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Object the pulse, so we begin with the 911 operator in Tennessee who over the phone helped the woman deliver a baby.

She was calm home, cool, and collected.

That's okay. I've got you. We're gonna do this together. Okay? You're doing fine.

Is she laying down a room? Everybody needs to stop growing. Take a deep breath for me. Okay? Okay.

The baby is out.

Kayla, great Resessor Training kicked in, and she coached the expectant mom and by Sanders through delivering a healthy baby boy. The call lasted 8 minutes. Before the ambulance arrived.

I think my favorite part about this whole situation was there was also another younger child in the room. Maybe between the ages of 7 and 10 years old, but she started talking to the baby welcoming you welcoming him to the world. And that absolutely just melted my heart

Oh, the family is celebrating their joy in private. Next, Robert F Kennedy Junior will not be charged for dumping a dead bear in Central Park as prank 10 years ago.

The independent presidential candidate could have been fined $250 for a legal disposal of the bear, but the staff limitations expired, the New Yorker publishing this photo.

Yeah. The Kennedy says he found the cup on the side of the road after it was hit by another driver. He joked He said, maybe that's where he got his brain worm. A reference to the parasite. He said, died in his brain.

Next. And, oh my gosh. Moment inside a new Hampshire barn.

Friends and contractors restoring Tony Pappas' home found 52 baseball cards from the 1930s 40s in the walls of the barn, including Ted Williams' rookie card. They belong to a late husband and are worth tens of 1000 of dollars. Finally, an Olympic sized photo bomb.

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Checking more top stories now. Tropical storm Debbie is dumping life threatening on parts of Georgia and South Carolina. A curfew wasn't effect overnight in Savannah. Debbie had dumped 30 inches of rain in some areas.

Israel is bracing for Iran or its prop sees to strike at any moment in retaliation for the assassination of a top Hamas leader in Tehran last week as the US scramble Minimize the blow. Several American personnel were injured in a rocket attack in Iraq.

Nearly 400 arrests have been reported after in anti immigrant riots in the UK. The mayhem was sparked by false claims that the suspect in a dance class stabbing, which left 3 children dead was an asylum seeker.

X is on the move. Elon Musk is reportedly shutting down the company's San Francisco office, which served as quarter since 2012 when it was still Twitter. He recently said he wanted to move the main office to Texas.

Today's weather, other than Debbie's flood threat, strong thunderstorms in the shortheast, severe storms in Ohio and Michigan and more heat alerts in the west.

And finally, the technology that could decode dog parks.

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Who? In 2009, the movie up showed us an animated dream where technology could help us finally interpret what dogs are trying to tell us.

We've been essentially training neural network models.

Well, apparently, it only took 15 years for our reality to start matching up with science fiction.

Pork. Cool.

Now researchers at the University of Michigan, like Professor Arada Bhalcha here are starting to use intelligence to translate a bark.

Can we tell just from the sound they make? What is the situation they are in?

Their team started by uploading human speech to build their, quote, unquote, neural network and then using recorded situational vocalizations for about 70 dogs working with a team in Mexico. So far, Arana says their program has succeeded the most consistently with interpreting the breed of a dog and if it's feeling either playful or angry. On the other hand, interpreting a dog's age, and definitely its gender has proven to be a little more challenging.

Maybe because we didn't have enough data. Oh, no.

Well, let's be real. Sometimes the concept of AI developing can seem terrifying. So, let ask what you're probably wondering. How do you see this technology being helpful for people?

If we single benefit to humans, would be in the sense of having now access to these other forms of intelligence, like, for dogs, what they can learn to smell,

Rada says with more data and nuance, maybe this program could help us interpret reports from canine units or from dogs who can reportedly detect cancer. Not to mention, perhaps we could also better diagnose dogs when we take them to the vet.

In the future, I think there could be even more that we could like.

We're still probably years away from a lot of that, but she says soon they may need to crowdsource to receive audio clips from our dogs, guys.

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the catastrophic flooding risk in the south, the historic threat from the remnants of hurricane Debbie up to 30 inches of rain and the in-depth poll.

American soldiers coming under attack in Iraq, the rocket strike targeting a military base with much of the Middle East on edge, expecting an attack by Iran on Israel at any moment.

Looking for a rebound. The market movements overnight after the Dow plunge more than a 1000 points. What's fueling the concerns and the impact on the presidential race? Plus, what's next for Google after a judge the company is an illegal monopoly.

New video as a brushfire consumes homes in Southern California.

And that 1 went operator helps a woman deliver a baby.

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Plus, the Super Bowl winning kicker kicking up controversy with his remarks about women scores a record payday.

And from this moment of sportsmanship courtesy of the US gymnastics stars, to at the moment, a whale photo bombed the surfing competition. The biggest moments heading in today, 11 of the Paris Olympics.

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Good Tuesday morning, everyone. I'm Andrew Denver.

Good morning to you. I'm Rhiannon Ali. We begin with the flood emergency in the southeast.

The remnants of hurricane Debbie already a deadly storm could now make him history dumping more than 2 feet of rain.

A days long weather threat is unfolding right now for millions of people in the southeast. What's left of Hurricane Debbie is dumping historic amounts of rain up to 30 inches possible in some areas. The storm is expected to crawl across South Georgia and stall off South Carolina. Charleston could get more than 20 inches of rain.

It may be that this is the most moral we've seen, for a long time. Maybe. We don't know. So stay alert. Stay tuned and stay safe.

South of Charles in a reported tornado overnight damaging property in Adesto Beach. At Georgia, the mayor of Savannah issued a curfew warning the deluge could mean, quote, obliteration for parts of the city.

This type of rain hovering over us, coming with the intensity that they tell us that it's coming, it's gonna catch a whole lot of people by surprise.

Debbie made landfall along the Gulf Coast of Florida as

a category 1 hurricane, leaving streets underwater and homes without power.

There's Tampa Bay. More than

a foot of rain fell in the Sarasota area. Authorities rescuing hundreds of people from flooded neighborhoods.

You can see members of the Florida National Guard in high water rescue vehicles going into neighborhoods like this that are flooded to rescue homeowners

Debbie is blamed for at least 4 deaths in Florida, including the driver of this truck near Tampa. Police say he lost control of his tractor trailer, the truck's cab then plunging into the water below. Meanwhile, 1 voter is telling his survival story.

It's a washing machine that's squeezed what it is in the gulf.

Nathan Thomas and his friend were rescued off Florida's Gulf Coast in 20 foot waves. He says the storm came quicker than expected and they lost the sail on their sailboat.

I need that. If the coast guard didn't get us, we probably had less than a 50% chance of surviving.

The storm impacts the northeast later this week. We'll check the forecast in just a few moments.

Also developing right now concerns that Iran could launch an attack Against Israel today, a revenge attack for killing a Hamas official. Meanwhile, in a separate development, Americans came under attack in Iraq multiple injuries are reported. ABC's Christian Cordero has the latest on this. Christian, good morning.

Rhiannon, good morning. The Pentagon says several US personnel were injured in the attack at a rock. Sources say 2 rockets were fired at a military base and fell inside the base. The defense department reportedly blamed Iranian militants for the attack. In the meantime, Iran's supreme leader has vowed revenge for last week's assassination of a top Hamas leader in Tehran US officials feared, and its hack on Israel could be imminent.

President Biden and vice president Harris were briefed in the White House situation room yesterday, The website Axios reports the national security team told the president it's still unclear when Iran may launch a revenge attack. The foreign minister of Jordan made a rare visit to Tehran hoping to deescalate the situation. It's the first visit by a senior Jordanian official to Iran in more than 20 years. Andrew?

Christian, thank you. Vice president Kamala Harris is announcing her running mate today in advance of a rally in Philadelphia tonight. Sources say it could be either Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania or Governor Tim Walls of Minnesota Shapiro. Did not respond to shouted questions last night as he and his wife walked their dog.

Now to the worries on Wall Street, stock futures were up overnight And there's a sigh of relief overseas today as well after the Dow plunged more than a 1000 points yesterday. Overnight encouraging news. Stocks in Asia trading higher. The big rebound coming after the worst day on Wall Street in nearly 2 years. Investors with a long list of concerns including high interest rates, a disappointing jobs report, intentions in the Middle East.

All of these things created a perfect storm. And you had everybody just wanting to sell everything they can.

The so called Magnificent 7, a cohort of tech stocks, including Apple and Google, having a not so magnificent day losing more than $650,000,000,000 in value, but experts say don't panic.

The data that we've seen so far to us at least is more suggestive of, an economic growth slowdown during the balance of the year. Rather than an outright recession.

Economic Anxiety putting the Federal Reserve in the spotlight. Some argue Fed officials have waited too long to slash interest rates. Some analysts now predicting the Fed will cut rates by half a point before the end of this year. The former president trump pointing fingers elsewhere.

If Harris wins this election, you will quickly have a Kamala economic crash. You're gonna have a crash.

Trump using the worries on Wall Street to attack vice president Kamala Harris and the Democrats' economic policies back in February when the markets were up, Trump took credit for the economy.

The Biden team can say, well, if things are so bad, how could the stock markets on a roll?

Because they think I'm gonna be elected.

That you think the stock market's rally because people think you're good. Yeah.

A new poll finds 45 percent of voters say they'd be financially better off if Trump wins the November election as opposed to be not the election.

Google says it will appeal a federal judges ruling that the company is an illegal monopoly. The ruling points to 1,000,000,000 of dollar Google spends on deals to install its search engine as a default on phones and other devices. The judge sided with the justice department's argument that the search giant block competition.

It's a landmark case that also could impact other big tech companies facing similar suits. That judge has now ruled that Google did maintain a monopoly over its search business. The judge will now decide whether to break up parts of Google or how the company operates as part of its business.

A hearing in the case is expected next month.

A burst fire raced through a neighborhood in San Bernardino, California showing at least half a dozen homes. The area was evacuated as 200 firefighters battled the flames. 1 person was briefly detained as investigators look into the cause.

Now to the Olympics, the US Centers competition today tied with China for gold medals. There was some disappointment, but also true sportsmanship for team USA in gymnastics.

Double disaster for team USA after Simone Biles and SUNi Lee both fell on the balance beam, the tumbles costing the gymnasts their shot at the podium.

Obviously, I'm a little bit disappointed just because that's not how I wanted to end my Olympics. But I'm super proud of how I was able to kinda overcome everything.

Lee, who battled through multiple kidney infections to make it to the games, says she won't let 1 misstep overshadow the team's redemption tour.

I'm so proud that I was able to overcome all of the challenges that I was put through.

But those falls weren't the only upset of the day. Byle's heavily favored

on the floor exercise narrowly missed out on the gold, stepping out of bounds twice during her routine. The mistakes cost her 6 10ths of a point, allowing Brazilian Rebecca Andrade to slide into first.

Wasn't my best performances, but at the end of the day, whoever meddled meddled.

Jordan Childs claimed 3rd place after her coach challenged her original score. The judges awarding an extra tenth of a point earning her the bronze. Then a moment of true sportsmanship, both childs and vials bowing to Andre during the medal ceremony.

It was just the thing to do competing and then walking away with 4 medals. I'm not mad about it. I'm I'm pretty proud of myself, and it's always so exciting. To compete.

In other news, the triathlon mixed relay went on as planned despite international concern over water quality. Team USA taking silver in a head to head sprint to the finish against Germany. It comes as team USA makes history once again in fencing. Lee Kiefer and Lauren Scruggs earning gold in the team competition the first win ever for the US in the event.

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Scruggs, who is America's first black woman to metal Ready. Best. Celebrated her win by giving Flava Flav a private lesson.

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All eyes are now on track and field. Sprinter Noah Liles competes in the 200 in the finals are Thursday.

And it's time now for your Tuesday weather.

Good morning. We're very, very concerned about the flooding rain from tropical storm Debbie This onshore wind is also gonna be a a big storm surge producer shoving ocean water inland sending that up through parts of the lower portions of some rivers as well. And when you throw in an additional 18 to 24 inches of rain, the low country of South Carolina. That is a huge problem. It will not be until the very end of the week when the upper level wins finally scoop this up and take it up the coast.

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A jewelry heist near Chicago, burglars cut through the walls of 3 businesses at a mall to break into a jewelry store in the middle of the night. They covered a surveillance camera and wiped the self clean, making off with 1 and a half $1,000,000 in jewels.

We are learning more about the fatal shooting of Illinois mother Sonia Massey at the hands of a sheriff's deputy. A report from the County Sheriff's Office reveals former deputy Sean Grayson says He thought Massey was going to kill him when she said she rebuked him in the name of Jesus while holding a pot of boiling water. Gracen has pleaded not guilty to murder.

Now to a pro football and a record pay day for a player famous for stirring debate off the field with his comments about women. Here's ABC's Andrea Fuji.

This morning, Kansas City chief's kicker, Harrison Butler, has made history just months after coming under fire for polarizing comments.

That is now 9 consecutive makes from outside 50 for fucker.

The team and its veteran kicker who helped propel the Chiefs to Super Bowl champions have reached a deal on a 4 year contract extension worth nearly $26,000,000, the largest contract ever for an NFL kicker, but cur made waves back in May with his commencement speech at a Catholic school in Kansas addressing the female graduates

I think it is you, the women who have had the most diabolical lives told to you, how many of you are sitting here now about to cross this stage and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you are going to get in your career. Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are pride that has an entire month dedicated to it, but the true god centered pride.

The crowd giving Butker a standing ovation Many critics called for the Chiefs to release him, but Patrick Mahomes and coach Andy Reid quickly defended Booker's right to his opinions. But Cur isn't the only chief making headlines, wide receiver Rishi Rice reportedly got into a scuffle, a training camp yesterday, throwing the ball at a linebacker. He's facing criminal charges after he and a former college teammate were involved in this multi vehicle hit and run crash in Dallas in March. As for Harrison Budkirk, his new average annual salary will be nearly 6 and a half $1,000,000. Andrew Rhiannon.

Oh, thanks, Andrew. Fuji there. Coming up, the RFK Junior bear cub story gets even more bizarre.

But first, a small town mayor in the south is locked out of town for years over alleged racism how he's finally taking office.

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They were saying he was a murderer, and there was just no possible way.

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Everything felt right. All of a sudden, I found this hidden folder I opened it. I don't think I can say it. I'm sorry.

It's shocking. My stomach just dropped.

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We are back now with a tornado in Buffalo, New York. PAC winds of 90 miles per hour, damaging buildings, and knocking down power lines. New York has seen a record number of tornadoes this year.

So Tom Hanks is among the victims of a burglary ring targeting high end homes in Southern California. Investigators say a guest house on his property was targeted Now neither Hank nor his wife were there at the time, more than a dozen break ins have been reported in that area recently.

We turned out to the deep south on what's being called a small town coupe now being settled. This morning, the first black mayor of a small town in Alabama finally has the key to town hall.

I'm very grateful for, you know, just to get it, get inside or sit around and get the keys and being able to do DVDs are made up.

The mayor of newborn, Patrick Braxton, now allowed to take his rightful place in town hall more than 3 years. After he was elected. His predecessor, along with a group of white officials, refused to hand over the reins, claiming Braxton's victory was invalid.

They did not hold elections for 60 years. They claimed that they held a special election in 2020 after Mayor Braxton decided to run and qualify and won.

It seemed like a snap in faith that you've been elected, you know, due to elected, and someone else got down and never, you know, received that pass, you know, pass everything over to you.

Despite legally winning the election, Braxton was locked out of city hall and denied access to any official accounts.

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Critics call it a small town coup and blatant racism.

Well, I feel that it's all about race. And I don't mind saying that. That's what it's about.

ABC Steve Ossinsami visited Newburn last year.

It's barely a mile long with about 200 people. Even the cemeteries are still racially segregated. This is where white people are bare And over here is the dirt road that takes you to a hill where the descendants of former slaves still bury their debt today.

Mayor Braxton took his fight to the courts. And now after a year's long legal battle, a settlement has been reached. Braxton is free to finally take his seat He says he just wants to bring people together. The former mayor and town council deny any wrongdoing Their proposed settlement will now ensure that the court oversees an official election when Braxton's term is up.

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Got to check the pulse and we begin with the 911 operator in Tennessee who over the phone helped a woman deliver a baby.

She was calm, cool, and collected.

That's okay. I've got you. We're gonna do this together. Okay? You're doing fine.

Is she laying down a road? Everybody needs to stop growing. Take a deep breath for me. Okay? Okay.

The baby is out.

Caitlin Kramer says her training kicked in. And she coached the expectant mom and bystanders through delivering a healthy baby boy. The call lasted 8 minutes before the ambulance arrived.

I think my favorite part about this whole situation was there was also another younger child in the room, maybe between the ages of 7 and 10 years old, but She started talking to the baby welcoming you welcoming him to the world, and that absolutely just melted my heart.

Oh, the family is celebrating their joy in private. Next, Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

$60 for a legal disposal of the bear, but the stash of limitations expired. The New Yorker publishing this photo.

Yeah. The Kennedy says he found the on the side of the road after it was hit by another driver. He jokingly said, maybe that's where he got his brain worm. A reference to the parasite. He said, died in his brain.

Next, an oh my gosh moment inside a New Hampshire barn.

Friends and contractors restoring Tony Pappas' home found 52 baseball cards from the 1930s 40s in the walls of the barn, including Ted Williams's rookie card. They belong to a late husband and are worth tens of 1000 of dollars. Finally, an Olympic sized photo bomb.

This 1, quite a distance from Paris. It comes from Tahiti, side of the surfing session. Look at this. Check out the whale, breaching the water during the wind and semi finals. It managed to keep its distance, and I'm sure servers were thankful for that.

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Checking more top stories now. Tropical storm Debbie is dumping life threatening rain on parts of Georgia and South Carolina A curfew was in effect overnight in Savannah. Debbie could dump 30 inches of rain in some areas.

Israel is bracing for Iran or its proxies to get any moment in retaliation for the assassination of a top Hamas leader in Tehran last week. As the US grapples to minimize the blow, several American personnel were injured in a rocket attack in Iraq.

Nearly 400 arrests have been reported after an anti immigrant riots in the UK the mayhem was sparked by false claims that the suspect in a dance class stabbing, which left 3 children dead, was an asylum seeker.

X is on the move. Elon Musk is reportedly shutting down the company's San Francisco office, which served as headquarters since 2012 when it was still Twitter. He recently said he wanted to move the main office to

Today's weather, other than Debbie's flood threat, strong thunderstorms in the northeast, severe storms in Ohio and Michigan and more heat alerts in the west.

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In 2009, the movie up showed us an animated dream where technology could help us finally interpret what dogs are trying to tell us.

We've been essentially training neural network models.

Well, apparently, it only took 15 years for our reality to start catching up with science fiction. Cool. Now researchers at the University of Michigan, like Professor Radha, here, are starting to use artificial intelligence to translate a Bark.

Can we tell just from the sound they make? What is the situation they are in?

Their teams started by uploading human speech to build their, quote, unquote, neural network and then using recorded situational vocalizations for about 70 dogs working with a team in Mexico. So far, Arana says their program has succeeded the most consistently with interpreting the breed of a dog and if it's feeling either playful or angry. On the other hand, interpreting a dog's age, and definitely its gender has proven to be a little more challenging.

Maybe because we didn't have enough data.

Oh, no.

Well, let's be real. Sometimes the concept of AI developing can seem terrifying. So, let's ask you're probably wondering. How do you see this technology being helpful for people?

If we single benefit to humans would be in the of having now access to these other forms of intelligence, like, for dogs, what they can learn to smell.

Maybe this program could help us interpret reports from canine units or from dogs who can reportedly detect cancer, not to mention perhaps we could also better diagnose dogs when we take them to the vet.

In the future, I think there could be even more that we could like.

We're still probably years away from a lot of that, but she says soon they may need to crowdsource to receive audio clips from our dogs, guys.

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catastrophic flooding risk in the south, the historic threat from the remnants of hurricane Debbie up to 30 inches of rain, and the rising death pull.

American soldiers coming under attack in Iraq, the rocket strike targeting a military base with much of the Middle East on edge, expecting an attack by Iran on Israel at any moment.

Looking for a rebound. The market movements overnight after the Dow plunged more than a thousand points. What's few the concerns and the impact on the presidential race, plus what's next for Google after a judge ruled the company is an illegal monopoly.

New video as a brushfire consumes homes in Southern California.

A 911 operator helps a woman deliver a baby.

Oh, his head is coming out, ma'am. Okay. His head is out. Okay.

The operator now describing what happened after the birth.

Plus, the Super Bowl winning kicker kicking up controversy with his remarks about women scores a record payday.

And from this moment of sportsmanship courtesy the US gymnastics stars to the moment a whale photo bombed the surfing competition. The biggest moments heading today 11 of the Paris Olympics.

From ABC News. This is America this morning.

Good Tuesday morning, everyone. I'm Andrew Denver.

Good morning to you. I'm Rhiannon Ali. We begin with the flood emergency in the South

The remnants of hurricane Debbie already at deadly storm could now make history dumping more than 2 feet of rain.

A days long weather threat unfolding right now for millions of people in the southeast. What's left of Hurricane Debbie is dumping historic amounts of rain up to 30 inches possible in some areas. The storm is expected to crawl across South Georgia, then stall off South Carolina. Charleston could get more than 20 inches of rain.

It may be that this is the most portal we've seen for a long time. Maybe. We don't know. So stay alert. Stay tuned and stay safe.

South of Charleston are reported tornado overnight damaging property in Adesto Beach.

At Georgia, the mayor of Savannah issued a

curfew warning the deluge could mean, quote, obliteration for parts of the city.

This type of rain hovering over us, coming with the intensity that they tell us that it's coming, it's gonna catch a whole lot of people by surprise.

Debbie made landfall along the Gulf Coast of Florida

as a category 1 hurricane, leaving streets underwater and homes without power.

There's Tampa Bay. More than

a foot of rain fell in the Sarasota area. Authorities rescuing hundreds of people from flooded neighborhoods.

You can see members of the Florida National Guard in high water rescue vehicles going into neighborhoods like this that are flooded to rescue homeowners.

Debbie is blamed for at least 4 deaths in Florida, including the driver of this truck near Tampa. Police say he lost control of his tractor trailer. The truck's cab then plunging into the water below. Meanwhile, 1 voter is telling his survival story.

It's a washing machine that's squeezed what it is in the gulf.

Nathan Thomas and his friend were rescued off Florida's Gulf Coast in 20 foot waves, He says the storm came quicker than expected and they lost the sail on their sailboat.

I knew that this the coast guard didn't get us. We probably had less than a 50% chance in society.

The storm impacts the northeast later this week. We'll check forecast in just a few moments.

Also developing right now concerns that Iran could launch an attack against Israel today, a revenge attack for killing a Hamas official. Meanwhile, in a separate development Americans came under attack in Iraq. Multiple injuries are reported. ABC's Christian Cordero has the latest on this. Christian, good morning.

Rhiannon, good morning. The Pentagon says several US personnel were injured in the attack at Iraq. Sources say 2 rockets were fired at a military base and fell inside the base. The defense department reportedly blamed Iranian backed militants for the attack. In the meantime, Iran's supreme leader has vowed revenge for last week's assassidation of a top Hamas leader in Tehran.

US officials feared an attack on Israel could be imminent. President Biden and vice President Harris were briefed in the White House situation room yesterday. The website Axios reports the national security team told the president it's still unclear when Iran may launch A revenge attack. The foreign minister of Jordan made a rare visit to Tehran hoping to deescalate the situation. It's the first visit by a senior Jordanian official to Iran in more than 20 years.

Andrew?

Christian, thank you. Vice president Kamala Harris is announcing her running mate today in advance of a rally in Philadelphia tonight. Sources say it could be either Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania or Governor Tim Walls of Minnesota. Just shouted questions last night as he and his wife walked their dog.

Now to the worries on Wall Street, stock futures were up over night. And there's a sigh of relief overseas today as well after the doubt plunged more than a 1000 points yesterday. Overnight encouraging news, stocks in Asia trading higher. The big rebound coming after the worst day on Wall Street in nearly 2 years. Investors with a long list of concerns, including high interest rates, a disappointing jobs report, intentions in the Middle East, All

of these things created a perfect storm, and you had everybody just wanting to sell everything they can.

The so called magnificent 7, a cohort of tech stocks, including Apple and Google having a not so magnificent day losing more than $650,000,000,000 in value, but experts say don't panic.

The data that we've seen so far to us at least is more suggestive, an economic growth slowdown during the balance of the year. Rather than an outright recession.

Economic Anxiety putting the Federal Reserve in the spotlight. Some argue Fed officials have waited too long to slash interest rates. Some analysts now predicting the Fed will cut rates by half a point before the end of this year, but former president trump pointing fingers elsewhere

If Harris wins this election, you will quickly have a Kamala economic crash. You're gonna have a crash.

Trump using the worries on Wall Street to attack vice president Kamala Harris and the Democrats' economic policies back in February when the markets were up, Trump took credit for the economy.

The Biden team can say, well, if things are so bad, how come the stock markets on a roll?

Because they think I'm gonna be elected.

That you think the stock market's rallying because people think you're good. I do. Yeah.

A new poll finds 45% of voters say they'd be financially better off if Trump wins the November election as opposed to 25% for Harris. Many investors attribute yesterday's sell off concern about the health of the economy, not the election.

Google says it will appeal a federal judges ruling that the company is an illegal monopoly. The ruling points to 1,000,000,000 of dollars. Google bends on deals to install its search engine as a default on phones and other devices. The judge sided with the justice department's argument that the search giant blocked competition.

It's a landmark case that also could impact other big tech companies facing similar suits. That judge has now ruled that Google did maintain a monopoly over its search business. The judge will now decide whether to break up parts of Google or how the company operates as part of its business?

A hearing in the case is expected next month

A brush fire raced through a neighborhood in San Bernardino, California, destroying at least half a dozen homes. The area was evacuated as 200 firefighters filled the flames. 1 person was briefly detained as investigators look into the cause.

Now to the Olympics, the US enter competition today tied with China for gold medals. There was some disappointment, but also true sportsmanship for team USA in gymnastics.

Double Disaster for team USA. After Simone Biles and SUNY Lee both fell on the balance beam, the tumbles costing the gymnasts their shot at the podium.

Obviously, I'm a little bit disappointed just because that's not how I wanted to end my Olympics, but I'm super proud of how I was able to kinda overcome everything.

Lee, who battled through multiple kidney infections to make it to the games, says she won't let 1 misstep overshadow the team's redemption tour.

I'm so proud that I was able to overcome all of the challenges that I was put through.

But those falls weren't the only upset of the day. Byle's heavily favored on

the floor exercise narrowly missed out on the gold, stepping out of bounds twice during her routine. The mistakes cost her 6 10ths of a point, allowing Brazilian Rebecca andrade to slide into first.

Wasn't my best performances, but at the end of the day, it whoever meddled, meddled.

Jordan Child's claimed 3rd place after her coach challenged her original score, The judges awarding an extra tenth of a point earning her the bronze. Then a moment of true sportsmanship, both child and Biles, bowing to Andre during the medal ceremony.

It was just the right thing to do competing and then walking away with 4 medals. I'm not mad about it. I'm I'm pretty proud of myself, and it's always so exciting. To compete.

In other news, the triathlon mixed relay went on as planned despite international concern over water quality. Team USA taking silver in a head to head sprint to the finish against Germany. It comes as team USA makes history once again in fencing. Lee Kiefer and Lauren Scruggs earning gold in the team competition the first win ever for the US in the event.

Well, it's gonna own guard position?

Scruggs, who was America's first black woman to metal inferencing,

Ready? Best.

Celebrated her win by giving Flava Flav a private lesson.

I thought I got you.

All eyes are now on track and field. Sprinter Noel Liles competes in the 200 in the finals are Thursday.

It is time now for your Tuesday weather.

Good morning. We're very, very concerned about the flooding rain from tropical storm Debbie. This onshore wind is also gonna be a a big storm surge producer shoving ocean water inland sending that through parts of the lower portions of some rivers as well. And when you throw in an additional 18 to 24 inches of rain in the low country Carolina. That is a huge problem.

It will not be until the very end of the week when the upper level wins finally scoop this up and take it up the coast. For AccuWeather, I'm Jeff Cornish for ABC News.

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A jewelry heist near Chicago, burglars cut through the walls of 3 businesses at a mall to break into a jewelry store in the middle of They covered a surveillance camera and wiped the shelves clean, making off with $1,500,000 in jewels.

We are learning more about the fatal shooting of Illinois mother, Sonia Massey, at the hands of a Sheriff's deputy. A report from the County Sheriff's Office reveals former deputy Sean Greyson says He thought Massey was going to kill him when she said she rebuked him in the name of Jesus while holding a pot of boiling water. Gracen has pleaded not guilty to murder.

Now to a pro football and a record pay day for a player famous for stirring debate off the field with his comments about women. Here's ABC's Andrea Fuji.

This morning, Kansas City Chiefs Kaker Harrison Butler has made history just months after coming under fire for polarizing comments.

That is now 9 consecutive makes from outside 50 for fucker.

The team and its veteran kicker who helped propel the Chiefs to Super Bowl champions have reached a deal on a 4 year contract extension worth nearly $26,000,000, the largest contract ever for an NFL kicker, but cur made waves back in May with his commencement speech at a Catholic school in Kansas, addressing the female graduates. So

I think it is you the women who have had the most diabolical lies told to you, how many of you are sitting here now about to cross this stage and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you are going to get in your career. Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited

as a deadly sin.

Not the deadly sin sort of pride that has an entire month dedicated to it, but the true god centered pride.

