gio? >> gio: such a fascinating case.o: time for the weather. somara theodore back there in jersey city. hey, my friend. >> somara: hey, gio. you know, it's pretty chilly in jersey city. you know where it's not chilly, in the middle part of the country. take a look. record heat continuing today through the heartland, through parts of the south. texas right now under an excessive heat warning, and we're seeing this heat stretching as far north as des moines. heat index values in kansas city around 107. new orleans feeling like 110. here's a look at what's coming up. now, as we move into next week, temperatures will be around 102 in des moines on tuesday. triple digits for three days in a row in st. louis are certainly possible, and looking beyond into next weekend, the heat sticks around, but we are cooler than average in parts of the southwest and the northeast. that's a look at the weather across the country. >> somara: and that's a look at >> somara: and that's a look at your local forecast. back to you guys. >> janai:

gio? >> gio: absolutely. all right, and as you said, coming up, how zillow is trying to make home buying more affordable to some with a 1% down payment. all right, will? >> will: all right, gio. it's been a rocky start to the school year in kentucky. two school districts forced to cancel in-person classes after outbreaks of illnesses. abc's reena roy is here with more on what's happening and how they're handling it. reena, good morning. >> reporter: will, good morning to you. yeah, that's right. we are just a couple of weeks into the school year in most places, and some haven't even started yet, and already two districts in kentucky have canceled classes, as you said, moving to virtual learning instead after widespread illness including covid and the flu. the public health director for the kentucky river district saying there has been a recent uptick in covid cases and that the true number of infections may actually be even higher, and in texas, one school district not far from san antonio canceling classes a

gio? >> gio: i'm going to be going to that website.k" is going to be rereleased. 30th anniversary, i'm going to see if i can try to get that for four bucks. thank you so much. >>> somara theodore back with the weather and i bet you're hoping "twister" was rereleased. >> somara: that's a good one, and that got me into the field. i love "jurassic park" too, but you know what i love even more? cheap concessions. i'm the one with the bag and i be -- i don't know if that's legal to say. let's talk about extreme heat so we've got extreme heat in the west right now. it's really hot out there. excessive heat warnings for parts of arizona and california as well. here's what's going to happen in the next couple of days. things are really going to standard start to heat up in phoenix and we are going to get that cold front dropping through early next week. parts of the south will cool down along with some cloud cover from that tropical disturbance we're watching and finally i want to show you we're already talking about september. likely above av

gio?e have to watch that very, very closely. all right, morgan, thank you. >>> now to the countdown to the first republican debate of the 2024 presidential campaign. so far eight candidates have qualified to be on the stage in milwaukee on wednesday. the one who may not be there. former president trump, likely will still be the focus. abc's senior white house correspondent selina wang is live in washington now with the latest. good morning, selina. >> reporter: sources telling abc news that former president donald trump has already pre-recorded a sit-down interview with tucker carlson. this is scheduled to be counterprogramming for the first 2024 gop debate which is now three days away. sources also tell us that some of trump's surrogates are expected to attend that debate instead. so far eight candidates have qualified, met those donor and polling thresholds from the rnc, a handful more are scrambling to meet the qualification deadline. trump's campaign insisting that no final decision ha

. >> gio: helping hands. the maui community banding together to get supplies to those in need by water and by road. the shelters now overcrowded, but beyond the heartbreak, there's hope as hundreds of families are now being reunited. >> janai: special counsel. attorney general merrick garland elevating trump appointed u.s. attorney david weiss in the hunter biden investigation. the surprise announcement and the second surprise about chances for a plea deal. >> will: fair game. the gop candidates campaigning at the iowa state fair, the rite of passage for presidential hopefuls, flipping burgers and hopefully votes. >> janai: bail revoked. crypto mogul sam bankman-fried back behind bars as he awaits trial. the reason for the judge's move. >> will: caught on camera, disturbing video of a man holding a baby, tackled and beaten by police inside a restaurant in what turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. the police investigation. >> janai: school bus driver shortage being felt across the country. some youngs

whit and gio are on the ground in kula. hey, guys. >> gio: hey, will and janai.st natural disaster in hawaii's history. it's hard to imagine that. but, as this community starts to rebuild, becky worley, raised on maui met with some of the remarkable community helpers that are supporting each other right now. take a look. >> reporter: i'm in a car packed with supplies. all just gray, smoking, charred. it's a really big swath, all of lahaina town. this morning, "gma" getting on the ground in lahaina. part of a caravan carrying supplies to a place where i spent pieces of my childhood. now seeing the devastation with my own eyes. unreal. once there, i met a native hawaiian using her day off work to volunteer bringing donations to the area. >> people are showing up to houses and just making sure are people home, not home, what they need and the community and island is coming together. >> reporter: the view from the waterfront in lahaina shows just how powerful this fire was, charring even the boats docked right along front street. >> i've been asking my friends for, l

