>> terry moran, live at the supreme court. thank you. >>> next, to the weather country tonight. sides o dr ar from california toeshoeirortion along the i-5 inesndido. off the east coast tonight, we're watching hurricane humberto. now a full-on hurricane, trig r triggering rip currents right along the coast. let's go to ginger zee, in california tonight. ginger? >> reporter: it's only breezy here, but it is downright windy to our east. and that's where the fire danger is highest. much of the state of nevada in an extreme fire danger, into utah. then we've got the tropics. we've got to watch out for a couple of areas. 20% shot for the gulf of mexico to get something. even if it doesn't become a tropical cyclone, you have ten-plus inches possible for the coast of texas. hurricane humberto could become a major hurricane. big surf for buermudurr bermuda. five to seven foot waves, north carolina to florida. david? >> ginger, thank you. >>> tonight here in new york city, we have learned that the manhattan d.a. s b peoned o pss personal and business tax retuhe investigation of hush mona

>> terry moran leading us off tonight from the white house. terry, thank you. >>> we're going to turn now to the alarming news on vaping tonight, right here in the houston area, a high school student collapsing after vaping and was rushed to the hospital. and now, a sixth person has died linked to e-cigarettes. that patient in their 50s. here's abc's adrienne bankert now. >> reporter: tonight, new alarm about the risks of vaping, after an emergency at this houston-area high school. officials say a student suddenly sickened after vaping. >> the girl handed it to him. he hit it and passed out. and he would not wake up. so, the ambulance had to come out and get him out on a stretcher. >> reporter: it's just the latest in a growing number of cases around the country, doctors are reporting serious lung illnesses. more than 450 patients and counting, and tonight, a sixth death linked to vaping. that person in kansas, over 50 years old with underlying health problems whose symptoms worsened rapidly. most of the cases are linked to vaping thc products,

>> terry moran at the white house. terry, thank you. >>> and one more note on this tonight, because there is a mystery now. who in the white house was alarmed by this, who spoke to the whistle-blower? what did william barr know, if anything, at the justice department? and now tonight, this reaches the state department, too, because in the whistle-blower's report, he writes of multiple u.s. officials who were deeply concerned by what the president's personal attorney, rudy giuliani, was doing. the whistle-blower says giuliani was circumventing the national security decision-making process to engage with ukrainian officials to relay messages back and forth between kiev and president trump. so, i want to bring in abc's martha raddatz, because martha, secretary of state mike pompeo was asked today, did the state department ever instruct rudy giuliani on what to do, and if secretary pompeo is certain there were not any improprieties in the state department? >> to my knowledge, each of the actions that were undertaken by the

>> terry moran, live at the supreme court. thank you. >>> next, to the weather threats on both sides of the country tonight. dry, gusty winds fueling wildfires in the west. red flag warnings from california to utah. the horseshoe fire forcing evacuations near riverside, california. and another fire popping up along the i-5 in escondido. while off the east coast tonight, we're watching hurricane humberto. now a full-on hurricane, triggering rip currents right along the coast. let's get to chief meteorologist ginger zee tonight, she's in california, tracking both stories for us. ginger? >> reporter: it's only breezy here, but it is downright windy to our east. and that's where the fire danger is highest. much of the state of nevada in hour.treme fire danger, into 0 e then we've got the tropics. we've got to watch out for a couple of areas. 20% shot for the gulf of mexico tropical cyclone, you have ten-plus inches possible for the coast of texas. hurricane humberto could become a major hurricane in the next 48 hours. heavy rain,

