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suspects. >> breaking overnight, debbie makes landfall for a second time. the tropical storm dumping catastrophic rain, breaching dams, overwhelming neighborhoods. the biggest concern as the storm moves inland into the northeast. >> battle for the battlegrounds. >> if you want donald trump to win, then say that. >> otherwise, i'm speaking. >> vice president harris, interrupted by protesters in michigan while her running mate faces questions about his military service. >> also this morning, the new claims about hunter biden and his business dealings. >> it was an underwater tragedy on a voyage to the titanic. now a $50 million legal battle over the titan submersible implosion and new revelations about the passengers final moments. >> water warning how a balloon triggered a water crisis in a major u.s. city. >> a major come from behind win for team usa at the olympics and the big day ahead. >> and later, rising from the ashes, a special look back one year after the deadly wildfires

that devastated maui, displacing thousands of people, the signs of hope and resilience. >> it's overwhelming. you know, that's i'm forever my gratitude. you know, to these people and aloha spirit from abc news. >> this is america, this morning. >> good thursday morning everyone i'm rhiannon ally i'm andrew dymburt. >> we begin with the alleged terror plot targeting taylor swift fans. the singer now canceling several concerts in europe. >> many americans have been traveling to europe this summer to see swift. but now security concerns are front and center. welcome to the eras tour this morning. taylor swift is canceling all her concerts in vienna after authorities say they uncovered a terror plot targeting swift's tour crew along with austrian police announcing they stopped an isis inspired attack at least two suspects taken into custody. authorities said three others

were still on the run overnight. investigators say the men arrested were radicalized online, with one, a 19 year old from austria, recently pledging allegiance to isis. >> isis is still out there. they are still active. they are still online. they are still recruiting. >> a bomb squad was seen removing chemicals from one of the suspect's homes, testing for possible explosives. but officials say any potential bombs would not have been ready in time for this week's concerts. the austrian chancellor saying the situation surrounding the apparently planned terrorist attack in vienna was very serious, adding the threat was recognized early combated and a tragedy prevented. isis has not claimed responsibility, but it has been behind attacks on other concerts. a gunman killed 60 people in moscow in march. oh my god. and an isis backed bomber killed 22 fans at an ariana grande concert in 2017. we all

know now swift was scheduled to take the stage in austria three times this week, just one stage above the sold out. shows were expected to draw 65,000 fans each night inside the ernst happel stadium. another 15,000 outside. the threat comes just a week after three children in the uk were stabbed during a taylor swift themed dance class. a local teenager was arrested. police say that attack was not terror related. >> tropical storm debbie has made a second landfall, this time near bull's bay, south carolina. the storm is set to soak the eastern seaboard ahead of this weekend, with ten more inches of rain possible in some areas. in georgia, another dam breach was reported north of savannah. emergency crews have performed dozens of high water rescues, and six inches of rain in the carolinas prompted rare flash flood warnings all the way to southern virginia. we'll check your forecast in just a few moments. >> now to the race for president and the attacks over vice presidential candidate tim walz's military record and his

claim that he carried weapons in war even though he saw no combat. meanwhile, at a rally last night, vice president kamala harris directly confronted a group of protesters. abc's perry russom has much more on both. perry. good morning ryan. >> good morning to you. those protesters were demanding a cease fire in gaza. a key issue in the battleground state of michigan. good evening. detroit. an estimated 15,000 supporters greeting vice president kamala harris and her running mate, governor tim walz, in michigan last night. >> this election is about which direction this country is going to go in. we know donald trump's taking us backwards and don't believe the act he's playing dumb. >> michigan is home to the largest muslim american population in the country. pro-palestinian protesters interrupting harris, chanting, we won't vote for genocide. >> if you want donald trump to win, then say that. otherwise i'm speaking. i'm here because we believe in democracy. everyone's voice matters. but i

am speaking now. >> hours earlier, harris and walz in wisconsin, as was former president trump's running mate, senator jd vance, speaking at a manufacturing plant. >> but one thing we know is that you cannot manufacture in this country unless you have access to low cost power. and we happen to be sitting on the saudi arabia of natural gas in this country. >> the candidates planes landing on the same tarmac where vance got a close up look at harris's plane, air force two. >> i just wanted to check out my future plans. >> vance is now questioning walz's military record after walz made this claim while talking about gun restrictions. >> and we can make sure that those weapons of war that i carried in war is the only place where those weapons are at. >> walz served in the army national guard for 24 years, and acknowledges he did not see active combat. >> well, which war did you carry a gun in because you apparently never went to a war zone? that is a totally reasonable question to ask. and i think the evidence at this point is overwhelming

that he lied about serving in a combat zone. >> walz retired honorably from the national guard in 2005, two months before his unit was deployed to iraq. he then ran for congress and was a vocal critic of the bush administration's war policies. the harris campaign, saying governor walz would never insult or undermine any american service to this country. >> donald trump, he sees the world differently than we see i. he has no understanding of service because he's too busy servicing himself again. and again and again, again and again and again. this guy weakens our country to strengthen his own hand. >> meanwhile, former president trump says a new debate with harris will be announced soon, but he did not elaborate. it comes after trump backed out of a september debate on abc and then back at the white house. president biden is revealing new concern about the outcome of the election, telling cbs he's not

confident at all there will be a peaceful transfer of power if trump loses. andrew. all right, perry, thank you. new accusations against president biden's son. prosecutors claim hunter biden took payments from a romanian oligarch while his father was vice president to influence us policy. the claims are the closest special counsel david weiss has come to tying president biden to his son's business dealings. weiss's office claims hunter was among three people who split more than $3 million working for the romanian businessman. >> vladimir putin is vowing to crush ukraine's unprecedented incursion into russia. ukrainian forces launched the surprise attack the first large scale assault across the border since the start of the war. video allegedly shows russian soldiers being taken prisoner, as well as russian forces bombing ukrainian troops and tanks. pro-kremlin military bloggers say the ukrainian seized several villages advancing nearly ten miles into russian territory. ukraine has not commented on the operation. >> we turn now to a $50 million

wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the doomed titan submersible, which imploded last year during a voyage to the titanic. the lawsuit describes the mental anguish of the victims. here's abc's andrea fujii. >> this morning, a new lawsuit claims everyone on board the titan underwater submersible knew they were about to die. in the moments before the vessel imploded, five people were killed while traveling to the wreckage of the titanic, among them french explorer paul henri nardelli. his family is suing oceangate, the vessel's parent company, the $50 million lawsuit claims the crew dropped weights about 90 minutes into the dive, indicating they tried to abort the mission. the lawsuit, claiming the crew may well have heard the carbon fibers crackling noise grow more intense as the weight of the water pressed on the titan's hull. by experts reckoning, they would have continued to descend in full knowledge of the vessel's irreversible failures. experiencing terror and mental anguish prior to the titan ultimately imploding. the

youngest victim was 19 year old suleiman dawood. he and his father were on the voyage together. >> the sentence we lost comm. i think that would be a sentence i would never want to hear in my life again. >> ocean gate's founder, stockton rush, also died. the suit accuses rush and oceangate of designing, building and operating the titan in almost every way, in a manner outside the norms of the diving community and industry driven by russia's apparent obsession with being remembered for innovation. rush was interviewed two years before the doomed voyage about his unconventional methods. >> we run the whole thing with this game controller. >> the suit claims the wireless electronic system was faulty and the game controller would not work without a constant power source, and oceangate spokesperson had no comment on the lawsuit. the cause of the implosion is under investigation. the coast guard hearing is scheduled for next month. rhiannon andrew. >> all right, andrea, thank you for that. a new water warning in

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