. >> gio: good morning, america. historic destruction. the rising death toll now making the maui wildfires the deadliest in the u.s. in more than a century. fema on the ground, search and rescue teams going through the rubble as we get a clearer picture of the devastation. authorities face with mounting questions about warnings and response. >> whit: search for the missing. loved ones desperate for answers. >> we're looking for some relatives. nine of them are still missing. >> whit: hoping to be reconnected with family members they haven't seen in days. >> gio: school plans shattered. with public schools in lahaina closed or destroyed, what's ahead as classes are scheduled to start this week and children deal with the trauma of their lives overturned. >> janai: eyes on iowa. gop front-runner donald trump and ron desantis vying for support. what voters are saying. >> will: damaging storms slamming through nearly the entire east coast. who's in the danger zone today? plus, 110 million americans under heat alerts. >> janai: fourth indictmen

gio, thank you.ll have much more from maui all morning long as we celebrate the maui long spirit and share ways you can help. rebecca? >> thank you, michael. we are also following a wild fire emergency in canada. an entire town is racing to evacuate right now as the flames close in. ginger is tracking the very latest. good morning, ginger. >> reporter: good morning, becca. the city is yellow knife, the capital of canada's northwest territory. it's got a population of about 20,000 people. they've got to get everybody out by tomorrow, when they anticipate the fire that is far too close for comfort to take over, even the highway, the one that goes in and out. this is one of 250 fires within the northwest territories and more than 1,000 across canada. we know they have had an unprecedented season, but this graphic that we're about to show you puts it into perspective. this is all of the acreage burned to date. look at 2023. nearly doubling their worst in the last 40 years of history. and so 600% of norma

>> whit: gio, thank you. now to more with malika dudley, a meteorologist all of honolulu station kitv, but also a maui resident, forced to flee with her family in the middle of the night, describing that experience in her own words. >> we got a call from our neighborhood who said, get out of your house, and we looked out the window, and there was a red glow outside of our window, the fire was right above our property. woke up all the children, piled them into my car, i've got three children and i have a child of a friend with me, as well, which just kind of brings up that level of anxiety quite immediately, if you will. and we started to drive towards my best friend's house. we knocked on her door, woke them up at 4:00 a.m. and that's where we've been sheltering ever since. unfortunately, other areas on the island are still right in the thick of it, and still dealing with loss of communication, people can't get in touch with their family members. we don't note how many structures have been taken. and last nig

gio joins us now live from maui. and gio, i know you have late news from the governor there. what's he saying? >> reporter: we just learned that moments ago, the governor walked through lahaina and he described it as total devastation. and as we saw for ourselves, it truly is. he also said that the death toll is expected to rise, sadly. we're now talking about at least into the 40s, he says. but there's a real fear that that number, that final number, could be higher than that. linsey? >> linsey: gio, thank you. now to the mass exodus on maui. a bottleneck at the airport, where tourists are waiting for a way to get out. abc's will carr reports on the island's resources stretched to the limit. >> reporter: tonight, as the fires continue to burn across maui, chaotic scenes at maui's main airport. >> they basically evacuated us from our hotel, they said, everyone needs to find a way to the airport. >> reporter: airlines say they've thrown more than 11,000 passengers and 400 crew members out of maui already. hundreds more stranded, sleeping in x-ray machines, carts, anywhere they

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. >> really stunning images, gio.ricane's impact will also be felt beyond florida, with states of emergency declared there. also in georgia and north and south carolina. we will be follow that path. >> our team is spread out all over the hurricane zone. and a large zone it is. we're going to begin with ginger there in treasure island, florida. good morning, ginger. >> good morning, robin. it is amazing to think, as we have this category 3 hurricane about to make landfall. we're 100 some miles south and east. how strong and how fast this hurricane will remain all the way through south georgia and south carolina and eventually impact north carolina, too. so we've had tornados already reported, reported warnings that have been peppering the map, from central florida to orlando, daytona beach, jacksonville, brunswick and savannah. even had a warning over brunswick. most extreme was that swell and storm surge. most of that will begin to recede. the water is still pulling on shore. you can see behind me, just incredible amo

