everybody. making news in america this morning, debate day. republican presidential candidates facing off again with donald trump no longer the clear front-runner. >> i don't like being second. second is terrible to me. >> trump sharing center stage with ben carson, so how will it all play out? we're live in washington. breaking overnight, a plane hit with a laser while landing shining right in the pilot's ey. new details just coming in. brutal rbery ending on a subway platform. the victim hit with a stun gun and thrown onto the tracks. the attack caught on camera. and what a win. game one of the world series going right into the record books, the outage leaving fans scratching their heads and a

>> the winner in the 14th. well, good morning. our top story is tonight's third republican presidential debate. it'll be in the university of colorado's basketball arena with an emphasis on the economy. >> yeah, basketball arena, but i'm sure they'll go to bouts. but a new poll is adding some drama to the event with another poll showing trump is in trouble. abc's bazi kanani joining us now from d.c. with the details. bazi, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, kendis. good morning, reena. this will be another important opportunity for the candidates to pick k up s some ment, and this time donald trump is also in need of a boost. a chchange on e debate stage, this time two men placed front and center for their rankings in the polls. >> iowa, will you get your numbers up, please? [ applause ] >> reporter: a humbled donald trump acknowledging ben carson's rise to first place in iowa and in one new poll in a virtual tie

>> i mean, i am second. it's not like terrible, but i don't like being second. second is terrible to me. >> reporter: ahead of tonight's debate, carson is not taking those new numbers for granted. >> you know, i do realize that, you know, it's a marathon. we're ill, you know, more than a year away from the election, and there will be ups and downs. >> reporter: while trump and carson are expected to hit hard at each other in tonight's debate, other candidates are battling to be seen as the alternative to the outsiders. jeb bush declaring friend and protege marco o rubio a p obama. rubio suggesting bush h is part the past. >> we need to elevate a new generation of leadership. >> reporter: the candidates tweeting pictures of their debate prep. john kasich promising to take the gloves off. >> let the chips fall whe they may because i'm done with being polite and listening to this nsense. >> reporter: there are 14 republicans still in the race,

will be part of the main debate and it is expected to have a significant focus on economic issues. kendis, reena. rorting there from washington, d.c. breaking overnight, another case of a pilot blinded by a dangerous laser beam. the captain of an american airlines jet repted the green cockpit. the flight from phoenix approaching san diego's airport last night. the jet landed safely, the aiine says the crew declined medical attention. it's the second laser scare within a month at san diego's airport. there's growing uproar over the violent classroom arrest in columbia, south carolina. the officer who flipped the female student over her chair and dragged her across the room now at the center of an fbi investigation. the confrontation escalated when the 16-year-old girl refused to the sheriff could determine as early as today if senior deputy ben fields will be fired.

girl hitting the officer. >> it just shows that when the ofcer puts his hands on her initially, she reaches up and she pops the officer with her fist. it makes you sick to your stomach when you see that initial video, but, again, that's a snapshot. >> a lawyer for the student says his client was brutalized, her arm in a cast now. she has a rug burn and is suffering neck and back pain. deputy fields is the subject of two earlier lawsuits involving allegations of excessive force and racial bs. okay, this morning they're bracing for more flooding in coastal south carolina. a combination of rain and winds plus one of the highest tides on reco sent water into basements and across roads. many cars stalled, some e because drivers ignored warning signs. it's the second wave of flooding for the low country this month. residents say this time it happened more quickly. take a look now at the radar, and you can see the storms are pushing northward today. let's turn now our focus to justin povick at accuweather for the very latest. justin, what do you know?

>> reena and kendis, thanks and good morning tyou. a wet day setting up all throughout the northeast and not just your run-of-the-mill showers, we're talking about torrential downpours advancing from southwest to northeast, and ththere's s gog to bmajor travel delaysndhe potential for a thunderstorm or two, as well. and then we look at low pressure and high pressure, and when you have the t pretty close together, that normally is a cause for concern with regards to gusty winds and also rough surf. reena and kendis, back to you. >> justin, thanks again. d a major strategy change may be in the works in the battle against isis. the pentagon considering the use of ground forces in iraq and syria. the secretary of defense says that u.s. special operations forces will do more than just assist iqi forces as they did in that deadly raid last week. >> signaling that we won't hold back from supporting capable partrs in opportunistic attacks against isil or conducting such missions directly, whether by strikes from the air or direct action on