The crowd giving Butker a standing Ovation. Many critics called for the Chiefs to release him, but Patrick Mahomes and coach Andy Reid quickly defended Bucker's right to his opinions. But Cur isn't the only chief making headlines, wide receiver Rashee Rice reportedly got into a scuffle, a training camp yesterday, throwing the ball at a linebacker. He's facing criminal charges after he and a former college teammate were involved in this multi vehicle hit and run crash in Dallas in March. As for Harrison Budkirk, his new average annual salary will be nearly 6a half $1,000,000.

Andrew Rhiannon.

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We are back now with a tornado in Buffalo, New York packing per hour, damaging buildings and knocking down power lines. New York has seen a record number of tornadoes this year.

So Tom Hanks is among the victims of a burglary ring targeting high end homes in Southern California. Investigators say a guest house on his property was targeted now neither Hank's nor his wife were there at the time, or that a dozen break ins have been reported in that area recently.

We turned out to the deep south on what's being called small town coup now being settled. This morning, the first black mayor of a small town in Alabama finally has the key to town hall.

I'm very grateful for, you know, just to get it get inside or sit down and get the keys and being able to do Divity on a male.

The mayor of newborn, Patrick Braxton, now allowed to take his rightful place in town hall more than 3 years. After he was elected. His predecessor, along with a group of white officials, refused to hand over the reins, claiming Braxton's victory was invalid.

They did not hold elections for 60 years. They claimed that they held a special election in 2020 after Mayor Black and decided to run and qualify and won.

It seemed like a snap in faith that you've been elected, the duty elected, and someone else stepped down and never, you know, received and passed, you know, passed everything over to you.

Despite legally winning the election, Braxton was locked out of city hall and denied access to any official accounts.

What you're doing is time jobs.

Critics call it a small town coup and blatant racism.

Well, I feel that it's all about race. And I don't mind saying that. That's what it's about.

ABC's Steve Ossensami visited Newburn last year.

It's barely a mile long with about 200 people. Even the cemeteries are still racially segregated. This is where white people are buried. And over here is the dirt road that takes you to a hill where the descendants of former slaves still bury their debt today.

Mayor Braxton took his fight to the courts. And now after a year's long legal battle, a settlement has been reached BRAxton is free to finally take his seat. He says he just wants to bring people together. The former mayor in town council deny any wrongdoing. Their proposed settlement will now ensure that the court oversees an official election when Braxton term is up.

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So I'm gonna check the pulse when we begin with the 91 operator in Tennessee who over the phone helped the woman deliver a baby.

She was calm, cool, and collected.

That's okay. I've got you. We're gonna this together. Okay? You're doing fine.

Is she laying down and rolling? Everybody needs to stop screaming. Thank you so much for me. Okay? Okay.

The baby is out.

Caitlin Kramer says her training kicked in, and she coached the expectant mom and bystanders through delivering a healthy B. Boy, the call lasted 8 minutes before the ambulance arrived.

I think my favorite part about this whole situation was there was also another younger child in the room. Maybe between the ages of 7 and 10 years old, but she started talking to the baby, welcoming him welcoming him to the world. And that absolutely just melted my heart

Oh, the family is celebrating their joy in private. Next, Robert F Kennedy Junior will not be charged for dumping a dead bear in Central Park as a prank 10 years ago.

The independent presidential candidate could have been fined $250 for a legal disposal of the bear, but the statue patients expired. The New Yorker publishing this photo.

Yeah. The Kennedy says he found the cup on the side of the road after it was hit by another driver. He jokingly said, maybe that's where he got his brain worm. I've referenced to the parasite. He said, died in his brain.

Next, an oh my gosh moment inside a New Hampshire barn.

Friends and contractors restoring Tony Pappas' home found 52 baseball cards from the 1930s 40s in the walls of the barn, including Ted names as rookie card. They belong to a late husband and are worth tens of 1000 of dollars. Finally, an Olympic sized photo bomb.

This 1, quite a distance from Paris. It comes from a heaty side of the surfing competition. Look at this. Check out the whale. Breaching the water during the wind and semi finals.

It managed to keep distance, and I'm sure the servers were thankful for that.

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Checking more top stories now. Tropical storm Debbie is dumping life threatening rain on parts of Georgia and South Carolina. A curfew wasn't effective overnight in Savannah. Debbie could dump 30 inches of rain in some areas.

Israel is bracing for Iran or its proxies to try to get any moment in retaliation for the assassination of a top Hamas leader in Tehran last week as the US scrambles to minimize the blow. Several American personnel were injured a rocket attack in Iraq.

Nearly 400 arrests have been reported after an anti immigrant riots in the UK. The mayhem was sparked by false claims that the suspect in a dance class stabbing, which left 3 children dead, was an asylum seeker.

X is on the move. You Musk is reportedly shutting down the company's San Francisco office, which served as headquarters since 2012 when it was still Twitter. He recently said he wanted to move the main off to Texas.

Today's weather, other than Debbie's flood threat, strong thunderstorms in the northeast, severe storms in Ohio and Michigan and more heat alerts in the west.

And finally, the technology that could decode dog parks.

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In 2009, the movie up showed us an animated dream where technology could help us finally interpret what dogs are trying to tell us.

We've been essentially training neural network models.

Well, apparently, it only took 15 years for our reality to start catching up with science fiction. Now researchers at the University of Michigan, like Professor Radha here, are starting to use artificial intelligence to translate a bark.

Can we tell just from the sound they make? What is the situation they are in?

Their teams started by loading human speech to build their, quote, unquote, neural network and then using recorded situational vocalizations from about 70 dogs working with a team in Mexico. So far, Arana their program has succeeded the most consistently with interpreting the breed of a dog and if it's feeling either playful or angry, on the other hand, interpreting a dog's age, and definitely its gender has proven to be a little more challenging.

Maybe because we didn't have enough data.

Oh, no.

But let's be real. Sometimes the concept of AI developing can seem terrifying. So, let's ask what you're probably wondering. How do you see this technology being helpful for people?

If we think of benefit to humans, would be in the sense of having now access to these other forms of intelligence, like, for dogs, what they can learn to smell.

Or from dogs who can reportedly detect cancer. Not to mention perhaps we could also better diagnose dogs when we take them to the vet.

In the future, I think there could be even more that we could like.

We're still probably years away from a lot of that, but she says soon they may need to crowdsource to receive audio clip from our dogs, guys.

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the catastrophic flooding risk in the south The historic threat from the remnants of Hurricane Debbie up to 30 inches of rain and the rising death pole.

Americans soldiers coming under attack in Iraq. The rocket strike targeting a military base with much of the Middle East on edge, expecting an attack by Iran on Israel at any moment.

Looking for a rebound. The market movements overnight after the plunge more than a 1000 points. What's fueling the concerns and the impact on the presidential race? Plus, what's next for Google after a ruled the company is an illegal monopoly.

New video as a brushfire consumes homes in Southern California.

A 911 operator helps a woman deliver a baby.

Oh, his head is coming out, ma'am. Okay. His head is out.

Okay. The operator now describing what happened after the birth.

Plus, the Super Bowl winning kicker kicking up controversy with his remarks about scores a record payday.

And from this moment of sportsmanship courtesy of the US gymnastics stars took a moment, a whale photo bombed the surfing competition, the biggest moments heading in today 11 of the Paris Olympics.

From ABC News. This is America this morning.

Good Tuesday morning, everyone. I'm Andrew Denver.

Good morning to you. I'm Rhiannon Ali. We begin with flood emergency in the southeast.

The remnants of hurricane Debbie already at deadly storm could now make history dumping more than 2 feet of rain.

A days long weather threat is unfolding right now for millions of people in the southeast. What's left of Hurricane Debbie is dumping historic amounts rain up to 30 inches possible in some areas. The storm is expected to crawl across South Georgia and stall of South Carolina. Charleston could get more than 20 inches of rain.

It may be that this is the most moral we've seen for a long time. Maybe we don't So stay alert. Stay tuned and stay safe.

South of Charleston, a reported tornado overnight damaging property in Adesto Beach

at Georgia the mayor of Savannah issued a

curfew warning the deluge could mean quote obliteration for parts of the city.

This type of rain covering over us, coming with the intensity that they tell us that it's coming. It's gonna catch a whole lot of people by surprise.

Debbie made landfall along the Gulf Coast of Florida

as a category 1 hurricane, leaving streets underwater and homes without power.

There's Tampa Bay. More than

a foot of rain fell in the Sarasota area, authorities rescuing hundreds of people from flooded neighborhoods.

Because he members of the Florida National Guard in High Water rescue vehicles going into neighborhoods like this that are flooded to rescue homeowners.

Debbie is blamed for at least 4 deaths in Florida, including the driver of this truck near Tampa. Police say he lost control of his tractor trailer. The truck's cab then plunging into the water below. Meanwhile, 1 voter is telling his survival story.

It's a washing machine desk, please, what it is in the gulf.

Nathan Thomas and his friend were rescued off Florida's Gulf Coast in 20 foot waves, He says the storm came quicker than expected, and they lost the sail on their sailboat.

I knew that. This the coast guard didn't get us. We probably had less than a 50% chance for surviving.

The storm impacts the northeast later this week. We'll check forecast in just a few moments.

Also developing right now concerns that Iran could launch an attack Against Israel today, a revenge attack for killing a Hamas official. Meanwhile, and a separate development, Americans came under attack in Iraq. Multiple injuries are reported. ABC's Christian Cordero has the latest on this. Christian, good morning.

Rhiannon, good morning. The Pentagon says several US personnel were injured in the attack at Iraq. Sources say 2 rockets were fired at a military base and fell inside the base. The defense department reportedly blamed Iranian backed militant for the attack. In the meantime, Iran's supreme leader has vowed revenge for last week's assassination of a top Hamas leader in Tehran US officials feared an attack on Israel could be imminent.

President Biden and vice president Harris were briefed in the White House situation room yesterday. The website Axios reports the national security team told the president it's still unclear when Iran may launch a revenge attack. The foreign minister of Jordan made a rare visit to Tehran hoping to deescalate the situation. It's the first visit by a senior Jordanian official to Iran in more than 20 years. Andrew?

Christian, thank you. Vice president Kamala Harris is announcing her running mate today in advance of a rally in Philadelphia tonight. Sources say it could be either governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania or governor Tim Walls of Minnesota Shapiro did not respond to shouted questions last night as he and his wife their dog.

Now to the worries on Wall Street, stock futures were up overnight, and there's a sigh of relief overseas today as well. After the Dow plunged more than a 1000 points yesterday. Overnight, encouraging news, stocks in Asia trading higher The big rebound coming after the worst stay on Wall Street in nearly 2 years. Investors with a long list of concerns, including high interest rate a disappointing jobs report, intentions in the Middle East.

All of these things created a perfect storm, and you had everybody just wanting sell everything they can.

The so called magnificent 7, a cohort of tech stocks, including Apple and Google, having a not so magnificent day losing more than $650,000,000,000 in value, but experts say don't panic.

The data that we've seen so far to us at least is more suggestive of an economic growth slowdown during the balance of the year rather than an outright recession

economic anxiety putting the Federal Reserve in the spotlight. Some argue Fed officials have waited too long to slash interest rates Some analysts now predicting the Fed will cut rates by half a point before the end of this year, but former president trump pointing fingers elsewhere.

If Harris wins this election, you will quickly have a Kamala economic crash. You're gonna have a crash.

Trump using the worries on wall Street to attack vice president Kamala Harris and the Democrats' economic policies back in February when the markets were up Trump took credit for the economy.

The Biden team can say, well, if things are so bad, how come the stock market's on a roll?

Because they think I'm gonna be elected.

That you think the stock market's rallying because people think you're gonna be. Yeah.

A new poll finds 45% of voters say they'd be financially better off if Trump wins the November election as opposed to 25% for Harris. Many investors attribute yesterday's sell off concern about the health of the economy, not the election.

Google says it will appeal a federal judges ruling that the company is an illegal monopoly. The ruling points to 1,000,000,000 of dollars. Google spends on deals to install its search engine as a default on phones and other devices. The judge sided with the justice department's argument that the search giant blocked competition.

It's a landmark case that also could impact other big tech companies facing similar suits. That judge has now ruled that Google did maintain a monopoly over its search business. The judge will now decide whether to break up parts of Google or how the company operates as part of its business?

A hearing in the case is expected next month.

A burst fire race through a neighborhood in San Bernardino California destroying at least half a dozen homes. The area was evacuated as 200 firefighters battled the flames. 1 person was briefly detained as investigators look into the cause.

Now to the Olympics, the US enters competition today tied with China for gold medals. There was some disappointment, but also true sport ship for team USA in gymnastics.

Double disaster for team USA after Simone Biles and SUNi Lee both fell on the balance beam the tumbles costing the gymnasts their shot at the podium.

Obviously, I'm a little bit disappointed just because that's not how I wanted to end my Olympics, but I'm super of how I was able to kinda overcome everything.

Lee, who battled through multiple kidney infections to make it to the games, says she won't 1 misstep overshadowed the team's redemption tour.

I'm so proud that I was able to overcome all of the challenges that I was put through.

But those falls weren't the only upset of the day. Byle's heavily favored

on the floor exercise narrowly missed out on the gold, stepping out of bounds twice during her routine. The mistakes cost her 6 10ths of a point, allowing Brazilian Rebecca Andrade to slide into first.

Wasn't my best performances, but at the end of the day, whoever meddled meddled.

Jordan Childs claimed 3rd place after her coach challenged her original score. The judges awarding an extra tenth of a point earning her the bronze. Then a moment of true sportsmanship. Both childs and Biles bowing to Andre during the medal ceremony.

It was just the right thing to do competing and then walking away with 4 medals. I'm not mad about it. I'm I'm pretty proud of myself, and it's always so exciting, to compete

In other news, the triathlon mixed relay went on as planned despite international concern over water quality. Team USA taking silver in a head to head sprint to the finish against Germany. It comes as team USA makes history once again in fencing. Lee Kiefer and Lauren Scruggs earning gold in the team competition the first win ever for the US in the event.

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Good morning. We're very, very concerned about the flooding rain from tropical storm Debbie This onshore wind is also gonna be a big storm surge producer shoving ocean water inland sending that up through parts of the lower portions of rivers as well. And when you throw in an additional 18 to 24 inches of rain in the low country of South Carolina, that is a huge problem. It will not be until the very end of the week when the upper level wins finally scoop this up and take it up the coast. For AccuWeather, I'm Jeff Corners for ABC News.

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A jewelry heist near Chicago, burglars cut through the walls of 3 businesses at a mall. A jewelry store in the middle of the night. They covered a surveillance camera and wiped the shelves clean, making off with $1,500,000 in jewels.

We are learning more about the fatal shooting of Illinois mother, Sonia Massey, at the hands of a sheriff's deputy. A report from the county sheriff's office reveals former deputy Sean Grayson says he thought Massey was going to kill him when she said she rebuked him in the name of Jesus while holding a pot of boiling water. Gracen has pleaded not guilty to murder.

Now to a pro football and a record pay day for a player famous for stirring debate off the field with his comments about women. Here's ABC's Andrea Fuji.

This morning, Kansas City chief's kicker Harrison Butler has made history just months after coming under

steep for him.

The team and its veteran kicker who helped propel the Chiefs to Super Bowl champions have reached a deal on a 4 year contract extension worth nearly $26,000,000, the largest contract ever for an NFL kicker, but crew made waves back in May his commencement speech at a Catholic school in Kansas, addressing the female graduates.

So I

think it is you, the women who have had the most diabolical lives told to you. How many of you are sitting here now about to cross this stage and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you are going to get in your career? Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.

He also referred to pride months as a deadly sin.

Not the deadly sin sort of pride that has an entire month dedicated to it. But the true god centered pride.

The crowd giving Butker a standing ovation. Many critics called for the Chiefs to release him, but Patrick Mahomes and coach Andy Reid quickly defended Bucker's right to his opinions. Bucker isn't the only chief making headlines wide receiver, Rashid Wright reportedly got into a scuffle at training camp yesterday throwing the ball at a linebacker. He's facing criminal charges after he and a former college teammate were involved in this multi vehicle hit and run crash in Dallas in March. As for Harrison Budkirk, his new average annual salary will be nearly 6 and a half $1,000,000.

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So Tom Hanks is among the victims of a burglary ring targeting high end homes in Southern California. Investigators say a guest house on his property was targeted. Now neither Hank nor his wife were there at the time, or that a dozen break ins have been reported in that area recently?

We turn now to the deep south on what's being called a small town coup now being settled. This morning, the first black mayor of a small town in Alabama finally has the key to town hall.

I'm very grateful for, you know, just to get it get inside sit around and get the keys and being able to do do this or the mayor.

The mayor of newborn, Patrick Braxton, now allowed to take his right full place in townhall more than 3 years after he was elected. His predecessor, along with a group of white officials, refused to hand over the reins, claiming Braxton's victory was invalid.

They did not hold elections for 60 years. They claimed that they held a special election in 2020 after Mayor Braxton decided to run and qualify and won.

It seemed like a slap in faith that you've been elected, your duty elected, and someone else stepped down and never, you know, received and passed, you know, passed everything over to you.

Despite legally winning the election, Braxton was locked out of city hall and denied access to any official accounts.

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Critics call it a small town coup and blatant racism.

Well, I feel that it's all about race. And I don't mind saying that. That's what it's about.

ABC's Steve Osun Sami visited Newburn last year.

It's barely a mile long with about 200 people. Even the cemeteries are still racially segregated. This is where white people are buried. And over here is the dirt road that takes you to a hill where the descendants of former slaves still bury their dead today.

Mayor Braxton took his fight to the courts. And now after a year's long legal battle, A settlement has been reached. Braxton is free to finally take his seat. He says he just wants to bring people together. The former mayor and town council deny any wrongdoing.

Their proposed settlement will now ensure that the court oversees an official election when Braxton's term is up.

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The independent presidential candidate could have been fined $250 for a legal disposal of the bear, but the stash of limitations expired. The New Yorker public this photo.

Yeah. The Kennedy says he found the cup on the side of the road after it was hit by another driver. He jokingly said, maybe that's where he got his brainworm. A reference to the parasite, he said, died in his brain. Next, an oh my gosh moment inside a new Hampshire barn.

Friends and contractors restoring Tony Pappas' home found 52 baseball cards from the 1930s 40s in the walls of the barn, including Ted Williams's rookie card, belong to a late husband and are worth tens of 1000 of dollars. Finally, an Olympic sized photo bomb.

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Checking more top stories now. Tropical storm Debbie is dumping life threatening rain on parts of Georgia and South Carolina. A curfew was in effect overnight in Savannah. Debbie could dump 30 inches of rain in some areas.

Israel is bracing for Iran or its proxies to get any moment in retaliation for the assassination of a top Hamas leader in Tehran last week as the US cramples to minimize the blow. Several American personnel injured in a rocket attack in Iraq.

Nearly 400 arrests have been reported after an anti immigrant riots in the UK The mayhem was sparked by false claims that the suspect in a dance class stabbing, which left 3 children dead, was an asylum seeker.

X is on the move. Elon Musk is reportedly shutting down the company's San Francisco office, which served as headquarters since 2012 when it was still Twitter. He recently said he wanted to move the main office to Texas.

Today's weather, other than Debbie's flood threat, strong thunderstorms in the northeast, severe storms in Ohio and Michigan and more heat alerts in the west.

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Now researchers at the University of Michigan, like Professor Aradari Haltra here are starting to use artificial intelligence translate a bark.

Can we tell just from the sound they make? What is the situation they are in?

Their team started by uploading human speech to build their, quote, unquote, neural network and then using recorded situational vocalizations from about 70 dogs working with a team in So far, Rana says their program has succeeded the most consistently with interpreting the breed of a dog and if it's feeling either playful or angry. On the other hand, interpreting a dog's age, and definitely its gender has proven to be a little more challenge

Maybe because we didn't have enough data. Oh, no.

Well, let's be real. Sometimes the concept of AI developing can seem terrifying. So, let's ask what you're probably wondering. How do you see this technology being helpful for people?

If we single benefit to humans, would be in the sense of having now access to these other forms of intelligence, like for dogs, what they can learn to smell,

says with more data and nuance, maybe this program could help us interpret reports from canine units or from dogs who can reportedly detect cancer. Not to mention, perhaps we could also better diagnose dogs when we take them to the vet.

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It's Tuesday, August 6th. Was this a bad day for the markets or something worse? We start here. A global sell off sparks fears of a recession.

What we saw on Monday is a free fall that started in Japan.

There are other factors at play here. We'll walk you through it. The damage done by Debbie is just beginning.

It's mostly Charleston and that South Carolina coast that I'm really worried about

Ginger Z has been chasing the storm across the southeast, which is now bracing for more floods. And by the end of tonight, could the squad be down another member?

They've called her statements insensitive, incorrect, and, quote, fanning the flames of anti Semitism.

Missouri Democrat Cory Bush faces 1 of the most expensive challenges of the year. From ABC News, this is start here. I'm Brad Milke. For the last several years, finance experts have expressed worry about a potential recession. Remember what a recession is?

It's where economic activity slows down over months or even years so that people can't afford as much. They start buying less. Businesses, therefore, taking less money. So they lay off workers and then guess what? More families can't afford as much.

It becomes this vicious cycle. Well, as the pandemic set in, we did get a sudden recession, but it became the shortest recession in American history as we passed those huge relief bills, but the worrying wasn't over. As inflation started to grow and the Fed jacked up interest rates, there were new concerns about a vast economic slowdown. Somehow though, some way, despite all the warnings, we've avoided that. Well, last Thursday, the stock market started to sink.

No big deal. On Friday, though, it sank some more, will then as the opening bell rang yesterday. The Dow and the S and P 500 absolutely plummeted. By the time the day was done, they had measured their worst day in 2 years, and the immediate word that came to people's lips was, wait for it, recession. But is that what we're actually seeing?

Let's start the day with ABC's chief business and economics correspondent Rebecca Jarvis, Rebecca Can you walk me through what's been happening over the last few days?

Well, Brad, I guess you could call it a kind of vibe shift on Wall Street and I say that mildly unjust, but as somebody who's now covered the markets for 2 decades, there is a mood that can set in. And what I have scene from talking to a handful of veteran traders on Wall Street is that the mood has gone from pretty good to a little bit more sour to a little bit more concern. That's happened for a couple of reasons. First of all, you have the backdrop of the US economy. This was definitely a weaker than expected jobs report.

We did add jobs last month, 114,000, but we were expecting to add a 185,000. When you look at the snapshot of the jobs market, that we got on Friday. It shows that the unemployment rate is still very low, 4.3%, historically very low. But it's come up a lot since January when it was 3.7%. The pace of hiring has slowed down, and the number of people who are quitting their jobs has also been reduced greatly.

You know?

And we tend to see in healthy economies that joblessness doesn't grow that quickly. So there is this concern that you've got joblessness growing faster than economists wanna see it. There have been data on, layoffs that economists haven't loved There's been data on manufacturing that hasn't looked great. Add to that the backdrop of the threat of war in the Middle East. Add to that the backdrop of the Federal Reserve not cutting interest rates last week at its most recent meeting.

And the question of Well, are they too late? And so what we saw on Monday is a free fall that started in Japan overnight the selling coming in was already very severe. The Japanese market ended down 12%, which was the worst day since 1987 on Black Monday. Then you had selling the Dow was down right out of the gate more than a 1000 points. All 30 DAO stocks ended lower.

And the S and P 500, which is the thing that's in most retirement savings accounts, most retirement accounts track that. That was down 3%. And then where the worst of it happened was stocks. The high flyers, these companies that earlier this year, seem to defy gravity just as recently as July 10th, the Nasdaq and tech stocks were at their all time highs, they got hit the hardest as well as a lot of the artificial intelligence linked company.

Wait. So is it everyone's worried about

the American unemployment rate? Cause that wouldn't explain stuff happening in Japan, and it did seem to be like this global sell off, this global concern. Right?

There's kind of this perfect storm right now happening. Yes. The there are questions about the US economy, but there are even bigger questions about where interest rates are, not just here in the US, but in places like Japan. Japan is interesting because for a long time, traders have been borrowing Japanese yen at very low interest rates, converting them to dollars, and then using those dollars to buy US stocks. The beneficiaries of that major tech companies.

But now just recently, the Bank of Japan is raising its interest rates. So their currency, the Japanese yen, has strengthened a lot against the dollar. And so Traders are having to both cover and pay higher interest rates for their Japanese yen that they borrowed, and they're also facing big losses on their Japanese yen. In this chain reaction of events, they are selling US stocks.

Like, their their nifty little plan isn't so nifty anymore.

Well, that usually they don't last forever. What goes up comes down, and this is generally the the market. A trade never works forever for the most part. And that was just 1 more piece of the puzzle. Warren Buffet, turns out he sold half of his stake in Apple Again, Apple, a big tech company, 1 of the beneficiaries there as well.

There is this sense that all the things that have happened over the last 18 months 2 years where stocks have just defied gravity. They keep going up. Well, that that's just not going to happen forever, and that is what we saw in the markets on Monday. I will just add to that, though, Brad. What I'm hearing from Wall Street veterans is not panic.

They they are not panicked by this. In fact, they see this as sort of the the reality that there's a lot up in the air right now and that if the market were to just keep climbing with all of those things up in the air, Then you'd have to ask yourself why.

Oh, like, that's almost more worrisome.

Right. On what basis is the market continuing to go up?

But so with all that in mind especially because you and I always talk about how the stock market is not the economy. Right? Like, just because we're seeing big stock sell offs does not mean, like, that doesn't mean a recession. It just shows you that sometimes finance groups are worried about 1. Is the Fed still going to reduce these interest rates in the fall or like, what could they do them even more if we're worried about a recession?

I mean, what's the plan now?

In terms of the the there's basically 1 I would say with 99 percent probability certainty, and that is that there is an interest rate cut ahead.

The broad sense of the committee is that the economy is moving closer to the point at which it will be appropriate to reduce our policy rate.

Cut will be a quarter percentage point or a half or even 3 quarters as some are calling for. And whether or not it will be before the meeting in September, those are the the sort of unknowns, but you can bet by the end of September, interest rates will be lower than they are today if the data continues on the course that it's on, which is Jobs are slowing down. Manufacturing shows some softness and inflation has come way way down, even though it might not be at the exact target that the Fed is looking for, it's come dramatically lower.

Really helpful stuff. Alright, Rebecca Jarvis. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Take care, Brad.

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last several days, a storm called Debbie had been slowly making its way up into the Gulf of Mexico. Yesterday morning, Debbie made landfall in Florida as a category 1 hurricane. As it lumbered on shore, it quickly went back down into the tropical cyclone range, but that hasn't stopped it from dumping tons of water throughout the American southeast, which is why communities are scrambling for sandbags and flood safety equipment, anything to protect themselves against the fallout that could last days. These risks appear to only be beginning. Let's go to ABC's chief meteorologist Ginger Z who's made her way through Florida up to Georgia now outside Savannah Ginger.

What are you seeing?

And that's a tough story to tell, Brad, because people will see a landfall and they wanna be done with the storm because a lot of times when we have a hurricane, it moves in. It starts to dwindle, and then we kinda see it get picked up and moved out. That's not the case with Debbie, and that's why we're gonna be talking about Debbie and the impacts of it no matter what it ends up being even just remnants

This is from the hurricane, from the the storm itself. We've had a lot of trees, power lines down over half the counties without power.

With the storm, at least 1 of deaths was a young boy killed in a mobile home, a tree falling on that mobile home. And remember, the winds weren't that grand, but when you have a supersaturated soil, these tree come down really easily. Even gusts over 40 miles per hour can do it. So keep that in mind when you've got a lot of trace around you. Also, governor DeSantis warning people the best way to stay away from danger is don't drive out in the store.

We do think though that Floridians heating the call of being careful, particularly on the roads, has reduced what would otherwise have been because there's been some nasty conditions out there. So please, to be be very cautious when you're going out

The problem with a storm like this is we're not going to see much movement. It is going to move painstakingly slow, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. And so not just around Savannah, because I think they actually get on the backside of this by Wednesday Thursday, but it's mostly Charleston and that South Carolina coast that I'm really worried about going into the coming days because you have this combination of not 10 to 20 inches of widespread rain. Like, that is a lot of rain, but also locally up to 30 inches. And here's the biggest issue is those fall in rivers and you can have inland flooding easily with this.

But then as it tries to exit the normal waterways and tributaries and all the things, the rivers that take it to the ocean, it won't be able to because the storm's gonna park itself just where it can counterclockwise rotate the water of the ocean right up against and kind of plug those rivers. And not allow any of it to come down. So that combo on top of the really heavy rain is going to make for an ugly, ugly, thing for these susceptible cities that it let they're so low anyway. Right? They they have problems with King Tides, let alone if you've got this eerie accommodation together.

I see. That's helpful because initially we heard like, yeah, it's in Florida. It's gonna Georgia. You'd think, okay. The days that it's raining, those are the year days.

It actually sounds like that that continues. There's almost delay built in.

Yes. And as we know, you know, you have waterfall, rainfall on a river, it takes time for it to get downriver.

I see.

And if you're plugging up the end of it and and you're still pushing water kind of inland, that's where we're gonna come up with the major issues. And These rivers, all the way inland, have had problems through many different events, and they have been supersaturated, as well. Of late. So there's parts of the mid Atlantic that are very dry and they desperately need rain. They will get some all the way up to Virginia.

Even we'll be talking about parts of Debbie getting up there. But, really, the bulk of it's gonna be kind of Coastal South Carolina Myrtle Beach Charleston.

Okay. So, I mean, what should people in the region be prepared for? What should they do in the meantime, I guess?