>> terry moran, thank you. >>> and one more note on this tonight, because there is a mystery now. who in the white house was alarmed by this, who spoke to the whistle-blower? what did william barr know, if anything, at the justice department? and now tonight, this reaches the state department, too. because in the whistle-blower's report, he writes of milt pl u.s. officials who were deeply concerned by what the preside president's personal attorney, rudy giuliani, was doing. he was circumventing the national security process to engage with ukrainian officials. so, i want to bring in martha raddatz, because martha, secretary of state mike pompeo was asked today, did the state department instruct rudy giuliani on what to do, and is pompeo certain there were not any inproprieties in the state department? >> each of the actions that were undertaken by state department officials was entirely appropriate. >> martha, the secretary said he hadn't fully real the whistle-blower's report, it's now public, we all have it, but he knows of nothing done wrong at the state department? >> reporter:

so, let's bring in abc's terry moran, live in washington. he covered the last impeachment involved bill clinton, and terry, still so many unknowns here, but take us through this. what happens next? >> reporter: well, david, this is an historic day, no doubt about it. a momentous step. but we're a long way from any kind of vote to impeach president trump or remove him from office. here's how it will go down. facts and evidence. speaker pelosi has instructed the six committees that are already investigating president trump to, quote, proceed under that umbrella of an impeachment inquiry. depending on the facts and evidence they develop, articles of impeachment could be drafted then. on bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors, that sort of thing. and then perhaps voted on. as i say, we're a long way from that. this is a momentum step, but it's clear that nancy pelosi would not have taken it were she not prepared to take that step. she knows one thing, any impeachment requires the support of the american public in a very big way, and she's procee

terry moran, abc news, the white house. >> our thanks to terry. >>> and the president's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, is denying any wrongdoing. he told "the atlantic" magazine, quote, it is impossible that the whistle-blower is a hero and i'm not. and i will be the hero. these morons when this is over, i will be the hero. on fox he said it was the state department that asked him to investigate corruption in ukraine. >> they called me. i didn't call them. they asked me if i would take a call from them and meet with them, and i did, and i reported it back to them, and the conversation was completely normal and there was no bribery. there was no extortion. nothing like what biden did. i didn't do that. the president -- >> there's been no evidence of any wrongdoing by the bidens. as to whether rudy giuliani will testify to congress, he told nbc, quote, i don't go in kangaroo courts. >>> a new poll finds americans are split on the impeachment investigation. 49% approve of the inquiry but 46% oppose it including many independent voters. the poll was conducted wednesday before the whistle-b

terry moran has been following the action. >> the debate's done, let the spinning begin. after the debate it was substantive. it was a well-moderated debate, shout out to our colleagues there. it probably won't move the needle much in the polls, but after a campaign dominated by progressive voices, tonight the centrists struck back. ten candidates came out tonight. >> that's what i want to do for you. >> as president. >> as president. >> as president of the united states. >> the stakes so high, each determined to make their case for why they should be at the top of the democratic ticket. >> i've actually never met anybody who likes their health insurance company. >> we should get moving. there's enormous, enormous opportunities once we get rid of donald trump. >> we must and will defeat trump, the most dangerous president in the history of this country. >> but only one will get there. and minutes later, it was game on. julian castro in the middle of a health care discussion, taking a veiled swipe at joe biden, going there on the question of biden's age. >> are you forgett

the president announced in a tweet that he fired bolton, but as abc's terry moran reports, bolton hadnt of how they parted ways. >> reporter: in a curt tweet, president trump declared he was tting rid of his third national security adviser. i informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house. i disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the administration, and therefore i asked john for his resignation which was given to me this morning. but bolton was not going to go quietly, firing off his own tweet minutes later, contradicting the president. i offered to resign last night, and president trump said, let's talk about it tomorrow. and as the news broke, bolton reached out to fox news in realtime. >> john bolton just texted me. >> oh. >> just now, he's watching. >> can you read it? >> yeah. he said, let's be clear, i resigned. >> reporter: bolton also told abc's jon karl the president's story was flatly wrong, he never asked for me to resign, directly or indirectly. the sudden turn of events was a long time coming. bolton i