whit johnson and gio benitez in maui again tonight for us. >>> ginger zee is also here, tracking severe storms moving up the east coast at this hour. late today, the tornado warnings, now thunderstorm warnings, damaging winds. washington, philadelphia, the flood watches at this hour in new york city. ginger will time it out. >>> the alarming images tonight, the violent smash and grab robbery in los angeles. a security guard sprayed. police say at least 30 people breaking into a nordstrom, stealing up to $300,000 in merchandise. from los angeles to miami, new york to dallas, what's going on? >>> the close call. a passenger jet and a cessna reportedly coming within about 100 feet as the jet was taking off. >>> the frightening scene outside detroit. we're learning more tonight. the fighter jet crashing. what the pilot reported just moments before. >>> the remarkable rescue at sea. four divers missing off the coast of north carolina. >>> you'll remember the movie "the blind side." the real life story of a football player who became an nfl star. what we've now learned all these years later.

gio benitez is live on maui. good morning, gio. >> reporter: hey, robin. good morning.ow about 25% of the area has been searched so far. they hope to get to 85% by this weekend. but only three people have been identified so far. this morning the devastation mounting, and new concerns in the deadliest wild fire in modern u.s. history. new video of people taking cover fleeing to the maui shore line. >> people had to jump over the sea wall and into the water there. some made it. some didn't. >> reporter: shalia and her husband, a pastor, recounting how one left turn may have saved their lives as they evacuated lahaina. >> very sad. >> usually i'm hard headed with my wife. >> i said, lord, direct our steps. and my husband turned left. >> turned left. >> i am so thankful. >> thank you, jesus. we would have ended up -- >> just like everybody else. >> reporter: at least 99 people confirmed dead, and the governor said that number could double. the chilly scope still coming into full view. officials saying at least 2,200 structures were destroyed, 86 percent of them housing. the

gio? >> alex, thank you. just awful.of the march on washington. faith abubey was there for the weekend events commemorating the occasion. good morning to you, faith. >> reporter: good morning, gio. there were people at this march over the weekend who were at the very same spot 60 years ago when dr. martin luther king jr. delivered that iconic i have a dream speech right over there. they remembered the heart felt battles for civil rights and have seen the victories that have been won over the year. but 60 years later, they tell me they feel like they're still fighting to protect some of the basic rights in dr. king's dream. take a look at some of the video and images from the weekend. thousands packed the national mall to remember the anniversary of the march. you can see, it was a smaller crowd than the nearly quarter million on this day back in 1963. now we spoke to some of the original march organizers and they tell me the fight is still about freedom, still about access to the ballot box and beating back housing discr

the wildfires' destruction centered here in lahaina, where my colleague, gio benitez, got a firsthand the aftermath. >> block after block, homes, these were once homes, amazing homes here on front street. over here we have the famous front street apartments. and these are just totally burned down. >> reporter: anchor david ono of kabc on the ground too. >> behind me is a classic lahaina neighborhood. as you can see, the devastation is vast. many, many homes on this one city block have gone up in flames. >> reporter: the beloved national historic landmark decimated. rubble covered in soot and ash all that's left. that once-bustling district a ghost perspective, it is going take many years to rebuild lahaina. >> reporter: aerial photos showing the lush landscape of what lahaina looked like before, and the catastrophic aftermath. smoke choking the town now razed to the ground. >> when i see the aerial views of everything gone, you know, i literally see all my friends and communities and neighbors' homes completely gone. >> reporter: 18-year resident kelly chapman's business and home also

reporter: gio benitez, abc7news. dan: just into, a source close to london breed confirms the mayor was evacuated from maui today. she's ok but was without her cell service for most of the afternoon. ama: she left for another island. many people who live there had to face the flames, rushing to any safe place they could find. dan: we go now to j.r. stone who is in the newsroom with some of their stories. reporter: tonight, i have been in contact with those in maui. some of whom are visiting from san francisco. the hotels were already busy and now they are packed with visitors and residents who lost everything. i'm told there was a three hour wait this evening to get food at one of the major hotels. >> this is downtown front street. hard to put into words. reporter: heartbreaking images coming from allie's lineup. >> everybody we know lost their homes. every apartment. >> we don't know anyone yet who kept their homes. reporter: james and tennille sent us this video showing the damage in lahaina, burned-out cards left -