I think the other hard part that I've noticed with storm like this is because it takes days to unfold, people don't really get it. They'll say, oh, I I'm gonna flash flood warning. We've had flash flood warnings all for the last 3 days, and they start to get a little bit numb to it. And that would be my concern too is that people don't understand the easiest way to survive in this type of storm is if you have a flash flood warning, 1 of those things pops up on your phone, don't drive.

Alright. Ginger Z. They're in Georgia right now. Like you said, the story quickly becoming, South Carolina. We'll talk to you later.

Thank you so much.

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Today is a big day in politics, primarily because we know for a fact that vice president Kamala Harris is planning on announcing a running mate pick by the end of the day. Her campaign has already announced she will be appearing with that person in Philly, but they also insist that's because it's Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, could be anyone they say. Don't read anything into that. It's just scheduling. But aside from all that, this is a big day because let's not forget primaries are still happening.

In fact, in Missouri, there is a primary for that state's 1st congressional district that is the seat currently occupied by Democratic congresswoman Cory Bush, 1 of the members of the progressive group known as The Squad. The squad has already had 1 member picked off this year by well funded primary opponents, and now Bush is fighting for her political life. Let's bring an ABC's political reporter, Britney Shepherd. Britney, what should we know about this race?

Oh my gosh. Well, still a primary happening in this really slow news week, Brad. Like, I in this economy. Right. Thank you.

But Yeah. I think all eyes will be on Missouri tonight. In 1 corner, we have Cory Bush, the state's first black congresswoman.

I love your congresswoman. Loves you in Holy the beginning.

In the other corner, we have Saint Louis County prosecuting attorney, Wesley

Come back to Dougan and push at Saint Louis County to lease it

with country. And like you said, this primary very closely reflects the primary of squad member, Jamal Bowman, who just a couple months ago, had a stunning loss.

Challenger George, George Latimore, a moderate Democrat is defeated incumbent, democratic congressman Jamal Bollan.

His campaign pointed to just Massive and massive influxes of cash from the Superback tied to APAC. That's the American Israel public affairs committee.

My opponent at APAC are the ones destroying our democracy.

That race was the most expensive house primary on record and Brad. Tonight's primary shaping up to be the 2nd most expensive house primary on record even through everything that's going on with the Democrats right now nationally, there's still a lot of divisiveness in who should be the kind of democrat that folks wanna see up on Capitol Hill.

Well, and you mentioned APAC, right, that's the pro Israel pack. It's largely seen as 1 of the reasons that Jamal Bowman lost his race And obviously, like, he's got voters who don't like him. You think maybe outside money can help exploit that kind of opposition, but are are you saying, I guess, that Israel has now become, like, primary focus in this race as well.

That's the nucleus of all of this. You know, Corey Bush, member of this squad has been really, really vocal. As a critic of Israel, especially in the wake of the October 7th attack.

Those who refuse to stop the ongoing genocide in Gaza, think they can arrest and brutalize their way out of this situation.

She called for permits. He's fired like Jamal Bowman as well. And is among 1 of the few house members who oppose that resolution supporting Israel.

Who are the ones that are actually for all people, not for some people. That is us, and we're gonna continue to do that.

And she also boycotted when Benjamin Netanyahu was speaking in front of Capitol Hill just a couple of weeks ago. It was definitely been a lot of blowback, especially from the local St. Louis Jewish community brad. They've called her statements insensitive, incorrect, and, quote, fanning the flames of anti Semitism. Meanwhile, that same community has endorsed Bell pretty enthusiastically,

I think it's misguided to not understand how complex the situation is, but we must stand with our allies, but then we still want to We wanna find a peaceful resolution and leave the door open for it, a Tuesday solution.

He's campaign really aggressively to get these Jewish supporters on his side because APAC's money to the tune of about $8,000,000, if not more by tonight,

Wow.

Has really animated this race.

They are coming for Saint Louis. They're pouring 1,000,000 upon 1,000,000 of dollars to flood our airways with lies and distortions about me.

And if Cory Bush loses tonight, she would be the 2nd member of the squad and incumbent member of house that's rare, just completely kicked out of office because of her level of criticism on this.

So okay. So if the money is all flowing because of the Israeli issue because of the war in Gaza. I mean, what are the other are are these candidates vulnerable for any other reasons besides that? Guess.

Yeah. I mean, both of their records are being very heavily scrutinized right now.

You can't just cheer from the bleachers. You gotta be a team player that stands with president Biden.

Bella questioning. Some of Cory bushes a member of the squad's progressive bonafides, pointing to her not voting for that infrastructure bill She says she didn't do that because she wanted more progressive version of that legislation.

I will always stand up for what St. Louis deserves and say Louis does not deserve scraps. And therefore, I don't work for the

scraps. Alright.

Cory Bush's campaign is saying that Bell might not actually be a real progressive. He's campaign managed a Republican who ran for the same house district back in 2006, and local watchdog organizations have been dubious of his progressive record, but Bush is not without vulnerabilities of her own here.

The complaint to the FTC by a right wing pack accuses Bush of illegally funneling $60,000 of campaign funds to her husband.

There was a justice department investigation actually into her campaign finances because she brought her now husband onto that security payroll.

I retained my husband as part my security team to provide security services because he has had extensive experience in this area.

She's denied any wrongdoing, but a course, there are all these questions about ethics and management of funds that will no doubt be cycling in voters' minds.

National Guard troops are heading to Ferguson, Missouri.

In state's governor deployed them overnight after a week of protests over the shooting of an unarmed 18 year old,

And Brad, the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson that happened actually almost 10 years ago to the day has also been an animating part of primary. The prosecutor involved in that case was actually Wesley Bell himself.

Law enforcement in Ferguson and and around the country overpoliced communities of color, use disproportionate and unnecessary force.

Bell called decision not to criminally charge the police officer who shot Brown, quote, 1 of the most difficult things he's had to do as an elected official.

Not only would would he have will we have to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt, but by Missouri law, we would also have to prove any self we would have to disprove any self defense claims beyond a reasonable doubt.

Brown's family has endorsed Cory Bush in this race, and she's even cut an ad featuring members of Michael Brown's family.

He used my family for power, and now he's trying to sell out St. Louis. He doesn't care about us.

Corey Bush does.

I'm Corey Bush, and I approve this message.

Right. In the Ferguson case, so charged to this day, Belle, was actually the latest in a string of prosecutors that said, like, I'm sorry we just we can't prove this, but at the end of the day, it's not like you get great polling in a lot of local race like this. Right? So, I mean, depending on who wins, what would that mean in the broader scheme?

I think a democratic party is going through identity crisis, trying to figure out What does it mean to be a Democrat? Is there even space for progressives? Is the democratic party moving in a more centrist direction will Kamala Harris pull things in a more progressive way. You know, there's it's a time of flux. If not in any crisis, certainly flux and change and figuring out What is the most successful message to prosecute the Republicans and, you know, win back the white house for them?

I think that Whatever happens today, it'd be determinative of how that message is crafted going forward.

Right. Right. Because we got 435 house seats up for grabs every November. So there's 1 no important than any of the others, but if it becomes a trend where the progressives are losing seats, where the squad is shrinking. That becomes a really big deal.

Britney Shepherd, our political reporter in DC. Thank you.

Thank you.

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The Department of Justice joined by 15 States and the District of Columbia sued Apple in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey for violating Section 2 of the Sherman antitrust Act. The Department of Justice joined by 29 States and the District of Columbia sued Live Nation Entertainment and its wholly owned subsidiary ticketmaster. For violating the Sherman antitrust act.

Well, yesterday, they got an actual result. After a high stakes 10 week trial that we covered here, a federal judge said that for years, Google has broken antitrust laws when it comes to its search engine, quote, Google is a monopolist he wrote and is acted as 1 to maintain its monopoly. Now this case was not about whether Google search engine is popular no one's gonna argue it's not the very first website most people turn to, you know Google something, scan the internet. The issue here is that it's more difficult to use alternatives, like Bing or Yahoo or duckduckgo, whatever. If you're using an internet browser like Chrome or Safari or Mozilla Firefox, you can go to bing.com, type in all those letters, or you can type your search terms directly into the address bar, which would automatically take you to Google results.

It is the default, and that's no accident. In fact, Google has paid 1,000,000,000 of dollars over the year companies like Apple and Mozilla to become their default search engine. The judge said that had Google not paid all that money, safari would have likely developed a better search engine of their own. Would be competitors fell by the wayside, but this raises a basic question. Should it be illegal to pay a boatload of money to someone to promote your product instead of making their own.

Google's defense here is, yeah, Apple wanted our search engine. Ours was better than theirs. Wanted to pay them to be exclusive. Everyone's consenting. How is any of this a crime?

This is where the judge brought a second issue in to play. See, 1 of the main ways Google makes money is sponsored search results. Like, you type in dinner near me, Google gives you all the answers for free, but above them all, it lists that sushi place that paid them a hundred bucks to be on top of the list. Well, as Google became the dominant force in search, the judge said, they charged more and more money for all these search results. Right?

What's the sushi place gonna do? Advertise on bing.com instead? Well, all that extra money Google took in, the judge said is how they were able to afford these huge, exclusive deals in the first place.

We alleged that Google has captured that revenue for its own profits. And punish publishers who sought out alternatives.

Now Google says they will appeal, and in the meantime, they'll continue to make products that people find helpful and easy to use. This comes ahead of some crucial cases brought by the DOJ against Apple, Meta, and, yes, another 1 against Google. And if the government now has precedence on their side, Well, soon you might be searching for explainers on how the whole internet changed.

Now you

might be wondering what does Google have to do next? Right? Do they have to pay a fine? Do they sell off parts of their company to have to go off of Apple phones. The judge still has to make that decision, so we will keep you updated.

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Right now on America this morning, the catastrophic flooding risk in the that historic threat from the remnants of Hurricane Debbie up to 30 inches of rain and the rising death pole.

American Seoul coming under attack in Iraq. The rocket strike targeting a military base with much of the Middle East on edge, expecting an attack by Iran on Israel at any moment.

Looking for a rebound. The market movements overnight after the Dow plunge more than a 1000 points. What's fueling the earns and the impact on the presidential race. Plus, let's next for Google after a judge ruled the company is an illegal monopoly.

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morning to you. I'm Ananale. We began with the flood emergency in the southeast.

The remnants of hurricane Debbie already at deadly storm could now make history dumping more than 2 feet of rain.

A days long weather threat is unfolding right now for millions of people in the southeast. What's left of Hurricane Debbie is dumping historic amounts of rain up to 30 inches possible in some areas. The storm is expected to crawl across South Georgia and stall off South Carolina. Charleston could get more than 20 inches of rain.

It may be that this is the most moral we've seen for a long time. Maybe. We don't know. So stay alert stay tuned and stay safe.

South of Charleston, a reported tornado overnight damaging property in Adesto Beach.

At Georgia, the mayor of Savannah issued a

curfew warning the Delouge could mean, quote, obliteration for parts of the city.

This type of rain hovering over us, coming with the intensity that they tell us that it's coming. It's gonna catch a whole lot of people by surprise.

Debbie made landfall along the Gulf Coast of Florida

as a category 1 hurricane, leaving streets underwater and homes without power.

There's 10th a bay. More than

a foot of rain fell in the Sarasota area. Authorities rescuing hundreds of people from flooded neighborhoods.

You can see members of the Florida National Guard in high water rescue vehicles going into neighborhoods like this that are flooded to rescue homeowners.

Debbie is blamed for at least 4 deaths in Florida, including the driver of this truck near Tampa. Police say he lost control of his tractor trailer, the truck's cab then plunging into the water below. Meanwhile, 1 voter is telling his survival story.

It's a washing machine that's squeezed what it is in the gulf.

Nathan Thomas and his friend were rescued off Florida's Gulf Coast in 20 foot waves, He says the storm came quicker than expected, and they lost the sail on their sailboat.

I knew that is the coast guard hit us. We probably had less than a 50% chance for surviving.

The storm impacts the northeast later this week. We'll check the forecast in just a few moments.

Also developing right now concerns that Iran could launch and that attack against Israel today, a revenge attack for killing a Hamas official. Meanwhile, and a separate development, Americans came under a attack in Iraq. Multiple injuries are reported. ABC's Christian Cordero has the latest on this. Christian, good morning.

Brandon, good morning. The Pentagon says several US personnel were injured in the attack at Iraq. Sources say 2 rockets were fired at a military base and fell inside the base. The defense department reportedly blamed Iranian backed militants for the attack. In the meantime, Iran's supreme leader has vowed revenge for last week's assassination of a top Hamas leader in Tehran US officials feared an attack on Israel could be imminent.

President Biden and vice president Harris were briefed in the White House situation room yesterday. The website Axios reports the national security team told the president it's still unclear when Iran may launch a revenge attack. The foreign minister of Jordan made a rare visit to Tehran hoping to deescalate the situation. It's the first visit by a senior Jordanian official to Iran in more than 20 years. Andrew?

Christian, thank you. Vice president Kamala Harris is announcing her running mate today in advance of a rally in Philadelphia tonight. Sources say it could be either Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania or Governor Tim Walls of Minnesota Shapiro. Did not respond to shouted questions last night as he and his wife walked their dog.

Now to the worries on Wall Street, stock futures were up overnight. And there's a sigh of relief overseas today as well after the Dow plunged more than a 1000 points yesterday. Overnight, encouraging news, stocks in Asia trading higher. The big rebound coming after the worst stay on Wall Street in nearly 2 years. Investors with a long list of concerns including high interest rates, a disappointing jobs report, intentions in the Middle East.

All of these things created a perfect storm. And you had everybody just wanting to sell everything they can.

The so called Magnificent 7, a cohort of tech stocks, including Apple and Google, having a not so magnificent day losing more than $650,000,000,000 in value, but experts say don't panic.

The data that we've seen so far to us at least is more suggestive of an economic growth slowdown during the balance of the year. Rather than an outright recession.

Economic Anxiety putting the Federal Reserve in the spotlight. Some argue Fed officials have waited too long to slash interest rates. Some analysts now predicting the Fed will cut rates by half a point before the end of this year, but former president trump pointing fingers elsewhere.

If Harris wins this election, you will quickly have a Kamala economic crash. You're gonna have a crash.

Trump using the worries on wall Street to attack vice president Kamala Harris and the Democrats' economic policies back in February when the markets were up Trump took credit for the economy.

The Biden team can say, well, if things are so bad, how come the stock market's on a roll?

Because they think I'm gonna be elected.

That you think the stock market's rally because people think you're good. Yeah.

A new poll finds 45 percent of voters say they'd be financially better off if Trump wins the November election as opposed to 25% for Harris. Many investors attribute yesterday's sell off concern about the health of the economy, not the election.

Google says it will appeal a federal judges ruling that the company is an illegal monopoly. The ruling points 1,000,000,000 of dollars. Google's ends on deals to install its search engine as a default on phones and other devices. The judge sided with the justice department's argument that the search giant blocked competition.

It's a landmark case that also could impact other big tech companies facing similar suits. That judge has now ruled that Google did maintain a monopoly over its search business. The judge will now decide whether to break up parts of Google or how company operates as part of its business.

A hearing in the case is expected next month.

A burst fire race through a neighborhood in San Nardino, California, destroying at least half a dozen homes. The area was evacuated as 200 firefighters battled the flames 1 person was briefly detained as investigators look into the cause.

Now to the Olympics, the US enters competition today tied with China for metals. There was some disappointment, but also true sportsmanship for team USA in gymnastics.

Double disaster for team USA. After Simone Biles and SUNY Lee both fell on the balance beam, the tumbles costing the gymnasts their shot at the podium.

Obviously, I'm a little bit disappointed just because that's not how I wanna and my Olympics, but I'm super proud of how I was able to kinda overcome everything.

Lee who battled through multiple kidney infections to make it to the games says she won't let 1 misstep overshadow the team's redemption tour.

I'm so proud that I was able to overcome all of the challenges that I was put through.

But those falls weren't the only upset of the day. Biles heavily favored

on the floor exercise, narrowly missed out on the gold, stepping out of bounds twice during her routine. The mistakes cost her 6 10ths of a point, allowing Brazilian Rebecca Andrade to slide into first.

Wasn't my best performances, but at the end of the day, whoever meddled meddled.

Jordan Chiles claimed 3rd place after her coach challenged her original score. The judges awarding an extra tenth of a point earning her the bronze. Then a moment of true sportsmanship. Both childs and Biles bowing to Andre during the medal ceremony.

It was just the right thing to do competing and then walking away with 4 medals. I'm not mad about it. I'm I'm pretty proud of myself, and it's always so exciting, to compete.

In other news, the triathlon Mick relay went on as planned despite international concern over water quality. Team USA taking silver in a head to head sprint to the finish against Germany. It comes as team USA makes history once again in fencing. Lee Kiefer and Lauren Scruggs earning gold in the team competition the first win ever for the US in the event.

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Scruggs, who is America's first black woman to metal Ready. Best. Celebrated her win by giving Flava Flav a private lesson.

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All eyes are now on track and field. Sprinter Noah Liles competes into 200 in the finals are Thursday.

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Good morning. We're very, very concerned about the flooding rain from tropical storm Debbie This onshore wind is also gonna be a a big storm surge producer shoving ocean water inland sending that up through parts of the lower portions of some rivers as well. And when you throw in an additional 18 to 24 inches of rain in the low country of South Carolina, that is a huge problem It will not be until the very end of the week when the upper level wins finally scoop this up and take it up the coast. For AccuWeather, I'm Jeff Cornish for ABC News.

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The team and its veteran kicker who helped propel the Chiefs to Super Bowl champions have reached a deal on a 4 year contract extension worth nearly $26,000,000, the largest contract ever for an NFL kicker, but cur made waves back in May with his commencement Beach at a Catholic school in Kansas, addressing the female graduates.

So I

think it is you, the women who have had the most diabolical lives told to you. How many of you are sitting here now about to cross this stage and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you are going to get in your career? Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.

He also referred to pride month as a deadly sin.

Not the deadly sin sort of pride that has an entire month dedicated to it. But the true god centered pride.

The crowd giving Butker a standing ovation. Many critics called for the Chiefs to release him, but Patrick Mahomes and coach Andy Reid quickly defended Bucker's right to his opinions. Bucker isn't the only chief making headlines, wide receiver, Rashid Wright reportedly got into a scuffle at training camp yesterday throwing the ball at a linebacker. He's facing criminal charges after he and a former college teammate were involved in this multi vehicle hit and run crash in Dallas in March. As for Harrison Budkirk, his new average annual salary will be nearly 6 and a half $1,000,000.

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So Tom Hanks is among the victims of a burglary ring. Targeting high end homes in Southern California. Investigators say a guest house on his property was targeted. Now neither Hank's nor his wife were there at the time, or that a dozen break ins have been reported in that area recently.

We turned out to the deep south on what's being called a small town coup now being settled. This morning, the first black mayor of a small town in Alabama finally has the key to town hall.

I'm very grateful for, you know, just to get get inside sit around and get the keys and being able to do do this or the mayor.

The mayor of newborn, Patrick Braxton, now allowed to take his right full place in townhall more than 3 years after he was elected. His predecessor, along with a group of white officials, refused to hand over the reins, claiming Braxton's victory was invalid.

They did not hold elections for 60 years They claimed that they held a special election in 2020 after Mayor Braxton decided to run and qualify and won.

It seems like a snap and trade that you've been elected to do it elected, and someone else got down and never, you know, to see that pass, you know, pass everything over to you.

Despite legally winning the election, Braxton was locked out of city hall and denied access to any official accounts.

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Critics call it a small town coup and blatant racism.

Well, I feel that it's all about race And I don't mind saying that. That's what it's about.

ABC's Steve Otsun Sami visited Newburn last year.

It's barely a mile long with about 200 people. Even the cemeteries are still racially segregated. This is where white people are buried. And over here is the dirt road that takes you to a hill where the descendants of former slaves still bury their debt today.

Mayor Braxton took his fight to the courts. And now after a year's long legal battle, a settlement has been reached BRAxton is free to finally take his seat. He says he just wants to bring people together. The former mayor in town council deny any wrongdoing. Their proposed settlement will now ensure that the court oversees an official election when since term is up.

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Got to check the pulse, so we begin with the 911 operator in Tennessee who over the phone helped the woman deliver baby.

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I think my favorite part about this whole situation was there was also another younger child in the room, maybe between the ages of 7 and 10 years old, but She started talking to the baby welcoming welcoming him to the world, and that absolutely just melted my heart.

Oh, the family is celebrating their joy in private. Next, Robert F Kennedy Junior will not be charged for dumping a dead bear in Central Park as a prank 10 years ago.

The independent presidential candidate could have been fined $250 for a legal disposal of the bear, but the statue of agents expired, the New Yorker publishing this photo.

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Checking more top stories now. Tropical storm Debbie is dumping life threatening rain on parts of Georgia and South Carolina. A curfew wasn't effect over in Savannah, Debbie could dump 30 inches of rain in some areas.

Israel is bracing for Iran or its proxies to strike at any moment in retaliation for the assassination of a top Hamas leader in Tehran last week as the US grapples to minimize the blow. Several American personnel were injured in a rocket attack in Iraq.

Nearly 400 arrests have been reported after an anti immigrant riots in the UK. The mayhem was sparked by false claims that the suspect in a dance class stabbing, which left 3 children dead, was an asylum seeker.

X is on the move. Elon Musk is reportedly shutting down the company's San Francisco office, which served as headquarters since 2012 when it was still Twitter. He recently said he wanted to move the main office to Texas.

Today's weather, other than Debbie's flood, threat, strong thunderstorms in the northeast, severe storms in Ohio and Michigan and more heat alerts in the west.

And finally, a technology that could decode dog parks.

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In 2009, the movie up showed us an animated dream where technology could help us finally interpret what dogs are trying to tell us.

We've been essentially training neural network models.

Well, apparently, it only took 15 years for our reality to start catching up with science fiction. Poor. Cool. Now researchers at the University of Michigan, like Professor Arada Bhalcha here, are starting to use artificial intelligence to translate a bark.

Can we tell just from the sound they make? What is the situation they are in?

Their teams started by uploading human speech to build their, quote, unquote, neural network and then using recorded situational vocalizations from about 70 dogs working with a team in Mexico. So far, Arana says their program has succeeded the most consistently with interpreting the breed of a dog. And if it's feeling either playful or angry. On the other hand, interpreting a dog's age, and definitely its gender has proven to be a little more challenging.

Maybe because we didn't have enough data.

Oh, no.

But let's be real. Sometimes the concept of AI developing can seem terrifying. So, let's ask what you're probably wondering. How do you see this technology being helpful for people?

If we think of benefit to humans, would be in the sense of having now access to these other forms of intelligence, like, for dogs, what they can learn to smell.

Says report data and nuance, maybe this program could help interpret reports from canine units or from dogs who can reportedly detect cancer. Not to mention perhaps we could also better diagnose dogs when we take them to the vet.

In the future, it's I think there could be even more that they could like.

We're still probably years away from a lot of that, but she says, soon, they may need crowd source to receive audio clips from our dogs, guys. Alright.

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It's Tuesday, August 6th. Was this a bad day for the markets, or something worse? We start here. A global sell off sparks fears of a recession.

What we saw on Monday is a free fall that started in Japan.

There are other factors that play here will walk you through it. The damage done by Debbie is just beginning.

It's mostly Charleston and that South Carolina coast that I'm really worried about.

Ginger Z has been chasing the storm across the southeast, which is now bracing for more floods. And by the end of tonight, Could the squad be down another member? They've called

her statements insensitive, incorrect, and, quote, banning the flames of anti Semitism.

Missouri Democrat Cory Busch faces 1 of the most expensive challenges of the year. From ABC News, this is start here. I'm Brad Milke. For the last several years, finance experts have expressed worry about a potential recession. Remember what a recession is?

It's where economic activity slows down or months or even years so that people can't afford as much. They start buying less. Businesses, therefore, taking less money. So they lay off workers and then guess what? More families can't afford as much.

It becomes this vicious cycle. Well, as the pandemic sat in, we did get a sudden recession, but it became the shortest recession in American history as we passed those huge relief bills, but the worrying wasn't over. As inflation started to grow and the Fed jacked up interest rates, there were new concerns about a vast economic slowdown. Somehow though, some way, despite all the warnings, we've avoided that. Well, last Thursday, the stock market started to sink.

No big deal. On Friday, though, it sank some more, will then as the opening bell rang yesterday. The Dow and the S and P 500 absolutely plummeted by the time the day was done, they had measured their worst day in 2 years, and the immediate warrant that came to people's lips was, wait for it, recession. But Is that what we're actually seeing? Let's start the day with ABC's chief business and economics correspondent, Rebecca Jarvis.

Rebecca, can you walk me through what's been happening over the last few days?

Well, Brad, I guess you could call it a kind of vibe shift on Wall Street. And I say that mildly unjust, but as somebody who's now covered the markets for 2 decades, there is a mood that can set in. And what I have seen from talking to a handful of veteran traders on Wall Street is that the mood has gone from pretty good to a little bit more sour to a little bit more concern. That's happened for a couple of reasons. First of all, You have the backdrop of the US economy.

This was definitely a weaker than expected jobs report. We did add jobs last month, a 114,000, but we were expecting to add a 185,000. When you look at the snapshot of the jobs market that we got on Friday, It shows that the unemployment rate is still very low, 4.3%, historically very low, but it's come up a lot since January when it was 3.7%. The pace of hiring has slowed down, and the number of people who are quitting their jobs has also been reduced greatly. You know?

And we tend to see in healthy economies that joblessness doesn't grow that quickly. So there is this concern that you've got joblessness growing faster than economists wanna see it. There have been data on layoffs that economists haven't loved There's been data on manufacturing that hasn't looked great. Add to that the backdrop of the threat of war in the Middle East. Add to that the backdrop of the Federal Reserve not cutting interest rates last week at its most recent meeting.

And the question of Well, are they too late? And so what we saw on Monday is a free fall that started in Japan overnight the selling coming in was already very severe. The Japanese market ended down 12%, which was the worst day since 1987 on Black Monday. Then you had selling the Dow was down right out of the gate more than a 1000 points. All 30 Dow stocks ended lower.

And the S and P 500, which is the thing that's in most retirement savings accounts, most retirement accounts track that. That was down 3%. And then where the worst of it happened was in tech stocks. The high flyers, these companies that earlier this year, seem to defy gravity just as recently as July 10th, the Nasdaq and tech stocks were at their all time highs. They got hit the hardest as well as a lot of the artificial intelligence linked company.

Wait. So is it everyone's worried about

the American unemployment rate? Cause that 1 had explained stuff happening in Japan, and it did seem to be like this global sell off, this global concern. Right?

There's kind of this perfect storm right now happening. Yes. The there are questions about the US economy, but there are even bigger questions about where interest rates are, not just here in the US, but in places like Japan. Japan is interesting because for a long time, Traders have been borrowing Japanese yen at very low interest rates, converting them to dollars, and then using those dollars to buy US stocks. The beneficiaries of that major tech companies.

But now Just recently, the Bank of Japan is raising its interest rates. So their currency, the Japanese yen, has strengthened a lot against the dollar. And so traders are having to both cover and pay higher interest rates for their Japanese yen that they borrowed And they're also facing big losses on their Japanese yen. In this chain reaction of events, they are selling US stock

Like, their their nifty little plan isn't so nifty anymore.

Well, they usually, they don't last forever. What goes up comes down, and this is generally the the market A trade never works forever for the most part. And that was just 1 more piece of the puzzle. Warren Buffet, turns out he sold path of his stake in Apple. Again, Apple, a big tech company, 1 of the beneficiaries there as well.

There is this sense that all the things that have happened over the last 18 months, 2 years where stocks have just defied gravity. They keep going up. Well, that that's just not going to happen forever, and that is what we saw in the markets on Monday. I will just add to that, though, Brad. What I'm hearing from Wall Street veterans is not panicked.

They they are not panicked by this. In fact, they see this as sort of the the reality that there's a lot up in the air right now and that if the market were to just keep climbing with all of those things up in the air, Then you'd have to ask yourself why.

Oh, like, that's almost more worrisome.

Right. On what basis is the market continuing to go up?

So with all that in mind especially because you and I always talk about how the stock market is not the economy. Right? Like, just because we're seeing big stock sell offs does not mean, like, that doesn't mean a recession. It just shows you that sometimes finance groups are worried about 1. Is the Fed still going to reduce these interest rates in the fall or, like, what they do them even more if we're worried about a recession.

I mean, what's the plan now?

In terms of the the there's basically 1 I would say with 99% probability certainty, and that is that there is an interest rate cut ahead.

The broad sense of the committee is that the economy is moving closer to the point at which it will be appropriate to reduce our policy rate.

Whether the interest rate cut will be a quarter percentage point or a half or even 3 quarters as some are calling for. And whether or not it will be before the meeting in September, those are the the sort of unknowns, but you can bet by the end of temper interest rates will be lower than they are today. If the data continues on the course that it's on, which is jobs are slowing down, manufacturing shows some softness and inflation has come way way down, even though it might not be at the exact target the Fed is looking for, it's come dramatically lower.

Really helpful stuff. Alright, Rebecca Jarvis. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Take care, Brad.

Next up on start here, if you didn't think Debbie was an intimidating name, well, you haven't met this 1, why a tropical storm is just the beginning after the break.

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The last several days A storm called Debbie had been slowly making its way up into the Gulf of Mexico. Yesterday morning, Debbie made landfall in Florida as category 1 hurricane. As it lumbered on shore, it quickly went back down into the tropical cyclone range, but that hasn't stopped it from dumping tons of water throughout the American southeast, which is why communities are scrambling for sandbags and flood safety equipment, anything to protect themselves against the fallout that could last days. These risks appear to only be beginning. Let's go to ABC's chief meteorologist Ginger Z who's made her way Ruth, Florida up to Georgia now outside Savannah.