the ground. >> secretary ash carter also saidhere would be an intensification of the air campaign against isis with more aircraft with a higher and heavier rate of strikes. the house today is expected to make sure the next government shutdown threat happens after the presidential election. the budget agreement will be john boehner's last act as speaker of the house. it increases f federal fding and raises the borrowing limit through 2017. the senate is expected to move quickly on the measure. president obama says he's happy with this deal. former house speaker dennis hastert is expected to plead guilty today as part of a deal to avoid a trial. prosecutors in chicago say hastert sexually abused several teenage boys and then a few years ago began to pay one of them more than a million dollars in hush money. the plea deal will likely mean prison time for hastert, once one of the most powerful men in washington. okay, a lot of blurry eyes this morning after the long

e fox executives, it was an eventful game one for the world series between the mets and royals. in the bottom of the fourth, viewers were told fox sports was experiencing technical difficulties. please stand by. that had technicians moving quickly to fix the problem. >> and the network said an electronics failure caused generators to lose power. the game went to 14 innings before the royals pushed the winning run across. they take it, 5-4. full highlights coming up later. and there were smiles all around yesterday as the world cup winning u.s. women's national team -- whoo -- was hored at the white house. >> president obama received the e traditional team jersey and used some colorful language while praising the team. >> this team taught all america's children that playing like a girl means you're a badass and --

[ applause ] perhaps i shouldn't have used that phrase. [ laughter ] >> but it's true. after the ceremony soccer legend abby wambach announced her retirement. she will play four more matches during the national team's currentictory tour. >> and wambach leaves the game as international soccer's top scorer ever. we're talking in both men's and women's soccer, so that isuite an achievement. >> that's quite impressive. >> yeah. >> indeed. well, thanks to one play at the worlrld serieswe're all getting free taco bell. plusmystery solved. a missing teen found miles from her house, and sleepwalking is to blame. and strange sight. a car's driver finding a parking

so how did it get up there? place for a car on top of a roof in michigan. that ford mustang wound up there after the driver lost control, went through a field and ended up on the roof of the use, which backs up against a hill. both the house and the car had minor damage. accident. the air force picked up northrop grumman to build a new generation of stealth bombers. it's a deal worth more than the new military bomber could one day be flown as a drone. rivals boeing and lockheed martin are expected to challenge the pentagon decision. another multibillion dollar deal to talk about. a megamerger could turn n walgreens into an ever bigger power in the drugstore business. walgreens plans to buy the rite aid chain. if the deal goes through, walgreens will have 18,000 stores. the $9 billion deal could draw scrutiny from antitrust regulators. there are no p plans f now to ange the rite aid name.

be getting attention today on wall street after the company reported record sales. surging sales of iphones in china led to another quarter of record earnings. demand for the smartphone pushed apple a quarterly profit up 31%. ceo tim cook sounded an optimistic note saying he expects healthy iphone sales during the holidays. speaking of healthy, breakfast on the house at taco bell. the fast food chain promised to serve free crunchwraps if anyone steals a base during the world series. oh, yeah, it didn't take long in last night's game. taco made it official with the tweet. they will hand out the free wraps next thursday. >> okay, 7:00 to 11:00 a.m. >> get there. >> line up. when we come back, caught on camera, first date ending with a police officer shooting a man. investigators say the video shows why the cop will not be charged. and a possible advance in treating autism.

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fatally shot an unarmed 19-year-old during a drug sting. >> zachary hammond was o on a first date sitting in his car when officer mark tiller approached with his gun drawn. hammond was shot as he tried to drive away. prosecutors say the shooting was juified because the officer had reason to fear for his life. it all started when the woman in hammond's car allegedly bought mamarijuana om an undercover officer. there are concerns this morning about the safety of cryotherapy after the death of a spa employee. the treatmentnvolves exposure to subzero temperatures for a minute or two. it's supposed d to relie pain and help patients lose weight and make them look younger but the young woman was found frozen to death in one of the spa's cryotherapy chambers. investigators in las vegas say she should not have used the equipment by herself. a disturbing crime caught on camera in philadelphia. realizing he had been robbed the vic chases two suscts off a subway train. there's atruggle as you can see.

the victim is then struck three times with a taster and shoved onto the tracks. fortunately no train was coming and the man was not electrocuted by the third rail. police released the video hoping to find those suspects. and two men were killed last night when the car they were ding in crashed into a house nenear washiton, d.c. it's unclearar what caed the accident. no one was in the home at the time. neighbors say the family that lives there had left about 20 minutes prior. well, the latest treatment for autism could be as simple as a nasal spray. doctors in australia tested oxytocin, a so-called love hormone drug,on a small group of children with autism all under the age of 8. researchersay those children showed significant social and behavioral improvements. specialists worldwide are cautiously optimistic but this limited study is limited and awaits further reseaearch. and a missing sleepwalker in colorado has been found nine miles from home. investigators think the