meanwhile, abc's terry moran explains an impeachment inquiry is only the beginning of a long process, which does not mean the house will charge the president. >> here's how it will go down. facts and evidence, speaker pelosi has instructed the six committees that are already investigating president trump to, quote, proceed under that umbrella of an impeachment inquiry. depending on the facts in evidence they develop, articles of impeachment could be drafted then. >> reporter: so what's next? well, the white house says it will release a transcript of that phone call between president trump and the president of ukraine. the white house says the transcript will be unredacted but critics are wondering if they'll actually get to see the full conversation, janai a ines, thank you. we know the politics of impeachment are tricky. back in the late '90s president clinton emerged from the impeachment process more popular. >> but it was republicans who then won the white house in 2000. most of the democrats now running for president support this impeachment investigation but not all of them. cong

abc's terry moran has the details. >> reporter: ten candidates came out.the democratic ticket. >> i've actually never met anybody who likes their health insurance company. >> we're walking around our heads down like woe is me. >> we must and will defeat trump. >> reporter: but only one will get there, and minutes later, it was game on. julian castro in the middle of a health care discussion taking a veiled swipe at joe biden, going there on the question of biden's age. >> are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago? are you forgetting already what you said just two minutes ago? >> reporter: fair comment? cheap shot? biden brushed castro off. >> i'm fulfilling the legacy of barack obama, and you're not. >> that will be a surprise to him. >> reporter: the candidates lined up by the strength of their polls, the middle the three front-runners, and they went after each other on a crucial subject, how to expand health care. >> make sure everybody gets covered by health care at the lowest possible cost. >> reporter: biden defending obamacare against the medi

we want to bring in terry moran who also worked alongside cokie for so many years. our thoughts on this sad day. >> well, amy, she was a national treasure. cokie roberts, one of the great political journalists, and we experience that every day, that brilliant intelligence. as george pointed out, she brought that remarkable personal and family history. her dad was majority leader of the house of representatives. she knew everybody in washington for decades. as robin pointed out in the piece, that laugh, she brought a kind of sheer joy at the human comedy of american politics. she never lost a sense of fun about it all while never yielding to any kind of cynicism. she was an idealist, a fierce anticipa patriot. i also want to mention her faith. she was a devout catholic and those of us who worked with her on some of those stories know how important her faith was to her, how much she lived it. she was somebody who walked the walk of the gospels. one of the things you've heard a lot is how kind she was to everyone. i went through a hard time in my own life, in my own fai

the president calling them the three stooges, george. >> terry moran, thanks very much.s we said, abc's debate coming up thursday night in houston. ten candidates on the stage. first time a single night for one debate. our koj begins at 8:00 eastern. >> you'll be heading there soon. >> heading down tomorrow. >>> now to the desperate situation in the bahamas, the death toll from hurricane dorian is rising. at least 45 people killed, hundreds still missing. this, as supplies slowly arrive for the survivors of the most powerful hurricane to ever hit the island. marcus moore is back in marsh harbour with the very latest. good morning, marcus. >> reporter: robin, good morning. what we see here is absolutely heartbreaking. homes are gone. brick and concrete buildings have been demolished. and then we see this, so many boats left resting on the shore. this one carrying a couple of cars. it is also damaged. and from our drone camera, you get a sense of the scale of this catastrophe. the damage stretches for miles along this island that took a direct hit. it's almost as if every

our senior national correspondent terry moran with all of this. orning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, robin. justice brett kavanaugh was confirmed last year to the supreme court by the narrowest margin in the senate in 130 years in part because of those allegations of sexual misconduct made by former classmates at yale university. now, he's on the court. another allegation has arisen and the white house is girding for battle. it's been a year since that heated confirmation hearing for justice brett kavanaugh but this morning he's facing a newly reported allegation from his college days. according to "the new york times," max stier, his former yale classmate told senators and the fbi, that he saw mr. kavanaugh with his pants down at a drunken dorm party where friends pushed his genitals onto a female student. president trump rushing to kavanaugh's defense this weekend tweeting that kavanaugh is an innocent man and suggesting kavanaugh start suing people for libel. the new allegation comes from a book out this week. kavanaugh's defenders says the