gio benitez, we appreciate it.est on the rescue efforts i smoke with adam winetrof just moments ago. adam, thank you for joining us and speaking with us during this very difficult time. we know federal resources are beginning to arrive there in hawaii, but what's the state of the search and rescue efforts right now? >> it's been a complicated day, as the wind is contained. we only, in the last few hours, saw that the red flag warning was withdrawn. that should give firefighters on the ground a little bit more leverage, as far as getting control of the fire. we'll be able to put helicopters back up in the air. >> we heard awful eyewitness accounts. we know the death toll is rising into the dozens. how worried are you that that number could go even higher? >> well, we've got a fairly large burned area that the search and rescue teams still need to explore and see whether there's any survivors in those areas. we do fear that there may be additional casualties. we're hopeful that this is everyone that we found them all

gio benitez standing by. and our team coverage across maui. >>> also in our news tonight, millions on alert for extreme weather. damaging hail in the midwest. severe storms sweeping into the east. including possible tornadoes. blistering heat as the pacific northwest braces for a dangerous heat wave. >>> a deadly home explosion. the flames spreading to other homes in the neighborhood. tonight, the search for victims and a cause. >>> the major faceoff in iowa. the gop presidential candidates courting voters. rachel scott with former president donald trump, boasting about his big lead. and ron desantis on what he needs to do to catch up. >>> new questions after police looking for suspects in a hit and run arrest a man as he holds his baby inside an applebee's restaurant. the actual suspects hiding in a restroom. >>> damar hamlin's amazing comeback. his return to the nfl months after suffering cardiac arrest on the football field. >>> and maui strong. an island battered, but not defeated. >>> from abc news, this

reporter: gio benitez, abc7news. dan: just into, a source close to london breed confirms the mayor was evacuated from maui today. she's ok but was without her cell service for most of the afternoon. ama: she left for another island. many people who live there had to face the flames, rushing to any safe place they could find. dan: we go now to j.r. stone who is in the newsroom with some of their stories. reporter: tonight, i have been in contact with those in maui. some of whom are visiting from san francisco. the hotels were already busy and now they are packed with visitors and residents who lost everything. i'm told there was a three hour wait this evening to get food at one of the major hotels. >> this is downtown front street. hard to put into words. reporter: heartbreaking images coming from allie's lineup. >> everybody we know lost their homes. every apartment. >> we don't know anyone yet who kept their homes. reporter: james and tennille sent us this video showing the damage in lahaina, burned-out cards left -

good morning, gio. >> reporter: demarco, good morning to you. yeah.d town of lahaina yesterday. what we saw was nothing short of apocalyptic. it is still smoldering there. this morning that search and rescue effort is still very much under way. these are the most striking images from the heart of the search and rescue effort. lahaina, home after home, business after business destroyed. we boarded a boat thursday to see it for ourselves, to tell the story of the countless people who have lost everyone. hawaiian history in ashes. >> right now we are in front of that famous front street in lahaina. you can just see it is completely destroyed. home to so many historical landmarks, businesses, shops, restaurants and, of course, right there is that 150-year-old banyon tree, beloved by so many here. when we walk through the streets, total devastation. this is as far as we can get because they're still working on that search and rescue effort. you can just see, these were once amazing homes right here on the water on front street. they're just gone. and the r

for gio's political ambitions. west, russian diplomats announced this at a meeting of the un security council on the conflict in ukraine , this elitist dictatorship was emphasized in the country. the glorification of nazism has become us state policy donald trump was arrested ahead of the jujaya formal procedure. after her policy was released on bail. but his height and weight became known. he is taller than 190 cm and weighs about 97 kg. a few hours ago, former us president donald trump underwent a formal arrest procedure in prison. fullton county in atlanta, the politician flew to the state on a nominal plane, and in the prison itself he was accompanied by a cortege. the whole procedure of formal arrest took less than half an hour after the registration of trump. in the prison lists , his height and weight became known, and in the prison card of the politician he was characterized as a strawberry blond. the former president himself spoke to reporters before leaving atlanta and declared that he did not consider hi

for gio's political ambitions.russian diplomats announced this at a meeting of the un security council on the conflict in ukraine, they emphasized a totalitarian dictatorship in the country. the glorification of nazism became state policy. former us president donald trump was arrested in a georgia state prison in a formal procedure. after her, the politician was released on bail. but his height and weight above 190 cm became known. and he weighs about 97 kg. more than half of the monthly rainfall fell within 6 hours in vladivostok, on some streets the water rose to the level of car roofs.