19-year-old walked most of that way, although she may also have taken a bus while asleep. she was miing for more than two hours, much longer than most sleepwalking episodes. the young woman was unharmed when she woke up e even thou she left her shoes at home. >> glad she's doing okay. ll, we mentioned the world series earlier in the half hour. >> a bit more from game one and another first game, as well. highlights from our guys at espn. >> he's stan, i'm neil. game one of the nba season but also game one of the world series. batter up. >> yeah, it took a while. royals and mets from kansas city. let's pick it up, bottom of the ninth mets up 4-3. jeurys familia in for the save. he had been doing really well this postseason. alex gordon, 442 feet to tie it up, solo home run, 4 apiece, they're going nuts in k.c., bottom of the 14th, royals with the bases loaded. eric hosmer had a sacrifice fly earlier in the game. another one here. alcides escobar ll come in to score.

escobar had an inside-the-park home run in the first city for kansas city and scores the game-winning run and royals take game one of the world series 5-4. cleveland will not go 82-0 but it's still a possibility for chicago. derrick rose and the bulls there, stan and i hit that before the hard shows. president obama, though, doesn't come to watch ours. he came to watch this. >> he watches on tv. >> yeah, that's cool. rose, he's playing with one eye, okay. lebron james, pau gasol, playing with five fouls, not as big as one eye. blocks lebron james afterward. lebron saiafterwards, that was pretty cool. mo williams, i'm gettingng the ball to james or i'm turning it over because nobody else is getting it. and nobody else got it. turnover. bulls win by two. >> that's some hard work from jimmy butler there to prevent that pass. >> yeah, i'm growing my hair like that. >> back to you. up next in "the pulse," more about that game one blunder. the internet blowing up overnight with hilarious memes.

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a lot having fun but it did get up and running and there wer 92 innings so nobody missed anything. >> i think they might still be playing right now. well, hillary clinton is the latest presidential candidate to visit stephen colbert onthe late show." >> the democratic frontunner talked out her favorite tv shows and how she spent her birthday earlier this week. >> but she also got in a plug for how successful her husband's time in the white house was prompting colbert what it would mean for a clinton 2 presidency. >> we get thehe '90s back again if you're president of the united states. >> no. >> do i have to wear parachute pants and slap bracelets and all get jiggy with it. >> you'd look pretty good in pachute pants. >> yeah, yeah. i have the hips for it, yes. >> i saw you out here. >> bring back mc hammer, please. but clinton was quick to say she's not running for bill clinton's third term but for her n first term. >> and we should remind you

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our top stories, donald trump will be at the center of the stage at tonight's republican debate but a new poll shows he's no longer the front-runner. ben carson is. a south carolina officer is facing a federal civil rights investigation, and outrage after this violent classroom arrest knocking a 16-year-old girl to theround and dragging her. he could find out today if he'll lose his job. for the first time in 25 year, the math skills of american students have dropped. the education department says that's according to nationwide testing. experts want to know if it's a fluke or a trend. looking at today's weather, showers and chilly temperatures in the south, northeast and around the great lakes and upper midwest. rain as a new storm moves into the pific northwest. and finally for us on this wednesday morning, some gs doing a great thing for their mom. one of them will be on the court tonight when the brooklyn nets open their nba season against the chicago bulls.

>> yeah, no matter what happens, in that game and this entire season the guys were talking about and his brother for that matter are already all-stars. abc's david muir with their story. >> reporter: the backyard, front yard and for sale sn out front and look at the bottom of the sign there, now says sold. because side that house two accomplished basketball players, two sons, one of them just signed for the brooklyn net, rondae hollis-jefferson. >> over here for special occasion. today is my motherer's birthday. >> reporter: their mother on the way. had the birthday cake ready. soon a knock at the door. >> hey. >> surprise! >> and listen closely. he says come on in. this is your house. come on in. this is your house. this is your house, babe. >> surprise. >> oh, man.

i'll tell you. >> reporter: ronde told us he will never forget that moment. >> once she found out that it was like, whoo, no more worries so taking that burden off her is like a blessing a gift for me. our parents, our moms specifically go through a lot to make sure we're fine and stable and situated. they really love us, you know, even in the toughest days they really care about us. i love them. make sure you make them feel valued and special. >> oh, i could watch that all morning. >> yeah, tearing up. >> if you can't buy mom a home at least give her a call, i would say. >> give her a call. give her a visit. give her a cake and then some. they deserve it. >> you got to take care of momma. >> that's what's making news in america this morning, folks. stay with us for "good morning america."