terry moran is back with the latest on that. rry. >> reporter: george, if it seems like you have seen this movie in washington before, of course, you have. now with congress coming back, as you say, there may be an opportunity, and white house aides say the president does want to get something done. the question is, what? president trump is back in washington and he's saying this latest attack hasn't affected his approach to combating gun violence. >> this really hasn't changed anything. we're doing a package and we'll see what it all -- how it comes about. >> reporter: the details of that package are still unclear after more than 50 americans were killed in mass shootings in the month of august alone. trump claims legislative action is already in the works between the white house and congress. >> we're looking at a lot of different things. we're looking at a lot of different bills, ideas, concepts. >> reporter: but the president has been sending mixed messages in the wake of the dayton and el paso shootings. he sounded supportiv

. >> terry moran, the republicans, whether or not they fall in line behind the president, is so key. of course it was during richard nixon's time that he was only forced to resign when republicans broke. >> this whistle-blower complain because these are checkable facts. witnesses identified, dates, places, names, a trail leading to the president of the united states and undermining his own defense. he says it's no big deal. if it's no big deal, why did his aides shift the record of this call from the normal computer system to a code worded system, according to the whistle-blower's complaint, simply to protect the president politically. they knew he had done something wrong and the whistle-blower also says it wasn't the first time that a call with a foreign leader had been shifted from the normal place it was stored to a more secret place. >> we're seeing chairman schiff -- thank you, terry. we're seeing chairman schiff come and take his seat, admiral maguire also in place. jon, as we're watching this, it does raise other possible questions which we were talking about yesterday. the p

. >> terry moran, you have a few minutes to read this complaint as well. your thoughts?orter: well, it's a remarkable document and it is a road map. it's a road map for house investigators and potentially for senate prosecutors in a potential impeachment and it goes backwards afternoon forwards. that's two things that i see right away that investigators would be interested in. first witnesses. this whistle-blower identifies people by name and position who were listening in to this phone call who knew about it and then who participated after the phone call in basically deep sixing it. locking it down. putting it on a separate computer system to try essentially to cover it up. that is evidence at the very least of officials knew it was problematic if not actual consciousness of the president's guilt that he had done something very wrong. >> let me stop you before you get to your second point. so many of the witnesses are unnamed white house officials which sets up again a potential clash between congress and the white house if the white house intends to declare executive p

abc's terry moran takes a look at his base. >> reporter: if the democrats in congress who have begunent inquiry begin to bring evidence that can bolster their argument about what the transcript means. the president is arguing what you see in that transcript isn't what's really happening. he's saying that he is arguing -- advocating for the united states' interests, his personal political interest. but if the democrats in these hearings can bring out witnesses who were part of this process to put it in a different context, it's a question as to how well this very familiar playbook that he is playing here will work with his base and with voters. >> all right. and after two years of the russia investigation democrats are also faced with the added burden of having to make their case to a scandal-weary public. >> we'll have much more on the whistle-blower controversy and the impeachment investigation in our next half hour. >>> also making news this morning another death is being blamed on the triple e virus. officials in massachusetts say a patient there passed away after contracting the

abc's terry moran tells us what happens next. >> reporter: this is a historic day.from any kind of vote to impeach president trump or remove him from office. here's how it will go down. facts and evidence. speaker pelosi has instructed the six committees that are already investigating president trump to quote proceed under that umbrella of an impeachment inquiry. depending on the facts and evidence they develop, articles of impeachment could be drafted then on bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors, that sort of thing, then voted on. we're a long way from that. it's a big step. it's clear nancy pelosi would not have taken it were she not prepared to take that step. she does know one thing, however, any impeachment requires the support of the american public in a very big way, and she's proceeding cautiously because of that. >> our thanks to terry there. >>> we will have more from washington in our next half hour, but another big story we're following this morning is the tropics. >> there are four active systems right now but tropical storm karen poses the greatest