Ginger, what are you seeing?

And that's a tough story to tell, Brad, because people see a land fall and they wanna be done with the storm because a lot of times when we have a hurricane, it moves in. It starts to dwindle, and then we kinda see it get picked up and moved out. That's not the case with Debbie, and that's why we're gonna be talking about Debbie and the impacts of it no matter what it ends up being even just remnants.

This is from the hurricane, from the the storm itself. We've had a lot of trees, power lines down over half the counties without power.

With the storm, at least 1 of the deaths was a young boy killed in a mobile home, a tree falling on that mobile home. And remember, the winds weren't that grand, but when you have a supersaturated soil, these trees come down really easily. Even gusts over 40 miles per hour can do it. So keep that in mind when you've got a lot of trace around you. Also, Governor DeSantis warning people, the best way to stay away from danger is don't drive out in the store.

We do think though that Floridians heating the call of being careful, particularly on the roads, has reduced what would otherwise have been because there's been some nasty conditions out there. So please to be be very cautious when you're going out.

The problem with a storm like this is we're not going to see much movement. It is going to move painstakingly slow, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. And so not just around Savannah, because I think they actually get on the backside of this by Wednesday Thursday, but it's mostly Charleston and that South Carolina coast that I'm really worried about going into the coming days because you have this combination of not just 10 to 20 inches of widespread rain, Like, that is a lot of rain, but also locally up to 30 inches. And here's the biggest issue is those fall in rivers, and you can have inland flooding easily with this. But then it tries to exit the normal waterways and tributaries and all the things, the rivers that take it to the ocean, it won't be able to.

Because the storm's gonna park itself just where it can counterclockwise rotate the water of the ocean right up against and kind of plug those rivers. And not allow any of it to come down. So that combo on top of the really heavy rain is going to make for an ugly, ugly, thing for these susceptible cities that it let they're so low anyway. Right? They they have problems with King Tides, let alone if you've got this eerie combination together.

I see. That's helpful because initially we heard, like, yeah, it's in Florida. It's gonna Georgia. You'd think, okay. The days that it's raining, those are the riskier days.

It actually sounds like that continues. There's almost a delay built in.

Yes. And as we know, you know, you have waterfall, rainfall on a river, it takes time for it to get downriver.

I see.

And if you're plugging up the end of it and and you're still pushing water kind of inland, that's where we're gonna come up with the major issues. And These rivers, all the way inland, have had problems through many different events, and they have been supersaturated, as well. Of late. So there's parts of the mid Atlantic that are very dry, and they desperately need rain. They will get some all the way up to Virginia.

Even we'll be talking about parts of Debbie getting up there, but really the bulk of it's gonna be kinda Coastal South Carolina Myrtle Beach Charleston.

Okay. So, I mean, what should people in the region be prepared for? What should they do in the meantime, I guess?

I think the other part that I've noticed with a storm like this is because it takes days to unfold, people don't really get it. They'll say, oh, I I'm in a flash flood warning. We've had flash flood warnings all for the last 3 days, and they start to get a little bit numb to it. And that would be my concern too, is that people don't understand the easiest way to survive in this type of storm is if you have a flash flood warning, 1 of those things pops up on your phone, don't drive. Alright.

Ginger Z. They're in Georgia right now. Like you said, the story quickly becoming, South Carolina. We'll talk to you later. Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Today is a big day in politics, primarily because we know for a fact that vice president Kamala Harris is planning on announcing a running mate pick by the end of the day. Her campaign has already announced she will peering with that person in Philly, but they also insist that's not because it's Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro. Could be anyone they say. Don't read anything into that. It's just scheduling, but Aside from all that, this is a big day because let's not forget.

Primaries are still happening. In fact, in Missouri, there is a primary for that state's 1st congressional district that is the seat currently occupied by Democratic Congresswoman Cory Bush, 1 of the members of the progressive group known as the squad. The squad has already had 1 member picked off this year by well funded primary opponents, and now Bush is fighting for her political life. Let's bring in ABC's political reporter, Britney Shepherd. Britney, what should we know about this race?

Oh my gosh. Well, still a primary happening in this really slow newsweek, Brad. Like, I hate I miss a lot of me. Right. Thank you.

But, yeah, I think all eyes will be on Missouri tonight in 1 corner. We have Cory Bush, the state's 1st black congresswoman.

I love your congresswoman. Loved you, and this is all legal and getting.

In the other corner, we have St. Louis County prostuting attorney Wesley Bell.

I'll have to prove it and push the Saint Louis County to lead the country.

And like you said, this primary very closely reflects the primary of squad member, Jamal Bowman, who just a couple months ago, had a stunning loss

Challenger George Latimore, a moderate Democrat. He's defeated incumbent Democratic congressman Jamal Bollin.

His campaign pointed to just massive and massive influxes of cash from the Superback tied to APAC. That's the American Israel Public Affairs Committee

My opponent at Apex are the ones destroying out of democracy.

That race was the most expensive house primary on record and Brad tonight's primary shaping up to be the 2nd most expensive house primary on record, even through everything that going on with the Democrats right now nationally. There's still a lot of divisiveness in who should be the kind of democrat that folks wanna see up on Capitol Hill.

Well, and you mentioned APAC, right, that's the pro Israel pack. It's largely seen as 1 of the reasons that Jamal Bowman lost his race obviously, like, he's got voters who don't like him. You think maybe outside money can help exploit that kind of opposition, but are are you saying, I guess, that Israel has now become, like, primary focus in this race as well.

Kent's the nucleus of all of this. You know, Corey Bush, member of the squad, has been really, really vocal. As a critic of Israel, especially in the wake of the October 7th attack.

Those who refuse to stop the ongoing genocide in Gaza, think they can arrest and brutalize their way out of this situation.

She called for permits. He's fired like Jamal Bowman as well. And is among 1 of the few house members who oppose that resolution supporting Israel.

Who are the ones that are actually for all people, not for some people. That is us, and we're gonna continue to do that.

And she also boycotted when Benjamin Netanyahu was speaking in front of Capitol Hill just a couple of weeks ago. Was definitely been a lot of blowback, especially from the local St. Louis Jewish community, Brad. They've called her statements insensitive, incorrect, and, quote, fanning the flames of anti Semitism. Meanwhile, that same community has endorsed Bell pretty enthusiastically,

I think it's misguided to not understand how complex the situation is, but we must stand with our allies, but then we still want to We wanna find a peaceful resolution and leave the door open for a a a 2 state solution.

He's campaign really aggressively to get these Jewish supporters on his side because APAC's money to the tune of about $8,000,000, if not more, by tonight

Wow.

Has really animated this rates

they are coming for Saint Louis.

Right.

They're pouring 1,000,000 upon 1,000,000 of dollars to flood our airways with lies and distortions about me.

And if Cory Bush loses tonight, she would be the 2nd member of the squad and incumbent member of the house. That's rare. Just completely kicked out of office because of her level of criticism on this.

So okay. So if the money is all flowing because of the Israeli issue, because of the war in Gaza, I mean, what are the other are are these candidates vulnerable for any other reasons besides that, I guess?

Yeah. I mean, both of their records are being very heavily scrutinized right now.

You can't just cheer from the bleachers. You gotta be a team player that stands with president Biden.

Bella's questioning some Corey Bush is a member of the squad's progressive bonafides pointing to her not voting for that infrastructure bill. She says she didn't do that because she wanted more progressive version of that legislation.

I will always stand up for what St. Louis deserves is, hey. Louis does not deserve scraps. And therefore, I don't work for the scraps. Alright.

Corey Bush's campaign is saying that Bell might not actually be a real progressive. His campaign managed a Republican who ran for the same house district back in 2006, and local watchdog organizations have been dubious of his progressive record. But Bush is not without vulnerabilities of her own here.

The complaint to the FTC by a right wing pack accuses Bush of illegally funneling $60,000 of campaign funds to her husband.

Was a justice department investigation actually into her campaign finances because she brought her now husband on to that security payroll.

I retained my husband as part of my security team to provide security services with he has had extensive

experience in this area. She's denied any wrongdoing, but of course, there are all these questions about ethics and management of funds that will no doubt be cycling in voters' minds.

National Guard troops are now heading to Fergus Missouri.

In state's governor deployed them overnight after a week of protests over the shooting of an unarmed 18 year old.

And Brad shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson that happened actually almost 10 years ago to the day has also been an animating part of the primary. The prosecutor involved in that case was actually Wesley Bell himself.

Law enforcement in Ferguson and and around the country, overpoliced communities of color, use disproportionate and unnecessary force.

Bell called the decision not to criminally charge the police officer who shot Brown, quote, 1 of the most difficult things he's had to do as an elected official.

Not only would would he have would we have to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt, But by Missouri law, we would also have to prove any self we would have to disprove any self defense claims beyond a reasonable doubt.

Brown's family has endorsed Cory Bush in this race, and she's even cut an ad featuring members of Michael Brown's family.

He used my family for Powell. Now he's trying to sell out St. Louis. He doesn't care about us.

Corey Bush does.

I'm Corey Bush, and I approve this message.

Right? In the Ferguson case, so charged to this day, Belle was actually the latest in a string of prosecutors that said, like, I'm sorry we just we can't prove this, but at the end of the day, It's not like you get great polling in a lot of local races like this. Right? So, I mean, depending on who wins, what would that mean in the broader scheme?

Think a democratic party is going through identity crisis, trying to figure out what does it mean to be a Democrat? Is there even space for progressives, is the Democratic party moving in a more centrist direction will Kamala Harris pull things in a more progressive way? You know, there's It's a time of flux. If not in any crisis, certainly flux and change and figuring out what is the most successful message to cross acute the Republicans and, you know, win back the white house for them. I think that whatever happens today, it'd be determinative of how that message is crafted going forward.

Right. Right. Because we got 435 house seats up for grabs every November. So this 1, no important than any of the others, but if it becomes a trend where the progressives are losing seats, where the squad is shrinking, that becomes a really big deal. Britney Shepherd, our political reporter in DC.

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It is the default, and that's no accident. In fact, Google has paid 1,000,000,000 of dollars over the years to companies like Apple and Mozilla to become their default search engine. The judge said that had Google not paid all that money Safari would have likely developed a better search engine of their own would be competitors fell by the wayside, but this raises a basic question. Should it be illegal to pay a boatload of money to someone to promote your product instead of making their here is, yeah, Apple wanted our search engine. Ours was better than theirs.

We wanted to pay them to be exclusive. Everyone's consenting. How is any of this a crime? This is where the judge brought a second issue into play. See, 1 of the main ways Google makes money is sponsored search results.

Like, you type in dinner near me, Google gives you all the answers for free, But above them all, it lists that sushi place that paid them a hundred bucks to be on top of the list. Well, as Google became the dominant force in search, the judge said, they charged more and more money for all these search results. Right? What's the sushi place gonna do? Advertise on bing.com instead?

Well, all that extra money Google took in, the judge said is how they were able to afford these huge, exclusive deals in the first place.

We alleged that Google has captured that revenue for its own profits. And punish publishers who sought out alternatives.

Now Google says they will appeal, and in the meantime, they'll continue to make products that people find helpful and easy to use. This comes ahead of some crucial cases brought by the DOJ against Apple, Meta, and, yes, another 1 against Google. And if the government now has precedent on their side, will soon you might be searching for explainers on how the whole internet changed. Now you might be wondering what does Google have to do next, right, do they have to pay

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Hi. I'm Diane Mosado today on ABC live. First, vice president Kamala Harris is expected to name a running mate at any moment. What we know about the biggest decision of her campaign

so far.

Millions of Americans are in a flood emergency as the death toll from Debbie grows. The devastation left behind and where the storm is did next. The wildfire growing in Southern California, at least 200 firefighters are trying to save dozens of homes, how neighbors are helping to get that fire under control. And overseas markets are bouncing back after the worst day on Wall Street in almost 2 years. What's behind the wild swings and what it means for your money?

The first vice president, Kamala Harris is set to announce her running mate at any time ahead of a campaign blitz in Battle Ground State starting tonight in Pennsylvania. Harris has only had 16 days since president Biden dropped out of the race to consider who she wants by her side. She'll be, of course, taking on former president Trump and Senator Jay D Vance, along with whoever she names as her running mate. ABC News Senior White House correspondent Selena Wang in Philadelphia where her is expected to make the announcement.

Vice president Harris gearing up to announce her new running mate. Sources to ABC News Harris is preparing for her biggest rally yet, with more than 10,000 supporters expected tonight in Philadelphia. She'll introduce her VP pick to the country there before launching a blitz through battleground states. The vice president huddled behind closed doors yesterday narrowing her list to likely 1 of these 3 candidates. Minnesota governor, Tim Walls, who hosted a fundraiser for Harris Overnight, and is a retired school teacher in 6 term Congressman.

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Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, the retired astronaut married to shooting survivor, Gabby Giffords, and first her governor, Josh Shapiro, of the must win state of Pennsylvania.

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While factions of the democratic party have been pushing Harris to choose their favorite candidate, the vice president keeping her deliberations under lock and key. In a new interview, Donald Trump, saying any of Harris's possible VP pick would be a better president than she would.

I think virtually every 1 of them is considered better, smarter, would be a better president than her, but we can't allow her to be president. She's gonna destroy our country.

Alright. Thanks to Selena Wang. Meanwhile, 4 people are now dead from tropical storm Debbie. The storm slammed Florida's Gulf Coast as a category 1 hurricane and is now moving slowly over Georgia and South Carolina. Forecasters are predicting 30 inches of rain in some parts with the threat of historic flooding In Florida streets, her underwater and roughly 150,000 customers are without power.

In Georgia, the mayor of Savannah issued a curfew warning the storm could mean, quote, obliteration for parts of the city. And in South Carolina, 1 of at least 9 reported tornadoes was spotted overnight, damaging property near Charleston. ABC's Trevor Alt is following that travel chaos that Debbie's causing Victor Kendos in South Carolina. But first, let's go to chief meteorologist in Savannah, Georgia. Ginger.

What's it like there right now?

Yeah. So we're still just getting kind of what would have been the middle of the storm because at the 8 AM update, the National Hurricane Center, Diane had the center of tropical storm Debbie about 20 miles southwest of us, and it's only moving northeast at 7. And so it's crawling. And you can see behind me, we've had flooding throughout the night that abandoned car, and this has actually gone down considerably as we've had this lighter rain, another abandoned car in the background there. But we're gonna go through the forecast here.

This is the all important 1. Right? Like, so we're gonna begin with a look at that radar that's twisting around on top of the flood alert that go all the way up to Raleigh now and down to Still Brunswick, you have tornadoes, and they've been popping around North Carolina, tornado watch that goes up includes Wilmington as well. I wanted to also just show you this path because the path is all important. As slowly as it's moving now, it's gonna go even slower in the coming days.

And so why as that thing goes back over those warm ocean waters, refuels, strengthens again, and that's the thing. You have to have patience with this tour because it's gonna take its sweet time. And then keeps dropping rain here in the southeast. That's where those totals come from after 3 days when it finally exits North Carolina, by Friday and then makes its way all the way into the Mid Atlantic And Northeast. We also just want to emphasize to have a high risk of flash flooding Diane that you see that hot pink on the map That is extremely rare.

To have it for 2, 3 days in a row, like we have for Savannah or Charleston, and now all the way up to Raleigh, it's a huge deal, and we will be talking about Debbie. Hey, we could track it all the way home by the start of the weekend.

Now, Victor in Charles in the flooding is already a major problems. What are you seeing there?

So, Diane, we are in downtown Charleston, This is the city market area. You can see some store owners taking those precautions. They got these sandbags out and for good reason. Right now, we're standing on the sidewalk as I get onto the street, you can see it is just inundated water, just above my ankle, but I should mention that we've been out here for about 3, 3 a half hours now. And earlier, the water was just below my knee.

So it does look good news for people in this area right now is that the drains, the pumps, are working. That being said, we still have the potential for catastrophic flooding here in Charleston. That has been the concern all along The city is surrounded by rivers. And when they take on too much water, they can't drain into the Atlantic right now like they normally would because of all the water that Debbie is pushing in off of the east. Let's listen to what the governor had to say about the amount of rain we could expect here.

May that this is the most moral we've seen for a long time. Maybe. We don't know. So stay alert. Stay tuned and stay safe.

Charleston's mayor saying that they have brought in additional pumps. They are ready to be deployed as needed. Same with those high water rescue vehicles, Charleston was put under a curfew last night, city leaders meeting again today to reassess that plan moving forward as we are bracing for more rain through Thursday. Diane.

Alright. Ginger's Eve Victor. Thank you. And tropical storm Debbie is also causing chaos at several major airports. 1000 of flight across the country have been canceled or delayed.

ABC's Trevor Ault has the latest.

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Frustrated travelers facing delay after delay dealing with the ripple effects from tropical storm Debbie and a series of scattered summer storms, a Across the Midwest And Northeast. Nationwide, more than 23,000 flights canceled or delayed since Sunday. Debbie's pummeling winds and rains hitting Florida airports hard.

Our flight was supposed to leave at 11:40 this morning. We're not leaving until about 8:30 tonight now. It's it's quite the adventure trying to keep my young 1 occupied.

Travelers trying to head south are also struggling

trying to get down there for 2 days. So it's just frustrating at all all in general. I get the weather is the cause, but, hey, give me some better information so I can plan.

American Airlines, which has hubs in Miami and Charlotte has been hit the hard 4 112 flights canceled yesterday alone, and all the big airlines are allowing customers to rebook without change fees.

And I, and the FAA is once again warning travelers about disruptions up and down the East Coast today, especially with more thunderstorms in the Midwest and again here in the northeast, and it's coming on back to back days with more than 10,000 flight delays and cancelations across the country. Diane?

Trevor Alt. Thank you. And a fast moving brush fire in Southern California is destroying homes and prompting evacuations. The Edge Hill Fire has burned several homes, and he'll side community. The fire is so intense.

Homeowners even jumped in to help battle the flames. ABC news live anchor Tina Whitworth is in San Bernardino with the late on that. Kayna, what are you seeing?

Yeah, Diane. Look. Good morning. It was really all about speed. I spoke with some firefighters.

Many of them who've been in this area for decades, and they say they've never seen a fire move this quickly through this area. The people that lived here, you can see their home still smoldering. Look, they only had moments to escape, and they say they tried to save all of their animals that they could, and sadly, not all of them made it out alive.

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Angeles left to pick up the pieces after a fast moving brushfire tour through the San Bernardino neighborhood.

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Wins pushing the fire through dry brush in triple digit temperatures and right into people's homes. This outdoor garden area first catching fire before spreading to the house and an RV scene bursting into flames. This is all that's left of that RV

that caught on fire.

And you can see behind me, they're digging up the ground to try to turn off the gas line because it's still burning here. Immense destruction for a fire that burned only 54 acres before its progress was stopped. And we also learned now today that a firefighter was injured in this fire. Also important to note here that this area, Diane, will be in an excessive heat warning throughout the rest of the day today, Diane.

And so, Kayna, what are officials there telling you now about the origin of the fire? Do they know how it started?

Right. So it's early on in this investigation. We were told yesterday that authorities actually took someone into custody suspected of possible arson That person though was released. So the investigation is in its infancy here. They will be out on scene early this morning.

All fire investigators, including arson investigators, But again, Diane, there's a real concern about the fire, weather in this area, again, excessive heat warnings, throughout San Bernardino and Los of Los Angeles. And this is 1 fire that's been stamped out, Diane, because there's at least 17 other fires burning in the state right

now.

Alright. Kayna Whitworth in Sandburn. Do you know? Thanks, Kayna. Stay safe.

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Good morning. We're coming on the air now with breaking news. Vice President Kamala Harris is set to pick Minnesota governor, Tim Walt, as her running mate. There he is right there, 2 term governor of Minnesota. Wanna go straight to Selena Wang, who is there in Philadelphia and Selena.

Walt's appears to have fit the the all American definition of a man from middle middle America, high school teach teacher, football coach member of the army National Guard before becoming a member of Congress and now governor.

Exactly. He really has that perfect backstory. He also has those rural roots, and he's really emerged as the dark horse in this deep stakes race. He has emerged as a favorite, very recently as he has been on the cables on the network showing that he can effectively push back on those Republican attacks. He's the 1 George remember who label JD Vance and his Republican allies as, quote, weird, which gained a lot of steam with the Harris campaign.

He has this folksy personal and formal vibe that has really appealed to a lot of Democrats, and they believe that his rural backstory, the fact that he's a former member of the NRA, as you say, he is this high school, former high school teacher. He was a football coach that this can help appeal to those independent swing state vote but it is unprecedented, George, how all of this has played out. I was told that as of last night, according to sources, vice president Harris still not made her decision and that her team was printing out signs with multiple different candidates on it ready to go at any moment. This decision coming down to the wire her inner close team had been keeping this decision under lock and key they wanted to avoid any leaks.

And let me read in John Carl, our chief Washington correspondent, we know that the vice president met with the with 3 finalists on Sunday, not only Governor Waltz, but also governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania Center Mark Kelly of Arizona.

Yeah. All 3 fan, had strong, arguments to make to be her running mates. All 3 under serious consideration until the very end. Tim Walls, came through, as, somebody that Frankly, Kamala Harris was comfortable with. She actually had known, Josh Shapiro much longer.

The 2 of them both, former, attorneys general. She had known had a longer relationship with him. But, people that I've spoken to said she really hit it off with with Tim Walls. Both of them, coming from states that are important, Pennsylvania, perhaps the most important battleground state But Minnesota, a state that that Democrats, won last time, and we're counting on winning again, but we're Donald Trump had, shown strength. And and more importantly, it's it's that whole, area, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, that the feeling was having a, a Midwest governor, who had, governed in in a state, that that that, that that has significant pockets of of Republican voters, would be good for her.

And if you look at, his experience in Congress, George, you know, he he's a 6 term member of the house before he, ran for governor. His district, is a district that Donald Trump carried quite handedly, a a pretty conservative district. And as a member of Congress, he was viewed as a as a accurate Democrat. Now he has seen certainly among these 3 finalists as the most progressive, the most liberal, politically of the 3 finalists but he does, you know, have a record in Congress, as as a rather moderate, Democrat representing a very moderate to conservative district in Minnesota.

And let me bring in Mary Bruce, our chief White House correspondent, Mary, that personal chemistry, obviously, paramount, in the final decision. But in the last couple weeks, Tim Wallace also had been performing very well on the stump, and a lot of Democrats believe he lines up well with former president trump's running mate J. D. Vance.

Yeah. Certainly, Georgia, his midwestern appeal, that plain spoken way of talking that he has. He's a bit folksy, and I think that certainly appealed to a lot of voters, especially perhaps, you know, some some Joe Biden supporters. He clearly showed, Kamala Harris believes that he is able to get out there on this dump, clearly articulate the case against Donald Trump. And he was creating a lot of buzz.

Look at Salinas said he coined that that that that 1 word takedown of the Trump Vance team just calling them weird. That is something that really gained a a fair amount of traction. And so much of this decision. Well, yes, it is about, you know, who can put what states in play, you know, looking at the map, looking ahead to the future, It is also a decision that is simply about chemistry, camaraderie, compatibility. This is a job, of course, that Kamala Harris knows better than anyone else.

And clearly when it came down to it, she believes that she and Tim Wall make a good team here that they are going to be able to not just govern well but also when all of these things factor into this decision. And, of course, this is the most consequential decision of her career and 1 that she has had to make an absolute warp speed, just 16 days, George, 16 days. That's how long she has had to get used to being a candidate and to making this huge decision. And despite all of the decision making all of the vetting, when it comes down to it, this decision was up to Kamala Harris alone.

No question about that. Let's bring in Rachel Scott with the first reaction. From the Trump campaign, Rachel?

Yeah. We're just getting word in from Donald Trump's, campaign and also from the former president, his allies saying, quote, even worse then dangerously liberal Crooked Kamala Harris, that's the reaction, to this news that we are now reporting that Harris is picking governor Tim Walls to be her running mate. Just yesterday, George, the former president Donald Trump was saying quite the opposite. In fact, during an interview, he said that whoever Harris choose is to be her running mate would be better than her. We know that the Trump campaign for days now has really been trying to recalibrate their focus, trying to figure what exactly their strategy is because they wanted to run against president Joe Biden.

And once president Joe Biden dropped out of the race, they now have tried to figure What their new line of attack is not only on vice president, Kamala Harris, but also now on someone who is going to be her running mate. When when president Biden was still on We know there was that phone call between Senator JD Vance and also vice president Kamala Harris agreeing to meet again once again on the debate stage. We'll have to see what happens with the potential by presidential debate and whether or not governor Tim Walls will agree to debate Senator J. D. Vance, Donald Trump's running late, George.

Okay, Rachel. Thanks for supporting our political Washington Bureau chief, Rick Klein, and and Rick, as now that we know that it's gonna be Walt, I imagine he's gonna be on a continuous loop, between the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. And we're seeing this at a time when Kamala Harris does have some momentum in those states.

George, the Harris campaign knows that if you win in the upper Midwest, you almost certainly win the election. And the movement that we've seen in the battleground state polling and the 538 polling average just since Joe Biden left the race is substantial, and it's particularly pronounced in those upper Midwest States in Wisconsin, in Michigan, in Pennsylvania. Now Tim Walls isn't from those states, other finalists like Josh Shapiro were, but Walls is from just the other side of those states. He he represents a part of the country, a redder part a bluer state, as John Carl pointed out, that's critical. A lot of voters there are similar to the voters in Wisconsin and in Michigan and in Pennsylvania that will certainly decide the election.

I think it's fair to assume that, governor Walls after he's selected, we'll spend plenty of time in those battleground states as will vice president Harris herself. She's gonna be in Pennsylvania later today. She's planning to hit all of those big battlegrounds in the next couple days. You see that shift all of the those 3 states at the top Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, that by by themselves almost certainly would make vice president Harris president Harris and her will be that Tim Walls helps deliver those states.

Doubling down on the Midwest. Okay, Rick Klein. Thanks very much. 1 more time. Vice President Kamala Harris has picked miss Minnesota governor, Tim Walls poised to pick Tim Moss as her running mate.

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In you're watching ABC news live. Special coverage now of vice president Kamala Harris's decision on her running mate Harris is poised to pick Minnesota governor, Tim Walls. Her potential vice president. Walsh is a former public school teacher now in his second term as governor. He served in the army national guard and coached high school football and basketball before being elected to Congress in 2006.

As a surrogate for Harris, Wallace has praised her for reenergizing the party and defended her record against Trump's attacks, claiming that she is ultra liberal as governor, he's implemented a bevy of progressive policies, including paid family leave, Universal school breakfast and lunch, legalization of recreational marijuana use, state codification of abortion rights and gun control measures, like universal background checks, and red flag laws. This is a very different race than just 2 weeks ago when president Biden dropped out of the race. Opening the door for vice president Harris to become the top of the ticket. And now we're learning who she's poised to name to be by her side on the campaign trail. I wanna go to senior White House correspondent.

Selena Wang from war. Selena, what does this choice do for the strength of the democratic ticket?

Look, Diane, He has clearly shown that he is someone who can speak to these rural independent swing state voters. They like his folksy personal affable vibe. We've really seen Minnesota governor Tim wall skyrocket when it comes to popularity in this beepstakes after he went on a bevy of these networks and cables calling Republicans and JD Vance, quote, weird. He's shown that he can effectively push back on the Republican attacks in a way that is both lighthearted and also moves the ball it in a different way. It kinda puts Republicans off of their feet a little bit.

Now his backstory is really perfect when it comes to him being a high school football coach. He's a former member of the NRA, which he could appeal to perhaps more Republican leaning voters who are independent in that way as well. He is also a former foot coach. He spent decades in cop, he spent years in Congress. He's a lot of relationships there as well.

And when it comes down to it, though, he's not actually from a battleground state. That's why there was so much speculation about governor Josh Appear of Pennsylvania being defibrant, but ultimately vice president, Harrison Told, really cares about chemistry. She cares about someone who she can trust, as well as thinking someone who can help her with. Now there are questions, though, about how this will really broaden the base when it comes to the policies. As you just said, Diane, he has enacted a slew of progressive policies so you can definitely expect these Republican attacks to say that he's even more liberal than vice president Kamala Harris.

Selena, that said,

How does that how do they use that to try to appeal to more moderate voters, particularly for a candidate who's not coming from a critical back, battleground state like Arizona like Pennsylvania.

They're gonna want to lean into his rural, his background, his rural vibes, his rural roots. And the way that he has this folksy, very personal, affable way of speaking, they think that he can be a very effective communicator. And, of course, just because Shapiro and Kelly are not going to be the vice president doesn't mean that they can't still be surrogates. I was talking to someone who is close to Shapiro who had some concerns about Shapiro in terms of his support of Israel, has very outspoken support of Israel, and his support of the school voucher saying he might not be the vice presidential pick, but he can still stump for her here in Pennsylvania. In fact, vice president Harris will be here tonight something we expect Shapiro to be there as well.

So just because these other folks aren't going to be her vice presidential pick doesn't mean that they can't still be surrogates for her. And she clearly believes that walls of somebody who not only is going to help her win, but she could see governing starting on day 1. She can see herself working with him, not just during this campaign, and not just for possibly 4 years, but possibly 8 years. This is a really a relationship that cannot just be thought of in the short term, but needs to be someone you can see yourself sticking with in the long term through lunches, dinners, minute by minute, moment by moment decisions.

And I wanna bring in our senior congressional correspondent, Rachel's Rachel, what does this mean for the Trump campaign?