. >> reporter: my colleague, gio benitez, speaking with shalia kaheie and her husband pastor, the twoounting how one left turn may have saved their lives as they evacuated lahaina. >> very sad. i just said, lord, direct our steps. and my husband turned left. >> turned left. >> and i'm so thankful. >> thank you, jesus. >> because we would have ended up -- >> just like everybody else. >> reporter: at least 101 now confirmed dead. the number still expected to rise. >> we are trying to reunify families in the sense of closure. having them know if we have found their loved one. and of course, that's our priority. >> reporter: mobile morgue trucks arriving as the painstaking efforts to find the dead continues. >> we now have 416 people from fema, 273 specifically from the national guard as well, 185 in the emergency response with 20 dogs finding those who have suffered. >> reporter: today, president biden speaking with the governor and vowing to visit hawaii soon. >> whatever you need, you're going to get. and that will get aid into the hands of people who desperately need it, who have lost

closed immunization on cost, i'm using the see want to share data g o $2.00 project per the calls from gio tubes in front of the village. um basically that was uh like uh, stabilisation metals to assist with some of the villagers were at risk of losing their home. the g of small events program provides financial and technical resources to civil society. organizations to implement community driven action for little by the way was able to nurture surgery relationships with the residents of months later, including understanding their life, their concerns with their religion. the loss of the loss of their lives is the loss of 5 diversity. the degradation of watership in general is at an alarming rate being degraded for me that is extremely concerning. what i see with the early times i would hope that you can stabilize it, you know, put something on no rock sun to stabilize the, the, the, the beach front is stabilized. then they, they can do other projects to help them of the, with the sun was coming inside the downstairs and run through all the way to the box. so what happened? the guys took s

stay with abc news for the latest from maui with live reports from gio benitez and will carr later on good morning america and streaming on abc news live. now to another breaking story overnight, a presidential candidate has been assassinated in ecuador. anti corruption candidate fernando villavicencio was shot leaving a campaign rally. a firefight ensued in sued and the suspect, the suspected gunman, was killed. ecuador's president is blaming organized crime that country has seen a major spike in drug and gang related violence. with mexican cartels growing more powerful in the region. >> former president trump has a new request in the mar a lago documents investigation. he wants to establish a secure facility at the resort to discuss the case. meanwhile, trump is now hinting at whether he'll participate in the gop primary debate later this month. abc's justin finch is here with details. justin good morning, andrea good morning. >> with that debate looming at the end of the month, trump is expected to be arraigned again today, this time for that superseding indictment in the classifie

our gio benitez first met an emotional steven scott in lahaina on wednesday.g for his wife. >> i'm trying to find my wife. i know she's safe. i think she's safe, but i haven't found her yet. >> reporter: and when he found him again yesterday, his wife patricia was by his side. reunited with the help of a good samaritan. >> and you just happened to find someone you said with 6% battery left on their phone. >> he said enough to make one call. and i asked him, please let me try. so, i called her and she answered. oh, unbelievable. >> reporter: ohana means family here. it's much more than that. it's the spirit of strength and resilience in community, helping to lift each other up. we've just been so inspired by the people we met here on maui. if you would like to help the victims of this tragedy, scan the qr code on your screen or go to our website for a list of organizations ready to assist. linsey? >> linsey: whit, thank you so >> building a better bay area. moving forward. finding solutions. this is abc7 news. ♪ >> because i have a four-month-old and a two-year

for gio's political ambitions. western russian diplomats said this at a meeting of the un security council on the conflict in ukraine stressed in the country this totalitarian dictatorship. the glorification of nazism has become state policy. former us president donald trump was arrested in a georgia state prison in a formal procedure. after her, the politician was released on bail. but his height and weight became known, he is taller than 190 cm, and weighs about 97 kg. and more than half of the monthly rainfall fell within 6 hours in vladivostok, on some streets the water rose to the level of car roofs , the movement of trams was installed in some places , the power of the federal highway was turned off, vladivostok khabarovsk is also seriously flooded, there are huge traffic jams, and the situation in primorye report by ksenia kolchina 3 hours of morning rain changed vladivostok beyond recognition everywhere muddy rivers whirlpools and even underground springs. look how fun, from this fountain, the campaign of a

