring. maybe getting tossed by waves in the galapagos, tracking pumas in padagonia? how about all of them and more? in animals up close with bertie gregory a disney + series produced by national geographic. >> it's coming really close. >> reporter: the wild life filmmaker is getting closer to his subjects than ever. >> whoa, did you see that? >> reporter: his team setting up a treetop camp in this central african republic, tracking the remarkable forest elephant. what special technology were you using at night to get an intimate look at certain animals? >> we pointed this thermal camera at the clearing for

elephants. when you zoom in on one of these elephants the thermal camera reveals the blood vessels in the ear. to be able to see that was crazy. >> reporter: along the way, gregory training his lens on conservation. >> all too long we've been saying these places are untouched by humans. that's not the reality. if you give nature the chance, it will come back on an unbelievable scale. >> reporter: spectacular. national geographic animals up close is streaming on disney +. >> thank you very much. let's go to ginger. >> thanks, george. coastal flooding and the emotion will be the problem for a lot of us. that's far from the center of the storm. new smyrna beach, florida seeing waves, too. the whole east coast does have rip current risk and coastal flooding. the waves get bigger as you go north. parts of long island could see up to 16 foot waves. watch out for that. down the beach they are finding people on the jersey shore if they're getting in the water

now to the 60th anniversary of the bombing of the 16th street baptist church in birmingham. a tragedy that accelerated the civil rights movement. four young girls were killed but one survived. demarco morgan sat down with her to talk about that day. good morning again, demarco. >> reporter: michael, good morning to you. 60 years to the day when the live of four little girls in alabama were taken from us as a result of pure hatred leaving an entire community devastated and a nation forced to push forward with civil rights law. but there was one little girl who did survive. on september 15, 1963, a sunday morning members of the kkk planted dynamite t at 16th street baptist church.

the explosion killed four girls inside the church. but what many still don't know is that there was a fifth girl in the very same room who survived. >> i heard a loud noise. boom. and i didn't know what it was. >> reporter: sara collins rudolph lived, but her sister addie may, was killed. >> i was the only survivor. >> reporter: sara has had vision problems ever since, and she still has glass in her eye from the blast. when you see that picture, do you feel like there was a part of you that was taken away? >> yes. it was a big part of me that was taken away because when i was young, i wanted to go to school to be a nurse. i just couldn't do the things that i used to do. >> reporter: you think there's a reason that you were spared, your life was spared? >> yes. i really do believe my life was spared to tell the story. >> later this morning supreme court justice ketanji brown jackson is set to keynote a service at the 16th street

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>> we are back celebrating hispanic heritage month with the first mexicana group to hit number one on billboards global 200 chart. this morning they are making history as the first regional mexican band ever to perform here on gma. [ applause ] yes, we are so thrilled about that. pedro, you are the lead singer for the group. welcome. it's so nice to have all of you here with us. what is it like to reach this milestone? >> i think it's a blessing for us. it's totally another feeling for us. we've been on other shows, but i

think this is one of the most important for us. going to school and my teachers always putting on the good morning america show. >> say hi to all of your teachers. >> hi to all of my teachers in high school. >> you are about to perform your smash hit. you have said this was one of the easiest songs to write. what was it about? >> it's basically about a girl, a girl dancing alone and a guy gets her attention. he wants to interact with her, give her a drink. basically just have a good time with her. >> or it's about saying hello to your high school teacher. just kidding. [ laughter ] here they are singing ella baila sola. it is eslabon armado. take it away, guys. ♪

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>> the last two weeks gma helped real people find millions in unclaimed money. of motto for that great performance. yeah, that really was great. >> a big thanks to gio and our team out there in california as well. >> a great weekend, everyone. bye tijuana catalogs and amirante. >> hola. como baila circo.

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