Yeah. Well, we're already getting word right now from, the Trump campaign in the Super PAC in a statement that they put out that was signed by the former president calling, Tim Walls even worse than, quote, dangerously liberal and crooked Kamala Harris saying that he's just that bad. You know, this is interesting and quite a contrast, honestly, to what the former president was saying, even just yesterday about whoever Kamala Harris was going to be picking as her running mate. Just yesterday, he was saying,

I think virtually every 1 of

them is considered to be better, smarter would be a better president than her, going on to say she's going to destroy the country. And so here you have a Trump campaign that is honestly trying to figure out their footing, with this completely different democratic ticket now. We know that former president Donald Trump and his allies really wanted to be president Joe Biden on the democratic ticket running against him amid all those questions about his age and mental fitness. Now you have this massive shakeup where not only you have, but him running against vice president Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket, but also now they have to figure out a new line of attack against her new running may governor, Tim Wall. So this is something that the campaign is struggling to adjust to.

1 thing to watch out for, Diane, as we are talking about this, we know that there was that phone call when Senator JD Vance was selected to be, president president, Trump's running May in which they both agreed to see each other on the debate states. We'll have to wait and see whether or not walls, in advance. We'll both agree to face off on the debate stage before the November election.

And I wanna bring in chief Washington correspondent, Jonathan Carl, too, because John Rachel's talking about how the Trump campaign's gonna have to figure out how they now go after the the ticket with Waltz on it. And that's sure. At least part of it to look back to 2020. He was criticized for as governor of Minnesota, how he handled the COVID crisis and the George Floyd protests. How vulnerable is he on those issues?

Well, they're gonna portray him as a as a progressive, governor as as this, Kamala Harris basically, doubling down on on progressiveism, a far left ticket. That's gonna be, a big part of the, of the of the Trump campaigns attack on Harris. And And walls allows them, to to make that argument. But but look, walls brings a lot to the table. And when you when you look at him, you know, he does have a progressive record as governor.

There is no question. He also represented, 1 of the most conservative districts in, the state of Minnesota and congress. This is a district. Remember, he was a 6 term member, of the house. His district was won by Donald Trump in 2016 by 15 points.

The same year that Walls himself was also elected from that district. So he ran, you know, 15 more than 15 points ahead of Hillary Clinton in 2016. And then he governed, you know, he he he served in that district up again in 2020, and Trump won that district again. By 10 points, and walls also won that district, by about 10 points. So he had a pretty a moderate record as a, as a 12 year member of the house, and a record that got him elected over and over again, 6 times, in a, district in Minnesota that looks a heck of a lot like, the areas that, Kamala Harris needs to do well in Michigan, in Pennsylvania, in Wisconsin.

So, you know, we'll we'll see how they do. We we we we can anticipate the attacks that will come against him. But he does bring some strengths.

And, Rick, those attacks go both ways. I wanna go to Rick Klein, our Washington Bureau chief and political director. Because Rick, those attacks do go both ways. And and 1 of the ways that Walt's made headlines was when he called Trump and and JD Vance weird, not long ago. Sometimes the running mate acts as somewhat of an attack dog for the top of the ticket.

Do you expect to see that from walls here?

I think because this has been such an extraordinary 2 week span, governor Walls was not on anyone's shortlist or maybe the longer versions of the shortlist at the beginning of the period, but you saw a couple of interviews that he gave, some cable news appearances that that went viral where he went on the attack. And those attacks got a lot of people notice He would always be someone that would be considered, but he isn't someone who had a long history with vice president Harris. He isn't someone, who was mentioned as a potential presidential contender in a world where Biden stepped aside or Harris wasn't running. So that that didn't that didn't put him in the immediate mix. And he kind of put himself there that line about Republican just being weird in the way that he defended some of his more progressive policies.

All of that kind of endeared him to a democratic base He's quite known to the activist community, in Washington and well beyond. John mentioned him being elected in 2007. He spent a lot of time in Washington and a lot of time in in Minnesota as well.

Overall, what do you think this pick says about Harris's mindset and why she chose to go in this direction?

You could view this as a more cautious pick than choosing governor, got Josh Shapiro, who would have been his own barrier breaker as a as a Jewish man running given the the the party and the way that it's been at odds over Israel policy. Walls may be seen as safer. He's he's only about 6 months older than Kamala Harris, so that he may look a little because of the white hair. But this says to me that she is very much focused on the Big Midwestern States.

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Wanna bring a chief Washington correspondent, Jonathan Carl, for more on this. John, what do you make of this pick? On the 1 hand, considered fairly safe, but on the other hand, Part of the reason Wall's got this look is because he kind of went on the attack in the press not long ago against Trump advance.

Yeah. And and look, you want a vice president who can be your attack dog who can take, the argument against your opponent. And Walt's has showed that he can clearly do it, but do it with a smile. He's, you know, look, his background, he's got a great resume when when when you look at it for if you were to design a a a resume for a national political figure growing up, in a rural farm community. He talks about you know, 24, people in his in in his school, 12 of them.

He jokes were cousins, grew up, you know, in in in Nebraska, he, was a high school teacher, a high school geography teacher, and a pretty popular 1. So anybody who can keep the attention of, you know, of teenagers, probably has something going on for him. He's got a military back background served, in the army national guard and, served for for 12 years in Congress, representing a, a very conservative and rural district in soda, winning over some of the very type of voters that he's gonna need, to help Kamala Harris win over if they're gonna win, those critical Midwest states in November. And you have him now in his second term as governor of Minnesota. Now what the, Republicans will key in on as he's been a very progressive, governor, and they will, portray this as the progressive, the liberal pick.

And in a sense, that is right. If you look at, the 3 finalists that she was the Kamala Harris was looking at, you know, Mark Kelly, Josh Shapiro, and and Governor Walls. She clearly went, with the most liberal of the 3, but somebody who has a very good track record of winning over, moderate to conservative voters in Minnesota as well.

John, humble beginnings, a rural upbringing, military experience sounds a lot like JD Vance as well. Is that

a coincidence?

Well, I think I think that that that this part of the thinking here is he is somebody that can go toe to toe with JD Vance. And in a way that Democrats would say, is it with a with a much more authentic story, much more true, to his roots, they will argue than JD Vance who did have those humble, rural, beginnings military service and all that. But, you know, but also, had his, time in, you know, Wall Street Finance, and and all of that. So, yeah, so I I I I think that that Walls is seen as somebody that can go and face off quite well that the Democrats believe against JD Vance.

Rick, that said there are, of course, vulnerabilities with any candidate with walls 2 of them are going to be how he handled the pandemic as governor of Minnesota, the George Floyd protests. And as John points out, that experience between the 2, the contrast between the 2 could hurt him in a public, so concerned about the economy right now. What do you think, in terms of where he is most vulnerable and how the ticket's gonna try to defend against that and how the Trump campaign's gonna try advantage?

Yeah. Being governor during the George Floyd protest is definitely something that's going to come up. We're gonna see a lot of that coming from the the Trump campaign. They're gonna make the point about, crime and public safety already. The Trump campaign is saying he's the most liberal vice presidential pick in history.

He's had good answers for good parts of his progressive, and he's brought a kind of prairie populism to the governor's, the governor's office in Minnesota that's been compelling enough to get him elected and then and then reelected. But, you can't necessarily just map the red parts of Minnesota onto the democratic coalition because Tim Walls has chosen. That's just not how it works. You have to both excite the democratic base and stem the losses, which have been considerable for Democrats in those, rust belt, redder parts of of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania. Look, vice presidential picks rarely add states to the mix.

You have to go back a long way probably to Linda Johnson, so you found someone that actually just you you you added a state for a presidential ticket, but they can change the messaging. And it does open up to attack lines as well. We're hearing from the Trump campaign that this is the most liberal ticket in history. Waltz's record is gonna be a piece of that. Whether whether and how he defends it, that's gonna be part of the messaging.

Rick, what about geography? Minnesota's increasingly competitive, but it it's not Arizona or Pennsylvania in terms of critical bound battleground states for the democrats. Was that a risk?

Well, I think if, if the if Josh Shapiro was the choice, clearly, it would have had a lot to do with Pennsylvania and it's a vital status for Democrats it's very hard to see how, a Democratic president wins in 2024 without some combination or all of those upper mid States. You definitely have to keep Minnesota. That's a no question. Without Minnesota, you definitely loses a Democrat, but Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania. They may be enough to squeak through the presidency, but they almost certainly gonna be part of any weighing coalition.

And we've heard from, you mentioned the other side of the ticket. Donald Trump had said he wanted JD Vance park himself in the upper Midwest. I think you're gonna see a lot of Tim walls in those upper Midwestern States as well. Even as Harris and her campaign have boasted of expanding the battleground into some the Sunbelt states, the increasingly diversifying states like Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, those are states that, that are more new to the democratic coalition. And Harris came in, would love to win there, but they also know they have to they have to mind their own backyard, and that is the upper Midwest.

And that's very, very close to where Tim Walls hails from.

So, John, in overall messaging, when you look at the the candidates that vice president Harris was said to be considering the fact that she made this choice, what do you think that says about the direction she wants to take this ticket in?

Well, I think as as Rick has pointed out, I think that in in some sense, it was the safe choice. You have somebody who has been, you know, she only had, what was it, 16 days to vet a a potential running mate. Walls has effectively been vetted by, you know, running in in in a pretty competitive, races for the house. Several of his reelection campaigns were very close, targeted by, by Republicans for defeat, and then getting elected twice in, again, competitive, races for governor, in Minnesota. He's somebody who is, to to that extent, a battle tested.

But it but it showed that she wanted, you know, something of of a balance. I mean, she, is being portrayed as a San Francisco liberal. So now you have perhaps a Prairie populist to add to that. His life story is quite different from Kamala Harris's, his you know, his political views may not be all that different at all. And certainly now that he's the running mate, he'll be entirely aligned, with her but but he does, represent a, stylistic, balance and a balance in terms of personal story.

And, Rick, let's talk about that style because in 1 of the ways he made headlines is calling Trump advance weird. So what do you think this does for the style of the of the, rhetoric we're gonna hear on the campaign trail.

A little bit of a looser style, perhaps. You know, he's gotten viral with some videos that he puts off his own camera and just talks about how he's fixing his car by buying a a a cheap part at, at an auto at an auto parts store. You know, that that's not your typical, democratic, official in 2024. And and I wonder how much you're gonna see of that. Again, a kind of casual populism.

He seems very comfortable own skin, answering questions about his, about his own, his own resume. And and I think, you know, the the background he has is a as a teacher, as a congressman, you know, closer to the community, there's kind of a folksy style that I think is compelling. And as part of the package you get with this pick, He looks a little bit older than he is. He's only about 6 months older than than vice president Harris. So there's, you know, the generational contrast you can kill still keep up against, against Trump in particular, 20 years younger than him.

But I do think there's a, a kind of ease in his own, in his own skin and in his own fee that that comes through when he comes out in public that I think could be a a weapon for this campaign.

And, John, quickly, I wanna touch on the age since Rick brought it up, you know, at 60, a slightly older than vice president Harris. He's not bringing this other youth wave to the ticket in the same way that a 39 year old JD Vance does. Is is that risk given how much age has been a factor in this election up until now?

Yeah. It is funny when you look at the 2 of them, Harris, and and walls that they are only 6 months apart. I mean, he's only 6 months older than she is. So it's not he he he looks he looks older, you know, considerably older than that. Look, Shapiro would have been a very different pick.

It would have been in in in some sense, a a a bolder and and riskier pick. It would have been putting on the on the ticket somebody, who has, very obvious, national ambition, you know, Shapiro is is a very effective, speaker and campaigner. He's been a very popular governor in in in, arguably, the most important battleground state of of them all. And, you know, would have been, putting somebody on the ticket that would have you know, but then perhaps a different power center. This is this is, tapping somebody who doesn't seem to have that same, you know, national ambition, although anytime somebody's on, I mean, now he certainly does.

He's got the national ambition of be being elected, vice president. So it so in some ways, as as we've said before, it's a it's a safer pick. It's a less risky pick. But it's a it's it's a pick that that that brings Democrats are confident, some real strengths to the ticket.

John Carl, Rick Klein. Thank you both. And, again, we will be following the story all morning long by President Harris, Damien Minnesota Governor, Tim Walsh, as her running mate. We'll be right back.

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He has praised Kamala Harris for reenergizing the party defended her against attacks from the Trump campaign and, of course, has a long record. Of his own. Let's bring an ABC News contributor, former Senator Heidi Heitkamp, and Republican strategist Tricia McLoughlin, along with ABC News contributor, SiriusXM Radio host, Mike Muse, for more on this pick. Good morning to all, Heidi. Walls gained some some spotlight, some attention for calling former president trump and Senator JD Vance weird in a campaign event.

In in an election cycle where maybe the public wants to see some elevated rhetoric. Is this the right choice for that?

Well, I I don't know that that Eclipse is, pretty much everything that he's done in the state of Minnesota for working families. I think he's the pick because he delivered paid family leave. He took care of daycare problems. In Minnesota. He's been working for working families his entire life, and he has he has a whole history that is so unlike what we typically see on the national scene, a history of service, but also, you know, when he puts on, when he gets in a fishing boat, He knows how to fish.

When he goes into a duck blind, he knows how to hunt. He has a life experience and a genuine ness to him. And you can say, well, did did that elevate the speech? Guess what? It is weird.

Talking about chemical actor is weird. And the reason why that has been so has has been such a jumping off point is it resonates with people. People say, yeah. That's what it is. Because I think we tend to over intellectualize Donald Trump.

And in 1 word, he summed it up. What makes us very concerned about Donald Trump being the next president of the United States. And so I'm thrilled obviously with the pick of Tim. I didn't think she had a bad choice, but, obviously, being so close to Minnesota and knowing Tim so well, very excited that, she chose Tim to be a running mate. I can't confirm that, and I don't know that

for sure, but You guys are all reporting it. Tricia,

some Republicans, including JD Vance, are now saying that Harris not picking Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, who many thought was the favorite here. They're now saying not making that choice is anti Semitic. What do you make of that?

Well, I think that that absolutely is a possibility. We have to ask Democrats, well, why? Because Josh Shapiro was roundly criticized first comments in 1993 as a college student where he brought up that there should be a 2 state solution and that some of these pro Palestinian voices are more ready for battle. However, Tim Walls has a similar pro Israel point of view. He met with Netanyahu went out of his way to post photos of it has said that Israel has the right to self determination, and yet he has not been criticized for those recent comments.

So which is it? Is is it because Josh Shapiro is of the Jewish faith, and Tim Waltz is not. That's that's surely what seems like, and Kamala Harris should sit down for an interview with you, Diane, and answer those simple questions as well. I think Republicans are celebrating today. We didn't wanna run against Josh Shebureau.

He is a popular governor. He has moderate takes corporate taxes school choice. That would have been a really good slam dunk for Kamala Harris she squandered it. And I think it's political malpractice on her on her front because she's doubling down with progressive policies, which are not serving the American people. I would like to, Tim wants to really point to many major accomplishments he's had in the state of Minnesota because most come to mind is the draconian policies around COVID and then his handling in the riots, which on the left and right was roundly criticized in 2020.

Heidi, what's your response to that? Because Walls has implemented a bevy of progressive policies, including paid family leave, universal school breakfast and lunch, legalization of recreational marijuana use, abortion rights, gun control measures, like universal background checks, red flag laws. I mean, he He is considered the most progressive of the candidates that were thought to be on this short list. And you already have the Trump campaign saying It's Kamala Harris, only even more liberal. So does that leave him vulnerable in terms of trying to bring on moderate voters?

I would love to see the Republicans run against paid family leave and working opportunities for working women and day care and free school lunches. I'd bring it on. I mean, who is really talking about those issues that affect middle class America? The swing voters in this campaign are gonna be Suburban women. And when you staff Josh, when you stack, Tim Waltz's record up against anyone, He's been this pro middle class family as any governor in this country.

And I think, you know, he's got that genuineness. He could walk into a county fair and not, I mean, you wouldn't even probably recognize him if he didn't have security because he looks like everybody else. And so I think The Republicans may be celebrating today, but as this campaign wears on, I think that they'll see less and less reason for celebration.

Mike, I wanna bring in Mike Muse now because Mike, I know you're talking to voters on the radio about this election all the time. What are you hearing from people in terms of the the lay of the land in general, and how does this pick now affect that?

Really great question. I've been talking about audience every day kinda getting their intake on this. And I gotta be honest with you, Diane. Waltz was not in the conversation in terms of the top 2 selections in the pick. The audience feedback that I was getting was looking more Shapiro and also too looking at Senator Kelly.

But I think with my audience, what I've been hearing, both of my audience represents both Republicans and Democrats and independence across section of race class and culture across the 50 states, including Canada, ironically enough, and and what the number 1 message. And the reason why a lot of these members feel so sometimes disengaged with politics is because of the inauthenticity of their elected officials and politicians. I think what Walt is a, opportunity, to make him and not even make him. He will come across as authentic. Optically, if you look at him, he's around the same age as by President Harris, but he optically looks older.

So it gives some sort of stability. He has the ability to speak with rural audience, but when you think rural, you don't actually think Progressive, So there is a way that there is this duality of him speaking to the rural audience. He is a hunter. So he could speak to states like North Carolina, like Georgia, while at the same time speaking to key battleground states like Wisconsin, like Michigan, the things that he's on the Progressive space, particularly when you think about George Floyd and Black Lives Matter during that time period, peels to the progressive wing of the party. Right?

And so that shows, that he can be both progressive while speak to the world audience. And that is a uniqueness that many candidates cannot do that would be a strength of vice president Harris's ticket.

Alright. Mike Musete, Heidi, hi, Camtricia McLaughlin. Thank you all. And we will be following this story all morning long as vice president Harris appears poised to pick Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, as her mate. We'll be right back.

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Oh, come in. The 10,000,000 names is on a mission to recover the names of African descendants whose ancestors were enslaved in America before the end of the civil war. AB's news has partnered with that project to help bring you some of their stories and our own chief justice correspondent, Pierre Thomas, went on a personal journey to discover his family tree through that dark chapter of our nation's history. Here's his story.

Almost here to the orientation when my ancestors lived as enslaved people.

Here on the outskirts of Huntington, West Virginia.

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Researchers from the 10,000,000 names project which explores the genealogy of America's once enslaved people trace my genealogy here to what is known as green bottom. It was a massive 4500 Acre Plantation operating in the time just before the Civil War. I was shocked to learn it was under the reign of a historic and infamous confederate figure. Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Harvard graduate, 2 term Congressman, Confederate General, and staunch supporter of slavery, kept humans imprisoned, treating them as little more than valuable livestock. This is also where my great great grandmother, Adeline Jenkins, daughter of Charlotte was born into slavery in 1858.

According to the 10,000,000 names research team is very likely Adeline was the biological daughter of her enslaver, Jenkins himself.

Mister Fain, Pierre Thomas, ABC news. Nice to meet you, sir.

Welcome to the Jenkins Plantation, the ancestral home of your great, great grandmother, Adelene, It's a

blessing to be here. I think at its height, how many slaves? Probably would

have been 80 to 100. And Unquestionably slave labor made the Jenkins family rich.

Rich indeed. In Congress, Jenkins made it clear, He believed slavery was the natural order of things. To the south, slavery was the alpha and omega issue. Jinkas was cold blooded about the slave trade, referring to people as property, saying 4,000,000 slaves were estimated to be worth at least $3,000,000,000. His words.

Mhmm. And there were other chilling facts

He had primarily girls, older women, and boys because Jenkins made a regular habit of selling off the young adult males at their prime stage so that he can make the most money. At the record show, Jenkins was cruel. And of course, the overseers that he hired even more cruel to the point of beating, and then salting the wound afterwards.

I I

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Sure. I'll give you some some space to do that, sir.

Just just just just a a second.

1 of

the most difficult moments of my journey walking inside the Albert Jenkins home.

It's hard for me to be here. It's a challenge.

A mile up the road, the slave cabins. Here is where my great, great grandmother, Adeline, was likely born.

And these cabins arrived a long time. Yeah. The owner of the plantation had the power of life and death.

Uh-huh.

I wish they didn't have to go through what they went through. I'm proud of them, but I just wish

And a b ABC News chief justice correspondent here Thomas joins me now. For more on this, Pierre. I don't know how you held it together because I can't imagine being in that position hearing those stories, seeing what you saw And I understand that initially you didn't want to do this. You didn't wanna go on this journey. Why was that?

And what made you change your mind?

I had a grandmother who lived to be 100 years old, incredible woman, the matriarch in every sense of the word for our family, prayerful, thoughtful, exceedingly wise, and I felt comfortable with my family's history starting with her because she was loved to be a hundred years old. And I knew to go back deeper than that because I knew either her mother or grandmother because she was a hundred years old would have been a slave. After this project was presented to me, I hit the pause button for 2 months and said, I don't think so. But I talked to some friends of mine who really wanted to know more about their own genealogy and past, and they hit brick walls. And they said, Pierre, if you have an opportunity to know more about your family, you should take it.

And then I did some self searching. I am a reporter. And I'm in the information gathering business. So I agreed to do it, but little did I know that it would be this challenging. Another key moment is when I found out Jenkins was a member of Congress.

And I said, then the reporter in me kicked in. It was like, oh, he must have given speeches. Congressman give speeches. And we found his speech, a speech, April 26, 1860. And in fact, I remember that date tells you how important it was because he gave a speech in the halls of Congress entitled the question of slavery.

And he lays out that he believed that people were property, that slaves were the alpha and omega issue for the south. And then he said, quote, he didn't wanna live in an anti slavery a country with a anti slavery god or anti slavery bible.

And and, Pierre, I'm out of time, but I quickly wanna ask you, how did you come to find out that he likely bothered your great, great grandmother. And how did that moment make you feel?

I'm still processing the 10,000,000 names project, but they're the experts. They're saying based on the circumstances of how he was known to operate. And in fact, that my early ancestors were very fair skinned people. And then I have a cousin who's actually done the DNA work. And she said it proves that we are.

I've not done it myself, so I'm not gonna render final judgment. And I'm still processing processing whether I wanna do that.

1 moment for you. Thank you for sharing your story. I hope that you come away with this feeling positively about it and what a moment to see you sort of reclaiming your piece and your family's piece of history on that land.

I think the usefulness is that people are reacting to it saying they had no idea and that through my personal story, done through the lens of a journalist Yeah. That they're gaining something from us. So that's the reason to do it.

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Hi. I'm Diane Mosado today on ABC News Live. First, we're following breaking news on vice president Kamala Harris's decision on her running mate. Harris is poised to make Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her potential vice president. He served in the army national guard and coach high school football and basketball before being elected to Congress in 2006 as governor Walsh also implemented a heavy of progressive policies, including paid family leave, universal school breakfast, and lunch, legalization of recreational marijuana, abortion rights and gun control measures like universal background checks and red flag laws.

The Trump campaign is now calling him even more liberal. Then vice president Kamala Harris saying now the campaign ticket is ultra liberal. I wanna bring in senior White House correspondence, Lina Wang, along with ABC's Washington Bureau, chief director, political director, Rick Klein, and our senior reporter, Catherine Falders, for more. Selena, when you look at Walls's picture, some are saying, you know, it's in a way the perfect bio for this kind of a pick. There are some vulnerability of course.

But what sticks out to you in terms of why you think Harris made this pick above other candidates like Pennsylvania governor, Joshua, who was thought to be the favorite by many?

Yeah. He's a very interesting candidate because if you look at his back story, that's what really appeals to those rural, middle America voters in those battleground states. But if you look at his actual policies, that's what's going to get the progressive base, the democratic base very excited. So the Harris team sees him offering both of those possibilities. So, of course, his background has say it's kind of the perfect bio.

He's a former high school teacher, national army guard veteran. He, was a high school football coach. He had also, he had he is a former he was formally supported by the NRA. He has someone with a really, really interesting backstory here and he has this very rural folksy vibe that has really skyrocketed in his popularity. Diane, remember, it's in recent days where he has coin that word weird as a catchphrase that is caught on with Democrats, describe Republicans, more specifically, JD Vance and his allies, and he's shown himself to be a very effective communicator.

But when it comes to some of his vulnerabilities in reaching those moderate voters, while he has enacted those very of policy signed into law, as you have said, around gun control, around abortion rights, around paid family leave. So there are some who say that he would really solidify by Harris's, viewpoint and stance as this hardcore progressive, and you already have this trump side attacking him for being even more progressive and liberal than Kamala Harris.

Rick, how significant is it to have someone from Minnesota now on the ticket? And and is it a risk to not pick someone from Arizona like Senator Mark Kelly or Pennsylvania like Governor Josh Shapiro, which are are considered more critical battlegrounds. Well, there's some weird history with Minnesota. Ask Walter Mandell,

ask Hubert Humphrey. There's some good Democratic vice presidents over the last half or so that have been from that state. It is not though a battleground in the traditional sense. It's been a bluer state. There there's been talk of the Trump campaign expanding into Minnesota, but if they win Minnesota, the Trump campaign will be winning big.

You need to hold Minnesota if you're a democratic candidate in 2024, and has this been the case for, quite some time now. But Minnesota has some real proximity to the must win states in the upper Midwest. Look at Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania. They're all in the same neighborhood. They have a lot the same kind of voters that Tim Walls was able to appeal to in Minnesota in winning election and reelection, not just as governor, but also in a redder district in Congress.

So I it's not about necessarily winning a particular state, but but in appeal to a type of voter, I'd imagine that the campaign is going to have governor Wall spend a lot of time in states that are pretty close to his home state. He can do a very quick flight or even a drive to some of the the key parts of, of of that constituency. In fact, the the campaign will be later this week with governor Walls in TOW in Oclara, Wisconsin, which is the western part of, of Wisconsin pretty close to to Minnesota.

And, John Carl, I wanna bring in our chief Washington correspondent because John, former president Trump said earlier this week that the vice presidential pick doesn't really matter. Voters go to the poll to vote for the top of the ticket. Is that true? Does this not really matter that much?

You know, it it is largely true. The the the the people vote for for president. They don't really vote for vice president. There are cases where there have been exceptions. I mean, LBJ as as John Kennedy's a running mate, you know, perhaps, but but look, you you can do damage, with the wrong vice presidential pick it's it's hard to actually point to specific places where a vice president, a running mate proved decisive in a general The first thing you wanna do is do no harm.

But, you also, you know, there there there can be places where where he can help. And and that's why there was such a momentum for Josh Shapiro, you know, picking somebody who has 60 plus a percent approval rating in a state that you have to win, in a state that's gonna be really close could potentially have made a difference the Harris team, clearly went in a different direction and they didn't pick Tim Walls because, they were worried about losing Minnesota. Catherine,

governor Walls has been criticized for his response to the COVID pandemic. Governor of Minnesota and his response to the George Floyd protests in 2020. There was a lot of finger pointing at that time between him and the mayor of Minneapolis. How vulnerable is he on those issues and his record in general?

Well, I think time will ultimately tell on that, but I I do think that this is a line of attack that you're going to continue to hear from Republicans, from former president Trump, from JD Vance. This is something that they're gonna capitalize on. They already are. And and and Walls is gonna have to obviously answer those questions. There was a lot of criticism around his response to to the George Floyd, murder in the protest, frankly, when he was asked by the mayor, he was asked by the police chief and state officials at the time to deploy the national guard.

He finally signed an executive order. I believe it was a couple days later. Of course, Walls has said with they were doing the best they could under a situation such as that, but it is something at least that the Trump campaign is going to try and capitalize on, as a line of attack in addition to what they're calling his extremely progressive record, which frankly, Walls has acknowledged. He's been asked about this in interviews of of reversing certain policies in the state signing certain executive orders, which he's clearly, stood by, and he says that his policies are are the best for the people. Of his state.

So we'll have to see ultimately how that plays out. But the reality of it is is that this is a line of attack that you will continue to hear from Trump and Republicans.

You know, what kind of reaction are you hearing from lawmakers in Washington to this pick?

Yeah. Look. I had been speaking to sources who had said that Tim Walls is 1 of the picks that would have been due no harm. That there wouldn't be any downside to choosing him, whereas some of the other picks, they said, like, for instance, Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, would have the possibility of dampening some of the enthusiasm is especially from the Democratic base because of his support of issues like school vouchers and being very, spoken, and in terms of his support for Israel. Now when it comes to vice president, Harry, making this decision, Diane, it really came down to the wire.

And I'm told that she really value a few things. She values chemistry. She doesn't have a long history. With walls, but I'm told that in those final interviews in that face to face meeting she had on Sunday, that played a critical role as a test for her to see if they have that chemistry and that trust. She's looking for a governing partner who's ready to step into the role of president if needed on day 1.

Someone she can see her of working with, not just through the campaign, but for 4 years and potentially for 8 years. So this is really a long term decision. So that all factored into the decision making process here. And, really, I was told that as of late yesterday, she still hadn't officially made up her mind. She was really keeping her team on her toes and really keeping this to a very, very close circle of people around her.

Remember, this is a decision that others have had months to make. She's only had days to make it. Everything about this campaign for vice president Harris is operating at warp speed.

And and, Catherine, the VP pick sometimes serves as an attack dog for the presidential candidate. So what can we expect from walls on the campaign trail?

Well, we haven't seen him much on the the campaign trail yet. He's done some events for Harris, but I I'd be curious, frankly, to see his messaging on that and how how he defends, obviously, defends Her record defense, his record is a is a just in terms of the vibe and the scene, I think we'll get a good taste of that tonight during that rally where she intends to obviously introduce her VP pick for the first time. But, look, I think the first time that we'll hear from walls will, you know, almost be somewhat like his introduction, to the American people, and we'll just have to see what type of messaging he has what he says. I'm sure that he's written his speech. So, that could be a pretty good indicator, at least what we see tonight, for, you know, the next 4 months of this campaign.