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abc news reporter gio ben tells us about the efforts today. >> this morning communities are trying to recover under the wake of the deadliest u.s. welfare in a century. overnight the grim reality from officials. at least 93 lives lost since t devastating in front of broker tuesday. >> two days ago the number was smaller and it will continue to rise. >> the fire damaged more than 2200 structures and burned more than 2100 acres. >> the devastation is so complete that you see metal twisted in ways you cannot imagine. you see nothing structures left. >> the agency deploying more than 150 workers to the island to assist in recovery. across mali people sharing harrowing tales of survival. annalise cochran was able to escape the fire by jumping into the ocean, telling me she was clinging to a wall for more than seven hours. >> out to to survive? >> i've climbed over the seawall into the ocean and when the fire was happening and the cars were exploded we would duck into the water and put our mouth as close to the surface us we could so we could breathe. >> now anger at the local government. r

i sit on board of gio group and we have one of the most diverse boards, the most diverse employee programstire world and we hire folks of all shapes, sizes and colors but still you have to face all of these questions and i don't think it's right. i think at some point in our nation the sec as well as all the other government bodies need to come together and start having people actually focus on uniting our country versus dividing it, making these hr departments look at skin color, look at gender and all these other things that just makes no sense. i think, you know, we're paying a price in our hiring and if you look across at our economy, i think it's -- companies are struggling and people are in positions that they don't deserve to be in. so i think we need to really reevaluate that and ask those folks running for president and office coming up in 2024 to be bold enough to actually live out what dr. martin luther king told us all and that's the content of our character. stuart: jack brewer, not afraid to say what he thinks. thank you very much, jack. good to see you on the show and i know

from politics to gio politics to the women's world cup, of course.et's get started with five things to know for this tuesday, august 1st. today could be charging decision day for former president donald trump and the federal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. that grand jury will meet just hours from now. >>> and new this morning, donald trump's political action committee is almost out of cash. it began last year with more than $100 million. now it has less than $4 million after paying all those lawyers. >>> and also new this morning, the former president and joe biden statistically tied in a new "new york times" see yen that poll the new 2020 rematch has them both at 40. >>> suspected gilgo beach serial killer expected in court this morning. it marks his first hearing since he initially pleaded not guilty in the murders of three women in 2010. >>> and it was the most stressful two hours of my life. just moments ago, the u.s. hanging on at the women's world cup. it was another tie, this time 0-0 with portugal. afterward, one of

. >> this is 100 with 1000 people this is not gio with a limited number of people in a limited number of total rangers working on the beaches and the way the technology was a way they could multiply the power of their efforts because they do not have 1000 people. they create a small turtle egg and they actually pointed it in a three with a 3d printer and made it feel like a turtle eggs what was sort of soft. unable to tracker inside that could be tracked by a cell phone. so the purposes that you could see it go from one place to another. so they actually had a woman who was getting a ph.d.. testing costa rica. and they put these internal clutches her name is helen veasey i talk about her. she was putting all these eggs and and there were no blocks. finally on the last night she said she almost did not go out. one of the eggs was poached. and she's achieved felt funny about that pushing the turtle act allowed her to test the technology and what they found was that the eggplant all the way across costa rica and was sold in the back alley of the grocery store and that was taken out into

gio benitez joins us now from new york to tell us what's coming up at seven on good morning america. >> good morning to you. >> so good to see you on this sunday morning. coming up here on gma, breaking this morning, three marines killed and 20 injured in an aircraft crash during a multi-nation training exercise over in australia. the recovery efforts underway. what we're learning coming up. plus, a community in mourning and demanding answers after a racially motivated shooting left three dead in jacksonville, florida. what authorities are saying right now as the city's sheriff joins us here this morning. and big movie screen savings today where to check out which theaters are often $4 ticket deals for national cinema day. that is all ahead. more right here on gma. >> now to a local dance troupe and the premiere of their new production. they've set out to prove no matter what you do, lifelong dreams can always be in the spotlight. abc seven news reporter gloria rodriguez tells us about the don't quit your day job dance company. >> i could see some of these cabinet level members durin

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. >> gio: good morning, america. southern wildfires, flames fanned by whipping winds, forcing evacuations in louisiana as 90 million americans in 20 states are on alert for

i'm gioing to answer that question yes. judge running a really tight courtroom. it's going to be incumbent on the prosecutors to ensure that discovery is given to the president fully and fairly. maybe more quickly than ordinarily. so i think the court process is going to go on fast forward with an effort sis on fairness and justice. >> we're showing live pictures of the trump motorcade getting closer to his country club in new jersey. the drive from the newark airport. >> i have to note the venue question is going to be a real question and you know, laura's right. a venue of course is normally the place in which the crime was committed. and that's why the mar-a-lago matter was charged over in florida. this is properly in the district of columbia. they're going to be questions about whether the president can get a trial here fairly because d.c. voters voted overwhelmingly for president biden. i'm one who believes the d.c. voters who voted against president trump can be fair. in a court of law and there are rigorous processes