terry moran has more on all this. good morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, robin. well, prime minister justin trudeau is a proud progressive. he's emphasized inclusiveness and tolerance as the prime minister of canada, but now he's just the latest politician caught up in an episode from years ago where he darkened his skin for fun, blackface, and he's in a tight election. the controversy erupted overnight forcing justin trudeau to speak out and try to explain taking questions on board his campaign plane. >> in 2001 when i was a teacher i was in vancouver. i attended an end of the year gala where the theme was arabian nights and i dressed up in aladdin costume and put makeup on. i shouldn't have done that. i should have known better but i didn't and i'm really sorry. >> reporter: it was "time" magazine that uncovered the 18-year-old photo from a yearbook at west point gray academy in vancouver where trudeau was teaching when he was 29 years old. >> i take responsibility for my decision to do that. i shouldn't have done it. i should have known better. it was somethin

our senior national correspondent terry moran is at the white house with more on this and, terry, boyat the president said in that room stunned even people in there. >> reporter: it did, cecilia. some people gasped. some people laughed. the president is venting his frustration and anger behind the scenes in front of cameras, he can't believe he's got to deal with another impeachment threat. so the white house is gearing up and they are staffing up for this long legal and political challenge ahead. >> we're in a war. these people are sick. they're sick. >> reporter: this morning a new video obtained by bloomberg news shows president trump trashing the whistle-blower sources during a closed-door meeting with the staff of the u.s. mission to the u.n. >> i want to know who's the person who gave the whistle-blower, who's the person who gave the whistle-blower the information? because that's close to a spy. >> reporter: at one point trump even seems to suggest he wishes he could resort to capital punishment. >> you know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart, right, with spie

our national correspondent terry moran is at the white house, and terry, the president insists he fired bolton. bolton says he resigned. >> reporter: that's right, george, good morning. it's messy, that's for sure. it was sudden but not surprising. this was a long time coming. john bolton and president trump have been disagreeing for months behind the scenes on the president's approaches, peace overtures to north korea, to iran, to afghanistan, and now as you say they're going at it in public. they can't even agree on how it all ended. the white house this morning is scrambling to fill yet another big vacancy after president trump abruptly announced he was getting rid of his third national security adviser, john bolton. the president tweeting, i asked john for his resignation. but bolton saying that's not how it happened telling abc news, he never asked me to resign directly or indirectly. bolton also tweeting, i offered to resign last night, and president trump said, let's talk about it tomorrow. bolton's reputation as a hawk and advocate of using u.s. military power around the world p

i want to bring in terry moran. i want to put that letter up on the screen. he says the other thing there's a lot of talk about biden's son that biden stopped the prosecution. a lot of people want to find out about that. whatever you can do with the attorney general could be great. biden went around claiming he stopped the prosecution. whatever you can do with the attorney general. >> those sentences will be the battle ground for the coming impeachment. it's fair to say the democrats will move forward on the basis of this alone. there's more to be found out as they develop the facts in committee hearings. the question will be before the country are those sentences, are the president's actions in the nagt interest or in his own personal political interest. he'll argue corruption is a huge problem in ukraine. it's part of the problem with giving money to ukraine. it ends up in the wrong hands. president obama was aware of that. he will argue that vice president biden's son hunter who is involved in a company that was involved in corruption is of national intere

moran. members of the fort monroe authority board. national superintendent terry graham.he national parks service. kathy spangler, nancy rodriguez and the team from american evolution. i would also like to thank the 2019 commemorative commission for all the hard work they've done around these events in our own city. we are here today for a commemoration. and a reckoning. today is a time to reckon with the fact that 400 years ago, enslaved africans arrived for the first time on virginia's shores. like you and me, they had lives and families. lives and families they would never see again. just up the river, in jamestown, a few weeks earlier, white, landowning men had come together to establish a system of representative government. but that system did not represent all of the people who arrived here at old fort color. people whose skin looked different than mine. that government did not represent them during 246 years of slavery. it did not represent them through nearly 100 years of reconstruction and jim crow terror and discrimination. and in many ways, it struggles to rep