And, John, you said it yourself. He's the most liberal of all the candidates thought to have been on the short list. The Trump campaign had already called vice president Harris Ultra liberal, and now they're saying she just picked a vice presidential candidate who's even more liberal than she is. What does that do for the ticket's ability to attract moderates?

Well, what the campaign hopes, what the Harris campaign hopes is that he will appeal on have a more personal connection to some of those moderate voters, particularly from the Midwest, speaking, to, somebody close, to to the vice president who was involved, in in conversations for this decision, cited a few things, to me about Harris's I'm sorry about Walls's background. Let me read you a a few of these. His terrific bio, they say, in in in in a key, must win Midwest state. A veteran who served in the army national guard, a football coach, a hunter, and a gun owner has a deep connection to rural voters. This is a guy, that grew up in a tiny farming community, in in Nebraska represented a very rural district, in Minnesota, and somebody who won that district, a district that voted overwhelmingly twice for Donald Trump in 2016 and in 2020, and Walls won that very district.

So shows again, that he can do well. He's got a progressive record that is without question, but he has a proven ability to do well with rural, moderate, even conservative voters in the Midwest.

Alright. Selena Wang, Jonathan Carl, Catherine Falders. Thank you all. We will have much more on this breaking news after the break. Our political analysts weigh in.

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Of George Floyd. I wanna bring in ABC News contributor, former Hillary Clinton campaign, national political director, Amanda Renteria, and Republican strategist, triplet Tricia McLaughlin for more. Trisha Trump campaign is already reacting to this speech pick. No surprise. And they're calling Walsh an extreme liberal.

Now, former house speaker Nancy Pelosi says he's right down the middle, and she's praising his service with the National Guard. How do you think the Trump campaign strategy will change now that he's on ticket.

Sorry about that. Just look at Tim Mulce's governance record and his legislation record. That speaks for itself. I mean, he supported free health care for illegal immigrants. He supported driver's license for illegal immigrants.

Minnesota might not be a border state, but it's the number 1 issue immigration illegally is the number 1 issue on voters' minds. That's really going to matter, especially when you pair it with someone like Kamala Harris who is supposed to be the borders are, and yet under her watch, 10 to 15,000,000 illegal immigrants came to this country. I think it's a confounding choice, by Kamala Harris. She's really doubling down on this progressive policies. When she had a choice in Josh Sabira, who's a very popular governor, young, moderate.

I think it's amazing too. While Josh Shapiro was really branded as very pro Israel in which I think he was, so was Tim Walts. And yet it looks like there might be some anti Semitism at play here because it seemed like Josh Shapiro received criticism for his pro Israel stances because he's of Jewish faith.

Amanda, you wanna respond to that?

Yeah. I mean, I think we were, of course, gonna hear about, the differences of who she didn't pick. That's very natural in the campaign, but, listen, Tim Walls is a really interesting candidate. I grew up in rural America and worked for the state of Michigan for about 10 years, and he reminds me both of my high school coach and the thousands of people I worked with and for in Michigan. And that's what's appealing.

He has Midwestern roots, rural kind of person, and really an impressive career. Right, 2 more than 2 decades in the National Guard, been head of Minnesota for 6 years, so he understands what it takes to govern. And I'll also say he is just likable. You remember meeting him because he's personable, he's joyful, and to me, it's not a surprise that he found chemistry with vice president Harris, And that's what this campaign needs to now show to the rest of the country who he is, just how personable, joyful, and visionary he is as well. And I think that's gonna bode very well for the campaign and really broaden the kind of folks they're trying to reach in order to unify the country.

Amanda, is it enough to get around the criticism he's going to get from the right about on immigration on his handling of the COVID, pandemic during 2020 and the George Floyd protests as the mayor as the governor of Minnesota.

I'm certain he'll be ready for those questions to come out of him. And That's part of this process is he will answer those. He will talk through them. And frankly in doing that, people will get to know him, really how pragmatic he is, He is a centrist to say that he's, more liberal than vice president Harris or the most liberal congressman, which I'm sure we're gonna hear of just not true, and I not only does his record show that, but also when he's out there on the stump, people will be able to see exactly who he is.

Tricia Walls has touted his appeal to voters in rural America. He had a role upbringing himself. What do you make of that support he could pull in rural areas. And is it enough to compete with the poll JD Vance is set to have in critical rust belt states?

I think because the Kamala Harris campaign has had this kind of 2 week honeymoon, they're kind of falling into the strap of that. It's a vibes campaign. Well, the American people really aren't feeling the vibes and care probably less about the style and likability of some of these politicians when they're dealing with their 401 k, the market falling out from underneath us. When they're dealing with 20% higher prices, when they're dealing us, with us inch in closer and closer to World War 3 that when they're dealing with an immigration crisis of catastrophic proportions, people care a whole lot less about style and whether you're popular and care a whole lot more about policy.

Alright, Amanda. Renteria, Tricia McLaughlin. Thank you both. And we will follow a vice president, Kamal Harris's VP pick all morning, and we'll have more of the days top stories right after the break. Stay us.

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Welcome back to ABC News Live. 1st political turmoil is growing in Venezuela. The count country's top prosecutor is launching a criminal investigation into opposition leaders at Muno Gonzalez and Mauriz Karina Machado. This comes after contentious presidential election in the South American country. The incumbent, Nicholas Maduro claimed 3, but has yet to produce voting tallies to prove he won.

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So you were born in Venezuela, and you moved to the US when you were just 5 but I know a lot of your family still lives there. So what are they telling you about the situation and the conditions there right now?

Yes. I have many of my family are in Venezuela, and it's not just my family who are telling you this stuff. It's my friends, my fans, my supporters, people that I admire that I follow there, Arvin, as well as, it's what you see. What for real, it's what you see, we've been in the, you know, it Madura has been a dictator for many, many years. And this year, it's very clear who won the elections.

It was who wanted. And he despite, you know, losing, my little declared himself, the president again. What what concerns the most is that people have been protesting, in the streets in, like, peacefully with their grandma, with their family, And because of that is, you know, torturing those who are against him, they're torturing them. They are taking some of that. Like, there has been 2000 prisoners, people who have died, people who he's killed, and it's really a big, big deal because many people who are trying speak out who had a social media platform in Venezuela, some of the some of the things that Maduro's doing is that they're checking their phones.

They're checking everything. They're seeing if they are against him and they're putting it in a in a camping, like, a torture place right now for those who are speaking, you know, for peace. Because the people in Minnesota want peace They want, to be free again, and they want it because that is the real president. And it's very sad what's going on because Maduro right now is blaming who TikTok is blaming, WhatsApp is blaming social social media for, you know, not having control of the people and what's going on. So it's it's really sad.

Now the attorney general says they're investigating the opposition leaders for appealing the election. What's your reaction

to that? The fact that that you

the reaction of just like that they're trying to see the votes, and they haven't seen it.

Well, what did you think about the attorney general now saying that he's in investigating the opposition leaders themselves for appealing the election results.

You mean, because I'm the words that this you mean, like, they're trying to see Maria. They're are they saying that you're they're trying to get Marina mar Maria, Corie, Corie, Corie, and Enngo, you're talking about talking about

they are now investigating them. They are saying they are launching an investigation against the opposition leaders.

I think that's I don't agree with that because, honestly, I think they are amazing people. I think that they are in the right. I think that this whole situation in my my opinion, Maduro has completely manipulated the situation. I think that they did win. They did win by a lot.

And the people you can see it, the people have proved it. Many times. Sorry. I didn't understand you, but the people have proved it many times. And I think that it's really ridiculous that Maduro is trying to silence.

Many people is trying to silence, trying to fine and imprisoned Maria and is trying to impress and everybody else who's speaking against what he says. It's it's I mean, it's ridiculous.

Now Nicholas Maduro's rule has been in question since he came to power to begin with. How do you see these changes? And what do you want your followers around the world to know about what's happening in Venezuela right now?

I think the most important thing that I want them to know is that, you know, there are many, many creators right now talking about the situation. I think the most important thing is to do awareness to, research to, you know, follow what is going on in the world in specifically in Venezuela. There are many people, many, many, many great creators. And if you don't understand those creators like Marco, like, for example, please has someone to translate because awareness is the key because if everybody's against, Maluro and if he has no allies, if he has nobody, There's nothing for him. It's about it's about all of us coming together and wanting something better going, you know, wanting liberty, wanting peace in the country, and that's what he doesn't want.

He is someone that he does not love his country. So, I feel like everybody should come together everyone, even the people outside of Venezuela should come together and put a stop to this in, like, a peaceful way.

Alright, Lily. Pawns, we appreciate you coming on today. Thank you.

Thank you.

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Hi. I'm Diane Mosado today, News Live. First, we were following breaking news on vice president Kamala Harris's decision on her running mate. Harris is poised to make Minnesota governor Tim Walsh as potential vice president. He served in the army national guard and coached high school football and basketball before being elected to Congress in 2006.

As governor Wals also implemented a bevy of progressive policies, including paid family leave, universal school breakfast, and lunch, legalization of recreational marijuana, abortion rights and gun control measures like universal background checks and red flag laws. The Trump campaign is now calling him even more liberal. Then vice president Kamala Harris saying now the campaign ticket is ultra liberal. I wanna bring in senior White correspondence, Lena Wang, along with ABC's Washington Bureau, chief director, political director, Rick Klein, and our senior reporter, Catherine Falders, for more. Selena, when you look at Walls's picture, some are saying, you know, it's in a way the perfect bio for this kind of a pick.

There are some vulnerabilities, of course, but what sticks out to you in terms of why you think Harris made this pick above other candidates like Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, who was thought to be the favorite by many.

Yeah. He's a very interesting candidate because if you look at his backstory, that's what really appeals to those rural middle America voters in those battleground states But if you look at his actual policies, that's what's going to get the progressive base, the democratic base very excited. So the Harris team sees him offering both of those possibilities. So, of course, his background, as you say, it's kind of the perfect bio. He's a former high school t curio, national army guard veteran.

He, was a high school football coach He had also, he had he is a former he was formally supported by the NRA. He has someone with a really, really interesting story here, and he has this very rural Spolksy vibe that has really skyrocketed in his popularity. Diane remember it's in recent days where he had coin that word weird as a catchphrase that is caught on with Democrats, describe Republicans, more specifically, JD Vance and his allies, and he's shown himself to be a very effective communicator. But when it comes to some of his vulnerabilities in reaching those moderate voters, while he has enacted those very progressive policy signed into law, as you have said, around gun control, around abortion rights, around paid family leave. So there are some who say that he would really solidify Harris's viewpoint and stance as this hardcore progressive, and you already have this trump side attacking him for being even more progressive.

And liberal than Kamala Harris.

Rick, how significant is it to have someone from Minnesota now on the ticket? And and is it to not pick someone from Arizona like Senator Mark Kelly or Pennsylvania like Governor Josh Shapiro, which are are considered more critical battlegrounds.

Well, there's some weird history with Minnesota. Ask Walter Mandale, ask Hubert Humphrey. There's some good Democratic vice presidents over the half century or so that have been from that state. It is not though a battleground in the traditional sense. It's been a bluer state.

There there's been talk of the Trump campaign expanding into Minnesota. But frankly, if they win Minnesota, the Trump campaign will be winning big. You need to hold Minnesota if you're a Democrat a candidate in 2024, and has this been the case for, quite some time now. But Minnesota has some real proximity to the must win states in the upper US, looking at Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania. They're all on the same neighborhood.

They have a lot of the same kind of voters that Tim Walls was able to appeal to in to in winning election and reelection, not just as governor, but also in a redder district in Congress. So I it's not about necessarily winning a particular state, but but in appeal to a type of voter, I'd imagine that the Harris campaign is going to have governor Wall spent lot of time in states that are pretty close to his home state. He can do a very quick flight or even a drive to some of the the key parts of, of of that constituency. In fact, the the campaign will be later this week with Governor walls in tow in Oclaro, Wisconsin, which is the western part of, of Wisconsin, pretty close to to Minnesota.

And, John Carl, I wanna bring in our chief Washington correspondent because John, former president Trump said earlier this week that the vice presidential pick doesn't really matter. Voters go to the poll to vote for the top of the ticket. Is that true? Does this not really matter that much?

You know, it it is largely true. The the the the people vote for for president. They don't really vote for vice president. There are cases where there have been exceptions. I mean, LBJ as as John Kennedy's, are running mate, you know, perhaps but but look, you you can do damage, with the wrong vice presidential pick.

It's it's hard to actually point to specific places where a vice president and a running mate proved decisive in a general election. The first thing you wanna do is do no harm but, you also, you know, there there can be places where where he can help. And, and that's why there were such a momentum for Josh Shapiro, you know, picking somebody who has 60 plus a percent approval rating in a state that you have to win, in a state that's gonna be really close, could potentially have made a difference. The Harris team, clearly went in a different and they didn't pick Tim Walls because, they were worried about losing Minnesota.

Catherine, governor Walls has been criticized for his response to the COVID pandemic as governor of Minnesota and his response to the George floyd protests in 2020. There was a lot of finger pointing at that time between him and the mayor of Minneapolis. How vulnerable is he on those issues? And his record in general?

Well, I think time will ultimately tell on that, but I I do think that this is a line of attack that you're going to continue to hear from Republicans from former president Trump from JD Vance. This is something that they're gonna capitalize on. They already are. And And and Walls is gonna have to obviously answer those questions. There was a lot of criticism around his response to the to the George Floyd, murder in the protests, frankly, when he was asked by the mayor, he was asked by the, police chief and state officials at the time to deploy the national guard.

He finally signed an executive order. I believe it couple days later. Of course, Wallace has said we they were doing the best they could, under a situation such as that, but it is something at least that the Trump campaign is going to try and capitalize on as a line of attack in addition to what they're calling his extremely progressive record, which frankly walls has acknowledged. He's been asked about this in interviews of of reversing certain policies in the state signing certain executive orders, which he's clearly stood by, and he says that his policies are are the best for the people, of his state. So we'll have to see ultimately, how that plays out.

The reality of it is is that this is a line of attack that you will continue to hear from Trump and Republicans.

Salina, what kind of reaction are you hearing from lawmakers in Washington to this pick?

Yeah. Look, I had been speaking to sources who had said that Tim Walls is 1 of the picks that would have been due no harm, that there wouldn't be any downside to choosing him. Where are some of the other picks, they said, like, instance, Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro would have the possibility of dampening some of the enthusiasm, especially from the democratic base because of his support of issues like vouchers and being very, spoken, and in terms of his support for Israel. Now when it comes to vice president Harris making this decision, Diane, it really came down to the wire, and I'm told that she really value a few things. She values chemistry.

She doesn't have a long history with walls, but I'm told that in those final interviews in that face to face meeting she had on Sunday, that played a critical role as a test for her to see if they have that chemistry and that trust. She's looking for a governing partner who's ready to step into the role of president if needed on day 1, someone she can see herself working with, not just through the campaign, but for 4 years and potentially for 8 years. So this is really a long term decision. So that all factored into the decision making process here. And really, I was told that as of late yesterday, she still hadn't officially made up her mind.

She's really keeping her team on her toes and really keeping this to a very, very close circle of people around her. Remember, this is a decision that others have had months to make. She's only had days to make it everything about this campaign for vice president Harris is operating at warp speed.

And and, Catherine, the VP pick sometimes serves as an tack dog for the presidential candidate. So what can we expect from walls on the campaign trail?

Well, we haven't seen him much on the the campaign trail yet. He's done some events for Harris, but I I'd be curious, frankly, to see his messaging on that and how how he defends, obviously, defends Her record defense, his record is a is a just in terms of the vibe and the scene, I think we'll get a good taste of that tonight during that rally where she intends to obviously introduce her VP pick for the first time. But, look, I think the first time that we'll hear from walls will, you know, almost be somewhat like his introduction, to the American people, and we'll just have to see what type of messaging he has, what he says. I'm sure that he's written his speech. So, that could be a pretty good indicator at least what we see tonight, for, you know, the next 4 months of this campaign.

And, John, you said it yourself. He's the most liberal of all the candidates thought to have been on the short list. The Trump campaign had already called vice president Harris ultra liberal. And now they're saying she just picked a vice presidential candidate who's even more liberal than she is. What does that do for the ticket's ability to attract moderates?

Well, what the campaign hopes, what the Harris campaign hopes is that he will appeal, have a more personal connection to some of those moderate voter particularly from the Midwest, speaking, to, somebody close, to to the vice president who was involved, in in conversations for this decision, cited a few things, to me about, Harry is I'm I'm sorry about Walls's background. Let me read you a a few of these. His terrific bio, they say in in in in a key, must win Midwest state. A veteran who served in the army national guard, a football coach, a hunter, and a gun owner has a deep connection to rural voters. This is a guy, that grew up in a tiny farming community, in in Nebraska represented a very rural district, in Minnesota, and somebody who won that district, a district that voted overwhelmingly twice for Donald Trump in 2016 and in 2020, and Walls won that very district.

So shows, again, that he can do well. He's got a progressive record that is without question, but he has a proven ability to do well with rural, moderate, even conservative voters in the Midwest.

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Trisha Trump campaign is already reacting to this speech pick. No surprise. And they're calling Walls an extreme liberal. Now former house speaker Nancy Pelosi says he's right down the middle, and she's praising his service with the National Guard. How do you think the Trump campaign strategy will change now that he's on the ticket?

Just look at Tim Molk's governance record and his legislation record. That speaks for itself. I mean, he supported free health care for illegal immigrants. He supported driver's license for illegal immigrants. Minnesota might not be a border state, but it's the number 1 issue.

Immigration illegally is the number 1 issue on voters' minds. That's really going to matter, especially when you're para with someone like Kamala Harris who is supposed to be the borders are. And yet under her watch, 10 to 15,000,000 illegal immigrants came to this country. I think it's a confounding choice by Kamala Harris. She's really doubling down on this progressive policies when she had a choice in Josh Shapiro, who's a very popular governor, young, moderate.

I think it's amazing too. Well, Josh Shapiro was really branded as very pro Israel in which I think he was. So was Tim Walts, and yet it looks like there might be some anti Semitism at play here because it seemed like Josh Shapiro received criticism for his pro Israel stances because he's of Jewish faith.

Amanda, you wanna respond to that? Yeah.

I mean, I think we were, of course, gonna hear about the differences of who she didn't pick. That's very natural in the campaign, but listen, Tim Walls is a really interesting candidate. I grew up in rural America and worked for the state of Michigan for about 10 years, and he reminds me both of my high school coach, and the thousands of people I worked with and for in Michigan. And that's what's appealing. He has Midwestern roots, rural kind of person, and really an impressive career.

Right, 2 more than 2 decades in the National Guard, been head of Minnesota for 6 years, so he understands what it takes to govern. And I'll also say he is just likable. You remember meeting him because he's personable, he's joyful. And to me, it's not a surprise that he found chemistry with vice president Harris, And that's what this campaign needs to now show to the rest of the country who he is, just how personable, joyful, and visionary he is as well. And I think that's gonna bode very well for the campaign and really broaden the kind of folks they're trying to reach in order to unify the country.

Amanda, is it enough to get around the criticism he's going to get from the right about on immigration on his handling of the COVID pandemic during 2020 and the George Floyd protests as the mayor as the governor of Minnesota.

I'm certain he'll be ready for those questions to come out of him, and that's part of this process is he will answer those. He will talk through them. And, frankly, in doing at, people will get to know him really how pragmatic he is. He is a centrist to say that he's, more liberal than vice president, or the most liberal congressman, which I'm sure we're gonna hear, just not true, and I not only does his record show that, but also when he's out there on the dump, people will be able to see exactly who he is.

Trisha Walls has touted his appeal to voters in rural America. He had a role upbringing himself. What do you make of that support, he could pull in rural areas. And is it enough to compete with the poll JD Vance is set to have in critical rust belt states?

I think because the Kamala Harris campaign has had this kind of 2 week honeymoon, they're kind of falling into this trap of that. It's a vibes campaign. Well, the American people really aren't feeling the vibes and care probably less about the style and likability of some of these politicians, when they're dealing with their 401 k, the market falling out from underneath us, when they're dealing with 20% higher prices, when they're dealing us with us inch in closer and closer to World War 3 when they're dealing with an immigration crisis of catastrophic proportions people care a whole lot less about style and whether you're popular and care a whole lot more about policy.

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But I know a lot of your family still lives there. So what are they telling you about the situation and the conditions there right now?

Yes. I have many of my family are in Venezuela, and it's not just my family who are telling you this stuff. It's my friends, my fans, my supporters, people that I admire, that I follow their Auburn as well. It's what you see. What for real, it's what you see.

We've been in the, you know, it Maduro has been a dictator for many, many years. And this year, it's very clear who won the elections. It was who wanted. And he despite, you know, losing, my little declared himself, the president again. What what concerns the most is that people have been protesting, in the streets in, like, peacefully with their grandma, with their family, And because of that, Maduro is, you know, torturing those who are against him.

They're torturing them. They are taking some of that. Like, there has been 2000 prisoners, people who have died, people who he's killed. And it's really a big, big deal because many people are trying to speak out who have a social media platform in Venezuela, some of the some of the things that Maduro's doing is that they're checking their phones They're checking everything. They're seeing if they are against him, and they're putting it in a in a camping like a torture place right now.

For those who are speaking, you know, for peace. Because the people as well at 1 piece, they want, to be free again, and they want it because that is the real president. And it's very sad what's going on because, my daughter right now is blaming who TikTok is blaming, WhatsApp is blaming social media for, you know, not having control of the people and what's going on. So it's it's really sad.

Now the attorney general says they're investigating the opposition leaders for appealing the election. What's your reaction to that?

The fact that that you mean the reaction of just like that they're trying to see the votes, and they haven't seen it?

Well, what did you think about the attorney general now saying that he's investigating the opposition leaders themselves for appealing the election results.

You mean, because I'm the words that this so you mean, like, they're trying Maria, they're are they saying that you're they're trying to get Marina, Maria, Maria, Correa, Maria, and and who do you're talking about, that's talking about?

They are now investigating them. Are saying they're launching an investigation against the opposition leaders.

I think that's well, I don't agree with that because, honestly, I think they are amazing people. I think that they are in the right. I think that this whole situation, in my my opinion, Maduro has completely manipulated the situation, I think that they did win. They did win by a lot. And the people you can see it, the people have proved it, many times.

Sorry. I didn't understand you, but the people have pooped it many times. And I think that it's really ridiculous that Maduro is trying to silence. Many people is trying to silence, trying to fine and imprisoned Maria and is trying to impress and everybody else who's speaking against what he says. It's it's I mean, it's ridiculous.

Now, Nicholas Maduro's rule has been in question since he came to power to begin with. How do you see these changes and what do you want your followers around the world to know about what's happening in Venezuela right now?

I think the most important thing that I want them to know is that, you know, there are many, many, many, creators right now talking about the situation. I think the most important thing is to do awareness to, research to, you know, follow what is going on in the world in in specifically in Venezuela. There are many people, many, many, many great creators. And if you don't understand those creators, like Marco, like, for example, please have someone to translate because awareness is the key because if everybody's against, Maluto, and if he has no allies, if he has nobody, There's nothing for him. And it's about it's about all of us coming together and wanting something better going, you know, wanting liberty, wanting peace in the country, and that's what he doesn't want.

He is someone that he does not love his country. So, I feel like everybody should come together everyone, even the people outside of Venezuela should come together and put a stop to this in, like, a peaceful way.

Alright, Lily. Pawns, we appreciate you coming on today. Thank you.

Thank you.

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I'm Jay Masseda on ABC News Live. First, we are following breaking news, vice president Kamala Harris has picked Minnesota governor, Tim Walsh, as her running mate. Harrison your choice in an Instagram post saying we are going to build a great partnership, and we are going to win this election. Wall's posted on social media saying he's all in calling it the honor of a lifetime. He says it reminds him a bit of the 1st day of school.

Now while he's a military veteran, the of Minnesota and former long tau pub public school teacher. He served 12 years in Congress before winning 2 terms as governor in 2018 in 2022. He also served as chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. As governor, he implemented progress policies like paid family leave, abortion rights, and gun control measures. He also made a name for himself in the consideration for BP gaining traction online with his folksy mannerisms and viral comments calling Trump advance weird.

But he's also been criticized for his handling of the COVID pandemic in Minnesota as well as the George Floyd protests. Harris and Walls are set to kick off a tour of key battleground states with a rally in Philadelphia tonight. I wanna bring in senior White House correspondent Selena Wang along with senior reporter Catherine Folders now for more. Selena, what do you expect to see from Harris and Walsh tonight? And what does this choice do for the strength of the democratic ticket?

Yeah. This is gonna be a really big moment, Diane. I'm told that they're gearing up for the biggest rally of the Harris campaign, expecting more than 10 thousand people to be gathered at the arena here in Philadelphia. And I'm told that as we speak, the chief of staff as well as the campaign co chair, they are currently briefing The new running mate governor, Tim Wall

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It looks like we lost Selena. Catherine, let's talk about this Instagram post because Harris is highlighting Walt's accomplishments, his record, working with Republicans to infrastructure investments. He has also stressed his rural roots in the past and what many consider an affable personal way that he has about him How far could all of that go with trying to appeal with moderate voters?

Well, I think it could go pretty far, and that's what the Harris campaign is hoping for here. Now it will be interesting to see Diane how this all plays out because we know that he has a progressive record in the state. Of course, Republicans are attacking him. On that, his progressive policies. But to your point, he is an affable guy.

He has been able to identify with people across the aisle. Remember, he has he was in Congress for quite some time. So he's no stranger to Congress, has a lot of friends on the other side of the aisle here. He's in a district in congress that leaned heavily trump. So he's been able to kind of flip that and and flip the state, if you will, a little bit.

So despite his progressive nature, we the Harris campaign does think that he would be able to help with those demographics and with those voters that she needs help pulling in to win in November.

Catherine Walls is also an avid hunter. He was once endorsed by the NRA, but he has said his views on guns have evolved, and he passed a bill requiring universal background checks for gun purchases. How do you see this pick factoring in on the discussion about gun violence and gun rights in this election?

Well, I think it will heavily factor into it. It's unclear how much of a talking point that will be on the campaign trail, for walls, but I can assure you that Republicans will likely plan to attack him on that and his evolving views, if you will, on various different topics. He wants to stop this. Now he thinks this. But it is something that he's talked about, previously and and during his time as governor, among other issues.

So I can imagine that it will be something that he will address frequently throughout the next few months?

Selena, we lost your audio, so I do wanna get your your thoughts again on what this does for the strength of the democratic ticket and what we can, expect tonight. But also asking you about Harris's praise for walls. In making Minnesota the first state law to pass a law providing constitutional abortion protections after the Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade. How critical do you think that issue is for this election cycle?

And is it enough to overcome some of the more progressive parts of Walsh's record that might turn off moderate bow

Yeah. Well, first off, in terms of what to expect tonight, I mean, they've got very little time to prepare for this rally. I'm told it's going to be the biggest 1 yet of the Harris campaign, expecting more than 10,000 people to gather at the arena here in Philadelphia when she's going to introduce governor Walls to country. And I'm told that she only called him this morning to alert him of her decision, and I'm told by a source close to the process that she told him that they are the underdogs in the race, but they believe that they have a winning message and that together, they can win this race. I'm also told that as we speak right now, the chief of staff to the running mate Liz Allen as well as the campaign chair.

They are on the phone with Walls's teams briefing them on this rally tonight. They have very little time to prepare for this. There's, of course, all of the logistics, the speech, the choreography of this, all of that that they've gotta walk through. And you've been talking about this with Catherine, but, of course, Walls is a pick that is going to be very exciting to the democratic base. He hasn't enacted a bevy of these democratic wish list items around marijuana, codifying rogue it comes to paid family leave, free school lunches, a whole host of things.

But, of course, they're also going to have to be prepared for those Republican attacks you course already have the Trump campaign saying that he's a even more liberal and dangerous than vice president Harris, but they believe that his backstory, his way of frank, very bound to Earth. Plains speaking English is going to make him an effective messenger who can speak to those critical rural battle run voters that they need to win over to keep the White House.

Alright, Selena. Wayne, Catherine Falders. Thank you both. And I wanna bring our political contributors for more on this former Democratic senator from North Dakota Heidi Heidekamp, a national review editor, Ramesh Panu, for more. Thank you both for joining.

Heidi, Governor Walls is the least known name from Harris's purported shortlist. And while Minnesota is hardly a lock for Democrats It's not as much of a battleground as a Pennsylvania or Arizona. So are you surprised Harris went in this direction rather than choosing Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro or Arizona Senator Markelly?

No. I'm not because when you're picking someone, you're picking someone who you have chemistry with who you think shares your values. And you're also picking someone that can't just be in 1 state that can cut across the the Midwest. And you think about, governor Waltz, I mean, you know, you think about, and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, He knows World America. He knows these folks.

He had the highest rank of any non enlisted officer in the National Guard. His life experience and his the way he looks literally looks like rural America looks like average America. And so I think that it was an excellent pick, and I think he will bring an authenticity to this ticket and some balance to this ticket in terms of life experiences. That, the American public is looking for as well as an incredible record of implementing policies that are you guys keep calling in progressive Let me tell you, I've seen polling on paid family leave. I've seen it on on school lunches.

These are really popular provisions that people have ignored because they they label less progressive, but these are really pro family measures that he can talk about.

But, Heidi, what about other measures like, licenses for people who come to this country illegally or, restoring voting rights for felons, not all of the policies that he've passed are as popular as the ones that you mentioned. How vulnerable is he on those?

Yeah. Well, let me tell you, restoring, rice for felons, voting rice. We have a felon running on the other side of the, of the, tickets. So that 1, I think, evaporates. I mean, I think that he's going to have to talk to why he did the things that he did and and why those things are were important to him.

I, you know, I'm not gonna defend every 1 of his policies, but I will tell you that this is a man who use what you see is what you get. And what the American public is tired of is people coming to them saying, I, you know, I really care about you. I care about your family and then doing nothing about it. Let me tell you. He's been out there doing something about it, and he's got a lot of accomplishments to talk about.

So, Ramesh, what do you think this pick means for the Trump campaign?

Well, the Trump campaign's in a somewhat unusual position because it can't do the traditional approach, which is to use the vice presidential pick of the other side to help reinforce its negative definition of the other side because it hasn't actually gotten that definition set in place for Kamala Harris because of the unusual circumstances of this last minute switch in the Democratic nominee. So I do think that they are in a little bit of a trickier position. And while they are going to take these sort of standard attacks on Tim Walls as a running mate. They're gonna train most of their fire on Harris. Because they still have a lot of work to do in that regard.

And Ramesh J. D. Vance has touted his appeal to rust belt voters with his humble beginnings. His role upbringing his military experience. Now you have the Democratic VP nominee also from humble beginnings, a rural upbringing with military experience.

So what does that do for the for voters in the middle of this country?

I don't think that those sorts of attributes in a vice presidential nominee are really going to move many voters. The fact is it's going to be a candid, a a a race that is defined by Trump and by Harris. And the the big question is whether a vice presidential candidate is going to have serious negatives that are independent of the presidential candidate. I don't think that as much as people have been talking about Vance that he is actually gonna drag that ticket down, And I certainly, based on the evidence so far, see even less evidence that Wallace is gonna be a negative factor.

So Heidi, big picture, what do you think this pick does for the campaign? And what message do you think vice president Harris is trying to send? We are, by the way, looking at images outside governor Walls's home right now. But Heidi, what message do you think vice president Harris is trying to send with this choice?

Well, I think I think it's all about, having people of different life experiences, and and she needed somebody who was authentic and somebody who we could look at and say, yeah, that that looks just like my school teacher from rural America, but I will tell you this that is getting underplayed is that for a long time, rural Democrats and swing voters in rural America have been pretty demoralized. And to the extent that it brings more volunteer back to rural America, gets more door knockers back to rural America, getting out that democratic vote small as what it may be, and turning it out, it can make a big difference in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. And and the other point is that for Native American votes, which in many of these states, that can be the margin. You know, Tim Waltz's lieutenant governor that he picked is a native woman And guess what? She will be the governor of Minnesota, if, in fact, Tim is elected vice president.

So that's all energizing.

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Ravi, you advised Kamala Harris on her choice for a running mate. What went into those conversations with the vice president And, ultimately, how do you feel about her decision?

Well, I I wasn't directly, you know, advising her personally, but I you know, the advice that you give to anybody when they're making this decision is 1st and foremost, who is somebody who you have that chemistry with, who you think is ready to be president because they're only a heartbeat away from the presidency. 2nd, are is there some potential problem? Cause you don't wanna do any harm when you bring someone on. And third is what do they bring to the ticket? And I think they did a really good job here with Tim Walls.

Clearly, there was there was chemistry there. He really, so to speak, moved up the ranks, in in the deep stakes I I think he was on the longer list and just kept making it to the shorter list, and I don't know that a lot of people were expecting him but but I think it's a I think it's a terrific choice because, this is someone who first and foremost is a proven messenger, you know, by the same token that he rose up in this contest, so to speak, shows that he's an effective communicator, but this is also someone I actually first met Tim Walls when I was working at the democratic congressional campaign committee running house races. He was 1 of the most endangered house members in the country and survived the 20 2010, excuse me, tsunami, Republican tsunami. This is someone who can truly win in 1 of the reddest parts of the country. And and so when we look at someone who can both be an effective messenger and win in these rural areas, I think that's a very powerful combination.

Now, he's also being called the safe choice by many, for Harris to have made. Tim Kane, Hillary Clinton's running mate, was also considered the safe choice in 2016. So how safe is a safe choice when you're running against someone like former president Trump?

Well, I think safe choice can mean it's a good choice. Right? And, Senator Kane was an outstanding partner to Senator Clinton. And in some ways, I think the fact that he never created issues. You never we never talked about any cane controversies.

Was a testament to what a good selection he wasn't. I think we're gonna see the same thing, with governor Walls. I do think he's a different choice Right? He wasn't on the top of the list. He wasn't what everybody was talking about.

She could have gone with Governor Shapiro, an incredibly popular governor in the most important arguably state in the electoral college right now, and she went with someone a little different. So, Yes. He's safe and that I don't think he's gonna cause any problems, but I actually think he really brings a lot. And he's very different than her, different part of the country, different type of record with executive experience, long military career over 20 years in the National Guard. So I think they balance each other out very well.

It's been 8 years now, and we have another woman leading the democratic ticket against former president Trump. What do you think the Harris campaign can do differently than the Hillary Clinton campaign to try to win this time?

Well, I think they're very different candidates. You know, 1st of all, vice president, Harris, is the vice president. She is coming literally from the White House to this campaign. So She's already reached the 2nd highest office in the land. I also think she's not facing a lot of the challenges that Hillary did.

Hillary had to run for you know, the full 2 years, at least 18 months, she faced a barrage of, of incoming in particular, the the director of the FBI wanted to constantly reopen this email investigation, including just days before the election. So she's not, gonna face that. And this compressed timeline is basically a 100 day campaign she's running. It means she is fresh. She is ready.

And The other thing that I think is the most important factor in this race is Donald Trump isn't a new candidate. This is a change election, I believe. We're seeing change elections happening all over the world right now. And there Harris has a unique opportunity where, yes, she is, Biden's vice president but Donald Trump has been in the White House, and I think he represents the kind of tired old politics people are sick of. So she's in a position to be that change candidate people want.

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Almost here to the plantation where my ancestors lived as enslaved people.

Here on the outskirts of Huntington, West Virginia, It feels strange. Researchers from the 10,000,000 names project, which explores the genealogy of America's once enslaved people trace my genealogy here to what is known as green bottom. It was a massive 4500 acre plantation operating in a time just before the civil war. I was shocked to learn it was under the reign of a historic and infamous confederate figure. Albert Gallatin Jenkins.

Harvard graduate, 2 term Congressman, Confederate General, and staunch supporter of slavery, kept humans imprisoned, treating them as little more than valuable livestock. This is also where my great great grandmother, Adeline Jenkins, daughter of Charlotte, was born into slavery in 1858. According to the 10,000,000 names research team is very likely at a line with the biological daughter of her enslaver, Jinky himself.

Mr. Faye, Peter Thomas, ABC News. Nice to meet you, sir. Welcome to the Jenkins Plantation.

The ancestral home of your great, great grandmother, Adelene.

It's a blessing to be here. Think at its height, how many slaves? Probably would

have been 80 to a 100. And unquestionably slave labor made the Jenkins family rich.

Rich, indeed, in Congress, Jinkus made it clear he believed slavery was the natural order of things. To the south, slavery was the alpha and omega issue. Jenkins was cold blooded about the slave trade, referring to people as property. Saying 4,000,000 slaves were estimated to be worth at least $3,000,000,000. His words Mhmm.

And there were other chilling facts.

You had primarily girls, older women, and boys because Jenkins made a regular habit of selling off the young adult males at their prime stage so that he can make the most money. At the record show, Jenkins was cruel. And of course, the overseers that he hired, even more cruel, to the point of beating, and then salting the wound afterwards.

I I

just wanna take it in for a second.

Sure. I'll give you some some space to do that, sir.

Just just just just a a second.

1 of the most difficult moments of my journey walking inside the Albert Jenkins home.

It's hard for me to be here. It's a challenge.

A mile off the road, the slave cabins. Here is where my great, great grandmother, Adeline, was likely born.

And these cabins survived a long time. Yeah. The owner of the plantation had the power of life and death.

Uh-huh.

I wish they didn't have to go through what they went through. I'm proud of them, but I just wish

And

maybe ABC News chief justice correspondent, Pierre Thomas, joins me now for more on this. Pierre, I don't know how you held it together because I can't imagine being in that position hearing those stories, seeing what you saw. And I understand that initially you didn't want to do this. You didn't wanna go on this journey why was that? And what made you change your mind?

I had a grandmother who lived to be 100 years old. Incredible woman, the matriarch in every sense of the word for our family, prayerful, thoughtful, exceedingly wise, and I felt comfortable with my family's history starting with her because she was loved to be a hundred years old. And I knew to go back deeper than that, because I knew either her mother or grandmother because she was a hundred years old would have been a slave. After this project was presented to me, I hit the pause button for 2 months and said, I don't think But I talked to some friends of mine who really wanted to know more about their own genealogy and past, and they hit brick walls. And they said, here, if you have an opportunity to know more about your family, you should take it.

And then I did some self searching. I am a reporter. And I'm in the information gathering business. So I agreed to do it, but little did I know that it would be this challenging. Another key moment is when I found out Jenkins was a member of Congress.

And I said, then it reported me kicked in. It was like, oh, he must have given speeches. Congressman give speeches. And we found his speech, a speech, April 26, 1860. And in fact, I remember that date tells you how important it was because he gave a speech in the halls of Congress entitled the question of slavery.

And he lays out that he believed that people were property, that slaves were the alpha and omega issue for the south. And then he said, quote, he didn't wanna live in an anti slavery a country with a anti slavery god or anti slavery bible.

And and, Pierre, I'm out of time, but I quickly wanna ask you, how did you come to find out that he likely father, your great great grandmother. And how did that moment make you feel?

I'm still processing the 10,000,000 names project, but they're the experts. They're saying based on the circumstances of how he was known to operate. And in fact, at my early ancestors were very fair skinned people. And then I have a cousin who's actually done the DNA work. And she said it proves that we are.

I've not done it myself, so I'm not gonna render final judgment. And I'm still processing processing whether I wanna do that.

1 moment for you. Thank you for sharing your story. I I hope that you come away with this feeling positively about it and and what a moment to see you sort of reclaiming your piece and your family's piece of history on that land.

Thank you. I think the usefulness is that people are reacting to it, saying they had no idea. And that through my personal story, done through the lens of a journalist Yeah. That they're gaining something from us. So that's the reason to do it.

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Hi. I'm Dimasado on ABC news live first, we were following breaking news vice president Kamala Harris has picked Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, as her running mate. Harris announced the choice in an Instagram post saying, we are going to build a great partnership. We are going to win this election. Walls posted on social media saying he's all in, calling it the honor of a lifetime He says it reminds him a bit of the 1st day of school.

Governor Wallace is a military veteran, a former long time public school teacher, so he's very familiar with the 1st day of school. He served 12 years in Congress before winning 2 terms as governor of Minnesota in 2018 2022 and also served as the chairman of the democratic Governors Association. As governor, he implemented progressive policies like paid family leave abortion rights and gun control measures and made a name for himself and the consideration for VP gaining track online for his folksy mannerisms and viral comments calling former president Trump and his VP at Pick J. G. Vance.

Weird. But he's also been criticized for his handling of the COVID pandemic in Minnesota as well as the George Floyd protests. Harris and Walsh are now set to kick off tour of the key battleground states with a rally in Philadelphia tonight. And Democratic senator Amy Klobuchar posted on social media saying Minnesota is known as the land of vice presidents, and we've got another great 1 on the way as a veteran, a high school teacher, and football coach, and our Minnesota governor. Tim Moss has been an incredible leader.

And on top of that, a good friend. Let's go win this. And I'm happy to have Senator Klobuchar joining me now for more on this. Senator, thank you for coming on. Great to be here.

Thank you.

It's it's great to have you. Why do you think vice president Harris picked governor Walls over some of the other names On this short list, who are better known like Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, both from critical battleground states. Why do you think she went in this direction instead of picking 1 of those 2?

Let's make clear, they are incredible leaders. And, there's no doubt about that. But I think what happened here is she had someone in Tim Walls that 1 she trusted, 2, that she saw as someone that's gonna bring something else to this ticket in a big way, and that is Midwest, that is rural, that is someone that represented a for years in Congress at only 2 Democrats, 1 in a 100 years served on the veterans committee, ags committee, signed up to serve in the army national guard when he was only 17 years old, and then decided to go into teaching and as a high school football coach. That's a different bio than you see sometimes, in some of these national choices, for vice president on tickets. And so I think I love that she went with someone so different, someone who unites people instead of divides them.

What a contrast, that you see with the Trump ticket. And then finally, I just liked him all. He's a good leader. He has shown that he can get stuff done across the aisle. Time and time again and was able to build a coalition across our state of suburban, rural, and metro.

In many, many elections, but most importantly in bringing the state with him when we had to get things done. And as for our state, we have 1 of the lowest unemployment rates in the country we also were just rated by CNBC as the 6th state in the nation for good for doing business in. So, you know, they can say what they want, but the facts don't lie.

And the campaign, the Harris campaign is sure to lean on all of those things, but governor Walls has also been criticized for his handling of the COVID pandemic in Minnesota, his handling of the George Floyd protests. How concerned are you, about how vulnerable he is on those issues?

You know, I think every governor that dared to lead during that pandemic, got criticized 1 way or the other, but, actually, we came out of it strong. Minnesota did and came back quite quickly. As for, the tragic murder of George Floyd, Tim Walls again, made difficult decisions. He made the decision to call in the national guard. At first, the peaceful protests were something that were embraced across the nation.

But when they turned violent, he called in the National Guard and got some grief for doing it. And I'd also add He was someone that when the defund, the police ballot measure was on, the ballot in the city of Minneapolis, both of us strongly opposed that measure. He added funding for police as governor, over $300,000,000. So I think that you will see someone who actually has stood with law enforcement and made some tough decisions. That's what leaders do.

They make tough decisions.

That said, Senator, house speaker Mike Johnson is also attacking what he calls Walt's disastrous record. Those are his words. He says, Walt's voice support for socialism supports sanctuary cities wants to give drivers license to millions of illegal immigrants. How do you expect governor Walls to defend his record against these kinds of criticisms, especially on immigration.

Governor Walls has always been direct, and you're going to see someone that's gonna take on these criticisms, but do it always with facts and with the smile on its face. And by the way, again, when you look at the unemployment rate, the economy in Minnesota compared to some of these states where people are throwing darts at him, I can't wait for that debate, because he is someone that has led our state by working with workers, by working with businesses, and got us on the other end. So this is gonna be, to me, it's gonna be a great debate, and I can't wait to see him, in a room with JD Vance, because Donald Trump chose to double down, with Hulk Hogan and the like at his convention, Kamala Harris has chosen to bring someone in that she can trust. I know that. He's a good friend of mine.

My mother-in-law actually brought a hot dish, chicken parmesan dinner to their home when their son Gus was born because my husband grew up in the same town where Tim Walls taught, he is someone you can trust Minnesota's knows that, and he's someone that's gonna bring that Midwestern rural common sense to a national ticket. Like, we have not seen for a long, long time?

No. Former president Trump has said before that that VP picks don't matter. He even said it earlier this week that voters go to the polls to vote for the top of the ticket. And that said, they are already criticizing Walls as being ultra liberal, something they have called of vice president Harris saying that he is even more liberal than she is. How difficult will that line be when trying to appeal to moderate voters?

You know, I wish we had the days where people would welcome people to the ticket for at least 1 day. That's not the Donald Trump way. But I think what you're going to see, and you already see it in the polls, when president Biden made his selfless and honorable decision to take that honorable path and step down from the ticket. You saw the excitement across the nation for Kamala Harris, and that has built. These numbers aren't lying.

The number of people that are showing up at our rallies that is not a lie, and something that appears to really bother Donald Trump. The fact that they, on their ticket, just keep dividing. And when you look at social media and you see all of this, you know, cat ladies and him going after the Republican governor of Georgia, again, doubling down on the fact that he made that call that there is a tape of where he asked for 11,000 votes in a corrupt, manner to try to win an election that he didn't win. You know, that's what's going on on their side. On our side, we got Brett summer.

We've got coconut tree memes. We've got Kamala filling stadiums. We've got a sense of joy and moving forward. Tackling those tough issues of housing and childcare. Kamala Harris has a record.

She took on the pharmaceutical company when Donald Trump only talked about it. And what you're gonna see in Tim Walls is that same basic focus on improving people's lives. Because as Paul Wellstone of Minnesota always said, we all do better when we all do better.

Alright. Minnesota Senator, Amy Klobuchar, Senator. Thank you.

Okay. Great to be on. Thank you.

We appreciate it. And let's bring in senior White House correspondent Selena Wang along with senior reporter Catherine Falders now for more Selena, you heard Senator Klobuchar there. What does this choice do for the strength of the democratic ticket? And where does Tim Walls present potential weak spots?

Yeah. Look, I think the Harris team believes that he's got the perfect combination of the policy record that's going to appeal to the Democratic base, but also so his rural backstory in his roots that are going to appeal to those critical rural midwestern voters in these battleground states that they need to win this White House. He's really got the perfect bio for that. He's a former high school teacher, a football coach. He is a hunter, a gun owner.

He is someone who has deep connections to rural America. And as you heard, Senator Klobuchar saying there, he's got this very affable plain speaking way of folksy vibe that they believe is a really good way to message to those into independent Republican leading voters. Then when it comes to his policy records, he has a whole spevy of democratic priorities and wish list items that he has signed into law in Minnesota around abortion rights, marijuana, paid family leave. The list goes on and on. So they believe there's something for everybody when it comes to somebody like Governor Tim Walls.

I do also wanna read, though, that we are getting just now some react from president Biden about this pick of governor Walls. Remember, Walls had spent more than a decade in Congress, and he has a long relationship with president Biden. He says On social media posts, president Biden does, I've known him walls for nearly 2 decades, first during his time in Congress and as governor, a husband and father, He's been a school teacher in a high school football coach. He served for 24 years in the army national guard and became the highest ranking enlisted soldier to ever serve in Congress. As governor, he's been a strong principled and effective leader.

So, Diane, clearly, a lot of excitement in the democratic base around governor Walls among democratic leadership, but, of course, the attack lines are already coming from the Trump campaign.

And, now, Catherine, in Harris's Instagram posts, she highlights walls his accomplishments and his record of working with Republicans to pass infrastructure investments. He's also stressed his rural roots in the past and what many consider the affable personal way that he has about him. How far could that all go with trying to appeal to moderate voters?

Right. He has this down to earth vibe, if you will, that it has been appealing and was appealing in part to Harris's team as they made this decision. I I think that goes a long way, especially out on the campaign trail when you're trying to appeal to certain demographics that Harris is obviously hoping to pull. And I I think this will be interesting to see how he ultimately hits the road in the campaign trail in his messaging because we do know that he does have a lot of progressive policies. That's what Republicans are hitting him on, but as Selena mentioned, he has shown that he is able to be friends with Republicans and work with republicans across the aisle.

So there's some thinking that he will be able to pull over some of those more moderate voters, if you will. It's just a matter of how he does that. So ultimately, I think it could go a long way. I think time will tell with that, but it certainly was a factor in Harris decision making here.

And Selena Harris also praised Walls for making Minnesota the 1st day to pass a law providing constitutional abortion protections after the Supreme Court overturned Roe V Wade. How critical is that issue for this election cycle? And how critical is his stance on it in contrast to former president Trump and JD Vance.

Yeah. Look, absolutely. I mean, this is pivotal to this election and vice president Harris herself has been the key messenger of the Biden Harris Administration when it comes to champion abortion rights, women's reproductive health rights. This is what they believe is going to motivate voters across the board to come out and vote galvanize them in November. And Walls, of course, he has a policy record around codifying road.

And I just wanna say as well that vice president, Harris, she did call him only this morning to notify him about her decision and that in that phone call, she said to governor Walls, We are the underdogs in this race, but she said that she believes they have a winning message and that together, they can win this race. This is a decision Diane that came down to the wire. I was told as of late yesterday that she still hadn't finalized her decision. I'm told that She made all the execution final decision making this very morning. I'm told that she really values not only someone who's going to help her win, of course, but also someone who she trusts who she has chemistry with.

Sources close to the process tell me that what really made that big decision here, what caused her to make this decision is the fact that she had really chemistry with governor Walt somewhat she does not have a very long history with.

And, Catherine, as you've pointed out, Walt is an avid hunter. He's a gun over. He was once endorsed by the NRA, but he has said to deduce on guns have evolved. Passed a bill requiring universal background checks for gun purchases in Minnesota. How do you see his pick?

Factoring into the discussion on gun violence and gun rights in this election?

Well, look, I think it certainly will be a factor on the campaign trail. You can see Republicans are already hitting him over that, but he has been transparent about his views changing. And I think it will be something ultimately that he will address on the campaign trail that he will be asked about, but I think it will ultimately be a a big factor in the next 3 months.

Alright, Selena. Wayne, Catherine Falders. Thank you both. Coming up, we have more on vice president Kamala Harris' VP picked. Tim Walz, we will talk to Hillary Clinton's campaign manager right after break.

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Welcome back to ABC news live first. We are following breaking news vice president Kamala Harris is picked Minnesota governor, Tim Walls as her running mate. Harris announced that choice in an Instagram post saying we are going to build a great partnership, and we are going to win this election. Former campaign manager for Hillary Clinton's 2016 run, Robbie Moose joins me now from more on that. Robbie, you advised Kamala Harris on her choice for a running mate.

What went into those conversations with the vice president And, ultimately, how do you feel about her decision?

Well, I I wasn't directly, you know, advising her personally, but I, you know, the advice that you give to anybody when they're making this decision is 1st and foremost, who is somebody who you have that chemistry with, who you think is ready to be president because they're only a heartbeat away from the presidency. 2nd, are is there some potential problem? Cause you don't wanna do any harm when you bring someone on. And third is what do they bring to the ticket? And I think they did a really good job here with Tim Walls.

Clearly, there was there was chemistry there. He really, so to speak, moved up the ranks, in in the beep stakes I I think he was on the longer list and just kept making it to the shorter list, and I don't know that a lot of people were expecting him but but I think it's a I think it's a terrific choice because, this is someone who first and foremost is a proven messenger, you know, by the same token that he rose up in this contest, so to speak, shows that he's an effective communicator, but this is also someone I actually first met Tim Walls when I was working at the democratic congressional campaign committee running house races. He was 1 of the most endangered house members in the country and survived the 20 2010, excuse me, tsunami, Republican tsunami. This is someone who can truly win in 1 of the reddest parts of the country. And I and so when we look at someone who can both be an effective messenger and win in these rural areas, I think that's a very powerful combination.

Now, he's also being called the safe choice by many, for Harris to have made Tim Kane, Hillary Clinton's running mate, was also considered the safe choice in 2016. So how safe is a safe choice when you're running against someone like former president Trump?

Well, I think safe choice can mean it's a good choice. Right? And, Senator Kane was an outstanding partner to Senator Clinton. And in some ways, I think the fact that he never created issues. You never we never talked about any cane controversies.

Was a testament to what a good selection he was, and I think we're gonna see the same thing, with governor Walls. I do think he's a different choice Right? He wasn't on the top of the list. He wasn't what everybody was talking about. She could have gone with Governor Shapiro, an incredibly popular governor in the most important arguably state in the electoral college right now, and she went with someone a little different.

So, Yes. He's safe and that I don't think he's gonna cause any problems, but I actually think he really brings a lot. And he's very different than her, different part of the country, different type of record with executive experience, long military career over 20 years in the National Guard. So I think they balance each other out very well.

It's been 8 years now, and we have another woman leading the democratic ticket against former president Trump. What do you think the Harris campaign can do differently than the Hillary Clinton campaign to try to win this time?

Well, I think they're very different candidates. You know, 1st of all, vice president, Harris is the vice president. She is coming literally from the White House to this campaign. So She's already reached the 2nd highest office in the land. I also think she's not facing a lot of the challenges that Hillary did.

Hillary had to run for, you know, the full 2 years, at least 18 months. She faced a barrage of, of incoming in particular, the the director of the FBI wanted to constantly reopen this email investigation, including just days before the election. So she's not, gonna face that and this compressed timeline is basically a 100 day campaign she's running. It means she is fresh. She is ready.

And the other thing that I think is the most important factor in this race is Donald Trump isn't a new candidate. This is a change I believe. We're seeing change elections happening all over the world right now. And there Harris has a unique opportunity where, yes, She is, Biden's vice president, but Donald Trump has been in the White House, and I think he represents the kind of tired old politics people are sick of So she's in a position to be that change candidate people want.

Alright. Former campaign manager for Hillary Clinton, Robbie Moose. Robbie. Thank you.

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Almost here to the plantation when my ancestors lived as enslaved people.

Here on the outskirts of Huntington, West Virginia, It feels strange. Researchers from the 10,000,000 names project which explores the genealogy of America's once enslaved people trace my genealogy here to what is known as green bottom. It was a massive 4500 Acre Plantation operating in the time just before the Civil War. I was shocked to learn it was under the reign of a historic and infamous confederate figure. Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Harvard graduate, 2 term congressman, Confederate general, and staunch supporter of slavery.

Kept humans imprisoned, treating them as little more than valuable livestock. This is also where my great, great grandmother, Adeline Jenkins, daughter of Charlotte was born into slavery in 1858. According to the 10,000,000 names research team is very light the Adeline was the biological daughter of her enslaver, Jenkins himself.

Mister Faye, Pierre Thomas, ABC News. Nice to meet you Welcome

to the Gigands Plantation, the ancestral home of your great, great grandmother,

It's a blessing to be here. I think at its height, how many slaves? Probably would

have been 80 to a 100. And unquestionably slave labor made the Jenkins family rich.

Rich indeed. In Congress, Jenkins made it clear, He believed slavery was the natural order of things. To the south, slavery was the alpha and omega issue. Jinkus was cold blooded about the slave trade, referring to people as property, saying 4,000,000 slaves were estimated to be worth at least $3,000,000,000. His words.

Mhmm. And there were other chilling facts.

You had primarily older women and boys because Jenkins made a regular habit of selling off the young adult males at their prime stage so that he can make the most money. At the record show, Jenkins was cruel. And of course, the overseas that he hired even more cruel to the point of beating, and then salting the wound afterwards.

I I just wanna take it in for a second.

Sure. I'll give you some some space to do that, sir.

Just just just just a second.

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And ABC ABC News chief justice correspondent here Thomas joins me now for more on this. I don't know how you held it together because I can't imagine being in that position hearing those stories, seeing what you saw. And I understand that initially you didn't want to do this. You didn't wanna go on this journey. Why was that?

And what made you change your mind?

I had a grandmother who lived to be 100 years old. Incredible woman, the matriarch in every sense of the word for our family, prayerful, thoughtful, exceedingly wise, and I felt comfortable with my family's history starting with her because she was loved to be a hundred years old. And I knew to go back deeper than that, because I knew either her mother or grandmother because she was a hundred years old would have been a slave. After this project was presented to me, I hit the pause button for 2 months and said, I don't think so. But I talked to some friends of mine who really wanted to know more about their own genealogy and past, and they hit brick walls.

And they said, here, if you have an opportunity to know more about your family, you should take it. And then I did some self searching. I am a reporter. And I'm in the information gathering business. So I agreed to do it, but little did I know that it would be this challenging.

Another key moment is when I found out Jenkins was a member of Congress. And I said, then it reported me kicked in. It was like, oh, he must have given speeches. Congressman gives speeches. And we found his speech, Ace Beach, April 26, 1860.

And in fact, I remember that date tells you how important it was because he gave a speech in the halls of Congress entitled the question of slavery. And he lays out that he believed that people were property, that slaves were the alpha and omega issue for the south. And then he said, quote, he didn't wanna live in an anti slavery a country with a anti slavery god or anti slavery bible.

And and here Here, I'm out of time, but I quickly wanna ask you, how did you come to find out that he likely Father, your great, great grandmother. And how did that moment make you feel?

I'm still processing the 10,000,000 names project with dirty experts. They're saying based on the circumstances of how he was known to operate. And the fact that my early ancestors We're very fair skinned people. And then I have a cousin who's actually done the DNA work, and she said it proves that we are. I've not done it myself, so I'm not gonna render final judgment.

And I'm still prosthetics processing whether I wanna do that.

1 moment for you. Thank you for sharing your story. I hope that you come away with this feeling positively about it and what a moment to see you sort of reclaiming your piece and your family's piece of history on that land.

You. I think the usefulness is that people are reacting to it saying they had no idea and that through my personal story, done through the lens of a journalist Yeah. That they're gaining something from us. So that's the reason to do it.

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Mosado today on BC news live first, Kamala Harris, names Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate. What we know about him and the impact of decision is having on the campaign. Millions of Americans are in a flood emergency as the death toll from Debbie grows. The devastation left behind and where the storm is headed next. And the wildfire growing in Southern California at least 200 firefighters are trying to save dozens of homes, how neighbors are trying to help get that fire under control.

But first, we're following that breaking news, vice president Harris has picked Minnesota governor Tim Waltz as her running mate. Harris announced the choice in an Instagram post saying we are going to build a great partnership, and we are going to win this election. Walls posted on social media saying he's all in. Calling it the honor of a lifetime, saying it reminds him a bit of the 1st day of school, which Wallace is very familiar with. He's a military veteran and former long time public school teacher served 12 years in Congress before winning 2 terms as governor of Minnesota in 2018 2022.

He also served as chairman of the democratic Governors Association. Now as governor, he implemented progressive policies like paid family leave, abortion rights, gun control measures, and made a name for himself in the consideration for VP. Gaining traction online with his folks he mannerisms and viral comments calling Trump and Vance. Weird. But he's also been criticized for his handling of the COVID pandemic in Minnesota as well as the George Floyd protests.

Now Harrison Walsh set to kick off a tour of key battleground states with a rally in Philadelphia tonight. Let's bring in senior White House correspondent, Selena Wang, along with senior reporter Catherine Falders for more Sleda, what went into this decision? And what's the messaging now as Harris and Walsh kick off this campaign Bliss?

Yeah. Look, I'm told this decision really came down to the wire that as of late yesterday, she still had not made her decision and that all final decision making and execution did not come until this morning. I'm also told according to a source familiar with the process that she got on the phone when government walls this morning to deliver the news to him and to also say that they're the underdogs in this race, but that they believe they have a winning message and together that they can win this race. Diane, the Harris team believes that governor Walls is going to both appeal and excite the democratic base of the party while also reaching out to those rural midwestern voters that they've gotta win over in those battleground states. As you just said, he's got this folksy affable way of speaking that they think could really connect to rural Americans.

He also has deep ties to rural America. He has a perfect bio in many ways to reach out to them. He is a formal high school teacher a football coach, a military veteran. He also is a hunter, a gun owner, so they believe he's someone who's uniquely poised to reach out to those voters. On the other hand, he's got a very progressive record.

He had an he had signed into law a whole bevy of democratic list wish items around abortion rights, marijuana, paid family leave. So they believe that he is uniquely positioned to push this message forward.

Now, Catherine Trump's running mate, JD Vance, is all so in Philadelphia, how's the Trump campaign reacting to this pick so far?

Well, it's been pretty expected, at least from the Trump campaign, whether it's his running mate, JD Vance, or Trump off, the campaign statements are essentially attacking walls as being 1 of the most progressive, governors. It's what they're saying. They're saying this is the most progressive ticket. In fact, Trump put on true social, just the words thank you in all caps with an exclamation point, trying to shift the narrative here essentially saying thank you for picking him. This will be easier now, for me to win reelection is my, assessment of that.

So that's how they're reacting. I don't know ultimately how, they will continue those attacks down the road. It seems that they're just gonna focus on what they call his progressive record, but at the same time, I do think that the Trump campaign does know, about his reputation with Republicans and the ability to pull over some of those moderate voters how do they hit back on that? I think just their branding of this ticket as the most progressive ticket is really the line of attack that they have now something that you will continue to hear from former president Trump and his running mate.

Yeah.

And we did hear from his running mate, Jade Vance, within the hour about this. I wanna play that clip for you.

I think it's interesting. Actually, they they make an interesting tag team because, of course, Tim Walts allowed riders to burn down Minneapolis in the summer of 2020. And then the few who got caught, Kamala Harris helped bail them out of jail. So, it it is more instructive for what it says about Laharis that she doesn't care about the borders. She doesn't care about crime.

She doesn't care about American energy. And most importantly, she doesn't care about the Americans who have been made to suffer under this policy. I'll take a couple questions that wanna hit the road and go to this press conference.

Yeah. Keith, it would show that it would it's anti Semitism. The reason why you believe a couple years to choose cash attorneys have said?

Well, it's not what I believe. It's what the democratic leadership has said. Many, many people said repeatedly that the reason Kamala Harris was going away the Josh Shapiro selection is because they were worried about anti Semitism. They were worried about certain voters. They were worried about some of the the leaders in the grassroots activists in party wouldn't take a Jewish nominee.

I think it's despicable. I think it's disgusting, but that is right out of the words of many members of the Democrats leadership. And so now we have Tim Waltz, but, again, most importantly, we have Kamala Harris. Her policies have been a disaster, and they remain so if the American people give a promotion.

So, Catherine, that there you have it. I mean, almost a a laundry list of the criticisms that you can expect Wals and Harris to continue to face on the campaign trail. How are they gonna try to respond to these more vulnerable spots?

So it it was interesting listening to to Vance on the plane. What he was on, obviously, on the Harris side, they've been focusing Republicans have on her record on on immigration and the border, but what you will continue to hear from advancing Republicans is what you just heard there. They're going to try and attack, governor Walls for his response to the George Floyd murder specifically, and that was back in 2020, but specifically the speed at which he asked for the national guard to come in and help. He has been criticized, around that. He was asked by the mayor for the National Guard by some local law enforcement on the ground and And I believe it was 3 days or so before he signed that executive order.

Now Walls has said, as respondents of criticism on that, recently and in the past, he said that they were doing the best they could for the resources that they had on the ground. So I think that you will definitely see those renewed criticisms as you just did from JD Vance, and Walls will have to respond to those. I'm sure he will, on the campaign trail, and then I'm sure interviews with reporters

So, Selena, what's next for the Harris Walls campaign now?

Yeah, Diane. I mean, she's going to be blitzing battleground states with her running mate. They are traveling to 7 states in just 5 days starting, of course, here in Philadelphia. And on the other hand, Donald Trump is not traveling to any battleground states this week. Instead, he has sent JD Vance as we already seem to follow Harris every step of the way hitting this same states on the same day as her.

And Walsh has already proven that he is an effective messenger to deflect those Republican Remember, he is the 1 who labeled them as weird, labeled JD Vance's views and his allies as, quote, weird, which caught a lot of steam. So he's ready to go after them. And their message to the American people is going to be that they are out for middle class Americans. They can point to Walls's record of what he's done in Minnesota their message is going to be 1 of freedom as we saw vice president Harris already pushing throughout the campaign.

Alright, Selena Wang, Catherine Falders. Thank you. And let's bring in democrat former DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the Biden Administration, Marsha Espinosa, and ABC's contributor conservative economist national review editor Ramesh Panuru for more. Marsha immigration is 1 of the top issues of this election. And among other things, governor Walls is known for signing a bill into law, allowing Minnesota residents of any immigration status to get a driver's license.

Republicans are already criticizing him for that. So How weak how much of a weak spot is that for him on the campaign trail given how big immigration is in this election?

I think it's actually a strength. Governor Walls has a great record on immigration. He's fought to protect dreamers in his state. As you mentioned, he signed a bill, allowing people to get a driver's license, which isn't citizenship. It's just a a record of of who you are and where you live.

And, and frankly a good thing. He's also worked with the state legislator to create affordable housing and, assistance on programs and translation services. So this is a real compliment to vice president Harris because they will both champion immigration and understand what real solutions look like. So common sense balanced approach on strong border security and expanded legal pathways. So This this is a this is a great ticket with the 2 of them together.

Ramesh, how do you think the Trump campaign strategy will change now that they know who they're running against?

Well, certainly, immigration is going to be a big focus for the Republicans. They've got an advantage on that issue. The polls sometimes show a small advantage, sometimes more often actually show a big advantage, and I don't think that walls addresses that problem. He reinforces it. I'm not sure that walls himself is gonna be a major focus of Republican attacks just because their main priority right now has to be to continue to define vice president Harris.

She's only been the nominee or the de facto nominee for a short while. And a lot of that work remains to be done.

Marsha, JD Vance just spoke about not only this pick, but also Harris's record when it comes to immigration What does the Harris Walls campaign need to do to try to win over voters when it comes to this key topic and several others that Republicans are gonna come after them on?

Yeah. Well, they need to do exactly what they have been doing, and that's talking to the American people and getting out there as as mentioned. They are gonna be on a campaign blitz. And let's remember, she vice president Harris has only been the nominee for 3 weeks. She just was the vice presidential nominee herself, not too long ago.

So she knows more than anyone how important this pick is, and now it's time for the 2 of them to get out together and and unite the party. So I I think that they she's with her choice as, Governor Walls, he's a great communicator. He's a plain speaker. He's he's worked with Republicans. He's not afraid to say what's on his mind.

So I think that the more that they communicate with voters, they will see the the real contrast that that they have this November between the Trump Vance ticket that wants to take away your freedoms, And, with the Kamala Harris and and Walt's ticket, which, are are are basically everything that that you could want for in a candidate.

Ramesh, what do you make of the support, Walsh, touts in rural areas? And is it enough to compete with the poll JD Vance has in critical rust belt states?

You know, honestly, I don't think either walls or vance is going to do a lot to determine the margins in rural areas. I think that's gonna be the top of the ticket, and I think that it's extremely likely Republicans are going to win those rural areas. The question is, how much of the margin are they gonna win? And that, as is the case with a lot of other constituencies, that's gonna determine the outcome of the election.

Alright. Mars Espinosa Ramesh Panu Ruth. Thank you both. And Democratic senator Amy Klobuchar reacted to the pick on social media. Saying the Minnesota is known for the land of vice presidents, and we've got another great 1 on the way as a veteran, a high school teacher, and football coach, and our Minnesota governor, Tim has been an incredible leader.

And on top of that, a good friend. Let's go win this. Earlier, I spoke with Senator Klobuchar on why she thinks governor Walls was the right choice. Senator, thank you for coming on. Call me through this.

It's it's great to have you. Why do you think vice president Harris picked governor Walls. Over some of the other names on the short list, who are better known like Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, Arizona, Senator Mark Kelly, both from critical battleground states. Why do you think she went in this direction instead of picking 1 of those 2?

Let's make clear, they are incredible leaders. And, there's no doubt about that. But I think what happened here is she had someone in Tim Walls that 1 she trusted, 2, that she saw as someone, that's gonna bring something else to this ticket in a big way, and that is Midwest. That is rural, that is someone that represented a district for years in Congress at only 2 Democrats, 1 in a 100 years, served on the veterans committee, ags committee, signed up to serve in the army national guard when he was only 17 years old and then decided to go into teaching and as a high school football coach. That's a different bio than you see sometimes, in some of these national choices for vice president on tickets.

And so I think I love that she went with someone so different, someone who unites people instead of divides them, what a contrast that you see with the trump ticket. And then finally, I just liked him all. He's a good leader He has shown that he can get stuff done across the aisle, time and time again and is able to build a coalition across our state of suburban rural and metro in many, many elections, but most importantly in bringing the state with him when we had to get things done. And as for state. We have 1 of the lowest unemployment rates in the country.

We also were just rated by CNBC as the 6th state in the nation for good for doing business in. So, you know, they can say what they want, but the facts don't lie.

And the campaign, the Harris campaign is sure to lean on all of those things, but governor has also been criticized for his handling of the COVID pandemic in Minnesota, his handling of the George Floyd protests. How could earned are you, about how vulnerable he is on those issues?

You know, I think every governor that dared to lead during that pandemic, got criticized 1 way or the other, but we came out of it strong, Minnesota did and came back, quite quickly. As for, the tragic murder of George Floyd, Tim Walls again, made difficult decision. He made the decision to call in the National Guard. At first, the peaceful protests were something, that were embraced across the nation. But when they turned violent, he called in the National Guard and got some grief for doing it.

And I'd also add he was someone that when the defund, the police ballot measure was on the ballot in the city of Minneapolis, Both of us strongly opposed that measure. He added funding for police as governor, over $300,000,000. So I think that you will see someone, who actually has stood with law enforcement and made some tough decisions. That's what leaders do. They make tough decisions.

That said, Senator, house speaker Mike Johnson is also attacking what he calls Walt's disastrous record. Those are his words. He says Walt's voice support for socialism supports sanctuary cities wants to give drivers license to millions of illegal immigrants. How do you expect governor Walls to defend his record against these kinds of criticisms, especially on immigration.

Governor Wells has always been direct, and you're going to see someone that's gonna take on these criticisms, but do it always with facts and with the smile on its face. And by the way, again, when you look at the unemployment rate, the economy in Minnesota, compared to some of these states where people are throwing darts at him. I can't wait for that debate, because he is someone that has led our state by working with workers by working with businesses and got us on the other end. So this is gonna be, to me, it's gonna be a great debate, and I can't wait to see him in a room with JD Vance, because Donald Trump chose to double down, with Hulk Hogan and the like at his convention, Kamala Harris, has chosen to bring someone in that she can trust. I know that.

He's a good friend of mine. My mother-in-law actually brought a hot dish chicken parmesan dinner, to their home when their son Gus was born because my husband grew up in the same town where Tim Walls taught he is someone you can trust. Minnesota knows that, and he's someone that's gonna bring that Midwestern rural common sense to a national ticket. Like, we have not seen for a long, long time.

Now, former president Trump has said before the that VP picked don't matter. He even said it earlier this week that voters go to the polls to vote for the top of the ticket. And that said, they are already criticizing Waltz as being ultra liberal, something they have called, vice president Harris saying that he is even more liberal than she is. How difficult will that line be when trying to appeal to moderate voters?

You know,

I wish we had the days where people would welcome people to the ticket for at least 1 day. That's not the Donald Trump way. But I think what you're going to see and you'll already see it in the poll when president Biden made his selfless and honorable decision to take that honorable path and stepped down from the ticket. You saw the excitement across the nation for Kamala Harris, and that has built. These numbers aren't lined.

The number of people that are showing up at her rallies. That is not a lie, and something that appears to really bother Donald Trump. The fact that they, on their ticket, just keep dividing. And when you look at social media and you see all of this you know, cat ladies and him going after the Republican governor of Georgia, again, doubling down on the fact that he made that call that there is a tape of where he asked for 11,000 votes, and a corrupt manner to try to win an election that he didn't win. You know, that's what's going on on their side.

On our side, we got Brett Summer. We've got coconut tree memes. We've got Kamala filling stadiums. We've got a sense of joy and moving forward, tackling those tough issues of housing. And childcare.

Kamala Harris has a record. She took on the pharmaceutical companies when Donald Trump only talked about it. And what you're gonna see in Tim Walls is that same basic focus on improving people's lives. Because as Paul Wellstone of Minnesota always said, we all do better when we all do better.

Alright, Minad. So to Senator, Amy Klobuchar, Senator, thank you.

Okay. Great to be on. Thank you.

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Well, then, right, we're here here in Savannah, Georgia right by the Savannah River, and this place was inundated with high winds and high waters, all from tropical storm Debbie. And those effects are still being felt right now. Got a chance to drive around the city earlier today, and we saw down branches in large amounts of debris scattered all around the area. But the silver lining is the water actually receded from this area. Remember, you mentioned that curfew that was instilled in this area.

That curfew has since been lifted this area. Which is usually inundated people. They're slowly starting to come back and you're slowly starting to see the semblance of some normal society here at the moment. But again, this place was a major area of contention from tropical storm Debbie just yesterday, and to get a better understanding of how the conditioned war. I'm joined by Joani Kispay.

She is from Lake Mary, Florida. Joani, you welcome. First of all, thanks for joining us.

Thank you.

You actually drove here from floor all the way to Savannah last night during the storm.

First of

all, why? 2nd of all, and just tell me what those what were those conditions like when

you were making your way up

So actually, I my parents came over here, the night before. They're here for their birthday. So I was just like, let me go surprise them with kids. They love me, my children, so I just wanted to, come over here and surprise them. But, yeah, driving here, it, it was actually pretty scary.

I'm not even gonna lie. Actually felt for a second. I was like, dang, I almost feel like I'm in the middle of this storm, you know, but honestly, I just kept my eyes on the road, I'm Christian, so I was blasting Christian music. I was just singing so that I wasn't paying attention to all the scary stuff around me, because there's a lot of people that were me, they were, like, racing and they had their emergency lights. It almost brought this revelation of what life actually brings you.

When sometimes you're in that storm, a lot of people around you are almost, like, racing or trying to get to the destination but I solely kept my eyes on the road. I knew my destination was to get to my parents to surprise him for their birthday and truth be told I had Jesus in my car. Just almost like Matthew Sicks and the disciples, Matthew or Jesus was in their boat, and that's exactly what I felt like just so that I wasn't scared. But the weather was very scary. You can't lie.

And,

Joerny, talk to me real quick. You don't mind. Just talk about some of the conditions that you saw along the road. As you made your way up, here? Did you see a lot of the flooding?

Were there a lot of down trees? What did you see on your way there?

So, actually, I came around 11 o'clock so it was very dark. I actually had to have my high beams on just so I could see anything. I truly didn't see trees down or very much effect. I was getting, like, the notification on my phone about the flooding and stuff like that, but I didn't really see much flooding, but honestly it was actually pretty scary from what I could see. I the most that I could see was the rain and the gushing of the wind.

And it felt like I was right in the middle of it, but

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you so

much for your words.

Of course.

You got it.

And, Diane, right now, the major concern now is flooding. We're being told that the rain should be coming throughout the day, and we're being told right now that 1 the major areas of concern is just 30 miles west up here on Tyvee Island. Oh, we're being told that they experience a 1 to 2 foot storm surge, which brings the entire higher stormsters to about 9 feet. That's something that's gonna flood all of the marshes around that area and city leaders are telling everybody right now just to keep all their devices charged just in case they need to get the word out about some other weather disaster that could be coming in the area. Right?

Mike, thank you. And, Ken, this storm is expected to linger for days. So what's the latest on the track and the strength of this storm right now?

Yeah, Dan. It's a little interesting right now where Ike is in Savannah. It's right where the center of circulation is there, and so that's why it's, they're seeing less rain right now because when you're in the eye of this tropical storm, it's really just a lot of cloud cover and some lighter rain. There is still a tornado watch by the way, that's for Charleston Myrtle Beach and Wilmington. No warnings out there yet, but we have had tornadoes with this, so they're still watching that.

Also, a a flash led warning for Savannah Charleston and Myrtle Beach as well. Watches go all the way up towards Raleigh and towards Wilmington. And when we look at how much rain has fallen, look at those few pink points in those white points, especially south of Tampa, Sarasota, seen 19 inches of rain, in Northern Florida. They've been seen over a foot. And let's focus in on that Charleston and Savannah area where they've seen, already over a foot of rain there.

They're going to continue to see even more rain. But, again, they're in the eye of the storm. So, really, they're looking at about another 2 to 5 inches. The big story now moving forward, Diane, is going to be up towards Myrtle Beach in Wilmington, where 10 to 15 or more inches is going to be possible. More catastrophic flooding is gonna be a potential there for them.

And so when we track this hour by hour, you can see, that it's that center. It was right over Savannah. It will eventually go back over the ocean, but this heavy rain will just continue, especially for Myrtle Beach and up towards Wilmington in the next about 2 days I am.

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Hi. I'm Diane Mosado today on ABC News Live First, Kamala Harris, names Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, as her running mate. What we know about him and the impact the decision is having on the campaign. Millions of Americans are in a flood emergency as the death toll from Debbie grows. The devastation left behind and where the storm is headed next.

And the wildfire growing in Southern California at 200 firefighters are trying to save dozens of homes, how neighbors are trying to help get that fire under control. But first, we're following that breaking news vice president Harris has picked Minnesota governor Tim Waltz as your running mate. Harris announced the choice in an Instagram post saying we are going to build a great partnership and we are going to win this election. Walls posted on social media saying he's all in calling it the honor of a lifetime saying it reminds him a bit of the 1st day of school. Which Walsh is very familiar with.

He's a military veteran and former long time public school teacher served 12 years in Congress winning 2 terms as governor of Minnesota in 2018 2022. He also served as chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. Now as governor, he implemented progressive policies like paid family leave, abortion rights, gun control measures, and made a name for himself in the consideration for VP. Gaining traction online with his folksy mannerisms and viral comments calling Trump and Vance. Weird.

But he's also been criticized for his handling of the at pandemic in Minnesota as well as the George Floyd protests. Now Harrison Walsh set to kick off a tour of key battleground states with a rally in Philadelphia tonight. Let's bring in senior white house correspondent, Selena Wang, along with senior reporter Catherine Folders for more. Selena, what went into this decision? And what's the messaging now as tires and walls kick off this campaign blitz.

Yeah. Look, I'm told this decision really came down to the that as of late yesterday, she still had not made her decision and that all the final decision making and execution did not come until this morning. I'm also told according to source familiar with the process that she got on the phone with government walls this morning to deliver the news to him and to also say that they're the underdogs in this race. With that. They believe they have a winning message and together that they can win this race.

Diane, the Harris team believes that governor Walls is going to both heal and excite the democratic base of the party while also reaching out to those rural midwestern voters that they've gotta win over in those battleground states. As you just said, he's got this folksy affable way of speaking that they think can really connect to rural Americans. He also has deep ties to rural America. He has a big bio in many ways to reach out to them. He is a formal high school teacher, a football coach, a military veteran.

He also is a hunter, a gun owners. They believe he's someone who's uniquely poised to reach out to those voters. On the other hand, he's got a very progressive record. He had an he had signed into law a whole bevy of democratic list wish items around abortion rights, marijuana, paid family leave, So they believe that he is uniquely positioned to push this message forward.

Now, Catherine Trump's running mate, JD Vance is also in Philadelphia. How a trump campaign reacting to this pick so far?

Well, it's been pretty expected, at least from the Trump campaign, whether it's his running mate, JD Vance, Trump himself, the campaign statements are essentially attacking walls as being 1 of the most progressive governors. It's are saying or saying this is the most progressive ticket. In fact, Trump put on true social just the words. Thank you in all caps with an exclamation point. Trying to shift the narrative here essentially saying, thank you for picking him.

This will be easier now, for me to win reelection is my, assessment of that. So that's how they're reacting. I don't know, ultimately, how they will continue those attacks down the road. It seems that they're just gonna focus on what they call his progressive record, but at the same time, I do think that the Trump campaign does know about his reputation with Republicans and the ability to pull over some of those moderate voters. So how do they hit back on that?

I think just their branding of this ticket as the most progressive ticket is really the line of attack that they have now and something that you will continue to hear from former president Trump and is running Yeah.

And we did hear from his running mate, JD Vance, within the hour about this. I wanna play that clip for you.

I think it's interesting actually, they they make an interesting tag team because, of course, Tim Walter allowed rioters to burn down Minneapolis in the summer of 2020. And then the few who got Kamala Harris helped bail them out

of jail.

So, it it is more instructive for what it says about Kamala Harris that she doesn't care about the border. She doesn't care about crime. Doesn't care about American Energy, and most importantly, she doesn't care about the Americans who have been made to suffer under those policies. I'll take a couple questions then we're gonna hit the road this press conference. Yeah.

Keith, it would show that it would it's anti Semitism. The reason why he believes coming here is to be chief, Josh, and you're already still there.

Well, it's not what I believe. It's what democratic leadership has said, many, many people said repeatedly that the reason Kamala Harris was going away from the Josh Shapiro selection is because they were worried anti Semitism. They were worried about certain voters. They were worried about some of the the leaders in the grassroots activists and their party wouldn't take a ish nominee. I think it's despicable.

I think it's disgusting, but that is right out of the words of many members of the democratic leadership. And so now we have Tim Wall But again, most importantly, we have Kamala Harris. Her policies have been a disaster, and they will remain so if the American people give her promotion.

So, Catherine, that there you have it. I mean, almost a a a laundry list of the criticisms that you can expect Wals and Harris to continue to face on the campaign trail. How are they gonna try to respond to these more vulnerable spots?

So it it was interesting listening to to Vance on the plane, what he was focused on. Obviously, on the hair side, they've been focusing Republicans have on her record on on immigration and the border, but what you will continue to hear from Vance and Republicans is what you just heard there. They're going to try and attack governor Walls for his response to the George Floyd, murder specifically and that was back in 2020, but specifically, the speed at which he asked for the National Guard, to come in and help. He has been criticized, around that. He was asked by the mayor for the National Guard, by some local law enforcement on the ground.

And and I believe it was 3 days or so before he signed that executive order. Now Walsh has said as respondents of criticism on that recently. And in the past, he said that they were doing the best they could for the resources that they had, on the ground. So I think that you will definitely see those renewed criticisms as you just did from JD Vance, and Walls will have to respond to those. I'm sure he will, on the campaign trail, and then I'm sure interviews with reporters.

So, Selena, what's next for the Harris Walls campaign now?

Yeah, Diane. I mean, she's going to be blitzing battleground states with her running mate. They are traveling to 7 states in just 5 days starting, of course, here in in. On the other hand, Donald Trump is not traveling to any battleground states this week. Instead, he has sent JD Vance as we already seem to follow Harris every step of the way hitting this same states on the same day as her.

And Walls has already proven that he is an effective messenger to deflect those Republican attacks Remember, he is the 1 who labeled them as weird, labeled JD Vance's views and his allies as, quote, weird, which caught a lot of steam. So he's ready to go after them. And their message to the American people is going to be that they are out for middle class Americans. They can point to Walls's record of what he's done in Minnesota their message is going to be 1 of freedom as we saw vice president Harris already pushing throughout the campaign.

Alright, Selena Wang, Catherine Falders. Thank you. And let's bring in democrat former DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the Biden Administration, Marsha Espinosa, and ABC's contributor conservative economist national review editor Ramesh Panuru for more. Marsha immigration is 1 of the top issues of this election. And among other things, Governor Walls is known for signing a bill into law allowing Minnesota residents of any immigration status to get a driver's license.

Republicans are already criticizing him for that. So How weak how much of a weak spot is that for him on the campaign trail given how big immigration is in this election?

I think it's actually a strength. Governor Walls has a great record on immigration. He's fought to protect dreamers in his state as you mentioned, he signed a bill, allowing people to get a driver's license, which isn't citizenship. It's just a a record of of who you are and where you live. And, and, frankly, a good thing.

He's also worked with the state legislator to create affordable housing and, assistance on programs and translation services. So this is a real compliment to vice president Harris because they will both champion immigration and understand what real solutions look like. So common sense balance approach on strong border security and expanded legal pathways. So this this is a this is a great ticket with the 2 of them together.

Ramesh, how do you think the Trump campaign strategy will change now that they know who they're running against?

Well, certainly immigration is going to be a big focus for the Republicans. They've got an advantage on that issue. The polls sometimes show a small advantage, sometimes more often actually show a big advantage and I don't think that walls addresses that problem. He reinforces it. I'm not sure that walls himself is gonna be a major focus of Republican attacks just because their main priority right now has to be to continue to define vice president Harris She's only been the nominee or the de facto nominee for a short while, and a lot of that work remains to be done.

Marsha, JD Vance just spoke about not only this pick, but also Harris's record when it comes to immigration. What does the Harris Wall campaign need to do to try to win over voters when it comes to this key topic and several others that Republicans are gonna come after them on.

Yeah. Well, they need to do exactly what they have been doing, and that's talking to the American people and getting out there, as as mentioned, they are gonna be on a campaign blitz. And let's remember, she vice president Harris has only been the nominee for 3 weeks. She just was the vice presidential nominee herself, not too long ago. So she knows more than anyone how important this pick is, and now it's time for the 2 of them to get out together and and unite the party.

So I I think that they she's with her choice as, Governor Walls, he's a great communicator. He's a plain speaker. He's he's worked with Republicans. He's not afraid to say what's on his mind. So I think that the more that they communicate with voters, they will see the the real contrast that that they have this November between the Trump Vance ticket that wants to take away your freedoms, and, with the Kamala Harris and and Walt's ticket, which, are are are basically everything that that you could want for in a candidate.

Ramesh, what do you make of the support, Walsh, touts in rural areas? And is it enough to compete with the poll JD Vance has in critical rust belt states?

You know, honestly, I don't think either walls or vance is going to do a lot to determine the margins in rural areas. I think that's gonna be the top of the ticket, and I think that it's extremely likely Republicans are going to win those rural areas. The question is, how much of the margin are they gonna win? And that, as is the case with a lot of other constituencies, that's gonna determine the outcome of the election.

Alright. Marsha Espinosa Ramesh Panu. Thank you both. And Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar reacted to the pick on social media. The Minnesota is known for the land of vice presidents, and we've got another great 1 on the way as a veteran, a high school teacher, and football coach, and our Minnesota governor, Tim has been an incredible leader.

And on top of that, a good friend. Let's go win this. Earlier, I spoke with Senator Klobuchar on why she thinks governor Walls was the right choice. Senator, thank you for coming on. Great to be honest with you.

It's it's

great to have you. Why do you think vice president Harris picked governor Walls. Over some of the other names on the short list, who are better known like Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, Arizona, Senator Mark Kelly, both from critical battleground states. Why do you think she went in this direction instead of picking 1 of those 2?

Let's make clear, they are incredible leaders. And, there's no doubt about that. But I think what happened here is she had someone in Tim Walls that 1 she trusted 2, that she saw as someone, that's gonna bring something else to this ticket in a big way, and that is Midwest. That is rural. That is someone that represented a district for years in Congress at only 2 Democrats, 1 in a 100 years.

Served on the veterans committee, ags committee, signed up to serve in the army national guard when he was only 17 years old. And then decided to go into teaching and as a high school football coach. That's a different bio than you see sometimes. In some of these national choices, for vice president on tickets. And so I think I love that she went with someone so different someone who unites people instead of divides them, what a contrast, that you see with the trump ticket.

And then finally, I just liked Tim Walls. He's a good leader. He has shown that he can get stuff done across the aisle. Time and time again, and is able to build a coalition across our state of suburban, rural, and metro in many, many elections, but most importantly in bringing the state with him when we had to get things done. And as for our state, we have 1 of the lowest unemployment rates in the country.

We also were just rated by CNBC as the 6th state in the nation for good for doing business in. So, you know, they can say what they want, but the facts don't lie.

And the campaign, the Harris campaign is sure to lean all of those things, but governor Walls has also been criticized for his handling of the COVID pandemic in Minnesota. His handling of the George Floyd protests How concerned are you, about how vulnerable he is on those issues?

You know, I think every governor that dared to lead during that pandemic got criticized 1 way or the other, but actually, we came out of it strong. Minnesota did and came back, quite quickly. As for, the tragic murder of George Floyd, Tim Walls again, made difficult decisions He made the decision to call in the National Guard. At first, the peaceful protests were something, that were embraced across the nation, but when they turned violent, He called in the National Guard and got some grief for doing it. And I'd also add he was someone that when the defund, the police ballot measure was on the ballot in the city of Minneapolis.

Both of us strongly opposed that measure. He added funding for police as governor. Over $300,000,000. So I think that you will see someone, who actually has stood with law enforcement and made some tough decisions. That's what leaders do.

They make tough decisions.